of George Salzman, Prof Emeritus, Physics Dept, Univ of Massachusetts at Boston
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Small old fire extinguishers can only provide a little relief. That's welcome enough, but they can't put out the raging fires of global warfare -- unless enough of us join the struggle! |
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A recent shock by Israel Shamir incited me to do this piece. Israel's essay begins, "Racial theorist Prof Kevin MacDonald has written a piece about film director Roman Polansky's recent arrest: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Polanski.html#KM. As you might expect, KMD has discovered that Polansky is not condemned by Hollywood because he is a Jew, and Jews protect their own. They also like Polansky because his films and his actions have undermined the Whites' morals and values. Life is simple for Prof MacDonald" . . . To see entire item (even though it's incomplete), (htm).
The Privileged and the Pillaged — Changing History, 2 , posted 13 October 2009.
Taking oneself seriously is a hell of an impediment to having fun, supposedly necessary for one's mental health. I believe it is important. At the very least one needs some diversion. So I thought I'd try some light reading. As it happens, Nancy was a student of literature at Swarthmore College. Her ancient copy of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Don Quixote de la Mancha was at hand, a bit of classical literary culture for a change of pace, I thought . . . To see entire item (even though it's incomplete), (htm).
John Ross, a feet-on-the-ground struggler for human rights and decency, (begun 5 August 2009), posted 9 September 2009.
Building circles of trust and communication. In a small community, if the social evironment is a healthy one, it may be that practically everyone knows everybody else. That was the situation I observed in San Pedro, Cántaros when I visited during three days in September 2008 with Jonathan Treat and his class from the School for International Training . . . To see entire item (even though it's incomplete), (htm).
Alan Hart, a new friend and ally on the need to ‘sacrifice’, 5 August 2009, posted 9 September 2009.
Building circles of trust and communication. The world today, as we all know, is one of lying and deceit throughout the public domain. This condition makes it extremely difficult to know what is actually going on. It serves the interests of the elites who are better able to maniplate the population at large. Governments and mega-corporations employ the services of 'public relations' and 'legal' firms for the express purpose of generating disinformation campaigns -- supposedly within the limits allowed by law -- to confuse and mislead the general public. We who want to know the truth need all the allies we can get. Alan Hart is one such person . . . To see entire item, (htm). To see extra Notes on a separate page, (extra Notes).
Changing History, 1, 5 September 2009.
Of course one can't change what has happened in the past. One can only wish it had been different. What's done is done. But for the present and the future, we do have choices. This paper is the start of an effort to discover how we, the entire human species, can maximize our chances for robust humane survival here on the earth.
I know that many people, who like to think of themselves as "realists", will dismiss my ideas as "mere utopian dreams". Yet many of them don't hesitate to acknowledge that they think the world is headed towards catastrophe, that their own children and grandchildren will inherit at most a dismally ravaged biosphere, one in which the human species might be threatened with a degree of decimation not so different from the near extinction of many other species in this era of massive global capitalism through which we now are living . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Another dimension — indigenous! Seeking a true civilization, 3 Sept 2009.
Our greatest, most urgent collective challenge is to change in a very deep way the system of values that guides human behavior throughout the world. I see such a change as absolutely crucial if humanity is to have even a chance of surviving in conditions that allow lives worth living for our children and grandchildren, or as the American Indians would put it, to the seventh generation.
Albert Einstein wasn't always right, but here he saw the heart of our deepest problem: "A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty . . . We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive." [emphasis added by G.S.] . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Young woman stirs new life in old professor (emeritus). joys of past rediscovered, 30 Aug 2009.
More excitement in my life! It all happened like this. Nancy and I have been riding the surf of rebellion and repression in Mexico, in particular here in Oaxaca where we live and where the crests and troughs of violence at times seemed almost about to engulf us. Well, three months ago I got an uninvited message from Susie, a woman who's a good two decades my junior in age. Just out of the blue it seemed, she said she would be honored to have me speak on her live radio program. As is well known, flattery will get you everywhere . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Straight talk #7, Randolph S. Selig, Esq.-'smart-ass' NY City Jewish lawyer. Specialty - lying for Zionism, 18 Aug 2009.
