[Marxism] Why NAFTA 2.0 bodes ill for Mexico's AMLO

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Mexico’s next president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO for short) is
still three months away from taking office, but some of his campaign trail
promises already seem distant, writes Ryan Mallett-Outtrim from Puebla.
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[Marxism] New book on Syria

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Homes

https://virl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1419987107 


"Homes tells the story of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, a young boy whose family moved 
from Iraq to Syria just before the start of the Syrian civil war. It recounts 
what it was like living in Syria during this time -- the normal things like 
video games, sleepovers, and family jarringly juxtaposed with car bombings, 
massacres, and the constant threat of what could happen next. In 2014 the 
family finally found safety in immigrating to Edmonton, Canada, and the book 
also recounts both the gratefulness and the loneliness of the family's 
immigration experience."--
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[Marxism] cave people did not have cavities

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[Marxism] The decline of the landed gentry and the Brenner thesis

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Tomorrow I'll have a review of "The Little Stranger" in Counterpunch, a 
film about three aristocrats who have fallen on hard times. Set in 1946, 
it is a mixture of "Fall of the House of Usher" and class conflict as a 
doctor whose mother worked as a maid at the estate tries to bond with 
the Ayres family that retain their class snobbery even though they are 
almost penniless.


To help get a grasp of the historical background, I looked at David 
Cannadine's "The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy" that 
explains why this happened to most of the landed gentry during 
Gladstone's Liberal Party rule.


It raises an interesting question. If such landlords were key to the 
rise of capitalism in England, why did the Liberal Party--the embodiment 
of capitalism in its maturity--effectively destroy the rural 
bourgeoisie. Too bad Brenner and his acolytes are so little interested 
in anything happening after the 16th century.

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[Marxism] Miami’s Other Water Problem - Bloomberg

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Re: [Marxism] Palestine and apartheid | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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Interesting as always with Richard. But again, as always, his imaginary is
drawn to the intractable, the  complex that cannot  be solved. At times it
seems to me that Ricard's thought is a series of long variations on the
theme of "pessimism of the intellect." The reference to biopolitics &
Foucault is not incidental.  There are echoes here of Nietzschean thought
of the Will to Power as the defining aspect of the human, and so there is
no ground for a resolution or hope for a Utopian rupture.

 I think he also underestimates the historical role of and need for Arab
labour.  It is true that since the 1990s the Israelis have substituted
"foreign" workers (to the level of about  77k) for Palestinians. But the
point is that Israel has always been dependent on Arab leader complicity in
the Zionist project and Arab help within Israel to make the Israeli state
viable.

I also know from my experience of growing up as a Catholic in Northern
Ireland, and Richard would agree with this, that a state which declares a
growing section of its own population as "the enemy" is permanently
unstable.

Richard does make the point that "Israel depends far too much on
international support". That is true, and it is why the BDS movement is
such a threat.

My own critique, and one I fear that Richard would not recognize, is that
Israel's true weakness is that it is not a moral undertaking. It is an
ensemble of what Bhaskar would have called power2 master-slave
relationships. Israel rests on a layer of dirty business - torture, arrest
without trial, spying, bribery, murder, and regular burst of slaughter.
Most states of course also depend on a layer of artisans who specialize in
dirty business. But in Israel the proponents of dirty business are in
charge out there in the open and increasingly they are a scandal to all our
humanity. Moreover, the social media meant that this morning I could see
the dirty work with a consciousness forming immediacy that the likes of
Murdoch and the Mainstream Media can no longer control.

In my youth the idealists at the university boasted were proud of their
work in the kibbutzim. No one does that now. No one.  The Israeli
ambassador to the UK, Regev recently advised the Labour Friends of Israel
that they should highlight the misogyny and homophobia of the opponents of
Israe. That was a desperate attempt to hold on to the notion that there is
something intrinsically good about Israel. The Zionist myth that the
redemption and sanctification of Israel would lead to the redemption and
sanctification of all humanity, has never seemed so sadly bizarre.

