Phelps did not win the Olympic Butterfly 100 meter final. Milorad Cavic of Serbia won the event and after the race stated that he had won the event. Cavic had already soundly beaten Phelps in the Semifinals of that event! After the race Phelps also stated that he thought he had lost. And even Phelp’s mother first acted as though she thought Phelps had lost! She appeared totally dumbfounded but accepted it! Cavic’s coach said that he would launch a protest. Serbia also “launched a protest.” Then later both the Serbian government (a U.S. proxy/puppet regime installed after the U.S./NATO-led dismemberment/ethnic cleansing of the sovereign country of Yugoslavia, where under Tito everybody lived together in peace) and Cavic and his coach both withdrew their complaints. U.S. Puppet/Proxy Serbia was clearly under extreme pressure from the United States. Serbia in turn put extreme pressure on Cavic and his coach who withdrew their complaint. The United States wanted their “Golden Boy” (Bloomberg TV, August 18, 2008), and refused to permit the reality of the loss to Cavic to spoil the headline heralding Phelps: “A PERFECT FINISH, AN UNMATCHED RECORD.” New York Times (August 17, 2008) The U.S. intends to use Phelps as part of the capitalists’ fraudulent propaganda campaign that Phelps supposedly represents “victorious capitalism” while the capitalists are in fact losing all over the world as the world enters the beginning of another Great Depression! The stock market crash of 777.65 on the Dow Jones Industrial average on Black Monday, September 29, 2008 underscores the coming reality! See below.
The FINA executive Director, Cornel Marculescu, first stated that FINA would not permit the release of the footage by Omega the official timekeeper for the Beijing Games of the finish under the phony hard-sell pretext: “We are not going to distribute the footage. We are not doing THESE KINDS OF THINGS. (!) EVERYTHING IS GOOD. (!?) What are you going to do with the footage? See what the Serbians already saw? It is clarified for us beyond any doubt. He’s the winner in any way. (?) He’s the winner no doubt. Even if you could see the pictures, I don’t know how you could use them.” And Cavic the actual winner stated: “If you ask me, it should be accepted and we should move on. I’ve accepted defeat, and there’s nothing wrong with losing to the greatest swimmer there has ever been.” (!?) (New York Times, August 17, 2008) Parentheses added. The answer to this sort of tripe is simply: “What are you afraid of? What do you have to hide from an actual frame-by-frame analysis? Except the victory of Cavic over Phelps! You sound like a liar caught in a clumsy cover-up! You don’t make decisions for me Big Brother!”
Under public Pressure FINA later was forced to release what they said were digital frame-by-frame footage of the finish which they claimed showed that Phelps had won but actually DID NOT show that Phelps had won (New York Times, August 24, 2008). The images show conclusively that Cavic touched the wall fist without a doubt! But according to Dale Neuberger, Vice President of FINA the system that determines who wins the race actually measures “the instant of depression, of activation of the touch pad, not contact with the pad.” Careful observation reveals that Cavic touched the wall first and that his elbows were slightly bent indicating that he had depressed the touch pad with sufficient pressure (only 1.5 kilograms of pressure per square centimeter, according to Neuberger) to stop the clock.
The event was apparently also not actually shown LIVE. There was on a time delay despite the LIVE claim on the TV screen. Within seconds of the finish which showed Phelps in the water after the race he was suddenly being interviewed on the tarmac! Not credible! It is very easy to rig such an event if the race is that close. The U.S. knew that it might be close because of the fact that Cavic had already beaten Phelps in the Semifinals and they could not let anything alter their propaganda use of Phelps in order to try to improve the depraved image of the U.S. The reality, of course is that the United States is the most hated and despised country in the world. The majority of the world’s citizens recognize that the United States, which reflects the naked dynamic of capitalism, as the source of all war as well as all economic disparity. A software program can be easily written to cover all eventualities in such a situation where the finish of the 100-meter Fly was expected to be very close. The U.S. government can and does routinely hack computers of their adversaries and send computer viruses which completely destroy their adversaries’ hard drives and the entire computer, for example, and more (e.g. monitors by overloading them and simultaneously corrupting multiple Debit Card accounts with Dell Computer and Paypal, for example), as this writer and his roommate have experienced firsthand. The bottom line for this particular computer program, which undoubtedly gave Phelps his false “victory” was that unless Cavic won by a clearly visible margin he would “lose” in a very close race, even if he actually won! And that is exactly what happened!! The 2 electronic touch pads on the walls of the pool can be reversed in their polarity in a digital twinkling, so that even if Cavic touched the wall first it would simply register as Phelps touching the wall. Because if you look closely in that part of the replay which was permitted directly after the race and the images which were later release and printed in the New York Times (see above) it is quite clear that is what happened. Phelps lost! And he and the majority of viewers, including his own mother, knew that he lost! But he was very happy to accept the false victory! It should be recalled that with the Zapruder film of the JFK Assassination the “commentator” Dan Rather lied about what it showed, falsely stating that Kennedy’s head flew backwards due to totally fabricated so-called “jet effect” violating all laws of physics in response to a supposed bullet fired from behind him, when in fact JFK was hit only by 2 shots both fired from the front. One went through his tie knot and the other was the Dum-Dum bullet that hit him in the right forehead and killed him instantly. (Writer is the number one authority on JFK assassination who gave the keynote talk on JFK at Ethical Culture Society on November 12, 1975, twelfth anniversary of JFK Assassination, but who is not permitted to speak on anti-Communist WBAI radio on any topic!)
