Re: [Marxism] US collusion with Turkish invasion
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In today's Age I read that the US is sending 3,000 extra troops to Saudi Arabia. So much for Trump's alleged desire to terminate America's "endless wars" in the Middle East. This strengthens my belief that the withdrawal of some US troops in northeast Syria from the Turkish border was aimed at facilitating the Turkish invasion. It is true that Trump has criticised the invasion (very mildly). But with Trump we must look at his actions, not his words. Chris Slee From: Chris Slee Sent: Friday, 11 October 2019 6:36 AM To: Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition Subject: US collusion with Turkish invasion Thinking about the events leading up to the Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria, I believe that the US colluded with Turkey to prepare the ground for the invasion. In the preceding months, US military officers met separately with Turkey and the SDF, and arranged a deal which included some concessions by the SDF. For example, regular SDF troops were withdrawn at least 5 kilometers from the border. I assume that, in return for this weakening of its defensive position, the SDF would have received assurances that the US would take measures to deter a Turkish invasion. For example, the US could have imposed a no-fly zone over northeastern Syria. Instead the US suddenly withdrew its ground troops from the area. At around the same time Trump gave Erdogan the green light to go ahead with the invasion. This indicates that Trump was not acting as an erratic individual, but was acting in coordination with the US military leadership. >From the standpoint of US imperialism, restoring good relations with Turkey is >a logical course of action. They are not concerned with the human cost of the >invasion. Chris Slee _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Herzog on Yeo, 'Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century'
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * -- Forwarded message - From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW Date: Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 7:23 AM Subject: H-Net Review [H-Diplo]: Herzog on Yeo, 'Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Andrew Yeo. Asia's Regional Architecture: Alliances and Institutions in the Pacific Century. Studies in Asian Security Series. Stanford Stanford University Press, 2019. 264 pp. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-0844-3. Reviewed by Stephen Herzog (Yale University) Published on H-Diplo (October, 2019) Commissioned by Seth Offenbach Bilateralism, Multilateralism, and Path Dependence in Asia? Despite his open dislike of foreign travel and abandonment of Barack Obama's "pivot" rhetoric, Donald J. Trump has found himself in the Asia-Pacific region several times. The forty-fifth US president has visited China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea while even becoming the first American head of state to enter North Korea during a cinematic photo-op with its supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, at the demilitarized zone. Conducting bilateral diplomacy with long-standing US allies, nascent partners, and rivals has not been the only task. Trump also participated in the multilateral Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summits. Meanwhile, administration officials have been involved in track-I diplomacy like the Shangri-La Dialogue (SLD) and track-1.5 initiatives like the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). For all but the most dedicated policy practitioners and observers, keeping tabs on the dizzying array of overlapping institutions in Asia presents a formidable challenge. Fortunately, Andrew Yeo has published a thorough and comprehensible compendium that explains the evolution of this web of multilateral--and sometimes trilateral--institutions. How is it, Yeo asks, that these institutions have emerged irrespective of remarkable continuity in the "hub and spokes" system of US bilateral security alliances in Asia? Readers of such works as Victor Cha's _Powerplay: The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia_ (2016) and Thomas Christensen's _Worse Than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia_ (2011) will undoubtedly be interested in this book. One could be forgiven for being skeptical that a book discussing understudied forums, such as the East Asian Economic Group (EAEG) and the Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI), fits well with scholarship on "hard security" and military alliances. Yet Yeo's use of the historical institutionalism framework--more prominent in comparative politics than international relations--helps him make the case. His argument is one of path dependence premised on the notion that past efforts at interstate cooperation inevitably condition future ones. That is, no institutional choice should be seen as an independent event in isolation from its predecessors. Yeo does not deny that exogenous shocks like the 1997-99 Asian financial crisis led to the creation of new institutions. Rather, he maintains that "endogenous processes of institutional change suggest that macroinstitutional systems such as the regional architecture will evolve gradually, even if actors face periodic exogenous shocks" (p. 154). To Yeo, security threats during the Cold War motivated the creation of the "hub and spokes" system, which then gave rise to both material and ideational interests. The argument follows that bilateralism birthed shared values and an elite consensus in favor of maintaining alliances. Multilateral cooperation in Asia has naturally developed over time in areas like trade and disaster preparedness, but such initiatives involve a process of institutional layering that preserves extant alliances. Objectives and membership of new institutions may vary, but the number of institutions continues to increase instead of contract. The result is, in the phrasing of Cha, a "complex patchwork" of regional bodies that often lack formal decision-making authority and involve little delegation of sovereignty. And within this architecture, the ASEAN Way and principles of noninterference and consensus also play a significant role in conditioning each successive attempt at institution building. Yeo's approach is clever, but it may vex strong proponents of various grand theories of international relations. For example, Yeo states, "In addition to threat perceptions, the arguments here take into account the role of ideas, institutions, and domestic politics in the formation of an elite consensus" on bilateral alliances (p. 25). Throughout the book, Yeo
[Marxism] Ecuador: For a Popular Insurrection to Bring Down the Lenin Moreno Regime!
