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In Times of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth will be a Revolutionary Act.
(George Orwell)

No. 1214
July 18, 2006

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Por: diariodelosandes.com.ve

Israel is in violation of U.S. arms-control laws for deploying U.S.-made fighter planes, combat helicopters, and missiles to kill civilians and destroy Lebanon's infrastructure in the ongoing six-day devastation of that militarily weak country.

The death toll, according to published reports, is over 200 people – mostly civilians – while the economic losses have been estimated at about $100 million per day.

"Section 4 of the [U.S.] Arms Export Control Act requires that military items transferred to foreign governments by the United States be used solely for internal security and legitimate self-defense," says Stephen Zunes, professor of politics at the University of San Francisco.

"Since Israeli attacks against Lebanon's civilian infrastructure and population centers clearly go beyond legitimate self-defense, the United States is legally obliged to suspend arms transfers to Israel," Zunes told IPS.

Frida Berrigan, a senior research associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute in New York, is equally outraged at the misuse by Israel of U.S.-supplied weapons.

"As Israel jets bombard locations in Gaza, Haifa, and Beirut, killing civilians (including as many as seven Canadians vacationing in Aitaroun), it is worth remembering that U.S. law is clear about how U.S.-origin weapons and military systems ought to be used," Berrigan told IPS.

She pointed out that the U.S. Arms Export Control Act clear states that U.S. origin weapons should not be used for "non-defensive purposes."

"In light of this clear statement, the United States has an opportunity to stave off further bloodshed and suffering by demanding that its weaponry and military aid not be used in attacks against Lebanon and elsewhere, and challenging Israeli assertions that it is using military force defensively," she added.

That would demonstrate the kind of "utmost restraint" that world leaders called for at the G8 Summit of the world's most industrialized nations, which just ended in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The 25-member European Union has said that Israel's military retaliation against Lebanon is "grossly disproportionate" to the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers last week by the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, which is a coalition partner of the U.S.-supported government in Beirut.

Israel has accused both Syria and Iran of providing rockets and missiles to Hezbollah, which has used these weapons to hit mostly civilian targets inside Israel.

Israel's prodigious military power – currently unleashed on a virtually defenseless Lebanon – is sourced primarily to the United States.

Armed mostly with state-of-the-art U.S.-supplied fighter planes and combat helicopters, the Israeli military is capable of matching a combination of all or most of the armies in most Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.

The air force has continued to devastate Beirut and its suburbs with no resistance in the skies during six days of incessant bombings, causing civilian deaths and infrastructure destruction.

"The Israeli Air Force now flies only U.S.-origin fighters, a mix of F-15s and F-16s, and the rest of the service's fleet is almost completely of U.S. origin," says Tom Baranauskas, a senior Middle East analyst at Forecast International, a leading provider of defense market intelligence services in the United States.

While in earlier years Israel bought from a variety of arms suppliers, with the French in particular being strong sellers to Israel of such items as Mirage fighters, over the past couple of decades the United States has developed into Israel's preponderant arms supplier, he added.

"The U.S. domination as Israel's arms supplier can be seen in the Congressional Research Service's [CRS] annual study of arms sales," Baranauskas told IPS.

He said the latest CRS survey shows a total of $8.4 billion of arms deliveries to Israel in the 1997-2004 period, with fully $7.1 billion or 84.5 percent coming from a single source: the United States.

A major factor in this trend was the rise in U.S. foreign military financing (FMF) – outright U.S. grants to Israel – which now totals about $2.3 billion a year paid for by U.S. taxpayers.

By U.S. law, Baranauskas said, 74 percent of FMF assistance to Israel must be spent on U.S. military products. This U.S. assistance has now become the main source of financing for Israel's major arms procurements, especially its fighter planes.

From a historical perspective, he said, U.S. assistance to Israel during 1950-2005 has been staggeringly high: FMF amounting to $59.5 billion; $27 billion in foreign military sales (FMS) mostly government-to-government arms transactions; and $8 billion in commercial arms sales by the private sector.

Berrigan of the Arms Trade Resource Center said the United States is undoubtedly the primary supplier of Israeli firepower.

