ARMED UPRISING

LET US TAKE UP ARMS!

"All means used to struggle
against tyrants are legitimate."French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf 1792

It seems that Iran is about to be attacked by the U.S. With the active support of the only democratic apartheid regime in the world: Israel. And, as usual, the tacit support of the rest of the G7 vultures.

Another war of plunder. But that's nothing new.

The question is whether we on the left are going to do something new to stop the above mentioned criminals. Or the best we'll come up with is some new "protest" signs and a couple of new peace songs. No, I mean, really, what is wrong with us? That's the question! It is not "what's wrong with capitalism or imperialism and so on...?" We know what is wrong with capitalism. What is wrong with us? Us, the so-called anti-war "activists".

Do we really expect to stop the U.S war machine from bombing, killing hundreds of thousands more of innocent people, plundering again another country, do we really expect to stop the U.S war machine, our criminal governments in the G7, the IMF, N.A.T.O, the E.U, the W.B, you know, the usual partners in crime, do we really expect to stop them by holding peaceful "mass protests" only on a Saturday or a Sunday (not both days because there are shopping needs to be satisfied), by holding candle light vigils, giving lectures on why Iran is being targeted, writing letters to our congressmen or to whatever scumbag is "representing" us, "educating" people when actually everybody knows what is going on and those in the G7 who don't know, let's face it, it's because they don't want to know, because they don't care. And let's stop making up excuses for them, like blaming the mass media for their DELIBERATE ignorance. How come I know? How come most of us on the left (or not) know?

So, do we really expect to stop them with our risk-free bullshit? Don't we see that it doesn't work?! IT DOESN'T WORK! We gotta stop pretending we are doing something, for a start!

But, how committed are we? How far are we willing to go to stop another crime from being committed? More than 600 000 killed Iraqis (so that we in the G7 could get cheap OIL) is not enough for us to consider other options, other actions? How much are we willing to risk, to sacrifice for our beliefs? How deep are our beliefs? Sometimes it seems to me that our ("activists on the left") obsession with doing things "peacefully" is very hypocritical and has to do more with our COWARDICE than anything else!

Just think! Have we managed to stop the murder for plunder going on in Iraq? How hard have we really been trying to? Has it ever crossed our mind that some much more drastic measures have to be taken to force our criminal governments in the G7 to respect OUR will, the people's will, and not the will of a small capitalist elite?!

Doesn't it bother us to be surrounded by war criminals walking freely with all that blood on their (and ours) hands? Our presidents, prime ministers and all the other politicians who are involved in war crimes, Bush, Blair, Howard, Berlusconi, Aznar, Koizumi, Abe...etc, all these criminals should be hanging! Do we really expect any court to try them for war crimes? Do we really expect to get justice from THEIR courts? Some of these criminals have already retired and now they are enjoying peace and quiet in their new lives after having helped set Iraq on fire and drown it in blood of (so far) more than 600 000 innocent Iraqis for OIL! And this is not the first time! It has been going on and on and on forever. When will the victims of our greedy capitalistic lives get justice?! And now OUR heads of States in the G7 are about to do it again with Iran.

"THOSE WHO ACQUIESCE IN A CRIME ARE
EVERY BIT AS GUILTY AS THOSE WHO ENTHUSIASTICALLY
PARTICIPATE."Endo Shusaku

So, what are we on the left going to do about it? Organize another peace march to stop them? That's us, right? That's the best we can do, right?

How the hell do we hope to change something while operating within the very criminal system set up and controled by the very gangsters mentioned above? The courts, the police, the media, the banks, the money, the guns... everything is in their hands! Everything is in the hands of a few leeches! We know that, right?! And yet, we keep operating within/inside that criminal system instead of doing everything possible and more to smash it or at least damage it! Why? Cowardice!

"IT IS THE OBLIGATION OF EVERY PERSON WHO
CLAIMS TO OPPOSE OPPRESSION TO RESIST THE
OPPRESSOR BY EVERY MEANS AT HIS OR HER DISPOSAL.
NOT TO ENGAGE IN PHYSICAL RESISTANCE, ARMED
RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION, IS TO SERVE THE
INTERESTS OF THE OPPRESSOS; NO MORE, NO LESS.
THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE, NO
EASY OUT...Assata Shakur, 1984.

Someone once said that without breaking the rules the fight against injustice is a waste of time! Yes! Unjust laws must be broken, cordons of police must be broken, threats must be made and warnings given to all those in power, to the coward mass media people... they must understand that we the great majority of people don't want their wars! We must break out of their criminal system! They must be afraid of us! They must tremble at the sound of the roar of the people!

"POWER GROWS FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN."
Chairman Mao Tsetung

And if our threats and warnings are not heeded by those who are supposed to represent us, then punitive actions will be carried out against those bastards; the kind of punitive actions that might leave one in a life-threatening condition. Whatever their interests are, they must become the target of great damage.

"ALL MEANS, INCLUDING SUICIDE ATTACKS, ARE
VALID IF THEY SPEED UP THE ADVENT OF
DEMOCRACY!"Karl Heinzen

We on the left must set up an armed wing, an armed extension of the current pathetic "peace" movement. That armed wing will be carrying out violent, punitive actions against anyone in position to negatively influence and lead the people to the path of war. Any stinking politician, mass media vulture, intellectual who dares advocating, justifying any kind of war will be physically disabled.

"MASS MEDIA, OPPRESSIVE CULTURE, ADVERTISING
MANAGEMENT, AND MOST CONTEMPORARY MODES OF
THOUGHT ARE THE ENEMIES AND APPROPRIATE
TARGETS..."Herbert Marcuse

But, first, we have to start arming ourselves because the fight will be tough. Let us not forget that those sons of bitches in power have any kind of weapon we can imagine at their disposal to suppress us, the people, if we ever dare get out of line. We the people must remind those ungrateful bastards who the real masters are! They have weapons to wage plunder wars, we'll have weapons to wage a liberation war!

"THE PATH TO HUMANITY WILL PASS THROUGH
THE ZENITH OF BARBARITY."Karl Heinzen

In 2003, despite of millions of people marching throughout the world against the then-imminent war on Iraq, despite of the fact that the great majority of people in almost every single country (except Israel and the U.S) in the world were opposed to the war, war happened! If that is not spitting in the face of the people then what is?

Aren't you enraged by their (the politicians') arrogance, lies, condescension, corruption, crimes...and all in the name of greed?! Those sons of bitches are just supposed to respect and carry out our will, that's all! But you look around and it's the other way around! The vermin must be exterminated!

Those who advocate war for the sake of profit, those who advocate WAR must be taken out!

I am advocating intensive, intelligent, selective, well organized violence against the State in the G7 and against anyone involved in any kind of crime against humanity. Any political and economic elite, any oligarchy, any plutocracy must be physically eliminated once and for all! I am advocating being ONE with the oppressed!

"MEET VIOLENCE WITH VIOLENCE."
Rob Williams

I am advocating violent self-defence against capitalism and imperialism!

Elites must be exterminated!
Power must be taken by the people and spread among the people!
War must be stamped out!
Those who advocate war must be crushed!
The thought of war must be erased!
Capitalism must be obliterated!
Capitalists must be wiped out!
Capital must be annihilated!
Private ownership must be eradicated!
But all this can only be done by peoples of good will armed to the teeth, without mercy for the enemy, well organized and in coordination throughout the rapacious G7 for the benefit of the entire mankind.

"IF YOU HAVE TO BLOW UP HALF A CONTINENT
AND CAUSE A BLOODBATH TO DESTROY THE PARTY
OF BARBARISM, YOU SHOULD HAVE NO SCRUPLES
OF CONSCIENCE." Karl Heinzen

After all this is accomplished, all weapons must be destroyed.

