Lieberman Head-Butts Ned Lamont? (or the tragic story of an independent, principled Democrat)
Posted by Shadi Hamid
His voice is at once sonorous, didactic, and difficult to listen to for extended periods of time. He is occasionally funny. Most of the time, he is not. More proof, if proof was needed, that one can be a relentless v-chip pusher and a Democrat – simultaneously. This is an important message.
But I have a confession to make. I have a soft-spot for people who go out of their way to destroy their favorability ratings in the name of principle. Democrats often get the wrap of being insincere flip-floppers with big ambitions but small ideas. Not Joe Lieberman. If someone’s willing to sabotage his career, legacy, and reputation for an idea, you can bet that he probably believes it. Too bad it’s the wrong idea.
Oh my Dad is this last post unreadable
Posted by: Jesus Christ | July 11, 2006 at 03:52 PM
Oh you're such a romantic sap, and far too modest. Outside the narrowing scope of the Democratic Party Joe's policy orientations are majoritarian. So much so, in fact, that he could win the seat as an independent pretty handily.
You folks are the ones that deserve the admiration for your sacrifice in the interest of sincerity. Joe can't hold a candle to you.
Posted by: Demosophist | July 11, 2006 at 10:53 PM
At the risk of destroying your credibility here at DA, Shadi, I'd just like to say that I agree with you completely on this.
Pay no attention to the trolls. I think one of them's a parody.
Posted by: Cal | July 12, 2006 at 02:41 AM
Analysis and Theses: The Ongoing U.S. Invasion of Iraq,
The Runaway Greenhouse Effect and the U.S. Government’s
Planned Biowarfare Bird Flu Pandemic: Results and Prospects—
The Tasks of the Working Class in the Present Situation
This combined analysis and Theses for the Working Class and its allies focuses primarily on the three major problems confronting human civilization, all of which have been created by capitalism-imperialism now in its final stage of Permanent War: 1.) The Invasion, Subjugation and U.S. Goal of Division of Iraq, as well as an analysis of the current U.S./“Israeli” Invasion of Lebanon, 2.) The Runaway Greenhouse Effect and 3.) The U.S. Government’s planned Biowarfare Bird Flu Pandemic. In addition, several other crucial issues are discussed which are necessary to an understanding of today’s situation and the overall solution. The solution to all of these problems, and the entire complex of problems created by capitalism, is to abolish the economic-political-social system of capitalism, a system which is fundamentally based on war and mass murder in order to steal new resources and markets, with a new system based entirely on human need. That system is Socialism, which cannot be elected under the capitalist dictatorship in the United States or through any type of capitalist “election reform,” because the capitalist ownership and structure of the state remains intact. The capitalist class owns everything and dictates what happens under their class dictatorship. On the other hand there is no founding document which enshrines capitalism as the permanent economic system for the United States!
On the contrary, the primary founding document of the United States, The Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson is actually a transitional document which provides for and authorizes the necessity of a Socialist Revolution in the United States as the only prudent and appropriate response to the domestic and international tyranny, oppression and threat to human civilization and indeed all life on Earth which the United States Capitalist Class Dictatorship has subjected the entire world! All the founding fathers signed this document, which states: “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of…the unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…it is their right, it is their duty, to…throw off such Government to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…and “to provide new Guards for their future security…” In no way could this language possibly be interpreted to mean to hold new “elections” under capitalism when it is clear that the problems have all been created by the capitalist system itself. “Alter” in this instance means first to try to reform capitalism but the one-way dynamic of capitalism (see below) combined with the absence of the Soviet Union as a counter-force makes that now impossible as history has demonstrated. Abolishing the capitalist dictatorship is the only correct approach. “Form of Government” in this context refers to the class structure of the state, not to electing different capitalist politicians. The document calls for laying new foundation and principles, which in today’s context means to organize a new type of state and society on a different basis of class ownership based on control by the Working Class, which is the only possible means to actually achieve the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. The state is nothing more than a machine for suppressing one class by another. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. Although the capitalist regime today is composed largely of Fascists we do not have Fascism in the United States. We have Rule By Decree, technically known as Bonapartism, in the form of a bureaucratic-military police state. This is further explained below. What is most important to understand is that capitalism is a class dictatorship based on the fact that the capitalists own the means of production, the factories, the land, the banks, the military, the media (a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community”), the educational system, where the state begins the brainwash of the youth who become the brainwashed adults who are instructed to pledge allegiance to the hardening capitalist dictatorship, which is falsely labeled “a democracy,” and to be ready to fanatically fight and die for the capitalists’ interests only—never their own interests! Finally, the capitalists own and operate the entire political process with their 2 parties which represent only capitalist interests. Even under a parliamentary system such as in France, Italy or England the capitalists run all of the parties including those that falsely claim to be “Communist.” In addition, all of the presidential “elections” outcomes are rigged in advance, or if need be, during the election or after the election as they were in 2000 and 2004—and have been ever since Watergate. (See below.) The Working Class, Middle Class, middle-income earners and the Poor can never be fairly represented under capitalism. Even the capitalists have no future under capitalism! The survival of civilization as we will see below therefore depends on carrying out a Socialist Revolution here in the United States, which will then follow automatically worldwide because there will be no more center of world capitalism-imperialism. See toward the end of this Analysis and Theses—The Correct Dialectical and Historical World View.
The capitalist dictatorship in the United States is hardening by the day, which is obvious to even the casual observer. This is due to the natural dynamic or development sequence of capitalism, a dynamic which is largely independent of the wills of the individual capitalists and the capitalist politicians themselves. The capitalists can not change that reality! That’s why elections under capitalism cannot change anything. This dynamic leads to a constantly hardening capitalist class dictatorship finally to Fascism, which is the hard dictatorship of capitalism. There is no “democracy” under capitalism—not even for the capitalists themselves. Not since the 1960 election where Kennedy bought a few more votes than Nixon have there been 2 separate capitalist factions! After that all elections were settled by assassinations and gunplay until Nixon was removed bloodlessly through the Watergate scandal by Nelson Rockefeller—not a second in line at the FBI (Mark Felt)—who merely carried those messages to the Washington Post which were authorized by Nelson Rockefeller in 1974. (See below.) Another topic which is analyzed in depth following the discussion of the main topics, is the Big Lie of a “collapse of the Soviet Union.” That Big Lie is used to demoralize the masses against the only solution to the complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism and was refuted even by the Central Intelligence Agency, on network television in 1990 and 1991. Briefly, the USSR simply backed down from the Reagan era “full court press” of a stepped-up nuclear arms race where the capitalists launched their First Strike Star Wars program and placed First Strike Pershing II Nuclear missiles in Germany 10 minutes from Moscow. This escalated the situation to Launch on Warning. It was that situation alone which caused the Soviet surrender in 1988-90 and subsequent dismantlement of that Workers’ State, but which has left the former Soviet power structure intact. (See further below.)
Remember that U.S. patriotism-chauvinism-jingoism means being willing to die for the capitalist warmongers and exploiters and super-exploiters. As a first step we should never be sucked into saying “we” or “our” in referring to United States policy or actions! That opportunistic choice of words deceives the speaker into thinking that his or her interests coincide with the interests of the capitalist dictatorship and is wrong in the first place because the United States is not “our country.” In addition, such an opportunistic choice of words immediately implicates the speaker in the crimes of U.S. capitalism-imperialism against the entire world and against its own citizens. It is the capitalists’ country! Nobody should lose sight of that fact for one moment! Under capitalism “democracy” is simply a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement. “Freedom” under capitalism simply means the freedom to exploit and oppress. Only after class society is abolished through a Socialist Revolution can there be genuine democracy for the Working Class and everyone else. The capitalists have divided the population and intimidated and brainwashed the masses to fear Socialism and have at the present successfully inoculated people against the only solution to their problems. This is the true meaning of brainwash!
Once the Socialist Revolution has been consolidated, the capitalists have been expropriated and class society has been abolished worldwide, the primary function of the state as a class dictatorship to suppress one class by another disappears and the state as such begins to wither away, its bureaucratic apparatus smashed and its functions of the new government apparatus taken over by the very same workers and other employees, against whose transformation into bureaucrats preventative measures will be taken, namely 1.) Election and 2.) Recall at any time and 3.) Payment no higher than the union wage scale. But before that process of the withering away of the state can be entirely completed the reality is that because the capitalists have created such a range of problems that immediately confront the very survival of the human race the Socialist States of the entire world will have to work together very closely to undo the damage which has been done, for example, the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which has now begun. (See below.) Only a Socialist Revolution will permanently end the capitalist tyranny by an insignificant minority of millionaires and billionaires by expropriating all of the capitalists’ wealth and will actually make it possible for everyone to live like a millionaire with a future and with complete security. There is more than sufficient wealth to achieve this. Remember that all of the capitalists’ wealth was originally expropriated and stolen from the labor—the Surplus Value from the goods and services created and generated from the labor of the Working Class.
Only a Socialist Revolution in the United States can abolish racism because racism is an integral part of capitalism. Racism is defined as that systematized set of false beliefs in the racial inferiority of Blacks and other People of Color in order to justify the exploitation and super-exploitation of Blacks and other People of Color. Racism is thus simply a brainwash used to justify economic exploitation, which began with slavery and exists now as wage slavery. This truth is also covered up by the fake “left.” Communists oppose exploitation and super-exploitation of U.S. born Workers employed in so-called “McJobs.” Communists also oppose super-exploitation of immigrants. Immigration is being used by the capitalists to drive down the wage scale of U.S. Workers and fragment the U.S. Working Class. Immigration can be supported by simultaneously calling for the union wage scale and equal status for all Immigrants! Equal focus must also be placed on the reality that such objectives cannot be achieved under capitalism, but only after a Socialist Revolution in the United States, after which the main economic motivation for mass immigration of workers will largely disappear, because the Socialist Revolution will take place worldwide and with it exploitation and super-exploitation in all countries!
Only a Socialist Revolution will make it possible for life to continue on this planet as explained in the analysis of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect below. That is how serious and acute the situation actually is at this time! Capitalism offers a world with no future! After a Socialist Revolution all officials in the U.S. Socialist government, without exception, will be elected and subject to recall at any time and their salaries reduced to ordinary union worker’s wages, which along with the salaries of all workers will rise substantially enough to be quite sufficient to live like a millionaire in the Socialist system. That fact alone will demonstrate more clearly than anything else the permanent break from capitalist dictatorship to a genuine worker’s democracy, from the dictatorship of the oppressors to the democracy of the oppressed classes, from the state as a “special force” for the suppression of the Working Class, the middle class and the Poor, by a insignificant minority, to the suppression of the oppressors by the general force of the majority. There will be an end to the present situation where elections are staged periodically to decide which predetermined members of the capitalist class will repress and crush us through the “presidency” and congressional parliamentarism. After the capitalists have been completely expropriated and the Socialist Revolution has triumphed, a reconstituted Socialist Congress, which exclusively represents the interests of the Working Class will become the ruling body in the United States, a truly flexible Working-Class government. The final name for it would be decided at that time.
The Congress, which will be constituted with directly elected representatives of the masses, will be transformed from the present talking shop given over to phrasemongering and resolutions for the special purpose of fooling the credulous masses, where the real business of state is performed behind the scenes and is carried out by the general staffs in the White House, the National Security Agency, the Department of War (so-called “Defense”), and other departments of state, to a real working, not a parliamentary body, both executive and legislative at the same time. Remember that under capitalism all issues reduce to a single question: how best to preserve capitalism-imperialism! There is no other agenda! What does that mean in actual practice? There is a contradiction! The dynamic of capitalism works at cross-purposes to the actual preservation of capitalism! The policies which are actually adopted at this stage of capitalism by the usurped executive, gerrymandered legislative and stacked judicial branches of the capitalist dictatorship do away with all previous checks and balances which, though minimal, had allowed capitalism to exist in balance up to the point of the Soviet surrender, which allowed the dynamic of capitalism to be expressed in its hardest, most naked and unrestrained form. It should be understood that capitalist politicians rise to prominence only to the degree that they express and further the dynamic of the constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship. See below.
