[Marxism] what can we learn from that phone call?

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The now notorious phone call between Trump and Australia's Prime Minister
holds I feel a key to understanding the Trump Presidency. Turnbull rang
Trump and the call was scheduled for 50 minutes but the POTUS rang off
after 25 minutes or so.  The issue was the deal that Turnbull had worked
out with Obama to send over a thousand refugees to America in turn for
Australia taking refugees from Latin America. Apparently Turnbull insisted
that Trump stand by the Obama deal.

What happens next is the key.  Trump's forces spotted the chance to get one
over Obama.  Trum Camp leaded to the Washington Post what happened in the
phone call and Trump tweeted about the dumb deal.  Turnbull had been
putting a brace face on the call and was taken aback by the leaks. But in
the States Trump's enemies, especially John McCain, saw a chance to get
back at Trump.  the line was that the President had insulted the most loyal
of allies who had shed blood with Australia in every war.

Trump was forced to withdraw and Spicer was trundled out to put a brave
face on it. He could not do a proper job and compounded matters by calling
Turnbull "Trumble" (I loved that).

So there we have it - a Presidential team that shots from the lip.  One
that is badly briefed and incompetent, vain, irascible and *vulnerable*.

How does that square with the "brain fade" thesis which has Camp Trump as a
centre of super plotters who just want the Left to come out onto the
streets and scream?  Well it doesn't fit the brain fade thesis at all..
Kriss, Butler and Seymour are correct. This is not to say though that Camp
Trump are not dangerous.  They are but the pressure from the Judiciary,
branches of the state and above all in the streets has made Trump's mission
all the more difficult.

Advantage Resistance so far.

Comradely

Gary
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[Marxism] Harry Belafonte Knows a Thing or Two About New York

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NY Times, Feb. 5 2017
Harry Belafonte Knows a Thing or Two About New York
The city native, about to turn 90, looks back at a
glorious past and wonders what his next act will be.
By JOHN LELAND

Harry Belafonte’s New York was a lot like yours and mine. He was born in 
Harlem, got his first singing gig through Lester Young, his first acting 
role in a company with Sidney Poitier and his first lessons in a class 
with Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Bea Arthur, Elaine Stritch and Tony 
Curtis. He met the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a Harlem church 
basement through Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and met W. E. B. Du Bois 
through Paul Robeson; his uncle Lenny, who ran a numbers racket, 
introduced him to the elite of Harlem’s gangsters. He took Nelson 
Mandela to Yankee Stadium, planned an Amos and Andy movie with Robert 
Altman and, at 89, he was a co-chairman of the Women’s March on 
Washington last month, along with Gloria Steinem, though his health kept 
him from the event.


Mr. Belafonte could tell you a thing or two about New York.

He has been the best-selling singer in America and a pillar in the civil 
rights movement. But these days, he is anxious about the movement he 
helped build and about his role in the new era.


“When I took up with Martin,” he said, “I really thought, two, at best 
three years, this should be over. Fifty years later, he’s dead and gone, 
and the Supreme Court just reversed the voting rights, and the police 
are shooting us down dead in the streets. And I look at this horizon of 
destruction, and I watch the black community by our state of being mute 
— we have no movement. I don’t know where to go to find the next 
Robeson. Maybe I don’t deserve a next one. Takes a lot of courage and a 
lot of power to step into the space and lead a holy war.”


Mr. Belafonte, who will turn 90 on March 1, speaks in a hoarse rasp that 
ended his singing career in 2004; he gets around using a three-wheeled 
walker since having a stroke around that time. The stroke dumped him on 
the sidewalk on 72nd Street but did not dull his sense of humor. “I 
missed the opportunity,” he said, “but if I had a paper cup, I could 
have made a fortune.” He wore a down jacket indoors and drank water 
because his blood thinner made him thirsty. He looked good.