Both Serbia and the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) went along with the fraudulent Phelps’ “victory” in the 100-meter Fly because of political pressure from the United States. China was indubitably blackmailed and threatened that unless they went along with the crime the U.S. would push the age issue with the clearly underage Chinese girl gymnasts and take away their Olympic Team gold medal. Humiliation the Chinese did not want to accept! This is also the reason that the PRC went along with the U.S. all around victory in girls’ gymnastics which was accomplished by U.S. puppet judges grossly inflating the level of difficulty and execution by the U.S. and doing the reverse and chiseling big-time the level of difficulty and the execution of the vastly superior Chinese girl gymnasts. Shawn Johnson for example, was permitted to usurp second place in the all-around title after putting in very simple routines in the uneven bars and balance beam even though she won the event on an individual basis later. Even in the floor exercise Johnson’s level of difficulty and execution were pumped up like a balloon while the Chinese gymnasts routines were falsely downgraded. This modus operandi occurred over and over!
Although it made a pro forma protest against the U.S.-instigated “independence” of Kosovo, the Serbian government is a U.S. puppet/virtual proxy state which was installed after the U.S. division of Yugoslavia, a country where under Marshall Tito everyone got along. Serbia is a U.S. puppet just like the government of Georgia, which was incidentally authorized and directed by the U.S. to invade South Ossetia and now falsely denies it. In July 2008 Kindasleezy Rice standing beside Saakashvilli in Tbilisi, offered encouragement to Saakashvilli similar to that given to the later-sacrificed Saddam Hussein on July 25, 1990 by U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, to invade Kuwait.
Glaspie suckered Saddam Hussein by giving him the green light to invade Kuwait by telling him: “We have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait.” (New York Times, 9/23/90)). In 1989-1990 the United States carried out a carefully planned provocation, which Saddam fell for hook line and sinker. The U.S apparently guaranteeing Kuwait its protection, instructed Kuwait to drill long slanted wells under the Iraq-Kuwait border where the Rumaila Iraqi oil field juts somewhat into Kuwait, thus stealing Iraqi oil and also draining off the natural gas pressure which had forced the oil naturally and easily up to the surface. Then to drive the provocation home, Kuwait, fully authorized by the U.S. and believing that it had protection from the United States, began overproducing and selling their stolen Iraqi oil at far below the OPEC price thus also waging direct economic war against Iraq and the rest of OPEC! (Iraq’s oil revenues at that time dropped $1 billion for every drop of a dollar in the price of crude oil.) Even after the 1990 July 12th OPEC meeting both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates refused to abide by the OPEC agreement, which allowed them to sell slightly below the OPEC price and continued to sell crude oil far below the agreed price! Iraq was thus provoked and then over-provoked into invading ALL of Kuwait, which they would have to do in order to overthrow the Kuwaiti government, which was merely carrying out U.S. orders for provoking Iraq. Invading all of Kuwait was necessary in order to create the uproar required to justify the huge long-planned U.S. invasion. In response to this deliberate provocation on July 24, 1990 Iraq first moved 2 armored divisions to the Kuwait border. Later that same day, Margaret Tutwiler, when asked whether the U.S. had any plans to defend Kuwait demurely replied: “We do not have any defense treaties with Kuwait, and there are no special defense or security commitments to Kuwait.” On July 25, 1990, the next day, Saddam Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie to his office. According the Wall Street Journal, February 19, 1999, April Glaspie did everything possible to suck Saddam Hussein into the trap telling him that Bush I (H.W. Bush) had rejected trade sanctions against Iraq (!) or any other reprisal (right!) if he were to invade Kuwait and reassured Hussein by telling him: “I have direct instructions from the president to seek better relations with Iraq.”
The U.S. directed Saakashvilli to invade the independent area of South Ossetia while the world was being distracted by the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. (Rice incidentally also brazenly blurted out at a dinner in Spring 2004 in Washington, D.C. that she was the mistress of the usurper Bush calling him “my husband” before correcting herself to “the president”!)
In addition, the U.S. and the U.S. proxy state, so-called “Israel” have supplied virtually all of Georgia’s military hardware and the U.S. has admitted to having trained the Georgian military. The U.S. also admitted that it had over 2000 military “advisors” and “trainees” in Georgia at the time of the invasion of South Ossetia! Russia Today TV initially reported that “American mercenaries” (all U.S. military personnel today are “volunteers” a 1984 Orwellian euphemism for mercenaries) accompanied the invading force into South Ossetia and that some may have been killed. The Russians found a U.S. Passport of Michael Lee White in Tskhinval documenting U.S. involvement. These reports were re-confirmed August 29, 2008 on Russia Today TV. Tskhnival was 70% totally destroyed by U.S.-directed and authorized Georgia.
The U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia was carried out with the primary objective of trying to create ethnic division in a U.S. attempt to discredit, weaken and divide and discredit Russia just like they did with Yugoslavia in the 1990’s. The U.S.-led capitalist media, which is a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community” and the United Nations, prepared a media campaign focusing on supposed “Russian atrocities” which began simultaneously with the U.S./Georgian proxy invasion of South Ossetia, when Russian forces of the 59th Army only entered Georgia approximately 18 hours after the U.S./Georgian proxy invasion of South Ossetia. Russian forces drove U.S./Georgian forces out of South Ossetia following their retreat into Georgia in order to destroy much of Georgia’s U.S. supplied military. Saakhashvilli’s local credibility was sacrificed in the short term for the United States long-range objective of trying to eventually overthrow the Russian government, install a puppet government in the former CCCP as in the Ukraine, Georgia and the former Baltic Soviet Republics, and steal Russia’s unbelievable wealth of natural resources just like the U.S. is doing in Iraq. On September 28, 2008 on Russia Today TV In Context with Peter Lavelle, Alexandr Chachiya apparently a legitimate Georgian opposition figure, stated that Saakashvilli was not acting in the best interests of Georgia but of the U.S. and would probably be replaced by Nino Burjanadze, the Chairwoman of the Georgian Parliament, who along with all “opposition” parties in Georgia was also controlled by the United States, and that because of that fact Georgian policies toward Russia would not change. He also confirmed what this writer said soon after the Georgian Invasion/Provocation in South Ossetia, namely that the United States wanted to create chaos in the Caucuses for reasons explained above.
