[Marxism] Palestine thanks Latin America for its solidarity
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Palestinian officials have recognised that Latin American countries were the first to condemn the Israeli onslaught against Gaza. The Palestinian National Council (PNC), the legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, thanked Latin America on August 27 for its solidarity with the people of Gaza and its condemnation of the seven-week Israeli massacre in the enclave. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57237 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Feedback on Cancer, Politics and Capitalism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The problems with the august 'China Study' are many: sloppy citations, cherry-picked references, omission of data that contradicted the thesis, and recommendations that went beyond the data. DENISE MINGER's critique of 'THE CHINA STUDY' is sharp and warrants reading before accepting Campbell's argument in toto.. http://rawfoodsos.com/the-china-study/. There's a lot of discussion about nutrition today but relying on T. Colin Campbell is complicated by the vegan or vegetarian POV as 'The China Study' has been deployed as a core argument against the consumption of animal products http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_product,So there's more in play than what seems to be. The jury is still out on this questiona question that is constantly being held hostage to ethics rather than nutrition. Not eating dead animals may be a preference...but let's not layer that penchant with justifications that abhors scrutiny...and The China Study' warrants scrutiny. dave riley Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Rational Unreason of Imperial War
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-rational-unreason-of-imperial-war.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Rational Unreason of Imperial War
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/30/14 8:29 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote: http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-rational-unreason-of-imperial-war.html From the article above: In other words, NATO plans to build and maintain military bases in several nations that share direct borders with Russia. Did Yeltsin decide to make war on Chechnya because of being threatened by NATO? In yet another sign that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was turning global politics upside down, the Russian President, Boris N. Yeltsin, wrote to NATO today saying Russia hoped to join the alliance some time in the future. Mr. Yeltsin's letter was sent in conjunction with the first meeting ever held at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization between NATO foreign ministers and those of the former Warsaw Pact -- the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. --Thomas Friedman, NYT, 12/21/1991 Just 3 years after the pro-capitalist drunk wrote his letter, he invaded Chechnya. And just 1 year after he had changed his mind about NATO: President Boris N. Yeltsin, apparently under pressure from his armed forces, has sent a letter to President Clinton opposing any expansion of NATO to include East European nations like Poland or the Czech Republic, Western diplomats said today. Sent after President Yeltsin dissolved Parliament on Sept. 21 and embarked on a collision course with members opposed to his reforms, the letter amounts to sharp retreat from the position the Russian leader outlined during a visit to Warsaw in August. At the time he expressed understanding of Poland's desire to join NATO and said it did not threaten Russian interests. --Roger Cohen, NYT, 10/1/1993 Despite its backward economy, the Russian Empire had much in common with the United States. In the same way that the USA seized territory through military force like Texas, so did the Kremlin. Think of Ukraine as Texas. But unlike the USA, where the conquered territories were rapidly assimilated into the prevailing socio-economic relationships on the basis of equality--at least if you were Anglo, in the Ukraine suffered from forced underdevelopment outside of Donbas. In Texas, you had a local ruling class that did quite well in oil and ranching while the Spanish-speaking population concentrated in the South were treated like typical colonized subjects. By contrast, colonized Ukraine was largely a victim of the the same kind of dependency as south Texas except that it was much worse. Stalin saw fit to wreak havoc in the countryside through his forced march to Communism in the 1920s. Millions died even if it was only an accident. In 1991 the yoke was lifted from Ukraine. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! The first thing that happens under free Ukraine is the development of an oligarchy that took advantage of its privileged position in the bureaucracy to become owners of coal mines, steel factories, and all the rest. A layer of the bourgeoisie in the western and central regions feeling resentful exploited the anger of those beneath them in the Orange Revolution and catapulted into power. Once they were in power, they resorted to the same corrupt deals with the Kremlin that preceded them. Yulia Tymoshenko, the Orange Revolution's icon, gets caught in a crooked deal with Gazprom and goes to prison. None of this is of interest to our anti-imperialists. They are interested in one thing and one thing only. How to defend the Kremlin. This is not the first time we have seen this on the left but at least when the CP was at its height, you could at least make the excuse that they were defending socialism. Nowadays, it is nothing less than defending naked Russian imperial appetites. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Ahmed Seif, Who Was Tortured in Egypt and Became Rights Defender, Dies at 63