All around this troubled world where the Alt-right gather they fly the flag
of Israel.  We are now confronted with the realtity that scumbags, who are
deeply anti-semitic, support Israel.  They are all the way with Netanyahu,
as they march mouthing their filthy chant "Jews will not replace us". There
is no surer sign of the inevitable failure of the Zionist project.

My critique then rests on the proposition that there is a fundamental moral
impulse in the human and no one can violate that imperative for long
without suffering a breakdown. That also applies at the level of the
state.  And to make a final return to Richard's theme, it is here that one
finds the true similarity between South Africa and the Israeli state.

comradely

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[Marxism] I Worked With Avital Ronell. I Believe Her Accuser. - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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I haven't been following this controversy but this take-down of Ronell 
is devastating.


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[Marxism] reviewer wanted

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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review: 

 

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle. 

 

Publisher's blurb:

 

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our

understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea:

the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and

more data is enough to help us build a better world.

 In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided

 by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-

 factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of

 understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent

 accessibility of information, we're living in a new Dark Age.

 From rogue financial systems to shopping algorithms, from artificial

 intelligence to state secrecy, we no longer understand how our world is

 governed or presented to us. The media is filled with unverifiable

 speculation, much of it generated by anonymous software, while

 companies dominate their employees through surveillance and the threat

 of automation.

 In his brilliant new work, leading artist and writer James Bridle

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[Marxism] The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult

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NY Times, Aug. 30, 2018
The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult
By Pankaj Mishra

Mr. Mishra is a contributing opinion writer focused on ideas and politics.

“White men,” an obscure Australian academic named Charles Henry Pearson 
predicted in his 1893 book “National Life and Character: A Forecast,” 
would be “elbowed and hustled, and perhaps even thrust aside” by people 
they had long regarded as their inferiors — “black and yellow races.” 
China, in particular, would be a major threat. Pearson, prone to terrors 
of racial extinction while living in a settler colony in an Asian 
neighborhood, thought it was imperative to defend “the last part of the 
world, in which the higher races can live and increase freely, for the 
higher civilization.”


His prescriptions for racial self-defense thunderously echoed around the 
white Anglosphere, the community of men with shared historical ties to 
Britain. Theodore Roosevelt, who held a complacent 19th-century faith, 
buttressed by racist pseudoscience, that nonwhite peoples were 
hopelessly inferior, reported to Pearson the “great effect” of his book 
among “all our men here in Washington.”


In the years that followed, politicians and pundits in Britain and its 
settler colonies of Australia, Canada and the United States would 
jointly forge an identity geopolitics of the “higher races.” Today it 
has reached its final and most desperate phase, with existential fears 
about endangered white power feverishly circulating once again between 
the core and periphery of the greatest modern empire. “The fundamental 
question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive,” 
President Trump said last year in a speech hailed by the British 
journalist Douglas Murray, the Canadian columnist Mark Steyn and the 
American editor Rich Lowry. More recently, Mr. Trump tweeted (falsely) 
about “large-scale killing” of white farmers in South Africa — a 
preoccupation, deepened by Rupert Murdoch’s media, of white supremacists 
around the world.


To understand the rapid mainstreaming of white supremacism in 
English-speaking liberal democracies today, we must examine the 
experience of unprecedented global migration and racial mixing in the 
Anglosphere in the late 19th century: countries such as the United 
States and Australia where, as Roosevelt wrote admiringly in 1897, 
“democracy, with the clear instinct of race selfishness, saw the race 
foe, and kept out the dangerous alien.” It is in the motherlands of 
democracy rather than in fascist Europe that racial hierarchies first 
defined the modern world. It is also where a last-ditch and potentially 
calamitous battle to preserve them is being fought today.


This “race selfishness” was sharpened in the late 19th century, as the 
elites of the “higher races” struggled to contain mass disaffection 
generated by the traumatic change of globalization: loss of jobs and 
livelihoods amid rapid economic growth and intensified movements of 
capital, goods and labor. For fearful ruling classes, political order 
depended on their ability to forge an alliance between, as Hannah Arendt 
wrote, “capital and mob,” between rich and powerful whites and those 
rendered superfluous by industrial capitalism. Exclusion or degradation 
of nonwhite peoples seemed one way of securing dignity for those 
marginalized by economic and technological shifts.


