Bulletin N° 877
The Minds of Men
(3:42:35)
What is the Science of Government? The Minds of Men is a three-year investigation into the experimentation, art, and practice of social engineering and mind control during the Cold War. Why would the federal government take such a tragic and horrendous action as to approve the rampant use of a brain-damaging “treatment”? This new film may have the answer. “The Minds of Men” is produced by Aaron and Melissa Dykes, who have uncovered previously unknown information about the history of covert and often shameful research on mind control.
Subject
:
“The best-laid plans of mice and men oft’
go astray.”
January
26, 2020
Grenoble,
France
Dear
Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
A
careful reading of the massive second volume of Fernand Braudel’s
(1902-1985) epic three-volume history, The
Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world of Philip II (1949 &
1995) – which provides a panoramic view of the Mediterranean world in the
second half of the sixteenth century – offers rich insights into the natural
environment and material conditions of the general population. It, also, offers
a cogent analysis of political, diplomatic, economic and demographic events, as
the expressions of conjunctures of material conditions.
The
power of l’histoire de longue durée
is that it exposes the universal constraints which govern the thinking and
behavior of entire populations. Braudel, as the
dominant leader of the Annales School of historiography in France in the
1950s and 1960s, was influential in emphasizing socioeconomic factors in the
study of history, looking beyond individuals and singular events for a systemic explanation of the past. It was here that he promoted
an approach to historical study that emphasized the permanent or nearly
permanent structures in society, which he termed the longue durée; then
developed it as part of a tripartite
system which includes short-term événements (which
can cast light on existing structures,
analogous to the ephemeral glow from a firefly) and medium-term conjunctures (periods of decades or
centuries, which might be compared to the eruption of a volcano or an
earthquake) when more profound cultural changes can occur.
In
a tentative conclusion to a chapter on “Societies,” he writes about
Mediterranean society in the second half of the 16th century that,
“A slow, powerful and deep-seated movement seems gradually to have twisted and
transformed the societies of the Mediterranean between 1550 and 1600.”
There
can be no doubt that society was tending to polarize into, on the one hand, a
rich and vigorous nobility reconstituted into powerful dynasties owning vast
properties and, on the other, the great and growing mass of the poor and
disinherited, ‘caterpillars and grubs’, human insects, alas too many. A deep
fissure split open traditional society, opening up gulfs which nothing would
ever bridge, not even, as I have already remarked, the astonishing move towards
charity in the Catholic world at the end of the sixteenth century. In England,
France, Italy, Spain, and Islam, society was undermined by this dramatic
upheaval, the full horror of which was to be revealed in the seventeenth
century. The creeping evil reached
states as well as societies, societies as well as civilizations. This crisis coloured the lives of men. If the rich stooped to
debauchery, mingling with the crowd they despised, it was because society stood
on two banks facing each other: on one side the house of nobles, over-populated
with servants; on the other picardia, the
world of the black market, theft, debauchery, adventure, but above all poverty,
just as the purest, the most exalted religious passion coexisted with the most
incredible baseness and brutality, Here, some will say, are the astonishing and
marvelous contradictions of the Baroque. Not so; these were the contradictions,
not of the Baroque but of the society which produced it and which it only
imperfectly conceals. And at the heart of that society lay bitter despair.(pp.755-756)
In
another chapter, entitled “Civilization,” Braudel
writes of the “prodigious growth of Rome” during the fifty years before 1600.
Who can say what support the
religious orders, often released, in order to do battle, from the old
restrictions of choral life and monastic observance, ‘vrais
clers réguliers’,
brought to the papacy? Thanks to them the Church was saved; it was able , from Rome, to coordinate one of the most
extraordinary revolutions from above in history. The battle it fought was waged
with intelligence. The civilization it carried forward – whatever name we choose to give it – was a
militant civilization; and its art was merely one more means to an end.
Baroque art then,
often smacks of propaganda. In some respects it is an art done to order, with
all the advantages and disadvantages that implies. Shrewd theologians and
friars demanded of Rubens, Caracciolo, Domenichino,
Ribera, Zurbaran or Murillo, the physical execution of pictures spiritually
composed by themselves, turning them down if the execution
appeared in any way deficient. In the fight against Protestantism, the enemy of
decorated churches and images, the Church set out to build the most beautiful
houses of God on earth, images of Paradise, portions of heaven. Art was a
powerful means of combat and instruction; a means of stating, through the power
of the image, the Immaculate Holiness of the Mother of God, the efficacious
intervention of the saints, the reality and power of the Eucharistic sacrifice,
the eminence of St. Peter, a means of arguing from the visions and ecstasies of
the saints. Patiently compiled and transmitted, identical iconographical themes
crossed and re- crossed Europe. If Baroque exaggerates, if it is attracted by
death and suffering, by martyrs depicted with unsparing realism, it seems to
have abandoned itself to a pessimistic view, to the Spanish desengaño of the
seventeenth century, it is because this is an art which is preoccupied with
convincing, because it desperately seeks the dramatic detail which will strike
and hold the beholder’s attention. It was intended for the use of the faithful,
who were to be persuaded and gripped by it, who were to be taught by active
demonstration, by an early version of verismo,
the truth of certain contested notions, whether Purgatory or of the immaculate
Conception. It was a theatrical art and one conscious its theatricality: had
not the theater itself provided the Jesuits with arms , notably in their
conquest of Germany, in an age moreover when the theater was establishing its
rights everywhere, with strolling players and before long fixed stages?
So it was both a way of life and a way of
belief which travelled northwards from the shores of the Mediterranean, towards
the Rhine and the Danube as well as to Paris, the heart of France, where in the
early years of the seventeenth century so many churches and convents were being
built. It was a way of life and belief specifically Mediterranean: witness
Jacob Burckhardt’s description of Pius II processing through Viterbo ‘surrounded by live tableaux representing the Last
Supper, St. Michael battling with the Devil, the Resurrection of the Lord and
the Virgin carried in triumph to heaven by Angels. One immediately thinks of
Spanish processions with the tratos
representing scenes from the Passion; no more than in
Italy does this exclude autos sacramentales.
This then was a dramatic form of Christianity which northerners found
astonishing. The manner of devotion and the flagellation practiced by Spaniards
shocked and scandalized the people of Flanders. Baroque art, nourished on this
southern religiosity, carried something of it to the North. A whole book could
be written on the devotional practices imported to all parts of Europe, on the
part played by men of the Mediterranean in the violent reclamation of the
contested lands of the North which returned to the fold of the Roman Church.
Remembering this, one can no longer talk of the decadence of the Mediterranean;
unless decadence and the disintegration it implies can be credited with a
powerful capacity for diffusing a dying civilization.(pp.831-833)
At
the end of Part Two, in a section he entitles, “By Way of
Conclusion: Conjuncture and Conjunctures,’ Braudel elaborates
on his new methodology:
In the preceding pages, the reader
may have been constantly reminded of the inter-relationship between change and
the near-permanent in history. If we now narrow our range to focus exclusively
on the element of change of movement, the picture alters dramatically: a
mathematical parallel might be the transition, by eliminating one dimension,
from solid geometry to the necessary simpler field of plane geometry. In this
case we are now faced with a narrative view of history, the episodic content of
which – periods, crises, phases and turning-points – may tempt the historian to
dramatize or to jump to convenient if sometimes fallacious explanations. For
the economic conjuncture, the most obvious and familiar of those we have to
deal with, very rapidly comes to tower above all the others, imposing upon them
its own terminology and categories. Neo-materialism is an inviting path. How
valid is it as an approach?
. . .
