[Marxism] The role of US Imperialism in Syria and the Left's Dilemma

[Clay Claiborne via Marxism]

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 The role of US Imperialism in Syria and the Left's Dilemma
 


US President Barack Obama's air war in Syria has been a long time in 
the making. I wrote about it more than 18 months ago in a blog post 
titled *Obama planning drone strikes against Assad's opposition in 
Syria*, 16 March 2013. I reported then 
:


From the LA Times today


we have breaking news that the Obama Administration is presently
in the planning stages for direct US armed intervention into the
Syrian civil war. The plan will be to intervene on the side of
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with a series of armed drone
strikes against his opposition.
...
While drone strikes against Islamist militants fighting Assad may
be taken in the name of saving US lives in some hypothetical
future, they won't save any Syrian lives now or hinder Assad's
massive /"Death from Above"/ campaign against Syrian civilians.
Actually, since al-Nustra has been most effective in relieving
Assad of bases for his air operations and is attempting to
implement a /"no-fly zone"/ over Syria, any Obama attack against
al-Nusra would certainly be most welcomed by the embattled Assad
regime.

Now those strikes have come, the danger to US lives has been declared 
/"imminent,"/ and not just drones are being used, but the whole range 
of the US air arsenal is being employed. I was banned from blogging 
 
at the Daily Kos  for 
talk like that, but as I predicted, these strikes are against Assad's 
opposition, have not interfered with his own air campaign of bombing 
hospitals, schools and breadlines, and have been most heartily 
welcomed by the regime.


The same day Obama killed 50 al Nusra militants 
 
and 27 civilians 
, 
including at least 6 children and 4 women, Assad continued his own 
devastating air campaign against those seeking to end his 42 year old 
dictatorship, and this US intervention was most welcomed by the Assad 
regime. The *New York Times* reported 
:


A Syrian diplomat crowed to a pro-government newspaper that /“the
U.S. military leadership is now fighting in the same trenches with
the Syrian generals, in a war on terrorism inside Syria.”/ And in
New York, the new Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, said in
an interview that he had delivered a private message to Mr. Assad
on behalf of Washington, reassuring him that the Syrian government
was not the target of American-led air strikes.
...
/“Of course coordination exists,”/ said a pro-government Syrian
journalist speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of
retribution, who had criticized the prospect of the strikes but
turned practically jubilant once they began. /“How else do you
explain the strikes on Nusra?”/

Ali Haidar, Assad's minister for national reconciliation, told 
 
*Reuters* on Wednesday:


/"As for the raids in Syria, I say that what has happened so far
is proceeding in the right direction in terms of informing the
Syrian government and by not targeting Syrian military
installations and not targeting civilians,"/ he said.

/"Notification of the Syrian government happened,"/ he said.
/"Confirmation that they would not target Syrian military
installations, and confirmation they would not target civilians
happened."/

Targeting civilians is what the Assad regime does best, and having 
been assured by Obama that US warplanes were not entering Syrian air 
space to interference with that, Assad has felt free to continue his 
own campaign of /"Death from Above."/ *Reuters* reported on Friday 



Assad steps up bombing as West strikes militants in Syria


U.S.-led forces hit Islamic State bases in eastern Syria on Friday
and a monitoring group said the S

[Marxism] The Anarchy of Globalization

[michael perelman via Marxism]

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*The Anarchy of Globalization: Local and Global, Intended and
Unintended Consequences*

Originally posted on unsettling economics

:

I am going to give a keynote lecture for a conference on the local effects
of globalization in Turkey

Here are a few early sentences to give a sense of my talk.

GLOBAL 

View original






Here is the url of what I have written:

https://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/global.doc


-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
95929

530 898 5321
fax 530 898 5901
http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com

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[Marxism] For a Worker With Little Time Between 3 Jobs, a Nap Has Fatal Consequences

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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NY Times, Sept. 29 2014
For a Worker With Little Time Between 3 Jobs, a Nap Has Fatal Consequences
By RACHEL L. SWARNS

“She would give anyone anything she could.” — Glen Carter, 33.

