CM/Pers, to find out how to ORDER YOUR COPY OF Simonovic's latest, A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE,

CLICK ON THE PHOTO OF THE BOOK'S COVER AT THE TOP OF THE LEFT COLUMN OF SIMONOVIC's POSTERS!

The book is in LIMITED SUPPLY--so ORDER TODAY! -- cm/p   more »

PRESS RELEASE N° 01/SE/CD/FDLR/JULY/2008 OF THE FDLR
 
The FDLR demand that international justice not to be cowed by the
maneuvers of the criminal regime in Kigali, and that the African Union
reconsider its unconditional support to the bloodthirsty Kagame regime.

The Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) are shocked and
appalled that Rwanda dares to ask the African Union not to execute the
international arrest warrants, issued by French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière
and Spanish Judge Andreu Merelles, against military and civilian
dignitaries of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) for their
responsibility in the Rwandan genocide and massacres of civil ...   more »

This kind of conception is additional proof that the Prosecutor conducts a discriminatory prosecution with the objective of shielding RPF military from international justice by pretending that really independent and fair trials of the RPF military would be possible before jurisdictions under the control of the same RPF[12]. The ICTR Prosecutor, Mr. Hassan Bubacar Jallow, pretends not to be aware of the fact that President Kagame has consistently stated that RPF officers never committed the crimes of which they are accused[13], notably by human rights organizations mentioned above, by the French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière and the Spanish Judge Andreu Merelles. The Prosecutor deliberately wants to ignore the scandalous outcome of the case concerning the Kibeho massacres in which eight thousand (8,000) internally displaced persons were exterminated by RPF military led by Colonel Ibingira [Rwanda's Naser Oric--mc]. In order to mislead the public opinion outraged by that slaughter, a travesty of justice was set up against the latter. He was given a symbolic sentence. But that sentence was never served. Instead, soon after that conviction, he was promoted to the rank of general[14].   more »

The Bureau of ADAD welcomes the first public admission by ICTR Prosecutor Jallow in his press conference today, that the premise upon which all prosecutions at the ICTR have been based thus far . . . is a falsehood.

By announcing the arrest of 4 members of the Rwandan military for the 1994 assassination of 13 leaders of the Catholic Church in Kabgayi, including the Archbishop of Rwanda, the Prosecutor has confirmed that members of the former government or military are NOT responsible for all crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994, as the OTP had previously maintained. The arrests in Kigali, however, do not change the fact that not one member of the current government or military has ever been prosecuted at the ICTR.

This change in position by the ICTR Prosecutor was necessary because of recent public revelations by former ICTR Prosecutors Carla Del Ponte and Australian barrister Michael Hourigan, that the OTP has had the evidence to prosecute members of the current government, including President Kagame, since as early as 1997 and has refused to do so. Carla Del Ponte was removed from her ICTR office in 2003 when she refused to follow US/UK orders to NOT prosecute members of the current government, and Hourigan resigned after then-Chief Prosecutor Louise Arbour ordered him to drop any investigation related to Kagame or the RPF.   more »

Here at CM/P we refer to the late stage of capitalism as the 'waste stage'. Inherent in the system of value Marx critiqued was a tendency for irrational growth that would lead inevitably, like some inoperable cancer, to the complete consumption, the total wasting of the host society. But, as Simonovic points out below, that the capitalist means of production, because of this ever metastizing need for greater return on investment, today most clearly expressed in the criminal maraudings of gangs of financial speculators, global traders, and neo-liberal bandits, who are currently running our planet like it was their own Nevada whorehouse/casino,--that the capitalist means of production would become the very means for the destruction of, not only capitalism, itself, as Marx and Engles foresaw, but of all mankind--of all life on this self-conscious orb--was something even the fathers of Communism couldn't get their minds around.    more »

ONE OF THE BIGGEST CIVIL RIGHTS CASES POST-9/11 IS ABOUT TO TAKE A TURN FOR THE WORST.

ACTION ALERT FOR SAMI AL-ARIAN
www.FreeSamiNow.com

As we speak, the US government is manipulating the justice system to keep the high-profile prisoner Dr. Sami Al-Arian imprisoned indefinitely.

