Bulletin N° 958
“Running on
Empty”
1988
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5c4ioi
(1:56:16)
written by Naomi Foner, directed by Sidney Lumet,
and starring: River Phoenix, Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch
A family sets fire to a weapons lab and since
then is constantly chased by the government authorities. Their survival is
threatened when the eldest son announces to live his life on his own terms.
Subject: A Pragmatic Post-Neoliberal
Humanism: The case for a non-violent revolution.
February 23, 2021
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Many years ago, when I was studying history in graduate school, a yoga teacher asked me: “Do you look inside
yourself to see the good, the bad, and the ugly?”
I answered, “No, that would just
slow me down.”
She smiled and said to herself: “There goes another one,
rushing on towards the end.”
White supremacy and other variants of the nefarious "separatist identity" autopoiesis serve as
serious obstacles which prevent any avenues for liberation from the delusions of superiority. The
great refusal to this cognitive manipulation of "apartness" is the subtext of Joel Kovel’s transformational work, Overcoming Zionism (2007).
We finish our presentation of this book with a perusal of the last two
chapters, where the author concludes his project of deconstructing the
current ideology of Zionism and the building of the state of Israel, gluing
together, as it were, peoples from different origins with a classic racist consensus maintained against the less-than-human Other.
Is the glass
half-empty or half-full?
In chapter 9, entitled “Beyond the Two-State Solution,” the
Kovel focuses on the geopolitical logic of settler
colonialism and the
larger imperial interests that are served. Here he states unequivocally that
Israel does not “have the right” to exist, and that no state can claim the
unconditional right to exist. State “legitimacy” is always contingent on its
relationship to the larger international community and the informed "consent of the governed."
Here the author addresses the problematic of the necessary rapport de force
which is the hallmark of all colonized communities.
The attempted denazification of
Germany after WW II offers an insight into the problematic role of indoctrination,
received ideas, and dogmas as applied in the day-to-day maintenance of political economies.
In
a field configured by chains of vengeance and retribution, tracking down ‘who
started it’ never can get to the root of the problem. This applies to the riots
of 1929, the wars of 1948 and 1967, the collapse of the Oslo Accords, the
Second Intifada, as well as each and every act of aggression within the whole
history of Israel/Palestine. Each of these is a story, and for each story there
is a counter-story, with ‘another side.’ We need to grasp the whole of things,
and its basic historical movement and form. This cannot be determined by any
merely empirical study. It needs concern for underlying structure and inner
relationships, that is, basic principles. The nature of these principles cannot
be given in advance as a simple set of rules. They unfold in the course of an
inquiry, the object of which is not to determine ‘who started it,’ or who has
the better claim according to the rationalizations of imperial states, the
‘Word of G-d’, or some conjured-up legalism. The question is, what is this all
about according to the standards of justice and the well-being of the human
community?(pp.197-198)
Kovel goes on to critique the “Two-State solution” as an
alien abstract construction, inapplicable to the complex historical material
reality on the ground.
The Two-State notion stems from the
special background to the present struggle, namely, that both sides in the
period up until 1948 were stateless, the Zionists by choice, in that they had
insisted on throwing off statehoods of the Diaspora and beginning anew; and the
Palestinians by necessity, in that they lived under the Ottoman rule for
centuries. When this collapsed in the wake of the first Great War, an opportunity
arose to achieve some real autonomy from colonialism. When the struggle heated
up in the 1930s and 1940s, it therefore took the shape of two competing state
claims, and has kept that basic form through all that followed.
This was quite different from the
conditions of state-formation in the United States, Germany and South Africa,
the three other societies to have sunk into the morass of state-produced
racism. In the American model, the settler-colonials had to deal with the
mother country and competing empires like that of France;, while the
aboriginals were scattered tribes who had never lived under anybody’s dominion,
and had as a result never come together as a nation. Therefore there were no
competing state claims between the European-Americans and the American Indians;
these latter were crushed under’ the expanding colossus of the United States
and placed on reservations, American bantustans,
where they were given shards of autonomy
under the tutelage of the master. Meanwhile the dynamics of state-imposed
racism became displaced and re-centered upon African chattel slavery,
structural discrimination against whom was built into the constitution and
deeply anchored in civil society. Except for thwarted attempts to export the
‘black problem,’ such as the founding of Liberia and the twentieth century
Garvey and Black Power movements, the extended and ongoing conflict over state
racism in the United States has never entailed competing state claims for the
same territory but rather exclusion of blacks from the polity. The most recent
turn has been de facto disenfranchisement in the last two presidential elections, a half-century after the civil rights movement
seemed to have put to rest once and for all the demons of state-produced
racism. But however the history of racism has scarred the American nation, the
changing of the Constitution after the civil war, along with subsequent laws
establishing civil rights to the whole population removed the United States
form the category of absolute illegitimacy. Condoleezza Rice may be a bad
Secretary of State, but this is because, as a black woman in the United States,
she has the civil right to choose the wrong political path and to move very far
along it, whereas there is no chance at all for an Arab citizen of Israel to
achieve high government office. No, the ‘land of the free’ is merely a very bad
instance of a relatively illegitimate society.
