Bulletin N° 1028
The
Wizard of OZ
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1939
(1:41:47)
An
adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz, the film was primarily directed by Victor Fleming and stars Judy
Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and
Margaret Hamilton. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf
received credit for the screenplay, but others made uncredited
contributions. The songs were written by Edgar "Yip" Harburg and composed by Harold Arlen. The musical score and
incidental music were composed by Herbert Stothart.
Subject: Square
Pegs into Round Holes: a reactionary attempt to manufacture a class of 21st-century
serfs.
International
Women’s Day, 2022
Dear Colleagues and Friends of
CEIMSA,
The madness of war – aside from the military science of Grand Strategy, strategy, tactics, and logistics – includes propaganda and psychological warfare. Full-spectrum dominance is nothing new in the world of labor exploitation. The classic categories of four types of wars – wars of national defense, wars of colonial liberation, imperialist wars, and civil wars - are all conflicts that contain one common guiding principle: “the ends justify the means.”
On this International Women’s Day, the 8th of March, we might consider an alternative logic and reflect on the proposition that perhaps “the means always mitigate the end” and that this property of human behavior is of a higher order than the usual rationalization used to justify and prolong wars.
To help us conceptualize these historic moments of tectonic shifts in social class relationships, we turn now to the Epilogue of Barrington Moore, Jr.’s major contribution to the discussion of social origins of dictatorship and democracy. He concludes his lengthy and informative comparative history, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the making of the Modern World (1966), with a discussion of some of the implications of both peasant actions and inactions, in their specific contexts of revolution, and of the class origins of “their” ideas, which present to the historian the challenge of identifying struggles against “false consciousness,” and the historic emergence of authentic struggles of a “class-for-itself."
Out of the Wrenches and Fractures that
accompanied the making of a new society – or of efforts to prevent its
emergence – similar conceptions of what a society ought to be or ought not to
be come to the surface in roughly comparable situations. To discuss adequately
radical and conservative critiques of society in a comparative framework would
obviously require another volume. Here I shall merely comment briefly on a few
themes taken from this wide range of ideas insofar as they are related to
certain types of historical experience faced by the landed upper classes and
the peasants. The ideas themselves are familiar enough to require no detailed
exposition. As contributions to the general human conception of a free society,
or as attacks upon such a conception, they belong together and display
interesting relationships to each other. My observations on these ideas will
not be only brief but provocative, in what I hope may be the good sense of the
word, that of encouraging others to study these problems more closely. At the
outset it will be helpful to make explicit the conception g of the relationship
between ideas and social movements which has been reached as a result of my
investigations, even if it is unlikely that I have managed to adhere to it
consistently throughout this study.
The
issue has come up several times in considering the forces that aided or
prevented the land upper classes from taking up commercial agriculture How much
weight should one attribute to widely prevalent ideals, codes of behavior, or
values in explaining the result? Thought the evidence, I think, pointed in the
direction of stressing as the crucial aspect of the explanation the situation
that various groups faced, the attentive reader might suspect that ideas or cultural
themes, to use still another term, have crept into the explanation somehow. His
suspicion would be quite correct. I do not believe that they can be omitted and
hold that there is a significant residue of truth in such explanations. My
objection is to the way they are put into the explanation, which in my
estimation creates a strong conservative bias under the color of scientific
neutrality and objectivity. That this bias is no case of deliberate dishonesty
goes without saying. Among serious thinkers deliberate deception is probably
rather rare and in the long run much less significant than the direction
imposed upon thought from, its own structure and social milieu.
Common observation is enough to show that human beings individually and
collectively do not react to an ‘objective’ situation in the same was as one chemical
reacts to another when they are put together in a test tube. This form of
strict behaviorism is, I suppose, just plain wrong. There is always an
interesting variable, a filter, one might say, between people and an
‘objective’ situation, made up from all sorts of wants, expectations, and other
ideas derived from the past. This intervening variable, which it is convenient to
call culture, screens out certain parts of the objective situation and emphasizes
other parts. There are limits to the amount of variations in perception and
human behavior that can come from this source. Still the residue of truth in
the cultural explanation is that what looks like an opportunity or a temptation
to one group of people will not necessarily seem so to another group with a
different historical experience and living in a form of society. The weakness
of e cultural explanation is not in the statement of such facts, though there
is room for debate over their significance, but in the way they are put into
the explanation. Materialist efforts to exorcise the ghost of idealism in
cultural explanations are chanting at the wrong spook.
The
real spook is a conception of social inertia, taken over probably from physics.
There is a widespread assumption in modern social science that social
continuity requires no explanation. Supposedly it is not problematical. Change
is what requires explanation. This assumption blinds the investigator to
certain crucial aspects of social reality. Culture, or tradition – to use a
less technical term – is not something that exists outside of or independently
of individual human beings living together in society. Cultural values do not
descend from heaven to influence the course of history. They are abstractions
by an observer, based on the observation of certain similarities in the way groups
of people behave, either in different situations or over time, or both. Even
though one can often make accurate predictions about the way groups and
individuals will behave over short periods of time on the basis of such
abstraction, as such they do not explain the behavior. To explain behavior in terms
of cultural values is to engage in circular reasoning. If we notice that a
landed aristocracy resists commercial enterprise, we don’t explain
this fact by stating that the aristocracy has done so in the past and even that
it is the carrier of certain traditions that make it hostile to such activities:
the problem is to determine out of what past the present experiences such an
outlook arises and maintains itself. If culture has an empirical meaning, it is
as a tendency implanted in the human mind to behave in certain specific ways ‘acquired
by man as a member of society,’ to quote the last phrase of Tylor’s
famous definition, which brought the term into scholarly and eventually popular
usage.
The
assumption of inertia, that cultural and social continuity do not require
explanation, obliterates the fact that both have to be recreated anew in each
generation, often with great pain and suffering. To maintain and transmit a
value system, human beings are punched, bullied, sent to jail, thrown into
concentration camps, cajoled, bribed, made into heroes, encouraged to read newspapers,
stood up against a wall and shot, and sometimes even taught sociology. To speak
of cultural inertia is to overlook the concrete interests and privileges that
are served by indoctrination, education, and the entire complicated process of
transmitting culture from one generation to the next. A member of the Chinese
gentry in the nineteenth century, we may agree, usually judged economic opportunities
in a way very different from that of a twentieth-century American businessman farmer.
But he did so because he grew up in Chinese Imperial society whose class structure,
system of rewards, privileges, and sanctions, penalized certain forms of
economic gain that would have destroyed the hegemony and authority of the
dominant groups. Finally, to take values as a starting point of sociological
explanation makes it very difficult to understand the obvious fact that values
change in response to circumstances. The perversion of democratic notions of
the American South is an all too familiar example, incomprehensible without
cotton and slavery. We cannot do without some conception of how people perceive
the world and what they do or do not want to do about whqt they see. To detach
this, conception from the way people reach it, to take it out of its historical
context and raise it to the status of an independent causal actor in its own
right, means that the supposedly impartial investigator succumbs to the
justifications that ruling groups generally offer for their most brutal
conduct. That, I fear, is exactly what a great deal of academic social science
does today.
Let
us now return to more concrete problems. It is out of the question here to
discuss fully the intellectual contributions to the conception of a free society
that are traceable to the historical experience of the landed upper classes. It
is sufficient to remind the reader that English parliamentary democracy was
very largely the creation of this class, which remained in charge of its
workings down to the eve of the First World War and has been very influential
since then. Much of the modern conception of legitimate authority and of an
open society derives from the struggles between this class, which was of course
very far from united, and the royal authority. Instead I shall comment upon one
these, the ideals and rationalizations of what was once a dominant class an
under certain circumstances become what Marxists call critical and progressive
theories. This issue is worth raising because it has
implications beyond the landed aristocracy. As will appear again from the
discussion of the peasants, it may be dying classes that make decisive
contributions to the vision of a free society.
Though the landed aristocracy has in many countries furnished a congenial
social climate in which the ideal of the amateur has grown and flourished, this
ideal has of course roots that ramify much further. In one form or another it
is probably characteristic of most preindustrial civilization. The main features
in this cluster of ideas might be expressed in the following way. Because aristocratic
status was supposed to indicate a qualitatively superior form of being, whose
qualities were hereditary rather than the fruit of individually acquired merits,
the aristocrat was not expected to put forth too prolonged or too earnest an
effort in any single direction. He might excel, but not just in one activity as
a consequence of prolonged training; that would be plebeian. The hereditary
aspect, it is worth noticing, is not completely decisive. Thus the conception
of the amateur and gentleman were important in both classical Greece and
Imperial China, societies that in theory minimize hereditary status above a
certain level such as slaves. Nevertheless in such societies too only a limited
number of persons were believed capable of achieving full aristocratic status.
For them the ‘real’ ruler-gentleman was a qualitatively distinct form of
humanity. In these societies as well as other with a more explicit class or
cast structure, the aristocrat was expected to do all things very well, but
none of them, not even making love, too well. In Western society this
conception largely disappeared with the triumph of industrial society. For example,
in the United States the distinction between amateur and professional, with overtones
of approval for the former, survives only in areas of life that he man in the
street does not regard as completely serious. One can speak of an amateur athlete
or an amateur actor, and in some circles even an
amateur historian, but scarcely of an amateur businessman or an amateur lawyer
except as a derogatory epithet.
As
might be anticipated, the traditional conception of the amateur has survived
most clearly in England, where the aristocracy, using the term broadly to
include a large portion of the gentry, has maintained itself with least damage.
Namier has observed, ‘More intellectual work is done
by aristocrats in England than anywhere else, and in turn, scientist, doctors,
historians and poets have been made peers . . . but no German Gelehrter (scholar) was
ever made baron or a count.’ The critical stance of the aristocracy toward any
notion that wealth is a desirable end in itself has helped the aristocracy to
preserve the aesthetic dimension of life. Even today a few people still believe
that art, literature, philosophy, and pure science are not merely decorative
adjuncts to the serious business of making a living but he supreme end of human
life. That such ideas can be taken seriously is in substantial measure due to
the persistence of an independent aristocracy as a group that can lend the aura
of its prestige and patronage to such notions, even if no aristocracy itself
has adopted them as its real working code of behavior.
Similarly
the critical stance toward the technician as the desiccated brain at the
service of any master derived from the aristocratic conception of the amateur.