Brkic Sulejman 28.03.2007

ONE WAY TO CHANGE THE WORLD

ONE WAY TO CHANGE THE WORLD


I watched FIVE FINGERS. It is a 2006 film directed by Laurence Malkin, starring Laurence Fishburn, Colm Meaney and Ryan Phillippe.

Here is the synopsis:

The film is fictional, but inspired by and is about an Islamic terrorist who captures a Dutch citizen, setting off a thrilling game of one-upsmanship, punctuated by riveting suspense and a dynamite shocker ending. Martijn (Ryan Phillippe) is on a goodwill mission in Morocco when he is stabbed with a syringe and wakes up blindfolded and shackled in a hideout. His captors (Laurence Fishburne and Gina Torres) want information - and they'll do anything to get it. So Martijn had better come up with a plan of action, because he's running out of time ... and fingers.

Here is a dialogue from one of the scenes. It’s between Martijn and the woman captor, Aicha:

M: I was fired.

A: And why is that? Did they find out about the money?

M: No. They saw pictures of me.

A: Doing what?

M: Protesting.

A: Protesting. Against who?

M: Dutch immigration policy and our government’s support of the World Bank.

A: You honestly believe that to protest against the World Bank would accomplish something?

M: I did. I used to think that it could accomplish a lot.

A: But not anymore?

M: Not that way, no.

A: Of course not. Because you are a child, Martijn. An idealistic, stupid child who is playing a very dangerous game. You go away for a weekend, throw a few stones, swallow a little tear gas and tell your girlfriend how risky it was. And while she is sucking on your cock, your government expels 40 000 asylum seekers. You have no idea what it would really take to change the world.

M: You’re wrong.

A: Then tell me.

M: A series of devastating events, events that would destroy the world’s richest companies, that would crush the world’s economy. A dozen 9/11s all over the world.

A: Like what?

M: Like targeted direct action against Halliburton. Against Dow Chemical, against McDonald’s. And not just American companies. Against Airbus, against British Petroleum. Against any company that promotes global capitalism and destroys lives and cultures in order to increase its profits…

JAPAN: GUILTY OF DOING GOOD

Guilty Of Doing Good

“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do” Voltaire

From the narrow window of my small cell,
I see trees that are smiling at me
and rooftops crowded with my family.
And windows weeping and praying for me.
From the narrow window of my small cell--
I can see your big cell!

Samih al-Qasim, from “End of a talk with a jailer”

Here in Tokyo, Japan, 3 peace activists, Toshiyuki Obora, Nobuhiro Onishi and Sachimi Takada were found guilty on April 11, 2008 by the Supreme Court of putting anti-war fliers into the mail boxes of the families of the Japanese soldiers who were dispatched to Irak on the orders of Uncle Sam to assist the shameful U.S.-led coalition in its illegal invasion and occupation of Irak to free it of its oil.

For a detailed account of this injustice, please read these articles by David McNeill in The Japan Times and on Japan Focus:
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20060214zg.html
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080520zg.html
http://www.japanfocus.org/_David_McNeill-Martyrs_for_Peace__Japanese_antiwar_activists_jailed_for_trespassing_in_SDF_compound_vow_to_fight_on
(with the interview)

These 3 activists were found guilty, their actions were found illegal for opposing an illegal war in which their country has taken part.

" The decision by President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq was ILLEGAL because it didn't have U.N Security Council approval, according to Secretary General Kofi Annan in an interview with the BBC World Service on Wednesday 15 2004. On Wednesday after being asked three times whether the lack of council approval for the war meant it was illegal, he (Annan) said: " From our point of view it was ILLEGAL."

The crime I’m writing about is of course the rape of Irak by the of course U.S.-led coalition of the willing to kill and plunder. These 3 activists did jail time, 75 days, for opposing an illegal war that has led to the death of over 1 million Irakis, and counting, to rob them of their oil! And the criminals who have caused their death, who have taken part in this Supreme International Crime are prancing around free.

To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. Robert H. Jackson, 1945-46

A student of mine the other day here in Tokyo was all excited and happy because she went to the Opera and there, guess who she saw enjoying Don Giovanni? Koizumi himself! Koizumi is the former Prime Minister of Japan and a war criminal since he has led his country into this illegal war on Irak. There he was, at the Opera, enjoying Don Giovanni while Irak is burning and bleeding! I feel rage burning inside me while writing this piece.

The 3 activists were found guilty by a judicial system of a country whose government, ignoring the will of the majority of its people opposed to the war, has taken part in the Supreme International Crime. They, who are opposed to this illegal war, were found guilty by a lackey judge who is an accomplice in this illegal war. Could anyone really expect anything else than a guilty verdict?

What is the Left that lives in the belly of the beast doing about this?

I once wrote a piece advocating the inclusion of violence as one method among others used by us on the Left to fight against whatever capitalist and imperialist institution and their leaders is promoting the horrible, horrible kind of crime against humanity that is taking place in Irak before our greedy eyes.

I sent my piece to a socialist website on which I was a kind of a regular and was banned from it soon after. I was told that the kind of actions I had in mind to fight against the illegal actions of our Western imperialist governments (including Japan) would be … illegal.

“It is the collective responsibility of the citizens in a modernState to ensure by all means necessary that its governmentadheres to the rule of law, not just domestically but internationally”. Karl Jaspers


Brkic Sulejman

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!

Remember, remember.......5 years!

The decision by President George W. Bush to go to war in Iraq was ILLEGAL because it didn't have U.N Security Council approval, according to Secretary General Kofi Annan in an interview with the BBC World Service on Wednesday 15 2004. On Wednesday after being asked three times whether the lack of council approval for the war meant it was illegal, he (Annan) said:
" From our point of view it was ILLEGAL."

Q: It was illegal ?

Annan: Yes, if you wish.

Q: It was illegal ?

Annan: Yes, I have indicated it is not In conformity with the U.N Charter, from our point of view and from the Charter point of view it Was ILLEGAL.

International Herald Tribune, Friday, September 17, 2004 (U.N chief calls Iraq war Illegal) The Associated Press, United Nations, New York."

Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal,1950.

"By any means necessary…" Malcolm X

Here is now my opinion on how we, the anti-war movement (at least here in Japan), should define the fight led by the Iraqi people against the U.S-British-led ILLEGAL occupation of their country:It is RESISTANCE !

The Iraqi people should and have the right to fight the invaders of Iraq, and all the vultures that came with them, by any means necessary !It is RESISTANCE ! There must be no doubt about it.Iraq is just another Algeria, Vietnam, Kenya, Haiti, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya…etcWe, the anti-war movement, must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE no matter how ugly it may appear. No matter how many are beheaded, no matter how many heads we see being cut off on the Internet, no matter all that ugliness, we must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE.

Frantz Fanon once said: "The resistance is ugly because the occupation is ugly".

Is more than 1000000 dead Iraqis so far, killed (for OIL) by U.S high precision strikes pretty ?

It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.
That study, published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion as of July 2006. Iraqis have continued to be killed since then. The graphic above provides a rough daily update of this number based on a rate of increase derived from the Iraq Body Count. (See the complete explanation.)
The estimate that over a million Iraqis have died received independent confirmation from a prestigious British polling agency in September 2007. Opinion Research Business estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the US invasion.

"We don't do body counts" U.S General Tommy Franks

We must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE because History demands it, because Justice demands it, because the ghosts of the victims of previous injustices demand it, because the ghosts of killed resistance fighters throughout History demand it, because the ghosts of the more than 600.000 dead Iraqi children (we, in our "democracies" let them die) in the 1990s under genocidal and illegal U.S-imposed, cowardly U.N-allowed economic sanctions demand it, because all those who cannot resist need it.

