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		<title>Russian Nativity Play: A Tale of Two Josephs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oleg Atbashian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens to a Christmas play when Joseph Stalin is more known than the biblical Joseph.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Joseph.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248319" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Joseph-293x350.jpg" alt="Joseph" width="221" height="264" /></a>This &#8220;life imitates the People&#8217;s Cube&#8221; moment comes from St. Petersburg, Russia. What seems to be a spoof is a legitimate story via <a href="http://ria.ru/society/20141225/1040186712.html">RIA Novosti</a>, a Russian news agency. As a historical footnote, Nativity plays are a new concept in Russia, where Joseph Stalin is more known than the biblical Joseph, which occasionally causes Freudian slips like this one.</p>
<p>A St. Petersburg student mistakenly showed up dressed as Joseph Stalin to the Christmas play where he was supposed to play the biblical character of Joseph.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yesterday, my 12-year-old son participated in a school play. He told us ahead of time that he got the role of Joseph Stalin who is talking to some woman. It wasn&#8217;t a big surprise to us, as he has played parts in school plays before, and once he was even a watermelon,&#8221; wrote the student&#8217;s father Fyodor Gavrichenko on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205116943470500&amp;set=a.1318879219340.47466.1451565715&amp;type=1&amp;fref=nf">Facebook page</a>.</p>
<p>Gavrichenko said the whole family worked on making the costume &#8211; especially the grandmother, who sewed trouser stripes to the pants, found some old army boots, made a generalissimo mustache and a red folder with a big star.</p>
<p>They didn&#8217;t realize the mistake until the last moment because the play was in German as part of the boy&#8217;s foreign language class, and no one understood what the son&#8217;s lines meant. Apparently, the boy hadn&#8217;t been paying attention in class either. Instead of bringing the costume to school before the play, he showed the teacher its picture on his cell phone. The teacher thought it was a joke and said that the costume &#8220;rocks.&#8221;</p>
<p>The family sensed trouble when they saw their son&#8217;s classmate dressed as Magi. &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; asked the Magi. &#8220;I&#8217;m Mary&#8217;s husband… Joseph Stalin,&#8221; said the boy. His confidence shaken, the classmate went to the teacher: &#8220;Our Joseph turns out to be Stalin… Is that a good thing?&#8221; &#8220;What?&#8221; asked the teacher, as he pulled the curtain revealing the Nativity scene with Joseph and Mary. It was too late to change.</p>
<p>The plot thickened before the drama began. According to the father, Stalin&#8217;s outfit was a smash. The boy&#8217;s lines were accompanied by fits of hysterical laughter through the tears from other parents, some of whom reportedly fell off their chairs.</p>
<p>Those who can read the original Facebook post in Russian will notice that the father knows as little about the Nativity story as his son, confusing characters and their roles in the story. This is rather a norm in Russia, where erstwhile official atheism is only now being replaced by the official Orthodox Church. This St. Petersburg father couldn&#8217;t tell the shepherds from angels even if his son&#8217;s play weren&#8217;t in German. But at least he&#8217;s trying.</p>
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		<title>New Left Totalitarians Celebrate Castro&#8217;s Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Hayden hails Obama for completing the objectives of the Cuban "Revolution." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/518024350_15_ov1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247968" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/518024350_15_ov1-406x350.jpg" alt="518024350_15_ov1" width="324" height="279" /></a>“I first went to Cuba in January 1968, during the height of revolutionary aspirations,” writes New Left celebrity Tom Hayden in “50 Years Later It’s Time for Closure,” a <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article4699068.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Dec. 21 oped piece in the <i>Sacramento Bee</i></span></a>. On recent visits Hayden hung out with Cuba’s former minister of foreign affairs Ricardo Alarcon, and that inspired Hayden to write the forthcoming <i>Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters</i>. Meanwhile, Tom Hayden is excited about recent moves by President Obama.</p>
<p>“The Cuban Revolution has achieved its aim,” Hayden explains, “recognition of the sovereign right of its people to revolt against the Yankee Goliath and survive as a state in a sea of global solidarity.” Further, “After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a decade of American triumphalism based on the mistaken belief that the Cuban state would collapse like East Germany. We underestimated Cuban nationalism.”</p>
<p>However, “a sticking point on the U.S. side was the persistent funding of ‘democracy promotion,’ or our secret efforts to promote a more open society.” Hayden further explains that Alan Gross “was a covert agent, not a home appliance distributor.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #000000;">Cuban spies </span>Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez, were all tried and imprisoned in the United States for gathering intelligence on U.S. air bases. They also <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/pastors-for-peaces-shameful-visit-to-cuba/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue and tipped off the Castro regime</span></a>, which scrambled MIG fighters and downed one of the Brothers’ unarmed planes, killing four people. Tom Hayden’s take is rather different: “<span style="color: #000000;">The Cuban Five were protecting Cuba’s security from us, not acting as terrorists.”</span></p>
<p>Hayden contends that key episodes in Cuban history are “best recalled” through Francis Ford Coppola’s <i>The Godfather: Part II.</i> Fortunately, American viewers can gain knowledge of Cuba in films by actual Cubans that cover events Tom Hayden and Ricardo Alarcon prefer to avoid.</p>
<p>When Cuban general Arnaldo Ochoa returned from his military campaign in Africa, “8A,” a play on his name, began to appear on walls all over the island. Long oppressed Cubans believed the popular general was the only one with a chance to topple Fidel Castro’s Communist dictatorship. Fidel knew it too. He held a show trial for Ochoa and put it on satellite television. Cuban filmmaker Orlando Jimenez Leal taped it and made the documentary “8A.”</p>
<p>Viewers can see the regime’s lawyers demanding that their clients get the death penalty. Fidel Castro agreed and on July 12, 1989 duly carried out the sentence by firing squad, just like back in the revolutionary days. No appeal process, and no more threat from Arnaldo Ochoa.</p>
<p>In “Improper Conduct” Jimenez Leal and cinematographer Nestor Almendros portrayed the Castro regime’s repressions against political dissidents, journalists, poets and homosexuals. The <i>New York Times</i> called the film “convincing” and former Castro supporter Susan Sontag said “The discovery that homosexuals were being persecuted in Cuba shows how much the Left needs to evolve.”</p>
<p>It will be interesting to see what Tom Hayden says about this in his new book <i>Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters</i>. In the meantime, readers might consult books written by actual Cubans.</p>
<p>In <i>Against All Hope</i>, which has been compared to Arthur Koestler’s <i>Darkness at Noon</i>, Cuban dissident Armando Valladares charts 20 years in Castro’s prisons, and the violence he and other political prisoners suffered. Arrested in 1960, Valladares was not freed until 1982. This came through the efforts of French president Francois Mitterand and human rights organizations. A ballpark figure for the number of Cuban dissidents the American New Left has supported is zero.</p>
<p>In <i>Family Portrait with Fidel</i>, Carlos Franqui charts the Cuban Revolution from 1959 to 1964. Franqui broke ranks over Fidel’s shift to Soviet Communism, after which “nothing worked.” The privations of the regime get extensive treatment in Heberto Padilla’s novel, <i>Heroes are Grazing in My Garden</i>.</p>
<p>In <i>The Longest Romance,</i> Humberto Fontova calculates that between 65,000 and 85,000 people have died trying to escape Cuba, 30 times the number of Berlin Wall casualties. Cuba’s prison population is 90 percent black and includes Eusebio Penlaver, “the world’s longest suffering black political prisoner.” That wasn’t a sticking point for Barack Obama.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/lessons-on-the-new-left-from-the-hanoi-hilton/">Tom Hayden recently showed up in <i>Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton</i>.</a></span> Author Lee Ellis was shot down over North Vietnam, imprisoned and tortured. Americans were kept in cages with their legs tied together and arms laced behind the back until the elbows touched and shoulders pulled out of joint. Some Americans were kept awake for two weeks and beaten, but the treatment wasn’t just physical.</p>
<p>As Ellis explains, the prison guards piped in propaganda broadcasts by Tom Hayden, a “regular speaker” who supported the regime and said the reports of torture were nothing but lies.  Given that record, Cuban prisons may soon ring with readings from <i>Listen Yankee! Why Cuba Matters</i>, by Tom Hayden.</p>
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		<title>Senators Vow to Halt Obama&#8217;s Castro Odyssey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But is Congress a match for the president's pen and phone?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-on-cuba.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247802" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-on-cuba-450x300.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="375" height="250" /></a>Lawmakers opposed to President Obama&#8217;s sudden move to cozy up to Communist Cuba are vowing a full-court press to prevent official diplomatic recognition of the tropical prison republic from going forward.</p>
<p>But it is far from clear if lawmakers will be able to do much about Obama&#8217;s Cuban escapades. Presidents typically enjoy great latitude in foreign policy, especially concerning recognition of foreign governments. Lawmakers are probably on stronger ground in resisting repeal of the trade embargo that has been in place since the 1960s. On the other hand, Obama has a pen and a phone, as he likes to say, a reference to his brazen contempt for the rule of law and the strictures of the Constitution.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s dramatic actions are setting off a feeding frenzy as American companies salivate at the prospect of doing business in Cuba. Little do they realize that Cuba, a dilapidated Stalinist state that, thanks to the absence of good paying jobs, serves largely as a seedy sex tourism destination for Europeans and hardly has an economy at all. Some business restrictions were already eased by the U.S. around 2000. Some companies are allowed to sell medical equipment to the Cuban government. There is not much money to be made, at least not initially.</p>
<p>Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who are both of Cuban ancestry, have made strong statements about their intentions.</p>
<p>Rubio said it mattered not a whit to him if &#8220;99 percent of people in polls&#8221; disagreed with his position. &#8220;Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama&#8217;s naivete during his final two years in office.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rubio said he reserved the right &#8220;to do everything within the rules of the Senate to prevent that sort of individual from ever even coming up for a vote,&#8221; a reference to confirmation proceedings for a prospective U.S. ambassador to Cuba.</p>
<p>Menendez said he was &#8220;deeply disappointed&#8221; and that it was &#8220;a fallacy to believe that Cuba will reform because an American president opens his hands and the Castro brothers will suddenly unclench their fists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The chill in relations between the two countries has its roots in the Cold War.</p>
<p>Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, whose forces overthrew the comparatively mild authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista, tried to start a nuclear war with the United States and in 1963 openly called for the assassination of President John Kennedy and his brother Robert, the U.S. attorney general. War was only narrowly averted after the Soviet Union turned around ships that were carrying nuclear weapons to Cuba. A short time later one of Castro&#8217;s followers, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald, murdered President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Cuba is a longtime state sponsor of terrorism and has meddled militarily and otherwise in the affairs of its neighbors and in faraway countries such as Angola. President Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada after its Marxist dictatorship grew too close to Cuba and he struggled heroically to aid the anticommunist contras in their war against the Cuban-backed Communist regime in Nicaragua.</p>
<p>Many conservatives in Congress and elsewhere are saying Obama is a weak leader.</p>
<p>For example, former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said on the Fox News Channel on Wednesday that Obama&#8217;s moves on Cuba constitute &#8220;appeasement&#8221; and are a &#8220;very, very bad signal of weakness and lack of resolve by the president of the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bolton and others are correct in terms of how the U.S. is perceived abroad under Obama but this does not reflect weak leadership on Obama&#8217;s part. This president knows what he is doing and when given the opportunity to do the right thing reliably chooses to do the wrong thing. Obama is taking the country&#8217;s foreign policy in exactly the right direction in terms of his sinister ideology. Obama does not mean well. He does not, unlike traditional U.S. presidents, think of himself as the leader of the free world. He wants to fundamentally transform America inside and out and is quite content to enfeeble the nation by crippling its military, betraying its allies, and embracing its enemies.</p>
<p>All of this excitement follows the sudden release Wednesday of Alan Gross, a U.S. development worker held in a Cuban prison. (An intelligence operative loyal to the U.S. was also released as part of the deal. Details about that individual are scarce.) Gross is a garden-variety leftist who is being used by President Obama to justify establishing diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba.</p>
<p>Obama is repaying a debt to his Marxist friends and allies. Just as President Bill Clinton rewarded his neo-communist supporters by pardoning Marxist Puerto Rican terrorists, Obama is rewarding his Castro-admiring base by freeing Communist spies working for a hostile foreign power.</p>
<p>Gross was reportedly a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is frequently a home for meddling left-wing activists. He reportedly worked on a program aimed at improving Internet access for Cuban Jews. Why the Obama administration would knowingly send an American into Cuba to perform services they had to have known were considered illegal by Cuban authorities is not clear. The free flow of information is a threat to any totalitarian regime, so a Cuban court convicted Gross of crimes against the state in 2011, sentencing him to a 15-year prison term.</p>
<p>Under a deal that Pope Francis, among others, helped to facilitate, Gross was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/17/meet-the-cuban-five-at-the-center-of-the-blockbuster-u-s-announcement-on-cuba/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">exchanged</span></a> for the remaining three members of the so-called Cuban Five &#8212; Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramón Labañino &#8212; who had been held in U.S. prisons.  All five Cuban nationals were convicted of spying in 2001. They gathered information on Cuban exiles in the U.S. in order to lay the ground for violent action against them in the future. Hernández was also convicted of conspiring to commit murder.</p>
<p>As Gross prepared for his press conference Wednesday, there was a portrait of  Communist mass murderer Che Guevara <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/17/why-does-freed-cuban-prisoners-lawyer-have-a-picture-of-che-on-his-wall/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">clearly visible</span></a> in the Washington, D.C. office of Gross&#8217;s lawyer, high-profile attorney Scott D. Gilbert of Gilbert LLP. The bloodthirsty Guevara was minister of industry and president of the Cuban National Bank. He also administered kangaroo courts that condemned enemies of Fidel Castro&#8217;s regime to death. In other words, as Gross prepared his statement about being freed from a Cuban jail, an iconic photograph honoring Cuba&#8217;s most infamous jailer stared down at him.</p>
<p>Guevara, incidentally, wanted to annihilate the United States.</p>
<p>&#8220;If the nuclear missiles [from the missile crisis] had remained [in Cuba] we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the press conference Gross maligned the U.S., <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/12/17/Freed-Prisoner-Alan-Gross-Slams-Two-Governments-Mutually-Belligerent-Policies"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pulling</span></a> a cowardly pox-on-both-your-houses stunt. Gross drew a moral equivalency between the U.S. and the ruthless authoritarian regime he just escaped:</p>
<blockquote><p>I also feel compelled to share with you my utmost respect for and fondness of the people of Cuba. In no way are they responsible for the ordeal to which my family and I have been subjected. To me <i>cubanos</i>,<i> </i>or at least most of them, are incredibly kind, generous and talented. <strong><i>It pains me to see them treated so unjustly as a consequence of two governments&#8217; mutually belligerent policies.  Five and a half decades of history show us such belligerence inhibits better judgment. Two wrongs never make a right. I truly hope that we can now get beyond these mutually belligerent policies and I was very happy to hear what the president had to say today.</i></strong> It was particularly cool to be sitting next to the secretary of state as he was hearing about his job description for the next couple of months. In all seriousness, this is a game-changer, which I fully support. [Emphasis added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>Who condemns his own countrymen as imperialist warmongers after they cut a deal to get him repatriated from the clutches of a dictatorship? And why would he use his opportunity in the spotlight to praise President Obama’s decision to normalize relations with the regime that he believes unjustly imprisoned him?</p>
<p>The whole thing doesn&#8217;t smell right. Clearly it was in the works for a long time.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, Gross thanked Jill Zuckman of left-wing PR firm SKDKnickerbocker for helping to free him. SKDKnickerbocker also employs former resident Maoist in the Obama White House, Anita Dunn, and Democrat operative Hilary Rosen. Gross also thanked Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Communist-friendly lawmakers Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) for freeing him.</p>
