[Marxism] Trotsky Conference set for Havana 2019

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This is a big development:

https://walterlippmann.com/trotsky-conference-set-for-havana-2019/

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[Marxism] 'It’s never going to be normal': California city in shock after gunman kills 12 | US news | The Guardian

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Some things to provide context:

1 - This suburb area  residents are mainly reactionary

2 - The schools of Peperdine and Lutheran Universities are dominated by 
evangelical conservatives

3 - Country Western Music mainly attracts right wingers in this part of 
Southern California

4 - Now view above with those shot that provides more full picture


"What you sow.is what you reap"




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[Marxism] 'It’s never going to be normal': California city in shock after gunman kills 12 | US news | The Guardian

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Charles Davis, who usually writes about Syria and Red-Brown politics, 
reports from Thousand Oaks.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/08/residents-react-thousand-oaks-california-shooting
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[Marxism] Who is Acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker? - BBC News

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[Marxism] Bernie Sanders says white people who "aren't necessarily racist" felt uncomfortable voting for Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams and Black Twitter is not pleased - theGrio

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Re: [Marxism] Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures (Union of Concerned Scientists reverses position on nuclear)

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On 11/8/18 4:38 PM, DW via Marxism wrote:


Full:
https://blog.ucsusa.org/ken-kimmell/ucs-nuclear-power-global-warming-report


"Consistent with our longstanding advocacy for nuclear safety, subsidies 
should be considered only for plants that at a minimum earn the highest 
safety rating from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."


COUNTERPUNCH, MAY 28, 2012
Meltdown at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
by KARL GROSSMAN

The resignation last week of the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission is another demonstration of the bankrupt basis of the NRC. 
Gregory Jaczko repeatedly called for the NRC to apply “lessons learned” 
from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan.  And, for 
that, the nuclear industry—quite successfully—went after him fiercely.


The New York Times in an editorial over the weekend said that President 
Obama’s choice to replace Jaczko, Allison McFarlane, “will need to be as 
independent and aggressive as Dr. Jaczko.”


That misses the institutional point.

The NRC was created in 1974 when Congress abolished the U.S. Atomic 
Energy Commission after deciding that the AEC’s dual missions of 
promoting and at the same time regulating nuclear power were deemed a 
conflict of interest. The AEC was replaced by the NRC which was to 
regulate nuclear power, and a Department of Energy was later formed to 
advocate for it.


However, the same extreme pro-nuclear culture of the AEC continued on at 
the NRC. It has partnered with the DOE in promoting nuclear power.


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Re: [Marxism] The Mueller Probe

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It's probably still appropriate to call it a "probe," but they've cranked
out enough indictments and gotten some convictions with guilty pleas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Counsel_investigation_(2017%E2%80%93present)

I don't honestly think that there's any "alleged" about criminal activities
by the Trump machine in cooperation with the Russians, though we have yet
to see how extensive it was.  I personally think the whole lot of them
think themselves above the law.  We should view the Mueller investigation
pretty much like the investigation of the state of Illinois into what they
accurately called the "police riot" in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic
National convention.

What Mueller and his people find (or any Congressional committee may find)
could lead to either criminal prosecution or impeachment and removal from
office.  (The prosecution of a seated president is rather controversial and
remains to be settled.)  Your discussion of a two-thirds vote of the Senate
indicates that you mean to be asking about the trial of a president after
articles of impeachment are adopted by the House of Representatives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States

An honest investigation would get the truth--the kind of investigation
Illinois did in 1968 but the Democratic-dominated Congress didn't really do
over Watergate, hardly pretended to do with Iran-Contra, and didn't even
bother faking it over the WMD lies of Dubya.

Are you asking about the "practical value" of the truth?

Cheers,
Mark L.
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[Marxism] Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures (Union of Concerned Scientists reverses position on nuclear)

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Some times people wake up and realize their long held positions, when faced
with evidence to the contrary, were wrong.
--David Walters
Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures

A new UCS report, *The Nuclear Power Dilemma: Declining Profits, Plant
Closures, and the Threat of Rising Carbon Emissions
*, indicates that more than 22
percent of total US nuclear capacity is unprofitable or scheduled to close
over the next five to 10 years. The report also indicates that without new
policies, the electricity generated by these and other marginally economic
nuclear plants is likely to be replaced in large part with natural
gas-fired generation (although this will vary from plant to plant). If this
occurs, cumulative carbon emissions in the electric sector could increase
by up to 6 percent between 2018 and 2035.

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Re: [Marxism] The Mueller Probe

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Hi all,

There are a number of nationwide protests taking place tonight as Trump has
replaced Jeff Sessions with Matthew Whitaker, who is a Trump loyalist who
likely will not recuse himself from the FBI investigation into Trump's
alleged Russia-related crimes.

I am honestly a bit confused and was wondering what others think about
this. Isn't it the case that regardless of what the Mueller probe uncovers,
it would require a 2/3 majority in the Senate to actually convict Trump and
force him to resign? In which case, what practical value does the Mueller
probe serve, and why is it so important that it continue if it cannot
guarantee Trump's resignation even if damning evidence of impeachable
offenses is uncovered?

Thanks,

Amith R. Gupta
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Re: [Marxism] Addicted to War

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Hi Ken,

Addicted to War is an excellent educational tool. It may be a little out of 
date today. We used it in a city-wide proposition (“College Not Combat,” 
Proposition I) in 2005 against JROTC in the high-schools, which won by 60 
percent of the vote. Unfortunately, it was just an “opinion” proposition, so 
JROTC is still alive and well in our high-schools in San Francisco. 

