April 30, 2006

After having watched seven fascist diatribal video tapes of the CIA and of the "opposition" launched internationally against the Bolivarian Revolution and President Chavez, that were reproduced in the evening program of Mario Silva, "La Hojilla" yesterday, to warn everybody about a possible, imminent, United States military invasion of Venezuela, this time my weekly commentary will really be piquant and bitter.

As a result of colonialism and imperialism what has happened to us over the last five centuries, and in globalization what is really on the order of the day in Latin America, in Venezuela, Percy B. Shelley has described eloquently as follows:

"Rise like Lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number -

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you -

Ye are many - they are few."

Charles Dickens, the famous British author, in his "Tale of Two Cities" ... portraying Paris, the French Revolution, and describing London, the Industrial Revolution ... teaches us what really is happening in turbulent times, during an epoch of intra-systemic social revolutions.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, ... "

So begins a story of bourgeois revolutionary Paris and the contrast to smoky, smoggy industrial capitalist London. In Europe it still was a social revolutionary time where the personal sacrifice of brave men like Simon Bolivar, Francisco de Miranda, Babeuf, Blanqui, Bakunin and Marx was still a matter of human honor and loyalty to a revolutionary cause.

It was a time when a capitalist was proud to be an exploiter, where a revolutionary openly declared that he is a social democrat, a communist. It was a time when a bourgeois revolutionary was still reading his Shakespeare, about Hamlet, who reminded Horatio that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy.

It was not yet the unprincipled age of imperialist treachery, as described by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley in their famous works. Only now, in globalization -- in the epoch of "Twin Tower" hoaxes, of information warfare rumors about "terrorists", bloody lies about Venezuela and Chavez, middle class corruption of "chavistas without Chavez", of formal logics -- ideological confusion, psychological operations or "psy ops" enter the military, political spheres as dangerous arms of mass destruction.

But it is still a world of religious obscurantism, of erudite professors of law and political science who still kiss the baby Jesus in the "paraduras" of the University of The Andes, of "Marxists" following the "Passion", with palm leaves in their hands, marching behind the Holy Cross of Jesus Christ, in the spirit of the "theology of liberation", it is an ancient world of staunch Christians hiding with Karl Marx in the catacombs of primitive communism, secretly studying the forbidden gospels of Martion, Thomas, Phillipe, Judas, and even of Mary Magdalena, searching for more messiahs. It is also the modern era of a wolfish "Adeco" Roman Catholic cardinal appearing in saintly sheep garb and golpista garbage, to tell big lies about Chavez that could open the very flooding bowels of the heavens, and who one day may even become a future pope; the virtual reality of an ex-guerrilla fighter who is now howling with the bloodthirsty werewolves, but who could one day become a future president of Venezuela once we "got rid of Chavez", the one and only "root of capitalist evil in the whole world", that is, we live in an explosive, contradictory, absurd era, where nobody really seems to know anything anymore, seems to be interested in who is who, or what is really going on at all.

Very few still see the writing on the wall of woe, nobody heeds to the warnings of Cassandra! A dangeous carpe diem, a dark HAARP night has fallen on mankind.

Yet, at the end of the 18th century, in the spring of capitalist revolution, a long epoch of European class consciousness and social justice was ushered in, accompanied by a "reign of terror", by the law of the capitalist guillotine, by Hegel's World Spirit on horseback, galloping across Europe, by the Napoleonic Wars; all these also affected Simon Bolivar and his daydream of a Great Colombia, to emancipate all slaves, to liberate America from the exploitative claws of metropolitan capitalism.

Currently, in our epoch of Yankee world fascism, the dialectical words of Dickens are certainly the most adequate to portray our revolutionary story, the world fascist North American "plague", the political dilemma of the successors of Simon Bolivar and Karl Marx, of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frías and of Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz:

"... It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

However, let us update Dickens:

"Today, it's the Dawn, the ALBA of transcendental, historic Emancipation; it's the Aurora of Nature and Society, of Exodus, of crossing the Rubicon. Creatively we are transcending, surpassing,

excelling this mode of capitalist universal destruction, of what its noisiest authorities call Globalization."

Jacta alea est -- the dies are cast! In 2006, finally, we can choose between deepening our revolution, by involving all the workers of Latin America in self-defense, by applying all means necessary, that is, by choosing Chavez, who is neither an angel nor a saint, neither a messiah nor a wild bush fire walking and talking with god, neither a tyrant nor a dictator, ... who thus cannot do it all alone or be blamed for everything that goes wrong in the capitalist universe, ... and ... losing our revolution, losing seven years of joy and fear, of workers' gains, of victories of millions of impoverished Venezuelans, by returning to neoliberal savagery, by converting the Bolivarian Revolution again into open tyranny, dictatorship and imperialist barbarism. In this case, we will only see our new president on the day of elections, the next day thanks to imported whiskey he will be stone drunk stumbling around in Miraflores (Lusinchi) or like a spoiled brat we will see him again this time playing dominoes with the bored, opulent generals (Caldera).

We have no other choice: world capitalism itself, Bush himself decided: either you are with us or with Chavez.

The ultima ratio of Bush: If you are against us, we will invade you, destroy everything that you have, torture you, murder you; historically, we capitalists have magnificent experience in physical conquest and mental holocaust. What Hitler did with the Jews, communists, "niggers" and gypsies will be small fry compared to what they are doing already in Afghanistan and Iraq, to what they plan for Iran and Venezuela.

And, just imagine all the coming surprises of weapons of mass destruction that they have in mind for hundreds of millions of obsolete physical labor forces.

Here, in globalization, really, the ancient words of the biblical Jesus Christ become true: Many revolutionaries are called, few are chosen. Not everybody that shouts Chavez, Chavez, will enter emancipatory socialism of the third millennium. In fact, especially in Zulia, many "new rich" are already jumping the boat, are desperately swimming towards the haven of wanted criminals in Latin America, to Miami.

Never ever on earth has a "peaceful revolution" ocurred; historically, no ruling class ever stepped down peacefully from its golden throne. Thus, entering the military stage ... as Frantz Fanon already had predicted long ago in his "Wretched of the Earth" ... in emancipatory self-defense, the true Bolivarian Revolution really is beginning.

The global war against world fascism will be the most violent, most bloody class war that the world ever has experienced. The currently hottest tips of this violent iceberg are Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Nepal, Colombia and Venezuela.

It would be highly irresponsible, would be mortal, not to begin to organize our self-defense immediately; in fact, it may be too late already.

However, revolutions are not one day flies, only peace time pastimes. They are permanent, they flame in periods of war and of peace, hence a revolutionary does not go on vacation when a Yankee military invasion is taking shape in front of our very door. Faced by war, a revolutionary does not sack his commander and replace him with a bush cannibal. 24 million of us cannot emigrate to the "Friends of Venezuela", here, we will have to fight violation, rape, torture and murder of our beloved ones.

So, we´d better be well-prepared, psychologically, praxically and theoretically, just study what Israel is doing in the Mideast, what the Yankees are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, what Pedro Estanga and consorts had and still have in mind for Venezuela, to know what is coming.

In fact, only real revolutions are being attacked heavily by imperialist invasions, see what happened in Russia, in a world war, over 20 capitalist states invaded the Soviet Union. What happened in Cuba, Chile, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Algeria, and now Nepal?

Revolution is not a Christmas gift. If you really want to make revolution, buy a gun, weapons of mass defense, otherwise, buy a computer, calculate prices, equivalents, your money, your debts.

Military invasion is part and parcel of socialist revolution. Who wants to make a socialist revolution, and fears foreign imperialist invasion, should really retire to the North Pole, and in the Swiss cheese holes of the ozone layers should search for Father Christmas and his reindeer stagecoach, instead of trying to attack the huge bloody corporation Coca Cola, by just peacefully picketing and shouting: Hands Off our Water Resources!!

The fact that Yankee military invasion is imminent precisely proves what is happening here: a dangerous social revolution against world imperialist fascism is taking place in Latin America. If we are not careful, it will be nipped in the bud. If we do not know it, well, then the industrial and military complex around Bush and Rumsfeld surely does.

Now we can decide what and who we really are: social reformists or socialist revolutionaries, bare-faced cowards or principled human beings!

To betray the revolution, by demanding that Chavez should vanish into thin air, is simply tantamount to having the memory of a stone, of committing high treason to all that is humanly sacred, near and dear in Venezuela.

This applies to everybody that is participating in the world revolution, who wants to save humanity from extinction, also to Chavez himself.

