On Tuesday, May 9, Haymarket Books, the publishing house of the International Socialist Organization (ISO), hosted a public conversation between authors Naomi Klein and Michelle Alexander at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. The conversation was moderated by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor of African-American studies at Princeton University in New Jersey and a leading member of the ISO.
Alexander is a Stanford University law professor and the author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010). Klein, who lives in Canada, is the author of several books that cover economic and environmental issues, including The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) and This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014).
The conversation was held against the backdrop of a ferocious conflict within the ruling class in the United States. The Democrats have centered their opposition to Trump not on the deeply right-wing and authoritarian tendencies of his administration, but on his alleged ties to Russia.
The conflict was not even mentioned in the event, which took place as the ISO was maintaining a complete silence on the crisis consuming the American political system. This is because the ISO supports that faction of the ruling class that favors a harsher line against Russia, and in general seeks to channel social opposition behind the Democratic Party.
Taylor presented the opening remarks, which revealed to the audience what the meeting was really about—to build a base of support for “a multi-racial, democratic, left-wing movement” among “a left that is disparate and seeking to define itself.” That is, to develop a new regroupment to function as a prop for the Democratic Party.
The entire event sought to provide a political cover for the Democrats. This began with the analysis of the 2016 elections, which were presented as the consequence of racialist animosity among white workers. Alexander declared that the election of Obama created resentment among “whites.” “Any time there’s been a movement toward racial progress,” she said, “there’s been a whitelash throughout history.” She also blamed “sections disgusted with the establishment” that are prone to bigotry or “turn a blind eye to it,” referring to working class voters who supported Trump in the 2016 elections.
This is entirely in line with the position of the Democratic Party itself, aimed at denying and obscuring the impact of the right-wing policies of the Democrats and the Obama administration, while sowing divisions in the working class along racial and gender lines. (See “Once again on race and the 2016 elections”)
They really need to go screw themselves.
Naomi Klein?
Glenn Greenwald hiring her for The Intercept was one of the weakest and most revealing moves.
I have no respect for Glenn Glenn now.
And Naomi is a joke.
She needs to keep her ass in Canada and out of American politics.
Like her father (who went to Canada as a war resister during Vietnam), she chose to make her home there so get your ass over there and fix your own country.
Haymarket Books.
Like that piss ant Anthony Arnove?
He lost interest in Iraq when he couldn't slime Bully Boy Bush.
Bush should be in prison, I'm not defending Bush.
I'm noting that he whored for Barack.
And that started with that embarrassing inaugural ball and fundraiser.
Don't worry, the piss ant knows what I'm talking about.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Monday:
Monday, May 22, 2017. The Mosul Slog continues, CBS NEWS continues to sell it and much more.
Starting with the White House's Special Envoy Brett McGurk:
Starting with the White House's Special Envoy Brett McGurk:
Brett McGurk Retweeted
President Trump during Arab Islamic American Summit "This is not a battle of different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations"
Thank you, Brett, for Tweeting that, honestly, no sarcasm.
But if we're talking about what this isn't, can we talk about what it is?
Because the Iraq War drags on and surely you know that.
You served in Iraq when Bully Boy Bush occupied the White House, you've served in Iraq under President Barack Obama and now you serve under President Donald Trump.
When does it end?
RT reports:
The US and Middle Eastern countries have backed a new pact that promises to provide extra troops for defeating Islamic State, singles out Iran for destabilizing the region, and says that Riyadh is to become the heart of the region’s counter-terrorism operations.
Described as the Riyadh Declaration, the document was signed following US President Donald Trump’s visit to the Saudi capital for a summit that brought in Islamic representatives from 55 countries, and vowed “to combat terrorism in all its forms, address its intellectual roots, dry up its sources of funding and to take all necessary measures to prevent and combat terrorist crimes in close cooperation among their states.”
A lot of reports over the weekend but CBS NEWS goes with what?
U.S backed Iraqi forces in Mosul are closing in on the last neighborhoods still under ISIS control cbsn.ws/2rHORXC
Charlie Rose looks a little tipsy, doesn't he?
He also looks a lot like Rex Harrison in the film STAIRCASE, doesn't he?