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times, August 30 2014 Ahmed Seif, Who Was Tortured in Egypt and Became Rights Defender, Dies at 63 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Ahmed Seif, whose experience of torture as a political prisoner in Egypt inspired him to become a leading human rights lawyer defending leftists, Islamists, atheists and gays, died on Wednesday in Cairo. He was 63. His family said the cause was complications from heart surgery. Crowds leaving the cemetery after his funeral on Thursday held up banners calling him “the sword of the people” and “the exemplary fighter.” Among them were his son, Alaa Abdel Fattah, and his daughter Sanaa Seif, who were temporarily released from prisons to attend the ceremony. They have been incarcerated for protesting repression by the Egyptian government. In his funeral remarks, Mr. Fattah was defiant. “My father died a martyr, and you know who killed him,” he said, according to The Associated Press. He referred to the stress caused by the arrest of Mr. Seif’s children and the postponement of necessary surgery because of judicial procedures. Mr. Seif was himself imprisoned at least four times, twice during the rule of President Anwar el-Sadat and twice under President Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in 2011. Mr. Seif’s contrarian nature, for good and ill, defined his career. In 2011, he found himself in the familiar position of being under arrest, this time for participating in protests against President Mubarak. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, then Egypt’s defense minister and now its president, was touring the prison and stopped to tell a group of prisoners that included Mr. Seif that people should respect the military leadership, stop protesting and go home. Mr. Seif replied that Mr. Mubarak was corrupt. Mr. Sisi “became angry, his face became red,” Mr. Seif was quoted as saying in the newspaper The Guardian. “He lost it.” That incarceration lasted only 48 hours. In the 1980s, he was jailed for five years for joining a left-wing group. He endured beatings and electrical shocks, and he came to detest torture as “a form of cancer that can eat up a country’s youth and stifle its ability to change, criticize, reform and rebel,” he said. He responded by studying law while in prison. After his release, he apprenticed with a law firm and started volunteering to do legal work for causes he supported. In 1983, he handled the case of Nasr Abu Zayd, a liberal professor who was denied a promotion by Cairo University because of his views. Mr. Zayd was convicted of apostasy and forced to divorce his wife because under Islamic law a Muslim woman cannot be married to an apostate. Mr. Seif took many unpopular clients, including Islamists with whom he fundamentally disagreed. In 2001, he represented 52 men who were arrested aboard a floating gay nightclub moored on the Nile and charged with “habitual debauchery.” Despite worldwide criticism of the prosecution, 23 of the men were convicted and sent to prison. In 2004, Mr. Seif represented men accused of bomb attacks on tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula that killed 34 people. He did not defend the bombings, but argued that the men should have been exonerated because they were tortured to get confessions. Three were sentenced to death, and 10 received lesser sentences. Two years later, Mr. Seif defended a blogger, Kareem Amer, who was prosecuted on charges of antireligious remarks and insults to President Mubarak. He was the first blogger in Egypt explicitly arrested for the content of his writing. Mr. Amer was sentenced to several years in prison, where he was beaten, according to human rights groups. Ahmed Seif al-Islam Hamad was born on Jan. 9, 1951, in the delta province of Beheira in Egypt. His father, he said, belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, whose fundamentalist ideology was far removed from the leftist views the son adopted. He earned degrees in politics and economics and in law at Cairo University. In a biography on the Human Rights Watch website, he said he joined an underground Communist organization. But politics, he decided, was not enough. During his five years in jail in the 1980s, he said, “I made a decision that it was no use to have political activity without human rights.” He continued: “The Communists would say secretly, ‘It doesn’t matter if the Islamists are tortured.’ And the Islamists would say, ‘Why not torture Communists?’ ” The solution was to make basic rights a part of the law, and Mr. Seif gave even Mr. Mubarak credit for moving in that direction, if only for “cosmetic purposes,” Mr. Seif said. In 1999, he helped found the Hisham Mubarak Law Center to support people whose human rights had been violated. It was named for one of Egypt’s first human rights
