[Marxism] Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate but US Still Toys With Skepticism By Dahr Jamail

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[Marxism] Fwd: How the West Came to Rule? Challenging Eurocentrism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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The notion of uneven and combined development (U), introduced by Leon 
Trotsky in his assessment of the Russian political economy and the 
possibilities of transformation toward communism in the early 20th 
century, has gained increasing attention within International Relations. 
In this blog post, I want to engage critically with the recent book How 
The West Came To Rule by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancioğlu, which 
draws extensively on U in its analysis of the emergence and spread of 
capitalism.


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Re: [Marxism] Riad Alarian responds to Max Blumenthal on FB

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There is a growing network of Syria solidarity activists, locally,
nationally and globally, with Syrians at the heart of it and including
other Arabs as well as we gringoes.
The ideas put out here are intriguing and encouraging. Let's keep this
discussion going.
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Re: [Marxism] Riad Alarian responds to Max Blumenthal on FB

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I honestly think the best way to "humanize" a cause is to make sure that
people from those communities are represented properly. Everyone is going
ape shit about Max Blumenthal (and Seymour Hersh before that) but let's be
honest, some of this is the fault of leftists who have allowed people from
the West to become the arbiters of Syrian (and Palestinian) voices. These
Western left circles appear to be responding to various domestic
constraints on funding and political climate and have been highly selective
with regard to *which* Palestinian and Syrian voices they care to feature
-- usually selecting a handful of people who live in the West to be the
tokens. In effect they have done what the neocons did with Chalabi and what
the Zionists did with Abbas. The best way forward is to make sure that
those people who live in Syria are able to express their views. I assume
that in a political movement that is actually accountable, one more crappy
article about Syria would not cause this much offense. It is only because
there was some sort of assumption that Alternet and Max Blumenthal were
expected to be the voice of another people that there is such
consternation. Otherwise, what is one more shitty article?

The two authors that wrote "Burning Country" seem to have close contacts
with the various people who were working in these local committees. Perhaps
an initiative about getting Westerners to "rethink Syria" should start with
making sure the people in those committees have faces, names, articles, etc
that can be shared in the West. What are those peoples thoughts about
Palestine/Israel, about capitalism, about NGOs, etc? I think it is time to
shift the discussion to what they have to say so we don't just need to
cherry-pick among Western intellectuals and journalists.

- Amith

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> On 10/4/16 8:43 PM, David McDonald via Marxism wrote:
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>> We have some people with authority on our side. We could come up with a
>> mighty list of speakers, especially if we employed Skype or similar
>> technology to make it an international thing.  Or your idea. Or whatever.
>> But it's time. The Amen Corner would go apeshit.
>>
>> David McDonald
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>
> I think that we should kick around the idea of a worldwide teach-in on
> Syria that would be streamed on the net as a Skype-based (or some other
> appropriate technology) event that could feature some of the leading voices
> such as Gilbert Achcar, who I am quite close to, Danny Postel, and most of
> all Syrians both in country and abroad.
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[Marxism] Jehad Saleem on Max Blumenthal

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Jehad Saleem from Gaza, Palestine:

Shame on all those Western activists who built their fame on Palestinian 
pain and now advocate for Assad and justify the mass-murder of hundreds 
of thousands of Syrians


Remember: the worst Syrian regime Military Intelligence Branch is also 
known as the “Palestine Branch.” For decades, Arab criminal dictators 
and demagogues took the word Palestine and tirelessly used it to wash 
the blood of those they tortured and murdered in their narrow and dark 
torture chambers. For decades, under pro-Palestine slogans, millions of 
people were hijacked by narrow-sighted socio-paths who suppressed 
democracy, workers movements and unions, made a joke out of our 
countries, expelled and executed thinkers and intellectuals, and built 
more jails than parks and hospitals, and invested in strengthening their 
power at the expense of the people who were subject to their rule. There 
is no reason, no reason at all, that can justify why these regimes 
surpassed all boundaries of excessive use of power and coercion. What 
does being anti-imperialist have to do with suppressing millions of 
people, stealing their resources, and force them to live in the hell of 
a worst-than-Orwellian scenario of fear and misery? No my friends. We do 
deserve better, our people deserve better than Saddam, Ghaddafi, and 
Assad, and if you think this is the maximum we deserve, then you are a 
racist piece of shit who still hasn’t cured his or her supremacist 
world-view.

