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Por Franz J. T. Lee,
*** Una polémica necesaria con Heinz Dieterich.
The departing US envoy to Latin America and the Caribbean said the Bush administration would like to see the removal of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
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By: Saul Landau - ZNet.org
"When I gave food to the poor,
they called me a saint;
but when I asked why people are poor,
they called me a communist."
Brazilian Bishop Don Helder Camara
President Hugo Chavez Frias' enemies refer to him as a "terrorist" and a "communist." Indeed, Venezuela's current conflict could become a test for the meaning of words; not only the insults, but concepts like democracy. In Venezuela democracy, as Chavez's enemies and the media use the word, means return to oligarchy. Human rights mean US-style elections: an acceptable candidate wins and lauds the right of billionaires to own media and print lies.
In Venezuela and the United States the media routinely claim that Chavez undermined the constitution, compromised freedom and destroyed Venezuela's economy.
Right wing Latin American media and Miami's El Nuevo Herald treat such charges as axioms; they don't substantiate the claims. In Venezuela, the newspapers and TV stations that charge Chavez with censorship continue to attack him. The assault appears almost in daily papers like El Universal and El Nacional, on TV channels, and radio stations. In fact, Chavez has not shut down or censored media controlled by extremely powerful and very hostile tycoons. Gustavo Cisneros, known as the Rupert Murdoch of Latin America, owns Venevision TV and Venezuela's Playboy Channel and is a partner in Coca-Cola and other multinational ventures. He and Marcel Granier, owner of Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), own over 60% of Venezuela's TV market.
These "beleaguered heroes," intent on saving the republic from Chavez' dictatorship, laugh in their penthouses. In May 2004, the opposition collected enough signatures to force a referendum, but have not unified around a candidate. The referendum followed an unsuccessful coup attempt in April 2002.
During those less than two days, when anti-Chavez forces appeared to have kidnapped the President, Chamber of Commerce chief Pedro Carmona claimed he was president. Reporters from the major media didn't even ask him. The unelected Carmona did, however, label Chavez an enemy of democracy, which he vowed to restore, with his cabinet of the rich and powerful.
Since that fiasco, some of the original coup planners have the chutzpah to accuse Chavez of opposing democracy' they call him a totalitarian, Castro-style communist -terrorist. The very people who perpetrated illegal violence to unseat an elected government now claim the word democracy. And the media does not challenge them.
One voice in the anti-Chavez chorus has a familiar ring to his voice. Former President Carlos Andres Perez gives TV and newspaper interviews as an authority on democracy and good government. Convicted of embezzlement and having given the command for army troops to fire at his own people, this mass murderer somehow claims to occupy moral high ground. And the media accepts him as if the Venezuela conflict boils down to questions of procedure, not real democracy: majority rule.
Venezuelans overwhelmingly chose Chavez in 1998 and again in 2000, because they remembered what former presidents did - a memory that neither the media nor human rights groups seem to possess.
On February 27, 1989, Perez increased the price of gasoline and the cost of public transportation. Following an IMF model to garner foreign investment, his austerity policies hit the poorest people hardest. But Perez apparently did not expect Venezuelans to respond to "economic shock" programs with spontaneous protests, which erupted throughout the country. In some areas, rioters torched shops and set up roadblocks.
When the police went on strike, the government lost control. Perez called for a state of emergency. The soldiers fired into crowds. By March 4, the government claimed that 257 lay dead. Some non-governmental sources estimated the death toll at over 2000. Thousands were wounded.
Perez, who called himself a socialist, first imposed draconian measures on the poor and then had them shot when they objected. The Caracazo as the event became known, not only destroyed Venezuela's aura of stability but put an end to the political system that had replaced the ousted military dictator Perez Jimenez in 1958.
From then on until the Chavez victory, successive Christian Comite de Organizacion Politica Electoral Independiente (COPEI) and Social Democratic Accion Democratica (AD) governments had used the nation's immense oil wealth to distribute drops - or crumbs - just enough to maintain stability.
It took the IMF and World Bank--with strong backing from the Reagan government-and its neo-liberal offensive in the 1980s, to push Venezuelans into action. They rebelled against policies designed to further impoverish them and reward those who needed it least. Although the 1989 Caracazo emerged as an unplanned response to a set of new measure, the uprising also symbolized years of discontent over government corruption. The Caracazo destroyed the shady Perez, the prestige of the two major parties, and it opened the door to a more radical politics, outside the party structure.
The Caracazo also had a profound impact on sectors of the Armed Forces. Some younger officers who opposed the neo-liberal policies had joined the popular uprising when Perez ordered troops to open fire. Officers like Hugo Chavez saw the Caracazo as a learning experience. Four years later, in 1992, he led a military coup against another corrupt civilian government. It failed, but Chavez gained sympathy from fellow officers and the government felt pressured to release him in 1994 after he served a short prison sentence. Indeed, in the 2002 coup many officers remained loyal to Chavez and his populist policies and, to the surprise of the coup makers, restored him to power within two days.
His subsequent electoral victories in 1998 and 2000 allowed him to begin the reform process. But Venezuela's encrusted civil servants slowed the reform process by not carrying out decrees or obstructing them, which has left some poor people feeling frustrated over the pace of the "Bolivarian process."
In the documentary film, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," the class nature of Venezuela's struggle becomes apparent. The well dressed, expensively coiffed women who banged pots and pans - the first time many had ever touched them - shout profanities at Chavez. Anti-Chavez leaders warn the rich women that their maids might be traitors in their own mansions, secret members of the Chavista Bolivarian circles.