Re: [Marxism] Rational Unreason of Imperial War
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Aug 30, 2014, at 8:29 AM, Ron Jacobs via Marxism wrote: http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-rational-unreason-of-imperial-war.html Although I think the tendency among commentators to call the current situation between Russia and the West a “new cold war” is not only symptomatic of the Western press’s short term memory, but a misnomer (inter-imperialist rivalry is a much more accurate description), the truth is permanent NATO military bases along Russia’s borders are nothing short of a serious provocation. new cold war is a misnomer only insofar as it echoes the dishonest Anticommunist ideology used against the USSR, which, of course, utilized a comparably dishonest Anticapitalist ideology against its rival. The truth is that inter-imperialist rivalry was then, just as it is today, a much more accurate description. Which is not in the least to deny that permanent NATO military bases along Russia’s borders are nothing short of a serious provocation. Shane Mage scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Free Speech Now! | Why we should all hail the Redskins | Free speech | spiked
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Every once in a while I check in on these people to see how far they can go with a contrarianism that lands them in Rush Limbaugh territory. Here's the latest: http://www.spiked-online.com/freespeechnow/fsn_article/why-we-should-all-hail-to-the-redskins There’s a good reason why most people are against changing the name: common sense. The anti-Redskins campaigners are cut off from the real world. Everyone but a small minority recognise that there is no racist intent or malice behind the name. Fans of the team have used the name with pride since it was introduced in the 1930s. It was 18 years ago that I began researching and writing about American Indians after reading an article in LM magazine justifying the forced assimilation of the Yanomami in the name of Marxism. Nothing has changed with these people except that--thankfully--they have dropped the pretense to Marxism. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Re: Fwd: The BRICS Remix Climate Damage and Corporate Collusion | Opinion | teleSUR
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 2014/08/30 04:27 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: But Walden Bello thinks that BRICS is a good thing Walden brings up many of the standard critiques. However in spite of the overwhelming evidence of superexploitative practice by BRICS at home and abroad, you're right, Walden arrives at this surprising conclusion: In the geopolitics of development, the BRICS currently fulfill the role that the Soviet Union once played, which was to provide a pole that developing countries could play off the United States as they struggled to achieve political and economic independence. The dark period of unipolar domination by the United States, with its neoliberal institutions and ideology, has come to an end with the emergence of the BRICS bloc, and this is an extremely positive development. This is tempting but, I fear, overoptimistic - except when it comes to the Russia-Crimea-Ukraine theatre, the 2013 Obama threat to bomb Syria, the Snowden asylum and most importantly the historic role of Brazil and India in challenging intellectual property for life-saving medicines like AIDS drugs. Those are four sites where Walden's argument holds up. But on climate and financial turmoil - the two most serious crises (according to world opinion, as even the Pew Research Center global surveys suggest) - there is every reason to fear that the BRICS are /amplifying /imperial destructive power. My case is here: http://secure-web.cisco.com/1Zhv_aanXFGxXXpgpte1P272CuyPKuOr4BcIrLrxLGMbO-zvHaTeH6BlTHfSWwV_rkvVpth5_5r6FtjVJE8VKQw3_0_NWvNSmaq5vVX3hV6NKpFZjxaATMJlWDPIea3JE10eilKzw4noJduzlqr55RBRL9D56BLoUp4PjrJuJq4E4JS5-gyAHihr3KuZ3szNx-v9AzxArdJJf16cFNd6zQ3Bh6nY_EQYFsfOjqx-Th1Y/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2014%2F08%2F01%2Fhow-brics-became-co-dependent-upon-eco-financial-imperialism%2F By and large, the BRICS illustrate what Rui Mauro Marini termed 'subimperialism,' and it would be a foolish mistake to believe that, as one lad put it a couple of weeks ago on Counterpunch, that soon, who knows, it may be interpreted as the Broad Revolutionary Internationalist Causeway towards Socialism (http://secure-web.cisco.com/1fjK6oDfeu1ezqrKwUHrqwGVBBbseJ9E8OKQ1DffItxaA5TcfxQ5r--j1hrkqffjbg2yVSw3FxwEnWBe_kwnfpguHqpSSpSPMDLVAy8k_VL8AFUqxETLs-mq7Hecr1JTVFhK998wISuSrwY8taBPQRI_qjrEV2ln9o6DWYKbE2EpDs-7Q5rrH6h65p_h_TxYi1aN9KDn7dhgZuYah9Lv04FilL5HlhKFiElVU0fy7hFk/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.counterpunch.org%2F2014%2F08%2F15%2Fthe-challenge-to-the-west%2F) The BRICS: Challengers to the Global Status Quo *//* *By Walden Bello