[Marxism] Haaretz - Shooter of Jewish Congresswoman listed 'Mein Kampf' as favorite book
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Shooter of Jewish Congresswoman listed 'Mein Kampf' as favorite book On his YouTube and MySpace pages, the Jared Lee Loughner posted masses of anti-government ramblings on his MySpace page and on a YouTube account Classitup10 that was linked to him. Jared Lee Loughner, the key suspect in the shooting attack that critically wounded Arizona Jewish Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, listed Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto as two of his favorite books. On his YouTube and MySpace pages, the 22-year-old posted masses of anti-government ramblings on his MySpace page and on a YouYube account Classitup10 that was linked to him. The MySpace page, which was removed within minutes of the gunman being identified by U.S. officials, included a mysterious Goodbye friends message published hours before the shooting and exhorted to his friends: Please don't be mad at me. The YouTube account is still operational. His exact motivation was not immediately clear. Federal law enforcement officials were poring over captured versions of the MySpace page and over uploaded Youtube videos. Loughner, a Tucson resident, is currently being held in custody. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described him as unstable but not insane. The sheriff told a news conference that the suspect was tackled to the ground after the shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/shooter-of-jewish-congresswoman-listed-mein-kampf-as-favorite-book-1.336025 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Mississippi Stories [and Haley Barbour]
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Note by Hunter Bear [January 9 2010]: Our webpage, Mississippi Stories has been getting much more traffic lately -- quite likely because of the recent discussions about Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, and his interesting but quite fallacious retrospective fantasies designed to re-write in softening fashion the very long, brutal, police state epoch in the sanguinary history of the Magnolia State. Like a vast number of others, I am very glad he pardoned the long and unjustly imprisoned Scott sisters and I am willing to see some decent strains in his psyche. But he's dead wrong on the Citizens Councils of America and its deeply hateful nature -- and some other creative ventures of his into historical fiction. [He quickly retreated on some of this, but the controversy is doing more than lingering.] The White Council movement, which began in Mississippi following the 1954 Brown desegregation decision was very bad news indeed -- a superficially polished and self-proclaimed segregationist [hate] organization which, for a time, controlled much Mississippi thinking and exerted considerable influence in other parts of the South as well. It also created an atmosphere in which racist violence came to be comfortably accepted by a great many white people. In time, because of the sturdy perseverance of the civil rights movement, it -- and its comparable kin -- faded although some of the same kind of thinking prevails in Dixie [and elsewhere in the country.] Back to Governor Barbour for a moment. He was born in 1941 and his home town is relatively small Yazoo City in the county of Yazoo -- at least as racist as the rest of the state in those days, and worse than some. Early in 1962, at an NAACP meeting in the Negro Masonic Temple on Jackson's Lynch Street, I was sitting with eight or nine others on the stage. Among our group was a visitor from the North -- noted comedian Dick Gregory, fairly new to Mississippi. The meeting was underway when a Black man, obviously not in good physical shape by any measure [he was, I believe, in his 50s and looked to be 70 or 80], came into the auditorium with the assistance of escorts. He had just been released from the Mississippi State Penitentiary in which he'd been imprisoned for years. His crime? He was one of those who, in the wake of the Brown decision, had signed a petition asking that his children be transferred into the white schools. The Citizens Council controlled Yazoo by that time. The man was framed on a frivolous charge, others who signed were forced out of the state, and the Yazoo schools, and Yazoo City, and Yazoo County -- and the entire state remained firmly in the Council's context of States Rights and Racial Integrity.] This extremely moving episode deeply affected everyone present. Following that, Dick Gregory committed himself to the cause of civil rights in the Closed Society. And Greg did just that for years. Although a bit dated, this material of ours is current enough: MISSISSIPPI STORIES -- THEN AND NOW [HUNTER GRAY MAY 25, 2002] UPDATE NOVEMBER 6 2007 COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS [AND THE OLD CITIZENS COUNCILS] AND ERLE JOHNSTON [HUNTER GRAY MAY 27, 2002] UPDATE NOVEMBER 6 2007 THE SOUTH: IT'S STILL ANOTHER COUNTRY [HUNTER GRAY OCTOBER 5 2002] http://www.hunterbear.org/mississippi_stories.htm HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´ and Ohkwari' Our Hunterbear website is now more than ten years old. It contains a vast amount of social justice material -- including much on techniques of grassroots activist organizing. Check out http://hunterbear.org/directory.htm See Outlaw Trail: The Native as Organizer: http://hunterbear.org/outlaw_trail1.htm [Included in Visions Voices: Native American Activism [2009] See our extensive course on activist Community Organizing -- often with new material: http://hunterbear.org/my_combined_community_organizing.htm And see Chicago Organizing: Our grassroots approach vs. top-down styles: http://hunterbear.org/chicago_organizing.htm Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=753 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft. Posted by PCLatest news, World newsWednesday, December 22nd, 2010 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan is being shipped aboard US aircraft. Foreign diplomats have stated that the United States military buy drugs from local Afghan drug lords who deal with field commanders overseeing eradication of drug production. The administration of President Hamid Karzai, including his two brothers, Kajum Karzai and Akhmed Vali Karzai, are involved in the CIA controlled narcotics trade – one of the main reasons why the U.S. installed Karzai as De facto president of Afghanistan. “The Americans are working hard to keep narco business flourishing in both countries,” says Mikhail Khazin, president of the consultancy firm Niakon. “They consistently destroy the local infrastructure, pushing the local population to look for illegal means of subsistence. And the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] provides protection to drug trafficking.” U.S. freelance writer Dave Gibson recalled in an article published in the American Chronicle what a U.S. foreign intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, revealed of the CIA’s record of involvement with the international drug trade. The official said: “The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences – the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970s is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favourite business.” The New York Times, May 20, 2001 Taliban’s Ban On Poppy A Success, U.S. Aides Say UNITED NATIONS, May 18 — The first American narcotics experts to go to Afghanistan under Taliban rule have concluded that the movement’s ban on opium-poppy cultivation appears to have wiped out the world’s largest crop in less than a year, officials said today. The American findings confirm earlier reports from the United Nations drug control program that Afghanistan, which supplied about three-quarters of the world’s opium and most of the heroin reaching Europe, had ended poppy planting in one season. Under a U.S. and NATO occupation that wiped out Opium trade has been revived. Reuters, Feb 19, 2009 Afghan 2008 opium crop was second biggest: U.N. report Afghanistan’s opium harvest … 2008 … was … the second biggest on record, a United Nations body declared. While the area under cultivation was reduced by a fifth, better yields meant production dropped only 6 percent to 7,700 tons, after a record 8,200 tons in 2007, the U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board said in its annual report. More than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion, Afghanistan still grows more than 90 percent of the world’s illegal opium poppies, the source of heroin. NATO forces are not allowed to eradicate crops although NATO allies agreed … to allow their soldiers to carry out direct attacks on Afghan drug lords and laboratories. Afghan officials let drug traffickers operate with impunity and those who do target the opium trade risk their lives, the report said. Last year (2008), 78 officials trying to eradicate opium crops were killed, six times the toll in 2007. Air America Afghanistan Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1950 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Special Activities Division from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported US covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Air America transported opium and heroin on behalf of Hmong leader Vang Pao. This has been supported by former Laos CIA paramilitary Anthony Poshepny, former Air America pilots, U.S. diplomats, former DEA agents, Congressional oversight committees and other people involved in the war. University of Georgia historian William M. Leary claims that this was done without the airline employees’ direct knowledge (except for those employees that said they did know about it), and that the airline itself did not trade in drugs (only transported them). Air America officially disbanded on June 30, 1976, and was later purchased by Evergreen International Airlines, which continues to provide support for U.S. covert operations. Today Air America has been revived by the CIA, this time using U.S. military aircraft to transport the illegal drugs out of Afghanistan and into the United States. Short URL: http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=753 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The end of the imperialist epoch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Without describing it in these blunt terms, Financial Times economic columnist Martin Wolf argues below that far away the biggest single factor about our world is the ending of Western imperialist domination of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. This is a controversial thesis, particularly among Marxists and in the face of US military power, but since 1980 the relative rates of growth in output and per capita incomes between the advanced capitalist countries and their former colonies and semi-colonies have reversed dramatically. Although the statistical evidence varies, there is no dispute that in China, the epicentre of this historic change, output over the past three decades has risen from around 5% to 20% of US levels, with the trend having accelerated sharply over the past five years. As Wolf notes, citing Ben Bernanke, the aggregate real output of emerging economies was 41 per cent higher than at the start of 2005. It was 70 per cent higher in China and