Germany in the Nazi period, by contrast,
was a recently coalesced state formed from an ancient nation, one of the most
highly developed and powerful nation states of its day. Carrying the germ of judaeophobia since at least the time of Luther, it also had
a splendidly ‘emancipated’ Jewish community prior to its Nazi degeneration.
There was no question of any competing state claim,
just as there could be no question of settler-colonialism in a society whose
tribal origins were the subject of cloudy myths revived in Wagnerian opera and
Nazi fantasy. In sum, although from one angle the contribution of Nazi race
hatred to the mythos of Zionism places Germany at the epicenter of the
formation of the Jewish state, there is no structural resemblance worth
speaking of between the two, such as is too facilely brought forward in many
critiques of Israel. The points of contact derive, rather, from the fact of
being transformed from victim to overlord. Here a psychological mechanism is at
play, which has been discussed above as the ‘identification with the
aggressor.’ But as psychology in itself can form no material base for a
society, the immense shadow of the Nazi period is just that: a shadow that can
be lifted and overcome, or hardened into Zionist propaganda and ideology and
repeated in the everyday oppression of Palestinians.
Not so with South Africa, which
provides by far the most salient point of comparison with Israel. Both
were settler-colonial formations formed by Europeans obsessed with the Old
Testament and under the thumb of British imperialism, and each launched their
peculiarly racist state in the same year 1948. A hint of the profound
connection between the two formations goes back at least to 1919, when the
esteemed Jan Smuts, in addressing the South African Zionist Federation and the
South African Jewish Board of Deputies in Johannesburg stated that:
‘The
white people of South Africa, and especially the older Dutch
population, has been brought up almost entirely on Jewish tradition. . .
. The Old Testament has been the very marrow of Dutch culture here in South
Africa. . .
‘That is the basis of our culture in South
Africa, that is the basis of our white culture, and it is the basis of your
Jewish culture; and therefore we are standing together on a common platform,
the greatest spiritual platform the world has ever seen. On that platform I
want us to build the future South Africa.’
From that platform 42 years later, in
1961, the South African Prime Minister Henrik
Verwoerd would say, with a degree of candor not vouchsafed to liberal opinion,
that the ‘Zionists took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there
for a thousand years. In that, I agree with them. Israel, like South Africa, is
an apartheid state.’
This is not to say that Jews always found life in Apartheid South Africa
easy. The manifest Nazi sympathies of the founders of the racist state,
especially Daniel Malan, gave considerable cause for alarm at first. But with
tile, and the remarkable rapport that developed between South Africa and
Israel, things settled down. As Chris McGreal has
written: ‘Within a few years [after 1948], many South
African Jews not only came to feel secure under the new order but comfortable
with it. Some found echoes of Israel’s struggle in the revival of Afrikaner
nationalism.’ After the 1973 war, when most African states broke ties with
Israel, the Zionists and Afrikaners drew closer. Prime Minister John Vorster,
whom the British had interned for Nazi sympathies, paid Israel a state visit in
1976 and was toasted by Yitzak Rabin for ‘the ideas
shared by Israel and South Africa; the hopes for justice and peaceful
coexistence.’ A few months later, South Africa officially stated that ‘Israel
and South Africa have one thing above all else in common; they are both
situated in a predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark peoples.’ This
ushered in a major integration of the military establishments and arms
industries of the two counties, including development of nuclear war
capability, on-the-ground assistance in the Angola war, and the provision of
anti-riot vehicles to use in the suppression of the black townships. In the
words of a high Israeli official, ‘there was a love affair between the security
establishments of the two countries and their armies.’ Many senior Israeli
officials came to believe that the Jewish state could not have survived without
the support and financial aid of apartheid South Africa – all this during a
period when Israel was manifestly opposing apartheid.
There remain numerous points of
distinction between racist South Africa and racist Israel, the most salient of
which is that although both states have been closely allied with the United
States, the character of that relationship is greatly different, first, because
of special US interests in the Middle East, and second, because South Africa
had no comparable constituency in America compared to the Zionist lobbies and
was never remotely able to penetrate the state apparatus to the same degree.