http://secure-web.cisco.com/1_wBLZTg0vIdSvDQ7FSqyjco9hu30jW7Du1hG1vwbD_IVgFOloutxmDS1fLcgXVWtJTwdUOVhnsOFtwq88f5hGlMYolEtL9ogB1Bf3Vq7-D4d-379D74hHpRVL4nq7im9BBQuMbGxd8JtTyI6kEqOzqQKm56ct2oLgsEpVTlNa4AE8GZvswndAOt3nGQsW1sAhoV-NoSSRFO9YqQ4tkjfpP1RdfgcBBaoBb1-qeSoBjE/http%3A%2F%2Fzcomm.org%2Fauthor%2Fwaldenbello%2F* *http://secure-web.cisco.com/16ci_sCHLKpRX5_FumSx_osYUaOU6E8Hfj6K1DrCHfj8y2If0Qp-5XHS1NiIPJcGiJPXxSUmLsAcXG8ICHv4RLgoKHFB_C6smyBKswwByWOxhPmTsDNJe3WlUJZPgIskznlgY_RUZo2SOuZLFf3_7N90fOhHhhneiY-kkhDHgQeFO4UVShKlV5vRY4R5dVFAAF_tiDLq4gTEqEfIz_IlbUW0o1uwjCh1TJnqQ6a_m7Pg/http%3A%2F%2Fzcomm.org%2Fznetarticle%2Fthe-brics-challengers-to-the-global-status-quo%2FSource: Foreign Policy in Focus http://secure-web.cisco.com/1X2Jb9KjrZNK_HmSn9KLT4THyQi_83TDmaR7vgKL0ZvKDfFepf1jp55lRSBdgjeEMhEIi7IxF5dwVnqhMYWH72Nr5pWLzLOqx0W1Fi76QNTRuhhRxnzfzm-Z-q3qh5g2FFZdC2rla4a3CR6VSIsL3NF6qdunmFNVesIM3H8FcgIuQQvlj68URq48rPSA_WevmoI6GgXzKYiv3xSzZnzGbqpT9AhoAw5z7L6RC9TOmLwE/http%3A%2F%2Ffpif.org%2Fbrics-challengers-global-status-quo%2F%3Futm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%3A%2BFPIF%2B%28Foreign%2BPolicy%2BIn%2BFocus%2B%28All%2BNews%29%29* August 30, 2014 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Another example of the rank dishonesty of these people - highlighting Jason Ditz
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://news.antiwar.com/2014/08/29/ukraine-claims-thousands-of-russian-troops-invaded-offers-no-evidence/ In yesterday's mis-named antiwar.com Jason Ditz claims no Russian invasion of Ukraine is taking place and no proof has been offered. The US, which had been rubber stamping Ukrainian allegations for months, seems to be particularly hesitant this time, and is saying they can’t independently confirm http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/world/europe/ukraine-conflict.htmlany of the allegations being made this time. In the link above. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/world/europe/ukraine-conflict.html?_r=0 we find: Russian troops and weaponry were creating momentum for a counteroffensive along a significant new front that threatened Mariupol, a key southeastern seaport and one of the region’s biggest cities with nearly half a million residents. Continue reading the main story http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/world/europe/ukraine-conflict.html?_r=0#story-continues-6 In the town of Novoazovsk, Ukrainian militiamen manned checkpoints. But evidence of a Russian presence was abundant, including unmarked Russian military vehicles with no license plates. A soldier on a truck greeted journalists by shouting in English: “Back in the U.S.S.R.!” A cashier at a Novoazovsk grocery store said Russian soldiers had bought sausages and cigarettes. Asked how she knew they were Russian, the cashier, who identified herself as Olga, snapped: “You think I’ve only lived one day?” Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/ http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Another example of the rank dishonesty of these people - highlighting Jason Ditz
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My favorite has been the always wrong WSWS seeming to accept Russia's claim that the Russian troops in Ukraine are just on vacation, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/29/ukra-a29.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: More Subversive Than You Think
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Paul Buhle reviews Perlstein's The Invisible Bridge. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/25824-more-subversive-than-you-think Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Another example of the rank dishonesty of these people - highlighting Jason Ditz
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == rackspace may be happy to let you take your company supplied notebook on vacation with you but what army would allow you to borrow a tank for your vacation? Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/ http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tristan Sloughter via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == My favorite has been the always wrong WSWS seeming to accept Russia's claim that the Russian troops in Ukraine are just on vacation, http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/29/ukra-a29.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/clayclai%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Facing Hard-Liners and Sanctions, Iran’s Leader Toughens Talk
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (It looks like the alliance between the USA and Iran against jihadists fell apart before it got started, as well as with the Baathists. My guess is that the power of the Israeli lobby trumped realpolitik. If you are looking for military blocs with rightwing religious states, there's nothing that tops Israel. Netanyahu must have told Obama over the phone that he had to get tough with Iran or else. I don't agree with Mearsheimer-Walt, but sometimes it does look like the White House takes orders from Israel.) NY Times, August 30 2014 Facing Hard-Liners and Sanctions, Iran’s Leader Toughens Talk By THOMAS ERDBRINK TEHRAN — For more than a year, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, had been walking a tightrope by trying to restore relations with the country’s archenemy, the United States. His