Bulletin N° 632
Subject: ON LEARING TO BE FREE WHILE LIVING IN A CAGE.
27 October 2014
Grenoble, France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Wilhelm
Reich died on 3 November 1957 in a Federal prison cell, at the age of sixty,
following years of harassment by US federal government officials and colleagues
at the International Psychoanalytic Association, to which he had belonged. Less
than four years before his death, Reich reflected on his intellectual journey
toward the field of bioenergy research. He wrote in 1954:
I
left behind me an age which had finally got hold of a little corner of the
Freudian thought system, but had completely thrown overboard Freud’s courage to
stand alone, his adherence to some basic truth, his penetrating sense of what
is right regardless –in other words, the complete abandonment of basic research
of human emotions to petty little nuisance considerations such as career, easy
recognition by institutions which owed their very existence to the evasion of
the very facts of life they pretended, falsely, to disclose.(Reich
Speaks of Freud, p.x)
In
1934, Reich exchanged letters with his Berlin colleague, Dr. Lotte Liebeck, who had remained
in Berlin after Reich moved to the University in Oslo, Norway. He replied to
one of Dr. Liebeck’s letter on 10 November 1934:
Your letter was a great pleasure.
I might have many things to say, but will have to be brief because I have
little time.
While my concept of masochism, in Character
Analysis, wrests the problem from the metaphysical realm of the ‘death
instinct,’ it is still far from complete. Nevertheless, it can be comprehended;
one merely has to dig deep down into the analyses to reach the anxiety about
the ‘bursting’ of the genitalia. I have now finished my Congress lecture, and
was able to expand on the relation between masochism and orgasm. Should I
eventually send a copy or galley proofs to the group, for critical comment? . . .
You have good reason to be shaken by reading
Freud: he was a wonderful man. But I was even more shattered by the subsequent
break in his work. This is tragic. I am curious to know if you will discern it
before it becomes openly manifest. It goes back to the earliest writings
(predominance of symbolic interpretation rather than questions of
dynamics-economy, geniality, etc.). But this can only be discovered ex post
facto. Enjoy yourself, then, and good luck in your work.
Signed,
Wm.
Reich (Reich
Speaks of Freud, p.190)
Dr.
Liebeck replied on 22 November, elaborating on her
discoveries while studying Freud’s early work:
Dear
Colleague,
I would like to tell you briefly about the
views I have so far reached during these studies. I am really shaken.
Particularly since I have not found the first break (you know that, for the
time being, I’m reading only the purely theoretical writings, disregarding, for
example, the dream altogether). So one evening I pick up a paper dated 1896 on ‘The Role of Sexuality in the
Etiology …’ And that same night I read ‘My views on this role …’, 1906! And this
is the first break! The first work being lucid, courageous,
with a brilliant prediction about the tremendous significance of the path shown
and of the insights for mankind in general. The suggestion that it is up
to the coming century to build up further –and then, ten years later, a totally
different man, even in tone! What once was courage and clarity, combined with
the utmost caution and integrity of scientific thinking, is now replaced by
anxious vacillation and the fear of his own courage. How many disappointments
and personal blows there must have been in the intervening years! This
consideration is not important for judging the work per se, nor does it have a
place in objective criticism. But personally I’m inclined to believe that the
retreat was prepared by a good deal of therapeutic failure during this period.
Objectively, I note that he can be beaten with his own weapons. Throughout his
early works he disparaged the hereditary factor in favor of the accidental
element –only to smuggle in through the back door the same factor he had
previously thrown out! Sexual constitution organically determined! At one time
he thought that hereditary damage was incurable anyway; now it is for us to
tell him that ourselves! Constitutional damage –in that case we’ll have to
throw in the towel. But it is not so much the change of mind itself, and its
consequences, but whether this change is in the right direction. And here he
has convinced us too deeply and too eloquently for us to go along with him down
this road.
Another word about the consequences: we have
allowed ourselves to be seduced –more or less, and over varying periods of
time—into thinking of our work as an interesting scientific activity, with the
main emphasis on scientific findings. Therefore everything progressed along
scientific lines. The longer I work myself, and the more courageously I do so,
the more I become aware of the vast explosive element it contains. I have
always sensed this, but have gone out of my way to avoid it for fear of drawing
the ultimate conclusion. Our profession ceases to be Gemütlich (trans. agreeably pleasant)
if we have to rake up the deepest primeval emotions! And this we must
inevitably do, or else we will get stuck just as inevitably halfway in between,
or worse! And once we do this, we can no longer doubt the truth of the
etiology anchored in the traumatic experiences of childhood. I believe more
and more that we lean, quite without cause, on fantasies, and seriously neglect
actual experience. Important as the discovery of fantasies is, I’m equally
convinced by the eloquence of the experiences that I can now develop with my
patients. Catharsis should not be belittled, either; it is vastly
underestimated. Of course it should not be treated as an isolated phenomenon
but rather as a fertile soil for continued work. In my opinion it is better to
overemphasize it than to throw it out the window. I’m now capable of clearly
expressing and explaining what I have intuitively felt long ago.
