Re: [marxmail] The economic change underpinning US politics

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/25/brics_summit_richard_wolff_patrick_bond "... this is a historic turning point. I cannot overstress it. Here we have, for the first time in a century, a serious economic competitor to the United States and its role in the world. We’ve never seen this before

[marxmail] How Are the World’s Trees Doing? A New Assessment Has Answers.

> They play an essential role in supporting life on Earth, but many species > are in decline, researchers found. > > *https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/climate/trees-extinction-iucn-report-biodiversity.html >

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

Mark, you're right that there would be very little disagreement about the need for the US left to focus on the blockade and other efforts of its government aimed at subverting the Maduro government.  But I inferred from Fred's comment in reply to Chris that there was some disagreement about what

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

> On Oct 28, 2024, at 2:38 PM, Marv Gandall via groups.io > wrote: > > disagreements with Chris Slee about whether the focus should be on the Maduro > government's concessions to capitalism or the US blockade. Marv, I can't find any disagreement that the focus of struggle in the US is to

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 05:38 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:55 AM, Charlie wrote: > >> Ridiculous. How do you "offer critical support" to a regime that responds >> [with the iron fist] > > Well,  the alternative is to call for its overthrow > > Maybe that is the only

Re: [marxmail] Does Britain owe Reparations to the Palestinians for Engineering their loss of their Country?

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Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:55 AM, Charlie wrote: > > Ridiculous. How do you "offer critical support" to a regime that > responds...etc.etc. Well,  the alternative is to call for its overthrow. I may be mistaken, but I don't think Fred Fuentes is calling for that, despite his disagreements with

[marxmail] Jill Stein refuses to take marching orders from political elites

 Jill Stein refuses to take marching orders from political elites : Peoples Dispatch | | | | | | | | | | | Jill Stein refuses to take marching orders from political elites : Peopl... Peoples Dispatch Peoples Dispatch spoke to the Green Party candidate for US President on her candi

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 11:18 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > I assume that whatever the left thinks of the Maduro government, it is in > effect offering critical support to it staying in office but demanding > that it reverse course and fight the right wing and US imperialism Ridiculous. How do you

[marxmail] The deadly environmental toll of superyachts and private jets

Every week, the ultra-rich emit more greenhouse gas than poor people produce in a lifetime https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/10/28/the-deadly-environmental-toll-of-superyachts-and-private-jets/ Ian Angus Editor, Climate & Capitalism https://climateandcapitalism.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- G

[marxmail] Vietnam Chemical Warfare’s Secret Toxic Legacies: Agent Blue

For over 50 years, US news about chemical warfare during the American Vietnam War has been dominated by the story of Agent Orange and its devastating impacts . During the Vietnam War period, however, another diabolical c

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

I assume that whatever the left thinks of the Maduro government, it is in effect offering critical support to it staying in office but demanding that it reverse course and fight the right wing and US imperialism rather than surrender power to them. It likely thinks with good reason that it could

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 01:16 AM, Fred Fuentes wrote: > > That is why every single left minister in Chavez's cabinet is today in > opposition to the government. It is why all the leftwing parties are in > opposition to the government... Pretending that the Maduro government in > anyway is progres

Re: [marxmail] Venezuela's Maduro gives industry to Alex Saab

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 08:44 PM, Chris Slee wrote: > > If we were able to get the US government to end the blockade, it would > deprive the right wing of the Chavista movement of one of their main > arguments: that pro-capitalist policies are a necessary response to the > blockade.  This would h