Bulletin N° 804
“THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE III”
https://123movies.mx/watch/the-madness-of-king-george-14900
(1hr.43mins.)
One minute delay before video begins.
Subject :
"The King wears no clothes !" : The Rape of Gaza as a Spectator
Sport.
8 June 2018
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
In his preface to the collection of thirty-eight
essays entitled The
Creative Process,” the editor, Brewster Ghiselin
(1903-2002), discusses the scientific anatomy of the human brain and the
writing of poetry, doing science, making music, and working in the plastic
arts. Ghiselin cites John Livingston Lowes’ book, The Road to Xanadu:
A Study in the Ways of the Imagination (1927),
in which Lowes (1867-1945) examined the sources of Samuel Coleridge's famous poems, The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, by
using Coleridge's notebook and other papers. Lowes put together a list of
books that the poet read before and during the time he composed his poems and
attempted to connect images and ideas in the poems to images and ideas in
Coleridge's copious readings. It was an early precursor to the deconstructionist effort to enter into
the poet’s mind and follow the process of creation in his writing. Lowes'
investigation into the origins of Coleridge’s creativity verges on the
mystical:
I have left two-thirds of the mass of entries in
the Note Book completely untouched. But the whole could not make clearer one
fact of profound significance for us. For there, in those bizarre pages, we
catch glimpses of the strange and fantastic shapes which haunted the hinterland
of Coleridge’s brain. Most of them never escaped from their confines into the
light of day. Some did, trailing clouds of glory as they came. But those which
did not, like the stars of the old astrology, rained
none the less their secret influences on nearly everything that Coleridge wrote
in his creative prime. [These works] . .
. are what they are because they are all subdued to the hues of that heaving
and phosphorescent sea below the verge of consciousness from which they have
emerged. No single fragment of concrete reality in the array before us is in
itself of such far-reaching import as in the sense of that hovering cloud of
shadowy presences. For what the teeming chaos of the Note Book gives us is the
charged and electrical atmospheric background of a poet’s mind.(p.23)
The editor of this small and dynamic book goes on
to compare Lowes’ description of the creative activity of the poet’s mind with
Dr. R. W. Gerard’s (1900-1974) description of the human nervous system. The
American neurophysiologist described the nervous system as an "energy field," and “a fluid whole, a
continual alteration
of flowing electrical patterns.”
Now with our discovery of a far more fluid nervous
system, one unceasingly active and with neural and electrical messages rippling
the whole into dynamic patterns, which flow from one contour to another as
present influences play upon the condition left by past ones – with such a
picture the arrival of new neural relationships is no great problem.(p.246)
And brain regions which are most active in
particular patterns - think of the nodes and internodes of crossed wave trains
– might well acquire, with repetition of these patterns, alterations which are
both more local and more enduring than the initiating disturbances. With such
regions located it will become practicable to look for the kind of change which
endures; change in chemical composition or metabolism, electrical potential or
resistance, cell structure or connection, or whatever it turns out to be when
found. The figure of a river and its bed, used so vividly by [Dr.] Chiki in picturing the general relation of structure and
function, is apposite here. The river carves its bed and the bed controls its
waters; only by their continual interplay can a particular system develop. The
spring floods are mass responses of the whole to environmental conditions and
are transitory dynamic patterns, yet they leave local and lasting changes.
Where the waters pile up most and the currents are swiftest – where the
activity disturbance is most extreme in a particular total situation, as the
potential fields in the occipital lobe on visual stimulation – there are
produced the washed-out banks or the undercut cliffs which determine the
river’s flow for decades to come – the concrete regional changes wherewith the
past directs the future, the basis of memory.(p.248)
In his preface to this collection of essays, Ghiselin suggests, somewhat paradoxically, that change is
constant and that it is the source of human stability. He uses a poem by William
Butler Yeats (1865-1939) to illustrate the universal nature of creativity and
the micro-politics of change.
