Re: [Marxism] Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust?

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Louis,

Now this is drivel not worth wasting time replying to.


>   You and all the other talking heads on the Corporate News Networks do,
> of course, deny the responsibility of the imperialist war against the Third
> World. You want the aggression to deepen with bombings by the B52 and other
> means of terrorism. You all want the Syrian government to be overturned by
> force and the country put under a subservient
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[Marxism] Corporate media calling for deepening the war against Syria (was: This is what it’s come to: Letting Syria die watching Syrians drown)

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on Donnerstag, 3. September 2015 at 16:47, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote:

>  The one thing the democratic 
> opposition wanted from the world was a no-fly zone and air-patrolled 
> humanitarian corridors. Even that was too much to ask. There is no going
> home now.

> And so I have to say to them, this is the reality, this is the
> result of all your anti-war activism, and now the people are drowning in
> the sea.”

  Another House Nigger found to bolster the war drive. 

  The problem for the corporate media is not the war, but that the war is not 
intense enough. They want a direct armed intervention by the USofA and other 
colonialists to take over the country. 

 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Isis’s destruction of Palmyra: ‘The heart has been ripped out of the city' | World news | The Guardian

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on Freitag, 4. September 2015 at 01:21, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:

> I don't think there has been a real 
> theoretical breakthrough in coming to grips with what the Taliban, ISIS,
> et al represent.

  because people are being deluded by the rethoric which these groups display 
instead of looking into the essence. 

  In the current incarnations of such type of movements they only see that they 
cloth them in religious (islamic) formula, and that prevents them from seeing 
the fundamental common ground with the Pol Potist "Khmer Rouge", the "Sendero 
Luminoso" and other movements borrowing their words from stalinism. 

  The common ground is the idea that all problems of society are being solved 
by enforcing a strong ideological homogeneity of society, in beliefs and way of 
life, while pouting a sense of a victim of prosecution by powerful outside 
forces. 

  There are common characteristics with religious communities like the North 
American Amish (or Pennsylvania Dutch), except the use of violence. 

 
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Isis’s destruction of Palmyra: ‘The heart has been ripped out of the city' | World news | The Guardian

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on Freitag, 4. September 2015 at 01:06, A.R. G via Marxism wrote:

> Does it make sense to call ISIS "fascist"?

  Think about all the other ideologues of that kind - the Khmer Rouge, Sendero 
Luminoso, Bakunin... 

  They share the totalitarian concept of ideologic homogeneity of the 
population, which is being enforced, if needed, by brutal repression. 

  But the hallmark of fascism is the mobilisation of the disappointed petty 
bourgeoisie, turning their frustration away from the ruling class against the 
working class in order to destry the working class organizations and atomize 
the class. That is different. 


 
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Re: [Marxism] Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust?

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on Donnerstag, 3. September 2015 at 15:56, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote:

> And many of that same school now say, as usual in complete agreement 
> with the imperialists, that hundreds of thousands are not being bombed
> into the Mediterranean Sea by Assad, but rather are fleeing "war,", or
> ISIS, or "western intervention. Wow. 

  Millions of Syrians are fleeing the war, because they see the civil war 
destroying Syria making their life there unbearable. 

  And because they do not want to be part of that war. That's why they try to 
get out of harms way. 

  The countries of the aggressor seem to be the best place to find rest, 
because in war by proxy and teleguided from "home" is the calm spot like the 
eye of the storm. 

  You and all the other talking heads on the Corporate News Networks do, of 
course, deny the responsibility of the imperialist war against the Third World. 
You want the aggression to deepen with bombings by the B52 and other means of 
terrorism. You all want the Syrian government to be overturned by force and the 
country put under a subservient government. But when young people heed your 
call and actually go to Syria to join the fight, then they are demonized as 
"terrorists" and put in jail on their return. 

 
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Re: [Marxism] Syria Refugee Recounts How He Tried to Save Sons and Wife From Drowning

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The primary reason for the failure to take in refugees outside of the human
warehouses of Jordan and Lebanon is US policy. The US refuses to take in a
significant number citing "security" issues. The lengths they have twisted
"security" are so extreme that even victims of terrorism are seen as having
provided enough material support (i.e. ransom, or even just regular
extortion) to disqualify them for asylum.

