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Louis Proyect | 1 Sep 2010 04:27
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Latest Anti-Empire report from Bill Blum

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http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer85.html

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Tom O'Lincoln | 1 Sep 2010 04:38
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New Australian Marxist journal

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Socialist Alternative (Australia) is launching a new Marxist journal.

http://www.marxistleftreview.org/

Contents:

A Marxist Analysis of the Australian Greens
Ben Hillier
The NT Intervention: the liberal defence of racism
Diane Fieldes
Marx and Engels on women's oppression and sexuality and their legacy
Sandra Bloodworth
The origins of Socialist Alternative: summing up the debate
Mick Armstrong
The Deutscher Lecture: Henryk Grossman and the responsibility of socialists
Rick Kuhn

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Juan Fajardo | 1 Sep 2010 04:51
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Re: Beck and historical idiocy....

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On 8/28/2010 6:35 AM, Mark Lause wrote:

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> America's leading right-wing lunatic now claims the legacy of Martin Luther
> King and the civil rights movement as "ours" and something to "take back."

It's part of a larger attempt to cast the Democrats and the left 
(synonymous in their minds) as racists.

Over the past year there has been a steady emphasis on the GOP as "the 
party of Lincoln", "the party of Emancipation".  There has also been an 
emphasis on it being Eisenhower, a Republican, who sent troops to 
enforce desegregation while the Democratic party was the party of Jim 
Crow Southeners.

They've also taken up expounding the notion that programs aimed at 
minorities are examples of the left/Dem. racism, and that diversity and 
multiculturalism are "code words" for "segregation" because they 
represent "emphasis on differences" and an attempt to "fit people into 
stereotypes", whereas the good, kindly, progressive, GOP just wants 
everyone to be "treated the same". (Never mind that they also want 
everyone to *be* the same...)

Beck's been feeding this narrative for a while -notice that picture of 
Lincoln he keeps on his set? But now he's taken it on to the big stage, 
so to speak.
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johnedmundson | 1 Sep 2010 07:12
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Re: Beck and historical idiocy....

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I know it isn't a very good approach to simply write off your political
opponents as idiots, but then in New Zealand we don't have anyone of quite the
same calibre as Beck. I don't quite know how the USA seems to keep producing
these people.

I did like the characterisation of the Beck rally as the "million moron march".
Cheers,
John

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Gary MacLennan | 1 Sep 2010 07:51
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Re: Beck and historical idiocy....

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I have little time for Paddy Chayevsky as a Zionist, or his politically
crappy film *Network* (1976) but Beck seems like something right out of that
script.  Isn't the line "We're as mad as hell, and we're not going to take
this anymore." Really prescient in terms of what the tea baggers and Beck
are up to?

The important point abuot such populist anger is that it must remain either
unfocused or focused on the wrong target.  Thus Chayefsky positions some
mysterious Arab millionaires as the ultimate villains.

Though to be fair to Chayefsky his other line about the ruthless and
unprincipled Television producer, Diana Christensen [Faye Dunaway] -"You are
television incarnate, Diana, indifferent to suffering, insensitive to joy.
All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality."- is very true of
Fox and all it has to offer.

Re John's point about the virtual monopoly that the USA has on political
morons, how I wish that were true.  John should try living in Queensland
some time.

comradely

Gary
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Lüko Willms | 1 Sep 2010 11:14
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Re: Fidel Castro: "I am the one responsible for the persecution of homosexuals that took place in Cuba"

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David Thorstad (binesi <at> gvtel.com) wrote on 2010-08-31 at 17:59:28 in  about 
[Marxism] Fidel Castro: "I am the one responsible for the persecution of 
homosexuals that took place in Cuba":
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>  hardly justify the antigay bigotry of the governing party's policies 
> five decades ago.

   May I remind you that revolutions are made be human beings formed and 
deformed by the old society, and that they transform themselves only by 
transforming the conditions of human life. 

   May I recall the third theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx, and his 
explanations in the "Critique of the Gotha Programme". 

   If you require that revolutions may only be made by a people which is 
transformed into what they might be at the outcome of the revolutionary 
change of their lives, then revolutions will never take place. 

