Re: [Marxism] New Zealand: Left must be part of internet freedom fight
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Well yeah Joe can be excitable. I just puyblished interview with John Minto, who strikes me as pretty grounded.It should be read in conjunction with the rest of coverage. (But it still has Joe in the photo, because he is too excitable to stay out of photos) https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57378 On 19 September 2014 13:21, Philip Ferguson via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From Stuart Monckton: On the impact of the meeting, Carolan said: ?There is huge energy in this hall. I think people are moving from here to really participate to fight to defend democracy and civil rights. I think it has vindicated those of us in the MANA Movement who have teamed up with this generation of internet freedom fighters. Joe has always been quite excitable. If there are 20 people on a picket, Joe will suggest there were 50 and it's a sing of a massive upsurge in the class struggle. Mana has hooked up with multi-millionaire pirate capitalist Kim Dotcom. He has now largely funded their electoral campaign which is an alliance between Dotcom's Internet Party and Mana. Dotcom hired Laila Harre to lead his vanity project. Laila is a longtime social-democrat, her last job but one, for which she was paid a very substantial salary, was as one of the management team overseeing the laying off of hundreds of council workers in Auckland. That looked good on her CV for her last job, working for the ILO, as it showed she can see things from both workers' and bosses' viewpoints. More recently, Dotcom's own record as an employer has been cast in rather questionable light. Moreover, as a leading NZ left-wing playwright and screen writer, Dean Parker noted recently on Redline, unions had negotiated with big studios for percentage shares of film earnings to go to union members who worked on set. Dotcom's Megaupload site paid no such royalities. The InternetMana lash-up is a product of the almost non-existent nature of the class struggle here right now, and its reflection in a lack of independent working class politics of any sort. That can't be wished away by fanciful tales of what InternetMana are about or what the Auckland town hall meeting represented. For something billed the 'Moment of Truth' it never managed to score a direct hit on John Key. In fact, it has somewhat backfired on Kim Dotcom. This may not be the reality that some on the left here wish to hear, or recognise, but it is still the reality. I hope Hone (Harawira, leader of Mana) gets back in, but I have no time for these kinds of cross-class electoral lash-ups by which sections of the left indicate they can be just as 'cute' in rorting the electoral system as the right. Phil Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/stuartmunckton%40gmail.com -- “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
[Marxism] New Zealand: 'We campaign hard' for working people, says Mana candidate John Minto
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57378 *John Minto* is a veteran New Zealand activist who became known as a leader of a powerful anti-apartheid campaign in the 1970s. More recently, he was part of organising some of the largest pro-Palestine demonstrations ever in New Zealand. A member of the Mana Movement, headed by militant Maori MP Hone Harawira, Minto is a candidate for the Internet Mana alliance for the September 20 polls. The alliance was formed between Mana, with a strong base in the Maori working class, and the newly formed Internet Party founded by millionaire businessperson Kim Dotcom, wanted by US authorities over alleged copyright violations. Fourth on the list, Minto would likely enter parliament if Internet Mana polled about 3%, along with Harawira, Internet Party. This is a real possibility, although the most recent polls put Mana closer to 2%. He spoke to *Green Left Weekly* about Mana and campaigning to transform New Zealand. -- “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
[Marxism] Fwd: My decision to vote against arming and training Syrian rebels
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == a u.s. senator's view. - Original Message - From: Chris Murphy ch...@chrismurphy.com To: Faulkner, Charles lacena...@comcast.net Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 3:39:15 PM Subject: My decision to vote against arming and training Syrian rebels Charles - Moments ago, I cast my vote in the Senate against arming and training the Syrian rebels. I continue to believe that President Obama has laid out a strong case for taking the fight to ISIL. I agree with his decision to launch airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq, to compel new leadership in Iraq to achieve political reconciliation with moderate Sunnis, and to put together a broad, international military coalition. The president has shown true, decisive leadership in the fight against ISIL and I applaud him for his strength and resolve. I simply don't believe an effective strategy to combat ISIL requires America to get more deeply involved in the Syrian civil war. First, the moderate Syrian rebels have shown a disturbing willingness to join forces with Islamic extremists like the Al Nusra Front, a wing of Al Qaeda, and it will be nearly impossible to stop the rebels we train from joining forces with groups that pose a real threat to the United States. Second, it