Despite having never been convicted of any crime whatsoever, and despite being an upright citizen who dedicated his life to improving America, Dr. Al-Arian has been imprisoned since 2003 for exercising his First Amendment rights. Any day now, he may be indicted on criminal contempt, a charge that carries a minimum sentence of five years. Another ...   more »

[As I was updating this multi-media theatre piece from the early Clinton years, I noticed how, if there's one issue that today's presidential candidates are less concerned with than the growing influence of Roman conventions in duplicate Bridge, it's the death penalty. The US Supreme Court recently voted 7-2 that 'lethal injection' does not constitute 'cruel and unusual punishment', and reinstated the death sentences of three convicts. I dunno, perhaps I just miss playing Bridge. And I know the game requires too much memory and concentration for the average Western thinker raised on Nintendo--many have suggested that I redo the play to involve the four condemned protagonists in a game of poker. But remembering how in 1992 Bill Clinton took time off from campaigning to sign the death warrant on an auto-lobotomized Ricky Lee Rector (and much later, toward the end of his second mandate, became the first chief executive to apply the recently revived federal death penalty against Juan Garza, a Mexican dope dealer, and Timothy McVeigh, the Lee Harvey Oswald of Oklahoma City--two executions he courageously handed off to his highly-seasoned switch-dropping successor), and how his much-scorned wife and her obsequious colleagues have so (un)scrupulously avoided the subject of ritualized domestic state murder in favor of effete posturing against its reflection in the pursuit of foreign wars: I thought it time to dust off the short club. --mc]   more »

Ljubodrag Simonovic
Belgrado, Serbia
E-mail: comrade@sezampro.yu
Traducido del serbio por Daniel Durini

Manifiesto del Humanismo Existencial

La tarea más importante de la inteligencia humanista es la de contribuir a la autoconcientización en el hombre contemporáneo la cual le posibilite a la humanidad su supervivencia. Es su deber apuntar hacia las consecuencias cada vez más dramáticas del desarrollo del capitalismo como un sistema destructivo, al igual que hacia las posibilidades objetivas existentes para la creación de un mundo nuevo. A la vez, los intelectuales humanistas deben construir una estrategia política que se pueda convertir en el punto de arranque de formas ...   more »

Louise Arbour is a war criminal and it is time the Canadian people
were made aware of the truth about this corrupt woman.

Arbour is responsible for covering up the murders of the President of
Rwanda, the President of Burundi and many other persons who were
assassinated on April 6th, 1994, by the Rwanda Patriotic Front with the
assistance of the UN, the US, Canada and Belgium.   more »

An investigation has uncovered an asylum system scandal where bogus Rwandan “refugees” infiltrate the U.S. and U.K. and work as undercover agents to hunt down critics of the Rwandan dictatorship and legitimate refugees and drag them back to Rwanda. This is yet the latest revelation on how the dictatorship in Rwˇˇanda manufactures and exports terrorism using an ideology of genocide and how the West supports terrorism by backing its Rwanda proxy. Meanwhile, business in Rwanda is booming and the criminal networks of the Kagame military machine continue to plunder the blood-drenched Congo.   more »

Bruxelles, 2 avril 2008

QUEL GENOCIDE AU RWANDA

EXTRAITS DE L’ACTE D’INCULPATION DE PAUL KAGAME et C°

(Rédigé à Madrid le six février de l’année deux mille huit par le Juge Fernando Andreu MERELLES Tribunal Central d’Instruction N° 4, COUR NATIONALE°)



RESUME DES FAITS SELON L’ENQUETE MERELLES (résume 3/2000-D)

1. De la présente et jusqu’à ce jour, se détachent des indices rationnels et fondés que, à partir du mois d’octobre 1990, un groupe à structure politico-militaire, fortement armé et organisé, a entamé une série d’activités à caractère criminel sur le territoire rwandais, à partir d’Ouganda.

Au cours des quatre premières ...   more »

As with Central Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo), with the Caucasus and a great deal of Russia’s near abroad, with Iraq and Afghanistan, and with the Arab Middle East (Palestine, Syria, Lebanon), aggression by forces of Western Waste Capitalism, with their multi-national corporate battalions led by neo-liberal NGO sappers, Tibet has become another staging ground for the destabilization unto annihilation of another popular, reasonable and decent government, the Peoples Republic of China. That China is set to host that most ancient and most French of ancient Fascist rites, the Olympic Games, has almost no bearing on these events. China holds most of the paper—whatever is not in Japanese, British or Brazilian hands (see http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt)—on the West’s vain attempts to sustain an industrial economy—albeit an economy based on production for destruction. So whether it’s the Olympics or SARS or toxic Barbie dolls, China has to be dealt with right now.    more »

