Re: [Marxism] https://truthout.org/articles/a-green-new-deal-must-prioritize-regenerative-agriculture/

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I don't know much about this issue but I have some nagging questions. Here
in New Zealand, where we have intensive dairy farming but the cattle are
outdoors, grazing in paddocks, dairy is deemed to account for about 50% of
NZ's greenhouse gas emissions. There are debates here about whether or not
the country's farmers need to cull their herds, use as yet undeveloped
(future) technologies, GM to modify the herd to reduce emissions etc.

I don't think the kind of diary farming New Zealand does is sustainable -
one tiny country producing and exporting such a disproportionate amount of
the world's milk seems out of kilter to me, but if New Zealand farming
practice already uses outdoor herd grazing, rotational practices that leave
land fallow for periods of time, and it still produces a nett greenhouse
gas surplus, then what does this all mean? Obviously vegans would say stop
drinking milk, stop any kind of animal farming, but I don't buy that as a
genuine solution.

Thoughts?
John

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> an excellent overview. I fully support the views of this article and have
> written a more extensive essay that dovetails with it here:
>
> https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/10/10/developing-a-marxist-approach-to-global-agriculture-a-primer-on-the-role-of-animals-in-maintaining-soil-health/
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> I've visited the Marin Carbon Farming Project as well. The author leaves
> out the most important aspect of this and other similar projects:
> regenerative agriculture is based on the use of animal husbandry,
> specifically mob grazing of cattle, to sequester the carbon. The Marin
> project does a kind of "free range" but it works similarly.
>
> David
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[Marxism] Support needed for prison reform activist Jock Palfreeman on hunger strike in Bulgaria (Green Left Weekly)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/support-needed-prison-reform-activist-jock-palfreeman-hunger-strike

Jock Palfreeman, an Australian serving a 20-year jail sentence in Bulgaria on 
trumped-up murder charges, has been on a hunger strike since April 21.

Palfreeman was imprisoned in 2009 after challenging up to 16 neo-Nazis who were 
attacking two young Roma boys in Sofia. Since then, he has dedicated his time 
to successfully reforming conditions for all 
prisoners
 — with success.

Palfreeman was instrumental in the formation of the Bulgarian Prisoners’ Rights 
Association (BPRA) which, over 7 years, has improved conditions for prisoners, 
including reducing beatings, torture, horrendous cell conditions and the use of 
isolation as punishment.

This helps explain why he is a target of prison authorities.

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[Marxism] Review of Shakespeare movie "All is True"

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All is not true but lots is good in the Shakespeare movie now showing in
Wellington. In *All is True*, Ben Elton’s script combines, happily to this
viewer, the little that's known of historical Shakespeare with some
thoughtful fantasising.

Slow burning at the start, the film takes a while to establish Kenneth
Branagh as a credible Shakespeare persona. No attempts are made to try and
suggest 16th/early 17th century speech sounds. This approach works most of
the time, although sometimes, when coupled with 21st century attitudes, any
illusion of reality drops away. As when Kathrny Wilder comes centre stage
as the bard’s stroppy teenage daughter Judith. Wilder and Judi Dench as
Anne Hathaway construct wonderful strong female characters but their
confident outspoken feminism is hard to credit in a mainly rural society
emerging from the Middle Ages.

Solid performances are turned in by all the actors but, for my money, Ian
McKellen steals the show. Revelling in his casting as the Earl of
Southhampton, McKellen brings class to the movie, in more ways than one. . .

full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/all-is-true/
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[Marxism] [UCE] How indigenous genocide contributed to climate change | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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[Marxism] Lenin, the Labour Party, and Democrats | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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By Doug Greene.

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[Marxism] The battle for Poland's history

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[Marxism] Is Rep. Tulsi Gabbard being doubly described unfairly for holding pro-drone, pro-occupation views?

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In 
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/10/bernie-sanders-and-the-movement-that-might-have-been/ 
Louis Proyect reviewed Jeffrey St. Clair's "Bernie & The Sandernistas" book 
and makes a point to highlight Sen. Sanders' support for drone war citing 
his 2016 "Meet the Press" interview.


It seems to me that although Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) doesn't call herself 
a socialist, much the same criticism of being pro-drone could be raised 
about her. I've written about this in 
https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/02/13/is-tulsi-gabbard-really-anti-war-no-shes-pro-drone-and-for-surgical-strikes/ 
where it seems to me that Gabbard is called "anti-war" or 
"anti-establishment" from supporters and critics alike and neither is 
correct in this description.


In 2018 she told Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept that she's pro-drone and 
used considerable pro-war propaganda anti-war activists used to oppose:



Jeremy Scahill: I’m wondering what your position, I know that in the
past you have said that you favor a small footprint approach with strike
forces and limited use of weaponized drones. Is that still your position
that you think that’s the — to the extent that you believe the U.S.
military should be used around the world for counterterrorism, is that
still your position?

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Well, when we’re dealing with the unconventional
threat of terrorist groups like ISIS, al Qaeda and some of these other
groups that are affiliated with them, we should not be using basically
what has been and continues to be the current policy of these mass
mobilization of troops, these long occupations and trillions of dollars
going in, really abusing the Authorization to Use Military Force and
taking action that expands far beyond the legal limitations of those
current AUMFs.

