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Ludo Martens: Another view of Stalin

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EDITOR 'S PREFATORY NOTE Anti-Stalinism has served for many decades as psychological and disinformation shorthand ( not to mention ubiquitous battering ram ) for anti-Sovietism , and , in general , anticommunism .
Therein lies its immense value to Western capitalist propaganda .
It is clear that once you successfully implant the false equation that Stalin 's sins—as proclaimed by his legion of detractors— equals communism , the rest is straightforward : it 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a whole complex system which many people , despite the unrelenting propaganda , find intriguing and often , when capitalist brutality and indecency show their true face , downright attractive .
But while `` Stalin '' , both the real man and the symbol , due to his utility to Western demonology , continues to be the target of insidious studies and open attacks ( 1 ) , there are those who have fought against this tide of mendacity and bad faith seeking to attain a more balanced and truthful picture of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these , Ludo Martens ( 1946-2011 ) , a Belgian historian and activist noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union , and also the chairman of the Workers ' Party of Belgium , stands out for the scope and forcefulness of his work .
The book that made him famous and infamous at once , was Another View of Stalin ( 1994 ) .
To say that Ludo Martens was a brave and principled man is to proclaim the obvious .
In his youth , presented with the option @ @ @ @ @ @ @ life of comfort if not opulence , Martens rejected all that to put himself at the service of the proletariat and oppressed peoples .
The genuine love he inspired among his comrades in the Belgian Communist Party ( PTB ) is reflected in the moving obituary he received upon his rather untimely death : On the afternoon of 5 June , following a long illness , Ludo breathed his last .
With this , the heart of one of the boldest defenders of communism , one of the most implacable enemies of imperialism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ceased to beat .
His death has brought great loss to the anti-revisionist movement and the gap left by his departure will be felt in the coming days .
In his article ’ Serve the People ’ , Cde Mao Zedong wrote : “ A man must die , but death can vary in significance .
The ancient Chinese writer Szuma Chien said : ’ Though death befalls all men alike , it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather ’ .
To die for the people is weightier @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather.
” ( September 1944 , Selected Works , Vol 4 , p.228 ) .
In view of Ludo ’ s dedicated service to the working-class movement , his death weighs heavier than Mount Tai . ''
As mentioned , in 1994 Martens published Another View of Stalin ( Un autre regard sur Staline ) , as a history of the Soviet Union under Stalin that challenges in particular the historically accepted view of collectivisation in the USSR and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ motivation for writing the book in the introduction : Martens writes primarily in French ; however , his books , especially Another View of Stalin , have been translated into Dutch , English , and numerous other languages .
In Another View of Stalin , Martens regards as the main factor behind the Ukrainian famine ( Holodomor ) to be bad conditions and class enemy sabotage .
With regard to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's research Gulag Archipelago , Martens stated : Within the International Communist Movement , he is noted for having proposed the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Marxist-Leninist movement .
These are the pro-Soviet groups , the pro-Chinese , the pro-Albanian , and pro-Cuban .
In addition there are `` independents . ''
Martens has put forward that while at a certain time these separations were important and based on principle , they can now be overcome and the movement can be united on the basis of Marxism-Leninism .
In order to develop this unification process , the Workers Party of Belgium hosts the International Communist Seminar in Brussels , which is attended by 150 organizations around the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book is eloquent and straightforward , without the stylistic conceits of bourgeois historians or the abstruse arguments and gyrations of many Marxist polemicists .
We thought its foreword would therefore provide the proper introduction to his work .
Ultimately , in judging Stalin and Soviet rule , with all its real and imagined qualities and shortcomings , we must ask the crucial question challenging any serious revolutionist : How does a socialist revolution protect itself from its innumerable enemies inside and out without a centralised state ?
That a famous Soviet dissident , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a man who in his youth was so fanatically anti-Stalin that he planned a terrorist attack against him , who filled entire books with vehement denunciation of Stalin 's political line in every possible way , that such a man would , in his old age , pay homage to Stalin is remarkable .
Many who consider themselves Communist have not shown such courage .
It is very difficult to raise one 's feeble voice against the torrents of anti-Stalin propaganda .
Unfortunately many Communists do not feel at ease on this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Communism had claimed for thirty-five years was supposedly confirmed by Khrushchev in 1956 .
Since then , angry , unanimous condemnations of Stalin have come from the Nazis and the Trotskyists , from Kissinger and Brzezinski , from Khrushchev and Gorbachev , and many others , each adding to the ` proof ' .
To defend the historic rôle of Stalin and the Bolshevik Party becomes unthinkable , even monstrous .
And most people who firmly oppose the murderous anarchy of world capitalism have become intimidated .
Today , for a man such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that has taken hold of the ex-Soviet Union , with its trail of famine , unemployment , criminality , misery , corruption and interethnic wars , has led to the reassessment of prejudices firmly held since adolescence .
It is clear that , throughout the world , those who wish to defend the ideals of Socialism and Communism must at least do the same .
All Communist and revolutionary organizations across the globe must re-examine the opinions and judgments that they have formed since 1956 about Comrade Stalin 's work .
No one @ @ @ @ @ @ @ succeeded in eradicating all of Stalin 's achievements , crowning thirty-five years of virulent denunciations of ` Stalinism ' , Lenin himself became persona non grata in the Soviet Union .
With the burial of Stalinism , Leninism disappeared as well .
Rediscovering the revolutionary truth about this pioneer period is a collective task that must be borne by all Communists , around the world .
This revolutionary truth will arise by questioning sources , testimony and analyses .
Clearly , the aid that might be offered by Soviet Marxist-Leninists , sometimes the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and to witnesses , will be vital .
But today they work under very difficult conditions .
Our analyses and reflections on this subject are published in this work , Another view of Stalin .
The view of Stalin that is imposed on us daily is that of the class that wants to maintain the existing system of exploitation and oppression .
Adopting another view of Stalin means looking at the historic Stalin through the eyes of the oppressed class , through the eyes of the exploited and oppressed .
This book is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Stalin .
It is intended to directly confront the standard attacks made against Stalin : ` Lenin 's Will ' , forced collectivization , overbearing bureaucracy , extermination of the Old Bolshevik guard , the Great Purge , forced industrialization , collusion between Stalin and Hitler , his incompetency during World War II , etc .
We have endeavored to deconstruct many ` well-known truths ' about Stalin , those that are summarized -- - over and over -- - in a few lines in newspapers , history books and interviews , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of our unconscious .
` But how is it possible ' , asked a friend , ` to defend a man like Stalin ? '
There was astonishment and indignation in this question , which reminded me of what an old Communist worker once told me .
He spoke to me of the year 1956 , when Khrushchev read his famous Secret Report .
Powerful debates took place within the Communist Party .
During one of these confrontations , an elderly Communist woman , from a Jewish Communist family , who lost two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Poland was exterminated , cried out : ` How can we not support Stalin , who built socialism , who defeated fascism , who incarnated all our hopes ? '
In the fiery ideological storm that was sweeping the world , where others had capitulated , this woman remained true to the Revolution .
And for this reason , she had another view of Stalin .
A new generation of Communists will share her view .
Notes ( 1 ) As people who have followed the vicious trajectory of the US-UK centered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russia via Russiagate , the Skripals , the MH7 accusations and much more , can attest , the Western propaganda machinery is formidable and peerless in creating monsters through nonstop vilification .
Every single leader and nation that ever opposed ( or obstructed ) Washington and its accomplices has received the same treatment , and the bad part is that it works , that most people have believed it .
