[Marxism] Julian Assange -- the most important journalist of the 21st Century (blog post)

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"Journalism means publishing what someone does not want to be known; 
everything else is advertising. Its function is to bring to light what 
has been hidden, to offer testimony, to offend."


Those words from Argentine journalist Horacio Verbitsky reminds us that 
very little journalism is being done in the world today ...


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http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/03/julian-assange-most-important.html

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Re: [Marxism] Of course they wiretapped Trump & his aides

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This just seems like common sense to me.  This is a deeply paranoid state
which is also extremely labyrinthine.  The movie *Wag the Dog* is as close
as I have scene to a documentary record of the shenanigans that go on.

I cannot really make a judgement from this distance, but I am beginning to
get the feeling that Trump is in trouble.  I wonder how true that will turn
out to be.

comradely

Gary

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>  * Thing one:/Everyone/is being wiretapped by the NSA.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Remembering Che on the 50th anniversary of his assassination | MR Online

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The new MR online keeps chugging along.

https://mronline.org/2017/03/05/remembering-che-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-his-assassination/
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Re: [Marxism] The Glorious English Revolution of 1688

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. . . and the torch was passed across the Atlantic to other English people
who also believed in the peaceful transition of power . . . if only the
native tribes had just obliterated themselves and the Africans had just
learned to apply their own shackles . . . .

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>> Non-violent? What about James II landing in Ireland and defeat in battle?
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Re: [Marxism] The Glorious English Revolution of 1688

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Am 07.03.2017 um 19:03 schrieb from_alamut--- via Marxism:

Non-violent? What about James II landing in Ireland and defeat in battle?
As far as the British ruling class and the image they've always 
projected of "peaceful" "democratic" development is concerned, what 
happened and happens in Ireland is always irrelevant and doesn't count.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Left Forum Conference 2017 "The Resistance" - Call for Panels and Workshops

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Hello Marxism List Serv,

We want to invite your organization to the Left Forum conference 2017.

This year’s Left Forum conference theme is:

The Resistance

This year’s Left Forum takes place from June 2nd to June 4th at John Jay
College for Criminal Justice in New York City.

Please see the long theme statement here
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Submission deadline: April 21st, 2017.

“The Resistance” undoubtedly conveys something that is simultaneously
broad, multi-layered, historically rich, and consistently relevant (now
more than ever). With that, we would like to present several sub-themes for
the entire conference that we hope will guide you in your outstanding
organization work for Left Forum 2017. As panel organizers, you may use
these subtitles to guide your organizing and/or develop a panel track on
the specific struggles you are engaged in.

Later this week, you will receive an email more thoroughly detailing the
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The Resistance: Path to a Radical New World

#LFStrategy: How will we get there?

The Resistance: By Any Means Necessary?

#LFTactics: How will we apply strategy?

The Resistance:
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Class

#LFStruggles: What are we fighting and what are we fighting for?

The Resistance: A Unified Left for Universal Liberation?

#LFSolidarity: How can the Left work better together?

The Resistance: Then. Now. Tomorrow.

#LFUtopia: What will success look like?

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[Marxism] Fwd: Dwight D. Eisenhower - Cross of Iron Speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired 
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not 
fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.


This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat 
of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its 
children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick 
school in more than 30 cities.  It is two electric power plants, each 
serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped 
hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a 
single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a 
single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 
people.



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Re: [Marxism] "blacklisting"

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On 07/03/2017 03:43 μμ, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:

For them, Syria is "complicated," "too difficult to take sides," "unclear,"
etc. etc. etc.

In their eyes, there is no murderous regime, no Russian/Hezbollah
imperialist invasion, no self-organization by the Syrian masses.


As Lukacs once noted:
"For the average man first sees the proletarian revolution when the 
working masses are already fighting on the barricades, and – if he 
happens also to have enjoyed a vulgar-Marxist education – not even then"

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1924/lenin/ch01.htm

Different times, different situations, but striking analogies...