Again Namier has noticed the importance of these ideas
in twentieth-century England:
We prefer to make it appear as if our ideas
came to us casually – like the Empire – in a fit of absence of mind . . . .
Speculation necessarily entails distortion of mind and loss of balance, and the
characteristically English attempt to appear unscientific springs from a desire
to remain human . . . . What is not valued in England is abstract knowledge as
a profession, because the tradition of English culture is that profession
should be practical and culture should be the work of the leisured classes.
At its best this ideal asserts that the educated
man should attain a sufficiently accurate and informed understanding of broad
issues and fundamental conceptions in the sciences and the arts to assess their
social and political implications.
Even
today this is no utopian ideal. The standard objection, that there is simply
too much to know, doges the main issue: what is worth knowing? The objection
provides ideological cover for the technician and conceptual nihilist who fears that his own limited area of knowledge may not be able
to compete with others in an open discussion of their relative significance.
Thus the ancient struggle between aristocratic and plebeian, transposed into new
forms, continues within academic walls.
All
these themes have strong negative aspects. The ideal of the amateur can and has
served as an excuse for superficiality and incompetence. If the aristocracy has
helped to preserve the independence of the aesthetic dimension, it has also
exerted very strong pressures toward mere decoration and flattery. Sheer
snobbishness, i.e., the drawing of social distinctions and the awarding of
prestige without any rational basis, has played a tremendous part. Veblen’s
snide caricature in the Theory of the Leisure Class seized essential
aspects of the truth. Finally, it is necessary to recognize the very strong
anti-intellectual streak in the Western European aristocracy, even in England.
In many circles among the gentry and upward, any attempt at conservation beyond
sports and gardens is likely to evoke pained surprise and suspicion that the
speaker has ‘Bolshie’ sympathies. For every distinguished patron of the
intellect, for every eccentric defender of unpopular causes, and certainly for
every aristocrat who has used his independence as a stepping stone to real intellectual
achievements, there are many empty and frivolous lives. For every Bertrand
Russell, there are probably a score of Colonel Blimps. If the continued
existence of an aristocracy has helped to preserve the life of the mind, it has
in very great measure simultaneously contributed to the suffocation of the
intellect. Though I know of no serious attempt to appraise the balance, it
seems that only a tiny proportion of the economic and human resources
appropriated by the aristocracy has found its way again into intellectual and
artistic life. Hence this aristocratic contribution to the conception and
realization of a free society has been purchased at terrific social cost.
If there
is some justification for regarding the conception of the amateur as a positive
contribution, there are clear grounds for a negative assessment of several other
ideas. Those about t to be discussed, however, arise in quite a different
social context. Reactionary social theories are liable to flourish in a landed
upper class that manages to hang onto political power successfully although it
is losing out economically or perhaps is threatened by a new and strange source
of economic power (a fear underlying some currents of thought in the American
antebellum South). At several points in this book there has been occasion to
notice that, where commercial relationships have begun to undermine a peasant
economy, the conservative elements in society are likely to generate a rhetoric of extolling the peasant as the backbone of
society. This phenomenon is not confined to modern times not to Western civilization.
The key elements in the rhetoric – advocacy of the sterner virtues, militarism,
contempt for ‘decadent’ foreigners, and anti-intellectualism – appear in the
West at least as early as Cato the Elder (234-149 B.C.) who operated his own latifundium with slave labor. It is fitting,
therefore, to label this complex of ideas with his name. A similar rhetoric,
according to some authorities also in response to a threat to traditional
peasant economy, had emerged in China with the Legalists, around the 4th
century B.C. The function of Catonism is too obvious
to require more than brief comment. It justifies a repressive social order that
buttresses the position of those in power. It denies the existence of actual
changes that have hurt the peasants. It denies the need for further social
changes, especially revolutionary ones. Perhaps Catonism
may also relieve the conscience of those most responsible for the damage –
after all, military expansion destroyed the Roman peasantry.
Modern versions of Catonism arise too out of
the adoption by the landed upper classes of repressive and exploitative methods
in response to the increasing intrusion of the market relationships into an agrarian
economy. The main notions are prominent in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Junker
circles, the Nōhōn shugi movement in Japan, the Russian Black Hundreds after
the turn of the century, the extreme conservatism in France that came to the surface
as window dressing for Vichy. Key elements occur among Southern apologists
prior to the American Civil War. Catonism was an
important component too in twentieth-century fascism in Europe and Asia, as
well as Chiang Kai-shek’s programmatic pronouncements for China. Naturally all
these movements differ among themselves. Nevertheless it is not difficult to perceive
a certain ground plan to related ideas and predispositions that all of them
share.(p.484-491)
As
far as feelings (so far as we really know them) and
the causes of hatred go, there is not a great deal to choose between the
radical right and the radical left in the countryside. The main distinction
depends on the amount of realistic analysis of the causes of suffering on the
images of a potential future. Catonism conceals the
social causes and projects an image of continued submission. The radical
tradition empathizes the cause and projects an image
of eventual liberation. The fact that the emotions and causes are similar does
not mean that the emergence of one or the other as a politically significant
force depends on skills in manipulating these discontents, as repeated failures
to win over radicalized pedants to conservative causes (or vice versa) through
the methods of psychological warfare clearly demonstrates. These psychological
and organizational skills are important, but they work only when they are in
line with the everyday experiences of the peasants whom such leaders attempt to
set in motion.
Thus Catonism is not purely an upper-class mythology about the peasants,
attributed to the peasants, but finds a response among the latter because it provides
an explanation of sorts for their situation under the intrusion of the market.
It is also quite clearly a body of notions that arises out of the life
conditions of a landed aristocracy threatened by the same forces. If one
glances at the major themes in the form of the aristocratic response that
culminated in liberal democracy, one will notice that they also occur in Catonism – transposed to a different key. The criticism of
mass democracy, the notions of legitimate authority and the importance of custom,
opposition to the power of wealth and to mere technical expertise all
constitute major themes in the Catonist cacophony.
Again it is in the way they are combined, even more important the ultimate purpose
that makes all the difference. In Catonism these notions
serve the ends of strengthening repressive authority. In aristocratic
liberalism they are brought together as intellectual weapons against irrational
authority. Catonism, on the other hand, lacks any
conception of pluralism or the desirability of checks on hierarchy and
obedience.
As
noted above, modern Catonism is mainly associated
with the attempt to go over to labor-repressive forms of capitalist agriculture.
It is also anti-industrial and antimodern through and
through. Here may lie the basic limitations to the
spread and success of Catonism. There is, I would
suggest, this very significant residue of truth in Veblen’s cautiously yet
repeatedly expressed hope that the advance of the machines might somehow flush
human irrationalities down the drain of history. The more extreme forms of
labor-repressive or exploitative agriculture can be decisive adjuncts to
capitalist development, as was the case in the connection between American
slavery and both English and American industrial capitalism. But industrial
capitalism has great difficulty establishing itself in the same area with a
labor-repressive system. As part of the effort to hold down a subject
population, the upper classes have to generate an antirationalist,
antiurban, antimaterialist,
and, more loosely, antibourgeois view of the world – one that excludes any
conception of progress. And it is very difficult to see how industrialism can
take firm hold without a push from people who hold a very materialist
conception of progress that includes sooner or later concrete improvements in
the situation of the lower classes. In contrast with advancing industrialism, Catonism, it seems, finally compromises itself out of
existence to fuse with more definitely urban and capitalist forms of romantic
nostalgia. These more intellectually respectable forms of the far right have
become increasingly influential in the West during the past twenty years, especially
in the United States. Conceivably Catonism will someday
appear to future historians, if any there are, as having contributed merely the
most explosive ingredients to this dangerous mixture.
In
turning from ideas derived from experience of the landed upper classes to those
of the peasants, the historian at once runs into trouble because the materials are
so sparse and their authenticity often doubtful. To determine just what ideas have
been current among peasants is extraordinarily difficult because they have left
so few records of their own and have had a great many ideas attributed to them
by townsmen who had a political axe to grind.
. . .
As
the world of commerce and industry began to undermine the structure of the
village community, the European peasants reacted with a form of radicalism that
stressed the themes of liberty, equality, and fraternity, but in a way distinct
from the way that the townsmen, more specifically the more prosperous
bourgeoisie, understood these themes. Throughout Europe and Asia, the current
of rural response to modernization went its own course, sometimes joining that
in the towns, sometimes flowing in the opposite direction. For the peasants,
the first of the three was not liberty but equality. And peasant experience
provided the background for a shattering critique of the bourgeois notion of
equality, as I shall try to indicate more concretely in a moment. Briefly, the peasants
asked, ‘What is the meaning of your fine political arrangement when the rich
can still oppress the poor? Liberty too meant getting rid of the overlord who
no longer gave them protection but now used his ancient privileges to take away
their land or make them work on his for nothing. Fraternity meant the village
as a cooperative economic and territorial unit, little more. From the peasant,
it seems, the idea may have passed to intellectuals who developed their
theories about the depersonalization of modern life and the curse of bureaucratic
bigness, looking backward through a romantic haze to what they thought they saw
in the village community. All this would have seemed, I suspect, quite odd and
incomprehensible to the peasant who had daily experience of the vicious quarrels
over property and women common in his own village. For the peasant, fraternity was more a
negative notion, a form of localism. The peasant had no abstract interest in
feeding the town. His organic conception of society stopped quite short of altruism.
For him, ‘outsiders’ were and are mainly a source of taxes and debt. Fellow
villagers, on the other hand, even if they too were often creatures to be
treated warily were people with whom it was necessary to work at crucial stages
in the agricultural cycle. Thus cooperation was the dominant theme within the
group, hostility and distrust the dominant one toward
outsiders, with many variations and shadings in concrete daily circumstances.
Peasant localism, thus, is no innate trait (any more than the attachment to the
soil) but the product of concrete experiences and circumstances.
In
the forms just sketched, these ideas also appealed to the smaller artisans and
journeymen in the towns, oppressed by debt and the rise of larger traders.
