[Marxism] New TV series whitewashes the impact of imperialism on the Pacific

[Scott Hamilton]

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http://www.readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/te-radar-in-pacific-new-journey-same.html

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[Marxism] Heartland Labor Forum at KKFI in Kansas City interviewed me on June 14.

[michael perelman]

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sorry,  I left off the subject header.
I come on in the second half, maybe around 35 minutes into the show.

http://cas.umkc.edu/labor-ed/documents/HLF-June14-12-RetirementOntheLine_and_InvisibleHandcuffsOfCapitalism.mp3


-- 
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Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
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[Marxism] Iran, Russia, China, Syria to Stage Biggest Joint Wargames in Middle-East

[Ralph Johansen]

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*http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31630.htm
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*Iran, Russia, China, Syria to Stage Biggest Joint Wargames in Middle-East
*
*By Fars News Agency*

June 19, 2012   -- TEHRAN (FNA 
)- The Iranian, 
Russian, Chinese and Syrian armies are due to stage joint amphibious 
exercises along the Syrian costs in coming weeks, informed sources 
revealed on Monday.


According to informed sources, 90,000 forces from the four countries 
will take part in the land and sea wargames due to be held in Syria.


Ground, air and sea forces as well as air defense and missile units of 
the four countries will take part in the exercises.


Sources also said that Egypt has acceded to grant passage to 12 Chinese 
warships to sail through the Suez Canal, adding that the military convoy 
is due to dock at the Syrian harbors in the next two weeks.


Russian atomic submarines and warships, aircraft carriers and 
mine-clearing destroyers as well as Iranian battleships and submarines 
will also arrive in Syria at around the same date.


Syria plans to test its coast-to-sea and air defense missiles in the 
wargames.


A sum of 400 warplanes and 1,000 tanks will also be used in the exercises.

A Syrian official, who asked to remain anonymous, had informed two weeks 
ago that the drills would be conducted in Syria soon.


Unofficial sources also said the four countries are now busy with taking 
swift preparatory measures for these biggest-ever wargames in the 
Middle-East.


Sham Life reported that the maneuvers will be stage in less than one 
month from now, that is early June.


©2006 Fars News Agency. All rights reserved

See also - /*Russia, Syria deny war games with China and Iran:* 
Russia 
and Syria on Tuesday denied an Iranian media report that Syria would 
host Russian, Chinese and Iranian military forces for joint exercises./


/*Russian Ship Stopped Over Suspected Arms Shipment to Syria* 
: 
A British insurance company has cancelled insurance for a Russian ship 
it believes is carrying munitions to Syria, effectively halting the 
vessel unless another insurer agrees to cover it./



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[Marxism] (no subject)

[michael perelman]

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I come on in the second half, maybe around 35 minutes into the show.
http://cas.umkc.edu/labor-ed/documents/HLF-June14-12-RetirementOntheLine_and_InvisibleHandcuffsOfCapitalism.mp3


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[Marxism] Julian Assange Seeks Asylum at Ecuadorian Embassy

[Tom Quinn]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-seeks-asylum-at-ecuadors-embassy-in-london/2012/06/19/gJQATMo0oV_story.html


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Re: [Marxism] Unconfirmed reports of Hosni Mubaraks death coming in...

[Gary MacLennan]

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>   Mark wrote:
>
>>
>>
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> A Franco replay!?!
>

Yes and just as enjoyable. Slow it down.  Savour the moment.  & while we
are at it what about Ariel Sharon?

comradely

Gary

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[Marxism] Hillary corrupts AI for US propaganda

[Carl G. Estabrook]

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http://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/18/amnestys-shilling-for-us-wars/

'...In the decades after Vietnam, a number of military scholars  
identified declining American public support for that war as the main  
factor responsible for the U.S. “losing” Vietnam. One lesson learned  
and quickly implemented was to get rid of the military draft and put  
the wars on a credit card so fewer citizens would pay attention.
Some control also had to be gained over the type of free media (that  
led to trusted TV anchor Walter Cronkite broadcasting his public  
souring on the Vietnam War). A whole series of war propaganda systems,  
from planting retired generals as “talking heads” on TV to the  
assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld deciding to “embed the  
media,” have worked pretty well to maintain the necessary level of war  
momentum in mainstream media and amongst public opinion...'