The situation surrounding Russia today looks dangerously similar to the beginning of a replay of 1940 with the NAZIS on the border of the USSR preparing to invade. In fact Senator Prescott Bush, the father of George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush I) and George Herbert Walker both fanatical anti-Communists, funded the NAZIs before WWII. The grandson of Prescott Bush is the current “Usurper” in the White House. Barack Obama has clearly indicated in his utterances in the first “presidential debate” and previously that he has no differences with McCain over Russia and intends to continue the same policies of provocation and encirclement of the former USSR, just like the NAZIs did in 1940! Biden forcefully echoes this anti-Russian plan. Sarah Palin, chosen in order to help discredit the McCain who is running as a foil merely to permit a close Obama “victory,” is an even more bizarre, rabid-sounding Fascist.
The claim by Putin that the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia was a “provocation” to help McCain win the White House has been proved to be patently false! That explanation is a simultaneous cover-up invented to minimize the actual objectives in electing Obama (see below) and a diplomatic gambit by Russia to allow the U.S. to cool it and to re-evaluate. The reality is that the permanent government of the U.S. capitalist dictatorship wants to go with a Democratic administration for 2008 for several reasons and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Dimitri Medvedev knows this very well. The capitalists want to tighten and harden the capitalist dictatorship domestically and to try to gain support for their so-called “War on Terror by supposedly gaining the support of a democratic constituency. The truth is that Obama will be a (technically) “Black” Bush. The reason that Obama did not want Hillary Clinton as his vice-presidential nominee, incidentally, was because in that case it would be very likely that the Democrats would win by as much as 30 to 40 points or more. Because of the unpredictable statements of the Fascist Sarah Palin and the small but prominently represented U.S. Fascist movement, the capitalist dictatorship does not want the margin of “victory” to be too small and wants Obama to win by a comfortable margin by all indications, but not to make it look ridiculous as it would if Hillary Clinton was the VP nominee. In the event of such a lopsided victory the democratic constituency would be inclined to expect some sort of a “leftward shift” in U.S. foreign and domestic policy, which is not at all in the cards as a review of Obama’s actual economic-political-social statements and positions in print fully document. After the “election” Obama just like William Jefferson Clinton before him, stated immediately that he would fill several of his cabinet posts with Republicans. And he will do precisely that. For example, Obama has stated his intention to continue of the so-called “War on Terror,” which is the pretext used to keep the capitalism-imperialism in its Final Stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism. And Obama intends to make a maximum assault on Social Security and Medicare, Medicaid and Public Education for the masses. His “faith-based initiatives” represent previous Bush attempts to end the social programs, but the capitalists think Obama may be able to manipulate a democratic party constituency to allow him to ram the most reactionary, regressive policies through, down the throats of the masses. Oy! The U.S. capitalist dictatorship always wants to try to keep the presidential “elections” as close as possible to try to build interest in the sham “election” and “credibility” in a contrived and manipulated, supposedly “close nail biter/cliff hanger election,” in order to coax the masses into the false belief that the “election” makes any practical difference to the masses, and in order to create the false belief that every second person supports the Fascist Bush regime government policies. The reality is that only around 20% of Americans, or fewer support the Bush regime! If an “election” is close the capitalists have the option of using a coup d’etat as they did in 2000 and 2004 (see below).
The only way the capitalists could have a close election in such circumstances would be for Obama to move significantly to the right, which he has done. Sarah Palin who initially was portrayed as very popular was quickly portrayed as inexperienced and very dangerous lest she gain too much popularity which might interfere with the planned Obama “victory” in what is another sham “election” used to perpetuate the capitalist dictatorship. The reality is that 95% of New Yorkers and presumably the majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit! In addition, the capitalists do not want to marginalize or alienate the Fascist and proto-Fascist elements in the United States, which they need in order to support the fundamental war-based, mass murder-based and crime-based U.S. policies. The capitalists also plan to try to manipulate and divert the people who are fooled into voting for Obama after the “election” to join a “volunteer community service,” a form of slavery being hyped by the capitalist media and both candidates, which along with “faith-based initiatives” are going to try to substitute for government social programs. “Community service” is a criminal sentence dealt out to non-violent first-time offenders in the U.S. legal system. Obama has such total contempt for the intelligence of the masses that he thinks he can turn a criminal sentence into a means to pump up U.S. patriotism and support U.S. policies similar to the Hitler Jungend (Hitler Youth). Through slogans like “shared sacrifice” Obama has been chosen to try to abolish the function of Social Security (keeping older people alive), and to try to whip the masses in line to support U.S. policies such as “the right war in Afghanistan” (!) and the “War on Terror.” which is simply the pretext used by the capitalists to maintain capitalism in its final stage of Permanent War and State Terrorism. Social Security will still be retained for appearances but will be used primarily as a slush fund to pay for various U.S. wars as it is already!
The Invasion of South Ossetia Was a U.S.-Directed Provocation
With the Long-Range Goal of Creating Division to Try to Set the
Stage For Dismembering the Russian Federation, Installing a Puppet
Government and Stealing All Russia’s National Resources!