Since some of the smaller townsmen might be able to write, it was often they or
a stray from the priesthood who put the grievances down in writing and so
preserved them for historians to discuss. These circumstances make it doubly
difficult to disentangle the purely peasant component. Yet if one looks at the
extreme leftist manifestations of the English Civil War and the French
Revolution, the Diggers and ‘Gracchus’ Babeuf – the names in each case are revealing – as well as certain stands in pre-1917 Russian
radicalism, it is not difficult to perceive their connection with peasant life
and problems.(pp.494-499)
Moore concludes his epilogue on “reactionary and revolutionary imagery” with an observation of the historiography of revolution;
Because peasant discontent has frequently expressed itself in
reactionary forms, Marxist thinkers often regard peasant radicalism with a
mixture of contempt and suspicion or, at best, with patronizing condescension.
To smile at this blindness, to point out that Marxist successes have come out
of peasant revolutions, have almost become favorite anti-Marxist pastimes, so
much so as to conceal more significant issues. As one reviews the spread of
modern revolution, from its starting points in the German Bauernkrieg and the Puritan Revolution in England,
through its successful and abortive phases as it travels westward to the United
States and eastward through France, Germany, Russia, and China, two points stand
out. First, the utopian radical conceptions of one phase become the accepted
institutions and philosophical platitudes of the next. Secondly, the chief
social basis of radicalism has been the peasants and the smaller artisans in
the towns. From these facts one may conclude that the wellsprings of human
freedom lie not only where Marx saw them, in the aspirations of classes about
to take power, but perhaps even more in the dying wail of a class over whom the
wave of progress is about to roll. Industrialism, as it continues to spread,
may in some distant future still these voices forever and make
revolutionary radicalism as anachronistic as cuneiform writing.
For a
Western scholar to say a good word on behalf of revolutionary radicalism is not
easy because it runs counter to deeply grooved mental
reflexes. The assumption that gradual and piecemeal reform has demonstrated its
superiority over violent revolution as a way to advance human freedom is so
pervasive that even to question such an assumption seems strange. In closing
this book I should like to draw attention for the last time to what the
evidence from the comparative history of modernization may tell us about this issue.
As I have reluctantly come to read this evidence, the costs of modernization
have been at least as atrocious as those of revolution, perhaps a great deal
more.
Fairness
demands recognition of the fact that the way nearly all history has been written
imposes an overwhelming bias against revolutionary violence. Indeed this bias
becomes horrifying as one comes to realize its depth. To equate the violence of
those who resist oppression with the violence of the oppressors would be
misleading enough. But there is a great deal more. From the days of Spartacus
through Robespierre down to the present day, the use of force by the oppressed against
their former masters has been the object of nearly universal condemnation. Meanwhile
the day-to-day repression of ‘normal’ society hovers dimly in the background of
most history books. Even those radical historians who emphasize the injustices
of prerevolutionary epochs generally concentrate on a short time span preceding
the immediate outbreak. In that way, too, they may unwittingly distort the
record.
That
is one argument against the comforting myth of gradualism. There is an even
more important one, the costs of going without a revolution. There have been
the tragedies of the victims of fascism and its wars of aggression, the
consequence of modernization without a real revolution. In the backward
countries today, there continues the suffering of those who have not revolted.
In India we have seen that this suffering has been in good measure the price of
democratic slowness in the Asian context. To call the situation democratic
stagnation may not stretch the truth unduly. There are also positive arguments
on behalf of revolution. In the Western democratic countries revolutionary
violence (and other forms as well) were part of the whole historical process
that made possible subsequent peaceful change. In the communist countries too,
revolutionary violence has been part of the break with a repressive past and of
the effort to construct a less repressive future.
The
gradualist argument seems shattered. But precisely at this point the revolutionary
argument also collapses. It is clear beyond all shadow of a doubt that the claims of existing
socialist states to represent a higher form of freedom than Western democratic capitalism rest
on promise, not on performance. There is no denying the patent fact that the Bolshevik
Revolution did not bring liberation to the people of Russia. At most it may
have brought the possibility of liberation. Stalinist Russia as one of the
bloodiest tyrannies the world has yet seen. Though much less is known about
China, the communist victory there probably meant some increase in personal
security for the mass of the population after almost a century of widespread
brigandage, foreign oppression and revolution, it is safe enough to assert that
in China too the claims of socialism rest on promise,
not performance. Indeed
communists cannot claim that the mass of the population has shouldered
a lesser share of the burden of suffering under their form of industrialization
than they did under the preceding forms of capitalism. On this score it is well
to recollect that there is no evidence that the mass of the population anywhere
has wanted an industrial society, and plenty of evidence that they did not. At
bottom all forms of industrialization so far have been revolutions form above,
the work of a ruthless minority.
To
this indictment communists can reply that the repressive features of their
regimes have been in large measure a response to the imperative of creating
their own industrial base in a tremendous hurry while surrounded by ravenous
capitalist enemies. I do not think it is possible to make anything like that
much of a case of what actually happened. The range and depth of the Stalinist repression
and terror were far too great to find explanation, let along justification, through
some conception of revolutionary necessity? In many ways the Stalinist terror
probably did more to hinder than to aid revolutionary objectives, as in the
decimation of the offer corps prior to the outbreak of the Second World War,
very likely also in the way Stalinist rule produced a mixture of chaos and petrified
rigidity all through the Soviet administrative structure, including the industrial
sectors. Nor will it do to put all the blame on Stalin personally. The ugly
side of the Stalinist era had institutional roots. Communism as a set of ideas
and institutions cannot escape responsibility for Stalinism. In general one of
the most revolting features of revolutionary dictatorships has been their use
of terror against little people who were as much victims of the old order as
were the revolutionaries themselves, often more so.
There
is also the argument that we are too close to communist revolutions to judge them
properly: the liberating effects of past revolutions took a long time to appear.
Neither this argument nor the preceding one to the effect that the horrors of
communism spring out of its defense against those of capitalism are arguments
to be dismissed lightly. There are nevertheless grounds for holding that they
display considerable naiveté toward the past and the future. They are naïve
about the past because every government blames it repressive feathers on its
enemies: if the enemy would only go away, all subjects could live happily
forever after. There is a sense in which all dominant élites, even when they
fight one another, have a vested interest in their opponents’ existence to
which the deformations of a revolution create vested interests in domination. Although the communist defense requires an act of faith about the
future that involves too great a surrender of critical rationality.
In
the place of such a surrender, I would urge the view
that both Western liberalism and communism (especially the Russian version)
have begun to display many symptoms of historical obsolescence. As successful
doctrines they have started to turn into ideologies that justify and conceal
numerous forms of repression. That there are huge differences between the two
goes without staying. Communist repression has been and remains so far mainly
directed against its own population. The repression by liberal society, both
under earlier imperialism and again now in the armed struggle against revolutionary
movements in the backward areas, has been directed very heavily outward, against
others. Nevertheless this common feather of repressive practice covered by talk
of freedom may be the most significant one. To the extent that such is the
case, the task of honest thinking is to detach itself from both sets of
preconceptions, to uncover the causes of oppressive tendencies in both systems
in the hope of overcoming them. Whether they can actually be overcome is
dubious in the extreme. As long as powerful vested interests oppose changes that
lead toward a less oppressive world, no commitment to a free society can
dispense with some conception of revolutionary coercion. That, however, is an
ultimate necessity, a last resort in political action, whose rational
justification in time and place varies too much for any attempt at
consideration here. Whether the ancient Western dream of a free and rational
society will always remain a chimera, no one can know for sure. But if the men
of the future are ever to break the chains of the present, they will have to
understand the forces that forged them.(pp.504-508)
This book closes with an Appendix, “A Note on Statistics and Conservative Historiography, ”in which the author contextualizes his own view and explains the struggle he is necessarily engaged in as he writes this history in the US in the mid-1960s.
Anyone
who goes to the writings of other scholars in search of general instruction as
well as information about specific problems is likely to notice sooner or later
a conflict between generations at least as acute as that in Turgenev’s famous
novel. Conservative and radical interpretations of the same set of events
succeed each other in fairly regular succession. Out of the conflict there does
come an increase in historical understanding, as anyone can see for himself by
looking first at, say Taine or a Michelet and then at almost any standard
modern account of the French Revolution. Human nature being what it is, perhaps
knowledge of human affairs can grow in no other way.
But there
are a good many costs and losses in this procedure that get in the way of
cumulative comprehension of the past. One loss comes from the tendency to
accept uncritically the notion that the present generation has rally settled
certain questions more or less permanently. Whether this tendency in the long
run prevails as much on the political left as on the right is not absolutely
clear. I am somewhat more aware of it on the right than on the left for two
reasons. One is partly accidental. This book happened to be written during a
time when the political climate was conservative and the scholarly atmosphere contained
strong revisionist currents against older works that might raise apprehension
about our own society. By the time the book was finished there was already a
noticeable reaction against this current. The other reason is simpler: the bias of the doctrinaire left is often so crude
as to be comic. Nobody has any trouble recognizing that.
For
these reasons the following remarks are addressed mainly to a certain form of
conservative bias. Their purpose is to caution the curious layman and the
fledging scholar against extreme versions of conservative revisionism, views
which hold in effect that hardheaded modern scientific quantitative research
has now ‘demolished’ older interpretations and that adherence to any important
aspect of them represents no more than an ‘affirmation of religious myth,’ a
remark to be encountered more frequently in oral exchanges than in the cold print
that compels most authors to veer back toward safe moderation. A close look at
the statistical evidence upon which such criticism rests indicates, in some important
instances to be discussed in a moment, that the statistics actually support the
older views. After the technical discussion itself, I shall offer some
reflection on the general tenor of these arguments. At the start, however, I would
like to make explicit the sprit in which my observations are put forth. Without
special competence in statistics, I still have no patience with the machine-breaking
mentality that rejects figures out of hand. To name this deformation of the
humanist mentality after the Luddites is actually unfair to them; they were
rather more intelligent. Nor is this Appendix to be read as a hidden diatribe
against all conservative revisionism. Anyone who knows a specific portion of the
literature on which this book is based will recognize the similarity between
some of my arguments and those of distinguished revisionist works. Finally,
those scholars whose work is about the be discussed do not display that
complacency found among those who make tentative conclusions part of the
consensus of professional opinion – in the study of man the most treacherous of
all opinions.(pp.509-510)
Moore goes on to observe,
There are also some general reasons for holding
that in any violent conflict the social composition of the victims will not by
itself reveal much about the social and political character of the
struggle. Let us suppose that a revolution breaks out in some Latin American
country where the government is under the control of wealthy landlords and a
few rich businessmen. Let suppose further that the army is made up mostly of peasant
conscripts and that one section of the army breaks off and joins the rebels who
are seeking to overthrow the government and establish a communist regime. After
a few pitched battles, the statistician would no doubt find that the causalities
on both sides were mainly peasants. To conclude that the main split in this case
was a vertical one , to deny that class conflict was
the key to the political struggles, would be patently absurd. If, on the other
hand, the rebels put forth no social demands and merely sought to replace one
set of landlords and business leaders with another, there would be grounds for
the assertion that some sort of a perpendicular split existed. In a word, it is
not only who fighters but what the fight is about that matters. This aspect
raises more general issues to which we may now turn.