We must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE because we owe it to all those before us who died resisting so that we, today, would have the strength to resist. We must support the Iraqi RESISTANCE because it is the right thing to do ! We cannot pretend to do anything else before we have made a clear stand for this issue. We cannot go around in pitiful numbers, chanting anti-war slogans and asking for the withdrawal of these troops or those troops, an "end to the occupation" and so on before making it clear that we support the Iraqi RESISTANCE ! We also must stop condemning "both sides" for their brutality, we must stop being hypocritically "even handed" because this kind of attitude only reinforces the aggressor.One thing must be made clear:
The Iraqis are the victims, the U.S-led occupation forces are the aggressors and the Iraqis fighting these criminals are the RESISTANCE!

As for the "leaders" of the countries that took part in the rape of Iraq, here is the verdict:

BUSH, BLAIR, HOWARD, AZNAR, BERLUSCONI, KOIZUMI, KWASINEVSKI and all the others who supported the decision to invade and occupy Iraq are guilty of mass destruction and continued massacre in Iraq. They should be tried as war criminals in an international court for distorting the reality with lies upon lies, taking lives of thousands of innocent people and making the world more unstable than it was before their much vaunted noble war.

As for us, the people, who elected these criminals, we have the right and duty to get rid of these scumbags BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

Noam Chomsky, speaking of George W. Bush, once said that
" if he (Bush) were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunal, he would be hanged. So too would every single American President since the end of WW2, including Jimmy Carter."

And I say Bush, Blair, Howard, Aznar, Berlusconi, Koizumi, and all the others in power who supported this war on Iraq as well as all those cowards, lackeys of the government in the mainstream "media", all these leeches should be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals and be hanged !

WAR CRIMINALS

We, the anti-war movement, must identify with the Iraqi RESISTANCE because if we don't then what are we? When I say that we must identify with the Iraqi RESISTANCE, I don't mean that we must identify with the elements that the RESISTANCE is led by, be they Islamic fundamentalist, ex-Baathists or some other religious or secular groups. We do not have to and must not identify with the ideologies of these elements if they are incompatible with ours, we must not compromise our beliefs, we do not have to espouse their beliefs in order to support the RESISTANCE.
But there is one thing that we must recognize and it is that no matter how much their ideologies differ from ours, the people carrying out the battle against the rapacious U.S-led imperialist dogs ARE the RESISTANCE and that is what, without hesitation and delay , we must identify with and support. I repeat: without delay !
Because if we don't, we'll be confirming what Bertrand Russell once said:

"It is the nature of Imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know and care about circumstances in the colonies."

We, the people who live in the imperialist ("democratic") countries that have taken part in the rape of Iraq (for OIL), are responsible for what our leaders are doing and have the obligation to topple our criminal leaders because they do not represent us, the majority opposed to the war, anymore.We can do it, we have the real power, we are the power!

As for condemning "horrible" acts committed by the RESISTANCE, we have no right to condemn the RESISTANCE from the safety of our homes in our "democracies".

Che Guevara said:

"A people without hate cannot triumph over a brutal enemy".

Two factors contribute to the increasing brutality of the Iraqi RESISTANCE: The U.S-British-led ever increasing brutal and illegal occupation of Iraq and our, the anti-war movement's, passivity, docility.
Instead of pretending being pacifists, of trying at all costs, when, say demonstrating, to abide by the rule of law (the very same law that allowed our government to take part in the slaughter of more than 1000000 ("We don't do body counts" U.S General Tommy Franks) Iraqis (for OIL) so far), instead of pretending to follow the principles of non-violence of M.L. King or Gandhi when, actually, it is our own cowardice that we are trying to disguise, instead of engaging in all these half-measures, there is one concrete step that we could take and that could pave the way to more concrete actions and that is to recognize, identify with and support the Iraqi RESISTANCE.

We, the anti-war movement (at least here in Japan) have shied away from any association with the people fighting the imperialist invaders of Iraq. We have been demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and an end to the occupation while ignoring or condemning the RESISTANCE.
We have been doing all that through actions that are called "parades" in some dailies (I took part in one of these parades and on the way a friend of mine was actually asked by a passerby if it were a festival) or ignored altogether and carried out mainly on the anniversary of the attack on Iraq (Afghanistan has again been forgotten) in a very colorful and cheerful fashion, and all this of course inside the framework of unjust and more and more restrictive domestic laws aimed at people dissenting with the government line.

Now, are our tactics really productive?

Supporting the Iraqi RESISTANCE is not only about Iraq. It is about a global RESISTANCE. RESISTANCE to war, exploitation, greed, plunder, colonialism, capitalism, destruction of environment, oppression, aggression, occupation, G7, the World Bank, the I.M.F, E.U, the U.N Security Council… in other words: Globalization, that ubiquitous and faceless MURDERER, which is just a euphemism for IMPERIALISM !And Iraq is just another front in the RESISTANCE to IMPERIALISM !

According to the Webster's ll New Riverside University Dictionary, Imperialism is the policy of extending a nation's authority by acquisition of territory or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations.
According to LENIN, Imperialism is a struggle of the great powers for the economic and political division of the world characterized by the quest for spheres of influence for the control of markets, raw materials and cheap labor.

To all of us involved in the RESISTANCE against injustice, Frederick Douglass once said:

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle."

To me RESISTANCE is about hope. Hope for a better world. Of course, by hope I don't mean sitting and waiting for something good to fall down from the sky. I mean hope in action. I mean Being hope by RESISTING, resisting to those who want to sell us hope.

St. Augustine said: "Hope has two beautiful daughters: ANGER and COURAGE. ANGER at the way things are and COURAGE to change them."

RESIST…BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY !



Brkic SULEJMAN

TIBET

　　　　　　　　　　 Free Tibet?
Y E S!

All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
~Dalai Lama


In the April 23, 2008, Japan Times, I read this headline: Dalai Lama seeks help from U.S.
So, let me get this straight, one of the greatest pacifists in the world is asking for help from the most warmongering country in the world, the U.S.A. Ha!

On December 17, 1984, 143 member-states endorse UNGA Res.39/161B, commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial countries and Peoples. The U.S. alone casts an opposing vote.
(And this is one time among many others)

I was never a big fan of that impotent, chubby, bald guy called the Dalai Lama, prancing around in his colorful nightgown. But this tops it all. He is asking for help from the most genocidal country in the history of mankind, the U.S.A, the greatest purveyor of violence on Earth, according to M.L. King. The Dalai Lame is asking for help from the U.S.A, the country that has just caused the death of over a million Irakis (and counting), in yet another illegal war, in an attempt to rob them of their oil.

When I say I was never a big fan of the Dalai Lama, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one. According to the bits I’ve read, even the younger generation of Tibetans themselves are fed up with him and his impotent ways of dealing with the Chinese ogre. The younger generation of Tibetans are willing to put up a real fight against the Chinese imperialists. Yes, Chinese imperialists! Imperialism is not something that belongs exclusively to the Right. The Soviet Union was an imperialist dictatorship. As for because of my being on the Left I should automatically sympathize with the “communist” China, give me break!
China is as communist as that pedophile Benedict in the Vatican.

Let me make something clear: I am for free Tibet! Tibetans should fight by any means necessary to get free of more than 50 years of Chinese colonial rule!

Now, about all those Western protesters, trying to extinguish the Olympic flame on its way to China or whatever shithole it’s headed for, as far as I am concerned they can piss on it. Where were those Western protesting angels who are so (suddenly) concerned with the plight of the Tibetans, where were they when the flame of shame was heading for Atlanta, Georgia in 1996 into the bloody hands of Uncle Sam? Why weren’t they demanding freedom for Hawaii or its other colonies? Why weren’t they demanding a halt to U.S.A’s support for apartheid Israhell against a free Palestine, its continous bombing of Irak and genocidal economic sanctions against Irak that killed 1.6 million Irakis including 600.000 Iraki children? Not to mention the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles.