The political climate was prepared by intellectuals with clear-cut 
racial theories, such as Brooks Adams, a Boston Brahmin friend of 
Roosevelt, and Charles B. Davenport, the leading American exponent of 
eugenics. In Australia, Pearson’s social Darwinism was amplified by 
media barons like Keith Murdoch (father of Rupert and a stalwart of the 
eugenics movement) and institutionalized in a “White Australia” policy 
that restricted “colored” migration for most of the 20th century. 
Anti-minority passions in the United States peaked with the 1924 
immigration law (much admired by Hitler and, more recently, by Jeff 
Sessions), which impeded Jewish immigrants and barred Asians entirely. 
By the early 20th century, violence against indigenous peoples, 
immigrants and African-Americans reached a new ferocity, and nativist 
and racist demagogues entrenched a politics of dispossession, 
segregation and disenfranchisement.


Seeking to maintain white power globally, Roosevelt helped transform the 
United States into a major imperialist power. Woodrow Wilson, too, 
worked to preserve, as he put it, “white civilization and its domination 
of the planet” even as he patented the emollient rhetoric of liberal 
internationalism that many in the American political and media 

[Marxism] In Defense of Air-Conditioning

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Not only does Jacobin incorporate the snazzy graphics of the old Living 
Marxism magazine of Frank Furedi, it also incorporates the same shitty 
anti-environmentalism.


https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/air-conditioning-climate-change-energy-pollution
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[Marxism] A new study finds how much unions contribute to higher wages

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[Marxism] solidarity with Iranian workers in struggle

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Here is a post from the blog of the Workers International Network. It's a
call for signatures on a statement of solidarity with workers in struggle
in Iran. (It also opposes US intervention there.) I urge all union
activists (and others) to attach their names. You can send them to me and
I'll do so. I am also attaching a hard copy for you to circulate.
https://workersinternationalnetwork.blog/2018/08/30/statement-of-solidarity-from-u-s-labor-activists-to-fellow-workers-in-struggle-in-iran/

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Re: [Marxism] Nicaragua

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On 8/30/18 1:18 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote:


Here is a series of three articles from an opponent of the Ortega regime.
They are carried on the web site of a "Marxist humanist" group. Among other
things, they allege torture of those held in prison by Ortega. I don't
believe these allegations are a lie. Here the articles are, in order of the
dates:

https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/international-news/nicaraguan-pensioners-and-students-fight-and-die-in-protests.html



"The protesting students built barricades and used artisanal arms (small 
morters used for religion celebrations, known as morteros, which are no 
match for real weapons)."


They might not be a match for real weapons but these mortars were first 
used in Venezuela by the student movement there. In fact, I don't see 
much difference between the two countries. Yes, Maduro and Ortega are 
not Lenin and Trotsky but the failure of the student movements to put 
forward a program that promises to transform the respective nations 
according to the ideals put forward in publications like Marxist 
Humanist Initiative or New Politics, I'll refrain from cheer-leading for 
them.

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[Marxism] Nicaragua

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Here is a series of three articles from an opponent of the Ortega regime.
They are carried on the web site of a "Marxist humanist" group. Among other
things, they allege torture of those held in prison by Ortega. I don't
believe these allegations are a lie. Here the articles are, in order of the
dates:

https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/international-news/nicaraguan-pensioners-and-students-fight-and-die-in-protests.html

https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/international-news/nicaraguan-government-continues-slaughter-of-students-others-in-revolt.html

https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/international-news/the-crimes-of-the-regime-of-daniel-ortega-and-rosario-murillo.html

John Reimann

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Re: [Marxism] U.S. Imperialism Wants to “Re-Engage” with the Assad Tyranny

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US Officials Met with Assad Regime in June
https://eaworldview.com/2018/08/syria-daily-us-officials-met-with-assad-regime-in-june/

Just in time, that is, for the US-Israeli backed Assad reconquista of
southern Syria:

