Re: [Marxism] The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left | A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser | Sarah Lazare | In These Times

2020-07-14 Thread Andrew Stewart via Marxism
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This was a glorious article

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[Marxism] The Fiscal Deficit, Modern Monetary Theory and Progressive Economic Policy

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The Fiscal Deficit, Modern Monetary Theory and Progressive Economic Policy
by Andrew Jackson
The Bullet, Socialist Project, July 14
https://socialistproject.ca/2020/07/fiscal-deficit-mmt-progressive-economic-policy/

 . . . "MMT rightly challenges the orthodox idea that government
budgets should be balanced and that deficits should be incurred only
to fight deep depressions when low interest rates no longer work. As
argued by Keynes in the 1930s, deficits will not crowd out savings and
private investment if the economy is operating below capacity. Indeed,
public investment financed by deficits can “crowd in” private
investment. And public investments financed through deficits and debt
can create a more robust economy and infrastructure, leaving future
generations with greater wealth and opportunities. Keynes, unlike the
“bastard Keynesian” wing of mainstream economics, looked forward to
the day when the economy would be driven by productive public
investment with no need for the state to borrow from the rentiers
living off interest income.

"In short, the key ideas of MMT are not so much modern as a return to
the radical Keynes and the left Keynesian tradition. Both hold that
conventional policy results in economies running well below capacity
much of the time, and both reject the mainstream view that the
macro-economy should be primarily managed through monetary rather than
fiscal policy.
 . . .
"In short, MMT, based on the theoretical legacy of left Keynesian
economics, offers us a way forward, but it does not free us from the
very real constraints of capitalism."

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[Marxism] How Woodrow Wilson declared war on civil liberties to fight World War 1

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 https://delanceyplace.com/view-archives.php?p
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[Marxism] [UCE] Tariq Ali reviews Notebooks: 1936-1947 by Victor Serge

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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n14/tariq-ali/inquisition-mode

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[Marxism] Resignation Letter — Bari Weiss

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https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

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[Marxism] Bari Weiss Resigns From New York Times Opinion Post

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NY Times, July 14, 2020
Bari Weiss Resigns From New York Times Opinion Post
By Edmund Lee

Bari Weiss, a writer and editor for the opinion department of The New 
York Times, has resigned from the paper, citing “bullying by colleagues” 
and an “illiberal environment.”


In a nearly 1,500-word letter addressed to A. G. Sulzberger, the 
publisher, Ms. Weiss offered a deep critique of Times employees and 
company leadership, describing a “hostile work environment” where 
co-workers had insulted her or called for her removal on Twitter and in 
the interoffice communications app Slack.


“I do not understand how you have allowed this kind of behavior to go on 
inside your company in full view of the paper’s entire staff and the 
public,” she wrote.


Mr. Sulzberger declined to comment. In a statement, Eileen Murphy, a 
Times spokeswoman, said, “We’re committed to fostering an environment of 
honest, searching and empathetic dialogue between colleagues, one where 
mutual respect is required of all.”


After working at The Wall Street Journal and Tablet, an online magazine 
of Jewish culture and politics, Ms. Weiss joined The Times as an Op-Ed 
staff editor and writer in 2017 as part of the paper’s effort to broaden 
the ideological range of its opinion staff after President Trump’s 
inauguration.


Ms. Weiss, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, has 
been known to question aspects of social justice movements that have 
taken root in recent years. She was critical of a woman who described an 
uncomfortable encounter with the comedian Aziz Ansari and questioned 
whether the sexual assault charges leveled against Supreme Court justice 
nominee Brett Kavanaugh should disqualify him from the post.


She was also criticized for a tweet suggesting that the California-born 
U.S. Olympic figure skating competitor Mirai Nagasu was an immigrant. 
(Ms. Weiss said in a later tweet that she knew Ms. Nagasu was a daughter 
of immigrants.)


In 2018 she wrote on the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, where 
she became a bat mitzvah, in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. 
The murder of 11 Jews led her to write the book “How to Fight 
Anti-Semitism,” which won the 2019 National Jewish Book Award.


Ms. Weiss recently came under fire for online comments on the staff 
unrest that followed the publication of a Times Op-Ed piece by Senator 
Tom Cotton calling for a military response to civic unrest in American 
cities during the widespread protests against racism and police violence.


