[Marxism] YPG/SDF Leader Kobani agrees to become part of Assad's army

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Again, who could have seen this coming?! (Or may be some did?)

"The SDF could "agree to be part of the national army of a future Syria, 
but only on the condition they keep their special status", Mr Kobani said."


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Re: [Marxism] US-Backed Coup In Venezuela: What's Happening? What's Next? | Eric Draitser on Patreon

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> On Jan 25, 2019, at 5:04 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism 
>  wrote:
> 
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/2421840 

That link certainly raises questions like, “What’s Happening? What’s Next?” but 
I don’t think it’s the one you intended. I think the one you intended is this:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/us-backed-coup-24218401

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Re: [Marxism] A Nuclear Site Guard Accused Colleagues of Sexual Assault. Then She Was Fired.

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Sounds like "North Country" all over again . . .

On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 3:54 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism <
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> NY Times, Jan. 25, 2019
> A Nuclear Site Guard Accused Colleagues of Sexual Assault. Then She Was
> Fired.
> By Katie Benner
>
> Smoke blinded the security guards inside a warehouse at a nuclear
> weapons facility in Nevada. Clangs and shouts filled the air.
>
> Amid the din, a guard named Jennifer Glover was thrown to the ground,
> handcuffed and hit across the face with the butt of a gun. One man ran
> his hands up her legs, she said, then grabbed her buttocks and groin.
> Another flipped her over, reached into her top to grab her breasts and
> ripped out her nipple ring.
>
> By the time the smoke cleared, they had disappeared.
>
> Ms. Glover could not identify her attackers. But she said she knew they
> were her colleagues, fellow guards taking part in a training exercise at
> the Energy Department’s highly classified Nevada National Security Site,
> where researchers and scientists conduct top-secret nuclear experiments
> and develop responses to chemical, biological and nuclear emergencies.
>
> The encounter in November 2017 followed months of sexual harassment that
> she said began soon after she was hired. Her troubles worsened after she
> reported the attack: Men continued to harass and intimidate her, she
> said, and they accused her of informing on them. She was reprimanded for
> calling out sick, which she said she did to avoid her attackers, and was
> ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluations.
>
> “Work went from being so exciting to being a nightmare,” said Ms.
> Glover, who described her experience in an interview with The New York
> Times, as did three other current or former security guards, all of whom
> she had confided in as the events unfolded.
>
> Ms. Glover accused her co-workers, called security police officers, or
> SPOs, of repeated harassment.
>
> Her accusations highlighted an entrenched culture of discrimination and
> retaliation on her team, known as the Proforce, that employees say
> flourished under two government contractors, Centerra and SOC, according
> to the interviews; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints
> she filed against the contractors; and a review of internal documents,
> including emails between Ms. Glover and human resources managers.
>
> “A significant portion of the Proforce do not believe they can raise a
> safety issue without fear of reprisal,” officials wrote in a 2015 health
> and safety report by the Energy Department.
>
> The attack on Ms. Glover underscores the difficulty of changing a
> hypermasculine culture, even as accounts of workplace sexual harassment
> and assault have drawn widespread condemnation and pledges to do better
> in the #MeToo era.
>
> Ms. Glover was never told whether management identified or disciplined
> her attackers. After the encounter, two guards were suspended for days
> for “knowingly spreading false and malicious stories or rumors about
> other employees,” according to letters between Centerra and their union
> representative obtained by The Times. Their role in Ms. Glover’s attack,
> if any, was unclear.
>
> Ultimately, after The Times began asking about the attack, Ms. Glover
> was fired for scheduling infractions and taking a photo of her schedule,
> which SOC called “company documents.” Her use of profanity also placed
> “the safety of the site in jeopardy,” according to her termination
> letter from SOC, which began managing the security force last spring.
>
> Ms. Glover’s termination letter cited her use of profanity and “general
> disrespect.”
>
> Centerra, the nuclear site’s security contractor at the time of the
> assault, declined to comment beyond saying that it creates “work
> environments free from all forms of harassment and retaliation.” A
> spokeswoman for SOC, Holly Holt, said this article contained
> “significant inaccuracies in the facts and premise” but declined to be
> more specific.
>
> “We expect our contractors to address any allegations of inappropriate
> behavior and hold employees accountable for any misconduct that occurs
> following a full and timely investigation,” said Lindsey Geisler, a
> spokeswoman for the Energy Department.
>
> Early Worries
>
> When a recruiter for Centerra reached 