It is logical therefore that if the Western propaganda machine can turn Putin into a monster on short notice , a handful of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ possible corruptible leader Washington `` could do business with '' , as they did with Yeltsin , and Gorbachev before him ) , then think how much deeper is the truth about men like Stalin buried and deformed to suit American narratives , after being the target of unrelenting demonisation for practically 50 years .
That is a sobering thought , indeed , to which we must add the soft and alarmingly naive nature of the `` New Left '' in the West , and the factionalism and infighting among communist ranks themselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ truth about the much hated system of communism was not likely to ever emerge anywhere in Western establishment information venues , and , in fact , it did not .
To think otherwise is to be guilty of extreme naivete about the vile and pervasive nature of the imperialist system that social change activists confront at home and abroad .
The effects of this anticommunist propaganda vectored through Stalin are so ubiquitous that barely a single discussion of the topic can be entertained without the usual epithets being heard from the lips of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the usual Trotskyist cadre , communist apostates , and ordinary citizens regurgitating the injected claptrap .
On /reddit , for example , in groups such as `` socialism '' , `` communism '' , `` social democracy '' .
`` ask a historian '' , etc.
, one encounters an abundance of opinions which basically conform to the same mould : `` Stalin killed millions for no reason at all , '' Stalin was a brutal , power-hungry thug ; evil incarnate , a paranoid despot who ... hijacked the revolution and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , perhaps most damning for people interested in leftists ideals , `` Stalin abandoned the principles of communism and the global workers ' movement . ''
The anti-Stalin rhetoric is never nuanced ; only insults will do , until the sheer extravagant caliber of the invective will convince the listener that such intensity can only originate in truth .
As to sources for this torrent of slanders and half-truths , almost invariably , the threads lead in almost circular pattern to academics like Tim Snyder , less than scrupulous in their research , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Conquest .
Despite this , the truth is finally asserting itself , and a different , far more nuanced and even favorable picture of Stalin is emerging not only in Russia , where new historiography is rapidly eroding much of the `` evil Stalin '' narrative , but even in the West .
Among the latter , besides the Ludo Martens testimony , readers should examine the work of Prof. Grover Furr , who has devoted much of his life to unearthing the truth about Stalin and the USSR .
Furr is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the `` official '' line about Stalin and the Soviet Union .
Check for example Khrushchev Lied , or Blood Lies , a patient but irrefutable deconstruction of Timothy Snyder 's Bloodlands , just the latest example of media-celebrated academic anti-communism .
This short list of suggestions would be incomplete without mentioning the invaluable work of Prof. Michael Parenti , especially Blackshirts and Reds : Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism .
TGP has published many essays and lectures by Parenti , whose lucidity in the defence of revolutionary history matches his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Michael Parenti : Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism , Left Anticommunism : the unkindest cut .
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EDITOR'S PREFATORY NOTE
Anti-Stalinism has served for many decades as psychological and disinformation shorthand (not to mention ubiquitous battering ram) for anti-Sovietism, and, in general, anticommunism. Therein lies its immense value to Western capitalist propaganda. It is clear that once you successfully implant the false equation that Stalin's sins—as proclaimed by his legion of detractors— equals communism, the rest is straightforward: it's far easier to demonise a man than a whole complex system which many people, despite the unrelenting propaganda, find intriguing and often, when capitalist brutality and indecency show their true face, downright attractive.
But while "Stalin", both the real man and the symbol, due to his utility to Western demonology, continues to be the target of insidious studies and open attacks (1), there are those who have fought against this tide of mendacity and bad faith seeking to attain a more balanced and truthful picture of this complex man and his times. Among these, Ludo Martens (1946-2011), a Belgian historian and activist noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union, and also the chairman of the Workers' Party of Belgium, stands out for the scope and forcefulness of his work. The book that made him famous and infamous at once, was Another View of Stalin (1994).
To say that Ludo Martens was a brave and principled man is to proclaim the obvious. In his youth, presented with the option to study medicine, which guaranteed a life of comfort if not opulence, Martens rejected all that to put himself at the service of the proletariat and oppressed peoples. The genuine love he inspired among his comrades in the Belgian Communist Party (PTB) is reflected in the moving obituary he received upon his rather untimely death:
On the afternoon of 5 June, following a long illness, Ludo breathed his last. With this, the heart of one of the boldest defenders of communism, one of the most implacable enemies of imperialism in the present-day international working-class movement, ceased to beat. His death has brought great loss to the anti-revisionist movement and the gap left by his departure will be felt in the coming days. In his article ’Serve the People’, Cde Mao Zedong wrote: “A man must die, but death can vary in significance. The ancient Chinese writer Szuma Chien said: ’Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather’. To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather.” (September 1944, Selected Works, Vol 4, p.228). In view of Ludo’s dedicated service to the working-class movement, his death weighs heavier than Mount Tai."
As mentioned, in 1994 Martens published Another View of Stalin (Un autre regard sur Staline), as a history of the Soviet Union under Stalin that challenges in particular the historically accepted view of collectivisation in the USSR and the Great Purge. He explained his motivation for writing the book in the introduction:
Defending Stalin's work, essentially defending Marxism-Leninism, is an important, urgent task in preparing ourselves for class struggle under the New World Order.
Martens writes primarily in French; however, his books, especially Another View of Stalin, have been translated into Dutch, English, and numerous other languages. In Another View of Stalin, Martens regards as the main factor behind the Ukrainian famine (Holodomor) to be bad conditions and class enemy sabotage. With regard to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's research Gulag Archipelago, Martens stated:
This man became the official voice for the five per cent of Tsarists, bourgeois, speculators, kulaks, pimps, maffiosi and Vlasovites, all justifiably repressed by the socialist state.
International Communist Seminar (Brussels)
Within the International Communist Movement, he is noted for having proposed the unification of the four main tendencies of the Marxist-Leninist movement. These are the pro-Soviet groups, the pro-Chinese, the pro-Albanian, and pro-Cuban. In addition there are "independents." Martens has put forward that while at a certain time these separations were important and based on principle, they can now be overcome and the movement can be united on the basis of Marxism-Leninism. In order to develop this unification process, the Workers Party of Belgium hosts the International Communist Seminar in Brussels, which is attended by 150 organizations around the world. According to Martens:
Today, as a result of the restoration of capitalism under Gorbachev, the "pro-Soviet" tendency crumbled into innumerable tendencies. In the sixties, a "pro-Chinese" tendency emerged but split into various tendencies after Mao's death. There has been a "pro-Albanian" tendency, which also split after the collapse of socialism in Albania, and a so-called "pro-Cuban" tendency, mainly in Latin America. Some parties, finally, maintained an "independent" position vis-a-vis the tendencies mentioned. Whatever one's opinion about the correctness or the necessity of these splits at a certain point in history may be, it is nowadays possible to overcome these divisions and to unite the Marxist-Leninist parties, which are divided in different currents.
Martens' book is eloquent and straightforward, without the stylistic conceits of bourgeois historians or the abstruse arguments and gyrations of many Marxist polemicists. We thought its foreword would therefore provide the proper introduction to his work. Ultimately, in judging Stalin and Soviet rule, with all its real and imagined qualities and shortcomings, we must ask the crucial question challenging any serious revolutionist: How does a socialist revolution protect itself from its innumerable enemies inside and out without a centralised state?
—Patrice Greanville
Another View of Stalin
Foreword by Ludo Martens
That a famous Soviet dissident, now living in `reunited' Germany, a man who in his youth was so fanatically anti-Stalin that he planned a terrorist attack against him, who filled entire books with vehement denunciation of Stalin's political line in every possible way, that such a man would, in his old age, pay homage to Stalin is remarkable.
