Human Brain - the next BattleField

How far have illegal Human experiments been going on?

As Canadian government has a History of participation in Illegal Human Experiments, 

is there a strong possibility that government shielded criminals are again "in the shadows"

and with pride participating/sponsoring atrocities?

Professional Harassment and Stalking - The Corrupt Police Officers and Former officers profiting - All together in this!

The case of Calgary Police officer and Wife, Heather and Steve Walton, "harassment for hire" 'risk management " company...(click here for the case Calgary Police Officers heired to commit crimes)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/walton-carter-harassment-bribery-akele-taylor-russia-hospital-1.5231725

THEIR "EMPLOYEES" INCLUDE ACTIVE POLICE OFFICER :

Calgary officers guilty of corruption in harassment campaign targeting mother

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-corruption-trial-braile-morton-mcnish-verdict-1.4639095

 

ANOTHER CASE OF EXECUTIVES INVOLVED IN HARASSMENT CAMPAIGNS AND TARGETTING - June 15 ,2020

 

GET INFORMED TARGET AND HARASSMENT BEING DEPLOYED AGAINST INNOCENT PEOPLE BY CRIMINALS WITH POLICE INVOLVED...Maybe "following orders"?? BUT BIG MONEY IS  PAID FOR "THE JOB" 

https://www.freedomfortargetedindividuals.org/videos

Former Calgary Police Service employees Heather & Steve Walton 'risk management' 's Harassment Program

Are some CRIMINALS "LESS CRIMINALS " than others?

What about the ones working for the government? 

Do all of them have "deniability" and are protected from being exposed because they "work in the shadows"? 

 

By the way....HI HEATHER!!! 

 https://calgaryherald.com/news/crime/retired-and-current-calgary-police-members-being-probed-for-alleged-misconduct-while-working-for-local-private-investigation-firm

Full text here

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/walton-carter-harassment-bribery-akele-taylor-russia-hospital-1.5231725

 

THEIR "EMPLOYEES" INCLUDE ACTIVE POLICE OFFICER :

Calgary officers guilty of corruption in harassment campaign targeting mother

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-police-corruption-trial-braile-morton-mcnish-verdict-1.4639095

Forbes Magazine and Our question: Are these the portable microwave weapons criminals are using in Canada ?

The Microwave Weapons That Could Explain criminals in Canada possibly attacking people with impunity

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/10/20/the-microwave-weapons-that-could-explain-why-havana-syndrome-report-is-not-being-released/?sh=229688485482 

How these weapons work - There is no "conspiracy theory" about these weapons being deployed against individuals . Now, as the attacks are aimed at some of the initial perpetrators like CIA operatives, the  truth is coming to light.  

How do these criminal authorized to use these weapons kill/hurt "in the shadows" ?

  

 The New York Times article: 

U.S. Diplomats and Spies Battle Trump Administration Over Suspected Attacks

 

EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS

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Spark - by Canadian Stephen Shellenberger

This movie by Stephen Shellenberger is about a man who finds himself living in a strange world that he never knew existed. 

As he falls, tumbles down the rabbit hole it just keeps getting stranger.

 Canadian actor / director Stephen Shellenberger wrote:

"I put this out today for all the people that need to see it and maybe can't afford it. God bless and enjoy"

“The Spark” illuminates surveillance-state crimes:insidious and covert surveillance crimes by secret services like Canadian CSIS and others ( click here)

 

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About the director:

Stephen Shellen (berger) channel

 

 

"Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological necessity."

The Psychology of Genocide

extracted from Robert J. Lifton book: 

 

"The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide." (1988) - more here

 "The smaller genocide develops the technology , personnel (medical units), and institutional structure (killing centers) for the large genocidal act. But the prior event does more: it provides a shared sense, notably among the elite, that it can be done, that one can move from relatively amorphous imagery of victimization and triage for the act of total murder; and that it seems to work - a problem is solved.

