thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-04--The Establishment Only Dislikes Trump Because He Puts An Ugly Face On The Empire

The former president talked about changes that need to be made as though he wasn ’ t the most powerful politician in America for two full terms , praised the nation ’ s police officers saying “ the vast majority ” of them protect and serve the people , and encouraged them to continue making empty gestures of solidarity with the protesters to calm them down .
“ I want to acknowledge the folks in law enforcement that share the goals of re-imagining policing , ” Obama said .
“ Because there are folks out there who took their oath @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ who ] have a tough job , and I know you ’ re just as outraged about the tragedies in the recent weeks as are many of the protesters .
So we ’ re grateful for the vast majority of you who protect and serve .
I ’ ve been heartened to see those in law enforcement who recognize , ‘ Let me march along with these protestors .
Let me stand side by side and recognize that I want to be part of the solution , ’ and have shown restraint @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you ’ re a vital part of the conversation , and change is going to require everyone ’ s participation.
” George W Bush also weighed in on the protests , with the “ compassionate conservative ” who murdered a million Iraqis sending liberals throughout the Twitterverse into fits of ecstasy with his emotional plea for “ empathy , and shared commitment , and bold action , and a peace rooted in justice.
” And that is exactly what a US president ’ s real job is .
Not to end police brutality @ @ @ @ @ @ @ changes which benefit the American people , and certainly not to make the world a less violent and murderous place , but to say pretty words which lull the public into a pleasant propaganda-induced coma while the sociopathic oligarchs who really run things rob them blind .
This is not accomplished by tweeting obnoxious things about shooting “ thugs ” and getting censored by Twitter .
It is not accomplished by threatening to implement martial law against the will of the states .
It is not accomplished by using the military to brutalize @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a burnt church with an upside-down Bible .
It is not accomplished by calling the brother of George Floyd and being curt , uninterested and dismissive .
It is not accomplished by first mismanaging a pandemic , then mismanaging a response to an incendiary police murder , then having nothing soothing or sympathetic to say that makes people feel like you ’ re listening and you care .
It is not accomplished by creating an environment which allows photos to circulate of the nation ’ s capital burning .
And that , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only reason why certain elements of the establishment do not like President Trump .
Whenever I point out the many , many evil establishment agendas that have been advanced by the current US president , I always get Trump supporters asking me “ Well if he ’ s serving the establishment , how come establishment media and politicians attack him so hysterically , huh ?
” This is why .
At first glance it might seem strange to see Democrats and their aligned media shrieking about Trump with such an unprecedented degree of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doing this because Trump resists the establishment in any meaningful way on domestic or foreign policy ; he provides no significant resistance to toxic establishment agendas at all .
The reason there ’ s been such shrill , hysterical rhetoric about this president from establishment narrative managers is because unlike his predecessors , Trump puts an ugly face on the empire .
People who have dedicated their lives to advancing the interests of the oligarchic empire see Trump as an incompetent manager whose oafish , ham-fisted approach to his role risks drawing attention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The US police force , for example , hasn ’ t gotten any more brutal or racist since Trump has been in office , he just hasn ’ t been able to manage events and narratives competently to keep the peasants from waking up and revolting .
Establishment narrative managers understand how to skilfully manipulate public perception without being obvious about it , and they understand how easily an incompetent steward of empire can snap people out of their propaganda trance .
They therefore dislike Trump for the same reason a new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ll wake the baby .
They don ’ t dislike Trump because he does good things , and they certainly don ’ t dislike Trump because he does bad things .
They dislike Trump because he does bad things in a way that startles the people out of their sleep .
That ’ s the real reason the political/media class has been behaving so weird the last four years .
It isn ’ t because Trump ’ s not a loyal empire lackey ( he is ) , it isn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ agent ( he ’ s not ) , and it isn ’ t because he ’ s a uniquely depraved president ( he ’ s not ) .
It ’ s because he allows people to see the perverse mechanics of a globe-sprawling murderous empire for the sick , evil thing that it actually is .
That and nothing more .

The former president talked about changes that need to be made as though he wasn’t the most powerful politician in America for two full terms, praised the nation’s police officers saying “the vast majority” of them protect and serve the people, and encouraged them to continue making empty gestures of solidarity with the protesters to calm them down.
“I want to acknowledge the folks in law enforcement that share the goals of re-imagining policing,” Obama said. “Because there are folks out there who took their oath to serve your communities to your countries [who] have a tough job, and I know you’re just as outraged about the tragedies in the recent weeks as are many of the protesters. So we’re grateful for the vast majority of you who protect and serve. I’ve been heartened to see those in law enforcement who recognize, ‘Let me march along with these protestors. Let me stand side by side and recognize that I want to be part of the solution,’ and have shown restraint and volunteered and engaged and listened because you’re a vital part of the conversation, and change is going to require everyone’s participation.”
George W Bush also weighed in on the protests, with the “compassionate conservative” who murdered a million Iraqis sending liberals throughout the Twitterverse into fits of ecstasy with his emotional plea for “empathy, and shared commitment, and bold action, and a peace rooted in justice.”
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to George W. Bush — Gabriella Paiella (@GMPaiella) June 2, 2020
Establishment narrative managers on both sides of America’s imaginary partisan divide have been saturating the mass media with gushing praise for the two former presidents and their wonderful words of healing and unity, and indeed, the words are quite nice. They will change exactly nothing, but they sound nice.
And that is exactly what a US president’s real job is. Not to end police brutality and systemic racism, not to make changes which benefit the American people, and certainly not to make the world a less violent and murderous place, but to say pretty words which lull the public into a pleasant propaganda-induced coma while the sociopathic oligarchs who really run things rob them blind.
This is not accomplished by tweeting obnoxious things about shooting “thugs” and getting censored by Twitter. It is not accomplished by threatening to implement martial law against the will of the states. It is not accomplished by using the military to brutalize protesters so you can pose in front of a burnt church with an upside-down Bible. It is not accomplished by calling the brother of George Floyd and being curt, uninterested and dismissive. It is not accomplished by first mismanaging a pandemic, then mismanaging a response to an incendiary police murder, then having nothing soothing or sympathetic to say that makes people feel like you’re listening and you care. It is not accomplished by creating an environment which allows photos to circulate of the nation’s capital burning.
And that, right there, is the one and only reason why certain elements of the establishment do not like President Trump.
President Obama: "I want to acknowledge the folks in law enforcement that share the goals of reimagining policing." pic.twitter.com/al3Jt5l6N3 — The Hill (@thehill) June 4, 2020
Whenever I point out the many, many evil establishment agendas that have been advanced by the current US president, I always get Trump supporters asking me “Well if he’s serving the establishment, how come establishment media and politicians attack him so hysterically, huh?”
This is why. At first glance it might seem strange to see Democrats and their aligned media shrieking about Trump with such an unprecedented degree of vitriol, but they aren’t doing this because Trump resists the establishment in any meaningful way on domestic or foreign policy; he provides no significant resistance to toxic establishment agendas at all. The reason there’s been such shrill, hysterical rhetoric about this president from establishment narrative managers is because unlike his predecessors, Trump puts an ugly face on the empire.
People who have dedicated their lives to advancing the interests of the oligarchic empire see Trump as an incompetent manager whose oafish, ham-fisted approach to his role risks drawing attention to the evil things the empire does. The US police force, for example, hasn’t gotten any more brutal or racist since Trump has been in office, he just hasn’t been able to manage events and narratives competently to keep the peasants from waking up and revolting.
Establishment narrative managers understand how to skilfully manipulate public perception without being obvious about it, and they understand how easily an incompetent steward of empire can snap people out of their propaganda trance. They therefore dislike Trump for the same reason a new mother dislikes a noisy neighbor: they’ll wake the baby. They don’t dislike Trump because he does good things, and they certainly don’t dislike Trump because he does bad things. They dislike Trump because he does bad things in a way that startles the people out of their sleep.
That’s the real reason the political/media class has been behaving so weird the last four years. It isn’t because Trump’s not a loyal empire lackey (he is), it isn’t because he’s a Russian secret agent (he’s not), and it isn’t because he’s a uniquely depraved president (he’s not). It’s because he allows people to see the perverse mechanics of a globe-sprawling murderous empire for the sick, evil thing that it actually is. That and nothing more.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-04--No Compromise, No Retreat: Defeat the War Against the African/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad

he justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state ’ s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action initiated by Black people with Black leadership .
“ A shift must occur away from the focus on individual justice for Floyd back to a critique and opposition to the ongoing structural violence of the system.
