The Latin America #WikiLeaks Files
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/latin-america-wikileaks-hugo-chavez-rafael-correa-obama-venezuela-interv
US diplomatic cables reveal a coordinated assault against Latin America’s left-wing governments.
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The Privatization of Childhood | Jacobin
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/children-testing-schools-education-reform-inequality... crucially, parents no longer respond to the state collectively — they are atomized as consumers.
#Etats-Unis #investissement #enfants #parents #consommation #consommateurs
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The Market Goddesses : With Ashley Madison, #capitalism has reached a new low: the commodified Ideal #Woman.
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/ashley-madison-gamer-gate-vivian-james -
Vingtième anniversaire du #Génocide de Srebrenica : les leçons ont-elles été retenues ?
▻http://www.taurillon.org/vingtieme-anniversaire-du-genocide-de-srebrenica-les-lecons-ont-elles-eteL’été 2015 marque le vingtième anniversaire du génocide de Srebrenica, lors duquel quelque 8 000 musulmans bosniens ont été massacrés. Après deux décennies, la communauté internationale a-t-elle réellement tiré les leçons de ses erreurs ?
Culture & Histoire
/ #Bosnie-Herzegovine, Génocide, #OTAN
#Culture_&_Histoire
▻http://www.un.org/french/documents/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/RES/96(I)&Lang=F
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/bosnian-war-nato-bombing-dayton-accords
▻https://www.iraqbodycount.org
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Race to Nowhere
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/race-relations-civil-war-tuskegee-populismFor over a century, black elites have pushed improved “race relations” instead of redistribution as the solution to inequality.
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Erdoğan’s Bloody Gambit | Jacobin
►https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/turkey-nato-isis-hdp-kpp-surucThere is a completely transparent background to this escalation: Erdoğan and the AKP are not accepting electoral defeat. They want revenge, and to create a state of emergency that will raise their chances of winning a snap election in fall. The logic goes as follows: if there are soldiers and policemen dead at the PKK’s hands, a nationalist wave will unite behind Erdoğan and grant him the majority he needs, while, separately, Turks who do not feel comfortable with the PKK will abandon the HDP again and thus push it under the threshold.
Or, even more directly: the AKP may close down the HDP, as some politicians of the openly fascist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) demand.
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Erdoğan’s Bloody Gambit | Jacobin
►https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/08/turkey-nato-isis-hdp-kpp-surucPour qui n’aurait rien suivi des affaires kurdes ces trois dernières années, résumé et état des lieux
In any case, the direction is clear: crack down on left structures to secure a victory in a possible snap election, or form a (war) coalition with the fascist MHP.
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A Guide to the French Revolution | Jacobin
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/french-revolution-bastille-day-guide-jacobins-terror-bonaparteFor Bastille Day, we have answers to a bunch of questions about the French Revolution.
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Greece: The Struggle Continues
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/tsipras-varoufakis-kouvelakis-syriza-euro-debtA definitive account of what has transpired over the last few weeks in Greece, and what’s next for Syriza and the European left.
#Blogs #feautred-global #home-featured
▻http://zinc.mondediplo.net/messages/4574 via Jacobin
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Grèce, moment charnière ? (sélection d’articles)
The Dangers of the Grexit
▻https://news.vice.com/article/the-dangers-of-the-grexitIt’s time to end the pretence: Greece will never fully repay its bailout loans ▻http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/09/time-end-pretence-greece-never-repay-bailout-loans
In Greek Debt Puzzle, the Game Theorists Have It ▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/business/in-greek-debt-puzzle-the-game-theorists-have-it.html?referrer&_r=0
Grexit: end of the illusion ▻https://opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/john-weeks/grexit-end-of-illusion
Syriza wasn’t the first left party to come to power in Europe. What can we learn from Cyprus’ AKEL? ▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/cyprus-communists-syriza-greece
The European “institutions” are seeking a public defeat of Syriza and the closing off of any alternative. ▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/syriza-troika-lapavitsas-austerity-tsipras
The Greek left has a historic opportunity to marginalize fascists and address the needs of migrants. ▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/golden-dawn-syriza-immigration-far-right
Allemagne: happening en soutien au peuple grec ▻http://www.neues-deutschland.de/m/artikel/974260.enteignet-springer-protest-bei-theaterstueck-mit-doepfner.h
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Austerity Isn’t Irrational | Jacobin
►https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/syriza-greece-austerity-neoliberalism-tsiprasAusterity has been criticized as an irrational policy, which further deepens the economic crisis by creating a vicious cycle of falling effective demand, recession, and over-indebtedness. However, these criticisms can hardly explain why this “irrational” or “wrong” policy persists, despite its “failures.”