Many who consider themselves Communist have not shown such courage. It is very difficult to raise one's feeble voice against the torrents of anti-Stalin propaganda.
Unfortunately many Communists do not feel at ease on this battlefield. Everything that sworn enemies of Communism had claimed for thirty-five years was supposedly confirmed by Khrushchev in 1956. Since then, angry, unanimous condemnations of Stalin have come from the Nazis and the Trotskyists, from Kissinger and Brzezinski, from Khrushchev and Gorbachev, and many others, each adding to the `proof'. To defend the historic rôle of Stalin and the Bolshevik Party becomes unthinkable, even monstrous. And most people who firmly oppose the murderous anarchy of world capitalism have become intimidated.
Today, for a man such as Zinoviev, seeing the destructive folly that has taken hold of the ex-Soviet Union, with its trail of famine, unemployment, criminality, misery, corruption and interethnic wars, has led to the reassessment of prejudices firmly held since adolescence.
It is clear that, throughout the world, those who wish to defend the ideals of Socialism and Communism must at least do the same. All Communist and revolutionary organizations across the globe must re-examine the opinions and judgments that they have formed since 1956 about Comrade Stalin's work. No one can deny the evidence: when Gorbachev succeeded in eradicating all of Stalin's achievements, crowning thirty-five years of virulent denunciations of `Stalinism', Lenin himself became persona non grata in the Soviet Union. With the burial of Stalinism, Leninism disappeared as well.
Rediscovering the revolutionary truth about this pioneer period is a collective task that must be borne by all Communists, around the world. This revolutionary truth will arise by questioning sources, testimony and analyses. Clearly, the aid that might be offered by Soviet Marxist-Leninists, sometimes the only ones with direct access to sources and to witnesses, will be vital. But today they work under very difficult conditions.
Our analyses and reflections on this subject are published in this work, Another view of Stalin. The view of Stalin that is imposed on us daily is that of the class that wants to maintain the existing system of exploitation and oppression. Adopting another view of Stalin means looking at the historic Stalin through the eyes of the oppressed class, through the eyes of the exploited and oppressed.
This book is not designed to be a biography of Stalin. It is intended to directly confront the standard attacks made against Stalin: `Lenin's Will', forced collectivization, overbearing bureaucracy, extermination of the Old Bolshevik guard, the Great Purge, forced industrialization, collusion between Stalin and Hitler, his incompetency during World War II, etc. We have endeavored to deconstruct many `well-known truths' about Stalin, those that are summarized --- over and over --- in a few lines in newspapers, history books and interviews, and which have more or less become part of our unconscious.
`But how is it possible', asked a friend, `to defend a man like Stalin?'
There was astonishment and indignation in this question, which reminded me of what an old Communist worker once told me. He spoke to me of the year 1956, when Khrushchev read his famous Secret Report. Powerful debates took place within the Communist Party. During one of these confrontations, an elderly Communist woman, from a Jewish Communist family, who lost two children during the war and whose family in Poland was exterminated, cried out:
`How can we not support Stalin, who built socialism, who defeated fascism, who incarnated all our hopes?'
In the fiery ideological storm that was sweeping the world, where others had capitulated, this woman remained true to the Revolution. And for this reason, she had another view of Stalin. A new generation of Communists will share her view.
Notes
(1) As people who have followed the vicious trajectory of the US-UK centered campaign to demonise and entrap Putin and Russia via Russiagate, the Skripals, the MH7 accusations and much more, can attest, the Western propaganda machinery is formidable and peerless in creating monsters through nonstop vilification. Every single leader and nation that ever opposed (or obstructed) Washington and its accomplices has received the same treatment, and the bad part is that it works, that most people have believed it. It is logical therefore that if the Western propaganda machine can turn Putin into a monster on short notice, a handful of years (after regarding him as a possible corruptible leader Washington "could do business with", as they did with Yeltsin, and Gorbachev before him), then think how much deeper is the truth about men like Stalin buried and deformed to suit American narratives, after being the target of unrelenting demonisation for practically 50 years.
That is a sobering thought, indeed, to which we must add the soft and alarmingly naive nature of the "New Left" in the West, and the factionalism and infighting among communist ranks themselves. In such an atmosphere, the truth about the much hated system of communism was not likely to ever emerge anywhere in Western establishment information venues, and, in fact, it did not. To think otherwise is to be guilty of extreme naivete about the vile and pervasive nature of the imperialist system that social change activists confront at home and abroad.
The effects of this anticommunist propaganda vectored through Stalin are so ubiquitous that barely a single discussion of the topic can be entertained without the usual epithets being heard from the lips of both respected left figures, academics, the usual Trotskyist cadre, communist apostates, and ordinary citizens regurgitating the injected claptrap. On /reddit, for example, in groups such as "socialism", "communism", "social democracy". "ask a historian", etc., one encounters an abundance of opinions which basically conform to the same mould: "Stalin killed millions for no reason at all," Stalin was a brutal, power-hungry thug; evil incarnate, a paranoid despot who...hijacked the revolution and the communist movement for personal gain; and, perhaps most damning for people interested in leftists ideals, "Stalin abandoned the principles of communism and the global workers' movement." The anti-Stalin rhetoric is never nuanced; only insults will do, until the sheer extravagant caliber of the invective will convince the listener that such intensity can only originate in truth. As to sources for this torrent of slanders and half-truths, almost invariably, the threads lead in almost circular pattern to academics like Tim Snyder, less than scrupulous in their research, or widely recognised CIA propagandists like Robert Conquest.
Despite this, the truth is finally asserting itself, and a different, far more nuanced and even favorable picture of Stalin is emerging not only in Russia, where new historiography is rapidly eroding much of the "evil Stalin" narrative, but even in the West. Among the latter, besides the Ludo Martens testimony, readers should examine the work of Prof. Grover Furr, who has devoted much of his life to unearthing the truth about Stalin and the USSR. Furr is the author of many books and articles debunking the "official" line about Stalin and the Soviet Union. Check for example Khrushchev Lied, or Blood Lies, a patient but irrefutable deconstruction of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands, just the latest example of media-celebrated academic anti-communism. This short list of suggestions would be incomplete without mentioning the invaluable work of Prof. Michael Parenti, especially Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism. TGP has published many essays and lectures by Parenti, whose lucidity in the defence of revolutionary history matches his passion for truth. See for example, Michael Parenti: Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism, Left Anticommunism: the unkindest cut. —PG
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-17--In the scramble for a cure for Covid-19 many are claiming being close to success.

NOTE : In this medical news section we try to give our readers information about interesting and promising developments on the fight against this coronavirus ( later we will extend this platform to all major medical conditions ) , but readers must keep in mind that we are often forced to publish materials originating within the US-style capitalist healthcare industry in which profits and not wellness is the main driver for action or inaction .
NOTE : In this medical news section we try to give our readers information about interesting and promising developments on the fight against this coronavirus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to all major medical conditions ) , but readers must keep in mind that we are often forced to publish materials originating within the US-style capitalist healthcare industry in which profits and not wellness is the main driver for action or inaction .
PERHAPS THE RACE TO FIND A CURE TO THIS AFFLICTION WILL STIMULATE VALUABLE RESEARCH IN OTHER AREAS As reported by Fox News , the San Diego-based company claims its STI-1499 antibody completely blocks the coronavirus from entering the body .
Sorrento said in a press statement that it could produce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the drug may be available sooner than a COVID-19 vaccine .
After making the claims , stocks for Sorrento skyrocketed by 244 % .
Closing at $ 549 on Thursday , the company 's market value soared on Friday 's intraday high to around $ 1.9 billion .
Finally a cure ?
