“A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism”. 177 years since the publication of the Communist Manifesto, the spectre is still haunting the capitalists, the bourgeois governments and their allies.
Karl Marx and his teachings are still so dangerous for the ruling classes that courts in Europe try to declare them as “unconstitutional”.
More: idcommunism.com
It is a continuing source of frustration that an important segment of the left holds the view that weakening the United States’ long-established grip on the top rungs of the hierarchical system of imperialism is– in itself– an attack on imperialism.
Many of our friends, including those who claim to aim at a socialist future, mistakenly see an erosion in the US position as the imperialist system’s hegemon as necessarily a step guaranteeing a just future, lasting peace, or a step towards socialism.
This was just four years ago. And now the Swiss government puts the proposal again before the people. Not voluntarily. It was presented to both Swiss Parliamentary Houses and accepted, as is often the case, as the Swiss Parliament does not really represent the interests of the people, but the interests of business.
This is a clear signal that Switzerland has converted from a democratic republic to a corporation, with a corporate accounting system, where profit making is the Master, where the common people are the workers, and those at the head of the Corporation, like the Seven gnomes in Bern, are the Swiss Corporate Management, the CEOs so to speak.
The following article published 21 years ago, in August 2004, refutes the 9/11 Commission script as to what actually happened on the planes.
Much of this detailed information was based on alleged cell phone conversations between passengers and family members. Yet the technology to use a cell phone on a plane above 8,500 feet did not exist in September 2001.
More: substack.com
This list is part of an ongoing investigative project the Forward first published in January 2021 documenting hundreds of monuments around the world to people involved in the Holocaust. We are continuing to update each country’s list; if you know of any not included here, or of statues that have been removed or streets renamed, please email editorial@forward.com, subject line: Nazi monument project.
Note: In the years since the Maidan uprising brought a new government to Ukraine in 2014, numerous monuments to Nazi collaborators and Holocaust perpetrators have been erected, at times as frequently as a new one each week. Due to the overwhelming number of streets named after Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, only some are listed as part of this project.
At the end of the Second World War, what insidious minded cabal of powerfully influential Americans pressured President Truman to order these two genocidal nuclear war crimes without even consulting his top commanding generals?
Apart from them having been war crimes, the same as the incendiary bombing of some 60 other Japanese cities, the Atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of war committed while US warfare was being conducted under the commands of General Eisenhower and General MacArthur. The two Atomic bombs were dropped without their approval and without their being informed beforehand.
Israelis have been buying land in Cyprus, and the locals are concerned. Why should they be concerned? Cypriots live right across the eastern Mediterranean Sea facing Palestine, so they must know what has been taking place since the end of World War II when Zionist Jews from Europe and elsewhere started occupying Palestinian land. It began in 1947 after Great Britain decided to withdraw from Palestine which led the United Nations to propose a partition plan that would divide Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state with an internationally administered Jerusalem. But the Zionists did not agree to the proposed borders set forth by the UN and planned an agenda for its territorial expansion by seizing Palestinian land by force since Israel was founded on May 14, 1948.
We have arrived at a pivot of history. The world system that emerged at the end of World War II is over. The seeming truths of an earlier age have become dangerous illusions of our own age. We have arrived at a new multipolarity – a world with several centers of power – but not yet at a multilateralism that pursues the common good. Our survival depends on fostering an ethical multilateralism in which the world’s nations and religions pursue the common good while respecting the diversity of the human family.
It appears that threatening thermonuclear superpowers has become a favorite pastime in the halls of power in Washington DC.
Just days after Lindsey Graham “warned” Moscow that the United States could bomb it just like it did to Iran, General Christopher Donahue, the commanding officer of USAREUR-AF (United States Army Europe and Africa), presented the new “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line” plan that envisages a blitzkrieg-style assault directed against Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave in the very heart of Western Europe.
And this brings me to what I referred to earlier as a reaffirmation of my views on the basic problem confronting the underdeveloped countries. The principal insights, which must not be obscured by matters of secondary or tertiary importance, are two. The first is that, if what is sought is rapid economic development, comprehensive economic planning is indispensable… if the increase in a country’s aggregate output is to attain the magnitude, of, say, 8 to 10 per cent per annum; if in order to achieve it, the mode of utilization of a nation’s human and material resources is to be radically changed, with certain less productive lines of economic activity abandoned and other more rewarding ones taken up; then only a deliberate, long range planning effort can assure the attainment of the goal…
