Re: [Marxism] Moderators' note: posting under your real name
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * on Freitag, 17. Oktober 2014 at 20:53, Les Schaffer via Marxism wrote: we do auto-generate a message when someone subscribes and can update that with the rules. but our impression is people don't pay attention to that message. Isn't it that a new subscriber has to confirm that it actually his/her address from which the subscription request did come from? That is the point in time where the new subscriber could decide to not use the real name and a different email address. But beware - the NSA and all the rest of the alphabet soup do know your address anyway. The caution is just for regular guys as you and me and maybe your employer who skims the net with a google search. Cheers, Lüko Willms _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] USA Air Drops Supplies to Kurds in Kobane
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/us-drops-weapons-to-kurds-in-syria Kobani: US drops weapons to Kurds in Syria Kobani air drops likely to anger Turkish government, which opposes sending arms to Kurdish rebels in Syria The US military says it has airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani against Islamic State militants. The air drops on Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of US and coalition air strikes in and near Kobani, near the Turkish border. The US earlier said it had launched 11 air strikes overnight in the Kobani area. Meanwhile Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday that Turkey was facilitating the passage of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to Kobani. Cavusoglu did not provide details on the transfer of the fighters. In a statement on Sunday night, US Central Command said US C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said they were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobani. The air drops are almost certain to anger the Turkish government, which has said it would oppose any US arms transfers to the Kurdish rebels in Syria. Turkey views the main Kurdish group in Syria as an extension of the Turkish Kurd group known as the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terror group by the US and by Nato. Senior US administration officials said three C-130 planes dropped 27 bundles of small arms, ammunition and medical supplies. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House. One official said that while the results of the mission were still being assessed, it appeared that “the vast majority” of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters. The official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace. In a written statement, Central Command said its forces had conducted more than 135 air strikes against Islamic State forces in Kobani. Central Command said: “Combined with continued resistance to Isil on the ground, indications are that these strikes have slowed Isil advances into the city, killed hundreds of their fighters and destroyed or damaged scores of pieces of Isil combat equipment and fighting positions.” _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Red Father
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Tuesday, Oct. 28 7:00 PM NYWIFT: RED FATHER Share + This screening is part of: NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION PRESENTS Film Notes Tova Beck-Friedman RED FATHER 2014, 55 min, digital Tells the story of the rise and fall of Bernard Ades, a Jewish lawyer and a Communist raised in Baltimore and radicalized during the Great Depression. The film examines Ades’s life, as told by his daughter, Janet Ades. Set against the backdrop of the pre-civil rights era, the film follows Ades as he seeks to end systemic legal racism in Maryland, fights Fascism with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, and becomes a target himself during the dark days of America’s McCarthyism. http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=listmonth=10year=2014#showing-43380 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The CIA’s Wrong: Arming Rebels Works - The Daily Beast
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Emergence of Marx’s Critique of Modern Agriculture | Kohei Saito | Monthly Review
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * It appears that Marx first happened to encounter Johnston’s Notes on North America through two articles in The Economist.18 These articles sum up Johnston’s book well, and it is likely that they motivated Marx to study his more theoretical books on agricultural chemistry and geology. One of the articles starts by mentioning the fact that despite the constant and growing communication between England and North America, there was not sufficient information about the agricultural capacity in the New World. Consequently, as the article continues, a myth prevailed among English readers that a great improvement of virgin soils had been achieved, and the soil would be inexhaustible in North America. For the purpose of disproving this fallacy, the author of The Economist values Johnston’s Notes on North America (1851) quite highly, as “the author’s knowledge of science, and its practical relations with agriculture, enabled him to obtain very clear and accurate views.” According to the article, “one of the most important of these conclusions” is “that the wheat-exporting power of North America has not only been much exaggerated, but is actually, and not slowly, diminishing” or even “worn out.”19 However, as the article continues, it is not in the farmer’s interest to maintain the fertility of the land through good management—because it is actually cheaper to sell it and settle upon new land, going further west once the land becomes less agriculturally profitable. Thus, as the next article maintains, the diminishment of crops is not at all surprising, once “we learn that in many districts the land has been cropped with wheat for fifty years without any other manure than a ton of gypsum a year applied to the whole farm.”20 Succinctly summarizing Johnston’s book to rebuff a widespread illusion about American agriculture, these articles conclude that it is in reality still trapped “in a very primitive state,” without a proper investment or management, which quickly exhausts soils. full: http://monthlyreview.org/2014/10/01/the-emergence-of-marxs-critique-of-modern-agriculture/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Conference speakers say the liberal arts must return to a purer form to survive @insidehighered