He just doesn't look much like a journalist.
But then a journalist wouldn't be offering that nonsense on day 215 of The Mosul Slog.
Especially not with the reports of abuse being covered -- being covered outside of CBS NEWS, we should note.
Tobias Schneider @tobiaschneider Harrowing: SPIEGEL photographer Ali Arkady documents Iraqi security forces abducting, torturing, raping, and killing civilians around Mosul.
Human Rights Watch notes:
Iraqi government-allied troops arbitrarily detained at least 100 men in late April 2017, in some cases torturing them during interrogations, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch interviewed three men from al-Hadar, a village 90 kilometers southwest of west Mosul, who were detained by the Popular Mobilization Forces (known as the PMF or Hashd al-Sha'abi) and two local officials who had knowledge of the detention operations in the area. The men said the fighters detained them as they fled their homes because of the fighting, and held them for up to 15 days in a school building and in one case a home in an area solely under PMF control. Their captors interrogated them about possible Islamic State (also known as ISIS) links, and in two cases beat them with thick metal cables, before releasing them and a small number of other detainees. Other detainees told them they had also been beaten during interrogations.
“Given the previous track records of PMF abuse in the area of screening and detaining local men, Baghdad should treat these findings with the gravest concern,” said Lama Fakih, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Authorities should do all in their power to ensure that families fleeing the fighting around Mosul are able to get to safety, not tortured in secret facilities.”
It's not covered by CBS NEWS which is working overtime to sell war yet again.
The Mosul Slog's been a disaster.
As the Norwegian Refugee Council notes:
The Global Report on Internal Displacement
found that widespread military offensives in Iraq caused almost 660,000
new displacements in 2016. One in ten people displaced by conflict
around the world in 2016 were displaced in Iraq, bringing the total
number of internally displaced Iraqis to over three million. A growing
proportion of Iraqis have also been displaced more than once.
“Internal displacement is not solely the responsibility of national governments,” said Heidi Diedrich, Country Director of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Iraq. “The international community must support the efforts of the Iraqi Government to help those displaced by conflict in this country,” she said, speaking from Erbil, Iraq.
“Internal displacement is not solely the responsibility of national governments,” said Heidi Diedrich, Country Director of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Iraq. “The international community must support the efforts of the Iraqi Government to help those displaced by conflict in this country,” she said, speaking from Erbil, Iraq.
Photojournalist David Bacon has had many exhibits and written many books, his latest book is The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration. He has an important new photo essay that we'll note the opening of.
40,000 AT&T WORKERS ARE SET TO STRIKE
By David Bacon
Working In These Times, 5/18/17
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2017/05/40000-at-workers-are-set-to-strike.html
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20145/40000_att_workers_are_set_to_strike
Workers have issued an ultimatum, giving company executives until 3 p.m. ET on Friday to present serious proposals—or the workers will walk. (Photo credit: David Bacon)
Around 40,000 members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) at AT&T could walk off their jobs, starting Friday, for a three-day strike, as pressure continues to mount on the corporation to settle fair contracts.
In California and Nevada, around 17,000 AT&T workers who provide phone, landline and cable services have been working without a contract for more than a year. Last year, they voted to authorize a strike with more than 95 percent support. And in February, an estimated 21,000 AT&T Mobility workers in 36 states voted to strike as well, with 93 percent in favor.
[. . .]
Full
disclosure: David Bacon and In These Times staff are members of the
Communication Workers of America, and the union is a sponsor of the
magazine.
In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte
Photographs and text by David Bacon
University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Book Presentations -