Maybe she poured you a cup of hot coffee, right before you rushed off to 
catch your afternoon train. Maybe you noticed her huddled over an empty 
table in the station, dozing in the lonesome hours between one shift and 
another.


Her name was Maria Fernandes. She was 32 years old. And long before her 
face flashed across the evening news, she worked amid the throngs of 
passengers in the heart of Newark’s Pennsylvania Station, serving 
pumpkin lattes and toasted bagels, and dreaming of life somewhere else.


She dreamed of the bustling streets of Los Angeles and the leafy towns 
of Pennsylvania. She dreamed of working two jobs, not three. She dreamed 
of sleeping, really sleeping, for six or seven hours at a stretch.


But dreams rarely pay the rent. So Ms. Fernandes worked three jobs, at 
three Dunkin’ Donuts stores in northern New Jersey, shuttling from 
Newark to Linden to Harrison and back. She often slept in her car — two 
hours here, three hours there — and usually kept the engine running, 
ready in an instant to start all over again.


The last day of her life was no different. She got off work at 6 a.m. on 
Monday, Aug. 25, and climbed into her 2001 Kia Sportage, officials from 
the Elizabeth Police Department said. She was dreaming again, this time 
about taking a break to celebrate a milestone with friends. But first, 
she told her boyfriend, Mr. Carter, during a brief cellphone 
conversation, she was going to take a nap.


She pulled into the parking lot of a Wawa convenience store, reclined in 
the driver’s seat and closed her eyes. The store’s surveillance camera 
videotaped her arrival at 6:27 a.m.


Detectives would pore over those tapes after her body was found later 
that day. It was the last image that anyone would see of her alive.


“She liked her jobs; she never complained.” — Jessenia Barra, 28.

In death, Ms. Fernandes has been held up as a symbol of the hardships 
facing our nation’s army of low-wage workers. Her friends say she earned 
little more than $8.25 an hour — New Jersey’s minimum wage — and passed 
her days and nights in a blur of iced coffees and toasted breakfast 
sandwiches, coffee rolls and glazed jelly doughnuts.


You might remember her dark eyes and that smile when she handed your 
change across the counter. She worked afternoons in Newark, overnights 
in Linden and weekends in Harrison.


In a statement, Michelle King, a spokeswoman for Dunkin’ Brands, said 
that Ms. Fernandes’s managers described her as a “model” employee. (Ms. 
King said she could not say how much Ms. Fernandes earned or describe 
the specific hours she worked, saying that only the three franchisees 
that directly employed Ms. Fernandes had that information. Ms. King 
declined to provide contact information for those franchisees.)


But Ms. Fernandes was more than an emblem of our nation’s rising 
economic inequality. She was Maria, the bubbly woman who worried about 
her weight, doted on her pet Chihuahua and three cats and fed cast-aside 
bits of bagels and bread to the neighborhood birds.


She adored Michael Jackson and his music. And she took pains to help 
anyone who needed it, regularly paying for coffee and doughnuts for a 
homeless man, even when she fell behind on her bills. (He showed up at 
her funeral this month, to pay his respects.)


“She was just looking to start over.” — Mr. Carter.

Starting over isn’t easy when you’re always falling behind.

Ms. Fernandes, who was born in Massachusetts to Portuguese-born 
immigrants, did not have a college education. She wanted to become a 
beautician and hair stylist, but didn’t have enough money for 
cosmetology school.


She took her first job with Dunkin’ Donuts in Linden four years ago, 
according to the spokeswoman, Ms. King. About 18 months ago, she added 
the jobs in Newark and Harrison. She never grumbled, said Ms. Barra, a 
neighbor in an apartment above Ms. Fernandes’s. But it wasn’t enough.


Her landlady, Amelia Resende, said Ms. Fernandes fell behind on her rent 
a couple of times this year, struggling to come up with $550 a month for 
the basement apartment in Newark that she rarely slept in. Mr. Carter 
said that she was hoping to move to Pennsylvania, where he lives.


