[Marxism-Thaxis] TheGreenBeautiful

2010-01-31 Thread c b
I can't recommend this film enough. I would love to own it, but it's only available in the original French, and I'm not yet programmed to understand that language. The story centers on the people who live telepathically and in tune with nature. It begins with a call for volunteers for a trip

[Marxism-Thaxis] Rev. Jackson joins call for foreclosure moratorium

2010-01-31 Thread c b
Bottoms up ! CB ^^^ http://www.michigancitizen.com/default.asp?sourceid=smenu=1twindow=mad=sdetail=8262wpage=1skeyword=sidate=ccat=ccatm=restate=restatus=reoption=retype=repmin=repmax=rebed=rebath=subname=pform=sc=1070hn=michigancitizenhe=.com Rev. Jackson joins call for foreclosure

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:55:44 -0500 Ralph Dumain rdum...@autodidactproject.org writes: Looks like the real story to me. Notice the entry ends with Gerald Ford. Social liberalism was killed off during the Carter administration. The secret of all mysteries lies in the '70s. One of the ironies

[Marxism-Thaxis] NAACP Response to State of the Union address

2010-01-31 Thread c b
Response to State of the Union address: We cannot be silent By Benjamin Todd Jealous NNPA Guest Commentary President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address is a testimony to the power of we: We, who dared to dream breaking the centuries-old color barrier at the White House was possible; we,

[Marxism-Thaxis] involuntary acceleration hysteria

2010-01-31 Thread c b
http://pressroom.toyota.com/pr/tms/toyota/toyota-consumer-safety-advisory-102572.aspx?srchid=K610_p228906387 Frequently Asked Questions For Sticking Accelerator Pedal Recall and Suspension of Sales Which models are affected by the recall/stop sale? Toyota’s accelerator pedal recall and

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread Phil Walden
Dear Jim and list, Jim, I don't think this gets to the heart of what happened in the 1970s. You put it down to neo-liberalism, but neo-liberalism is merely a policy at the level of the State, and it is not an ontological change in the structure of capitalism. But there WAS a major change that

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread CeJ
even the richest and most powerful nation-state - the USA - became in the 1970s very much subordinate to the transnational capitalist corporations. The age of capitalist nation-states dictating their own national economic policy completely died in the 1970s. But that was the plan. An elite of

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread CeJ
I don't buy the 'Trotskyite' theories of their origins, but I do get that they were clustered around warhawk Demoncrat Scoop Jackson in the 1970s. Also, I don't necessarily agree with all of this analysis cited below, which cites Lind, who is cited all over the internet. Zbigniew Brezinzski would

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread CeJ
Getting around to more of the ancient mysteries of the 1970s and Reagan 80s. Operation Nickel Grass was a major sealift, too, with ultimately more moved by ship in order to re-supply the IDF. By the way, getting to end of the 1970s, the second oil shock was with the revolution in Iran, and the

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:16:17 +0900 CeJ jann...@gmail.com writes: JF: I don't think that it is any great mystery what happened in the 1970s. In the mid-1970s, we had the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. It became clear that the institutional framework which modern

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread CeJ
Last one, which I guess does support the idea that the neocons are a product of this loss of the liberal consensus (expand social programs, concede to some civil rights, and win the Cold War against the Soviet Union both with military might and better rhetoric about freedom, democracy, human

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread CeJ
1. In Japan, the history of the 1970s is often boiled down to these key events: Nixon Shock (that is actually shocks, i.e., currency, 10% tariffs on goods from Japan, and China), first oil shock, second oil shock. 2. About the Vietnam syndrome. Much misunderstood. It actually boils down to: war

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Setting the record straight

2010-01-31 Thread CeJ
I could also add that the top military leaders had two sources of doubt: 1. the high-tech weapons and reliance almost entirely on air power and its ability to drop bombs and missiles 2. the fighting coherence of the all-volunteer 'professional' military It's interesting how point 2 led to Abu