Our problem now is to imagine and locate
the correlations between the rhythms of material life and the other diverse
fluctuations of human existence. For there is no single conjuncture; we must
visualize a series of overlapping histories, developing simultaneously. It
would be too simple, too prefect, if this complex truth could be reduced to the
rhythms of one dominant pattern. How clear, in any case, is that pattern itself? It is impossible to define even the economic
conjecture as a single movement given once and for all, complete with laws and consequences.
François Simiand himself recognized at least two,
when he spoke of the separate movements of the tides and the waves. But reality
is not as simple as this relatively simple image. In the web of vibrations
which makes up the economic world, the expert can without difficulty isolate
tens, dozens of movements, distinguished by their length in time: the secular trend,
‘longest of the long-term movements’; medium-term trends – the fifty-year
Kondratieff cycle, the double or hypercycle, the intercycle; and short-term fluctuations – inter-decennial movements and seasonal
shifts. So, in the undifferentiated flow of economic life, several languages
can be distinguished by the somewhat artificial process of analysis.(pp.892-893)
. . .
Conjunctural
analysis, even when it is pursued on several levels, cannot provide the total
undisputed truth. It is however one of the necessary means of historical
explanation and as such a useful formulation of the problem.
We
have the problem of classifying on the one hand the economic conjunctures and
on the other the non-economic conjunctures. The latter can be measured and situated
according to their length in time: comparable, let us say, to the secular trend
are long-term demographic movements, the changing dimensions of states and
empires (the geographical conjecture as it might be called), the presence or absence
of social mobility in a given society, the intensity of industrial growth; parallel
to the medium-term economic trend are rates of industrialization, the
fluctuations of state finances and wars. A conjunctural
scaffolding helps to construct a better house of history. But further research
is essential and at this stage much prudence is called for. Classification will
be no simple matter and should be approached with caution. The long-term trends
of civilization, their flowering in the traditional sense of the word, can
still surprise and disconcert us. The Renaissance for instance, between 1480
and 1509, falls in a period of clear cyclical depression; the age of Lorenzo
the Magnificent was one of economic stagnation. The Golden Age in Spain and the
splendours of the sixteenth century, even in Istanbul,
all blossomed after the first great reversal of the secular trend. I have
offered a possible explanation – but who shall say how valid it is? My
suggestion would be that any economic recession leaves a certain amount of
money lying idle in the coffers of the rich: the prodigal spending of this
capital, for lack of investment openings, might produce a brilliant civilization
lasting year or even decades.
The tentative answer may formulate the
problem, but it does not resolve it – any more than the familiar observations
we have all heard about the unexpected flowering of the Renaissance and Baroque
and the troubled societies which give birth to them, of which they are, one
might almost say, the morbid product. The Renaissance spelt the end of the
city-state; with the Baroque, the great empires of the sixteenth century began
to feel the cold wind at their back. Perhaps the extravagance of a civilization
is a sign of its economic failure. Such problems take us well outside the
narrow confines of the conjuncture, whether long or short term. But once more,
it is a useful path by which to approach them.(pp.899-900)
Finally,
in this tentative conclusion, he raises the question of “short, inter-decennial
crises” which history seems to demonstrate were “both contagious and
irresistible.”
Detailed study of …. short-term crises, violent disruptions of economic life, of their ramifications and above
all their extremely variable character, ought to provide new landmarks in the
evolution of the Mediterranean economy. The study in depth of the ‘events’ of
economic life would be of great value to historians. It has yet to be
undertaken. A major problem at the outset is our profound ignorance of the area
under Turkish domination, where, from the evidence so far available, the
economic conjuncture, in the sixteenth century at least, seems to have
displayed certain similarities to that in the West.(p.900)
By stating the narrowness of the limits of action, is one denying the
role of the individual in history? I think not. One may have the choice between
striking two or three blows: the question still arises; will one be able to
strike them at all? To strike them effectively? To do
so in the knowledge that only this range of choices is open to one? I would
conclude with the paradox that the true man of action is he who can measure
most nearly the constraints upon him, who chooses to remain within them and
even to take advantage of the weight of the inevitable, exerting his own pressure
in the same direction. All efforts against the prevailing tide of history –
which is not always obvious – are doomed to failure.
So when I think of the individual, I am always inclined to see him imprisoned
within a destiny in which he himself has little hand, fixed in a landscape in
which the infinite perspectives of the long term stretch into the distance both
behind him and before. In historical analysis as see it, rightly or wrongly,
the long run always wins in the end. Annihilating innumerable events – all those
which cannot be accommodated in the main ongoing current and which are
therefore ruthlessly swept to one side – it indubitably limits both the freedom
of the individual and even the role of chance. I am by temperament a ‘structuralist’, little tempted by the event, or even by the
short-term conjuncture which is after all merely a grouping of events in the same
area. But the historian’s ‘structuralism’ has nothing to do with the approach which
under the same name is at present causing some confusion in the other human
sciences. It does not tend towards the mathematical abstractions of relations expressed as
functions, but instead towards the very sources of life in its most concrete, everyday,
indestructible and anonymously human expression.(pp.1243-1244)
The
26 + items below represent a selection of articles
and essays on current events that we hope will shed light on those structures that
shape our lives and constrain our
actions (to an almost
predictable degree). If we are to emancipate ourselves from these limitations, we
must seek to build new structures which will provide us with a way to depart from the traditions
of enslavement and alienation, which we have inherited; that will serve to guide us towards new horizons
which promise greater self-fulfillment and creativity through social solidarity.
Francis
Feeley
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Professeur honoraire de l'Université Grenoble-Alpes
Ancien Directeur de Researches
Université de Paris-Nanterre
Director of The Center for the Advanced Study
of American Institutions and Social Movements
(CEIMSA-in-Exile)
The University of California-San Diego
a.
“Giants”
– Who Really Rules The World?
https://therealnews.com/third_party_content/empire-files-giants-who-really-rules-the-world
with Abby Maretin
and Peter Phillips
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Deadly Distractions: Laying the Groundwork for the
Next Civil War
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52901.htm
by
John Whitehead
“Pity
the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away…”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet
And so it continues.
This impeachment fiasco is merely the latest in a
never-ending series of distractions, distortions, and political theater aimed
at diverting the public’s attention from the sinister advances of the American
Police State.
Don’t allow yourselves to
be distracted, diverted or mesmerized by the cheap theater tricks.
This impeachment spectacle is Shakespearean in its
scope: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Nothing is the key word here.
Despite the wall-to-wall media coverage, nothing
will change.
Mark my words: the government will remain as corrupt
and self-serving as ever, dominated by two political factions that pretend to
be at odds with each other all the while moving in lockstep to maintain the
status quo.
So President Trump’s legal team can grandstand all
they want about the impeachment trial being “an affront to the Constitution”
and “a dangerous perversion of the Constitution,” but that’s just smoke and mirrors.
You know what is really “an affront to the
Constitution”? The U.S. government.
We’ve been losing our freedoms so incrementally for
so long—sold to us in the name of national security and global peace,
maintained by way of martial law disguised as law and order, and enforced by a
standing army of militarized police and a political elite determined to
maintain their powers at all costs—that it’s hard to pinpoint exactly when it
all started going downhill, but we’re certainly on that downward trajectory
now, and things are moving fast.
The republic has fallen.
The Deep State’s plot to take over America has
succeeded.
|
The American system of representative government has
been overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic, corporate oligarchy bent on
total control and global domination through the imposition of martial law here
at home and by fomenting wars abroad.
Even now, we are being pushed and prodded towards a
civil war, not because the American people are so divided but because that’s
how corrupt governments control a populace (i.e., divide and conquer).
These are dangerous times.
+
Watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail – “Burn
the Witch!!!!!”
