[Marxism] Venezuela: Opposition leader calls for coup as right-wing protests turn violent

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The national mobilisation came after right-wing leader Henrique Capriles
gave a press conference on May 17 in which he invoked violence and called
for the country's armed forces to “pick a side”.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61797
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[Marxism] Thanks . . .

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. . . to everyone who responded to my query.

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[Marxism] Fwd: A Trotskyist Goes to North Korea | Jacobin

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A Morenoite visits North Korea. Not exactly what you'd expect from a 
magazine tied to Dissent.


https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/05/north-korea-pyongyang-kim-jong-un-trotskyism/
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[Marxism] Fwd: ¡Michael Ratner, Presente! Public Memorial for Michael Ratner Tickets, Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite

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[Marxism] Actually something decent

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I have been writing for this outlet for a while and they do the best kind
of work to cover the Left in RI and give it a voice. If you can help out
here it would be appreciated.

http://www.rifuture.org/help-me-avoid-losing-my-home-in-a-tax-sale.html

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[Marxism] Praising the Perpetrator

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(i.e., the flipside of Malcolm's "blaming the victim")
Tomorrow's Left Forum includes a workshop on "Europe’s Refugee Crisis: A
Man-Made Disaster."
Man (sic) made indeed: that man being Assad.
That of course won't be the focus of at least one panelist, Tariq Ali, who
in contrast believes, as do other campists, that Obama and Cameron are
responsible for the flight of all the refugees. Having Ali on this panel is
a slap in the face to every Syrian who has fled, especially those who've
lost their lives in transit.
The panel:
http://www.leftforum.org/content/europe%E2%80%99s-refugee-crisis-man-made-disaster
Joseph Daher's excellent rebuttal of Ali's lies, including about who caused
the refugee crisis:
http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article36553
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Re: [Marxism] Marxism [Israel's] 'Occupation of the American Mind' - RAI with Sut Jhally, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters (1/3)

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[Marxism] [Israel's] 'Occupation of the American Mind' - RAI with Sut Jhally, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters (1/3)

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[Marxism] Fwd: I Was There - Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc

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By Uri Avnery

"PLEASE DON'T write about Ya'ir Golan!" a friend begged me, “Anything a 
leftist like you writes will only harm him!"


So I abstained for some weeks. But I can't keep quiet any longer.
General Ya'ir Golan, the deputy Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, made 
a speech on Holocaust Memorial Day. Wearing his uniform, he read a 
prepared, well-considered text that triggered an uproar which has not 
yet died down.


Dozens of articles have been published in its wake, some condemning him, 
some lauding him. Seems that nobody could stay indifferent.
The main sentence was: "If there is something that frightens me about 
the memories of the Holocaust, it is the knowledge of the awful 
processes which happened in Europe in general, and in Germany in 
particular, 70, 80, 90 years ago, and finding traces of them here in our 
midst, today, in 2016."


All hell broke loose. What!!! Traces of Nazism in Israel? A resemblance 
between what the Nazis did to us with what we are doing to the Palestinians?


full: http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1463756720/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Almost Holy | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Opening today at the Village East in New York is “Almost Holy”, a 
documentary about a Ukrainian pastor named Gennadiy Mokhnenko who 
created the Pilgrim Republic, a home for drug addicted street kids in 
Mariupol in 1998. Mokhneko is a larger than life character with an 
absolute conviction that he is doing the right thing even if it involves 
what amounts to vigilantism. When he goes into a pharmacy that has been 
selling opiates to children and reads the pharmacist the riot act, you 
tend to view him in a positive light especially in a society like 
Ukraine where the cops are frequently nothing but criminals themselves. 
Although Jesus Christ was only a figure of legend, it is remarkable to 
see a contemporary Christian trying to emulate that side of the son of 
god who drove the money changers from the temple.


