Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Syria, Seymour Hersh and the Sarin denialists – Brian Whitaker – Medium

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Brian Whitaker says:


"Winning a Pulitzer obviously means a reporter’s work has impressed the judges 
but it’s not necessarily a guarantee of factual accuracy."


The same applies to Roy Gutman.   Gutman is not a reliable source.  He visited 
the Turkish-occupied part of northern Syria as a guest of the Turkish 
government, where he made false accusations of ethnic cleansing by the Syrian 
Democratic Forces, while failing to notice the ethnic cleansing being carried 
out by the Turkish army and its allied militias.

Chris Slee



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Syria, Seymour Hersh and the Sarin denialists – Brian Whitaker – 
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Re: [Marxism] What the Single-Payer Loss Reveals About the Role of Corporate Money in California Politics - In These Times

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An relevant experience on a completely different issue:

Years ago, I was very active in a campaign to win parole for a woman named
Theresa Cruz who was serving 17-life for her participation in the non-fatal
shooting of her abusive husband. Our position was that this was
self-defense.

In the course of this campaign we met with California State Senator Sheila
Kuehl. The issue of spousal abuse was #1 on Kuehl's list; she was known as
THE California politician who fought on that issue, and she promised us the
moon as far as what she would do. In particular, she was going to fight the
Parole Board to grant Theresa parole. Months and months went by and she did
nothing. Finally, nearly a year later, we were able to talk with Kuehl's
chief of staff. "Well, you have to understand that Senator Kuehl has to
work with these people (the parole board)," she told us. In other words,
she was part of the system and wasn't going to buck it.

It's all the same with all these people, including the "progressives" (like
Kuehl). Until we have workers' representatives, it's just going to go on
and on and on.

John Reimann
P.S. Eventually, through a combination of public pressure and the eventual
agreement of the ex-husband, Theresa did get parole and she's free and
doing well to this day.

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[Marxism] What to Stream This Weekend: Five Films About American Resistance | The New Yorker

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[Marxism] Latino Rebels | The Battle for Mexican-American Studies in Tucson: What Happened This Week

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Re: [Marxism] Capitalism and under-development

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On 7/1/17 8:19 PM, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote:


https://rdln.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/how-capitalism-under-develops-the-world-2/


"The Belgian colony of Congo offered one of the most elaborate “models”, 
so to speak, of colonial exploitation – a “model” nevertheless quite 
comparable to what was going on in the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa. The 
Congo was turned into a huge labour camp ruled by terror. A common 
practice when farmers failed to collect enough rubber from wild rubber 
trees, was to take their families hostage, or to kill them and put their 
severed hands on display in the village as a warning. It was estimated 
that over the 4 decades until 1920, ten million Africans died in the 
Belgian Congo – half of the initial population. Over the same period, 
companies exploiting concessions which often covered tens of thousands 
of square miles, multiplied their original investments 20-fold!"



I was always appalled me by the tendency for the Political Marxists to 
describe the Congo as "precapitalist" because labor was based on 
coercion rather than markets.


What do you think the rubber was being used for? Automobile tires, 
that's what. Without forced labor in the Congo, Belgium would not have 
been able to supply tires to Renault.


In a word, Political Marxism has failed to understand capitalism 
dialectically.

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[Marxism] Government Researchers Plan Response To Rising Rates Of Black Lung Disease | Delaware First Media

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[Marxism] On matters political

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My fixation on British politics continues though I do of course not neglect
keeping an eye on things elsewhere, especially Australia.  However,
politics here seem to be stuck in the usual go slow.  We have a
conservative government which is slowly disengaging itself from
neoliberalism in rhetoric but of course does not have an alternative
program. Tories can administer a Keynesian settlement but they will never
initiate one.

So the hegemony of neoliberalism has been threatened but there is no clear
alternative paradigm being put in place. The onward march of Corbyn has yet
to really impinge on public consciousness.  Within the Green, though, the
left wing senator Lee Rhiannon has raised the success of Corbyn in pushing
explicitly socialist politics.  Were Corbyn to make a serious break through
soon, then that would call forth some kind of leftism here.

But Corbyn himself still has to manage the contradictions within the
Parliamentary Labor Party (PLP). It is still a hostile force as the recent
split over Europe shows.

My own reading of this is that the Blairites in the PLP have grown alarmed
at the strength of Corbynism.  Corbyn's speech at Glastonbury marked I
think a deep change in how he is perceived in the popular culture. From
that alarm came a preemptive strike led by Chuka Umunna a right winger. The
challenge has been seen as premature by some, but I think that is to fail
to understand that the Blairites are in a panic.  They think, I believe,
that they must act now before the Corbyn phenomenon is unstoppable.  Hence
Umunna's decision to defy his party and put up an amendment around access
to the single market in the Brexit negotiations.

