< Back LABOR AND UKRAINE | THE REPUBLIC FALLS TO FEED THE EMPIRE Midwestern Marx May 16, 2024 Tonight Midwestern Marx speaks first with institute chief labor analyst Kyle Pettis the Volkswagen UAW victory and the labor movement in the US, then discuss with Slava the Ukrainian Socialist the proxy war against Russia. Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back BREAKING NEWS AND ANALYSIS ON DAY 103 OF GAZA'S AL-AQSA FLOOD | The Electronic Intifada Podcast The Electronic Intifada Jan 18, 2024 GUESTS: Haidar Eid, scholar and activist; Ahmed Abofoul, legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq; Shahd Abusalama, educator and activist YOUR GIFT SUPPORTS THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA'S INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM ON PALESTINE: • Donate by credit card or PayPal via Network for Good: https://bit.ly/GivetoEI • Donate by credit card, ApplePay or US bank account via Kindful: https://bit.ly/EIKindful Gifts are welcome from anywhere and are tax-deductible for US taxpayers as allowed by law. (📸 Naaman Omar / APA images) 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐝𝐚 HERE'S A LINK TO THEIR 4 DECEMBER VIDEO DEBUNKING ISRAEL'S MASS RAPE PROPAGANDA. Find the Electronic Intifada on their website , as well as on: Twitter Instagram Soundcloud Spotify Apple Podcasts #TheElectronicIntifada #TheElectronicIntifadaPodcast Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back US Congress Approves Bill to Raise Debt Limit teleSUR/ JF Jun 7, 2023 Pedestriants walk past the National Debt Clock in New York, the United States, on June 1, 2023 | Photo: Xinhua The U.S. reached in January its debt limit of US$31.4 trillion, over 120 percent of its GDP. The Senate approved the bill by a 63-36 vote. After months of partisan arm-wrestling, the U.S. Congress approved the bill to raise America's debt ceiling after the Senate's passage late Thursday, the 103rd time since 1945, allowing the government to avert a debt default by borrowing more. The Senate approved the bill by a 63-36 vote. Previously okayed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 314 to 117, the act suspends the debt ceiling until January 2025. The debt ceiling is a cap on the total amount of money that the United States is authorized to borrow to fund the government and meet its financial obligations. The United States reached in January its debt limit of US$31.4 trillion, more than 120 percent of its annual GDP. For months, as the White House and Congress were locked in a tug-of-war over terms of lifting the debt ceiling, the Treasury Department has been using "extraordinary measures" to avoid default. The deal was a make-or-break bid to steer the U.S. government away from a perilous debt cliff, as U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that the country could run out of money to pay its bills on time if Congress failed to address the debt ceiling by June 5. With Congress's approval, the bill will be sent to U.S. President Joe Biden's desk for his signature before becoming law. As with previous debt-ceiling sagas, the passage of the deal represents a trade-off of partisan interests following a months-long game of chicken between Democrats and Republicans, with each side trying to use an imminent default as a bargaining chip for advancing their own political agenda. Both parties have been selling the deal as a victory for their own side, but not all are pleased with the result. "It is frankly an insult to the American people to support a piece of legislation that continues to put our country's financial future at risk," U.S. Representative Matt Rosendale, a Republican from the U.S. state of Montana, lamented in a statement. It's not just Americans who have been on tenterhooks watching the cyclical U.S. partisan game. Over half of the world's foreign currency reserves are held in dollars, which means "a U.S. default could wreak havoc on global financial markets," the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations said in a recent report. A decrease in the dollar's value triggered by default or the uncertainty surrounding it "could make debts denominated in other currencies relatively more expensive and threaten to tip some emerging economies into debt or political crises," added the think tank. "The U.S. as the world's biggest economy has taken the global economy hostage by politicizing and polarizing its internal political issues on global financial markets," said Joseph Matthews, a senior professor at the BELTEI International University in Phnom Penh. Despite periodic rises of the debt ceiling, the two parties show little interest in addressing the root cause of the trouble, including America's behemoth spending appetite. Military spending accounts for the lion's share of the country's debt portfolio. Since 2000, the United States has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the battlefields of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Ukraine. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, from fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2022, more than half of the country's extra debt came from war costs. The splurge on wars is not the only expenditure to break Uncle Sam's bank. According to Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, immoderate welfare and healthcare costs also contribute to the fiscal woes. But so far, neither of the parties has been willing to risk offending voters by cutting these gross excesses and nudging the country's budget system back onto a sustainable track. In its latest report, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office projected that U.S. debt held by the public will reach 193 percent of GDP in 2053 if current policies generally remain unchanged. And by 2028, interest payments of the U.S. government could exceed the country's entire defense budget. Without concrete measures to reform its fiscal system, the repeated adjustments of the debt ceiling have proven to be nothing but only a Sisyphean task. This time is no exception. Even though a deal is reached before the deadline, "such risks will keep reoccurring until comprehensive reforms are enacted," said Steven Wright, associate professor of International Relations at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar. "We should never have been put in this position to begin with. This is about paying the ransom to a bunch of hostage takers," Senator Elizabeth Warren said before casting her vote. "And that is not how we should run this government. It's not good for the people of this country and it's not good for the position of the United States all around the world." Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back Greed Wins Again: US Oligarchs Stay Comfortable Amid Banking Collapse The Revolution Report Mar 26, 2023 How long will the US continue to insist on its system of privatized gains and socialized losses? Since Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) went belly-up on March 10th, the economy-wide repercussions have yet to be felt. SVB was the 16th largest in the US. Some analysts have blamed the US Federal Reserve for raising interest rates, which depressed the value of already-existing US Treasury bonds. Like many banks, SVB invested in these bonds as an allegedly low-risk way to store and grow their assets. Read the full article here: https://the-revolution-report.com/articles/greed-wins-again-us-oligarchs-stay-comfortable-amid-banking-collapse/ Voiced by Paul Shepard Please support TheRevolutionReport on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRevolutionReport Check out TheRevolutionReport's Newsletter and political analyses there: https://www.the-revolution-report.com/ Follow TheRevolutionReport on Telegram! https://t.me/therevolutionreport We are also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therevolutionreport_/ https://www.instagram.com/donnunism Follow Donald and TheRevolutionReport on Twitter: @DonaldCourter #capitalism #banks #collapse Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back THE COMMUNIST PARTY USA: AN ABANDONMENT OF MARXISM-LENINISM, PART 2 Steven Schaefer Jul 3, 2024 Click here to read Part 1 of THE COMMUNIST PARTY USA: AN ABANDONMENT OF MARXISM-LENINISM Sam Webb: The Catalyst of Our Current Crisis Sam Webb is a little-known former leader of the CPUSA but has played a critical role in the development of the current liberal revisionist line we see today in the Sims-Cambron leadership clique. Originally joining the Communist Party in 1977, Webb served as the National Chairman of the Communist Party from 2000 until 2014 and remained on the National Committee of the party until 2016, at which point he resigned from the party to become a card-carrying Democrat. Webb arose as National Chairman following the death of longtime Communist leader Gus Hall and was notably the first Chairman to lead the party without having been influenced by the leadership of the Soviet Union. Webb’s reign prior to the 2008 US Presidential Election was relatively uneventful, marking a period of decline and disorientation in the party that didn’t allow the flexing of much political muscle. However, Webb’s rabid endorsement of Barack Obama's presidential campaign and his lack of criticism of the Obama administration is truly the origin of the modern idea that the Democratic Party and Communist Party are inseparably tied together. Following the election of former President Obama, while speaking at the 2008 National Committee meeting, Webb presented a long speech praising Obama, stating, “If the election of Barack Obama was a monumental victory, election night itself was a magical moment… To say that a sea change occurred on Nov. 4 is no exaggeration. A sense of joy, catharsis, and renewal is in the air. Expectations are high. A new era of progressive change is waiting to be set in motion. If the past eight years of the Bush administration seemed like a winter of discontent, Obama’s ascendancy to the presidency feels like a springtime of possibility…” At no point would Webb’s adoration of Obama cease, accompanied by his lack of criticism of his imperialist policies. This lack of nuance would result in Webb being openly criticized not only by numerous international Communist Parties but also by many local Communist Party clubs within the United States. The Sims-Cambron Leadership Clique Joe Sims and Rossana Cambron were jointly appointed as “co-chairs” of the Communist Party during the 31st National Convention of CPUSA in 2019. Neither has offered any significant theoretical or practical advancements to either the CPUSA or the international Communist movement. Cambron has done so little of significance in her political career, even compared to revisionist opportunists like Sims and Webb, that it remains a mystery to many party members how she even managed to be considered for the position of chairperson. Sims, on the other hand, has a long track record of attempting to distort and destroy the very foundational concept of Marxism-Leninism. Following the 2008 Presidential election, Sims wrote “Ten Worst and Best Ideas of Marxism” for the former CPUSA publication Political Affairs. In his “top ten worst ideas of Marxism,” he wrote: “Dictatorship of the proletariat: Probably the worst phrase uttered by a political theorist ever.” Chinese and Vietnamese Socialist Market Economies, “Defense of the Soviet Union in the Comintern,” and most audaciously “Marxism-Leninism: Way too subjective and besides too many bad stories and nightmares associated with it.” Today, these two sit at the helm of the Communist Party, the institution that is meant to be the representative of revolutionary working-class organizing within the United States. It has been made clear to the membership within the party that they do not represent that interest, and a growing internal revolution is beginning to brew with many factions beginning to turn on the early 2000s Old Guard who were able to seize power thanks to the disarray that was Communism in the late 1990s. Stay tuned for Part 3 of this series! Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back HOW A PEOPLE’S GOVERNMENT DEFEATED A WEST-BACKED TERRORIST INSURGENCY CPGB-ML Aug 28, 2024 The success achieved by removing the basis for radicalisation of poor workers shows the wisdom of China’s policy in Xinjiang. The average westerner would have had to be living under a rock for the last 15 years not to have been exposed to at least some of the avalanche of accusations that have been levelled against the People’s Republic of China regarding the state of affairs in its westernmost province of Xinjiang . Throughout this period, it has been regularly and emphatically asserted by western politicians and media that the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) government is guilty of the most horrific crimes against its own people. It is claimed that the CPC has: outlawed Islam, suppressed those who practice it and interred millions of muslims in concentration camps; built a regime characterised by Han chauvinism, treating all China’s other ethnic minorities as second-class citizens; used forced/slave labour to build industry in Xinjiang; tried to eradicate the indigenous minorities native to the region, destroying their culture and replacing their populations; committed a wholesale genocide of the Uyghur muslim minority (although this is now being quietly downgraded to rather vaguer