[Marxism] Death of Katherine Johnson

2020-03-02 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism
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"Katherine Johnson died on February 24th of this year. Made famous by the
2016 movie *Hidden Figures,* she accomplished much during 101 years.

"Johnson worked for NASA, a predominantly white and male institution. When
she arrived at NASA in 1953, signs still designated certain bathrooms as
being for “colored” people. Women, white and black, worked as human
computers, doing calculations now done by computers. But the women
computers were segregated. . ."

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[Marxism] Black Scholar Praises Heroes and Indicts “Scoundrels” of McCarthy Era | Black Agenda Report

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[Marxism] Feminist amendments to the Equality Act

2020-03-02 Thread Philip Ferguson via Marxism
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". . . women are stuck between a rock and a hard place, between the
institutionalization of gender identity ideology that would erase us, and
right-wing religious fundamentalism that would enslave us. . ."

Veteran working class, left and lesbian activist Ann Menasche on the
feminist amendments which would protect women's sex-based rights and allow
for people to dress, “dress as you please, call yourself whatever you like,
sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you, live your best life in
peace and security.”

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[Marxism] John Molyneux, Paul Le Blanc and the pathway for building a revolutionary party | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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[Marxism] HHS whistleblower, denialism and the crisis of US capitalism

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"In mid February, a worker at the federal Health and Human Services (HHS)
agency filed a whistleblower complaint that HHS had bungled the response to
the Covid 19 (AKA coronavirus). That complaint only scratches the surface
as far as the real concerns of US capitalism regarding Trump

"what started out as science denialism has now become political
denialism"

The appointments of Johnny McEntee (President personnel office) and Richard
Grenell (National Intelligence) shows Trump on the path to appointing
"loyalist" political hacks rather than those who are competent to carry out
the needs of US capitalism/imperialism. It's another step towards one-man
dictatorship. But from the mainstream of the capitalist class's point of
view, this is a "category 5 hurricane".

Oaklandsocialist has pointed out many times Trump’s tendency towards
one-man dictatorship. These new appointments are leading further down that
road.

https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/03/02/hhs-whistleblower-denialism-and-the-crisis-of-us-capitalism/

John Reimann

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[Marxism] Top brands ′using forced Uighur labor′ in China: report | News | DW | 02.03.2020

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[Marxism] Searchable Marxism archives

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[Marxism] Turkey and Syria go to war in Idlib as Russia and NATO watch - Syria Direct

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[Marxism] Turkey Declares Major Offensive Against Syrian Government

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NY Times, March 2, 2020
Turkey Declares Major Offensive Against Syrian Government
By Carlotta Gall

ISTANBUL — Turkey said on Sunday that it was launching a major 
counteroffensive against the Syrian government, for the first time 
openly declaring war on the government of Bashar al-Assad and steeply 
escalating Ankara’s involvement in Syria’s nine-year war.


The announcement came three days after Turkey suffered its worst 
military losses in a single attack of the war, with at least 36 soldiers 
killed and more than 30 wounded in Syrian and Russian air and artillery 
strikes. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, vowed retaliation and 
demanded that Syrian troops withdraw beyond a previously agreed upon 
de-escalation boundary.


Turkey’s defense minister, Hulusi Akar, announced the counteroffensive 
on television in a statement distributed by the state-run Anadolu news 
agency, saying that the operation in northern Syria was intended to end 
the war and stop a Syrian government offensive that was displacing 
thousands of Syrians.


“All of our efforts are primarily to ensure a cease-fire, to prevent 
migration and to stop the flow of blood,” Mr. Akar said, “and thus to 
bring peace, peace and stability to the region as soon as possible.”


Although he said that the show of force was not aimed against Russia, 
which supports Mr. al-Assad’s government militarily, Mr. Akar also 
called on Russia to take responsibility for the assaults against Turkish 
forces.


“We don’t intend to confront Russia” he said. “Our only aim there is to 
stop the massacre by the regime.”


Mr. Akar added, “To speak frankly: We do not find acceptable such a 
statement from a guarantor country as, ‘We are not responsible for the 
regime attacks.’”


Mr. Erdogan will meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on 
Thursday in Moscow, Turkish officials said. On Sunday, Moscow warned 
that it could not guarantee the safety of Turkish aircraft over Syria.


Turkey’s escalation of force comes as President al-Assad’s forces are 
closing in on their goal of retaking Syria’s last rebel-held territory, 
Idlib Province. The offensive has driven nearly a million residents 
toward the border with Turkey and led to a landscape of desperation. 
Many are living in tents or sleeping out in the open in the freezing cold.


Turkey has deployed around 7,000 troops to Idlib in the last month to 
protect the forces it sent in under a de-escalation agreement made with 
Russia in 2018. The reinforcements are also intended to support Syrian 
rebel groups that have been rapidly losing ground against Mr. al-Assad’s 
forces.


