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Western Iconoclasm Coming Home! Is there More to it?

How happy were imperial Western political, economic and media forces, when statues of their opponents were toppled, like the one of Saddam Hussein after the Iraq War, of Lenin after the collapse of the East Block, or of Stalin in the Hungarian Upheaval 1956. Now the same forces are extremely offended when statues of personalities from Colonial History or the History of the Confederate Southern States of the US are under attack, or likewise historical relics of Colonialism in Germany. The fury against those monuments and Art Works (or street names) is refering to the justified anger about the History of Colonialism and Racism.

In a way one could say: Iconoclasm is coming home!

But there is a Big „But“

When JFK was murdered, the „uncouth“ words of Malcom X (whom I really hold in high esteem) were: „the_chicken_are_coming_home_to_roost“, which meant: don´t complain, what the US are doing all over the world, assassinating politicians, has come back to the US. The great man (Malcolm) was at that point not aware that JFK_was_murdered_by_exactly_those_forces who also do the other killings (and who killed also him later on)!

But we (who are fighting for a more just world, free from Exploitation, Colonialism and Racism) should be clear about one thing: the Western or Western inspired topplings of their opponents statues were the brutal manifestation of their already achieved victories. Are we already in the position to celebrate true victories about those forces of evil or should we be mislead to mistake „the victory“ over a statue for the real victory?!

Is it really productive just to provoke the mislead majorities in Western countries by things which appear to them as vandalism to push them deeper into the arms of the powers that – shouldn´t – be, whereas in reality we should make them aware that most of them are also exploited and marginalized? In order to work for real class solidarity we should possibly find other ways of struggle.

Not to be misunderstood, I do not care for those monuments under attack which are in reality a symbol for Western shame, but it would be more productive to counter them by „counter statements“ materialized for example by other monuments or plates enlightening people about the true nature of those „historical personalities“. A serious counter statement was for example given by Colin_Kaepernick, no matter how the system has punished him professionally for his bravery. Luckily there are people who are following his example. But many still think the struggle is about monuments. And that is based on the wrong belief that Colonialism would have ended, like the talks about “post Colonial times” try to suggest, what_a_hoax!

Are there possibly forces trying to mislead us into striving for pseudo victories and detract us from the struggles for real change? Is the support from someone like George Soros, who has no_guilty_consciousness for collecting property from its Jewish owners during Nazi occupation in Hungary, who did a lot to destabilize Eastern countries with fake “Color_Revolutions” and who is quite proud of amassing_enormous_wealth from the exploited masses something that fits to a struggle for a more just World? Should we choose symbolic pseudo-activism even open to be infiltrated by extremist forces from the other side?

No, we have a long and protracted struggle ahead against globalized neoliberal – and technocratic – Capitalism associated with ongoing Colonialism, Racism and warmongering. This system is claiming millions of lives not only in Africa and Middle East, and doesn´t probably even hesitate to apply Bio-Terrorism. We need to form alliances and really organize instead of fighting symbols!

Andreas Schlüter

Westliche Bilderstürmerei kommt heim! Aber steckt vielleicht noch mehr dahinter?

Wie glücklich waren die politischen, wirtschaftlichen und medialen Kräfte des imperialen Westens, als die Statuen ihrer Gegner gestürzt wurden, wie die von Saddam Hussein nach dem Irak-Krieg, von Lenin nach dem Zusammenbruch des Ostblocks oder von Stalin im Ungarischen Aufstand 1956. Nun sind die gleichen Kräfte extrem beleidigt, wenn Statuen von Persönlichkeiten aus der Kolonialgeschichte oder der Geschichte der konföderierten Südstaaten der USA angegriffen werden, oder auch historische Relikte des Kolonialismus in Deutschland. Das Wüten gegen diese Denkmäler und Kunstwerke (oder Straßennamen) beruft sich auf die Widerwärtigkeiten der westlichen Geschichte zu Kolonialismus und Rassismus.

In gewisser Weise könnte man sagen: Die Bilderstürmerei kommt nach Hause!

Aber es gibt ein großes „Aber“

Als JFK ermordet wurde, waren die „unfrommen“ Worte von Malcom X (den ich wahrlich sehr schätze): „The Chicken are coming home to roost„, was bedeutete: „Beklagt euch nicht, was die USA in der ganzen Welt tun, nämlich Politiker zu ermorden, ist in die USA zurückgekehrt. Der große Mann (Malcolm) wusste damals noch nicht, dass_JFK_von_genau_den_Kraeften_ermordet wurde, die auch die anderen Morde verüben (und die später auch ihn ermorden ließen)!