(5 :32)
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Meet
The Man Behind Cambridge Analytica,
Who Made Trump President
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49042.htm
(31:15)
TRNN Documentary
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Chris Hedges On Corporate Control Of The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5X3NRD00FY
(1h 14min)
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Trump's
Davos speech exposed how US isolationism is reaching
its final narcissistic chapter
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52896.htm
by
Robert Fisk
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IT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING:
What is Happening May Scare You…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJLSiEi54k&feature=youtu.be
(12:48)
Anonymous Official
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Davos: ‘New arms race is coming’
— it isn’t nuclear!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu_w3g5TZ-U&feature=youtu.be
(28:01)
with Ren Zhengfei and Yuval Noah Harari
Huawei founder Ren
Zhengfei and Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari spoke on a panel about the advent of artificial intelligence
at the dangers of an AI "arms race" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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b.
How To Be A Mentally Sovereign
Human
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52890.htm
by
Caitlin Johnstone
We all
showed up naked, slimy and clueless in a world of inexplicable sensory input we
couldn’t make head or tail out of. We were then taught what’s what by people
who showed up under the exact same circumstances a blink of an eye earlier.
The
amniotic fluid is barely washed from our tiny naked bodies before we find
ourselves in a marriage and a day job, staring down at a small pair of eyes
looking up to us for guidance.
This is
not a good environment for developing mental sovereignty, the ownership and
authorship of your own cognitive relationship with life.
Stepping
into the world as a small person is like stepping completely unarmored onto a
battlefield with live ammunition flying in all directions, except instead of
bullets, it’s narrative.
On one
side of the battlefield you’ve got your family with rifles and side-arms firing
their stories about what’s important in life, what the world is like, how
people should deal with problems, and what society ought to look like.
On another
side you’ve got teachers and preachers armed with shotguns spraying buckshot
about the beliefs that various power structures want you to have about your
experience on this earth.
On another
side you’ve got the advertisers, armed with machine guns, hammering anything
that moves with narratives about inadequacy and problems you never knew you
had.
And,
raining bombs from above, you’ve got the mass media propagandists.
You’re not
going to make it off of that field without sustaining significant damage. You
never stood a chance, really. At best you’re going to spend a long time picking
slugs, bullets and shrapnel out of your flesh and stitching up the wounds that
they caused, and that’s assuming you’re one of the lucky few who makes it off
the field at all. Most just absorb the beliefs that get blasted into them
in the frenzy of living and keep almost all of them.
Becoming a
mentally self-sovereign human being means undoing all that damage, and
protecting yourself from absorbing more. It means
completely renouncing everything you’ve been told to believe about what’s
happening on these strange shores you washed up on small, sticky and confused,
and setting off to find out for yourself instead. It means making it to the
swamps of Dagobah and looking where the wise old muppet is pointing when he suggests “You must unlearn what
you have learned.”
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"The
Liars that Led Us to War"
(24:39)
+
How secret Saudi deal w/ Iran got Soleimani killed
(27:58)
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The Angry Arab: US Violated Unspoken Rule
of Engagement with Iran
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52888.htm
by As`ad AbuKhalil
As’ad AbuKhalil analyzes the Trump
administration’s decision to escalate hostilities with Iran and its regional
allies.
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Trump vs. Iran: What Now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCkNKYXOJIY
(1h 11min)
with Jeremy Scahill
Following the Trump administration’s assassination
of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani,
tensions between the United States and Iran rose to the boiling point. On
Monday, January 13, The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill
moderated a discussion on the unfolding crisis in front of a live audience in
New York, with Intercept's senior columnist Mehdi Hasan,
reporter Murtaza Hussain,
national security editor Vanessa Gezari, and senior
news editor Ali Gharib.
Why did Trump kill Suleimani,
and what does this mean for Iran? What do we know about Suleimani
from the leaked Iranian spy cables obtained by The Intercept? Will Trump’s
current posture hold, or will he order more violence? What can the rest of us —
especially the left and the anti-war movement — do to stop this dangerous
conflict from re-escalating?
+
Unintended Consequences: Did Trump Just Give the
Middle East to China and Russia?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52863.htm
by F. William Engdahl
By the series of actions in recent months in Iraq and across the Middle
East, Washington has forced a strategic shift towards China and to an extent
Russia and away from the United States. If events continue on the present
trajectory it can well be that a main reason that Washington backed the
destabilization of Assad in Syria, to block a planned Iran-Iraq-Syria gas
pipeline, will now happen, short of Washington initiating a full scorched earth
politics in the region. This is what we can call unintended consequences.
If nature abhors a vacuum, so too does geopolitics.
When President Trump months ago announced plans to pull US troops out of Syria
and the Middle East generally, Russia and especially China began quietly to
intensify contacts with key states in the region.
+
Chris Hedges on “The Rot Within
the American System”
(45:30)
+
Permanent
War, Permanent Repo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlenwCM5gvA&feature=youtu.be
(25:55)
with
Max Keiseer
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look
at the latest phase of permanent war and how bitcoin,
gold, and oil markets responded to the assassination of General Soleimani. They also look at the US central bank seeking
ways to make their latest interventions in the repo markets a permanent fixture
for bankers. In the second half, Max talks to Michael Pento
of PentoPort.com about his case for gold. Though being not someone who
considers himself a ‘goldbug,’ Pento
believes there are many things the central banks and governments are doing that
warrant a long position in the yellow metal.
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c.
Of aircraft, horses and zebras
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52852.htm
by
The Saker
When you go to vet school, they teach you a simple
principle: if you are under a bridge and you hear hooves, think of horses
first, but don’t forget there are also zebras out there.
This is exactly what comes to my mind when I hear
all the speculation about the shooting down of the Ukrainian airliner by a IRGC SAM.
Let’s begin with a few horses:
Seems to me that the most logical assumption and
assume human error, especially since the Iranian have already admitted full
responsibility. Furthermore, there is no imaginable reason for the
Iranian to have shot down this aircraft deliberately (did you know that most of
the passengers were either Iranian nationals or of Iranian descent?).
Next, for the life of me I don’t see how Iran can be
accused of trying to hide the truth when then admitted full responsibility even
long before the investigation was concluded. Not only that, but HAD they
wanted to hide the truth, it would have been extremely simple, really:
they were in FULL control of a war zone. They could have ejected all
civilians and claimed that the US had bombed the location to conceal its role,
or something equally insipid. Instead, they first said “show us your
evidence” and then they declared “we will show you OUR evidence which shows OUR
guilt”. Compare that with what the US does when it shoots down and airliner
(either when they admit it, like the Iran Air 665, or when they cover it up,
like TWA 800 or Itavia Flight 870 or, even more
crucially, all the CIVILIAN Soviet airliners shot down over Afghanistan by CIA
run insurgents!).
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Iranian Flight
Crash Facts Not Adding Up
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52851.htm
by Russell Bentley
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d.
https://councilforthenationalinterest.org/
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Trump and Congress Double Down on Demonizing Iran
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52856.htm
by
Philip Giraldi
If
one seriously seeks to understand how delusional policymakers in Washington are
it is only necessary to examine the responses by the president and Congress to
the assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani. The first response came in the form of a Donald
Trump largely incoherent nine-minute self-applauding speech explaining what he
had done and why. It was followed by a House of Representatives War Powers
non-binding resolution that was all theater and did nothing to limit the
president’s unilateral ability to go to war with the Islamic Republic.
It
was reported that the Trump speech had been hurriedly written by aides the
night before it was given and that it existed in several competing drafts. It
was full of out-and-out lies and half truths and intended to reassure the
American people that the president was keeping them safe. The opening line
might well be regarded as some kind of joke: “As long as I am President of the
United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.” Trump has
in fact done more to ensure that Iran will have a nuclear weapon than any other
president through his abrupt withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of
Action (JCPOA) and his assassination of Soleimani,
which together have convinced the Iranian leadership that there is no
possibility of a reasonable negotiated solution when dealing with the American
president, even when he claims he wants to “talk.”
