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In a fresh insult to victims of terrorism everywhere, outgoing President Barack Obama decided to commute the 70-year sentence of communist terror leader Oscar Lopez Rivera (shown), whose terrorist group unleashed a wave of savage violence that included more than 120 bombings across the United States. The brutal Fidel Castro-backed Marxist-Leninist terror group, known as the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), murdered six and injured dozens of Americans amid its campaign to enslave Puerto Rico under communist rule. Critics and victims of terror expressed outrage, with some suggesting the move was a green light by Obama for future communist terrorism against innocent Americans.

But far from being a surprise, the latest radical move is merely a reflection of Obama's radical roots. After all, the virtually unknown extremist who grabbed the presidency with the backing of the establishment got his political career off the ground in the home of Castro-backed communist terrorist William Ayers of the Weather Underground a close ally of the FALN terrorists. According to FBI operative Larry Grathwohl who infiltrated the outfit, Ayers' Weathermen group was plotting to exterminate 25 million anti-communist Americans in death camps once they overthrew America with help from foreign communist dictatorships. Like Obama and Ayers, Lopez Rivera was also a community organizer in Chicago.

Under Obama's scheme, announced on January 17, the FALN terrorist leader Lopez Rivera will officially be a free man on May 17. Whether he will resume his terrorist activities remains to be seen. But it is noteworthy that the convicted terror leader refused a previous offer of freedom conditioned upon his renunciation of violence and terrorism. He has never expressed remorse. And as far as anyone knows, Lopez Rivera still believes in the use of terrorism and in murdering innocent people to bring about totalitarian communist enslavement of the Puerto Rican people. Apparently he has some allies in Congress, including longtime Marxist-Leninist activist Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who gushed that he was overjoyed and overwhelmed with emotion.

Perhaps the most infamous attack by the FALN terror group was a 1975 bombing at Fraunces Tavern in New York that killed four innocent victims and injured more than 50. Before that, the FALN had bombed Exxon, Union Carbide, Federal Reserve Bank buildings, and other targets. Among the many victims was a police officer with the New York Police Department, who was maimed and blinded. By 1977, the communist terrorists were bombing Defense Department personnel, too. In an attack on the Mobil building, FALN terrorists killed another victim, critically injuring many more. Fortunately, the terrorists were also rather incompetent, so despite being busted with massive amounts of explosives, their war of terrorism and enslavement was not as deadly as it might have been.

Lopez Rivera was a key player in it all, helping to lead the terrorist group's operations in Chicago and the surrounding area. He was arrested in 1981, when the FBI found large quantities of dynamite, firearms, explosives material, fake identification, and more in his apartments. The terror leader was charged and convicted in federal court for seditious conspiracy, violating the Hobbs Act, illegal possession of weapons, interstate transportation of stolen cars, armed robbery, interstate transportation of firearms, and conspiracy to transport explosives with intent to destroy government property. He was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison by a federal court that same year.

Apologists for communism and terrorism have claimed that there is no proof Lopez Rivera directly murdered anyone, which, as critics have pointed out, could also be said of Osama bin Laden or Terry Nichols. But in his indictment, prosecutors listed 28 terrorist bombings across the Chicago region as overt acts in support of the conspiracy he was convicted of participating in. At his trial, a FALN witness also described, under oath, how Lopez Rivera had personally trained him in how to produce deadly bombs. Throughout the ordeal, he refused to recognize the legitimacy of the court, and he never expressed regret for the murder and mayhem he and his co-conspirators unleashed.

Adding insult to injury, rather than serving his sentence peacefully, the terror leader and his communist co-conspirators concocted a plot to break him out of federal prison at Leavenworth in Kansas by murdering prison guards. Had the plot not been stopped, it would almost certainly have left prison officials and law-enforcement officers dead. After his associates were busted with bombs and guns plotting the escape, Lopez Rivera had his sentence extended by 15 years, time which he will never serve thanks to an outgoing Obama who seems determined to support terrorism and terrorists of any variety all over the world.