Ms. Resende said that Ms. Fernandes slept in her running S.U.V. so often 
that she started keeping a container full of fuel in the back. Mr. 
Carter warned that this wasn’t safe, but Ms. Fernandes brushed aside his 
concerns. She couldn’t run the risk of waking up to an empty tank.


“She had to go to work,” Ms. Resende said.

The text landed in Mr. Carter’s phone aro

[Marxism] Hong Kong police use tear gas on protesters

[Charles Faulkner via Marxism]

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http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/HK-democracy-activists-defy-police-in-standoff-5786035.php
 




HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-democracy demonstrators defied onslaughts of tear gas and 
appeals from Hong Kong's top leader to go home, as the protests over Beijing's 
decision to limit political reforms expanded across the city early Monday. 

Hong Kong's Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying reassured the public that rumors 
the Chinese army might intervene were untrue. 

"I hope the public will keep calm. Don't be misled by the rumors. Police will 
strive to maintain social order, including ensuring smooth traffic and ensuring 
the public safety," said the Beijing-backed Leung, who is deeply unpopular. He 
added, "When they carry out their duties, they will use their maximum 
discretion." 

Protesters spent the night on the pavement, some flat on their backs asleep, 
others milling around as they watched for police. The sit-ins spread from the 
financial district, near the government headquarters, to other areas of Hong 
Kong in the strongest challenge yet to Beijing's decision to limit democratic 
reforms for the semi-autonomous city. 

The scenes of billowing tear gas and riot police outfitted with long-barreled 
weapons, rare for this affluent Asian financial hub, are highlighting the 
authorities' inability to assuage public discontent over Beijing's rejection 
last month of open nominations for candidates under proposed guidelines for the 
first-ever elections for Hong Kong's leader, promised for 2017. 

Authorities announced some traffic controls and said some schools in areas near 
the main protest site would be closed, as Leung urged people to go home, obey 
the law and avoid causing trouble. 

"We don't want Hong Kong to be messy," Leung said as he read a statement that 
was broadcast early Monday. 

After spending hours holding protesters at bay, police lobbed canisters of tear 
gas into the crowd on Sunday evening. The searing fumes sent demonstrators 
fleeing, though many came right back to continue their protest. The government 
said 26 people were taken to hospitals; some were carried away on stretchers. 

The protests began with sit-ins over a week earlier by students urging Beijing 
to grant genuine democratic reforms to this former British colony. 

"This is a long fight. I hope the blockade will continue tomorrow, so the whole 
thing will be meaningful," said 19-year-old Edward Yau , 19, a business and law 
student. "The government has to understand that we have the ability to undo it 
if they continue to treat us like we are terrorists." 

When China took control of Hong Kong from the British in 1997, it agreed to a 
policy of "one country, two systems" that allowed the city a high degree of 
control over its own affairs and kept in place liberties unseen on the 
mainland. It also promised the city's leader would eventually be chosen through 
"universal suffrage." 

Hong Kong's residents have long felt their city stood apart from mainland China 
thanks to those civil liberties and separate legal and financial systems. 

Beijing's insistence on using a committee to screen candidates on the basis of 
their patriotism to China — similar to the one that currently hand-picks Hong 
Kong's leaders — has stoked fears among pro-democracy groups that Hong Kong 
will never get genuine democracy. 

University students began their sit-ins over a week ago and say they will 
continue to boycott classes until officials meet their demands for reforming 
the local legislature and withdrawing the proposal to screen election 
candidates. 

Students and activists have been camped out since late Friday on streets 
outside the government complex. Sunday's clashes arose when police sought to 
block thousands of people from entering the protest zone. Protesters spilled 
onto a busy highway, bringing traffic to a standstill. 

In a statement issued after midnight, the Hong Kong police said rumors that 
they had used rubber bullets to try to disperse protesters were "totally 
untrue." 

Police in blue jumpsuits, wearing helmets and respirators, doused protesters 
with pepper spray when they tried to rip metal barricades apart. 

Thousands of people breached a police cordon Sunday as they tried to join the 
sit-in, spilling out onto a busy highway and bringing traffic to a standstill. 

