some Questions for readers.

national | miscellaneous | news report Sunday January 05, 2003 19:27 by iosaf iosaf at email dot com barcelona. 0034679708674

i really think you should answer these.

does anyone have a Che Guevara poster / badge / button or flag?

Yesterday two protesters were buried and 34 reported injured in Caracas.
Venezuela where Capitalism in the name of Oil is facing the Poor in the form of the hungry once more.
A Woman´s dead body in a mortuary draped in a Venezuelan flag and a red flag with Che Guevara upon it.

Questions:

Are the Irish only interested in Iraq because of Shannon?
Do the Irish swap speculation on when the "war against Iraq will start" as some type of current affairs trivia?
Do the Irish worry about Iraq becuase of some type of kinship?
Do Irish families have relatives or friends in Iraq?
Did Irish aid workers priest and nuns go to Iraq?
Did Irish militant nationalists go to Iraq?
Do Irish activists spend hours pouring over the anglo-american propaganda relating to Iraq, because they are supposed to?
-because it is current affairs trivia?

Last year in a round-up I wrote to you all saying that 2 million people were on the streets of Venezuela "on unspecified blocks".
meaning that one could not safely declare ther political orientation.
That was September last.

This week 2 million barrels of Oil arrived from Brazil to Venezuela to keep essential services up and running.
In an ideal world that would be one barrel of Oil at a cost of 32$ for every two hundred people.
In an ideal world that would be a few litres of Oil for each family.
In an ideal world that would mean continuing transit of food from the countryside to the cities, continued electricity generation in provincial hospitals and schools.

It is not an ideal world.
There are no provinvcial hospitals or schools.

We live in a world where daily TV, radio and print debate in Ireland is centred upon Iraq.

I am not attempting to downplay Iraq, but I really believe that Ireland and the world is being distracted from the very real conflict at heart of the last two years political development in South America.

In the bolivarian republics and Argentina.
In Colombia ---- oh no the Irish don´t want to get involved there.
In Venezeula----- oh no nothing the Irish can do there.
in Brazil------oh look at Lulu he´s backed by the rich.
in Argentina----oh terrible really terrible but what can we do?

Tomorrow morning Ireland will awake to the Iraq debate in print, here in indymedia and on radio.
Ireland will awake with fresh coffee, chocolate bars, some will spice their business days with cocaine.

Meanwhile in Bogota and Caracas children will go on walking the streets with bags of glue in one hand and their souls for sale in the other.

These children are uncounted.
these children are having children of their own.

What does the Bolivarian revolution mean?
co-operation accross south america?
co-operation between trade unionists and socialists anarchists and communists?
a form of nationalist identity which transcends ethnic type?

What does a protester lying under a Che flag mean?

What does President Uribe of Colombia mean when he says "we shall continue without "clandestinadad but descretion".

What does a peace process between Uribe and FARC mean? this week a guerrila hospital in Colombia is bombed by the government, and then the government finds and releases hostages of the same guerillas. Two facts of War, but only one reaches your newspapers.
What does that mean?
can anyone tell me?

What does the presence of those children in Bogota with glue and amly nitrate bottles in their hands mean?

What does coffee on your table mean?
What does chocolate mean?

Yes go on worrying about operation desertstorm the sequel.
write about it.
troll through the internet and post conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory.
write about NATO.
write about the UN.
write about the victims of WAR.
assemble mothers and young women in the freezing cold to stop the "WAR".

I believe in the World War 4 analogy.
that the end of the cold war was really the end of the third world war, fought between centralised state communism and western capitalism by proxy on a global stage.
A conflict which ended with global hegomany for western capitalism, the start of the fourth world war, between multi-national-corporations and their agents, governments, armies for hire, and the poor.

Between police and soldiers one month after a "trade union" decides to stop a country to oust a democratically elected president (Chavez).

This week I don´t give you links, I don´t give you photographs, I don´t ask why Irish fishermen resent gallician fishing vessels in the "Irish box", the Oil is stretched across 400 km of French coastline now, no, I don´t ask Ireland what are her priorities.
Because everyday I see the papers, indymedia, the radio and TV listings and I know.

THERE IS A WAR HAPPENING NOW:
i´m so sorry it is not so neat and tidy.
I´m so sorry it is not clearly defined.
one little set of plastic tanks and flags on a map heading towards Baghdad.
-do you think you will ever verify any aspect of the Iraqi conflict from 1991 to today?
-do you really at heat care?
-oh it´s about Oil!
yes and so too is South America.
South America is the battle ground between the West and the Poor.
and it is so difficult to understand that I would have thought the intelligent people who read and post to this website would have tried by now to explain and investigate what is happening.
yet since my article of September last, only 11 articles have appeared on this newswire by only five authors.

Solidarity?

coffee, oil, gas, cocaine, chocolate.
messy subjects covered in blood and hunger.
for christ´s sake they are starving.
don´t you get it?

South America is where solidarity happens.

Socialists work with Communists work with Anarchists work with Liberation Theologists work with Bolivarian nationalists.

no stupid hair splitting debate against the common enemy, is that why Ireland avoids the debate?

http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/916.php
the first death. comments by communists, trade unionists and a jesuit.
http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/
the news wire go see "MR HATMAN RACK SPAMER I SLEEP IN A BED"spam post, how fucking offensive is that?
I would so love to punch that fucking idiot´s teeth in.

and the last stupid thought, today two days after the police and army start shooting protesters marching under an Italian flag, yes Italian, yes the disobedienti, according to the fascists, yes I call them fascists now, "a situation provoked by violence"
what the fuck do you expect if you stop Oil entering a country for over a month?

what is this strike for?
is it for better wages?
is it for better working conditions?

anyone in Ireland know?
anyone in Ireland care?

go look at Caracas2001 a right wing newspaper explain how Chavez is linked to AlQaeda.
do you believe that?

yes my friends in WW4 everyone is linked to AlQaeda, just a little while ago an article on Ireland indymedia asked who is leader of the opposition, well it seems that honour is ascribed to Osama.

you are all right.
IRAQ IS MORE IMPORTANT.
do your masters bidding:
think about operation desertstorm the sequel.