{"id":12606,"date":"2014-03-08T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=12606"},"modified":"2014-03-09T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T17:25:42","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-no-war-between-people-no-peace-between-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-no-war-between-people-no-peace-between-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: No War Between People&#8211;No Peace Between Classes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JUDY COLLINS - &quot;Marat\/Sade&quot; Lyrics, Timely Again, Fuel Election and OWS Movement\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lZ8xr2ZfY4I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulations on the Publication of Polylux Marx \u00a0<\/strong>Welcome! This website belongs to PolyluxMarx and provides material for use while reading Capital<br \/>\nFor several years now, people have been starting to dust off Marx and return to his analysis of society. This is mainly due to the social turmoil in global capitalism, weaknesses in prevailing explanations of economic relationships and the harrowing crises the world has faced since the 1990s. In particular, a younger generation of readers \u2013 untainted by former ideological battles \u2013 is starting to read Capital. Whether in universities, educational institutions, unions, or in their own living rooms, small groups are discussing Marx\u2019s critique of political economy. This is exactly what PolyluxMarx aims to support. This website provides a collection of annotated PowerPoint slides that illustrate the central arguments from Capital. We also use concise introductory texts and notes on methodolgy and learning to make Capital easier to read.<br \/>\nYou can download all of the PowerPoint slides available on this page and preview the first slide in a set by clicking on it.<br \/>\nMore information about courses in reading Capital and about the critique of political economy is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.das-kapital-lesen.de\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.das-kapital-lesen.de<\/a>.<br \/>\nPolyluxMarx was created as part of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung\u2019s work in political education. It is published by Karl Dietz Verlag.Download the entire book(In addition to the PowerPoint slides, the book also contains explanatory texts, detailed instructions and notes for working with the material.) \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polyluxmarx.de\/en\/home.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.polyluxmarx.de\/en\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>And the publication of<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Foster-John-B.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12656\" alt=\"Foster John B\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Foster-John-B.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Foster-John-B.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Foster-John-B-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kollontai:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Aleksandra_Kollontaj_10.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12680\" alt=\"Aleksandra_Kollontaj_10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Aleksandra_Kollontaj_10.gif\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How and why was Women\u2019s Day organized?<\/em><\/strong>.<br \/>\nNot very long ago, in fact about ten years ago, the question of women\u2019s equality, and the question of whether women could take part in government alongside men was being hotly debated. The working class in all capitalist countries struggled for the rights of working women: the bourgeoisie did not want to accept these rights. It was not in the interest of the bourgeoisie to strengthen the vote of the working class in parliament; and in every country they hindered the passing of laws that gave the right to working women.Socialists in North America insisted upon their demands for the vote with particular persistence. On the 28th of February, 1909, the women socialists of the U.S.A. organized huge demonstrations and meetings all over the country demanding political rights for working women. This was the first \u201cWoman\u2019s Day.\u201d The initiative on organizing a woman\u2019s day thus belongs to the working women of America.In 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, Clara Zetkin [2] brought forward the question of organizing an International Working Women\u2019s Day. The conference decided that every year, in every country, they should celebrate on the same day a \u201cWomen\u2019s Day\u201d under the slogan \u201cThe vote for women will unite our strength in the struggle for socialism.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thecharnelhouse.org\/2014\/03\/08\/international-womens-day\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">thecharnelhouse.org\/2014\/03\/08\/international-womens-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sweetwater-EA-Strike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12664\" alt=\"Sweetwater EA Strike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sweetwater-EA-Strike.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sweetwater-EA-Strike.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Sweetwater-EA-Strike-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweetwater CA ED Association Schedules Strike Vote (you can Like this) \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/seacta\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/seacta<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/solidarity-sweetwater-ea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12662\" alt=\"solidarity sweetwater ea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/solidarity-sweetwater-ea.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/solidarity-sweetwater-ea.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/solidarity-sweetwater-ea-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PSU Faculty Union Schedules Strike Authorization Vote \u00a0<\/strong>The faculty union at Portland State University has scheduled a strike authorization vote for next week. Tuesday\u2019s announcement follows final contract offers from both sides. \u00a0No Oregon public university has had a faculty strike. Faculty members at PSU could strike next month, depending on how professors vote, March 11 and 12.<br \/>\nCompensation, length of teacher contracts, and the union\u2019s role in policy making are big sticking points.<br \/>\nThe PSU administration\u2019s final proposal gives faculty two choices.<br \/>\nSpokesman Scott Gallagher says the first option is a four-percent pay raise over two years and no change in benefits. But it would make policy changes administrators want.<br \/>\n\u201cOption B is a three percent raise over two years, the same continued healthcare and pension benefits, and then fewer changes to the contract language,\u201d according to Gallagher. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opb.org\/news\/article\/psu-faculty-union-schedules-strike-authorization-vote\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.opb.org\/news\/article\/psu-faculty-union-schedules-strike-authorization-vote\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mother-Jones-nnn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12666\" alt=\"Mother Jones nnn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mother-Jones-nnn.jpg\" width=\"648\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mother-Jones-nnn.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Mother-Jones-nnn-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/capitalist-school1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12687\" alt=\"capitalist school\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/capitalist-school1.jpg\" width=\"486\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/capitalist-school1.