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MINISTRY OF TOKYO
US-ANGLO CAPITALISMEU-NATO IMPERIALISM
Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies
Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships
Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans
Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY
[LINK | Article]

*U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR* | U.S. Empire's Casino Unsustainable | Destabilised U.S. Monetary & Financial System | U.S. Defaults Twice A Year | Causes for Global Financial Crisis of 2008 Remain | Financial Pyramids Composed of Derivatives & National Debt Are Growing | *U.S. OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR*

Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
[info from Craig Murray video appearance, follows]  US-Anglo Alliance DELIBERATELY STOKING ANTI-RUSSIAN FEELING & RAMPING UP TENSION BETWEEN EASTERN EUROPE & RUSSIA.  British military/government feeding media PROPAGANDA.  Media choosing to PUBLISH government PROPAGANDA.  US naval aggression against Russia:  Baltic Sea — US naval aggression against China:  South China Sea.  Continued NATO pressure on Russia:  US missile systems moving into Eastern Europe.     [info from John Pilger interview follows]  War Hawk:  Hillary Clinton — embodiment of seamless aggressive American imperialist post-WWII system.  USA in frenzy of preparation for a conflict.  Greatest US-led build-up of forces since WWII gathered in Eastern Europe and in Baltic states.  US expansion & military preparation HAS NOT BEEN REPORTED IN THE WEST.  Since US paid for & controlled US coup, UKRAINE has become an American preserve and CIA Theme Park, on Russia's borderland, through which Germans invaded in the 1940s, costing 27 million Russian lives.  Imagine equivalent occurring on US borders in Canada or Mexico.  US military preparations against RUSSIA and against CHINA have NOT been reported by MEDIA.  US has sent guided missile ships to diputed zone in South China Sea.  DANGER OF US PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKES.  China is on HIGH NUCLEAR ALERT.  US spy plane intercepted by Chinese fighter jets.  Public is primed to accept so-called 'aggressive' moves by China, when these are in fact defensive moves:  US 400 major bases encircling China; Okinawa has 32 American military installations; Japan has 130 American military bases in all.  WARNING PENTAGON MILITARY THINKING DOMINATES WASHINGTON. ⟴  
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March 23, 2017

Capitalist Intelligence Services: MI6 & CIA ... Rivers of Blood





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MI6 & CIA

ASSASSINATION OF AIREY NEAVE




Come Out Ye
Black and Tans








 Airey Neave & Margaret Thatcher


Airey Neave - first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle, WWII




Airey Neave,
wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard


Enoch Powell of "Rivers of Blood" fame




Following extracts are from assorted Wikipedia entries:



Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann








Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)


1974 – present (on ceasefire since 1998, formally ended armed campaign in 2009

paramilitary wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)

Ideology

  • Irish republicanism
  • Left-wing nationalism
  • Marxism–Leninism


seeks to remove Northern Ireland from UK rule
& to establish a socialist republic
encompassing all of Ireland

founded by former members of the 'Official' IRA who opposed that group's ceasefire


BRITISH designate Irish National Liberation Army (INLA):

PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION under the Terrorism Act 2000

Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), designated illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland

--

first action to bring the INLA to international notice
assassination on 30 March 1979 of Airey Neave
British Conservative Party's spokesman on Northern Ireland
one of Margaret Thatcher's closest political supporters

1982 bombing of the Mount Gabriel radar station in County Cork
/ which the INLA believed was providing assistance to NATO
/ in violation of Irish neutrality

6 December 1982 – the Ballykelly disco bombing
Droppin' Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry
catered to British military personnel
11 soldiers & 6 civilians killed

INLA members participated in the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes
for the recognition of the political status of paramilitary prisoners

x3 INLA members died during the latter hunger strike – Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Devine
plus: x7 Provisional IRA members

1983, x3 members of the congregation in Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, Darkley
/ shot dead during Sunday service

IRA: weapon had been given to the INLA member to assassinate a known loyalist
/ attack on the church was not sanctioned

1987 the INLA came under attack from the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO),
/ group made up of expelled or disaffected members of the INLA
/ feud resulted in the death of x16 INLA and IPLO members
/ mainly took place in cities, most notably in Belfast, Derry, and Dublin

feud ended in 1992 with the INLA surviving just barely,
/ Provisional IRA stepping in and wiping out the main Belfast leadership of the IPLO
/  as IPLO were openly involved in drug dealing
/ letting the rest of IPLO dissolve outside of Belfast

1992, the INLA carried out its first killing in England, post Airey Neave death
/ shot dead a recruiting army sergeant in Derby

1997, NLA gunmen opened fire on British soldiers in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast
Drumcree conflict triggered x6 days of fierce riots / widespread violence in several nationalist areas of Northern Ireland

mid-1980s, the INLA was greatly weakened by
1. splits among ranks
2. criminality within its own ranks
3. conviction of many of its members under the British supergrass scheme

Harry Kirkpatrick, an INLA volunteer
/ arrest - x5 murders charges, 1983
/ agrees to give evidence against other INLA members


Supergrass (informer)
British slang
originated London
informers referred to as 'grasses' since late 1930s
'super' coined by journalists in early 197022 / describing underworld informers testifying against former associates
in series of high-profile mass trials of 1970s





grass / for SNAKE IN THE GRASS
known in English to mean 'traitor' since late 17th Century

phrase derives from the writings of Virgil (in Latin, latet anguis in herba)

latet anguis in herba = snake in the grass

latet = hidden
anguis = snake
herba = grass, plant

Northern Ireland the term "tout" is a popular alternative to "grass"

Northern Ireland police used term 'Assisting Offender' in lieu of 'tout' / 'grass'
legislation enables use of evidence from such offenders

Northern Ireland 'supergrass' = arrested paramilitaries
/ divulged identities of compatriots to ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY
/ probably in exchange from IMMUNITY from prosecution + monetary inducements (which were not denied)

1981, use of term in Northern Ireland began with arrest of Christopher Black
in exchange for protection from prosecution:
Black gave statements which led to 38 arrests

Black testimonies alone:
1983, 22 members of the Provisional IRA were sentenced to a total of more than 4,000 cumulative years in prison
> x18 of those convictions overturned on appeal 1986

by end 1982, x25 more 'supergrasses' had surfaced contributing to the arrests of over 600 members paramilitary orgs

last supergrass trial finished on 18 December 1985
x25 members of the INLA were jailed on the evidence of Harry Kirkpatrick
x24 convictions later overturned 1986

many convictions based on supergrass testimony were later overturned, and the supergrass system was discontinued in 1985
UNTIL 2011


