Re: [Marxism] Regime preservation: How US policy facilitated Assad’s victory
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. * Great work as always. Some of the hyperlinks in the piece don't seem to work, or at least I'm having trouble accessing the websites they direct to. If you made a word document or pdf with the original web addresses of the articles you link to, could I get a copy please? Or perhaps you'll be posting it on your academia.edu page? Once again, thanks for this, and all your work on these topics. SWJ. On 08/05/2019 15:13, mkaradjis . via Marxism 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. * Here in my debut on the wonderful al-Jumhuriya site, I have attempted to comprehensively take apart years of nonsense spouted by pro-Assad writers (like the epigone version of Ben Norton) about what they claim was some US role in pushing "regime change" against Assad in Syria, which both denies the agency of the millions of Syrian people who rose up to overthrow a tyrannical regime, while also being false to the very core factually. "As the military conflict in Syria has been largely decided in favor of the Bashar al-Assad regime, there have been a number of attempts to review the role of US intervention, or lack thereof, in the Syrian outcome. Late last year, Washington’s special envoy to Syria, Jim Jeffrey, clarified that while the US wants to see a regime in Damascus that is “fundamentally different,” it is nevertheless “not regime change” the US is seeking. “We're not trying to get rid of Assad.” Much commentary jumped on this as some kind of major shift in US policy, or a signal the US had “given up” on regime change. Yet, as will be shown below, the US never had a “regime change” policy. On the contrary, Washington has always sought a modified form of regime preservation. Jeffrey’s statement was followed by President Trump’s announcement of an immediate US withdrawal from Syria. While the “immediate” was later dropped for reasons of expediency, a more gradual US withdrawal is still on the cards; a process coinciding with a creeping rapprochement with Assad by Trump’s Gulf allies, spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain restoring diplomatic relations with Syria in late December 2018." https://aljumhuriya.net/en/content/regime-preservation-how-us-policy-facilitated-assad%E2%80%99s-victory?fbclid=IwAR0ZDa2HWqC4HA0ZP-He2DdgsalCPWcX7xXcgXYamUQnnTfnEedVhdYd-bA _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gunther1981%40zoho.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] This memo is being circulated online from Wikileaks re: Syria and ousting Assad.
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. * MK and others have already dealt well with the 'truth' of this. Just to note though that Wikileaks themselves were also part of this false conspiracist narrative. While Mint Press News etc., embarrassingly called the email to Clinton from Rubin a 'Hillary Clinton memo,' Wikileaks' Twitter account also deliberately sought to give the impression that the email was a 'Clinton memo' by tweeting out an attachment which was attached to the email and presenting it as 'the Hillary email.' Just a few days ago they tweeted again about 'the Clinton memo that killed half a million people.' https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073 That goes rather beyond 'revealing' and into deliberately spreading falsehoods. https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073 https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073 https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073httpht https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073 tps://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073s://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1083882823432323073 On 12/01/2019 07:23, mkaradjis via Marxism 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. * Patrick, noone cast doubt on the memo. The problem is the interpretation: the Mintpress article, and the conspiracist universe, decided it was an email from Clinton. But it was an email to Clinton. I gave the link to the public article by James Rubin. There is no evidence that it was Clinton's view; she never argued that way, loet alone acted that way in office. Wikileaks can only reveal the memos etc. The significance we need to determine case by case. As I said, this was one of probably 10s of 1000s of policy suggestions sent *to* politicians in power, not a message *from* one of them. On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 6:05 PM Patrick Bond via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Moishe Postone archive
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[Marxism] Syria and the Problem of Left Solidarity - Salvage Magazine
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. * "Since January, Syria has seen escalations in violence and civilian casualties in two conflict areas. Afrin, the Kurdish-held enclave along the Turkish border, has seen increased fighting since the Turkish military entered the area by force on January 19th this year. To date, the fighting has left an estimated 112 civilians dead. Meanwhile, in Eastern Ghouta, only a few hours’ drive away from Afrin, the Syrian military is finishing off final pockets of resistance through a brutal extermination campaign in which civilians are systematically targeted. Decisively reinforced by Russian air and Iranian ground forces, the bloodshed is reminiscent of the assault on Aleppo just over a year ago, during which more than 30,000 Syrians were killed. The civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta has risen to include 1,070 civilians over the past three months." http://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/syria-and-the-problem-of-left-solidarity/ _ 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] Fwd: Ravings Of A Radical Vagabond » Blog Archive » An Investigation into Red-Brown Alliances: Third Positionism, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, and the Western Left
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. * Is the name of the author of this work known? If so, and you don't want to share his/her name publicly, can you please contact me offlist with it. Thanks. Best wishes. On 16/01/2018 03:16, Louis Proyect via Marxism 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. * An exhaustive treatment of National Bolshevism, Larouche, Chossoduvsky, et al. https://ravingsofaradicalvagabond.noblogs.org/post/2018/01/15/an-investigation-into-red-brown-alliances/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gunther1981%40zoho.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
[Marxism] Assad and ISIS - Partners in terror
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[Marxism] Child Labour in the United States Tobacco Industry
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Re: [Marxism] Books/articles are needed
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 UK, Andrew McGettigan's done a lot of work. His book - The Great University Gamble - is full of info. Here's his website: http://andrewmcgettigan.org/ Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:20:48 +0200 Subject: [Marxism] Books/articles are needed From: marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu To: mrpettymrsmo...@hotmail.com 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. * Hello, I need some books or articles on death of universities which is Terry Eagleton's discussion that later followed by many others, for an article. Does anyone to help me? Best, _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mrpettymrsmorse%40hotmail.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
[Marxism] Kamran Matin - Kobani: What's in a name?