The film is also of interest as a running commentary on the civil war in 
Ukraine as Mokhnenko has to dodge rockets and artillery attacks to 
continue with his mission, which mostly consists of going into what 
amounts to the Ninth Circle of hell to reach 13 to 17-year-old boys and 
girls who are living in abandoned buildings or shacks with needle tracks 
running down their arms and nothing to live for until their next fix. 
Mokhnenko lays it on the line: Come with him to the Pilgrim Republic if 
they want to live. Oddly enough, it evokes Arnold Schwarzenegger’s line 
in Terminator 2 especially since Gennadiy Mokhnenko looks like he is 
carved out of granite.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2016/05/20/almost-holy/
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Elderly Florida man kills ailing wife because medication wasn’t affordable | US news | The Guardian

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Thanks, Patrick. It is in fact very useful and relevant.
In recent weeks various liberals have been lying about single-payer,
claiming it wouldn't save money for patients. The rebuttals by PNHP and
others have focused on two main points recently: the waste in
administrative costs under the current multi-payer, for-profit setup -- and
savings from forcing down drug prices. See pnhp.org, whose
recently-released plan includes this:

"The NHP would cover all medically necessary prescription medications,
devices and supplies. It would directly negotiate prices with
manufacturers, producing substantial savings. An expert panel would
establish and update a national formulary, which would specify the use of
the lowest cost medications among therapeutically equivalent drugs (with
exceptions where clinically required).

Full drug coverage is an essential component of an NHP. Copayments reduce
adherence to medications and worsen clinical outcomes. The NHP would, like
other large purchasers, use its market clout and formularies to negotiate
lower drug prices with manufacturers. For instance, the Veterans
Administration pays only 56-63% as much as Medicare does for drugs,24
because Medicare is prohibited from negotiating for lower prices."


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> On 2016/05/20 12:59 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
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>>
>> http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/19/florida-man-kills-wife-medication-not-affordable
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>
> I think the biggest miracle I've witnessed here in South Africa - a more
> profound challenge to illegitimate power than anything since, and perhaps
> including, the 1994 transition from racial (to class) apartheid - was
> seeing friends recover from opportunistic AIDS infections because they
> could get antiretroviral ARV medicines for free over the last 10 years or
> so, here in the city with the highest # of HIV+ residents, Durban.
>
> That was only possible because of extraordinary activism which lowered the
> price of ARVs from $15,000/year in the early 2000s. From 1999-2004, the
> Treatment Action Campaign militants fought Big Pharma, the US and SA
> political regimes, the World Trade Organisation and the whole idea of
> Intellectual Property, and eventually won. Life expectancy in South Africa
> has risen from 52 a decade ago to 62 today as a result.
>
> One of the great leaders of that struggle, Vuyiseka Dubula (disclosure: I
> co-supervise her PhD) discusses it here:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2gEbUcFle4
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> It's an inspiration, hopefully to the US comrades who need to follow this
> example to limit extreme medicines profiteering.
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/19/florida-man-kills-wife-medication-not-affordable 



I think the biggest miracle I've witnessed here in South Africa - a more 
profound challenge to illegitimate power than anything since, and 
perhaps including, the 1994 transition from racial (to class) apartheid 
- was seeing friends recover from opportunistic AIDS infections because 
they could get antiretroviral ARV medicines for free over the last 10 
years or so, here in the city with the highest # of HIV+ residents, Durban.


That was only possible because of extraordinary activism which lowered 
the price of ARVs from $15,000/year in the early 2000s. From 1999-2004, 
the Treatment Action Campaign militants fought Big Pharma, the US and SA 
political regimes, the World Trade Organisation and the whole idea of 
Intellectual Property, and eventually won. Life expectancy in South 
Africa has risen from 52 a decade ago to 62 today as a result.


One of the great leaders of that struggle, Vuyiseka Dubula (disclosure: 
I co-supervise her PhD) discusses it here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2gEbUcFle4


It's an inspiration, hopefully to the US comrades who need to follow 
this example to limit extreme medicines profiteering.


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[Marxism] Behind the Olympic Sheen-Jules Boykoff's new book on the Olympics

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/20/let-the-games-begin-behind-the-olympic-sheen/

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Re: [Marxism] The "limits" of animal intelligence

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 Dennis Brasky wrote:

> I take it that you are a scientist or anthropologist.
>

No, I'm not a doctor either but I know to go to one when needed.

These kind of articles play on another almost unique human quality: empathy
for others not our own species. The idea of these kinds of articles is make
animals appear as human like as possible and to treat them like 'people'. I
think they are generally devoid of any serious understanding of animals and
animal-human relationships.