Neave pro-Ulsterisation

ULSTERISATION

three-part strategy

1. "primacy of the police"
2. "normalisation"
3. "criminalisation"

of the British government during the conflict known as the Troubles


ie. disengage the non-Ulster regiments of the British Army from duties Northern Ireland
/ replace them with LOCALLY recruited Royal Ulster Constabulary & other

objective = confine the effects of conflict to Northern Ireland

strategy outlined in:

unpublished 1975 British strategy paper titled The Way Ahead produced by a committee of senior British Army, RUC and MI5 officers

produced the often controversial strategies of "criminalisation" and Ulsterisation

'Criminalisation' / avoid acknowledgement of political motivation and nature of the conflict

*motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war ... to that of a campaign against "criminal gangs"

Ulsterisation = move to locally based policing

policy comes from a similar US strategy towards the end of the Vietnam War called "Vietnamisation"

COMMENT:  "LOCALISATION" - EFFECTIVE & PURSUED AS POLICY BY CAPITALIST COLONIALISTS IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATIONS

Ulsterisation led to important changes in the casualty patterns
/ military/police casualties from Northern Ireland EXCEEDING British casualties for the rest of conflict
/ reversing the previous pattern

*political impact in Britain of killings of British soldiers by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
= greater than the deaths of local security forces
= DROP in British Army casualties helped prevent any build-up in Britain of sentiment for withdrawal from Northern Ireland


Airey Neave
qualified lawyer
spoke fluent German
British army officer
politician

assassinated in 1979 in a car-bomb
at House of Commons

Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility

WWII
Neave -  first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle
subsequently promoted to war substantive captain / permanent rank of captain 1945
later recruited as an intelligence agent for MI9

MI9
MI9, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 9, was a department of the War Office between 1939 and 1945
tasked with facilitating escapes & return of British prisoners of war
communicated with British prisoners of war and sent them advice and equipment
understaffed due to power struggles and personality clashes with MI6 & other
/ WWII prison-camp escapees were debriefed and questioned about their journey home
/ MI9 - WWII presence in Middle East, military deception role / secret mission
'A' Force deception department set up, representing MI9 in ME during war (later separate)
manufactured various escape aid sent to POW camps

* officer prisoners inside Colditz Castle requested and received a complete floor plan of the castle

used the services of former magician Jasper Maskelyne to design hiding places for escape aids
forged German identity cards, ration coupons and travel warrants were also smuggled into POW camps

MI9 sent the tools in parcels in the name of various, usually non-existent, charity orgs
/ did not use Red Cross parcels lest they violate the Geneva Convention and to avoid the guards restricting access
MI9 relied upon their parcels either not being searched by the Germans OR message warning to prisoners to remove contraband
/ German guards learned to expect and find the escape aids

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI9

Escape equipment - more:


Airey Neave
  • role of reading indictments to the German leaders on trial
  • served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials, investigating Krupp
  • wrote several books about his war experiences including an account of the capitalist victor trials
  • was awarded the Bronze Star by the US government 1948

promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1950 (retroactive from 1948)

1950 & 1951, stood for the Conservative Party

career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959

Neave - campaign manager for Margaret Thatcher's leadership of Conseratives bid
1975, Thatcher elected leader
Neave rewarded with post as head of Thatcher private office
/ then appointed Shadow Sec. of State, Northern Ireland
/ & poised to take equivalent cabinet position at time of assassination, in the event of 1979 Conservatives win

Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who had extended the policy of Ulsterisation

Neave - author of the new and radical Conservative policy of abandoning devolution in Northern Ireland
+ concentrating on local government reform instead
this * integrationist policy *  abandoned hastily by successor

information from an intelligence agent 'Lee Tracey', claiming Neave had met Tracey, to recruit Tracey to team of intel & security specialists who would ensure politician Tony Benn "was stopped" - ie. alleged assassination of Tony Benn if Labour elected
/ second meeting planned but Neave was killed before meeting took place

MAGNETIC CAR BOMB, fitted with ball-bearing tilt switch, exploded under his new vehicle
at 2:58 pm, as he drove out of PALACE OF WESTMINSTER carpark
/ serious leg injuries - died in hospital without regaining consciousness


INCALCULABLE LOSS TO THE BRITISH RULING CLASS

INLA issued a statement:

In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class.

Neave assassination x2 days after the vote of no confidence
brought down Callaghan's government (few weeks before the 1979 general election)
saw Conservative victory / Margaret Thatcher to power as PM

Neave's wife: subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon

following Neave assassination, INLA was declared illegal across UK


KEVIN CAHILL

Kevin Cahill
Kevin James Cahill
author and investigative journalist
1965 and served as a platoon commander
in: Aden, Bahrain, and Northern Ireland
1968, leaves army
University Ulster, BA Eng Lit.
worked as a systems analyst at Farrington Data, Rank Xerox, Glaxo Ltd, Gulf Oil UK
+ Singer & Friedlander merchant bank
/ finished his professional career in computers as a project manager at International Computers Limited
1979 he became a full-time journalist
part-time Research Assistant to Paddy (now Lord) Ashdown in the House of Commons
+ various other
/ advised many politicians

investigative journalist, Kevin Cahill
claimed Neave assassination was an inside job
Neave killed by MI6 agents working with CIA
/ Neave sought to prosecute senior figures in intel establishment for corruption

Cahill wrote:
prior to Neave assassination in 1979, Conservative MP Airey Neave
on verge of a massive overhaul of the security services
possibly merger of MI5 & MI6
due to belief in corruption in security services

Cahill suggested link between assassination of Neave
  • & Sir Richard Sykes murder
  • + attempted murder of: Christopher Tugendhat, 1980

Cahill claims Neave would have been head of the combined security services
+ Sykes (foreign ops) and Tugendhat (home ops) as his deputies

HOUSE OF COMMONS - nobody would talk, says Cahill
"everyone knew" the story behind Neave's death but that no one could talk about it in detail because it would have been too dangerous
Cahill claims security staff did not believe INLA murdered Neave but that it was an "inside job"



FORCED
FEDERALISATION


Kevin Cahill book: Trade Wars (1987)

most important historical fact in the book - note in 1954 by a British Civil Servant

(T. W. Garvey, later Sir T. W. Garvey)

INDICATING UK had,
because of the 'special relationship' with USA:

1. "the Loan, the lion's share of MARSHALL AID"

2.  "comparative immunity from FORCIBLE FEDERALISATION ..."

