Bulletin #710
Subject: Fear Pornography and
the Corporate Practice of FEAR MONGERING.
20 August 2016
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
We are all Chelsea Manning
bruised by the cyber winds and thrown into a black hole because we refuse to
collaborate with “the lesser evil.” Even the best among us are afraid. We want
to live, at no matter what price. We will renounce all that we have said and
done in order to remain alive. One-hundred-thousand years from now it will make
no difference to anyone; no one will remember! The octogenarian keepers of the
gate want out, we all want out! We’ve seen nothing, we’ve heard nothing, we’ll
say nothing . . . . In the long run we
are nothing! But we’ve learned to reason, and this perhaps will keep us alive a
little longer. The young Chelsea Manning, born Bradley
Manning on December 17, 1987 at Crescent, Oklahoma, is an inconvenient
truth for all of us, including Chelsea Clinton, also born of Hillary….
State terrorism is a fact of life. According to many political
theories, the state should rightfully possess a monopoly on lethal force, which
is to say that only state agencies are legitimately endowed with the right to
inflict deadly violence on designated targets. No other agent is a
legitimate practitioner of such power. This, according to Marxist
theory, makes one central question all the more compelling: Who will control
the state, the capitalist class or the working class? Will the interests of
capitalist accumulation or those of working people be protected by this
monopoly of state power?
Anarchists hold a different view, of course; they believe that
force should never be monopolized, and that all physical coercion is ultimately
self-defeating. While this may be true, “ultimately” can be a very, very long
time! (Witness the relationship between the homo sapiens sapiens and homo sapiens erectus, like the Neanderthals, who were exterminated
by the former after more than 2500 centuries of successful symbiotic
living with their natural environment.) Meanwhile, contemporary state violence
and the threat of state violence in defense of capitalist interests has a lurid history of collateral damages and unexpected
results, including the very real danger of extinguishing our own species, after
our relatively brief existence.
The 19th century Russian anarchist, Michael Bakunin,
expressed the danger of state monopoly of force in his own words:
There is
no horror, no cruelty; sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous
transaction; no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has
not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the
states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet
so terrible: ‘for reasons of state.’
The 6 items below speak to
the violence we have inherited, a violence of epic proportion that threatens
our very species. The corporate control over this massive violence is, of
course, produced by capitalist private profit motives. The glib ideologues who
attempt to govern this destructive force –either by ignoring it or by
justifying it—depend on our willful self-deception to achieve their criminal
goals. In the past, the cost has been repeated acts of genocide; the future
promises the extinction of our species. Only the courage of those who have
resisted, like Chelsea
Manning, make this deplorable history visible.
See, also, John
Pilger’s new documentary, Utopia at :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36877.htm
Two
years in the making, John Pilger’s controversial new
film Utopia reveals a shocking national secret behind the postcard image of the
“lucky country”. As it premiers in the UK, the award winning documentary
filmmaker talks to Australian Times about the devastating inequalities suffered
by the Aboriginal community.
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
a.
Assassination – The New Trend Weapon of the
Elusive Mighty?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45291.htm
by Peter Koenig
Assassinations to reach an objective is not new for the all-powerful. The practice has been going on at
least for centuries, if not for millennia, but it has intensified drastically
in the last fifty years, and it is becoming ever bolder, as the
rulers of the Anglosphere tighten their grip on humanity – on Mother Earth and her
resources.
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b.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Attacks Against Jill Stein Are "Going to Go Through the
Roof"
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/8/wikileaks_julian_assange_attacks_against_jill
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c.
Jill Stein vs. Ben Jealous: Should Progressives Reject
Hillary Clinton & Vote Green?
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/26/jill_stein_or_hillary_clinton_green
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d.
US War Crimes or ‘Normalized Deviance’
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/08/15/us-war-crimes-or-normalized-deviance/
by Nicolas J S Davies
The U.S. foreign policy
establishment and its mainstream media operate with a pervasive set of
hypocritical standards that justify war crimes — or what might be called a
“normalization of deviance,” writes Nicolas J S Davies.
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e.
Ukraine’s ‘October Surprise’ – may be coming in September
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45281.htm
by Justin Raimondo
When a Russian FSB
agent and a Russian soldier were killed by a team of
Ukrainian saboteurs, and one of the captured Ukrainians was shown on Russian
media in handcuffs, US ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt tweeted:
“US government has seen nothing
so far that corroborates Russian allegations of a ‘Crimea incursion’ & Ukraine
has strongly refuted them.”
Apparently two dead Russians don’t count for
much in Pyatt’s book: perhaps Putin personally killed
them, and the whole thing is a set up.
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f.
How Capitalism and
Racism Support Each Other
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35804-how-capitalism-and-racism-support-each-other
by Richard Wolff
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