Aber wir (die wir für eine gerechtere Welt kämpfen, frei von Ausbeutung, Kolonialismus und Rassismus) sollten uns über eines im Klaren sein: Das westliche oder westlich inspirierte Stürzen der Statuen ihrer Gegner war die brutale Manifestation ihrer Siege! Sind wir bereits in der Lage, den Sieg über diese Mächte des Bösen zu feiern, oder sollen wir in die Irre geführt werden, „den Sieg“ über eine Statue mit dem wirklichen Kampf gegen die Ausbeutung, den Kolonialismus und den Rassismus zu verwechseln?

Ist es wirklich produktiv, die irregeleiteten Mehrheiten in den westlichen Ländern durch Dinge, die ihnen als Vandalismus erscheinen, nur zu provozieren, um sie tiefer in die Arme der Mächte zu treiben, die es nicht geben sollte, während wir ihnen eigentlich bewusst machen sollten, dass die meisten von ihnen auch ausgebeutet und an den Rand gedrängt werden? Um für echte Klassensolidarität zu arbeiten, sollten wir wahrscheinlich andere Wege des Kampfes finden.

Um nicht missverstanden zu werden: Mir liegen die angegriffenen Denkmäler, die in Wirklichkeit ein Symbol für westliche Schande sind, nicht wirklich am Herzen, aber es wäre produktiver, ihnen mit „Gegenaussagen“ zu begegnen, die zum Beispiel durch andere Denkmäler oder einordnende Tafeln umgesetzt werden könnten, die die Menschen über die wahre Natur dieser „historischen Persönlichkeiten“ aufklären. Ein ernsthaftes „Gegen-Statement“ wurde zum Beispiel von Colin_Kaepernick gegeben, egal wie das System ihn beruflich für seine Tapferkeit bestraft hat. Glücklicherweise gibt es Menschen, die seinem Beispiel folgen. Aber viele denken immer noch, dass es bei dem Kampf um Denkmäler geht. Leider verkommt auch_linke_Politik in den USA immer öfter in diesem Sinne.

Gibt es möglicherweise Kräfte, die versuchen, uns zu Pseudo-Siegen zu verleiten und uns von den Kämpfen um echte Veränderungen abzulenken? Ist die Unterstützung von jemandem wie George Soros mit seiner „Open_Society“, der kein_schlechtes_Gewissen hatte, weil er während der Nazi-Okkupation in Ungarn Eigentum von seinen jüdischen Eigentümern gesammelt hat, der viel_zur_Destabilisierung der östlichen Länder mit sogenennten „orangenen Revolutionen“ beigetragen hat und der ziemlich stolz darauf ist, von den ausgebeuteten Massen enorme_Reichtuemer anzuhäufen, etwas, das zu einem Kampf für eine gerechtere Welt passt? Sollten wir uns wirklich für einen symbolischen Pseudoaktivismus entscheiden, der sogar offen dafür ist, von extremistischen Kräften der anderen Seite infiltriert zu werden?

In Deutschland wir man aufpassen müssen, dass auch der Kampf um die Umbenennung von Straßen nicht Ablenkungscharakter gewinnt. Auf einer derartigen Veranstaltung_2011_in_Berlin zur Umbenennung des Gröbenufers in May-Ayim-Ufer fiel zum Beispiel kein einziges Wort über den zur gleichen Zeit in Libyen tobenden Kolonialkrieg des Westens! Und hin und wieder gerät guter Wille zur bedauernswerten Geschichtsvergessenheit.

Nein, wir haben einen mühsamen und langwierigen Kampf gegen den globalisierten neoliberalen Kapitalismus, der untrennbar mit anhaltendem Kolonialismus, Rassismus und Kriegstreiberei verbunden ist, vor uns. Dieses System fordert nicht nur in Afrika und im Nahen Osten Millionen von Menschenleben und zögert wahrscheinlich nicht einmal, den Bio-Terrorismus anzuwenden. Wir müssen Allianzen bilden und uns wirklich organisieren, anstatt Symbole zu bekämpfen!

