Lieberman Head-Butts Ned Lamont? (or the tragic story of an independent, principled Democrat)

Oh my Dad is this last post unreadable

Posted by: Jesus Christ | July 11, 2006 at 03:52 PM

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.

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

Michael Phelps (update), the Beijing Olympics,
The U.S./Georgian proxy Invasion of South Ossetia,
and Prospects For a Socialist Revolution In the United States!
September 29, 2008 Update

Phelps did not win the Olympic Butterfly 100 meter final. Milorad Cavic of Serbia won the event and after the race stated that he had won the event. Cavic had already soundly beaten Phelps in the Semifinals of that event! After the race Phelps also stated that he thought he had lost. And even Phelp’s mother first acted as though she thought Phelps had lost! She appeared totally dumbfounded but accepted it! Cavic’s coach said that he would launch a protest. Serbia also “launched a protest.” Then later both the Serbian government (a U.S. proxy/puppet regime installed after the U.S./NATO-led dismemberment/ethnic cleansing of the sovereign country of Yugoslavia, where under Tito everybody lived together in peace) and Cavic and his coach both withdrew their complaints. U.S. Puppet/Proxy Serbia was clearly under extreme pressure from the United States. Serbia in turn put extreme pressure on Cavic and his coach who withdrew their complaint. The United States wanted their “Golden Boy” (Bloomberg TV, August 18, 2008), and refused to permit the reality of the loss to Cavic to spoil the headline heralding Phelps: “A PERFECT FINISH, AN UNMATCHED RECORD.” New York Times (August 17, 2008) The U.S. intends to use Phelps as part of the capitalists’ fraudulent propaganda campaign that Phelps supposedly represents “victorious capitalism” while the capitalists are in fact losing all over the world as the world enters the beginning of another Great Depression! The stock market crash of 777.65 on the Dow Jones Industrial average on Black Monday, September 29, 2008 underscores the coming reality! See below.

The FINA executive Director, Cornel Marculescu, first stated that FINA would not permit the release of the footage by Omega the official timekeeper for the Beijing Games of the finish under the phony hard-sell pretext: “We are not going to distribute the footage. We are not doing THESE KINDS OF THINGS. (!) EVERYTHING IS GOOD. (!?) What are you going to do with the footage? See what the Serbians already saw? It is clarified for us beyond any doubt. He’s the winner in any way. (?) He’s the winner no doubt. Even if you could see the pictures, I don’t know how you could use them.” And Cavic the actual winner stated: “If you ask me, it should be accepted and we should move on. I’ve accepted defeat, and there’s nothing wrong with losing to the greatest swimmer there has ever been.” (!?) (New York Times, August 17, 2008) Parentheses added. The answer to this sort of tripe is simply: “What are you afraid of? What do you have to hide from an actual frame-by-frame analysis? Except the victory of Cavic over Phelps! You sound like a liar caught in a clumsy cover-up! You don’t make decisions for me Big Brother!”

Under public Pressure FINA later was forced to release what they said were digital frame-by-frame footage of the finish which they claimed showed that Phelps had won but actually DID NOT show that Phelps had won (New York Times, August 24, 2008). The images show conclusively that Cavic touched the wall fist without a doubt! But according to Dale Neuberger, Vice President of FINA the system that determines who wins the race actually measures “the instant of depression, of activation of the touch pad, not contact with the pad.” Careful observation reveals that Cavic touched the wall first and that his elbows were slightly bent indicating that he had depressed the touch pad with sufficient pressure (only 1.5 kilograms of pressure per square centimeter, according to Neuberger) to stop the clock.

The event was apparently also not actually shown LIVE. There was on a time delay despite the LIVE claim on the TV screen. Within seconds of the finish which showed Phelps in the water after the race he was suddenly being interviewed on the tarmac! Not credible! It is very easy to rig such an event if the race is that close. The U.S. knew that it might be close because of the fact that Cavic had already beaten Phelps in the Semifinals and they could not let anything alter their propaganda use of Phelps in order to try to improve the depraved image of the U.S. The reality, of course is that the United States is the most hated and despised country in the world. The majority of the world’s citizens recognize that the United States, which reflects the naked dynamic of capitalism, as the source of all war as well as all economic disparity. A software program can be easily written to cover all eventualities in such a situation where the finish of the 100-meter Fly was expected to be very close. The U.S. government can and does routinely hack computers of their adversaries and send computer viruses which completely destroy their adversaries’ hard drives and the entire computer, for example, and more (e.g. monitors by overloading them and simultaneously corrupting multiple Debit Card accounts with Dell Computer and Paypal, for example), as this writer and his roommate have experienced firsthand. The bottom line for this particular computer program, which undoubtedly gave Phelps his false “victory” was that unless Cavic won by a clearly visible margin he would “lose” in a very close race, even if he actually won! And that is exactly what happened!! The 2 electronic touch pads on the walls of the pool can be reversed in their polarity in a digital twinkling, so that even if Cavic touched the wall first it would simply register as Phelps touching the wall. Because if you look closely in that part of the replay which was permitted directly after the race and the images which were later release and printed in the New York Times (see above) it is quite clear that is what happened. Phelps lost! And he and the majority of viewers, including his own mother, knew that he lost! But he was very happy to accept the false victory! It should be recalled that with the Zapruder film of the JFK Assassination the “commentator” Dan Rather lied about what it showed, falsely stating that Kennedy’s head flew backwards due to totally fabricated so-called “jet effect” violating all laws of physics in response to a supposed bullet fired from behind him, when in fact JFK was hit only by 2 shots both fired from the front. One went through his tie knot and the other was the Dum-Dum bullet that hit him in the right forehead and killed him instantly. (Writer is the number one authority on JFK assassination who gave the keynote talk on JFK at Ethical Culture Society on November 12, 1975, twelfth anniversary of JFK Assassination, but who is not permitted to speak on anti-Communist WBAI radio on any topic!)

