Bulletin N° 750
Subject
:
GETTING A SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION: THE DIFFERENCE THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
May 1, 2017
Grenoble, France
Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
US President Donald Trump serves as a painful reminder that poorly
educated people can occupy some of the highest positions in society. It would
take years for him to catch up to speed, even if he wanted to, which, of course, he
has no interest in doing.
Like so many people today, the over-specialized suffer as savants idiots – in Trump's case, an expert in exploiting opportunities
to make large profits, and a mere novice in the social skills of communication
and community fellowship. Like ‘The Great Gatspy’ or
‘Citizen Kane’, Donald Trump ultimately is to be pitied – he is a spiritually
mutilated person, suffering from the most grotesque forms of alienation, as
almost any of us can clearly see. (Nevertheless, his victims are more deserving
of our compassion than is he!)
I don’t know the source of Trump’s education, but it clearly has not
sufficed to keep him mentally and physically intact. And to avoid sharing his
ugly, distorted, fragmented existence, we offer CEIMSA readers the 14 items
below which contain some of the most important discussions available today
on the state of the planet and on the condition of communities who inhabit it.
The social media today has brought us in contact with geniuses, scientists and
artists of all kinds, and not to take advantage of this pedagogical experience
is indeed to cultivate your own ignorance - a path not to 'Bliss', but on a
descent into 'Hell'. Indeed, you will remain ignorant, today, at you own peril,
regardless of the position you hold in society and the financial status you’ve
gained!
Sincerely,
Francis Feeley
Professor emeritus of
American Studies
University Grenoble-Alpes
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.
200,000 Rally For
Climate Justice in DC
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18982:200%2C000-Rally-For-Climate-Justice-in-DC
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Special
Broadcast April 29, 2017
Special Broadcast from the
People's Climate March
(5-hour
live coverage)
https://www.democracynow.org/live/coming_up_on_april_29th_democracy
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c.
Special Broadcast
April 29, 2017
MORE COVERAGE OF THE
WASHINGTON D.C.
CLIMATE MARCH
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2793&keyword=climate
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d.
Time to Buy Out Fossil Fuel Corporations
with Gar Alperovitz
on Reality Asserts Itself (1/5)
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=18959
The
Next System Project's Gar Alperovitz tells Paul Jay
that the Federal Reserve should use ‘quantitive
easing’, i.e. create money, to take Big Oil companies out of the equation and
finance a massive green infrastructure program
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e.
Assad:
Israel is Providing Weaponry & Logistic Support to
Terrorists in Syria
by Telesur
Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad affirmed
that the objective of the American and western allegations about chemical
weapons is to support terrorists in Syria.
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f.
Women Beware: Saudia
Arabia Charged with Shaping Global Standards
for
Women's Equality
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46953.htm
by Medea Benjamin
It’s hard to sink to a greater depth of hypocrisy
than voting Saudi Arabia onto a UN Commission charged with promoting women’s
equality and empowerment. And yet, on April 23rd, that is precisely what the UN
Economic and Social Council did. Of the 54 countries on the Council, 47 of them
agreed to add Saudi Arabia to a four-year term on the UN Commission on the
Status of Women.
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g.
North Korea Saga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-gjDtQ8OeY
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h.
The Rise of the Generals
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46955.htm
by Patrick Buchanan
Has President Donald
Trump outsourced foreign policy to the generals?
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i.
Washington
Plans to Nuke Russia and China
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46958.htm
by
Paul Craig Roberts
Not everyone likes to hear about the threat of
nuclear war. Some find refuge in denial and say that nuclear war is impossible
because it makes no sense. Unfortunately, humankind has a long record of doing
things that make no sense.
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j.
There Will Be No Russophobia Reset
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46959.htm
by Pepe Escobar
In the end, there was hardly a reset; rather a sort of tentative pause on Cold War 2.0. Interminable days
of sound and fury were trudging along when President Trump finally decided NATO
is "no longer obsolete"; still, he wants to "get along"
with Russia.
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k.
Mounting
Incitements to War With Russia
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46956.htm
by Stephen F.
Cohen
Villainizing the Kremlin—without much evidence—for crises from
Washington and Europe to Syria, Ukraine, and Afghanistan is increasing the
possibility of a US-Russian war.
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l.
From: "Jim
O'Brien"
To: haw-info@stopthewars.org
Sent: Friday, 28 April, 2017
Subject: [haw-info] HAW Notes 4/28/17: Lynds'
new book; Steering Committee election; links to recent articles of interest
http://www.historiansagainstwar.org/
Staughton and Alice Lynd have drawn on decades of experience
in a new book entitled Moral Injury and Nonviolent Resistance: Breaking
the Cycle of Violence in the Military and Behind Bars. A flyer describing the book is
posted on the HAW website.
Links
to Recent Articles of Interest
By Aviva
Chomsky, TomDispatch.com, posted April 25, 2017
The
author teaches history at Salem State University in Massachusetts.
“Why Is There So Little Popular Protest Against Today’s Threats of Nuclear War?”
By Lawrence
S. Wittner, LA Progressive, posted
April 21
The
author is a professor of history emeritus at SUNY Albany.
“How to Lose the Next War in the Middle East.The
Short Answer: Fight It”
By Danny
Sjursen, TomDispatch.com, posted April 18
The
author is a U.S. Army strategist and former history instructor at West Point.
“There’s No Strategy Behind Trump’s Wars – Only Brute Force”
By Phyllis
Bennis, Foreign Policy in Focus, posted
April 18
The
author is a Middle East specialist who directs the New Internationalism project
of the Institute for Policy Studies.
“China and NorthKorea: The
Strength of Weakness and the Limits of Power”
By Kenneth
Pomeranz, History News Network, posted April
18
The
author teaches history at the University of Chicago.
By William
J. Astore, TomDispatch.com, posted April 13
The
author, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, taught history for fifteen
years at military and civilian schools.
By
David Palumbo-Liu, Truthout.org, posted April 12
The
author teaches comparative literature at Stanford University.
“Russia’s Not Leaving: Syria Is about
Old-Fashioned Sphere of Influence, Not Oil”
By Juan
Cole, Informed Comment blog, posted April 11
The
author teaches history at the University of Michigan.
By Samuel
Moyn and Stephen Wertheim, New York
Times, posted April 10
Samuel Moyn
teaches history and law at Harvard University and Stephen Wertheim is a fellow
in history at King’s College, Cambridge University.
“Trump’s Not the New Hitler . . . He’s
the New Kaiser Bill”
By Andrew
J. Bacevich, The Spectator, posted
April 8
The
author is an emeritus professor of history and international relations at
Boston University.
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Thanks
to Margaret Power and an anonymous reader for suggesting articles included
above. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
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n.
Tomgram: Nick Turse, The U.S. Military Moves
Deeper into Africa
As an imperial power, there’s never been
anything like the United States when it comes to garrisoning this planet.
By comparison, the Romans and imperial Chinese were pikers;
the Soviet Union in its prime was the poorest of runners-up; even the British,
at the moment when the sun theoretically never set on their empire, didn’t
compare. The U.S. has hundreds of military bases ranging in size from
small American towns to tiny outposts across the planet, and yet you could
spend weeks, months, years paying careful attention to
the media here and still have no idea that this was so. Though we
garrison the globe in a historically unprecedented way, that fact is not part
of any discussion or debate in this country; Congress doesn’t hold hearings on
global basing policy; reporters aren’t sent out to cover the subject; and
presidents never mention it in speeches to the nation. Clearly, nothing
is to be made of it.