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Andrew Breitbart loses control at ‘Occupy’ protesters

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Statements on the brutal murder of Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao (Kishanji), the beloved leader of the oppressed masses

Condemn the brutal murder of Comrade Mallojula Koteswara Rao, the beloved leader of... more

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Syria - Bloody travel of first American 'democratic' experiment from 1947 - 2011

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Civil War in Greece?

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As Parliament prepared for a crucial vote on additional austerity measures — including the most drastic cuts and reforms so far — renewed violence broke out on the streets of Athens. Without the vote, the Papandreou government would not have received the next installment of its EU/IMF bailout package and would have gone bankrupt next month.

In anticipation of the vote, a 48-hour strike brought the country to a complete standstill, while the single largest demonstration since the fall of the military junta sent hundreds of thousands of people into Syntagma Square and surrounding streets. For the first time, the communist party and union, KKE and PAME, joined the protests by blocking off Parliament so MPs would not be able to enter for the vote.

Carrying red flag sticks and wearing helmets, the unionists formed a human chain around Parliament. In the process, however, they ended up defending the state from the angry mob outside. Rather than turning their anger at the politicians, they protected them. Riot police were therefore happy to sit back and let the two sides fight each other. Dozens of people were injured in the clashes. One older man suffered a heart attack after being hit with a stone in the head. He died in hospital.

According to some rumors, police actually infiltrated the protests — either on the communist side or on the anarchist side, depending on whom you ask — to instigate the Leftist infighting. The truth, however, is that the Stalinist Left and the anti-authoritarian Left in Greece have a long history of antagonism. While this mutual distrust is understandable, the division itself remains a highly regrettable impediment to the creation of a united revolutionary front. Now, more than ever, we need to become and stay united.

Towards the end of the second video below, Stalinist union members can clearly be seen talking to police and telling them to attack anarchist protesters. There was a nauseating degree of collaboration between communists and police — a collaborative attempt to defend the last vestiges of the Greek state — that protesters were right to be angry about. But hurling stones and petrol bombs at fellow protesters? Following the death of three people in a bank arson last year and now the death of a communist union member, the time has come for the anarchists to revisit the use of escalating violence as a protest strategy.

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Whacky Woman Wants Small Businesses to NOT Hire New Workers

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Labor During The Cold War - The CIO Looks At 1950. | Newstalgia

The Labor Movement and the Red Scare.

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Back When Berlin Had A Wall. | Newstalgia

Fifty Years ago this week.

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FOOD FROM CHINA: UNSAFE AT ANY COST

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June 15, 1954 - Wrapping Up The Witch Hunt. | Newstalgia

Winding down the Army-McCarthy Hearings on this day in 1954.

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May 31, 1978 - Commies And The Economy. | Newstalgia

In lieu of sanity - this day in history from 1978.

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Newstalgia Reference Room - The Question Of Immigration In 1953 | Newstalgia

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Communists Routed in West Bengal. « Ramani's blog

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The Art Destroyers ...

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Newstalgia Reference Room - Rep. James B. Utt And The SIECUS Imbroglio - 1969 | Newstalgia

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The Real Battle of Cable Street

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Assassination Attempt on the life of Honduran Reporter Karol Cabrera

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The Hidden Evil: Wall Street funded Communists

Professor Sutton stated, "Western textbooks on Soviet economic development omit any description of the economic and financial aid given to the 1917 Revolution and subsequent economic development by Western Firms and banks." "In the Bolshevik Revolution we have some of the world's richest and most powerful men financing a movement which claims its very existence is based on the concept of stripping of their wealth," declared Allen. "[M]en like the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Schiffs, Warburgs, Morgans, Harrimans, and Milners."

Perloff agreed, "Jacob Schiff, the head of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., heavily bankrolled the [Communist] revolution. This was reported by White Russian General Arsine de Goulevitch in his book Czarism and the Revolution." "According to his grandson John," described Allen, "Jacob Schiff ... long-time associate of the Rothschilds, financed the Communist Revolution in Russia to the tune of $20 million." He continued, "According to a report on file with the State Department, his firm, Kuhn Loeb and Co. bankrolled the first five year plan for Stalin," and added, "Schiff's descendents are active in the Council on Foreign Relations today."

Referring to the emergence of a communist dictatorship which resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Professor Marrs wrote that they were funded by "Germany and America. ... Their repugnant campaign to purify and cleanse Mother Russia and to seek world domination resulted in ... [millions of] human beings wiped out and brutally purged..." He attested, "Brown Brothers Harriman" helped finance it with "money made possible by it and the affiliated Guaranty Trust Company." Professor Sutton agreed, writing "W. Averell Harriman was a director of Guaranty Trust Company" and "was involved in the Bolshevik Revolution."

