Re: [Marxism] Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Schaefer on Sabato, 'Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America'

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Andrew Stewart wrote

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> From: H-Net Staff 
> Date: October 10, 2018 at 1:17:41 PM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Schaefer on Sabato, 'Republics of 
the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in 
Nineteenth-Century Latin America'

> Reply-To: H-Net Staff 
>
> Hilda Sabato. Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary
> Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Princeton
> Princeton University Press, 2018. 240 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
> 978-0-691-16144-0.
>
> Reviewed by Timo Schaefer


If the reviewer is comprehensive, what appears to me to be most 
significantly lacking is a detailed analysis of the economic 
underpinnings of all these political and social developments. In his 
critique at the end of the article Schaefer writes,


"A more complete explanation for the rise of the fin-de-siècle 
oligarchies would have to explore the history of a dimension of politics 
that is strangely absent from _Republics of the New World_: it would 
have to explore the political and ideological content of elections, 
uprisings, and popular mobilizations. For in this book about 
nineteenth-century political conflict, ideologies like liberalism and 
conservatism, and issues like taxation, land privatization, or the 
relationship between church and state, receive at best cursory glosses. 
In a political history of the century of the abolition of slavery, the 
abolition of slavery merits barely a mention. It is a curious omission 
because these topics were so closely and obviously involved in the 
political practices--elections, armed citizenship, public opinion--that 
are Sabato's subjects. Can we really understand why governments turned 
against the civic militias without exploring the militias' ideological 
orientations? Can we understand public opinion in fin-de-siècle Latin 
America without knowing the political content of newspapers that were 
censored, or of those that were subsidized by the state?"


This sounds like needed criticism ("a more complete explanation" is 
needed to be sure), but more especially what of the formation of those 
various oligarchies, what was the relationship, in the nineteenth 
century period studied, between the oligarchs, the urban bourgeoisie and 
the centers of capital in the US, Europe, and in other Latin American 
States? How did conflict and controversy in these various economic 
contexts play a role? How did the urban regions form, and what was their 
relationship to a nascent bourgeoisie, and foreign capital, and between 
each of these and the farmers and peasants, indentured immigrants and 
slaves? How did that bourgeoisie interact with the landowning secular 
and ecclesiastic rulers? And how does all that affect developments in 
Latin America as they have evolved up until the present time? This book 
by Sabato is a publication of Princeton University Press, of course, and 
I'm describing a Marxist rather than a liberal analysis, which from 
appearances it is not at all. Same with the reviewby Timo Schaefer 
(Independent Scholar). This is the usual treatment of liberal forms of 
relationship to government. Isn't the student of Latin America entitled 
to more than that? Otherwise, many will go from classrooms into 
scholastic and policy-making careers that repeat the same old cruel 
illusions - revised and updated. But then, the book I describe will have 
no place in a Princeton classroom.








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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Schaefer on Sabato, 'Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America'

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Best regards,
Andrew Stewart 

