Bulletin N° 832
“The Un-Americans”
BBC Timewatch (c)1992
(Produced by
Archie Baron)
Part 1/3 - https://youtu.be/Zm6Em75Uhf4 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm6Em75Uhf4
Part 3/3 - https://youtu.be/d0PfbuqfSVs
+
"McCarthyism in America"
Subject
: The war against labor: creating a submissive
population through the violent use of technology and propaganda.
30 January 2019
Grenoble,
France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
In
his seminal study, Surveiller et punir, naisance de la prison,
Michel Foucault is describing more than the origins of the modern prison
system. Over the decades since the publication of this book in 1975, the
security industry has developed qualitatively different technologies, and
societies at large are now evolving to resemble life in the Gaza Strip. Foucault
concluded, at the end of this study, with a warning for the future of class-divided
society:
S’il y a un enjeu politique d’ensemble autour de la
prison, ce n’est donc pas de savoir si elle sera correctrice ou pas ; si
les juges, les psychiatres ou les sociologues y exerceront plus de pouvoir que
les administrateurs et les surveillants ; à la limite, il n’est même pas
dans l’alternative prison ou autre chose que la prison. Le problème
actuellement est plutôt dans la grande montée de ces dispositifs de
normalisation et toute l’étendue des effets de pouvoir qu’ils portent, à
travers la mise en place d’objectivités nouvelles.(p.313)
[If there is an overall political
issue around the prison, it is not therefore whether it is to be corrective or
not, whether the judges, the psychiatrists or the sociologists are to exercise
more power in it than the administrators or supervisors; it is not even whether
we should have prison or something other than prisons. At present, the problem
lies rather in the steep rise in the use of these mechanisms of normalization
and the wide-ranging powers which, through the proliferation of new
disciplines, they bring with them.]
Science vs. Technology.
The
difference between ideology (or cultural bias) and
true scientific thought is not found in the binary “true or false” dichotomy of
positivist science. Rather, for true
scientific inquiry, the larger question concerns “more or less,” (i.e. what gets
included and what remains excluded). While true scientific thought attempts to
maximize the realm of an inclusive systemic understanding of dynamic
relationships, ideology offers only a partial understanding, usually
deliberately constructed in pursuit of a goal, thus falling under the rubric
of technology rather than science. Strategies and tactics (in activities such as war, love, and business) belong to
the realm of ideology and technique; while scientific thought includes careful
observation, precise generalizations, and logical constructions which are independent of
cultural prejudices. (It is the difference, for example, between the Nazi
seizure of power in Germany 1933 – which was orchastated from the top down - and the
Russian Revolution in 1917 – which was instigated from the bottom up, or again between the pages in Mein Kampf and those found in
State and Revolution.) While
scientific objectivity is by no means absolute (no one can completely escape
the social/cultural biases of his/her existence), the willingness to engage in
careful observations and to formulate and test theories and hypotheses derived
from such observations usually requires some effort of conscious detachment
from the mundane influences of everyday life. This willingness to imagine the
“unimaginable” and to plunge into the unknown is the sine qua non
of scientific thought. But there is more to it, as well . . . .
Scientific
production exists as an integral part of the wider realm of cultural
activities; the scientist is specialized in a field of study and at the same
time is part of various communities. Like other cultural producers - poets,
artists, musicians, etc... - the scientist must remain
cognizant of the effect her/his activities have on human society and on the
environment upon which society depends. This ethics of remaining in a symbiotic
relationship to the rest of mankind, of not contributing to the destruction of
humanity and its environment, is a first
principle for all cultural activities, including science; and a code of
ethics must be laid out in advance to hold accountable anyone who violates this
principle. Of course, such judgments are open to interpretation and here is
where the inevitable dynamic of class struggle enters. Just who will be the participates of this Truth Commission, and in whose
interests will activities be judged as "a danger to society"? Can we rely
on ethical judgments emanating from capitalist class
interests? [For a discussion of ethics in the scientific works of Fritz Haber
in WW I and Albert Einstein in WW II, see CEIMSA Bulletin N° 780 & N° 785.] These are
political questions which lie at the foundation of our civilization; they will determine
the possibilities of our continued existence on earth.
