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Iraqis Resist Uncle Sam's Crusade;Long Live the Iraqi Muqawama!!!

While the lackeys scratching out a living in the bowels of Uncle Sam's Ministry of Information - CNN, NBC, Fox, PBS... - prattle on endlessly about the 2008 elections, Sam's hapless, privatized genocide in Iraq staggers forward unable to achieve any of His objectives.

Propagandists will continue to ignore Iraq:  that's what their paymasters demand.  But their view nothing to do with reality.  

Here's the latest from Iraqi journalists - serious people (unlike Sam's bootlicking propagandists) whose lives are on the line because of their reporting.

Iraqi Resistance Report: 14 December 2007

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice

• US admits American soldier killed in bomb attack in southern Baghdad.
• Bomb targets US, puppet army patrol in Baghdad Friday.
• US admits American soldier shot to death in southern Baghdad Thursday.
• British soldier reportedly dies of injuries received in traffic accident in al-Basrah.

Read the 14 December Report

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
by Frederick Douglass
July 5, 1852

"What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence?"

Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold, that a nation’s sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been tom from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the "lame man leap as an hart."

But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn. To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, lowering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!

READ THE WHOLE SPEECH

The Bolivarian Revolution Again Silences Uncle Sam's Vanilla Revolutionaries

The forces of counter-revolution have grown silent in Venezuela after a 2 June protest in which more than a half-million Bolivarian revolutionaries took to the streets in Caracas supporting the decision to return a television broadcasting frequency to the people of Venezuela.

The rally was a spectacular and systematic demonstration of democracy in action.

Before taking to the streets, Venezuelanalysis reported how accurately participants grasped the issues and distiled them clearly. At home and abroad, Public consciousness is - above all - Uncle Sam's greatest nemesis. That's why Uncle Sam needs his WarOn Commies: he needs everyone stupid!

He needs Vanilla Sam!

Chris Carlson reports, "more than six hundred different social organizations, including communal councils, political movements, collectives, community media, and cooperatives" signed a document rejecting the "imperial interference to destabilize and overthrow the Bolivarian government." He continues, "the organizations support the Venezuelan government's decision not to renew the broadcast license of the private TV network RCTV and insist that the protests in the country are a part of an imperial strategy."

This concrete manifestation of democracy stymied the nascent protest-movement of college students turned Vanilla Revolutionaries, who, as the day of RCTV's network feed expired, traveled the most affluent locales of Venezuela in search of devotees and demanding the government ignore the public will and renew RCTV's license. As soon as the Bolivarian masses took to the streets, the campaign collapsed, and today the WarOn Commies at RCTV have to make due with their cable and satellite empire.

But of far more interest than the shopping mall protests of Uncle Sam's Vanilla Revolutionaries are actions taken by the WarOn Commies at RCTV. They clarify, in a clear and compelling way, what led to the Bolivarian people's demand for more a democratic airwaves. Media Lens reports:

[F]or two days before the April 11, 2002 coup, RCTV canceled regular programming and instead ran constant coverage of a general strike aimed at ousting Chavez. A stream of commentators delivered fierce criticism of the president with no response allowed from the government. RCTV also ran non-stop adverts encouraging people to attend an April 11 march aimed at toppling the government and broadcast blanket coverage of the event. When the march ended in violence, RCTV ran manipulated video footage falsely blaming Chavez supporters for the many deaths and injuries.

Like the WarOn Commies who run the Fox Network here on Uncle Sam's Plantation, RCTV ordinarily pedals a healthy dosage of 'bread & circuses' - a mix of religion and reaction, smut, sillyness, and sport - to promote, advance, and conceal the machinations of the ruling class.

But when Duty to Uncle Sam calls, these WarOn Commies - along with assorted other lackeys, coupsters, WarOn Druggies, and sellouts (in other words, the same perennial election-losers who gave us the April 2002 coup and the management lockout of PDVSA later that year) - respond. And in May and June, they predictably busied themselves with rallying support for Vanilla Revolutionaries to riot against the government like Uncle Sam's Orange Revolutionaries did in Ukraine less than 20 months earlier.

