Comrade George Galloway Speaks
Labels: Comrades, UnionJack, Vanilla Crusade
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone;
but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X
Labels: Comrades, UnionJack, Vanilla Crusade
Provides detail of the regime of severe movement restrictions, bureaucratic ethnic cleansing and political manipulation and fostering of collaborators that Israel operates in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.In his introduction of the Power Point presentation, Ali Abunimah accurately concludes that after watching it one cannot evade the truth of the systematic and methodical purge of Palestine. He concisely explains what the document matter-of-factly shows, especially by its bureaucratic everydayness:
What does exist, and is plain for all the world to see, is a horrifying regime of totalitarian control of millions of Palestinians who remain prisoners of Israel's racist system and the army and settler militias that enforce it.Yet even as realities like these present themselves to the public with a disturbing routineness, Zionist defenders of Apartheid Israel will nevertheless continue to shuck'n'jive, evading the issue. They find much greater solace in attacking critics of Apartheid, far preferring it to confronting reality.
Labels: Apartheid Israel, Class Warfare, Comrades, Palestine, Vanilla Zionists, Zionism
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice
Labels: GI Joes, Iraq, Occupation, Resistance, Vanilla Crusade, WarOn Terrorists
Six British soldiers were wounded in attacks on their base in southern Iraq last night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said today.Just as Uncle Sam compelled the always-willing UnionJack to lead NATO's disasterous, failed occupation of Afghanistan, he also convinced Jack to hold down Basra in Iraq. And like every other conclusion reached by Uncle Sam's WarOn Terrorists, their arrogant and racist assumptions about the viability and plausibility of these two missions have left a good number of UnionJack's soldiers surrounded by enemies, helplessly under attack in a foreign land.
The Basra Palace camp in Basra city came under fire from a mixture of mortars, rockets and small arms three times yesterday evening.
In the attacks, one soldier was seriously wounded and five others sustained minor injuries...
Two British soldiers suffered minor injuries when their patrol came under attack in the Al Ashshar area of Basra province on Wednesday.
Labels: Iraq, Occupation, Resistance, UnionJack, Vanilla Crusade, WarOn Terrorists
Labels: Apartheid Israel, Palestine Genocide, Vanilla Zionists, Zionism
"This fund, my brother," the Venezuelan president said, referring affectionately to Ahmadinejad, "will become a mechanism for liberation."Simon Romero recently reported in Uncle Sam's favorite propaganda organ, the New York Times, on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Socialist Venezuela and his deepening friendship with its Trotskyist President, Comrade Hugo Chavez.
"Death to U.S. imperialism!" Chavez said
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran arrived [in Caracas] on Saturday for talks with President Hugo Chávez, on the first leg of a Latin American...In Romero's capacity as imperial stenographer, he doesn't say much about this fund. Why?
It is Mr. Ahmadinejad's second visit to Venezuela in the past five months, and the two leaders were scheduled to talk about strengthening their economic ties...
Venezuela's government promoted the visit as an example of Middle Eastern solidarity with Mr. Chavez's opposition to American foreign policy. Venezuela has been a vociferous defender of Iran as the United States steps up efforts to circumscribe Mr. Ahmadinejad's government, most recently through military raids this week on people suspected of being Iranian operatives in Iraq.
The two countries said Saturday night that they would use a $2 billion investment fund to finance projects in Venezuela and Iran, as well as in other countries.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- fiery anti-American leaders whose moves to extend their influence have alarmed Washington -- said Saturday they would help finance investment projects in other countries seeking to thwart U.S. domination.Venezuela and Iran intend to use this money politically in order to combat and ultimately destroy Uncle Sam's imperialist, debt-leverage shell game.
The two countries had previously revealed plans for a joint $2 billion fund to finance investments in Venezuela and Iran, but the leaders said Saturday the money would also be used for projects in friendly countries throughout the developing world.
They said they were considering ventures to train teachers and produce manioc starch in Venezuela. Mr. Chávez also said Venezuela and Iran would press for output cuts within OPEC in an effort to push oil prices up from a 19-month low.Now Uncle Sam may allow the two anti-imperialist powers to train teachers or feed the hungry. He won't like it, of course, but there's not much he can do to stop it. But when they remind the rest of the world who controls the spigot, look out! That's when the big guns come out.
Mr. Ahmadinejad's visit has alarmed Jewish organizations here and elsewhere because of his aggressive talk in relation to Israel. Heinz Sonntag, a prominent Venezuelan sociologist and political commentator, said the visit by Mr. Ahmadinejad was an "affront and an eventual threat to our fellow countrymen who are Jewish."Of course it hardly matters to Uncle Sam that at many places on his own plantation a condition of apartheid and ethnic cleansing exists in the here and now. Nor does it matter that his chief ally in the region, the white Zionist European settlement, maintains a savage and grotesque Apartheid system aimed at ethnically cleansing the indigenous Semites of Palestine.
