Bulletin 655
Subject: Political Culture vs. Politics: The Inertia of the Capitalist Ruling Class.
13 June 2015
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Below please find four items that speak to the matrix of political decision making: international class struggle at an advanced level where the stakes are the highest.
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/
House Democrats Defeat TPP For Now
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=14025
CEPR's Stephan Lefebvre explains why House Democrats voted against Trade Adjustment Assistance and what to expect before the revote Tuesday.
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“How can we teach with empty stomachs?”
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Politis.fr
http://www.politis.fr/-Culture,008-.html
Pierre Stambul : « Une police entre incompétence et collusion »
Le coprésident de l’UJFP raconte l’interpellation brutale et inexpliquée dont il a été victime chez lui il y a trois jours.
Dans la nuit du 8 au 9 juin, le coprésident de l’Union Juive française pour la paix (UJFP), Pierre Stambul, a été victime
chez lui d’un assaut toujours inexpliqué du RAID, commando dit d’élite de la police nationale. Trois jours plus tard,
il n’a toujours reçu ni excuses ni explications de la part des autorités. Pierre Stambul revient ici pour Politis sur les circonstances de cette (...)
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Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything
Video
(1:04 min.)
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.