More than 1,000 Times staff members signed a letter protesting the 
Op-Ed’s publication, and James Bennet, the editorial page editor, 
resigned days after it was published. An editors’ note was added to the 
essay, saying it “fell short of our standards and should not have been 
published.” The opinion department of The Times is run separately from 
the newsroom.


In a tweet, Ms. Weiss described the turmoil inside the paper as a “civil 
war” between “the (mostly young) wokes” and “the (mostly 40+) liberals.” 
Many staff members objected on Twitter to her comment, saying it was 
inaccurate or misrepresented their concerns.


In her resignation letter, which was posted on her personal website 
Tuesday, Ms. Weiss said “intellectual curiosity” was “now a liability at 
The Times.” She added: “Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York 
Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor.”


Kathleen Kingsbury, the acting editorial page editor, said, “We 
appreciate the many contributions that Bari made to Times Opinion. I’m 
personally committed to ensuring that The Times continues to publish 
voices, experiences and viewpoints from across the political spectrum in 
the Opinion report.”


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[Marxism] Antibodies and anticapitalists | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist

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https://louisproyect.org/2020/07/14/antibodies-and-anticapitalists/

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[Marxism] Fwd: H-Net Review [H-Environment]: Scown on Chang, 'Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century'

2020-07-14 Thread Andrew Stewart via Marxism
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> From: H-Net Staff via H-REVIEW 
> Date: July 14, 2020 at 1:31:22 PM EDT
> To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> Cc: H-Net Staff 
> Subject: H-Net Review [H-Environment]:  Scown on Chang, 'Novel Cultivations: 
> Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century'
> Reply-To: h-rev...@lists.h-net.org
> 
> Elizabeth Hope Chang.  Novel Cultivations: Plants in British 
> Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century.  Under the Sign of 
> Nature Series. Charlottesville  University of Virginia Press, 2019.  
> 240 pp.  $29.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8139-4248-3; $59.50 (cloth), ISBN 
> 978-0-8139-4247-6.
> 
> Reviewed by Jim Scown (Cardiff University)
> Published on H-Environment (July, 2020)
> Commissioned by Daniella McCahey
> 
> Elizabeth Hope Chang's _Novel Cultivations: Plants in British 
> Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century _examines the agency of 
> plants in a wide range of British genre fiction from the 1850s to the 
> 1920s. Transported around the world during these years, plant life 
> was shaped by and also helped to shape the social, economic, and 
> ecological transformations of empire. Chang exposes how genre fiction 
> from these years uses plants, as imports and cultivars, to "explore 
> questions of exoticism, foreignness, selfhood, and subjectivity" amid 
> these global networks (p. 3). In so doing, such novels also offer 
> conceptions of plant agency and consciousness that begin to redefine 
> subjectivity beyond the limits of the human. _Novel Cultivations 
> _will be of interest to many, from those working on non-human agency, 
> world-ecology,  and the crossovers between postcolonial and 
> ecocritical theory, to those interested in the workings of the 
> novel--and, indeed, the workings of plants--in the global nineteenth 
> century. 
> 
> Over five chapters, Chang leads her reader through a diverse range of 
> detective, scientific romance, imperial gothic, and adventure 
> fiction. Her wide array of "not entirely canonical literary examples" 
> and resistance to strict periodization underpin the book's strength 
> of argument (p. 17). Charles Dickens's _The Mystery of Edwin Drood 
> _(1870), Arthur Morrison's _A Child of the Jago _(1896), Arthur Conan 
> Doyle's _The Lost World _(1912), Charlotte Brontë's _Villette 
> _(1853), Richard Marsh's _The Beetle _(1897), Arthur Machen's _The 
> Three Imposters _(1895), Oscar Wilde's _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ 
> (1890), and H. G. Wells's "The Door in the Wall" (1906) are just some 
> of the texts to feature in chapter 2. These are contextualized by 
> horticultural works, including John Loudon's _Suburban 
> Horticulturalist _(1842), Thomas Fairchild's _The City Gardener 
> _(1722), and Shirley Hibberd's _The Town Garden _(1859). With all 
> five chapters including similar ranges of texts, each would benefit 
> from subdivision into titled sections. Nevertheless, supported by a 
> wealth of evidence, the book's chapters build on each other 
> effectively, drawing out the developing associations of personal and 
> horticultural cultivation while deftly showing the ways plants 
> reconfigured existing conventions of culture and nature, domestic and 
> foreign, subject and object, in the genre novel of the period.  
> 
> The first chapter, "Detecting the Global Plant Specimen," introduces 
> the global history of plant life in the nineteenth century and 
> examines the place of these plants in the development of detective 
> fiction. Chang's focus here is the narrative formulation of the 
> clue--"a plot element demanding a newly pronounced attention to 
> setting and the broader environmental reference setting implies" (p. 
> 34). When Ezra Jennings picks flowers from an English hedge that are 
> familiar from the unnamed country of his birth, plants trace global 
> networks integral to Wilkie Collins's _The Moonstone_'s (1868) 
> narrative structure. Chang shows that Collins's novel and Arthur 
> Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" (1893) 
> thus develop the language of horticulture by figuring foreign 
> cultivars as objects of narrative significance. 
> 
> Chapter 2 examines plants within the urban gardens of imperial gothic 
> novels. Where plants in detective fiction offer clues that look 
> outward, supporting the "global acts of detection" needed to address 
> domestic crime, plants turn gothic narratives inward, disrupting 
> coherent senses of self and identity (p. 68). The glass Wardian case, 
> introduced in the first chapter 

