{"id":18226,"date":"2015-10-07T20:50:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T04:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=18226"},"modified":"2015-10-10T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T07:02:35","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch:  Indigenous People&#8217;s Day Ahead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em><strong>History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. ~Voltaire<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Air France shirtless bosses flee from angry protesters - BBC News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CWu60917X9k?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>JOBS!!!! Simon Fraser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/education\/work-with-us.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sfu.ca\/education\/work-with-us.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jobs!!! Lone Star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestar.edu\/21568.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.lonestar.edu\/21568.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Great Sit-Down - Yesterday&#039;s Witness in America\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2Py_vNt4fc?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>C. Wright Mills: &#8220;Letter to the New Left (1960) <\/strong>They tell us, for example, that ordinary men can\u2019t always be political \u201cheroes.\u201d Who said they could? But keep looking around you and why not search out the conditions of such heroism as men do and might display? They tell us we are too \u201cimpatient,\u201d that our \u201cpretentious\u201d theories are not well enough grounded. That is true, but neither are they trivial; why don\u2019t they get to work, refuting or grounding them? They tell us we \u201cdon\u2019t really understand\u201d Russia \u2014 and China \u2014 today. That is true; we don\u2019t; neither do they; we are studying it. They tell us we are \u201cominous\u201d in our formulations. That is true; we do have enough imagination to be frightened = and we don\u2019t have to hide it: we are not afraid we&#8217;ll panic. They tell us we \u201care grinding axes.\u201d Of course we are: we do have, among other points of view, morally grounded ones; and we are aware of them. They tell us, in their wisdom, we don\u2019t understand that The Struggle is Without End. True: we want to change its form, its focus, its object.<\/p>\n<p>We are frequently accused of being \u201cutopian\u201d \u2014 in our criticisms and in our proposals; and along with this, of basing our hopes for a New Left <em>politics<\/em> \u201cmerely on reason,\u201d or more concretely, upon the intelligentsia in its broadest sense.<\/p>\n<p>There is truth in these charges. But must we not ask: what now is really meant by utopian? And: Is not our utopianism a major source of our strength?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/subject\/humanism\/mills-c-wright\/letter-new-left.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.marxists.org\/subject\/humanism\/mills-c-wright\/letter-new-left.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Coup - &quot;The Magic Clap&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uaFQw52wJug?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>Boots Riley Interview: LF: Is there anybody on the 2016 political scene who turns you on?\u2029<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BR:<\/strong> Nope. Not in the 2012 scene, 2008, or 2004. I think that right now, one of the things that needs to happen is that social movements need to connect\u2014join with labor struggles like the Fight for 15, and have shutdowns around larger social issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LF: You were very involved in Occupy Oakland. What do you tell people who ask what came of that?\u2029<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BR:<\/strong> I think that for those folks that got burned out when they were in Occupy, that has to do with the fact that there was a lot of energy\u2014and instead of combining spectacle with the withholding of labor, we got stuck on spectacle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LF: Stanley Nelson\u2019s documentary shows how the Black Panthers used spectacle.\u2029<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BR:<\/strong> The Panthers stopped wearing the berets and the leather jackets in 1968 because they realized that the spectacle was making people feel like, \u201cWow, that is something [apart from me] to look up to.\u201d We don\u2019t need to bring back the 1960s; we need to bring back the \u201920s and \u201930s as far as strategy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LF: What did you make of the confrontation between Bernie Sanders and Black Lives Matter?\u2029<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BR:<\/strong> Elections are a dead end. We have taken our energy away from organizing at the workplace and put it into voting for this or that candidate. I\u2019m not going to be na\u00efve and say that there aren\u2019t differences in candidates. There\u2019s a little wiggle room, but the couple things you can get are far outweighed by the decimation of mass movements that happens when any election comes around.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/qa-boots-riley\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.thenation.com\/article\/qa-boots-riley\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=OLJSz-wzOHI\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=OLJSz-wzOHI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studentpulse.com\/articles\/265\/the-sounds-of-resistance-the-role-of-music-in-south-africas-anti-apartheid-movement\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.studentpulse.com\/articles\/265\/the-sounds-of-resistance-the-role-of-music-in-south-africas-anti-apartheid-movement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsan1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xap1\/v\/t1.0-9\/12141656_712888672189249_548135091257825104_n.jpg?oh=903ae569b5308a3670e3970ca6c34b89&amp;oe=569E33CA\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\" data-content-svgtype=\"PremiumLogoSmall\">Former Chicago Public Schools chief to plead guilty to bribery scheme<\/h1>\n<p>Byrd-Bennett had been the chief executive of Chicago Public Schools less than two months when the man who helped persuade the Emanuel administration to give her the job sent an email allegedly laying out the heart of a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme.<\/p>\n<p>In the December 2012 email, Gary Solomon, the owner of SUPES Academy and a consultant with long ties to the Emanuel administration, assured Byrd-Bennett that trust accounts had been set up in the names of two of her young relatives, each funded with tens of thousands of dollars, federal prosecutors alleged. The cash would be hers once she stepped down from her public post and rejoined his firm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is our assumption that the distribution will serve as a signing bonus upon your return to SUPES,&#8221; Solomon wrote, according to prosecutors. &#8220;If you only join for the day, you will be the highest paid person on the planet for that day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The secret bonus was just one part of a massive scheme outlined in a criminal indictment Thursday charging Byrd-Bennett, 66, with steering no-bid contracts worth more than $23 million to SUPES in return for promises of up to $2.3 million in kickbacks, other perks and a job.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon, 47, and co-owner Thomas Vranas, 34, also were criminally charged in the 23-count indictment, as was SUPES, their Wilmette-based business, and Synesi Associates, another education consulting company the two ran.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-barbara-byrd-bennett-chicago-public-schools-charged-met-20151008-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-barbara-byrd-bennett-chicago-public-schools-charged-met-20151008-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-53f4f2b1\/turbine\/chinews-karen-lewis-seriously-consi-20140819\/650\/650x366\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chicago Teacher Union Hack, Lewis&#8217;, hug fest with Byrd-Bennett\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"question\"><strong>My sense is that you and Byrd-Bennett\u00a0bonded and\u00a0had a close relationship. Is that true?