   The Cuban revolution is a fact of history, and its course can't be changed 
in retrospect. Look at it from the standpoint of an historian, and a 
revolutionists learning from the experiences of that revolution. 

   The only "correction" can come from more socialist revolutions being 
successfully waged in other countries, and which will have a profound effect 
not only on the people making those revolutions, but also on the Cuban 
revolution.
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Jeff | 1 Sep 2010 14:14
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Re: Fidel Castro: "I am the one responsible for thepersecution of homosexuals that took place in Cuba"

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At 11:14 01/09/10 +0200, Lüko Willms wrote:
>David Thorstad (binesi <at> gvtel.com) wrote ....
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>>  hardly justify the antigay bigotry of the governing party's policies 
>> five decades ago.
>
>   May I remind you that revolutions are made be human beings formed and 
>deformed by the old society, ......
> ........yak yak yak yak yak yak yak yak.......

Dear Luko,
    You amaze me with your pattern of putting forth a reasonable sounding
series of platitudes in response to someone's post where you absolutely
fail to address what the person actually said! I don't know if it's because
you don't know HOW to read their post or because you think you are so smart
you don't NEED to! But this time you pissed me off enough to break my
(usual) silence....

David Thorstad clearly stated that the problems faced by the Cuban
revolution didn't JUSTIFY the Communist party's positions, let alone their
active persecution of LGBT people which took place, at least, earlier in
the revolution. That is consistent with what Fidel said (perhaps in not so
many words) where he nobly chose to take responsibility for that
circumstance. He did so in view of his having been head of state, not
because he was primarily responsible himself (I'm willing to accept that
his personal views were much more progressive), but because he obviously
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David Thorstad | 1 Sep 2010 14:41

Excellent skewering of Obama's speech

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  This critique hits all the right points about what a lying piece of 
patriotic garbage Oblabla's TV speech last night was. Not only was it 
full of outright lies, but the militaristic flag waving and praise of 
Bush was enough to make me puke. The most disgusting line was "Our 
troops are the steel in our ship of state." Gimme a break. Tell it to 
the thousands of innocents they have murdered. Talk about egg on the 
face of all those self-described "progressives" who voted for this 
warmonger.
David
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/obam-s01.shtml

    Obama's Iraq speech: An exercise in cowardice and deceit

          By Bill Van Auken
          1 September 2010

President Barack Obama's nationally televised speech from the White 
House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. 
It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world 
in its characterization of the criminal war against Iraq. And it was 
cowardly in its groveling before the American military.

The address could inspire only disgust and contempt among those who 
viewed it. Obama, who owed his presidency in large measure to the mass
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Anthony Hartin | 1 Sep 2010 15:17
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Re: Excellent skewering of Obama's speech

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  > Obama declared, "Our troops are the steel in our ship of state," 
adding,
 > "And though our nation may be traveling through rough waters, they give
 > us confidence that our course is true."

Well that seems arse about doesnt it? If you have a steel ship you can 
plough
any course you want - true or false. Thats just a snide way of saying 
"Might makes Right"

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Louis Proyect | 1 Sep 2010 15:24
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Emissions of Evil From the Oval Office

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Speech Defect: Emissions of Evil From the Oval Office 	
Written by Chris Floyd
Wednesday, 01 September 2010 10:47

On Tuesday night, Barack Obama gave a speech from the Oval Office 
on Iraq that was almost as full of hideous, murderous lies as the 
speech on Iraq his predecessor gave in the same location more than 
seven years ago.

After mendaciously declaring an "end to the combat mission in 
Iraq" -- where almost 50,000 regular troops and a similar number 
of mercenaries still remain, carrying out the same missions they 
have been doing for years -- Obama delivered what was perhaps the 
most egregious, bitterly painful lie of the night:

     "Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United 
States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility."

"We have met our responsibility!" No, Mister President, we have 
not. Not until many Americans of high degree stand in the dock for 
war crimes. Not until the United States pays hundreds of billions 
of dollars in unrestricted reparations to the people of Iraq for 
the rape of their country and the mass murder of their people. Not 
until the United States opens its borders to accept all those who
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