On February 3, 1949, the New York Journal-American stated, "Today it is estimated even by Jacob's grandson, John Schiff, a prominent member of New York Society, that the old man sank about $20,000,000 for the final triumph of Bolshevism in Russia. Other New York banking firms also contributed."

Referring to a June 15, 1933, Congressional Record, Allen wrote "Congressman Louis McFadden, chairman of the House Banking Committee, maintained in a speech to his fellow Congressman: "The Soviet government has been given United States Treasure funds by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks acting through the Chase Bank and the Guaranty Trust Company and other banks in New York City. ... Open up the books of Amtorg, the trading organization of the Soviet government in New York, and of Gostorg, the general office of the Soviet Trade Organization, and of the State Bank of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States' Treasury for the benefit of Russia."

"Now our textbooks tell us that the Nazis and Soviets were bitter enemies and their systems are opposites," observed Professor Sutton. But in the "1920s, W. Averell Harriman was a prime supporter of the Soviets with finance and diplomatic assistance ... [and] participated in RUSKOMBANK," which was "the first Soviet commercial bank. Furthermore, Max May, the Vice President of Guaranty Trust, which was dominated by Harriman and Morgan, became the first Vice-President of Ruskombank." However, declared Professor Sutton, "Averell Harriman, his brother Roland Harriman, and ... E.S. James and Knight Woolley, through the Union Bank ... were prime financial backers of Hitler." He asked, "How could a rational man support Soviets and Nazis at the same time?"

A curious dilemma arises when faced with the documented fact that Wall Street funded both Communists and Nazis. First, it would seem these two forms of government are at opposite ends of the political spectrum.
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The Family Circus exposed as Communist propaganda

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Obama Shadow Government contains strange bedfellows

President Obama's Shadow Government has begun to attract attention as more is... more

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What Matters Is What Putin Says

What Matters Is What Putin Says
Marcin Wojciechowski
2009-08-24, ostatnia aktualizacja 2009-08-24 08:11

From the Secrets of Secret Protocols, a 45-minute film about the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact is all the rage on Russian state TV and the country's web portals. To call it a propaganda piece would be putting things mildly.

Vyacheslav Nikonov, a renowned sociologist and grandson of Vyacheslav Molotov, argues in the film that the Soviet Union was not acting aggressively towards Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1930s. Those claiming so 'extrapolate from the post-war situation,' and therefore 'think ahistorically.'

The film also mentions, quoting pre-war documents from the Polish intelligence, that the Ukrainian nationalist movement leaders met in Galicia in the 1930s with German intelligence officers. This is a well-known fact, but while getting at the Poles one can also give the Ukrainians a poke. This cocktail suggests that the film must have had many authors, more, in any case, than are mentioned in the final credits.

What is the film's purpose? Probably to unnerve us. To provoke Polish politicians, for instance those close to the president, or Lech Kaczyński himself, to make some sharp comment about Russia. Aggressive words from the someone high up in the Polish government would be a perfect pretext for cancelling president Vladimir Putin's planned visit on Westerplatte, Gdańsk, on 1 September.

Perhaps the point is only to cause an uproar in the Polish press. To provoke angry comments from scandalised commentators and calls for the government to react sharply, which can always be sold to the public in Russia as proof of the Poles' inborn Russophobia.

It is worth remembering that this is just a TV film. Produced and broadcast by the state TV, but not an official position of the Russian government. So there is no reason to react too sharply. Let historians and press commentators speak. Let Sławomir Dębski, director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs, whose comments have been obviously manipulated in the Russian film, speak. But the president, the ministers, and the political parties should keep their cool.

Russia's official position on the outbreak of World War II and perhaps also the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact will be presented on 1 September by Vladimir Putin. It may prove milder than the primitive television propaganda for the ordinary mortals. But it cannot be ruled out that Mr Putin will reiterate the film's theses. This would be unpleasant for us but would really bear testimony about Russia. Not only in the eyes of the Poles but also the world, such as chancellor Angela Merkel. Western intellectuals, historians, politicians would see with their own eyes how Russia is trying to distort history. How it is unable to confront its Stalinist past even though 56 years have passed since the tyrant's death. It is Russia that will shoot herself in the foot if its leaders start repeating the film's arguments about the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact. As for us, we shouldn't allow ourselves to be provoked by those who are defending the Stalinist vision of Russia's history as if their life depended on it.

Translated by Marcin Wawrzyńczak

Źródło: Gazeta WyborczaWhat Matters Is What Putin Says Marcin Wojciechowski 2009-08-24, ostatnia... more

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