[Marxism] US-Backed Coup In Venezuela: What's Happening? What's Next? | Eric Draitser on Patreon

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[Marxism] How the Right Is Using Venezuela to Reorder Politics

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By Greg Grandin

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[Marxism] Donald Trump caved. And now the government is going to re-open. - CNNPolitics

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[Marxism] SDF commander: anti-IS forces must keep 'special status'

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https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/sdf-commander-anti-is-forces-must-keep-special-status-32431

The regime "keeps on thinking it can go back to the way it was before 2011.  It 
still hopes it can take military control of the whole region".  

"It needs... to understand that this is impossible".

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[Marxism] Sickouts and Strike Threats Stopped the Government Shutdown

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[Marxism] Are We Watching the End of the Monarch Butterfly?

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NY Times Op-Ed, Jan. 25, 2018
Are We Watching the End of the Monarch Butterfly?
By Mary Ellen Hannibal

(Ms. Hannibal writes about science and the environment from San Francisco.)

For almost 30 years, hundreds of volunteers have helped document monarch 
butterfly numbers at more than 200 sites across California, from 
Mendocino to San Diego. A small group of these citizen scientists 
recently descended on the sleepy coastal town of Bolinas, near Stinson 
Beach, north of San Francisco, to conduct the latest tally in a place 
where thousands of these butterflies were once counted during their 
winter migration.


The group was met by Mia Monroe, a ranger for the National Park Service 
for 40 years. She was representing the Xerces Society, a nonprofit 
devoted to invertebrate conservation.


“We aren’t expecting many butterflies today,” Ms. Monroe warned. Monarch 
numbers have been plummeting for decades, and recent surveys of their 
breeding habitats had reported low numbers. Making matters worse, only 
weeks before, wildfires had swept through the region, engulfing the Bay 
Area with smoke for two weeks.


“Maybe the monarchs have taken a different route, around the fire and 
smoke?” someone asked. “That’s a dream,” Ms. Monroe said. “But we are 
here to honor the survivors, and to be together in a difficult moment.”


Directing us to move with stealth into a lot overgrown with poison oak 
vines and blackberry brambles, she pointed to a ring of eucalyptus 
trees. The morning had begun cold but the temperature had inched past 54 
degrees, when monarchs begin to emerge from their slumber. The brown and 
green branches of one tree were stirring, as if a slight breeze was 
ruffling the dun-colored leaves. But then a distinctive orange color 
revealed itself. Butterflies peeled off from the branches, each one 
opening like a warm kiss before fluttering into the air.


Increasingly, people without formal backgrounds in science are 
collaborating with scientists to collect data on a scale that scientists 
alone would be unable to compile. The work of these people in recording 
the exact time, place and conditions of their butterfly observations is 
vital to monitoring the health of monarch populations. Tracking these 
butterflies is one of the longest-standing examples of this kind of 
teamwork.


Over the period of a year, monarchs produce four to five generations. 
The last and longest-lasting of them is born between August and October. 
Unlike their predecessors, which live as butterflies for a mere two to 
four weeks, these monarchs survive for six to eight months. After 
staying put over the winter in Mexico or California, they disperse in 
March or April, spreading far and wide in search of milkweed upon which 
to lay their eggs. Larvae then morph into caterpillars that become the 
next generation of butterflies The final generation in this yearlong 
cycle will return to the same California coast as their ancestors did. 
How these butterflies find their place of origin remains a mystery.


