ATILIO BORÓN ANALIZA LAS ELECCIONES EN RUSIA SACANDONOS DEL BURDO ENGAÑO


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BOMBAS Y PAQUETES DE COMIDA SOBRE GAZA

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SI OMITIERAMOS ESTOS HORROROSOS CRIMENES, PARTICIPARIAMOS EN ELLOS, "PARTICEPS CRIMIS"

"NOT FOUND"... ¡MENTIRA!...ES QUE NO QUEREIS QUE VEAMOS EL INFINITO DOLOR QUE ESTAIS CAUSANDO! ARRIBA, PINCHAR EN ESTO: pic.twitter.com/XGlL5BYLTt Y DESPUES: View

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GAZA: ARCOIRIS APAGADO: LA LUZ HAN ASESINADO

¿Quedará todo Impune y nunca más podrán los pájaros volar? "Facit indignation versum"

FREE WORLD TOUR AND COLLAGE

FREE WORLD TOUR AND COLLAGE
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EL GRAN INFANTICIDIO

EL GRAN INFANTICIDIO
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AL GRANO: THE "AMERICAN LEADERSHIP" TIENE QUE SER PARADO O "LOS DAÑOS COLATERALES" SERAN EL COLAPSO

AL GRANO: THE "AMERICAN LEADERSHIP" TIENE QUE SER PARADO O "LOS DAÑOS COLATERALES" SERAN EL COLAPSO
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LOS DAÑOS COLATERALES DE UNA GUERRA NUCLEAR SON LA HUMANIDAD


Fidel leyéndoselo a Michel Chossudovsky cuándo se entrevistaron en La Habana en el 2010

...¿SOMOS AUN CURABLES? NO, POR ESTO:

...¿SOMOS AUN CURABLES? NO, POR ESTO:
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¿DONDE EMPIEZA AUSCHWITZ? RESPUESTA: EN GAZA

¿DONDE EMPIEZA AUSCHWITZ? RESPUESTA: EN GAZA
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POR QUÉ ASESINÓ EL FRANQUISMO A LORCA

POR QUÉ ASESINÓ EL FRANQUISMO A LORCA
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"La situación del capitalismo hoy en día no es solamente una cuestión de crisis económica y política, sino UNA CATASTROFE DE LA ESENCIA HUMANA que condena, meramente, cada reforma económica y política a la futilidad e incondicionalmente DEMANDA UNA TOTAL REVOLUCION" Herbert Marcuse, 1932 (Acotado de: "Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life", Bruce Brown; p. 14.) ¿Qué hubiese dicho hoy, 89 años después?

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¿HACIA LA IZQUIERDA O HACIA EL "SPREADING FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD" DE LA DERECHA?




"UN SISTEMA ECONÓMICO CRUEL


AL QUE PRONTO HABRÁ

QUE CORTARLE EL CUELLO"

Federico García Lorca ('Poeta en Nueva York')

¡ QUÉ GRAN VERDAD !
PORQUE FUÉ ESE MISMO
SISTEMA ECONÓMICO CRUEL,
PRECISAMENTE,
¡ EL QUE LE CORTÓ EL CUELLO A ÉL !


Saturday, March 23, 2013

Greenpeace Confirma el Axioma de Oscar Kiss Maerth


                                         






El hombre ha colonizado (canibalizado) el planeta Tierra. 
Ha tratado los ecosistemas sin respeto, sin pensar que algún día podrían acabarse los recursos, es decir, seamos claro: ha tratado todos los ecosistemas sin mente:
el hombre cuando explota no piensa.

Entre otros, los bosques vírgenes.
Ha desvirgado a todas las virgenes.
Vivimos en un mundo donde llueven himen-es
por todos lados.

La organización Greenpeace está elaborando un mapa que trata de ilustrar la pérdida de biodiversidad en el planeta. 
El mapa sera estudiado por todos los cartografos
para ampliarlo y perfeccionarlo,
para hacerlo mas grande, claro.

