Keeping U.S. Imperialists away.

Keeping U.S. Imperialists away.

(Herman Tiu Laurel/ DieHard III/ Tribune column for 5-27-2015 Wednesday)

 

Harvard scholar Garikai Chengu wrote in Global Research, “Africa’s ‘Second Liberation’ against Today’s Neo-Colonialism…’On Monday March 25, many African Government offices, businesses and banks grind to a halt in order to commemorate Africa Day. In schools up and down the continent, little children are taught that heroic Africans liberated the continent from racist white colonial regimes… the worst crimes against humanity…”

 

Gaddafi and Libya is a symbol of Africa’s struggle, “Under Gaddafi, Libya was a shining example of how Africans can liberate themselves…in August 2011, President Obama confiscated $30 billion from Libya’s Central Bank,… earmarked for the establishment of the African IMF and African Central Bank…. embarking on a continental mineral refinement program that… shifted the economic balance between Africa and the West… financially support any African governments that desired to undergo the redistribution stage of liberation.”

 

Here in Asia an awakened China is establishing a new perimeter defences against the resurgence of Western colonialism in the region. The recent attempt by a U.S. spy plane to provoke China flying over the Yongshu Island (Fiery Cross Reef and Kagitingan respectively to the U.S. and Philippines) was met with radio alerts from the Chinese who have a reclamation projects in that part of the disputed sea, marking an implicit air identification zone particularly for U.S. incursions.

 

To keep perspective we must recall the April 1, 2001 Hainan incident when a U.S. Navy EP-3EAries II Intel aircraft entered the airspace of the Hainan province of China, was met by two PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy) J-811 interceptor fighters of which one collided with the U.S. plane and disappeared into the sea with its pilot. The U.S. Navy plane made a forced landing on Hainan Island and taken by the Chinese. Today, 2015, 1100 kilometers before any Chinese mainland shoreline U.S. spy planes will be spotted and identified.

 

              In the course of the recent controversies China’s navy chief Wu Shengli explained during consultations, to US chief of naval operations Jonathan Greenert that “[We] welcome international organisations, the United States and relevant countries to use these facilities in the future when conditions are right, to have co-operation on humanitarian search and rescue and disaster relief,…” The important point is – the U.S. can no longer sneak in like a thief in the night into just any place or area in this region.

 

               The BS Aquino government and its anti-China groups are raring to emulate the U.S. and challenge China’s de facto ADIZ. They’ll get radio warnings, but a de facto ADIZ is not a “no fly zone” that only the U.S. and Nato have been in the habit of imposing on other countries. The tragedy of Philippine foreign policy and much its Intelligentsia and media is that they cannot or do not want to see that China’s actions as part of the global anti-Imperialism and anti-neo-colonialism imperative.

 

              China and Asia have been victims of imperialism and neo-colonialism for five centuries, to lose sight of this is an invitation to a second imperialist and colonialist takeover. Anti-China rabble-rousers will insist now that China’s acts are imperialist aggression but we must ask: Does a country that invites everyone to share in the use of its air and sea port facilities acting like an imperialist and aggressor or a country? Or is it a country that knows Western Imperialism’s “pivot” is real and the gravest threat to the Asian Century.

 

              Does a country that invited since the 1980s, claimants to the disputed islands and atolls of the China Sea to talk and shelve the disputations and engage in joint development and mutual benefit from the isles and sea assets describe an imperialist and hegemonic country? No. It is the country that boasts of ten aircraft carrier armadas, sending them East, West and the Middle East to threaten other countries with “No Fly Zones” and bomb the hell out of millions of civilians. The U.S. and its European allieas can’t do that now to Asia.

 

South African president Jacob Zuma spoke of in an speech December 2014 said, “The emergence of China as a power…  offers an opportunity to African countries to be able to free themselves from the shackles that are really colonially designed,… Europe in particular, you are regarded as either a former subject or a second and third class kind of a person… the relationship between China and African countries,….We relate as brothers and sisters to do business… not because one is a poor cousin….”

