By Timothy V. Gatto, Countercurrents.org

There is a stir in the air. Something is changing but I don’t think that anyone can actually put their finger on it. People are just tired, tired and disgusted. They don’t seem to believe anyone or anything anymore. The trustful population of a sleeping nation is starting to realize that their trust was put into the wrong hands.

It’s about time. What’s so sad about this situation is that people don’t want to wake up. They would rather close their eyes and dream on. Reality sucks, but sooner or later it comes around to bite you. The bankers, the politician and the media have become dangerous. People have had so much taken from them in the last few decades, remaining asleep is no longer an option. The people have lost their homes, their savings and most importantly, their freedom.

The question that everyone has is what can they do about it? Who can they go to in order to put everything back together? The answer that the people are starting to figure out is that there is no one to go to. Everything is controlled and manipulated by the very same people that are committing all of the atrocities. The answer they get to their question of who to go to is that the only person that can help them change their reality is the one asking the question. The answer, the person to trust, the one who can right these wrongs society faces is themselves.

This is when things become serious. This is the beginning of revolution. A revolution starts with an awareness that things have gotten out of hand. No one revolts when everything is just great. Revolutions start when people find themselves with their backs against a wall. Revolutions start when there are no answers. Revolutions start when people lose hope.

Americans are losing hope. The questions are too complicated. The issues are too complicated. Like every civilization that has preceded this one, the people have gone to the well once too often. The well is dry. The answers they get from those “in authority”are convoluted and border in the absurd. There is an old maxim that says “Those that can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities” (Voltaire). The absurdities have been believed, and the atrocities have been committed. There is no more justification for the behavior, no more reasons to support the absurdities.

How many people must die in order to declare the fight was won? How many explanations do we need to excuse ourselves for their murders? No one seems to care anyway. We are at war. We are always at war. I was born during a war and I expect to die during one. War is the American way of life. Support the troops, support their leaders and reject anything you don’t understand. Issues’ that are just too complicated to understand must be suspect. Anything that is not understandable must be killed. That is something everyone can understand.

We fight everywhere, Europe, Africa, Asia, North America and South America…everywhere. Everyone is our enemy, yet everyone is our friend. Myanmar (Burma) was a totalitarian dictatorship just a few years ago. The government killed their own people with impunity. It was regarded as a pariah state and had no allies. Last year it became an ally of the United States. It still kills their own people with impunity and rules with an iron fist, but now it is our friend. Our other “friends” are Saudi Arabia, The Congo, Sudan, and Columbia just to name a few. We supported the ouster of President Fernando Lugo of Paraguay last month. The Army installed a new President. This was sanctioned by The United States. The Mercosur trade bloc has suspended Paraguay over the impeachment of President Fernando Lugo on 22 June. Paraguay is once again “our friend”.

Bahrain is another “friend”, and the home of the Fifth Fleet anchored outside Manama, the capital. With the help of Saudi Arabia and Qatar (among other nations), they ruthlessly kill protesting citizens and kill and torture Doctors and medics that treat the injured. Bahrain is our “friend”. Iran, a nation that has not committed a war of aggression in over two centuries, and holds democratic elections, is our “enemy”. Meanwhile, in the same region, Azerbaijan, a ruthless petro-state run by BP, is our “friend”.

Corporations now run the nation. They serve their shareholders and no one else. They provide funds for every major political campaign in the United States. They have “First Amendment” rights, giving them the same protections as any ordinary American citizen, even though in reality, American citizens have lost most of their “rights” under the Constitution. I have already told you about complicated explanations most issues face. It is all complicated.

Radiation from the nuclear facilities affected by the Earthquake and tsunami that followed in Fukishima, Japan, is polluting the Pacific. The reactors there need to be shut down and “contained” to stop deadly radiation from entering the ocean and poisoning the western half of America. The Japanese government claims that they don’t have the funds to contain them. Estimates of five Billion dollars are the average estimate of the cost. No government, including the United States, will help, even though this nuclear waste could contaminate the entire West Coast with deadly levels of ionizing radiation. Just one day of military spending could cap off all six reactors affected in Fukishima. It’s complicated.