Although students started the rally, leaders of the broader Occupy Central 
civil disobedience movement joined them, saying they wanted to kick-start a 
long-threatened mass sit-in demanding Hong Kong's top leader be elected without 
Beijing's interference. 

Police said they had arrested 78 people. They also took away several 
pro-democracy legislators who were among the demonstrators, but later released 
them. 

A police state

[Marxism] Labor Intellectuals

[Gary MacLennan via Marxism]

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The recent address my Michael Cooney, Director of the Chifley Research
Centre has captured a fair bit of media attention, but as far as I can
gather little analysis.

Cooeny is a former speech writer and adviser high up in the Australian
Labor Party.  The Chifely Research Centre is the official think tank of the
ALP.  I thought it would be an interesting exercise to take m y mind of my
bronchitis to try a critique. My take outs are taken from the published
extract http://www.chifley.org.au/the-work-for-labors-generation-x-leaders/.

Cooney begins with a criticism of nostalgia for the Blair era in the UK and
the Hawke Keating era in Australia. The clever trick here is that he
assures us this nostalgia is “new2” and the adds that it has a “surprising
number of activists inside and around Labor parties and progressive
politics” in its grip. This “nostalgia for the new”  is seemingly
“enormously influential“ and one “non-Labor and ex-Labor voices endlessly
amplify”.

Cooney des not tell us what a surprising number of activists is here.  Speaking
personally it would be anything in excess of zero.

What is the meaning of all this? What is Cooney saying when we strip away
the silly trope of calling the past the new? A guess would be that he does
not want us to be thinking of the Hawke-Keating era as the Golden age.  He
thinks UK Labourites need the same message.  He seems to be saying
something like “Stop crying about Blair being gone, you Labour lot!”

So we have to face the future. OK!  Got it. The Future (Did someone say
“Yes we can!”?)

Cooney gives one substantial example of how we can face the future.  That
is the case of the four submarines.  Leaving aside why we need four
submarines, the substantial question was where are they to be built.  The
Government promised to build them  in South Australia.  Once elected it
wriggled out of that promise and now will buy them from Japan.  This means
destruction for ship building in Australia and will cost thousands of jobs.
Cooney knows or sort of knows that no Labor figure could endorse such a
move. So he praises the Labor leader, Bill Shorten for criticising the
government for awarding the contract to Japan.  But then he comes out with
some weasel words -“while I don’t agree with the Prime Minister’s approach,
there are defensible arguments for it”.



We aren’t told what these defensible reasons are, surprisingly – not.

We then get a reprise condemnation of the “nostalgia for the new”.  Don’t
look back. Right! Got it! Next we get an exquisite moment, truly one to
savour.  If, like Orpheus, we can’t look back what should we do about the
future?  Well above all he tells us the answer does not “lie in a lurch to
the left either”

Once more we are not told precisely what a lurch to the left would look
like.  Better not to ask; it is probably something horrible like beating up
pensioners or throwing up after too many beers and prawns.  We would never
want to do that or lurch to the left would we?  But what are we to do?  The
rhetoric flies fast here.  We are to occupy the centre.  Right;  the centre
It is then. Mind you it has to be a new centre.

UK readers are told to forget about Clause Four and Australians are told to
forget about the dollar float. If we were not watching Cooney’s hands
carefully we could miss the obvious comment that these issues are not
exactly equivalents.  Forgetting about Clause Four means forgetting about
Labour’s commitment to bring the economy under democratic control.  The
dollar float does not match up to that in political weight.

We have much to think about instead of looking at the past, Cooney assures
us.  He mentions “clean energy”, “Asia”  “Ageing”, and “the future of
growth and of work. As always what is not mentioned is more significant.
There is no talk at all of why we do not have a clean energy policy. Did
anyone mention the coal lobby?  Nor is there any hint from Cooney of how we
can boost jobs while de-industrializing Australia. Cooney is not even
enough of a thinker to address the Piketty thesis and discuss how it is
relevant to the future.  Even a Keynesian gesture like that is beyond him.
So there we have it. One of the intellectual giants of the Labor Party
speaks and he is a living testimony of what happened to Labor intellectuals
without a Communist Party to think for them.

comradely


Gary

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Re: [Marxism] We kicked the ass of the ZIM/Zionist ship again! Ship NOT unloaded and ran...

