Re: [Marxism] Police are the Enemy Within - CounterPunch.org
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 [Marxism] Police are the Enemy Within - CounterPunch.org Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:18:33 -0400 (EDT) By Michael Yates. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/12/police-are-the-enemy-within/ “Camden County Police epitomizes what a police department should look like on paper while simultaneously trampling on an individual’s civil rights.” https://truthout.org/articles/camden-is-not-a-blueprint-for-disbanding-the-police/?eType=EmailBlastContent=b27d5e7d-210c-477b-9ece-2e80d8836567 _ 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] Dave Chappelle: 8:46
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[Marxism] Industrial Actions in Luhansk and Moscow
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Black-Europe]: Gallagher on Hund, 'Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden: Kleine (Heimat) Geschichte des Rassismus'
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: Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 6:28 PM Subject: H-Net Review [H-Black-Europe]: Gallagher on Hund, 'Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden: Kleine (Heimat) Geschichte des Rassismus' To: Cc: H-Net Staff Wulf D. Hund. Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden: Kleine (Heimat) Geschichte des Rassismus. Stuttgart J. B. Metzler, 2017. 212 pp. Ill. EUR 19,99 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-476-04499-0. Reviewed by Maureen Gallagher (Australian National University) Published on H-Black-Europe (June, 2020) Commissioned by Vanessa Plumly With his 2017 _Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden_, Wulf D. Hund, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Hamburg, offers a clear, concise, historical account of the centrality of race to German history and intellectual discourse. As the title indicates, the book is concerned with how German whiteness is constructed, not as a consistent or monolithic whole but rather as a gradual, fragmented, and contested exclusionary process that intersects with and is complicated by other forms of difference like ethnicity, class, or religion. The book's subtitle provocatively dubs it a _(Heimat) Geschichte _of racism, clearly spelling out one of Hund's central arguments and pointing to one of the book's great strengths: it firmly centers its discussion of race, racism, whiteness, and white supremacy within German-speaking contexts as homegrown phenomena. Hund thus chooses not to avoid taboo words like "Rasse";[1] in this he deviates from the norm among German-speaking race scholars, but the choice not to avoid, anglicize, or put scare quotes around the word is clearly an attempt to underscore his point that race does not enter Germany through the Anglophone world or otherwise come from outside. Instead, he shows that German whiteness "hatte in einem langwierigen und komplizierten Prozess allererst erzeugt werden müssen. Denn von Natur aus gibt es weder Rassen noch Weiße. Die sind ideologische Kopfgeburten der europäischen Expansion und mit Hilfe kolonialer Gewalt zur Welt gekommen, ehe sie im 18. Jahrhundert von der Aufklärung systematisiert und zu wissenschaftlichen Kategorien gemacht wurden" (p. 6). Roughly half the book is devoted to what might be called the prehistory of modern notions of race, the divisions and exclusions that fall short of the kind of systematic social, cultural, and biological approach that crystallizes in the eighteenth century. This section of the book contains chapters devoted to the figure of the "Kammermohr" in seventeenth-century court culture, which shows skin color as a marker of social difference more than biological difference and the growing connection between whiteness and wisdom (_Weißheit_ and _Weisheit_); religious racism and its symbolic "Farbenlehre," where dark and light are markers of good and bad--of Christian and heathen--that don't always map neatly onto modern notions of race or ethnicity; a history of anti-Semitism that spans centuries, with Jews continually marked as other, though not always in physical, biological, or racial terms; and the representation of the Sinti and Roma peoples, which swings between the poles of racialized perception of them as foreign and criminal and as a romanticized illustration of a carefree existence. The second half of the book tackles modern racism from the eighteenth century to the near-present, with chapters devoted to racial discourses of the Enlightenment, nineteenth-century colonialism and the popularization of racialized images and notions of whiteness, early twentieth-century debates about race and degeneration, Nazi Germany, and post-WWII efforts of Germans to "wash themselves white." At the heart of the volume is the chapter "Rassen© made in Germany;" its position at the center of the book mirrors the central role the European Enlightenment plays in laying the foundations for modern racism. It is in the Enlightenment, against the background of "Sklaverei, Kolonialismus und Kapitalismus und deren Beschönigung" (p. 81) that race becomes recognizable in its modern form--as an organized system of biological difference. Here Hund makes a convincing case for the German invention of race, as Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore termed it in their edited volume of the same name (2006), showing the formalization of the concept and its entrance into scientific and academic thought through debate and discourse from thinkers like Hegel, Herder, Kant, Soemmerring, Forster, and Meiners (to whom we are indebted for popularizing "Caucasian" as a generic term for white people). In the nineteenth century, these foundations are built upon, as colonialism