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[Marxism] Radiohead album review

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I really like this one.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/20/radiohead-and-the-end-of-the-utopian-dream/

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[Marxism] [UCE] Fwd: The Horrifying Reality of the Academic Job Market

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[Marxism] Paul Mason: The leftwing case for Brexit (one day)

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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/16/brexit-eu-referendum-boris-johnson-greece-tory

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[Marxism] Guardian: Left-leaning users veer right on regulating Uber and Airbnb, study finds

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More evidence that these companies are evil...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/18/sharing-economy-pew-survey-airbnb-uber

A companion piece:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/02/whats-yours-is-mine-against-the-sharing-economy-tom-slee-review
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[Marxism] Environmental imperialism

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NY Times, May 20 2016
Prosperous Mexican Farms Suck Up Water, Leaving Villages High and Dry
By ELISABETH MALKIN

SAN ANTONIO DE LOURDES, Mexico — In the dappled shade of mesquite trees 
by the side of a pale yellow schoolhouse, the children finished a song 
and waited for the priest’s blessing.


The Rev. Juan Carlos Zesati began with a gentle exhortation, citing Pope 
Francis. “Water is part of God’s creation,” he said as he traced the 
connection from God to the earth, to life, to community and ultimately 
to every individual. “We have to respect that connection.”


But the well in San Antonio de Lourdes, a village in Guanajuato State in 
central Mexico, went dry years ago. The village itself, depleted by 
poverty and migration, seems to be drying up, too, and only 29 children 
are left in the primary school. But a half-hour’s drive away, fertile 
farms pump water from deep underground to irrigate fields that grow 
broccoli and lettuce for American supermarkets.


“Your communities are suffering,” Father Zesati told a group of mothers 
and children before delivering his indictment. It is the farms that “are 
sucking up the water — but just for themselves.”


Then he turned to face a whitewashed water tank, built by the people of 
San Antonio de Lourdes to collect rainwater from the school roof, raised 
his right hand, and blessed it. “This seems small for all the problems 
there are — but it’s a sign of hope.”


It was the first of a day of such blessings in a hilly arid pocket of 
central Mexico where farmers wait for rain to bring subsistence crops of 
corn and beans to life.


When Father Zesati arrived in northern Guanajuato four years ago, he 
quickly learned that he was at the heart of a water crisis, one that is 
playing out over much of agricultural Mexico.


“What the pope emphasizes is that those who most suffer from the 
pressure on the earth and from ecological destruction — the first who 
suffer its effects are the poor,” Father Zesati said. “They are made 
poor by those who follow an economic model that throws its costs at them.”


The farms in Guanajuato count as one of the great success stories of 
that model, codified in the North American Free Trade Agreement, or 
Nafta. Every day, workers stack crates of fresh produce aboard giant 
refrigerated trucks that roar straight to the Texas border.


“Nafta is all about high-intensive-labor crops,” said Dylan Terrell, the 
director of Caminos de Agua, an organization that works with 
universities in the United States to test water quality in the 
Guanajuato wells, and designs and pays for cisterns and other methods to 
collect clean drinking water.


As far back as the 1980s, even before the free trade agreement, the 
government imposed a ban on most new wells in Guanajuato. But water 
extraction increased exponentially. What allowed that to happen is “a 
pretty well-known system of bribes and corruption,” Mr. Terrell said.


Every year, farms bore farther into the aquifer, and scientists warn 
that as they go deeper they are reaching tainted water deposited between 
10,000 and 35,000 years ago.


“Here is the challenge for the authorities,” said Marcos Adrián Ortega 
Guerrero, a hydrogeologist at the National Autonomous University of 
Mexico. “It is to administer water that is thousands of years old, water 
that is contaminated with arsenic and fluoride which is causing great 
harm and that they have never wanted to acknowledge.”


The signs of tainted water seem apparent. The most visible evidence is 
the prevalence of dental fluorosis, an illness that blackens teeth. Yet 
the many complaints of joint pain suggest that some people might have 
developed a much more severe illness, skeletal fluorosis, which occurs 
when fluoride accumulates in the bones.


“My husband can’t bear the pain in his feet,” said Guadalupe Mata, 39, a 
mother of three in Rancho Nuevo, the second village on Father Zesati’s 
route of cistern blessings. “He gets injections, but the pain just comes 
back. But he still goes to work in the fields to plant chile.”


Her 16-year-old daughter has been hospitalized for kidney trouble, she 
said. Buying bottled water is far beyond the family’s means; her husband 
earns about $33 a week.


There have been no formal studies of the effect on health caused by 
excess arsenic and fluoride in the community wells of Guanajuato, but 
recent tests carried out by Northern Illinois University for Caminos de 
Agua show levels that are many times higher than levels recommended by 
the World Health Organization.