will be hard to thread the needle of supporting a majority Shiite regime against Sunni extremists in Iraq while, at the same time, supporting a largely Sunni insurgency against a Shiite leader in Syria. Third, I believe we are too optimistic that the American trained rebels will target ISIL when their true enemy inside Syria is Bashar al-Assad. Asking a minimally trained army to take on two barbaric foes at once seems unrealistic. I hope you'll be in touch with any thoughts, questions, or concerns you may have on Facebook or Twitter . I want to close by reiterating that I still firmly maintain Congress needs to authorize this new war against ISIL. This issue remains too important to not have all voices at the table before moving forward. All the best, Chris Murphy U.S. Senator, Connecticut Paid for and Authorized by Friends of Chris Murphy This email was sent to lacena...@comcast.net. If that is not your preferred email address, click here . Click here if you'd like to unsubscribe. We try to send only the most important information and opportunities to participate via email. To support Chris with a contribution, click here . 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] Rejecting the Army of One
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Tragedy of Being Michael Brown | New Politics
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Tragedy of Being Michael Brown Did Brown have to be a college-bound angel to have his death matter? by Mina Khanlarzadeh September 18, 2014 ImageMichael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot dead by police in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9. Two of the more problematic reactions to the tragedy of Michael Brown’s death rest upon a shared association between the value of the “raced” victim’s life, or lack thereof, and his supposed “success” or “failure.” These reactions, which I call the “no-angel” and the “degree” approaches, although different, both stem from the dominant worldview of today’s capitalist societies which judge people’s life worth on the basis of their success or failure, of being good or bad people. full: http://newpol.org/content/tragedy-being-michael-brown 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 Middle East Gallery of Revolt
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == New Post: A Middle East Gallery of Revolt http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/me-gallery/ Mark Twain wrote that Americans go to war to learn geography. But that can’t be right; we’ve had enough wars in enough places that Americans ought to know the capital city of even the smallest province of Nicaragua by now, and yet most Americans couldn’t tell you on which border Mexico or Canada reside – and we’ve been to war with both of them. 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: Why Ukraine's plight has yet to set off alarms at the White House (+video) - CSMonitor.com
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[Marxism] Feedback on Stieg Larsson article
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Hi Louis, Good article about Stieg Larsson. Not surprising that the New York Times uses the same propaganda that the fascists also use. Most of the people confronted by Expressen were people that claimed to not be racists but that had written deeply racist and threatening comments. Many were members of Sverigedemokraterna (SD). SD adopted a strange policy for a racist party; any member that used racial slurs would be kicked out of the party. Leading up to the election SD had to kick out a lot of its members due to the hacking ability of Researchgruppen (RG). RG also received a Guldspade (Golden spade) for their investigative journalism. Stig Larsson would have loved RG even though it's more of an anarchist than trotskyan group. http://research.nu/researchgruppen-belonades-med-guldspade/ Regards, Johan 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] Fascinating Mike Davis interview
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[Marxism] Fwd: Ukraine’s breakaway region is becoming a de facto country - The Washington Post
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Regardless of the balance of bad behavior in the Ukrainian conflict, the central government has committed a singular act: It is the only party to the conflict that can be said to have used heavy weaponry against its own citizens. That fact will now be repeated in the emerging narrative of Novorossiya’s struggle for survival — just as it has been for the better part of a generation in Transnistria, Abkhazia, and elsewhere. Fourth, no external power besides Russia has an incentive for deep involvement beyond helping to stop the fighting. Ukraine has actually fallen into precisely the trap that Moldova, Georgia, and Azerbaijan stumbled into in the early 1990s. The Kiev government chose to use force against a secessionist threat, but it had neither the resolve nor the capacity to overcome it on the battlefield. The result has been increasing pressure from the international community to agree to a cease-fire, which has now held (with serious violations) for more than a week. full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/09/16/ukraines-breakaway-region-is-becoming-a-de-facto-country/ 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: Don’t Back Down | Jacobin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (As if she or Bernie Sanders ever had any intentions of breaking with the Democratic Party.) Don’t Back Down by Lee Sustar Brian Bean If Karen Lewis runs for Chicago mayor, she should do so as an unapologetic progressive. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/dont-back-down/ 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: A Gift to Birobidzhan | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == For people who have been following the Unrepentant Marxist for the past few years, you are probably aware that I am a big fan of Yevgeniy Fiks, a post-Soviet Conceptual Artist I interviewed in 2012 and whose last show on the USSR’s mixed encounter on Black people I wrote about earlier this year. Although Fiks is decidedly left-of-center, his art is not in the socialist realist tradition to say the least. His strategy is much more subversive. By “flanking” his subject, he defies pat interpretations of sexuality, race, imperialism, the former Soviet Union, and other topics that could inspire boring and didactic treatments. full: http://louisproyect.org/2014/09/19/a-gift-to-birobidzhan/ 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] The latest lunacy from Roger Annis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More importantly, notice the new category he introduces at the beginning and the end, i.e. his claim that Russia is not an imperialist country, but rather a second rank capitalist one whose rulers are willing to stand up to imperialists -- and therefore deserving of our support! The method -- formal, undialectical ranking -- is familiar, the particular result may be new. New? Rather a kind of plagiarism! Isn't it the same old famous japanese (Takahashi Kamekichi) theory of petty-imperialism ? 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] Fwd: Don’t Back Down | Jacobin
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Certainly, between the two of them, the smart money woldn't be on Sanders. ML 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] CIA halts all European Spying Operations after NSA leaks
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://rt.com/usa/189156-cia-hold-spying-operations-europe/ - Amith 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: What Is India? | The Nation
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == But why did India, a success story not so long ago, need to be Modi-fied at all? Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, sliced open by neoliberal knives into a realm of information technology, real estate and conspicuous consumption, the country was widely celebrated, both by its own elites and its Western boosters, as having entered the realm of true democracy. The four previous decades of postcolonial India were consigned to a conceptual darkness that was sometimes called “socialism” and sometimes, in a slightly more accurate reference to the heavy bureaucratic role of the centralized state, the “license-permit Raj.” In contrast to this was the celebration of the present: the new, market-friendly nation, tiger rising and “India Shining” (the latter a slogan coined by the BJP in its failed re-election bid in 2004), and particularly its growth as measured by GDP, averaging 8 to 9 percent throughout the first decade of the new millennium and peaking at 10.3 percent in 2010. Fed largely by flows of foreign capital and inherently weak, the tiger has since shrunk to the size of a goat, with growth having fallen to 4.7 percent in 2014—which goes some way toward explaining why both the Indian oligarchs and sections of the population turned against the Congress Party toward the end of its ten-year rule and began to clamor for Modi to take over. full: http://www.thenation.com/article/181643/what-india 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] Dialectics and praxis
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Pt 5 of Steve Masterson's series on dialectics: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/dialectics-pt-5-dialectics-and-praxis/ Phil 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] A look at the tangled political history of modern Gaza
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This thread is a few days old, but if you'll indulge me, I feel compelled to make a few quick comments. You can criticize the conciliatory, faint-hearted pragmatism of Ibish's political advocacy with all the polemical zeal you like--plenty of reasonable ground to stand on there, wouldn't bother me. But this: *Anyway, comrades should know, in case you share the review elsewhere, that the reviewer is a dangerous guy* is almost too comical to be invidious. And while to cast a pall of mistrust over his scholarly analysis on account of his positions on BDS, the one-state/two-state debate, etc. would be specious under any circumstances, it becomes totally devoid of credibility when the suggested alternative is Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein is indeed one of the finest scholars of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but comrades, *Ibish and Finkelstein hold nearly identical positions on BDS and the one-state solution*. Pragmatic support for a two-state solution and constructive criticism of BDS is not crypto-Zionism http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/11/still-not-a-zionist.html. It strikes me as ridiculous that Ibish, along with Finkelstein, Chomsky, and Walid Kahlidi https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/walid-khalidi/one-century-after-world-war-i-and-balfour-declaration-palestine-and-pal (!!!) are not infrequently be labeled Zionists for their views on these matters. I recommend checking out this debate http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/rizkhan/2010/10/2010101271912229716.html between Ibish and pro-BDS scholar (and former prof. of mine) Leila Farsakh. Would that all such debates were so respectful and serious. 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] Hayek and Trotsky