about 55 per cent higher in India. But, in the advanced economies, real output was just 5 per cent higher. For emerging countries, the 'great recession' was a blip. For high-income countries, it was calamitous. One can dispute Wolf's attribution of the reversal to the adoption of pro-capitalist policies by China and India, which he sees as driven by the globalization of markets and technology, and he neglects the widening disparities of income which have accompanied the process, but his conclusion is one which is now widely shared: In the past few centuries, what was once the European and then American periphery became the core of the world economy. Now, the economies that became the periphery are re-emerging as the core. This is transforming the entire world. The overheated Chinese economy may or may not be heading for an imminent bust, but as Wolf also notes, even world wars and depressions merely interrupted the rise of earlier industrialisers. If we leave aside nuclear war, nothing seems likely to halt the ascent of the big emerging countries, though it may well be delayed. -MG * * * In the grip of a great convergence By Martin Wolf Financial Times January 4 2011 Convergent incomes and divergent growth – that is the economic story of our times. We are witnessing the reversal of the 19th and early 20th century era of divergent incomes. In that epoch, the peoples of western Europe and their most successful former colonies achieved a huge economic advantage over the rest of humanity. Now it is being reversed more quickly than it emerged. This is inevitable and desirable. But it also creates huge global challenges. In an influential book, Kenneth Pomeranz of the University of California, Irvine, wrote of the “great divergence” between China and the west. He located that divergence in the late 18th and 19th centuries. This is controversial: the late Angus Maddison, doyen of statistical researchers, argued that by 1820 UK output per head was already three times and US output per head twice Chinese levels. Yet of the subsequent far greater divergence there is no doubt whatsoever. By the middle of the 20th century, real incomes per head (measured at purchasing power parity) in China and India had fallen to 5 and 7 per cent of US levels, respectively. Moreover, little had changed by 1980. What had once been the centres of global technology had fallen vastly behind. This divergence is now reversing. That is far and away the biggest single fact about our world. On Maddison’s data, between 1980 and 2008 the ratio of Chinese output per head to that of the US rose from 6 to 22 per cent, while India’s rose from 5 to 10 per cent. Data from the Conference Board’s “total economy database”, computed on a slightly different basis, indicate that the ratio rose from 3 to 19 per cent in China and from 3 to 7 per cent in India between the late 1970s and 2009. The comparisons are uncertain, but the direction of relative change is not. Rapid convergence on the productivity of advanced western economies is not unprecedented in the era following the second world war. Japan was the forerunner, followed by South Korea and a few small east Asian dragon economies – Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Japan had already begun to industrialise in the 19th century, with remarkable success. After its defeat in the second world war, it restarted at about a fifth of US output per head, roughly where China is today, to reach 70 per cent in the early 1970s. It attained a peak of close to 90 per cent of US levels in 1990, when its bubble economy burst, before declining again. South Korea started at 10 per cent of US levels in the mid-1960s to reach close to 50 per cent in 1997, just before the Asian
[Marxism] Fwd: Drug and War
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Read this post from a high school friend in my inbox right after greg's from presscore. Thanks Greg for that URL Peggy Powell Dobbins Sociology as an Art Form www.peggydobbins.net Begin forwarded message: From: H D HESSE henrydhe...@q.com Date: January 9, 2011 9:42:45 AM CST Subject: Drug and War Much has been said and written about drug usage during the Vietnam War..it was indeed horrific..just thought I'd share my experience. My drug of choice was Jim Beam bourban..my roommate's choice was Budweiser. I used all his bourban chits and he used all my beer chits, so we were even. In our air conditioned hootch we had two recliners and a TV to go along with the mini kitchen and bunks. Our afternoon ritual was to meet at a certain intersection of the sidewalks and then proceed to the hootch where we would Talk to Jim and Bud..sometimes we ate, sometimes not. We'd always set the alarm clock before we started in case we'd fall asleep in the recliners and just sleep there all night. I had to work hard when I got back home to break THAT habit, believe me. I guess it started when we were in different quarters close to the hospital, and we heard the choppers coming into the landing area..you just knew some poor folks were hurting really bad or had already given all in the defense of Americathat went on all night every night. I was assigned to a Security Police Squadron..we provided infantry support for Cam Ranh Air Base..a squadron of nearly 800 men. We had a K-9 unit..really worked well over there. The K-9 handlers were known as the pot-heads..they all smoked pot (hopefully only off duty)..we didn't care that they smoked pot, because it wasn't addictive like some other drugs of choice over there. On Saturday mornings the First Sgt and I would walk thru the hootches, kinda like an inspection..the K-9 handlers were just coming off their graveyard shift and were winding down..the hootches reeked with pot smoke..they were usually pretty relaxed and happy..and generally we were offered a hit or two. Trouble was, some of the pot sellers started lacing the smokes with heroin. That became a big mess. Heroin was indeed a major problem..we had special wards in a hospital annex just for de-toxing heroin users before they were shipped back to the States for final detox and removal from the Air Force. Perhaps some of my most painful memories were walking thru the wards, loaded with young, handsome, strong...you name it...men..crying like babies from the pain and agony of withdrawal..not a sight I wanted to remember, but I do. Within our squadron we had some of the worst pushers..one guy had false walls built into his hootch where he stored stuff..the legs of his bunk were stuffed full of the terrible white powder..it was estimated he had street value of a million bucks stored in his room..that was 1971 and 1972. We caught wind of his operation and went after him...when he saw me he asked for amnesty since he was addicted to drugs..that was the poliicy then...all we could do, instead of prosecuting him, was take him to the detox center, detox him and send him home. I guess that's why I'm not crazy about foreign wars anymore..if we are fighting a war where it is kill or be killed, we are too busy to get involved with such stuff...oh, well...I'll never be in a position to make a difference again... Why did this horrible memory from so many years ago come to mind?? Well, some of you know that my wife Pat has quit smoking..cold turkey...a full week with no smokes after smoking heavily for 60 years..and she is going thru withdrawals, of course...seeing her moan and groan and almost scream was a grim reminder of the guys in the detox ward..so, I don't mean to preach, but if you or yours are still smoking...PLEASE take a good look at yourself and shake the terrible addiction..you WILL feel better..henry/dave/flipper Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] [microsound] David Gibbs versus Marko Atilla Hoare
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 12/20/2010 11:16 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: “I see that Marko Atilla Hoare has been busy attacking my book, First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009). His attacks have appeared on his own blog site, Greater Surbiton, as well as on Modernityblog. My own review of Gibbs's book is here: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/proyect300309.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/lists%40nabble.com -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-Marxism--David-Gibbs-versus-Marko-Atilla-Hoare-tp30499499p30625162.html Sent from the Marxism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The end of the imperialist epoch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the past few centuries, what was once the European and then American periphery became the core of the world economy. Now, the economies that became the periphery are re-emerging as the core. This is transforming the entire world. What this means for us all will be the subject of next weeks column. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/072c87e6-1841-11e0-88c9-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss#axzz1ASEnH9A3 Wolf is a plagiarist. In that world economy/system, we can observe the development of underdevelopment here and there, then and now. Much of Latin America and Africa are still underdeveloping. However, now we can also observe that Great Britain is also underdeveloping. We noted that my son Miguel already observed that in 1978, before Margaret Thacher took over as Prime Minister! Miguel and maybe Mrs. Thacher did not see it for lack of sufficient world systemic hindsight, but in fact we can observe Britain underdeveloping already since the beginning of The Great Depression in 1873. How so? Well even with the benefit of Wallerstein's modern-world- system perspective, we can now see that some sectors, regions, countries and their economies not only move up, but also move down in their relative and even absolute positions within the world economy and system as a whole. Britain began its decline over a century ago, when its pride of place began to be taken by Germany and North America. They fought two world wars - or one long war from 1914 to 1945 - to dispute who would take Britain's place. Alas for some, today their place in the sun is also being displaced by the Rising Sun in East Asia. One of the theses of this book is that these developments should come as no surprise, because parts of East Asia already were at the center of the world economy/system until about 1800. In historical terms, The Rise of the West came late and was brief! So one of the [early] purposes of the present book was to show first that there already was an ongoing world economy before the Europeans had much to do and say in it. There were two naturally derivative points: One was to show that Asia, and especially China and India, but also Southeast Asia and West Asia, were more active and the first three also more important to this world economy than Europe was until about 1800. The other derivative point is that therefore it is completely counter-factual and anti-historic to claim what historians already knew that Europe built a world around itself. It did not; it used its American money to buy itself a ticket on the Asian train. However, this historical fact has still other far-reaching implications, both for history and for social theory based on historical understanding. full: http://wsarch.ucr.edu/archive/papers/gunder/prefreor.htm Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The end of the imperialist epoch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Louis Proyect wrote: Wolf is a plagiarist. clip full: http://wsarch.ucr.edu/archive/papers/gunder/prefreor.htm Andre Gunder Frank at least has the consistency to abandon the very concept of capitalism, which I think is the only consistent position for opponents of the Brenner thesis to hold. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] The end of the imperialist epoch
