[Marxism] The materialist conception of happiness

2014-11-02 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] Hold the applause for Canadian journalism's supposedly "sober" coverage of last week's events

2014-10-26 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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Re: [Marxism] The ideological struggle underlying aid to Kobani

2014-10-26 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] The ideological struggle underlying aid to Kobani

2014-10-26 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] Massive union demonstration in Rome against Renzi "reforms"

2014-10-25 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] Reyhaneh Jabbari

2014-10-25 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] Soros on Ukraine and confronting Russia militarily

2014-10-24 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] Behind Turkey's decision to allow a transit corridor

2014-10-21 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] The economic origins of the Hong Kong democracy movement

2014-10-21 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Here Are 5 Takeaways From The Harper's Anti-Clinton Story

2014-10-20 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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Re: [Marxism] USA Air Drops Supplies to Kurds in Kobane

2014-10-20 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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Re: [Marxism] [ufpj-activist] Al Jazeera: After repelling ISIL, PKK fighters are the new heroes of Kurdistan

2014-10-18 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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Re: [Marxism] [ufpj-activist] Al Jazeera: After repelling ISIL, PKK fighters are the new heroes of Kurdistan

2014-10-18 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] Growing support among Iraqi Kurds for PKK and PYD

2014-10-17 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
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[Marxism] YPG claims it is now winning the battle for Kobane

2014-10-15 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == From the late edition of today's Washington Post, encouraging news which could mark

[Marxism] YPG Spokesman Polat Can: We are Working with the Coalition against ISIS

2014-10-14 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In an exclusive interview with the daily Radikal, Kurdish People’s Protection Units

[Marxism] Inside Kobani

2014-10-13 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A vivid eyewitness account of the street fighting in the centre of Kobani and the h

[Marxism] Fwd: The PYD, the regime, the FSA and the ICG report

2014-10-12 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Correction: That should read YPG/YPJ. Begin forwarded message: > From: Marv Gandal

Re: [Marxism] The PYD, the regime, the FSA and the ICG report

2014-10-12 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Superb capsule analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the PYD and PYG/Y and wh

[Marxism] Malala's Trotskyist sympathies

2014-10-12 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here’s the interesting sidelight that is (not suprisingly) absent in most mainstrea

Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Now this is an interesting question: "Why did Israel target and kill Hebrew speakers in Gaza?"

2014-10-12 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I’m skeptical that this incident(s) was the premeditated execution of a “new practi

[Marxism] The Rojava (West Kurdistan) constitution

2014-10-11 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This is what the Kurds of Kobane are fighting for - an egalitarian democratic socie

Re: [Marxism] The US quid pro quo

2014-10-10 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
age- From: Marv Gandall via Marxism > >> Former ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, reveals to FP that such assistance >> has been conditional on the support of the two left-wing Kurdish parties - >> the PYD in Syria and PKK in Turkey - for the joint effort by the US and &g

[Marxism] More on Turkish-US fiddling while Kobani burns

2014-10-08 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == More evidence that Turkey, backed by the US, is waiting for the IS to finish off th

[Marxism] The US quid pro quo

2014-10-08 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below is the link to a revealing article from Foreign Policy, the influential magaz

Re: [Marxism] YPG defends beseiged Kolbani

2014-10-07 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > And while we can haggle over th

Re: [Marxism] British hostage Alan Henning aimed to help Syrians

2014-10-06 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Oct 6, 2014, at 8:29 AM, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote: > Yes, and of co

[Marxism] YPG defends beseiged Kolbani

2014-10-04 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Surprising how little attention the heroic defence of Kolbani by the Kurdish People

[Marxism] Two reports on the state of economic relations between Russia and the West

2014-10-02 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Reports of the death of economic ties between Russia and the West are greatly exagg

[Marxism] Projecting a new financial crisis from both the left and the right

2014-10-01 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == It was not supposed to be this way, but there has not been a mass write down of deb

[Marxism] No aid for Kobani

2014-09-27 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == While the US considers a no-fly zone to protect opposition centres against air atta

[Marxism] Nusra Front dissolving into Islamic State?

2014-09-26 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == If this Reuters report (see link below) is accurate, it points to a potentially ver

Re: [Marxism] No to US airstrikes on Syria and Iraq! All support to popular movements in Syria and Iraq!