On April 4, 1984, 13 of 15 Security Council member-states endorse draft res.S/16463, condemning the U.S. policy of aggression towards Nicaragua as violating international law. The U.S. employs its veto to override them (final vote: 13-1-1).

And then what do you think happened? The U.S. went on to get 83 gold medals. Bravo! These are just two examples of Western deadly hypocrisy, not even the tip of the iceberg.
So, why only Tibet? Why suddenly now? What is so special about Tibet? Is it because of that “special spiritual connection” that the empty white Westerner (he thinks) has with Tibet? The empty white vegetarian Westerner would rather have a gentle, cute little Tibetan monk at his/her dinner table than a Fedayin (Palestinian freedom fighter) with his/her head wrapped in a kuffiya holding a Kalashnikov, right? How deep can cowardice and hypocrisy go?

Why is China being suddenly demonized? I mean, what do you expect from a dictatorship when the greatest democracy in the world, the U.S.A, is running a gulag called Guantanamo on stolen land from Cuba?
And, what is it with the Olympics anyway? China should never have gotten them in the first place! None of the Western powers should be allowed anywhere near the Olympic flame, either! Hell, the Olympics should be abolished altogether! It has become painfully ridiculous, to say the least, to hold such an event when the great majority of the population in the world lives in misery, when between 25 000 and 30 000 people are dying daily of hunger in the 21st century. As if there weren’t enough sports on TV already to keep people dumb, we need some more Olympic crap and let us rejoice when instead we should be screaming at the top of our lungs at the injustice that surrounds us!

The Western governments are in no position to criticize China. It’s like a rapist criticizing another rapist. They criticize China but keep doing business with it. Doing business with China is much more profitable than trying to get justice for Tibet. No wonder this injustice has been going on for more than 50 years. Remember how the West profited from its relationship with white apartheid South Africa that lasted up to the mid-nineties?! And Mandela spent almost 30 years in prison so that the West could continue doing business with a bunch of white racists. And they even gave the Nobel Peace Prize to de Klerk who, in a just world, shoul have ended up on Robben Island.

“I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. I tell them that I was also a terrorist yesterday, but, today, I am admired by the very people who said I was one” Mandela

Socialist/Communist governments cannot take sides with China just out of leftwing solidarity and for the sake of opposing the imperialist West. Peoples do have the right to self-determination!

Although China may be an important business partner of the West, it is mainly seen as a rival. If you look at the map of the world, China is almost totally surrounded by U.S. military bases or military installations.
To get back to the good-for-nothing Dalai Lama, he has done more harm than good to the Tibetan cause. By playing by the Western rules which always demand peaceful methods of resistance on the part of the oppressed peoples whom the West is raping (Look at what has happened to Suu Kyi in Myanmar. Fallen into oblivion. Where is the Western cavalry?), the Dalai Lama and his Western “supporters” have allowed Tibetan culture to go almost extinct, particularly the Tibetan language. In Tibet right now, there are more Chinese than Tibetans, millions were forced to flee, Chinese businesses, casinos, departments stores, brothels, luxurious hotels are flourishing and out of hundreds of Tibetan temples, there are only a few left, among other things. So, what are the D. Lama’s achievements beside a few pictures of him with Richard Gere and Stephen Segal?

The Dalai Lama should be pushed aside by the younger generation of Tibetans. He could easily find a lucrative job as a spiritual guide to the Hollywood lost souls. Tibet should establish stronger ties with the rest of the oppressed third world, arm itself and put up a resistance fight against the Chinese colonizers.

To me, China has become just another player in the capitalist game so it might as well go down. I just hope it takes the West with it. Then maybe we’ll have some peace.
To the West: Fuck off!
To the Dalai Lama: “There is no such thing as part freedom.” Mandela
To the Western hypocrite protesters: where is your (even spiritual) indignation about the Irakis, Palestinians, Chechens, Kurds, Africa, and many, many, many others?
As for the Olympic flame….well, to the flames!

Brkic Sulejman
1/5/2008

ZERO TOLERANCE!

Cartoon by Latuff

Zero tolerance for imperialist invaders


ZERO SYMPATHY

“My heart is a stork
Perched on a distant dome in Baghdad.
Its nest made of bones
Its sky of death.”
Sinan Antoon, Iraki poet

Some time ago I confronted a young American soldier who was giving me the middle finger for protesting against the U.S.-U.K.-led plunder war on and criminal occupation of Irak in front of the U.S. embassy here in Tokyo. I had asked him why he was going to kill people who had done him no harm. He answered that for him being a soldier was just a job and that it put food on the table. So, I just started throwing things at him, anything I could lay my hands on.

Now, am I supposed to feel sorry for that degenerate if he gets killed in Irak? Never. Good riddance. I often hear how poor young Americans from working class families join the army to escape poverty at home in the U.S. They join the U.S. army so that after they’ve served their greedy country they could afford a college education. So, let me get this straight; the poor young American soldier goes to Irak, among other places, to kill innocent Irakis so that he or she could afford a better life back home in the U.S. He or she kills a young Iraki so that they could go to college. Is this some kind of this joke?! And it is even worse if that poor young American soldier actually makes it back home and has a better life thanks to the Irakis he killed. I feel no sorrow at all for the dead American soldiers.
On the contrary, and I don’t like it, I rejoice every time I hear a U.S. sokdier was killed by the Iraki resistance. They, the U.S. soldiers, are the ones killing innocent Irakis so that the West and Japan could get cheap or close to free oil. I wouldn’t feel sorry for them even after I am done feeling sorry for the millions and millions os victims of U.S., Western imperialism. Am I supposed to feel sorry for the raped and the rapist? How am I supposed to feel sorry for someone who’s trying to make one’s life better by killing innocent people? How about I ask the West to feel sorry for the poor young German soldiers who rampaged through Europe during WW2? Or the poor young German soldiers working at Auschwitz as camp guards or escorting Jews to gas chambers and crematoriums? Those German soldiers were young, poor, ignorant, innocent, deceived, misled, lied to…..they didn’t know about Hitler’s plans. Most of them just wanted to escape poverty and misery in Germany. Hell, they even have a better excuse for not knowing what was really going on than today’s U.S. soldiers who at least have the advantages offered by highly developed information technology which didn’t exist during WW2.

So, when I am told that the poor young American soldier didn’t know what he was getting into, that he was deceived, misled…. All I can say is: give me a break. So was the young SS. What infuriates me is the people on the Left, their shyness, cowardice when it comes to condemning the rape of Irak. They condemn the war but at the same time they also deplore the deaths, for the sake of political correctness, of the poor young American soldiers who kill, beat, humiliate, rape Irakis, plunder and destroy Irak and camps like Abu Ghraib. The problem of the people on the Left is that they are trying to please everyone. They are being careful not to alienate the public, the notoriously indifferent Western public, at large so they sympathize with innocent poor American soldiers who are supposedly dying needlessly in Irak, the poor young American soldiers who have so far killed more than 500 000 thousands innocent Irakis. According to some sources it could be close to 1 million. This reminds me of another Iraki poem by Sinan Antoon:

“To an Iraqi Infant”
“Don’t be afraid
We’ll arrange your bones
Which ever way you want
And leave your skull
Like a flower on top.”

Why sympathize with or feel sorry for the enemy? The U.S. soldiers and all the vultures that have followed them are the enemy. The Left in the West must embrace the Iraki resistance and give it its full and unconditional support because this is a classic case of imperialist attack carried out by the enlightened West. The invaders and occupiers must be driven out of Irak by any means necessary. All those who took part in this supreme international crime must be, and will be, kicked out of Irak, dead or alive, I don’t care. To me, personally, a good American soldier is one returning home in a body bag from wherever he or she had been extending imperialism. The other day I watched yet another 4 or 5 minute film on a news website called Information Clearing House. Young American soldiers shooting an Iraki dog and laughing because the poor animal just wouldn’t die, it just kept trying to stand up and they kept shooting it, kicking Iraki prisoners, killing, by mistake of course, Iraki civilians riding in a car and accompanying every killing with more laughter, swearing and cursing.