Both Serbia and the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) went along with the fraudulent Phelps’ “victory” in the 100-meter Fly because of political pressure from the United States. China was indubitably blackmailed and threatened that unless they went along with the crime the U.S. would push the age issue with the clearly underage Chinese girl gymnasts and take away their Olympic Team gold medal. Humiliation the Chinese did not want to accept! This is also the reason that the PRC went along with the U.S. all around victory in girls’ gymnastics which was accomplished by U.S. puppet judges grossly inflating the level of difficulty and execution by the U.S. and doing the reverse and chiseling big-time the level of difficulty and the execution of the vastly superior Chinese girl gymnasts. Shawn Johnson for example, was permitted to usurp second place in the all-around title after putting in very simple routines in the uneven bars and balance beam even though she won the event on an individual basis later. Even in the floor exercise Johnson’s level of difficulty and execution were pumped up like a balloon while the Chinese gymnasts routines were falsely downgraded. This modus operandi occurred over and over!

Although it made a pro forma protest against the U.S.-instigated “independence” of Kosovo, the Serbian government is a U.S. puppet/virtual proxy state which was installed after the U.S. division of Yugoslavia, a country where under Marshall Tito everyone got along. Serbia is a U.S. puppet just like the government of Georgia, which was incidentally authorized and directed by the U.S. to invade South Ossetia and now falsely denies it. In July 2008 Kindasleezy Rice standing beside Saakashvilli in Tbilisi, offered encouragement to Saakashvilli similar to that given to the later-sacrificed Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990 by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, to invade Kuwait.

Glaspie suckered Saddam Hussein by giving him the green light to invade Kuwait by telling him: “We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait.” (New York Times, 9/23/90)). In 1989-1990 the United States carried out a carefully planned provocation, which Saddam fell for hook line and sinker. The U.S apparently guaranteeing Kuwait its protection, instructed Kuwait to drill long slanted wells under the Iraq-Kuwait border where the Rumaila Iraqi oil field juts somewhat into Kuwait, thus stealing Iraqi oil and also draining off the natural gas pressure which had forced the oil naturally and easily up to the surface. Then to drive the provocation home, Kuwait, fully authorized by the U.S. and believing that it had protection from the United States, began overproducing and selling their stolen Iraqi oil at far below the OPEC price thus also waging direct economic war against Iraq and the rest of OPEC! (Iraq’s oil revenues at that time dropped $1 billion for every drop of a dollar in the price of crude oil.) Even after the 1990 July 12th OPEC meeting both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates refused to abide by the OPEC agreement, which allowed them to sell slightly below the OPEC price and continued to sell crude oil far below the agreed price! Iraq was thus provoked and then over-provoked into invading ALL of Kuwait, which they would have to do in order to overthrow the Kuwaiti government, which was merely carrying out U.S. orders for provoking Iraq. Invading all of Kuwait was necessary in order to create the uproar required to justify the huge long-planned U.S. invasion. In response to this deliberate provocation on July 24, 1990 Iraq first moved 2 armored divisions to the Kuwait border. Later that same day, Margaret Tutwiler, when asked whether the U.S. had any plans to defend Kuwait demurely replied: “We do not have any defense treaties with Kuwait, and there are no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.” On July 25, 1990, the next day, Saddam Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie to his office. According the Wall Street Journal, February 19, 1999, April Glaspie did everything possible to suck Saddam Hussein into the trap telling him that Bush I (H.W. Bush) had rejected trade sanctions against Iraq (!) or any other reprisal (right!) if he were to invade Kuwait and reassured Hussein by telling him: “I have direct instructions from the president to seek better relations with Iraq.”

The U.S. directed Saakashvilli to invade the independent area of South Ossetia while the world was being distracted by the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. (Rice incidentally also brazenly blurted out at a dinner in Spring 2004 in Washington, D.C. that she was the mistress of the usurper Bush calling him “my husband” before correcting herself to “the president”!)