As stated above, clandestine CIA authors (including their local lackeys in the private TV stations) currently are promoting fascist diatribal warmongering, as expressed in a series of video clips of information warfare ... agents from Tampa, Florida, who probably are also the originators of all the Osama Bin Laden video tapes ... are totally disfiguring Venezuelan reality, are telling highly concentrated big lies to a vulnerable world public. They are simply dangerous war criminals. To support this is to participate in genocidal murder and world fascism.

Studying previous military invasions, as Eva Golinger warned, this Goebbels propaganda campaign is the prelude to imminent brutal invasion.

Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution did not fall like manna from heaven, they are historical creations, hence there are tons of things about them to be criticized constructively, that is, in a human, humane, humanist manner. To do this, one does not need heinous lies. To err is human, this is also valid for someone with a very high degree of popularity in the country, for Chavez, but also for a farce, for Bush, who two times came to political power in fraudulent, undemocratic elections. However, this has nothing to do with divine forgiveness, rather it concerns catastrophic errors that should be avoided at all costs. Anybody has the right to point out any mistake but this should always happen in the upright, straightforward spirit of world revolution, of human emancipation.

The Goebbels video tapes are just spewing fascist lies, ideological strychnine, class hatred, high treason and massive genocide.

To tell the truth that anytime and anywhere can be verified scientifically and philosophically, this is what Orwell called a revolutionary act. Surely, in this way, and only in this way, we could excel Chavez, will create a better Chavez as future president. To return to ad hominem back-biting, to flipping lies, street corner gossip and werewolf rumors of yesteryear surely will be fateful, fatal and mortal for the whole American continent, for humanity in its entirety.

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Published: Friday, April 21, 2006

Bylined to: Patrick J. O'Donoghue

Threat to blow up oil-fields must be taken seriously... it has its history

VHeadline.com News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue writes: Venezuelan international affairs analyst, Alberto Garrido says President Hugo Chavez Frias should be taken seriously when he threatens to blow up oil wells in the event of a US invasion.

"It's not a casual opinion and the warning has a history ... it is a kamikaze-style scenario."

* Garrido reveals that Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) employees are undergoing war exercises within the framework of the President's thesis that the USA or Imperialism is and must fall in the twenty-first century and oil is a strategic weapon to bring this about.

This time, Garrido insists, Chavez Frias has repeated the threat in front of an international audience.

The thesis, Garrido recalls, was bandied about among Venezuelan guerrillas in the 60-70s as a result of tMiddle East conflicts.

Rebel officers took up the thesis again during the February 4, 1992 (4F) coup attempt.

"On 4F they planned to blow up not just electricity towers but also oil wells, if the coup failed ... those entrusted with the mission did not obey orders ... but the idea was discussed and planned."

Garrido contends that what has changed is that Chavez Frias is now proposing the measure as Head of State and not a rebel commander.

In Parana (Brazil), Chavez Frias issued a warning that if the US tries to invade Venezuela to take over gas and oil resources, Venezuela would follow the example of Iraq and blow up its oil fields ... "we have no other alternative."

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Why both Iran and Venezuela must expect preemptive military strikes from USA?

By Franz J. T. Lee

Over the past months, many serious writers and scientists like Thomas Bearden, Michael Ruppert or Siegfried Tischler have made us aware of the latest frightening debates and eerie discussions that are taking place around the globe, and which highlight such troublesome phenomena like "global warming," the "unnecessary energy crisis," "Peak Oil," the coming "Big Crash" of the USA, the devaluation of the US$, things like "HAARP," "Mind and Thought Control," "Tesla Technology and Free Energy," the shaky foundations of the world market and the advent of genocidal, fascist world wars.

All these major events of modern history we have related directly to Venezuela and to the Bolivarian Revolution.

* We also explained that they are appearance forms of a brutal capitalist world order.

Furthermore, unless the USA and/or Israel do not launch military preemptive strikes against Iran within the next weeks, we�ll soon witness an international novelty that many countries will be buying and selling oil and gas for Euros ... this will put the ailing war economy of the USA and its sick US$ in jeopardy.

Till now, this military attack has not materialized itself as yet, because Iran has promised a "crushing response" in some way or the other, it is definitely ready for a heavy retaliation. We know that Iran has ground forces estimated at 800,000 personnel, also it has long-range missiles capable of striking both Israel and Europe.

* Hence a real boiling oil crucible is being stoked in the Middle East that could scorch Europe and have devastating belligerent dimensions and far-reaching genocidal effects in the Gulf region, a process that very well could involve Venezuela at any moment.

At least, Al Jazeera is convinced that a joined Venezuelan and Iranian strategy exists: "By joining forces in a move expected to deal a major blow to the US economy, Iran and Venezuela are encouraging and creating a golden opportunity for other states to shift foreign-exchange holdings out of dollars and into euros or other currencies."

If this is really true, then both Iran and Venezuela could expect United States preemptive military strikes any moment in future.

Why this is so an article "Iran is the Next Battle Field," edited by Elias Akleh, explains very simply: "The Dollar is a fiat currency backed only by oil trade that uses only Dollar as its currency. Every country in the world must hold American Dollars to be able to purchase oil. The more demand for oil the more demand for the Dollar. This demand supports the value of the Dollar, and in turn supports the American economy. Switching oil trade from Dollar to Euro or to any other currency would reduce the demand for the Dollar, cause the reduction of its purchasing power and the inevitable collapse of the American economy."

Thus, seen from a global trans-historic viewpoint, nowadays, more than ever, there are vital, sustaining reasons why we have to recall, to keep in mind, to ponder very seriously about certain basic issues. Certain revolutionary needs like a new culture or a new system of self defense, necessitate immediate, urgent attention, demand praxical solutions, a scientific and philosophic framework, well-organized social projects.

Really, here in Venezuela, we do not have the privilege of living like "noble savages" in Rousseau's World; on the contrary, millions of us in Latin America are vegetating on the "bread line" in an imperialist world of fear, corruption, conspiracy, treason and treachery, i. e., we are living in Bush's Hobbesian Wolf Land.

Furthermore, a lackadaisical, middle class life style towards revolution and emancipation could become fatal for any revolutionary.

In future, by means of a series of commentaries we will address such pertinent global issues that directly affect our lives, our survival and quo vadis. Knowledge about our apocalyptic reality is the major weapon to surpass all our troubles. As emancipatory effect, our objective should be the self-creation of a new wo/man, of a new species, a new world, a new socialism.

In epochs of extreme danger, for example, around 1789 in France or 1917 in Russia, or 1939 in Germany and now between 2006 and 2008 in Venezuela and the whole globe, that is, during "the best of times, and the worst of times" (Charles Dickens), it becomes necessary to summarize, to have afterthoughts, to synchronize, to oscillate, to focus everything that we ever have thought and said, and to place its core in the epicenter of our present and future praxis and theory. In reality this is part and parcel of the creation of a historic memory, of social, class consciousness, of a new science and philosophy of human revolution and emancipation.

Let us commence with "Peak Oil." Like anything in the world, a phenomenon has its affirmation and its negation, some are in favor of something others are against it. This is the dialectical contradictory existence of any thing, of its two related real, true sides.

An expert in this field is Michael C. Ruppert, and a few days ago he informed us that last week CNN aired a special on Peak Oil six times. He reminded the doubting Thomases that they were warned about the coming Oil Crisis.

How are the "energy crisis," the North American war threats, and the new bourse of Iran, affecting the Gulf region, the current most vulnerable sector of the world market?

Over the last years, ever since 2001, the Gulf markets were flourishing, because of the abundance of liquidity, generated by the sharp rise of oil revenues, that lured millions of small investors into the region and they promised lucrative businesses and profits. Now, at the ides of March, 2006, suddenly, everything has changed.

On March 15, again Cassandra was warning us about the coming economic collapse; according to Al Jazeera, the Arab stock market is beginning to implode, this could have a domino effect around the globe. It is no wonder that the USA currently stops publishing its M3 money supply.

Inter alia, Al Jazeera reported: "Stock markets in the Gulf region and Egypt suffered major losses on Tuesday, triggering angry protests in Kuwait and prompting some analysts to forecast a crash after a solid five-year upward run. The market in OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia, the largest in the Arab world, dropped sharply for the fourth consecutive day, reflecting what analysts said was a sharp correction across the region. The value of Gulf bourses dropped on Tuesday to just under one trillion dollars, down some $150 billion from their 2005 value and more than $250 billion below the peak."

If this decaying process cannot be halted very soon, and if this virus would be allowed to spread itself worldwide, then the devastating effects would be the same as if an asteroid of a diameter of 5 kilometers has struck the earth. That virus has its headquarters in the White House, it is called the "Bush-Rumsfeld War Virus."

