Bulletin N° 743
Subject
: The Designated Driver Approaching the Cliff.
March 18, 2017
[Anniversary of the
Paris Commne, March 18 to May 28,
1871]
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Why do fish swim? Why do birds fly? Why do capitalist accumulate
wealth? The answer to these questions is the same: Because
they can ! This seeming tautology offers in fact a profound understanding. They
do it, and will continue to do it, until they are prevented from doing it!
Saturn devouring
his children
--Francisco Goya
The
20 items below provide CEIMSA readers with a sober account of facts and
events which will change their lives and the lives of their families & friends, so “drink
deep or taste not of this Pierian Spring”.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor emeritus of
American Studies
University
Grenoble-Alpes
Director of Research
University of
Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced
Study of American Institutions and Social Movements
The University of
California-San Diego
a.
Planet
Will Burn Before Corporate Media Covers
Climate
Change as Existential Threat
Paul Jay says that the
elites and their corporate media are not dealing with the climate crisis with the
urgency it deserves because they think they will be ok and live by the
philosophy of 'to hell with what comes tomorrow'
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b.
The Dance of Death
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_dance_of_death_20170312
by Chris Hedges
The ruling
corporate elites no longer seek to build. They seek to destroy. They are agents
of death. They crave the unimpeded power to cannibalize the country and pollute
and degrade the ecosystem to feed an insatiable lust for wealth, power and
hedonism. Wars and military “virtues” are celebrated. Intelligence, empathy and
the common good are banished. Culture is degraded to patriotic kitsch.
Education is designed only to instill technical proficiency to serve the
poisonous engine of corporate capitalism. Historical amnesia shuts us off from
the past, the present and the future. Those branded as unproductive or
redundant are discarded and left to struggle in poverty or locked away in
cages. State repression is indiscriminant and brutal. And, presiding over the
tawdry Grand Guignol is a deranged ringmaster
tweeting absurdities from the White House.
The graveyard of
world empires—Sumerian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Mayan, Khmer, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian—followed
the same trajectory of moral and physical collapse. Those who rule at the end
of empire are psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants, the equivalents
of the depraved Roman emperors Caligula, Nero, Tiberius and Commodus. The ecosystem
that sustains the empire is degraded and exhausted. Economic growth,
concentrated in the hands of corrupt elites, is dependent on a crippling debt
peonage imposed on the population. The bloated ruling class of oligarchs,
priests, courtiers, mandarins, eunuchs, professional warriors, financial
speculators and corporate managers sucks the marrow out of society.
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c.
Wikileaks Julian
Assange Press Conference On
CIA Leaks
Video
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46636.htm
The WikiLeaks
founder addresses a range of issues including the CIA hacking and President
Trump's wiretapping claims.
Posted March 10,
2017
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d.
The
Conflict Within the Deep State Just Broke into Open
Warfare
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46630.htm
by Charles Hugh Smith
The battle raging in the Deep State isn't just a
bureaucratic battle--it's a war for the soul, identity and direction of the
nation.
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e.
The New rulers of The World
by John Pilger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfrL2DUtmXY
f.
Chinese
Telecom Giant Pays DoJ $892 Million Fine
for
Practices Trump Wants Legal For U.S. Firms
Bill Black says Trump
wants to gut the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to enable U.S. firms to engage
in corruption
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g.
Trump and The War Within the American Oligarchy
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18647:Trump-and-The-War-Within-the-American-Oligarchy
TRNN
senior editor Paul Jay discusses with Anton Woronczuk how
‘The Real News’ covers the Trump administration as well as the struggle
between those who want to
'reign in the excesses of capitalism' and those who want to destroy the
'administrative state'
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h.
Trump Supporters Call For Imprisoning Liberals at Phoenix Rally
In this
shocking video, Dan Cohen documents the toxic atmosphere of Trump's political
allies and most fervent supporters.
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i.
"A Day Without
a Woman" Goes Global
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18621:%22A-Day-Without-a-Woman%22-Goes-Global
Thousands of women demand social, racial and
economic equality in dozens of actions across the world
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j.