En este sentido, el futuro de los bosques vírgenes no augura nada bueno.

La actual velocidad de extinción de vida no ha tenido precedentes en la historia de la Tierra.
Producto de la libertad 
que ahora tenemos para ello.

La desaparición de especies animales y vegetales es, aproximadamente, mil veces mayor que en épocas anteriores a la aparición del ser humano.
En este sentido se ha progresado muchisimo.

Un Canibal autollamado "Homo Sapiens"
--y sus Dioses: "In God We Trust", por supuesto-- 
y que porta el democratico sello
de los "derechos humanos",
es el reponsable de ello.
Y es que lo quiere todo "derecho"
y después va y lo tuerce todo.
Una paradoja muy poco estudiada.

Primero,
un Canibal explota y oprime al congénere de casta,
pero, eso si, le dice que tiene "derechos",
y todo queda solucionado.
Segundo,
el Canibal explota y destruye la Naturaleza
y dice que hay que respetarla.
Entonces salimos al campo
y si tiramos un papel al suelo
nos ponen una multa.
Un manicomio muy 'sui generis'
Mani-comio: 'comió maní

Libertad para Canibalizar es el slogan.
Y todos los canibales votan por él
haciendosele la boca agua
pensando en la parte que podran morder.
(...Si...y al "pecado original" lo representan
por una "manzana"... ¡Qué desfachatez!)

Pensemos qué ocurrirá
cuándo todos los chinos
de Confucio, Lao-Tsé y el Zen,
y todos los hindues de Buda y Los Vedas
tengan coches,
neveras,
teléfonos,
televisores,
computadores
e internets...
¿quedará agua y algo de comer?
Nos tendremos que comer
los coches,
las neveras,
los teléfonos,
los televisores,
los computadores
e internets...
Esperemos que para ese entonces
nuestros jugos gastricos
se hayan especializados
en devolar ésta melé

Y vamos de peor.
Sali de Guatemala para ir a Guatepeor.

Se prevé que, en 2050, la tasa de destrucción de vida sea 10.000 veces mayor. 
Pero no olvidemos que todo ello
se llevara a cabo democraticamente
en elecciones libres.

En el caso de los bosques vírgenes, los que quedan intactos, son sólo un 10% del total de las masas boscosas del planeta.
Ya iran a por ellos en las proximas horas,
no os preocupeis.

Este mapa de Greenpeace se ha elaborado con imágenes de alta resolución procedentes de satélites.
No olvidemos que se han puesto satelites en orbita
para que nos avisen oportunamente
de las catástrofes que observan desde ahi arriba.
Nos gusta que nos avisen con antelacion.
Debe ser como un atávico y sibarítico instinto
de empezar a gozar del crimen antes de cometerlo.

También se han usado otras técnicas para calcular la vida marina que hay en los océanos. 

Eso si.
Tecnicas tenemos.
Somos una especie especielizada
en anunciarse a si misma
sus Propios Debaclés.
Es como un efecto boomerang pero a la inversa.

El objetivo es ayudar a los Gobiernos (¡¡¡capitalistas!!!) a proteger los ecosistemas. 

Greenpeace pide que se fijen una serie de espacios protegidos y la financiación necesaria para mantenerlos y gestionarlos.

Los mares sufren el mismo canibalismo

Los océanos necesitan protección inmediata para controlar la sobrepesca, las prospecciones de combustibles fósiles y la contaminación. 

Los mapas de los bosques revelan el destrozo causado por las talas ilegales y otras prácticas forestales destructivas como la deforestación para la expansión de tierras agrícolas.

Estos mapas son mera información.
Es decir: mera teoria dibujada
que despues pasa a los museos

Ahora es el turno de políticos y empresas, que deben tomar medidas para detener la catástrofe ambiental.
Pedirle al ladron,
dejandolo suelto, 
que deje de robar

¡¿Como van a "tomar medidas"
los propios canibales
para  'corregir' su canibalismo?!  
¿¡Que clase de 'kafka-ismo desvariado
es todo este absurdo y grotesco carnaval!?