Re: [Marxism] Bari Weiss Is Leaving the New York Times

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One down, one to go - Bret Stephens must be next!

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:36 PM Jim Farmelant via Marxism

>
> She's obviously looking for a big payout from the NY Times. But more
> importantly, it says something when at what is probably the leading
> newspaper in the US, that someone with her views is no longer acceptable
> there. I think that is a pretty good indication of which way the political
> winds are now blowing. When a ruling class organ like the NY Times feels
> the need to clean house and get rid of people like her then that is good
> news for us. All the news fit to print, indeed.
>
>
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[Marxism] Enlightenment Betrayed: Jonathan Israel, Marxism, and the Enlightenmen t Legacy

2020-07-14 Thread Jim Farmelant via Marxism
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To celebrate Bastille Day, Doug Enaa Greene and Harrison Fluss are sharing part 
one of a six part series of essays on Jonathan Israel, The Enlightenment, 
French Revolution and Marxism.

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[Marxism] Popular protagonism in Venezuela’s transition to socialism: A conversation with Michael Lebowitz

2020-07-14 Thread Ralph Johansen via Marxism

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http://links.org.au/popular-protagonism-venezuela-transition-socialism-michael-lebowitz 


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[Marxism] The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left | A conversation with scholar Benjamin Balthaser | Sarah Lazare | In These Times

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https://inthesetimes.com/article/22659/jewish-anti-zionism-israel-palestine-colonialism-annexation-apartheid


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Re: [Marxism] Bari Weiss Is Leaving the New York Times

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She's obviously looking for a big payout from the NY Times. But more 
importantly, it says something when at what is probably the leading newspaper 
in the US, that someone with her views is no longer acceptable there. I think 
that is a pretty good indication of which way the political winds are now 
blowing. When a ruling class organ like the NY Times feels the need to clean 
house and get rid of people like her then that is good news for us. All the 
news fit to print, indeed.

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Subject: [Marxism] Bari Weiss Is Leaving the New York Times
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:14:21 -0400

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay47q/bari-weiss-is-leaving-the-new-york-times

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[Marxism] Today - the anniversary of the murder of Jean-Paul Marat

2020-07-14 Thread Dennis Brasky via Marxism
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On this day in 1793, French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, who had gone
from being a physician for aristocrats to calling for the end of the
monarchy, was assassinated. Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by
Charlotte Corday, a 24-year-old member of a rival political faction called
the Girondins. Corday was guillotined for the crime and Marat became a
martyr for the radical revolutionary cause.
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[Marxism] Bari Weiss Is Leaving the New York Times

2020-07-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4ay47q/bari-weiss-is-leaving-the-new-york-times

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Re: [Marxism] Canceling the Cancel Culture: Enriching Discourse or Dumbing it Down? - CounterPunch.org

2020-07-14 Thread Michael Meeropol via Marxism
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Based on a (non-scientific) belief that readers of this list have MORE
THINGS to do/read than they have time for, I would like to seriously
recommend the DiMaggio piece in CounterPunch that Louis just posted --- It
is detailed, well argued, with significant evidence --- totally convincing
but even more importantly VERY USEFUL for its examples ---

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/14/canceling-the-cancel-culture-enriching-discourse-or-dumbing-it-down/
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[Marxism] Should We Cancel "Cancel Culture"? - CounterPunch.org