The film echoes "The Battle of Chile," filmed during the 1970-73 Salvador Allende presidency, which showed wealthy Chileans encouraging a military coup.
For the white elite Chavez represents ugliness. The man with Indian and African features has committed the unpardonable sin: redistributing wealth. He increased the percentage of the budget that goes toward public health (8%) and education, although still not up to the level of developed countries. He also stopped subsidizing private schools where the wealthy send their kids.
Chavez received 59% of the vote in the 2000 presidential election by campaigning against the IMF model that has devastated the third world. He shares this anti neo-liberal view with President Nelson Kirchner of Argentina, Lula of Brazil and Bolivian peasant leader Evo Morales. Chavez stopped the privatization steamroller that would have delivered Venezuela's social security funds to private brokers and the state's universities to education entrepreneurs.
Instead of continuing the "reward the rich and punish the poor" system, Chavez extended credit to small rural and urban holders. Rather than perpetuating the thievery and privilege that prevailed in the state controlled oil sector, he fired the overpaid bureaucrats and converted the revenues for the poor.
Chavez, in his first four years (1998-2002), actually lowered the inflation rate from over a 53% average between 1989-1998 to less than 23%. Venezuela's oil industry, devastated by a two and a half month strike that began in 2002, has recuperated and has begun to pour profits into state coffers.
The recovering economy has caused rifts among the anti-Chavez crowd. Some believe that only violence will destroy him. Opposition leaders have appealed to Washington, claiming without evidence that Chavez collaborates with Colombia's FARC and ELN guerrillas. Recently on Channel 41 in Miami, Eduardo Garcia, a former Venezuelan army captain, showed up in uniform to describe how an anti-Castro Cuban group, Comandos F4, had helped him in his violent plan to unseat Chavez.
The FBI anti-terrorist units in South Florida have not disturbed this group. Chavez has produced evidence that US officials cooperated in the April 2002 coup attempt and in more recent efforts to destabilize his regime. He has mentioned the names of Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega and Otto Reich, the recently resigned Special Envoy to the Americas.
Ironically, the US government, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International's accusations stress Chavez' sins regarding press censorship and undermining the Constitution -- that Chavez is anti-democratic. In light of the US coup planning and destabilization efforts, such charges seem misplaced - at best.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, along with the US Government, have contributed not only to political confusion about Venezuela. By misusing the words, democracy and human rights, they have created a semantic nightmare. They seem to accept US coups and destabilization campaigns as compatible with democracy, while Chavez's efforts to make majority rule a reality by providing for basic substantive rights become an offense. He has not shut down, censored or interfered with the media or the property that belong to his enemies. You figure it out!
This article was originally published by ZNet.org
Check out Landau's new book The Business of America: How consumers have replaced citizens and how we can reverse the trend on his website www.saullandau.net.
Landau is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies and teaches at Cal Poly Pomona University.
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Gustavo Cisneros y ex-dictador Pedro Carmona se reunieron en República Dominicana
Por: Diario VEA
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Caracas, Especial VEA.- En nueva violación de normas que regulan el asilo político, el Gobierno de Colombia permitió viajar a la República Dominicana al sedicioso cabecilla del golpe del 11 de abril, Pedro Carmona, a fin de celebrar una reunión política con el empresario Gustavo Cisneros, enlace de AD-Copei con los intervencionistas estadounidenses.
La reunión tuvo lugar este fin de semana en La Romana, lujosa residencia de Gustavo Cisneros en Santo Domingo.
No es la primera vez que el Gobierno de Colombia abandona el respeto debido a las normas internacionales del derecho al asilo. Con anterioridad, Pedro Carmona y otros cabecillas golpistas han participado en actos públicas en territorio colombiano contra el gobierno de Venezuela.
En Caracas, el ingreso y salida de Carmona de la República Dominicana fue visto con un gesto inamistoso de las autoridades dominicanas al conceder visas a un prófugo de la justicia venezolana para llevar a cabo una evidente actividad política antivenezolana.
En el pasado la conducta del Gobierno Dominicano provocó serias fricciones en las relaciones diplomáticas con Venezuela. Pedro Carmona permaneció dos días en La Romana y regresó a Bogotá.
Presidente Chávez: Venezuela se convirtió en una gran patrulla
Por: Prensa Presidencial
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By: Martin Sanchez - Venezuelanalysis.com
Caracas, Venezuela. June 29 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Several people were attacked this Sunday by opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who angrily protested an electoral information tent set up by supporters of the President at the upper-class neighborhood of Alto Prado, in eastern Caracas.
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| Chavez supporter Guillermo Guacarama was attacked by several opponents of the President during a protest last Sunday in Caracas. Credit: Maiquel Torcatt - Venpres |
According to the pro-Chavez volunteers, the goal of setting up the tent was to hand out information about voting centers, ID cards renewal, and voter registration for the upcoming recall referendum against the President.
The visible presence of supporters of the government in wealthy areas is rare, as most of the President’s loyalists are concentrated in working-class and lower middle-class areas, and those living in upper-class neighborhoods do not express their political views in public for fear of being attacked or segregated by members of the opposition.
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tomorrow they will invade your house. Blowing your horn is not enough". Credit: Maiquel Torcatt - Venpres |
The protest started on Sunday morning, two hours after the tent was installed at a local park by the pro-Chavez volunteers who claimed to live in the neighborhood. Tensions increased as Chavez opponents surrendered the tent while banging pots, blowing whistles, and shouting anti-Chavez slogans.
One man used a megaphone to incite neighbors to “drive the Chavistas out.” Others toured the neighborhood calling people to join the protest against the “Chavista invaders.”
