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Permalink Reply by robert alpert on December 10, 2011 at 5:32pm

i  just  want to throw something out--this  may be more  than a mideast problem--i  have heard that similar actions  particularly Venezuala  are in the works--all  of this was made possible by the  destruction of the USSR --if  you think about it.

I  spoke  with someone  from Algeria  because  I knew this was going to spread--now she said  she did not like Gaddaffi many  "leftists" here including OCC  Boston  and Occ London  said the same thing. She had  some right  to say that--though I think she was wrong--the  west has NO  RIGHT At the moment  we cannot  change  gov  attitudes but--particularly among white occupiers  it is possible--this is not a new  problem the  white  west  right  left center and even part of the black  west  has been infected  with a "humanitarian  imperialism" the  worst  crimes in the  world  we should remember  are taking place in Congo--but the rhetoric over a hundred years  ago was initially "humanitarian" and "improving" it  should be no surprise  that  many people in the  west are infected  with "improvement" which is a  very deceptive word--remember even a giant like Paul Robeson supported Israel (though had he not been murdered--yes murdered) he  would have  not held that position that  had to do with wwii  --but I have argued  that at LEAST  people  should  shut up about  things they no nothing about-btw  what exactly is a "dictator" to me it is a throwaway  word  as is "democracy" unless they are  precisely defined they  become propaganda words  and the fact is  people fall for them "terrorist" is another--people will say Assad killed x amount of people what  complicates it is  they will also  say the US  killed x amount of people--what they will NOT  say is the US  killed  x amount of black people say in Hartford Conn--sometimes the police sometimes  starvation  aids of pathologies  inflicted by  western governments --it may seem like a  small point  but  throwing  words around is a dangerous business. one other point--since this technology (which is not ours but there's makes it  difficult  to  write  out  reasoned analysis people are  prone  to sound bytes. Last point  what is happening now  seems to have been  planned  around 2003 for that I have evidence (others say even earlier)