The U.S. Constitution, which has been largely abolished in practice by the parasite capitalist dictatorship, will be completely rewritten to encompass the reality of the abolition of the capitalist state and its replacement with a Socialist Government and organization of society on the basis of a network of Workers’ Councils in every city and town. Most of the Amendments to the present U.S. Constitution will be retained except those dealing with maintaining the capitalist state and its bureaucracy, which will be abolished totally, though many if not most of the personnel will help in the transition to a Socialist system. These measures, which involve the reorganization of the state and purely political reorganization of society, take on their full meaning and significance only in connection with the expropriation of the expropriators, i.e. with the transformation of capitalist private ownership of the means of production into true social ownership. With the achievement of the Socialist Revolution worldwide, which will occur virtually simultaneously with the Socialist Revolution in the United States, the basis for all wars will cease because Socialism unlike capitalism is based fundamentally on human need, not war and mass murder.
Religion will not be suppressed in any way but it will also not be supported in any way. All religious points of view will be heard equally as will the atheist and agnostic viewpoint. People will make their own decisions over time. The hundreds of $billions and trillions spent on war will be freed up for human need. Socialist Revolution in the United States is thus the only practical means possible to achieve world peace. Today capitalism has moved into its final stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism justified through the pretext of a preposterously fraudulent “War on Terrorism.” See below. This crucial point is entirely covered up by the capitalist-operated pacifist and fake “left” groups (See below), who deceive the masses with such “airtight” appearing appeals as “Bring All the Troops Home” as opposed to the correct position: “Support the Only Position With Successful Historical Precedent—Call For Mutiny in Iraq as in Vietnam—the Real Reason the Vietnam War Ended in 1975!” See below on Slogans. Mutiny saves lives! Mutiny at an earlier date could have saved the lives of over 2 million Vietnamese and 58 thousand plus Americans! (This omits the 2 million Vietnamese murdered by the French imperialists.) Mutiny in the armed forces is also the absolute precondition for Socialist Revolution, because the capitalists must be deprived of the ability to send bodies of armed men against the masses before there can ever be genuine free speech where opposing viewpoints can be fully heard by the masses, for example on NBC, ABC and CBS television at prime time every night of the week. Mutiny is also the first step in abolishing the standing army while arming the vanguard of the Working Class. This is of course conditional on the success of the Socialist Revolution in all other countries, where if necessary, we will provide every assistance.
The capitalists campaign nonstop to try to instill fear in the masses against Socialism, and most people are genuinely concerned about what Socialism would look like. The capitalists do not want such questions to even be discussed. The reality is that there are no downsides to Socialism! First of all, life on this planet would be able to survive. Almost all of the jobs would still be there too except some of the jobs involved in the military industrial complex which would be terminated immediately, while most of the others in that area would be transformed into projects more in line with human need not mass murder. Most large corporations and businesses would not disappear. Far from it! The only difference will be is that the all corporations will be owned and run entirely by the workers, but all executive positions will be based on elections and be subject to immediate recall, within the corporation or company, and no one will be paid more than the wage of a union worker, just as government officials, which with the end of the huge military budgets and the expropriation of the expropriators, will be more than sufficient to live like a millionaire. That would be the starting point. In addition, there will be no more exploitation and super-exploitation by landlords although a much-reduced rent will be paid to the Socialist State. Society will finally be placed on a basis of human need. The capitalists wage a continuous Big Lie campaign, just like they do on every other issue to brainwash the masses against Socialism. Anti-Communism, which is imposed on the masses through the capitalist-puppet media, the educational system and loyal fake “left opposition” and divide and conquer “single issue groups” has as much basis in truth as the capitalists’ claim that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, as we will see below.
The question is fundamental: If you understand and agree that capitalism cannot be reformed, that we have reached a dead end, and that the problems which confront society and civilization cannot be solved under capitalism and that we need a new system now based on human need not private profit and you want to help organize and achieve a Socialist Revolution—not reform capitalism—then you qualify as a Communist. Those who are NOT Communist still falsely believe 1.) that capitalism, through reform, can solve the complex of problems which has been created by capitalism and which now confronts the very survival of humanity, or 2.) they agree with the first statement that capitalism cannot be reformed, but are unwilling to do anything to help organize a Socialist Revolution. This latter defines the position of opportunism. Anti-Communism and opportunism will be carefully analyzed further below and exposed and dissected point by point in order to remove all confusion and obstacles which exist to organizing a Socialist Revolution in the United States. The significance of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Soviet Workers’ State and the misleadership of Stalin, who was not in practice a Communist, are discussed comprehensively further below. The key point there is that all gains which were achieved through the 1917 Russian Revolution and which existed in the Soviet Union must be defended; these include full employment, no homelessness, free education to the highest level and free medical and dental. In New York City approximately 90% of the people this writer randomly approaches, most of whom are unknown to him, agree with the suggestion: “We need a Socialist Revolution in the United States!” or “We need a new system based on human need not private profit!” This is a straightforward Communist response, although these people would certainly not identify themselves as Communists because 1.) they have been brainwashed against the word and often do not understand what it actually means and 2.) they fear reprisals from the government which they know opposes Socialism and does everything possible to try to intimidate the masses in this regard. With proper organization these obstacles can be overcome. The economic-political-social conditions under capitalism have already created the support for Socialist Revolution in the United States.
The capitalists have already chosen Hillary Clinton to be the next “president” of the U.S. (See below under Subhead for comprehensive discussion of this topic) because she supports the continuing Invasion of Iraq and Permanent War based on the phony “War on Terrorism” as the pretext! But equally important, she along with all Democratic Party leaders, has agreed to abolish the function of Social Security by switching from wage-based indexing of Social Security Benefits to price-based/inflation-based indexing, which will end the function of Social Security, which is to keep people alive in late middle age and old age. The capitalists’ objective is to bring a large percentage of the population to an earlier death as a capitalist means of population reduction and population control. They all cover up the fact that merely increasing the Social Security Tax on incomes over $90,000.00 by only 6% as proposed by their own Robert Wechsler (D) of Florida, would make Social Security permanently solvent and could even increase benefits. This solution was only briefly blipped in the media and is now covered up by the Democratic Party leadership and the Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke (and previously Alan Greenspan), and all the media including the New York Times Editorials and Op-Eds, by loyal fake “opposition” figures such as Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, etc. who parrot the regime’s Big Lie, falsely claiming “unsustainable growth of entitlement spending” while they back the regime to the hilt and call for “necessary cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in order to preserve them.” (!) It is calculated that Hillary with her Democratic Party constituency “backed by women” (!) can ram it through just like her liberal husband abolished Welfare, the first part of the Social Security Act. See below. They think that Hillary Clinton can better deceive the masses with false claims of “necessity,” “cutting the budget deficit” and “democracy!” Under Hillary Clinton or anyone else the capitalist dictatorship will continue to harden and become more oppressive not less! This is because the capitalist system is in control—not the individual capitalists or politicians. See further below for complete discussion of this topic.
U.S.-led capitalism-imperialism has presently become overextended militarily and economically and is no longer in a viable position to invade such countries as Venezuela or Bolivia, which have actually elected Communist (not “populist”) leaders who have begun the partial nationalization of the oil and gas industries as occurs after a Socialist Revolution. But the capitalists have not been completely expropriated in either country. Nevertheless, it is becoming increasingly self-evident that capitalism--“Globalism” is a loser in Latin America and worldwide. These victories, although they are partial victories, are great victories and must be fully supported by the Working Class in the United States and in all countries. World capitalism-imperialism remains extremely dangerous and if left to its own devices will destroy not just civilization but all life on this planet. This will not stop until capitalism is overthrown and abolished at its center—in the United States. In the place of capitalism there will be a global planned economy based on human need not private profit. The 1917 Russian Revolution was the most important event in the 20th Century and is important for 2 reasons: 1.) Because it proved that capitalism can be overthrown and 2.) For the economic-political-social gains it achieved. Remember that in the final analysis all wars are won and lost on morale and all movements begin with the call!
Expose the Capitalists’ Divide-and-Conquer Statecraft to Partition Iraq
Under False Pretext: “To Prevent Civil War” after U.S. Failed Attempt to Instigate a Civil War by Provocation, which the Iraqis Recognize and Reject!
United States Sacrifices Their Own Agent Provocateur Zarqawi
Recognized by the Majority of Iraqis to be Working For the U.S.!
Zarqawi’s Zero Credibility Made Him Worth More Dead Than Alive!
U.S. Trumpets Phony “Great Propaganda Victory” For Bush Regime
And Steps Up Sectarian Bombing Provocations as Pretext for Partition!
The U.S. Invasion of Iraq affects every person on this planet either directly or indirectly, and ultimately provides the basis for the Call for Mutiny by the U.S. armed forces in Iraq—which in turn is the Precondition for a Socialist Revolution in the United States. The U.S. objective from before the invasion has been to instigate a civil war in Iraq and short of that to PARTITION IRAQ by any means possible, which has been the main objective of the United States! The capitalists have used their agent, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi (see below), to manipulate Sunni Islamic fundamentalists to blow up Shiite Mosques on a regular basis and to frequently attack innocent civilians (Innocent civilians are not those applying to work for the United States puppet military!) in order to try to: 1.) Discredit the Iraqi Liberation Movement, which is mostly separate and apart from the fundamentalist provocateurs manipulated by the U.S. through Zarqawi & Co., which are not supported by the Iraqi masses 2.) Create division and to try to set the basis for a U.S.-instigated civil war and 3.) help the Bush Regime domestically. Having failed to actually instigate a civil war, which the majority of Iraqis recognize as the divide-and-conquer objective of the United States, the U.S. still plans to partition Iraq under the phony pretext of “preventing a full-scale civil war!”(!)
This objective has not changed in the slightest with the U.S. assassination of their agent Zarqawi. In fact Zarqawi’s assassination was a deliberate provocation which was carried out partly in order to try to recruit more Islamic Fundamentalists from among the Iraqis to increase the scale of Sunni-Shiite division in Iraq as a supposed “backlash” against murder of the “great martyr.” Meanwhile the U.S. media have pored it on and falsely try to equate the U.S.-instigated provocations/atrocities by the Zarqawi-led Sunnis and the retaliatory atrocities by the Shiites as “proof of civil war,” and many Americans have even been “convinced” that there is a civil war—just as convinced as they were that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! It’s time to wake up. A tape from Osama Bin Laden released on July 2, 2006 praising Zarqawi documents an apparent reversal of the previous Al Qaeda policy of opposing Sunni-Shiite division and now supports the same civil war objective of the United States in Iraq. (See below for comprehensive discussions of Occupied Palestine, the statecraft of capitalism and religion and the 911 Attack where the U.S. used the Osama Bin Laden Islamic Fundamentalists to carry out what was a carefully planned and executed U.S. Government-Facilitated Provocation.) In Iraq the actions of Abu Al Masri, the new U.S. chosen front man for the divide and conquer policies of “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia” continue e.g. with huge car bombs targeting even the poorest Shiite areas—Sadr City markets killing and injuring hundreds. Now with the support of Osama Bin Laden, who plays directly into the hands of the United States, the U.S. Invasion of Iraq which was carried out to steal the oil and directly dictate to the entire Middle East, can be more easily falsely portrayed as a “key to the War on Terrorism!”
