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North Korea’s Justifiable Anger

The US may have killed 20% of the population of Korea, said General Curtis Lemay, who was involved in the US air war on Korea. If so, that is a higher rate of genocidal slaughter than what the Nazis inflicted on Poland or the Soviet Union. The Korean War may be unknown ancient history to us, but it is no more ancient history to Koreans than the Nakba is to Palestinians.

North Korea knows that history, and it is warning the US they know what to expect and are arming themselves to prevent it. Are the DPRK leaders “paranoid” or taking justifiable precautions?

What kind of deranged people call war preparations a “war game”? North Korea doesn’t think it’s a “game.” Over 4 million died in the last war to reunify their country that the US divided. If men had an annual rite called “group rape games” wouldn’t we think it a criminal misogynist pathology, and wouldn’t women be justified in being outraged and arming themselves in self-defense?

An accurate reading of the events leading up to the present situation shows that North Korea is responding to US military escalation, and in particular to US refusal to negotiate. This includes a peace treaty to end the Korean War, any steps towards reunifying Korea, the end to the US occupation of South Korea and ending the annual month-long US-South Korean war maneuvers. Even today, it includes US refusal to talk in order to lower the tensions.

North Korea was hit with US/UN Security Council sanctions for a missile launch last year. South Korea sent off a missile this year; were there any sanctions?

Since World War II there have been 9000 missile launches. 4 were by the DPRK. There have been 2000 atomic bomb tests. 3 were by DPRK. No country was sanctioned by the UN Security Council for this. No country except the DPRK. Why wouldn’t the North Koreans be incensed by this double standard, especially when the US has nuclear weapons in South Korea?

The US kill rate in the 1950-53 Korean War equaled more than one 9-11 every day, day after day, for the whole 1100 day war. US people had a scar from one 9-11.  So what kind of war scars do Koreans have?

Korea is divided because our country invaded and divided it after the Japanese surrender. The leaders of the DPRK had been fighting the Japanese since the early 1930s, and 200,000 had lost their lives. When Korean liberation was at hand in 1945, the US intervened and blocked it.

The US was supposed to leave in 1948, along with the Soviet Union, but because Kim Il Sung was likely to win planned nation-wide elections, the US made the division permanent and blocked national elections, just as it did later in Vietnam. This lead to the Korean War, the cause of the present militarization: A foreign country divided and occupied their country against their will.

We should play our part to improve the human rights situation in Korea, not only in the North but in the South as well. Both societies are more closed and controlled than our own. Whether being occupied by foreign troops, threatened with war and war maneuvers, or subjected to harsh economic sanctions, this does not facilitate free and open societies.

If we really want more rights for the people of the DPRK then we should stop pointing a gun at their head. If we listened to Kim Jong Un’s message delivered a month ago, ignored by President Obama, “We don’t want war. Let’s talk,” that would only foster a more open society there – and in South Korea, just as we know it would  here in the US.

(Source: jayaprada)

❤☭❤ BURN DOWN THE WEST ❤Ⓐ❤: fuckyeahcracker: fuckyeahcracker: Effects Of Thinking White People Are...

fuckyeahcracker:

fuckyeahcracker:

Effects Of Thinking White People Are “All Like That”:

• Literally nothing other than white people having their feelings hurt on the internet
• I’m not joking there is no real world consequence of this

Effects Of Thinking People of Color Are “All Like That”:

• Saudi student is literally surrounded by FBI for cooking rice under terrorist suspicions
• White people literally can not associate positive words with Black faces because of racism
• More white people use drugs but Black people are sent to jail for drugs at 10 times the rate that white people are
• Black people who “sound Black” earn less money than those who don’t because of associations with stereotypes. Black people who “sound Black” are less likely to get called back for jobs
• Black children grow up literally associating being Black with being bad and ugly
• White people when tested shot more unarmed Black subjects than armed and unarmed white subjects
• Hate crimes increase after Boston tragedy
• Moroccan High School Student is linked to Boston tragedy for being Brown
• Bangladeshi man is beaten by people out of racism
• NYPD Commissioner wants Black and Latino men to fear him after the police targeted literally 90 percent Black and Latino men in New York and humiliating them by frisking them in public under the assumption that they had weapons. Studies found that white men were the ones who overwhelmingly had weapons while Black and Latino men didn’t
• White people blaming and convicting Black men for crimes they never committed and everyone believing them because of racism
• Stop and Frisk, ruled unconstitutional was practiced by New York police disproportionately and unfairly affecting 90% Black and Latino men because of racism
• Universities throwing racist ‘Fiesta Party’ homogenizing culture with extreme racism
• Here are some of the numbers on hate crimes against People of Color and btw, Neo Naziism is increasing!
• Every 28 Hours an African American is Extrajudicially Murdered in the U.S.
• Black people 3 times more likely to be arrested for Marijuana
• Black people receive much harsher sentencing than white people for the same crimes do I need to go on?