Trump
then went on characteristically to eulogize our brave soldiers on far flung
battlefields before lying again, saying “For far too
long — all the way back to 1979, to be exact — nations have tolerated Iran’s
destructive and destabilizing behavior in the Middle East and beyond. Those
days are over. Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism, and their
pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world. We will never let
that happen.” Lie one is that the “destructive and destabilizing behavior”
actually has Made in U.S.A. stamped all over it. Lie
two is “leading
sponsor of terrorism,” an honor that belongs to Israel, Saudi Arabia and
the United States, in that order. And lie three is that Iran “pursued” nuclear
weapons. It has never done so.
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e.
+
Russian
political earthquake: Putin sets out plan for Kremlin departure
& Medvedev
resigns
by
Bryan MacDonald
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‘More powers,
more responsibilities’: Putin proposes granting parliament power to choose PM
& form government
+
The Russian
Prime Minister Resigns And No One Knows Why
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52859.htm
by Moon Of Alabama
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f.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/
+
New Facts Change
Everything, the Sickening Truth About
Why Iran
“Schooled” America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52853.htm
by Gordon Duff
+
Fake Islamic
Trump Assassination Video Traced to Israel!
(warning, shocking and objectionable)
+
Trump Admits: “We’re Taking
The Oil!”
(7:06)
with Jimmy Dore
+
US killing of Soleimani & claims it has right to attack Iran is not
‘restoration of deterrence,’ it's return to the Wild
West
by Finian Cunningham
+
"U.S. Intelligence 9/11 and Iraq: A
Whistleblower's Story"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiVKwCiw6Ko&feature=youtu.be
(58:30)
with Coleen
Rowley
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g.
+
USA’s Short-Term
Goal – Iran, and Long-Term One – China?
by Konstantin
Asmolov
+
Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52870.htm
by Pepe Escobar
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h.
Conscious
Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdkje0TVICQ&feature=youtu.be
(10:05)
with
Richard Wolff
+
We
Can’t Be Silent Anymore: Rev. Barber & Poor People’s Campaign Push
Presidential Debate on Poverty
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/16/rev_william_barber_poor_peoples_campaign
+
Tanks &
AR-15s: Moms 4 Housing Speaks Out After Militarized Eviction from Vacant
Oakland House
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/16/moms_4_housing
+
« Answering Our Critics »
(29:35)
with
Richard Wolff
+
40% of countries will witness civil unrest in 2020,
report claims
+
Has Reaganomics Turned America Into a
"Sh*thole"
Country?"
(11:23)
with Thom Hartmann
+
Richard Wolff On Reaganomics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omNlCFYS4tA
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i.
Historians for
Peace and Democracy
From: Carolyn Eisenberg via H-PAD
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] Iran/Iraq Crisis Message #4
Day of Action January 25: No War with Iran. Across the country a
host of national peace and social justice groups are staging anti-war events in
their area. To find an event near you or your campus, check https://www.codepink.org/01252020
Congressional Update: the House of Representatives is in recess
this week and, unless involved in impeachment proceedings, members will be back
in their district. This is a good time to convey a
message about Iran –whether by phone, a drop-by visit to their office or
participation in a town hall meeting. Urge your member of Congress to
co-sponsor two important pieces of legislation (or
thank them if they have already signed on:
Barbara Lee’s resolution HR 2456 to repeal the 2002 Authorization
for the Use of Military Force, which has been used by
the last three administration’s to justify military
action in several countries. For co-sponsors: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/2456/cosponsors?q=%7B%22cosponsor-state%22%3A%22New+York%22%7D
Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif)
resolution HR 5543 No War Against Iran Act,
which would bar the Pentagon from using funds for military action against Iran,
unless specifically authorized by Congress. For list of co-sponsors:
Articles Pertaining to Iran/Iraq Crisis
Patrick
Cockburn, The US and Iran’s Perpetual War is Unsustainable
https://www.unz.com/pcockburn/the-us-and-irans-perpetual-almost-war-is-unsustainable/
Mitchell
Plitnik, The Time is Right for Renewed Diplomacy With Iran, but Hawks Are Still Clamoring For War
Sam
Levin, How US Sanctions Punish Iranian-Americans
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/19/iranian-americans-us-sanctions-iran
Paul
Pillar, Trump Drives Past an Off-Ramp
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/01/08/trump-drives-past-an-off-ramp/
Stephen
Zunes, Today's US-Iran Crisis is Rooted
in Decision To Invade Iraq
https://truthout.org/articles/todays-us-iran-crisis-is-rooted-in-the-decision-to-invade-iraq/
Submitted by Prasannan Parthasrathi and
Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg, legislative coordinators
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j.
France's Strike: Another Symptom of Neoliberalism's Legitimation
Crisis
(12:29)
with Prof. Gabriel Rockhill
+
From: Pascal Boissel <infos@uspsy.fr>
Sent: Thursday, January
16, 2020
Subject: Fwd: Mme Wonner, députée LREM, membre d'une commission parlementaire
sur la psychiatrie, s'adresse à l'USP, qui lui répond
à lire: c'est grave et insultant ce qui se dit ici!!!
Bonjour,
J’ai appris ce jour la demande formulée au Président du
groupe
parlementaire auquel j’appartiens à l’Assemblée nationale, remettant
en
question les fonctions que j’occupe au sein de groupes d’études
parlementaires, au motif que mon opinion exprimée sur la psychanalyse
stigmatiserait « /des citoyens, professionnels du soin, enseignants,
chercheurs, tous acteurs engagés de la vie sociale /».
J’ai toujours, tout au long de ma vie et de surcroît
depuis mon élection
à l’Assemblée nationale, eu le plus grand respect pour tous les
professionnels de santé qui chaque jour, sur tout le territoire,
rendent
le plus beau des services : celui de soigner.
Psychiatre de profession, je suis fermement engagée pour
la
déstigmatisation des troubles psychiques, le respect du libre choix des
patients et de leurs droits fondamentaux ; les deux missions
parlementaires que j’ai menées en 2019 ont plaidé en ce sens.
Comme médecin mais comme Députée avant tout, ma
responsabilité est
d’assurer que le code de la santé publique et les recommandations
de la
Haute Autorité de Santé – aussi perfectibles qu’elles
soient –
s’appliquent de la même manière partout sur le territoire national.
J’ai
acquis l’intime conviction que les inégalités territoriales de
prise en
charge en santé mentale représentent, pour nos concitoyennes et
concitoyens une véritable perte de chance que sous aucun prétexte je
ne
pourrais tolérer.
L’école de pensée psychanalytique, comme tous les
courants de pensée, ne
saurait être exempte de questionnements visant à améliorer la
prise en
charge des patients. Je reprends à mon compte la phrase tirée
de la
pétition que j’ai signée à ce sujet : « l/e refus de nombre de
psychanalystes de poser un diagnostic, l’ignorance volontaire des
symptômes, la chosification et la maltraitance des patients et
leur
famille au nom de dogmes psychosexuels freudo-lacaniens
obsolètes sont
monnaie courante aujourd’hui. Le traitement de ces personnes
comme des
patients de ‘seconde zone’ n’est plus tolérable en France./ »
Ma méthode a toujours été, et sera toujours celle du
dialogue. Durant
mes deux missions parlementaires, de janvier à septembre 2019, j’ai reçu
tous les syndicats, personnels soignants, de toutes les
écoles de
pensées de la santé mentale. Sous aucun prétexte je ne cèderai
aux
multiples pressions venues
de toutes parts que je subis depuis la
publication de mes rapports, symptômes de la difficulté de ces champs
de
la médecine à entrer dans le XXIème siècle. Les délais de prise en
charge avoisinant plusieurs mois ne sont pas acceptables et
l’activité
uniquement programmée ne peut garantir une réponse aux besoins des
patients. Évaluer les pratiques des spécialistes, quel que soit
le champ
de la médecine, et donc les psychiatres et autres psychanalystes est une
impérieuse nécessité pour une meilleure qualité des soins.