2014-09-23 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 23, 2014, at 9:22 AM, Andrew Pollack via Marxism wrote: > A statement by

Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Nobel Peace prize winning president heightens the prospects for nuclear Armageddon

2014-09-23 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 22, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > As a sort of personal sidebar

[Marxism] Failing Abenomics

2014-09-22 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Shinzo Abe’s Japan is the most recent and ambitious experiment in Keynesian pump-pr

[Marxism] Turkey's PKK sending volunteers to join in defence of Syrian Kurds

2014-09-21 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Reuters reports below on the PKK’s effort to mobilize young Turkish Kurds join in t

Re: [Marxism] Hayek and Trotsky

2014-09-19 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 18, 2014, at 9:41 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism wrote: > …Trotsky present

[Marxism] Poroshenko government primed to sweep Ukrainian elections

2014-09-18 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The latest polls in Ukraine show overwhelming support for the Poroshenko government

[Marxism] The next Ukraine shoe to drop

2014-09-18 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == With the Ukrainian economy in freefall and its people already subject to harsh aust

[Marxism] Class issue colours Scottish vote

2014-09-18 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == As they go to the polls today, "the debate over Scotland’s constitutional future ha

Re: [Marxism] Joshua Landis on the US air campaign against ISIL

2014-09-16 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 16, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Louis Proyect wrote: > On 9/16/14 9:01 AM, Marv Gand

Re: [Marxism] Joshua Landis on the US air campaign against ISIL

2014-09-16 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > > On Sep 15, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > >> What a joke. >> >> I

[Marxism] Fwd: Joshua Landis on the US air campaign against ISIL

2014-09-15 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Here is link: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/15/why-syria-is-thegordi

[Marxism] Joshua Landis on the US air campaign against ISIL

2014-09-15 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A US-led air campaign won't be able to defeat the Islamic State (ISIL) inside Syria

[Marxism] The Ukrainian and Russian far right

2014-09-13 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Both sides in the Ukrainian civil war harbour unsavoury right-wing forces - pan-Sla

[Marxism] Why a Pro-Revolution Syrian schoolteacher now supports the Islamic State

2014-09-11 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Even the most backward and barbaric movements like the Islamic State rest on a base

[Marxism] Michael Hudson on the IMF loan to Ukraine

2014-09-10 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below, a link to probing article from the economist Michael Hudson on the $17 billi

[Marxism] Michael Hudson on the IMF loan to Ukraine

2014-09-10 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below, a link to probing article from the economist Michael Hudson on the $17 billi

Re: [Marxism] The economics of Scottish independence

2014-09-07 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 6, 2014, at 12:09 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: > Is the implication that an

[Marxism] The economics of Scottish independence

2014-09-06 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Below a link to a detailed analysis by the British Marxist economist Michael Robert

Re: [Marxism] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution

2014-09-02 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 2, 2014, at 12:43 AM, Dayne Goodwin via Marxism wrote: > I think that the

Re: [Marxism] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution

2014-09-01 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 1, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Gary MacLennan wrote: > …I still believe that ethnic

Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution

2014-09-01 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
:35 PM, Marv Gandall via Marxism > wrote: > > But is there not in fact a system of institutionalized racism against the > Palestinian minority inside Israel, one tacitly accepted by many liberals > grouped around the Labour Party and even Meretz? > > Yes, very much so.

Re: [Marxism] [Pen-l] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution

2014-09-01 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Sep 1, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Joseph Catron via Marxism wrote: > Carrol Cox corre

[Marxism] Israel moves closer to a single-state solution

2014-09-01 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Israel’s decision, announced this weekend, to expropriate 1000 acres of Palestinian

Re: [Marxism] Land for gas: Merkel and Putin discussed secret deal could end Ukraine crisis

2014-08-01 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:48 AM, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote: > Any comments

Re: [Marxism] NATO over Libya vs. IDF over Gaza

2014-07-28 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
: > == > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > > On 07/26/2014 08:38 AM, Marv Gandall via Marxism wrote: >> the

Re: [Marxism] NATO over Libya vs. IDF over Gaza

2014-07-26 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 26, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Joseph Catron via Marxism wrote: > Oh, FFS. It's mo

Re: [Marxism] Oxymoron alerty! (was Re: NATO over Libya vs. IDF over Gaza)

2014-07-26 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 26, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > Shane, when is

Re: [Marxism] NATO over Libya vs. IDF over Gaza

2014-07-26 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 26, 2014, at 9:47 AM, Jeff via Marxism wrote: > But you can't demand from

Re: [Marxism] NATO over Libya vs. IDF over Gaza

2014-07-26 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 25, 2014, at 9:03 PM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism wrote: > I have never fe

Re: [Marxism] On Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine

2014-07-24 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Clay Claiborne via Marxism wrote: > It also means

[Marxism] Why Chinese state capitalism won't suffer a Western finance capitalist crisis

2014-07-24 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (John Ross was a central leader of the Trotskyist International Marxist Group in Br

Re: [Marxism] Ukrainian responsibility for the mass murder

2014-07-20 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Jul 20, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > Maybe I wasn't c

Re: [Marxism] Marxism Digest, Vol 128, Issue 1

2014-06-01 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == > Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 15:53:15 -0700 > From: Charlie > To: marxism@lists.csbs.u

[Marxism] Chinese state responded more effectively than US to global economic crisis

2014-05-31 Thread Marv Gandall via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Fiscal stimulus is more effective than monetary easing, and China's strong state ha

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