Re: [Marxism] Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 12/12/2010 11:38 PM, Greg McDonald wrote: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/wolf-n1.1.1.html Julian Assange Captured by World's Dating Police by Naomi Wolf I thought I asked for this thread to be dropped. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Irish Left Review considers the new United Left Alliance
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.irishleftreview.org/2010/12/13/ula-believed/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] NGO's a curse in Haiti
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-haiti-aid-20101213,0,6703100.story In Haiti, good intentions have unexpected and unfortunate results Some of the international community's aid efforts have caused problems, including an increase in housing prices, political turmoil and perhaps even the cholera epidemic. By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times December 13, 2010 Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti The wood-frame Carousel grammar school survived the earthquake that destroyed much of this city in January. Beatrice Moise had taught there for five years and hoped she would continue when schools reopened in spring. But in February she found out that the director had rented the building out to the international relief group Oxfam. Buildings in the upscale suburb of Petionville, where foreigners like to live and work, were in high demand, and Oxfam paid $10,000 a month. The students, mostly from wealthy families, would probably have little problem finding other schools. Moise and the other five teachers, however, were out of jobs. Now nearly a year after the disaster, Moise, 38, is working part time as a cashier at a grocery store, earning a quarter of what she made as a teacher, while the influx of foreigners with big budgets has nearly tripled her rent and doubled the price of food. Still, she doesn't blame the international groups — the blans (whites). She's applying for a secretarial position with Oxfam, and her brother already works there. I would rather lose my job than have the internationals leave, she said. They came here to help. The vast foreign aid apparatus in this Caribbean nation is struggling to make significant progress in easing Haiti's misery after the earthquake that killed an estimated 230,000 people. But the international community's good intentions have created some ambiguous or outright unpleasant side effects: an increase in housing prices that is pushing Haitian professionals out of apartments and offices; political turmoil in the wake of a hastily prepared presidential election; and quite likely the cholera epidemic that has killed more than 2,000 people. And the class benefiting the most financially from the international presence? The tiny wealthy elite so often disdained by foreigners for their perceived indifference to the rest of their country's plight. They own the car dealerships, the high-end grocery stores, the car rental and telecommunications firms, the office buildings, the luxury hotels and restaurants — which are getting more business than ever while more than a million people remain in tent camps. You wonder where all the money is going besides seeing all the blans driving new 4-by-4s, said Steeve Laguere, a Haitian-Canadian and longtime aid worker in Port-au-Prince who has worked for Catholic Relief Services and Plan International. And people are opening restaurants like there is no tomorrow. The Haitian government estimates that there are more than 4,000 foreign aid groups operating in the country of 10 million. With the help of the United Nations mission and the U.S. military, they coordinated a massive medical response after the earthquake and provided food, water and tents for the displaced and injured. And today, organizations are working to contain the cholera epidemic that started in October and has stricken about 100,000 people. There are proposals to build schools, hospitals, sanitation systems, public housing. But the delays, particularly in getting people out of the encampments and into temporary shelters, have given many poor Haitians the feeling that nothing has been done, that these new arrivals are touris — a word they have used disparagingly for the U.N. troops here almost since they arrived six years ago. The cholera epidemic only strengthened the notion that foreigners were muddling around with big clumsy feet. Haitians in the Artibonite Valley, where the waterborne disease first occurred, quickly blamed a U.N. base staffed by Nepalese troops near Mirebalais for dumping their waste into a tributary of the Artibonite River. The head of the U.N. mission denied this. But Haiti had not seen the disease in more than a century and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention subsequently determined that the strain of cholera did indeed come from South Asia. When a reporter and photographer visited the area in November, opinion on whether the Nepalese were at fault was sharply — almost violently — divided by who benefited from the U.N. presence and who did not. They don't need to be here, said Isaac Irat, 33. They don't give us work. They don't know what they're doing. They march out three times a day. They're looking for women. Others gathered to echo the
Re: [Marxism] Note TO Moderator
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == We need this dictator! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4 ;) Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Good Wikileaks Thought-Piece (No Sex Please!)
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Re: [Marxism] Sources, lit suggestions from comrades?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:24:32 -0600 Allen Ruff alr...@tds.net writes: An old friend and comrade, now a psychology professor, has asked me for some assistance. Two of her grad students have done papers that could use some perspectives from the left. Below, see what my friend describes; what she is looking for. Then if you have any suggestions, do send them my way. Thanks, -Allen _ / As part of the course, students... write an in-depth 30-35 /Second Paper: A CALL FOR THE INCREASED PARTICIPATION OF PSYCHOLOGISTS IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT/HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE: RELEVANT ISSUES AND OBSTACLES. In this paper the student addresses the 2007, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) of the United Nations (UN) publication of a set of guidelines for mental health and psychosocial support[1] http://us.mg5.mail.yahoo.com/dc/blank.html?bn=553.intl=us.lang=en-US#_ ftn1 within humanitarian emergency (armed conflict and/or natural disasters) response settings. She does a good job addressing the World Health Organization establishment of the Mental Health Gap Action Program (MHGAP) to support UN member states in scaling up care for priority mental health conditions, which was related to research on the negative impact of mental health issues such as depression, substance abuse, gender inequality and gender violence on development.She though presents these proposals as it they are supported by all of the UN and WHO and the international development community. I am suggesting that she contextualize these movements within the UN and WHO in terms of countervailing forces within these agencies and between these agencies and other international organization development agencies AID and International Monetary Fund. So again, any ideas on who is writing and analyzing this stuff internationally. She does a really good job looking at the hegemony of 'western psychology and speaking to western psychologists to recognize indigenous psychologies as equal partners in undertaking the work ahead. She does not though look at the role of western psychology in supporting western capitalist interventions in developing countries. So any ideas of resources would be wonderful./ What is meant by western psychology in this context? Would Pavlov's physiological psychology be classified as Western? How about Vygotsky's or Luria's? Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Obama Urges Homeowners to Refinance If you owe under $729k you probably qualify for Obama's Refi Program http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d064d0e737d8762e1ast02vuc Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Counterpunch December 13, 2010 Bush Was Right to Go to War Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize? By TARIQ ALI Last year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize escalated the war in Afghanistan a few weeks after receiving the prize. The award surprised even Obama. This year the Chinese government were foolish to make a martyr of the president of Chinese PEN and neo-con Liu Xiaobo. He should never have been arrested, but the Norwegian politicians who comprise the committee, led by Thorbjørn Jagland, a former Labour prime minister, wanted to teach China a lesson. And so they ignored their hero's views. Or perhaps they didn't, given that their own views are not dissimilar. The committee thought about giving Bush and Blair a joint peace prize for invading Iraq but a public outcry forced a retreat. For the record, Liu Xiaobo has stated publicly that in his view: (a) China's tragedy is that it wasn't colonised for at least 300 years by a Western power or Japan. This would apparently have civilised it for ever; (b) The Korean and Vietnam wars fought by the US were wars against totalitarianism and enhanced Washington's 'moral credibility'; (c) Bush was right to go to war in Iraq and Senator Kerry's criticisms were 'slander-mongering'; (d) Afghanistan? No surprises here: Full support for Nato's war. He has a right to these opinions, but should they get a peace prize? The Norwegian jurist Fredrik Heffermehl argues that the committee is in breach of the will and testament left behind by the inventor of dynamite whose bequests fund the prizes: 'The Nobel committee has not received prize money for free use, but was entrusted with money to give to the pivotal element in creating peace, breaking the vicious circle of arms races and military power games. From this point of view the 2010 Nobel is again an illegitimate prize awarded by an illegitimate committee.' Tariq Ali’s latest book “The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad’ is published by Verso. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:45 PM, Vladimiro Giacche' wrote: I wonder why the more meritorious Mumia Abu-Jamal HASN'T received the Nobel award...This also should MATTER a little bit, if we are talking of a Nobel PEACE Price... Can you explain me this strange fact, comrade Shane? The Nobel Committee are *bourgeois* democrats. Mumia is a revolutionary democrat Liu is a bourgeois democrat. The Chinese Stalinists made him an unavoidable cause celebre. Comprends-tu? The Nobel was properly awarded not for Liu's own merits--I'm sure that Mumia Abu-Jamal is more meritorious--but because the Chinese government felt, with good reason, so threatened by public demands for democracy (Charter '08) that they made him the most prominent and symbolically important political prisoner in the world. *Not* awarding the Nobel to Liu would have been even more craven and disgraceful than was awarding it to Obama. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:45:33 +0100 Vladimiro Giacche' md1...@mclink.it writes: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I wonder why the more meritorious Mumia Abu-Jamal HASN'T received the Nobel award, in spite of the fact that HE isn't a warmonger like Liu Xiaobo. This also should MATTER a little bit, if we are talking of a Nobel PEACE Price... Can you explain me this strange fact, comrade Shane? V Doesn't the question answer itself? Consider some of the people who have won the Prize: Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Yitzhak Rabin, and Barack Obama, war mongers all. Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math Go Back to School Grant Funding May Be Available to Those Who Qualify http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/4d067b7e54ad3793646st01vuc Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The other side of the student demo?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Dubstep rebellion - the British banlieue comes to Millbank* *1930: *They marched to parliament square, got stopped, surged through police lines and trampled onto the grass that had been so painstakingly regrown after the eviction of the peace camp. And then they danced. The man in charge of the sound system was from an eco-farm, he told me, and had been trying to play politically right on reggae; however a crowd in which the oldest person was maybe seventeen took over the crucial jack plug, inserted it into aBlackberry, (iPhones are out for this demographic) and pumped out the dubstep. Young men, mainly black, grabbed each other around the head and formed a surging dance to the digital beat lit, as the light failed, by the distinctly analog light of a bench they had set on fire. Any idea that you are dealing with Lacan-reading hipsters from Spitalfields on this demo is mistaken. While a good half of the march was undergraduates from the most militant college occupations - UCL, SOAS, Leeds, Sussex - the really stunning phenomenon, politically, was the presence of youth: *bainlieue*-style youth from Croydon, Peckam, the council estates of Islington. Read the rest at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/ Those unfamiliar with Mason should take a look at his Live Working or Die Fighting, the best account of syndicalism ever written by a mainstream BBC journo. regards Mike Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: I wonder why the more meritorious Mumia Abu-Jamal HASN'T received the Nobel award... Doesn't the question answer itself? Consider some of the people who have won the Prize: Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Yitzhak Rabin, and Barack Obama, war mongers all. And consider some who have: Carl von Ossietsky, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Aung San Su Kyi, bourgeois democratic political prisoners all. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Shane Mage wrote On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: I wonder why the more meritorious Mumia Abu-Jamal HASN'T received the Nobel award... Doesn't the question answer itself? Consider some of the people who have won the Prize: Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Yitzhak Rabin, and Barack Obama, war mongers all. And consider some who have: Carl von Ossietsky, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and Aung San Su Kyi, bourgeois democratic political prisoners all. I think that for our purposes the Nobel does not by nature of its commission and structure with any consistency honor those who have the same principles and criteria for honor that we have and we should ignore it or/and displace it. Period. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/lnp3%40panix.com * *References*: o *Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize? http://www.marxmail.org/msg85475.html* + /From:/ Jim Farmelant farmela...@juno.com * Prev by Date: *[Marxism] The other side of the student demo? http://www.marxmail.org/msg85476.html* * Previous by thread: *Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize? http://www.marxmail.org/msg85475.html* * Next by thread: *[Marxism] New title: VOICES OF THE WORLD by BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS http://www.marxmail.org/msg85471.html* * Index(es): o *Date* http://www.marxmail.org/maillist.html#85477 o *Thread* http://www.marxmail.org/threads.html#85477 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I am a communist. I'm not a bourgeois democrat and I'm not a fan of war and of british colonialism (!) like the winner of the so called Nobel Peace Prize. I would say more: THIS winner gives me further good reasons to denigrate this ludicrous Peace Prize and its revolting double standard philosophy. V I would agree with you except...except that the Chinese regime, far from ignoring it, unleashed the largest-scale censorship campaign in recorded history against it. So it is his jailers who have made the political prisoner Liu a worldwide cause celèbre. And forced even those democracy advocates who otherwise would gladly denigrate the Peace Prize to support its award in the present situation. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/md1101%40mclink.it Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I would agree with you except...except that the Chinese regime, far from ignoring it, unleashed the largest-scale censorship campaign in recorded history against it. This seems to have a lot to do with intensifying U.S.-China rivalry. In that context, Liu Xiaobo's support for U.S. imperialist endeavors has relevance. Today's Times has a report about Japan shifting its military strategy for a future conflict with China: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/world/asia/13japan.html?ref=world Glenn Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't mean to rain on anybody's parade, but WTF? Who cares who wins the Nobel Peace or any other Prize? Friedman won one, didn't he, in some category-- was it platform diving, or death squad macro-economics? I forget. This is all about whichever darling is the darlingest of the capitalists' darlings at the given moment. It's all a spectacle. It's supposed to be entertainment. And to us, it's just one more endowment designed to keep graveyard capitalism from dissolving into a pool of its own rot. What the CPC leadership is upset? Liu Xiaobo admires British colonialism? Fantastic. They deserve each other. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == S. Artesian: Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't mean to rain on anybody's parade, but WTF? Who cares who wins the Nobel Peace or any other Prize? Gossip interest. This list, like the other left lists, is at least 2/3 gossip. The other third sometimes has political relevance. Carrol Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Oz media backs Wikileaks in letter to government
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/media-says-governments-reaction-to-wikileaks-troubling-20101214-18vrb.html Media says government's reaction to WikiLeaks 'troubling' December 14, 2010 - 8:22AM Australia's main media players say the federal government's reaction to the release of diplomatic correspondence by the WikiLeaks website is deeply troubling. The country's *newspaper editors* http://www.walkleys.com/news/1076/, along with television and radio directors, have written an open letter to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in support of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. The letter is supported by the editor-in-chief of *The Sydney Morning Herald *and *Sun Herald*, Peter Fray, whose newspapers have reported on the secret US embassy cables provided exclusively to Fairfax newspapers. The volume of the leaks is unprecedented, yet the leaking and publication of diplomatic correspondence is not new, the letter, initiated by the Walkley Foundation, states. We ... believe the reaction of the US and Australian governments to date has been deeply troubling. We will strongly resist any attempts to make the publication of these or similar documents illegal. The editors and directors say any attempt to shut down WikiLeaks, prosecute those who publish official leaks, or pressure companies to cease working with the whistle-blower website is a serious threat to democracy which relies on a free and fearless press. Ms Gillard has declared the actions of WikiLeaks and Mr Assange illegal. Attorney-General Robert McClelland has said the initial leaking of classified documents and their subsequent distribution by WikiLeaks are likely to be illegal. But the media's open letter notes that so far the government has been able to point to no Australian law that has been breached. The editors and directors state that WikiLeaks is simply doing what the media has always done - expose official secrets that governments would prefer to keep in the dark. WikiLeaks, just four years old, is part of the media and deserves our support. Almost 600,000 people have signed a separate online petition in support of WikiLeaks ahead of a second appearance in court in London by Mr Assange. The petition on campaigning website Avaaz calls on the US and other nations to stop the crackdown on WikiLeaks and its partners immediately and to respect the laws of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. *AAP * -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't know that there's much point arguing about vocabulary, but I'm really not sure that King belongs in that same category, given the ambiguities in his ideas about a poor people's movement. Had circumstances required them to be more nailed down, it might be a different matter. My sense is always that he fell into a broadly socialist tradition among radical clergy going back to the social gospel of the late 19th century. ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Joaquín Bustelo wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 12/13/2010 4:01 PM, Shane Mage quoted me: WTF does that mean? MLK bourgeois democratic? On 12/13/2010 4:01 PM, Shane Mage replied: That his political program, if realized, would have made the capitalist regime (much) more democratic but would neither have overthrown it nor made despotic inroads on capitalist private property. This is *exactly* the response I thought my comment would evoke. Because my position is that it is NOT about program. It is about *movement*. But the question was not about movements. It was about individuals, since these awards were to individuals though all of them (plus, even especially, Liu Xiaobo) symbolized movements. And all those individuals, whatever the nature and potential of their movements (antifascist, civil-rights, antiapartheid, buddhist, anti-corruption) were and are in their self-conception bourgeois democrats. Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] So Much for Left Wing Solidarity i n South America
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't doubt what Joaquín says here, but I will say this: Lulas support is strictly on the basis of class. Only workers and poor people are with him. Middle-class brasileiros are all against him, from what I have been hearing from Brazil. They say it is because of the corruption of his government and may even call Dilma a terrorist. That is their good reason. Their real reason is because Lula and the PT represent the people who wash their dishes and windows, clean their streets, and do the heavy lifting in the growing Brazilian capitalist economy. Class distinctions are quite clear in Brazil, and the gulf between classes is wide. To be certain, the PT has not led the working people in revolution, and it has made some unfortunate compromises with the IMF and World Bank, to the detriment of the Brazilian working class. But working-class brasileiros and brasileiras know that the PT is their party, not on the basis of Brazilian nationalism, or Latin American nationalism, or anti-imperialism, but because of class. This is not to make a statement about nationalism or anti-imperialism, where, frankly, the PT could be stronger. It is to say, and I say this in all certainty, that the bourgeois and petit-bourgeois of Brazil feel less hostility to the U.S. and to world imperialism than they do toward the workers and poor people of their own country. And its possible (this is speculation on my part) that Brazilian workers are not inspired to fight against the IMF, World Bank, and other agents of imperialism because the Brazilian boss class is the enemy that they can see up close and personal, and the United States is far away. Tom -Original Message- Lula's solidarity is significant not only because he is president of one of the largest countries in the world but because he is almost certainly the head of state/government with the greatest support anywhere in the world, with an overwhelming 84% approval rating. And, oh yeah, lest I forget: he is a working class hero. Joaquín Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Assange gains influential backers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://voices.washingtonpost.com/spy-talk/2010/12/wikileakss_assange_gains_influ.html Posted at 3:23 PM ET, 12/13/2010 WikiLeaks’s Assange gains influential defenders By Jeff Stein The predominant consensus in official Washington that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should eventually stand trial here on espionage charges is not likely to change anytime soon. But three influential voices are now saying publicly