A l’occasion du processus législatif qui s’ouvrira en
janvier, ma porte
sera toujours ouverte à celles et ceux qui sont prêts au
dialogue, loin
des dogmatismes et luttes stériles.
Martine WONNER
Députée du Bas-Rhin
*L'USP répond à madame Wonner
qui demande l'interdiction de la psychanalyse*
Madame la députée,
Je réponds à votre courrier daté du 13 décembre qui était
adressé au
secrétariat de notre syndicat avec pour objet « Psychanalyse et
santé
mentale : pour le respect de la santé publique et l’accès aux
soins pour
tous ! ». Vous y répondiez au courrier - que vous ne citez
pas - qui fut
adressé au président de votre groupe parlementaire par un groupe
de onze
personnes [1https://www.uspsy.fr/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=2518#nb1
], dont moi-même.
Ce groupe s’est constitué à la suite du succès de la
pétition :
http://chng.it/VsrmkfJjjX
qui a rassemblé plus de 32 000
signataires.
Nous avons écrit au président de votre groupe
parlementaire : «
/(...)notre étonnement quant à l’engagement d’une députée
LREM en faveur
d’un groupe de pression réclamant que soient exclus des
tribunaux, des
hôpitaux et des universités la totalité des psychiatres et des
psychologues se référant à la psychanalyse./
[2 https://www.uspsy.fr/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=2518#nb2
] »
Nous avons, bien sûr, communiqué votre courrier aux
autres rédacteurs de
cette lettre, aux universitaires du SIUEERPP et à nos amis du
Collectif
des 39 en particulier. Une réponse collective ne va pas manquer d’être
écrite et publiée bientôt.
Dans la pétition que vous vous flattez d’avoir signée en
tant que
députée, il est écrit https://www.justicesanspsychanalyse.com)/
: «
/Le refus de nombre de psychanalystes de poser un
diagnostic,
l’ignorance volontaire des symptômes, la chosification et la
maltraitance des patients et leur famille au nom de dogmes psychosexuels
freudo-lacaniens obsolètes sont monnaie courante aujourd’hui.
Le
traitement de ces personnes comme des patients de "seconde
zone" n’est
plus tolérable en France./ ».
En tant que députée, ayant un diplôme de psychiatre, vous
accusez ainsi
« nombre de psychanalystes »
d’être maltraitants, vous emboîtez le pas
de Sophie Robert, cinéaste, qui mène une campagne au long cours pour
interdire la psychanalyse, dans les tribunaux, dans les
universités,
dans les lieux de soin ; bref, partout. Vous l’approuvez,
vous signez
son appel. Puisque vous vous prononcez pour une véritable interdiction
professionnelle, au-delà des obscurs co-signataires
de la pétition de
madame Robert, il est urgent pour nous de vous dire qu’au nom
de «
l’évaluation », vous êtes l’ennemie des valeurs que nous défendons,
psychanalystes ou pas.
Par ailleurs, pourrions-nous savoir, chère consœur,
quelles expériences
de votre ancien métier de psychiatre vous ont amenée à une telle prise
de position ? Au-delà du parti pris idéologique des forcené.e.s
de
l’évaluation qui agissent dans les télécommunications comme dans la
santé, il est possible que vous ayez des arguments à nous
apporter.
Vous dites ensuite dans votre courrier que vous avez reçu
« /tous les
syndicats, personnels soignants, de toutes les écoles de pensées
de la
santé mentale/ ». L’USP a été en effet été reçue, avec les
autres
syndicats de psychiatres, mais c’était par une commission
parlementaire
à laquelle participait notamment Caroline Fiat et non par vous seule.
Nous avons été reçus par cette commission parlementaire
et à la lecture
de votre travail nous avons su que nous n’avions pas été entendus.
A ce propos, nous avons publié deux communiqués :Retour ligne automatique
Un le 19 septembre
[3 https://www.uspsy.fr/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=2518#nb3
] «
/(...)Ce rapport cite Bonnafé et salue le Printemps
de la psychiatrie.
Fort bien, mais le Printemps de la psychiatrie désigne
ses adversaires :
les capitalistes de l’hospitalisation privée, ceux de l’industrie
pharmaceutique, les idéologues de la fondation FondaMental,
et leurs
amis, alliés, et mercenaires. C’est pour cela que nous sommes
présents
dans ce mouvement aux côtés de beaucoup d’autres. Et nous ne
ferons pas
de consensus avec ces adversaires : mille conférences et rapports n’y
changeraient rien.Retour ligne automatique
(...)Dans le résumé de ce rapport, nous lisons : « la
psychiatrie de
secteur a pu freiner le développement d’une expertise plus
spécialisée
indispensable pour certains patients ». La formule vient annuler
l’hommage classique à Bonnafé : la
sectorisation aurait empêché le
développement d’une pensée acérée. Mensonge et manipulation.(...)/
»Retour ligne automatique
Le 30 septembre nous diffusions un second communiqué
[4 https://www.uspsy.fr/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=2518#nb4
] : «
/(…) L’USP ne peut cautionner l’imposture qui consiste à
mettre en
exergue des déclarations parlementaires les « droits des
patients »
alors que ceux-ci sont régulièrement bafoués par les
restrictions
d’accès aux soins de proximité, les obligations de soins « à
durée
indéterminée » et les « mesures exceptionnelles » qui deviennent la
règle, par facilité et surtout par manque de moyens humains et
de
formations adaptées pour les soignants (Hospitalisations sur le
mode du
péril imminent, mesures d’isolement, de contention etc.(...)/ »
Écouter et ne pas tenir compte de ce que dit
l’interlocuteur ou
l’interlocutrice est une façon de faire qui est commune aux ministres du
gouvernement, imitant le président Macron
que vous soutenez. De nos
rencontres, nous avons retenu que vous partagiez cette « méthode ».
Vous
dites que « /votre porte reste ouverte à ceux qui sont ouverts
au
dialogue/ » ; sachez que nous rencontrerons très volontiers des
parlementaires avec lesquels un échange fructueux serait possible,
ainsi
que nous l’avons déjà fait dans le passé. Nous ne sollicitons donc pas
d’entrevue auprès de vous. De même, la Coordination inter urgences
ne
sollicite plus d’entrevue auprès de madame Buzyn
et demande à rencontrer
le Premier ministre.
Au-delà de toutes les critiques ci-dessus que nous avons
opposées à ce
rapport parlementaire auquel vous avez contribué, nous notons
qu’il n’y
a pas dans celui-ci d’attaque contre les psychanalystes telle que celle
que vous vous félicitez d’avoir contre-signée. Nous
constatons ainsi
votre démarche en deux temps : dans un rapport parlementaire
se référer
à Bonnafé et au pluralisme des références
théoriques et pratiques, puis
quelques semaines plus tard demander l’interdiction de la
psychanalyse
dans une pétition. Est-ce vraiment une manœuvre habile ?
Cordialement,
Pour l’USP,Retour
ligne automatique
Pascal Boissel
[1] https://www.uspsy.fr/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=2518#nh1
https://www.uspsy.fr/Madame-Wonner-deputee-de-LREM-et.html
[2] https://www.uspsy.fr/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=2518#nh2
https://www.justicesanspsychanalyse.com
[3] https://www.uspsy.fr/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=2518#nh3
https://www.uspsy.fr/Qui-est-responsable-de-la.html
[4] https://www.uspsy.fr/ecrire/?exec=article&id_article=2518#nh4
https://www.uspsy.fr/Selon-les-parlementaires-la.html
Union Syndicale de la Psychiatrie
52 rue Gallieni, 92240 Malakoff
Tél/Fax: 01 46 57 85 85
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k.