The creative process is not only the concern of
specialists, however; it is not limited to the arts and to thought, but is as
wide as life. Or perhaps it would be more correct to say that invention in the
arts and in thought is a part of the invention of life, and that this invention
is essentially a single process. That view is made clear enough in Yeats’ poem,
“Long-Legged Fly,”
. . . . The minds of the artist Michelangelo, of Caesar the man of action, and
of the nameless girl whose movements are only the apparently trivial motions of
life at play are seen to be all in the same condition: their minds move upon
silence as the fly moves on the surface of a stream. They are brought into
relation, that is to say, with the freer and more plentiful activity which
transcends that of the schematic consciousness, the awareness which can be put
into words or formed into other systems of signs. They
are enlarged. It would not be correct to say that they have yielded to darkness
or disorder so long as they remain responsive to the needs of life, to the
pressures or tensions developing in the widened psychic activity in consequence
of human interests and need, including those interests and needs which are
unsatisfied in the experience organized by current insight. They have yielded
to a necessity inherent in their full psychic life.
This
self-surrender so familiar to creative minds is nearly
always hard to achieve. It calls for a purity of motives that is rarely
sustained except through dedication and discipline. Subordination of everything
to the whole impulse of life is easier for the innocent and ignorant because
they are not so fully aware of the hazards of it or are less impressed by them,
and they are not so powerfully possessed by convention. When their life is
strong in them they can sometimes surrender themselves to it without effort.
But shortly the girl in Yeats’ poem will notice that somebody is looking, and
then, unless she is very skilful and full of disastrous genius, she will sink
into convention.
Even when one has recognized the controlling center
of life as lying outside the ego and the preoccupations of conscious life and
has leaned to look away from these, submitting to its guidance may be
difficult. Some of the reasons why this is so need no further discussion. Much
of the difficulty comes of the slightness and the often doubtful character of
the means by which the guidance is asserted. The first intimations are likely
to be embodied in apparently trivial things, objects or experiences that in our
everyday life would seem to have little importance or none whatever. There are
two clues to their real importance: first, the disproportionate or even wholly
inexplicable satisfaction or excitement which they evoke in the creative
worker; and secondly, their power to open his mind inward upon the stir of its
own unorganized riches.
This is not to say that all that excites the mind
in this way will lead directly to creation. The desired new order implicit in
the stir of indeterminate activity cannot be seized in the abstract: it must
crystallize in terms of some medium in which the worker is adept. Without craft
it will escape.(pp.24-25)
Marx wrote in the early part of his life that
“philosophers have interpreted the word, but the point is to change it.” The
raw material of daily life as a whole is a confusing, chaotic, distracting,
illogical, and unmanageable mess. Most people rely on convention to understand
what is happening, thus securing a repetitious behavior in which, at best, they
learn hesitantly by trial-and-error. This uninspired way of life is protected
by predictable violence whenever “threatened” by new concepts which might
introduce a new Gestalt and initiate
structural changes in our thinking and behavior. For example, instead of the
top-down managed democracy which we now live under, there is good reason to
believe that the universal human need for creative labor and convivial living
conditions could be better realized by voluntary collective associations and
self-management. Cynical opportunists have perverted a so-called “democracy”
into a fake ideology of “human liberation.” In advanced capitalist nations, we
should re-appropriate Marx’s original analysis and replace the ideology of Neoliberalism
with a collective will for true Democratic
Socialism and thereby abolish the private profit motive by introducing the
goal of economic justice and social equality, thereby ending the vicious
cultural hegemony of domination/subjugation that serves as the bedrock of the
capitalist political economy around the world, both its structure and its
function . . . .
The 20 items below reflect the continuous
work that is being done to replace the barbaric episodes of capitalist violence
with rational structures that can support creative life in new ways. Those who
are now collaborating with the imperialist forces of repression and refuse to
stand up against this enemy should reexamine their cynical old habits of instrumentalist
thought and behavior and muster the courage to think once again with youthful
passion and commitment to resistance in the name of our collective humanity
with a future.
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.
From: "Mark Crispin Miller"
<markcrispinmiller@gmail.com>
To: "newsfromunderground"
<newsfromunderground@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, 7 June, 2018 11:29:42 PM
Subject: [MCM] URGENT! The nurses in Gaza need $80, to buy gauze
URGENT !