Turkish troops have been engaged directly on the front lines, shooting 
down at least two Syrian government helicopters and spearheading a 
counterattack last week to retake the strategic town of Saraqib on the 
main highway between Aleppo and Damascus.

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Turkey’s defense minister, Hulusi Akar, with pallbearers at a funeral 
for Turkish soldiers killed in Syria.Credit...Associated Press
Since the attack on Thursday, Turkey has retaliated with strikes on 
Syrian government forces in and around Idlib and farther afield, 
including on a chemical weapons storage facility south of Aleppo and a 
government air defense system in Idlib, according to Turkish officials.


Sunday’s announcement appears to be a declaration of what was already 
underway for days, but also signals a sharp increase in the level of 
activity, Turkish analysts said.


Turkey has sought support from the United States and other NATO allies 
in its attempt to thwart the Syrian and Russia offensive in Idlib, but 
it appears to be conducting the operation alone.


Western officials have ruled out an engagement of NATO troops but have 
been helping Turkey in other ways, in particular with information. Jens 
Stoltenburg, the NATO secretary general, said after an emergency meeting 
Friday that NATO was providing airborne radar surveillance over Syria.


Turkey has asked the United States to provide Patriot missiles to help 
it against Russian and Syrian air power, but Washington is demanding 
that Turkey first make inoperable the Russian S-400 missile defense 
system that it acquired last year from Russia. President Trump said 
Saturday that a possible sale of Patriot missiles to Turkey was under 
discussion, Anadolu reported.


The turning point for Turkey may have been the strike last week on its 
soldiers in northern Syria, the death toll for which may have been 
substantially higher than disclosed, analysts said. The well-connected 
military analyst Metin Gurcan described it as “Turkey’s darkest night” 
in an article on the online outlet 

Re: [Marxism] Russia backs Damascus as it closes Syrian Airspace, Threatens to down Turkish Jets

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"Russia backs Damascus as it closes Syrian airspace." Well, yes, now, after
Russia allowed Syrian air space to be wide open to Turkey for at least 5
days while Turkey obliterated more Assadist genocide equipment than has
been destroyed in the entire war, killed hundreds of Assadist troops
(Turkey claims 2000), as well as dozens of Iran-led mercenaries from
various countries (leading Hezbollah to formally announce its withdrawal
from northern Syria, after Baathist child-killer chicken troops ran away
and left Hezbollah true-believers to face the music), bombed Assadist
airbases as far as Aleppo, shot down half a dozen Assadist warplanes etc.
All with not a peep from Moscow, which controls the airspace. The Assadist
social media sphere is apparently full of wingnuts in shock, cursing Moscow.

Highly ironic, too, considering it wasn't Assad that killed the 33 Turkish
troops that provoked Erdogan's revenge, it was Russia. Why did Russia first
bomb and kill Turkish troops - following years now when Erdogan and Putin
have been meeting and working on the Astana process etc - and then open
Syrian airspace to Turkey to decimate Assad's war toys? Hard to understand
until you understand that Putin is pure Machiavelli - he couldn't give a
stuff about Assad, but Russian power and influence requires Putin being the
king-maker to hammer out the ultimate deal between his junior partner
(Erdogan) and his satrap (Assad).

Obviously if Putin's dirty manoevres have resulted in this absolutely
beautiful spectacle of the destruction of so much of Assad's genocide toys,
then I don't hold that against Putin, maybe it was the best result ever of
anything Putin did - his regime as responsible as Assad's for the genocide
in Idlib until a few days ago. But of course at the end of the day Russia
remains in charge and now is drawing the line to Turkey. Which is also fine
for Turkey - after all, Turkey's response is the first time Erdogan has
done anything but talk as Assad/Putin bombed the place the pieces and drove
another million to the Turkish border (on top of a million or so already
there). Erdogan hoped Assad would understand that there was a line, as
Turkey needs a buffer zone to prevent an extra 2 million refugees on top of
the 3.7 million already in Turkey. But Assad did not stop - and the irony
is that it was Russia - much more than Iran which was playing a very minor,
back-seat role in idlib (due to it's anti-Kurdish alliance with Turkey) -
that was pushing this super-hard confrontation, virtually leading Assad on.

I think the deal is set, and it seems a Russo-Turkish (and possibly
American) understanding will emerge from this. In the circumstances, with
the crushing of the main revolutionary centres, a huge enough buffer zone
plus a ceasefire (one that is actually a ceasefire this time, due to Turkey
FINALLY showing what it can do if necessary) is, unfortunately, probably
the best that can be hoped for at the moment in simple humanitarian terms.
That is the problem with the rebels being dependent on Turkey, but then
again that is something they were basically forced into. Turkey could
provide them with the weapons so they could keep shooting down Assad planes
themselves, rather than relying on Turkey doing it when it suits Turkey,
but it won't.