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The biggest wake-up call came from John Agresto, past president of St. John’s College in Santa Fe and former deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. (St. John's in Santa Fe, which celebrated its 50th anniversary by hosting the “What Is a Liberal Education For?” conference, has an older campus in Annapolis, Md.) Quoting worrisome statistics about the humanities today – English, long a go-to concentration, now accounts for just 3 percent of majors nationwide, for example – Agresto said the liberal arts are “dying.” Agresto said that much humanities instruction has been co-opted by hyperspecialization and especially by critical theory. He said overly-critical approaches at once demean the subject matter and limit students’ free inquiry. For example, he said, when professors portray the founding fathers as mere “white racists,” no student or parent “in their right mind” would pay $50,000 a year to study them. full: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/20/conference-speakers-say-liberal-arts-must-return-purer-form-survive --- From Wikipedia on John Agresto: In 1986 Agresto was nominated by President Reagan to become Archivist of the United States. At least thirteen national historical and archival organizations opposed Agresto's nomination, some objecting to what they claimed was his political partisanship[1] The American Studies Association said that his was a mediocre political appointment and the Organization of American Historians claimed he lacked the technical qualifications for the job.[1] Opposition to Agresto was also based on his two-year refusal while at the NEH to comply with federal affirmative action hiring requirements. (Agresto vowed to resign rather than comply, but backed down after Congress threatened to abolish the Endowment.[2]) During the confirmation process, it was disclosed that a pro-Agresto witness at a Senate hearing had received a $10,000 chairman's grant from Agresto six months earlier, after an application for a $30,000 grant was rejected by a humanities panel.[3] The nomination produced controversy for over a year before it was withdrawn. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: After repelling ISIL, PKK fighters are the new heroes of Kurdistan | Al Jazeera America
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In the past, the PKK did not count many Iraqi Kurds among its members, nor was the separatist group a critical player in Kurdistan’s internal affairs. But since ISIL fighters swept through northern Iraq this summer, that has changed. Increasingly, Iraqi Kurds are embracing the PKK fighters as heroes, lauding them for recapturing the northern Iraqi town of Makhmour and its surrounding villages and for rescuing thousands of members of the Yazidi ethnic group who were trapped in nearby Sinjar. Halkawt Sami, an Iraqi Kurdish carpenter, has come to fulfill what he says is a national duty to welcome his “comrade” home. In August, as ISIL threatened to overtake Erbil, Sami enlisted to fight the extremist group. Like Kawa, he signed up for the PKK, not the peshmerga. “It was the PKK that came down from the mountains to protect us,” he says, referring to the fighters’ descent from their camp in the Qandil Mountains, along the Iran-Iraq border. Sami says he was among at least 100 new recruits from Erbil who received basic training at the PKK camp. full: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/17/pkk-s-rise-in-iraqikurdistan.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Here Are 5 Takeaways From The Harper's Anti-Clinton Story
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Doug Henwood has a major article in the latest Harper's on Hilary Clinton, which is behind a paywall. I'd advise one and all, at least if you are in the USA, to pick it up at the newsstand and even consider taking out a sub. I have been a Harper's subscriber since the early 80s and really value it, warts and all. It has the guts to take on the Democrats, something that the Nation is loath to do. Short of buying the issue, this summary of Doug's article is useful: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/19/hillary-clinton-2016_n_6011954.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Decadence and Environmental Destruction of American Expansionism in Nevada
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[Marxism] Fwd: Thomas Frank: Paul Krugman’s sloppy, wet kiss - Salon.com
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * At least Tom Frank does not try to conceal his past: Krugman tells us that his regard for the president was late to bloom. I myself moved in the opposite direction. I liked Obama a lot in 2008; in fact, I even voted for him during his ill-fated run for Congress in 2000. I anticipated great things from his presidency, in part because he wasn’t connected in any obvious way with the Clinton administration. And I have been increasingly disappointed by his performance as the years passed. full: http://www.salon.com/2014/10/19/thomas_frank_paul_krugmans_sloppy_wet_kiss/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Mussolini’s Jewess - The American Interest
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Who was Margherita Sarfatti? My Fault’s introduction provides a lucid overview of her life. She was born in Venice in 1880, the fourth and last child of Amedeo Grassini and Emma Levi. The Sarfattis were wealthy (among other things, her father established the city’s water taxi system of vaporetti to capitalize on the tourist trade), and his daughter grew up in highly privileged circumstances. Her parents were Orthodox Jews, but Sarfatti received an outstanding secular education. Well read, fluent in several languages, including English, she became active in Socialist and feminist causes while still in her teens—hence her sobriquet in Venice as la vergine rossa, “the red virgin.” Around the turn of the past century, she married a much older Socialist lawyer and moved to Milan to become the art critic for the Socialist Party newspaper Avanti!. It was there she first met Benito Mussolini, the paper’s new editor, in 1912. Sarfatti and Mussolini were inseparable for the next two decades, both in and out of the bedroom. Mussolini went so far as to refer to Sarfatti as his mascotte. She paid for his clothes, his car, his apartment, and much more. She joined with him as he broke with the Socialists over Italy’s participation in the World War. When Mussolini founded his own newspaper, Il Popolo d’Italia, to advocate intervention, she went with him. When at the end of the war he organized his followers in the Piazza San Sepolcro in Milan (where the first Fasci italiani di combatimento, or combat bands, were formed), she was there, too. full: http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2014/10/11/mussolinis-jewess/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: ZCommunications » For clarity in Syria’s muddy politics
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Vijay Prashad is a very smart guy but has a certain naivete when it comes to Syria: The government of Bashar al-Assad is weakened. Syria, says one former leader, is “in danger of being lost permanently.” Residues of Syrian patriotism remain, and these leaders are eager but afraid to make a public declaration to the following effect — the armed struggle to bring democracy to Syria has failed, the Damascus government is weak and prepared to make concessions, and a united front of Syrians is required to fight the threat from IS. http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/for-clarity-in-syrias-muddy-politics/ A united front of Syrians? Really? I doubt that any rebel would consider this after 3 years of suffering from attacks that make Guernica look like a Sunday School picnic. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] USA Air Drops Supplies to Kurds in Kobane