June 7, 2018
The
nurses in Gaza need $80, to buy gauze
Though it isn't making
headlines at the moment, Gaza is an ongoing humanitarian disaster,
with the medical teams at
work around the clock to care for all the wounded.
Right now they urgently
need $80, just for gauze.
Please support them via
the following link: www.youcaring.com/run
Or via this Paypal
account: eb.erouq@gmail.com
MCM
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b.
Richard D. Wolff Speech
2018
(Bad news for capitalism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhxWNOtUn90
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c.
Department Of Homeland Security
Compiles List Of All Bloggers, Journalists & "Social Media
Influencers"
by Tyler Durden
Many were
hoping that once Barack Obama was out of office we would see less of this Big
Brother surveillance nonsense, but instead it seems to be getting even worse.
+
What Principles and Values Rule the World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoQHh_WBXwg
+
Chomsky’s Talk at Olaf College on May 22n 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdyqaeKpu04
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d.
John Pilger And Roger Waters Support Vigils And Rallies
For Julian Assange
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49562.htm
by John Pilger
On 19 June 2018, it will be six
years since Julian Assange was forced to take refuge
in the Ecuadorean embassy in London. He had been warned that the US planned an
extradition warrant for his arrest. His 'crime' was that of a scrupulous editor
- WikiLeaks had revealed the war crimes of the US.
Today, Julian has never been more isolated, and his health is failing.
On Sunday 17 June, the SEP will
stage a rally for Julian in the heart of Sydney, Australia, his homeland.
This is backed by John Pilger, Roger Waters, Julian Burnside QC and Terry Hicks,
father of former Guantanamo prisoner, David Hicks. John Pilger
will address the rally from the steps of Sydney Town Hall, which starts at 1pm.
On Tuesday 19 June, there will be
a rally and vigil outside the Ecuadorean embassy in London,
beginning at 6pm. Other vigils will be held outside British embassies around the
world on the same day. In Dublin, Nobel Peace Prize winner Mariead
Maguire and members of the Irish parliament, Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, will
speak in support of Julian outside the British embassy.
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e.
Noam Chomsky Explains Exactly What's Wrong with
Libertarianism
https://www.alternet.org/noam-chomsky-explains-exactly-whats-wrong-libertarianism
Anarchism
"assumes that the burden of proof for anyone in a position of power and
authority lies on them," explains Chomsky.
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f.
MCM on the disappearance
of free speech, and the corruption of "the left," in the United
States today
https://thegarynullshow.podbean.com/e/the-gary-null-show-060418/
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Red
State Organizing in the Age of Trump
https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/red-state-organizing-in-the-age-of-trump/
by Vincent Emanuele
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g.
From: "The If
Americans Knew Team" <contact@ifamericansknew.org>
To: "FRANCIS FEELEY" <francis.feeley@u-grenoble3.fr>
Sent: Wednesday, 6 June, 2018 7:02:38 PM
Subject: Alison, IAK staff members, and others speak on two panels
streamed online June 8-9!
Like last year, the Left
Forum Conference in New York City has again rejected our panels for this June.
But our speakers refuse to be silenced. This year we are holding our conference
online.
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h.
The
Electronic Intifada
https://electronicintifada.net/
+
Extracts
from Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
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i.
From: "Mark
Crispin Miller" <markcrispinmiller@gmail.com>
To: "newsfromunderground"
<newsfromunderground@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 5 June, 2018 4:32:06 PM
Subject: [MCM] You can't deplore Jim Crow, apartheid, and/or the Warsaw
Ghetto, and not support the Palestinians in Gaza.
A Must-READ . . . .
MCM
JUNE 4, 2018
Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist
Hypocrisy
Photo by Jordi Bernabeu Farrús | CC BY 2.0
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/04/sacrificing-gaza-the-great-march-of-zionist-hypocrisy/
by JIM
KAVANAGh
The
Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian
identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and
unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt
to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental
right to
go home.” They have done
this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets
(children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s
unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any
means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these
incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays
and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western
liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
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j.
