Im Jahre 1922, zwei Jahre nach dem Sieg im Bürgerkrieg und kurz vor einem Schlaganfall, der ihn für immer aus der Politik schleuderte, forderte Lenin vom Volkskommissar für Justizwesen, Dmitri Kurski: „Meiner Meinung nach muss man die Verhängung der Todesstrafe (ersatzweise Ausweisung ins Ausland) auf alle Betätigungsfelder der Menschewiki, Sozialrevolutionäre usw. erweitern. Man muss eine Formulierung finden, die derartige Taten in Zusammenhang mit der internationalen Bourgeoisie und deren Kampf gegen uns bringt.“ Er legte einen Gesetzentwurf bei, in dem er nicht von Todesstrafe, sondern von „ Anwendung der Erschießung“ sprach. Das Gesetz solle „den Terror nicht beseitigen – das zu versprechen, wäre Selbstbetrug oder Betrug –, sondern ihn prinzipiell, klar, ohne Falsch und ohne Schminke begründen und […] verankern. Die Formulierung muss so weitgefasst wie möglich sein, denn nur das revolutionäre Rechtsbewusstsein und das revolutionäre Gewissen legen die Bedingungen fest für die mehr oder minder breite Anwendung in der Praxis.
http://das-blaettchen.de/2013/03/stalin-der-sieger-23131.html

(Jordan B Peterson) “I was in Australia in mid-March of 2018, speaking in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. While I was there, I had the privilege of speaking to former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnandersonao/), who is described accurately on Wikipedia as “handsome, well-educated and well-spoken.” Mr. Anderson introduced one of my Australian lectures. We also had the opportunity to talk together for a few hours, and to complete this interview. We discussed many things – responsibility, freedom, meaning in life, the polarization of viewpoints in the West, the ideological use of language and identity politics. “

The Situation In Syria Is NOT Complicated — Here’s What You Need To Know


Caitlin Johnstone
A lot of lefties don’t understand why so many of Trump’s supporters have been turning against him after the Syrian cruise missile strikes against a Syrian air base; there’s an assumption in liberal and progressive circles that all Trumpsters want war and bloodshed. Nothing could be further from the truth; much of Trump’s support came from people who are sick of America’s regime change interventions and wanted a Commander-in-Chief who’ll leave Assad alone and stop funding the terror groups trying to get rid of him. Trump has been saying since 2013 that America should stay out of Syria, while Clinton was advocating a no-fly zone that top military officials attest would have necessitated a war with both Syria and Russia. A lot of Trump’s support came from people who wanted to avoid more senseless war, and now here he is less than three months into his presidency committing an act of war upon the government that is fighting the terrorists in response to what was almost certainly a false flag.

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Lastly, and with all due respect, please mind your own goddamn business, America. It is none of your business which proposed pipeline the Syrian government prefers. It is none of your business what alliances the Syrian government makes. It is none of your business if Syria’s leader is a dictator or a saint. You do not get to decide what a sovereign nation does with itself. That is not your place.

So don’t let the talking heads on TV dupe you into thinking that “doing nothing about Assad” is some sort of strange suggestion. Tom Ritchford said it best when describing US foreign policy:

“Imagine you have a friend who makes a habit of announcing that people are sick, and then performing surgery on them.

While your friend does have the world’s largest collection of surgical tools, it uniformly works out badly for his patients. Always the surgery turns out worse than the disease, and much of the time it turns out that the patient wasn’t even sick to start with — because your friend has no interest in doing diagnoses or really any form of medicine except surgery.

Now your friend has announced that someone else is sick, and a few minutes later has them strapped to the operating table and is preparing the knives. But when you justifiably express dismay, you are accused of wanting to “sit back and do nothing”.”

It doesn’t work that way, America. You don’t get to decide who is sick and who needs surgery. That is not your place. Yes, it is that simple. No, it is not complicated.