Palestine Cry: Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Palestine Cry: Cuban Missile Crisis - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum


What does this have to do with the Middle East? Just this, the colonial adventurism of East and West clashed here in a manner that only decades later were revealed how close it brought us to all out Nuclear War. Today that is Palestine and the rest of the region from Morocco to Pakistan, the whole of North Africa and the Levant and all the way to India.

Today, the rogue non-state of Israel corresponds to Cuba. The Palestinians correspond to the Cuban exiles. It is quite in the realm of pragmatic behind the scenes covert political maneuvering that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a trial run for the nuclear brinksmanship being used today to unlawfully commandeer the worlds' governments to submission to "Israel's" vile empire building agenda.

It was Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev who were the wild cards - since they had seen to it, without telling anyone, that the Cuban Nuclear Missile sites were not only armed but under field commanders' personal control with orders to launch if any United States forces personnel ever set foot on Cuban soil at that time. President Kennedy was the one who prevented the U.S. Military from doing exactly that. The missiles had the range with sufficient warhead strength to have destroyed New York City to Washington D.C. and down the coast including important U.S. Naval bases. The moment the Missile launches would have been seen on U.S. Radar a complete all out strike would have been launched on Russia totally destroying it. Russia had supplied the missiles. The counterstrike, when U.S. missiles were seen on Russian Radar, would have destroyed the United States... end game ...end.

The prearranged clash noted above had a number of results that were planned prior to its staging. 

First was the linking of the defense computers of the United States and Russia and China at the time it happened to "prevent it happening again."

Second was a channeling of the Colonial adventurism of both Russia and the United States in even more of an increase to the destruction of the nations and societies of South America and Africa, which had already been begun before that. 

Third, the Cold War dominated every part of International polity more than it ever had before. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the excuse for East and West, under color of the emerging movement to detente as time went on to engage in more and more covert nation toppling and sabotage and out and out terrorism by proxy.

Today it is "Israel" that is equal to Cuba then and Iran is equal to Turkey then (U.S. Missiles in Turkey were the excuse for the Russian missiles in Cuba), but it is still the United States versus Russia in the end result - and the whole set up is as duplicitous and false and fraught with lies laced throughout that make any understanding of the players, much less the goals, masked and impossible to see. 

It is absolutely certain that the Internet is not part of terrorism. The claim it is that, is only made to stop people from their right to express themselves about issues. 

See below for the morass upon which the current staged Crisis show is floating.

TRANSNATIONAL ABSOLUTE CRIMINAL CORRUPTION

The Justice of God: Transnational Absolute Criminal Corruption

The Black International is behind the Golden International and the Red International with all Satanism and pedophilia and Transnational Crime and all transnational organized crime.

The only way to combat this is to return to the faith taught by Our Lord Jesus Christ and practice it and pray in this faith and no other. See: Traditional Catholic Prayers

Claims About The Use Of The Social Network For Terrorist Purposes « Kawther Salam

Claims About The Use Of The Social Network For Terrorist Purposes « Kawther Salam

Claims About The Use Of The Social Network For Terrorist Purposes

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime claims that the world’s biggest online social network is increasingly being used by terrorists to recruit sympathizers spread propaganda and plan potential attacks, according. The office issued today Monday, October 22 2012, a report in 148-page about the “The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes.”

“Promotion of extremist rhetoric encouraging violent acts is also a common trend across the growing range of Internet- based platforms that host user-generated content,” the director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Mr. Yury Fedotov said in a press conference held at the Austrian Interior Ministry in Vienna about “The Use of the Internet for Terrorist Purposes”. He added that Twitter Inc. and Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Youtube were also identified as primary conduits.

The press conference was held besides the main session of “the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes” at the Austrian Ministry of Interior in Vienna.

The conference was attended by the Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov; Hungarian Interior Minister Sandor Pinter, Security Minister to British Home Office James Brokenshire and President of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Georg Maassen and many others.