What is the philosophic crux of this apocalyptic threat?

Seen in terms of galactic eons, as a result of the fast growing, unilateral, one-sided, perverse non-relation of Man, of Society, towards Nature over the last millennia, that is, of the process of egoistically satisfying only ruling class "human" needs, and of mercilessly exploiting the physical and intellectual labor forces of billions of chattel and wage slaves, of "speaking tools" (Aristotle), in geometric progression Planet Earth is collapsing under the gigantic, destructive economic burden of global, capitalist, corporate vandalism, in reality, its life flame is being extinguished under the fascist war boot of genocidal Globalization.

* This is the politico-economic matrix of all the problems mentioned before, from Peak Oil to HAARP, from "ora et labora" to "Crossing the Rubicon" (Michael Ruppert).

In fact, as the result of human labor, ever since the so-called Neolithic revolution, dramatic physical changes took place on Earth. For example, as we know, phytoplankton forms the basis of the whole marine food chain, however, the warming up of the oceans, is now already affecting and infecting everything from zooplankton to the larger fish. The sea currents are being disrupted and global production and consumption of food will soon be affected seriously. This imperialist Behemoth is even destroying the seven seas.

In natural relation with the plankton in the sea, long ago, huge forests, that probably covered a third of the land surface, had absorbed effectively the necessary amount of CO2 that was created by the tons of gas coming from the cracks of the Earth as a result of volcanic action. Some methane gas was caught up under the ice that now escapes as a result of the gradually melting poles, caused by the inexorable warming up of the planet.

An excellent recent article, "Planet collapsing under global warming stress," written and published by Simon Willace on March 17, 2006, informs us as follows: "The gas was exhaust from an engine delivered in inexhaustible supplies after geo-sequestered carbon deposits incinerated beneath the earths crust and were continuously absorbed into carbon sinks on its surface which operated as if their lives depended upon it. It was a self sustaining mechanism that no longer operates."

Scientists like Siegfried Tischler, have made us aware that in the atmosphere there already exists enough CO2 to keep global warming going for the next 400 years. Furthermore, these scientists are warning that ice thawing at the north pole "will increase runoff to the Arctic Ocean and will release vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere, which of course will lead to greater warming and greater release of methane gases. This by itself is reason to believe the Global warming tipping point was reached some years ago." (Ibid.)

All this, added to the cosmic danger that comes through the huge holes in the ozone layer around the earth, the inhabitants of Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and even South Africa are already having a very hard time of survival; they are being faced with all kinds of health hazards.

And, who does anything, which democracies and governments care, which United Nations stops which United States?

Because of our own lethargy, our own Socratic death drive, do we really deserve to perish as a species?

And, if we try to do something about it, then immediately we are being branded as "terrorists," are being murdered!

This is the case of President Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela!

Concerning Latin America, we in Venezuela should be very careful with our Orinoco and Amazonia industrial projects, with deforestation for stock-breeding and cattle-ranching, including with our gas and oil exploitation and the construction of gas and petroleum pipelines across virgin lands, across the whole South American continent.

"As a sign of the times, rainforests in the Amazon are being sacrificed to the god of Chinese industry so that soya can feed the hungry pigs that grace the plates of the nation�s factory workers." (ibid.)

The war economies of industrial countries and their insatiable production of arms of mass destruction, including their geophysical arms like the HAARP projects, and their manipulation of natural climate, laws, forces and processes, have caused such huge environmental damages and problems, that nowhere on earth the weather is fine anymore, nowhere life itself is safe anymore.

Mother Nature, violated by the exploitative human labor process, cannot sustain herself anymore, cannot create life much longer anymore, as she did it once for millions of years. Polar bears are dying by drowning because global warming has already changed their natural habitat significantly; even the walruses are abandoning their pups, as the ice that once provided nurseries and kindergarten are melting away beneath the breeding population. In the oceans plankton and fish populations are being massacred, Ground cover and forest on land are drying out, rainforests in the Congo and elsewhere have already been affected, and because of capitalist, imperialist vandalism, even Amazonia is recording her driest years.

What the North American genocidal attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq have left behind is just incredible. What damage "Plan Colombia" is already causing to South American flora and fauna, to our food, health, biodiversity, oxygen and water supplies, this every indigenous peasant knows.

What a natural and human disaster North American military invasion in Venezuela would cause is beyond human imagination.

In Venezuela, those "chavistas" who plot against the Bolivarian Revolution, who do not have the foggiest idea about their capital and cardinal crimes against future generations, and against humanity in its entirety: with their horrendous deeds, they are even putting the Devil, Mammon, to shame.

It is not even a case anymore of "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Knowingly and consciously, receiving millions of dollars for their overt and covert CIA operations, with manuals in their hands, they are committing unforgivable crimes against life on this planet.

* Judged from the galactic magnitude of their high treason, any known legal sentence, any democratic punishment, is completely inapplicable to anyone of them.

Not even hell fire could burn away the innocent Venezuelan blood on their murderous, treacherous fingers.

Emancipatory History itself will absolve Fidel Castro and Chavez -- History will dissolve these traitors into the galactic black holes of Nothingness..

However, we should not forget, the above is not a personal matter, is not the crime of an elitist gang, it is the bloody trail of globalization, of capitalist, imperialist, world corporatism; this is Orwellian fascism approximating us, human beings, animals, insects, plants, atoms and particles everywhere, also in Iran and Venezuela. At this eleventh hour, it is the Leviathan monster that comes nearer every ticking second, that desperately is devouring everything sacred and human, even its own labor essence.

* Hence, we have to be not only class conscious, we have to see the real dimensions of our current global problems.

We have to grasp the many transhistoric reasons and causes why North America has to invade Venezuela and the rest of the subjugated world. It is not only a matter of the "Empire," not only of "Oil," not just to check-mate the other competitors for world hegemony, not mainly to save the petro-dollar against the coming petro-euro, not just personal megalomania of a Bush clique, not because Chavez "attacks" Bush.

On the contrary, our planetary reality is much more complicated than just studying isolated events, it is not a CNN news reel, a rat race of isolated events, blended out by loud horror music clips. World reality is being reflected by all its existential inter-related elements, and by many other things, that only a sound and sane mind can register, capture and understand.

The obsolete world order, decadent Western culture, archaic world religions, the world market in agony, mortally affected by "Peak Oil," a moribund capitalism and imperialism that is losing its "death-bringing" energy, old fossil energy, a crashing "Fourth Empire," all form part of the signs of our time, of the beginning of the end and of the final demise of all modes of exploitative production and of dominating reproduction.

The ALBA, the dawning on the new horizon of human creation and creativity in Venezuela, the clarion call, the vox populi of "Diana" in all Central and South America, in Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere in the "Third World," that is, the coming into existence of human emancipation ... all these scare the hell out of globalization.

Capitalism came into existence, it has reached its heyday, now, in the 21st century, like anything else it merits its own self-destruction, nothing can save it anymore, together with its lackeys and Quislings, it should now enjoy its own death fangs and pangs, its torturous, terrorist, painful fading away into universal oblivion.

What is fundamental is that we should not nurture a dying capitalism in Venezuela, not follow capitalism into its Draculian grave. Hence, all "chavistas without Chavez" beware! But, even more so, this is also valid for all the "chavistas with Chavez"!

And, Miami lovers, please learn a bitter lesson from the Great Depression of 1929 in Europe: if the USA and the dollar should crash any time, then the greenback will not be worth the paper on which it is printed. Any Yankee lover in Zulia may end up as poor as a skinny church-mouse, making its nest in a million dollar paper garbage trash-can, that will not be worth a dime. Comrades, let us rather stay with Bolivar, with our bolivares. At least, a certain sum of them would still be able to buy a nice passion fruit juice and a huge empanada filled with delicious natural beans.

Finally, here in Venezuela, in the shadow of the North American Sword of Damocles, it is no more an issue of piecemeal dialogues and sweet-tongued "peace-talks" or of neo-liberal reformist palaver, also not of atomized practice, of isolated ideological sophistry and of dispersed religious hopes.

Rather because a large part of humanity does not know how dark the night really can be, also many do not remember the darkest night that industrial humanity ever has experienced in Europe, namely, the night of the Nazi "long knives," that is, the launching of German Nazism, hence, this is the reason why no social earthquake shakes the foundations of America as yet.

* Even Japan has forgotten the American atomic hell fire over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What Israel all forgot is beyond description.