Si las especies siguen desapareciendo, la supervivencia del propio ser humano estará en peligro. 
Profundidad no falta, desde luego.

En concreto, en los océanos se han señalado los hábitats más vulnerables ante una de las prácticas pesqueras más destructivas, la pesca de arrastre de profundidad. 

Greenpeace pide establecer una red global de reservas marinas en la que quede terminantemente prohibida esta práctica.

Curioso: 
A Greenpeace,
a la Verdepaz,
que está financiada
por los mismos Canibales,  
se le olvidó decir algo que,
precisamente,
para eso le pagan,
para que no se le ocurra decirlo:

Ladies and Getleman:
El problema está resuelto.
El único obstaculo es el CAPITALISMO,
el CANIBALISMO.

No nos han dejado otra opción:
                               

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"Un mono descubrió que el consumo de cerebro fresco
de sus congeners aumentaba sus impulsos sexuales.
El y sus descendientes se viciaron e iniciaron
la caza de cerebros. Sólo mas tarde se dieron cuenta
de que con ello aumentaba la inteligencia --el cráneo--
El resultado del proceso de éste canibalismo
es lo que dió origen al 'homo sapiens"

                                                     Oscar Kiss Maerth

Su libro original, en aleman, se titula:
"Der Anfang war das Ende"
'El Princio fue el Fín"

Lo que en su día fue una hipótesis,
o, si se quiere, una proposición,
hoy, según nos Prueban los Hechos,
ya está convertido en un Axioma.

El sentido del título del libro es fácil de adivinar:
el hombre se formó a través del canibalismo
--en 2 millones de años pasamos de 400 c.c. a los 1500 c.c. actuales c.c., fenómeno nunca explicado--,
y ese canibalismo ha ido progresando
con el "progreso" hasta el punto
de que, como vemos,
nos estamos comiendo el Planeta Entero.

Ya es Axiomático que terminaremos
lo mismo que empezamos.

La imagen de ello ya es perínlita y diáfana,
y por mucho que permanezcamos encerrados
en nuestras crisálidas personales
dónde criamos los gusanitos que tienden
a tejer la linda seda para no ver la realidad,
ya se conocen las genuínas respuestas
a las clásicas  preguntas ancestrales
que siempre nos han atormentado
de ¿quíenes somos?,
¿de dónde venimos?,
¿y adónde vamos?.
Se acabó el tormento.

Hegel, por las retricciones que nos imponen las condiciones históricas dónde aparecemos, nunca pudo vislumbrar que esa "libertad" que el consideraba como vehículo de la tendencia del desarrollo del proceso histórico, ya estaba convertida en una pulsión subconsciente que necesitabamos para llevar a cabo el canibalismo inmanente de nuestra historia. 
Y Marx, perfeccionador incólume de la mente de Hegel, y también, claro está, sometido a las restricciones de su época histórica, tampoco pudo vislumbrar que ese paso de los 400 c.c. de volumen craneal a los 1500 de hoy en día no se consiguió "mediante el trabajo", mediante "el uso de las manos en la construcción de las herramientas de trabajo".  Porque el trabajo, las manos, el "homo habilis", no hizo a su cerebro, fue éste el que lo hizo a él.  Pero, entendamos, ésta inversión de causa-efecto la necesitaba Marx para sustentar todo el extraordinario e influyente edificio que lo convertiría en uno de los pensadores mas grandes de la humanidad y en el desenmascarador del mismo sistema involucrado en el "fin" de ese "principio". 

Porque, naturalmente, el ejecutor que está completando ese Puente entre el Alfa y el Omega, entre ese Principio y ese Fín, es el único partido político que gobierna la Tierra: el capitalismo, pero, eso si, elegido "democráticamente en elecciones libres"...todo ello como ígneo y triunfante producto del "free world".