And if the United States won't take in refugees then European states will
refuse, citing the US as precedent.

I'm also quite surprised that Germany has proposed taking in 800,000, given
the rise of the anti-Muslim Zionist lunatic asylum that is PEGIDA.

- Amith

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> Given the Canadian angle, this dominated news coverage here today.  We are
> in a federal election and all the party leaders responded to this story.
> Conservative leader Stephen Harper is arguing that aid to refugees must be
> linked with a military intervention against ISIS.
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Re: [Marxism] Syria Refugee Recounts How He Tried to Save Sons and Wife From Drowning

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Given the Canadian angle, this dominated news coverage here today.  We are in a 
federal election and all the party leaders responded to this story.
Conservative leader Stephen Harper is arguing that aid to refugees must be 
linked with a military intervention against ISIS.
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Re: [Marxism] What a disgusting pig Eli Roth is

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That sounds like the kind of cinematic horror treatment that should be meted 
out to Exxon executives, no? 

Truly a piece of reactionary tripe...

> 2 сент. 2015 г., в 12:26, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> "The Green Inferno"
> In Theaters September 25, 2015
> 
> Directed by: Eli Roth
> 
> Starring: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Sky 
> Ferreira, Magda Apanowicz, Nicolás Martínez, Aaron Burns, Ignacia Allamand, 
> Ramón Llao and Richard Burgi
> 
> How far would you go for a cause you believe in? In Eli Roth’s terrifying new 
> film, The Green Inferno, a group of college students take their humanitarian 
> protest from New York to the Amazon jungle only to be taken prisoner by the 
> indigenous tribe they came to save. The Green Inferno marks Eli Roth’s return 
> to directing for the big screen for the first time since his Hostel 
> franchise, and tells the story of what happens when “slacktavism,” the 
> well-meaning social media response to global catastrophes, turns into terror 
> in the depths of the Amazon rainforest.
> 
> Dark and primitive customs still rule the Amazon jungle: cannibalism and 
> other mind, body and soul-destroying rituals. Trapped in the village, these 
> high-tech modern-world students experience the ultimate in primal barbaric 
> terror, suffering unspeakable acts of violence in an intense and chilling 
> rituals reserved only for the most threatening intruders.
> 
> The Green Inferno was filmed entirely on location in Chile, the Peruvian 
> Amazon and New York City. Long awaited by horror fans, The Green Inferno 
> reinvents the horror genre with an entirely new twist. There’s suspense and 
> blood soaked chills in a tale for our times, ripped from today’s headlines, 
> that you won’t get out of your head.
> 
> Rating: R
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[Marxism] Solidarity confronts Fortress Europe in response to ‘refugee crisis’

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In response to this xenophobia and recent tragedies, a different Europe has
also firmly shown its face.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59955

-- 
“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
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Isis’s destruction of Palmyra: ‘The heart has been ripped out of the city' | World news | The Guardian

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http://www.stopwar.org.uk/news/saving-palmyra-from-the-is-monster-is-escalating-western-wars-the-answer
 

...Iconoclasm can be reactionary or progressive. It is invariably reactionary 
when the targets belong to a cultural past. This is the case with IS, which 
seeks to erase history, deny other cultures, and foster ignorance, bigotry, and 
sectarianism.

But IS is not alone in this. Israeli archaeology is wilfully blind to the 
Islamic past of Palestine, bulldozing later layers to erase the evidence of the 
last 1400 years, prioritising the excavation of material designed to legitimise 
the present-day Zionist occupation. At Silwan, for example, just outside the 
Old City of Jerusalem, Israeli archaeologists destroyed a medieval cemetery of 
the Abbasid Caliphate. Their aim is to create a ‘City of David’ archaeological 
area which will feature a ‘museum of Jewish history’ and a ‘Jewish national 
park’.   

The American Army has also played a role in destroying the past. For two years 
it was camped on the site of ancient Babylon. Trenches were dug through the 
surface, sandbags filled with archaeological material, a 2,600-year-old 
pavement crushed by military vehicles, and glazed bricks gouged from the famous 
Ishtar Gate. A British Museum report on the damage was unequivocal: ‘This is 
tantamount to establishing a military camp around the Great Pyramid in Egypt or 
around Stonehenge in Britain.’