Unless the Bolivarian Revolution internationalizes, globalizes itself very rapidly, unless we urgently stop this devouring Moloch, that is active all over already, the destruction of life, of mankind will be a billion-fold worse.

Against the British claim that "it is never too late to mend," we state that it is never too late to save mankind from extinction ... to emancipate ourselves from the ferocious, voracious claws of world fascism.

By Franz J. T. Lee

April 28, 2006

After having looked at seven fascist diatribal video tapes of the CIA and of the "opposition" launched internationally against the Bolivarian Revolution and President Chavez, that were reproduced in the evening program of Mario Silva, "La Hojilla" yesterday, to warn everybody about a possible, imminent, United States military invasion of Venezuela, this time my weekly commentary will really be piquant and bitter.

As a result of colonialism and imperialism what has happened to us over the last five centuries, and in globalization what is really on the order of the day in Latin America, in Venezuela, Percy B. Shelley has described eloquently as follows:

"Rise like Lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number -

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you -

Ye are many - they are few."

Charles Dickens, the famous British author, in his "Tale of Two Cities" ... portraying Paris, the French Revolution, and describing London, the Industrial Revolution ... teaches us what really is happening in turbulent times, during an epoch of intra-systemic social revolutions.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness... "

So begins a story of bourgeois revolutionary Paris and the contrast to smoky, smoggy industrial capitalist London. In Europe it still was a social revolutionary time where the personal sacrifice of brave men like Simon Bolivar, Francisco de Miranda, Babeuf, Blanqui, Bakunin and Marx was still a matter of human honor and loyalty to a revolutionary cause.

It was a time when a capitalist was proud to be an exploiter, where a revolutionary openly declared that he is a social democrat, a communist. It was a time when a bourgeois revolutionary was still reading his Shakespeare, about Hamlet, who reminded Horatio that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy.

It was not yet the unprincipled age of imperialist treachery, as described by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley in their famous works. Only now, in globalization, in the epoch of "Twin Tower" hoaxes, of information warfare rumors about "terrorists," bloody lies about Venezuela and Chavez, middle class corruption of "chavistas without Chavez," of formal logical, ideological confusion, psychological operations, "psy ops," enter the military, political spheres as dangerous arms of mass destruction.

But it is still a world of religious obscurantism, of erudite professors of law and political science who still kiss the baby Jesus in the "paraduras" of the University of The Andes, of Marxists following the "Passion," with palm leaves in their hands, marching behind the Holy Cross of Jesus Christ, in the spirit of the "theology of liberation," it is an ancient world of staunch Christians hiding with Karl Marx in the catacombs of primitive communism, secretly studying the forbidden gospels of Martion, Thomas, Phillipe, Judas, and even of Mary Magdalena, searching for more messiahs.

It is also the modern era of a wolfish "Adeco" Roman Catholic cardinal appearing in saintly sheep garb and golpista garbage, to tell big lies about Chavez that could open the very flooding bowels of the heavens, and who one day may even become a future pope, the virtual reality of an ex-guerrilla fighter who is now howling with the bloodthirsty werewolves, but who could one day become a future president of Venezuela once we "got rid of Chavez", the one and only root of capitalist evil in the whole world, that is, we live in an explosive, contradictory, absurd era where nobody really seems to know anything anymore , seems to be interested in who is who, or what is really going on at all.

Very few still see the writing on the wall of woe, nobody heeds to the warnings of Cassandra! A dangeous carpe diem, a dark HAARP night has fallen on mankind.

Yet, at the end of the 18th century, in the spring of capitalist revolution, a long epoch of European class consciousness and social justice was ushered in, accompanied by a "reign of terror," by the law of the capitalist guillotine, by Hegel's World Spirit on horseback, galloping across Europe, by the Napoleonic Wars, all these also affected Simon Bolivar and his daydream of a Great Colombia, to emancipate all slaves, to liberate America from the exploitative claws of metropolitan capitalism.

Currently, in our epoch of Yankee world fascism, at best the dialectical words of Dickens portray our revolutionary story, the world fascist North American "plague", the political dilemma of the successors of Simon Bolivar and Karl Marx, of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias and of Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz:

"... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."

However, let us update Dickens:

"Today, it's the Dawn, the ALBA of transcendental, historic Emancipation; it's the Aurora of Nature and Society, of Exodus, of crossing the Rubicon. Creatively we are transcending, surpassing, excelling this mode of capitalist universal destruction, of what its noisiest authorities call Globalization."

Jacta alea est -- the dies are cast!

In 2006, finally, we can choose between deepening our revolution, by involving all the workers of Latin America in self-defense, by applying all means necessary, that is, by choosing Chavez, who is neither an angel nor a saint, neither a messiah nor a wild bush fire walking and talking with god, neither a tyrant nor a dictator ... who thus cannot do it all alone or be blamed for everything that goes wrong in the capitalist universe ... and ... losing our revolution, losing seven years of joy and fear, of workers' gains, of victories of millions of impoverished Venezuelans, by returning to neoliberal savagery, by converting the Bolivarian Revolution again into open tyranny, dictatorship and imperialist barbarism. In this case, we will only see our new president on the day of elections, the next day thanks to imported whiskey he will be stone drunk stumbling around in Miraflores (Lusinchi) or like a spoiled brat we will see him again this time playing dominoes with the bored, opulent generals (Caldera).

We have no other choice: world capitalism itself, Bush himself decided: either you are with us or with Chavez.

The ultima ratio of Bush: If you are against us, we will invade you, destroy everything that you have, torture you, murder you; historically, we capitalists have magnificent experience in physical conquest and mental holocaust. What Hitler did with the Jews, communists, "niggers" and gypsies will be small fry compared to what we are doing already in Afghanistan and Iraq, to what we plan for Iran and Venezuela.

And, just imagine all the coming surprises of weapons of mass destruction that we have in mind for hundreds of millions of obsolete physical labor forces.

Here, in globalization, really, the ancient words of the biblical Jesus Christ become true: Many revolutionaries are called, few are chosen. Not everybody that shouts Chavez, Chavez, will enter emancipatory socialism of the third millennium. In fact, especially in Zulia, many "new rich" are already jumping the boat, are desperately swimming towards the haven of wanted criminals in Latin America, to Miami.

Never ever on earth occurred a "peaceful revolution"; historically, no ruling class ever stepped down peacefully from its golden throne. Thus, entering the military stage ... that Frantz Fanon already has predicted long ago in his "Wretched of the Earth" ... in emancipatory self-defense, the true Bolivarian Revolution really begins.

* The global war against world fascism will be the most violent, most bloody class war that the world ever has experienced. The currently hottest tips of this violent iceberg are Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Libya, Nepal, Colombia and Venezuela.

It would be highly irresponsible, would be mortal, not to begin to organize our self.defense immediately, in fact, it may be too late already.

However, revolutions are not one day flies, only peace time pastimes. They are permanent, they flame in periods of war and of peace, hence a revolutionary does not go on vacation when a Yankee military invasion is being constructed in front of our very door. Faced by war, a revolutionary does not sack his commander and replace him with a bush cannibal. 24 million of us cannot emigrate to the "Friends of Venezuela," here, we will have to fight violation, rape, torture and murder of our beloved ones.

So, we better be well-prepared, psychologically, praxically and theoretically, just study what Israel is doing in the Mideast, what the Yankees are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, what Pedro Estanga and consorts had and still have in mind for Venezuela, to know what is coming.

In fact, only real revolutions are being attacked heavily by imperialist invasions, see what happened in Russia, in a world war, over 20 capitalist states invaded the Soviet Union. What happened in Cuba, Chile, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Algeria and now Nepal?

Revolution is not a Christmas gift ... if you really want to make revolution, buy a gun, weapons of mass defense, otherwise, buy a computer, calculate prices, equivalents, your money, your debts.

Military invasion is part and parcel of socialist revolution.

Who wants to make a socialist revolution, and fears foreign imperialist invasion, should really retire to the North Pole, and in the Swiss cheese holes of the ozone layers should search for Father Christmas and his reindeer stagecoach, instead of trying to attack the huge bloody corporation Coca Cola, by just peacefully picketing and shouting: Hands Off our Water Resources!

The fact that Yankee military invasion is imminent precisely proves what is happening here: a dangerous social revolution against world imperialist fascism is taking place in Latin America. If we are not careful, it will be nipped in the bud. If we do not know it, well, then the industrial and military complex around Bush and Rumsfeld surely does.

Now we can decide what and who we really are: social reformists or socialist revolutionaries, bare-faced cowards or principled human beings!