I deliberately take my cue from the works
of 1896. From then on, the roads
fork off. Here is how I see it: on the one hand, a continued development; on
the other, a slow retreat. For some time both are in balance, and there are
still many marvelous discoveries for us in subsequent writings, until the
balance shifts more and more to the sterile side and leads to paths that
deviate from the natural sciences. There is only one thing I don’t understand:
why haven’t the others notices this? Or am I doing them an injustice out of my
limited knowledge of literature? But perhaps it is an indispensable existential
lie to have this blind spot. Because it does make you feel a little creepy,
just thinking how much there still remains to be done. Current
life problems with all their complexities, the raging storms of the early past,
to treat all of this simultaneously is a big order!
But please don’t discuss this letter with
anyone; I plan to expand it into a major paper, perhaps in a year or two. But I
would like to have your opinion, and I do want to thank you because without you
I would have never been able to do it! The intellectual bluffing is over and
done with. . . . With many thanks and
affectionate regards,
Signed,
Lotte Liebeck (Reich
Speaks of Freud, pp.191-193)
We
can see the clearly ‘the expansions’ and ‘the contractions’ in Freud’s thinking
as early as 1904, when in Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex he first
identifies the role played by sexual energy in the life of the child.
That
neurotic anxiety originates from the libido, representing a transformation
product of the same . . . as vinegar is to wine, is one of the most significant
results of psychoanalytic research. . . .
The child behaves . . . like the adult , that is, it changes its libido
into fear when it cannot bring it to gratification, and the grown-up who
becomes neurotic on account of ungratified libido behaves in his anxiety like a
child; he fears when he is alone, that is, without a person of whose love he
believes himself sure and who can calm his fears by means of the most childish
measures.( Three
Contributions,1904, p.81) . . .
As
we have already shown by different examples, every step on this long road of
development may become a point of fixation, and every joint in this complicated
structure may afford opportunity for a dissociation of the sexual impulse. It
still remains for us to review the various inner and outer factors which
disturb the development, and to mention the part of the mechanism affected by
the disturbance emanating from them.(p.90)
Freud
then went on to outline the ‘determining factors’ in early life which can
produce ‘perversions’ and ‘neuroses,’ e.g. ‘repressed perversions’ : a) the
sexual constitution and hereditary endowment that determine the unique
disposition of an individual (which he labels as ‘degenerative’ or ‘hereditary
deterioration’); b) the fate experienced by the sexual streams originating from
individual sources create further elaboration of character formation; c)
the repression that occurs when sexual excitations are produced as usual
but are prevented from attaining their aim by psychic hindrances, and are
driven off into many other paths until they express themselves in a symptom
(‘The result can be an almost normal sexual life –usually a limited one—but
supplemented by psychoneurotic disease.’); d) the process of sublimation
which discharges and utilizes excitations from individual sources of sexuality
in spheres other than genital satisfaction.(pp.92-94)
What
we call the character of a person is built up to a great extent from the
material of sexual excitations; it is composed of impulses fixed since infancy
and won through sublimation, and of such constructions as are destined to suppress
effectually those perverse feelings which are recognized as useless. … Certain
character traits are known to stand in relationship to definite erogenous
components. Thus obstinacy, stinginess, and orderliness are traceable to the
anal eroticism. Ambition is determined through a marked urethral disposition.(p.94)
While
it is not unreasonable, Freud believed, that ‘the final structure of the sexual
life is, above all, the results of the congenital
constitution,’ he insisted that,
‘no
intelligent person … will dispute that in such a cooperation of factors there
is also room for the modifying influences of occasional factors derived from
experience in childhood and later on. It is not easy to estimate the
effectiveness of the constitutional and of the occasional factors
in their relation to each other. Theory is always inclined to over-estimate the
first, while therapeutic practice renders prominent the significance of the
latter. By no means should it be forgotten that between the two there exists a
relation of cooperation and not of exclusion. The constitutional factor
must wait for experiences which being it to the surface, while the occasional
needs the support of the constitutional factor in order to become
effective.’(p.95)
By
way of conclusion, Freud adds a sort of disclaimer, stating that his findings
are by no means universal to all human beings.