 
There is a sense of achievement, a movement towards health."...
..." The rest of the population is not deemed ready for full knowledge; there is an ambivalence between secrecy tinged with shame and pride of achievement as the genocidal radius moves outward into an increasingly enveloping system of order and pol­icy, of bureaucratic and technological arrangement. " 

Dungeons Above the Ground

 Technology, Torture, Voices in the Head ...  

 

"Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological  necessity."  

The smaller genocide develops the technology , personnel (medical units), and institutional structure (killing centers) for the large genocidal act. But the prior event does more: it provides a shared sense, notably among the elite, that it can be done, that one can move from relatively amorphous imagery of victimization and triage for the act of total murder; and that it seems to work - a problem is solved.
There is a sense of achievement, a movement towards health."...
..." The rest of the population is not deemed ready for full knowledge; there is an ambivalence between secrecy tinged with shame and pride of achievement as the genocidal radius moves outward into an increasingly enveloping system of order and pol­icy, of bureaucratic and technological arrangement. " 

The Psychology of Genocide

Extracted from Robert J. Lifton book:

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psycology Of Genocide.

 

 

Full video at C-Span : Voices, voices , voices ....

Detention at Guantanamo - Senate Hearing

 See also The Guantanamo Lawyers - C-Span:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?290219-1/the-guantanamo-lawyers 

              VOICES IN THE HEAD - THE TECHNOLOGY BEHING IT 

 

 

 

"Trudeau government gag order in CIA brainwashing case silences victims", lawyer says

Project MK-Ultra Survivor Summit

Was from August 19 to August 25 - Montreal  2020

CBC Documentaries - The Fifth State

 

 

 

 

A link to  :  Allan Memorial Institute Experiments Class Action

The history of illegal CIA/Canadian governement human experiments and its ties to McGill University in Montreal. 

 

Also called the CIA mind control program, MK Ultra is the codename given to an illegal Canadian/American program that included a number of illegal human experiments, in the style of Nazi experiments.

 Documents :  https://www.clg.org/pdf/1/2/3/1/Application-for-Authorization.pdf 

THE EXPERIMENTS 

                             "  I will delete your memory! "

("Laura Silly", John Shea Insurance , Ottawa,CA)

Donald Ewen Cameron, a medical doctor, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, affiliated with McGill University, was a leading figure in the illegal program. Hundreds of U.S. and Canadian citizens were unwitting test subjects. Did the "family" at Shea replaced him?

"WOULDN'T IT BE GOOD IF WE ONLY HAD GOOD MEMORIES?"

 (statement by a "Laura Silly" whoever , a "scientist" employed at an Insurance brokerage in Ottawa, Canada????????  She kicks ass!! )

The brutality of participants in illegal human experiments of MK-Ultra, perpetrators  that Robert J. Lifton describes as  "desk professionals ", goes beyond words. Even as they see themselves as "nice" and "ass kickers"...they are just criminals, aren't they? Are these "professional harassers" any different from rapists, murderers etc...?

 "Run, run! We are the bad guys"!(by "Wendy"  whoever, accomplice of Silly whoever "scientist" , the ones who "kick ass" in total deniability and impunity...)

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A Case of memory loss recently reviewed in the light of new documents - Illegal Human Experiments

The ordinary Air force man who became a rapist and murderer?

The case of Jummy Shaver, air force marshal airman at Lackland Air Force Base

"Louis Jolyon West seems to have used chemicals and hypnosis liberally in his medical practice, possibly leading to the death of a child and the execution of an innocent man."

 

MK Ultra started in 1953 and was supposedly halted in 1973. But was it?

More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

The Orgasmatron: Strange tale of a pleasure implant

that is said to "TURN RAPE into ....pleasure"  . BBC Future - a Report

And" what a difference a single word makes!" Mainly when in the hands of criminals.... 