hard-line opponents pelted him with eggs, but those who voted for him hoped for a possible thaw. Mr. Rouhani, a Shiite cleric nicknamed the ‘diplomatic sheikh’ here because of his skills in dealing with foreigners, even held a historic phone call with President Barack Obama, later saying he found him polite and intelligent. Since then he has publicly pleaded to explore open discussions and at least some cooperation with the United States. But on Saturday Mr. Rouhani struck a starkly different tone, making him sound more like the conservatives who have long criticized him for being too soft on the United States. In a news conference on the occasion of being over a year in office, Mr. Rouhani echoed the long- standing Iranian viewpoint that the United States can never be trusted. Not only did he rule out any cooperation on fighting regional terrorist groups like the fiercely anti-Iranian Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, he also hinted that America’s actions were responsible for creating the group, as well as Al Qaeda and the Taliban, a mantra among the Iranian leadership. He criticized the United States for not taking action on the militants when Syrians were being killed, and only taking steps when it felt Americans and their interests were threatened. “Now they say: “we want to defend our embassy and consulate in Iraq; this is not fighting terrorism,” he said. “The Americans should be ashamed of their words.” In the complicated world of Iranian politics, it is difficult to know if Mr. Rouhani’s statements — his toughest on the United States in a year — represent a shift in his thinking or are tailored to a domestic audience where hard-liners have been criticizing him harshly for months. It is also possible the speech was a tactical move to strengthen Iran’s position before renewed talks on Iran’s nuclear program. Mr. Rouhani’s statements came just a day after the Obama administration imposed new sanctions on Iran, blacklisting 30 people and entities it said are linked to the country’s nuclear program. In a statement, the White House said the sanctions were a continuation of its strategy to crack down on groups suspected of seeking to avoid or violate existing sanctions, even as “the United States remains committed” to striking an accord by late November that includes “a long-term, comprehensive solution that provides confidence that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful.” But the sanctions appeared to upset Mr. Rouhani. “Yes, of course, we bypass the sanctions,” Mr. Rouhani said during his news conference. “We believe they are illegal and crimes against humanity.” He added that for relations to improve, the United States must make the first move. “Our people distrust Americans,” he said. “It would be better if Americans could do something that could help to build some trust in the future. Unfortunately, their moves only deepen distrust.” And although he was one of the political stars of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in September, hobnobbing with international leaders who had long shunned Iran, he said Saturday that he had not yet decided whether he would make the trip to the United Nations headquarters in New York. “And I have no plans to meet with Mr. Obama,” he added. The historic phone call between the two men came after last year’s United Nations session and started a temporary nuclear agreement in November, under which some parts of Iran’s nuclear program were suspended, along with some sanctions against Iran. Mr. Rouhani’s statements come after months in which Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has stepped up his criticism of the United States and said he is pessimistic that the nuclear talks and direct talks with the United States will lead to anything. Some analysts said Mr. Rouhani’s angry tone might be aimed at pre-empting criticism from influential hard-liners who are seemingly
[Marxism] The Violence of Organized Forgetting - Giroux 2014
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Violence of Organized Forgetting, Henry Giroux 2014 http://www.amazon.com/The-Violence-Organized-Forgetting-Disimagination/dp/087286619X/ref=cm_rdp_product Giroux takes us on a timely tour through this maddening age with this passionate book. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is remarkable for its hard won insights into our crushing times -- as interpreted through the lens of one of our premier public intellectuals. Giroux focuses on the damning amnesia that grips us all, as neoliberalism tightens its deadly grip on our minds. He calls it organized forgetting, a malady that strikes at the very the moment of crisis. Giroux rips events from their headline entombment (Chicago teacher's strike, Boston bombings, Hurricane Sandy etc), and illuminates the hidden terrors behind them, meanings rarely countenanced by a subservient media. Like C. Wright Mills, Giroux is determined to convert our private sufferings into public issues, and he takes no prisoners. Giroux is inventing a new form of writing combining three ingredients: 1) He rips events from the headlines, 2) refracts them through the latest in critical social theory (the biblio graphy itself commands our attention as necessary reading in itself) and 3) produces a brilliant alchemy of poetic metaphors and sentences that crystallize reality in a new way. Reading Giroux is like listening to music -- its powerful emotional effects cannot be articulated. . .it is art with a firm moral compass. He quotes fellow artist James Baldwin on the importance of remembering, people who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence. Giroux cries from the rooftops: Do not normalize this descent into madness; see where you are in history, love your brothers and sisters - and help make a revolution. Brian McKenna Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A 20% discount offer for ‘GREEK CAPITALISM IN CRISIS’
