[Marxism] In response to liberal recrimination for not voting
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. * I am fucking sick a tired of hearing congresscritters and other members of our political class, and their news media acolytes, attack the people for exercising their democratic right to give elections the finger https://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2018/11/people-not-voting-is-fault-of-system.html _ 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] The Mueller Probe
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. * A. R. G. says (in part): In which case, what practical value does the Mueller probe serve, and why is it so important that it continue if it cannot guarantee Trump's resignation even if damning evidence of impeachable offenses is uncovered? Ken Hiebert replies: Many people, myself included, believe that it would have a real political impact if we could establish whether or not Russia interfered in the US election and if the Trump campaign colluded in this. To the extent that the Mueller probe can do this, it is of value. _ 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] Nick Brana on the midterms
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. * For More Accuracy - around 70 of the candidates that the DSA emdorsed - won this week. And the numbers for the other groups including Our Revolution, Move On, Indivisible, Swing Left, Bros for America, Working Families, etc, etc. greatly differs with this article. I will have some other thoughts about voting rights in the U. S. posted separate - but want to agree on the actual control of the Democrati Party is by the wealthy, to serve the capitalist class - but that the growing class conscience aware radicalization that is happening - are expressed by the elections held this week - and reveal the lack of actual democracy in the U. S., with no sincere effort or caring to respect every voter and to count all votes fairly. Posted by Paul Street on FB: Next neat reflection on midterms...As Nick Brana, the former Sanders staffer who heads the Movement for a People’s Party, noted one day after the elections, the results are “a serious wake-up call for progressives” who continue to dream of gaining power by taking over the Democratic Party. By Brana’s account: “The four leading progressive organizations that emerged from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign endorsed Democratic candidates across 46 states. Nearly all of the candidates for Congress, governor, lieutenant governor, and Senate lost….Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress and the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed a combined 107 candidates for Congress this year. Forty-four of them won their primaries and only 12 won their general elections. Five of those 12 were already incumbents. Five more of them were longtime party politicians in line for higher office, rather than insurgent candidates. Only two of them were actually opposed by the party and unseated establishment Democrats in the primaries — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley. There are 435 members of Congress.” “Almost every candidate those groups endorsed for governor, lieutenant governor, and Senate, lost in the primary or the general election. That includes 13 candidates for governor, five candidates for lt. governor, and seven candidates for U.S. Senate. Incumbents Bernie Sanders and David Zuckerman were the only ones who won. Several candidates were high-profile individuals who raised millions of dollars: progressives such as Ben Jealous, Cynthia Nixon and Abdul El-Sayed. Others such as Andrew Gillum and Stacy Abrams took millions from big donors.” “As a result, the blue wave is a corporate wave that has swept in the same kind of Democratic politicians that drove working people into Donald Trump’s arms after eight years of Obama. When Democrats busy themselves serving the wealthy again, the result will be an even sharper lurch to the authoritarian right. _ 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] Money Still Rules US Politics
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[Marxism] It's time to break up capitalism's love affair with plastic
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[Marxism] Nick Brana on the midterms
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. * Posted by Paul Street on FB: Next neat reflection on midterms...As Nick Brana, the former Sanders staffer who heads the Movement for a People’s Party, noted one day after the elections, the results are “a serious wake-up call for progressives” who continue to dream of gaining power by taking over the Democratic Party. By Brana’s account: “The four leading progressive organizations that emerged from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign endorsed Democratic candidates across 46 states. Nearly all of the candidates for Congress, governor, lieutenant governor, and Senate lost….Our Revolution, Justice Democrats, Brand New Congress and the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed a combined 107 candidates for Congress this year. Forty-four of them won their primaries and only 12 won their general elections. Five of those 12 were already incumbents. Five more of them were longtime party politicians in line for higher office, rather than insurgent candidates. Only two of them were actually opposed by the party and unseated establishment Democrats in the primaries — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley. There are 435 members of Congress.” “Almost every candidate those groups endorsed for governor, lieutenant governor, and Senate, lost in the primary or the general election. That includes 13 candidates for governor, five candidates for lt. governor, and seven candidates for U.S. Senate. Incumbents Bernie Sanders and David Zuckerman were the only ones who won. Several candidates were high-profile individuals who raised millions of dollars: progressives such as Ben Jealous, Cynthia Nixon and Abdul El-Sayed. Others such as Andrew Gillum and Stacy Abrams took millions from big donors.” “As a result, the blue wave is a corporate wave that has swept in the same kind of Democratic politicians that drove working people into Donald Trump’s arms after eight years of Obama. When Democrats busy themselves serving the wealthy again, the result will be an even sharper lurch to the authoritarian right. _ 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] Eugene Debs Reads Marx in Prison