As for the sale of plundered antiquities, IS is exploiting the inflation of the 
international art market by a generation of trickle-up neoliberal economics 
which has seen accumulations of wealth at the top soar to unprecedented levels. 
It is much easier, it seems, to call for military attacks on Syria and Iraq 
than to suggest shutting down the auction houses in New York, banning the sale 
of antiquities in London, and confiscating the grotesque fortunes of the global 
oligarchs who are accumulating in private collections what ought to belong in 
the public domain.

IS is a mortal threat to the people of the Middle East. It has grown in the 
shattered social spaces left by the violence and poverty of the neoliberal era. 
It is a monster created by Western imperialism. It is a form of mass psychotic 
rage unleashed by a world gone mad. The very last thing the region needs is 
further escalation in the cycles of bombing, killing, and displacement that 
have made IS possible.

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[Marxism] Tragically #AssadHolocaust now trending

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New from Linux Beach:


 Tragically #AssadHolocaust now trending
 


#HowManyMore  
#Syrian  babies must die 
before world acts to end #AssadWarCrimes 
? #AssadHolocaust 
 #SyrianRefugees 
 



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Re: [Marxism] Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust?

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I just published 2 powerful response to this type of trash:
http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/08/jacobins-war-on-syria.html
http://claysbeach.blogspot.com/2015/09/contradictions-on-syria-patrick-higgins.html
I don't think he said anything I haven't already covered.

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> On 9/3/15 8:10 AM, Lüko Willms via Marxism wrote:
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>> But they fueled the civil war destroying Syria by giving hope to the
>>
>
> What a penetrating analysis. Foolish me thinking it was MIG's firing
> missiles into working class tenements that destroyed Syria.
> 
>
> Yes foolish you. In fact it was some evil "US allies" in the region who
> may have sent some food packages or night goggles (hell, even worse, maybe
> some light arms) to the people inhabiting those working class tenements,
> that destroyed Syria. A great many in the Orwellian School of Left Analysis
> say so.
>
> And many of that same school now say, as usual in complete agreement with
> the imperialists, that hundreds of thousands are not being bombed into the
> Mediterranean Sea by Assad, but rather are fleeing "war,", or ISIS, or
> "western intervention. Wow.
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[Marxism] Fwd: Age of the Unicorn: How the Fed Tried to Fix the Recession, and Created the Tech Bubble | The Nation

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By Doug Henwood

http://www.thenation.com/article/age-of-the-unicorn-how-the-fed-tried-to-fix-the-recession-and-created-the-tech-bubble/
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Isis’s destruction of Palmyra: ‘The heart has been ripped out of the city' | World news | The Guardian

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On 9/3/15 7:06 PM, A.R. G wrote:

Does it make sense to call ISIS "fascist"?

- Amith


In a strict sense, it makes no sense to call anything fascist except the 
mass movements that came into existence in the 1920s and 30s. My 
tendency would be to describe groups such as atavistic mass movements 
with a deeply reactionary logic. I don't think there has been a real 
theoretical breakthrough in coming to grips with what the Taliban, ISIS, 
et al represent.

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[Marxism] Syria Refugee Recounts How He Tried to Save Sons and Wife From Drowning

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NY Times, Sept. 3 2015
Syria Refugee Recounts How He Tried to Save Sons and Wife From Drowning
By KARAM SHOUMALI and IAN AUSTEN

ISTANBUL — The father of Galip and Aylan Kurdi, the young refugee boys 
from Syria whose drowning off a Turkish beach has touched a global 
nerve, said Thursday that his family had paid smugglers more than $2,000 
for a voyage to a Greek island in a 15-foot boat that was quickly 
upended by five-foot waves. His wife also drowned.


“The waves were high, the boat started swaying and shaking. We were 
terrified,” said the father, Abdullah Kurdi, 40, a Syrian Kurd from the 
town of Kobani near the Turkish border. “I rushed to my kids and wife 
while the boat was flipping upside down. And in a second we were all 
drowning in the water.”


Mr. Kurdi, who said his family had long been seeking to emigrate to 
Canada, spoke in a telephone interview arranged by local officials from 
Turkey’s Mugla Province, where he was completing paperwork for the 
bodies of his wife, Rehan, 27; Galip, 5; and Aylan, 3; to be returned to 
Kobani for a funeral.


