_________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ ---------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 21:51:36 -0500 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Many Kinds of Terrorism (PL) Many Kinds of Terrorism (PL) Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - "Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Many Terrorisms Luis Brito Garcia Prensa Latina (Cuba) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caracas, November 17 (Prensa Latina)- Terrorism, an unlimited violence against the defenseless. All the wars of the last century, and those now in progress, are disasters heaped on unarmed civilians. Strategic terrorism: the weapons industry is the most lucrative on the globe. Five powers that control the UN Security Council are the main weapon manufacturers. To sell them, they promote wars where their puppet states crush unruly States or movements. When their puppet states become unmanageable, a new deluge of weapons destroys them and the sales resolve the recession. The cost of this warmongering orgy, sufficient to put an end to hunger in the world, is paid for by the victims. Narcotic terrorism: drug traffic is the second most productive business venture in the world. The seven most powerful nations control the financing, distribution, consumption and reinvestment of drugs. At present, US banks handle 300 billion dollars of doubtful origin. Such large financial movements cannot occur without the knowledge and consent of authorities. The country that controls the world"s drug traffic uses this as an excuse to intervene in troublesome countries such as Panama or Colombia and destabilize others, such as Peru or Bolivia. Energy terrorism: oil is the third most productive business of the planet. The wars of the 20th century, and those of the 21st are for oil and control of oil. Strategic and energy terrorism are part of a political and military aggregate to transfer control from the country of resources to the powers of consumption. Their aim is to destroy them in a few decades, leaving a contaminated humanity without energy resources. Ecological terrorism: the most powerful countries, with barely 20 percent of the planet"s population, consume almost 80 percent of the world"s resources. To that end, they poison and overheat the atmosphere, contaminate the oceans, hoard and waste water reserves, destroy the ozone layer, destroy bio-diversity, cut-down forests, contaminate the biosphere with uncontrolled genetically mutated species, and make the planet, progressively uninhabitable. Financial terrorism: the United States forces the rest of the world"s countries to support their own currency with dollars, although, since 1974, the dollar is no longer backed by anything. Uncontrolled speculation complicates the false value of this painted paper. To obtain loans in this currency, puppet States hand over their sovereignty and resources and accept unpayable debts that consume almost 50 percent of their gross national products, collapse their economies and destroy the standard of living, not to mention the human and social rights of their citizens. According to UNICEF statistics after the debt crisis, half a million children die every year as a result of economic adjustments. Cultural terrorism: the powers that monopolize the means, demand a single ideal, a single omnipotence, a single model of civilization as the only one possible, and praise the absolute imposition of the above-mentioned terrorisms as an inevitable global destiny. Their media saturates the air waves with the five thousand victims of the attack on the Towers, and ignores news of the five thousand civilian victims of US intervention in Chile, the five thousand civilians burned by their bombers in Panama, the 30 thousand disappeared by puppet governments in Argentina and the 40 thousand victims of US actions against Nicaragua. At the same time, they cover-up the 200 thousand Indians annihilated in Central America, the thousands of Venezuelans who were exterminated by repression, the catastrophe of the bombings of Baghdad and Kosovo and the Clinton administration"s butcherings in Sudan and Somalia that, according to Norman Chomski, had more civilian victims than those of the World Trade Center. All forms of terrorism, and those yet to be invented, come from the powerful countries. Against this deluge, humanity has only the light of conscience, that teaches us to identify the true enemies and defend ourselves. [The author is a Venezuelan journalist and writer and collaborator of Prensa Latina.] ************************************************************************ "Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. ************************************************************************ The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory http://www.toplab.org ************************************************************************ ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= nytcari-11.18.01-21:51:28-12843 _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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