Bulletin N° 838
“MISSING”
https://www.putlockers.me/movie/missing-21603.html
This film opens with Costa-Gavras'
statement that the events of the film are true.
Subject :
« Resisting ‘Junk Analyses’ by using Reliable Information & Experience »
22
March 2019
Grenoble,
France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
The
Paris Commune began almost 150 years ago, on March 18, 1871; it ended in a
blood bath, during what is now known as “Bloody
Week,” the period of eight days, from Sunday May 21st until
Sunday May 28th . In this short time,
French troops killed 30,000 citizens, thus putting an end to the revolutionary
movement and in its place establishing a bourgeois republic.
In
our own period of renewed counter-revolutionary violence, I picked up my old
copy of Eros and Civilization, first written
by Herbert Marcuse in 1955. This book, subtitled “A Philosophical Inquiry into
Freud,” examines the basic nature of Freudian psychoanalysis – as ideology, dogma,
or science?
In
his 1966 preface to this inquiry, Marcuse emphasized the
original optimism of his endeavor to reexamine Freud’s “proposition that
civilization is based on the permanent subjugation of the human instincts”.
Science and technology, he thought after the Second World War, offered a
profound liberation to mankind because of the “unconditional” defeat of the Fascist
experiment.
He
had revised this optimistic appraisal by 1966, in the midst of the Vietnam War:
Eros
and Civilization:
the title [in 1955] expressed an optimistic, euphemistic, even positive
thought, namely, that the achievements of advanced industrial society would
enable man to reverse the direction of progress, to break the fatal union of
productivity and destruction, liberty and repression – in other words, to learn
the gay science (gaya sciencia)
of how to use the social wealth for shaping man’s world in accordance with his
Life Instincts, in the concerted struggle against the purveyors of Death. This
optimism was based on the assumption that the rationale for the continued
acceptance of domination no longer prevailed, that scarcity and the need for
toil were only “artificially” perpetrated - in the interests of preserving the
system of domination. I neglected or minimized the fact that this “obsolescent”
rationale had been vastly strengthened (if not replaced) by even more efficient
forms of social control. The very forces which rendered society capable of
pacifying the struggle for existence served to repress in the individuals the
need for such a liberation. Where the high standard of
living does not suffice for reconciling the people with their life and their
rulers, the “social engineering” of the soul and the “science of human
relations” provide the necessary libidinal cathexis. In the affluent society, the authorities are
hardly forced to justify their domination. They deliver the goods; they satisfy
the sexual and the aggressive energy of their subjects. Like the unconscious,
the destructive power of which they so successfully represent, they are this
side of good and evil, and the principle of contradiction has no place in their
logic.
As
the affluence of society depends increasingly on the uninterrupted production
and consumption of waste, gadgets, planned obsolescence, and means of
destruction, the individuals have to be adapted to these requirements in more
than the traditional ways. The “economic whip,” even in its most refined forms,
seems no longer adequate to insure the continuation of the struggle for
existence in today’s outdated organization, nor do the laws and patriotism seem
adequate to insure active popular support for the ever more dangerous expansion
of the system. Scientific management of instinctual needs has long since become
a vital factor in the reproduction of the system: merchandise which has to be
bought and used is made into object of the libido; and the national Enemy who
has to be fought and hated is distorted and inflated to such an extent that he
can activate and satisfy aggressiveness in the depth dimension of the
unconscious. Mass democracy provides the political paraphernalia for
effectuating the introjections of the Reality Principle; it not only permits
the people (up to a point) to chose their own masters and to participate (up to
a point) in the government which governs them – it also allows the masters to
disappear behind the technological veil of the productive and destructive
apparatus which they control, and it conceals the human (and material) costs of
benefits and comforts which it bestows upon those who collaborate. The people,
efficiently manipulated
and organized, are free; ignorance and impotence, introjected heteronomy is the price of their freedom.
It make no
sense to talk about liberation to fee men – and we are free if we do not belong
to the oppressed minority. And it makes no sense to talk about surplus
repression when men and women enjoy more sexual liberty than ever before. But
the truth is that this freedom and satisfaction are transforming the earth into
hell.
.
. . .
I hesitate to use the word – freedom –
because it is precisely in the name of freedom that crimes against humanity are
being perpetrated. This situation is certainly no new in history: poverty and
exploitation were products of economic freedom; time and again, people were
liberated all over the globe by their lords and masters, and their new liberty
turned out to be submission, not to the rule of law but to the rule of the law
of the others. What started as subjection by force soon became “voluntary
servitude,” collaboration in reproducing a society which made servitude
increasingly rewarding and palatable. The reproduction, bigger and better, of
the same way of life came to mean, ever more clearly and consciously, the
closing of those other possible ways of life which could do away with the serfs
and the masters, with the productivity of repression.
Today, this union of freedom and servitude, has become “natural” and a vehicle of progress. (pp.xi-xiv)
.
. . .
In
the meantime, there are things to be done. The system has its weakest point
where it shows its most brutal strength: in the escalation of its military
potential (which seems to press for periodic actualization with ever shorter
interruptions of peace and preparedness). This tendency seems reversible only under
strongest pressure, and its reversal would open the danger spots in the social
structure: its conversion into a “normal” capitalist system in hardly
imaginable without a serious crisis and sweeping economic and political
changes. Today, the opposition to war and military intervention strikes at the
roots: it rebels against those whose economic and political dominion depends on
the continued (and enlarged) reproduction of the military establishment, its
“multipliers,” and the policies which necessitate this reproduction. These
interests are not hard to identify, and the war against them does not require
missiles, bombs, and napalm. But it does require something that is much harder
to produce – the spread of uncensored and unmanipulated
knowledge, consciousness, and above all, the organized refusal to continue work
on the material and intellectual instruments which are now being used
against man – for the defense of the liberty and prosperity of those who
dominate the rest.