Rape is no longer rape for these sick psychopaths working "in the shadows"  ...hiding and protected by the immoral system that gladly covers up for these criminals..

" You won’t be raped ! You might even like it! "

But a rapist is a rapist...no matter the methods, isn't it? 

The case of 

Canadian Air Force Col. Russel Williams 

A high ranking well protected rapist (but not CIA...)

" WHAT?? Talked to some lawyer? " YOU HAVE BALLS !!! "

Oh, LAWYERS !!! "THE GOLDEN SHIELD" TO THE "HOLLY GRAIL" 

"The Bunny Patrol's urgent reminder : " Canada and USA are one !"

"We have your balls! "

 

Bella Ciao! Is she Strongly making sure that her "Power" is recognized as she works with/for the Criminal Harassement Program??? Photos of her "buddies" coming soon...

Who do they work for? Merely a "company"? Merely a case of Former Policy officers going rouge? Really??NO!! Bella Ciao is so proud!! She "works for the governement!!!" No! She does not work for a low level criminal!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/steve-heather-walton-akele-taylor-harassment-bribert-sentence-carter-1.5341667

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lha3iBRAw0A&t=107s

Desk Professionals: Technology Standards and Standards development process

 Standards and Compatibility DO matter

(All true even when non regulation is crucial as in White spaces, white times...)

Professor Robert Jay Lifton, American, psychiatrist chiefly known for his studies of Though Reform and psychological causes and effects of political violence and wars, talks about the professionals as they participate in the program:

"Desk-professionals" are always involved in planning and organizing any project.

So is the case of "desk murderers" like  Adolf Eichmann. The "desk professionals" who were in fact "desk murderers" as Hannah Arendt described them years later,  were the ones in offices, in conferences, seminars, companies...Those who planned and organized the Holocaust without taking part in killings personally.

The "system works", only if a network of industry and technology experts are actively involved - this was well known by the Regime.

Technology experts, standards, recommended practices and secrecy are fundamental pieces of the game. It was then as it it now.


Many Nazi technocrats participated and appreciated the opportunity of "giving a hand"supporting and creating standards, solid standards.

Among them was Karl Fritzsch. As today's "tech consultants", desk professionals in the Nazi System had important and almost "divine" roles.

As Eichmann, Karl was "just a bureaucrat" (later a "desk criminal") 

According to Rudolph Hoss, Karl Fritzsch, a technocrat, was the one who first suggested using poisonous gas for the purpose of mass murder.

By the way... Karl's name appears in many minutes of meetings, events and on but where is KARL?

Karl Fritzsch? His final fate remains unknown.

"The gloves are off"

                            Bronze mold of the gloves with which Eichmann was captured





                               Technology left behind:               

  Thousands of empty poison gas canisters used to kill in the

 "high tech" gas chambers - found in Auschwitz at the end of World War II

TECHNOLOGY - Pulsed Energy Projectiles - Portable Weapons (DEW)

"Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological necessity."

"The smaller genocide develops the technology , personnel (medical units), and institutional structure (killing centers) for the large genocidal act. But the prior event does more: it provides a shared sense, notably among the elite, that it can be done, that one can move from relatively amorphous imagery of victimization and triage for the act of total murder; and that it seems to work - a problem is solved.
There is a sense of achievement, a movement towards health."...
..." The rest of the population is not deemed ready for full knowledge; there is an ambivalence between secrecy tinged with shame and pride of achievement as the genocidal radius moves outward into an increasingly enveloping system of order and pol­icy, of bureaucratic and technological arrangement. " 

The Psychology of Genocide

Extracted from Robert J. Lifton book:

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing And The Psychology Of Genocide. New York: Basic Books Inc. Publisher.

RAPE AS A POLICY OF STATE POWER

" You won’t be raped, you might enjoy it ! "

 

Technology then and now, in rape as well, is part of the tools of the master's house,  the preservers of Colonial Powers.  