Biotech Company Claims They Have Found an Antibody That Blocks the Coronavirus Like several antibodies , STI-1499 is set to be included in a drug `` cocktail '' the company is working on with Mt Sinai School of Medicine in New @ @ @ @ @ @ @ stressed that `` there is a cure '' and a solution that completely works .
This announcement comes on the same day when social distancing rules expire and many states begin to reopen .
Ji also told Fox that social distancing may no longer be needed if there is a `` neutralizing antibody '' in the body .
He added that `` you can open up a society without fear . ''
This would be a relief after the World Health Organization recently stated that the coronavirus may just become an endemic virus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ away .
Experts have also already warned about the possibility of a second wave of infections once restrictions are lifted .
However , the antibody was only seen to work in human cells during lab tests has not yet been tested on humans .
This questions the company 's claim that the antibody has blocked the virus 100 % .
After all , there is still no data on how it might behave inside the human body and its potential side effects .
The STI-1499 antibody is an immune cell that neutralizes pathogens @ @ @ @ @ @ @ effects on coronavirus .
A combination of antibodies serves as a `` protective shield '' blocking the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the ACE2 receptor , a receptor on the surface of human cells which is the primary entry point to the body .
Ji also told Fox that they have seen in the laboratory how the antibody `` wraps around the virus '' then takes it away .
He added that if the virus can not get inside the cell , it can not replicate or survive .
Numerous companies and universities worldwide have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the coronavirus , including the use of antibodies .
Sorrento 's drug is classified as `` neutralizing '' or binding antibodies , which fully bind to a certain part of the virus .
While tests using blood plasma from recovered patients to treat COVID-19 patients have already begun , there is still no specific date when STI-1499 will be subjected to human trials .
Earlier this month , the FDA gave emergency approval to Remdesivir , an antiviral from Gilead Sciences , which showed slim but promising benefits for survival and recovery times @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NIH ) study .
However , there is still no proven cure for the coronavirus .
As of Thursday , May 15 , according to John Hopkins , there are now more than 4.5 million cases of coronavirus worldwide , in which over 1.46 million are from the US .
The death toll in the US has now reached more than 87,000 .

NOTE: In this medical news section we try to give our readers information about interesting and promising developments on the fight against this coronavirus (later we will extend this platform to all major medical conditions), but readers must keep in mind that we are often forced to publish materials originating within the US-style capitalist healthcare industry in which profits and not wellness is the main driver for action or inaction.
NOTE: In this medical news section we try to give our readers information about interesting and promising developments on the fight against this coronavirus (later we will extend this platform to all major medical conditions), but readers must keep in mind that we are often forced to publish materials originating within the US-style capitalist healthcare industry in which profits and not wellness is the main driver for action or inaction.
PERHAPS THE RACE TO FIND A CURE TO THIS AFFLICTION WILL STIMULATE VALUABLE RESEARCH IN OTHER AREAS
As reported by Fox News, the San Diego-based company claims its STI-1499 antibody completely blocks the coronavirus from entering the body.
Sorrento said in a press statement that it could produce up to 200,000 doses a month while the drug may be available sooner than a COVID-19 vaccine.
After making the claims, stocks for Sorrento skyrocketed by 244%. Closing at $549 on Thursday, the company's market value soared on Friday's intraday high to around $1.9 billion.
Finally a cure? Biotech Company Claims They Have Found an Antibody That Blocks the Coronavirus
Like several antibodies, STI-1499 is set to be included in a drug "cocktail" the company is working on with Mt Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Sorrento CEO Dr. Henry Ji stressed that "there is a cure" and a solution that completely works. This announcement comes on the same day when social distancing rules expire and many states begin to reopen.
Ji also told Fox that social distancing may no longer be needed if there is a "neutralizing antibody" in the body. He added that "you can open up a society without fear."
This would be a relief after the World Health Organization recently stated that the coronavirus may just become an endemic virus in communities, which would never go away. Experts have also already warned about the possibility of a second wave of infections once restrictions are lifted.
However, the antibody was only seen to work in human cells during lab tests has not yet been tested on humans. This questions the company's claim that the antibody has blocked the virus 100%. After all, there is still no data on how it might behave inside the human body and its potential side effects.
The antibody cure
The STI-1499 antibody is an immune cell that neutralizes pathogens and it is seen to have some effects on coronavirus. A combination of antibodies serves as a "protective shield" blocking the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the ACE2 receptor, a receptor on the surface of human cells which is the primary entry point to the body.
Ji also told Fox that they have seen in the laboratory how the antibody "wraps around the virus" then takes it away. He added that if the virus cannot get inside the cell, it cannot replicate or survive.
Numerous companies and universities worldwide have been exploring on finding the cure to the coronavirus, including the use of antibodies. Sorrento's drug is classified as "neutralizing" or binding antibodies, which fully bind to a certain part of the virus.
Human tests
While tests using blood plasma from recovered patients to treat COVID-19 patients have already begun, there is still no specific date when STI-1499 will be subjected to human trials.
Earlier this month, the FDA gave emergency approval to Remdesivir, an antiviral from Gilead Sciences, which showed slim but promising benefits for survival and recovery times after a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study. However, there is still no proven cure for the coronavirus.
As of Thursday, May 15, according to John Hopkins, there are now more than 4.5 million cases of coronavirus worldwide, in which over 1.46 million are from the US. The death toll in the US has now reached more than 87,000.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-17--Why U.S. Must Be Prosecuted for Its War Crimes Against Iraq

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post .
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This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse As the author makes clear , by the judicial standards set by Nuremberg , most if not all US presidents of the 20th century and even perhaps much of the 19th , deserve to be charged as war criminals .
he reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them , and international law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ punished for what they did .
We therefore now have internationally a lawless world ( or “ World Order ” ) in which “ Might makes right , ” and in which there is really no effective international law , at all .
This is merely gangster “ law , ” ruling on an international level .
It is what Hitler and his Axis of fascist imperialists had imposed upon the world until the Allies — U.S. under FDR , UK under Churchill , and U.S.S.R. under Stalin — defeated it , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lie-based aggressions — was the core of what the Nazis were hung for , and yet America now does it . )
he reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them , and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what they did .
We therefore now have internationally a lawless world ( or “ World Order ” ) in which “ Might makes right , ” and in which there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at all .
This is merely gangster “ law , ” ruling on an international level .
It is what Hitler and his Axis of fascist imperialists had imposed upon the world until the Allies — U.S. under FDR , UK under Churchill , and U.S.S.R. under Stalin — defeated it , and established the United Nations .
Furthermore , America ’ s leaders deceived the American public into perpetrating this invasion and occupation , of a foreign country ( Iraq ) that had never threatened the United States ; and , so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ constitutes the very epitome of “ aggressive war ” — unwarranted and illegal international aggression .
( Hitler , similarly to George W. Bush , would never have been able to obtain the support of his people to invade if he had not lied , or “ deceived , ” them , into invading and militarily occupying foreign countries that had never threatened Germany , such as Belgium , Poland and Czechoslovakia .
This — Hitler ’ s— was theof what the Nazis were hung for , and yet Americadoes it . )
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ States and its allies at the Nuremberg trial in 1946 , there can be no doubt that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression .
There was no imminent threat to U.S. security nor to the security of the world .
The invasion violated the U.N. Charter as well as U.N. Security Council Resolution # 1441 .
The Nuremberg precedent calls for no less than the arrest and prosecution of those individuals responsible for the invasion of Iraq , beginning with President George W. Bush , Vice President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rumsfeld , Secretary of State Condoleez [ z ] a Rice , former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz .
So , the Nuremberg precedent definitely does apply against George W , Bush and his partners-in-crime , just as it did against Hitler and his henchmen and allies .
The seriousness of this international war crime is not as severe as those of the Nazis were , but nonetheless is comparable to it .
only the 2003 invasion and subsequent military occupation of that country .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and is .
And all of it was based on America ’ s rulers lying to the public in order to win the public ’ s acceptance of their evil plans and invasions against a country that had never posed any threat whatsoever to Americans — people residing in America .
Furthermore , it is also perhaps relevant that the 2012 On 29 September 2015 , I headlined “ GALLUP : ‘ Iraqis Are the Saddest & One of the Angriest Populations in the World ’ , ” and linked to Gallup ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 148 countries around the world , which found that Iraq had the highest “ Negative Experience Score.
” That score includes “ sadness , ” “ physical pain , ” “ anger , ” and other types of misery — and Iraq , after America ’ s invasion , has scored the highest in the entire world , on it , and in the following years has likewise scored at or near the highest on “ Negative Experience Score.
” For example : in the latest , the 2019 , Gallup “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fourth from the top on “ Negative Experience Score , ” after ( in order from the worst ) Chad , Niger , and Sierra Leone .
( Gallup has been doing these surveys ever since 2005 , but the first one that was published under that title was the 2015 report , which summarized the 2014 surveys ’ findings . )
Of course , prior to America ’ s invasion , there had been America ’ s 1990 war against Iraq and the U.S. regime ’ s leadership and imposition of U.N. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on U.S.-regime-backed lies , though not totally on lies like the 2003 invasion was ) , which caused massive misery in that country ; and , therefore , not all of the misery in Iraq which showed up in the 2015 Global Emotions Report was due tothe 2003 invasion and subsequent military occupation of that country .
Butall of it was , and is .
And all of it was based on America ’ s rulers lying to the public in order to win the public ’ s acceptance of their evil plans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Furthermore , it is also perhaps relevant that the 2012 “ World Happiness Report ” shows Iraq at the very bottom of the list of countries ( on page 55 of that report ) regarding “ Average Net Affect by Country , ” meaning that Iraqis were the most zombified of all 156 nationalities surveyed .
Other traumatized countries were immediately above Iraq on that list .
On “ Average Negative Affect , ” only “ Palestinian Territories ” scored higher than Iraq ( page 52 ) .
After America ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a wrecked country , which still remains under the U.S. regime ’ s boot , as the following will document : insists that Iraq , which the U.S. conquered , serve America ’ s anti-Shiite and anti-Iranian policy-objectives .
“ The U.S. threat , to withhold aid if Iran-aligned politicians occupy any ministerial position , is an escalation of Washington ’ s demands on Baghdad.
” The article went on to quote a “ senior administration official ” as asserting that , “ if Iran exerts a tremendous amount of influence , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Iraqi government , it ’ s going to be difficult for us to continue to invest.
” Get the euphemisms there !
This article said that “ the Trump administration has made constraining Iran ’ s influence in the region a cornerstone of their foreign policy.
” So , this hostility toward Iran must be reflected in Iraq ’ s policies , too .
It ’ s not enough that Trump wants to destroy Iran like Bush has destroyed Iraq ; Trump demands that Iraq participate in that crime , against Iraq @ @ @ @ @ @ @ said that , “ There have also been protests against ‘ U.S .
meddling ’ in the formation of a new Iraqi government , singling out Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk for working to prevent parties close to Iran from obtaining power.
” Bush ’ s successors , Obama and Trump , failed to press for Bush ’ s trial on these vast crimes , even though the American people had ourselves become enormously victimized by them , though far less so than Iraqis were .
Instead , Bush ’ s successors have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this failure to press for prosecution of him and his henchmen regarding this grave matter .
In fact , the “ Defense One ” site bannered on 26 September 2018 , “ US Official : We May Cut Support for Iraq If New Government Seats Pro-Iran Politicians ” , and opened with “ The Trump administration may decrease U.S. military support or other assistance to Iraq if its new government puts Iranian-aligned politicians in any ‘ significant positions of responsibility , ’ a senior administration official told reporters late last week.
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ‘ democracy ’ to Iraq is by threatening to withdraw its protection of the stooge-rulers that it had helped to place into power there , unless those stooges do the U.S. dictators ’ bidding , against Iraq ’ s neighbor Iran .
This specific American dictator , Trump , is demanding that majority-Shiite Iraq be run by stooges who favor , instead , America ’ s fundamentalist-Sunni allies , such as the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia and who hate and loathe Shiites and Iran .
The U.S. dictatorshipthat Iraq , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s anti-Shiite and anti-Iranian policy-objectives .
“ The U.S. threat , to withhold aid if Iran-aligned politicians occupy any ministerial position , is an escalation of Washington ’ s demands on Baghdad.
” The article went on to quote a “ senior administration official ” as asserting that , “ if Iran exerts a tremendous amount of influence , or a significant amount of influence over the Iraqi government , it ’ s going to be difficult for us to continue to invest.
” Get the euphemisms there !
This article said that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iran ’ s influence in the region a cornerstone of their foreign policy.
” So , this hostility toward Iran must be reflected in Iraq ’ s policies , too .
It ’ s not enough that Trump wants to destroy Iran like Bush has destroyed Iraq ; Trump demands that Iraq participate in that crime , against Iraq ’ s own neighbor .
This article said that , “ There have also been protests against ‘ U.S .
meddling ’ in the formation of a new Iraqi government , singling out Special @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prevent parties close to Iran from obtaining power.
” McGurk is the rabidly neconservative former high G.W .
Bush Administration official , and higher Obama Administration official , who remained as Trump ’ s top official on his policy to force Iraq to cooperate with America ’ s efforts to conquer Iran .
Trump ’ s evil is Obama ’ s evil , and is Bush ’ s evil .
It is bipartisan evil , no matter which Party is in power .
Though Trump doesn ’ t like either the Bushes or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the same evil policy-boat .
America ’ s Deep State remains the same , no matter whom it places into the position of nominal power .
The regime remains the same , regardless .
Nobody knows how many people died as a result of the UK/US Coalition of Death led destruction of Iraq , Afghanistan , Libya and , by proxy , Syria and Yemen .
Nobody even knows how many people western forces themselves killed directly .
That is a huge number , but still under 10 % of the total .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ add those who died in subsequent conflict engendered by the forced dismantling of the state the West disapproved of .
Some were killed by western proxies , some by anti-western forces , and some just by those reverting to ancient tribal hostility and battle for resources into which the country had been regressed by bombing .
You then have to add all those who died directly as a result of the destruction of national infrastructure .
Iraq lost in the destruction 60 % of its potable drinking water , 75 % of its @ @ @ @ @ @ @ electricity .
This caused millions of deaths , as did displacement .
We are only of course talking about deaths , not maiming .
only real crime , which was said that other nation is “ dispensable.
” The criminal International Criminal Court accepts this , and yet expects to be respected .
Although the International Criminal Court considered and dismissed possible criminal charges against Tony Blair ’ s UK Government regarding the invasion and military occupation of Iraq , the actual crime , of invading and militarily occupying a country which had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the invader , was ignored , and the conclusion was that “ the situation did not appear to meet the required threshold of the Statute ” ( which was “ Willful killing or inhuman treatment of civilians ” and which ignored thecrime , which was “ aggressive war ” or “ the crime of aggression ” — the crime for which Nazis had been hanged at Nuremberg ) .
Furthermore , no charges whatsoever against the U.S. Government ( the world ’ s most frequent and most heinous violator of international law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : the International Criminal Court is subordinate to , instead of applicable to , the U.S. regime .