The 15 + items below offer readers a look at some of the events which are shaping our future, the stuff that we must recognize, confront and carefully examine if we are to overcome the great challanges that the late capitalist debacle has produced in the daily lives of all of us.
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.
"CALL FOR AN UNLIMITED GENERAL
STRIKE”
(February 5, 2019)
+
“Where’s My Roy Cohn?”: Film
Explores How Joseph McCarthy’s
Ex-Aide Mentored Trump & Roger Stone
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/28/wheres_my_roy_cohn_film_explores
===========
b.
January 25, 2019
Watch
14th Vigil for Assange Here at 4PM EST Today
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/25/watch-14th-vigil-for-assange-here-at-4pm-est-today/
As Julian Assange’s lawyers filed a
petition with the Inter-American Court for Human Rights and WikiLeaks
is mentioned in a new Mueller indictment unveiled Friday, join us live for an
online discussion starting at 4pm.
Tune in at 4 pm. Guests will include Peter B. Collins, John Kiriakou, Brian Becker, Ian Shilling,
Ambassador Tony Kevin, Ray McGovern, Margaret Kimberly, Ann Garrison and more.
===========
c.
Climate
Change Video
+
Climate
Change Is a Public Health Emergency
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/climate-change-is-a-public-health-emergency/
by Ploy Achakulwisut
Here
are eight reasons why.
+
“Everything is Melting Everywhere” –Arctic Warming
Exponentially Faster Than Rest of Planet
===========
d.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Friday, 25 January, 2019
Subject: [MCM] Here's how much the US government respects democracy
Overthrowing
other people’s governments: The Master List
By William Blum
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to
overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (*
indicates successful ouster of a government)
- China 1949 to
early 1960s
- Albania 1949-53
- East Germany
1950s
- Iran 1953 *
- Guatemala 1954 *
- Costa Rica
mid-1950s
- Syria 1956-7
- Egypt 1957
- Indonesia 1957-8
- British Guiana
1953-64 *
- Iraq 1963 *
- North Vietnam
1945-73
- Cambodia 1955-70
*
- Laos 1958 *,
1959 *, 1960 *
- Ecuador 1960-63
*
- Congo 1960 *
- France 1965
- Brazil 1962-64 *
- Dominican
Republic 1963 *
- Cuba 1959 to
present
- Bolivia 1964 *
- Indonesia 1965 *
- Ghana 1966 *
- Chile 1964-73 *
- Greece 1967 *
- Costa Rica
1970-71
- Bolivia 1971 *
- Australia 1973-75
*
- Angola 1975,
1980s
- Zaire 1975
- Portugal 1974-76
*
- Jamaica 1976-80
*
- Seychelles
1979-81
- Chad 1981-82 *
- Grenada 1983 *
- South Yemen
1982-84
- Suriname 1982-84
- Fiji 1987 *
- Libya 1980s
- Nicaragua
1981-90 *
- Panama 1989 *
- Bulgaria 1990 *
- Albania 1991 *
- Iraq 1991
- Afghanistan
1980s *
- Somalia 1993
- Yugoslavia
1999-2000 *
- Ecuador 2000 *
- Afghanistan 2001
*
- Venezuela 2002 *
- Iraq 2003 *
- Haiti 2004 *
- Somalia 2007 to
present
- Honduras 2009 *
- Libya 2011 *
- Syria 2012
- Ukraine 2014 *
Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in
Washington?
A: Because there’s no American embassy there.