Andreas Schlüter

On the 12th of May in connection with the G20 meeting in Hamburg there was the G20 Africa Partnership Conference taking place in Berlin. A whole number of African Presidents attending, a lot was talked about partnership and development.

What Kind of Partnership?

Western soldiers roaming all over Africa, a whole number of them under the umbrella of US_AFRICOM (violating the spirit of African liberation and African_Unity) European soldiers as well, a lot of them French. The West is pretending to make Africa “safe”. Safe for what? There are many indications that they´re just trying to make Africa safe for Western plunder or, where their plunder isn´t yet actual, to destabilize and de-state as a preparation for more future plunder. Is that a “wicked” suspicion?

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What about the financial colonialism of the French in Africa? That alone is a sound proof that “Colonialism_is_alive”. What happened when Gaddafi tried to bring an African gold currency on the way? Clinton_emails_reveal_the_true_motive for the “intervention” in Libya, where the French cooperated closely with the US. From the repercussions of the Libyan drama came turmoil in Mali, giving the French more chances. Make Africa “safe” from IS? One has to know West_created_the_Islamic_State for its own ends! Make Africa “safe for Democracy”? Maybe with uranium_coated_amunition? And to have a Democracy as rotten as in the US? Be sure, as long as the US Power Elite has the leading hand in the “West´s partnership with Africa” there will be no such thing as true Democracy created by them!

Paul Kagame, the “symbolic figure” of Western Partnership with Africa

The real symbol of that deadly partnership, which is in deed the new_scramble_for_Africa is the Rwandan President Kagame, who delivered a speech at the conference, more or less praising Neoliberalism. This man has been celebrated throughout the West and throughout the years since 1994 as the “savior of Rwanda and of the Tutsis”, which was rather less than “half_of_the_truth_but_a_whole_lie”. In reality Kagame and his RPF waged a murderous war of aggression (according to Nuremberg principles the utmost crime) against Rwanda, which he did from Uganda, with heavy support from the US and many Western countries. Following almost a million died in Rwanda, but many more, possibly over eight million people lost their lives in DR_Congo., in fact as many as have died during the time Congo was the “private” Colony of Belgian King Leopold II. This was tolerated based on the pretext that the Rwandan tragedy would have been an organized Genocide attempt by the Hutu majority against the Tutsi. With this deformed story the RPF legitimized the invasion of Congo (together with Uganda), pretending to get hold of the “genocidaires”. What was the real aim?

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Proxy Colonialism, but Kagame might be Exchanged one Day

The aim of this (ongoing) invasion is the riches of DR Congo. Congo is full of Minerals. With the computer age the mineral Coltan has reached overall importance for mobile phones, computers and that like (of which the public should have more_knowledge). Already in 2002 the amount of stolen_goods_was_monumental, no matter that 2011 in a lousy little theater show Rwanda_repatriated_90_tons_of_Congolese-minerals having been “smuggled” into Rwanda. But in the end US_companies_are_exploiting_the_Congo. Actually DR Congo is on top of all deadly hells of this Earth, its fate somehow mirrored by West_Papua being plundered by Indonesia in favor of the West.

To broaden the power basis for his grip on Congo, Kagame even seems_meddling_in_neighbouring_Burundi. Obviously the aim was to create a situation, which could be presented to the world as reason for a Rwandan intervention in order to “save the Burundian Tutsi”, possibly even to unite the two countries under RPF leadership.  But the US Empire seems now not too much in favour of such developments, especially in the present situation of conflicts within the US Power Elite.

Anyway, it is more and more difficult for Kagame and his regime to hide the crimes and atrocities in Congo, partly reflected in the UN_Project_Mapping_on_DR_Congo, though a leaked_first_draft was later on softened (due to US pressure). Very delicate is that Kagame fights growing Western critics by the confession that he joined the West in corruption to plunder Congo in an interesting speech (at 6:26), really remarkable:

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

But, in the end even it will not be his crimes, not even because of a murder_possibly_commited_on_a_BBC_journalist in London by his murder_inc, for which the US Power Elite will drop him one day. It might be for his “arrogant” belief that the henchman can do without his master! The fact that a Canadian company helps to build a first_coltan_Processing_plant in Rwanda (paid_for_by_the_genocide_inCongo) doesn´t really mean it will please his US master. Also the Chinese involvement into the East-African_standard_gauge_network including Rwanda might also possibly make his master´s eyebrow raise. Mobutu wasn´t really rewarded for little flirts with China and North-Korea. But, if it comes to that point, the US Power Elite will have Kagame toppled with “love for Democracy” on their lips!