<p>Those who follow President Obama&#8217;s policy initiatives already know that he delights in trading Americans who hate America for foreign terrorists and murderers who also hate America. Not so long ago there was the swap of U.S Army deserter and Taliban collaborator Bowe Bergdahl for five members of the Taliban&#8217;s high command.  Not exactly a good deal for America.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s next for Obama, who is hellbent to knock America down a few pegs?</p>
<p>Diplomatic recognition for Iran? At first glance such a development might seem unlikely, but Obama does harbor deep affection for hardline Islamic states. He aided Mohamed Morsi&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and during anti-government unrest that began in Iran in 2009, Obama effectively propped up the Islamist regime there by doing nothing to oppose it.</p>
<p>Anything could happen with Obama in his final two years in the White House.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Bailout for Communist Dictators</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Americans will suffer for Obama’s dirty deal with Castro.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Getty_121013_ObamaCastro.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247703" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Getty_121013_ObamaCastro-416x350.jpg" alt="Mandela memorial service (30)" width="289" height="243" /></a>The Soviet Union did not have to fall. If Carter had won a second term and Mondale had succeeded him, the Communist dictatorship might have received the outside help it needed to survive.</p>
<p>And we would still be living under the shadow of the Cold War.</p>
<p>Carter couldn’t save the Soviet Union, but he did <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2011/04/02/jimmy_carter_charms_the_castro_brothers_in_havana/page/full"><span style="color: #0433ff;">his best to save Castro</span></a>, visiting Fidel and Raul in Cuba where the second worst president in American history described his meeting with Castro as a greeting among “old friends”.</p>
<p>Raul Castro called Carter “the best of all U.S. presidents.”</p>
<p>Obama’s dirty deal with Raul will make the worst president in American history, Castro’s new best friend.</p>
<p>Carter couldn’t save Castro, but Obama did. This was not a prisoner exchange. This was a Communist bailout.</p>
<p>Obama boasted that he would increase the flow of money to Cuba from businesses, from bank accounts and from trade. When he said, “We’re significantly increasing the amount of money that can be sent to Cuba”, that was his real mission statement.</p>
<p>The Castro regime is on its last legs. Its sponsors in Moscow and Caracas are going bankrupt due to failing energy prices. The last hope of the Butcher of Havana was a bailout from Washington D.C.</p>
<p>And that’s exactly what Obama gave him.</p>
<p>Obama has protected the Castros from regime change as if Communist dictators are an endangered species.</p>
<p>From the beginning, Obama put his foreign policy at the disposal of Havana when he backed Honduran leftist thug Manuel Zelaya’s attempt to shred its Constitution over the protests of the country’s Congress and Supreme Court. And its military, which refused to obey his illegal orders.</p>
<p>Obama’s support for an elected dictator in Honduras should have warned Americans that their newly elected leader viewed men like Zelaya favorably and constitutions and the separation of powers between the branches of government unfavorably. It also showcased his agenda for Latin America.</p>
<p>His embrace of Raul Castro brings that agenda out into the open even if he still insists in wrapping it in dishonest claims about “freedom” and “openness” while bailing out a Communist dictatorship.</p>
<p>Obama began his Castro speech with a lie, declaring, “The United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba.”</p>
<p>The Cuban people have no relationship with the United States because they have no free elections and no say in how they are governed. The only Cubans who have a relationship with the United States fled here on rafts.</p>
<p>Obama did not make his dirty deal with the Cuban people. He made it in a marathon phone call with the Cuban dictator.</p>
<p>When Obama claims that his deal with Raul Castro represents a new relationship with the people of Cuba, he is endorsing a Communist dictatorship as the legitimate representative of the Cuban people.</p>
<p>This is a retroactive endorsement of the Castro regime and its entire history of mass murder and political terror. Obama is not trying to “open up” Cuba as he claimed. He likes Cuba just the way it is; Communist and closed.</p>
<p>Obama did not consult the Cuban people, just as he did not consult the American people. He disregarded the embargo, Congress, the Constitution and the freedom of the Cuban people.</p>
<p>His dictatorial disregard of the embargo, which can only be eliminated by Congress, in order to support a dictatorship, is a disturbing reminder that the road he is walking down leads to a miserable tyranny.</p>
<p>Cuban-American senators from both parties have been unanimous in condemning the move. These senators are the closest thing to Cuban elected officials. But Obama disregarded Senator Menendez, a man of his own party, Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz.</p>
<p>Instead Obama chose to stand with Raul Castro and his Communist dictatorship.</p>
<p>Obama tried to whitewash his crime by exploiting Alan Gross, a USAID contractor who was imprisoned and abused by the Castro regime, as if the release of an American hostage justified helping the men holding him hostage stay in power. And the media, which was reprinting Castro’s propaganda claiming that Gross’ imprisonment was justified, is busy now pretending that it cares about his release.</p>
<p>He had similarly tried to whitewash his Taliban amnesty by using Bergdahl and his parents as cover. If a deal is struck with Iran, the release of Robert Levinson, Saeed Abedini or Amir Hekmati will almost certainly be used to divert attention from the fact that their own government has collaborated with the thugs and terrorists who took them hostage.</p>
<p>Even though Obama criticized European countries for paying financial ransoms to ISIS, his own ransom paid to the Castros is worth countless billions. And the blood money pouring out of American banks into the Castro regime will encourage other dictatorships to take Americans hostage as leverage for obtaining concessions from the United States. Americans abroad will suffer for Obama’s dirty deal.</p>
<p>No European country recognized ISIS in exchange for the release of hostages. Only Obama was willing to go that far with Cuba, not only opening diplomatic and economic relations, but promising to remove the Communist dictatorship from the list of state sponsors of terror despite the fact that the last State Department review found that Cuba continued to support the leftist narco-terrorists of FARC.</p>
<p>FARC had taken its own American hostages who were starved and beaten, tortured and abused.</p>
<p>Now Obama has <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cuba-demands-removal-from-list-of-state-sponsors-of-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">given in to the demand of a state</span></a> sponsor of terror to be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for releasing a hostage.</p>
<p>Obama has sent a message to Iran that the best way to secure a deal is by wrapping it in an American hostage. He has told ISIS that we do negotiate with terrorists. And he has once again demonstrated that his vaunted “smart power” is nothing more than appeasement wrapped in excuses and lies.</p>
<p>But Obama did not act to help Alan Gross. He did not even act because he genuinely thought that diplomatic relations would open up Cuba. In his speech, Obama used the claim commonly put forward by Castro apologists that the very fact that the Castros were still in power proved that sanctions had failed. Yet the lack of sanctions against Cuba by the rest of the world certainly did not usher in the new spirit of openness that Obama is promising. Rewarding dictators with cash never frees a nation.</p>
<p>This was not about saving Alan Gross. It was about saving Raul Castro.</p>
<p>Obama and Castro are both weakened leaders of the left. Like the Castros, Obama has lost international influence and his own people have turned on him. The only thing he has left is unilateral rule.</p>
<p>If Obama saw something of his own hopes and aspirations to engage in a populist transformation of the United States in Manuel Zelaya or Hugo Chavez, his horizons have narrowed down to those of Raul Castro. His ability to remake the world has vanished and the American people are revolting against his collectivization efforts. They want open health care markets, free speech and honest government.</p>
<p>Obama can no longer remake the Middle East, he certainly can’t bring the Soviet Union back from the dead, but he could still bail out Raul Castro and maintain Communist rule in Cuba.</p>
<p>No matter how often Obama claims to be “on the right side of history”, the Castros are a living reminder that to be on the left is to be on the wrong side of history.</p>
<p>Obama did not want to see the “Berlin Wall” fall in Havana on his watch. After watching his own grip on the United States collapse, he did not want to see the left fail again.</p>
<p>We can never know how history might have been different if Carter had gotten a second term or if Mondale had replaced Reagan. But Obama’s deal with Castro reminds us that the end of the USSR was not inevitable. It happened because we stood up against the tyrants in the Kremlin and their useful idiots in the White House.</p>
<p>A good man like Reagan could make a difference by bringing down the USSR. A bad man like Obama can make a difference by keeping Cuba Communist.</p>
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		<title>Torture and Police Brutality in a Real Police State</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Faith J. H. McDonnell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is Senate and media outrage about brutalized North Koreans?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kj1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247515" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kj1.jpg" alt="kj" width="279" height="157" /></a><em>The police beat them with clubs and metal brushes. Some of the teenagers were beaten so badly that their heads were covered with bald spots because the hair would no longer grow back from the trauma. </em>(“MJ” a missionary who with his wife sheltered North Korean orphans)</p>
<p>On December 10, 2014, Human Rights Day, the American media was salivating over the Senate Democrats’ report about enhanced interrogation of terrorists, raging over the U.S. government’s violation of jihadists’ human rights. At the same time, condemnation of America’s police forces continued to spread throughout the country, leading to well-orchestrated protests this past weekend. Meanwhile, a Capitol Hill <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org/Events/2014-International-Human-Rights-Day.aspx">press conference</a> sought to open the eyes of the world to true torture and real police brutality.</p>
<p>The press conference, was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org">North Korea Freedom Coalition</a> (NKFC), under the chairmanship of Dr. Suzanne Scholte. The NKFC was joined by U.S. Representatives <a href="http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-royce-applauds-house-passage-north-korea-sanctions-legislation">Ed Royce</a> (R-CA) and <a href="http://democrats.foreignaffairs.house.gov/press_display.asp?id=1378">Eliot Engel</a> (D-NY) to focus on the circumstances of <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org/UploadedDocuments/2014_PhotoLaosNinePhotos.pdf">nine North Korean teenagers</a> who were <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324682204578514772761682396">forced back</a> to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in May 2013 by the Laotian and Chinese governments. Their whereabouts has been unknown since the repatriation, but recent rumors have suggested that at least some of the seven boys and two girls may have been executed as punishment for leaving Kim Jong Un’s wonderland.</p>
<p>The young people are known as the “Laos Nine” because it was from Laos that they were returned to China and repatriated to North Korea. They had been part of the <em>kkotjebbi</em> (homeless North Korean children living on the streets in China). They were taken in by <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org/UploadedDocuments/2014_Testimonial_MJ.pdf">a missionary “MJ” and his wife</a>, who have saved the lives of many North Korean children, in spite of the risk to themselves.</p>
<p>Police brutality is a daily reality for the <em>kkotjebbi</em> according to MJ. In a statement for the press conference, he revealed that “most of the children were eating what they could find in trash cans and were sleeping in the sewers in freezing conditions,” all the while trying to avoid the notice of the brutal Chinese border patrol guards who beat them with clubs and metal brushes.</p>
<p>MJ said that the children “had no access to medical care and begged on the streets with frostbitten and infected feet.” And yet for North Korean escapees, even facing beatings from the Chinese police and freezing to death are preferable than being caught by the Chinese government and forcibly repatriated to the police state of North Korea.</p>
<p>The missionary couple feared to remain in China with “their children.” Although North Korean defectors are recognized internationally as refugees, China routinely violates its obligations to respect the principle of non-refoulement under international refugee and human rights law and sends North Koreans back to certain imprisonment and probable death. So in April of 2013, MJ, his wife, and the nine teens began a journey from China to North Korea. After they crossed the Chinese/Laotian border they were arrested by the Laotian authorities and instead of accommodating their safe passage to South Korea, the Laotian government collaborated with the Chinese government to send the teens back to China from which they were returned to North Korea.</p>
<p>In February 2014, a <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/ReportoftheCommissionofInquiryDPRK.aspx">report</a> issued by the <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIDPRK/Pages/CommissionInquiryonHRinDPRK.aspx">Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea</a> echoed what human rights organizations have been saying for years. The COI’s report, under the authority of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, thoroughly details the deplorable conditions for the citizens of Kim Jong Un’s regime, and the unspeakable torture that those confined to one of the prison camps in the vast network across the DPRK. In Section 60, “Arbitrary detention, torture, executions, and prison camps,” the report reveals:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>In the political prison camps of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the inmate population has been gradually eliminated through deliberate starvation, forced labour, executions, torture, rape and the denial of reproductive rights enforced through punishment, forced abortion and infanticide. The commission estimates that hundreds of thousands of political prisoners have perished in these camps over the past five decades. The unspeakable atrocities that are being committed against inmates of the kwanliso political prison camps resemble the horrors of camps that totalitarian States established during the twentieth century.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Congressman Royce, the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, opened the December 10 press conference on the Laos Nine. He and all of the other speakers referred to COI’s report. Royce echoed the COI’s recommendations that the UN General Assembly consider a resolution to condemn North Korea for human rights abuses and crimes against humanity, and that North Korea be referred to the International Criminal Court. The Chairman also stressed the immediate need for the Senate to take up a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1771?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22H.R.+1771%22%5D%7D">piece of legislation (H.R. 1771)</a> that was passed unanimously by the House of Representatives, calling for strong sanctions against North Korea.</p>
<p>H.R. 1771, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act, according to the NKFC, “calls for the harnessing of the Treasury Department’s regulatory oversight of the hub of the global financial system, blocking the accounts and revenue streams that sustain Kim Jong Un’s oppression and control of the North Korean people, along with his weapons programs, arms trafficking, proliferation, and money laundering.” The NKFC also says that the bill “blocks the funds of third-country entities that knowingly facilitation North Korea’s crimes against humanity, and its violations of U.N. Security Council sanctions.” If the members of the Senate Intelligence Committee responsible for the recent shameful report really care about human rights and stopping torture, they would work to pass immediately H.R. 1771, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act.</p>
<p>Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has worked in partnership with Royce for a number of years on a variety of human rights issues. He repeated his House colleague’s call for action in both the United Nations and the U.S. Congress. Engel also noted that the decision of the Laotian government to send the nine orphans back to China and then back to North Korea <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2010/09/north-korea-human-rights-cohen">violates international law</a>.</p>
<p>Thankfully, as the North Korea Freedom Coalition pointed out in a <a href="http://www.nkfreedom.org/UploadedDocuments/2014_NKFCLaos20141210.pdf">letter</a> addressed to Laotian President Lt. Gen. Choummaly Sayasone, since the incident with the Laos Nine, the Laotian government has <em>not </em>forced any other North Korean refugees – either adult or children – back to North Korea. “We urge you to continue this humanitarian policy which is consistent with international refugee law and we urge you to work with the Republic of Korea and other nations on the safe resettlement of North Korean refugees until conditions improve in that country,” the Coalition wrote.</p>