A Day Without
a Woman: Voices of Resistance from New York City's Women's Strike Rally
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/9/a_day_without_a_woman_voices
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k.
The Bushes Are Not America’s Friends
A lesson from two George Bushes: Never give the elite the benefit of the doubt
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46608.htm
by
Michael Scheuer
–“And thus the
community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the
attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall
be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the
liberties and properties of the subject.” John Locke, Second Treatise, Chapter 13
–“General
revolts and rebellions of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any
time. They were always provoked.” Edmund Burke, 1777
Sentiment is human weakness that always is an
obstacle to clear thinking, or at least it always is in my case. I have
always given George H.W. Bush and and George W. Bush
the benefit of the doubt because I thought both were patriots and decent men.
The former flew more than 50 combat missions during World War II, and the
latter seemed sadly trapped in, and manipulated by, a
nest of Neoconservative and Israel-First cretins. Since early in 2016, however,
I have come to see how stupid and blinding it is to let sentiment hide the
clearly visible truth that the Bushes are not America’s friends.
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l.
J
is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of
Deception
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46633.htm
by Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson,
author of the newly released J is for Junk Economics, says the media and academia use
well-crafted euphemisms to conceal how the economy really works.
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m.
David Stockman's Final Warning | Get Ready for a
bloodbath
(March 10, 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-h9zSkqQkE
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n.
Be Very Very Careful About the Stock
Market…Here’s Why
Richard Wolff, Mar 7, 2017
Big
Picture Interview: Professor Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays
on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work. Donald Trump is taking
credit for the record highs on Wall Street. But what's really behind the bull
market - and is a crash inevitable?
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o.
Trans-Forming
Baltimore
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18641:Trans-Forming-Baltimore
Executive Producer
Eddie Conway speaks with community organizers with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and
Transgender Community Center in Baltimore (GLCCB).
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p.
How Do We
Build a Movement?
If
this is the last century of capitalism, what will replace it?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46632.htm
by Pete Dolack
Politely walking into pens set up by police, shaking our
signs and gently dispersing will not build a movement serious about
root-and-branch change. Even the more militant demonstrations, in which people
— gasp! — actually take the streets in defiance of
authorities, both legal and NGO, are far from sufficient.
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q.
Qui protège les fascistes juifs ?
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/afps-association-france-palestine-solidarite/blog/130317/qui-protege-les-fascistes-juifs
13 mars 2017 Par AFPS
Association France Palestine Solidarité Blog
: Le blog de AFPS Association France Palestine Solidarité
par
Dominique Vidal
Journaliste et Ancien Rédacteur en chef adjoint
du Monde diplomatique
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r.
Assad: US Forces in Syria are
'Invaders'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46640.htm
Video
and Transcript
"Any
foreign troops coming to Syria without our invitation or consultation or
permission, they are invaders, whether they are American, Turkish, or any other
one," Assad said.
"And
we don't think this is going to help. What are they going to do? To fight ISIS? The Americans lost nearly every war. They
lost in Iraq, they had to withdraw at the end. Even in Somalia, let alone Vietnam in the past and Afghanistan,
your neighboring country. They didn't succeed anywhere they sent troops,
they only create a mess; they are very good in creating problems and
destroying, but they are very bad in finding solutions."
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s.
Israeli Army Vet’s Exposé - “I Was the
Terrorist”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46660.htm
(Video)
Abby Martin interviews
a former Israeli Army combat soldier who served as an occupier in Palestine’s
Hebron City.
Eran Efrati spent years as
a sergeant and combat soldier in the Israeli military, but has since become an
outspoken critic of the occupation of Palestine and Israeli apartheid.
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t.
How to Understand Globalization: Not
Nations, But Class
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18667:How-to-Understand-Globalization%3A-Not-Nations%2C-But-Class
We must adopt a class-based analysis of
globalization in order to attack the multilateral system that is producing
inequality, advises South Centre Chief Economist Yilmaz
Akyuz.