The conference was organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The (UNODC) launched a publication to provide practical guidance to Member States for more effective investigation and prosecution of terrorist cases involving the use of the Internet. The publication, entitled “The use of the Internet for terrorist purposes”, is the first of its kind and was produced in collaboration with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force.

Terrorist groups and their supporters use the internet to recruit, finance, spread propaganda, train and incite followers to commit acts of terrorism, as well as to gather and disseminate information for terrorist purposes. The use of the Internet for terrorist purposes disregards national borders, amplifying the potential impact on victims.

Speaking at the launch, UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov said: “Potential terrorists use advanced communications technology often involving the Internet to reach a worldwide audience with relative anonymity and at a low cost. Just as Internet use among regular, lawful citizens has increased in the past few years, terrorist organizations also make extensive use of this indispensable global network for many different purposes.” Mr. Fedotov said that with the new tool, UNODC aimed to provide practical guidance for the investigation and prosecution of cases where the Internet is used for terrorism.

Through real examples of legal cases, the publication explores Member States’ legislation dealing with the terrorist use of the Internet and demonstrates the difficulties faced by Member States in criminalizing and prosecuting such acts. It further provides guidance on current legal frameworks and practice at the national and international levels relating to the criminalization, investigation and prosecution of terrorist cases involving the Internet.

The publication emphasizes the need for enhancement of cooperation between criminal justice systems and the private sector; as well as international cooperation particularly where the preservation and retention of Internet-related data takes place in several jurisdictions

Produced with financial support from Government of the United Kingdom, the publication is intended for use both as a stand-alone resource for criminal justice practitioners, and in support of the capacity-building initiatives of UNODC.

As a key United Nations entity for delivering counter-terrorism legal and related technical assistance, UNODC works to strengthen the capacity of national criminal justice systems to implement the provisions of the international legal instruments against terrorism. UNODC actively participates in the Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, ensuring that the UNODC counter-terrorism work is carried out in the broader context of, and coordinated with, United Nations system-wide efforts through the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy.

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Social Opposition in the Age of Internet: Desktop “Militants” and Public Intellectuals | Global Research

Social Opposition in the Age of Internet: Desktop “Militants” and Public Intellectuals | Global Research

Social Opposition in the Age of Internet: Desktop “Militants” and Public Intellectuals

By Prof. James Petras

Global Research, November 20, 2011

20 November 2011

Invited paper to be read at the “Symposium on Re-Publicness”

Sponsored by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers

Ankara Turkey , December 9 – 10, 2011

Social Opposition in the Age of Internet: Desktop Intellectuals and Public Intellectuals

James Petras

Introduction

The relation of information technology (IT) and more specifically the internet, to politics is a central issue facing contemporary social movements. Like many previous scientific advances the IT innovations have a dual purpose: on the one hand, it has accelerated the global flow of capital, especially financial capital and facilitated imperialist ‘globalization’. On the other hand the internet has served to provide alternative critical sources of analysis as well as easy communication to mobilize popular movements.

The IT industry has created a new class of billionaires, from Silicon Valley in California to Bangalore , India . They have played a central role in the expansion of economic colonialism via their monopoly control in diverse spheres of information flows and entertainment.

To paraphrase Marx “the internet has become the opium of the people”. Young and old, employed and unemployed alike spend hours passively gazing at spectacles, pornography, video games, online consumerism and even “news” in isolation from other citizens, fellow workers and employees.

In many cases the “overflow” of “news” on the internet has saturated the internet, absorbing time and energy and diverting the ‘watchers’ from reflection and action. Just as too little and biased news by the mass media distorts popular consciousness, too many internet messages can immobilize citizen action.

The internet, deliberately or not,has “privatized” political life. Many otherwise potential activists have come to believe that circulating manifestos to other individuals is a political act, forgetting that only public action, including confrontations with their adversaries in public spaces, in city centers and in the countryside, is the basis of political transformations.

IT and Financial Capital

Let us remember that the original impetus for the growth of “IT” came from the demands of big financial institutions, investment banks and speculative traders who sought to move billions of dollars and euros with the touch of a finger from one country to another, from one enterprise to another, from one commodity to another.