Owing
to the oppositional relation existing between culture and the free development
of sexuality, the results of which may be traced far into the formation of our
life, the problem how the sexual life of the child evolves is of very little
importance for the later life in the lower stages of culture and civilization,
and of very great importance in the
higher. . . .
A
considerable number of the deviations from the normal sexual life observed
later have been thus established in neurotics and perverts from
the beginning through the impressions received during the alleged sexually
free period of childhood. The causation is produced by the responsiveness
of the constitution, the prematurity, the quality of heightened adhesion and
the accidental excitement of the sexual impulse through outside influence.(pp.97-98)
In
the same 1904 monograph, Freud warns that children who
are unsuccessfully repressed in the early stages of sexual development, are
permanently retarded intellectually.
We,
moreover, verified from experience the belief that the external influences of
seduction might produce premature breaches in the latency period [between the
ages of 4 and 11 years] leading as far as the suppression of the same and that
the sexual impulse of the child really shows itself to be
polymorphous-perverse; furthermore, that every such premature sexual activity
impairs the educability of the child.(p.90)
Until
the end of his life, Reich continued to express a critical respect for his
mentor; he held in particular esteem Freud’s early discoveries of the
unconscious and sexual repression, which in his opinion were later compromised
by Freud’s metaphysical inventions, such as ‘the death instinct,’ ‘penis envy,’
and the so-called ‘latency period’ in the sexual development of young children.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
(1904) is a document that testifies to Freud’s will to compromise his early
scientific findings. More than forty
years later, Reich expressed this sentiment in his popular book, Listen, Little Man! (1948), which attacks the
politics of character assassination and ressentiment, or ‘passive violence,’ that he had
encountered throughout most of his professional life, while working in
pedagogical institutions, as well as psychoanalytic associations, and is
wide-spread in all types of religious cults. This ‘Plague’ would eventually
kill him in 1957.
Follow
me, Little Man, I want to show you some snapshots of
yourself. Don’t run. It is ugly, but salutary, and not so terribly dangerous.
About
a hundred years ago you learned to parrot the physicists who built machines and
said there was no soul. Then came a great man and showed you your soul, only he
did not know the connection between your soul and your body. You said:
‘Ridiculous! Psychoanalysis! Charlatanry! You can analyze urine, but you cannot
analyze the psyche.’ You said this because in medicine you knew nothing but
urine analysis.; The fight for your mind lasted some
forty years. I know this hard fight, because I, too, fought it for you. One day
you discovered that one can make a lot of money with the sick human mind. All
one has to do is to let a patient come daily for an hour over a period of some
years and have him pay a certain fee for every hour.
Then,
and not until then, did you begin to believe in the existence of the mind. In
the meantime, knowledge of your body has quietly grown. I found that your mind
is a function of your life energy, that, in other words, there is a unity
between body and mind. I followed this track, and I found that you reach out
with your life energy when you feel well and loving, and that you retract it to
the center of the body when you are afraid. For fifteen years you kept silent
about these discoveries. But I continued on the same track and found that this
life energy, which I termed ‘orgone,’ is also found
in the atmosphere, outside of your body. I succeeded in seeing it in the dark
and to devise apparatus which magnified it and made it light up. While you were
playing at cards or were torturing your wife and ruining your child, I sat in a
darkroom, many hours a day, over two long years, to make sure that I had
discovered your life energy. Gradually, I learned to demonstrate it to other
people, and I found
that they saw the same thing I saw.(pp.93-94)
In
1953, Reich published another book, The Murder of Christ, The Emotional Plague of Mankind,
in which he focused on his recent past and the emotional stress under which he
had come to live in the United States as a result of his research on sexual
energy and the etiology of neurosis. He dedicated this book ‘To THE CHILDREN OF
THE FUTURE,’ and toward the end he submitted his views on social change.
Character structure cannot basically be
changed, just as a tree grown crooked cannot be made straight again.
Accordingly, the orgonomist
will never aspire to break the blockings of life energy in the mass of
humanity. The attention will center consistently upon the newborn infants
everywhere, upon the infants who are born unarmored, mobile to the fullest.