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Re: [Marxism] Riad Alarian responds to Max Blumenthal on FB

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On 10/4/16 8:43 PM, David McDonald via Marxism wrote:

We have some people with authority on our side. We could come up with a
mighty list of speakers, especially if we employed Skype or similar
technology to make it an international thing.  Or your idea. Or whatever.
But it's time. The Amen Corner would go apeshit.

David McDonald


I think that we should kick around the idea of a worldwide teach-in on 
Syria that would be streamed on the net as a Skype-based (or some other 
appropriate technology) event that could feature some of the leading 
voices such as Gilbert Achcar, who I am quite close to, Danny Postel, 
and most of all Syrians both in country and abroad.

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[Marxism] The age of the ideological struggle is upon us even in OZ

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Stuart Hall once complained that the Right of the Labour Party were unable
to wage an ideological struggle against Thatcherism.  The only ideological
struggle they could wage, seemingly, was against the Left within the Party.
In the UK, this has been played out around Corbyn. There old time Rightists
like Roy Hattersley and Tom Watson and Old Soft Leftists like Lord Kinnock
have wakened up from their dogmatic slumbers to once more join battle with
the Red Hoards that were infesting "their" party.

The underlying assumption that the Old Right and the Soft Left shared with
the Blairites is that one could only wage an ideological struggle against
the Left.  In every other instance one sat down with a focus group and
found out what the common sense of the day was and tailored one's wares
accordingly. The voter was now no longer a citizen but a customer and
therefore was always right.

That would appear to be at least one dimension of the notion of
unelectability. Focus groups told one what was electable and that was that.
In political terms this could be characterized as appealing to the Centre.

The Corbyn team's approach is to reject this approach and instead to form
the party into a movement which will wage an ideological struggle against
the Right. I cannot recall when such a maneuver was last undertaken
-probably 1945.

Here in Australia. the Labor Party hesitates to go for the ideological
struggle against the Right.  But curiously the Right have no such qualms.
A movement is gathering around the figure of the former Prime Minister Tony
Abbott. It is focused on pushing austerity and uses metaphors like
repairing the Budget.  So it is pure neoliberal orthodoxy.  This is being
combined at the same time with an offensive against social liberals values
around sex education in schools, gay marriage  and welfare. All combined
with a crusade against Islam and immigration. The clash of civilizations is
back on stage with warmed up Hayekian nostrums forming the back drop.

Commentators in the Centre are aghast.   For them the return of Abbott is
unthinkable. Just ask any focus group.  But they are not taking into
account the move onto the terrain of struggle that the Right are taking. As
the economic crisis deepens, the ground is becoming more fertile for right
wing hysteria. And Abbott can do hysteria like no one else.

In the mean time the centrist Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is patently
under siege. He is totally unprepared for the move to the Right that his
party is taking especially in New South Wales. He cannot express, never
mind enact, his progressive views on gay marriage, Australia becoming a
republic or climate change. As Australia polarizes, he is left even more
isolated.  The narrative that he is a disappointment is becoming more and
more accepted and accordingly his popularity is plummeting in the polls.

Meanwhile inside the Labor Party, the leader Bill Shorten, though he is
from the Right of the Labor Party,  has skillfully exposed and taunted
Turnbull as a prisoner of the Far Right on social and environmental issues.
He is also ever so cautiously beginning to move his party away from
neoliberal economics. So the Labor Party would appear to be picking up the
ideological cudgels, or at least thinking of doing so.

But first we will have to watch in horror as the centre right is out
maneuvered and the far Right takes over the Liberal Party.

comradely

Gary
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[Marxism] AntiWar.com

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Always interesting to get a view of what the Libertarians are saying.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2016/10/02/defense-gary-johnson/

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[Marxism] Fwd: List of Rebuttals to Max Blumenthal’s Anti-Syrian Article – Hummus For Thought

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[Marxism] Mariam Barghouti on Max Blumenthal

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(posted on FB)

Max Blumenthal has reached serious lows in his latest piece. Rather than 
address a universal phenomenon on how international aid abuses areas of 
need and conflict for instance, he has chosen to vilify and demonize 
human rights organizations that try in any way possible to preserve life 
in a region constantly bombarded by Russian and Regime bombs.


