[Marxism] Fwd: WashingtonBabylon.com by Ken Silverstein - GoFundMe

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I want to encourage comrades to contribute to a new online magazine 
published by Ken Silverstein. He was the guy who started CounterPunch 
about 25 years ago and is a hell of an investigative reporter:


https://www.gofundme.com/washingtonbabylon

Here's his website:

http://washingtonbabylon.com/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Bruce Dixon and Howie Hawkins at the Green Party National Convention 2016 - YouTube

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[Marxism] The UK leadership debate and other thoughts

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I watched the latest debate between Corbyn and Smith on youtube. My initial
impression is that Smith is the better of the two speakers. His oratorical
skills probably lie in his Celtic ancestry. By contrast, Corbyn is almost
Australian like in his lack of the rhetorical flourish.

Having said that, I have a strong dislike for what Smith stands for.   It
is true that he stood up there arguing for Keynesianism and radical
socialism.  Yet, he does so solely because circumstances have called into
being a party which is desperately seeking an alternative to neoliberalism.
Everyone knows that Smith is the candidate of the Old Right, the Soft Left
and (reluctantly) the Blairites. There is no way that these groupings
believe in radical socialism.

For example, just over a year ago, the then leader of the Parliamentary
Labour Party, Harriet Harman, ordered her party to abstain on a Tory bill
which attacked welfare rights. She did so because, she assured everyone,
she had gone around the country after the election defeat and discovered
that Labour was thought to be the party of welfare, and that was a
political problem.

Harman was obeyed by the section of the Labour party which later was to
pass a vote of no confidence in Corbyn and which now asks us to believe
that it supports a program of radical socialism.

So again, if we leave to one side the aesthetics of rhetorical style, there
is a deep untruth at the heart of the Smith campaign. They are not
socialists and the party knows that. They also know that the Smith Campaign
has been cobbled together to get rid of the possibility of the Labour Party
becoming a radical socialist party, and should he somehow win, Smith will
move decisively to the Right.

For the moment he is in his responsive mode. That is. he publicly claims to
be willing to respond to the wishes of the members.  Once elected he would
hit the switch and become "responsible".  Responsibility in this context
would be largely defined by the economic elites and the Murdoch Press. For
the latter, responsibility still means adherence to the norms of
neoliberalism.

As Peter Mair pointed out, in *Ruling The Void:* The *Hollowing* *of
Western* *Democracy, *it is the abandonment of responsiveness and the
embracing of responsibility that has hollowed out parliamentary democracy.
This manifests itself in a deep despair among the people at the realization
of the truth that there was no difference between the political parties. In
the UK it meant that millions ceased to vote in elections.

Corbyn broke that mold decisively on the side of responsiveness. In so
doing, he challenged the common sense that one can only win elections by
being responsible. That is what the Right means when it says he is
unelectable.

Corbyn has wagered everything on responsiveness, and that is why the Labour
Party has grown exponentially. & if he wins the leadership struggle, he can
possibly build the party into a force that will threaten the rule of the
Tory Party.

comradely

Gary
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[Marxism] BDS in the news

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The passage of a resolution at the Green Party convention has led to increased 
coverage of the BDS movement.  (See the item I posted yesterday)
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/may-considers-quitting-as-federal-green-leader-over-anti-israel-vote-1.2319473

Today, the item below was carried in a number of news outlets.
http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/national-news/2016/08/10/cae-activities-in-israel-come-under-scrutiny-by-protest-group-at-annual-meeting/?print=pdf

Most interesting to me was the sentence, "The BDS movement has gained momentum 
in recent months."

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Re: [Marxism] Behind the rise of Trtump

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Clay Claiborne asks:

Does this article ever talk about the racism that is at the heart of
Trump's campaign? Its a long piece and I only read about a 3rd. It mentions
"fascism", "megalomania" but nothing about race or white chauvinism. Me, I
would have put near the top of course, but then I'm black. Does this
article ever get there? Curious but not curious enough to finish it.
You said it stood up well
. That's why I started reading it,


The answer is yes, and before the 1/3rd mark.