"The meeting took place weeks after a pro-Assad offensive, enabled by
Russian airstrikes and using conventional and chemical weapons,
reoccupied East Ghouta near Damascus.
"The US then warned against an attack by the regime and its foreign
allies on opposition areas of southern Syria. However, just before the
June meeting, American officials told rebels that they could not count
on any support, and the pro-Assad offensive — again enabled by Russia
— seized the territory within weeks"
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Re: [Marxism] Infiltrating the Left

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Aaron J. Leonard says:

"Malinovsky is referred to by Lenin in "Left Wing Communism: An Infantile
Disorder." Lenin says, on the one hand, Malinovsky sent thousands of committed
Bolsheviks to prison and death. On the other, tens of thousands were recruited
to the party. He's a template for why we don't need to worry about informants.
He's on the central committee of the Bolshevik Party. He's their representative
on the international. He is one of three people charged with ferreting out spies
in the Bolshevik Party. Yet he's an informant.

"Lenin saw in Malinovsky what he wanted to see: a working class guy who was an
intellectual and was willing to fight for the cause. [...]

"If Malinovsky actually did more good than harm for the Bolsheviks because he
was a good party member as well as an informant, then by that logic, let's have
twenty Malinovskys. Maybe we ought to just have all police informants because
then, jeez, we can seize state power. The logic does not hold."

This is stupid. First, what did Lenin write?

"While Malinovsky with one hand sent scores and
scores of the best Bolsheviks to penal servitude and to death, he
was obliged with the other to assist in the education of scores and
scores of thousands of new Bolsheviks through the medium of the
legal press."

"Scores and scores," not "thousands." And Lenin adds, in a footnote:

"Malinovsky was a prisoner-of-war in Germany . When he returned to Russia
under the rule of the Bolsheviks, he was instantly put on trial and shot by our
workers. The Mensheviks attacked us most bitterly for our mistake in allowing
an agent-provocateur to become a member of the Central Committee of our Party .
But when, under Kerensky, we demanded the arrest and trial of Rodzyanko, the
speaker of the Duma, because he had known even before the war that Malinovsky
was an agent-provocateur and had not informed the Trudoviks (peasant deputies .-
Ed.] and the workers in the Duma of this fact, neither the Mensheviks nor the
Socialist-Revolutionaries in Kerensky's cabinet supported our demand, and
Rodzyanko
remained at large and went off unhindered to join Denikin."

Much more could be said about this incident;see, for ex., Victor Serge's
account in " What everyone should know about repression,"
https://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/1926/repression/ch1a.htm#s8, Chapter
VIII.

In the interests of historical accuracy, at the very least,
Richard


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[Marxism] Recommended books

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Last week I had occasion to be at the hospital while my partner waited for an 
operation.  (Following a foot injury.  She’s well on her way to recovery.)
Happily, our host in Vancouver had lots of good books.
ken h


October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, by China Mieville
Warts and all, a vivid account.
Previously noted on marxmail, now available in audio
https://www.audible.ca/pd/October-Audiobook/B072DVWC3K 




Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary
A good memoir overall as well as examination of life in a cult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA_(Provisional) 

https://nowtoronto.com/art-and-books/books/red-star-tattoo-my-life-as-a-girl-revolutionary-by-sonja-lar/
 



The Book Thief
I was unaware of this book or the the movie.
Absorbing content as well as innovations in writing that will be of interest to 
specialists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Thief 

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[Marxism] Syrian film

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Part of the program at the Toronto Palestine Film Festival

The Day I Lost My Shadow
https://www.tiff.net/tiff/the-day-i-lost-my-shadow/ 


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[Marxism] Palestine and apartheid | Richard Seymour on Patreon

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[Marxism] Den of thieves

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United Nations Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura said on 
Thursday that the UN estimates that around 10,000 "terrorists" remain in 
northern Idlib province and need to be defeated.


