[Marxism] The Stork's Vocation

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The Stork's Vocation
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

THE stork who worms and frogs devours

That in our ponds reside,
Why should he dwell on high church-towers,

With which he's not allied?

Incessantly he chatters there,

And gives our ears no rest;
But neither old nor young can dare

To drive him from his nest.

I humbly ask it,--how can he

Give of his title proof,
Save by his happy tendency

To soil the church's roof?
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[Marxism] Fwd: Elizabeth Blue; Thy Father’s Chair | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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The two films under review are about people living at society’s margins 
and not the flashy superheroes you are used to seeing in summer 
blockbusters about space alien invasions or super-spies but both are two 
of the better films I have seen in months and a testament to the 
integrity of their respective creative teams. In a period of 
commercialism running rampant, symbolized most of all by the garish and 
murderous clown in the White House, “Elizabeth Blue” and “Thy Father’s 
Chair” are reminders that humanism is still alive in a dying empire, at 
least in the world of cinema.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2017/09/20/elizabeth-blue-thy-fathers-chair/
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[Marxism] [UCE] “Ossies,” former East Germans, compare socialist youth with life under capitalism | John Wojcik | People's World

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http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ossies-former-east-germans-compare-socialist-youth-with-life-under-capitalism/


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[Marxism] Fwd: We Are Educators, Not Prosecutors | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

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Harvard faculty protest the rescinding of Michelle Jones's admission.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/20/we-are-educators/
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[Marxism] A ‘Quest for Justice’ for a Murdered Civil Rights Pioneer, 52 Years Later

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NY Times, Sept. 20 2017
A ‘Quest for Justice’ for a Murdered Civil Rights Pioneer, 52 Years Later
By TRIP GABRIEL

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Alberta Jones is the civil rights pioneer almost no 
one knows. She was Louisville’s first black prosecutor and negotiated 
the first fight contract for Muhammad Ali, her neighbor. She registered 
thousands of African-American voters in the 1960s and paved the way for 
a ban on racial discrimination by local theaters and lunch counters.


One person who was astonished she had never heard of Ms. Jones was a 
professor named Lee Remington, who began research for a biography four 
years ago. The more Professor Remington learned, the more she became 
desperate to discover what no one has ever learned: who was responsible 
for Ms. Jones’s death in 1965, when, at 34, she was brutally beaten and 
thrown into the Ohio River to drown.


Poring over 1,600 pages of police files, Professor Remington, a lawyer 
and political scientist, shifted from mere history to what she calls “a 
quest for justice.” She laid out what she believed were overlooked clues 
to the murder in a long letter last year to the Louisville police, who 
agreed to reopen the case. The Justice Department’s civil rights 
division also stepped in.


But even with renewed interest in the case, it is unclear whether there 
is any real chance — 52 years after Ms. Jones died, when witnesses are 
deceased and evidence has vanished — of finding out who killed her and why.


“I believe her death was directly related to the work she was doing,” 
said Professor Remington, who teaches at Bellarmine University in 
Louisville. “If there was a list of people she would have stood up to 
and made mad, it would be five pages long.”


The Louisville Metro Police Department said this week that there have 
been few breakthroughs. “We still haven’t established enough probable 
cause to say one person or another did it,” Sgt. Nicholas Owen, the lead 
investigator, said.


Ms. Jones, who never married, is survived by a sister, Flora Shanklin, 
now 81. She believes earlier investigators ignored clues and buried 
evidence because of indifference to the murder of a prominent 
African-American, or because the killers were protected by the authorities.


Ms. Shanklin recalled her sister saying she was regularly hassled by a 
white court officer at work. One day Ms. Jones got frustrated, Ms. 
Shanklin said, and “hit him with her briefcase.”


Ms. Jones’s name is absent from the annals of civil rights martyrs of 
the 1960s, perhaps because there is no clear evidence that her death was 
racially or politically motivated. Louisville, on the dividing line 
between North and South, largely avoided the harshest violence of the 
era, like church bombings and the murder of civil rights workers by 
white supremacists, and today does not have the immediate resonance of, 
say, Birmingham, Ala.


Still, the city Ms. Jones returned to in 1959 after graduating from 
Howard University School of Law was deeply segregated. Blacks could not 
enter movie theaters or restaurants in the city’s commercial heart, 
Fourth Street, or try on clothes at department stores.


Ms. Jones helped establish the Independent Voters Association, which 
registered 6,000 African-Americans. Voting as a bloc, blacks replaced 
the mayor of Louisville and many of the city’s aldermen in 1961. Two 
years later these officials outlawed racial discrimination in 
businesses, the first public accommodation ordinance of its kind in the 
South.