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Whether a plagiarist or no, how 'bout we see no more imperialism before start talking about its death? Any analysis that tries to turn the imperialist chicken into a duck and that chicken's spawn into duck eggs is either plainly ignorant or a class collaborationist; in principle or in incipience. sorry for the cantankerousness, but after a week of listening to union members convince themselves that becoming fragmented provides some new opportunity for growth, I have lost all patience with people who speak out of both sides of their mouths spouting nonsense on one side and subservience to imperialist masters on the other. Oh, and (not so) incidentally, I find it exceedingly frustrating that as a list, everyone is willing to educate ourselves and proposing really excellent ideas for the unification of the Left and then just leaving it at that. . .what is the point of proposing great ideas and not acting upon them? Manuel Wolf says: In the past few centuries, what was once the European and then American periphery became the core of the world economy. Now, the economies that became the periphery are re-emerging as the core. This is transforming the entire world. What this means for us all will be the subject of next week’s column. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Juan Cole: White Terrorism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.juancole.com/2011/01/white-terrorism.html White Terrorism Posted on 01/09/2011 by Juan Jared Lee Loughner, the assassin of Federal judge John M. Roll and five others and attempted assassin of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), was clearly mentally unstable. But the political themes of his instability were those of the American far Right. Loughner was acting politically even if he is not all there. He is said to have called out the names of his victims, such as Roll and Gifford, as he fired. As usual, when white people do these things, the mass media doesn’t call it terrorism. It is irrelevant that Loughner may (at this point we can only say “may”) have been a liberal years earlier in high school. If so, he changed. And among the concerns that came to dominate him as he moved to the Right was the illegitimacy of the “Second Constitution” (the 14th Amendment, which bestows citizenship on all those born in the US, a provision right-wingers in Arizona are trying to overturn at the state level). Loughner also thought that Federal funding for his own community college was unconstitutional, and he was thrown out for becoming violent over the issue. He obviously shared with the Arizona Right a fascination with firearms, and it is telling that a disturbed young man who had had brushes with the law was able to come by an automatic pistol. He is said to have used marijuana, but that says nothing about his politics; it could be consistent with a form of anti-government, right-wing Libertarianism. I don’t think we can take too seriously the list of books he said he liked, as a guide to his political thinking. They could just have been randomly pulled off some list of great books on the Web, since there is no coherence to the choices. The man who had most to do with Loughner after his arrest, Pima County Sherriff Clarence W. Dupnik, was clearly angered by what he heard from the assassin: “When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government, the anger, the hatred, the bigotry … it is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona, I think, has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.” When Giffords helped pass the Health Care bill, according to Suzy Khimm, “extremists subsequently encouraged the public to throw bricks through the windows of lawmakers.” Giffords had to call the police once before when an attendee at one of her events dropped a gun. Giffords had complained ‘ in an MSNBC interview that a Sarah Palin graphic had depicted her district in the crosshair of a gun sight. “They’ve got to realize there are consequences to that,” she said. “The rhetoric is incredibly heated.” ‘ Palin Crosshairs The subtext of the angst over the shooting of Giffords is that in recent months Loughner was saying Tea-Party-like things about the Federal government. The violent language of “elimination,” “putting in the cross-hairs,” (as with Palin’s poster, above) “taking back,” “taking out,” to which members of that movement so often resort, has created a heated atmosphere that easily seeps into the unconscious of the mentally disturbed. That is Dupnik’s point. There apparently is some indication that Loughner had an accomplice, and his arrest and identification will shed a great deal more light on the motivations behind this political massacre. Did Loughner have a Rasputin? In some ways, the turn of Loughner to the themes of the American far right parallels what happened to Michael Enright, who slashed the throat of a Bangladeshi cab driver at the height of the campaign promoting hatred of Muslims launched last summer-fall by Rick Lazio and Rupert Murdoch. Everyone should have learned from that tragedy that heated rhetoric has consequences. Those right-wing bloggers who want to dismiss Loughner as merely disturbed are being hypocritical, since they won’t similarly dismiss obviously unstable Muslims who, like the so-called “Patriots” of the McVeigh stripe, sometimes turn violent. (Zacharias Moussawi, for instance, isn’t playing with a full set of backgammon dominoes, and blaming Islam for him is bizarre). In fact, the right-wing Muslim crackpots and the right-wing American crackpots are haunted by similar anxieties, about a powerful government in Washington undermining their localistic ideas of the good life. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Juan Cole: White Terrorism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I read several news sources this morning and saw nothing stating these things, either as fact or as rumor. Anybody have any idea where Cole got them? - Bill Fred Feldman quoted from Cole: And among the concerns that came to dominate him as he moved to the Right was the illegitimacy of the “Second Constitution� (the 14th Amendment, which bestows citizenship on all those born in the US, a provision right-wingers in Arizona are trying to overturn at the state level). Loughner also thought that Federal funding for his own community college was unconstitutional, and he was thrown out for becoming violent over the issue. He obviously shared with the Arizona Right a fascination with firearms, He is said to have used marijuana, but that says nothing about his politics; it could be consistent with a form of anti-government, right-wing Libertarianism. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, Jim. Some of the media reported her dead. That's not declaring her dead, which would be done by the authorities investigating the matter and talking to the media...ultimately the medical people, right? Media reported a rumor because they had nothing official at the time. And all sorts of people then began repeating the rumor and the it spread. Like schoolchildren. But, surely, this sort of thing can't really surprise anybody who's spent much time near a TV set in the last 30 years ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Reading Marx Blog
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Along with my reading notes for Capital volume 1, my notes for the first part, i.e. the first six chapters, of volume 2 are now up on the blog. Blog: http://readingmarx.wordpress.com/ Volume 1: http://readingmarx.wordpress.com/category/capital-volume-1/ Volume 2: http://readingmarx.wordpress.com/category/capital-volume-2/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Marx at a book signing, speaks on crisis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2011/01/8220-crisis-interview-theory Diss capital by Paul Mason Published 06 January 2011 Karl Marx, in London for a book signing, stumbles off the Eurostar and straight into an interview with Paul Mason at a café in King’s Cross. How does the credit crunch fit with the guru’s theory of crisis? I chose St Pancras to impress him, but he is not impressed. Stumbling off the Eurostar, he barely notices the architecture and thumbs his BlackBerry when I point out the champagne bar. I've prepared this whole historical decompression briefing for him: the match girls' strike, the petrol engine, cinema, Lenin, the Warsaw Pact, the John Betjeman statue. But he stops me short: I know, I know all about it. You think we don't have Wikipedia up there? “You see everything? “Better than you! We see it without sensuous historical experience. It's like watching a slow-motion car crash. Just wait till you get there: it will restore your faith in the objective forces of history. I explain that I want to ask about the credit crunch, how it fits with his theory of crisis - “I've got an hour and then I'm doing a book signing . . . “Which book? I joke. He laughs: as we all learned in the 1980s, there is more than one volume of Marx's Capital, and more than one theory of crisis therein. So which one fits the events since the Lehman Brothers crash? “OK. Crisis 101, he begins. We've grabbed a table at a Starbucks on Euston Road and he's let me buy him a double espresso. “In the book, what I say is that the possibility of crisis is there right from the moment you separate sale from purchase. Once you've got a society based on money and commodities you can have a situation where there's enough produce to go around - enough Fairtrade coffee, iPods, Prada overcoats (he is wearing a Prada overcoat) - but not enough money for people to buy it. “So the commodity is the root of all evil? “It makes crisis possible, is all. So what has caused this one? “In the book I never actually got around to a synthetic crisis theory so, as you know, 'ze Marxists' - he does inverted commas with his fingers - had to scrabble around in my notebooks to concoct one. “So you don't have a synthetic theory of the credit crunch? “There is one, but you have to remember that the book was written at a certain level of abstraction . . . “OK, I press him. There are three recognised causes of crisis in Marxist economics: underconsumption, disproportionality and overproduction. Do you buy that, at least? He looks glazed, impatient. I've seen this look in the eyes of the other celebrity profs and hedge-funders who predicted the 2008 credit crunch and have now shot to fame. He retorts: OK, but you have got to think of them as layers; they're not competing explanations. They work at different levels of abstraction, like biology, chemistry and physics. So what's the physics? What's the root cause of this crisis? I push my digital voice recorder closer to him. All three, he laughs. That's why it's a whopper. Let's start with the debt issue. Why do you think they were shovelling cheap credit into the hands of poor African Americans and Hispanics who could never pay it back? Low wages, I answer. Precisely. They held down the real wages of the working class during a boom. Unheard of since before the 1936-49 war. So the underconsumption theory is still valid? Pah! He rocks in his seat with frustration. Have you actually read Volume II? I fidget. There was a student occupation going on when I was trying to read it. And I was in a rock band. I settle on the assertion that I skim-read it 30 years ago. He pulls out his iPad and reads: 'It is sheer redundancy to say that crises are produced by the lack of paying consumption or paying consumers . . . When people say the working class does not receive enough of its own product and that the evil would be dispelled immediately once it received a greater share, all one can say is that crises are invariably preceded by periods in which wages in general rise . . .' Volume II. And your point is? “I still stand by that. The anarchists had this theory about underconsumption. I had a lot of fun with them, up there, later when Henry Ford borrowed it, and then Oswald Mosley. And then Keynes. You can't solve a crisis with higher wages. Crisis is born out of the contradictions of profit and production. He's animated now. Are we going to be talking about algebra soon? I joke. He nods. I go and get two more espressos. “Here's why all the people going around saying, 'Marx was right' are just a bunch of schlimazels. He starts finger-jabbing, point by point: Look at the global rate of profit. Is it high or low? High. Wrong. Corporate profits are high, I protest. “But