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[...] austerity is primarily a class policy. It constantly promotes the interests of capital against those of the workers, professionals, pensioners, unemployed, and economically vulnerable groups. In the long run, it aims at creating a model of labor with fewer rights and less social protection, with low and flexible wages, and no substantial bargaining power for wage earners.
Austerity does lead, of course, to recession. However, recession puts pressure on every individual entrepreneur, both capitalists or middle bourgeoisie, to reduce all forms of costs, to more intensively follow the path of relative surplus value, i.e. to try to consolidate her profit margins through wage cuts, intensification of the labor process, infringement of labor regulations and workers’ rights, massive redundancies, etc.
From the perspective of big capital’s interests, recession thus gives birth to a process of creative destruction. There is a redistribution of income and power to the benefit of capital, and concentration of wealth in fewer hands as small and medium enterprises, especially in retail trade, are being cleared up by big enterprises and shopping malls.
This strategy has its own rationality that is not completely obvious at first glance. It perceives the crisis as an opportunity for a historic shift in the correlations of forces to the benefit of the capitalist power, subjecting European societies to the conditions of the unfettered functioning of financial markets, attempting to place all consequences of the systemic capitalist crisis on the shoulders of working people.
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Syriza-Economist Costas Lapavitsas: “An exit from the Eurozone would not necessarily be chaotic” - Politik - Tagesspiegel
▻http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/syriza-economist-costas-lapavitsas-an-exit-from-the-eurozone-would-not-necessarily-be-chaotic/11874546.htmlI think what happened in Brussels shows the enormous gap between the Greek side and the lenders’ side which will be hard to bridge. The Greek economy will not grow a lot this year and next, and thus achieving a primary surplus - even if it is very small - will be very difficult. It will require tax increases and spending cuts probably including pensions. These steps would be very difficult for the SYRIZA government to accept, because they go right against everything we promised to the Greek people. We have a major problem here.
#Grèce #Syriza #UE #FMI #austérité #retraites #salaires #négociations #euro #eurozone #grexit
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« Je ne pense pas que la question clé soit la dette. Tout économiste qui se respecte dira que la Grèce ne pourra jamais rembourser la dette qu’elle a accumulée. Je pense que c’est plutôt ce que le maintien de la dette comme question centrale permet de faire... »
►http://quefaire.lautre.net/Syriza-et-la-question-strategique
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Old World Order
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/06/western-europe-police-brutality-franceThe perception that Western European police are benevolent doesn’t match reality. (...) Source: Jacobin
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(Lire absolument – et recoupements souhaités.) 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency document : West will facilitate rise of Islamic State “in order to isolate the Syrian regime” – “This is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want”
▻http://levantreport.com/2015/05/19/2012-defense-intelligence-agency-document-west-will-facilitate-rise-ofOn Monday, May 18, the conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch published a selection of formerly classified documents obtained from the U.S. Department of Defense and State Department through a federal lawsuit.
While initial mainstream media reporting is focused on the White House’s handling of the Benghazi consulate attack, a much “bigger picture” admission and confirmation is contained in one of the Defense Intelligence Agency documents circulated in 2012: that an ‘Islamic State’ is desired in Eastern Syria to effect the West’s policies in the region.