+
Mass Mobilization to Oppose NATO, War &
Racism
Protest NATO, Washington, DC, Lafayette Park
(across from the White House)
1 PM Saturday, March 30, 2019.
Additional actions will take place on
Thursday April 4 at the opening of the NATO meeting
+
Watch
"Paul Craig Roberts Breaks Down What To Expect in
2019"
===========
e.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Saturday, 26 January, 2019
Subject: [MCM] US squaring off against Russia/China over Venezuela's oil
and gold
The American Empire Pivots Toward
Venezuela
https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2019/01/24/the-american-empire-pivots-toward-venezuela/
by Michael Krieger
Many people are coming to quick takes on yesterday’s
extraordinary decision by the U.S. government to recognize an unelected
opposition leader as interim President of Venezuela based on their view of Maduro and his government. Similar to the emotional
responses to those first clips of the Covington students and Nathan Phillips,
such superficial opinions feel good and confirm biases, but don’t tell you much
about what’s really going on. From my seat, the move by the Trump
administration to choose the leader of Venezuela by diktat is just straight up
imperial geopolitics. Nothing more, nothing less.
A month ago, I reassessed my geopolitical assumptions in the
post, Is U.S. Geopolitical Strategy
Experiencing a Monumental Shift? In it, I detailed how U.S.
foreign policy seemed to be shifting toward a focus on containing China, which
would lead to a far more serious confrontation between the world’s number one
and number two economies.
I’ve now seen enough to seriously consider that we may be
entering an entirely new geopolitical environment dominated by vastly increased
tensions between the U.S. and China. If so, it will likely last a lot longer
than you think as leaders in both China in the U.S. will be looking for a
scapegoat as their crony, financialized economies
struggle under unpayable debt and unimaginable levels
of corruption.
With the attempt to push Russia back in Syria a clear failure, the
neocons in Trump’s administration quickly got to work
on their next scheme. Enter Venezuela.
+
Russiagate “Collusion” is a “Crock”
https://blackagendareport.com/russiagate-collusion-crock
(audio)
with Ray McGovern
+
Congresswoman who fixed Democratic primary for Clinton
now ‘fixing’ democracy in Venezuela
Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (L) introduces Democratic presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton, August 9, 2016. ©REUTERS / Chris Keane
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/449686-debbie-schultz-fixing-venezuela/
Regime
change and foreign interventions are things that the two US ruling parties
agree on regardless of how much they exchange blows at home. Venezuela is the
latest place where Republicans and Democrats have found common ground.
If
you watch the US media, you know what is happening in Venezuela: Dictator
Nicolas Maduro is brutally suppressing the people he
has been robbing for years, and now they have revolted and elected a true
representative of their interest, the one true legitimate acting president Juan
Guaido. And now it’s up to America to ‘fix’ democracy
by whatever means necessary.
The
House Foreign Affairs Committee has even offered a simple explanation on how a
‘dream team’ of Democrats have prepared a package of laws, which will ensure
Venezuela’s transition into a better future. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
will be bringing humanitarian aid, Donna Shalala will stop the arming of Maduro’s thugs with batons and tear gas, while Debbie
Wasserman Schultz gets arguably the hardest task of them all –
taking on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
+
Official convicted over Iran-Contra scandal
appointed to help
'restore democracy'
in Venezuela
Elliott
Abrams withheld information from Congress over secret funding of paramilitaries
+
Adversary
Russia
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/adversary-russia/
by
Andrew
Levine
+
Watch
"Noam Chomsky on RussiaGate"
+
George Galloway censured over Salisbury poisoning
claims
George Galloway breached
broadcasting impartiality rules when he used his radio show to cast doubt on
Russian involvement in the poisoning of Yulia and
Sergei Skripal in Salisbury last year,
according to media regulator Ofcom.
+
N.Y. Times Story Just Accidentally Shredded the Russiagate Hysteria
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50963.htm
by Lee Camp
Every once in a while, one of those stories comes along that
makes the mainstream corporate media look like a bunch of middle-school kids
filming their “news show” on an iPhone with their
neck ties crooked. Recently, one of those stories splashed down into the middle
of our cultural zeitgeist like a small meteor landing in the middle of an elite
dinner party.