[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Orr on Dalmia, 'Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories'
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. * Best regards, Andrew Stewart - - - Subscribe to the Washington Babylon newsletter via https://washingtonbabylon.com/newsletter/ Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: June 12, 2020 at 5:52:05 PM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-Asia]: Orr on Dalmia, 'Hindu Pasts: Women, > Religion, Histories' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Vasudha Dalmia. Hindu Pasts: Women, Religion, Histories. Albany > State University of New York Press (SUNY), 2017. 390 pp. $95.00 > (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4384-6805-1. > > Reviewed by Leslie Orr (Concordia University) > Published on H-Asia (June, 2020) > Commissioned by Sumit Guha > > Orr on Dalmia, _Hindu Pasts_ > > This volume is a collection of fourteen essays that appeared in > journals or edited volumes between 1990 and 2010, prefaced by an > introduction entitled "Where these Essays are Coming From." The > autobiographical introduction does indeed help us understand the > range and depth of Vasudha Dalmia's scholarship represented in this > volume, as she traces an intellectual voyage moving between Delhi, > Tuebingen, Banaras, and Berkeley--among other places. Throughout this > journey, and continuing into the present (with her most recent book, > _Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India_, > published in the United States in 2019), Dalmia has been engaged with > literature, especially Hindi literature. Many of the essays in this > volume are centered on the close readings of particular texts. But > her aim has consistently been "to work out the links between > literature, performance, religion, politics, and modernity" (p. 10). > And, further, her work shows how contemporary constructions of and > connections between religion and politics in India may be linked to > complex histories from the seventeenth century onward. Dalmia frames > many of her essays with questions about these linkages: "Can Hindutva > be read backwards?" (p. 170). Might the eighteenth century be seen as > a transitional period that was "not connected or leading up to" > communalism (p. 101)? Does Hindi still play a role "in the kind of > exclusivist identity formation which would leave out, or at best > subsume, Indian Muslims" (p. 337)? What is different and what has > remained the same? The title _Hindu Pasts_ for this volume can be > understood within this context, even as some of the essays challenge > the meaningfulness in the past of the word "Hindu" (as well as > "Hindi") or seem not to deal with Hinduism at all. > > The volume is divided into three sections, each with four or five > essays: "Colonial Knowledge-Formation," "Vaishnava Renewals c. > 1600-1900," and "The Hindi Novel: Nineteenth-Century Beginnings." The > titles of these sections hardly do justice to the content of the > essays collected within each; for example, two of the essays in the > first section concern "knowledge" being produced by Indian > intellectuals and the third section deals with many more literary > genres than the novel. In my review of the essays, I prefer to group > them following the lead of the book's subtitle--_Women, Religion, > Histories_--considering under the rubric of "Histories" Dalmia's > histories of Indology and her histories of Hindi. > > Three essays are directly concerned with women, or women's issues. > The first, chronologically, is "Women, Duty, and Sanctified Space in > a Vaishnava Hagiography of the Seventeenth Century," focusing on the > _v__artas_ (hagiographies) of the Vallabha tradition, composed in > Brajbhasha. Dalmia argues that these stories of devotees make > "theological space" for women as part of the developing community, > where service to fellow Vaishnavas or to the guru or to God might > supersede one's duty as a wife. "Sati as a Religious Rite: > Parliamentary Papers on Widow Immolation [1821-30]," details how > colonial authorities developed a discourse around sati featuring the > sati herself as a victim of Brahmans and priests, of superstition, or > of emotion; Dalmia suggests that responses to late twentieth-century > incidents of sati betray the perdurance of colonial attitudes and > legal frameworks. In "Generic Questions: Bharatendu Harishchandra and > Women's Issues," Dalmia considers several late nineteenth-century > publications of the figure who is the subject of her _The > Nationalization of Hindu Traditions_ (1997). On the one hand, we have > the Hindi women's journal _Balabodhini_ (Young Woman's Instructor, > 1874-77), edited and in large part written by Harishchandra,
[Marxism] free online streaming of "Let the Fire Burn"