[Marxism] Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's nice to see the relatively obscure Paul Levi mentioned favorably in an English-language publication like this. It seems to me that there is a lot of lessons to be learned, especially concerning the course today for a structure like DIE LINKE. And it's maybe also useful considering the constant theme of Lenin vs. Zionevite Leninism on this list. Anyway, here's the link: http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3119 Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises — Charlie Post The German Revolution, 1917-1923 By Pierre Broue Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2006, xvii +991, $50 paper. Lenin Rediscovered: What is to Be Done? in Context By Lars H. Lih Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2008, xvii + 867 pages, $50 paper. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Another prophet of China's eventual hegemonic rise
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Re: [Marxism] Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It's nice to see the relatively obscure Paul Levi mentioned favorably in an English-language publication like this. It seems to me that there is a lot of lessons to be learned, especially concerning the course today for a structure like DIE LINKE. And it's maybe also useful considering the constant theme of Lenin vs. Zionevite Leninism on this list. Anyway, here's the link: http://www.solidarity-us.org/current/node/3119 Party and Class in Revolutionary Crises â Charlie Post The German Revolution, 1917-1923 By Pierre Broue Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2006, xvii +991, $50 paper. Lenin Rediscovered: What is to Be Done? in Context By Lars H. Lih Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2008, xvii + 867 pages, $50 paper. I wrote all about Levi et al a decade ago: http://www.columbia.edu/%7Elnp3/mydocs/organization/comintern_and_germany.htm And followed up with a discussion of Broue here: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/history-of-the-marxist-internationals-part-3-the-comintern/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Arizona congresswoman assassinated
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here are a few thoughts from Fidel Castro on this horrific event: Reflections by Comrade Fidel AN ATROCIOUS ACT Sad news was broadcast this afternoon from the United States: Gabrielle Giffords, Democratic congresswoman for Arizona, was the victim of a criminal attempt while taking part at a political meeting at her electoral district in Tucson. On the other side of the border lies Mexico, the Latin American country to which that territory used to belong when, in an unjust war, more than one half of its area was seized from it. Along its arid surface, many of those who emigrate from Mexico, Central America and other Latin American countries try to escape hunger, poverty and the underdevelopment to which those countries have been led by the United States. Money and goods can freely cross the border; human beings cannot. Without mentioning the drugs and weapons that cross that line in either direction. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans who work in that country doing the toughest and worst paid jobs are captured each year and sent back to their points of departure, many times separated from their closest kin. They were hoping that the new administration would correct that criminal and inhuman policy. According to just-arrived news, 18 people were shot and six died, among them a 9-year-old girl and Federal Judge John Roll. The congresswoman was seriously wounded by a bullet in the head. Doctors were fighting to save her life. She is married to NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. She was first elected to Congress in 2006 at the age of 36. “She is a supporter of migrant reform, stem cell research and alternative energy”, measures that are hated by the far right. She was re-elected as the Democratic representative in the past elections. When her father was asked whether she had any enemies, he replied: The entire Tea Party”. It is known that the former US vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 elections and Tea Party leader, Sarah Palin, published on her website, as the aim for supporters of her party, a map of the congressional districts of 20 of the representatives who had backed President Obama's proposed health reform bill and she had them marked with the viewfinder of a rifle. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' political opponent was a former Marine who appeared in the electoral campaign with an M-16 in a message which apparently stated: Help get rid of Gabrielle Giffords...shoot the entire ammo chamber of an M-16 with Jesse Kelly. In March 2010, Gabrielle's district office was attacked. She stated that when people do that they were going to have to be aware of the consequences; political leaders should get together and set limits. Any sensible person could well wonder whether such an act happened in Afghanistan or in an electoral district in Arizona. Obama stated: “…an unspeakable tragedy, a number of Americans were shot…” “And while we are continuing to receive information, we know that some have passed away, and that Representative Giffords is gravely wounded…”. “We do not yet have all the answers. What we do know is that such a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society….” “ I ask all Americans to join me and Michelle in keeping Representative Giffords, the victims of this tragedy, and their families in our prayers.” His appeal is quite dramatic and very sad. Even those of us who don’t share his political or philosophical ideas in the least sincerely hope that no children, judges, congressmen or any US citizen should die in such an absurd and unjustifiable way. It is sad to remember that in the world every year many millions of people are dying as the consequence of absurd wars, poverty, growing famines and the deterioration of the environment promoted by the wealthiest and most developed nations on the planet. We would like Obama and the United States Congress to share those concerns with all the other peoples. Fidel Castro Ruz January 8, 2011 9:11 p.m. = WALTER LIPPMANN Los Angeles, California Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo = Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Pakistan Ready to Implode?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == There is no military solution in Afghanistan, only dialogue, so the supreme irony is that in siding with the Americans all we have done is send the levels of violence up in Pakistan. The war on terror has weakened the state and then, thanks to the George Bush-sponsored National Reconciliation Ordinance in 2007, which allowed an amnesty for all the biggest political crooks, we now have the most corrupt government in our history. The war on terror is destroying Pakistan. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/09/pakistan-implode-america-leave-afghanistan Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At 10:00 09/01/11 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote: http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=753 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft. Posted by PCLatest news, World newsWednesday, December 22nd, 2010 I'm sorry to disappoint anyone, but this article is almost certainly bullshit, from a bullshit website. It does not have an identified author, and cites no verifiable sources. Of course it contains certain elements of truth regarding the hypocrisy of the charges against the Taliban for profiting from the heroin trade, and the involvement of Ahmed Wali Karzai. But this article is from a conspiracy website, and every single article I saw on that site is extremely suspect or just plain wrong. Especially the health/medical articles! I would have expected the poster of this article to have checked to see if the website has any legitimacy at all and/or if the information in the article could be verified or had even been published by a reputable source. Just posting articles you run across based on their shock value not only wastes our time, but provides us with misinformation which we might repeat (since we thought it was from a source that had been recommended), thus making fools of ourselves (and lowering our public credibility) when the claims prove unfounded. - Jeff Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Perhaps Jeff will like this one better: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175225/alfred_mccoy_afghanistan_as_a_drug_war On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Jeff meis...@xs4all.nl wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At 10:00 09/01/11 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote: http://presscore.ca/2011/?p=753 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft. Posted by PCLatest news, World newsWednesday, December 22nd, 2010 I'm sorry to disappoint anyone, but this article is almost certainly bullshit, from a bullshit website. It does not have an identified author, and cites no verifiable sources. Of course it contains certain elements of truth regarding the hypocrisy of the charges against the Taliban for profiting from the heroin trade, and the involvement of Ahmed Wali Karzai. But this article is from a conspiracy website, and every single article I saw on that site is extremely suspect or just plain wrong. Especially the health/medical articles! I would have expected the poster of this article to have checked to see if the website has any legitimacy at all and/or if the information in the article could be verified or had even been published by a reputable source. Just posting articles you run across based on their shock value not only wastes our time, but provides us with misinformation which we might repeat (since we thought it was from a source that had been recommended), thus making fools of ourselves (and lowering our public credibility) when the claims prove unfounded. - Jeff Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/gregmc59%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Jobless recovery