The African victims of apartheid differed
from the Palestinian victims of Zionism in having a complex internal history of
struggle between different tribal units, and having been under the thumb of the
European invaders for hundreds of years (albeit with periods of fierce armed
struggle like the Zulu uprising of the nineteenth century) before the
instauration of the modern racist state. The racist state itself was more
overtly segregated than Israel in as much as its ruling Caucasian class, being
ethnically divided between the majority Boer Afrikaners (of the Calvinist Dutch
Reformed Church) and the minority English (of the more liberal Anglican
Church), had to find common ground in whiteness. As a result, overt segregation
was more rigidly enforced than in Israel, where
Jewishness, whether as religion or ethnicity, defines
social dominance. There were other relevant distinctions. South Africa by the
mid twentieth century was already a regional superpower with a formidable
industrial base grounded in immense mineral reserves, in contrast to Israel,
which has not significant economic base and is deeply dependent on handouts
from global capital.
The blacks (and so-called ‘coloured people,’ as well as a sizable Indian population),
tribally, ethnically and linguistically divided, approached the emerging
Afrikaner state from a position of sever military and political weakness. On the
other hand, they came equipped with powerful reserves of class consciousness
arising from an advanced proletarianiztion deriving
from labor in the South African mines and mills. This took the form of highly
developed trades unions and an active Communist Party. They also had the
benefit of the sojourn of Mohandas Gandhi in the country early in the century,
form which point (chiefly Durban, where a century later the international
conference on racism could be held) the concepts and tactics of Satyagraha
were developed and transmitted to the emerging anti-apartheid struggle. These
traits were eventually to coalesce into a powerful and compelling strategy; but
they would not for many years add up to a bid for state power.
The conjunction of these factors allowed
the South African state to act with a degree of confidence. For one thing, it
already controlled its territory, being a mutation, directly influenced by Nazi
ideology, of an already existing polity rather than a de novo state
formation. From this position of strength it could legislate a grandiose
project of social engineering that consigned and further divided the blacks
into an intricate set of statelets – the infamous
Bantustans – while retaining their status as a pool of labor power for the economy,
meanwhile maintaining a sheen of utopian legitimating. Thus there was more of a
need to provide minimal physical care for the blacks than has been the case for
Israel and its Palestinians, where the basic goal has been to get rid of them
by all means possible.
A starkly different scenario awaited the
Jewish state. Here the future ruling class were
Johnny-come-latelys in an ancient and relatively
unindustrialized land, to which they had no claim except that generated by
their ideology. Weak politically as well as economically, the Zionists began
their statehood by doing what they could to secure as much land as possible in
1948 beyond the original UN Mandate through a prodigious ethnic cleansing that
displaced some 700,000 Palestinians from some 531 villages, the great majority
of them having been erased from the land
and the memory of the non-Arab world, including of course, that of the Jewish
conquerors. And they took off from there, playing the hand they had been dealt
with skill and determination. Given their original weakness and shaky claim to
the land they coveted, the Zionists had no choice but to go along with the
two-state plan imposed by the international community. But this was never more
than a framework for the achievement of their goals, hence consent by Israel to
the Two-State idea was from the beginning grudging and purely tactical, while
the objective has remained the eventual passion of the whole of Palestine and
dispossession of the remainder of its Arab inhabitants.
. . .
The
Jewish state does not want another state on territory that it considers its
sacred reserve, but goes along with the game because, when all is said and
done, and the F-16 fighter-bombers and
the nuclear arsenal and the super-effective spy service are weighed in the
balance, it still finds itself weak and will always be weak given its
geostrategic and economic condition. Thus it will always remain dependent upon
‘the kindness of strangers.’ Even if these are its ardently Zionist pals in
Bush’s neoconservative regime, many of whom are Jewish themselves, Israel will
always be aware that its giant patron can abandon it as swiftly as it has taken
it under it wing once its strategic considerations or
internal politics change. Under this permanent state of insecurity it continues
the two-state façade while reserving for itself the intention of total
expropriation, including the entire ‘transfer’ of the non-Jew, an option for
which as many as 40 percent of the population has expressed fairly consistent
approval. Thus the Two-State notion is essentially a code word for the
maintenance of the status quo. Within Israeli discourse the notion of ‘Two
State’ simply means, then, the continued aggrandizement of the Jewish state
along with a more or less negligible ‘other state’ on an ever shrinking
fragment of land. What it does not mean is an equable sharing of the space of
Palestine.