The fact that Zarqawi had so little credibility in Iraq increased his expendability rating off the charts. His assassination was actually another act of desperation by the United States! The U.S. assassination of Zarqawi was designed 1.) To turn Zarqawi into a some sort of “martyr” to try to generate recruitment of more fundamentalists and 2.) To falsely disassociate the U.S. from their agent, widely understood in Iraq to be a U.S. agent. It is widely recognized throughout the Mideast that Zarqawi’s deliberate attempt to foment Sunni-Shiite division and a civil war in Iraq, which has not happened, has defined the U.S. divide and conquer policy in Iraq. The recently released outtakes made from the recently released promotional film (see below) were an indication that Zarqawi’s usefulness as a “fundamentalist hero” in Iraq had come to an end. 3.) The third objective of Zarqawi’s assassination by his own masters was also to try to pump up the Bush regime prior to the 2006 Midterm “Elections” and build support for the continuing Invasion of Iraq within the U.S. domestic audience with the ridiculous claim that “Zarqawi’s death is a severe blow for Al Qaeda” and “now represents a turning point for Bush regime in Iraq.” The U.S. media have gone all out to falsely equate Zarqawi with the Iraqi Liberation Movement, which he is not, and when the reality is that the U.S./Zarqawi objective has been to manipulate those who sincerely oppose the U.S. invasion into instead helping to achieve the U.S. objective of partition of Iraq! The overwhelming majority of Iraqis hated and despised Zarqawi because his objectives were and remain the U.S. objectives!! Note that the U.S. chose not to capture and arrest Zarqawi but to kill him. The U.S. knew his location precisely and could easily have gotten the drop on him. The reason that they did not want to capture him was because he was a U.S. agent and would have revealed his myriad connections with his U.S. masters. The capitalist media have also use Zarqawi’s assassination to take the focus of the U.S. massacre in Haditha and other routine massacres and atrocities committed daily by the terrorist U.S. invaders all over Iraq.
The bottom line is that there is no civil war in Iraq and the majority of Iraqis themselves won’t buy it. Despite phony denials from the Bush Regime, the divide and conquer partitioning Iraq has been the U.S. plan from the beginning in order to help impose U.S. dictatorship and steal Iraq’s oil, while they threaten the entire Mideast and the entire world to bow down and be subjugated by U.S. imperialism. Partitioning of Iraq was formally broached by Peter Galbraith, former Ambassador of Croatia, where he helped partition and divide up the former Workers’ State of Yugoslavia! Preparatory steps to partition of Iraq included the installation of a puppet regime controlled by Shiites through phony staged sham “elections,” where only U.S. capitalist-approved candidates could seriously run, just like in the United States! The new Iraqi “Constitution” was also a total fraud written in order to set the basis for division of Iraq and a hoped-for civil war. No government installed under the aegis of the U.S. invaders, including any U.S.-installed, supposed “national unity government,” can represent the interests of the Iraqi masses. In Vietnam 87% of the South Vietnam VOTED in elections staged to install a U.S. puppet regime—a higher percentage of the population than in the Iraq “elections,” but the vote numbers do not change the fact that the regime in South Vietnam was a U.S. puppet regime and that the present regime in Iraq is also a U.S. puppet regime. It is a compelling fact that the Iraq under the dictator Saddam Hussein and the Baath Socialist Party modeled somewhat after the Soviet Communist Party provided full employment, no homelessness, free education to the highest level and free medical and dental care and had the highest living standard in the entire Mideast, including Israel, up until the Iraq-Iran War of 1980-1988, which was also instigated by the United States! See below. In addition to the purpose of diverting focus away from the U.S. invasion, the capitalists believe that either a civil war or “Partition of Iraq to prevent civil war” would also be very helpful because it would not decrease oil production any more than it already is and would permit the U.S. to move their forces mostly into the Iraqi oil regions which they think would then permit an increase in oil production! But everything the U.S. does turns to failure and a fiasco!
The Shiite-controlled U.S.-puppet regime has been given the green light to torture and kill Sunni Muslims on a regular basis in order to try to foment further division, while the U.S. at every opportunity falsely disassociates itself at the top of its lungs from its divide and conquer objectives in Iraq and the puppet regime it has installed, by falsely claiming that “the U.S. would not support sectarian policies,” which has been their actual goal from before the invasion! On February 22nd the U.S. agent Zarqawi directed his group of manipulated Sunni fundamentalists dressed in military uniforms to blow up the Askariya golden-domed Shiite Mosque in Samarra, an act which was deliberately designed to invite widespread retaliation and bring Sunni-Shiite division to a feverish peak. (The U.S. claim that they do not want civil war in Iraq—which the Iraqis reject—is like Brer Rabbit pleading with Brer Bear not to throw him in the briar patch!) The U.S. wants to instigate civil war in Iraq in order to divert the hostility of the invaded country away from the U.S. invaders and let the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds fight among each other and wear each other out, just like what happened when the United States previously instigated the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988!! (The U.S. got their Khomeini-installed Islamic fundamentalist/anti-Communist government to violate the Iraq border 175 times before the Iraqis finally declared war and the U.S supported both sides of that war!) The United States brought back Khomeini from Paris and installed him in power in order to counterpose Islamic Fundamentalism against the Marxist-Leninist People’s Fedeyeen and the National Liberation Movement in Iran when it looked like Iran might possibly become a Workers’ State after the overthrow of the Shah in 1979 and might ally with the Soviet Union, with all that oil! Not if the capitalists could help it! Ramsey Clark, now posturing as “some sort of leftist opposition,” which he most certainly is not, who now demands Bush’s impeachment in order to keep people within the fold of capitalist reformist illusion and to try to pump up his credibility (see below), carried out the Shuttle diplomacy at that time to bring Khomeini back from France. At the time Khoumeini was paraded as an “intransigent revolutionary” by the fake “left” Workers World, led by the U.S. government’s chief not-very-deep-cover political police agent, Ramsey Clark himself, in order to hide the U.S. anti-Communist objectives behind that move.
The Truth of the Zawahiri Letter
It was previously admitted on December 16, 2005 by CNN and elsewhere that the U.S.-puppet Iraqi “security forces” had captured Zarqawi last year and released him. The reality is more likely that Zarqawi was actually captured by mistake and released on purpose by the U.S. puppet Iraqi military on direct orders from its U.S. masters!! In order to hide the fact that he was working for the U.S. invaders and simultaneously to help falsely portray the Iraqi Liberation Movement as a bunch of “terrorists,” Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden, who said in a tape on Al-Jazeera that he recognized Zarqawi as the Al Qaeda representative in Iraq, CNN, December 27, 2004! Later Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s doctor and second in command, apparently tried to halt Zarqawi’s attacks on Shiite Mosques with a long letter apparently written by al-Zawahiri on July 9, 2005, laying out plans for Jihad, but directly condemning Zarqawi’s attacks on the Shia and their Mosques and warning that such a policy would undermine popular support for Jihad. That letter, which U.S. “intelligence” supposedly intercepted and released, sounds completely authentic and makes perfect sense from the Jihadists’ point of view. But on October 13, 2005 the letter was declared to be a forgery by Zarqawi, who continued willy-nilly to bomb Shiite Mosques under orders from his U.S. masters, even escalating the policy to include the Askariya Mosque in the recent U.S. push to instigate civil war!
The Zawahiri Letter does not appear to be fabricated (see: http://www.dni.gov/letter_in_english.pdf —some piece of work if were fabricated, which appears unlikely), or it is entirely legitimate, which is more likely, and was released by the U.S. in order to falsely justify the U.S. presence in Iraq and the phony U.S. “War on Terrorism” by falsely hyping the threat from Jihad in Iraq, where Jihadists remain in the minority, and to act as the pretext for the present shift into the final stage of capitalism—Permanent War. In fact that is exactly how the U.S. Director of National Security and the capitalist media played it (See: http://www.dni.gov/release_letter_101105.html), while simultaneously allowing their agent Zarqawi to denounce the correct advice in the letter to stop bombing Shiite Mosques, as supposedly “fraudulent,” thus permitting Zarqawi to falsely disassociate himself from his U.S. masters and strengthening his hand while escalating the bombing/provocations! The reason that the United States deliberately did not report the specifics of how they intercepted the letter in this case was a tactic used in order to strengthen Zarqawi’s false claim among his constituents that the letter was supposedly fabricated by U.S. “intelligence.” Remember how eager the U.S. was to report all the specifics of how they captured Saddam Hussein! It is indisputable that Zarqawi’s actions clearly defined him at the very minimum as an objective agent of U.S. imperialism. Undoubtedly Zarqawi was much more than simply an objective agent of the U.S.! Up to now he was crucial to U.S. objectives in Iraq and would have to have been fully in full confidence on virtually every detail.
Despite the U.S./Zarqawi strategy of provocation the majority of Iraqis have not swallowed the bait and are not accepting the U.S. planned civil war scenario, despite the stepped up systematic atrocities carried out by Zarqawi, and the retaliatory slaughters carried out by the Madi Army and other Shiite militias which will not stop after Zarqawi’s assassination! The Iraqi masses smell a rat and are not eager to play into the hands of the United States clumsy divide and conquer plans. The condemnation of the attacks on February 25th by religious leaders simply reflects this awareness and reality as much as it may have been to hide their part in it. The Iraqi Liberation Movement, the main opposition to the U.S. invaders, targets the U.S. invaders almost exclusively and sees through Zarqawi and the U.S. objective to partition Iraq and they do not support a civil war! Even the cleric Moktada al-Sadr does not seem ready to commit to a civil war immediately in the conventional sense despite the fact that his followers the Mahdi Army, supposedly numbering several thousand fighters, who to their credit previously fought in 2 uprisings against the U.S. invaders, have recently been manipulated into attacking Sunnis in response to U.S. agent Zarqawi’s campaign of bombing Shiite Mosques. Their escalated execution attacks on Sunnis have increased following the bombing of the Askariya Mosque by the U.S. agent Zarqawi and Co. and the huge car bombs of U.S. manipulated provocateurs in the Shiite Sadr City markets. Moktada al-Sadr may believe that he can play a leadership role in a divided Iraq based on the strength of his militia, which has already infiltrated the Iraqi police and military. But the reality is that he will still wind up where he is now—on his knees to his U.S. masters. The Mahdi Army now has members in the puppet Iraqi parliament and ministers in the government with the understanding that in practice they support the U.S. goal of partition of Iraq.
In order to try to pump up the credibility of their agent provocateur Zarqawi among his constituency of brainwashed Islamic fundamentalists, after the totally discrediting bombing of the Askariya golden-domed Shiite Mosque in Samarra, the U.S. dishonestly released a video made in November 2005, which his U.S. masters had received earlier but had been saving to release, showing Al Qaeda’s second in command Zawahiri still praising Zarqawi apparently in the vain hope that he might yet still have some influence on Zarqawi in line with the recommendations made in the Zawahiri letter. This was before Zarqawi and his Islamic fundamentalist fanatics/manipulees blew up the Askariya mosque which as mentioned above, was carried out in order to elicit escalated retaliatory killing of Sunnis by Shiite militias, all designed to help set the stage for the long-planned U.S. goal of partition of Iraq! Divide and Conquer! In another apparently weird attempt to simultaneously pump up Zarqawi among his tiny devoted brainwashed Sunni fundamentalist constituency before assassinating him, while falsely disassociating themselves from their agent provocateur as supposedly “a bumbling idiot,” the U.S. evidently had Zarqawi make a videotape which was then played repeatedly all over the Mideast media where Zarqawi fires a machine gun and appears to look very macho. But on “closer examination” several days later on outtakes from the preparation of that video, outtakes that the U.S. claims were captured but which they could only realistically possess if they were the ones to commission the making of that promotional film (a specialty of the capitalists) in the first place, it was revealed that Zarqawi did not even know how to fire and clear the chamber of a 50-caliber machine gun himself and that he wears U.S. New Balance athletic shoes—which may have been provided to him by his U.S. masters. (New York Times, May 5, 2006.) The reason for the outtakes became completely clear with Zarqawi’s assassination on June 8, 2006. (See above.)