It made our mass media pundits look like hardened fools. But
they have kept spouting their nonsense anyway, hoping no one notices the soup
dripping down their faces.
But to talk about that, I have to talk about this: Last month
we finally got to see the Senate report spelling out the Russian meddling in
our last election. And it was a bombshell. It rocked the heart of our country.
It shredded the inflamed mucousy core of our
palpitating democracy.
As Dan Cohen reported for the Grayzone
Project, the
report said that “…everything from the Green Party’s Jill Stein
to Instagram to Pokemon Go
to the African American population had been used and confused by the deceptive Facebook pages of a private Russian troll farm called the
Internet Research Agency.”
+
Pompeo urges countries to 'pick a
side' on Venezuela
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50979.htm
by Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on countries at the United Nations on
Saturday to “pick a side” on Venezuela, urging them to back Venezuelan
opposition leader Juan Guaido and calling for free
and fair elections as soon as possible.
Pompeo was addressing the 15-member U.N. Security Council, which
met at his request after Washington and a string of countries in the region recognized Guaido as head
of state and urged Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
to step down.
“Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side. No
more delays, no more games. Either you stand with the forces of freedom, or
you’re in league with Maduro and his mayhem,” Pompeo told the council.
“We call on all members of the Security Council to support
Venezuela’s democratic transition and interim President Guaido’s
role in it,” he said.
+
Venezuela - Trump's Coup Plan Has Big Flaws
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50980.htm
by Moon Of Alabama
+
Former UN Rapporteur: US Sanctions Against Venezuela
Causing Economic and Humanitarian Crisis
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50998.htm
by Staff
A former United Nations rapporteur
has criticised the US for engaging in “economic
warfare” against Venezuela which he claimed was the real reason for the
economic and humanitarian crisis facing the country.
Alfred de Zayas, who last year
became the first UN rapporteur to visit Venezuela for
21 years, also suggested in his recently published UN report, that US sanctions
on the country are illegal and could amount to “crimes against humanity” under
international law.
Mr De Zayas, an American lawyer,
writer, historian and former secretary of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),
presented his Venezuela report to the HRC in September.
In the report, which can be read in full here, Mr
De Zayas recommended, among other actions, that the
International Criminal Court investigate economic sanctions against Venezuela
as possible crimes against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute.
In the report conclusions Mr De Zayas, who is an expert in the fields of human rights and
international law, went on to say the solution to the Venezuelan crisis lay
"in good faith negotiations between the Government and the opposition, an
end to the economic war, and the lifting of sanctions."
The US imposed sanctions against Venezuela began in 2015
under President Barack Obama and have intensified under Donald Trump.
===========
f.
From:
"ana hona" <anahona366@gmail.com>
Sent:
Friday, 25 January, 2019 2:49:09 AM
Subject:
He witnessed the suffering of the wounded in the Gaza Strip who were shot by
the Israeli occupation forces
Hi
dear
Here
I send you a video of some of the wounded marchers returning who were injured
over a 9-month period of peaceful demonstration east of the Gaza border. Israel
has hit these young people and children with very serious injuries, which
continue to be treated for more than two years for the depth of the wounds and
the detonation of bones.
This
is a Facebook video I could not post here
https://www.facebook.com/amal.arafa.3304/videos/307668320093577/?t=0
This
is a video of a child whose leg is amputated but he is being treated within the
United States and an artificial foot has been installed for him
https://www.facebook.com/amal.arafa.3304/videos/307667833426959/?t=0
I
am sorry that I am disturbed by this mail, but you must know the truth we live
in and our ongoing suffering without you. We cannot do anything for these
people.
Please
be with our hearts and thank you
You
can help us through the following link
https://fundrazr.com/71RNh0?ref=ab_27HuG0
+
Palestinian man shot dead during settler violence in
West Bank
A 38-year-old man, shot in the back during
a confrontation with Israeli soldiers and settlers, succumbed to his wounds.