Labels: Bolivarian Revolution, Resistance
A lack of political direction, a shortage of soldiers and "complete disconnection" between the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence combined to hinder progress in the war in Afghanistan, a report by military chiefs has concluded.Just as Apartheid Israel has failed to occupy Palestine and Uncle Sam has failed in Iraq, UnionJack's NATO occupation will inevitably fail and provoke another British retreat from Afghanistan.
The document, drawn up by senior officers from 16 Air Assault Brigade, gives a withering assessment of how decisions in Whitehall prevented progress against the Taliban and, sources claim, contributed to deaths and injuries among soldiers.
Labels: UnionJack, Vanilla Crusade, WarOn Terrorists
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany yesterday accused Vladimir Putin's Russia of unacceptable conduct by closing the oil pipeline crucial to Europe's energy consumption. In the toughest language she has used about the Kremlin in her 14 months in office, Mrs Merkel said Russia was destroying international confidence in itself by forcing energy clients to suffer from Russia's bilateral disputes with other post-Soviet states.This dispute unmasks what has become an incresingly hostile relationship between Germany and Russia. On its face, it devolves from das Vaterland's unese over 2 realities: First, "Europe's largest economy gets more than a third of its oil from Russia and half of that arrives via the Druzhba pipeline;" and second, Russian President Vladimir Putin controls the spigot. The piece continues:
The closure sent shivers through Germany...While this story - Russia's strength and das Vaterland's weakness concerning oil politics - has great importance by itself, it also reflects a deepening diplomatic chasm between Russia's interests and the interests of European WarOn Terrorists.
Europe's vulnerability means Mr Putin holds all the trump cards in the short term at least and shows little sign of bowing to European concerns.
Labels: das Vaterland, Savage Chessboard
The Hamas movement has received an Egyptian proposal for a prisoners' exchange deal in which the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, will be freed in exchange for the release of 1,429 Palestinian prisoners in three stages, Palestinian sources have told the London-based, pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat.
The sources added that Israel has initially approved the deal... Nevertheless, the Israeli authorities went back on their promise under the pretext that the time isn't ripe for such a deal...
This prisoners' deal was submitted to Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his attendants while they were in Saudi Arabia for the Hajj (Islamic pilgrimage) two weeks ago. Reports say that Haniyeh's delegation accepted the offer.
The same sources accused Palestinian dignitaries affiliated with the presidency of attempting to thwart the deal since reaching such a deal will mark a significant political accomplishment for Hamas and thus a blow to their main political rivals, the Fatah movement.
Amongst the prisoners who are expected to be released are a number of prominent Palestinian political leaders. The names mentioned include the secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Ahmad Sa'adat, the Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi and the Hamas leader Abdul-Khaliq Natshah.
Labels: Iraq, Occupation, Resistance
Slave Revolt Radio
The Sean Bell Shooting:
Police sponsored violence and the American Intelligence Psy-ops operation against Black Resistance (A Slave Case Study)
by Tracey James
The recent Urban lynching of Sean Bell and the near fatal slaughter of his two friends should come as no surprise to anyone halfway awake. This is part of the American war for subjugation, containment, and exploitation agenda against the targeted populations on Sam's plantation. Like Amadou (41 shots) Diallo who was a victim of New York's 'War on guns' program. And Iraqis citizens who are victims of Sam's 'War on terrorism/War on WMD's' claims. The tactics of deceit must be in full throttle for the Rulers to carry out their goals. Thus these claims of a 'War on ...' is just a pretext for the Capitalist systems of controls on the populace.
In this (Beyond The Shadow) piece called 'The Sean Bell Shooting: Police sponsored violence and the American Intelligence Psy-ops operation against Black Resistance (A Slave Case Study)' 'SR' attempts to examine this process. From the F.B.I.'s program out of Quantico Virginia's Psy-ops program on Black People in North America, to the role of the Corporate media, the police, Mayors, and so-called Negro leaders. The Psy-ops game is in full effect. The Negro Marketed intergrationalist 'leaders' who are collaborators with the Imperial State Order know their role and place. Weather they have a Democratic or Republican flag stuck up their behinds matters not.
Destruction of lives on a daily bases is all these cesspool Market Capitalist and their believers have to offer the world. Weather you live in the Congo, Iraq, The Nuba Mountains, Darfur, or New York the method for our destruction is basically all the same. And so are the various Psy-ops programs against us.