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By Steven Salaita

The limits of settler common sense are why members of a leftist 
publication like Grayzone can coordinate a bizarre, historically 
illiterate defense of Indian-killer Ulysses S. Grant and then respond to 
pushback by invoking Taibbi’s essay.  And why an ostensible 
anti-imperialist like Pepe Escobar can share alt-right propaganda about 
thought police on campus as if it’s incisive social criticism.


https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/14/should-we-cancel-cancel-culture/

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Re: [Marxism] (99+) (PDF) Academic Corruption, the Israel Lobby, and 9/11, or, Why I have resigned from my emeritus status at the University of Sussex | Kees Van der Pijl - Academia.edu

2020-07-14 Thread Paul Flewers via Marxism
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I must confess that I've never heard of Kees Van der Pijl, so when I read at 
the start of the Prof's lengthy paper that 'in reply to a Twitter message 
summing up a series of crimes ascribed to "Saudis", beginning with their 
alleged responsibility for bringing down the Twin Towers, I posted, "Not 
Saudis, Israelis brought down the Twin Towers with help from Zionists in US 
Govt!"', I thought that he was perhaps being sarcastic, taking the mickey out 
of conspiracy theories. Then I read through the paper only to find out that he 
really believes this nonsense, that the World Trade Center buildings were 
demolished by controlled explosions, and so on and so forth. I'm rather glad I 
studied History at UCL rather than International Relations at Sussex.

Paul F

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[Marxism] There are no longer any bees in Volhynia | Richard Seymour on Patreon

2020-07-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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Two thirds of the earth's species are entomofauna, or insects. Like 
Darwin's worms, they are historical actors. They make an enormous 
contribution to civilisation. Worms prepare the soil for cultivation. 
They feed us and, when we die, they eat us. Insects pollinate, control 
pests, sustain wildlife, and recycle dead organic matter. They are a 
primary food for birds, amphibians, fish and reptiles, sustaining vital 
food webs. Among pollinators, while other insects are important, only 
the honey bee does the sort of work that sustains mass consumption. They 
pollinate buckwheat, broccoli, almonds, apples, cranberries, melons, 
blueberries, cherries, cashew, kiwi, turnip, coriander, watermelon, 
cardamom, macadamia, apricot, pear and raspberry.  In principle, we 
could live on corn, soybeans and rice, which don't need pollination, but 
it would be an impoverished diet. A third of all the food we currently 
eat depends directly on such pollination. The Egyptians, who knew of 
only a fraction of this work, thought bees were divine.


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[Marxism] ‘A Slap in the Face’: N.Y. Town Rejects Black Lives Matter Painting

2020-07-14 Thread Louis Proyect via Marxism

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NY Times, July 14, 2020
‘A Slap in the Face’: N.Y. Town Rejects Black Lives Matter Painting
By Sarah Maslin Nir

CATSKILL, N.Y. — The street painting would stretch about three blocks, 
from Village Pizza II to the stoplight at the southern end of Main 
Street, spelling out “Black Lives Matter” on the pavement.


The proposal didn’t seem like too much of an ask; in the weeks since 
George Floyd was killed by the police in Minneapolis, the phrase has 
been painted on streets from Washington, D.C., to Charlotte, N.C., and, 
on Thursday, even in front of Trump Tower in Manhattan.


But village leaders in Catskill balked, offering several 
counterproposals instead, including one that would have allowed the 
painting, but in the Black area of town.


“I knew it was going to be a no,” said Shirley Cross, 31, a member of 
the Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition, which proposed the painting. “I 
just feel like it’s a slap in the face for Black people.”


In cities across the nation, the civil unrest that followed Mr. Floyd’s 
death has heightened racial tensions and, in some cases, led to 
confrontations pitting protesters against the police and some community 
members. It has also caused flash points in many smaller communities.


On Saturday, a Black Lives Matter march in Kinderhook, N.Y., about 20 
miles northeast of Catskill, was interrupted by a white couple who 
brandished a gun at protesters outside their home.


The couple were eventually taken into police custody, but no arrests had 
been made as of Monday.


“Can you imagine if I pulled a gun on people protesting in front of my 
house?” Kamal Johnson, the mayor of the nearby city of Hudson, said in a 
Facebook video; Mr. Johnson was among those protesting on Saturday. “I’d 
be arrested and all over the newspapers.”