But I guess, they were just following orders. So was Eichmann. During WW2, when most of Europe was under Nazi occupation, was it wrong of the French resistance or the Partisans in Yugoslavija, where I come from, to ambush convoys of young German soldiers and kill them all? No. During the imperialist occupation of Vietnam by the U.S., was it wrong of the Vietnamese resistance to kill the American invaders? No. Or the Korean or the Chinese resistance fighters killing the Japanese invaders who were trying to liberate Asia just like what Uncle Sam is trying to do in the Arab world, you know, trying to liberate the Arabs from their oil., so, was it wrong to kill Hirohito’s dogs? No. Is it wrong of the Palestinian resistance fighters to kill the U.S.-West Europe-backed Israeli imperialist invaders? No.

This asking a question and answering it myself, I learned it from Donald Rumsfeld. These are just a few examples of great, heroic resistance. So, what’s wrong with the Iraki’s resistance killing the U.S. invaders in order to drive them out of Irak? Nothing. Those so-called poor, young U.S. soldiers have joined the U.S. army voluntarily. Nobody forced them. They chose that job. They live in the most democratic country in the world, the beacon of freedom. I know, I know, they were naïve, they were fooled, they were forced to join by poverty….bla, bla, bla…..but I do not care. If they want to do something about their poverty, they should put up a fight against their government, the U.S. government, against their country, inside the U.S. They could use Timothy McVeigh as their inspiration and guiding star instead of going around the world killing, plundering, destroying, raping.

The U.S.-led coalition of the willing to kill for oil, the U.S.-led coalition of terrorists will be kicked out of beautiful Irak. The invaders, the thieves, the murderers will leave bloodied noses. They will be kicked out of Irak by the Iraki people resistance just like any other imperialist dogs throughout history.
As for calling the Iraki resistance terrorism, in the words of Nizar Qabbani, the Arab world’s poet of love:

“I am with terrorism
With all my poetry, with all my words,
And all my teeth, as long as this
New world is in the hands of a butcher.”

Cartoon by Latuff

Brkic Sulejman
20/01/2008

DELIBERATE IGNORANCE

Cartoon by Latuff

"To gaze idly at a crime is to commit it."
Jose Marti

YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT NOT TO KNOW ANYMORE!

'Not to know is bad. Not to wish to know is worse'
African proverb

I am sick and tired of hearing 'I don't know, I didn't know, I don't understand' when it comes to social issues, problems in our world and the miserable state of affairs into which we've plunged it!

I live in Japan (I've lived here for 15 years) and this is one of the most, with the USA, (deliberately) ignorant countries in the world. It's just like with the US, it's always the same crap. It always goes like this: 'The American people didn't know, they were lied to,, they were misled, manipulated by the media, they were deceived, the Congress was lied to…..bla, bla, bla. And this has been going on forever. They never know. Always the same excuse! And the result of their (deliberate) ignorance is about 7 million people killed throughout our world by US foreign policy since 1945. And we who know about the crimes of US foreign policy are always asked to be careful and separate the US government from its people because they don't know what their government has been up to. Well, I've had it with you over there in the US and here in Japan! No more 'I don't know, I didn't know, I don't understand'! No more of that bull shit! You should know! You should have known! WHEN WILL YOU KNOW?! Really?! When do you think it will be a good time to know that outside the G7 the world, your world, our world is burning?! That we have made our beautiful planet sick? That you, the ones always with 'I don't know, I didn't know, I don't understand' on their lips, you the DELIBERATELY ignorant and indifferent ones, that you may be one of the main causes of the misery in our world!

Here I am, in Tokyo, in the 21st century, talking about two of the most technologically advanced, industrialized, materially rich countries in the world and yet so poor when it comes to knowledge, compassion, sense of justice, sense of history, generosity, sense of shame, human warmth. You are pathetic!

I wonder how many more millions of people will have to die in our world, how badly damaged will our beautiful planet have to get for you, the I-don't-know dimwits, to notice at best that there is something wrong, to cause you to actually feel slightly concerned. Don't know my ass!!

WHY DON'T YOU KNOW?! WHY DON'T YOU KNOW?! WHEN WILL YOU KNOW?!
WHEN WILL YOU UNDERSTAND?! WHY DON'T YOU TRY TO FIND OUT?!

If you have enough gray cells that allow you to think enough to say that you don't know (in order to escape responsibility), then logically, since you know that you don't know, you should try to want to know, to learn, do a little research, read, use the Internet, go to libraries, attend lectures, hang out with people who do know instead of morrons like yourself....When was actually the last time when you did try to do any of the above mentioned?

I mean, if you have enough 'brains' to locate the latest MP3, a Louis Vuiton bag, a bargain sale, a cheap airplane ticket on the Internet to Hawaii, Guam, Acapulco...a great Italian restaurant om the other side of town, a great vintage clothes store...if you have enough 'brains' to locate all these, then you should be able, while you (Americans and Japanese) are surfing the net in search of emptiness to fill your empty head and heart, to find out why really America is in Iraq (so far more than 600 000 Iraqis dead), why Japan has supported (again) and taken part in this supreme international crime, why the US, since its inception, has been at war with our world, why Japan, while claiming it loves peace, has supported every criminal adventure undertaken by the US since 1945, why Japan attacked and occupied China, Korea and many other countries in Asia, why so many Asians are still so angry at Japan, why the US is resented by so many people around the world...You could find about all this while you are on the Internet if you cared enough or you could ask your stupid parents, but I guess they 'don't know' either.

When I hear that the Americans, the Japanese are 'peace loving peoples', I actually feel like screaming at you, you hypocrites! After 15 years here in Japan you ain't fooling me no more with your pretense of loving, caring for peace, you hypocrites!

How in the world can you, you Japanese, even pretend to love and care about peace when you have followed and supported the US in each and every of its wars?! Hell, you have economically prospered on your pretense of love for peace. Yes! Your economic prosperity is in big part due to your following blindly, out of greed, the US in its wars of global plunder. But then, of course, you, the 'peace loving' Japanese 'don't know, didn't know, you don't understand' what Uncle Sam, your master, has been up to, just like the American people. Maybe we should ask the Iraqis. I bet they know what is happening to them and who is responsible! You should be ashamed of yourselves! SHAME ON YOU!

There is a joke, of sort, about the American people that says that Americans learn geography through their government's bombings other peoples around the world.

I am not saying that you have to lose sleep over Iraqis, Palestinians, Chechens, Rwandans, the Kurds, the Sudanese, the Korean, Chinese and other Asian women who survived sexual slavery at the hands of Japanese Imperial Army that was liberating Asia, the ozone, the pollution, the 30000 people that die of hunger daily.... but you could at least start caring about the needy at home, in your own countries. You could start with the homeless. But, I guess, you 'didn't know ' about them, either.

It is also interesting that expression that you have on your face when you say that rubbish ' I don't know, I didn't know, I don't understand'. It's as if by saying those (magical to you) words you expect to be granted automatic access to innocence, immunity, absolution, total understanding and exoneration, sympathy, love....

You probably even expect the victims of your government's criminal foreign policy to understand that there was nothing you could do since you 'didn't know' what your democratically elected (by you) government was up to because you were too busy reading Manga, the Davinci Code, Harry Potter, watching baseball, shopping, playing video games, ignoring 'politics' because it's boring. Hell, you were too busy doing your best not to know, not to find out even by accident.

