[Marxism] White European French lives matter; Lebanese Muslim ones, not so much
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. * From my blog: Here's a translation of the U.S. Government statement into the vernacular: "Go f*ck yourselves you towel-headed sand nrs. We're glad you got bombed." Full: http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2015/11/white-european-french-lives-matter.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Why is the Spanish-language media boycotting Bernie Sanders?
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. * From my blog, Hatuey's Ashes Major Spanish language media in the United States are extensively covering Hillary Clinton and other mainstream political figures but almost completely ignoring news about Bernie Sanders. An underfinanced, crotchety old Senator from a tiny, virtually all-white state, with no national organization or a single significant endorsement, who (in the United States!) proclaims himself a socialist, no less, mounts his horse, picks up his lance, and rides off to tilt at windmills, thinking they are giants. And the giants start to fall. Ignored by the mainstream media and even the "progressive" outlets, his message spreads nonetheless. People come out by the thousands to hear and cheer him. The campaign raises millions from donations that average less than $50. Yet a study of the web sites of the five most important Spanish-language news outlets in the United States --two TV networks and three daily newspapers-- reveals a lopsidedness that is impossible to justify except as an expression of systematic and generalized bias on the part of journalists and editors. http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2015/09/don-quijote-sanders-and-spanish-media.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina is about to fall
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. * The political crisis in Guatemala just went from critical to full meltdown. On Friday the attorney general, accompanied by the head of a UN-sponsored commission against corruption in Guatemala, announced that former vice-president Roxana Baldetti had been arrested and was being held pending trial on corruption charges. Baldetti had resigned in May following the discovery of a fraud network in customs known as La Linea. But the Attorney General also announced that it was asking for pre-trial proceedings against President Otto Molina Perez to strip him of immunity from prosecution. The evidence showed, she said, that he was the head of La Línea. On Friday afternoon, the leaders of the main business associations demanded Pérez Molina resign; on Saturday, three cabinet members and three vice-ministers resigned and thousands of people gathered in Guatemala City to demand the president's resignation. On Sunday the Archbishop of Guatemala joined in the popular outcry saying the majority of Catholics --the country's largest religious group-- wanted the president gone. Various student, peasant, and worker organizations have announced protests for the coming days demanding Otto Perez's resignation. The president hasn't been seen since shortly after the attorney general's announcement. In response to a habeas corpus petition filed on the president's behalf, a judge went at mid-day Sunday to his residence. People there told her that Perez Molina was not there and that they could give her no information on his whereabouts. Even before the latest revelations, a motion to strip Perez of immunity had received a majority of the votes in Congress the previous week, but not the two-thirds majority necessary for approval. Guatemala is scheduled to have presidential elections in two weeks in which Perez Molina was trying to get himself re-elected. A coalition of some 70 groups headed by the powerful Comité de Unidad Campesina (CUC), an organization of indigenous peasants, has announced a three-day strike starting Tuesday demanding cancellation of the illegitimate, illegal and fraudulent elections. The deepening crisis is bound to have an impact in neighboring Honduras, where for 14 weeks there have been weekly Marchas de las Antorchas (March with Torches) by people calling themselves indignados (meaning those who are outraged, which is also how participants in occupy-type movements in Mexico, Spain and other countries referred to themsleves). The Honduran indignados are demanding the resignation of the president in the wake of the looting of the country's social-security funds and the creation of a UN-sponsored International Commission Against Corruption in Honduras like the one operating in Guatemala. If anything, the Honduras government is even weaker than the one in Guatemala, since it is the bastard child of the 2009 coup against Manuel Zelaya carried out with the cooperation and back-handed support of the Obama administration which officially claimed to oppose it. In both countries powerful criminal gangs fed by superprofits from the drug trade have penetrated all spheres of society including the government and the police. It is a situation similar to that in some parts of Mexico, like the state of Guerrero, where 43 students from a teachers college were kidnapped by the Iguala police who were said to be acting on behalf of local crime bosses, including the mayor from the leftist Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) and his wife. In El Salvador the political situation is different and the government seems to be more stable, but an escalating war against two U.S.-originated mafias, the Mara Salvatrucha and Calle 18, are sinking the country into a bloodbath unseen since the civil war in the 1980s. In the week that started last Sunday, August 16, at least 246 people were killed, an average of 35 a day. The number of homicides has been steadily growing for a year, since a truce with the cartels established under the previous government fell apart. To get an idea of the magnitude of the bloodbath, remember that El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America, with a land area and population comparable to that of metro Atlanta, where I live. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] A devastating satire attacks Mexico's political class and media elite