What Max has done, is build a career off of the Palestinian cause and in 
return he neglects our Syrian brothers and sisters in the most sinister 
manner he managed to muster. I am exhausted and sick of having our 
voices (those of us from the region and in the region) be condensed into 
soundbites and short quotes so journalists like Blumenthal can build a 
name for themselves only to betray our Arab brothers and sisters.


His piece is exemplary of what lack of nuance and stripping of agency 
looks like. It is not courageous investigative journalism reporting, 
rather a cop out article that whitewashes the crimes of oppressors. I'm 
too appalled to even link the article here.

What on earth have we done?
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[Marxism] A Syrian responds to Max Blumenthal

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(Posted to FB by Marcell Shehwaro)

Where are the Syrians in Max’s Speech?

I read Max’s article which aims to open our eyes to the dangerous hidden 
reality behind The Syria Campaign. I read it over and over and all I 
felt was a combination of patronisation and humiliation in detail after 
detail… Beginning with the focus on who took the photo of Omran and who 
published it and neglecting the fact that what happened to Omran did 
actually happen and the boy really was bombed. But of course this detail 
is marginal… just as marginal as all other Syrian men and women in that 
piece of writing. All of us are marginal details.


More important now is how to help the killer escape by spreading doubts 
around all the human rights violations they committed.


My organization is one of the 73 organizations that signed on to 
suspending cooperation with the UN. The decision was taken and planned 
as per the following steps. Months and days of dysfunctional 
coordination with the UN as a result of the political ties of the UN’s 
offices in Damascus. Let alone the grave failure, that the UN admits to, 
of dealing with the sieges. The Syrian anger towards this topic was 
portrayed through many responses, actions, banners and campaigns such as 
United Nothing. All those are purely Syrians but it seems not important 
enough for Mr. Blumenthal to mention.


We internally shared the statement, which was drafted by Syrian 
humanitarian organizations, for endorsement. We even objected to the 
mild language of the statement which some described as nice and 
friendly. After the internal agreement of the drafting organizations, 
which apparently it’s not convincing to the writer that the Syrian 
organizations have a decision-making mechanism, we shared the statement 
publicly for wider endorsement.


Of course Mr. Max is able to judge and knows better than all of us that 
we as Syrians have been influenced to shape our opinions! We have been 
"spurred" to sign!


We are mislead, absent, easily manipulated.

This is how Syrian organisations are portrayed in the article.

On the no-fly zone and regime change. Here comes a more irritating 
speech. Early 2012, I wrote a “silly’ blog under the title “10 reasons 
why I am against no-fly zone”.


I wrote all possible and expected reasons in relation to sovereignty, 
imperialism and so on.


I was “naive” back then to think there were global civilian protection 
mechanisms that will prevent us from tending to such solution ie; no-fly 
zone. I used to think that airstrikes will never be part of the regime 
response against people. I had the luxury to do so as by then we were 
not bombarded at from the sky yet.


Until today I regret that feeling of luxury.

Yes Max, The Syria Campaign say we need a no-fly zone and it is because 
it echoes what Syrians call for day and night.


Yes we want the shelling to stop. We want the aerial bombardment to 
stop. Which is until this moment just a small detail in your article.
Yes the Russian and Assad airstrikes target Syrians, their hospitals and 
schools.


But this article is not about that small detail that takes the lives of 
hundreds every day.


This one is about how dare an “advocacy” project for Syrians to convey 
Syrian messages to the world!!


Yes Max we do want a no-fly zone because two of our education staff were 
injured last week. Maybe because the manager of our education office in 
Aleppo has to face a decision whether to close schools and deprive 
children of their right to education or open schools and risk their 
safety and lives.


Because once we had to discuss a real decision, and not imagined, on 
what is the "normal" ij number of airstrikes where we would continue to 
operate civil and humanitarian activities and when do we cross the "Ok" 
number.