allegations of a ‘cultural genocide’). Islam in Xinjiang Islam and the muslim community alike are thriving in Xinjiang. This author had the opportunity to visit the region in July and saw no sign of repression during his time there. Far from suppressing local ethnicities and their religion , billions of Chinese yuan are being spent by the government on mosques, schools and cultural protection efforts in the region. Far from banned, Islam is receiving huge state subsidies. The Xinjiang Islamic Institute is one example of this support. Its large college-style campus not only provides practicing muslims with prayer facilities, but also contains a one thousand student-capacity school, complete with a gym, playgrounds and canteens, where imams and other religious leaders can be trained. The institute has an extensive library containing many islamic texts, which have been translated (at government expense) from Arabic into the local Uyghur language, as well as into Chinese. Newspapers, books on Chinese law and political texts have likewise been translated into local languages for the benefit of the students. A large sum is being spent by the state on the preservation and renovation of Xinjiang’s existing mosques, some of which date back many centuries. This renovation is carried out in consultation with local muslims and party cadres. Any objective visitor to Xinjiang (and the province is open to tourists from all over the world) can see for themselves that the west’s wild accusations about the repression of muslims and eradication of Islam have absolutely no basis in reality. Last year, a group of islamic scholars and experts from 14 countries visited Xinjiang and came away extremely impressed with what they saw. Mestaoui Mohamed Slaheddine, advisor to the Tunisian prime minister and secretary general of the Supreme Islamic Council, gave his impression of the Islamic Institute’s new campus and its elegantly designed prayer hall, saying: “I believe that muslims can feel peace the moment they step in here.” ( Global Times , 9 January 2023) If any criticism were to be made of China’s efforts in Xinjiang, it would not be over suppression of religion but over its active promotion . Rather than upholding the communist principle that religion must become a private matter (a matter kept separate from the state and funded only by those who participate in its congregations), the Chinese government is providing state funds to religious houses. The result is that instead of allowing religion and religious practices to quietly die out of their own accord as life under socialism erodes the people’s superstitious beliefs, the present CPC policy is providing the basis for religious growth – thus assisting in the creation of a force that has the potential to become a bastion of anti-socialist reaction in the future. The CPC’s view is that the steps it has taken in Xinjiang have been necessary to counter the urgent situation created by the infiltration of US-funded extremist groups and ideology. Brutal attacks by these west-created fundamentalist terrorists had been killing and injuring large numbers of people, of all ethnic groups, and had led to great instability in the region. In order to undermine this infiltration, great efforts have been made by the CPC government to cut it off at the root – removing the economic factors that had led to some poor Uyghur muslims becoming fodder for the USA’s terror-gang groomers. ‘Concentration camps’ An oft-repeated slander against China is the imperialists’ accusation that the CPC is guilty of ‘genocide’. Many variations of the claim that “millions of muslims are being held in extermination camps” have been circulating for some time, and have acquired by their frequency the weight of a popular prejudice in the west. The way these accusations are phrased deliberately aims to conjure images of (and popular revulsion against) the Nazi concentration camps of the 1930s and 40s (although it was actually the British imperialists who invented such camps, and who used them extensively in their colonial wars). US imperialism likewise used methods of mass extermination in removing the indigenous people as it implemented the North American settler-colonial strategy. Adolf Hitler and his ministers were openly admiring and envious of the successes of British imperialism , both in dominating their colonies and in successfully spreading lies about the true nature of their activities. Today, we again see such methods being used against the Palestinian people by Anglo-American imperialism’s attack dog in the middle east: Israeli zionism. All of which is to say that working people the world over have seen enough of imperialism to know that it does indeed commit such horrific crimes against humanity. And that the workers in the west have been lied to so much that they are prey to confusion about who exactly are today’s evil imperialists and who are those striving to defend humanity from imperialist crimes. Imperialist ideologues have created this confusion, and they make use of it when they portray the socialist People’s Republic of China as an aggressive, domineering, inhuman imperial power that must be stopped . The accusations of a Chinese-committed genocide in Xinjiang began to circulate in 2016, at a time when the Chinese government had successfully stopped the destructive wave of terrorist attacks to which the region had been subjected. The claims reached a fever pitch in 2019, after a letter had been signed by 37 countries (nearly half of them muslim-majority states) praising China’s human rights record and dismissing the west’s allegations that up to two million muslims were being kept in concentration camps. “Faced with the grave challenge of terrorism and extremism, China has undertaken a series of counterterrorism and deradicalisation measures in Xinjiang, including setting up vocational education and training centres,” said the letter. It went on to applaud the result of these measures, which was that there had been no terrorist attacks at all in the past three years, and that the people of the region as a result were happy, fulfilled and secure. A counter-letter was duly penned by 22 western countries, a veritable ‘who’s who’ of imperialist nations and their lackeys (the so-called ‘international community’, which comprises a minority of people in a minority of countries), insisting on the western narrative and demanding closure of the “camps”. Never let a crisis go to waste When one looks a little more closely, it is found that all these claims of repression, eradication and genocide emanate from a tiny handful of sources, all of which are funded, directly or indirectly, by the US state department. Much of the ‘proof’ on which