But the FALN terror leader could have been free almost a decade ago. With Obama's future scandal-plagued Attorney General Eric Fast-and-Furious Holder operating behind the scenes, then-President Bill Clinton offered in 1999 to commute the sentences of a more than a dozen FALN terrorists, including Lopez Rivera. Eleven were eventually freed. But Lopez Rivera refused the offer because he would have to renounce terror, serve another 10 years, and leave some of his co-conspirators behind. Victims of the FALN's terror campaign were horrified, and the spectacle was so unpopular that even Clinton's wife Hillary Clinton was forced to criticize the move by her husband amid her campaign for the U.S. Senate.

At the time, investigative journalist William F. Jasper with The New American blasted the move by Clinton. The Presidents clemency for FALN thugs opens the door to new acts of violence and exposes the hypocrisy of [Clinton's] supposed tough stance against terrorism, Jasper wrote. This White House-sponsored, massive, terrorist jailbreak was a flagrant and visceral broadside against Americas national security. Numerous law-enforcement personnel who spoke to The New American also expressed outrage at the release of communist terrorists from prison.

Aside from a handful of far-left extremists in entertainment, academia, and government, commentators were aghast at Obama's decision, blasting the unconscionable move to free an unrepentant terrorist. Even some establishment voices were taken aback by the move. The FALN's season of insurrection is long over, wrote columnist Charles Lane with the far-left Washington Post in a piece that was also run by the pro-Obama Chicago Tribune. But for the group's victims, as well as for all Americans concerned with the consequences our government applies to terrorists, this last-minute get-out-of-jail-free card for Oscar Lopez Rivera seems anything but well-timed.

On the other hand, Obama's Castro-backed terrorist friend Bill Ayers, who wanted to exterminate 25 million Americans in death camps with help from Beijing, Havana, and Moscow, was ecstatic when he learned of the news. Still in the air, dancing in the aisles, the unrepentant communist terrorist and Obama ally wrote on Facebook after hearing of Lopez Rivera's imminent release. The day before, Ayers tweeted that he was on his way to Havana headquarters of the mass-murdering Communist Cuban dictatorship, which helped finance and guide his terror attacks in America but that he would return in time to rise up in Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump's inauguration.

The Communist Party USA and its official mouthpiece People's World also celebrated the decision. Oscar will be freed! wrote the communist propagandists, absurdly describing the terrorist as a political prisoner who was in prison merely for fighting for his country's independence. Also celebrating the move was Jacobin magazine, which falsely argued that Lopez Rivera's conviction on seditious conspiracy charges was the equivalent of a thought crime.

The far-left Spanish-language broadcaster Univision, which targets Hispanics with deception and propaganda, completely whitewashed the terror leader's crimes. In what critics described as fake news, the increasingly discredited Univision even suggested the terrorist was jailed merely for pursuing the independence ideal, assuring that all human beings have the right to want their country to be free and sovereign. Much of the English-speaking establishment media simply ignored the explosive developments altogether, focusing instead on Obama's decision to free leaker Bradley Manning.

Ironically, despite decades of scheming by Lopez Rivera and the totalitarian forces behind his terror campaign, the people of Puerto Rico themselves do not wish to be independent from the United States much less to live under a Stalinist regime akin to the barbaric dictatorship enslaving Cuba that also backed the FALN. Today, just a tiny radical fringe in Puerto Rico supports the FALN agenda. But that does not mean the terrorists and the forces behind them are no longer a threat to life, liberty, and property.

With this move freeing Lopez Rivera, Obama has again disrespected victims of terrorism and American law enforcement, while emboldening communists and terrorists everywhere. But unfortunately, the latest scheme from the White House follows a long pattern over the last eight years of this administration. From aiding and abetting Marxist mass-murderers in Cuba and El Salvador to shilling for amnesty and seats in Congress for brutal Marxist terrorists in Colombia and beyond, Obama has been among the biggest enablers of terrorism in U.S. history. It is time for Congress and the next administration to find out what has been going on.

Alex Newman, a foreign correspondent for The New American, is normally based in Europe. Follow him on Twitter @ALEXNEWMAN_JOU. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Zuma is a communist or at minimum has a communist ideology, was a member of the communist party previously, empathizes with Mugabe of Zimbabwe, another communist.

This policy wreaks of communism. Doesn't South Africa have enough of problems as it is without going more towards communism? Work on the real problems, housing (no one should have to live in substandard housing/shacks or informal settlements, unemployment (25% unemployment is ridiculous), jobs and education.