We spend more on the military than the rest of the world combined. We export more military hardware than anything else we export. We torture, assassinate and overthrow other governments. We do this in the name of freedom.

So yes, the American people are finding themselves in a quandary. There is no one that will explain why we do these things. Questions are being asked, but no answers are forthcoming. Soon we will eliminate the President of Syria. Then we will attack Iran. We have an agenda that General Wesley Clarktold us about in 2008.

Yes its complicated. So is revolution.

Tim Gatto is former Chairman of the Liberal Party of America, Tim is a retired Army Sergeant. He currently lives in South Carolina. He is the author of “Complicity to Contempt” and “Kimchee Days” available at Oliver Arts and Open Press.

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by Stephen Lendman

Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation’s Editor and Publisher. Born and bred in the bosom of the establishment and quintessential American liberal.

Months before November’s election, New York Times editors made their choice: Obama in 2012. Expect an official endorsement to follow.

Editorial support signals it. On June 14, The Times headlined “The Political Contrast,” saying:

Obama’s recent Cleveland community college speech “contrast(ed) his goals and the failed Bush-era policies that Mitt Romney is trying to resurrect.”

He claimed “no meaningful difference between the trickle-down economics of George W. Bush, rejected (and) the plans supported by Mr. Romney and his Republican allies in Congress.”

“All the elements are there, from the slavish devotion to tax cuts for the rich, to a contempt for government regulation, to savage cutbacks in programs for those at the bottom.”

Fact check

Earlier, Times editors supported Bush era politics they now call “failed.” They endorsed the fraudulent 2000 election results. 

They downplayed Bush’s National Guard record, his alcoholism and drug abuse, his explosive temper, and unimpressive academic record.

They ignored his family ties, his record as Texas governor, and unbridled pro-business support.

Ten months after he took office, they claimed recount totals showed he won Florida when he lost. They said the Supreme Court “did not cast the deciding vote” when, in fact, it annulled popular and electoral totals to anoint their choice. 

They reported a litany of misinformation. Kernels of truth were buried multiple paragraphs into texts. Few readers saw them.

What Times editors supported earlier they now oppose. Why they’ll have to explain. Both parties are in lockstep on major issues mattering most. Not a dime’s worth of difference separates them. Times editors know but won’t say.

Instead they quoted Obama saying:

“If you want to give the policies of the last decade another try, then you should vote for Mr. Romney.”

“You should take them at their word, and they will take America down this path. And Mr. Romney is qualified to deliver on that plan.”

They cited Romney “denounc(ing) virtually all forms of regulation, from ones cleaning the air to those preventing banks from engaging in the same destructive behavior that produced the Great Recession on Mr. Bush’s watch.” 

“If only the government would get out of the way, he suggested, and stop trying to cover those without health insurance, or keep the groundwater clean, then jobs would magically reappear.” 

Obama’s proposals “are more likely to put people back to work.”

Romney’s “free-market ideas (are) bankrupt.”

“Breaking the grip of these ideas truly is, as Mr. Obama said….’a make-or-break moment for America’s middle class.”

Unexplained is that both candidates support similar policies. Pretending one differs from the other is false, duplicitous, and pernicious. 

Perhaps George Bernard Shaw had Obama in mind when he said, “Democracy is a form of government that substitutes elections by the incompetent many for the appointment of the corrupt few.”

Throughout his tenure, he’s done what supporters thought impossible. He governs to the right of George Bush. He wages multiple imperial wars, numerous proxy ones, and plans more at the expense of homeland needs.

He looted the nation’s wealth, wrecked the economy, and consigned growing millions to impoverishment without jobs, homes, hope or futures.  

He institutionalized tyranny. He presides over a bogus democracy under a homeland police state apparatus.