To prevent the immobilization of human functioning, and with it the spitting,
the sitting on the spot for ages, the resistance to any kind of motion or
innovation . . . , becomes the basic task. It is the Emotional Plague of man,
born from this very immobilization, which fights living, motile Life in the
newborn infants and induces the armoring of the organism. The worry is,
therefore, the emotional plague, and not the mobility of man.
This basic orientation precludes, naturally,
any kind of political or ideological or merely psychological approach to human
problems. Nothing can change as long as man is armored, since every
misery stems from man’s armoring and immobility which creates the fear of
living motile living. The orgonomic approach is neither political nor
sociological alone; it is not psychological; it grew out of the criticism and
correction of the psychological assumption of psychoanalysis of an absolute
unconscious, of the unconscious being the ultimate giveness
in man, etc., and out of the introduction of bio-psychiatry into socio-economic
thinking. It is BIOLOGICAL and BIOSOCIAL, resting on the discovery of the
Cosmic Energy.(The
Murder of Christ, p.199)
By contrast, the research of
another scientific refugee from Fascist Europe (and for an detailed study of
the rise of fascism in Germany, there is no better book than Franz Neumann’s classic work, Behemoth:
The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944) is
that of Kurt
Luwin, who published
his influential study, Principles of Topological Psychology in
1936, which he dedicated to ‘THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY in Jerusalem, the young
scientific center at the meeting of the East and the West where I hope new
productive collectives will arise.’ Lewin, like
Reich, wished to replace the metaphysics, that was
associated with the field of psychology, with rigorous scientific method. Lewein’s approach was ‘instrumentalist’ by way of
mathematical manipulations rather than through an organic ‘self-realization’ process as espoused by Reich. The
Preface to Lewin’s book is a letter addressed to Dr.
Wolfgang Kohler at Swarthmore College, in which the author described the early
state of his new science :
… one of the main incentives of this book is to help develop a
psychological language generally understandable and independent of ‘schools.’ .
. . Yet collectives have had and will, I
think, always have their place in scientific work. The group which was called
the Psychological Institute of Berlin has been, I think, such a collective of
friends, working together for may years, interested in all fields of
psychology, and concerned as much with experiments as with theories. Whether it
was valuable, history will show; but at least it was happy and lively. . .
.
We know, since theory of relativity at
least, that empirical sciences are to some degree free in defining dynamical
concepts or even in assuming laws, and that only a system as a whole which
includes concepts, coordinating definitions, and laws can be said to be either
true or false, to be adequate or inadequate to empirical facts. This ‘freedom,’
however, is a somewhat doubtful gift. The manifold of possibilities implies
uncertainty, and such uncertainty can become rather painful in a science as
young as psychology, where nearly all concepts are open and unsettled. As
psychology approaches the state of a logically sound science, definitions cease
to be an arbitrary matter. They become far-reaching decisions which presuppose the mastering of the
conceptual problems but which have to be guided entirely by the objective
facts.
The
main difficulty has not been the mastering of the mathematical problems as
such, at least insofar as the topological problems are concerned. After several
attempts to employ the more complicated concepts of topology, I found it both
sufficient and more fruitful to refer to the most simple topological concepts only. . . .
But the main difficulty was the dealing with problems which lie, so to
say, between psychology and mathematics. . . .
Theoretical psychology in its present state
must try to develop a system of concepts which shows all the characteristics of
a ‘Gestalt,’ in which any part depends upon every other part. . . . there seems to be only one way open: to
proceed slowly by tentative steps, to make decisions rather reluctantly, to
keep in view always the whole field of psychology, and to stay in closest
contact with the actual work of psychological research.(pp.vii-vii)
Lewin like Reich had
witnessed the rise of the Fascist movement in Berlin, and the institutional
takeovers of the Nazi Party under Hitler. Both scientists were motivated to
create a new kind of society, constituting more creative human relationships
and more fulfilling productive activities. The question was, would such change
come from above, through a manipulation by elites, or from below, by ordinary
people whose bodies had not been subjected to the brutal conditioning required
by our so-called civilization, which is relentlessly serving capitalist
interests?
The
‘Emotional Plague’ in Reich’s view had long ago given rise to the pathogenic
character structures the carriers of which he called ‘Modju,’
and which in its contemporary form embodied personalities such as Stalin and
Hitler, and the populations which created them. In the context of the rise of
German fascism, Reich adopted a historical approach to the analysis of the
social ills around him and developed a strategy necessary to realize ‘the New
Man,’ free of the body armor that had ‘for the past 2,000 years’ produced
pathological behavior. Kirt Lewin,
on the other hand, developed an ahistorical approach to fee groups of people from
pathological behavior by applying mathematical calculations designed to
liberate them from their habitual behavior and allow them to more fully
integrate into a collective consciousness.