Ramaphosa is a capitalist, owning the franchises in RSA for both McDonald's and Coca-Cola. If you insist on sticking with the ANC, at least let him run the helm and get your country back on track.

Just tell me one place in the world where communism has been successful. You've got a beautiful country. Tackle the real problems at hand.

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Leaders across Europe havereacted to President-Elect Donald J. Trumps commentsin an interview withThe Times, where he said that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was no longer fit for purpose in the 21st century, and criticised members who do not pay their minimum spend obligations on defence.

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The interview statements of the American president-elect caused, indeed here in Brussels, astonishment and agitation, said Germanys foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

When asked about these comments by interviewer and former German vice chancellor Philipp Rsler, Scaramucci spoke favourably of the supranational bloc, saying: NATO was designed to fortify the Western European democracies against the spectre of Communism. You can argue whether it was successful or not. I think it was resoundingly successful.

Mr. Trump had likewise stressed that NATO was very important to [him] in his interview with The Times.

However, Mr. Scaramucci told the audience at the World Economic Forum (WEF): Today the world is dramatically different than how it was before.

The member of the president-elects transition team continued: The Soviet Union is separate countries and the largest of those countries, Russia, is in the G8.

We have sanctions against Russia now and we may have some disagreements with Russia. But at the end of the day, the president-elect is saying Lets try to find some common cause, lets try to find a way to get along better.'

Mr. Scaramucci told the audience of the worlds elite that the president-elects comments were a call for radical reform.

Whats hes saying about NATO today, in 2017, maybe we need to focus less on combating Communism and more on potentially rejecting radical Islamic terrorism.

So when he uses the word obsolete and people run around saying, hes going to bust up NATO thats not what hes saying. Theres a two to three per cent expenditure and some people arent paying their bills.

Speculating on how a businessman, rather than a professional politician, would address the deficits, Mr. Scaramucci added: Hes a real estate developer. What do you think hes going to do? Hes going to go to those countries and say, Hey you signed this thing, you owe the money, start paying up.

Last year, just five of the 28 countries in NATO, including Britain and the U.S., maintained their obligation to the treaty by spending a minimum two per cent of their Gross Domestic Product annually on defence.

In addition to nations fulfilling this obligation, the soon-to-be director of public liaison suggested that NATO members should reorganise and recharter.

We have to think about changing that treaty to front-face the 21st and 22nd centuries.

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As an American citizen and honorably discharged veteran of this great country, for the first time in my life I have concern about our well being.

When you have a man who is going to be our commander in chief and has little or absolutely no respect for our intelligence agency, it speaks for itself. A man who displays having more intelligence than anyone is a very one-sided dangerous situation. Unfortunately, he disrespects everyone who wears or has worn the uniforms of the services of this great country.

I speak as an American patriot, not as one labeled Democrat or Republican. I fought in the jungles of Vietnam and I was there as an American. I feel sorry for people who do not love this country or know her importance in the world. Our country should never be sold short by anyone.

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The juxtaposition of these two names in the title may come as a surprise to many readers. What do a de facto Social Democrat who wanted to reform Communism and a billionaire right-wing populist magnate have in common?

Indeed, if we focus on their ideologies and individual histories (to the extent that they matter), the answer is nothing not almost nothing, but nothing!

But if we look at them and their moment in history from a structural perspective, similarities are inescapable. For starters, neither man believed in the hierarchically structured international systems they preside(d) over. Both men are part of the ruling elite, but fought against it.

Gorbachev came to power in 1985 planning to reform Soviet Communism so that it could be economically more efficient and provide higher incomes for its people.

In the international realm, the countries of the socialist camp were organized in such a way that the USSR was their leader. The USSR, in turn, was led by the Communist party. And the Communist party was led by its Secretary General.

So, whatever the Secretary General decided to do, the USSR did, and whatever the USSR wanted to do had to be acquiesced in or imitated by the allies, or the satellite countries.

In the words of a Yugoslav ambassador to the USSR in the 1950s, when the weather changed in Moscow, if it became colder, we would all put on winter coats. And if it got warmer, as with Khrushchevs thaw, we would all wear short sleeved-shirts.