“Today they invaded the plaza, tomorrow they will invade your house, blowing your horn is not enough,” shouted a woman while another protester held a sign with that same slogan.
Government journalists attacked
Several people were attacked; two of them required medical attention. Journalist Romelia Matute, from the state-owned National Radio of Venezuela, was thrown into the ground by someone who pulled her hair from behind while she was conducting an interview. Matute’s neck was injured and she is awaiting the results of medical tests to determine the severity of the injury.
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Romelia Matute, who works for state-owned Radio Nacional, is under
medical observation after an opponent of Chavez, pulled her hair from
behind, throwing her into the ground, while she was conducting an
interview. Credit: Venezolana de Television |
“This is pure fascism, I was attacked by my own neighbors,” said Matute who resides in the area.
Photographer Maiquel Torcatt, who works for the state news agency Venpres, claim to have received death threats while taking photographs of the protest. “Stop taking pictures or your head will fly in one direction and your camera in another,” said one of the anti-Chavez protestors, according to Torcatt.
A camera operator for state TV Venezolana de Television was insulted as he taped the protest.
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| Anti-Chavez demonstrator expresses her repudiation of a TV crew from state-owned Venezolana de Television. Credit: Venezolana de Television |
Municipal police officers were present in the area in small numbers and didn’t do enough to protect the outnumbered Chavez supporters. The anti-Chavez mob penetrated the security barrier set up by the police and managed to destroy one of the tents. The mayor of the municipality of Baruta, where Alto Prado is located, is a Chavez opponent.
Caracas Metropolitan Police units, which are controlled by opposition Mayor Alfredo Peña, arrived later, but, according to witnesses, did very little to help. The National Guard was called in to escort the volunteers out.
Priest attacked and insulted
Anglican priest Orlando Guerrero was also attacked by the anti-Chavez protestors. Guerrero had joined the pro-Chavez volunteers to lead a prayer for pro-Chavez Catholic priest Juan Vives Suriá, who died on Saturday. The priest was hit in his back and in the head with a kitchen pot, and was thrown soda in his face as he prayed in loud voice. Video footage (see bottom) shows Guerrero being escorted out by the police as anti-Chavez protestors called him “assassin”, “motherf**er”, “traitor”, “son of a bitch”, “faggot”, and other insults.
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priest Orlando Guerrero had to be escorted out by the police after
being attacked and insulted by anti-Chavez protestors. Credit: Venezolana de Television |
Guillermo Guacarama, a resident of the area who supports Chavez, was attacked by several opponents of the President, as he walked towards the tent. Guacarama received an injury near his right eye, and had to be taken to a hospital.
José Luis Brito, another supporter of the President, was also attacked by several opposition sympathizers as he walked towards the tent. One of the subjects sprayed him in the face with a paralyzer which blinded him for several minutes as the anti-Chavez protesters pushed him around before the police could intervene.
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by an opponent of the President during a protest in the upper-class
neighborhood of Alto Prado, in eastern Caracas. Credit: Maiquel Torcatt - Venpres |
Ms. Emma Rosa Palencia, a Chavez supporter who has lived in the area for more than 14 years, was insulted by her neighbors when her political preferences became know. "They told me to move out to El 23 de Enero," she said. El 23 de Enero is a working-class neighborhood in western Caracas, where Chavez is popular.
The vehicles belonging to the pro-Chavez volunteers were also damaged.
Opponents dismiss incident as “provocation”
Chavez opponents such as National Assembly Deputy Gerardo Blyde, form the right-wing Primero Justicia (Justice First) party, seemed to justify the protest putting the blame on the pro-Chavez group. "This is an act of provocation against the opposition," said Blyde during a radio interview. The lawmaker accused journalist Romelia Matute of faking her injury to make the opposition look bad. Matute offered Blyde the names and phone numbers of the doctors who treated her, who according to her are sympathizers or members of Blyde’s own party, so he can verify the authenticity of her injury.
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Pro-Chavez campaigning will continue
Volunteers for President Chavez’s recall referendum campaign vowed to continue organizing and campaigning in upper and upper middle-class areas, where they have found unexpected support. “One of the positive things about the [Alto Prado] incident is that we didn’t know there were so many Chavez supporters here,” said one of the organizers after the incident was over.
President Chavez said that those who attacked his supporters are not to blame, as they "are suffering from psychological problems due to the media campaign" against him. "They could attack our children, youths, and elderly. They are a danger to themselves and to the rest of society... They need help," he said.
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Presidente Chávez: Luchadores sociales son la respuesta a la contrarrevolución
Por: Venpres
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Religión Contemporánea: Donde los Angeles
temen a pisar
El “Prozac” democrático de, por y para el pueblo
En honor a Ché Guevara, al "Nuevo Hombre"
Por Franz J. T. Lee
Ché
Guevara siempre enfatizó que el deber de
todo revolucionario verdadero es “hacer la revolución”, actuarla
(práxis) y
pensarla (teoría). Eso también implica advertir a tiempo
a los camaradas sobre
los peligros ideológicos mortales, no importa lo delicado que
fuere y si es
necesario, hasta se pueden tocar la “manzana prohibida” y las “vacas
sagradas”. En toda la historia de la humanidad, con religión e
ideología, que sólo tergiversan las realidades sociales,
la lucha de clases y el proceso emancipatorio, no se han hecho ninguna
revolución social real y verdadera. Como Lenin
enfatizó, la misma burguesía capitalista ha mostrado que
sin teoría no hay revolución social. El mismo Marxismo
comenzó con la crítica a la religión que es la
conditio sine qua non para cualquier crítica social.