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Re: [Marxism] The Glorious English Revolution of 1688

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Non-violent? What about James II landing in Ireland and defeat in battle?
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Re: [Marxism] The Glorious English Revolution of 1688

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I also enjoyed greatly and would recomment Lucy Worsley's take on the
Glorious Revolution . . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2s6E8GWWKU=51s
Well worth the hour.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Remembering Sandino | Jacobin

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[Marxism] Fwd: Tanna | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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Nominated by Australia for a foreign-language Oscar, the film features 
members of the Yakel tribe on the island of Tanna who live according to 
customs that probably go back 3,300 years when the island chain of 
Vanuatu was settled by distant relatives of the Australian aborigines. 
The Yakel will remind you of the Yanomami, especially with the naked 
tribesmen’s only clothing a “penis shaft”. In a hilarious scene early in 
the film, a young boy is mortified to discover that a girl named Selin 
has run off with his shaft while he was swimming as a prank.


full: https://louisproyect.org/2017/03/07/tanna/
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Re: [Marxism] The Glorious English Revolution of 1688

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Just yesterday I was reading the part in Neil Davidson's new series on
combined and uneven revolution in which he explains how and why the English
did it differently, for which what Dennis just forwarded is useful data.

https://rs21.org.uk/2017/02/03/revolutionary-reflections-uneven-and-combined-development-modernity-modernism-revolution-1-the-classic-forms-of-uneven-and-combined-development/
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[Marxism] The Glorious English Revolution of 1688

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> Trotsky remarked how English liberals and social democrats loved to
> congratulate themselves on their non-violent revolution of 1688,
> conveniently forgetting the role that the English Civil War and execution
> of the King in 1649 played in paving the way.
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[Marxism] women and worker self-management

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Today's Socialist Worker has a fascinating biography of an overlooked
fighter of the Commune, Elisabeth Dmitrieff. It describes her work leading
the Women's Union and the role it played in the newly-self-managed economy.
As with strikes and revolutions in general, the need to provide essentials
grew over into greater and greater worker control.

One interesting aspect of how this played out in the Commune is this demand
from the Women's Union, in a list of demands in pursuit of both gender
equity and securing working class rule:

"--2. A local and international federation of the various trade sections in
order to ease the movement and exchange of goods by centralizing the
interests of the producers."

The word "centralizing" may seem odd in a document from a Commune whose
ideology was as much anarchist as socialist.

But it reminded me of some interesting passages in Sam Dolgoff's book about
how Spanish anarchists built nationwide economic structures.

See
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/sam-dolgoff-editor-the-anarchist-collectives

On Dmitrieff see:

https://socialistworker.org/2017/03/07/she-stood-on-the-barricades
With the growth of today's feminist movement, especially its pro-working
class wing, it's a good time to revisit these precursors (most immediately
for discussion of what the growing move to shut schools tomorrow might mean
for teacher/parent/student control).
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[Marxism] The Louisiana Purchase - not a real estate deal, but 222 land transfers that served as a down payment on a continental empire

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The trouble with the textbook version of the Louisiana Purchase lies with
its easy reduction to a real estate transaction. Europeans had only
colonized a tiny fraction of the territory by 1803. Over those areas where
they had established control, France sold the United States the right to
tax and govern. Over the rest, it sold the right to expand political
authority into Indian country without the interference of other would-be
colonizers (overlapping British and Spanish claims were settled in *1818*
 and *1819*
). In these sections of
the purchase, the U.S. acquired the exclusive right to invade or negotiate
with indigenous inhabitants for control of their land: to take it by force
or buy it by contract.


But the traditional narrative of the purchase glosses over a key fact. What
Thomas Jefferson purchased wasn’t actually a tract of land. It was the
imperial rights to that land, almost all of which was still owned,
occupied, and ruled by Native Americans. The U.S. paid France $15 million
for those rights. It would take more than 150 years and hundreds of
lopsided treaties to extinguish Indian title to the same land.