▻http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Pg.-291-Pgs.-287-293-JW-v-DOD-and-State-14-812-DOD-Release-2015-04-10
Astoundingly, the newly declassified report states that for “THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY [WHO] SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION… THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A DECLARED OR UNDECLARED SALAFIST PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION WANT, IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME…”.
The DIA report, formerly classified “SECRET//NOFORN” and dated August 12, 2012, was circulated widely among various government agencies, including CENTCOM, the CIA, FBI, DHS, NGA, State Dept., and many others.
The document shows that as early as 2012, U.S. intelligence predicted the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), but instead of clearly delineating the group as an enemy, the report envisions the terror group as a U.S. strategic asset.
À la une du Akhbar aujourd’hui :
▻http://al-akhbar.com/taxonomy/term/5298Ça me semble suffisamment énorme pour que les gens de bon goût t’expliquent que c’est rien qu’une théorie du complot et que tu ne devrais pas trop en parler.
- #Judicial Watch
- #Iraq
- #Israel
- #Syria
- #United States
- #mainstream media
- #ISIS
- #al-Qaeda
- #Benghazi consulate
- #Central Intelligence Agency
- #Defense Intelligence Agency
- #Department of State
- #Federal Bureau of Investigation
- #U.S. Department of Defense
- #U.S. intelligence
- #White House
- #World Health Organization
- #Dominique Muselet
- #eastern Syria
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Il y a seulement deux jours (en secouant la tête tristement sans doute),
U.S. General : Many Iraqis Believe Washington Aiding Islamic State
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/20/top-u-s-general-many-iraqis-believe-washington-aiding-islamic-state -
traduction de l’article en français
L’Occident facilite la montée de l’État Islamique « afin d’isoler le régime syrien »
samedi 23 mai 2015 - Brad Hoff - Traduction : Info-Palestine.eu - Dominique Muselet
▻http://www.info-palestine.net/spip.php?article15388Le lundi 18 mai, Judicial Watch, le groupe de vigilance du gouvernement conservateur, a publié une sélection de documents autrefois classifiés obtenus du Département américain de la Défense et du Département d’État grâce à un procès fédéral.
Alors que les grands médias se concentraient sur le traitement par la Maison Blanche de l’attaque du consulat de Benghazi, un bien plus « grand tableau » se dégage de la lecture d’un document de la Defense Intelligence Agency rédigé en 2012 : à savoir que l’avènement d’un « État islamique » dans l’est de la Syrie est souhaitable pour que l’Occident puisse arriver à ses fins dans la région.
De manière surprenante, le rapport récemment déclassifié stipule que pour « l’Occident, les pays du Golfe et la Turquie [qui] soutiennent l’opposition [syrienne]... il y a la possibilité d’établir une principauté salafiste officielle ou pas, dans l’est de la Syrie (Hasaka et der Zor), et c’est exactement ce que veulent les puissances qui soutiennent l’opposition, afin d’isoler le régime syrien ... ».
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Ça fait deux jours : quelqu’un a vu passer des reprises dans des gros médias ?
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Les gros médias n’arrivent plus à bouger.
Le Renseignement US avait prédit que le soutien US aux rebelles en Syrie entraînerait la chute de Ramadi
Moon of Alabama - May 21, 2015 | Traduction : Dominique Muselet - 24 mai 2015
▻http://www.legrandsoir.info/le-renseignement-us-avait-predit-que-le-soutien-us-aux-rebelles-en-syrJe pense moi aussi qu’il y a de toute évidence un plan derrière les progrès apparemment coordonnés d’Al-Qaïda-Syrie, sous le nom de Jabhat al-Nusra ou maintenant également d’Armée de Conquête, et l’avance de l’État islamique en Syrie et en Irak. Non seulement les faits, mais aussi le rapport DIA attestent d’un tel plan.