De manera similar, para la izquierda Hegeliana, que eran los demócratas radicales y entre ellos se encontraron Feuerbach, Marx y Engels, se convirtió en una necesidad de poner también las cosas en su lugar en cuanto a la religión, la ideología y la famosa “Gretchenfrage” (pregunta de Gretchen en la obra “Fausto” del poeta y filósofo alemán Goethe), antes de poder presentar el “Manifiesto Comunista” al proletariado del mundo, que fue una conditio sine qua non (condición imprescindible) para el desarrollo de su propia práxis y teoría revolucionaria como Negación dentro del Sistema Global.
Volviendo a visitar Feuerbach y Marx en la época del Globo Fascismo
Vamos a visitar una vez más breve y cordialmente a Feuerbach y Marx para ver la quintaesencia de la advertencia de Heinz Dieterich en cuanto a los oligarcas católicos romanos en Venezuela, para ver el problema fundamental de la reciente Revolución Bolivariana que ha llegado a un punto decisivo de su desarrollo histórico en Venezuela, Latinoamérica y el resto del mundo explotado y oprimido.
Ciertamente fue la Conquista con su religión dominante, que ha introducido el Catolicismo Romano en Latinoamérica, y no fue precisamente para convertir a los “salvajes” en “hijos de Dios”, sino por causa del robo y del saqueo colonial. Fue utilizado como “opio” para los “nativos” para convertirlos en dóciles y pacíficos, para convertir su existencia colonial tan horrible y terrible en una existencia tolerable y soportable. La religión europea monoteísta patriarcal absolutista fue convertida en el “suspiro de la criatura oprimida”, en el “corazón de un mundo sin corazón”, en el “alma de un mundo sin alma” (Marx).
Como debemos saber, hay dos pensadores
europeos que analizaron la quintaesencia del Cristianismo y de las religiones
modernas occidentales monoteístas. Para entender históricamente el impacto
religioso en la ideología y en el control mental a nivel global, voy a resumir
brevemente las ideas principales de Feuerbach y Marx.
El filósofo y moralista alemán del siglo XIX, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach, nació en 28 de julio de 1804 en Landshut, Bavaria (una provincia de Alemania) y murió en 13 de septiembre de 1872 en Rechenberg, Alemania. Era el cuarto hijo del famoso jurista Paul von Feuerbach. Su padre lo obligó de estudiar Teología, pero pronto abandonó esa carrera y fue a estudiar Filosofía en Berlín, con el famoso filósofo alemán Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel que fue su maestro. Además estudió Ciencias Naturales y demostró un gran interés en temas como la muerte y la inmortalidad. En 1828 comenzó a estudiar Ciencias Naturales en la Universidad de Erlangen y dos años después publicó anónimamente su primer libro, “Gedanken über Tod und Unsterblichkeit” (Pensamientos sobre la Muerte y la Inmortalidad). Atacó la idea de la inmortalidad personal, explicando que después de la muerte todas las cualidades humanas individuales son reabsorbidas en el Cosmos, en la Naturaleza. Eso significa que ya bastante temprano en su vida, Feuerbach era un ateísta, un materialista, atacando al Control Mental religioso.
“que el Cristianismo de hecho ha desaparecido hace tiempo no sólo de la razón sino de la vida de la humanidad, que es nada más que una idea fija”.
Esa idea fue desarrollada en su obra de 1839, “Über Philosophie und Christentum” (Sobre la Filosofía y el Cristianismo). Pero ya en su “Abälard und Heloise” (1834) y en “Pierre Bayle” (1838), introdujo esos temas. Esta crítica de la Religión fue resumida en su obra titánica “Das Wesen des Christentums”, 1841, (La Esencia del Cristianismo). En esta obra formuló la teoría que “el hombre” es su propio objeto de pensar y que la Religión es nada más que una “conciencia” de lo infinito. Su punto de inicio fue analizar la “esencia verdadera o antropológica de la religión”. Retrató a Dios como “esencia antropológica”, “como un ser comprensivo”, “como un ser o una ley moral”, in nuce “como amor”. ¡Es tan simple como todo esto, Dios es Amor! Pero la verdadera consecuencia de este punto de vista es la idea que Dios sólo es la auto-proyección extensiva de la naturaleza intensiva del hombre. En otras palabras, el Hombre, Big Brother, los Illuminati son los creadores de Dios, y no al revés. La Religión es un invento mental fantástico del Hombre Dominador; claro, esas “innovaciones” incluyen una “prueba gratis” del Cielo, Infierno y Purgatorio y alguna “shareware”, por ejemplo sus miríadas de almas, espíritus, ángeles, Santos y Papas.
No es necesario que estudiemos la vida medieval para darnos cuenta, en que forma esos fueron utilizados para controlar la mente de los siervos y campesinos empobrecidos. Hasta hoy día, a nivel global, esos espíritus nauseabundos aparecen en nuestras mentes. Nos mantienen de “buen espíritu”, nos “levantan el espíritu”. Como liberación burguesa, Feuerbach sugirió que el Hombre debería redestinar su esencia, que había desprendido de sí mismo por hipotetizarla en la idea fantástica de Dios. Esta explicación de la religión es tan obvia, y todavía billones simplemente no son capaces de agarrar su esencia emancipatoria; ellos prefieren de vestir de gala a sus queridas “almas”.
Abandonando el Hegelianismo y atacando la ortodoxia religiosa, Feuerbach declara expressis verbis, ¡que el Dios del Cristianismo es una Ilusión! Claro que Marx criticó ese materialismo extraño en sus famosas “Thesen über Feuerbach” (Tesis sobre Feuerbach, 1845/46). A propósito, Feuerbach publicó otras obras como “Theogonie” (1857) y “Gottheit, Freiheit und Unsterblichkeit”, 1866 (Dios, Libertad e Inmortalidad).
