Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 83, Issue 36

2010-09-18 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Den 18.09.2010 01:20, skrev marxism-requ...@lists.econ.utah.edu: Weird. This is

[Marxism] Blum: US/Israel and Iran

2010-08-05 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If and when the United States and Israel bomb Iran (marking the sixth country so

[Marxism] The Ongoing Erasure of Palestine By Na seer Aruri, ZNet, May 12, 2010 Naseer Aruri ’s ZSpace Page While many still entertain the i dea of two sovereign states, Palestine and Isra el, between

2010-05-13 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Naseer Aruri, While many still entertain the idea of two sovereign states,

[Marxism] Another battle of Okinawa

2010-05-07 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Chalmers Johnson, The United States is on the verge of permanently damaging its

[Marxism] Israeli general tried to cover up truth about death of Rachel Corrie

2010-05-07 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The peace activist Rachel Corrie died on 16 March 2003 Seven years after the

[Marxism] Hedges - No one cares

2010-05-05 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Chris Hedges, We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in

[Marxism] Pavement is home for angry Egyptian protesters

2010-05-05 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dozens of civil servants, labourers have been camping outside parliament for weeks

[Marxism] The future of Palestine

2010-05-03 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == American professor John J. Mearsheimer says that Gaza and the West Bank will be

[Marxism] Radical Marxist Historian George Barns by 1919–2010

2010-04-13 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Nasir Khan Dr George Barnsby, who died on April 11 at the age of 91

[Marxism] The Decline of the American Empire Remains a Movie for the CIA

2010-03-20 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Samir Amin A reading of the CIA's latest report on the world in 2025 supplies

[Marxism] Anti-Semitism: Zionism’s Indispens able Alibi

2010-03-20 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Although Zionism typically represents itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the

[Marxism] Castro: The Threatening Dangers

2010-03-13 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It is not an ideological issue related to the definitive hope that a better world

[Marxism] Behind Hillary Clinton’s tough talk on Iran

2010-02-21 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The goal of Hillary Clinton’s rhetoric seems to be to promote conflict and convince

[Marxism] Elie Wiesel’s Ignoble Recruits

2010-02-19 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Is there nothing that is safe from debasement by the propaganda machine of the U.S.

[Marxism] When American scholars join the slaughter

2010-02-08 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dahr Jamail, author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and

[Marxism] Haiti, Aristide, and Ideology

2010-02-07 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It’s a good thing the Haitian government did virtually nothing to help its people

[Marxism] How surrendering Palestinian rights be came the language of “peace”

2010-02-05 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The 1993 Oslo agreement did not only usher in a new era of Palestinian-Israeli

[Marxism] Obama’s war: killing spree on both sides of AfPak border

2010-02-03 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == CIA drone missile attacks claimed the lives of 123 civilians last month alone in

[Marxism] Storm of protest as Tony Blair slinks into Iraq inquiry

2010-01-30 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == “Blair lied, thousands died.” That was the chant which reverberated around

[Marxism] Understanding Haiti

2010-01-26 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == James O’Nions says the tragedy of Haiti doesn’t just lie with the recent

[Marxism] Los Angeles Jews For Peace Rally

2010-01-25 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == LA Jews for Peace and friends make their voices heard in front of the Federal

[Marxism] How US imperialism has devastated Haiti

2010-01-22 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Peter Hallward, one of the foremost experts on Haiti’s history, spoke to Socialist

Re: [Marxism] Have a happy and merry December 25

2009-12-25 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If I have understood Jim Farmelant correctly, then he certainly has in mind Jesus'

[Marxism] Obama and the Permanent War Budget

2009-12-24 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It’s been a good decade for the Pentagon. The most recent numbers from Capitol Hill

[Marxism] The international league of war criminals

2009-12-17 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The issuing of a British arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister and

[Marxism] Corporate American Media and Israel’ s 2008-09 Gaza Invasion

2009-12-15 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The following piece is an excerpt from a talk Steven Salaita gave at the School of

[Marxism] Mercenaries and assassins: The real face of Obama’s “good war”

2009-12-14 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Reports that mercenaries employed by the notorious Blackwater-Xe military

[Marxism] Accepting peace prize, Obama makes case for unending war

2009-12-12 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In the most bellicose Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech within living memory,

[Marxism] Obama expands war into Pakistan

2009-12-09 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == One week ago, President Obama in a speech at West Point sought to portray his

Re: [Marxism] Obama expands war into Pakistan

2009-12-09 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Perhaps one explanation may lie in the fact that a presidential candidate can

[Marxism] Obama's great betrayal in Afghanistan

2009-12-04 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Afghanistan: Obama's great betrayal

[Marxism] The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action

2009-11-30 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Walden Bello WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to

[Marxism] Iraq war deal might have been ‘signe d in blood’ by Blair and Bush in 2002

2009-11-27 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Iraq inquiry: deal might have been ‘signed in blood’ by Blair and Bush in 2002 Tony

[Marxism] Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan

2009-11-24 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, Nov 23, 2009 At a covert forward operating base run by

[Marxism] Bagram: A living hell

2009-11-24 Thread Nasir Khan
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The US military has allowed journalists into its newly expanded secret detention