The negligibility of the Palestinian state
is exactly what has happened in reality. More than a half-century of chewing
and gnawing away at Palestinian land had left the latter more a rag doll on a
stick than the framework for a living social organism. Down to some 8 percent
of the original territory, surrounded by the IDF, laced with Jew-only roads and
peppered with hundreds of settlements that arrogate the water and best land, a
dumping ground for Israeli waste, its field and olive trees destroyed, its land
carved up by the ‘apartheid wall,’ the potential Palestinian state is no more
than a bad joke ,a less-than- bantustan (which in the
South African version had coherent and stable borders, and funding from the
center), and is more aptly called a concentration camp than a state-in-waiting.
With no viable economy save handouts, and no prospect of authentic foreign
relations, the proposed Palestinian state is a nullity.
Thus if the basic conditions for a
Two-State solution is that there be two functional states on the ground, the
Two-State solution has been annihilated. Fifty-eight years of aggression and
chewing away on the part of Zionism has, simply, eliminated this as a real
possibility and reduced it to a script for the posturing of statesmen, the
filling of airtime on the networks and column-inches in the press, and the
diverting of the mind from coming to grips with what needs to be done in
Israel/Palestine. It remains only as a false hope and another source of
propaganda allowing Israel to be perceived as a bona fides member of the
community of nations.
. . .
So long as Israel remains Zionist, there will never be a viable
Two-State resolution. Only a newly minted Israeli state, therefore, would be
capable of restoring Palestine – either in a viable two-state configuration, or
along some other form. As to what that form may be, we return to the logical
antipode to the Two-State solution and revive what has been given various names
that can be summed up here in terms of their common meaning, as a One State
solution. The One State option is a demand for Israel to cease being a Jewish
state that destroys everything that is worthwhile that went into its making.
The idea of a single state for all the
people of Israel/Palestine was frequently discussed in the early, utopian phase
of Zionism.(pp.209-219)
Short-Term Pessimism/Long-Term Optimism.
Chapter 10, “Palesrael: A Secular
and Universal Democracy for Israel/Palestine,” is the expression of hope based on
observations. Kovel introduces the chapter with a quote from the
American-Israeli activist Jeff Halper who
participates in demonstrations against Israeli demolitions of Palestinian
homes. Halper observed:
‘Knowing
that the conflict is too destabilizing for the global system to let fester, the
Palestinians are saying ‘We will remain sumud,
steadfast. Impose on us an apartheid system, blame us for the violence while
ignoring Israeli State Terror, pursue your programs of American Empire or your
self-righteous notion of a ‘clash of civilizations’ – we Palestinians will not
submit. We will not cooperate. We will not play your rigged game. And in the
end your power will be for naught. So costly will we make this conflict to
Israel, the US and the international community that you will come to us to sue
for peace. We will be ready for a just peace that respects the rights of all
the peoples of the region, including the Israelis. But you will not beat us.’(pp.222-223)
This attitude of resistance, Kovel observes, resonates
throughout the Palestinian population. They have truth on their side, and all
of the ideological constructs pulled from thin air cannot rob them of this understanding;
while the fatal flaw of Zionism, according to Kovel, is that it is founded on a
lie.
While visiting Jerusalem, Kovel hired a Palestinian guide
named Ahmad. In the conclusion of this final chapter, he cites Ahmad’s parting
words:
‘I
don’t see the struggle here finishing . . . . What I am struggling for now is
to see this universe as without borders, so that people can move without anyone
stopping you to ask where are you from, where are you going, who are you,
Christian, Muslim or Jew?. . . This is
what I believe – that all these conflicts are monstrous and cannot be justified
at all. We are fighting each other as human beings.Yet no human being came into this world willingly;
nobody asked us if we wanted to come into this world or not. We are just here;
we came naked into the world, we didn’t bring with us anything at all. Even our
religion we did not bring. How can I believe that this land is mine and that
land is his, since we came naked into this world? And since I will leave it
naked and will take nothing with me . . . . We are all human beings. If we
believe in God, then God created us all. I do not believe God is racist …
Nature is all his creation; we are all a product of nature, and this is not out
of choice but a fact.’(p.247)
In his closing remarks, Kovel states: “I think of the
thousands of young Palestinians now held in Israeli prisons, as Ahmad once was,
and wonder who will live to see the dawning of their day.” (p.247)
The 25+ items below speak to a spark of hope in the dark heavens above us. Like a meteorite falling into our atmosphere from some distant location, we are reminded that this darkness is penetrable. We may first mystify our experiences out of ignorance, but sooner or later we come to the realization that this night cannot last, that we will eventually see and recognize one another for what we are, humans, for better and for worse - with all the potentials this implies.