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Re: [Marxism] Carlo's Corner: Let's destroy the Great Barrier Reef already

[Landis Bernard]

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> Tony Abbott is right: we can't allow a “Green
> veto”
> to hold back a huge expansion in the Queensland coal export industry.
> 
> http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51341
> -- 
> “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s
> original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made,
> through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man
> Under Socialism
> 
> “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of
> dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker
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Re: [Marxism] Unconfirmed reports of Hosni Mubaraks death coming in...

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On 20.06.2012 00:28, Mark Lause wrote:


revived him after a massive heart attack -- on life support


A Franco replay!?!

Einde O'Callaghan


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[Marxism] Badiou on Arab Spring

[jay rothermel]

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http://www.mediafire.com/view/?vki2tvo8zhnpftx

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Re: [Marxism] Unconfirmed reports of Hosni Mubaraks death coming in...

[Mark Lause]

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revived him after a massive heart attack -- on life support

https://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&tab=mn


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[Marxism] Unconfirmed reports of Hosni Mubaraks death coming in...

[james pitman]

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...just announced on a show I'm watching, nothing else as yet.

1 down, hundreds left!

Jamie.

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Re: [Marxism] Julian Assange seeking asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in London

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Another achievement of having a "lesser evil" "liberal" Democratic
regime, who spares no effort to bring in Assange with minimal evil..

ML


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[Marxism] Documentary: 'Granito' : How to Nail a Dictator - PBS(US) - June 28

[Dennis Brasky]

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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:14 AM, National Security Archive
wrote:

> 'Granito' comes to your living room
>
> PBS's program Documentaries with a Point of View (POV) is nationally
> airing the documentary film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator on Thursday,
> June 28, 2012 at 10pm on PBS.  The film highlights the work of National
> Security Archive's Guatemala Documentation Project director Kate Doyle. See
> here [
> http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/granito%E2%80%9D-to-debut-in-new-york-at-human-rights-watch-international-film-festival/]
> for a review of 'Granito,' and here [
> http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/reporting-from-sundance-granito-a-film-that-makes-history/]
> for Kate's reflections on "a film that makes history."
>
> In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America, a Guatemalan court
> recently charged former dictator Efrain Rios Montt with genocide for his
> brutal war against the country's Mayan people in the 1980s -- and Pamela
> Yates' 1983 documentary, When the Mountains Tremble, provided key evidence
> for bringing the indictment. Granito: How to Nail a Dictator tells the
> extraordinary story of how a film, aiding a new generation of human rights
> activists, became a granito -- a tiny grain of sand -- that helped tip the
> scales of justice.
>
> You can visit this link [http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvschedule/?ref=povhptopr]
> and enter your zip code to find your local PBS channel and schedule. The
> film will also be streaming online on PBS website for free, available in
> English and Spanish, from June 29, 2012 through July 28, 2012. See a
> trailer here [http://video.pbs.org/video/2221937101].
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[Marxism] Julian Assange seeking asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in London

[Louis Proyect]

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/19/julian-assange-wikileaks-asylum-ecuador

Julian Assange seeking asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in London

WikiLeaks founder walked into the embassy and asked for asylum 
under the United Nations human rights declaration


Beatrice Woolf
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 June 2012 15.10 EDT

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sought political asylum at 
the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.


He walked into the embassy in London's Knightsbridge district and 
asked for asylum under the United Nations Human Rights Declaration.


A man speaking from the embassy said the whistleblower had arrived 
there today.


Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino also confirmed the 
Australian had taken refuge at its embassy and that the country's 
government was weighing up the request.