To
the degree to which organized labor operates in defense of the status quo, and
to the degree to which the share of labor in the material process of production
declines, intellectual skills and capabilities become social and
political factors. Today, the organized refusal to cooperate of the scientists,
mathematicians, technicians, industrial psychologists and public opinion
pollsters may well accomplish what a strike, even a large-scale strike, can no
longer accomplish but once accomplished, namely, the beginning of the reversal,
the preparation of the ground for political action. That the idea appears
utterly unrealistic does not reduce the political responsibility involved in
the position and function of the intellectual in contemporary industrial
society. The intellectual refusal may find support in another catalyst, the
instinctual refusal among the youth in protest. It is their lives which are at
stake, and if not their lives, their mental health and their capacity to
function as unmutilated humans. Their protest will
continue because of biological necessity. “By nature,” the young are in the
forefront of those who live and fight for Eros against Death, and against a
civilization which strives to shorten the “detour to death” while controlling
the means for lengthening the detour. But in the administered society, the biological necessity
does not immediately issue in action; organization demands
counter-organization. Today the fight for life, the fight for Eros, is the political
fight.(pp.xxiv – xxv)
The
18 + items below offer readers more articles and essays which challenge
corporate junk analyses of politics,
society and the economy. With these alternative news reports, readers are
encouraged to draw their own conclusions by comparing and contrasting
information reported here with that which is reported daily in the corporate media, reports which continually nurture the cultural hegemony of the ruling class.
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.
The
Difficulty of Writing for Americans
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51290.htm
by Paul Craig Roberts
Writing for Americans, unless for their
entertainment, is a challenging undertaking. One
reason is that many, especially of the younger generations, no longer have a
concept of objective truth.
For them “truth” is simply a bias reflecting
one’s race, gender, upbringing or predisposition. Emotion
overwhelms fact. Biases are not considered to be equal. Some
are worthy and some or not. The biases of
white people are defined as “hate speech,” “white supremacy,” and “hate
crimes.” Today America has many self-hating
whites, especially in the media and Democratic Party.
Another reason is that many Americans
confuse an explanation with a justification. An
explanation of an event is seen as a justification of the event. For example, if one provides an explanation
of slavery the assumption is that the writer approves of slavery. A defense of a disapproved category is taken
as a demonstration of your own unworthiness. For example, if you defend white
people from the propagandistic accusations leveled at them by Identity
Politics, you are a “white supremist.”
Yet another reason is that some races and
genders have succeeded in defining any criticism of themselves as an expression
of bias. For example, criticism of Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians or
of the Israel Lobby’s power makes one an “anti-semite.” Similarly, if you
criticize a black person, you are a racist and your argument is dismissed as an
expression of your bias. If you criticize
a woman, you are a misogynist, and your criticism of a woman proves it.
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From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Monday, 18 March,
2019
Subject: [MCM]
Why even lefties want to see Assange
in chains (MUST-READ)
This piece, and Lisa Johnson's whole series, is a must-read on how
propaganda works (and so applies to Russia-gate as well).
MCM
The Psychology Of
Getting Julian Assange, Part 4:
Why Even Some Lefties Want To See Him Hang
Convinced Julian Assange handed Trump the election? Certain he raped two
women in Sweden? Want to see him rot in jail? The fourth in a five-part series by clinical
psychologist Dr Lissa Johnson explains the science
behind smear and propaganda, and how and why it works.
Part 1: The Psychology Of Getting Julian Assange:
What’s Torture Got To Do With It?
Part 3: The Psychology of Getting Julian Assange, Part 3 – Wikileaks and Russiagate: Trust Us, We’re The CIA
On Sunday March
3rd and 10th, hundreds attended rallies organised
by the Socialist Equality Party of Australia
in Sydney and Melbourne, demanding that the Australian
government secure freedom for Julian Assange.
Acclaimed
journalist and film-maker John Pilger spoke at the Sydney rally
along with founder of the Sydney Peace Foundation, Professor Stuart Rees AM, and
editor-in-chief of US news website Consortium
News, Joe Lauria.
The rallies
called for the Australian government to intervene to protect its citizen,
Julian Assange, who has been confined to the
Ecuadorian embassy since 2012. Assange is suffering
arbitrary detention according to two UN rulings. Should he leave the embassy he
is expected to be extradited to the United States and prosecuted for his
publishing activities, most likely over 2010 disclosures of US war crimes in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Chelsea Manning’s Refusal to Testify Against WikiLeaks
Will Help Save Press Freedom"
with Glenn Greenwald
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b.
From:
Richard
Greeman
Sent: Thursday, 14 March, 2019
Subject: News from the year 2119
Dear
Friends and Colleagues,
The
Future Historians International Study Group and Writing Project has again
received (via a technology our scientists cannot grasp) a communication from a
committee of historians in the year 2019. It contains another excerpt from Then,
Now, and How, a history book they are writing
for the young people of the 22nd century.
“Introduction:
The Great Collapse, as you already know, was not a single event, but rather
a concatination and culmination of a number of intersecting
crises: including an energy crisis, a climate crisis, an ecological crisis, a
refugee crisis, a financial crisis, a food crisis myriad social crises, and
crises of inequality, government legitimacy, continuous wars, nuclear
profusion, all rapidly reaching their limits. Disasters and catastrophes
abounded, each aggravating the others. There were tornados, wildfires, floods,
nuclear accidents, food and energy shortages. Climate
refugees fleeing zones of flood, fire and unlivably
hot temperatures carried with them epidemic diseases which spread among the
inhabitants of more clement zones and became pandemic. Famine weakened the
resistance of whole populations while blatant inequality between rich and poor
aggravated tensions.
Global
warming, the result of carbon-capitalism’s accelerating injection of greenhouse
gasses into the earth’s thin atmosphere, was approching
its irreversable tipping point. If it had continued
for another decade, we would not be here now, students and teachers, studying
our planet’s history while at the same time struggling with all our collective
energies to survive the results and mitigate the damage. A struggle you were
born into and know will last for centuries.
The
Great Collapse marked the dividing line between Then
and Now. It was the global crucible in which our cooperative, egalitarian,
peaceful and democratic societies were forged. Although it entailed the
suffering and death of billions of humans along with the extermination of many
other creatures, in hindsight we are obliged to
look upon it as a “fortunate fall.” Not only did the Great Collapse prevent
accelerating Climate Chaos from exploding into total appocolypse,
it released the human powers of caring, solidarity and mutual aid from which
today’s societies emerged….”
For
more, please go to http://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=catastrophes#the_great_collapse
For
more information about Future Historians, please go to http://futurehistorians.org/doku.php?id=about-us
.
To
discuss this evolving, collective text, please join our international online
seminar this Sunday from 16-18 hours UTC in your time zone, please email us at AnotherWorldNYC@gmail.com
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c.