Entonces ¿qué consideraba Feuerbach como “conciencia”? Esta pregunta es extremadamente importante para la educación, conscientización y emancipación – para la conciencia de clase, conciencia histórica, para la práxis y teoría revolucionarias. Para Feuerbach ¿cuales son los elementos básicos de la conciencia, que por una parte pueden generar el control mental y por la otra resistirlo? Bueno, la respuesta es una plena dosis de tranquilizantes orgónicos eróticos: Razón, Voluntad y Amor. ¡Que Trinidad extraordinaria! ¡Y además muy poderosa! Concentración, Centralización, Globalización. Por cierto, una Trinidad Emancipatoria como esta podría volar a los Iluminati fuera de la autopista de la información y fuera de la Vía Láctea.
Sin embargo, la Enciclopedia Británica nos da el siguiente resumen de la esencia de este problema filosófico:
Feuerbach propuso que Dios era la extensión de las aspiraciones humanas. Carlos Marx, Sigmund Freud entre otros fueron de la misma opinión. ¡Para los Cristianos, Dios es Redentor, Creador y Juez! Claro, muchos pensadores y escritores protestaron contra esas justificaciones de Dios. La literatura, los dramas y las obras de teatro están llenos de ejemplos donde sus escritores, ya influenciados por la cultura Cristiana, atacan tales justificaciones. Un ejemplo clásico se encuentra en el tratamiento del autor de novela ruso Fyodor Dostoyevsky de la miseria de los niños en “Los Hermanos Karamazov”.
Ahora en cuanto a la oración, ese importante instrumento del control mental religioso, que fue y todavía está siendo practicado alrededor del globo, el mismo Feuerbach comentó:
“La esencia más íntima de la religión se revela a través del acto religioso más simple: la oración”.
En términos de la evolución, en parámetros de tiempo-espacio, parece que históricamente la oración ni es universalmente progresiva ni progresivamente regresiva. No importa si es mística, ceremonial o personal, la oración siempre expresa la experiencia individual o colectiva de lo desconocido, del misterio cósmico, que inspira o amenaza a la “criatura” dependiente y sin defensa, la acorrala, pero también sobrepasa su imaginación; sin embargo, a través de la oración, el individuo trata de buscar y establecer una conversación con lo trascendental o supernatural. Esos sentimientos y emociones sagrados, auténticos y originales de los pueblos del llamado “Tercer Mundo”, de Latinoamérica, de Venezuela, que el Presidente Chávez expresa tan elocuentemente en sus “cadenas nacionales”, fueron utilizados y abusados, fueron violados por la conquista, la avaricia, la megalomanía y la brutalidad colonial europea, a través de la conversión, educación y desocialización Cristiana, fueron canalizados al epicentro de un verdadero “holocausto mental”, para el cual nadie reclama reparación.
Su humanidad emancipatoria inherente de amor fue destruida progresivamente a través de los siglos y la sabiduría, el pensar y los pensamientos fueron convertidos en revelaciones y creencias de la clase dominante.
Dentro de la producción capitalista, los sentimientos y emociones del trabajador fueron convertidos en regalos de navidad, se volvieron en relaciones de cosas, en productos de consumo, en estricnina para la práxis y teoría revolucionarias. Aquí en Venezuela, la reciente guerra de información, las campañas de desinformación de Bush y sus lacayos de la “oposición” son lanzadas desde esta plataforma; desde este trampolín, las “cuatro jineteras del Apocalipsis” están lanzando sus ataques peligrosos contra la Revolución Bolivariana. Esa es la razón por la cual Marx enfatizó que toda crítica tiene que comenzar con la crítica a la Religión.
En estilo orweliano del “newspeak” es precisamente el control mental, el “Globospeak”, que está destruyendo, pervirtiendo y desviando la facultad humana del pensar hacia el consumo, la perversión social y la esclavitud mental. Repito, la oración inculca al control mental en el propio “alma”. El joven y religioso Marx tenía su primera experiencia “crítica” cuando se encontró con Hegel en Berlín. Al principio, el Cristiano Marx sintió a Hegel como alguien que da “náuseas”; de hecho, Marx se enfermó de verdad, y en una carta a su padre, le explicó la razón de su enfermedad como sigue: “... de una intensa molestia al tener que hacer un ídolo de una visión que detesté”. En otras palabras, Marx tenía una reacción similar a la que cualquier Cristiano firme tendrá al leer este artículo por primera vez, y todavía ve demonios ateístas en todas partes.
Luego, Marx comenzó a estudiar las realidades y funciones religiosas y se unió al “Doctor Club” (Club de los Doctores) de la Juventud Hegeliana, que se movió hacia el ateísmo y allí fue “convertido” en un “Feuerbachiano”. Ahora, consultemos otra vez a la Enciclopedia Británica en cuanto a la crítica a Hegel por parte de Marx, ayudada por la filosofía de Feuerbach:
“En la opinión de Marx, Feuerbach tenía éxito en criticar a Hegel quien era un idealista que creía que la materia o la existencia era inferior y dependiente de la mente o del espíritu, porque demostraba desde el opuesto o sea desde el punto de vista materialista que el “Espíritu Absoluto” era una proyección del “verdadero hombre basándose en la naturaleza”. De aquí en adelante los esfuerzos filosóficos de Marx se dirigían hacia una combinación de la dialéctica de Hegel (la idea que todas las cosas se encuentran en un proceso de cambio continuo, resultado de los conflictos entre sus aspectos contradictorios) con el materialismo de Feuerbach, que ubicaba a las condiciones materiales encima de las ideas”.
