Bulletin N° 688
Subject: Resetting
the Global Clock For the 21st Century.
18 March
2016
Grenoble, France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
More
than ever Americans are speaking of “democratic socialism” and “political
revolution”, which implies political activities beyond electoral
politics, in which presently only a small minority of the population
participate.
The
obvious agenda for this mass social movement --which exists parallel to the
elections and at which Senator Bernie Sanders finds himself temporarily at the
head-- is to democratize the institutions that occupy our lives, and to make new
policies based on principles of political
justice and economic equality.
The corruptions and the inadequacies of the old corporate system are apparent to all but the most stubborn opportunists. The
multiple crises which we are now facing are sure to worsen, and a systemically
aware population will not be satisfied with simply transferring these crises to
another part of the world so that private profits can continue to accrue in the
hands of a few. The system is broken and it is breaking us –this is the
conclusion of an increasing number of people, including millions of young
people who are now facing an unattractive cheap labor market, governed by an
increasingly authoritarian and mercenary managerial class.
The
revolutionary alternative is social class
solidarity mobilized against the forces of alienation and exploitation. The
conservative corporate strategy is to engineer a stable pecking order, in which individuals become surrogates for
venting frustration and anger within a social hierarchy, so that inequalities and
injustices are accepted out of fear and despair.
The
10 items below can be seen not as thermometers
but as a thermostats,
created to regulate the temperature of our environment according to social
class needs, rather than simply passively recording it.
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
a.
Sanders and His Supporters Should Now Call for
a Real Political Revolution
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15887
Jeff Cohen says the challenge for Sanders supporters now is to continue the
campaign for the nomination, but take the movement beyond the man and find ways
to fight Trump without giving up their independence from the Democratic Party -
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b.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
To: "newsfromunderground" <newsfromunderground@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 13 March, 2016 5:01:04 PM
Subject: [MCM] Read 'em and
weep: Exit polls in Massachusetts PROVED Trump's victory, DISPROVED Hillary's
The
Suspect Massachusetts 2016 Primary
As the Massachusetts
primaries indicate, the integrity of our elections will be always questionable
and suspect until we join the many other countries that safeguard their
elections with publicly observed hand counting of paper ballots.
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c.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
To: "newsfromunderground" <newsfromunderground@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 13 March, 2016 6:19:22 PM
Subject: [MCM] About those VIOLENT protestors
at Trump's rallies: How many are provocateurs?
At Secretive
Meeting, Tech CEOs And Top Republicans Commiserate,
Plot To Stop Trump
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d
Karl
Rove shared focus group findings that
give hope to the GOP establishment.
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d.
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FBI and Access to NSA Data on Americans
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FBI Has New Plan to Spy on High School
Students. |
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e.
Sanders
vs. Clinton
Bernie
or Hillary? Cornel West & Dolores Huerta Debate After Sanders' Upset Win in Michigan
Part 1:
"We Are Pushing Real Revolution": Why Black Lives Matter Doesn't Have
Faith in Any Candidate
Bernie,
Hillary or Revolution in the Streets?
Cornel West, Dolores Huerta, Black Lives Matter Debate
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f.
Is Donald Trump A Fascist? Part 2 Of Interview
With Robert Paxton,
Father of Fascism Studies
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/15/is_donald_trump_a_fascist_part
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g.
Exposing
the Libyan Agenda: A Closer Look at Hillary’s Emails
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44425.htm
by Ellen Brown
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h.
Hillary
Clinton's Link to a Nasty Piece of Work in Honduras
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marjorie-cohn/hillary-clintons-link-to_b_9470362.html
by Marjorie
Cohn
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i.
Hillary Clinton Wins 4 Races,
Rebounding From Michigan Loss
by PATRICK HEALY and AMY CHOZICK
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j.
From: Jim O'Brien
To: haw-info@stopthewars.org
Sent: Wednesday, 16 March, 2016
Subject: [haw-info] HAW Notes 3/16/16: film-in-progress; Saudi Arabia
conference; links to recent articles of interest.
To members and friends
of Historians Against the War,
Here are a couple of notes, followed by our occasional "articles"
list.
1. A documentary movie-in-progress, The Boys Who Said No!, aims to
tell the story of Vietnam-era draft resisters who served time in prison rather
than cooperate with the draft. It is being produced by Christopher Colorado
Jones, a draft resister himself, and directed by Oscar-nominate Judith Ehrlich.
The will start an Indiegogo fundraising campaign on
April 2. Information is at www.boyswhosaidno.com.
2. Over 250 people
attended the "Summit on Saudi Arabia" organized by Code Pink in
Washington, D.C., April 5-6. Ben Norton has a lengthy report in Salon, and the Real
News Network has posted videos of the panels.
Links to Recent Articles
of Interest
"The US Military Is Everywhere,
Except History Books"
By Robert Neer, Aeon,
posted March 16
The author teaches
history at Columbia University.
"What's Been
Missing in the Coverage of the Story about the Locked iPhone"
By Lloyd C. Gardner, History
News Network, posted March 15
The author is a
professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University.
"The Dangerous Myth of 'America
Must Lead'"
By Andrew J. Bacevich, Defense One, posted March 15
The author is a professor emeritus of
history and international relations at Boston University.
"The Trillion Dollar Question
the Media Have Neglected to Ask Presidential Candidates"
By Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network, posted March 14
The author is a
professor emeritus of history at SUNY Albany.
"Where Did ISIS Come From: The
Story Starts Here"
By Neil Swidey, Boston Globe Magazine, posted
March 10
On Paul Bremer and the
Bush administration officials who put him in power in Iraq
By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, posted March 8
On the withdrawal and destruction of a
McGraw-Hill social science textbook after complaints that a set of historical
maps of Palestine was "anti-Israel"
"Killing Someone Else's
Beloved: Promoting the American Way of War in Campaign 2016"
By Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch.com,
posted March 3
"Trump: A War Criminal in the
Making"
By Aleksander
Hemon, Rolling Stone, posted March 2
A former Yugoslav
journalist makes a parallel with Serbian nationalism of the early 1990s.
Edited by John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi, National
Security Archive, posted February 29
"Trump's Obsession with WW2
Generals Strikes Sour Note with Historians"
By Emily Flitter, Reuters,
posted February 27
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As usual, thanks to an anonymous reader who suggested some of the above
articles. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.