Because hospitals are underground. Because schools are now underground.
They brought us bunker buster bombs you know. I looked this word up in 
your article. It doesn't sound that important.


Bunker buster bomb that destroys schools and hospitals and even shelters.

But what I found in your article that foreigners want a No Fly Zone. How 
dare they!!!


Dear Max, if you had listened to Syrians. If you just had assumed that 
we exist and do have opinions, maybe you would have figured out how we 
reached this point.


How do we live every day based on Whatsapp ringtone bringing the news of 
the location of each attack and who are the casualties.


Syrians there live on military air forces planes rhythm, wondering are 
we going to be bombed during the day only? Shall we work at night? 
Instead. No shall we do early mornings.


The Russians and the regime which 

[Marxism] My article on The Green Party and Syria

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Over the past five years, I have written 204 articles about Syria in the 
hopes that I might convince the left to support the Syrian rebels. The 
Syrian revolution is our generation’s version of the Spanish Civil War. 
Unlike the 1930s, however, much of the left today is backing the Syrian 
equivalent of General Francisco Franco’s fascist military in Spain.


Given my commitment to the struggle against Syrian President Bashar 
Al-Assad, many of my friends and colleagues wonder why I am supporting 
the Green Party candidacy of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, whose 
positions on Syria are exactly those I have been writing against for the 
past five years. The time has come to explain this paradox, but, before 
doing so, it would be useful to examine closely what Stein and Baraka 
have said on the Syria issue, if for no other reason than to confront 
the actual record.


full: http://muftah.org/green-party-syria/
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Re: [Marxism] Blumenthal's Islamophobia

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Finished Part II. The focus is entirely on alleged Western government/NGO
help for every phenomenon of the Syrian Revolution - as if Syrians are too
dumb and lazy to set up on their own local councils, healthcare/rescue
groups, schools, bakeries, etc. etc.

This brings us back again to arguments over Ukraine, and before that the
"color revolutions," and perhaps most similarly to Poland during
Solidarnosc's heyday. There too every activity and statement by Polish
unionists and self-management advocates was said by Spartoids to be an
NED/CIA plot.
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[Marxism] Blumenthal's Islamophobia

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Well in addition to Max's implicit Islamophobia (his opposition to "regime
change" (sic) based primarily on fears that the bearded wogs will take
over), he's now thrown in anti-Semitism.
In Part II, out today (link below), he starts the article by saying that
the White Helmets slogan about saving a life/saving humanity is oh-so
reminiscent of the line in Schindler's list (copy function isn't working so
I'm paraphrasing). In fact everyone using that quote in the film is quoting
the Qu'ran.

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Re: [Marxism] Nader Atassi on the "regime change" bet

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/04/world/middleeast/us-suspends-talks-with-russia-on-syria.html

"Notably missing from the statement was any reference to steps the United
States might take to strengthen the Syrian opposition by providing
antiaircraft weapons or imposing economic sanctions to punish Russian
organizations that are helping the Syrian government.

"The Obama administration has announced that it will consider 'options and
alternatives.' But with Mr. Obama reluctant to intervene in the escalating
Syrian civil war or to risk an inadvertent confrontation with the Russian
military, it is not clear how much interest the White House has in pursuing
such options.

"Mr. Kerry said in a meeting with Syrian civilians last month that he was
one of three or four people in the administration who had previously argued
for using force against the Assad government, and that he had lost the
argument."