Last year’s count in Bolinas had been very low; still, the trees had 
been festooned with scores of butterfly clumps, in which hundreds of 
monarchs hung together for warmth and protection. This time, there was 
just one clump. Later we would learn that the total count of this site 
in Bolinas, which the previous year tallied 12,360 butterflies, 
plummeted this winter to just 1,256 monarchs. “This animal story that 
has been going on for centuries and perhaps thousands of years is 
disappearing and may be gone” soon, Ms. Monroe told us, her eyes tearing.


The total number of West Coast monarchs was estimated at approximately 
4.5 million in the 1980s. In the latest count, that number fell to 
28,429, dipping below the number scientists estimate is needed to keep 
the population going. This drastic decline indicates the migration is 
collapsing. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to 
announce in June whether its scientists think the monarch qualifies for 
protection under the Endangered Species Act.


We love butterflies but tally them in transactional and utilitarian 
terms. We say that losing so many is dangerous because in their life 
stages from pupa to imago they provide food for creatures higher up the 
food chain. Fewer butterflies means fewer birds, and we need birds, in 
part, to help control other insects, like mosquitoes, that carry 
dangerous diseases. We acknowledge that the biotic world only works by 
way of the networks that connect each species in a web of life. We must 
take account of our role in the demise of this species, a consequence of 
habitat loss, climate 

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[Marxism] This Time It’s Russia’s Emails Getting Leaked

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Russian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks may find the tables turned on them 
later this week when a new leak site unleashes a compilation of hundreds of 
thousands of hacked emails and gigabytes of leaked documents. Think of it as 
WikiLeaks, but without Julian Assange’s aversion to posting Russian secrets.

The site, Distributed Denial of Secrets, was founded last month by transparency 
activists. Co-founder Emma Best said the Russian leaks, slated for release 
Friday, will bring into one place dozens of different archives of hacked 
material that, at best, have been difficult to locate, and in some cases appear 
to have disappeared entirely from the web.

“Stuff from politicians, journalists, bankers, folks in oligarch and religious 
circles, nationalists, separatists, terrorists operating in Ukraine,” said 
Best, a national-security journalist and transparency activist. “Hundreds of 
thousands of emails, Skype and Facebook messages, along with lots of docs.”


https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-time-its-russias-emails-getting-leaked


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[Marxism] America's biggest union shouldn't be an ATM for the Democratic party

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Pouring money into politics and hoping for power has only resulted in the
AFL-CIO falling by the wayside. It’s time for unions to go back to working
for the workers

For the political left in America today, the future is bright. The
seriousness of inequality is now conventional wisdom. Socialism is no
longer a political punchline. The popularity of unions is high
.
It would seem to be the best time in a half-century to revitalize the
languishing labor movement. Yet with all of the political energy – and
despite some high-profile successes – the labor movement as a whole still
languishes. Why?

Ideally, the labor movement, which represents the interests of everyone who
works for a living, would be the strongest progressive force in the
country. Its appeal is broader than that of any special interest or
specific issue. It has the virtue of combining self-interest (it will raise
your wages), public interest (it will rebuild a strong middle class), and
pure righteousness (it puts power into the hands of everyone, not just a
privileged few). The left should be led by labor, and labor should be led
by a strong AFL-CIO. But today, neither of those things are true. The left
is a wild coalition of causes, united most fervently not behind union
leaders but behind a cast of political figures like Bernie Sanders and
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez 
whose
message of democratic socialism and economic equality is … exactly what the
labor movement should represent. Unions have fallen so far out of the
public consciousness that they have to rely on politicians to get their
points across. That’s not good. Organized labor should be leading elected
officials to the public, not vice versa. It’s hard to do that when scarcely
a tenth of the work force you claim to represent are union members.

