Johan Galtung defames the democratic journalist Carl von Osssietzky. Ossietzky was tortured in a NAZI prison camp and later killed slowly, after he had received the then precious Nobel Peace Award in 1936. This courage man deserves better then to be put on one line with the star slanderer of socialist Sowjetunion under Stalin, Solzhenitsyn, the fiction writer, was a person who acted under the guidance of the US-empire. Solzenhitsyn produced one of the many cancer sticks to this once precious achievement of humanity.
Carl von Ossietzky, editor of DIE WELTBÜHNE, was in deed a whistleblower, long before the term existed. He published, information from Parliamentary Debates (The Reichstag) on German rearmament efforts during the WEIMAR REPUBLIC that where in flagrant violation of peace agreements. Therefore he was put into prison long before the NAZIS had seized power and was immediatelly put into a concentration camp in 1933. The courageous journalist and warner had foreseen the writing on the wall. In one of his last editorials he had asked his readers to vote for the communists, a crime, the NAZIS would not forgive him.
It is therefore an offense to mention Carl von Ossietzky's name in one breath with the evil doer and producer of anti-communist slander material Solzhenitsyn, the author of "Cancer Station", who was pampered by the same Empire which is today prosecuting young and courageous whistleblowers like Assange, Manning, Snowden, and not to forget Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli citizen.
We must be clear and never confuse heroes who confront the powers which threaten humanity and who pay with their freedom and possibly their lives for their outspokenness with collaborators and mean subjects who side with the powerful ones in order to gain questionable fame.
Solzhenitsyn left his country and chose the Empire USA as his paradise, from where he continued to spit poison. He also defamed the peace movement of the eighties of the last century.
It is high time, 70 years after Stalingrad, to understand that the Soviet Union under Stalin was a power who stood successfully against the claims of imperialism to govern the world.
This is why Stalin and everything connected with his name is defamed and slandered and denigrated down to worse than fascism.
It it high time to comprehend the structure of this method which is sheer madness. We must - in the name of humanity - overcome anti-Stalinism, the worst and most atrocious form of anticommunism.
To speak with the words of the greatest playwright of the 20th century, Bert Brecht, who received the Stalin Prize Award for Peace in 1952:
"Communism is the simple things difficult to achieve" (The Mother).
Carl von Ossietzky, editor of DIE WELTBÜHNE, was in deed a whistleblower, long before the term existed. He published, information from Parliamentary Debates (The Reichstag) on German rearmament efforts during the WEIMAR REPUBLIC that where in flagrant violation of peace agreements. Therefore he was put into prison long before the NAZIS had seized power and was immediatelly put into a concentration camp in 1933. The courageous journalist and warner had foreseen the writing on the wall. In one of his last editorials he had asked his readers to vote for the communists, a crime, the NAZIS would not forgive him.
It is therefore an offense to mention Carl von Ossietzky's name in one breath with the evil doer and producer of anti-communist slander material Solzhenitsyn, the author of "Cancer Station", who was pampered by the same Empire which is today prosecuting young and courageous whistleblowers like Assange, Manning, Snowden, and not to forget Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli citizen.
We must be clear and never confuse heroes who confront the powers which threaten humanity and who pay with their freedom and possibly their lives for their outspokenness with collaborators and mean subjects who side with the powerful ones in order to gain questionable fame.
Solzhenitsyn left his country and chose the Empire USA as his paradise, from where he continued to spit poison. He also defamed the peace movement of the eighties of the last century.
It is high time, 70 years after Stalingrad, to understand that the Soviet Union under Stalin was a power who stood successfully against the claims of imperialism to govern the world.
This is why Stalin and everything connected with his name is defamed and slandered and denigrated down to worse than fascism.
It it high time to comprehend the structure of this method which is sheer madness. We must - in the name of humanity - overcome anti-Stalinism, the worst and most atrocious form of anticommunism.
To speak with the words of the greatest playwright of the 20th century, Bert Brecht, who received the Stalin Prize Award for Peace in 1952:
"Communism is the simple things difficult to achieve" (The Mother).
_______________________________________________by Johan Galtung, 5 Aug 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service
[1] The leaks are not about “whistle-blowing, but a nonviolent, civil disobedient, fight against huge social evils. Whistle-blowing, warning, presupposes that somebody can be warned, in fact wants to be warned, and is in a position to do something. Obviously those who can do something about US foreign policy, who have the power–legislative, the Congress, particularly the Senate; executive, State Department-Pentagon-White House; judiciary the Supreme Court; economically the giant banks; culturally the mainstream media–know perfectly well what is going on: these are all efforts to hang on to imperial economic, military, political and cultural power. But they do not want change. And those who want a change, a major part of the US population, allied populations and most of the rest of the world have been warned, but are to a large extent powerless. So they believe; but see thesis [5].
The whistle-blowing discourse is much too optimistic. Ossietzky was not a whistle-blower about Nazism, nor was Solzhenitsyn about Stalinism (nor Khrushchev for that matter), nor Solzhenitsyn about US foreign policy (his Harvard speech). They were fighting something they knew was basically wrong, hoping to alert others to join them in the struggle.
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