Re: [Marxism] The Struggle to Oust Duterte, Imperialism, and Capitalist Rule - COSMONAUT

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The "Anti Terror Bill" referred to in this interview was signed into law by
Duterte yesterday.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Duterte-signs-controversial-Philippine-anti-terror-bill-into-law


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> Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is pushing through the “Anti Terror
> Bill.” If it were passed, it would give Duterte dictatorial powers,
> allowing the imprisonment of any political opposition without a trial.
> However, the bill has sparked national outrage and resistance. The
> situation is volatile, and he may be forced to back down.
>
> Teodorico “Teody” Duran Navea is Secretary General of the Partido Lakas
> ng Masa (Party of the Laboring Masses – PLM), a socialist party in the
> Philippines. Navea was gracious enough to grant this interview while he
> himself is recovering from COVID-19. Thankfully, he seems to be making a
> full recovery.
>
> In this interview with Ryan Powers, recorded on June 8, Navea explains
> the political, economic, and imperialist causes driving Duterte to push
> through the bill. He also discusses the popular resistance against the
> bill and the corresponding government repression and hypocrisy. We
> publish this transcript of Ryan’s conversation with Teody with very
> minor edits, in a wish to preserve his voice and not substitute it for
> an Americanized version.
>
>
> https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/07/04/the-struggle-to-oust-duterte-imperialism-and-capitalist-rule/
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[Marxism] The Movement for Black Lives Is Different This Time - New Politics

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Re: [Marxism] What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls | The New Republic

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The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know 
this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one 
accomplished Black American


https://newrepublic.com/article/158353/woodrow-wilson-racism-princeton-robert-smalls 



Sorry. Forgot this was behind a paywall.

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What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls
The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know 
this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one 
accomplished Black American.


Last week, Princeton University announced that it would remove Woodrow 
Wilson’s name from the School of Public and International Affairs 
because his “racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate 
namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni 
must stand firmly against racism in all its forms,” said the 
university’s president, Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Wilson’s racism was 
significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time.”


Donald Trump’s fulminations aside, it seems most people don’t care about 
Princeton’s gesture, especially if that’s the extent of our cultural 
reckoning with the former president. The move hasn’t been met with the 
same furor as, say, efforts in D.C. to remove a statue of Abraham 
Lincoln standing beside a kneeling freed slave: Even National Review, 
home of “The Cancel Counter,” refuses to rush to Wilson’s defense.


But this moment is a unique opportunity to learn about the Black 
Americans who suffered at Wilson’s malicious hand—to raise their names 
as we tear down his. So here’s a story about the intersecting lives of 
three men: the twenty-eighth president of the United States, the author 
whose book became the basis for D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, and 
the former slave who became a Civil War hero and one of the first Blacks 
to serve in Congress.


The legend of Robert Smalls begins on May 13, 1862. A 23-year-old slave, 
he worked as a sailor on The Planter, a 300-ton commercial steamship 
retrofitted as a Confederacy war vessel that was docked in the harbor of 
Charleston, South Carolina. Just before dawn, Smalls and his fellow 
enslaved workers seized the boat and, after stopping to pick up family 
members and other Black men and women involved in the plot, sailed out 
of the harbor past Confederate checkpoints. They then surrendered the 
ship to nearby Union forces, for which they were rewarded with money and 
freedom.


For the next three years, Smalls fought for the Union. When the war 
ended in 1865, he returned home to Beaufort, South Carolina. With his 
reward money, he bought the house that once belonged to the first two 
people to own him as a slave: his father and his half-brother. Except 
for brief periods, he would never leave. “I was born and raised in South 
Carolina,” he once said, “and today I live on the very spot on which I 
was born, and I expect to remain here as long as the Great God allows me 
to live.”



Smalls’s house in Beaufort, South Carolina, is on the National Register 
of Historic Places.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Smalls founded the South Carolina Republican Party in 1867 and, in 1868, 
joined 71 Black delegates to the state convention that ratified the 
Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In that same convention, 
Smalls and his fellow Black delegates adopted a progressive state 
constitution, providing for public education, abolishing race and 
property ownership as conditions for holding public office, and 
overturning Black Codes. He would live long enough to see his 
achievement dismantled in 1895, when whites regained power in South 
Carolina and adopted a Jim Crow Constitution. As one state newspaper put 
it at the time, “We can trust white men to do right by the inferior 
race, but we cannot trust the inferior race with power over the white 
man.” With some amendments, that constitution remains in effect to this day.