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/capitalist-school1-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Cal State campuses are considering &#8216;student success fees&#8217; \u00a0<\/strong>They are called &#8220;student success fees&#8221; and they offer the promise of more classes and programs and improved graduation rates for thousands of California State University students. But critics say they are a thinly veiled attempt to shift more education costs to students \u2014 without increasing tuition.<br \/>\nCampuses in Fullerton, Dominguez Hills, Fresno and San Diego all are considering these charges, ranging from $200 to $500 per semester.<br \/>\nIf approved, those Cal State campuses will join others in the East Bay, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pomona, San Bernardino, San Jose, San Luis Obispo and San Marcos, which already are charging such fees. They were among the first to do so \u2014 most beginning in 2011 amid deep state budget cuts.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;success fees&#8221; are a relatively recent phenomenon that troubles many opponents, who argue that students shouldn&#8217;t have to pay extra for instructional programs that should be included in tuition. The most recent proposals also flout promises made to lawmakers and the governor to freeze costs in return for additional state funding, they contend.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-calstate-fee-20140303,0,3582419.story#ixzz2uwA5k1BQ\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-calstate-fee-20140303,0,3582419.story#ixzz2uwA5k1BQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Federal Judge Orders Michelle Rhee Suit to Go Forward, will Broaden to Concealment and Fraud Claims \u00a0 <\/strong>A US federal judge has denied a Motion to Dismiss by former DC Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee in a wrongful termination lawsuit over the mass firings of DC Public School teachers back in 2009. Case to be amended to add concealment and fraud claims against Rhee and her CFO Noah Wepman. \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2013\/4\/prweb10586920.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.prweb.com\/releases\/2013\/4\/prweb10586920.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Urban League Loves the Common Core \u00a0<\/strong>We can continue implementing standards that put our children on a level playing field and prepare them for college, or, for the umpteenth time, we can shy away from our responsibility and fail another generation of children by leaving their preparation incomplete.<br \/>\nRight now, a profoundly important reform \u2014 standards that will lift expectations and improve the quality of instruction in all grates \u2014 has gotten tangled in disputes over teacher evaluations, data privacy, curriculum development and testing.<br \/>\nThese are all important aspects of education reform, but they\u2019re ultimately distractions from the conversation about Common Core.<br \/>\nThese standards were approved by the Board of Regents in 2010. Districts have had years to prepare and, if necessary, make the case that they need additional resources to improve implementation. New York\u2019s parents, teachers, administrators and other stakeholders \u2014 including the business community \u2014 have had years to establish competitive 21st century standards for our children. \u00a0 \u00a0Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/common-core-turn-back-article-1.1704509#ixzz2uxKfMkiU\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/common-core-turn-back-article-1.1704509#ixzz2uxKfMkiU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another Move in the SAT Shell Game\u00a0<\/strong>Essay optional. No penalties for wrong answers. The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions.<br \/>\nChanges in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as \u201cprevaricator\u201d and \u201csagacious\u201d in favor of words more commonly used in school and on the job.<br \/>\nCollege Board officials said Wednesday the update \u2014 the first since 2005 \u2014 is needed to make the exam better representative of what students study in high school and the skills they need to succeed in college and afterward. The test should offer \u201cworthy challenges, not artificial obstacles,\u201d said College Board President David Coleman in remarks prepared for delivery at an event in Austin, Texas. From The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140305\/SCHOOLS\/303050109#ixzz2vG4Ydbhv\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140305\/SCHOOLS\/303050109#ixzz2vG4Ydbhv<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IllusionFactory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12689\" alt=\"IllusionFactory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IllusionFactory.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IllusionFactory.jpg 341w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IllusionFactory-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><strong>The Fascist Origins of the SAT <\/strong>The chief fetish of the testing movement is the SAT, long known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test but now known, on the insistence of the test&#8217;s owners, the Educational Testing Service, as just &#8220;The SAT.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe SAT measures, above all else, class, sex, and race. (Fairtest, Roney). The SAT, like every similar test, is designed to divide people with razor sharp precision, to enumerate human value and to track people&#8217;s futures under a veil of objective science. The SAT is a commodity itself, for sale to every student, school, and college in the world. It also commodifies people, attaching worth to individuals, but more pointedly drawing the lines of what can only be called class warfare. The impact of the SAT is to create the logic for a more deeply stratified society, divided primarily by issues of inherited income, sexism, and racism. The fraudulent claims of the SAT to promote a more equitable and meritorious society have been thoroughly revealed elsewhere. (Lemann, Fairtest, Roney). This analysis is a brief history of the SAT, unmasking the politics of the people who designed it, and those who promote the SAT and similar exams today . <a href=\"http:\/\/www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/~rgibson\/SATFascistOrigins.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www-rohan.sdsu.edu\/~rgibson\/SATFascistOrigins.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line on SAT scores in one chart<\/strong> Here, in one chart, is pretty much everything you need to know about who does and doesn\u2019t perform well on the SAT. Kids from the wealthiest families do the best, and the kids from the poorest families do the worst. This pattern applies to virtually every high-stakes standardized test that is given to kids.<br \/>\nThe chart, which shows national average SAT scores by income band for students in the high school class of 2013, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2013\/10\/09\/the-bottom-line-on-sat-scores-in-one-chart\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2013\/10\/09\/the-bottom-line-on-sat-scores-in-one-chart\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>College, the Great Unleveler<\/strong> around 1980. College graduation rates kept soaring for the affluent, but for those in the bottom half, a four-year degree is scarcely more attainable today than it was in the 1970s. And because some colleges actually hinder social mobility, what increasingly matters is not just whether you go to college but where.<br \/>\nThe demise of opportunity through higher education is, fundamentally, a political failure. Our landmark higher education policies have ceased to function effectively, and lawmakers \u2014 consumed by partisan polarization and plutocracy \u2014 have neglected to maintain and update them.