We know that, "the student protests in Venezuela... '[were] not spontaneous,' but are rather a part of a plan to provoke violence." The Vanilla Revolutionaries sought spilled blood in Venezuela to provoke an international outcry and did all they could - from posting phony video clips from YouTube to attacking government buildings - to confect it, but they failed. Defenders of Uncle Sam assert that the protests were spontaneous. Nonsense. At every step of the way, the Vanilla Revolutionaries had guidance and direction.

Assembly members released two different recorded phone calls in which a leader of the opposition party Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT), Alfonso Marquina, and his wife Tibisay converse about the protests and the necessity for them to continue but without the appearance of any political leaders in order to preserve their supposed spontaneity..."

The recordings are evidence that the student protests are directed by sectors that are adverse to the government. They assured that the protests are media-directed by the opposition and that they have the ultimate objective of producing "a death" so that they can "put in march a chain reaction that will create the conditions for another coup attempt like the one in April 2002"

When Sambo Rice arrogantly rose at the OAS and, acting as Uncle Sam's mouthpiece, made a paean to the WarOn Commies one sees "every night on CNN, on ABC, on CBS, on NBC" before denouncing Comrade Chavez, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro had a response ready:

"The OAS would have to make a special commission in order to study the daily violation of human rights along the southern borders of the United States." he replied denouncing "the wall of indignity" that Washington is building along the border with Mexico.

Maduro also made reference to the violation of human rights that takes place in the military base of Guantanamo, Cuba. "How many prisoners do you have in the Guantanamo prison, we ask the government of the United States. How many are there? Who are they? Do they have the right to a trial? Where did you kidnap them from? Do they have due process? Men and women, without a face, without a name, kidnapped," said Maduro.

Of course Maduro knew before he spoke these words that Sambo Rice would not listen. Uncle Sam never views its own actions by the same standards he uses to judge others.

Vanilla Sam!

Unlike Uncle Sam's wholly subsidized Venezuelan front-group Sumate, the groups endorsing the creation of the new station, TVes, actually originate in Venezuela. Their powerful march dispelled the myth and blew the lid off the propaganda - advanced by Uncle Sam's seditious, government-funded minions in Venezuela and his lackeys here on The Plantation - that the decision lacked popular support.

Forced to rely on its satellite and cable TV empire, RCTV's WarOn Commies cry and lament their plight to the heavens. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam decided "to allot $10 million for [Voice of America] broadcasts to Venezuela," a maneuver sponsored by the ancient WarOn Commie, Connie Mack.

Sam's decision to rely upon the Voice of America and his reliance upon such a stale 'Plan B' - in other words, Sam's absolute lack of options short of violence - point to failure in Venezuela.

With every campaign - the coups, lockouts, elections, and now a purely confected "protest movement" - Uncle Sam has failed to smash the Bolivarian Revolution. In fact, just the opposite has occurred. Whenever Sam does in Venezuela boomerangs, leaving him on shakier ground than before.

Yet another failure driven home again by the Bolivarian Masses has no doubt led Comrade Chavez to conclude that the same people who saved the Bolivarian Revolution in 2002 and saved the airwaves this month - the true source of his power - must rule Venezuela. His plan for Communal Councils will do exactly that:

Directly elected by Venezuelans over the age of 14, most councils have their own communal banks and command centers to organize public works projects, 30 percent of which are related to infrastructure.

The councils must defend their homeland, too. In an AP report entitled, "Chavez Warns of Resistance War With US," Christopher Toothaker quotes Chavez.

We must continue developing the resistance war, that's the anti- imperialist weapon. We must think and prepare for the resistance war everyday.

It's not just armed warfare. I'm also referring to psychological warfare, media warfare, political warfare, economic warfare."

Chavez understands Uncle Sam's "slow-fuse" campaign to smash the revolution relies principally on propaganda aimed at discrediting the Bolivarian Revolution. The Bolivarian masses understand it, too. That's why the decision by the government to refuse RCTV's renewal and turn the license over to the people themselves strikes at the heart of Uncle Sam's strategy there.

By viewing the first 20 or so minutes of TVes, the popularly-run network that replaced RCTV, one can easily see why the people of Venezuela support the move to take the airwaves back from the WarOn Commies. Rather than peddling Vanilla Smut and WarOn Commie Rants, the frequency now has a distinctly Bolivarian voice.