¿Qué dijo Marx sobre la Religión?
“El hombre crea a la Religión, la Religión no
crea al hombre, de hecho, la Religión es la auto-conciencia del hombre mientras
no ha logrado de fundamentar sus pies en el universo. ... La Religión es la
teoría general de este mundo, su compendio enciclopédico, su lógica en forma
popular, su point d’honneur espiritual, su entusiasmo, ... Es la realización
fantástica del ser humano, ya que el ser humano no posee una realidad
verdadera. Por lo tanto, la lucha contra la Religión indirectamente es una
lucha contra el mundo, cuyo aroma espiritual es la Religión”.
Y ahora veamos la
definición de la Religión precisa de Marx:
“El sufrimiento religioso es al mismo tiempo una expresión del sufrimiento real y una protesta contra él. La Religión es el suspiro de la criatura oprimida, es el corazón de un mundo sin corazón y el alma de unas condiciones sin alma. Es el opio del pueblo”.
Permítenme sólo añadir: ¡“Es el PROZAC democrático de, por y para el pueblo”!
Después de siglos de adoctrinamiento religioso, ¿qué tan poquito sabemos sobre el mundo real?
Aquí una recolección de unas afirmaciones sabias:
“Todo lo que nace, merece perecer”. (Hegel)
“Busca a tu padre noble en el polvo: Sabrás
que es común, todo que vive tiene que morir, traspasando la naturaleza hacia la
eternidad”. (LaReina)
“Oh Señora, es común”. (Hamlet)
“Hay más cosas en el Cielo y en la tierra, Horacio, de los que tú sueñas en tu filosofía”. (Hamlet)
“Unsere heutige Wissenschaft kratzt nur die
Oberfläche der Wirklichkeit an. Was sich darunter befindet, wissen wir nicht.
(Físico Harald Lesch en “Space Night”).
(“Nuestra Ciencia contemporánea sólo rasguña
la superficie de la realidad. No sabemos lo que está debajo”.)
En contraste a eso, veremos ahora al peligro real frente a Venezuela, que una mente religiosa no puede comprender, no puede combatir, es decir, las armas electro-magnéticas que EE.UU. podrían emplear en caso de una intervención violenta en Venezuela.
Lo que nosotros – el público en general – obtenemos como los “más recientes” inventos y descubrimientos hasta en los colegios y las universidades, solamente son las migajas obsoletas y podridas, el aserrín inútil que cae de la mesa experimentadora del maestro de guerra. Existe una inculcación tan profunda, una confianza autoritaria y totalitaria no sólo en Dios y en el dólar estadounidense, sino en todo lo que vuela alrededor de nosotros a través del newspeak, a través de lo que nos hicieron creer los medios de comunicación masivos serios, a través de revistas científicas y análisis filosóficos.
Por ejemplo, desde años atrás, informamos sobre la guerra climática, sobre HAARP, pero ¿quien realmente se preocupa de informarse sobre todo esto? ¿Quien de los 6 billones sabe algo sobre esta tecnología avanzada de guerra, como se emplea, qué son los efectos? Proyectos como ese, que fue planteado por el Ejército Estadounidense, no sólo existen en Alaska, sino en Arecibo, Dushanbe, Gorkcity, Tromsö, Monchegorsk, Sura y ¡quien sabe dónde más! ¡En el aeropuerto de Berlín Tempelhof, Schroeder y Joschka tienen su propio HAARP privado!
¿Quien sabe algo sobre las ondas ELF? ¿Cómo defenderse contra ellos? Porque su frecuencia está debajo de los 100 hertzios - el cerebro también usa esta frecuencia – se están realizando todo tipo de experimentos en función de manipular nuestras propias emociones y pensamientos. Big Brother (el Hermano Mayor) controla nuestros propios órganos del cuerpo, dirige nuestro bienestar o enfermedades. Esas ondas son capaces de producir el llamado “Síndrome de CFIDS”, cansancio, cáncer, AIDS, etc. En cuanto a lo mencionado, sólo hay que leer la revista científica alemana “Raum & Zeit” número 109/110, (“Espacio y Tiempo”). ¡Esas ondas las pueden aplicar vía satélite desde distancias de cientos de kilómetros, pueden penetrar la tierra y los océanos!
Las siguientes ondas cerebrales se ven afectadas:
- Theta (4-7 Hz.)... hipnosis, trance, sueño.
- Alpha (8-13 Hz.)... oraciones, meditación, relax.
- Beta (14-40 Hz.)... estado bien despierto.
¿Quien sabe algo sobre las ondas escalares, integradas en cornetas y equipos de música, utilizadas para transmitir “pensamientos”, ideología, instrucciones para los llamados “sleepers”, para los “Manchurian Candidates”, para las victimas de MkUltra, para volar a las Torres Gemelas, para ser bombas humanas? ¡Y todos argumentaremos que eso es genético y biológico, proveniente de los monos darvinianos agresivos! ¿Qué hay de nuestros debates en cuanto a la “Física Oculta” y el “éter”, de los cuales nos enteramos por Bill Lyne, qué hay de los “Extraterrestres del Pentágono” y los “Ovnis” que entran y salen de Los Alamos? No sólo Bill lo dice; no es su “propiedad intelectual privada” y registrada – cientos de datos de todo género y calibre en el Internet corroboran sus descubrimientos. Por ejemplo, el astrofísico Nikolay Kosyrev también “descubrió” el éter y afirmó que consiste de “gravitones”.