[Charles Faulkner via Marxism]

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outstanding! congratulations on your victory and worker solidarity. this is how 
the world is changed. 



We had another successful labor/community picket line at the docks in 
Oakland yesterday, covering 2 shifts: 5am (the one I was on) and 5pm (I was 
sleeping :). 

Local 10 refused to dispatch anyone to the docks to unload the ship and the 
steadymen (a layer of ILWU members who can report directly to the owners 
bypassing the hiring hall) were a bit pissed off but didn't cross the 
picket line. 


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[Marxism] We kicked the ass of the ZIM/Zionist ship again! Ship NOT unloaded and ran...

[DW via Marxism]

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We had another successful labor/community picket line at the docks in
Oakland yesterday, covering 2 shifts: 5am (the one I was on) and 5pm (I was
sleeping :).

Local 10 refused to dispatch anyone to the docks to unload the ship and the
steadymen (a layer of ILWU members who can report directly to the owners
bypassing the hiring hall) were a bit pissed off but didn't cross the
picket line.

The people using ZIM ships (34% owned by the Israeli gov't) will get the
idea and start using other frieght carriers. Here is the Free Palestine
Movement take on this:

*Victory for picketers: Israeli ship quits Oakland, its cargo untouched*

Waving signs saying "DON'T WORK ZIM" and chanting "Send the ship back to
sea until Palestine is free", demonstrators from around the San Francisco
Bay Area and as far away as Sacramento set up picket lines at the port of
Oakland, California that were 100% effective in preventing the giant *Zim
Shanghai* container ship from unloading and loading its cargo.  The ship
was essentially untouched from the time it docked at 5:16 a.m. on Saturday,
September 27, 2014 and left just after midnight on the same day.

The effort was in many ways a model of cooperation between Palestine
solidarity activists and the membership of the International Longshore and
Warehouse Union Local 10 and other members of the labor community.
Although neither community is unanimous in its views, attitudes or
approaches to such matters, they reached out to each other and listened.  A
significant number belong to both communities and acted as a bridge.
Despite some mistakes, good will went a long way in overcoming obstacles.

This is the second Israeli Zim ship in as many months to leave Oakland
without taking on cargo.  Unlike the Zim Shanghai however, the Zim Piraeus
managed through illegal practices to unload a small amount of its incoming
cargo. Nevertheless, most remained on board and became a costly burden at
subsequent stops.

Other actions have taken place in Long Beach, California, Seattle and
Tacoma, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia.  More are anticipated
in Tampa, Florida, and another is scheduled in Oakland on October 25.  This
opens the possibility of a global movement to block Zim and other Israeli
ships.  The message of the organizers is that if Israel is going to deny
Gaza the right to receive ships and trade from its port, Israeli ships will
be denied the same right.

The Free Palestine Movement supports this movement.  It was one of a large
number of organizations that endorsed the action, and one of our
representatives is on the organizing and tactical committees.  Your
donations helped to support the expenses of the action, notably six
walkie-talkies and the signs that you will see in the photos, but also some
other expenses. With your continued help, we intend to make these financial
resources available to all groups participating in these actions.  For more
information, contact us directly.

Israel will be held accountable for its actions.

The Free Palestine Movement
https://freepalestinemovement.org/

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[Marxism] Morales, Maduro slam capitalism, demand climate action

[Stuart Munckton via Marxism]

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Addressing the UN the same day, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
declared: “The environmental crisis is a result of the crisis of the
dominating capitalist model, based on unsustainable production methods and
consumption, which generates iniquity, injustice, poverty, and the
destruction of the planet.”