A message was posted on the Wikileaks Twitter account, saying: 
"ALERT: Julian Assange has requested political asylum and is under 
the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy in London."


A second read: "We will have more details on the Ecuadorian 
situation soon."


The dramatic move by Assange followed his long-running legal bid 
to halt his extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime 
allegations.


The UK Supreme Court decided on May 30 that extradition was lawful 
and could go ahead, but Assange was given time to consider the 
judgment.


The Swedish authorities want him to answer accusations of raping a 
woman and sexually molesting and coercing another in Stockholm in 
August 2010 while on a visit to give a lecture.


Assange, whose WikiLeaks website has published a mass of leaked 
diplomatic cables that embarrassed several governments and 
international businesses, says the sex was consensual and the 
allegations against him are politically motivated.


Last week the supreme court reaffirmed its rejection of the 
40-year-old's appeal against his extradition, turning down an 11th 
hour request to reopen the case.


In a brief statement, the court said the application was "without 
merit and it is dismissed."


The supreme court case revolved around the question of whether a 
prosecutor constituted a "judicial authority" as the European 
arrest warrant specifies.


The court found by a majority of five to two against Assange, 
saying that the warrant was valid.


In its statement declining to reopen the case, the court said it 
had agreed unanimously that extradition proceedings should not 
begin for another two weeks.


Assange's marathon legal battle has played out in the glare of 
worldwide publicity and his court appearances have previously 
attracted a range of celebrity supporters and members of the 
public who back him.

Julian Assange seeking asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in London

WikiLeaks founder walked into the embassy and asked for asylum 
under the United Nations human rights declaration


Beatrice Woolf
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 June 2012 15.10 EDT


He walked into the embassy in London's Knightsbridge district and 
asked for asylum under the United Nations Human Rights Declaration.


A man speaking from the embassy said the whistleblower had arrived 
there today.


Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patino also confirmed the 
Australian had taken refuge at its embassy and that the country's 
government was weighing up the request.


A message was posted on the Wikileaks Twitter account, saying: 
"ALERT: Julian Assange has requested political asylum and is under 
the protection of the Ecuadorian embassy in London."


A second read: "We will have more details on the Ecuadorian 
situation soon."


The dramatic move by Assange followed his long-running legal bid 
to halt his extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime 
allegations.


The UK Supreme Court decided on May 30 that extradition was lawful 
and could go ahead, but Assange was given time to consider the 
judgment.


The Swedish authorities want him to answer accusations of raping a 
woman and sexually molesting and coercing another in Stockholm in 
August 2010 while on a visit to give a lecture.


Assange, whose WikiLeaks website has published a mass of leaked 
diplomatic cables that embarrassed several governments and 
international businesses, says the sex was consensual and the 
allegations against him are politically motivated.


Last week the supreme court reaffirmed its rejection of the 
40-year-old's appeal against his extradition, turning down an 11th 
hour request to reopen the case.


In a brief statement, the court said the application was "without 
merit and it is dismissed."


The supreme court case revolved around the question of whether a 
prosecutor constituted a "judicial authority" as the European 
arrest warrant specifies.


The court found by a majority of five to two aga

[Marxism] De-Stalinise Marxism: Patnaik

[sudhir devadas]

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De-Stalinise Marxism: Patnaik
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article3541359.ece
 
Economist and the former Vice-Chairman of the State Planning
Board Prabhat Patnaik has said that “the developments in Kerala over the last
several days have been a source of great pain and anguish” for him and called
for interventions against the twin threats of “hegemonised bourgeois
liberalism” and “feudal Stalinism” preying the Communist Party of India-Marxist
(CPI-M) in Kerala and elsewhere.
 