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[mailto:anahona366@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2020
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I am very sorry for this, thank you very much.
This
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+
Israeli
prof: Israel tests weapons on Palestinian kids, tests
drugs on prisoners
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israel-weapons-drug-testing-on-palestinians/
by
Kathryn Shihadah
An Israeli professor disclosed in a
recent lecture series at Columbia University that Israeli authorities have
permitted large pharmaceutical firms to experiment on
Palestinian prisoners, and have been testing weapons on Palestinian
children.
Professor Nadera
Shalhoub-Kevorkian, the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at Israel’s Hebrew University, also
presented in Amsterdam in January on the same topic.
Promotional material for the events
describe her lecture as illustrating through “the voices and writings of Jerusalemite
children who live under Occupation” that Israel’s practices of “surveying,
imprisoning, torturing, and killing can be used as a laboratory for states,
arms companies, and security agencies to market their technologies as ‘combat
proven.’”
Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s presentation was based on
data she gathered for a research project for the university. The work, titled Arrested Childhood in Spaces
of Indifference: The Criminalized Children of Occupied East Jerusalem,
was published in the Canadian
Journal of Women and the Law in 2018 and co-authored by Shahrazad Odeh, who is also on
the Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology at Hebrew University.
In the article, the authors demonstrate
how Israel’s policy of targeting Palestinian children and childhood through the
criminal justice system is fundamental to the state’s mechanism of colonial
dispossession. They shed light on the critical role that the Israeli legal system
plays in the state’s “racist project.”
Drug
experiments on Palestinian prisoners
Shalhoub-Kevorkian revealed in her lecture at
Columbia University that Israeli occupation authorities issue permits to large
pharmaceutical firms, which then carry out tests on Palestinian prisoners.
+
Anna Kontula, a Finnish
left-wing lawmaker, held for over 10 hours in Israel
by Aleksi Teivainen
+
The Anti-Israel Craze Hits
High School
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/opinion/antisemitism-college.html
by By Ammiel Hirsch and Joshua
Davidson
+
Abby Martin Banned From Speaking at US University For Refusing to Sign Pro-Israel Pledge
Abby Martin is an outspoken critic of Israel’s apartheid
government and anti-Palestinian policies. | Photo: Abby Martin
&
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61106
+
Israel to seize
private Palestinian land for establishing nature reserves
by
Mona Kandil
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l.
World pulling back from petrodollar:
Russia, China — Saudis next?
(5:32)
With Rick Sanchez & Christy Ai
+
Stalemate in Libya as multiple countries
clamor for access"
(5:29)
with the Editor of Pan-African News Wire, Abayomi Azikiwe
+
Clinton attacks Sanders, won't commit to backing him
as party nominee
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52886.htm
by Allan Smith
"Nobody
likes him, nobody wants to work with him ... It's all just baloney," the
2016 Democratic presidential nominee says.
Four years since their rough Democratic primary
battle, Hillary Clinton has not let up on her criticism of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee,
says of Sanders in a new documentary that "nobody likes him."
"He was in Congress for years," Clinton
says in the soon-to-be-released four-part Hulu
documentary "Hillary," The Hollywood Reporter said in a report. "He had one senator support him.
Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he
got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel
so bad that people got sucked into it."
Asked by The Hollywood
Reporter in an interview released on Tuesday if her assessment still stands,
Clinton said, "Yes, it does."
+
An Economic Hit
Man Confesses and Calls to Action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0&feature=youtu.be
(18:35)
with John
Perkins
+
A New Definition
of Warfare
Sanctions can be more deadly than bullets
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52889.htm
by Philip Giraldi
Supporters of Donald Trump often make the point that
he has not started any new wars. One might observe that it has not been for
lack of trying, as his cruise missile attacks on Syria based on fabricated
evidence and his recent assassination of Iranian general Qassem
Soleimani have been indisputably acts of war. Trump
also has enhanced troop levels both in the Middle East and in Afghanistan while
also increasing the frequency and lethality of armed drone attacks worldwide.
Congress has been somewhat unseriously
toying around with a tightening of the war powers act of 1973 to make it more
difficult for a president to carry out acts of war without any deliberation by
or authorization from the legislature. But perhaps the definition of war itself
should be expanded. The one area where Trump and his team of narcissistic
sociopaths have been most active has been in the imposition of sanctions with
lethal intent. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has
been explicit in his explanations that the assertion of “extreme pressure” on
countries like Iran and Venezuela is intended to make the people suffer to such
an extent that they rise up against their governments
and bring about “regime change.” In Pompeo’s twisted
reckoning that is how places that Washington disapproves of will again become
“normal countries.”
The sanctions can kill. Those imposed by the United
States are backed up by the U.S. Treasury which is able to block cash transfers
going through the dollar denominated international banking system. Banks that
do not comply with America’s imposed rules can themselves be sanctioned,
meaning that U.S. sanctions are de
facto globally applicable, even if foreign banks and governments do not
agree with the policies that drive them. It is well documented how sanctions
that have an impact on the importation of medicines have killed thousands of
Iranians. In Venezuela, the effect of sanctions has been starvation as food
imports have been blocked, forcing a large part of the population to flee the
country just to survive.
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m.
Does Europe need the USA?
(45:08)
with
George Galloway, Phillip Collins, Bronwen Maddox
+
Russia, China, United States race to
deploy ‘blazingly fast’ hypersonic weapons"
(4:22)
Scientific Magazine
+
Never the Pentagon
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52885.htm
by Mandy Smithberger
How The Military-Industrial Complex
Gets Away With Murder in Contract After Contract
Call it a
colossal victory for a Pentagon that hasn't won a war in this century, but not
for the rest of us. Congress only recently passed and the president approved one of the largest Pentagon budgets
ever. It will surpass spending at the peaks of both the Korean and Vietnam
wars. As last year ended, as if to highlight the strangeness of all this, the Washington Post broke a story about a “confidential trove of government
documents” -- interviews with key figures involved in the Afghan War by the
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction --
revealing the degree to which senior Pentagon leaders and military commanders
understood that the war was failing. Yet, year after year, they provided “rosy
pronouncements they knew to be false,” while “hiding unmistakable evidence that
the war had become unwinnable.”
However,
as the latest Pentagon budget shows, no matter the revelations, there will be
no reckoning when it comes to this country’s endless wars or its military
establishment -- not at a moment when President Donald Trump is sending yet more U.S. military personnel into the Middle
East and has picked a new fight with Iran. No less troubling: how few in either party in Congress are willing to hold the
president and the Pentagon accountable for runaway defense spending or the poor
performance that has gone with it.
Given the
way the Pentagon has sunk taxpayer dollars into those endless wars, in a more
reasonable world that institution would be overdue for a comprehensive audit of
all its programs and a reevaluation of its expenditures. (It has, by the way,
never actually passed an audit.) According to Brown University’s
Costs of War Project, Washington has already spent at least $2 trillion on its war in Afghanistan alone and, as the Post made clear, the corruption,
waste, and failure associated with those expenditures was (or at least should
have been) mindboggling.
Of course,
little of this was news to people who had read the damning reports released by
the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in previous years.
They included evidence, for instance, that somewhere between $10 million and
$43 million had been spent constructing a single gas station in the middle of nowhere, that $150
million had gone into luxury private villas for Americans who were supposed to be
helping strengthen Afghanistan’s economy, and that tens of millions more were wasted on failed programs to
improve Afghan industries focused on extracting more of the country’s minerals,
oil, and natural gas reserves.
In the
face of all this, rather than curtailing Pentagon spending, Congress continued
to increase its budget, while also supporting a Department of Defense slush fund for war spending to keep the efforts going.