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> From: H-Net Staff 
> Date: October 10, 2018 at 1:17:41 PM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]:  Schaefer on Sabato, 'Republics of the New 
> World: The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin 
> America'
> Reply-To: H-Net Staff 
> 
> Hilda Sabato.  Republics of the New World: The Revolutionary
> Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America.  Princeton
> Princeton University Press, 2018.  240 pp.  $29.95 (cloth), ISBN
> 978-0-691-16144-0.
> 
> Reviewed by Timo Schaefer (Independent Scholar)
> Published on H-LatAm (October, 2018)
> Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz
> 
> The countries of Latin America gained independence--through chance
> and narrow opportunism--when a small and privileged social class,
> taking advantage of the French occupation of Spain (1808-14),
> initiated a military conflict that would result in the end of Spanish
> rule on the Latin American continent. It is true that the
> independence wars were closely fought and involved significant parts
> of the region's popular classes: Mexico's even began as a priest-led
> social revolt. But by the time Mexico became independent that revolt
> had long been defeated, and the priests hunted down, excommunicated,
> and dispatched by firing squad. Across Latin America, it was
> American-born elites, the creoles, who controlled the armies that
> would ultimately triumph against the metropolis, and who would battle
> each other for control of the states that emerged in the wreckage of
> empire. For the poor and excluded majorities, independence merely
> exchanged one grasping elite with another.
> 
> This story--call it the story of postcolonial failure--is more
> familiar than it should be. Once the dominant interpretation of Latin
> American history in the nineteenth century, it is worth pausing over
> what made the story seem plausible. The independence wars in Latin
> America really did begin as reactions to imperial collapse. They
> really did erupt in societies that were diverse and hierarchical, and
> they ended up creating polities that were prone to fragmentation and
> riven by class and racial animosities. Perhaps as important, from a
> twentieth-century perspective--and especially a Cold War
> perspective--to describe the predatory nature of nineteenth-century
> politics in Latin America was to create an origin story. It helped
> twentieth-century researchers explain the poverty and authoritarian
> rule they were witnessing in their own time.
> 
> It is a story, though, that assumes both a deep continuity and a kind
> of cultural impermeability of structure. It assumes that Latin
> Americans before the wars of independence possessed a given set of
> values, interests, and political assumptions; then experienced
> traumatic ruptures, and experimented with unprecedented social
> alliances, during more than a decade of bloody warfare; and then
> picked up their lives with the old values, interests, and assumptions
> all intact. It assumes that creole elites but not native peasants
> were drawn to liberal political principles, and that national
> projects built on those principles were consequently limited and
> brittle. "[Simón] Bolívar and his comrades"--the political and
> military leaders of Latin America's independence wars--"had removed
> the head of a patrimonial society but they had not created
> nations."[1]
> 
> Few specialists now agree with this interpretation, which leans more
> heavily than is comfortable on the writings of conservative
> politicians--Lucas Alamán, Bolívar himself--from the period it sets
> out to explain. And yet the interpretation not merely persists, it
> flourishes. "In South America," writes Jürgen Osterhammel in _The
> Transformation of the World_, one of the most ambitious and admired
> histories of the nineteenth-century world, "the political map changed
> little after independence, with its mosaic of weakly articulated
> states all more or less in search of nationhood."[2] In _The Birth of
> the Modern World_--another global history of the nineteenth
> century--C. A. Bayly suggests that after independence, Latin
> Americans became attached less to new laws and ideas than to the war
> leaders, or caudillos, who had come to the fore during the
> independence struggles. Bayly summarizes the early years of Latin
> American nationhood by contrasting the new republics' "wordy
> constitutions" with the oft-told story of Mexican General Antonio
> López de Santa Anna's amputated leg: ceremonially interred when
> Santa Anna was president, dug up and destroyed by "an enraged 

[Marxism] Nothing to Lose but Their Chains

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Here is a link to an article I wrote for Monthly Review, based upon a chapter 
from my new book, Can the Working Class Change the World? The book is now 
available from Monthly Review Press.



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[Marxism] [UCE] Developing a Marxist approach to agriculture

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“All progress in capitalist agriculture is a progress in the art, not only
of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil…. Capitalist production,
therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of combination of
the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original
sources of all wealth—the soil and the worker.”

—Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1, Chapter on “Machinery and Large-Scale
Industry”

Issues and terms covered in this essay, in part:

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   adaptive multi-paddock grazing
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   mob-grazing
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   intensive rotational grazing
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   holistic management
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   regenerative/restorative agriculture
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   no till farming
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   cover cropping
   -

   agro-ecology


These are all terms that are overlapping concepts dealing with *mimicking
nature* to restore the land, grow food and ending the negative effects of
climate change due to factory farming  [technically called “Concentrated
Animal Feeding Operations or CAFOs].

Story at-a-glance

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   Adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing is a certain type of rotational
   grass fed farming that allows cattle to graze in one paddock at a
   -

   time, while other paddocks have a chance to grow and regenerate at an
   accelerated pace. What made this possible was the highly efficient very
   lightweight electric fencing that can be moved around to different paddocks
   by a single person.
   -

   In one four-year study, greenhouse gas emissions from the AMP system
   were reduced to a negative amount whereas feedlot emissions increased due
   to soil erosion
   -

   AMP grazing has the potential to offset greenhouse gas emissions by
   sequestering carbon in the soil and acting as a net carbon sink. More below
   under the AMP header…

By David Walters.
Read entire article here:

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[Marxism] Marie Runyon, Tenant Who Battled a University, Dies at 103

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NY Times, Oct. 10, 2018
Marie Runyon, Tenant Who Battled a University, Dies at 103
By Sam Roberts

Marie Runyon, a relentless radical who waged a Forty Years’ War on 
behalf of fellow tenants facing eviction by Columbia University, died on 
Sunday in the off-campus Upper Manhattan apartment where she had lived 
since 1954. She was 103.