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Eye-opening paragraphs from this article: Desmond Lachman, a former managing director at Salomon Smith Barney who now serves as a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy center, sees corporate leaders reshaping their worlds. “Corporations are taking huge advantage of the slack in the labor market — they are in a very strong position and workers are in a very weak position,” he said. “They are using that bargaining power to cut benefits and wages, and to shorten hours.” That strategy, Mr. Lachman said, serves corporate and shareholder imperatives, but “very much jeopardizes our chances of experiencing a real recovery.” --- NY Times January 8, 2011 Profits are Booming. Why Aren’t Jobs? By MICHAEL POWELL To gaze upon the world of American corporations is to see a sunny place of terrific profits and princely bonuses. American businesses reported that third-quarter profits in 2010 rose at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion, the steepest annual surge since officials began tracking such matters 60 years ago. It was the seventh consecutive quarter in which corporate profits climbed. Staring at such balance sheets, you might almost forget that much of the nation lives under slate-gray fiscal skies, a place of 9.4 percent unemployment and record levels of foreclosures and indebtedness. And therein lies the enduring mystery of this Great Recession and Not So Great Recovery: Why have corporate profits (and that market thermometer, the Dow) spiked even as 15 million Americans remain mired in unemployment, a number without precedent since the Great Depression? Employment tends to lag a touch behind profit growth, but history offers few parallels to what is happening today. “Usually the business cycle is a rising-and-falling, all-boats-together phenomenon,” noted J. Bradford DeLong, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy in the Clinton Treasury Department. “It’s quite a puzzle when you have this disjunction between profits on the one hand and unemployment.” A search for answers leads in several directions. The bulls’ explanation, heard with more frequency these days, has the virtue of being straightforward: corporate profits are the economy’s pressure cooker, building and building toward an explosive burst that will lead to much hiring next year. The December jobs numbers suggest that that moment has yet to arrive, as the nation added just 103,000 jobs, or less than the number needed to keep pace with population growth. The leisure industry and hospitals accounted for 83,000 jobs; large corporations added a tiny fraction. Consumers appear to have put a toe or two back into the water, as holiday spending rose (although it fell short of analysts’ forecasts) and families began to replace the ailing refrigerator or the aging minivan. Car sales are rising. But relatively few economists, even those who see signs of an improving economy, sound particularly buoyant, a concern shared by liberals and conservatives alike. Jobless recoveries followed on the heels of the last two recessions, but neither prefigured the depth of the trouble this time. After the 1990-91 recession, it took 23 months to add back the jobs lost. After the 2001 recession, it took 38 months. (And it’s worth keeping in mind that one of the great housing and credit bubbles in American history fed that hiring; no economist expects that to repeat itself). At the current rate, the economy will need 72 to 90 months to recapture the jobs lost during the Great Recession. And that does not account for the five million jobs needed to keep pace with a growing population. None of this has slowed the unprecedented rise in corporate profits. The reasons are many. More so than in the past, many American-based corporations earn a great portion of their profits overseas. And thanks to porous tax laws, these companies return fewer of those profits to American shores than in the past. “The big American companies are really global,” said Robert Reich, former labor secretary for President Clinton. “They can show big profits from foreign sales. G.M. is making more Buicks overseas than in the United States. There’s no special pop for the United States worker.” Key corporate sectors, too, have undergone a Darwinian pruning during the last three years. In the financial arena, a few hyperprofitable firms now stand where many more once stood. “If you’re Goldman and Morgan Chase, and you once had to compete against Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, well, of course it’s easier now to show a profit,” said Daniel Alpert, managing partner of Westwood Capital L.L.C., an investment banking firm. “If you have a modest reduction in expenses, and an industry
[Marxism] Now what was that about convergence?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times January 9, 2011 Vietnam Confronts Economic Quagmire By THOMAS FULLER HO CHI MINH CITY — The New Year’s decorations are coming down in this frenetic city, replaced by hammer and sickle flags that flutter near luxury boutiques competing for access to the wallets of the newly rich. Ho Chi Minh City, the seemingly irrepressible bastion of Vietnamese capitalism, is dutifully marking the start on Tuesday of the Communist Party’s National Congress, an event that comes every five years and is meant to chart the future course of a country that has witnessed an economic miracle in recent decades. But this time, things are different. In a region where governments are swollen with foreign currency reserves and inflation remains relatively tame, Vietnam is an island of economic instability. The country’s economy is still growing at 7 percent, but double-digit price increases for food and other essentials are punishing the working class. The Vietnamese currency is consistently falling below the official exchange rates, creating a thriving black market for gold and dollars. And Vinashin, one of the country’s largest state-owned companies, is all but insolvent, brought down by debts that are the equivalent of more than 4 percent of the country’s total output. “We are on the edge — there’s not a lot of room for mistakes,” said Le Anh Tuan, head of research at Dragon Capital, an investment company here. “The Vietnam story will depend much on how much the government understands the root of the problem and can fix it.” The problems, say many businesspeople and economists, are rooted in its hybrid system, the odd mix of Adam Smith economics and Karl Marx politics that the country shares with other former planned economies like China and Laos. For years, the government touted its vast network of state-run companies as the vanguard of the economy, large conglomerates that the Communist Party could use to steer the country toward prosperity. The scandal involving Vinashin, the deeply indebted state company, has shown the shortcomings of relying so heavily on government-owned enterprises, which Mr. Tuan calls the “cancer” of the economy. From its core mission of building ships, Vinashin expanded into about 450 different businesses that it failed to make profitable and was ill suited to manage, including spas, motorcycle assembly and real estate. On the brink of bankruptcy with $4.5 billion in debts, the company is now in effect being bailed out by the government: It has been exempted from paying taxes this year and will be given interest-free loans, according to Vietnamese news media reports. Vietnam has fought off many external threats in its history — wars, colonial oppression — but the Vietnamese are looking inward for the roots of their current woes. “This crisis comes from the inside,” said Nyugen Thi Mai Thanh, the general director of Ree Corp., a large engineering firm that specializes in air-conditioning. “State investment is not efficient.” The Vietnamese economy appears to be divided between plodding and profligate government-owned companies — the legacy of the country’s communist heritage — and the cutthroat private sector, which is expanding rapidly and profitably. As a measure of their inefficiency, Vietnamese state-owned companies use 40 percent of the capital invested in the country but produce only 25 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. The reach of the state-owned companies, even after several waves of privatizations, remains impressive. It would be easy for a consumer here to spend an entire day doing business with the government: paying a mobile phone bill, depositing a check at the bank, shopping at a local supermarket, filling up a car with gas and lunching at a fancy hotel. State-owned companies are prevalent in all those businesses. Economists say the opaque way in which the government has handled the Vinashin meltdown and the lack of consistency among the top economic officials have eroded confidence in the currency and the market in general. The stock market has been among the worst-performing in Asia for the past three years. Masato Miyazaki, the head of Asian operations for the International Monetary Fund, put aside diplomatic language last month when he publicly told the government it needed to change its “style of policy conduct.” Economists and businesspeople here are watching the Communist Party meeting to see whether state-run companies will be coddled or given sink-or-swim discipline. “Until now, we haven’t seen many cases of the government letting them die,” said Ms. Thanh of Ree Corp. “Sometimes you have to make an example.” Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who is seeking support for another term at the party meeting, has been quoted in the
