This is just a small part of a history of financial and moral irregularities that have rocked TI in recent years. Finally, in its online propaganda, TI claims to have a branch in ‘China’ – this is false – as Mainland China views TI as a corrupt bourgeois ‘cult’ that attempts to bully sovereign nations into following US foreign policy.
Month: Mar 2017
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis – Myth & Reality
‘I believe that we created, built and manufactured the Castro movement out of whole cloth and without realising it.’ President John F Kennedy to Jean
The (Maoist) Shining Path & Abimael Guzman
Between 1964 and 1980, the Shining Path followed a path of primarily ideological agitation against this revisionism, but in 1980, Abimael Guzman changed the operating stance of the Shining Path to one of Revolutionary armed struggle. This was in response to the ever growing influence of the United States in Peru, and the intensification of government-led massacres carried-out against the ordinary Peruvian people (the majority of which were comprised of masses of peasantry, as was the case with pre-Revolutionary China).
Palestine: the Hypocrisy of Richard Gere
In September 1948, Israeli militants murdered the UN Ambassador to Israel – Folke Bernadotte – no action was taken against Israel. During 1956, Israel recruited a number of Jewish agents in Egypt and authorised a terrorist campaign of bombing against British and US leisure and business targets (the ‘Lavon Affair’) – no action was taken against Israel.
The San Pedro Mummy – An Investigation
By 1936, the mummy was apparently being exhibited in a circus tent, being described as a 65 year old man weighing under a pound in weight. In 1948, the mummy is said to have been in the possession of used car salesman Ivan Goodman of New York, who travelled around the country exhibiting the object for money.
Aum Shinrikyo (Аум Синрике) in Post-Soviet Russia (1991-1995)
In 1989, Shoko Asahara gave the Dalai Lama one thousand US dollars, in return, the Dalai Lama gave the Japanese a “diploma” and a letter of recommendation. In this letter, addressed to the competent authorities of Tokyo, the Dalai Lama called Shoko Asahara “a very capable spiritual mentor” and defined the sect “Aum Shinrikyo” as “a legitimate distributor of Mahayana Buddhism and a sect that can push the public toward kindness.” The Dalai Lama in the letter even asked the relevant Tokyo authorities “to release the Aum Shinrikyo sect from taxation.”