*Base against top*

The dilemma of the Republican Party consists in the fact that its most
hard-core constituency is composed of older people who equate being
American with being white, male, heterosexual and citizens of a country
that rules most of the world. This largely middle class base cannot cope
with the fact that the country is moving – erratically, but moving
nonetheless – in the direction of gender equality and sexual
permissiveness. They are also traumatised by the prospect that whites are
on course to become a minority by mid-century, and feel emasculated by
Washington’s increasing inability to dispatch the Marine Corps to deal with
anyone who stands up to the US abroad.

This enraged, provincial and heavily southern party core became especially
vocal after the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Never reconciled to the
presence of a black man in the White House, they are determined to thwart
Obama, no matter what he does. And, although what became the brand name of
white male *ressentiment* – the Tea Party – is no longer present as an
organised force on the ground, the notes it sounded in 2009 and after still
resound among the party ranks, just as the theme of economic inequality
introduced by the now vanished Occupy movement stuck in the minds of many
Democratic voters.

https://rdln.wordpress.com/2015/10/03/whats-behind-the-political-rise-of-donald-trump/
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[Marxism] The battle of Aleppo and the question of solidarity

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The breaking of the encirclement of Aleppo
 by Joseph Green

 *  [Introduction]
 *  Not just a military struggle
 *  Why is Assad still in power?
 *  Russian imperialism
 *  Western imperialism
 *  The seamy side of the YPG
 *  The lack of solidarity with the uprising
 *  Some background sources ("Khiyana", "Burning Country", and CVO 
theoretical articles)

>From the Detroit Workers' Voice list for August 8,2016

http://www.communistvoice.org/DWV-160808.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: Is Brand New Congress the Future of Progressive Politics? | The Nation

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This is the Nation Magazine effusing over the Brand New Congress program 
that supposedly is the next step of the Sanders "political revolution". 
Mark Lause took this apart on the North Star website 
(http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12760)


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https://www.thenation.com/article/is-brand-new-congress-the-future-of-progressive-politics/

 What’s new—and what distinguishes BNC from efforts like the Working 
Families Party, or from the Sanders-led Our Revolution—is the group’s 
commitment to finding progressive Republicans to run in red states and 
districts. “That probably makes working with us a nonstarter for Our 
Revolution,” says Trent.


“In Tennessee, the candidates would be mostly Republicans,” Mayes adds. 
What about the platform? “They’d be running on Bernie’s platform—plus a 
bigger-scale jobs program,” she says. Including abortion and gay rights? 
“Non-negotiable,” she replies.

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[Marxism] Fwd: The Donegal Woman

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 Forwarded Message 
Subject:The Donegal Woman
Date:   Thu, 11 Aug 2016 16:59:06 +
From:   Sean Throne 



You likely know me as Sean O’Torain, but I am also known as John Throne. 
 Under that name, I wrote a book a few years ago entitled */The Donegal 
Woman/* *//* 
*/. /*To my great and happy surprise, it 
became a huge hit and a bestseller in my native Ireland. You can see the 
rave reviews here . I’m writing you 
today to share with you a very happy announcement: */The Donegal Woman/* 
 is at long last available worldwide as 
an eBook.


Less than 100 years ago, a form of slavery still persisted in parts of 
rural Ireland—the hiring fair system. Children as young as seven or 
eight were sold for fixed periods by their impoverished parents to 
farmers who worked them to the bone, treating them as little more than 
cattle. And often, even worse.


*/The Donegal Woman/* *//*is based on 
the true story of my grandmother, Margaret. Born to the poorest of 
Protestant farmers in the hills of Donegal, Margaret was hired out as a 
child, raped by her master, and once pregnant, forced to marry another 
man many times her age. Sadly, Margaret’s story reflects the experiences 
of countless other women from her time and place.
But Margaret survived in a silent world of her own, driven by a 
passionate determination to do right by her children. Margaret’s story 
is a powerful reflection of the struggle against oppression that women 
have long faced. Her resilience and strength is inspirational to all 
women. Women the world over can identify with Margaret and see her tale 
as the feminist call to action that it is.