<br \/>\nMore Americans than ever enroll in college, but the graduates who emerge a few years later indicate that instead of reducing inequality, our system of higher education reinforces it. Three out of four adults who grow up in the top quarter of the income spectrum earn baccalaureate degrees by age 24, but it\u2019s only one out of three in the next quarter down. In the bottom half of the economic distribution, it\u2019s less than one out of five for those in the third bracket and fewer than one out of 10 in the poorest. That\u2019s before we even begin differentiating by type of college. Higher education is becoming a caste system, separate and unequal for students with different family incomes. Where students attend college affects their chances of graduating and how indebted they will become in the process. <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/01\/college-the-great-unleveler\/?_php=true&#038;_type=blogs&#038;_php=true&#038;_type=blogs&#038;alg=44FR7&#038;_r=1\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/01\/college-the-great-unleveler\/?_php=true&#038;_type=blogs&#038;_php=true&#038;_type=blogs&#038;alg=44FR7&#038;_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kansas illegally underfunds poorer school districts, court rules <\/strong>Wading into a battle being fought in state capitols across the nation, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that disparities in the public funding of school districts violate the state constitution.<br \/>\nThe court ordered Kansas to cure these disparities by July 1 and asked a lower court to evaluate how much the state should be investing in public schools.<br \/>\nIt was not quite the slam-dunk ruling that school funding advocates had hoped for; the court did not set funding levels, as a lower court had. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-kansas-schools-20140308,0,5562455.story#ixzz2vPO67Dm9\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-kansas-schools-20140308,0,5562455.story#ixzz2vPO67Dm9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Free&#8221; textbooks&#8211;from Bill Gates: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openstaxcollege.org\/books\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">openstaxcollege.org\/books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Better Free &#8220;Book&#8221;&#8211;The Vietnam Wars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/vietnam\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.richgibson.com\/vietnam\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ukraine-Russia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12634\" alt=\"Ukraine Russia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ukraine-Russia.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ukraine-Russia.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ukraine-Russia-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><em>Ukrainian marines look at a Russian ship floating out of the Sevastopol bay on March 4, 2014 (AFP Photo \/ Viktor Drachev)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron<\/strong> &#8211; Ukraine signed a $10 billion shale gas production-sharing agreement with U.S. Chevron (CVX.N) on Tuesday, another step in a drive for more energy independence from Russia.<br \/>\nThe deal to develop its western Olesska field followed a similar shale gas agreement with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) in January and boosts Ukraine&#8217;s leadership at a time of fraught relations with Moscow over gas supplies.<br \/>\n&#8220;The agreements with Shell and Chevron &#8230; will enable us to have full sufficiency in gas by 2020 and, under an optimistic scenario, even enable us to export energy,&#8221; President Viktor Yanukovich told investors shortly before the signing.<br \/>\nThe highest end of expectations for Olesska&#8217;s potential reserves would match around three years of European Union gas demand, but similarly sunny hopes for shale reserves in neighboring Poland have been very sharply downsized.<br \/>\nShale development in Europe is far behind the booming U.S. sector and progress is patchy. Chevron pulled out of a shale exploration tender in Lithuania and has suspended work at a Romanian shale well after local protests. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/11\/05\/us-ukraine-chevron-idUSBRE9A40ML20131105\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/11\/05\/us-ukraine-chevron-idUSBRE9A40ML20131105<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hypocritical Lawbreaking (torture, detentions, secrecy, surveillance, invasions, etc) Lawyer Obamagogue: Crimea separation from Ukraine would violate law <\/strong> President Barack Obama declared on Thursday that a referendum in 10 days on the future of a Ukraine\u2019s Crimea peninsula would violate international law. The United States also moved to impose visa restrictions and financial sanctions on Russians and Ukrainians for the moves Moscow already has made into Crimea.<br \/>\nSpeaking from the White House, Obama said any decisions on the future of Crimea, a pro-Russian area of Ukraine, must include the country\u2019s new government.<br \/>\n\u201cThe proposed referendum on the future of Crimea would violate the constitution and violate international law,\u201d Obama said. \u201cWe are well beyond the days when borders can be redrawn over the heads of democratic leaders.\u201d From The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140306\/NATION\/303060057#ixzz2vGBNMhTA\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140306\/NATION\/303060057#ixzz2vGBNMhTA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Navy destroyer USS Truxtun crosses Dardanelles en route to Black Sea (VIDEO) <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/us-navy-black-sea-482\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">rt.com\/news\/us-navy-black-sea-482\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RTV: Russia allowed to have 25,000 troops in Crimea since 1999&#8230; &amp; other facts you may not know <\/strong>Ukraine\u2019s statement at the UN that 16,000 Russian soldiers have been deployed to Crimea has caused a frenzy among Western media which chooses to ignore that those troops have been there since the late 1990s in accordance with a Kiev-Moscow agreement.<br \/>\nWestern media describes the situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as if a full-scale Russian invasion were under way, with headlines like: \u201cUkraine says Russia sent 16,000 troops to Crimea\u201d and \u201cUkraine crisis deepens as Russia sends more troops into Crimea,\u201d as well as \u201cWhat can Obama do about Russia&#8217;s invasion of Crimea?\u201d<br \/>\nIt seems they have chosen to simply ignore the fact that those Russian troops have been stationed in Crimea for over a decade.<br \/>\nRussia\u2019s representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, reminded on Tuesday that the deal surrounding the Black Sea Fleet allows Russia to station a contingent of up to 25,000 troops in Ukraine. However, US and British media have mostly chosen to turn a deaf ear. (more) <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/russian-troops-crimea-ukraine-816\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">rt.com\/news\/russian-troops-crimea-ukraine-816\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ukraine.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12691\" alt=\"Ukraine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ukraine.jpeg\" width=\"270\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Crimea Steeped in Its Bloody History, Again Embracing Resistance<\/strong> Drawing on his experiences as a young artillery officer in imperial Russia\u2019s military during the Crimean War in 1853-56, Leo Tolstoy described in \u201cSevastopol Sketches\u201d how a Russian soldier whose leg had been amputated above the knee coped with agonizing pain.<br \/>\n\u201cThe chief thing, your honor, is not to think,\u201d Tolstoy\u2019s amputee remarked. \u201cIf you don\u2019t think, it is nothing much. It mostly all comes from thinking.\u201d<br \/>\nIt is advice, however, that virtually nobody in Crimea, particularly here in Sevastopol, shows any sign of heeding. With nearly every other main street named after a Russian military hero or a gruesome battle, its lovely seafront promenade dominated by a \u201cmonument to sunken ships\u201d and its central square named after the imperial admiral who commanded Russian forces against French, British and Turkish troops in the 19th century, Sevastopol constantly feeds thoughts of war and its agonies.