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She and I regularly met\u00a0so we could go over issues that were problematic. She always got back to me whenever I asked her for help on certain issues. Yes, we had a really good relationship, and I think it moved a lot of things forward that may or may not have moved forward under another administration.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagomag.com\/Chicago-Magazine\/Felsenthal-Files\/August-2015\/Karen-Lewis-Response\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.chicagomag.com\/Chicago-Magazine\/Felsenthal-Files\/August-2015\/Karen-Lewis-Response\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Greatest Threat to Campus Free Speech is Coming From Dianne Feinstein and her Military-Contractor Husband<\/strong> One of the most dangerous threats to campus free speech has been emerging at the highest levels of the University of California system, the sprawling collection of 10 campuses that includes UCLA and UC Berkeley. The university\u2019s governing Board of Regents, with the support of University President Janet Napolitano and egged on by the state\u2019s legislature, has been attempting to adopt new speech codes that \u2014 in the name of combating \u201canti-Semitism\u201d \u2014 would formally ban various forms of Israel criticism and anti-Israel activism.<\/p>\n<p>Under the most stringent such regulations, students found to be in violation of these codes would face suspension or expulsion. In July, it appeared that the Regents were poised to enact the most extreme version, but decided instead to push the decision off until September, when they instead would adopt non-binding guidelines to define \u201chate speech\u201d and \u201cintolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the Regents most vocally advocating for the most stringent version of the speech code is Richard Blum, the multi-millionaire defense contractor who is married to Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. At a Regents meeting last week, reported the Los Angeles Times, Blum expressly threatened that Feinstein would publicly denounce the university if it failed to adopt far more stringent standards than the ones it appeared to be considering, and specifically demanded they be binding and contain punishments for students found to be in violation.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2015\/09\/25\/dianne-feinstein-husband-threaten-univ-calif-demanding-ban-excessive-israel-criticism\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">theintercept.com\/2015\/09\/25\/dianne-feinstein-husband-threaten-univ-calif-demanding-ban-excessive-israel-criticism<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\" data-content-svgtype=\"PremiumLogoSmall\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn9.littlethings.com\/app\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cat-housefire-survivor-comforts-animals-russel-14-600x676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"441\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\">Campuses Debate Rising Demands for \u2018Comfort Animals\u2019<\/h1>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"241\" data-total-count=\"241\">Rachel Brill and Mary McCarthy are seniors and longtime roommates at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/\">St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland<\/a>. This year, they share their four-bedroom campus apartment with two other female students. Also, Theo and Carl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"167\" data-total-count=\"408\">Theo, easygoing and unflappable, is a tawny, 103-pound, longhaired German shepherd. Carl, an energetic charm magnet, is a jet-black, 1.5-pound Netherland Dwarf rabbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"355\" data-total-count=\"763\">House rules: Carl must reside in a pen under Ms. McCarthy\u2019s raised bed; Theo snoozes in a crate in Ms. Brill\u2019s bedroom. Carl cannot be let loose in the living room, where Theo likes to hang out. \u201cWe\u2019re still very careful because we don\u2019t want there to be an issue with Theo and Carl,\u201d Ms. McCarthy said. \u201cWe\u2019re both very anxious people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"80\" data-total-count=\"843\">And that is exactly why Theo and Carl have permission to live in campus housing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"386\" data-total-count=\"1229\">Like many schools across the country, St. Mary\u2019s, a small, public liberal arts college, is figuring out how to field increasing requests for animals by students\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/05\/us\/four-legged-roommates-help-with-the-stresses-of-campus-life.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=photo-spot-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/05\/us\/four-legged-roommates-help-with-the-stresses-of-campus-life.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=photo-spot-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A C130 bombed and strafed the hospital for nearly 30 minutes<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVXBHNvpTcg\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVXBHNvpTcg<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-heading\"><\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\">U.S. General Says Afghans Requested Airstrike That Hit Kunduz Hospital<\/h1>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"402\" data-total-count=\"402\">The American commander in <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Afghanistan.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/afghanistan\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Afghanistan<\/a>, Gen. John F. Campbell, on Monday responded publicly to criticism over the American airstrike that destroyed a <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More articles about Doctors Without Borders\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/d\/doctors_without_borders\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a> hospital in the city of Kunduz, claiming that Afghan forces had requested the strike while under fire and conceding that the military had incorrectly reported at first that American troops were under direct threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"507\" data-total-count=\"909\">But General Campbell\u2019s comments, in a sudden and brief news conference at the Pentagon, did not clarify the military\u2019s initial claims that the strike, which killed 22 people, had been an accident to begin with. Doctors Without Borders has repeatedly said that there had been <a title=\"Times article\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSF\/status\/650757799119593476\">no fighting around the hospital<\/a>, and that the building was hit over and over by airstrikes on Saturday morning, even though the group had sent the American military the precise coordinates of its hospital so it could be avoided. In the news conference, General Campbell said that Afghan forces had come under fire near the hospital and then called for help. \u201cAn airstrike was then called to eliminate the <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More articles about the Taliban.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/t\/taliban\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Taliban<\/a> threat and several civilians were accidentally struck. This is different from the initial reports which indicated that U.S. forces were threatened and that the airstrike was called on their behalf,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"507\" data-total-count=\"909\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"g-ai3-0\" class=\"g-aiImg ll-init ll-loaded\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/2015\/09\/29\/taliban-afghanistan-updates\/d140e3ac89a942ed398ab9d3ebca6152ba1c9b61\/msf-airstrike-Artboard_10.png\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/newsgraphics\/2015\/09\/29\/taliban-afghanistan-updates\/d140e3ac89a942ed398ab9d3ebca6152ba1c9b61\/msf-airstrike-Artboard_10.png\" data-height-multiplier=\"0.5573\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"147\" data-total-count=\"1451\">For the first time, General Campbell suggested that American Special Forces personnel with the Afghan forces had a role in coordinating the strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"149\" data-total-count=\"1600\">\u201cThe Afghans asked for air support from a Special Forces team that we have on the ground\u201d training and advising Afghan troops in Kunduz, he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"191\" data-total-count=\"1791\">Asked how close the Americans were to the scene of the fighting when the strike was called in, General Campbell refused to answer, repeating that it would \u201ccome out in the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"229\" data-total-count=\"2020\">After the news conference, Doctors Without Borders, which said Sunday that it was <a title=\"Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/05\/world\/asia\/doctors-without-borders-says-it-is-leaving-kunduz-after-strike-on-hospital.html\">pulling its operation out of Kunduz<\/a>, released a statement calling for an independent investigation, and criticizing the shifting American accounts.