Prof. Patnaik has, in an e-mail response to criticism about his
participation in a seminar to be organised by the Chintha Ravindran Foundation
to commemorate the late film-maker and writer ‘Chintha' Ravindran, given his
association with the CPI(M), which is facing serious allegations following the
murder of Revolutionary Marxist Party (RMP) leader T.P. Chandrasekharan, said
what the developments in Kerala posed for him were not just moral but also
existential. Prof. Patnaik, who was replying to the criticism from K.T. Ram
Mohan, associate professor at the School of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi
University, that Prof. Patnaik's participation in the programme scheduled to be
held in Kozhikode in the first week of July would amount to legitimising the
“murderous party,” said that he was looking forward to the seminar as an
occasion “to critique the feudal-Stalinist trend that one encounters in Kerala,
and also elsewhere.”
 
“I have been with the party for 37 years, having joined it at
the start of the Emergency. My father had been a freedom-fighter and an early
Communist (he was a founder of the Communist Party in Orissa in 1936). Having
seen in my childhood the enormous sacrifices the Communists made, and the
dedication to the cause of the working people that they had, it had always been
my ambition to join the party which was finally realised in 1975. For this very
reason, however, the developments in Kerala over the last several days have
been a source of great pain and anguish for me. The problems they pose for me
are not just moral but also existential.”
 
“I see Communism in India today as being threatened in two ways:
either being hegemonised by bourgeois liberalism, or as falling prey to a
feudal-Stalinism. What is common to both these trends is an implicit lack of
conviction about socialism, an implicit subscription to the neo-liberal
‘development' agenda, and an implicit denial of scope for people's empowerment.
Succumbing to either or both these threats would be disastrous and totally
against the interests of the people. If socialism is to be brought back on the
agenda, then an alternative de-Stalinised Marxism has to be practiced. I saw
the seminar as such an occasion because I knew that it would be attended by
intellectuals seriously interested in Marxism. I do not often get an
opportunity to interact with such a group.”
A reflection of
trends
When contacted for his permission for reproduction of his mail
message in print, Prof. Patnaik, a member of the CPI(M) since 1975, told The
Hindu from New Delhi that “anybody who is serious about the future of
the party and the country would want to see the democratic traditions of the
party strengthened.”
His observations should be seen in the general context of
Kerala.
 
“Kerala is a feudal society, fundamentally. The trends in the
party are not exclusive to it, but a reflection of the trends in Kerala
society,” Prof. Patnaik said.
 

 
‘Developments in Kerala have caused anguish, pain’
Express news service Posted online: Mon Jun 18 2012, 01:48 hrs                  
                                         
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/developments-in-kerala-have-caused-anguish-pain/963281/
 
Thiruvananthapuram : Joining the political debate stemming from the murder of
rebel CPM leader T P Chandrasekharan, Marxist economist Prabhat Patnaik said a
“de-Stalinised Marxism” has to be practiced if Socialism was to be brought back
on the agenda of Indian Communism.
 
In an e-mail send to organisers of a
seminar slated for next month in Kozhikode, in which he was invited to speak,
Patnaik said the developments in Kerala over the past several days have been a
source of great pain and anguish for him.
 
“The problems they posed for me are not
just moral but also existential,’’ he said, observing that the seminar held in
memorial to film director Chintha Ravi would be an occasion to critique the
feudal-Stalinist trend that one encounters in Kerala and also elsewhere.
 
He said the Communism in India was
being threatened in two ways — either being hegemonised by bourgeois liberalism
or as falling prey to a feudal-Stalinism. In both trends, he said, there was an
i

[Marxism] Our dying corporate class is the guarantee that the mass movement will expand and flourish

[Louis Proyect]

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Over the past few days, I have noticed a couple of articles sizing 
up the Occupy movement’s status. One comes from the left, and the 
other from an inside-the-beltway liberal pundit. Let me dispense 
with the last one first.


