Re: [Marxism] Terry Jones' Barbarians

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All of Terry Jones' documentaries are good value, but this series
especially. Coming out in the aftermath of 9/11 and Iraq invasion, bits of
it were very pointed and not easy to avoid a comparison between Roman
attitudes to "lesser" cultures, the barbarians, with modern neocolonialism,
which is a large part of his point.

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> Recently came across this brilliant series hosted by Monte Python’s Terry
> Jones, thanks to Louis’ article on "The Comanches and the Yanomami":
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl96VLPCAqw=PLSpKI4d5RsQVUHkGoNM1BBEPmK6YJOgav
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> Highly recommended. Great teaching material as well.
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> Lou’s article is here:
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> http://louisproyect.org/2013/02/17/the-comanches-and-the-yanomamo/
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Re: [Marxism] Syriza's U-turn complete - sucking up to Israel

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Dennis Brasky wrote

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/inquiry/22532-syrizas-u-turn-on-israel-is-now-complete

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What I've questioned in the past about Syriza as exemplar and what has not been 
alluded to in this article is how in the world one expects a left party without 
a demonstrated socialist mandate from an effective preponderance of 
constituents to do anything other than manage the increasingly complex and 
onerous administration of a capitalist state. That of necessity includes in 
present context managing austerity and therefore, however reluctantly, aligning 
with the banks, trans-nationals, local capital, the police to enforce worker 
resistance, and the essentials of a geopolitically mandated foreign policy in a 
strictly regulated global pecking order. Some, with self-sufficient resources 
can do so to a limited extent, like Venezuela has with a program of 
worker-council participation and redistribution garnering popular support 
despite limitations of ambivalent, bureaucratically corrupt governance of a 
still-capitalist state, maybe Bolivia as well, Chile with Allende, regimes like 
Cuba with Soviet assistance, and the dictators who fell from grace like 
Hussein, or now Assad, because they strayed from the flock or failed to manage 
worker compliance and material resources to capital’s satisfaction.

The question to be asked in the case of Tsipras’s cow-towing to Netanyahu is 
the possibly, necessarily magnified extent to which it’s required in order to 
get much-needed natural gas to keep Greece from collapsing, and to what extent 
Tsipras thinks that this is sufficiently peripheral so as to not on balance 
create an issue with the bulk of his main constituency. Unless you play the 
game right, the footing out there in the empire is precarious to the max. I 
don’t think, all things considered, anyone should be surprised given his 
required, increasingly restricted role at what Tsipras does from now on.

Recall also that George Papandreou was threatened by Merkel with enforced 
bankruptcy unless his country signed up to austerity measures and backed off 
from his declared, last ditch intention to conduct a referendum, which 
destroyed his political career. We might expect a similar fate for Syriza, 
conceivably less so since the European banks have been successful in not only 
insulating themselves from the domino effect of Greek default and the 
(debilitating for Greek workers) absence of an alternative on the left but also 
apparently from the much-diminished threat of a worker-supported alternative 
strategy by a Syriza government in the future.

By governing on behalf of international capital the ostensibly-left regimes 
become, willy nilly, personifications of capital - to be reigned in or replaced 
if they fail to act in a manner not conducive to appropriate capital expansion, 
exploitation, waste of human and material resources and imperative return on 
investment.

Consider the severe constraint on taking power and defying capital without a 
massive mandate from below that makes the intended socialist  outcome feasible. 
Maybe it has something to do with Varoufakis and the left platform getting the 
hell out of Greek governance. Doesn't the same apply to Corbyn? Maybe that has 
something to do with Seymour's silence on UK.

What I can't understand is how Syriza including the left platform and 
Varoufakis from the get-go expected to carry it off without an effective, 
massive mandate to take over the government and move toward socialist 
transition, gauging all actions so as to be in consonance with ever-closer 
approximations, as Rosa Luxemburg said, to substantive equality and worker 
self-management (in a resource-strapped nation, worse luck). 

What else do we have here, essentially, but what happened to Euro-communists 
and social democrats in other, perhaps different times, at  least 
since the Gotha program of the United Workers' Party of Germany, or the second 
international? How is it possible in the absence of an already aroused global 
working class where the demonstration-effect of one’s actions has the required 
effect?

Please answer in no more than twenty-five words.




