And talking about propaganda,
Only Max Blumenthal has reported honestly and thoroughly from personal
observation, what is actually going on in Nicaragua. He did so again today in
an episode of Unauthorized Disclosure. There was also an honest report on
Flashpoints from a foreigner who lives there, the other day. I think Amy
Goodman covered the story, but very poorly, with an opposition representative
and a Sandinista representative, as if there were a question about what is
truly happening. She's done that in the past with Syria and Ukraine, always
being sure to give the US government's side an equal voice. That's what the
mainstream media does when it doesn't want to lose its influence with powerful
forces.
And then there's all the misinformation about World War 2 implanted in our
brains. I'm reading a novel, The Wind Is Not A River and I acquired a new
tidbit of truth. The Japanese attacked and occupied part of Alaska and that
fact was kept from the American
People when it happened. What part? The Aleutian Islands. I thought they were
in the South Pacific. No, they're in the North Pacific, part of Alaska. And the
US didn't want the Japanese to have the advantage of the natives still living
there, their homes, their farm animals. The Japanese were occupying more and
more land so what did the US do? Our troops captured all of the natives who
were peacefully living on the land that had not yet been captured by the
Japanese. They burnt their homes, slaughtered their animals and set fire to
them and to the people's other possessions, loaded the people onto ships and
took them to concentration camps to await the end of the war.
Miriam
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Sent: Monday, August 06, 2018 2:43 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Anti-fascists face off against rightists in
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The American Corporate Empire uses propaganda and censorship as tools for
confusing the Masses. We have been conditioned by our "educational system" to
be passive recipients of, and regurgitaters of carefully selected information.
In social studies there is never room for debate or questioning.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/6/18, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
https://socialistaction.org/2018/08/05/anti-fascists-face-off-against-
rightists-in-portland/
Anti-fascists face off against rightists in Portland
/ 1 day ago
Aug. 2018 Portland hateBy STEVE XAVIER
On Aug. 4, the Patriot Prayer group, led by Joey Gibson, the GOP U.S.
Senate candidate in Washington state, organized a mobilization of far
right and neo-fascist groupings in Portland, Ore. This rally included
the proto-fascist Proud Boys, an organization that has repeatedly, and
violently, attacked the Occupy ICE camp in Portland. Militia members
with confederate flag patches on their clothing joined with neo-Nazis
at Waterfront Park. Proud Boys wore t-shirts celebrating the murderous
Pinochet dictatorship and depicting “leftists” being thrown from
helicopters.
An anti-fascist counter protest of thousands squared off against the
rightists in downtown Portland, while hundreds of cops tried to
separate the two opposed forces.
The counter-mobilization included unions, left organizations like the
International Socialist Organization and the DSA, as well as other
anti-fascist forces. The protesters outnumbered the reactionaries
decisively. Unicorn Riot, an anti-fascist news outlet, reported
collusion between cops and rightists.Aug. 2018 Antifascist DSA
Predictably, the cops attacked the counter-protesters with explosive
“flash bangs” and tear gas. Chanting, “Whose streets? Our streets!”
counter-protesters refused to disperse when cops ordered the
demonstration to leave the area of the rightist rally. As police
attacked counter-protesters, much to the delight of the rightists,
some anti-fascists responded by throwing bottles and rocks. Under
police cover, the reactionaries tried to take the streets only to be
told to return to the park.
Activists report four arrests during the demonstrations, and one woman
was reportedly taken to the hospital. Press reports say that numerous
counter-protesters were injured. Willamette Week reports that “as in
past protests, police force was aimed squarely and nearly exclusively
at one side: the antifascists.”
The role of cops and the state
Farrell Dobbs, a leader of the Socialist Workers Party in the 20th
century, speaking about the struggle against fascism, pointed to the
role of police: “The line of the police is to defend the exercise of
the formal democratic rights of the fascists, on the one hand, and not
to “see” the violations of the democratic rights of the fascists’ victims.
Meanwhile, the cops take full advantage of any violation of
bourgeois-democratic law that the antifascists may commit. In any kind
of confrontation between antifascist and fascist forces, the basic
line of the cops is to protect the fascists in any way they can and to
join in the victimization of the antifascists.”Aug. 2018 Portland
arrest
Socialists understand that the police are the armed enforcers of the
capitalist order that is upheld by the courts, prisons, and their
politicians.. As Dobbs asserted, cops “protect the rights of the
fascists while at the same time using fascist forces to try to keep
others from exercising those (democratic) rights. One of the forces
used to implement this is that most malevolent of all the repressive
instruments of capitalist rule, the police forces. The police
structure is of a character that makes it a breeding ground for fascists.”
Socialists advocate a mass counter-mobilization against fascist
wherever they try to spew their racist filth in public. We also
support the right of oppressed peoples and the labor movement, the
targets of the reactionaries’ hate, to defend themselves against racist
violence.
We reject the notion that Trump is a fascist. Nevertheless, Trump’s
right-wing populism has given new vitality to fascist and
extreme-right forces through his utilization of racist, sexist,
Islamophobic, and anti-immigrant rhetoric to energize his base. As one
fascist leader put it, “Trump has set us free.” This was demonstrated
by Trump’s refusal to disavow the fascist mobilization in
Charlottesville last summer, calling some of the fascists “very fine people.”
The problem with the constant barrage of this or that Republican being
a fascist is that it makes it more difficult to recognize the real
thing when it rears its head. Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky
characterized fascism as a mass movement of “the crazed petty
bourgeoisie [the “middle-class”] and the bands of declassed and
demoralized lumpenproletariat [shiftless and criminal elements]—all
the countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to
desperation and frenzy.”
Fascism is a symptom of capitalism in crisis. While fascists often use
anti-capitalist rhetoric, their purpose is to preserve the capitalist
order by smashing the workers’ movement. Although the fascists are
currently a fringe movement, the capitalist class will use their
services as strong-arm strikebreakers, terrorists, and assassins if it
appears necessary—and even, under conditions of extreme crisis, put
the fascists in charge of the government, as happened in Germany and
Italy before the Second World War.
Defeating fascism and the ultra-right requires mass
counter-mobilizations, defense of the right to self-defense,
independence from the state—police, courts, and politicians—and
relentless class struggle. Fascism is the manifestation of all of the
horrors of the capitalist system vomited forth for all to see. The
ultimate defeat of the fascists requires the abolition of the
capitalist system itself.
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