Photos of Aylan’s body lying face down on a Turkish beach were widely 
circulated on social media on Wednesday, escalating anger and 
frustration over the failure to help desperate families from Syria and 
elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa fleeing war and mayhem.


Choking back emotion as he spoke, Mr. Kurdi described how he had flailed 
about while trying to find his children as his wife held onto the 
capsized boat.


“I started pushing them up to the surface so they could breathe,” he 
said. “I had to shift from one to another. I think we were in the water 
for three hours trying to survive.”


He watched helplessly as one exhausted child drowned, he said, then he 
pushed the other toward the mother, “so he could at least keep his head up.”


Mr. Kurdi then apologized, saying he could no longer speak, ending the 
conversation.


Turkish news agencies reported Thursday that the police had detained 
four Syrians suspected of involvement in arranging the passage of the 
boat that capsized with the Kurdi family. In all, 12 people drowned in 
the capsizing.


Canadian news organizations reported Thursday that a lawmaker and Mr. 
Kurdi’s sister had sought unsuccessfully to arrange for the family’s 
emigration earlier this year.


The sister, Teema Kurdi, who moved to Canada about 20 years ago, told 
The Ottawa Citizen that she had applied for a visa that would have 
allowed the children and their parents to come as sponsored refugees.


“I was trying to sponsor them, and I have my friends and my neighbors 
who helped me with the bank deposits, but we couldn’t get them out, and 
that is why they went in the boat,” Ms. Kurdi, a hairdresser who lives 
in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, told the newspaper. “I was 
even paying rent for them in Turkey, but it is horrible the way they 
treat Syrians there.”


Fin Donnelly, Ms. Kurdi’s local member of Parliament, told the Canadian 
Broadcasting Corporation that after meeting with Ms. Kurdi in March, he 
hand-delivered a letter to Chris Alexander, the citizenship and 
immigration minister, asking that the family be allowed entry into 
Canada as quickly as possible. Mr. Donnelly said that Ms. Kurdi was also 
trying to sponsor another of her brothers and his family.


“I delivered the letter to the minister and — nothing,” said Mr. 
Donnelly, a member of the opposition New Democratic Party. “We waited 
and waited, and we didn’t have any action.”


The Ottawa Citizen reported that the visa applications were rejected in 
June, apparently because the United Nations had not declared the 
families to be refugees and because the Turkish government had denied 
them exit visas.


Mr. Alexander announced on Thursday morning that he was suspending his 
campaign for re-election to Parliament and was returning to Ottawa from 
his suburban Toronto constituency to deal with the family’s case.


“I am meeting with officials to ascertain both the facts of the case of 
the Kurdi family and to receive an update on the migrant crisis,” he 
said in a statement.


“The tragic photo of young Aylan Kurdi and the news of the death of his 
brother and mother broke hearts around the world. Like all Canadians, I 
was deeply saddened by that image and of the many other images of the 
plight of the Syrian and Iraqi migrants fleeing persecution at the hands 
of ISIS.”


During the current election campaign in Canada, opposition parties have 
charged that the government has not accepted enough refugees from the 
region. Mr. Alexander had promised to admit 10,000 refugees from Syria, 
but figures from his 

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Does it make sense to call ISIS "fascist"?

- Amith

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> Four years in, Syria is prey to division, nihilism and competing
> totalitarianisms. A third of the country is split between Kurds, the Free
> Army and either moderate or extreme Islamic-nationalist groups. The rest is
> divided between what leftist intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh calls
> “bearded” and “necktie” fascism. With the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, in
> which the great powers decided how to divide the lands of the crumbling
> Ottoman empire, Syria’s borders were redrawn by imperialists to manifest an
> inherently unjust order; today’s partition scenarios look even worse.
>
> Isis – the bearded fascists – control about half the land, though much of
> this is desert. Its assault on Syrian culture fits its anti-national
> ideology. “Syria is not for the Syrians,” says Isis “caliph” Abu Bakr
> -al-Baghdadi, “and Iraq is not for the Iraqis.”
>
> As for the “necktie” – Bashaar al-Assad controls 17% of the land, and
> almost half of the remaining population. Though his rhetoric is nationalist
> (and sectarian), his forces have destroyed national infrastructure and
> heritage including the historic mosques in Aleppo and Deraa. Running low on
> Syrian manpower, Assad’s war effort is increasingly managed by Iran,
> another power pushing for partition. In recent negotiations over the
> besieged town of Zabadani, Iran demanded a Sunni-Shia population exchange.
> It seems Assad and the Iranians aim to retrench in an area stretching from
> the coast through Homs along the Lebanese border to Damascus – their
> version of what the French occupiers called “la Syrie utile”. The cleansing
> of strategic zones – currently Zabadani and the Damascus suburbs – is part
> of this plan.
>
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[Marxism] THIS is what "solidarity" means!

