This is a much higher audio and video quality version of this video (Pyongyang Views) than the November 29, 2009 version.

*Raw street sounds, no music added.

Upgraded video viewable : here

Colorized film footage of great revolutionary leader and Bolshevik
ideologist Vladimir Lenin, with a rare recording of a speech he
made during the Russian Civil War 1918 – 1922.

The speech is as follows:

“Comrade (Red Army) soldiers! The capitalists of England, America and France are waging a war against Russia. They are taking revenge on the Soviet Peasants & Workers’ Republic for her [Republic's] overthrowing the power of landlords and capitalists and set the example for all the peoples of the world.

With money and munitions, the capitalists of England, France and America support Russian landlords, who are marshalling their armies from Siberia, Don River, and Northern Caususus against the Soviets, seeking to restore the power of the Tsar, of the landlords, of capitalists.
No, this will NEVER happen! The Red Army has unified itself, it has arisen and started chasing the landlords’ armies and the White Guards’ officers away from the Volga, took back Riga, took back virtually all of Ukraine; it approaches Odessa and Rostov.”

*Video and above text courtesy of wagnerian1979.

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by John Paul Cupp … link

Both of the Castro brothers and Hugo Chavez have made considerable gains in the fight against capitalism and imperialism, but while both countries have historically been allies of the anti-imperialist struggle, neither is genuinely revolutionary today. This has caused many of their allies and all sorts of anti-American and anti-war agitators to gloss over the direction both are going. Sentimental connections with Che Guevara have lots of people not noticing the social democratic and Trotskyite scum who are rapidly seizing openings in both countries, scum Guevara would have ensured were executed. It isn’t an accident that Chavez praised Trotsky, nor that this Zionist-cosmopolitan bastardization of true Marxism is allowed into Cuba as if it were another revolutionary anti-imperialist tendency. Cuba nor Venezuela is moving in a genuinely socialist direction, though both are objectively anti-imperialist and have good bases of support among the workers.

It isn’t an accident that Barack Obama is cuddling up to Cuba and Venezuela. This isn’t because Obama is a “socialist” as the right-wing media proclaim or because either of the two countries has won some dynamic struggle against the US imperialists, and hence forced Obama to his knees. Rather, both have taken a direction similar to Iran in that they are willing to forgo revolutionary anti-imperialism for social democratic foreign policies and drop anti-Americanism in exchange for the US simply moving against more dynamically anti-imperialist forces, namely north Korea, Myanmar, Sudan, the People’s Wars in the Philippines and Colombia and the Jihads against occupation throughout the Arab world and Afghanistan. Both Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez were talking counterrevolutionary nonsense when they attacked the FARC-EP, and both have been around Latin American geopolitics long enough to know that they were committing treason against principles in order to get sanctions and conspiracies by the US imperialists removed. Both know full well that no room for “political struggle” short of armed resistance exists in Colombia, and all too well understand that this beachhead of imperialism in Latin American literally assassinates at will as the US pours in tens of billions of dollars more.
The revolutionary vanguard in Latin America today, not just in Colombia, is the FARC-EP. Material conditions force them to remain true to the principles of People’s War and wage a dynamic patriotic struggle for socialism, national liberation and Bolivarian unification that absolutely isn’t going to come about because of any project Chavez leads.

It’s good that Cuba promotes literacy and health care, but that isn’t remotely as relevant as national struggle and class warfare. Anti-imperialist principles come first. The illusions must be smashed! 

We should not take the same dogmatic Maoist anti-Chavez and anti-Cuba lines that many revolutionaries have, but we shouldn’t deny a lot of the good points made in such arguments either. Solidarity and criticism are a synthesis that should be properly balanced. Recognizing that these regimes have a right to be masters of their own course and destiny is not the same thing at all as pretending that either country is developing genuine models of resistance as both claim to be doing. We should support both Venezuela and Cuba against imperialism and realize both are far more good than bad, but we also shouldn’t pretend reformist and social democratic traits are revolutionary.

Ultimately, both countries are oppressed people with a history of resisting imperialism. However, both regimes, especially Cuba being just ninety miles from the US with a well-funded pro-imperialist opposition, risk being totally destroyed if they attempt to build a Latin American version of Deng Xiaoping’s China. Taking a pragmatic approach to US imperialism, regardless of the current president’s skin color, is like asking to be shot in the head. Unless you have a Jewish-sounding last name, US imperialism isn’t your friend and never will be!

