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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Imperialists commemorate 1959 CIA-backed uprising of Tibetan elites
By: Heather Benno
Media ignore gains in Tibet, focus on demonization campaign
March 10, 2009, marked the 50th anniversary of a failed aristocratic uprising in Tibet that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama. The corporate media, in collusion with Western imperialists, are using the anniversary as an opportunity to continue their demonization campaign targeting China.
The Dalai Lama was the traditional Tibetan head of church and state, who derived political authority as a reincarnated divine monarch. In March 1959, the Dalai Lama, using feudal landlord-backed troops, invaded Lhasa in an attempt to stop the land reform and other progressive measures promised by the new revolutionary government of the People’s Republic of China.
The aristocratic uprising failed because it did not garner popular support. After waiting in its barracks for 10 days, the People’s Liberation Army swiftly defeated the rebels. The Dalai Lama fled to India.
By 1961, Tibetan serfs voted for the first time, and in 1965, China recognized the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Since the ouster of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan people have seen real progress in infrastructure construction, education, housing and life expectancy.
Why then do corporate media outlets and imperialist regimes give popular credence to a deposed spiritual leader who was the anointed leader of a system responsible for the widespread poverty and oppression of the Tibetan people?
Support for the Dalai Lama and the "Free Tibet Movement" is part of a demonization campaign against China to further secure U.S. global economic dominance and to weaken communist China in the eyes of the world.
Tibet under the lamas
Tibet became part of the Chinese empire in the 13th century, when Ghenghis Khan conquered it.
The political rule of the lamas began later, at the end of the 16th century. Under the lamas, the monasteries, the nobility and the Lhasa government controlled the land, retaining absolute power over the lives of the peasants and serfs, who made up about 90 percent of the populace. There were no schools or health care, yet peasants supported the wealthy monasteries through rampant taxation and child conscription.
After the 1949 revolution in China, the revolutionary government treaded slowly in changing the political structure of Tibet.
Tibetan and Chinese leaders signed the "Agreement of the Central People’s Government and the Tibetan Local Government on Measures for Peaceful Liberation of Tibet," or the 17-Point Agreement, in 1951. The accord recognized and promoted the preservation of Tibetan language and culture. In the decades following the agreements, the theocracy was slowly dismantled, slavery was abolished and serfs and peasants were hired for public works projects necessary to modernize the region.
Progress made under the revolution
Tibet has come a long way since the days of serfdom and theocracy. The communists have built over 44,000 km of roads throughout the region.
Due to available health care, the average life expectancy of people in Tibet has increased by 32.5 years.
Under the lamas, less than 2 percent of school-aged children had access to education, and the illiteracy rate was over 95 percent. Now, nine-year compulsory education is available in 63 out of 73 counties, and the illiteracy rate among workers has dropped to 4.76 percent. Housing is guaranteed as a right. Over 4,000 religious and cultural sites have been preserved and funded by the government.
The demonization campaign against China
The Dalai Lamanot the gains made by the Tibetan peopletook center stage in the corporate media for the week of the anniversary. The Dalai Lama claimed that Tibet has become a "hell on earth,"
and that the Tibetan language and culture are nearing extinction.
Adulation for the Dalai Lama among imperialists is nothing new. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency began to fund and train counterrevolutionary military units in Tibet in the early 1950s. Many of those recruited were members of the former elite.
From the early 1960s until 1973, the Tibetan "government in exile" received approximately $1.7 million per year from the CIA to airlift counterrevolutionaries into Tibet to attack the government.
The leader of this movement, the Dalai Lama, was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace and the U.S.
Congressional Medal of Honor. In March 2008, groups supporting the Dalai Lama and the "Free Tibet Movement" ravaged the streets of Lhasa, murdering Han Chinese and vandalizing Chinese homes and businesses.
The media blitz surrounding the 50th anniversary of the 1959 aristocratic rebellion in Tibet is a ruse. The track record of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan shows that the ruling class is far from concerned with human rights and religious freedom. Nevertheless, demonizing China and supporting an illegitimate "Free Tibet Movement" are useful tools as the United States seeks to undermine China’s growing global strength.