“We taught the Negros how to use that voting machine,” Ms. Jones told 
The Courier-Journal in March 1965. It was shortly after she became a 
city prosecutor, the first African-American and first woman of any race 
in that job in Louisville. “When I got back home a lot of people said, 
‘You’ve got two strikes against you: You’re a woman and you’re a 
Negro,’” she told the newspaper. “Yeah, but I’ve still got one strike 
left, and I’ve seen people get home runs when all they’ve got left is 
one strike.”


Ms. Jones lived in Louisville’s majority-black West End with her mother 
and sister, just a couple of blocks from the young Cassius Clay. In 
1960, the future Muhammad Ali hired her to represent him when he turned 
professional. She negotiated a contract with 11 white millionaires, the 
famous Louisville Sponsoring Group. Protective of her client, she 
insisted that 15 percent of his winnings be held in trust until he 
turned 35, with Ms. Jones serving as a co-trustee. Today the contract 
hangs on the wall of the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville.


Ms. Shanklin said her sister took the boxer to buy a pink Cadillac at a 
downtown landmark, 

[Marxism] The Pentagon’s $2.2 Billion Soviet Arms Pipeline Flooding Syria

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(Throughout the article, the authors casually use the term "Syrian
rebels" to refer to the recipients of this program, the article makes
clear that the main recipient is the SDF, for the fight against ISIS,
along with a few ex-rebel US-proxy groups who signed on to *not* rebel
against Assad and instead to only fight ISIS)

The Pentagon’s $2.2 Billion Soviet Arms Pipeline Flooding Syria

The Pentagon is on a spending spree as it scrabbles to amass vast
quantities of Soviet-style weapons and ammunition. But it’s running
into problems sourcing them, and is using misleading legal documents
to disguise their final destination: Syria.

Ivan Angelovski, Lawrence Marzouk BIRN Washington, Belgrade

The defeat of Islamic State in Syria is reliant on a questionable
supply-line, funnelling unprecedented quantities of weapons and
ammunition from Eastern Europe to some 30,000 anti-ISIS rebel
fighters.

Armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades fresh from state-owned
production lines and stockpiles of the Balkans, Central Europe and
increasingly the former Soviet Union, these US-backed troops are
spearheading the battle to reclaim Raqqa, the capital of the so-called
caliphate, and liberate other areas of Syria held by ISIS

Full: 
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/the-pentagon-s-2-2-billion-soviet-arms-pipeline-flooding-syria-09-12-2017

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[Marxism] Syrian Revolution: The Moment of Truth is Approaching!

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[Marxism] Fwd: China’s Persecution of the Uyghur People

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https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/20/chinas-persecution-of-the-uyghur-people/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Much of Third World Quarterly's editorial board resigns, saying that controversial article failed to pass peer review

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Much of the journal’s editorial board resigns, saying that a 
controversial article arguing in favor of colonialism failed to pass 
peer review but was published anyway -- and that the journal’s editor 
then misrepresented the process.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Essay on 'Manhunt: Unabomber'

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Scott McLemee reviews Manhunt: Unabomber, a dramatic miniseries about 
Theodore Kaczynski and his capture by the FBI.


Manhunt: Unabomber, an eight-episode dramatic miniseries on the 
Discovery Channel, wrapped up its final chapter last week. It is now 
available for download and binge-watching, though I’ll advise against 
doing so. With all the talk of how we’re living through a golden age of 
television drama, it’s hard to start watching something potentially 
interesting without bringing a lot of raised expectations to the table 
-- even when it’s a true-crime drama for which almost everyone viewing 
knows how the case will end.


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[Marxism] Fwd: A million tons of feces and an unbearable stench: life near industrial pig farms | US news | The Guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/20/north-carolina-hog-industry-pig-farms
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[Marxism] Fwd: Big Corporations Like Nestle Are Aggressively Making People Even Fatter Across the Globe | Alternet

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http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/fat-political-issue
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[Marxism] Call for Marxist Contributions: Film International

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Call for Marxist Contributions: Film International

Film International is a quarterly print magazine publishing essays, long-form 
reviews, interviews and more regarding all aspects of moving image culture. Our 
regular contributors include both Marxists and non-Marxists, but generally come 
from the broad left. We encourage writing that is accessible for the general 
reader, rather than specifically aimed at specialists. You do not have to be a 
film scholar or indeed an academic at all to contribute.

As editor-in-chief I now wish to strengthen the explicitly Marxist profile of 
the magazine and thought this might be the place to find suitable new 
contributors. Feel free to drop me a line if you are interested or just curious 
to know more.