Le troisième élément d’intérêt est fourni par un rapport de Reuters qui relaie des informations qui n’avaient jusqu’à présent circulé qu’en Turquie : Exclusif : les renseignements turcs ont participé à l’envoi d’armes vers les zones tenues par les rebelles islamistes syriens :
Des témoignages d’officiers de gendarmerie notés dans des documents judiciaires examinés par Reuters laissent penser que des pièces détachées de roquettes, des munitions et des obus de mortier semi-finis ont été envoyés dans des camions escortés par des fonctionnaires de l’Agence de renseignement de l’État (MIT), il y a plus d’un an, vers des zones de la Syrie sous contrôle islamiste.
Du fait de la publication des rapports de la DIA, des rapports sur le soutien militaire turc actif aux Islamistes d’Al-Qaïda et d’articles qui reconnaissent le soutien américain à l’offensive actuelle d’Al-Qaïda en Syrie, l’administration Obama va probablement subir des pressions pour changer de cap. La prise de Syrte en Libye par l’État Islamique s’ajoute sans doute à la pile. L’administration Obama pourrait au moins être pressée de ne pas soutenir plus longtemps Al-Qaïda en Syrie et en Irak.
Mais, c’est bien connu, l’administration Obama ne connait pas la honte et, dans le doute, elle choisit toujours la pire solution. Le mieux que nous puissions espérer est que des informations comme celle-ci se répandent et qu’avec le temps elles imprègnent assez l’opinion publique pour que l’Administration soit obligée de changer de politique.
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@nidal, j’ai trouvé trois sources mainstream qui évoquent ce document explosif :
1° - le site de Foxnews : ▻http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/18/military-intel-predicted-rise-isis-in-2012-detailed-arms-shipments
2° - le Sunday Times : ▻http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/focus/article1560083.ece
3° - le site de Russia Today : ▻http://rt.com/op-edge/261469-isis-suicide-bomb-yemenEn passant Foxnews dit avoir vérifié la véracité des documents :
The DIA report, which was reviewed by Fox News, was obtained through a federal lawsuit by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.
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posté sur Jadaliyya le 21/5/2015 ▻http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/21696/declassified-2012-defense-intelligence-report-on-sn
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Un document US déclassifié : l’Occident a facilité la montée de Daesh
Par Agence | 25/05/2015
▻http://www.algerie1.com/passerelle/un-document-us-declassifie-loccident-a-facilite-la-montee-de-daesh -
Le reportage vidéo sur RT English :
▻http://cdn.rt.com/files/episode/3f/d5/d0/00/2939780_isis.mp4?event=download -
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Why is the media ignoring Israel’s alliance with al-Qaeda?
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/articles/inquiry/18855-why-is-the-media-ignoring-israels-alliance-with-al-qaedaThe Defense Intelligence Agency report stated that “there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime”. Today, the so-called Islamic State’s power base is in the east and north of Syria, and it controls most of the regions around Deir al-Zor, the regional capital of that eponymous eastern region. The city itself is still contested between regime and ISIS forces.
The report (revealed by an American conservative group’s freedom of information request) clarifies in a preceding paragraph that “supporting powers” is a reference to “Western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey”. The term “western countries” here is likely supposed to include Israel. In any event, such intelligence is likely to have been shared with Israel.
So with Israel aware that the West was engaged in such cynicism with al-Qaeda-type groups in Iraq and Syria, it’s no wonder Israel feels itself permitted to engage in an active alliance with al-Qaeda in Syria.
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Article du Washingon Times (journal conservateur US) qui se
concentre sur la libye et les mensonges d’Obama et Clinton lors de la mort de l’ambassadeur US à Benghazi mais qui évoque en passant le rapport sur la Syrie : ▻http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/obama-hillary-clinton-benghazi-narrative-rebutted-/?page=allOn another terrorism development that has wide implications today, one DIA report in August 2012 predicted the rise of the Islamic State, which was then emerging in Syria. It now controls wide sections of eastern Syria and northern and western Iraq, and is committing mass slaughter of Christians, Kurds and Muslims of rival sects or clans.
Mr. Obama downplayed the Islamic State as the “JV” in January 2014 when the terrorist army made its first incursions into western Iraq. -
Et sur le site Yahoo (rubrique Finance !?) : ▻http://finance.yahoo.com/news/judicial-watch-defense-state-department-203636340.html
Another DIA report, written in August 2012 (the same time period the U.S. was monitoring weapons flows from Libya to Syria), said that the opposition in Syria was driven by al Qaeda and other extremist Muslim groups: “the Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria.” The growing sectarian direction of the war was predicted to have dire consequences for Iraq, which included the “grave danger” of the rise of ISIS:
The deterioration of the situation has dire consequences on the Iraqi situation and are as follows:
This creates the ideal atmosphere for AQI [al Qaeda Iraq] to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi, and will provide a renewed momentum under the presumption of unifying the jihad among Sunni Iraq and Syria, and the rest of the Sunnis in the Arab world against what it considers one enemy, the dissenters. ISI could also declare an Islamic state through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave danger in regards to unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory.
Some of the “dire consequences” are blacked out but the DIA presciently warned one such consequence would be the “renewing facilitation of terrorist elements from all over the Arab world entering into Iraqi Arena.”
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Au tour du Guardian : ►http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq
A revealing light on how we got here has now been shone by a recently declassified secret US intelligence report, written in August 2012, which uncannily predicts – and effectively welcomes – the prospect of a “Salafist principality” in eastern Syria and an al-Qaida-controlled Islamic state in Syria and Iraq. In stark contrast to western claims at the time, the Defense Intelligence Agency document identifies al-Qaida in Iraq (which became Isis) and fellow Salafists as the “major forces driving the insurgency in Syria” – and states that “western countries, the Gulf states and Turkey” were supporting the opposition’s efforts to take control of eastern Syria.
L’introduction de l’article n’est pas moins savoureuse :
On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after it became clear British intelligence had been arming the same rebel groups the defendant was charged with supporting.
The prosecution abandoned the case, apparently to avoid embarrassing the intelligence services. The defence argued that going ahead withthe trial would have been an “affront to justice” when there was plenty of evidence the British state was itself providing “extensive support” to the armed Syrian opposition.
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Article d’Alaistair Crooke dans le Huffington Post :
▻http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/syria-iraq-fractured_b_7471540.htmlCoincidentally, a highly redacted U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency assessment from August 2012 has been released through a federal lawsuit. It states that “If the situation unravels [in Syria], there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.” The assessment says that the creation of such a Salafist principality would have “dire consequences” for Iraq and would possibly lead to the creation of an Islamic State and would “create the ideal atmosphere for AQI to return to its old pockets in Mosul and Ramadi.”
A few days after the release of the DIA assessment report, John Bolton lent weight to its claims: “I think the Sunni Arabs are never going to agree to be in a state [Iraq] where the Shia outnumber them 3-1. That’s what ISIS has been able to take advantage of. I think our objective should be a new Sunni state out of the western part of Iraq, the eastern part of Syria run by moderates or at least authoritarians who are not radical Islamists.”
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Elon Musk Saves the World? | Jacobin
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/tesla-powerwall-elon-musk-climate-changePowerwall is like the automobile of electricity.
(...) Tesla is proposing a similar transformation — the privatization of electricity generation.
(...) what happens to the millions of people who cannot afford the “cheap” $3,500 Powerwall (not to mention the solar panels needed to get individuals off the grid)? In a city like mine (Syracuse, NY), people without access to an automobile are forced to rely upon an underinvested and decrepit public bus system. In a future where households are powered by individual battery walls, will poor communities who can’t afford them be stuck with an outmoded and underinvested grid?
(...) The electricity grid is a profoundly collective #infrastructure. The very nature of the system requires that supply must always be calibrated to the fluctuating demands of society as a whole.
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Why #Baltimore Rebelled
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/baltimore-freddie-gray-unrest-protestsThese are the most striking pictures of the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore
►http://fusion.net/story/126291/these-are-the-most-striking-pictures-of-the-freddie-gray-protests-in-baltimo10 Images of the Baltimore Riots You Won’t See on TV
▻http://mic.com/articles/116702/10-images-of-the-baltimore-riots-you-won-t-be-seeing-on-tv-
A Baltimore se joue la saison 6 de « The Wire »
►http://www.liberation.fr/debats/2015/04/30/a-baltimore-se-joue-la-saison-6-de-the-wire_1277075David Simon demande aux émeutiers de rentrer chez eux
►http://www.slate.fr/story/100939/baltimore-emeutes-david-simon-the-wireLui qui s’entretenait avec Obama il y a peu : ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/356757
Baltimore : qui sont les protagonistes de l’« affaire Freddie Gray » ?
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2015/05/01/baltimore-qui-sont-les-protagonistes-de-l-affaire-freddie-gray_4626201_3222.
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Greece: The Noose Tightens | Jacobin
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/syriza-eurozone-default-exit-stathisWith the Communist Party still firmly holding to sectarian opposition, and its secretary general declaring that it would refuse any support to the government even in the case of a break with the eurozone, and the far-left Antarsya repeating that the government has already surrendered, it is the responsibility of Syriza’s left to propose the only sensible approach that could avoid failure: holding firm on the line of confrontation with the EU and prepare the popular movement and Greek society more broadly to embark on a radically different trajectory, both at the domestic and at the international level.
The stakes could not be higher.
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Winning “Hearts and Minds” | Jacobin
►https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/03/terrorism-america-isis-obamaThe problem is not that the Obama administration lacks the information to formulate an effective counter-extremism strategy that doesn’t scapegoat Muslims. The problem instead is that the most effective way to reduce the threat of terrorism is to retreat from empire.
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Jacobin
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/aboutHomophobia and the Art of Writing
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/harry-jaffa-obituary-jeet-heer
Jeet HeerIn giving an intellectual sheen to the religious right’s bigotry, Harry Jaffa helped build the modern conservative movement.
The Primary Contradiction
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/china-leftist-revival-capitalism
Eli FriedmanChina’s leftist revival is overstated. The country’s new “Maoists” cede too much ground to nationalism and the market.
Sandbox Security
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/sandbox-security
Richard SeymourIn France, police bravely defend liberal democracy from an eight-year-old boy.
From Proletarians to Proprietors
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/spain-evictions-pah
Brenna BhandarWe need to fight for social housing instead of private ownership. Spain’s anti-eviction movement shows how we can do it.
Don’t Blame Islam
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/united-states-saudi-arabia-isis
David MiznerAl-Qaeda and ISIS are products of US and Saudi imperialism.
The Next Front Against Austerity
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/belgium-anti-austerity-strike
Gabriel Bristow | 01.29.15Austerity came late to Belgium. Now that it’s arrived, the battles to come will be an important test for both the Left and the European Union.
Unite and Fight
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/pride-review-labor-lgbt
Kate Redburn | 01.28.15Pride isn’t just excellent labor history. It’s a reminder of what real solidarity looks like.
Why Bosses Hate Unions
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/union-membership-2014-bls
Doug Henwood | 01.27.15Unions vastly improve the wages and working conditions of their members. No wonder they’re still under attack.
Labor Law Won’t Save Us
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/unions-civil-right-strike-joe-burns
Joe Burns | 01.27.15The strike is still labor’s strongest weapon.