In the post-Second World War Era of the
United States, which saw the political formation of McCarthyism developing into
a prolonged Cold War, neither of these approaches to ‘human liberation’ were warmly
welcomed, but they nevertheless did survive, and came to fruition during the
Anti-Vietnam War Era. The influence of Kurt Lewin is
evident in Boston University Professor
Howard Zinn’s book, The Southern Mystique, (1964) and Wilhelm Reich’s
work during his Marxist period in Berlin is the subject of NYU Professor Bertell Ollman’s book, Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich
(1979).
The
11 items below offer CEIMSA readers a look at contemporary events that
will condition their lives, forcing them to live with repressive compromises
and in a frequent state of acute alienation, unless they decide to do something
about it….
Item
A.,
from Information
Clearing House, is a interview by George Galloway with Kurdish Activist Memed Aksoy.
Item
B.,
from the
Real News Network, is a report by Professor Michael Hudson, author of ‘The Bubble and Beyond’, and
‘Finance Capitalism and Its Discontents’ discussing the coming economic crash.
Item C., from Truth Out, is an article by Jessica Lee on US collaboration with Israeli colonialism in Palestine.
Item
D., from Jim O’Brien of Historians
Against War, is a series of recommended recent
articles.
Item
E.,
from Information
Clearing House, is an article by Uri Avnery describing self-deception in Israel as it
become more and more isolated.
Item
F.,
from Democracy
Now!, is the UN Speech by Noam Chomsky explaining Israeli tactics and strategies over the
past 40 years and the growing resistance movement Israel that has provoked
around the world.
Item
G.,
from the
Real News Network, is a report by Professor Michael Hudson, criticizing the recent work of French
economist, Thomas Piketty.
Item
H.,
from Information
Clearing House, is a interview with University of Illinois Law Professor Francis A. Boyle, discussion the
question: ‘Could the Ebola
virus have escaped from US bio-warfare Labs in West Africa?’
Item
I.,
from NYU Professor Mark Crispin Miller,
founder of News from the
Underground, is an article by Eckart Woertz analyzing the financial support
of ISIS, who are ‘making out like robbers.’
Item
J.,
from Information
Clearing House, is an article by Noam Chomsky discussing the significance of a recent CIA review of
‘major terrorist operations run by the White House around the world.’
Item
K.,
from UCSD Professor Fred Lonidier, is an article on the UC student walk-out over
sexual assault on campus.
And
finally, we invite CEIMSA readers to watch Serbian director Dušan Makavejev’s 1971 film which explores the
relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as exploring the
life and work of Wilhelm Reich.
WR:
Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
http://www.film1k.com/2274/wr-mysteries-of-the-organism-1971/
or
W.R.
MISTERIJE ORGANIZMA [directed by Dušan Makavejev 1971]
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 : Information
Clearing House :
Subject : The Etiology of Middle Eastern Terrorism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
George Galloway Interviews Kurdish
Activist Memed Aksoy.
Kobane: The Nightmare Of Reality
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40019.htm
Video
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B.
From The
Real News Network :
Date: 17 October 2014
Subject : The Coming Economic
Crash.
A
serious depression is pending as a result of austerity, says Professor Michael
Hudson, author of The Bubble and Beyond, and Finance
Capitalism and Its Discontents.
Why Are Stock Markets So Volatile?
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C.
From Truth Out :
Date: 20 October 2014
Subject: US collaboration with Israeli colonialism in Palestine.
Documents Show US Siding With Israel in Death of Its Own Citizen
b
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D.
From Historians
against War :
Date: 20 October 2014
Subject : HAW Notes 10/20/14, including links
to recent articles of interest.
http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/
Note: In addition to the article links below, here are two links
recommended by individuals active in HAW: (1) a petition for Columbus Day to be renamed Indigenous Peoples Day;
announcement of a "One Book, Many Communities" initiative of Librarians
and Archivists for Palestine, starting with discussions of Susan Abulhawa's novel Mornings
in Jenin in January..
Links to
Recent Articles of Interest
"Gaza and
the Bipartisan War on Human Rights"
By Stephen Zunes,
Foreign Policy in Focus, posted October 17
A detailed article comparing
Congressional resolutions and letters on the Gaza war with evidence provided by
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other sources.