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. * Eugene Debs Reads Marx in Prison 1895 like Malcolm, memorized the dictionary. Nature does not produce subjugated steps. every eve he’d walk the yard breathing beneath night's curtain. the free sky etched into his head. on the one side owners of money or commodities, on the other men possessing nothing but their own labour-power contemplating ways to counter empire. in midnight’s throne, this relation has no natural basis like the imagination, the heavens spread common to all historical periods, pages lit by moon turn. liberated from these walls he’ll walk, waving a new, red banner. - Kevin Coval, 'A People's History of Chicago' --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ 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] Democrats Were Not "the Lesser Evil" for the Migrant Caravan
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. * Since the 1980s, Democratic strategy has implicitly embraced defeat. To remain the "lesser evil," they don't have to do anything but allow the Republicans to be worse. Democrats don't even have to promise anything or even commit themselves to anything other than not letting the Republicans be quite as awful as they're inclined to be. Not only is this a very undemanding strategy, but even defeat holds the expectation that unchecked Republican awfulness will stampede people to the polls to vote for Democrats. Indeed, letting the Republicans be as beastly as they want to the old Democratic base means that the Democrats themselves don't even have to make a special effort to mobilize workers, blacks, women, Latinos, etc. The most obvious problem with this strategy is that works less well the farther we get from civil rights legislation, the war on poverty, etc. Much as they're touting success in the mid-terms, their showing was pretty pathetic when you consider what they were up against. I can't understand how you could run a pet rock against Donald Trump and lose, but the Democrats found a way to do it in 2016, and they've found a way to minimize their possible successes in 2018. And they draw no lessons from any of these experiences. Cheers, Mark L. _ 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] impeach
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Re: [Marxism] Democrats Were Not "the Lesser Evil" for the Migrant Caravan
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. * The role of the Republican Party in US politics is to lead the forces of reaction and racism. The role of the Democratic Party is to mislead, confuse, distract and render harmless and ineffective the efforts of those on the left who want to fight the former. On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 8:16 AM John Reimann via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > Of course, a legitimate case can be made not to vote for the Democrats. I > haven't done so since one election in the early 1970s, when I voted for Ron > Dellums. I argue against voting for them and for building a mass working > class party instead. > > However, I think it's a mistake to say that the Democrats are just the same > as the Republicans. They aren't. They play a somewhat different role. Even > before Trump seized near complete control over the Republican Party, that > party was the main tool used to both frontally attack the working class as > well as to divide it along racial, gender and national lines. In addition, > it was the main party of global warming denialism. That role has been put > on steroids by Trump. > > On the other hand, the Democrats, while they also were perfectly willing to > attack the working class and also divided our class - as for example the > Clinton administration's use of fear of criminals - but in the main their > role has been to lure the working class into their party. To neuter the > working class with kind words and faint promises. As has been said many > times, it is the place where movements go to die. > > I think it weakens our argument against supporting the Democrats to say > that they are just the same as the Republicans. Serious people look around. > They see the difference. They tend to dismiss our more serious arguments > based on this incorrect description. While the Left Voice article doesn't > say it in so many words, that is the implication of it. There is a > difference between whipping up the chauvinist hysteria in the way that > Trump did and more or less being silent, as did the Democrats. Not that I > support either, but I think we should recognize the difference. > > John Reimann > > -- > *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black > Jacobins" by C. L. R. James > Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook > _ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/dmozart1756%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
Re: [Marxism] Washington Babylon Listicle: Why I Don’t Care That Trump Put Rosenstein’s Head On Chopping Block
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. * Meh. The stuff about the midterms sounds accurate but his comment about the protests as though they are pro-Sessions is ridiculous. The whole point was that as awful as Sessions was, he recused himself, and there was no evidence that Rosenstein was doing anything to undermine the Mueller investigation. It was clearly not a pro-Sessions rally but an anti-Trump one. Amith R. Gupta > > > _ 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] Washington Babylon Listicle: Why I Don’t Care That Trump Put Rosenstein’s Head On Chopping Block