We are related to one another, and dependent on this
malleable relationship for our survival.
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
___
Professeur honoraire de l'Université
Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de
Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
http://www.ceimsa.org
a.
“News from the Underground”: Mark Crispin Miller’s Struggle for
Academic Freedom at NYU
===========
b.
“The Post-American World”
Crooke, Escobar, Blumenthal and Marandi lay
it all out!
with :
Alastair
Crooke - Former British Diplomat, the Founder, and Director of the Conflicts
Form Pepe Escobar - Brazilian Political Analyst and
Author Max Blumenthal - American Journalist and Author from Grayzone
Chaired by Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Professor at
University of Tehran
(2:12:32)
Thirty years
ago, the United States dominated the world politically, economically, and
scientifically. But today?
+
“The Establishment Wants Us Divided, Distracted, Afraid.”
with Jimmy Dore
(6:17)
+
The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: “Destroying Civil Society, Engineered
Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the
‘Great Reset’.”
by Prof
Michel Chossudovsky
===========
c.
Meet the IDF-Linked Cybersecurity Group
‘Protecting’ US Hospitals 'Pro Bono’
by Whitney
Webb
+
Another Mega Group Spy Scandal? Samanage,
Sabotage, And The SolarWinds
Hack –
by Whitney
Webb
The
devastating hack on SolarWinds was quickly pinned on
Russia by US intelligence. A more likely culprit, Samanage,
a company whose software was integrated into SolarWinds’
software just as the “back door” was inserted, is deeply tied to Israeli
intelligence and intelligence-linked families such as the Maxwells.
===========
d.
The Corona Virus Vaccine
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e.
“What
About Excess Mortality?”
https://www.corbettreport.com/what-about-excess-mortality-questions-for-corbett-073/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CorbettReportRSS+%28The+Corbett+Report%29
with
James Corbett
(42:41)
+
Masks
Lead To Bacterial Pneumonia, Oral Thrush, Systemic Inflammation & May Be
The Cause Of “Long-Haul” COVID
with
Ryan Cristián
(2:10:26)
+
“5 Ways Biometric Security
Can
Be Spoofed”
https://www.corbettreport.com/5-ways-biometric-security-can-be-spoofed/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CorbettReportRSS+%28The+Corbett+Report%29
by
James Corbett
+
What
If the COVID Pandemic
Never
Really Ends?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/02/what-if-the-covid-pandemic-never-really-ends.html
by
David Wallace-Wells
===========
f.
Operation
Warp Speed is Using a CIA-Linked Contractor to Keep Covid-19 Vaccine Contracts
Secret
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/10/investigative-reports/operation-warp-speed/
by
Whitney Webb
+
Big
Tech Monopolies
“Controlling
Speech!?”
with
Jimmy Dore and Matt Stoller
(35:59)
+
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+
|
“How
Can A Global Conspiracy Work?”
https://www.corbettreport.com/how-can-a-global-conspiracy-work-questions-for-corbett-074/
with
James Corbett
(46 :01)
===========
g.
Where
Are the Witnesses? Ralph Nader Says Democrats’ Impeachment Case Is
“Prescription for Defeat”
“If
you can’t lie, you don’t know the truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/2/12/ralph_nader_donald_trump_impeachment_trial
with
Ralph Nader
(16:45)
+
“Washington
Post Blames Capitol Protest On Economic Despair”
“Still
laughing at the in-side joke…”
(24:05)
with
Jimmy Dore
+
New
Video Of Capitol Riot Reveals Shocking Violence And Emotional Pleas For Help
with
Stephen Colbert
(11:44)
+
Economic
Update: “The U.S. Political Right in Anger & Mourning”
with
Richard Wolff and Prof. Arlie Hochschild
(29:55)
On
this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the radical policies of
Berlin's city gov't and its Die Linke Party; why raising minimum wage to
$15/hour is too little, too late; how bans on evictions and utility shut offs
fight Covid-19; and lastly, he argues for the urgent need for a changed China
policy. On the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Prof. Arlie Hochschild
on her 10 year study of the US political right.
+
“Will Americans RISE UP?”
with
Chris Hedges"
(4:33)
===========
h.
“The Mother of
All Talk Shows” Episode 87
with
George Galloway
(3:05:30)
+
“Cancel Culture”
Where
Liberalism Goes to Die
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56329.htm
by
Chris Hedges
Elites
and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and
silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech
are the new Jacobins.
+
“The
Root of Texans'
Frozen
Suffering”
with
Richard Wolf
(7:47)
===========
i.