Para terminar, y cómo el motto poético nos anuncia de que "aquí no venimos a oler la flor, sino a regar la planta", una última, militante y especifica posición a todo éste Laberinto sin Hilo de Ariadna
en el que todos estamos encerrados, en lugar de cagarnos en la olla donde nos cuecen --como en el chiste--, sería el darle al capitalismo, y a su Diosa, la Propiedad Privada, un fulminante Golpe de Estado. Pero como todo hoy en día hay que hacerlo "democráticamente"...de seguro que se perdería por gran diferencia de "votos".

Por eso, en esos momentos --en privado, claro, cuando no tenemos el deber de mantener ninguna posición y podemos ser "pesimistas culturales" sin culpa--, cuándo la claridad objetiva sube a nuestras azoteas y los gusanitos interiores dejan de tejer la linda seda con la que nos cubrimos la realidad, no lo puedo remediar, me viene al kokoro el cuadro de don Vicente van Gogh, adaptado a  la dimension del presente, claro, y es que en ése concreto momento --viendo el cuadro, con el 'mensaje', claro--,  me siento en simbíosis total con la verdad, y yo no soy de aquellos que cree mucho en las 'verdades', al contrario, pero es que, a veces, la nitidez de los Hechos nos habla  tan convicentemente...que me es imposible eclipsarla con los consabidos "argumentos oficiales" que nos dicta el capitan del barco desde su puesto de mando para que haya tranquilidad a bordo de la 'navegacion', claro.
                                                                
 
 
PD:
Falta algo por decir.
Hay que hacerlo constar,
que todos aquellos que se han opuesto y se oponen
al canibalismo, al capitalismo,
son combatidos o liquidados,
segun su importancia e influencia
ponga en peligro lo establecido, lo edificado.
De ahi lo que se ha dicho y se dice:
que todos los Redentores de la Humanidad son crucificados.
Cuando el río suena agua lleva.
Esto introduce en el dibujo de arriba ese "ying-yang",
esa contradiccion, ese pendulum que gira
entre los dos polos del axis mundi humano:
la desesperanza y la esperanza;
son dos vielas, dos pistones que,
en la relojeria del motor de nuestro pensamiento y emociones,
suben y bajan alternativamente en una 'coincidentia opositorum'
que es facil de alcanzar, pero dificil de retener.
 

                                                  

LOS HECHOS DEL ABOMINABLE CRIMEN CONTRA LA HUMANIDAD DE LOS U$A EN IRAQ





Estamos obligados a saberlo:


The Iraq War: Ten Years of U.S. Crimes against Humanity


The corporate media in the U.S. play a powerful role in preparation for imperialist war. They play an even more insidious role in rewriting the history of U.S. wars and obstructing the purpose of U.S. wars.

They are totally intertwined with U.S. military, oil and banking corporations. In every war, this enormously powerful institution known as the ‘fourth estate’ attempts, as the public relations arm of corporate dominance, to justify imperialist plunder and overwhelm all dissent.

The corporate media’s reminiscences and evaluations this week of the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, which began March 19, 2003, are a stark reminder of their criminal complicity in the war.

In the many articles there is barely any mention of the hundreds of news stories that totally saturated the media for months leading to the Pentagon onslaught.

The news coverage in 2003 was wholly unsubstantiated, with wild fabrications of Iraqi secret ”weapons of mass destruction,” ominous nuclear threats, germ warfare programs, purchases of yellow cake uranium, nerve gas labs and the racist demonization of Saddam Hussein as the greatest threat to humanity.

All of this is now glossed over and forgotten.
No weapons were ever found in Iraq, but no U.S. official was ever charged with fraud. Heroes such as Private B. Manning, however, face life in prison for releasing documents exposing the extent of some these premeditated crimes.

Today, in the popular histories, the barest mention is made of the real reason for the war: the determination to impose regime change on Iraq in order to secure U.S. corporate control and domination of the vast oil and gas resources of the region.