what many others say privately: that blame should be focused on leakers, not Assange, who after all was merely the middleman for the handful of newspapers and magazines that were given first crack at classified military and diplomatic documents. On Friday Jack L. Goldsmith, “widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament” when he joined the Bush administration Justice Department in 2003, according to a typical assessment, wrote that he found himself “agreeing with those who think Assange is being unduly vilified.” “I certainly do not support or like his disclosure of secrets that harm U.S. national security or foreign policy interests,” Goldsmith wrote on the Lawfare blog. “But as all the hand-wringing over the 1917 Espionage Act shows, it is not obvious what law he has violated. It is also important to remember, to paraphrase Justice Stewart in the Pentagon Papers, that the responsibility for these disclosures lies firmly with the institution empowered to keep them secret: the Executive branch.” Goldsmith called the government “unconscionably lax in allowing Bradley Manning,” an Army private arrested on suspicion of giving WikiLeaks Afghan and Iraq war documents last summer, “to have access to all these secrets and to exfiltrate them so easily.” “I do not understand why so much ire is directed at Assange and so little at the New York Times,” continued Goldsmith, who resigned from the Justice Department after only nine months on the job because he disagreed with its legal rationalizations for waterboarding and other counter-terrorism tactics. Goldsmith's remarks came only a few days after libertarian standard-bearer Rep. Ron Paul virtually celebrated WikiLeaks for exposing America's “delusional foreign policy.” “When presented with embarrassing disclosures about U.S. spying and meddling, the policy that requires so much spying and meddling is not questioned,” said the nominal Texas Republican, denouncing calls for prosecuting Assange. “Instead the media focuses on how authorities might prosecute the publishers of such information.” On Monday influential Harvard political scientist Stephen M. Walt endorsed Goldsmith’s views, asking whether The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward shouldn’t be prosecuted for publishing secrets if Assange was. I keep thinking about the Wikileaks affair,” Walt wrote for NPR’s Web site, “and I keep seeing the double-standards multiplying. Given how frequently government officials leak classified information in order to make themselves look good, box in their bureaucratic rivals, or tie the President's hands, it seems a little disingenuous of them to be so upset by Assange's activities.” Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] So Much for Left Wing Solidarity in South America
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And the working people of Britain knew that the Labor Party was their party. They knew it stood for them and against all those public school bastards with the posh accents. They knew all of that didn't they? Until they didn't know it anymore. And do I think Lula is the equivalent of a Wilson or a Callahan? You bet. - Original Message - From: Thomas Bias bia...@embarqmail.com To: sartes...@earthlink.net Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:55 PM, S. Artesian wrote: It's a disgrace to the memory, and the legacy, of MLK to compare him to Mandela. Ah, but what would you have written about him had Mandela been assassinated on the morrow of his Nobel? Shane Mage Thunderbolt steers all things. Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Does Liu Xiaobo Really Deserve the Peace Prize?
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't give a damn about his Nobel-- MLK marched with the sanitation workers of Memphis-- anybody who knows anything about Memphis and the legacy of Boss Crump knows that puts MLK on the working class side of the dividing line. Mandela went to the ruling class side of the dividing line. Nothing says MLK was a Lenin or a Trotsky-- and I'm more than OK with that. But he stands miles taller than Mandela. Nelson that is. - Original Message - From: Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Glenn Greenwald's interview with Nir Rosen on his new book Aftermath of US wars
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/?source=newsletterutm_source=contactologyutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Hawaii's Legal Case Against the United States
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == *Hawaii's Legal Case Against the United States* Jon Letman, Truthout: Imagine if you grew up being told that you had been adopted, only to learn that you were, in fact, kidnapped. That might spur you to start searching for the adoption papers. Now imagine that you could find no papers and no one could produce any. That's how Dr. David Keanu Sai, a retired Army Captain with a PhD in political science and instructor at Kapiolani Community College in Hawaii, characterizes Hawaii's international legal status. Since 1993, Sai has been researching the history of the Kingdom of Hawaii and its complicated relationship to the United States. http://www.truth-out.org/sai-v-obama-et-al-hawaiis-legal-case-against-united-states65850 Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Assange gains influential backers
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Joaquín writes: And the only reason why the question would even ARISE about whether Assange ran afoul of Saudi Arabia's anti-liquor laws, or yanquilandia's espionage laws, is that we are assiduous ass-lickers of American Imperialism's butt-hole. Because nobody on this list has ever expressed an opinion even suggesting (however subtly) that they gave a rat's fuck about the Saudi liquor laws. But not so about American imperialism's laws. Not quite. Few people outside Saudi Arabia have any fear of the Saudi liquor laws because the Saudi monarchy does not claim that the whole world lies within its jurisdiction and, even if it did make such an extraterritorial claim, the monarchy would lack the means to enforce its laws outside the borders of Saudi Arabia. The US on the other hand, has enough client states that are willing to lawlessly turn a blind eye to or collaborate with the increasing criminality of the US legal system, including its use of trumped up charges, kidnappings and renditions, against people around the world. People like Assange need to take into account the power of the US state to subject people outside the US to the rule of its law, and the willingness and ability of the US to concoct legal pretexts, as it goes along, to deal with or dispose of those it declares to be enemies. Lajany Otum Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Hawaii's Legal Case Against the United States
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Yes, but this is pretty common knowledge, though, isn't it? ML Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism-Thaxis] Explanation needed
Without places like the facility you're seeing in this article you'd HAVE NO INTERNET. Would you like that? ^ CB: I wonder.Is the internet a net plus or minus for humanity ? ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Europeans Accused of Paranoia
Europeans Accused of Paranoia
Over Fears of US Economic Espionage, Documents Reveal
by Tom Burghardt
Antifascist Calling (December 07 2010)
Exploring the shadowlands of the corporate police state
Confidential State Department documents released by the whistleblowing web
site WikiLeaks {1}, revealed that a European Parliamentary vote earlier
this year that suspended participation in a US government program that
secretly monitored international bank transactions, surprised and angered
the Obama administration.
In a stunning rebuke of US policies the February 2010 memo, Chancellor
Merkel Angered by Lack of German MEP Support for TFTP, 10BERLIN180 {2}
provided new evidence that the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (also
known as Swift) is viewed skeptically by the European public and their
representatives.
Distrust of the Swift program runs deep and its War on Terror pedigree
is considered little more than a pretext for American spies to carry out
economic espionage on behalf of US multinationals.