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[Marxism] Activists Intimidated by FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force | Chris Brooks | The Intercept
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[Marxism] Karl Marx Fought for Freedom | Kevin B. Anderson | Jacobin
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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Hicks on Hynson, 'Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971'
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. * Best regards, Andrew Stewart - - - Subscribe to the Washington Babylon newsletter via https://washingtonbabylon.com/newsletter/ Begin forwarded message: > From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW > Date: June 12, 2020 at 10:30:58 AM EDT > To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > Cc: H-Net Staff > Subject: H-Net Review [H-LatAm]: Hicks on Hynson, 'Laboring for the State: > Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971' > Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org > > Rachel Hynson. Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in > Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971. Cambridge Cambridge University > Press, 2020. 332 pp. $39.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18867-9. > > Reviewed by Anasa Hicks (Florida State University) > Published on H-LatAm (June, 2020) > Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz > > It is an exciting time to study the Cuban Revolution: in the last ten > years, scholars like Lillian Guerra, Devyn Spence-Benson, Michelle > Chase, and Elise Andaya have all broken new ground in excavating the > historical roots and consequences of the 1959 takeover of Cuba by > radical young nationalists. Rachel Hynson's new book, _Laboring for > the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971, > _is an excellent addition to this growing body of literature that > challenges both the chronology and the content of the Cuban > government's own narrative of its revolution. Hynson's use of the > Cuban family as a unit of analysis offers a fresh perspective on the > transformations of the 1960s, revealing previously obscured conflicts > between and choices of the Cuban government and the island's > citizens. The revelation that the (seemingly) personal is political > is old. But Hynson's chapters on abortion, marriage, sex work and > "unconventional employment" dig into the aphorism, improving our > understanding of revolutionary Cuba and offering a methodological > path forward for other historical studies. > > _Laboring for the State _argues that between 1959 and 1971, the > revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to > remodel Cuban families. The ideal "New Family," an extension of > Ernesto "Che" Guevara's vision of Cuba's "New Man," would help push > forward Cuba's new socialist agenda. Opponents to Fidel Castro's rule > have often accused the Cuban revolutionary government of seeking to > destroy the biological family and replace it with Communist control, > but Hynson demonstrates that an unwavering belief in the Eurocentric > patriarchal two-parent family actually undergirded many policies in > the 1960s. Conflict arose between government and citizens when Cubans > rejected the standards of familial legitimacy upon which the new > government insisted. In four thematic chapters, each covering the > same twelve-year period, Hynson explores how the revolutionary > government attempted to link labor to morality and regulate both: > specifically, she argues that the Cuban government attempted to shape > Cuban men into their families' primary wage-earners and criminalize > reliance on female wages. It is no coincidence that in the same time > period, the Cuban revolutionary government transitioned from a > democratic to an authoritarian method of governance. > > Hynson brilliantly teases out the racial implications of the policies > she describes. Fidel Castro declared anti-black racism "finished" in > Cuba after 1961; as a result, explicit references to racial > distinctions or racial tension can be difficult to find in sources > after 1961. But Hynson expertly extrapolates the racial undertones of > revolutionary policy from less than obvious sources. In her first > chapter, for example, Hynson describes early efforts to regulate > women's reproductive activity. In 1964 the Cuban government > introduced intrauterine devices from Chile to Havana's shantytowns > and to Manzanillo, Santiago, Guantánamo, and other eastern cities. > Both locations had high concentrations of Afro-Cuban women, and > Hynson argues that the focus on those locales "illustrates the degree > to which women of color may have been the targets of government > control over women's reproduction" (p. 75). In the second chapter, > Hynson notes that efforts to force Cubans into legitimate legal > marriages were the least prominent in Oriente province, where the > population of black Cubans was higher. The Cuban government has a > long history of excessive interest in the reproductive and conjugal > activity of African-descended people. By cross-referencing Cuba's > racialized geography with revolutionary policy, Hynson demonstrates > how that
