[Marxism] Fwd: Soma: the Aftermath of a Tragedy (a Report) | LeftEast
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The 1980 military coup introduced neoliberalism to Turkey in the most assertive way. The spirit of the coup was crystallized in the words of leading businessman Halit Narin: “Up until now, we cried and the workers laughed. Now, it is our turn. We will laugh, and they will cry”. Halit Narin’s words proved quite accurate. Following the coup, the condition of the working class changed dramatically. Leading unions were shut down; labor law was amended to the detriment of the working classes. These measures made unionization quite difficult for workers in Turkey. Today, Turkey probably has the worst working conditions for labor among the OECD countries. In 2012, the rate of unionization stood at a mere 4.5%., the lowest among the OECD countries. full: http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/somareport1/ 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] A new axis of resistance taking shape
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == A strange alliance—which could include the United States, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Israel, and Saudi Arabia—is at least conceptually feasible in Iraq, assuming its new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, forms a government that seems inclusive and responsive to Shiite and Sunni leaders. If Abadi manages this feat (and the bloody sectarian violence in recent days dampens its prospects), this hypothetical alliance—which includes Sunni and Shiite nations, among others—would be fighting not just against ISIS but also for a stable and potentially amenable Iraq. full: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2014/08/president_obama_shouldn_t_bomb_isis_in_syria_u_s_airstrikes_will_not_be.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
Re: [Marxism] Mosul: a drumbeat of indignity
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote == Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Wall St. Journal, August 28 2014 Cruelty Reigns Inside City Held by Militants by Matt Bradley BAGHDAD -- In Islamist-held Mosul this week, a local doctor watched insurgents berate and arrest a man in a public market, accusing him of adultery. When Islamic State militants then stoned the man to death in public, the doctor chose not to watch. But many others did, and not by choice. The fighters repeatedly screened a video recording of the killing on several large digital monitors they erected in the city center. More than two months after the Sunni extremist group took over on June 10, such displays of public brutality and humiliation have become part of a constant drumbeat of indignity endured by the population of Iraq's second-largest city, according to about half a dozen residents interviewed by phone. A United Nations report published Wednesday said Islamic State militants, who have captured large swaths of territory across Syria and Iraq, hold executions, amputations and lashings in public squares regularly on Fridays in territory they control in northern Syria. They urge civilians, including children, to watch, according to the report. Initially, many in the Sunni-majority city of Mosul were pleased to see Islamic State fighters send the mostly Shiite Iraqi army fleeing after sectarian tensions in the country worsened under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. But that enthusiasm faded fast. People aren't sympathizing with them anymore, said the doctor. People wanted to get rid of the Iraqi army. But after the Islamic State turned against Mosul, the people of Mosul started turning against them. Residents say the rising resentment has come alongside rumors that homegrown militias are mustering troops in secret to overthrow the militants. Two such groups in particular, the Prophet of Jonah Brigades and the Free Mosul Brigades, have formed in the past few weeks, residents said. But few people in Mosul expect the city's residents to succeed where the Iraqi army has failed, unless they have outside help. Unlike most Iraqis, the people of Mosul were left largely unarmed after the Iraqi army went house to house a few years ago and confiscated weapons in a bid to reduce violence in the city. With pressure mounting, the insurgents appear to be bracing for the worst. They have been spotted placing improvised explosive devices around the center of the city so they can detonate them in case of a ground attack, said Atheel Al Nujaifi, the former governor of Nineveh province in northern Iraq, where Mosul is located. On Tuesday, Mr. Nujaifi said the insurgents rigged bridges connecting the city's two opposing banks with plastic C4 explosives, though that couldn't be independently verified. The planting of land mines and other explosives in an effort to stave off counteroffensives is part of the Islamic State's unfolding battlefield strategy. They used the tactic at the Mosul Dam, but failed to hold the strategic site in the face of Kurdish ground offensive backed by Iraqi special forces and U.S. airstrikes. They have employed it with more success in the city of Tikrit, where repeated Iraqi counteroffensives have failed so far. A local civilian uprising against Islamic State wouldn't be unprecedented. In January, civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo who were disgusted by the group's cruelty helped more moderate fighters expel the group that was then known as the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS. Many in Mosul are afraid to complain publicly. But those who do describe a blighted city that is now almost entirely void of the black-clad, masked militants -- many of whom were clearly foreign. They once paraded through the streets, boasting about their victories over the Iraqi military while passing out religious literature. Before, they were proud and they were telling people about their victories. 'We're fighting here, we're fighting there,' said another Mosul resident. But now they don't talk about their victories and how proud they are that they're fighting. In terms of morale, they are not like before. Some estimate that there are fewer than 500 militants now policing the city of 1.7 million. Most of those who remain are local collaborators who are securing the streets while hard-bitten insurgents repel increasingly fierce attacks from the Kurdish regional forces known as Peshmerga and elite Iraqi units further east. Still the paucity of
Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Gunning for Vandana Shiva » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On Aug 22, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: Perhaps nothing symbolizes the decline of the New Yorker magazine more than the hatchet job on Vandana Shiva that appears in the latest issue. Dr Shiva has responded here: http://vandanashiva.com/?p=105 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] If Obama doesn't want to do it, he'll go to Congress