. . .
… there are certain
common themes in the statistical critique that raise questions transcending
statistics. In order to being out these points I will take the liberty of
reformulating the general drift of the line of argument just discussed.
Implicitly the burden of this argument seem to be the following: In what were
supposedly the great revolutions against oppressors it is
possible to show, by counting, that there was in reality little or no raising againstt oppression. No important differences distinguished
the two sides in the Puritan and French Revolution. Similarly, in what was
supposed to be a revolutionary social transformation carried out by the
oppressive upper class, the enclosure movement in England, it is possible to
show by counting that in reality there was not much oppression. The victims
grew and flourished. Hence the whole radical tradition is suffused with
sentimental nonsense.
. . .
These
changes are qualitative alterations in the relations of men have with one
another. They concern such differences as those between owning property and
producing goods with a few simple tools and one’s own hands, and owning no
property, working for someone else, and producing goods with complicated
machines. To speak in very neutral and abstract terms for a moment, they are
changes in the form of social patters. The distinctions in these forms and
patterns do not seem to be reducible to any quantitative differences; they are
incommensurable.*
Yet it is precisely such differences that matter most
to human beings. They are the ones where change has produced the most violent conflict,
the source of the great historical issues.
*Note
in this connection Whitehead, Modes of Thought, 195: “Thus beyond all
question of quantity, there lie questions of pattern,
which are essential for the understanding of nature. Apart from a presupposed
pattern, quantity determines nothing.” Whitehead’s reservations about the
procedures of the natural sciences and mathematics are to be taken very
seriously because, unlike many other critics, he knew thoroughly what he was
talking about.(pp.518-521)
. . .
There is a respectable intellectual tradition which denies that objectivity is possible at all, even in principle. This denial seems to rest on confusion between the causes of historical events and their consequences or meaning. The causes of the American Civil War had run their course by the time the first shot was fired at Fort Sumner. No historian’s opinion about these causes can have the remotest effect on what they actually were .The consequences are another matter. They are with us today and may be with us as long as human history continues. This second aspect of the thesis about the permanent ambiguity of history seems to me perfectly valid. Statements by historians about the cases of the Civil War have polemical results now no matter what their authors intend. It is in this sense that impartiality is an impossibility and an illusion. Whether he knows it or not, to continue the argument, the historian has to adopt some principle in selecting and ordering his facts. The same is true for the sociologist studying contemporary affairs. By virtue of what they include and exclude, highlight or deemphasize, these principles have political and moral consequences. Hence they are unavoidably moral principles. It is impossible to opt out of the struggle. The very act of trying to opt out, of trying to take a nonpartisan position, means taking up a form of apolitical pseudo-objectivity that in effect supports the status quo.
The thesis that neutrality is impossible is a powerful one, convincing at any rate to me. But I do not think that it leads to a denial that objective social and historical analysis is possible. Different perspectives on the same set of events should lead to complementary and congruent interpretations, not to contradictory ones. Furthermore the denial that objective truth is possible in principle flings open the door to the worst forms of intellectual dishonesty. A crude version goes something like this; since neutrality is impossible I will take my stand with the underdog and write history to serve the underdog, helping in this way to reach a ‘higher Truth.’ In plain language this is just cheating. No matter what this unavoidable moral premises and predilections, any student of human affairs is bound sooner or later to come across evidence that is profoundly disturbing. Then he has the task of coming to terms with its honestly.
Gradations of Truth with a capital T, rightly in my estimation arouse angry suspicion. But this does not mean that objectivity and truth with a small t lead to comfortable complacency. Objectivity is not the same thing as conventional judiciousness. A celebration of the virtues of our own society which leaves out its ugly and cruel features, which fails to face the questioning of a connection between its attractive and its cruel ones, remains an apogee even if it is spoken in the most measured academic tones. There is a strong tendency to assume that mild-mannered statements in favor of the status quo are ‘objective’ and that anything else is a form of ‘rhetoric.’
This type of bias, this misinterpretation of objectivity is the one most common in the West today. It confuses objectivity with triviality and meaninglessness. For reasons already mentioned, my simple straightforward truth about political institutions and events is bound to have polemical consequences. It will damage some group interests. In any society the dominant groups are the ones with the most to hide about the way society works. Very often therefore truthful analyses are bound to have a critical ring to seem like exposures rather than objective statements, as the term in conventionally used. (This will be true in communist countries too, if they ever get to the point to allowing moderately candid accounts of their own past to see the light.) For all students of human society, sympathy with the victims of historical processes and skepticism about the victor’s claims provide essential safeguards against being taken in by the dominant mythology. A scholar who tries to be objective needs these feelings as part of his ordinary working equipment.(521-523)
The 26 + items below include a selection of Anglophone articles and essays discussing different aspects of the political economy at this juncture in world history and the roles of military establishments and medical institutions in seeking resolutions for the numerous contradictions that now plague civil society. A universal authoritarian culture - stemming from historical relationships, new patterns of behavior, and newly applied technologies - is taking root in society and threatens to introduce a long period of corporate control over a reduced population, all of which serves to diminishe the traditional notion of human rights for most people.
This reactionary element has long been present in modern society, but the growth of inequalities and concomitant concentration of enormous wealth has all but secured a monopoly of political power much to the detriment of us the rest of us – workers, intellectuals, artists, students, as well as the ever increasing number of deliberately impoverished victims in this war against humanity.
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
--
Professeur honoraire de l'Université
Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur des
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
“We are
not slaves!”: Haitian garment workers strike for a
fair wage.
https://therealnews.com/we-are-not-slaves-haitian-garment-workers-strike-for-a-fair-wage
by Frances Madeson
+
“A
Different ‘Fight for 15’: Haiti Garment Industry Workers Strike”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/different-fight-15-haiti-garment-industry-workers-strike
by Mamyrah Prosper
+
“70 miles
long, and with thousands cheering it along the way, the USA Freedom Convoy has
(of course) been BLACKED OUT by the media”
by Mark Crispin Miller
(video, 57:09)
Rob
Williams talks to Claire Dooley and Ariana Victor, two (real) journalists
traveling with the truckers (an interview that YouTube instantly took down)
+
“Cops
want to turn cop watching into organized crime, but can they get away with it?”
by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis
(33:49)
+
“Ashton Kutcher's NGO Supplies Police with 'Free' CIA-linked
Surveillance Tool to 'Protect Kids'”
by Whitney Webb
==========
b.
COVID
Mission Accomplished as Global Treaty Looms
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jrQ10Yj3nOFv/
with James Corbett and James Even Pilato
+
"So
This Is How Pfizer Did It"
with Russell Brand
(14:12)
+
The
Defender: Children’s Health Defense
Most Read
this Week- March 6, 2022
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvLTBFCRGvRvVgfXMffWXcDvZ
&
+
The
Defender: Children’s Health Defense
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/
+
The Defender: Children’s Health
Defense News
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
+
FDA
Releases 10,000 More Pfizer Vaccine Documents. What Will They Reveal?
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fda-releases-pfizer-vaccine-documents/
byMichael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
+
"We
had, perhaps, too little caution and too much optimism": Rochelle Walensky gives herself a pass for killing millions
by Mark Crispçin Miller
+
Over 90% Of COVID Deaths Were Jabbed In The UK's Last Week &
Reverse Transcribed Into DNA
by
==========
c.
Head of
the Hydra: The Rise of Robert Kadlec
by Whitney Webb
+
In memory
of those who have "died suddenly" worldwide, February 22-28
by Mark Croispin Miller
(March 3,
2022)
The
toll appears to be especially high in the UK, Ireland and Nigeria
+
Novel
chemical-physical autopsy investigation in sudden infant death and sudden
intrauterine unexplained death syndromes | Nanomedicine
https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/nnm-2021-0203
+
Dangerous
Pfizer Vaccine Fraud Fully Exposed: Digital Currency, Digital IDs and the
Global Debt Problem
https://www.globalresearch.ca/dangerous-pfizer-vaccine-fraud-fully-exposed/5773041
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
+
“Pfizer
Vaccine Becomes DNA in Liver Cells. (In-vitro Swedish Study)”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/QgrcJHrhwLdSwZzXLjHThtsbqpdGxqgZpqV?projector=1
&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANmkIIxCQCw
from Drbeen Medical Lectures
(25:42)
+
Breaking
Down The Pfizer Data W/ Dr. Meryl Nass,
CHD Panel
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvLVKPlqWgwrjPNhdkSJWzDWR
by Children’s Health Defense
==========
d.
Former UN Inspector Scott Ritter on What The Hell Is Happening
https://m.facebook.com/LeeCampComedian/videos/649323636323685
with Lee Camp
(39:10)
+
Ukraine War Driving Rampant Censorship At Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liofcQjoRk4
with Jimmy Dore
(16:25)
+
From Crisis to Catastrophe? What is to be Done
in Eastern Europe.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/crisis-catastrophe-what-be-done-eastern-europe
by Dr. Gerald Horne
+
So, Are
Putin and the Russians as Good as These Guys? You Decide
https://www.globalresearch.ca/so-are-putin-russians-as-good-as-these-guys-you-decide/5773037
by L. Reichard White
+
Russia Warns Washington
Is Sending ISIS Fighters to Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-warns-washington-sending-isis-fighters-ukraine/5773045
by The Cradle
==========
e.
Tears for
Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Arms for Saudis: The West’s
Grotesque Double Standard
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tears-ukraine-russia-yawns-yemen-saudia-arabia-double-standard/279837/
by Ahmed Abdulkareem
+
As US
Renews Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Civilian Death Toll Nearly Doubles
by Ahmed Abdulkareem
+
Iran Nuclear
Deal: Forestalling Spillover of Ukraine War in Gulf
https://www.globalresearch.ca/iran-nuclear-deal-forestalling-spillover-ukraine-war-gulf/5773008
by Nauman Sadiq
==========
f.