<p>Following the remarks by the members of Congress, NKFC advocates displayed photos of the nine children and told their story as told by missionary MJ. The first speaker, NKFC Vice Chairman, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, declared that it was important for the children and other North Koreans longing for freedom to know that they “are not forgotten.” Cooper held the photo of the oldest of the North Korean orphans, Moon-Chul, who was 19 at the time of repatriation. According to the little bit of biographical information, this young man:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>. . . suffered frostbite on his feet. There was no place where he could receive medical care so he had to cut his own three frostbitten toes off. Despite his difficulty walking due to his injuries and all that he suffered, he always had a kind heart which led him to take care of the young kkotjebbis and give them food that was found first. Because of Moon-Chul’s kindness in caring for Ryu Kwong-Hyuk, who was much weaker, Kwong Hyuk survived.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Another one of the NKFC advocates followed up with a photo of Ryu Kwong-Hyuk, 17 at the time of repatriation, and told of him:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>This young man was unable to beg or steal for food because he felt great shame for his condition. When Moon-Chul found him he was nearly starved to death, but Moon-Chul kept Kwong-Hyuk alive making sure he had food. Kwong-Hyuk’s dream is to get an education and one day serve the poor.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>If the mainstream media is so morally scrupulous that it is appalled by enhanced interrogation of radical jihadists, it should be doubly appalled by the deliberate starvation of human beings by their own government and the imprisonment of 100,000 men, women, and children in political prison camps under horrific conditions.</p>
<p>If the Senate Intelligence Committee could spend some $50 million to condemn the waterboarding of the mastermind of 9/11, who sawed the head of Danny Pearl…could they spare a little compassion for Noh Yea Ji, a 14 year old North Korean orphan girl who was sold as a slave in China three times, rescued along with the rest of the Laos Nine, and who has now disappeared in the torture chamber that is North Korea?</p>
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		<title>Showdown in Romania</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Tismaneanu and Marius Stan]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/romania.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245040" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/romania-450x253.jpg" alt="romania" width="288" height="162" /></a>Romania is a consequential state. It is the demographic and geopolitical organizing principle of southeastern Europe, much like Poland is in northeastern Europe. Therefore, its presidential election is important. Here are the two candidates and consequences if one or the other wins on November 16, in the second round of the presidential elections:</p>
<p>Voters will choose between the socialist candidate, Victor Ponta, and the center-right one, the mayor of the Transylvanian city of Sibiu, Klaus Iohannis. The former is a young (42-year old), utterly ambitious former prosecutor turned politician. The latter is an ethnic German former highschoool physics teacher. In July 2012, the then recently appointed prime minister Ponta was one of the masterminds of an onslaught against the country&#8217;s rule of law that resulted in the temporary suspension of President Traian Basescu. Western pressure played a key role in foiling what many perceived as a creeping coup d&#8217;etat.</p>
<p>The greatest threat, at this moment, is what many commentators and some of the country&#8217;s most prominent intellectuals, including former Foreign Minister Andrei Plesu, regard as Victor Ponta&#8217;s irresponsibility. Not only during the campaign, but for the latest two and half years when he served as Prime Minister, he displayed a disturbing inclination for prevarication, demagogic use of xenophobia, and pro-Putin stances. In May 2012, &#8220;Nature&#8221; magazine exposed Ponta&#8217;s plagiarism in his PhD dissertation. Such charges led to resignations in other EU countries, including Germany and Hungary. Not in Romania, where Ponta replaced the academic bodies supposed to check on this charges.</p>
<p>The institutions that Ponta viscerally loathes are the National Anti-corruption Directorate and the National Integrity Agency. In recent months, with support from the Romanian Intelligence Service, these agencies intensified the anti-corruption offensive. Many of the most notorious oligarchs are now behind the bars. Huge schemes have been publicly denounced. One can speak of a prosecutors&#8217; revolution that has swept away a whole cobweb of sordid arrangements. If Ponta is elected president, this legal revolution is doomed to fail. Unlike Ponta, Iohannis has announced that he would continue the war on corruption.</p>
<p>Politically and ideologically, Ponta is protean, volatile, and versatile. He has no hesitation to contradict himself. In fact, he belongs to a cohort of cynical politicians (not only in Romania) for whom ideas and values do not matter and whose only goal is self-aggrandizement. Liberal democracy is not his cup of tea. Although he describes himself as a a man of the left, he has many things in common with his surname sake, Hungary conservative populist prime minister, Viktor Orban. If Ponta gets elected president, one can expect Romania&#8217;s slide into kleptocratic authoritarianism, the country&#8217;s &#8220;Orbanization.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is the stake of the forthcoming vote: will Romanians allow Ponta to further amass power and demolish the rule of law or will they support Iohannis and his Christian Liberal Alliance? To expand his electoral base, Ponta has accepted the support of the egregious demagogue Corneliu Vadim Tudor, leader of the rabidly nationalist &#8220;Greater Romania Party&#8221;. It would be the ultimate irony for such a denouement to occur in the only East European country where the demise of communism was the result of a violent, bloody revolution. In the first round, Ponta came ahead of Iohannis by ten percent. The Romanian diaspora&#8217;s vote, overwhelmingly pro-Iohannis, may decisively tilt the balance in his favor. In the first round, thousands of Romanians in major West European cities could not vote because of poor logistics (there were huge lines in front of very few voting sections). For many, this scandalous situation was a deliberate scheme organized by Ponta. This has has led to the resignation of the country&#8217;s Foreign Minister.</p>
<p>It is hard not to notice the salient differences between Iohannis and Ponta. First and foremost, his support for transparency and accountability. Iohannis pledged to abolish, if elected, the legal immunity of political figures, including the country&#8217;s president. He also pledged that he would not grant pardon to those sent to prison because of corruption, including former Securitate collaborator and media mogul, Dan Voiculescu, whom the pro-Ponta media eulogize as &#8220;martyrs of freedom&#8221;. The choice in Romania is not between evil and lesser evil, but between a candidate who despises the rule of law and one who cherishes it.</p>
<p>Unlike Ponta, Iohannis is not an enemy of the institutions that spearhead the struggle against corruption. Unlike Ponta, he has strong and proven pro-Western convictions. Unlike Ponta, his does not bend truth in ways meant to simply ensure his continuously growing power. For these reasons, the choice between them is one between democracy and its opposite.</p>
<p><strong><em>Vladimir Tismaneanu</em></strong><em> is a professor of politics at the University of Maryland (College Park) and author of numerous books, including most recently &#8220;The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century.&#8221; <strong>Marius Stan</strong> is a Romanian political scientist, author of books in Romanian and Polish, and currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bucharest.</em></p>
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		<title>UCLA’s New Cover Girl</title>
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<p>Look whose photo graces the campus of UCLA, meant to be an inspiration to incoming students. The woman in the photo is standing above the slogan: “We Question.” On the right-hand side, in small letters, students are informed that they are “the optimists.”</p>
<p>This banner adds to the shadow that today is cast over so many of our major universities.</p>
<p>For those who can’t identify her, the photo depicts Angela Davis, the notorious former Communist Party USA leader who, beginning in the ’60s, molded together black nationalism with Marxism-Leninism. She created a heady brew for recruiting new cadre into the CP and the original Black Panther Party of Huey Newton.</p>
<p>Some optimist! Davis believed in the triumph of Communism.</p>
<p>For her loyalty to the Soviet Union and its foreign policies, in 1972 she was awarded a Lenin Centenary Medal in the Soviet Union, after which she spoke to thousands at an outdoor rally in Moscow. Next, speaking at a factory in Kirov, Davis praised the workers for not using “products of labor [to fuel] the irrational drive for capitalist profits as it is used in our country.”</p>
<p>As she left Moscow and went up the stairs to enter her plane, she yelled out with a clenched fist: “Long live the science of Marxism-Leninism.” There is not an iota of evidence that she questioned anything about the dreary reality in the Soviet Union and their Eastern European client states.</p>
<p>Davis also received the International Lenin Peace Prize — formerly called the Stalin Peace Prize — from the STASI state of East Germany in 1979. She was awarded it for supposedly strengthening “peace among peoples,” but it was actually for her continued fidelity to the Soviet bloc, which to her represented the future of humanity.</p>
<p>Not only did she not “question” authority, Davis openly defended the repressive measures of the Communist states by endorsing their imprisonment of dissident intellectuals. When the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the movement for “socialism with a human face” that the citizens of the country believed they could pull off without Soviet intervention, Davis strenuously supported the invasion that was forthcoming.</p>
<p>In 1970, she was implicated in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, black revolutionary George Jackson, whose brother took over a Marin County courtroom and took the judge hostage, as well as an assistant DA and two jurors.</p>
<p>After a gun battle, the judge was murdered by a shotgun owned by Davis.</p>
<p>Davis then fled, assumed different aliases, and disguised how she looked. She was brought to trial, and to great amazement of those who believed no black could get a fair trial in the U.S., the jury found her innocent. As it turned out, the jurors were all defenders of Davis. One juror even faced TV news cameras and gave the clenched-fist salute, indicating their lack of objectivity or intent to evaluate the evidence.</p>
<p>After the jury’s acquittal of Davis, Pelikan wrote: “Try to help [the imprisoned Czech dissidents] so they can defend themselves against their accusers as you have been able to do in your country.” His plea fell on deaf ears. She had a close friend, another black female American Communist Party leader, tell the press that Davis believed that the critics of the Czech regime were counter-revolutionaries who were undermining socialism, and therefore were undeserving of support.</p>
<p>Davis’ entire life reveals a woman who, rather than question authority, uses her skills to attack the very democracy she lives in — which allowed her to teach at a university, obtain highly paid speaking engagements, and publish scores of books attacking the American government.</p>
<p>After 9/11, Davis said: “The United States significantly contributed to conditions that led to the violence on September 11.” As for demands that she not be allowed to speak, she said in a campus speech at Keene State College in New Hampshire that she finds it “bizarre, if freedom is being defended, that it is necessary to curtail freedom in order to defend freedom.”</p>
<p>As we have seen, she had a very different view when it came to defending freedom in the so-called “people’s democracies.”</p>
<p>From the ’60s to the present, Angela Davis has been a thoughtless propagandist for every far Left cause one can imagine. How did she ever become a Communist and believe in the Leninist theory of “dialectical materialism” and all of its mumbo-jumbo? The answer comes from the high school which she attended — Elisabeth Irwin H.S., the upper level division of the famed private school the Little Red School House, referred to by its critics with an additional three words: “for little Reds.”</p>
<p>I attended the same high school to which Davis got a scholarship and then moved from her middle-class black home in Birmingham, Alabama, to attend in New York City. There she was taught history by its longstanding history teacher, a man named Harold Kirshner — the very same man who taught me that “dialectical materialism is a science” and that Marxism explained the world. The author of a recent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Red-Passionate-through-Sixties-ebook/dp/B00B3M3XOE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1413306346&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Dina+Hampton" rel="external">book</a> <sup>[2]</sup> about the high school writes that it was the same Kirshner who “effected a life-altering transformation in Davis” by assigning her the works of Marx and Engels. The effect it had, Davis said, hit her “like a bolt of lightning.” After that she graduated from Kirshner to taking a class from the official CP “historian” Herbert Aptheker at a Communist school he had set up in the city.</p>
<p>One might ask: Why is Davis so important? The answer is that today’s cultural elites, like whoever at UCLA decided to adorn the campus with her photo, treat any rebel — even a dogmatic ideologue like Angela Davis — as a leader from which students can learn valuable lessons. It is these academics who treat her as both a saint and a leader, and who constantly invite her to give major speeches on our campuses which they urge their students to attend.</p>
<p>To herald Angela Davis as a person who questions anything reveals the mindset of our university administrators, and is itself more evidence of the decline of standards at our major colleges and universities. Expect Ms. Davis to be a graduation speaker sometime in UCLA’s future. That is the logical next step in helping Angela Davis lead her march to a communist future via “the long march through the existing institutions.”</p>
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		<title>Save the Environment from the Socialists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 04:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warmunists are creating droughts and floods.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/earth-on-fire-global-warming.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242035" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/earth-on-fire-global-warming-418x350.jpg" alt="earth-on-fire-global-warming" width="333" height="279" /></a>The <a href="http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/publications/docs/soviet_whaling_the_devil_is_in_the_details.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">USSR killed 338,000 whales</span></a>. Its relentless illegal whaling fleets drove the blue whale into extinction in the North Pacific and caused population crashes in a number of other species.</p>
<p>Some have labeled it the worst environmental crime of the century, but it was really just a slow day for the USSR whose other contributions to the environment included destroying one of the four largest lakes in the world (“One of the worst environmental disasters of the world”: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/7554679/Aral-Sea-one-of-the-planets-worst-environmental-disasters.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon</span></a>) and multiple nuclear disasters culminating in Chernobyl (the world’s worst nuclear disaster).</p>
<p>The USSR was determined to show that communism could defeat capitalism and while it couldn’t beat the United States in industrial production, it took home the gold medal for environmental disasters. By the end, <a href="http://countrystudies.us/russia/25.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">75 percent of its surface water was</span></a> polluted and its air was among the dirtiest in the world.</p>
<p>The only ones to give the old USSR a run for its money when it came to environmental disasters were their fellow Communists across the border in the People’s Republic of China.</p>
<p>But the only thing that the left does better than wreck economies and the environment is rewrite history. Its three-legged roaches crawl out from underneath the rubble and pretend that nothing ever happened. The left claims historical inevitability while refusing to learn anything from history.</p>
<p>Like mutated cockroaches in Chernobyl, its red-shirted acolytes converged in the People’s Climate March chanting that the only solution for the environment was to replace capitalism with Socialism.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/see-the-10-dumbest-idiots-from-the-peoples-climate-march/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Party for Socialism and Liberation</span></a> carried a banner proclaiming that “Climate Change is the Symptom, Capitalism is the Disease, Socialism is the Cure.” The PSI is a Marxist splinter group from the even more insane Workers World Party. It thinks that the collapse of the USSR was the real disaster.</p>
<p>The Communist Party of the United States, whose logo still includes a sickle and gear, announced that it was <a href="http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/09/23/climate-movement-drops-mask-admits-communist-agenda/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">now concentrating on</span></a> nature. But it will take a lot of greenwashing to turn those reds green.</p>
<p>The International Socialist Organization, another Marxist group, came promoting its “Eco-socialism” while bearing posters of a globe dripping with oil. “<a href="http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2014/09/23/climate-movement-drops-mask-admits-communist-agenda/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Capitalism is Killing the Planet</span></a>; Fight for Socialism.”</p>
<p>But when it came to killing the planet by drilling for oil, the Socialists were the champs. Other countries just drilled for oil. The USSR tried to drill for oil using nuclear bombs. It also tried to use nuclear bombs to search for gas and coal making it the only country in the world whose coal was also radioactive.</p>
<p>When it came to drilling for oil, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was the drunken fisherman trying to catch a trout with dynamite. This was, not coincidentally, a favorite hobby of its Party bosses.</p>
<p>But the USSR wasn’t completely neglectful of the environment. It also tried to use nuclear bombs to create holes for storing toxic waste. There’s no doubt that if the USSR could have thought of a way to improve the environment by exploding a bunch of nuclear bombs, it would have done it.</p>
<p>The Workers World Party showed up handing out literature calling for a ban on fracking. The WWP won’t be carrying that same literature to its friends in the Chinese government which leads the world in coal mining and oil pipeline disasters and which has already managed to kill people using fracking.</p>
<p>The People’s Republic even figured out how to kill people using solar panels. Solar panel pollution production has <a href="http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/blog/entry/the-true-cost-of-chinese-solar-panels-part-3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">already killed large numbers of fish</span></a> and local villagers are suffering from kidney and liver damage. It takes a Socialist and a five-year-plan to figure out how to kill people with solar panels.</p>
<p>Leftists in New York marched under the hashtag #FloodWallStreet claiming that only stopping capitalism would end the climate crisis. There’s no doubt that Socialists are really good at flooding things.</p>