Just like Adolf Hitler had repeatedly made clear that , to him , all nations except Germany were dispensable and only Germany wasn ’ t , Barack Obama repeatedlythat “ The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation ” , which likewise means that everynation is “ dispensable.
” The criminal International Criminal Court accepts this , and yet expects to be respected .
Hitler must be smiling , now .
FDR must @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only way to address this problem , if there won ’ t be prosecutions against the ‘ duly elected ’ ( Deep-State-approved and enabled ) national leaders and appointees , would be governmental seizure and nationalization of the assets that are outright owned or else controlled by America ’ s Deep State .
Ultimately , the Government-officials who are s ‘ elected ’ and appointed to run the American Government have been and are representing not the American people but instead represent the billionaires who fund those officials ' and former officials ' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ individuals — the financial enablers of those politicians ’ s ‘ electoral ’ success — would be dispossessed of all their assets , and then prosecuted for the crimes that were perpetrated by the public officials whom they had participated in ( significantly funded and propagandized for ) placing into power .
( For example , both Parties ’ Presidential nominees are unqualified to serve in any public office in a democracy . )

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post. Be sure to share it widely.
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
As the author makes clear, by the judicial standards set by Nuremberg, most if not all US presidents of the 20th century and even perhaps much of the 19th, deserve to be charged as war criminals.
T he reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them, and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what they did. We therefore now have internationally a lawless world (or “World Order”) in which “Might makes right,” and in which there is really no effective international law, at all. This is merely gangster “law,” ruling on an international level. It is what Hitler and his Axis of fascist imperialists had imposed upon the world until the Allies — U.S. under FDR, UK under Churchill, and U.S.S.R. under Stalin — defeated it, and established the United Nations. Furthermore, lie-based aggressions — was the core of what the Nazis were hung for, and yet America now does it.) he reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them, and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what they did. We therefore now have internationally a lawless world (or “World Order”) in which “Might makes right,” and in which there is really no effective international law, at all. This is merely gangster “law,” ruling on an international level. It is what Hitler and his Axis of fascist imperialists had imposed upon the world until the Allies — U.S. under FDR, UK under Churchill, and U.S.S.R. under Stalin — defeated it, and established the United Nations. Furthermore, America’s leaders deceived the American public into perpetrating this invasion and occupation, of a foreign country (Iraq) that had never threatened the United States; and, so, this invasion and subsequent military occupation constitutes the very epitome of “aggressive war” — unwarranted and illegal international aggression. (Hitler, similarly to George W. Bush, would never have been able to obtain the support of his people to invade if he had not lied, or “deceived,” them, into invading and militarily occupying foreign countries that had never threatened Germany, such as Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia. This — Hitler’s— was theof what the Nazis were hung for, and yet Americadoes it.)
Invoking the precedent set by the United States and its allies at the Nuremberg trial in 1946, there can be no doubt that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression. There was no imminent threat to U.S. security nor to the security of the world. The invasion violated the U.N. Charter as well as U.N. Security Council Resolution #1441.
The Nuremberg precedent calls for no less than the arrest and prosecution of those individuals responsible for the invasion of Iraq, beginning with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleez[z]a Rice, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
no real evidence, at all: he offered none; it was all Take, for example, Condoleezza Rice, who famously warned “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” (That warning was one of the most effective lies in order to deceive the American public into invading Iraq, because President Bush had had no real evidence, at all, that there still remained any WMD in Iraq after the U.N. had destroyed them all, and left Iraq in 1998 — and he knew this; he was informed of this; he knew that he hadhe offered none; it was all mere lies .)
So, the Nuremberg precedent definitely does apply against George W, Bush and his partners-in-crime, just as it did against Hitler and his henchmen and allies.
The seriousness of this international war crime is not as severe as those of the Nazis were, but nonetheless is comparable to it.
On 15 March 2018, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies headlined at Alternet “The Staggering Death Toll in Iraq” and wrote that “our calculations, using the best information available, show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion,” and linked to solid evidence, backing up their estimate.
only the 2003 invasion and subsequent military occupation of that country. But almost all of it was, and is. And all of it was based on America’s rulers lying to the public in order to win the public’s acceptance of their evil plans and invasions against a country that had never posed any threat whatsoever to Americans — people residing in America. Furthermore, it is also perhaps relevant that the 2012 On 29 September 2015, I headlined “GALLUP: ‘Iraqis Are the Saddest & One of the Angriest Populations in the World’,” and linked to Gallup’s survey of 1,000 individuals in each of 148 countries around the world, which found that Iraq had the highest “Negative Experience Score.” That score includes “sadness,” “physical pain,” “anger,” and other types of misery — and Iraq, after America’s invasion, has scored the highest in the entire world, on it, and in the following years has likewise scored at or near the highest on “Negative Experience Score.” For example: in the latest, the 2019, Gallup “Global Emotions Report” , Iraq scores fourth from the top on “Negative Experience Score,” after (in order from the worst) Chad, Niger, and Sierra Leone. (Gallup has been doing these surveys ever since 2005, but the first one that was published under that title was the 2015 report, which summarized the 2014 surveys’ findings.) Of course, prior to America’s invasion, there had been America’s 1990 war against Iraq and the U.S. regime’s leadership and imposition of U.N. sanctions (which likewise were based largely on U.S.-regime-backed lies , though not totally on lies like the 2003 invasion was), which caused massive misery in that country; and, therefore, not all of the misery in Iraq which showed up in the 2015 Global Emotions Report was due tothe 2003 invasion and subsequent military occupation of that country. Butall of it was, and is. And all of it was based on America’s rulers lying to the public in order to win the public’s acceptance of their evil plans and invasions against a country that had. Furthermore, it is also perhaps relevant that the 2012 “World Happiness Report” shows Iraq at the very bottom of the list of countries (on page 55 of that report) regarding “Average Net Affect by Country,” meaning that Iraqis were the most zombified of all 156 nationalities surveyed. Other traumatized countries were immediately above Iraq on that list. On “Average Negative Affect,” only “Palestinian Territories” scored higher than Iraq (page 52). After America’s invasion based entirely on lies, Iraq is a wrecked country, which still remains under the U.S. regime’s boot, as the following will document:
insists that Iraq, which the U.S. conquered, serve America’s anti-Shiite and anti-Iranian policy-objectives. “The U.S. threat, to withhold aid if Iran-aligned politicians occupy any ministerial position, is an escalation of Washington’s demands on Baghdad.” The article went on to quote a “senior administration official” as asserting that, “if Iran exerts a tremendous amount of influence, or a significant amount of influence over the Iraqi government, it’s going to be difficult for us to continue to invest.” Get the euphemisms there! This article said that “the Trump administration has made constraining Iran’s influence in the region a cornerstone of their foreign policy.” So, this hostility toward Iran must be reflected in Iraq’s policies, too. It’s not enough that Trump wants to destroy Iran like Bush has destroyed Iraq; Trump demands that Iraq participate in that crime, against Iraq’s own neighbor. This article said that, “There have also been protests against ‘U.S. meddling’ in the formation of a new Iraqi government, singling out Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk for working to prevent parties close to Iran from obtaining power.” Bush’s successors, Obama and Trump, failed to press for Bush’s trial on these vast crimes, even though the American people had ourselves become enormously victimized by them, though far less so than Iraqis were. Instead, Bush’s successors have become accessories after the fact, by this failure to press for prosecution of him and his henchmen regarding this grave matter. In fact, the “Defense One” site bannered on 26 September 2018, “US Official: We May Cut Support for Iraq If New Government Seats Pro-Iran Politicians” , and opened with “The Trump administration may decrease U.S. military support or other assistance to Iraq if its new government puts Iranian-aligned politicians in any ‘significant positions of responsibility,’ a senior administration official told reporters late last week.” The way that the U.S. regime has brought ‘democracy’ to Iraq is by threatening to withdraw its protection of the stooge-rulers that it had helped to place into power there, unless those stooges do the U.S. dictators’ bidding, against Iraq’s neighbor Iran. This specific American dictator, Trump, is demanding that majority-Shiite Iraq be run by stooges who favor, instead, America’s fundamentalist-Sunni allies, such as the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia and who hate and loathe Shiites and Iran. The U.S. dictatorshipthat Iraq, which the U.S. conquered, serve America’s anti-Shiite and anti-Iranian policy-objectives. “The U.S. threat, to withhold aid if Iran-aligned politicians occupy any ministerial position, is an escalation of Washington’s demands on Baghdad.” The article went on to quote a “senior administration official” as asserting that, “if Iran exerts a tremendous amount of influence, or a significant amount of influence over the Iraqi government, it’s going to be difficult for us to continue to invest.” Get the euphemisms there! This article said that “the Trump administration has made constraining Iran’s influence in the region a cornerstone of their foreign policy.” So, this hostility toward Iran must be reflected in Iraq’s policies, too. It’s not enough that Trump wants to destroy Iran like Bush has destroyed Iraq; Trump demands that Iraq participate in that crime, against Iraq’s own neighbor. This article said that, “There have also been protests against ‘U.S. meddling’ in the formation of a new Iraqi government, singling out Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk for working to prevent parties close to Iran from obtaining power.” McGurk is the rabidly neconservative former high G.W. Bush Administration official, and higher Obama Administration official, who remained as Trump’s top official on his policy to force Iraq to cooperate with America’s efforts to conquer Iran. Trump’s evil is Obama’s evil, and is Bush’s evil. It is bipartisan evil, no matter which Party is in power. Though Trump doesn’t like either the Bushes or Obamas, all of them are in the same evil policy-boat. America’s Deep State remains the same, no matter whom it places into the position of nominal power. The regime remains the same, regardless.