The most important task for the humanist intelligentsia is to develop in contemporary man a self-consciousness that will provide humankind with the possibility to survive. The humanist intelligentsia needs to point out the increasingly dramatic consequences of the development of capitalism as a destructive order, as well as the existing objective possibilities for the creation of a new world. At the same time, it needs to develop a political strategy that will become a starting point for the creation of global forms of political struggle that would impede the destruction of life on the planet and create a new world.   more »

The ugly irony of this situation is that as the case against the General and the other Rwandan indictees from the Habyarimana government and military grows less and less tenable, the pressures from Kagame's criminal government in Kigali, responding to the grotesque machinations of their Anglo-Saxon dogfathers, esp the militaristic perverts and pedocidal madmen in the US State and Defense Depts., as well as their tea-sucking homologues in the British MoD and MI6, to transfer all unadjudicated cases for trial in Rwanda (tantamount to a death sentence), has so poisoned the air at the Arusha Trib as to turn the old mockery of justice that went down there into the sort of molar-grindingly bad acid trip of a nightmare that even a double-Thorazine enema couldn't chew through.    more »

[In Henry H. Bauer's new book, The Origins, Persistence, and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory (McFarland & Co, Jefferson, NC, & London, 2007), he posits an interesting epistomological thesis that is quite pertinent to our current discussions of Central Africa (Rwanda/Congo) and the Balkans (Serbia/incl Kosovo):

{For our purposes we've replaced Bauer's terms, 'medical science', with our 'History', and his 'the history of science and medicine' with our 'History and Geopolitics'--nb}

<<{History} is capable of big mistakes that sometimes persist for quite a long time. That is inherent in the nature of human knowledge. Things not yet known, not yet understood, when discovered call for rethinking or abandoning what had been believed up to then. Human understanding does not expand like a balloon; as its scope increases, its content also changes, in fits and starts, often because mistaken beliefs are replaced.

The popular view of the history of knowledge, including {History and Geopolitics}, is virtually the opposite of the true state of affairs. . . .>>(pg 154)   more »

When hurricane Katrina hit, it was, after a brief delay, a rapid intervention process that established a chain of U.S. military command posts across the gulf coast. Troops, helicopters, tanks, and private military armies were quickly sent in, not to rescue people, but to secure the facilities of the US military and defense contractors, shipyards, banks and the high-end economic zone. It was all very efficient, hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer’s money was squandered on professional killers who, fresh from Iraq and Afghanistan, did the only thing they seem to know how to do, they killed people. But the point is that the U.S. government moves mountains when it wants to, and quickly.   more »

In the Bible, faith is defined as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." This seems a very appropriate description of the Tribunal's handling of the US satellite and U-2 "evidence." It was on the basis of these photos that the Security Council and tribunal accused the Serbian leadership of having committed a massacre. The Tribunal's indictments against Karadzic and Mladic were primarily based on faith in the journalists' faith in the Security Council's faith in the CIA and its spy photos. Neither the press nor the tribunal were given access to all of the photos, yet both take it for granted that the Bosnian leaders are "guilty as charged."   more »

Democratic Elections in Russia? No Joke!
by Mick Collins, CM/P
12 January 2008



He who casts his vote has no power. He who counts the votes has all power.
—Maréchal Stalin on elections.

When I got the email inviting me to Moscow to observe the 2 December 2007 Duma elections, I was in the middle of reading, in the NY Times-online, about how the EU and OSCE had pulled their election monitors less than a week before the voting. It was weird on the face of it—why would these Europeans refuse to witness a celebration by their fellow Europeans of ...   more »

[The evidence against the consensus genocide mythology mounts. But in this election season, the forces of delusional revision continue to batter all expressions of the will of the great majority with a sectarian nightmare vision of victimized minorities, tortured unto extermination, struggling for justice (and just compensations, fo sho) against all odds. Democracy for the few is being paid for with the blood of the many.