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[Marxism] Is socialism to blame for Venezuela's never-ending crisis? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean

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[Marxism] Venezuela at Another Crossroads | NACLA

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[Marxism] The Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism

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[Marxism] bellingcat - Turkmenistan (#ItalianArms): A Dictator, Millions of Euros, and Italy’s Bureaucracy - bellingcat

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[Marxism] Radical America Komiks | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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By a happy coincidence, I received a review copy of “Radical America 
Komiks” from PM Press on the very day my review of Allen Young’s 
autobiography appeared on CounterPunch. Allen Young worked for 
Liberation News Service (LNS), a radical version of the Associated Press 
that forwarded articles to SDS chapters around the country, while 
Radical America was an official SDS publication launched by Paul Buhle 
meant to raise awareness on the left about the long history of 
anti-capitalist resistance in the USA. Unlike the old left, LNS and 
Radical America absorbed the counter-culture of the period. The one-off 
publication of Radical America Komiks in 1969 was arguably the most 
fully developed expression of this cross-fertilization and as such we 
are grateful to PM Press for publishing a replica of the ground-breaking 
comic book.


Back in 1967, about a month or so after joining the quintessentially 
old-left Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, fellow New School Graduate 
philosophy Ph.D. student Arthur Maglin who had recruited me to the sect, 
was showing me around the bookstore at party headquarters near Union 
Square. He picked up a copy of Radical America and described it as great 
reading. Just a decade later, something like Radical America would never 
be found in an SWP bookstore and recommending it might have gotten you 
expelled. When I got on the Internet in 1991, it did not take long for 
me to establish a connection with Paul Buhle whose vision of left unity 
coincided with my own as a refugee from sectarianism. I only wish that I 
could have gotten into a time-machine and returned to 1967 to help write 
for Radical America. I once asked Peter Camejo if he could have turned 
back the clock, when he would have made the decision to quit the 
SWP—knowing what he then knew. Without skipping a beat, he replied the 
week after he joined.


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[Marxism] A Nuclear Site Guard Accused Colleagues of Sexual Assault. Then She Was Fired.

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NY Times, Jan. 25, 2019
A Nuclear Site Guard Accused Colleagues of Sexual Assault. Then She Was 
Fired.

By Katie Benner

Smoke blinded the security guards inside a warehouse at a nuclear 
weapons facility in Nevada. Clangs and shouts filled the air.


Amid the din, a guard named Jennifer Glover was thrown to the ground, 
handcuffed and hit across the face with the butt of a gun. One man ran 
his hands up her legs, she said, then grabbed her buttocks and groin. 
Another flipped her over, reached into her top to grab her breasts and 
ripped out her nipple ring.


By the time the smoke cleared, they had disappeared.

Ms. Glover could not identify her attackers. But she said she knew they 
were her colleagues, fellow guards taking part in a training exercise at 
the Energy Department’s highly classified Nevada National Security Site, 
where researchers and scientists conduct top-secret nuclear experiments 
and develop responses to chemical, biological and nuclear emergencies.


The encounter in November 2017 followed months of sexual harassment that 
she said began soon after she was hired. Her troubles worsened after she 
reported the attack: Men continued to harass and intimidate her, she 
said, and they accused her of informing on them. She was reprimanded for 
calling out sick, which she said she did to avoid her attackers, and was 
ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluations.


“Work went from being so exciting to being a nightmare,” said Ms. 
Glover, who described her experience in an interview with The New York 
Times, as did three other current or former security guards, all of whom 
she had confided in as the events unfolded.


Ms. Glover accused her co-workers, called security police officers, or 
SPOs, of repeated harassment.


Her accusations highlighted an entrenched culture of discrimination and 
retaliation on her team, known as the Proforce, that employees say 
flourished under two government contractors, Centerra and SOC, according 
to the interviews; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints 
she filed against the contractors; and a review of internal documents, 
including emails between Ms. Glover and human resources managers.


“A significant portion of the Proforce do not believe they can raise a 
safety issue without fear of reprisal,” officials wrote in a 2015 health 
and safety report by the Energy Department.


The attack on Ms. Glover underscores the difficulty of changing a 
hypermasculine culture, even as accounts of workplace sexual harassment 
and assault have drawn widespread condemnation and pledges to do better 
in the #MeToo era.


Ms. Glover was never told whether management identified or disciplined 
her attackers. After the encounter, two guards were suspended for days 
for “knowingly spreading false and malicious stories or rumors about 
other employees,” according to letters between Centerra and their union 
representative obtained by The Times. Their role in Ms. Glover’s attack, 
if any, was unclear.