<br \/>\nBombarded with reminders of the Crimean War, which involved a near yearlong siege of the city in 1854-55, and World War II, when the city doggedly resisted Nazi forces until finally falling in July 1942, Sevastopol has never stopped thinking about wartime losses \u2014 and has never been able to cope with the amputation carried out in 1954 by the Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/07\/world\/europe\/crimea-russia.html?ref=andrewhiggins&#038;_r=0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/07\/world\/europe\/crimea-russia.html?ref=andrewhiggins&#038;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Cohen: <\/strong><strong>Distorting Russia &#8211;How the American media misrepresent Putin, Sochi and Ukraine.<\/strong> The degradation of mainstream American press coverage of Russia, a country still vital to US national security, has been under way for many years. If the recent tsunami of shamefully unprofessional and politically inflammatory articles in leading newspapers and magazines\u2014particularly about the Sochi Olympics, Ukraine and, unfailingly, President Vladimir Putin\u2014is an indication, this media malpractice is now pervasive and the new norm.<br \/>\nThere are notable exceptions, but a general pattern has developed. Even in the venerable New York Times and Washington Post, news reports, editorials and commentaries no longer adhere rigorously to traditional journalistic standards, often failing to provide essential facts and context; to make a clear distinction between reporting and analysis; to require at least two different political or \u201cexpert\u201d views on major developments; or to publish opposing opinions on their op-ed pages. As a result, American media on Russia today are less objective, less balanced, more conformist and scarcely less ideological than when they covered Soviet Russia during the Cold War.<br \/>\nThe history of this degradation is also clear. It began in the early 1990s, following the end of the Soviet Union, when the US media adopted Washington\u2019s narrative that almost everything President Boris Yeltsin did was a \u201ctransition from communism to democracy\u201d and thus in America\u2019s best interests. This included his economic \u201cshock therapy\u201d and oligarchic looting of essential state assets, which destroyed tens of millions of Russian lives; armed destruction of a popularly elected Parliament and imposition of a \u201cpresidential\u201d Constitution, which dealt a crippling blow to democratization and now empowers Putin; brutal war in tiny Chechnya, which gave rise to terrorists in Russia\u2019s North Caucasus; rigging of his own re-election in 1996; and leaving behind, in 1999, his approval ratings in single digits, a disintegrating country laden with weapons of mass destruction. Indeed, most American journalists still give the impression that Yeltsin was an ideal Russian leader.<br \/>\nSince the early 2000s, the media have followed a different leader-centric narrative, also consistent with US policy, that devalues multifaceted analysis for a relentless demonization of Putin, with little regard for facts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/178344\/distorting-russia#\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.thenation.com\/article\/178344\/distorting-russia#<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Russia-Oil.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12684\" alt=\"Russia Oil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Russia-Oil.jpeg\" width=\"620\" height=\"1963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Russia-Oil.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Russia-Oil-323x1024.jpeg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cRussia is being pulled into China\u2019s orbit, even as the Kremlin looks to exert its influence globally by expanding its customer base&#8221; <\/strong>Energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie believes Russia\u2019s pivot east and engagement with China on a range of huge deals could see energy trade between the two neighbours quadruple by 2025. <a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/2014\/01\/30\/how-russias-energy-sector-is-eyeing-a-bigger-game-beyond-the-olympics\/?__lsa=32c2-7178\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">business.financialpost.com\/2014\/01\/30\/how-russias-energy-sector-is-eyeing-a-bigger-game-beyond-the-olympics\/?__lsa=32c2-7178<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In these times of Turmoil and Change, Good to know that Zbig is still nuts after all these years: &#8220;What is to be done? Putin\u2019s aggression in Ukraine needs a response&#8221; <\/strong> Russia\u2019s unilateral and menacing acts mean the West should promptly recognize the current government of Ukraine as legitimate. Uncertainty regarding its legal status could tempt Putin to repeat his Crimean charade. Second, the West should convey \u2014 privately at this stage, so as not to humiliate Russia \u2014 that the Ukrainian army can count on immediate and direct Western aid so as to enhance its defensive capabilities. There should be no doubt left in Putin\u2019s mind that an attack on Ukraine would precipitate a prolonged and costly engagement, and Ukrainians should not fear that they would be left in the lurch.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, NATO forces, consistent with the organization\u2019s contingency planning, should be put on alert. High readiness for some immediate airlift to Europe of U.S. airborne units would be politically and militarily meaningful. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/zbigniew-brzezinski-after-putins-aggression-in-ukraine-the-west-must-be-ready-to-respond\/2014\/03\/03\/25b3f928-a2f5-11e3-84d4-e59b1709222c_story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/zbigniew-brzezinski-after-putins-aggression-in-ukraine-the-west-must-be-ready-to-respond\/2014\/03\/03\/25b3f928-a2f5-11e3-84d4-e59b1709222c_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friendly Fire: US Drone Strike Kills Five Afghan Soldiers + Eight Others Also Wounded in Logar Strike<\/strong> The Pentagon has confirmed launching a drone strike against the Logar Province of Afghanistan today, hitting their allies in a case of mistaken identity. The strike kill five Afghan National Army soldiers, and wounded eight others. The provincial governor\u2019s spokesman said that the attack was \u201cthe result of poor coordination between the people on the ground and the operators of the drone.\u201d NATO has promised an investigation into the killings. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2014\/03\/06\/friendly-fire-us-drone-strike-kills-five-afghan-soldiers\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">news.antiwar.com\/2014\/03\/06\/friendly-fire-us-drone-strike-kills-five-afghan-soldiers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Karzai Shocked, Shocked, To Learn He is a Puppet <\/strong>In an unusually emotional interview, the departing Afghan president sought to explain why he has been such a harsh critic of the 12-year-old U.S. war effort here. He said he\u2019s deeply troubled by all the casualties he has seen, including those in U.S. military operations. He feels betrayed by what he calls an insufficient U.S. focus on targeting Taliban sanctuaries in Pakistan. And he insists that public criticism was the only way to guarantee an American response to his concerns.<br \/>\nTo Karzai, the war was not waged with his country\u2019s interests in mind.<br \/>\n\u201cAfghans died in a war that\u2019s not ours,\u2019 he said in the interview, his first in two years with a U.S. newspaper. In Karzai\u2019s mind, al-Qaeda is \u201cmore a myth than a reality\u201d and the majority of the United States\u2019 prisoners here were innocent. He\u2019s certain that the war was \u201cfor the U.S. security and for the Western interest.\u201d<br \/>\nSuch statements elicit scorn and shock from U.S. officials, who point out that Americans have sacrificed mightily for Afghanistan \u2014 losing more than 2,000 lives and spending more than $600 billion in the effort to defeat al-Qaeda and the Taliban and rebuild the country.