He targets whistleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, and environmental and animal rights activists called terrorists.

He spends more on militarism than the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies except the ones it invents. 

He partners with Israeli state terror, occupation, and imperial aggressiveness.

He uses NATO as an imperial tool killing machine. He plunges it like a dagger into humanity’s heart. He supplements with death squad diplomacy.  

He gave Wall Street crooks trillions of dollars while popular needs go begging.

He presides over the most massive wealth transfer in history. It’s the most egregious form of grand theft. Debt reduction and austerity are scams to continue it.

He targets independent leaders for regime change. At the same time, he supports some of the world’s most ruthless, corrupt despots. 

He governs lawlessly for monied interests that control him. He supports wealth and power.  

He spurns vital populist interests. He deplores progressive change. 

He broke every major promise made. He exceeds the worst of George Bush. 

He governs by diktat authority. He decides who’s free or imprisoned. He chooses who lives or dies.

His kill list institutionalized murder as official administration policy.

He promised to end torture but continues it.

He spurns human needs, rule of law principles, other democratic values, and right over wrong.

He spies on Americans more aggressively than any previous president.

He supports ending Net Neutrality for greater corporate control and enrichment. It’s also about suppresssing freedom of thought and expression. 

He’s waging class warfare against millions of ordinary Americans. 

He supports austerity for those least advantaged at the same time greater wealth gets earmarked for corporate favorites and rich elites.

He plans eliminating New Deal and Great Society gains. He’s eroding Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security en route to ending them altogether. 

He wages war on truth through aggressive media control.

He’s commodifying education. He plans ending government’s responsibility for it. He wants it as another business profit center. 

He’s destroying decades of hard won labor rights.

He endorses America’s race to the bottom. He’s heading it for banana republic harshness and impoverishment.

His financial reform is stealth theft and consolidation for global monetary control.

His healthcare plan taxes more, provides less, places profits above human need, leaves millions uninsured, many more underinsured, and makes a dysfunctional system worse.

His agribusiness empowerment policies benefit corporate giants at the expense of small farmers and consumers.

He promised change after eight Bush/Cheney years. Voters believed him. He won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 years. He gained Democrat majorities in both Houses.

He’s America’s first Black president. Nation magazine editor Katrina vanden Heuvel hailed the result. 

She called an Obama administration a “transformational presidency, (a) new era of possibility, a historic opportunity for a progressive governing agenda and a mandate for bold action….Tonight we celebrate.”

Despite betrayal and failure throughout his tenure, Nation magazine still supports him. Recent articles asked “What Do We See in Obama?” saying:

On the campaign trail, he’s “sound(ing) like the politician many liberals thought they had voted for: principled, smart and commanding rather than the compromised, inept moderate negotiator we have seen so much of.”

“That many on the right have distorted Obama’s record beyond recognition is predictable.” Despite his “mixed bag” record, “like any elected politician he must navigate the situation he inherited.”

In other words, despite hugely destructive policies, “(y)ou don’t know what’s in his heart.”

His shortcomings aside, “(h)e’s the best that could be elected last time, and this time.”

Another article headlined “Obama Has a Jobs Plan. Romney Doesn’t,” saying:

“….Romney’s prescriptions for the economy would only make a bad situation significantly worse.”

Throughout his tenure, Obama did more to destroy jobs, not create them. 

His Jobs Act is a sham. It does nothing to create jobs. It consists of corporate handouts, greater deregulation, and more austerity. It facilitates greater fraud. It exacerbates earlier policies. They replaced higher paying, full-time jobs with low-wage part-time/temp ones. 

Still another article headlined “A Politics for the 99 Percent,” saying:

“This year will feature the most ideologically polarized election since the Reagan-Carter face-off of 1980.” 

“A radical-right Republican Party, backed by big-money interests, has made itself the tribune of privilege and will do significant damage if it takes control in Washington.” 

“Staving off that outcome depends on mobilizing the Democratic base.”

