Re: [Marxism] Making America first in climate change denialism

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Patrick Bond wrote:

> Superb, but I hope the next part(s) address the strategic question of 
> stripping away capitalist support from Trump, by invoking invoking 
> climate sanctions against US goods and services. There is talk of this 
> strategy from Naomi Klein, Joseph Stiglitz and a few far-sighted 
> capitalists, and the largest European eco-network (EEB) also just called 
> for a carbon tariff against the US. (I know your strong opposition to 
> relying on 'market-based strategies' such as a carbon tax and generally 
> I agree - but this is different.)
> 

 Thanks, Patrick, for the comments. As far as climate sanctions against US 
goods and services, I'm not sure what you have in mind. Are you imagining 
that the EU as a whole, or individual countries, will impose an environmental 
tariff on US goods and services? Or is the plan that there will be pressure 
for institutions to divest from US companies? Or to boycott American goods 
and services? All goods and services, or just ones which aren't judged to be 
making the progress they would be if the US hadn't declared that it was 
leaving the Paris Accord (and if so, how would one judge that)? Would there 
be any comparison between the carbon content of American goods and services 
and that of the alternate ones which would replace them? Are the sanctions to 
be only against the withdrawal from the Paris Accord, or for the many steps 
of the Trump administration against the environment?

 When the plan is better formulated, it could be evaluated more concretely. 
For now, it doesn't seem very realistic to me. It may seem analogous to BDS 
in form, but I don't think it actually is. It seems to me that the hope that 
the other capitalists will institute sanctions against Trump over the issue 
of the environment is mainly a product of despair, reminiscent of Hansen  and 
Monbiot turning to nuclear. I'm sorry to hear that Naomi Klein is considering 
this. I think her book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate" 
was a real contribution to the movement, and it talked about some important 
things, such as the collaboration of Big Green with the energy corporations, 
that are not usually mentioned. But this new strategy seems to me like a 
reversion, for the time being, to "This Changes Nothing".

 Presently the left pole in the environmental movement, despite many 
important and dedicated actions against pipelines and on other issues, has 
limited strength. And the situation is really dangerous, as the time is 
running out for preventing drastic climactic change. So there is pressure to 
look for quick remedies.  But the political realities and the class 
alignments don't change just because the situation is dangerous. We need to 
work to build up a truly working-class wing of the environmental movement.  
We need to work to build the left pole of the environmental movement up, in 
strength, in its class character, and in its program. The fate of the 
environmental movement depends on how far the left can strengthen itself as 
well as on when market fundamentalism finally cracks. 

 There is also the issue of the Paris Accord itself.  Your powerful article 
on it back in December 2015 characterized it as "implicit terrorism by carbon 
addicts". This doesn't mean that activists should boycott protests against 
Trump's withdrawal from the Accord, which is a rallying point for explicit 
terrorism against the environment. But a strategy of expecting very much from 
the green-talking wing of the carbon addicts seems futile to me. If we really 
want to fight global warming, we have to bear in mind that this fight must go 
beyond the Paris Accord, and we must do our best to bring forward demands 
that go beyond simply condemning withdrawal from the Accord. We shouldn't 
boycott anti-Trump environmental actions because of the domination of those 
who don't go beyond the Accord or of establishment environmentalism, but we 
need to patiently strive to have the movement go beyond the Paris Accord and 
the sham environmentalism of the carbon (and fracking) addicts.  


---
Joseph Green
m...@communistvoice.org



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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Green Corn Rebellion - Wikipedia

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A fascinating development.  I think the description in the wiki article
about the rebels being "old American stock" should probably be clarified.

Most of what I've read indicated that the vast majority were comrades of
color--probably mixed race, as it tended to be in the old Indian
Territory--some African American but mostly Native Americans, particularly
Seminole and Creek.  Most were certainly not "white" enough to have been
regarded as peers by the authorities.  They were treated much more
leniently than this might suggest.

After all, sections of Oklahoma and Kansas has been voting socialist for
years and could have provided considerably greater resistance if pushed..
And the Federal and state governments knew that a really severe repression
would run the risk of sparking a much bigger resistance.

ML
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[Marxism] Fwd: Green Corn Rebellion - Wikipedia

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz spoke about this at the Left Forum. Really interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Corn_Rebellion
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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display

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On 6/4/17 8:37 PM, Sheldon Ranz wrote:

Why was this e-mail headlined "a suspicious message"?



That's generated by U. of Utah's Mailman software that we have no 
control over.

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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display

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Why was this e-mail headlined "a suspicious message"?