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The Erdogan government has also this morning agreed to allow the peshmerga to cross their territory from Iraq to relieve the siege. This, a day after Erdogan again reiterated he was opposed to aiding the YPG/J. Clearly, the Turks have succumbed to pressure from the US and Barzani’s Kurdish Regional Government. The assistance, while obviously very welcome, is a two-edged sword. The Turks and Americans are hoping their intervention will shore up Barzani at home and displace the leftist PKK in Turkey and PYD in Syria. As al-Jazeera reported recently, Barzani’s base in Iraq had begun deserting him because of his hesitant support of the YPG/J fighters in Kobani, and this has had to be a factor in the American decision to prevent the fall of Kobane, alongside the need to shatter ISIS’ aura of military invincibility which was drawing recruits to it from across the region and elsewhere. On Oct 20, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Greg McDonald via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/20/us-drops-weapons-to-kurds-in-syria Kobani: US drops weapons to Kurds in Syria Kobani air drops likely to anger Turkish government, which opposes sending arms to Kurdish rebels in Syria The US military says it has airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish forces defending the Syrian city of Kobani against Islamic State militants. The air drops on Sunday were the first of their kind and followed weeks of US and coalition air strikes in and near Kobani, near the Turkish border. The US earlier said it had launched 11 air strikes overnight in the Kobani area. Meanwhile Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday that Turkey was facilitating the passage of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to Kobani. Cavusoglu did not provide details on the transfer of the fighters. In a statement on Sunday night, US Central Command said US C-130 cargo planes made multiple drops of arms and supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. It said they were intended to enable continued resistance to Islamic State efforts to take full control of Kobani. The air drops are almost certain to anger the Turkish government, which has said it would oppose any US arms transfers to the Kurdish rebels in Syria. Turkey views the main Kurdish group in Syria as an extension of the Turkish Kurd group known as the PKK, which has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terror group by the US and by Nato. Senior US administration officials said three C-130 planes dropped 27 bundles of small arms, ammunition and medical supplies. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House. One official said that while the results of the mission were still being assessed, it appeared that “the vast majority” of the supplies reached the intended Kurdish fighters. The official also said the C-130s encountered no resistance from the ground in Syria during their flights in and out of Syrian airspace. In a written statement, Central Command said its forces had conducted more than 135 air strikes against Islamic State forces in Kobani. Central Command said: “Combined with continued resistance to Isil on the ground, indications are that these strikes have slowed Isil advances into the city, killed hundreds of their fighters and destroyed or damaged scores of pieces of Isil combat equipment and fighting positions.” _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/marvgand2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Football in Sayreville
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Last week I blogged something titled Against Football that alluded to the hazing and sexual assault of younger players on the Sayreville, New Jersey high school football team. Today's NY Times has an in-depth article on the school: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/nyregion/in-new-jersey-young-players-recall-hazing.html The circumstances would be daunting for any school district, but Sayreville has had to endure more than its share of controversy recently. The football team’s defensive coordinator, Charlie Garcia, was arrested last month in a motel parking lot with two boxes of steroids and 14 hypodermic needles in his pickup, the authorities said. And, last spring, a female high school teacher, Jaclyn Melillo, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two male students. There was also another sports-related scandal with sexual overtones. In 2009, parents and students complained that the school’s wrestling coach had asked boys to strip naked for a ringworm search, boasted about having sex with other teachers at the school and exchanged inappropriate text messages with students, among other troubling allegations. The school board opted to withdraw an offer for him to return as coach. (clip) _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Ukraine: war as a means of social control | People and Nature
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The separatist movement was only able to mount an armed conflict with the Ukrainian state on this scale because of support from the Russian state. The main reason this support was, and is, given is the Russian state’s fear of the movements that developed in Ukraine prior to Yanukovich’s overthrow – the demonstrations on Maidan and the high level of social protest right across Ukraine that accompanied them. I am not glamourising the Maidan movement. Alongside progressive and democratic ideas there were many reactionary and nationalist ideas among those who took part. (See what I wrote in February here.) But I am saying that the Kremlin looked on these demonstrations with horror, because it showed that collective actions by large numbers of people in the former Soviet space could create situations it could not control. Fear of social movements, whether in Russia or other former Soviet countries, is a hallmark of Putin’s government. As a result of direct Russian military involvement in the conflict, NATO countries have introduced economic sanctions against Russia and there is now a real conflict between Russia and some of the western powers. But it is a tension within limits. It is a mistake to believe that a new “cold war” is in progress – or that there is somehow something progressive, “anti imperialist” or “anti fascist” in the Kremlin’s actions. (More on that here.) The next section argues that more fully. full: http://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/ukraine-war-as-a-means-of-social-control/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Report: Mississippi Incarcerates More People Per Capita Than Russia and China . . . Combined | JONATHAN TURLEY
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: After repelling ISIL, PKK fighters are the new heroes of Kurdistan | Al Jazeera America
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * note especially this: Turkey profited a lot from the KRG; they are a big business partner,” says Thomas Schmidinger, a lecturer at the University of Vienna and secretary general of the Austrian Association for Kurdish Studies. “The KRG is a semicolony of Turkey’s post-Ottoman sphere of influence.” and this: Ilke, of the PKK-affiliated, Turkey-based Peace and Democratic Party (BDP), says KDP policies have exacerbated the gap between rich and poor. “We didn’t come here to establish companies and oil,” he says. “If we can participate in elections, we will win.” On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In the past, the PKK did not count many Iraqi Kurds among its members, nor was the separatist group a critical player in Kurdistan’s internal affairs. But since ISIL fighters swept through northern Iraq this summer, that has changed. Increasingly, Iraqi Kurds are embracing the PKK fighters as heroes, lauding them for recapturing the northern Iraqi town of Makhmour and its surrounding villages and for rescuing thousands of members of the Yazidi ethnic group who were trapped in nearby Sinjar. Halkawt Sami, an Iraqi Kurdish carpenter, has come to fulfill what he says is a national duty to welcome his “comrade” home. In August, as ISIL threatened to overtake Erbil, Sami enlisted to fight the extremist group. Like Kawa, he signed up for the PKK, not the peshmerga. “It was the PKK that came down from the mountains to protect us,” he says, referring to the fighters’ descent from their camp in the Qandil Mountains, along the Iran-Iraq border. Sami says he was among at least 100 new recruits from Erbil who received basic training at the PKK camp. full: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/17/pkk-s- rise-in-iraqikurdistan.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: ZCommunications » For clarity in Syria’s muddy politics