these organisations base their spurious reports has been provided by a single ’expert’, one Adrian Zenz. A far-right fundamentalist christian, Adrian Zenz is the source of nearly every false claim about Xinjiang aimed at China and its government. Zenz first appeared on the scene in 2007, a very willing and no doubt handsomely rewarded propagandist for US imperialist interests, claiming that he had been “led by God” to destroy China. A senior fellow at the Victims of Communism [!] Memorial Foundation (VOC), a US-funded anti-communist group that lays the blame for everything from the deaths of Nazi soldiers during WW2 to the global fatalities caused by Covid-19 at the feet of communism, Zenz has impeccable pro-imperialist credentials. His ‘proofs’ of a Uyghur genocide actually consist in presenting statistics that show the slowing of the rate of population growth (a near universal hallmark of a developing country) as proof of population decline resulting from an intentional policy by the CPC to eradicate the, mostly muslim, Uyghur population. The flimsiness of his claim is immediately exposed when we consider the absolute increase in the region’s population – from 4.78 million in 1953 to 25.85 million in 2020, during which time ethnic minorities were exempt from policies that restricted family sizes in the majority Han population. ( Xinjiang population dynamics and data , State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, September 2021) Another easily debunked narrative is Zenz’s attempt to use official CPC statistics on birth control. Fudging the maths, Zenz has come up with a claim that 80 percent of all intrauterine contraceptive devices (IUDs) in China have been administered to women in Xinjiang. In fact, the true figure is 8.7 percent! Although Zenz is rarely cited directly these days by bourgeois media, his lies have gained a life of their own and refuse to be flushed away, despite the abundance of evidence debunking them. Meanwhile, the claim of supposed ‘concentration camps’ is ‘evidenced’ by showing grainy satellite images of nondescript buildings. In each case, on-the-ground inspections have revealed these to be anything and everything except what has been claimed, from chicken farms to schools. Nevertheless, the dramatic lies continue to be repeated, aligned as they are with a narrative that serves imperialist interests, transforming China’s immense success in combatting insurgent terrorism into a horror story to be served up to western workers. The Chinese government has indeed set up re-education centres that have been very successful in rehabilitating misguided Xinjiang citizens who had travelled abroad for indoctrination and training. These unfortunates had been duped by Turkish and US-funded outfits like Isis into joining the kind of death squads that have spread such vicious mayhem in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and elsewhere – tricked into becoming foot soldiers for imperialist destabilisation efforts. Weijian Shan, chairman and CEO of PAG, an Asia-focused private equity firm, described the scale and violence of these terror attacks on Chinese soil: “Starting around 2007, it became increasingly dangerous to visit Xinjiang. The region was rocked by a spate of horrific terrorist attacks, resulting in over a thousand deaths and countless injuries. “For example, on 5 July 2009, there was a riot in the capital city of Urumqi. One hundred and ninety-seven people were hacked, beaten or burned to death and 1,721 were injured. On 22 May 2014, two car bombings in the same city killed 43 people and wounded 94. There were dozens of other attacks. “The extreme violence was not just confined to Xinjiang. In 2013, five people died and 38 were injured in a suicide attack by three Uyghurs in Beijing. In 2014, a killing spree by eight knife-wielding Uyghurs left 31 people dead and 141 wounded at a Kunming railway station. “A 2016 study commissioned by the US government noted that, from 2012 to 2014, domestic attacks in China ‘apparently became more frequent, more geographically dispersed, and more indiscriminately targeted’. The perpetrators, in many cases, were radicalised members of the Uyghur ethnic group.” ( Xinjiang: what the west doesn’t tell you about China’s war on terror , SCMP, 14 April 2021) The imperialists fully adhere to the adage of ‘never letting a crisis go to waste’, especially one that they have created! Extremism defeated Displaying outstanding patience, solid knowledge of the Xinjiang region and a most laudable restraint, coupled with the trust gained among the people (greatly aided by the extensive poverty reduction and doubling of life expectancy since the 1950s), the CPC, working with and for the citizens of Xinjiang, has made the area safe once more. Not a single attack has taken place there since 2019. China has found an extremely effective method for reintegrating returning radicals into their communities via a mixture of secular education, vocational training and work opportunities – a method that removes most of the drivers of radicalisation: poverty, ignorance and lack of opportunity. Compare this with the atmosphere of fear and the treatment of people of foreign descent in the west that has resulted from more than 20 years of the so-called ‘war on terror’. This author saw no signs of any such suspicion or hostility towards muslims while visiting cities and prefectures in the region. Muslims are free to pray and go about their lives. Uyghur and Kazakh minority citizens are not only enjoying rising living standards but have the full backing of the state to preserve their cultural traditions. Measures taken in this regard range from setting up museums and restoring cultural buildings to the promotion of intangible heritage (music, dance and the arts) and language protection. Many Uyghurs and Kazakhs sit in government and party offices at every level, from the most local right up to the provincial and national organs of power. None of these gains could be secured in an environment where death and destruction were being visited on ordinary people. Imperialism and China The attempt to break up China by fuelling a radical separatist movement in Xinjiang has not been the first imperialist plot to destroy the country’s unity. China has a long history of being targeted by imperialism, which really gathered momentum with the criminal launching of the first Opium war by British imperialism in 1839, during the course of which the territory of Hong Kong was seized by the invaders as booty. The aim of this war was to force opium addiction onto the Chinese people as a far more satisfactory way of managing balance of trade payments than continuing to drain the British treasury of its