In the interest of strengthening Israel's security and maintaining the country's "qualitative military edge" over neighboring militaries, the U.S. Congress provides Israel with annual FMF grants that represent about 23 percent of its overall defense budget. Israel's 2006 military budget is estimated at $7.4 billion.

According to the Congressional Research Service, FMF levels are expected to increase incrementally by $60 million a year to a level of $2.4 billion by 2008 compared with $2.2 billion in 2005.

"Israel has been the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid every year since 1976," Berrigan said.

Additionally, the United States provides Israel with billions of dollars worth of weaponry.

She pointed out that recent military sales to Israel include propulsion systems for fast patrol boats worth more than $15 million from MTU Detroit Diesel; an $8 million contract to Lockheed Martin for high-tech infrared "navigation and targeting" capabilities for Israeli jets; and a $145 million deal with Oshkosh Truck Corp. to build more than 900 armor kits for Israeli medium tactical vehicles.

In December of last year, Lockheed Martin was awarded a $29.8 million contract to provide spares part for Israel's F-16 fighter planes.

Berrigan also said that Israel has one of the world's largest fleets of F-16 fighter planes, made in Fort Worth, Texas, and also in Israel by Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Israel has a total of over 378 F-16s, considered one of the world's most advanced fighter planes – besides 117 F-15s, 94 Skyhawks, 110 Phantoms – all supplied by the United States.

(Inter Press Service)

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Published: Sunday, July 16, 2006
Bylined to: Jesus Nery Barrios

The United States of America is in a grave crisis ... not just an energy crisis ... but an economic crisis worse than the Great Depression

VHeadline.com en Español news chief, Jesus Nery Barrios writes:  University of The Andes (ULA) Political Sciences Professor, Dr. Franz J. T. Lee has played a key role in the "Strategy of the US for Latin America" international symposium organized by the newly-founded Jorge Rodriguez university in the main auditorium of the Mucumbarila convention center in Merida at the weekend.

Professor Lee also presented his latest Spanish-language book: "Venezuela: from the Bolivarian Revolution to Human Emancipation" presented by Merida Printing House (IMMECA) director Humberto Martinez.

Dr. Lee was accompanied by a panel of experts ... Professor Luis Antonio Bigott (member of the Andean Parliament), Amilcar Figueroa (member of the Latin American Parliament), Albert Reveron (Ministry of External Relations-MRE International Affairs Commissioner),  Jairo Enrique Rivas (Merida State Parliament president), Pedro Rafael Alvarez (INCE-Merida director) and Silvio Villegas (Merida's Culture, Science & Technological Free Trade Zone-Zolccyt director) who acted as moderator.

The event, attended by numerous members of Mision Vuelvan Caras, Mision Robinson, Mision Ribas, university students and teachers as well as members of the regional parliament, artists, intellectuals and the local press, was organized by the Venezuelan government in cooperation with the Andean Parliament, Latin American Parliament, National Institute for Cooperative Education (INCE), Zolccyt and the Merida State government.

Interviewed by the local media before the symposium, Dr. Franz Lee was asked about the current international situation and its implications for Latin America within the context of the US strategies in the region.  He said that to speak about US strategies, it must be taken into account that the US is in a grave crisis ... not just an energy crisis but an economic crisis that is worse than the Great Depression at the beginning of the 20th Century.

"Economically, the United States is bankrupt, and what is at stake is that Bush (as the representative of American corporativism and the military-industrial complex) actually needs world wars very badly.

Up until now, the USA has always tried to resolve its problems by means of international confrontations ... which actually means that war is world business, a business that means world war."

He continued: "Within the context of the global situation, the integration of Latin America ... as an alternative in the face of Big Brother's fondest scheme of things ... the Venezuelan proposal to establish a Bolivarian Alternative for American (ALBA) as an alternative to the USA-hyped Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA), is a turn of events that Washington D.C. doesn't very much like."

"What all this is about is that the metropolitan countries are engaged in an economic world war in which the United States is losing its world hegemony in the face of competitors such as the European Union, China ... even India and Pakistan ... and that's a situation that is forcing the United States to try to control oil and energy resources with the aim to debilitate its competition.  This was stated just a few days ago by George Bush himself, when he said that it is not a matter of months, but of weeks ... and today, we can verify it for ourselves in the launching of a Middle East War with Israel attacking Lebanon."