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == New from Linux Beach in San Antonio: If Obama doesn't want to do it, he'll go to Congress http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/08/if-obama-doesnt-want-to-do-it-hell-go.html That's what the commentator or politician, I didn't get the name, said on CNN this morning. He was talking about President Barack Obama's threat to attack ISIS in Syria. His point was that if Obama was bluffing and really didn't want to attack, as was the case after Bashar al-Assad's use of sarin to kill more than a thousand people in East Ghouta, Syria last year, he would go to Congress and let it die. If he did want to bomb ISIS in Syria, he would just do it. When Obama was looking for a reason to renege on his promise to attack Assad if he killed with chemical weapons, he took his problem to Congress. Most of the anti-imperialist /Left/ promptly started organizing anti-war protests to protect Assad from Obama, /as if/ Obama ever had any real intentions of attacking the fascist dictator that for years he has been publicly appealing to /step down/ voluntarily. When Congress did what everyone knew they would do, oppose Obama's /proposed/ military action against Assad, the whole anti-imperialist /Left/ burst out in celebration, took credit for the /reversal/, and bragged about their growing power. I heard David Swanson do exactly that when he spoke in Los Angeles afterwards. Now he calls http://warisacrime.org/blog/1568 Obama's new bombing in Iraq without going to congress first /justified./ What jerks these people are! At the time I likened them to the little boy in car commercial dressed as Darth Vader that thinks he started the family car with /the Force,/ while his father creates the magic with the cars remote start. *More...* http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2014/08/if-obama-doesnt-want-to-do-it-hell-go.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: Seeds of Truth – A response to The New Yorker | Dr Vandana Shiva
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Re: [Marxism] Questions for Vijay Prashad
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 08/27/2014 01:23 PM, Jon Flanders via Marxism wrote: You know, they essentially ceded that part of the country. Libya was going—Gaddafi’s rule was going to fall. There was no need forNATOintervention. Tell that to the people of Homs. When French jets swooped in to destroy Qaddafi tanks on ~19 March, they were starting to enter Benghanzi, to carry out the cleansing operation Qaddafi had been promising for days, From your comfortable position I'm sure you valued political purity over stopping Qaddafi from doing to Benghazi and Misrata what Assad has done to Homs and Aleppo. I disagree and so do my Libyan followers. So, the second reason I opposed intervention in Libya was it was inevitable that Gaddafi was going to lose power. Let the process take its own way. Like Syria? Let them fight a little bit. Let there be a political dialogue within the rebellion. Let them create alternative structures of power. And. as a Marxist, [ and an internationalist? ] what did you do to help with that? My record is clear. http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2013/01/my-libyan-diaries_786.html If you just give the Libyan people a destroyed country, how are they going to build a future? And that was the real danger of aerial bombardment of the style the Americans conduct. Syria is a destroyed country [infrastructure wise] because there has been no UN intervention, no no-fly zone, and Assad has been allowed to use his air force, artillery and chemical weapons to destroy whatever the chooses in Syria for more than 3 years now. Libya suffered very little infrastructure damage because NATO stopped Qaddafi from doing the same to Libya. The chaos [not destruction] is the result of 42 years of Qaddafi rule not NATO destruction. And its a slight against the Brits, French, Italians and Dutch to call it an American aerial bombardment. The US conducted only about 17% of the strike missions. 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] Capitalism and slavery
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == The Half Has Never Been Told Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism By Edward E. Baptist A sweeping, authoritative history of the expansion of slavery in America, showing how forced migrations radically altered the nation's economic, political, and cultural landscape. Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved African Americans. Thus the United States seized control of the world market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and became a wealthy nation with global influence. Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. It forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery's end—and created a culture that sustains America's deepest dreams of freedom. Edward E. Baptist is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning Creating an Old South, he grew up in Durham, North Carolina. He lives in Ithaca, New York. BUY THIS BOOK NOW http://www.basicbooks.com/full-details?isbn=9780465002962 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: Obama Is Responsible for the Protests in Ferguson—but Not in the Way You Think | The Nation
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Utterly shameless Melissa Harris-Perry. Toss up as to who is worse, her or Al Sharpton. http://www.thenation.com/article/181381/obama-responsible-protests-ferguson-not-way-you-think 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: Captives held by Islamic State were waterboarded - The Washington Post
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[Marxism] Fwd: Why the ‘Unhiring’ of Steven Salaita Is a Threat to Academic Freedom | The Nation
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Captives held by Islamic State were waterboarded - The Washington Post
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == On 8/28/14 8:10 PM, John Obrien wrote: Last year when you were indirectly rooting for the U. S.military to launch attacks on Syria and Bashir al-Assad's forces - and I stated that there was a miniscule Left among the Syria opposition - but I was deeply alarmed by the large number of Sunni Islamic fundamentalists - you said I was wrong about the political composition of the *organized *opposition then. The archives for Marxmail are here: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/ If people want to have a serious debate or conversation with me, they *must* quote me. Last time O'Brien slung mud at me, I went to the archives to show what a liar he was. I will waste time on such nonsense again. We are not playing games here. 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] Article re Brown Moses
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/eliot-higgins-the-stayathome-dad-who-became-an-armchair-weapons-expert-20140829-108rvn.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
