Once a Traitor – Always a Traitor!

Putin Backs Bush Victory

Vladimir Putin waded into American election campaign in support of George Bush yesterday, declaring that if Bush lost, it would lead to the "spread of terrorism" around the world. This endorsement was a significant boost for Mr. Bush who has been under fire from John Kerry for failing to maintain international support for the US "war on terror".

"International terrorists have set as their goal inflicting the maximum damage to President Bush, to prevent his election to a second term," the Russian president said at a central Asian summit in Tadjikistan.

"If they succeed in doing that, they will celebrate a victory over America and over the entire anti-terror coalition. In that case, this would give an additional impulse to the international terrorists and to their activities, and could lead to the spread of terrorism to other parts of the world and I will respect any choice made by the American government."

Yesterday’s remarks by Mr. Putin was timely for Mr. Bush, since Bush declared after the first meeting with Putin that he had been able to look into Putin’s soul, and since then the relations have been very close, and both of them portrayed each other as allies in the war on terror.

Belarus and Russia Will Buttress Their Joint Armed Force

Because of the threats from USA, Belarus and Russia are determined to strengthen their armed force contingent, President Lukashenko told the media last October 3, 2004. President Lukashenko deems it very necessary now to revive its military-industrial complex as was the case during Soviet times. The Byelorussian army is well trained, has up-to-date weapons and is battle ready for any eventuality!"

RUSSIAN MAFIOSI WILL BUY CANADIAN STELCO

In Report on Business of the Globe & Mail of Canada that reported on October 14, 2004 the following:

"Russia’s largest and now privately owned steel-maker has emerged as a buyer for Stelco Inc. The Executives headed by Alexei Mordashov of Russian company OAOP Sverstal, one of the world’s richest men, have been making foreign acquisitions.

He is one of about 20 Russian oligarchs, headed by Berezovsky, who have made great fortunes in the Russian industrial-privatization efforts in the 1990’s under Yeltsin, Gorbachev and now under Putin.

According to US Forbes Magazine, Mr. Mordashov is worth over $4.5 billions, putting him at No. 137 among the world’s richest people.

The Massacre in Beslan

The Editor Bob Chapman wrote: "The group that massacred 170 children and 130 adults in Beslan, Russia, was led by CIA operative Shamill Basayev, and he took his orders from abroad…there is no question at all that this is an extension of Anglo-American foreign policy to dismember Russia as we predicted 12 years ago.

Russia has retaliated by demanding that Akhamad Zakayev, now being given sanctuary in London and Ilya Akhmadov now residing in the USA, be turned over to Russia to be charged in planning and conducting the Beslan massacre. In fact Ilya Akhmadov has political asylum in the US and receives a Reagan-Fascell monthly stipend, medical insurance and an office, from which he engages in political circles and informs the US media.

We believe that the UK and US want to drive Russia out of the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus regions - effectively neutering the country. The Beslan event has driven a wedge between Ossetians, Ingushis and Chechens, which is setting the Caucasus aflame. If we are not already in World War III, we are now.

The elitists are fearful that as a retaliatory measure Russia will accept the EUROS for their oil – which Saddam Hussein did and for that and other reasons he was deposed. This of course would destroy the Dollar as a reserve currency.

Once Russia moves to the Euro, and we believe that they will after Beslan, Iran, Venezuela and Indonesia will follow. This would lead to a US and world depression, which is on the away anyway!

The Economist, an elitist mouthpiece of the transnational corporate powers, gave Russia a virtual ultimatum, capitulate on the Caspian oil riches or we will destroy you via inter-ethnic wars. Russia is a victim. How long will it be on its knees before US imperialism?

NATO Planes Reconnoiter Russian Territory

MOSCOW: NATO reconnaissance planes are now very actively reconnoitering Russian territory from many different directions, a source at the Russian Air Force told the Interfax agency.

"NATO planes make up to 400 annual flights over the Baltic and Barents Seas, and over 300 annual flights over the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk", he said.

"Already this year foreign planes have broken the rules of Russia skies 70 times", he said. This includes over 4,000 flights by NATO warplanes and they already tracked about 200,000 Russian targets.

President Lukashenko Reelected Again

Alexander Lukashenko was elected Byelorussian president on July 10, 1995, after gathering more than 80% of the votes. His five-year term was extended to 2001 following the 1996 referendum. He was elected for another 5-year term in 2001 presidential elections.

Russia Hints At New Arms Race

Moscow – The Russian Government has angrily protested a secret deal, revealed last month by "The Independent" newspaper to site US missiles in Britain as part of the Star Wars program. A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, warned that the move would represent a disturbing step in international relations and pose a threat to Russia. This will lead to a new Arms Race.

It was disclosed that Tony Blair of England had privately given President George Bush an agreement in principle to host interceptors in Britain as part of the US ballistic missile defense system. The released official document on missile defense, was by the Secretary of State for Defense, Geoff Hoon, last month.

It is a known fact that the British Government has a history of making sensitive military decisions in secret without consulting or informing the British members of Parliament.

Pro Western Chechens & Dual Policy towards Terrorism

The imperialists of the West demonstrated that when it comes to pro-Western Chechen terrorists there is no crime, even if its the mass murder of over 150 children in Beslan, which is in itself sufficiently brutal to warrant the extradition and trial of those responsible.

Washington and Europe in the past and in the present supported and support terrorist groups in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Chechnya as they supported the terrorist groups in the 1980’s in Nicaragua, Mozambique and Angola.

For Washington, the issue of terror is subordinated to a more basic question: Does it weaken the enemies of its empire? Does it lead to future military bases? Can the terrorist groups be recycled as client regimes?