Although he is obviously at the Washington Post because his 
opinions jibe with his employer’s, I always find Dana Milbank 
worth reading, if for no other reason than he avoids the 
circumlocutions typical of the op-ed writer. In a piece titled 
Occupy Wall Street movement has hit a wall, Milbank makes an 
amalgam between Van Jones and Robert Borosage’s Take Back the 
American Dream Conference and the sans culottes movement that 
raised hell on Wall Street and dozens of other cities last year. 
It is understandable why he would confuse the two, since in his 
eyes Van Jones is “far left”. When I noticed that, I dashed off a 
letter to Milbank:


	Dana, you have to get out more. Jones is an old-fashioned 
liberal, like George McGovern. I, on the other hand, am a far 
leftist. I would like to see the publishers of the Washington Post 
stripped of their assets and put in prison for their role in 
backing George W. Bush’s war in Iraq. You should be spared, of 
course, after undergoing ideological rectification.


full: 
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/our-dying-corporate-class-is-the-guarantee-that-the-mass-movement-will-expand-and-flourish/



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[Marxism] Sam Gindin Interview on the Crisis of Labor

[Andrew Loewen]

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Doug Henwood's recent half-hour long interview with Gindin on the crisis of
labor is the most important assessment of the crisis of labor I've
encountered. So important I took the time to transcribe the whole thing
over the weekend. It ought to be widely circulated and discussed. If anyone
wants a Word doc of the transcript, please email me.


The edited transcript:

http://lbo-news.com/2012/06/18/sam-gindin-on-the-crisis-in-labor/

- A

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Re: [Marxism] Why the U.S. Media Barely Covered Brutal Right-Wing Race Riots in Tel Aviv

[Sebastian Clare]

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> http://www.alternet.org/story/155866/why_the_u.s._media_barely_covered_brutal_right-wing_race_riots_in_tel_aviv?page=entire
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>
It wasn't just the US media either - here in Ireland, as far as I know, not
a single broadcaster or publication picked up the story, neither did the
BBC. I can't speak for British newspapers, but I would imagine that that
was the case with them too.

I never would have even been aware of what was taking place but for Twitter
(the people's medium?) and even then, when I try to tell people of the
'Afrikristalnacht' that occurred, very few people seem willing - or able -
to believe it.


Solidarity,
Seb

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[Marxism] GLTV national round-up video report on World Refugee Day rallies

[Alex Bainbridge]

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Check here for the Green Left TV video which is a national round up of the
World Refugee Day rallies last weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9rzuyE8n1k

Read the full Green Left Report with photos, article and video:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51354


-- 
*Alex Bainbridge*
*0413 976 638  **  al...@greenleft.org.au*

*Check out:*
www.greenleft.org.au
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Re: [Marxism] Rio+20 ideology

[Daniel Rocha]

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I am getting a 3 day holiday here. The "authorities" must be protected. I
really don't think this meeting is of much more relevance than
those annually held in Davos.

2012/6/19 Patrick Bond 

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> (Any suggestions on how to do this kind of critical interpretation in
> easier-to-understand language - or how to better address the 'natural
> capital' challenge from bourgeois economists? Running off now to hear Gus
> Speth debate Nick Stern.)
>
> http://climateandcapitalism.**com/2012/06/18/at-rio20-**
> values-versus-prices/?utm_**source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_**
> campaign=at-rio20-values-**versus-prices
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Re: [Marxism] Prometheus: the Tea Party in Space

[Daniel Rocha]

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Well, it seems she is not a mutated zombie... I don't know why, but I
really liked this movie.

2012/6/19 Daniel Lindvall 

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> be true (for a while:). But superhuman strength is hardly evidence for
> being a robot in the history of Hollywood action movies...
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[Marxism] 3 Colleges' Different Approaches Shape Learning in Econ 101

[Louis Proyect]

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http://chronicle.com/article/Econ-101-From-College-to/132299/

June 18, 2012
3 Colleges' Different Approaches Shape Learning in Econ 101
Econ 101: From College to College, Only the Name Is the Same

By Dan Berrett

No matter the college, a class in the principles of microeconomics 
is likely to cover the discipline's greatest hits.