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Re: [Marxism] MR Online | Western media attacks critics of the White Helmets
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[Marxism] Red Modernism
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 Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned—and aesthetically responsive—to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto underexplored domain in the political history of avant-garde literature. In doing so, Steven amplifies the resonance among the universal idea of communism, the revolutionary socialist state, and the American modernist poem. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/red-modernism _ 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] (no subject)
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 11/9/18 11:44 AM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote: This article details the measures taken for voter suppression, among other things. There are also photos of last night's protest in Oakland - organized by MoveOn - against Trump's firing of Mueller. It was Sessions who was fired, not Mueller. _ 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] (no subject)
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. * "The 2018 elections is that they were a scandalous fraud, even by the standards of capitalist legality. The fact that the AFL-CIO completely ignored this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as the absence of an independent working class voice within the election process, as we will see." This article details the measures taken for voter suppression, among other things. There are also photos of last night's protest in Oakland - organized by MoveOn - against Trump's firing of Mueller. https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/11/08/2018-midterm-elections-voter-suppression-racism-and-chauvinism/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ 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] Muriel Manings, Dancer in a Politically Charged Era, Dies at 95
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, Nov. 9, 2018 Muriel Manings, Dancer in a Politically Charged Era, Dies at 95 By Neil Genzlinger Muriel Manings, who performed with the left-leaning New Dance Group during the politically anxious middle decades of the last century and later championed dance through teaching and advocacy work, died on Oct. 25 at her home in Manhattan. She was 95. Her daughter-in-law, Marcia Van Wagner, confirmed her death. Ms. Manings came of age during an energized, impassioned time for American culture, when various dance, theater and other artistic groups infused their work with social and political meanings. The New Dance Group, a collective formed in 1932, was among the most prominent of these. Its mission included bringing dance to working-class New Yorkers of all backgrounds, in part by offering inexpensive classes. Some members were in the Communist Party, and the dance works the group created (some to the music of Woody Guthrie) often addressed issues like homelessness and economic inequality. Ms. Manings came to the New Dance Group in the early 1940s to take dance lessons after her classes at Brooklyn College. She soon became a regular. She also taught classes for the group and, later in life, would help resurrect the dances from its heyday. In 1993 she organized a gala at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, where signature works from the 1930s through the ’′70s were revived. “They were mostly dances of political and social protest, sometimes satirical,” she explained then in an interview with The New York Times. She described what a three-hour class was like back in the early days: “One hour was for technique, one for creative work and one for political orientation: Marxist theory, how to go into communities and teach the workers to dance.” And that instruction was cheap — 10 cents a class at first. “The idea,” she said, “was that dance should be available to everyone.” The 1993 gala, an article in Dance Time in 2016 said, was the group’s last major event before it dissipated. Muriel Manings was born on April 5, 1923, in Newark. Her parents, Irving and Dora (Silver) Manings, who had immigrated from Russia, operated a candy store on Staten Island, where Muriel grew up. “They were rabid lefties,” Ms. Manings said in an oral history recorded in 2007 by Victoria Phillips, a cultural Cold War historian at Columbia University. Ms. Manings took dance lessons as a child but then stopped. A substitute gym teacher in high school who had a dance background revived her interest by suggesting she go see a Martha Graham performance. “I went all by myself to the ferry to New York, and I was bewildered, but it was an epiphany,” she said in the oral history. Returning home, she did not immediately get off the ferry but instead kept riding it. “I went back and forth, and I was weeping,” she said, “and I just felt that whatever that was — which I didn’t understand at all — that’s what I wanted to do.” She graduated from Brooklyn College in 1945 with a psychology degree but spent much of her time performing with the dance group. Sophie Maslow was among the choreographers she worked with. “Tiny in stature, powerful in presence, Muriel Manings was unforgettable as the orphan without shoes in Sophie Maslow’s epic dance, ‘The Village I Knew,’ ” Ellen Graff, author of “Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942,” said by email. Maslow, a founding member of New Dance Group, also choreographed “Sandhog,” a musical in which Ms. Manings appeared on Broadway in 1954. Ms. Van Wagner described her mother-in-law’s politics as “more pink than red,” but Ms. Manings was nonetheless among the scores of arts figures listed in “Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television,” a right-wing tract published early in the Red Scare era to stir up fears about the Communist Party. “Active in Theatre Arts Committee of CP-controlled American Labor Party in Brooklyn,” her entry read, adding that she “has taken part in special children’s dance program at Community Church of NY with WM KORFF (see above) and notorious CP fronters.” William Korff was her husband, an actor and drama teacher, whom she married in 1950. He died in 2001. Ms. Manings is survived by her son, Steven, and two grandchildren. “My parents and their artist friends were caught up in the swirl of politics and art that characterized New York intellectual circles from the ’30s on,” Steven Korff said by email. “I grew up with talk of blacklists, modern choreographers, the theater world, and with the New