Needless to say, that means we should have no trust in Turkey's ambitions
and motivations, and given its occupation of nearby Afrin it is certainly
understandable if Afrin Kurds have mixed feelings about enhanced Turkish
power nearby, but for the 3.5 million people in Idlib, and for Syrians all
over Syria and the diaspora, this Turkish action of reducing Assad's forces
to rubble is the biggest cause for celebration for many years, the only
decisive hit against Assad ever, and I personally am celebrating with them.
Just a few days ago, the chicken-shit regime was still shooting old women
in the back as they were already fleeing, was bombing 10 schools in one
day, was bombing the IDP camps where they had fled to, and today it is
revealed to the whole world that when Assad has to fight an actual armed
force, rather than children, hospital patients and medical workers, old
people and fleeing refugees, his killing equipment becomes rubble and his
"troops' duck for cover.

If only this had been done in 2012, hundreds of thousands of lives would
have been saved and most Syrian cities would not be rubble.
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Judaic]: Robins on Hummel, 'Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations'

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Begin forwarded message:

> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: March 2, 2020 at 7:44:29 AM EST
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Judaic]:  Robins on Hummel, 'Covenant Brothers: 
> Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations'
> Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> 
> Daniel G. Hummel.  Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and 
> U.S.-Israeli Relations.  Philadelphia  University of Pennsylvania 
> Press, 2019.  352 pp.  $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8122-5140-1.
> 
> Reviewed by Walker Robins (Merrimack College)
> Published on H-Judaic (March, 2020)
> Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz
> 
> Over the last several decades, as American evangelical support for 
> Israel has come to political prominence, scholarship on American 
> Christian Zionism has proliferated. Most of it--at least those 
> studies concentrating on evangelicals--has prioritized the role that 
> Judeo-centric interpretations of the Bible have (or have not) played 
> in underpinning American Christian support for Israel. Of particular 
> interest to scholars has been the system of biblical interpretation 
> and eschatology called premillennial dispensationalism, which holds 
> that biblical covenants between God and the people of Israel have not 
> wholly transferred to the church--Jews remain God's chosen people and 
> the Land of Israel their promised land--and that prophecy points to 
> the return of the Jewish people to their land as part of God's plan 
> for history. 
> 
> Early studies of Christian Zionism argued that the spread of these 
> ideas among American evangelicals and fundamentalists in the 
> twentieth century provided the theological basis for the political 
> support for Israel that emerged in the late 1970s. And while 
> subsequent studies have challenged this emphasis on dispensationalism 
> in a variety of ways--arguing that it is not the whole story, or only 
> part of the story, or only a small part of the story--scholars have 
> struggled to reset the historiographical conversation with a cohesive 
> alternate framework. That is, until Daniel G. Hummel's _Covenant 
> Brothers_, which offers a compelling, thoroughly researched argument 
> that Christian Zionism has been first and foremost a Christian-Jewish 
> reconciliation movement, with Israel at its center. 
> 
> The backdrop for Hummel's work is the post-World War II evangelical 
> movement that emerged from early twentieth-century fundamentalism. 
> Led by the likes of Billy Graham, the "new evangelicals" had much 
> theologically in common with the fundamentalists. They proclaimed the 
> authority of the Bible. They preached the necessity of evangelism. 
> And many were dispensationalists--or at least dispensational_ish_. 
> However, the postwar evangelicals distinguished themselves from 
> fundamentalists by an optimistic desire to transform American culture 
> rather than retreat from it. They were temperamentally cooperative 
> and intellectually engaged. They wanted to be taken seriously. 
> 
> Hummel finds the origins of Christian Zionism at the periphery of 
> this postwar evangelicalism--in Israel itself--where Southern Baptist 
> missionaries confronted the practical difficulties of working in a 
> Jewish state and wrestled with the theological significance of the 
> Holocaust and Israeli statehood. Led by Robert Lindsey, the Baptist 
> missionaries recast their role in terms of "witness"--downplaying 
> evangelism while claiming their place in Israeli society through 
> expressions of solidarity with the Jewish people and cooperation with 
> the Israeli state. They emphasized the Jewishness of Christianity, 
> condemned antisemitism, and combatted supersessionist theology that 
> claimed God's covenantal favor had passed from Jews to Christians. 
> Most significantly, they did so through building real relationships 
> with Israeli Jewish scholars and government officials. Although a 
> tiny, peripheral group, the Baptist missionaries' approach 
> nonetheless penetrated American evangelicalism through international 
> meetings like the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism organized by 
> Billy Graham. It was no accident that when Graham himself visited 
> Israel in the 1960s and 1970s, he sounded a lot like the Baptist 
> missionaries--and not just because Robert Lindsey was his translator. 
> 
> The missionaries' turn to witness came as Americans more broadly were 
> embracing the concept of Judeo-Christianity in seeking to explain 
> what made the United 