<br \/>\nSome Americans call Karzai a delusional leader, an ally who became an adversary during the 12 years of his presidency. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/interview-karzai-says-12-year-afghanistan-war-has-left-him-angry-at-us-government\/2014\/03\/02\/b831671c-a21a-11e3-b865-38b254d92063_story.html?hpid=z5\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/interview-karzai-says-12-year-afghanistan-war-has-left-him-angry-at-us-government\/2014\/03\/02\/b831671c-a21a-11e3-b865-38b254d92063_story.html?hpid=z5<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/afghanistan_pipeline_map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12693\" alt=\"afghanistan_pipeline_map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/afghanistan_pipeline_map.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Altered Letter Fools Afghans And 10 Flee From Prison<\/strong> For the fourth time in a decade, Taliban insurgents have escaped from the heavily guarded Sarposa Prison in Kandahar, Afghan officials confirmed on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe prison break on Tuesday was smaller than previous episodes, in which hundreds of prisoners escaped, but it was particularly embarrassing. This time, someone altered an official document, letting at least 10 prisoners walk out the front gate unchallenged, officials said.<br \/>\nThe escapees were believed to be among the most prominent insurgents being held at Sarposa on terrorism charges, followers of a particularly notorious Taliban commander, Mullah Dad Mohammad Munib, who specialized in orchestrating assassinations and suicide bombings. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/03\/world\/asia\/taliban-prisoners-escape-from-afghan-prison-through-trickery.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/03\/world\/asia\/taliban-prisoners-escape-from-afghan-prison-through-trickery.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hillbillary Pot Calls Putin Kettle Black <\/strong>Hillary Clinton, it is reported, compared Vladimir Putin to Adolph Hitler in the former\u2019s takeover of Ukraine. Her handlers keep her well-shielded from reporters who might ask impertinent questions, but the remarks points to a central dilemma for Clinton. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2014\/03\/05\/hillary-clinton-vladimir-putin-and-hitler\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/wp\/2014\/03\/05\/hillary-clinton-vladimir-putin-and-hitler\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Outa Luck Again, Cannon Fodder <\/strong>A $21 billion bill to greatly expand aid and other programs to veterans went down in the Senate Thursday, falling victim to election year fights over spending and how much power the minority party should have.<br \/>\n&#8220;I personally, I have to say this honestly, have a hard time understanding how anyone could vote for tax breaks for billionaires, for millionaires, for large corporations and then say we don&#8217;t have the resources to protect our veterans,&#8221; said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., the measure&#8217;s chief author, according to the Associated Press. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/veterans-benefits-bill-blocked-in-senate\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.cbsnews.com\/news\/veterans-benefits-bill-blocked-in-senate\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/brig-General-Sinclair.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12659\" alt=\"brig General Sinclair\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/brig-General-Sinclair.jpeg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As General\u2019s Sex Assault Trial Opens, Accuser Says She Was Bullied <\/strong>The court-martial of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, charged with sexually assaulting a junior officer who was his lover, opened on Friday with opening statements from both sides and the beginning of testimony by his accuser, a captain who asserts that the general bullied her into oral sex and threatened to kill her if she ended their affair.<br \/>\nUnder questioning from the prosecution, the captain, a 34-year-old military intelligence officer, described the origins of her relationship with General Sinclair, and their initial sexual encounters in Iraq. General Sinclair, 51, first made sexual advances toward her when she delivered a DVD of a television program to his quarters, she testified. College Board officials said Wednesday the update \u2014 the first since 2005 \u2014 is needed to make the exam better representative of what students study in high school and the skills they need to succeed in college and afterward. The test should offer \u201cworthy challenges, not artificial obstacles,\u201d said College B<br \/>\nAs their relationship intensified, the captain said, she told the general that she looked forward to meeting his wife. But he told her that would not happen, she said.<br \/>\n\u201cHe told me that if I ever said anything to her or anyone else about he and I, he would kill me,\u201d the captain said, adding that he also threatened her family. During the morning session, she glanced at General Sinclair only once, when a prosecutor asked her to identify him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/08\/us\/general-sinclair-sex-assault-court-martial.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/08\/us\/general-sinclair-sex-assault-court-martial.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Depression-Jobs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12696\" alt=\"Depression Jobs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Depression-Jobs.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>US Jobs Report Demonstrates Stagnation in Industry, Finance, and Employment&#8211;still <\/strong>Unemployment ticked up to 6.7 percent last month despite a better-than-expected increase of 175,000 jobs that defied a spate of severe winter weather. the Labor Department reported Friday.<br \/>\nThe number of jobs added by private employers was not far below the 189,000 average job gain per month in the last year, though economists were predicting a gain closer to 150,000. Moreover, the department said it found an additional 25,000 jobs added in December and January than it previously detected.<br \/>\nRead more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/mar\/7\/employers-add-175k-february\/#ixzz2vRfvq1jX\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/mar\/7\/employers-add-175k-february\/#ixzz2vRfvq1jX<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bankruptcy: Ex-Treasurer Dillon lands job with firm he helped get a lucrative contract in Detroit<\/strong> Before landing what turned out to be a lucrative $19 million contract to serve as key consultants during Detroit\u2019s bankruptcy filing, officials from Conway MacKenzie began privately meeting with then-Treasurer Andy Dillon and his staff in 2012 in hopes of getting the job of a lifetime, according to e-mails and court records. What most people didn\u2019t know \u2013 and what Dillon never divulged \u2013 was that he\u2019s a longtime friend of the firm\u2019s president and CEO, Van Conway. The duo has thrown back drinks for years at the exclusive Detroit Athletic Club and attended lavish parties together, friends of the two told us.<br \/>\nLess than a month after Gov. Snyder pressured Dillon to resign on Oct. 31, Dillon began meeting with Conway to secure a job working on a merger in northern Michigan, according to sources familiar with the meetings. In the meantime, Snyder was quietly paying Dillon about $40,000 on a three-month contract to teach the new treasurer the ropes \u2013 a task he rarely preformed.