“….(P)rogressives must expand the limits of the current debate, even as they rally against the threat posed by a Republican victory.”

“No one should discount the potential destructiveness of a victory for Mitt Romney.”

“A Romney victory would buoy a Republican right eager to roll back social progress, constrict voting rights and exacerbate racial divides in an era of middle-class decline.” 

“The offensive against labor and workers’ rights would escalate. And Romney’s bellicose foreign policy would make George W. Bush look dovish.” 

“If Romney wins, we will spend four years fighting to limit the damage he will inflict on the nation.”

“Obama has indicted the right’s extremes, arguing eloquently for public initiatives to save the middle class and revive the American dream.” 

“He’s made inequality a central theme of his campaign, and he will defend tax hikes on the wealthy and investments in areas vital to our future, from education to new energy.”

He “proposed moderate measures in critical areas: an economic stimulus, plus reforms in the healthcare, energy and financial sectors.”

“Democrats urge activists to swallow their disappointment with the president and pull together to get out the vote.”

“In 2012 progressives have little choice….Now we must reach out, teach, engage and mobilize millions of Americans. We must provide them with a sense of hope, a story of possibility, and enlist” their support.

These and other Nation articles show contempt for ordinary people. They’re suffering through America’s worst ever economic crisis. Obama inherited dire conditions and exacerbated them. 

Nation editors ignore Obama’s imperial lawlessness. They support a man they should denounce. Their blind idolatry and contempt for truth betrays readers.

Despite governing to the right of George Bush, breaking every major promise made, uncompromisingly supporting wealth, power, and permanent imperial wars, consigning growing millions to poverty, unemployment and despair, and betraying his core supporters, Nation editors still place Democrat party politics above principles.

Obama mirrors the worst of right wing policies. His administration inherited hard times and worsened them. 

Republicans promise no better. America’s duopoly system is too corrupt to fix. So-called progressive editors are blind to reality. Radical change only offers hope. 

Obama’s record reveals his anti-progressive agenda. Believing a second term promises change is shameless, unprincipled arrogance. Rhetoric alone separates him from Romney. Ideologically, each mirrors the other.

Corrupt political decay defines duopoly power. It’s too malignant to fix. Change depends on tearing it down and starting over. Obama backers ignore reality.

His entire record reflects betrayal and irreparable harm to millions. Early hope became disillusion, frustration, and anger.  

Imagine what’s coming post-November. Obama or Romney makes no difference. Expect the worst of all possible worlds. The only solution is world revolution.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled “How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War”

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Con este post tenemos el gusto de presentar a nuestros lectores de habla hispana una de las mejores obras de didacticismo político revolucionario, LA REVOLUCIÓN SOCIAL: LENIN Y AMÉRICA LATINA, por Marta Harnecker.  Los activistas que luchan hoy por avanzar la causa de la justicia y transformación social, tanto en América Latina como en el resto del mundo, inclusive los Estados Unidos, ciudadela mundial del reaccionismo burgués, encontrarán en este texto las lecciones tácticas y estratégicas más claras derivadas de la praxis de Lenin, y otros revolucionarios contemporáneos, a través de la magistral interpretación de Harnecker. A usarla bien—P.G.

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LA REVOLUCIÓN SOCIAL: LENIN Y AMÉRICA LATINA 

MARTA HARNECKER ABRIL 1986 

En este libro hemos pretendido recuperar el pensamiento vivo, dialéctico, antidogmático del máximo dirigente de la revolución rusa en lo que se refiere, específicamente, a las fases por las que transita el proceso revolucionario y al carácter de la revolución social. Arduo trabajo que ha implicado un estudio de toda su obra, teniendo siempre presente el contexto ideológico y político en el que emergen sus reflexiones y formulaciones teóricas. 