I hope that you will take the opportunity to stop by my website, */The 
Donegal Woman/* , and learn more about the 
book, and that my grandmother’s story will inspire you as much as it 
inspires me.

Thank you.
Sean O’Torain

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[Marxism] Fwd: Aleppo siege: Robert Fisk won't tell truth on Syria because he fears it

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By Sam Charles Hamad

As many celebrated the Syrian rebels' extraordinary victory in breaking 
the siege of Aleppo last week, thus averting the potential starvation of 
hundreds of thousands, one person who won't be so enthusiastic is The 
Independent's Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk. As he stated in an 
article published on 4 August, during the height of the rebel 
counter-offensive against pro-Assad forces, "there are no good guys 
among the Syrian warlords".


Fisk is, of course, one of the most experienced Middle East 
correspondents in the West, with a career in the region spanning back as 
far as the and the Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion of 
Afghanistan. Fisk is widely respected in his journalistic field and is 
regarded as a safe source for many people across the political spectrum 
when it comes for Middle Eastern affairs. It's for this reason that one 
can only lament the fact that Fisk has, since the beginning of the 
Syrian revolution, become more of a peddler of propaganda than a serious 
journalist.


full: 
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/robert-fisk-wont-tell-truth-syria-because-like-bashar-al-assad-he-fears-it-1575581

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[Marxism] "Searching for the White Working Class"

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Re: [Marxism] Behind the rise of Trump

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Does this article ever talk about the racism that is at the heart of
Trump's campaign? Its a long piece and I only read about a 3rd. It mentions
"fascism", "megalomania" but nothing about race or white chauvinism. Me, I
would have put near the top of course, but then I'm black. Does this
article ever get there? Curious but not curious enough to finish it.

You said it stood up well
. That's why I started reading it,

Clay Claiborne, Director
Vietnam: American Holocaust 
Linux Beach Productions
Venice, CA 90291
(310) 581-1536

Read my blogs at the Linux Beach 


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[Marxism] When We Loved Mussolini

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NY Review, August 18, 2016 issue
When We Loved Mussolini
by Adam Tooze

The United States and Fascist Italy: The Rise of American Finance in Europe
by Gian Giacomo Migone, translated from the Italian and with a preface 
by Molly Tambor

Cambridge University Press, 405 pp., $110.00

In the early 1960s, in the full flush of postwar Atlanticism, Gian 
Giacomo Migone, the scion of a cosmopolitan family of Italian diplomats, 
arrived at Harvard to study history. As a liberal Catholic, a follower 
of John F. Kennedy, and a fan of Pope John XXIII, Migone was escaping 
the conservatism and neofascism of the postwar Italian universities. He 
came to the United States in search of the promise of democracy and new 
developments in scholarship. What he found was something more 
complicated. It was the heyday of the civil rights struggle and he and 
other foreign students ventured South to witness the dying days of Jim 
Crow. Yet it was not America’s present that would unsettle him but its 
past and, in particular, America’s recent history in relation to his own 
country.


In 1965, the theme of Ernest May’s legendary seminar at Harvard on 
American foreign relations was the 1920s, and Migone was given the task 
of exploring US policy toward Italy. This was a ticklish assignment in a 
double sense. The 1920s were a decade commonly identified with American 
isolationism, a period in which the US was not credited with actually 
having had a foreign policy. And Italy in the 1920s meant Mussolini’s 
regime. The question was how the Republican administrations of Harding, 
Coolidge, and Hoover, committed to their nationalist program of 
“normalcy” and modernization, had engaged with the first effort to build 
a fascist dictatorship in Europe. As the Vietnam War escalated in the 
background, it was an assignment that would shake the young Migone’s 
naive assumptions about the alignment of Western power with democracy.