<br \/>\nDillon was an integral part of getting Conway MacKenzie one of its most lucrative jobs, according to emails and deposition transcripts, which show Dillon was meeting with the firm months before other prospective consultants. <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcitymuckraker.com\/2014\/02\/19\/exclusive-ex-treasurer-dillon-lands-job-with-firm-he-helped-get-a-lucrative-contract-in-detroit\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">motorcitymuckraker.com\/2014\/02\/19\/exclusive-ex-treasurer-dillon-lands-job-with-firm-he-helped-get-a-lucrative-contract-in-detroit\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>There goes the Spectacles! <\/strong><strong>Disney Interactive cutting about 700 jobs<\/strong> Disney Interactive, the struggling video game and digital media subsidiary of Walt Disney Co., is cutting roughly 700 jobs worldwide, the company said Thursday.<br \/>\nThe division is closing offices in Chicago, New Jersey, Colorado, South Korea and Hyderabad, India. The layoffs represent about 26% of the division&#8217;s workforce.<br \/>\nDisney Interactive said in a statement that it &#8220;has consolidated several lines of business as part of an effort to focus the division on a streamlined suite of high quality digital products.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/cotown\/la-et-ct-disney-interactive-layoffs-underway-20140306,0,4952297.story#ixzz2vEc1rxmc\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/cotown\/la-et-ct-disney-interactive-layoffs-underway-20140306,0,4952297.story#ixzz2vEc1rxmc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Emergence of Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fascism-rall.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12697\" alt=\"fascism rall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/fascism-rall.gif\" width=\"476\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>35 Countries Where the U.S. Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords and Terrorists <\/strong>Ukraine&#8217;s extreme right-wing Svoboda party and violent neo-Nazis whose armed uprising paved the way for a Western-backed coup. Events in the Ukraine are giving us another glimpse through the looking-glass of U.S. propaganda wars against fascism, drugs and terrorism. The ugly reality behind the mirror is that the U.S. government has a long and unbroken record of working with fascists, dictators, druglords and state sponsors of terrorism in every region of the world in its elusive but relentless quest for unchallenged global power.<br \/>\nBehind a firewall of impunity and protection from the State Department and the CIA, U.S. clients and puppets have engaged in the worst crimes known to man, from murder and torture to coups and genocide&#8230;..\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/world\/35-countries-where-us-has-supported-fascists-druglords-and-terrorists\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.alternet.org\/world\/35-countries-where-us-has-supported-fascists-druglords-and-terrorists<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solidarity for Never<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sellout-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12698\" alt=\"sellout 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sellout-2.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No UC Strike After all but Afscme Manages to Split Workforce <\/strong>The University of California system and the union that represents 8,300 custodians, food workers, gardeners and other campus service workers have reached a tentative contract agreement, averting what was threatened to be a disruptive five-day strike next week, officials announced Thursday.<br \/>\nThe four-year contract agreement between UC and AFSCME 3299 ends the most tense labor situation facing the 10 campuses and five medical centers at the university. Negotiations have dragged on for more than a year. The union held two brief strikes last year and was planning another to start Monday.<br \/>\n&#8220;While this proposed settlement includes compromise on both sides, it honors the contributions that career service workers make to this institution, as well as UC\u2019s responsibility to build ladders to the middle class,\u201d AFSCME 3299 President Kathryn Lybarger said &#8230;<em>In a separate bargaining unit, AFSCME 3299 also represents 13,000 patient care technical employees at the five UC medical centers and its many health clinics. Those medical workers, such as respiratory therapists, nursing aides and radiology technicians, do not have a contract settlement yet and were scheduled to join the campus service workers in next week\u2019s now-canceled strike. Negotiations with UC are expected to resume Friday. <\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-uc-union-20140227,0,7668793.story#ixzz2uxH0ep3d\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-uc-union-20140227,0,7668793.story#ixzz2uxH0ep3d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How Easy is it to CoOpt an Opt out &#8220;Movement&#8217; That refuses to critique capital and empire? UPDATED: SB-443 Would Allow Common Core Opt-Out For Alabama Schools <\/strong> A bill that would allow Alabama school systems to opt-out of the Common Core curriculum has been formally introduced in the state legislature.<br \/>\nSenate Bill 443 is a nine-page bill sponsored by Senators Beason, Glover, Sanford, McGill, Holley, Marsh, Ward, Hightower, Allen, Smith, Whatley, Pittman and Reed. As of Thursday, it was listed in committee.<br \/>\nThe proposal puts the opt-out provision in place for Common Core Math and English Language Arts standards that have already been implemented by many Alabama schools. <a href=\"http:\/\/whnt.com\/2014\/03\/05\/bill-in-works-that-would-allow-common-core-opt-out-for-schools\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">whnt.com\/2014\/03\/05\/bill-in-works-that-would-allow-common-core-opt-out-for-schools\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>March 7&#8211;<em>All of California Opts out<\/em> : California&#8217;s State Superintendent of Public Instruction advised &#8220;I am pleased to announce the Federal Government&#8217;s approval of California&#8217;s waiver of testing request.&#8221; (It&#8217;s to apply the Smarter Balanced assessments later). <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Mich. teachers win fight to quit union under right-to-work law<br \/>\n<\/strong>Two Michigan teachers who tried to resign from the Michigan Education Association under the state\u2019s new right-to-work law won the right to leave their union, officials said Thursday.Miriam Chanski, a kindergarten teacher in Coopersville Area Public Schools, and Ray Arthur, a teacher in the Petoskey school district, filed unfair labor practice complaints against the Michigan Education Association with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission after they were not allowed to leave their teacher unions when the law took effect in March 2013.The teachers said they were intimidated for trying to exercise their rights under the right-to-work law \u2014 watershed legislation when it went into effect in the state, the birthplace of the United Auto Workers union. The law allows employees in a unionized workplace to resign from the union and not pay dues.\u201cI\u2019m very thankful that the MEA has finally acknowledged it was my right to opt out,\u201d Chanski said. \u201cBut my case settlement does not bring justice to all those who deserve it.\u201d From The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140306\/SCHOOLS\/303060112#ixzz2vGAWLOsW\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140306\/SCHOOLS\/303060112#ixzz2vGAWLOsW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Spy versus<\/strong><strong> Spy<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Scipes-Book-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12619\" alt=\"Scipes Book\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Scipes-Book-.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Scipes-Book-.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Scipes-Book--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Scipes-Book--300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Scipes: The National Endowment for Democracy in Venezuela<\/strong> As protests have been taking place in Venezuela the last couple of weeks, it is always good to check on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the US Empire\u2019s \u201cstealth\u201d destabilizer. What has the NED been up to in Venezuela?