Wikipedia: "No historian has been able to explain what 'forcible federalisation' was"

COMMENT: likely the NATO & EUROPEAN UNION capitalist federalisation & the capitalist promotion of dispossession of European peoples, promoted as 'humanitarian' benevolence of capitalism, in what is a push for 'globalisation' of ruling capitalist power - a capitalist-ruled world slave state





Interesting Capitalist History



Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

 It was a business world defined by globalization and growing interdependency. But it's not international trade circa 2000. As HBS professor Geoffrey Jones points out, the "global economy" first emerged in the 1870s.

 London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing information and contacts about investment opportunities worldwide.  — Geoffrey Jones


http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/merchants-to-multinationals-british-trading-companies-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries





Kevin Cahill book: Who Owns the World: The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership (2006)

Queen Elizabeth II is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth's surface
/ more than any other individual or nation
/ 6,600 million acres in 32 countries
/ Crown is never separate from the individual who holds it

all territories owned by the Crown,
including Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom,
the governments (on behalf of the people) of those countries DO NOT own the land of the country
but may administer it on behalf of its owner, HM Elizabeth II
/ all forms of land possession in those territories are based, formally and in law, on the Crown's superior ownership

Land Registry in places like the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia cannot register land ownership, only tenure
/ freehold and leasehold are defined in law as forms of tenure, not ownership

USA = only major country in which ownership of land was clearly defined as belonging to the citizens who had paid for it

USA federal govt owns one-third of the land of nation
as a landowner on a legal par with any other landowner and without a superior right to any land other than that endorsed on deeds as the property of the US federal govt

'eminent domain' - gives right of govt federal authorities & bodies to acquire privately owned land for public purposes




ENOCH POWELL




Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist
claimed in an interview with The Guardian, 1984
that Americans had killed:
1. Airey Neave
2. Lord Mountbatten
3. Robert Bradford MP

said: evidence came from a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
said (1986): Neave assassinated by "MI6 and their friends"

Neave's Northern Ireland policy had been one of integration with the rest of the UK
Americans feared that this process, if implemented, would be irreversible

Enoch Powell claimed;
Neave assassination
intended to make the British govt adopt a policy more acceptable to America in her aim of a united Ireland within NATO


wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave



RIVERS OF BLOOD

Enoch Powell












Come Out Ye
Black and Tans




MY OLD MAN'S A PROVO



Tiocfaidh ár lá



August 19, 2016

Capitalist Trojan





CAPITALIST TROJAN INFECTING THE WEST

THEFT OF HERITAGE

WHEREVER Europeans are invaded, raped, gang-raped, brutalised, home invaded, surrounded by foreign settlements, carjacked, murdered, vilified, dispossessed, politically suppressed, persecuted and prosecuted: it is by the ruling capitalists and their bureaucrats, who rob Europeans of their heritage, aided by the capitalist-owned media and capitalist-sponsored, self-serving, lying, Western intelligentsia.

CAPITALISM that exploits, divests and endangers all Europeans, assisted by capitalist-sponsored and disseminated FALSE IDEOLOGIES of:  'liberalism', 'progressivism', 'democracy' (that is rule by capitalists and their economists), and the illusion of 'individual liberty'; in conjunction with a sustained campaign of promoting entirely fraudulent and dangerous 'universalism' of universal 'human rights' conferred on alien, competing interests by capitalism (versus the preservation and primacy of inalienable rights and heritage of Europeans, that is being criminally transferred to invaders)

CAPITALIST-ENDORSED and capitalist-sponsored false ideologies are evangelised and enforced by the obedient, well-trained dogs of the capitalists:  the capitalist co-opted left-wing political parties, co-opted trade unions, and co-opted capitalist-sponsored 'progressive' interests groups), that comprise key components of a sustained decades-long top down and street level capitalist-sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies, that has grossly undermined vital interests and existential needs of all Europeans.



COMMENT

This is the Western capitalist-serving trojan that has infected and is destroying all European societies, to further the aims of US-Anglo led global capitalism.

It is the same trojan that capitalism sponsors and endeavours to inject into independent, sovereign foreign nations that are the target of US-Anglo-led capitalist strategic conquest, per se and a target in the greater contest for US-Anglo capitalist global hegemony.
The breakdown of European demographics and the breakdown of the traditional order and of the political dynamics of European societies, is the breakdown of the independence and strength of Europeans to assert European people's national interests (as a people); and it is breakdown of the power to resist exploitation by foreign capitalism, as European societies are drawn further into the nation-divesting snare that is promotion of so-called 'diversity' and 'progressive' values by US-Anglo capitalism and by its vast network of capitalist sponsored NGOs and international network of interfering and independence violating American embassies, installed by a  corrupt, disgusting and dangerous, capitalist-psychopath exploited, crime-ridden, neglected, poverty-stricken, murderous, nationally indebted, American capitalist elite serving, US-NATO capitalist mercenary deploying, war criminal, generationally raped American taxpayer third world slave-state.



Don't Buy Capitalist Propaganda




Don't Buy Capitalist Propaganda

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/06/dont-blame-masses

Don't Blame the Masses
Published on Saturday, August 06, 2016 by The Boston Globe
by Stephen Kinzer

Whether or not the world is in an unusually bad state these days, it certainly seems so. Even Americans, famous for our lack of interest in world affairs, now closely follow news from far away. Much of it is frightening.

Terror attacks are claiming innocent lives around the world. Syria is being torn apart. China and Russia boldly pursue their national interests and defy American dictates. Turkish democracy is evaporating. Iran and Saudi Arabia are at each other’s throats. Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on interminably. The European Union is staggering, with Britain quitting and others perhaps to follow. Meanwhile, several European countries are drifting toward right-wing authoritarianism. Donald Trump’s campaign threatens to take the United States in the same direction.

This is the opposite of what many Americans expected. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 set off a wave of triumphalism in the West. Americans welcomed the “end of history” and presumed that all countries would quickly adopt political and economic systems like ours. There was to be a “peace dividend” as tranquility settled over the globe. People would become more prosperous. Nations would cooperate. All would gratefully submit to America’s will.

Those were delusions. The world has gone in precisely the opposite direction, toward tribalism and conflict. We are now paying the price for grave misjudgments.