True solidarity with the people of Tibet means standing against the demonization of China and supporting Tibetan freedom from imperialist intervention and brutal aristocratic rule.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Which is the real Dolly ? The one who speaks the "A" Word or the one who does the "I" word ?
On this the 50th anniversary of the escape from China's Xizang province(Western colonials called it "Tibet") and went into exile in Dharamsala, the "political monk in saffron robe" is a "walking conflict" between burnishing and camouflaging his credentials in the West as a "spiritual" or "holy" man, committed to peace, harmony, non-violence and a proponent of "autonomy" and not "independence;" while on the other hand, his base of exile supporters in the West relentlessly pursue the path of separatism, secession, "mau mau" and independence.
This man talks the "A" word; but unfortunately he does the "I" word. Talk of "autonomy" is hollow when he and his base from abroad relentlessly sabotage, insult and pursue a "theocracy" not just in Xizang but in Sichuan and Gansu, with grandiose plans to carve out "Greater Tibet" by ethnically cleansing out and eliminating any other than the Theocrats and religious "fascists" who worship the faction of the Dalai Lama, one of many Lamaist factions.
From the looks of things, the Dolly's exile community, what little remains of it, in Dharamsala, and elsewhere in the West, is increasingly disconnected and disassociated on the ground in the heartland of Xizang. They talk east but they act West. Their base camp look east but in reality, it is a camp mainly supported by Westerners or "honorary whites" posing as Tibetans.
Compounding this is the fact that those Tibetan youths born outside of China, i.e. those descendants and offshoots from the fleeing "ruling class" of masters and slave-owners forced to flee to India and the West when revolution succeeded in overthrowing Xizang's backward "caste system" of masters-serfs under an oppressive feudal system..... they are today more "Western" and think and does like " the white man" rather than think and does "Tibetan."
These are not Tibetans in exile, but Tibetans in name but actually Westerners trapped in an Asian body.
Tibetan in their superficial veneer, in native attire, but really empty and bereft of its indiginous "Tibetan" culture or thought, these walking "monstrosities" called Tibetan youths, born outside of Xizang, in the West, are increasingly becoming "white" and corroding whatever residual "Tibetan" culture they have, in name and form. But not in substance. In Dharsamsala, the youth culture of drugs, dope, alcohol and sexual promiscuity have become an epidemic, replicating the sickness of and affliction of corrupting and corrosive "affluenza" happening in the West with its youths. Bongheads, dopeheads, druggies.... that's the bane of Western civilization as we know it.
Worse, those Western "fanatics" who worship the Dolly, as their "God" and spiritual deity are living in a fantasy world of "Shangri-la," a perverted naive notion about a society which never existed but in their own naive, spiritually void hearts and warped minds here in the West.
Consider what the waning and dimming New York Times has to say in today's editorial, with another trajectory aiming for their "fantasy" Shangri-la, masking the Dolly's "I" do while talking the "A" word. Click on the link below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/opinion/11wed3.html
A man of peace? Gimme a break.
You don't insult China and the Chinese people; and do it by coat-tailing behind your Western white masters, and expect the Chinese people to passively sit by and do nothing.
With all the saboteurs, agent provocateurs, and spies from the West all hell-bent in destabilizing and casuing havoc and "luan" inside Xizang, in these past weeks, it is indeed prudent for Chinese authorities to tighten up security and deal with these saboteurs, agent provocateurs, spies.... all rascals, scoundrels, and charlattans hell-bent on disrupting harmony and causing "luan" not only in Xizang, but provinces like Sichuan and Gansu. This is an expansionist attempt to carve up China and threaten's China's sovereignty. No nation can allow it.
Imagine, secessionists in America clamoring for Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to secede, and go the "I" route.
