Bulletin N° 626
Subject: ON THE ETIOLOGY OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND THE PROFITEETS
WHO BENEFIT.
21 September 2014
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of
CEIMSA,
A recent trip to the 63rd
parallel in Norway brought to memory the political culture of Quislings and the Resistance.
The checkerboard history of Norwegian
resistance and collaboration with the fascist invasion --their legacy of
opportunistic betrayals of the resistance-- is by no means unique to Norway. The
ferocious 20th-century violence against civil society extends across
the industrialized world, and we can see the open wounds and scars tissues from
this violence in everyday life around us and perhaps within us, as well. Those who prosper under fascist controls, and those who do not,
represent a veritable litmus test for the health of the environment in which
they live.
Vidkun Quisling, Heinrich
Himmler, Josef Terboven, and Nikolaus
von Falkenhorst
seated in front of
officers of the Waffen-SS, German Army and Air Force
in 1941.
The political culture and the ‘Emotional
Plague’, as Wilhelm Reich called it, was not so different in Norway from the
rest of Europe, as he would discover after he went to
Oslo in October 1934, at the invitation the University of Oslo. He had fled
Nazi Germany in 1933, moving first to Denmark, then to Sweden. In August 1934,
he had been expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association at the
behest of Anna Freud and Ernest Jones, but once he settled in the Norwegian
capital, Reich was able to set up a practice as a psychoanalyst and he founded
the Institute of Sex-Economic Bioresearch which publicized his libido theories.
His belief in the biological as well as the social origins of human misery led
him to study the electrical impulses that sexual stimulation produced in the human
body. He purchased through his Institute in Oslo an oscillograph
and other electronic apparatuses, and he began a series of experiments to
measure the electrical potentials of erogenous skin surfaces during sexual
stimulation and orgasm. He also conducted research on what he called “bions,” which he believed to be the origins of life.
Respectable members the Norwegian
scientific community, however, became alarmed by this scientific research. Oslo
newspapers began running articles in 1937 denouncing Reich, and when his visa
expired in February 1938, several Norwegian scientists argued against its
extension. However, it was acknowledged that not granting an extension might
lead to his expulsion to Nazi Germany, and at great risk as his parents were
Jewish. The anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski
(1884–1942), wrote to the press in Norway defending Reich's sociological works
as ‘a distinct and valuable contribution toward science,’ and A.S. Neill
(1883–1973), founder of Summerhill, a progressive
school in England, wrote that ‘the campaign against Reich seems largely
ignorant and uncivilized, more like fascism than democracy.’ Finally, the
Norwegian government renewed his visa, but a Royal Decree was issued stating
that the practice of psychoanalysis required a state license thereafter, and it
was implied that Reich would not be granted one.
On August 19, 1939, Wilhelm Reich
sailed from Bergen, Norway to New York City, on the last ship to leave Norway
before the Second World War; the following month, on 1 September, the German Blitzkrieg into Poland began, and 'The Phony War” phase of
the WW II was underway. In 1940, Norway’s neutrality was violated when German
troops began their conquest of Norway on April 9. Vidkun
Quisling, leader of the Norwegian pro-Nazi movement, took over the government
in Oslo in June 1940, while King Haakon VII escaped and set up a
government-in-exile in England. In the same month, German troops outflanked the
Maginot Line and with the French surrender the Second World War began in earnest,
while the Free French Army gathered in London, under the leadership of Charles
De Gaulle.
Reich had worked to discover the
etiology of fascist behavior in Berlin, seeking to understand the causes for
the mass attraction to fascism, what he called the "Emotional Plague.” The
answer, he thought, was to be found in the character structure of individuals,
which is produced by the social pressures in which the organism was born. He
worked closely with the German Communist and Socialist Parties in Berlin between
1929 and 1933 because that was where the ordinary people were to be found, and
he wished to study and to influence their behavior. At first, Reich tells us in
the book ed. by Mary Higgins and Chester M. Raphael, Reich Speaks of Freud (1967), the
party leadership welcomed him as ‘the famous psychoanalyst’.
This was the typical procedure of
politicians in sexual and mental hygiene matters: As long as they did not know
what it really meant and as long as they saw people streaming into meetings to
obtain information and help regarding their private lives, the politicians were
all for it. ‘Politicians’, here, not only means the party politician, but it
means every man or woman to whom power, influence, career means everything, and
human misery and knowledge nothing.