<p>Soviet and Chinese dams failed more often than they worked. When the dams weren’t failing, then their Socialist planners were building pointless canals that didn’t work. The Stalin White Sea Canal killed 100,000 workers and can only accommodate small boats. Wall Street could have made it work without piling up a mountain of corpses. China’s Banqiao Dam however took home the prize for killing the most people in any dam failure in history; 171,000. But they did have the help of their fellow Soviet Socialists.</p>
<p>China’s current Three Gorges Dam has displaced over a million people and flooded 13 cities, 140 towns and 1,350 villages. There’s no way the capitalists of Wall Street could compete with that flooding.</p>
<p>The Revolutionary Communist Party wore stickers reading, “Capitalism is Destroying the Planet… We Need Revolution.” As Maoists however they ought to know that if anyone is going to destroy the planet, it will be them. Mao’s industrial and agricultural experiments very nearly destroyed China, killing tens of millions of people with a famine caused by his attempts at environmental engineering.</p>
<p>Today China isn’t just wrecking its own environment, but is also colonizing Africa with disastrous industrial projects. Chad recently <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/13/us-energy-chad-china-idUSKBN0GD21P20140813"><span style="color: #0433ff;">handed China a $1.2 billion</span></a> bill for illegal dumping of crude oil. Gabon has accused China of polluting its country. If anyone is going to destroy the world, the smart money is still on China which has the capacity and the determined rigidity to make it happen.</p>
<p>All these Socialist environmental disasters happened because of central planning. The key to Socialism is also a formula for endless human and environmental disasters. The USSR and Communist China saw human resources and natural resources as fuel for their vast centrally planned economies. It was capitalism without responsibility, human rights or independent points of views. And the left is determined to recreate these same environmental disasters in the name of the environment.</p>
<p>Socialist governments in the United States and California <a href="http://naturalresources.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=5921"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have already created a man-made</span></a> drought.  <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/how-a-fanatical-environmentalist-deliberately-caused-uk-flooding/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Warmunism in the UK</span></a> led to massive flooding there this year. Environmental disasters created in the name of the environment are a reality as the same inflexible collectivist bureaucracies that wrecked the environment for industrial Socialism are wrecking it all over again for eco-Socialism.</p>
<p>The combination of rigid ideology, bureaucratic guidelines and experts with no real life experience led to droughts and floods in the USSR and the PRC. Now the same combination of big plans, clueless experts and mindless slogans are creating droughts and floods in the US and the EU.</p>
<p>The ideologues of the USSR and the PRC believed that nothing could go wrong if they drew their inspiration from Lenin, Stalin and Mao. The new ideologues are convinced that they have to be right because they are “on the side of the environment”; as if the air, the sky and the sea have a “side”.</p>
<p>Environmental disasters aren’t caused by capitalists or communists. They are caused by people who don’t think about the consequences of their actions.</p>
<p>The left has long since proven that it is incapable of thinking about consequences in any terms other than those of its ideology. A factory owner can recognize a toxic waste spill. A Socialist is incapable of recognizing that his ideology’s plan caused a spill. He will deny that it exists, denounce the witnesses, accuse critics of waging war on his ideology and then spend the next twenty years making it worse.</p>
<p>The planet doesn’t need saving from capitalists. It needs saving from Socialists.</p>
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		<title>The Stalin-Hitler Pact Turns 75</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a memorial would be useful for Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/genocide_template_clip_image002.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239136" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/genocide_template_clip_image002.jpg" alt="genocide_template_clip_image002" width="306" height="267" /></a>In June, Western democratic leaders invited Vladimir Putin to the 70th anniversary of D-Day memorial in France, but there’s no good reason he should have been there. Putin is an autocrat, not a democrat. He laments the demise of the Soviet Union, a dictatorship that played no role in the D-Day operation. And since Putin is now conducting an incremental invasion of Ukraine, a different memorial would be more suitable. As it happens, this one is long overdue and remains shrouded in ignorance.</p>
<p>Seventy-five years ago, on August 23, 1939, the USSR and Nazi Germany became allies through the Stalin-Hitler Pact. Joachim von Ribbentrop signed for Hitler and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed on behalf of Stalin. Molotov said that Hitlerism was “a matter of taste,” and that it was “not only senseless, but criminal” to wage war on Hitler “camouflaged as a fight for democracy.” Though often described as a “non-aggression pact,” the reverse was true.</p>
<p>The month after the Pact, Stalin and Hitler both invaded Poland, starting World War II. The Pact also gave Stalin control of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which he retained after the war, along with other conquests such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary and what became the German Democrat Republic, the regime that made emigration an exciting experience.</p>
<p>While the pact was in effect, Soviet and Nazi intelligence agencies worked together and American Communists did everything in their power to keep the United States from coming to Britain’s aid. During the Pact, the Soviets murdered 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest. That came at the direct order of Stalin, as Russia now acknowledges. Less well known is the reality that Stalin also handed over German Jewish Communists to Hitler’s Gestapo. At the Nuremberg trials after the war, Joachim von Ribbentrop was convicted for signing the Pact while Molotov, who signed for Stalin, sat in the accuser’s chair. So Stalin and his gang got away with it.</p>
<p>A Nazi-Soviet Pact memorial would be a great opportunity for Putin to express his admiration for Stalin. Maybe he could provide some enlightenment on what happened to the Jews Stalin handed over to Hitler. And as a former KGB man, maybe he could bring out more details of Soviet-Nazi intelligence cooperation during the Pact. This could be a shining moment for Putin, but the memorial would also do others some good.</p>
<p>American educators, for example, could familiarize themselves with these events and gauge the depths of their ignorance and denial. Some might even decide to make the Stalin-Hitler Pact into a college course. That would tell students something they don’t know. American politicians would also benefit.</p>
<p>It’s a good bet that most of them, regardless of party, know little if anything about the Stalin-Hitler Pact. A 75th anniversary memorial would help educate them, and would be particularly relevant for Barack Obama, President of the United States. He could use the memorial to expand on one of his mentors.</p>
<p>That would be Frank Marshall Davis, an orthodox Stalinist of exceptional ferocity, with an absolutely sulfuric hatred of the United States. Davis joined the Communist Party USA after the Pact was signed, at the same time others were leaving the ranks, never to return. The Pact memorial would be an opportunity for Obama to provide a full profile of the man his handlers disguised simply as “Frank” in &#8220;Dreams From My Father.&#8221; If Frank Marshall Davis ever believed, said, or did anything with which Obama disagreed, a Stalin-Hitler Pact memorial would be the ideal time to set the record straight. After all, the Obama administration is the most transparent in history, with not a smidgeon of corruption. And of course, it would be another photo op he could use to raise funds. He could even bring along his travelling studio audience.</p>
<p>Former First Lady and current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could also benefit. One of her mentors is Robert Treuhaft, a Stalinist lawyer who joined the Communist Party USA after the Stalin-Hitler Pact and served faithfully in the USSR’s alibi armory. Hillary Clinton, who interned for Treuhaft, could use a Pact memorial to clarify Treuhaft’s career, and explain why he left the Communist Party in 1958, as he claimed. And she could go on record if she ever disagreed with anything her Stalinist mentor believed, said or did.</p>
<p>That could prove enlightening, but as with Benghazi she might just say “what does it matter?” Actually, it matters quite a bit, especially for someone who wants to be president, and the one who already is.</p>
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		<title>Illiberal Fantasies: Hungary&#8217;s Viktor Orban Embraces Authoritarianism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Tismaneanu and Marius Stan]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Viktor-Orban.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238419" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Viktor-Orban-450x348.jpg" alt="Viktor Orban" width="216" height="167" /></a>The signals did not cease to arrive. Viktor Orban is the man who, in June 1989, gave a speech at Imre Nagy’s reburial ceremony that would endure forever in the history of Eastern Europe. He was one of the founders of the anti-totalitarian youth party Fidesz and his intellectual mentor was the well-known dissident and critical former Marxist, György Bence. And now, Orban has shifted towards a collectivist authoritarianism with pointblank xenophobic inflections.</p>
<p>Orban&#8217;s recent speech in Transylvania has led to worried comments from commentators, such as Fareed Zakaria in &#8220;Washington Post,&#8221; David Brooks in &#8220;New York Times,&#8221; and the Princeton professor Jan-Werner Muller in &#8220;Foreign Affairs.&#8221;</p>
<p>Many things in politics are born out of resentment. Orban is unmistakably a man of tremendous intellectual prowess. Yet those he perceived as some sort of urban aristocracy – the Hungarian Democratic Opposition leaders, including, first and foremost, János Kis, Gábor Demszky, and Miklós Haraszti – always gave him a strange complex. He regarded the Alliance of Free Democrats as an exclusive liberal club that he felt he was left out of. Other members of the Fidesz leadership shared the same neurotic feelings. In addition, Orban was attracted to classical liberalism and was distrustful of any form of internationalism, even a liberal or neo-conservative one.</p>
<p>Endemic corruption associated with a socialist government radicalized Viktor Orban’s phobias and apprehensions. He started to entertain more intensely the idea of populist conservatism – which in Hungary is difficult, if not impossible, to dissociate from anti-Semitism. The media close to Fidesz (which in the meantime had become an ever more traditional and traditionalist party) excelled in insinuations against those who supposedly did not pass the test of pure Hungarianness. When Jobbik – a downright fascist party – was born, all it had left to do was merely intensify as forcefully as possible topics which were already implicit in Orban’s rhetoric, including the idea that the radical left was somehow genetically constituted.</p>
<p>The Orban team began to insist on a majoritarianism that was increasingly intolerant of the opposition. The unassailable victories obtained in the elections made​ Orban less and less willing to acknowledge his own fallibility. Hungary has become gradually more provincial and ethnocracy has begun to stifle democracy. What a quarter of a century ago was the superb promise to reinvent politics through a revival of civic liberalism, now seems destined to turn into a neo-authoritarian nightmare.</p>
<p>And now, Viktor Orban announces that liberal democracy is on the skids. He has taken it upon himself to become the champion of an authoritarianism which glamourizes the Putin-inspired police model and the Chinese &#8220;market Leninism&#8221; (a term proposed by Soviet expert Peter Reddaway). Those interwar tenets endorsed by the prophets of fascism are being revived. A consistent and &#8220;ethnically&#8221; healthy body politic is being exalted. Liberalism is seen as rotten, corrupt, and decadent. This is the hour of the “magic savior,” akin to the demagogues described by Erich Fromm in his classic book on the escape from freedom.</p>
<p>What Orban seems to ignore is that NATO and the EU are not only political, military, and economic institutions, respectively. They define, as Václav Havel put it, civilization options. The battle between the open society and its enemies continues. Yet another mask has fallen, which, after all, is far from being a tragedy.</p>
<p>We might imagine that liberal democracy is built on a deeply rooted historical and intellectual foundation, but such a belief could not be further from the truth. Before 1945, the very idea of ​​“liberal democracy” was very much anathematized. In times of crisis (both moral and economic), democracy is attacked from the left and right alike. Be it critic Vladimir Lenin, critic Georges Sorel or critic Robert Michels, they all claim to stem, to a certain extent, from the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and draw on the self-proclaimed image of the “genuine democrat.”</p>
<p>Orban is now such a “true democrat” (also read “original”), who nonetheless does not stumble on civil liberties or consensual-parliamentary type of deliberations. For the Hungarian prime minister, liberal democracy – with all its intermediary institutions, intermediate bodies, and parliamentary games – makes a terrible mess of the final and irretrievable fusion between – as Carl Schmitt explained in <em>The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy</em> – “the identities of the governed and the governing.” At the core of this “redemptive” political view stands none other than the mythological idea of unity (in this case, one based on ethnicity).</p>
<p>In a populist translation of Orban’s political message, the masses are looking for <em>identification</em>. The economic crisis had deepened this existential anguish. His promise, which also sounds like a prophecy, comes to provide precisely this redemptive identification. According to a very judicious remark by political scientist Jeffrey C. Isaac, all the flaws of liberal democracy “were skillfully reinterpreted as <em>virtues</em> of liberal democracy. In an almost Orwellian manner, weakness was turned into strength.” This is exactly what Viktor Orban is doing. Then, to use one of Albert Camus’s phrases, “it transforms a spontaneous burst of energy into a concerted action.”</p>
<p>What the Hungarian Prime Minister is essentially saying is that liberal democracies are reversible. That the counterpart of democratization is what we may call de-democratization (see also the summer of 2012 in Romania when only joint EU and US pressured could prevent the fulfillment of a parliamentary putsch). This, obviously, is not a complete novelty. What is actually new has to do with the metamorphosis of a politician who reached the pinnacle of power as a partisan of liberal values ​​and who morphed into an advocate for the opposite values.</p>
<p>This might sound rather harsh, but the Orban case is reminiscent of Mussolini’s conversion, a century ago, from an internationalist socialist into a nationalist fascist..At this point in his inner evolution, Viktor Orban seems “condemned to condemn.” When, in 2002, Fidesz had lost the elections, he thundered that “the nation cannot be part of the opposition.” As historian Balázs Trencsényi aptly observed as well, “Franz Joseph, Miklós Horthy, and János Kádár have all established their authority by way of terror and all have become fathers of the nation[.]”</p>
<p>Let us hope, however, that we will not slip towards what René Girard called <em>the mimetic circle of violence</em>. In this version of “goulash authoritarianism” towards which Orban’s Hungary is heading, Europe is “oppressive,” but its funds “necessary.” Unfortunately, the entire fate of Europe’s political culture depends on such increasingly frequent antidemocratic outbursts. How it will manage to resist the virus that Orban is spreading remains to be seen.</p>
<p><em>Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland (College Park) and author of numerous books, including &#8220;The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century,&#8221; published by the University of California Press in 2012 (paperback, 2014). </em></p>
<p><em>Marius Stan is a Romanian political scientist interested in revolutions, political ideologies and the transitions from communism to democracy. This essay came out on the Romanian online platform &#8220;Contributors&#8221; and was translated into English by Monica Got.</em></p>
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		<title>Maoist Church Saga</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 04:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Spyridon Mitsotakis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frontpage's reporting on the ideological struggle within a Unitarian/Universalist Church sets possible changes in motion.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/southworthexit.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236724" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/southworthexit.jpg" alt="southworthexit" width="311" height="230" /></a>Frontpage has learned that its reporting on the contentious ideological struggle within a mid-town Manhattan Unitarian/Universalist Church has set possible changes in motion. The original purpose of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/spyridon-mitsotakis/community-church-of-new-york-pacifists-suspended-maoists-welcome/">the article </a>was meant to be a case study and cautionary tale of the folly of trying to work with intolerant totalitarian movements such as the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). Dr. Karen Hoover, chair of Church&#8217;s Action for Justice group, reached out to hardcore Marxist organizations beginning in the run up to the Iraq war. As a result, the RCP today enjoys large degrees of influence and partnership with sectors of the Church (Dr. Hoover has been known to direct people toward RCP’s HQ and bookstore). But because of the light that was shown on this activity, these relationships may be vulnerable to a course correction, if wisdom prevails; and an audit is in progress.</p>