Of his role now, he said: “I’m trying to sort out what that is. There’s 
just so much left that’s in my basket of possibilities. I’m not as young 
as I feel, or as young as I would consider myself to be. The 90 figure 
is a blur. But I do know that if there’s anything left for me to do, I 
had best hurry up and do it, because time is not an ally.”


In a long interview in his apartment on the Upper West Side of 
Manhattan, he talked about people he had known and the city they left 
behind. “One of my big difficulties in dealing with 90 is when I start 
to think about, Where is so and so?” he said. “I kind of treat it like, 
‘You don’t talk to me anymore, we don’t do like we used to do, what 
happened?’ ‘Well, very simple: I’m dead.’ They’re all gone. Ossie Davis, 
there’s no more Saturday call, no more poker. All my friends. It’s amazing.


“This last period of my life is absolutely fascinating to me. I’m like, 
I’m outside, looking at a story, and I have no idea what’s on the next 
page — none.”


Mr. Belafonte was in a reflective mood, recalling the Harlem apartments 
his mother fled in the middle of the night to avoid paying back rent, 
and the majesty, years later, of his own 21-room apartment on West End 
Avenue, where guests included Dr. King, John F. Kennedy, Eleanor 
Roosevelt and Ralph Abernathy.


“I often look at the journey, and I don’t get it,” he said. “I really 
don’t. I have lasted longer than I understand why. I often feel that 
there must have been something that I should’ve done that I didn’t do. 
But I can’t identify what it is that I didn’t do. That’s the first 
difficulty. And the second is, what makes you think you’re it?


“This is not modesty. This is part of a bigger search for me. What was 
all this about? Why?”


He was born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr., and dropped out of school in 
ninth grade, frustrated by what was later recognized as dyslexia. His 
parents, both light-skinned immigrants of mixed race, dodged landlords 
and immigration officials by changing the spelling of the family name, 
and avoided housing covenants by claiming to be Hispanic. Harry was 
drawn toward his uncle’s numbers business, which his mother forbade.


“Everybody in that world were role models in how to survive, how to be 
tough, how to get through the city, how to con, the daily encounters,” 
he said. “But my mother saw to it that 

[Marxism] Argentina’s Trump-Like Immigration Order Rattles South America

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NY Times, Feb. 5 2017
Argentina’s Trump-Like Immigration Order Rattles South America
By SIMON ROMERO and DANIEL POLITI

BUENOS AIRES — Argentina is so used to celebrating immigration as a 
cornerstone of society that a 19th-century saying — to govern is to 
populate — remains in use to this day.


But in an abrupt shift coinciding with the immigration restrictions put 
in place by the Trump administration, President Mauricio Macri has 
issued a decree curbing immigration to Argentina, with his government 
declaring that newcomers from poorer countries in Latin America bring crime.


The measures announced by Mr. Macri in recent days made it much easier 
to deport immigrants and restrict their entry, prompting irate 
comparisons to President Trump and igniting a fierce debate over 
immigration.


“A decree like this scares people,” said Arfang Diedhiou, 33, a 
Senegalese immigrant who runs his own clothing store here in the 
capital, Buenos Aires. “It came out just after what Trump did, a 
coincidence that seems very strange to me.”


Argentina’s president, the son of an immigrant, has echoed some of Mr. 
Trump’s “America First” theme, making it clear that his “first concern” 
should be “caring for Argentines, caring for ourselves.”


“We cannot continue to allow criminals to keep choosing Argentina as a 
place to commit offenses,” Mr. Macri said during a news conference.


His decree has also rekindled criticism of his ties to the American 
president, whom he calls a friend. In the 1980s, Mr. Macri worked with 
his father, an Italian immigrant and industrial magnate, on a real 
estate project in New York that the family ended up selling to Mr. Trump.


Mr. Macri’s immigration measures, while not as far-reaching as Mr. 
Trump’s decision to halt refugees from around the world and freeze visas 
from seven predominantly Muslim nations, are raising diplomatic tensions 
in the region. Some South American leaders are attacking what they view 
as an attempt to mimic Mr. Trump’s immigration policies and nurture 
xenophobic sentiment.


