Communist Party of of Philippines denounces arrival of 4000 US armed troops in Philippines

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today condemned the planned entry of up to 4,000 armed US troops in the Philippines over the next few days "which is a display of extreme contempt against Philippine sovereignty and a show of force in the face of heightened US war preparations in the Korean peninsula."

Up to 30 US jet fighters and an American naval carrier, the USS Tortuga, are also set to be deployed in Manila, Central Luzon and other areas, from 5 to 17 April, in line with the 2013 Balikatan military exercises between the US military and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

"By pushing through with the Balikatan 2013 exercises amidst increasing military tensions in the Korean peninsula, the Aquino regime is allowing the Philippines to be dragged by the US government to its military conflicts against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)," said the CPP.

"The Filipino peoples denounce the Balikatan 2013 military exercises and demand the immediate pull-out of all American troops currently stationed in the Philippines, including the 700-strong Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) of the US Pacific Command permanently based in Zamboanga," added the CPP.

"The CPP denounces the US military and government for deceiving the Filipino people about the real intention of the so-called joint military exercises which are being portrayed by the US as serving humanitarian assistance and disaster preparedness," said the CPP. "For the past several years, the US has been using humanitarian and disaster operations in order to surreptitiously carry out combat and intelligence operations and setup their spy and communications network and infrastructure."

"The so-called joint military exercises are nothing but preparations and muscle-flexing of the US in order to put the Philippine military under its command and make use of the Philippines as its outpost in the possibility of launching a war of aggression anywhere in the Asia-Pacific region," said the CPP.

"The Filipino people clamor for an independent foreign policy demand that the Philippines not be dragged in any of the war being launched by the US against another sovereign country," added the CPP.

"The Asia-Pacific military strategy of the US is to keep tens of thousands of its combat troops forward stationed in the Asia-Pacific in its naval carriers, military bases and outposts from South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia to Australia," said the CPP.

"The aim is to impose its imperialist hegemony, put pressure on China and other countries to toe US economic policy and make threats of war and aggression against any country who refuse to uphold US imperialist trade and investment policy directives."

The US Pacific Command currently maintains a force of more than 80,000 armed troops in the Asia-Pacific including 30,000 troops stationed in US bases in South Korea and 50,000 American troops in Japan.

Anonymous Claims It Hacked North Korea’s Intranet (But It Probably Didn’t)

The worldwide hacker collective Anonymous announced yesterday that it had hacked North Korean web servers and, among other things, the China-based North Korean propaganda site Uriminzokkiri.com, from which it claims to have stolen the data of around 15,000 users including their account names, hashed passwords, and birthdates.

But the Anonymous announcement also contained a rather bold claim for which the collective provided no supporting evidence:

We are inside your local intranets (Kwangmyong and others)

Kwangmyong is a North Korean intranet that was established in the year 2000. Although it operates much like the real internet — users use web browsers to surf pages, send emails, etc. — it is actually completely disconnected from the actual internet as a security control.

Content from the internet appears on the Kwangmyong network if it has been selected, inspected, and approved by North Korean censors and there is no way to connect to it from outside North Korea. Given that, it seems rather unlikely that Anonymous has actually gained access to it, as North Korea Tech has pointed out.

Accessing Kwangmyong is not theoretically impossible; it might be accomplished by slipping some code past the censors who scan and scrub content from the world wide web before re-posting it to Kwangmyong.

It also might be possible to infect the computers of North Korean officials who are privileged enough to have access to the “real” internet in addition to Kwangmyong (such access is not common and virtually unheard of for ordinary citizens).

Without any proof of such access, Anonymous’s claim seems dubious at best. The hacker collective seems to have thoroughly disrobed Uriminzokkiri, but that site is based in China and is not connected to the Kwangmyong intranet.

Source: http://www.techinasia.com/anonymous-claims-hacked-north-koreas-intranet/

See Also: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/anonymous-attacks-north-korea-another.html

Democracy and Class Struggle agrees with the comment of Jon Robles:

 "The very nature of Anon Operations makes it another area where Western Intelligence Operatives and Cyber War Specialists can manipulate and use the Anonymous brand for their own nefarious ends and to give credibility to their own questionable and illegal operations"

US presence may drag Philippines to military tensions in Korean peninsula -- CPP

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) warned that the constant presence of US naval warships and armed American troops in the Philippines may drag the country to military tensions in the Korean pensinsula and a possible US-led war of aggression against the people and government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and called for an immediate end to the "all-out access policy" of allowing US-led foreign troops unrestricted intrusion to Philippine territory.

At the same time, the CPP echoed the demand of the Korean people to lift the economic blockade against the DPRK and respect the country's right to self-determination, including the country's right to develop nuclear, rocket and space technology for economic progress.

