[marxmail] Trump didn't invent the Gaza ethnic cleansing plan. It's been US policy since 2007

Trump didn't invent the Gaza ethnic cleansing plan. It's been US policy since 2007 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intention from day one of his "revenge" attack on Gaza, launched 16 months ago, was either ethnic cleansing or genocide in Gaza. His ally in genocide for the next 15 m

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan's rush to rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 09:27 AM, David Walters wrote: > > On the other comment about costs. Now, that is a far more serious > discussion... if one adds up all the real costs, nuclear comes out cheaper > than solar and wind. It IS a huge debate but the only real one that is > effective in getting

[marxmail] What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and Why does it still affect the Middle East Today?

The Sykes-Picot agreement, known officially as the Asia Minor Agreement of 1916, was arguably the first in a series of attempts by colonial powers to mould the borders of the Middle East. Signed in secret at the height of the first world war, Sykes-Picot was an agreement between France and Great B

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan's rush to rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares

[Edited Message Follows] New Zealand then is like Sweden and the Canadian province of Ontario. Both have large amounts of hydro and in their case, nuclear (approx. 50% in each), which together allow for almost no fossil fuel burning at all. Sweden is now reconsidering its decades old ban on new

[marxmail] Native sovereignty Revealed Through a Mountain of Paperwork

Two-hundred years ago this week, a small group of Muscogee Creek Nation chiefs led by William McIntosh accepted a payment of $400,000 and signed the Treaty of Indian Springs , ceding all Muscogee lan

[marxmail] A view of the NIH cuts, entitled "US Science in Peril"

Say Welensky & Welensky in today's J of American Medical Association: "The stakes for the NIH and US science could not be higher. It is impossible to overestimate the transformative impact of federal fund- ing on science and medicine. The NIH proudly counts 174 Nobel Prize laureates among its res

[marxmail] Annexation at Work: Israel is Quietly Taking Over the West Bank

Sari Orabi, a Palestinian researcher, writes on the Al-Jazeera Arabic website that Israel’s policies of slow displacement in the West Bank, under Netanyahu’s government, are aimed at reshaping the region through settlement expansion, military control, and the fragmentation of Palestinian communitie

[marxmail] Joseph Daher on Syria, going forward

How to Connect Democratic and Socio-economic issues in Syria to serve the 99%? -- The ability to improve socio-economic conditions in the country’s future is crucial to widen participation of the Syrian people in the discussions and struggles for democratic rights in th

[marxmail] Imperialism: ‘Antagonistic cooperation’ or antagonistic contradictions? A reply to Promise Li

*Imperialism: ‘Antagonistic cooperation’ or antagonistic contradictions? A reply to Promise Li* By Michael Pröbsting, /LINKS/ (Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal),25 January, 2025 As I noted in my reply to Argentine economist Claudio Katz, the debate among Marxists about imperi

[marxmail] Poll: Just 9% of Democrats sympathize with the Israelis more than the Palestinians

A new poll shows that Americans are more supportive of the Palestinians than they have been since at least 2017. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/poll-just-9-of-democrats-sympathize-with-the-israelis-more-than-the-palestinians/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent

[marxmail] coke or pepsi?

timesnownews.com Feb 12, 2025 "Coca-cola came under fire from social media users after an allegation went viral that the company is cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and calling the ICE agents on workers at their plants, with a grassroots movement already calling for boycotts a

Re: [marxmail] Pakistan's rush to rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares

New Zealand then is like Sweden and the Canadian province of Ontario. Both have large amounts of hydro and in their case, nuclear (approx. 50% in each), which together allow for almost no fossil fuel burning at all. Sweden is now reconsidering its decades old ban on new nuclear. David -=-=-=-