THE HANDSTAND

JULY 2003

Here follows the congested texts of a outspoken individuals who are enabled by lack of bigotry, or by its unassailable opposition (?), to evaluate for war-torn and exhausted citizens some truths of the continuation of history ; maybe you read in amazement..... what? you,you, "war-torn and exhausted"?? Yes you, this IS YOUR CONDITION though you may not understand how that has come about. This, perhaps, evaluates a new European social "loyalty" (now demanded of us) for security reasons and the creation of a European Army .

.If the EU Constitution is agreed EU citizens will for the first time be able to initiate legislation, by presenting a petition to the Commission bearing one million signatures

"As peacemovement we have to admit that the US and UK foreign policy did not change an inch after 10 million marched down the streets of the world's main capitals in their opposition to the war against Iraq. This is something we can not forget. Today we firmly believe that a daily US boycott by millions of consumers will make a difference." declared Pol D'Huyvetter, campaigner at For Mother Earth and initiator of this first Global Day of Boycott which got endorsed by the emerging Global Boycott

Colin Archer, secretary of the Geneva-based IPB declared: "The unilateral military attack on Iraq was the latest step in a systematic refusal by the US to work within the international community. Let's look to some facts of the past couple of years with the Kyoto-protocol, the ABM- and the nuclear Testban-treaty or the hypocrisy surrounding the International Criminal Court.  The boycott movement  might well be once again the non-violent tool which will force the tyrant on its knees."

Meanwhile in Afghanistan :18.6.003
While a new constitution is currently being prepared for Afghanistan under U.S. supervision, former Afghani Premiere and head of the Islamic Party Gulbuddin Hekmatyar slammed the constitution as a game of the "puppet government" aiming at giving legitimacy to U.S.-led occupation forces. "Being under U.S. occupation and the lack of a central government that controls all Afghani states, these are not suitable circumstances to issue a constitution," "A new constitution can not be issued while U.S.-led forces are still occupying the Afghani capital and towns, deploying their military bases in Bagram, Khawagah, Roush, Khost, Gardez and Qandhaz and killing and detaining Afghanis," Hekmatyar said.

Hekmatyar,an Afghan who was declared a "terrorist" by Washington last year, said the constitution was aimed at giving legitimacy to United States-led "occupation forces" and grant it a constitutional immunity. "The game of constitution making by (the) Afghan puppet government is a joke and farce like the Loya Jirga," the statement said, referring to the traditional tribal assembly which created the current 18-month transitional government last year. He added that to pass a new constitution, the country should be free and the people should have freedom of opinion, will as well as independence. The country should also be governed by a popular government, approved by the Afghani people, he said.

"Under the Geneva Convention, no occupation force has the right to make changes in text books and the constitution of occupied countries," the statement's added.

Last week (12.6.003) the EU decided to impose several diplomatic sanctions against Cuba, because of its violation of fundamental freedoms. Now Cuba has hit back accusing the EU of serving the United States' interests and ignoring usual diplomatic practices.......

OK, this is from Berrada M. Ali, from Rabat, in Morocco, and his question is as follows: "Do you think that, after the unjustified and unjustifiable war against Iraq, the world will lose the meaning of its existence, like in the field of language, when we lose the grammatical rules? Will we automatically lose the reference of the meaning of sentences, and consequently the meaning of the world around us?"


Those Jews who protest Against ZIONISM are enduring deaththreats, personal abuse, and the Media is ignoring the number and extent of American Jewish protesters who marched in New York and other American cities recently. The Hidden Protest !!

First, by ignoring this phenomenon, the ZIONISTS are better able to perpetuate the myth that all Jews support Israel, so that we are conditioned to subconsciously respond: Jew "pro-Israel," without considering the possibility of exceptions to this synthetic PROPAGANDA.
Secondly, by establishing this false premise, the Israelis "FOR US" within the journalistic community are able to stifle any and all criticism of the Israeli government. They are able to do this by cultivating in the public mind the falsehood that to oppose Israel is tantamount to opposing all Jews, which, by extension, makes one an anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, bigot. The Zionists fear that if the general public were to become aware of Jewish opposition to Israel, many people would see through the myth and cease giving that nation the unconditional knee-jerk support (and huge annual foreign aid package) it currently enjoys.

..Sir Roger Casement wrote in a furious essay of "the far extended baleful power of the Lie."
Fact seeking implies a dislike of lies - described by Pasternak as the "inhuman reign of the lie".
But from Oxford University Press, we receive the exoneration of lies by RL Gregory who edits The Mind.."lying is in order to confuse or mislead - an essential weapon of self-protection" Get it folks? As they say in America.....
For a child the first lie told is often to deflect blame; Alistair Cambell and Tony Blair are still at it.....

