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On 6/6/15 2:07 PM, A.R. G wrote:
I think left blogger Louis Proyect should write a lengthy retort.
- Amith
Here, btw, was a comment on this from Karl Smith, a regular reader of my
blog. I should add that he is a great admirer of the late Sam Marcy so
this should have some additional weight:
Freakin’ ludicrous! A 1/4 century after the the collapse of the USSR and
the End of the Cold War, yet we hear this shit from both leftist sites
as well as pseudo libertarian sites like Prison Planet. If this is what
Ralph Nader means by a Left/Right alliance then it’s the 1st vestiges of
his senility.
Historians should recall that the only real Dr. Strangelove nuclear
maniac that ever existed was JFK who threatened world disaster simply
because he swore to unleash nuclear holocaust if The Soviets stuck a
couple nukes 90 miles from the US in retaliation for the US installation
of 1000 nukes on the Soviet border in Turkey. Few people realize that
part of the Cuban Missile Crisis settlement deal was that yes, the
Soviets would pull the Cuban missiles but only if JFK yanked the nukes
from Turkey, which he ultimately did.
If the late great attorney William Kunstler were alive today I’ll bet he
advocate yanking that Nobel Peace Prize from Obama and giving it
posthumously to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lets get some economic facts straight to disprove abject ridiculousness.
The 1% of the USA, the Masters of the Planet, are still giddily pinching
themselves over the biggest swindle ever recorded, that is, the largest
transfer of wealth in the history of the Universe with the 2008 Bank
Bailout orchestrated consummated by BOTH political parties in the US
that are really 2 bickering factions of a One Party State run by the
Pentagon, an entity that has always got it’s way since at least 1975
when Saigon was overrun by NVA troops.
Although it lost that final battle it still won that War insofar as the
almighty dollar is the primary currency in Vietnam today.
The point is when the Ruling Class is at it’s strongest richest,
precisely when the working class, the unions, the anti-war movement
are at their weakest, is NEVER going to be the time the 1% lashes out in
suicidal maneuvers like nuke strikes against Russia. NEVER.
Especially since Russia, now part of the world stock market swindle,
with all kinds of ex-pats squandering capital into places like Miami
real estate, nevermind Putin’s Russia practically financing the entire
Afghan war with billions in crude oil revenue every month billed to the
Pentagon, nevermind the Pentagon turning a blind eye towards Russia’s
slaughter of the Chechens and the razing of Grozny, nevermind the
Ukraine, the coordinated destruction of the Maidan Movement and the
shooting down of a passenger plane.
Suicidal actions are the resort of fascists, like the Nazis, who are
driven primarily to their dirty deeds by the FEAR of the organized
working class opposition, eg, back in the day, the Communist parties
their trade union proxies that willy nilly drew strength from the very
existence of the USSR. The point is that the only reason that fascism
doesn’t have a stranglehold today is because there is no organized
working class resistance movement… at this juncture.
It’s no accident that despite the historic professed anti-communism of
the American Trade Union leadership, their red baiting machinations,
etc.. that as soon as the USSR collapsed the American Trade Union
Movement collapsed along with it.
If the Occupy Movement wasn’t crushed, that is, if it grew and caught
fire amongst the toiling 99%, then you’d know what all that military
equipment the Pentagon gave local police forces was for, that is, then
you’d know what fascism in America really looks like, and then you could
talk about nuclear strikes against Russia for real, because foreign
policy is always just an extension of domestic policy.
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