The invasion of South Ossetia was thus a deliberate provocation which Russia had no choice but to respond to and was carried out to achieve several objectives, the first of which is described above but that invasion also has disturbing parallels to the Full Court Press. Star Wars (SDI)/Nuclear Arms Race that the Reagan Regime put on the USSR in the 1980’s which ultimately forced the surrender by Mikhail Gorbachev to the threat of a nuclear war. The purpose of that 1980’s Nuclear Arms Race to force a Soviet surrender was openly acknowledged by the Fascist John McCain in the first presidential debate on September 26, 2008. The capitalist media focus on the Russian response to the invasion of South Ossetia, rather than the U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia, has been used to build public support in Poland for the so-called U.S. “Missile Defense” to be placed in Poland and later the radar to be built in the U.S.-puppet Czech Republic where an agreement has already been signed with no public referendum permitted. Public support in Poland on the other hand, which opposed the U.S. “missile defense” prior to the Russian response in South Ossetia, now supposedly supports it! Beginning in January 1984 and with full deployment completed in 1985 the U.S. was able to place Pershing Nuclear First Strike Nuclear Missiles in Germany 10 minutes from Moscow, but only after carrying out the 1983 Korean Airliner Provocation in order to discredit the European Communist-led opposition to the placement of Pershing II missiles in Germany. Placement of Pershing II First Strike Missiles in Germany caused the surrender by Gorbachev in 1988 to the threat of an imminent nuclear war, the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race. (There was no Soviet “economic collapse” as testified by the CIA on U.S. network TV news in 1990, which stated that they had no data whatsoever or any indications of an incipient “economic collapse in the USSR.” This was because there was no economic collapse, but rather a Soviet surrender to the threat of a nuclear war followed by a long and painful dismantlement of the Soviet Workers’ State during the 1990’s leaving the Stalinist (not Communist!) leadership structure in place.)
An Altitude Bomb Was On Board the
1983 Korean Airliner Shot Down By The USSR!
In that provocation an altitude bomb (described by the Soviet pilot Gennadi Osipovich as “a large secondary explosion which destroyed the aircraft as it descended”) was placed in the Korean 747 airliner to insure that even if the USSR did not shoot it down, which it did, the U.S. could claim the plane was shot down. That plane was going down period!! The Korean pilot was directed to fly straight into the Soviet Union over the Kamchatka peninsula and was personally assured by the disgraced murderer Richard Nixon who was at the airport in Anchorage, Alaska before it took off, that the Soviets would not shoot down the plane because they would not risk the bad publicity which would damage international relations! The official story was that Nixon “almost took the flight!” So disingenuous!
The October 1917 Russian Revolution is the Closest Model
For a Socialist Revolution in the United States!
It is impossible to know how to go forward without an accurate knowledge of the past. Trotsky’s “History of the Russian Revolution” is most highly recommended place to start for those who must know what is necessary. It is the only accurate and comprehensive analysis of what happened in 1917. There are no others, although John Reed’s “Ten Days That Shook The World” gives a taste of what it was actually like when it happened. Precise knowledge of what happened in 1917 is crucial to carrying out a Socialist Revolution here in the United States. because certain key events are crucial to the overthrow of capitalism in any advanced industrialized imperialist country.
In January 1917 Lenin was in Zurich and according to his wife Krupskaya in “Reminiscences of Lenin” told a meeting of Swiss young socialists: “We of the older generation may not live to see the decisive battles of this coming revolution.” One month later the Czar was overthrown and in less than a year the Bolsheviks had come to power in Russia. The reason Lenin believed what he said was that the Bolsheviks thought the revolution would break out in Germany first because the German working class was better organized and educated. But Lenin and the Bolsheviks had forgotten that in Russia the bourgeoisie was weakest and heavily controlled by the European capitalists. This plus the mutiny of the Czar’s army proved decisive. One month later the February Revolution began. In January alone there were 270,000 Russian workers on strike and 177,000 in Petrograd. The economy was on the verge of collapse with 39 Factories in Petrograd closed for lack of fuel or power cuts and the railways were also near collapse. There was no meat and a shortage of flour. Just like now, the Czarist regime was dominated by aristocratic criminals, warmongers, and landlords.
Today the capitalist system is on the verge of what may prove to be its final collapse signaled by the 777.65 point drop (7%) in the Dow Industrial Average on September 30, 2008 and a loss of 40% in one year. The $700.00 billion plus Wall Street Bailout of the large Investment Banks and Brokerage houses will not be successful nor will the direct investment by the capitalist governments in large banks or insurance companies, etc. in averting the collapse and a large number of market oriented ideologically driven capitalists do not care calculating foolishly that “the market will correct itself.” Today because of the present correlation of class forces the capitalists, though they are widely reviled, are still strong enough in their power centers in the United States and Western Europe to prevent strikes from breaking out despite massive layoffs of at least 750,000 U.S. workers in the last 5 years. The capitalists control the leadership formations of all of the “opposition” all the tiny supposedly “socialist” and “Communist” parties right down the leadership of the ragtag so-called “No Police State Coalition,” an anti-Communist formation led by a New York City police officer, Dennis Griggs who also belonged to Neo-Nazi groups in the 1990’s and Geoffrey Blank and his brother, all of whom shoot political blanks, allowing them to be ruthlessly exposed as clumsy demogogic frauds by this writer in Union Square Park from 2003 to 2006, totally destroying said group’s credibility and forcing it to finally withdraw completely to sporadic appearances on the anti-Communist fake “left” WBAI/Pacifica radio stations. Because of the continued 3-4 hour talks given by this writer at the South End of Union Square Park the Billionaire mayor of New York City has brought in bands and other acts complete with huge sound systems to try to drown out attempted free speech at its historical center in New York City. The Fascist mayor Bloomberg who uses NY City taxes as a slush fund to pay off private contractors and developers and insurance companies, is deep into the process of selling off parts of New York City parks to private developers, and has with aid of the Fascist media and landlord-puppet City Council, just overthrown the Term Limits Law, which had been established by 2 (two) voter referendums in 1993 and 1996! The billionaire landlord’s tactics in Union Square Park have failed on each date that this writer has elected to speak.