Since 53% of the French voting public were cajoled and/or terrorized into acting against their own interests by elevating to the Elysée Palace the sayan (home-grown sleeper agent of Israeli military intelligence--see Le Figaro or http://eldib.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/la-france-sous-le-joug-de-lempire-israelo-americain/) and self-proclaimed Fascist (sampling JFK's 'ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country', when pronouned by someone whose family owns the country, is a pure Fascist spiel), Nick 'the geek' Sarkozy, all pretension to democratic humanism in this country has been abandoned. France now is all about collaboration all the time. . . .   more »

[One just can't say enough about General Kagame--who now is lobbying to get his country, Rwanda, into the British Commonwealth. From the Pré Carré (as Francophone Central Africa was called) to the Queen's Back Nine in just a dozen years--and nearly as many million slaughtered souls. More on Pilate's predations when CM/P's back from the Russian elections. --mc]

Paul Kagame, the Mastermind of the Genocide of Interior Tutsis.

By Guillaume Murere, Ph.D., Gatineau-Québec, Canada


‘Shake Hands with the Devil’, a film about the Rwandan Genocide featuring Canadian Senator Roméo Dallaire, has revived debate on the subject. This is perfectly normal because, 13 years after the event, this gruesome crime is still unresolved.

Initially, the media imposed the version that the Rwandan Genocide was planned and carried out only by Hutu. But against all odds, after spending more than a billion dollars (U.S.) and employing the intelligence services of the United States, England, Canada, Belgium and Israel, the International ...   more »

Arusha, 15 November 2007

ICTR Detainees Arusha - Tanzania

The UN Security Council President, Members of the UN Security Council, The UN Secretary General, The ICTR President,

Objet: Transmission of the Declaration of the ICTR accused and convicted persons declaring their status as "Political Prisoners of United Nations"

Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

We, the ICTR accused and convicted persons signatory to the present letter, have the honor to forward to you hereby attached a Declaration stating our status as Political Prisoners of United Nations.

Sincerely yours.

The signatories: see the list of the signatories of the Declaration [PDF file ...   more »

[Keith Harmon Snow's reporting (www.allthingspass.com) on Africa came as a real shock--a very pleasant shock, like some righteous Mexican dope after a whole season of slamming flea powder--when he showed up on my screen here a while back. His 'Hotel Rwanda: Hollywood and the Holocaust in Central Africa', which has been reposted below with some updating, gave a massive info-boost to our study of Popular Film and the (un)Making-Of History. Mr Snow's latest contribution to the redemption of African History comes at a most opportune time: Now that the 'Stop the Fucking Genocide in Darfur' campaign has been outted for the mawkish reversion to amped-up militarism it has always been--just ask Geo Clooney, Sammy Powers or Nick Kristoff what they'd prospose to end the mass killing they're constantly keening over, and they'd quickly respond, 'Send in more 'peacekeeping troops and equipment'. In October 2007, right after the approval of a 26,000-strong contingent of UN and AU forces to be sent into Darfur, the local 'rebels', whose sole means of reproducing themselves (i.e., of making a living) has become to destroy everyone and everything that they can't either eat, fuck or rub gun oil on, and really can't be bothered with peace talks much beyond the free buffet, swept into an AU camp, ripped off all the new equipment, ran off with 40 or so peacekeeping hostages, and blew away a dozen or so more of their proletarian brothers. Snow points out just how these so-called 'humanitarian interventions' lead directly to the '(humanitarian?) genocides', that have been going on in Africa and elsewhere (but have recently spiked in Eastern Congo with the maraudings of Gen Laurent Nkunda(batwarae) and his 'Tutsi Defense Forces') for far too long (body count: 9 million and counting just since 1 October 1990). We did a bit of editing on this piece, but it only served to make KHS come up with even more pertinent data. So there's a lot of food for the ever-hungry African info wonk here. Like eating a fat Burrito King machaca, be careful you don't get a bunch of it down the front of your Oaxacan wedding shirt. Just dive in, consume with consideration and don't sweat the indigestion--this stuff shouldn't go down easy. --mc]   more »

Civil Wars in Congo
by Christopher Black
 

The so-called Democratic Republic of Congo, formally Zaire, is central to the events of the last 15 years in the region. It is a country of vast size, as large as all of Western Europe, and is rich in resources. It contains large deposits of industrial diamonds, cobalt, copper, columbite-tantalite (or coltan, used to make micro-chips), gold, zinc, manganese, coal, cadmium, and germanium, used to make semi conductors. It has the largest forest reserves in Africa. Its hydroelectric generating potential would meet over half of Africa’s needs. The eastern province of Katanga ...   more »

[This is an absolutely stunning text for our times. It's an interview with a survivor (Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana) of the Rwandan horrors of 1990-1994, conducted by an American university student (David Barouski)--and just when I thought America didn't have a hampster's chance in a microwave of getting this one right (--except for Keith Snow and, maybe, Wayne Madsen).