One thing is clear, Africa has long struggles_for_freedom_and_social_justice ahead! In these strugglesalso for genuine development and industrialization the natural allies will surely be other African countries and in general the BRICS states. The Western countries as dominated by the US and Neoliberalism with its “freetrade religion” would only be partners for eternal dependency and resource slavery!

Andreas Schlüter

Links:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/rwanda_enduring_lies

http://www.logos-verlag.de/cgi-bin/engbuchmid?isbn=4307&lng=deu&id=

African Struggles for Social Justice, Freedom and Democracy in Perspective, reflected in a series of articles:

At the Summer celebratory event of the Protestant Church to mark its 500th anniversary in Berlin there was a pannel discussion, topic: “Actively shaping democracy – taking responsibility at home and abroad”. Among the four pannel participants were Chancellor Merkel and Obama (I have a drone). One might ask what role polititians as Obama with a terrible record of involment into imperialist wars and drone murders should have at such a church event, especially with this topic. And with a question coming up on his drone-war he tried everything to belittle the cruelties. But the piek of shameless babbling was delivered by Merkel!

In order to build a bridge between the 500th Protestant anniversary and America she referred to Columbus getting to America a short while before Reformation, and – oh Lord (says me, the Atheist)! – dared to babble: „that was the beginning of our good relations with America!“

It left me speechless! With „our“ she could only have meant Europa since there wasn´t a real Germany. School system in the former GDR was quite effective with History. She should have known how „nice“ the relationship between the Europeans and the indigenous inhabitants of America were. This is for example to be seen with a picture from a book by Bartolomé de_las_Casas. A picture in one_of_his_books demonstrates horrors easily matching up to those done by the IS. It shows a whole number of indiginous women and men hanging over a fire to be roasted whereas a Spanish soldiers is about to smash a child at a wall:

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This scandalous remark shows strikingly how little concern is to be found in the Western political elite about Colonialism, Racism and Imperialism producing those horrific sufferings making millions move out of their countries. They´re immune to sympathy and compassion with human beings! And it´s hard to believe that this foolish word was dropped out of pure ignorance!

Andreas Schlüter

 

Colonialism Alive and Well, Better Say as Bad as Ever! Part 1”: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2017/05/27/colonialism-alive-and-well-better-say-as-bad-as-ever-part-1-der-kolonialismus-lebt-und-feiert-froehliche-urstaend-teil-1/

 

Deutsche Version unten

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3 faces exchanged in meantime! – 3 Gesichter sind inzwischen ausgetauscht!

Colonialism Alive!

Naive people talk about “Post-Colonialism”, everyone really going into the topic will laugh bitterly. NATO soldiers all over Africa, “fighting Terrorism” for example against IS (which is sponsored by US & Al). US_AFRICOM expanding like cancer and being portrayed with US allies (better called vassals) as the “fire_brigade”. An outstanding role among the European US vassals is played by France. France´s colonialism was for a long time relatively independent, so to speak “in its own right”, but the country is today mostly “in line” with the US strategy. As a reward for its compliance it profits from US protection and is allowed to suck from its former Subsaharan colonies.

Listen to the open words by Sarkozy:

France can not allow its former colonies to create their own currency to have total control over their central banks . If this happens, it would be a catastrophe for the public treasury that will lead France to the rank of 20th world economic power. There is no question, therefore, of letting the French colonies of Africa have their own currencies.“

https://off-guardian.org/2017/05/25/nicolas-sarkozy-no-way-to-let-the-french-colonies-of-africa-have-their-own-currencies/

& http://www.mirastnews.com/2016/01/nicolas-sarkozy-pas-question-de-laisser-les-colonies-francaises-d-afrique-avoir-leurs-propres-monnaies.html

One important reason for France to be very “helpful” in the US-lead destruction of Libya was the Libyan effort to create a gold currency for Africa. By the way, it was Clinton who made Obama order Libya´s destruction. “We came, we saw, he died! Hahahah!”, were her laughing_words afterwards.

And actually it should be mentioned that she had full support in her campaign by people (like Robert Kagan and Paul Wolfowitz) who were contemplating in the paper “Rebuilding America´s Defenses” about “biological_race_war. Who is aware of those concepts might shiver when getting across the Ebola-outbreak!