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-5\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"286\" data-total-count=\"2306\">The American military\u2019s \u201cdescription of the attack keeps changing \u2014 from collateral damage, to a tragic incident, to now attempting to pass responsibility to the Afghanistan government,\u201d said Christopher Stokes, the general director of Doctors Without Borders, in the statement.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-6\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"562\" data-total-count=\"2868\">\u201cThe reality is the U.S. dropped those bombs. The U.S. hit a huge hospital full of wounded patients and M.S.F. staff,\u201d his statement continued, referring to the group by the initials of its French name, M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res. \u201cThe U.S. military remains responsible for the targets it hits, even though it is part of a coalition. There can be no justification for this horrible attack. With such constant discrepancies in the U.S. and Afghan accounts of what happened, the need for a full transparent independent investigation is ever more critical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"507\" data-total-count=\"909\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/06\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-kunduz-doctors-without-borders-hospital.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=photo-spot-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/06\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-kunduz-doctors-without-borders-hospital.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=photo-spot-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"507\" data-total-count=\"909\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/payload151.cargocollective.com\/1\/9\/315213\/5330343\/DWBlogo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"content__headline js-score\">Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth time in four days<\/h1>\n<p>US special operations forces \u2013 not their Afghan allies \u2013 called in the deadly airstrike on the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, the US commander has conceded.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before General John Campbell, the commander of the US and Nato war in Afghanistan, testified to a Senate panel, the president of Doctors Without Borders \u2013 also known as M\u00e9decins sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) \u2013 said the US and <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Afghanistan<\/a> had made an \u201cadmission of a war crime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting the US account of the Saturday morning airstrike for the fourth time in as many days, Campbell reiterated that Afghan forces had requested US air cover after being engaged in a \u201ctenacious fight\u201d to retake the northern city of Kunduz from the Taliban. But, modifying the account he gave <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/oct\/05\/us-general-afghan-forces-called-in-doctors-without-borders-airstrike\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">at a press conference on Monday<\/a>, Campbell said those Afghan forces had not directly communicated with the US pilots of an AC-130 gunship overhead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though the Afghans request that support, it still has to go through a rigorous US procedure to enable fires to go on the ground. We had a special operations unit that was in close vicinity that was talking to the aircraft that delivered those fires,\u201d Campbell told the Senate armed services committee on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The airstrike on the hospital is among the worst and most visible cases of civilian deaths caused by US forces during the 14-year Afghanistan war that Barack Obama has declared all but over. It killed 12 MSF staff and 10 patients, who had sought medical treatment after the <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taliban\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Taliban<\/a> overran Kunduz last weekend. Three children died in the airstrike that came in multiple waves and burned patients alive in their beds.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, MSF denounced Campbell\u2019s press conference as an attempt to shift blame to the Afghans.\u00a0 \u201cThe <a class=\" u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-military\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">US military<\/a> remains responsible for the targets it hits, even though it is part of a coalition,\u201d said its director general, Christopher Stokes.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/oct\/06\/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again?CMP=share_btn_fb\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/oct\/06\/doctors-without-borders-airstrike-afghanistan-us-account-changes-again?CMP=share_btn_fb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img hero\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.thedailybeast.com\/content\/dailybeast\/articles\/2015\/10\/10\/afghan-hospital-attack-s-secret-tapes\/jcr:content\/image.crop.800.500.jpg\/48148172.cached.jpg\" alt=\"epa04961299 An handout provided by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) shows destroyed parts of a hospital in Kunduz after the bombings, Kunduz, Afghanistan, 03 Octoberr 2015. At least nine people are dead and 37 others injured after a suspected US airstrike hit a hospital Saturday in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, the international aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says. 'It is with deep sadness that we confirm so far the death of nine MSF staff during the bombing last night of MSF's hospital in Kunduz,' it says on its Twitter page. EPA\/MSF HANDOUT external media, social media, MSF publications, MSF digital publications EDITORIAL USE ONLY\/NO SALES\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rashid on the Kunduz Hospital War Crime <\/strong>Doctors and nurses of the international medical charity M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res abandoned its bombed hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Sunday after 22 people \u2014 including 12 of its staff and three children \u2014 were killed and 37 seriously wounded by American missiles early on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>It was the only functioning hospital in a city of 300,000 where the Taliban and Afghan government forces have been fighting for control for a week. MSF has called for an independent international inquiry into the bombing.<\/p>\n<p>The attack has created an international scandal, with the US military in the dock at the same time as President Barack Obama has been trying to persuade Russia to target the Islamic militant group Isis in Syria rather than other anti-regime forces and civilian targets. Just hours before the attack, the US and some of its coalition allies, including Britain, had issued a statement condemning Russia for causing civilian casualties in Syria.<br \/>\nThe bombing of a western non-governmental organisation by a western power \u2014 even if it was a tragic mistake \u2014 and the closure of the hospital is certain to persuade other NGOs in Afghanistan to pull out, just when Afghans are facing a massive Taliban offensive and a collapsing economy.