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. * La Dictadura Perfecta (The Perfect Dictatorship) is what Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa once called Mexico, and that is what Director Luis Estrada has called his savage attack on Mexico's media elite and political class. Anyone who has followed Mexico for the past few years will immediately recognize the truth of the disclaimer at the beginning of the film: In this story, all the names are fictional. The events are suspiciously real. Any likeness or similarity to reality is not merely a coincidence. If, after seeing the film, you doubt the things in it could be true, remember that, shortly after arriving in 1938, Andre Breton commented, Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world. And after leaving Salvador Dalí swore never to come back: Under no circumstances will I return to Mexico. I cannot bear to be in a country more surreal than my own paintings. So even if you haven't followed Mexican events at all --and most Americans can't, the country is simply not covered by the English-language press--, this film is an entirely enjoyable and rollicking albeit very dark comedy. Just know that *everything* in it --down to the future president being essentially the creation of a TV network and then marrying its top soap opera star-- is taken directly from real life. My full blog post on La Dictadura Perfecta is here: http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/ _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Lawyers, psychologist-torturers, and the heart of darkness of this tale
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. * The American Psychological Association has now made public the law firm report it commissioned confirming that group's complicity with Pentagon and CIA torture programs, as well as the duplicity and manipulations by top APA leaders to enable and protect this criminal conduct by its members. But the report itself pulls its punches, even refusing to call torture by its right name, and turning a blind eye to what should have been its central conclusion, that the association should disband, because one group cannot represent those who seek to practice psychology as a healing art and those who would use their knowledge against the interests of those they study. My take on this at Hatuey's Ashes:The horror is not the monstrous criminality of the APA's leaders, but the very pedestrian venality that made it possible -- and that also led to the emasculation of the report we have before us. Full: http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2015/07/lawyers-and-psychologist-torturers.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] NBC botches a simple curtain-raiser for the Mexican midterm elections
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. * What an article! Calls a state a region. Says a small settlement within that state is another region. Gets the place where police kidnapped and disappeared 43 students from a training institute for rural teachers wrong. Uncritically accepts government alibi to shift the blame for this crime onto drug traffickers. Gets the first name of the of the head of the National Electoral Institute wrong and says he is the INE's spokesperson instead of its president. So much ignorance in only 300 words! http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2015/06/nbc-botches-simple-curtain-raiser-for.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Hatuey's Ashes: Black woman faces terrorism charges for Facebook post
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. * The American police state: Woman arrested as terrorist, banned from social media for Facebook post Full: http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-american-police-state-woman.html She is a Black woman who wrote an outraged Facebook post on police killings of Black people. Federal, state and local cops, prosecutors and judges conspired and combined to trample her rights and defame her as a terrorist, even threatening to keep her in jail is she didn't stop posting. Just another day in the American Police State. _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Argentina: dead prosecutor was U.S. stooge
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. * Condolences for dead prosecutor who accused Argentine president should be sent to the White House There is atremendous http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/23/opinion/ghitis-argentina-nisman/ press http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-23/cristina-kirchner-rewrites-alberto-nisman-murdercampaign http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/11354521/Argentine-prosecutor-who-accused-Cristina-Kirchner-over-1994-bombings-found-dead.htmlagainst the government of Argentina over the violent death of a prosecutor who was filing charges against the country's president. But an important fact missing from the press coverage is thatthe Wikileaks cableshttp://www.ambito.com/noticia.asp?id=775249from four years ago show that Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor in the investigation of the 1994 terrorist bombing of AMIA, the Argentine-Israel Mutual Association,in fact reported to and took instructions from the U.S. embassy. http://www.radionacional.com.ar/?p=43081 And the way the U.S. press is covering this should tell any seasoned reporter that the United States is still very much involved in what is happening. http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2015/01/condolences-for-dead-prosecutor-who.html _ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] Time to totlly feak out: two Facebook posts on Ebola
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. * The following were status posts on the Facebook account of my real-world alter-ego, Jose G. Perez. The first is from Sunday the 26th. The second from today, Wednesday the 29th. What moved me to send them to this list were posts here comparing the impact of an Ebola pandemic to the plague. The plague may have set European civilization back decades or centuries, but I think an Ebola pandemic would have qualitatively different results. Today there can be no talk of European civilization, but only of human civilization. And I think anything on the scale of the plague, or even within an order of magnitude or so, will not mean a setback to current human civilization, but its collapse. The current population density of the urban areas of industrialized nations and those countries' ratio of food consumers to food producers cannot be sustained in he face of Ebola or another pandemic EBOLA: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ISN'T REPORTING THE REAL REASON IT IS TIME TO TOTALLY FREAK OUT That reason is, quite simply, that 11 weeks after the World Health Organization said there was an international public health emergency, the epidemic is growing worse, spreading geographically with the virus infecting increasing numbers of people. And our politicians in the United States are not rallying people to support an all-out fight against Ebola. Instead they are whipping up a hysteria with an eye to the November congressional and gubernatorial elections. But if an all-out push isn't made to stop Ebola RIGHT NOW these may be our last mid-term elections. The human race will survive an Ebola pandemic, but I can't imagine how modern civilization could. Nor, if it allows such a catastrophe, why it should. On the African epidemic, the attention is all on the total number of cases, now more than 10,000, and of deaths, which had almost reached 5,000 as of the last report. But the