In the years in between, Smalls was first a state representative, then a 
state senator, and finally, between 1875 and 1887, a U.S. 
representative. He served in Congress alongside Richard Cain, the pastor 
of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where, in 2015, Dylann 
Roof murdered nine Black congregants. He represented the 7th 
congressional district, then the 5th district; once white Southern 
Democrats regained power, Smalls was the last Republican to represent 
the 5th for nearly 130 years, until 2011, when Mick Mulvaney, Donald 
Trump’s former chief of staff, won the seat as part of the Tea Party 
wave that rose in opposition to the election of the first 

[Marxism] Moser submission July4

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Re: [Marxism] Donald Trump Speech Transcript at Mount Rushmore 4th of July Event - Rev

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Louis -- thank you for reprinted this Hitlerian speech and Hitlerian crowd
response --

I heard some of it and I am not kidding when I say Trump could BARELY READ
THE WORDS --- there were too many big words in the speech --

Maybe he could get excited at some parts but my guess is he just BULLED his
way through the speech in that "hostage tape" monotone that he always uses
as a "TELL" that someone else has written it and he never even practiced it
-

(he couldn't even pronounce the first name of U.S> Grant successfully !!)

The speech is worth all of us reading no matter how much it turns our
stomach -- We need to respond to it fully --- because it is a call to
fascism ---

And whoever was arrested for toppling Andrew Jackson --- we need a massive
DEFENSE fund and a full exposure of who Jackson is so that JURY
NULLIFICATION will occur!!!

Solidarity forever --- (Mike Meeropol)

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> This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty must be stopped and
> it will be stopped very quickly. We will expose this dangerous movement,
> protect our nation’s children from this radical assault, and preserve
> our beloved American way of life. In our schools, our newsrooms, even
> our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands
> absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its
> rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will
> be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It’s not
> going to happen to us.
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[Marxism] Faculty Union Sues CUNY, Demands Injunction To Rehire Laid-Off Adjuncts - Gothamist

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[Marxism] Protest and Power | Black Agenda Report

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(By Glen Ford. What a contrast to Adolph Reed Jr. and Cedric Johnson.)

Clearly, as the old song  goes, “Something’s happening here…” The public 
appears to internalize the killer cop crisis as part of a general 
disfunction of a U.S. state that has utterly failed to protect its 
population from contagious disease and has no plan to save the people 
from a second Great Depression. For the first time, (slim) majorities of 
whites finally seem able to wrap their minds around the fact that Blacks 
suffer disproportionately from all of these governmental failures – or 
intentional outcomes.


https://www.blackagendareport.com/protest-and-power

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[Marxism] Donald Trump Speech Transcript at Mount Rushmore 4th of July Event - Rev

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This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty must be stopped and 
it will be stopped very quickly. We will expose this dangerous movement, 
protect our nation’s children from this radical assault, and preserve 
our beloved American way of life. In our schools, our newsrooms, even 
our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands 
absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its 
rituals, recite its mantras, and follow its commandments, then you will 
be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted, and punished. It’s not 
going to happen to us.


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[Marxism] The Struggle to Oust Duterte, Imperialism, and Capitalist Rule - COSMONAUT

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is pushing through the “Anti Terror 
Bill.” If it were passed, it would give Duterte dictatorial powers, 
allowing the imprisonment of any political opposition without a trial. 
However, the bill has sparked national outrage and resistance. The 
situation is volatile, and he may be forced to back down.


Teodorico “Teody” Duran Navea is Secretary General of the Partido Lakas 
ng Masa (Party of the Laboring Masses – PLM), a socialist party in the 
Philippines. Navea was gracious enough to grant this interview while he 
himself is recovering from COVID-19. Thankfully, he seems to be making a 
full recovery.