Dr. Franz Lee gave an extensive lecture, explaining the difference between revolutionary and reformist logic, between scientific praxis and repetitive reactionary acts, philosophic theory and counter-revolutionary ideology, bourgeois revolution and proletarian emancipation.

He illustrated his contentions with real examples from colonial and neocolonial history, social developments in Latin America and Venezuela, from the discovery to Christianization, military conquest to total capitalist and imperialist occupation and subjugation.

He explained that globalization is the realization of the bourgeois capitalist French Revolution, and that we currently have a real chance for global emancipation ... the revolutionary integration of Latin America is an important step towards global victory for the workers and downtrodden of this world ... "who really knows capitalism, logically also knows what is socialism, namely, the NO!, the negation of capitalism, its exact opposite."

• He identified the Bolivarian Revolution as the "tip of a global, emancipatory iceberg" and declared his critical "love for the revolution."

The mainly young audience was electrified by Professor Lee's presentation and, when challenged about the planned North American military invasions of Latin America, he stated categorically that to stop Latin America's integrationist revolutionary endeavors, the United States would have to massacre all the men, women and children of the Americas.

"Even if they ever could succeed in this bloody holocaust, even to the point of assassinating Venezuela's President ...then, apart from annihilating themselves, they would still experience "the galactic winds, the golden star dust, will howl: 'Uh, Ah! Chavez will not go!'"

Jesus Nery Barrios
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=63502

Published: Sunday, July 16, 2006
Bylined to: Franz J.T. Lee

In this creative spirit, briefly we will be highlighting some current global events, that are being spearheaded by the latest United States-German fascist coalition, by an emerging destructive Nazi quo vadis (sanctified by George Bush's imperial gratitude by cold-bloodedly kissing German Chancellor Angela Merkel on both cheeks), and by various anti-Arab belligerent acts that are escalating at an enormous velocity and at a breath-taking globalized pace, that barely can be perceived in its dangerous dimension by many a mind and thought controlled victim of savage "neo-liberalism," in fact, around the globe, by billions of wage-slaves, confused by ossified, formal logical, inculcated ideology, by unilateral, cloned "anti-terrorist" news and genetically engineered "information" about the menace Chavez, about the danger that lurks in Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela, and how the Bolivarians are a threat to "world peace."

However, first, a few words about scientific truth and ideological fiction in Venezuela and everywhere.

Daily, looking at TV, reading the regional and national newspapers ... the mouthpieces of the "opposition" in Venezuela ... it is heart-breaking to see the contemporary end results of centuries of colonial, educational bamboozling of the innocent, ignorant oppressed, of the enslaved social classes.

• It is a bitter torture to read one lie after the other, to know that they are simply bare-faced fabrications, half-truths, blurred facts, golpista garbage, in a nut-shell, psychological warfare.

One is lucky to be able to see this at all, to still taste the freshness of truth, simply because one is (and was) there, has experienced the brutal military coup, has outlived the oil sabotage, saw everything, above all, one still has a memory, a historic class consciousness, knows what is the negation of capitalism, what is Marxism, class struggle.

Incredible is the level of sophisticated counter-revolutionary CIA training, of fascist psychology, of knowing how to revert truth and reality into hoaxes and ideological virtuality, that is, how to accuse others of what oneself is an expert in performing.

This alienating money nexus, this ideological pandemic, this psychological epidemic, this endemic pathology has penetrated the whole social capitalist fabric, it flows into the finest capillaries of educational and socialization structures and endeavors.

Without a radical cultural revolution, this capitalist and imperialist "plague" (Bolivar) can and will never be eradicated, be annihilated, not in Venezuela, not anywhere on capitalist earth.

• For this very reason, Truth is the rarest thing on earth, and yet, it is the conditio sine qua non for freedom, revolution, socialism and emancipation.

In Orwellian Fascism, which Bush violently is globalizing now, the following is daily "news": War is Peace," "Freedom is Slavery." A liar becomes a saint, political fraud becomes democracy. An Adeco becomes a Chavista, a Dictator is being elevated to a Liberator. Chavez is being transformed into Bush, Negroponte into Albert Schweitzer and Rice into Mother Calcutta. Day by day, innocent millions who for ages are kept in ignorance, who do not know better, swallow this fascist crap hook, sinker and bait; they defend real existing global fascism with their very lives. Education, socialization and ideology work perfectly, take their toll on a global scale. The hundreds of letters to the editor that reach us confirm these symptoms of fascist mass psychology, of global mental pathology to the hilt.

