Bulletin N° 943

 

“Mosul” – The Documentary

2019

https://putlockers.fm/watch/zdKolYrd-mosul.html

written and directed by Daniel Gabriel, with Bashar Atiyat, Ali Mula, Anouar H. Smaine, and Mahdi Chalkhaoui

 (1:25:08)

The gritty history of local militias and uneasy allies who banded together to liberate Iraq's second-largest city of 1.3 million people from ISIS in 2017.

 

&

“Mosul” – The War Drama

2020

https://cinehub.wtf/mosul/

or

https://cinemabos.com/mosul/

(with possibly a two-minute delay)

 (1:42:32)

 

directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan and produced by Anthony and Joe Russo.

with actors: Adam Bessa, Hayat Kamille, Is’Haq Elias, Mohimen Mahbuba, Suhail Dabbach, Waleed Elgadi

 

When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.

 

Written and directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mosul is an extraordinary true story of heroism in the face of overwhelming odds, as it follows a group of brave men who fight to take back control of their homes, families and city from ISIS. After inexperienced Iraqi cop Kawa (Adam Bessa) is rescued from a harrowing firefight by the elite Nineveh SWAT team, he’s quickly inducted into the rogue squadron, a band of ten brothers-in-arms led by the wise Major Jasem (Suhail Dabbach). Under constant threat of attack, the unit embarks on a dangerous guerrilla operation, determined to wipe out an enemy base and restore order to the lawless territory

This film raises more questions than answers; it is the story of local militias and uneasy allies who banded together to liberate Iraq’s second-largest city of 1.3 million people from ISIS in 2017 reflects the hysterical moment of combat and with the aid of the soundtrack we are able to transcend all reason, and fall into the grip of complete capitalist determination, the profit motives of which are evident.

Editor Alex Rodriguez is the real star of this intense, boots on-the-ground war thriller about the campaign to retake the bullet-riddled titular Iraqi city from ISIS in 2017. Director Matthew Michael Carnahan makes it a rapid-fire affair with human drama tucked in as a 21-year-old Kurdish man (Adam Bessa) joins a hardened SWAT team in a hellish fight. It’s well-made and engrossing.

 

 

 

 

Subject:  The Logical Extension of Capitalist Production and the History of a Liberal Delusion.

 

December 14, 2020

Grenoble, France

 

 

Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,

 

I was perusing recently an old second-hand copy of a paperback I had read a long time ago in what seems another lifetime. Dr. Selma H. Fraiberg’s book, The Magic Years, Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood ‘1959), is representative of the science of child psychology dating from the era of “Possessive Individualism.” Written by a famous liberal Freudian psychologist in the late 1950s - Professor of Child Psychoanalysis at the University of Michigan Medical School and Director of the Child Development Project at Children’s Psychiatric Hospital at U. M - we watch her methodically conduct a science inquiry of individual analysis in full confidence and with great compassion and good humor, describing the child’s magic worldview at the age of one-and-a-half.

 

     The magician is seated in his high chair and looks upon the xo(ld with favor. He is at the height of his powers. If he closes his eyes, he causes he world to disappear. If he opens his eyes, he causes the world to come back. If there is harmony within him, the world is harmonious. If rage shatters his inner harmony, the unity of the world is shattered. If desire arises within him, he utters the magic syllables that cause the desired object to appear. His wishes, his thoughts, his gestures, his noises command the universe.

 

     The magician stands midway between two worlds, but the world he commands at eighteen months is already waiting to take away his magic, and he himself has begun to make certain observations which cast doubt upon his powers. Somewhere around the end of the first year he began to discover that he was not the initiator of all activity, that causes for certain events existed outside of himself, quite independent of his needs and his wishes, but now, in the middle of the second year, the magician makes a discovery which will slowly lead him to his downfall. The magician will be undone by his own magic. For when he ascends to the heights of the word-magic, when he discovers he can command with a word, he will be lured into a new world, he will commit himself unknowingly to new laws of thinking, the principles of the this second world which oppose magic by means of the word.

 

     Magic belongs to the first system of thought, the pre-verbal world. What we call rational thought processes can only come about through the development of language and the second of thought is built on words and the manipulation of words.

 

     The few words which the magician commands at eighteen months do not yet serve higher mental processes. They serve his wants, his immediate needs, and he acquires them in much the same way that the untutored adult acquires a foreign language by first learning the words for his needs – in what we call ‘restaurant French.’ If the child in the second year learns ‘mama,’ ‘cookie,’ ‘bye-bye,’ ‘car,’ it is because he wants mama, and wants a cookie, wants to go bye-bye, wants to go in the car. He learns the names of certain objects which are desirable to him. But he does not yet have rational or orderly thought processes, he has neither the vocabulary not the concepts to construct an organized and coherent view  of the world or events around him. So the first stages of language development are still closer to the primitive system of thought than they are to the secondary thought processes. They serve magic, not reason. And the child’s view of the world is still dominated by his primitive thinking. He is still a magician.

 

     The sources of a magician’s powers are always of interest to his audience, and this seems to be an excellent time to inquire  into the mental processes of a practicing magician who came by his secrets legitimately and who performs without hokum. This fellow in the high chair believes in his work.

 

     He discovered his powers accidently, very early in the first year of his life when tensions within his body magically produced an object, a breast or bottle, which relieved tensions. We are inclined to argue with him right there. This is not magic. These tensions we know perfectly well gave rise to certain manifestations which were recognized by a person outside himself who then ministered to his needs. But the magician could not have known this. He could only connect need and satisfaction in a primitive cause-and-effect relationship. Later when he began to differentiate his body from other bodies the primitive cause-and-effect (need brings satisfaction), moved one step  further to ‘need brings a person who gives satisfaction.’ We notice that his body and his needs bring about a desired event in this pre-thinking stage.

 

     As his world enlarges he sees all objects, all events as the result of his own activity. The rattle does not have the property of making a noise, he makes the noise by manipulating the rattle. The Teddy bear does not occupy a certain space outside himself; the Teddy bear is ‘there’ only if he sees it. The existence of all things in the outer world is known to him only through his sense organs; objects have no independent existence. In this way all objects outside himself appear to him as connected with his own actions. We say that he is egocentric because he is the center of his world and he conceives objects and events outside of himself as the consequence of his activity, of his grasping, his seeing, his hearing. In this sense he is the cause of all things.

 

     In the first half of the second year, as we have already seen, he has made some observations which lead him to the correct conclusion that objects outside himself can exist independently of his perception of them and he is able imaginatively to reconstruct their movements in space. This is a great advance from the earlier view in which objects were merely extensions of his own ego and his own activity, but this psychological position still remains ego centered; he is still a mover and cause of things because he must command objects and events of his own needs and his own purposes. In a word – a word which is not yet part of the magician’s vocabulary – he is omnipotent.