Internet technology was the motor force for the growth of globalization at the service of financial capital. In some ways IT played a major role in precipitating the two global financial crises of the past decade (2001-2002, 2008–2009). The bubble in IT stocks of 2001 was a result of the speculative promotion of overvalued “software firms” de-linked from the ‘real economy’. The global financial crash of 2008-2009 and its continuation today, was induced by the computerized packaging of financial swindles and underfunded real estate mortgages. The ‘virtues’ of the internet, its rapid relay of information in the context of speculator capitalism turned out to be a major contributing factor to the worse capitalist crises since the Great Depression of the 1930’s.

The Democratization of the Internet

The internet became accessible to the masses as a market for commercial enterprise and then spread to other social and political uses.Most importantly it became a means of informing the larger public of the exploitation and pillage of countries and people by multi-national banks. The internet exposed the lies which accompany US and EU imperialist wars in the Middle East and Sothern Asia.

The internet has become contested terrain, a new form of class struggle,engaging national liberation and pro-democracy movements. The major movements and leaders from the armed fighters in the mountains of Afghanistan to the pro-democracy activists in Egypt , to the student movements in Chile and including the poor peoples’ housing movement in Turkey , rely on the internet to inform the world of their struggles, programs, state repression and popular victories. The internet links peoples’ struggles across national boundaries – it is a key weapon in creating a new internationalism to counter capitalist globalization and imperial wars.

To paraphrase Lenin, we could argue that 21st century socialism can be summed up by the equation: “soviets plus internet = participatory socialism”.

The Internet and Class Politics

We should remember that computerized information techniques are not ‘neutral’ – their political impact depends on their users and overseers who determine who and what class interests they will serve. More generally the internet must be contextualized in terms of its insertion in public space.

Internet has served to mobilize thousands of workers in China and peasants in India against corporate exploiters and real estate developers. But computerized aerial warfare has become the NATO weapon of choice to bomb and destroy independent Libya.The US drones which send missiles that kill civilians in Pakistan , Yemen are directed by computer ‘intelligence’. The location of Colombian guerrillas and the deadly aerial bombings are computerized. In other words IT technology has dual uses: for popular liberation or imperial counter revolution.

Neoliberalism and Public Space

The discussion of “public space” has frequently assumed that “public” means greater state intervention on behalf of the welfare of the majority; greater regulation of capitalism and increased protection of the environment. In other words benign “public” actors are counter posed to exploitative private market forces.

In the context of the rise of neo-liberal ideology and policies, many progressive writers argue about the “decline of the public sphere”. This argument overlooks the fact that the “public sphere” has increased its role in society, economy and politics on behalf of capital, especially financial capital and foreign investors. The “public sphere”, specifically the state is much more intrusive in civil society as a repressive force, particularly as neo-liberal policies increase inequalities. Because of the intensification and deepening of the financial crises, the public sphere (the state) has undertaken a massive role in bailing out bankrupt banks.

Because of large scale fiscal deficits provoked by capitalist class tax evasion, colonial war spending and public subsidies to big business, the public sphere (state) imposes class based “austerity” program cutting social expenditures and prejudicing public employees, pensioners, and private wage and salaried employees.

The public sphere diminished its role in the productive sector of the economy. However, the military sector has grown with expansion of colonial and imperial wars.

The basic issue underlying any discussion of the public sphere and the social opposition is not its decline or growth but rather the class interests which define the role of the public sphere. Under neo-liberalism, the public sphere is directed by the use of public treasury to finance bank bailouts, militarism and expanded police state intervention. A public sphere directed by the “social opposition” (workers, farmers, professionals, employees) would enlarge the scope of public sphere activity with regard to health, education, pensions, environment and employment.