The first was our misunderstanding of the Soviet collapse. It was a Soviet failure, but we interpreted it as an epochal American victory. That led us to believe that in a post-Cold War world, American power would grow, turning us into a global hegemon that other countries would happily follow. This was never realistic.

Moments of change require adaptation, but the United States is not good at adapting. We are used to being in charge. This blinded us to the reality that as other countries began rising, our relative power would inevitably decline. Rather than shifting to a less assertive and more cooperative foreign policy, we continued to insist that America must reign supreme. When we declared that we would not tolerate the emergence of another “peer power,” we expected that other countries would blithely obey. Instead they ignore us. We interpret this as defiance and seek to punish the offenders. That has greatly intensified tensions between the United States and the countries we are told to consider our chief adversaries, Russia and China.

The ideological conflict of the Cold War was so intense that when it ended, Americans assumed tranquility would follow. In fact, the Cold War was simply a temporary phenomenon that masked centuries-old political, social, cultural, and religious conflicts. Nationalism and tribalism, which began shaping the world long before Communism was invented, have reemerged rather than fading away.

Our wrongheaded reaction to the end of the Cold War was America’s first major contribution to today’s global turmoil. The next was our decision to invade Iraq. That invasion continues to shape the world. The recent surge in Islamist terror is one of its long-term results. So are the refugee flows that have destabilized Europe and contributed to the rise of extremist political movements there. It is an object lesson in the long-term effects of intervening in faraway lands — a lesson we still seem not to have learned.

Because we interpreted the end of the Cold War as the ultimate vindication of America’s economic system, we intensified our push toward the next level of capitalism, called globalization. It was presented as a project that would benefit everyone. Instead it has turned out to be a nightmare for many working people. Thanks to “disruption” and the “global supply chain,” many American workers who could once support families with secure, decent-paying jobs must now hope they can be hired as greeters at Walmart. Meanwhile, a handful of super-rich financiers manipulate our political system to cement their hold on the nation’s wealth.

Our leaders told us that the end of the Cold War would make America more powerful than ever, that we had to invade Iraq because Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction, and that deregulating our economy and signing trade deals would improve the lives of ordinary people. We cannot be surprised that as the scope of those deceptions became clear, people would become angry.

American elites are hardly the only ones who have cynically misled their people. The same happened in Europe. “Ever closer union” was another product of the dopey optimism that infected the West in the 1990s. It ignored the evident fact that most Europeans, like most people everywhere, feel loyalty to their own nation or group, and that this loyalty is not easily transferrable to diffuse and distant conglomerations. The EU has been run largely for the benefit of the business class. Ordinary Europeans have come to realize this, and it has angered them. The same anger is enveloping countries from Egypt and Nigeria to Brazil and Venezuela.

In our complex modern age, the interdependent world does not run smoothly by itself. It requires farsighted leadership that takes the fate of ordinary people seriously and favors diplomacy over coercive force. Blaming the masses for stupidly supporting demagogic politicians is mistaken. People quite reasonably resent what their leaders have done to them over the last quarter century. They demand something different, whatever it is. That is the central cause of the new world disorder.

© 2016 Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC

Stephen Kinzer is a former New York Times reporter and the author of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (2006) and Reset Middle East: Old Friends and New Alliances: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey,Iran (2011). www.stephenkinzer.com
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/08/06/dont-blame-masses



COMMENT


THEFT OF HERITAGE

WHEREVER Europeans are invaded, raped, gang-raped, brutalised, home invaded, surrounded by foreign settlements, carjacked, murdered, vilified, dispossessed, politically suppressed, persecuted and prosecuted: it is by the ruling capitalists and their bureaucrats, who rob Europeans of their heritage, aided by the capitalist-owned media and capitalist-sponsored, self-serving, lying, Western intelligentsia.

CAPITALISM that exploits, divests and endangers all Europeans, assisted by capitalist-sponsored and disseminated FALSE IDEOLOGIES of:  'liberalism', 'progressivism', 'democracy' (that is rule by capitalists and their economists), and the illusion of 'individual liberty'; in conjunction with a sustained campaign of promoting entirely fraudulent and dangerous 'universalism' of universal 'human rights' conferred on alien, competing interests by capitalism (versus the preservation and primacy of inalienable rights and heritage of Europeans, that is being criminally transferred to invaders)

CAPITALIST-ENDORSED and capitalist-sponsored false ideologies are evangelised and enforced by the obedient, well-trained dogs of the capitalists:  the capitalist co-opted left-wing political parties, co-opted trade unions, and co-opted capitalist-sponsored 'progressive' interests groups), that comprise key components of a sustained decades-long top down and street level capitalist-sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies, that has grossly undermined vital interests and existential needs of all Europeans.




Ordinary Americans may well be famous for lack of interest in world affairs, but the American oligarchs and conglomerates are certainly not disinterested or hands-off:  they have been violating the affairs of millions of people around the world, whose governments they have undermined, installed or deposed and whose countries they have bombed — when the American capitalists, the CIA, and American foundations are not otherwise bankrolling and organising political and social unrest in foreign nations, that are targeted for American capitalist take-down that benefits the bank accounts and investment returns of the American ruling elite.

Whatever is 'frightening' in the world today, America, it's Western capitalist allies and it's Wahhabi allies supporting Islamic radicalism and tearing down nations in the Middle East and Africa, can take 'credit'.

The statement:

"China and Russia boldly pursue their national interests and defy American dictates"


is annoying to read.

Of course, China and Russia will pursue their national interests.  Why wouldn't they, and who are the American ruling oligarchy to seek to interfere with the sovereignty and national self-determination of the multitudes that comprise the nations of Russia and China.

After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the bet is that Turkey was always a CIA-MI6 capitalist puppet and, as the capitalists are not fussed whether their puppets are dictators or not, it is a good guess that Turkey was never what passes itself off as 'democracy' in the West (ie socially liberal mayhem, propaganda, suppression, unions working against working class interests, and the ruling capitalists in control, no matter who is elected, while the people of nations of these so-called 'democracies' are hostage to a program of third world invasion).  Compared to that, give me Turkey any day.  The bet is Turkey isn't implementing a program of genocide against the Turkish people.  Yes, they're brutal to rebelling out-groups; but they're protecting interest of Turks as a people.

