President John F. Kennedy was once a strong Cold Warrior. Later, he saw the truth and became more reasonable in dealing with foreign affairs. He entered the White House in 1961 and was a young man when he entered the White House. The ill-conceived Bay of Pigs failed invasion of Cuba was in its final stages. Even when JFK started in the White House, there were extensive covert operations by the West done in Africa and Asia (as a means to defend European colonial interests). Congo gained independence by 1960 from Belgium. Yet, the British and Belgian mineral cartels wanted the division of the mineral rich Katanga province by a traitor to his own black people and warlord named Moise Tshombe. Malcolm X exposed Tshombe as a war criminal. The nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated while being held captive by Tshombe's forces. President Kennedy respected Lumumba and Lumumba was a great hero of black people and humanity in general. Lumumba was killed with the help of the CIA and Eisenhower's approval, which was one of Eisenhower's greatest Presidential errors. CIA agents were fighting in Laos in the early 1960's not only against the communist Pathet Lao, but the neutralist government as well. Even back in the 1950's, then Senator John F. Kennedy opposed colonialism publicly. JFK loved the fact that Algeria gained its independence from France. His 1957 speech about wanting Algeria to be free was denounced in London and Paris. Theodore Sorenson was his friend and adviser. Sorenson said that JFK viewed communist aggression and subversion intolerable, not communism itself. In other words, he believed that a nation has the right to embrace whatever economic system that they desire as long they don't try to pervert the economic or political system in any other nation. JFK refused to use U.S. military forces to fight in Laos, but he agreed with allying with the neutralist government of Laos. JFK was influenced by his more dovish tone by the April 1961 meeting with General Douglas MacArthur. The General told JFK that he shouldn't advance any new ground war in Asia like Vietnam. General Charles de Gaulle told President John F. Kennedy the same advice. The Non Aligned Movement was made as a means to have sovereign nation states without participation in military alliances (like NATO, SEATO, the Central Treaty Organization, etc.). John F. Kennedy was an ally of Indonesian President John F. Kennedy. JFK wanted to meet with him again in the Spring of 1964. Sukarno believed in self-determination. They met with each other back in 1961. JFK wanted to assist nations that wanted independence. Sukarno visited the White House. JFK dealt with the Vietnam War as well. John Kenneth Galbraith was Kennedy's friend and economic adviser. He visited Vietnam as an Ambassador to India. Galbraith said that United States involvement in Vietnam will end in failure and only a political settlement with Ho Chi Minh would end that situation (with help from India's Nehru). Later, Kennedy began to disengage from Vietnam. JFK wanted a technologically developing society where peace can come via strength. Diem was a dictator and a criminal, but according to sources, the North Vietnamese (and Diem) were working towards peaceful settlement. The Harriman Bundy faction wanted no such negotiations with Ho Chi Minh at all in the early 1960's. The murder of Diem ended any neutralist peace agreement. JFK opposed the coup in November 1, 1963. The architects of the coup used the Diem's unjust suppression of the religious liberty rights of the Buddhists in South Vietnam as a cover. They really wanted to stop Diem and Nhu's overtures for peace with Ho Chi Minh.