The interactive below, designed using a geodatabase built for an article in
the March issue of the *Journal of American History* ,
maps the long history of the Louisiana Purchase for the first time. It
tracks 222 Indian cessions within the Louisiana Territory. Made by
treaties, agreements, and statutes between 1804 and 1970, these cessions
covered 576 million acres, ranging from a Quapaw tract the size of North
Carolina sold in 1818 to a parcel smaller than Central Park seized from the
Santee Sioux to build a dam in 1958.


The acquisition of France’s pre-emption rights in 1803 was a down payment
on a continental empire that ran through Indian country. The land came
cheap because of how little the United States paid the people who lived
here long before the French laid claim to Mississippi’s western watershed.


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Re: [Marxism] Of course they wiretapped Trump & his aides

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When has Trump ever cited the evidence for one of his claims?

Wythe


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> > It is also the reason that Trump uses [twitter] obsessively. It allows 
> > him to
> > make these single sentence provocations
> 
> Yes, but that's sort of beside the point. Trump isn't so stupid that he 
> wouldn't cite voluminous evidence to support his assertions if it 
> existed. If he could, he would have GIVEN PROOF that 3 million illegal 
> voters for Clinton tilted the popular vote. He would have supplied 
> evidence that his inauguration turnout was bigger than Obama's. He would 
> have cited statistics showing that  street crime is at at at a high 
> point, and that immigrants from those 6 countries are responsible for 
> "terrorist attacks" in the US. I don't call these "provocations," they 
> are called lies. And so the 140 character limit of twitter HELPS his 
> presentation because if he were able to go on for another 140 characters 
> then he wouldn't have anything new to say. And the part of the 
> population who will believe whatever he claims doesn't want to know 
> anything further, or to even think about examining any evidence.
> 
> So as far as I'm concerned he's also lying when he talks about being 
> wiretapped, even if (as Joaquin believes) it's true. Because he doesn't 
> have any specific evidence for it. Nor do his diehard supporters want 
> any (and after all, this lie is more plausible than many of his other 
> unproved assertions). If he ever gets around to saying something that is 
> true, then you WILL get supporting information, but he gets more 
> political mileage from disseminating alternative facts (= lies).
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[Marxism] Trump and Iran's Revolutionary Guard

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It looks like Trump may have helped launder money in Azerbaijan (through “Trump 
Tower Baku”) that may have had links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal 


Rachel Maddow has also done a segment based on the article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy9Qtf3P6Nw 


Jaw-dropping stuff.
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Re: [Marxism] Of course they wiretapped Trump & his aides

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Of course he's a liar because he has zero proof and got the story from an
implied tabloid story from Breitbart: "sources tell us...". Like "sources
tell us that President George H. Bush eats babies...photos on page 6...".
In other words, it simply does NOT matter if it's true or not...Trump is
knowingly citing a *fictitious* story and is knowingly lying by repeating
it, just like his 'birther' nonsense [ just like everything he says in
order to detract from the Russian story or who knows why.] Otherwise he'd
cite *something*. I wonder now how he will be unseated and...when...now
he's just embarrassing our species

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Re: [Marxism] Of course they wiretapped Trump & his aides

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My first response was much the same as Joaquin's.  Of course His Orangeness
was tapped.  Everybody is.  He was probably tapped by multiple parties,
including business rivals and partners. It's the personalization of
it--that Obama personally did it--that has some people fitting him up for
the tin foil hat.  I'm not sure whether it hurts him generally, though.
While i don't trust in the least the poorly described and dishonestly
reported approval ratings, they don't seem to have fallen very
precipitously.

In a country where a sizeable minority are wearing tin foil hats, the man
wearing one in the White House doesn't seem so crazy.

The problem is that the pundits and the Washington grooming industry is
absolutely dead wrong when they talk of Trump's Twitter habit.