 

     Like all magicians he believes that his wishes, his thoughts, his words are the instruments of his magic powers. In this way we see how these later developments in thinking are still modeled after the simple ‘need brings satisfaction’ of the earliest months of life. Long after reason his deprived the magician of his magic, and for all the days of his life, the belief that wishes can bring about real events will persist in a secret part of the self.

 

     Whatever a magician believes, the truth of the matter is that he derives his power from his audience. The career of a magician ends in the moment that his audience disbelieves this magic. So there must always be a magician and there must always be believers in order for magic to take place. The career of our high-chair magician is blighted almost from the start by a clique of unbelievers, who consider it their duty to rise up and protest, to give argument, present proof and to offer their prosaic selves and their own hard-earned wisdom as a substitute for this enchanted world. They are formidable opponents, for their power is infinitely greater than that of the high-chair magician. They are the  source of love, they minister to the body needs of the high-chair magician. They are absolutely indispensable, and the proof of their indispensability is regularly seen in the failure of the magician’s career.

 

     The unbelievers, the rationalists, the parents and educators, consider it their duty and their right to oppose magic with Truth, to fight magic with Reason, to put magic to the test of Reality. They are missionaries who are ordained to bring an alien and higher culture to the savage in order that he may free his imagination for more advanced modes of thought, and free his activity and his cultural achievements from the slavery of body needs. For as long as the primitive mind is dominated by the urgency of needs and the urgency of their satisfaction, mental activity will be restricted to the satisfaction and means of satisfaction of body urges.

 

     We have seen that magic thinking in the earliest mental activity, the mentally process which accompanies the need-satisfaction principle of early development. In psychoanalytic terms, the functioning of the child in the early months  and years is dominated by the Pleasure Principle, that is, a striving for satisfaction. Mental processes develop in this early period in the service of body needs. (Recall that one of the earliest forms of thought according to our construction was the picture, the mental image of a satisfaction, the breast or bottle, which was activated by sensations of hunger.) Now in order for mental processes to progress to the higher modes of thought, orderly thinking, logic and abstraction, thinking must be freed from magic and freed from its earlier dependence upon body needs and their satisfaction. Here, the parents, the representatives of Reality, become the missionaries of a higher culture. They must educate the child to a coherent and rational view of the world and to do this they must, in effect, oppose magic thinking and the instinctual strivings which have satisfaction as their only goal. This is a job that demands the greatest intuitive knowledge and skill on the part of parents. Our technical language has a phrase for the governing principle of the second mode of thought. We call it the Reality Principle which means, of course, that the higher form of thinking is governed by principles of reality instead of the earlier principle of pleasure.

 

     The work of a missionary is not immediately rewarded. Anyone who sets out to convert a Pleasure Principle into a Reality Principle, whether on a Pacific Island or in an American suburb, must know the forces which resist his efforts. The missionary converts through love; his teachings cannot have effect unless he can compensate by an offer of love for what he must take away. His censorship will fall on deaf ears unless fear of loss of love will act upon the primitive mentality like a brake. The missionary cannot be a zealot. If he meets the force of primitive resistance with the force of his ideas in a collision of minds, the missionary will lose his vocation or worse. In an American family the worst that can happen is that he will lose his influence.

 

     Above all, in the early stages of conversion, the missionary must be content if the primitive mind takes in half the truth. If the primitive accepts the truth of the new religion, but keeps his old idols under the bed, the missionary must not deplore or threaten or lose his wits. If he is wise he will assign a place in the mind where the old idols, the old beliefs, and the old magic cab still reside and even serve a benevolent purpose. The conversion on a primitive in an American suburb should make allowances for the sacrifice to new principles. It should leave a place in the mind where the banished dreams can be eternally renewed, where wishes bring about their own satisfaction. All that we ask is allegiance to the Reality Principle, and consignment of magic to certain regions of the mind. We grant the right of a deposed magician to practice the sorcery of the day-dream and we provide an island in our world of reality where he can command the creatures of his imagination through play.(The Magic Years, pp.107-112)

 

Dr. Fraiberg goes on to deliver a graphic illustration of logocentrism and the human mind by comparing the mental processes of Susie, a two-year-old girl with that of Brandy, the psychoanalyst's four-year-old beagle. The Former is developing her capacity for language; the dog has none.

 

     What has made it possible for Susie to forego the pleasure of picking the flowers and possessing them for herself? [Her parents had allowed her to pick flowers in their own garden, but they had forbidden her to pick flowers growing in the yard of their neighbor. Sisie internalized her parent’s injunction, albeit reluctantly.] Word magic, again. The words ‘far’ (flower), ‘pitty,’ ‘nize’ substitute for the object. Instead of making physical contact with the flowers through touching them she makes contact through words, naming the flower, admiring it. Instead of picking the flowers to make them her own, she employs words to designate the object and possesses the flowers be possessing the symbol, the word.

 

     In this example words substitute for an act. And this leads us into a discussion of one of the most important functions of language. Words substitute for human acts and the uniquely human achievements of control of body urges, delay, postponement and even renunciation of gratification are very largely due to the higher mental processes that are made possible by language. The human possibility of consciously inhibiting an action and renouncing, if only temporarily, an expected satisfaction is largely dependent upon the human faculties of judgment and reasoning, functions which are inconceivable without language.

 

     We take our language equipment so much for granted that it may be difficult to see at first glance how language becomes a means for control of body impulses. Let’s consider, for a moment, the case of our non-verbal four-year-old beagle who understands only a few words like ‘walk,’ ‘down,’ ‘no,’ ‘stay here,’ and doesn’t always choose to understand them. Each night he is confronted with a crisis that demands a simple piece of reasoning and renunciation of an immediate gratification for the attainment of a more desirable goal that would be in his grasp within a split second. Here is the dilemma: At the end of the evening Brandy is bribed with a biscuit to leave his favorite piece of furniture and descend the basement stairs to his own bed. He is a sociable dog who hates to leave good company and a good chair for solitude and a doggy mattress in the furnace room. One of us will move toward the basement stairs with a biscuit in hand while Brandy follows with a moody look on his face. At the top of the stairs he stops and sits down. He will not budge at this point. Now his master or his mistress (there never were more foolish names for such as we are) will descend the stairs, biscuit in hand, whistling, chirping and making other conventional noises to which dogs are said to respond. Brandy sits like an ornamental lion at the top of the stairs. At this point, each night, we think we are lost. It’s a breathless moment. Will he rise above instinct at last? Will he renounce Dog Yummies and his enslavement to his appetite and by this single gesture rise like a rocket to some new elevation in the evolutionary scale? And if  he does what will become of us? If we cannot influence him through his appetite and his devotion to us, nothing will prevent him from asserting himself as the rightful owner of our house (a point that had long been disputed anyway) and we might easily find ourselves at the top of the stairs each night, staring moodily into the darkness.

