Ask yourself: Which country in the world, from its beginning to the present time, has the bloodiest history of genocide… slavery… invasions… coups, installing and backing brutal regimes… bombings… massacres and mass destruction—including the use of nuclear weapons?
Yes… when it comes to terror within its borders and around the world…
- Rain of Terror
By Abiodun Oyewole - Selected Crimes of a Global Terrorist
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What we see in contention here with Jihad on the one hand and McWorld/McCrusade on the other hand, are historically outmoded strata among colonized and oppressed humanity up against historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system. These two reactionary poles reinforce each other, even while opposing each other. If you side with either of these "outmodeds," you end up strengthening both.
While this is a very important formulation and is crucial to understanding much of the dynamics driving things in the world in this period, at the same time we do have to be clear about which of these "historically outmodeds" has done the greater damage and poses the greater threat to humanity: It is the historically outmoded ruling strata of the imperialist system, and in particular the U.S. imperialists.
Bob Avakian, BAsics 1:28
This article originally appeared on revcom.us.
Americans need to wake up to the real meaning of the new world order.
It’s becoming more apparent that our government, is morphing America into a police state dictitorial society.
What Americans need to realize is that at a time when America is the most powerful country on the planet is a time when we the American people should have absolutely nothing to fear.