” So , we say : Justice for George Floyd , Breonna Taylor , Ahmaud Arbery , Tamir Rice , Sandra Bland ; for our political prisoners ; for the super-exploited Black and Brown working class ; for oppressed Indigenous nations ; and for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sanctions and criminality .
We say this to shift the focus from the individualization of this week ’ s rebellion back to the objective structures of white supremacist , global colonial/capitalist domination .
( BAP Newsletter ) The ruling class is befuddled and confused about how to respond to the ongoing street demonstrations sparked by the murder of George Floyd .
The mobilizations clearly disrupted their plans for “ normalcy ” with the forced opening of the economy .
The ferocity of the demonstrations that had not been seen since the brief uprising @ @ @ @ @ @ @ King verdict seems to have caught the authorities completely by surprise .
In the 1992 street actions in Los Angeles the nation and the world saw the first multi-racial , multi-national street action that was very different from the Black rebellions that rocked the U.S. in the 1960s .
The racial configuration of the participants captured the range of non-European national minority communities and migrant peoples from across the Americas ’ region .
“ The mobilizations clearly disrupted their plans for “ normalcy ” with the forced opening of the economy.
” But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in 92 , the justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state ’ s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action of whites , Latinx , LGBTQ , immigrant and migrant workers and Black youth , initiated by Black people with Black leadership .
The response from the rulers was predictable but unsurprising in its ideological and strategic coherence to break that emerging coalition of social forces .
I posted a comment on Facebook in response to what I saw as the counter-moves being made by the state .
I was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those points , which I offer here .
In my original Facebook post I said : “ The enemy knows how to quickly adapt in the ideological struggle : 1 ) undermine the emerging unity with white agitator propaganda , 2 ) follow up with declaration against something called Antifa as a terrorist group , 3 ) instruct the police to join demos and express solidarity , 4 ) release statements from police chiefs and others pushing the bad apples theme , and most important , 5 ) keep the focus on the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for that individual to avoid attention on the systemic and enduring elements of Black and Brown colonized oppression.
” The white outside agitator trope .
If it wasn ’ t frightening enough to see images of young white kids marching shoulder to shoulder with African and other colonized peoples , seeing white kids actually engaged in militant engagement with police authorities , which went beyond the approved forms of resistance , triggered a cognitive dilemma almost as serious as when they tried to comprehend and explain how China could escape the COVID-19 with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ killing tens of thousands in the U.S. That cognitive dissonance could only be achieved by resurrecting the outside agitator notion that emerged in the 30s and was directed at organizers from the Communist Party and militant union organizers who were working in the U.S. South .
But that trope was given its fullest form in the Civil rights struggles in the 50s and 60s .
It ’ s redeployment today is geared to 1 ) delegitimizing Black agency by implying that resistance of this sort had to be directed by white folks , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even hostility toward white participants .
Granted , issues of counter-productive tactics and police infiltration are real issues .
But the state saw a vulnerability in evoking the white agitator trope that the black petit-bourgeois administrators in various cities enthusiastically embraced .
Antifa as a terrorist group : With the ideological foundation of the white outside agitator , the next step was creating a more understandable target by inventing an organizational form in order to give the threat a more serious and ominous character .
The problem should have been , though , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ but an idea with a loose network of some organizations and mostly individuals , many of whom are anarchists with many other political orientations , who believe that the U.S. is facing a neofascist threat that should not be ignored .
But the fact that Antifa is a mirage is secondary when the objective is to drive an ideological agenda .
The success of this , however , is yet to be determined .
Instruct/encourage police to engage in public relations shunts like taking a knee or even walking with the demonstrators in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the police and the demonstrators is easy when the issue is being framed as “ justice ” for George Floyd , and by implication the idea that his killers were “ bad apples.
” Those kinds of political stunts are not even inconsistent with a simultaneous display of military prowess and heavy-handed treatment of demonstrators , especially if the idea is taking hold that it is the “ bad apples ” among the demonstrators that are deserving of policing .
The bad apple trope plays right into the monumental political error being made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Floyd as an individual , even if by extension the critique extends to the police and policing as a whole .
The bad apple notion exempts a condemnation of the institution as a whole and diverts attention away from a deeper understanding of the role of the police as the leading edge of the repressive apparatus of the capitalist state .
Hundreds of Black and Latinix people are dying every day from what the Black is Back Coalition calls the colonial virus known as COVID-19 .
Yet because we are not watching grandma @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after having been laying around the hospital for days , her unnecessary death and the literal deaths of thousands of our people did not bring the people out of their houses during lockdown and into the streets .
Those deaths will continue long after the other cops are charged , and the military secures the cities and people go home , because those deaths are generated by the contradictions of capitalism .
They are produced by the structural violence that is inherent in a system that devalues all life but especially the life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ So , the state has responded .
The challenge for us is how do we counter the state ’ s attempt to pre-empt the development of a new movement .
The definition of the “ people ” is an historic one that emerges out of concrete struggle with specific historical conditions .
The deep structural crisis of the system of national and global capital are creating the conditions for neofascism as a capitalist reform strategy .
Therefore , we must not allow the state to undermine the basis for building new forms of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voice .
“ The bad apple notion exempts a condemnation of the institution as a whole and diverts attention away from a deeper understanding of the role of the police.
” And while Trump may be the face of this movement and the public attention fixed on his most bombastic statements and the spectacle of armed citizen groups showing up at various state capitals , he does not have complete power over the real rulers of capital .
Trump barely controls the Executive branch and has had his program of radical nationalist economic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Instead , he has become an administrator of the neoliberal agenda like the last five presidents before him .
It is those ruling class forces who fear the masses and will give Trump or even Biden , if he is elected , free reign to continue to jettison the last vestiges of liberal democracy in order to maintain the rule of capital .
When it was clear to the Obama Administration that he was not going to be able to co-opt the occupy movement , he moved with decisive action to shut @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will move just as decisively and with same level of ruling class support to shut down the protests when he sees it politically advantageous to do so .
Two things must happen fairly quickly .
On the ideological level , a shift must occur away from the focus on individual justice for Floyd back to a critique and opposition to the ongoing structural violence of the system .
It is clear that the state is unwilling and unable to protect the fundamental human rights of the people .
The demand for People ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ broad , radical framework for advancing concrete demands that can unite broad sectors of the population .
And secondly , and most importantly , the theme and message around the importance of organization must be aggressively advanced .
Mass mobilizations have a place but developing the organizational forms that will build and sustain the power necessary to bring about radical fundamental change is the primary challenge and historic task .
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he justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state’s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action initiated by Black people with Black leadership.
“A shift must occur away from the focus on individual justice for Floyd back to a critique and opposition to the ongoing structural violence of the system.”
So, we say: Justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland; for our political prisoners; for the super-exploited Black and Brown working class; for oppressed Indigenous nations; and for the millions subjected to U.S. warmongering, sanctions and criminality. We say this to shift the focus from the individualization of this week’s rebellion back to the objective structures of white supremacist, global colonial/capitalist domination. (BAP Newsletter )
The ruling class is befuddled and confused about how to respond to the ongoing street demonstrations sparked by the murder of George Floyd. The mobilizations clearly disrupted their plans for “normalcy” with the forced opening of the economy. The ferocity of the demonstrations that had not been seen since the brief uprising in 92 in response to the Rodney King verdict seems to have caught the authorities completely by surprise.
In the 1992 street actions in Los Angeles the nation and the world saw the first multi-racial, multi-national street action that was very different from the Black rebellions that rocked the U.S. in the 1960s. The racial configuration of the participants captured the range of non-European national minority communities and migrant peoples from across the Americas’ region.
“The mobilizations clearly disrupted their plans for “normalcy” with the forced opening of the economy.”
But even in a departure from what occurred in 92, the justice for George Floyd mobilizations today reflected the state’s worst nightmare – a multi-national and multi-racial action of whites, Latinx, LGBTQ, immigrant and migrant workers and Black youth, initiated by Black people with Black leadership. The response from the rulers was predictable but unsurprising in its ideological and strategic coherence to break that emerging coalition of social forces.
I posted a comment on Facebook in response to what I saw as the counter-moves being made by the state. I was asked by several people to elaborate on those points, which I offer here.
In my original Facebook post I said:
“The enemy knows how to quickly adapt in the ideological struggle: 1) undermine the emerging unity with white agitator propaganda, 2) follow up with declaration against something called Antifa as a terrorist group, 3) instruct the police to join demos and express solidarity, 4) release statements from police chiefs and others pushing the bad apples theme, and most important, 5) keep the focus on the individual and call for "justice" for that individual to avoid attention on the systemic and enduring elements of Black and Brown colonized oppression.”