Iraq was to be an example to every country attempting independent development that the only choice was complete submission or total destruction.

Now it is no longer even a political debate that the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq were a howling disaster and major imperialist blunder for U.S. strategic interests.

Despite every determination to occupy Iraq with 14 permanent military bases, the U.S. army of occupation was forced to withdraw in the face of fierce Iraqi national resistance.

Bush stood on the deck of the U.S. aircraft carrier Lincoln on May Day 2003, with a “Mission Accomplished” banner behind him, to declare the war over.

But what the U.S., puffed up by its imperialist arrogance, did not foresee was that the resistance had just begun.

U.S. strategists, so full of conceit about their powerful weapons, ignored the message displayed on signs, billboards and headlines of every Iraqi newspaper.

It was even the headline of an English-language newspaper there, when this reporter was in Iraq with a solidarity delegation just a few weeks before the U.S. “shock and awe” onslaught.

The oft-repeated slogan was: “What the jungles of Vietnam were to their resistance, the cities of Iraq will be for us.”

The Iraqi government opened the warehouses and distributed six months of food rations to the population in advance of the war.

Each package bore the sign: “Remember to feed a resistance fighter.” Small arms, explosives and simple instructions for making improvised explosive devices were publicly distributed.

Ultimately U.S. corporate power was defeated in Iraq due to its inability to be a force for human progress on any level. It was incapable of reconstruction.

The overpowering force of U.S. weaponry was able to destroy the proudest accomplishments of past decades of Iraqi sovereignty and inflame old sectarian wounds.

But it was unable to defeat the Iraqi resistance or even gain a vote on a status of forces agreement in an Iraqi Parliament that the U.S. planners created.

U.S. media non-coverage in covering the 10th anniversary, the same media that sold the war 24/7 recount  the criminal decision to invade and occupy Iraq as just mistaken intelligence or wrong information.

At the same time that they wring their hands over lost opportunities and lack of foresight, they give a passing salute to the 4,448 U.S. soldiers who died and the 32,221 wounded. At least 3,400 U.S. contractors died as well, a number barely mentioned or underreported.

More than 1.1 million U.S. soldiers served in Iraq. The National Council on Disabilities says up to 40 percent of veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

The U.S. invasion of Iraq was the most widely and closely reported war in military history. Yet the enormity of the crime committed against the Iraqi people, the hundreds of thousands of silent deaths from lack of medical infrastructure, the millions of refugees, the environmental catastrophe, the radioactive and chemical waste left behind were ignored in coverage then, and today are barely noted.

At the start of the war in March 2003, 775 reporters and photographers were registered and traveling as embedded journalists. The number grew to thousands. These reporters signed contracts with the military that limited what they were allowed to report on.

So it should come as no surprise that what is completely missing from coverage is any responsibility for the calculated destruction of Iraq, the massive corruption and systematic looting, or the conscious policy of inflaming sectarian hatred and violence as a tactic to demoralize the resistance.

Statistics cannot convey the human loss. One out of every four Iraqi children under 18 lost one or both parents. In 2007, there were 5 million Iraqi orphans, according to official government statistics. By 2008, only 50 percent of primary-school-age children were attending classes.

Iraq was reduced from having the lowest rate of illiteracy in the region to having the highest. Women suffered the greatest losses in education, professions, childcare, nutrition and their own safety in the brutal occupation.

According to figures of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, there are now 2.7 million internally displaced Iraqis and 2.2 million refugees, mostly in neighboring states. More than one-fourth of Iraq’s population is dead, disabled or dislocated refugees due to the years of U.S. occupation.

Missing in the many 10th anniversary evaluations is the essential historical context. The 2003 war was a continuation of the 1991 war to destroy Iraq as a sovereign nation in control of its own resources.

There is barely a mention of the targeted destruction in 1991 of drinking water, sanitation, sewage, irrigation, communications and pharmaceutical industry facilities, as well as the civilian electric grid and basic food supply.