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[Marxism] Fwd: Isis’s destruction of Palmyra: ‘The heart has been ripped out of the city' | World news | The Guardian

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Four years in, Syria is prey to division, nihilism and competing 
totalitarianisms. A third of the country is split between Kurds, the 
Free Army and either moderate or extreme Islamic-nationalist groups. The 
rest is divided between what leftist intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh 
calls “bearded” and “necktie” fascism. With the Sykes-Picot agreement of 
1916, in which the great powers decided how to divide the lands of the 
crumbling Ottoman empire, Syria’s borders were redrawn by imperialists 
to manifest an inherently unjust order; today’s partition scenarios look 
even worse.


Isis – the bearded fascists – control about half the land, though much 
of this is desert. Its assault on Syrian culture fits its anti-national 
ideology. “Syria is not for the Syrians,” says Isis “caliph” Abu Bakr 
-al-Baghdadi, “and Iraq is not for the Iraqis.”


As for the “necktie” – Bashaar al-Assad controls 17% of the land, and 
almost half of the remaining population. Though his rhetoric is 
nationalist (and sectarian), his forces have destroyed national 
infrastructure and heritage including the historic mosques in Aleppo and 
Deraa. Running low on Syrian manpower, Assad’s war effort is 
increasingly managed by Iran, another power pushing for partition. In 
recent negotiations over the besieged town of Zabadani, Iran demanded a 
Sunni-Shia population exchange. It seems Assad and the Iranians aim to 
retrench in an area stretching from the coast through Homs along the 
Lebanese border to Damascus – their version of what the French occupiers 
called “la Syrie utile”. The cleansing of strategic zones – currently 
Zabadani and the Damascus suburbs – is part of this plan.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Who rules Sweden? | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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For most people, Sweden has an egalitarian mystique that is best 
sustained by knowing as little as possible about the nation’s economy. 
Furthermore, using the term “socialism” to describe Sweden is an 
exercise that works best when you know as little about the political 
economy of capitalism, especially as explained in the writings of Karl Marx.


To start with, there is a ruling class in Sweden. As Lennart Bernston 
pointed out in a chapter titled “The State and Parliamentarianism in 
Sweden” in a 1979 collection edited by John Fry and titled “Limits of 
the Welfare State: Critical Views on post-WWII Sweden”, about 100 large 
companies account for more than a half of industrial production and 
sixty of those are owned by 15 families, which in turn are clustered 
around 3 banks—at the top of which sits the Wallenberg’s Stockholms 
Enskilda Bank referenced below. It is a sad commentary on radical 
analysis of Sweden, at least in English-language volumes and articles, 
that no other book except Fry’s could be located in the Columbia 
University library.


full: http://louisproyect.org/2015/09/03/who-rules-sweden/
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[Marxism] Fwd: The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : Syria: The Propaganda Ring

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Racist libertarian politician links up with the "anti-imperialists".

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/august/27/syria-the-propaganda-ring/
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[Marxism] Top 10 signs of Extreme Climate Change in Alaska - Damn Mexican immigrants!!

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[Marxism] Fwd: The grim reality of the Rojava Revolution – from an anarchist eyewitness » TŘÍDNÍ VÁLKA # CLASS WAR # GUERRE DE CLASSE

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[Marxism] This is what it’s come to: Letting Syria die watching Syrians drown

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While I don't agree with all the arguments in this piece, it has the 
merit of being one of the few articles about the massive refugee tidal 
wave in the Mediterranean that isn't full of depoliticised talk of some 
abstract "war" (as it were a natural disaster) or lies that most people 
are fleeing ISIS. As the fascist regime bombs its own country back into 
the stone age, people who want to stay alive flee -- it's pretty 
straightforward.


