[Marxism] Carlo's Corner: It's strange that the most evil people are always found in places we want to bomb
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Evil is one of those strange things isn't it? It is a very particular characteristic that always seems to be found in people who just happen to be in places our governments really want to bomb. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/57276 -- “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.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] The economics of Scottish independence
== 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 Roberts of the economic challenges which would face an independent Scotland if it votes to secede from the UK on September 18th. Roberts concludes that at best, the majority of the Scottish people will find little difference under Holyrood than under Westminster and it could be worse if a global crisis erupts again. Scotland as a small economy, dependent on multinationals for investment, still dominated by British banks and the City of London and without control of its own currency or interest rates, could face a much bigger hit than elsewhere in terms of incomes and unemployment. But as Roberts also notes, “the decision on independence is not just a question of the economy and living standards. The political consequences of such a dramatic rupture with the status quo in Scotland could be far reaching - not only on independence struggles in Catalonia and elsewhere, but as encouragement to a wide range of other social movements everywhere. http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/scotland-yes-or-no/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: The Free Expression Policy Project
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Essential summary of the Steven Salaita controversy from the academic freedom committee chairperson of the AAUP. http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/Salaita.html Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: Joan Rivers | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] Facing Hard-Liners and Sanctions, Iran’s Leader Toughens Talk
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/30/14 5:54 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: (It looks like the alliance between the USA and Iran against jihadists fell apart before it got started, as well as with the Baathists. My guess is that the power of the Israeli lobby trumped realpolitik. If you are looking for military blocs with rightwing religious states, there's nothing that tops Israel. Netanyahu must have told Obama over the phone that he had to get tough with Iran or else. I don't agree with Mearsheimer-Walt, but sometimes it does look like the White House takes orders from Israel.) NY Times, August 30 2014 Facing Hard-Liners and Sanctions, Iran’s Leader Toughens Talk By THOMAS ERDBRINK TEHRAN — For more than a year, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, had been walking a tightrope by trying to restore relations with the country’s archenemy, the United States. His hard-line opponents pelted him with eggs, but those who voted for him hoped for a possible thaw. It turns out that the USA and Iran will be allying against ISIS after all. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29079052 BBC News MIDDLE EAST 5 September 2014 Last updated at 12:19 ET Iran 'backs US military contacts' to fight Islamic State Iran's Supreme Leader has approved co-operation with the US as part of the fight against Islamic State (IS) in Iraq, sources have told BBC Persian. Ayatollah Khamenei has authorised his top commander to co-ordinate military operations with the US, Iraqi and Kurdish forces, sources in Tehran say. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Bernadette McAliskey says ‘Yes’ to Scotland ending the ‘United Kingdom’
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == New Post: Bernadette McAliskey says ‘Yes’ to Scotland ending the ‘United Kingdom’ http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/bernadette-mcaliskey-says-yes-to-scotland-ending-the-united-kingdom/ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Pendulum of the Islamic State.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 9/6/14 4:32 PM, Prashad, Vijay via Marxism wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This morning's The Hindu carried my latest report from the Syria-Iraq conflict. It is called the Pendulum of the Islamic State. You can read it here: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-pendulum-of-the-islamic-state/article6384028.ece. This follows my previous monthly dispatches: (August 11): The Metastasis of the Islamic State, http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/metastasis-of-the-islamic-state/article6301567.ece?ref=relatedNews. (July 3): The Geopolitics of the Islamic State: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-geopolitics-of-the-islamic-state/article6170651.ece?ref=relatedNews. and backwards.. Vijay, expect something from me on the Geopolitics of the Islamic State. Is there anybody else whose blog can alternate between commemorating Joan Rivers and dueling with Vijay Prashad? Don't answer that! Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] Pendulum of the Islamic State.