As soon as the sex-political
questions revealed its force, its tremendous social importance and its
emotional impact on people, and as soon as the physician, educator, and
functionary faced the grave problem of how, practically, to go about the mass
misery in the midst of all the ideological, medical, scientific confusion, with
thousands of noises babbling and chattering wrong ideas all around them, the
politicians again slandered in order to destroy the true issue of the mental
and sexual health of the multitudes. Then, having destroyed the issue, or debased
it by politicking means, they took over the people for further betrayal. This
was typical procedure, and it will occur until there are powerful centers based
on knowledge and skill which will be able to cope with this tremendous issue of
man. (footnote 9, pp.47-48)
While I was accused by Freud of
criticizing his psychoanalytic theory on behalf of and at the command of
Moscow, … Berlin stooges of the Moscow dictators, were using the most intricate
devices of defamation, underhandedness, distortion, lies and calumny in order
to wrest some fifty thousand men, women, adolescents and children form by
influence. These people had joined the Sexpol
organizations in Germany solely because I had made them look at the social
institutions from the standpoint of the gratification of human needs. In
contradistinction, the red fascists were only interested in state power and in
getting social influence by misusing what I had built up. They were not at all
interested in factual, concrete solutions of the sexual misery of people.
Therefore, they fought me as an ‘anti-Marxist, counter-revolutionary Freudian’.
A few years later, I pulled out of this Freudian and Marxian mess and moved
onto the road which led to the common functioning principle underlying both
Freud’s and Marx’s discoveries, i.e. the living in the human unconscious mind
as well as in the human creative working power. (footnote
2, p.49)
Speaking many years later from his
home in Rangeley, Maine, on October 18 & 19, 1952, Reich described to Dr.
Kurt Eissler, who represented the Sigmund Freud
Archives and wished to record for the Archives Reich’s views of Freud, his
anti-fascist activities, and the events that led to his expulsion from the
International Psychoanalytic Association at the August 1934 International Congress
in Lucerne.
The whole horrible thing burst out
at the Lucerne Congress. Do you want to hear about that [slander]? . . . That I seduced all my patients. I was a psychopath. I was
this. I was that. Then, finally, I had gone schizophrenic. That went on for
years. You know that? . . . I doubt that
you never heard that I’m ‘paranoiac’, ‘schizophrenic’ . . . .
I can explain how they came to invent such a rumor, or to set such a
rumor into motion about me. In 1929 –I think it was then—I began to work in
character analysis with physiological emotions, with physiological feelings in
the patients. You are acquainted with
character analysis? . . . You know what I call preorgastic
streamings? Orgonotic current?
Well, in schizophrenics, the
bio-energetic emotions or excitations break through into consciousness. In the
so-called normal human beings, these excitations are more or less shut off.
This is particularly the case in the affect-blocked compulsion neurotic. In
investigating the difference between the typical neurotic and the
schizophrenic, I learned that the neurotic recognizes the excitations which may
break through spontaneously, or in the course of treatment, as biological, as
arising from within. The schizophrenic fails to recognize these primary,
biophysical sensations and plasmatic streaming as an inner process and, thus,
comes to misinterpret and distort them. That is, he believes the excitations
–the sensations, the crawlings, the stirrings in
him—are due to outside influences, for example, to persecutors trying to
electrocute him. He does perceive his bio-energetic emotion, but he
misinterprets it. This explanation of the schizophrenic process was viewed as
distorted and even delusional by psychoanalysts such as Jones, Federn, Fenichel.
And out of such things grew the slander of calling me a paranoid schizophrenic.
I want you to read that third edition [of Character Analysis]. You have it?(pp.9-12)
The Emotional Plague, according to Wilhelm Reich’s diagnosis is due to
the formation of muscular ‘body armor,’ and he
concluded that individual therapy was insufficient to rid all of society of
this plague; but, on the other hand, its expansion could be prevented. Toward
the end of his life, he turned to advocating prophylactic measures that would
protect new-born infants and children from the violence that produced the
deformation of human character structure that propagated this world-wide plague
and has created such misery for humanity for so many millennia, of which WWII
was but one bloody episode.