Alarmed over privacy breaches by American firms and criminal acts, such as
the illegal US transfer of prisoners on CIA black flights, aided and
abetted by European intelligence agencies, outraged public opinion forced
the hand of parliamentarians, who voted overwhelming to suspend the
program.
German opposition to Swift was particularly damaging The New York Times
{3} reported, because the country was among a handful of allies that,
according to a 2006 cable, made up a 'coalition of the constructive'
organized to ensure that the Swift operation was not 'ruined by privacy
experts'.
Launched shortly after the 9/11 provocation by the Bush administration,
the secret program handed American officials unprecedented access to
global financial information on bank transactions routed through a vast
database administered by the Swift consortium in Brussels.
Access to such unique data would be particularly valuable to US
corporations. In light of evidence published in a 2001 European Parliament
report {4} that the National Security Agency's ECHELON program was a cover
for economic espionage, such fears are not unfounded.
Since the program's disclosure in 2006 by The New York Times {5},
criticism over its operations have mounted steadily.
CIA and Treasury Department officials secretly poured over records of some
$6 trillion dollars in daily financial transactions flowing through global
banks and brokerage houses.
European Union regulators, the ACLU {6} reported, found that the mass
financial prying was not legally authorized, was conducted without proper
checks and balances, and violated several important rules established to
protect the privacy of Europeans.
Increasing the creep factor amongst EU officials, the ACLU disclosed {7}
that the ultra-spooky Booz Allen Hamilton corporation had been hired to
oversee the program by the federal government.
Concluding that the firm was not an independent check on Swift
surveillance, the civil liberties' watchdogs wrote that Booz Allen is one
of the largest US Government contractors, with hundreds of millions of
dollars in US Government contracts awarded each year. Booz Allen has a
history of working closely with US Government agencies on electronic
surveillance, including the Total Information Awareness program.
Initial misgivings amongst the public and privacy advocates have since
blossomed into outright hostility, thus setting the stage for last
summer's vote.
Cynical Maneuvers
Noting that the American-led War on Terror coalition is fraying at the
seams, US Ambassador to Berlin Philip Murphy, wrote that Merkel is
particularly irritated with German MEPs from her Christian Democratic
Union (CDU) and sister Christian Social Union (CSU) parties, most of whom
reportedly voted against the agreement despite previously indicating they
would support it.
The ambassador claimed that public German reactions to the European
Parliament's vote have come exclusively from TFTP detractors who
portrayed the veto as a sign that the European Parliament has won a
victory over an arrogant Commission/Council, as well as delivering a
rebuke to US counterterrorism policies that undervalue data privacy.
Free Democratic Party (FDP) Federal Justice Minister Sabine
Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a member of Merkel's coalition, was derided
by Murphy as a strong proponent of data privacy rights, who had welcomed
the vote saying that the citizens of Europe have won a victory today that
strengthened not just data protection, but democracy in all of Europe.
That's certainly a diplomatic way of saying they don't trust their
American allies!
Undeterred however, Murphy recommended that the US crank up the Mighty
Wurlitzer {8} disinformation machine a decibel or two.
These events, the ambassador wrote, suggest the need to intensify our
engagement with German government interlocutors, Bundestag and European
parliamentarians, and opinion makers to demonstrate that the US has strong
data privacy
[Marxism-Thaxis] The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer Dan DiMaggio Monthy Review December 2010 http://www.monthlyreview.org/101201dimaggio.php Standardized testing has become central to education policy in the United States. After dramatically expanding in the wake of the No Child Left Behind Act, testing has been further enshrined by the Obama administration's $3.4 billion Race to the Top grants. Given the ongoing debate over these policies, it might be useful to hear about the experiences of a hidden sector of the education workforce: those of us who make our living scoring these tests. Our viewpoint is instructive, as it reveals the many contradictions and absurdities built into a test-scoring system run by for- profit companies and beholden to school administrators and government officials with a stake in producing inflated numbers. Our experiences also provide insight into how the testing mania is stunting the development of millions of young minds. I recently spent four months working for two test- scoring companies, scoring tens of thousands of papers, while routinely clocking up to seventy hours a week. This was my third straight year doing this job. While the reality of life as a test scorer has recently been chronicled by Todd Farley in his book Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry, a scathing insider's account of his fourteen years in the industry, I want to tell my story to affirm that Farley's indictment is rooted in experiences common throughout the test-scoring world.1 Wait, someone scores standardized tests? I thought those were all done by machines. This is usually the first response I get when I tell people I've been eking out a living as a test-scoring temp. The companies responsible for scoring standardized tests have not yet figured out a way to electronically process the varied handwriting and creative flourishes of millions of third to twelfth graders. Nor, to my knowledge, have they begun to outsource this work to India. Instead, every year, the written-response portions of innumerable standardized tests given across the country are scored by human beings-tens of thousands of us, a veritable army of temporary workers. I often wonder who students (or teachers and parents, for that matter) picture scoring their papers. When I was a student, I envisioned my tests being graded by qualified teachers in another part of the country, who taught the grade level and subject corresponding to the tests. This idea, it turns out, is as much a fantasy as imagining all the tests are being scored by machines. Test scoring is a huge business, dominated by a few multinational corporations, which arrange the work in order to extract maximum profit. I was shocked when I found out that Pearson, the first company I worked for, also owned the Financial Times, The Economist, Penguin Books, and leading textbook publisher Prentice Hall. The CEO of Pearson, Marjorie Scardino, ranked seventeenth on the Forbes list of the one hundred most powerful women in the world in 2007. Test-scoring companies make their money by hiring a temporary workforce each spring, people willing to work for low wages (generally $11 to $13 an hour), no benefits, and no hope of long-term employment-not exactly the most attractive conditions for trained and licensed educators. So all it takes to become a test scorer is a bachelor's degree, a lack of a steady job, and a willingness to throw independent thinking out the window and follow the absurd and ever-changing guidelines set by the test-scoring companies. Some of us scorers are retired teachers, but most are former office workers, former security guards, or former holders of any of the diverse array of jobs previously done by the currently unemployed. When I began working in test scoring three years ago, my first team leader was qualified to supervise, not because of his credentials in the field of education, but because he had been a low-level manager at a local Target. In the test-scoring centers in which I have worked, located in downtown St. Paul and a Minneapolis suburb, the workforce has been overwhelmingly white-upwards of 90 percent. Meanwhile, in many of the school districts for which these scores matter the most-where officials will determine whether schools will be shut down, or kids will be held back, or teachers fired-the vast majority are students of color. As of 2005, 80 percent of students in the nation's twenty largest school districts were youth of color. The idea that these cultural barriers do not matter, since we are supposed to be grading all students by the same standard, seems far-fetched, to say the least. Perhaps it would be better to outsource the jobs to India, where the cultural gap might, in some ways, be smaller. Many test scorers have been doing this job for years- sometimes a decade or more. Yet these are the ultimate in temporary, seasonal jobs. The Human Resources people who interview and hire you are temps, as