Indeed, it might go sour on him at some point, but his tweets have actually
been working just dandy for him.  Remember what he quipped at one point in
the campaign--that he could go out on the street and shoot someone and it
wouldn't hurt his public image?  That's been repeatedly, if figuratively,
shown to be the case.  Instant 24/7 news coverage which--at it's
essence--is going to be muddled and indecisive rehashing that leaves the
impression that Trump may well once again be the victim.

On one level, this got started in a very serious way with Reagan's people,
who realized that images and impressions conveyed through the media are
more important than what's actually being said.  It's as though Reagan was
a bumbling old movie star shifted around the set by his managers as needs
be, while Trump seems to boil down to nothing other than his image, his
brand.  And he's done an excellent job learning to manage that to his
advantage.

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Re: [Marxism] Of course they wiretapped Trump & his aides

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On 2017-03-07 14:03, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:


It is also the reason that Trump uses [twitter] obsessively. It allows 
him to

make these single sentence provocations


Yes, but that's sort of beside the point. Trump isn't so stupid that he 
wouldn't cite voluminous evidence to support his assertions if it 
existed. If he could, he would have GIVEN PROOF that 3 million illegal 
voters for Clinton tilted the popular vote. He would have supplied 
evidence that his inauguration turnout was bigger than Obama's. He would 
have cited statistics showing that  street crime is at at at a high 
point, and that immigrants from those 6 countries are responsible for 
"terrorist attacks" in the US. I don't call these "provocations," they 
are called lies. And so the 140 character limit of twitter HELPS his 
presentation because if he were able to go on for another 140 characters 
then he wouldn't have anything new to say. And the part of the 
population who will believe whatever he claims doesn't want to know 
anything further, or to even think about examining any evidence.


So as far as I'm concerned he's also lying when he talks about being 
wiretapped, even if (as Joaquin believes) it's true. Because he doesn't 
have any specific evidence for it. Nor do his diehard supporters want 
any (and after all, this lie is more plausible than many of his other 
unproved assertions). If he ever gets around to saying something that is 
true, then you WILL get supporting information, but he gets more 
political mileage from disseminating alternative facts (= lies).


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[Marxism] Sean Stone interviews Rania Khalek: A confederacy of dunces

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SEAN STONE INTERVIEWS RANIA KHALEK: A CONFEDERACY OF ASSADIST DUNCES
http://www.maryscullyreports.com/sean-stone-interviews-rania-khalek-a-confederacy-of-assadist-dunces
MARCH 4, 2017

Rania Khalek is struggling to salvage her career as an “independent” 
journalist after embedding herself with the Syrian army last year & 
traveling to Aleppo with Bartlett & Beeley. That hasn’t hurt their 
careers much but they’re professional propagandists on Assad’s payroll 
while she has no idea what the hell she’s doing.
While on the road back to Damascus accompanied by Syrian soldiers, 
Khalek got sick & wondered aloud on social media if she had been 
poisoned by the Syrian army since they were so controlling. This 
outraged Bartlett & Beeley who roasted her for impugning their beloved 
Syrian army & the Assad regime. A falling out between ardent Assadist 
ideologues & groveling, inept wannabes can get pretty nasty.
RT apparently has not given up on Khalek yet since they often enough 
interview her as an expert on Syrian politics based on her one week 
under close supervision “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium” kind of 
tour. The network seems to be testing her out for a full-time gig. Her 
latest is an interview on RT by Sean Stone, the actor & son of Oliver 
Stone who already has a regular gig on RT. Not unlike his father, Sean 
Stone is a full-blown libertarian conspiracy thinker who navigates 
complex political issues by intuition & paranoia & doesn’t appear to 
have cracked a book since high school. He is just as ignorant as Khalek 
on the issue of Syria & just as ardent a supporter of Assad’s 
dictatorship & Russian military intervention.
Stone, who four years ago was dismissive about terrorism & called the 
so-called war on terror “constant fear mongering & aggression,” 
interviewed Khalek about the White Helmets & was now feeding her lines 
about the Syrian army liberating Syrians from “jihadist terrorists.” 
Neither has the investigative integrity considered de rigueur to an 
honest 7th grader. Watching Stone interview Khalek brings to mind the 
phrase “the worst are full of passionate intensity” from The Second 
Coming by W.B. Yeats because what they lack in understanding, they try 
to make up for with feigned ardor.
Some Assadist media (that not run by Bartlett & Beeley) like Mint Press 
News publish Khalek’s endless laments about the hit her career has taken 
since her ill-fated whirlwind tour of Syria intended to give her 
credentials but which has brought her shame. For Khalek, revolution & 
counter-revolution in Syria is all about her; it’s happening 6,000 miles 
from her wounded ego that no one will publish her articles or pay her 
honoraria to speak. She complains that she’s being silenced & smeared, 
“marginalized & ostracized” by opponents of Assad’s dictatorship when 
actually her career is tanking because no one gives a damn what she has 
to say; she doesn’t know anything. Her recent writings on media coverage 
of Syria & the refugee crisis are an embarrassment of groveling 
apologetics, perhaps hoping Assad will take notice & put her on the 
payroll too.
Alas, poor Rania! Thou hast undone thine own career by thinking you can 
wing it & play lightly with the life & death questions of revolution & 
counter-revolution in Syria. Thou hath wrought this upon thyself & will 
have to live with oblivion which many before you have preferred to 
shame.

