The New Generation

 

In our new generation, we have Empire and cyber imperialism. That means that the Western elites use technology as a means to spy on human beings or advance imperialism in a slick, sophisticated fashion. We see more revelations about the National Security Agency or the NSA. It has done global intrusive, spying on even key allies' intelligence apparatuses. There has been protests and indignation over this reality. We know that unwarranted spying by the NSA violate trust and sovereignty. We know that these actions threaten the national and economic security of the world including citizens' privacy. The White House has responded to this controversy in giving out a contradictory policy. They claim to condemn the excesses and errors of the NSA, but still want to defend the overall, entire surveillance program as necessary for U.S. national security. We know that a global police state must have a spy apparatus monitoring the world without many legal or constitutional constraints. We know that the NSA surveils text, video, audio communications, etc. The NSA secretly store information. The NSA may experience intra-bureaucratic conflicts and rivalries, but the institutions and organizations of the intelligence community remain firm. The political and economic elite still advance neoliberalism and Empire abroad. The U.S. spy network has its roots to colonialism and attempts to dominate enslaved human beings. This modern spy system existed after WWII. America replaced Europe as the overt face of world imperialism. Anti-colonials movements in Southeast Asia, Cuba, etc. were opposed by Western elites. The West wants a unipolar world where they have global military bases, subordination of capitalist competitors in other industrial countries, getting resources in foreign lands, etc. They want to dismantle public institutions, education, health care, and worker rights in favor of privatization. The West loves to confront adversarial nationalist regimes in resource-rich countries, including Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, Bashar Assad in Syria, Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Khamenei in Iran. They challenged U.S. supremacy in North Africa and the Middle East. Yet, the West is allied with Persian Gulf States as a means to stop various Islamic nationalist movements. The foreign policies of Bush Sr. Clinton, Bush Jr. with his neo-conservatives and Obama are very similar (as each administration wanted to use wars or strikes as a means to consolidate the unipolar Western Empire in the Persian Gulf including the Balkans). The attacks on September 11, 2001 grew the U.S. imperial state. The modern police state operation uses the Patriot Act and other policies to suppress human rights. We have many whistleblowers that exposed the NSA and the rest of the surveillance state. We now see the rise of cyber imperialism where countries are spied. The advance of technology of spying strengthens the police state. The list of targets is endless and bizarre. The GWOT or the Global War on Terror has been bloody, exploitative, and sinful. The Homeland Security apparatus has been involved in violating our civil liberties as well. They have spied even on innocent citizens and have been involved in the distortion of habeas corpus.  The National Security Agency doubled its personnel and budget with a mandate to distrust and monitor allies and vassal states. The targets piled upon targets, far beyond traditional adversaries, sweeping up the public and private communications of all political, military and economic leaders, institutions, and citizenry. When Western allies are even targeted by spying, then you have a serious problem with the surveillance state. So, we are still fighting against Empire, against unwarranted spying, and against the harm done to our basic, inherit human rights.


We know about the Affordable Care Act more today. It has many issues. It so far leaves millions uninsured. It will leave many folks underinsured. Some coverages are more expensive. Mandated market rules in private insurance are controversial. Most plans have huge deductibles and co-pays. This will cause many to face unaffordable out of pocket cots. Federal subsidies for America's poor are very much inadequately. Millions live from paycheck to paycheck. There are limited resources to make expensive treatments unaffordable. Insurers have some wiggle room. They can't deny preexisting conditions. They can delay and backdoor ways to maintain things. So, the system is seeking profit and the insurance companies who wrote the law made sure it benefits greatly. The website of Healthcare.gov has issues. Consumers are struck with mandate private insurance provisions. Some Republicans and some Democrats want consumers to keep their current plans indefinitely or let them be available through 2014 or 2015. Democrat senators up for reelection next year express greatest concern. Senator Kay Hagan (D. NC) called Obama’s fix a “step in the right direction.” It’s “not enough, and we need to do more,” she said. The ACA's future depends on how things go from here. It also depends on the website, because the website can create more access to health care. If problems stay unresolved, then growing dissatisfaction will follow. Obama’s popularity is slipping. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows only 39% approval. It’s a new low. Gallup’s latest poll has Congress at 9%. It’s an all-time low. In its congressional ratings for 39 years, Capitol Hill’s average was 33%. Post-9/11, affirmation hit a 56% high. Americans today deplore both sides of the aisle. They do so for good reason. They sold out their constituents. They do it consistently. We see that the Republicans oppose the ACA for the wrong reasons while the Democrats support its worst features. Again, America is the only developed country without some form of universal coverage.  Many developing ones have it. Thais get it. So do Taiwanese. Brazilians have what Americans lack. All Venezuelans and Cubans are fully covered. It’s constitutionally guaranteed. It’s state-funded. It’s not commoditized. It’s not run by marketplace rules. It’s not based on the ability to pay. It’s free. Chavez called healthcare “a fundamental social right and the state will assume the principal role in the construction of a participatory system for national public health.” It is not just a right. It is a means where it is essential for participatory democracy. Health care is preventative as well as treating symptoms when they occur. It includes emergency services, mental health, surgeries, cancer care and other expensive illnesses, dental and eye treatment, prescription drugs, as well as free eyeglasses and contact lenses. Healthcare is based on need, not bottom line priorities. Venezuelans in every barrio are covered. An “army of white jackets” provide universal care. It’s a reality throughout the country. Even Cuba has universal health care. In the U.S., we have to pay more to get less.  Universal single payer coverage alone works effectively. Insurers provide no care whatever. They’re predatory middlemen. They add over $400 billion annually in administrative costs. Eliminating them assures big savings. Americans deserve coverage for all medical services. These services include physician visits, hospitalizations, surgeries, preventive care, long-term when needed, mental health, dental, vision, prescription drugs, rehabilitation, and alternative treatments among others. Universal health care will end administrative waste and would make insurance premiums. Patients can choose providers freely and doctors can have autonomy over delivering care. Health care is a fundamental human right.