"Bashar Assad, the Iranian ayatollahs’ Syrian proxy, has been allowed to 
persist in his relentless bombing of Syria’s cities and his dispatching 
of Shabiha and Hezbollah death squads. Assad has been allowed to violate 
Obama’s allegedly genius chemical-weapons pact as well, dozens of times. 
It is the toll from Assad’s war, not ISIL’s atrocities, that is the 
thing to notice: perhaps seven of every eight Syrian deaths (at least a 
quarter of a million people so far), almost all of Syria’s seven million 
“internally displaced” innocents, and the overwhelming majority of the 
four million Syrian refugees who have fled the country."

MK

This is what it’s come to: Letting Syria die watching Syrians drown

Terry Glavin
http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/glavin-this-is-what-its-come-to-letting-syria-die-watching-syrians-drown

Published on: September 2, 2015 | Last Updated: September 2, 2015 4:58 
PM EDT


Hundreds of mostly Syrian families walk the final few kilometers through 
fields towards the Macedonian border to have their papers processed 
before crossing on September 2, 2015 in Idomeni Greece. Several thousand 
migrant people are expected to arrive at the border today hoping to head 
North through Macedonia, after arriving in Athens in the previous few 
days. Since the beginning of 2015 the number of migrants using the 
so-called 'Balkans route' has exploded with migrants arriving in Greece 
from Turkey and then travelling on through Macedonia and Serbia before 
entering the EU via Hungary. The number of people leaving their homes in 
war torn countries such as Syria, marks the largest migration of people 
since World War II. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)


“The worst part of it is the feeling that we don’t have any allies,” 
Montreal’s Faisal Alazem, the tireless 32-year-old campaigner for the 
Syrian-Canadian Council, told me the other day. “That is what people in 
the Syrian community are feeling.”
There are feelings of deep gratitude for having been welcomed into 
Canada, Alazem said. But with their homeland being reduced to an 
apocalyptic nightmare – the barrel-bombing of Aleppo and Homs, the 
beheadings of university professors, the demolition of Palmyra’s ancient 
temples – among Syrian Canadians there is also an unquenchable sorrow.
Bashar Assad’s genocidal regime clings to power in Damascus and the 
jihadist psychopaths of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) 
are ascendant almost everywhere else. The one thing the democratic 
opposition wanted from the world was a no-fly zone and air-patrolled 
humanitarian corridors. Even that was too much to ask. There is no going 
home now.


But among Syrian-Canadians, the worst thing of all, Alazem said, is a 
suffocating feeling of solitude and betrayal. “In the western countries, 
the civil society groups – it’s not just their inaction, they fight you 
as well,” he said. “They are crying crocodile tears about refugees now, 
but they have played the biggest role in throwing lifelines to the 
regime. And so I have to say to them, this is the reality, this is the 
result of all your anti-war activism, and now the people are drowning in 
the sea.”


Drowning in the sea: a little boy in a red t-shirt and shorts, found 
face-down in the surf. The boy was among 11 corpses that washed up on a 
Turkish beach Tuesday. Last Friday, as many as 200 refugees drowned when 
the fishing boat they were being smuggled in capsized off the Libyan 
coast. At least 2,500 people, most of them Syrians, have drowned in this 
way in the Mediterranean already this year.
A year ago this week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry emerged from a 
gathering on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Wales with commitments 
from nine NATO countries, including Canada, to join in a military effort 
to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIL. A few days after that Sept. 4 
2014 huddle, a half-dozen Arab states signed up. At least a dozen other 
countries are now also contributing in one way or another.
To say the American-led coalition effort has failed to stop the war in 
Syria would be true enough. It would also be disingenuous, for two 
reasons. The first is that to have allowed ISIL to expand the scope of 
its 

Re: [Marxism] Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust?

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From: Louis Proyect via Marxism


On 9/3/15 8:10 AM, Lüko Willms via Marxism wrote:

But they fueled the civil war destroying Syria by giving hope to the


What a penetrating analysis. Foolish me thinking it was MIG's firing
missiles into working class tenements that destroyed Syria.