Still, the special inspector general’s reports did manage to rankle
American military commanders (unable to find successful combat strategies in
Afghanistan) enough to launch what, in effect, would be a public-relations war to try to undermine that watchdog’s
findings.
+
How the US
war-state
'wasted' $11 trillion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxbGbROxMLA&feature=youtu.be
with
Richard Wolff
(6:08)
Economist and founder of Democracy at Work Dr.
Richard Wolff joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the
bizarre economics of Washington’s military interventions abroad. He explains
how the war lobby actually incentivizes endless and destructive conflict.
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n.
From: Patrick McCully - Rainforest
Action Network [mailto:info@ran.org]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020
Subject: Happy New Year to everyone, except Chase.
|
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o.
The Federal Reserve is stuck in quantitativeeasing
hell
by
Howard Gold
+
Rumors Circulating That Fed Will Announce Plans to
Digitize the Dollar, Says Anthony Pompliano, As US
and China Kick Off Historic Trade Dea
+
Deutsche Bank Sees ‘Distressed Debt Cycle’ Starting
in China
+
Russia's forex reserves
reach pre-crisis levels, topping $555 billion
https://www.rt.com/business/478413-russia-forex-reserves-rise/
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p.
France faces more street protests as
pension strikes continue on Thursday
+
The
Uprising in France
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j4ioDygPBg&feature=youtu.be
with Cole Stangler
(31:54)
+
Pensions strikes have gone on far too
long, says French PM Philippe
+
Why Macron Refuses to Retire in France’s Pensions
Battle
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/17/why-macron-refuses-to-retire-in-frances-pensions-battle/
by
Sylvain Cypel
+
French Popular Uprising: Revolution
or Frozen Conflict?
Striking ballet dancers perform at the entrance to the
Opera Garnier in Paris, Dec. 24, 2019. (YouTube
screenshot)
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/17/french-popular-uprising-revolution-or-frozen-conflict/
This conflict is essentially over policies that put
the avaricious demands of financial markets ahead of the needs of the people,
writes Diana Johnstone.
+
From: Les Mutins de
Pangée [mailto:contact@lesmutins.org]
Sent: Monday, January
20, 2020
Subject: Une radicalisation inquiétante
Salut à toutes et tous,
La Macronie et ses antennes
sifflent "la fin de la récré", ne cachant pas leur espoir que des
secteurs reprennent le boulot et préférant oublier les trois journées de grève
nationale annoncées les 22, 23 et 24 janvier...
Cependant, on observe ces jours-ci une radicalisation inquiétante :
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From: Basta !
[mailto:basta@bastamag.net]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2020 3:42 PM
To: francis.feeley@u-grenoble3.fr
Subject: Occupations des écoles -
Racisme environnemental - Milliardaires - BlackRock
et greenwashing : voici les derniers articles de
Basta !
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q.
"The New World Order | George Galloway, Rory
Stewart, Rana Mitter, Mark
Leonard, Phillip Blond"
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Saudi Arabia has paid $500M to cover cost of US
troops in country
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/16/politics/saudi-arabia-us-troops-payment/index.html
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r.
Assange’s French legal advisor Juan Branco:
“We’ve experienced a strong shift that we now need to nurture”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/16/bran-j16.html
by Oscar Grenfell
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Assange Case: 'Lawyers of WikiLeaks
Founder Becoming Increasingly Inaudible'
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Arbuthnot Out as Assange’s Judge, Says WikiLeaks
Lawyer Jen Robinson
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Glenn Greenwald
Is Innocent
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/1/glenn-greenwald-bolsonaro-press-freedom-lula
by Chip
Gibbons
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s.
From: Jim O'Brien via H-PAD
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020
Subject: [H-PAD] H-PAD Notes 1/16/20: Congressional update; links to
recent articles of interest
Congressional
Update
By
Carolyn "Rusti" Eisenberg and Prasannan Parthasarathi, H-PAD
Legislative Coorinators
House
of Representatives
Helpful to call
your representatives and ask them to support the Lee and Khanna
Resolutions
On the Senate
side
To
reach your Senators and Representatives, call the Capitol Switchboard
202-224-3121 or 202-225-3121
Links
to Recent Articles of Interest
"Trump's 'WMD' Scandal: Was the Charge of Imminent Soleimani Attack Just Made Up?"
By
Juan Cole, Informed
Comment blog, posted January 13
The
author teaches Middle East history at the University of Michigan.
"The Colonization of Puerto Rico and the Limits of
Impeachment"
By
DJ Polite, Activist History Review, posted January 7
The
author is a PhD candidate at the University of South Carolina researching race,
empire, and citizenship.
"Pompeo's Gulf of Tonkin
Incident"
By
Gareth Porter, The American Conservative, posted January 9
"Vietnam
may seem like a lifetime ago, but its failures and lies loom."
By
Ali M. Ansari, HistoryExtra,
posted January 8
Background
reading for current events. The author teaches history at St.
Andrew's University and has written several books on Iranian history.
"Trump's Twitter Threat to Destroy Iran's Cultural
Sites Is a Historic Mistake"
By
David J. Wasserstein, Consortium News, posted January 7
Gives
historical examples of the targeting of cultural sites. The author
teaches history and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt University.
"Freedom without Constraint: How the US Squandered Its
Cold War Victory"
By
Andrew Bacevich, The Guardian, posted
January 7
"The
US believed that the American Way of Life was humankind's ultimate destiny. But
unrestrained greed has led to an era of injustice and division." The
author is a professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston
University. This essay is drawn from his just-published book The Age of
Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
By
Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Education, posted January 7
A
detailed report on the American Historical Association's annual business
meeting, in which a resolution calling for an end to university contracts with
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement passed 70-60 and two resolutions
condemning Israeli restrictions on academic freedom were defeated 80-41 and
61-36.
"When White Supremacists Overthrew an Elected
Government"
By
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., New York Times, posted
January 7
Review
essay on the new book Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 [in
Wilmington, NC] and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zuccino.
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. teaches African American Studies
at Princeton University.
"This
Is What the Deep State Actually Looks Like"
By
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, posted December 30
"The
story of Jimmy Carter's administration and the shah of Iran
tells us a whole lot
about American meddling overseas and overseas meddling in America. So does
Ronald Reagan's role."
By
George Beebe, The National Interest, posted December 22
"As
our debacles in Vietnam and Iraq demonstrate, expert consensus is not always a
recipe for success.Perhaps it should come
as no surprise that American policy toward Ukraine has also been steeped in
illusions."
Thanks
to James Swarts, Rusti
Eisenberg, and an anonymous reader for suggesting articles included in the
above list. Suggestions can be sent to jimobrien48@gmail.com.
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t.
'Nobody
in Poland cares about WWII anymore': Warsaw ignores 75th anniversary of its
liberation from fascism
The Polish people aren't interested in the events of the
past, being fully consumed by their daily hassles, and the country's
authorities are using this to their advantage, freely rewriting WWII history, academics told RT.
Warsaw was taken from the Nazis on January 17, 1945, after a
large-scale offensive by the Red Army and the Polish forces. The 75th
anniversary of the historic victory is marked on Friday, but the capital of
Poland isn't preparing for any celebrations.
The fact that the USSR liberated Warsaw from the Nazis is "diminished" in schoolbooks
and ignored by Polish media "because
we live in country where Russophobia is one of the
pillars," military historian Michal Glock
said.
The capital's Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski and his liberal Civic Platform party are "responsible for destroying monuments
dedicated to Polish and Soviet soldiers and partly [responsible] for erasing
the information that Warsaw was liberated by the Red Army and its allies, such
as the Polish 1st and 2nd Armies, from the memory of the residents,"
Glock added.
Older
people are aware [of] who liberated our capital city, but the younger generation
lives in ignorance.
Those who are interested in history only study the Warsaw
Uprising, which was a massive –though failed– attempt by the Polish resistance
to reclaim the capital from its Nazi invaders, the historian pointed out.
In the version of history that is promoted by the current
Polish authorities, "the
liberation of Warsaw (but also the whole of Poland) was part of a second
occupation. The Nazi troops were replaced by the Red Army."
Glock considers
this angle "dangerous"
and "very confusing,"
especially considering the fact that the Nazis were planning a
genocide of the Polish population.
"After
Jews and gypsies [were sent] to gas chambers, the Poles were supposed to go
there. The Red Army saved us from genocide, not only planned by the Germans,
but also by the Ukrainian nationalists."
He said that the "saddest
thing" is that his fellow historians do nothing to stop the
rewriting of history "in fear of
being accused of favoring Russia and President Putin."
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From: Diana
Johnstone [mailto:diana.johnstone@wanadoo.fr]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22,
2020 2:14 PM
Subject: Censorship: crazier
and crazier
In
reaction to Western plans to celebrate the liberation of Auschwitz without
reference to the Red Army that did the liberating, Jean Bricmont
reposted this joke on his FaceBook page:
Que préférez-vous?
Du café sans caféine?
Du pain sans gluten?
Du lait sans lactose?
Ou une libération d'Auschwitz sans Soviétiques?
As
a result, FaceBook has removed this and banned him
from posting anything on his page for three days.
GO
FIGURE THIS OUT!
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v.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2020
Subject: [MCM] A (partial) list of news and
information sources you CAN trust
To
this list I'd add “Children's Health Defense,” and “Del Bigtree's
The Highwire.”
Please
feel free to send suggestions.
MCM
News and Information Sources
ALICE CAMPBELL·TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/notes/alice-campbell/news-and-information-sources/10157890886816100/
This is far from a
complete list, still working on it, if a person’s name is in blue that is their
FB link which you can usually ‘follow’ or their Youtube
page. I will also try to add twitter links. Please feel free to post any
suggestions in the comments. If anyone in my list of 38 sources wants
something changed or removed please pm me.
·
AaronMate twitter.com/aaronjmate
·
Abby
Martin and Michael Prysner http://theempirefiles.tv/
·
Alfred de Zayas https://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/
·
blackagendareport.com Black Agenda Radio
·
Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement https://www.bdsmovement.net/
·
Caleb Maupin https://calebmaupin.com/
·
Cindy Sheehan https://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/ and
https://marchonpentagon.com/
·
Consortiumnews https://consortiumnews.com/
·
Cory
Morningstar http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/
·
Courage
to Resist https://couragetoresist.org/
·
dandelionsalad.wordpress.com
·
David Swanson World Beyond War and Talk Nation Radio
·
Eva
Bartlett https://ingaza.wordpress.com/ twitter.com/EvaKBartlett
·
Information
Clearing House http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
·
Jewish
Voice for Peace https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
·
JohnPilger twitter.com/johnpilger
·
Mark
Crispin Miller https://markcrispinmiller.com/
·
Patrick Henningsen
21stcenturywire.com
·
Piers
Robinson twitter.com/PiersRobinson1
·
rt.com
·
Sarah Abed https://sarahabed.com/
·
Scott
Ritter twitter.com/RealScottRitter
·
The
Electronic Intifada https://electronicintifada.net/
·
The Grayzone.com
·
The Greanville Post https://www.greanvillepost.com/
·
The Saker https://thesaker.is/
·
Veterans
For Peace veteransforpeace.org
·
Wikileaks wikileaks.org
·
wsws.org
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From: Monty Kroopkin
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Subject: Wildcat Strike
Solidarity Actions January 22
Fellow
Workers,
Wildcat Strike at UC Santa Cruz
Spreading
http://newindicator.org/?p=1674
-- mk
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Pompeo ‘applauds’
Colombia’s violent response to peaceful protests
https://colombiareports.com/pompeo-applauds-colombias-violent-response-to-peaceful-protests/
by Adriaan Alsema
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v.
IMF boss says global economy risks return of Great
Depression
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Looming cashless society: Will it benefit you?
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w.
Epstein investigation “stinks to no end”
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"President Trump and pedophile Epstein using
same lawyers?"
(9:01)
with Michael
William Lebron, better known as legal analyst Lionel
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x.
"The Miracle of Kindness”
(7:32)
with Chris Hedges
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y.
The War in
Afghanistan Is a Fraud (and Now We Have Proof)
https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/10/the-war-in-afghanistan-is-a-fraud-and-now-we-have-proof/
by
Lee Camp
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z.
From: Mark Crispin Miller
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Subject: [MCM] Will victimhood trump academic excellence at Harvard?
(RE-SENDING WITH THE LINK)
For
the rise of "ethnic studies" as a balkanizing force, we can
thank the Ford and
Rockefeller
Foundations, among other pass-throughs for the CIA.
This trend, and
identity politics in
general, has been gradually shattering the polity, and splintering
"the left," since the late Sixties, benefiting not just
the ever-growing academic
apparat of
"diversity" professors and administrators, but—primarily—the elites
screwing all of us by
keeping us divided.
That
elite connection is entirely missing from this otherwise sharp article from the
Manhattan
Institute, a neocon outfit that (of course) would not
acknowledge the
imperial intention
driving "ethnic studies" and the race/gender cult overall.
MCM
Ethnic Studies
101: Playing the Victim
https://www.city-journal.org/lorgia-garcia-pena-harvard-diversity-debatervard professor exemplifies how a fast-rising academic field injects paranoia and hatred into American culture.
January 16, 2020
Education
The Social Order
On November 27, 2019, Harvard University denied tenure to an ethnic-studies professor
specializing in Dominican identity. Students and faculty at Harvard and across
the country sprung into protest mode. The failure to tenure Lorgia
García Peña, they said,
resulted from Harvard’s racism. NBC Nightly News, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and other outlets covered the
controversy from the same angle.
In fact, García Peña
had been catapulted into the academic firmament with a speed that most
non-intersectional professors can only dream of. She has been showered with
benefits. Thirty-one percent of Harvard’s tenure-track professors lost their
tenure bids in the 2018‒19 academic year without alleging bias, since
most of those failed contenders were white. Yet García
Peña has gone through her academic career playing the
victim, reflexively accusing those around her of white supremacy. In this, she
is a perfect synecdoche for ethnic studies itself, which also stakes its identity on the conceit that
it is in a nonstop battle for survival against the forces of racism and
exclusion.
To the contrary, ethnic studies is
ascendant. It is spreading rapidly throughout K‒12 schools; its ideology
has already bled into the political realm. It’s worth reviewing García Peña’s career as an emblem
of a fast-rising academic field whose worldview is taking over American
culture.
In April 2019, García Peña published an op-ed
about her travails as an ethnic-studies professor. After referencing Trayvon
Martin as an
example of the “violence and destruction based on bigotry and
hate” that permeates all levels of our society, she urged readers to “dig
deeper into the ‘seamless’ ways in which white supremacy shapes our
institutions and every aspect of our lives.” (The rationale for García Peña’s scare quotes around
“seamless” is unclear.) That all-encompassing white supremacy, she wrote, “is
most evident in my location of work, in my subject position as a scholar of Latinx Studies.
Colleges and universities, particularly the elite kind, were not created for
people like me: a Dominican Latina immigrant from Trenton, NJ. Harvard’s
manufactured ‘science’ denied Puerto Rican citizenship and produced rhetoric
which deemed black people as inferior.”
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Prof. Richard Wolff : “On
Journalism, Globalism, Capitalism, Brexit"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-cb06beTgs&feature=youtu.be
(24:54)