Russia, Ukraine, and the Race Problem, Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has demonstrated just how much the West is drowning in a pool of its own racism 俄羅斯、烏克蘭和種族問題，俄羅斯對烏克蘭的干預表明，西方有多麼深陷於自己的種族主義池中by Danny Haiphong Mar 3 2022
Russia has been the subject of intense outrage in the West following its decision to wage a military offensive against Ukraine. The military operation caught many by surprise. While the Western foreign policy establishment exploited the development as a “told you so” moment, the general public was thrown into a state of utter confusion. A particularly comforting explanation for the conflict has been a singular and decontextualized “Russian aggression.” At the heart of the confusion and outrage is a tidal wave of chauvinism that has come crashing from all sides of the Western political spectrum.
That the West is saturated with anti-Russian racism should come as no surprise. Western imperialism, led by the United States, is a racist project that requires a systematic dehumanization campaign on a scale unseen in human history to justify its violent history of colonial conquest, slavery, and genocide. The Cold War elevated the importance of racism significantly. Russia, China, and the one-third of the world that was engaging in the development of socialism had committed one of the gravest crimes in the eyes of imperialism. Not only were the people of these nations standing up to their imperialist masters as humans, but they were also participating in the complete overthrow of the dominant system of exploitation.
Cold War racism was both a domestic and global weapon of war designed to strip anti-imperialist resistance of its humanity. Western elites dehumanized Black Americans fighting Jim Crow as potential “Reds” with just as much fervor as they dehumanized the people of the Soviet Union and other nations engaged in building socialism abroad. Anti-communism increased public support for devastating U.S. military interventions against nations such as Vietnam and violent state repression against domestic dissent at home.
During the Cold War, the ruling class feared that domestic dissent would find inspiration and strength via relationships with socialist and anti-colonial movements abroad. Black radicals such as Paul Robeson, Robert Williams, Claudia Jones and others were growing increasingly curious of and sympathetic to the socialist cause. The Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba and other socialist movements were viewed by an influential section of the Black movement as potential allies in the fight against Jim Crow white supremacy. Prominent Black movement leaders also worked with and in some cases joined the Communist Party of the United States to organize against economic exploitation and fight the scourge of lynch mob rule.
Paul Robeson during one of his many trips to the Soviet Union beginning in 1934. Paul Robeson’s son, Paul Robeson Jr., received part of his education in the Soviet Union before moving back to Harlem to attend high school.
The fall of the Soviet Union didn’t end the Red Scare. Indeed, the Red Scare’s ideological foundations in the dehumanization of people in resistance flowed naturally into the Global War on Terror’s campaign to overthrow the remaining independent nations in the “Middle East” and erect a massive surveillance state to fortify Western imperialist rule at home. Fear of “Islamic terrorists” and “Arabs” was spread by the ruling class’s organs of misinformation in service of these imperialist aims. As the War on Terror’s legitimacy started to wane in the age of Obama, racism of the anti-communist variety returned in the form of the New Cold War. The U.S. and its junior partners in the West declared that the new imperial mission was to “contain” China and Russia, making Red Scare racism 2.0 critical for the development of popular ambivalence to endless war.
Since the U.S.-backed coup in Ukraine in 2014, Russia has been portrayed as an “aggressor” without a cause. The nation’s President, Vladimir Putin, has been painted as the quintessential Cold War villain—a dictator whose only goal is to bring about the second coming of the Soviet Union and the KGB. In 2016, with the help of U.S. intelligence and the corporate media, Russiagate was born. Russiagate exploited anti-Russian racism by casting blame for the U.S. and West’s problems onto Russia while simultaneously accusing Russia (and everything deemed “Russian”) for interfering in the 2016 elections on the side of Donald Trump. Leftist publications and media such as Black Agenda Report were labeled “dupes” of Russia and suppressed on corporate media platforms and social media outlets accordingly.
MSNBC’s Maddow covers Russia more than all other topics combined: analysis MSNBC host Rachel Maddow was found in 2017 to have focused on Russia in at least 53 percent of her program over a six week period. Credit: Getty Images.
Russia’s intervention in Ukraine has opened the floodgates for anti-Russian racism to consume political discourse in the West. The racism has come in many forms. There is the ongoing framing in the Western media and establishment politics of Vladimir Putin as a “dictator” and a uniquely horrific evil. Some have even compared Putin to Adolf Hitler with the hardly creative moniker, “Putler.” Russia and its leaders are viewed as mindless and thoughtless “savages” deserving of the harshest punishment that can be leveled by the West. However, dehumanizing Russia and its leadership has only been one component of the West’s racist crusade. Racism requires a human subject or risk total failure as an ideological project.
