[Marxism] U. of Texas's new chancellor's pearls of wisdom

2014-08-15 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == William C. McRaven is just the right person to run the prestigious state

[Marxism] Fwd: ZCommunications » Obama, Zuma and the Washington-Pretoria-Tel Aviv Relay

2014-08-15 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == By Patrick Bond: What, ultimately, was the importance of the Africa-US leadership

Re: [Marxism] Assadistas deny Yazidis were ever in danger

2014-08-15 Thread Andrew Pollack via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == sorry, phrase in last paragraph should read ... never in danger? On Fri, Aug 15,

[Marxism] The Pacification That Never Ends

2014-08-15 Thread Ron Jacobs via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://stillhomeron.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-pacification-that-never-ends.html

[Marxism] Simon Leys dead

2014-08-15 Thread Andrew Pollack via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Major figure in the debunking of the Mao myth. Times obit:

Re: [Marxism] Assadistas deny Yazidis were ever in danger

2014-08-15 Thread Joseph Catron via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I know very little about the current situation of the Yazidi, having only followed

Re: [Marxism] Assadistas deny Yazidis were ever in danger

2014-08-15 Thread Steven L. Robinson via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Exactly. That is my reaction. Assad, Hezbollah and the Iranians have spent a

[Marxism] Fwd: Before there was Steven Salaita | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

2014-08-15 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Dossier on threats to pro-Palestinian professors

[Marxism] Fwd: The Burkean Regicide | The Nation

2014-08-15 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interesting critique of David Bromwich, the Yale professor who is a defender of

Re: [Marxism] Simon Leys dead

2014-08-15 Thread Charlie via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The man labeled a Mao symp here, Stephen MacKinnon, co-authored a scholarly

[Marxism] Fwd: The Salaita case and Cary Nelson’s use of “academic freedom” to silence dissent | The Electronic Intifada

2014-08-15 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Like a grain of sand in an oyster, Cary Nelson's irritant behavior has generated

Re: [Marxism] Assadistas deny Yazidis were ever in danger

2014-08-15 Thread Ken Hiebert via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Joseph Catron said: I know very little about the current situation of the Yazidi,

Re: [Marxism] Assadistas deny Yazidis were ever in danger

2014-08-15 Thread Joseph Catron via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If someone cannot tell you the source of their factual claim, assuming it isn't

Re: [Marxism] Assadistas deny Yazidis were ever in danger

2014-08-15 Thread William Quimby via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == And beyond that, when can visual evidence (from a war zone especially) be called a

Re: [Marxism] Assadistas deny Yazidis were ever in danger

2014-08-15 Thread Joseph Catron via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == William, are you really as stupid as you're acting, or is this some elaborate

[Marxism] Fwd: Simpletons, charlatans, and hacks — lexical detritus — Medium

2014-08-15 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Very witty take-down of Phil Greaves, an anti-imperialist sub-moron.