After Syriza’s Victory, Confrontation or Capitulation
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/syriza-greece-victory-kouvelakis-left
Stathis Kouvelakis | 01.26.15Syriza’s Stathis Kouvelakis on why his party fell short of an absolute majority and the choices that lie ahead.
Money Talks
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/capitalism-democracy-citizens-united
Nathan J. Robinson | 01.26.15Capitalism will always undermine the promise of democratic equality.
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Well-DeservedThe appearance of Jacobin magazine has been a bright light in dark times. Each issue brings penetrating, lively discussions and analyses of matters of real significance, from a thoughtful left perspective that is refreshing and all too rare. A really impressive contribution to sanity, and hope.
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Jacobin, whose ninth issue just landed, has certainly been an improbable hit, buoyed by the radical stirrings of the Occupy movement and a bitingly satirical but serious-minded style.
— Jennifer Schuessler for the New York Times
I really like Jacobin — it’s very explicitly on the radical left, and sort of hostile to liberal accommodationism. There’s a lot in there that I don’t necessarily agree with, but it’s bracingly rigorous and polemical in a really thought-provoking way. It’s a really well-done publication, almost preternaturally good.
— Chris Hayes, host of All In w/ Chris Hayes
I love Jacobin, both the content and spirit. In a time of torpor bordering on despair, it’s great to see the youth embracing radical politics and serious thinking while also having some fun. And it’s a print magazine that looks great, too. Everyone should subscribe.
— Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer
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L’alternative de Syriza : passer sous la table ou la renverser, par Frédéric Lordon
▻http://blog.mondediplo.net/2015-01-19-L-alternative-de-Syriza-passer-sous-la-table-ouIl y a maintenant longtemps que l’Europe s’est enfermée elle-même dans la nasse constitutionnelle des traités libéraux, d’où elle n’a plus laissé que deux voies de sortie, et deux seulement : 1) l’effondrement financier de la construction sous le poids de ses contradictions internes, ou bien 2) un accident politique qui renverse la table.
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Greece: Phase One
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/phase-one
by Sebastian Budgen & Stathis KouvelakisSo there has been some fallout from this process in the last period? John Milios is known in the Anglophone world for his books and now for his interview in the Guardian and seems to have taken his distance from the leadership?
Until recently, Milios didn’t have a very specific strategic position within the main economic team, (Dragasakis and Stathakis have been leading the game). His role was to provide a kind of Marxist argumentation against those who were advocating a break, or a clear break, with the EU, and more specifically, on the issue of the euro.
Milios provided a lot of Marxist and radical types of arguments, saying that breaking with euro means the devaluation of labor, a regression to nationalist positions. He more or less accused — in a manner that he has carved out for himself theoretically over decades — people who put forward such themes of breaking with the euro of recycling the old “developmentist” center versus periphery type of approach of the 1970s, and of having as their real political project the development of a nation-centered Greek capitalism.
On this view, presumably, avoiding the break with the euro at any cost acted as almost a mythical guarantee for an internationalist and socialist perspective. What that meant, in terms of concrete choices, was that Milios defended the mildly reformist positions of Dragasakis and Stathakis.
Milios started taking distance from that at two levels. First on the issue of political alliances, where it was clear that, with qualifications, he doesn’t want openings to people coming from Pasok or old establishment elements. He also rejects softening of the anti-neoliberal edges of the program, and I think he was very disappointed by the fact that Syriza in the end doesn’t have a very specific elaboration on the subject of fiscal reform (which was one of his main themes), i.e. audacious redistributive policies — taxing the rich, and so on.
It is quite unclear what Syriza will do with the banks, and what it will do about privatizations. It will certainly cancel at least some of the more scandalous cases of selloffs of public assets at completely ridiculous prices. But the recent statements by Dragasakis and Stathakis about banks and privatization are not very encouraging, clearly retreating from the decisions and commitments of the congress.
So these are very important issues that a Syriza government will have to face, not even in long- or mid-term, but immediately.
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