[Gallery of 60th anniversary of the DPRK]

Photos on occasion of the 60th anniversary on the foundation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. ‘Salute’ sung by KPA Choir, recorded 1992. (official photograph set)

Source for official photo set here.
My video {Our Comrade Kim Jong Il} here. *cannot be embedded
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[DPRK stages military parade marking 60th national day]

Last Updated(Beijing Time):2008-09-10 07:51

“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) staged a military parade on Tuesday, marking the 60th anniversary of the founding of the nation.

Militia men and women in 30 square arrays marched successively across the Kim Il Sung Square, the center of the capital city Pyongyang.

Also displayed in the parade were multiple rocket launch systems, anti-aircraft guns and howitzers.

In his speech at the parade, Kim Yong Chun, vice chairman of the National Defense Commission, said the army and people of the DPRK would remain vigilant on the moves of the United States.

Washington hasn’t moved a bit from its anti-DPRK policies and attempted to stifle DPRK against the backdrop of “dialogues,” Kim said.

A torch performance and firework display were held after the military parade, lightening the night sky of the capital.”

Source, with lot’s of photographs here.

” October 10 marks the 64th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK). On this occasion, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) Sandra L. Smith sent revolutionary greetings to Comrade Kim Jong Il, congratulating the WPK for all its achievements.

Founded by Comrade Kim Il Sung and under the present leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Il, the WPK has led the people of the DPRK for 64 years to build an independent, self-reliant and prosperous socialist country. From the time of its founding, the WPK has faced severe tests including the brutal war of aggression launched by the United States under the banner of the United Nations from 1950-53. This aggression devastated much of Korea and resulted in the loss of some four million lives, the majority of whom were civilians. It was the WPK under the leadership of Kim Il Sung which mobilized the Korean People’s Army and the people to defeat the U.S. aggressors and force them to sign the Armistice Agreement in 1953.”

Link to TML Daily story here

Lynching of Cynthia McKinney urged by ‘journalist’ trained and paid by FBI

Hal Turner called her ‘a violent, black, racist, bitch’ whose lynching would teach other Blacks that ‘white people are tired of your bullshit, behave or die’

by David Swanson

Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sent an email around on Sunday in which she wrote:

“It has just now come to my attention that a ‘journalist’ who suggested that I be lynched was actually being paid by our own government to say that. Now, when I reported it to the FBI, how in the world was I to know that he was at that time on the FBI’s payroll?”

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McKinney wrote in her email: “Interesting that charges stem from his comments against Connecticut lawmakers and Illinois judges, but not from the threat made against me, a sitting Member of Congress at the time!” And apparently the threat against McKinney was made when Turner admits to having been on the FBI payroll.

Link to sfbayview.com story here
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This is clearly a Civil Rights violation. The FBI should be investigated to determine exactly what part they had in this unethical, racist attack on Rep. Cynthia McKinney.

*special thanks to Chapaev for the heads up on this story

The most famous song about Comrade Che Guevara, performed in 1965 by Carlos Pueblo. Accompanying photos as a salute to Columbia’s Leftist freedom fighters FARC-EP. *video created August 30, 2009

[Great Patriotic War : Berlin 1945] – video produced Aug. 29, 2009.

Nazi war crimes in the Soviet Union, some images are for Mature audiences.
I uploaded the original HQ.wmv that’s in a higher resolution, it looks way better than on Youtube. (6.8mb)

http://sharebee.com/a184f220

http://www.zshare.net/video/6474297060538f7e/

http://depositfiles.com/files/n7di1k7kh

http://www.badongo.com/vid/1230839

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1I7YIQMK

http://rapidshare.com/files/272226231/EasternFront.wmv.html

Released Tuesday April 7, 2009, video also has English subtitles.

Full English transcript posted : here

As Barack Obama announces more US troops to train the Afghanistan army, John D McHugh reports on how US soldiers view their Afghan counterparts as ill-disciplined, badly led and with a crippling taste for hashish.

The first English Jihad Magazine

[) Jihad Recollections - Issue #1 (]

” This is the very first English Jihadi Magazine aimed at the laymen, students of knowledge, political activists, intellectuals and scholars of the Ummah. It will seek to educate the Ummah on a monthly basis as to the latest happenings in fields related to Politics, Society, Economy, Technology etc. as well as educate the Muslims on the worldview of the Jihadi current. This magazine will serve as a platform for the English speaking Muslim Community to discuss their ideas, differences and thoughts on various issues related to the Islamic world and the hot issues which many stay silent on.