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * It's not naivete. His fascination with state options is the same brand of liberalism behind Phyllis Bennis's obsession with the UN. And of course for Vijay, the grassroots, secular revolution doesn't exist. I think it was Louis who forwarded this interview with Joseph Daher. It has a very, very long list of grassroots activities. http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/interview-joseph-daher/ On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Vijay Prashad is a very smart guy but has a certain naivete when it comes to Syria: The government of Bashar al-Assad is weakened. Syria, says one former leader, is “in danger of being lost permanently.” Residues of Syrian patriotism remain, and these leaders are eager but afraid to make a public declaration to the following effect — the armed struggle to bring democracy to Syria has failed, the Damascus government is weak and prepared to make concessions, and a united front of Syrians is required to fight the threat from IS. http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/for-clarity-in-syrias-muddy-politics/ A united front of Syrians? Really? I doubt that any rebel would consider this after 3 years of suffering from attacks that make Guernica look like a Sunday School picnic. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The Hacker Wars | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The “Hacker Wars” opened at Village East Cinema last Friday and is playing through Thursday. This review is a bit belated but I do want to urge New Yorkers to check out the film since it puts a spotlight on figures in the Anonymous movement that were of some significance despite being obscure to many of us, including me. The film also hints at why the “Hacker Wars” were lost, an outcome that is in many ways parallel to the demise of the Occupy movement, its second cousin. Let me start off by saying that it took me a while to warm up to this documentary since director Vivien Lesnik Weisman made the decision to adopt an MTV type aesthetic that made use of exceedingly short fragments of the various principals speaking about their experience as hackers that must have been calculated to appeal to a younger audience that ostensibly lacked the patience to hear someone speak for a lengthy period—like five minutes or so. When you superimpose a hip-hop soundtrack over the interviews, it becomes rather annoying to an old fogey like me. That being said, there’s some important material in the film that must be considered by a left that has grown accustomed to the Guy Fawkes mask-wearing activists who made up the rank-and-file of both Anonymous and Occupy, many of whom were self-professed anarchists. The film is basically a profile of three victims of the war on hactivism: Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer—aka “Weev”, Jeremy Hammond, and Barrett Brown. All have spent time or are spending time in prison for their role in Anonymous and its ancillary cabals. And all of them leave something to be desired as personalities and activists. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/10/20/the-hacker-wars/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: PRESS INVITE: Mirra Bank's THE ONLY REAL GAME - PLAYS QUAD CINEMA - NOV 7 - 13
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This is a really good documentary about the love of baseball in a region of India that has also been a center of rebellion for many years. I reviewed it a while back. Highly recommended. http://louisproyect.org/2013/04/30/new-york-indian-film-festival-2013/ THE ONLY REAL GAME A FILM BY MIRRA BANK Narrated by Academy-Award® winner Melissa Leo RETURNS TO NEW YORK at QUADCINEMA NOVEMBER 7 - 13 34 West 13th Street / (212) 255-2243 /www.quadcinema.com / www.OnlyRealGameMovie.com get-attachment-2.jpg WINNER: AMERICAN SPIRIT AWARD – Sedona Intl. Film Fest BEST DOCUMENTARY – NY Indian Film Fest “Mirra Bank finds an unlikely hotbed of baseball love in The Only Real Game!” – The Hollywood Reporter “Wholly absorbing! There’s a lot of heartache, but they play for love… another work in the canon of baseball poetry.” – Daphne Howland, Village Voice Critic’s Pick “Playing Ball in the Shadow of Warfare - Fascinating! And it’s nice to see an American export other than a Hollywood blockbuster engendering good will.” – Neil Genzlinger, NY Times “Masterful and extraordinary! The wonders of the game of baseball, the dreams it arouses and the communities it creates burst through.” – Ken Auletta, Media Critic “Illuminating! Astoundingly, heartrendingly real.” – Jaime Lubin, Huffington Post DIRECTOR: MIRRA BANK (LAST DANCE, ENORMOUS CHANGES) PRODUCERS: RICHARD BROCKMAN; MURIEL PETERS; LAINE VALENTINO EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: ABIGAIL E. DISNEY DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: AXEL BAUMANN COMPOSER: PAUL BRILL SYNOPSIS: Mirra Bank’s deeply stirring documentary, narrated by Academy Award®-winner Melissa Leo, captures the magic of baseball for people in the strife-torn border state of Manipur, in northeast India. Introduced by American GI’s toward the end of World War II, baseball has been a passion in Manipur for over 70 years. Bank reveals the tenacity and heart of Manipuri women who not only love the game, but brave great obstacles to play, coach and advocate for government support of baseball as a way to connect to the wider world. Their dream moves toward reality when a small band of NYC baseball lovers, and two Major League Baseball Envoy coaches, join the community to improve skills and ‘Play Ball’. In this wounded and deeply spiritual society, the love for the Great American Game, or as Babe Ruth put it, “the only real game in the world” creates a parallel universe where healthy competition, fairness, and camaraderie provide a respite from the poverty and violence engendered by years of political suppression and armed discord. THE ONLY REAL GAME Opens Friday, NOVEMBER 7 – 13 QUADCINEMA - 34 West 13th Street / (212) 255-2243 / www.quadcinema.com/coming-soon *RSVP NYC CONTACT: ANNE BORIN PR / annef...@aol.com / (212) 586-6367 _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Update/Correction: NOT IN OUR NAME: Rally against anti-Muslim bigot Ayaan Hirsi Ali at NYU-affiliated Forum