Noam Chomsky is a left gatekeeper that seeks to obfuscate President Kennedy's policy to withdraw from Vietnam. It is clear that NSAM 263, which was issued in October of 1963, wanted a withdrawal of American advisors form Vietnam. NSAM 273 was signed by LBJ after Kennedy's death to escalate U.S. military action in Vietnam. All the witnesses that John Newman, Fletcher Prouty and Peter Scott adduced combine to bolster the fact that Kennedy was withdrawing from Vietnam. Even Lyndon Johnson back then did not like how President John F. Kennedy withdrew of the American Jupiter missiles form Turkey in exchange for Russian withdrawal of the missiles from Cuba. Also, Chomsky ignored how the CIA violated orders from the White House to carry out its own missions. During the crisis, CIA officer William Harvey—a man who despised the Kennedys—secretly dispatched several teams of Cuban exile paratroopers onto the island. (Larry Hancock, Nexus, p. 80). Harvey never fully revealed what the mission of these men actually was. But since he constantly assailed the Kennedys for not having the guts to get rid of Castro once and for all, one can imagine what he had in mind. RFK was angry about it and soon Harvey was out of the CIA. Under Kennedy, the CIA often enacted autonomous action without the President's permission. There are more examples of this in Hancock's book and Jim Douglass' JFK and the Unspeakable book. So, the CIA and President Kennedy clashed ideologically and politically. Sometimes, the Agency made its own policy. Mongoose was ended on November 29, 1962 at an NSC meeting of that day.  But the real point is that Kennedy began to dismantle Mongoose almost immediately after the Russian removal was verified. Cuban exile operations were severely curtailed, stipends were withdrawn, and groups were disbanded. Noam Chomsky even lied and tried to once blame Kennedy for the assassination of Lumumba when that happened before Kennedy was inaugurated into office. By mid-1963, for all intents and purposes, Mongoose had been all but eliminated. As CIA official Desmond Fitzgerald wrote to President Johnson in 1964, in the second half of 1963 there were all of five raids against Cuba.  Kennedy wanted to use back channel negotiations with Cuba as a means to achieve normalization of relations with Cuba. The goal appeared to be in sight when Castro got the news of Kennedy’s death. He then turned to Kennedy’s representative Jean Daniel and said, “Everything is changed. Everything is going to change.” Castro was correct. Johnson showed no interest in continuing Kennedy’s goal of détente with Cuba. In this instance, he used William Attwood, Lisa Howard, and Jean Daniel to negotiate with the Cuba government. These negotiations went on for 11 months. And near the end, plans were being set for a visit to Castro by Attwood as Kennedy’s emissary. Discussions would center on removing Soviet influence on the island in exchange for the beginning of the exploration of diplomatic relations No President since JFK have come close to normalization of relations with Cuba. JFK did not want to cooperate with Rockefeller too.