How
Propaganda Shapes the Past, Present and Future
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57023.htm
by Lawrence Davidson
+
War,
Censorship and Half-Truths
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-censorship-half-truths/5773005
by Farms Not Factories
+
Like
Father, Like Son: How the Trudeaus Manufacture Crises
to Justify “Emergency Measures”
by Matthew Ehret
==========
g.
Meet the
“Violet” Successors to the White Helmets’ Syria Propaganda Throne
by Vanessa Beeley
+
“Assange Affirms the Existence of Another
Kind of Human Nature”
by Chris Hedges
==========
h.
Manufacturing
Savagery: US Military Training in West Africa and
Beyond
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57027.htm
by Jean-Philippe Stone
+
France
Withdraws From Mali, But Continues to Devastate
Africa’s Sahel
http://www.blackagendareport.com/france-withdraws-mali-continues-devastate-africas-sahel
by Vijay Prashad
+
Ukraine:
Getting it Right: A Revolutionary Pan-African Perspective
http://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-getting-it-right-revolutionary-pan-african-perspective
by Gerald A. Perreira
+
Plan
Puma: When Argentina Ran Military Drills at the Behest of the US to Invade
Venezuela
https://www.mintpressnews.com/plan-puma-argentina-military-drills-usa-invade-venezuela/279826/
by Julian Cola
+
US
sanctions on Russia over Ukraine also target Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba
by Benjamin Norton
==========
i.
The War
on Humanity…
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57025.htm
by Eamon McKinney
+
The US
Military: Planet Earth's Greatest Enemy, with Abby Martin
https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-military-planet-earths-greatest-enemy-abby-martin/279768/
by Lowkey
+
Condoleezza
Rice Admits She’s A War Criminal During Ukraine
Interview
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvLPWjfjmjpGvhdMvsRPBCnWS?projector=1
with Jimmy Dore
(11:07)
+
If the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Is Subverting Democracy—Why Aren’t Some
of the Left Media Calling It Out?
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
==========
j.
Russia
began its military operation one day before the Ukraine army was to begin the
invasion and slaughter of the free Republics in the east...
https://rense.com/general96/russia-military-operation.php
by Eric A.
+
See (if
you can stand it) what those Nazi "punisher battalions" have been
doing to Ukrainians
by Mark Crispin Miller
+
Evidence
that Ukraine Has Been Run by Nazis Since February 2014
https://www.globalresearch.ca/evidence-ukraine-been-run-nazis-since-february-2014/5772997
by Eric Zuesse
&
Video (March 12, 2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWkfpGCAAuw
(10:36)
==========
k.
“Disgraceful”: Supreme Court sides with hiding
CIA torture
https://therealnews.com/disgraceful-supreme-court-sides-with-hiding-cia-torture
by Jessica Corbett
+
“American
Exceptionalism Is on Deadly Display in Ukraine”
with Oliver Stone
(audio,
43:28)
+
Calling
Russia’s Attack ‘Unprovoked’ Lets U.S. Off the Hook
https://scheerpost.com/2022/03/06/calling-russias-attack-unprovoked-lets-u-s-off-the-hook/
by Bryce Greene
+
Ukraine
Accused Of Using White Phosphorus-Filled Shells/Human
Shields & Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Military
with Ryan Cristián
(3:10:48)
+
“War
profiteers are fueling this crisis”
https://therealnews.com/chris-hedges-war-profiteers-are-fueling-this-crisis
with Marc Steiner and Chris
Hedges
(28:14)
While
debates about the war in Ukraine center on the motivations of Putin and NATO
powers, the merchants of death profiting from war are—literally—making a
killing.
+
Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57021.htm
by Isaac Chotiner
==========
l.
The
Ukraine Crisis: What You Need to Know
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need?s=r
by James Corbett
+
Russia
Recognizes Donbas
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BMFg1jTLWE9G/
with Russell Bentley
(1:30:43)
+
Putin's
rhetoric has heightened fears about potential nuclear war as anti-war activists
opposed calls for a no-fly zone.
by Jessica Corbett
==========
m.
Oil and
Gas Giants Under Fire for Fueling Russian War on
Ukraine
by Jessica Corbett
+
About Those 600,000 Barrels...
https://www.globalresearch.ca/about-those-600000-barrels/5773032
by Eric Peters
+
Sleeping
With The Third Reich: America’s Unspoken “Alliance” with Nazi Germany against
the Soviet Union
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Nazi
Germany largely depended on oil shipments from US Standard Oil.
+
MSNBC
Needs a History Lesson: Imperial America is “Greatest Purveyor of Coups” on
Earth
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/02/26/msnbc-needs-a-history-lesson/
by Ed Rampell
+
History
of World War II: Overview of the Nazi-Soviet War in Early 1942, Eighty Years
Ago
https://www.globalresearch.ca/overview-nazi-soviet-war-early-1942-eight-decades-ago/5767859
by Shane Quinn
+
How to
stop World War III
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-stop-world-war-iii/34936
with Ali Abunimah
(1:24:34)
==========
n.
Russia-Ukraine
war: The real prize is cutting Germany off from China's Eurasia plan
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57028.htm
by Marco Carnelos
+
10
Questions about Russia, Ukraine and “World War
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57019.htm
by Mickey Z.
+
“Ukraine:
Prelude to a War Crime”
with Chris Hedges
(31:51)
+
Western
Hypocrisy Over The Ukraine-Russia War
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/western-hypocrisy-over-ukraine-russia-war/
by Robert Inlakesh
+
Ukraine
and the New Al Qaeda
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ukraine-new-al-qaeda/
by Whitney Webb
+
How The CIA Built The "New Al-Qaeda" In Ukraine, The
White Supremacy Trap & The Vaccine Time Bomb
with Ryan Cristián
(4:29:45)
==========
o.
The
Orchestrated Ukraine Deception, The Broken Overton
Window & Western Extremism Removes Its Mask
with Ryan Cristián
(3:10:04)
+
Navigating
our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on
the Four Lessons from Ukraine
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57030.htm
by Ilan Pappé
+
“Russia,
Ukraine and the Chronicle of a War Foretold”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-ukraine-soviet-union-russia-war/279793/
by Chris Hedges
+
From the Euromaidan Revolution to Russian invasion: How Ukraine was
ripped apart
by Maximillian Alvarez
(47:45)
+
The War is Actually Begun! on
Declare Your Independence
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1704-the-war-is-actually-begun-on-declare-your-independence/
with James Corbett and Ernest Hancock
(1:06:24)
==========
p.
|
Who are the aggressors in Ukraine?
by Mark Crispin Miller Putin
makes his case before a group of Russian airline personnel; and a NATO
laptop, left behind (allegedly) at a Ukrainian military base, shows plans for
an offensive to seize Donbas and Crimea Mar 8 With the Western propaganda chorus still shrieking of atrocities by Russia (all of them exposed, so far, as fakes), and reckless fools like Lindsey Graham calling on the Russian people to assassinate their president (imagine what would happen if a Russian politician called for Biden’s murder), it matters more than ever that we do all in our power to share the information people in this country need to know—information that may serve as a life-saving antidote to the dangerously false and hateful trash cascading from the media throughout the world. To that end, I’m sharing Putin’s off-the-cuff remarks to a group of Russian airline personnel, explaining why he felt he had no choice but to invade Ukraine. His outline of the US provocations is instructive. (If there should be a cogent refutation of his comments, I will share that, too.) And I am also sharing news of a NATO laptop, left behind, according to the Russians, in an abandoned Ukrainian military base, containing plans for an offensive to capture Donbas and Crimea. (If that news should turn out to be a propaganda fiction, I will post a correction.) The NATO laptop story, reported on Telegram by Qtime Network: https://t.me/QtimeNetwork/4848 Putin’s remarks to
Russian airline personnel (press “CC” for subtitles): |
+
Wolff Responds: Ukraine, Sanctions, and Rising
Inflation
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBvPwHzMdCVSGLlfghMgfnfn?projector=1
with Richard Wolff
(12:11)
+
Ukraine Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military & Government
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLthdnWXhmbVKgWfpDRRfQwbqdcLHjq
with Jimmy Dore
(25:48)
==========
q.
|
FLASHBACK:
NATO and Anti-NATO: Two
Sides of the Same Coin? (2017) https://www.corbettreport.com/nato-and-anti-nato-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/ with
James Corbett (8:31) & https://www.corbettreport.com/march-open-thread-2022/ + Russia’s
Invasion of Ukraine: Outing the Iraq War White Washers https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57020.htm by Binoy
Kampmark + How
Russia Intends to “Counterpunch” US/EU Economic Sanctions. “De-dollarization”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-russia-counterpunch-us-eu-declaration-war/5772992 by Pepe
Escobar + The Man
Who Sold Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-man-who-sold-ukraine/5772975 by Mike Whitney + Ukraine,
Palestine and the propaganda of war https://electronicintifada.net/content/ukraine-palestine-and-propaganda-war/34921 by Ali Abunimah + Pro-War
Media Caught Pushing Fake Ukraine Stories https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvLNPcwrFQSnGMdmtdHWqkRpn?projector=1 with Jimmy Dore (18:31) ========== r. News from
Underground by Mark Crispin Miller –March 8, 2022 “Here's
some of what you may not know about Ukraine—about the US coup eight years
ago, what's happened since, and what is happening right now” by Mark Crispin Miller First, I strongly recommend, to
those who haven’t seen them, Oliver Stone’s two documentaries, Ukraine
on Fire (2015) and Revealing
Ukraine (2019). (Click on
above link for access to these videos.) “What You’re Not Being Told” about
Ukraine: a video on the US coup in 2014, including parts of the hacked phone
conversation between Victoria Nuland, of the State
Department, and Geoffrey Pyatt, US ambassador to
Ukraine: The entire phone conversation
between Nuland and Pyatt: After the recording of that phone
call went up online, the Obama administration sought (with much success) to
obfuscate the issue—i.e., that the US State Department had been caught
planning the make-up of another country’s government—by making a Big Deal
over the hack of a private phone call. The New York Times et al. obligingly made that the issue, speculating, to
nobody’s surprise, that Russia was behind the hack. Here’s Jen Psaki,
who at the time was lying for the State Department, in a diverting
back-and-forth with several journalists who weren’t inclined to buy her line
that the hack—“a new low for Russian tradecraft,” she called it—was the real
issue, as opposed to US officials “midwifing the
process” of selecting Ukraine’s government: Moving on to the horrendous
consequences of the US coup, here’s a video about the children killed by the
“punisher battalions” in East Ukraine: A Ukrainian’s view of the
difference between cities now under Russian control and those held by the
Ukrainian forces: con’d . . .