Unknown to me initially, after my posting of 5 June 2009, "Straight talk with Israel Shamir" came to Selig's attention, he forwarded it on 6 June to Michael Santomauro, editor of the Reporters Notebook website. The following day Santomauro forwarded Selig's gratuitous lies to me without comment: "There is no 'George Salzman' listed in UMass-Boston's faculty and staff directory. But then, the name 'Israel Shamir' is itself fictitious. Don't you feel foolish, taken in, suckered?". . . To see entire item, (htm).
Straight talk #6, Open Letter to Prime Minister Blair: Doing a Northern Ireland in the Middle East, by Alan Hart, 15 Aug 2009.
Alan Hart has a remarkably rich assembly of work on the global impact of Zionism. He is an unusually outspoken British Gentile committed to telling it like it is. The opening page of his site is at http://www.alanhart.net/. It's well worth visiting and watching the world-class interviews, each about a half hour -- really one-on-one conversations -- that Hart has posted along with a great deal of his written material. The importance of his work is also attested by the vigorous efforts of the Zionist network to prevent publication of his book and to defame him . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Straight talk #5, How many voters does it take to change a light bulb? None. Because voters can't change anything, 7 Aug 2009.
Although I couldn't refrain from titling this note with the anarchists' scornful little 'joke' about the social impotence of all the faithful ballot-casters who doggedly cling to the liberal myth that voting and representative democracy are not to be questioned, the truth is that this note is really "Straight talk #5, being truly human", a continuation of the discussion/debate associated with Israel Shamir. Time is running out -- time to do the basic thinking and acting we need to do . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Straight talk #4, overcoming ethnicity, no joke. It can serve deadly ends, 12 July 2009.
Adolph Hitler was fixated on ethnicity. STOP! Before you read this essay, please see what my trusted friend Gordon Arnaut said, urging me not to post it. He wrote in part . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Straight talk #3, overcoming being Jewish, no joke, 26 June 2009.
Yet another truth-teller. James Petras is one of the most prolific, straightforward analysts I'm aware of. His sharp, critical, widely informed mind and his unwillingness to say gently what he thinks should be screamed makes him particularly useful to me, even when I don't totally agree with him. His range is truly global, and although I can't read everything he publishes -- there's just too much for me -- I rely heavily on his work.
A recent e-mail 'joke' about Obama shows ethnic racism as an unconscious characteristic of the Jewish subculture. It was forwarded to me with the note: Maybe not for posting - but for some fun. Here's the 'joke', offered to a selected group for some 'insider' fun . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Straight talk #2, with Shamir and others, 15 June 2009.
The e-mails have been coming in like crazy -- I haven't even been able to sort them, let alone respond and prepare this follow-up post. But it's clear there's lots of interest. Many people who want to fix the world. And who are fed up with all the lying and coverup efforts of the Israeli and U.S. governments. Not to speak of other governments and of course of so-called 'international organizations', like the United Nations, which was set up to be dominated by the 'big powers' . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Straight talk #1 with Israel Shamir , 5 June 2009.