The 1.3 billion peoples of China won't stand for this about Xizhang, much more "Greater Tibet" gobbling up Sichuan and Gansu provinces. And the Westerners who are interloping on China, in the name of "Shangri-la" Tibet, have no standing nor have the right mind to hector or bash China when they themselves in their own backyard in the West don't practice what they preach about "human rights" and the much "vaunted" freedoms that they confer upon themselves but not others. What hubris. What arrogance. What chutzpah !
Just look at Amerika's prisons and see who are the incarcerated.:-(
This man talks the "A" word; but unfortunately he does the "I" word. Talk of "autonomy" is hollow when he and his base from abroad relentlessly sabotage, insult and pursue a "theocracy" not just in Xizang but in Sichuan and Gansu, with grandiose plans to carve out "Greater Tibet" by ethnically cleansing out and eliminating any other than the Theocrats and religious "fascists" who worship the faction of the Dalai Lama, one of many Lamaist factions.
From the looks of things, the Dolly's exile community, what little remains of it, in Dharamsala, and elsewhere in the West, is increasingly disconnected and disassociated on the ground in the heartland of Xizang. They talk east but they act West. Their base camp look east but in reality, it is a camp mainly supported by Westerners or "honorary whites" posing as Tibetans.
Compounding this is the fact that those Tibetan youths born outside of China, i.e. those descendants and offshoots from the fleeing "ruling class" of masters and slave-owners forced to flee to India and the West when revolution succeeded in overthrowing Xizang's backward "caste system" of masters-serfs under an oppressive feudal system..... they are today more "Western" and think and does like " the white man" rather than think and does "Tibetan."
These are not Tibetans in exile, but Tibetans in name but actually Westerners trapped in an Asian body.
Tibetan in their superficial veneer, in native attire, but really empty and bereft of its indiginous "Tibetan" culture or thought, these walking "monstrosities" called Tibetan youths, born outside of Xizang, in the West, are increasingly becoming "white" and corroding whatever residual "Tibetan" culture they have, in name and form. But not in substance. In Dharsamsala, the youth culture of drugs, dope, alcohol and sexual promiscuity have become an epidemic, replicating the sickness of and affliction of corrupting and corrosive "affluenza" happening in the West with its youths. Bongheads, dopeheads, druggies.... that's the bane of Western civilization as we know it.
Worse, those Western "fanatics" who worship the Dolly, as their "God" and spiritual deity are living in a fantasy world of "Shangri-la," a perverted naive notion about a society which never existed but in their own naive, spiritually void hearts and warped minds here in the West.
Consider what the waning and dimming New York Times has to say in today's editorial, with another trajectory aiming for their "fantasy" Shangri-la, masking the Dolly's "I" do while talking the "A" word. Click on the link below:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/opinion/11wed3.html
A man of peace? Gimme a break.
You don't insult China and the Chinese people; and do it by coat-tailing behind your Western white masters, and expect the Chinese people to passively sit by and do nothing.
With all the saboteurs, agent provocateurs, and spies from the West all hell-bent in destabilizing and casuing havoc and "luan" inside Xizang, in these past weeks, it is indeed prudent for Chinese authorities to tighten up security and deal with these saboteurs, agent provocateurs, spies.... all rascals, scoundrels, and charlattans hell-bent on disrupting harmony and causing "luan" not only in Xizang, but provinces like Sichuan and Gansu. This is an expansionist attempt to carve up China and threaten's China's sovereignty. No nation can allow it.
Imagine, secessionists in America clamoring for Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to secede, and go the "I" route.
The 1.3 billion peoples of China won't stand for this about Xizhang, much more "Greater Tibet" gobbling up Sichuan and Gansu provinces. And the Westerners who are interloping on China, in the name of "Shangri-la" Tibet, have no standing nor have the right mind to hector or bash China when they themselves in their own backyard in the West don't practice what they preach about "human rights" and the much "vaunted" freedoms that they confer upon themselves but not others. What hubris. What arrogance. What chutzpah !
Just look at Amerika's prisons and see who are the incarcerated.:-(
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