9 hours ago
+
IDF
edited out key footage of deadly Gaza missile strike, researchers say
https://972mag.com/deadly-gaza-strike-idf-edited-footage/139316/
by Oren Ziv
The Israeli military published drone footage of its
air force bombing a seemingly empty building in Gaza. It left out the part
where one of its missiles killed two teens sitting on the roof, independent
investigators find.
+
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.
Time
to Break the Silence on Palestine
https://blackagendareport.com/time-break-silence-palestine
by Michelle Alexander
+
Killing of Palestinian by Israeli settlers 'shocking':
UN envoy
![Relatives of Naasan mourn during his funeral at al-Mugheir village [Annelies Keuleers/Al Jazeera]](images/832_015.jpg)
Relatives of Naasan
mourn during his funeral at al-Mugheir village [Annelies Keuleers/Al Jazeera]
+
The
Tide is Turning: Israel Is Losing on Two War Fronts
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/22/the-tide-is-turning-israel-is-losing-on-two-war-fronts/
===========
g.
The
Faces Behind the Wall: My Experience at the US-Mexico
Border
===========
h.
|
Saudis to Davos:
Move on from Khashoggi, let's do business |
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-saudi-investors-idUSKCN1PI0TZ
===========
i.
5
Stories Americans Missed While Fighting Over A Viral
Video That Has No Effect On Their Lives
by Matt Agorist
As Americans argued over an irrelevant video of a Catholic
boy in a MAGA hat staring at a Native American, multiple events took place that
actually affect them and were ignored.
+
The History Behind Nate
Phillips’ Song
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/23/the-history-behind-nate-phillips-song/
by Leonard Peltier
(The face of White
Supremacy)
I just saw the incident taking place in
Washington, DC, in which a confrontation between the white Make America Great
Again (MAGA) representatives and a Native Elder singing a religious song took a
horrendous turn. There were threats and insults by the young punks wearing red
MAGA hats, while an Elder, who happens to be my long time AIM friend and
comrade Nate Phillips, was singing a religious song. Now, I see the media and folks changing it around like it was the Native Elder’s
fault.
Let me explain to you what the song’s history
is.
The Northern Cheyenne people gave this song to
the American Indian Movement for an honor song in 1972 after the 71-day
occupation of the Wounded Knee massacre grave site, which is now a memorial
site, owned by a white person…Can you believe that? Wounded Knee is a sacred
area for the Lakota peoples, where over 350 Elders, men, children, and women
with unborn babies still inside of their bodies were slaughtered. There are
documented accounts of soldiers who opposed the killing of babies, however
there were Calvary soldiers riding their horses around the massacre grounds
waving their swords with dead babies on them. The Lakota who had disarmed
themselves, given up their weapons of stone tomahawks, bows and arrows and
hand-thrown spears to the 7th Calvary, and raised the white peace and American
flags, after an agreed truce between them.
The leader of the Lakota Band of Natives was a
peace Chief named Bigfoot. The Calvary was heavily armed with portable cannons,
rifles, steel bayonets, knives and pistols. The 7th Calvary soldiers were under
orders of their commanding officers. After the captives had been fed and
convinced they were safe, and the babies began to quiet down and go to sleep
under their now warm robes, they did not see or hear what was about to happen.
The Cavalry like thieves and rapists in the dark of night, surrounded them with
those deadly weapons. Early that next morning on December 25th (isn’t that
their Christian God Jesus’s birthday?) after feeding
the Natives their last breakfast meal, they began to slaughter them, killing
all who could not somehow escape.
+
I Was Absolutely Afraid”: Indigenous
Elder on “Mob Mentality” of MAGA Hat-Wearing Students in D.C.
+
The
Covington Altar Boys, Institutional Racism
and the Doctrine of Discovery
by
Michael
Donnelly
+
MAGA
hat teen in viral video isn't sorry. But we should be for the attempts to
excuse his racism
===========
j.