The white outside agitator trope. If it wasn’t frightening enough to see images of young white kids marching shoulder to shoulder with African and other colonized peoples, seeing white kids actually engaged in militant engagement with police authorities, which went beyond the approved forms of resistance, triggered a cognitive dilemma almost as serious as when they tried to comprehend and explain how China could escape the COVID-19 with five thousand deaths while the virus was killing tens of thousands in the U.S.
That cognitive dissonance could only be achieved by resurrecting the outside agitator notion that emerged in the 30s and was directed at organizers from the Communist Party and militant union organizers who were working in the U.S. South. But that trope was given its fullest form in the Civil rights struggles in the 50s and 60s.
It’s redeployment today is geared to 1) delegitimizing Black agency by implying that resistance of this sort had to be directed by white folks, and, 2) generating suspicion and even hostility toward white participants. Granted, issues of counter-productive tactics and police infiltration are real issues. But the state saw a vulnerability in evoking the white agitator trope that the black petit-bourgeois administrators in various cities enthusiastically embraced.
Antifa as a terrorist group: With the ideological foundation of the white outside agitator, the next step was creating a more understandable target by inventing an organizational form in order to give the threat a more serious and ominous character. The problem should have been, though, that Antifa is not really an organization but an idea with a loose network of some organizations and mostly individuals, many of whom are anarchists with many other political orientations, who believe that the U.S. is facing a neofascist threat that should not be ignored.
But the fact that Antifa is a mirage is secondary when the objective is to drive an ideological agenda. The success of this, however, is yet to be determined.
Instruct/encourage police to engage in public relations shunts like taking a knee or even walking with the demonstrators in some locations. Shrinking the distance between the police and the demonstrators is easy when the issue is being framed as “justice” for George Floyd, and by implication the idea that his killers were “bad apples.”
Those kinds of political stunts are not even inconsistent with a simultaneous display of military prowess and heavy-handed treatment of demonstrators, especially if the idea is taking hold that it is the “bad apples” among the demonstrators that are deserving of policing.
The bad apple trope plays right into the monumental political error being made by resisters by keeping focus on George Floyd as an individual, even if by extension the critique extends to the police and policing as a whole. The bad apple notion exempts a condemnation of the institution as a whole and diverts attention away from a deeper understanding of the role of the police as the leading edge of the repressive apparatus of the capitalist state.
Hundreds of Black and Latinix people are dying every day from what the Black is Back Coalition calls the colonial virus known as COVID-19. Yet because we are not watching grandma take her last breath on the ventilator after having been laying around the hospital for days, her unnecessary death and the literal deaths of thousands of our people did not bring the people out of their houses during lockdown and into the streets.
Those deaths will continue long after the other cops are charged, and the military secures the cities and people go home, because those deaths are generated by the contradictions of capitalism. They are produced by the structural violence that is inherent in a system that devalues all life but especially the life of non-European workers and the poor.
So, the state has responded. The challenge for us is how do we counter the state’s attempt to pre-empt the development of a new movement.
The definition of the “people” is an historic one that emerges out of concrete struggle with specific historical conditions. The deep structural crisis of the system of national and global capital are creating the conditions for neofascism as a capitalist reform strategy. Therefore, we must not allow the state to undermine the basis for building new forms of solidarity among people who are finding their voice.
“The bad apple notion exempts a condemnation of the institution as a whole and diverts attention away from a deeper understanding of the role of the police.”
And while Trump may be the face of this movement and the public attention fixed on his most bombastic statements and the spectacle of armed citizen groups showing up at various state capitals, he does not have complete power over the real rulers of capital. Trump barely controls the Executive branch and has had his program of radical nationalist economic reform, including gutting Obamacare, curtailed. Instead, he has become an administrator of the neoliberal agenda like the last five presidents before him.
It is those ruling class forces who fear the masses and will give Trump or even Biden, if he is elected, free reign to continue to jettison the last vestiges of liberal democracy in order to maintain the rule of capital. When it was clear to the Obama Administration that he was not going to be able to co-opt the occupy movement, he moved with decisive action to shut it down across the country.
Trump will move just as decisively and with same level of ruling class support to shut down the protests when he sees it politically advantageous to do so.
Two things must happen fairly quickly. On the ideological level, a shift must occur away from the focus on individual justice for Floyd back to a critique and opposition to the ongoing structural violence of the system. It is clear that the state is unwilling and unable to protect the fundamental human rights of the people. The demand for People(s)-centered human rights provides a broad, radical framework for advancing concrete demands that can unite broad sectors of the population.
And secondly, and most importantly, the theme and message around the importance of organization must be aggressively advanced. Mass mobilizations have a place but developing the organizational forms that will build and sustain the power necessary to bring about radical fundamental change is the primary challenge and historic task.
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-05--ANTI-COMMUNISM IS A FUNDAMENTALIST RELIGION, NOW FOLLOWED BY BILLIONS

Please make sure these dispatches reach as many readers as possible .
Share with kin , friends and workmates and ask them to do likewise .
It is time to “ revisit Communism ” .
It is also time to ask some basic , essential questions : “ How is it possible that a system so logical , progressive , and so superior to what is , up till now , governing the world , failed to permanently overthrow the nihilism and brutality of capitalism , imperialism and neo-colonialism ?
” Without any doubt , you have been told many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you have been living in the West , or in one of the countries that are fully under the control of the centres of anti-Communism : Washington , London or Paris .
You have been forced to read , again and again , about “ Stalinism ” , the Tiananmen Square massacre , and the Khmer Rouge genocide .
You have , again and again , been served an elaborate cocktail of half-truths , outright fabrications , as well as twisted interpretations of the world history .
The chances are , you have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cambodia ; you haven ’ t done any serious research there .
You have been told that Cambodia is the best example of savage Communism .
You never realized that Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge extremists were fully supported by the United States , and not by the Soviet Union and never wholeheartedly by China ; that they were never actually really “ Communist ” ( I did a detailed in-country research , and even Pol Pot ’ s personal guards told me that they had no idea about Communism , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bombing of the Cambodian countryside , and to the capital ’ s collaboration with the West ) .
In that period , most people died as a result of precisely that carpet-bombing by the USAF B-52 ’ s , and as a result of famine .
And the famine came after millions of peasants were displaced by the savagery of the bombing , and by the unexploded substances left in the fields , all over the countryside .
It never occurred to you , that one survey after another , conducted in Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the people there , would like to have the Communist Soviet Union back .
And even in the former Soviet Muslim-majority states , including Kirgizstan and Uzbekistan , a tremendous majority of the people I encountered there , remembered the Soviet Union era as some golden age .
And the so-called Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ?
I have worked , filmed and reported there , on three occasions , relatively recently .
Outraged by the on-going Western occupation of their country , countless Afghan people told me stories , illustrating the contrast between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ era , and the present-day horror , during which their country has sunk to the lowest level in Asia , according to both UNDP and the WHO .
I worked in Kabul , Jalalabad , Herat , Bagram ; the same stories , and the same nostalgia for the Soviet teachers , nurses , engineers .
Showered by the relentless Western propaganda , one never really realized how popular the Communist Party of China is in its own country , and how the Communist ideology is supported in Vietnam , Laos and North @ @ @ @ @ @ @ friendly local bookstore in North America , Europe or even in Hong Kong , not to speak of Australia , the chances are that all one will find there would be tomes written by anti-Communist Chinese or Russian ‘ dissidents ’ , people that have been living off Western grants , receiving countless awards so they can spend all their energy on smearing Communism , and glorifying counter-revolution .
Writers such as Svetlana Alexievich , who received the Nobel Prize for literature , for spitting on the graves of the Soviet soldiers who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would be allowed to watch , on commercial film channels , would not be any different than the books one had been encouraged to read .
Anti-Communism in the West and in its colonies , is a tremendous industry .
It is easily the greatest and on-going propaganda campaign in the history of the world .
Its metastasis has been spreading even into the core of the Communist and socialist countries themselves .
All of that is because the Western , imperialist countries know perfectly well that their empire can only survive if @ @ @ @ @ @ @ very essence of Communism is the perpetual struggle against imperialism .
False but very effective slogans , like bugs , that are being implanted into one ’ s brains .
They are repeated constantly , sometimes hundreds of times a day , without one even noticing : “ Communism is dead !
” you have been told .
