[Marxism] If I were Brazilian, South African, Indian or Chinese, these are the sort of folks I'd want leading my "anti-imperialist" bloc

2014-08-07 Thread Thomas Campbell via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/barack-obamas-53rd-birthday-marked-

[Marxism] organising solidarity with the Palestinians - a great example from Ireland

2014-08-07 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/organising-effective-solidarity-with-the-palest

[Marxism] Dialectics, human development and the productive forces

2014-08-07 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Part four in the series on dialectics at Redline: http://rdln.wordpress.com/2014/08/

[Marxism] Libya on the Brink

2014-08-07 Thread Clay Claiborne via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Today from Linux Beach: Libya on the Brink

[Marxism] Fwd: Cary Nelson, the AAUP, and the privilege of bestowing academic freedom | Mondoweiss

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Put under the microscope. http://mondoweiss.net/2014/01/privilege-bestowing-academ

[Marxism] Fwd: Young Americans Moving Away From Israel Support – Forward.com

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://forward.com/articles/203589/young-americans-moving-away-from-israel-suppor

[Marxism] Corey Robin - shit and curses and other updates on Steven Salaita

2014-08-07 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/07/shit-and-curses-and-other-updates-on-the-steven-sal

[Marxism] Fwd: URGENT: Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

2014-08-07 Thread Joseph Catron via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I don't encourage anyone to prioritize humanitarian aid over political action, but i

[Marxism] Juan Cole - the boycott of Israel spreads throughout Europe

2014-08-07 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.nationofchange.org/boycott-israel-spreads-european-civil-society-over-gaz

[Marxism] Fwd: University of Illinois fires professor Steven Salaita after Gaza massacre tweets | The Electronic Intifada

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A strong piece. http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illino

[Marxism] Obama Weighs Airstrikes or Aid to Help Trapped Iraqis, Officials Say

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (So let me get this straight. Obama was using ISIS as a weapon against the Shi'ite

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Is Zionism/ Jewish Nationalism a Political Cult? The Salaita Firing | Informed Comment

2014-08-07 Thread Mark Lause via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The biggest threat against my employment was led by Zionists. What struck me at the

[Marxism] what if the children dying in Gaza were Jewish?

2014-08-07 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39348.htm

Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Is Zionism/ Jewish Nationalism a Political Cult? The Salaita Firing | Informed Comment

2014-08-07 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Cole's definition of a political cult seems to eerily describe the US SWP by the mid

[Marxism] Fwd: Russian Roulette (Dispatch 66) | VICE News

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Interview with middle-aged American of Ukrainian descent who is part of a voluntee

[Marxism] Fwd: So That's Why Trader Joe's Wine Is So Cheap! | Quora

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Everything, and I do mean everything (including all those unripe grapes, rotten gr

[Marxism] Fwd: Rick Perlstein: Probable Plagiarist, Definite Jerk | National Review Online

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Got hundreds of visits to my blog from here. I was astonished to find out that the

[Marxism] Fwd: Demanding Equality: Interview with Steven Salaita on the ASA Academic Boycott

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Good background on Salaita. http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15652/demanding-e

[Marxism] Fwd: after the arab spring - bookforum.com / omnivore

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Numerous articles... After the Arab Spring AUG 6 2014 3:00PM Jerg Gutmann and S

[Marxism] Fwd: Obama: Into Africa - FPIF

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Strip away all the modern PR and prettified palaver and it’s an ugly scramble for

[Marxism] Fwd: The Cost of Teaching an Old Nuclear Weapon New Tricks

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (A chilling article about the USA poised to spend hundreds of billions of dollars

[Marxism] Fwd: Denial of Job to Harsh Critic of Israel Divides Advocates of Academic Freedom - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == (Cary Nelson, what a scumbag.) Among those signing the Illinois conference’s lette

[Marxism] Fwd: Dispatch from a Left on the Defensive

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == In a settler-colonial society that continues to be structured around the effort to

[Marxism] Fwd: Is Zionism/ Jewish Nationalism a Political Cult? The Salaita Firing | Informed Comment

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == I strongly suspect that Zionist organizations pressured the university to fire Pro

[Marxism] Fwd: NYPD's 'Broken Windows' Policing Is the Same Old Stop-and-Frisk | VICE News

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == https://news.vice.com/article/nypds-broken-windows-policing-is-the-same-old-stop-

[Marxism] De Blasio in hot seat over "broken windows" policing

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == NY Times, August 7 2014 A Healing That Wasn’t: Liberal Activists and the Police Ass

[Marxism] Fwd: Against the war: the movement that dare not speak its name in Israel | World news | The Guardian

2014-08-07 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/06/gaza-israel-movement-that-dare-not-s