So far the U.S. efforts in ethnic cleansing of Sunni areas in order to set the basis for a de facto partition of Iraq, have resulted in the displacement of over 60,000 Shiites by April 2006, and 65,000 Shiites by July 2006, from Sunni areas who now live in tents. The U.S. helped engineer the very same ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and have tried to blame people such as the Serbians Slobodan Milosevic and Milan Babic for this divide and conquer policy. The U.S. had both Milosevic and Babic poisoned in The Hague after Milosevic won his case at the International War Criminals Trial at The Hague. The U.S. now demands that Serbia turn over Ratko Mladic for “trial” to be likewise assassinated, who the imperialists want to take the rap alone for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, one massacre among many which was a result of implementation of the United States’ ruthless plan to divide and conquer Yugoslavia, a country where people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds previously lived in peace and complete harmony! This ethnic cleansing is exactly what is happening in Iraq at this moment! The capitalists’ most recent divide and conquer efforts have resulted on May 22, 2006 in the division of Montenegro from Serbia thereby punishing the Serbian people and permanently cutting it off from the sea! The U.S. had already installed a puppet government in place in Serbia to facilitate this final divide and conquer of Yugoslavia. As an indication that the United States and it puppet government in Iraq are about to move to officially partition Iraq the media are screaming: “Time is running out to hold this country together!” (NBC News, July 22, 2006.) In August 1947 the British gave independence to British India and because they feared such a large unified country, deliberately fomented Hindu-Moslem differences to simultaneously partition it into today’s India and Pakistan forcing millions of Moslems North and millions of Hindus South in a huge forced migration. The capitalists are very experienced at creating division and that is why it is important to organize on the basis of the only valid division, the division between the capitalist class and the Working Class.
While some U.S.-controlled Iraqi print media scream for civil war, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has a strong influence on Iraqi Shiites also correctly fingered the United States in the Askariya Mosque bombing, but incorrectly also blamed the Israeli Zionists. (The U.S. does not need much direct help from Israel in Iraq! But in Lebanon the U.S. did authorize the Zionists to blow up and assassinate the politically expendable Rafik Hariri and directed “Israel” to attack Lebanon in July 2006! See detailed explanation below under subheads!) The majority of the population in Iraq knows that the only player which actually benefits from a civil war or partition of Iraq is the United States. Divide and conquer is a well-known policy of capitalist statecraft and is also used within the United States and around the world, as is explained further below. On the other hand the Muhammad Cartoon Provocation, which is analyzed extensively further below (see subhead on this topic below), was also designed to elicit anger and a violent response from Islamic fundamentalist everywhere, which in turn provides the continuing pretext for the capitalists’ policy of Permanent War. During this whole time conspiracy theorists have continued to insist that either Zarqawi or Bin Laden or both were dead or make other bizarre claims, in order to keep their followers confused and unable to even follow what is going on! Now they can have their way on Zarqawi while they cover up the role he played. See section further below on conspiracy theory. A large section on the Middle East, the U.S. Proxy State (so-called “Israel”) in what is Invaded and Occupied Palestine, which also covers the details and purpose of both the U.S./Israeli “Queen Sacrifice” assassination of Rabin and assassination of Lebanon’s Rafik Hariri, follows toward the end of this Analysis and Theses.
The only correct political position for all progressive opposition to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq must be: Support the only position with successful historical precedent: Call for Mutiny of U.S. armed Forces in Iraq as in Vietnam—the real reason and the only reason that the Vietnam War finally ended in 1975. The slogan “Bring Home The Troops” is a double-edged pacifist deception carefully designed 1.) To demoralize the masses when they see that the capitalists do not “bring home the troops” after protest demonstrations and venting which does not propose a realistic solution and leads nowhere and 2.) To deliberately deceive the masses to believe that capitalism, which is fundamentally dependent on war and mass murder to steal new resources and markets, can somehow be “reformed” and made “peaceful.” That is not happening because it ignores the dynamic and the history of capitalism. The “Bring Home The Troops” slogan appears even more absurd as capitalism has now entered its final stage of Permanent War! Permanent War is actually the most ideal Pre-Revolutionary situation possible because the likelihood of mutiny is maximally increased, and cries out for mutiny. The capitalists cannot reverse from the stage of Permanent War. But we cannot wait 13 or 14 years before there is a mutiny as in Vietnam, which was quickly quelled by the U.S. evacuation. Mutiny must be called for by all revolutionaries in the United States and carried out by developing Communist soldiers in Iraq. (A Communist is anyone who wants a new system based on human need not private profit and actively works to further this objective.) It is well known that the morale in the U.S. armed forces is very “bad.” Bad for the capitalists! Good for us! So do not adopt an opportunist position or be fooled or scared by the U.S imperialists bravado or threats of listening to phone conversations or monitoring your bank records. The release of such information in the capitalist media is purely for purposes of intimidation of the U.S. domestic population, which overwhelmingly opposes the policies of the capitalist dictatorship, which they recognize is hardening by the day. The phony “protest” by the capitalist dictatorship at the exposure of these domestic spying programs by the main flagships of U.S. imperialism, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal is done precisely in order to falsely disassociate the media which is doing the bidding of its master, to make the media appear “free” and “independent,” when in fact the information is released for one purpose only—to intimidate people—to scare, divide and more easily control the masses.
There is no substitute for a mutiny, which is the Pre-Condition for a Socialist Revolution, because the capitalists must be deprived of the ability to send bodies of armed men against the masses before opposing viewpoints can even be heard on an equal basis. All levels of military leadership should be targeted to support the mutiny because survival of the human race is in everyone’s interest! In the armed forces only Fascist militarist zombies are unable to realize that. All wars are either won or lost on moral and every movement begins with the call! The experience of the U.S. Mutiny in Vietnam must be widely publicized—not covered up as is done by all of the fake “left,” which is run by a network of political police agents led by fanatical anti-Communists such as Ramsey Clark and other misleaders of the fake “left.” With the Mutiny an accomplished fact and as the military comes under the control of the Socialist Revolution it will be supplemented with the armed vanguard of the exploited and working people. In addition, we have to make every effort to break the morale of the capitalists themselves. This is both possible and necessary and occurred to some extent in Russia in 1917 and it must occur to an even wider degree in the United States. The basis for this is the Law of Unity of Opposites—a person can be both a capitalist and a Communist simultaneously. This is a corollary of Dialectical and Historical Materialism which is covered up by the all of the fake “left” groups. Friedrich Engels himself was a capitalist and owned a large factory! Every possible effort must be made to recruit the capitalists themselves to break their class loyalty! The huge philanthropic effort made by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet can not go very far toward achieving their imagined illusory objectives because it is opposed by programs already in place and policies of the United States government which are based fundamentally on mass murder and designed to spread disease and reduce the population. The one possible exception might be a vaccine for malaria because the capitalists want to develop Africa. See below.
The United States Now Threatens and Prepares to Bomb Iran!
The U.S. Has Used its Proxy State of “Israel” to Invade Gaza and
Totally Destroy Lebanon in Order to Threaten Syria and Iran Under
The Ridiculous Pretext of “Kidnapped Soldiers and Homemade Rocket
Attacks” and refusing to be Subjugated by the U.S./“Israeli” Axis, as
They Set the Stage for the Main Objective of Bombing Iran!
In an April 17, 2006 article in The New Yorker magazine Seymour Hersh, a longtime U.S. intelligence agent, was provided with the information to make the case for bombing Iran. The capitalists have used Hersh in previous situations. Among his many disservices to humanity Hersh previously wrote a book in service of the Fascist Reagan regime entitled: “The Target is Destroyed” in order to systematically cover up the U.S.-orchestrated Korean Airliner (KAL) Provocation which was used to undermine Soviet opposition to the placement of U.S. Pershing II First Strike missiles in Germany less than 15 minutes from Moscow, a move which did in fact result in the 1988 Soviet surrender to the threat of a nuclear war—not an “economic collapse.” (See further below.) In that provocation an altitude bomb (described by the Soviet pilot Gennadi Osipovich as “a large secondary explosion which destroyed the aircraft as it descended”) was placed in the Korean 747 airliner to insure that even if the USSR did not shoot it down, which it did, the U.S. could claim the plane was shot down. The Korean pilot was directed to fly straight into the Soviet Union over the Kamchatka peninsula and was personally assured by the disgraced murderer Richard Nixon who was at the airport in Anchorage, Alaska before it took off, that the Soviets would not shoot down the plane because they would not risk the bad publicity which would damage international relations! The official story was that Nixon “almost took the flight!” So disingenuous! See further below for complete analysis of this topic.
The Seymour Hersh article in The New Yorker on the other hand actually makes the strongest possible U.S. case to bomb Iran citing all the fanatics in the CIA and “Israel” as well as those who argue that it would be a big mistake. While some believe that the article is merely a threat. But the dynamic of capitalism, which is independent of the wills of the capitalists and politicians which make it up, and now in its final stage of Permanent War, makes such a military strike—targeting “at least 400 targets” in Iran including the possible use of “tactical nuclear bunker-buster weapons such as the B61-11” very likely, unless Iran backs down and submits to the dictates of the United States. Which does not seem entirely likely! The strategy of the U.S. dictatorship is apparently to use its Proxy State of “Israel” to carry out this objective, just as they previously used “Israel” to bomb the Osirak Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981. On July 12, 2006 Hezbollah kidnapped 2 Israeli soldiers and demanded a prisoner exchange. Although this has occurred numerous times previously, this time “Israel” seemed to be waiting for what has served as a pretext for a massive all-out attack on Lebanon with relentless aerial slaughter of population centers and bombing of the infrastructure, including power stations and the water supply just as they have already done in Gaza! As a ridiculously false pretext for massive bombing of civilian areas the U.S./“Israeli” axis bizarrely claims that Hezbollah is “hiding behind human shields.” The genuinely repulsive Christiane Amanpour Rubin, a professional liar and member of the United States “intelligence community,” married to the former chief spokesman for the U.S. State Department, clumsily tried to blame the victim: “Hezbollah has brought a rain of terror down upon Lebanon!”(?) CNN July 22, 2006.
Although Hezbollah is supported by both Syria and Iran, Hezbollah is a popular social service movement in Lebanon composed of Lebanese, which in addition to running hospitals, schools and supporting virtually all of social services in southern Lebanon from construction to picking up the garbage, also has a self-defense guerilla army, not a “terrorist army” made up of Lebanese Shiite civilians. Hezbollah is supported by the overwhelming majority of the general Sunni and even Christian population of Lebanon and is the reason why U.S./“Israel” also bombed Christian areas of Lebanon! Despite every effort to divide the Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon, as the U.S. is making every effort to do in their goal to partition Iraq using manipulated Provocateurs as their main weapon, this effort has completely failed in Lebanon. As part of the preparation for their long planned War Against Lebanon, which began on July 12, 2006, the U.S. directed the “Israeli” Mossad to assassinate the loyal but politically expendable Rafik Hariri one year previously, as the pretext to force Syria to withdraw its ground forces from Lebanon and to try to take over Lebanon and convert it into a puppet state such as Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates! It did not work as usual! It is a well-known fact that an invading army cannot defeat a guerrilla army such as Hezbollah, which is supported by population! It is also a well-known military fact that such an invasion cannot be won on the ground, and it most certainly cannot be won by an aerial bombing campaign! Hezbollah can also not be defeated by eliminating the civilian population from the border by completely destroying the housing and infrastructure near the border. And that is not the real U.S./“Israeli” objective.