(see above link)
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Pro-War
Media Caught Pushing Fake Ukraine Stories
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvLNPcwrFQSnGMdmtdHWqkRpn?projector=1
with Jimmy Dore
(18 :31)
+
What
the Media Is HIDING About Ukraine/Russia
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvLNPvcMrSJftHDsGtjzWRzTr?projector=1
with Jimmy Dore
(27:18)
+
Glenn
Greenwald exposes Big Tech on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvLNPvdTxPQBxgkLDkHmWFljs?projector=1
with Glenn Greenwald
(4:08)
+
Condoleezza
Rice Admits She’s A War Criminal During Ukraine
Interview
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvLPWjfjmjpGvhdMvsRPBCnWS?projector=1
with Jimmy Dore
(11:07)
+
Russia
Launches Massive Military Operation
A
private home outside Kyiv was destroyed in Russian shelling
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-launches-massive-invasion-of-ukraine-as-it-happened/a-60893588
by Democracy at Work
Ukrainian forces battled Russian troops on multiple
fronts, including the outskirts of Kyiv. US President Joe Biden said Russia's
Vladimir Putin "is the aggressor" and would bear the consequences.
==========
t.
The
Ukraine catastrophe and how we got here: Chronicle of a war foretold
https://www.salon.com/2022/02/26/the-ukraine-and-how-we-got-here-chronicle-of-a-foretold/
by Chris Hedges
==========
u.
“The Great Delusion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZVIaXFN2lU
(January 30, 2020)
by John J Mearsheimer
(1:25:58)
+
This
year's sudden war is a distraction from the bigger war they've planned, for
years, to wage against us all
by Mark Crispin Miller
+
Ukraine:
Prelude to a War Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA5ANV0rDZc
with Chris Hedges
(31:50)
+
Trucker Convoy Heading To DC. Nation's Capital Returning To POLICE STATE?"
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGmvBvQGlCsLlGhXGBwkFtslMhT?projector=1
by The Hill
(13:14)
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v.
"Ukraine
Neo-Nazis Infiltrate EVERY LEVEL Of Military &
Government"
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/these-are-real-nazis-how-the-breakaway
with Jimmy Dore
(25:48)
+
"These
are real Nazis": How the breakaway republics see what's happening in
Ukraine
https://markcrispinmiller.substack.com/p/these-are-real-nazis-how-the-breakaway
by Mark CrispinMiller
(44:28)
Two observers (one
American, one German) know the crucial history that "our free press"
continues to black out, and that We the People therefore
haven't heard of
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1.Trouble in Paradise: Melinda Gates slams Bill for palling
around with the "abhorrent" Jeffrey Epstein by Mark Crispin Miller (03
Mar 2022 19:02 EST)
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Melinda Gates Slams Ex-Husband for Friendship With “Abhorrent” Jeffrey Epstein"He
was evil personified. I had nightmares about it afterwards."
https://futurism.com/melinda-gates-abhorrent-epstein
Image by Getty Images/Futurism
Jeffrey Epstein’s legacy has extended far beyond his
mysterious jailhouse death in 2019 — and all the way to the breakup of Bill
Gates’ marriage.
In a new interview with CBS‘ Gayle King,
Melinda French Gates opened up about her highly-publicized divorce from the
Microsoft billionaire last spring, which she said was painful for many reasons
— up to and including his friendship with the convicted sex criminal.
“It was many things,” French Gates said of the factors
leading to the split. “But I did not like that he’d had meetings with Jeffrey
Epstein.”
French Gates told CBS that she met with Epstein
“exactly one time, because I wanted to see who this man was.”
2.The head of the Azov Battalion sets the record straight by Mark Crispin Miller (03
Mar 2022 20:27 EST)
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https://mobile.twitter.com/unfitstatesman/status/1499400990864273427?s=28
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3.EU goes Soviet on RT, Sputnik by Mark Crispin Miller (03
Mar 2022 20:32 EST)
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From
Robin Monotti, Mike Yeadon and Cory Morningstar on
Telegram:
The truth does not need censorship, because it provides arguments
After the content of the Russian-based channels RT and Sputnik was banned in
Europe, even more so completely undemocratically bypassing the EU Parliament,
various platforms have deleted the channels of the outlets.
We do not take a judgmental position on the content and opinions represented in
the RT and Sputnik media, but we categorically reject censorship. This has no
place in a free and democratic society, which is increasingly slipping away
from us anyway.
We are particularly dismayed that ➥ GETTR also
immediately censored RT's channels, since we had briefly and mistakenly seen in
GETTR a forward-looking, censorship-free alternative to Twitter and streaming
service providers.
Such laws require resistance.
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4.A message from the USA Freedom Convoy by Mark Crispin
Miller (03 Mar 2022 20:45 EST)
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Secure Email.
5.Toddler's death disappears from VAERS, and CDC has no
records telling why by Mark Crispin Miller (04
Mar 2022 14:16 EST)
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6.Russians should not assassinate Putin, says Boris Johnson by Mark Crispin
Miller (04 Mar 2022 14:28 EST)
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Johnson certainly did not mean to encourage any
Russians
to kill Putin,
since that's the kind of thing that Russian leaders do.
Russians should not assassinate Vladimir Putin, says Boris
Johnson
Russians should not assassinate Vladimir Putin, says Boris
Johnson
7."In the fight of her life" (and it's a fight
concerning all of us), Dr. Meryl Nass needs all our
help! by Mark Crispin Miller (04
Mar 2022 17:15 EST)
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From Kristina Borjesson:
Hi Mark, I'm sure you know that Dr. Meryl Nass is in the fight of her life, her medical license
having been suspended by the state of Maine because of the
"misinformation" or accurate research she's been doing to expose the
criminal aspects related to covid and the vaccines.
She's being represented by Bobby's Children's Health Defense Fund lawyers and
her fight could create a "tip of the spear" situation that finally
puts down the criminalization of putting out the truth on pressing public
matters like covid, the vaccines and other issues, so
please urge people to donate to the Defense Fund specifically for her case.
I just interviewed her about her situation so please
distribute it widely with a support request. The link and blurb describing the
show contents are below:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/t6TYVYmivlTV/
DR. NASS’S ORWELLIAN NIGHTMARE: LICENSE SUSPENDED FOR COVID
“MISINFORMATION"
Maine physician Dr. Meryl Nass, who
has been successfully treating covid patients with hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin
and who exposed massive corruption in the suppression of chloroquine
drugs for treating covid, talks about finding herself
in the Orwellian position of having her medical license suspended by the
Maine’s Board of Licensure in Medicine for “public dissemination of
misinformation” regarding the covid pandemic and covid vaccines and being ordered to undergo a psychological
examination to ensure she is fit to continue treating patients.
Any help you can give would be deeply appreciated.
Warmest,
K
8.James Corbett on the fake war news (from both sides), and
the existential hazards of the zero-carbon fantasy by Mark Crispin Miller (04
Mar 2022 18:40 EST)
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https://www.bitchute.com/video/jrQ10Yj3nOFv/
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1.The
"vaccinated" hate/despise those who've refused the jab, but the
obverse is not the case, new study finds - Mark Crispin Miller (06
Mar 2022 18:58 EST) |
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2.Letter to the UK
government - Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022 13:34 EST)
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3.Watch the skies: Fatal
plane and helicopter crashes spiking - Mark Crispin Miller (07
Mar 2022 13:38 EST) |
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4.Zelensky's rise from
comedian to president is not so funny - Mark Crispin Miller (07
Mar 2022 13:45 EST) |
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5.The past is prologue: How
eugenics led to genocide, World War II and the "Spanish flu" (Vera Sharav) - Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar
2022 13:50 EST) |
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6.National Endowment for
"Democracy" deletes records of funding projects in Ukraine, to
shield the propaganda narrative of Putin's "unprovoked" aggression - Mark
Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022 16:30 EST) |
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7.The Fabian Society,
eugenics, and what's happening now - Mark Crispin Miller (07
Mar 2022 16:35 EST) |
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8.Why
isn't Ukraine laughing? - Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022
18:27 EST) |
1.The "vaccinated" hate/despise those who've refused
the jab, but the obverse is not the case, new study finds by Mark Crispin Miller (06 Mar 2022
18:58 EST)
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- Vaccinated
people despise those who refuse to get the jab - but the opposite is not
true, study revealsResearchers from Aarhus
University questioned 10,000 people in 21 countriesParticipants
were asked to comment on fictional profiles of various
people Vaccinated people said they viewed anti-vaxers
were less intelligent
By DARREN BOYLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 21:07 EST, 21 February
2022 | UPDATED: 02:00 EST, 22 February 2022
2.Letter to the UK government by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022
13:34 EST)
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- Letter to the UK GovernmentOn the Proposed Replacement of the Human Rights Act
1998 with a Modern Bill of Rights
Mar 7
The UK is attempting to
rewrite its human rights laws to shift emphasis away from individual rights to
the “wider society”—a.k.a. the “greater good” beloved by dictators throughout history.Here is the document outlining the proposed
revisions:
Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill of Rights – Consultation
(PDF)
The Naked Emperor first
brought these revisions to my attention in this post. Kit Knightly also dug into the sinister
overtones in this article.They are accepting responses through tomorrow,
March 8 (London time, presumably). Please consider emailing your response to HRAReform@justice.gov.uk and
including a link to this article if desired.On a
related note, the UK has drafted an Online Safety Bill that strengthens its thoughtcrime laws.
The online petition needs 100,000 signatures before Parliament
will consider it for debate, and it’s currently just over 33,000. Please sign
and share this petition widely so we can get it to 100,000.I know a lot of you
may be tiring of these political letters, which have been dictated by the
demands of public comment deadlines. Not to worry, I have other fresh content
in the works, including an upcoming Profiles in
Courage as well as a new Behind-the-Scenes newsletter only available via email
to subscribers. See details after the article below.