“ It is outdated , boring.
” “ China is not Communist , anymore.
” “ Communism is grey .
Life under communism is controlled , and it is monotonous ” .
“ People under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ liberties.
” The opposite is the truth .
Building , selfishly and enthusiastically , a new and better society , for the people , is definitely more satisfactory ( and “ more fun ” ) , than rotting in the constant agony of fear : worrying about mortgages , student loans , and medical emergencies .
Competing with others , stepping on others , and even ruining other human beings .
Living empty , sad , selfish lives .
Absurdly , paradoxically , Western propaganda constantly accuses Communism of violence .
But Communism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violent system on Earth , which is Western colonialism/ imperialism .
Hundreds of millions of human beings have already vanished as a result of it , throughout the centuries .
Hundreds of advanced cultures have been ruined .
Entire continents have been plundered .
Before Soviet Communism , before the USSR itself , there was no true and powerful opposition to Western imperialism .
Colonialism and imperialism were taken for granted ; they were “ the world order ” .
The Soviet Union and China helped to de-colonize the world .
Cuba and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fought bravely and successfully , and brought independence to Africa ( something that the West has never forgotten nor forgiven ) .
But fighting for freedom and for the end of colonialism , is not violence ; it is defence , resistance and a struggle for independence .
As a rule , Communism does not attack .
It defends itself , and it defends countries that are being brutalised .
In my future work , I will address two “ exceptions ” ; and explain two cases which are constantly misinterpreted by right-wing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back to the so-called “ Communist violence ” .
My friend and comrade , the legendary Russian intellectual and professor , Aleksandr Buzgalin wrote in his recent work , “ LENIN : THEORY AS PRACTICE , PRACTICE AS CREATIVITY ” ( to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of V.I .
Ulyanov-Lenin ) : This is a brilliant take by Aleksandr Buzgalin .
I have addressed this topic on many occasions , but never so coherently .
And this applies to countless examples , all over the world , where the West @ @ @ @ @ @ @ communist countries , then accused them of cruelty , and finally “ liberated ” them in the name of freedom and democracy , literally raping the will of their people .
All this just so European and North American imperialism would survive and thrive .
Let ’ s recall just a few examples : the USSR , 1965 Indonesia , 1973 Chile , 2019 Bolivia .
The biggest attempt to date : to divert , destabilize and overthrow the enormously successful Chinese system .
But there are , of course , countless other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ globe .
Ron Unz , the publisher of The Unz Review , wrote in his report “ American Pravda : Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Bio-warfare Blowback ?
” , recalling his thoughts , in 1999 , when China protested about the NATO bombing of its Embassy in Belgrade : “ But when I considered that the Chinese government was still stubbornly denying the reality of its massacre of the protesting students in Tiananmen Square a decade earlier , I concluded that unreasonable behavior by PRC officials was only to be expected… .
Such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ matter more than two decades ago .
But in the years that followed , my understanding of the world and of many pivotal events of modern history underwent the sweeping transformations that I have described in my American Pravda series .
And some of my 1990s assumptions were among them .
Consider , for example , the Tiananmen Square Massacre , which every June 4th still evokes an annual wave of harsh condemnations in the news and opinion pages of our leading national newspapers .
I had never originally doubted those facts , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happened to come across a short article by journalist Jay Matthews entitled “ The Myth of Tiananmen ” that completely upended that apparent reality .
According to Matthews the infamous massacre had likely never happened , but was merely a media artifact produced by confused Western reporters and dishonest propaganda , a mistaken belief that had quickly become embedded in our standard media storyline , endlessly repeated by so many ignorant journalists that they all eventually believed it to be true .
Instead , as near as could be determined , the protesting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , just as the Chinese government had always maintained .
Indeed , leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post had occasionally acknowledged these facts over the years , but usually buried those scanty admissions so deep in their stories that few ever noticed .
Meanwhile , the bulk of the mainstream media had fallen for an apparent hoax .
Matthews himself had been the Beijing Bureau Chief of the Washington Post , personally covering the protests at the time , and his article appeared in the Columbia Journalism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media criticism.
” On top of it , what Western mainstream media was describing as a group of “ freedom fighters ” and “ pro-democracy movement ” , had a substantial number of extremists in its ranks , even outright racists , that were protesting against the presence of black Africans on Chinese university campuses .
They demanded a ban on their relationships with Chinese women .
And they were fully supported and at least partially funded by the West , simply because of their savage , aggressive , fundamentalist anti-Communism .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ touch this subject , anymore .
They feel that , faced with massive Western propaganda , they can not get through with their take on the story ; in brief , that they have lost the narrative .
Now fast-forward to 2019 and 2020 .
Hong Kong .
Again , what we are witnessing there is outrageous and extremist anti-Communism .
Fascist protesters that are marching , destroying public property , and attacking the Police , all under U.S , U.K and German banners , are hailed by the Western mass media as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ physically attacking the supporters of Beijing .
They are paid , they are glorified .
I have talked to them on many occasions .
They are fully , thoroughly brainwashed .
They know nothing about facts .
They deny the crimes committed by the British and the U.S. colonialists .
They admire everything Western , and they despise their own country .
The West has been told to view them as “ revolutionaries ” .
And it promotes them as revolutionaries , all over the world !
Another group unleashed against Communist China @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these people have joined terrorist organizations in Idlib , Syria , in Indonesia , and elsewhere .
Or more precisely , they were injected there .
The reason ?
To harden them on the battlefields , so that they could one day return to China , and try to break Communism , as well as the “ Belt and Road Initiative ” ( BRI ) , the most internationalist mammoth project on Earth .
I have covered their activities in Syria , Indonesia , Turkey and elsewhere .
I have written extensively about @ @ @ @ @ @ @ But the anti-Communist propaganda is often too massive and too “ professional ” .
It manufactures a “ bullet-proof narrative ” .
It portrays the Uyghurs as the victims !
Ask the common men and women of the streets of London , Paris or New York , what they know about Stalin 's era , or the famines in the early years of the USSR , or in Communist China ?
Basically , 99.99 % know nothing .
Where did these famines take place , or why ?
But they are absolutely certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , whatsoever .
No doubts that they happened “ because of Communism ” .
Westerners are intellectually obedient , like sheep .
Most of them do not question the propaganda unleashed by their regime .
Are they really “ free ” ?
The famine in the Soviet Union actually took place because the young revolutionary country was totally devastated by Western and Japanese invasions , which tried to break and plunder the country .
British , French , U.S. , Czech , Polish , German , Japanese invasions , to name just a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Czechs , how much they know about their Legion that controlled the Trans-Siberian railroad , on their way from Europe to Vladivostok .
Plundering , rape , and mass killing .
I tried .
I asked , in Prague and Pilsen .
They thought I was a lunatic .
The Legion is portrayed as heroic , in their history books .
A bullet-proof narrative .
No doubts there .
And “ Stalinism ” ?
This author is planning to write much more on this subject .
But here , just in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stalin really inherit ?
It was a country thoroughly plundered by foreign invaders , a country devastated by civil war .
A country where the anti-revolutionary forces have been , until recently , financed by the U.K. , France , U.S. and others .
As a result of this brutal civil war unleashed and supported from abroad , criminal gangs roamed all over the vast lands , and inside cities .
From the beginning , the Russian Communists wanted peace , the brotherhood of nations , and peaceful development for their people .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ book “ Great October Socialist Revolution .
Impact on the World and Birth of Internationalism ” : In my book , I revisited the subversion tactics of Western imperialism and militant anti-Communism : “ The essence and strategy of Western imperialist subversion is essentially very simple : identify all strong and weak points of the country that you are attempting to murder , and try to comprehend its ideology .
Study and learn all about its progressive leadership : its plans , and all that the revolution is trying to do for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ equal rights , improved life expectancy , high standards of education , medical care , housing , infrastructure , arts and overall a decent quality of life .
Then , attack where it hurts the most : use direct interventions , sabotage , terrorist assaults , or sponsor extremist and even religious fundamentalist groups , in order to spread fear and insecurity to slow down the process of social change and economic growth .
Hit so hard that at some point , the democratic revolutionary system will have to react , simply in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ achievements , and even their bare lives .
Wherever the West tries to destroy a socialist country , be it Nicaragua or Afghanistan in the 80 ’ s , it first targets hospitals and schools , in order to demolish the great social achievements of the government , and to spread hopelessness among the population .
Then it hits even harder , to trigger a strong government reaction , and then immediately declare : “ You see , this is the real face of socialism or communism !