most important figure to look at is the number of *new* cases being reported. The World Health Organization's Ebola Response Roadmap Situation Report 1, says that as of August 25, there has been 3,052 cases, but nearly half, 1,355 had been reported over the previous 21 days, for an average of 452 a week. Four weeks later, the number of cases had doubled and of deaths nearly so, but so had the number of new infections in the previous three weeks. And the most recent weekly report, number 8, gave a figure for new cases in the previous seven days of 976, the highest weekly number yet. That is a rate of increase in NEW cases of 14% a week. And although almost all of the increase was in the first four reports, the number of new cases keeps going up, and the areas affected by the epidemic in the three countries keeps growing. In Sierra Leone, for the first time every one of the country's 14 districts had new cases in the latest report week. Liberia had the highest number of new cases in four weeks. Much, much more needs to be done. We have not yet taken the first step in turning the tide, which is REDUCING the number of new cases each week and reducing the number of outbreaks. Yet attention in the U.S. is narcissistically focused on the couple of cases here, while politicians pretend that the United States can be isolated from the epidemic through demagogic quarantines that health experts say are unnecessary and only make things worse by punishing brave doctors and nurses who go to the front lines to fight the epidemic where it needs to be fought: in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. If the numbers from the World Health Organization don't freak you out, the response of the American political class should. * * * LATEST REPORT SUGGESTS NEW EBOLA CASES HAVE INCREASED TO 1,000 OR MORE A WEEK The latest Ebola response roadmap situation report has come in from the World Health Organization, and the news only keep getting worse. As of the the October 22 report, there had been 9,911 cases; there are now 13,676 reported, an increase of almost 40% in one week. Not to worry, WHO's scribblers assure us: The marked increase in the cumulative total number of cases compared with the situation report of 22 October results from a more comprehensive assessment of patient databases. The additional 3 792 cases have occurred throughout the epidemic period, not only since 22 October. In other words, the epidemic didn't get that much worse, it had been much worse all along, but the institution in charge of the fight against it is just now figuring it out. Great. Very reassuring indeed. But there is even worse news in the details of the main chart, the one in the Countries with Widespread
[Marxism] Train wreck -- burning
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == [If the picture and formatting don't show up, you might want to go to my blog, where this post might appear more fully: http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html] That's the Palacio de Gobierno, the seat of the government in the State of Guerrero, Mexico, in flames late Monday afternoon. Behind these were flames that sear, not the flesh, but the soul. On September 26, cops from the city of Iguala massacred students from a nearby heavily-indigenous rural teacher's college. Six people were killed, dozens wounded, and 43 students were arrested and vanished ... disappeared. Also vanished are Iguala's mayor, who told radio interviewers shortly before going on the lam that he knew nothing of the events until reading about it in the newspapers, since he had been at a dance that night; the mayor's wife, honoree at the festivities and sister to four former capos of the Beltrán Leyva cartel and founding leaders of its successor, Guerreros Unidos. Also not to be found are the owners of the main movie theater, the supermarket, the shopping mall, the jewelry store and many other Iguala businesses. But that is not so surprising once you realize that they share a name that appears time and again on title deeds and incorporation papers: namely and to wit, the name of the honorable mayor. The chief of police is also gone, albeit he is not the same person as the mayor, only an accomplice. Also an accomplice is the governor of the state of Guerrero, who not only is not a fugitive, but refuses to resign his position. The picture above captures the reaction of the population to his demurral. The Iguala massacre will go down in history with the Tlatelolco massacre of hundreds of students in 1968 as one of the greatest crimes of Mexico's rulers. And the country's political class has followed its usual pattern of pretending nothing has happened: President Enrique Peña Nieto said it was a local matter and it took him nine days, until Monday October 6, before he could bring himself to take even a smidgen of responsibility, and that only after mass graves with the charred remains of 28 persons were found. He spoke again on Friday the 10th, two weeks after the massacre and after more clandestine graves were found. “En un Estado de Derecho no cabe la impunidad, he thundered, which means, under the rule of law, there is no place for impunity. He did not, however, explain what such idyllic cliches have to do with Mexico, as the mayor of Iguala --his whereabouts still unknown-- nevertheless managed to get a judge to issue an injunction against the mayor being arrested or questioned. From my perch as co-host of an Atlanta Spanish-language talk radio show with a mostly Mexican audience, watching these events unfold over the past two-and-a-half weeks, has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion. President Peña Nieto seems to think the whole thing can still be papered over with a few phrases promising to punish those responsible, now that his explanations of the division of responsibility between federal and state authorities has failed to satisfy. But watching the TV news videos of the burning Palacio de Gobierno only keeps pushing through my mind part of a song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00G1mS_fGWAfeature=youtu.bet=6m12s I first heard sometime in high school, nearly a half century ago. /Down on our knees we're begging you please,// //We're sorry for the way you were driven.// //There's no need to taunt just take what you want,// //and we'll make amends, if we're living.// //But away from the grounds the flames told the town// //that only the dead are forgiven.// //As they crumbled inside the ringing of revolution. /Joaquín/ / Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
[Marxism] New Blog: Hatuey's Ashes
== Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. == Finally decided to do it. http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2014/09/about-this-blog-and-hatuey.html http://hatueysashes.blogspot.com/2014/09/are-none-of-us-spics-fit-to-print-in-ny.html Two posts only so far. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