From:
"Jacobin
Roundup" <publicity@jacobinmag.com>
Sent: Friday, 15 March, 2019
Subject: Things are going our way
|
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On Contact: Extinction Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfXqq888HPY&feature=youtu.be
with Roger Hallam
Some environmental activists argue the only way to
stop the impending ecocide is to carry out nonviolent acts of civil
disobedience to shut down the capitals of the major industrial countries,
crippling commerce and transportation until the ruling elites are forced to
publicly state the truth about climate catastrophe, implement radical measure
to halt carbon emissions by 2025, and empower an independent citizens committee
to oversee the termination of our 150-year binge on fossil fuels. The
British-based group Extinction Rebellion has called for nonviolent acts of
civil disobedience on April 15 in capitals around the world to reverse our
“one-way track to extinction.” Joining Chris Hedges in the second part of a
two-part discussion from London is Roger Hallam, the
co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.
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Union
Busting on Campus:
Jackson
Lewis and Higher Education Anti-Unionism
by David Correia
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d.
The truth is out about Israel’s lethal actions in Gaza.
Will the world listen?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51268.htm
by Saeb Erekat
The UN’s damning verdict on the 2018 Gaza protests should prompt the
international community into ending Israeli occupation
A UN investigation into the 2018
Gaza protests has concluded that Israeli officers and their leaders may have
committed war crimes or crimes against humanity. The human rights council’s commission
of inquiry found that soldiers intentionally used live
ammunition against civilians, who included children, women, journalists, health
workers and people with disabilities.
The figures are telling: more than
6,000 people injured by Israeli bullets, with 183 killed. Renowned human rights
organisations such as Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem and Al-Haq
had already denounced this policy, with B’Tselem
calling on Israeli soldiers not to follow orders to shoot civilians. The people
of Palestine still wonder whether such findings will be used by the international
community to implement policy aimed at ending the Israeli occupation, or
whether it will be business as usual.
The killing of Palestinian
civilians during 2018 is part of a long list of ongoing Israeli crimes and
violations. Israel, the occupying power, often denounces any reporting on its
treatment of the people of Palestine – going as far as pushing
for the expulsion of the representative of Human Rights Watch
and refusing UN commissions of inquiry or special rapporteurs access to the occupied territories.
Israel has long been targeting
Palestinian civil society organisations and human
rights activists for exposing its ongoing policies of colonisation
that deny the right of the Palestinian people to be free. Sadly, if members of
the international community don’t act, the results of this commission of
inquiry will eventually be added to other investigations – including the
recently released EU report on Israeli settlement construction – and Israel will continue to violate
international law and UN resolutions through the complicity of a number of UN
member states.
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Israel’s
Stranglehold on American Poltics 
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/israels-stranglehold-on-american-politics/
by Chris Hedges
+
The Jewish Lobby
with Noam Chomsky
+
Changes in the Israel Lobby
with John Mearsheimer
+
The
UN Refuses to Name and Shame Firms
Aiding
Israel’s Illegal Settlements
by Jonathan Cook
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Trump says time for US to recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51303.htm
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Russia, Iran and Syria slam
Trump's Golan Heights comments
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-iran-and-syria-slam-trumps-golan-heights-comments/a-48016842
A statement by President Donald Trump that the US
should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights is likely to stir
tensions. Europe alongside Russia, Syria and Iran warned against any unilateral
moves.
A host of countries on Friday criticized
President Donald Trump's announcement that the United States intends to unilaterally recognize Israeli sovereignty
over the occupied-Golan Heights.
The move comes as Israel has been pushing the Trump
administration for recognition and some members of the Republican Party are
backing the idea.
Russia, Syrian
and Iranian positions
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said changing Golan's
status would violate UN Security Council Resolutions.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry said the move showed
"the blind bias of the United States to the Zionist entity," in
reference to Israel.
Damascus added that Trump's statement won't change
"the fact that Golan was and will remain Arab and Syrian."
Iran's Foreign Ministry said the "illegal and
unacceptable recognition does not change the fact that it belongs to
Syria."
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Chasing
Mirages: What Are Palestinians Doing
to Combat the ‘Deal of the Century’?
by Ramzy Baroud
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e.
From:
"ana hona" <anahona366@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, 16 March, 2019 3:37:49 AM
Subject: Preparing for the demonstration of millions on the borders of Gaza .. A year after the beginning of the march of the Great
Return..Urgent appeal
In
a week described as violent in the Gaza Strip .. When the Israeli occupation
forces began shelling Gaza daily heavy missiles and the occurrence of a large number
of casualties
The
Palestinians are preparing for the start of the anniversary of the start of the
major return marches and here we are preparing ourselves for this day. We
believe that Israel will practice its policy against peaceful demonstrators, as
it did a year ago. One thousand people in one day was a bloody day for us
From
here we are the group of nurses in the Gaza Strip. We will do our utmost to
obtain all the first aid, medicines and appropriate treatments for this day. We
believe that the number of participants will be more than half a million people
on the borders of Gaza, demanding the lifting of the siege on them and their
country.
And
we can not work without your support because we need a large amount of gauze
and iodine may exceed 100 laps and a hundred tubes of iodine only in one day we
mention that we use in a month full of normal days
We
will need more than 50 brine solution tubes and lots of first aid kits
We
hope that nothing will happen, but this is our reality. We have started the
countdown for this campaign and we are working more than 16 hours a day to meet
all the requirements.
We
will not be able to complete a quarter of these requirements without you..
I hope that I do not bother you. But this is our life and you must stand with
us. We need your suppo .
Thank
you very much
A
group of nurses in the Gaza Strip
Please
support us via the following link
https://gogetfunding.com/amal/
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f.
News, commentary and analysis from the black left
The Imperial Racist Saga Comes Home, Where It Began
https://www.blackagendareport.com/imperial-racist-saga-comes-home-where-it-began
by Glen Ford
“Imperialism permeates U.S. culture,
infecting most American brands of leftism and even ‘socialism.’”
What makes US progressives think that the Lords of
Capital will be more tolerant of austerity-busting ‘socialists’ here at home
than they are with Venezuela?
The historical U.S. embrace of apartheid Israel is
rooted in much more than “the Benjamins” wielded by
Zionist lobbies. The two most lawless states on the planet revel in their
shared roguishness, bound together by race-based colonial ideologies that
sanction and celebrate their crimes against humanity. Were it not for the U.S.
superpower, there would be no State of Israel, an outpost of Europe in Arabia
that most white Americans perceive as inhabited by kindred souls surrounded by
savages, like the settlers of American mythology. It is the United States’
“exceptional” duty to arm and protect the “chosen” people of Israel, whose
expansionist imperatives are perceived as benign and defensive, mimicking
American Manifest Destiny.