"The Pentagon's Commemorating
the Vietnam War. So Should We"
By James W. Loewen,
History News Network, posted October 17
James Loewen
is the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and
Lies Across America, among other books.
"What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle with the Islamic State"
By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com,
posted October 16
The author served with the
State Department in Iraq and has written extensively about the experience
"Military
Historian: US Policy in the Islamic World Has Been a Failure"
Interview with Andrew J. Bacevich, Aljazeera America, posted October 15
Andrew Bacevich
is a professor of history emeritus at Boston University.
"Investing in Junk Armies: Why
American Efforts to Create Foreign Armies Fail"
By William J. Astore, TomDispatch.com, posted October 14
The author is a retired Air
Force lieutenant colonel who teaches history at the Pennsylvania College of
Technology.
"US
Policy Towards Iran Played Big Role in Rise of Sunni
Extremism"
By Shireen
T. Hunter, LobeLog, posted October 14
The author is a visiting
professor in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
"Radicals
Have Taken Over Northern Yemen. Should We Be Worried?"
By Juan Cole, History News
Network, posted October 12
The author teaches history at
the University of Michigan; the article contains much historical background on
events in Yemen.
"Christopher
Columbus Driven by Ill Winds"
By William Loren Katz, CommonDreams.org,
posted October 11
The author has written numerous
popular books on U.S. history.
"How Even
President Obama Gets U.S. History Wrong - We Weren't a Colonial Power?"
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, History
News Network, posted October 10
The author's An Indigenous People's History of the United States was
published by Beacon Press this month.
"BRICS
and SCO: Let a Thousand Poles Bloom"
By Conn Hallinan,
Portside.org, posted October 9
Traces the emergence of rival
centers of power in global affairs
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The above list was edited by Steve Gosch
and Jim O'Brien, benefiting from suggestions by Rosalyn Baxandall,
Mim Jackson, and an anonymous reader.
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E.
From : Information
Clearing House :
Subject : Israel on the Skids.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
Israelis
are quite unable to comprehend the turn of world public opinion.
Better A Hundred Palestinians Killed Than One Israeli
Soldier
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40023.htm
by Uri Avnery
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F.
From Democracy Now ! :
Date: 16 October 2014
Subject: Chomsky at the UN.
In
U.N. Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel, Blocking
Palestinian State
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G.
From The
Real News Network :
Date: 14 October 2014
Subject : The Thomas Piketty ‘Compromise’.
US
economist Michael Hudson discusses
the popularity of French economist Thomas
Piketty's recent book and says his work fails to
link the financialization of the economy to the
ascent of the 1%.
Is Thomas Piketty Right About the Causes of Inequality?
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11788 |
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H.
From : Information
Clearing House :
Subject : Germ Warfare in Africa.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
USA
have been using West Africa as an offshore to
circumvent the Convention on Biological Weapons and do bio-warfare work. Could Ebola Have Escaped From
US Bio-warfare Labs? American law professor Francis A. Boyle, answers questions for tvxs.gr and reveals that
USA have been using West Africa as an offshore to circumvent the Convention on
Biological Weapons and do bio-warfare work.
US Bio-warfare Laboratories In Africa Are The Origin
Of The Ebola Epidemic
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40012.htm
by Aggeliki Dimopoulou
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I.
From Mark Crispin Miller
:
Dates: 21 October 2014
Subject : ISIS, Inc. (They're making out like
bandits...)
“There’s
no trade without war; there’s no war without trade,” the famous quip by Jan Pieterzoon Coen, a leading
officer of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th century, not only points to
the dark beginnings of capitalism, it also spells out a basic fact: You need
money to wage war, loads of it. So from where does the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria (ISIS) gets its money and how stable are its
finances?
How Long Will ISIS Last Economically?
by Eckart Woertz
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J.
From : Information
Clearing House :
Subject : The Etiology of Middle Eastern Terrorism.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
In
western political culture, it is taken to be entirely natural and appropriate
that the Leader of the Free World should be a terrorist rogue state and should openly
proclaim its eminence in such crimes.
The US is a Leading Terrorist State
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40026.htm
by Noam Chomsky
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From : Fred Lonidier :
Subject : UC Students Respond to Sexual Assault on Campus.
Students at the California Institute of
the Arts - CalArts, as it's more popularly known -
are staging a walkout at 3 o'clock this afternoon in protest of the school's
handling of sexual assault cases. The action, organized by a group of about 20
students, will be followed by a student-led community meeting in the school's
Main Gallery to discuss the issue.
CalArts Students Stage Walkout Over
Sexual Assault
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