• Who still wants to have scientific proof about the globalized Neo-Nazi military quintessence of the "Fourth Empire" of president Bush?
   
• Who in the Third Millennium still does not know what is capitalism?
   
• Who in the 21st century still cannot differentiate, cannot identify, cannot think the exact opposite of imperialism?

Sad to say, as a result of eternal brain-laundering billions do not see that the dice is cast, that jacta alea est. They do not see, cannot grasp the New, New Creative Socialism!

But, facing the agony of the very species, they will have to wake up, and then we will know for whom the arms of mass destruction were produced, and who will be attacked by scramjets and atomic bombs, certainly neither the Dead Sea nor the Red Sea, neither Mars nor any extraterrestrial aliens. Historically, the obsolete useless British mad cows and the Chinese "Great March" have already blazed the bloody trail of "War is Big Business," and "Big Business is War."

This is the truth of what currently is happening in the Mideast!

Furthermore, whether we like it or not, more fresh than ever, Karl Marx and scientific and philosophic socialism (not the perverted caricatures of the negation of capitalism), are back, are here to stay.

The Bush military junta itself urgently woke them up from a deep century old slumber!

In the meantime, basically the world has not changed much, capitalism is just as exploitative, dominating, discriminatory, militarist and alienating as ever before; it has become stale and senile. There is nothing new about it anymore, so for good, let us get rid of this "Rubbish of the Millennium"!

As long as capitalism will exist Marx and Bolivar (and Chavez) always will be there. Now, even "good" capitalism and imperialism themselves have to invent "Marxism" as part of the "axis of evil," as "communism" or "terrorism," it just cannot survive, cannot globalize itself without its negation, without revolutionary Marxism.

What is happening currently on a world scale, mutatis mutandis Marx has predicted in his major work "Das Kapital" with remarkable scholarly incision and stringent precision. Any serious Marxist student could see that we are approximating the end of the capitalist mode of production, reaching the earthly limits of capital concentration, monopolization and centralization, of the organic composition of capital, of throwing physical labor out of production, and by replacing it with computers and machines, thus, producing a small class of "intellectual laborers," also of over-production and energetic crises, depression, devaluation and recession, generating the falling rate of profits, of the geometric progression of pauperization on a global scale, throwing whole continents into eternal misery.

By studying Marx, by emergency measures, by open fascism, by world wars, by arms industries, by the production of arms of mass destruction, by trying to escape from the mesocosmos to the micro- and macro-cosmos, corporate capitalism is trying to ward off its inexorable demise, but it is all in vain, the inherent exploitative, dominating, discriminating, militarist and alienating contradictions of capitalism cannot be deactivated, capitalism as a mode cannot be applied in the liberatory spheres that dawn on the horizon of human creation and emancipation. Faced with Hobson's choice, already facing its agony, world imperialism, corporate globalization, is currently more brutal than ever before.

This final capitalist vandalism and "vampirism" is what we see now on a world scale. The Bolivarian revolutionaries should urgently note the following: In reality, the real labor complex never was different, there are direct historical links between the burning slaves on the plazas of Miletus, the crucifixion of Spartacus, and the burning of Giordano Bruno on the stake, of beheading Maria Antoinette under the democratic, capitalist guillotine, the Massacre of a Million Communists in Djakarta, between Workuta, Hiroshima and Auschwitz, and the "Twin Towers," "April 11-14, and the planned current murderous attacks on Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.

There is no pacific revolution, the Venezuelan paradigm will cost many heroic lives.

In the "Communist Manifesto," Marx and Engels described the historical, dialectical process of the brutal auto-realization and of the criminal self-destruction of the bourgeois, capitalist, democratic French Revolution, in a word, of Globalization. They were among the first theoreticians of the inexorable process of globalized fascism.

Now, let us follow the current death trails of "Big Brother."