Act XI and the
'yellow night': What the ‘Gilets Jaunes’
have planned for France on Saturday (26 January
2019)
+
The
Yellow Vests, the Crisis of the Welfare State and Socialism
by
Michèle Brand
Far
from dying down after the holidays, France’s yellow vest movement is continuing
to blaze throughout the country. Every Saturday for eleven weeks, protesters
have been disrupting or blocking roads, traffic circles and freeway toll
plazas, gathering in the squares of villages, taking to the streets of towns,
marching in massive numbers through city boulevards, and confronting violent
police repression. Ten people have died in the protests, mainly due to
accidents at road blocks, and over 2000 have been injured by the police, around
100 seriously. 17 people have lost an eye due to rubber bullets, according to
an independent association and an investigative journalist, while the interior
minister recently said there were 4. Thousands have been arrested.
Old
and young, workers, retirees, artisans, some small business owners, farmers,
students, self-employed and unemployed people are converging to protest not
only Macron’s gloves-off reforms in favor of capital, finance and the ultra
rich, but especially their own decline in living standards. Increasingly
aggressive capitalism, the dismantling of the welfare state, and
deindustrialization have eroded standards of living for forty years, and have
stepped up pace with the crisis of 2008 and Macron’s “neoliberal” reforms dictated
by the European Union.
Yellow
vested demonstrators are fed up with running out of money before the end of the
month, job insecurity, rising taxes on the working class, insufficient and
decreasing pensions, falling social benefits, and working multiple jobs or
extra long hours to make ends meet. France’s broad middle class is downwardly
mobile. People are also protesting rising energy costs, job losses due to offshoring, deteriorating working conditions, homelessness
on the rise, increasing numbers of undernourished children and people
scavenging for food, underfunded public services such as hospitals, schools,
post offices and transportation, especially in rural areas, and a host of other
issues.
+
Macron follows globalist elite orders and arrests
Yellow Vests leader
Eric Drouet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcTPg6mxRUc&feature=youtu.be
+
France's
'yellow vest' conflict is heading into calamitous new territory
The injury
to one of the yellow vest leaders could see protests lurch towards calamity and
tragedy
+
France,
Yellow Vests and the MEK – Robert Fantina.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/france-yellow-vests-and-the-mek/
No
one today is surprised at the foreign policy of the United States. War,
violation of international law and disdain for human rights are all
characteristics of the criminal enterprise known as the U.S. government.
Most
of the U.S.’s allies display some or all of these same vices, but some are
often considered above such activities. One that is mistakenly believed to be
better than the U.S. is France. A look at some of its current policies is
instructive.
At
present, there are two groups active in France. One is known as the ‘Yellow
Vests’ an informal organization that started to protest an increase in fuel
taxes, and expanded to oppose a wide range of practices of the government of
President Emmanuel Macron that are seen as detrimental to the public. There was
no well-established plan and no recognized leader.
The
second organization is the MEK (Mujahideen-e Khalq), a terrorist organization that seeks the overthrow
of the Iranian government. MEK members have been responsible for the deaths of
thousands of innocent people.
One
would think that a responsive government would react positively to protesters
opposing government policies. Government officials would look at those
policies; acknowledge the problems they cause, and work with the opposition, in
this case, the Yellow Vests, to fully understand their concerns. Then they
would work to resolve the issues.
One
would also think that any reasonable government would condemn a well-organized
and well-financed terrorist group, and offer no support to it in any form.
Unfortunately,
this is not the case with the government of France. The reverse, unfortunately,
is true. The Macron government works tirelessly and violently to end the Yellow
Vest protests, while it welcomes and supports the MEK.
Why
would this be? The explanation is not difficult to see.