The Case of Djamila Boupacha  

Rape, today as in the past, used technology to "improve" results. In the case of Djamila, the shock machine, beer bootles , "hands" and handles were all "good technology of rape".

 Documentary: "Pour Djamila"  by Caroline Huppert 

The documentary is  Djamila's  account of the torture and rape with the so called  "good technology" ; technology so good, torturers say, that "it looks like magic". The documentary It includes state torturers and rapist statements to her before they "gave her pleasure" :   "You won’t be raped, you might enjoy it" 

Case of Djamila Boupacha (Guerre d'Algérie)

 

 

For More on Rape as a State Policy:
Rape and Colonial State Power: Simone de Beauvoir and the Case of Djamila Boupacha
http://www.academia.edu/1774645/Rape_and_Colonial_State_Power_Simone_de_Beauvoir_and_the_Case_of_Djamila_Boupacha


PICASSO dedicate Djamila a Cover in Beauvoir's book:

February 2010 - One Year Ago

Rapists and murderer Russel Willians interviewed by OPP Detective Sergeant Jim Smyth on February 7, 2010:

See also post October 20, 2010

Playing with Rape and walking away with it

"We are not in the business of rape !!" Really?

On the CIA "disruption policy", foreign countries role, a condo in Vancouver as solution and more

by Chalmers Ashby Johnson (August 6, 1931 - November 20, 2010)
extracted from Chalmers Johnson's (1931-2010) book: "BLOWBACK" (first edition 2000).

..."The CIA term for this policy is "disruption", by which it means the harassment of terrorists around the world.. .According to John Diamond of the Associated Press, "the CIA keeps its role secret, and the foreign countries that actually crack down on the suspects, carefully hide the U.S. role, lest they stir up trouble for themselves.". There are no safeguards at all against misidentifying "suspects" and "the CIA sends no formal notice to Congress". Disruption is said to be a preemptive, offensive form of counterterrorism. Richard Clarke, President Bill Clinton's antiterrorism czar, likes it because he can avoid "the cumbersome Congressional reporting requirements that go with CIA-directed covert operations" and because "human rights organizations would have no way of identifying a CIA role". ...

Interview with Chalmers Johnson (August 6, 1931 - November 20, 2010)
Johnson was a professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean war, was a consultant for the CIA and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972.

Conversations with History: The Last Days of the American Republic with Chalmers Johnson
First Aired: 5/14/2007 - (59 minutes)
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=12489



More:
Military Bases and the "Blowback"
Chalmers Johnson - January 29, 2004 - Conversations with History

Thanksgiving

Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving?

By Arundhati Roy, author of " The God of Small Things" - Booker Prize winner 1997

Speech at the opening Plenary of the World Social Forum in Mumbai on January 16, 2004 - "Another World is Possible"


"Last January thousands of us from across the world gathered in Porto Allegre in Brazil and declared — reiterated — that "Another World is Possible". A few thousand miles north, in Washington, George Bush and his aides were thinking the same thing.

Our project was the World Social Forum. Theirs — to further what many call The Project for the New American Century.

In the great cities of Europe and America, where a few years ago these things would only have been whispered, now people are openly talking about the good side of Imperialism and the need for a strong Empire to police an unruly world. The new missionaries want order at the cost of justice. Discipline at the cost of dignity. And ascendancy at any price. Occasionally some of us are invited to `debate' the issue on `neutral' platforms provided by the corporate media. Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?

In any case, New Imperialism is already upon us. It's a remodelled, streamlined version of what we once knew. For the first time in history, a single Empire with an arsenal of weapons that could obliterate the world in an afternoon has complete, unipolar, economic and military hegemony. It uses different weapons to break open different markets. There isn't a country on God's earth that is not caught in the cross hairs of the American cruise missile and the IMF chequebook. Argentina's the model if you want to be the poster-boy of neoliberal capitalism, Iraq if you're the black sheep.