I do not think the maneuver will succeed. Corbyn's popularity will continue
to grow and he will form the next government. But it will be a crisis
government and his own party will betray him over some crisis or other.

How it will all play out is of course unclear.  I just feel that the
current youth have not experienced a decisive political defeat and they are
gearing up to have a go. There will be a trial of strength between capital
and the rest of us. Of that I am certain. Moreover I remain reasonably
confident that we mi ght even win.

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[Marxism] Capitalism and under-development

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One of the big polItical debates on the left has been around the ‘Brenner
thesis’. Robert Brenner is part of a school of Marxists who concentrate on
changes within Europe, especially changed social relations on the land, to
explain the rise of capitalism. While Marx pays a lot of attention to this
in ‘Capital’, particularly in his discussion of primitive accumulation,
Marx also emphasises the role of foreign plunder, including the enslavement
of many millions of Africans (a substantial number of whom died while being
taken across the Atlantic by European slave merchants), in the rise of
capitalism.

One of the good things about this article is that it deals with the central
role played by plunder of what is now the Third World in the rise of
capitalism. Uneven development of different parts of the world isn’t just a
natural occurrence but a *necessary prerequisite* for the emergence of
industrial capitalism in the West, while the rise of imperialism
copper-fastens such uneven development, ensuring that huge swathes of the
world get permanent under-development. Well, permanent as long as
capitalism remains.

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[Marxism] Fwd: 'Babe' actor James Cromwell sentenced to jail for N.Y. plant protest

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[Marxism] Political Gingervitis: Episode 11-A United Front? Part 1

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https://rimediacoop.org/podcast/political-gingervitis-episode-11-a-united-front-part-1/

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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria, Seymour Hersh and the Sarin denialists – Brian Whitaker – Medium

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[Marxism] The Fairy Tales Capitalists Tell Themselves - In These Times

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http://inthesetimes.com/article/20207/capitalism-wisdom-money-Pascal-Bruckner-Piketty


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[Marxism] What the Single-Payer Loss Reveals About the Role of Corporate Money in California Politics - In These Times

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[Marxism] Fwd: A Presumption of Guilt | by Bryan Stevenson | The New York Review of Books

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Late one night several years ago, I got out of my car on a dark midtown 
Atlanta street when a man standing fifteen feet away pointed a gun at me 
and threatened to “blow my head off.” I’d been parked outside my new 
apartment in a racially mixed but mostly white neighborhood that I 
didn’t consider a high-crime area. As the man repeated the threat, I 
suppressed my first instinct to run and fearfully raised my hands in 
helpless submission. I begged the man not to shoot me, repeating over 
and over again, “It’s all right, it’s okay.”


The man was a uniformed police officer. As a criminal defense attorney, 
I knew that my survival required careful, strategic thinking. I had to 
stay calm. I’d just returned home from my law office in a car filled 
with legal papers, but I knew the officer holding the gun had not 
stopped me because he thought I was a young professional. Since I was a 
young, bearded black man dressed casually in jeans, most people would 
not assume I was a lawyer with a Harvard Law School degree. To the 
officer threatening to shoot me I looked like someone dangerous and guilty.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Denied: Afghanistan's All-Girl Robotics Team Can't Get Visas To The US

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[Marxism] Fwd: The profitability of Marxian economics | Michael Roberts Blog

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I was recently interviewed on my book, The Long Depression, and on other 
economic ideas, by José Carlos Díaz Silva from the Economics Department 
of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) where I have been invited 
next March 2018 to deliver a series of lectures.  In the first part of 
this interview, posted over a week ago, Jose questions me on the basic 
themes of my book.


In this second part of an interview, we discuss the importance of 
profitability in understanding the state of capitalist economies and 
whether Marxist economics can be attractive to economics students.


https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2017/07/01/the-profitability-of-marxian-economics/
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[Marxism] Fwd: Nil Communication: How to Send a Message without Sending Anything at All - Scientific American

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Quantum mechanics has survived nearly 100 years, and the unorthodox 
theory remains fabulous. Experiments routinely verify its predictions, 
and the normative theories invented to reform it have failed. Physicists 
continue to uncover new ways to adapt its mysteries to information 
technology and realize its wonders in the world. They are still waiting 
for the theory to communicate its meaning to us, however—with or without 
particles.


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[Marxism] Fwd: ‘Is Saudi Arabia funding ISIS?’ Fact checking FactCheck

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[Marxism] This is what reparations could actually look like in America | Chuck Collins | Quartz

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