Published in Italian in 1980, after many years of pioneering research in 
American and Italian archives, Migone’s book established him in Italy as 
an authority among left-liberal scholars of the fascist era and launched 
a career that would lead by way of the University of Torino to a seat in 
the Italian Senate. Still, in an age before the Internet and Google 
Translate, Migone’s scholarship remained largely unknown to an 
Anglophone readership. Like other classic works of European 
international history of the 1960s and 1970s, many of which were 
centered on the United States—in German one thinks of Andreas 
Hillgruber’s Hitlers Strategie, Michael Geyer’s Aufrüstung oder 
Sicherheit, and Werner Link’s Die amerikanische Stabilisierungspolitik 
in Deutschland—this European interpretation of American power was mostly 
ignored in America’s own historiography. We owe thanks to Cambridge 
University Press and Molly Tambor, herself a historian of postwar Italy, 
for finally bringing us this highly readable translation.


Antifascism was the founding myth of the Italian republic after 1945. 
But not only did a resentful minority of Italians cling to the memory of 
Mussolini, as Migone discovered in the National Archives in Washington, 
it was not until surprisingly late in the 1930s that the United States 
decided to treat Il Duce as an enemy. In the interwar period, unlike 
after 1945, Americans did not assume that democracy was the natural 
destiny of all Western European states. Mussolini’s American admirers 
ranged from the Hearst press to Columbia University’s president, 
Nicholas Murray Butler, who gave a platform to fascist propaganda in the 
Casa Italiana on the Upper West Side. Both Presidents Hoover and 
Roosevelt expressed their approval of Mussolini’s regime. Fascism 
promised to bring order and progress to Italy while holding at bay the 
menace from the left.


Already in 1972 John Patrick Diggins, in his Mussolini and Fascism: The 
View from America, had revealed the widespread enthusiasm for Mussolini 
among progressive American intellectuals. What Migone’s book laid bare 
was that these affinities were founded on more than ideas and politics. 
Behind the scenes, financial interests had a part in orchestrating the 
connubio between America and Italian fascism. As he puts it in his 
preface, Migone may not have started out as a Marxist, but through 
“reading documents produced by central banks and investment bankers” he 
sometimes felt as though he might “become one.”


One of the obstacles to acknowledging the amicable relationship between 
Wall Street and Italian fascism was the commonplace view of the interwar 
period as an era of economic nationalism. Mussolini was famous for his 

[Marxism] [UCE] Re: Prensa Latina promotes Assad's line

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On 8/11/16 10:40 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:

The official Cuban state press interviews Assad, asking a series of
"questions" which are basically invitations to Assad to tell his lies,
which the interviewer then agrees with.

http://mltoday.com/article/2507-assad-interviewed-by-cuban-news-gency-la-prensa/90-frontpage-stories


This is old news. When Walter Lippmann was subscribed here, he used to 
crosspost this kind of stuff all the time. Frankly, it got me so ticked 
off that I abandoned a project to take apart Samuel Farber's rancid book 
on Cuba after just one post.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Q with the Free Alabama Movement

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TNS: When and why was the Free Alabama Movement started?

F.A.M. was started in August 2013. At that time, there were many issues 
plaguing the lives of the people who were incarcerated in Alabama’s 
prison, and it had become obvious to many of us that we would have to 
become directly involved in providing solutions to those problems. There 
were ( and still are) inhumane conditions; there is little investment in 
education and rehabilitation; the courts were not resolving legitimate 
complaints concerning wrongful convictions and sentences or inhumane 
conditions and treatment; the parole board and other agencies were all 
complicit in the operation of mass incarceration, and we had come to 
accept the fact that the so- called ” civil and human rights 
organizations either were not coming to the rescue or they, too, were 
exploiting mass incarceration for personal gain. F.A.M. was formed out 
of necessity for survival against what we know as genocide.


full: http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=12769
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[Marxism] Prensa Latina promotes Assad's line