<p>We now have more information regarding Church critic Robert Reiss&#8217;s <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/spyridon-mitsotakis/community-church-of-new-york-pacifists-suspended-maoists-welcome/" target="_blank">suspension</a> from the Community Church of New York, the former liberal but now increasingly Maoist and anti-Israel Unitarian/Universalist Church. Special Meetings were held on <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887882"><span class="aQJ">Wednesday June 11th and Sunday June 15th</span></span> to discuss Frontpage&#8217;s <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887883"><span class="aQJ">June 5th</span></span> <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/spyridon-mitsotakis/support-for-israel-now-grounds-for-expulsion-at-new-york-unitarian-church/" target="_blank">article</a> first detailing the ignominious influences on the Church, and what to do about Reiss, whom they falsely blamed for the unwanted attention. The meeting on the 15th resulted in a quorum of Board of Trustee members who, flouted both the letter and the spirit of the bylaws of the Church by voting to suspend Reiss for 6 months, barring him from setting foot on Church property &#8211; including attending <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887884"><span class="aQJ">Sunday</span></span> Services &#8211; under threat of police arrest or ejection at the hands of Church Security personnel.</p>
<p>On Sunday, June 22nd, during Church coffee hour at <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887885"><span class="aQJ">noon</span></span>, 3 Board of Trustee members, including the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Board, beckoned Reiss to accompany them into the intimate “Chapel of Peace.” It was here, Reiss was told of the rogue vote against his membership and was told to comply of this banishment forthwith. Immediately thereafter, Reiss returned to the coffee hour space where he announced to the Churchgoers present before him:</p>
<blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><p>&#8220;Dear Church Friends, I&#8217;ve been told just now of my banishment, which is against the bylaws of this Church &#8212; simply because of my Israel advocacy. I&#8217;ve been a loyal member here since I was 7 years old and do more volunteer work here than almost anyone else &#8212; yet <i>I&#8217;m</i> to be banished from your company for half a year without any due process.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>While he was addressing the church, the cabal of trustees whispered to Reiss that &#8220;we&#8217;ve called the police who&#8217;ll arrest you if you don&#8217;t leave.&#8221; An arrangement with the local police precinct was made earlier in the week by Church administration. This was apparently necessary, as the Church&#8217;s own security personnel would not be willing to comply. &#8220;Robert Reiss tells the truth&#8230;&#8221; they said, complaining that &#8220;Rev. Southworth acts like he is the king.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rather than a confrontation escalating, Reiss took his leave.</p>
<p>In recent years there was another issue that divided the congregation – the effort of a large portion of the Church to unseat the Minister, which failed during a humiliating voting session during which his detractors vented their dislike of him and his dictatorial leadership style. Over many years Southworth never censures or chastises anyone&#8217;s articulated anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements; yet he only sought to silence, harass or intimidate the articulation of pro-Israel sentiments.</p>
<p>Dr. Hoover cheered the recent Presbyterian vote to divest from companies doing business with Israel and hoped the Community Church would follow suit. Member Jerry Forman, of the Church&#8217;s Finance Committee stated aloud at an A.F.J. forum: &#8220;I don&#8217;t like the anti-Semitism at the Church,&#8221; thus acknowledging its presence.</p>
<p>Statements that troubled these Churchgoers have become common at Church meetings. They range from the typical fringe-left canard of “In Israel, they’re committing genocide,” to the outrages of “The Ashkenazi are responsible for genocide in the Middle East … What we need is a strong man … a Stalin or a Mao Zedong,” and “In Europe, the Jews got themselves in trouble for being the capitalist masterminds.”</p>
<p>At a Church monthly meeting on or about <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887886"><span class="aQJ">April 10th</span></span>, It was announced: “That there will be a sign up sheet for Church members to be part of a year long study group around the Presbyterian’s booklet ‘Zionism Unsettled.’” Reiss looked askance at the announcement, which elicited his concern. “I defy you to find anything untrue in it,” yelled a leading “anti-racist” presence in the Church.</p>
<p>A Church meeting opened with affiliate minister and Church administrator Rev. Dr. Orlanda Brugnola turning to Reiss and saying: “I want to deal with ‘Right-relations’ – what are your views on Israel’s mistreatment of the Palistinians!?” Dumbfownded, Reiss responded, “What would that have to do with your concept of ‘Right-relations’ between us?” as he pointed out the minister’s double standards and implicit bias.</p>
<p>At a September meeting, hosted by Rev. Southworth, held in the Church chapel, convened to address the Syrian crisis, many Church members were saying “the Jews are behind the unrest in Syria and fomenting resistance.” Reiss, and not Rev. Southworth, corrected these big lies. (Afterwards many members privately thanked Reiss for defending the obvious.)</p>
<p>Once, Rev. Southworth lamented at his pulpit how he “felt for the anquish” over Israel, expressed by the then uptown Imam, founder of a so-called interfaith mosque. True to form, after this same Imam decamped for the Middle East, he now, overseas, blasted Jews “for starting the worldwide AIDS epidemic.” Here, now, the lachrymose Southworth became a self-caricature of the liberal minister who can’t see through the cobwebs of political correctness, a church member observed.</p>
<p>At a recent U.N. S<span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_580887887"><span class="aQJ">unday</span></span> forum, Dr. Fay Lord opened the meeting with the gratuitous remarks regarding “overturning old paradigms” she chose as an example: “like Israel’s hope of conquest of the greater Middle East,” although this had nothing whatsoever to do with the guest speaker, who was the daughter of Pakistan’s admiral of the Navy.</p>
<p>Another time a recent chair of the Board of Trustees, Robert Bobrick, in his opening remarks at the quarterly congregational meeting, made a parallel with ongoing conflict within the Church to “the original error of the founding of Israel and the legacy of consequences.”</p>
<p>The above quotations are illustrative of the ubiquitous and commonly corrosive slurs that are fashionably current among these people.</p>
<p>Additionally, Board member Rachael Stone, who voted to boot out Reiss for his opposition to the presence of RCP front groups and Israel advocacy, helps facilitate at the Church the monthly held &#8220;People&#8217;s Voice Cafe,&#8221; which is a self-constituted &#8220;collective&#8221; promoting Communist-era Folk songs and newer compositions. A quarter century ago, historian and ex-radical Ronald Radosh says,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Community Church in the 50&#8242;s and early 60&#8242;s banned political folk music. They had a folk sing and square dance every Sat night. All participants had to pledge not to sing any leftist songs.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, contrariwise, to cite a recent example of what&#8217;s going on in the present moment, People&#8217;s Voice Cafe, during the Jewish holiday of Purim, held an anti-Israel themed event with guests Jewish Voices for Peace (sic), distorting the Purim story to their ideological ends in opposition to the state of Israel.</p>
<p>The Community Church of New York, today, following upon Minister Southworth&#8217;s fetishization of this politically correct &#8220;anti-racism&#8221; exemplifies the doleful reality of how political correctness can metastasize into, as it were, a petri dish of garden variety anti-Semitism. Perversly, the senior minister averts his eyes from these developments burgeoning before him, undermining his own Church&#8217;s formerly distinguished history of civic engagement of a high moral standard.</p>
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		<title>The Case for Peace in Our Time</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But will the American ruling class give peace a chance?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/51lKW4N7eLL.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235475" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/51lKW4N7eLL-233x350.jpg" alt="51lKW4N7eLL" width="179" height="269" /></a>Angelo M. Codevilla, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ourselves-Nations-Hoover-Institution-Publication/dp/0817917144"><i>To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations, </i></a>Hoover Institution Press, 2014, 209 pages, $24.95.</strong></p>
<p>The title derives from Abraham Lincoln, a noble proclamation that Angelo Codevilla finds for the most part unfulfilled. As the author notes, during the past 100 years in America peace prevailed in only two brief periods, from 1919-1941 and 1992-2001. As Codevilla sees it, peace is not only in short supply but positively endangered. Given the dynamics in play, outlined here in considerable detail, that should come as no surprise.</p>
<p>As the “precondition for enjoying the good things of life,” peace must be statecraft’s objective. The author charts Pericles and the war-weary Athenians, the Romans, and other lessons from history that will be of interest to scholars and statesmen alike. But <i>To Make and Keep Peace</i> speaks to all and deserves the broadest possible readership.</p>
<p>Angelo Codevilla, professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, is well aware that peace has enemies, among them pacifism and the type of progressive ideology dating from Woodrow Wilson. That progressivism “has become orthodoxy” and features “a pacifism as mindless as it was frenetic and provocative,” deployed by a “united ruling class intoxicated with its own virtue and ideology.”</p>
<p>The author cites president Franklin Roosevelt’s Sept 3, 1939 speech, which came after the Munich Pact, after the Stalin-Hitler Pact, after the invasion of Poland, and after the outbreak of WWII. Yet, the villain remained impersonal, “force itself,” and no nation threatened America any more than any other. Only on December 29, 1940, after fall of France, did FDR specifically indict “the Nazi masters of Germany.” But the willful blindness did not end there.</p>
<p>For Codevilla, “no illusions were greater nor proved more fateful than those about the Soviet Union.”  Affection for the Soviet Union and Communism “deformed US foreign policy, caused WWII to end not in peace but in Cold War, and occasioned conflict among Americans the consequences of which are with us yet.” The ruling class blend of gentry and intellectuals “believed that Stalin was the <i>sine qua non</i> of perpetual peace through the United Nations,” and that “staying on his good side was job #1.”</p>
<p>The Rooseveltians “debased America’s cause by identifying it with Stalin’s.” They treated the USSR’s partnership in starting the war as a non-event and  “by using the totalitarian tactic of airbrushing to try justifying their Soviet affections, they poisoned American political life.” The ruling-class consensus was, in effect, to facilitate the Soviet Union’s hold on their empire. In that climate, Americans of the “we win, they lose” view of the Cold War, in the style of Ronald Reagan, came to be regarded as enemies of peace. Codevilla marshals evidence that Senator Edward Kennedy offered to cooperate with the Soviets to defeat such Americans.</p>
<p>By then the ruling class, “had doubled down on its Wilsonian sense of intellectual-moral entitlement” and “came to regard its domestic political opponents as perhaps the principle set of persons whose backward ways must be guarded against and reformed.” Therefore, the author says, a loss of peace abroad feeds domestic strife and results in a loss of peace at home.</p>
<p>Other Wilsonians, “were anti-anti-Communists,” who wanted America engaged in the Cold War, “but on the other side.” This “New Left thinking” eventually spread throughout America’s foreign policy establishment.</p>
<p>President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that there was no victory in Vietnam for anybody. The strategy was socio-economic “nation building” and the enemies were poverty, ignorance, and disease. The Communists “learned that US manpower does not matter so long as Americans fight without a serious plan for defeating or destroying the enemy.” That, says Codevilla, remains the US government’s default approach and “generates contempt and violence against America.”</p>
<p>These dynamics are also in play in America’s conflict with Islamic civilization, which “had been the West’s biggest problem from eighth century until 1683” when Poland’s king Jan Sobieski turned back the Muslims at the gates of Vienna. “Now the problem is back,” explains Codevilla, and “our culturally, historically illiterate ruling class missed the fact that a whole civilization mobilized against America.”</p>
<p>The seizure of the U.S. embassy in Iran in 1979 was an act of war but drew the response of a “minor irritation.” The Islamic world “learned that it was now safe to export its warfare to the West in general and America in particular.” Codevilla finds it no coincidence that “former anti-anti-Communists were now anti-anti-Muslim.” And as during the Cold War, the “progressives” blamed America’s troubles on their fellow citizens. President Barack Obama embodies that dynamic like no other, along with historical illiteracy.</p>
<p>The president is on record that “Islam has always been a part of America’s history,” which Codevilla describes as “the reverse of the truth.” And with the president, staying on the good side of Islamic militants appears to be job one. At the UN, Codevilla notes, Obama condemned in equal terms Americans who insult Muslims and Muslims who burn and kill Americans. And he called for imprisonment of the man who made the anti-Muslim video that Muslim leaders saw “as good cause for anti-American violence.”</p>
<p>Codevilla is right about that but could have explored this theme further. The President of the United States and the Secretary of State essentially parroted the propaganda of jihadists. It is as though in 1961 President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk had agreed with East German Communist bosses that the Berlin Wall was indeed the “Antifascist Protection Rampart” and offered to help keep Germans imprisoned in a Stalinist state.</p>
<p>The menace abroad, meanwhile, is not terrorism but “extremism” and homeland security is directed against “all citizens equally rather than against plausible enemies.” This fateful error, says Codevilla, “gave civil strife’s deadly spiral its first deadly turn.” And for the ruling class, extremism is embodied in their political opponents, “the conservative side of American life.”</p>
<p>As the author shows, “The FBI infiltrates the Tea Party as it once did the Communist Party – agent of the Soviet Union that it was.” President Obama called “enemies of democracy” the very groups the IRS subjected to punitive audits. Vice President Biden and the Senate majority leader called them “terrorists.” Readers will easily verify that those in charge use every opportunity “to direct blame, distrust, and even mayhem onto those they like the least.” In these conditions Americans “must learn to trust each other less than ever, while trusting the authorities ever more, forever.” Or will it be forever?</p>
<p>“Peace among ourselves and with all nations has to be won and preserved as it ever has been here and elsewhere,” contends the author. Codevilla hopes for new statesmen who will secure the respect of other nations and understand that wars are to be “avoided or won quickly.” Those responsible for terrorism should be held responsible, but “the longer we wait, the more force will be needed.” Since nuclear weapons are easily obtained, Codevilla argues, we need the best missile defense. We won’t get that from the man now running the show.</p>
<p>In 2012, Codevilla notes, “President Barack Obama communicated to Russia confidentially that, after his expected reelection, he would forswear missile defenses more thoroughly than before, previous commitments notwithstanding.” The president came through on that one, but it did not make for peace among ourselves or with all nations.</p>
<p>Terrorists and tyrants are getting the message that the time to act is now. The “domestic state of siege” is unlikely to lighten up along with attacks on those “on the conservative side.”  So it’s probably true that, as Angelo Codevilla says in the early going, “We cannot know whether America can ever live in peace again, what kind of peace we may win for ourselves, or what peace we may end up having to endure.”</p>
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		<title>Death of a Communist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Kengor]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Paul Robeson Jr. has died at age 86. He was the son of the famous African-American performer and activist Paul Robeson, who died in 1976 at age 77. Regardless of what the adoring left says, both men were hardcore communists, with the senior Robeson being a dedicated Stalinist.</p>
<p>The headline for Paul Jr.’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/arts/activist-and-author-paul-robeson-jr-dies-at-86.html?hpw&amp;rref=obituaries&amp;_r=2">obituary in the <em>New York Times</em></a> was predictable, stating simply, “Paul Robeson Jr., Activist and Author, Dies at 86.” The <em>Times</em> is always reliable for a flatteringly misleading headline at the death of any old communist, hailing the deceased as a celebrated “progressive” or “civil rights activist” or whatever—really, anything but an American Bolshevik.</p>
<p>To its credit, the <em>Times</em> could not avoid conceding that Paul Jr. had been a communist. It cited Paul Jr. himself acknowledging that he had been a member of the Communist Party. But to its discredit, the <em>Times</em> quoted Paul Jr. insisting that his father was not a communist—a predictable falsehood from Paul Jr. and predictable bad information from the <em>Times</em>. “While they had much in common,” the <em>Times</em> said of father and son, “he [Paul Jr.] said one difference was that he was a member of the Communist Party from 1948 to 1962 while his father never joined the party.” The <em>Times</em> was sure to add: “During the McCarthy era, his father faced F.B.I. surveillance after he criticized the government.”</p>
<p>Yes, of course. That one and only Red Terror, better known to liberals as The McCarthy Era. Once again, the bad guy is not Joe Stalin but Joe McCarthy. And yet again, the handy narrative is sheer nonsense. The <em>Times</em> and its readers repeatedly <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dupes-Americas-Adversaries-Manipulated-Progressives/dp/1935191756/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&amp;refRID=1X80278XXJWYP0H7WD2S">dupe themselves</a> into such self-imposed ignorance.</p>
<p>To that end, let me put this bluntly, and without the slightest whiff of exaggeration: Paul Robeson Sr. was an unflagging admirer of Joseph Stalin, one of the most prolific killers in history. It was this that brought Robeson under congressional scrutiny in the 1930s when the Democrats ran Congress, the White House, and the attorney general’s office—long before Joe McCarthy emerged on the scene. Even the <em>New York Times</em> once called Robeson “an outspoken admirer of the Soviet Union.” He was dedicated to the Communist Party USA goal of fundamentally transforming America into a “Soviet American Republic.”</p>