To betray the revolution, by demanding that Chavez should vanish into thin air, is simply tantamount to having the memory of a stone, of committing high treason to all that is humanly sacred, near and dear in Venezuela.

This applies to everybody that is participating in the world revolution, who wants to save humanity from extinction, also to Chavez himself.

As stated above, clandestine CIA authors (including their local lackeys in the private TV stations) currently are promoting fascist diatribal "ideas", as expressed in a series of video clips of information warfare ... agents from Tampa, Florida, who probably are also the originators of all the Osama Bin Laden video tapes ... are totally disfiguring Venezuelan reality, are telling highly concentrated big lies to a vulnerable world public. They are simply dangerous war criminals. To support this is to participate in genocidal murder and world fascism.

Studying previous military invasions, as Eva Golinger warned, this Goebbels propaganda campaign is the prelude to imminent brutal invasion.

Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution did not fall like manna from heaven, they are historical creations, hence there are tons of things about them to be criticized constructively, that is, in a human, humane, humanist manner. To do this one does not need heinous lies. To err is human, this is also valid for someone with a very high degree of popularity in the country, for Chavez, but also for a farce, for Bush, who two times came to political power in fraudulent, undemocratic elections. However, this has nothing to do with divine forgiveness, rather it concerns catastrophic errors that should be avoided at all costs. Anybody has the right to point out any mistake but this should always happen in the upright, straightforward spirit of world revolution, of human emancipation.

The Goebbels video tapes are just spewing fascist lies, ideological strychnine, class hatred, high treason and massive genocide.

To tell the truth that anytime and anywhere can be verified scientifically and philosophically, this is what Orwell called a revolutionary act.

Surely, in this way, and only in this way, we could excel Chavez, will create a better Chavez as future President.

To return to ad hominem back-biting, to flipping lies, street corner gossip and werewolf rumors of yesteryear surely will be fateful for the whole American continent, for humanity in its entirety.

Franz J. T. Lee

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Franz John Tennyson Lee, Ph. D (University of Frankfurt), Author, Professor Titular & Chairholder of Philosophy and Political Science, University of The Andes, Merida (Venezuela)

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Venezuela between Jesus Christ and Karl Marx ...

By: Franz J. T. Lee,

Concerning my recent VHeadline article, "Venezuela: How to arm ourselves physically and mentally to become invincible", we have received quite a number of letters and personal comments. Some readers even asked for urgent Spanish translations of such highly informative articles. Instead of replying individually to all the questions raised in many letters, briefly I will just explain the key issues pertaining to class consciousness, religious critique and socialism today,

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46676

Catching the bull by its horns, one of our VHeadline readers, supporting the Bolivarian Revolution, from Canada commented as follows:

"Hi Franz, another much needed piece to orient the struggle. Not sure it would resonate outside the intellectual classes all on its own -- but well-received here, nonetheless. So let's get down to the task of adding real, Marxist socialist content to the too-abstract category of '21st Century Socialism' ".

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He also immediately moved from "too-abstract" emancipatory theory towards concrete revolutionary praxis:

" P.S.: A new email List to discuss this very issue has just been set up this week (because such discussion was being discouraged on another List)."

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A serious discussion about Marxism today is timely and welcome. Nationally and internationally, as can be witnessed currently in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and elsewhere, wherever President Chavez appears or gives an address or a press conference, the Bolivarian Revolution inspires, grasps the emancipatory imagination of the oppressed world.

However, capitalism is a very specific, complex, powerful, global, historical reality. From the active and theoretical point of view of annihilating its exploitative essence, of eradicating it from the face of the earth, only a specific science and philosophy has studied its historical process, its laws, its dialectics, its parasitic character and internationally how to eliminate it by means of scientific praxis and philosophic theory, by global workers' class struggle and world revolution. This living science and philosophy is socialism or Marxism. It replaced and excelled religious ideology of passively changing the world "peacefully" by means of the "grace of god".

Although nobody has come back as yet, to give us a report of living conditions in Heaven, nonetheless, no staunch Christian would ever doubt the "theory" of going to Heaven some day after death. Similarly, Marxism will only be disproved theoretically when all of us together will sing "Nearer my God to thee" in Heaven, and not in our universe, not in our solar system, not on planet Earth.

Naturally, Marxism has become the measuring-rod, to know who or what is really revolutionary, truly wants to emancipate the downtrodden billions on Earth. The global Christian "meek and humble" love Chavez, in the final showdown, they necessarily will have to love Marx also; in the end to be invincible, they will have to love the truth itself even more.

The Bolivarian Revolution, the Bolivarians, in our mass media, speak the whole day about "socialism", we should urgently take note of this simple coming truth.

All the 20th century revolutions that lost their original socialist essence and momentum during the class struggle, for various reasons, eventually degenerated either into caricatures or they became tragic paradigms of neocolonial, imperialist outposts. This is a lesson worth learning.

Here, let us just spotlight a complex problem with regard to Marxist

education, to class consciousness in a still "Third World" colonial-capitalist country, and with reference to current socialist studies within the Bolivarian Revolution. In future commentaries we will discuss other urgent immediate aspects in more detail.

President Ch�vez's Government, here in Venezuela and abroad, has achieved a lot concerning informative enlightenment about capitalist and imperialist issues, their overt and covert operations and dominating, belligerent machinations, however, concerning real Marxist and true socialist education in schools and universities very much is still to be done.

Here, lecturing about Marxism for already a quarter of a century at the University of The Andes, M�rida, in my graduate and post-graduate political science classes, one of the basic social problems of the Bolivarian Revolution has become self-evident. Many of my ex-students are Bolivarians in key government positions across Venezuela; all of them experience similar problems with regard to revolutionary education and socialist conscientization of the comrades, of the compatriots, of the sovereign, of citizen power.

On a continental dimension, as far as Latin American integration is concerned, as reflected in the current summit conferences in Argentina, the very same problems are magnified and are yearning for immediate scientific and theoretical solutions.

Does it make sense to organize summit conferences against North American fascism and not mention socialism, Marxism, the class struggle and the abolition of private property of the means of production and communication?

Will we handle such urgent issues from the open veins of Latin America, from the open grave of humanity? In a revolutionary, emancipatory sense, are our mammoth international conferences really successful, really emancipatory?

In my classes, across the last decades, I observed a strange superstructural phenomenon that always repeated itself. I noticed that I could easily explain to my students the exploitative character of the physical, colonial conquest and its abominable, torturing, horror-terror crimes. In general, they would totally agree with me.

However, at the very moment when I begin scientifically to touch and unveil the colonial, spiritual, mental holocaust, the merciless European, religious mind pillage and current North American messianic vandalism ... that ever since the barbaric Inquisition till today still lingers on in our churches, kindergarten, schools and institutions of higher learning ... then suddenly a mental blockade sets in.

This intellectual inertia, this mental resistance can also be detected in such grandiose freedom efforts like the "theology of liberation". Generally, seemingly out of nowhere, a whole colonial pandemic unio mystica, a programmed master-slave mentality arises to immediately attack "materialism", Marxism. Like all over in capitalism, mostly this anti-Marxist aggression is accompanied by primitive, ideological arguments, that favor a "master race", and also by religious views of a "chosen people" with a messianic mission; all these are intermingled with a metropolitan social and race hatred directed against "Third World" pagans, "commies", "camel drivers", "niggers" and "terrorists". This alienating pathology has affected large sectors of all social class layers, and found its way right into the alma mater.

The more we introduce and study Marxist praxis and theory, the more we set fire to ruling class lies, defamation campaigns, moral assassination and academic ostracism, but also to the endless religious adoration of all earthly and heavenly lords and warlords (sometimes, even of Hitler, praising his German military grandeur and today even that of Bush). This religious, ideological "mother of all bombs" is configured to disfigure any sincere, scientific, socialist, disalienating endeavors, leaving behind just perverse, virtual shadows of their possible existence and liberatory energy. This is not a specific Venezuelan phenomenon, it is a global social plague.

Over the years, for example, at the very moment when I began to apply the basics of scientific socialism, that is, when I commenced to explain the matrix of social critique, of academic, religious and ideology criticism, then immediately the devil broke loose in the classroom. Like most compatriots, who fear to be identified as "Castro-communists" or "atheists", the bulk of my students, with all necessary intellectual means, even with long red nails and sharp, white teeth, desperately were defending their "spirituality" against Marxist "materialism", were rescuing their slender life-thread, their beloved, feudal beliefs, their implanted galaxy of holy, white angels, of saints, immaculate virgins and infallible popes; their St. Nicholas, his Coca-Cola flying colors, the Christmas trees, their "pesebres", the "Ni�o Jesus", the "Virgin Mary" and the three "kings" ... yes, nobody could dare to touch these "sacred cows"!

