The Revolution Cannot Lie

A war was declared in Africa on Christmas Day, 2006, in a festival of lying spin. A little conversational research suggests that this war may nevertheless be acceptable among the ruling classes in South Africa. See the link below for a report of the declaration by Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. “Cheka leo, kesho utalia” is a Kiswahili proverb meaning “Laugh today, tomorrow you will cry”. Meles Zenawi may meet the same fate as Louis Bonaparte in 1871 and many others since. Those who start gratuitous wars can be destroyed by the same wars. The US spooks call this effect “blowback”. It is not true that the African Union (AU) has declared war on Somalia. The AU is calling for a ceasefire. But the AU is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and its words are being processed through the war-spin machine Salim Lone puts the record straight. He writes for the Daily Nation in Nairobi, but in this case the article comes via the International Herald Tribune. See the second link below. The Somali people had begun to get their act together and had kicked out their gangsters. So the US and the whole Imperial spin machine teamed up with the same gangsters (whom they had previously affected to despise). This is a coalition of liars who are not a government and have never been one. They are just a peg to hang a war on. Raul Castro says, “The revolution cannot lie”. See the third linked article below. Although this article comes from anti-communists who like to present things backwards, a lot of truth still shines through. Lastly, the CU brings a fine account of a Jeep trip with Fidel Castro long ago, in the mountains where battles had been fought at a still earlier time, by Fidel and his comrades, and by earlier Cuban revolutionaries, including those who first fought against the Spanish conquerors five centuries before. Revolutionaries are not saints. They are human. But they are distinguished by a love of the truth. Click on these links: Ethiopia declares war on Somalia, SAPA, IOL (221 words) In Somalia, a reckless U.S. proxy war, Salim Lone, Intl Herald Trib (675 words) Raul Castro gives a taste of his frank style, Taipei Times (790 words) A Jeep Trip with Fidel, Saul Landau, Counterpunch (2921 words)