The U.S./“Israel” knows that it can not destroy or disarm Hezbollah, nor can it destroy the Palestinian Sunni Hamas popular movement in Gaza. The reality is that the U.S. has decided to use its Proxy State to “change the rules” by destroying housing and infrastructure and targeting the human population, not just at the border but throughout newly rebuilt Lebanon and Beirut! The real reason for the total destruction of Lebanon is to threaten Syria and Iran and to condition the world to accept widened U.S./“Israeli” Fascist aggression throughout the Mideast, where a similar bombing campaign against Syria and Iran will be more easily accepted. This is not hidden but stated completely openly: “Israel wants to send a strong message to all its enemies, especially Iran, that the consequences of attacking the Jewish state will be unbearable.” (Associated Press July 20, 2006.) It should be obvious that the U.S./“Israel” Axis can arrange or assert such a provocation at the drop of a hat to justify an all-out aerial attack on Iran precisely as described in the Seymour Hersh article in the New Yorker! The destruction of Lebanon is one more demonstration that capitalism has moved into its final stage of Permanent War, from which it cannot reverse! The U.S. message is: “Get used to it!” “The U.S. Hands Are Tied!” “The rules are changed”—changed to expand and condition the world to accept the U.S./“Israel” policy of State Terrorism. That is what is really meant by “changing the rules!” It should also be noted that only Hezbollah has fought to defend Lebanon! The Lebanese army and present government is in practice completely subservient and obedient to the U.S. and “Israel” and has given passive support to the enemy by standing aside to permit it to occur and Lebanon to be destroyed. In a vain attempt to try to regain some sort of credibility Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora claimed that he would order the Lebanese Army to defend Lebanon if Israel invaded—10 days after Israel had already totally destroyed the country and because he knew that “Israel” had no intention of actually invading and occupying Lebanon because Hezbollah’s Guerrilla army had already defeated “Israel” in the previous occupation of Lebanon forcing “Israel” to withdraw from Lebanon in May 2000.
Hezbollah’s defense of Lebanon has had to be limited to Katyusha rockets and longer range Fajr-3 (25 miles) and Fajr-5 (45 miles) because of total air supremacy by the U.S./“Israel.” The Israelis have objected vehemently, angrily, indignantly and absurdly to the fact that the Lebanese through Hezbollah alone have had the temerity to even fight back against their Fascist Judeo-Nazi onslaught. The capitalist media support fully the U.S./ “Israeli” mass murder in Lebanon, where the Israelis have slaughtered more than 10 Lebanese for every Israeli. (Unlike the phrase “innocent Lebanese—or Palestinian civilians,” it should be reiterated there is no such thing as an “innocent Israeli civilian” because every Israeli citizen must serve every year in the Israeli army until age 55!) The media, a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s “intelligence community,” for the most part covers up and disingenuously reports merely that the U.S. is “giving Israel enough time to degrade and weaken Hezbollah,” when they know very well that the objective goes much, much farther, as a practice run to prepare to bomb Iran, the main objective as described above, while they condition the world to accept an “uncontrollable Israel.” Meanwhile “Israel” has used the minimally proportioned retaliation from Katyushas and the threat of Zelzal-2 missiles which have not yet been used, which have a 200-km range but lack a guidance system rendering them very inaccurate, to try to perpetuate the hoax of “defending so-called “Israel.” The “Israeli” army even ridiculously labels itself: Israel Defense Forces!
The unsupported “Israeli” claims that it was not an unmanned drone laden with explosives which hit an Israeli missile warship but an Iranian-made, radar-guided C-802 missile as well as the totally unsupported accusations that the rockets are under the control of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or Syrian commanders, which even if they were true, is indubitably motivated by more than a mere hypocritical attempt to try to hide the fact that “Israel” is just a Proxy State of the United States, by falsely labeling Hezbollah as a “proxy army of Syria and Iran. This appears to be simply part of the move to politically position “Israel,” the cat’s paw of U.S. imperialism, to bomb Iran. The U.S. hypocritically criticizes Syria and Iran for supplying Hezbollah with “high tech rockets,” while it supplies virtually all of the precision satellite and laser guided bombs and missile systems and every conceivable weaponry for its Proxy State of so-called “Israel,” or the materials to assemble artillery shells, which the “Israelis” claim to make. The U.S. has also supplied so-called “Israel” with over 200 nuclear weapons kept at Damona. The U.S. has already supplied “Israel” with both 1000 lb. and one hundred 5000 lb. conventional laser-guided bunker buster bombs (GBU-28’s), which they have used in Lebanon (“U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery For the Israelis,” New York Times, (July 22, 2006), and may also have supplied its Proxy State with bunker buster nukes perhaps to be used in Iran as described in the Seymour Hersh article! The U.S. puppet state of Saudi Arabia also received $6 billion in military aid this year form the United States. Only puppet Arab states receive U.S. military aid.
It should be noted that every effort has been made to deny that Israel is merely a Zionist puppet state doing the bidding of the United States. For example, in 1967 the U.S. even authorized Israel to attack its own U.S. warship, the USS Liberty sacrificing 34 U.S. sailors in an attempt to falsely dissociate the U.S. from its Israeli Proxy State by portraying “Israel” as “uncontrollable.” (See further below for complete discussion of “Israel.”) To hide the fact that the U.S. directed and authorized the present escalation of all out war in the Mideast the capitalist media uses such ridiculous headlines as “U.S. Supports Israel’s Right To Self Defense” (Self-Defense?!), “U.S. Gives Qualified Support For Israel’s Strikes,” “U.S. on Israel’s Side, “U.S. Gives Green Light to Israel” and “U.S. Finds Its Hands Tied”! Without the $3-4 billion the U.S. gives Israel each year and the oil supplied by the U.S. the puppet government “Israel” would collapse immediately. H.W. Bush provided the formal pretext to keep Israel out of the Persian Gulf War in 1991 with the threat of cutting off $6 billion in economic credits. See below.
A key to understanding the situation is the fact that Israel refused to exchange the 2 captured Israeli soldiers and chose instead to bomb Lebanon back to the Stone Age, while making every effort to implicate Syria and Iran, in what was undoubtedly a completely independent action by Hezbollah, similar to actions which had occurred intermittently for years previously! The masses throughout the Mideast do not have to receive orders from Syria or Iran to hate, despise and attack so-called “Israel!” Israel has a long history of prisoner exchange. On March 15, 1979 Israel exchanged 66 Palestinians for one Israeli soldier! On November 24, 1983 Israel exchanged 4,700 Palestinians and Lebanese for 6 Israeli soldiers! On June 28, 1984 Israel exchanged 291 Syrian soldiers and 20 “security prisoners” for 3 Israeli soldiers, 3 Israeli “civilians” and the remains of 2 Israeli soldiers. On May 21, 1985 Israel exchanged 1,150 Palestinians for 3 Israeli soldiers. On July 21, 1996 Israel exchanged 45 Shiite Muslims and bodies of 40 Hezbollah fighters for the dead body of an Israel soldier! On October 1997 Israel exchanged 70 prisoners including Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin for 2 Israeli “intelligence” agents captured in a failed attempt to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. On January 29, 2004 Israel exchanged 420 prisoners and 59 bodies of Lebanese killed in fighting for 3 Israeli soldiers. The reason that the Israeli did not immediately exchange prisoners this time is that the U.S. wanted its ”Israel” Proxy State to build the momentum to falsely implicate Syria and Iran prior to the very likely bombing of Iran and the attempt to overthrow the governments of both countries, attempts which will undoubtedly fail just like all of their policies everywhere around the world! The actions of the U.S./“Israel” in the Mideast, just like the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, etc. represent the naked dynamic of capitalism-imperialism now in its final stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism!
Accusations aimed at Iran, combined with refusal or inability by Lebanon, Syria and Iran to comply with the absurd U.S./“Israeli” demands, will at the minimum be used as the phony pretext to constantly escalate U.S. imperialist aggression and state terrorism throughout the Middle East. While there is no direct proof of a nuclear weapons program in Iran the Iranians realize that only by becoming a nuclear state can they defend themselves against the U.S. This is also the reason why North Korea is unlikely to agree to actually ever give up its nuclear weapons program in the face of crazed U.S. Imperialism, because to do so might invite U.S. bombing. The U.S. does not threaten countries which possess nuclear weapons. If Saddam Hussein had actually had actually been able to develop nuclear weapons, which the U.S. knew very well that Iraq had not done, the U.S. would never have invaded Iraq. Both India and Pakistan possess nuclear weapons and the U.S. does not bother either country and forms alliances with them. The only way to permanently end nuclear weapons worldwide and the threat of a nuclear war is by carrying out a Socialist Revolution in the United States thereby permanently ending the system of capitalist-imperialism, which is fundamentally based on war, subjugation and mass murder in order to steal new resources and new markets. Only on this basis will the world have a genuine basis to completely and permanently disarm!
The Rafik Hariri Assassination, Authorized by the United States and
Carried Out by Israeli Mossad, was a Provocation Aimed at Syria!
Yasser Arafat Was Also Assassinated by U.S/”Israel and France!
This after the U.S.-Israeli Mossad Axis bombed out (assassinated) Rafik Hariri and blamed it on Syria, who had no motive for such a crime! The Syrians incidentally have no special history of assassination in the Mideast or anywhere, while the Israeli IDF uses assassination as one of its most frequent weapons of choice and is the most experienced in the entire Mideast in assassination! Since the Hariri “Blow-Up” the U.S. has authorized a veritable stream of assassinations in Lebanon in order to inflame anti-Syrian opinion, which has no motive to assassinate anyone! Previously the United States’ authorized Israeli agents to also assassinate Arafat! Nothing happens in Israel policy wise without U.S. authorization, although isolated Zionist crimes do occur from time to time. The dog wags the tail—not the other way around, despite lies to the contrary which conspiracy theorists try to push. Israeli is not actually a conventional state, it is an entity (the Zionist Entity), a U.S. puppet/proxy state because it is completely dependent militarily, economically and diplomatically on the United States for its existence. It is the cat’s paw of U.S. imperialism in the Mideast! For example, in order to keep Israel out of the 1991 U.S. Invasion of Iraq the Bush Regime threatened to cut off $6 billion in credits to Israel to keep the fanatic Zionists in line. The U.S. authorized the Israelis, with the helpful assistance of agents of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) & Co., to initially administer Arafat poison in Ramallah, giving him an isolated case of thrombocytopenia (low platelets) with no other symptoms, symptoms which could only occur by poisoning, as his doctors in Ramallah so testified! The French provided timely assistance first by immediately sedating Arafat when he arrived in Paris so that he could not speak or know what was happening to him. The French, who have historically always worked closely with Israel and Mossad and, of course, with the United States (except in Iraq), indubitably administered the final overdose of anti-coagulant or other poison in order to induce a stroke. Arafat used to be their boy but was sacrificed primarily because he had largely lost the support of his militant constituency and the capitalists wanted to install new personnel, which has turned out to be a total failure for them once again. The irony is that during the 1980’s several assassinations of highly militant PLO figures were carried out by Mossad in the close proximity of Arafat, always leaving him untouched. This time the capitalists sacrificed him.
It is true that the Syrian leaders are completely opportunist and have worked closely with both the U.S. and Israel. The Syrians have and will continue to torture absolutely anybody the U.S. sends them through their so-called "Extraordinary Rendition” Torture Program, which incidentally is not extraordinary for the capitalists but routine and an everyday event. But Syria would have NO MOTIVE whatsoever to assassinate Hariri! Only the United States and Israeli, the puppet of U.S.-led world imperialism, and Mahmoud Abbas have the motive! The motive of the Hariri assassination was 1.) to generate the pretext to pressure Syria to withdraw from Lebanon—which was the almost immediate result and 2.) to supply the pretext to try to overthrow the Baath Socialist Party-led government of Syria! Syria has a socialist system, which provides full employment, no homelessness, free education to the highest level and free medical and dental just like Iraq used to have, all of which is unavailable in the United States! The capitalists want to get rid of it and institute so-called “freedom and democracy,” which under capitalism have become euphemisms for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement. Just like in Iraq and everywhere else, including the U.S.A.! Long and convoluted articles based on CIA files, e.g. the November 3, 2005 article in the New York Times demonstrate how determined the capitalists are to try to undermine the Syrian Baath Socialist government and falsely implicate Bashir al-Assad, a former ophthalmologist as supposedly having given the order to assassinate Hariri! But Hariri had already resigned from the government when he was assassinated! If the Syrians hated him so much they would have assassinated him while he was in office. The reason that he was assassinated after he left office rather than when he was in office and presumably more of a “threat”, which he never really was, was that such a provocation simply did not occur to U.S. and Israel earlier. The truth is that Hariri never ever had a majority support for his anti-Syrian position! Not even close! Not even after he was assassinated! Not even now! Syria has supported Hezbollah, whose defensive attacks against the illegal Israeli occupation of Lebanon, forced Israel to finally pull out of Lebanon and all the Lebanese know it! The U.S.-directed Mossad is widely recognized and understood to be the assassin of Hariri and Arafat, etc. throughout the Mideast! It’s time to wake up here in the USA!