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtNL_nYuD3Y
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[Marxism] [UCE] Is Putin Bibi’s new ‘bestie'?

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Is Putin Bibi’s new ‘bestie'?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves March 9 for Moscow, 
where he will have a quick meeting with Russian President Vladimir 
Putin. Netanyahu will depart Israel in the morning and return a few 
hours later, immediately after his talk with Putin. Sources close to 
Netanyahu say that he had asked for the meeting, the fifth between the 
two men in little over a year, to discuss developments in Syria, where 
Moscow's military presence has made the Russian Federation Israel's new 
neighbor.


Military sources keeping tabs on security coordination between the 
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Russia stress that so far, relations can 
be characterized by a level of coordination that appears to be perfect 
...


http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/ru/originals/2017/03/israel-russia-syria-benjamin-netanyahu-vladimir-putin-moscow.html 


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[Marxism] "blacklisting"

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It's in quotes because it's been used by Khalek since way before her UNC
disinvite against ANY criticism of her - or of her colleagues Norton and
Blumenthal, by anyone.

Anyway, it's interesting that the Charles Murray/Middlebury incident comes
at the same time, as there are obviously overlapping issues and tactical
considerations.

But there's one crucial difference:

The pro-Khalek statement, and amplifications of it by her supporters, DENY
THAT SHE'S DONE OR SAID ANYTHING WRONG.

For them, Syria is "complicated," "too difficult to take sides," "unclear,"
etc. etc. etc.

In their eyes, there is no murderous regime, no Russian/Hezbollah
imperialist invasion, no self-organization by the Syrian masses.

But of course one wouldn't want to admit that in polite country, thus the
furious, duplicitous defense of a 3rd-rate blogger and mouthpiece for the
regime.
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Re: [Marxism] Putin’s party signs deal with Italy’s far-right Lega Nord

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Putin’s party signs deal with Italy’s far-right Lega Nord
Move marks latest attempt by Kremlin to develop formal links with 
European populists


by: Max Seddon in Moscow and James Politi in Rome

President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party has signed a co-operation deal 
with Italy’s far-right Lega Nord, deepening Russia’s ties with Europe’s 
populist movements.


The deal marks the Kremlin’s latest attempt to develop formal links with 
populist groups ahead of elections this year in which the right is set 
to make gains.