As a disclaimer, this magazine only intends to educate Muslims on their creed, political opinions of individual thinkers and writers, current events in light of objective criticism, as well as provide them with a source of understanding the battles in the international arena. ”

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Link to more info and download  here

Cuban influence in Venezuela spreading

The 40,000 Cubans now working in Venezuela have a hand in all kinds of sectors — including security for President Hugo Chávez.

BY CASTO OCANDO
El Nuevo Herald
“Cuban influence in Venezuela is growing beyond politics in a broad range of areas, from agriculture and commerce to energy and education — and even presidential security.

Some 40,000 Cubans are now working in Venezuela, and the island has received millions of dollars in petroleum subsidies that sway between 90,000 and 130,000 barrels a day, according to some estimates.

Héctor Navarro, Venezuela’s minister of education, revealed last month that a group of Cuban experts are giving his government lessons in public education.

”Cubans are advising on how to measure the educational impact in mathematics and language arts,” Navarro told the Caracas daily El Universal. “It is about creating [ways to gauge] the competency that our students must handle.”

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Sources within the Venezuelan military say Cuban military experts control several security circles that protect President Hugo Chávez and have penetrated strategic areas of the armed forces and the central government, including the situation room in Miraflores, Venezuela’s presidential palace.

The Venezuelan government recently announced a program that will supervise police forces throughout the country, and Cuban advisors will play a critical role.”
More here;

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/venezuela/story/933464.html

In April 2003 a new political party “Communists of Petersburg” (CP) was set up in Saint-Petersburg. CP acts in St.-Petersburg and the Leningrad region and has an official. The organization consists of the workers serving, students, pensioners juridical status. The social structure of the organization is universal. As party “Communists of Petersburg” unites political active workers, ecologists, youth leaders, organizers of the public self-government committees and of other civil activists united under the socialistic ideology. The approximate age of the members of CP is 35.

[...]

CP supports relations with all communistic parties of Russia, also left-centered parties. CP comes out sharply against authoritarian and antisocial course held by the power of Russia and considers it necessary to unite left and democratic power fighting against this course.

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There is a 2:38 min. English language video that goes with this text info, it is quite interesting.

Link to the video is here, and their main website link is here.

Shaykh Ayman al-Zawahiri

{ From Kabul to Mogadishu }

English subtitles, released Sunday Feb. 22, 2009. (approx. 25 minutes in length). Shaykh al-Zawahiri goes into great detail about the situation in Somalia, (with many film clips from there) as well as other matters, Yemen etc.  More info here @ AIF and also here @ al-faloja, where if you look, new links will likely appear sooner or later.

“At least 9 people have lost lives as a car laden with explosives targeted a base used by the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM).

The vehicle rammed into the gates of the base housing Burundian African Union Peacekeepers in the Somali capital Mogadishu and was immediately blown up shortly, a Press TV correspondent reported Sunday.

The responsibility for the explosion, which left seven Burundian soldiers killed and tens of civilians wounded, was claimed by al-Shabaab fighters.

“An over-speeding car entered the base. The next thing I saw was black smoke everywhere. It was a horrible incident,” a Burundi peacekeeper was quoted as saying on condition of anonymity.

The bomb attack was followed by a fierce gun battle between Somali fighters and AMISOM troops. Several mortar shells also landed in Bakara market after the explosion but no casualties have yet been reported.

“We have attacked the bases of Burundians in the university with three well-coordinated explosive-filled cars that inflicted heavy casualties on the troops,” said al-Shabaab’s spokesman, Mukhtar Rowbow Abu Mansur.“

link here

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Al-Shabaab pictures of the Shuahda who attacked the AU base today

Quoted material from one of the forums;

“Sheik Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansoor has said a martyrdom bomber who was one of the mujahideen named Ahmed sheikh doonsi wahaliya wearing a jacket with explosives entered the Burundian base and blew himself up and afterwards the Burundians came out of the base and there waiting for them was a brother by the name Mursal Abdi Nur Muhammad Ali who had an explosive car with him and blew it up. And afterwards the mujahideen starting attacking the base with Mortars.”