In this age of avalanches of information available to us (in the G7), you have got to really try hard not to know! There is also another look you sometimes have on your face, you know, the one where you lower your eyes or look away in boredom but too coward to say that you are not interested. Or, you just say something like 'Oh! Yeah.... that's terrible....' hoping that those empty words of yours would put an end to the oppressing conversation into which you were dragged from your pathetic, parasitic, dead life. And, trying harder to get you interested in our world, the misery, the injustice in it, would be close to, in your mind, violating your human rights!

Now, I could go on and on and on about your kind, the 'I don't know, I didn't know, I don't understand' specie but I'm afraid I'd be wasting my time, and anyway, the 800 000 dead Rwandans have nothing to do with you. Let's just say that you don't know or didn't know or don't understand because you don't want to. And you don't want to know because you don't care. That's the plain truth. YOU DON'T CARE! You are a despicable person!

'THOSE WHO ACQUIESCE IN A CRIME
ARE EVERY BIT AS GUILTY AS THOSE
WHO ENTHUSIASTICALLY PARTICIPATE'
Endo Shusaku

By 'YOU', as I mentioned earlier, I mean mainly Americans and Japanese because you have been the most numerous ones I've come in contact with during my 15 years in this peace loving country that is Japan. By 'YOU' I also mean the middle class, not only in the US and Japan, but in the G7. The guardian of capitalism.
By 'YOU' I mean the ones who, while I am marching with friends in a protest against war, just stand on the sidewalks and stare, laugh, never thinking of joining us, probably too busy shopping.

By 'YOU' I don't mean the people who already have enough burdens on their shoulders, say, the single mother who can barely make ends meet..

In the movie 'V for Vendetta' the hero asks TV viewers who's to blame for the current miserable state of affairs in our world and he answers them in these words:
'LOOK IN THE MIRROR'.

So, let us all, us in the G7, look in the mirror!

'HUMAN BEINGS ARE ALL MEMBERS OF ONE BODY.
THEY ARE CREATED FROM THE SAME ESSENCE.
WHEN ONE MEMBER IS IN PAIN, THE OTHER CANNOT
REST. IF YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE PAIN OF
OTHERS, YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO BE CALLED
A HUMAN BEING.'
Mosleh al-Din Saadi Shirazi
(13th century Persian poet, from Shiraz)

Brkic SULEJMAN
21/02/2007

CAPITALISM

CAPITALISM IS…………..GOOD


Brkic Sulejman 10/12/07
A few weeks ago I attended a discussion about the working poor here in Japan and around the world. Many of the participants were not from that class. An hour or so into the discussion, a woman in her 40s (a journalist, writer, translator according to her business card) said that she didn’t think capitalism was bad, that there was nothing wrong with capitalism. A few jaws dropped, including mine.

Now that, according to the capitalist West (including Japan), communism and socialism are “dead”, the only economic system left in charge of the well-being of our world, our planet is capitalism (and its twin neo-liberalism). So, communism and socialism cannot be blamed anymore for the misery surrounding us. So, who is or what is to blame for the, say, between 25 000 and 30 000 children (under the age of 5) who die daily (mainly in the Third World) of hunger in the 21st century, or the close to 50 million people without any health insurance in the U.S.A, or another 45 million or so illiterate in the U.S.A, or the 37 million who live bellow the poverty line in the U.S.A? In the 21st century! In the U.S.A?! The leading capitalist country. The world superpower!

IN 1981 THE UNITED NATIONS TRIED TO PASS A RESOLUTION THAT:
“Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development are human rights.” THE U.S. VETOED THIS U.N. RESOLUTION.
http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa03.html

Saying that there is nothing really wrong with capitalism, that it’s not that bad, when even some capitalists, neo-liberals themselves are starting to recognize its excesses, is just stupid and mean!
“Former chief economist of the World Bank Joseph Stiglitz in his book ‘ Making Globalisation Work’ admits that globalization (capitalism) makes some people poorer and that Africa has gotten poorer since the 1980s…” The Observer,2006 (G.A.C.)

Although I’ve already enumerated a few facts to describe the humane side of capitalism in another piece under a different title
(http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12257.htm),
here are some other facts, and, as you’ll see, all they show is that capitalism is about…….MONEY, MONEY, MONEY…..MORE MONEY……..AND MORE MONEY …….AT ANY COST!

“Capitalism is the system under which we all live, which is
failing so miserably to meet the needs of the vast majority
of the world’s population. Under capitalism, a small minority
of people are in control of the money and resources of the planet.
They accumulate wealth and power and move their money and
factories at will to keep their profits high and wages low.
PROFIT COMES BEFORE PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT”
(http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/death/?p=1)


Here are some interesting global priorities to help the reader to better imagine and feel the generosity of the capitalist West (including Japan):

1. Consider the global priorities in spending in 1998
Global Priority $U.S. Billions
Cosmetics in the United States 8
Ice cream in Europe 11
Perfumes in Europe and the United States 12
Pet foods in Europe and the United States 17
Business entertainment in Japan 35
Cigarettes in Europe 50
Alcoholic drinks in Europe 105
Narcotics drugs in the world 400
Military spending in the world 780

2. And compare that to what was estimated as additional costs to achieve universal access to basic social services in all developing countries:
Global Priority $U.S. Billions
Basic education for all 6
Water and sanitation for all 9
Reproductive health for all women 12
Basic health and nutrition 13
(http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/death/?p=1)
It just reeks of generosity!
The leading capitalist countries are the G7 countries.


“The basic law in capitalism is you OR I,
NOT both you AND I.”
Karl Liebknecht

1) 6 million children under the age of 5 die every year because of hunger.(G.A.C)
2) For the first time in human history the number of overweight people rivals the number of underweight people.(G.A.C)
3) A child dies of starvation every 7seconds according to the World Food Program. 80% of the world’s hungry children live in countries with food surpluses. (G.A.C)
4) The space shuttle costs $400 million per flight. NASA’s overall budget is $15 billion a year. (G.A.C)
5) Half of the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day. (G.A.C)
6) For $12 you can buy “SPRAY ON MUD” for your SUV. According to the company’s website, SPRAY ON MUD can give the impression “you’ve just come back from a day’s shooting, fishing, or visiting friends on a farm instead of dropping the kids off at the mall on your way to yoga class. The creator of SPRAY ON MUD reassures us that “people may want to look like they’ve been off road, but they certainly don’t want any chips or scratches on paint work.” (G.A.C)
7) 1/3 of the world’s population is without electricity. If present trends continue, this figure will grow by 25% in the next 20 years. (G.A.C)
8) 20 million people in the world who need a wheelchair for basic mobility do not have 1. (G.A.C)
9) In 2003, British people spent more than $2 billion on candy.(G.A.C)
10) Of the 4.4 billion people in developing countries:
3/5 lack basic sanitation,
1/3 have no safe drinking water,
1/4 have inadequate housing,
1/5 are undernourished,
1/5 have no modern health services. (G.A.C)
11) The U.S. “defence” budget in 2005 was over $ 1 billion a day. (G.A.C)
12) 113 million children in developing countries are without access to basic education. 60% are girls. (G.A.C)
13) Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s wedding cost between $2 and 3$ million. (G.A.C)
14) The richest countries are home to 20% of the world’s population who consume 86% of all resources. (G.A.C)
“THE INHERENT VICE OF CAPITALISM IS THE UNEQUAL
SHARING OF BLESSINGS” Winston Churchill
15) 75% of the world’s pollution comes from 25% of the world’s population. (G.A.C)
16) Globally the number 1 occupation for disabled people is begging. (G.A.C)
17) Goodie bags for Oscar presenters at the Academy Awards are worth $100,000. (G.A.C)
18) 1.1 billion (1/6 of the world’s population) do not have clean water. 2.4 billion do not have adequate sanitation. 1 child dies every 15 seconds from water related disease, which amounts to nearly 6,000 deaths a day or the equivalent of 20 jumbo jets crashing.
The $8 billion spent on cosmetics in the U.S. each year would provide clean water for the developing world. (G.A.C)
19) It takes 11,000 liters of water to create 1 quarter-pounder hamburger. (G.A.C)
20) The amount of money spent on PET FOOD in the U.S. and Europe each year equals the additional amount needed to provide BASIC FOOD AND HEALTH CARE for ALL the people in poor countries, with a sizeable amount left over. (G.A.C)
21) The amount of money spent on ICE CREAM in Europe each year would be enough to ensure reproductive health for all women in developing countries per year. (G.A.C)