Finding the
truth amid Israel’s lies
https://electronicintifada.net/content/finding-truth-amid-israels-lies/24531
Great
sadness and suffering flooded the roads – convoy upon convoy of refugees making
their way [to the Lebanese border]. They leave the villages of their homeland
and the homeland of their ancestors and move to an alien, unknown new land,
full of troubles. Women, children, babies, donkeys – everyone is on the move, quietly
and sadly, to the north, without looking left or right.
A
woman cannot find her husband, a child cannot find his father … Everything that
can walk is moving, running away not knowing what to do, not knowing where they
are going. Many of their belongings are spread on the sideways; the more they
walk the more exhausted they become, they nearly cannot walk anymore – shedding
from the bodies everything they tried to salvage when they are on their way to
exile …
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k.
Russia's Putin and Israel's Netanyahu negotiate . .
. about what?
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/russias-putin-and-israels-netanyahu-negotiate-about-what
by Ann Garrison
“Russia
has friendly relations with Israel, and more than a million Russian Jews
emigrated to Israel, but Iran is a strategic ally of Russia.”
Last
week major state and corporate news outlets reported that Russian President
Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had met and agreed
on removing Iranian troops from Syria and/or Iran’s border with Syria. Then, on
June 3rd, Haaretz and other outlets reported that Israel had, for the
first time, participated in a NATO “exercise” near the Russian border. I spoke
to Rick Sterling, an investigative journalist specializing in Syria, about what
could be behind these reports.
Ann
Garrison: I’d like to go through some of these disparate reports about
Russia and Israel one by one, but first, what do you think of Israel’s first
ever participation in NATO war games near the Russian border?
Rick
Sterling: The head of NATO recently confirmed that NATO would NOT get into a
war involving Israel because Israel is not a NATO member. But Israel is a
“partner,” and in 2014 the US Congress designated Israel as a “major strategic
partner.” So I think Israel may be participating in the war maneuvers to
demonstrate that it’s a good partner. Of course, Russia sees the NATO military
exercises on its border as provocative. They are countering with their own
military exercises, so it’s just a continuation in the wrong direction away
from peace and mutual acceptance.
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l.
In First, Israel
Participates in Major NATO Exercise Near Russia
File photo: NATO's Saber Strike military
exercise in Orzysz, Poland.-/AFP
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/russia-nato-israel-in-major-nato-exercise-1.6140090
18,000 soldiers from 19 countries are participating in Saber Strike 18 drill in
NATO's eastern flank as Russia's military maneuvers are increasingly worrying
nearby NATO members
by Yaniv Kubovich and The Associated Press
A major U.S.-led military exercise with 18,000
soldiers from 19 primarily NATO countries has kicked off in the alliance's
eastern flank involving Poland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania. The U.S. Army Europe said Sunday the
Saber Strike 18 drill is spread around the region until June 15 as "a demonstration of the commitment and
solidarity of the Alliance" at the time when Russia's military maneuvers
are increasingly worrying nearby NATO members.
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m.
Diplomatic Humiliation As US Vetoes Resolution
on Protecting Palestinians
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49555.htm
by
ICH and Agencies
The
United States vetoed Friday a UN draft resolution calling for measures to
protect Palestinians after more than 100 were killed by Israeli fire during
protests at the Gaza fence.
Ten countries including China, France
and Russia voted in favor of the draft. Four countries - Britain, Ethiopia, the
Netherlands and Poland - abstained.
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n.
Nationalizing the Banks is a Popular Demand,
So Let’s Demand It
https://blackagendareport.com/nationalizing-banks-popular-demand-so-lets-demand-it
by Glen Ford
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o.
From: "Representative Barbara Lee" <Rep.Barbara.Lee@mail.house.gov>
To: "FRANCIS FEELEY" <francis.feeley@u-grenoble3.fr>
Sent: Wednesday, 6 June, 2018
Subject: Billionaires don't need more help. Families do.
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p.