Erased today is all mention of 13 years of U.S./U.N. starvation sanctions imposed on Iraq from 1990 to 2003, which caused the deaths, through hunger and disease, of more than 1 million Iraqis, more than half of them children.

Despite the horrendous toll, the failure of U.S./U.N.-imposed sanctions to create a total collapse in Iraq compelled U.S. corporate power to opt for a military invasion to impose regime change.

Second anniversary of wars in Libya, Syria

Also missing from evaluations of the U.S. war on Iraq is any mention that this is a week of two other war anniversaries.

March 19 is the second anniversary of the U.S./NATO war on Libya — the seven months of bombing that destroyed the modern, beautiful cities, schools, hospitals and cultural centers built with nationalized oil and gas of Libya.

The NATO operation assassinated the Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2011 and laid waste to the whole country. But it has not yet secured a stable source of U.S. profits.

March 15 is the second anniversary of the continuing U.S./NATO effort to destabilize and utterly destroy modern, secular Syria.

Despite U.S./NATO backing and funding from the corrupt feudal monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, diplomatic support, the arming of death squads and mercenaries, and the setting up of safe havens and bases in Turkey, the Syrian government has mobilized the population and resisted another U.S.-orchestrated regime change. The conflict is at a stalemate. The death toll has passed 70,000.

The Salvador option: mass terror

The clearest expose that the years of sectarian violence in Iraq following the U.S. invasion, death squad assassinations, mass terror campaigns and the harrowing use of torture by trained commando units were deliberate acts sanctioned and developed at the highest level of U.S. political and military command was published the week of March 18 in the London Guardian, with an accompanying BBC documentary film.

The expose was based on 18 months of research.

The expose names Col. James Steele, a retired Special Forces veteran, who was sent to Iraq by then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to organize paramilitaries to crush the Iraqi insurgency.

Another special adviser, retired Col. James Coffman, worked alongside Steele and reported directly to General Petraeus.

This U.S. policy of counterinsurgency was called the “Salvador option” — a terrorist model of mass killings by U.S.-sponsored death squads.

It was first applied in El Salvador in the 1980s’ heyday of resistance against a military dictatorship, resulting in an estimated 75,000 deaths. One million out of a population of 6 million became refugees.

The Salvador option is the central tenet of General David Petraeus’ often-praised counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Guardian researchers analyzed a number of documents from Wikileaks and assembled a huge number of reports of torture carried out by militias trained and supported by the U.S. under this program.

The BBC and The Guardian report that their requests for comment to key members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, which could investigate the allegations, were declined or ignored.

But in Samarra, an Iraqi city where Iraqis were tortured in a library and that the BBC documentary focuses on, residents held mass demonstrations against the government and planned to set up big screens in the central square to show the whole film.

‘Shock and awe’ = terror

From the very beginning of  war preparation, U.S. plans were calculated to use the most extreme forms of terror on the Iraqi people to force submission to U.S. domination.

“Shock and awe” is terrorism by another name.
“Shock and awe” is technically known as rapid dominance.

By its very definition, it’s a military doctrine that uses overwhelming power and spectacular displays of force to paralyze and destroy the will to fight.

Written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade in 1996, the doctrine is a product of the U.S. National Defense University, developed to exploit the “superior technology, precision engagement, and information dominance” of the United States.

This well-known military strategy requires the capability to disrupt “means of communication, transportation, food production, water supply, and other aspects of infrastructure.”

According to these criminal military strategists, the aim is to achieve a level of national shock akin to the effect of dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

War profiteers

The looting and pillage of Iraq on a grand scale were also planned from the very beginning. It was hardly an accident, a mistaken policy or the fog of war.


The official who had total authority in Iraq immediately following  “shock and awe” destruction, the chief of the occupation authority in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer III,  enacted 100 orders which turned Iraq overnight into a giant U.S.-dominated capitalist free market.