22) In 1982 the United Nations tried to pass a resolution that
“Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development, etc are human rights.” The U.S. vetoed this U.N. resolution.
http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa03.html

23) The U.S. has the highest rate of child poverty among the industrialized countries, with 1 in every 5 children growing up in poverty. (G.A.C)
24) $500,000: Amount the Iraq war costs per minute, according to a new analysis by a Nobel Prize winning economist at Harvard, who noted that the amount spent on the war each day could pay for health care for 423,529 children. (Time magazine, October 2007)
25) About 650,000 Iraqi civilians (many of them women and children) have died (killed for OIL) since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (for OIL) according to the Lancet medical journal. (G.A.C)
26) When U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney was CEO of oil field supply company Halliburton, he did almost $24 million in business with Saddam Hussein. (G.A.C)

“CAPITALISM IS THE LEGITIMATE RACKET OF
THE RULING CLASS.” Al Capone

27) In 2005, 37 million Americans lived in poverty, 25.3% American Indians and Alaska Natives, 24.9% were blacks, 21.8% were Hispanics, 11.1% were Asians, and 8.3% were Whites. (G.A.C)
28) The production costs of an hour of “reality” TV programming is about $800,000. (G.A.C)
29) The 225 richest people in the world have a combined wealth of more than $1 trillion, equal to the annual income of the poorest 47% of the Earth’s population, some 2.5 billion people. (G.A.C)
30) $13 billion a year would satisfy the world’s sanitation and food needs (about as much as the people of the U.S. and European Union spend each year on PERFUME). (G.A.C)
31) In the world, every 8 seconds a person dies of a tobacco-related disease. (G.A.C) Why is it still being sold?! Moneeeeeeey!
32) 2.3 million people died of AIDS in 2004 and 25.4 million were HIV-positive.(G.A.C)
33) The United Nations estimates the cost of combating AIDS to be $10 billion a year. U.N. member countries contributed $3 billion in 2002. (G.A.C)
34) The United Nations budget is less than the yearly cost of the Tokyo fire department. (G.A.C)
35) OXFAM estimates that to meet the health, education, and sanitation target of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals would require $48 billion more in aid a year. Annual global military spending is $953 billion. (G.A.C)
36) Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney, makes $9,783 an hour compared with a Haitian worker who stitches Disney products for 28 cents an hour.

CAPITALISTS: “PEOPLE WHO JUST SEE PROFIT AS IMPORTANT.
MONEY, MONEY AND MORE MONEY.” Dalai Lama (G.A.C)

37) Over their lifetime, 1 child born in the West will consume and pollute more than
would 30 children born in developing countries. (G.A.C)
38) 1/6 of the world’s population lives in squalid unhealthy areas mostly without water,
sanitation, public services or legal security. (G.A.C)
39) A birthday party for former Tyco chief executive Dennis Kozlowski’s wife Karen, cost $2.2 million. It included an ice sculpture of Michelangelo’s David that urinated Vodka. (G.A.C)
40) In the entire world, those living in extreme poverty ( on less than $1 a day) rose from 271 million in 1996 to 313 million in 2002. That is an increase of 42 million in 6 years.(G.A.C)

IN 1983 THE UNITED NATIONS TRIED TO PASS A RESOLUTION THAT:
“Declares that education, work, health care, proper nourishment, national development are human rights.” THE U.S. VETOED THIS U.N. RESOLUTION.
http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa03.html

41) The military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost the U.S. $ 400 billion in 3 years. (G.A.C)
42) Every 4 days the world spends more than $7 billion on the military. The U.N. estimates that this amount would be enough to provide poor countries with primary education for a year. (G.A.C)
43) Daily DEATHS around the world: 24,000 from hunger
6,000 children from diarrhea
2,700 children from measles
1,400 women in child birth
550 children from war
201 from drought (G.A.C)

“WORLD WIDE CAPITALISM KILLS MORE PEOPLE EVERYDAY
THAN HITLER DID. AND HE WAS CRAZY.” Ken Livingstone

44) For many of the world’s poorest countries, living standards are lower than what
they were 30 years ago. (G.A.C)
45) The gap between the incomes of the richest and poorest countries was about:
3 to 1 in 1820,
35 to 1 in 1950,
44 to 1 in 1973,
and 72 to 1 in 1992. (G.A.C)

“THE FORCES IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY, IF LEFT UNCHECKED, TEND
TO MAKE THE RICH RICHER AND THE POOR POORER.”
Jawaharlal Nehru

46) The 3 richest people in the world have assets that exceed the combined gross
domestic product of the 48 least-developed countries. (G.A.C)
47) It would cost between $7 and 8 billion a year to provide primary education for everyone in the developing world. This amount represents 4 days of global military spending, and 50% of what the U.S. spends annually on children’s TOYS. (G.A.C)
48) The amount of money that the richest 1% of the world’s population makes each year equals what the poorest 57% make. (G.A.C)
49) Global production of hazardous waste has reached more than 300 million tons a year. (G.A.C)
50) The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1,360 scientists from 95 countries warned that almost 2/3 of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure. (G.A.C)
51) The world’s most profitable corporation, EXXONMOBIL has sales that amount to more than $1 billion a day. The company has used some of this money to contribute to 124 organizations that deny climate change. (G.A.C)
52) 100 million children in the world are estimated to be living or working on the streets and 1.2 million women and girls under 18 are trafficked for prostitution each year. (G.A.C)

“LIBERAL CAPITALISM IS NOT AT ALL THE GOOD OF HUMANITY.
QUITE THE CONTRARY; IT IS THE VEHICLE OF SAVAGE, DESTRUCTIVE NIHILISM” Alain Badiou

53) 1 million children in Canada live bellow the poverty line. (G.A.C)
54) A former student of mine, here in Tokyo, has 3 Louis Vuitton shoulder bags at the price of between 300,000 and 500,000 yen each. (Brkic Sulejman)

“I KEEP ON UNDERESTIMATING CAPITALISM. I REGARD IT AS THE WORLD’S EVIL, AND I STILL CONTINUE TO UNDERESTIMATE IT…”
Stephen Lewis, United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, 2006
(G.A.C)

“THE BASIC LAW OF CAPITALISM IS
you OR i,
NOT BOTH you AND i.”
Karl Liebknecht

P.S. According to Texas-based Android World, Inc., Valerie, an attractive female-shaped
robot can be purchased for $59,000. Valerie is expected to do all the owner’s ironing and cleaning. (G.A.C)

G.A.C.= “The Gruesome Acts Of Capitalism” by David Lester

IRAN

Iran And "The International Community "

By Brkić Sulejman

02/26/06 -- -- Here we go again! Now it’s Iran. Bush, again mumbling something about Iran’s being a threat to the world, the same crap as about Iraq. But this time, the west European countries (the ”traditional” allies) are at it, too.

Isn’t it strange how all these countries, the USA, Israel, England, France, Germany…with all their weapons of mass destruction, feel so easily threatened? Why shouldn’t Iran be a nuclear power? The U.S, England, France, Israel, Russia, China, Japan (yes! Japan, too), India and Pakistan are.