As part of our campaign (a united front of anti-war and socialist groups—we had 
to collect, as I recall, over 200,000 signatures to get it on the ballot.) We 
set up tables at the schools on “career days” when the U.S. military showed up 
in force along with the colleges and businesses. 

We had these books on our table along with other informational flyers to hand 
out to students warning them of the lies the military may tell them such as, 
“you have the right to leave the military honorably any time you want.” And, 
“you don’t have to go into combat if you don’t want to.” 

All the various recruiters handed out “freebees” to students, pens, notebooks, 
etc., but the military handed out shopping-bags full of bells and whistles—way 
more than anyone else did to entice the kids—all five branches of the military 
attended and each handed out separate bags of stuff.

You also may be interested in this report which was very useful to us at the 
time:
Military Recruiters Lie About Dangers In Iraq

Army To Suspend Recruiting For Retraining Following Target 5 Investigation

May 18, 2005

http://www.wlwt.com/news/4508233/detail.html 


In solidarity,

Bonnie Weinstein, Co-Editor, Socialist Viewpoint



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> This week I was given a copy of Addicted to War, an illustrated exposé by 
> Joel Andreas.
> The man who gave it to me bought it in bulk to circulate it cheaply.
> 
> It seems familiar, in that the graphics are very recognizable.  But I had not 
> read it before.
> On the cover it says there are 450,000 in print worldwide.  There is an 
> impressive list of supporters.
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[Marxism] Addicted to War

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This week I was given a copy of Addicted to War, an illustrated exposé by Joel 
Andreas.
The man who gave it to me bought it in bulk to circulate it cheaply.

It seems familiar, in that the graphics are very recognizable.  But I had not 
read it before.
On the cover it says there are 450,000 in print worldwide.  There is an 
impressive list of supporters.

I’d like to ask people on this list what they think of it as an educating tool.

ken h
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[Marxism] The Border Crossing Us - Viewpoint Magazine

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In the United States, any public response will have to contend with 
Trump’s rhetoric of invasion, war, and border militarization. Also 
notable, however, is the lack of any substantive response by the 
Democratic Party. Having decided to focus on healthcare for the 
midterms, Democrats have apparently not even responded to Trump’s 
threats of emergency measures intended to prevent those travelling in 
the caravan from making entry. These include a Muslim Ban-style 
suspension of all entry at the U.S.–Mexico border; the deployment of 
more than 5,000 troops to the border already, with 2,000 or so planned 
in coming days, and a projected total of 15,000 (more than the United 
States has deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan); the potential violation of 
the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 (which restricts the use of military 
forces to enforce domestic policy); and a set of armed training 
exercises designed for media spectacle and to provide those pointlessly 
deployed troops with something to occupy their time. Yet even if these 
actions are more GOTV mobilizing devices than anything else, the 
Democratic silence is symptomatic of the fact that that party has little 
interest in an alternative position on immigration, since they live in 
fear of losing centrist voters who are supposed to have reasonable 
objections to the idea of an open border. Thus, even as the DHS 
Secretary says, “You will not get in” – disregarding the fact that, at a 
minimum, people in the caravan have claims to refugee status that the 
United States is bound by international law to entertain – the Democrats 
would rather avoid the topic.


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[Marxism] Introducing Commune • Commune

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We speak of the United States as we write from there, most of us. The 
scenario we describe is not limited to that wheezing empire, however. 
Centrisms die across the globe. The collapse of liberal, of Keynesian, 
of “progressive” social compacts is a feature of our age. Even the 
social democratic redoubt of Scandinavia now drifts and lurches 
rightward, ethnic and economic nationalisms calling like twin magnets. 
In the wealthy nations, the course is common enough. Without economic 
development, there are no possibilities for the social progress that we 
once found routine. The appeals to liberalisms left and right, to the 
norms and conventions of a century’s official politics, grow all the 
more desperate as the possibilities of such politics vanish. Everywhere 
morbid symptoms bloom. In the place of conservatism, we witness the rise 
of a white revanchism bent on rolling back the reforms of eras past 
until Jim Crow walks a landscape devoid of labor unions, until women are 
driven back to the kitchen, queer people back to the closet, trans 
people out of restrooms. On the left, we must admit, congruent 
nostalgias dominate. The politics of the thirties and sixties, a 
workers’ movement and a technocratic social democracy, rise up like 
phantoms. They rise up into a world which lacks the affordances of those 
moments almost entirely; they feel solid and familiar to the exact 
extent that they are airy impossibilities.



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[Marxism] Colleges are called upon to review their collaborations with Saudi Arabia after the Khashoggi killing

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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/08/colleges-are-called-upon-review-their-collaborations-saudi-arabia-after-khashoggi
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Re: [Marxism] Midterm elections | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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The geniuses on MSNBC this morning are of one mind. Yesterday, it was one
thing, but this morning they're talking as though the Democrats didn't
really do that well and it was all the fault of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie
Sanders, etc. Remember these are the same numbskulls who blamed Nader for
Gore's loss (which wasn't a loss) in Florida back in 2000. You're never
going to be "not too progressive" enough for these people.

And, of course, they share the perspecti9ve of the Democratic establishment.
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