You want a revolution ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ package will be this : oppression , political trials , gulags , a lack of freedom , and even some brutal executions !
” Use widely , weapons like disinformation and negative propaganda , so the revolution in a progressive but cruelly terrorized country would never have a chance to really influence the rest of the world , and even at home it will begin to suffer after being put under too much pressure… …Such hideous tactics of the West , deeply injured the Soviet Union before WWII , but it failed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ took place partially because during the Japanese occupation , the Imperial Army disrupted the food chain supplies , as well as the system of farming , which had been formed and developed throughout thousands of years .
Japan was interested in only one thing : how to feed its troops that were occupying a massive part of Asia .
In both cases , Western propaganda made people believe that the real cause for the loss of lives in Russia and China was Communism !
The brainwashing has been so successful , that even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people have been fully indoctrinated by these countlessly repeated lies coming out of the West .
But ask in London , whether people know anything about the fact that under the British occupation of India , tens of millions of people died from starvation ; victims of the famines triggered by London , for many reasons , one of them being an attempt to lower the population .
Over 50 million Indian people , cumulatively , died in these famines , between 1769 to 1943 , in British administered India .
Should we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ British political system ?
I am convinced that we should !
But that is usually not what the people of the world , including the victims of the British colonialist barbarity , are demanding .
So , back to the British or French public .
What do they know about their past , and even about their neo-colonialist present ?
They only know what they have been ordered to believe .
In brief : they know nothing .
Zero .
Only fairytales .
But they are convinced that they are well informed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ lecture the world .
They know absolutely nothing about the USSR , and about China .
They have no clue about why North Korea and Cuba are being continuously demonized ( as mentioned above , they both , hand in hand , liberated Africa from Western colonialism ) .
In fact such clueless publics do not even realise that countries such as Cuba or Noth Korea are being demonised !
I have lived and worked all over Africa , for years , made films , and written countless essays .
The Cuban and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ internationalist and undoubtedly Communist , from Namibia and Angola , from Egypt to Mauritius , has been very well documented .
But say it in a Parisian café or a London pub , and jaws will drop .
Blank stares , emptiness .
Even that “ Anti-Communist left ” consisting of anarcho-syndicalists and Trotskyists ( really mostly British and U.S. brands of pseudo revolutionaries ) , knows nothing , or wants to know nothing , about true revolutionary Communism .
In Indonesia , an entire failed , miserable and depressing religious state is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ understands there , why they are anti-communist , but the more they are ignorant about the subject , the more aggressively they act ; banning all Communist concepts and lexicon , building anti-Communist ‘ museums ’ , and producing anti-Communist films .
After killing millions of Communists on behalf of the West , anti-Communism has become the essence of their existence .
In the past they even used to ban the Chinese and Russian languages .
All just to silence the past , when President Sukarno and the PKI ( Communist Party of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coup , were building a great , progressive , socialist and non-aligned nation .
In fact , in much of Southeast Asia , perhaps the most grotesquely turbo-capitalist part of the world , Communism has been banned , or at least demonized .
The result : confused , consumerist , religious and dismal nations .
Communist Vietnam is the shining star , but it is never portrayed as such , definitely not abroad .
Let us celebrate the 150th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin !
Let us celebrate it by revisiting history , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political system is Western imperialism , colonialism .
It has already murdered hundreds of millions of people , all over the world .
This fact should be repeated again and again .
The goal of Western propaganda has always been to equate Communism and Fascism , the two most antagonistic systems in history , in the world .
It was the Soviet Communist system , which smashed Nazism to pieces , saving the world , at an enormous cost of approximately 27 million human lives .
Only Western imperialism can be compared to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the same stuff .
To me , to many of us , Communism means the perpetual struggle against Western interventionism , colonialism .
In this terrible moment in human history , it is important to clearly understand this reality .
If Communism were to be defeated , it would be the end of the struggle for freedom .
Only the powerful , centralized , ideologically-sound Communist system can fight and liberate the human race from colonialist shackles , from savage capitalism , and a nihilist empty existence .
Propagandists tell you insane @ @ @ @ @ @ @ boring .
Don ’ t believe them : it is the most upbeat , still young , and optimistic arrangement of the world .
And unlike imperialism and capitalism , Communism is constantly evolving .
Not in Europe or North America , but in the rest of the world .
Just look at the West and its colonies .
Look at the misery and deprivation brought on humanity by the Western oppressive dictatorial regime .
[ First published by NEO – a journal of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences ]

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Andre Vltchek
150 years ago, on April 21, 1870, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin, was born. According to many, he was the greatest revolutionary of all times, a man who gave birth to both internationalism and anti-imperialism.
It is time to “revisit Communism”. It is also time to ask some basic, essential questions:
“How is it possible that a system so logical, progressive, and so superior to what is, up till now, governing the world, failed to permanently overthrow the nihilism and brutality of capitalism, imperialism and neo-colonialism?”
Without any doubt, you have been told many horrifying things about Communism, especially if you have been living in the West, or in one of the countries that are fully under the control of the centres of anti-Communism: Washington, London or Paris.
You have been forced to read, again and again, about “Stalinism”, the Tiananmen Square massacre, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. You have, again and again, been served an elaborate cocktail of half-truths, outright fabrications, as well as twisted interpretations of the world history.
The chances are, you have never been to Russia, China or Cambodia; you haven’t done any serious research there.
You have been told that Cambodia is the best example of savage Communism. You never realized that Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge extremists were fully supported by the United States, and not by the Soviet Union and never wholeheartedly by China; that they were never actually really “Communist” (I did a detailed in-country research, and even Pol Pot’s personal guards told me that they had no idea about Communism, and only reacted to the monstrous U.S. carpet bombing of the Cambodian countryside, and to the capital’s collaboration with the West). In that period, most people died as a result of precisely that carpet-bombing by the USAF B-52’s, and as a result of famine. And the famine came after millions of peasants were displaced by the savagery of the bombing, and by the unexploded substances left in the fields, all over the countryside.
It never occurred to you, that one survey after another, conducted in Russia, still shows that the majority of the people there, would like to have the Communist Soviet Union back. And even in the former Soviet Muslim-majority states, including Kirgizstan and Uzbekistan, a tremendous majority of the people I encountered there, remembered the Soviet Union era as some golden age.
And the so-called Soviet occupation of Afghanistan? I have worked, filmed and reported there, on three occasions, relatively recently. Outraged by the on-going Western occupation of their country, countless Afghan people told me stories, illustrating the contrast between their tolerant, progressive and optimistic socialist era, and the present-day horror, during which their country has sunk to the lowest level in Asia, according to both UNDP and the WHO. I worked in Kabul, Jalalabad, Herat, Bagram; the same stories, and the same nostalgia for the Soviet teachers, nurses, engineers.
Showered by the relentless Western propaganda, one never really realized how popular the Communist Party of China is in its own country, and how the Communist ideology is supported in Vietnam, Laos and North Korea.
If one goes to their friendly local bookstore in North America, Europe or even in Hong Kong, not to speak of Australia, the chances are that all one will find there would be tomes written by anti-Communist Chinese or Russian ‘dissidents’, people that have been living off Western grants, receiving countless awards so they can spend all their energy on smearing Communism, and glorifying counter-revolution. Writers such as Svetlana Alexievich, who received the Nobel Prize for literature, for spitting on the graves of the Soviet soldiers who died defending Afghan socialism.
Films one would be allowed to watch, on commercial film channels, would not be any different than the books one had been encouraged to read.
Anti-Communism in the West and in its colonies, is a tremendous industry. It is easily the greatest and on-going propaganda campaign in the history of the world. Its metastasis has been spreading even into the core of the Communist and socialist countries themselves.
All of that is because the Western, imperialist countries know perfectly well that their empire can only survive if Communism collapses.
It is because the very essence of Communism is the perpetual struggle against imperialism.
False but very effective slogans, like bugs, that are being implanted into one’s brains. They are repeated constantly, sometimes hundreds of times a day, without one even noticing: “Communism is dead!” you have been told. “It is outdated, boring.” “China is not Communist, anymore.” “Communism is grey. Life under communism is controlled, and it is monotonous”. “People under Communism have no freedom, and no liberties.”
The opposite is the truth. Building, selfishly and enthusiastically, a new and better society, for the people, is definitely more satisfactory (and “more fun”), than rotting in the constant agony of fear: worrying about mortgages, student loans, and medical emergencies. Competing with others, stepping on others, and even ruining other human beings. Living empty, sad, selfish lives.