That’s where Ukraine comes in. Despite being treated as vassal state of the West since the 2014 coup, Ukraine has suddenly been entrusted with the fringe benefits of whiteness. The corporate media has received significant backlash from audiences who have rightly rebuked the blatant Eurocentrism in its coverage of Ukraine. Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze told BBC viewers that witnessing Russia’s intervention was an emotional experience because he saw “European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” with no pushback from the hosts. CBS foreign correspondent Charles D’Agata reported that Kyiv wasn’t “Iraq or Afghanistan…this is a relatively civilized, relatively European city.”
These examples just scratch the surface of the corporate media’s racism. A total of eight were compiled by journalist Alan McLeod of MintPress News. The racist media campaign against Russia has also extended to the realm of propaganda. Ukraine has been glorified as the pinnacle of European humanity through the dissemination of fake images. Photos of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in military gear has gone viral for its example of bravery in the fight against the Russian horde. The images were actually of Zelensky on a routine visit of combat forces in eastern Ukraine three months prior to Russia’s military operation.
The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News.
The BBC – “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” – Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze
45,234 Retweets80,466 Likes Fake photos have also been disseminated to spread a narrative that Russia is committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine. A photo of Israel’s bombing of Gaza has been attributed to Russia. Palestinian resistance activist Ahed Tamimi’s viral photo of her punching an IDF soldier has also been attributed to Ukraine’s “civilized” fightback against Russia. The imperialists have thus resorted to projecting their own crimes against humanity onto Russia. One must question why it is so difficult for Western media to find legitimate examples of Russian atrocities in Ukraine, especially given that Kyiv is essentially a puppet state of the Western imperialist order that provides full access to Western media.
Perhaps the worst purveyor of Western chauvinism has emanated from the so-called “progressive” section of the Democratic Party in the United States. Popular political figures such as Bernie Sanders and Marianne Williamson have embraced the White Man’s Burden foreign policy orientation of the U.S. military industrial complex. Bernie Sanders’s statement unironically declared that Russia’s intervention “may well kill thousands” while openly calling for sanctions, a form of economic warfare which has proven to kill thousands around the world. Marianne Williamson took the desire for the United States to “DO SOMETHING” even further. Williamson endorsed the decision of the United States to send additional weapons to Ukraine on the basis that “doing nothing” doesn’t make one “anti-war.”
The bystander narrative promoted by Williamson is reminiscent of neocon hawk Samantha Power and her work on genocide. Power, who serves as Biden’s point person for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is an important architect of humanitarian interventionism. In her famous book, A Problem from Hell: America and the age of Genocide, Power argues that the United States immorally stood by as Rwandans were massacred in the 1994 genocide. She would take her political philosophy to the Obama administration’s National Security Council where she served as a key figure in convincing Obama to overthrow the Libyan government in 2011.
Whether in the form of humanitarian interventionism or blatant anti-Russian propaganda, Western chauvinism has been remarkably effective in manufacturing consent for war. Majorities in the West hold a negative view of Russia and China. Americans in the majority support starving Russia into political submission through sanctions. While most Americans reject direct military intervention due to the heavy personal cost, they have shown a willingness to support any other act of war taken by their government to cause discord and destruction abroad. Western outrage over Russia’s intervention in Ukraine is therefore driven by a deep-seeded “America First” attitude that makes real diplomacy involving the United States impossible.
Still, the West, led by the American Empire, is in marked decline. Western chauvinism increasingly offers few fringe benefits for workers or oppressed peoples. In fact, chauvinism is tearing the West apart at the seams as sections of the ruling class compete for ideological supremacy at the expense of the people and the planet. Western chauvinism is effective for waging war, but it utterly fails to bring about stability. The importance, then, of opposing Western chauvinism and developing a peace movement rooted in solidarity has never been greater amid a Western-led New Cold War that is leading humanity into hot conflicts such as Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.
Video: KJ Noh in SF speaks about racism against Chinese since 1800s, the US-China confrontation in the South China Sea to stop China rise by all means at any costs 談到自1800 年代以來針對中國人的種族主義, 美中在南海對抗, 美國不惜一切代價阻止中國掘起.
The pivot to Asia was planned by neocons from the 90’s onwards after the fall of the USSR. 在蘇聯解體後，新保守主義者從 90 年代開始計劃轉向亞洲.
The planners were a group of neo-cons and neo-neocons grouped around CNAS, originally from ONI, CSIS. They were responsible for the debacles in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and want to do the same with China/Russia. Currently 18 of these individuals from CNAS occupy top positions in the Biden administration.