 

     Se we wait at the bottom of the stairs. It’s a good game. We secretly would like to see him win, at least once. The beagle looks mournfully at the biscuit in his master’s hand. His tail wags uncertainly. On his poor, sad, hound’s face you can almost read the dilemma. He dimly recognizes that a trap is in store for him. He doesn’t want to go downstairs, but he does want the biscuit. A few minutes pass. Suddenly, unable to withstand the longing another moment, Brandy descends the stairs in pursuit of his biscuit and is easily led to his bed. A few minutes later when we are back upstairs, we may hear pathetic little mewling noises from the regions below. Brandy, having eaten his biscuit, remembers finally why he hadn’t wanted to go downstairs in the first place.

 

    The events as described here have gone on nearly every night for four years. The sequence is practically unvarying. Why hasn’t Brandy caught on after hundreds of repetitions that if he can forego the satisfaction of a Dog Yummy he can avoid being led downstairs and will gain the grater satisfaction of luxury and companionship upstairs? Well, to put it bluntly, he can’t keep two ideas in his head at the same time. Properly speaking, he doesn’t even have an idea. At best, he has pictures in his head. But the real biscuit dangling in front of his eyes has no trouble competing with the mental picture of a solitary bed in the furnace room. He cannot see connections between these events except in the most rudimentary sense. The two events of a biscuit in his master’s hand and what we see as the sequel, the solitary bed, would appear to him as two separate events; he would not see one causing the other. He hesitates at the top of the stairs not because he can imaginatively reconstruct the sequence of events to follow, but because his sensory memory prompts him to anticipate something unpleasant connected with the taking of the biscuit. But he couldn’t tell himself why.

 

     In order to link these two events in a meaningful way he would need words. If he could translate the whole experience from biscuit to solitary bed in a practical symbol system he would be able to construct mentally the sequence of events without going through the action. He would need to have the equivalent symbols for our conditional sentence, ‘If I take the biscuit, I’ll wind up in the doggone furnace room.’ He could then negate the impulse through the symbolic equivalent, ‘Who wants the louse biscuit anyway?’He could then march back to his favorite piece of furniture and sneer at his family, and by this single act of renunciation he would rise above his species. But he has no language. Without language he is obliged to go through the actions of his nightly ritual, from biscuit to solitary bed, because he cannot symbolically reconstruct it and draw inference from the parts of the experience.

 

     But why should we go to so much trouble to examine the mental limitations of an animal? Because, of course, the absence of language restricts the possibility of an animal’s rising above his instinctual nature. In the absence of language the mental processes of reason and judgment cannot exist and the animal cannot make choices that are independent of instinctual need or instinctual conduct. All those qualities that we call human derive from the possibility within every human being of acquiring control over the instinctual self and of modifying his character and his circumstances through an intelligence that has a large degree of independence from the primary human drives. We have excellent reasons to believe that these uniquely human achievements are not alone the product of a superior mental apparatus, but that the apparatus itself acquires for possibility of controlling this vast and intricate organization of the human personality through language!(pp.115-118)

    

In another section of her book, entitled “Helping a Child Overcome His Fears,” Dr. Fraiberg discusses the case of Nancy, a twenty-one months old.

 

     [She] has always loved her bath and now, suddenly she begins to protest and stiffen as soon as mother puts her in the tub. If mother is insistent, even gently insistent, Nancy has a tantrum. Bathtime has become nerve wracking for mother and she is rapidly losing patience with this nonsense. The stubbornness and defiance in Nancy’s behavior provokes mother to sharpness and sternness, which in turn brings forth more defiance from Nancy and soon the two are engaged in a contest.

 

      What is this? Is it just another manifestation of the negativism of this age? Does she just enjoy being dirty? Is she ‘testing out’ her mother? ‘A good spanking will cure her of that,’ says a visiting great-aunt who happens to be present during one of these bath-time scenes. And Nancy’s mother, almost at her wit’s end, wonders if she hasn’t been too soft about this whole business. It isn’t at all clear, of course, just what a spanking would ‘cure’ Nancy of, and this is the trouble with all such advice by the advocates of spanking. It is an action which, under all circumstances, is unrelated to the facts of the case. In this circumstance it would mean that since nobody knows why Nancy is reacting the way she is, we will employ a meaningless punishment for a meaningless piece of behavior.

 

     Let’s try another approach and let the great-aunts go off in a huff to complain to all other great-aunts that there is nothing that would do today’s child so much good as a good spanking. Let’s consider what defiance can mean. Defiance can mean many things. A two year old who doesn’t want to go to bed can become defiant and his defiance may only signify his resentment at giving up the pleasures of play. A two year and a half year old found playing with scissors may become defiant when his mother takes them away, and again the defiance may mean only a reaction to deprivation of an interesting play thing. In either of these cases the parent can handle the defiance by acting firmly but tactfully, and the chances are very good that the child will accept the necessary interference with a pleasure. But now let’s look at another type of defiance. You are two and you are afraid that the big dog next door will chew you to pieces and your father says, ‘Oh, come on. Let’s go over and see the nice doggie and pat him. He won’t bite.’ And your father starts to lead you by the hand – and you rebel. You may cry, protest, pull away, and if father grows more insistent you may scream and throw a little tantrum. This defiance is defiance toward the adult who wants to lead you into an imagined danger.

 

     In any of these examples it is not difficult to recognize which defiance signifies resistance to interruption of a pleasurable experience and which defiance represents defense against anxiety. But when we are confronted with Nancy’s defiance of her mother at bath-time the issues are not so clear. It doesn’t seem to be connected with interruption of a pleasure and, furthermore, the bath had been until recently one of the great pleasures in Nancy’s life. It isn’t obviously associated with fear. A bathtub doesn’t bite. There hasn’t even been an accident in the bath that might lend validity to a fear. Nancy doesn’t talk well enough to tell us why she avoids the bath. How can we find out the meaning of this behavior?

 

     Usually in early childhood there is a close enough connection between an event and a child’s reactions so that we can search our memories and come up with some clues. As soon a Nancy’s mother gave up the notion that Nancy’s behavior toward the bath was simply two-year-old obstinacy she remembered something that had not appeared to be very important at the time but had preceded by a day or so the onset of the bath rebellion. Nancy had been reluctant to get out of the tub on that occasion and her mother started to let the water out of the tub. Nancy had not seemed to notice the water level slowly dropping but toward the end she watched with rapt attention as the last of the bath water was sucked down the drain. Suddenly she stood up in the tub and demanded urgently to get out. It was after this event that Nancy became fussy about taking her bath. Then the mother recalled that for several weeks preceding this event Nancy had asked repeatedly to watch the toilet flush and on one occasion had even tossed her Teddy bear in the toilet bowl. He was rescued just in time by Nancy’s mother.