[Marxism] Thousands of Egyptian Muslims Show Up as Human Shields to Defend Coptic Christians From Terrorism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Thousands of Egyptian Muslims Show Up as Human Shields to Defend Coptic Christians From Terrorism Saturday 08 January 2011 by: Zaid Jilani **http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/08/thousands-muslims-human-shields/ clip - On New Year’s Day, a devastating terrorist bombinghttp://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/01/world/la-fg-egypt-church-attack-20110102at a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people and injured 79 others. Although the identity of the culprits was not known, it was assumed that they were Muslim extremists, intent on targeting those they saw as heretics. Religious tensions immediately rose in the country, and angry Copts stormed streets, battled with police, and even vandalized a nearby mosque. The riots and heightened tensions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7uSIXUPsM4 between the Muslim and Coptic communities was likely what the terrorists wanted — to divide the Egyptian community and create sectarian strife between different religious groups. Yet by Coptic Christmas Eve, which took place Thursday night in Egypt, things had changed completely. As Egyptian Copts attended mass at churches across the country, “thousands” of Muslims, including “the two sons of President Hosni Mubarak,” joined them, acting as “human shields” to protect from terrorist attacks by extremists. The Muslims organized under the slogan “We either live together, or we die together,”http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/3365.aspxinspired by Mohamed El-Sawy, an Egyptian artist: Egypt’s majority Muslim population stuck to its word Thursday night. What had been a promise of solidarity to the weary Coptic community, was honoured, when *thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside. From the well-known to the unknown, Muslims had offered their bodies as “human shields” for last night’s mass, making a pledge to collectively fight the threat of Islamic militants and towards an Egypt free from sectarian strife.* *“We either live together, or we die together,”* was the sloganeering genius of Mohamed El-Sawy, a Muslim arts tycoon whose cultural centre distributed flyers at churches in Cairo Thursday night, and who has been credited with first floating the “human shield” idea. Among those shields were movie stars Adel Imam and Yousra, popular preacher Amr Khaled, the two sons of President Hosni Mubarak, and thousands of citizens who have said they consider the attack one on Egypt as a whole. *“This is not about us and them,” said Dalia Mustafa, a student who attended mass at Virgin Mary Church on Maraashly. “We are one. This was an attack on Egypt as a whole, and I am standing with the Copts because the only way things will change in this country is if we come together.”* full - http://www.truth-out.org/thousands-egyptian-muslims-show-up-human-shields-defend-coptic-christians-from-terorism66684 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Non-existent lawyer jobs
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As with academics, this is actually rather old news...though I am certain that things are much worse now than they have been ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At 15:54 09/01/11 -0500, Mark Lause wrote: Please elaborate, Jeff. I agree with you down the line on your rationale for making this point, Well my rationale with respect to the article itself is that it was unsourced, unsigned, and a bit far-fetched. But my judgement of the website was based on skimming the other articles posted on it. In that respect I would rather turn the question around: can you find a single article on that site with information that you know to be accurate? If not, then I don't think I'm hasty in judging this article as having no more credibility than the website's health/medical misinformation (using sunscreen gives you cancer, don't take aspirin to lower your fever, Detoxifying benzene cures AIDS) or technology claims (government suppressed invention which supplies free energy and the 200 mpg car invented in 1933) and other familiar conspiracy theory material. but I don't find this listed at snopes, urban legend and the other sites identifying such fake news... Well maybe those sites have a suggestion box you could write to. But although this IS a conspiracy theory site, one funny thing about it: it is not a right-wing site at all. It seems sort of geared to appeal to leftists only, which IMO makes it yet more dangerous since it will just get people on OUR side making fools of ourselves Also: At 16:04 09/01/11 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote: Perhaps Jeff will like this one better: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175225/alfred_mccoy_afghanistan_as_a_drug_war Well yes, much better inasmuch as it's basically believable (though I'm not well enough informed on the subject to really judge its accuracy). For instance, it makes the point that: In each of these conflicts, Washington has tolerated drug trafficking by its Afghan allies as the price of military success -- a policy of benign neglect that has helped make Afghanistan today the world's number one narco-state. That's seems a lot more believable than 85% of Afghan heroin shipped out by US aircraft, don't you think? Not as shocking, but I'd rather run with the truth than a much more shocking statistic that someone made up and wrote down for our misinformation. - Jeff Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Translation (Cuba): On our feet
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From new Cuba blog Cuba's Socialist Renewal http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com To sign up as a follower or to receive email updates click on link above My translations of Luis Sexto's commentaries are not always appreciated by readers. Some find them too poetic, intangible, even vacuous, according to one reader. So here is my appeal to those who are inclined to skip over these columns and wait for something more familiar to Western leftist audiences: grappling with Sexto's weekly pearls of wisdom is advisable if you want to grasp the human dimension of the Revolution's strivings for self-renewal. We may not agree with what he says, and sometimes we may not understand exactly what he's getting at, but what is conveyed in these reflections is no less important than the speeches of political leaders and the data on agricultural production, productivity and wages. One of the Cuban Revolution's contributions to the treasury of communist thinking and practice is its sensitivity towards the subjective, the human being as the subject and not merely the object of social transformation. If the Revolution has indulged in errors of idealism that have weakened its economic and ethical substrate, and that must be corrected if the Revolution is to endure, it is only fair to acknowledge that the profound humanism of the Cuban revolutionary tradition has always been its pillar of strength. Sexto exemplifies this tradition, so it's worth making an effort to understand him. Cuba's socialist renewal must put bread on the table but, as the old saying goes, man does not live by bread alone. Link to translation: http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com/2011/01/translation-on-our-feet.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == With McCoy it is not really necessary to read between the lines, but his argument is a bit more nuanced. He says pretty much the same thing as the original article I posted, except he doesn't put a figure on it. But in terms of the website you are of course correct. The webpage is not very credible. I read the article because a FB friend had posted it. I did not even look at the website. My bad. BUT, I posted this particular article because I was familiar with McCoy's work, having read his books. I note you picked a paragraph from the second article, the one by McCoy, and quoted it out of context, to make it appear that McCoy is somehow agnostic on CIA involvement in Afghan heroin trafficking The paragraph below, taken from the same article, is much more damning: To defeat the Taliban in the aftermath of 9/11, the CIA successfully mobilized former warlords long active in the heroin trade to seize towns and cities across eastern Afghanistan. In other words, the Agency and its local allies created ideal conditions for reversing the Taliban's opium ban and reviving the drug traffic. Only weeks after the collapse of the Taliban, officials were reporting an outburst of poppy planting in the heroin-heartlands of Helmand and Nangarhar. At a Tokyo international donors' conference in January 2002, Hamid Karzai, the new Prime Minister put in place by the Bush administration, issued a pro forma ban on opium growing -- without any means of enforcing it against the power of these resurgent local warlords. And of course it is not far-fetched to assume the CIA is involved in transport, as McCoy states they were in Vietnam. So if you have read his book on Vietnam, the CIA, heroin, and Air America, you would of course find the article itself credible, which I did, and still do. Greg On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Jeff meis...@xs4all.nl wrote: At 15:54 09/01/11 -0500, Mark Lause wrote: Please elaborate, Jeff. I agree with you down the line on your rationale for making this point, Well my rationale with respect to the article itself is that it was unsourced, unsigned, and a bit far-fetched. But my judgement of the website was based on skimming the other articles posted on it. In that respect I would rather turn the question around: can you find a single article on that site with information that you know to be accurate? If not, then I don't think I'm hasty in judging this article as having no more credibility than the website's health/medical misinformation (using sunscreen gives you cancer, don't take aspirin to lower your fever, Detoxifying benzene cures AIDS) or technology claims (government suppressed invention which supplies free energy and the 200 mpg car invented in 1933) and other familiar conspiracy theory material. but I don't find this listed at snopes, urban legend and the other sites identifying such fake news... Well maybe those sites have a suggestion box you could write to. But although this IS a conspiracy theory site, one funny thing about it: it is not a right-wing site at all. It seems sort of geared to appeal to leftists only, which IMO makes it yet more dangerous since it will just get people on OUR side making fools of ourselves Also: At 16:04 09/01/11 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote: Perhaps Jeff will like this one better: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175225/alfred_mccoy_afghanistan_as_a_drug_war Well yes, much better inasmuch as it's basically believable (though I'm not well enough informed on the subject to really judge its accuracy). For instance, it makes the point that: In each of these conflicts, Washington has tolerated drug trafficking by its Afghan allies as the price of military success -- a policy of benign neglect that has helped make Afghanistan today the world's number one narco-state. That's seems a lot more believable than 85% of Afghan heroin shipped out by US aircraft, don't you think? Not as shocking, but I'd rather run with the truth than a much more shocking statistic that someone made up and wrote down for our misinformation. - Jeff Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == At 19:04 09/01/11 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote: I note you picked a paragraph from the second article, the one by McCoy, and quoted it out of context, to make it appear that McCoy is somehow agnostic on CIA involvement in Afghan heroin trafficking No not at all, that's a misinterpretation. I just grabbed that paragraph as a summary/conclusion of the article and contrasted it with the one from the conspiracy site. I'm sure McCoys article about this is accurate as it was in Vietnam. But the 85% claim was bullshit and you should have noted that when you first read it: how would someone come to such a numerical estimate anyway even if it were approximately true? But thanks for the McCoy article! - Jeff from the same article, is much more damning: To defeat the Taliban in the aftermath of 9/11, the CIA successfully mobilized former warlords long active in the heroin trade to seize towns and cities across eastern Afghanistan. In other words, the Agency and its local allies created ideal conditions for reversing the Taliban's opium ban and reviving the drug traffic. Only weeks after the collapse of the Taliban, officials were reporting an outburst of poppy planting in the heroin-heartlands of Helmand and Nangarhar. At a Tokyo international donors' conference in January 2002, Hamid Karzai, the new Prime Minister put in place by the Bush administration, issued a pro forma ban on opium growing -- without any means of enforcing it against the power of these resurgent local warlords. And of course it is not far-fetched to assume the CIA is involved in transport, as McCoy states they were in Vietnam. So if you have read his book on Vietnam, the CIA, heroin, and Air America, you would of course find the article itself credible, which I did, and still do. Greg On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Jeff meis...