<p>The senior Robeson’s Soviet romance began in 1934, the year he made a pilgrimage to the Motherland. When he returned, he spoke at length to the Moscow-funded <em>Daily Worker</em>. In a breathless piece than ran in the January 15, 1935 issue, under the headline, &#8220;&#8216;I Am at Home,’ Says Robeson At Reception in Soviet Union,” Robeson gloried in the “feeling of safety and abundance and freedom” he found “wherever” he turned under Stalin. When asked about Stalin’s purges, Robeson responded with a stunning statement that probably surprised even the Kremlin: “From what I have already seen of the workings of the Soviet Government, I can only say that anybody who lifts his hand against it ought to be shot!”</p>
<p>The KGB tortured people pretty damned hard to get those kinds of statements. But Paul Robeson Sr. needed no such compulsion; just some careful wining and dining and duping. Indeed, Robeson was deadly serious. He was enamored with what he found in Stalin’s state, so much so that he moved his family there—his son included. They lived there, where they were given excessively special treatment. The Soviets rolled out the red carpet, literally.</p>
<p>In 1952, shortly before Stalin’s death, Paul Robeson was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize, which he unhesitatingly accepted. And when his beloved Stalin perished in March 1953, Robeson was moved to tears and to verse. He responded with a poetic eulogy titled, “To You Beloved Comrade.” He tearfully recalled the unforgettable moment when he elevated his son, Paul Jr., at the site of Stalin, as if lifting the boy in the air to present him with some sort of supernatural commission. Robeson waxed reverently of this “kindly,” “good” man of “wisdom,” “deep humanity,” and “understanding.” Stalin’s “noble example” and “daily guidance” had left Russians a “rich and monumental heritage.” The death of the “great Stalin,” reported a heartbroken Robeson, left “tens of millions all over the earth bowed in heart-aching grief.”</p>
<p>Of course, in reality, Stalin left tens of millions dead, and their families bowed in heart-aching grief.</p>
<p>It would take almost a half-century after Robeson’s death for Communist Party USA to publicly concede the obvious: Paul Robeson Sr. had been a longtime secret member. In May 1998, the centennial of Robeson’s birth, longtime CPUSA head Gus Hall finally, proudly revealed the truth. Hall made that announcement in a speech reprinted in the leading Marxist journal <em>Political Affairs</em>.</p>
<p>Only progressives were surprised by Hall’s revelation. They are still today; that is, they would be if they bothered to learn or care about the facts. The <em>New York Times</em> is still clueless.</p>
<p>That brings us back to Paul Robeson Jr. The younger Robeson perpetuated the lie that his father was not a communist. And the left embraced him.</p>
<p>Paul Jr. had long been loved by the communist and “progressive” left merely for being the son of Paul Sr. Historian Ron Radosh, a former communist, ran in some of the same political circles as Paul Jr. Radosh remembers being in high school in the 1950s and attending the national conference of the Labor Youth League, one of the incarnations of the Young Communist League. After a plenary statement, various attendees raised their hands to comment. One of them was Paul Jr. The speaker eagerly recognized him and said, “I call on Paul from Harlem.”</p>
<p>Radosh recalls:</p>
<blockquote><p>Robeson Jr. stood up, and the entire audience gave him a standing ovation and cheers that lasted at least five minutes. Then everyone sang &#8220;The World Youth Song,&#8221; before he could say one word. I don’t remember his comment, but it was trivial at best and was only a few sentences. I believe that’s when he saw that he didn’t have to make a living, but could manage to make a career out of being Robeson’s son.</p></blockquote>
<p>Radosh called Paul Jr. “a total sycophant and enabler of his father’s legacy.”</p>
<p>Charlie Wiley, a longtime anti-communist who was Paul Jr.’s age, vividly recalls his run-ins with the young Robeson. He encountered him a number of times, most memorably at one of the notorious Soviet-orchestrated World Youth Festivals, specifically the Vienna World Youth Festival in August 1959. These festivals were serious ideological battlegrounds, with the international communist movement using them to indoctrinate as many youth as possible. Young American communists like Robeson went to these events to agitate against America and for communist Russia. They were countered by pro-American anti-communists such as Charlie Wiley, the late Herb Romerstein, and others.</p>
<p>These debates were intense, vicious. In Vienna, they turned physical. One of the British anti-communists was beaten unconscious and carried to the nearest hospital. Wiley was assaulted, as were women in the American delegation. The communists had yet again resorted to force to advance their cause. It was what they knew best.</p>
<p>Wiley says that Paul Jr. basically ran the American delegation, or at least sought to. The communists were not a numerical majority in the delegation, but they were seasoned manipulators who easily dominated the group. As the leader of the communist cell, Paul Jr. tried to speak for the full delegation. At the welcoming ceremony, Robeson stepped forward on behalf of the entire American contingent, speaking in what one participant called “very beautiful Russian.” In fact, he knew Russian so well that he listed his occupation at the time as “translator.”</p>
<p>Wiley describes Paul Jr. as “really hardcore,” “a hard, committed, austere communist.” He was “mean, tough, no nonsense, not one to mess around with.” Wiley says that whereas he (Wiley) could personally trick other American communists into trusting him as possibly one of them, and thus goading them in a less destructive direction, Paul Jr. “didn’t trust me at all.” The younger Robeson constantly gave him a cold, hard stare. He knew his way around. Unlike the wide-eyed liberals, Robeson was a committed radical leftist who was no sucker.</p>
<p>Wiley added this comment on Paul Jr.’s personality:</p>
<blockquote><p>As an interesting side-note, there was one funny thing I remember about Paul Robeson Jr. It’s funny what sticks with you, but I remember the <em>language</em> he used. He was the first male I ever encountered who swore in front of women with really foul language—rude, crude. I mean the &#8220;F-word&#8221; and everything. You have to understand that men just didn’t talk like that in those days. Later on they would all the time, but not back then. Robeson was the first time where I saw that. It really struck me. It was very unusual.</p></blockquote>
<p>Charlie Wiley told me these things two years ago, and I wrote them down. When I emailed him immediately upon receiving news of Paul Jr.’s death, he emphatically added that the younger Robeson “was a worse America hater than his father,” and concluded by calling him a “son-of-a-bitch.”</p>
<p>Clearly, the animosity is still palpable. And for good reason.</p>
<p>Back in Washington after the Vienna festival, there was a dramatic follow-up showdown between Paul Jr., Charlie Wiley, Herb Romerstein, and other delegates. The fireworks started on February 4, 1960 before the House Un-American Activities Committee, chaired by Pennsylvania Democrat Francis Walter, a staunch Cold Warrior (back when such Democrats existed).</p>
<p>Wiley and Romerstein were fully candid in their testimonies. Romerstein, a former communist, deeply impressed the committee. Paul Robeson Jr., on the other hand, was characteristically evasive, snide, unintimidated, and disrespectful. He refused to answer basic questions, including repeatedly refusing to affirm that he was a member of the Communist Party. He wouldn&#8217;t discuss his pro-Soviet work at the Vienna festival; to the contrary, he maligned the anti-communist Americans who were there. Amazingly, Paul Jr. accused <em>them</em> (the anti-communists) of agitating and turning the festival into a “cold-war battlefield.” He said that they had come to “disrupt,” “discredit,” and “subvert” the festival. They were a “disgrace,” he snarled at the committee.</p>
<p>It was a grossly mendacious performance. It was also a blatantly pro-Soviet stunt. Moscow surely reveled in every minute of it.</p>
<p>Robeson then turned his guns on the House Committee itself, which he accused of “harass[ing] those who fight for Negro equality,” of giving “aid and comfort to segregationists,” of undermining “the enforcement of civil rights of Negroes,” of “never doing anything about civil rights,” and of being sympathetic to “self-confessed Nazis and Fascist collaborators.”</p>
<p>This was the typical smear tactic used by the communist left. And, of course, Paul Jr. accused the committee of “attempting to poison the minds of young people with the ideology of McCarthyism.”</p>
<p>Again, quite a performance.</p>
<p>Alas, when it came to poisoning the minds of young people—and also accusing the House committee of being racist, fascist, and pro-Nazi—one such communist who excelled at the art was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Communist-Paul-Kengor/dp/B00C01DYBY/ref=pd_sim_b_1">Frank Marshall Davis</a>, who joined Communist Party USA during World War II (after the signing of the Hitler-Stalin Pact). Davis, who I profiled at length in an October 2012 cover feature for <em>The American Spectator</em>, deserves mention here. He knew the senior Paul Robeson extremely well, admired him greatly, and likely knew Paul Jr.</p>
<p>Davis mentioned Robeson more than any other figure in his weekly columns for the communist-line <em>Chicago Star</em> and <em>Honolulu Record</em>. He was his biggest cheerleader. Davis, who otherwise lied about his party membership and work, candidly acknowledged in his memoirs that Robeson was a major factor, if not <em>the</em> factor, in Davis suddenly uprooting from Chicago in 1949 to move to Hawaii to do Communist Party work there.</p>
<p>There, in Honolulu, Davis would eventually meet and mentor a young person named Barack Obama. There’s no doubt that Davis would have regaled young Obama with stories of glory about the great Paul Robeson. Does Obama today have an opinion of either Robeson? He absolutely does, and I would pay good money to hear it. What was his reaction to the younger Robeson’s death? How about the old man, Frank’s pal? Unfortunately, we can expect no one in our press corps will bother to ask the president.</p>
<p>As for both the senior and junior Paul Robeson, they will be eternally remembered by our press and “progressives” as stoic civil rights crusaders, lionized as fearless freedom fighters who battled the nefarious forces of McCarthyism. Their work on behalf of a truly pernicious regime and ideology will get a wink and a pass.</p>
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		<title>How the American Left Distorts History in an Attempt to Find Past Heroes and Create a New Generation of Activists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/m19-haym-harp-480.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234751" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/m19-haym-harp-480-450x311.jpg" alt="m19-haym-harp-480" width="320" height="221" /></a>Originally published by <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/06/23/how-the-american-left-distorts-history-in-an-attempt-to-find-past-heroes-and-create-a-new-generation-of-activists/">PJ Media</a>. </em></p>
<p>The American Left has been expert in indoctrinating a new generation with false history. We have seen this with Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick’s Showtime TV series on the Cold War, and especially with the writings and pseudo-history of the late Howard Zinn. While conservatives — with some laudable exceptions — concentrate largely on policy issues, the left knows that it is not sufficient to work only for its own political agenda. The left realizes it needs to capture the realm of culture, which includes the portrayal of the American past.</p>
<p>The left believes that if the American past is to be accurately understood, its citizens must be educated to understand that their country was always the real oppressor of both its own citizens and the world community. Then, the evil of virtually all administrations will be seen not as an aberration, but as the result one should expect.</p>
<p>In order to understand this, it is necessary for the left to create myths. It does not matter if they have already been challenged and accurately discredited. They merely repeat them as fact.</p>
<p>In the past two weeks, a few examples have surfaced that illustrate how this is done.</p>
<p><strong>1. How American Communists see the Haymarket bombings</strong></p>
<p>The first example concerns what took place as part of the convention of the American Communist Party recently held in Chicago. As reported in the<a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-06-14/news/ct-communist-party-convention-met-20140615_1_communists-chicago-convention-95th-anniversary"><i> Chicago Tribune</i></a> by reporter Ron Grossman, a man named Tim Yeager took the comrades on a history tour of Chicago. Yeager is described as juggling three jobs — “United Auto Workers union organizer, Communist official, and Episcopal priest” (consider for yourselves what that reveals). The article tells us what Yeager presented to  his CP group on a tour of labor-related sites in Chicago:</p>
<blockquote><p>Friday morning, Yeager led a bus tour of some party history. The first stop was at the Haymarket statue on Desplaines Street just north of Randolph Street, where in 1886 a bomb thrown during a labor rally killed seven police officers and at least one civilian.</p>
<p>Known radicals, some not even present at the rally, were rounded up, speedily convicted and hanged. Several were buried at Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, making it a pilgrimage site for labor activists and the second stop on Friday’s tour. The Haymarket affair made Chicago the natural site for the Communist Party’s founding convention in 1919.</p>
<p>Yeager noted that the Chicago establishment leaders who called for swift punishment of the Haymarket martyrs were “the 1 percenters of that day” — the favored few who enjoyed immense riches while the majority toiled for crumbs.</p></blockquote>
<p>In the CP’s version of events, the radicals at Haymarket were framed for what was clearly a police provocation, an excuse to arrest and condemn the radicals for their protest of bad working conditions. As <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/338656/what-happened-haymarket">John J. Miller</a> explained last year in <i>National Review</i>, labor historian Timothy Messer-Kruse has written a <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Trial-Haymarket-Anarchists-Terrorism-Justice/dp/0230120776/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1403367043&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Timothy+Messer-Kruse">book</a> that demolishes the myth and tells the truth: the trial was not a travesty of justice, as the left has always argued, but a real anarchist conspiracy meant to create an insurrection starting with attacks on the police.</p>
<p>The prosecution proved its case, and was able through solid evidence to show that the anarchists were responsible for the throwing of the bomb that led to the death of the police officers. It was not “one of the great miscarriages of justice,” as one mainstream textbook tells its readers.</p>
<p>Messer-Kruse is an honest historian who personally is a social-democrat. “I drunk the Kook-Aid,” he told Miller, but he now puts accurate history in front of ideology. It is more than likely, he says,  that the seven dead policemen were not killed by the bomb, but shot in cold blood by the anarchists present at the rally. It was, as I put it in my own <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2013/01/28/haymarket-another-leftist-historical-myth-gets-destroyed/?singlepage=true">PJM column</a>, the destruction of “another historical myth.”</p>
<p>The people Comrade Tim Yeager took on his tour, or the many thousands who read Howard Zinn’s falsehoods, believe the frame-up myth. And if they come across anyone who disputes it, they respond by attacking the person as a turncoat and a traitor, and by repeating the myth to their own students, over and over. The myth cannot be allowed to be exposed, or the result will be a possible rethinking of everything they have learned from the falsifiers of history</p>
<p><strong>2. The Rosenberg Case</strong></p>
<p>The second long-standing myth is that of the trial for conspiracy to commit espionage of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Suffice it to say, the Rosenbergs were indeed Soviet agents, seeking to provide Stalin’s U.S.S.R. with whatever military and industrial secrets the ring could gather to hand over to the Soviet totalitarian state. When I first wrote about this in the 1983 <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Rosenberg-File-Second-Edition/dp/0300072058/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1403368124&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Ronald+Radosh+and+Joyce+Milton">book</a> Joyce Milton and I co-authored, we were lonely voices intent on telling the true story. By now our conclusions have been widely accepted, and in America, only a dwindling group of old Communists and fellow-travelers believe in their innocence.</p>
<p>This, however, is not the case, evidently, with the French.</p>
<p>On the 61st anniversary of their execution, June 19 of this year, <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.lepoint.fr/c-est-arrive-aujourd-hui/19-juin-1953-un-couple-de-cocos-grille-sur-la-chaise-apres-un-proces-truque-les-epoux-rosenberg-19-06-2012-1475063_494.php"><i>Le Point</i></a><i> </i>ran a piece informing its readers that the “conviction of the Rosenbergs is the result of a huge paranoia that grips an entire nation.” It is a result of “fantastic Red-baiting” that existed throughout the United States. The trial was nothing but “a mock trial.” They note that “many organizations worldwide are calling today for review of the Rosenberg case.”</p>
<p>That falsehood is meant to create the impression that they will not be hoodwinked, and that despite everything known about the case, the left knows the “truth” that they were innocent. And readers of Howard Zinn’s <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States-Present-ebook/dp/B00338QF46/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1403535235&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=a+peoples+history+of+the+united+states+by+howard+zinn"><i>A People’s History of the United States</i></a>, <em>revised way after the truth of their guilt was known</em>, will find a section of his book on the Rosenberg case where he predictably uses old discredited material to “prove” that they were framed (pp.432-435).</p>
<p><strong>3. The Spanish Civil War</strong></p>
<p>For decades, the left wing in America has spread the myth about the Spanish Republic’s fight against fascism that started in 1936, and the decision of heroic volunteers to fight on its behalf. Especially singled out are the Americans who went to volunteer in that fight, who belonged to what they called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, which was actually a small battalion, the size of which they exaggerated purposefully in order to make themselves appear as more important than they actually were.</p>
