Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: i leaks che "stranamente" non interessano alla stampa di regime

How many times have we been told that the U.S. is an �open� society and the
media are �free�?
Usually such claims are made when criticizing other countries for not being
�open,� especially countries that don�t follow Washington�s agenda.
If you live in the United States and depend on the supposedly �free� and �open�
commercial media for information, you would without a doubt believe that the
Chinese government massacred �hundreds, perhaps thousands� of students in Tiananmen
Square on June 4, 1989. That phrase has been repeated tens of thousands of
times by the media of this country.
But it�s a myth. Furthermore, the U.S. government knows it�s a myth. And all
the major media know it too. But they refuse to correct the record because
of the basic hostility of the U.S. imperialist ruling class to China.
On what do we base this assertion? Several sources.
The most recent is a WikiLeaks release of cables sent from the U.S. Embassy
in Beijing to the State Department in June 1989, a few days after the events
in China.
Second is an assertion in November 1989 by the Beijing bureau chief of the
New York Times, an assertion that has never again been referred to by that
newspaper.
And third is the account of what happened by the Chinese government itself,
which is corroborated by the first two.
Only one major Western newspaper has published the WikiLeaks cables. That was
the Telegraph of London on June 4 of this year, exactly 22 years after the
Chinese government called out the troops in Beijing.
Two cables dated July 7, 1989 � more than a month after the fighting � related
the following:
�A Chilean diplomat provides an eye-witness account of the soldiers entering
Tiananmen Square: He watched the military enter the square and did not observe
any mass firing of weapons into the crowds, although sporadic gunfire was heard.
He said that most of the troops which entered the square were actually armed
only with anti-riot gear � truncheons and wooden clubs; they were backed up
by armed soldiers.�
A following cable stated: �A Chilean diplomat provides an eye-witness account
of the soldiers entering Tiananmen Square: Although gunfire could be heard,
he said that apart from some beating of students, there was no mass firing
into the crowd of students at the monument.�
It should be remembered that Chile at that time was ruled by Gen. Augusto Pinochet,
who had come to power in a violent, anti-socialist, U.S.-supported right-wing
coup in which thousands of leftists, including President Salvador Allende,
had been killed. The �Chilean diplomat� referred to would have been no friend
of China.
Not one U.S. newspaper, television or radio outlet has reported or commented
on these cables released by WikiLeaks, nor on the Telegraph story about them.
It is as though they fell into a bottomless chasm.
Is it because the media here don�t believe the report is credible? Hardly.
They knew the truth in 1989
The New York Times knows it�s credible. Their own Beijing bureau chief at the
time, Nicholas Kristof, confirmed it in an extensive article entitled �China
Update: How the Hardliners Won,� published in the Sunday Times magazine on
Nov. 12, 1989, five months after the supposed massacre in the square.
At the very end of this long article, which purported to give an inside view
of a debate within the Chinese Communist Party leadership, Kristof stated categorically:
�Based on my observations in the streets, neither the official account nor
many of the foreign versions are quite correct. There is no massacre in Tiananmen
Square, for example.�
Even though Kristof�s article was harshly critical of China, his statement
that there was �no massacre in Tiananmen Square� immediately drew howls of
protest from China bashers in the U.S., as reflected in the Times� letters
column.
Had there been fighting in Beijing? Absolutely. But there was no massacre of
unarmed students in the square. That was an invention by the West, intended
to demonize the Chinese government and win public sympathy for a counter-revolution.
The turn toward a market economy under Deng Xiaoping had alienated many workers.
There was also a counter-revolutionary element trying to take advantage of
popular grievances to completely restore capitalism.
The imperialists were hoping the struggles in Beijing would bring down the
Chinese Communist Party and destroy the planned economy � similar to what was
to happen two years later in the Soviet Union. They wanted to �open up� China,
not to truth, but to the looting of the people�s property by imperialist banks
and corporations.
After much wavering at the top, the army was called out and the uprising crushed.
China was not broken up like the Soviet Union; its economy has not imploded
nor has the standard of living declined. Quite the opposite. Wages and social
conditions have been improving at a time when workers elsewhere are being forced
backward by a severe capitalist economic crisis.
Despite deep concessions to capitalism, foreign and domestic, China continues
to have a planned economy based on a strong state-owned infrastructure
http://www.workers.org/2011/world/tiananmen_0707/
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uomo bianco parla con lingua biforcuta.
dio non esiste, e Pecorella � il suo profeta


241 morti negli scontri a Pechino � il dato ufficiale del governo cinese. 

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che � qualcosina di meno di una piazza Tienanmen ridotta a un cumulo di cadaveri,
eh.
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 eh.
Questo dice qualcosa solo sulle dimensioni della piazza.
-- 
Namib
"La force ne fait ni raison ni droit ; mais il est peut-ï¿œtre impossible 
de s'en passer, pour faire respecter le droit et la raison" (Saint-Just)

 eh.
Ah, adesso cambia tutto eh!

Questo dice qualcosa solo sulle dimensioni della piazza.
che � MOLTO pi� capiente di 240 cadaveri. Non ti intendi di Cina, n� di qualsiasi
altra cosa.
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uomo bianco parla con lingua biforcuta.
il Diamat � la spiegazione di tutte le cose

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ess�, c'� una bella differenza tra parlare di un mezzo genocidio, e di una
rivolta, finanziata dall'occidente, sedata.
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uomo bianco parla con lingua biforcuta.
il Diamat � la spiegazione di tutte le cose

 che ï¿œ MOLTO piï¿œ capiente di 240 cadaveri. Non ti intendi di Cina
Meglio non raccontarti barzellette di sabato, o ridi la domenica in chiesa.
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 rivolta, finanziata dall'occidente, sedata.
Bene, vedo che è bastato poco riposo per tornare arzillo come prima,
col pistolino che si tira su appena vedi sangue.