And not to forget, Clinton´s husband had a leading hand in the destruction of Rwanda_and_Congo!

Colonialism dead? No, going stronger than ever! And at the core of it is Globalized Capitalism. Long_struggles ahead of Africa!

Andreas Schlüter

Links:

https://thisisafrica.me/france-loots-former-colonies/

http://foreignaffairsreview.co.uk/2013/11/cfa/

https://afrolegends.com/2017/05/01/the-11-components-of-the-french-colonial-tax-in-africa/

http://www.globalblackhistory.com/2015/12/how-france-continues-slavery-colonialism-in-the-21st-century.html

http://allafrica.com/stories/201509281230.html

Deutsche Version

Der Kolonialismus lebt und feiert fröhliche Urständ! Teil 1

Naive Menschen reden vom “nachkolonialen Zeitalter”, aber jeder, der sich intensiv mit der Sache befasst, kann darüber nur bitter lachen! US_AFRICOM breitet sich krakenartig in Afrika aus, unter US-Führung kämpft die NATO gegen “den Terror”, der insbesondere vom “Islamischen Staat” kommt, den die US und Verbündete geschaffen haben und weiter sponsorn. Überall präsentieren die USA und ihre Verbündeten (besser Vasallen) sich als “Feuerwehr_in_Afrika”.

Eine besondere Rolle dabei spielt Frankreich, das lange Zeit einen eigenständigen (Neo)-Kolonialismus betrieb, sich aber nun weitgehend in die US-Strategie eingefügt hat. Zum “Dank” dafür darf es seine ehemaligen Kolonien weiter aussaugen. Dies geschieht durch das CFA_Franc System, das das Finanzsystem dieser Länder völlig in Frankreichs Hände legt.

Man lese die Worte des ehemaligen französischen Staatspräsidenten Sarkozy:

Frankreich kann seinen früheren Kolonien nicht erlauben, ihre eigene Währung zu schaffen, um die totale Kontrolle über ihre Zentralbanken zu haben. Sollte das geschehen, wäre es eine Katastrophe für das (französische) Finanzsystem, die Frankreich auf Platz 20 in der Weltwirtschaft verweisen würde. Daher kommt es nicht infrage, dass Frankreich seine (ehemaligen) Kolonien in Afrika ihre eigene Währung haben lässt.“

Übersetzung durch WiPoKuLi von:

https://off-guardian.org/2017/05/25/nicolas-sarkozy-no-way-to-let-the-french-colonies-of-africa-have-their-own-currencies/

& http://www.mirastnews.com/2016/01/nicolas-sarkozy-pas-question-de-laisser-les-colonies-francaises-d-afrique-avoir-leurs-propres-monnaies.html

Daher hat Frankreich tatkräftig den USA geholfen, die Libyen_kaputtgemacht haben, denn von Libyen ging der Versuch aus, Afrika eine Goldwährung zu geben. Eine Aktion, zu der Clinton Obama gebracht hat. Ihre Worte nach der Untat waren: “Wir kamen, wir sahen, er starb! Hahaha!”

Nicht unerwähnt sollte bleiben, dass Clinton tatsächlich die Speerspitze der Neocons (US Neokonservatismus) in der Demokratischen Partei ist. Clinton hat die Neocon Victoria Nuland („fuck the EU“) in die Obama-Administration gebracht. Nuland ist die Frau von Robert Kagan (der inzwischen öffentlich für Clinton wirbt). Kagan ist Mitbegründer des „Project for the New American Century“. Um die „Visionen“ dieser Neocons vom „Project“ zu begreifen, sollte man deren Papier „Rebuilding America´s Defenses“ vom September 2000 sehr genau studieren (Autor u. a. Paul Wolfowitz). Dort findet sich auf S. 60 eine besonders bedrohliche Passage zu möglichen Konzepten der US-Politik in Afrika (und Asien):

And advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.“

https://de.scribd.com/doc/9651/Rebuilding-Americas-Defenses-PNAC

Übersetzt heißt das: „Und fortgeschrittene Formen der biologischen Kriegsführung, die auf bestimmte Gentypen „zielen“ können, könnten die biologische Kriegsführung aus dem Reich des Terrors zu einem nützlichen politischen Instrument wandeln.