<p>The old pro-Communists have their own falsified history to explain that event. That too has been long discredited, especially by the historian Stanley Payne, in books such as his recent <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Civil-Cambridge-Essential-Histories/dp/0521174708/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1403536424&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Stanley+Payne"><i>The Spanish Civil War</i></a><i> </i>and in <i><a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Comrades-Commissars-Lincoln-Battalion-Spanish/dp/0271029102/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1403552274&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Cecil+Eby">The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism. </a>   </i></p>
<p>The truth about the Lincoln Battalion can be found in Cecil Eby’s important yet neglected book, <em><a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Comrades-Commissars-Lincoln-Battalion-Spanish/dp/0271029102/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1403553132&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Cecil+Eby">Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War</a></em>. The role played by the Soviet Union in Spain can be understood in the book Mary Habeck and I wrote, <em><a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Spain-Betrayed-Soviet-Spanish-Communism/dp/0300089813/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1403553174&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Spain+Betrayed">Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War</a></em>. Reviewing it for <em>The Weekly Standard</em>, Stephen Schwartz wrote: “It will effect a complete overturn in historical perceptions of the twentieth-century Left.”</p>
<p>No matter. The left continues to teach its false history to a new generation. In the past two weeks, an article by William Loren Katz appeared on the website of the<a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="https://zinnedproject.org/2014/06/the-forgotten-fight-against-fascism/"><em> </em>Zinn Education Project</a>, which is devoted to spreading the word of the most popular leftist defiler of the truth, the late Howard Zinn. His column also appeared on the <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #24839f;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-zinn-education-project/the-forgotten-fight-again_b_5483988.html">Huffington Post</a> and other websites. According to Katz, the volunteers had one mission:</p>
<blockquote><p>By November the volunteer rush became a torrent: An estimated 40,000 men and women from 53 nations left home to defend the Republic. For the only time in history, a volunteer force of men and women from all over the world came together to fight for an ideal: democracy. The volunteers brought a message that ordinary people could resist fascist militarism</p>
<p>…</p>
<p>In the United States some 2,800 young men and women of different races and backgrounds formed the “Abraham Lincoln Brigade.” Seamen and students, farmers and professors, they hoped that their bravery could turn the tide, or at last alert the world to the fascist drive for world domination. Most made their way to Spain illegally as “tourists” visiting France.</p></blockquote>
<p>The truth: what they were joining was a Comintern army, put together by the NKVD’s international apparatus and the Communist International, and controlled and run by Stalin.</p>
<p>Rather than the mythical “good war” depicted by Katz and the propagandists, it was put together to help Spain fall under Soviet control, and to put into power a regime that would be the model for the post-World War II “people’s democracies” and that would be given limited military aid until such time as Britain and France might change their policy and unite with the Soviets in a new world alliance.</p>
<p>You will not find anywhere in Katz’s article — which continually heralds the volunteers’ anti-fascism — that during the Nazi-Soviet Pact, their Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade adopted the slogan “The Yanks are Not Coming!” Or that its leaders gave speeches condemning the warmongering of Franklin Roosevelt and the British, and depicted Nazi Germany as a benign power that was not a threat to the Western nations. Of course, their anti-fascism returned as soon as Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Stalin again demanded an overnight change in the party line.</p>
<p>The left continues to present its ideologically determined view of the past as a tool to inspire today’s naïve and uneducated young activists, many of them taught these falsehoods by leftist professors at major universities. Their project is to mine history for heroes and martyrs, even if the heroes they praise turn out to be not heroes at all, and their martyrs actually guilty. Those of us who respect the truth have an obligation not to leave history to them.</p>
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		<title>The Foresight of Patton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bourke-white-margaret-gen-george-patton.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234354" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bourke-white-margaret-gen-george-patton-283x350.jpg" alt="bourke-white-margaret-gen-george-patton" width="228" height="282" /></a>Nearly 70 years after the untimely death of U.S. General George S. Patton, suspicions linger as to the nature and circumstances surrounding the demise of this formidable military genius.  On a war-torn, two-lane highway in Mannheim, Germany, Patton’s car was struck on December 21, 1945 by a two-ton Army truck less than six months after the end of WWII hostilities in Europe.  The accident left Patton clinging to life in a Heidelberg hospital during a crucial period when the Allies were attempting to transition from the ravages of war to a sustained peace in Germany.  Within three weeks, Patton would lose his final battle, and the fate of post-war Germany would be sealed for several decades.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">At the time of his death, Patton had been relegated to a desk job, overseeing the collection of Army records in Bavaria.  That he had been an outspoken critic of Stalin and a vocal proponent of liberating Berlin and the German people from certain communist aggression triggered his sudden removal from the battlefield.  In the aftermath of war, the Western powers sought to sideline the mercurial Patton and his incendiary views.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">But Patton despised the politically driven circus and the media minions that carried out their dirty work.  Still, he continued to speak out against the Russians as an American witness to their brutality during and after the war.  As Stalin devoured Eastern Europe, Patton remarked, <i>“</i><span style="color: #1d1d1d;"><i>I have no particular desire to understand them except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them… …the Russian has no regard for human life and they are all out sons-of-bitches, barbarians, and chronic drunks.”</i></span></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In early May 1945, as the Allies shut down the Nazi war machine, Patton stood with his massive 3rd Army on the outskirts of Prague in a potential face off with the Red Army. He pleaded for General Eisenhower’s green light to advance and capture the city for the Allies, which also would have meant containment of the Russians. British Prime Minister Churchill also thought the move a crucial and beneficial one for post-war Europe and insisted upon it, but to no avail. Eisenhower denied Patton’s request, and the Russians took the region, which would pay dearly for years to come.  Earlier that year, at the February conference in Yalta, President Roosevelt, with Churchill at his side, extended the hand of friendship to “Uncle Joe” Stalin and signed his Faustian pact.  In so doing, the destiny of millions was reduced to mass starvation, blood revenge, and distant gulags. At the time, Patton understood the tragedy of this event and wrote, “<span style="color: #1d1d1d;"><i>We promised the Europeans freedom. It would be worse than dishonorable not to see that they have it. This might mean war with the Russians, but what of it?”</i></span></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Berlin also was given to Stalin’s Army as red meat to feed the dictator’s appetite for killing Germans. To some, including Patton, this was an unnecessary and devastating concession.  In late April 1945, Patton claimed he could take Berlin in just “two days,” an assessment shared by the commander of the 9<sup>th</sup> Army, General William H. Simpson. As with Prague, Patton’s request to secure Berlin was denied. Sadly, after Patton finally reached the ravaged city, he wrote his wife on July 21, 1945, <i>&#8221; for the first week after they took it (Berlin), all women who ran were shot and those who did not were raped. I could have taken it (instead of the Soviets) had I been allowed.&#8221;</i></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Conventional wisdom holds that Eisenhower’s choice not to capture the eastern capital cities was sober decision-making or that he was bound by the Yalta agreements, though he originally planned for Berlin and Prague. Many would argue that in the spring of 1945 the U.S. was fatigued with war and its military was in no condition to fight World War III. <span style="color: #000000;">The Americans also needed the Russians to</span><span style="color: #000000;"> join the</span><span style="color: #000000;"> fight in the Pacific </span><span style="color: #000000;">w</span><span style="color: #000000;">ar, though the Russians never fulfilled th</span><span style="color: #000000;">at</span><span style="color: #000000;"> promise. Yet, </span>the “what ifs” of history echo in Patton’s words: <i>&#8220;The American Army as it now exists could beat the Russians with the greatest of ease, because, while the Russians have good infantry, they are lacking in artillery, air, tanks, and in the knowledge of the use of the combined arms, whereas we excel in all three of these.”</i></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Moreover, Patton’s notion of meeting the enemy “now, rather than later” in retrospect seems not the mere wiles of a warmonger unable to embrace peacetime, but rather a worthy and prudent strategy of a seasoned tactician, even if a gamble. Stalin’s own records prove that he told his leaders to “play down” the Berlin invasion, aware that it was Europe’s crown jewel. Eisenhower, for all his discernment and skill at war management, did not see the Russians coming as did Patton and Churchill, who both recognized the wisdom of stopping Stalin in his tracks and perhaps offering Eastern Europe a chance at liberation.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Stalin had promised to liberate the capitals of Eastern Europe—Berlin, Prague, and Vienna—as well as Eastern Poland and the Baltic states. In his public broadcast dating back to November 1943 he promised, “The day is not far off when we will completely liberate the Ukraine, and the White Russia, Leningrad and Kalinin regions from the enemy; we will liberate . . . the people of the Crimea and Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia and Karelo-Finnish Republic.”  Instead, history proves that Stalin was responsible for the murder and/or starvation of some 40 million Russians and Ukrainians during his reign of terror.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In light of the Red Army’s 20th century rampage, with unprecedented carnage and devastation and arguably the darkest time in Western history, was Patton not the sober warrior speaking truth to a political expediency or human fatigue?  Was he not correct about Russian post-war intentions? Would not his attempt to push back his future foes and prevent further genocide have been worth the risk of another battle to secure the eastern capitals? We know the answer now, but Patton knew the answer then.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">By the end of the war Patton was defeated. As Eisenhower prepared for the political stage, every misspoken or emotionally charged word uttered by his greatest fighting general threatened to undermine Eisenhower’s credibility and authority, as well as the progress of a post-war order. Patton’s outspoken and unsolicited opinions, coupled with his unwillingness to punish all German citizens during the de-Nazification period, caused Eisenhower to sideline the general. Patton believed in the righteous cause of the military and revealed his plans to fight those who were destroying its morale and who endangered America&#8217;s future by not opposing the growing Soviet threat.  As a result, he was silenced. He would later say, <i>&#8220;when I finish this job, which will be around the first of the year, I shall resign, not retire, because if I retire I will still have a gag in my mouth . . .”</i></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Never short on words or the courage to deliver them, one wonders what secrets Patton might have revealed to the world had he not met a premature end. His diaries are littered with criticisms of Eisenhower and General Omar Bradley, and at times he found fault with how the war was executed at what he believed was at the expense of American GIs? Were these convictions enough of a threat to put his own life in danger with his peers? Is it plausible that the Russians, weary of his anti-Soviet rhetoric, might have employed the NKVD for the ultimate dirty job?</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">In light of those who opposed Patton—enemies and allies alike—is it any wonder why 70 years later many still would question his untimely death?</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Even today, his silence can be heard.</p>
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		<title>“The Smartest Woman in the World” Flunks Her Foreign Policy Exam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 04:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hill.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234601" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hill-450x243.jpg" alt="hill" width="283" height="153" /></a>Worse still, the flunkie in this article title recently served as U.S. Secretary of State. Back in the &#8217;90s when she served as First Lady (co-president, some say) Hillary Clinton was widely known as “The Smartest Woman in the World.” Her husband Bill supposedly coined the term, but Rush Limbaugh ran with it, snarking and laughing. Soon it was household.</p>
<p>In her new book, Hillary Clinton reveals that she prodded President Obama to “lift or ease” (what’s left of the so-called) Cuba embargo. “The embargo is Castro’s best friend,” Clinton explained to a delighted audience at the anti-embargo Council on Foreign Relations last week while promoting her book <em>Hard Choices. </em></p>
<p>But doesn’t the “Smartest Woman in the World” and former U.S. Secretary of State know that what’s left of the sanctions against Castro’s Stalinist regime are codified into law and can only be lifted by Congress, obviously after a vote? In fact, this codification took place with passage of the Helms-Burton act in 1996, when she was first lady (co-president.)</p>
<p>The current U.S. president, having already delighted Castro by loopholing the Cuba sanctions almost to death, can’t go much further. Has Ms. Clinton forgotten? Or is this constitutional “expert” advocating (even more) U.S. government by executive fiat?</p>
<p>And what about the $2 billion (worth $7 billion today) stolen at Soviet gunpoint by Castro’s gunmen in 1960 from U.S. businessmen and stockholders, after the torture and murder <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">of a few Americans who resisted?</a> That very Helms-Burton law also calls for a settling of that account before allowing any more loopholing of the embargo.</p>
<p>Perhaps instead of attending Yale Law School and marrying “her way to the top,” Hillary Rodham Clinton should have “stayed home and baked cookies,” (to succumb to her own famous insult against America’s stay-at home moms), then sold them at a lemonade stand. If so, she’d know a little about business. To wit: When somebody stiffs you big–time (as Castro did to the U.S. like nobody in history) before extending them more credit you demand they settle up the amount in arrears. <em>Comprende</em>, “Smartest Woman in the World”?</p>
<p>More basic still, Webster&#8217;s defines &#8220;embargo&#8221; as &#8220;a government order imposing a trade barrier.&#8221; As a verb it&#8217;s defined as &#8220;to prevent commerce.&#8221; But according to figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. (thanks to her husband’s loopholes in 1999) has transacted almost $4 billion in trade with Cuba over the past 14 years. Up until five years ago, the U.S. served as Stalinist Cuba’s <em>biggest food supplier</em> and fifth biggest import partner. For over a decade the so-called U.S. embargo, so disparaged by Hillary Clinton, has mostly stipulated that Castro’s Stalinist regime pay cash up front through a third–party bank for all U.S. agricultural products; no Export-Import Bank (U.S. taxpayer) financing of such sales.</p>
<p>Enacted by the Bush team in 2001, (attempting to patch some of her husband’s loopholes) this cash-up-front policy has been monumentally beneficial to U.S. taxpayers, making them among the few in the world not stiffed by the Castro regime, which per capita-wise qualifies as the world’s biggest dead-beat. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">Standard &amp; Poors refuses to even rate Cuba.</a></p>
<p>Again, shouldn’t a former U.S. Sec. of State be familiar with this?</p>
<p>Now back to her parroting of the KGB-mentored meme: “The embargo is Castro’s best friend it provides Castro with a foil for his failures.” This meme ranks as the favorite talking point of Castro’s agents, on the payroll and off. Sadly, it’s widely believed by the superficially-informed on Cuban matters.</p>
<p>First off, if Castro “<em>secretly</em> favors the embargo,” then why did every one of his <em>secret</em> agents campaign <em>secretly</em> and obsessively <em>against</em> the embargo while working as <em>secret</em> agents?   Castro managed the deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Department of Defense in recent U.S. history. The spy’s name is Ana Montes, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/18/ana-montes-did-much-harm-spying-for-cuba-chances-are-you-havent-heard-of-her/">known as &#8220;Castro’s Queen Jewel&#8221; in the intelligence community. </a> In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.</p>
<p>Prior to her visit from the FBI and handcuffing, Montes worked tirelessly to influence U.S. foreign policy against the embargo. The same holds for more recently arrested, convicted and incarcerated Cuban spies Carlos and Elsa Alvarez and Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers. All worked tirelessly to influence U.S. policy against the &#8220;embargo&#8221; while working as secret agents.</p>
<p>It’s one thing for some talking heads with their typically overworked and harried research staff to remain ignorant of these vital matters. But shouldn’t a former U.S. Secretary of State be familiar with matters so vital to U.S. security?</p>
<p>Also, Ms. Clinton, if you claim to speak on behalf of the “hurt by the embargo” Cuban people, why not look at what these Cuban people <em>themselves</em> think of U.S. sanctions against the regime that oppresses them? Or is it better to take them for idiots, as you apparently do the American people?</p>
<p>In fact, in a way you have a point. The Cuban <em>do </em>want a change in U.S. sanctions—the Cuban people <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/06/over-830-cuban-democracy-activists-sign.html">want them <em>tightened </em>! </a> They’re outraged by the windfall of cash showering their oppressors from the U.S. nowadays. In executive order after executive order, President Obama abolished President Bush’s travel and remittance restrictions to Castro’s terror-sponsoring fiefdom and opened the pipeline to a point where the cash-flow from the U.S. to Cuba today is estimated at $4 billion a year.</p>