Yes foolish you. In fact it was some evil "US allies" in the region who 
may have sent some food packages or night goggles (hell, even worse, 
maybe some light arms) to the people inhabiting those working class 
tenements, that destroyed Syria. A great many in the Orwellian School of 
Left Analysis say so.


And many of that same school now say, as usual in complete agreement 
with the imperialists, that hundreds of thousands are not being bombed 
into the Mediterranean Sea by Assad, but rather are fleeing "war,", or 
ISIS, or "western intervention. Wow. 


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[Marxism] Mahatma Gandhi

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Louis,   Your post has been a shocker to me. I hope you don't really 
agree with much of what has been projected in this article. As for Arundhati 
Roy, well I really don't give much weight to her grey matter. She blabbers so 
much, that she loses track of what she is trying to say - another noisy 
character. There is a consistent campaign going on to distort Mahatama Gandhi, 
Nehru and many other icons of India's freedom struggle by you know who - The 
Hindutva Brigade.I agree that Gandhi's views were emerging at the time of his 
stay in South Africa. From a supporter of the empire seeking a few reforms, he 
slowly metamorphosed in to fighter for full fledged freedom from colonial rule. 
Even after his arrival in India, he was more of a reform minded politician, who 
was not ready to confront the British rulers headlong. His progressive 
involvement had driven him to the call for "poorna swaraj' (sovereign freedom). 
He is a very ordinary man with his own flaws. He was even a dictatorial husband 
and father, which his sons resented all their lives. But remember, he lived in 
another epoch, that of an India emerging from medieval mindset in to modernity. 
But what was great about him was his thorough grasp of Indian realities and his 
emotional appeal to the higher consciousness of the uneducated Indian mind.As a 
Communist, I disagree with many of his notions of benevolent oligarchy and his 
tacit approval of the feudal system. But he is the one who had brought about a 
consciousness of a united secular India. He will remain the 'Father of our 
Nation", whether RSS and their ilk like it or not.Vijaya Kumar Marla
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Re: [Marxism] Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's holocaust?

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On 9/3/15 8:10 AM, Lüko Willms via Marxism wrote:

But they fueled the civil war destroying Syria by giving hope to the
various contenders for power over Syria to be legitimized and
recognized by "the international community" (led by the USA) as the
new ruler of the country.


What a penetrating analysis. Foolish me thinking it was MIG's firing 
missiles into working class tenements that destroyed Syria.

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[Marxism] Fwd: Trying To Follow What Is Going On In Syria And Why? This Comic Will Get You There In 5 Minutes.

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Re: [Marxism] Who has the US bombed for in Syria?

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on Dienstag, 1. September 2015 at 09:08, Michael Karadjis via Marxism wrote:

> Some may take issue with the message from the facts I present below. 

 which are -- in so far as they are actual facts -- irrelevant for an answer to 
the question in the Subject line. 

 The USofA bombs only and exclusively for its own national interest, the 
national interest of the most brutal and powerful empire humanity has ever 
seen. 
 
 This "national interest" which manifested itself in the genocidal war against 
the North American natives and the conquest of half of Mexico, in the chattel 
slavery imposed on Africans brought to America in chains, on the continuing "Go 
West" by conquering various Spanish colonies in the Pacific, most prominently 
the Philippines, and in the Caribbean, namely Puerto Rico and -- partially Cuba 
-- and taking hold of Hawaii, of intervening in the interimperialist war of 
1914-18 and in the Soviet Union to destroy the socialist revolution there, 
finally the 2nd inter-imperialist world war which ended offically 70 years ago. 

  A "national interest" which aims at domininating world production and 
marketing of commodities, sources of raw materials and international waterways. 
Which is being promoted by military bases around the world and fleets of 
warships with aircraft carriers in all seven seas. The "invisible hand" of the 
market also needs the iron fist of the military, and there is no McDonalds 
without McDonnell-Douglas (who coined that phrase?). 

  A "national interest" which sees itself threatened by the economic rise not 
only of imperialist competitors, but also of the country which was the main 
prize the USA waged the war for 70 years ago, namely China. 