Hemos querido que el lector que con frecuencia no tiene fácil acceso a las obras completas de Lenin recorra junto a nosotros este camino. De ahí el recurso al máximo de citas textuales, a la explicación del contexto polémico en el que aparecen y a la utilización del diagnóstico que el propio autor hace de la coyuntura que motiva sus análisis políticos y reflexiones teóricas. 

El complejo problema de la revolución social es quizás el tema que nos permite captar mejor el carácter dialéctico de su pensamiento. Los planteamientos acerca del carácter de la revolución en 1905 no son los mismos que los de 1917; la descripción de las fases por las que transita la revolución social, y de los factores que intervienen en su gestación y su triunfo, va enriqueciéndose a través de las nuevas experiencias que le proporciona la propia revolución rusa y de la necesidad de polemizar primero, contra las desviaciones de derecha, y luego, contra las desviaciones de izquierda que surgen dentro del movimiento revolucionario. 

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SOLDIER of the KING

Re-printed from “The Valley Compatriot” Oct/Nov 1994
Donald Norman Moran, editor18th and early 19th century British soldiers

This force primarily consisted of infantry, a small artillery contingent and no cavalry. Six years of hard fighting later, when Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army at Yorktown, the British Army in North America numbered 2,484 artillerymen, 39,294 infantry, and 6,869 cavalrymen, plus a few thousand contracted civilians.

Below: British soldiers today, on parade.

When you have men and women living together, you have children, and the British Army was no exception. The Children, like the wives, were fed out of the Regimental stores, and were generally well treated, although rarely provided any formal education. When old enough, they, like their mothers would help with camp chores.

As for the girls. They either chose a husband, with their fathers approval, or were turned out of the Regiments encampment. The girls also could be apprenticed.

Army widows of the day, and based on the high rate of casualties, there were many of them, were given a month to mourn their loss and find a new husband within the Regiment or she too would have to leave the camp. On foreign service the widows had little choice but to remarry.

Final resting place of two British soldiers at Concord, buried where they fell

The following is a listing of all of the British Regiments that participated in the American Revolution:

The British Soldier was a man to be respected and feared. For our ancestors to have faced them, and won, is almost unbelievable, but it makes that victory all the sweeter.

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The austerity measures demanded by the troika (the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank) are driving Greece toward revolution. The protest by 100,000 people in front of the Greek parliament Sunday evening and the rioting that broke out after the police violently attacked the demonstration marked a sharp turn in the mood of the Greek population.

Hardly anyone believes that the austerity measures will lead Greece out of the crisis. The government’s repeated claim that the only alternative to brutal cuts is state bankruptcy and economic disaster no longer has any impact because the current austerity measures are already producing a catastrophe.

“We are only allowed to choose between different forms of death,” declared one 50-year-old protester to a journalist.

Eighteen months of austerity have produced a social decline that is unprecedented in peacetime. Wages and salaries in the private sector have decreased by 20 percent and in the public sector by up to 50 percent. Over one million Greeks, one in five adults and one in two young people, are unemployed. Only a third of these receive unemployment benefits, which are now due to be reduced from €460 ($600) to €360 ($470) per month.

The new austerity package passed Sunday evening will reduce the working class and broad layers of the middle class to a naked struggle for survival. By 2015, an additional 150,000 state employees are to be laid off and an additional €11.4 billion slashed from the budget, with even more cuts in public-sector wages. With prices for basic commodities at Western European levels, survival will be impossible for many, especially if they have to support destitute family members.

One does not have to be a mathematical genius to see that these measures will not solve, but only worsen the debt crisis. All economic indicators are pointing downwards. The economy shrank by 7 percent last year, industrial output by 16 percent. Despite an increase in the VAT rate, revenues from the tax declined by 19 percent because 60,000 small and family businesses went bankrupt. A further 50,000 bankruptcies are expected this year.

The government budget is now in the black, if one discounts spending on interest and debt repayment. But the level of debt servicing is so high that the total debt has risen over the past year from 140 to 160 percent of gross domestic product.