For the past 13 years the USA and Europe have been instrumental in fomenting separatist movements in former Soviet Union, Russia and Yugoslavia, which practice terror and violence to secure their aims. Putin’s cooperation with Washington in fighting terror against the US supported Al Qaeda has not resulted in reciprocal support for Russian efforts to defeat Western supported terror in the Caucasus. Is Putin serious or is he playing into the hands of Western imperialism?

Finally, one may ask as to why do so many apparent "progressives" and "leftist intellectuals" parrot the US imperialist line of "self determination" for Chechnya? Is it ignorance of the social forces in Chechnya? Do they simply de-contextualize terrorist acts and impose abstract principles of slovenly intellectual habits? Or are they simply bending to pressure by their right-wing colleagues to "consistently support the self-determination" everywhere, whether the majority of the people want it or not?

Whatever the case may be, these pro-imperialist toadies are incurable. Even the midst of the Chechen mass murder of harmless children in Beslan, they blame the Russians for not surrendering to the terrorist demands, as inspired by their Western backers to getting the oil pipeline going through, at any cost, including children. Yes, Putin and the present oligarchs and capitalism is to blame for many things – even their handling of this tragedy, but the question of self-determination as portrayed by Western imperialism and their followers is absolutely just mud slinging to cover the filthy and bloody tracks of US New World Order.

The Soviet people eventually will take to task the Putin government for the crimes and devastation of the Soviet Union. They do not need Uncle Sam to pretend to help them!

A question should be asked if any of these "progressives" who are so eager to blame Russia and the Soviet people for the tragedy in Chechnya, did they condemn Bush after 9/11 for not negotiating and rewarding Osama bin Laden? Of course not! Did these people look into the whole affair of the 9/11 tragedy? Did they question the US Government and its complicity? Of course not! Only a minority of dedicated American patriots did that. These intellectuals supported President Bush’s war on terrorism even if it involved invading and occupying a foreign country!

Where is the logic?

The architect of perestroika, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s reform program in late 1980s, has warned that Russia is in danger of abandoning democracy. "Six years ago, I spoke about how a set back was unavoidable," Alexander Yakovlev told the Los Angeles Times last month, "I meant that there would be a certain stoppage in the movement forward. But I never thought that it would take the shape of a movement backward, of a restoration of what was before. Unfortunately, this is what we are seeing today. And when I was speaking about setbacks, I don’t think one could have forecast beforehand the depth and the size of the current setback."

Yuri Savelyev, a member of the Russian parliamentary commission to investigate the September school hostage tragedy in Beslan, North Ossetia, has said that the probe’s results may be kept secret, Interfax reported. "The truth concerning the true organizers of the terrorist attack might be so horrible that making it public could cause new bloody conflicts." Savelyev said.

Putin forging new links with the Jewish right

From The Russian Journal

By AJAY GOYAL

In 2002 the refusal by the chairman of Russia’s upper house of parliament, Sergei Mironov, to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat during a trip to the Middle East, was at that time the most dramatic display of a shift in policy towards Israel and the Jewish community at home and abroad.

President Putin, to my way of thinking is just another series of messages he has been sending to the Zionist Lobby in Washington. The overall message is that Putin and Russia had broken away from the perceived anti-Semitic policies that the American Zionists associate with the Soviet Union, Tsarism and the Russian Orthodox Church.

Thus President Putin is making shrewd moves aimed at many targets at the same time.

Putin first started hobnobbing with Sharansky – a Soviet-era dissident who emigrated to Israel and was a Cabinet Minister two years ago in Sharon’s Government. Washington press was spoon-fed stories by Putin’s cabinet how Sharansky had been called back to Moscow to a private lunch with President Putin at the inauguration of a large Jewish Community Center in Moscow, while a pro-Kremlin rabbi took over as Russia’s chief rabbi, ousting Gusinsky’s candidate for the post.

MOSCOW TIMES: President Putin said last month that Russia will switch its trade in oil from dollars to Euros, a move that could have far-reaching repercussions for the global balance of power - potentially hurting the US economy and providing a massive boost to the Euro zone.

Almost two-thirds of world’s currency reserves are kept in dollars, since oil importers pay in dollars and oil exporters keep their reserves in the currency they are paid in. This effectively provides the US economy with an interest free loan, as these dollars can be invested back into the US economy. Some analysts say that this move is meant to boost Russia’s global clout on the world stage.

Gaining Control of Russian Oil – Chechnya

After the Beslan tragedy, all the media in the West of course blamed Russia and the Chechen massacre as understandable, natural and legitimate.

During the reign of Chechen leader Djokar Dudayev, while Boris Yeltsin was president, while the West was happily looting the resources of Russia, the Chechens were often described in the Western press as a bunch of bandits and Mafia gangsters, As recently as 2001, indeed, President Bush said that President Putin was a man he could trust. But those events are now in the past, and Russia now is indeed branded as a dictatorship.

Why is USA, at least publicly, turned against Russia regarding Chechnya?

One if the articles spilled the beans in the Western pres. Chechen leader Ahmed Zakayev, wrote in The Wall Street Journal on September 29, 2004 that:

In other words, the "negotiated settlement", which US Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, has strongly instructed the Russian government to seek, is the way to prevent Russia from ever counter-balancing the United States in world affairs, and to get the oil prices down!

Where is the connection here? Chechnya borders on Georgia, and Azerbaijan, who are on the fast track to join NATO. Pushing Russia completely out of the Caucasus requires a victory for the Chechens. Thus an independent Chechnya that US imperialism wants is a first step towards the long-term plan to break up Russia itself. Let us remember that the CIA predicted that the oil-rich Siberia might escape Moscow’s control in its report, called "Global Trends", published in April of this year. The West needs to gain control of the oil in Russia! That is the bottom line.