[Marxism-Thaxis] Ask Charles Yu Anything About How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe
http://io9.com/5710543/ask-charles-yu-anything-about-how-to-live-safely-in-a-science-fictional-universe?skyline=trues=i Ask Charles Yu Anything About How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe We've been talking about Charles Yu's book How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe over at the io9 Book Club, and now Yu is going to drop in to answer your questions. Post them in comments below! Post your questions, and Yu will stop by tomorrow between 2-3 Pacific Time to answer. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] A 75, 000-year-old human settlement may lurk beneath the Persian Gulf
A 75,000-year-old human settlement may lurk beneath the Persian Gulf io9.com Evidence is mounting that the first human civilization outside of Africa probably evolved in what is now the Persian Gulf. Recent discoveries suggest that we're about to find a fairly advanced civilization sunk beneath the waters of the Gulf. http://io9.com/5710957/a-75000+year+old-human-settlement-may-lurk-beneath-the-persian-gulf?skyline=trues=i ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Новое сообщени е
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[Marxism-Thaxis] Bill Meyer Gigs Dec 15-31st
BILL MEYER DECEMBER 15th-31st GIG NOTIFICATION TIME Here are some PUBLIC gigs where you can hear me play, if you are so inclined. Would love to see you! WED. DEC 15th - 6:30-8:30pm – Southfield Library Auditorium, 26300 Evergreen Rd at Civic Center Drive (10 ½ Mi Rd) BILL MEYER SOLO ( FRIENDS) – I’ll sing, play and chat about some of my musical influences: ragtime, boogie, shuffle, stride, New Orleans, jazz, bebop, Latin and more. The second part of the show will feature Leonard Chapital on drums, Dave Reinstein on horns and other friends helping me out. NO CHARGE; http://www.southfieldlibrary.org/events/jazz-blues-bill-meyer-and-friends THUR. Dec 16th - 8:45p-12:45am – Berts Marketplace, 2727 Russell St in the Detroit Eastern Market. THE SBH TRIO, with Bill Meyer on piano, Damon Warmack bass, Mike Brown drums Special JAZZY BLUES NIGHT with guest host NOVELLA G $3 cover, free parking, great food! THUR. Dec 23rd - 8:30p-12:30am – Berts Marketplace, 2727 Russell St in the Detroit Eastern Market. THE SBH TRIO, with Bill Meyer on piano, Ibrahim Jones bass, David Brandon drums Special MOTOWN CHRISTMAS NIGHT with guest host MARTHA REEVES $3 cover, free parking, great food! THUR. Dec 30th - 8:30p-12:30am – Berts Marketplace, 2727 Russell St in the Detroit Eastern Market. THE SBH TRIO, with Bill Meyer on piano, Jim Simonson bass, David Brandon drums Special DAY BEFORE NEW YEARS EVE PARTY with guest host MARTHA REEVES $3 cover, free parking, great food! FRI. Dec 31st - 9p-1am – Virgil Carr Arts League, 311 E. Grand River, Detroit (313) 965-8430 Ozzie Rivera’s LA INSPIRACION, 12 piece Salsa Band will be featured in an exciting NEW YEARS EVE PARTY; CALL FOR COST; http://www.artsleague.com/ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Cuba and South Africa Upgrade Economic Links
Cuba and South Africa Upgrade Economic Links (Three Takes) (1) Raul Castro Meets South African President By Ileana Ferrer Fonte Prensa Latina December 7, 2010 http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=244776Itemid=1 Havana Cuba's President Raul Castro held official talks with his South African peer Jacob Zuma at the Palace of the Revolution, in which they dealt with bilateral and international issues. Cuba and South Africa for Better Economic Links The visitor was awarded with the Jose Marti Order, the highest decoration given by Cuba. After the protocol ceremony, the two presidents analyzed the excellent state of bilateral relations, expressing the common purpose to continue strengthening them, as well as discussed several international issues. South African Foreign and Cooperation Minister Nkoana- Mashabane, Cuban Vice President of the Council of State Esteban Lazo and acting Foreign Minister Marcelino Medina also attended the meeting. Zuma traveled to Cuba with the aim of expanding relations with the Caribbean island, particularly on the economic and trade fields. The two countries enjoy very good political bonds since they established diplomatic relations in 1994. (2) Zuma Closes South Africa-Cuba Forum By Ileana Ferrer Fonte Prensa Latina December 7, 2010 http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=244826Itemid=1 Havana South African President Jacob Zuma is attending on Tuesday in this capital the final session of the business forum between his country and Cuba, opened on Monday with nearly one hundred businessmen from both nations. According to the forum's agenda, South African Ministry of Industry and Trade Robert Davies; Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) vice president, Mthunzi Mdwaba, and Cuba's Chamber of Commerce President Estrella Madrigal, among others, addressed the meeting. Participants held extensive exchange in negotiation rounds on agriculture, energy, mining and oil, construction and infrastructure, medical-pharmaceutical industry, and on information technology. Cuban Minister for Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca stated the South African market is full of potentials for the Caribbean nation, and called to invigorate its presence, according to both countries' interests and possibilities. Davies highlighted the importance of strengthening the links and takes them to an excellent level, the same the political relations now have. He said there are potentials to promote greater investment of South African capital in the island, in sectors such as energy industry, extraction of nickel and other minerals, tourism and biotechnology. The forum, organized by the CCC and BUSA, proved there are real potential for cooperation in construction, energy, mining, sugar cane industry, medicine and pharmacy, and other sectors, are analyzed. (3) Cuba and South Africa for Better Economic Links December 7, 2010 http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=Cuba+and+South+Africa+for+Better+Economic+Links+d=27025772573622416mkt=en-USsetlang=en-USw=b3704588,9c99d58e Havana More than 50 businessmen from South Africa started a forum to strengthen the commercial and economic links in the frame of the visit of South African President Jacob Zuma. The reunion is organized by the Cuban Chamber of Commerce and the Business Unity South Africa. Possible cooperation in construction, energy, mining, agriculture, industry, medicine and pharmacy, among other sectors, are analyzed. South African Ministry of Industry and Trade, Robert Davies, highlighted the importance of strengthening the links