Over the past several weeks, the government of the DPRK has been issuing bellicose threats after the US flew at least two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers over the Korean peninsula in a show of force against North Korea. The US has heightened economic sanctions in the vain hope of making the DPRK kneel before its imperial power.

Last March 30, the DPRK government declared that it was in a "state of war" with South Korea after putting an end to the truce agreement forged in 1953 and has subsequently cut communication lines.


"The Filipino people and their revolutionary forces denounce the US imperialists for further intensifying the tension in the Korean peninsula by making threatening fly-bys of its nuclear-capable bombers and building up its military strength near the DPRK," said the CPP.


"By using the Philippines as one of its key military stations and puppets in the Asia-Pacific, the US is putting the Philippines in the crosshairs of its enemies," said the CPP. "By acting subserviently to the US, the Aquino regime allows the US to use the Philippines as a pawn in its geo-political strategy and wars of aggression."


Yesterday, the US military deployed another naval warship in the Korean peninsula. The USS Decatur, a guided-missile destroyer, sailed into the area in addition to the USS John McCain.

There are close to 30,000 American soldiers in South Korea which hosts at least 20 US military bases and facilities. The US also maintains around 50,000 troops in Japan which hosts US Pacific Command's military base.

Anonymous attacks North Korea: another US tool? by Jon Robles

Members of the Anonymous collective have taken it upon themselves to once again become involved in a military confrontation and have once again seemingly been operating in conjunction with the US in mounting aggression against yet another small and almost defenseless country. Have the “Knights of the Internet” become nothing more than sadistic schoolyard bullies, and are they now an instrument of US geo-political interests?
 
 Judging from recent events in Syria and now in North Korea one might ask oneself if the hacker group Anonymous has allowed itself to become another extension and in fact a tool of the U.S. Government’s military adventurism and open policy of forcible regime change.

 According to certain “founders” of the group who I have communicated with in the past and active Anons the group is not political and does not “do politics”, yet what we have seen is something to the contrary. Due to its very nature and the fact that the organization, if we can call it that, has no hierarchy, it is impossible to ascertain if the attacks on North Korean sites and the demand for an end to nuclear threats and even the removal of power of the North Korean leader are supported by the group or not.

 Since Anonymous is so loosely knit and has almost no concrete rules or agenda it is not easy to determine if group has been infiltrated, which I would say is a given, and is in fact being used as a cover by the U.S. in launching cyber warfare operations against target countries.

 With the entire US war apparatus bearing down on small almost defenseless countries that the increasingly aggressive and dangerous U.S. Government deems to be “evil” for whatever reasons suits them at the moment, to see the once noble Anonymous collective increasingly being seemingly manipulated into advancing U.S. aggressive military objectives is a sad thing indeed.

 In my dealings with Anonymous, I have met and communicated with individuals with high ideals and noble goals as well as sadistic cyber criminals who prey on the weak and terrorize whoever they wish and even Russophobic lunatics and understand that due to their nature Anonymous might be seen as all inclusive.

 The very nature of Anon Operations makes it another area where Western Intelligence Operatives and Cyber War Specialists can manipulate and use the Anonymous brand for their own nefarious ends and to give credibility to their own questionable and illegal operations.

Mao Zedong to be defended in China after years of criticism by revisionists and renegades - new CPC guidelines

New guidelines in China that ban statements that criticise Mao and call for the removal of journalists and educators who are not loyal to the party are currently being harmonised by censors.

The text originated from China Mainstream Culture website and was picked up by the  Red Song Society forum, which then circulated it on Sina Weibo. 

"From now on, no criticism of Marxism, Leninism and Maoism can be allowed to openly appear in the media," the account reads. These theories were the foundation of China's political system and could not "be casually disavowed by some people".

"All the media in China, no matter whether they are old print media or new media, should be mouthpieces for the party, mouthpieces for the people."

Democracy and Class Struggle has been aware of internal contradictions in China on these questions for the last few months but the speed of the new ideological direction has taken us by surprise, we attribute part of it to external aggressive US military and economic policies pursued under the new US Asian Pivot strategy.

The new Strategy of Tension of the US and South Korea and Japan  Vis a Vis China and North Korea is seriously backfiring has China asserts itself..

The above statement on Mao is consistent with statements of Xi Jingping which we have covered recently. like “Mao Zedong’s era of revolutionary socialism should not be dismissed as a failure.”

We will continue to study developments has they unfold but we are beginning to see a new strategic position emerge from China vis a vis the United States.

See Also: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/contradictions-in-china-is-new.html

Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics

John Mearsheimer, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft.

He identifies the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits, arguing that leaders often lie for good strategic reasons, while distinguishing between lying to another state and lying to one's own people.