[Marxism] Devah Pager, Who Documented Race Bias in Job Market, Dies at 46
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, Nov. 9, 2018 Devah Pager, Who Documented Race Bias in Job Market, Dies at 46 By Katharine Q. Seelye Devah Pager, a Harvard sociologist best known for rigorously measuring and documenting racial discrimination in the labor market and in the criminal justice system, died on Nov. 2 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 46. Michael Shohl, her husband, said the cause was pancreatic cancer. In her seminal work, Dr. Pager, who was the Peter and Isabel Malkin professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a professor of sociology at the university, documented what she called the “powerful effects of race” on hiring decisions, which she said contributed to persistent inequality. Employers, she found, were more likely to hire a white man, even if he had a felony conviction, than a black man with no criminal record. “This suggests that being black in America today is essentially like having a felony conviction in terms of one’s chances of finding employment,” Dr. Pager said in a video interview with the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Her finding, which appeared first in her doctoral dissertation in 2003 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, surprised many. “I am a scholar of race relations,” William Julius Wilson, the Harvard sociologist and author of “The Declining Significance of Race,” said in an email, “and prior to Devah’s research, I would not have predicted this finding.” Her research quickly found its way into the 2004 presidential campaign. Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and at one time the leading contender for the Democratic nomination, often cited it, saying he was determined to combat the “institutional racism” it revealed. With the subject in the air, and the recognition that ex-convicts were less likely to commit more crimes if they had a job, President George W. Bush created a program to help newly released prisoners re-enter the job market. White House aides said at the time that Dr. Pager’s study had helped shape the plan. Her research was remarkable enough for having such an immediate effect on public policy. It was all the more unusual for having originated as a dissertation; graduate students are not often able to undertake field experiments on such a scale. But she cobbled together funding from five sources, including the National Science Foundation, to support her work. Her dissertation became a book, “Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration” (2007). “By her mid-30s, she had established herself as a historic figure in the scientific study of racial discrimination,” Mitchell Duneier, chairman of the sociology department at Princeton, said in a telephone interview. Her work was so well regarded that she had been on track to be elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences — a rare achievement in any case but even rarer for someone in sociology, for a woman and for one so young. Upon her death, her name was removed from the ballot because membership cannot be given posthumously. “Had she not died, she was a sure bet to be elected,” Robert M. Hauser, who was one of Dr. Pager’s advisers on her dissertation at Wisconsin, said in a telephone interview. Devah Iwalani Pager was born on March 1, 1972, in Honolulu. Her father, David Pager, is professor emeritus of computer sciences at the University of Hawaii. Her mother, Sylvia (Topor) Pager, who died in 2015, was a pediatrician. In addition to her husband and her father, she is survived by her son, Atticus, who is 5, and two brothers, Chet and Sean. She and Mr. Shohl were married in 2016, after Dr. Pager’s diagnosis. She grew up in Hawaii, where she attended the private Punahou School. She earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1993; a master’s in sociology from the University of Cape Town in 1996; a second master’s from Stanford in 1997; and a doctorate in sociology from Wisconsin in 2002, before becoming a Fulbright scholar in Paris. Dr. Pager became attuned to racial issues when she left Hawaii, which has a high rate of interracial marriage, for Los Angeles, which she found more segregated. “When you grow up with that being normal,” she told The New York Times in 2004, “everything else seems strange — and wrong.” That gave her the idea to try to isolate the effect of a felony conviction on job applicants. She recruited two teams of young, well-groomed, well-spoken college men of the same height — one team black, the other white — and gave them identical résumés as they applied for 350
[Marxism] Acting Attorney General Sat on Board of Company Accused of Bilking Customers