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, fighting has now spread across northern and western Afghanistan and it is highly unlikely that medical services \u2014 local or foreign \u2014 will be available to ordinary Afghans in these war zones. Doctors are fleeing their posts, the Taliban have no medical support for their troops while Afghan civilians are heavily dependent on foreign medical NGOs for treating war wounds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahmedrashid.com\/publications\/afganistan\/articles\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.ahmedrashid.com\/publications\/afganistan\/articles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingontheword.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/blood-money-and-the-paranormal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><strong>Pentagon Blood Money for Hospital Attack <\/strong>The United States will make &#8220;condolence payments&#8221; to the wounded victims and the families of 22 people killed in the airstrike against a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, last week, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The amount of the payments has not been determined, Cook said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;If necessary and appropriate, the administration will seek additional authority from the Congress,&#8221; he said, adding that the payments will go to &#8220;civilian non-combatants injured and the families of civilian non-combatants killed as a result of U.S. military operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Earlier this week, U.S. President Barack Obama called and apologized to the head of Doctors Without Borders, whose staff and patients were killed and injured. The attack in the embattled city October 3 killed 12 medical staff members and at least 10 patients, three of them children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Another 37 people were wounded, according to the global charity group, which works in conflict zones to help victims of war and other tragedies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Gen. John Campbell, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, has said the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/05\/asia\/afghanistan-doctors-without-borders-hospital\/\">hospital was hit accidentally<\/a> during an American airstrike. The Pentagon is carrying out an investigation, as are NATO and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The charity group &#8212; which is also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF, and provides medical care in some of the world&#8217;s most dangerous places &#8212; is calling the strike an &#8220;attack on the Geneva Conventions.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/10\/politics\/pentagon-condolence-payments-kunduz\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.cnn.com\/2015\/10\/10\/politics\/pentagon-condolence-payments-kunduz\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taliban-fighters-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taliban-fighters-2.jpg\" alt=\"taliban-fighters-2\" width=\"539\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taliban-fighters-2.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/taliban-fighters-2-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><strong>Taliban seizes 2 more districts in Afghan north<\/strong> The Taliban overran two more districts in northern Afghanistan, this time in the province of Faryab, where the jihadist group made a push to seize the capital just last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban said it seized control of the districts of Garziwan and Pashtun Kot in two separate statements that were released on Voice of Jihad, the group\u2019s official propaganda outlet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMujahideen of Islamic Emirate have managed to completely liberated [sic] Khwaja Musa district [Pashtun Kot] administration center, police HQ building and all the surrounding areas during a large scale operation,\u201d the first statement said. \u201c14 enemy check posts were overrun, forcing the enemy to flee while leaving behind 4 dead bodies and 2 APC wreckages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban later stated that it \u201cliberated [the] Garzewan administration center, police HQ building and all the surrounding buildings around 05:30 pm local time today\u201d after launching an offensive yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s claims were largely confirmed in Afghan press reports.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwarjournal.org\/archives\/2015\/10\/taliban-seize-two-more-districts-in-afghan-north.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.longwarjournal.org\/archives\/2015\/10\/taliban-seize-two-more-districts-in-afghan-north.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/afghanistan_pipeline_map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/afghanistan_pipeline_map.jpg\" alt=\"afghanistan_pipeline_map\" width=\"250\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\">Obama Administration Ends Effort to Train Syrians to Combat ISIS ($500 million for 5 recruits)<\/h1>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"361\" data-total-count=\"361\">The Obama administration on Friday abandoned its efforts to build up a new rebel force inside <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Syria.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/syria\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Syria<\/a> to combat the Islamic State, acknowledging the failure of its $500 million campaign to train thousands of fighters and announcing that it will instead use the money to provide ammunition and some weapons for groups already engaged in the battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"414\" data-total-count=\"775\">Defense Department training sites across the Middle East, including ones in Turkey and Jordan, will soon suspend almost all operations, officials said, in favor of a revamped program that briefly screens Arab rebel commanders of existing Syrian units before equipping them with much-needed ammunition and, potentially, small arms. Initial airdrops of equipment could begin as early as this weekend, officials said.\u00a0 The decision to scuttle a central piece of President Obama\u2019s strategy for confronting extremists in Syria was made after mounting evidence that the training mission had resulted in no more than a handful of American-coached fighters. And it comes amid Russia\u2019s forceful <a title=\"NY Times article.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/02\/world\/middleeast\/vladimir-putin-plunges-into-a-cauldron-saving-assad.html?_r=0\">entry into the Syrian conflict<\/a>, a move by President Vladimir V. Putin that has highlighted the lack of progress by the United States and its coalition.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/10\/world\/middleeast\/pentagon-program-islamic-state-syria.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/10\/world\/middleeast\/pentagon-program-islamic-state-syria.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ObamaMask.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ObamaMask.png\" alt=\"ObamaMask\" width=\"415\" height=\"555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ObamaMask.png 415w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ObamaMask-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><strong>In Putin&#8217;s military escalation in Syria, one clear loser: Obama <\/strong>The outcome of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s bold military gamble in Syria is far from clear, but in the short term, one loser seems certain: President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin raised the stakes Wednesday by firing cruise missiles into Syria from warships nearly 1,000 miles away as Obama&#8217;s critics at home and abroad said Putin&#8217;s escalating attempt to bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad already has made the White House look weak and wavering.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has been poised for weeks to quietly shift more U.S. military support to seasoned Kurdish militias and other rebel fighters in northern Syria. But at this point, any change in policy will appear to be in response to Putin&#8217;s muscular moves, not a new initiative to help solve the multi-sided conflict.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\" voices-title\">Syria\u2019s \u2018moderates\u2019 have disappeared&#8230; and there are no good guys: Fisk<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/dam\/assets\/140615125244-isis-0615-horizontal-gallery.