Peggy Dobbins
2011-03-31 06:44:45 UTC
has this been discussed here?
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From: news from the cpi(m) <marxistindia at cpim.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:41 AM
Subject: [Marxistindia] Nato's Fascist War: Fidel Castro
To: marxistindia <marxistindia at cpim.org>, lalsalam <lalsalam at yahoogroups.com>,
com-news <com-news at yahoogroups.com>, prfw at yahoogroups.com
marxistindia
news from the cpi(m)
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
NATO's FASCIST WAR
You didn't have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail
in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between
February 21 and March 3: "The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya," "The Cynical
Danse Macabre," and "NATO's Inevitable War."
Not even the fascist leaders of Germany and Italy were so blatantly
shameless regarding the Spanish Civil War unleashed in 1936, an event that
maybe a lot of people have been recalling over these past days.
Almost 75 years to the day have passed since then, but nothing that has
happened over the last 75 centuries, or even 75 millenniums of human life on
our planet can compare.
Sometimes it seems that those of us who serenely voice our opinions on these
issues are exaggerating. I dare say that we have actually been naive to
assume that we all should be aware of the deception or colossal ignorance
that humanity has been dragged into.
In 1936 there was an intense clash between two systems and ideologies of
more or less equal military power.
The arms back then seemed more like toys compared with today's weapons.
Humanity's survival was not threatened despite the destructive power and the
locally lethal force deployed. Entire cities and even nations could have
been virtually destroyed. But never was the human race, in its totality, at
risk of being exterminated several times over for the stupid and suicidal
power developed by modern science and technology.
With these current realities in mind, it is embarrassing to read the
continuous news reports on the use of powerful laser-guided rockets with
100% accuracy, fighter-bombers that go twice the speed of light, potent
explosives that blow apart uranium-hardened metals that have an everlasting
effect on the inhabitants and their descendants.
Cuba stated its position regarding the internal situation in Libya at the
meeting in Geneva. Without hesitating, Cuba defended the idea of a political
solution to the conflict in Libya and was categorically opposed to any
foreign military intervention.
In a world where the alliance between the United States and the developed
capitalist powers of Europe increasingly take hold of the people's resources
and fruits of their labor, any honest citizen, whatever their standpoint to
the government, would be opposed to a foreign military intervention in their
country.
But most absurd about the current situation is the fact that before the
brutal war broke out in Northern Africa, in another region of the world,
nearly 10 000 kilometers away, a nuclear accident had occurred in one of the
most populated areas of the world following a tsunami caused by a 9.0
earthquake, which has already cost a hard-working nation like Japan nearly
30 000 lives. Such accident would have not occurred 75 years before.
In Haiti, a poor and underdeveloped country, a nearly 7.0 quake according to
the Richter scale, caused over 300 000 deaths, countless people wounded and
hundreds of thousands harmed.
However, what was terribly tragic in Japan was the accident at the Fukushima
nuclear plant, whose consequences are still to be assessed.
I will only recall some of the main stories published by the news agencies:
ANSA.- Fukushima 1 nuclear plant is releasing "extremely high and
potentially lethal radiations," said Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC), the US nuclear entity.
EFE.- The nuclear threat stemming from the serious situation at a Japanese
plant, following the earthquake, has triggered security revisions in atomic
plants around the world and has made some countries paralyze their plans.
Reuters.- Japan's devastating earthquake and deepening nuclear crisis could
result in losses of up to $200 billion for Japanese economy, but the global
impact remains hard to gauge.
EFE.- The deterioration of one reactor after another at Japan's Fukushima
nuclear center continued to feed fears of a pending nuclear disaster as
desperate attempts to control a radioactive leak did nothing to provide even
a glimmer of hope.
AFP.- Japan?s Emperor Akihito expressed concern about the unpredictable
character of the nuclear crisis hitting Japan following the quake and
tsunami that killed thousands of people and left 500 000 homeless. New quake
reported in the Tokyo area.
There are reports talking about even more concerning issues.
Some refer to the presence of toxic radioactive iodine in Tokyo's drinking
water, which doubles the tolerable amount that can be consumed by the
smallest children in the Japanese capital. One of these reports says that
the stocks of bottled water are shrinking in Tokyo, a city located in a
prefecture at more than 200 kilometers from Fukushima.
This series of circumstances poses a dramatic situation on our world.
I can express freely my views on the war in Libya.
I do not share political or religious views with the leader of that country.
I am a Marxist-Leninist and a follower of Marti, as I have already said.
I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of
the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
Never, a large or small country, in this case with only 5 million
inhabitants, was the victim of such a brutal attack by the air force of a
militaristic organization with thousands of fighter-bombers, more than 100
submarines, nuclear aircraft carriers, and sufficient arsenal to destroy the
planet many times over. Our species had never encountered this situation
and there had been nothing similar 75 years ago, when the Nazi bombers
attacked targets in Spain.
Now, however, the criminal and discredited NATO will write a "beautiful"
little story about its "humanitarian" bombing.
If Gaddafi honors the traditions of his people and decides to fight to the
last breath, as he has promised, together with the Libyans who are facing
the worst bombing a country has ever suffered, NATO and its criminal
projects will sink into the mire of shame.
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
More than 50 years ago, when the United States killed more than a hundred
Cubans with the explosion of merchant ship "La Coubre" our people proclaimed
"Patria o Muerte." (Homeland or Death). They have fulfilled this, and have
always been determined to keep their word.
"Anyone who tries to seize Cuba," said the most glorious fighter in our
history-"will only gather the dust of her soil soaked in blood."
I beg you to excuse the frankness with which I address the issue.
Fidel Castro Ruz
28 March 2011
8:14 p.m.