 

Asia can help Africa and the World be free of imperialism and colonialism, by its self being free of U.S. and Western Imperialism and colonialism. China is key to keeping this so. (Tune to: Sulô ng Pilipino, 1098 AM, dwAD, Tues. to Fri., 5-6 p.m.; GNN Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 21, Sat., 8 p.m. and replay Sun., 8 a.m.; search Talk News TV and Saturday date on YouTube; text reactions to 0917-8658664)

Like BBL, K-12 is K-9

Like BBL, K-12 is K-9

(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 05-13-2015 WED)

 

The BangsaMoro Basic Law (BBL) is now being driven by the BS Aquino government and its factotums into a “last two minutes” fast break pass and dunk.  They even tried to pass it in Congress by executive session or secret balloting, hoping to close the process from public view.

 

Those scums surely know that the nation does not want the BBL and they are only pressing it because their “real bosses”--the US and its cohorts, Malaysia, Britain, EU, Japan, et al.--demand it.  If they have to, they’ll ram the BBL through more dead Filipino bodies even after the SAF (Special Action Forces) 44 massacre.

 

The same is true for the K-12 education “reform” of BS Aquino and his cohorts.  They want to lengthen the educational process for basic education from 10 years to 12 years with nary a thought about the adverse impact on the people (running up to billions of pesos in income losses for parents, teachers, and schools) nor about the absurdity of their own argument that K-12 will improve job prospects abroad for Filipinos given that (a) exporting labor shouldn’t be any right thinking government’s policy and (b) the huge number of OFWs--10 million--shows Filipino workers are incontrovertibly in demand even without K-12.

 

The K-12 is similar to the BBL in that it is an imposition from Western foreign interests.  While the BBL stems from the geopolitical and economic interest of the US, the K-12 is an imposition of the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, financial institutions that promote the economic and cultural aspects of the Western powers’ strategic target.  This foreign plan is called Globalization and the Philippines has been its most beguiled victim since the US reinstalled its controlled, local, neocolonial economic-administrative Filipino elite since Edsa I.

 

The BBL and the K-12 are K-9 or canine (“tuta”) operations for and in behalf of foreign interests.  They are both facing strong-willed resistance from the people because they have caused or have threatened to cause massive and irreparable harm to our people.  The BBL has caused a decade of misery in Mindanao and to our men in uniform trying to contain the havoc that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front has been creating to justify their “peace deal,” the K-12 is now threatening economic and emotional havoc on hundreds of thousands of Filipino families that it will irresponsibly dislocate.

 

Last year I interviewed “Suspend K-12 Coalition” convenor Prof. Rene Luis Tadle.  Last week he led an impressive coalition of organizations from the progressive Left such as ACT (Alliance of Concerned Teachers) to the progressive centrist Magdalo Party-list (providing the facilities), from the Silliman University Faculty Association to the Holy Angels University Teachers and Employees Union, and 40 other organizations in a mass protest against the K-12 at the Liwasang Bonficacio, with 6,000 teachers, students, parents, and families braving the punishing afternoon heat.  This is what they said:

 

“Every year, we confront the perennial problems of access, availability and quality of education resources and infrastructure.  The impact of government neglect… are both appalling and alarming: high teacher-student ratio, overworked teachers… on measly salaries, high entrance rate but low completion rate, high drop-outs rates, high repetition rates, and high number of multi-grade classrooms …. Stray teachers and distorted learning experiences.  The problems besetting Philippine education are systemic, and we assert that the K-12 Law will only worsen the persistent crises…

 

“We remain steadfast in our conviction that the K-12 Law violates our Constitutional rights to labor, property and academic freedom.  In 2016, teaching and non-teaching personnel stand to lose their job security and benefits, and risk being victims of unjust labor practices.  We assail the inability of education officials to present viable solutions to the labor implications of the K-12 Law.  We deplore government’s failure to substantially respond to our petition for Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against K-12 Law now before the Supreme Court en banc…”

 

The latest action of the government on the K-12 controversy is to get the League of Mayors under Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista to buy full-page ads to publish its support for the K-12 program.  What does a comedian-Mayor and the cabal of mostly corrupt local officials know of the essentials of a good educational system in the midst of a world suffering the destructive repercussions of the IMF-WB’s capitalist globalization (see The Great Failure of Globalization, by Jeffrey Sachs, Commentary, Financial Times, 2011)?

 

Globalization is the plot called the Washington Consensus drawn up by the US as it became the sole superpower in the 1980s.  It aims to monopolize the world’s power and wealth by dismantling nation-states (especially the Third World) to let US corporations take over via trade and financial liberalization and the privatization of state assets and functions.  It is no surprise that Philippine education is being deprived of its Philippine history component by the K-12 “reforms,” and public school students are being channeled to private schools (with a known oligarch getting into high school education business!).