But yeah, white people’s feelings :*(

I actually changed my mind, I’m adding more

• Deaf Black man is stabbed out of racism when his sign language is mistaken for a GANG SIGN
• Anti-Islam posters run free on the train to reinforce racism anti-Islamic sentiments and Islamaphobia
• Oops! Chicago police raids the wrong house, holds an 11 month old at gunpoint to raise their hand, kills their dog all because of racism and assuming it was a crackhouse! Oopsies
• Let’s take it overseas! Black people in England and Wales are 7 times more likely to be stopped by police than white people. Asian people are twice as likely
• People assuming Native american baby names are actually Native and have any meaning to any ethnic group when they don’t
• Here’s a whole collection of people saying racist stereotyping homogenizing disgusting stuff about Natives
• People protesting (Idle No More) defending Native people’s humanity are attacked with violence
• White kids think it’s totally okay and normal to photograph themselves lynching a Black baby doll like an effigy
  
• Member of the most glorified band in the world Paul McCartney made a racist white supremacist song called ‘No Pakistanis’ and everyone still glorifies him as a good person
• Racism in actual political campaign in Massachusetts against a Native runner portraying her name and image in a racist stereotypical inappropriate manner
• Indian Sikh school students protest for students who are banned from wearing their turbans in public schools in France
• Here’s a graph of the statistic that approx every 28 hours an African American is extrajudicially executed in the US
• NYPD profiling and targeting LGBT*Q People of Color
• Black students (especially boys and children with disabilities) face more and harsher punishments in public schools and are being pushed out of schools into the criminal justice system.
• Black male incarceration has jumped 500% from 1986 to 2004
• Albany police: SWAT literally uses a poor Black neighborhood to train in because they say it’s ‘realistic’
• The audio recording from a young man of color of a NYPD stop and frisking him based solely how he looks calling him a “FUCKING MUTT”
• Incarceration rates by ethnicity
• All of this fucking cultural appropriation

(via joerobsbanks)

Enver Hoxha: 'With Stalin - Memoirs from my Meetings with Stalin.' (1981)

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Are the Democrats a Lesser Evil? | Socialist Organizer

amodernmanifesto:

Elections under our two-party system are a game of “heads we lose, tails they win” because big business funds and controls both the Republicans and the Democrats. The two parties have differences, but (behind the rhetoric) these are disputes over how to best defend the interests of the ruling rich. They debate how many troops should occupy Iraq and how many miles of wall should be built on the border to keep out “illegals.” The idea that the U.S. has no right to be in Iraq or that no human being is illegal never even enters the debate.

The central obstacle on the road to social change in the United States is the subordination of the leaderships of the labor, anti-war, Black, and immigrant rights’ movements to the Democratic Party, which uses populist rhetoric to co-opt, disorient, and demobilize the biggest threats to corporate rule — independent mass struggles.

Ever since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 and the huge anti-war protests of millions, key forces such as United For Peace and Justice, Moveon.org and many union bureaucrats, have subordinated the anti-war movement to a focus on electing Democrats. The result? Every two years, activists of the peace movement are swept out of the streets to waste huge amounts of money and energy to elect politicians who talk about ending the war, but who loyally continue to fund it.

But what about the “left-wing” Democrats? These politicians have no control over party policy, but are used like a carrot to keep working people inside the Democratic Party, to keep them from organizing independently. Dennis Kucinich openly explained his reasons for running for the presidential nomination in 2004: “The Democratic Party created third parties by running to the middle. What I’m trying to do is to go back to the big tent so that everyone who felt alienated could come back through my candidacy.”

The Democratic Party is the graveyard of social movements. The populist rebellion of the 1890s, the explosive labor struggles of the 1930s, and the civil rights and Black Power struggles of the 1960s and ’70s were all killed when the Democrats successfully co-opted the leaderships of these movements.

We in Socialist Organizer argue for a clean break with the twin parties of the bosses and we fight for the creation of a mass independent Labor Party — a party of and for the working class majority. A break with the Democrats is not only a burning necessity — it is an immediate possibility.

I think the CPUSA needs to read this lol