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The official Cuban state press interviews Assad, asking a series of
"questions" which are basically invitations to Assad to tell his lies,
which the interviewer then agrees with.

http://mltoday.com/article/2507-assad-interviewed-by-cuban-news-gency-la-prensa/90-frontpage-stories
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[Marxism] One account of Allepo battle

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Hezbollah fighter in "leaked tape": 
We were abandoned

https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567259-hezbollah-fighter-in-leaked-tape-we-were-abandoned

BEIRUT – A purported audio tape of a Hezbollah fighter recorded during the 
frantic fighting over the weekend in southern Aleppo reveals that the Lebanese 
party's fighters were allegedly abandoned by other pro-government forces.

"They (fellow pro-regime fighters) all left us, the Iranian, Afghans and 
Syrians… all of them left us," the unnamed fighter complained in the audio 
message, which began circulating on social media Sunday after opposition forces 
broke through government lines in the Ramouseh area in southwestern Aleppo, 
relieving the siege on the eastern half of the city.
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Re: [Marxism] My latest in Counterpunch

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Of course Louis meant Andrew Stewart, not me, needs to learn about
Mondragon.
I would just add here, as I have in the past when the question of coops
came up, that in the first couple years of the Russian Revolution Lenin was
(appropriately) manic about the need to found, build, and link coops.


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>> See, this is what I'm on about. You couldn't ask for more explicit proof
>> of
>> the dangerously reformist character of Richard Wolff's "workplace
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Re: [Marxism] My latest in Counterpunch

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See, this is what I'm on about. You couldn't ask for more explicit proof of
the dangerously reformist character of Richard Wolff's "workplace
democracy" fetish.



Andrew needs to become more familiar with the dark side of co-ops, 
including Mondragon that never challenged Franco.


https://louisproyect.org/2009/12/06/the-myth-of-mondragon/

https://louisproyect.org/2010/10/11/mondragon-a-path-to-21st-century-socialism/


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Re: [Marxism] My latest in Counterpunch

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See, this is what I'm on about. You couldn't ask for more explicit proof of
the dangerously reformist character of Richard Wolff's "workplace
democracy" fetish.

An example: Yesterday, thanks to a recommendation by the invaluable qotd of
PNHP, I bought a book on the connection between the civil rights movement
and the birth of Medicare (and its much-needed extension to all US
residents).

Would Wolff have had those activists fight for healthcare in one
cooperative hospital? What would he advocate now to get us on the road
toward nationwide socialized medicine?

The book review:
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/august/the-role-of-medicare-in-integrating-the-nation%E2%80%99s-hospitals


On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:

>
> A potential route for socialist development worth considering.
>
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/11/dual-power-as-the-
> route-to-democratic-socialism-sanders-or-no-sanders/
>
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Re: [Marxism] [UCE] FAIR?

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On 8/11/16 8:56 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:

For those getting this on the ufpj list, I'm not interested here in a back
and forth with Assadists about the facts. I'm interested in intelligent
commentary on why FAIR has taken this reactionary stance.


For the same reason The Nation, Counterpunch, Salon, the LRB, ZNet and a 
thousand other zines and print publications do. They see Syria in the 
same light as they saw Iraq in 2003 or so. It is an intellectual, moral 
and political failure that helped to shape the GP's foreign policy. In 
some ways, it is analogous to the majority support on the left for 
Stalin in the 1930s when the New Republic, the Nation and Walter Duranty 
were publishing garbage. It takes a lot of backbone to swim against the 
stream and most people on the left seem to be invertebrates at this point.

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[Marxism] [UCE] FAIR?