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57442
-- 
“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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[Marxism] Zionism's ongoing quest for legitimacy

[Philip Ferguson via Marxism]

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Very good feature article by veteran Israeli Marxist Moshe Machover,
co-founder of the Israeli Socialist Organisation back in the early 1960s
and still fighting the good fight.  The article first appeared in the
Weekly Worker, and we have re-blogged it here:
http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/zionisms-ongoing-quest-for-legitimacy/

See also Adam Hanieh's excellent article on Israel, Palestinian liberation
and the Oslo Accords:
http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/israel-palestinian-liberation-and-the-oslo-accords/

Joseph Massad's Peace is War: after the Oslo Accords:
http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/09/peace-is-war-after-the-oslo-accords/

And our own (2010) interview with Leila Khaled:
http://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/nz-solidarity-activist-interviews-leila-khaled-2010/

Video of Leila Khaled May Day speech, Stockholm, 2011:
http://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/leila-khaled-mayday-speech-sweden-2011/

Phil

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[Marxism] Fwd: a film journalist reaches out to other film journalists for help

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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 Original Message 
Subject:a film journalist reaches out to other film journalists for help
Date:   Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:53:44 +0200
From:   Ali Naderzad 
To: undisclosed-recipients:;



Dear friends and colleagues: how the hell are ya?

Having a jolly ol' time in Paris, France, enjoying the Californian
weather we've been having and about to hunker down to write my second
short story, in French!

Started a new publication, in addition to Screen Comment and wanted to
let you know about it.

*Iranian Film Daily* is not another movie reviews site (good golly no).
I report on the business of Iranian cinema, writing about things
happening now or in the future: films, directors, actors and actresses,
and festivals. if there's an Iranian name in the opening credits I will
talk about it. Most recently wrote about *Emilie Richard-Froozan, Kevin
Hamedani, Ana Lily Amirpour and Zal Batmanglij.*

This film journalist needs the support of other film journalists (cost
ya nada)

Would you be so kind as to get a tweet out (with "recommended") with my
link (http://www.iranianfilmdaily.com) or talk about IFD  on your FB or
respective social media channels? If you can add my link to your
"recommended sites" page or in an upcoming newsletter (I will send you
the description for the site), that would be fantastic. Finally, if
you'd like to cover Iranian Film Daily in your publication, I'm
available to speak.

In return: I am very active on social media and can recommend something
for you. Also, I write some of the best LinkedIn recommendations I've
ever seen anyone do (I'm usually modest but this is in fact, true)
although I can only do this within a known context using verifiable
information. Finally if you need a pair of fresh eyes to re-read
something, I'm happy to do it (with a word count limit to be
established, as need be) .

I've got 70 articles in the can (launched this bad boy last month),
here's a sampling of recent articles below. The article I published
yesterday about Buttercup Bill's Emilie Froozan already got 85 FB
recommends.

Enjoy!

Ali Naderzad
Your lad in Paris

*DIRECTOR JIHANE CHOUAIB on Golshifteh Farahani in "Breathe"
*

*ELNAZ SHAKERDOOST, Iran's best-known slashie, is also its most bankable
actress

*

*Emilie Richard-Froozan takes "Buttercup Bill" to RAINDANCE
 *

*INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN almost in the can for Kevin Hamedani
*

*WORDS WITH GODS will have premiere in Chicago next month
*

*BERLINALE 2015 | Hassan Nazer's UTOPIA
*






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[Marxism] How the west created the Islamic State

[Tristan Sloughter via Marxism]

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https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state-dbfa6f83bc1f

-- 
  Tristan Sloughter
  t...@crashfast.com

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[Marxism] Obama's WMD moment

[Dennis Brasky via Marxism]

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THE Khorasan GROUP: ANATOMY OF A FAKE TERROR THREAT TO JUSTIFY BOMBING SYRIA


https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/28/u-s-officials-invented-terror-group-justify-bombing-syria/

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[Marxism] When the Nation Magazine grew weary of Reconstruction