What Turkey may now be doing is regaining some of its independence from US-Anglo capitalist control, which the US-Anglo capitalists are displeased with; which would probably explain the attempted CIA coup in Turkey?  Either that, or this whole Turkey thing is a fake, to ensure that the ruling party's grip on control of Turkey is solid, and the US-Anglo capitalists are party to this ruse.

The reference to "right-wing authoritarianism' is ridiculous.  Today, any white, or European, political organisation that stands even remotely by white, European, traditions or social norms, or lobbies for policy that is actually in the interests
(for a change) of the people that comprise any white, European nation, is labelled 'right-wing'.  'Authoritarian' is a nice new twist, though.

Trump is then drawn into this, as if Trump is the next Hitler (as the corporate media propaganda screams), but Trump is simply an American capitalist that wants what Israel has and what endangered white America wants:  a wall to keep the infiltrators out.

Oh, and he is, ostensibly, an isolationist ... which could pose problems for Wall Street warmongers.

Trump is infinitely a better choice than the unindicted criminal Hillary Clinton, but at the end of the day, if Trump is elected, Trump will be guided by advisors and by the demands of a 'democracy' that is in fact an oligarchy, so electing Trump is not vastly different to electing Hillary Clinton.  But, on the bright side, Trump hasn't got form destroying other nations, being a psychopath thrilled by the murder of Libya's leader, Muammar Gaddafi, or of getting ambassadors killed (to name just a few of Hillary Clinton's electoral selling points).

I reject this picture that's being painted:

There was to be a “peace dividend” as tranquillity settled over the globe. People would become more prosperous. Nations would cooperate.


Capitalists aren't dreamers; they're cold-hearted and greedy planners, devoid of sentimentality or delusions about a capitalist peace-and-prosperity nirvana emerging on the planet.

But, yes, they most certainly would have anticipated that American power would grow and they most certainly aim to make their profit-making interests paramount, as they work towards global hegemony:  that serves them and only them.

Nationalism and what is referred to as 'tribalism' (ie.  belonging to one's own racial and cultural group) is not something undesirable that has 're-emerged':  it is belonging to a tribe of people (a nation, a cohesive social group bound by heritage and history, and often a group bound by blood).  It is something that has been suppressed in Europeans (whites), to the detriment of Europeans, who have been exploited and divested of their nations by capitalists implementing a program of population replacement by invasion; and this is a CRIME that is being committed by capitalists against the people of all European nations.  Europeans have legitimate and inalienable rights to identity and integrity (be it spacial, biological or social etc), and the legitimate right to pursue what is in the interests of European peoples (versus European and American capitalists).

Refugee flows are not merely flows of migrants from Iraq:  the US-led capitalists have destroyed or otherwise helped to destroy a series of Middle-Eastern and African countries.  But, whatever the case in that regard, it is not incumbent on European peoples to take the hit and to destroy European societies, no matter what the capitalist owned media and the capitalist sponsored intelligentsia may preach.

The destruction of European societies, destruction of European social order, and the destruction of European nations as nations, is a long-standing capitalist agenda implemented per US-Anglo capitalist clear intent to neutralise the future potential for resistance to (and independence of) Europeans from international capitalist rule, following the CAPITALIST defeat of Germany in 1945.  This agenda has also been methodically implemented by
European Union capitalists, under the banner of the European Union and its earlier incarnation; and it is an agenda that has been implemented by all European-settled, US-Anglo capitalist controlled, colonies.

The reference to "extremist political movements" is ridiculous:  Europeans, wherever they are, have a right to self-determination and a right to preservation of European interests and European societies, and it is absolutely imperative for the shrinking European demographic worldwide to ensure that the interests of Europeans are not only protected, but also firmly advanced, since such interests have been systemically grossly undermined over the passage of decades of 
self-annihilating sleep-walking into the deliberately laid snare of what the capitalist thieves call 'diversity' — which is, in fact, capitalist implemented path to white genocide, that is a trap precisely because the longer the program of invasion (in the capitalist PR-spun guise of 'diversity') is permitted to continue, the more impossible it is to remedy without major civil upheaval and war

The capitalist push for 'globalisation' is merely a push for US-Anglo led capitalist global hegemony, and it has absolutely nothing to do with 'benefiting everyone', and certainly would not have been envisaged in those terms by nation destroying greedy capitalists and currency speculators.

The reference to "dopey optimism" infecting the West in the 1990s is ridiculous.  If any 'optimism' was displayed, it was propaganda as a ruse, to con the working classes out of their heritage, as capitalists edged closer to divesting Europeans and destroying European nations.  The co-opted unions and 'left' parties that do not support working-class European (white) interests aided the capitalist thieves, making them accomplices to the robbery of the heritage of Europeans.

Don't blame the masses because the masses do not have a choice, even when they vote for those that pose an 'alternative'; because there really is no alternative.  Whoever is elected of the mainstream political parties, is much the same proposition as those that are destroying European societies worldwide.

Today's capitalist or capitalist serving politicians that are painted as 'right-wing', 'authoritarian' or a threat to 'democracy' (ie to what is hostile rule by oligarchy), are no such thing in reality.  Voting for them is merely the lesser of two evils and merely forestalling slightly the inevitable destruction of one's nation and people, by capitalism, unless the capitalists are stopped by war or revolution.

Reclamation of European heritage and significant change can only be manifested by revolution.  But I don't see a revolution any time soon.  So say goodbye to Europe and say goodbye to the European people, in this lifetime.



THEFT OF HERITAGE

WHEREVER Europeans are invaded, raped, gang-raped, brutalised, home invaded, surrounded by foreign settlements, carjacked, murdered, vilified, dispossessed, politically suppressed, persecuted and prosecuted: it is by the ruling capitalists and their bureaucrats, who rob Europeans of their heritage, aided by the capitalist-owned media and capitalist-sponsored, self-serving, lying, Western intelligentsia.

CAPITALISM that exploits, divests and endangers all Europeans, assisted by capitalist-sponsored and disseminated FALSE IDEOLOGIES of:  'liberalism', 'progressivism', 'democracy' (that is rule by capitalists and their economists), and the illusion of 'individual liberty'; in conjunction with a sustained campaign of promoting entirely fraudulent and dangerous 'universalism' of universal 'human rights' conferred on alien, competing interests by capitalism (versus the preservation and primacy of inalienable rights and heritage of Europeans, that is being criminally transferred to invaders)

CAPITALIST-ENDORSED and capitalist-sponsored false ideologies are evangelised and enforced by the obedient, well-trained dogs of the capitalists:  the capitalist co-opted left-wing political parties, co-opted trade unions, and co-opted capitalist-sponsored 'progressive' interests groups), that comprise key components of a sustained decades-long top down and street level capitalist-sponsored campaign of propaganda and lies, that has grossly undermined vital interests and existential needs of all Europeans.