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * *NOT IN OUR NAME: Rally against anti-Muslim bigot Ayaan Hirsi Ali at NYU-affiliated Forum* Where: 92nd St Lexington Avenue When: 6:30PM, Wednesday, 22 October NYU Law’s newly acquired Forum on Law, Culture, and Society, is hosting anti-Muslim http://www.salon.com/2014/04/20/ayaan_hirsi_ali_and_the_dangerous_anti_islamic_logic_of_the_war_on_terror/ speaker Ayaan Hirsi Ali to screen *Submission*, a short film by Dutch ultranationalist Theo Van Gogh attributing women’s suffering to the Islamic faith. Ali, a Somali-Dutch writer, has written http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/us/brandeis-cancels-plan-to-give-honorary-degree-to-ayaan-hirsi-ali-a-critic-of-islam.html?_r=0 extensively that Islam is a “nihilistic cult of death,” describes the Islamic faith in its entirety as “the new fascism,” and calls for the constitution of the United States to be amended http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cair-asks-brandeis-university-not-to-honor-islamophobe-ayaan-hirsi-ali-254397281.html to deprive Muslims of the legal right to practice their religion. When asked if she is for “defeating radical Islam,” Ali clarifies that she is for “defeating Islam, period http://thinkprogress.org/world/2014/04/11/3425762/brandeis-ayaan-hirsi-ali/ ”. While other universities have correctly rescinded http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2014/april/commencementupdate.html honors to Ms. Ali for her bigoted, irresponsible, and academically void generalizations about Muslims, NYU Law has stamped its approval on the Forum on Law, Culture, and Society as it brings her to speak. The Forum was enthusiastically embraced http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/center_studying_law_and_culture_moves_to_nyu by NYU Law Dean Trevor Morrison this summer. Its director and host of Wednesday’s event, Thane Rosenbaum, opined during Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza last summer that virtually all Palestinian civilians forfeited their “right[s] to be called civilians” due to how some voted in a 2006 election. As a slew of critics noted, Mr. Rosenbaum’s commentary mimicked terrorist propaganda http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/thane_rosenbaum_s_wall_street_journal_op_ed_this_new_york_university_professor.html designed to justify massacring innocent people -- including Americans and Israelis. The Forum is also bringing former “Stop Frisk” NYPD police commissioner Ray Kelly, whose department spied on Muslim students at NYU and throughout the country, and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey. The men will present the film Zero Dark Thirty, a CIA-vetted film widely interpreted to justify torture as necessary and justified to capture Osama bin Laden. A coalition of student and community groups has called for this protest as part of a growing campaign to get NYU Law to reassess its relationship with the Forum. Meet outside the 92Y at 6:30PM on Wednesday, 22 October. You are encouraged to bring banners and materials. E-mail arg...@nyu.edu to add your endorsement. You can also visit us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/antifolcscoalition and sign our open letter https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Fz8ITgCBt8UHE3neeUtVfmf5X6Zm1t7EHFSi-yA6pCs/viewform . Demonstration Endorsers: NYU Students for Justice in Palestine NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine NYU Law National Lawyers Guild Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine Jews Against Islamophobia Coalition Jewish Voice for Peace -- New York Labor for Palestine Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Middle East Crisis Response Hudson Valley Boycott, Divest, Sanctions NYU ISO Middle East North Africa Solidarity Network-US International Action Center Queers Against Israeli Apartheid **A previous version of this statement erroneously described Ali as Nigerian-Dutch. She is Somali-Dutch. The names of endorsers have also been updated.* _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Update/Correction: NOT IN OUR NAME: Rally against anti-Muslim bigot Ayaan Hirsi Ali at NYU-affiliated Forum
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 10/20/14 12:15 PM, A.R. G via Marxism wrote: *NOT IN OUR NAME: Rally against anti-Muslim bigot Ayaan Hirsi Ali at NYU-affiliated Forum* Where: 92nd St Lexington Avenue Fucking 92nd Street Y, a block from my building and a symbol of everything that's wrong with official Judaism and its besotted Zionist elites. I'll be there... _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Will he speak at the next Stop the War rally?
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (By Leslie Gelb, the epitome of the revolving door between the NY Times and the State Department.) There’s Only One Way to Beat ISIS: Work With Assad and Iran The Obama administration has pulled together a coalition as ineffectual as it is unwilling. It’s time to join up with the forces, however unsavory, that can do the job. Earlier this week, outside Washington, the Obama team hosted senior military leaders from nations pledged to help fight the so-called Islamic State, in a mission the Pentagon is now calling Operation Inherent Resolve. Representatives from 21 of the 60-odd countries appeared. Everyone, of course, was too polite to inquire about the embarrassing number of absentees. Nor did they comment on how little these partners have contributed to the war effort thus far, or on the fact that no new serious help has been promised. Least surprising of all was the absence of the only two nations that could help fight the jihadis now and in a tangible form. full: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/18/there-s-only-one-way-to-beat-isis-work-with-assad-and-iran.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Public School Reform and the Software Tycoons » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
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[Marxism] Fwd: I studied business and programming, not English. I still can’t find a job. - The Washington Post
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[Marxism] Jacobin, Qaddafi, AFRICOM and me
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Jacobin needs to hire a fact-checker, especially when it links to something I wrote. This is by someone named David Mizner, a a novelist and freelance journalist. I guess the fiction side of the ledger spilled into the nonfiction side. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/a-war-for-power/ The article states: The get-rid-of-Qaddafi motive and the United States African Command (AFRICOM) motive aren’t mutually exclusive; the Libyan ruler, along with other African leaders, resisted the growth of AFRICOM. The words along with are linked to an article I wrote about Qaddafi and AFRiCOM that has exactly the opposite analysis. My article refers to AFRICOM, the devil itself, issuing a statement on the peachy-keen collaboration with Qaddafi: http://louisproyect.org/2011/06/18/was-libya-attacked-because-of-its-attitude-toward-africom/ STUTTGART, Germany, Sep 28, 2009 — A delegation of three senior Libyan military officers visited U.S. Africa Command headquarters as part of an orientation program to explain the command’s mission, Sept. 21-24, 2009, as the two countries continue to build their military relationship. The officers held meetings with senior staff members to discuss the command’s programs and activities, met General William E. ward and his two deputies, and traveled to Ramstein Air Base to meet Major General Ron Ladnier, the U.S. Air Force Africa commander, and his staff. The command hosts African military delegations frequently, but “certainly with regard to Libya, it is quite historic,” said Kenneth Fidler, Africa Command Public Affairs Office, which hosted the Libyan team. Two of the officers in the delegation write for the official magazine of the Libyan armed forces, called Al-Musallh. Colonel Mohamed Algale is the chief editor, and Colonel Abdelgane Mohamed is the space and aviation editor. The third member of the party, Colonel Mustafa Washahi, represented the Libyan Ministry of Defense. The officers also toured AFN-Europe studios in Mannheim, Germany, and met with editors of the European Stars and Stripes in Kaiserslautern, Germany. “They (Africa Command officials) clarified everything,” Abdelgane said in an interview with AFN-Europe. “And they are making our mission easier … to rise up the level of understanding between the militaries … and to move for further cooperation to the benefit of both countries.” In January 2009, Libya and the United States signed a defense cooperation memorandum of understanding, which provides the framework for a military-to-military relationship and cooperation on programs of mutual interest. After the signing of the MOU, a forum called the Council of Colonels met for the fourth time since 2007. These meetings set the tone for Libya-U.S. military relations and is the primary venue for discussing potential security cooperation opportunities, such as ship visits and information exchange programs. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Here Are 5 Takeaways From The Harper's Anti-Clinton Story