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Absurdly, paradoxically, Western propaganda constantly accuses Communism of violence. But Communism is the biggest adversary of the most violent system on Earth, which is Western colonialism/ imperialism. Hundreds of millions of human beings have already vanished as a result of it, throughout the centuries. Hundreds of advanced cultures have been ruined. Entire continents have been plundered.
Before Soviet Communism, before the USSR itself, there was no true and powerful opposition to Western imperialism. Colonialism and imperialism were taken for granted; they were “the world order”.
The Soviet Union and China helped to de-colonize the world. Cuba and North Korea, two Communist countries, fought bravely and successfully, and brought independence to Africa (something that the West has never forgotten nor forgiven).
But fighting for freedom and for the end of colonialism, is not violence; it is defence, resistance and a struggle for independence.
As a rule, Communism does not attack. It defends itself, and it defends countries that are being brutalised. In my future work, I will address two “exceptions”; and explain two cases which are constantly misinterpreted by right-wing propaganda: Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
But back to the so-called “Communist violence”.
My friend and comrade, the legendary Russian intellectual and professor, Aleksandr Buzgalin wrote in his recent work, “LENIN: THEORY AS PRACTICE, PRACTICE AS CREATIVITY” (to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Ulyanov-Lenin):
There is a principle at work here: it is not the socialist revolution that provokes mass violence, but the bourgeois counter-revolution, that begins when capital realises that it is losing its property and power. In response to the generally peaceful and in many cases legitimate victory of the left, capital unleashes savage, barbaric violence. The left is then faced with the question of whether to answer this violence or not. If you go to war, then from that point the laws of war apply, and hundreds of thousands are sent to their deaths, planned in advance, so that millions might be victorious. That is the logic of war. The revolution was carried through. It was victorious. In the broader perspective, the victors were not so much the Bolsheviks as the Soviets, in which the majority supported the Bolsheviks’ position. The revolution was substantially peaceful, prevailing almost without bloodshed. The fiercest fighting occurred in Moscow, where those killed on both sides numbered a few thousand. Beyond that, the picture was of a “triumphal procession of Soviet power” (this heading in Soviet textbooks was no accident). In the winter of 1917-1918 the relationship of forces saw half a million members of the workers’ militia, the Red Guard, pitted against a few tens of thousand White Guard members in the south of Russia. Everything was quiet until the counter-revolution received vast sums of money from the Triple Alliance (primarily from Germany) as well as from the Entente, and all these imperialist countries launched aggression against the young Soviet power.
This is a brilliant take by Aleksandr Buzgalin. I have addressed this topic on many occasions, but never so coherently. And this applies to countless examples, all over the world, where the West first provoked and brutally antagonized socialist or communist countries, then accused them of cruelty, and finally “liberated” them in the name of freedom and democracy, literally raping the will of their people. All this just so European and North American imperialism would survive and thrive.
Let’s recall just a few examples: the USSR, 1965 Indonesia, 1973 Chile, 2019 Bolivia. The biggest attempt to date: to divert, destabilize and overthrow the enormously successful Chinese system. But there are, of course, countless other examples, in all corners of the globe.
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Ron Unz, the publisher of The Unz Review, wrote in his report “American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Bio-warfare Blowback?”, recalling his thoughts, in 1999, when China protested about the NATO bombing of its Embassy in Belgrade:
“But when I considered that the Chinese government was still stubbornly denying the reality of its massacre of the protesting students in Tiananmen Square a decade earlier, I concluded that unreasonable behavior by PRC officials was only to be expected…. Such at least were my thoughts on that matter more than two decades ago. But in the years that followed, my understanding of the world and of many pivotal events of modern history underwent the sweeping transformations that I have described in my American Pravda series. And some of my 1990s assumptions were among them. Consider, for example, the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which every June 4th still evokes an annual wave of harsh condemnations in the news and opinion pages of our leading national newspapers. I had never originally doubted those facts, but a year or two ago I happened to come across a short article by journalist Jay Matthews entitled “The Myth of Tiananmen” that completely upended that apparent reality. According to Matthews the infamous massacre had likely never happened, but was merely a media artifact produced by confused Western reporters and dishonest propaganda, a mistaken belief that had quickly become embedded in our standard media storyline, endlessly repeated by so many ignorant journalists that they all eventually believed it to be true. Instead, as near as could be determined, the protesting students had all left Tiananmen Square peacefully, just as the Chinese government had always maintained. Indeed, leading newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post had occasionally acknowledged these facts over the years, but usually buried those scanty admissions so deep in their stories that few ever noticed. Meanwhile, the bulk of the mainstream media had fallen for an apparent hoax. Matthews himself had been the Beijing Bureau Chief of the Washington Post, personally covering the protests at the time, and his article appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, our most prestigious venue for media criticism.”
On top of it, what Western mainstream media was describing as a group of “freedom fighters” and “pro-democracy movement”, had a substantial number of extremists in its ranks, even outright racists, that were protesting against the presence of black Africans on Chinese university campuses. They demanded a ban on their relationships with Chinese women. And they were fully supported and at least partially funded by the West, simply because of their savage, aggressive, fundamentalist anti-Communism.
The Chinese government does not even want to touch this subject, anymore. They feel that, faced with massive Western propaganda, they cannot get through with their take on the story; in brief, that they have lost the narrative.
Now fast-forward to 2019 and 2020. Hong Kong. Again, what we are witnessing there is outrageous and extremist anti-Communism. Fascist protesters that are marching, destroying public property, and attacking the Police, all under U.S, U.K and German banners, are hailed by the Western mass media as “pro-democracy activists”. They are physically attacking the supporters of Beijing. They are paid, they are glorified. I have talked to them on many occasions. They are fully, thoroughly brainwashed. They know nothing about facts. They deny the crimes committed by the British and the U.S. colonialists. They admire everything Western, and they despise their own country.
The West has been told to view them as “revolutionaries”. And it promotes them as revolutionaries, all over the world!
Another group unleashed against Communist China, are the Uyghurs. Many of these people have joined terrorist organizations in Idlib, Syria, in Indonesia, and elsewhere. Or more precisely, they were injected there. The reason? To harden them on the battlefields, so that they could one day return to China, and try to break Communism, as well as the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI), the most internationalist mammoth project on Earth. I have covered their activities in Syria, Indonesia, Turkey and elsewhere. I have written extensively about the atrocities they have been committing. But the anti-Communist propaganda is often too massive and too “professional”. It manufactures a “bullet-proof narrative”. It portrays the Uyghurs as the victims!
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Ask the common men and women of the streets of London, Paris or New York, what they know about Stalin's era, or the famines in the early years of the USSR, or in Communist China?
Basically, 99.99% know nothing. Where did these famines take place, or why? But they are absolutely certain that they took place. No doubts, whatsoever. No doubts that they happened “because of Communism”. Westerners are intellectually obedient, like sheep. Most of them do not question the propaganda unleashed by their regime. Are they really “free”?
The famine in the Soviet Union actually took place because the young revolutionary country was totally devastated by Western and Japanese invasions, which tried to break and plunder the country. British, French, U.S., Czech, Polish, German, Japanese invasions, to name just a few.
But ask, for instance, the Czechs, how much they know about their Legion that controlled the Trans-Siberian railroad, on their way from Europe to Vladivostok. Plundering, rape, and mass killing. I tried. I asked, in Prague and Pilsen. They thought I was a lunatic. The Legion is portrayed as heroic, in their history books. A bullet-proof narrative. No doubts there.
And “Stalinism”? This author is planning to write much more on this subject. But here, just in brief: What kind of country did Stalin really inherit? It was a country thoroughly plundered by foreign invaders, a country devastated by civil war. A country where the anti-revolutionary forces have been, until recently, financed by the U.K., France, U.S. and others. As a result of this brutal civil war unleashed and supported from abroad, criminal gangs roamed all over the vast lands, and inside cities.
From the beginning, the Russian Communists wanted peace, the brotherhood of nations, and peaceful development for their people. I wrote in 2017, in my book “Great October Socialist Revolution. Impact on the World and Birth of Internationalism”:
“The revolutionaries wanted to end all wars immediately. Russian soldiers left their trenches, and embraced their enemies. “We are all brothers!” they shouted. “We were forced to fight each other by ruthless monarchs, priests and businessmen. We should battle real enemies, not each other! Proletariat of the world, Unite!” But the Western officers and commanders were determined: they forced their men back to the trenches, accusing them of treason, pushing them to the battlefields. Most significantly, the countless foreign invasions were overwhelming of both several major Russian cities and the countryside. As always throughout the previous centuries, the Europeans never thought twice before putting their military boots on Russian soil. In a way, Russia was treated and perceived as a ‘barbaric’ nation that could be attacked, colonized and plundered at will and without much justification, not unlike all those countless unfortunate nations all over the world: located in South America and Central Asia, in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Many Russians looked like whites, like Europeans, but to the Westerners, they were never “white enough”, never really part of the culture of the conquerors and plunderers. Russia always had its own soul, its way of thinking and feeling, its distinct manner of acting and reacting.”
