Michael wrote:
"If Trump is elected Netanyahu will ethnically cleanse Gaza, bribe the
egyptians to accept as many Gazans who make it over the border --- squeeze
the West Bank even more --- and unite with the Sunni Arabs against Iran (in
fact might even go to war with Iran)"
Under Biden, Netanyahu
Given the history of men in war, I would be extremely surprised if it
transpired that there had been no sexual offences committed in the attacks
of Oct 7, 2023. The allegation is of systematic use of sexual violence as a
strategy - remember all the claims about these Hamas 'animals' being
provided
I do think that the ruling class has NO INTEREST in fascism because the
working class is so weak --- but Trump is "SUI GENERIS" --- he is an
individual grifter who sees the Presidency is the ultimate grift --- ON THE
WAY, however, he will empower the American "ORBANITES" who think they'll
protect w
S.E.I.U. Plans $200 Million Effort to Aid Biden and Democrats
... up from $150 million in the 2020 election cycle
The S.E.I.U. said it hoped to reach six million voters of color in the
battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North
Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
(And
Dennis, the world is ridiculously complicated --- think of the Trotskyists
who witnessed the MURDER of Trotsky, the famine in Ukraine, the betrayal of
Poland (Nazi-Soviet Pact) etc. YET they still supported the defense of the
Soviet Union when Hitler invaded.
You know who's a great supporter of Pu
*Petition: No to the Criminal Complaint against Pro‐Palestine Activist
Michael Pröbsting!*
https://www.thecommunists.net/rcit/petition-no-to-criminal-complaint-against-pro-palestine-activist-michael-proebsting
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Palestinians Describe Beatings, Stress Positions, Other Alleged Abuses in
Israeli Detention
Former Gazan detainees said they were physically assaulted, forced to kneel for
up to 20 hours a day, sometimes with hands tied above their
I may be missing your point about Mussolini, Hari. You surely know that
independent unions and strikes were also banned in fascist Italy and that the
government-controlled unions were part of a corporatist industrial regime in
which the state managed relations between workers and capitalists. It
Orban is obviously a reactionary dog, but how many civilians has he
murdered and how many are close to suffering from artificially-induced
famine, polluted drinking water, and lack of medicines? He has nothing over
Biden's "great friend" the murderer of Gaza, Netanyahu. But liberal
Democrats want t
Thanks for the thought and effort you've put into this, Hari. I'll also take
some time to go through it carefully and to respond.
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Marv:
Mussolini did *not* have a militant movement to crush - the Turin workers
movement was already crushed. The other two fascists are in a different
category in regards to that.
Of course it is more likely that a rising working class movement will induce
such a right-wing fascist turn, but i
This past weekend, Republican front-runner Donald Trump hosted Hungary’s
authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago and openly praised
Orbán’s autocratic style of rule. To talk more about Orbán and Trump, we spoke
Tuesday with Gábor Scheiring, a former Green Party member of parliam
Hello Marv:
I have been looking over what I believe are some of the relevant data to this
discussion. I did not want any appearance left, that I am in agreement with
where the discussion drifted to, after the initial comments.
I have not finished, in especial I should add - I have not gone over
I understood from Charlie's intervention in the brief exchange between me and
Michael that he inclined towards Michael's view, widely held on the left, that
Trump was a fascist who would work outside of rather than within the system of
bourgeois democracy to attack the working class. Charlie pro
Marv thinks I believe "the Trumpists will launch a full-fledged assault to
replace the existing Constitution with a one party state which will outlaw the
Democrats and the unions and other mass organizations and eliminate freedom of
assembly and the right to vote - essential features of fascism
Fascinating stuff, Dave and Michael! One of the reasons I keep sticking with
Marxmail when doubt sometimes creeps in... :)
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The Republicans and their corporate sponsors desperately want to slash social
programs and the Democrats have in the past consented to more limited cuts but
both parties have always balked at this “third rail” of US politics. Trump even
went so far last week as to suggest he was against cutting
Yes but with a significant difference. Ted was not a Communist Party
member when he did his spying. Kllaus Fuchs in contrast was not just a
member of the German CP as a young student, In Kiel, Germany, he was a
street fighter for the Party which engaged in pitched battles with both
Socialist Party
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 09:20 AM, Charlie (predictably) wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:21 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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>> I doubt they will attempt to destroy the existing constitutional
>> structures.