Bill
Gates: Bioterrorism, climate change are next big threats after Covid
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/11/bill-gates-says-bioterrorism-climate-change-are-the-next-big-threats.html
by Jessica Bursztynsky
+
Establishment's
Secret Project:
“To
Control 2020 Election & Censor Critics Revealed.”
(29:01)
with
Jimmy Dore
+
The
Narrative Coup. Real News vs. Fake News
https://www.globalresearch.ca/narrative-coup/5736935
by
Nowick Gray
===========
j.
There
is no Color-Blind Road to Socialism in the United States
http://www.blackagendareport.com/there-no-color-blind-road-socialism-united-states
by
Danny Haiphong
===========
k.
“The Darker
Myths of Empire” Heart of Darkness Series"
(1:23:00)
with Michael Parenti
+
Oliver
Stone Says His ‘JFK’ Documentary Will Premiere At Cannes 2021
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/oliver-stone-jfk-documentary-cannes-1234904254/
by
Haley Bosselman
+
“The history of Germany's fall into fascism is
worth noting”
(4:26)
with
Richard Wolff
+
Capitalism
has become ‘techno-feudalism’
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/upfront/2021/2/19/yanis-varoufakis-capitalism-has-become-techno
with
Yanis Varoufakis
(25:25)
===========
l.
Useful
Idiots:
“Glenn
Greenwald On Censorship, plus
more
on GameStop/Wall Street and the contentious confirmation hearing of Neera
Tanden.”
with
Katie Halper and Matt Taibb
(1:22:59)
===========
m.
Economic
Update:
“History's
Lessons On Capitalism's Failures: Germany & U.S.”
(29:40)
with
Richard Wolff
+
Corporate
Governments Created by Nevada & Big Tech. WTF!
(5:33)
with
Jimmy Dore
===========
n.
Palestinian
Resistance Running in the New Legislative Elections Simulates Insanity
by
Amro Allan
+
On
Anti-Semitism,
Israel
and Palestine
(10:50)
with
Yanis Varoufakis
+
Finkelstein:
Palestine's ICC victory thwarted by Israel's apartheid reality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQJjjsp7vF8
with
Aaron Maté and Norman Finkelstein
In
a landmark ruling, the International Criminal Court has ruled that it has
jurisdiction to investigate Israel for war crimes in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories. However, scholar and author Norman Finkelstein warns
that the ICC decision, while historic, is unlikely to deliver justice.
According to Finkelstein, the Palestinian Authority's capitulation in the Oslo
accords gives Israel room to flout the court's jurisdiction. Meanwhile, the reality
of Israel today -- what the Israeli group B'Tselem recently called a
"regime of Jewish supremacy" -- undermines any notion of a separate
Palestinian state. Guest: Norman Finkelstein. Author, scholar, and leading
expert on Israel-Palestine. His latest book is "I Accuse!". http://normanfinkelstein.com/ B'Tselem statement: "A regime of Jewish
supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is
apartheid" https://www.btselem.org/publications/...
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Sent: Friday, February 19, 2021
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For
Russian leftists, Western favorite Navalny represents
“same corrupt elitism”
(56:10)
with Aaron Maté
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Catherine
Austin Fitts on
“The
State of Our Currencies”
https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1613-catherine-austin-fitts-on-the-state-of-our-currencies/
(34:32)
with James Corbett
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From: Jacobin [mailto:news@jacobinmag.com]
Sent: Monday, February 15,
2021
Subject: “Henry Kissinger Is
Not My Friend.”
https://mailchi.mp/jacobinmag.com/m4a-550898?e=997d6d360e
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“David Harvey and his HUGE ideas on Spatial Fix and
Temporal Fix”
(2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2geYagRlT8&feature=youtu.be
(10:08)
by A Level Geography
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“17
Contradictions
and the End of Capitalism”
(2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn9d9e2o7G0
(48:05)
with Leo Panitch and David Harvey
In
2014, Leo Panitch and David Harvey had a discussion
together at the Jacobin office in Brooklyn. In a spirited conversation, they
discuss Harvey’s book, 17 Contradictions and the End of Capitalism; capital’s
relationship to nature; and how to build visionary movements that go beyond
just localism. And clash over a few things along the way. We reproduce it here
in memory of our friend and comrade, Leo Panitch
(1945-2020).
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“ The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil
Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État
and the ‘Great Reset’ ”
(An E-book consisting of a Preface and Nine Chapters.)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset/5730652
by Prof Michel Chossudovsky
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s.
