weekly review.

national | miscellaneous | news report Sunday January 19, 2003 15:55 by iosaf = o as if - 5th international

Where are we going?

Ireland has been very busy politicising itself. The Local Gov. of Dublin is stalled. 23 for 23 against. Shannon is now a big issue. J18 and Tim on Prime Time. The 5th international has made overtly public our thoughts of the last weeks.

There are many ways to be a jedi.
Just because you are a jedi one day does not mean you will be a jedi the next.
Ireland is irritating.
Always has been.
Ireland has never boasted "power" in any normal sense of the word but it has always held the option of "irritation".
Readers in Ireland will need no thoughts from me on the collapse of Dublin Council it is an irritation for the "powerful".
Readers in Ireland will need no thoughts from me on the current widening of media coverage of Shannon they are widely known.

So with your patience I would like this week to treat upon other irritations.

There are many.

Last Sunday Mr Fraga who celebrated 80 years of age last November 23, gave an interview to La Vanguardia concerning his status as president of Galizia the nature of leadership and Nunca Mais.

He has claimed that there is no popular disquiet at the handling of the Prestige.
He has claimed that Nunca Mais is only a small group of radicals intent on destabilising Galizia, [the present state of Spain and thus the present Western Alliance].
He has rightly pointed out that Nunca Mais volunteers are the hardest to organise in the clean-up, and claimed that is why he has constantly asked that volunteers not be allowed to clean the beaches he favours use of the military for these and many other purposes.

He has this week reorganised his cabinet and positioned his party (the party of Aznar) to support Aznar´s successor.
Aznar´s wife has declared her interest in these heritary times to follow her husbands failure with more of the same.

We have entered the time of successors.
They succeed and fail.

He has quite rightly pointed out that "Nunca Mais/Nunca Mas/Mai Més/Never Again" has recieved a lot of money and that that money was not for the fishermen of Galizia but for more political campaigning.

We in the 5th international have acknowledged this and at no stage did we include support of the fishermen in our stated mainfesto.
We wanted
The declaration of Galizia as a disaster zone, and the "abdication" of Fraga.
Fraga who has held power since Franco spoke last sunday of leadership.
"I did not resign because in all honesty I could not see anyone else who could a better job".

Mr Fraga has not realised that one person alone can no longer do these jobs.
We have left the time of such leaders behind.

This week the global "pass it along" of 5th international thoughts on our role to date and our envisioned future was almost completed.

This present process of communication and debate began last year and reached it´s most interesting and public stage during the correspondance exchanged between Judge Garzón of the Madrid special court 5 and Subcommandant Marcos of the EZLN (Zapatistas).

I left an article entitled Genoa this week which referred to the Italian grouping "disobedienti" thoughts on the ideas surfacing from that exchange.

= {The channels of communication are open}

On the 22nd of September 2001 I wrote to the Irish establishment in the form of the Irish Times remarking on the role the Irish establishment must play in upholding our culture, nationhood and alignment in the developing New World Order of Bush (1)´s political doctrine.

A doctrine which has developed since the ending of the Cold War (WW3) the reunification of Germany, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The USA and it´s european partner the UK have not acheived full spectrum dominance.
Nor is there any sign that such dominance will be achieved soon. Rather now we see that this flawed and foolish project is close to real failure.
That failure will effect us all.

There have been many, who would term themselves "leaders" who have sought to take short term advantage of the political climate forced upon us all by the terrorist event of September 11 2001.
They have been seen to align themselves with non-democratic interests by enacting draconian legislation in their states.
It has been interesting to see those "leaders" align themselves with the US/UK in the past week.

At present the US/UK is actively supported in it´s illegal escalation of the Iraq War and unilateral solution to the Iraq Question by
Spain, Italy and Ireland.

Full spectrum dominance could never have been achieved as long as there are those whose first langauge is not the "anglo-american" of George Steiner´s analysis.
It could never have been achieved by what appears to most as an inherited power structure in Washington.
It could never have been achieved by a President whose incumbance of the White House appears to be illegitamate.

So where are we going?

Shall Bush´s re-election to a second term mean more of the same?
Or shall the alternative candidates that this year declare their ambition offer us anything better?
Shall the peace processes that have been seriously threatened by the bellicose attitude of the Bush led anti-democratic western alliance continue to deliver peace?

or shall the unspoken nightmare come?

Let us be frank.

The United States of America has never succesfully completed it´s own military ambitions without assistance and adjustment of it´s intent at the outset.

It did not win the Vietnam war.
It did not win the Korean war.
IT did not win the second world war alone.

It has resorted to the tactics it claims to abhor constantly.
IT has used weapons of mass destruction.
It has fought covert campaigns.
We know this.
Ireland can do very little now, except continue to act as this week, "throwing a small spanner in the works". Ireland need do again what is has done many times before:
be an irritation.

Ireland is not alone in that.

The 5th international is presently exerting pressure on all states commited to escalation.
We are at present commited to slow atrophic erosure of the power base of Bush and his allies.

We have commented on how now we find ourselves with strange bed fellows, in peculiar dialogues, we have expressed our discomfort to fellow travel with some, but these dark times have no clear cut good / evil contrast.

To achieve our aims of a global community which puts the value of human life, genius and potential ahead of reified capitalism we must defend democracy and those weak structures we presently have to uphold human rights.

Neither Saddam Hussein nor George Bush.
but humanity.
Neither EU nor NAFTA but a borderless planet.
Neither $ nor € but food
water
medicines
an end to patent.

It might be worth considering that more that one countries history has been dictated by dialogue between the "centre" and "extremes".
At this article in Israel´s daily newspaper you may see the "extremes".
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=236268&contrassID=2&
We must find through dialogue the common path for all.
Shalom = Saleem
No man may be copied.
These issues are confused. No "leader" may tell you that biotech, cloning, war, oil are different issues, they are not.
& Ireland has aligned herself.

The links.
these are to past reviews.
with hindsight and a bit of "reading between the lines" perhaps now some readers who have not understood before may understand better now.

dec 8th 2002 the First report on Iraqs weapons.
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=20867

dec 15th 2002 First references to Marcos.
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=21736

dec 22nd 2002 the very important list of SCUDS.
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=22398&start=0&sid=25163

dec 29th 2002 Ireland talks about "crusade".
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?
id=22697

jan 3rd I spoke of the need for solidarity to Venezueala the morning of the demonstrations that led to two deaths we the 5th international warned the world of the fascist "constitutional rebellion"
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=22877

jan 5th 2003 I spoke of the deaths in Venezuela resulting from that dark day.

http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=22957

and Last week´s review
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=23744

my personal "spin" on the developing consensus between anarchist groupings
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=24200

YA BASTA!

means now enough.
means not "we don´t have time to help you"
"we don´t have the political will to help you"
not
"there isn´t enough human genius ability and talent to help you"
it means ENOUGH-

IF you don´t get it, you will never have great great grand children.
it is really that simple.

Ya Basta!

{be a good jedi}