The self-anointed super power, USA, acts as Orwellian "Big Brother" ... as the Savior of Freedom and Democracy. Everywhere it dictates what is to be done, but it never allows others (for example, Iran or Venezuela) to "do it as I do it!": to stockpile arms of mass destruction, to arm oneself to the teeth.

Naturally and socially, that mankind is heading straight towards global disaster, this is practically certain already. As Marx predicted, the master-slave relations on earth are running wild, beyond ruling class control itself, not even a reformed United Nations, not even an emasculated rotative seat in its "security" council, could stop the coming world fascism. The productive labor process of past centuries has converted itself into its opposite, into a mode of self-destruction, into coming "barbarism" (Marx).

What is more barbaric than the United States military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq?

Who could have stopped these war criminals who are currently doing their utmost worst to annihilate innocent, impoverished humanity?

Surely: Neither the United Nations, nor the Pope, nor God, nor Bush himself can stop the inexorable planetary conflagration between violated Nature and perverse Society!

Only true, real creative emancipation still has an infinitesimal chance.

* Where is the ultima ratio for all these "preventive" invasions, for their fabricated pretexts?

* Standing above morality, international laws and treaties, does Capital, that is, Big Brother Bush really need any pretext at all?

* However, should it be necessary, then the Almighty, together with his CIA, NGOs, foundations, petro-dollars, lackeys, stooges, Quislings, mercenaries, death squads, WMDs and mass media, can create as many pretexts as he wishes.

The foreign policy of the USA is overloaded with such "pretexts": Pearl Harbor, 9/11, human trafficking, drug trafficking, secret installations to produce atomic bombs, terrorists, anything for that matter.

Iran evaded all these traps, because it knows that the issue at stake has little to do with the production of nuclear power or weapons. It concerns Big Business, Iran's Oil Bourse, the devaluation of the US dollar, the huge debts of the USA, the loss of US world hegemony, the weakening or elimination of the great competitors, like Europe or China, or even of "Eurasia," and cutting off their natural and energetic resources.

• Also, should it become necessary, Corporate America could declare total atomic war against the emerging new world powers.

Hence, the attacks against Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine or even North Korea, or the divide et impera conflict between Pakistan and India, do not form the real thing. The truth is being veiled very carefully with military ideology, realpolitik and political lies, by the Bin Laden or Al-Qaeda myths. These artificially produced or carefully stoked conflicts in the Mideast form the prologue to the real global war. This tactic can clearly be seen in the current conflict in the Mideast. Israel is being used as the imperialist pawn and paw to carry out the dirty work for Uncle Sam and his powerful Jewish "lobby" in the Bush regime.

Who still believes that wars are being declared because "a beautiful face that could launch a thousand ships" is being kidnapped, could safely believe that the current war and massacres in the Mideast were brought about because two Israeli soldiers were kidnapped.

However, a student of Marxism, any brain with a minimum of intelligence knows that this is crap, and that the military actions, planned by the Pentagon and NATO ... by using their loyal imperialist bulwark, Israel ... are carried out to destroy Iran's front line of defense, in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, in order to attack Iran more easily in the end.

At any event, objectively, the "pretext" is there, but the moment may not be "ripe" as yet. Iran warned Israel not to invade Syria, because it would not tolerate such a military act, and that it would set the Mideast boiling cauldron on fire, generating oil prices per barrel far beyond $80. Already now the situation in the Mideast is tumbling the stock markets in Europe and America. Even North Korea has warned the USA, and the USA has warned China. This is an exceedingly volatile international situation.

Like in the case of Iraq, the very CIA does not know for sure the whereabouts of the so-called atomic installations. Some US generals even fear another fiasco like current Iraq. However, if that what the Bush administration claims exists at all, then, what would happen if these installations are distributed all across Iran, in heavily populated centers? Will the Pope and the United Nations sanction this low intensity atomic war, this Arab genocide, this Nazi holocaust, just to please the corporate whims and caprices of the Bush military junta and its "Jewish lobby"?

Meanwhile HAARP seems to be very active in southern Iran, near the island where the future oil bourse will function. This time an earthquake hit the city of Khonj in the southern province of Fars..