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. * (The Acting Attorney General makes Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen look like Clarence Darrow.) NY Times, Nov. 9, 2018 Acting Attorney General Sat on Board of Company Accused of Bilking Customers By Adam Goldman and Frances Robles WASHINGTON — Matthew G. Whitaker, the acting attorney general, served on the advisory board of a Florida company that a federal judge shut down last year and fined nearly $26 million after the government accused it of scamming customers. The company, World Patent Marketing, “bilked thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars” by promising inventors lucrative patent agreements, according to a complaint filed in Florida by the Federal Trade Commission. Court documents show that when frustrated consumers tried to get their money back, Scott J. Cooper, the company’s president and founder, used Mr. Whitaker to threaten them as a former federal prosecutor. Mr. Cooper’s company paid Mr. Whitaker nearly $10,000 before it closed. Mr. Whitaker’s role in the company would complicate his confirmation prospects should President Trump nominate him as attorney general. It is not clear if Mr. Trump was aware of Mr. Whitaker’s involvement with the patent marketing company before naming him as a replacement for Jeff Sessions, who was ousted by Mr. Trump on Wednesday. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment on Mr. Whitaker’s ties to the patent company, which were first reported by The Miami New Times. Before his ascension to the office of the nation’s top law enforcement official, Mr. Whitaker, 49, was Mr. Sessions’s chief of staff. A conservative Republican from Iowa, he was seen within the Justice Department as a White House loyalist who publicly expressed doubts about the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, who is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether Mr. Trump or any of his associates conspired in the effort. Mr. Whitaker’s appointment has prompted concerns that he might shut down or stymie the special counsel’s investigation. In August 2017, Mr. Whitaker highlighted on Twitter a Philly.com opinion article with the headline “Note to Trump’s Lawyer: Do Not Cooperate With Mueller Lynch Mob.” In his tweet, Mr. Whitaker wrote that it was “worth a read.” Mr. Whitaker also wrote an opinion article that same day for CNN’s website with the headline “Mueller’s Investigation of Trump Is Going Too Far.” He said the investigation needed to be limited. Mr. Whitaker, a former college football player, joined the Justice Department in October 2017 after Mr. Trump watched him as a CNN analyst and approved of his television appearances. World Patent Marketing was founded in 2014 and had the hallmarks of a legitimate business. It used a splashy website and other marketing materials to “create the impression that they have successfully helped other inventors,” the trade commission said in its complaint. In reality, the commission said, the Miami Beach company failed to make good on almost every promise it made to consumers, and strung them along for months or years after taking their money. When prospective customers left their contact information on the company website, an employee would call them back and follow a script: The company was an “invention powerhouse” with an “incredible advisory board,” including Mr. Whitaker, a “former United States attorney who was appointed by President George Bush.” Mr. Whitaker had served as the top prosecutor for the Southern District of Iowa, a position he held until 2009. In joining the board, Mr. Whitaker was quoted in a news release issued by the company as saying that he was honored to be a part of World Patent Marketing because it was a “trusted partner to many inventors.” In another news release, Mr. Whitaker was quoted as saying that “as a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization.” “World Patent Marketing,” the release continued, “goes beyond making statements about doing business ‘ethically’ and translates those words into action.” In footage uploaded to Vimeo, a video platform, in 2015, Mr. Whitaker can be seen reviewing an invention meant to reduce razor-blade cuts. Mr. Cooper also posted a picture of himself on social media with a smiling Mr. Whitaker at the company offices in Miami. The trade commission complaint said that consumers were told they had to spend about $3,000 for a “Global Invention Royalty Analysis” to begin the process of examining an invention with the goal of getting a patent. After making the payment, the company’s clients were then pitched various
[Marxism] Bach’s Day and Night
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[Marxism] Good News, the Stock Market Is Plunging: Thoughts on Wealth | Dean Baker on Patreon
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Re: [Marxism] Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures (Union of Concerned Scientists reverses position on nuclear)
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 11/9/18 9:47 AM, DW via Marxism wrote: Ah...a link from 2012 that says zip about the UCS change of position. Ok I don't care about the UCS change of position. Any defense of nuclear power that is based on a prerequisite of the NRC guarantee its safety is not worth the paper it is written on even if it UCS stationery. Just look who Trump is naming as NRC Commissioners: Caputo is a senior adviser to Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and previously served under Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), the past chairman of the panel that oversees the NRC. She previously worked for the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Exelon Corp., a large electric utility that operates more nuclear plants than any other company. Her term would expire in 2021 because she would replace a commissioner who left early. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/334663-trump-to-nominate-three-to-nuclear-commission --- The state of Nevada is trying to keep a federal regulator from being involved in decisions on a long-stalled nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The Las Vegas Sun reports the state filed its appeal late last month after Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commissioner David Wright, who was sworn in roughly two months ago, denied a request that he recuse himself. Nevada argues that Wright is biased and allowing him to participate in Yucca-related decisions would violate Nevada's due process rights. Nevada points to several actions and statements by Wright as evidence that he's biased, including his role in establishing a group the state says lobbies for the repository. https://foxreno.com/news/local/nevada-files-appeal-against-nuclear-regulatory-commissioner _ 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] Impeach