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[Marxism] Climate activists in Paris defy state ban and police brutality

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Protesters filled the streets of Paris on the eve of the United Nations 
Cop21 climate change summit–despite president Francois Hollande’s best 
attempts to keep them away writes Dave Sewell in Socialist Worker UK 
from Paris.


http://enpassant.com.au/2015/11/30/climate-activists-in-paris-defy-state-ban-and-police-brutality/

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[Marxism] No Support for Cameron's Lies and the Blairites' War Fantasies

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Tony Greenstein's blog:

'Of one thing we can be certain. Bombing Raqa will not defeat ISIS. The bombing
of ISIS by the United States in the last year is positive proof of this. Until
Russia began bombing in earnest, it never occurred to the United States to stop
ISIS’s lucrative trade in oil by bombing the tankers queuing up for miles to
take oil from ISIS controlled Syria across the border. Hence why the US only
began bombing oil tankers in November 2015.

'As the article from Socialist Action below makes clear, the US in the past year
hasn’t been serious about defeating ISIS because the alternative would have been
to hand victory to Syria’s President Assad. Instead it has played with ISIS like
a cat with a mouse. In essence the US has been on both sides of the Syrian war.
Aiding the Kurds in Kobani yet giving the green light to Turkey’s Erdogan to
attack the Kurdish PKK, both in Turkey itself and in Iraq. Turkey maintains that
the Syrian Kurdish fighters of the PYD are just an offshoot of the PKK and that
they will not hesitate to attack them.'

http://azvsas.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/labour-should-oppose-bombing-of-syria.html

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Re: [Marxism] No Support for Cameron's Lies and the Blairites' War Fantasies

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On 11/30/15 9:46 AM, Jim wrote:

Well, since the comrade mentions Cockburn and Fisk further down in the
article, I imagine he probably meant them. But he speaks for himself, so
why not ask him for clarification if it's really necessary?


Greenstein's status as a member of the Baathist amen corner is 
well-established. The litmus test is the sarin gas attack in East 
Ghouta. He failed miserably.

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[Marxism] Fwd: A Wealthy Governor and His Friends Are Remaking Illinois - The New York Times

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Around the same time that Mr. Rauner began running for governor, a group 
of researchers based at Northwestern University published findings from 
the country’s first-ever representative survey of the richest one 
percent of Americans. The study, known as the Survey of Economically 
Successful Americans and the Common Good, canvassed a sample of the 
wealthy from the Chicago area. Those canvassed were granted anonymity to 
discuss their views candidly.


Their replies were striking. Where merely affluent Americans are more 
likely to identify as Democrats than as Republicans, the ultrawealthy 
overwhelmingly leaned right. They are far more likely to raise money for 
politicians and to have access to them; nearly half had personally 
contacted one of Illinois’s two United States senators.


Where the general public overwhelmingly supports a high minimum wage, 
the one percent are broadly opposed. A majority of Americans supported 
expanding safety-net and retirement programs, while most of the very 
wealthy opposed them. And while Americans are not enthusiastic about 
higher taxes generally, they feel strongly that the rich should pay more 
than they do, and more than everyone else pays.


“Probably the biggest single area of disconnect has to do with social 
welfare programs,” said Benjamin I. Page, a political scientist at 
Northwestern University and a co-author of the study. “The other big 
area has to do with paying for those programs, particularly taxes on 
high-income and wealthy people.”


full: 
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/us/politics/illinois-campaign-money-bruce-rauner.html

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[Marxism] Fwd: Response to Tareq Ali 2015, or the need for internationalist solidarity | Syria Freedom Forever – سوريا الحرية للأبد

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Tareq Ali has spoken at a Stop the War rally in London on November 28, 
2015, on the need to oppose any Western interventions in Syria. He did 
so by propagating, again, conspiracies views and actually legitimizing 
Russian imperialist interventions in Syria.[1]


Once again, as these words came out from an important figure of the 
International left, I feel it is necessary to answer and contradict them 
and for others to see that this is not an opinion shared by all among 
progressive groups and personalities. Above all, it is also necessary to 
defend the Syrian revolution and the millions of people that have 
suffered for their struggle for freedom and dignity against all forms of 
tyrannies: firstly against the Assad regime and its allies, and then 
against Daech and Islamic fundamentalist forces such as Jabhat Al Nusra 
and others. This is why I will deconstruct several moments of the speech 
of Tareq Ali and demonstrate that not only his analysis and information 
on the Syrian revolution is plainly wrong, but that also his so called 
strategy to fight Daech is wrong and doomed to fail. I had to add 
several other points after Tareq Ali posted on facebook a TV conference 
in response “For all those who have been deliberately misinterpreting my 
speech outside Downing Street on Wednesday, here is my position on 
Syria, explained at length”.[2] On many aspects this has not changed the 
key elements he expressed in the rally.


full: 
https://syriafreedomforever.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/response-to-tareq-ali-2015-or-the-need-for-internationalist-solidarity/

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[Marxism] Terry Jones' Barbarians

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Recently came across this brilliant series hosted by Monte Python’s Terry 
Jones, thanks to Louis’ article on "The Comanches and the Yanomami":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl96VLPCAqw=PLSpKI4d5RsQVUHkGoNM1BBEPmK6YJOgav

Highly recommended. Great teaching material as well.