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> All of this Assad apologist posturing needs to be understood in terms of a
> bet.
>
> For the most part the US foreign policy establishment believes siding with
> Assad is wise given the threat of Islamists. There’s a small, vocal,
> neoconish contingent against this, but they’ve lost the fight so far. What
> some alt journalists are trying to do is a big gamble in terms of
> credibility but will reap big gains if it comes true: they are hoping the
> US switches to treating Assad as enemy #1 so they can ultimately say "we
> told you so." This would be a significant shift from the current position
> of cooperation with Russia and the need to preserve regime institutions vs
> Islamist threat. The problem is this fantasy that the US views the regime
> as its number one enemy is not the reality on the ground and any analysis
> that says so is obfuscatory unproven garbage.
>
> The bet is as follows: if the US does switch, the obscurantists can say we
> knew all along and traced the networks of regime change. But this entire
> logic is predicated on the fantasy that the foreign policy establishment
> will completely switch course from the current understanding.
>
> It’s a huge risk, but if this FP minority gathers enough power to change
> the US's position, Assad apologists can say they were right all along. This
> “we told you so” rhetoric will provide them with significant social and
> cultural capital within US alt-journalism world. And this is why they
> ignore the current US-backed slaughter: they see the development of a
> discourse opposing it and suspect it will become policy. Because if it
> becomes policy, their incorrect predictions and their wrong reading of the
> situation for 5 yrs will be vindicated.
>
> “This is what the US wanted all along” they will say. And they will pat
> themselves on the back while Syrian corpses pile up. But all indications
> show that this is not what will happen, despite the cries of outrage to
> Assad/Russian slaughter. And this is why they fail in their analysis but
> are also able to write off such crimes. Because, they insist, the worst is
> yet to come.
>
> But Syrians have been living the worst for years now. It’s about time you
> acknowledge this and forego your cheap bet.
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Re: [Marxism] Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Deserve the Black Vote

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>
> He described this as the mechanisms by which the ruling circles remained in
> power and the way in which the toiling masses are left with no alternatives
> but to pick the lesser predator.
>

Please explain why picking the greater predator was not still an
alternative?

Clay


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Re: [Marxism] Fukushima

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u.  you think that is a photo


  http://www.asrltd.com/japan/plume.php

Les


On 10/03/2016 09:01 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:

Given the excitement on the list, here's a photo taken in 2012 by the
Department of State.


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[Marxism] Fwd: Fukushima radiation

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Hi Louis,

I was looking around for articles on radiation from Fukushima disaster 
reaching California coast, and found the following. A couple of which 
quote a study by Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station (I would 
say this is as authoritative as you can get, and one cites a study 
published (May 28, 2012) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of 
Sciences:


1) Radioactive Fish Found In California: Contamination From Fukushima 
Disaster Still Lingers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/22/radioactive-fish_n_2743899.html

2) Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed Pacific to U.S.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/radioactive-bluefin-tuna-crossed-pacific-to-us/

3) U.S. Tuna Has Fukushima Taint
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303395604577432452114613564

4) Fish Transport Fukushima Radiation
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32139/title/fish-transport-fukushima-radiation/

All these reports are from 2012; only one year after the disaster. You 
can only imagine that with four more years of radiation leaking on a 
constant basis from the damaged reactors, the level of radiation 
contamination in the ocean has increased.


Another important factor is exposure to radiation: being exposed to 
radiation is one thing, but ingesting even one molecule of Cesium is 
another thing altogether. The half life of Cesium 135 or Cesium 137 is 
decades long (35 years or so); which means, for more than three decades, 
that one molecule will continue to emit radiation inside the body, which 
can in turn cause genetic mutations, and cancers of different kinds.


Best wishes, R.
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[Marxism] Fwd: TOMORROW: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie, a Film on Islamophobia

[Andrew Pollack via Marxism]

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A blast from the past.
LMAO
Who would've thought that Max himself would succumb to the very disease he
was warning against?
-- Forwarded message --
From: A.R. G 
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:00 AM
Subject: TOMORROW: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie, a Film on Islamophobia
To: lawyers-gu...@lists.nyu.edu


JE NE SUIS PAS CHARLIE


A Film on Islamophobia and Discussion with Filmmaker Max Blumenthal



Join National Lawyers Guild and Muslim Law Students Association for a film
screening of Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie, a short film about the rise of
anti-Muslim sentiment in France. Filmmaker Max Blumenthal will be joining
us for a discussion following the screening.


April 21st, 6:30PM, NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall 218
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[Marxism] Struggle over the Cuban press intensifies (Part 2)

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http://cubasocialistrenewal.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/struggle-over-cuban-press-intensifies-2.html
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[Marxism] Nader Atassi on the "regime change" bet

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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(Posted to FB)

All of this Assad apologist posturing needs to be understood in terms of 
a bet.