[Marxism] Is Coronavirus Actually a Media Cover-Up of Impending Economic Collapse? | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] Sex Workers Enter The National Landscape As Presidential Candidates Consider Sex Work Study | Washington Babylon

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[Marxism] NY Times: Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan Priest, Poet and Revolutionary, Dies at 95

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By Elias E. Lopez
March 1, 2020

The Rev. Ernesto Cardenal, one of Latin America’s most admired poets and
priests, who defied the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s by serving in
the revolutionary Sandinista government of Nicaragua, died on Sunday in
Managua, Nicaragua. He was 95.

His personal assistant, Luz Marina Acosta, confirmed his death to The
Associated Press.

Born to a wealthy Nicaraguan family, Father Cardenal became a prominent
intellectual voice of the Nicaraguan revolution and an ardent proponent of
liberation theology, a Christian movement rooted in Marxist principles and
committed to social justice and uplifting the poor. He was appointed
Nicaragua’s first minister of culture after the Sandinistas overthrew the
dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979.

As the Vatican’s opposition to liberation theology intensified in the 1980s
under Pope John Paul II, Father Cardenal became a focal point. Before a
scheduled visit to Nicaragua in 1983, the pope publicly demanded that
Father Cardenal and four other priests who had actively supported the
revolution resign their government positions. The Sandinista government
refused the demand to replace them, but said its invitation to the pope
still stood.

After months of public arguing, the pope accepted the invitation and landed
in Managua, Nicaragua’s capital. As he walked along a receiving line on the
tarmac shaking hands, the pope seemed taken aback to see Father Cardenal
among the dignitaries.

While other priests were in clerical garb, Father Cardenal had shown up
wearing a collarless white shirt, slacks and his signature black beret over
his thick white hair. When he knelt to kiss the pope’s ring, the pope
withheld his hand and wagged his finger at him as he spoke to him,
apparently sternly. According to a Vatican official, the pope told Father
Cardenal, “You must straighten out your position with the church,” The
Associated Press reported.

Videotape of the scolding, though not audible, was broadcast around the
world.

“Christ led me to Marx,” Father Cardenal said in an interview in 1984. “I
don’t think the pope understands Marxism. For me, the four gospels are all
equally communist. I’m a Marxist who believes in God, follows Christ, and
is a revolutionary for the sake of his kingdom.”

His priestly authority was revoked by Nicaragua’s bishops that same year.
(Three other priests were also disciplined.) Father Cardenal’s suspension
was lifted in February 2019, when Pope Francis granted him absolution from
“all canonical censorships,” the Vatican News reported.

Father Cardenal began writing poetry as a young man, tracing the tormented
history of Nicaragua and Latin America as epics in blank verse.

Much of his poetry, though, was intimate: love poems that recalled the
longings of his youth, finely wrought images of city lights at dusk or his
famous “Prayer for Marilyn Monroe,” in which he describes how Monroe was
found on her deathbed in 1962, “like someone wounded by
gangsters/stretching out his hand to a disconnected telephone.”

Fascinated by evolution and its lessons for politics, Father Cardenal began
to incorporate science into his poetry in the 1980s. He developed the theme
until the end of his life, marveling at the origins of the universe and the
mysteries of DNA — sources of awe that in his vision brought people closer
to God.

“In this monumental vision, everything merges and condenses,” the
Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez wrote in the introduction to Father
Cardenal’s anthology “Ninety at Ninety,” which was published in Spanish in
2014. “Not only do the poet’s intimate personal experience and the
scientific exploration of the heavens enter into the mystical, so do the
memories of his own past.”

The most recent complete collection of Father Cardenal’s poetry published
in English was “Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems,” (2009, edited and
translated in part by Jonathan Cohen).

Closing the volume was the poem “Stardust,” Father Cardenal’s meditation on
death. It concludes:

And the galaxy was taking the shape of a flower

the way it looks now on a starry night.

Our flesh and our bones come from other stars

and perhaps even from other galaxies,

we are universal,

and after death we will help to form other stars

and other galaxies.

We come from the stars, and to them we shall return.

Ernesto Cardenal Martínez was born on Jan. 20, 1925, to an upper-class
family in Granada, a city on Lake Nicaragua. He studied literature in
Managua and at Columbia University in New York City, where he read Walt
Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Ezra Pound.

He returned to Nicaragua in the 1950s, but after a failed coup against the

[Marxism] Scientists 'film' a quantum measurement

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[Marxism] Russia backs Damascus as it closes Syrian Airspace, Threatens to down Turkish Jets

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Cole can be slimy but this is worth reading.

https://www.juancole.com/2020/03/damascus-airspace-threatens.html
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