On April 29th, the whistleblowing former UK Ambassador Craig Murray wrote
Nobody knows how many people died as a result of the UK/US Coalition of Death led destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and, by proxy, Syria and Yemen. Nobody even knows how many people western forces themselves killed directly. That is a huge number, but still under 10% of the total. To add to that you have to add those who died in subsequent conflict engendered by the forced dismantling of the state the West disapproved of. Some were killed by western proxies, some by anti-western forces, and some just by those reverting to ancient tribal hostility and battle for resources into which the country had been regressed by bombing.
You then have to add all those who died directly as a result of the destruction of national infrastructure. Iraq lost in the destruction 60% of its potable drinking water, 75% of its medical facilities and 80% of its electricity. This caused millions of deaths, as did displacement. We are only of course talking about deaths, not maiming.
UK’s Prime Minister Tony Blair should hang with the U.S. gang, but who is calling for this? How much longer will the necessary prosecutions wait? Till after these international war-criminals have all gone honored to their graves?
only real crime, which was said that other nation is “dispensable.” The criminal International Criminal Court accepts this, and yet expects to be respected. Although the International Criminal Court considered and dismissed possible criminal charges against Tony Blair’s UK Government regarding the invasion and military occupation of Iraq, the actual crime, of invading and militarily occupying a country which had posed no threat to the national security of the invader, was ignored, and the conclusion was that “the situation did not appear to meet the required threshold of the Statute” (which was “Willful killing or inhuman treatment of civilians” and which ignored thecrime, which was “aggressive war” or “the crime of aggression” — the crime for which Nazis had been hanged at Nuremberg). Furthermore, no charges whatsoever against the U.S. Government (the world’s most frequent and most heinous violator of international law) were considered. In other words: the International Criminal Court is subordinate to, instead of applicable to, the U.S. regime. Just like Adolf Hitler had repeatedly made clear that, to him, all nations except Germany were dispensable and only Germany wasn’t, Barack Obama repeatedlythat “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation” , which likewise means that everynation is “dispensable.” The criminal International Criminal Court accepts this, and yet expects to be respected.
some of the examples. And, though the Nuremberg precedent certainly applies, it’s not enforced. In principle, then, Hitler has posthumously won WW II. The U.S. regime did “regime change” to Iraq in 2003, and to Ukraine in 2014 , and tried to do it to Syria since 2009 , and to Yemen since 2015, and to Venezuela since 2012, and to Iran since 2017 — just to mentionof the examples. And, though the Nuremberg precedent certainly applies, it’s not enforced. In principle, then, Hitler has posthumously won WW II.
Hitler must be smiling, now. FDR must be rolling in his grave.
The only way to address this problem, if there won’t be prosecutions against the ‘duly elected’ (Deep-State-approved and enabled) national leaders and appointees, would be governmental seizure and nationalization of the assets that are outright owned or else controlled by America’s Deep State. Ultimately, the Government-officials who are s‘elected’ and appointed to run the American Government have been and are representing not the American people but instead represent the billionaires who fund those officials' and former officials' careers . In a democracy, those individuals — the financial enablers of those politicians’ s‘electoral’ success — would be dispossessed of all their assets, and then prosecuted for the crimes that were perpetrated by the public officials whom they had participated in (significantly funded and propagandized for) placing into power. (For example, both Parties’ Presidential nominees are unqualified to serve in any public office in a democracy.)


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-05-16--The Hürtgen forest and the end of World War II

It was some of the most brutal fighting of the Second World War , a grinding battle in which thousands of American and German lives were lost .
It was a site of great heroism and futile tragedy , in which the fighting was so deadly that soldiers called it “ the Death Factory ” .
Yet the Battle of Hurtgen Forest is largely forgotten .
From September 1944 to February 1945 , American and German forces fought over the Hurtgen Forest , an area of wooded hills on the border between Belgium and Germany .
The attack was originally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Corps ’ advance into Germany .
As the fighting progressed , other goals emerged including trying to take control of German industrial dams .
Though outnumbered , the Germans had a string of defensive positions in the form of concrete bunkers , barbed wire , minefields , and tank obstacles , all part of Germany ’ s defensive Siegfried Line .
Despite this , the American commanders were confident that they could break through .
Allied forces were eager to get into Germany .
Following a swift sweep through France , they had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days ahead of schedule .
The attack into the Hurtgen was preceded by air attacks by the USAAF and the RAF .
Thunderbolts , Lightnings , and Typhoons pounded the German border defenses .
But tree cover would prevent them from providing the support they could in other terrain , and entering the forest immediately lost the Americans one of their advantages .
The mobility and superiority of tanks and aircraft were largely canceled out .
Infantry advanced on heavily defended positions with less support than they had had in the preceding months @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the 13th of September , as veterans of the Mediterranean campaign crossed the border from Belgium into Germany .
By the next day , they were six miles through the German defenses .
The day after that , the Germans launched the first in a series of counterattacks .
By the 17th , the fighting had turned into a slow grind .
American infantry tried to advance down narrow trails between tough defenses , only to be stalled by German forces and hit by counter-attacks .
With German pillboxes spread throughout the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cautiously when they could advance at all .
Combat engineers and infantrymen moved slowly through the defenses , lifting mines , cutting barbed wire , defusing booby traps , and attacking pillboxes with flamethrowers and dynamite .
The 15th Engineer Combat Battalion alone lifted 1,352 mines and neutralized 125 pillboxes under fire during the initial wave of intense fighting .
The Germans had a further advantage in experience .