What would Venezuela be without these traditional colonial customs and religious beliefs? Well, the oil sabotage of the capitalist creme de la creme in December, 2002, stole all these Christmas niceties and has taught us in the long queues day after day that Venezuela could survive, could live with other delicacies, with revolutionary praxis and theory, according to new, until then, still unknown socialist measures. Months before, in April 2002, in a ferocious class struggle, we already have pulled ourselves by our own hair out of the capitalist bottomless pit of puntofijista golpismo.

Hence, Yankees, beware!

In other world religions, the very same things happen to billions of wage-slaves, to nearly 90% of the global population, to humanity in its entirety. All over, also in Venezuela, Marxism is not a favored subject on the oficial curriculum of schools and universities, it is not even treated as a special discipline of international relevance.

This is what I call a real global Mental Holocaust!

This is the bourgeois fear of Marxism, ideologically transmitted to all of us, it is a serious stumbling block on the serpentine road towards human disalienation, is something that very few people, very few revolutionaries notice, that does not concern the huge international mass media, the United Nations programs, or the myriad of NGOs, the "New Tribes" missionaries in Amazonia or the dozens of annual world conferences.

The real intellectual damage, the magnitude of total alienation ... ironically, of "thinking" Man, now already living in the "Information Age", in the era of "intellectual property rights", in the "Third Millennium" ...the possible destruction of a whole species, by capitalism and imperialism, and now by "globalization" and in future by "post-capitalism" or "computer socialism", is beyond any possible spiritual measure, is beyond repair or material, financial reparation.

Alone for Africa, any real, true reparation expressed in a financial or money relation for the African victims of the transatlantic slave trade would surpass thousands of trillions of dollars, in fact, would cost all the accumulated wealth of the ruling classes on earth. The only reason why all this happened is because none of the rulers ever believed in their own superstitious and religious divine fabrications. Furthermore, one does not pay reparation to "speaking tools", to "niggers"; the German nazis and their current successors knew and know this "national socialist" truth very well:

Better dead than red or black!

Explaining all these things to most of my students, who are all convinced that they belong to the "middle class", I learned many a revolutionary psychological truth; in fact, I began to understand, to feel like Plato being thrown on the slave market, like Socrates who had to take the revolutionary hemlock, like Anaxagoras who said that the goddess Selena, the moon, was simply a piece of rock, and was therefore ostracized, driven out of Athens.

Furthermore, as the revolutionary quality of our classes was deepening, over the last years, approximating the 21st century, seeing the fascist renaissance of Bush's Herrenvolk religion in the USA, his patriotic Apartheid laws, and later experiencing their brutal "messianic" reality in Afghanistan and Iraq, I felt like the "atheist" philosopher Giordano Bruno, who when he was already burning on the stake, turned his glowing face away from the bloody cross, and told his murderers of the Dominican Order, of the Roman Catholic Inquisition, that they feared him more than he ever could fear them,

In other words, he told them, that eventually "history would absolve him", as it did to Galileo Galilei and to Fidel Castro already. Finally, nowadays I am beginning to feel like my philosophy teacher, Ernst Bloch, who like Socrates, was accused in "communist" East Germany of seducing the youth, with his philosophic principle of hope.

It was in this historic tradition, that my very much concerned but still confused students in Germany, Nigeria, Venezuela and elsewhere desperately were screaming:

"Prof, we agree with all your capitalist and imperialist social critique, however, as educated Christian socialists, as staunch socialist Christians, please, understand, just leave our Popes, our Saints, our Religion in peace!"

How will we be able to eradicate this alienation impregnated across five centuries?

We will have to create the emancipatory conditions, a world that does not need this huge, holy aureole, this fantastic virtuality, this vale of human tears, this heart of a heartless world, these sighs of billions of oppressed peoples. The immensity of religious dissemination and alienation precisely indicates the high degree of capitalist exploitation and imperialist domination and racism.

Of course, no official religious ideology will really help us to clear up these obscurantist, academic skies that nurture all kinds of counter-revolutionaries and dangerous traitors, that sabotage the very "deepening" of the revolution within the revolution.

Yes, Catholicism converted us into our very opposites, we have not to re-vert, but rather have to counter-vert ourselves, to conscientize, more precisely, to create, to emancipate ourselves, and for this, we need the very opposite of what is known until now as "education" or "socialization".

A revolutionary mission that uses the same old colonial, missionary methods and neocolonial contents is doomed to failure, is destined to cultivating more "esc�alidos". more "chavistas without ch�vez".

The problem is that our emancipating, creative era is running out -- we have only a few years left to eradicate pretty fast what has been sown for centuries already.

To crown it all, similarly, the very same thing happens when we want to explain the quintessence of exploitative, dominating discriminating capitalism to most of our comrades and to the world.

Also in this case, everything is fine, as long as we do not identify the only method that could analyze capitalism as dialectics, and do not explain to our students or readers that the only real science and true philosophy that could still reveal the quintessence of socialism, the negation of capitalism, is a very carefully nurtured, cultivated, curing and protected Marxism, and surely not its dozens of bourgeois, corrupt, revisionist, reformist and Stalinist caricatures.

Hence, teaching our own philosophy, accompanied by a Marxism that is a direct transhistorical product of capitalism itself, is its "No-A", its "Non-Capitallism", and which has globalized itself, as the negation of globalization, as a kind of emancipatory ALBA, as a new dawn on the human horizon, this is one of the most pertinent revolutionary tasks of Bolivarians in Latin America.

However, in doing this, in the classrooms, in public lectures, on internet, suddenly there appear the not seriously reflected "Devil", the automated Cold War fascist "anti-communist" slogans, ideological old straw and religious chimeras, that is, phenomena like "christian socialism". "socialist christianity" or the "theology of liberation". They immediately tune in on the propaganda waves of the global belligerent symphony of Goering and Goebbels against that what millions and millions of pauperized wage-slaves, dispossessed, peasant pariahs and outcast helots have defended with their very sacred blood in the name of Marxism across the globe since 150 years already.

In valiant efforts, by means of all kinds of revolutionary ostracism and emanncipatory exorcism, millions of dowtrodden, alone in Indonesia, a million communists gave their very lives in defense of Marxism, all were massacred as victims of Christian Civilization.

Bolivarians, perhaps we are too early or, worse even, too late. But, la lutta continua!

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In many countries of the world, what are we really celebrating today?

Have over 5 billion obsolete labour slaves, on May 1, really something to be joyful about? Are we celebrating the victories of Labour, of the Labour Movement, over Capital, against Capitalism, against Fascism?

At least, today, here in Venezuela, the Bolivarians are celebrating their victories over golpism, sabotage, racism and fascism, generated by Big Brother on a global scale. However, what is Labour, Labour Force, all about? Is it really something to celebrate?

It is no secret at all that the source of wealth, of power and of so-called "progress" is simply physical and/or intellectual Human Labour-Force. It is also amply known that it is Labour-Force, and not labour in itself, which is the generator of Capital and of Giga-Profits, but at the same time, also of the production of arms of mass destruction, of most horrible and abominable misery and poverty. All human problems revolve around the phenomenon of Labour, that is, of exploited Labour-Force.

In Venezuela, in Latin America and the Caribbean, not to take this universal fact into account is equivalent to not to understand, that precisely by means of the economic exploitation of fundamentally Physical Labour-Force, for centuries, the African Continent, including all the millions of its pauperized and dehumanized inhabitants, also in the diaspora, has already been heinously plundered, murdered, and will still be pillaged mercilessly for many decades to come.

In Europe, ever since the XII century until today, Labour transformed itself progressively into Industrial Labour, into Corporate Capital, and it is simply these two formal-logic, dualistic sides of the very same Labour -- Labour and Capital -- which dominate and determine all current global events. Labour is the unilateral, perverse relation between Nature and Society: it is not only alienated, even worse, it is Alienation per se, and has to be eradicated from the very face of the planet, and be replaced by human creativity, creation and emancipation.

Today, as a result of the profound crisis of corporate capitalism, the matter is even more grave, gravelike. Consequently, the only way to annihilate the quintessence of the current labour production is to transcend its economic exploitation, political domination, social discrimination (racism), fascist militarization and terrorist dehumanization (alienation).