Hier geht es sicher nicht um den Genotypus des weißen Angelsachsen, sondern Afrika und Asien sind im Visier! Dabei kann die spezifische „Angriffsfähigkeit“ natürlich auch durch eine „Anwendungs-Region“ ersetzt werden. Es handelt sich jedenfalls um die direkte Fortsetzung der Träume von der „schwarzen Bombe“ im „Project_Coast“ (geleitet von „Dr_Death“) des damaligen Apartheid-Regimes, um „biologischen Rassenkrieg“!

Ebenso muss erwähnt werden, dass Clintons Mann Bill Clinton eine bedeutende Rolle bei der Zerstörung von Ruanda_und_der_DR_Kongo spielte.

Viele europäische Regierungen spielen bei der Zerstörung Afrikas und der übrigen Umgebebung Europas immer wieder mit, ganz so, als könnte dieses Zerstörungswerk nicht auch zur „Sprengung_Europas“ führen! Solange die Destabilisierungs-Strategie gegen und Ausplünderung von Afrika weitergeht, werden auch die Flüchtlingströme nicht abreißen. Afrika hat jedenfalls noch einen langen Kampf um seine wirkliche Befeiung vor sich! Europa und Deutschland spielen dabei bisher eine sehr unrühmliche, um nicht zu sagen verbrecherische Rolle.

Der Kolonialismus beendet? Nein, er ist stärker denn je. Und der Kern der Katastrophe? Der globalisierte Kapitalismus!

Andreas Schlüter

Links:

http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Zentralafrika/fra3.html

http://www.fluchtgrund.de/2016/07/westafrika-das-cfa-franc-regime-wie-frankreich-noch-immer-seine-ehemaligen-kolonien-ausbeutet/

http://austrian-institute.org/euro-kolonialismus-in-afrika/

http://www.wissenbloggt.de/?p=30395

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/03/15/frankreich-kann-seinen-status-nur-mit-ausbeutung-der-ehemaligen-kolonien-halten/

http://www.zeit-fragen.ch/de/ausgaben/2011/nr-31-vom-282011/afrika-weist-den-franzoesischen-imperialismus-zurueck.html

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFA-Franc-Zone

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From: http://www.azquotes.com/author/32844-William_Colby

With the furious debate on „Fake News“ medially mostly blamed on the „alternative media“ I´d like to recommend some of my articles:

A Quotation We Should Never Forget!“ https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/08/09/a-quotation-we-should-never-forget/

Media, Independent and Mainstream: Fake News and Fake Narratives“: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/media-independent-and-mainstream-fake-news-and-fake-narratives/

US Allegations Against Russia: Hold the Thief! (in addition to the previous post)“: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/12/18/us-allegations-against-russia-hold-the-thief-in-addition-to-the-previous-post/

And on those socalled “alternative media” designed to destroy the struggle against the “False Flag” policy:

Psychological Operations: say the truth in a way that it will be rejected!” https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/psychological-operations-say-the-truth-in-a-way-that-it-will-be-rejected/

Better turn to these ones:

English Written Pages Worth Visiting!“: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/english-writen-pages-worth-visiting/

My articles on Africa: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/african-struggles-for-social-justice-freedom-and-democracy-in-perspective-reflected-in-a-series-of-articles/

My articles on the USA: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/list-of-my-articles-on-the-usa/

Don´t give up the struggle for a clear view on Imperialism and the Power Elites!

For a better year of true information!

Andreas Schlüter

It´s not a joke – or if, then a very dangerous one – but the US Power Elite sees the whole globe to be their colony. How far this goes shows a view on the way  the US_Mititary_High_Commands for the various regions of this World are organized:

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The Sun never sets in the US Empire!”

In fact the US High Command for the region in the center of the old Tri-Continent Asia, Europe, Africa, is called US CENTCOM, United_States_Central_Command. Under normal circumstances one would expect a big power – if so arrogant anyway to divide the World into sections for “colonial” military organization – to name the region of their own country as “CENTCOM”.

The explanation for this somehow strange naming is, that the US Power Elite has taken over – with some regional modification – the ideas of Sir Halford John Mackinder, a British Geographer and political analyst having formulated the „Heartland Theory”. Quote:

„Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island; Who rules the World Island commands the World.“

http://www.indrastra.com/2016/06/PAPER-Heartland-Theory-of-Mackinder-Relevancy-in-Central-Asia-Geopolitics-002-06-2016-0043.html

Especially we in Europe should all know that it´s very dangerous to ally oneself too closely with a power following such dangerous concepts, since allies will be regarded as the forefront for militant expansion and thus are in the danger to become a battleground! This would be more dangerous with a probable US President named Hillary_Clinton!