In addition, the U.S. and the U.S. proxy state, so-called “Israel” have supplied virtually all of Georgia’s military hardware and the U.S. has admitted to having trained the Georgian military. The U.S. also admitted that it had over 2000 military “advisors” and “trainees” in Georgia at the time of the invasion of South Ossetia! Russia Today TV initially reported that “American mercenaries” (all U.S. military personnel today are “volunteers” a 1984 Orwellian euphemism for mercenaries) accompanied the invading force into South Ossetia and that some may have been killed. The Russians found a U.S. Passport of Michael Lee White in Tskhinval documenting U.S. involvement. These reports were re-confirmed August 29, 2008 on Russia Today TV. Tskhnival was 70% totally destroyed by U.S.-directed and authorized Georgia.

The U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia was carried out with the primary objective of trying to create ethnic division in a U.S. attempt to discredit, weaken and divide discredit Russia just like they did with Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. The U.S.-led capitalist media, which is a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community” and the United Nations were prepared in advance to focus only on Russia’s response 1 ½ days later after the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia by driving U.S./Georgian forces out of South Ossetia and following their retreat into Georgia in order to destroy much of Georgia’s U.S. supplied military. Saakhashvilli’s local credibility was sacrificed in the short term for the United States long-range objective of trying to eventually overthrow the Russian government, install a puppet government in the former CCCP as in the Ukraine, Georgia and the former Baltic Soviet Republics, and steal Russia’s unbelievable wealth of natural resources just like the U.S. is doing in Iraq. On September 28, 2008 on Russia Today TV In Context with Peter Lavelle, Alexandr Chachiya apparently a legitimate Georgian opposition figure, stated that Saakashvilli was not acting in the best interests of Georgia but of the U.S. and would probably be replaced by Nino Burjanadze, the Chairwoman of the Georgian Parliament, who along with all “opposition” parties in Georgia was also controlled by the United States, and that because of that fact Georgian policies toward Russia would not change. He also confirmed what this writer said soon after the Georgian Invasion/Provocation in South Ossetia, namely that the United States wanted to create chaos in the Caucuses for reasons already previously provided in this analysis.

The situation surrounding Russia today looks dangerously similar to the beginning of a replay of 1940 with the NAZIS on the border of the USSR preparing to invade. In fact Senator Prescott Bush, the father of George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush I) and George Herbert Walker both fanatical anti-Communists, funded the NAZIs before WWII. The grandson of Prescott Bush is the current “Usurper” in the White House. Barack Obama has clearly indicated in his utterances in the first “presidential debate” and previously that he has no differences with McCain over Russia and intends to continue the same policies of provocation and encirclement of the former USSR, just like the NAZIs did in 1940! Biden forcefully echoes this anti-Russian plan. Sarah Palin, chosen in order to help discredit the McCain who is running as a foil to permit a close Obama “victory,” is an even more bizarre, rabid-sounding Fascist.

The claim by Putin that the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia was a “provocation” to help McCain win the White House is indubitably false! That explanation is a simultaneous cover-up invented to minimize the actual objectives in electing Obama (see below) and a diplomatic gambit by Russia to allow the U.S. to cool it and to re-evaluate. The reality is that the permanent government of the U.S. capitalist dictatorship wants to go with a Democratic administration for 2008 for several reasons. The capitalists want to tighten and harden the capitalist dictatorship domestically and to try to gain support for their so-called “War on Terror by supposedly gaining the support of a democratic constituency. The truth is that Obama will be a “Black” Bush. The reason that Obama did not want Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential nominee was because in that case it was very likely that the Democrats would win by as much as 30 to 40 points or more. In the event of such a lopsided victory the democratic constituency would be inclined to expect some sort of a “leftward shift” in U.S. foreign and domestic political policy, which is not at all in the cards as a review of Obama’s actual economic-political-social statements and positions in print fully document. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship always wants to try to keep the presidential “elections” close to try to build interest in the sham “election” and “credibility” in a contrived and manipulated “close nail biter/cliff hanger election” to create the false belief that every second person supports the government policies. The reality is that only around 20% of Americans support the Bush regime!