Palestinian Fighters Stun Zionist Land-Grabbers; Storm Key Occupier Base

On Saturday, a team of Palestinian resistance fighters launched a surprise attack on an outpost of the Zionist occupiers near the Kissufim Crossing - one of 4 routes in which Apartheid Israel occasionally allows Palestinians to enter and exit the open-air prison that is the Gaza Strip.

The Zionist propaganda outfit Debka reported:

Three Palestinian groups mount joint surprise cross-border attack on Israeli position guarding the Israel-Gaza Kissufim border crossing Saturday. The attack... was staged in broad daylight by Hamas, Jihad Islami and Fatah-al Aqsa with the aim of killing and snatching Israeli soldiers, just a year after the kidnap of Gilead Shalit...

The Palestinians claim several Israeli soldiers were hit and one is held captive by an infiltrator inside Israeli territory.

Again, the story undoubtedly contains Zionist Propaganda, but it also no-doubt contains in it some truth.

Ma'an, a decidedly more reliable source than Debka, offers some details about the attack from those carrying it out:

The spokesmen of the Al Quds Brigades, Abu Ahmad, reported ... that "four men – two from Al Quds and two from Al Aqsa Brigades... were able to break into the base using a jeep, which was locally-enforced and armoured. They managed to destroy an Israeli jeep before clashes erupted between the fighters and Israeli forces."

Abu Ahmad added "the operation was complicated, the fighters managed to break through the gate after detonating explosives at the entrance and then four martyrs clashed with the Israeli soldiers in the post, while a reinforcing unit launched mortar shells into the base..."

Interestingly, Debka also reports - without any evidence - that "Al-Qaeda-Palestine may also have taken part" in the raid.

It's funny where alCIAda turns up, isn't it?

Now obviously Uncle Sam's WarOn Terrorists have nothing to do with this operation, since their main objective has always been to deepen, not retard, Sam's involvement in the region.

How so?

Months ago, Debka reported on the collaboration between Uncle Sam and Palestinian Zionist Mohammed Dahlan his merry brigade of Zionist killers-for-hire. This story was particularly noteworthy because of the news that Dahlan has teamed up with alCIAda's Palestine franchise to attack the Hamas movement using weapons furnished by Uncle Sam's Welfare Checks.

This alliance between anti-Hamas Zionist mercinaries and alCIAda - an alliance marinated by Uncle Sam's 'generosity' - works in unison to preserve the Zionists genocidal campaign of ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

At every step, Apartheid Israel has facilitated this ongoing operation, working to ensure Dahlan is well-supplied with Uncle Sam's guns. Meanwhile, the Zionist fake-state continues to steal millions of dollars every month belonging to the people of Palestine while maintaining its medieval siege aimed at "putting the Palestinians on a diet," in the words of a famous Zionist.

Under such a threat, Hamas's has acted to root out such brazen collaborators - people whose supplication for Apartheid Israel's welfare appears on the front pages. Consequently, the Hamas movement has gone on the offensive in Gaza to eliminate Dahlan's power-base.

And thus far, to the palpable chagrin of both Apartheid Israel and the collaborator government of Mahmoud Abbas, the Hamas fighters have succeeded.

A Modest Proposal for 2008:MUMIA for PRESIDENT!

We at Savage Justice have followed the 2008 elections with a passing degree of amusement.

Uncle Sam's electoral campaigns chiefly test a man's ability to beg for Corporate Welfare Checks, and it's remarkable to see how low men will go in order to grovel. When it's all over, the winner usually becomes the next ShellGame Despot chosen by Uncle Sam to augment his historical legacy of imperialist pillage and slaughter.

Within such a rigged system, the main task for a revolutionary must be to highlight the contradictions and hypocrisy embedded within it. The degree of success or failure in achieving this objective, and not just the number of votes, serves as the measure of ones effectiveness during a bourgeois campaign.

For many years, millions and millions of people, awake to Uncle Sam's ShellGame Politricks, have sought an alternative to and concrete negation of that system, but had no candidate with an organic connection between themselves and the masses of people. Perhaps because Uncle Sam assassinated so many of the best young leaders. Perhaps for other reasons as well.

A campaign that puts Mumia at its head could reverse that.