Marwan Barghouti asked the court in Tel Aviv: "If your prime minister recognises there is occupation, what do you expect people to do?"

Only a slip of the tongue, sir......

I ask a Palestinian why the Israelis are building more checkpoints at a time when they should be dismantling them. He replies, "When they want to show the world that they are implementing the Road Map, they will show pictures of themselves on the news removing these new checkpoints and the regular ones will remain. They want to trick the world as usual." Anonymous

"The gap between black and white Israelis seems, with some exceptions, to be growing. For Ethiopians, it is visible in impoverished neighborhoods, soaring unemployment, and the highest high-school dropout rate of any Jewish group in Israel. Twenty-six percent of Ethiopian youths have either dropped out or do not show up for classes most of the time, raising concerns that the community's current difficulties may become chronic. Drug use, including glue-sniffing, is on the rise, and criminal activity, hardly known among Ethiopians before they came to Israel, has been growing ... to Asher Elias, a staff member at the Israel Association for Ethiopian Jews (IAEJ). 'Ethiopians have lots of motivation to become Israelis, but they are not accepted,' he says. 'In jobs, in education, people feel they are discriminated against because they are black. I'm not saying it is right or wrong, but it is what we are feeling, and that is enough.' A low point in the relationship between Ethiopian Jews and Israelis came in 1996, when it was revealed that Israeli hospitals had thrown out all blood donated by Ethiopians. "These were donations to help other Israelis," Mr. Elias says. "[Ethiopians] said to each other: 'What do they think? That we are not humans?' Habad, one of Israel's stronger orthodox religious groups, doesn't recognize Ethiopians as Jews or allow their children into its kindergartens."Anon.

Anti-Semitism is nothing but the antagonistic attitude produced in the non-Jew by the Jewish group. The Jewish group has thrived on oppression and on the antagonism it has forever met in the world... the root cause is their use of enemies they create in order to keep solidarity...
   ---  Albert Einstein, quoted in Collier's Magazine, November 26, 1938

Russia recently expressed concern over Israel's nuclear program and demanded that this be placed on the agenda of international organizations concerned with preventing nuclear proliferation.

Putin should watch it - only five weeks after suggesting the same thing US President Kennedy was assassinated... and why is Putin being feted in Buckingham Palace?Tone-knee's wonder woman and right hand "Angy" is now in BP - remember? - and just before the Iraq War the Brit.Government made a deal with Russians re. oil incase things should not go as planned re. Hussein's Russian Contracts.




A native American was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving,
compassionate one." The grandson asked him, "Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?" The grandfather answered: "The one I feed."

You've got to remember that if Washington, D.C., were the size of Baghdad, we would be having something like 215 murders a month," Rumsfeld said. "There's going to be violence in a big city."

Washington believes summer 2004 is too "early" for EU troops to take over peacekeeping operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina and is blocking NATO moves in that direction, it emerged ...
Could it be something to do with...the Albanian plans for the alteration of borders, moves planned for Macedonia, Northern Greece and Kosovo which are the concerns of their lobby group in Washington,...... to negotiate a Greater Albanian tyranny of the corrupt.

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Rumsfeld knows about the upgrades to the Krzesiny air base at Poznan in western Poland, aware of the visit of General Gregory Martin, the top US air force officer in Europe, to Bulgaria and Romania where Martin checked out real estate for a move into the Balkans. "All of those places now represent opportunities for us to create relationships that some day will allow us the access we need," Martin told the Stars and Stripes.

Think Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran. Think Suharto, the brutal dictator who ruled Indonesia for 32 years. Think General Castillo Armas in Guatemala, General Joseph Mobutu in Zaire, General Pinochet in Chile, or Jonas Savimbi in Angola. In fact, think of Saddam Hussein, the obscure Ba'ath Party hit man who eventually "came to power on a CIA train," as Ali Saleh Sa'adi, the Baath Party secretary general, described it. All of these dictators were catapulted to power by the US with the covert and often not so covert help of the CIA. No invasions were necessary, no conspicuous "footprint" was required.

The United States has demanded that a formal Biological Weapons Convention conference, scheduled to take place during two weeks in November, should instead disband in one day with only an agreement not to meet again until 2006.  To make sure that the American resolve prevails in this setting where international consensus is de rigueur, the U.S. demand was accompanied by an overt threat to disrupt any further proceedings with accusations that would make productive international action impossible. 