The only way the capitalists could have a close election in such circumstances would be for Obama to move significantly to the right, which he has done. Sarah Palin who initially was portrayed as very popular was quickly portrayed as inexperienced and very dangerous lest she gain too much popularity which might interfere with the planned Obama “victory” in waht is another sham “election” used to perpetuate the capitalist dictatorship. The reality is that 95% of New Yorkers and presumably the majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit! In addition, the capitalists do not want to marginalize or alienate the Fascist and proto-Fascist elements in the United States, which they need in order to support the fundamental war-based, mass murder-based and crime-based U.S. policies. The capitalists also plan to try to divert the people who are fooled into voting for Obama to join a “volunteer community service,” a form of slavery being hyped by the capitalist media and both “candidates,” which along with “faith-based initiatives” are going to try to substitute for government social programs. “Community service” is a sentence dealt out to non-violent first-time offenders in the U.S. legal system. Obama has such total contempt for the intelligence of the masses that he thinks he can turn a court sentence into a means to pump up U.S. patriotism and support U.S. policies similar to the Hitler Jungend (Hitler Youth). Through slogans like “shared sacrifice” Obama has been chosen to try to abolish the function of Social Security (keeping older people alive), and to try to whip the masses in line to support U.S. policies such as “the right war in Afghanistan” (!) and the “War on Terror.” which is simply the pretext used by the capitalists to maintain capitalism in its final stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism. Social Security will still be retained for appearances but will be used primarily as a slush fund to pay for various U.S. wars as it is already!

The invasion of South Ossetia was thus a deliberate provocation which Russia had no choice but to respond to and was carried out to achieve several objectives, the first of which is described above but that invasion also has disturbing parallels to the Full Court Press. Star Wars (SDI)/Nuclear Arms Race that the Reagan Regime put on the USSR in the 1980’s which ultimately forced the surrender by Mikhail Gorbachev to the threat of a nuclear war. The purpose of that 1980’s Nuclear Arms Race to force a Soviet surrender was openly acknowledged by the Fascist John McCain in the first presidential debate on September 26, 2008. The capitalist media focus on the Russian response to the invasion of South Ossetia, rather than the U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia, has been used to build public support in Poland for the so-called U.S. “Missile Defense” to be placed in Poland and later the radar to be built in the U.S.-puppet Czech Republic where an agreement has already been signed with no public referendum permitted. Public support in Poland on the other hand, which opposed the U.S. “missile defense” prior to the Russian response in South Ossetia, now supposedly supports it! Beginning in January 1984 and with full deployment completed in 1985 the U.S. was able to place Pershing Nuclear First Strike Nuclear Missiles in Germany 10 minutes from Moscow, but only after carrying out the 1983 Korean Airliner Provocation in order to discredit the European Communist-led opposition to the placement of Pershing II missiles in Germany. Placement of Pershing II First Strike Missiles in Germany caused the surrender by Gorbachev in 1988 to the threat of an imminent nuclear war, the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race. (There was no Soviet “economic collapse” as testified by the CIA on U.S. network TV news in 1990, which stated that they had no data whatsoever or any indications of an incipient “economic collapse in the USSR.” This was because there was no economic collapse, but rather a Soviet surrender to the threat of a nuclear war followed by a long and painful dismantlement of the Soviet Workers’ State during the 1990’s leaving the Stalinist (not Communist!) leadership structure in place.)

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. That plane was going down period!! 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!

Posted by: WHD2 | September 30, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Part 2

Gorbachev’s 1988 Soviet Surrender Was Based on
Lenin’s Strategy of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk!

In carrying out his 1988 surrender to the threat of a nuclear war Gorbachev was following the Strategy of Brest Litovsk, where Lenin was forced to sign an ignominious peace agreement with the German Kaiser in order to gain time with the understanding that all the Russian land that the early Soviets were forced to give up would be later regained. That was the case and the Soviets later recovered all of the land which they had given up to the Germans. Gorbachev was completely correct in believing that the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race was nuclear war. Gorbachev also knew and calculated that by the Soviet Union leaving the field in the so-called “Cold War” that the dynamic of capitalism would exist unchecked thus exacerbating and accelerating the contradictions of capitalism-imperialism and hopefully making these contradictions stand out in bold relief and bringing it closer to the final scrap heap of human history. The dynamic of capitalism has indeed been accelerated in spades! But the Fascists are once again on the Russian doorstep. Gorbachev wanted to try to permanently eliminate the nuclear threat. And he did so—but only for a time! Gorbachev did buy important time just like Lenin did. But was it enough time? Time will tell!! Gorbachev wanted to integrate the former USSR into the world capitalist economy making it much less likely to be a nuclear target of world capitalism. And he did so up to the point of Bush’s abandoning the ABM Treaty in the U.S. preparation to continue its so-called “missile defense,” which is nothing more than an attempt to force a second Russian Surrender. See below. But the 1988 Soviet Surrender to the Threat of a Nuclear War also created many more contradictions.

