Re: [marxmail] "From the river to the sea..." not antisemitic. Labor senator rebels

2024-05-19 Thread Dave Lindorff
what it says: a call for freedom. The history of the term and its use by zionist Jews as well as by Palestinians is rarely given in by those trying to silence protests for palestinian freedom from terror and erasure at the hands of the Jewish state of Israel. Dave Lindorff On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 5:0

Re: [marxmail] [The Washington Post] Time is up for neoliberals

2024-05-15 Thread Dave Lindorff
It seems to me that the successful deindustrialization of the US economy and the related undermining and weakening of industrial unionism, there remains little power in the working class to compel a change for the better in the lives of the American middle class or the lives of the poor. There

Re: [marxmail] Biden can lose this thing - and if so, watch the Dems blame the Left

2024-04-30 Thread Dave Lindorff
Juan Cole is right to worry, but his suggestion about what a wise cabinet would do is a pipedream given that most of the Bifen Cabinet, especially those in the national security area, are neoliberal war-mongers and in the. case of Blinkern and Sullivan are ardent zionists, and should be judged

Re: [marxmail] USC cancels commencement speech from Muslim valedictorian after she shared link to anti-Israel website (The Forward)

2024-04-18 Thread Dave Lindorff
USC has indelibly shamed itself.Gutless and intellectually dishonest. University bureaucrats have taken the cowardly way out by banning the graduation speech of this year's top graduate. Shame! On Thu, Apr 18, 2024, 10:54 AM Michael Meeropol via groups.io wrote: > WOW -- what an incredible

Re: [marxmail] Crimea Serves as a Grim Warning to Any Ukrainian Lands That Fall Under Russian Occupation

2024-03-31 Thread Dave Lindorff
Sounds a bit like Ukraine's historical treatment of Jews, resident ethnic Russians and other minorities. Look, few of the European countries, and fewer even among the Eastern European countries, have a record to brag about of mistreatment of minority populations in their midst. The problem for

Re: [marxmail] Oppenheimer< victory at the Academy Awards - World Socialist Web Site

2024-03-13 Thread Dave Lindorff
at 12:39 PM Dave Lindorff > wrote: > >> My view is that Oppenheimer should have done what Ted Hall did, or used >> his considerable clout to convince Roosevelt to bring America's wartime, >> the Soviet Union in on the bomb project, or at least to alert them to what &g

Re: [marxmail] A Compassionate Spy

2024-03-13 Thread Dave Lindorff
It's all pretty amazing, and a disgusting history of prosecutorial abuse. Ethel was added to the case in a clear example of extortion. Hoover may have ultimately oposed her execution because creating two young orphans by killing her too would be a "bad look" for the Bureau, but his intention was

Re: [marxmail] Oppenheimer< victory at the Academy Awards - World Socialist Web Site

2024-03-13 Thread Dave Lindorff
My view is that Oppenheimer should have done what Ted Hall did, or used his considerable clout to convince Roosevelt to bring America's wartime, the Soviet Union in on the bomb project, or at least to alert them to what it was doing in secret. The film presents Oppenheimer as a tragic figure

Re: [marxmail] A Compassionate Spy

2024-03-13 Thread Dave Lindorff
after 1953 ) > > One very important contribution Dave makes in the book is to highlight the > " ... planned US atomic blitz on the USSR set for the mid '50s.. " I > think Dan Ellsberg first revealed this plan --- the grotesque nature of it > is unbelievable (wonder if it

Re: [marxmail] A Compassionate Spy

2024-03-13 Thread Dave Lindorff
Just for the record, I, a member of this list, am the producer of that film. I stumbled on Ted Hall's story in 2017 when I was writing a commentary on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as I've done on most of those grim anniversaries for decades. Hoping come up with a new angle, I googled "Soviet atomic