  While the "national interest" is either the interest of the ruling class or 
of the class striving to become the ruling one, one has to admit that the 
"national interest" of the USA is only the interest of the US capitalist class. 
The working class of the USA has not yet risen to organize itself into a 
separate political party. The national interest of the US working class is to 
dismantle the US system of world domination, and the world is waiting for the 
awakening of that class. It would also end the US intervention in the Syrian 
civil war. 



Cheers, 
Lüko Willms

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on Samstag, 29. August 2015 at 08:38, Clay Claiborne via Marxism wrote:

>   Are 71 Syrian refugees found dead in Austria part of Assad's
> holocaust?

 They are rather 71 of thousands of victims of the border regime of Fortress 
Europe, just like the deaths at the wall which the USA had built on its border 
to Mexico (or rather what is left of Mexico after having conquered at least 
half of Mexico'*s territory). 

 They are the victims of imperialist war against and interventions in the 
countries of the Third World to bring them back under governments which are 
subservient to imperialism. 

  But why did they not bomb Syria "back into the stone age", as your masters 
wanted to do with Vietnam, or at least as much as they bombed Libya, Mali, 
Afghanistan and Iraq? Ms. Clinton explained while she was the US foreign 
minister: for one, Syria under the Baath regime had not, as Libya under 
Ghaddafi, handed their air defense to the imperialist aggressor, secondly 
because the Russians have a military base in Syria, and because Syria is so 
central to the Mashraq (the Arab East) and especially the Fertile Crescent, 
that an armed intervention risks to blow up the whole colonial balkanization of 
Arabia. But they fueled the civil war destroying Syria by giving hope to the 
various contenders for power over Syria to be legitimized and recognized by 
"the international community" (led by the USA) as the new ruler of the country. 
But this civil war also brought the "Islamic State" to power, whose power comes 
from the US war which is felt as a war against Islam. And the IS wiping out the 
border between the Eastern and Western branch of the Fertile Crescent, imposed 
by the European victors of WW1. 

 Yes, all Corporate News Networks and Faux News outlets will clap you on the 
shoulder for your valient action ot deflect criticism away  from the real 
culprits and onto the countries of the Third World themselves. Go on, and 
you'll get the order of services to the empire. 

 And coming back to your baiting, you are of course in full agreement with the 
imperialist rulers of Europe and the rest of the world, that the governments of 
the Third World countries are to blame for each and every wrong on this planet 
(and, of course, the Russians, always the Russians), that's why they make war 
 
> 

>> We now know that the 71 dead bodies found in the back of a truck on a 
>> road in Austria were refugees from Syria. They left Syria, not for 

 Caution, man, with your usual haste to proclaim what you believe to know! 

 The Austrian police is just /assuming/ that those dead bodies were a group of 
Syrian refugees, because they found a Syrian travel document on one of the 
corpses. 



Cheers, 
Lüko Willms

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[Marxism] Fwd: Syria civil war: Russians filmed fighting alongside President Assad's forces - Middle East - World - The Independent

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[Marxism] Fwd: What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people? - The Washington Post

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[Marxism] Fwd: Canada Charges Syrian Officer with Torture in Rendition Case — Despite U.S. Silence

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https://theintercept.com/2015/09/01/charges-filed-case-rendition-torture-maher-arar/
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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: After Spending a Year in Prison, Former State Senator Condemns Mass Incarceration | Alternet

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Wasn't there some old joke along the lines of "a conservative is a liberal 
who's been robbed; a liberal is a conservative who's been to jail"...?

> 2 сент. 2015 г., в 9:05, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
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> Last night I heard this guy being interviewed on the local NPR station. He 
> had some amazing insights about prison life. Here is interviewed by Amy 
> Goodman.
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> http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/after-spending-year-prison-former-state-senator-condemns-mass-incarceration
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[Marxism] Alison Weir response to Max Blumenthal

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Short video response to recent remarks from Max Blumenthal:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eGVMwhIN_8


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[Marxism] Save the children - open the borders

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Save the children - open the borders

There is no migrant crisis. There is a crisis of imperialism, of intervention, 
of capitalism.  End the cycle of tears. Open the borders everywhere.

http://enpassant.com.au/2015/09/03/save-the-children-open-the-borders/
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