March 21, 2016

Noam Chomsky: What Is Globalisation?







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYwAXZh0ME



TRANSCRIPT
[for quotations, confirm audio]


SOURCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYwAXZh0ME

Noam Chomsky:  What Is Globalization?
*needs proof-reading

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Noam Chomsky:

Actually
, the best definition that I know, if I can remember, is by a well-known Canadian development economist, Gerry Helleiner, who tried to summarise it in a little ditty, which went something like this (don't hold me to the exact words).  He said:

The poor complain
They always do
But that's just idle chatter
Our system brings rewards to all
At least, to all who matter
[Laughter]

Essentially, that captures it.  OK, I can go home.



[Laughter]

Whenever I say 'globalisation', I mean in quotes:  now, what's called 'globalisation' is one specific modality of international integration.

There's nothing wrong with international integration.  That's a great thing.

It's nice to meet people from other countries and all sorts of other things.

But there are various forms of possible international integration, and the one that's called 'globalisation' is one particular one.

Like, it's not the new international economic order that the South was calling for, and it's not the new global system that they're now calling for; it's a different one.

This new one, the one that is called, [is] the official one:  you know, the one that Thomas Friedman writes laudatory books about, and so on.

Among its other properties are that a country has to open up their borders to free imports, so they have to accept imports from a highly subsidised US, and Eurpean and Canadian, agribusiness which, of course, instantly wipes out domestic production for domestic needs and that means that poor farmers are starving.

One thing they can do is flee to the cities, which has the nice effect that they create a massive labour force which lowers wages, and it means that US and European manufacturers, or by now Japanese and Korean manufacturers, who are putting say assembly plants or whatever abroad, can benefit from cheaper labour and, consequently, wages can go down and, in fact, do go down while the economy booms. Mexico's a dramatic case.

But if farmers don't move to urban slums to become an excess labour force and try to produce something, it can't be commodities for the domestic market for food, because they will be wiped out by imported goods.

So, once again, they become what's known as a 'rational peasant' in the technical literature.

A 'rational peasant' is a peasant who understands that you have to produce for export and you have to seek the maximum profit.

OK, so you sort of spell that out, produce for export, stable markets, maximum profit.

Well, you get the same answer as before:  cocoa, poppies, and so on.

And that's what's happening.

So, the globalisation and, in particular, the undermining of the attempts of the South 30 years ago to create a form of globalisation directed toward the interests of the developing word -- that means almost the entire world -- one of the major consequences of this (and it's no big secret, you can read it in standard books of political economy and so on), was to greatly accelerate production of what we call 'drugs'.

I mean, not the most lethal drugs.  The most lethal ones are produced in places like North Carolina.

But what we call 'lethal drugs' here, peasants have been driven to it.  They have no choices.

In part by the choice by the powerful states 30 years ago to institute a particular form of international economic integration --  what's called 'globalisation'  -- in preference to another one.

One which would have, for example, as one of its properties among many others, things like stabilisation of primary commodity prices and what we call 'the neoliberal programs', like opening up your borders to imports from subsidised agri-export from northern agribusiness that has the same effect.

There's a lot more like this.

I mean, a lot of the -- what happens to the 'rational peasants', incidentally, after they've learned their lessons properly, you know, they are kind of like the equivalent of going to Harvard or MIT, or  Chicago Graduate School, and getting a degree in economics, so they become 'rational peasants'.

Well, once they've learned the lesson, they're rewarded. They're rewarded with helicopter and gun ships that you and I pay for, with chemical and biological warfare and putting experimental new biological techniques of who knows what effect, by what's called here a 'drug war'.

That's the reward for having learned the lessons, after having been essentially forced into a particular kind of production by the way globalisation works out.

That's one of its less discussed features.

Going back to the declaration of the south:  the poor are complaining as they always do.

They're calling for globalisation, for international economic integration, but are calling for a form that will be on the right of development and, in particular, the right of independent development.

It means no external compulsion.

SOURCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdYwAXZh0ME


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Gerald Helleiner
Professor Emeritus (ie. retired professor - fm. L. ēmerērī, to earn by service - TFD)
Department of Economics
Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto

1991 to 1999, Professor Helleiner:
Research Director of:  Group of 24
(ie deveoping countries' caucus at IMF & World Bank)
http://www.policyinnovations.org/innovators/people/data/07382


*By 'south', I first assumed Chomsky is referring to South America.  But I think he might be referring to the south of the United States, being (presumably) the centre of American agribusiness and perhaps biotechnology, as well?  So it's this US economic sector that would be seeking globalisation (I think).

Biotech Industry
North Carolina
-- abt. 600 bioscience companies that directly employ over 60,000
-- in addition to, 2,000 additional North Carolina industry support companies
    http://directory.ncbiotech.org/
-- many world’s largest biotechnology & pharmaceutical facilities are located in North Carolina
-- home to:  Bayer (biggest plasma-based factory in world)
-- home to:  Wyeth (largest vaccine facility in world)
-- home to:  Baxter (largest intravenous solutions facility);
-- home to:  Biogen Idec (largest manufacturing biologics facility)

-- 2005:  USA 1,415 biotechnology companies, total revenue:  $50.7 billion
-- of these 329 publicly held, total market capitalisation $410 billion
-- North Carolina:  $3 billion annual revenue
-- aiming to build biotechnology workforce at 125,000 in $24 billion industry by 2023
-- global biotech generates $40 billion in sales & expected to grow to $120 billion
-- possibly as at 2007 estimate (undated document) - copyright is at 2007
   http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-recent/6255

Biotechnology
use of biological substances to engineer or manufacture a product or substance
use of living systems and organisms
-- ie.  use of microorganisms
to perform industrial or manufacturing processes
applications:  eg. drugs, synthetic hormones, bulk foodstuffs, bioconversion of organic waste
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/biotechnology



Thomas Friedman
Thomas Loren Friedman
b. Minnesota 1953
resides:   Bethesda, Maryland (with wife & family)