Her daughter, Louise, confirmed the death. She said that Ms. Runyon, who 
was legally blind, had been largely housebound and unable to walk since 
she fell and fractured her thigh in July.


Thoroughly radicalized by her challenge to Columbia’s expansion plans in 
Harlem and Morningside Heights, Ms. Runyon later campaigned against 
American involvement in Vietnam, supported the Black Panthers and 
nuclear disarmament, and continued to get arrested for civil 
disobedience into her 90s as an indomitable leader of the Granny Peace 
Brigade, which protested the war in Iraq.


The daughter of a politically conservative North Carolina father, Ms. 
Runyon was working as a membership recruiter for the American Civil 
Liberties Union in 1961 when she, her neighbors at 130 Morningside Drive 
and residents of five nearby buildings received notices to vacate their 
apartments.


Columbia’s College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, which was operating from 
a 19th-century building 50 blocks south of the main campus, was hoping 
to demolish the six Columbia-owned apartment buildings as part of the 
thriving university’s master plan to accommodate more students and 
replace antiquated facilities.


Columbia’s football fight song asks “Who owns New York?” Ms. Runyon was 
determined to prove that the answer, in her neighborhood anyway, was not 
the university.


She mounted her own guerrilla street theater protests, as well as rent 
strikes and legal action against the evictions. She won most of her 
suits under rent control protections, even as most other tenants, 
frightened by what she called Columbia’s bulldozer diplomacy or 
mollified by modest financial incentives provided by the university, 
moved away.


She also aligned her tenant organizations with student groups that in 
1968 seized campus buildings to protest the Vietnam War and the 
university’s plans to encroach on Morningside Park with a gymnasium.


Ms. Runyon — who in 1974 parlayed her popularity briefly into political 
power by winning election to the State Assembly — fought on, as Columbia 
demolished five of the six buildings and warehoused hundreds of other 
vacant apartments on sites reserved for future development.


She even outlasted the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, which closed 
in 1976 after being threatened with loss of accreditation for failing to 
upgrade its facilities and stabilize its finances.


And while the university’s anthem is titled “Stand, Columbia,” by the 
turn of the 21st century a new administration had decided to stand down.


While only five of the original 23 families, as well as Ms. Runyon, 
still lived at 130 Morningside Drive, the only one of the six targeted 
buildings still standing, Columbia announced in 1996 that it would no 
longer seek to evict them.


In 2002, William Scott, the university’s deputy vice president of 
institutional real estate, and Emily Lloyd, the executive vice president 
for administration, announced that the renovated building was being 
renamed Marie Runyon Court.


Marie Chisholm Morgan was born on March 20, 1915, in Brevard, N.C., on 
the fringes of the Nantahala National Forest, to Ralph Morgan, himself a 
pharmacist, and Louise (McIntosh) Morgan.


One of her earliest memories was of watching her mother, a college 
graduate, getting dressed up to go vote for the first time in November 
1920. Her great-aunt founded the Penland School, to help women in 
Appalachia market handwoven goods. Her great-uncle was an environmentalist.


In 1937 she earned a degree in psychology from Berea College in 
Kentucky, an interracial school founded just before the Civil War. She 
pursued graduate studies in psychology at the University of Kentucky and 
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After working as a 
psychologist in Hartford and at a hospital in Michigan, she decided in 
1946 to seek success in New York.


She was hired as a copy editor at The New York Post and married her 
boss, Dick Runyon. Their marriage ended in divorce. In addition to their 
daughter, she is survived by a stepdaughter, Mabry Runyon McCloud; two 
grandsons; and two step-grandsons.


After plans for another marriage and a move to Chicago fell through, Ms. 
Runyon and her daughter moved to public housing in South Flushing, 
Queens. In 1954, she was hired by the civil 

[Marxism] Fwd: Yale Strom's Broken Consort: Shimmering Lights - new CD/recording

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My latest recording Yale Strom's Broken Consort: Shimmering Lights on 
the ARC label has just been released. This recording is all about 
traditional and new Khanike songs from Morocco to Poland to Turkey to 
America. The music is infused with blues, bluegrass, jazz, classical, 
klezmer, Arabic and rock improvisation. The artists are: Sara Caswell - 
violin, David Wallace - viola, Amos Hoffman -oud/guitar, Fred Benedetti 
- guitar, Jeff Pekarek - bass, Alex Greenbaum - cello, Elizabeth 
Schwartz - vocals and Yale Strom - violin.