Today, Russia in a typically bizarre Stalinist opportunist fashion, sounding especially strange in light of the incipient Depression, has now agreed to the fraudulent U.S. claim of “economic collapse of the USSR” in order to try to guarantee peace with U.S.-led world imperialism now that the Soviet Workers’ State has largely been dismantled. For example, Peter Lavelle and others on Russia Today TV, while he presents the Russian response to world events, which correctly always seeks to avert confrontation, never loses an opportunity to repeat the Big Lie about the supposed “Soviet Collapse.” But now “Russia” finds how fast that “peace” has disappeared with the U.S. breaking virtually all of the U.S.-Soviet Peace Treaties of the 1990’s starting with the cornerstone of the agreements with the Soviet Union, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, which Bush formally broke on June 13, 2002 thus forcing the Russian Federation to withdraw from Start II, which banned the use of MIRV on ICBMs. NATO ships now fill the Black Sea as a further provocation after the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia, which the U.S. indubitably is rearming. In addition the U.S. is directing their Ukraine puppet Viktor Yushchenko to push the provocation/demand that the Russian fleet abandon its main Sevastopol base in the Crimea inhabited by 70% Russians!! Lots of luck! The U.S. is also building air bases in Georgia, which it plans to use against Iran and other countries. In addition, the U.S. is trying to steal Russian oil by planned diversion of the Caspian pipeline away from Russia! Public opinion does not support either the U.S. or NATO in such adventures, which are bound to fail no matter how many provocations are carried out and Big Lies are told.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s United Nations speech on September 28, 2008 stated. “Enough is enough” with regard to 1.) the U.S. Unipolar/One Superpower Worldview rather than the multipolar worldview that the United Nations was ostensibly set up for and 2.) the continual U.S. warmongering, which Lavrov was failed to mention is due to the fundamental dynamic of capitalism-imperialism, which is fundamentally based on war and mass murder and which cannot be reformed or reversed. Lavrov was forced to omit this glaring reality. He had no choice due to the politics of non-confrontation, which follow both from Stalinist opportunism (not Communism) and the 1988 Gorbachev surrender to the threat of a nuclear war. See below. The capitalists invariably try to direct the anger of the masses toward their enemies. In this case we can expect the U.S. government to try to direct the anger of the American people over the U.S./World capitalist economic collapse toward Russia if at all possible, hoping that the American people will forget an important rule of inductive reasoning, which they were deliberately never taught in any capitalist school and could only have acquired through study on their own: 1.) the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and its corollary: 2.) the friend of my enemy is my enemy! This is one more reason why we need, and the World needs, a Socialist Revolution in the United States!

The false claim of “economic collapse of the Soviet Union” was fabricated by the United States in order to try to demoralize the masses of the world, and the United States especially, to the only solution to the complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism. That solution is Socialism! Which can only be achieved through a Socialist Revolution in the United States, which itself can only be carried out peacefully as occurred in the October Russian Revolution of 1917. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Op-Ed column in the New York Times, August 20, 2008, was the typical Stalinist (Not Communist!) opportunist, anti-Communist response, which did not explain the clever U.S. strategy of provocation primarily in order to create ethnic division in the Caucuses designed to last for generations and that Russia was forced to respond to these provocations.

In his 1988 surrender to the United States Gorbachev carried out some rather heinous acts of murder of prominent Soviet statesmen, prominent Soviet representatives and assorted “stones in the shoe” of the capitalists. For example, Gorbachev undoubtedly had his own Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko murdered in July 1989 because it would be inconceivable that Gromyko could espouse the surrender terms that Gorbachev had agreed to and may have openly opposed them. Gromyko was thus seen as a potential troublemaker in the planned Soviet surrender. A living Gromyko would be more respected than a live Gorbachev. The U.S. and the USSR had also previously agreed to the murder of NAZI Rudolph Hess in preparation for the rather long-planned Soviet Surrender. (Remember even before he took power on March 12, 1985 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s December 1984’s highly publicized statement: “We can do business with Mr. Gorbachev!”) Hess was a totally frail 93 years old NAZI and imprisoned in Spandau Prison in Germany and simply refused to die a natural death. Hess was a continuing symbol of the NAZIs and the need for a continuing Soviet presence in Eastern Europe and thus an obstacle to the planned Soviet surrender and the planned break-up and Soviet withdrawal from the countries which made up the Warsaw Treaty Organization. An extremely frail Hess, who needed help in tying his shoes by a male nurse, was murdered by wrapping an electric cord around his neck and choking him to death. The media trumpeted “suicide, when he had never ever attempted “suicide” previously, despite media “Big Lie” claims to the contrary. And the prolific Hess left no suicide note and was moreover physically totally feeble and completely unable to choke himself to death according to testimony by relatives! See extensive coverage in the New York Times on and after August 17, 2008. In addition, Gorbachev also gave the order for the murder of Kim Philby in May 1988, a Soviet Agent who had led the Russian division of British Intelligence (!) for 19 years (!) from 1944 and had escaped to the USSR in 1963 just in the nick of time to prevent his capture. In 1965 Kim Philby was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, one of the highest Soviet awards, and was made a General in the KGB. Philby was another “stone in the shoe” of the capitalists who had to be removed! With these people dead no one could ask their opinions on the Gorbachev surrender. Others who had defected to the Soviet Union were also murdered to “clear the slate” for the coming Soviet Surrender.