Jewish:  5 day per week Hebrew school to Bar Mitzvah
St Louis Park High School
1968 Israel visit + following high school summers, at kibbutz (Haifa)
high school years feature:  celebration of Israel victory Six-Day-War
University of Minnesota - 2 years
Brandeis University, Mediterranean studies degree (1975)
University of Oxford (St Antony's College)
-- at Oxford, earns Master Philosophy in Middle Eastern Studies

-- Thomas Friedman attended Oxford as:  Marshall Scholar
    Oxford University - Oxford England
    world's oldest surviving university

    Marshall Scholarship
    -- post graduate scholarship (USA) for any university in UK
    -- along w. Fulbright Scholarship, only broadly available scholarship for UK study
    -- considered prestigious scholarship
    -- as at current dates:  to 40 from pool of 1,000 selected
    -- scholarship was created by the Parliament of UK
    -- on passing of:   Marshall Aid Commemoration Act (1953)
    -- 'living gift' to USA re post WWII 'Recovery Plan' aka 'Marshall Plan'
    --  living memorial to George Marshall
    -- inspired by Rhodes Scholarship
    -- as well as academic pursuits, aimed to provide insight into British way of life
    -- plus strengthen 'Special Relationship' b/w USA & UK
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Scholarship
   
  George Marshall
    George Catlett Marshall, Jr.
    USA - 1880-1959
    scion of an old Virginia family (ie. descended)
    Marshall was a Freemason:  by 1941 Grand Master District of Columbia
    WWI mentor:  General John Joseph Pershing
    -- Marshall posted to HQ of American Expeditionary Force
    -- key planner of American ops re defeat Germans Western Front 1918
    -- Perishing known for:  training and teaching modern, mechanized warfare
       
    Marshall:
    Chief of Staff USA under x2 USA presidents
    Secretary of State  - Harry S. Truman
    Secretary of Defence - Harry S. Truman
    US Army Chief of Staff - WWII
    Chief military adviser -  Franklin D. Roosevelt
    -- hailed by Winston Churchill for:
    -- leadership of the Allied victory in WWII
    -- received Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for the Marshall Plan
    -- but US State Dept. developed most of the Marshall Plan (for 'economic recovery')
       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Marshall
       
-- Thomas Friedman married into Bucksbaum family
    wife daughter of:  Matthew Bucksbaum (d. 2013)
    2011, Matthew Bucksbaum was worth an estimated US$1.2 billion
    Matthew Bucksbaum - co-founder General Growth Properties (w. brothers)
    formerly US Air Forces -- a cryptographer, New Guinea
    BA Economics University of Iowa
    family owned chain of x3 grocery stores
    1945 borrow $1.2 million for first shopping centre Iowa - expanded into enclosed malls 1960s
    own & manage shopping malls throughout USA
    120 regional shopping malls in forty states
    Revenue     US $3.02 billion
    Net income US $994 million

    family business struck financial probs. 2008
    *value of family fortune SHRANK by 97% since Dec. 2007
    2009 Chapter 11 bankruptcy:  largest real estate bankruptcy since 1980
    "Unlike most Chapter 11 bankruptcies, existing General Growth stockholders were not wiped out upon the company's exit from bankruptcy" - creation of new company as spinoff: Howard Hughes Corp.
    Hughes Corp assets include:  91km squared Las Vegas 'master-planned community, & other shopping centres.
    2011-2012, General Growth spun off 30 mall properties into a public company, Rouse Properties, Inc
    What?  So it looks like a bankruptcy that wasn't a bankruptcy?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Growth_Properties
   
Thomas Friedman
-- career as journalist:
-- United Press International (London) after obtaining Masters at Oxford
-- dispatched to Beirut
-- lived Beirut 1979 to 1981 covering Lebanon Civil War
-- 1981 - New York Times - redispatchd to Beirut at start 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
-- covered Sabra & Shatila massacre
-- won Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (shared w. anor from WaPo)
-- shared win with David K. Shipler - George Polk Award, foreign reporting
-- 1984 - New York Times, Jerusalem Bureau Chief to 1988
-- yet another Pulitzer re coverage:  First Palestinian Intifada
-- book:  From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989 US National Book Award for Nonfiction)
-- George HW Bush admin,  Secretary of State James Baker - covered by Thomas Friedman
-- 1992 - election of Bill Clinton:  Friedman becomes White House correspondent for NYT
-- 1994 - more on foreign policy & economics - op-ed page NYT as foreign affairs columnist 1995
-- 2002 Friedman gets Pulitzer Prize for Commentary:
    -- his supposed clarity of vision on 'worldwide impact of the terrorist threat'
-- 2002 - met Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah & encouraged end of Arab-Israeli conflict
-- sought normalisation of Arab-Israeli relations in exchange for return of refugees
-- plus end to Israel territorial occupations
-- Abdullah proposed:  Arab Peace Initiative at the Beirut Summit
-- Freidman strong supporter:  Arab Peace Initiative at the Beirut Summit

"Several days later, on September 11, all at once Saudi Arabia was transformed from a critic into an object of criticism. It emerged that 15 Saudis were involved in the terror attacks on the United States."

"The following February, to soften the criticism, Abdullah invited columnist Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times to dine with him."

"Friedman wrote that he took advantage of the opportunity to tell his host that in one of his recent columns, he had proposed that the 22 members of the Arab League, who were to convene for a summit in Beirut on March 27-28, should offer Israel, in return for its withdrawal to the June 4 lines and the establishment of a Palestinian state, the establishment of full diplomatic and trade relations and the provision of security guarantees."

Abdulllah:  "I have drafted a speech along those lines. My thinking was to deliver it before the Arab summit and try to mobilize the entire Arab world behind it. The speech is written, and it is in my desk. But I changed my mind about delivering it when Sharon took the violence, and the oppression, to an unprecedented level." "