 

     From these isolated and seemingly not very important events we can draw a conclusion that seems preposterous to an adult. Nancy’s avoidance of the bath which follows her observation of the disappearance of water down the bath drains and her observation that objects disappear down the toilet, suggests that Nancy is afraid that she, too, could disappear down a drain. The grown-up, even an older child, will dismiss this as nonsense. We know that a child cannot go down that little hole. How do we know this? We have a concept of relative size. We know the approximate boundaries and size of our bodies and the relationship of a drain-hole diameter to the size of our own bodies. But Nancy at twenty-one months does not know this. She will need to carry on series of experiments for a long time before she acquires knowledge of the amount of space which her body occupies.

 

    There is another reason why such fears of losing oneself, of vanishing into nothingness, should become so prominent among children of Nancy’s age. The emerging self-sense, the sense of identity is closely bound up with the body concept. While no child has ever had the experience of having his body disappear, he has experience the disappearance of his conscious ego in sleep or states bordering on sleep. It is disturbing to the child who has newly found his identity to lose it; to see it disappear as consciousness dissolves in the moment before falling asleep. We have already suggested that this is one of the reasons why so many children of this age fight off sleep. We can see the application of these ideas to Nancy’s fear of vanishing down a drain. It is the fear of losing one’s self, of dissolving into nothingness.

 

     ‘All very interesting,’ says Nancy’s mother. ‘But in the meantime what do we do? Do we give up baths until Nancy acquires a concept of her body size or overcomes her fear of loss of identity? And since Nancy doesn’t talk very well, yet, just how could we explain anything to her anyway?

 

     Now, of course, we don’t want to wait until, Nancy learns about relative size before giving her a bath! She still needs to have her bath and unless the anxiety is very strong, we would continue to bathe her in the tub. But our knowledge that she is afraid will make a difference in our handling. We will not behave as if she were being ‘just stubborn’ and we must show her who is boss. We’ll be specially gentle and reassuring and do everything possible to make the bath pleasant and encourage her to play in the tub. It will be easier for a time if we allow the water to remain in the tub while Nancy is in the bath and even for a while after she is out of the tub.

 

     Her concern with the flushing toilet suggests that there may be some anxiety connected with toilet training that needs to be taken into account too. We recall from an earlier discussion of toilet training that children during the training period commonly react with some anxiety to the disappearance of their stools. Some reassurances in this area and relaxations of any pressures in toilet training might ease the anxieties about drains, too.(pp.172-175)

 

 

What these scientific insights represent today, from a historical perspective, is the product of an advanced liberal culture which effectively improved communication between individuals living in a relatively privileged setting. Reason was the universal point of reference, and the bourgeois revolutionaries wore it as a badge of honor; they were the missionaries bringing light to darkness.  

 

These days, more and more people see this view as just another instance of “placing the cart before the horse.” First, the conditions in which a social class is living – its subjective and objective relationships with the rest of society and the natural world - must be taken into account, before improvements in health, education and spiritual growth can be expected.

 

Many from the privileged social classes scoff at this idea of the prerequisite imperative of equalizing material and social conditions. Such thinking is rendered incomprehensible by their ideological biases favoring Possessive Individualism. On the other hand, a growing number of people are becoming aware that they risk being transformed into followers of fascism through the material coercion of job losses, low incomes, the threat of homelessness, and repeated violations of their physical and mental well being. This awareness represents a micro resistance that can be expected to grow to revolutioinary dimensions within the ideological framwork of "Socialism or Barbarism!"

 

 

The 23 + items below include articles and essays many of which are premised on social class analysis, taking into account the many class conflicts that influence our lives today – the way we think, talk, and conduct our lives. This work could provoke new thinking and introduce new ideas into future discussions. Past liberal studies in psychology – despite their fragmented nature and their deeply flawed ontology, limiting understanding to emperical individual behavior – nevertheless offer insights into the necessary struggles against reification, psychic paralysis, and the collective political subjugation that ensues. We must first find the words to describe our condition; from these words will come our own analyses for action, for self-realization, and for collective well-being.

 

 

Sincerely,

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
http://www.ceimsa.org 

 

 

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“Wrecking the Left”

https://youtu.be/k_Th-25DLWc

with Dianna Johnstone and Chris Hedges

(26:04)

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Karl Rove's Prophecy

https://www.unz.com/article/karl-roves-prophecy/?showcomments

by Karel van Wolferen

January 23, 2017

 

In a famous exchange between a high official at the court of George W. Bush and journalist Ron Suskind, the official – later acknowledged to have been Karl Rove – takes the journalist to task for working in “the reality-based community.” He defined that as believing “that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” Rove then asserted that this was no longer the way in which the world worked:

 

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” (Ron Suskind, NYTimes Magazine, Oct. 17, 2004).

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News from Underground

“Academic Freedom”: The On-Going Controversy at NYU

https://wabcradio.com/episode/controversy-crony-capitalism-covid-12-9-20/

with Frank Morano and Mark Crispin Miller

(audio: 49:58)

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“The Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class”

emocratic party and the death of the liberal class

https://www.mintpressnews.com/chris-hedges-the-collective-suicide-of-the-liberal-class/273442/

by Chris Hedges

 

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b.

From: Team Assange Defense info@assangedefense.org [mailto:team@AssangeDefense.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2020
Subject: These celebrities are standing up for Julian

 

Dear Friends,

We are only 27 days from a court ruling on Julian’s extradition, and Julian needs your help to build a broad base of awareness and support!

 

If Judge Vanessa Baraitser rules against Julian, we are ready to act fast through print, TV, and social media. Many of Julian’s most prominent supporters are on board eager to speak out on his behalf. But how successful we are then depends on how much we can build a base now! We need your help to educate people about Julian’s case so that we can maximize pressure come January.

 

Celebrity Activists Speak Up for Julian!

In the past few days, we’ve had several prominent supporters make news by speaking out for Julian. Sharing their stories is a great way to reach friends who aren’t informed about Julian’s case. Will you help spread their message?

 

Read legendary rocker Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, op-ed in Salon or listen to his interview on the Rolling Stone podcast Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper last month). Please share (Twitter | Facebook)!

 

Actress Pamela Anderson’s tweet is sending shockwaves around the world! Major newspapers in the U.S. and U.K. have covered Pamela’s tweet calling for President Trump to pardon Julian. Please share!