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[Marxism] How the university became a profit-generating cog in the corporate machine

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Chronicle of Higher Education, OCTOBER 07, 2018  PREMIUM
Higher Ed, Inc.
How the university became a profit-generating cog in the corporate machine
By Ruth Perry and Yarden Katz

In 1972, when one of us (Ruth Perry) first came to the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, the federal government — and especially the 
Department of Defense — significantly subsidized MIT’s budget. Faculty 
members and students objected to how this funding changed research 
priorities and slanted educational objectives. After the end of the 
Vietnam War, MIT increasingly turned to corporations for funding. The 
change was not salutary. Federal funds had trickled down better; those 
Defense Department dollars subsidized the teaching of literature and 
philosophy as well as projects in the arts. Opponents of the Pentagon’s 
militaristic research agenda nevertheless thought it was right and 
proper that the federal government should support higher education 
beyond the narrow scope of applied research.


Corporate funding was neither so generous nor so far-reaching. There was 
less tolerance for educational purposes, and instead of a broad mandate 
for the public good (or even the rhetoric for it), these new sponsors 
focused narrowly on their own business interests. Moreover, corporations 
expected quicker results and had little interest in basic research. 
Those of us who had objected to the corrosive effects of Pentagon 
funding were surprised, perhaps naïvely, to realize that corporate money 
stifled free inquiry even more than federal dollars had.


Fifty years later, universities have been transformed to run like 
corporations, top-down and hierarchical, relying on impersonal 
bureaucracies rather than collegial debate to make decisions. Research 
is viewed instrumentally, as it is at the corporations that sponsor it.


The line between education and business has all but dissolved. 
Corporations lease campus land for their commercial buildings and help 
direct research in campus labs. The atmosphere encourages students to 
work on their "pitches" for corporate jobs rather than identify 
problematic assumptions. Students’ imaginations are trained to develop 
new products and open new markets rather than to think about what would 
constitute human fulfillment. We end up reproducing the view that the 
"real world" is inevitably one of competition, anxiety, isolation, and fear.


MIT, like its peer institutions, has formed many corporate partnerships. 
The word "partner" deserves some attention. Used as a legal term in the 
18th century, "partner" has always covered a multitude of sins. The 
legal meaning was invented to create a legal entity to share profit but 
avoid personal liability. Partnership continues to mean what it meant 
then: an association whose precise terms are hidden, but whose public 
aspect is neutral, professional, and sanitized.


MIT’s partnerships are generally negotiated confidentially, without 
input from the greater campus community, and have become normalized over 
time. Last year, IBM committed $240 million to build an 
artificial-intelligence research laboratory at MIT, whose goal is to 
commercialize AI research for various industries (including defense). 
This corporate-academic hybrid gives IBM access to the computer-science 
and brain-and-cognitive-sciences faculties, as well as to students. (And 
it is only one of the corporate partnerships that are part of MIT’s 
"Intelligence Quest" initiative.)


“The revolution is over, and the administrators have won.”

IBM is bound to have immense power in shaping MIT’s research in this 
area, and to advance its own agenda by capitalizing on the knowledge and 
labor of students and staff members. MIT also partnered with the weapons 
manufacturer Raytheon on a "cybersecurity" project that will, according 
to Raytheon’s vice president, help MIT "focus their ongoing research and 
ensure it can be applied to our real-world problems." Some of Raytheon’s 
"real-world problems" include manufacturing the bombs that are being 
used by a U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition to demolish Yemen. Yet such 
"partnerships" are presented as if there were no tension between the 
corporate agenda and MIT’s professed mission to work toward "the 
betterment of humankind."


When one of us (Yarden Katz) first came to MIT in 2007, corporate 
partnerships were already transforming academic inquiry. Its discourse 
had become drenched in the public-relations-speak of "impact" and 
"innovation," which all too often means funneling the labor of a broad, 
and generally publicly funded, academic collective toward the creation 
of private wealth for the few.


