Saturday, March 31, 2018
Let the ruling class kids defend the American Empire !
Officer Who Killed Alton Sterling Is Fired, The One Who Pinned Him Down Is Suspended
This fascist American police state - the enemy of ALL working class people- can in no way fix the world. American fascism has no lessons to improve fascism in Russia.
Why should any young black Americans fight for this bloody mess ? Let the ruling class kids defend the Empire.
Why should any young black Americans fight for this bloody mess ? Let the ruling class kids defend the Empire.
Nothing can be more foolish and self-defeating than thinking that more " liberal " Democrats will solve these social problems. We need the American equivalent of the British Labor Party - with a more militant class struggle oriented constitution and plan of action.
One would think that with a stroke of the pen Governor Gina Raimondo can SOLVE the hunger problem for many Rhode Island families created by her new dysfunctional state computer system. Visit the DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SUFFERING, Governor . They talk about this every day on 630 WPRO talk radio.
Working class Palestinians and working class Jews can get along in a SECULAR DEMOCRACY
Discussion on World Socialist Web Site
Israel kills 17 border demonstrators in Gaza
[ "I [ Isaac Asimov } let the others argue for a moment while I brooded over my resentment; then, unable to contain myself any longer, I spoke up: "Mr. Wiesel, you're wrong; the fact that a group of people has suffered appalling persecution does not mean it is inherently good and innocent. All that the persecution proves is that this group was in a position of weakness. If the Jews were in a position of strength, who knows if they wouldn't become persecutors?"
To which Wiesel replied, very angrily: "Give me one example of the Jews persecuting anyone!"
Naturally, I was expecting this. "At the time of the Maccabees, in the second century BCE, John Hyrcanus of Judea conquered Edom and gave the Edomites the choice of conversion to Judaism, or death. Not being idiots, the Edomites converted, but afterwards they were still treated as inferiors because even though they had become Jews, they were still originally Edomites".
Wiesel, even more upset, said: "There is no other example."
"There is no other period in history where Jews have exercised power", I replied. "The only time they had it, they behaved just like the others."
That put an end to the discussion. I would add however that the audience was entirely on the side of Elie Wiesel. ]
To which Wiesel replied, very angrily: "Give me one example of the Jews persecuting anyone!"
Naturally, I was expecting this. "At the time of the Maccabees, in the second century BCE, John Hyrcanus of Judea conquered Edom and gave the Edomites the choice of conversion to Judaism, or death. Not being idiots, the Edomites converted, but afterwards they were still treated as inferiors because even though they had become Jews, they were still originally Edomites".
Wiesel, even more upset, said: "There is no other example."
"There is no other period in history where Jews have exercised power", I replied. "The only time they had it, they behaved just like the others."
That put an end to the discussion. I would add however that the audience was entirely on the side of Elie Wiesel. ]
Friday, March 30, 2018
The most dramatic relic of World War I : the battlefield of Verdun
Of course any student of history will be interested in the relics of great wars . There are relics of Great Caesar's Gallic War . The most dramatic " relic " of the Great War - " the war to end all wars " .... " the war to make the world safe for democracy " - remains the battle ground of Verdun - " The Horror Verdun " :
[ " The truth hit home for the German soldier with all the impact of one of the millions of artillery shells buzzing through the air at the Battle of Verdun during World War I.
He was digging a trench when his pickaxe became entangled in a bundle of slime. On the end were human entrails — all that was left of a dead man buried there by a previous bombardment.
‘Until then, I had seen the dead without really seeing them, like figures in a waxworks. But now the words closed upon my brain like a vice. A dead man. They choked my throat and chilled my heart.
‘All these corpses had been men who breathed as I breathed, had had a father, a mother, a woman whom they loved, a piece of land which was theirs, faces which expressed joy and suffering, which had known the light of day and the colour of the sky. " ]
A mountain of German and French skeletons rotting there for more than a hundred years. This bloody , stupid , imperialist war - EXPOSED in 1917 only by Lenin and his Russian Bolsheviks -was glorified in the USA with Wilsonian blather. The Treaty of Versaille then laid the foundation for World War II - an even bloodier human catastrophe.
The top American generals now planning nuclear World War III with Russia are not less stupid than the French and German masterminds of the " Horror of Verdun ".
As the American socialist Eugene V. Debs said protesting that Great War of 1914 : " The only just war is CLASS WAR ! " .