When Gorbachev came to power and staked out positions that were entirely dissonant from whatever had come from the Kremlin before, the Soviet and East European Communist elites were totally taken aback and paralyzed.

Reforming the economic and political systems and letting the Warsaw Pact countries do it their own way (the Sinatra song evoked by Gorbachev) were not just deeply troubling ideas. They were also directly antithetical to the elites power and to the ideological legitimation of their rule.

At the same time, those elites could not imagine attacking the Secretary Generals position. After all, the Secretary General, not unlike the Pope, was supposed to be infallible.

Torn between an obvious undermining of their rule and inability to mount a defense, they helplessly waited for the outcome, doing nothing.

We know by now that the eventual outcome was the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, as well as the end of Communism as a way to organize society.

The Western capitalist world was organized in 1945 in a fashion that was structured in a remarkably similar hierarchical fashion. The countries in the Western camp were equal, but one was more equal.

In fact, were it not for the United States and the effort and money it expended in Europe and Japan, it is very unlikely that Europe and Japan would today look the way they do.

At the top of the more equal country sits its president. And while U.S. presidents have had their own idiosyncrasies (think Nixon or Carter), there were basic rules that they all observed. In particular, a close military and political union of culturally similar, U.S.-led democracies was never questioned.

The Western elites, including in the United States, might have liked one president more than another (the European infatuation with Obama was quite extraordinary), but they felt safe that the essential architecture of the international system, created by the United States, would be upheld by the United States.

With Trump now questioning the modus operandi of NATO pretty much the same way that Gorbachev wondered about the need for the Warsaw Pact, that assurance is gone (or seems to be gone).

In Trumps world, the EU is not sacrosanct either, nor is the WTO or the entire international architecture that the United States built from 1945 onwards.

The elite in the West, like the Communist elites in the East some 30 years ago, are now at a loss. Aping or accepting the rhetoric emanating from Washington goes against the body of rituals and beliefs they have created and defended over the past 70 years.

Yet, opposing Washington, like opposing the Secretary General, seems out of the question. After all, no similar system can be set up by a European power, nor by a combination of European powers.

As a result, the Western elites treat Trump as they would treat a tiger with whom they are unwillingly locked in a cage: They try to be friendly to the tiger hoping to avoid being eaten, but they hope that the tiger would soon be taken out of the cage.

Will Trump have a similarly devastating effect on democracies that Gorbachev had on Communism? I doubt it, because the Western democratic societies are more resilient and organic.

If they are not, to use Nassim Talebs terminology, anti-fragile (i.e., thriving in chaos), they are at least robust.

Communist societies, being hierarchical, were extremely brittle. Western societies have technocratic elites in power, but these elites are subject to recall and they do have democratic legitimation.

Further, capitalism unlike Communism is economically successful. There are very few people in France who would like to be ruled as China is ruled today. There were millions in Poland who craved to be ruled like France.

Trump will not, I think, destroy some essential structures of the Western system as it was built after the World War II.

However, with his rough, chaotic and unpredictable governing style, he might scare the ruling elites in the West, encourage revisionists and bring about changes that will alter the world as it was created in Yalta and Potsdam.

Many people regretted that the Clinton Administration failed to seize the moment at the end of the Cold War to create a more just international order that would be based on the rules of law, would not be dichotomic or even Manichean, one with its origin in the Cold War, and one that would include Russia rather than leave it out in the cold.

Trump is unlikely to create a new structure, but he can break parts of the old one. That would be quite ironic, for Trump has always carefully guarded his reputation as a (real estate) builder not a demolition company.

In short, it doesnt seem as if he has any new Trump Tower in mind for a different Western architecture. If that comes to pass, he might usher in a post-Cold War era, the contours of which no one can as of yet properly imagine. Trump would thus close the book on 1945.

Finally, if one wanted to be really imaginative and/or optimistic Trump may have one possible ace up his sleeve. The Clinton administration failed to create a more inclusive international order at the end of the Cold War, especially in relation to Russia.

Trump seems inclined to change at least that particular feature. To what extent a dtente with Moscow if it indeed happens, given Trumps unpredictability means a qualitative change in global politics remains to be seen.

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