Democracy and Class Struggle publishes this analysis of lies and lying in light of Western Media coverage of North Korea which ignores the provocation of upto 70,000 US and South Korean troops with military live fire exercises up to  their unilaterally created Northern limit Line now extended  to May 2013.

See Also : http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/korea-two-months-of-drills-and-mock.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/salim-khalaf-al-jumayli-former-iraqi.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/north-korea-and-united-states-will-real.html

Eirígí commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising, Milltown cemetery, Belfast, 1 April 2013

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/james-connolly-working-class-hero.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/booby-sands-rhythm-of-time.html

China and North Korea : Li Jie, an expert with a Chinese navy research institution, has told Reuters that “the ultimate strategic aim is to contain and blockade China, to distract China's attention and slow its development. What the US is most worried about is the further development of China's economy and military strength."

“Long live the Victory of the Korean People’s Army and the Chinese Volunteer Army!”

China has started mobilizing military forces around the Korean peninsula in response to rising tensions.

According to US officials, Pyongyang’s declaration of a ‘state of war’ against South Korea has led to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to increase its military presence on the border with the North.

The officials say the process has been going on since mid-March, and includes troop movements and readying fighter jets.

The PLA is now at ‘Level One’ readiness, its highest.

Chinese forces, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, have been spotted in the city of Ji’an and near the Yalu River, which splits China and North Korea. Other border regions were also reportedly being patrolled by planes.China has also been conducting live-firing naval exercises in the Yellow Sea, scheduled to end on Monday.

The move is widely viewed as open support for North Korea, which continues to show extreme opposition to the US-South Korean military drills that are to last until May.

North Korea and China have maintained a long-standing defense treaty under which Beijing is to come to Pyongyang’s aid in the event of an attack. The last time this was put into practice was during the Korean War, when tens of thousands of Chinese volunteer forces were deployed on the Korean Peninsula. The relationship between the two countries is often referred to as being “as close as lips and teeth” by Chinese military spokesmen.

Others believe openly that the US strategy is geared not towards the destabilization of North Korea, but that of China. Li Jie, an expert with a Chinese navy research institution, has told Reuters that “the ultimate strategic aim is to contain and blockade China, to distract China's attention and slow its development. What the US is most worried about is the further development of China's economy and military strength."

Contradictions in China - Deng Yuwen and North Korea

                               
                                       Xi Jinping with new North Korean Leader

A well-known editor of an influential Communist Party journal said Monday that he had been suspended after writing an article for a British newspaper saying that China should abandon its ally North Korea.

   

The editor, Deng Yuwen, told the South Korean paper Chosun Ilbo that the Foreign Ministry had called the Communist Party’s Central Party School in Beijing to complain about his article in the British paper.

The current US Strategy of Tension is not only with North Korea but also with China expect more Chinese capitalist liberals to be exposed like Deng Yuwen has serving US rather than Chinese national interests.

Three senior United States officials have come to Beijing in the past two weeks to request enforcement of the United Nations sanctions and to ask that China stop doing business with the North Korean Trade Bank.

The US strategy of tension is in full flow.

Whether Xi Jinping wants or not US actions are forcing the Chinese Government to develop a new strategic line vis a vis the US.

China had an historic opportunity in 2008 with the world capitalist crisis to change strategic direction but failed to do so .

US overt and covert intervention on its borders is finally making China wake up and act in self defence, it may ultimately be Chinese nationalism that is awakened rather than a dormant socialism but the strategy of tension against China and North Korea orchestrated by the United States will have unintended consequences.

The contradictions in China are sharpening more quickly than we anticipated and we regard the suspension of Deng Yuwen has a small good sign for the future of China.

See Also: http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/contradictions-in-china-is-new.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/terror-in-central-asia-how-nato.html

http://democracyandclassstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/everyone-but-china-agreement-prevents.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/everyone-but-china-trans-pacific.html

Wales - Remembering defence of Korean People by Niclas Y Glais in Y Cymro : DPRK National Anthem subtitles in English :

Read the following articles below on the Struggle in Korea posted in memory of Thomas Evan Nicholas

(6 October 1879 – 19 April 1971),^[1] who used the bardic name "Niclas y Glais" (English: '"Nicholas of Glais"'), was a Welsh language poet, preacher, radical, and champion of the disadvantaged of society.^[1].

He was a friend of the Korean People and defended them during the Cold War against UN/US Aggression in Welsh language in his articles in Y Cymro. We at Democracy and Class Struggle continue his struggle today.


http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/korea-two-months-of-drills-and-mock.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/north-korea-and-united-states-will-real.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/north-korea-is-reacting-to-us-aggression.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/alan-winnington-and-taejon-massacre.html

http://democracyandclasstruggle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/us-lowers-threshold-for-going-to-war.html




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