Lou’s article is here:

http://louisproyect.org/2013/02/17/the-comanches-and-the-yanomamo/

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[Marxism] NYTimes Pro-Nuclear Op-Ed

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/opinion/the-new-atomic-age-we-need.html 


We already know that today’s energy sources cannot sustain a future we want to 
live in. This is most obvious in poor countries, where billions dream of living 
like Americans. The easiest way to satisfy this demand for a better life has 
been to burn more coal: In the past decade alone, China addedmore coal-burning 
capacity than America has ever had. But even though average Indians and Chinese 
use less than 30 percent as much electricity as Americans, the air they breathe 
is far worse. They deserve a third option besides dire poverty or dirty skies.

Wind and solar together provide less than 2 percent of the world’s energy, and 
they aren’t growing anywhere near fast enough to replace fossil fuels.

The 2011 Fukushima disaster seemed at first to confirm old fears: Nearly 16,000 
people were killed by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. But nobody in Japan 
died from radiation, and in 2013 United Nations researchers predicted that “no 
discernible increased incidence of radiation-related health effects are 
expected.”

Critics often point to the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union as an even 
more terrifying warning against nuclear power, but that accident was a direct 
result of both a faulty design and the operators’ incompetence. Fewer than 50 
people were reported to have died at Chernobyl; by contrast, the American Lung 
Association estimates that smoke from coal-fired power plants kills about 
13,000 people every year.
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[Marxism] Why does the West want "moderate" Syrian rebels?

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New from Linux Beach:


  Why does the West want "moderate" Syrian rebels?
  


> *Barry Goldwater* may have been a racist and a reactionary but he was
> right about one thing, /"Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no
> virtue!”/ This truth should be remembered as we discuss those who have
> been labeled the /"moderate opposition"/ in Syria, and also when we
> use a related term, /"moderate Muslims."/ Neither should be taken as a
> compliment by those to whom it is applied and both labels are the
> creations of a hostile foreign culture for the purpose of denigrating
> their targets. After all, what is a moderate Christian? Is Pope
> Francis a moderate Christian? Is Obama? Who are the /"moderate"/
> revolutionaries that we admire?
>
> The imperialists have always been very good at labeling their
> opposition. Better at labeling them than beating them sometimes.
> Everybody called the National Liberation Front, the opposition in
> South Vietnam, the /"Viet Cong"/ or /"VC."/ Still, to this day, they
> are called that. Few realize that /"Viet Cong"/ was a label invented
> by *Everest Bumgardner*, a US army PsyOps officer
> 
> in 1956 to discredit the opposition, and then /"sold"/ to the
> newspapers. They never could beat the VC, but the name stuck.
>
> Personally, I think the term /"moderate revolutionary"/ is an
> oxymoron, and I've never heard the thuwar apply it to themselves,
> although it is almost universally used by the bourgeois media and the
> Imperial Left to define those who might be worthy of our support in
> the Syrian conflict. As I said in /"barrel bombs,"
> /
> they aren't doing the Syrian revolutionaries any favor by labeling
> them as /"moderates"/ as the term alone will cause those demanding
> change to look to the /"radicals,"/ which are defined by the bourgeois
> commentators and, quite ironically, by the /"anti-imperialists"/ as
> well, as exclusively the right-wing radicals of Islam.

*More...*


/Recent from Linux Beach:/
"Well, what about the barrel bombings that kill thousands?"

Assad's Grand Mufti threatened Paris type attacks in 2011

Qui profite? Who benefits from the Paris attacks?

The Imperial Left's sarin song: still "Regime Change" after all these
years!
/
*Basel & Luna made it from Syria to Germany safely but they still need
your help
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//and we've added these to our growing foreign language collection:/
La Izquierda Imperial:¡al cabo de años, la misma cantinela!


Qui profite ? Qui bénéficie des attaques de Paris ?

¿Cui bono? ¿Quién se beneficia con los ataques de París?

La Izquierda Imperial:¡al cabo de años, la misma cantinela!