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Re: [Marxism] Why We’re Taking a Hard Look at Nuclear Power Plant Closures (Union of Concerned Scientists reverses position on nuclear)
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[Marxism] Why are Democrats okay with losing? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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. * Ever since the Democratic Party abandoned its New Deal legacy and adopted the neoliberal centrism associated with the Carter presidency and then cast in stone by the Democratic Leadership Council in 1985, each election loss has generated a chorus of remonstrations in the left-liberal press about the need to run “progressive” candidates if the party wants to win. The latest instance of this was a post to the Jacobin FB page that stated: “By running to the right, Democrats insist on losing twice: at the polls and in constructing an inspiring agenda. Bold left-wing politics are our only hope for long-term, substantive victory.” The question of why Democrats are so okay with losing has to be examined closely. In some countries, elections have huge consequences, especially in Latin America where a job as an elected official might be not only a source of income for a socialist parliamentarian but a trigger for a civil war or coup as occurred in Costa Rica in 1948 and in Chile in 1973 respectively. In the 2010 midterm elections, there was a massive loss of seats in the House of Representatives for the Democrats. In this month’s midterm elections, the Democrats hoped that a “Blue Wave” would do for them what the 2010 midterms did for the Republicans—put them in the driver’s seat. It turned out to be more of a “Blue Spray”, not to speak of the toothless response of House leader Nancy Pelosi who spoke immediately about how the Democrats can reach across the aisle to the knuckle-dragging racists of the Republican Party. full: https://louisproyect.org/2018/11/09/why-are-democrats-okay-with-losing/ _ 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] The Blue Trickle – The Call
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[Marxism] Impeach
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[Marxism] Capitalism: What it is and How to Abolish It
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[Marxism] Keystone Pipeline XL blocked by federal judge in major blow to Trump administration - The Washington Post
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[Marxism] Before he led the Justice Department, Matthew G. Whitaker promoted company accused of deceiving clients - The Washington Post
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[Marxism] Review of Ieva Jusionyte, "Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border"
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[Marxism] MR Online | Western media attacks critics of the White Helmets
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Re: [Marxism] Democrats Were Not "the Lesser Evil" for the Migrant Caravan
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. * Of course, a legitimate case can be made not to vote for the Democrats. I haven't done so since one election in the early 1970s, when I voted for Ron Dellums. I argue against voting for them and for building a mass working class party instead. However, I think it's a mistake to say that the Democrats are just the same as the Republicans. They aren't. They play a somewhat different role. Even before Trump seized near complete control over the Republican Party, that party was the main tool used to both frontally attack the working class as well as to divide it along racial, gender and national lines. In addition, it was the main party of global warming denialism. That role has been put on steroids by Trump. On the other hand, the Democrats, while they also were perfectly willing to attack the working class and also divided our class - as for example the Clinton administration's use of fear of criminals - but in the main their role has been to lure the working class into their party. To neuter the working class with kind words and faint promises. As has been said many times, it is the place where movements go to die. I think it weakens our argument against supporting the Democrats to say that they are just the same as the Republicans. Serious people look around. They see the difference. They tend to dismiss our more serious arguments based on this incorrect description. While the Left Voice article doesn't say it in so many words, that is the implication of it. There is a difference between whipping up the chauvinist hysteria in the way that Trump did and more or less being silent, as did the Democrats. Not that I support either, but I think we should recognize the difference. John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ 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] Mixed Results for Military Veterans as Democratic Candidates
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[Marxism] Fighting for justice for homeless people in Hungary. A Város Mindenkié | The City is for All- Call for Solidarity | Lefteast
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Re: [Marxism] 'It’s never going to be normal': California city in shock after gunman kills 12 | US news | The Guardian
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[Marxism] The nature of Labour parties - the NZ case
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