The concept of the “public sphere” has two opposing faces (Janus-like): one facing capital and the military; the other labor/social opposition. The role of the internet is also subject to this duality: on the one hand the internet facilitates large scale movements of capital and rapid imperial military interventions; on the other hand it provides rapid flow of information to mobilize the social opposition. The basic question is what kind of information is transmitted to what political actors and for what social interest?

The Internet and the Social Opposition: The Threat of State Repression

For the social opposition the internet is first and foremost a vital source of alternative critical information to educate and mobilize the “public” – especially among progressive opinion- leaders, professionals, trade unionists and peasant leaders, militants and activists. The internet is the alternative to the capitalist mass media and its propaganda, a source of news and information that relays manifestos and informs activists of sites for public action. Because of the internet’s progressive role as an instrument of the social opposition it is subject to surveillance by the repressive police-state apparatus. For example, in the USA over 800,000 functionaries are employed by the “Homeland Security” police agency to spy on billions of emails, faxes, telephone calls of millions of US citizens. How effective the policing of tons of information each day is another question. But the fact is that the internet is not a “free and secure source of information, debate and discussion. In fact as the internet becomes more effective in mobilizing the social movements in opposition to the imperial and colonial state, the greater is the likelihood of police-state intervention under the pretext “combating terrorism”.

The Internet and Contemporary Struggle: Is it Revolutionary?

It is important to recognize the importance of the internet in detonating certain social movements as well as relativizing its overall significance.

The internet has played a vital role in publicizing and mobilizing “spontaneous protests” like the ‘indignados’ (the indignant protestors) mostly unaffiliated unemployed youth in Spain and the protestors involved in the US “Occupy Wall Street”. In other instances, for example, the mass general strikes in Italy , Portugal , Greece and elsewhere the organized trade union confederations played a central role and the internet had a secondary impact.

In highly repressive countries like Egypt , Tunisia and China , the internet played a major role in publicizing public action and organizing mass protests. However, the internet has not led to any successful revolutions – it can inform, provide a forum for debate, and mobilize, but it cannot provide leadership and organization to sustain political action let alone a strategy for taking state power. The illusion that some internet gurus foster, that ‘computerized’ action replaces the need for a disciplined, political party, has been demonstrated to be false: the internet can facilitate movement but only an organized social opposition can provide the tactical and strategic direction which can sustain the movement against state repression and toward successful struggles.

In other words, the internet is not an “end in itself” – the self-congratulatory posture of internet ideologues in heralding a new “revolutionary” information age overlooks the fact that the NATO powers, Israel and their allies and clients now use the internet to plant viruses to disrupt economies, sabotage defense programs and promote ethno-religious uprisings. Israel sent damaging viruses to hinder Iran ’s peaceful nuclear program; the US , France and Turkey incited client social opposition in Libya and Syria . In a word, the internet has become the new terrain of class and anti-imperialist struggle. The internet is a means not an end in itself. The internet is part of a public sphere whose purpose and results are determined by the larger class structure in which it is embedded.

Concluding Remarks: “Desktop Militants” and Public Intellectuals
The social opposition is defined by public action: the presence of collectivities in political meetings, individuals speaking at public meetings, activists marching in public squares, militant trade unionists confronting employers, poor people demanding sites for housing and public services from public authorities…

To address an active assembled public meeting, to formulate ideas, programs and propose programs and strategies through political action defines the role of the public intellectual. To sit at a desk in an office, in splendid isolation, sending out five manifestos per minute defines a “desktop militant”. It is a form pseudo-militancy that isolates the word from the deed. Desktop “militancy” is an act of verbal inaction, of inconsequential “activism”, a make-believe revolution of the mind. The exchange of internet communications becomes a political act when it engages in public social movements that challenge power. By necessity that involves risks for the public intellectual: of police assaults in public spaces and economic reprisals in the private sphere. The desktop “activists” risk nothing and accomplish little. The public intellectual links the private discontents of individuals to the social activism of the collectivity. The academic critic comes to a site of action, speaks and returns to their academic office. The public intellectual speaks and sustains a long-term political educational commitment with the social opposition in the public sphere via the internet and in face to face daily encounters.