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dear comrades this might be of interest to you: A 20% discount offer for ‘GREEK CAPITALISM IN CRISIS’ Posted on 17/06/2014 | Γράψτε ένα σχόλιο Routledge is offering a 20% discount for #8220;GREK CAPITALISM IN CRISIS’. Details follow. #8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;#8212;- 20% discount with this flyer #8211; Order online using discount code LRK69 *This 20% discount is only available on titles ordered directly from our website, until 31st December 2014, and cannot be combined with any other offer or discount. Greek Capitalism in Crisis: Marxist Analyses Edited by Stavros Mavroudeas HB: 978-0-415-74492-8#8211; $145.00,£85.00 With 20% Discount: $116.00, £68.00 Published: July 2014 Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Despite the depth of the Greek crisis, the exorbitant burdens placed upon the working people and the massive popular resistance movement to capitalist policies, there is a definite lack of consistently Marxist analyses of the Greek problem. International debates regarding the Greek crisis have been dominated by orthodox (Neoclassical and neo-Keynesian) approaches. The heterodox side of these debates has been occupied by Radical Political Economy approaches (usually radical post-Keynesian or Marxo-Keynesian perspectives). Moreover, they are dominated by the ‘financialisation’ thesis which is quite alien to Marxism, neglects the sphere of production and professes that the global crisis is simply a financial crisis that has nothing to do with ‘real’ accumulation and the profit rate. This book argues that by emphasising the sphere of production and profitability, classical Marxist analysis better explains the Greek crisis than its orthodox and heterodox competitors. The contributors present critiques of the prevalent approaches and offer studies of the Greek crisis that use the methodology and the analytical and empirical tools of classical Marxist Political Economy. In particular, it is shown that the Greek crisis was caused by falling profitability and the ensuing overaccumulation crisis. The ‘broad unequal exchange’ existing between the euro-center and the euro-periphery contributed to Greek capital’s falling profitability. This book enriches the debate about the Greek economic crisis by demonstrating the insights that can be drawn by considering the Marxist alternative to the dominant mainstream and heterodox approaches. Contents Introduction PART I: Critiques of mainstream and heterodox analyses of the Greek problem 1. Mainstream accounts of the Greek crisis: more heat than light? 2. Fiscal crisis in Southern Europe: Whose fault? 3. Explaining the rising wage-productivity gap in the Greek economy 4. The Memoranda: a problematic strategy for Greek capitalism 5. ‘Financialisation’ and the Greek case PART II: Marxist explanations of the Greek crisis 1. The Law of the Falling Rate of Profit and the Greek economic crisis 2. Profitability and crisis in the Greek economy (1960-2012): an investigation 3. The Greek crisis: a dual crisis of over accumulation and imperialist exploitation PART III: Crisis, Poverty and the Labor Market 1. Economic crisis, poverty and deprivation in Greece. The impact of neoliberal remedies 2. A comparative study of the structure of employment in Greece before and after the crisis 3.Recession and atypical employment: a focus on contemporary Greek metropolitan regions To purchase this title: http://www.routledge.com/9780415744928/ For more information, contact Beth Henderson at beth.hender...@taylorandfrancis.com, (212)216-7843 *This 20% discount is only available on titles ordered directly from our website, until 31st December 2014, and cannot be combined with any other offer or discount. Stavros D. Mavroudeas Professor (Political Economy) Dept. of Economics University of Macedonia 156 Egnatia 54006 Thessaloniki Greece e-mail: sma...@uom.gr; sma...@uom.edu.gr web: http://stavrosmavroudeas.wordpress.com off. Tel: +30-2310-891779 Recent books: The Limits of Regulation http://www.elgaronline.com/abstract/9780857938633.xml Greek Capitalism in Crisis http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415744928/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] countdown to the next Gaza slaughter
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/countdown-round-gaza.html?utm_source=Mondoweiss+Listutm_campaign=b12bf00b3c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGNutm_medium=emailutm_term=0_b86bace129-b12bf00b3c-309258102 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