While 95% of New Yorkers and the majority of Americans agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit, they are still largely brainwashed and so far refuse to begin any sort of genuine organization to oppose the hardening capitalist dictatorship. Clearly events are needed to hasten the molecular process of revolution, which takes place gradually almost imperceptibly beneath the surface, to turn the backward and unorganized layers, which presently constitute the majority of the population, into an organized political force able to carry out a Socialist Revolution in the United States! This molecular process is often imperceptible to revolutionaries, who frequently draw the wrong conclusions from the appearance of apathy and absence of surface manifestations of the accumulated frustration, hatred, rage and anger which exists among the masses. This process is also invisible to the superficial observer who sees no further than the surface. When the revolutionary process finally erupts false explanations are proffered which are always limited to an immediate “cause” in order to try to confuse the immediate incident with the deeper underlying causes and to confuse the immediate incident with necessity—the need for a new system based on human need not private profit.
The Russian Women Began the February 1917 Revolution
By Going Out on Strike On International Women’s Day!
The women of Russia proved Lenin wrong! One month after Lenin told that meeting of Young Socialists
in Zurich that he and others would not live to see a revolution in Russia, of Petrograd and Moscow went out on strike on February 23, 1917 (March 8th new style calendar) International Women’s Day, an American invention, and they stayed out on strike. These demonstrations developed into a new strike wave. The year 1917 had begun with a wave of strikes. Already in January there were 270,000 workers on strike. The women marched on the factories in the workers’ districts, the Viborg, Narva, Nevsky Districts and other industrial areas calling out the workers. A few days later Petrograd was in a General Strike. There were massive demonstrations. Placards and revolutionary banners appeared. Street orators appeared. Many were Bolsheviks but others were ordinary workers, men and women, who after keeping quiet for years realized that they were finally able voice their thoughts. The Czar sent the Cossacks, mounted police, the so-called tsarist oprichniki—political descendants of the private bodyguards of Ivan the Terrible, against those on strike. The Russian Army was already in mutiny and sections of the police also then joined the mutiny and joined what was then a General Strike joining the women and the workers already on strike and the Czar was forced to abdicate. That was the beginning of the February Revolution! At that time the Russian Army was already in a state of mutiny. It was during WWI. At the front the Russian soldiers were sitting down at the same campfires with German soldiers. There was complete fraternization. After the Czar abdicated a Provisional Government was set up in a loose political situation known as Dual Power because the government was no longer able to command bodies of armed men against the masses as is otherwise usually the case in capitalist dictatorships. This is a key point and a point we must reach here in the United States before the American people would be in a position to experience genuine democracy. Dual Power meant that the different political parties, such as the Bosheviks, the Mensheviks, the Social Revolutionaries and Cadets could put out their own newspapers and have people have people elected to the Duma, the Russian parliament then and what it is known as today after the 1988 Soviet Surrender to the threat of nuclear war as explained above. After Lenin’s arrival back in Petrograd, through patient explanation alone the Bolsheviks, over an 8-month period won the support of 70% of the workers and 30% of the peasantry, which included the all-important army by explaining that the other parties all supported the war driven policies of the Provisional Government of the fake “left” Socialist Revolutionary Kerensky. During the taking of power in October 1917 there was very little loss of life. Only 220-240 people were lost their lives in Moscow and Red Petrograd as it was called then. A few month later 14 imperialist powers, including the U.S., invaded the USSR on 19 different fronts. All the capitalist armies mutineed and would not fight against the revolution. This observer possesses a book with the press clippings describing those mutinies. The capitalists could not get an army to fight against the Russian Revolution. It was far too popular! Later in 1923 the capitalists saw this character in Munich called Hitler and decided that he could build an army which could invade the Soviet Union. And it did! In fact, what happened in the European theatre in WWII represented what was at its core a failed attempt to destroy the Soviet Union militarily. After the failed attempt at “Intervention” the capitalist ended up having to support the White Army against the Red Army. The Red Army led by Trotsky won. In that war caused by the capitalists crazed at having lost their class rule in Russia millions did perish.
Later Trotsky, who made many great contributions to the Russian Revolution, including leading the Red Army to victory over the White Army (and was the greatest speaker of all time also according to Lunacharsky who heard the Frenchman Jares who had previous claim to that title—see Lunacharsky’s description in “Revolutionary Silhouettes”) and, without whom the Russian Revolution would not have succeeded so dramatically militarily, messed up big time. Trotsky had a character flaw. He was a conciliator. The key point was when Lenin was sidelined by his second stroke and was being poisoned by Stalin. (Lenin’s murder at the hands of Stalin incidentally was later documented during the Gorbachev period in a highly detailed article by Yegor Yakovlev in the Moscow News, No. 4 (3356) January 29-February 5, 1989.) Lenin called for Trotsky and asked him to argue his position in the Central Committee 1.) to have Stalin removed as General Secretary and 2.) to support his position on the “Georgian Incident,” which involved the national question and the right of nations to self-determination.
The 1921 Georgian Incident Explains The Historical Basis
Of the U.S./Georgian Invasion of South Ossetia!