¿Qué hay de la alta probabilidad que ya existen colonias espaciales en la luna, en Marte y en otras partes desde hace décadas o más? Por otro lado, ¿cómo los astronautas estadounidenses escaparon del muy peligroso “Van Allen Belt” (capa de Van Allen) que existe al rededor de la tierra y en el cual los EE.UU. detonaron bombas atómicas en los 60’s? ¿Qué nos contó Thomas Bearden sobre la “Crisis Energética” y no fue él que pronosticó las “Nuevas Guerras”? ¿Qué hay del Orgon de Wilhelm Reich y de la Nueva Energía de Tesla? ¿Quien nos informa sobre esto? En cambio tenemos que escuchar las estupideces religiosas, rodeando el cadáver de Reagan, o asombrarnos, sobre qué Bush y el Papa estaban discutiendo secretamente.
¿Qué tanto saben billones sobre todo lo mencionado anteriormente? ¿Qué son las implicaciones y complicaciones para nuestras vidas cotidianas? ¿Qué es lo que amenaza a Venezuela después del 15 de agosto del 2004? Ciertamente es el diablo, pero el diablo es real y se encuentra en una “Casa Blanca”.
Finalmente, hace algún tiempo atrás, la revista “Raum & Zeit” (116) publicó un artículo sensacional en cuanto al “descubrimiento” de las ondas escalares. Aparte del hecho que esas ondas verifican nuestra propia Trialógica, por ejemplo, nuestra Triagoría, Reposo y Movimiento y Relación, en el experimento, usando ondas gravitacionales, transmitieron voces entre Alemania y Rusia, hasta hubo transmisión de señales entre Alemania y Australia. Claro, igual que en el famoso “descubrimiento” de Cristóbal Colón, los aborígenes y los conejos deben haber conocido esto hace mucho tiempo.
¿Cómo es esto posible en el resonador universal dimensional cósmico? Sin embargo, utilizando el “Elemento-G y Bioguard”, Dr. Mueller hizo posible este milagro. Claro – sorpresa, sorpresa – usando velocidades más altas que la de la luz, que, como lo explicó Don Albert, son capaces de transmitir una oración a Dios más allá del universo dentro de 15 minutos. Se descubrió que los extraterrestres, los “aliens” ya estaban usando las ondas escalares para sus transmisiones privadas. Igual que en el caso de los “Extraterrestres del Pentágono” y los “Ovnis” de Los Alamos los mismos maestros de guerra del Pentágono sabían de todo esto ya desde hace mucho tiempo y seguramente utilizan las ondas escalares para sus “Nuevas Guerras” y para su futura “Colonización Espacial” y quien sabe si no también para el “Plan Colombia” y una posible invasión de Venezuela.
Entonces, camaradas armados, hacía el 15 de agosto de 2004, ¡que estén bien
preparados en sus actos, en sus palabras y en su victoria!
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Una polémica necesaria con Heinz Dieterich
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By: Alexander Cockburn - CounterPunch
You can set your watch by it. The minute some halfway decent government in Latin America begins to reverse the order of things and give the have-nots a break from the grind of poverty and wretchedness, the usual suspects in El Norte rouse themselves from the slumber of indifference and start barking furiously about democratic norms. It happened in 1973 in Chile; we saw it again in Nicaragua in the 1980s; and here’s the same show on summer rerun in Venezuela, pending the August 15 recall referendum of President Hugo Chávez.
Chávez is the best thing that has happened to Venezuela’s poor in a very long time. His government has actually delivered on some of its promises, with improved literacy rates and more students getting school meals. Public spending has quadrupled on education and tripled on healthcare, and infant mortality has declined. The government is promoting one of the most ambitious land-reform programs seen in Latin America in decades.
Most of this has been done under conditions of economic sabotage. Oil strikes, a coup attempt and capital flight have resulted in about a 4 percent decline in GDP for the five years that Chávez has been in office. But the economy is growing at close to 12 percent this year, and with world oil prices near $40 a barrel, the government has extra billions that it’s using for social programs. So naturally the United States wants him out, just as the rich in Venezuela do. Chávez was re-elected in 2000 for a six-year term. A US-backed coup against him was badly botched in 2002.
The imperial script calls for a human rights organization to start braying about irregularities by their intended victim. And yes, here’s José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch. We last met him in this column helping to ease a $1.7 billion US aid package for Colombia’s military apparatus. This time he’s holding a press conference in Caracas, hollering about the brazen way Chávez is trying to expand membership of Venezuela’s Supreme Court, the same way FDR did, and for the same reason: that the Venezuelan court has been effectively packed the other way for decades, with judicial flunkies of the rich. I don’t recall Vivanco holding too many press conferences to protest that perennial iniquity.
The “international observers” recruited to save the rich traditionally include the Organization of American States and the Carter Center; in the case of the Venezuelan recall they have mustered dead on schedule. On behalf of the opposition, they exerted enormous pressure on the country’s independent National Electoral Council during the signature-gathering and verification process. Eventually the head of the OAS mission had to be replaced by the OAS secretary general because of his unacceptable public statements.
The Carter Center’s team is headed by Jennifer McCoy, whose forthcoming book, The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela, leans heavily against the government. One of its contributors is José Antonio Gil of the Datanalysis Polling Firm, most often cited for US media analysis. The Los Angeles Times quoted Gil on what to do: “And he can see only one way out of the political crisis surrounding President Hugo Chávez. ‘He has to be killed,’ he said, using his finger to stab the table in his office far above this capital’s filthy streets. ‘He has to be killed.’”