Repeat Oscar winner Oliver Stone is speaking up for Julian. His #WeAreMillions tweet already has 14,000 likes! Please share!

 

#WeAreMillions

We hope you’ll check out the #WeAreMillions book event on Thursday, Dec. 10 at noon EST, featuring Chris Hedges, Angela Richter, and Ben Cohen. Please click here to sign up or share our Twitter | Facebook post about the event!

If you aren’t yet following us on Twitter or Facebook, please do! You can also check out the In the News section of our website for regular updates and big stories.

Thanks for your help, and stay tuned!

 

In solidarity,

The Assange Defense Committee

www.assangedefense.org

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What’s At Stake in Julian Assange’s Extradition Trial

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wikileaks-julian-assange-extradition/

by Nancy Carolina Graterol

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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange struggling in 'atrocious' British prison conditions, says partner

https://www.euronews.com/2020/12/13/wikileaks-julian-assange-struggling-in-atrocious-british-prison-conditions-says-partner

by Michael Daventry

 

With three weeks remaining until a British judge decides whether to extradite him, supporters of Julian Assange say he is struggling under "atrocious" prison conditions in London.

The WikiLeaks founder is currently in the top-security Belmarsh prison, where he was moved following his arrest last year.

He is said to be in confinement following a coronavirus outbreak among other inmates. His partner Stella Morris claims conditions are dangerous.

"He's in atrocious circumstances," Morris told Sky News Australia earlier this week.

"The prison is a dangerous place, suicides and murders are commonplace, he is surrounded by very serious criminals, one in five are convicted of murder.

 

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c.

“Books, Books, Books!” on Grand Theft World

 https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1607-books-books-books-on-grand-theft-world/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CorbettReportRSS+%28The+Corbett+Report%29

with James Corbett

(audio, 1:07:30)

+

“Another 25 Books You Should Read…”

https://www.minds.com/CorbettReport/blog/another-25-books-you-should-read-1184881297836535808

by James Corbett

+

Grand Theft World Podcast “Unmasking Dystopia”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQ44wtj1eA

with Richard Grove

(4:44:10)

+

Group Overseeing $10 Trillion, Called "Guardians for Inclusive Capitalism Signs Partnership With The Vatican

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/group-overseeing-10-trillion-called-guardians-inclusive-capitalism-signs-partnership

by Tyler Durden

+

$1 trillion wealth gain by 651 U.S. billionaires since mid-March

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56015.htm

by Americans for Tax Fairness

+

Palantir’s Tiberius, Race, and the Public Health Panopticon

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/12/investigative-series/palantirs-tiberius-race-and-the-public-health-panopticon/

by Jeremy Loffredo and Whitney Webb

+

“Is Capitalism a Religion? Are We Human Sacrifice?”

https://youtu.be/X8a711iQkzE

with RJ Eskow and Lynn Parramore

(33:48)

+

“We Live under Something Far Worse than Capitalism”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYm2hJwEaw0

with Yanis Varoufakis

(47:57)

+

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZIINXhGDcs

with David Graeber

(1:21:09)

 

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d.

From: dal38@droitaulogement.org [mailto:dal38@droitaulogement.org]
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020
Subject: [Logement-infos] 14/12 à 12h- Conf. presse et rassemblement - Les Volets Verts enfin (ré)ouverts !

 

LES VOLETS VERTS ENFIN (ré)OUVERTS !

Les habitant.e.s du 7 place Bonnevay, soutenu.e.s par le DAL 38, organisent une
conférence de presse et un rassemblement demain, lundi 14/12 à 12h, devant le bâtiment réquisitionné depuis plusieurs jours.

L'immeuble, vide (et chauffé !) depuis plus de 10 ans, abrite désormais des familles et célibataires sans logement au cœur du quartier populaire de l'Abbaye.

Venez nombreux.ses pour exiger le relogement des habitant.e.s et la réquisition des logements vides ! 

A demain !

———————————
Conférence de presse et rassemblement - Lundi 14/12 à 12h
7 place Laurent Bonnevay, Grenoble
contact DAL 38 : 06 41 30 55 18

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e.

Securitizing climate change can lead to more surveillance and eco-fascism

https://therealnews.com/securitizing-climate-change-can-lead-to-more-surveillance-and-eco-fascism

with Aman Azhar and Professor Duncan McLaren

(28:55)

+

The Wealthy 1% = Climate Change Accelerators!

https://youtu.be/efzMA2gMcTs

with Jimmy Dore

(5:43)

+

“All Things Co-op”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTd9KRtO5yI

with Richard Wolf

(2:07:21)

+

America Closes Down -- People Get Shafted As Monopolies Take Over!

https://youtu.be/8aOLuf-qlko

 with Jimmy Dore

(36:00)

 

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f.

From: Ariel Gold, CODEPINK [mailto:info@codepink.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2020
Subject: Rest in Power, Ali. Someday, Palestine will be Free

 

CODEPINK.ORG

 

 

The Israeli military has gunned down yet another Palestinian child, 15-year-old Ali Abu Alia. That Ali’s death will not be in vain, please take a moment to ask Congress to condition US military assistance to Israel so it not be used to destroy young Palestinian lives!

 

EouKPGFW4AM8VZd

He was only 15, excited to celebrate his birthday with a cake and a party with his family. He was watching with horror as the Israeli military attacked protestors in his village. Then he was fatally shot in the stomach.

 

Last weekend, Ali Abu Alia became the fifth Palestinian child to be killed by live ammunition from the Israeli military this year. Tragically, he is unlikely to be the last. The United States sends $3.8 billion to the Israeli military every year. Not only does that money directly fund a 53-year-long military occupation, but it supplies U.S. weapons to kill and maim Palestinians, including children. Tell Congress: Have a heart for Palestinian children. Support legislation to stop funding their abuse and murder. 

According to Jeff Klein in Mondoweiss, between 2008 and 2011, live-fire rounds of Ruger’s .22 caliber sniper rifles, manufactured in Newport, NH, killed at least six Palestinians. Their names: 17-year-old Kusai al-Afrandi, 10-year-old Ahmad Musa, 20-year-old Mohammed Khawaje, 22-year-old Mohammed Hamid, 14-year-old Izzedine al-Jamal, and 36-year-old Yusuf Aqel. Now, Ali Abu Alia, killed on his 15th birthday, joins the list of those murdered. 

Israel began importing Ruger .22 sniper rifles for “riot control” during the First Intifada, arguing that these weapons were “less lethal,” but Ali’s murder proves otherwise. Tell Congress to stop allowing U.S. dollars to fund Israel’s abuse and murder of children. Tell them to support McCollum’s work to hold Israel (and Sturm, Ruger Co.) accountable for taking young Ali’s life.

Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota’s vital legislation is designed to protect the lives and basic human rights of Palestinian youth. H.R. 2407, the Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act, would prohibit U.S. dollars from being used to fund the “detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill-treatment of children.” We can’t decide what’s more shameful: that her legislation is even necessary in the first place, or that thus far it has received so little support. Tell Congress: Have a heart for Palestinian children. Support legislation to stop funding their abuse and murder. 

Upon the killing of Ali, Betty McCullum called on “the incoming Biden administration to fully investigate and verify to the American people that no U.S. taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel provided material assistance enabling this taking of a child’s life.” The EU Delegation to the Palestinians and UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov called for an investigation and reaffirmed that “children enjoy special protection under international law,” and UNICEF released a statement asking Israel to ”fully respect, protect, and fulfill the rights of all children and refrain from using violence against children, in accordance with International law.” 

With U.S. military assistance that includes no accountability, Israel has proven that it will neither respect international law nor the rights of children, even the right to live. We can't have more children suffer the same tragic fate as Ali and all the Palestinian youth who like him have died at the hands of Israel’s military. May Ali’s memory be a catalyst for Congress to support H.R. 2407.

Towards justice for Ali, 
Ariel, Ann, Angela, Carley, Caty, Cody, Danaka, Emily, Farida, Jodie, Kelsey, Leila, Leonardo, Maxine, Mary, Medea, Nancy, Paki, Teri, and Yousef

Donate Now!

The Israeli military has gunned down yet another Palestinian child, 15-year-old Ali Abu Alia. That Ali’s death will not be in vain, please take a moment to ask Congress to condition US military assistance to Israel so it not be used to destroy young Palestinian lives!

DEMAND JUSTICE!

 

He was only 15, excited to celebrate his birthday with a cake and a party with his family. He was watching with horror as the Israeli military attacked protestors in his village. Then he was fatally shot in the stomach. 

 

Last weekend, Ali Abu Alia became the fifth Palestinian child to be killed by live ammunition from the Israeli military this year. Tragically, he is unlikely to be the last. The United States sends $3.8 billion to the Israeli military every year. Not only does that money directly fund a 53-year-long military occupation, but it supplies U.S. weapons to kill and maim Palestinians, including children. Tell Congress: Have a heart for Palestinian children. Support legislation to stop funding their abuse and murder. 

 

According to Jeff Klein in Mondoweiss, between 2008 and 2011, live-fire rounds of Ruger’s .22 caliber sniper rifles, manufactured in Newport, NH, killed at least six Palestinians. Their names: 17-year-old Kusai al-Afrandi, 10-year-old Ahmad Musa, 20-year-old Mohammed Khawaje, 22-year-old Mohammed Hamid, 14-year-old Izzedine al-Jamal, and 36-year-old Yusuf Aqel. Now, Ali Abu Alia, killed on his 15th birthday, joins the list of those murdered. 

 

Israel began importing Ruger .22 sniper rifles for “riot control” during the First Intifada, arguing that these weapons were “less lethal,” but Ali’s murder proves otherwise. Tell Congress to stop allowing U.S. dollars to fund Israel’s abuse and murder of children. Tell them to support McCollum’s work to hold Israel (and Sturm, Ruger Co.) accountable for taking young Ali’s life.

 

Rep. Betty McCollum of Minnesota’s vital legislation is designed to protect the lives and basic human rights of Palestinian youth. H.R. 2407, the Promoting Human Rights for Palestinian Children Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act, would prohibit U.S. dollars from being used to fund the “detention, interrogation, abuse, or ill-treatment of children.” We can’t decide what’s more shameful: that her legislation is even necessary in the first place, or that thus far it has received so little support. Tell Congress: Have a heart for Palestinian children. Support legislation to stop funding their abuse and murder. 

 

Upon the killing of Ali, Betty McCullum called on “the incoming Biden administration to fully investigate and verify to the American people that no U.S. taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel provided material assistance enabling this taking of a child’s life.” The EU Delegation to the Palestinians and UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov called for an investigation and reaffirmed that “children enjoy special protection under international law,” and UNICEF released a statement asking Israel to ”fully respect, protect, and fulfill the rights of all children and refrain from using violence against children, in accordance with International law.” 

 

With U.S. military assistance that includes no accountability, Israel has proven that it will neither respect international law nor the rights of children, even the right to live. We can't have more children suffer the same tragic fate as Ali and all the Palestinian youth who like him have died at the hands of Israel’s military. May Ali’s memory be a catalyst for Congress to support H.R. 2407.

 

Towards justice for Ali, 
Ariel, Ann, Angela, Carley, Caty, Cody, Danaka, Emily, Farida, Jodie, Kelsey, Leila, Leonardo, Maxine, Mary, Medea, Nancy, Paki, Teri, and Yousef

 

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From: Moshé Machover [mailto:ananmoshik@icloud.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020
Subject: Fwd: Newsletter de l’AURDIP du 13 décembre 2020

Moshe Machover suspendu – il a publié une réponse

https://www.aurdip.org/moshe-machover-suspendu-il-a.html

 

4 décembre | Moshé Machover pour Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) |Traduction SF pour l’AURDIP |Tribunes version en

 

Introduction de JVL
Les lecteurs se souviendront que Moshe Machover a été brièvement exclu du Parti travailliste à l’automne 2017 sous l’ancien régime discrédité de Iain Nichol.
Il vient d’être suspendu en vertu de règles et de procédures qui sont aussi manifestement injustes aujourd’hui qu’elles l’étaient alors.
Machover a décidé d’ignorer les règles de confidentialité qui servent à bâillonner les accusés et de mettre dans le domaine public toutes les informations correspondant à sa suspension. . .

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From: AURDIP <contact@aurdip.fr>

Subject: Newsletter de l’AURDIP du 13 décembre 2020

Date: 13December2020 at 15:00:45 GMT

To: moshe.machover@kcl.ac.uk

 

Newsletter de l’AURDIP du 13 décembre 2020

 AURDIP

https://www.aurdip.org/newsletter-de-l-aurdip-du-13-134.html?lang=fr

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Abby Martin & Joe Rogan on “Israel's Massacre at Gaza Border”

https://youtu.be/OFtqd4s_TXs

(23:58)

+

Malawi is Just the Beginning: How Israel Changed the Political Narrative of an Entire Continent

https://www.mintpressnews.com/malawi-just-the-beginning-how-israel-changed-political-narrative-africa/273258/

 by Clinton Nzala

+

Myth to Reality: Israeli Archeologists Are Using the Bible to Rewrite History

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/78686/myth-to-reality-israeli-archeologists-are-using-the-bible-to-rewrite.html

by Miko Peled

+

A “Fringe Member” of the Jewish Community: How Hasbara Trolls Reacted to My Campus

https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-hasbara-trolls-reacted-to-my-campus-appearance/273348/

by Miko Peled

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Assassinated Iranian Scientist Headed Country's COVID Vaccine Program

https://www.mintpressnews.com/assassination-of-mohsin-fakhrezadeh-war-against-iran-covid-19-vaccine/273399/

by Mnar Muhawesh Adley

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Israel’s Honeymoon With the United Arab Emirates Is Grotesque

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56012.htm

 by Belén Fernández

 

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Empire Files: Giants – Who Really Rules The World?

https://therealnews.com/empire-files-giants-who-really-rules-the-world

https://williambowles.info/2019/04/25/empire-files-giants-who-really-rules-the-world/

with Abby Martin and Peter Phillips, former director of Project Censored and professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University.