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[Marxism] Fort Worth Police Fatally Shoot Black Women In Her Home
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[Marxism] What Happened to the West Village? | by Susannah Jacob | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Late last year, when I moved to Brooklyn after nearly six years on-and-off in the West Village, the daily realities of decades of incoming, exorbitant wealth had come into clear view. With its churn of stores appearing then disappearing and the rich who come and go like a traveling circus, the neighborhood had come to seem to me a symbol of impermanence driven by wealth. At first glance, its increasing emptiness—vacant commercial spaces blighted by skyrocketing rents, shells of brownstones, and luxury apartments unoccupied for fifty weeks a year—suggested a place on the precipice of becoming something else. In time, I understood that the neighborhood’s emptiness is simply its deepening condition. https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/10/09/what-happened-to-the-west-village/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Marxism] [pen-l] Country Music | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * Louis Proyect wrote Many people associate country music with those whom Hillary Clinton called “deplorables” or those Obama characterized as clinging to their guns and religion. I felt that way myself until I got to Houston in 1973 and began listening to country music driving to work each day. This was before the two country stations had become commercialized and unlistenable just as is the case with NYC’s WNSH (as in Nashville). You could hear Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, and even classics from Hank Williams in each and every hour. It also helped that my best friend in Houston, the late Nelson Blackstock, was an avid country music fan with a large collection. The two of us used to go hear Asleep at the Wheel whenever they were in town. This was a Western Swing band that played in the style of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. It was led by Ray Benson, a Jew from Philadelphia who Nelson adored. full: https://louisproyect.org/2019/10/12/country-music/ “If it sounds good, it IS good.” --Duke Ellington That's how I feel about country music. I didn't like country music when I was growing up in the Midwest. I associated it with bad hooch, roadside joints and mean-spirited, red-eyed drunks. When I got to California in the 50s, I heard the Alabama group Mattox Brothers and Rose performing "Laid Around and Played Around This Old Town Too Long' and the for its time risque 'Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down', then Lester Flatt and the incomparable Earl Scruggs on banjo, the blind Doc Watson in Ashland, OR in one of the most eerie cloudbursts I've ever been in, then the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's double album 'Will the Circle be Unbroken' with gracious old Mother Maybelle Carter, A.P. Carter's wife and June Carter's mother, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Earl Scruggs, Vassar Clements and Roy Acuff. I had been listening mainly to jazz and baroque and other classics, but I decided this too was really good music, as was and is a lot of reggae, rock, old and new ballads and rap. While much of any original music type, given the nature of the business rapidly becomes commercial and vapidly routinized, in every genre somebody always comes along who's doing it right. So Duke, yeah. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says
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[Marxism] Country Music | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
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Re: [Marxism] The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray - The New York Times
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[Marxism] The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray - The New York Times
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In “Progressive Labor” (1964) DeCarava acknowledges racial violence, but indirectly. Next to the drastically truncated sign for the Progressive Labor Party’s offices at the left of the image (it reads “ressive/BOR”) is a poster whose cartoonish vitality depicts several policemen, each attacking a child with a billy club. On the sidewalk below, another drama unfolds. A white man who wears some kind of badge glares as people walk past a storefront whose iron gate is viciously bent. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/arts/design/roy-decarava-photography-david-zwirner.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New evidence shows how asteroid dust cloud may have sparked new life on Earth 470m years ago | Science | The Guardian
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[Marxism] The Moral Dilemma of a Left-Right Antiwar Alliance | The New Republic
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[Marxism] Capitalism – not so alone | Michael Roberts Blog
POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. * In his 2015 book, Milanovic concludes that there is no longer any social or economic basis for class struggle of a socialist revolution. So we must look for ways to make capitalism better and fairer. “Global inequality may be reduced by higher growth rates in poor countries and through migration.” Now in his new book, Capitalism Alone, Milanovic returns this theme and his ‘way out’. Again he starts from the premise that capitalism is now a global system with its tentacles into every corner of the world driving out any other modes of production like slavery or feudalism or Asian despotism to the tiniest of margins. But also capitalism is not just only mode of production, it is the only future for humanity. https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/10/12/capitalism-not-so-alone/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