[Marxism] Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2020 (virtual cinema) | 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. * While Hollywood remains moribund because of the pandemic, the noncommercial film world plows ahead. This year the Human Rights Watch Film Festival will be available to everybody through VOD. Starting on June 11 and ending on June 20, it offers documentaries on topics that go to the heart of the current crisis, ranging from immigration to the rights of indigenous peoples. I have seen five of the films and could easily nominate any one of them as best documentary of 2020 for the New York Film Critics Online awards meeting in December. We still don’t have word on whether this will happen or not in light of Hollywood’s shutdown. Unlike most of my colleagues, I review films that are as doggedly uncommercial as my politics. In this batch, you will meet real supermen and women far more compelling than any fictional character. full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/06/12/human-rights-watch-film-festival-2020-virtual-cinema/ _ 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] A Mon Valley Memoir: Lessons From The Last Stand Of Steelworkers in Homestead - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Police are the Enemy Within - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Caught In De Blasio's Curfew, Essential Worker Spends Week In Jail After NYPD Mass Arrests Bronx Protesters - Gothamist
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[Marxism] Is Bill de Blasio the Loneliest Man in New York City? | The New Yorker
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[Marxism] The fight for a better end of the world - COSMONAUT
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[Marxism] Carl Schmitt’s legal theory legitimises the rule of the strongman | Aeon Essays
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[Marxism] The Corporate Origins of the Anti-Science “Reopen” Demonstrations - CounterPunch.org
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[Marxism] Updated China pamphlet
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Re: [Marxism] Libya: Is Russia-Turkey conflict heightening over oil-rich Sirte? (Juan Cole)
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. * I was not meaning to suggest that Turkish intervention in Libya is worse than Russian intervention. I was highlighting the fact that Erdogan has ambitions that extend further afield, beyond the countries on Turkey's borders. The fact that Russia has such ambitions is no surprise, but people may not be aware of Turkey's overseas intervention. Chris Slee From: Marxism on behalf of mkaradjis . via Marxism Sent: Friday, 12 June 2020 4:45 PM To: Chris Slee Cc: mkaradjis . Subject: Re: [Marxism] Libya: Is Russia-Turkey conflict heightening over oil-rich Sirte? (Juan Cole) 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. * On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:47 AM Chris Slee via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > https://www.juancole.com/2020/06/russia-conflict-heightening.html > > Not content with invading and occupying parts of Syria and Iraq, Erdogan > is intervening in the Libyan civil war. > > Chris might also have noted that Russia, not content with invading, bombing and occupying parts of Syria and Ukraine and annexing Crimea, is also intervening in the Libyan civil war. A world view, however, that has decided that the Turkish regime is the main enemy of the region's peoples, won't see the Russian role in the same light. Actually I agree with Chris regarding Turkey's intervention in Libya, and even more so about the fact that Erdogan has turned former anti-Assad rebels into mercenaries for Turkish geopolitical goals by sending them to Libya to fight for the Libyan government, which is hardly their concern. Neither side in Libya - the Turkish-backed government, nor the rebel LNA based in the east, led by former Libyan general, then CIA-asset Haftar, offer much that is substantially different to Libyans. However, when weighing up, it is important to remember a couple of things: Firstly, whatever one's view of the current Libyan government, it is a product of local Libyan developments, long before the Turkish intervention, and it is the internationally recognised government of Libya, holding its UN seat, without any egregious war crimes to its name that would stain its legitimacy in any major way; by contrast, the LNA is simply a regional project led by Haftar that wants to violently overthrow the government without offering anything better; and in its attacks on Tripoli, it has committed war crimes such as the shelling of hospitals. Second, while the Libyan government is backed by Turkey and Qatar, Haftar's LNA is backed by a literal mug's gallery of the regional counterrevolution: Russia, al-Sisi's Egyptian tyranny, the United Arab Emirates, the Saudis, Israel and the Assad regime, while also receiving some support from France and occasional encouraging words from Trump. Part of the reason for such a varied reactionary united front is the hostility of all these regimes to the regional Muslim Brotherhod, which plays a role in the Libyan government (which however cannot be thought of as in any way 'hard Islamist') and is backed regionally by Turkey and Qatar. Egypt and the UAE view Turkey/Qatar/MB as their main regional opponent, while Saudi Arabia sees them as its equal