@xs4all.nl wrote: At 15:54 09/01/11 -0500, Mark Lause wrote: Please elaborate, Jeff. I agree with you down the line on your rationale for making this point, Well my rationale with respect to the article itself is that it was unsourced, unsigned, and a bit far-fetched. But my judgement of the website was based on skimming the other articles posted on it. In that respect I would rather turn the question around: can you find a single article on that site with information that you know to be accurate? If not, then I don't think I'm hasty in judging this article as having no more credibility than the website's health/medical misinformation (using sunscreen gives you cancer, don't take aspirin to lower your fever, Detoxifying benzene cures AIDS) or technology claims (government suppressed invention which supplies free energy and the 200 mpg car invented in 1933) and other familiar conspiracy theory material. but I don't find this listed at snopes, urban legend and the other sites identifying such fake news... Well maybe those sites have a suggestion box you could write to. But although this IS a conspiracy theory site, one funny thing about it: it is not a right-wing site at all. It seems sort of geared to appeal to leftists only, which IMO makes it yet more dangerous since it will just get people on OUR side making fools of ourselves Also: At 16:04 09/01/11 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote: Perhaps Jeff will like this one better: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175225/alfred_mccoy_afghanistan_as_a_drug _war Well yes, much better inasmuch as it's basically believable (though I'm not well enough informed on the subject to really judge its accuracy). For instance, it makes the point that: In each of these conflicts, Washington has tolerated drug trafficking by its Afghan allies as the price of military success -- a policy of benign neglect that has helped make Afghanistan today the world's number one narco-state. That's seems a lot more believable than 85% of Afghan heroin shipped out by US aircraft, don't you think? Not as shocking, but I'd rather run with the truth than a much more shocking statistic that someone made up and wrote down for our misinformation. - Jeff Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/meisner%40xs4all.nl Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I won't quibble with you over numbers. Let's leave that to the CIA bean counters. If you think the McCoy article was good, you should really check out his book, The Politics of Heroin. It's meticulously documented. And his new book on the Philippines is excellent. Greg On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Jeff meis...@xs4all.nl wrote: At 19:04 09/01/11 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote: I note you picked a paragraph from the second article, the one by McCoy, and quoted it out of context, to make it appear that McCoy is somehow agnostic on CIA involvement in Afghan heroin trafficking No not at all, that's a misinterpretation. I just grabbed that paragraph as a summary/conclusion of the article and contrasted it with the one from the conspiracy site. I'm sure McCoys article about this is accurate as it was in Vietnam. But the 85% claim was bullshit and you should have noted that when you first read it: how would someone come to such a numerical estimate anyway even if it were approximately true? But thanks for the McCoy article! - Jeff from the same article, is much more damning: To defeat the Taliban in the aftermath of 9/11, the CIA successfully mobilized former warlords long active in the heroin trade to seize towns and cities across eastern Afghanistan. In other words, the Agency and its local allies created ideal conditions for reversing the Taliban's opium ban and reviving the drug traffic. Only weeks after the collapse of the Taliban, officials were reporting an outburst of poppy planting in the heroin-heartlands of Helmand and Nangarhar. At a Tokyo international donors' conference in January 2002, Hamid Karzai, the new Prime Minister put in place by the Bush administration, issued a pro forma ban on opium growing -- without any means of enforcing it against the power of these resurgent local warlords. And of course it is not far-fetched to assume the CIA is involved in transport, as McCoy states they were in Vietnam. So if you have read his book on Vietnam, the CIA, heroin, and Air America, you would of course find the article itself credible, which I did, and still do. Greg Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Climate Capitalism, Jan. 9, 2011
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CLIMATE AND CAPITALISM An online journal focusing on capitalism, climate change, and the ecosocialist alternative. http://climateandcapitalism.com Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/CandC-FaceBook ++ January 9, 2011 ECOSOCIALIST RESOURCES, 24 http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3704 Our first (for 2011) round-up of must-reading and must-viewing for left greens and green lefts. Other recent additions: ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3698 Building an ecological civilization that is socially just will not automatically happen in post-capitalist societies. It will occur only through the concerted action and constant vigilance of an engaged population. BEYOND GROWTH OR BEYOND CAPITALISM? http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3696 An ecosocialist critique of proposals for steady-state capitalism begins a debate on key issues facing the left greens today Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] thoughts on British politics...
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Bye election in Britain: 'A poll commissioned by the Tory peer Lord Ashcrofthttp://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/lord-ashcroftfrom Populus found Labour on 46%, Lib Dems on 29% and Conservatives on 15%, with few Tory voters saying they are likely to switch their allegiance. An ICM poll in the Mail on Sunday put Labour on 44%, Lib Dems on 27% and Conservatives on 18%. Nick Clegghttp://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/nickcleggwill be relieved that he has not seen his party slip into third place, something that would be a disaster for his leadership (from the Guardian).' I have to confess to finding the above results disappointing. I was hoping for a complete collapse of the Lib Dem vote. Nothing less will persuade the ruling class that they are in trouble. Some national opinion polls have had Lib Dem support falling from a 24% at the General election to a mere 7 or 11%. Yet the Oldham vote would appear to show that they are holding up. In a sense I think this is because it is generally recognised that they are the weak link and as such the minions of Capital feel instinctively that they must be defended. For me this explains Ed Balls' calls in August for an end to attacks on the Lib Dems and from Ed Milliband's insistence on the possibility of a future governing alliance with Clegg the Lib Dem leader and his party plus an offer to appear on a platform with Clegg calling for a yes vote on electoral reform. The shock of the student demos would appear, from this distance, to have worn off somewhat and there is as well a widespread and desperate attempt to persuade us all that it is business as usual in the UK. The victory over Australia would have helped as a distraction. Here I was very interested to hear the repeated remarks from the commentators that the band of English supporters known as the Barmy Army represented a total cross section of English society and that cricket united them all. Right! the unemployed and the pensioners have forked out the thousands necessary for a sporting holiday Down Under. Pull the other one for a change. So how do I think the struggle is going? Was the student uprising the herald of a new dawn? Or was it a more radical version of the protests that preceded the Iraq War? I am still inclined to support the new dawn theory. But then I would wouldn't I? Whatever the case there is a faint yet distinct whiff of worry from the ranks of those who support the status quo. Hence the need to assure us that with the coming royal wedding the happy couple will be frugal and prudent enough to use a car and not a carriage! How noble and self sacrificing of them! It might also have occurred to the minders that a carriage would be more difficult to defend. So to sum up I remain on balance quite optimistic about the level of struggle we will see in Britain, if only for the strong fact that we have not seen the last of the systemic shocks. comradely Gary Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Greg replied: I won't quibble with you over numbers. Let's leave that to the CIA bean counters. If you think the McCoy article was good, you should really check out his book, The Politics of Heroin. It's meticulously documented. And his new book on the Philippines is excellent. And, while we're at it, I wonder if anyone can steer me to good source documenting the current Mexican war on its citizens; the role of the drug cartels; and any potential connections with the U.S. government or military? I have read quite a few accounts indicating the devastating effects of Mexican military repression of its citizens as it seems to pretend to counter the drug trade. I just wonder if there are any viable in-depth analyses. Thanks for the edifying interchange on the conspiracy website; there are elaborators that sometimes do get it right and it is instructive to keep reminding oneself to check the sources. Manuel Greg On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Jeff meis...@xs4all.nl wrote: At 19:04 09/01/11 -0500, Greg McDonald wrote: I note you picked a paragraph from the second article, the one by McCoy, and quoted it out of context, to make it appear that McCoy is somehow agnostic on CIA involvement in Afghan heroin trafficking No not at all, that's a misinterpretation. I just grabbed that paragraph as a summary/conclusion of the article and contrasted it with the one from the conspiracy site. I'm sure McCoys article about this is accurate as it was in Vietnam. But the 85% claim was bullshit and you should have noted that when you first read it: how would someone come to such a numerical estimate anyway even if it were approximately true? But thanks for the McCoy article! - Jeff from the same article, is much more damning: To defeat the Taliban in the aftermath of 9/11, the CIA successfully mobilized former warlords long active in the heroin trade to seize towns and cities across eastern Afghanistan. In other words, the Agency and its local allies created ideal conditions for reversing the Taliban's opium ban and reviving the drug traffic. Only weeks after the collapse of the Taliban, officials were reporting an outburst of poppy planting in the heroin-heartlands of Helmand and Nangarhar. At a Tokyo international donors' conference in January 2002, Hamid Karzai, the new Prime Minister put in place by the Bush administration, issued a pro forma ban on opium growing -- without any means of enforcing it against the power of these resurgent local warlords. And of course it is not far-fetched to assume the CIA is involved in transport, as McCoy states they were in Vietnam. So if you have read his book on Vietnam, the CIA, heroin, and Air America, you would of course find the article itself credible, which I did, and still do. Greg Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/mtomas3%40hotmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] 85 per cent of all drugs produced in Afghanistan are shipped out by US aircraft