In Saranac Lake, N.Y., about 45 miles south of the Canadian border, the 
director of a state-sponsored Adirondack diversity initiative said she 
is moving because of racist graffiti that she believed was directed at 
her. The graffiti, which included profanity, said “go back to Africa” 
and was scrawled on a railroad bridge along a route she uses.


As more examples of “Black Lives Matter” art have spread on streets and 
sidewalks, controversy has followed. In Chicago, one wording was painted 
over to read “All Lives Matter.” In Palo Alto, Calif., artists blocked 
the street around a freshly laid painting after officials moved 
roadblocks, allowing it to be driven over.


And in Catskill, on the western banks of the Hudson River, the debate 
over whether to allow a Black Lives Matter painting directly on Main 
Street has only exacerbated racial tensions in a village where just over 
a fifth of the population is Black.


Many Black residents live in crumbling public housing, in de facto 
segregation from the pockets of rural retirees and transplanted 
Brooklynites, an experience so starkly different they say they might as 
well be living in two different towns.


And it has left some Black residents wondering: To Catskill, do they matter?

Ms. Cross, a supervisor at a shoe store in town, says she no longer 
feels there’s a place for her in the village she has lived in since she 
was 12. She is now looking to move. “I kind of gave up,” she said. “Even 
with my voice, I gave up.”


She spoke from a stoop where she lives in the Hop-O-Nose Homes, the 
public housing complex beside Catskill Creek, which runs southeast from 
the Catskill Mountains, emptying into the Hudson in the village.


Nearly 70 percent of residents in public housing are people of color, 
according to the Catskill Housing Authority; the housing complex is 
close to where the alternate location of the painting was proposed to go 
along Water Street.


The worn, low-slung red brick homes are just steps away but a world 
apart from the rapidly gentrifying main drag. There, a turmeric latte 
costs nearly $5, and “Black Trans Lives Matter” signs rest in the 
windows of shops, some grasped in the arms of luxury bathrobes.


Catskill has had a sizable Black population since at least the early 
1800s, when the village was a prominent Hudson River port; by the latter 
part of the century, local historians said, the village drew Black 
families from the South.


Nearly a century later, Catskill continued to attract Black residents, 
drawn in part by the construction of new public housing like Hop-O-Nose; 
in more recent years, a new wave of visitors from places like Brooklyn, 
lured by the scenery and cheap housing stock, has given the village a 
more trendy vibe.


“When you leave out of Hop-O-Nose, once you go out on Main Street, you 
see the Black Lives Matter signs 

[Marxism] A disabled black veteran drove through Alabama with medical marijuana. Now he faces 5 years in prison.

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Washington Post, July 14, 2020 at 7:23 a.m. EDT
A disabled black veteran drove through Alabama with medical marijuana. 
Now he faces 5 years in prison.

By Teo Armus

The first mistake that left Sean Worsley facing a five-year prison 
sentence was choosing to stop for gas in tiny Gordo, Ala. The next was 
blasting music at the pump loudly enough to catch the attention of a 
local police officer.


And the third error was letting Officer Carl Abramo, who said he smelled 
weed in Worsley’s car, to search the vehicle.


What was the worst that could happen? The marijuana in his back seat had 
been legally prescribed to him in Arizona. Worsley, an Iraq War veteran 
with a traumatic brain injury and PTSD, had used the substance for years 
to calm his nightmares and soothe his back pain.


Yet unbeknown to him, even his legal prescription was illegal in 
Alabama. The worst-case scenario was far more severe than Worsley could 
have ever imagined: a years-long legal fight that plunged him into 
homelessness, cost him thousands of dollars in legal fees, and recently 
concluded in a 60-month prison sentence.


“I feel like I’m being thrown away by a country I went and served for,” 
Worsley wrote in a letter from the Pickens County Jail to Alabama 
Appleseed, a criminal justice organization that recently published a 
detailed account of his case. “I feel like I lost parts of me in Iraq, 
parts of my spirit and soul that I can’t ever get back.”


Besides painting a damning picture of Alabama’s criminal justice system, 
Worsley’s tale underscores the wildly inconsistent legal landscape 
across states on marijuana. While recreational use of the drug is legal 
in 11 states and the District of Columbia and medicinal use is allowed 
in 33 jurisdictions, the substance is entirely banned in Alabama.


Not so in Arizona, where the substance has been legal for medical 
purposes since 2011. Worsley, a Purple Heart recipient who spent five 
years in the military, including a 14-month deployment to Iraq, used his 
legal prescription to relieve his short-term memory issues, depression 
and chronic pain, according to the Appleseed report.