In Unanimous Vote, House Says No Legal
Right to Attack Iran
(June 6, 2018)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49573.htm
by Marjorie Cohn
In a little noticed
but potentially monumental development, the House of Representatives voted
unanimously for an
amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 (H.R. 5515)
that says no statute authorizes the use of military force against Iran.
The amendment,
introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota), states, “It is the sense of
Congress that the use of the Armed Forces against Iran is not authorized by
this Act or any other Act.”
A bipartisan majority
of the House adopted the National Defense Authorization Act on May 24, with a
vote of 351-66. The bill now moves to the Senate.
If the Senate version
ultimately includes the Ellison amendment as well, Congress would send a clear
message to Donald Trump that he has no statutory authority to militarily attack
Iran.
This becomes
particularly significant in light of Trump’s May 8 withdrawal from the Iran
nuclear deal. That withdrawal was followed by a long
list of demands by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,
which could set the stage for a US attack on Iran.
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q.
Did CIA’s
Digital Innovation Directorate Do the ‘Russian
Hacking’?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49581.htm
Circumstantial evidence points in that direction, as Ray explains in
this 16-minute video.
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r.
The Absence of
Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49578.htm
by
Paul Craig Roberts
The
dissolution of the Soviet Union removed the constraint on Washington’s
unilateralism. The neoconservatives, who had just risen to power, seized the
opportunity and replaced diplomacy with threat and coercion. One infamous
example is from the George W. Bush regime when the Deputy Secretary of State,
Richard Armitage, told Pakistan to do as you are told
or you will be bombed into the stone age. We have this
on the authority of the president of Pakistan himself, who did as he was told.
In
the case of Russia during the Putin era, this level of threat is excessive as
Russia can bomb back. So the threat has been reduced to: do as you are told or
we will impose sanctions.
Sanctions
are an assertion of hegemony of one country over another. They are an assertion
that the imposer of sanctions has extra-legal international authority to tell
other sovereign states what to do or to suffer consequences if they do not.
Once
the constraint on Washington’s unilateralism was removed, sanctions became an
instrument of US foreign policy and replaced diplomacy. The Clinton regime used
them on Iraq. When the UN reported that the effect of the Clinton regime’s
sanctions on Iraq was the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children, Clinton’s Jewish
Secretary of State was asked by Lesley Stahl on the national TV program “60
Minutes” if the sanctions were worth the deaths of a half million children. Madeliene Albright said yes, “the price is worth it.” The
Jews feel the same way about the Palestinians. As the Palestinians’ country has
been stolen by Israel, what is the point of Palestinians? Killing them is Israel’s
answer. As one Israeli minister said, we are only doing what the Americans did
to the native Americans known as Indians. As America
shares this crime with Israel, little wonder that Washington always vetoes any
UN action against Israel for its crimes against the Palestinians. The two
criminal states stand united against the world.
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s.
Justice and Freedom For Julian Assange Mean Free
Speech For Us All
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49572.htm
by John Pilger
The
Courage Foundation announces an urgent campaign to support Julian Assange and demand his freedom. Keep an eye on our liveblog for updates.
This month,
it will be six years since Julian was forced to take refuge in the Ecuadorean
embassy in London. He had been warned; the US Department of Justice was likely
to file an application with Britain’s Home Office for his extradition to the
United States. The allegations against Julian and WikiLeaks in the US were
subsequently declared secret by a US District Court judge, but it has since
been confirmed that a grand jury in Virginia has concocted a number of possible
‘charges’ against the WikiLeaks founder.
The most
likely of these is ‘espionage,’ which harks back to a long-defunct First World
War law designed to punish conscientious objectors.
Julian is not
an American; neither has he ‘betrayed’ any state. His ‘crime’ has been free
journalism and publishing, which are protected under the US Constitution, a
document whose sanctity has apparently been jettisoned.
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t.
Deep Truth: Visionaries Speak Out
http://noliesradio.org/deeptruth
Live Video-Streamed Conference
June 8-10, 2018
Coming to you online live
from
all across the U.S., plus
Spain, Scotland, England and Russia.
See full schedule of panels and speakers below