Relations soaked in violence, lies, half truths, hypocrisy, and
false intent
Editing, re-reporting by
Carolyn Bennett
Sovereign crimes, foreign terror
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| Malala Yousafzai |
International and particularly western governments and news
media made running commentary of a Taliban shooting and attempted assassination
of 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai on October 9, 2012, in Pakistan. Some sources reported
the Taliban’s defense that the teenager’s “fight for education [made] her a
‘tool of imperialism.’”
Feminist activist Monica Hill went beyond the headlines once
they died down.
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ho is to be believed ─ Pakistan’s government, U.S.
imperialism, the Taliban, all of which Malala Yousafzai had openly criticized ─
in this spiraling war of propaganda and bullets, drone attacks and
assassinations? Hill asks.
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| Yemenis protest U.S. assassination drone strikes |
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| Somalis flee U.S. assassination drone strikes |
“The shooting [of Malala Yousafzai] was not just a murderous
assault on a courageous schoolgirl; it was also a grisly product of the U.S. ‘war
on terror’ and a stark exposé of America’s sickening hypocrisy on democracy and
women’s rights and world peace.
“In a victory speech on November 6, 2012, [U.S. President
Barack] Obama said,
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| Pakistanis protest U.S. assassination drone strikes |
‘We want to pass [to our children]
a country … that is defended by the strongest military on Earth … but also a
country that moves with confidence beyond this time of war to shape a peace
that is built on the promise of freedom and dignity for every human being.’
“Hours later,” Hill recalls, “a U.S. assassination drone killed
three alleged terrorists in Yemen.” Still in campaign mode, the U.S. president
seemed to have been saying “… I approve this bombing.”
Perpetual wars have no “beyond this time”
“The leaders of Yemen as of Pakistan and Somalia are all now
hosting undeclared wars by the United States with its deadly Predator drones,”
Hill reports. “The kill list of ‘terrorists’ is put together by national
security personnel and signed off, personally,” by a Nobel Peace Prize winning head
of state. Echoing Palestinian poet, Remi Kanazi, Hill quotes: “My name is
Barack Obama and I approve this bombing.”
Reaching back to the Soviet-era Afghanistan, Pakistan’s
state apparatus has been entwined with Islamic fundamentalists in both
countries, she says, and the United States nurtured and funded the Taliban — “so
much for the myth that the United States is bringing secular democracy and women’s equality
to the Middle East.”
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oday in Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey’s Pravda Ru, article “The
stupidity of U.S. Foreign Policy,” he writes: “There can be no doubt that in
2012, the foreign policy of the United States of America is no longer based
upon diplomacy, but rather, skullduggery, bullying, blackmail, belligerence,
interference, supporting terrorists and breaching every norm in the book of
international law.... a demonic list which forms the political epitaph of
Hillary Clinton.”
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey’s article comes as the U.S. government
along with France and Britain recognizes a faction in Syria [possibly a
creation of the West], not the sovereign government but violent opposition of Syria, as the “legitimate representative” for purposes of foreign relations. In light of this, Hinchey poses a series of
questions to the United States and the current head of state in Washington. “Why, in Syria, is the United States of
America recognizing terrorists?
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| President Bashar al-Assad Sovereign leader Syria: Unitary semi-presidential constitutional republic |
Does
President Obama not know that the ‘legitimate representative’ he supports has
been responsible for the murder of thousands of people?
Does
President Obama not know that his ‘legitimate representative’ has committed
unspeakable and demonic acts of torture, kidnapping, summary executions and
sodomy?
Does
President Obama not know that his ‘legitimate representative’ attacked a school
recently with military hardware?
Does
President Obama not know that his ‘legitimate representative’ today launched a
terrorist attack in the center of Damascus?
Does
President Obama not know that his ‘legitimate representative’ is conducting
abductions and kidnappings and asking for ransom to finance its evil deeds?
Only a sovereign people
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ill continues her article “Of drones and little girls”
“The workers and peasants of Pakistan are perfectly capable
of dealing with their Taliban but that task “will remain a daunting one as long
as the people remain under siege by U.S. drone missiles and other predators of Pakistan.”
Quoting Malala Yousafzai before the attack on her, Hill writes: “‘If the new
generation is not given pens, they will be given guns by the terrorists.’”
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| Yemeni Women protest |
Only a sovereign people, independent, self-governing,
self-determining people, themselves can bring and sustain the government, the
society, the rights they require.
“Forty-four years ago,” Hill recalls, “Pakistanis, with women at the forefront, launched a stunning revolution.
They forced a dictator to abdicate and ran society for more than four months
Workers occupied factories
Peasants seized land
Students took over schools and colleges.
Sources and notes
“Of drones and little girls” (Monica Hill, SOAPBOX at
Freedom Socialist: voice of revolutionary feminism newsletter Vol. 33, No. 6),
December 2012,
http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/2068
Referenced in Hill article: Background international
headlined continuous story: Taliban shooter tries to assassinate 15-year-old
Malala Yousafzai on October 9, 2012, in Pakistan
Monica Hill is a frequent commentator on the Middle East.
Email her at fsnews@mindspring.com.
A 1990 Los Angeles Times’ article “Radical Women Return to
the Barricades of the Left: Ideology: Socialist feminist group demands free
child care, draft for women, abortions” (February 22, 1990, Beverly Beyette,
Times Staff Writer) contained this Monica Hill biographical note.
Monica Hill, a Los Angeles legal
secretary who helped found Los Angeles Radical Women… describes herself as ‘a
full-time revolutionary, after 5 o’clock.’
She was quoted saying “‘we are thrilled with what’s
happening in Eastern Europe.’ Radical Women do not equate Democracy with
capitalism; rather, they believe that true socialism is ‘intrinsically
democratic’ and her radical sisters are not buying the idea that the people of
Eastern Europe are yearning for capitalism, American-style. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-02-22/news/vw-1785_1_radical-women
Another source byline shows Monica Hill of Seattle Washington
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Journalist Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey is director of PRAVDA.Ru
Portuguese version and MoscowTopNews.com; editor of the English version of the
Russian online journal Pravda.Ru and director and chief editor of the
Portuguese version, which serves simultaneously as an online news resource
linking Russia with the eight Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)
and as a source of news among the CPLP member states.
http://www.xing.com/net/moscow/please-introduce-yourself-stellen-sie-sich-bitte-vor-3976/hi-i-am-timothy-bancroft-hinchey-director-of-pravda-ru-portuguese-version-and-moscowtopnews-com-23645307/23645307/#23645307
“The stupidity of U.S. Foreign Policy” (Timothy
Bancroft-Hinchey, Pravda.Ru), December 12, 2012, http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/12-12-2012/123145-stupidity_us_po
licy-0/
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