Today, Reich’s work, according to
critics, has been predictably distorted to serve the Forces of Order in
consumer society. Just as after “the murder of Christ”, [see Reich’s book, The Murder of Christ (1953)] the
Christian Church distorted the life work of Jesus by institutionalizing
modified representations of his teachings; so, likewise, have the recent
advances of consumer society distorted Reich’s discoveries in order to control
consumer behavior in mass society, entirely contrary to Reich’s research
objectives.
Do you know what Christ knew? He
knew about the Life Energy. . . . In a
simple way, he knew about the fields and the grass and growth and babies.
That’s what he knew. Freud didn’t. Freud was anti-emotional, very
anti-emotional. Freud was for intellect only, you understand. I myself am quite
intellectual. But intellect without an emotional basis can’t quite fully live
or work. Now, I know why he was against the emotions. He opposed them
because he rejected the secondary emotions, the perverted emotions. And the
normal emotions, the natural ones, the deep ones –nobody knew about them, then.
. . .
The moralistic world has for
thousands of years, especially since the beginning of early patriarchy,
suppressed the natural genital drives. It has thus created the ‘secondary’ or perverse
and pornographic drives, and was then forced to build up a wall of
moralistic, hygienically disastrous laws and rules against the same
pornographic human mind which was first created by the suppression of natural
sexuality.(pp.64-65)
For a rich and critical account of
Wilhelm Reich’s life and an analysis of the social context of his intellectual evolution, see
Bertell Ollman’s book, Social
and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich (1979).
The 7 items below offer
CEIMSA readers a chance to revaluate Reich’s original analysis of the origins
of suffering in today’s society. Could it be that each of us is the unconscious
product of a ‘plague’ that has affected us from the time of birth, and
has affected human society almost from the beginning; or are we indeed conscious of our
deepest needs and feel free to express them openly? Are we really equipped to
assume responsibility for our actions and govern our bio-energy
as we wish, or have we been weakened and confused biologically and emotionally
by the repression of and diversion from our ‘primary’ emotions; have we been
violently conditioned by feelings of fear
and disgust to limit or to abandon
entirely all attempts to assert control over our own lives, all hope of ever
fulfilling our genuinely human needs and desires?
Item A., from two
university union representative on the Grenoble campus,
offering short descriptions (in French) of the state of Grenoble
University at the start of this academic year, 2014-2015.
Item
B., from Jim O’Brien of Historians
Against War, is a series of recommended
recent articles.
Item C., from Information Clearing House, is a
speech by Matti Peled on
Israel, the deadly myth.
Item D., from Information Clearing House, is an
article by Immanuel Wallerstein
warning that the USA now is out of control and heading for a crash.
Item E., from Democracy
Now!, is an interview with Naomi
Klein discussing her new book, This Changes Everything, and the
anti-climate change movement in New York City.
Item F., from The
Real News Network, is an interview with Andrew Levine discussing the question, is Israel obsolete?
Item
G.,
from Anonymous, is a “modest
proposal to end war in the Middle East.”
And finally, we invite CEIMSA
readers to take a look at three videos by and about Wilhelm Reich and which attempt to answer the following question :
Why would
the United States government seek out and literally burn all the books they
could find that mentioned a particular scientist's work?
Wilhelm
Reich - Man's Right to Know
(Produced by the Wilhelm Reich Infant Trust, 2012)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNYmBDvSwOw
Wilhelm
Reich - Alone (10 min. home recording)
(03.04.1952)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t5h-93bxOY
The
Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich
written & directed by Antonin
Svoboda
(2012)
(with first 2 minutes in German language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEilU4jRaTo
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor of American Studies
University of Grenoble-3
Director of Research
University of Paris-Nanterre
Center for the Advanced Study of
American Institutions and Social Movements
The University of California-San
Diego
http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-EXILE/
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A.