Poor countries that are geo-politically of strategic value to Empire, or have a `market' of any size, or infrastructure that can be privatized, or, god forbid, natural resources of value — oil, gold, diamonds, cobalt, coal — must do as they're told, or become military targets. Those with the greatest reserves of natural wealth are most at risk. Unless they surrender their resources willingly to the corporate machine, civil unrest will be fomented, or war will be waged. In this new age of Empire, when nothing is as it appears to be, executives of concerned companies are allowed to influence foreign policy decisions. The Centre for Public Integrity in Washington found that nine out of the 30 members of the Defence Policy Board of the U.S. Government were connected to companies that were awarded defence contracts for $ 76 billion between 2001 and 2002. George Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State, was Chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Bechtel Group. When asked about a conflict of interest, in the case of a war in Iraq he said, " I don't know that Bechtel would particularly benefit from it. But if there's work to be done, Bechtel is the type of company that could do it. But nobody looks at it as something you benefit from." After the war, Bechtel signed a $680 million contract for reconstruction in Iraq.

This brutal blueprint has been used over and over again, across Latin America, Africa, Central and South-East Asia. It has cost millions of lives. It goes without saying that every war Empire wages becomes a Just War. This, in large part, is due to the role of the corporate media. It's important to understand that the corporate media doesn't just support the neo-liberal project. It is the neo-liberal project. This is not a moral position it has chosen to take, it's structural. It's intrinsic to the economics of how the mass media works.

Most nations have adequately hideous family secrets. So it isn't often necessary for the media to lie. It's what's emphasised and what's ignored. Say for example India was chosen as the target for a righteous war. The fact that about 80,000 people have been killed in Kashmir since 1989, most of them Muslim, most of them by Indian Security Forces (making the average death toll about 6000 a year); the fact that less than a year ago, in March of 2003, more than two thousand Muslims were murdered on the streets of Gujarat, that women were gang-raped and children were burned alive and a 150,000 people driven from their homes while the police and administration watched, and sometimes actively participated; the fact that no one has been punished for these crimes and the Government that oversaw them was re-elected ... all of this would make perfect headlines in international newspapers in the run-up to war.

Next we know, our cities will be levelled by cruise missiles, our villages fenced in with razor wire, U.S. soldiers will patrol our streets and, Narendra Modi, Pravin Togadia or any of our popular bigots could, like Saddam Hussein, be in U.S. custody, having their hair checked for lice and the fillings in their teeth examined on prime-time TV.

But as long as our `markets' are open, as long as corporations like Enron, Bechtel, Halliburton, Arthur Andersen are given a free hand, our `democratically elected' leaders can fearlessly blur the lines between democracy, majoritarianism and fascism.

Our government's craven willingness to abandon India's proud tradition of being Non-Aligned, its rush to fight its way to the head of the queue of the Completely Aligned (the fashionable phrase is `natural ally' — India, Israel and the U.S. are `natural allies'), has given it the leg room to turn into a repressive regime without compromising its legitimacy.

A government's victims are not only those that it kills and imprisons. Those who are displaced and dispossessed and sentenced to a lifetime of starvation and deprivation must count among them too. Millions of people have been dispossessed by `development' projects. In the past 55 years, Big Dams alone have displaced between 33 million and 55 million people in India. They have no recourse to justice.

In the last two years there has been a series of incidents when police have opened fire on peaceful protestors, most of them Adivasi and Dalit. When it comes to the poor, and in particular Dalit and Adivasi communities, they get killed for encroaching on forest land, and killed when they're trying to protect forest land from encroachments — by dams, mines, steel plants and other `development' projects. In almost every instance in which the police opened fire, the government's strategy has been to say the firing was provoked by an act of violence. Those who have been fired upon are immediately called militants.