In my book, I revisited the subversion tactics of Western imperialism and militant anti-Communism:
“The essence and strategy of Western imperialist subversion is essentially very simple: identify all strong and weak points of the country that you are attempting to murder, and try to comprehend its ideology. Study and learn all about its progressive leadership: its plans, and all that the revolution is trying to do for the people: like giving them freedom, equal rights, improved life expectancy, high standards of education, medical care, housing, infrastructure, arts and overall a decent quality of life. Then, attack where it hurts the most: use direct interventions, sabotage, terrorist assaults, or sponsor extremist and even religious fundamentalist groups, in order to spread fear and insecurity to slow down the process of social change and economic growth. Hit so hard that at some point, the democratic revolutionary system will have to react, simply in order to protect its people, their achievements, and even their bare lives. Wherever the West tries to destroy a socialist country, be it Nicaragua or Afghanistan in the 80’s, it first targets hospitals and schools, in order to demolish the great social achievements of the government, and to spread hopelessness among the population. Then it hits even harder, to trigger a strong government reaction, and then immediately declare: “You see, this is the real face of socialism or communism! You want a revolution? Fine: what you get in the package will be this: oppression, political trials, gulags, a lack of freedom, and even some brutal executions!” Use widely, weapons like disinformation and negative propaganda, so the revolution in a progressive but cruelly terrorized country would never have a chance to really influence the rest of the world, and even at home it will begin to suffer after being put under too much pressure… …Such hideous tactics of the West, deeply injured the Soviet Union before WWII, but it failed to destroy the country.”
The Chinese famine took place partially because during the Japanese occupation, the Imperial Army disrupted the food chain supplies, as well as the system of farming, which had been formed and developed throughout thousands of years. Japan was interested in only one thing: how to feed its troops that were occupying a massive part of Asia.
In both cases, Western propaganda made people believe that the real cause for the loss of lives in Russia and China was Communism! The brainwashing has been so successful, that even in Russia and China, millions of people have been fully indoctrinated by these countlessly repeated lies coming out of the West.
But ask in London, whether people know anything about the fact that under the British occupation of India, tens of millions of people died from starvation; victims of the famines triggered by London, for many reasons, one of them being an attempt to lower the population. Over 50 million Indian people, cumulatively, died in these famines, between 1769 to 1943, in British administered India.
Should we, as a result, ban the British political system? I am convinced that we should! But that is usually not what the people of the world, including the victims of the British colonialist barbarity, are demanding.
So, back to the British or French public. What do they know about their past, and even about their neo-colonialist present? They only know what they have been ordered to believe. In brief: they know nothing. Zero. Only fairytales. But they are convinced that they are well informed. And that they have the right to lecture the world.
They know absolutely nothing about the USSR, and about China. They have no clue about why North Korea and Cuba are being continuously demonized (as mentioned above, they both, hand in hand, liberated Africa from Western colonialism). In fact such clueless publics do not even realise that countries such as Cuba or Noth Korea are being demonised!
I have lived and worked all over Africa, for years, made films, and written countless essays. The Cuban and North Korean involvement, enormously positive, internationalist and undoubtedly Communist, from Namibia and Angola, from Egypt to Mauritius, has been very well documented. But say it in a Parisian café or a London pub, and jaws will drop. Blank stares, emptiness.
Even that “Anti-Communist left” consisting of anarcho-syndicalists and Trotskyists (really mostly British and U.S. brands of pseudo revolutionaries), knows nothing, or wants to know nothing, about true revolutionary Communism.
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On 23 April, 2020, Brasil de Fato quoted the Venezuelan Vice-Minister Carlos Ron:
“It is very interesting in North American culture, to believe in “manifest destiny”, to think that they have a messianic mission. They believe that their mission is to end communism in Latin America, so they will overthrow Venezuela, Cuba and everything that is red, because all that is red is communist.”
In Indonesia, an entire failed, miserable and depressing religious state is based on anti-Communist dogma. Nobody clearly understands there, why they are anti-communist, but the more they are ignorant about the subject, the more aggressively they act; banning all Communist concepts and lexicon, building anti-Communist ‘museums’, and producing anti-Communist films. After killing millions of Communists on behalf of the West, anti-Communism has become the essence of their existence. In the past they even used to ban the Chinese and Russian languages. All just to silence the past, when President Sukarno and the PKI (Communist Party of Indonesia), before the US-backed 1965 coup, were building a great, progressive, socialist and non-aligned nation.
In fact, in much of Southeast Asia, perhaps the most grotesquely turbo-capitalist part of the world, Communism has been banned, or at least demonized. The result: confused, consumerist, religious and dismal nations. Communist Vietnam is the shining star, but it is never portrayed as such, definitely not abroad.
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Let us celebrate the 150th birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin!
Let us celebrate it by revisiting history, and the present.
The most brutal political system is Western imperialism, colonialism. It has already murdered hundreds of millions of people, all over the world. This fact should be repeated again and again.
The goal of Western propaganda has always been to equate Communism and Fascism, the two most antagonistic systems in history, in the world. It was the Soviet Communist system, which smashed Nazism to pieces, saving the world, at an enormous cost of approximately 27 million human lives.
Only Western imperialism can be compared to German Nazism. The two are made of the same stuff.
To me, to many of us, Communism means the perpetual struggle against Western interventionism, colonialism.
In this terrible moment in human history, it is important to clearly understand this reality.
If Communism were to be defeated, it would be the end of the struggle for freedom. Only the powerful, centralized, ideologically-sound Communist system can fight and liberate the human race from colonialist shackles, from savage capitalism, and a nihilist empty existence.
Propagandists tell you insane lies, that Communism is outdated and boring. Don’t believe them: it is the most upbeat, still young, and optimistic arrangement of the world. And unlike imperialism and capitalism, Communism is constantly evolving. Not in Europe or North America, but in the rest of the world.
Just look at the West and its colonies. Look at the misery and deprivation brought on humanity by the Western oppressive dictatorial regime.
Happy birthday, Comrade Lenin!
The struggle continues! La lotta continua!
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido...
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[First published by NEO – a journal of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences]


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-04--US Protests: Why the uneasy silence?

US Protests: Why the uneasy silence?

This is not the place to elaborate on why and how the USA arrived at a point at which , many people sense , a restoration of its former power and status is impossible .
Here , I want to address something that I have found quite strange , namely , the muted if not completely inimical reaction in many alternative ( particularly pro-Russian ) media to this momentous event .
Here , I will briefly comment on some of the relevant points but will avoid dealing with political and tactical reasons for such a reaction .
1 .
Why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black man—he was passing a fake cheque !
The country as it is needs to end and be replaced by something else—hopefully better .
It was built on a massive genocide of the indigenous human and buffalo populations ( despite what some revisionists claim ) .
It was built on the sweat of the black , Chinese and other sources of slave or near-slave labour .
It achieved its acme at a time when the rest of the world was laid low by the ravages of war .
Since the end of WWII @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anti-Christian and anti-human myth of exceptionality to loot , pillage , destroy , and bully innumerable countries and retard progress towards a more equitable and just society .
This is not even contentious .
Drunk on anti-communism , Russophobia and a completely undeserved superiority complex , successive US governments have also used this pernicious myth ( remember the CIA cut-out Obama ? )
to anaesthetise their population to the fact that the Potemkin village of American supremacy was starting to crumble as early as 1968 .
The anaesthetic started to wear off in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finally witnessing the moment of full awakening .
The ultimate irony of the situation lies in the fact that great American “ patriots ” strutting on Twitter are quiet about the fact that their own cherished City on the Hill was born from a bloody rebellion , rioting and destruction—of continental proportions .
This is the main reason for the current confusion—people as thoroughly zombified as an average adult American are utterly incapable of comprehending their predicament and reflecting critically in order to affect positive change .
Sure , there will be token @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with protesters , sops to the black community etc .
None of this however can reverse the rapid descent into Hades of a country built on iniquity .
The pain of the black American is real .