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Russian air force in Syria has flown straight into the West\u2019s fantasy air space. The Russians, we are now informed, are bombing the \u201cmoderates\u201d in Syria \u2013 \u201cmoderates\u201d whom even the Americans admitted two months ago, no longer existed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rather like the Isis fighters who left Europe to fight for the \u201cCaliphate\u201d.Remember them? Scarcely two months ago, our political leaders \u2013 and leader writers \u2013 were warning us all of the enormous danger posed by \u201chome-grown\u201d Islamists who were leaving Britain and other European countries and America to fight for the monsters of Isis. Then the hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees began trekking up the Balkans towards Europe after risking death in the Mediterranean \u2013 and we were all told by the same political leaders to be fearful that Isis killers were among them.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how European Muslim fighters fly to Turkey to join Isis, and a few weeks later, they\u2019re drowning in leaky boats or tramping back again and taking trains from Hungary to Germany. But if this nonsense was true, where did they get the time for all the terrorist training they need in order to attack us when they get back to Europe?<\/p>\n<p>It is possible, of course, that this was mere storytelling. By contrast, the chorus of horror that has accompanied Russia\u2019s cruel air strikes this past week has gone beyond sanity.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with a reality check. The Russian military are killers who go for the jugular. They slaughtered the innocent of Chechnya to crush the Islamist uprising there, and they will cut down the innocent of Syria as they try to crush a new army of Islamists and save the ruthless regime of Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian army, some of whose members are war criminals, have struggled ferociously to preserve the state \u2013 and used barrel bombs to do it. They have also fought to the death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican officials\u201d \u2013 those creatures beloved of The New York Times \u2013 claim that the Syrian army does not fight Isis. If true, who on earth killed the 56,000 Syrian soldiers \u2013 the statistic an official secret, but nonetheless true \u2013 who have so far died in the Syrian war? The preposterous Free Syrian Army (FSA)?<\/p>\n<p>This rubbish has reached its crescendo in the on-again off-again saga of the Syrian \u201cmoderates\u201d. \u00a0These men were originally military defectors to the FSA, which America and European countries regarded as a possible pro-Western force to be used against the Syrian government army. But the FSA fell to pieces, corrupted, and the \u201cmoderates\u201d defected all over again, this time to the Islamist Nusrah Front or to Isis, selling their American-supplied weapons to the highest bidder or merely retiring quietly \u2013 and wisely \u2013 to the countryside where they maintained a few scattered checkpoints.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dnd-widget-wrapper context-sdl_editor_representation type-image\">\n<div class=\"dnd-atom-rendered\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Assad.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/story_medium\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2015\/10\/04\/19\/Assad.jpg\" alt=\"Assad.jpg\" width=\"564\" height=\"423\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/syria-s-moderates-have-disappeared-and-there-are-no-good-guys-a6679406.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/syria-s-moderates-have-disappeared-and-there-are-no-good-guys-a6679406.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chinese Frigate Stalking U.S. Navy Warship in South China Sea\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BFT1rsmRM_8?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>US naval manoeuvres in South China Sea risk clash with Beijing <\/strong>Officials in Beijing have expressed concern after the United States signalled it was poised to up the ante in the South China Sea by sending warships through waters claimed by China.<\/p>\n<p>American navy vessels are preparing to sail through a 12-nautical mile zone around the disputed Spratly islands that China claims as its own territory, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing a senior US official.<\/p>\n<p>Those manoeuvres are expected to begin over the next two weeks, the newspaper added.<\/p>\n<p>Hua Chunying, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, said: \u201cWe hope the United States can look upon the current situation of the South China Sea from an objective and fair perspective and play a constructive role together with China in keeping the peace and stability in the South China Sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the US side is extremely clear about China\u2019s relevant principled stance,\u201d Hua added.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier report in Foreign Policy, which cited an anonymous defence official, claimed Washington was now determined to put on a \u201cshow of military might\u201d in the South China Sea.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/oct\/09\/us-naval-manoeuvres-in-south-china-sea-risk-clash-with-beijing\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/oct\/09\/us-naval-manoeuvres-in-south-china-sea-risk-clash-with-beijing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/kingcluthkenar.weebly.com\/uploads\/1\/5\/7\/2\/15728016\/9096137_orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rouge Keynoter Paul Street:<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class<\/h1>\n<p>Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and system-conscious deep-state and imperial planners from the heights of concentrated private and governmental power join together to shape the outlines of much of recent history. Along with professional class \u201cexperts\u201d agreeable to their basic aims, they do so in accord with their shared interests in the endless upward accumulation of wealth and power. They serve the profits system that is still headquartered primarily in the United States even as it develops ever more and varied outposts across a globalizing world.<\/p>\n<p>They exercise vastly disproportionate influence on the course of events and policy largely behind the scenes, in the darkly deceptive name of democracy. But it isn\u2019t about conspiracy. The planners in question are numerous. Their names, activities, and backgrounds and the record of their influence are all open to investigation by those with the time, skill, energy, and willingness to make the connections.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about class power and the unelected and interrelated dictatorships of money, wealth, and empire that rule beneath and beyond the pretense of popular governance. (\u201cWe must make our choice,\u201d the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1941: \u201cWe may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.\u201d) It\u2019s about capitalism and its evil twin imperialism, with strong doses of racism, patriarchy, nationalism, police-statism, and eco-cide thrown in. It\u2019s about what Karl Marx called \u201cthe bourgeoisie\u2019s\u2026need of a constantly expanding market \u2026over the whole surface of the globe.\u201d \u201cCapital,\u201d the German left Marxist Rosa Luxemburg once observed, \u201cneeds the means of production and the labor power of the whole world for untrammeled accumulation.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/10\/06\/yes-there-is-an-imperialist-ruling-class\/print\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/10\/06\/yes-there-is-an-imperialist-ruling-class\/print\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"shrinkToFit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maccullochhall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Brains_Thomas-Nast_Engraving_Harper%E2%80%99s-Weekly-Oct.-21-1871_Collection-of-Macculloch-Hall-Historical-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.maccullochhall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/The-Brains_Thomas-Nast_Engraving_Harper%E2%80%99s-Weekly-Oct.