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This Year's
Coup
https://www.blackagendareport.com/years-coup
by Raymond Nat Turner, BAR
poet-in-residence
Venezuela's fantasy president Juan Guiado
Who
knew him
five days ago?
Today, he’s Play Dough—
President—
in handlers oily hands…
Brazen 1% switcheroo,
another king nobody knew—
rosy World Bank worldview
Championing the well-to-do…
Who
knew they’d install him?
Or, just what they’d call him?
Maybe he’d be called “the law?”
Maybe he’d be crowned “Shah?”
Or—just for a sense of déjà vu—
Maybe “Mobutu” might do…
for a name in this year’s coup?
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War
Against Venezuela Is War Against Us All
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51289.htm
by Christopher Black
The
American war on Venezuela continues to escalate with the sabotage of it’s electricity grid, the most serious action of all so
far, which was not only an act of terrorism against the entire civilian
population but also an attempt to shut down exports of Venezuelan oil.
This
is part of the American hybrid war strategy. Hybrid warfare is warfare that
uses all domains of life and society to hurt and damage the targeted nation. It
was best defined by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiansui, two senior colonels of the Peoples Liberation Army
in their famous book titled, Unrestricted Warfare, published in 1999 which
proposed strategies and tactics that could be used by developing countries to
compensate for their military inferiority vis a vis the United States during a high tech war.
Published
prior to the American cruise missile attack on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
during the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia, the book drew a lot of attention
in the west for its proposition that a multitude of means, military and
non-military could be used to strike at the United States in a conflict;
hacking into websites, targeting financial institutions, terrorism, using the
media, urban warfare, sabotage, crippling infrastructure, subversion, all the
methods of what the Americans term hybrid warfare.
The
Chinese colonels stated that the first rule of this type of warfare is that
there are no rules, nothing is forbidden. But they made a fundamental error
when they also stated that “strong countries would not use the same approach
against weak countries because strong countries make the rule while rising one
break them” and, though admitting that the US breaks the rules of international
law and makes up its own law when it suits their interests stated that it “has
to observe its own rules or the world won’t trust it.”
Well,
the colonels seem to have ignored the long history of the United States using
exactly these types of methods against all its enemies weak or strong, of using
unrestricted warfare, without limitations, in effect, total war on nations and
peoples they target. They did not seem to understand that the Americans don’t
give a damn what anyone else in the world thinks or whether anyone trusts them,
which makes them all the more dangerous because peaceful settlement of disputes
with them on an equitable basis is next to impossible. They are currently using
these methods against Russia, Iran, China, Syria, DPRK, and of course
Venezuela.
All
these tactics are, of course, elements of a war of aggression, which is the
fundamental war crime, and now a crime at the ICC for which they could, in
theory, be prosecuted. Yet, the ICC prosecutor sits at her desk, as his her
custom, drinking tea while collecting a large salary and instead of stating
that the US and its allies are committing crimes against humanity and war
crimes against the Venezuelan people entertains a Canadian request on behalf of
the Lima Group to investigate the Venezuelan government for “crimes against
humanity.” We have to suppose for not giving all its oil to the Americans.
+
Max Blumenthal debunks corporate media lies about
Venezuela
at United Nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ1vFlX5jEw&feature=youtu.be
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Citigroup
to sell Venezuelan gold in setback to President Maduro
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-gold-idUSKCN1R12GR
by Mayela Armas, Corina Pons
CARACAS (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc plans to sell
several tons of gold placed as collateral by Venezuela’s central bank on a $1.6
billion loan after the deadline for repurchasing them expired this month,
sources said, a setback for President Nicolas Maduro’s
efforts to hold onto the country’s fast-shrinking reserves.
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g.
Countdown
to “Full Spectrum Dominance”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/20/countdown-to-full-spectrum-dominance/
by T.J. Coles
The
US is formally committed to dominating the world by the year 2020. With
President Trump’s new Space Directive-4, the production of laser-armed fighter
jets as possible precursors to space weapons, and the possibility of nuclear
warheads being put into orbit, the clock is ticking…
Back
in 1997, the now-re-established
US Space Command announced its commitment to “full spectrum dominance.” The Vision for 2020 explains
that “full spectrum dominance” means military control over land, sea, air, and
space (the so-called fourth dimension of warfare) “to protect US interests and
investment.” “Protect” means guarantee operational freedom. “US interest and
investment” means corporate profits.
The
glossy brochure explains that, in the past, the Army evolved to protect US
settlers who stole land from Native Americans in the genocidal
birth of the nation. Like the Vision for 2020,
a report
by the National Defense University acknowledges that by the 19th century,
the Navy had evolved to protect the US’s newly-formulated “grand strategy.” In
addition to supposedly protecting citizens and the constitution, “The
overriding principle was, and remains, the protection of American territory …
and our economic well-being.” By the 20th century, the Air
Force had been established, in the words of the Air Force Study Strategy Guide, to protect “vital interests,”
including: “commerce; secure energy supplies; [and] freedom of action.” In the
21stcentury, these pillars of power are bolstered by the Cyber
Command and the coming Space Force.
The
use of the Army, Navy, and Air Force—the three dimensions of power—means that the
US is already close to achieving “full spectrum dominance.” Brown University’s
Cost of War project documents
current US military involvement in 80 countries—or 40% of the world’s nations.
This includes 65 so-called counterterrorism training operations and 40 military
bases (though others think the number of bases is much higher). By this
measure, “full spectrum dominance” is nearly half way complete. But the map
leaves out US and NATO bases, training programs, and operations in Estonia,
Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine.
As
the US expands its space operations—the fourth dimension of warfare—the race
towards “full spectrum dominance” quickens. Space has long been militarized in
the sense that the US uses satellites to guide missiles and aircraft. But the
new doctrine seeks to weaponize space by, for
instance, blurring the boundaries between high-altitude military aircraft and
space itself. Today’s space power will be harnessed by the US to ensure
dominance over the satellite infrastructure that allows for the modern world of
internet, e-commerce, GPS, telecommunications, surveillance, and war-fighting.
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Chief French Artillery Colonel in Syria Slams US for
Cowardly Civilian-Killing Tactics, Prolonging the War vs
ISIS
Faces
punishment for saying US focus on limiting risks to own troops drove up price
for civilians, allowed ISIS to survive longer, prolonged the war. (Middle East Monitor, March
17, 2019)
A
senior French officer faces punishment after publicly condemning the US-led
coalition’s military tactics against Daesh in the
east of Syria, accusing Washington
of prolonging the conflict and disregarding a growing civilian death toll,
the army said on Saturday.