+
France AWAKENS 2019: Weaponized
Bank Runs Incoming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ias_0Hdv98A&feature=youtu.be
+
Who are the 'foulards rouges'? The group
protesting against the gilets jaunes
+
Time
for the U.S. Yellow Vests
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/23/time-for-the-u-s-yellow-vests/
by
Paul
Street
Here
are seven things you won’t hear much if anything about in the reigning
corporate media regarding the ongoing record-setting partial shutdown of the
United States federal government . . . .
+
What the 1% Don't Want You to Know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzQYA9Qjsi0
&
Thomas Piketty: 'Tax the
super rich at 80 per cent'!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN53xwbNqRQ
&
Elizabeth Warren & Economist Thomas Piketty discuss economic equality
on HuffPost Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4bb2AA8K6A
===========
k.
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis
from the black left.
Can
the “Wretched” Rule? On Socialism, the State,
and the Future of Humanity
https://blackagendareport.com/can-wretched-rule-socialism-state-and-future-humanity
by Danny Haiphong
+
Airport workers ‘shut down the shutdown’- and
that should scare Trump
by
Robert Reich
+
From: "Jim O'Brien via H-PAD" <h-pad@lists.historiansforpeace.org>
Sent: Friday, 25 January, 2019
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 1/25/19: Links to recent articles of
interest
http://lists.historiansforpeace.org/listinfo.cgi/h-pad-historiansforpeace.org
Links to Recent Articles of Interest
"The Shutdown
Is Trump's Ultimate Attack on American Intellectual Life"
By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Washington Post, posted January 24
The author teaches history at the
University of Wisconin.
"Why Is the Doomsday Clock Set at 2
Minutes to Midnight?"
By Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network, posted January 24
The author is a professor emeritus
of history at SUNY Albany.
"What Alexander the Great Can
Teach Trump about Compromise"
By Robert Garland, History
News Network, posted January 24
A very short, enjoyable article. The author teaches Classics at Colgate University.
"What Does William Barr Have to
Do with Iran Contra?"
By Jeffrey J. Matthews, History
News Network, posted January 22
The author teaches history and leadership at the University
of Puget Sound
"The Dangers
of Romanticizing Regime Change"
By Jerrod A. Laber,
The National Interest, posted January 21
Review essay on Lindsay O'Rourke's
new book Covert Regime Change: America's
Secret Cold War (Cornell U. Press)
By Josh Jones, Open
Culture, posted January 16
Includes, with commentary, a map
created for Brown University's Cost of War Project.
"The King We
Would Rather Forget"
By John Marciano, Ashland
(Oregon) Daily Tidings, posted January 15
On Martin Luther King's antiwar
stance. The author is a professor emeritus
of history at SUNY Cortland.
"How Not to Build a 'Great,
Great Wall': A Timeline of Border Fortification"
By Greg Grandin,
TomDispatch.com, posted January 13
The author teaches history at New
York University.
"Interview:
The Backstory to the Migrant Caravan is Repression of
Democracy and Labor in Honduras"
Interview with Dana Frank by
Judy Ancel
Dana Frank teaches history at the
University of California, Santa Cruz and is
author of the new book The Long
Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of
the Coup.
"The Hole in
Donald Trump's Wall"
By Tore Olsson, Washington
Post, posted January 9
"As long as Americans continue
to flood into Mexico and reshape its economy, the drive for Mexicans to enter
the United States and reshape its economy will remain higher than any
wall." The author teaches history at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville.
By Stephen Wertheim, NYR [New
York Review] Daily, posted January 2
The author is a visiting assistant
professor of history at Columbia University and his book Tomorrow, the World: The Growth of U.S. Global Supremacy in
World War II is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.
"Disciplined for Acting with
Integrity"
By Alan Wald, Against the
Current, posted January 1
On the University of Michigan's
response to two instructors who declined to write letters of recommendations
for students to study in Israel. The author teaches American Studies at the
university.
Thanks to Roger Peace and an
anonymous reader for suggesting articles included in the above list.
Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
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l.
