Re: [Marxism] Fwd: U.S. Arms Kurds Who Are ISIS Enemies, Turkey Enemies, Assad Friends

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This is disturbing, if much of it is true - and the author's interpretation
of particular incidents and processes if they are happening are true. But
we don't know who this guy is, and to what extent his report is coloured by
political/sect affiliation or disgruntlement at probable loss of male and
Arab and sect privilege. One thing I'm particularly sceptical about is the
claim that religious-based dress is banned: I'm seen a number of reports
including recent Facebook posts from Kobane-based Hawzhin Azeez that
indicate a range of such dress being unremarkable throughout  liberated
Rojava. Azeez also related a recent trip to Manbiq where she met young
women who were very happy to dress *freely* and work for the first time.

Generally, There's plenty of reports very contradictory yo this one, and
lack of context to some things that might be true in this report. In my
article 'Fake news about the Rojava revolution'
http://links.org.au/fake-news-rojava-revolution various sources who can't
remotely be dismissed as apologists, like HRW, SOHR and an SNC-appointed
investigation team, who I cited regarding the "ethnic cleansing"
slander, didn't
mention anything like systematic ethnic or religious discrimination in
Rojava. None of the 150 people interviewed for the book Revolution in
Rojava
https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Rojava-Democratic-Liberation-Kurdistan/dp/0745336590
mentioned anything but tolerance and cultural freedom for Arabs, Armenians
and Syriacs, and all brands of Christians and Muslims in Rojava.

Regarding the "friendliness" to Assad and the regime moving in etc.: it's
no secret there was a post-uprising agreement for the regime to continue to
pay teachers and some public servants salaries. But as I've argued here
before, in a fractured failed state it's not surprising for all sorts of
pragmatic and ad hoc agreements between factions not exactly in harmony to
continue or be set up. I've cited the observation in Jonathan Littell's
Syrian Notebooks that a pharmacy in the heart of FSA-held Homs in 2012
still received its regular deliveries from the Ministry of Health.

And the whole thing is quite a bit at odds with this recent report — by
someone we can identify — from the outskirts of Raqqa about the reception
Arabs are giving to SDF advances and the commune-democratisation of
liberated areas (maybe the view of women are to some extent different):

'Compounding the shock of their flight from Raqqa and sudden freedom, many
women said the first fighters they had seen across no man’s land had been
Kurdish women from the YPJ, the all-female units fighting as part of the
SDF.

'“One minute I lived in Raqqa, a city ruled by men,” said Um Lamis, “where
women had not even the power to show our faces. The next I am greeted by
armed Kurdish women, faces bare and their hair uncovered, guns in hands,
fighting the Daesh.

'“They welcomed me as a sister! I bow to their courage!”

'Contact with the YPJ cadres, each versed in the rights of women as a
central part of their own ideology, has left an indelible ­impression on
many Raqqa women.

'The emerging system of local governance is remarkable for its difference,
too. Typically, the Rojava territory is governed by local assemblies and
communes, all chaired by women.

'“At first some of the men in my village had a problem when I was elected
co-chairwoman to my local assembly,” said Amina al-Hassan, 30, a Sunni Arab
woman, who had lived for three years under Islamic State rule until her
village was liberated by the SDF.

“'They said it wasn’t my place as a woman,” she said. “So I said to them,
to their faces: ‘You didn’t dare say a word when the Daesh were in charge.
Now they have gone you want to deprive women again of their rights?’ The
men hung their heads.”

'Whatever the future of Raqqa’s women, and however male-dominated the
society to which they return after the defeat of Islamic State in Raqqa,
each woman I spoke to from the city said the ­experience of life there, and
their escape into a more egalitarian society, had irreversibly altered
their perceptions.'

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/niqabs-thrown-down-in-the-sand-as-women-flee-raqqa/news-story/04173c9a8acc056b27d02daf90e369bd


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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Well,  US megacorps have never been some sort of monolith, but rather 
have been segmented according to their various, competing, far-flung 
interests. And one of the mitigating factors for labor has been 
capital's centrifugal tendencies. If only we understood how to exploit 
that fact in an organized manner.


