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Reporter's Notebook: Franz J.T. Lee

About Franz J.T. Lee

Personal Website
http://www.franz-lee.org/venezuela00001.html

Biography
Currently, as Professor Titular, I am living in Mérida, Venezuela, lecturing at the University of The Andes, and in the Post-Graduate Department of Political Science. I am the Director of Investigation of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Sociales de América Latina (CEPSAL), Co-Editor of its Revista de las Cienxias Políticas.

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VENEZUELA: TO SUSPEND OIL SHIPMENT TO USA: IS THIS TRUE?

CORRESPONDENCE LEN OSANIC (BLACK OP RADIO) AND FRANZ LEE.

29/07/04.

Franz...

We need to hear what is going on in Venezuela.
Will you come on Black Op radio for an interview
to talk about this. There is no news at all up here.

Thanks,

Len Osanic.
Len <osanic@prouty.org>

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Venezuela: How To Read Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four Critically Today

Certainly, all over Venezuela, at this moment can be witnessed revolutionary fire among the youth as never before, all over Bolivarian patrollers are organizing the masses, are guarding the victories of the revolution.  However, what is somehow lacking is the profound understanding of the global transhistoric truth about this decisive moment in Venezuelan and Latin American history, the threat of global fascism, in its real violent, brutal consequences.

We studied George Orwell's "1984" again and underlined that what we lived in Venezuela across the last five years, and that what is to come within the following weeks.

En Vísperas de una Revolución Social Continental en Venezuela

Érase una vez un monje extraño que apuradamente cruzó la plaza de Wittenberg (Alemania) hacia la catedral. En todas partes habían campesinos ociosos, discutiendo sobre sus cosechas, sus confesiones, la Iglesia y sus maravillosos amos, observando el espectáculo insólito. Poco después se escuchó un fuerte ruido proveniente del portal de la iglesia; como loco, „lleno de amor y consideración por la verdad” el extraño estaba clavando pedazos de papel sobre el portal gigante, sus famosas 95 tesis. Después desapareció igual cómo había llegado. Desde entonces nadie de los espectadores hablaba más del asunto.

At the Eve of Continental Social Revolution in Venezuela

Once upon a time, a weird monk hurriedly rushed across the central place of Wittenberg, heading for the cathedral. All over peasants were loitering about watching this unusual spectre, discussing about their crops, their confessions, the Church, and about their wonderful feudal lords. Then, suddenly loud noises were heard, coming from the door of the church; like mad, "out of love and concern for the truth," the stranger was hammering pieces of paper onto the huge door, his famous 95 theses. Just as he appeared, so he vanished into thin air. Ever since, none of the onlookers discussed this issue anymore. What the poor peasants did not realize was that they have been witnessing the transhistoric beginning of the Reformation, Luther's attack on the feudalist, absolutist religious superstructure, in fact, they experienced the beginning of the French and Industrial Revolutions, their own historical demise. Already then, we could have witnessed the "friend-enemy" Cold War Syndrome, Luther's flock called him a Protestant hero, a freedom fighter, a wise and insightful church leader. His "opposition" called him a heretic, an apostate, a profane ecclesiastical terrorist. This week, we witnessed another transhistoric similar moment, the so-called "Opposition" in Venezuela, the "Coordinadora Democrática", that had no consensus in who should be its presidential candidate for future elections, and that had only one project in mind "!Qué Chávez se va!", now suddenly wants to present a transitional project called "Consenso País" to the world. President Chávez calls it "Consenso Bush".

Venezuela: The Spatial-Temporal Chains of Illusion

Concerning the Global Positioning System and Weapons of Mass Destruction

"The winning weapon of the American assault on Iraq, like that of World War II, depended on a technology first imagined by Einstein, with some help from Poincare. Not nuclear weapons of mass destruction, but the Global Positioning System, by which the four dimensions of space-time can be so precisely measured as to direct a bomb or a soldier to within 50 feet of any spot on earth."
(WILLIAM R. EVERDELL, New York Times, 17/08/03)

Definitely, if here in Mérida, Venezuela, we could discover Juyá, a planet, rotating beyond Pluto, then surely we could easily develop a Real, Original Science and a True, Authentic Philosophy of the Bolivarian Revolution, directed against the global horror and terror, against the "awestruck" of the White House, the Pentagon, NASA and NATO, against any global positioning system or weaponry.

A Spectre is haunting the Fourth Reich -- the Spectre of Chávez!

Currently, all the oligarchic powers in Venezuela and abroad have entered into a fascist, neo-liberal alliance to exorcise this spectre: Bush and Kerry, OAS and Carter Center, Blair and Berlusconi, Ortega and CAP, "Friends of Venezuela" and Enemies of "Castro-Communism". Where is the "party" in the "opposition" that did not decry Chávez as a "dictator", as a "tyrant"? Where are the anti-governmental "stormtroopers of the apocalypse", the national and international mass media, that did not try to assassinate his character?

Twin Towers and Globospeak

An interesting debate

Hi, Franz:

Note my dialogue with an online contact on 911 and what's next.

Carl Zimmerman <carlfranz@optonline.net>,

CONTEMPORARY RELIGION: WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD

THE DEMOCRATIC PROZAC OF, BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE
Visiting Feuerbach and Marx again in the Epoch of Global Fascism

By  Franz J. T. Lee

Ché Guevara underlined that the duty of all real, true revolutionaries, "is to make the revolution", to act (práxis) and to think (theory) it. In time, this implies also to warn the comrades about mortal ideological dangers, no matter how delicate they may be, even touching "forbidden fruits" and "sacred cows".

Contemporary Political Economy and the Bolivarian Revolution

INTRODUCTION

Certainly, critique of political economy is no more on the order of the day. In many of our reports of current world events, also in the analysis of the current situation in Venezuela, very seldom we grasp the inherent problems at their very roots. However, without its revolutionary tenets, it is well-nigh impossible to fathom the current global essence of the Bolivarian Revolution in Latin America.

In the same way that we thank archaic hieroglyphics for having originated the modern American language, similarly, we have to be grateful to Adam Smith's national economy which did generate the "invisible hand", the "good capitalism" of current, savage, corporate "neo-liberalism".

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About Franz J.T. Lee

Personal Website
http://www.franz-lee.org/venezuela00001.html

Biography
Currently, as Professor Titular, I am living in Mérida, Venezuela, lecturing at the University of The Andes, and in the Post-Graduate Department of Political Science. I am the Director of Investigation of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Sociales de América Latina (CEPSAL), Co-Editor of its Revista de las Cienxias Políticas.