Colonel
Francois-Regis Legrier – who has been in charge of
directing French artillery supporting Kurdish-led groups in Syria since October
– said the coalition’s focus had
been on limiting its own risks and this had greatly increased the death toll
among civilians, as well as raised the level of destruction.
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Protests
in Kiev, as extreme nationalists turn against Poroshenko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmelVg5s-iA&feature=youtu.be
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h.
A
chaotic Brexit is part of Trump’s grand plan for
Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/14/chaotic-brexit-trump-plan-europe-president
by Natalie Nougayrède
The president and his outriders want Europe weak and
divided. Brexit will deliver some of that
+
"CrossTalk: Brexit On Life Support"
with George Galloway
+
'Alliance should be unconditional': NATO under
pressure from Washington to buy US weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rm4v3QGmzs&feature=youtu.be
with Florence
Parly
France's
armed forces minister has attacked the Trump administration for putting
pressure on Washington's NATO allies
to buy U.S.-made weapons.
===========
i.
Ilhan
Omar Exposes US Hegemonic Positioning and Takes on Both Political Parties
with Richard Falk
& Daniel Falcone
Somali-American
Ilhan Omar is a member
of the US House of Representatives from Minnesota’s 5th district. Elected to
the United States Congress in November 2018, Omar is a critical and strong
voice that advocates for progressive policies and lawmaking in regards to
housing, a living wage, student debt forgiveness, and the protection of
immigrants.
Since
February 2019 Omar has come under attack for tweeting, retweeting,
deleting, stating and restating, a number of positions,
including of course that financial resources generated by pro-Israel lobbying
groups served as motivation for American political support of Israel. Omar is
currently facing another onslaught by high powered Democrats for subsequent
comments she made regarding Israel. This after a recent racist depiction of Omar
by the West Virginia GOP in a poster linking her to the September 11, 2001
attacks.
Since these more recent developments, House Resolution 183, in historic fashion, issued the word “Islamophobia,"
(deeper in the text) and was to many, a sign of progress in marking the first
time there has been a formal condemnation of this term. Furthermore, the three
leading Democratic nominees for 2020 all issued defenses of Omar, showing that
the bottom up defenses of Omar has reached the mainstream and political center.
Can
it really be believed that Omar is a bigot that demonstrates a bias? Likely no,
but in some ways imagined antisemitism is no match for real Islamophopia within
the Democratic Party.
In
this interview, I spoke to Richard
Falk about the history of Zionism, Islamophobia and the pressure and
vulnerability pundits, authors, academics (including himself) and elected
officials like Congresswoman Omar face when they take on machine politicians
and the established order especially in the American foreign policy arena.
Daniel
Falcone: Going back to when this all
started about a month ago, can you briefly remind readers of what your initial
reactions were to Ilhan Omar’s tweets and to the course of events that quickly
followed soon after? Did she misspeak? Isn’t the
Lobby (or AIPAC) “small potatoes” compared to other groups or
official US policy in the first place?
Richard
Falk: When I first heard these comments
by Ilhan Omar I was glad that there was a new voice in Congress that would
speak up on behalf of the Palestinian
people so long subjected to a daily ordeal whether they are living under
occupation, as a discriminated minority in Israel, or in refugee camps in
occupied Palestine and neighboring countries, or existing in involuntary exile.
Although
I welcomed her critical remarks on AIPAC, and later on the dual loyalty of some
Americans when it comes to Israel, they struck me as familiar and reflective of
reality as to have become almost innocuous truisms. How wrong I was! On
further consideration, it became clear to me that her remarks (of course,
exaggerated in their intended meaning by being torn from the wider context of
the full statements) were treated as so inflammatory not
so much because of their content, but because of their source, a
black-Muslim-American woman, and her status as
a newly elected member of Congress.
The
essence of what she had to say was hardly the stuff of fiery radicalism. After
apologizing for what might have unintentionally been hurtful to Jews, convincingly
distancing herself from real anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) her message was
true but important only because she as a newly elected congressperson was
willing to declare her concerns in high visibility settings:
“I
reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it
be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry…It’s gone on too long and we must
be willing to address it.” And “I want to talk about political influence in
this country that says it is O.K. to push for allegiance to a foreign country.”
The
overblown response to these Omar tweets had the effect of mobilizing the
liberal and Christian Zionist establishments in and out of Congress. These
groups pressed Democrats in Congress to give concreteness to their allegations
by their angry calls for apologies, retractions, and censure. Those outraged
insisted that the truths Rep. Ilhan Omar dared speak were nothing less than ‘familiar
anti-Semitic tropes.’ This expansion of anti-Semitism from its base
meaning, the hatred of Jews, is a tactic used to spread the net of
anti-Semitism much wider. This referral to ‘tropes’ is an insidious way of
substituting ‘political correctness’ for the transparencies of truthfulness.
Once
this enlarged anti-Semitic card is on the table, the accuracy or inaccuracy of
Omar’s statements becomes irrelevant, and any attempt by the person so accused
to justify their assertions by pointing to the facts only aggravates the sin,
and reinforces the allegation. In effect, freedom of expression takes a back
seat when an anti-Semitic trope is invoked by defaming critics.
This
dynamic is even more problematic when the speaker has a status that bestows
prestige and is capable of wielding influence. It has been extremely helpful to
Israel over the decades to have virtual unanimity in the U.S. Congress on any
agenda item that touches its interests or assesses its behavior. It puts critics
of Israel in the larger society on the defensive, and makes support for
Israel so bipartisan as to become virtually absolute – and making opposition to
any important pro-Israel initiative, for instance annual military appropriations,
becomes politically untenable.
Such
a tactic has been highly effective in the past. It has made anyone politically
foolish enough to defy this overarching consensus exceedingly vulnerable to
political defeat in the next scheduled election.
Such a person is clearly targeted, and yes, by AIPAC, rich Zionist donors, and
pro-Israeli Christian lobbies and likely the lucky opponent will have trouble
spending all the money pouring into his or her campaign coffers.
+
Is
Israel An Apartheid State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAhBg99LxiA&feature=youtu.be
w/Norman
Finkelstein
+
US Threatens
Ireland Over Israel Boycott & Netanyahu’s Slide
Towards ‘Jewish Fascism’
===========
j.