US corporations doing business with Germany when the US entered the war 
in 1941 (and this article doesn't mention the privileged, complex 
entanglements of finance capital):


"The year following the end of World War II, GE stood accused of 
criminal conspiracy with Krupp, a major German munitions firm. Their 
partnership artificially raised the cost of U.S. defense preparations 
while helping to subsidize Hitler’s rearmament of Germany. The 
arrangement continued even after Nazi tanks smashed into Poland. GE was 
not alone among U.S. big business in having cordial, profitable 
arrangements with the corporations of Nazi Germany. Kodak, DuPont and 
Shell Oil are also known to have had business dealing with Germany. Due 
to a recent reparations case, the activities of General Motors and 
Ford..." http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/uen_nastybiz.html



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Friction with Russia only sharpened after Ukraine and Syria erupted. 
Despite Roger Annis, Stephen F. Cohen, Mike Whitney, David Duke, Michel 
Chossudovsky, Robert Parry, Noam Chomsky, Diana Johnstone and Marine Le 
Pen, the American ruling class did not view Putin in the same way it 
viewed Brezhnev. Remember that George W. Bush referred to Putin as 
Pooty-Poot and that Hillary Clinton called Assad a reformer. Plus, Exxon 
was partners with Russian energy companies in massive exploration 
projects. Not to speak of these bastions of American capitalism doing 
business in Russia:


https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2016/08/03/headline-halah-t/

Here's who's doing business with the bad guys.

On July 13, Pfizer closed a joint venture agreement with Russian 
pharmaceutical company NovaMedica.


Boeing has been in Russia for decades. About five years ago, it 
announced plans to invest $27 billion over the next 30 years. In July 
2015, an agreement was signed between Russian titanium manufacturer 
VSMPO-Avisma Corporation, Boeing and the Ural Federal University for 
joint research and development projects.


Ford has been in Russia for 13 years. In April 2015, the joint 
Russian-American venture Ford Sollers launched the production of the 
Ford Transit. The American brand launched four new vehicles in Russia 
last year, including the Focus and Fiesta models sold here.


U.S. companies with an existing presence in Russia include, PepsiCo PEP 
-0.12%, Procter, McDonald's, Mondelez International, General 
Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Cargill, Alcoa, and General Electric. GE 
recently signed a joint venture with oil firm Rosneft in expectation 
that Washington will actually one day lift sanctions on oil firms.



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[Marxism] The people of Shehba [northern Syria] angry at the Turkish state

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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On 5/12/17 9:14 PM, Joaquin Bustelo via Marxism wrote:


Behind the Russia hysteria: a major dispute over foreign policy
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/03/behind-russia-hysteria-major-dispute.html



And Russia is the key to the policy change. For several years now, a 
faction of war mongers in our political class (Hillary Clinton prominent 
among them) has been pushing for a policy of increasing provocations and 
confrontation with Russia since "terrorism" was getting worn-out as the 
justification for wars abroad and the creeping police state at home. If 
Russia gets cast in the role of the heavy again, it would be hard to 
sell pulling away from Europe.


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I don't buy this.

Friction with Russia only sharpened after Ukraine and Syria erupted. 
Despite Roger Annis, Stephen F. Cohen, Mike Whitney, David Duke, Michel 
Chossudovsky, Robert Parry, Noam Chomsky, Diana Johnstone and Marine Le 
Pen, the American ruling class did not view Putin in the same way it 
viewed Brezhnev. Remember that George W. Bush referred to Putin as 
Pooty-Poot and that Hillary Clinton called Assad a reformer. Plus, Exxon 
was partners with Russian energy companies in massive exploration 
projects. Not to speak of these bastions of American capitalism doing 
business in Russia:


https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2016/08/03/headline-halah-t/

Here's who's doing business with the bad guys.

On July 13, Pfizer closed a joint venture agreement with Russian 
pharmaceutical company NovaMedica.


Boeing has been in Russia for decades. About five years ago, it 
announced plans to invest $27 billion over the next 30 years. In July 
2015, an agreement was signed between Russian titanium manufacturer 
VSMPO-Avisma Corporation, Boeing and the Ural Federal University for 
joint research and development projects.


Ford has been in Russia for 13 years. In April 2015, the joint 
Russian-American venture Ford Sollers launched the production of the 
Ford Transit. The American brand launched four new vehicles in Russia 
last year, including the Focus and Fiesta models sold here.


U.S. companies with an existing presence in Russia include, PepsiCo PEP 
-0.12%, Procter, McDonald's, Mondelez International, General 
Motors, Johnson & Johnson, Cargill, Alcoa, and General Electric. GE 
recently signed a joint venture with oil firm Rosneft  in expectation 
that Washington will actually one day lift sanctions on oil firms.

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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I don't know that Comey was quite as important a figure in the 
resistance to Trump's changes to U.S. policy as Carl describes ... I 
tend to think not. But that was a part of it.


But mainly Trump fired him, I think, for exactly the reasons Trump said, 
showboating, grandstanding, and for being a loose cannon.


Of course those things precisely made Comey useful to opponents of 
Trump's policies, but this firing wasn't driven by some desperate need 
to thwart the investigation or the political opposition. On the 
investigation, I don't believe there was anything concrete to be 
thwarted, nothing to be covered up in relation to the elections.


That's different from Nixon. Behind the Saturday night massacre there 
were very specific, concrete things he was trying to hide.


No one has yet to articulate just *what*  is being investigated. 
Collusion between team Trump and team Putin. But collusion to do what? 
Stuff ballot boxes? Rig voting machines? Use RT's massive influence over 
Americans to get them to vote for Trump?


I don't think this is about a cover-up. Instead, and above all, Trump 
wants people in top government positions loyal to him, investigation or 
no investigation, it doesn't matter.  He is clearly a bonapartist 
figure, and he simply has to have it.


He made it explicit as hell in his "fuck you" letter to Comey. He said, 
I know you promised not to cross me by repeatedly saying I wasn't under 
investigation [basically, telling Comey that he, Trump, understood that 
thereby Comey had compromised himself and made himself vulnerable to 
Trump], but that's not good enough. Today Trump tripled underlined the 
message with his tweet about tapes.


The *WAY* Comey was fired was a very important part of the message. It 
was vindictive and as humiliating as could be to Comey. I joked on the 
radio show I do (www.radioinformacion.org) that Comey got to find out 
via CNN while giving a talk to FBI agents because Francis Ford Coppola 
wasn't available to direct the putting of the head of a decapitated 
horse in Comey's bed. And he got really lucky that they didn't have a 
fish handy to wrap in a bullet-proof vest.


That said, I think Mark is way off. On the overall political framework 
Carl is right, I believe. Trump came in projecting a significant shift 
in U.S. foreign policy. Whether the until-now dominant wing of the 
"national security state" or "political class" or "military industrial 
complex" or however you want to conceive of it has completely derailed 
or even convinced Trump to reverse course is another matter.


An additional factor in it all is that the Democrat nomenklatura needs 
the Russian plot and Comey sabotage to explain away Clinton's loss to Trump.


And --this is important-- she did lose. Factoring out California, 
Clinton lost in the rest of the country by a million votes. Take out New 
York also and her 48-state deficit was three million votes. Sure, if 
Comey hadn't back-stabbed her she would have squeaked through. But she 
should have won by a landslide.


But that aside, it has been obvious to me from the outset that 
Russiagate is largely a dispute about the direction of U.S. foreign 
policy. Trump came in wanting a sharper, more demanding stance towards 
"our" traditional allies because they are in fact "our" main 
competitors. And all the stuff a bout collusion and so on is just total 
bullshit. I've written a series of blog posts going over this so I won't 
repeat all the arguments here:


The Russian White House Coup ... and what Karl Marx has to do with it
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-russian-white-house-coup-and-what.html

The Russian election hack: bullshit
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-russian-election-hack-bullshit.html

Behind the Russia hysteria: a major dispute over foreign policy
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/03/behind-russia-hysteria-major-dispute.html

'No evidence' means that we didn't mean to wiretap Trump's people ...
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/03/no-evidence-means-that-we-didnt-mean-to.html

The NY Times channels Joe McCarthy
http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-ny-times-channels-joe-mccarthy.html

Joaquín

On 5/12/2017 10:33 AM, Mark Lause via Marxism wrote:


There's absolutely no evidence for this . . . no more than for the idea
that it's all about who gets to control the captured UFOs . . . .

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Carl G. Estabrook via Marxism <
marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote:



The White House fired Comey because he was the point-man in the campaign
of the US political establishment (Democrats-neocons-spooks etc.) to
prevent Trump from carrying out his 

[Marxism] Fwd: Linux Beach: Dr. Ted Postol misreads the HRW Report on Khan Sheikhoun

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[Marxism] In most universities, this would be considered self-plagiarism

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[Marxism] Nicholas Sand, Chemist Who Sought to Bring LSD to the World, Dies at 75

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(I reviewed a documentary about Nick Sand but it did not mention that 
his dad was a Communist spy: 
https://louisproyect.org/2017/01/17/the-sunshine-makers-the-modern-jungle/)


NY Times, May 12 2017
Nicholas Sand, Chemist Who Sought to Bring LSD to the World, Dies at 75
By WILLIAM GRIMES

One day in 1964, Nicholas Sand, a Brooklyn-born son of a spy for the 
Soviet Union, took his first acid trip. He had been fascinated by 
psychedelic drugs since reading about them as a student at Brooklyn 
College and had experimented with mescaline and peyote. Now, at a 
retreat run by friends in Putnam County, N.Y., he took his first dose of 
LSD, still legal at the time.


Sitting naked in the lotus position, before a crackling fire, he 
surrendered to the experience. A sensation of peace and joy washed over 
him. Then he felt himself transported to the far reaches of the cosmos.


“I was floating in this immense black space,” he recalled in the 
documentary “The Sunshine Makers,” released in 2015. “I said, ‘What am I 
doing here?’ And suddenly a voice came through my body, and it said, 
‘Your job on this planet is to make psychedelics and turn on the world.’ ”


Like Moses receiving the tablets, Mr. Sand took this commandment to 
heart. After being trained by the lab partner of Owsley Stanley, 
America’s premier LSD chemist, he set about producing vast quantities of 
the purest LSD on the market. His most celebrated product, known as 
Orange Sunshine for the color of the tablets it came in, became a 
signature drug of the late 1960s.


Touted by Timothy Leary as the finest acid available, “the tiny orange 
pills quickly acquired near-mythic status,” Martin A. Lee and Bruce 
Shlain wrote in “Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD” 
(1992). Distributed by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a drug cult 
based in Laguna Beach, Calif., it showed up wherever hippies gathered: 
at Grateful Dead concerts, in California communes, in Indian ashrams, in 
the hashish havens of Afghanistan. Mr. Sand made sure that Orange 
Sunshine was available to American soldiers fighting in Vietnam, whose 
minds he hoped to bend in the direction of nonviolence and brotherly love.


The goal was simple. “If we could turn on everyone in the world,” he 
said in the documentary, “then maybe we’d have a new world of peace and 
love.”


It did not work out that way. Orange Sunshine was Mr. Sand’s ticket to a 
life on the run. For years he raced to stay a step ahead of federal 
agents, and after being convicted on drug and tax-evasion charges, he 
hid in Canada for two decades under an assumed name. Eventually, after 
being arrested and unmasked, he was returned to the United States, where 
he served six years in prison.


He emerged an unchanged man, totally committed to the beatific vision 
granted to him that day in upstate New York.


Mr. Sand died on April 24 at his home in Lagunitas, Calif. He was 75. 
The cause was a heart attack, said Gina Raetze, his longtime companion, 
who uses the name Usha, which she adopted as a follower of Bhagwan Shree 
Rajneesh.


He was born Nicholas Francis Hiskey in Brooklyn on May 10, 1941, to 
Clarence and Marcia Hiskey. His father was a chemist and, since his 
college days, a committed Communist. He was recruited by Soviet 
intelligence during World War II while working on the Manhattan Project, 
from which he was expelled after American investigators saw him meeting 
with a Russian agent.


When Nick, as he was known, was a young boy, his mother, an activist for 
a time with the party, divorced her husband, took back her maiden name, 
Sand, and gave it to her son.


Mr. Sand graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1959 and two years 
later married Maxine Solomon, a childhood sweetheart.


After working for a year on a kibbutz in Israel, the couple returned to 
New York, where, taking night courses, Mr. Sand earned a bachelor’s 
degree in sociology and anthropology from Brooklyn College in 1966.


After taking his first psychedelic drug, mescaline, in 1962, Mr. Sand 
taught himself chemistry and set up a lab in his mother’s attic to make 
dimethyltryptamine, or DMT. Although it produced only a brief high, it 
was much easier to formulate than LSD. Brisk demand prompted a move to 
larger premises in a Brooklyn loft, where he created the fictitious Bell 
Perfume Labs.


An invitation from Richard Alpert, Mr. Leary’s former Harvard colleague, 
brought him to Millbrook, a farm in Dutchess County, N.Y., where Mr. 
Alpert, Mr. Leary and others had started a psychedelic community. After 
1966, when LSD became illegal, Millbrook created the Original Kleptonian 
Neo-American Church, whose 

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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This was so wonderfully full of acerbic wit.  A delight to read and a tonic
for the weary traveler.  Well done Jeffrey. Now I am inclined to agree with
Mark in all this. The trouble is that we do not attribute enough power to
STUPIDITY when we are reconstructing the motives of people like Trump.

His problem is that he was born into wealth.  A master surrounded by slaves
created by his father.  The task of the slave is ever to kiss ass and to
protect the master from ever finding out what the real world is about. The
slaves around Trump have done an admirable job.

Now though he has got to the level where there is no hiding place.  True,
there are still ranks upon ranks of ass kissers everywhere, but every so
often the realization that the Administrative system does have its own
special rules and the sad truth slowly emerges that one cannot always shit
on the carpet and get away with it.

It will take a socialist revolution of immense dimensions to clean out the
Augean Stables of the American State, but in the mean time we can have a
quiet smirk as the System slowly, timidly, and oh so relutcantly but
inevitably girds its loins to tell the POTUS "You're fired".

comradely

Gary


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> The blending of hubris and stupidity on display in the Comey affair is a
> recipe for political comedy and legal disaster. By concocting a false story
> for Comey’s expulsion, the Trump team, including the President and the
> Attorney General, have exposed their consciousness of guilt and laid the
> groundwork for charges of obstruction of justice against them. If there’s
> anyone left in the Justice Department or the Congress with the guts to
> bring it. Perhaps Ralph Nader will sue, as he did in 1973, when he won a
> seminal verdict in federal court that Nixon’s firing of special prosecutor
> Archibald Cox was illegal.
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[Marxism] The NY Times channels Joe McCarthy against Trump

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The Times even tries the old trick of admitting it is all bullshit to 
discount the objection that it is all bullshit: "Mr. Trump and his 
associates can cry themselves hoarse that there is neither smoke nor 
fire here."


But of course, there is lots of smoke here: the smoke the editors of the 
New York Times are trying to blow up our ass.


http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-ny-times-channels-joe-mccarthy.html

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[Marxism] Athlete Activists | Jules Boykoff | Public Books

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[Marxism] Interview: The Pitfalls of 'Buy American' | Labor Notes

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http://labornotes.org/2017/05/interview-pitfalls-buy-american


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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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You seem to be either confused as to what these articles evince or as to
what you were asserting.

I don't think you can legitimately counterpose the "US political
establishment (Democrats-neocons-spooks etc.)" to the executive branch of
the government and the majority in both houses of Congress.

It does not seem to me Comey was not a point man for some grand "deep
state' conspiracy to throw a monkey wrench into Trump's plans for new
diplomatic relations with Russia.

As far as that goes, it isn't even clear that he was the point man for the
most serious investigation of Trump's ties with Russia.

You seem to me to be conjuring structures that aren't there and motives
that aren't apparent.

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[Marxism] Have you completed your registration with the Green Party of RI Nation Builder website? - Green Party of Rhode Island

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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http://www.atimes.com/article/trump-ignores-status-quo-apologists-engage-russia/
 


http://www.atimes.com/article/us-decides-send-delegation-chinas-obor-summit/ 


http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/comeytose-in-washington/ 




> On May 12, 2017, at 9:33 AM, Mark Lause  wrote:
> 
> There's absolutely no evidence for this . . . no more than for the idea that 
> it's all about who gets to control the captured UFOs . . . .
> 
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> The White House fired Comey because he was the point-man in the campaign of 
> the US political establishment (Democrats-neocons-spooks etc.) to prevent 
> Trump from carrying out his campaign promises of rapprochement with Russia.
> 
> 
> > On May 12, 2017, at 7:51 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
> > > wrote:
> >
> > The blending of hubris and stupidity on display in the Comey affair is a 
> > recipe for political comedy and legal disaster. By concocting a false story 
> > for Comey’s expulsion, the Trump team, including the President and the 
> > Attorney General, have exposed their consciousness of guilt and laid the 
> > groundwork for charges of obstruction of justice against them. If there’s 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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There's absolutely no evidence for this . . . no more than for the idea
that it's all about who gets to control the captured UFOs . . . .

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> The White House fired Comey because he was the point-man in the campaign
> of the US political establishment (Democrats-neocons-spooks etc.) to
> prevent Trump from carrying out his campaign promises of rapprochement with
> Russia.
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> > On May 12, 2017, at 7:51 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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> > The blending of hubris and stupidity on display in the Comey affair is a
> recipe for political comedy and legal disaster. By concocting a false story
> for Comey’s expulsion, the Trump team, including the President and the
> Attorney General, have exposed their consciousness of guilt and laid the
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> Archibald Cox was illegal.
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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The White House fired Comey because he was the point-man in the campaign of the 
US political establishment (Democrats-neocons-spooks etc.) to prevent Trump 
from carrying out his campaign promises of rapprochement with Russia.


> On May 12, 2017, at 7:51 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
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> The blending of hubris and stupidity on display in the Comey affair is a 
> recipe for political comedy and legal disaster. By concocting a false story 
> for Comey’s expulsion, the Trump team, including the President and the 
> Attorney General, have exposed their consciousness of guilt and laid the 
> groundwork for charges of obstruction of justice against them. If there’s 
> anyone left in the Justice Department or the Congress with the guts to bring 
> it. Perhaps Ralph Nader will sue, as he did in 1973, when he won a seminal 
> verdict in federal court that Nixon’s firing of special prosecutor Archibald 
> Cox was illegal.
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> full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/comeytose-in-washington/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Comeytose in Washington

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The blending of hubris and stupidity on display in the Comey affair is a 
recipe for political comedy and legal disaster. By concocting a false 
story for Comey’s expulsion, the Trump team, including the President and 
the Attorney General, have exposed their consciousness of guilt and laid 
the groundwork for charges of obstruction of justice against them. If 
there’s anyone left in the Justice Department or the Congress with the 
guts to bring it. Perhaps Ralph Nader will sue, as he did in 1973, when 
he won a seminal verdict in federal court that Nixon’s firing of special 
prosecutor Archibald Cox was illegal.


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[Marxism] McMaster's Civilized War for Civilization

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http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2017/05/mcmasters-civilized-war-for-civilization.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: Remembering Philip Levine’s Poetics of Labor | Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

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Levine, a former U.S. poet laureate who died in 2015, was a Whitman or a 
Ginsburg for those embroiled in Midwestern, heartland work, the 
industrial work whose specter became a powerful political touchstone 
during last year’s election cycle. His poems, which faced the worker, 
rather than romanticizing him for a far-away audience, felt genuine 
because he himself was a worker, descended from other workers. Levine’s 
father, who died when he was five years old, owned a used auto parts 
business in Detroit. Levine worked in car manufacturing plants before he 
turned sixteen. His hands knew both the rigors of hard work, and the 
beauty that it can create.


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[Marxism] New York Threatens to Spoil Trump’s Push for Fossil Fuels - Bloomberg

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[Marxism] Huge Victory: Natural Gas Storage Plan Halted at Seneca Lake

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[Marxism] Megafarms linked to Russia's political elite boom, fuelling ...

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[Marxism] Fwd: ZCommunications » G20 threat to Africa

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[Marxism] Fwd: Andrzej Wajda, Art and the Struggle for Freedom

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“Afterimage” will open theatrically in NYC at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas 
and in LA at Laemmle Theaters on May 19th. Made in 2016 by Polish 
director Andrzej Wajda in his ninetieth year and just before his death, 
it incorporates the dominant theme in a filmmaking career going back to 
1955—namely the Polish national struggle that has been defined by its 
relationship to Russia for hundreds of years.


“Afterimage” is based on historical events surrounding the Stalinist 
persecution of Władysław Strzemiński, an abstract artist who paid dearly 
for speaking out against Socialist Realism in 1950, just as the Polish 
United Workers’ Party was consolidating its grip on the nation. 
Strzemiński, who lost an arm and a leg as an officer in WWI, never let 
that disability stand in the way. In 1918, he attended classes at the 
First Free State Workshops (SVOMAS) in Moscow, where he first made 
contact with Casimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin. He became Poland’s 
most passionate advocate of Russian futurism and returned to his country 
in full support of the Russian Revolution and the bold artistic 
experimentation of the Communist nation’s heroic early years.


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[Marxism] Bethune-Cookman President Threatens to Withhold Students’ Degrees Amid Loud Boos for Betsy DeVos

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