Andreas Schlüter

Links:

Geo-Politics: The Core of Crisis and Chaos and the Nightmares of the US Power Elite“ https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/08/01/geo-politics-the-core-of-crisis-and-chaos-the-nightmares-of-the-us-power-elite/

US Politics: These Words Shouldn´t be Forgotten“: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/us-politics-these-words-shouldnt-be-forgotten/

The US Elections Ahead: What´s to be Expected From the US? A Recommendation“: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/the-us-elections-ahead-whats-to-be-expected-from-the-us-a-recommendation/

My articles on the USA: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/list-of-my-articles-on-the-usa/

 

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I´m very sorry I lost his writings and analysis a bit out of sight, but last week I had the pleasure to hear and meet this great Analyst, Samir_Amin, in Berlin, on two occasions. One occasion was a meeting organized by the left party, DIE LINKE. The other occasion was an event by the International_Peace_Bureau on Friday, the 30th of September. For a long time I suffered from senseless talks celebrating the mere existence of the organization for more than hundred years. Talks without substance, not at all naming the real culprits, the US Power Elite. But then Samir Amin, being the last speaker, saved my evening, he put things right! He made it clear that the US and its Western allies including Japan stand for more than 75 percent of world´s armament and other countries are armed not to be crushed by the West. The US Power Elite is trying always to crush every country not dancing to the tune of “the Master”! And he told the assembly – though in a friendly way – that the presentations lacked substance!

His writings should be much more read!

Here are some:

http://monthlyreview.org/2014/09/01/the-return-of-fascism-in-contemporary-capitalism/

https://normanpilon.com/2016/09/04/samir-amin-the-us-imperial-project-is-to-destroy-the-arab-nations/

https://normanpilon.com/2015/01/27/samir-amin-in-conversation-with-sara-motta-ceasefire-magazine/

https://normanpilon.com/2014/03/25/samir-amin-russia-and-the-ukraine-crisis-the-eurasian-project-in-conflict-with-the-triad-imperialist-policies/

https://normanpilon.com/2016/08/10/the-kurdish-question-then-and-now-samir-amin-tlaxcala-global-research/

His work, a “Must Read”!

Andreas Schlüter

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Bathing Costume 1890

France has a long history in colonialism and colonial and imperial wars, especially also in Near East (http://tinyurl.com/pznrayh). A different matter is that Frances´s secular traditions should be honoured despite of that. I also understand the ban of the burka if covering the face. I also agree that the extreme covering of women in some Muslim societies is a symbol of lacking freedom for women. Likewise the unnecessary uncovering of women in contrast to men in Western societies is also a symbol of degrading women to sex symbols.

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Swim Suits around 1912

France´s Society going mad?!

France had – like Germany – a recent series of terror attacs. No matter who in the final analysis was behind it (http://tinyurl.com/zrwrk3k) it implicated young muslims who feel that their places of origin are degraded, occupied, war torn by the West. As much as they do in the final analysis the job Western Power Elites (particularly the US Power Elite) want them to do and as much as they should be warned of that (http://tinyurl.com/9bghg9n) it appears some people in France are very eager to provoke more of such stupid and cruel attacks (to have more reason for interventions?).

Europe shouldn´t be too proud of its „freedom“, around hundred years ago people in Europe were covered at bathing places in a similar way.

One can only warn the people of France: don´t tear your society more apart by some totally unnecessary symbolic acts of cultural Imperialism!

Andreas Schlüter

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/french-police-make-woman-remove-burkini-on-nice-beach

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/24/french-burkini-ban-row-escalates-clothing-incident-woman-police-nice-beach

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/24/france-burkini-ban-secularist-equality-muslim

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/world/europe/france-burkini.html?_r=0

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37093420

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/08/24/7-uncomfortable-facts-about-frances-burkini-controversy/

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/france-warns-muslim-stigmatisation-burkini-ban-160824191045697.html

https://news.vice.com/article/burkini-wearers-are-being-forced-to-disrobe-on-french-beaches

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/22/world/france-burkini-fines-paid/