“Brothers, Latin American presidents, we can’t follow the immigration 
policies of the North,” President Evo Morales of Bolivia said.


But opinion polls in Argentina showed widespread support for limiting 
immigration, and some say the new decree does not go far enough. One 
right-wing congressman is even calling for a wall to be built on the 
border with Bolivia.


Claudio Suárez, 65, a worker at a bakery in Buenos Aires, called the 
immigration curbs “fantastic.”


“Nobody wants scum to come in from other countries,” he said. “Many 
foreigners come here because health services and education are free. The 
law should be even stronger.”


Argentina’s history has been written by waves of immigration over the 
decades. After 19th-century wars of conquest killed off many indigenous 
people, the authorities encouraged millions of immigrants to come, 
largely from Europe, to help populate and develop the country.


More recently, governments welcomed newcomers from Latin America, Asia 
and Africa, opening a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of 
immigrants and ensuring their access to public schools and health care.


Officials in Mr. Macri’s government, which took over in 2015 by vowing 
to ease polarization and roll back the economic policies of his leftist 
predecessor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, contend that they are still 
upholding Argentina’s openness to immigrants.


“Everyone should remain calm, because Argentina will continue to be a 
hospitable and open country,” said Horacio García, Argentina’s top 
immigration official.


The new immigration decree says it is focused on fighting crime, arguing 
that 22 percent of inmates in the federal penitentiary system are 
foreigners. (When all of the country’s prisons are taken into account 
the figure is closer to 6 percent.)


The decree specifically mentions “organized crime” as a reason for the 
crackdown, but it expands the offenses that justify expulsion or blocked 
entry to include any crime that could lead to a prison sentence. Many 
worry that immigrants can now be expelled for minor crimes, like 
blocking a road during a protest.


Immigrants hoping to fight a deportation order will have less than a 
week to file appeals. Previous measures granted 30 days to prepare a 
defense and the right to a government lawyer.


“Immigrants are hanging by a thread because anything could be cause for 
deportation,” said Gabriela Liguori, director of the Argentina 
Commission for Refugees and Migrants, an immigrant rights group.


But the immigration official, Mr. García, said deportations “will only 
focus 

[Marxism] Fwd: The black bloc in 1969 | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[Marxism] Conference & Rally On the Israel Lobby | 3/24-3/26 | Washington, D.C.

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"Is Israel's Influence Good or Bad for the United States? It Depends On
Which United States.
" - Susan Abulhawa

Some of you have noted the fairly explicit efforts by Donald Trump and his
most extreme supporters
 to justify racial
profiling ,
banning
Muslims

, build walls and bar migrants

by citing Israeli policy -- an honor that has been at least partly
reciprocated

by the Israeli Prime Minister.

Last year, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the Institute
for Research: Middle Eastern Policy held this conference
 on the pro-Israel Lobby in Washington
D.C,  featuring
fmr *Chief of Staff for Secretary of State Lawrence Wilkerson*; Deputy *Legal
Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights, Maria LaHood*;
 journalist and author of *Miral* *Rula Jebreal*; Israeli columnist *Gideon
Levy*; author *Susan Abulhawa*; Palestinian-American lawyer and
activist *Huwaida
Arraf*; and others .
(For what it's worth, Roger Waters from Pink Floyd was there too).

*This year, they will host the Fourth conference on the Israel Lobby in the
series, "The Israel Lobby and American Policy,"
* featuring *Hanan Ashrawi*, the
first woman elected to the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation
Organization; Israeli historian and author *Ilan Pappe*; and University of
Chicago Professor of International Politics *John R. Mearsheimer.*

*Students can apply for complimentary tickets and travel stipends by
e-mailing Dale Sprusansky at **dspru...@wrmea.org *. It
is difficult to put into words how profound this conferences series has
been in the past. Instead, I have included a partial ad from the Conference
Organizers (below) and this video from Susan Abulhawa
, who spoke at
last year's conference.