Freedom
Rider: Justice and Paul Manafort
https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-justice-and-paul-manafort
by
Margaret Kimberley
Now
that Trump’s sleazy associates are facing prison, lots of Democrats that never
gave a damn about mass Black incarceration are self-righteously blasting the
criminal injustice system.
“White
people suddenly claiming concern about the racist criminal justice system should
have to prove their sincerity.”
By
every measure black people are the most oppressed of any group in the United
States. We consistently rank last in every positive outcome and first in every
one that is negative. The mass incarceration system exemplifies this dynamic
more than any of the other woes we face. Black people are a mere 13% of the
population yet make up half of those held behind bars. Incarceration is the
norm for minor offenses and sentences are usually as draconian as possible.
So
it is understandable that the 47 month sentence handed down to Paul Manafort
would elicit so much outrage. The man who briefly served as chairman of Donald
Trump’s presidential chairman was found guilty of tax and bank fraud. Robert
Mueller recommended a 19-year sentence but judge T.S. Ellis decided otherwise.
“Manafort
was a hired gun who worked all over the world to further the corrupt interests
of United States foreign policy.”
Ellis
can be taken to task because he is the hanging, maximum sentence judge for
black defendants. He sentenced former Congressional Black Caucus member William
Jefferson to 13 years for bribery, the longest sentence ever handed down to a
member of congress for crimes committed while in office. Manafort did not lead
“an exemplary life” as Ellis claimed. He was a hired gun who worked all over
the world to further the corrupt interests of United States foreign policy.
But
the response to Manafort’s sentence should not go unexamined either. Manafort
has become synonymous with Trump and much of the anger directed at him is not
based on the seriousness of the offense he committed. Instead it is based on a
need to punish someone, anyone for Trump becoming president in the first place.
The
Russiagate faux scandal plays a large role in turning millions of people into a
mob demanding a harsh sentence that is often applied to murderers and other
violent criminals. Most of what the public have been told about Manafort is
untrue and the anger is misplaced. His consulting firm operated in Ukraine, not
Russia. Like every other lobbyist doing business there his goal was to pull
Ukraine away from Russian influence and toward Western Europe. He advised
president Viktor Yanukovych to do just that and to seek out membership in the
European Union.
“Ellis
sentenced former Congressional Black Caucus member William Jefferson to 13
years for bribery.”
Manafort
didn’t give polling data to Russians. He gave it to Ukrainians and he was
hoping to drum up business by showing them that his guy was going to win. His
business partner Konstantin Kilimnik is said to have connections with Russian
intelligence agencies but that charge is unproven. However Kilimnik does have a
proven relationship with the United States intelligence state. He worked for
the International Republican Institute (IRI), an organization founded by the
late John McCain which among other things is dedicated to bringing about
pro-western regime change to Ukraine.
The
virtue signaling created by the Manafort sentence should be called into
question. White people suddenly claiming concern about the racist criminal
justice system should have to prove their sincerity.Are they willing to make
the necessary political demands on their own people in order to tear down mass
incarceration? Social media posts directed against a Trump crony are a poor
substitute for the hard work of ending this worst and most durable
manifestation of white supremacy.
“Manafort
advised Ukraine’s president to pull away from Russia do and seek out membership
in the European Union.”
As
for black people, we should not allow ourselves to be fooled, not by Russiagate
and not by liberals crying crocodile tears. Anyone using our suffering in order
to make the case for their own political agenda is a questionable ally at best.
The
anger at Manafort and the other Trump affiliated charlatans and crooks should
instead be directed at the people who brought this dangerous farce to the
public. Perhaps it is time to finally dissect the Democratic Party wrong doing
and missteps which led to the Trump presidency. This examination will be
particularly difficult for black people. The justifiable fear of Republican
Party rule distorts our politics and turns us into dupes. The supposedly
inevitable Hillary Clinton victory led us down the path to Trump, a man the
democrats determined was the easiest to beat.
+
Top oil firms
spending millions lobbying to block climate change policies
===========
k.
College
Bribery Scandal Highlights How America
Is
Rigged for Wealthy & Powerful
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/15/anand_giridharadas_college_bribery_scandal_highlights
with
Anand Giridharadas
As
the fallout continues over the elite college admissions scandal that
investigators nicknamed “Operation Varsity Blues,” we speak with journalist
Anand Giridharadas, author of “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing
the World.” His book examines how the so-called elite class of America have
worked the system to maintain and consolidate power and wealth, even while
claiming to help people and “change the world” through charity. On Wednesday,
Giridharadas tweeted: “The college bribery scam is not a college bribery scam.
It is a master class in how America—governed by a cheater, ruled by rule
breakers, managed by a class that confuses its privilege for merit—functions.”
+
“Do
the super-rich want the rest of us to be economically uncomfortable?"
with
Richard Wolff
+
Charity to opioid billionaire: “We don’t want your money!"
===========
l.
From:
Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Friday, 15 March, 2019
Subject: [MCM] Mueller's team did NO
forensic study of that "Russian hack," nor would he talk to those who
really did some. (Why?)
CAMPAIGN 2016, INTELLIGENCE, RUSSIA, RUSSIAGATE, VIPS MEMOS, WIKILEAKS
VIPS:
Mueller’s Forensics-Free Findings
March
13, 2019
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/13/vips-muellers-forensics-free-findings/
The
final Mueller report should be graded “incomplete,” says VIPS, whose forensic
work proves the speciousness of the story that DNC emails published by
WikiLeaks came from Russian hacking.
MEMORANDUM
FOR: The Attorney General
FROM:
Veteran Intelligence Professionals
for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT:
Mueller’s Forensics-Free Findings
Executive
Summary
Media reports are predicting that Special Counsel
Robert Mueller is about to give you the findings of his probe into any links
and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated
with the campaign of President Donald Trump. If Mueller gives you his
“completed” report anytime soon, it should be graded “incomplete.” Major
deficiencies include depending on a DNC-hired cybersecurity company for
forensics and failure to consult with those who have done original forensic
work, including us and the independent forensic investigators with whom we have
examined the data. We stand ready to help.
We
veteran intelligence professionals (VIPS) have done enough detailed forensic
work to prove the speciousness of the prevailing story that the DNC emails
published by WikiLeaks came from Russian hacking. Given the paucity of evidence
to support that story, we believe Mueller may choose to finesse this key issue
and leave everyone hanging. That would help sustain the widespread belief that
Trump owes his victory to President Vladimir Putin, and strengthen the hand of
those who pay little heed to the unpredictable consequences of an increase in
tensions with nuclear-armed Russia.