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[Marxism] Fallout from strikes

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With the low unemployment, something has to give in the US, and that
something is a tendency towards increased militancy on the job. The most
noticeable event of this was the teacher strikes throughout the US. By no
coincidence, most (if not all) of these strikes have been in
Republican-controlled states (W. Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky). That's
because it's in these states that the budget, including for education, has
been slashed the most severely. Now there is a follow up to those strikes
in that many of the incumbent Republicans who voted against measures that
would raise teacher pay are being voted out in their primaries. This
doesn't mean that the Democrats will necessarily retake those seats, but it
means a beginning of a shift away from the "small government" craze. In
other words, the beginning of a shift in the consciousness. Here's the
article that outlines what's happening:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/08/teachers-strikes-oklahoma-gop-primaries-house-2018-elections.html

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[Marxism] Putting Islam Out of Use - Los Angeles Review of Books

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AMR KHALED IS one of the most popular religious preachers in the Arab 
World. In 2007, Time magazine even counted the televangelist among the 
hundred most influential people in the world. Earlier this summer, 
Khaled issued a public apology due to outrage at his endorsement of a 
brand of poultry on an Egyptian cooking show. In an episode now known as 
“chicken-gate,” Khaled contended that consuming “al-Wataniyyah” chicken 
had spiritual benefits, especially during the holy month of Ramadan. 
Khaled had been criticized before for his embrace of corporate Islam. 
This time, however, the Egyptian public had simply had enough of 
religion put to such crude use. Could it be that Islam is no longer so 
usable?


Such anger at the peddling of religious piety in the Arab World is 
linked to a much broader decline in both mainstream and radical currents 
of political Islamism. Since the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the end 
of the Muslim Brotherhood’s first and last government in Egypt, 
mainstream Islamists command a mere fraction of the mobilizing strength 
they enjoyed during their high noon in the 1990s. In fact, all varieties 
of Islamism in Arab politics are now on the defensive. Even jihadi 
militants have begun a metamorphosis into something altogether different 
since the rise and fall of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant 
(ISIL). While the traditional critique of religious political parties 
has come from the left, the attack on Islamism now largely proceeds from 
the right. This invites the question: what does conservatism look like 
in the Arab world if it is anti-Islamist?


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[Marxism] Algae Bloom in Lake Superior Raises Worries on Climate Change and Tourism

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NY Times, Aug. 30, 2018
Algae Bloom in Lake Superior Raises Worries on Climate Change and Tourism
By Christine Hauser

In 19 years of piloting his boat around Lake Superior, Jody Estain had 
never observed the water change as it has this summer. The lake has been 
unusually balmy and cloudy, with thick mats of algae blanketing the 
shoreline.


“I have never seen it that warm,” said Mr. Estain, a former Coast Guard 
member who guides fishing, cave and kayak tours year-round. “Everybody 
was talking about it.”


But it was not just recreational observers along the shores of the lake 
who noticed the changes with concern. Lake Superior, the largest of the 
Great Lakes with more than 2,700 miles of shoreline, is the latest body 
of water to come under increased scrutiny by scientists after the 
appearance this summer of the largest mass of green, oozing algae ever 
detected on the lake.


From the Gulf Coast to the northernmost shores of the United States, 
scientists and government officials are working to decipher algae blooms 
to help them interpret the causes of the blooms, changes to their 
climates, and the effects the blooms have on public health and regional 
environments.


Scientists generally agree that algae blooms are getting worse and more 
widespread, and are exacerbated by the warmer water, heat waves and 
extreme weather associated with climate change. They are also 
intensified by human activity, such as from farm and phosphorus runoff, 
leakage from sewer systems, and other pollution.


The problems that algae blooms pose to fresh and marine waters have been 
propelled to the forefront in recent years by high-profile events like 
the shutdown of the water supply in Toledo, Ohio, in 2014 after toxic 
algae formed over the city’s water-intake pipe in Lake Erie, as well as 
the production of a toxin by a species of algae off the West Coast in 2015.


More recently, in the waters off southwestern Florida, a toxic algal 
bloom known as a red tide persisted this year for more than nine months, 
the longest time period since 2006. The overgrowth killed wildlife and 
made some beaches noxious.


Other areas, including the Finger Lakes in New York and Utah Lake south 
of Salt Lake City, have also experienced an unusually high number of 
blooms in recent years.


This week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s 
laboratory for environmental research on the Great Lakes warned that 
some parts of Lake Erie were not fit for recreational activities because 
of an algal bloom.