A few weeks ago I'd never heard of Israel Shamir. Somehow or other his name came up, prompting a Google search. It quickly became clear that he was reviled by some of the most despicable of Israel's apologists. Which whetted my interest in learning more about him. So I wrote a letter, the first one, which follows the figure caption, on 24 May 2009. Much to my surprise, and pleasure, Shamir wrote back the same day (the 25th in Israel-Palestine), and so our exchage was under way . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Weavers of the fabric of truth: Dahr Jamail, John Pilger, Mohammed Omer, 30 May 2009
Telling the truth has always involved some risk. At the least, friends might be offended. At worst, as is ongoing now for some years here in Mexico, reporters have clearly been assassinated because they have told truths that expose terrible acts by powerful people. Why do I think each of these three people can be believed to tell the truth? Why am I so ready to dismiss statements by politicians -- of whatever nationality -- or by other journalists if their statements are contradicted by Jamail, Pilger, or Omer? The answer is simple. I have come to trust these three people for their integrity, their honesty. That doesn't mean I think they are invariably correct. Like all humans, they are fallible, and should be listened to critically. . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Zionist censorship at colleges and universities: U of Ottawa, Canada; U of Cal at Santa Barbara; De Paul Univ, Chicago; Bard College, NY State; Clark U, Worcester, Mass, 12 May 2009
I first became 'actively aware' of the strenuous effort of Zionist groups in North America to suppress open public discussion of Israeli policy in universities about two years ago from an e-mail sent by a friend in Egypt. That involved a campaign which successfully prevented Norman G. Finkelstein from gaining his well-deserved tenure at De Paul University in Chicago. Since then there has been no shortage of attacks on uncensored discussion in Canadian and U.S. colleges and universities. A particularly fierce instance of this widespread drive is the recent firing of a long-time tenured physics professor by the University of Ottawa . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Standing tough for truth, Norman G. Finkelstein Into my pantheon of truth-tellers he goes, 22 April 2009
I keep saying, Stop talking to Jews. The way to stop the Israeli Nazis from continuing their conquest of the Palestinians is to talk to the overwhelming majority of non-Jewish Americans, to spread a profound awareness in this population group of how they are being made to sacrifice their own well-being, and thousands of them their very lives, in support of the U.S. imperial project to control the world and concurrently, the Zionist conquest of the so-called 'Holy Land'. What's holy about the 'Holy Land'? Any indigenous person who hasn't been totally brainwashed by one of the pompous self-declared three 'great' monotheistic religions knows the answer: 'all land is holy'. It is where every living creature exists. Without it there could be no life." . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Israelis systematically terrorizing school children an appeal from the South Hebron Hills, Occupied Territory, 16 April 2009
Ehud Krinis is one of those Israeli Jews who acts in anarchist fashion by working together with nomads, Palestinian Bedouins, in direct action. They are struggling against Israeli efforts to drive them from their land by wrecking their homes and preventing their sheep from grazing in their traditional areas, and, as added 'incentive', by attacking their school children. . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Israeli Zionist Nazi culture a report from Rabbis for Human Rights, 15 April 2009
Noga Eitan is a spokeswoman for the Israeli group Rabbis for Human Rights. She wrote about the conversation she heard between soldiers on a train in Israel the evening before the start of the Jewish high holidays, the days of Passover (seven in Israel, eight in the Diaspora). The executive director of the group, Rabbi Arik W. Ascherman, says in his introductory statement on the conversation Noga reports, "It is not quite as awful as the 'disproved' incidents alleged by the soldiers from the Rabin Academy, but awful enough". . . . To see entire item, (htm).
On being human – inspired by David Shulman , 12 April 2009
I'm interrupting myself, temporarily setting aside my rereading of the terrifying chapter in Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilization in which he writes about the unbelievable atrocities against Algerians carried out by Algerians 'in the name of God'. It's a mammoth chapter (pp. 631-719) that horrified me some years ago when I first read it, because of the supposedly 'principled' killing of children. I love children. To me they are sacred, all of them, regardless of the ethnicities and nationalities that society forces on them. This note is different from my usual stuff — nothing about capitalism, socialism, competition, greed — just about love, real love. . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Doing away with the Zionist state of Israel, an earned fate, 24 Jan 2009.
I start from the basic assumption that the entire Zionist project to plant a Jewish nation-state in the land of Palestine was illegitimate from its inception, based, as we know, on the premise that the land would be taken from its indigenous population, a conquest to be rationalized on grounds of ancient history and religious dogma, and to be achieved by serving the imperial interests of major Western nations . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Jews – a blight on human society? That was Hitler's view , 29 December 2008
A letter yesterday from a psychologist to a friend of mine, which he forwarded to me, shows that Hitler's conviction is not dead, and ought to cause especially Jews, but really everyone, to ponder the horrific mass murder of Gazans. I am circulating part of the letter because I believe it probably mirrors the views of many many millions, maybe even a majority of the world's peoples. If that is so, the idea that Jews (or any particuar ethnic group) are genetically irrevocably incorregible murderers should not be taken lightly . . . To see entire item, (htm).