Labels: ShellGame Politricks, Slave Revolt Radio, Vanilla Justice, WarOn Commies
The face and the nature of the American labor movement have changed. The struggle of the immigrant worker is quickly becoming the front line in Labor’s battle against corporate greed.
As proof, we need look no further than the massive marches of immigrant communities which, last spring, functionally shut down entire neighborhoods in major cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Phoenix. The change was also felt here in our own back yard with the largest demonstration in recent memory on April 10 and another on May 1, International Workers’ Day, where immigrants refused to work and demanded fair treatment.
I’ll say it again. The face of the American labor movement has changed; and we must change with it.
The new influx of immigrant workers into the U.S. labor force brings with it both new challenges and new opportunities. In reality, the primary difficulty lies in accepting that the struggle of Latino(a) workers both here and in Latin America, is the same struggle as that of the American worker. It is this understanding, however, and learning from the victories of our brothers and sisters in countries across Latin America, which offers the American labor movement potentially great rewards.
Workers of the Sanitarios Maracay factory in Venezuela are fighting the same battle as the workers of Goodyear. These issues have no nationality, language or passport. Down-sizing, cuts in pensions, vanishing job security, wage concessions, lack of adequate health care, a public education system that is being gutted at an unimaginable pace; this is the lot of working people internationally.
And workers all over the world are resisting. They are striking in Houston and Sun Prairie and occupying factories in Caracas. And, they built an autonomous, functioning government in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Some of the most telling signs of this new resistance are the outcomes of the presidential elections which were held in multiple Latin American countries throughout 2006. Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia have all elected or re-elected candidates who promote the interests of working peoples. And it was only due to a clear case of electoral fraud that Mexico did not follow suit. In partnership with pro-labor governments in Brazil and Chile, these new and returning administrations offer real hope for working people all over the world.
The message sent by Latin American workers is clear. They have rejected the anti-worker trade policies of NAFTA and CAFTA. They have rejected the poor wages, the lack of worker protections, and the gutting of public education and basic social services which the IMF and World Bank have dictated. Most importantly, they have rejected the idea that global corporations, and the economic system in which they operate, have the right to determine the course of their lives. They are bravely constructing a real alternative to a pro-business, anti-worker world system.
Two specific cases particularly stand out as clear examples of what working people can do when trade unions join forces with the broader working class to affect change.
Chavez in Venezuela: What does it mean?
On December 3, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias was re-elected to another six year term in office by an overwhelming margin. Venezuelans affirmed their support for continuing what has become known as the Bolivarian Revolution. This social transformation has a specific agenda – an agenda which is being driven by Venezuelan workers themselves.
What is happening in Venezuela, and what has it done for the Venezuelan people?
In short, it has increased the Venezuelan Gross National Product, has decreased poverty, has provided free front-line health care in poor and underserved villages and barrios, has eradicated illiteracy, has provided poor Venezuelan youth with a free public university system, has given workers the right to make decisions about the way in which their factory operates, and has given land to hundreds of thousands of poor Venezuelan farmers which they can cultivate as they see fit.
These actions were not the product of one man, or even the decisions of a government. They were fought for, and achieved by organized Venezuelan workers.
Oaxaca, Mexico: Teachers’ Union Leads the Way
In response to decades of living under a corrupt local government, to dire economic conditions, and a public school system which has continuously failed to meet the needs of Oaxacan children, the Teachers’ Union struck earlier this year.
Their demands? Adequate class sizes, proper supplies for their students, shoes for every pupil, and an end to excessive standardized testing. The Mexican government’s response? Force. Bullets. Assassinations. Illegal incarcerations. Rape. Murder.
The outcry was tremendous. Working with community groups, the Oaxacan Teachers’ Union effectively overthrew the local government, occupied television, radio and communication networks, and is attempting to establish a new government which reflects the will of the people.
The patterns are similar: working people and union members are demanding change, and if they are denied a democratic process, they are taking matters into their own hands.
SCFL’s Presentation of “Social Cinema”
In light of these developments, the South Central Federation of Labor is sponsoring a film series which will introduce and elaborate on various struggles of working people and union members in Latin America. By doing this, we hope to accomplish two things.
First, we hope to create an atmosphere in which members of Organized Labor are introduced to the traditions of our community’s Latino(a) workers and union members. Second, we hope to create a dialogue in which the lessons of our brothers’ and sisters’ struggles can be effectively distilled.
The first movie in the Social Cinema series will be held on Monday, February 19, 5-6:45 p.m., at the Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St. The film Granitos de Arena (Grains of Sand) will look at the struggle of Oaxacan teachers against the hardships faced by teachers worldwide.
Future movies include Five Factoried (Cinco Fabricas), and The Take, which discuss the plight of Venezuelan and Argentinean workers, respectively.
