[Marxism] international protest against Filipino murders of alleged drug users

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Re: [Marxism] A list of Assad's "anti-imperialist" allies

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Let's not forget the indirect aid of Israel. It could have sent troops to
the Syrian border with the occupied Golan Heights which would have forced
Assad to respond to the threat by pulling tens of thousands of his troops
away from fighting the rebels.


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> Posted to FB by Omar Sabbour
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> - US-backed Iraqi occupation regime set up by the 2003 US invasion
> - US-backed Egyptian regime of Abdul Fatah al-Sisi
> - US-backed Afghanistan (post-US invasion) regime
> - US-backed Pakistani regime
> - US-backed Palestinian Authority/Fatah led by Mahmoud Abbas
> - US-backed deposed dictator of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh
> - Major elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), whose spokesman
> once said "Assad was welcome" to liberate territories from ISIS: including
> the YPG (Assad collaborators) and Jaish al-Sanadeed (outright Assad
> loyalists)
> - Algerian regime
> and effectively
> - US backed-Lebanese state (controlled by Hezbollah)
>
> Arguable:
> - United Arab Emirates - whilst officially following the Saudi line
> against the regime, it sold jet fuel to the Assad regime in contravention
> of sanctions, has declared almost every rebel faction as an extremist
> group, has declared support for Russia's current operation and has hosted
> Assad family members including Assad's mother - who reportedly influenced
> Assad's to go along the "security option" pursued in 2011 against
> protesters.
>
> - Jordan - continues to officially recognise the Syrian regime. Resembles
> the closest application of the double-dealing US policy towards Syria and
> the rebellion, sometimes allowing its territory to serve as a conduit for
> weapons to the rebels, whilst more often blockading the supply of such
> weaponry. Its natural sympathies are much more pro-regime than
> pro-rebellion, though it is influenced by pressure by regional allies such
> as Saudi Arabia. Ultimately however it pretty much exactly follows the US
> line - that is calling for Assad's resignation as the head of the regime
> through "diplomacy", without allowing a "military solution" in lieu of this
> against the regime.
>
> * It must be kept in mind here the extremely volatile context in which
> Arab states operated in 2011. Governments such as Jordan had been on the
> brink of being dragged into the upheavals, were it not for wise and shrewd
> measures to placate popular demands, such as allowing political parties
> room to enter elections and parliaments (or bribing citizenry in the case
> of the Gulf states) and declaring support for Arab Spring protests against
> uncooperative now-pariah regimes elsewhere. For worried Arab governments
> breaking off ties with the Assad regime, the only "non-resignation" of the
> Arab Spring by late 2011 was not even a question at this point. As would
> later become clear however, governments merely downplayed their relations
> with the Assad regime during the stage of revolutionary volatility (roughly
> 2011-13); after this stage and with the increasing success of the
> counter-revolutions and depressed hopes of the masses in the revolution,
> statements affirming that ties with the regime continued - and indeed were
> never cut - were re-declared, such as by the Egyptian and Jordanian regimes.
>
> Thus, whilst it would've been unthinkable for the post-Mubarak Egyptian
> military government of SCAF to declare support for Assad or oppose votes
> against it in the Arab league, today with the pacification of the
> revolutionary fervour in Egypt Egypt's regime is unabashed in declaring
> such support - including even providing weapons to the Assad regime - and
> voting against measures targeting the Syrian regime in such forums as the
> UN.
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[Marxism] Fwd: From Gaza to Aleppo: A Handy Guide for Defending War Crimes - In These Times

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Re: [Marxism] Fwd: Exposing the Libertarian Agenda of the “Free Thought Project”

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I thought it was pretty obvious, not something that needs to be "exposed".

I don't expect much from these people in the first place, it helps.

- Amith

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[Marxism] Fwd: Exposing the Libertarian Agenda of the “Free Thought Project”

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[Marxism] [UCE] "Archaeologists may have unearthed Haymarket time capsule"

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-War]: Miller on Moe, 'Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War'

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Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 9:40 AM
Subject: H-Net Review [H-War]: Miller on Moe, 'Roosevelt's Second Act: The
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Richard Moe.  Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the
Politics of War.  Pivotal Moments in American History Series. New
York  Oxford University Press, 2013.  xvi + 376 pp.  $29.95 (cloth),
ISBN 978-0-19-998191-5.