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below is a selection of comments that wee posted to my Facebook wall on Hayek and Trotsky Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math - Wojtek Sokolowski: I am pretty much with Lange on this. As far as business decision making is concerned, it can be done based on prices in both capitalist and socialist societies, because it is the same kind of people - business managers - who make those decisions in each system. The main difference between socialism and 'capitalism is the accumulation of surplus. In socialism it is broadly distributed, in capitalism it is concentrated in a few hands. According to Lange, the latter is less efficient in achieving optimum distribution - the main purported goal of the market system - because it prioritizes the preferences of a few wealthy individuals over those of many less wealthy consumers. Lange was pretty much opposed to command economy as were most EEuropean economists. AFAIK, command economy never existed - it was invented by Western propagandists to discredit socialism. What did exist was policies of import substitution and prioritizing investments over consumption (aka austerity measures) to accelerate industrial development combined with price controls to avoid negative impact of industrialization on the prices of food (i.e. an anti-poverty measure). This brings me to the main point that socialism was far more successful economically than capitalism, because it managed to achieve two contradicting economic objectives at the same time: (i) rapid economic development and industrialization and (ii) prevent pauperization of large segments of society that such development brings (at least initially). Capitalism could only achieve the first objective, but miserably fails on the second. Néstor Gorojovsky: You should have added Lenin, and so should have done Hayek. Jim Farmelant: I agree with all that Wotjek. The question in my mind is that Trotsky in his 1932 article. The Soviet Economy in Danger presented an argument that was strikingly similar to Hayek's ideas concerning economic calculation under socialism. Was Trotsky familiar with Hayek in 1932? Possibly, although I kind of think that Hayek was probably too obscure a figure back then. Trotsky might have known about Ludwig von Mises, since Bukharin had cited him in articles that he wrote in the 1920s in defense of the NEP. I'm wondering if the direction of causality might have been in the opposite direction. That is Hayek might have been influenced here by Trotsky. Stranger things have been known to happen Wojtek Sokolowski: Jim Farmelant Possible, but really a non-issue for me. I do not believe in ownership of ideas. ideas circulate in society in response to events and historical developments, and many people entertain and embellish them. Attributing them to one person makes no sense at all. It is an ideological statement of the primacy of private property over socialized property. It is my understanding that there was a lot of cross-border influencing going during industrialization - Gerschenkron has a nice piece on that titled economic backwardness in a historical perspective.' There is also more recent research on organizational isomorphism showing high levels of mimicry in organizational behavior. It thus does not surprise me that many people could arrive at similar conclusions or solutions of emerging problems - but only few managed to patent their ownership of these conclusions or solutions. Creativity is grossly overrated because it legitimates private property relations. As Corey Robin recently argued, the purported scarcity of creativity and innovation is the basis of the defenses of the capitalist social order by hayek Co. In reality, creativity is far more common than Mr. Hayek Co I would say 3 in every five people are innovative and creative as opposed to 1 in a 100 as the neoliberal gang wants us to believe. What makes difference is official recognition of that creativity in the forms of patents and other types of intellectual property rights - only a few get that recognition, which creates an illusion that it is rare. In fact it as common as water - it is much harder to find people who are NOT innovative and creative in one way or another than those who are. Marv Gandall: Jim quoted Trotsky: If a universal mind existed, of the kind that projected itself into the scientific fancy of Laplace a mind that could register simultaneously all the processes of nature and society, that could measure the dynamics of their motion, that could forecast the results of their inter-reactions
[Marxism] UPDATED: How a 24hr truce to pick up bodies became a non-aggression pact between ISIS Syrian rebels