Ultimately, after The Times began asking about the attack, Ms. Glover 
was fired for scheduling infractions and taking a photo of her schedule, 
which SOC called “company documents.” Her use of profanity also placed 
“the safety of the site in jeopardy,” according to her termination 
letter from SOC, which began managing the security force last spring.


Ms. Glover’s termination letter cited her use of profanity and “general 
disrespect.”


Centerra, the nuclear site’s security contractor at the time of the 
assault, declined to comment beyond saying that it creates “work 
environments free from all forms of harassment and retaliation.” A 
spokeswoman for SOC, Holly Holt, said this article contained 
“significant inaccuracies in the facts and premise” but declined to be 
more specific.


“We expect our contractors to address any allegations of inappropriate 
behavior and hold employees accountable for any misconduct that occurs 
following a full and timely investigation,” said Lindsey Geisler, a 
spokeswoman for the Energy Department.


Early Worries

When a recruiter for Centerra reached out to Ms. Glover in 2016 about a 
job, it “sounded too good to be true,” she said.


She had been a gun range safety officer and owned her “own armory.” She 
was an amateur bodybuilder, a pursuit that prepared her for the job’s 
physical demands. Centerra offered $130,000 a year, a sizable salary 
that she could support her two children on as a single mother.


“This job was everything I’d ever wanted,” she said. She eagerly applied 
and was hired.


The Proforce members have little immediate supervision. Small groups of 
armed guards patrol the site, a tract 

[Marxism] Prof. Atilio Borón: “In order to counter the imperialist created chaos honest leadership and strong institutions need to be accompanied by an intense and well organized popular mobilization”

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[Marxism] Why a Border Wall Could Mean Trouble for Wildlife - The New York Times

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Best seen on NYT for graphics.

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[Marxism] Syrian Kurdish YPG expects negotiations with Damascus soon

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-ypg-exclusive/exclusive-syrian-kurdish-ypg-expects-negotiations-with-damascus-soon-idUSKCN1PI2LO 



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[Marxism] Putin, Erdogan agree on Idlib but maneuver on Kurds

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[Marxism] Corbynism - where has the mass movement gone? | openDemocracy

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In 2015 after Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership, John McDonnell said that 
Socialism is no longer a word you have to whisper in Labour. Fighting 
talk, but the 2017 manifesto promised only limited nationalisations and 
the current direction is firmly for a mixed economy with some regulation 
and a few modest tax increases – in other words a solid social 
democratic agenda.


The painfully moderate nature of Labour’s politics leads to a strange 
cognitive dissonance where activists herald Corbyn’s Labour as both a 
huge left-wing breakthrough whilst also pointing out that it is no more 
radical than Norway in the 1980s. The notion of realigning Britain with 
social democracy in Europe seems refreshing considering the last 40 
years of neoliberalism and a decade of austerity, but there is little 
indication that we are developing a critical appreciation of the 
problems and near-collapse of social democracy.


full: 
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/corbynism-has-wasted-opportunity-to-transform-labour-and-democracy

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[Marxism] Venezuela: Is President Maduro 'illegitimate'? Ten facts to counter the lies (GLW)

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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/venezuelas-maduro-illegitimate-10-facts-counter-lies

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[Marxism] Interview with Venezuelan foreign minister

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[Marxism] ‘Billionaire’s Bunker’ Sells for $238 Million as 140 Homeless Men Hope to Find Shelter on the Next Block

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[Marxism] Hands off Venezuela

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[Marxism] General Strike: The Fierce Urgency of Now - Association of Flight Attendants-CWA

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[Marxism] The $238 Million Penthouse, and the Hedge Fund Billionaire Who May Rarely Live There

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NY Times, Jan. 25, 2019
The $238 Million Penthouse, and the Hedge Fund Billionaire Who May 
Rarely Live There

By Nikita Stewart and David Gelles

In Manhattan, where multimillion-dollar real estate sales are downright 
routine, a hedge fund tycoon has managed to set a new standard for 
conspicuous consumption by paying a fortune for an unfinished piece of 
property in the sky.