So, with these terrorist cells, for example, yes, I do still believe
that the right approach to take is these quick strike forces, surgical
strikes, in and out, very quickly, no long-term deployment, no long-term
occupation to be able to get rid of the threat that exists and then get
out and the very limited use of drones in those situations where our
military is not able to get in without creating an unacceptable level of
risk, and where you can make sure that you’re not causing, you know, a
large amount of civilian casualties.
Source: 
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ 
around 28m43s into the audio recording.


She's also for some occupations (so long as they're not "long-term" 
whatever that means) and what she said then she's never contradicted or 
claimed was unrepresentative of her views. She did another interview with 
The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald on 2019-05-09 
(https://theintercept.com/2019/05/09/watch-interview-with-democratic-congresswoman-and-2020-presidential-candidate-tulsi-gabbard/) 
and contradicted none of what she said to The Intercept in 2018. In other 
words, there's no reason to believe that the establishment-compatible 
language she told The Intercept in 2018 has changed.


Anti-war progressives and anti-war conservatives are interested in talking 
to her and about her campaign but they're not at all keen on bringing up 
this unchallenged 2018 Intercept interview.


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[Marxism] https://truthout.org/articles/a-green-new-deal-must-prioritize-regenerative-agriculture/

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an excellent overview. I fully support the views of this article and have
written a more extensive essay that dovetails with it here:
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/10/10/developing-a-marxist-approach-to-global-agriculture-a-primer-on-the-role-of-animals-in-maintaining-soil-health/

I've visited the Marin Carbon Farming Project as well. The author leaves
out the most important aspect of this and other similar projects:
regenerative agriculture is based on the use of animal husbandry,
specifically mob grazing of cattle, to sequester the carbon. The Marin
project does a kind of "free range" but it works similarly.

David
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[Marxism] Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Assad Crushed Dissent - The New York Times

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GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Syrian security officers hung Muhannad Ghabbash from 
his wrists for hours, beat him bloody, shocked him with electricity and 
stuck a gun in his mouth.


Mr. Ghabbash, a law student from Aleppo, repeatedly confessed his actual 
offense: organizing peaceful antigovernment protests. But the torture 
continued for 12 days, until he wrote a fictional confession to planning 
a bombing.


That, he said, was just the beginning.

full: 
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/11/world/middleeast/syria-torture-prisons.html

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[Marxism] Playing with Fire | Boston Review

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In their new book, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson 
describe fighting the fire of the 2008 financial crisis. But while they 
did rebuild the burnt towers of Wall Street, they left Main Street to 
dig out from the rubble.


http://bostonreview.net/politics/reed-hundt-playing-fire
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[Marxism] The Mismeasure of Minds | Boston Review

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Quite telling as well was the official report on The Bell Curve from the 
American Psychological Association. Drafted and unanimously approved by 
a committee of eleven prominent psychologists, the report sought to give 
a neutral summary of every side of the issue of race and intelligence. 
It drily concluded, “Explanations based on factors of caste and culture 
may be appropriate, but so far have little direct empirical support.” 
Such assessments no doubt provided The Bell Curve a legitimacy both as 
science and as policy that it would otherwise have been less likely to 
obtain.


Defenders of The Bell Curve seized the moment. A few months after the 
book was published, the Wall Street Journal published a full-page 
opinion piece titled “Mainstream Science on Intelligence.” Signed by 
more than fifty “experts in intelligence and allied fields” and written 
by Linda S. Gottfredson, an educational psychologist at the University 
of Delaware, the statement offered stirring support for The Bell Curve’s 
guiding principles and asserted that there was a “practical importance” 
to the science of racial differences in IQ.


full: http://bostonreview.net/race/michael-e-staub-mismeasure-minds
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[Marxism] A Green New Deal Must Prioritize Regenerative Agriculture

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[Marxism] Asia Times | Killing nature while playing geopolitics | Article

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Unbelievable. A relevant Pepe Escobar article.

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/05/article/killing-nature-while-playing-geopolitics/
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[Marxism] Productivity, investment and profitability | Michael Roberts Blog

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But why is productivity growth in the major economies falling? The 
productivity puzzle has been debated by mainstream economists for some 
time now. The ‘demand pull’ Keynesian explanation is that capitalism is 
in ‘secular stagnation’ due to a lack of ‘effective demand’,which is 
necessary to encourage capitalists to invest in productivity-enhancing 
technology. This is the view of such Keynesians as Larry Summers or 
Martin Wolf. It is also promoted in semi-Marxist form by John Bellamy 
Foster at the Monthly Review.


Then there is a ‘supply-side’ argument from other conventional 
economists that there are not enough effective productivity-enhancing 
technologies to invest in – the day of the computer, the internet etc, 
is over and there is nothing new that will have the same impact.  This 
thesis is strongly propounded by Robert J Gordon.


But there is also another very simple explanation. There are three 
factors behind productivity growth: the amount of labour employed, the 
amount invested in machinery and technology and the X-factor of the 
quality and innovatory skill of the workforce.  Mainstream growth 
accounting calls this last factor, total factor productivity (TFP), 
measured as the unaccounted-for (residual) contribution to productivity 
growth after capital invested and labour employed.


full: 
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/productivity-investment-and-profitability/

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[Marxism] Iran: Down with Trump’s Sanctions and Military Threats!

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Iran: Down with Trump’s Sanctions and Military Threats!

But no political support for the reactionary Mullah Regime in Teheran!

https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/down-with-trump-s-sanctions-and-military-threats-against-iran/

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