From
Labor Union reps. on the Grenoble University Campus :
Date:
16 September 2014
Subject:
Preparing for the upcoming meeting of
Grenoble University union representatives.
http://www.snesup.fr/Le-Snesup/L-actualite-du-SUP?aid=7079&ptid=5
Chers tous,
La rentrée se passe très mal à l'U3 :
personnel administratif et enseignant (du moins tous ceux, et ils sont
nombreux, qui sont chargés d'un bout d'administration) était sur les rotules
avant même la reprise des cours, et plusieurs "au bord de la crise de nerf"
(j'ai l'air de plaisanter, mais c'est très angoissant). La période de
renouvellement contractuel y est pour qqc, mais aussi
l'élargissement de "l'outil" informatique (ADE par exemple crée de
nouvelles contraintes) et une gestion de plus en plus à flux tendu (ouverture /
fermeture de groupes à moins d'une semaine de la reprise des cours sur de pures
raisons comptables ; services calculés essentiellement sur les
"fondamentaux", ne permettant aucune souplesse, notamment car ne
permet pas d'anticiper le besoin en vacations qui auraient pu être statutaires,
type ATER), sans parler d'une reprise anticipée (plein d'étudiants sont encore
en train d'arriver, tout au moins en M).
Pascale Robert, de la Ferc-CGT,
a fait passer sur info-syndicales un excellent message que je vous copie
ci-dessous. Il faut vraiment que nous arrivions à une action collective sur
cette question : une nouvelle version de "l'université s'arrête" ?
En parallèle, et ça a
quelque chose de surréaliste, la direction nous présente les textes fondateurs
de la Comue.
Amitiés
Isabelle K.
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Santé
et sécurité au travail-Rythme, durée, contenu, cadre, environnement de
travail... Ce sont des choix d’organisation du travail faits par l’employeur.
Ils déterminent nos conditions de travail.
Il y a un lien très fort entre conditions de travail et santé puisque cette
organisation du travail a des répercussions, immédiates et différées sur la
personne : fatigue, stress, maladies, accidents, absentéisme ... Ou
satisfaction, présentéisme, bien être...
Les conditions de travail sont donc
déterminantes de la qualité de vie, de la qualité de vie à la retraite, de
l'espérance de vie.
L'amélioration
des conditions de travail dans la fonction publique constitue un enjeu
essentiel de la rénovation de la politique des ressources humaines et des
relations sociales. C’est sur ce constat que le gouvernement a signé un premier
accord le 20 novembre 2009 sur la santé et la
sécurité au travail dans la fonction publique.
Ce protocole intègre durablement la prise en compte des risques psychos-sociaux RPS au même titre que les autres risques
professionnels dans les politiques de prévention puis d’aller à terme vers des
mesures plus larges d’amélioration de la qualité de vie au travail (QVT).
Lors du rendez-vous le mercredi 10 septembre
2014 des membres du CHSCT* avec l' inspecteur
CHSCT dans le cadre de l'inspection Hygiène et sécurité de l'université, nous
avons pu l' informer de la situation actuelle des
conditions de travail à l' Université Stendhal.
L'université Stendhal a subi de profonds changements en vue de la fusion avec
les autres universités de Grenoble dès l'année universitaire 2011-2013 avec la
réorganisation en seulement 2 UFR .
Depuis les réorganisations des services et composantes se sont enchainés.
Cela a entrainé une surcharge de travail de travail pour la plupart des
personnels et a dégradé le « vivre ensemble » dans le travail. Ces
changements profonds ont aussi généré des conflits.
Nous
constatons de plus en plus de souffrance au travail aussi bien parmi les
personnels administratifs ou enseignants.
Les causes sont multiples, nous pouvons en citer quelques unes :
- charge de travail anormale le temps alloué pour réaliser le travail est trop
court, délais trop courts les temps de pause ne sont pas respectés
- le travail ne peut s'effectuer sans interruption, perturbation (sans oublier
pannes d'applications de logiciels , de serveurs,
d'impression, etc..)
- le nouveau système d'impression -photocopie-scanner diminue l'efficacité
(temps d'attente d'impression _machine et file
d'attente d'impression-photocopie, déplacement , etc) changement périodique des logiciels utilisés (sans
formation ou formation dispensée tardivement) si bien que les personnels ne
peuvent acquérir les automatismes nécessaires à une bonne utilisation.
On
ne donne pas aux personnels les moyens de faire un travail de qualité d'où les
erreurs plus élevées , qui demandent un temps de
correction ajoutant à la charge de travail _un cercle
vicieux !
- rotation importante des personnels (turn-over), soit encadrants , soit
exécutants ce qui nécessite encore un temps de formation , d'adaptation .
- Les consignes données ne
sont pas toujours claires un problème de communication : l' information prise par la hiérarchie ne descend pas !