Many of them had fought in the forests of Russia and Finland .
The Americans had no such experience and did not initially understand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ At many points , the Americans found themselves unable to break through the German lines .
They stopped where they were , digging foxholes for their own defense .
These had to be covered with logs and sod because of the tendency of artillery shells to explode in the treetops , showering them with shrapnel .
The generals were determined to have their breakthrough , and kept launching offensives against German positions .
Some led to small successes , though they were often swept away in counter-attacks .
More often , little progress @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fighting , the two sides called truces to retrieve the dead and wounded .
But many men were not found , and so lay dead or dying out among the trees .
As fall drew on , endless drizzle turned the ground to mud .
Snow followed with the arrival of winter .
It was a miserable season for both sides , but particularly for the Americans .
Living in cold , wet foxholes , many succumbed to trench foot , the bane of infantrymen in the previous war .
They went for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their packs of C and K rations .
Regular bursts of terrible combat took their toll on men ’ s minds .
What medics and commanders of the time called “ combat fatigue ” led to many soldiers having to be taken off the line .
Some men shot themselves in the foot to get out of combat .
Behind the scenes , generals clung to the delusion that the best thing they could do was to keep launching the same sort of attacks , just as their predecessors had done from 1914 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the war was moving on , and the Americans could simply have contained and moved around this impossible part of the German lines .
But they kept pushing .
As the casualties mounted , inexperienced recruits replaced the veterans who had first entered the forest .
Still the fighting ground on .
In December , the Germans launched a vast counter-attack through the neighboring Ardennes region .
The focus of the fighting shifted away from the Hurtgen .
In February , the Americans launched their last substantial attack in the Hurtgen .
Their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If the Germans opened its gates , then the Allied advance into Germany would be delayed by flooding .
On the 10th of February , the Americans took the dam , but it was already too late .
The Germans had jammed open the floodgates .
Advances outside the Hurtgen were delayed by two weeks , costing the Americans , British , and Canadians heavy casualties .
The Americans had finally broken through the forest , but it could not be called a victory .
The Germans under Field Marshal Model had held @ @ @ @ @ @ @ victory belonged to the Germans .
During six months of fighting , the Americans sent eight infantry divisions , two armored divisions , and several smaller units into the forest .
Many rifle companies suffered 50 % casualties .
Two regiments suffered losses equaling 100 % of their fighting strength .
In total , nearly 30,000 Americans were killed or wounded and thousands more were knocked out of action by combat exhaustion .
Because it wasn ’ t a success , the American government and press didn ’ t draw attention to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the story aside and focused on fighting elsewhere .
It was one of the most costly and unproductive American operations of the war .
To the men who fought bravely and lost friends there , it would always be the Death Factory .

It was some of the most brutal fighting of the Second World War, a grinding battle in which thousands of American and German lives were lost. It was a site of great heroism and futile tragedy, in which the fighting was so deadly that soldiers called it “the Death Factory”. Yet the Battle of Hurtgen Forest is largely forgotten.
Into the Woods
From September 1944 to February 1945, American and German forces fought over the Hurtgen Forest, an area of wooded hills on the border between Belgium and Germany.
The attack was originally launched to guard the flank of VIII Corps’ advance into Germany. As the fighting progressed, other goals emerged including trying to take control of German industrial dams.
Though outnumbered, the Germans had a string of defensive positions in the form of concrete bunkers, barbed wire, minefields, and tank obstacles, all part of Germany’s defensive Siegfried Line. Despite this, the American commanders were confident that they could break through.
First Attacks
Allied forces were eager to get into Germany. Following a swift sweep through France, they had reached the homeland of the Reich 233 days ahead of schedule.
The attack into the Hurtgen was preceded by air attacks by the USAAF and the RAF. Thunderbolts, Lightnings, and Typhoons pounded the German border defenses.
But tree cover would prevent them from providing the support they could in other terrain, and entering the forest immediately lost the Americans one of their advantages. The mobility and superiority of tanks and aircraft were largely canceled out. Infantry advanced on heavily defended positions with less support than they had had in the preceding months.
The advance into the forest began on the 13th of September, as veterans of the Mediterranean campaign crossed the border from Belgium into Germany. By the next day, they were six miles through the German defenses.
The day after that, the Germans launched the first in a series of counterattacks. By the 17th, the fighting had turned into a slow grind. American infantry tried to advance down narrow trails between tough defenses, only to be stalled by German forces and hit by counter-attacks.
Fighting in the Forest
With German pillboxes spread throughout the forest, the Americans had to advance cautiously when they could advance at all. Combat engineers and infantrymen moved slowly through the defenses, lifting mines, cutting barbed wire, defusing booby traps, and attacking pillboxes with flamethrowers and dynamite. The 15th Engineer Combat Battalion alone lifted 1,352 mines and neutralized 125 pillboxes under fire during the initial wave of intense fighting.
The Germans had a further advantage in experience. Many of them had fought in the forests of Russia and Finland. The Americans had no such experience and did not initially understand the nuance of combat in forests.
At many points, the Americans found themselves unable to break through the German lines. They stopped where they were, digging foxholes for their own defense. These had to be covered with logs and sod because of the tendency of artillery shells to explode in the treetops, showering them with shrapnel.
The generals were determined to have their breakthrough, and kept launching offensives against German positions. Some led to small successes, though they were often swept away in counter-attacks. More often, little progress was made.
During breaks in the fighting, the two sides called truces to retrieve the dead and wounded. But many men were not found, and so lay dead or dying out among the trees.
The Strain of War
As fall drew on, endless drizzle turned the ground to mud. Snow followed with the arrival of winter. It was a miserable season for both sides, but particularly for the Americans. Living in cold, wet foxholes, many succumbed to trench foot, the bane of infantrymen in the previous war. They went for days without hot food, living off their packs of C and K rations.
Regular bursts of terrible combat took their toll on men’s minds. What medics and commanders of the time called “combat fatigue” led to many soldiers having to be taken off the line. Some men shot themselves in the foot to get out of combat.
Behind the scenes, generals clung to the delusion that the best thing they could do was to keep launching the same sort of attacks, just as their predecessors had done from 1914 to 1918. Beyond the Hurtgen, the war was moving on, and the Americans could simply have contained and moved around this impossible part of the German lines. But they kept pushing.
As the casualties mounted, inexperienced recruits replaced the veterans who had first entered the forest. Still the fighting ground on.
Towards an End
In December, the Germans launched a vast counter-attack through the neighboring Ardennes region. The focus of the fighting shifted away from the Hurtgen.
In February, the Americans launched their last substantial attack in the Hurtgen. Their target was now the Rur Dam. If the Germans opened its gates, then the Allied advance into Germany would be delayed by flooding.
On the 10th of February, the Americans took the dam, but it was already too late. The Germans had jammed open the floodgates. Advances outside the Hurtgen were delayed by two weeks, costing the Americans, British, and Canadians heavy casualties.
The Americans had finally broken through the forest, but it could not be called a victory. The Germans under Field Marshal Model had held them up for six months. This victory belonged to the Germans.
Counting the Cost
During six months of fighting, the Americans sent eight infantry divisions, two armored divisions, and several smaller units into the forest. Many rifle companies suffered 50% casualties. Two regiments suffered losses equaling 100% of their fighting strength. In total, nearly 30,000 Americans were killed or wounded and thousands more were knocked out of action by combat exhaustion.
Because it wasn’t a success, the American government and press didn’t draw attention to the fighting for the Hurtgen. They swept the story aside and focused on fighting elsewhere.
It was one of the most costly and unproductive American operations of the war. To the men who fought bravely and lost friends there, it would always be the Death Factory.