Refugiados sirios en Kusel: "Esperar no es sano"


Clay Claiborne, Director
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Re: [Marxism] No Support for Cameron's Lies and the Blairites' War Fantasies

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 "Despite having failed to train a ‘moderate’ third force, the US and
now David Cameron have talked up the ‘moderate’ Free Syrian Army which
most observers admit is but a phantom force."

Such a pity this kind of nonsense keeps popping up, and this kind of
racist and imperialist logic keeps getting presented as progressive.

Any Syrians being "moderate" (whatever that means), any Syrians
fighting for democratic rights, any Syrians advocating a more or less
secular state, any Syrians advocating equal rights for different
ethnic and religious groups in Syria, any Syrians not wanting to
enslave women - imagine, who could believe such people could exist and
even be fighting for their point of view. Of course, yes, they exist,
but they are all in the gulag, exterminationist regime. They cannot
exist anywhere else in Syria. Anyone who would want to fight against
such a regime must be "jihadist" by definition. Indeed, we can often
just call them all "ISIS." Outside the secular regime (OK, it may be a
little oppressive in the way it defends western enlightenment values
at times, but that's all we've got), is nothing but a vast jihadist
zoo.

That is a neat sum-up of official "Left" analysis these days.

As for the quote itself, whether it betrays simply ignorance or
imperialist logic is hard to say. Because the reason the US failed to
"train a "moderate" third force" to fight ISIS is, as anyone who cares
about facts in the news before they put pen to paper knows, the
Pentagon *demanded that in order to get "trained and equipped" to
fight ISIS, the fighters had to sign that they WOUL NOT FIGHT ASSAD!*
That is, the US definition of "moderate" does not simply mean
democratic, secular, non-sectarian etc etc, it also by definition
means *you don't fight Assad*. In other words, the US has the same
definition of "moderate" as the "anti-US imperialists" have. And so,
of course this failed, not because there are not **10's of 1000's** of
democratic, secular ("moderate"??) rebels who are willing to fight ISS
- hell, they're not just "willing" as Cameron put it, they've been
doing it for two years with precious little support from anyone - but
because hardly any (just 54 in fact) were willing to give up the main
fight, against the genocidal dictatorship, as  US-style "moderation"
demanded.

So, yes, by the *imperialist* logic of the "anti-imperialists", any
"moderate" FSA is a "phantom" since they have the same standards as
the Pentagon!

Back in the real world, the article sent a few days ago by Andy, by
Charles Lister, with a breakdown of some 75,000 "moderate" rebels (but
no, not "moderate about fighting the fascist regime) was entirely
realistic, based on my own careful observations. I notice none
commented on it. Lister knows what he is talking about. That's the
difference. By contrast, al those "anti-imperialists" who continue to
insist on the racist concept that "there are only bad guys in Syria"
have in fact only got that idea from its continual repetition in the
imperialist media and by imperialist politicians that they claim to
not trust.

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>> Tony Greenstein's blog:
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> "Despite having failed to train a ‘moderate’ third force, the US and now
> David Cameron have talked up the ‘moderate’ Free Syrian Army which most
> observers admit is but a phantom force."
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> I take it Greenstein's observers are made up of Patrick Cockburn, Robert
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[Marxism] Interview with Leila Khaled in Manila and speech by her at mass rally

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One of the results of the visit last month of PFLP leader Leila Khaled to
the Philippines has been the formation of a Palestine-Philippines
Friendship Society and the strengthening of bonds among anti-imperialist
activists around the world.

There is an interesting interview (in English) with Leila here:
http://pflp.ps/english/2015/11/26/comrade-leila-khaled-addresses-philippines-mass-movement-calls-for-common-struggle-against-imperialism/
She talks about the indigenous movement in the Philippines (the Lunad), the
mass movement n the Philippines, imperialism and its puppets, BDS, and much
more.

And here she is speaking at a massive political rally in Manila:
http://pflp.ps/english/2015/11/26/comrade-leila-khaled-addresses-philippines-mass-movement-calls-for-common-struggle-against-imperialism/

And here she is speaking at a recent MayDay march in Stockholm:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/leila-khaled-mayday-speech-sweden-2011/

Phil
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[Marxism] Philippines: Thousands protest at 'Asia Pacific Exploiters Club' summit

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Thousands marched in protest during the APEC Summit held in Manila on
November 18-19. US President Barack Obama turned up with a "gift" of two
warships to the summit perversely themed of this APEC Summit is "Building
Inclusive Growth".