In addition,* Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition and the
ANSWER Coalition will be hosting the annual, Palestinian-led demonstration
against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual convention on
March 26th. *Both events will take place the same weekend (see below).

*From WRMEA: *

Growing numbers of Americans question massive, automatic and unconditional
U.S. support for Israel. The American Educational Trust, publisher of
the *Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs *, and the Institute for
Research: Middle Eastern Policy  will host anhistoric
fourth annual conference on March 24, 2017 at the National Press Club in
Washington, DC focusing on the key issues.

Expert keynote speakers and panelists will present their analysis of:

   -

   U.S. foreign aid, intelligence and diplomatic support to Israel. Since
   1948, the U.S. has provided more foreign aid to Israel than to any other
   country. In 2016 the U.S. signed a new pledge to provide it $38 billion
   over 10 years. Is the aid unconditional? Will the U.S. provide it no matter
   how many illegal settlements Israel builds or what military actions it
   takes?
   -

   Israel as a U.S. ally. During the Cold War, many claimed Israel was
   America’s “cop on the beat” in the Middle East, squaring off against Soviet
   client states and protecting U.S. access to oil. Were these claims ever
   true? Does Israel currently serve any identifiable U.S. strategic
   interest, or is it in fact a liability?
   -

   Israel lobbying organizations have launched many programs in the U.S.
   They transfer billions of dollars in tax-deductible charitable
   contributions to support Jewish immigration to Israel (including from the
   former Soviet Union), and fund Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons
   program. Do these programs further harm American interests?
   -

   Israel affinity organizations and prominent neoconservatives have long
   demanded that the U.S. should militarily engage Israel’s rivals, including
   Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria and Iraq. Is the list of targets growing?
   What future wars are these neocons currently agitating for? How likely
   

Re: [Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels

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Andrew,

I understand that your style of argumentation is basically abusive. Abuse is 
the tone and the logic. So be it.

I hope it gives you some measure of juvenile satisfaction.

Warm regards,

Vijay.


Vijay Prashad
Professor of International Studies
Author: The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution 
(2016).
Co-Editor (with Karim Makdisi): Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and 
the Arab World (2016).
Columnist: Frontline, Alternet and BirGün.

From: Andrew Pollack >
Date: Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 2:39 PM
To: vijay prashad 
>
Cc: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition 
>
Subject: Re: [Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels

it means you're an Assadist phony

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Prashad, Vijay 
> wrote:
Wish I could understand what all this means. I get the jargon - all the 
signifiers - but cannot fathom what the signified might be.

Warm regards

Vijay.


Vijay Prashad
Professor of International Studies
Author: The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution 
(2016).
Co-Editor (with Karim Makdisi): Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and 
the Arab World (2016).
Columnist: Frontline, Alternet and BirGün.

From: Andrew Pollack 
>>
Date: Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 2:29 PM
To: vijay prashad 
>>,
 Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition 
>>
Subject: Re: [Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels

What an insulting, offensive, patronizing entry into this latest refugee horror.
Prashad has helped exacerbate the refugee crisis with his pandering to Assad's 
lies and crimes, and therefore, like the stalinoid "anti-imperialist" 
organizations, has no business shedding crocodile tears for those he helped 
shipwreck.



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Re: [Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels

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it means you're an Assadist phony

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Prashad, Vijay 
wrote:

> Wish I could understand what all this means. I get the jargon - all the
> signifiers - but cannot fathom what the signified might be.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Vijay.
>
>
> Vijay Prashad
> Professor of International Studies
> Author: The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution
> (2016).
> Co-Editor (with Karim Makdisi): Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations
> and the Arab World (2016 book.php?isbn=9780520286948>).
> Columnist: Frontline, Alternet and BirGün.
>
> From: Andrew Pollack >
> Date: Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 2:29 PM
> To: vijay prashad >, Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition
> >
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels
>
> What an insulting, offensive, patronizing entry into this latest refugee
> horror.
> Prashad has helped exacerbate the refugee crisis with his pandering to
> Assad's lies and crimes, and therefore, like the stalinoid
> "anti-imperialist" organizations, has no business shedding crocodile tears
> for those he helped shipwreck.
>
>
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Re: [Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels

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Wish I could understand what all this means. I get the jargon - all the 
signifiers - but cannot fathom what the signified might be.