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A few days ago I had been consulting Douglas Blackmon’s “Slavery by 
Another Name”, a very fine history of post-Civil War forced labor, as 
part of a long-term research project to rebut Charles Post’s thesis on 
slavery as “precapitalist” when I came across a revealing reference to 
the Nation Magazine. As I have pointed out in the past, the magazine was 
a primary source of arguments on behalf of winding down Reconstruction. 
I had completely forgotten about the passage but was reminded of it 
today when a Facebook thread on Eric Alterman’s opposition to BDS 
prompted the query why the magazine puts up with him. In my view, the 
Nation has been problematic from its inception, lurching from 
abolitionism to articles attacking moves to make the KKK illegal. For a 
fuller discussion, I’d refer you to a piece I wrote in 2003: 
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/tainted_nation.htm


Douglas Blackmon:
A new national white consensus began to coalesce against African 
Americans with shocking force and speed. The general white public, the 
national leadership of the Republican Party, and the federal government 
on every level were arriving at the conclusion that African-Americans 
did not merit citizenship and that their freedom was not able enough to 
justify the conflicts they engendered among whites. A growing body of 
whites across the nation concluded that blacks were not worth the cost 
of imposing a racial morality that few in any region genuinely shared. 
As early as 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union 
army of liberation, conceded to members of his cabinet that the 
Fifteenth Amendment, giving freed slaves the right to vote, had been a 
mistake: "It had done the Negro no good, and had been a hindrance to the 
South, and by no means a political advantage to the North.” "The long 
controversy over the black man seems to have reached a finality," wrote 
the Chicago Tribune, approvingly. Added The Nation: "The Negro will 
disappear from the field of national politics. Henceforth, the nation, 
as a nation, will have nothing more to do with him." That the parent had 
once sacrificed enormously to rescue the less favored child only made 
its abandonment deeply more bitter.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Go ahead and kill: “we are with you”

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So, the United States says it has violated the Syrian government’s 
sovereignty over its own territory, and the Syrian Government says that 
what happened was not a breach of sovereignty. The insolence of “the 
invading colonizer” meets the affability, meekness and denial of “the 
colonized.”


full: 
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/564140-go-ahead-and-kill-we-are-with-you


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[Marxism] Human Rights Groups Release Secret Salvadoran Military Intelligence Document: the "Yellow Book"

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> Human Rights Groups Release Secret Salvadoran Military Intelligence
> Document: the "Yellow Book"
>
> Civil War-Era Catalog of "Enemies," Many Killed or Disappeared, Made
> Public on International Right to Know Day
>
> Posting Includes Analyses of Case Studies Spotlighting Victims' Fates
>
> National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 485
>
> Posted -- September 28, 2014, in recognition of International Right to
> Know Day
>
> For more information contact:
> Kate Doyle (National Security Archive) -- 646.670.8841,
> kado...@email.gwu.edu
> Angelina Snodgrass Godoy (UW Center for Human Rights) -- 206.616.3585,
> ago...@u.washington.edu
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> Washington, D.C., September 28, 2014 -- Today, In recognition of
> International Right to Know Day, the National Security Archive has posted
> online the entirety of the "Yellow Book," an extraordinary documentary
> record by the Army of El Salvador, illustrating their work targeting
> citizens considered enemies of the regime during the 1970s and 1980s.
>
> View our promotional video: http://youtu.be/nDYlSuWxnZM
>
> The 1987 document from the archives of El Salvador's military intelligence
> identifies almost two thousand Salvadorans who were considered "delinquent
> terrorists" by the Armed Forces, among them current President Salvador
> Sanchez Ceren, a former guerrilla leader. Other individuals listed include
> human rights advocates, labor leaders, and political figures, many known to
> have been victims of illegal detention, torture, extrajudicial execution,
> forced disappearance, and other human rights abuses.
>
> Called the Libro Amarillo or Yellow Book, the report is the first-ever
> confidential Salvadoran military document to be made public, and the only
> evidence to appear from the Salvadoran Army's own files of the surveillance
> methods used by security forces to target Salvadoran citizens during the
> country's 12-year civil war.  Accompanying today's posting are related
> analysis and declassified U.S. documents, gathered through a collaboration
> between the National Security Archive, the University of Washington Center
> for Human Rights and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).
>
> View the Yellow Book posting on the National Security Archive's website:
> http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB485/
>
> Analysis by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group has determined that
> approximately 43% of names in the Yellow Book correspond with reports of
> human rights violations registered by Salvadoran human rights organizations
> and the U.N. Truth Commission during the period of 1980 to 1992.
>
> The current publication includes three case studies, two featuring recent
> interviews with survivors of illegal detention and torture who are profiled
> in the Yellow Book. "To live to see this book, it makes you feel happy to
> be alive, that they weren't able to kill you," said Hector Bernabe Recinos,
> a union leader arrested in 1980 who appears in the document, "because the
> decision to eliminate you had been close."
>
> "For more than twenty years, El Salvador's military establishment has
> stonewalled victims and their families about its role in human rights
> abuses committed during the civil war," said Kate Doyle, Senior Analyst of
> U.S. policy in Latin America at the National Security Archive. "The
> publication of the Yellow Book is a direct challenge to the military's
> continued silence and its refusal to release its historical archives
> relating to that era."
>
> Check out today's posting at the National Security Archive -
> http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB485/
>
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> Unredacted, the Archive blog - http://nsarchive.wordpress.com/
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>
> 
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> institute and library located at The George Washington University in
> Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents
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> charity, the Archive receives no U.S. government funding; its budget is
> supported by publication royalties and donations from foundations and
> individuals.
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[Marxism] LGSM documentary