- le travail en équipe et la concertation entre collègues ne sont pas toujours possible , d'ailleurs l'organisation prévoit rarement du
temps pour le faire
- la direction, la hiérarchie, elles aussi débordées ne sont pas toujours à
l'écoute de leurs personnels et elles n'aont pas une
idée juste du travail qualitatif, quantitatif qu'ils effectuent.
- pas de réduction des effectifs, mais redistribution ,
et surtout augmentation des taches et des procédures, lourdeurs des nouvelles
procédures.
- La présidente de
l'université et la gouvernance appliquent toutefois les directives demandées
par le Ministère. Elles appliquent les mesures réglementaires : visites
des services, réunions du CHSCT, mais les problèmes de fond restent inchangés.
Et dans la pratique, sur le terrain, on constate de plus en plus de souffrance
au travail .
Au vu des plaintes des personnels quant au manque de respect au travail, une
formation sur les risques psycho-sociaux a ainsi été mise en place pour les
personnels encadrants.
De plus, une formation aux risques psycho-sociaux a été mise en place en
2013-2014, mais sans tenir compte des recommandations du CHSCT
: mauvaise information des personnels, choix de la date des
groupes de parole inapproprié (fin mai et juin2014). Ainsi une quinzaine de
personnes au plus a participé à cette démarche. Et après ,
que sera-t-il proposé concrètement ?
Nous, les membres du CHSCT, nous sommes entendus par la gouvernance de
l'université, mais sommes rarement écoutés ! Nos alertes restent le plus
souvent sans changement dans l'organisation du travail et les problèmes
s'intensifient !
De
plus, notre engagement nécessiterait une réelle décharge de travail comme cela
est le cas dans les autres universités du site grenoblois. Nous estimons que
nous ne pouvons assumer correctement nos fonctions et si cette décharge nous
est à nouveau refusée, nous serons amener à démissionner de nos
fonctions.
Nous ne pouvons rester sourds à la souffrance exprimés par nos collègues , enseignant ou administratif, au travail ,
conséquence directe de la dégradation des conditions de travail entrainées par
la fusion des universités. Nous ne voulons rester pas impuissants face à la
souffrance de nos collègues et à la dégradation de leur santé .
Agir
pour préserver sa santé au travail, son bien-être, passe par connaître le droit
pour le faire respecter.
Pascale
Robert,
représentante des personnels
FercSup CGT
Pour
en savoir plus :
* Le CHSCT : comité d'hygiène et de sécurité et conditions de travail
Pour rappel voici
Les compétences du comité d'hygiène et de sécurité et conditions de travail
Le
comité CHSCT est consulté sur les règlements et consignes relatives à l'hygiène
et la sécurité. Il est aussi chargé de faire toutes propositions utiles au
conseil d'administration de l'établissement, en vue de promouvoir les
conditions d'hygiène et de sécurité et la formation à la sécurité. Entre
autres, il :
Améliore
les Conditions de travail et forme les agents à l’hygiène et à la sécurité
(art. 46)
Examine
les observations consignées par le personnel sur le Registre d’Hygiène et de
Sécurité (art. 47) concernant entre autres les conditions de travail. Tout
personnel peut consigner ses observations dans ce registre ,
qui sera visé par le supérieur hiérachique et examiné
par le comité CHSCT.
http://www.fonction-publique.gouv.fr/fonction-publique/modernisation-fonction-publique-33
pour
plus de lisibilité voir la pièce jointe (désolée ne peut saisir les accent
circonflexes avec mon clavier !)
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B.
From
Historians against War
:
Date:
16 September 2014
Subject:
Notes 9/16/14: Links to recent articles of interest.
http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/
Links to Recent Articles of
Interest
“Is
There a Diplomatic Solution to ISIS Crisis? US Could Turn to Aid, Arms Embargo
& Engaging Foes”
Interview with Phyllis Bennis on Democracy
Now, posted September 15
“Top
5 Contradictions in Obama’s Emerging ISIL Strategy”
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted
September 15
The author teaches history at the University of Michigan.
“ISIS
and Washington’s Ignorance about the Sunni-Shia
Divide”
By Gary Leupp, CounterPunch.org,
posted September 15
The author teaches history at Tufts University.