To assassinate Hariri the U.S. directed Israeli Mossad assassins used a huge truck bomb, which they drove through Syria, or assembled in Syria, and painstakingly filmed leaving Syria and driving all through Lebanon and Beirut before being blown up, where it was also filmed at the point of detonation! It is not credible that surveillance cameras would be so strategically placed to document this event so precisely unless it had been planned in advance. This is very similar to the video that was made of “the first AIDS ‘Typhoid Mary’” (so-called patient 0) where the capitalists deliberately infected a promiscuous male airline steward through his “doctor” with the AIDS virus then followed him, videotaping him going from one assignation to another unknowingly spreading AIDS. But what these Biowarfare enthusiasts, who could not have made the film for any other reason than to document their Biological Warfare handiwork, did not realize was that the film actually implicated those who made it. The questions immediately arose: 1.How did the video tapers know that person had AIDS? 2.) Why didn’t they stop him? The same thing applies with the film of the Hariri truck bomb.
Instead the United States has ordered its United Nations puppet leadership to begin a phony “investigation,” which has been authorized by the Security Council! The only problem is that the capitalists currently have only one “witness.” (Of course more can be manufactured if necessary!) The witness, Hossam Taher Hossam, who identified himself to the UN inquiry as a former Syrian intelligence officer, alleged in a 75-minute interview on November 27, 2005 that Hariri’s son, Saad Hariri, met him several months ago and offered him $1.3 million to testify against top Syrian officials. But the question of credible motive and who only benefits from such assassinations—the United States and its cat’s paw Israel—is never raised in this brazen provocation. The capitalists are running totally amok! Everything the capitalists attempt turns into a fiasco. On June 28, 2006 the U.S. ordered its Proxy Zionist Army of Israel to buzz the Syrian coast and the house of Syrian leader Bashir al-Assad while threatening to attack Syria on the pretext that the exiled supreme leader of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, living in Syria ordered the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier! Right! This was carried out while the U.S. Zionist Proxy State of Israel was invading Gaza under the laughably fraudulent pretext of trying to “rescue the kidnapped murderer Israeli soldier,” for whom they do not give a damn, and relentlessly bombing and shelling Gaza population centers and torturing the population all night with sonic booms in order to deprive them of sleep just like they torture prisoners in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, all in direct violation of International Law, just exactly like its U.S. master who writes Torture Memorandums and gives virtually all the orders. The U.S. and its Zionist Proxy State of Israel also wage economic war against Hamas by having Israel collect $55 million in taxes from the Palestinians and then refusing to turn the money over to the Palestinians to run their government because they do not really believe in democracy when the masses choose to elect Hamas. They actually thought that they might be able to impose the election of Fatah on the Palestinians after it was taken over by U.S./Israeli Puppet Mahmoud Abbas after he was nice enough to help poison Arafat! The U.S. Israeli Proxy State has even pledged to bomb the infrastructure of Lebanon back to the Stone Age, while they threaten to invade Syria! All completely authorized by their master the USA! This was precisely the policy of the U.S. in Vietnam! This is why in order for there to be a genuine solution in the Middle East there first must be a Socialist Revolution in the United States!
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Was a “Queen Sacrifice” Carried Out by
the Israeli Government, under Authorization From its United States Master, in Order to Increase Support Among Israelis for the Oslo Peace Accords in 1995
But Was Gratuitously Sabotaged by Likud-directed Shin Bet!
In 1995 support for the Oslo Peace Accords was substantial among Palestinians because it represented a better situation than they had, but Israel was split right down the middle with supporters versus opponents. Because the Mideast and the Oslo Accords were so important to the United States, Israel and the entire capitalist world, both politically and economically, potentially opening up an area which had been shunned by big investors because of the Intifada and constant threat of suicide bombings, the capitalists decided to carry out what is known in politics and chess as a Queen Sacrifice in order to increase support for the Oslo accords among the Israelis. At a rally in support of the Oslo Accords on November 4, 1995, members of the Israeli security forces deliberately allowed a Zionist fanatic, Yigal Amir, to breach security around Rabin as the rally ended and Rabin was on his way to his car. (In this respect the Rabin assassination was very similar to the 9/11 Trade Center Attack, which was also a government-facilitated provocation, where the Bush Regime deliberately opened the door to the Islamic Fundamentalists to permit them to obtain flight training for jumbo jets in the face of local FBI protests [see above] and kept the Air Force jet interceptors grounded for over an hour in order to permit the 9/11 Attack to be successfully carried out.) After the Rabin assassination support for the Oslo Accords among Israelis increased to over 71%!
The assassination of Rabin appeared to be a “success!” But shortly thereafter on January 5, 1996, the head of Shin Bet, Avi Dichter, known up to that time only as “Kaf,” under pressure from the fanatical Zionist Likud Party and acting against the objectives of the United States and its puppet Israeli government, gratuitously assassinated the chief Hamas suicide bomb maker, Yehiya Ayash, in the Gaza Strip by planting a radio-controlled bomb in his cell phone. But Yehiya Ayash had had no business for years! Ayash was no longer a viable threat because nobody wanted to volunteer for suicide bombing against Israel and in fact there had not been any suicide bombing in Israel for several years after the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords, which stood to improve the situation for Palestinians living in Occupied Palestine. Support for the Oslo Accord was also at an all time high among Israelis after the “successful” Queen Sacrifice of Rabin. Avi Dichter was a literal example of a loose cannon and his motive was clear as crystal! The Israeli government and the United States were furious! The Shin Bet Chief “Kaf’s” offer of resignation was accepted several days after he ordered the assassination of Ayash. Previously “Kaf’s” pro forma offers of resignation after the carefully planned Rabin assassination were turned down by Peres, who was also part of the Rabin assassination, which briefly advanced Israeli interests! In order to expose “Kaf” for acting against Israeli and U.S. interests, the new Shin Bet Chief, Ami Ayalon, former Rear Admiral in the Israeli Navy agreed to openly accept the position as the new Shin Bet Chief one week after the Shin Bet assassination of Ayash, allowing his name to be known for the first time as the new Shin Bet Chief in order to permit the Israeli government to be able to then reveal the name of his trouble-maker predecessor, “Kaf,” who was Avi Dichter, who would no longer enjoy the government security he had while head of Shin Bet!
It was a completely new precedent in Israeli politics to announce the name of the head of Shin Bet, and was designed to jeopardize the security of those Zionist fanatics who would act independently against Israeli interests and U.S. interests. (Yigal Amir, the Zionist fanatic who assassinated Rabin was manipulated to advance U.S. and Israeli interests.) The assassination of Yehiya Ayash of Hamas was a deliberately calculated provocation by Likud to sabotage support for the the Oslo Accords among Israelis by providing the pretext for retaliatory suicide bombing by Hamas and other Islamic Fundamentalist groups, which began immediately after the assassination and has continued ever since right up to the present moment. On September 28, 2000 Ariel Sharon went onto the Temple Mount, Al Haram ash-Sharif in Arabic, as a deliberate provocation, after the Camp David negotiations broke up earlier on July 5th, in order to incite the Palestinians and start up a Second Intifada, which was used to further crush and oppress the Palestinians and to try to force them into submission. This has continued despite the fact that Likud Chief Sharon before his stroke agreed to U.S. demands to withdraw from Gaza and try to give the appearance of supporting a “Two State Solution” with the Palestinians, where the Palestinians would in practice remain under the jackboot of the Israeli Fascists behind the Israeli Apartheid Wall, which is three times as long and twice as high as the Berlin Wall, and where the huge Israeli West Bank settlements, which are designed to incorporate valuable land and resources of the West Bank into so-called “Israel,” are left mostly intact, and the Palestinians are left in a few nonviable Bantustans, which the US and Israel try to call “a state for the Palestinians!” The Israeli Apartheid Wall is 25 ft. high, presently 216 miles long and counting, with 95-315 ft. of buffer zone with electric fence, trenches, cameras and security patrols, which according to the new acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, of the new so-called “centrist” Kadima Party, will form the basis of the permanent boundary between “Israel” and a proposed Palestinian State! While this may have represented a bargaining chip to cause Hamas to recognize Israel (which it now has by establishing a national unity government with Arafat assassin Mahmoud Abbas thus implicitly recognizing Israel), there is no real possibility that Israel will ever dismantle it. The Israeli Apartheid Wall represents the hardening dictatorship of U.S. capitalism in the Mideast.
The Only Solution for the Middle East is One Secular
State Of Palestine which has as its Pre-Condition:
Socialist Revolution in the United States!
The only solution which could ever succeed on a long term basis is a One Secular State Solution which is neither a Zionist state nor an Islamic state. This can only come about after a Socialist Revolution here in the United States and will automatically be one of the immediate outcomes of that Socialist Revolution. This fact should be made widely known to all Jews and all Moslems. There can be no oppression of Palestinians and there can be no oppression of Jews. Zionism—Jewish nationalism—has no place in a peaceful future in the Mideast and neither do Islamic Fundamentalist States, both of which represent reaction not progress. The Jewish people have always had a progressive history up until World War II and the Holocaust. Two-thirds of the leadership of the Russian Revolution was Jewish! In Europe Jews followed Communists and Social Democrats—NOT Zionists. In Germany the Zionists only got about 5% of the Jewish vote, while in Poland it was higher, up to 35%, due to the capitalists’ barrage of anti-Soviet anti-Communist propaganda because of its proximity to the Soviet Union. The Jewish people had its Communist and progressive leadership beheaded in the Holocaust along with the 6 million Jews murdered by Hitler, who also murdered 27 million Soviet citizens and millions of others, 57 million in WWII. After the Holocaust, reactionary and Fascist Zionists, some who had actually made agreements with Hitler, were insinuated into leadership positions among the Holocaust Survivors, whose first choice was to emigrate to the United States and Great Britain. Both countries turned down the Survivors, prevented their entry and directed them to Palestine, where the capitalists helped them set up the Zionist entity “Israel” as a garrison proxy state to protect U.S. and British imperialist oil interests. As mentioned, Israel is not formally even a state because it is economically, politically, diplomatically and militarily dependent on the United States. If this support were withdrawn Israel would collapse like a house of cards. Israel’s 200 plus nuclear weapons at Damona would be of no help to the Zionist criminals without oil.
The Kibbutzim Are A Total Deception and a
Means of Neutralizing Potential Communists!
Jewish people worldwide and Israelis alike must organize themselves against Zionism and for a Socialist Revolution. Israel plays another little number on its citizens many of whom aspire to Socialism and would like to think of themselves as progressive. Israel runs a network of 270 Kibbutzim, which are communal settlements supposedly based on the principle of joint ownership of property, equality and cooperation of production, consumption and education; the fulfillment of the idea "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." But the reality is that they do not represent Socialism at all in any way and cannot because they exist within a capitalist dictatorship and function to help maintain that dictatorship. This is an example of the dialectical contradiction of form and essence. The Kibbutzim are a just a trick, a deception used to exhaust progressive-minded people and to isolate potential Communists away from main population centers and to exploit the labor of about 130,000 Israelis who supply and help maintain the Imperialist-cat’s paw of the United States—“Israel”—in its permanent war against the Palestinians and the other Mideast countries. At age 18 all members of the Kibbutzim all must serve in the Israel army, 3 years for men and 21 months for women, and for each year thereafter until age 51 men must serve 39 days each year in the army, while those who have seen combat are allowed to stop after age 45. Thus there are no “innocent Israeli citizens” unless they are in the process of organizing a mutiny in the Israeli puppet army. Unless the Israeli people carry out a mutiny the reality is that every child in Israel will grow up brainwashed and be organized to kill, torture and oppress Palestinians. Only a Socialist Revolution in the United States can bring this to an end. It’s pre-condition is mutiny in all the armed forces of the capitalist countries!
