[marxmail] The Quiet Success of the Israel Divestment Movement

by Marianne Dhenin, Yes! magazine, August 6, 2024 https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2024/08/06/israel-taxes-palestine-gaza-divest *Grassroots efforts to divest local U.S. taxpayer dollars from Israel over its ongoing genocide of Palestinians are gaining steam.* The United States has historica

[marxmail] UN Rapporteur - ‘US Funding of Israeli Genocide Ballooning’/Jenin Raided – Israeli Forces Intensify West Bank Attacks

The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has said “US funding of Israeli genocide” was “ballooning” as the Israeli army “uses ever more lethal bombs.” equipment. https://www.palestinechronicle.com/us-funding-of-israeli-genocide-ballooning-un-rapporteur-francesca-albanese/ Je

[marxmail] How close are the planet’s climate tipping points?

> > Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that > would be hard, if not impossible to reverse. > > *https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/11/climate/earth-warming-climate-tipping-points.html >

Re: [marxmail] Paul Dobson of CP Venezuela reports

Is that a cut and past job from the Bolsheviks defending the revolution but pretending a capitalist country run by a thug Maduro is socialist? On Monday, August 12, 2024, Duane Filan via groups.io wrote: > Woopy! The Stalinists betray another revolution. > > "if the contradiction between imperi

[marxmail] Ukraine’s 'special military operation'

Politico - August 12, 2024 "This is serious,” Andrei Gurulev — a Russian lawmaker, member of Putin's United Russia party and a former deputy commander — wrote on Telegram on Monday. According to Gurulev, Russian border troops were the last to receive information about

Re: [marxmail] Paul Dobson of CP Venezuela reports

> > Woopy! The Stalinists  betray another revolution. > There was no revolution in Venezuela. Bolivarism under Chavez began with social-democratic benefits and experiments with "communes." Its arc reached a height, turned to securing the privileges of a few around Maduro, and then to repressi

Re: [marxmail] Paul Dobson of CP Venezuela reports

Woopy! The Stalinists betray another revolution. "if the contradiction between imperialism and Venezuela's national independence moves in favour of imperialism, this will weaken any attempt from the left to resolve the plethora of internal contradictions in favor of socialism. It is for this reas

[marxmail] 5 minute TED Talk - The Dark History of Mount Rushmore

https://www.ted.com/talks/ned_blackhawk_and_jeffrey_d_means_the_dark_history_of_mount_rushmore -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31596): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31596 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/1078565

[marxmail] Laundering Carbon and the New Scramble for Africa

"Through the deceptive carbon accounting of offset projects, the big oil and gas industries in the Gulf can continue business as usual while claiming to meet their so-called climate targets. The Gulf’s dispossession of African land is key to this strategy, ultimately enabling the disastrous specter

[marxmail] Hamas urges return to existing Gaza ceasefire proposal

Al Jazeera, August 11 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/11/hamas-urges-return-to-existing-gaza-ceasefire-proposal Hamas has asked mediators to present a plan based upon previous truce talks instead of attempting to find a new Gaza ceasefire deal, days ahead of talks proposed by the United Stat

[marxmail] Israel's list of 'terrorists' killed in latest massacre exposed as civilians

*The Israeli army has falsely claimed that over a dozen out of more than 100 civilians massacred in its strike on a Gaza school on 10 August were “terror operatives” belonging to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement.* The Cradle, News Desk, August 11 https://thecradle.co/articles/