Black
Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis
from the black left.
Anti-imperialist
Dilemma: What If the US is “Right”
About
the Election in DR Congo?
Anti-imperialist Dilemma: What If
the US is “Right” About the Election in DR Congo?
https://blackagendareport.com/anti-imperialist-dilemma-what-if-us-right-about-election-dr-congo
by Ann Garrison
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Why
We're at War? Confessions of a USA Economic Hit Man,
Meet
John Perkins
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50999.htm
by Sam Elfassy
John Perkins, a former respected member of the international
banking community, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man",
blows the lid of US imperiliasm and provides the
reasons as to why it is at war in the Middle East.
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m.
Socialist Richard Wolff Tells the Truth About the Chinese Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WKLskz1w9k&feature=youtu.be
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"Prof.
Richard Wolff: What’s Coming in 2019?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4wkd5ISek&feature=youtu.be
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n.
The World
to Come
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50991.htm
by Chris Hedges
The ruling elites are painfully aware that the foundations of
American power are rotting. The outsourcing of manufacturing in the United
States and the plunging of over half the population into poverty will, they
know, not be reversed. The self-destructive government shutdown has been only
one of numerous assaults on the efficiency of the administrative state. The
failing roads, bridges and public transportation are making commerce and
communications more difficult. The soaring government
deficit, now almost a trillion dollars thanks to the Trump administration’s massive corporate tax cuts, cannot be
eliminated. The seizure of the financial system by global speculators ensures,
sooner rather than later, another financial meltdown. The dysfunction of
democratic institutions, which vomit up con artists such as Donald Trump and
hold as alternatives inept, corporate-indentured politicians such as Joe Biden
and Nancy Pelosi, is cementing into place a new authoritarianism. The hollowing
out of the pillars of the state, including the diplomatic corps and regulatory
agencies, leaves the blunt force of the military as the only response to
foreign disputes and fuels endless and futile foreign wars.
Just as ominous as the visible rot is the internal decay. Among
all social classes there is a loss of faith in the government, widespread
frustration, a sense of stagnation and entrapment, bitterness over unfulfilled
expectations and promises, and a merging of fact and fiction so that civil and
political discourse is no longer rooted in reality. The nation’s isolation by
its traditional allies and its inability, especially in the face of
environmental catastrophe, to articulate rational and visionary policies have
shattered the mystique that is vital to power. “A society becomes totalitarian
when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial,” George Orwell wrote. “That
is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to
power by force or fraud.” Our elites have exhausted fraud. Force is all they have
left.
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Friday, 19 January, 2019
Subject: [MCM] If We the People ever rise up like the
Yellow Vests, 5G will help the military put us down again.
Published
by the Naval Medical Research Center in 1971, a bibliography of all known
research on what EMF can do to (our) bodies and brains:
NAVAL
MEDICAL
RESEARCH
INSTITUTE
REPORT
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/750271.pdf?fbclid=
IwAR0JreSVhcmpTR3BfJAQ9dJl0GdoywiVLCtVsIfSfZ-_6OspwcUWWy6YSIU
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‘They Were Planning on Stealing the Election’
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51002.htm
by Paul Hilder
Explosive
new tapes reveal Cambridge Analytica CEO’s boasts of
voter suppression, manipulation and bribery
Previously
unknown recording reveals extraordinary ‘black ops’ on three continents – exploiting
weaknesses in democracies left wide open by governments and Silicon Valley.
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o.
In the Age of Faltering Democracies,
Noam Chomsky Is More Relevant Than Ever
www.informationclearinghouse.info/51002.htm
by Rohit Kumar
His
book 'Requiem for the American Dream' summarises the
US's deepest problems, but also sheds a good bit of light on the current state
of Indian democracy.
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Exclusive: Ex-Harvey Weinstein Employee Breaks Silence
on Her Memo That Helped Take Down Movie Mogul
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/29/exclusive_ex_harvey_weinstein_employee_breaks