Noam Chomsky has an interesting history. He was an apologist for the Pol Pot's Khmer. Chomsky has been known to butcher quotations for political advantage. A famous example being a quote by Harry Truman which Chomsky altered in his book American Power and the New Mandarins. This was later exposed by Arthur Schlesinger in a letter to Commentary in December of 1969. Another example would be the misconstruing of the words of Harvard professor Samuel Huntington. Chomsky wrote that the professor said that he advocated demolishing en toto North Vietnamese society. Huntington corrected the record in New York Review of Books (See, 2/26/70). He wrote in apology for the war crimes of the Pol Pot tyranny. Pol Pot was a great murderer and causer of genocide in Cambodia. A second notable aspect of Chomsky’s work is his association with the notorious Holocaust denier Professor Robert Faurisson. When Faurisson’s writing on this subject became public, he was suspended from his position at the University of Lyon. Chomsky then signed a petition in support of Faurisson’s reinstatement. In 1980, he wrote a brief introduction to a book by Faurisson. Chomsky later tried to say that he was personally unacquainted with Faurisson and was only speaking out for academic freedom. But unfortunately for Chomsky and his acolytes—like Batey—this was contradicted by Faurisson himself. For the Frenchman had written a letter to the New Statesman in 1979. It began with: “Noam Chomsky...is aware of the research work I do on what I call the ‘gas chambers and genocide hoax’. He informed me that Gitta Sereny had mentioned my name in an article in your journal. He told me I had been referred to ‘in an extraordinarily unfair way.’”. (This unpublished letter was quoted in the October, 1981 issue of the Australian journal Quadrant.) So again, Chomsky’s later qualifications about his reasons for signing the petition and writing the introduction ring hollow. So, it is not unusual to see Noam Chomsky use lies and distortions about late President John F. Kennedy. He loves the Warren Commission. Noam Chomsky agrees with the view that Lee Harvey Oswald did it alone. Noam Chomsky is right on some issues (like the evils of U.S. foreign policy, crimes of many transnational corporations, and media propaganda), but he ignores the deep politics of secret government, corporate policies that he readily ignores. In order words, there are globalists in political international organizations, etc. that are harming the globe as well. Some have called Chomsky a left gatekeeper. Furthermore he claims that the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Bilderberg Committee, and Trilateral Commission are "nothing organizations." Numerous executives in the CIA and State Department have been members of the CFR, whether it was Dean Rusk, Allen Dulles and Robert McNamara during Vietnam or Richard Armitage and George Tenet during the crimes of 9-11. When critiquing poverty, he never mentions the Federal Reserve and their role in manipulating the national debt. Noam Chomsky ridicules the 9/11 Truth Movement and even rejects government prior knowledge of 9/11 style attacks (which is fully documented. This is no longer a debate. This is total fact). So, left gatekeepers are just as wrong as abhorrent reactionaries. Also, it is important to expose radical reactionaries like Rush Limbaugh, who some falsely portray as a mainstream conservative, which is laughable.



If he created an article about why does he hate white people (and wrote an article similar about describing white people), then he will be fired or suspended ASAP. Why is it fashionable to scapegoat black people for ills of society now? It doesn't make any sense. I have no iota of self-hatred in my heart, mind, and spirit at all. I am thankful to be black period. Black people are filled with human beings of compassion, of empathy, and of strength. So, this journalist is wrong. Yes, it is ironic that Don Lemon is interviewing the man since he believes in much of that black scapegoating rhetoric. The reality is that the journalist is a grown man with international experience. He has the time and the effort to see the truth and develop a strong sense of love for his blackness. It is so convenient for the PTB to fund deluded members of our people to degrade and castigate our people in the most offensive, stereotypical terms. Our black image is strong, beautiful, and diverse. So, this journalist should take the time to understand his issues and to see the light that BLACKNESS is a great asset in our community. Orville Lloyd Douglas knows full well that many Afro-Canadians are strong like many African Americans. Many Afro-Canadians love their black heritage. This liar said that folks who are African Americans want our experience to circumvent the experiences of other blacks worldwide. That is a total lie. Self-hatred should be confronted in our community, but this journalist wrote much gross lies about his own people. He can easily write that I love being a black man and I hate stereotypes about black humanity. He can see that we come from the place of respect. He should be inspired to be strong and realize that his black heritage is strong. It is a heritage that exists from ancient civilizations to modern scientists. It is a heritage that relates to the beautiful Motherland of Africa and to various locations in the four corners of the Earth. The knowledge of self and the love of Black Humanity will go a long way in improving the societal conditions of our people. We have a responsibility to build up Brothers and Sisters as well. Far too often, some (who are racists, etc.) want to degrade Brothers and Sisters unfairly. That is wrong since if we do that, then we degrade ourselves. Black is Beautiful. Therefore, we should encourage each other as a means to grow, to gain more insight, and to improve our own lives. There is nothing wrong with Black Love, Black Unity, and Black Power, so we respect our legacy from the words from Malcolm X to the words from Fannie Lou Hamer. Subsequently, he is alive, so he does have a chance to wake up. He has spewed many falsehoods and we have the right to set the record straight. The truth is that black community is diverse and is accepting of Brothers and Sisters with eclectic tastes, diverse nationalities, and diverse personalities. Black Humanity should be strong (as Brothers and Sisters have every right to be strong, uncompromising, and stoic against injustice. So, a man should be a man and a woman should be a woman. There is nothing wrong with manhood and womanhood at all), active, and ready to fight for justice. Justice, freedom, and truth are great principles to live by.

By Timothy