In the myopic eyes of Northern metropolitan racism, of Apartheid and Zionism, are the lives of two Israeli soldiers worth more than hundred thousands of massacred Iraqi, Irani and Palestinian children and women suffering and dying, as the result of permanent military attacks, of the mortal effects of the mother of all bombs, of bunker busters?

In self-defense of Arab victims, except the Miami tourists and feudal Templars, today who would dare to invade Disney Land and the Holy City?

Marx was right, in capitalism, the life of a laborer, of a human ware, is not worth a farthing; a barrel of oil is worth thousands of lives. At least in Pushkin, President Vladimir Putin still assured us that oil will remain as the major source of energy for the next 50 years. Surely the Russian president has heard about Nikolai Tesla. Soviet Russia has applied his technology and electromagnetic free energy in various experiments.

But, as we know, business is business, Russia will be allowed by Big Brother to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO).

* What will Putin give in return?

* Stop selling arms to Venezuela?

* Will humanity survive that long, for 50 years?

* How long will Bush's new friend, India, tolerate the high oil price?

Why Bush's ultimatum of a week to China, like a child, to tell the sovereign state, North Korea, to behave? Big Brother wants to introduce his double standard behavior patterns in Asia? What does Japan mean by a preemptive attack against North Korea? It seems that apart from Germany the Bush doctrine is also bearing fruits in Japan, in Asia. Certainly China will not permit 4th of July atomic fireworks on the Great Wall.

Furthermore, did we forget that China and Russia have signed military agreements, that they, together with India and Pakistan, are also nuclear powers?

Also, we ought to know that China has severe energetic problems, suffers hunger and famine, and cum grano salis has just reached the economic and technological stage of development of the metropolitan countries in the seventies. Surely, Russia, with its enormous resources, still is cultivating super power daydreams. Hence, it is not interested in signing any global "Energy Chart," or to declare its oil as "Property of Humanity."

Like in the case of Amazonia, this would mean giving Bush a Christmas gift.

On the other hand, according to the "Project for a New American Century," all over Asia, even in the Pacific, the American military forces are stationed ready to capture anything that Washington D.C. would need to survive for a couple more decades. This is the core of the matter, in Europe and Asia we find the real "axis of evil," the competitors for world hegemony. Chavez and Venezuela, although they are necessary to solve the energetic crisis of North America, in fact, like Cuba, by the powerful international mass media are ideologically being transformed into global scapegoats, into "terrorists," into a typical fascist mechanism, to hide the real imperialist plans of global conquest, of globalization.

The G8 meeting is not accidentally in Russia, and the continuation of the Mideast furnace, at least secretly, will be decided at that meeting. The planned visits of President Hugo Chavez Frias to the Far East, now excluding North Korea, indicate that the sign of the times is on heavy storms and tornadoes.

The United States now already is taking over all the major characteristics of Nazi Germany and of Apartheid South Africa. Due to the tense international situation and the severe chaotic crises within the imperialist world system, we will experience not only magnified State violence in the name of "democracy," but also very strange class alliances.

The return of Marx is not accidental, orthodox, reformist or fundamentalist. It is a very serious logical, scientific and philosophic issue, it is because the objective, subjective and "transjective" historical conditions are given for the realization, that is, the annihilation of the French Revolution. Globalization, as predicted by Marx and Engels in 1848, is this realization of the Industrial Revolution, is the logical, inexorable culmination of the mode of production of capitalism. If its negation would triumph, then we could take the road of true socialism, towards an exodus, towards creative emancipation. If the global proletarian revolutionary experiment should fail, then humanity is doomed to extinction, then according to Marx, both the affirmation (capitalists) and the negation (workers) will end up in barbarism, will vanish as intergalactic stardust, leaving a desolate planet behind, as an eternal remembrance of ruling class egoism, arrogance, ignorance and avarice.

One thing is certain, for Iran and Venezuela, towards the end of this year a belligerent nightmare is brewing, which could have apocalyptic effects.

Bush has lit a fire in the Mideast, that will inflame even the Far East, and which could spark off Latin America, and may wipe the very United States of America off the map of world hegemony.

Marx and Engels gave us the general key towards emancipatory self-defense: Workers' Nations of the World, Unite!

This is also the current revolutionary clarion call of President Hugo Chavez Frias of Venezuela to the World.