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From: news from the cpi(m) <marxistindia at cpim.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:41 AM
Subject: [Marxistindia] Nato's Fascist War: Fidel Castro
To: marxistindia <marxistindia at cpim.org>, lalsalam <lalsalam at yahoogroups.com>,
com-news <com-news at yahoogroups.com>, prfw at yahoogroups.com
marxistindia
news from the cpi(m)
Reflections by Comrade Fidel
NATO's FASCIST WAR
You didn't have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail
in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between
February 21 and March 3: "The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya," "The Cynical
Danse Macabre," and "NATO's Inevitable War."
Not even the fascist leaders of Germany and Italy were so blatantly
shameless regarding the Spanish Civil War unleashed in 1936, an event that
maybe a lot of people have been recalling over these past days.
Almost 75 years to the day have passed since then, but nothing that has
happened over the last 75 centuries, or even 75 millenniums of human life on
our planet can compare.
Sometimes it seems that those of us who serenely voice our opinions on these
issues are exaggerating. I dare say that we have actually been naive to
assume that we all should be aware of the deception or colossal ignorance
that humanity has been dragged into.
In 1936 there was an intense clash between two systems and ideologies of
more or less equal military power.
The arms back then seemed more like toys compared with today's weapons.
Humanity's survival was not threatened despite the destructive power and the
locally lethal force deployed. Entire cities and even nations could have
been virtually destroyed. But never was the human race, in its totality, at
risk of being exterminated several times over for the stupid and suicidal
power developed by modern science and technology.
With these current realities in mind, it is embarrassing to read the
continuous news reports on the use of powerful laser-guided rockets with
100% accuracy, fighter-bombers that go twice the speed of light, potent
explosives that blow apart uranium-hardened metals that have an everlasting
effect on the inhabitants and their descendants.
Cuba stated its position regarding the internal situation in Libya at the
meeting in Geneva. Without hesitating, Cuba defended the idea of a political
solution to the conflict in Libya and was categorically opposed to any
foreign military intervention.
In a world where the alliance between the United States and the developed
capitalist powers of Europe increasingly take hold of the people's resources
and fruits of their labor, any honest citizen, whatever their standpoint to
the government, would be opposed to a foreign military intervention in their
country.
But most absurd about the current situation is the fact that before the
brutal war broke out in Northern Africa, in another region of the world,
nearly 10 000 kilometers away, a nuclear accident had occurred in one of the
most populated areas of the world following a tsunami caused by a 9.0
earthquake, which has already cost a hard-working nation like Japan nearly
30 000 lives. Such accident would have not occurred 75 years before.
In Haiti, a poor and underdeveloped country, a nearly 7.0 quake according to
the Richter scale, caused over 300 000 deaths, countless people wounded and
hundreds of thousands harmed.
However, what was terribly tragic in Japan was the accident at the Fukushima
nuclear plant, whose consequences are still to be assessed.
I will only recall some of the main stories published by the news agencies:
ANSA.- Fukushima 1 nuclear plant is releasing "extremely high and
potentially lethal radiations," said Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC), the US nuclear entity.
EFE.- The nuclear threat stemming from the serious situation at a Japanese
plant, following the earthquake, has triggered security revisions in atomic
plants around the world and has made some countries paralyze their plans.
Reuters.- Japan's devastating earthquake and deepening nuclear crisis could
result in losses of up to $200 billion for Japanese economy, but the global
impact remains hard to gauge.
EFE.- The deterioration of one reactor after another at Japan's Fukushima
nuclear center continued to feed fears of a pending nuclear disaster as
desperate attempts to control a radioactive leak did nothing to provide even
a glimmer of hope.
AFP.- Japan?s Emperor Akihito expressed concern about the unpredictable
character of the nuclear crisis hitting Japan following the quake and
tsunami that killed thousands of people and left 500 000 homeless. New quake
reported in the Tokyo area.
There are reports talking about even more concerning issues.
Some refer to the presence of toxic radioactive iodine in Tokyo's drinking
water, which doubles the tolerable amount that can be consumed by the
smallest children in the Japanese capital. One of these reports says that
the stocks of bottled water are shrinking in Tokyo, a city located in a
prefecture at more than 200 kilometers from Fukushima.
This series of circumstances poses a dramatic situation on our world.
I can express freely my views on the war in Libya.
I do not share political or religious views with the leader of that country.
I am a Marxist-Leninist and a follower of Marti, as I have already said.
I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of
the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.
Never, a large or small country, in this case with only 5 million
inhabitants, was the victim of such a brutal attack by the air force of a
militaristic organization with thousands of fighter-bombers, more than 100
submarines, nuclear aircraft carriers, and sufficient arsenal to destroy the
planet many times over. Our species had never encountered this situation
and there had been nothing similar 75 years ago, when the Nazi bombers
attacked targets in Spain.
Now, however, the criminal and discredited NATO will write a "beautiful"
little story about its "humanitarian" bombing.
If Gaddafi honors the traditions of his people and decides to fight to the
last breath, as he has promised, together with the Libyans who are facing
the worst bombing a country has ever suffered, NATO and its criminal
projects will sink into the mire of shame.
The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
More than 50 years ago, when the United States killed more than a hundred
Cubans with the explosion of merchant ship "La Coubre" our people proclaimed
"Patria o Muerte." (Homeland or Death). They have fulfilled this, and have
always been determined to keep their word.
"Anyone who tries to seize Cuba," said the most glorious fighter in our
history-"will only gather the dust of her soil soaked in blood."
I beg you to excuse the frankness with which I address the issue.
Fidel Castro Ruz
28 March 2011
8:14 p.m.
_______________________________________________
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Marxistindia at cpim.org
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www.PeggyDobbins.net
Sociology a form of Art