CALL THINGS BY THEIR RIGHT NAMES
by Lois Neville
THE "NEW" FARMING.
Researchers and farmers not involved in corporate agribusiness have discovered
wonderful "new" farming techniques which produce better crops,
better land, and even better profits. Lo and behold, it's the same as the
old pre-WW II farming! Smaller plots, no expensive chemical fertilizers,
alternate crops for the same field, and except for the hand-held plow, everything
that great granddad did. Now the Smithsonian magazine reports on
the "new" better farming. Indian style is best of all, the article
declares, because proper plant mixes removed the need for pesticides. A
giant leap into the future-from the past!.
IS YELTSIN A FOREIGN AGENT?
If Boris Yeltsin is a foreign agent, who is he a foreign agent for? For
us, of course-and NED! Who is NED? The National Education for Democracy,
an international, anticommunist group at home in the USA. CovertAction
Information Bulletin #35 (now Covert Action Quarterly)
tells the touching story of the romance between Boris and NED.
NED fingered Boris as a small guy most likely to secede, so they brought
him and members of his tiny political party over here to be educated in
the ways of American politics. The rest is history. After weeks of training
in how to fool the peasants, he and his crew were loaded with the necessary
funds and sent home to do our will, have our way, with the new Russian voters.
As any Central American dictator could tell you, it was not the first time
a relative nobody had been trained to be a surrogate for the U.S. and the
capitalist economy we have affianced and financed. Yeltsin's maneuvers worked
as well with the Russians as they work with Americans. He got elected president
of Russia. Others in the U.S. may have had a hand in the scheme but NED
likes to take full credit.
But it didn't stop there. Yeltsin overthrew the more moderate Gorbachev,
declared communism outlawed, tried to declare himself dictator ("sole
President"), the Russian Constitution cancelled, and all elections
at an end. That didn't work too well, even with the naive Russian people,
despite the fact that he burned down the Parliament Building, shot or imprisoned
the conp;gresspersons inside. (As a nice touch, President Clinton declared
this act a bold stroke for democracy, remember?) Since then Yeltsin has
managed to stay afloat.
Remember that moment of high drama when he leaped upon a tank and delivered
an impassioned speech to the crowd? It is reported that before doing so,
he made a call to someone in the U.S. for advice. To NED, perhaps? So if
Yeltsin is working for us and for NED, could it be said that he is not working
for his own people but for a foreign government? Of course it can. That
is why I say Yeltsin is a foreign agent, an agent for a foreign government.
Can you think of a better name?
Yeltsin declared that Russia will now be under "presidential rule."
Complaints created a "referendum vote" of the Russian people.
Yeltsin threatened that if the referendum went against his wishes, there
would be severe reprisals. So much for "democratic reform." Want
another term for "presidential rule"? Dictatorship! Want another
term for "referendum"? Decision by the people! Want another term
for "democratic reform"? Capitalism!
According to the BBC, which issues this report, many Russians now hungry,
broke, homeless, watching young women going into prostitution, and experiencing
an admitted crime wave, look back nostalgically at communism. "Conservatives"
of the Politburo are trying to turn the clock back from democratic reform.
Want another word for "conservatives" (Russian style)? Communists!
Well, at least NED will be pleased. This rightist U.S. organization, funded
by the government as well as by private donations from citizens, claims
full credit for putting Yeltsin in office with money, political training,
and those former Russian-Nazis we've been saving up since WW II. Remember
them? They worked on Bush's first presidential campaign.