Mumia Abu-Jamal makes manifest Uncle Sam's blatant hypocrisy on Human Rights and Press Freedom. His forced captivity calls attention to the plight of the countless Political Prisoners languishing in Uncle Sam's Concentration Camps and Torture Chambers. And his innocence exposes the Vanilla Justice that locked him up in the first place.

Any campaign must call attention to the racist Death Penalty and to the plight of the poor on Uncle Sam's Plantation. Any campaign must call attention to the plight of Black New Orleans, which none of dwarfs has done except except as a PR stunt (right HairDo?).

And of course, any campaign must stand in Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution, along with the Palestinians and the Iraqis dying daily by the dozens thanks to Uncle Sam's unquenchable thirst for bloodshed and plunder.

The entire cadre of tools standing for coronation refuses to reverse any of this now. They will refuse even less in the future.

The Left has a choice to make: Ralph Nader, his coronated successor, Bill Moyers, and the myriad other Left candidates all perform a needed service in mounting a challenge to the two-party system. Do they have the power and charisma to captivate the spirit and imagination of the people that Mumia does?

These other campaigns are no better financially than a yet-conceived Mumia campaign, which has the potential to be self-sustaining thanks to people's already-existing deep connection with him.

Uncle Sam will release Mumia under only one circumstance: the development of a collective popular will that demands it. Could that demand be made any clearer than through such a campaign? Wouldn't a powerful and organized campaign make murdering Mumia more difficult?

I cannot think of a more brazen or concrete way of exposing and articulating Uncle Sam's hypocrisy of thought, word, and deed than by lifting up Mumia Abu-Jamal as a political leader: a new Mandella! A campaign such as this one - with such potential to unify - could arouse the imagination and catalyze a movement that makes his release one act among many that strikes directly into the heart of Vanilla Justice!

MUMIA in 2008!

Solidarity with a Bolivarian Comrade!

The gods have brought to my attention the blog of a comrade whose recent writings on the events in Venezuela warrant a detailed read.

Larry Gambone writes on his Porcupine Blog:

Left wing parties, whether out of opportunism or a sincere desire to reform society and better the working population, ultimately depend upon what happens in the streets. Chavez did not create the movement which put him in power, but rather was created by it. He would like to control it, but that is what social democrats seek to do, nothing unusual or unique there. The task of anarchists and revolutionary socialists is to radicalize this movement, not undermine it, or show sympathy for pro-imperialists and reactionaries. The goal is to make the movement escape from Hugo's hands and sweep away the corporate state in its entirety.

Thugs? Dissidents? Critics? Words have meaning. No one would doubt that Saddam or Pinochet were thugs, with their mass murders, tortures and the millions they skimmed off and hid in numbered bank accounts.

Uncle Sam's bank accounts, to be sure. And just as Uncle Sam bankrolled Pinochet and Saddam (not to mention the Shah) as they massacred their way to power, he's now aiming to do the same in Venezuela with a new generation. With the old generation of lackys embarrassing itself so fully, Uncle Sam has turned his attention to Venezuela's remaining Vanilla campuses. Gambone continues:

The world does not work according to wishes, ideology or theories. It is messy. It would be nice if all the left-wing parties in Venezuela disappeared and were replaced by millions-strong anarcho-syndicalist unions and an anarchist federation with tens of thousands of members. But that does not seem to be in the offing. Class struggle is being reflected through the Chavista Movement (for now) – though not the origin of such.

Amen!

In the face of such a reality, there is no room for equivocation.

Gambone's got a great blog - I'm glad to have discovered it! It's always encouraging to encounter a comrade. It's even more enjoyable when this newfound Solidarity results explicitly from the enemy's hard work!

Iraqi Resistance Report: 3 June 2007

Apparently Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver didn't get the memo: when one's working as a PR flak for Uncle Sam's jackbooting army in Iraq, never tell the truth. That's the word that comes straight from BringItOn Bush & Sambo Rice all the way down.

So, with his staggering admission that after more than 4 years of slaughter and occupation, "We control about a third of the neighbourhoods" in Baghdad and admitting to Uncle Sam's abject failure to accomplish anything beneficial to him in Iraq, Garver obviously broke protocol.

Think about that: 1/3 of one city. After about 1,500 days, all Uncle Sam has to show for his $500,0000,000 orgy of wanton, genocidal slaughter is 1/3 of the Baghdad under military occupation, world hatred, and plenty of DEAD STORM-TROOPERS.