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[Marxism] Moazzam Begg charges dropped
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/moazzam-begg-freed-prosecutors-drop-terror-charges The prosecution of former Guantánamo inmate Moazzam Begg has dramatically collapsed after the prosecution said there was insufficient evidence to bring him to trial on terrorism charges. An Old Bailey judge entered a formal verdict of not guilty on Wednesday and ordered that Begg be set free immediately from Belmarsh high security prison. The 45-year-old from Birmingham had spent seven months in custody after being arrested and questioned over a trip he had made to Syria. He was facing seven charges of possessing a document for the purposes of terrorism funding and training, and attending a terrorism training camp. At a hearing five days before his trial was due to begin, Christopher Hehir prosecuting, said: “The prosecution have recently become aware of relevant material, in the light if which, after careful and anxious consideration, the conclusion has been reached that there is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction in this case. “The prosecution therefore offers no evidence.” Begg’s lawyer, Gareth Peirce, said he should never have been charged, as his activities did not amount to terrorism. “This is a good man trying to the right thing in a very difficult world,” she said. There was no immediate explanation from the Crown Prosecution Service about the material that it said had recently come to light Begg had denied attending a terrorist training camp in Syria “knowing or believing instruction or training was provided there for the purposes of terrorism” between 9 October 2012 and 9 April 2013. He had also denied five charges of possessing articles for purposes connected with terrorism between 31 December 2012 and 26 February 2014. The counts related to electronic documents found on a laptop computer in his possession. Begg had further denied being involved in a funding arrangement between 14 July 2013 and 26 February 2014 by making available a Honda generator. Begg was previously arrested in February 2002 in Pakistan, spending three years detained without charge at Bagram prison north of Kabul and then Guantánamo Bay. He was eventually released on 25 January 2005. West Midlands police refused to make public the new material that the CPS said had come to light. Ast Ch Con Marcus Beale said: “New material has recently been disclosed to police and CPS, which has a significant impact on key pieces of evidence that underpinned the prosecution’s case. Our criminal justice system – quite rightly - demands a very high standard of proof. “I understand this is going to raise many questions. However, explaining what this newly revealed information is would mean discussing other aspects of the case which would be unfair and inappropriate as they are no longer going to be tested in court. “From the beginning this case has challenged the relationship between West Midlands police and some of the communities we serve. I would like to reassure them and Mr Begg that at every stage of this investigation my officers acted in the best interests of the public and of justice.” Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Hudson v Panitch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Michael Hudson and Leo Panitch lock horns over the significance of the new 'BRICS bank', Russia's role in the global economy, etc., http://michael-hudson.com/2014/07/escaping-the-dollar/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Hudson v Panitch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Agreed. And it's a shame because he has done very interesting work (on ancient economies for example), but he often intermixes it with conspiratorial Chossudovsky-style nonsense when it comes to contemporary analysis. Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:34:35 -0400 From: l...@panix.com To: mrpettymrsmo...@hotmail.com; marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: Re: [Marxism] Hudson v Panitch On 8/1/14 5:06 PM, Steffan Wyn-Jones via Marxism wrote: Michael Hudson and Leo Panitch lock horns over the significance of the new 'BRICS bank', Russia's role in the global economy, etc., http://michael-hudson.com/2014/07/escaping-the-dollar/ Hudson wrote some good stuff on the world economy but he is a dyed in the wool Global Research type. On his website he has a transcript of an interview he did with RT.com, where he said that there was a Pinochet-type coup that took place in Ukraine (http://michael-hudson.com/2014/06/ukraines-gangster-state/). Even after Stephen F. Cohen downed 3 martinis, I doubt that he could come up with something more asinine than that. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Blackwater threatened to kill Chief State Dept. Investigator in Iraq in 2007
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Just weeks before Blackwater guards fatally shot 17 civilians at Baghdad’s Nisour Square in 2007, the State Department began investigating the security contractor’s operations in Iraq. But the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: “that he could kill” the government’s chief investigator and “no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq,” according to department reports. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html?_r=0 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Monbiot's mega catastrophism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Not my area, but might interest those in the eco-Marxism/catastrophism debates. Monbiot's been pessimistic for a while now, but this seems to be going to whole new level. Marx and socialism are out of the window, capitalism and its others don't matter. Makes Malthus look like a choir boy. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/27/if-we-cant-change-economic-system-our-number-is-up Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Piketty findings undercut by errors - FT.com
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For those wishing to follow the kerfuffle over Piketty, here's useful collection of links, including a few responses to the latest FT criticisms. These are mainly from the mainstream, and none of the Marxist responses are here, but I guess Harvey, Roberts and so on are easy enough to find online. http://www.betterworldlinks.org/index.php?cat=10303 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