 

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Russia, not US, won WWII

Russia, not US, won WWII

(Herman Tiu Laurel / DieHard III / The Daily Tribune / 05-11-2015 MON)

 

The 70th anniversary of Russia’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II was celebrated last Saturday, May 9.  I missed the live broadcast on RT (Russia Today) but watched it on YouTube.

 

The real highlight of the celebration was the march of at least 300,000 Russian people holding portraits of their relatives who fought and died in the Great Patriotic War.  Officially, 27 million Russian soldiers and citizens sacrificed their lives and not a single Russian family today is without one or more family member who died in that war.  But there is more Filipinos should know that their US-enslaved colonial mentality has not afforded them.

 

Few Filipinos know that Russians were a major factor for the early end of World War II in the Pacific.  Two months after the end of World War II in Europe at midnight of August 9, 1945, Russia liberated Northeastern China with its invasion of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.  The Japanese had hoped that Russia, which had remained neutral on Japan until that hour, could help broker a better surrender deal with the US.  But the shock of Russia’s entry into the war against them when the atomic bomb had been exploded just three days before at Hiroshima precipitated the immediate surrender of the Japanese.  For this the Philippines also owes much to Russia.

 

Today the US shows that its leaders did not involve themselves in World War II for the good of mankind and humanity.  Their actions 70 years later in creating global chaos, murder and mayhem from Afghanistan, to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Ukraine, with the US military and its hired thug, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, have made the world economically so much poorer while enriching the global financiers of war industries.

 

And so their boycott of the Moscow 70th Victory Day celebrations only confirms US Gen. Smedley Butler’s curse: “War is a Racket.”  All wars are bankers’ wars.  Now that China, which is also helping Latin American and Africa, is overtaking the West, the US also seeks to “pivot” its wars to Asia.

 

World War II was engineered to destroy Russia, which was then transitioning from a feudal state to a rising industrial economy.  According to reformed-theology.org, “The largest contributor to (Adolf Hitler’s) fund was IG Farben (a German chemical industry conglomerate) … 45 percent of the funds for the 1933 election (when Hitler’s party gained plurality) came from (it).  If we look at the directors of (the) American (branch of) IG Farben … (listed down are) Edsel B. Ford of the Ford Motor Company, Charles E. Mitchell of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Walter Teagle, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.

 

The site further adds, “Paul M. Warburg, first director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and chairman of the Bank of Manhattan… brother Max Warburg… also a director of IG Farben, H.A. Metz of IG Farben… director of Warburg’s Bank of Manhattan… Carl Bosch of American IG Farben… director of Ford Motor Company A-G in Germany… (Although these) board members of American IG Farben were found guilty at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials: Max Ilgner, F. Ter Meer, and Hermann Schmitz… American board members--Edsel Ford, Charles E. Mitchell, Walter Teagle, and Paul Warburg--were not placed on trial… not even questioned about their knowledge of the 1933 Hitler fund.”

 

The Western bankers are experts at corrupting governments and subversives to fight their wars while subduing uncooperative governments or simply creating chaos for those they cannot control.

 

Now it is Vladimir Putin’s government persisting in defending Russian sovereignty and compelling the Russian financial class to serve Russian interests, not Western bankers’.  Before, it was the destruction of Libya (led by Col. Muammar Gaddafi), which was issuing its own gold dinar independent of Western bankers’ control; and before that Saddam Hussein, who went around the US dollar in selling Iraq’s oil; same with the Talibans, who refused Unocal’s demand for a pipeline through Afghanistan.

 

The US and other Western leaders’ boycott of the Moscow Victory Day celebration succeeded only in isolating the West.  China’s President Xi Jinping stood beside President Putin while India sent a contingent of military honor guard troops to march at the parade along with several other countries, including a contingent from China representing its three major services.  Other BRICS and SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) member-countries were also there in force.

 

Russia paraded its latest Armata tank, its Yars ICBM, Tu-160 strategic bombers, two blade helicopters, heavy lift planes, and most of all its army that minced Napoleon and Hitler’s formidable armies as a reminder to the US if it ever tries.

 

On September 2, 2015 it will be China’s turn to celebrate its 70th victory anniversary in the war against Japanese Imperialism.  Will the Philippines boycott that celebration as well or will it be on the truthful and right side of history?

 

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