David
Harvey Talks about the Crimes of Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5zLfhGIR0c
(audio, 29:44)
with Jeremy Scahill
This
interview originally aired on January 17, 2018. For the past year, we’ve all
experienced an intense sort of political or news vertigo. It’s making us dumber
by the day. Of course, part of this is due to the fact that Donald Trump is
president and he constantly scoops the story of the latest outrage about
himself by performing yet another outrage just as we start discussing the
previous one. It’s exhausting and brain melting. But this is also because major
media organizations have all chosen to constantly chase the rabbit. In a way,
all of us in media are complicit. When we’re constantly on the run, it’s very
difficult to take stock of where we are and where we’ve been. To take a good
look at the big picture becomes a luxury that none of us seem able to afford.
And this is going to have serious consequences. Our brains are actually being
altered. The way we process news and information, our ideas about what
constitutes resistance and what constitutes tyranny. In general, we live in a
society that doesn’t study its own history — its unvarnished history. And often
current events are analyzed in a vacuum that almost never includes the context
or history necessary to understand what’s new, what’s old, and how we got to
where we are. We’ve become detached from our own reality and our own work.
David Harvey is one of the leading Marxist thinkers in the world and an
authority on Marx’s “Das Kapital,” which turned 150
years old late last year. Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and
Geography at the City University of New York and he was one of the pioneers of
the discipline of modern geography. David Harvey has a new book out. It’s
called “Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic reason.”
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From: Jim Hightower [mailto:info@ourrevolution.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2021
Subject: we can’t let oil money run
Texas any longer
Our Revolution
is a national grassroots network of local groups dedicated to organizing a
political revolution powerful enough to challenge the structural forces that
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CIA’s Can of Worms http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56325.htm by Edward
Curtin “The CIA and
the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy,” wrote Douglas Valentine in
his important book, The CIA As Organized Crime. This is
true. The corporate mainstream media are stenographers for the national security
state’s ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people, just as
they have done the same for an international audience. We have long been
subjected to this “information warfare,” whose purpose is to win the hearts and
minds of the American people and pacify them into victims of their own
complicity, just as it was practiced long ago by the CIA in Vietnam and by The New York Times, CBS, etc. on the American people then and
over the years as the American warfare state waged endless wars, coups, false
flag operations, and assassinations at home and abroad. Another way
of putting this is to say for all practical purposes when it comes to matters
that bear on important foreign and domestic matters, the CIA and the corporate mainstream media cannot be distinguished. For those who
read and study history, it has long been known that the CIA has placed their
operatives throughout every agency of the U.S. government, as explained by Fletcher Prouty in The Secret Team, The CIA and Its Allies
in Control of the United States and the World; that CIA
officers Cord Myer and Frank Wisner operated secret programs to get some of the
most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom among intellectuals, journalists,
and writers to be their voices for unfreedom and
censorship, as explained by Frances Stonor Saunders in The Cultural Cold War and Joel
Whitney in Finks, among
others; that Cord Myer was especially focused on and successful in “courting
the Compatible Left” since right wingers were already in the Agency’s
pocket. All this is documented and not disputed. It is shocking
only to those who don’t do their homework and see what is happening today
outside a broad historical context. With the rise
of alternate media and a wide array of dissenting voices on the internet, the
establishment felt threatened and went on the defensive. It therefore
should come as no surprise that those same elite corporate media are now
leading the charge for increased censorship and the denial of free speech to
those they deem dangerous, whether that involves wars, rigged elections,
foreign coups, COVID-19, vaccinations, or the lies of the corporate media
themselves. Having already banned critics from writing in their pages and or
talking on their screens, these media giants want to make the quieting of
dissenting voices complete. =========== t. Able Archer War Scare “Potentially Disastrous” Signals intelligence showed Soviet
4th Air Army alert “included preparations for immediate use of
nuclear weapons” in response to NATO exercise Key “End of Tour Report
Addendum" by Lt. Gen. Leonard Perroots
who oversaw Able Archer 83, subject of National Security
Archive lawsuit, declassified by State Department Historian’s
Office Perroots
described “ominous picture” of War Scare, the Soviet alert, and
his decision not to escalate CIA response admitted intelligence
failures and possibility of “serious escalatory consequences”
Washington, D.C., February 17, 2021 – “What
might have happened that day in November 1983 if we had begun a
precautionary generation of forces” aga The FRUS volume, Foreign Relations of the
United States, 1981–1988, Volume IV, Soviet Union, January
1983–March 1985, is a collection of more
than 380 declassified records documenting the beginning of the end
of the Cold War. The volume includes a trove of revelations
about the 1983 War Scare, including the almost completely unredacted text of Lt. Gen. Perroots’s
“parting shot before retirement” (Document 2). Perroots served as Assistant Chief of Staff for
Intelligence, US Air Forces Europe, during the 1983 Able Archer
exercise, and rose to become the Director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency. In January 1989, Perroots
sent senior intelligence officials a classified
“letter outlining his disquiet over the inadequate treatment of the
Soviet war scare” before retiring from government service. Perroots’s
letter sparked a full, all-source investigation by the President’s
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, culminating in its highly
secret 1990 report “The Soviet ‘War Scare’” (Document 4). The
National Security Archive won declassification of the PFIAB report
in 2015 through an interagency appeals panel decision after a
12-year struggle. The detailed PFIAB report concluded that
the U.S. “may have inadvertently placed our relations with the
Soviet Union on a hair trigger” during Able Archer, and commended Perroots for having avoided any escalation.