Reviewed by Jaclyn Miller (Kansas State University)
Published on H-War (October, 2016)
Commissioned by Margaret Sankey

Richard Moe, a veteran White House staffer and former president of
the National Trust for Historic Preservation, presents in Roosevelt's
Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War an intensive
and nuanced interpretation of a decisive year in American politics
and of the man who presided over it. Moe finds new things to say
about a figure already much explored in historical scholarship in
examining Franklin D. Roosevelt's journey to a third term in the
context of international turmoil. Moe characterizes Roosevelt in
terms neither hagiographic nor unsympathetic, recognizing his at
times "arrogant and manipulative" politics as well as his strongly
felt "moral core" (pp. xv, 327). Ultimately, he argues that the
president's conviction that Britain and worldwide democracy needed
saving, combined with his growing certainty that he was the best man
for the job, guided him in his decision to run again. International
events pulled a reluctant nation toward supporting a president whose
domestic policies had begun to lose favor in recent years, and toward
a more actively interventionist foreign policy.

_Roosevelt's Second Act _places a microscope on a short period of
time, which allows for a richness of detail about the ensemble of
characters surrounding FDR, especially the other potential Democratic
candidates for president, a wide range of American isolationists, and
his eventual electoral opponent, Wendell Willkie. FDR first
cultivated New Dealers Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes as possible
candidates to replace him, before settling most of his efforts on
Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The president deemed Hull the ablest
candidate regarding foreign affairs and the most electable, but Hull
remained reluctant to run. This fact, along with Roosevelt's distaste
for the other alternatives--including Vice President John Nance
Garner and Democratic National Committee Chairman James
Farley--helped move the president to run for a third term. One of the
strongest sections of this book describes Roosevelt's machinations
surrounding the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. A
dismal affair that exposed the president's propensity to manipulation
and stubbornness, particularly with regard to his insistence upon an
unpopular vice presidential candidate (Henry A. Wallace), the event
nonetheless placed the assembly firmly in the incumbent's hands.

Among the nation's many isolationists were pacifists, socialists,
German sympathizers, communists, and even New Dealers focused on
domestic economic problems. Such polarizing figures as Charles
Lindbergh, who described the German air power he had witnessed on
several visits to that country in periodic radio addresses and
speeches before the isolationist group America First, garnered
favorable public opinion. Though Americans would not all have
supported the appeasement Lindbergh urged, many agreed that their
country should stay out of "Europe's War."[1] Moe's attention to the
multifaceted isolationism of everyday Americans is important to his
argument. FDR's overwhelming belief that democracy's preservation was
tied to the United States' willingness to aid those opposing fascism
and the election of a president strong enough to do this required
overcoming widespread isolationism.

Events in Europe provided the push needed to get past this hurdle.
Adolf Hitler made progressively clearer steps toward continental
domination and posed a pressing threat to Great Britain, his last
major democratic foe in the region after Germany installed a puppet
regime in Vichy France. This situation forced Americans to realize
the seriousness of the war. Even the more isolationist Republican
Party selected a candidate for the general election who supported
internationalism. Moe's treatment of Willkie as an individual and
politician is thorough and insightful. Though Willkie made a mistake
in delaying his campaign after the Republican convention, thereby
allowing Roosevelt to make strides with voters by presenting himself
as an assertive commander in chief, his 

Re: [Marxism] Michael Hudson: Economic 'Recovery' Feels Weak Because the Great Recession Hasn't Really Ended

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Michael Roberts's second post "The Global Debt Hangover" on the IMF report:

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/the-global-debt-hangover/

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[Marxism] The Trump debacle- what now?

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It is not impossible that Trump could be elected president, but it certainly 
seems unlikely.
One effect may be that voters who felt they had to rally to Clinton are more 
free to vote for Jill Stein.

For me the bigger question is what happens to the millions of Trump supporters. 
 Some welcomed his appeal to racism.  Will Alt Right and openly racist 
organizations be able to recruit some of the disappointed Trump supporters?
As for others who were drawn to Trump because of their economic distress and 
insecurity, how many would be willing to listen to the left, however we define 
it?

ken h
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Re: [Marxism] Soviet literature

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http://royallib.com/book/sobolev_leonid/zeleniy_luch.html  
DOWNLOAD by Russian 

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I have acquired a copy of The Green Light by L. Sobolev.  It seems to be widely 
available on line, but I could pass it along to Soviet Studies somewhere.
ken h
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