There
is an overabundance of “assessments” but a lack of hard evidence to support
that prevailing narrative. We believe that there are enough people of integrity
in the Department of Justice to prevent the outright manufacture or distortion
of “evidence,” particularly if they become aware that experienced scientists
have completed independent forensic study that yield very different
conclusions. We know only too well — and did our best to expose — how our
former colleagues in the intelligence community manufactured fraudulent
“evidence” of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
We
have scrutinized publicly available physical data — the “trail” that every
cyber operation leaves behind. And we have had support from highly experienced
independent forensic investigators who, like us, have no axes to grind. We can
prove that the conventional-wisdom story about
Russian-hacking-DNC-emails-for-WikiLeaks is false. Drawing largely on the
unique expertise of two VIPS scientists who worked for a combined total of 70
years at the National Security Agency and became Technical Directors there, we
have regularly published our findings. But we have been deprived of a hearing
in mainstream media — an experience painfully reminiscent of what we had to
endure when we exposed the corruption of intelligence before the attack on Iraq
16 years ago.
This
time, with the principles of physics and forensic science to rely on, we are
able to adduce solid evidence exposing mistakes and distortions in the dominant
story. We offer you below — as a kind ofaide-memoire— a discussion of
some of the key factors related to what has become known as “Russia-gate.” And
we include our most recent findings drawn from forensic work on data associated
with WikiLeaks’ publication of the DNC emails.
We
do not claim our conclusions are “irrefutable and undeniable,” a la Colin
Powell at the UN before the Iraq war. Our judgments, however, are based on the
scientific method — not “assessments.” We decided to put this memorandum
together in hopes of ensuring that you hear that directly from us.
If
the Mueller team remains reluctant to review our work — or even to interview
willing witnesses with direct knowledge, like WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange and
former UK Ambassador Craig Murray, we fear that many of those yearning
earnestly for the truth on Russia-gate will come to the corrosive conclusion
that the Mueller investigation was a sham.
In
sum, we are concerned that, at this point, an incomplete Mueller report will
fall far short of the commitment made by then Acting Attorney General Rod
Rosenstein “to ensure a full and thorough investigation,” when he appointed
Mueller in May 2017. Again, we are at your disposal.
+
"Secret
deal between DOJ and Clinton lawyers exposes Deep State corruption"
The
Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss newly
released transcripts from disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok that reveal the
US Department of Justice and the Clinton Lawyers struck a secret deal that
blocked the FBI from accessing Clinton Foundation emails, during the Hillary
home server "investigation".
+
Trump
and GOP Steeped in Corruption,
as
Corp. Dems Push Cold War Fever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OtRrG__56I
Our
weekly roundup panel looks at the fracture lines in the Republican Party and
the corporate Democrats continue their frenzy about Russia - with Jacqueline
Luqman, Jeff Cohen and host Paul Jay
==========
What
will crash US economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAPggdgBIhc&feature=youtu.be
with
Richard Wolff
Private
corporate debt in the US stands at $9 trillion. Economist and co-founder of
“Democracy at Work” Prof. Richard Wolff joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the
dangers of such an astronomical sum to the US in the event of a deep recession.
+
"Richard
Wolff Reveals How Empires End"
+
Economic
recovery talk is smoke & mirrors as corporate debt bubble ready to bust
https://www.rt.com/business/454018-debt-bubble-wolff-sanchez/
with
Richard Wolff
==========
n.
Anti-Capitalist
Chronicles
The
Conditions of Labor in China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xfvx0Ll2IE
with
David Harvey
+
"Global
Capitalism: US and China - 1 Global Economy, 2 Giants”
with
Richard Wolff
==========
o.
The
Rules that Govern Life on Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDISuJdfZk
with
Sean B Carroll
You
can also listen to this event on our new podcast! List here, or searh 'Ri
Science Podcast' in your app of choice: https://soundcloud.com/royal-institut...
Evolutionary biologist Sean B Carroll reveals how a few simple rules govern all
life on earth, from the cells in our bodies to populations of animals on the
Serengeti. Subscribe for science videos every week: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe
Watch the Q&A that followed this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-Oh8...
From revealing how inheritance works and developing evolutionary biology to
manipulating viruses and bacteria to create products humans need, 20th century
biology has been a revolution. In telling the stories of some of the greatest
discoveries of 20th century biology, Sean B. Carroll reveals how a few simple
rules govern all life on earth, from the cells in our bodies to populations of
animals on the Serengeti. A talk to show you why modern biology holds the key
to remedying our greatest medical and ecological challenges. Sean B. Carroll is
an internationally-recognized evolutionary biologist whose research has
centered on the genes that control animal body patterns and play major roles in
the evolution of animal diversity. He's also an award-winning author, educator,
and executive producer as well as the Allan Wilson Professor of Molecular
Biology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin.
==========
p.
From: Richard Greeman
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2019
Subject: Convergence à
Montpellier : le « Serment du Peyrou »
La
convergence syndicalistes-Gilet Jaunes était bien visible à Montpellier pendant
la manifestation de 2 à 3.000 travailleur/euses appelée par la CGT et
l’intersyndicale le 19 mars, comme le montre ce vidéo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wEyy080Gek&feature=youtu.be
La
marche se termina à la Promenade Royale du Peyrou, et cette place s’est
transformée en une véritable tribune populaire. Des centaines de manifestant.es,
Gilet Jaunes et syndicalistes, se sont regroupé/es autour de la statue équestre
de Louis XIV pour se présenter les un/es aux autres, exprimer leur
revendications et leurs espoirs mutuels, et se solidariser au nom de la
Convergence des luttes.
Il
y a eu, de part et d’autre, des prises de parole émouvantes sur des conditions
de travail invivables, les privatisations, les sévices de la police, les lois
liberticides, l’arrogance du pouvoir. Surtout on a exprimé une détermination
révolutionnaire de bloquer le pays pour changer le système. Les manifestant.es
ont terminé cette assemblée en jurant de “rester ensemble” et de se battre pour
mettre STOP à l’offensive néo-libérale du gouvernement et du patronat.
Voici
le texte d’un appel à l’unité que j'ai présenté à cette assemblée qui
l'acclamée par des cris de “Restons ensemble!”