Starting in August in Lake Superior, reports of the thick, green algae 
stretching along about 50 miles of the southern shore reached Robert 
Sterner, the director of the Large Lakes Observatory at the University 
of Minnesota Duluth, and his team.


“We believe it to be the largest, most intense bloom yet,” he said. “I 
have been emphasizing we are talking about a small volume of Lake 
Superior, but it is a very highly prized, recreational part of the lake.”


Dr. Sterner said that while scientists did not completely understand the 
causes and frequency of blooms, they start with warmer water. And Lake 
Superior, he said, “is one of the fastest-warming lakes on eart
Algae blooms are a natural occurrence, but certain species can be toxic. 
While the species of algae found in Lake Superior can become toxic, Dr. 
Sterner said, tests showed that none of its commonly occurring toxins 
were found in hazardous concentrations.


Harmful algal blooms are a “national problem,” Donald M. Anderson, a 
senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, told the 
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in Washington 
on Tuesday.


“Their increasing frequency and intensity are impacting the economics 
and environmental health of communities, states, tribes and regions 
around the nation,” he testified.


In an interview on Wednesday, Dr. Anderson said that scientists were 
seeing outbreaks surging in places they had not appeared before.


“The fresh water problem has exploded in the United States,” he said. 
“But even on the marine side, we are seeing events larger in scale.”


Scientists and National Park Service employees were unaware of any 
noticeable blue-green algae blooms in Lake Superior before July 2012, 
when visitors reported surface scum along a 15-mile stretch of shore 
near the Apostle Islands, Dr. Sterner said.


That was after 10 inches of rain drenched the Duluth region, wrecking 
infrastructure and shooting a plume of sediment into the lake, Minnesota 
Public Radio reported this month in a feature about this summer’s algae 
blooms.


The latest algae bloom in Lake 

[Marxism] Existentialism and Marxism: Tensions, Ambiguities, and Resolutions?

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[Marxism] Reality Winner, Russiagate and the Left

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Reality hit hard for the left when whistleblower Reality Winner was 
sentenced to five years, three months in prison with three years of 
supervision after release and 100 hours of community service. Surely it 
was another pussy hat liberal Russiagate deep state hoax that is 
descending on the honorable leftist blogosphere? Actually, it was just 
the opposite. Winner heroically revealed an attempt by Russian military 
intelligence to interfere with U.S. elections. And guess who slapped her 
with the longest sentence for a federal defendant who disclosed 
information to the media? It couldn’t be the very same man who is 
challenging globalism, the deep state and the new liberal world order as 
we know it, albeit on twitter? Yes, it could be actually.


This is a hard pill to swallow for what Jeffrey St. Clair calls the 
Sputnik Left. Reality Winner showed us the punishment taken for real 
resistance to the authoritarian Trump administration. Winner not only 
called Trump the “Orange Fascist”, she was brave enough to reveal the 
conspiracy liberals have pretended to be chasing and leftists have been 
denying for the last year and a half. Those who are outraged by Julian 
Assange’s case and not by Reality Winner’s case are just as hypocritical 
as liberals who may be divided the opposite way.


full: 
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[Marxism] National Assembly of Venezuelan Commune Leaders Vows to ‘Take the Offensive’ | Venezuelanalysis.com

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[Marxism] On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher | Literary Hub

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“The dukes had apparently taken the occasion of the gift of an African 
child to conduct one of those famous Enlightenment experiments, aiming 
to explore whether an African could absorb and contribute to modern 
scholarship.”


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[Marxism] Trump’s profits bonanza | Michael Roberts Blog

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Yesterday, we got the data for US corporate profits in the second 
quarter of 2018, along with a revised estimate for US real GDP growth. 
On the GDP front, the ‘annualised’ rate of growth was revised up to 
4.2%, the strongest rate on that measure since the middle of 2014.  But 
this was after some very poor annualised rates (below 2%) in 2015 and 
2016.  So it’s a bounce back from poor growth.


https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2018/08/30/trumps-profits-bonanza/
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[Marxism] Infiltrating the Left

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