The billionaire, Kenneth C. Griffin, spent $238 million for a penthouse 
at 220 Central Park South that is still under construction, making it 
the most expensive residential sale in United States history.


What’s more, in a New York tale that is not entirely uncommon, the 
79-story building where Mr. Griffin’s penthouse will soon exist was 
built after the landlord evicted dozens of middle class tenants from 
their rent-stabilized apartments in what was a fairly modest, 
white-brick building with 20 floors.


With a net worth estimated at $10 billion, Mr. Griffin, founder and 
chief executive of the global investment firm Citadel, is among the 
richest people in the world. And in recent years, Mr. Griffin has become 
increasingly willing to flaunt his wealth, spending lavishly on modern 
art, philanthropy and trophy real estate, even as income inequality is 
roiling the national political debate.


Twice divorced, Mr. Griffin, 50, has three children and is primarily 
based in Chicago, where Citadel is headquartered. Through a spokesman, 
Mr. Griffin declined to comment for this story.


He is a globe-trotting home buyer, leaving a trail of his pricey 
purchases, from a $60 million penthouse in Miami to a $122 million 
mansion in London.


All told, according to a person familiar with Mr. Griffin’s spending, he 
has spent approximately $700 million on real estate and nearly as much 
on art.


He began collecting art more than a decade ago, acquiring works by 
Cézanne and Monet. In 2006, he spent $80 million on a Jasper Johns 
painting that he acquired from David Geffen. And in 2016, Mr. Griffin 
paid $500 million to acquire two paintings — a Jackson Pollock and a 
Willem de Kooning — this time from Mr. Geffen’s foundation, in what was 
one of the largest-ever private art deals.


Mr. Griffin has declined to join other billionaires in a pact to donate 
the majority of their wealth to charity. Created by Bill and Melinda 
Gates and Warren Buffett in 2010, the Giving Pledge has more than 150 
signees.


But Mr. Griffin has given away about $700 million, according to the 
person familiar with his finances.


He is on the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which named 
the lobby of its new building after him. He donated $40 million to the 
Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Griffin and his ex-wife donated $19 million to 
the Art Institute of Chicago. And at the Field Museum of Natural History 
in Chicago, Mr. Griffin donated $16.5 million to fund the purchase of 
the largest dinosaur ever discovered.


Mr. Griffin has also donated huge sums to educational institutions.

In 2014 he gave $150 million to Harvard University, the largest gift in 
the school’s history. In 2017 Mr. Griffin’s charity said it would donate 
$125 million to the University of Chicago, which would rename its 
influential department of economics after him. More recently, Mr. 
Griffin has turned his acquisitive eye toward real estate.


Fellow financiers said Mr. Griffin should be applauded for his 
philanthropy, rather than vilified for his spending. John W. Rogers Jr., 
the chief executive of Ariel Investments, who serves on the board of the 
University of Chicago with Mr. Griffin (as well as on the board of The 
New York Times Company), declined to comment on his real estate 
spending. “The key thing is that he’s decided to be generous now,” Mr. 
Rogers said. “Ken is a role model for the next generation of hedge fund 
managers.”


Mr. Griffin has cited his maternal grandparents as inspiration for his 
philanthropy. They ran a fuel oil business in Illinois, and when some 
customers could not pay their bills during the winter, his grandparents 
would extend them credit.


The Harvard graduate made his fortune through finance. As a sophomore in 
1987, Mr. Griffin began trading out of his dorm room using a fax 
machine, an early personal computer and the phone. Just three years 
later, he founded Citadel in Chicago.


The firm grew rapidly, and today Citadel, which is privately held, 
manages some $28 billion, trading stocks, fixed income, commodities and 
more.


And Mr. Griffin has proved adept at making a profit even during market 
turbulence. Last year, Citadel’s flagship fund was up 9.1 percent, 
despite a difficult end of the year for most 

[Marxism] Trump Associate Roger Stone Indicted In Mueller Investigation | HuffPost

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[Marxism] The Protests against Russia’s Pension Reform and the Reasons for Their Defeat | Lefteast

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