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Louis Proyect wrote Doug Henwood has a major article in the latest Harper's on Hilary Clinton, which is behind a paywall. I'd advise one and all, at least if you are in the USA, to pick it up at the newsstand and even consider taking out a sub. I have been a Harper's subscriber since the early 80s and really value it, warts and all. It has the guts to take on the Democrats, something that the Nation is loath to do. Short of buying the issue, this summary of Doug's article is useful: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/19/hillary-clinton-2016_n_6011954.html From this Huffington summary, I would say that yes, it's good to have at least that much of the story, and it's good Henwood was able to get it out there. But it's a hit piece about the personal development of one of the power hungry. What is really needed is a succinct analysis, using method and tools that Marx bequeathed, presented in a format and story line that anyone would have to agree with, as to why it's hard to find any political substance, and as to why we get Clintons and Bushes and Obamas and dynasties, and why she typifies a pragmatic politician motivated more by ambition than by principle. That sort of Marxist analysis can be accessed online with some effort, but Harper's liberal readership, like my friends in the light left middle class who hold the balance of electoral sufferance, certainly isn't getting it from the sources to which they subscribe. So they end up throwing up their hands and in the towel. And go and vote again for the lesser evil. Or not. And then there's the question calling for explanation as to why anyone would any longer, with all the palpable evidence available after the disillusionment in Obama's performance, still believe in that system of parliamentary obfuscation, and every-four-year first past the post bourgeois-created and prevailing-power-serving ritual. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Here Are 5 Takeaways From The Harper's Anti-Clinton Story
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Oct 20, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Louis Proyect wrote Doug Henwood has a major article in the latest Harper's on Hilary Clinton, which is behind a paywall. I'd advise one and all, at least if you are in the USA, to pick it up at the newsstand and even consider taking out a sub. I have been a Harper's subscriber since the early 80s and really value it, warts and all. It has the guts to take on the Democrats, something that the Nation is loath to do. Short of buying the issue, this summary of Doug's article is useful: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/19/hillary-clinton-2016_n_6011954.html From this Huffington summary, I would say that yes, it's good to have at least that much of the story, and it's good Henwood was able to get it out there. But it's a hit piece about the personal development of one of the power hungry. It's precisely the type of criticism a large part of the liberal base of the party directed against Clinton in 2008 which deprived her of the nomination. Doug's article will provide useful talking points for the same constituency which now wants to see her coronation blocked by Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders. I don't think a similar article attacking Warren or Sanders would be greeted with the same acclaim in these circles as the Clinton piece is likely to receive, assuming liberal publications like Harper's and Huffington Post would be willing to publish it, of course. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] YPG statement of cooperation with FSA acrossnorthern Syria for a free, democratic Syria
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Michael Karadjis said: I think that's right, and while we can easily declare, from afar, that this policy is mistaken it is obviously a lot more difficult given such realities of the situation. Yet another reason that trying to apportion all blame for past FSA/PYD tensions to the FSA side is just a little too easy, but incorrect. There are 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Turkey; and the FSA relied on the willingness of Turkey (as a front-line state, willingly or otherwise), to allow it recruit in the camps, and cross the border to and fro. Incidentally, that is why I thought the criticism of Turkey we continually hear for allowing jihadists to cross the border has not been well thought out. Turkey may well have been deliberately doing that too, and if so, should be criticised; however, with an 822 kilometre border with Syria, with 1.5 million refugees living along it, it may well have been more difficult to police every movement than people assume. I for one am glad the FSA and the refugees have had this friendly border in light of the apocalypse unleashed by the Syrian regime. I hardly think a call for the Turkish army and police to create a massively militarised anti-refugee, anti-movement, border is progressive. Of course, Turkey does need to be critcised precisely for not giving the same leeway to the PKK/YPG cadres who wanted to cross the border to help the struggle in Kobani (as well as for much else), and that is a much better way to criticise Turkey's border policy. -Original Message- From: Ken Hiebert via Marxism Speaking from a distance, I would speculate that in addition to the problem of understanding the Kurdish struggle the FSA was very aware of their dependence on the co-operastion of the Turkish government and reluctant to upset them with a clear policy of support to Kurdish self-determination * * * * * * * * * Ken Hiebert replies: Having now experienced the power of the Kurdish resistance, I wonder how the FSA will look back on their previous hesitations about the Kurdish struggle, granting that some of that hesitation may have been for tactical reasons. What would have been lost and what would have been gained if they had embraced the Kurdish struggle earlier? In any case, those leftists who used their connections with the Syrian struggle to alert Syrians to the importance of the Kurdish struggle were contributing to the common struggle. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Whitman and Andrew Jackson Were Proponents of Native American Genocide