[Marxism] Europe’s far right rises

2009-11-15 Thread Nasir Khan
The British National Party will be joined in the European parliament by far-right parties from across the continent. But how much support are fascists and racists really picking up? Tom Walker investigates http://www.redpepper.org.uk/Europe-s-far-right-rises

[Marxism] ‘Declare Independence of Palestine N ow’

2009-11-15 Thread Nasir Khan
Nasir Khan’s Note: The betrayal and isolation of the Palestinian people has run its full course. The imbecile Arab regimes (in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc.,) more in the nature of prehistoric shapeless oddities, have failed to support meaningfully the cause of the occupied, oppressed

[Marxism] Afghanistan: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose

2009-11-02 Thread Nasir Khan
Afghanistan: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose by Immanuel Wallerstein, Agence Global, Nov. 1, 2009 http://www.agenceglobal.com/Article.asp?Id=2179 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to:

[Marxism] Obama's peace

2009-10-26 Thread Nasir Khan
Obama's peace by Joseph Massad http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/968/op12.htm YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at:

Re: [Marxism] Is Goldstone the tipping point for Israel?

2009-10-17 Thread Nasir Khan
The question of legitimacy of the Zionist State of Israel is an academic one. Israel has the power of arms and power of propaganda at its disposal. Its colonizing project and its Apartheid system have powerful backers in the West. As long it controls the Washington rulers through a vast network

[Marxism] Peace Prize or war prize to Obama

2009-10-10 Thread Nasir Khan
Peace prize or war prize to Obama? According to the normal practice the Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to someone who has contributed to the cause of peace. In President Obama's case, we see no such evidence. On the contrary, since taking office he has escalated and extended the war of

[Marxism] Netanyahu’s peace is a cynical evasi on

2009-08-29 Thread Nasir Khan
Editorial / Financial Times, August 25 2009 When Barack Obama told Israel that “part of being a good friend is being honest”, the country’s political elites got an inkling that decades of double-talk on the conflict with the Palestinians were over. In his June 4 speech at Cairo University he

[Marxism] American public: We don’t want to rule the world

2009-08-28 Thread Nasir Khan
The US public largely opposes America’s foreign wars and economic meddling. They need a voice in US foreign policy Mark Weisbrot | The Guradian/UK, Aug 27, 2009 Americans are famous for not paying much attention to the rest of the world, and it is often said that foreign wars are the way that we

[Marxism] Any joke about Zardari is an offence in Pakistan

2009-08-25 Thread Nasir Khan
This following letter is now illegal in Pakistan From Tanveer Ansari | London Review of Books, Vol. 31, No. 15, August 6, 2009 Tariq Ali’s Diary notwithstanding, Asif Ali Zardari’s misdemeanours can no longer be satirised (LRB, 23 July). Helpless citizens who have been exchanging anti-Zardari

[Marxism] Neve Gordon: Boycott Israel

2009-08-21 Thread Nasir Khan
An Israeli comes to the painful conclusion that it’s the only way to save his country. By Neve Gordon, LA Times, August 20, 2009 Israeli newspapers this summer are filled with angry articles about the push for an international boycott of Israel. Films have been withdrawn from Israeli film

[Marxism] Cindy Sheehan: We have the moral high ground

2009-08-21 Thread Nasir Khan
By Cindy Sheehan, Information Clearing House, Aug 21, 2009 “Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love…” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1958 “There comes a time when silence is betrayal…” Dr. King, 1967 I

[Marxism] Aung San Suu Kyi stands for her people and democracy

2009-08-17 Thread Nasir Khan
Aung San Suu Kyi stands for her people and democracy A single slender woman who terrifies an army of generals By Badri Raina, ZNet, Aug 16, 2009 Badri Raina’s ZSpace Page In Burma resides a dame, Terra Firma is her name; They lock her indoors, But her pitying smile soars, And the Generals are

[Marxism] Afghanistan and the New Great Game

2009-08-14 Thread Nasir Khan
by John Foster, The Toronto Star, Aug 14, 200 Why is Afghanistan so important? A glance at a map and a little knowledge of the region suggest that the real reasons for Western military involvement may be largely hidden. Afghanistan is adjacent to Middle Eastern countries that are rich in oil

[Marxism] Hiroshima and Nagasaki

2009-08-06 Thread Nasir Khan
by Ralph Raico, Antiwar.com, August 06, 2009 This excerpt from Ralph Raico’s “Harry S. Truman: Advancing the Revolution” in John V. Denson, ed., Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom (Auburn, Alabama: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2001). (The notes

[Marxism] Uncle Sam, More War, Please

2009-08-04 Thread Nasir Khan
Uncle Sam, More War, Please By Philip Giraldi, Campaign For Liberty, Aug 3, 2009 In “Julius Caesar” Shakespeare’s Brutus counsels “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken on the flood, leads on to fortune.” Shakespeare was describing how powerful men seeking yet more power, blinded

[Marxism] Castro to US – Cuba will stay commun ist

2009-08-03 Thread Nasir Khan
Castro to US – Cuba will stay communist http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6736427.ece Raúl Castro, the Cuban President, vowed to a standing ovation in parliament yesterday that the country would never give up communism, in what appeared to be a direct response to