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == After I got off work @ rackspace this evening, I updated How a 24hr truce to pick up bodies became a non-aggression pact between ISIS Syrian rebels http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-24hr-truce-to-pick-up-bodies-became.html with the following: *UPDATE 19 September 2014:* When Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the Senate on Wednesday he added a new dimension to this particular controversy because he made the claim http://www.c-span.org/video/?321504-1/hearing-us-strategy-isis that it was a propaganda ploy of the Islamic State. He said this about the story of a non-aggression pact between ISIS (or ISIL as he calls it) and the Free Syrian Army: /Let me say to you, that's---disinformation fundamentally put out by ISIL./ Not reading Arabic I have seen this disinformation spread most widely by whose in the /anti-imperialist/ Left. I don't know the basis of Kerry's statement and have to say I don't have much faith in his intelligence no matter how you mean it, but upon reflection, I have to agree with him. Here is my reasoning: Its not hard to understand why a section of the FSA would agree to a 24hr truce to remove the dead from the battlefield. Such breaks in the fighting to evacuate the dead and wounded are quite common in the annals of warfare, even between the most bitter of opponents, if only in the name of simple decency. They happened in the American Civil War and after the truce the two sides returned to killing each other. But ISIS is not known for its decency. If this is indeed the first such truce that they have agreed to, which is what most of these /anti-imperialist/ reports claim, then the real question it why did ISIS agree to it at this juncture? The logical answer is that they agreed to it precisely so that their propaganda allies could use it as the grain-of-truth in a dis-information campaign that claimed, as the women in the pink blouse did on CNN this morning, that /hundreds of FSA units have entered into a non-aggression pact with ISIS/ at the very moment when the United States is considering whether to support the FSA with training and arms in a serious way for the first time. So I think Kerry has a point. ISIS is very sophisticated in it propaganda, as is the Assad Regime. The highlight of the ISIS video released today is a North American sounding jihadist executing members of Assad's army. Now that they have gotten the attention of the American people, they are making a great show of opposing Assad, just as Assad appears, for the first time, to be opposing ISIS. Of course, in the past, Assad has been much quicker https://www.facebook.com/Sham.Althawrah/posts/160075994091488 to shoot his own soldiers http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/03/world/meast/syria-unrest/, as punishment for attempting to defect http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/09/syrian-soldiers-executed-damascus-barracks, than he has to bomb ISIS headquarters in Ragga or ISIS camps anywhere. Had he done so, they never could have had the safehaven that has allowed them to conquer so much territory in Syria and Iraq, just as ISIS has waged war against the FSA and not Assad, who purchases their oil http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/01/bashar-al-jihad-how-assad-finances.html. As I have reported earlier http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/02/man-behind-curtain-for-al-qaeda-in.html, ISIS prisons have been found http://www.petercliffordonline.com/syria-news-3 to be filled with FSA soldiers while defecting Syrian soldiers so foolish as to flee to ISIS have been turned over http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/01/21/Al-Qaeda-detainees-reveal-ties-with-Assad.html to Assad, most likely to be shot. Now it is convenient to boaster claims that ISIS is the main force fighting Assad and visa versa with these displays. Those who have been following this conflict for the past three and a half years are not fooled but those that have just waken up to it may be. So ISIS allowed a truce in one area, near Damascus, with one FSA unit, and with the help of its friend and allies, have scored another propaganda victory. These /anti-imperialists/ only oppose western imperialism and follow the logic of /the enemy of my enemy is my friend./ This has long made them supporters of Putin and Assad. Now they seem quite willing to add ISIS to that club and spread ISIS misinformation for the purpose of discrediting the forces that have remained in the struggle, in spite of three and a half years of pounding by Assad and over a year of fighting ISIS, as either non-existent or having concluded a /non-aggression pact/ with ISIS. I regret to inform you that to his roll call of dishonour we can also add Syrian Arab Republic
[Marxism] WikiLeaks cables show how US lost Ecuador -- pt 5
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Cables sent from the US Embassy in Quito during Rafael Correa’s first three years as president document rising tensions between Ecuador and the US. Correa’s government, first elected in 2006, increasingly rejected US hegemony and asserted control over Ecuador’s economic and political development. The cables highlight the embassy’s preoccupation with Ecuador’s “difficult investment climate”, with many reports attempting to assess and predict Correa’s economic policies. [Part five of a seven-part series https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/5517 investigating about 1000 cables leaked by the US Embassy in Quito and published by WikiLeaks.] https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57397 -- “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