"Saudi
Arabia, 9/11 and the Rise of Isis"
By Andrew Cockburn, CounterPunch.org, posted September 15
Based in part on an interview with ex-Senator Bob Graham, a former
member of the Senate Intelligence Committee
“Nationalist
Illusions: Selling Another Middle East War”
By Lawrence Wittner, CounterPunch.org,
posted September 15
The author is a professor of history emeritus at SUNY Albany.
"Bingo!
Here's Another Force of Evil to be 'Vanquished'"
By Robert Fisk, The Independent, posted September 11
On the ironies of president Obama's language in light of recent
Middle Eastern history
“Obama
Is Picking His Targets in Iraq and Syria While Missing the Point”
By Andrew J. Bacevich, Reuters
blog, posted September 10
The author recently retired as a professor of history and
international relations at Boston University.
“Ceasefires
in Which Violations Never Cease: What’s Next for
Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?”
By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com, posted
September 9
“In
Northeast Syria, Islamic State Builds a Government”
By Mariam Karouny, Reuters, posted September 4
A chilling picture of ISIS' staying power and an implied warning
of the extreme difficulty of dislodging it
“Why
the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked
Putin”
By John Mearsheimer, Portside.org,
posted September 2 (from the September-October issue of Foreign Affairs
This list was edited by Steve Gosch and
Jim O'Brien, with thanks to Rosalyn Baxandall, Mim Jackson, and an anonymous reader for suggesting
articles included in the list. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
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C.
From
Information Clearing House :
Date:
16 September 2014
Subject:
Israel, the deadly myth.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
When Everything You Know Is Not
True: Miko Peled Debunking
Jewish Myths
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32739.htm
"If Anybody
here, came hoping to hear a balanced presentation, then they are going to be sorely
disappointed. I say this, because a lot of the things that you are about to
hear tonight are difficult to hear."
“Miko Peled is a peace
activist who dares to say in public what
others still choose to deny. He has credibility, so when he debunks myths that
Jews around the world hold with blind loyalty, people listen. Miko was born in Jerusalem
in 1961 into a well known Zionist family. His grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist
leader and signer on the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His father, Matti Peled was a young officer
in the war of 1948 and a general in the war of 1967 when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and the Sinai. http://mikopeled.com/
Miko Peled, author of The General’s
Son, whose father was the renowned Israeli general Matti
Peled, speaking in
Seattle, October 1, 2012.
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D.
From
Information Clearing House :
Date:
19 September 2014
Subject:
Like the driver of an expensive car gone out of control.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
"How easy it is for officials and
the media to “spin the public into a panic.”
The United States Heading
for a Crash in the Middle East
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article39719.htm
by
Immanuel Wallerstein
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E.
From Democracy Now! :
Date: 18 September 2014
Subject: The People’s Climate March in New York City.
At
least 100,000 people are expected to take part in the People’s Climate March in
New York City on Sunday. More than 2,000 "People’s Climate" events
are planned worldwide in 150 countries. And on Monday, climate activists are
planning to stage a mass sit-in in the financial district in Manhattan in an
action dubbed "Flood Wall Street." The actions are taking place ahead
of Tuesday’s one-day United Nations Climate Summit. We speak to acclaimed
journalist Naomi Klein, author of the new book, “This Changes Everything:
Capitalism vs. the Climate,” about the upcoming climate activism as well as the
global grassroots movement dubbed "Blockadia,"
which is fighting fossil fuel extraction from Canada to Nigeria to Greece.
Naomi Klein on the People’s Climate March & the
Global Grassroots Movement
Fighting Fossil Fuels
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/18/naomi_klein_on_the_peoples_climate
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F.
From The Real News Network
:
Date: 17 September 2014
Subject: Is Israel obsolete?
Andrew
Levine says that Cold War strategic thinking about the Middle East is no longer
relevant.
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G.
From Anonymous :
Date: 16 September 2014
Subject: A modest proposal to end war in the
Middle East.
·
Stop
ISIS recruiting drive by ending the bombing missions in Iraq and Syria.
·
Stop
the ISIS economy by ending the cut-rate oil sales to Turkey.
·
Stop
the ISIS war machine by ending admissions of wounded ISIS fighters to Israeli
hospitals.
·
Stop
the ISIS war supplies and hostage taking by ending subsidies from Qatar and
Saudi Arabia to the Syrian ‘moderates’ who sell arms, as well as western
journalists and humanitarian workers for public execution by ISIS.