But things are improving, right! In the next six months, everything will be all-right. At least that's what Thomas Friedman says!

Here's the latest:

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice

US admits seven more American troops killed in Iraqi Resistance attacks across Iraq Saturday, Sunday.

Islamic Army Resistance organization issues statement.

US barrage kills two Iraqi civilians in ad-Dulu'iyah.

Turkish artillery blasts Kurdish villages in northern Iraq Saturday.

Read the 3 June Report

Iraqi Resistance Report: 1 June 2007

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice

Fighting between Islamic Army and al-Qa'idah Resistance organizations in al-'Amiriyah in western Baghdad subsides Friday afternoon.

Shi'i sectarian militias attack Baghdad district Friday evening, killing elderly man.

US troops wound 15 civilians near Ba'qubah Thursday evening.

Read the 1 June Report

Iraqi Resistance Report: 14 May 2007

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice

US admits Monday American soldier killed in Resistance attack near al-Hadithah.

US admits one American soldier killed in Salah ad-Din Province Sunday.

Resistance attack near al-Basrah leaves one Danish occupation soldier dead, five more wounded, three reportedly taken prisoner by the Iraqi Resistance.

Read the 14 May Report

Savage Resistance: A Bloody Weekend Points to a Shi'ite Surge Against Uncle Sam

The National Resistance continues to fight, and blood continues to flow in Iraq due completely to Uncle Sam's occupation of Iraq. Uncle Sam's privatized propaganda machine reported on the events this weekend as one of the bloodiest for his GI Joes.

The reason is simple: Uncle Sam's recent policy shift in Iraq made the explicit call to target Sadrists. The strategy took concrete form earlier this week with the kidnapping of Sadrist politician Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji in Baghdad.

This weekend, the movement responded.

National Resistance Fighters downed a helicopter in Diyala province to the East of Baghdad, killing fifteen GI Joes including a high-ranking officer.

Until his announcement, to retain plausible deniability, Uncle Sam preferred to fight the Sadrist forces - excepting two brief uprisings in Najaf and some scattered fighting in Sadr City - clandistenly. Attacks on the Sadrists were indirect. Meant to divorce the Sadrists from the National Resistance, they took the form of alCIAda-staged Black Ops on Shi'ite holy sites. And, to a large extent these moves were effective, temporarily shattering all hopes for national unity among Iraqis (against Uncle Sam), and using the sectarian attacks that resulted to justify his presence.

The best example of this strategy was Uncle Sam's February 2006 attack on the Askariyah Shrine in Samarra, which Savage Justice covered extensively.

No doubt in anticipation of another Black-Ops strike hatched by Uncle Sam's WarOn Terrorists in Karbala' over ‘Ashura,’ which begins 29 January, Sadrist Resistance Fighters launched a coordinated attack on a puppet government building with grenades, small arms, and more than a dozen rockets on Saturday, killing five more GI Joes.

Elsewhwere in Southern Iraq, the National Resistance staged an ambush in Basra, killing a British soldier.

As it has done with much greater accuracy than Uncle Sam's Privatized Propaganda Machine, the Iraq Resistance Reports detail these and other attacks, which indicate an in-progress unification between Sunni and Shi'ites and a renewed commitment by the National Resistance to expel Uncle Sam's GI Joes.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice

• Iraqi Resistance car bomber blasts checkpoint manned by group of US Marines in al-Qa’im Saturday evening.
• US troops in ar-Ramadi kill 16-year-old boy for spitting on them Saturday.
• Half-hour gun battle in al-Fallujah Friday leaves two US troops reported dead.
• US soldier reported killed when Resistance bomb disables Bradley armored vehicle near ad-Dulu‘iyah.
• Resistance shoots down US helicopter near Buhriz; US admits 13 troops dead.
• British soldier reported killed in Resistance bomb attack in al-Basrah Saturday.

Read the 20 January Report

UnionJack's Forces Under Heavy Assault in Southern Iraq

Even as Uncle Sam tries to turn up the heat on Sadrists in Baghdad (as the invaluable Roads to Iraq reports) in a last-ditch campaign to salvage something from his complete defeat in Iraq, we read on the AP wire service reports that entrenched UnionJack forces occupying the southern city of Basra - a city that borders Iran - have come under heavy bombardment in recent days:

Six British soldiers were wounded in attacks on their base in southern Iraq last night, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said today.