Gorbachev’s own wife considered him to be a traitor and was estranged from him after Gorbachev carried out the final provocation(s) he used to discredit the Soviet leadership, many of whom were previously their respected and personal friends, but who were not allied to him in his surrender to the United States and had to be eliminated. On August 4, 1991 with great fanfare the hugely unpopular Gorbachev took a vacation to the Crimea and behind the scenes encouraged the so-called “Gang of Eight,” some of whom accompanied him to the Crimea (!) to stage what was described later as a “coup,” but unknown to them Gorbachev cut all their lines of communication and chain of command. Gorbachev controlled the media completely, NOT the other way around as officially portrayed, thus setting this “Communist (Stalinist)” opposition up to be discredited and removed officially from all top government posts. Boris Yeltsin, an expert demagogue, was appointed beforehand by Gorbachev to move into the gap while Gorbachev was supposedly being “imprisoned in the Crimea.” Yeltsin was new and did not share Gorbachev’s mantle of unpopularity in the Soviet Union and the crowds were peppered with shills to scream his name, which the world capitalist media reported with glee. The media showed Yeltsin “heroically” denouncing the “coup” from the top of a tank. Gorbachev himself directed the so-called “Gang of Eight” to set up a plan of measures that supposedly could be taken in case a state of emergency!

Deputy USSR Defense Minister General Valentin Varennikov stated that Gorbachev himself had supported the coup and was behind all eight and had told the group: "Do what you think is needed, damn you!" to restore order and declare a state of emergency. Gorbachev knew these individuals opposed him and gave them the rope to hang themselves. The official name for the group was the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP), and was headed by Vice President Gennadii Yanayev. Others included KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov, Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, the USSR Internal Affairs Minister, Boris Pugo, Deputy Chief of the USSR Defense Council Oleg Baklanov, Vasily Starodubtsev, chairman of the USSR Peasant Union and Alexander Tizyakov, president of the Association of the State Enterprises and Conglomerates of Industry, Transport, and Communications. This group was almost immediately dismissed from their offices by Gorbachev after the coup began and Gorbachev returned to Moscow with some of those very members (!), who were then all arrested. Pugo and his wife supposedly committed suicide but the reported circumstances at the time indicate it was murder. A highly publicized and staged attack on the Soviet Parliament, the so-called “White House,” which had to be put down militarily, was then carried out as yet another provocation to send the message of intimidation to the Communist Party members of Parliament and the masses (who hated Gorbachev and what was happening under his leadership), that the Soviet military supported the Gorbachev/Yeltsin leadership. Later Gorbachev resigned officially and the Soviet surrender was consolidated under Yeltsin who liquidated the USSR officially on December 8, 1991, when the USSR, Belarus and the Ukraine signed the Belovezh Agreement, dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing a Commonwealth of Independent States. Pretty quick work! No?

In his August 20th New York Times Op-Ed Gorbachev also lied through omission by omitting the obvious long-range U.S. objectives of the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia. Putin and Medvedev to their credit eventually exposed these objectives although only secondarily and without appropriate focus and emphasis! Russia has used others wherever possible such Alexandr Chachiya, for example. (See above.) By honestly and precisely explaining these provocations Russia would be able to explain how the U.S. intends to manipulate public opinion. This way the public in all countries would be on guard not to allow itself to be manipulated by the country which lied about “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq and which lies about everything including the most recent Bailout of Wall Street. This should be a no-brainer but Stalinist opportunism blocks the mind.

United States Hopes To Try Another Full Court Press
Like in the 1980’s and Force A Second Russian Surrender!

On August 14, 2008 the U.S. signed an agreement to build a so-called “missile defense” system in Poland which includes missile interceptors. Russia has promised a “military response” if the missiles are installed in Poland. This sounds like the Russian Federation would take the missile installation(s) out in an air strike similar to the U.S./”Israel” bombing of the Osirak Reactor in Iraq in 1981 and the planned bombing of Iran, etc., etc. etc. Obviously the number of missiles in Poland will begin to increase exponentially as the U.S. orchestrates provocation after provocation on the border of Russia similar to the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia. This so-called “missile defense” is actually part of a Nuclear First Strike plan, which is actually a strategy of intimidation by the United States as was explained back in the 1980’s when the U.S. put a full court press on the USSR with a runaway nuclear arms race and “Star Wars” forcing the Soviet surrender by Gorbachev in 1988. Today the United States and NATO want to force the former Soviet Union into a second surrender as explained above! In an actual First Strike by the United States and the NATO PACT, the so-called “Missile Defenses” are used simultaneously with a U.S. Nuclear First Strike in order to try to cripple the Russian response to the U.S. First Strike. The U.S. is hoping that they will win the game of “chicken” like they did in the 1980’s and that the Russians will back down and make a second surrender as they did in 1988. This is the present strategic centerpiece of U.S. “statecraft” with Russia. But times have changed and a Second Soviet Surrender will not take place! This reality will undoubtedly only make itself known to U.S.-led world capitalism-imperialism after many more provocations on Russia’s doorstep