In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte
Los Angeles, Tuesday, May 23, 2017
1-3 PM, Chicano Studies Research Center, 144 Haines Hall
UCLA
5:30-8 PM, UCLA Downtown Labor Center
675 S. Park View St.
Davis, Thursday, June 1, 2017
7-9 PM, Art Annex Room 107 (Technological Studies Building)
UC Davis Main Campus
302 photographs, 450pp, 9”x9”
paperback, $34.95
SPECIAL OFFER:
order the book on the UC Press website:
ucpress.edu/9780520296077
use source code 16M4197 at checkout
receive a 30% discount
En Mexico se puede pedir el libro en el sitio de COLEF:
http://libreria.colef.mx/detalle.aspx?id=7560
Was zwischen den USA und Mexiko schon seit langem existiert
Die Traurigkeit der Grenzmauer
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23703
In den Straßen von Guadalajara
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23425
Kinder – in Berliner Straßen
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23309
Books by David Bacon
The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (Beacon Press, 2013)
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328
In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte
Photographs and text by David Bacon
University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Book Presentations -
In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte
Los Angeles, Tuesday, May 23, 2017
1-3 PM, Chicano Studies Research Center, 144 Haines Hall
UCLA
5:30-8 PM, UCLA Downtown Labor Center
675 S. Park View St.
Davis, Thursday, June 1, 2017
7-9 PM, Art Annex Room 107 (Technological Studies Building)
UC Davis Main Campus
302 photographs, 450pp, 9”x9”
paperback, $34.95
SPECIAL OFFER:
order the book on the UC Press website:
ucpress.edu/9780520296077
use source code 16M4197 at checkout
receive a 30% discount
En Mexico se puede pedir el libro en el sitio de COLEF:
http://libreria.colef.mx/detalle.aspx?id=7560
Was zwischen den USA und Mexiko schon seit langem existiert
Die Traurigkeit der Grenzmauer
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23703
In den Straßen von Guadalajara
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23425
Kinder – in Berliner Straßen
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23309
"Wir sind obdachlos, und wir wählen"
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23263
THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com
EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE: Farm worker photographs on the U.S./Mexico border wall
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&id=0644c65ae5&e=dde0321ee7
Youtube interview about the show with Alfonso Caraveo (Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeE1NO4c_M&feature=youtu.be
Interviews with David Bacon about his book, The Right to Stay Home:
Book TV: A presentation of the ideas in The Right to Stay Home at the CUNY Graduate Center
http://booktv.org/Watch/14961/The+Right+to+Stay+Home+How+US+Policy+Drives+Mexican+Migration.aspx
KPFA - Upfront with Brian Edwards Tiekert
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/david-bacon-on-upfront-9-20
http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=23263
THE REALITY CHECK - David Bacon blog
http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com
EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE: Farm worker photographs on the U.S./Mexico border wall
http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fc67a76dbb9c31aaee896aff7&id=0644c65ae5&e=dde0321ee7
Youtube interview about the show with Alfonso Caraveo (Spanish)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJeE1NO4c_M&feature=youtu.be
Interviews with David Bacon about his book, The Right to Stay Home:
Book TV: A presentation of the ideas in The Right to Stay Home at the CUNY Graduate Center
http://booktv.org/Watch/14961/The+Right+to+Stay+Home+How+US+Policy+Drives+Mexican+Migration.aspx
KPFA - Upfront with Brian Edwards Tiekert
https://soundcloud.com/kpfa-fm-94-1-berkeley/david-bacon-on-upfront-9-20
Books by David Bacon
The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration (Beacon Press, 2013)
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=2328
Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press, 2008)
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008
http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx
Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100558350
The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520244726
En Español:
EL DERECHO A QUEDARSE EN CASA (Critica - Planeta de Libros)
http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html
HIJOS DE LIBRE COMERCIA (El Viejo Topo)
http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html?search_query=david+bacon&results=1
For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org and http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com
Recipient: C.L.R. James Award, best book of 2007-2008
http://www.beacon.org/Illegal-People-P780.aspx
Communities Without Borders (Cornell University/ILR Press, 2006)
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100558350
The Children of NAFTA, Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border (University of California, 2004)
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520244726
En Español:
EL DERECHO A QUEDARSE EN CASA (Critica - Planeta de Libros)
http://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/el-derecho-a-quedarse-en-casa-libro-205607.html
HIJOS DE LIBRE COMERCIA (El Viejo Topo)
http://www.tienda.elviejotopo.com/prestashop/capitalismo/1080-hijos-del-libre-comercio-deslocalizaciones-y-precariedad-9788496356368.html?search_query=david+bacon&results=1
For more articles and images, see http://dbacon.igc.org and http://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com
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