regional opponent alongside Iran. This has led to a sharp pro-Assad alliance by Egypt/UAE and a similar less sharp turn by the Saudis; all are strongly connected to Russia as well as the US. For Israel, the MB means Hamas, and also see Turkey/Qatar as its main supporters. Another aspect of this great game is the struggle over control of east Mediterranean gas supplies and its transport to Europe. This struggle pits an Israel-Egypt-Cyprus-Greece alliance against Turkey's rival claims, which it has tried to advance via the alliance with Libya. Interestingly though, despite Russia being a leading part of the anti-Turkish alliance in Libya, its Southstream gas project pumps Russian gas out into the Mediterranean through Turkey! gets very complicated! Even more so when Russia has also been involved in discussion with Israel about becoming part of its rival gas project. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/chris_w_slee%40hotmail.com _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options
[Marxism] Trump in trouble, the future is uncertain (to say the least)
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. * "His national approval ratings are sinking like a stone, down from 41% approval, compared to 55% disapproval as of June 11. This near 15% gap compares to a mere 5% gap in March "The coming period will be full of struggle, drama, suffering, chaos… and uncertainty. The only thing we can be sure of is that it won’t be boring!" https://oaklandsocialist.com/2020/06/12/trump-in-trouble-the-future-is-uncertain-to-say-the-least/ -- *“Science and socialism go hand-in-hand.” *Felicity Dowling Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _ 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] Libya: Is Russia-Turkey conflict heightening over oil-rich Sirte? (Juan Cole)
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. * On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:47 AM Chris Slee via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > https://www.juancole.com/2020/06/russia-conflict-heightening.html > > Not content with invading and occupying parts of Syria and Iraq, Erdogan > is intervening in the Libyan civil war. > > Chris might also have noted that Russia, not content with invading, bombing and occupying parts of Syria and Ukraine and annexing Crimea, is also intervening in the Libyan civil war. A world view, however, that has decided that the Turkish regime is the main enemy of the region's peoples, won't see the Russian role in the same light. Actually I agree with Chris regarding Turkey's intervention in Libya, and even more so about the fact that Erdogan has turned former anti-Assad rebels into mercenaries for Turkish geopolitical goals by sending them to Libya to fight for the Libyan government, which is hardly their concern. Neither side in Libya - the Turkish-backed government, nor the rebel LNA based in the east, led by former Libyan general, then CIA-asset Haftar, offer much that is substantially different to Libyans. However, when weighing up, it is important to remember a couple of things: Firstly, whatever one's view of the current Libyan government, it is a product of local Libyan developments, long before the Turkish intervention, and it is the internationally recognised government of Libya, holding its UN seat, without any egregious war crimes to its name that would stain its legitimacy in any major way; by contrast, the LNA is simply a regional project led by Haftar that wants to violently overthrow the government without offering anything better; and in its attacks on Tripoli, it has committed war crimes such as the shelling of hospitals. Second, while the Libyan government is backed by Turkey and Qatar, Haftar's LNA is backed by a literal mug's gallery of the regional counterrevolution: Russia, al-Sisi's Egyptian tyranny, the United Arab Emirates, the Saudis, Israel and the Assad regime, while also receiving some support from France and occasional encouraging words from Trump. Part of the reason for such a varied reactionary united front is the hostility of all these regimes to the regional Muslim Brotherhod, which plays a role in the Libyan government (which however cannot be thought of as in any way 'hard Islamist') and is backed regionally by Turkey and Qatar. Egypt and the UAE view Turkey/Qatar/MB as their main regional opponent, while Saudi Arabia sees them as its equal regional opponent alongside Iran. This has led to a sharp pro-Assad alliance by Egypt/UAE and a similar less sharp turn by the Saudis; all are strongly connected to Russia as well as the US. For Israel, the MB means Hamas, and also see Turkey/Qatar as its main supporters. Another aspect of this great game is the struggle over control of east Mediterranean gas supplies and its transport to Europe. This struggle pits an Israel-Egypt-Cyprus-Greece alliance against Turkey's rival claims, which it has tried to advance via the alliance with Libya. Interestingly though, despite Russia being a leading part of the anti-Turkish alliance in Libya, its Southstream gas project pumps Russian gas out into the Mediterranean through Turkey! gets very complicated! Even more so when Russia has also been involved in discussion with Israel about becoming part of its rival gas project. _ 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