For the most part the US foreign policy establishment believes siding 
with Assad is wise given the threat of Islamists. There’s a small, 
vocal, neoconish contingent against this, but they’ve lost the fight so 
far. What some alt journalists are trying to do is a big gamble in terms 
of credibility but will reap big gains if it comes true: they are hoping 
the US switches to treating Assad as enemy #1 so they can ultimately say 
"we told you so." This would be a significant shift from the current 
position of cooperation with Russia and the need to preserve regime 
institutions vs Islamist threat. The problem is this fantasy that the US 
views the regime as its number one enemy is not the reality on the 
ground and any analysis that says so is obfuscatory unproven garbage.


The bet is as follows: if the US does switch, the obscurantists can say 
we knew all along and traced the networks of regime change. But this 
entire logic is predicated on the fantasy that the foreign policy 
establishment will completely switch course from the current understanding.


It’s a huge risk, but if this FP minority gathers enough power to change 
the US's position, Assad apologists can say they were right all along. 
This “we told you so” rhetoric will provide them with significant social 
and cultural capital within US alt-journalism world. And this is why 
they ignore the current US-backed slaughter: they see the development of 
a discourse opposing it and suspect it will become policy. Because if it 
becomes policy, their incorrect predictions and their wrong reading of 
the situation for 5 yrs will be vindicated.


“This is what the US wanted all along” they will say. And they will pat 
themselves on the back while Syrian corpses pile up. But all indications 
show that this is not what will happen, despite the cries of outrage to 
Assad/Russian slaughter. And this is why they fail in their analysis but 
are also able to write off such crimes. Because, they insist, the worst 
is yet to come.


But Syrians have been living the worst for years now. It’s about time 
you acknowledge this and forego your cheap bet.

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Re: [Marxism] Riad Alarian responds to Max Blumenthal on FB

[Michael Karadjis via Marxism]

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Original Message- 
From: Louis Proyect via Marxism

quoting
Sam Charles Hamad:

I beg everybody - it's time to treat these people as fascists. They are
no better. They are legitimising murder, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
People need to treat them as they deserve to be treated. No more excuses
- excusing them is to be complicit with them.
...

That may sound extreme, but I agree with Sam. That is what they are 
doing.


What's more, in terms of the era we are in, I not only agree with Sam, 
but also have my own view regarding the centrality of this.  Syria - the 
world's most majestic revolutionary uprising of the 21st century, and 
currently the world's biggest genocide, with some 500,000 people killed, 
as well as a gigantic new Nakbah with half the population uprooted - is 
now the biggest issue in the world. It is centrally important to world 
politics that the Russian-Iranian invasion of Syria, and the genocidal 
family clique it keeps in control of Damascus, is smashed, no less than 
it was for US imperialism to be smashed in Indochina in the 1960s and 
1970s.


I don't expect most people to agree with this, of course. Sometimes the 
full impact of events is more evident later. After all, with the Soviet 
support and arming of Israel in 1948, most of the official left were 
fully Zionist at the time, and viewed support for Israel and the ethnic 
cleansing of the Palestinians as a way of supporting socialist kibbutzes 
against "reactionary Arab states" and "Islamist forces" backed by 
British imperialism. So familiar. It took a while back then, too. 


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[Marxism] Fwd: Khiyana: Download

[Louis Proyect via Marxism]

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This is a collection of articles about Syria, including mine.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s69/sh/00fd9701-3a69-4ae0-9a57-25347e42cf3d/c8b8a19d5ea80eb630a808527fce4b65
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Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Fwd: Max Blumenthal follows Ben Norton down the bloody primrose path | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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"Meanwhile, Blumenthal, who unlike Norton never had a Marxist
background to shed, has seen his career moving in the opposite
direction. While once prominent enough to be a guest on MSNBC, our boy
Max is now free-lancing for Alternet"

Lou, do you mean to tell us that a fellow who writes about Palestine
will have a harder time punching his meal ticket than one who writes
about the Republican Party?

Merciful heavens. I'm glad we have you around as an analyst, otherwise
some of us might get confused! 

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