An open letter to Mazin Qumsiyeh, 15 Dec 2008, posted 11 Jan 2009.
Dear Mazin, Today is 11 January, 15 days since the aerial bombing of Gaza began and the 8th day since Israeli ground troops attacked in a massive invasion. I am adding to my open letter an ‘iconic photograph’. . . To see entire item, (htm).
Looking for a way towards civilization II, 5th Aug to __th Sept, 2008, not really completed but posted nevertheless, on 11 January 2009, with the completion of the discussion to await part III.
An affirmation, and a suggested credo for civilization [1] WE Americans know that we are not born to kill ― that our newborns are as beautiful and rich in potentialities for having lives of love and mutual respect as any other peoples in the world. We know they don't have to be turned into torturers, murderers, pillagers, psychologically deformed souls. It is up to us, we mature folks, to stop the carnage of a suicidal national government bent on global dominance — a crazed government driving them to slaughter their victims and to face their own maiming and death, and killing the spirits of billions of humans. It is up to us to make of America a land of life and love and not of death and destruction. . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Looking for a way towards civilization I, 9th to 27th July, posted 27 July 2008
. . . there is an almost totally unrecognized though not hidden hand of history that drives humanity, that drove it into the First World War – the first of a seemingly interminable series of wars – and that is today driving the entire human species over the cliff into the abyss of Armageddon. It is within our rational ability to recognize this hand and to abruptly change course from ongoing disaster to . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Murdering children is unforgivable, 29 April to 13 June, posted 13 June 2008
Murdering children – in fact murdering anyone, but especially children – is equally unacceptable to me whether done by German Nazis of the Third Reich...One simply does not kill children if one is to be a humane being.
There are three parts to this note.
Khalid Amyreh’s message to the Jews.
A statement by G.S. to Jews and non-Jews
A strategy for defeating the Zionist conquest . . . To see entire item, (htm).
The source of threats to us all, Power, money and lying in the era of information, 29 April 2008
In an earlier note I provocatively asserted Israelis conform to Hitler’s prediction. and asked, Why are so many Jews acting as Hitler said they would? The answer, also surely shocking to many, is that Jews are fundamentally no different than any other ethnic group. Of course every ethnic group . . . To see entire item, (htm).
The source of threats to journalists, 14 April 2008, posted in English y en español 25 April 2008
The additional tragic murders of two young indigenous Triqui women, community radio reporters on 7 April served to highlight the ongoing threats and killings of honest reporters by the state-allied and protected corrupt forces determined to maintain a brutal, fascist regime. . . . To see item, with several minor arithmetic errors in an earlier posting corrected, (htm).
Lying for a living, corporate ‘news’, 12 April 2008
Day in and day out, it seems that each issue of the daily newspaper NOTICIAS: VOZ E IMAGEN DE OAXACA documents its quota of grisly murders, robberies, executions, and kidnappings, usually made more dramatic by accompanying color photographs. A week ago . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Israelis conform to Hitler's prediction, 23 February 2008
Fundamental to Hitler's beliefs is the concept of the Jews being a race, a nation, a people apart from all other peoples, separated by ineradicable biological differences. He thought that blood was basic in determining the cultural and civilizational potentialities of a people, and that mixing of the blood — loss of racial purity — was a surefire disaster for the initially superior race. He was obsessed with vitriolic hatred of Jews . . . To see entire item, (htm).
Fighting against keeping us ignorant, 20 February 2008, posted 22 February 2008
One of the most important web sites in recent months has been Wikileaks.org. Created by several brave journalists committed to transparency, Wikileaks has published important leaked documents, such as the Rules of Engagement for Iraq [see my The Secret Rules of Engagement in Iraq], the 2003 and 2004 Guantanamo Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures, and evidence of major bank fraud in . . . To see entire item, (htm).