The mainstream FAKE NEWS media has failed to sell World War III with " Evil Russia " to the American working class, the class that does all the suffering and dying , makes all the sacrifice, in these insane imperialist wars -always begun with FALSE words and phrases -like "DEFENDING FREEDOM " .
An old Army bullet for your thoughts ?
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| A mountain of bones still there at Verdun |
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Find a working class American with grievance list against Russia and Putin ?
Our greedy plutocracy which has the bipartisan support of Democrats and Republicans -wants to put state welfare programs on rations . The precious money saved can feed the already stuffed pig of the military industrial complex. War is good for working class people ?
Study history . See the long view of history . THE PEOPLE sooner or later explode and avenge their misery on the privileged minority . If you could just listen to poor French peasants, in the streets of Paris in 1789 .
This sanctimonious, pro-war attitude toward Russia - voiced by " liberal " Democrats " - sickens the working class majority in America . Find a working class American voter with a grievance list against Russia and Vladimir Putin ? Are they attacking OUR standard of living ?
WE are much more outraged by the bipartisan conspiracy with the American plutocracy - not on a higher ethical level than Putin's Russian oligarchy. No suckers here for nuclear World War III !
Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of sinister " Russia collusion " deserves the Franz Kafka Award for the most outrageous TRIAL without a named CRIME. Mueller III will go down in history as a rather silly , stuffy, and obtuse official. " Russia as ENEMY " is not selling in working class America.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
A sample of Pop's fan mail ( 1968 ) On the poem " If " by Rudyard Kipling
On July 12, 1968, a William C. Eccleston , then a member of the Coventry, Rhode Island Town Council, sent this " fan " mail to my father ( radio name DON ROGERS , WEAN, Providence ) :
[ Dear Don:
Just a short note to let you know we really enjoy your show. I am quite busy most of the time and usually find your show most effective medicine when I'm trying to unwind and relax. The Cares of the day seem to drift away when my mind is stimulated with new thoughts when you read and the pleasing moods are kept alive with pleasing music .
I especially enjoyed your reading of the poem " IF ". In our conversation on the phone the other night you said you had considered making a recording , I'd like to encourage the idea and offer any help that I can . Until you do the poem " IF " , I'll have to settle for a written copy if you would, please.
Thanking you for many hours of pleasure , I remain
Sincerely Yours,
Wm. C. Eccleston
Hill Farm Rd.
Coventry, R.I. 02816 ]
For the rich luxury fall out shelters.. for the rest of us FREE CREMATION SERVICE ( nuclear war benefit )
Discussion on World Socialist Web Site
The poisoning of Skripal and the campaign against Russia
There must be a new malady called BRINK OF WAR FATIGUE. It exists side by side with Leon Trotsky's " permanent revolution ". Which capitalist nation state could possibly emerge " victorious " even in a major non-nuclear war ?
The daily dose of hysteria over sinister foreign enemies everywhere puts common people on notice that THEIR government is too busy protecting them from THE ENEMY to make life any more happier and healthier for them. But then what more can any reasonable working class person want than this blissful capitalist way of life ? Good and guaranteed for another millennium !
An intelligent being- of truly ADVANCED intelligence- studying and tuned in to planet Earth from another galaxy might conclude that the human race is too stupid to survive. Therefore " CANCEL EXPEDITION ".
Does the ONE PERCENT hope to survive a NUCLEAR war ? On the market now - luxury fall out shelters. But for the rest us FREE cremation service.
The daily dose of hysteria over sinister foreign enemies everywhere puts common people on notice that THEIR government is too busy protecting them from THE ENEMY to make life any more happier and healthier for them. But then what more can any reasonable working class person want than this blissful capitalist way of life ? Good and guaranteed for another millennium !
An intelligent being- of truly ADVANCED intelligence- studying and tuned in to planet Earth from another galaxy might conclude that the human race is too stupid to survive. Therefore " CANCEL EXPEDITION ".
Does the ONE PERCENT hope to survive a NUCLEAR war ? On the market now - luxury fall out shelters. But for the rest us FREE cremation service.
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| For the ONE PERCENT - a COMFORTABLE nuclear holocaust |
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
The sanctimonious American ruling class sanctions " evil " Russia
ABC NEWS headline March 16 : " Vietnam commemorates 50th anniversary of My Lai massacre ".
Leon Trotsky on world capitalism : " Some day we would get the better of that lunatic asylum "
How ridiculous for the American ruling class - the conscience of the world has recorded its many crimes against humanity- to adopt a sanctimonious attitude toward Russia. The Putin government does not live up to the high moral standards and principled politics of the CIA, the FBI and Republican and Democratic parties ?