Key markers: 1992 Defense Planning Guidance document (“Wolfowitz Doctrine”) 2000 PNAC: Project for a New American Century (rebranded 1992 DPG) 2000 Bush Doctrine 2008 Obama Doctrine 2009 Airsea Battle (war doctrine against China) 2011 Declaration of the Pivot 2015 “Thinking through the unthinkable”–Military-commissioned RAND study to strategize for war with China 2016 TPP issued (but cancelled by Trump) 2018 Trump’s trade war; NSS and NDS issued naming China and Russia as enemies (“2+3 formula”: 2 revisionist powers/existential enemies (Russia, China)+ 3 smaller threats (NK, Iran, NS actors)) 2019 Pompeo declares end of engagement with China, breaches Shanghai Communique 2020 Biden Doctrine: prevent China’s rise at any cost: Kurt Campbell (“the era of engagement is over”); arms and officials to Taiwan
The pivot to Asia was planned by neocons from the 90’s onwards after the fall of the USSR.
The planners were a group of neo-cons and neo-neocons grouped around CNAS, originally from ONI, CSIS. They were responsible for the debacles in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and want to do the same with China/Russia. Currently 18 of these individuals from CNAS occupy top positions in the Biden administration.
Key markers: 1992 Defense Planning Guidance document (“Wolfowitz Doctrine”) 2000 PNAC: Project for a New American Century (rebranded 1992 DPG) 2000 Bush Doctrine 2008 Obama Doctrine 2009 Airsea Battle (war doctrine against China) 2011 Declaration of the Pivot 2015 “Thinking through the unthinkable”–Military-commissioned RAND study to strategize for war with China 2016 TPP issued (but cancelled by Trump) 2018 Trump’s trade war; NSS and NDS issued naming China and Russia as enemies (“2+3 formula”: 2 revisionist powers/existential enemies (Russia, China)+ 3 smaller threats (NK, Iran, NS actors)) 2019 Pompeo declares end of engagement with China, breaches Shanghai Communique 2020 Biden Doctrine: prevent China’s rise at any cost: Kurt Campbell (“the era of engagement is over”); arms and officials to Taiwan
China’s whole-process people’s democracy improves people’s lives, development, Democracy is not a privilege of certain countries and China’s democratic system has helped improve people’s lives and development, Guo Weimin, spokesperson for the fifth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said Thursday.
Pointing out that the United States is facing problems at home and so-called American democracy is drawing a lot of criticism, Guo said the so-called U.S. “Summit for Democracy” only “creates exclusive blocks, suppresses other countries and divides the world to maintain its hegemonic position.”
“Democracy comes in diverse forms and it’s not a privilege of a few countries,” said Guo, adding that “the democratic system of each country should be chosen by its citizens in accordance with its national conditions.”
“The best democratic system is the one that fits,” Guo said.
China has formed a socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics over years of development. Through exercising law-based democratic election, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic oversight, China has opened the path of whole-process people’s democracy, said Guo.
Guo added the political system has helped boost long-term social economic development, gradually improve people’s lives and realize social and cultural progress.
The CPPCC integrates the functions of consultation, oversight, participation and cooperation, and it promotes science and democracy-based decision-making through democratic consultation, said Guo.
Referring to the fact that the CPPCC covers eight democratic parties and public figures without party affiliation, the main people’s organizations, 56 ethnic groups and five main religions, Guo said this structure could “ensure all political parties, people’s organizations, ethnic groups, social groups and sectors of societies participate in national affairs discussion and promote an extensive and effective people’s democracy.”
The 13th National Committee of the CPPCC, the country’s top political advisory body, is set to convene its fifth annual session on March 4.
Bringing the Serbs to heel, a massive bombing attack opens the door to peace – cover of Time magazine (March 24 1999) NATO could do it but not Russia!
On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) commences air strikes against Yugoslavia with the bombing of Serbian military positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. The NATO offensive came in response to a new wave of ethnic cleansing launched by Serbian forces against the Kosovar Albanians on March 20.
Video: While US promote fake news propaganda on Xinjiang Genocide, US boarding schools eliminated Native Americans by ‘cultural genocide’ typical thieves yelling thieves 在美國宣傳新疆種族滅絕的假新聞時，美國寄宿學校通過“文化種族滅絕”消滅了美洲原住民，典型的賊喊捉賊.
Since May 2021, the discovery of the remains of several hundred children in unmarked graves at the sites of three former residential schools in Canada has sent shockwaves around the world. However, the practice of opening boarding schools for Natives was directly “inspired” by the United States to eliminate Native Americans by “cultural genocide.”
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