Media manipulation is an essential part of the script, and here, right on cue, comes Bill Clinton’s erstwhile pollster, Stan Greenberg, still a leading Democratic Party strategist. Greenberg is under contract to RCTV, one of the right-wing media companies leading the Venezuelan opposition and recall effort. It’s a pollster’s dream job. Not only does he have enormous resources against an old-fashioned, politically unsophisticated poor people’s movement, but his firm has something comrades back home can only fantasize about: control over the Venezuelan media. Imagine if the right wing controlled almost the entire media during Clinton’s impeachment.
That’s the situation in Venezuela. Just think what Greenberg’s associate, Mark Feierstein-a veteran of similar NED efforts in ousting the Sandinistas in the 1990 elections-can do with this kind of totalitarian media control. NED? That’s the National Endowment for Democracy, praised not so long ago by John Kerry, who, like Bush, publicly craves the ouster of Chávez.
The NED is coming over the hill arm in arm with the CIA and CIA-backed institutions in the AFL-CIO, where John Sweeney’s team has dismally failed to clean house. The NED has helped fund the opposition to Chávez to the tune of more than $1 million a year. Among the recipients are organizations whose leaders actually supported the April 2002 coup-they signed the decree that overthrew the elected president and vice president and abolished the country’s democratic institutions, including the Constitution, Supreme Court and National Assembly. The coup was thwarted only because millions of Venezuelans rallied for Chávez.
Left out of the coup government, despite his support for it, was Carlos Ortega, head of the CTV (Central Labor Federation). The AFL’s Solidarity Center, successor to the CIA-linked AIFLD, gets more than 80 percent of its funding from the NED and USAID and has funneled NED money to Ortega and his collaborators. The Solidarity Center has been up to its ears in opposition plotting, a reprise of the Allende years, when the AFL helped destroy Chilean democracy. The AFL has denied any role, but Rob Collier, an excellent San Francisco Chronicle reporter, recently gave a detailed refutation of AFL apologetics in an exchange in the current New Labor Forum. “In Venezuela,” he writes, “the AFL-CIO has blindly supported a reactionary union establishment as it tried repeatedly to overthrow President Hugo Chávez-and, in the process, wrecked the country’s economy.
The CTV worked in lockstep with FEDECAMARAS, the nation’s business association, to carry out the three general strikes/lockouts” of 2001, 2002 and 2003. The CTV, Collier says, was directly involved in coup organizing, and its leader was scheduled to be part of the new junta.
The end of this particular drama has yet to be written. The left here in the United States could make a difference if it got off its haunches and threw itself into the fray.
Original source / relevant link:
CounterPunch
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1208
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19 June, 2004 - Published 13:44 GMT
The departing US envoy to Latin America and the Caribbean said the Bush administration would like to see the removal of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez.
Otto Reich, who resigned earlier this week, said the White House disapproved of Mr Chavez's "undemocratic" style of leadership and accused the Venezuelan leader of trying to block the August referendum on his presidency.
"I can tell you now that I'm out of the government that we would like to see him out and I don't think that's any secret," he said. "He's not a democrat and he's done enormous damage to the people of Venezuela.
"There are two million Venezuelans who have fallen below the poverty line since he came into office," Mr Reich said. "He has supported radical movements in other countries in the hemisphere. He has violated civil liberties, he has tried to muzzle the press, labour unions and other civil institutions and that's one of the reasons we don't like Mr Chavez and I don't think there's anything wrong with my saying that."
The controversial diplomat also made it clear that the Bush administration does not see former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide as part of their future plans for Haiti.
He said new allegations have emerged about Mr Aristide's involvement with drug smugglers but Mr Aristide has denied these charges.
Mr Reich also dismissed that Mr Aristide's repeated claims that he was abducted from Haiti on February 29.
"Jean Bertrand Aristide can claim whatever he wants, he does not tell the truth and I can tell you that because he lied to my face," Mr Reich said.
"I was the leader of a US delegation in a joint OAS and Caribbean Community that went to Haiti in March 2003 and he lied to us," he said. "And by the way, the people who were most upset by this were the Caribbean leaders."
But Professor Larry Birns, head of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, rejected Mr Reich's comments and told BBC Caribbean Radio that the United States ignores abuses by right wing governments, but comes down hard on left wing governments like Venezuela's.
"This administration has no credible record of being a strong advocate of human rights, they use human rights as a political weapon," Mr Birns said.
"With regard to President Chavez, I think that a close investigation of that regime would show that there have been relatively few human rights violations, there have been very few anti-constitutional acts on his part."
Professor Birns said that there is very little for which President Chavez can be condemned in respect of his human rights record, and said the United States have much more important issues to consider than dislodging President Chavez.
"He's sly, he looks for a tortured interpretation of constitutional clauses and he taunts his opponents in a very undignified manner but he's hardly a major human rights violator," he said. "Believe me the United States has very little cause to condemn Venezuela and in fact, I think the treatment of Iraqi prisoners in Iraq by US forces easily surpasses any charge that has been made against Mr Chavez."
He also said that it was time that the United States starts to provide the evidence for the allegations they have raised against former Haitian leader Aristide.
"Many of the charges being brought against him are pure invention," he said. "There hasn't been one piece of proof and you would think that at this late stage, Reich and others would start producing some evidence in order to back up their charges, but there's not one piece of evidence."
There was controversy surrounding Mr Reich’s appointment in January 2003. He was originally nominated by President Bush as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere but the US Congress refused to confirm him in the position.
Mr Reich, who once served as the ambassador to Venezuela, welcomed the failed coup against President Chavez in 2002.
Cuban-born Reich is a staunch opponent of President Fidel
Castro and a fervent supporter of the economic embargo against the island.
http://www.aporrea.org/dameverbo.php?docid=17972
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