This 

[Marxism] David Wise, Journalist Who Exposed C.I.A. Activity, Dies at 88

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NY Times, Oct. 10, 2018
David Wise, Journalist Who Exposed C.I.A. Activity, Dies at 88
By Katharine Q. Seelye

David Wise, one of the first journalists to expose the clandestine 
operations of the Central Intelligence Agency and a standard-setter for 
investigative reporting into government espionage, died on Monday in 
Washington. He was 88.


The death, at Georgetown University Medical Center, was confirmed by his 
wife, Joan Wise, who said the cause was pancreatic cancer.


Mr. Wise was the author, with Thomas B. Ross, of “The Invisible 
Government,” an explosive 1964 exposé of the C.I.A. and its covert 
operations. To keep its contents from the public, the C.I.A. considered 
buying up all copies of the book but backed off when the publisher, 
Random House, made clear that it would simply print more.


Mr. Wise began his journalism career in the late 1940s as a campus 
stringer for The New York Herald Tribune while studying at Columbia 
College. In his senior year he was editor of the campus newspaper, The 
Spectator, alongside another aspiring journalist, Max Frankel, who in 
1986 became executive editor of The New York Times.


Mr. Frankel said on Tuesday that Mr. Wise seemed born to write about 
espionage: He always kept information — even what he had for lunch — 
close to the vest.


Mr. Wise joined the Herald Tribune’s staff in 1951 and later moved to 
Washington, where he covered politics and the Kennedy White House. He 
was named Washington bureau chief in 1963 and served in that role until 
the paper closed in 1966.


At that point he devoted himself full time to writing books. Over the 
next half century, he wrote a trove of nonfiction works that include the 
stories of America’s most notorious spies — Aldrich Ames and Robert 
Hanssen among them. In the telling he revealed details of the 
government’s bungling and deceptions.


He also wrote three spy novels, which were praised for their insight and 
authority.


Methodical and persistent, Mr. Wise would check, double check and triple 
check his work, his wife said. He cultivated his sources over periods of 
years.


“Even people he criticized would still come back and talk to him because 
they knew they would get a fair shake and they trusted him,” she said.


His assiduous attention to detail gave his work authenticity.

“Not only does Wise tell where, in Langley and environs, C.I.A. 
employees eat, drink and shop,” Jonathan Yardley wrote in The Washington 
Post in reviewing Mr. Wise’s novel “The Children’s Game.” “He also 
provides juicy details about such arcana as the ‘low-signature bullet,’ 
a ‘powerful transmitter’ in the shape of a ‘tiny black beetle, about 
one-eighth of an inch long.”


He added, “Of such tidbits are the warp and woof of espionage thrillers 
manufactured, and Wise supplies exactly the most satisfying amount of them.”


His nonfiction work began with “The U-2 Affair,” a 1962 collaboration 
with Mr. Ross recounting the behind-the-scenes story of the Soviet 
Union’s 1960 downing of an American spy plane piloted by Francis Gary 
Powers.


“While the Air Force was still clinging to the fiction that the 
high-flying spy craft was a weather plane, the pair wangled their way 
into a U-2 plane on Edwards Air Force Base in the remote California 
desert,” their agent, Sterling Lord, wrote in a memoir, “Lord of 
Publishing.” They received an up-close look at the plane and other details.


“They were admitted onto the base after expressing great interest in 
research on cloud formations,” Mr. Lord added.


Mr. Wise and Mr. Ross followed that success with “The Invisible 
Government.” It was a startling unmasking of C.I.A. involvement in the 
Bay of Pigs and in coups in Guatemala and Iran. It also revealed the 
agency’s covert operations in Laos and Vietnam and its attempts, with 
British assistance, to overthrow President Sukarno in Indonesia, among 
many other previously undisclosed activities.


The C.I.A. obtained an advance version of the book and fought 
ferociously to censor it. After dropping the idea of buying up all the 
copies, Mr. Lord said, the agency appointed a task force that 
recommended that the C.I.A. use “such assets as the Agency may have” to 
plant bad reviews.


The efforts came to naught. The book became the No. 1 best seller on the 
Time magazine list and No. 2 on The New York Times list, behind Ernest 
Hemingway’s “A Moveable Feast.” It remained on the Times best-seller 
list for 22 weeks and was published in eight foreign editions.