<br \/>\nBefore going into details, it is important to note what NED is and is not. First of all, it has NOTHING to do with the democracy we are taught in civics classes, concerning one person-one vote, with everyone affected having a say in the decision, etc. (This is commonly known as \u201cpopular\u201d or grassroots democracy.) The NED opposes this kind of democracy.<br \/>\nThe NED promotes top-down, elite, constrained (or \u201cpolyarchal\u201d) democracy. This is the democracy where the elites get to decide the candidates or questions suitable to go before the people\u2014and always limiting the choices to what the elites are comfortable with. Then, once the elites have made their decision, THEN the people are presented with the \u201cchoice\u201d that the elites approve. And then NED prattles on with its nonsense about how it is \u201cpromoting democracy around the world.\u201d<br \/>\nThis is one of the most cynical uses of democracy there is. It\u2019s notable even in what my friend Dave Lippmann calls \u201cWashington Deceit.\u201d<br \/>\nThe other thing to note about NED is that it is NOT independent as it claims, ad nauseum. It was created by the US Congress, signed into US law by President Ronald Reagan (that staunch defender of democracy), and it operates from funds provided annually by the US Government.<br \/>\nHowever, its Board of Directors is drawn from among the elites in the US Government\u2019s foreign policy making realm. Past Board members have included Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Frank Carlucci, General Wesley K. Clark, and Paul Wolfowitz. Today\u2019s board can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ned.org\/about\/board\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.ned.org\/about\/board<\/a> ; most notable is Elliot Abrams of Reagan Administration fame. In reality, NED is part of the US Empire\u2019s tools ,,, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2014\/02\/28\/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-in-venezuela\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.counterpunch.org\/2014\/02\/28\/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-in-venezuela\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Spy-CIA-trick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12700\" alt=\"Spy CIA trick\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Spy-CIA-trick.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Spy-CIA-trick.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Spy-CIA-trick-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program<\/strong> The Central Intelligence Agency\u2019s attempt to keep secret the details of a defunct detention and interrogation program has escalated a battle between the agency and members of Congress and led to an investigation by the C.I.A.\u2019s internal watchdog into the conduct of agency employees.<br \/>\nThe agency\u2019s inspector general began the inquiry partly as a response to complaints from members of Congress that C.I.A. employees were improperly monitoring the work of staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to government officials with knowledge of the investigation.<br \/>\nThe committee has spent several years working on a voluminous report about the detention and interrogation program, and according to one official interviewed in recent days, C.I.A. officers went as far as gaining access to computer networks used by the committee to carry out its investigation.<br \/>\nThe events have elevated the protracted battle \u2014 which began as a fight over who writes the history of the program, perhaps the most controversial aspect of the American government\u2019s response to the Sept. 11 attacks \u2014 into a bitter standoff that in essence is a dispute over the separation of powers and congressional oversight of spy agencies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/05\/us\/new-inquiry-into-cia-employees-amid-clashes-over-interrogation-program.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/05\/us\/new-inquiry-into-cia-employees-amid-clashes-over-interrogation-program.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Probe: Did the CIA spy on the U.S. Senate? <\/strong>The CIA Inspector General\u2019s Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA\u2019s secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned.<br \/>\nThe criminal referral may be related to what several knowledgeable people said was CIA monitoring of computers used by Senate aides to prepare the study. The monitoring may have violated an agreement between the committee and the agency.<br \/>\nThe development marks an unprecedented breakdown in relations between the CIA and its congressional overseers amid an extraordinary closed-door battle over the 6,300-page report on the agency\u2019s use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists held in secret overseas prisons.<br \/>\nRead more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/03\/04\/220161\/cia-monitoring-of-senate-computers.html#storylink=cpy\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/03\/04\/220161\/cia-monitoring-of-senate-computers.html#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lying NSA chief criticises media and suggests UK was right to detain David Miranda<\/strong> The outgoing director of the National Security Agency lashed out at media organizations reporting on Edward Snowden\u2019s surveillance revelations, suggesting that British authorities were right to detain David Miranda on terrorism charges and that reporters lack the ability to properly analyze the NSA\u2019s broad surveillance powers.<br \/>\nGeneral Keith Alexander, who has furiously denounced the Snowden revelations, said at a Tuesday cybersecurity panel that unspecified \u201cheadway\u201d on what he termed \u201cmedia leaks\u201d was forthcoming in the next several weeks, possibly to include \u201cmedia leaks legislation.\u201d<br \/>\nIn perhaps his most expansive remarks to date since Miranda \u2013 the partner of former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald \u2013 was detained for nine hours at Heathrow airport last summer, Alexander noted that a panel of UK judges found Miranda\u2019s detention to be legal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/mar\/04\/nsa-chief-keith-alexander-david-miranda\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/mar\/04\/nsa-chief-keith-alexander-david-miranda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nosenko&#8217;s Nemesis <\/strong>Tennent H. Bagley, a former C.I.A. officer who helped a mysterious Soviet spy betray his country, then tried for a half-century to prove that the defector was actually a Russian double agent, died on Feb. 20 at his home in Brussels. He was 88.<br \/>\nThe cause was cancer, his son, Andrew, said.<br \/>\nMr. Bagley\u2019s big case caused a war within the C.I.A. and elsewhere in the national security complex for decades over whether the defector he encouraged, Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko, was really a Soviet agent sent to trick the Americans.<br \/>\nMost compelling, as a member of the K.G.B., the Soviet spy service, Mr. Nosenko claimed to have handled the case of Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin of President John F. Kennedy, during the two and a half years that Oswald lived in the Soviet Union after defecting there in 1959.<br \/>\nAfter the assassination, one conspiracy theory posited that Oswald had been acting as a Soviet agent when he shot the president in Dallas in November 1963.<br \/>\nBut Mr. Nosenko insisted that the K.G.B. had dismissed any idea of using Mr. Oswald for anything \u2014 much less an assassination \u2014 because he was unstable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/tennent-h-bagley-who-aided-then-mistrusted-a-soviet-spy-dies-at-88.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/tennent-h-bagley-who-aided-then-mistrusted-a-soviet-spy-dies-at-88.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CIA&#8217;s Manual on how to Use the Disciplines<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CIA-Manual.