Economic Eco-Terrorism

We are always talking about an external objective world and an internal subjective world, id est, it would seem that we are captured between two worlds, between a natural-material "diabolic" domain and a spiritual-social "divine" realm. Already Plato described our historic dilemma with the term "soma sema" - the body is the grave of the soul. Existentially, i.e., as to what concerns its Thinking, the human species, homo sapiens sapiens believes to be an earthly thinking-sapient being, in other words, Man exists subjectively, internally, and socially as Society. His principal problem is his relation towards his objective, external, natural essence.

Thus, essentially, Man is natural, and exists natural a n d socially. The specific relation between Nature and Man, i.e., Society, is generally called History. For Man, this natural-social relation is a matter of life or death, of survival, of satisfying his basic human needs, it's a matter of labour, of production, of the historic process. With regard to Labour itself and due to the way Man has been naturalized and socialized, it turns out that the whole world is affirming Labour; it is the (not yet mad) holy cow. As we will see, it is rather a process of denaturalization and dissocialization. Neither slavery, nor feudalism, nor capitalism, nor socialism, nor communism, nor religion, nor democracy, nor terrorism are negating or questioning the given Relation between Society and Nature; in other words, Labour is not being negated or questioned. On the contrary: all across the ages, the whole world has been and still is categorically affirming Labour; the only things which are being criticized, are the economic, political and social conditions of Labour, which are infra-humane, "alienatifying". The socialists and communists for instance desire to liberate Labour from alienation which man suffers under the capitalist mode of production. In the opinion of the absolute majority of all human beings on earth, the "historic" (rather patrian, patriarchal) roots of the entire misery and all the problems given on a world scale have to do with all kinds of things - with money, egoism, evil, atheism - except with Labour itself.

It becomes obvious that the celebration of Labour Day is just as anachronistic as glorifying Race Day, the "discovery of America"; at least, the latter has been eliminated in Venezuela.

Across the ages, an elitist minority elevated itself as true Man, and henceforth, brutally it begun to exploit Human Physical Labour Force itself. All this could easily be verified by any serious study of ancient "civilizations", of European discovery and military conquest, of colonization and democratization of the entire world.

Hence, it is already logically evident that this unilateral, egoistic and destructive relation would lead into a devouring productive-destructive Labour Process, abusing and exploiting Nature, and would terminate finally in contemporary globalized "eco-terrorism". Consequently, up to now - from the viewpoint of natural life, of the plants, trees, insects, animals and also from the physical nature of man itself - a horrible, abominable eco-terrorist crime has been committed against terrestrial life; this global capital crime has been committed by virtue of Labour and its Work Forces - specifically directed against itself, and in general against the totality of terrestrial natural life. All this simply occurred for the sake of unilateral, egoistic enrichment of a minority of powerful parasites, bringing about the global pauperization of "the wretched" and defenceless of the earth, i.e., of economic exploitation, all which form an intrinsic, basic part of Labour, a product of the maltreated and perverted human historic process itself, of global denaturalization and dissocialization of the human species.

Political "�tat-Terrorism"

As explained, Man and Labour are in a sense synonyms; they are one and the same thing. Thus, it becomes evident in the first place, why a dualistic cosmovision of two worlds was generated: an external-natural objective-violent world (corresponding to Matter and to the Physical Labour Force), and an internal-social subjective-peaceful world (corresponding to the Spirit, to "white collar" work, to Intellectual Labour Force).

In the famous expression of the poet Goethe, that two souls, two contradictory forces, dwell within man's breast, the dispersed, desperate relation of the spritual-intellectual towards its natural-objective part is being expressed, thus, manifesting the formal-logic, dualistic rupture between human Praxis and Theory. Furthermore, a perverse "division of labour" came into existence, which politically has produced dominating and dominated classes, and social institutions which are ruling over the still predominantly natural masses, exploiting thus massively their Physical Labour Force and all natural, terrestrial resources.

Social Intellectual Labour, the original superstructure of the Labour System, constitutes genetically and internally the negation, the dynamo of the closed system. In Hegelian style, all across the ages, thinking, intellect, intellectus, objectivated itself, alienated itself, perverted itself, technologized itself, by producing and reproducing destructive tools and weapons, -- from the stone axe to the bow and arrow, via the steam engine to the computer -- inter alia, it produced virtual and artificial intelligence, surplus value, merchandise, weapons. Amongst other enslaving, alienating chains of mental manipulation and social discrimination, aggressively, conscious Man was inventing, originating his own essential existence, was reproducing his very social life: culture, tradition, civilization, religion, law, ethics, ideology, customs, beliefs, racism, and lately, global "information warfare".

As social reproducer, ruling class Man, Rational Capital, across Intellectual Labour, manifested itself in form of the State, the means of mass communication, the modern church, the family factory, and other dominant social and welfare institutions and "endowment foundations" of a similar kind.

Sociologically, from feudalism to capitalism, Intellectus expressed itself predominantly as social minority ruling classes: as tyrants, slave-owners, clergy, nobility, bourgeoisie, fascists, racists, democrats, Illuminati, communists and terrorists. Thus, for almost three millennia, first in Europe and later on other continents, the most advanced intellectual and rational worker, with different masks as it were -- the Greek logos, the feudalistic intellectus, and the bourgeois ratio, -- all of them, economically, politically, militarily and socially were dominating sensatio, the exploited physical-natural world, destroying her progressively in the name of God, of goodness, of justice, and of peace.

He, preferibly "white" Man, usurped the immense natural powers and resources; globally, he constantly robbed all the social surplus products, acquired diverse social wealth and privileges; and finally, in our times, he is obtaining omnipotent, authoritarian, totalitarian, fascist hegemony. Now, politico-military State horror is being added to economic-exploitative terror. At the moment, the United States of America are in the forefront of this Orwellian Labour Global Fascism. Labour Ratio, Rational Labour, dominates the globe, is the New World Order.

Big Brother Racism

As we already explained, "racism" is the ideological reflex of the "global division of labour", of the world market. In other words, there is no capitalism without "racism", and there is no "racism" without capitalism. Racism is the intrinsic, ideological, superstructural part of the global system, of Intellectual and Rational Labour. Inter alia, as pointed out before, racism is expressed as "civilization", as culture, as philosophy, as religion, as ethics, as ideology, and as "information warfare". It presupposes a formal-logical, dualistic, supposedly non-contradictory world, in which only two things exist at a time, only angels and devils, good and evil, truth and lie, whites and blacks, civilization and barbarism, democracy and terrorism, a Bush and a bin Laden; of course, such a dichotomized world is an appropriate place, a fertile lair of and for fascist vipers, for engendering and promoting social discrimination, apartheid, "racism".

Racial discrimination in form of social prejudice or even religious antipathy already manifested itself overtly throughout the ages -- from the "apartheid" of hierarchically organized social classes -- suggested by Plato in "The Republic" --, from the discriminated slaves, whom Aristotle had denominated as being "speaking tools", via Montesquieu's "black negro bodies that do not merit a good white soul", down to Voltaire's "race of negro 'spaniels', inutile for the use as well as for the abuse of philosophy", any open-minded researcher can trace the venomous racist roots of civilized European ideology, of capitalism, the product of discriminatory, intellectual Social Labour.

After all, there exists no Labour without social discrimination, there exists no Racism without discriminatory Labour; accordingly, there is no emerging mode of production without some level of virulent racism, be it either religious prejudice or social antipathy; consequently, there exists no form of social racism, no social discrimination without its corresponding mode or level of production, without its proper development of labour, and vice versa. To eradicate racism from its roots, it is indispensable to surpass the Labour System, i.e., in our case, to transcend post-modern capitalism immanently -- which, itself already is in the process of transmutation towards possible domains of "transpatrian" prey, trying to invade the galaxies. Whether homo homini lupus could ever transcend himself, could transpatricize himself, this is still written in the stars. But, formal-logically, as he himself maintains: Everything is possible! There is nothing new under the sun! So, be on guard, avoid the galactic wolves and werewolves! Avoid future Gala-Terrorism!

The Transvolution of Labour and Capital

This "end of the world", this inexorable process of Labour, the logical decline of the system, the physical self-destruction of man, his "eclipse of reason", the annihilation of Physical Labour Force, and consequently, the annihilation of the billions of manual workers themselves, all this has been described in detail by the German objectivist-idealist philosopher G. W. F. Hegel in his classical writing "The Phenomenology of the Spirit".