<p>Almost half a million people visited Cuba from the U.S. last year. Yet while a proud Soviet satrapy Cuba received $3-5 billion annually from the Soviets. In brief, almost every year since Obama took office more cash has been flowing from the U.S. to Cuba than used to flow there from the Soviets at the height of their Cuba-sponsorship. And more people from the U.S. have been visiting Cuba than visited during year featured in &#8220;The Godfather II.&#8221; Result?</p>
<p>The Cuban people are suffering a <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-longest-romance-the-mainstream-media-and-fidel-castro/">ten-year record of repression</a> at the hands of the fat and happy KGB-trained security forces. The current wave of repression slightly tops the 2013 <em>record</em> wave of repression that coincided with the<em> record</em> tourism revenues that year.)</p>
<p>In brief: record tourism=record repression. In brief: Every shred of observable evidence proves that travel to Cuba and business with its Stalinist mafia enriches and entrenches these KGB-trained and heavily-armed owners of Cuba’s tourism industry. Thus they remain the most highly motivated guardians of Cuba’s Stalinist and Terror-Sponsoring status-quo.</p>
<p>Please note: there is no “doing business with Cuba.” There is only doing business with the KGB- and GRU-trained Stalinist fat-cats who occupy Cuba. Castro’s Stalinist fiefdom allows no genuine private sector, as exists in China, however despicable that regime. The Cuban “constitution” outlaws all private property.</p>
<p>So kindly stifle the reflexive and asinine: “But we do business with China! Why not Cuba?!” The comparison isn’t even an apples to oranges. It’s grapes to pumpkins.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Castro’s Stalinist regime mandates 15 years in their KGB-designed dungeons for any Cuban saying a nice thing about the U.S. embargo. (And yet “The Smartest Woman in the World,” Hillary Clinton, claims the embargo is “Castro’s best friend!”)</p>
<p>“Since it has run out of doors to knock on, (the Castro regime) is now focused on the United States,” writes Cuban dissident and 3-time Amnesty-International prisoner of conscience Rene Gomez Manzanoin in a recent samizdat smuggled from his Communist-occupied homeland:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Lifting the embargo would be a mistake without Cuba first respecting its people&#8217;s fundamental human rights…If the U.S. allows financing towards Cuba, it will be U.S. taxpayers who would be sustaining the Castro regime.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So here’s a foreign “Hispanic,” who instead of scheming to avail himself of booty courtesy of U.S. taxpayers is actually<em> warning</em> the U.S. taxpayer against the predatory machinations against his wallet by <em>his own</em> millionaire politicians, their cronies at the Council on Foreign Relations all in cahoots <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/03/06/mr-chavez-you-were-no-fidel-castro/david-rockefeller-and-fidel-castro-shaking-hands/">with their friend in Cuba.</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the media's eulogies for a Nobel-winning author didn't tell you. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224087" alt="cas" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cas-450x320.jpg" width="315" height="224" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The eulogies for Nobel-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez upon his death last week make two points official:  </span></p>
<p>1.) No amount of moral and intellectual wretchedness will earn an artist even the mildest rebuke from most of his professional peers and their related institutions — so long as the wretch hires himself out to communists.</p>
<p>2.) The masochism of Democratic U.S. Presidents is boundless.</p>
<p>This is not to suggest that the media eulogies sidestep Garcia Marquez’s politics. Most are quite upfront about it. Let’s take the one run by <em>The New York Times</em> as emblematic:</p>
<blockquote><p>Like many Latin American intellectuals and artists, Mr. García Márquez felt impelled to speak out on the political issues of his day. He viewed the world from a left-wing perspective, bitterly opposing Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the right-wing Chilean <i>dictator</i>, and unswervingly supporting Fidel Castro in Cuba. Mr. Castro became such a close friend that Mr. García Márquez showed him drafts of his unpublished books.</p></blockquote>
<p>Notice the word “dictator” above. But with whom does the New York Times associate it?  Pinochet, of course. Does Fidel Castro also qualify as dictator?  <em>The New York Times</em> does not tell us.</p>
<p>“Mr. García Márquez’s ties to Mr. Castro troubled some intellectuals and human rights advocates,” continues the NYTimes,</p>
<blockquote><p>Susan Sontag wrote in the 1980s, &#8220;To me it’s scandalous that a writer of such enormous talent be a spokesperson for a government which has put more people in jail (proportionately to its population) than any other government in the world.&#8221; … He attributed the criticism to what he called Americans’ &#8216;almost pornographic obsession with Castro.&#8217; But he became sensitive enough about the issue to intercede on behalf of jailed Cuban dissidents.</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, fully contrary to <em>The New York Times</em>’ whitewash, Garcia Marquez’s “intercession” is what got some of those dissidents jailed and tortured by his friend Castro in the first place. Let’s not mince words. Let’s call out Garcia Marquez categorically: on top of his decades of <i>pro-bono</i> propaganda services for Castroism, Garcia Marquez was also a volunteer snitch for Castro’s KGB-mentored secret police.</p>
<p>At this juncture I’ll turn over the floor to someone intimately familiar with the issue: Armando Valladares, who himself suffered 22 torture-filled years in Castro’s prisons and who was later appointed by Ronald Reagan as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission:</p>
<p>&#8220;Many years ago Garcia Marquez became an informer for Castro’s secret police,” starts a recent exposé by Mr Valladares,</p>
<blockquote><p>At the time, back in Havana, Cuban dissident and human-rights activist, Ricardo Bofill, with help of the then-reporter for Reuters, Collin McSevengy, managed to enter the Havana hotel where García Márquez was having a few drinks. In a quiet corner, with absolute discretion, Bofill gave García Márquez a series of documents relating to several Cuban artists. A few weeks later Castro&#8217;s police arrested Ricardo Bofill&#8211;and displayed on the table right next to Castro’s secret-policeman &#8212; <a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/04/20/nobel-winner-gabriel-garcia-marquez-on-top-of-being-a-fervent-castro-propagandist-was-also-a-volunteer-snitch-for-castros-secret-police/">were the very documents which Bofill had given García Márquez.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Bofill, a peaceful human-rights activist inspired by Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., went on to suffer 12 years in Castro’s prisons—thanks to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. On October 13, 1968, the Spanish newspapers <i>ABC</i> and <i>Diario 16</i>, published Bofill&#8217;s disclosures and headlined that: &#8220;García Márquez['s] revelations led to the imprisonment of numerous Cuban writers and artists.&#8221;<i> </i></p>
<p>All of this was conveniently “forgotten” by most media outlets last week.</p>
<p>But enough from me. Instead, let’s hear from some folks much closer to this issue. Let’s hear from Cuban writers who were suffering in Castro’s KGB-designed dungeons and torture chambers while Gabriel Garcia Marquez contributed his literary influence and might towards glorifying their torturer.</p>
<p>The late Reynaldo Arenas’ autobiography <i>Before Night Falls</i> was on <em>The New York Times</em>&#8216; list of the ten best books of the year in 1993. In 2000, the book became a movie starring Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp and Sean Penn. Throughout the &#8217;70s, Arenas was jailed and tortured by Castro’s police for his rebellious writings and gay lifestyle. He finally escaped on the Mariel boat-lift tin 1980. Here’s his take on Gabriel Garcia Marquez from 1982:</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s high time for all the intellectuals of the free world (the rest don&#8217;t exist) to take a stand against this unscrupulous propagandist for totalitarianism. I wonder why these intellectual apologists for communist paradises don’t live in them? Or is it that they prefer collecting payment there and here, while enjoying the comforts and guarantees of the western world?</p></blockquote>
<p>In fact, Garcia Marquez did live on and off in Cuba, in a (stolen) mansion Castro gifted him, where he frolicked with adolescent girls between traveling through Havana in a (stolen) Mercedes also gifted him by Castro.</p>
<p>Here’s Cuban-exile author Roberto Luque Escalona, briefly an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience, who escaped Cuba in 1992:</p>
<blockquote><p>Only a five star-scoundrel would put his literary fame in the service of a cause as vile and malignant as the Castro tyranny. Simple frivolity cannot possibly justify an embrace so long and strong as the one Garcia-Marquez gave someone who devastated a nation, murdered thousands, jailed and tortured tens of thousands dispersed an entire nation and debased the rest.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now let’s hear from some people whose fate allowed a more detached view of Gabriel Garcia Marquez than Arenas and Luque Escalona: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.</p>
<p>“I once had the privilege to meet him in Mexico,” President Obama was quoted in Politico last week,</p>
<blockquote><p>where he presented me with an inscribed copy that I cherish to this day. As a proud Colombian, a representative and voice for the people of the Americas, and as a master of the &#8220;magic realism&#8221; genre, he has inspired so many others….I offer my thoughts to his family and friends, whom I hope take solace in the fact that Gabo’s work will live on for generations to come.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I was saddened to learn of the passing of Gabriel García Márquez,” mourned Bill Clinton. He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>From the time I read &#8220;One Hundred Years of Solitude&#8221; more than 40 years ago, I was always amazed by his unique gifts of imagination, clarity of thought, and emotional honesty. I was honored to be his friend and to know his great heart and brilliant mind for more than 20 years.</p></blockquote>
<p>In an interview with France’s <i>Le Monde</i> in 1981, Garcia Marquez remarked that, <a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/04/21/reinaldo-arenas-on-gabo-gabrieel-garcia-marquez-esbirro-o-es-burro-tool-or-fool/">&#8220;the problem with visiting men like Fidel Castro is that one winds up loving them too much.</a>&#8221; A few years earlier he was denouncing the desperate Vietnamese boat-people as “war-criminals,” “Yankee-lackeys” and worse.</p>
<p>Garcia Marquez shared all of Fidel Castro’s hatred against the U.S., a passion that contributed much to their long and warm friendship. Given this rabid hatred for the nation that elected them, you’d really think &#8212; especially given White House speech writing budgets &#8212; that these U.S. Presidents could have found a way to express their admiration for Garcia Marquez’s art without so warmly embracing the wretched artist himself.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Hillary evoked memories of Hitler, but not Stalin, on the Ukrainian crisis.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/9430680.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220661" alt="9430680" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/9430680-439x350.jpg" width="307" height="245" /></a>Hillary Clinton has waded into the Ukrainian crisis by invoking history. Referring to Vladimir Putin’s plans to provide passports to Russians outside the nation’s borders, she said:</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/05/hillary-clinton-says-putins-action-are-like-what-hitler-did-back-in-the-30s/">“Now if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the ‘30s.”</a></p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She continued:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All the Germans that were. . . the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they’re not being treated right. I must go and protect my people, and that’s what’s gotten everybody so nervous.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The former First Lady, a likely presidential candidate in 2016, is right about Hitler’s tactics but she ignores the “back in the &#8217;30s” history most applicable to Ukraine. The shot-caller back then was Joseph Stalin, and he set out to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism, as Russian tyrants had done for ages. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/soft-pedaling-stalinist-genocide/">Stalin had a different plan &#8212; known as genocide</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In his forced collectivization campaign, Stalin raised Ukraine’s grain procurement quotas by 44 percent. That meant that there would not be enough grain to feed the people, but to make sure, Stalin also deployed regular troops and secret police units in a merciless war of attrition. And that condemned millions to death by starvation. That is genocide by any standard, but for Stalin it was a big success. As one of his commanders said, it showed the Ukrainians “who is the master here.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That’s what Stalin did “back in the &#8217;30s” but Hillary Clinton ignored it entirely. Neither did she mention that in 1939 Stalin signed a pact with Hitler, and that the two dictators jointly invaded Poland. Poles remember that, and Ukrainians remember Stalin all too well, unlike American politicians.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Back in the 1930s Americans were not well informed about Stalinist genocide because of deliberate deception by Walter Duranty of the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Times. </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At the very time Stalin was starving millions to death Duranty wrote that the Ukraine was a veritable cornucopia, flowing with milk and honey. In Duranty’s narrative famine was impossible under the scientific, planned economy of the USSR and the wise leadership of Stalin. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Duranty was fond of saying, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs” and “I put my money on Stalin.” Something similar is going on now.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Vladimir Putin laments the demise of the USSR and on his watch Stalin has been experiencing a revival. During the recent winter Olympics at Sochi, where Stalin’s villa has been carefully maintained, a Russian student told NBC that “Stalin took Russia to next level.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Putin doubtless believes that and, as Hillary Clinton also said, Putin “believes his mission is to restore Russian greatness,” including control of former Soviet Union countries. “When he looks at Ukraine, he sees a place that he believes is by its very nature part of Mother Russia.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That is true and imperialism is the highest stage of Putinism. Hillary Clinton won’t stop it by talking about Hitler. President Obama won’t stop it by essentially giving Putin everything he wants. And leftist Democrats like Dennis Kucinich won’t stop it by </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/russia-ukraine-covert-operations-Dennis-Kuchinich/2014/03/04/id/556082">blaming the Ukraine crisis on the United States</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. That’s why in Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, everybody is so nervous.</span></p>
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		<title>White House Cites Economist Who Praised &#8220;Model of Socialism Pioneered by the Soviet Union”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Only socialism can assure everyone material comfort, individual security"]]></description>
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<p>You can see why <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/26/report-look-whos-on-wh-touted-list-of-pro-minimum-wage-hike-economists/">he would be a good choice for this administration</a> when promoting a minimum wage hike.</p>
<blockquote><p>After a proposed minimum wage increase ran into economic objections, the liberal Economic Policy Institute collected the names of economists who defend the measure. Since the organization released the list, the White House, Democratic elected officials, liberal organizations and various media outlets have cited the list of 602 as evidence it will be economically beneficial to boost the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10.</p>
<p>The Employment Policies Institute has examined the list. According to their analysis, of the signatories who actually hold a Ph.D. in economics, 259 (45 percent) did not specialize in labor economics.</p>
<p>Researchers concluded that ten people on the list do not even hold a Ph.D. in economics. One of them appears to be an undergraduate at Queens College who, according to his LinkedIn account, is seeking employment as a security guard.</p></blockquote>
<p>It could be worse. At least he&#8217;s not Paul Krugman.</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the list’s members defined a rogue state as “a fierce and dangerous animal, like an elephant, that separates itself from its herd,” and labeled the United States “the world’s number one rogue.” Another called former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez “a great leader.” A third wrote a paper in which he praised the “particular model of socialism pioneered by the Soviet Union.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That last fellow was Dr. Kotz, who wrote that,</p>
<blockquote><p>This paper will argue that socialist reform need not lead to a restoration of capitalism. The experiences of the Soviet Union and of China hold lessons which can help in devising a strategy for transforming a Soviet-type system into a viable socialism that will bring renewed social and economic progress without abandoning the core socialist values of equality, solidarity, cooperation, and democracy</p></blockquote>
<p>and&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Only socialism can assure everyone material comfort, individual security, and a guaranteed opportunity to participate in productive labor, without some exploiting others. Only socialism can build a society based upon the better aspects of human nature, rather than its baser aspects, and finally enable people to become the real masters of their fate.</p></blockquote>
<p>But it gets worse&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Another signer, Paul Zarembka, edited the book,“The Hidden History of 9/11.”</p></blockquote>
<p>A 9/11 Truther and a Math Truther in one.</p>
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