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song? These are always amusing. Two homicidal politicians and a poet. Whitman grew up in an uncritically Jacksonian family and started his career as something of a Democratic hack newspaperman that responded predictably when the Democrats led the country into a war of conquest. This is a terrible habit that persists today among people who should know better. Whitman, however, grew out of it. The reason the beats and lefties generally like Whitman has less to do with any deep-seated racism among them than with what he did afterwards.. ML _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] UN: friend or foe
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * on Montag, 20. Oktober 2014 at 06:07, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote: One of the first major activities of the UN was to create the state of Israel, thereby dispossessing the Palestinians. Actually, the UN did not create the State of Israel. This state was created by the colonial war launched to ethnically cleanse Palestine from Arabs. The UN General Assembly only gave a political cover for this act. One has to remember, BTW, that this majority vote for a colonial racist partition against the declared will of the majority of the colony's population, was made possible by the USSR working in harmony with the USofA in order to push for the partition resolution. This was one of the stalinist rulers' major counterrevolutionary crimes. Among the 33 countries voting for the colonial partition plan, were the three votes of the USSR (Ukraine and Belarus had their own UN membership) plus Poland and Czekoslovakia. 13 countries voted against (of course all six Arab countries no longer under colonial rule, plus Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Iran, Turkey, Greece, and Cuba), and 10 abstained, among those Jugoslavia. Cheers, Lüko Willms _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] My Lai was not an incident
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[Marxism] Can an ancient legal principle serve as a tool for the climate protection movement?
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[Marxism] Prison abolition
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Main speech from the Wellington, New Zealand rally on October 18: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/prison-abolition-part-of-creating-a-just-equal-peaceful-society/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The United Nations - friend or foe, plus. . .
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * History will one day have its say, but it will not be the history that Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United nations will teach, but that which they will teach in the countries emancipated from colonialism and its puppets. . . - Patrice Lumumba Full article: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/prison-abolition-part-of-creating-a-just-equal-peaceful-society/ And on the division of labour between the United Nations and the individual imperialist powers in their own right: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/sanctions-and-bombs-how-the-un-and-western-powers-committed-mass-murder-in-iraq-before-the-2003-invasion/ New Zealand's accession to the Security Council to help manage World Imperialism Inc: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/nz-elite-win-seat-at-un-security-council-dont-celebrate-organise/ Also very interesting article by German worker at the Amazon operation in that country: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/amazon-the-global-digital-east-india-company-of-the-21st-century/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Here Are 5 Takeaways From The Harper's Anti-Clinton Story
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Are Warren or Sanders any more likely to be viable Democratic contenders than I am? On Oct 20, 2014 2:29 PM, Marv Gandall via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On Oct 20, 2014, at 2:04 PM, Ralph Johansen via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: Louis Proyect wrote Doug Henwood has a major article in the latest Harper's on Hilary Clinton, which is behind a paywall. I'd advise one and all, at least if you are in the USA, to pick it up at the newsstand and even consider taking out a sub. I have been a Harper's subscriber since the early 80s and really value it, warts and all. It has the guts to take on the Democrats, something that the Nation is loath to do. Short of buying the issue, this summary of Doug's article is useful: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/19/hillary-clinton-2016_n_6011954.html From this Huffington summary, I would say that yes, it's good to have at least that much of the story, and it's good Henwood was able to get it out there. But it's a hit piece about the personal development of one of the power hungry. It's precisely the type of criticism a large part of the liberal base of the party directed against Clinton in 2008 which deprived her of the nomination. Doug's article will provide useful talking points for the same constituency which now wants to see her coronation blocked by Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders. I don't think a similar article attacking Warren or Sanders would be greeted with the same acclaim in these circles as the Clinton piece is likely to receive, assuming liberal publications like Harper's and Huffington Post would be willing to publish it, of course. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] This non-violent stuff’ll get you killed - How Guns made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
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[Marxism] Interview with legendary Irish republican George Harrison
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Great job with the interview, Rustbelt! I've highlighted it on The Irish Revolution and will pass it around folks in Ireland. Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: De Blasio and Giuliani Speak Out on Met’s ‘Klinghoffer’ as Protests Begin - NYTimes.com
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * (Good for de Blasio) As the Metropolitan Opera prepared to give its first performance of John Adams’s 1991 opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” on Monday night, several hundred protesters gathered outside the opera house, security was heightened inside, and the debate over the work spread to City Hall. As Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and Republican presidential candidate, joined protesters outside the opera house Monday evening to denounce the work, which he said offered “a distorted view of history,” the current mayor, Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, defended the Met’s right to perform it. He said that Mr. Giuliani “had a history of challenging cultural institutions when he disagreed with their content.” full: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/arts/music/metropolitan-opera-forges-ahead-on-klinghoffer-in-spite-of-protests.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ebola and the criminal passivity of the Great Powers
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * At Redline, we've reprinted an article in the current issue of the US paper The Spark (US co-thinkers of Lutte Ouvriere) about the way the great powers have left dealing with ebola to west African governments and volunteer groups like Medecins Sans Frontieres. It's here: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/ebola-and-the-criminal-passivity-of-the-great-powers/ Phil _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Kobane
