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Venezuela: Beware, Big Business enters the Orinoco Delta and with it a coming Big War!
By Franz J. T. Lee (about the author) Page 1 of 3 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Franz J. T. Lee - Writer
"Do we smell the stench of the bloody
Yankee boots coming from the military bases in Colombia? Elsewhere do
we smell the capitalist decay and putrefaction, the cesspools and
quagmires?
No, we see nothing, we hear nothing,
we smell nothing ....
Do we still feel anything?"
Last year, President Chavez warned:
"In 2009 they will be coming for me!" At this very moment the dark
forces of destabilization day and night are mounting a ferocious attack
against us, aided by the Obama administration.
This situation is not individual or
personal, also not a caprice of the "Empire", it is the historic result
of profound dialectical productive relations and contradictions. Let us
look at some realities.
According to data presented by Vanessa
Davies in her program, Contragolpe, on October 23rd, 2009:
* 25% of the inhabitants of our
planet find themselves in extreme poverty.
* more than 1.4 billion live on only
1 dollar a day.
* 1.2 billion have no access to any
hygiene whatsoever and have to defecate in open air.
* 800 million suffer from hunger and
malnutrition.
* 25% of children under 5 are
undernourished and thus have their physical and mental development
seriously compromised.
* 10% of the world's population
possess 90% of the world's wealth.
The latest figures of world depression, in all probability, must be
even worse. This is corporate, imperialist capitalism which wants to
convert Venezuela into another Gaza in the near future.
The "wretched of the earth", "les
miserables", the "white man's burden", living under bridges, in tents,
in caves, camps, cerros, favelas and ghettos, in Gaza and Falujah, do
see exploitation when their beloved children die of hunger. They do
hear the coming of the imperialist war planes, they smell the
decomposition of the fragments of their bombed fathers and
mothers, these 'camel-drivers' feel the burning of the white
phosphorous bombs, the pain of the eating away of their meager
flesh, of their innocent existence.
In the White House who cares? Who
still feels anything human, humane, humanitarian? Who cares that world
wide millions have protested against the Gaza massacre? On the West
Bank did the Palestinian authorities and businessmen really care, did
they protest categorically?
Venezuela, look into this mirror!
All over the Mideast, over the last
decades, in Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere,
over one million Arabs were mercilessly massacred by ruthless, reckless
ruling class war criminals of all global categories. Affirming global
capitalism, they never felt anything for the poor, for the wage slave
'under-dogs'; for them war is business and business is war, that is,
'world peace'; also, a global 'joint venture' very often crowned with a
'Nobel Peace Prize'. Once upon a time even Hitler and Stalin were
considered fit to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
However, what do many of us in
Venezuela neither see nor hear, neither smell nor feel?
In order to have a long view of
history, of capital accumulation in few hands, to vivify our past, to
nurture a healthy memory, to develop theoretical and class
consciousness and knowledge, we always have to check out what we have
said and what we were doing in the immediate past.
In order to confront the vicious onslaughts of future national and
global class wars, we need self-defense tactics and emancipatory
strategies in asymmetrical warfare. With all its arsenals of weapons of
mass destruction, which could blow the planet into blazes by means of
Tesla technology, the USA, NATO, cannot win the war against one of the
poorest nations of the world, in Afghanistan. Also Big Brother cannot
occupy Iraq totally, unless capitalists decide to blow themselves into
universal conflagration and entropy. As we said elsewhere, there exists
no capitalist without a worker, no master without a slave and vice
versa.
Venezuela: the calm before the storm.
Of course, because we are sowing the
winds of socialism, we will have to reap the capitalist storms.
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