" ...  prince had authorized [Thomas Friedman] to quote his words. President Bush welcomed the initiative. So did prime minister Ariel Sharon. He sent a message to Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, and to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, asking them to arrange a meeting between him and senior Saudis, either openly or in secret. At the end of February, Sharon offered to deliver a speech before the Arab League and present his conditions for peace. The Arab leaders rejected the idea on the grounds that it was just a maneuver to win recognition without giving anything in return. "
Haaretz - March 6, 2007
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/what-arab-initiative-1.214741
GLOBALISATION
Thomas Friedman
-- 2004 visits Bangalore, India + Dalian, China.
-- globalisation discussed as far back as 1999 (The Lexus & the Olive Tree)
-- writes follow-up analysis:  The World is Flat (2005)
-- argues:  countries must sacrifice degree of economic sovereignty to global institutions
-- eg. capital markets + multinational corporations
-- referred to as the 'golden straitjacket'
-- capital markets = financial markets
-- buy / sell:  long-term debt or equity-backed securities
-- Friedman an advocate of globalisation
-- concerned re lack of independence re US energy
-- Saudi's described as 'pushers' (oil producers) to consumer 'addicts'
-- pro US energy independence
-- ensuing petrodollar depletion PLUS growing population of young
-- will coerce authoritarian rulers out of Middle East
-- Friedman sees this as best way to:  spread stability & modernisation in autocratic & theocratic region
-- would supposedly ease world tensions caused by energy demand
-- which is worsened by India and China as emerging economies

-- opponents of free trade say: 
Friedman does not consider purchasing power of domestic labour as key driver in economic output
-- Friedman says when low-skill & low-wage jobs are exported to foreign countries
-- advanced, higher-skilled jobs will be 'freed up' and made available for those displaced (by outsourcing)
-- Friedman views American immigration laws as too restrictive & damaging to economic output

CENSORSHIP
Friedman called for the U.S. State Department to
--  "shine a spotlight on hate speech wherever it appears"

-- said the governmental speech-monitoring should go beyond those who actually advocate violence
-- ie should censor those Friedman considers 'excuse-makers' for terrorists (apologists) blaming third-party

SERBIA
During illegal 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Friedman:  1999: "Like it or not, we are at war with the Serbian nation ... You want 1950? We can do 1950. You want 1389? We can do 1389 too."

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) labelled Freidman's remarks "war-mongering" and "crude race-hatred and war-crime agitation".

Norman Solomon 2007, says:  "a tone of sadism could be discerned" in Friedman's article.

    Solomon, anti-war campaigner
    -- behind 14,000 person e-mail petition to govt of Ecuador
    -- urging Ecuador to grant Julian Assange asylum
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Solomon


IRAQ
Friedman supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq:

establishment of a democratic state in the Middle East would force other countries in the region to liberalize and modernize.

2003 - Wall Street Journal article:  re lack of compliance w/ UNSC resolution re Iraq 'WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION'

Friedman later rebuked George W. Bush and Tony Blair for "hyping" the evidence

Big on the 'converting Iraq to democracy' theme, which reminds me of the Goebbels propaganda swing lyrics:

"Listen to the BBC, BBC, BBC, Listen to the BBC, tra-la-la-la, Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? Who wants to make free people free?"
Friedman 2004: 
dismisses the justification for war based on Iraq's lack of compliance with UN Resolutions
--  "The right reason for this war ... was to oust Saddam's regime and partner with the Iraqi people ..."
-- refers to Arab Human Development report
-- claiming lack of freedom, women's empowerment & modern eduction cause of Arab ills
-- Friedman's right reason for war was:  to partner with Arab moderates in long-term strategy of 'dehumiliation' and 'redignification' 


"Listen to the BBC, BBC, BBC, Listen to the BBC, tra-la-la-la, Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? Who wants to make free people free?"
ISRAEL
--  according to FAIR, Friedman was explicitly endorsing terrorism by Israel against Lebanese and Palestinians


-- Glenn Greenwald and professor Noam Chomsky also accused Friedman of endorsing and encouraging terrorism by Israeli forces

-- Belen Fernandez:  Friedman's suggestion Israeli forces unaware re allied Lebanese militias carrying out out Sabra and Shatila massacre while under Israeli guard, contradicts other journalist assessments & observers.

-- Belen Fernandez: Friedman most worried about successfully maintaining Israel's Jewish ethnocracy and actively opposing a "one-man, one-vote" system of democracy.

-- critics on Israel side as well - eg. re suggestion Israel relinquish territory conquered 1967

-- Friedman wrote congressional ovations re Bibi Netanyahu "bought & paid for by Israel lobby" - sparked criticism.  Friedman suggests a more precise term:  "engineered" by Israel lobby.

+ more entries [I'm getting bored]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Friedman



Arab Human Development Report
sponsored by: 

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
platform for 'Arab scholars'
Democracy & human rights angle.
Education system requires transformation.
Report calls for the adoption of time-bound affirmative action - re women
contends that this is:  imperative to dismantle structures of centuries of discrimination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Human_Development_Report

UNDP
f. 1965
to help the economic and political aspects of underdeveloped countries
2013, UNDP’s budget - approximately 5 billion USD
-- offices & staff are on ground in 177 countries
--  links and coordinates global and national efforts re 'development priorities' of host countries
--  supports national democratic transitions
--  improving institutional capacity
--  educating & advocating re democratic reforms
--  facilitates consensus etc. re existing 'democratic institutions'
-- works at the macro level to:
    -- reform trade
    -- encourage debt relief + foreign investment
    -- facilitate benefit from globalisation by the poor
-- coordinates efforts b/w governments, NGOs, + outside donors
-- reduces risk of armed conflicts or disasters

NSA surveillance
-- Snowden 2013
-- British & American intel agencies NSA targets include: 
    -- UNDP
    -- UN's children's charity Unicef
    -- Médecins Sans Frontières
    -- Economic Community of West African States   (ECOWAS)
-- some criticism re irregularities in finances in North Korea
-- mid-2006:  UNDP halted disarmament programs Uganda re human rights abuses
-- in forcible disarmament programs carried out by Uganda People's Defence Force
-- UNDP criticised [not clear to me why]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Development_Programme




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COMMENT


Really disliked the Friedman guy, as I was checking this out.

Noam Chomsky's likeable and always interesting.

Friedman sounds sort of mixed up and all over the place. Gets criticised by everybody.

I'm wondering if this is what all White House correspondents are like: ie in the mould of Friedman?

Anyway, that's a bit on what was supposed to be about globalisation ... but I went off on a tangent checking everyone out.

I've looked at this in one sitting & I'm over it now.   Need a break.


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*I don't get the biotech revenues and estimates at all.  Numbers isn't my thing.  Don't get the comparison between the North Carolina figures & the world figures.

*I thought Friedman's formative years, in terms of education and affinity with the state of Israel, was interesting in terms of his later becoming a correspondent re Middle Eastern affairs.  As in, Friedman would surely have a pro-Israel bias, as a result?  

*United Nations Development Program, sound like just another way for Western imperialists to control the rest of the world.