It reads like a chataqua I wish I'd written (and, hey, I still might) about one of the most brazenly flaunted historical lies, since . . . god, there are so many! Let's just call the Rwandan Genocide of 100 days one of the biggest African Big Lies of the last 2000 years.

Barouski, the young man who put this extraordinary piece together (it originally appeared on ZNet), is a 27 year old poli/sci major at the U of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (Go . . . what? Beercats!?). David has been working on the Rwandan dossier just a couple days longer than I have, and he has already gotten his head around more information--good, cogent, hard information--than I could master if I live to be a hundred--yo, wait a minute! That's not all that much longer! But, anyway, David's work is very important. (Word up on the ICTR mainline was that he was really a Rwandan writing under a nom de guerre--they don't pass out props like that on the quad at UW, I bet).   more »

HOTEL RWANDA
Hollywood and the Holocaust in Central Africa



keith harmon snow
www.allthingspass.com


First published: 04 July 2005;
Text modified: 05 November 2005;
Final version: 04 December 2005.
Revisited Final: 10 January 2006.




What happened in Rwanda in 1994? The standard line is that a calculated genocide occurred because of deep-seated tribal animosity between the majority Hutu tribe in power and the minority Tutsis. According to this story, at least 500,000 and perhaps 1.2 million Tutsis—and some ‘moderate’ Hutus—were ruthlessly eliminated in a few months, and most of them were killed with machetes. The killers in this story were Hutu ...   more »

[There are significant stirrings in the Military II trial in Arusha--that's The General's trial, and it's CM/P's own attorney general, Me Chris Black, who's filed the motion to investigate the Tribunal, in general, for selective prosecution. Apparently, in Florence 'the NATO flak' Hartmann's recent attempts to hang the blame on the Great Powers, and especially the US, for the total absence of any evidence at the ICTY for the charges of genocide or crimes against humanity, especially as regards the cases of Sarajevo and Srebrenica, against the Serbian state, in general, and President Slobodan Milosevic, in particular; ...   more »

[Is HATE the engine that drives History? Was he talking about HATE when Marx wrote '"The [written] history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle"? Is Terrorism just another HATE crime like 'queer bashing' or 'nigger knocking' or 'WWII'?

HATE certainly is a much sexier consideration than, say, social engineering and labor transfers, increased concentration of surplus value, or forced commercial and financial expropriation and the seizure of new markets. Who would willingly lay down his life for the reallocation of (privatized) energy franchises in Central and Eastern Europe (from direct dealings with the Russian source, ...   more »

[Here, at last, is the completed Bruguière Report in an English language version we here at CM/P just kinda whipped together over the last 11 months or so. It continues to make for compelling reading, even for those not particularly well-versed in the recent history of Central Africa, and especially in light of the current renewed aggression from Rwanda and Uganda into NE Congo.

Those who were following the report in its serialization here, the last trance [5] left off with item #238--so the final installment [tranche 6] would begin with item #239.

This was tough sledding, as the language ...   more »

[It's good to see Dr. John (the Night Tripper) Laughland back on the attack against internation (in)justice. Finally, someone--besides the A-team (and it's good to see Me T back in the game quand même)--has taken aim against the ridiculous renderings of the Arusha Tribunal for Rwanda--a southern affiliate of the murderous ICTY in The Hague.

Of course, Dr. John, like just about everyone working this file, is too young to remember when justice got really ugly: the Summer of Love, forty years ago (1967); draft dodgers abandoning Haight/Ashbury for St Germain/St Michel; Moby Grape at the Avalon; Dr Tim tripping ...   more »

[Here, from the 12 July 2007 Pravda, is the Russian CP weighing in on world affairs. Pridnjestrovlje [Transdnistria] is mentioned in relation to Kosovo. But what is striking in this article is the extent to which anti-Russian sentiment continues to color the geopolitical discussion under various guises: anti-authoritarianism/pro-democracy, energy-transparency/free-market fuel pricing, even anti-terrorism/anti-Semitism (after all, were not the Soviets the first 'Holocaust deniers' when they made the audacious claim that the Fascists had actually invaded them in 1941 to destroy THE ENTIRETY OF SOVIET COMMUNISM and not just the Jews of the USSR?). Remember, throughout the late 70s and the ...   more »