According to the W.H.O., long-term exposure to arsenic at those levels 
can cause skin, lung and other cancers, a

[Marxism] Fwd: R.I.P., GOP: How Trump Is Killing the Republican Party | Rolling Stone

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Matt Taibbi at the top of his game.

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[Marxism] Fwd: How the Syrian Revolution has transformed me – Random Shelling قصف عشوائي

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I could not remain neutral as Syrians redefined the feasible and 
stretched the boundaries of people power, albeit briefly, during those 
early months of fatal hope.


Wouldn’t remaining impartial have been an act of treason to anything I 
claimed to stand for? How could I possibly read out Howard Zinn’s quote 
“You cannot be neutral on a moving train” to those sitting on the fence 
on Palestine, while I was doing the same on Syria? The Syrian revolution 
crumbled the fence from under me. I rediscovered my voice thanks to the 
mass mobilization I witnessed in Syria. I would listen to clips from 
Syrian protests, memorize their chants, and repeat them in Palestinian 
protests. Thinking of the fearlessness of Syrians would immediately make 
my voice louder and help make me overcome any slight semblance of fear.


full: 
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[Marxism] Fwd: Arab civilians suffer long struggle for self-determination

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Filiu portrays the Arab dictators as modern-day Mamluks, after the 
former Ottoman slaves who ruled Egypt and Syria from 1258 until 1516. 
“They were a military caste, totally foreign to the population,” he 
explains. “They lived in a closed, endogenous society that 
inter-married, and the only thing that interested them was their 
internal power struggles. They were ready to burn down their own 
countries to keep power.”


The Baathist coups in 1970s Syria, the Algerian army’s war on Islamists 
in the 1990s, and Assad’s present entrenchment stem from the same 
attitude, Filiu says. “The logic of the Mamluks, past and present, is 
Darwinian. The worst man always wins; the one who is ready to kill his 
brother, strangle his best friend.”


In Algeria, the modern Mamluks triumphed over the people. “Their symbol 
is [President Abdelaziz] Bouteflika in a wheelchair. When the system 
runs its course, you put a mummy at its head.”


As the revolutions gained momentum in 2011, the Arab “deep state” or 
military and intelligence apparatus, helped to foster jihadist 
movements, including Islamic State, also known as Isis.


The Syrian and Egyptian “deep states” freed Islamist prisoners and 
secretly armed and funded their movements.


full: 
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/arab-civilians-suffer-long-struggle-for-self-determination-1.2652478

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[Marxism] Fwd: Israel: PM Netanyahu replies to Officers' charges of Fascism by appointing far Right Lieberman their boss

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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bolstered his majority and rid 
himself of a troublesome voice of conscience Thursday by appointing the 
extremist Avigdor Lieberman minister of defense. This move strengthened 
Netanyahu’s hand politically, removing a critic in the form of Moshe 
Yaalon, the previous minister of defense. But it also sent a signal to 
Israel’s officer corps, which has been showing distinct unease at 
Netanyahu’s march of the country into Mussolini territory.


Part of the dispute is over the cold-blooded murder allegedly committed 
by a 19-year-old Israeli soldier with an extremist background, who was 
caught on camera killing an incapacitated Palestinian assailant, Abd 
al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif. Sharif had committed a knife attack before 
being incapacitated and searched. The video showed Azarya rushing back 
over, shouting angrily, and shooting the prostrate twenty-one year old 
in the head.


The Israeli officer corps insisted that Azarya be tried for 
manslaughter, apparently over the objections of Netanyahu, who called 
the soldier’s parents and expressed sympathy for him. The far, far-right 
Lieberman led a virulent campaign on behalf of Azarya.


full: http://www.juancole.com/2016/05/netanyahu-appointing-lieberman.html
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[Marxism] Fwd: An Attempt to Crack Down on Boycotting Israel in Canada Has Failed | VICE News

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https://news.vice.com/article/a-canadian-province-is-trying-to-crack-down-on-boycotting-israel
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[Marxism] Fwd: Elderly Florida man kills ailing wife because medication wasn’t affordable | US news | The Guardian

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/19/florida-man-kills-wife-medication-not-affordable
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Re: [Marxism] Kate Beckinsale was a Child Trotskyist!

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Anthony is still having email problems apparently. In any case, he was 
urging us to read this article:


http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/19/kate-beckinsale-phones-tapped-jane-austen-love-friendship
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[Marxism] Kate Beckinsale was a Child Trotskyist!

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