[Marxism] Fwd: Trump the Great — Paul Craig Roberts | Veterans News Now
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Paradox of Che Guevara | Solidarity
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 resonates with my article on "Was there an alternative to Fidel Castro's "Stalinism".) In my idiosyncratic Trotskyist estimation, the Cuban Revolution was the encounter of a population of workers, peasants and sections of the middle class unwilling to continue under the Batista dictatorship, U.S. domination and the misery they caused. It was before a revolutionary leadership determined to free Cuba from its oppression, a dictatorship rotten to the core, a U.S. imperialism too sure of its might and righteousness to compromise, and a Soviet Union willing to provide the military and economic support Cuba would need to cut loose from capitalism and U.S. domination. Fidel and Raúl Castro, Che Guevara, Celia Sánchez and the other leaders of the Cuban Revolution were not seeking to create “a new class system based on state collectivism, a property form in which the state owns and controls the economy and a central political bureaucracy ‘owns’ the state.” They were seeking to free Cuba and concluded, some sooner than others, that for Cuba to live capitalism had to die. The only way to accomplish that in the face of U.S. intransigence, they thought, was to militarize Cuban society and to turn to the Soviet Union. If Latin America had risen in revolution, they would have had more choices. But by their lights they did the best they could. I agree with Farber that the Cuban Revolution should have been more democratic. In particular, it should have allowed political parties other than the Communist Party to exist and compete, unless they were actively fomenting counterrevolution. But I’m not sure that the practical outcome, measured as survival, would have been any better, if they had done so. Perhaps the counterrevolution would have triumphed sooner, as was the case when the Sandinistas allowed parliamentary elections in Nicaragua in 1990. https://solidarity-us.org/site/node/4822 _ 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] 'A center of Marxist thought': Head of Marxism certificate explains pr ogram's role at Duke - The Chronicle
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Banality of Evil: Elites Close Ranks Behind Trump - LA Progressive
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Re: [Marxism] Jill Stein recount
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[Marxism] Exposing the Pacific slave trade, and remembering the region's most exploited workers
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[Marxism] Fwd: Thousands Flee Aleppo, Syria, as Government Forces Advance - The New York Times
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[Marxism] Jill Stein recount
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[Marxism] Fwd: Paul Street: How the Republican Party Rules a Nation That Hates It - Truthdig
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[Marxism] Fwd: Off the Rails; Asperger’s Are Us | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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[Marxism] [UCE] Re: The Stein Campaign and the Fight for Green Party Independence
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[Marxism] The NY Times continues to sanitize Steve Bannon
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[Marxism] Fwd: Only Power Rules: Turkey After the Failed Coup - Los Angeles Review of Books
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[Marxism] Fwd: Trump: The Choice We Face | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
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[Marxism] Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for C.I.A. Torture
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. * NY Times, Nov. 28 2016 Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for C.I.A. Torture By SHERI FINK and JAMES RISEN Suleiman Abdullah Salim, a Tanzanian man and a former detainee by the C.I.A., is a plaintiff in a lawsuit focusing on C.I.A. interrogations now likened to torture. Credit Bryan Denton for The New York Times Nearly 15 years after the United States adopted a program to interrogate terrorism suspects using techniques now widely considered to be torture, no one involved in helping craft it has been held legally accountable. Even as President Obama acknowledged that the United States “tortured some folks,” his administration declined to prosecute any government officials. But now, one lawsuit has gone further than any other in American courts to fix blame. The suit, filed in October 2015 in Federal District Court in Spokane, Wash., by two former detainees in C.I.A. secret prisons and the representative of a third who died in custody, centers on two contractors, psychologists who were hired by the agency to help devise and run the program. One of them, James E. Mitchell, has written a book to be released Tuesday about his involvement in the program. In the book, he argues that he acted with government permission and that he and Bruce Jessen, the other psychologist and his co-defendant in the lawsuit, received medals from the C.I.A. Legal experts say the incoming administration of Donald J. Trump could force the case’s dismissal on national security grounds. Deciding whether to invoke the so-called state secrets privilege over evidence requested in the lawsuit could represent the new president’s first chance to weigh in on the issue of torture. Mr. Trump has endorsed the effectiveness of torture and said he would bring back waterboarding, though it is not clear now that he intends to do so. Lawyers for Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Jessen have clashed with the Justice Department over what classified evidence is needed to defend against the suit’s allegations that the men “designed, implemented, and personally administered an experimental torture program.” Last month, despite United States government opposition, the court approved the defendants’ request for oral depositions of John Rizzo, a former C.I.A. acting general counsel, and José Rodriguez, the former chief of the agency’s clandestine spy service who also headed the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorism Center. Dr. Mitchell was first publicly identified as one of the architects of the C.I.A.’s “enhanced interrogation” program nearly a decade ago, and has given some news media interviews, but is now providing a more detailed account of his involvement. His book, “Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America” (Crown Forum), was written with Bill Harlow, a former C.I.A. spokesman. It was reviewed by the agency before release. (The New York Times obtained a copy of the book before its publication date.) In the book, Dr. Mitchell alleges that harsh interrogation techniques he devised and carried out, based on those he used as an Air Force trainer in survival schools to prepare airmen if they became prisoners of war, protected the detainees from even worse abuse by the C.I.A. Dr. Mitchell wrote that he and Dr. Jessen sequestered prisoners in closed boxes, forced them to hold painful positions for hours and prevented them from sleeping for days. He also takes credit for suggesting and implementing waterboarding — covering a detainee’s face with a cloth and pouring water over it to simulate the sensation of drowning — among other now-banned techniques. “Although they were unpleasant, their use protected detainees from being subjected to unproven and perhaps harsher techniques made up on the fly that could have been much worse,” he wrote. C.I.A. officers, he added, “had already decided to get rough.” Mr. Obama declined to open a broad inquiry into the treatment of terrorism suspects, saying as president-elect that the nation needed to “look forward.” He did not rule out prosecuting those who went beyond techniques authorized by the Justice Department, but no one has been charged with those offenses under his watch. During the George W. Bush administration, a C.I.A. contractor was convicted in the death of an Afghan detainee at an American military base in Afghanistan. Henry F. Schuelke, a Washington lawyer with the firm Blank Rome, who represents Dr. Mitchell and Dr. Jessen, said that he believed his clients “were left holding the bag” while C.I.A. officials involved in the program have been protected from the
[Marxism] Tribute: Eduardo Galeano on Fidel Castro
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[Marxism] Political Gingervitis
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[Marxism] Fwd: Why schools have become a battleground in Turkey - CSMonitor.com
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[Marxism] Fwd: Will Putin expend Snowden for Trump? - Al Jazeera English
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[Marxism] Fwd: FINANCE: Learn from Cuba, Says World Bank | Inter Press Service
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[Marxism] The Stein Campaign and the Fight for Green Party Independence
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