Opportunity cost? Check. Supply and demand? Ditto. The same goes 
for such topics as comparative advantage, elasticity, and market 
structures.


But these touchstones of the curriculum may only modestly 
influence what a student actually learns. What matters more are a 
course's unspoken attributes that colleges rarely make plain and 
about which students almost never ask: For what sort of student is 
the course ­really meant? How does the professor teach and assess 
the material? And what does he or she think the discipline is all 
about?


The importance of these factors became clear during a recent 
semester-long experiment during which I audited 
principles-of-microeconomics courses at three institutions. As 
questions proliferate about the value of college, those outside 
academe are wondering what a course's name really signifies on a 
graduate's transcript. What would these three building-block 
classes say about the goals and rigor of undergraduate education, 
and about colleges' efforts to engage students?


Each institution chose the professor whose section I audited. One 
was a research-intensive private institution, George Washington 
University; the second was a regional public, George Mason 
University; and the third was an online for-profit, the University 
of Phoenix.


The professors had the same basic goal: teaching students how to 
think like economists. And each said that meant cultivating a 
scrupulous style of analysis, one in which a proposal's costs and 
benefits, both seen and unseen, are carefully examined.


From that common origin, however, the courses diverged.

Economics Through Models

"I throw a lot of stuff at them and hope it sticks," says Steven 
M. Suranovic, an associate professor of economics and 
international affairs at George Washington.


The 232 students in his section can attend twice-weekly lectures 
or, if they miss one, catch a recording online on Blackboard, the 
learning-management system. He also uses Blackboard to post 
readings, lecture notes, and slides.


Four teaching assistants lead weekly discussion sections of 25 
students, and grade the quizzes, exams, and problem sets. To Mr. 
Suranovic, the homework and quizzes serve a clear purpose: 
introducing students to models, which will prepare them to pursue 
a major or even graduate training in the field.


"If you're not learning models," he says, "you're not learning 
what the entire foundation of the discipline is."


Models represent the interplay of such economic factors as supply, 
price, and demand, typically on an x and y axis. They are the 
discipline's tool for understanding how the world works. 
Mainstream economists like Mr. Suranovic rely on them to reach 
conclusions about economic activity.


But models don't come naturally to most students, Mr. Suranovic 
says. Only through repeated exposure can students absorb the 
discipline's syntax and come to understand how an economist 
thinks. "You've got to practice," he says.


He gives his students plenty of opportunities to do so. He assigns 
six problem sets, of which four count toward the students' grades. 
The first set alone requires students to answer more than 60 
questions in which they interpret nine models representing such 
metrics as pizza consumed, bowling balls produced, and lawns mowed 
relative to trees planted. Other homework exercises use agrarian 
or industrial examples, which also dominate the illustrations from 
his lectures.


Students, for example, practice the concept of comparative 
advantage through this problem:


"Suppose Reggie has the following unit-labor requirements 
producing corn and wheat: aLC = 200 hrs. per ton, aLW = 100 hours 
per ton. Nigel has the following unit-labor requirements: aLC = 
300 hrs. per ton, aLW = 120 hours per ton. Use the opportunity 
cost method to determine who has the comparative advantage in corn."


Answer: "Because aLC/aLW (Reggie) = 200/100 = 2 tons of wheat per 
ton of corn is less than aLC/aLW (Nigel) = 300/120 = 2.5 tons of 
wheat per ton of corn, Reggie has the comparative advantage in corn."


While such exercises may inculcate students into economists' way 
of thinking, they do not whet everyone's appetite for the subject.