currency. In the eighteenth century, huge quantities of European silver had made their way to China in payment for the silks, teas, porcelains and other luxuries that could not be obtained anywhere else at that time. Britain’s East India Company decided it would be more convenient to pay for Chinese goods using opium, which it forced peasants in India to grow. When the Chinese emperor tried to stop this practice and eradicate the opium addiction that was spreading amongst the people, the British launched their war in the name of ‘free trade’! A second opium war was waged against China for four years from 1856, after which more territory was snatched by Britain and Russia. Then in the 1890s and early 1900s, China was forcibly partitioned by various imperialist powers (Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan and the United States), which grabbed huge swathes of its territory. The final act in this saga was the full-scale invasion of China by imperial Japan from 1931 onwards. Through long decades of struggle and sacrifice, during which tens of millions lost their lives, the Chinese people finally defeated the Japanese imperialists in 1945. The communist Red Army then continued its revolutionary war to secure China’s sovereignty by ousting the west-aligned nationalist forces led by Chiang Kai-shek. Thus it was that, in a heroic victory in 1949, the workers and peasants led by Chairman Mao Zedong and the CPC founded the People’s Republic of China and finally ended their ‘century of humiliation’. The imperialists did not take their defeat easily, however. They have never ceased to covet China’s territory, resources and manpower. When US imperialism launched its genocidal war against the Korean people in 1950, snuffing out the lives of over four million Koreans in just three years, the Chinese people stood shoulder to shoulder with their Korean brothers and sisters. Understanding that the imperialists wanted to turn Korea into a launchpad for wider aggression in Asia and against the whole socialist camp, some three million Chinese volunteered to join the struggle to defend their brother people and frustrate this ambition. China knows full well the fascistic horrors that imperialism routinely unleashes on working people outside of the imperial core. Since the Chinese people stood up in 1949, their socialist government has been determined not to lose the country’s hard-won sovereignty nor tolerate any threats to the people’s security. Every accusation a confession Besides having a vast land area, huge natural resources and a massive labour force, all of which have made it a magnet for the pillaging by imperialism, socialist China has now become a sovereign military and industrial power. This has not only prevented rapacious capital from freely exploiting its people and looting its natural wealth, but has also undermined US-led imperialism’s efforts elsewhere, since China today is able to offer fraternal alternatives to the crushing economic coercion (via such mechanisms as the US-controlled IMF and World Bank) that the imperialists continue to use against under-developed countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and eastern Europe. It is not in Imperialism’s nature to say, “Good fight, well fought!” and go home. Its inherent contradictions demand continual expansion, leading to a desperate quest to create and seize markets and to destroy competitors, no matter what the cost in human life or social wealth. But since we live in the era of anti-imperialism and proletarian revolutions, launched by the Great October Revolution in Russia in 1917, the imperialists are unable to ride roughshod over the globe as they once did, nakedly proclaiming their aims and avowing their innate superiority and civilisation. Today, they are forced to use sneakier, more obscure methods to achieve their ends, pretending to hold the progressive values of equality and fraternity that the masses aspire to, but which they themselves daily trample underfoot. This need for pretence is a weakness, however. The imperialists’ hypocrisy is becoming all too evident, and this is steadily undermining the trust that workers have in bourgeois institutions and bourgeois rule. The western powers’ self-proclaimed ‘defence’ of human rights and individual freedoms is one of many fables that is losing its power over the minds of the masses. This is the approach that today’s imperialists use against China. On the one hand, spending vast sums on covert operations to build a proxy army that can be directed to wage war against the Chinese people and their government. On the other, creating narratives for popular consumption at home that exaggerate small grievances among the targeted population or simply fabricate imaginary ones in order to paint the Chinese government as an irredeemable evil and their own aggression as being in the ultimate interests of the Chinese people. In the case of Xinjiang, as we saw also in Syria, Libya and elsewhere, the victims of imperialist aggression have been painted by western media as aggressors while imperialism’s vicious proxies are presented as heroic freedom fighters. Whether wittingly or no, all those who repeat the narratives regarding the alleged ‘Uyghur genocide’ in Xinjiang are facilitating the very crimes they claim to be trying to prevent – the mass murder of workers in the pursuit of profit. At a time of rising anti-imperialist struggle, these lies, and the criminal activities they are covering for, can have only one purpose: to hold back the tide of history, to prevent workers and oppressed peoples everywhere from liberating themselves, and to secure for another few decades the continued domination of the globe by blood-soaked finance capital. Republished from thecommunists.org with thanks Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back 4 PERSISTENT MYTHS ABOUT RUSSIA AND UKRAINE Eric Arnow Jan 12, 2025 Old Myths Die Hard Recently I posted something on Facebook about former Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders. His main point has been that the United States is not a functioning democracy, it is an oligarchy. However, in response to his short talk on Youtube, someone pointed out that ‘Russia invaded Ukraine’ in 2022. The fact that this person had no idea of the context behind the 2022 intervention by Russia shows just how persistent and pernicious Western Mainstream Media lies actually are. They become taken for granted as myths often have done in the past. In ancient Greece and Rome, and indeed, in Biblical lore, many if not most took it for granted that: Zeus and the Gods live on Mount Olympus Romulus (whom Rome is named after) was an orphan who got his milk from a wolf Eve sprang from the