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> On 6/4/17 4:59 PM, Dennis Brasky wrote:
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>> 1967 was NOT a war over the survival or existence of Israel
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> Yes, I know.
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> https://louisproyect.org/2007/05/19/six-days/
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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display

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On 6/4/17 4:59 PM, Dennis Brasky wrote:

1967 was NOT a war over the survival or existence of Israel


Yes, I know.

https://louisproyect.org/2007/05/19/six-days/
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[Marxism] Black bloc aids American colonialism in Puerto Rico

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(I am going to have a fuller report on the Left Forum tomorrow but the 
author of this article spoke about this incident in a panel discussion 
on the Puerto Rican economic meltdown. Basically, assholes wearing masks 
broke windows at a bank and the bank used this incident to press charges 
against 42 groups on the frontlines of the resistance to austerity.)



 The crowd gathered around the stage on Muñoz Rivera Avenue was unaware 
that just around the corner on Bolivar Street, masked rogue 
demonstrators were throwing stones at the main headquarters of Banco 
Popular, the island’s largest bank, shattering some of its largest 
windows. Police—including regular forces and the riot squad—reacted 
slowly, moving into the area and marching en masse toward the main stage 
down the block. They launched tear-gas canisters and pushed into the 
crowd as stage announcer Millie Gil, a local media personality, was 
desperately calling for calm. “Don’t be provoked.… We don’t want the 
headlines of tomorrow’s newspapers to say that we lost control of a 
peaceful demonstration!” she pleaded.


But the police, after a negotiated standoff, engaged in continual 
confrontations with protesters, pushing, striking, and gassing peaceful 
demonstrators and masked provocateurs alike. Images of vandals, tear 
gas, and students running under late-day thunderstorms dominated the 
evening news. It was a tailor-made media op for the rightist statehood 
party (PNP) government. Governor Ricardo Rosselló held a press 
conference denouncing the vandalism, but he recklessly lumped the 
vandals together with the marchers. His tone of moral opprobrium was 
underscored the next morning in another staged media tableau that showed 
him helping workers sweep up shattered glass in front of the Banco 
Popular tower.


The mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, as well as Representative 
Manuel Natal Albelo, who was one of the first elected officials to 
champion the idea of an independent debt audit, quickly denounced the 
governor’s equation of peaceful protesters with vandals. The ACLU, led 
by William Ramírez, held a lengthy press conference in which Ramírez, 
who was still recovering from the effects of tear gas he was exposed to 
while acting as a negotiator and observer, displayed tear-gas canisters 
and even rubber bullets that had been used by the police. His statement 
directly contradicted one made earlier by police Superintendent Michelle 
Hernández, who denied their use. Ramírez also criticized violations of 
protocol (including no warnings, and plainclothes officers not wearing 
badges) and excessive use of force.


In addition, eyebrows were raised when a lawsuit was filed by Banco 
Popular on the afternoon of the protests and disturbances, naming 42 
plaintiffs, including community organizations, labor unions, and 
“unknown demonstrators.” Ariadna Godreau-Aubert, a human-rights lawyer 
who is part of a Legal Action Committee that is trying to draw attention 
to SLAPP lawsuits, or frivolous suits brought to intimidate people who 
take part in demonstrations, found the suit to be highly irregular and 
part of a disturbing pattern.



full: 
https://www.thenation.com/article/puerto-ricos-political-economic-crisis-deepens/

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Re: [Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display

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1967 was NOT a war over the survival or existence of Israel

http://mondoweiss.net/2017/06/provoked-fighting-survival/?
utm_source=Mondoweiss+List_campaign=df35f004dd-RSS_
EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_medium=email_term=0_b86bace129-
df35f004dd-309258102_cid=df35f004dd_eid=894828857e

"(a) The New York Times quoted Prime Minister Menachem Begin`s (1977 - 83)
August, 1982 speech saying: `In June, 1967, we had a choice. The Egyptian
Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that (President
Gamal Abdel) Nasser (1956 - 70) was really about to attack us. We must be
honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.’

(b) Two-time Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1974 - 77 and 1992 - 95) told
French newspaper Le Monde in February, 1968: `I do not believe Nasser
wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on May 14 would not
have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we
knew it.’

(c) General Mordechai Hod, Commander of the Israeli Air Force during the
Six-Day War said in 1978: `Sixteen years of planning had gone into those
initial eighty minutes. We lived with the plan, we slept on the plan, we
ate the plan. Constantly we perfected it.’