 As former CIA agent John Stockwell has noted, after successful coups in the Third World, the USA went about setting up and training secret police. "We created and left behind [in Nicaragua] a National Guard with officers trained in the United States who would be loyal to our interests. This arrangement was the decisive feature of the new era of neocolonialism... The CIA was, in fact, forming the police units that are, today, the death squads in El Salvador. The leaders were on the CIA's payroll, trained by the CIA in the United States. We had the public safety program going throughout Central and Latin America for twenty-six years, in which we taught them to break up subversion by interrogating people: interrogation, including torture.......

If things get too violent for "Peacekeepers"our "governments" have thought up another way to "USE" the African populations: Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Russia, Japan, Canada and the US signed up to finance special training camps for African soldiers. The club of the rich, hopes that the program will allow Africa to take over international peace keeping missions under a UN mandate by 2010.And in USA. as Anne Tatelin puts it, "here in West Virginia, we have the highest enlistment per capita of any state. I suppose that speaks volumes about the opportunities this economy offers the young in these parts. Jobs in the coal mines aren't even very plentiful anymore.Military service is the price Jessica(Lynch) and many other Americans pay for birth into the lower ranks of America's structurally harsh if culturally muddled class hierarchy.

..In countries like France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden or Austria people and workers' unions see themselves entangled in a struggle for the preservation of social standards they've fought very hard for over the decades. They feel, these standards are not only worth preserving in the "old" EU, but would rather extend them to the new member states as well - and develop the European Union into a model of real democracy and participation.A democratic EU would be a fine thing, instead it's a corporate EU on the horizon. So with their back to the wall, the plebeians of "old" Europe see themselves entangled in a fight for what's left of their welfare states.

Inward investment to England and the USA has slumped; in the USA a survey of litigation reveals that many foreign firms have been sued and fined thousands of dollars for minor legal infringements as the Republicans trawl for money for the Government.

". Take for example Poland, most people survive on their little acre (60% of Poland is agricultural land).The EU will restructurize the Polish agricultural sector on market principles.

..In 1999, at the height of his political career (as leader of the German Socialdemocrats (SPD) and Minister of Finance in Schröder's cabinet), Lafontaine made a conscientous decision and quit office, because of Schröder's Anti-Socialdemocratic tax policy. Now, with his political career at hold, Lafontaine, a brilliant Keynesian analyst and eloquent talker, has, what Schröder has not : time at his hand. He writes books...Our mainstream media, in consensus with Schröder's plans, ridicule the defenders of the welfare state as traditionalist dreamers, who want to turn back the wheel. Lafontaine argues: No, it's Schröder who wants to turn the wheel back - back to 1850, to the time of Industrial Revolution, before our social security system was invented.

"No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression. If such a movement has caught hold of the imagination of the masses, they will seek a vent in song for the aspirations, the fears and hopes, the loves and hatreds engendered by the struggle. Until the movement is marked by the joyous, defiant singing of revolutionary songs, it lacks one of the most distinct marks of a popular revolutionary movement; it is a dogma of the few, and not the faith of the multitude."

     -James Connolly, Introduction to "Songs of Freedom," 1907


A FINAL BLAST FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO GENERATION-ONLINE ........
.1)I think the concept of resistance and revolution cannot be replaced by any other notion, including the notion of multitude. Imperialism can incorporate the notions of people, freedom and multitude without much ado as we have seen throughout the history of capitalism. All capitalist crimes in past few centuries have been carried out in the name of freedom, people and multitude. But Imperialism cannot incorporate the notion of resistance, and revolution that easily. Hence the loathing of imperialists towards the very idea of resistance and revolution. Hence the importance of loyalty to the revolution and the event.

2) The democracy we know within Capitalist order is a constitutional democracy. A Constitution consists of those a priori rules that cannot be challenged and are not subject to democratic procedures because people must submit to the law of capital and not the other way round. In capitalism democracy works within the ambit of a priori constitutional rules that make sure that the formal sovereignty of the demos is always in the ambit of and for the sake of the substantive sovereignty of capital.

3) Capital is above all concentration (even if this concentration is affected through dispersion). Concentration of wealth and power unimagined before in history. Capital is ruthless totalliser (even when this totalisation is effected through freedom and not outright repression). With all respect it seems to me a far fetched idea that this concentration can be overcome and defeated without posing a counter concentration of counter power.

Personally it never bothers me who I am reading. For me the important thing is thinking and what spurs it. It is important to keep thinking.
"Ali Rizvi" <ali_m_rizvi@hotmail.com>