THE NATIONAL SECURITY ARCHIVE is an
independent non-governmental research institute and library located
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welcome your input, and any information you care to share with us
about your special interests. But we do not sell or rent any
information about subscribers to any other party. + India joins Iran-Russia joint navy drill; China
also to take part https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/16/india-joins-irans-navy-drill-with-russia-china-also-expected
by Maziar Motamedi + "Uninvited:
US accused of 'plundering' Syria" with
Rick Sanchez and Michael Maloof (7:27) Critics
allege that the continuing US presence in Syria, which will soon
include a permanent airport, is all so US interests can plunder oil
to which they have no legitimate claim. The airport is being built
despite opposition from Syria’s internationally recognized
government. Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof
and former naval intelligence officer John Jordan join Rick Sanchez
to share their insights. =========== u. Biden Will Shut Down Left Voices with
Jimmy Dore and Chris Hedges (18:52) + Off To a Diverse Start:
Biden Doubles Down on Some Bad Policies and Appointments http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56323.htm by
Philip Giraldi + Biden
Sells Missiles to Fascists + US
Base Destroys Ancient Coral Reef with
Abby Martin (9:29) + Is Biden Committing
Diplomatic Suicide Over the Iran Nuclear Agreement? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56328.htm
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies + “Dr.
Cornel West Is A Free Man” with
Jimmy Dore (10:12) =========== v. America Needs Third Parties with Jimmy Dore
and Richard Wolff (13:05) + Freedom Rider: Impeachment Theater
http://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-impeachment-theater by Margaret Kimberley Democracy is
hanging on by a thread -- not due to marauding Trumpsters
– but because of bipartisan support for neoliberal policies. “The
Republicans are a convenient foil who can be blamed whenever the Democrats
decide to take a dive.” =========== w. Ashton Kutcher's NGO Supplies Police with 'Free' CIA-linked
Surveillance Tool to 'Protect Kids'
by Whithey Webb A suspect NGO
claiming to combat child trafficking by providing surveillance tech to US
police has allowed Amazon to continue supplying U.S. law enforcement with
facial recognition software despite the tech giant’s moratorium on its sale to
police. + “Unplugging From the Matrix” #SolutionsWatch with James Corbett and Tim Kilkenny (33:38) There are
many things we can do to improve the way we use our devices: Using open source
software, boycotting Google and other Big Tech monopolies, participating in
distributed and decentralized networks, etc. But there’s a more fundamental
question to answer: Are you in charge of your technology, or is it in charge of
you? Could you unplug from your devices altogether? And, if
so, for how long? Joining us to discuss this important question is Tim Kilkenny, one of the co-hosts of the Revelations Radio News
podcast. =========== X. Jack Dorsey,
the CIA and Twitter Censorship in the Age of Covid-19
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/12/investigative-reports/jack-dorsey-the-cia-and-twitter-censorship-in-the-age-of-covid-19/
by Vanessa Beeley + Prof. Richard
Wolff, Censored on Facebook: Here's the
Story! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlWWJ70AG1w
with R.J. Eskow and Richard Wolff (33:57) + ‘Cui Bono?’ Who Benefits? with reallygraceful + George Carlin - National Press Club [Complete May 13, 1999 Speech] (56:30)
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inst a Soviet alert in
response to the Able Archer 83 NATO nuclear release exercise?
This is the question Lieutenant General Leonard H. Perroots asked in his January 1989 End of Tour
Report Addendum published this week in the State Department’s Foreign Relations of the United States series,
edited by Elizabeth C. Charles.
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y.
George Kennan and the Long Telegram - 75th Anniversary
Leading Soviet reformer Alexander Yakovlev discussed the famous Long Telegram with George Kennan in a previously unpublished October 1990 meeting in Moscow . . . .