-21-1871_Collection-of-Macculloch-Hall-Historical-Museum.jpg\" width=\"651\" height=\"686\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House. <\/strong>They are overwhelmingly white, rich, older and male, in a nation that is being remade by the young, by women, and by black and brown voters. Across a sprawling country, they reside in an archipelago of wealth, exclusive neighborhoods dotting a handful of cities and towns. And in an economy that has minted billionaires in a dizzying array of industries, most made their fortunes in just two: finance and energy.<\/p>\n<p>Now they are deploying their vast wealth in the political arena, providing almost half of all the seed money raised to support Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. Just 158 families, along with companies they own or control, contributed $176 million in the first phase of the campaign, a New York Times investigation found. Not since before Watergate have so few people and businesses provided so much early money in a campaign, most of it through channels legalized by the Supreme Court\u2019s Citizens United decision five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>These donors\u2019 fortunes reflect the shifting composition of the country\u2019s economic elite. Relatively few work in the traditional ranks of corporate America, or hail from dynasties of inherited wealth. Most built their own businesses, parlaying talent and an appetite for risk into huge wealth: They founded hedge funds in New York, bought up undervalued oil leases in Texas, made blockbusters in Hollywood. More than a dozen of the elite donors were born outside the United States, immigrating from countries like Cuba, the old Soviet Union, Pakistan, India and Israel.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html?emc=edit_na_20151010&#038;nlid=5100421&#038;ref=cta&#038;_r=0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html?emc=edit_na_20151010&#038;nlid=5100421&#038;ref=cta&#038;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Companion pieces on the Depression, 1929<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7EPTCm9RVRM\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7EPTCm9RVRM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lewis Corey&#8217;s book, &#8220;Decline of American Capitalism&#8221; is free online &#8220;<\/strong>..One aspect of the American crisis arose out of the depression and the efforts to overcome it. While ballyhoo promises a new and everlasting prosperity, a new world, millions hope merely for a job, any sort of job; for an income, any sort of income to ward off charity. Millions must accept charity, whether direct or in the form of \u201crelief work.\u201d The mobilization of government to \u201cwar upon depression\u201d aroused hopes which were meagrely realized.<\/p>\n<p>Another and more fundamental aspect of the crisis involves the decline of American capitalism. It is a crisis of the economic order itself. This is evident in the inability to restore prosperity on any substantial scale. The future is one of incomplete recovery: of economic decline, mass disemployment (including millions in clerical and professional occupations), lower standards of living, and war. Every depression is in a sense a crisis of capitalism. But this depression represents the development of a fundamental, permanent crisis in the economic and social relations of American capitalism. Only a deep-going crisis could force government and industry to adopt measures which were formerly condemned as opposed to economic progress. The intervention of government in industry is, of course, nothing new: the development of capitalism has been accompanied by growing government aid to industry. But such aid was limited in scope. It was, economically, an expression of the upswing of capitalism, of the necessity of government action to \u201cregulate\u201d the developing relations of trustified capitalism. But to-day government intervention is on an unprecedented scale. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/corey\/1934\/decline\/intro1.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.marxists.org\/archive\/corey\/1934\/decline\/intro1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PBS Video focuses on Detroit in the Depression (link below won&#8217;t fire)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IQ_lizW5zSI\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IQ_lizW5zSI<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline\">Pension checks to be cut in half for Teamsters retirees<\/h1>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_29_shKT4Elw\/TRFDor4tgeI\/AAAAAAAALS0\/tASc0SXBuuQ\/s1600\/small_jimmy%252520hoffa%252520finger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Retired truck driver\u00a0Jerry Deaton, 69, says every time he\u00a0received his monthly Teamsters pension check, he would get\u00a0the chills and worry how much money he could lose in the future given all the rumors.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, he got the answer he dreaded:\u00a0His\u00a0pension could be\u00a0slashed\u00a0by roughly\u00a0half.<\/p>\n<p>His $2,700 a month pension is targeted to be cut\u00a0to\u00a0around $1,317 a month as of July 1, 2016, as part of a massive proposed rescue\u00a0of the troubled Teamsters Central States Pension Fund.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t leave you with much options,&#8221; said Deaton, who lives in Osseo in Hillsdale County. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be 70 years old in December. Who&#8217;s going to hire a 70-year-old truck driver?&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/money\/personal-finance\/susan-tompor\/2015\/10\/07\/teamsters-pension-cuts-central-states\/73515432\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.freep.com\/story\/money\/personal-finance\/susan-tompor\/2015\/10\/07\/teamsters-pension-cuts-central-states\/73515432\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \"><strong>Two out of three Americans have $1,000 or less in their savings account, if they have one at all,<\/strong> a new survey shows. While young people tend to be broke, older Americans and those in higher income brackets are more likely to have substantial savings.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>The sobering numbers come from the Google Consumer Survey commissioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gobankingrates.com\/savings-account\/62-percent-americans-under-1000-savings-survey-finds\/\">GoBankingRates<\/a>, conducted in September from a representative sample of 5,006 respondents.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s worrisome that such a large percentage of Americans have so little set aside in a savings account,\u201d<\/em> says Cameron Huddleston, a personal finance columnist for GoBankingRates. <em>\u201cThey likely don\u2019t have cash reserves to cover an emergency and will have to rely on credit, friends and family, or even their retirement accounts to cover unexpected expenses.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/318027-us-savings-low-nonexistent\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.rt.com\/usa\/318027-us-savings-low-nonexistent\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"article__heading\">Most Americans have less than $1,000 in savings, 1 in 5 have none \u2013 survey<\/h1>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"u-block TwitterCardsGrid-el--fullWidth\" src=\"https:\/\/o.twimg.com\/2\/proxy.jpg?t=HBhLaHR0cDovL2Nkbi5nb2JhbmtpbmdyYXRlcy5jb20vd3AtY29udGVudC91cGxvYWRzLzIwMTUvMTAvb3ZlcnZpZXctZ3JhcGguanBnFJIMFKwGHBSEBhSUAwAAFgASAA&amp;s=FRYzr70zGxcIh1bAzx5ASrtJJrfQazSIGV_s40FO4Rg\" alt=\"Photo published for 62% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings, Survey Finds | GOBankingRates\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>VA spent $6.3 million on sculptures and fountains for their hospitals<\/h1>\n<p>There\u2019s a $483,000 rock sculpture that\u2019s layered into cubes outside the mental health center at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., that\u2019s meant to evoke \u201ca sense of transformation, rebuilding and self-investigation,\u201d according to designers. It\u2019s part of a renovated $1.3 million courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an art installation on the side of a parking garage that displays quotes by Abraham Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt in Morse code, at a cost of $285,000. It lights up.