Today ninety-five percent of New Yorkers agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit! A Socialist Revolution in the United States will abolish the basis for all war and set the stage for solving the entire complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism, which threaten the survival of humankind. Capitalism cannot be reformed through elections or by any other means because the capitalist dictatorship is left in place and because capitalism has an internal dynamic of its own, which leads to a constantly hardening and more naked capitalist dictatorship to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization and finally the end of all life on Earth, as we see with the Runaway Greenhouse Effect, which has already begun. Politicians rise to the surface to the extent that they express and further this almost entirely one-way dynamic of capitalism. The “presidential elections” are the capitalists’ primary weapon of deception, which are used to try to perpetuate the illusion of “democracy” in what is a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship. Under capitalism “democracy” is simply a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement! If you vote for anyone in the U.S. Presidential “elections” you have been neutralized and are a sucker! You are saying that you believe that capitalism can be reformed, which is not possible. Starting with the Age of Imperialism, with the exception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who brought in the New Deal, but only as a bribe to try to save capitalism from a potential Socialist Revolution in the United States in the 1930’s, each capitalist administration has been politically to the right of the one which preceded it, Democrat or Republican, as the capitalist dictatorship has gradually hardened and now hardens almost by the day! And it thus follows that no candidate is even just a little “better” than another because the “differences” prior to the election virtually all disappear after the election according to the needs of the capitalist dictatorship, which makes the actual decisions based on its’ dynamic, development sequence or dialectic, which has little to do with its own preservation, which in turn underscores the fact that the system controls the politicians—not the other way around. Today capitalism is in its Final Stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism.

The United States called Saddam Hussein the Butcher of Baghdad but Saddam Hussein was small potatoes compared to George Bush and his predecessors; the real Butcher of Baghdad is the Bush Regime and U.S.-led world capitalism-imperialism, which has caused the deaths of over 1.2 million Iraqis since the start of the U.S. invasion in 2003, according to a blipped report on National Public Radio Online, “Survey Puts Iraqi War Dead Above One Million.” Day to Day Radio Program, way back on September 19, 2007 (!), http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyld=14501232. Previously the British Medical journal The Lancet (October 11, 2006 (See below), reported the death of over 655,000 Iraqis since the start of the U.S. Invasion. Meanwhile only 4000 U.S. Mercenary Mass Murderers and cutthroats have met their doom in Iraq a higher percentage of whom come back with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from being forced to murder Iraqis! All the attention is given to the 4000 dead U.S. mass murderers, while the deaths of 1.2 million Iraqis is largely covered up (Give no support to U.S. troops whatsoever except in the event of Mutiny!) In addition, the United States has deliberately made Iraq permanently uninhabitable by spreading Depleted Uranium (DU) all over Iraq! Capitalism offers a world with no future! Remember that in the end all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement begins with the call. Do not be intimidated! The first call must be to deprive the capitalists of bodies of armed men to send against the masses, by calling for the only political position with successful historical precedent: Call for Mutiny in Iraq as in Vietnam, the real reason and the ONLY reason the Vietnam War ended on the spot in 1975 after the Third Marine Division turned their guns around on their officers forcing the immediate and total evacuation of all U.S. troops in days and hours. Normally, when the U.S. invades a county they never leave. The U.S. has a military presence in over 130 countries right now and is now invading Pakistan and threatening to use their proxy state of so-called “Israel” to bomb Iran. The U.S. capitalist dictatorship used its proxy state of Georgia to invade the former USSR (South Ossetia) and is right now using their Fascist proxies to fight the governments of Bolivia (Evo Morales) and Venezuela (Hugo Chavez)!

The capitalist demagogues/stooges Obama, Clinton, McCain, etc. all call for “Phased Redeployment,” which means in practice simply transferring some forces from Iraq to Afghanistan (Obama, e.g.) or elsewhere and leaving a puppet government in place in Iraq. Bush has just initiated the beginning of this policy just prior to the sham U.S. “election.” But Mutiny Saves Lives! Mutiny is provided for by the Declaration of Independence, which is actually a transitional document which supports a Socialist Revolution in the United States! We should all read that document now! It provides the legal basis for a Socialist Revolution in the United States although a legal basis is certainly not required to end a system fundamentally based on war, mass murder and crime! In addition to employing a mercenary army rather than a conscripted army the capitalists have tried to take precautions to try to prevent the reoccurrence of another Mutiny in Iraq as in Vietnam! Blackwater USA, Custer Battles, Dyncorp, etc and all 45,000 armed military contractors are paid 4 times what the regular U.S. mercenary marauder/cutthroat forces are paid in order to induce loyalty to the officer corps and are a NAZI-like SS (Schutzstaffel) formation which is in Iraq for one purpose only—to protect the Officer Corps in the event of another Mutiny—NOT to protect “diplomats,” the phony cover story foisted on an unsuspecting public. The U.S. created a mercenary army to replace the previous enlisted army used in Vietnam as the yet another tactic to try and prevent reoccurrence of mutiny. Therefore the present U.S. military mercenary army must get its act together, realize that their interests as well as the interests of all humankind are violated by the invasions of Iraq, etc. They will have to turn their guns around on their officers who must all be immediately arrested, unless they join and support the Mutiny, and then they must fight and decisively defeat Blackwater and the other 45,000 military contractors, which they can easily do if they organize themselves to do it, because the regular army is much larger and has heavier weapons. The key is organization, which is already in place. This will open the door to all further social progress and is the first step in ending the War Against Iraq and carrying out a Socialist Revolution in the United States and worldwide.