“This is the story of a duel. It is a duel between two very unequal
adversaries: an exceedingly powerful, formidable, and ruthless state and an
insignificant, unknown private individual. The duel does not take place in what
is commonly known as the sphere of politics; the individual is by no means a
politician, still less a conspirator or an enemy of the state. Throughout, he
finds himself very much on the defensive. He only wishes to preserve what he
considers his integrity, his private life, and his personal honor. These are
under constant attack by the government of the country he lives in, and by the
most brutal, but often also clumsy, means.”
—Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler
(paperback, Kindle, audiobook)
I am writing to express grave concerns regarding the Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill of Rights – Consultation,
which recommends extensive revisions to the Human Rights Act 1998.
I often contemplate how people who consider themselves
virtuous can blithely commit acts, make decisions, and enact policies that
infringe the rights; curtail the liberties; and inflict anguish and even death
on incalculable individuals.
I’m not talking about the tyrants—who are nearly all psychopaths—but about the
ordinary colluders, without whose cooperation the tyrants could not
execute their tyranny.
Is it bribery? Blackmail? Threats? Hypnosis? Ideological capture? Social and political
pressures? Lust for power? Envy? Fear? Pride? Likely miscellaneous mashups of the above depending on the participant—served
with a philanthropic side of self-delusion.
Since you’ve made the effort to read this far, I’ll be
charitable and assume it’s just self-delusion in your
case. You probably believe these policy reforms are for the best. Unless you’re
a blackguard, that’s the only way you could cope with the moral ramifications
of green-lighting legal transubstantiations that unfurl the crimson carpet for
totalitarianism.
So, before you read further, I have a simple request. Try to
actively resist the temptation to rationalize, to justify, to
abstract away the concrete consequences of your decisions. Resolve to
cease lying to yourself, as Dostoyevsky’s Father Zossima
admonishes:
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to
himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.”
―The Brothers Karamazov (paperback, Kindle, audiobook)
Take a deep, belly-filling breath. Stand up and wiggle your
whole body, from your toes to your knees to your elbows to your nose. Feel the
physicality of your body and notice your sensations. Don’t be afraid to feel
silly. Laugh at yourself. Shake out all the lies. Blow raspberries if you like.
Then let all the truths you’ve been hiding from your
conscience rise to your consciousness. At this point, you may need a cathartic
cry. That’s okay. It means you’re human and thus better-equipped to make
decisions about human rights policies than a sociopathic bureaucrat.
Doesn’t that feel better? Don’t you feel lighter, more open,
more welcoming of ideas that stretch your thinking?
With that frame of mind, let’s examine some of those proposed reforms, starting with:
“[O]ur system must strike the
proper balance of rights and responsibilities, individual liberty and the
public interest, rigorous judicial interpretation, and respect for the
authority of elected law-makers.”
These sound like the gilded words all authoritarian regimes
deploy to persuade people to accept degradations of their individual liberties
and rights in the name of the notorious “greater good.”
Reading that statement as beneficent requires a cultivated
amnesia about the totalitarianism that bloodied the bleakest decades of the
last century.
In his May 1983 essay Totalitarianism & the Lie, Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski
writes:
“In both forms of totalitarian socialism—nationalist and
internationalist—social control of production for the common good was stressed
as essential.”
He continues:
“The destructive action of totalitarian machinery is usually
supported by a special kind of primitive social philosophy. It proclaims not
only that the common good of ‘society’ has priority over the interest of
individuals, but that the very existence of individuals, as persons, is
reducible to the existence of the social ‘whole’; in other words, personal
existence is, in a strange sense, unreal. This is a convenient foundation for
any ideology of slavery.”
See if you recognize that foundation for the ideology of
slavery in these items from the Executive Summary (emphasis mine):
[#3] “We will overhaul the Human Rights Act passed by the
then Labour government in 1998 and restore common
sense to the application of human rights in the UK.… we will reverse the
mission creep that has meant human rights law being used for more and more
purposes, and often with little regard for the rights of wider society.”
[#4] “Our reforms will be a check on the expansion and
inflation of rights without democratic oversight and consent, and will provide
greater legal certainty.”
[#6] “The Bill of Rights will make sure a proper balance is
struck between individuals’ rights, personal responsibility, and the wider
public interest.”
[#9] “provide greater clarity
regarding the interpretation of certain rights, such as the right to respect
for private and family life, by guiding the UK courts in interpreting the
rights and balancing them with the interests of our society as a whole”
[#9] “recognise
that responsibilities exist alongside rights, and that these should be
reflected in the approach to balancing qualified rights and the remedies
available for human rights claims”
These statements unapologetically articulate the authors’
intention to roll back individual human rights for the sake of “wider society,”
a sentiment repeatedly echoed throughout the document.
You know who else championed putting “the common good before
the individual good”? Hitler. And Stalin. And Mussolini. And Mao. And Ceauşescu. And Castro. And his son Trudeau. And every dictator ever—including present-day
masochist-fascist Rodrigo Duterte, who stated:
“Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the
common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished—these are
among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we
commence our journey towards a better Philippines.”
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3.Watch the skies: Fatal plane and helicopter crashes spiking by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022 13:38 EST)
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- What’s going on? Unusual number of private plane, helicopter crashes kill nearly two dozen in two weeks
https://vaccineholocaust.org/2022-03-03-plane-helicopter-crashes-kill-dozen-two-weeks.html#
A blog that tracks COVID-19-related “Great Reset” incidents has reported that at least 20 people have been killed over a two-week period in February due to private plane and helicopter crashes.“The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) reported 122 helicopter accidents, with 51 fatalities, in 2019. There were 92 accidents and 35 fatalities in the first year of COVID dystopia (2020) when aircraft were grounded for months. In fact, there was a 107-day period in 2020 with no fatal helicopter accidents, which is unusual compared to other years,” The COVID Blog reported. “Further, small, private aircraft crash relatively-frequently, even before the COVID-19/vaccine era. But the difference since 2021 – more people are dying in said crashes.”
Click on the link for the rest.
4.Zelensky's rise from comedian to president is not so funny by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022 13:45 EST)
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- The Rise of Zelensky from Comedian to President of Ukraine – Buckle Up
BY RHODA WILSON ON MARCH 4, 2022
How did Volodymyr Zelensky rise from a comedian acting as President in a TV show to becoming the President of Ukraine? Who is behind his rise? These are legitimate questions particularly when Zelensky became a household name in the US for the key role he played in the first impeachment of President Trump, which was also attached to the Trump-Russia hoax and the discredited Steele Dossier.
Aristophanes Tragedy, a self-declared former heavily armed parking lot attendant, did a little digging on this rise of Volodymyr Zelensky and wrote his findings in a twitter thread.https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/04/rise-of-zelensky-from-comedian-to-president/
How did Volodymyr Zelensky rise from a comedian acting as President in a TV show to becoming the President of Ukraine? Who is behind his rise? These are legitimate questions particularly when Zelensky became a household name in the US for the key role he played in the first impeachment of President Trump, which was also attached to the Trump-Russia hoax and the discredited Steele Dossier.
Aristophanes Tragedy, a self-declared former heavily armed parking lot attendant, did a little digging on this rise of Volodymyr Zelensky and wrote his findings in a twitter thread.
This article is, in part, based on this thread. To preserve it in the event it is removed from twitter we have attached a copy of it below.
5.The past is prologue: How eugenics led to genocide, World War II and the "Spanish flu" (Vera Sharav) by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022 13:50 EST)
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- Vera Sharav: How Eugenics Leads to Genocide, WWII and The Spanish FluBY RHODA WILSON ON MARCH 7, 2022 • ( 2 COMMENTS )
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/07/vera-sharav-how-eugenics-leads-to-genocide/On Day 6 of the Grand Jury Proceeding by the Peoples’ Court of Public Opinion, Vera Sharav testified as to the similarities between the Nazi Germany era regime and the Covid era regime. “I want address the pivotal role that eugenics – as a hierarchical, authoritarian ideology – is and it leads to genocide. That’s its endgame,” she said.
She also testified as to what really caused the Spanish flu pandemic. Dr. Eleanor McBean wrote, only those who were vaccinated perished. Sound familiar? Sharav asked and then explained, “when the war ended, the Rockefeller Institute sent the deadly meningitis concoction [vaccine] for use in civilians in England, France, Belgium, Italy and other Western European countries. Thereby spreading the epidemic worldwide.”
Vera Sharav is a public advocate for human rights is the founder and president of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP). As a Holocaust survivor she has previous first-hand experience of totalitarian regimes.
During her testimony given on Day 6 of the Grand Jury Proceedings her statement included::
“As we know, honesty is nowhere to be found within the corporate dominated government and public health agencies. So, for two years, we’ve all been subjected to the psychological weapons that the Nazis use to maintain a state of anxiety.
“The horrific scenes of police in black uniforms brutally attacking demonstrators in European cities, in Ottawa, in Australia, and in Israel. These scenes are absolute painful reminders of the Holocaust. The objective under the Nazis, and now, is actually exactly the same. It is to gain control over people’s lives by conditioning them to obey government directives no matter what.
“Eugenics was crafted and appeals to the elite segments of society. But it also appeals to the corporate oligarchs and selected government officials, and that’s more important.
“The British eugenicists provided the theoretical foundation which has then been used to justify social and economic inequality, to legitimise discrimination and apartheid, as well as violence against dissenters. But it was the American robber barons who provided the financial, the practical, means that set in motion public policies and population control legislation.
“In 1915, a joint eugenics venture was brokered by John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, and Mrs. E. H. Harriman, mother of the future statesman Avril Harriman.
“They funded a massive lobbying campaign for the enactment of laws to sterilise those whom they deemed unfit. Sterilisation laws were first enacted in 28 States. In the United States, their objective was to sterilise 10% of the American population. That was 15 million Americans. This was to be accomplished under the guise of improving public health and the human race.
“US sterilisation laws served as, you know, the model for the Nazi racial hygiene laws.”
6.National Endowment for "Democracy" deletes records of funding projects in Ukraine, to shield the propaganda narrative of Putin's "unprovoked" aggression by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022 16:30 EST)
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- National Endowment for Democracy Deletes Records of Funding Projects in Ukraine
By Jeremy Kuzmarov
-
March 7, 2022
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/03/07/national-endowment-for-democracy-deletes-records-of-funding-projects-in-ukraine/
[Source: ned.org]Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—a CIA offshoot founded in the early 1980s to advance “democracy promotion” initiatives around the world—has deleted all records of funding projects in Ukraine from their searchable “Awarded Grants Search” database.