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When did FAIR join the campists? I've noticed the last couple years that
its previously valuable critique of the Times is now done in the service of
Assad's story line. Here's the latest in that vein:
http://fair.org/home/how-media-distorted-syrian-ceasefires-breakdown/
For those getting this on the ufpj list, I'm not interested here in a back
and forth with Assadists about the facts. I'm interested in intelligent
commentary on why FAIR has taken this reactionary stance.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Breaking the siege of Aleppo | Leila's blog

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https://leilashami.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/breaking-the-siege-of-aleppo/
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[Marxism] A guru of "realpolitik" has Clinton figured out completely

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So assuming Trump loses, are we stuck with the same strategy of liberal 
hegemony that has performed so poorly for the past 25 years? Hillary 
Clinton and her vast team of advisors are strongly committed to the 
familiar nostrums about America’s “indispensable” role, and her 
administration may keep trying to roll the stone uphill and remake the 
world in America’s image. Indeed, some insiders think she’ll be quick to 
abandon Obama’s somewhat more cautious attitude and take a more 
interventionist approach to trouble spots like Syria.


Maybe, but I’m not so sure. The days when the United States could manage 
most of the globe simultaneously are behind us; the federal budget will 
be tight no matter who wins; China is getting stronger and more 
ambitious; and the next president will have to make some hard choices 
and set priorities among Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and other global 
issues. You might also recall that former president and potential first 
gentleman Bill Clinton was exceedingly cautious about using military 
force — and especially U.S. ground troops — and he once told aide George 
Stephanopoulos that “Americans are basically isolationist.” That insight 
is even truer today: Because the United States presently faces no 
existential threats, public support for a costly foreign policy remains 
paper-thin. Clinton may try to run the world as her predecessors have, 
but she’ll have to try to do it on the cheap.


So even if Trump goes down in a resounding defeat and a President 
Hillary Clinton enters the Oval Office accompanied by a phalanx of 
liberal interventionists and unrepentant neoconservatives, I wouldn’t be 
all that surprised if she behaves with more restraint than her hawkish 
past might suggest.


In any event, liberal hegemony isn’t going to work any better for her 
than it did for her husband, for George W. Bush, or even for Barack 
Obama. Continued efforts to remake the world with American military 
power will continue to backfire, and the failures will force Americans 
to take a hard look at alternative grand strategies but hopefully 
without the disturbing distractions that Trump has provided. As 
Churchill also once said, the United States eventually does the right 
thing — after first trying all the alternatives.


full: 
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/08/donald-trump-keep-your-hands-off-the-foreign-policy-ideas-i-believe-in-nation-building-united-states/

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[Marxism] Fwd: Scientists show future events decide what happens in the past

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Quantum physics is a weird world. It studies subatomic particles, which 
are the essential building blocks of reality. All matter, including 
ourselves are made up of them. But, the laws governing the tiny 
microscopic world seem to be different to those dictating how larger 
objects behave in our own macroscopic reality.


Quantum laws tend to contradict common sense. At that level, one thing 
can be two different things simultaneously and be at two different 
places at the same time. Two particles can be entangled and, when one 
changes its state, the other will also do so immediately, even if they 
are at opposite ends of the universe – seemingly acting faster than the 
speed of light.


Particles can also tunnel through solid objects, which should normally 
be impenetrable barriers, like a ghost passing through a wall. And now 
scientists have proven that, what is happening to a particle now, isn't 
governed by what has happened to it in the past, but by what state it is 
in the future – effectively meaning that, at a subatomic level, time can 
go backwards.


To bamboozle you further, this should all be going on right now in the 
subatomic particles which make up your body.


If all this seems utterly incomprehensible and sounds downright nuts, 
you're in good company. Einstein called it "spooky" and Niels Bohr, a 
pioneer of quantum theory once said: “if quantum mechanics hasn’t 
profoundly shocked you, you haven’t understood it yet.”


In this latest experiment, carried out by scientists at the Australian 
National University, lead researcher Andrew Truscott said in a press 
release that they have proven that "reality does not exist if you are 
not looking at it.”


full: 
http://m.digitaljournal.com/science/experiment-shows-future-events-decide-what-happens-in-the-past/article/434829

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[Marxism] My latest in Counterpunch

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A potential route for socialist development worth considering.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/11/dual-power-as-the-route-to-democratic-socialism-sanders-or-no-sanders/

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