Across the country, thousands of innocent people including minors have been arrested under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) and are being held in jail indefinitely and without trial. In the era of the War against Terror, poverty is being slyly conflated with terrorism. In the era of corporate globalisation, poverty is a crime. Protesting against further impoverishment is terrorism. And now, our Supreme Court says that going on strike is a crime. Criticising the court of course is a crime, too. They're sealing the exits.

Like Old Imperialism, New Imperialism too relies for its success on a network of agents — corrupt, local elites who service Empire. We all know the sordid story of Enron in India. The then Maharashtra Government signed a power purchase agreement which gave Enron profits that amounted to sixty per cent of India's entire rural development budget. A single American company was guaranteed a profit equivalent to funds for infrastructural development for about 500 million people!

Unlike in the old days the New Imperialist doesn't need to trudge around the tropics risking malaria or diahorrea or early death. New Imperialism can be conducted on e-mail. The vulgar, hands-on racism of Old Imperialism is outdated. The cornerstone of New Imperialism is New Racism.

The tradition of `turkey pardoning' in the U.S. is a wonderful allegory for New Racism. Every year since 1947, the National Turkey Federation presents the U.S. President with a turkey for Thanksgiving. Every year, in a show of ceremonial magnanimity, the President spares that particular bird (and eats another one). After receiving the presidential pardon, the Chosen One is sent to Frying Pan Park in Virginia to live out its natural life. The rest of the 50 million turkeys raised for Thanksgiving are slaughtered and eaten on Thanksgiving Day. ConAgra Foods, the company that has won the Presidential Turkey contract, says it trains the lucky birds to be sociable, to interact with dignitaries, school children and the press. (Soon they'll even speak English!)

That's how New Racism in the corporate era works. A few carefully bred turkeys — the local elites of various countries, a community of wealthy immigrants, investment bankers, the occasional Colin Powell, or Condoleezza Rice, some singers, some writers (like myself) — are given absolution and a pass to Frying Pan Park. The remaining millions lose their jobs, are evicted from their homes, have their water and electricity connections cut, and die of AIDS. Basically they're for the pot. But the Fortunate Fowls in Frying Pan Park are doing fine. Some of them even work for the IMF and the WTO — so who can accuse those organisations of being anti-turkey? Some serve as board members on the Turkey Choosing Committee — so who can say that turkeys are against Thanksgiving? They participate in it! Who can say the poor are anti-corporate globalisation? There's a stampede to get into Frying Pan Park. So what if most perish on the way?

Part of the project of New Racism is New Genocide. In this new era of economic interdependence, New Genocide can be facilitated by economic sanctions. It means creating conditions that lead to mass death without actually going out and killing people. Dennis Halliday, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Iraq between '97 and '98 (after which he resigned in disgust), used the term genocide to describe the sanctions in Iraq. In Iraq the sanctions outdid Saddam Hussein's best efforts by claiming more than half a million children's lives.

In the new era, Apartheid as formal policy is antiquated and unnecessary. International instruments of trade and finance oversee a complex system of multilateral trade laws and financial agreements that keep the poor in their Bantustans anyway. Its whole purpose is to institutionalise inequity. Why else would it be that the U.S. taxes a garment made by a Bangladeshi manufacturer 20 times more than it taxes a garment made in the U.K.? Why else would it be that countries that grow 90 per cent of the world's cocoa bean produce only 5 per cent of the world's chocolate? Why else would it be that countries that grow cocoa bean, like the Ivory Coast and Ghana, are taxed out of the market if they try and turn it into chocolate? Why else would it be that rich countries that spend over a billion dollars a day on subsidies to farmers demand that poor countries like India withdraw all agricultural subsidies, including subsidised electricity? Why else would it be that after having been plundered by colonising regimes for more than half a century, former colonies are steeped in debt to those same regimes, and repay them some $ 382 billion a year?

For all these reasons, the derailing of trade agreements at Cancun was crucial for us. Though our governments try and take the credit, we know that it was the result of years of struggle by many millions of people in many, many countries. What Cancun taught us is that in order to inflict real damage and force radical change, it is vital for local resistance movements to make international alliances. From Cancun we learned the importance of globalising resistance.