It is obvious that the shock treatment prescribed for Greece by the troika and implemented by the Greek government is not aimed at “rescuing” the country or rebalancing its budget. Rather, its purpose is to set an example and intimidate the working class in other European countries, making clear once and for all where the real power lies.

The class character of the cuts could not be more evident. While the unemployed and both public-sector and private-sector workers are bled dry, the country’s wealthy elite escapes unscathed. They have long since transferred their assets to financial and property markets abroad.

The Greek austerity measures are the spearhead of an international offensive by the financial aristocracy aimed at offloading onto the working class the full impact of the 2008 financial crisis, precipitated by the very same financial elite. The incomes, past social gains and democratic rights of workers are everywhere under attack. The German government, which has adopted a particularly arrogant stance towards Greece, proceeds with the same arrogance against unemployed workers in Germany and will act toward them in an even more ruthless manner if it succeeds in Greece.

The Greek working class, which has experienced Nazi occupation, civil war and military dictatorship, will not accept a new dictatorship of finance capital without a fight. The combination of despair and anger expressed Sunday evening will inevitably intensify and turn in a revolutionary direction.

The parliamentary elections scheduled for April offer no solution, if they even take place. The two parties that support the current government are rapidly disintegrating and will barely be able to assure a government majority. According to the latest polls, the social democratic PASOK party, which won the 2009 elections with 44 percent, has slumped to 8 percent, and the conservative New Democracy to around 30 percent.

The three largest “left” organizations—the Democratic Left (DIMAR), the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) and the Stalinist Communist Party (KKE)—together are currently polling over 40 percent. But all three organisations have a long history of subordination to the bourgeois state.

The Democratic Left defends the European Union, has indicated that certain cuts are inevitable, and proposes to transfer 60 percent of Greece’s debt to the EU. SYRIZA has long defended PASOK and now calls for cooperation between all of the “left” parties in the elections.

The KKE campaigns against the austerity measures, calls for separation from the EU, for a unilateral cancellation of the country’s debt, and even for “workers’ and people’s power.” But the party has never broken with its Stalinist tradition and in times of crisis has repeatedly promoted nationalism, collaborated with the ruling class and betrayed the working class. In 1989, the KKE even formed a coalition government with the conservative New Democracy party.

Should any of these parties enter the government in April, they would work to hold back the working class and prevent it from fighting. By paralyzing the working class, they would strengthen the extreme right, which is attempting to exploit the crisis, and pave the way for the military to take power.

Such a “leftist” government would be comparable to the Popular Front government of Léon Blum that came to power in France in 1936 on a wave of labor militancy, only to stab the working class in the back in the course of the subsequent general strike. The betrayal by the Popular Front paved the way for the right-wing to return to power. Four years later, these right-wing forces acted on their election slogan “Better Hitler than Blum” and established the authoritarian Vichy regime, which partnered with the Nazi occupation of France.

To fight the austerity program of the troika, the Greek working class needs an independent revolutionary program and new organisations dedicated to struggle rather than class collaboration. When the government and the parties supporting it are working to destroy the livelihoods of the people and gut health care and the education system, the working class must itself take responsibility for running the country.

Action committees must be established in work places and neighborhoods to organize the struggle against the austerity measures and prepare to defend the working class against attacks by fascists and the military. The action committees must be independent of the trade union apparatus, which works with the state and the bourgeois parties to make the working class pay for the crisis. Such committees must coordinate their fight at a national level and establish contact with workers in Spain, Portugal, across Europe and internationally.

Such committees can lay the basis for a workers’ government dedicated to the expropriation of the banks and corporations and the reorganisation of the economy on a socialist basis, geared to meeting social needs rather than expanding the fortunes of a financial elite.

Such a struggle can succeed only on an international scale. The European Union of the banks and corporations must be ended and replaced by the United Socialist States of Europe. The prerequisite for this is the building of a new revolutionary leadership in the working class. This is the program fought for by the International Committee of the Fourth International and its sections.

—Peter Schwarz

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