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Manuel Barrera mtom...@hotmail.com wrote: Greg replied: I won't quibble with you over numbers. Let's leave that to the CIA bean counters. If you think the McCoy article was good, you should really check out his book, The Politics of Heroin. It's meticulously documented. And his new book on the Philippines is excellent. And, while we're at it, I wonder if anyone can steer me to good source documenting the current Mexican war on its citizens; the role of the drug cartels; and any potential connections with the U.S. government or military? I have read quite a few accounts indicating the devastating effects of Mexican military repression of its citizens as it seems to pretend to counter the drug trade. I just wonder if there are any viable in-depth analyses. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-29/banks-financing-mexico-s-drug-cartels-admitted-in-wells-fargo-s-u-s-deal.html http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/06/report-wachovia-bank-helped-launder-mexican-drug-money/1 http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/banksters-laundered-mexican-cartel-drug-money http://www.narconews.com/ Narco news has lots of info on US complicity in Mexican drug trade, militarization, etc. Greg Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] This commie's favorite cowboy movies
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == does anyone remember run for the arrow. as i write this i remembered that i ought to do an online search to see if i am correct, but figured wtf, this is more authentic Ismail Lagardien Department of Politics and Public Administration Elon University Elon, NC 27244 Tel: +1(612) 227-5037 (Personal) Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] This commie's favorite cowboy movies
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Run of the Arrow was a Sam Fuller movie with Rod Steiger. Some compare it to Dances with Wolves. Fullers best western was The Baron of Arizona, starring the incomparable Vincent Price. It shows up on TCM once in a while. -- Comradely, Jay Rothermel Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] This commie's favorite cowboy movies
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == 40 Guns aint that bad either -- Comradely, Jay Rothermel Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/ernestleif%40gmail.com -- Ernest Leif Boyd Assistant Editor My Idiot Brother (0) 212.812.2333 (c) 646.234.7123 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] What's new at Links: Arizona shootings, degrowth?, Cuba, statistics, US imperialism, Portugal, Marx, Ireland, Korea, Mao, Wikileaks Sweden
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == What's new at Links: Arizona shootings, degrowth?, Cuba, statistics, US imperialism, Portugal, Marx, Ireland, Korea, Mao, Wikileaks Sweden * * * *For more reliable delivery of new content, please subscribe free to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal at http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 * You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed (http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an article, please send it to li...@dsp.org.au *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. * * * Socialist Party USA: `No to political assassinations! Let's make a democratic revolution!' http://links.org.au/node/2090 By *Andrea Pason* *Billy Wharton*, co-chairs Socialist Party USA January 9, 2011 -- On behalf of the Socialist Party USA, we send our sincerest condolences to the families of the people killed in the January 8 shooting in Tucson, Arizona. This was an attempt at political assassination as the shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, reportedly shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (AZ, D.) in the head before turning his gun on the crowd. The dead include a 9 year child and five others, with twelve people wounded. Rep. Giffords remains in critical condition. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2090 Capitalism and degrowth: An impossibility theorem http://links.org.au/node/2089 By *John Bellamy Foster * January 2011 -- In the opening paragraph to his 2009 book, /Storms of My Grandchildren, /James Hansen, the world's foremost scientific authority on global warming, declared: Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril...The startling conclusion is that continued exploitation of all fossil fuels on Earth threatens not only the other millions of species on the planet but also the survival of humanity itself---and the timetable is shorter than we thought. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2089 Why does health care in Cuba cost 96% less than in the US? http://links.org.au/node/2082 By *Don Fitz* January 5, 2011-- When Americans spend $100 on health care, is it possible that only $4 goes to keeping them well and $96 goes somewhere else? Single payer health care [government-funded universal health insurance] advocates compare US health care to that in Western Europe or Canada and come up with figures of 20--30% waste in the US. But there is one country with very low level of economic activity yet with a level of health care equal to the West: Cuba. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2082 What if the state of the world were measured by its majority? http://links.org.au/node/2078 By *Tamara Pearson*, Merida, Venezuela December 30, 2010 -- The rich and their golf courses. From their perspective the whole world is one -- a wonderland of hillocks and streams and games made just for them, watered without thought for drought, and the world's poor nowhere to be seen. But a bit of the map has said it doesn't want to be a golf course. The rich, sweaty and sulking, arm themselves with reports, statistics, surveys, foundations, institutes and causes and set out to prove that Venezuela is burning and broken, its economy rumbling, its health system out of order, and its politics repressive. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2078 US imperialist aggression in the early 21st century http://links.org.au/node/2088 [This talk by *Rasti Delizo *was presented at the regional socialism conference was held in Manila from November 27 to 28, 2010. The conference was organised by the socialist Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses) and the socialist-feminist regional network Transform Asia.] * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2088 Cuba: Economy of commands or earnings? Joaquin Infante on economic changes http://links.org.au/node/2086 December 31, 2010 -- /Cuba's Socialist Renewal/ -- Coinciding with the beginning of the three-month-long public debate on the /Draft Economic and Social Policy Guidelines of the Party and Revolution/, the following two-page interview with //Dr Joaquin Infante, one of Cuba's veteran economists, appeared in /Juventud Rebelde/. * Read more http://links.org.au/node/2086 Portugal: More austerity looms in 2011 http://links.org.au/node/2085 By *Raphie de Santos* January 4, 2011 -- A full financial bailout of Portugal involving the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) looks set to happen in the
Re: [Marxism] Non-existent lawyer jobs
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yeah my debt from graduating twelve years ago was only 90k which has ballooned up to 130 plus since then. If I don't pay it off by the time I'm ready to retire,then my social security pension can actually be garnished which is what it looks like will happen. On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Mark Lause markala...@gmail.com wrote: As with academics, this is actually rather old news...though I am certain that things are much worse now than they have been ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Non-existent lawyer jobs
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A former Los Angeles deputy city attorney has been charged with assaulting police with a pole after creating a scene at San Francisco International Airport in which she vandalized a coffee kiosk, authorities say. Angela West, 50, a Harvard Law School graduate, was seen by airport police officers smashing merchandise, milk containers and other food items with a 3-foot-long metal pole at a Peet's Coffee kiosk at SFO on Christmas Eve, said San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. When officers tried to speak to her, West raged at them and began swinging the pole, which she had taken from a janitor's cart, Wagstaffe said. An officer had to use a chair to fend off at least 10 blows, authorities said. West then calmed down and sat in a booth, only to start throwing items at the officers, Wagstaffe said. When the officers tried to arrest her, she kicked one of them in the groin, Wagstaffe said. After being subdued, West shouted out that she was a lesbian and that the officers should stop trying to have sex with her, the prosecutor said. West was taken to a hospital and held in a psychiatric ward for a week, Wagstaffe said. At a court hearing Tuesday, Judge Barbara Mallach allowed West to represent herself after learning that she had attended Harvard Law and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1989. West, however, has been inactive since 1997. West pleaded not guilty at Tuesday's hearing, at which she also demanded a copy of the police report. Prosecutors asked for more time to prepare a redacted copy by removing witnesses' addresses, but West objected, saying she was a former prosecutor and was entitled to the information, Wagstaffe said. (In Los Angeles, deputy city attorneys handle misdemeanor criminal cases, among other matters). West received the redacted report at a hearing Wednesday. She is being held in custody in lieu of $10,000 bail, after she argued successfully to have it reduced from $25,000. -SF Chronicle, 1/9/11 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Non-existent lawyer jobs
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == With former officeholder's attacking coffee kiosks, the level of violence may well have reached the point where the authorities will request further legislation to authorize the registration of anarchists and barring socialists from Twitter. ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