The so-called “Georgian Incident” is very, very important and must be understood. After the triumph of the 1917 Russian Revolution and the collapse of Imperial Czarist Russia of which Georgia was a part, the Mensheviks (Social Democrats) were stronger than the Bolsheviks in Georgia and were able to prevent the Socialist Revolution from being automatically extended to Georgia thus preserving Georgia for the capitalists. On May 7, 1920 the Soviets signed the Treaty of Moscow recognizing the “Democratic Republic of Georgia.” Six months later Joseph Stalin (Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili) and Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze engineered the Soviet invasion of Georgia and obtained the consent of Lenin on February 1921 to invade under the fraudulent pretext of “supporting the workers and peasants rebellion in Georgia” which did not exist at that time. Tbilisi the capital was taken after heavy fighting and the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic was declared on February 25, 1921. But because of heavy resistance Soviet rule was not actually established throughout Georgia until September 1924. This “incident” demonstrates clearly that Stalin was not a Communist. He never took the time to organize proper support and explain the necessity of overthrowing the capitalist Menshevik government. The Soviet invasion permanently alienated the Georgians to being part of the Soviet Union primarily because it was not voluntary and set a very bad precedent. This was Lenin’s position which has proved historically correct to this day. Lenin’s views are explained best in “Critical Remarks on the National Question and The Right of Nations to Self-Determination.” See Progress Publishers edition. (This book must be read by all revolutionaries in order to understand more thoroughly these 2 issues!) In the matter of the “Georgian Incident” Trotsky sided with Stalin by not following neither of Lenin’s directives. Lenin stated that economic-political realities must form the basis for genuine support for a Socialist Revolution not military force as used by Stalin. The capitalists knew this and that is why they established the Cordon Sanitaire first called for by French Prime Georges Clemenceau in March 1919 marking the beginning of the so-called Cold War. This was an economic-political quarantine by border-states including Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania, set up on the border of the Soviet Union.
The latter is quite significant considering the kind of internal the USSR experienced at period under Stalin. But Trotsky refused and instead in true opportunist fashion tried to buddy up with Stalin. Stalin would have none of it and spurned Trotsky who then went with Zinoviev and Kameniev in the “Left Opposition,” which had several incarnations. That finally fell apart and Trotsky, who had been Commissar of War, was removed from the Central Committee, then from the Party, then from Moscow, then from the USSR, then to Turkey, to France and to Mexico where it is well-documented he was assassinated with an ice pick by one of Stalin’s agents, Ramon Mercador. Stalin was not a Communist but he rode the back of the Socialist Revolution and drew all his power from it. Stalin’s policy was “Socialism in one country” meaning socialism in no other country—ultimately an anti-Communist non-starter. Stalin sabotaged the World Socialist Revolution in Germany, France, Spain (!), Italy, England, the United States, China (where he told Mao to liquidate into the Kuomintang nationalists, which would have got them slaughtered) and also even later in Cuba where the Cuban Communist Party did not recognize the Cuban Revolution until it was a fait accompli. After the invention of the Atom Bomb and Hydrogen Bomb the entire situation changed. The capitalists could not be picked off one country at a time. The threat was too great. So Stalin’s policy set in motion the inevitable surrender later by Gorbachev as explained below. To be successful the Socialist Revolution must be carried out here in the United States. That will abolish class society worldwide, immediately end the basis for all major wars as explained above, and finally end war altogether and set the stage for solving all problems of humankind. What prevents it? Anti-Communism. Anti-Communism has as much basis in truth as the U.S. claim that there were “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. There must be a depth of leadership starting with public opinion, which is able to refute each and every of the capitalists’ arguments against socialism. Remember the enemy of my enemy is my friend and the friend of my enemy is my enemy. This is inductive reasoning. The capitalist dictatorship brainwashes the masses through various provocations and Big Lie propaganda that the opposite is the case! It is time to wise up!
Gorbachev’s 1988 Soviet Surrender Was Based on
Lenin’s Strategy of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk!
In carrying out his 1988 surrender to the threat of a nuclear war Gorbachev was following the Strategy of Brest Litovsk, where Lenin was forced to sign an ignominious peace agreement with the German Kaiser in order to gain time with the understanding that all the Russian land that the early Soviets were forced to give up would be later regained. That was the case and the Soviets later recovered all of the land which they had given up to the Germans. Gorbachev was completely correct in believing that the inexorable outcome of a nuclear arms race was nuclear war. Gorbachev also knew and calculated that by the Soviet Union leaving the field in the so-called “Cold War” that the dynamic of capitalism would exist unchecked thus exacerbating and accelerating the contradictions of capitalism-imperialism and hopefully making these contradictions stand out in bold relief and bringing it closer to the final scrap heap of human history. The dynamic of capitalism has indeed been accelerated in spades! But the Fascists are once again on the Russian doorstep. Gorbachev wanted to try to permanently eliminate the nuclear threat. And he did so—but only for a time! Gorbachev did buy important time just like Lenin did. But was it enough time? Time will tell!! Gorbachev wanted to integrate the former USSR into the world capitalist economy making it much less likely to be a nuclear target of world capitalism. And he did so up to the point of Bush’s abandoning the ABM Treaty in the U.S. preparation to continue its so-called “missile defense,” which is nothing more than an attempt to force a second Russian Surrender. See below. But the 1988 Soviet Surrender to the Threat of a Nuclear War also created many more contradictions.