At a class in February, a man and woman stride into the auditorium 
15 minutes late and approach Mr. Suranovic as he lectures about 
calculating a firm's profit. They walk past him, drop their 
problem sets in a b

[Marxism] Rio+20 ideology

[Patrick Bond]

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(Any suggestions on how to do this kind of critical interpretation in 
easier-to-understand language - or how to better address the 'natural 
capital' challenge from bourgeois economists? Running off now to hear 
Gus Speth debate Nick Stern.)


http://climateandcapitalism.com/2012/06/18/at-rio20-values-versus-prices/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=at-rio20-values-versus-prices

*Values versus prices at the Rio+20 Earth Summit *

By Patrick Bond, 18 June 2012

RIO DE JANEIRO - Given the worsening world economic crisis, the turn to 
?Green Economy? rhetoric looms as a potential savior for footloose 
financial capital, and is also enormously welcome to those corporations 
panicking at market chaos in the topsy-turvy fossil-fuel, water, 
infrastructure construction, technology and agriculture sectors.


On the other hand, for everyone else, the Rio+20 Earth Summit underway 
this week in Brazil, devoted to advancing Green Economy policies and 
projects, appears as an overall disaster zone for the people and planet.


Meanwhile in Mexico, the G20 meeting of the real powerbrokers this week 
included a Green Economy session. But more serious distractions for the 
elites include ongoing Southern European revulsion at harmful public 
policies cooked up by bankers, and potential war in the Middle East.



Perhaps a few environmentally-decent projects may get needed subsidies 
as a result of the G20 and Rio talkshops, and we?ll hear of ?Sustainable 
Development Goals? to replace the fatuous UN Millennium Development 
Goals in 2015.


But the overarching danger is renewed official faith in market 
mechanisms. No surprise, following the logic of two South African 
precedents: the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in 
Johannesburg (Rio+10) and last December?s Durban COP17 climate summit. 
There, the chance to begin urgent environmental planning to reverse 
ecosystem destruction was lost, sabotaged by big- and 
medium-governments? negotiators acting on behalf of their countries? 
polluting and privatising corporations.


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*Market fixes to market failures?*

It?s useful to interrogate the eco-governance elites? assumptions. I?m 
here in Rio at the International Society for Ecological Economics 
conference  (ISEE) within a critical research 
network ? the Barcelona-based Environmental Justice Organisations, 
Liabilities and Trade  (EJOLT) ? whose leaders, 
Joan Martinez-Alier andJoachim Spangenberg, issued a statement 
appropriately cynical about the Green Economy: ?The promises are 
striking: conserving nature, overcoming poverty, providing equity and 
creating jobs. But the means and philosophy behind it look all too 
familiar.?


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Unfortunately, after the original 1992 Rio Earth Summit, multinational 
corporations increasingly dominated the emerging terrain of global 
environmental governance. The United Nations Environment Programme came 
to view ?the sustainability crisis as the biggest-ever ?market failure?? 
? a dangerous distraction, according to the two political-ecologists, 
because ?Describing it this way reveals a specific kind of thinking: a 
market failure means that the market failed to deliver what in principle 
it could have delivered, and once the bug is fixed the market will solve 
the problem.?


Martinez-Alier and Spangenberg reverse this logic: ?Unsustainable 
development is not a /market failure/ to be fixed but a /market system 
failure/: expecting results from the market that it cannot deliver, like 
long-term thinking, environmental consciousness and social responsibility.?


In the same spirit, Sunita Narain of the Centre for Science and 
Environment in Delhi chastised ISEE?s conventional economists in a 
plenary: ?There are a million struggles in India against pollution that 
Martinez-Alier calls the ?environmentalism of the poor?, in contrast to 
the Green Economy which is the environmentalism of the rich.?


Narain contined, ?The issue is not the price of nature, it?s /rights/ 
and it?s the values of democracy, of governance, of society, of 
humanity. Let?s be very clear: in today?s Green Economy as it is being 
shaped in Rio Centro and by many economists, these principles will not 
help us move ahead. Let?s not get lost in yet another shallow, empty 
concept.?


