EDITOR—This video has quite a story, albeit, a typical story for a film that exposes the Empire in all its perfidy. It was first posted about a decade ago, on Cyrano’s Journal, when we first encountered this resource. It was soon the object of sabotage by technical means: the page mysteriously vanished and our server went down—for almost a full week. Further attempts met the same fate, so we gave up until circumstances became favorable to our side. Lately, we decided to try again and looked for the video all over the place, to no avail. It was certainly not on YouTube, a platform notorious for its aggressive participation in imperialist censorship of free speech exposés. But, we eventually found it on YouTube, again, of all places, although after posting it here a few days, it again vanished (see the black box below). Clicking on the link provided to supposedly see it on YouTube itself, as they promise, leads nowhere. So we conducted a new wide search and located an independent depot that had preserved this film.
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JOHN PILGER—Clinton, the “women’s candidate”, leaves a trail of bloody coups: in Honduras, in Libya (plus the murder of the Libyan president) and Ukraine. The latter is now a CIA theme park swarming with Nazis and the frontline of a beckoning war with Russia. It was through Ukraine – literally, borderland — that Hitler’s Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, which lost 27 million people. This epic catastrophe remains a presence in Russia. Clinton’s presidential campaign has received money from all but one of the world’s ten biggest arms companies. No other candidate comes close.
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JEFF BROWN—One of the great fabrications of Western mainstream media, among academics and on Wall Street is that China, starting in 1978 with Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms, became a capitalist country. The favorite Western shibboleth bandied about is that, China’s authoritarian regime (it’s almost never called a government) runs a system of state capitalism.
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STEPHEN GOWANS—The Stone and Kuznick view is, really, rather quite silly. They believe that Mao and Kim decided to become guerrillas, and Stalin, a Bolshevik, because these were routes to the acquisition of personal power, self-aggrandizement, and iron-fisted control. Yet, at the time, guerrilla and underground revolutionary were hardly the most promising career paths for people who lusted for power and self-aggrandizement. If Stalin really lusted after these things, why didn’t he link up with Tsarist forces, rather than the Bolsheviks, which until mid-1917 were a minor political force that no one (including many Bolsheviks) expected to take power?
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S. JONAS—”Many critics of the Soviet Union conveniently forget that the Soviet experience was shaped in a significant part by what someday will come to be known as ‘The 75 Years War Against the Soviet Union, 1917-1992.'”