« Nous
voilà pour la première fois ensemble, militants syndicaux et militants Gilets
Jaunes, enfin libres de parler entre nous ! Libres de forger une convergence
réelle, pour unir nos forces en opposition aux contre-réformes de Macron
destinées à nous enlever nos droits gagnés chèrement, par nos ancêtres, pendant
les luttes de 1936, 1945 et 1968 ! Profitons de cette rencontre inédite pour
mieux nous comprendre et nous unir dans un combat contre nos ennemis communs.
C’est un moment historique, nous le sentons tous.
Comme
le Tiers État en 1789, ensemble nous représentons la majorité du pays qui
travaille. Vous qui êtes des travailleurs/euses des grandes industries et des
métropoles qui peuvent se syndiquer et faire la grève. Nous, Gilets Jaunes,
nous sommes pour la plupart des travailleurs indépendants, retraités, chômeurs,
travailleurs précaires, artisans et employées de petites entreprises
dispersées. Ensemble nous faisons tout le travail du pays et ensemble nous
pouvons le bloquer et enfin nous faire entendre.
Comme
le Tiers État en 1789, bien que fortement majoritaire dans le pays, nous ne
représentons RIEN dans l’ordre politique. Comme le Tiers État nous avons en
face de nous un Roi, Emmanuel 1er, qui ne veut rien céder sans que
nous l’y obligions.
Comme
le Tiers État, nous avons en face de nous une noblesse d’argent, le MEDEF, qui
vit de notre travail et qui cherche à nous voler le peu d’acquis qui nous
reste.
Comme
le Tiers État, nous avons en face de nous un Clergé médiatique et syndical de
collaborateurs qui nous promettent un paradis, nous prient de prendre notre mal
en patience, et nous divisent – afin de garder leurs places à la table du Monarque
et de sa Noblesse.
Aujourd’hui
notre République est entre les mains d’une nouvelle monarchie, avec une
Noblesse financière et un Clergé syndical qui mange à sa table, en égrainant un
chapelet de grèves perlés et d’actions isolées : tactique défaitiste
faite pour égarer ses brebis et les servir en pâture aux loups de la finance
avec qui ils s’attablent.
Or,
en ce moment même, cette Monarchie concocte de nouvelles lois liberticides, qui
rendraient les manifestations pratiquement illégales. Elle renforce son appareil
répressif avec des armes de plus en plus dangereuses, au grand dam de l’Europe
des Droits humains, choquée. Ces armes, c’est contre nous, les Gilets Jaunes,
que le pouvoir les essaie d’abord. Mais c’est en fin de compte contre vous, les
syndicalistes de combat, qu’elle les forge.
Voici
quatre mois que nous, les Gilets Jaunes, nous luttons, seul.es,
de toutes nos forces pour freiner le rouleau compresseur néo libéral de ce
gouvernement autoritaire – au risque d’arrestations, de blessures, et même de
mort/es. Malgré la répression et les calomnies que le gouvernement et les
médias déferlent sur nous semaine après semaine, nous continuons à tenir et le
public continue à nous approuver nos buts. Mais pour combien de temps
encore ?
Aujourd’hui
est arrivée l’heure de la “Grande Convergence”. Il est temps que tous les
travailleur /euses qui peuvent faire grève se joignent à nos contestations
des ronds-points et places. Ensemble, nous pouvons bloquer le pays jusqu’à que
le pouvoir cède. L’unité fait la force. Battons-nous uni.es,
car nous avons les mêmes ennemis et les mêmes objectifs.
Tous
ces valets des riches craignent notre pouvoir. Celui du Peuple souverain. Rien
ne fait plus peur au Monarque « élu, » à la Noblesse financière et au
Clergé bureaucratique, que le cauchemar d’une véritable grève générale
soutenue partout par les blocages de Gilets Jaunes et par le public, qui en a
marre depuis longtemps.
Le
20 Juin 1789, le Tiers État, interdit de séance officielle des États Généraux,
a occupé un bâtiment vide, le « Jeu de Paume » (salle de sport
royale), pour discuter de leurs droits, entre eux, comme nous ce soir. Et ils
ont fini par prêter serment de ne pas se séparer avant l’élaboration d’une
Constitution. C’est l’origine de la Première République.
Faisons
comme nos ancêtres ! Prêtons serment de ne pas nous séparer avant d’avoir mis
FIN aux attaques contre notre bien-être et nos libertés. Jurons de rester
ensemble pour nous battre et pour gagner! Ne lâchons rien ! »
(Acclamations)
Cette
“Grande Rencontre (avec apéro festif)»avait été proposée aux
syndicats du 34 et à leur membres par les Gilets Jaunes du Peyrou
(GJ34). Plusieurs syndicats avait répondu positivement, entre autres FSU
(SNESUP), Solidaires (Sud Education), CGT (SNTRS), et FO ESR. En revanche le
Secrétaire départemental de la CGT, l’Évêque Serge Ragazzacci, tout en appelant
à la lutte et à la convergence, a refusé de venir à la Rencontre et, le
lendemain, a remis au 9 mai la prochaine mobilisation.
En
ligne : https://blogs.mediapart.fr/richard-greeman/blog/210319/convergence-montpellier-le-serment-du-peyrou
+
"Yellow
Vests protest in Paris, Act 18 (Part 3)"
+
"A
Message to the World from The Yellow Vest Movement
(France)"
==========
q.
"The Birth of Patrice Lumumba and the
Assassination of a Free Africa"
==========
r.
From: Jim O'Brien
To: h-pad@historiansforpeace.org
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 3/22/19: Links to recent articles of interest
The author teaches Middle Eastern history at the University of Michigan.
The author is a visiting assistant professor of history at Columbia University.
The author is a professor emeritus of history and International relations at Boston University.
The author is a professor emeritus of history at Princeton University and New York University. He argues that reckless Cold War rhetoric in the US poses the danger of a shooting war with Russia.
An acerbic historical overview of the US war in Afghanistan.The author is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who taught history for fifteen years in military and civilian schools.
The author is a former editor of the American Historical Association's magazine Perspectives on History and is the founder and editor of the Political Uses of the Past Project (historychecked.com)
A disturbing in-depth analysis of early twentieth century American racial theories and their influence on Nazi Germany.
Based on interviews with medieval historians
On Britain, Egypt, and the U.S. in the immediate aftermath of World War I. The author teaches history at Harvard University.
By Mary L. Dudziak, Washington Post, posted March 1
About the erosion of Congress's power to declare war. The author teaches law at Emory University and has written War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (2013) among other books.