As illustrated by him, at this transhistoric moment which we are witnessing here and now, we could perceive how the Absolute Orwellian-Fascist Idea is terminating its exploitative objectification, its dominant alienation, and how it is accomplishing its terrestrial work. Technologically and militarily, it totally dominates the Earth, Nature, reducing her to rubble, to ashes. Genetically, it is changing the material human structure already, it is conquering space, the stars. With its Intellectual Property Rights, with its infowars, disinformation campaigns, HAARP projects, electromagnetic arms, it controls the human mind. Nobody and nothing is save vis a vis the inexorable, dialectical march of "Big Brother", of the face of his divine, anti-terrorist revenge. Hence, the "Fourth Reich", the Fourth World War, the Age of Information, Globalization, the Unitarian World Order bid us all a cordial "welcome", a happy global stay.

Conclusion: Humanity! Quo Vadis?

How does this transformation of the current capitalist labour system into a future mode of creative post-production affect us? For billions, will it be the end of the world? Might it be the case, that finally the "Antichrist", "Apocalypse", "Armageddon" have all arrived? Can the Bolivarian Revolution stop the inexorable forward march of US world fascism in Latin America and elsewhere? This should be the topic today, the day to celebrate.

Definitely, and beyond doubt, Armageddon was the case for thousands and thousands innocent dead in the "Twin Towers", in the suicide aeroplanes, in the current fascist wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, For their massacred population, this was "Infinite Justice" (Bush) against "Absolute Evil" (Chirac); they directly experienced the "self-defense" of "civilization", the human right of Rumsfeld to "assassinate any enemy" of civilized Northern America, and also the sacred right of "jihad", of the myth of bin Laden, of "killing the enemies of 'Allah'". For all the innocent victims, "full spectrum dominance" was and still is the "end" of capitalist and labour existence on this planet.

As indicated before, what occurs on earth, in the universe, in the galactic multi-spheres, has nothing to do whatsoever with ethics, with norms, with formal-logic, with "human rights", with "absolute evil", with "infinite justice" - all of them are fantastic inventions of megalomaniac, kleptocratic Man, irrational, stoned and drunk as the result of an ever-flowing over dose of Labour, of the venomous superstructure of Labour, of the perverse reflections of economic exploitation, of political domination, social discrimination, human alienation; for millennia already, they are universal, formal-logical chimeras of philosophy, of religion, of ideology, of patriotic, patriarchal and patrimonial tradition, civilization and culture.

However, if we just look around, we'll notice historic emancipatory relations all around us. Seek and ye shall find! Concerning the current transition, the transmutation towards the galactic unseen, beyond the Milky Way, towards the Magellan Clouds, At this very moment, knowingly or unknowingly, the Bolivarian Revolution, objectively, subjectively and transjectively, finds itself in the aurora of revolutionary emancipation. Today, this is really something worthwhile to celebrate wholeheartedly!

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General Seeks Boost for Latin American Armies

Top official at U.S. Southern Command wants to wage war

on terror south of border

Friends,

according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Venezuelan president Ch�vez is being considered a "radical populist" - the equivalence of an "emerging terrorist" - by the US Southern Command�s chief commander, Gen. James Hill, who also sees Venezuela�s Margarita Island as a dangerous haven for Arab immigrants who help funding Islamic extremist groups and terrorist organizations. The witch hunt is on in Latin America, and the World Champion of Liberty, Democracy and Human Rights is busily drawing up plans of how to finally and definitely bring these enlightening values and blessings of North American Civilization to its obscure, impoverished, terrorist and radically populist backyard. .... Anybody here got any idea as to why I�m not convinced?

Jutta

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0430-08.htm

University of Los Andes (ULA) professor Franz J. T. Lee writes: Following the discussion that has been unfolding with regard to the diatribal utterances of Aleksander Boyd, who calls for violence against a democratically elected, perfectly constitutional and legitimate government, we find it important to note, that not only the Venezuelan President is being attacked and threatened in an absolutely unacceptable way, but also the vast majority of Venezuelans who have repeatedly and overwhelmingly reconfirmed their confidence in their government led by Hugo Chavez Frias.

Carlos Herrera is right to ask, whether we can or should accept this sort of terrorism on the Internet, and whether the use of the internet for such ends is legal under British law.

The answers are straightforward: We can not ... nor should we ... accept any terrorism of whatever caliber, be it incitement of violence on the internet, be it the continuous diatribe being spit out daily by Venezuela's private media on whatever occasion, which has done so much damage by poisoning and brainwashing many a formerly sane mind.

Neither the British, nor the French, nor the German, or any other European government for that matter (let alone the US), would or could have legally accepted the vile diatribes of the kind the Venezuelan government has endured for the past couple of years, from the internal as well as external "media front-line," including the internet.

* However, one thing is what is written in a constitution, in statutes and laws, and another thing is what capitalist, imperialist governments do.

For example, the US Bill of Rights and the US Constitution forbid slavery, terrorism and diatribal practices ... but, in reality and as practiced in its foreign policy from the very beginning, what did the Cold War propaganda disseminate across the world about the Soviet Union, by the "Voice of America," and how many millions in the "Third World" did the CIA terrorize and assassinate in the name of "fighting communism" and defending "Western style democracy"?

Also, what did the British gentlemen effectively do with their colonial "subjects," with their "pack animals"?

What about the racist terrorism of the Apartheid kind, which was a direct product of British divide and rule in India, in South Africa, and elsewhere?

Definitely, today's Aleksander Boyds are still living in the colonial master-slave era and also suffer from the "Cold War mentality," tuning in with the Venezuelan oligarchs into the "Castro-communism" cry, calling Venezuelan voters "tin-collectors" and their legitimate, legal President a "pariah," dreaming of "kicking pariahs such as Chavez out of office."

As Richard Smith correctly points out, such diatribal statements, inciting others to commit violent crimes and to assassinate political figures, have nothing to do with "freedom of expression" on the internet.

Now, what is the bottom line?

In the same way as there exist "good terrorists" and "bad terrorists" ... South Korea and North Korea ... the one gets WMDs from Washington D.C. as Christmas gifts and the other one, as part of the "axis of evil," is threatened with being bombed to pieces like Fallujah.

In a similar manner, people like Donald Rumsfeld can openly incite to assassinate the enemies of the USA, placing millions on their heads and opening the global man-hunt game on the Bin Ladens, Husseins or Arafats, once they don't serve their interests anymore ... at the same time it is strictly forbidden to even think about scorching a single hair of Bush, let alone wearing a T-Shirt that reads "Bush Terrorist."

Needless to mention, that Cuban President Fidel Castro has been on the man-hunt list for decades, with hundreds of failed assassination attempts aborted.

* This is the "legal" framework within which Boyd is moving, the unwritten law of the jungle, of the Department of Dirty Tricks, of counterinsurgency training in Miami or elsewhere, of "anti-terrorism measures" against the unwanted "pariahs" in Venezuela.

Boyd has identified himself as a loyal pawn of the worldwide "anti-terrorism" forces of the kind that impose their "democracy" with bullets and bombs onto others.

What more is there to say?

However, what concerns us here is who decides what is to be allowed on Internet or not. If the World Wide Web actually "belonged" to us ... if we had actually created it and were able to reasonably control it, then we would have no problem whatsoever. Yet we should not forget, that it is not us, who control and determine the course of the internet, but "Mother Echelon" and "Father Pentagon."

The Internet has become another "war operations theater" already, just as the global mass media. Boyd is a virtual bullet, directed against VHeadline.com and all those sites and people on the web who are defending, in this specific war operations theater, the ideas and values of Venezuela's participative democracy as outlined and promoted by the Bolivarian Revolution.

If Boyd, so comfortably and openly racist and fascist, has over-stepped and falls out of the game, others will continue in his place, because there is a strategy in operation.

Maybe those of us who have been witnessing this kind of diatribal message on a daily basis on the private Venezuelan TV channels ... and who have witnessed its 'Boomerang effect' with the damage being done to the messenger ... tend to predict the fate of the Boyds in a similar way.

Sites and people like VHeadline.com, its reporters and contributing writers can considerably accelerate this 'Boomerang effect' by simply spreading the truth.

* And this is how we defend existing and conquer new cyber-spaces without having to call for censorship.

Times are really changing very fast. On his latest visit to Moscow, President Chavez bought Leon Trotsky's "Permanent Revolution" and is studying it very carefully.

Trotsky's famous, encouraging statement at the eve of the 20th century, has reached Venezuela a century later:

Dum spiro spero!

As long as I breathe, I hope!

Franz J. T. Lee

franzjutta@cantv.net

Franz John Tennyson Lee, Ph. D (University of Frankfurt), Author, Professor Titular & Chairholder of Philosophy and Political Science, University of The Andes, Merida (Venezuela) -- http://www.franzjutta.com ; http://www.franz-lee.org ; http://www.geocities.com/juttafranz/publications00001.html

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