[Marxism] Kent State Massacre - recording reveals that Ohio Guard was given order to fire
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[Marxism] THE DECLINING TASTE OF THE GLOBAL SUPER-RICH
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. * For the new era of bourgeoisie, the symphony, the ballet, the opera and the museum hold less appeal than a pop star playing your private party, and they certainly can’t compete with holding court in an art empire of your own design. The ruling classes ain’t what they used to be, and vulgar narcissists like Joannou aren’t content with anything short of taking the products of their patronage home with them—and he does, all aboard The Guilty, bobbing atop his fugly floating Versailles. full: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/03/the-declining-taste-of-the-global-super-rich _ 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] Neil Davidson: A socialist case for leaving the European Union
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Re-imagining Miles Davis and Chet Baker | 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. * While cleaning out my parent's basement, I discovered a long lost copy of Monk's "Criss Cross", sans cover, as well as my only vinyl copy of the soundtrack for "Let's Get Lost", a Chet Baker biopic released in the 1980's while he was still alive. A bit depressing, but the music is really good. _ 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: Re-imagining Miles Davis and Chet Baker | 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. * Just by coincidence apparently, two narrative films open this week in theaters everywhere about Miles Davis and Chet Baker, trumpet players that were noted for their “cool” style and debilitating drug habits. They both can be described as attempts to “re-imagine” the musicians, a choice made by screenwriters and directors to avoid being confined by biopic conventions. Indeed, the term “biofic” might be coined to describe this genre since it blends fact and fiction, often at the expense of both art and the artist whose lives they seek to make more “dramatic”. full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/03/25/re-imagining-miles-davis-and-chet-baker/ _ 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] Homage to Aleppo
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. * tour schedule: http://qunfuz.com/2016/03/24/burning-country-north-america-tour/ On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:37 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. > * > > On 3/25/16 10:34 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote: > >> >> http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2016/03/homage-to-aleppo.html >> >> > Kudos to Ron for writing a sensitive and much needed review, especially on > CounterPunch and especially for the obvious openmindedness that was key to > writing it. > > I have the book myself and hope to write a review before long. Robin will > be touring the USA soon and I will keep comrades apprised of his speaking > engagements. > > _ > 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] Homage to Aleppo
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 3/25/16 10:34 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote: http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2016/03/homage-to-aleppo.html Kudos to Ron for writing a sensitive and much needed review, especially on CounterPunch and especially for the obvious openmindedness that was key to writing it. I have the book myself and hope to write a review before long. Robin will be touring the USA soon and I will keep comrades apprised of his speaking engagements. _ 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: Manufacturing Jobs Are Never Coming Back | FiveThirtyEight
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 understandable that voters are angry about trade. The U.S. has lost more than 4.5 million manufacturing jobs since NAFTA took effect in 1994. And as Eduardo Porter wrote this week, there’s mounting evidence that U.S. trade policy, particularly with China, has caused lasting harm to many American workers. But rather than play to that anger, candidates ought to be talking about ways to ensure that the service sector can fill manufacturing’s former role as a provider of dependable, decent-paying jobs. Here’s the problem: Whether or not those manufacturing jobs could have been saved, they aren’t coming back, at least not most of them. How do we know? Because in recent years, factories have been coming back, but the jobs haven’t. Because of rising wages in China, the need for shorter supply chains and other factors, a small but growing group of companies are shifting production back to the U.S. But the factories they build here are heavily automated, employing a small fraction of the workers they would have a generation ago. full: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/manufacturing-jobs-are-never-coming-back/ _ 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: Trump is a Republican, But is He a Fascist?
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[Marxism] Russia is Flying Israeli Drones Against Anti-Assad Rebels in 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. * Russia is Flying Israeli Drones Against Anti-Assad Rebels in Syria Military hardware from the Jewish State is helping Putin save Assad. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/24/russia-is-flying-israeli-drones-against-anti-assad-rebels-in-syria.html#/articles/2016/03/24/russia-is-flying-israeli-drones-against-anti-assad-rebels-in-syria.html Russia’s sort-of-but-not-really withdrawal from Syria passed without the world noticing that it featured aerial technology from a surprising source—Israel, which provided the high-tech surveillance drones that apparently help the Russian warplanes find and strike their targets on the ground. The Russian air force acquired a number of 20-foot-long Searcher drones from Israel Aerospace Industries, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles, starting in 2010. Russia also acquired from IAI, which is wholly owned by the Israeli government, a license to make its own copies of the propeller-driven Searcher, a rough equivalent of the U.S. military’s own Predator drone. The Kremlin dubbed its Searcher clone “Forpost,” which means “fortress” in Russian. While Russian officials had earlier hinted that their drones had deployed to Syria alongside an air wing of around 40 fighters and bombers, it wasn’t until mid-February that photographer Ahmad Al Khayer actually spotted a Forpost flying over Syria ... and posted to Facebook a photo of the distinctive-looking drone. “While it is impossible to definitely confirm the model from just one picture, the similarities to the Searcher/Forpost are striking: the placement of the camera and sensor turret, the horizontal connection with the fins at the rear,” Ulrike Franke, a drone researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told The Daily Beast in an email. “In the picture, the wings appear slightly more back-swept than those of the Searcher/Forpost,” Franke continued, “but given all these elements, it appears unlikely that this picture could show anything else than a Searcher/Forpost.” The photo underscores Israel’s role, however indirect, in enabling Russia’s military intervention in Syria on behalf of the embattled regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Without Jerusalem’s help, Moscow would never have been able to pull off its Syrian operation in the way that it did. In a surprise announcement on March 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the Syria intervention a success and said Russian forces would begin withdrawing from the war-torn country. Since arriving in western Syria in October, Russian warplanes have flown thousands of sorties targeting anti-regime rebels and civilians in rebel-held areas. During one weeklong period in mid-February, Moscow's jets launched 444 combat sorties and struck 1,593 “terrorist objects,” the Russian defense ministry claimed in a statement. Hitting four targets per mission requires extensive intelligence preparation—the kind that drones can best provide. Able to loiter over the battlefield for 12 hours at a time or longer, unblinkingly scanning below with cameras and other sensors, drones—actually, the operators and analysts controlling the drones via radio—can pick out coordinates for the fast-flying fighters and bombers to target. Russia needed Israel to provide the unmanned aerial vehicles because its rusting weapons industry struggles to design and produce high-end robotic aircraft all on its own. “Although Russia has the capability to manufacture small reconnaissance drones, it has long depended on countries like Israel for larger, more capable unmanned aircraft,” Dan Gettinger, co-director of the Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College in New York, told The Daily Beast via email. Israeli companies—and especially the state-owned Israeli Aerospace Industries—are among the world’s top exporters of advanced drones. Whereas U.S. firms are barred by law from selling unmanned aerial vehicles to countries with histories of human-rights abuses, Israeli industry suffers no such constraints. Other customers for the Searcher drone include Thailand, which is ruled by an unelected military junta, and Azerbaijan, a country with a “poor rights record,” according to Human Rights Watch. Getting its hands on Israeli Searchers helped the Russian military to catch up to the world’s leading drone powers. For Russian drone operators, switching to Searchers and Forposts from smaller and older Russian-made robot models was “like switching from a Zhiguli to a Mercedes,” commented Denis Fedutinov, editor of a Russian magazine devoted to unmanned aerial vehicles. A Zhiguli is a notoriously