In this interview with Ryan Powers, recorded on June 8, Navea explains 
the political, economic, and imperialist causes driving Duterte to push 
through the bill. He also discusses the popular resistance against the 
bill and the corresponding government repression and hypocrisy. We 
publish this transcript of Ryan’s conversation with Teody with very 
minor edits, in a wish to preserve his voice and not substitute it for 
an Americanized version.


https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/07/04/the-struggle-to-oust-duterte-imperialism-and-capitalist-rule/

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[Marxism] What Woodrow Wilson Did to Robert Smalls | The New Republic

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The twenty-eighth U.S. president was a white supremacist. We all know 
this, in the abstract. But here’s how he wielded his racism against one 
accomplished Black American


https://newrepublic.com/article/158353/woodrow-wilson-racism-princeton-robert-smalls

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[Marxism] Once again: The crisis of the US capitalist class which can't trust its own president

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And again, the crisis of the US capitalist class that cannot trust its own
president. From today's WSJ:

"WASHINGTON—President Trump’s combative relationship with U.S. intelligence
agencies has made it difficult for officials to speak candidly to him or
the public about national security threats throughout his tenure,
particularly those involving Russia, according to current and former
officials.

Blunt talk by officials about threats ranging from North Korea’s nuclear
program to Russian election interference has resulted in Twitter-powered
fusillades or private tongue-lashings from Mr. Trump—and contributed to his
dismissals of senior intelligence officials seen as insufficiently loyal,
the officials said.

The challenges of communicating intelligence that President Trump may not
want to hear are on renewed display amid revelations about intelligence
assessments that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban to carry out attacks
on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

The White House said Mr. Trump wasn’t briefed on the intelligence because
it was unverified. However, Republican lawmakers have acknowledged it was
contained in the daily intelligence brief prepared for the president, and
several said they take the potential threat seriously. Mr. Trump has called
reports of the intelligence a “hoax.”

Tensions between Mr. Trump and the intelligence community existed even
before Mr. Trump took office. During the presidential transition, Mr. Trump
blamed intelligence agencies for leaks of unsubstantiated claims about his
relationship with Russia and accused them of acting like “Nazi Germany.”
But the Russia bounties episode has offered a rare look at the impact of
Mr. Trump’s distrust of intelligence agencies, former officials said.

Mr. Trump is known among intelligence officials to be especially sensitive
to issues involving Russia. Marc Polymeropoulos, who was a senior Central
Intelligence Agency officer until last summer, said that when a briefer
would raise issues related to Russia, “Trump would flip out.”

“There’s probably a lot of self-censorship” in terms of what the
president’s intelligence briefers raise in oral presentations, he said.

From the perspective of the president and many White House officials, the
mistrust goes both ways. Former senior intelligence officials from the
Obama administration are vocal critics of Mr. Trump in the media, where
they routinely call him a threat to national security and the rule of the
law—something many current and former officials privately concede is
unhelpful. And Mr. Trump and other officials have claimed the investigation
into Russian election interference was motivated by a desire to damage his
presidency, pointing to the largely discredited Steele dossier that alleged
Moscow had compromising information on the president—as well as the
applications for surveillance of one-time campaign adviser Carter Page,
which a Justice Department watchdog concluded were riddled with errors—as
evidence of bad faith.

The Central Intelligence Agency prepares the President’s Daily Brief, a
classified digest gleaned from human spies, electronic intercepts and other
sources of information. An intelligence official typically meets with the
president and other senior White House officials to highlight key takeaways
from the prepared brief, according to former officials.

Beth Sanner, a CIA officer, works as Mr. Trump’s briefer, presenting main
elements of the daily report, which is supplied on an iPad but rarely read
by Mr. Trump, former officials have said.

National security adviser Robert O’Brien said in a televised interview this
week that Ms. Sanner, whom he didn’t name, was an “outstanding officer” who
chose not to verbally raise the Russian bounty intelligence because it was
uncorroborated.

However, Ms. Sanner doesn’t unilaterally decide what issues from the daily
brief to raise directly with Mr. Trump, former officials said, adding such
decisions typically are made in consultation with senior White House
advisers.

Mr. Polymeropoulos, the former CIA officer, said the breakdown in
presenting the bounty intelligence to Mr. Trump wasn’t the briefer’s fault
and that Mr. O’Brien and others should have flagged it to the president,
particularly as he was in the process of trying to get Russia back into the
Group of Seven leading nations.

“Throwing Beth Sanner under the bus, that’s just grotesque,” he said.

The National Security Council and CIA didn’t respond to a request for
comment. White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany this week, when
questioned about Mr. Trump’s use of intelligence, called him “the most
informed person on planet Earth” and blamed “some rogue