Each movie will be followed by a short discussion. We hope this will allow us to draw on each others’ experiences, and will work to insert our movement here in Madison into the movement of workers, worldwide. All movies are suitable for a bilingual audience, with both English and Spanish subtitles.
OPEIU Local 39 member Christian Hainds is a staff rep with SEIU District 1199W and works with union members at Meriter Hospital.
Hainds is also a member of the SCFL Education Committee and local coordinator for the group Hands Off Venezuela.
Israeli cabinet minister [Avigdor Lieberman] yesterday called for the Jewish State to turn its back on the Middle East region and work towards joining Nato and the European Union...One should note first the individual making this statement: Avgidor Lieberman. An advocate of bombing the Aswan Dam and murdering Knesset members, the European squatter leads an openly fascist political party whose true enemy is history itself.
"Israel's diplomatic and security goal... must be clear: joining NATO and entering the European Union," he said....
While NATO is not offering Israel full membership in the near future, links between it and the Jewish State have been strengthening in recent years, especially in the area of intelligence about militant Islam.
Three months ago Israel became the first non-European nation chosen by NATO to work within its Individual Cooperation Programme...
New film footage from Afghanistan has suggested the British Army controls little but isolated pockets in Helmand, the province in the south of the country where the troops are trying to establish stability.While the forces attempting to occupy Afghanistan ostensibly fly NATO's flag, as Savage Justice wrote some time ago, the coalition committed to doing so has dwindled, leaving the British alone to occupy the Afghan south while the remaining occupying force sits in Kabul loading up on smack like MULLAH BEAK the DHS PEDOPHILE.
The film, taken by the reporter Sean Langan for Channel 4, shows the extent of the difficulties British troops have faced, with severe shortages of helicopters preventing resupplies and men forced to live off corn cobs foraged from nearby fields....
When the battle for Garmsir, originally supposed to last 24 hours, stretches on for six days, the British are promised reinforcements. But shortages of troops and helicopters mean they never arrive....
In the second programme later this week, Langan spends time with Mullah Ibrahimi, a Taliban commander, who claims to have a “shadow administration” in Helmand: “We have our own judges, our own local politicians and our own administrators. Nothing gets done in these villages without our consent.”
Some countries are trying to exploit yesterday's execution of the dictator Saddam Hussein in order to provoke discord between Sunnis and Shiites.He is no doubt correct.
Beware of such discord because it's what the Americans want -- seeking revenge on the Muslim world and the destruction of Islam by launching a cultural, political, economic and security war.
Saddam Hussein’s execution was a stage in the newly-crafted Iraq strategy Bush has promised to unveil in the New Year. The strategy, already in the works... hinged on the cooperation of two key national religious figures: the most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, and the Sunni cleric with the most influence on the Sunni Arab insurgency and the Baath, Sheik Hares al-Dari, head of the Sunna Scholars Council. The plan as conceived by the US president is not contingent on engaging either Iran or Syria.Uncle Sam murdered Hussein on Eid al-Adha because his imperialist agenda can succeed only when his enemies fight one-another. Uncle Sam's 'Waron Terrorists' killed him because they especially needed now - over the holidays (when was the Saddam Capture staged again?) - to cover up their desperation in Iraq.
The next stage, possibly the toughest, is to bring a form of stability and security to Baghdad, for which an infusion of troops will be required, followed by the partition of Iraq into three semi-autonomous Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni regions. Baghdad will serve as the federal capital. Its key role will be the administration of Iraq’s oil resources....
Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed for it led to the deaths of a million and a half souls? And who sold him the components for the chemical weapons with which he drenched Iran and the Kurds? We did. No wonder the Americans, who controlled Saddam's weird trial, forbad any mention of this, his most obscene atrocity, in the charges against him. Could he not have been handed over to the Iranians for sentencing for this massive war crime? Of course not. Because that would also expose our culpability.Religion is a profoundly powerful tool when used to compel submission and disinformation, and Uncle Sam's plantation has become a refuge for such a mindset. That's why Waron Sorcerers like Pat Robertson and Jerry Fallwell reap such a profit selling Goblins.
And the mass killings we perpetrated in 2003 with our depleted uranium shells and our "bunker buster" bombs and our phosphorous, the murderous post-invasion sieges of Fallujah and Najaf, the hell-disaster of anarchy we unleashed on the Iraqi population in the aftermath of our "victory" - our "mission accomplished" - who will be found guilty of this? Such expiation as we might expect will come, no doubt, in the self-serving memoirs of Blair and Bush, written in comfortable and wealthy retirement.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.In other words, alienated people doped up on every sort of pharmaceutical drugs retreat for the same reason as religious people do: its easier than dealing with reality.