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60747

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Re: [Marxism] No Support for Cameron's Lies and the Blairites' War Fantasies

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In his defense he's likely been hard at work in making sure there is no
anti-Semitism at CounterPunch.

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>> Well, since the comrade mentions Cockburn and Fisk further down in the
>> article, I imagine he probably meant them. But he speaks for himself, so
>> why not ask him for clarification if it's really necessary?
>>
>
> Greenstein's status as a member of the Baathist amen corner is
> well-established. The litmus test is the sarin gas attack in East Ghouta.
> He failed miserably.
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[Marxism] background on the Philippines left

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http://maxlaneonline.com/2012/10/10/background-the-origins-of-the-philippines-workers-party/
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Re: [Marxism] background on the Philippines left

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also:
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article409

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Andrew Pollack 
wrote:

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Re: [Marxism] background on the Philippines left

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Here is a lot more information about the re-alignments of the
Philippines  left from GLW.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/search/apachesolr_search/Philippines%20left
I'm sure Andrew Pollack is seeding the question of the CPP's
assassination campaign of its ex members following on from Philip
Ferguson's disdain for the brutal facts.

Jose Maria Sison is a nice enough guy as I  showed him and his partner
around my home town of Brisbane and chaired his local meetings back in
the mid eighties.. He also writes pretty good poetry.

But the complication is that he ordered the killing of fellow left activists...

For Ferguson to cover for Sison on that point  is obscene.

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[Marxism] Fwd: History News Network | The Heroism of Dalton Trumbo: An Interview with Larry Ceplair

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http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/161094
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[Marxism] Fwd: We Like Our Syrians Dead: The British Left and David Cameron | AnotherCountry

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Of the few supposedly cogent arguments that groups like StW coalition 
have left, is the idea that Syria is just a mess. Full of warring sides 
each in hoc to some imperialist power or another. The fact that groups 
like the Free Syrian Army or the Local Coordination Committees have 
accepted some funds from an America or Qatar is supposed to mean that 
they are now the “proxies” of these countries; that they are brown 
bodies with no agency of their own.


But this is utter rubbish. It always has been. During the Iranian 
revolution no lesser thorn in America’s side than Ayatollah Khomeini was 
in constant contact with the American embassy through Prime Minister 
Bazargan. Indeed at one point in the Iran and Iraq war, a war that lined 
up Iran against, more or less, the rest of the world, the Iranian regime 
received a one off payment of aid from Israel, separate to the 
Iran-Contra affair. Now, no one would say that either of these make the 
Islamic Republic a “client” or a “proxy” of the West, would they?


full: 
https://attheinlandsea.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/we-like-our-syrians-dead-the-british-left-and-david-cameron/

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[Marxism] New Atheists find allies in Cruz ,Carson et al

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A good piece by Jeff Sparrow in the Guardian which drives the islamophobic
new atheist supporters bonkers in the comments section.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/30/we-can-save-atheism-from-the-new-atheists
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Re: [Marxism] No Support for Cameron's Lies and the Blairites' War Fantasies

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On 11/30/15 5:18 AM, Jim via Marxism wrote:


Tony Greenstein's blog:


"Despite having failed to train a ‘moderate’ third force, the US and now 
David Cameron have talked up the ‘moderate’ Free Syrian Army which most 
observers admit is but a phantom force."


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I take it Greenstein's observers are made up of Patrick Cockburn, Robert 
Fisk, Tariq Ali and the like.

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[Marxism] Fwd: We can save atheism from the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins | Jeff Sparrow | Comment is free | The Guardian

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Dawkins and Harris are still, by far and away, the most recognisable 
frontmen for the New Atheist show. So how did a movement ostensibly full 
of progressives end up so identified with writers who sound less and 
less like incarnations of pure reason and more and more like your 
Islamophobic uncle after he chugs his sixth pint?


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/30/we-can-save-atheism-from-the-new-atheists
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[Marxism] Fwd: U.S. claims in Cuba: The strange battle that is exciting speculators and could stand in the way of normalization.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/11/u_s_claims_in_cuba_the_strange_battle_that_is_exciting_speculators_and_could.html
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[Marxism] Most LP members against air strikes in Syria

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Reuters UK Monday 30 November:

'Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Monday three-quarters of its members 
opposed bombing Islamic State militants in Syria, according to a sample of 
responses the party received over the weekend.'

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/30/uk-mideast-crisis-syria-britain-idUKKBN
0TJ1K920151130

[With the election of leftist Jeremy Corbyn as leader, Labour Party membership 
has more than doubled in Britain to around 400,000, more than that of all other 
British parties combined.]

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