Neither the Gordo Police Department nor Pickens County District Judge 
Lance Bailey immediately responded to phone calls requesting comment 
from The Washington Post. According to the Appleseed report, Abramo no 
longer works for the department, and attempts to reach him by The Post 
were unsuccessful.


In 2016, Worsley and his wife, Eboni, were driving from a visit to her 
family in Mississippi to surprise his own relatives in North Carolina. 
Driving along Highway 82, they stopped at a gas station outside 
Tuscaloosa, Ala., to refuel their car. Worsley played air guitar at the 
pump.


On Aug. 15, 2016, shortly after 11 p.m., Abramo heard loud music coming 
from a vehicle and “observed a Black male get out of the passenger side 
vehicle,” according to a police report obtained by Appleseed. “He was 
laughing and joking around and looking at the driver while doing all this.”


When Abramo told them their music was violating the noise ordinance in 
Gordo, a town of less than 2,000 people, they quickly turned it down. 
After the officer said he smelled marijuana, Worsley said he was 
disabled veteran and tried to show the officer his medical marijuana 
card from Arizona.


“I explained to him that Alabama did not have medical marijuana,” the 
police report said, according to Appleseed. “I then placed the suspect 
in hand cuffs."


In the back of the vehicle, Abramo also found a prescription bottle of 
marijuana, rolling papers, a pipe, a six-pack of beer, a bottle of 
vodka, and some pain pills, all of which he cited as reasons to arrest 
the couple. (It is illegal to possess most types of alcohol in Pickens 
County, which at the time was one of Alabama’s 23 partially dry counties.)


While first-time possession of marijuana is sometimes charged as a 
misdemeanor, according to the Appleseed report, it can be charged as a 
felony if the arresting officer believes the substance is for purposes 
“other than personal use.”


That’s what the Worsleys, who spent six days in jail, were charged with. 
After being released on bond, the couple’s legal nightmare seemed to be 
over.


But almost a year later, the bail bondsman called back with a dire 
message: The Pickens County judge was revoking bonds on all his cases. 
That meant they had to rush back from Arizona, he told the couple, or 
they would be charged with failing to appear in court.


They hustled and drove back overnight to Alabama, where the Worsleys 
were split up and taken to separate rooms for questioning — even though, 
as 

[Marxism] Canceling the Cancel Culture: Enriching Discourse or Dumbing it Down? - CounterPunch.org

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Re: [Marxism] (99+) (PDF) Academic Corruption, the Israel Lobby, and 9/11, or, Why I have resigned from my emeritus status at the University of Sussex | Kees Van der Pijl - Academia.edu

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It is obvious why many people believe the U.S. (and Israel) did 9/11: they
(and, re: Israel, their supporters) ruthlessly exploited the tragedy and
deaths to justify policies that came afterward. Those who exploit tragedies
will always be accused of fabricating them. That is also why I strongly
disagree with any suggestion that anyone who does choose to embrace such
theories, including Van Der Pjil, are "anti-Semites," as his university
suggested before firing him. Conspiracy theories of this nature are aimed
at the Israeli state and U.S. state. That they are ludicrous does not make
them racist. Indeed, the argument that such theories are anti-Semitic
because they resemble tropes that attribute power to Jews is
indistinguishable from similar propaganda about the Israel Lobby, etc. It
is another example of powerful states being subject to criticisms that
non-powerful actors do not deal with -- and pro-Israel propagandists
thereby conflating discussions of such power with anti-Semitic tropes.

As for why a serious political scientist would join the fray with such a
bizarre endorsement, it is another story entirely. He is clearly off his
rocker.

Amith R. Gupta


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>  To show how "sheltered" I am -- I never heard of this guy ---
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> I knew that there was some "scuttlebutt" in the Arab world that all Jews
> were told not to go to work On sept. 11, 2001 in the twin towers  (dont'
> the remember the "Israelis did it" part but that's logical ...given the
> first "fact")  and of course I know the 9-11 truthers who believe the Bush
> Administrataion orchestrated 9-11 (even one from an old friend of mind that
> the plane NEVER hit the Pentatgon -- that the "hole" was made by a missile
> --- who "photos" to prove it!!) ---
>
> I guess human capacity to convince themselves to believe what they want to
> believe is infinite!!
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> > Kees Van der Pijl goes out swinging.
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