David Wise was born May 10, 1930, in Manhattan. His father, Raymond, was 
a lawyer in private practice who also took on cases for the American 
Civil 

[Marxism] Assad's exhausted army in need of reinforcements as Idlib battle looms | World news | The Guardian

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[Marxism] Armchair Investigators at Front of British Inquiry Into Spy Poisoning

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NY Times, Oct. 10, 2018
Armchair Investigators at Front of British Inquiry Into Spy Poisoning
By Michael Schwirtz and Ellen Barry

Inside a packed, heavily guarded room in the House of Commons, reporters 
gathered for an update on Tuesday about the suspects involved in the 
poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain this year.


If the subject matter was unusual, so were the people doing the briefing.

They were not prosecutors or counterintelligence officers or even 
spokesmen from Downing Street. Rather, they were researchers from 
Bellingcat, an investigative group founded by Eliot Higgins, 39, a 
blogger who began by posting on a laptop from his apartment while 
looking after his infant daughter.


Over the past month, Bellingcat has published a series of  reports 
unmasking the Russian men who the British say traveled to Salisbury in 
March, poisoning a former spy, Sergei V. Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia.


The experience has been jarring for British officials — who, in some 
cases, seem to have learned of disclosures not long before the general 
public — and for Russian officials, who have expressed suspicion that 
Bellingcat is a front for Western spy agencies.


“This is a new frontier in terms of internet activism, or internet 
research,” said Jonathan Eyal, associate director of the Royal United 
Services Institute, a security and defense policy group. “What you 
witnessed in the House of Parliament is a blurring of distinctions: 
States are increasingly losing their monopoly over spying. Now it 
belongs to anyone who has the brains, the spunk and the technological 
ability.”


At Tuesday’s briefing, which was introduced by Bob Seely, a British 
member of Parliament, Bellingcat researchers gave out new details about 
Aleksandr E. Mishkin, whom the group identified on Monday as one of the 
two men who carried out the attack on Mr. Skripal in March.


The internet sleuths offered the sort of details rarely available from 
state officials, describing an increasingly risky game of cat-and-mouse 
with the Russian government.


When Bellingcat investigators mass-mailed queries to “hundreds and 
hundreds” of Dr. Mishkin’s medical school classmates, they said, the 
vast majority responded swiftly, saying they had never heard of him. But 
two alumni said they knew him. One added that “everybody from his 
department was contacted two weeks ago, and told not to disclose 
anything about him,” said Christo Grozev, who oversees Bellingcat’s 
Ukraine and Russia probes.


Russia took note, three days ago, when Bellingcat announced it would 
reveal Dr. Mishkin’s identity at the briefing Tuesday, Mr. Grozev said. 
Dr. Mishkin’s grandmother was told to leave her village abruptly, he said.


But a reporter sent to the village found seven residents who would 
confirm his identity. His grandmother was so proud of Dr. Mishkin, a 
recipient of the prestigious Hero of the Russian Federation award, that 
she displayed a photograph of him receiving the award from President 
Vladimir V. Putin, neighbors told Bellingcat.


Bellingcat has previously avoided sending its Russia-based personnel on 
work that targets the Russian military intelligence service, known as 
the G.R.U., which he said “would be the part of the government that 
would be the most vengeful and the most dangerous.”


This time, “they insisted,” he said. “They really wanted to be part of it.”

Bellingcat has withheld some information its researchers felt could put 
their Russian colleagues in danger, Mr. Higgins said in an interview.


“The sources we’re using we’re trying to protect them,” Mr. Higgins said.

Bellingcat was founded in July 2014, three days before a surface-to-air 
missile blew a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet out of the sky over 
Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board. Russia and Ukraine, locked in 
conflict over a separatist Ukrainian region, blamed each other for the 
tragedy. Initially, Mr. Higgins said he approached his investigation 
“with an open mind.”


“Ukraine was not a conflict I was looking at and didn’t have a lot of 
knowledge of it,” he said.


Using videos and photos gathered online, he and a group of investigators 
were eventually able to identify the mobile launcher that fired the 
missile that struck the passenger jet and trace its movement from Russia 
into rebel-held Ukrainian territory in the period before the jet was downed.


The group has since identified two Russian military intelligence 
commanders possibly involved in overseeing the delivery of the missile 
launcher to Ukranian rebel territory.


A consortium of international investigators that includes prosecutors 
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*Syria: Who is Responsible for the Civilian Death Toll from March 2011 
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