and take them to an excellent level, the same the political relations now have. Davies said that though the exchange has grown in the last years, it is quite below the real possibilities, and there is a long path to go, still. He expressed the interest of the South African entrepreneurs to participate in the development of tourism and other sectors like oil and renewable energy in Cuba. Cuban Minister for Foreign Trade and Investment Rodrigo Malmierca said that for Cuba, the South African market is full of vitality, so he called for strengthening its presence. He said that the Cuban government is working to increase efficiency and promote export operations and import replacement. At the beginning of the forum Cuban Chamber of Commerce president Estrella Madrigal said this is the third occasion in the last two years in which meetings between delegations from both countries meet each other. It is our purpose that this meeting contributes to materialize wealthy and advantageous businesses, and the possibility to identify new changes for business, she stated. The initial stage of the meeting will conclude on Tuesday, including presentations on the panorama of the South African economy and the chances for businesses in Cuba. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your
[Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige
The Fate of a Cold War Vestige by Dmitry Orlov Club Orlov (November 28 2010) ...It is something of a law of history that sooner or later all empires must collapse. ^ CB: See _Dialectics of Nature_ by Frederick Engels. _Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. Nothing lasts forever. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Workers World Party, 1970-2010
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Workers World Party, 1970-2010 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2010, 4:00 P.M. 5920 SECOND AVENUE, DETROIT (at Antoinette St., just north of Wayne State University) $10 for dinner Call 313-680-5508 for more information Forty years ago the Detroit branch of Workers World Party was founded. Come to the 40th anniversary celebration dinner. See and hear about the legacy of revolutionary struggle in the City of Detroit, the fight against war and racism, community organizing, union battles and more that Detroit Workers World has organized and contributed to and which continues even more urgently today. Speakers, photo boards and power point presentation. Bring your own memories, stories, photos and mementos. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] the Hayden letter
the Hayden letter John So I started reading this letter which sounded pretty good and it looked like I signed it, so I read further and discovered that it was to as a member of a group I didn’t know I belonged to called the “Left Establishment.” As I kept reading, it was a vile, toxic diatribe ending with a demand that I, along with the rest of the “Left Establishment”, endorse a demonstration this week in Washington featuring civil disobedience at the White House fence. To whomever sent the letter, I have to say I’m sorry that I just don’t respond positively to nasty invitations. I hope you can understand. Calm down and tell me who you are before the conspiracy theories mushroom. Actually, I thought the Dec. 16 action seemed somewhat justifiable in light of current events – the WikiLeaks releases and erupting divisions within the Democratic Party. And I love the people who plan to get arrested. Maybe a big crowd will show up, but not because it was a smart idea to begin with. Mid-December is not the best time to turn out masses of people. But stuff happens, and now many people are boiling. My personal best to those who are being arrested. They include a former Pentagon official, former CIA agent, a former New York Times reporter, and a mother who lost a son to war and was radicalized as a result. The lesson for me is that people can change from hawks to doves, from spies to whistleblowers, if organizers organize and events reshape their perceptions. That’s the lesson of WikiLeaks, that folk on the inside sometimes come find their situation intolerable and break away from old thinking. Civil disobedience is a moral expression, and can be a personal healing. Sometimes it ignites a larger movement, or inspires other individuals to step up. We need more of it. But I also think we need an outside/inside strategy that shifts public opinion more and more against the war. We need to persuade the undecided, not simply to create images of dissent. The peace movement will grow steadily in the months ahead, on its own, but also in its relation to other compelling causes, among them: Wall Street regulation, clean energy/green jobs, and the steady shift towards an unfettered market philosophy over our lives. Civil disobedience can light a flame, but the case for thoroughgoing radical reform must be made on our streets, our workplaces, our religious institutions, and yes, within the Democratic Party – whose overwhelming majority support progressive objectives. Members of the Progressive Democrats of America, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, are vital elements of our movement. I would like every person who signed this letter to read it again, and be kind enough to retract their signatures or explain why. This is not the time to inflict internal damage on a community which is already weak enough. It’s important to get a grip. The peace and justice community is a fragile form of social ecology, with diversity being an essential quality. Everyone is entitled to a different approach, but there also is an essential unity that can be achieved, unless a malign force is introduced. I have been working every day since 2002 to end these wars. I will never stop. I supported Barack Obama for president in 2008, and am glad I did so. At the time I also said progressives should disagree with him on Afghanistan, NAFTA, global warming and Wall Street, and I have pursued progressive alternatives every day. I have been so busy on the WikiLeaks crisis since August that I just haven’t had time to drop by the White House and pick up my marching orders. TOM HAYDEN Director Peace and Justice Resource Center ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige
On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:07 PM, c b wrote: ...It is something of a law of history that sooner or later all empires must collapse. ^ CB: See _Dialectics of Nature_ by Frederick Engels. _Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. A mobius strip has none of those aspects. Nothing lasts forever. The universe lasts forever. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:07 PM, c b wrote: ...It is something of a law of history that sooner or later all empires must collapse. ^ CB: See _Dialectics of Nature_ by Frederick Engels. _Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. A mobius strip has none of those aspects. ^ CB: When it's made it begins. When it exists , it's in the middle. When it degrades, it ends. Nothing lasts forever. The universe lasts forever. CB: We don't know that because we haven't gotten to forever yet. The big bang theory says it hasn't always existed. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige
On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:07 PM, c b wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:07 PM, c b wrote: ...It is something of a law of history that sooner or later all empires must collapse. ^ CB: See _Dialectics of Nature_ by Frederick Engels. _Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. A mobius strip has none of those aspects. ^ CB: When it's made it begins. When it exists , it's in the middle. When it degrades, it ends. Beginning and end are points. Neither in time nor in space do they occupy any part of any dimension. The middle between the two is also a point. What exists materially exists in time and space. If the whole of the existence of something is taken to be the middle then that something can *have* no middle because it itself is the middle. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige
Beginning and end are points. Neither in time nor in space do they occupy any part of any dimension. The middle between the two is also a point. What exists materially exists in time and space. If the whole of the existence of something is taken to be the middle then that something can *have* no middle because it itself is the middle. Shane Mage ^^^ CB: But if the beginning is not geometric point, then ... When someone is born, they are not a point. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige
On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:38 PM, c b wrote: Beginning and end are points. Neither in time nor in space do they occupy any part of any dimension. The middle between the two is also a point. What exists materially exists in time and space. If the whole of the existence of something is taken to be the middle then that something can *have* no middle because it itself is the middle. CB: But if the beginning is not geometric point, then ... then what *is* it? When someone is born, they are not a point. Look at your birth certificate. See where it says time of birth. That number is very approximate. Now imagine that it is accurate to an unlimited (virtually infinite) number of digits. That's a point in time. Before, you were an unborn baby. Afterward, you were a born baby. Shane Mage This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures. Herakleitos of Ephesos ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Shane Mage shm...@pipeline.com wrote: On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:38 PM, c b wrote: Beginning and end are points. Neither in time nor in space do they occupy any part of any dimension. The middle between the two is also a point. What exists materially exists in time and space. If the whole of the existence of something is taken to be the middle then that something can *have* no middle because it itself is the middle. CB: But if the beginning is not geometric point, then ... then what *is* it? ^^^ CB: A plane. ^^^ When someone is born, they are not a point. Look at your birth certificate. See where it says time of birth. ^^^ CB: That's the time of my birth. Not what I am at birth. You are not the same as the time that u exist. ^ That number is very approximate. Now imagine that it is accurate to an unlimited (virtually infinite) number of digits. That's a point in time. Before, you were an unborn baby. Afterward, you were a born baby. CB: Correct. A baby is not a geometric point. (smile). Seen any lately ? They are an infinite number of points. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Max Keiser on the Edge with Gre g Hunter–Global Financial Scandals (3 parts )
Max Keiser on the Edge with Greg Hunter–Global Financial Scandals (3 parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10K1HLHkT-0feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcGaZYr7m4Mfeature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWS0YSjBF8Efeature=related ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Articles on European Economic Crisis
“Greece Signs its National Suicide Pact” http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2010/02/greece-signs-its-national-suicide-pact.html “Yes, Virginia. There is a Difference Between Greece and the US” By Marshall Auerback http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2010/05/yes-virginia-there-is-difference.html Greece Cannot Reduce Its Budget Deficit So Long As Its Neighbors Pursue Mercantilist Policy http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2010/03/greece-cannot-reduce-its-budget-deficit.html Latvia’s Third Option: Neither Devaluation nor Austerity, but Tax Restructuring By Michael Hudson http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2010/07/latvias-third-option-neither.html The Coming European Debt Wars By Michael Hudson http://neweconomicperspectives.blogspot.com/2010/04/coming-european-debt-wars.html Hammering Ireland–Mike Whitney http://counterpunch.org/whitney11292010.html How Ireland Can Strike a Blow Against the Imperial Bankers By MIKE WHITNEY http://counterpunch.org/whitney12062010.html ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] They Rule
http://www.theyrule.net/ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
[Marxism-Thaxis] Important National Telefonic Town Hall Meeting on DREAM
Important National Telefonic Town Hall Meeting on DREAM with Gutierrez, Menendez, and Durbin We know you’re working hard to get the DREAM Act passed in the Senate this week. And we want to be sure you have everything you need. Join us for an exclusive phone call and hear directly from lawmakers and leaders about where the DREAM Act stands and how we’re going to make it a reality. The call will take place tomorrow, Tuesday December 14, 2010 at 9pm Eastern Standard Time. I know this is short notice, but with a vote in the Senate expected this week, we have to act fast. Click to join: http://act.reformimmigrationforamerica.org/signup/dreamtownhall/? Senator Menendez and Representative Luis Gutierrez will be speaking alongside DREAMer Gaby Pacheco and others to give you the inside scoop on what it will take to pass the DREAM Act before the end of the year. Hope to see you there-- Ryan, Sally, Jonathan and the AIR Team ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Fate of a Cold War Vestige
On Dec 13, 2010, at 2:07 PM, c b wrote: ...It is something of a law of history that sooner or later all empires must collapse. ^ CB: See _Dialectics of Nature_ by Frederick Engels. _Everything_ has a beginning , middle and end. A mobius strip has none of those aspects. Nothing lasts forever. The universe lasts forever. Shane Mage Reply Nothing lasts forever by definition. Precisely because nothing is temporal to the human senses and exists outside a definite point in human understanding. That is why it is called nothing. Nothing is a concept of the unknown. No one knows and can know how long the universe, as we understand it . . . lasts. Maybe the universe collapses upon itself and become a new manifestation of something. One thing is certain: nothing lasts forever, however one understand nothing. WL. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer
That piece doesn't even read like a good MRZINE piece, let alone the usually ponderous, pretentious MR. All those words and I still can't get a good idea what the guy actually does. Standardized tests are for the most part machine-/computer-scored. Some tests require recorded oral responses (TOEIC, TOEFL) and many require short written responses (little personal essays on an assigned topic--such as LSAT, GRE, TOEFL, new additional TOEIC 'Speaking-Writing' test, etc.). The way these are scored is three people give a holistic response to the mini-essay. If one response is an outlier, it's thrown out and the thing is scored on the avg. of two scores. Otherwise, three scores are averaged. I think the guy means to say that institutional and standardized testing is a huge money-making business, made even larger because of the Bushturds out of Texass's drive to leave no child behind, fully phonically aware as they go to bed hungry or lack medical care or decent housing. Test-scoring is but one pathetic aspect of the industry. Pearson wants to be a big player, as do a lot of other for-profit entities moving into education. CJ -- ELT in Japan http://www.eltinjapan.com/ Japan Higher Education Outlook http://japanheo.blogspot.com/ We are Feral Cats http://wearechikineko.blogspot.com/ ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