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Vijay, I can't say I like the way you let Assad off the hook with regards to the growth of ISIS in Syria. You say: It will not direct its armies to the north. To do so would leave it vulnerable to the rebels’ Southern Front, which continues to be egged on by the West to seize Damascus. The U.S. trains Syrian rebels in the deserts of eastern Jordan. Full Syrian participation against the IS will not happen if the threat to Damascus remains intact. You make it sound like Assad really would fight IS if only we wasn't under so much pressure from his US trained (what's that 50 soldier a month?) opposition. My understanding is that Assad didn't even bother to bomb ISIS in Raqqa until after Obama started bombing them in Iraq. Surely he could have spared a few jets from barrel bombing schools and hospitals in the same region if he wasn't actually using ISIS. There is also the matter of the jihadists he let out of prison knowing and even telling them to join ISIS. Syria security officers found in the leadership of ISIS. Oil purchased by Assad from ISIS. ISIS turning over SAA defectors to Assad. Assad providing air support for ISIS in battles with the FSA and many more indications of collusion between the two. Overall, I'd say you cut Assad a lot of slack. Why am I not surprised? Clay Claiborne, Director Vietnam: American Holocaust http://VietnamAmericanHolocaust.com Linux Beach Productions Venice, CA 90291 (310) 581-1536 Read my blogs at the Linux Beach http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/ http://wlcentral.org/user/2965/track On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Prashad, Vijay via Marxism marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu wrote: == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == This morning's The Hindu carried my latest report from the Syria-Iraq conflict. It is called the Pendulum of the Islamic State. You can read it here: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-pendulum-of-the-islamic-state/article6384028.ece . This follows my previous monthly dispatches: (August 11): The Metastasis of the Islamic State, http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/metastasis-of-the-islamic-state/article6301567.ece?ref=relatedNews . (July 3): The Geopolitics of the Islamic State: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-geopolitics-of-the-islamic-state/article6170651.ece?ref=relatedNews . and backwards.. Warmly, Vijay. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/clayclai%40gmail.com Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Exclusive: Israel's Video Justifying Destruction of a Gaza Hospital Was From 2009
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[Marxism] Fwd: More Procedural Violations in Salaita Case | Corey Robin
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[Marxism] The Chinese Invade Africa
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Review, SEPTEMBER 25, 2014 ISSUE The Chinese Invade Africa by Ian Johnson China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa by Howard W. French Knopf, 285 pp., $27.95 China’s Congo Plan: What the Economic Superpower Sees in the World’s Poorest Nation by Jacob Kushner Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, 42 pp., $1.99 (e-book) In early May, China’s premier, Li Keqiang, made a trip to Africa that raised a central question about China’s rise: What effect will it have on the world’s poorer countries? As a big third-world country that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty in just a few decades—and has risen so fast that it’s easily the only serious challenger to the United States’ superpower status—China has enormous cachet, with lessons that many countries are eager to learn. But as the trip showed, those lessons are complex and ambiguous. Premier Li visited four countries and the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa. He pledged billions of dollars in new aid, promised to share technology, and unveiled a series of much-publicized deals, including a nine-hundred-mile railway line in Nigeria and a research center to help link major African capitals by rail. Li urged African leaders and Chinese companies that China—already Africa’s largest trading partner—should double its trade with Africa by 2020 and quadruple its investment there. For the better part of a decade, these sorts of headlines have caused distress among nongovernmental organizations and in Western capitals. Groups such as Human Rights Watch have detailed labor abuses and shown how China’s limits on free speech at home have been exported abroad, especially to dependent states in regions like Africa.1 The economic ties are sometimes portrayed as under-the-table deals cut between Beijing and corrupt leaders in Africa. Instead of helping to build civil society, these deals are said to hurt Africa’s long-term interests, reinforcing the tendency of corrupt elites to secure resources at a low price. In early August, President Barack Obama welcomed delegates from fifty African states to the White House. It was the largest-ever summit between the continent and the United States, although China has been holding similar conferences every three years for over a decade. And as if to undercut Li’s visit, US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Africa a few days earlier than Li. He talked up trade but he also warned against corruption and censorship—the sort of advice that some African leaders are happy not to hear from China. Chinese and some foreign commentators argue that the West’s support for corporate responsibility, human rights, and efficient development aid is, at best, rather sudden, if not downright hypocritical, in view of the West’s decades of colonialism, support of dictators, and resource grabs by its own large corporations. In an English-language commentary during Li’s visit in May, the govern- ment’s Xinhua news agency wrote that China was providing Africa with the infrastructure it needs—the sort of roads, rails, and schools that underpinned China’s rise over the past four decades: Biased people in the West tend to see China, a late comer to Africa, as a rising contender and smear it as the new colonist that snatches natural resources to fit its own development agenda as Western powers did centuries ago. Such misgivings only attest to the West’s poor knowledge about the real story of the China-Africa cooperation. But in comments aimed more for domestic consumption, Chinese leaders also nodded toward some of their critics’ concerns. During his visit, Premier Li met with Chinese employees of state firms working in Angola. This oil-rich country has been the site of heavy Chinese investment, and Li promised that the interests of the local Chinese would be protected. Cutting the ribbon at a new Chinese center for its overseas workers, he said that though far away from China, they were in everyone’s thoughts. But then he went on to warn them not to give China a bad image by being too cutthroat, insular, and disrespectful. According to a Chinese report of Li’s comments on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, he added: As Chinese companies and people develop abroad, even though they’re swimming in the big lake of market economics, it isn’t a zero-sum game. Both sides should benefit. Only then can we have a rich outcome. We have to unite the lives of Chinese and local people. Chinese companies and people should abide by local laws and respect local traditions, carrying out to the utmost social responsibilities and protecting China’s image. Li’s choice of Angola to make such a statement probably wasn’t a