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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This documentary includes footage of Mark Ashton, the leader of LGSM, 
replying to a baiting question from a reporter about whether the miners 
support the gays. Channeling Abby Hoffman, he says that they dig the 
coal that supplies the electricity. In the film, this scene is reprised 
but with the clever addition of an observation that without the coal 
that produces the electricity, dance clubs would not be possible.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJhbwEcgrA

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[Marxism] Fwd: Brother of British Woman Jailed in Iran Over Volleyball Match Pleads for Her Release | VICE News

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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50 days in solitary confinement for trying to watch a volley ball game.

https://news.vice.com/article/brother-of-british-woman-jailed-in-iran-over-volleyball-match-pleads-for-her-release

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Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 131, Issue 34

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Moving and inspiringParticularly gratifying is the portrayal of Mark Ashton, 
acted with great integrity by Ben Schnetzer. Mark was one of the key motivating 
forces behind LGSM and also a comrade of mine in the CPGB’s youth organisation, 
the Young Communist League. He was its general secretary from 1985 - 
effectively the last before the organisation’s liquidation. Indeed, Mark is the 
beating heart at the centre of the film in much the same way he was in LGSM - 
and as he unsuccessfully tried to be in the YCL subsequently. The film captures 
some of comrade Ashton’s boundless energy, his élan and charismatic leadership 
style, qualities that attracted and activated people around him - or, as one 
LGSM activist puts it in the film, “Whatever Mark says, we do it - don’t ask me 
why!”

Mark Fischer
Full review: http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1027/moving-and-inspiring/
Mark is a third generation Welsh communist who knows the story inside out. 
Everyone I know who's seen it thought the film was great.


Andrew Coates 

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> Opening yesterday at three multiplex theaters in New York rather than in 
> the art house circuit, ?Pride? is calculated to appeal to a broader 
> audience than one might expect given its theme: the alliance between a 
> gay liberation group and the coal miners on strike against Margaret 
> Thatcher in 1983.
> 
> This makes perfect sense since the art house venue would be the classic 
> case of preaching to the choir.
> 
> As I sat through the press screening on Thursday night, I was impressed 
> with director Matthew Warchus and screenwriter Stephen Beresford?s 
> popular culture instincts. Basically, they put together a kind of 
> musical comedy along the lines of ?Footloose? in which a transgressive 
> outsider from the big city breaks down the prejudices of a backward 
> rural village. ?Footloose?, made in 1984 when British gays and strikers 
> were bonding with each other, is about the uphill battle a teenage boy 
> has in overturning a local preacher?s ban on rock music and dancing. In 
> ?Pride?, the struggle is to gain acceptance from the miners and their 
> families even when the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) have 
> raised more money than any other support group.
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> full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/09/27/pride/
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