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> This time Marv gi
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 09:20 AM, Charlie (predictably) wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:21 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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>> I doubt they will attempt to destroy the existing constitutional
>> structures.
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> This time Marv gives us well less than a half-truth.
Charlie quotes well less than h
Dave, let's not forget Fuchs made the same decision as TED ...
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:39 PM Dave Lindorff wrote:
> My view is that Oppenheimer should have done what Ted Hall did, or used
> his considerable clout to convince Roosevelt to bring America's wartime,
> the Soviet Union in on the b
It's all pretty amazing, and a disgusting history of prosecutorial abuse.
Ethel was added to the case in a clear example of extortion. Hoover may
have ultimately oposed her execution because creating two young orphans by
killing her too would be a "bad look" for the Bureau, but his intention was
t
My view is that Oppenheimer should have done what Ted Hall did, or used his
considerable clout to convince Roosevelt to bring America's wartime, the
Soviet Union in on the bomb project, or at least to alert them to what it
was doing in secret. The film presents Oppenheimer as a tragic figure
fighti
Dear Dave --- and all --- The evidence is now clear that the way the FBI
investigation of my father unfolded was that they knew of a spy code named
"Liberal" who had co-conspirators (forget their code names) and a wife
named "Ethel" who had recruited the wife's brother and sister-in-law ===
code na
Are we as Marxists defending the sacred document? Could a constitutional convention be a revolutionary moment?On Mar 13, 2024, at 9:20 AM, Charlie wrote:On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:21 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
I doubt they will attempt to destroy the existing constitutional structures. In fact, they
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:21 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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> I doubt they will attempt to destroy the existing constitutional
> structures. In fact, they claim to be the best defenders of The
> Constitution and their base takes them at their word.
This time Marv gives us well less than a half-truth
On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 04:57 PM, Mark Baugher wrote:
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> Are they the same people who complained that the makers of "Oppenheimer"
> completely ignored the Navajo, the first victims of the US atomic bomb?
I wouldn't know about that, but here is Walsh's review of Martin Scorsese’s
Killers of the
Michael,
Joan and Ted had no hard knowledge that the Air Force had blocked Hoover
from pursuing a case against Ted. One reason a doubt what would surely be
a painfully ironic theory that the Air Force's blocking of an arrest of Ted
Hall may have been the reason for the false charge of atomic spyin
Am SO GLAD Dave weighed in on the site. As an avid reader of his book and
viewer of his film --- and a "somewhat interested party" (that's a somewhat
weak attempt at gallows humor) given that my parents were killed for what
Fuchs and Ted did I was privileged to meet Ted and Joan (and their daughte
https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/israels-disinformation-apparatus-a-key-weapon-in-its-arsenal/
"Moreover, Israel’s information warfare tactics, deeply ingrained in the
nation’s military and political ethos, serve as a stark reminder of the power
of narrative control in facilitating mass atrocities.
Here's the algorithm:
1. Keep talking about the events on one day, 10/7, no matter how many tens of
thousands of children and families are murdered by US munitions in its
aftermath - analyze 10/7 in detail and keep in in the news.
2. Say that antisemitism is on the rise in the US and around the
Just for the record, I, a member of this list, am the producer of that
film. I stumbled on Ted Hall's story in 2017 when I was writing a
commentary on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as I've done on most of those grim
anniversaries for decades. Hoping come up with a new angle, I googled
"Soviet atomic spi
This is long, but it very articulately outlines how 'affirmative action' has
been disembowelled for those whom it was originally intended for, into
'diversity'. A very good history by Nikole Hannah-Jones - who led the 1619
project. She gives an excellent short summary in the *first* link below -
March 12 is Equal Pay Day. The date represents how far into 2024 women
would have to work on top of the hours they worked in 2023 simply to match
what men were paid in 2023.
https://www.epi.org/blog/gender-wage-gap-persists-in-2023-women-are-paid-roughly-22-less-than-men-on-average/
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regarding Mandoweiss's article: This is a pathetic example of journalism
(if we want to call it that). If anybody is serious, they will read the
actual report. Here are a few quotes. In my opinion they show certain
things. Yes, it's true that a "legal" definition of proof is not really
present. How
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