The archived webpage captured February 25, 2022 from 14:53 shows that NED granted $22,394,281 in the form of 334 awards to Ukraine between 2014 to the present. The capture at 23:10 the same day shows “No results found” for Ukraine. As of right now, there are still “No results found” for Ukraine.
Searching using “Ukraine” as a keyword (as opposed to a “Project Country” in the original captures) yields “No results found.” Searching for the titles of the funded projects listed in the last “intact” web capture yields no results.
Additionally, the current database search criteria have been restricted, previously funding from 2014 to present could be searched, currently only 2017 to present is searchable per the drop-down menus. There are multiple news reports before February 25 corroborating this $22,394,281 amount.
7.The Fabian Society, eugenics, and what's happening now by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022 16:35 EST)
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- Although I don't agree that China is at odds with the globalist project, I find this retrospective well worth sharing.
The Fabian Society, Eugenics and the Historic Forces Behind Today’s Systemic Breakdown
February 28, 2022 © Photo: Wikimedia Might
the current freedom movements force a shift in the elements of the political
class that have not lost their humanity to a commitment to assimilate
everything into a unipolar transhumanist priesthood? The
financial system is clearly careening towards a point of dissolution. It
isn’t an exaggeration to say that the collapse itself has already happened and
we simply have not yet felt the full brutal force of the shockwave accelerating
toward us. This process is comparable to a tectonic snap deep in the crust
under the ocean. The snap happens and a tsunami has begun. It will hit the
beach front with devastating consequences and only by breaking the habit of
living in the myopic “moment” might those on the beach have a chance to get to
safer ground before it is too late. The
question isn’t “will the system collapse”, but rather
when will the full tsunami hit? Additionally,
WHAT will be the operating system that is brought online to replace the chaos
of supply chain meltdowns, hyperinflation, scarcity and violence that will
ensue? Two
Systems Clash Already
we can clearly see two opposing patterns that have taken form, illustrated in
the remarks recently made by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
who said: “I
fear our world is creeping towards two different sets of economic, trade,
financial, and technology rules, two divergent approaches in the development of
artificial intelligence—and ultimately two different military and geo-political
strategies. This is a recipe for trouble. It would be far less predictable and
far more dangerous than the Cold War.” Guterres is speaking of two divergent paradigms, so what are
they? On
the one hand, there is the ideology that Guterres
himself devoutly supports which has taken on the title in recent years of “The Davos Agenda”, or “The Great Reset”. Guterres even went so far as to sign UN-WEF integration
treaty in June 2020 uniting both globalist bodies into one Borg-like operating
system, announcing: “The Great Reset is a welcome recognition that this human
tragedy must be a wake-up call. We must build more equal, inclusive and
sustainable economies and societies that are more resilient in the face of
pandemics, climate change and the many other global changes we face.” While
the Great Reset professes to use the current pandemic to push through a
complete overhaul of human society under a technocratic world government, the
opposing system driven by those nations not invited to the recent “Global
Democracy summit” and labelled “authoritarians” by
Soros and the Davos clique wish to avoid being
sacrificed. Where
one system is premised on a scientifically managed depopulation agenda from the
top, the other system asserts the right of sovereign nations to continue as the
only legitimate basis for international law and scientific progress to be the
basis of economic ideology. The terms of the new system were recently
re-emphasized throughout the 5000 word Russia-China Joint Statement on the terms of
the New Era now emerging. Putin
himself recently laid out these terms stating: “Only sovereign states can
effectively respond to the challenges of the times and the demands of the
citizens. Accordingly, any effective international order should take into
account the interests and capabilities of the state and proceed on that basis,
and not try to prove that they should not exist. Furthermore, it is impossible
to impose anything on anyone, be it the principles underlying the
sociopolitical structure or values that someone, for their own reasons, has
called “universal”. After all, it is clear that when a real crisis strikes, there
is only one universal value left and that is human life, which each state
decides for itself how best to protect based on its
abilities, culture and traditions.” What
a breath of fresh air! Compare
that to Klaus Schwab’s infamous “you’ll own nothing and be happy”. From
where did the dystopic world order of the Davos Crowd emerge? H.G.
Wells’ Open Conspiracy It
might surprise you, but to answer that question, we will need to jump back
nearly one century into the past and meet an ageing misanthropic social engineer
named Herbert George Wells who wrote a 1928 opus called The Open
Conspiracy: Blueprint for a World Revolution calling for world
government, and depopulation saying: “The
Open Conspiracy rests upon a disrespect for
nationality, and there is no reason why it should tolerate noxious or
obstructive governments because they hold their own in this or that patch of
human territory.” Wells
was a member of an organization called The Fabian Society which itself was established in
1884 by a coterie of British eugenicists and Malthusians in order to promote a
new social order designed to mold society into a new mechanized order run by a
managerial elite of “social scientists” from above. The
choice of title “Fabian” was derived from the Roman general Fabius
Maximus who was renowned for his strategy of
defeating his enemies by superhuman patience and slow attrition. The Fabian
philosophy was displayed in an infamous stained-glass piece of art featuring
Fabian leaders George B. Shaw and Sidney Webb as blacksmiths hammering the
world into their own secular image and featuring a shield of the Fabian logo of
a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Unlike
the conventional “brute force” approach of conservative British imperialists
who often opted for scorched earth methods of destroying their victims, the
Fabians prided themselves on playing a more “peaceful”, subtle and deadly long
game. Rather than push big wars which often had the effect of risking heavy
losses on the oligarchy itself, the Fabians understood that it were better to
promote slow attrition and infiltration using Jesuitical techniques of
permeation. Historian Stephen O’Neil wrote of the Fabian Society’s guiding
principle of Permeation theory: “Despite
their traditional political image, the Fabians, under the impetus of Sidney
Webb, thought that they had a new and unique weapon in the policy of
permeation. It was through the utilization of this tactic, according to Webb,
that the Fabians, in the spirit of the Trojans and their legendary horse, would
enter the ranks and minds of the politically influential by providing them with
programs, ideas, opinion, and research heavily documented with statistics which
could be conveniently drafted into public policy”. (1) Throughout
the 20th century, the Fabian Society would penetrate all branches of
government, military, academia, media and even private corporate boards around
the world creating global systems of fifth columns operating within cells,
hierarchically unified by a central command within the highest echelons of
British Intelligence. From
below, plebs and laborers would be attracted by “words” promoted by Fabians
like equality, social justice, and re-distribution of wealth utilizing Marxist
terms while never realizing that those words were just a sweet illusion with no
claim to reality. Like
Jesuitical and Masonic orders, many Fabians would never have a clue what the
machine truly was that they were merely parts of. This
is why the British Labor Party (aka: The Fabian Party of Britain) was so often
occupied by well-intended members who never had a clue what the game was truly
about. The official Fabian School that became an ideological control hub and
recruiting grounds for next generation talent (paralleling the Rhodes/Milner Round Table’s Oxford University)
was the London School of Economics. In
fact, over the 20th century, these two oligarchical
operations often interfaced closely, with the Fabian Lord Mackinder working
with the Round Table’s Lord Milner to craft a strategy for North America in 1908 or the Canadian Fabian Society’s founding by five Rhodes Scholars in
1932. George
Bernard Shaw outlined the pro-eugenics Fabian philosophy clearly in 1934 when
he said; “The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion
that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it … If
people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they
are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that
some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the
hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other
cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of
full social responsibility in modern populations?”(2) One
can hear this cold-hearted figure describing his views in his own words in the
following short video: Click on the link for the rest.
8.Why isn't Ukraine laughing? by Mark Crispin Miller (07 Mar 2022 18:27 EST)
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- From Gonzalo Lira's Telegram channel:
Reposted by Gonzalo Lira
Reminds me of the documentary The
Five Horsemen, which begins with an analysis of signs that are indicative of a
civilization about to fall.
Four
Horsemen - Feature Documentary - Official Version - YouTube
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Palestine in Pictures:
February 2022
https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-pictures-february-2022/34941
by The Electronic
Intifada
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Why should Palestine be taboo
for a UK art gallery?
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-should-palestine-be-taboo-uk-art-gallery/34951
by Kit Klarenberg
+
To Maintain Jewish Demographic
Control, Israel Cloaks Family Unification Law in Security Concerns
by Jessica Buxbaum
+
International silence fuels
Israeli persecution
by Maureen Clare Murphy
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How Ukraine’s Jewish President
Made Peace With Neo-Nazi Paramilitaries
by Alexander
Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal
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Consortium News – Volume 27, Number
66 — Monday, March 7, 2022
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Jimmy Dore: The Establishment
Are Sh**ting Their Pants"
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/QgrcJHsTfRLjDDZsDbjspHrgQKFkcHlzdLQ?projector=1
with Jimmy Dore
(8:00)
+
Ukraine: Black Agenda Report
Special Issue
http://www.blackagendareport.com/ukraine-black-agenda-report-special-issue
by
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UKRAINE REPORT Archives
https://www.globalresearch.ca/indepthreport/ukraine-report
by
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Tucker Carlson: The Elite Pedigree
of a Brilliant Cosplaying “Populist”
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson-biography-nicaragua-cia/279782/
by Alan
Macleod
Tucker
Carlson has made a fortune pretending to be a populist everyman, but his
incredibly sketchy past includes ties to neocons, the
CIA, and multiple trips to Nicaragua as a “freedom-fighter” with the Contras.
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Open Letter to the Canadian
Truckers
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Suggested alternative treatments
with foods and supplements for Covid and “Plandemic” Injections
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
Thu Dec 23, 2021 -
10:38 am EST
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- If you had COVID-19 or received a COVID-19
injection, you may have dangerous spike proteins circulating in your body
- Spike proteins can circulate in your body after
infection or injection, causing damage to cells, tissues and organs
- The World Council for Health has released a
spike protein detox guide, which provides
straightforward steps you can take to potentially lessen the effects of
toxic spike protein in your body
- Spike protein inhibitors and neutralizers
include pine needles, ivermectin, neem, N-acetylcysteine (NAC)
and glutathione
- The top 10 spike protein detox
essentials include vitamin D, vitamin C, nigella
seed, quercetin, zinc, curcumin,
milk thistle extract, NAC, ivermectin and magnesium