No individual nation can stand up to the project of Corporate Globalisation on its own. Time and again we have seen that when it comes to the neo-liberal project, the heroes of our times are suddenly diminished. Extraordinary, charismatic men, giants in Opposition, when they seize power and become Heads of State, they become powerless on the global stage. I'm thinking here of President Lula of Brazil. Lula was the hero of the World Social Forum last year. This year he's busy implementing IMF guidelines, reducing pension benefits and purging radicals from the Workers' Party. I'm thinking also of ex-President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Within two years of taking office in 1994, his government genuflected with hardly a caveat to the Market God. It instituted a massive programme of privatisation and structural adjustment, which has left millions of people homeless, jobless and without water and electricity.

Why does this happen? There's little point in beating our breasts and feeling betrayed. Lula and Mandela are, by any reckoning, magnificent men. But the moment they cross the floor from the Opposition into Government they become hostage to a spectrum of threats — most malevolent among them the threat of capital flight, which can destroy any government overnight. To imagine that a leader's personal charisma and a c.v. of struggle will dent the Corporate Cartel is to have no understanding of how Capitalism works, or for that matter, how power works. Radical change will not be negotiated by governments; it can only be enforced by people.

This week at the World Social Forum, some of the best minds in the world will exchange ideas about what is happening around us. These conversations refine our vision of the kind of world we're fighting for. It is a vital process that must not be undermined. However, if all our energies are diverted into this process at the cost of real political action, then the WSF, which has played such a crucial role in the Movement for Global Justice, runs the risk of becoming an asset to our enemies. What we need to discuss urgently is strategies of resistance. We need to aim at real targets, wage real battles and inflict real damage. Gandhi's Salt March was not just political theatre. When, in a simple act of defiance, thousands of Indians marched to the sea and made their own salt, they broke the salt tax laws. It was a direct strike at the economic underpinning of the British Empire. It was real. While our movement has won some important victories, we must not allow non-violent resistance to atrophy into ineffectual, feel-good, political theatre. It is a very precious weapon that needs to be constantly honed and re-imagined. It cannot be allowed to become a mere spectacle, a photo opportunity for the media.

It was wonderful that on February 15th last year, in a spectacular display of public morality, 10 million people in five continents marched against the war on Iraq. It was wonderful, but it was not enough. February 15th was a weekend. Nobody had to so much as miss a day of work. Holiday protests don't stop wars. George Bush knows that. The confidence with which he disregarded overwhelming public opinion should be a lesson to us all. Bush believes that Iraq can be occupied and colonised — as Afghanistan has been, as Tibet has been, as Chechnya is being, as East Timor once was and Palestine still is. He thinks that all he has to do is hunker down and wait until a crisis-driven media, having picked this crisis to the bone, drops it and moves on. Soon the carcass will slip off the best-seller charts, and all of us outraged folks will lose interest. Or so he hopes.

This movement of ours needs a major, global victory. It's not good enough to be right. Sometimes, if only in order to test our resolve, it's important to win something. In order to win something, we — all of us gathered here and a little way away at Mumbai Resistance — need to agree on something. That something does not need to be an over-arching pre-ordained ideology into which we force-fit our delightfully factious, argumentative selves. It does not need to be an unquestioning allegiance to one or another form of resistance to the exclusion of everything else. It could be a minimum agenda.

If all of us are indeed against Imperialism and against the project of neo-liberalism, then let's turn our gaze on Iraq. Iraq is the inevitable culmination of both. Plenty of anti-war activists have retreated in confusion since the capture of Saddam Hussein. Isn't the world better off without Saddam Hussein? they ask timidly.