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As difficult as it is to get a clear picture about what´s happening in the World, politically, socially and economically, some web pages are quite helpfull. The listing here doesn´t mean that I´d endorse every single contribution, but it´s based on the strong impression that all these pages are devoted to real search for the truth and many times provide good infos. I´d be glad about comments with more recommendations:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

https://www.corbettreport.com/

http://monthlyreview.org/2014/09/01/the-return-of-fascism-in-contemporary-capitalism/

https://off-guardian.org/

https://stuartjeannebramhall.com/

http://www.azizfall.com/

https://blackagendareport.com/black_agenda_radio_Mar6_17

https://garikaichengu.wordpress.com/

http://failuretolisten.tumblr.com/

http://ronaldjacksonglobal.blogspot.de/

https://normanpilon.com/about/

http://www.strategic-culture.org/

http://www.horacecampbell.net/

http://www.pambazuka.org/

https://qhabhuti.wordpress.com/

https://richardfalk.wordpress.com/

https://www.danieleganser.ch/home.html?lang=en

http://www.geopoliticsandcognition.com/

https://moorbey.wordpress.com/

https://memoryholeblog.com/

https://politicalfilm.wordpress.com/

https://www.rt.com/

https://onenessofhumanity.wordpress.com/about-2/

With all these great pages I´d like to credit James Corbett with the most genius and shortest presentation of the absurd official narrative about Nine Eleven and stripping it to what it is, a stupid fairytale:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgrunnLcG9Q

What after all is missing with all the pages (including my own) is the more concrete alternative to the existing mess and the „Powers that shouldn´t be“. As a good friend of mine, a very wise Lady from Egypt, is always demanding: we should come to intelligent action. And one element of that is to do more networking, to build a strong collective platform for spreading the truth and stirring resistance.

One part of that necessary clearness is enshrined in this famous quotation:

Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.

Max Horkheimer (1939), https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=capitalismcrisis–the-far-right—sussex-seminar-21-2-11.pdf&site=12

And the most dangerous fascists don´t come along with the well known Nazi symbols but with suit and tie (as dangerous those old style fascists could be for individuals getting across them):

US Elections: No Illusions, Deadly Politics Will be Increased!”: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/03/06/us-elections-no-illusions-deadly-politics-will-be-increased/

Andreas Schlüter

Links to my own blog:

My articles on the USA: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/list-of-my-articles-on-the-usa/

My articles on Africa: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/african-struggles-for-social-justice-freedom-and-democracy-in-perspective-reflected-in-a-series-of-articles/

 

Hardly any author has contributed to my desire to write more than James Baldwin, the Giant of Literature!

On my blog there´s a small contribution on that influence in German, which was waiting since long to be translated into English (as much as I like to write in both languages I´m always lazy to translate): http://tinyurl.com/jywwwsd

To honour the Giant but still being lazy to translate here I use most of my comment on an article (which gave now again inspiration to me) about the great man on this fine Blog: https://moorbey.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/why-james-baldwin-still-matterz/#comment-10837

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James Baldwin

How did this influence of Baldwin come about with a relatively pale Hamburg boy like me?

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Me 1968

1963 – me and my family had just moved to a part of Hamburg called Altona – I had fallen for the natural daughter of a Black WW II veteran living in a German family just round the corner. Unfortunately those days that was a very one sided affair (she loved me just like one would love a Mosqito), notwithstanding the fact that now since almost two decades I´m harmoniously living together with exactly that Lady. But those days my love for the teeny sharpened my already existing sensibility for racism in my own society as well as in the US and worldwide. On basis of that sensibility I got across Baldwin´s works. I think it was in 1966 that I had the pleasure to see Baldwin life presenting his „Amen Corner“ at Hamburg University. But the clou came with his book „The Fire Next Time“ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Next_Time). I remember myself well in summer 1967 sitting in a Café at the banks of River Elbe and writing a small essay about his book for our school newsletter (unfortunately disappeared). I can rightfully say that his book instilled into me the eagerness of writing. And it had considerably contributed to my eagerness studying intensively everything about Racism, Colonialism, Imperialism and about the Powers that (shouldn´t) be in the US and elsewhere.

I must say I owe this man a lot!

Andreas Schlüter

Links:

Video with James Baldwin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryuAW_gnjYQ

My articles on the USA: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/list-of-my-articles-on-the-usa/

My articles on Africa: https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/african-struggles-for-social-justice-freedom-and-democracy-in-perspective-reflected-in-a-series-of-articles/