Patriotism is a capitalist gimmick, a deception to divide up the International Working Class against itself—once more—divide and conquer! Don’t be fooled! Remember that this is NOT our country! It is the capitalists’ country. We just live here! Only a Socialist Revolution in the United States can establish real democracy and freedom and make it our country! Under capitalism “democracy” is just a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement and “freedom” is merely a euphemism for the capitalists freedom to exploit and super-exploit. That is the fundamental basis of so-called “globalism” where the worlds’ capitalists compete worldwide for the lowest wage for workers! Once capitalism is overthrown at its center there will be no more center of world capitalism to act as a threat and the hard dictatorship of the Workers’ States will not be necessary and the basis for genuine democracy and a permanent end to class society will finally be established. We have to end the dictatorship of billionaires and millionaires and establish a new system based on human need where everyone can live like a millionaire. Today, in the United States there is enough money, enough wealth for that to be a reality in practice. Today, capitalism-imperialism has created the greatest economic disparity in all human history. This is due to the dynamic of capitalism based on exponentially increasing capital accumulation by the insignificant minority of capitalists and also has to do with the fact that the capitalist dictatorship knows that a Socialist Revolution is much less likely to occur if the masses are continuously kept on the edge of economic collapse and are encouraged to falsely believe that they must first look out for number one! The reality is that that approach only perpetuates the capitalist dictatorship and is completely opposed to each individual’s self-interest and in final analysis is actually part of the capitalists’ strategy of divide and conquer. That is why the Call for Mutiny in Iraq must come from the United States!

Today, given the choice, the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with the statement: “We need a new system based on human need not private profit!” And given the choice the overwhelming majority also agree that “we need a Socialist Revolution in the United States!” These are both Communist responses! The U.S. population is therefore not “a little to the right of center” or even “a little to the left of center” as falsely portrayed by the U.S. media, but is receptive right now to a Socialist Revolution here in the United States. This means that at some level and actually at many levels the masses recognize that capitalism offers a world with no future! People understand at some level the emergency that exists. The reason that a Socialist Revolution has not occurred yet is because of the present correlation of class forces in the United States where the capitalist dictatorship is still able to maintain its dominance over its own masses at the center of world capitalism-imperialism. The capitalists rule through a combination of force and deception. At this point where capitalism has entered its final stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism and its class dictatorship is hardening by the day and growing more nakedly oppressive domestically and internationally the capitalists are depending once again on their Primary Weapon of Deception—the Presidential “Elections” process (see further below), which their accelerating loss of credibility forced them to initiate nearly a year earlier this time in order to try to divert the attention of the masses from actually even considering the possibility of a new system based on human need not private profit: “Look, look, look here are your new candidates—aren’t you happy and hopeful just thinking about them?” The capitalists’ objective is obviously to try to re-instill false “hope” in capitalism. Barack Obama’s disingenuous book: “The Audacity of Hope,” published in October 2006 is another indication that he has for many years been groomed for a presidential run, parrots and refurbishes Jesse Jackson’s deceptive slogan—“Keep Hope (in capitalism!) Alive,” which in turn was lifted from the fraudulent capitalist history: “Tragedy and Hope” by Carroll Quigley, a professional liar from the (CIA) Georgetown University center, which was once required reading for capitalist politicians and aspiring demagogues and counter-insurgents.

Every four years the capitalists pull another rabbit out of their hat as they stage their sham “elections” in order to continue to try to perpetuate the illusion of “democracy” in what is actually a hardening capitalist dictatorship, in order to string the masses along and try to coax and cajole them to agree more easily to their own oppression and genuine misery and poverty with such false promises of “Change We Can Believe In,” “Judgment to Lead” and “Solutions for America”, etc. etc. From the Working Class viewpoint a demagogue is defined as a false leader who pretends to represent the wishes and aspirations of the masses but actually represents the interests of the capitalist class. All of the candidates in elections held by the capitalist class represent the interests of the capitalist class because they try to deceive the masses to believe that capitalism can reform itself when scientific analysis and history reveals that to be completely impossible at this end stage in this final stage of capitalist development!

Posted by: WHD2 | September 30, 2008 at 12:44 PM