Let's look this thing in the eye once and for all. To applaud the U.S. army's capture of Saddam Hussein and therefore, in retrospect, justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disembowelling the Boston Strangler. And that — after a quarter century partnership in which the Ripping and Strangling was a joint enterprise. It's an in-house quarrel. They're business partners who fell out over a dirty deal. Jack's the CEO.

So if we are against Imperialism, shall we agree that we are against the U.S. occupation and that we believe that the U.S. must withdraw from Iraq and pay reparations to the Iraqi people for the damage that the war has inflicted?

How do we begin to mount our resistance? Let's start with something really small. The issue is not about supporting the resistance in Iraq against the occupation or discussing who exactly constitutes the resistance. (Are they old Killer Ba'athists, are they Islamic Fundamentalists?)

We have to become the global resistance to the occupation.

Our resistance has to begin with a refusal to accept the legitimacy of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. It means acting to make it materially impossible for Empire to achieve its aims. It means soldiers should refuse to fight, reservists should refuse to serve, workers should refuse to load ships and aircraft with weapons. It certainly means that in countries like India and Pakistan we must block the U.S. government's plans to have Indian and Pakistani soldiers sent to Iraq to clean up after them.

I suggest that at a joint closing ceremony of the World Social Forum and Mumbai Resistance, we choose, by some means, two of the major corporations that are profiting from the destruction of Iraq. We could then list every project they are involved in. We could locate their offices in every city and every country across the world. We could go after them. We could shut them down. It's a question of bringing our collective wisdom and experience of past struggles to bear on a single target. It's a question of the desire to win.

The Project For The New American Century seeks to perpetuate inequity and establish American hegemony at any price, even if it's apocalyptic. The World Social Forum demands justice and survival.

For these reasons, we must consider ourselves at war. "

Arundhati Roy

15 Years Ago - CNN (Tokyo) - Nov 20, 1995

US Admiral Richard C. Macke's comments about the rape of a 12 year-old girl by three American servicemen in Okinawa, Japan in September 1995:

" I think it was absolutely stupid. I have said several times: for the price they paid to rent the car used in the crime, they could have had a girl prostitute"

CNN (Tokyo) - November 20, 2010 - "Fired admiral gives public apology"

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/macke_speaks/

More at:
The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson - Nov 21, 2010
by Steve Clemons - "The Washington Note"
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2010/11/the_impact_toda/

20th Anniversary of November Vigil to Close the School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)

Thousands Converge at the gates of Fort Benning for 20th Anniversary of November Vigil to Close the School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), also known as SOA - "The School of Assassins".

Thousands of torture survivors, veterans, faith-based communities, union workers, students, musicians, human rights activists and others from across the Americas are gathered today at the gates of the U.S. military base Fort Benning to call for the closure of the School of the Americas .

During the protest, the names of the torture, rape and murder victims of graduates of the school are read by the participants.


Many of the notorious human rights violators responsible for rape, torture, kidnapping, assassination and disappearance of thousands of people in Latin America and elsewhere were/are graduates of the School of the Americas.

Among them are generals Leopoldo Galtieri, Efraín Ríos Montt and Manuel Noriega, dictators such as Bolivia's Hugo Banzer and many of Augusto Pinochet's officers.

Members of the infamous Atlacatl Battalion of El Salvador who carried out the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador were also trained at SOA.

A database with graduates of both the SOA and WHINSEC who have been accused of human rights violations and other criminal activity is kept by The School of the Americas Watch, an advocacy organization founded by Father Roy Bourgeois and a small group of supporters in 1990 to protest the training of mainly Latin American military officers, by the United States Department of Defense at the School of the Americas (SOA).

SOA Watch conducts a vigil each November at the site of the academy, in protest over the murders, rapes and torture and contraventions of the Geneva Accord committed the graduates of the academy or under their leadership.

Today, November 20, 2010, is the 20th Anniversary of this November Vigil and regardless the well known abuses committed by some of the graduates of the School, it is kept open by the United States and in 2000 the United States Congress renamed the School of the Americas the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC).