[Marxism] Fwd: Argentina Prosecutor Who Accused Kirchner Had Steady Contact With US Embassy, Leaked Cables Show | VICE News
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[Marxism] Fwd: EU wins Greek backing to extend Russia sanctions, delays decision on new steps | Reuters
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[Marxism] Archbishop Atallah Hanna: 'We Palestinian Christians say Allahu Akbar'
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[Marxism] Fwd: Academic publishing and scholarly communication: a status report | Harvard Magazine Jan-Feb 2015
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[Marxism] Fwd: Julian Assange - Google Is Not What It Seems
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[Marxism] Fwd: Miners demonstrate in Kyiv, warn of further actions | Observer Ukraine
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[Marxism] Fwd: Millions of gallons of BP oil found resting on the Gulf floor - Salon.com
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[Marxism] Greece election result brings hope to Palestinians
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[Marxism] Fwd: Israel and the Jewish Brown Shirts Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם
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[Marxism] Fwd: In Strategic Shift, U.S. Draws Closer to Yemeni Rebels - WSJ
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[Marxism] Greece Signals Unwillingness to Cooperate With Auditors
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * NY Times, Jan. 31 2015 Greece Signals Unwillingness to Cooperate With Auditors By NIKI KITSANTONIS ATHENS — The new Greek finance minister used a joint appearance with a top eurozone official on Friday to insist that Greece would no longer cooperate with auditors representing its international creditors and would not seek an extension to the country’s bailout program. The remarks came after the finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, and Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the eurozone group of 19 finance ministers, engaged in the first unofficial negotiations regarding the bailout after Greek elections on Sunday, which put a coalition led by a leftist anti-austerity party in power. The talks, held at the Finance Ministry here, yielded no decisions on Greece’s agreements with the so-called troika of international creditors: the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission. The men indicated, however, that there was a willingness for cooperation on both sides. Continue reading the main story RELATED COVERAGE “All we’re asking is for,” Yanis Varoufakis said, “is an opportunity to put together a proposal that will minimize the costs of Greece’s loan agreement and give this country a chance to breathe again after policies that created massive social depravity.”Greece’s Feisty Finance Minister Tries a More Moderate MessageJAN. 29, 2015 “We share common interests with Greece,” Mr. Djisselbloem said, and Mr. Varoufakis said the conversation had taken place in an “excellent climate.” But Mr. Varoufakis’s description of the troika’s committee of auditors as “anti-European” toward the end of the news conference clearly ruffled Mr. Dijsselbloem, who shook his head before quickly shaking hands with his interlocutor and striding out of the room. For his part, Mr. Dijsselbloem rejected the Greek government’s call for a conference to examine relief or a write-down of the country’s debt, remarking that an arena for discussion already exists. Can Greece's Anti-Austerity Government Succeed?JAN. 27, 2015 “It’s called the Eurogroup,” he said, referring to the eurozone group of finance ministers. Mr. Dijsselbloem warned against “unilateral steps,” saying that “ignoring existing agreements is not the road to follow.” “Progress has been made in Greece,” he added. “We must not lose that progress.” Mr. Varoufakis said that he was open to reforms to restore the country’s competitiveness but that he would not accept “the continuation of a self-fueled crisis” of deflation and unsustainable debt that have resulted from the austerity measures imposed as part of a bailout of 240 billion euros ($270 billion). He also said he looked forward to a new agreement “that will allow Greece to breathe.” In an interview with The New York Times on Thursday, Mr. Varoufakis said his government did not want a pending €7 billion installment of the bailout package that the country needs to pay down bonds coming due by August. Mr. Dijsselbloem said the sides would reach an agreement before the expiration of the European portion of Greece’s bailout package on Feb. 28. The International Monetary Fund portion is set to expire in spring 2016. The previous, conservative-led government secured an agreement with creditors in December to extend the European portion until the end of February. Failure to extend the bailout terms could jeopardize the access of Greece’stroubled banks to financing from the European Central Bank, which has said it will guarantee liquidity only if the country reaches an agreement with its creditors. Mr. Varoufakis said his government would not seek a bailout extension. “Our first act as government will not be to reject the rationale of questioning this program by making a request to extend it,” he said. He added that the government would work with “the legitimate institutions of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund,” rather than with the envoys they have been sending. Mr. Varoufakis echoed the insistence of leaders of his party, Syriza, that they engage directly with the troika’s top officials. The appetite for such a dialogue appears weak, though. Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister of Germany, which has championed austerity in Greece and other financially troubled eurozone states, repeated on Friday that the rules accompanying the rescue loans for Greece “can’t just be broken.” Addressing an insurance industry event in Berlin, Mr. Schäuble said his government was “prepared for discussions” but would not be unreasonably pressured by Syriza. “We are averse to blackmail,” he said.
[Marxism] Subject: Alain Badiou on Charlie Hebdo
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Message: 12 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:53:24 +0200 From: ioannis aposperites aposperi...@gmail.com To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Message-ID: 54ccd044.1040...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed ‘Le Rouge et le Tricolore’ Alain Badiou. In le Monde (28.1.15) Alain Badiou has called for the “reactivation of the Communist idea” in place of the “totem” of the “République laïque” in order to stand up to “les crimes fascistes des terroristes”. The philosopher and one-time prominent figure in the ‘post-Leninist’ and ‘post-Maoist’ L’Organisation politique (defunct 2007) begins by sketching a portrait of global capitalism, dominated by the “abstraction” of money, and run by an international oligarchy. He sees within this context a drama, opposing the “civilised” capitalist West to blood thirsty “Islamism”. Murderous gangs, trying by force of arms, to impose obedience to the corpse of a God, are, in its scenario, opposed by those who, in the name of human rights, have launched savage military expeditions that have destroyed entire states (Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan Congo, Mali and Central Africa). Western aggression, in support for these ‘rights’, has resulted in millions of victims. Every state, from Europe, the USA, to the authoritarian and nationalist Russia and China, to the theocracies of the Emirates, is now part of the same world of predatory capitalism. More.. https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/alain-badiou-on-charlie-hebdo-le-rouge-et-le-tricolore-a-critical-appraisal/ Andrew Coates _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Randy Martin 1957-2015: an appreciation | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] Greece, and EU sanctions against Russia
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * On 1/31/15 2:42 PM, Roger Annis via Marxism wrote: Read the extensive writings of Robert Parry on the Times and the Ukraine war in order to understand this maxim. Parry is like Stephen F. Cohen, an unabashed Putinite. It is like asking people to read Alan Dershowitz on Gaza. Roger, Marxmail has lots of people who are very critical thinkers. You would be far more persuasive if you could cite experts who are less partisan. It would also help if you could occasionally comment on something other than Ukraine/Russia. Walter Lippmann made the big mistake of posturing as minister without portfolio for Cuba here for the better part of a decade. We are not a parliament here with deputies making the case for their pet hobbyhorse. I advocate for the Ukrainian cause but also write about many other things. You should try to become more well-rounded if for no other reason than to allow people to think that your purpose here is not only to champion a cause. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Greece, and EU sanctions against Russia
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * This note by me to the Green Left listserve today clarifies an apparent misunderstanding drawn from earlier comment by me on this subject. Jan 31, 2015 The New York Times has a triumphalist article yesterday on Greece's attitude to sanctions on Russia. It's titled, 'Greece steps back into line with European Union policy on Russia sanctions'. Leaving aside the inaccuracy of the claim, the headline describes very well the paternalist attitude to the Syriza-led government that the U.S. government intends to apply. The article demonstrates very vividly WHAT A VERY LARGE HEADACHE for NATO war plans in eastern Europe is the outcome of the election in Greece. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/30/world/europe/european-union-russia-sanctions-greece.html The New York Times is wrong in its triumphalist interpretation of the meeting of EU foreign ministers on January 29. Here is what it reports: In the end, however, Greece backed away from strong statements denouncing sanctions and joined other countries in the 28-member bloc in a unanimous vote in favor of expanding a list of sanctioned individuals, mostly Russians, and of work to prepare “any further action” to pressure combatants to respect a stillborn truce agreement from last year. Greece also joined other countries in endorsing a six-month extension of sanctions imposed last March that would otherwise have soon expired. (End citation) That's it. The New York Times headline writer got caught up in fantasy. Surprise. No one should believe anything contentious the NYT publishes on Ukraine and Russia unless it can be verified by other sources. Read the extensive writings of Robert Parry on the Times and the Ukraine war in order to understand this maxim. The EU meeting extended already-agreed to sanctions against travel and access to finance of leading Russian capitalists. Nothing new was decided, nor could it be because the new Greek government has signaled that it will not be a hand-raiser at the EU on the issue of relations with Russia. There are two key EU meetings next month to watch--another meeting of the foreign ministers, on Feb 9, and a meeting (not summit) of heads of government on Feb 12. We should not expect or demand that the new Greek government bear sole responsibility to wage the battle over EU-Russia relations. The government has a great deal of priorities to deal with and important as it is, EU policy re Russia is not one of them. Meanwhile, where are the protest movements in the streets of Europe demanding that sanctions against Russia be stopped? Sanctions are preludes to war. Is Europe concerned about existing or threatened war in its eastern regions? Is the Syriza government supposed to make up for all the lacunes of the European left during the past year? That's hardly fair, and not particular useful as analysis. I don't read the Greek language, but I find the claim made on this list that the Syriza has supported NATO in the past to be dubious, to say the least. Perhaps outlandish is a more accurate characterization of such a claim. I understand that Syriza's basic party platform has a specific anti-NATO plank in it. RA _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA
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[Marxism] 300,000 at Podemos rally in Madrid
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In Madrid, 100,000 flock to anti-austerity Podemos rally Times of India AFP | Feb 1, 2015 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/In-Madrid-10-flock-to-anti-austerity-Podemos-rally/articleshow/46082783.cms MADRID: At least 100,000 people poured into the streets of Madrid on Saturday in a huge show of support for Spain's new anti-austerity party Podemos, riding a wave of popularity after the election success of its Greek hard-left ally Syriza. A sea of demonstrators chanted Yes we can! and carried signs reading The change is now as they made their way from Madrid city hall to the central Puerta del Sol square in the first major march called by Podemos, which has surged ahead in opinion polls in a crucial election year. Many in the crowd also waved Greek flags and the red and white flags of Syriza, an equally radical party whose stunning win at the polls last week has buoyed Podemos and its anti-establishment message. The wind of change is starting to blow in Europe, Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, a pony-tailed former university professor, said in Greek and Spanish as he addressed supporters at the so-called March for Change. We dream but we take our dream seriously. More has been done in Greece in six days than many governments did in years, the 36-year-old said. Syriza beat mainstream Greek parties with vows to end painful austerity measures and corruption and Podemos hopes to emulate its success with a similar message in Spain's general election due in November. Organisers put the turnout in Madrid at 300,000 while police said some 100,000 people had massed in the Spanish capital. Podemos, which means We Can, was formed only a year ago but the upstart party already shook up the political scene last May by winning five seats in elections for the European Parliament. Born out of the Indignants protest movement that filled Spanish squares in 2011 with demands for political change, Podemos says it wants to prevent profitable companies from firing people, promote a fully state-controlled healthcare system and enact a significant minimum-wage hike. . . . Podemos has overtaken the main opposition Socialist Party in several opinion polls, and in some has topped the list ahead of the conservative ruling People's Party (PP). . . . http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/In-Madrid-10-flock-to-anti-austerity-Podemos-rally/articleshow/46082783.cms _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: EU wins Greek backing to extend Russia sanctions, delays decision on new steps | Reuters
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Louis Proyect wrote Now, it would seem that the geopolitical/chess game left is ready to throw Syriza under the bus. The battle against austerity matters less than how Tsipras stands on sanctions. Just look at MRZine that is festooned today with anti-Syriza tweets. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/29/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSKBN0L22B720150129 In line with what Lou implies here, this advice from Rosa Luxemburg seems timely/timeless, epochally valid in a period of emancipation/transition: The union of the broad popular masses with an aim reaching beyond the existing social order, the union of the daily struggle with the great world transformation, this is the task of the social democratic movement, which must logically grope on its road of development between the following two rocks: abandoning the mass character of the party, or abandoning the final aim, falling into bourgeois reformism or into sectarianism, anarchism or opportunism. Reform or Revolution, pp. 60-1. What means Greece as the weakest link of the chain for other European workers? What means overcoming the the differential rate of exploitation as a first order of business? In truth, though, Rosa Luxemburg's perspective adopted as its center of reference some of the most fundamental issues (and difficulties) of the socialist project of emancipation. Accordingly, Luxemburg insisted that the test of viability of any particular measure devised to resolve in favor of the working classes the global antagonism between capital and labor can only be this: does it contribute (and to what extent) to the ultimate supersession of the social division of labor, or, on the contrary, does it contain the seeds of new contradictions that reproduce, even if in a new form, the structural hierarchies of super- and sub-ordination and the concomitant passivity and alienation of the broad masses of people. Meszaros, The Power of Ideology, p. 332 What does it concern the masses of Greek people what stance Syriza takes to a confrontation between two bourgeois forces, that at this point does not appear to affect them materially, when that stance may get in the way of buying them some respite from the privation and further frightening consequences of the troika's takedown of the Greek economy? But what they CAN respond to in the context is that a government that purports to speak in the name of the Greek people, and relates the people to the rest of their European confreres, is consulted on European policy. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] review of new book on the Iraq War, neocons, and Israelpolitik
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Re: [Marxism] review of new book on the Iraq War, neocons, and Israelpolitik
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * From what I can tell from the review, it is simply a repeat of the MW thesis with slightly more developed arguments about leftist counter-arguments. I would hope that a book of this nature would delve deeper into the nature of how the neocon/Zionist cult of 25 that Ahmad describes came into a position of such influence -- and how such arguments relate to a broader and more sophisticated understanding of imperialism rather than contradict it. Most of the critics who wrote off the Zionist lobby's influence as little more than an extremist wing of American imperialism, as well as some Marxists who endorsed it, like Perry Anderson, in my view, did not do a great job connecting the dots. - Amith On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * http://pulsemedia.org/2015/01/30/israelpolitik-the-neocons-and-the-long-shadow-of-the-iraq-war-a-review-of-muhammad-idrees-ahmads-book-the-road-to-iraq-the-making-of-a-neoconservative-war/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Amidst all the celebrations we should remember this: Labor is not the Australian equivalent of SYRIZA
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Amidst all the celebrations we should remember this: Labor is not the Australian equivalent of SYRIZA A social democratic desire among workers for improved living standards and services is both systemic, arising from the forced sale of our labour power to survive, and historical. The reality that workers' living standards are falling relatively, and may have to do so from capital's point of view in real terms, conflicts with the very real yearning of workers for a better world of full employment, improved wages and conditions and good schools, hospitals and transport. In Australia at the moment that yearning finds expression not in strikes and demonstrations for these outcomes - strikes are at near historic lows - but in the yo-yo of electoral change from neoliberal Labor to the neoliberal Liberals to neoliberal Labor. http://enpassant.com.au/2015/02/01/amidst-all-the-celebrations-we-should-remember-this-labor-is-not-the-australian-version-of-syriza/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * So, we see below that SYRIZA, in order to gain an absolute majority in the Greek Parliament, allied with the far right Independent Greeks party, ANEL, and, for some as yet unknown reason, chose to select Panos Kamenos, ANELs’ leading member, as the cabinet member in charge of the Greek military. JA writes below “He will have no problem to deal with and be personally accepted by the army officers, including the many golden dawnites among them.” For those unfamiliar with Golden Dawn, this is from Wikipedia: “Scholars and media have described it as neo-Nazi and fascist, though the group rejects these labels. Members have expressed admiration of the former Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas of the 4th of August Regime (1936–1941). They have also made use of Nazi symbolism, and have praised figures of Nazi Germany in the past. According to academic sources, the group is racist and xenophobic, while the party’s leader has openly identified it as nationalist and racist.” Further, JA writes below about the new Defense Minister chosen by SYRIZA to be in charge of the Greek military: “A hard core nationalist, with his own political vision: a kind of.. permanent Bonapartistic governance!!!” For those unfamiliar with Bonapartism, this is from Dictionary.com: “a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites” To sum up, SYRIZA has chosen as the cabinet members heading the Greek Army a politician who “will have no problem to deal with and be personally accepted by the army officers, including the many golden dawnites [neo-Nazis] among them.” And who is for “centralized government by a military dictator.” This choice by SYRIZA, as yet unexplained, brings to mind a ship captain whose vessel was taking on water in a storm and in danger of sinking. The captain ordered the crew to drill holes in the bottom of the ship to let the water out. -Original Message- From: ioannis aposperites aposperi...@gmail.com Sent: Jan 28, 2015 3:11 AM To: Thomas thomasfbar...@earthlink.net, Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Greek games and scenarios — Crooked Timber Well Panos Kamenos is the new head of the cabinet of National Defense. A right wing clown. A short *ridiculum* vitae : Born in 1965 son of Elias BigBigMoney Kamenos he started his political career at New Democracy till 2011 when he refused support to Papademos government, left Samaras and founded the Independend greeks party. A hard core nationalist, with his own political vision: a kind of.. permanent Bonapartistic governance!!! (don't ask me more about) and an homophobic. He will have no problem to deal with and be personally accepted by the army officers, including the many golden dawnites among them. JA _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Further on Greece and Ukraine
POSTING RULES NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Thanks for the advice. I am keeping it by not focusing on the kind of rhetoric questions you are asking. Instead, my focus is on what the greek bourgeoisie is thinking about its degradation on the imperialist chain . From their point, the Mediterranean hydro-carbonates are not a secondary issue. It is linked to the recuperation of their imperialist status and is constantly articulated with greek foreign policy. As the clouds of war have never leave Aegean Sea since 1974 the confrontation of the two bougeoisies is a matter of war and peace in the area, in which case, what is primary, what is secondary issue and how they are linked to the whole situation is a very complicated matter. JA On 31/01/2015 12:39 πμ, Louis Proyect wrote: I have no idea why you are harping on secondary issues as if what Tsipras says about Ukraine or disputes over drilling rights is more important than the confrontation over debt. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