side of Adam Moses heard the Burning Bush talking to him And perhaps the granddaddy of all myths, that the Earth was created in 7 days in its current form While the Greek and Roman myths are no longer believed, many modern people still believe Biblical myths. However, so called Modern Humans think that they are beyond myth and what they’re told either in school or on the news is actually true, when it’s not. And what’s more astounding, is that a large minority if not majority of people now see the media is unreliable, yet they still fall for the lies they are told. That’s the reason for even highly educated people to remain dogmatically opposed to Russia’s actions, despite the fact they acknowledge being lied to about the causes of: Here are 13 examples of absurd or misleading lies told to the US public to justify wars: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) The US government claimed North Vietnamese forces attacked US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading to the escalation of the Vietnam War. Declassified documents later revealed that the attacks were either exaggerated or fabricated. Iraqi Soldiers Throwing Babies Out of Incubators (1990) During the lead-up to the Gulf War, a fabricated story claimed Iraqi soldiers killed Kuwaiti babies by removing them from incubators. This was later exposed as a false testimony orchestrated by a PR firm. Weapons of Mass Destruction (2003) The Bush administration asserted that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) to justify the Iraq War. No such weapons were ever found. Grenada Posed a Threat (1983) The US invasion of Grenada was justified by claiming the island posed a military threat and endangered American medical students. In reality, the threat was vastly overstated. Spanish “Attack” on the USS Maine (1898) The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor was blamed on Spain, leading to the Spanish-American War. Later investigations suggested the explosion might have been an accident. North Korean Invasion of South Korea (1950) The start of the Korean War was justified by claiming North Korea launched an unprovoked attack. While North Korea initiated the conflict, the complex geopolitical provocations leading to it were downplayed. In fact, the US thwarted Korean aspirations by inserting a dictator in Southern Korea, and thwarted elections that would have unifed the country under a leader the US didn’t like Libyan “Hit List” of Americans (1986) The Reagan administration claimed Libya had a hit list of American diplomats to justify bombing raids. This was later revealed to be based on unverified and dubious intelligence. The Domino Theory (1950s–1970s) Used to justify intervention in Vietnam, the Domino Theory claimed that if Vietnam fell to communism, all of Southeast Asia would follow. This simplistic narrative ignored local contexts and was proven false. “Remember the Alamo” and Mexican Aggression (1846) The Mexican-American War was justified by claiming Mexico attacked American troops on US soil. The truth is that the US had provoked the conflict by moving troops into disputed territory. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait Unprovoked Kuwait was stealing Iraq’s oil by slant drilling into Iraq, and refused to stop. Even the US ambassador to Iraq told him that this dispute was none of the US’s business, but as soon as Saddam attacked, the US feigned surprise and indigation. George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan based on 911. But it refused to provide evidence that Osama Bin Laden was involved. In 2003, the US accused Iraq of having ‘aluminum tubes for rockets’, anthrax bioweapon, uranium to make atom bombs. All these charges were discredited. . Saddam was in league with Al Qaeda, the accused perpetrators of 911. However, Saddam was a secular leader whose foreign minister was an Iraqi Christian, not a religious extremist like Al Qaeda, whom Saddam opposed. More recent blatant lies that have been disproven were that: Bashard Al-Assad of Syria used chemical weapons against his own people. Inspectors on the ground disproved that but were overridden by managers for political reasons. Russia meddled in the US election of 2016 with fake ad campaigns. When Russia lawyers showed up in a US court demanding to see the evidence, the US Justice Department refused to provide any. The US judge threw the case out immediately Russia hacked into the computers of the Democratic Party. The US Security Expert, William Binney proved that the data download was to a USB drive, not to an external source via internet Hamas beheaded Israeli babies— No evidence was ever provided Hamas attacked Israel out of nowhere, overlooking 70+ years of Israeli oppression, expulsion and expropriation of Palestinian lands, all violating international law. The Four Myths Fed to the Public about Ukraine Nevertheless, given the ingrained gullibility of the US and European publics, 4 new myths have been created about the Ukraine/Russia War. These are: The war started in 2022 with Russia’s “unprovoked invasion” of Ukraine Russia has consistently refused to negotiate Russia is so weak, that it equips its poorly armed army with shovels, and has to use computer chips from clothes washing machines to make its missile Russia is losing and has been virtually defeated already. Reality The West, specifically the US has been provoking Russia and undermining both Russia and the former USSR, ever since the end of WWII. It funded and supported holdovers of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, and their succeeding generations. CIA internal documents noted that people like Stepan Bandera, now promoted as a hero in 2025 Ukraine, was a terrorist. “ The recent declassification of over 3800 documents by the Central Intelligence Agency provides detailed proof that since 1953 the CIA operated two major programs intent on not only destabilizing Ukraine but Nazifying it with followers of the World War II Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera.” The US sponsored an attempted coup in 2004, the socalled Orange Revolution, which failed. And the successful Maidan coup, which even the US private intelligence firm Stratfor, called ‘The most blatant coup in history’. The West, both under Obama, Trump and Biden armed the openly fascist formation which even the US Congress had admitted was terrorist. It bombed the areas of eastern Ukraine, ‘the Donbass’, killing thousands of ethnic Russians for 8 years. And not a peep of concern by the West. With a crushing ethnic cleansing operation planned for March, 2022, Russia preemptively used the West’s own “Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine to prevent it. Ever since the