The West arms terrorists in Syria. Al Qaeda is killing civilians in Syria too. The mainstream media lied and said that the West is only funding so-called moderate rebels. They claim that the moderate rebels are tilting the balance of the Syrian conflict against the Syrian government. The Washington Post talked about the West sending new weapons to the rebels. These rebels include many factions like the Free Syrian Army. The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and others are funding the rebels as well. The Washington Post refused to use the term of Al Qaeda as one of the factions in the rebel groups. The reality is that the Al Qaeda network is huge among the so called moderate rebels. Al-Nusra is Al Qaeda in Syria. It is linked to the Western created and backed moderate opposition. Moaz al-Khatib, leader of the so-called National Coalition, demanded the US take al-Nusra in particular off their list of sanctioned terrorist organizations. In December of 2012, Reuters quoted al-Khatib as saying: “The decision to consider a party that is fighting the regime as a terrorist party needs to be reviewed. We might disagree with some parties and their ideas and their political and ideological vision. But we affirm that all the guns of the rebels are aimed at overthrowing the tyrannical criminal regime.” Even Reuters admitted that the USA designated Jabhat al-Nusra as a foreign terrorist organization (and said that it was trying to hijack the revolt on behalf of al-Qaeda in Iraq). The rebels have been involved in terrorism in Syria like the killing of civilians including school children. The West funds Saudi Arabia and Qatar and the West hypocritically accuse them of being main financiers of al-Qaeda. Since at least 2007, the West had plans to overthrow both Syria and Iran by funding and arming al-Qaeda related groups. The National Salvation Front contacted with the U.S. State Department as means to try to have a coup against Syria. One of the NSF’s most influential members is the Syrian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood — the decades-old political movement active across the Middle East whose leaders have inspired the terrorist groups Hamas and al Qaeda. Its Syrian offshoot says it has renounced armed struggle in favor of democratic reform. Seymour Hersh's 2007 article entitled, "The Redirection" admitted that the Bush administration tried to undermine Iran by funding Sunni extremist groups that were sympathetic to Al Qaeda. The article said that the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Israel worked together in 2007 as a means to try to harm the nation of Syria. When you look at the truth, the truth is apparent and transparent. The truth is that the West, Israel, Saudi Arabia, ISI, and Qatar either helped create Al-Qaeda or aided Al-Qaeda related groups as a means for them to rule over Middle Eastern territories. The West readily use a divide and conquer strategy where ethnicities, religions, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds are exploited as a means for select corporations including groups like the IMF to have a further foothold in the capacities of various countries. Now, the war on terror is spreading into Africa and as far as Southeast Asia. This assault on the Syrian people by terrorists is truly immoral indeed.
Far too often, some individuals ignore the great contributions of Black Americans in anti-colonialism efforts. African American human beings of numerous intellectual and ideological perspectives publicly disagreed strongly with the nefarious injustice of Western imperialism. These African Americans wanted true racial equality or true racial egalitarianism in a modern or contemporary sense. During the era of World War Two, black newspapers like the Pittsburgh Courier, the New York Amsterdam News, and others gave African American an outlet to view that the United Nations can terminate colonialism. Now, this was before the UN was ultimately infiltrated fully by Western elitists and others though from the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. The Courier was a Republican paper, but it was extremely anticolonial. It gave great, extensive coverage of nationalist movements around the world and it hailed the successes of colonial troops. They allowed columns from nationalist leaders to be in their work like Indian nationalist Kumar Goshal, the Chinese writer Liu Liang Mo, and the African nationalist Prince A. A. Nwafor Orizu of Nigeria. The Courier was read in colonies as well. This proved that tons of African Americans have an internationalist mindset and understood the struggle of human beings of color worldwide. These individuals wanted everything that everyone else deserves: independence, equality, and freedom. This anti-colonialist feeling was expressed from black human beings from across the political spectrum. Mainstream leaders like Walter White and A. Philip Randolph urged African Americans to support the war while seeking the achievement of racial equality at home and the abolition of colonialism abroad. The Courier also published regular columns that frequently discussed international affairs by a Pan-Africanist Marxist, George Padmore; by a black nationalist popular historian, J. A. Rogers; and by a curmudgeonly Menckenesque anticommunist, George Schuyler. The distinguished Howard University historian, Dr. Rayford W. Logan, then the most prominent African American specialist on international relations in the Courier. Many of the authors in the Courier viewed Winston Churchill as an imperialist and Tory like bigot who wants to advance white supremacy. Winston Churchill was radically in favor of the British Empire. Kwame Nkrumah wanted immediate independence for colonies in 1945. At a May 18, 1945 meeting of the American delegation, Charles W. Taussig, FDR’s confidant on colonial affairs, read an impassioned statement arguing that the United States would have poor relations with the non-white peoples of the world if it refused to support independence for colonial possessions. Yet, the delegates in the early UN wanted some token efforts for the sake of paranoia about the Soviet Union. The San Francisco Conference failed to advance real independence, but allow the trustees of colonial powers to dictate alone the terms of independence. It would take years later for the Third World to be more successful for being free from imperialists.
Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan reintroduced HR 676 or the “The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act.” The bill wants to establish a privately delivered publicly financed universal health care system. The bill will allow physicians and nonprofit health care providers to be in charge of medical decisions not insurance companies. HR 676 would expand and improve the highly popular Medicare program and provide universal access to care to all Americans. The funding of this program is done by a real, modest payroll tax on employees and employers, a financial transaction tax, and higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans. HR 676 has been introduced in Congress since 2003. There has been a broad base of support among universal health care activists, organized labor, physicians, and social justice organizations across the nation. The bill has been supported by 26 international unions, Physicians For A National Health Program, two former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, National Nurses United, the American Medical Students Association, Progressive Democrats of America, and the NAACP. During the last Congress, 77 other members of the House of Representatives signed on as cosponsors of the legislation. In 2011, the Vermont legislature passed legislation that laid the foundation for a single payer health care system in the state. Representative Conyers issued this statement following the release of the bill: “I am pleased to announce the reintroduction of H.R. 676, ‘The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act,’ in the 113th Congress. I have introduced the bill in each Congress since 2003 and I will continue to do so until the bill is passed,” said Conyers. A single payer system is better than the status quo indeed. We have higher premiums, high out of pocket costs and other issues in the health care system that is overly dependent on private insurance plans. The Affordable Care Act is just the beginning, because a real nonprofit universal single payer health care system is a better way to contain health care system (and give quality care for all Americans).
The Presidency of Barack Obama has made other errors and mistakes as well. Sometimes, I know it is hard to write about such things even years ago. Yet, the truth is no respecter of persons. In other words, you have to show the truth even if it is unpopular or inconvenient with a lot of human beings. We do realize that Obama is not to be blamed for all aspects of our situation, so I want to make that perfectly clear. On January 6, 2005, he voted as a Senator for the endorsement of the seating of the fraudulent electors form Ohio. These electors gave Bush and Cheney a second stolen term. Only one Senator named Barbara Boxer of California voted against the policy. Years ago, Obama's chief foreign policy advisor was Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski was the man who crafted the Afghanistan war back in 1979. He agreed with a technocratic society where certain elitists would govern the huge functions of a complex world society. Brzezinski’s 1997 book “The Grand Chessboard” helped lay the foundation for the current imperial atrocities, predicting that "as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." We know that the Africom military command is used as a cover as an excuse for Western corporate interests want to grab African oil and minerals (with competition against further Chinese influence in the African continent). Those of Africom wants a 15 fold expansion in drones and other intelligence gathering. Africom is a military group, so their goal is about trying to militarily control as much as Africa as possible. That is one of the goals of any military. European allies and African proxies are involved in this neo-imperialism as well. The nominated General David Rodriquez could rule AFRICOM. He told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he wants more drones, spy planes, and satellites, etc. in Africa. We know that the United States have or is planning on building drone bases in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Niger, Burkina Faso, and even in the Seychelles Islands. Many other Special Forces are in the heart of Africa from Kenya to South Sudan. You will notice that the left gatekeepers even (including some in the Black American misleadership class as opposed to real Black American revolutionaries that are really fighting for the truth) agree with this neoliberal agenda. The misleadership fundamentally doesn't give an inch of concern about Africa. They don't care about Africa, because if they did, they would advocate European imperialists to leave the African continent and advocate Africans to rule their own lands (with advanced technological developments without GMOs, without radical population, and without oppression from the World Bank or the IMF). In the final analysis, Africa is for the Africans and Africans ought to rule all of Africa. Both mainstream Republicans and mainstream Democrats advance similar policies from more Wall Street funding to more reactionary foreign policy agenda. Being a revolutionary means it is just being a decent human being. You can just be an activist, work with real human beings, and treating fellow human beings with dignity including respect.
By Timothy
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