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.

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.

Venezuela and Iran Create "A Mechanism for Liberation"

"This fund, my brother," the Venezuelan president said, referring affectionately to Ahmadinejad, "will become a mechanism for liberation."

"Death to U.S. imperialism!" Chavez said

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.

Romero's piece begins by detailing the deepening solidarity between Iran and Venezuela - a direct outgrowth of Uncle Sam's foreign policy:

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran arrived [in Caracas] on Saturday for talks with President Hugo Chávez, on the first leg of a Latin American...

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.

In Romero's capacity as imperial stenographer, he doesn't say much about this fund. Why?

Comrade Chavez explained the purpose of the 'Investment fund' as the Times calls it. "It will permit us to underpin investments ... above all in those countries whose governments are making efforts to liberate themselves from the imperialist yoke."

In characteristic fashion, the AP wire service - another of Uncle Sam's faithful lieutenants - provides some additional details:

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.

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.

Venezuela and Iran intend to use this money politically in order to combat and ultimately destroy Uncle Sam's imperialist, debt-leverage shell game.

With such anti-imperialist aims, one hardly strugglunderstandestand why both have attracted Sam's ire. Romero's Times piece goes on to detail some of the other things on which Ahmadinejad and Chavez agreed.

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.

Just ask Mohammad Mossadeq!

When that happens - whenever anyone points to Uncle Sam's vulnerability at the pump - he dredges up one of his few remaining political weapons: crying 'anti-Semitism'.

Vanilla Sam cannot clearly interpret the contradictory cry of 'anti-Semitism' by men who are themselves white, European anti-Semitic colonists. So, even in this piece, Romero get's away with repeating Uncle Sam and Apartheid Israel's same fabricated line on Ahmadinejad's fake 'anti-Semitism'.

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.

That's because Uncle Sam doesn't really care about racism, or Apartheid, or sexism, or anything other than profit and political power. To these ends, he uses race as a convenient and effective psychological weapon against his enemies and victims.

In this case, he uses it to distract from the strident anti-imperialist message Caracas continues to deliver.

'Surge' or No 'Surge,' More Dead GI Joes.Iraqi Resistance Report: 11 January 2007

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice

• Four US Marines reported killed in double Resistance bombing in Hit Thursday afternoon.
• In keeping with new US "security plan," American helicopter gun ships escort Shi'i sectarian puppet troops through al-Mahmudiyah from southern Iraq to Baghdad.
• US said planting agents within ranks of Jaysh al-Mahdi sectarian militia.
• Russia demands action from Iraqi puppet regime, US occupation forces following shooting incidents targeting the Russian Embassy in Baghdad Wednesday evening.
• US raids Iranian Consulate in Irbil, arrests five employees, confiscates computers, documents, consulate property Thursday morning.
  

Read the 11 January Report

George Galloway Brutally Smacks Down a Zionist

In just a few moments, Comrade George Galloway shows how easy one can demolish the entire edifice of a pro-Zionist argument in support of the Apartheid State of Israel. On the question of Palestinian rights, the two sides - oppressor and oppressed - are so apparent and so obvious, the lines so clearly drawn and demarcated, that those speaking out in support of the imperialist aggressor look foolish and ignorant whenever they make their case.

Listen and enjoy:

Slave Revolt Radio: American made wars, American made myths, Vietnam and Iraq

Slave Revolt Radio
Slave Revolt Radio: American made wars, American made myths, Vietnam and Iraq
by Tracey James

This hour Slave Revolt goes deep into the American psyche to dissect how the American Empire's wars for imperial conquest are believed by most of the public as wars for humanity's freedom.

In a (Beyond the Shadow) segment called 'American made wars, American made myths: Vietnam and Iraq' we explore this American made construct and deception game head on. Clips from H. Bruce Franklin author of the book 'Vietnam and other American fantasies' helps provide some of the ammunition to shoot down the American made lies about the Vietnam war.

So load your clips and mind and be prepared to shoot down the myths of the American way of life, it's wars from Vietnam to Iraq. The myth making machine these myths are manufactured in. And those who wish to carry on in this 'great American lie'.