\u00a0 Altogether, VA Palo Alto Health Care System has spent at least $6.3 million on art and consulting services. The costs come to $4,190,356 at the Palo Alto Medical Center, $1,879,521 at the Monterey Health Care Center and $280,000 in other budgeted projects.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/wp\/2015\/10\/09\/the-va-spent-6-3-million-on-sculptures-and-fountains-for-their-hospitals-should-they-have\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/wp\/2015\/10\/09\/the-va-spent-6-3-million-on-sculptures-and-fountains-for-their-hospitals-should-they-have\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Emergence of Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2015\/10\/04\/7f97186c-7b7e-4fef-b3e0-82d69d69e6d6\/thumbnail\/770x430\/5d6bf9d9899c6df20543d4e0bc186ff6\/otfatherdesbois.jpg\" alt=\"otfatherdesbois.jpg\" width=\"770\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>above, Nazi and ISIS death squads<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"trb_embed_imageContainer_img\" title=\"Price of happiness keeps rising\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-56134801\/turbine\/la-fi-g-disney-prices-10062015\/600\/600x338\" alt=\"Price of happiness keeps rising\" data-height=\"350\" data-width=\"600\" data-ratio=\"16x9\" data-baseurl=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-56134801\/turbine\/la-fi-g-disney-prices-10062015\" data-content-naturalwidth=\"1300\" data-content-naturalheight=\"730\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My City of Ruins-Detroit, Michigan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xv4ZPYLBh24?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<h1 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\">Israeli Soldiers Kill 6 Palestinians in Gaza as West Bank Unrest Grows<\/h1>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"295\" data-total-count=\"295\">Israeli soldiers killed six young <a title=\"More articles about Palestinians.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/p\/palestinians\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Palestinians<\/a> on Friday in the <a title=\"More news and information about the Gaza Strip.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/gaza_strip\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Gaza Strip<\/a>, including a 15-year-old boy, as they opened fire to quell crowds that hurled rocks and rolled burning tires close to the fence separating <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about the Gaza Strip.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/gaza_strip\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Gaza<\/a> from Israel, Israeli military and Gaza health officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"272\" data-total-count=\"567\">The deadly clash came as the roiling violence and unrest of the past week continued across Israel and the occupied West Bank; there were four more stabbing attacks, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/10\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-officials-struggle-to-contain-spate-of-violent-attacks.html\">the first by a Jewish Israeli against Arabs<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/10\/world\/middleeast\/israel-palestinian-protests.html\">unruly demonstrations that raged into the night<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/10\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-soldiers-kill-6-palestinians-in-gaza-as-west-bank-unrest-grows.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/10\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-soldiers-kill-6-palestinians-in-gaza-as-west-bank-unrest-grows.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MB-pz-aFbgw\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MB-pz-aFbgw<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"272\" data-total-count=\"567\"><strong>As leftists began to march against Turkey&#8217;s regime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.reutersmedia.net\/resources\/r\/?m=02&amp;d=20151010&amp;t=2&amp;i=1085963013&amp;w=644&amp;fh=&amp;fw=&amp;ll=&amp;pl=&amp;sq=&amp;r=LYNXNPEB9905P\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solidarity for Never<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/niklasredefined.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/being-betrayed1.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/niklasredefined.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/being-betrayed1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEA boss who rammed through NEA&#8217;s support for Hillbillary had different ideas back in the day <\/strong>A few days ago, Eskelsen responded to a question about Clinton from a Salt Lake Tribune reporter by saying that \u201cthe president should resign. How can this man ever be believed again? This goes beyond party politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eskelsen is challenging first-term incumbent Merrill Cook, who is believed to be one of the GOP\u2019s most vulnerable House members. Eskelsen\u2019s press secretary, Megan Sather, said this week that Eskelsen felt strongly that as a mother and a teacher who believes part of her job is to teach \u201crespect, responsibility and reason,\u201d she had to call on the president to resign.<\/p>\n<p>On October 25, the Deseret News asked her if the President should resign, and she replied: \u201cIf the president truly wants to put this situation behind the country and move on, he should resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, a reporter from Brigham Young University described the opening of the final debate between Eskelsen and Cook:<\/p>\n<p>Cook began the debate reaffirming his position on the possibility of an impeachment hearing against President Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat our president has done is indefensible,\u201d he said. \u201cHis actions have been against the constitution and he should be punished accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eskelsen agreed, reminding voters that she was the first Democrat to ask President Clinton to resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t pre-judge President Clinton without seeing the evidence, but I think it would be honorable for him to step down,\u201d Eskelsen said.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiaonline.com\/2015\/10\/05\/lilys-mea-culpa\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.eiaonline.com\/2015\/10\/05\/lilys-mea-culpa\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We Never Give Up on our Kids: Lily Eskelsen Garc\u00eda\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yeSAsHsPIvk?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>NEA members $ to Hillbillary\u00a0 <\/strong>If you want to entertain yourself with even more reactions to NEA\u2019s endorsement of Hillary Clinton, head over to its Facebook page, which at last count had 874 comments \u2013 almost all of them negative.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to clarify what the union is intent on obfuscating. Even NEA directors are telling members, \u201cYour dues do not support this. All campaign expenditures come out of the NEA Fund, not membership dues, two separate entities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>THIS IS NOT TRUE.<\/p>\n<p>PAC funds are collected through voluntary donations, the bulk of which are made by NEA delegates during the four-day annual convention. That money is separate from the union\u2019s general fund and is spent on direct contributions to federal candidates. Because of the votes this weekend, during the primaries money from this fund will go to Clinton\u2019s campaign and no other. If you made no PAC donation, no money of yours goes directly to the Clinton campaign treasury.<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, anyone with even the smallest knowledge of campaign finance knows that direct contributions to candidates are only a very small portion of campaign expenditures. NEA\u2019s SuperPAC, member communications, independent expenditures and media buys that are not coordinated with the Clinton campaign ALL COME FROM MEMBERSHIP DUES MONEY.<\/p>\n<p>NEA isn\u2019t worried about whether you are a Sanders supporter, or how you will vote in the primaries, or even if you are a Republican, Green, Libertarian or Communist. The votes over the weekend authorize the union to spend the money from ALL MEMBERS to promote Clinton\u2019s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t have to take my word for it. <a href=\"http:\/\/OpenSecrets.