Warm regards

Vijay.


Vijay Prashad
Professor of International Studies
Author: The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution 
(2016).
Co-Editor (with Karim Makdisi): Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and 
the Arab World (2016).
Columnist: Frontline, Alternet and BirGün.

From: Andrew Pollack >
Date: Sunday, February 5, 2017 at 2:29 PM
To: vijay prashad 
>, Activists and 
scholars in Marxist tradition 
>
Subject: Re: [Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels

What an insulting, offensive, patronizing entry into this latest refugee horror.
Prashad has helped exacerbate the refugee crisis with his pandering to Assad's 
lies and crimes, and therefore, like the stalinoid "anti-imperialist" 
organizations, has no business shedding crocodile tears for those he helped 
shipwreck.


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[Marxism] Moderator's note

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On 2/5/17 2:29 PM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote:


What an insulting, offensive, patronizing entry into this latest refugee
horror.
Prashad has helped exacerbate the refugee crisis with his pandering to
Assad's lies and crimes, and therefore, like the stalinoid
"anti-imperialist" organizations, has no business shedding crocodile tears
for those he helped shipwreck.


This kind of abuse is totally uncalled for.

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Re: [Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels

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What an insulting, offensive, patronizing entry into this latest refugee
horror.
Prashad has helped exacerbate the refugee crisis with his pandering to
Assad's lies and crimes, and therefore, like the stalinoid
"anti-imperialist" organizations, has no business shedding crocodile tears
for those he helped shipwreck.
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[Marxism] How the Muslim Ban Feels

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A story about Nael Zaino, a Syrian geologist and Trump's Muslim Ban: 
http://www.alternet.org/culture/how-muslimban-feels

Warmly, Vijay.


Vijay Prashad
Professor of International Studies
Author: The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution 
(2016).
Co-Editor (with Karim Makdisi): Land of Blue Helmets: The United Nations and 
the Arab World (2016).
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[Marxism] support a boycott of US academic conferences over Trump’s ban, why not BDS?

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http://coreyrobin.com/2017/02/05/if-youre-willing-to-support-a-boycott-of-us-academic-conferences-over-trumps-ban-why-not-bds/
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[Marxism] Music from the 7 Banned Countries - Radio Al-Fareed Podcast

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Radio Al-Fareed - Episode 22

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Alfred Madain aka DJ Al-Fareed is the Music Director at The Markaz and the 
founding director of Bedouin X, the desert blues band. An educator and 
ethnomusicologist active on the Los Angeles music scene since the 1990s, he 
grew up in his native Jordan listening to an eclectic selection of music from 
the Arab world, America, and Europe. Throughout his life he has explored all 
genres of music and passed through many different phases of obsession. 
Listeners can hear his Radio Al-Fareed podcasts on Soundcloud from The Markaz 
in Los Angeles and add them to their iTunes collection. The music featured on 
Radio Al-Fareed is old and new, traditional and contemporary, religious and 
secular. DJ Al-Fareed is a reassuring guide as he takes us on carefully 
constructed musical tours through countries including but not limited to 
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Gambia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, Iraq, 
China, Indonesia, Oman, Yemen, Comoros Island, Zanzibar, and Tunisia.  
Different ethnic and religious groups such as Kurds, Azeris, Jews, and 
Christians also have their music featured on Radio Al-Fareed.  Artists who have 
fused music from other parts of the world with their own are also highlighted 
on the program. Visit the Bedouin X site.

Support Our work

Read our proposal for a new center, linked here, that calls for $2.5 million to 
thoroughly revamp and relaunch The Markaz Arts Center for the Middle East in 
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