disbanding of the Soviet Union and unilateral withdrawal of Soviet forces from Eastern Europe, the US and NATO, which promised not to expand NATO broke its promises. Russia has urged negotiation ever since Following the failure of Kiev attacks on the Donbass in 2014 and 2015, Russia helped negotiate the Minsk Agreemens, both of which were flouted by Kiev, with the full backing of Germany and France (and secret backing by the US). Notably in December, 2021, after Russia sent draft treaties to the US and NATO, Russia was insultingly rebuffed Following initial success on the battlefield, Kiev and Moscow initialled an agreement to end hostilities. These were vetoed by Boris Johnson of the UK, and one of Kiev’s key negotiators was shot to death in cold blood! The Biden administration has avoided contact with the Kremlin for over two years, insisting that it the US/NATO would win by sanctioning Russia and supplying billions in weapons, intelligence and financial aid 3. In the West, there is a serious misconception that Russia is ‘a gas station masquerading as a country’. They thought that sanctions would break the Russian economy, and that Russia would run out of ‘cheap, inferior weapons’. The strategy backfired, with Europe suffering huge increases in energy prices, and Russia’s weapons outclassing the West’s both in quality and quantity, due to an industrial base far higher and a technological base far higher that the entire West combined. This has been documented thoroughly by Andre Martyanov, a military expert trained in the USSR but now a US citizen . 4. The most ruinous mistaken preconceptions still rampant in the West is that Russia is losing. Following the backstab of negotiations in Istanbul in April, 2022, Russia pursued attrition warfare, grinding down Ukraine’s military, taking out its air defenses, killing both Ukrainian regular army, its extremist Nazi battalions, such as Azov, and recently Carpathian Sich. Instead of volunteering, Ukrainian men are being press ganged sent to the front ill equipped and trained. Up to 100,000 or more have deserted, refusing to fight. And every major obstacle and defensive line in Eastern Ukraine has been crushed. Russia is now advancing quite rapidly. Conclusion In February, 2022, several of my oldest friends ‘explained’ to me all the above myths. I told them at that time, that Russia was both justified in finally putting its foot down on NATO, and that Russia would win in the end. I was right, they were wrong. And yet, even now, I get nasty messages from presumably well educated people that Russia is the guilty party, to which I say, “We have met the enemy and the enemy is us” No less a seasoned diplomat like Ambassador Chas Freeman and intelligence experts Larry Johnson and Scott Ritter are the voices you need to listen to. Republished from BumbleBuddhist , with thanks! Previous Next

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< Back 4 PERSISTENT MYTHS ABOUT RUSSIA AND UKRAINE Eric Arnow Jan 12, 2025 Old Myths Die Hard Recently I posted something on Facebook about former Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders. His main point has been that the United States is not a functioning democracy, it is an oligarchy. However, in response to his short talk on Youtube, someone pointed out that ‘Russia invaded Ukraine’ in 2022. The fact that this person had no idea of the context behind the 2022 intervention by Russia shows just how persistent and pernicious Western Mainstream Media lies actually are. They become taken for granted as myths often have done in the past. In ancient Greece and Rome, and indeed, in Biblical lore, many if not most took it for granted that: Zeus and the Gods live on Mount Olympus Romulus (whom Rome is named after) was an orphan who got his milk from a wolf Eve sprang from the side of Adam Moses heard the Burning Bush talking to him And perhaps the granddaddy of all myths, that the Earth was created in 7 days in its current form While the Greek and Roman myths are no longer believed, many modern people still believe Biblical myths. However, so called Modern Humans think that they are beyond myth and what they’re told either in school or on the news is actually true, when it’s not. And what’s more astounding, is that a large minority if not majority of people now see the media is unreliable, yet they still fall for the lies they are told. That’s the reason for even highly educated people to remain dogmatically opposed to Russia’s actions, despite the fact they acknowledge being lied to about the causes of: Here are 13 examples of absurd or misleading lies told to the US public to justify wars: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) The US government claimed North Vietnamese forces attacked US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin, leading to the escalation of the Vietnam War. Declassified documents later revealed that the attacks were either exaggerated or fabricated. Iraqi Soldiers Throwing Babies Out of Incubators (1990) During the lead-up to the Gulf War, a fabricated story claimed Iraqi soldiers killed Kuwaiti babies by removing them from incubators. This was later exposed as a false testimony orchestrated by a PR firm. Weapons of Mass Destruction (2003) The Bush administration asserted that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) to justify the Iraq War. No such weapons were ever found. Grenada Posed a Threat (1983) The US invasion of Grenada was justified by claiming the island posed a military threat and endangered American medical students. In reality, the threat was vastly overstated. Spanish “Attack” on the USS Maine (1898) The explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor was blamed on Spain, leading to the Spanish-American War. Later investigations suggested the explosion might have been an accident. North Korean Invasion of South Korea (1950) The start of the Korean War was justified by claiming North Korea launched an unprovoked attack. While North Korea initiated the conflict, the complex geopolitical provocations leading to it were downplayed. In fact, the US thwarted Korean aspirations by inserting a dictator in Southern Korea, and thwarted elections that would have unifed the country under a leader the US didn’t like Libyan “Hit List” of Americans (1986) The Reagan administration claimed Libya had a hit list of American diplomats to justify bombing raids. This was later revealed to be based on unverified and dubious intelligence. The Domino Theory (1950s–1970s) Used to justify intervention in Vietnam, the Domino Theory claimed that if Vietnam fell to communism, all of Southeast Asia would follow. This simplistic narrative ignored local contexts and was proven false. “Remember the Alamo” and Mexican Aggression (1846) The Mexican-American War was justified by claiming Mexico attacked American troops on US soil. The truth is that the US had provoked the conflict by moving troops into disputed territory. Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait Unprovoked Kuwait was stealing Iraq’s oil by slant drilling into Iraq, and refused to stop. Even the US ambassador to Iraq told him that this dispute was none of the US’s business, but as soon as Saddam attacked, the US feigned surprise and indigation. George W. Bush invaded Afghanistan based on 911. But it refused to provide evidence that Osama Bin Laden was involved. In 2003, the US accused Iraq of having ‘aluminum tubes for rockets’, anthrax bioweapon, uranium to make atom bombs. All these charges were discredited. . Saddam was in league with Al Qaeda, the accused perpetrators of 911. However, Saddam was a secular leader whose foreign minister was an Iraqi Christian, not a religious extremist like Al Qaeda, whom Saddam opposed. More recent blatant lies that have been disproven were that: Bashard Al-Assad of Syria used chemical weapons against his own people. Inspectors on the ground disproved that but were overridden by managers for political reasons. Russia meddled in the US election of 2016 with fake ad campaigns. When Russia lawyers showed up in a US court demanding to see the evidence, the US Justice Department refused to provide any. The US judge threw the case out immediately Russia hacked into the computers of the Democratic Party. The US Security Expert, William Binney proved that the data download was to a USB drive, not to an external source via internet Hamas beheaded Israeli babies— No evidence was ever provided Hamas attacked Israel out of nowhere, overlooking 70+ years of Israeli oppression, expulsion and expropriation of Palestinian lands, all violating international law. The Four Myths Fed to the Public about Ukraine Nevertheless, given the ingrained gullibility of the US and European publics, 4 new myths have been created about the Ukraine/Russia War. These are: The war started in 2022 with Russia’s “unprovoked invasion” of Ukraine Russia has consistently refused to negotiate Russia is so weak, that it equips its poorly armed army with shovels, and has to use computer chips from clothes washing machines to make its missile Russia is losing and has been virtually defeated already. Reality The West, specifically the US has been provoking Russia and undermining both Russia and the former USSR, ever since the end of WWII. It funded and supported holdovers of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, and their succeeding generations. CIA internal documents noted that people like Stepan Bandera, now promoted as a hero in 2025 Ukraine, was a terrorist. “ The recent declassification of over 3800 documents by the Central Intelligence Agency provides detailed proof that since 1953 the CIA operated two major programs intent on not only destabilizing Ukraine but Nazifying it with followers of the World War II Ukrainian Nazi leader Stepan Bandera.” The US sponsored an attempted coup in 2004, the socalled Orange Revolution, which failed. And the successful Maidan coup, which even the US private intelligence firm Stratfor, called ‘The most blatant coup in history’. The West, both under Obama, Trump and Biden armed the openly fascist formation which even the US Congress had admitted was terrorist. It bombed the areas of eastern Ukraine, ‘the Donbass’, killing thousands of ethnic Russians for 8 years. And not a peep of concern by the West. With a crushing ethnic cleansing operation planned for March, 2022, Russia preemptively used the West’s own “Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine to prevent it. Ever since the disbanding of the Soviet Union and unilateral withdrawal of Soviet forces from Eastern Europe, the US and NATO, which promised not to expand NATO broke its promises. Russia has urged negotiation ever since Following the failure of Kiev attacks on the Donbass in 2014 and 2015, Russia helped negotiate the Minsk Agreemens, both of which were flouted by Kiev, with the full backing of Germany and France (and secret backing by the US). Notably in December, 2021, after Russia sent draft treaties to the US and NATO, Russia was insultingly rebuffed Following initial success on the battlefield, Kiev and Moscow initialled an agreement to end hostilities. These were vetoed by Boris Johnson of the UK, and one of Kiev’s key negotiators was shot to death in cold blood! The Biden administration has avoided contact with the Kremlin for over two years, insisting that it the US/NATO would win by sanctioning Russia and supplying billions in weapons, intelligence and financial aid 3. In the West, there is a serious misconception that Russia is ‘a gas station masquerading as a country’. They thought that sanctions would break the Russian economy, and that Russia would run out of ‘cheap, inferior weapons’. The strategy backfired, with Europe suffering huge increases in energy prices, and Russia’s weapons outclassing the West’s both in quality and quantity, due to an industrial base far higher and a technological base far higher that the entire West combined. This has been documented thoroughly by Andre Martyanov, a military expert trained in the USSR but now a US citizen . 4. The most ruinous mistaken preconceptions still rampant in the West is that Russia is losing. Following the backstab of negotiations in Istanbul in April, 2022, Russia pursued attrition warfare, grinding down Ukraine’s military, taking out its air defenses, killing both Ukrainian regular army, its extremist Nazi battalions, such as Azov, and recently Carpathian Sich. Instead of volunteering, Ukrainian men are being press ganged sent to the front ill equipped and trained. Up to 100,000 or more have deserted, refusing to fight. And every major obstacle and defensive line in Eastern Ukraine has been crushed. Russia is now advancing quite rapidly. Conclusion In February, 2022, several of my oldest friends ‘explained’ to me all the above myths. I told them at that time, that Russia was both justified in finally putting its foot down on NATO, and that Russia would win in the end. I was right, they were wrong. And yet, even now, I get nasty messages from presumably well educated people that Russia is the guilty party, to which I say, “We have met the enemy and the enemy is us” No less a seasoned diplomat like Ambassador Chas Freeman and intelligence experts Larry Johnson and Scott Ritter are the voices you need to listen to. Republished from BumbleBuddhist , with thanks! Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

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