It was this morning that I was listening to NPR, the so called “liberal” radio
station. I guess it is liberal at times. But if the far-right and liberals have
one thing in common, it is red bating. For example an NPR described China under the Maoist years as a “totalitarian
economic basket Case.” Of course he didn’t call present day China as a
totalitarian society. He went on to explain that China needs to be more like
the west to become a major economic player.
That’s not the first right-wing comment I’ve hear by liberal NPR. They were giving a lot of positive
coverage of the Free Syrian Army some time ago. Many of us see them as agents
of imperialism.
Then there is the Huffington
Post. This is what they had to say about the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist) and their attempt to return to their revolutionary roots and
boycotting the present election system in Nepal;
A small faction of the
Maoist party is hell-bent on creating chaos and disrupting the election. Nepali
media is reporting sporadic episodes of attack on candidates and
obstruction to campaigns all over the country. Nepali Congress, the United
Marxist-Leftist (UMP) and the United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will
dominate the seats in the Assembly.
And soon we have Veteran’s Day and I’ve already had to
overhear a teacher, in this place I am working, telling his students, “A
soldier just died. They are out there defending you while you sleep at night.”
It was enough to make me puke. On the TV this morning there
was a whole episode on the morning news about families being re-united with
their military loved ones as they return (from defending the empire).
So it was a welcome relief to see the following articles
written about the revolution in Nepal, published in Kasama Project;
By Mike Ely
In our world, it is rare that defiance
overruns despair.
The spread of
revolutionary dreams among the planet's poorest people is a precious and
welcome development. And the poor of Nepal have such dreams. The large
revolutionary movement in Nepal, one of the world’s poorest countries, is
almost unknown in the U.S. It is invisible in the world’s mainstream news
reporting. It is treated as unimportant, marginal and even (most unfair of all)
as "terrorist."We ask you to take a moment to learn about it. We ask
you to help spread the word. Millions of people in Nepal have sacrificed for
radical change – acting together in waves of uprisings across the last twenty
years.
Click here
for the rest.
And;
By Gorki
The people of Nepal
are speaking up - the Nepalese communists have a right to boycott their
country's thoroughly bourgeois elections. Nepal is at a crossroads: it can
either take the capitalist road or the socialist road; one leads to continuing
misery and exploitation of the Nepalese people by the first world (and, it can
be said, India), while the other will lead to new forms of popular
representation and a renewed movement to finally rid Nepal of its rampant
corruption and inequality under capitalism.
Click
here for the rest.
So in the US—especially in such places as Wichita—we
endure tons of right-wing propaganda that is excruciatingly dull, boring and
just plan annoying.
I have many friends in this town who are either liberals
or democratic socialists. We are friends and we get along, especially on such
issues as abortion. However, their ideology and their establishment proponents
can become our enemies. We get disgusted and depressed over a system that rolls
over us and squashes us like a bug. My friends and I have an agreement to
disagree.
And the revolution in Nepal gives people as I real hope
for change somewhere in the world. In a world gone mad, this is the best we
ever had or as Mao(毛泽东) said; “Combat Liberalism.”
-សតិវ អតុ
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