Today, Russia in a typically bizarre Stalinist opportunist fashion, sounding especially strange in light of the incipient Depression, has now agreed to the fraudulent U.S. claim of “economic collapse of the USSR” in order to try to guarantee peace with U.S.-led world imperialism now that the Soviet Workers’ State has largely been dismantled. For example, Peter Lavelle and others on Russia Today TV, while he presents the Russian response to world events, which correctly always seeks to avert confrontation, never loses an opportunity to repeat the Big Lie about the supposed “Soviet Collapse.” But now “Russia” finds how fast that “peace” has disappeared with the U.S. breaking virtually all of the U.S.-Soviet Peace Treaties of the 1990’s starting with the cornerstone of the agreements with the Soviet Union, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, which Bush formally broke on June 13, 2002 thus forcing the Russian Federation to withdraw from Start II, which banned the use of MIRV on ICBMs. NATO ships now fill the Black Sea as a further provocation after the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia, which the U.S. indubitably is rearming. In addition the U.S. is directing their Ukraine puppet Viktor Yushchenko to push the provocation/demand that the Russian fleet abandon its main Sevastopol base in the Crimea inhabited by 70% Russians!! Lots of luck! The U.S. is also building air bases in Georgia, which it plans to use against Iran and other countries. In addition, the U.S. is trying to steal Russian oil by planned diversion of the Caspian pipeline away from Russia! Public opinion does not support either the U.S. or NATO in such adventures, which are bound to fail no matter how many provocations are carried out and Big Lies are told.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s United Nations speech on September 28, 2008 stated. “Enough is enough” with regard to 1.) the U.S. Unipolar/One Superpower Worldview rather than the multipolar worldview that the United Nations was ostensibly set up for and 2.) the continual U.S. warmongering, which Lavrov was failed to mention is due to the fundamental dynamic of capitalism-imperialism, which is fundamentally based on war and mass murder and which cannot be reformed or reversed. Lavrov was forced to omit this glaring reality. He had no choice due to the politics of non-confrontation, which follow both from Stalinist opportunism (not Communism) and the 1988 Gorbachev surrender to the threat of a nuclear war. See below. The capitalists invariably try to direct the anger of the masses toward their enemies. In this case we can expect the U.S. government to try to direct the anger of the American people over the U.S./World capitalist economic collapse toward Russia if at all possible, hoping that the American people will forget an important rule of inductive reasoning, which they were deliberately never taught in any capitalist school and could only have acquired through study on their own: 1.) the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and its corollary: 2.) the friend of my enemy is my enemy! This is one more reason why we need, and the World needs, a Socialist Revolution in the United States!
The false claim of “economic collapse of the Soviet Union” was fabricated by the United States in order to try to demoralize the masses of the world, and the United States especially, to the only solution to the complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism. That solution is Socialism! Which can only be achieved through a Socialist Revolution in the United States, which itself can only be carried out peacefully as occurred in the October Russian Revolution of 1917. Mikhail Gorbachev’s Op-Ed column in the New York Times, August 20, 2008, was the typical Stalinist (Not Communist!) opportunist, anti-Communist response, which did not explain the clever U.S. strategy of provocation primarily in order to create ethnic division in the Caucuses designed to last for generations and that Russia was forced to respond to these provocations.
In his 1988 surrender to the United States Gorbachev carried out some rather heinous acts of murder of prominent Soviet statesmen, prominent Soviet representatives and assorted “stones in the shoe” of the capitalists. For example, Gorbachev undoubtedly had his own Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko murdered in July 1989 because it would be inconceivable that Gromyko could espouse the surrender terms that Gorbachev had agreed to and may have openly opposed them. Gromyko was thus seen as a potential troublemaker in the planned Soviet surrender. A living Gromyko would be more respected than a live Gorbachev. The U.S. and the USSR had also previously agreed to the murder of NAZI Rudolph Hess in preparation for the rather long-planned Soviet Surrender. (Remember even before he took power on March 12, 1985 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s December 1984’s highly publicized statement: “We can do business with Mr. Gorbachev!”) Hess was a totally frail 93 years old NAZI and imprisoned in Spandau Prison in Germany and simply refused to die a natural death. Hess was a continuing symbol of the NAZIs and the need for a continuing Soviet presence in Eastern Europe and thus an obstacle to the planned Soviet surrender and the planned break-up and Soviet withdrawal from the countries which made up the Warsaw Treaty Organization. An extremely frail Hess, who needed help in tying his shoes by a male nurse, was murdered by wrapping an electric cord around his neck and choking him to death. The media trumpeted “suicide, when he had never ever attempted “suicide” previously, despite media “Big Lie” claims to the contrary. And the prolific Hess left no suicide note and was moreover physically totally feeble and completely unable to choke himself to death according to testimony by relatives! See extensive coverage in the New York Times on and after August 17, 2008. In addition, Gorbachev also gave the order for the murder of Kim Philby in May 1988, a Soviet Agent who had led the Russian division of British Intelligence (!) for 19 years (!) from 1944 and had escaped to the USSR in 1963 just in the nick of time to prevent his capture. In 1965 Kim Philby was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, one of the highest Soviet awards, and was made a General in the KGB. Philby was another “stone in the shoe” of the capitalists who had to be removed! With these people dead no one could ask their opinions on the Gorbachev surrender. Others who had defected to the Soviet Union were also murdered to “clear the slate” for the coming Soviet Surrender.