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Original Message Subject: Re: [socialistdiscussion] Kobane Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:35:19 -0700 From: John Reimann 1999wild...@gmail.com [socialistdiscussion] socialistdiscuss...@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: socialistdiscuss...@yahoogroups.com To: socialistdiscuss...@yahoogroups.com I see that the fighters that the Erdogan regime is allowing to cross the border now are the Peshmerga forces, which are the more conservative (and I've also heard more corrupt) wing of the Kurdish forces. I can very well imagine that a deal has been struck with them that they will enter Kobane not only to counter IS, but also to counter the PKK forces there. I think it can't be ruled out that this would also include countering the role of the women's battalions who are fighting the IS. Nevertheless, this seems to me to be a very complex situation. The PKK, from what I understand, is not calling for introduction of Western troops into this struggle. In fact, I've read some statements for fighters on the ground there who directly oppose this. I think socialists would have to agree with this opposition. It seems to me that, on the one hand, it's likely that these arms will go to the Peshmerga - the more conservative wing - and possibly at some point even be used against the PKK, and you couldn't rule out also being used against the women's battalions. (I say couldn't rule out because we really don't know much about the situation on the ground.) However, of course the Kobane Kurdish fighters need those arms. Then there's also the other issue: We see how in Syria itself the political movement from below was turned into a military movement controlled from above, to the detriment of the workers and peasants of the entire country. How does that relate to the struggle in Kobane? I think it's impossible for us, with little or no concrete information about the actual situation and the actual forces at work in Kobane and in Kurdistan in general, to have real, precise answers. but it does seem to me that socialists should have some general - very general- thoughts on the issue. This includes the issue of Western powers sending arms to Kobane... _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The Emergency is Not the Islamic State but War
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * ...I believe we should try very hard to hear the grievances of people in Iraq and the region, including those who have joined the Islamic State, regarding U.S. policies and wars that have radically affected their lives and well-being over the past three decades. It could be that many of the Iraqis who are fighting with Islamic State forces lived through Saddam Hussein’s oppression when he received enthusiastic support from the U.S. during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Many may be survivors of the U.S. Desert Storm bombing in 1991, which destroyed every electrical facility across Iraq. When the U.S. insisted on imposing crushing and murderous economic sanctions on Iraq for the next 13 years, these sanctions directly contributed to the deaths of a half million children under age five. The children who died should have been teenagers or in their early 20s now; are some of the Islamic State fighters the brothers or cousins of the children who were punished to death by economic sanctions? Presumably many of these fighters lived through the U.S.-led 2003 Shock and Awe invasion and bombing of Iraq and the chaos the U.S. chose to create afterwards by using a war-shattered country as some sort of free market experiment; they’ve endured the repressive corruption of the regime the U.S. helped install in Saddam’s place. The United Nations should take over the response to the Islamic State, and people should continue to pressure the U.S. and its allies to leave the response not merely to the U.N. but to its most democratic constituent body, the General Assembly. But facing the bloody mess that has developed in Iraq and Syria, I think Archbishop Romero’s exhortation to the Salvadoran soldiers pertains directly to U.S. people. Suppose these words were slightly rewritten: I want to make a special appeal to the people of the United States. Each of you is one of us. The peoples you kill are your own brothers and sisters. When you hear a person telling you to kill, remember God’s words, ‘thou shalt not kill.’ No soldier is obliged to obey a law contrary to the law of God. In the name of God, in the name of our tormented people, I beseech you, I implore you …I command you to stop the repression. The war on the Islamic State will distract us from what the U.S. has done and is doing to create further despair, in Iraq, and to enlist new recruits for the Islamic State. The Islamic State is the echo of the last war the U.S. waged in Iraq, the so-called “Shock and Awe” bombing and invasion. The emergency is not the Islamic State but war. We in the U.S. must give up our notions of exceptionalism; recognize the economic and societal misery our country caused in Iraq; recognize that we are a perpetually war-waging, often aggressing nation; seek to make reparations; and find dramatic, clear ways to insist that Romero’s words be heard: Stop the killing. [From http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/20/the-emergency-is-not-the-islamic-state-but-war/] _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] American Revolutionary
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * this documentary about Grace Lee Boggs can be seen here until November 14th. http://www.pbs.org/pov/americanrevolutionary/full.php#.VEWJf_k7uSo Stay Human! _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] American Revolutionary
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 10/20/14 7:43 PM, John E. Norem via Marxism wrote: this documentary about Grace Lee Boggs can be seen here until November 14th.http://www.pbs.org/pov/americanrevolutionary/full.php#.VEWJf_k7uSo My review of this excellent work: http://louisproyect.org/2014/03/22/grace-lee-boggs-the-hypnotic-brothers/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The struggle for Kobane: an example of selective solidarity | leilashrooms
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * The heroic resistance of the people of Kobane in fighting the onslaught of the Daesh (ISIS) fascists since mid-September, has led to a surge of international solidarity. A multitude of articles and statements have been written and protests have been held in cities across the world. Kurds have flooded across the Turkish border to help their compatriots in the fight despite being brutally pushed back by Turkish forces, and others including Turkish comrades from DAF (Revolutionary Anarchist Action) have gone to the border to support in keeping it open to help the flood of refugees escaping to Turkey. There have been calls to arm Kurdish forces and calls to support DAF and send aid for refugees. Yet this solidarity with Syria’s Kurds has not been extended to non-Kurdish groups in the country that have been fighting, and dying, to rid themselves of fascism and violent repression and for freedom and self-determination. It’s often said incorrectly, that sectarianism lies at the heart of the Syrian conflict. It’s necessary to understand to what extent sectarianism plays a role in our response too. full: http://leilashrooms.wordpress.com/2014/10/20/the-struggle-for-kobane-an-example-of-selective-solidarity/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