Capitalism Poses A Direct and Immediate
Danger to All Life on Earth! The Runaway
Greenhouse Effect Has Already Begun!
The Runaway Greenhouse Effect has already begun! This is not a joke and is not something which might occur in the distant future. It is no longer simply a matter of Global Warming or euphemistically described “climate change” that we have to contend with, but the beginning of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect. Professional climatologists risk losing their jobs if they reveal the rapidly approaching reality. The vast majority of them must lie to keep their jobs! Nevertheless, according to the latest published results in the October 11, 2004 British Guardian, which were just blipped in the media, for the last 3 years the CO2 level for the first time has begun to rise in an accelerated fashion indicating that a Runaway Greenhouse Effect has already begun. Ethical and Honest (bucking the trend!) scientists, at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory reported that average CO2 levels increased by 2.08 ppm in 2002, to 373.1 ppm, and by 2.54 ppm in 2003, to an average of 375.64 ppm. This is the first recorded example of the average CO2 level jumping more than 2 ppm in two consecutive years. See: British Guardian, Oct 11, 2004. It became three consecutive years in 2005 when the Associated Press reported on March 20th that scientists at Mauna Loa Observatory had recorded the atmospheric CO2 level peaked at a record of 379 ppm! The apparent significance of this newly observed increase in atmospheric CO2 levels is that the CO2 reservoirs, namely the rain forests and oceans, are now exhausted and from this point on the atmospheric CO2 level will start to increase in an exponential fashion.
U.S.-led world capitalism-imperialism is controlled by the oil industry and the military industrial complex and cannot reform itself. While falsely claiming to be in favor of alternative energy, for example the Bush Regime cut money for alternative energy in 2005 by 50%! A real solution, which cannot take place under capitalism, and can only take place under a new system based on human need not private profit—after a Socialist Revolution in the United States—would include: 1.) Beginning to introduce realistic large-scale alternative energy sources like Tidal Power and certain large hydroelectric sources such as the world’s largest waterfalls. This can and must be done on a large scale to the degree where fossil fuels no longer supply the majority of the power for residential and business needs and the world’s dependency on fossil fuels actually ends and 2.) Ending completely the deforestation and destruction of the rainforests which trap much of the Earth’s CO2 in vegetation and planting new forests. Although China, under pressure to compete with the capitalist countries, has added substantially to global air pollution and the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, due to its burning of coal for power, is making every effort to switch to clean energy technologies such as hydroelectric power with the Three Gorges Dam and Tidal Power. But China, a Workers’ State, based on human need not private profit, despite doing business with the capitalists on a massive scale, a policy which Lenin himself recommended, has led the world and reversed Asia’s net loss of 3000 square miles a year of forests from the 1990’s to a net gain of 4000 square miles since 2000. China’s yearly loss of 950 sq. miles to the Gobi desert is to be stopped by the “Green Great Wall”- a 2,800-mile network of forest belts designed "terminate expansion of new desertification caused by human factors" within a decade as reported to the United Nations. By 2050, China believes that much of the arid land can be restored to a productive and sustainable state. Possibly the largest proposed ecological project in history, the Great Green Wall calls for planting more than 9 million acres of forest at a cost of up to $8 billion. Those interested in reversing the Runaway Greenhouse—and we must make every effort—should research the details of the Great Green Wall which are available on the Internet. But the capitalists on the other hand do nothing to reverse the situation of the worldwide loss of vegetation—just the opposite! This is because of the one-way internal dynamic of capitalism, which is largely independent of the wills of the individual capitalists and politicians which make it up.
That dynamic leads inexorably to a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship finally ending in Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization. Today, the capitalists rule essentially by decree in a form of bureaucratic, military-police dictatorship (technically designated Bonapartism) where the un-elected Fascist usurper Bush now openly attaches a Signing Statement to the bottom of any legislation which he signs, stating that the Executive Branch of government can interpret the legislation in any way it sees fit! (New York Times, January 16. 2006. p. A11.) Bush has already issued 100 “Signing Statements.” This is the reason that Bush has not had to issue a single veto since usurping office. (New York Times lead editorial, May 5, 2006.) The capitalists are powerless to control the hardening dynamic of capitalism. The system controls the capitalists; the capitalists do not control the system. Capitalism generates the scum and the scoundrels such as Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, the Clintons, the Bloombergs, the Ferrers, the Sharptons, the Spitzers (the liberal who called for the decertification of TWU Local 100!) etc., who rise to the surface to the extent which they express the dynamic and further the dynamic of capitalism.
Republicans as well as Democrats cover up their role in Rule By Decree by the Executive branch: “The inherent power (of the executive) argument, if you take it to the natural conclusion, there is no role for Congress in a time of war.” New York Times, February 10, 2006. “Time of war?” This statement by Lindsey Graham covers up the fact that Congress rubber stamps virtually all decrees by the dictatorship, of which it forms an integral part and which can now be completely overridden in practice with the signing statements! Capitalism cannot be reformed through elections, “voting reform” or in any other way. In fact today the word “reform” is simply a nebulous sounding codeword, like Gorbachev’s “Perestroika,” generally used by the capitalists with the understood meaning to be an attack on the Working Class, middle-income earners and the Poor. So-called “Social Security Reform” is just one example. (See below.) It is absolutely vital that we establish a new economic-political-social system based on human need not private profit. That system is Socialism and it cannot be “elected” under capitalism. That can only come about through a Socialist Revolution here in the United States, where the capitalists are relieved of their ownership of the military—first and foremost, the means of production, the factories, the land, the banks, the media, the educational system and the entire political process. Possession or acquisition of huge material wealth by the few automatically means misery, poverty, exploitation and super-exploitation of the masses, the overwhelming majority. Today the main topic of conversation and focus among progressive people must be the strategy, tactics and technical means of achieving a Socialist Revolution in the United States, not “brainstorming” to reform capitalism or begging the capitalist tyranny to please be nice and “Bring Home The Troops” as they tighten the screws on their dictatorship by the day. See below.
Capitalism Cannot Reverse Fossil Fuels Global Warming nor
The Runaway Greenhouse Effect Which Has Now Begun!
The most important potential alternative power is tidal power from the oceans and hydroelectric power from huge waterfalls such as the Kaieture Falls in Guyana with a total drop of 822 feet (5 times the drop of Niagara Falls) and Victoria Falls in Africa the largest waterfalls in the world. The Niagara Falls Region is the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world. Half of the flow of the St. Lawrence River is diverted by Canada and the U.S. for hydroelectric power, to complaints from those who might prefer to see nuclear power plants (!) or no plants at all—the reactionary anti-technology movement. While there has been some hydroelectric power development of Victoria Falls by Zambia the oil industry has suppressed hydroelectric power development of Kaieture Falls. Instead of development of realistic alternative sources of energy the capitalists and their media mouthpieces are calling for more fossil fuel development, falsely equating oil with “energy,” using the two terms interchangeably and pushing nuclear power once again which permanently pollutes and poisons the environment. The so-called “environmental groups” such as the Greens, Greenpeace, Sierra Club etc., which are part of the group of government-controlled fake “opposition” single-issue groups, and also the fake “left” groups along with Al Gore, also suppress this information about Tidal Power and encourage a reformist approach of conservation of fossil fuel usage or push other alternative energy sources which are either impractical on a large scale or are calculated to fail on some other basis. Nevertheless, a few tidal power plants already exist in England, France, the former USSR and China. More must be built rapidly in all countries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres which have tides.
The Kaieture Falls alone has been estimated to be able to produce enough energy to supply all industrial and residential needs of North America and South America combined! And Victoria Falls in Africa is the largest waterfalls in the world! Kaieture Falls are completely ignored and Victoria falls are not fully utilized because of the threat to the oil industry. The capitalists cover up the potential energy of tidal power and pretend to embrace alternative energy by hyping wind power because it is much more inefficient, generates a much smaller amount of power than tidal power and thus poses no real threat to fossil fuels! For example, at this moment the capitalists are planning to install 24 square miles of huge inefficient ugly wind turbines (an area the size of Manhattan) 5 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, which will generate 75% of power for those living nearby—when the wind blows, but that represents only 1% of total energy of the state of Massachusetts! In Maine wind power is also being pushed by the logging industry because it will extend existing logging roads and create new ones and industrialize the Maine Woods! Tidal power, which produces cheap, predictable energy, works 24/7, does not require nearly as many generating stations as wind power and is 3 to 4 times as efficient as nuclear power!! Wind power should only be resorted to as a last resort in areas where there are no tides. Near the equator solar power would be most appropriate. Proper use of tidal power and hydroelectric power would produce so much power that even central areas of continents could also be supplied. Isn’t it interesting that Tidal Power is never ever mentioned! The silence of the fake left and phony environmentalist groups on tidal power is deafening! For Tidal Power see: www.tidalelectric.com.
The Sierra Club is one of several government-operated, anti-Communist single-issue environmentalist groups. It has attracted a large membership and also sponsors hikes and activities to help control environmental issues for the capitalists. In its newspaper Sierra Atlantic, Vol. 33, Summer 2006, the Sierra Club, has a huge long article on Wind Power but deliberately omits any mention of Tidal Power as a much more efficient alternative energy source anywhere in the whole issue, an indefensible omission, and totally disingenuously concludes: “But simply hearing the arguments may help each of us to understand and re-examine our own prejudices (!), enabling us to come to the most reasonable and dispassionate decision we can make, one which will have a meaningful impact on our future.” This after they omit any mention of Tidal Power! You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing today! To put this in perspective as to the capitalists true priorities and who is really running things, the capitalists have responded to the huge increase in oil company profits due to the recent increase in the price of oil and deliberate gauging at the pump by awarding the oil companies a huge $28 billion rip-off by suspending royalties paid to the U.S. government from oil drilled in federal territory!
The Runaway Greenhouse Effect has already occurred on Venus where all the CO2 is found in the 932 degrees Fahrenheit (500 degrees Centigrade) atmosphere. The water in the oceans of Venus, which were nearly the size of the oceans on Earth, all evaporated because of the heat generated by the 30% more sunlight Venus receives than Earth. The evaporating oceans finally boiled away completely after the temperature reached a measly 212 degrees Fahrenheit—on its way to 932 degrees Fahrenheit. Once in the upper atmosphere ultraviolet radiation broke the H20 apart into hydrogen, which disappeared into space and oxygen which reacted with minerals on the surface and also disappeared from the atmosphere. Life did not evolve on Venus with the consequence that there was no plant life to absorb the gradual build-up of CO2 from volcanoes, which eventually formed the thick primarily CO2 atmosphere which exists on Venus today. On Earth the CO2 which was released through volcanoes went into evolving vegetation and animal life, which over hundreds of millions of years became the fossil fuels. Today the frenzied burning of those fossil fuels has resulted in having the huge amount of CO2 stored in them being released all at once into the atmosphere. The Earth’s carbon sinks, the Earth’s natural storage mechanisms for CO2—the rain forests other vegetation and the oceans—have a limit and are now overwhelmed. As occurred on Venus billions of years ago, that process now appears to have reached the stage of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect here on Earth. Without a Socialist Revolution here in the United States, which is the only possible way to still reverse that process, the situation on Venus today is the future of the Earth in the not so distant future. We are presently experiencing the beginning of that future. Life on Earth will become totally unlivable far before we arrive at the situation existing on Venus today. The temperature on Earth does not have to rise very much to destroy all life. This is the reality which fake “opposition” figures such as James Hansen and Al Gore deliberately hide, while they attempt to control the issue. (See below.) In the 1951 science fiction/political film, The Day The Earth Stood Still, the Earth was visited by people in a flying saucer from a more advanced civilization which delivered an ultimatum at the end: “It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.” The result of Earth being reduced to a burned out cinder is clearly not limited to war and peace or nuclear war in particular. Although it goes without saying that capitalism-imperialism, due to its internal dynamic as explained herein, automatically extends violence everywhere and even to outer space with its Star Wars Program, etc. (which has thankfully not yet been realized in practice), capitalism has also extended its maximum violence to the environment. The environmental reality, not science fiction, is that with the onset of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect the Earth is now on course to become a burned out cinder like Venus! Only a Socialist Revolution can avert this catastrophe!