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">OpenSecrets.org<\/a> has NEA\u2019s PAC finances by two-year cycle since 1990. The most the PAC has ever raised through voluntary contributions in a cycle is about $7 million. In the 2014 cycle, NEA\u2019s SuperPAC alone raised and spent about $21 million.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiaonline.com\/intercepts\/2015\/10\/05\/why-the-long-facebook\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.eiaonline.com\/intercepts\/2015\/10\/05\/why-the-long-facebook\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Spy versus Spy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/labusca.radioalmaina.org\/files\/2012\/07\/SDS-Weathermen-marching-in-Chicago-during-the-Days-of-Rage-October-11-1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix _5x46\"><em><strong>\u00a0October 8, 1969, the Weathermen the motley collection of police agents, red-diaper babies,and children of the rich launched the Days of Rage in Chicago. Led by Bill Ayers<\/strong><\/em>, son of the Con Ed boss, they furthered their wreckage of the Students for a Democratic Society, after destroying the mailing list, when less than 100 of them (after projecting thousands and thousands) ran through the streets of Chicago breaking windows, attacking civilians and driving away many youth who wanted to build a class conscious anti-war movement. Ayers continued in this vein. Once a terrorist with bombs, trying to blow up a dance of young officers and their dates, he became a grant seeking liberal, living off Annenberg grants, promoting the false scent of &#8220;small schools&#8221; within the capitalist school system designed to preserve the empire, segregation, and obedience.<\/div>\n<p><strong>US spy agencies were &#8216;caught off-guard&#8217; by Putin&#8217;s sudden dramatic escalation in Syria<\/strong> Senior US lawmakers have begun probing possible intelligence lapses over Moscow\u2019s intervention in Syria, concerned that American spy agencies were slow to grasp the scope and intention of Russia\u2019s dramatic military offensive there, US congressional sources and other officials told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>A week after Russia plunged directly into Syria\u2019s civil war by launching a campaign of air strikes, the intelligence committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives want to examine the extent to which the spy community overlooked or misjudged critical warning signs, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Findings of major blind spots would mark the latest of several US intelligence misses in recent years, including Moscow\u2019s surprise takeover of Ukraine\u2019s Crimea region last year and China\u2019s rapid expansion of island-building activities in the South China Sea.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/russia-syria-us-intelligence-off-guard-putin-obama-2015-10\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.businessinsider.com\/russia-syria-us-intelligence-off-guard-putin-obama-2015-10<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anti-christ-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/anti-christ-3.jpeg\" alt=\"anti christ 3\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Pope Francis Clarifies That God Just One Of Many Immortal Beings Who Speak To Him Every Day<\/h1>\n<p>Explaining how he rarely goes more than an hour or two without hearing from one of them or another, Pope Francis revealed to reporters Tuesday that God is just one of many immortal beings who speak to him on a daily basis. \u201cGod is always there to listen to my prayers and provide spiritual guidance, but on any given day, there are maybe 15 or 20 other undying entities from beyond our world\u2014Anubis, Quetzalcoatl, Freyja, you name it\u2014who get in touch with me,\u201d said the bishop of Rome, adding that, over the course of a month, he communicates with hundreds of various deities, spirits, numina, naiads, dryads, and wraiths who come bearing some kind of important message or just check in to see how he\u2019s doing. \u201cSure, in my day-to-day job I serve as an earthly liaison for the Lord Our God. But to be honest, I don\u2019t talk to Him nearly as much as I do Hanuman or Nerrivik the Sea-Mother.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline\">St. Thomas More ex-parish manager pleads guilty to theft<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand-img-vertical\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/10d330ec5257309931739b9eb990b8f817e7f7ab\/c=12-0-372-480&amp;r=537&amp;c=0-0-534-712\/local\/-\/media\/2015\/09\/01\/DetroitFreePress\/DetroitFreePress\/635767003736001602-635761858910482190-p-1-1-TKBO3VQT-L665362467.JPG\" alt=\"635767003736001602-635761858910482190-p-1-1-TKBO3VQT-L665362467\" data-mycapture-src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2015\/09\/01\/DetroitFreePress\/DetroitFreePress\/635767003736001602-635761858910482190-p-1-1-TKBO3VQT-L665362467.JPG\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/c8d0da1902572f66ef9a261b438c490f3cbd7735\/r=320x400\/local\/-\/media\/2015\/09\/01\/DetroitFreePress\/DetroitFreePress\/635767003736001602-635761858910482190-p-1-1-TKBO3VQT-L665362467.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Janice Verschuren, the former\u00a0manager of St. Thomas More parish who was embroiled in a theft scandal with its Catholic pastor, pleaded guilty\u00a0Tuesday to stealing $25,982 from the Troy parish by\u00a0illegally including her ex-husband on the parish&#8217;s health insurance plan.<\/p>\n<p>Verschuren also will be required to repay that amount to St. Thomas More as part of a plea deal she made Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow.<\/p>\n<p>From about 2007 to 2010, Verschuren said she &#8220;knowingly failed to disclose or notify St. Thomas More&#8221; that her divorced husband was ineligible to be included on her health insurance &#8220;which was subsidized by the parish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know it was illegal?&#8221; Tarnow asked Verschuren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; said Verschuren, &#8220;I accept responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of theft in connection with health care, which could carry a maximum 1 year prison sentence. But Tarnow told her sentencing guidelines in her case means she could spend no time in prison or up to 6 months. Sentencing was scheduled for Oct. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Verschuren and the church\u2019s onetime pastor, the Rev. Edward Belczak,\u00a0originally had\u00a0been charged with several counts related to theft and fraud involving several thousands of dollars from St. Thomas More parish. The financial irregularities came to light in January 2013, when the Archdiocese of Detroit removed Belczak as the parish&#8217;s pastor. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/oakland\/2015\/10\/06\/st-thomas-more-ex-parish-manager-pleads-guilty-theft\/73440240\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/oakland\/2015\/10\/06\/st-thomas-more-ex-parish-manager-pleads-guilty-theft\/73440240\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Best and Worst Things in the History of the World<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ljVVFKjN0Dc\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ljVVFKjN0Dc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>So Long<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 9th, 1967<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Che Guevara&#039;s Last Moments and Death\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0vHvHmoioE?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Joe Royal - To love somebody\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FCTCiSr2UB4?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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/10\/09\/arts\/09zappa-obit\/09zappa-obit-facebookJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0We Say Fight Back! History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. ~Voltaire JOBS!!!! Simon Fraser www.sfu.ca\/education\/work-with-us.html Jobs!!! Lone Star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestar.edu\/21568.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.lonestar.edu\/21568.htm<\/a> C. Wright Mills: &#8220;Letter to the New Left (1960) They tell us, for example, that ordinary men can\u2019t always be political \u201cheroes.\u201d Who said they could? 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