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Has the FAKE NEWS media in the United States - with its New York Times main office - succeeded in making the American working class all forgiving about class oppression in this country but war feverish over depraved Russia - now CAPITALIST Russia ?
Forget about the misadventures of Napoleon and Hitler in Russia. Picture vast Russia occupied by the American military . And the equal of a General Douglas MacArthur set up as the victorious post war DICTATOR in Moscow. The Russian people might be familiar with the lyrics of the song : " Meet the new boss... same as the old boss. "
But in starting such a stupid and suicidal war WE " won't be fooled again " ?
Reflecting on the capitalist ruling class the young Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky vowed : " Some day we would get the better of that lunatic asylum ! "
Presently war fever among the American working class is hardly at room temperature ( I should know ). And a poll shows many youth " favorable to some form of socialism ". The FAKE NEWS media must try harder at daily TWO MINUTES HATE.
It would be so horribly ironic if thousands of the young people who protested in the streets of America last weekend for strict gun control, so that they might be safer in school , ended up as cannon fodder for the next imperialist war.
But I still find the young Trotsky's words above inspiring.
" Gun control " should apply to the lunatics in the Pentagon too.
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[ Russia Insider - The West's sanctimonious attitude towards Russia...
https://www.facebook.com/RussiaInsider/posts/1883610131909221
The West's sanctimonious attitude towards Russia, China and Iran is dangerous and self-defeating.]Has the FAKE NEWS media in the United States - with its New York Times main office - succeeded in making the American working class all forgiving about class oppression in this country but war feverish over depraved Russia - now CAPITALIST Russia ?
Forget about the misadventures of Napoleon and Hitler in Russia. Picture vast Russia occupied by the American military . And the equal of a General Douglas MacArthur set up as the victorious post war DICTATOR in Moscow. The Russian people might be familiar with the lyrics of the song : " Meet the new boss... same as the old boss. "
But in starting such a stupid and suicidal war WE " won't be fooled again " ?
Reflecting on the capitalist ruling class the young Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky vowed : " Some day we would get the better of that lunatic asylum ! "
Presently war fever among the American working class is hardly at room temperature ( I should know ). And a poll shows many youth " favorable to some form of socialism ". The FAKE NEWS media must try harder at daily TWO MINUTES HATE.
It would be so horribly ironic if thousands of the young people who protested in the streets of America last weekend for strict gun control, so that they might be safer in school , ended up as cannon fodder for the next imperialist war.
But I still find the young Trotsky's words above inspiring.
" Gun control " should apply to the lunatics in the Pentagon too.
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| An " American Caesar " in Russia ? |
Monday, March 26, 2018
U.S. Expels 60 Russian Officials, Closes Consulate In Seattle
All this Ian Flemming " Goldfinger " style international intrigue behind the backs of the working class majority in the United States ? Are CIA/ FBI bureaucrats the precious guardians of what passes for " democracy " in America ?
Have we no say in nuclear World War III ? Are the plutocracy's enemies OUR enemies ? Are the plutocracy's friends OUR friends ? Think about it if you love your children and your grandchildren -or if you are not a pro-capitalist , pro-imperialist ogre eager for the BIG ONE.
Have we no say in nuclear World War III ? Are the plutocracy's enemies OUR enemies ? Are the plutocracy's friends OUR friends ? Think about it if you love your children and your grandchildren -or if you are not a pro-capitalist , pro-imperialist ogre eager for the BIG ONE.
Bishop Tobin and " common sense " on gun control
“It seems to me that private citizens shouldn’t be permitted to own assault rifles any more than then they can own chemical weapons of mass destruction. How about a little common sense in this public debate?” Bishop Thomas J. Tobin .
Yes , this indeed is just common sense . But what was lacking in the mass gun control protests the last weekend was UNCOMMON sense : that connects the government's " weapons of mass destruction " -like an Apocalyptic nuclear war arsenal- with the moral chaos of " war weapons " violence against unarmed citizens just living their precious ordinary lives.
Mindless FREE ENTERPRISE- in decaying capitalist America-allows unbalanced, disturbed individuals easier access to horrible mass murder weapons than to some cheap mental health clinics .
Who will protect us from the INSANE CAPITALIST economic order ? Not the Trump Junta ! Not the " liberal " Democrats !« less