Gorbachev’s own wife considered him to be a traitor and was estranged from him after Gorbachev carried out the final provocation(s) he used to discredit the Soviet leadership, many of whom were previously their respected and personal friends, but who were not allied to him in his surrender to the United States and had to be eliminated. On August 4, 1991 with great fanfare the hugely unpopular Gorbachev took a vacation to the Crimea and behind the scenes encouraged the so-called “Gang of Eight,” some of whom accompanied him to the Crimea (!) to stage what was described later as a “coup,” but unknown to them Gorbachev cut all their lines of communication and chain of command. Gorbachev controlled the media completely, NOT the other way around as officially portrayed, thus setting this “Communist (Stalinist)” opposition up to be discredited and removed officially from all top government posts. Boris Yeltsin, an expert demagogue, was appointed beforehand by Gorbachev to move into the gap while Gorbachev was supposedly being “imprisoned in the Crimea.” Yeltsin was new and did not share Gorbachev’s mantle of unpopularity in the Soviet Union and the crowds were peppered with shills to scream his name, which the world capitalist media reported with glee. The media showed Yeltsin “heroically” denouncing the “coup” from the top of a tank. Gorbachev himself directed the so-called “Gang of Eight” to set up a plan of measures that supposedly could be taken in case a state of emergency!
Deputy USSR Defense Minister General Valentin Varennikov stated that Gorbachev himself had supported the coup and was behind all eight and had told the group: "Do what you think is needed, damn you!" to restore order and declare a state of emergency. Gorbachev knew these individuals opposed him and gave them the rope to hang themselves. The official name for the group was the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP), and was headed by Vice President Gennadii Yanayev. Others included KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov, Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, the USSR Internal Affairs Minister, Boris Pugo, Deputy Chief of the USSR Defense Council Oleg Baklanov, Vasily Starodubtsev, chairman of the USSR Peasant Union and Alexander Tizyakov, president of the Association of the State Enterprises and Conglomerates of Industry, Transport, and Communications. This group was almost immediately dismissed from their offices by Gorbachev after the coup began and Gorbachev returned to Moscow with some of those very members (!), who were then all arrested. Pugo and his wife supposedly committed suicide but the reported circumstances at the time indicate it was murder. A highly publicized and staged attack on the Soviet Parliament, the so-called “White House,” which had to be put down militarily, was then carried out as yet another provocation to send the message of intimidation to the Communist Party members of Parliament and the masses (who hated Gorbachev and what was happening under his leadership), that the Soviet military supported the Gorbachev/Yeltsin leadership. Later Gorbachev resigned officially and the Soviet surrender was consolidated under Yeltsin who liquidated the USSR officially on December 8, 1991, when the USSR, Belarus and the Ukraine signed the Belovezh Agreement, dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing a Commonwealth of Independent States. Pretty quick work! No?
In his August 20th New York Times Op-Ed Gorbachev also lied through omission by omitting the obvious long-range U.S. objectives of the U.S./Georgian Invasion/Provocation of South Ossetia. Putin and Medvedev to their credit eventually exposed these objectives although only secondarily and without appropriate focus and emphasis! Russia has used others wherever possible such Alexandr Chachiya, for example. (See above.) By honestly and precisely explaining these provocations Russia would be able to explain how the U.S. intends to manipulate public opinion. This way the public in all countries would be on guard not to allow itself to be manipulated by the country which lied about “Weapons of Mass Destruction” in Iraq and which lies about everything including the most recent Bailout of Wall Street. This should be a no-brainer but Stalinist opportunism blocks the mind.
Like in the 1980’s and Force A Second Russian Surrender!
On August 14, 2008 the U.S. signed an agreement to build a so-called “missile defense” system in Poland which includes missile interceptors. Russia has promised a “military response” if the missiles are installed in Poland. This sounded like the Russian Federation might take the missile installation(s) out in an air strike similar to the U.S./”Israel” bombing of the Osirak Reactor in Iraq in 1981 and the planned bombing of Iran, etc., etc. etc. On November 5, 2008 we were very happy to hear Dimitri Medvedev say that the Russian Federation would only place missiles on the border of Poland and in the Kaliningrad region to counter the U.S. missiles and radar installations. Obviously the number of missiles in Poland will begin to increase exponentially as the U.S. orchestrates provocation after provocation on the border of Russia similar to the U.S./Georgian invasion of South Ossetia. This so-called “missile defense” is actually part of a Nuclear First Strike plan, which is also actually a strategy of intimidation by the United States as was originally explained back in the 1980’s when the U.S. put a full court press on the USSR with a runaway nuclear arms race and “Star Wars” forcing the Soviet surrender by Gorbachev in 1988. Today the United States and NATO want to force the former Soviet Union into a second surrender as explained above! In an actual First Strike by the United States and the NATO PACT, the so-called “Missile Defenses” are used simultaneously with a U.S. Nuclear First Strike in order to try to cripple the Russian response to the U.S. First Strike. The U.S. is hoping that they will win the game of “chicken” like they did in the 1980’s and that the Russians will back down and make a second surrender as they did in 1988. This is the present strategic centerpiece of U.S. “statecraft” with Russia. But times have changed and a Second Soviet Surrender will not take place! This reality will undoubtedly only make itself known to U.S.-led world capitalism-imperialism after many more provocations on Russia’s doorstep
Today ninety-five percent of New Yorkers agree that we need a new system based on human need not private profit! A Socialist Revolution in the United States will abolish the basis for all war and set the stage for solving the entire complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism, which threaten the survival of humankind. Capitalism cannot be reformed through elections or by any other means because the capitalist dictatorship is left in place and because capitalism has an internal dynamic of its own, which leads to a constantly hardening and more naked capitalist dictatorship to Fascism, barbarism and the end of civilization and finally the end of all life on Earth, as we see with the, which has already begun. Politicians rise to the surface to the extent that they express and further this almost entirely one-way dynamic of capitalism. The “presidential elections” are the capitalists&rsquo
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