These idiots are the cause of nuclear proliferation. If they are so concerned about the safety of the world they should lead by example and dismantle their nuclear weapons.

When the U.S, Israel, England France and Germany talk about the safety of the world being their main reason to object to Iran’s possessing nuclear technology, what world are they talking about? They are the only ones (as always) who feel threatened. I don’t hear about Thailand, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Latvia, Vietnam, Zambia… feeling threatened. I mean, really, what world is in question? The world comprised of the U.S, England, Israel, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, and Japan?
The world of GREED?

The O.E.C.D world? The world made up of the G7 the E.U the IMF, World Bank, WTO, N.A.T.O, the UN Security Council, NAFTA, Wall Street, OIL interests, cheap OIL. Is this the world we hear so much about? Because, if this is the world the West is worried about, then it is a world of SHAME that is in question, a world of deceit, greed, wars, theft, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism... An opulent white world born out of mainly colored peoples slave work, sweat and blood and their natural resources.
If this is the world that is in danger then it might as well be done away with!

We hear again words of shame, words like ”the UN Security Council”, “UNSC resolutions”, “International community”… I thought all this didn’t exist anymore. I thought the UN was finally dead, the coup de grâce being the (another) illegal US-UK-led war against the Iraqi people in order to rob them of their OIL. But let’s face it, the UN was never very much alive. Actually, there never was a UN. All there was was the(UN) Security Council, a band of criminals bent on tearing the natural resources of the world at any cost.

Although I am far from being a fan of the ruling Mullahs in Teheran, I still remember the Shah, Reza Pahlavi, a friend of the West, which means “the International Community” and oppressor of the Iranian people, a vicious dictator who was propped up and kept in power by the West, robbed his people blind and made himself and the West even richer and who eventually gave birth to the Mullahs. So, I urge Iran not to put its fate into the hands of “the International Community”. When you hear “International Community” on the news, what countries pop up in your mind? Albania, Burkina Faso, Burundi…? Of course not! The countries that pop up in our mind are usually the US and whoever follows (pretty much the same faithful dogs : Israel, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan…) or G7, EU, NATO, W.B., IMF, WTO… it’s always the same gangsters anyway.

This ”International Community” that is so worried about the safety of the “world”, that claims the higher moral ground, a higher sense of justice and is so vociferous in its proclamations of being the defender of democratic values, human rights and protector of the “civilized” world, this ”International Community” is the same one that has betrayed millions of people around the real world in need of human rights, democracy, justice…

Millions have been killed, tortured, oppressed, persecuted, exploited…as a result of the criminal policies of our angelic ”International Community”, because what mattered and still matters the most today is the economic interests of this ”International Community” of SHAME!

Here are just a few names, a few peoples that were let down by our ”International Community”, the savior of the “world”: East Timor (200 000 killed), El Salvador (75000 killed), Chile (between 10000 and 30000 killed), these murders (in Chile) started on September 11, 1973 with a coup against the democratically elected president Salvador Allende, orchestrated by the U.S and welcome by “the International Community” and brought to power the fascist general Augusto Pinochet. Although this tragedy took place on a September 11, too, ”the International Community” seems to have a very selective memory when it comes to remember the victims of its criminal policies.

Vietnam (between 2 and 3 million killed), Laos, Cambodia, The Kurds, the Palestinians (robbed of their land and kept in huge prison camps by the only ”democracy” in the middle East: Israel), Rwanda(close to 1 million) Zaire (the Congo), Sabra and Chatila (between 2 and 3 thousand Palestinians killed), San Su Kyi, Lumumba, Leila Zana, Nelson Mandela, the Tibetans, 1.6million Iraqis, including 600 000 Iraqi children, who were killed by US-imposed, West European-backed (read ”International Community”), wrapped in the UN flag economic sanctions. For about 12 years, since the end of the Gulf War up to the current illegal war again against Iraq, the Iraqi people kept dying (600 000 children) like flies under the watchful eye of the humanists that comprise the “ International Community”.

And many more millions of others.

Now, just a few more words about N.Mandela. Mandela, a black South African man, had actually to fight in his own country for the liberation of his people against a white minority racist regime! : APARTHEID. He was labeled as a terrorist, arrested and thrown into jail and left to rot there right up to 1990! Meanwhile, our alrighteous ”International Community” kept doing very profitable business with apartheid, that white minority racist regime that lasted until 1994. That was 12 years ago! Bravo the ”International Community”!

When Mandela, at last, was to be released from prison in 1990, guess who was opposed to his release? No less than the current vice president of the United States of America: Dick Cheney (although, I’m sure he was not the only one). Mandela himself in an interview with the U.S. Magazine, Newsweek revealed this fact, published on Wednesday, 11 September 2002. Excerpts of this interview can also be found on BBC news world edition, Wednesday, 11 September 2002.

And let’s not forget Srebrenica, a place located where I come from : Tito’s Yugoslavia. Now that area is called Bosnia and Herzegovina. In July1995, between 7800 and8000 men and boys were executed, slaughtered by the Serb military and paramilitary forces during the 1992 – 1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in an area that was under the protection of the “United Nations. Srebrenica was even declared a “safe area” , a “haven”. This massacre took place in the heart of Europe, it was the worst massacre since the end of World War2.

It occurred right under the noses of the leaders of the three European countries that are these days so concerned about the safety of the “world”, so much so that they are even considering supporting a military action, undertaken by the U.S.A and its proxy Israel against Iran to stop it from developing nuclear technology. The three European countries I have in mind are: France, England and Germany, all members of the UN ”Security Council” of which two are permanent, France and England. These hypocrites want to protect the “world” when they couldn’t even stop 7800 to 8000 men and boys from being killed in a small town (located on their doorstep) like Srebrenica. Maybe the people of Srebrenica should have applied for EU membership before the massacre in order to get better protection.

When the ”International Community” threatens Iran to force it to give up its nuclear program in order to make the world safer, I wonder if its thoughts of safety include the Chechens, the Palestinians, the Iraqis, the Sudanese in Darfur, the campesinos and the Indios being massacred in Colombia by death squads backed by the cheap – natural resources - hungry U.S. and its west European vassals and Japan (read: ”International Community”) …or the 30 000 daily deaths caused by hunger due to economic policies of the ”International Community”…Will all these peoples and many other oppressed ones feel safer once they find out that Iran has agreed to get rid of its nuclear technology? Who or What will really be safer? The flow of cheap OIL to the West and Japan (the ”International Community”)?

In light of this record of atrocities approved of by ”the International Community”, Iran should really speed up the development of its nuclear technology in order to defend itself against these vultures.

Iran shouldn’t either count too much on the anti-war “movements” in the West or here in Japan. I mean, take a look at Iraq. Close to 200 000 Iraqis killed for OIL so far! You see any outrage? But two bombs go off in London or two buildings go down in New York with some collateral damage, then and only then there is outrage! ”The International Community” goes into uproar, it is the end of the (white) world (of privilege), (white) civilization is in danger, “democracy” and “peace” are under fire. Yeah, sure, the anti – war “movements” in the West and here in Japan, we’ll do our usual thing, just like with Iraq, get in the streets, parade, shout slogans “No war! Peace now! Don’t attack Iran!”, we’ll walk, dance, sing “Blowing in the wind”, carry banners (some with very “aggressive” messages). It will be very colorful, joyful… hell, it might even be better than Le Cirque du Soleil, and all of these “protests” will of course be non-violent! Peaceful, superpeaceful, ultra-peaceful! And then, if our governments despite our strongest objections don’t back off and submit to our will and attack Iran all the same, well, we’ll just have to… go home, I guess, and wait for the next war, as usual.

Therefore Iran should really hurry and develop whatever it needs to protect itself from us, I mean, ”the International Community”.