The falsely labeled “Archaea” bacteria, tube worms, which evolved to live at temperatures of up to 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and the hyperthermophilic bacteria, which have evolved to live at water temperatures of up to 239 degrees Fahrenheit will be the last life on Earth. (Incidentally, Archaea was falsely labeled in order to spread confusion in science and to try to undermine in one blow both Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and the irrefutable Primordial Soup Theory of Stanley Miller and Harold Urey of 1953, who demonstrated that the basic building blocks of life nucleic acids, amino acids and carboxylic acids are produced by running electrical sparks simulating lightning through the original reducing atmosphere of Earth composed of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water.) Today basic medicine, science including climatology, astrophysics and even both Einstein’s Special Theory and General Theory of relativity are brazenly and routinely falsified at the direction of Fascist elements for political/religious reasons. These scientifically fabricated and bizarre distortions are mixed in with some actual science and are passed of as “the new science” in exhaustive falsifications lasting for hours on NOVA and FRONTLINE! Can you say Total Brainwash of the youth? Not to mention the adult population! The widespread genuine academic opposition to these wide-scale falsifications of science is never given equal time!
Targeted is the actual age of the Universe and the infinite cycle of a Big Bang followed by a Big Crunch, meaning a closed rather than an open universe, which does not fit with the religious brainwash of a single creation and belief in a supernatural fictitious “god.” (The statecraft of capitalism’s dependence on religion and belief in “god” and other superstition is exposed further below.) The reality is that the process of contraction of the Universe begins soon after the Big Bang, which begins the process of expansion. The process of contraction begins with the first condensations of gas after the Big Bang. At first the process of expansion is dominant but the processes of expansion and contraction exist simultaneously from shortly after the Big Bang until finally the process of contraction becomes dominant and all galactic matter is finally drawn into super massive Black Holes which today form the centers of all older elliptical galaxies. These Black Holes finally link up all existing matter finally at one spot at which time critical mass in the true and ultimate sense is reached for another Big Bang Cycle. This is one more glaring example of the Law of Unity of Opposites and the correctness of the scientific philosophy of Dialectical and Historical Materialism as opposed to the philosophies of Idealism, which are the only philosophies permitted to be seriously taught in U.S. colleges and universities. See further below! This is what the “Key Project” led by Wendy Freedman was designed to cover up! There is no “Dark Energy” and the Universe has not suddenly increased its rate of expansion. Just the opposite! The rate of expansion of the Universe has slowed! All previous studies have indicated that is the case. The universe is not open. It is closed. There are no “worm holes.” There are no “strings.” “String theory” is a mathematical attempt to try to refute and supplant, not explain, the actual physics of quantum mechanics! The reality is that most of the universe is relatively uniform in its development except where there are still huge clouds of gas and where there are huge accumulations of matter such as the Great Wall of galaxies. The Big Crunch will arrive on schedule and another universe will begin! Einstein once said that a theory of the universe should be both simple and elegant. He would definitely be rolling over in his grave if he were made aware of today’s totally contrived “science.” But back to the here and now!
Runaway Greenhouse Effect means just what it says! Feedbacks have already begun to kick in which constantly accelerate it. For example, because the Polar Ice Cap has virtually all melted there is a lot less white ice which used to reflect the sun’s rays back into space. The ocean water which has taken the place of the polar ice is much darker and absorbs much more heat from the sun, according to recent front page reports in the New York Times. French TV News recently reported scientists’ observation that the droughts, which have occurred during the summer months for the last several years have substantially decreased the amount of vegetation in France and Europe. Vegetation binds CO2 and removes it from the atmosphere. But the capitalists simply lie about the extent of the disaster or deny it and pretend to go through the motions of dealing with it, because capitalism simply cannot deal with it. Articles are written expressly to disavow the truth and to keep the masses confused, because a confused person cannot act. For example, an article in the New York Times, Nov 2, 2005 entitled: “Climate Study Warns of Warming and Losses of Arctic Tundra,” cites an article in the co-called “The Journal of Climate.” The authors, from the Carnegie Institution and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the leading center for the development of the crazed First-Strike Star Wars weapons systems under Reagan (and now Bush) hide the actual atmospheric CO2 levels and present a deliberately false admittedly “simulated study” where “the CO2 level rises only about 0.45 % a year through 2300,” then the authors falsely “acknowledge” (!?) that value is “slightly less than the current rate, about 0.5 % (!).” Which is another Big Lie! As if the above-reported values in the October 11, 2004 British Guardian, which document that for the last 3 years the CO2 in the atmospheric has no longer been increasing additively but is now beginning to increase exponentially, simply do not exist!
The Times article concludes with the deliberately disingenuous Earth shaking observation: “The question is no longer whether we will need to address this problem, but when we will have to address the problem.” (Gosh, do you think so, really?) This fraudulent (cover-up) “finding” supports the policy of the capitalists’ regime to do nothing, and once again represents the destructive driving force of the dynamic of the capitalist system itself. Particularly sickening and irresponsible are the weather reporters on radio and television who have been instructed to react to the extremely warm weather in the winter and the characteristic extremes in weather conditions, which herald the Fossil Fuels Global Warming and the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, by covering it up, laughingly commenting among themselves and congratulating each other saying how wonderful it is to have such “nice warm days,” never making the sobering connection that the “nice warm weather” we are experiencing is caused by the very same process that caused Hurricane Katrina, Rita and Wilma, and drawing the inescapable conclusion we are experiencing the beginning of the greatest disaster for humankind and all life on Earth, a disaster which will likely effect the lives of all of us if it hasn’t already, a disaster which we can avert only if we begin to organize a Socialist Revolution here in the United States. Why should we continue to agree to leave our lives in the hands of capitalist tyranny which is dragging us to disaster?
The recent hurricanes such as Katrina, Rita and Wilma are just the beginning. The situation will arise in the not too distant future where the entire southern coast of the United States becomes basically uninhabitable. The U.S. Government knows this very well. The huge war budget of almost $500 billion combined with the goal of diverting all possible monies from social spending in order to reduce the population through Social Darwinism are the real reasons why the capitalists refuse to protect New Orleans and other areas on the Gulf Coast by designing a Levee System to withstand Category 3 hurricanes—not Category 5 Hurricanes, which are the new reality! A brazen set-up to ensure future mass murder using the weather to achieve their goals! What a joke! Bad joke on us! This key fact is completely covered up in the phony government reports on Hurricane Katrina pathetically labeled The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina, Lesson Learned. Even the interim report by the Army Corps of Engineers by the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force covered up the key facts, a cover-up which will result in many repeats of Hurricane Katrina in years to come. The final report of the Army Corps of Engineers released on June 1, 2006 took responsibility but simultaneously falsely absolved the Corps and the U.S. government of all blame claiming that there had been no neglect or malfeasance even while admitting that it had ignored repeated warnings from multiple sources about the inadequacy of the deliberately poor quality levees it had built in order to save money. (!) (New York Times, June 2, 2006.) The report now being praised as a mea culpa is rife with phony excuses that “the corps has trouble keeping up with the fast changing world of geotechnical engineering” and was released as sections of the levees now being rebuilt are now falling apart because of the very same “design failures.” (Ibid.) The Corps of Engineers has no intention whatsoever of designing the levees to withstand a Category 5 Hurricane and is presently only going through the motions of “protecting New Orleans.”
Although the capitalists have reported that 2005 was the hottest year on record since instrumental measurement of temperatures began to be recorded in the 1860’s and are forced to admit that there were more hurricanes (26) in 2005 than in any year since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began keeping records in the mid 1880’s, they falsely state that it is only “a cycle of frenetic hurricane activity which started a decade ago, and which could last up to 40 years, (?)” with the implication that things will get better after 40 years!? Right! See New York Times, November 11, 2005. The so-called El Nino weather patterns, which are an unusual rise in sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, function as a kind of temperature release valve whereby the heat which winds up in the ocean currents and weather systems is released in increased rainfall across the southern tier of the US and in Peru. Previously El Nino has caused destructive flooding, and drought in the West Pacific and devastating brush fires in Australia. Although the number of El Nino weather patterns has increased with the Global Warming, they have not been able to reduce the water temperature back to normal! An increased number of hurricanes of increasing severity has been the result of this increased ocean temperature which can no longer be reduced through the El Nino temperature release valve. This is a result of the beginning of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect and more confirmation that it has begun!
The capitalists’ phony “experts” and media army of professional liars cover up the fact that the Runaway Greenhouse Effect has begun and that capitalism has no intention of doing anything which could possibly reverse it. One quarter of U.S. imports and exports pass through the Gulf States and one quarter of oil refining has also taken place in the Gulf States, to say nothing of the drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The capitalists’ response to the renewed focus on “Global Warming” after these hurricanes has been front page articles in the New York Times which point to the loss of ice cover in the Arctic and Greenland and bizarrely shout: “Hurray, the Global Warming has a the silver lining” and “Hints of Bonanza Beneath Arctic Ocean—A Vast source of greenhouse gases may await drilling.” (New York Times, June 1, 2006) The decreasing ice cover makes it possible to begin drilling for oil full scale in the Arctic! Isn’t that great? In addition, the capitalists have used these recent hurricane disasters as the pretext to cut social programs and escalate the economic war against their own domestic population under the fraudulent slogans of “necessity,” “shared sacrifice,” “tough love” and “tough choices!” This economic war against the U.S. population is codified in legislation such as the Deficit Reduction Act and the $2.77 Trillion Federal Budget, which makes huge cuts in Medicare and Medicaid and student loans while increasing the Department of War budget to $493 billion, not including the $120 billion for the continued invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. The capitalists’ objective as described below in more detail is to reduce the world’s population overall by bringing people to an earlier death by every means possible using every conceivable false pretext combined with denial. This Fascist policy, known as Social Darwinism, is being implemented by capitalist governments worldwide as their answer to the population explosion, and has previously relied on economic warfare, which can sometimes conveniently result in famine, and also biological warfare directed against crops and livestock and humans (as in Cuba!), but also military warfare and deliberately incited civil wars as in the former Yugoslavia and Iraq, although the Iraqis do see through this, as mentioned above, and have resisted it.
Media-Hyped NASA “Climate Expert” James Hansen is a Government-Controlled False “Opposition” Fraud Who Censors Himself, Covers Up the Reality of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect and Offers Only a Limited and False Solution to Global Warming!
In order to create a false framework of reference of protest for the issue of Global Warming, also euphemistically referred to in delicate Orwellian Newspeak as “climate change” (now the Runaway Greenhouse Effect—which U.S. government and its scientists cover up), the capitalists try to control this issue as they do all issues by putting their own personnel out in front of every issue and running their own government-controlled “opposition” figures as supposed “critics” and “skeptics” of the Regime’s policies. But this phony “opposition” never exposes the core truth that the capitalist system is fundamentally incapable of solving this problem or any major problem having to do with human need. Nor does this phony “opposition” present a practical and realistic program for the solution, even in the face of imminent catastrophe, which the overwhelming majority of scientists do agree confronts the human race as well as all life on this planet. The capitalist media have recently tried to pump up one James Hansen, longtime director of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, as a supposed “opposition” figure who is being censored by the Bush Regime and “‘threatened with dire consequen