United Russia, the main pro-Kremlin party, signed a similar agreement 
late last year with the far-right Freedom party of Austria, whose leader 
Heinz-Christian Strache was narrowly defeated in December’s presidential 
election. The leader of Germany’s anti-immigration Alternative for 
Germany (AfD) party, Frauke Petry, also held talks with United Russia’s 
Viacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Duma, the lower house of parliament, 
during a visit to Russia last month.


Moscow officials have hailed the rise of anti-establishment populist 
parties in Europe and Donald Trump’s victory in the US as signs that 
western governments will fail in their attempts to isolate Mr Putin’s 
regime following the 2014 annexation of Crimea.


Common cause in a conservative backlash against liberal values and 
criticism of the EU’s handling of the migrant crisis have allowed Moscow 
to build good relationships with European far-right parties including 
France’s National Front, Hungary’s Jobbik and Italy’s Lega Nord, or 
Northern League.


Many of those parties approved of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and sent 
monitors who praised glaringly flawed elections in both Crimea and 
rebel-held eastern Ukraine.


Although it is unclear what the Lega Nord agreement will entail, Sergei 
Zheleznyak, deputy Duma speaker, touted Russia’s willingness to lead a 
global anti-terror coalition alongside western nations as a priority for 
the Kremlin.


“Russia is [Europe’s] neighbour,” Mr Zheleznyak said in a statement. “So 
it’s particularly strange that Europe isn’t making use of the unique 
experience fighting terrorism that we’ve built up in our country.


Matteo Salvini, Lega Nord chairman, said his anti-immigration and 
anti-euro party would work “so that Italy has real parliamentary 
elections, just as open as in your country [Russia]”.


The two parties will also develop ties in the Council of Europe, the 
Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe, and promote 
business links.


Members of Lega Nord made up the bulk of an Italian delegation that 
visited Crimea in October, prompting protests from Ukraine. Claudio 
D’Amico, a senior Lega Nord member, was one of several European 
far-right politicians who monitored the rubber-stamp referendum that 
followed Russia’s annexation of the peninsula.


The Netherlands, France and Germany will all hold general elections this 
year, with far-right parties expected to perform strongly.



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[Marxism] Fwd: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Charles Murray?

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Murray should be allowed to speak, of course, but it is entirely 
inappropriate, in my opinion, for him to be an invited speaker on a 
college campus. It is no more appropriate for Murray to speak on a 
college campus than it would be for the host of the Arts and 
Entertainment series “Ancient Aliens” to do so. Murray’s views are the 
sociological equivalent of Holocaust denial in their departure from 
accepted standards of science and scholarship. He should not be speaking 
at an institution of higher education. Middlebury’s student protestors 
were right about that.


So what do you do with a problem like Charles Murray coming and speaking 
on your campus? ––You don’t go. And what do we, as a culture do about 
that problem? We labor mightily to improve the general quality of 
education in our nation so that Murray’s theories will be conspicuous as 
the clap-trap they are. Then, maybe, he would no longer receive 
invitations to speak on college campuses. THAT would be heartwarming!



full: 
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Re: [Marxism] Of course they wiretapped Trump & his aides

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On 3/6/17 10:32 PM, Joaquin Bustelo via Marxism wrote:

Two things tell us that Trump's people were wiretapped.

 * Thing one:/Everyone/is being wiretapped by the NSA.
 * Thing two: There was an FBI investigation of Trump and his aides.

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What doesn't make sense is the President of the USA tweeting at 6:30 am 
in the morning in his characteristically unhinged manner without doing 
what you'd expect the most powerful head of state in the world to do: 
order the assumed perpetrators to come to the oval office and give a 
full accounting of the snooping.


That, of course, is the problem with Twitter. It is a medium that defies 
lucid exchanges of ideas or analysis. It is the reason I only use it as 
an automatic crossposting of my blog articles. It is also the reason 
that Steven Salaita and George Ciccariello-Maher got into trouble.


It is also the reason that Trump uses it obsessively. It allows him to 
make these single sentence provocations that are the equivalent of a 
spitball. That's American capitalism in its senescence for you.

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