It?s critical to pose the Green Economy from this class-analytic and 
eco-centric standpoint, especially because inside the official Rio 
Centro, negotiations on a bland pro-market text continue through 
Saturday. There, progressive civil society strategies to insulate basic 
human and natural rights ? e.g. to water ? are being foiled by 
negotiators and by the host neoli

Re: [Marxism] Prometheus: the Tea Party in Space

[Daniel Lindvall]

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That would all be very "Lost" and perhaps this is how it will all be explained 
in "Prometheus 0: The Prequel". But looking at the film we have so far it's a 
rather far-fetched idea. The conflict between David the Android and Charlize 
Theron as the ship's commander is presented clearly as being the "patriarchal" 
conflict between the real child who is "only" a daughter and the android who is 
"almost a son".

As for the android infecting the male hero of the film, the scientist Holloway, 
he does so when Holloway is in a miserable state believing the whole project, 
his life-work, is a failure. David then asks what he would do or sacrifice to 
know the truth and Holloway answers that he'd do anything or give up anything. 
Only then does David apparently decide to infect Holloway. It seems as if David 
is trying to make his own moral judgment here, rather than simply follow 
orders. Doing so he tries to understand human thinking but of course fails 
completely as a real human would understand that a sober Holloway having slept 
on it would probably think differently and that anyway he probably doesn't 
really mean what he is saying literally even at the time. "The villain" here 
seems to be David's built-in drive for knowledge at almost, though not quit, 
hence the interrogation, any price.


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> I was reading some discussions and it seems that old CEO old took as humans
> the couple of scientists and those guys who were left behind. All others
> were robots.
> 
> For example, remember, the old man in the hologram said that David, the
> robot, was the closest thing he had as a son. Later in the movie, the
> executive woman called him farther. Also, she was strong enough to fight
> David. So, she was a robot too. Probably the guys who sacrificed themselves
> were also robots, with fake memories, and sacrificed themselves because
> they were programmed to do that.
> 
> The humans in the mission were only there to be experimented as guinea
> pigs. For example, the old CEO explicitly ordered David to contaminate him
> with the black goo. That's pretty much like the 1st Alien, except that in
> this they were used as guinea pigs to a biological weapon.
> 
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>>> The villain in this movie is ,*exactly like the Alien
>>> movies*, some big ass corporation (read: "rich folks"), not the
>>> government.
>> 
>> I don't think the corporation is presented as that much of a villain here.
>> Even if the CEO guy is looking for eternal life for himself, he hasn't
>> really manipulated anyone into the expedition, which seems motivated almost
>> entirely by "pure" scientific desire for knowledge. Also, there is, unlike
>> in the first Alien, no working class characters here arguing that they want
>> to get home and get paid and aren't paid enough to take risks exploring
>> space. The working class has been replaced by technology it would seem.
>> What we DO have is a scientist with working class cultural attributes
>> (broad accent, tattoos, punk hair cut) who is the first one to want to back
>> out and is only here for the pay. So it all looks a bit like the postmodern
>> drivel about a knowledge society with two kinds of people distinguished by
>> personality type rather than class, those who are driven by material needs
>> (and therefore achieve less and are poorer) and those who are driven by a
>> thirst for knowledge.
>> 
>> 
>>> While there is this "Darwain was wrong" alien 'seeding' thing is hardly
>> a
>>> Christian myth and is *hated* by the Christian Right. They will likely
>>> hate this movie too. Perhaps the reviewer and the Tea Party can start
>>> a video watching club and throw pop-corn at the screen.
>>> 
>> The American Christian Right probably will hate it. But the cross Rapace
>> is wearing is featured time and again, as is the idea that if there are
>> Engineers then someone must have created the Engineers, ie God. And there's
>> the outspoken enthusiasm about proving evolution wrong.
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[Marxism] Fairfax, Rinehart and defending media jobs

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Most politics, 'debate' and commentary today is about discerning the difference 
between the shit sandwiches on offer. It doesn't deal with the obvious. It's 
still a shit sandwich, whether it is Gillard or Abbott selling it. 

http://enpassant.com.au/2012/06/19/fairfax-rinehart-and-defending-media-jobs/

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