(22:21)

+

Beef, Banks and

the Brazilian Amazon

https://www.globalresearch.ca/beef-banks-brazilian-amazon/5731672

by Global Witness

+

As Food Insecurity Surges, Leading Scientist Says Hunger Is a Deliberate Choice by Those in Power

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/10/ricardo_salvador_world_hunger

with Ricardo Salvador

(36:35)

+

The Crack-Up at the Federal Reserve Is Coming

(Decline of US Dollar, Rejection of Its World Reserve Currency Status)

https://www.globalresearch.ca/crack-up-coming/5731608

by Rep. Ron Paul

 

The boom-and-bust cycle will not end because regulators stop investors from taking “excessive” risks. Almost every bubble and economic downturn America has experienced over the past 107 years was caused by the Federal Reserve’s manipulation of the money supply.

 

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i.

How top Iranian nuclear scientist’s killing underlines changes in Middle East with Biden presidency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6ogeD2Ty0&feature=youtu.be

with Shekhar Gupta

(25:03)

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US Sanctions Have Caused Iranians Untold Misery – And Achieved Nothing

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-sanctions-caused-iranians-untold-misery-achieved-nothing/5731604

by Negar Mortazavi and Sina Toossi

 

The assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is the latest in a long-running pressure campaign against Iran by the US and its allies such as Israel. However, in the case of sanctions, it is ordinary Iranians who are paying the biggest price.

 

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j.

The COVID-19 Vaccine; Is the Goal Immunity or Depopulation?

https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-vaccine-goal-immunity-depopulation/5731556

by Mike Whitney

 

This is the state of affairs in America today. All real power has been conceded to a globalist oligarchy that operates behind the curtain of corrupt government officials and public health experts. This begs the question of whether the hoopla surrounding the Coronavirus emerged as a spontaneous and appropriate reaction to a lethal and fast-spreading pandemic or whether the hysteria has been greatly exaggerated to implement a transformational political-social agenda.
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From: Cat McGuire
Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020
Subject: French professor committed Soviet-style to psychiatric hospital after exposing Covid origins.

 

Jean Bernard Fourtillan, professor of pharmacology and toxicology and owner of 400 medical patents, spoke out about the origin of the SARS CoV virus.  He claims the COVID-19 crisis was fabricated and is being used to impose a dangerous vaccine on the world population.  

Early on December 10, Jean-Bernard Fourtillan was taken from his home by a team of French law enforcement officers and forcibly placed against his will in solitary confinement at the psychiatric hospital of Uzès.

Accomplished pharma prof thrown in psych hospital after questioning official COVID narrative - December 11, 2020

You can write to the hospital administration here to complain at this outrageous, Soviet dissident-style treatment of Professor Fourtillan: direction.careiron@ch-uzes.fr


Professor Fourtillan explains his discovery of the truth about the Covid virus -- 3 minutes

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Everyone Is Already Wearing a Mask. They Just Don’t Work

https://www.globalresearch.ca/everyone-already-wearing-mask-they-just-dont-work/5731614

by Jordan Schachtel

 

Americans have exceeded universal masking benchmarks, but it has not slowed or stopped the spread of COVID-19.

 

 

One of the most common pro-mask arguments I’ve heard over the course of the past year, both from “public health experts” and your average citizen, sounds similar to the following statement:

“If only everyone would just wear a mask, we would be able to crush the virus and end the pandemic.”

This line of reasoning is frequently espoused by lockdown governors and “public health experts.” You see, the problem isn’t them, it’s you, the citizen, we’re told. Wear a mask, peasant. You’re the problem! You’re the reason why the pandemic is still a problem in this country.

Deaths up? Why aren’t you wearing a mask. Cases up? Wear a mask. Hospitals crowded? The problem is that not enough people are wearing masks, they claim.

 

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The idea that not enough Americans are wearing masks is detached from reality. And we have the data to prove it. The Delphi group at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a very informative, consistently updated mask compliance tracker. It shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans across the nation are wearing masks.
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HCQ is effective for COVID-19 when used early: meta analysis of 162 studies

https://hcqmeta.com/?fbclid=IwAR18-fLyGiMK0sI8HOOUs6T9H2Sq6jGlsIEr6vDTYFL_BU-WwSJ-UsteWpg

 

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k.

From: DAL38 [mailto:droitaulogement@gresille.org]
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2020
Subject: [Logement-infos] URGENT - REQUISITION EN COURS - Vieilles Cités Abbaye

 

 

Depuis mercredi 09 décembre 2020, des familles avec ou sans enfants et des célibataires sans logis se sont installéEs dans plusieurs appartements vides et chauffés au 7 place Laurent Bonnevay, au cœur du quartier de l'Abbaye.

Les nouveaux-elles occupantEs ont tou.te.s déposé des demandes de logement ou d'hébergement mais voient leur droit inconditionnel à un toit bafoué.

Honte à la préfecture de l'Isère, honte à la Métro, à l'EPFL, à la mairie de Grenoble, aux bailleurs sociaux !

Pour que des solutions rapides et pérennes de relogement soient mises en œuvre, nous avons besoin de votre soutien !

 

Une Assemblée d'occupation aura lieu ce soir à 17h30, venez nombreux.ses !

 

 

Ensemble, exigeons...

Arrêt des expulsions, des relogements !

Réquisition et mise à disposition des logements vides et des immeubles de bureau !

Baisse des loyers et des charges dans le parc privé et public

Production massive de logements très sociaux !

Arrêt de la marchandisation du logement et de la vente des HLM !

Arrêt des démolitions dans les opérations ANRU, droit au retour pour les locataires délogéEs lors de ces opérations, réelle concertation avec les habitantEs !

Application de la loi DALO et d’inconditionnalité de l’hébergement

Abrogation des lois anti-squat

 

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l.

The U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Displaced 37 Million People

https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-war-terror-displaced-37-million-people/5731689

by David Vine

+

“Centuries of Inequality in the U.S. Laid Groundwork for Pandemic”

https://youtu.be/AEOx3823pKA

 with Dr. Paul Farmer

(21:22)

 

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m.

Modi destroying remnants of secular India

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2275033/noam-chomsky-laments-pakistans-drifting-away-from-science

by Farrukh Kamrani

 

In reference to India, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is destroying the remnants of a secular democracy, crushing Muslim rights and placing Kashmir under a vicious brutal rule, Prof Noam ...

+

India's Historic General Strike

https://youtu.be/-1xGT611Z_A

 with RJ Eskow and Richard Wolf

(23:10)

 

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n.

2020 Review, 2021 Preview

https://youtu.be/3ST_hzMeK_8

with John Nichols and RJ Eskow

(36:50)

+

How Joe Biden Plans to Make The American Empire Great Again

https://www.mintpressnews.com/joe-biden-foreign-policy-make-american-empire-great-again/273201/

 by Dan Cohen

+

Naomi Klein: “Gatekeeper Extraordinaire”

https://off-guardian.org/2020/12/11/naomi-klein-gatekeeper-extraordinaire/

by Cat McGuire & Colleen McGuire

 

With a title like The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie, it appears Naomi Klein is trying too hard to recapture her prowess at defining a meme. Her buzz-concept, “Shock Doctrine,” is spot-on and rightfully successful. But her “Screen New Deal” about Silicon Valley technocrats fizzled.

+

“Superheroes” and “Nice” Guys: Media Coverage of Biden's Hawkish Cabinet Picks is Predictably Lacking

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-coverage-of-biden-cabinet-picks-predictably-lacking/273309/

by Alan Mcleod

+

Leaked Audio Of JOE BIDEN Exposes Disregard for his Base

https://youtu.be/BCzxR-vo9nA

 with Jimmy Dore

(24:36)

 

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o.

Billionaire Silicon Valley VC Says "F**k You" To The "Rich Kids Who Want To Tear Down

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/silicon-valley-vc-billionaire-says-fk-you-rich-kids-who-want-tear-down-capitalism

by Alexander Pan

 

Appearing on the All-In Podcast alongside Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, the quartet got to discussing trust fund kids claiming to be socialists, specifically naming a recent New York Times article titled ‘The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism’ as highly misguided since capitalism is exactly how those rich kids got to where they are now.

+

Techno-Tyranny: How The US National Security State Is Using Coronavirus To Fulfill An Orwellian Vision

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/05/reports/techno-tyranny-how-the-us-national-security-state-is-using-coronavirus-to-fulfill-an-orwellian-vision/

by Whitney Webb

+

“Professor Wolff On “The Economics And Vulgarity Of Corporate Welfare”

https://youtu.be/cE5bcBzm4YA

with Richard Wolff

(38:08)

 

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p.

Clinton Epstein, Fleeing NYC, IsrAliens

https://www.corbettreport.com/clinton-epstein-fleeing-nyc-israliens-new-world-next-week/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CorbettReportRSS+%28The+Corbett+Report%29

with James Corbett and James Pilato

(18:46)

+

Corporate Media Silence Deafening as Former Clinton Aide Confirms Ties to Jeffrey Epstein

https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-silence-deafening-former-clinton-aide-confirms-ties-jeffrey-epstein/273456/

by Alan Mcleod

 

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q.

The sinister science behind Ketamine use during arrests

https://therealnews.com/the-sinister-science-behind-ketamine-use-during-arrests

 with Taya Graham

(17:13)

 

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r.

French police call for ‘blockade’ after Macron statement

https://youtu.be/ucEt4Y_3d-g

with  Charlotte Dubenskij

(25:45)

 

France has seen three weeks of protests over a new security bill, and now latest comments from President Macron are being met with backlash. Two of the country’s largest police unions are pushing back after Macron called for the creation of a platform where citizens can report discrimination by their local police officers.

 

 +

France's New Security Law May Have Just Sparked a “George Floyd” Moment

https://www.mintpressnews.com/france-security-law-may-have-just-sparked-george-floyd-moment/273357/

by Alan Mcleod

+

New round of protests against global security bill, islamophobia hits Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtcW-LKYXkY

(live)

+

Déclarations d’Emmanuel Macron :

« la grogne des policiers ne faiblit pas »

https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/declarations-d-emmanuel-macron-la-grogne-des-policiers-ne-faiblit-pas-11-12-2020-8413839.php

par Jean-Michel Décugis, avec Klervi Le Cozic à Bordeaux (Gironde)

 

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s.

Basta !

Newsletter - décembre 2020

https://www.bastamag.net/nos-dernies-articles-881

 

+

“What's The Matter With Populism?”

https://youtu.be/MdR0iQ9JD5w

with Michael Moore and Thomas Frank

 (1:10:37)

+

Populism as a Political Movement

https://youtu.be/jHUpBMmzA94

 with Richard Wolf

(9:02)

+

The Godfathers

of Hollywood

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/03/reports/the-godfathers-of-hollywood/

by Raul Diego

 

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t.

 The Ultimate Question:

“What is it to be Human?”

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1606-james-corbett-tackles-the-ultimate-question/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CorbettReportRSS+%28The+Corbett+Report%29

with James Corbett and Julian Charles of The Mind Renewed

(audio: 1:19:20)

 

What does it mean to be human? As we tumble head first into the WEF-branded, Klaus Schwab-figureheaded, Bill Gates-bankrolled 4th industrial revolution, that question, once the stuff of science fiction, has taken on new urgency. If we fail to provide an answer, the technocratic eugenicists who are seeking to engineer humanity out of existence will do so without hesitation. Today, James Corbett joins Julian Charles of The Mind Renewed to discuss the Great Reset, the future of the human species, and our role in disobeying orders and derailing this agenda.

 

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u.

HyperNormalisation: Welcome To The Post-Truth World

https://www.diygenius.com/hypernormalisation/

BBC documentary by Adam Curtis

(2:46:31)

   

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v.

Resisting the Great Reset

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1609-james-corbett-on-resisting-the-great-reset/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CorbettReportRSS+%28The+Corbett+Report%29

with James Corbett

(video: 1:04:19)

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COVID Whistle Blower RAIDED with Gestapo Tactics!

https://youtu.be/iKXujRnWmeA

with Jimmy Dore

(14:30)

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Debate: “Is Global Stability A Pipe Dream?”

https://youtu.be/yyXIOBIOTCE

 with John Bolton & Yanis Varoufakis

 

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Noam Chomsky Interview on “Limits of Language & Mind”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1RrbexZ5LY

Nov 24, 2015

(44:58)