Daniel Lindvall

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Re: [Marxism] The Trump-Putin coalition for Assad lays waste to Syria: Imperial agreement and carve-up behind the noisy rhetoric

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Chris: "The US kept sanctions on Iran even after the UN lifted its
sanctions. There are exemptions which have allowed some deals.  But
why have sanctions at all if Iran is such a great ally? I think it has
something to do with Iran's support of Hezbollah against Israel."

My argument was not that the US and Iran were "great allies." It was
that they are, *in practice*, in most of the main theatres of conflict
in the Mideast *at present*, allies, in sharp contrast to Trumpist
rhetoric.

The reasons for the long-term war of rhetoric, as well as the mild
sanctions that Chris notes, are, as I said, an interesting topic for
research. I'm more than open to suggestions. I have no hard and fast
opinions.

However, Chris' view, probably a common one, that "it has something to
do with Iran's support of Hezbollah against Israel" only creates more
questions, not answers. That would have been a good answer up till
Hezbollah's liberation of southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation in
2000. Actually, the Iran-Israel "conflict" is, even much more than the
US-Iran one, a blatant war of rhetoric, mediated by geographic
distance which makes it all the more harmless. It is the Arabic
peoples living in between who get slaughtered by Iran and Israel while
they shout at each other. However, due to the lucky coincidence that
southern Lebanon just happened to be heavily populated by Shia, the
Iranian-backed Shia militia Hezbollah took the lead in the national
liberation struggle. This enabled Iran to appear to be "fighting
Zionism", in an actual hot war, when in fact this was an entirely
rational liberation struggle. Hard to imagine how different history
may have been if southern Lebanon were populated by Sunni, and the
Shia were unaffeced up north somewhere.

But once Lebanon was liberated in 2000, Iran and Hezbollah itself were
then a a loss as to how to continue to justify the "resistance"
ideology that had grown as a result, which for one thing facilitated
the mullah regime terrorising its own population via the use of
bullshit. The brief and bloody flare-up between Israel and Hezbollah
in 2006, when Hezbollah kidnapped a few Zionist troops and Israel
destroyed half of Lebanon and killed 1500 Lebanese civilians in
response, perhaps briefly gave the rhetoric a bit more "meat,"
however, and ironically, but even Nasrallah had to admit that the
punishment meted out on Lebanese civilians was not worth his games.

But regardless, since 2006, the Israeli-Lebanese border has been
stone-cold quiet (not sure if it was as quiet as the Syria-Israel
"border" on occupied Golan for 40 years under Assad, but almost as
much). No-one claims Hezbollah did jack "against Israel" over the last
11 years. Instead, since 2011, and especially 2013, Hezbollah has
turned itself into a death squad for Assad engaged in mass murder and
sectarian cleansing of the Syrian Arab population. I'm sure they shout
some "anti-Zionist" slogans while they do this.

So, given that Hezbollah does nothing against Israel, it is unclear
why Iran's support for Hezbollah "against Israel" would be a reason
for any *real*, as opposed to rhetorical, US hostility to Iran -
except in as much as historical grievances die hard and slow, with
wounded pride and credibility and all that at stake. Therefore, the
case is still wide open for me.

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Chris Slee  wrote:
>
> Michael says:
>
> "But more broadly, what is behind the ongoing “war of rhetoric” between
> the US and Iran that has never led to an actual war is a good question
> for research. I suggest Obama understood the real long-term interests
> of US imperialism much better with his policy of engagement of a major
> regional capitalist power, with a large population/market, a
> relatively developed economy, plenty of oil and plenty of potential as
> a regional killer-cop."
>
> But it is not JUST a war of rhetoric.  The US kept sanctions on Iran even 
> after the UN lifted its sanctions.
>
> There are exemptions which have allowed some deals.  But why have sanctions 
> at all if Iran is such a great ally?
>
> I think it has something to do with Iran's support of Hezbollah against 
> Israel.
>
> Chris Slee

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Re: [Marxism] The Trump-Putin coalition for Assad lays waste to Syria: Imperial agreement and carve-up behind the noisy rhetoric

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Michael says:

"But more broadly, what is behind the ongoing “war of rhetoric” between
the US and Iran that has never led to an actual war is a good question
for research. I suggest Obama understood the real long-term interests
of US imperialism much better with his policy of engagement of a major
regional capitalist power, with a large population/market, a
relatively developed economy, plenty of oil and plenty of potential as
a regional killer-cop."

But it is not JUST a war of rhetoric.  The US kept sanctions on Iran even after 
the UN lifted its sanctions.

There are exemptions which have allowed some deals.  But why have sanctions at 
all if Iran is such a great ally?

I think it has something to do with Iran's support of Hezbollah against Israel.

Chris Slee
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