(d) General Haim Barlev, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief told Ma`ariv in
April 1972: `We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day
war, and we had never thought of such a possibility.’
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/15348

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism
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>
> NY Times, June 4 2017
> Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display
> By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER
>
> Israeli armored forces advanced against Egyptian troops at the start of
> the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. Credit Shabtai Tal/GPO, via Getty Images
> On the eve of the Arab-Israeli war, 50 years ago this week, Israeli
> officials raced to assemble an atomic device and developed a plan to
> detonate it atop a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula as a warning to Egyptian
> and other Arab forces, according to an interview with a key organizer of
> the effort that will be published Monday.
>
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[Marxism] Just Grace - Los Angeles Review of Books

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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/just-grace/


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[Marxism] [SUSPICIOUS MESSAGE] Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display

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NY Times, June 4 2017
Last Secret’ of 1967 War: Israel’s Doomsday Plan for Nuclear Display
By WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER

Israeli armored forces advanced against Egyptian troops at the start of 
the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. Credit Shabtai Tal/GPO, via Getty Images
On the eve of the Arab-Israeli war, 50 years ago this week, Israeli 
officials raced to assemble an atomic device and developed a plan to 
detonate it atop a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula as a warning to 
Egyptian and other Arab forces, according to an interview with a key 
organizer of the effort that will be published Monday.


The secret contingency plan, called a “doomsday operation” by Itzhak 
Yaakov, the retired brigadier general who described it in the interview, 
would have been invoked if Israel feared it was going to lose the 1967 
conflict. The demonstration blast, Israeli officials believed, would 
intimidate Egypt and surrounding Arab states — Syria, Iraq and Jordan — 
into backing off.


Israel won the war so quickly that the atomic device was never moved to 
Sinai. But Mr. Yaakov’s account, which sheds new light on a clash that 
shaped the contours of the modern Middle East conflict, reveals Israel’s 
early consideration of how it might use its nuclear arsenal to preserve 
itself.


“It’s the last secret of the 1967 war,” said Avner Cohen, a leading 
scholar of Israel’s nuclear history who conducted many interviews with 
the retired general.


Mr. Yaakov, who oversaw weapons development for the Israeli military, 
detailed the plan to Dr. Cohen in 1999 and 2000, years before he died in 
2013 at age 87.


“Look, it was so natural,” said Mr. Yaakov, according to a transcription 
of a taped interview. “You’ve got an enemy, and he says he’s going to 
throw you to the sea. You believe him.”


“How can you stop him?” he asked. “You scare him. If you’ve got 
something you can scare him with, you scare him.”


Israel has never acknowledged the existence of its nuclear arsenal, in 
an effort to preserve “nuclear ambiguity” and forestall periodic calls 
for a nuclear-free Middle East. In 2001, Mr. Yaakov was arrested, at age 
75, on charges that he had imperiled the country’s security by talking 
about the nuclear program to an Israeli reporter, Ronen Bergman, whose 
work was censored. At various moments, American officials, including 
former President Jimmy Carter long after he left office, have 
acknowledged the existence of the Israeli program, though they have 
never given details.


A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington said the Israeli 
government would not comment on Mr. Yaakov’s role.


If the Israeli leadership had detonated the atomic device, it would have 
been the first nuclear explosion used for military purposes since the 
United States’ attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 22 years earlier.


The plan had a precedent: The United States considered the same thing 
during the Manhattan Project, as the program’s scientists hotly debated 
whether to set off a blast near Japan in an effort to scare Emperor 
Hirohito into a quick surrender. The military vetoed the idea, convinced 
that it would not be enough to end the war.


According to Mr. Yaakov, the Israeli plan was code-named Shimshon, or 
Samson, after the biblical hero of immense strength. Israel’s nuclear 
deterrence strategy has long been called the “Samson option” because 
Samson brought down the roof of a Philistine temple, killing his enemies 
and himself. Mr. Yaakov said he feared that if Israel, as a last resort, 
went ahead with the demonstration nuclear blast in Egyptian territory, 
it could have killed him and his commando team.


Dr. Cohen, a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International 
Studies at Monterey in California and the author of “Israel and the 
Bomb” and “The Worst-Kept Secret,” described the idea behind the atomic 
demonstration as giving “the prime minister an ultimate option if 
everything else failed.” Dr. Cohen, who was born in Israel and educated 
in part in the United States, has pushed the frontiers of public 
discourse on a fiercely hidden subject: how Israel became an 
unacknowledged nuclear power in the 1960s.


On Monday, the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project of 
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington — 
where Dr. Cohen is a global fellow — is releasing on a special website a 
series of documents related to the atomic plan. The project maintains a 
digital archive of his work known as the Avner Cohen Collection. 
(President Trump’s proposed budget calls for the elimination of all 
federal funding for the center, which Congress created as a living 

[Marxism] Fwd: Dairy godfathers: Syria’s new war millionaires | The Economist

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