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12622\" alt=\"CIA Manual\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CIA-Manual.png\" width=\"634\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CIA-Manual.png 634w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/CIA-Manual-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/02\/24\/jtrig-manipulation\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2014\/02\/24\/jtrig-manipulation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/son-ogodcovergrab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12643\" alt=\"son ogodcovergrab\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/son-ogodcovergrab.jpg\" width=\"465\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/son-ogodcovergrab.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/son-ogodcovergrab-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Church Sex Abuse Survivors Criticize Religious Fanatic With Funny Hat (video) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/church-sex-abuse-survivors-criticize-pope-n45501\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/church-sex-abuse-survivors-criticize-pope-n45501<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Best and Worst Things in the History of the World<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>How Many Americans Have Read this or know where it happened?&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charge-of-Light-Brigade.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12673\" alt=\"Charge of Light Brigade\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Charge-of-Light-Brigade.jpeg\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Charge of the Light Brigade<br \/>\nBy Alfred, Lord Tennyson<br \/>\nI<br \/>\nHalf a league, half a league,<br \/>\nHalf a league onward,<br \/>\nAll in the valley of Death<br \/>\nRode the six hundred.<br \/>\n\u201cForward, the Light Brigade!<br \/>\nCharge for the guns!\u201d he said.<br \/>\nInto the valley of Death<br \/>\nRode the six hundred.<br \/>\nII<br \/>\n\u201cForward, the Light Brigade!\u201d<br \/>\nWas there a man dismayed?<br \/>\nNot though the soldier knew<br \/>\nSomeone had blundered.<br \/>\nTheirs not to make reply,<br \/>\nTheirs not to reason why,<br \/>\nTheirs but to do and die.<br \/>\nInto the valley of Death<br \/>\nRode the six hundred.<br \/>\nIII<br \/>\nCannon to right of them,<br \/>\nCannon to left of them,<br \/>\nCannon in front of them<br \/>\nVolleyed and thundered;<br \/>\nStormed at with shot and shell,<br \/>\nBoldly they rode and well,<br \/>\nInto the jaws of Death,<br \/>\nInto the mouth of hell<br \/>\nRode the six hundred.<br \/>\nIV<br \/>\nFlashed all their sabres bare,<br \/>\nFlashed as they turned in air<br \/>\nSabring the gunners there,<br \/>\nCharging an army, while<br \/>\nAll the world wondered.<br \/>\nPlunged in the battery-smoke<br \/>\nRight through the line they broke;<br \/>\nCossack and Russian<br \/>\nReeled from the sabre stroke<br \/>\nShattered and sundered.<br \/>\nThen they rode back, but not<br \/>\nNot the six hundred.<br \/>\nV<br \/>\nCannon to right of them,<br \/>\nCannon to left of them,<br \/>\nCannon behind them<br \/>\nVolleyed and thundered;<br \/>\nStormed at with shot and shell,<br \/>\nWhile horse and hero fell.<br \/>\nThey that had fought so well<br \/>\nCame through the jaws of Death,<br \/>\nBack from the mouth of hell,<br \/>\nAll that was left of them,<br \/>\nLeft of six hundred.<br \/>\nVI<br \/>\nWhen can their glory fade?<br \/>\nO the wild charge they made!<br \/>\nAll the world wondered.<br \/>\nHonour the charge they made!<br \/>\nHonour the Light Brigade,<br \/>\nNoble six hundred!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Refresher on the Light Brigade <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Concealed-Carry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12649\" alt=\"Concealed Carry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Concealed-Carry.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Concealed-Carry.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Concealed-Carry-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Surge in concealed weapon permits follows California court Second Amendment decision <\/strong>Gun owners are flooding the sheriff&#8217;s offices in two California counties with applications for concealed weapon permits following a bombshell ruling two weeks ago by a federal appeals court that citizens need not justify their requests.<br \/>\nOrange and Ventura counties have dropped the &#8220;good cause&#8221; standard for issuing conceal carry permits after the requirement was struck down Feb. 13 by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeal. A three-judge panel of the court ruled 2 to 1 that the Second Amendment bars California counties from requiring law-abiding gun owners who want to carry concealed firearms to demonstrate special, individualized needs for protection.<br \/>\nMore than 500 applications have poured in to the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department in just two weeks \u2014 roughly the total number of applications filed in 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/02\/27\/surge-in-concealed-weapon-permits-follows-california-court-second-amendment\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/02\/27\/surge-in-concealed-weapon-permits-follows-california-court-second-amendment\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Once Or Twice J. C. Cobb and his Grains Of Corn &#8211;<\/strong> See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20sjazz.com\/videos\/hot-jazz\/once-or-twice.html#sthash.XONpUA6x.dpuf\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.20sjazz.com\/videos\/hot-jazz\/once-or-twice.html#sthash.XONpUA6x.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four Or Five Times Jimmie Noone&#8217;s Apex Club Orchestra &#8211;<\/strong> See more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20sjazz.com\/videos\/new-orleans\/four-or-five-times.html#sthash.oIu4ClyI.dpuf\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.20sjazz.com\/videos\/new-orleans\/four-or-five-times.html#sthash.oIu4ClyI.dpuf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When You&#8217;re Smiling Memphis Jazz Band &#8211;<\/strong> See<strong> more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.20sjazz.com\/videos\/tradition-lives-on\/when-youre-smiling-1.html#sthash.FBuPjNcb.dpuf\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.20sjazz.com\/videos\/tradition-lives-on\/when-youre-smiling-1.html#sthash.FBuPjNcb.dpuf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>So Long<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Lee Lorch, Desegregation Activist Who Led Stuyvesant Town Effort, Dies at 98 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lorch-obit-1-articleLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12611\" alt=\"lorch-obit-1-articleLarge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lorch-obit-1-articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lorch-obit-1-articleLarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lorch-obit-1-articleLarge-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Lee Lorch; his wife, Grace; and their daughter, Alice, at a news conference in 1949 concerning the African-American family the Lorches invited to occupy their Stuyvesant Town apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Neal Boenzi\/The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/02\/nyregion\/lee-lorch-desegregation-activist-who-led-stuyvesant-town-effort-dies-at-98.html?hpw&#038;rref=obituaries\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/02\/nyregion\/lee-lorch-desegregation-activist-who-led-stuyvesant-town-effort-dies-at-98.html?hpw&#038;rref=obituaries<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Say Fight Back! Congratulations on the Publication of Polylux Marx \u00a0Welcome! This website belongs to PolyluxMarx and provides material for use while reading Capital For several years now, people have been starting to dust off Marx and return to his analysis of society. 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