Still inchoate despite a number of attempts to articulate it intellectually , it reflects a genuine sense of grievance and desperation .
The experience of slavery to one side , it is the constant and uninterrupted campaign by the right-wing whites to behead the black leadership and strangle any genuine attempts by the black community to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its expression in an emotive call to protest .
Sadly , some people think of the black Americans as the lowest of the low .
According to this view , they are hardly human and their low caste status is justified because of their low IQ , inherent laziness , affinity for violence , promiscuity etc .
Never once do these superior human beings stop to consider that the causality might be reversed—that it is precisely because of the inhuman treatment , cruel uprooting and universal contempt of generations of African Americans that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If I were treated by the police and white people the way that many black Americans are treated , I would rob , loot and kill too .
This is not to say that white people are irredeemably racist .
As the protests demonstrate , younger generations will not stand for racism of any kind .
It is unthinkable for me to view anybody , let alone an African-American , as a sub-human precisely because my people were enslaved for 400 years and as recently as 1940s , my “ race ” was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or any human consideration .
In addition , I do believe in the precepts of Jesus Christ .
This makes it easy for me to empathise with black Americans despite the constant poisoning of the well by various COINTELPRO machinations .
Until now , there has often been more white outrage on the internet over the abuse of animals than over the deaths of black people .
The narratives such as “ they shouldn ’ t have resisted arrest ” are no longer allowable and rightly so .
This is the end of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ buts .
Unless we are able to recognise our own exceptionalism , we can never claim to be fully human ( or Christian ) .
If you were ever thought of as “ lower ” , you have no right to look down .
And especially if you weren ’ t !
You can ’ t serve God and Mammon both .
I am no better than anybody else , just aware of my own darkness .
2 .
Raise the bridge , Soros at the gates !
Apart from racial insensitivity , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another reason for the muted reaction must be the fear conditioned by the alt-right that Soros , Illuminati , freemasons , satanic Bolsheviks , Antifa , Frankfurt School etc .
are behind the riots .
The reticence is understandable—the malevolent speculator Soros is indeed one of the major criminals of the modern era and it is possible that some of this activity is being sponsored by his organisation .
However , this has no bearing on the proper understanding of the situation .
Even if all of this were true , and it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Does it mean that we are prepared indefinitely to endure the whims of a belligerent right-wing regime which has taken the world to the brink of a world war ( see e.g .
the demented pencil-necked Tom Cotton baying for Chinese and black blood ) ?
If nothing else , the protests have taken away what little domestic and international credibility America had and have crippled its soft power beyond repair .
Is this such a bad thing ?
The hypocrisy of the current US ’ s position is delightful .
After accusing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ long list of non-existent crimes , it has exposed itself for what it is—a shaky plywood fortress built on a land cursed by its extinguished owners .
Why not celebrate ?
If Soros is funding the “ left ” , do you know who is funding the “ right ” , namely the ultramontane Bannonites , the crazed Evangelicals and assorted right-wing Zionist cabals ?
What about Jabba the Hutt Adelson ?
Has Trump ’ s election fund of over $ 100 million dollars ( five times larger than Obama ’ s ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans ?
Perhaps , but I wouldn ’ t bet on it .
The idea that the alt-right regime is in any sense “ good ” is beyond naïve .
Does the fact that nefarious agents always co-opt any meaningful human activity mean that we must forego the fight against obvious injustice ?
What ’ s wrong with giving America a taste of the Bolshevik medicine ?
If the “ patriots ” are anything like the fat , bearded or steroid-soaked rednecks with AR-15s I see daily on the internet , more power @ @ @ @ @ @ @ following his criminal activity since the mid-90s ) .
It could be argued that the alt-right has turned Soros into the ultimate scarecrow that successfully distracts from their own evil .
If the reason for silence has to do with Russia , again , what is the problem ?
Russia has gone through three West-inspired tragedies in less than 100 years .
If it has not learned the lessons of history , our support for Trump will not help much .
Before I continue , let me emphasise that US Democrats are as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as it is possible to get .
The Overton window of the American political discourse has shifted to the right so much that known warmongering murderers and racists such as Hillary Clinton ( “ black super thugs ” ) are considered to be of the left .
As discussed on this site ad nauseam , the US political scene is a parasitical corporatist duopoly .
I am not interested in the flavour of this travesty ( patronisingly liberal or patriotic and God-fearing ) because both are massive cons specifically promulgated to give the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is now unravelling and with it , the capacity of the dark empire to harm the world .
Why are we not raising a glass ?
Does anybody here think that the narcissistic racketeer Trump who has sanctioned Russia and China to death , incited a war against Iran and Venezuela , and is now threatening to move nuclear weapons to Poland , A MAN OF PEACE ?
The time has come to shed such illusions and acknowledge that we were wrong .
The most charitable explanation for his failure is that compelled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the advanced imperial decay , Trump has accelerated the destruction of the fabric of the US society ( some say deliberately ) and exposed its dark racist and imperialist underbelly .
Which brings me to the next point .
3 .
We must all cheer for Team Murrica !
The fact that the majority of US citizens are completely in thrall of the grand lie , I take for granted .
What is more puzzling and troubling is the sense that the desperate and dirty struggle of the US regime to save itself @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people is somehow our struggle .
For over 70 years we have been conditioned to think of America as a unique and irreplaceable Shangri-La whose destiny touches us all .
We have spent a large amount of time and best years of our youth in that America of the mind that includes many great things but is ultimately a chimera built on lies with a single intent—to perpetuate the empire without having to resort to the force of arms .
Those living in the USA will say—oh , but it ’ s not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ great .
To that I reply—it might have been once and briefly but the unresolved internal contradictions ( hello Karl ) have sucked out its elan vital , destroyed its cohesion and sense of purpose .
Wake up !
The world is tired of the bullying , killing and racketeering perpetrated by the trillionaire parasites infesting the Wall Street , the Silicon Valley and the military-industrial-intelligence complex—the three fasciae .
Whether their chosen puppet is Trump or Biden is less important , if at all .
For the United States to have any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ must first renounce its evil imperialist present and revisit some of the more humane and peaceful modes of existence based on peaceful co-existence .
The first people that spring to mind here are Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Wallace ( so hated by the “ patriots ” ) but also a number of black intellectuals who have pondered this difficult question .
The first step though is the eradication of the deep systemic racism which still blights the landscape .
I have no doubt that African Americans deserve better—and this does not mean money @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is equally important , in the coming together of the young people of different races , I see a germ of a more hopeful future .
Which leads to… 4 .
Those soy-fed white SJWs have no idea how privileged they are !
A typical reaction to the unprecedented participation of white youth in the protests is met with a lazy alt-right trope : pampered middle-class millenials and Generation Xers are playing at class struggle blah blah .
Yet , the response has been so overwhelming that it can not be explained away @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in America and the West feels cheated .
Decades of lies and empty promises have left most young people helpless and hopeless .
They are drowning in student loan debt and mostly have no hope of owning a home or holding a steady job .
The typical right-wing injunctions to “ get on your bike ” or “ learn to code ” are largely meaningless when you realise that few privileged hustlers who produce nothing useful hold around 70 % of the country ’ s wealth .
Why should a young person work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a pittance in order to increase the profits of a malignant corporation ?
Why enter the corporate rat race when one can be happy with very little provided the society is based on humane values ?
Why should they spend years learning a skill or getting a degree only to be immediately removed from the queue and replaced by the cheaper H1b import ?
I would argue that the young are much smarter than we old f***s give them credit for .
They understand the fundamental injustice of the present system and refuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sign of stupidity , it is a mature and largely rational estimate of the situation .
They can not be lulled into obedience by the slimy appeals to freedom , family and second amendment issued daily by warmongering lechers and paedophiles hiding behind God and homeland .
It is this sense of hopelessness that has awakened empathy for the suffering of others .
Yes , some might be selfish and deluded but even in their awkward attempts to embrace their black brothers and sisters , they are saying a loud NO to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ They reject the divisive rhetoric of the fake left ( race before class ) and fascist right ( implicit segregation , racial inequality ) .
Instead of criticising them , it might be a good idea for us to move aside and hope that they are capable of rectifying the errors of their ancestors .
Oh , and FBI has just stated that there has been no Antifa presence at the protests so far .

Up to You.
^3000US citizens have no real political representation.
We don't live in a democracy. And our freedom is disappearing fast.
I don't want to be ruled by hypocrites, whores, and war criminals.
What about you? Time to push back against the corporate oligarchy.
And its multitude of minions and lackeys.