The 100 orders guaranteed 100 percent foreign investor ownership of Iraqi assets, the right to expropriate all profits, unrestricted imports, and long-term 30- to 40-year deals and leases.
In the official turnover to Iraqi sovereignty, these colonial orders were to stay in place.

Billions were stolen outright from Iraq. According to Dirk Adriaensens of the BRussells Tribunal, U.S. administrators, as the occupation “authority,” seized all Iraqi assets and funds all over the world — totaling U.S. $13 billion.

They confiscated all Iraqi funds in the U.S. (U.S. $3 billion). They enforced transfers of funds from the Iraqi UBS account (Swiss bank) to the U.S. forces.

They demanded and received from the U.N. the accumulated oil-for-food program funds up to March 2003 (about U.S. $21 billion).

In the first weeks of the occupation, U.S. troops got hold of about U.S. $6 billion as well as U.S. $4 billion from the Central Bank and other Iraqi banks. They collected this money in special government buildings in Baghdad.

Where did all these funds go? Instead of setting up an account in the Iraqi Central Bank for depositing these funds, as well as the oil export funds, the occupation authorities set up the “Development Fund for Iraq” account in the American Central Bank, New York Branch, where all financial operations are carried out in top secrecy.

Around $40 billion is “missing” from a post-Gulf War fund.

According to the BBC, in June 10, 2008, another $23 billion in Western aid funds to Iraq were lost, stolen or “not properly accounted for.”

Tales abounded of millions of dollars in $100 bills that went missing from skids at airports and of deliveries of pizza boxes and duffle bags full of cash.

According to BusinessPundit.com’s list of the 25 most vicious war profiteers, these stolen funds were just the beginning of the theft.

Major U.S. corporations reported record profits. In the years 2003 to 2006, profits and earnings doubled for Exxon/Mobil Corp. and ChevronTexaco.
Halliburton’s KBR, Inc. division, which was directly connected to Vice President Cheney, bilked government agencies to the tune of $17.2 billion in Iraq war-related revenue from 2003 to 2006 alone.

The cost of war

Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz calculated the cost of the Iraq war, including the many hidden costs, in his 2008 book, “The Three Trillion Dollar War.” He concluded: “There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending. You can’t spend $3 trillion — yes, $3 trillion — on a failed war abroad and not feel the pain at home.”

Stiglitz lists what even one of these trillions could have paid for: 8 million housing units, or 15 million public school teachers, or health care for 530 million children for a year, or scholarships to universities for 43 million students.

Three trillion could have fixed America’s so-called Social Security problem for half a century.

According to a Christian Science Monitor report, when ongoing medical treatment, replacement vehicles and other costs are included, the total cost of the Iraq war is projected to cost $4 trillion. (Oct. 25, 2012)

Peoples resistance & the anti-war movement
The corporate media play another important role in rewriting history.

Their aim is always to do everything possible to marginalize and disparage the awareness of millions of people in their own power.

While the “shock and awe” attack of March 19, 2003, is still described today, it is rare in the major media to see any reference to the truly massive demonstrations of opposition to the impending war that drew millions of people into the streets.

It is projected that before the war, more than 36 million people in more than 3,000 demonstrations mobilized internationally to oppose it — in the two coldest winter months. This was unprecedented.

In Iraq, despite the overwhelming force of “shock and awe,” the planned use of sectarian war and mass use of death squads — despite the destruction of every accomplishment built by past generations, along with the destruction of schools and the confiscation of resources — the U.S. war failed on every count.

Despite horrendous conditions, the Iraqi resistance drove the occupation out of Iraq. This is an accomplishment of great significance to people all around the world.

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¡¡¡GLORIA Y HONOR A LAS DOCENAS DE MILES DE ANONIMOS HEROES DEL PUEBLO IRAQUI
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POR LOS MISMOS PERPETRADORES
DE TAN ESPANTOSO CRIMEN
CONTRA LA HUMANIDAD!!!
 
 

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