{"id":19361,"date":"2016-04-02T22:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T06:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2016-04-02T23:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T07:50:59","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-calgary-conference-special-mayday-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-calgary-conference-special-mayday-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Calgary Conference Special&#8211;Mayday Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pen-gun-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19376\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19376\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pen-gun-2.jpg\" alt=\"pen gun 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pen-gun-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pen-gun-2-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><strong>Rouge Forum Conference 2016: Teaching for Democracy and Justice in an Age of Inequality<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><strong><span class=\"style15\">May 27-28, 2016<\/span><br \/>\nSt. Mary&#8217;s University<br \/>\nCalgary, Canada <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rougeforum.org\/Proposals2016.pdf\">Call for Proposals <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rougeforum.org\/Proposals2016.pdf\">due April 14, 2016<\/a><\/h2>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"281.78266235294114\">This year\u2019s Rouge Forum is dedicated to the overarching question of how we engage our students or communities in<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"32.98778294117647\">important issues and work necessary to foster a more just<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"10.799620326797386\">and democratic world. We look to bring scholars, teachers, and community members with varied experiences,\u00a0 perspectives, and approaches in order to contribute to the larger conversation with the conference attendees.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rougeforum.org\/Proposals2016.pdf\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.rougeforum.org\/Proposals2016.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSXVV_KmXIpioaae3Xz0yNWOC8Kxxlu8coFIiM6tLtWrsSuJlhK\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"France- Protest in support of 35 hour working week\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WPc6UexRHWc?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>Hundreds of thousands of workers and high-school students joined protest marches across France on Wednesday to challenge plans to loosen the country&#8217;s protective labor laws that unions say favor businesses.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The day of protest &#8212; which led to scores of arrests as youths and police clashed in Paris, Lyon and Nantes &#8212; marked the fourth such test of strength in a month for President Francois Hollande.<\/p>\n<p>He has been plagued by low popularity and a jobless rate that is stuck stubbornly above 10 percent little more than a year before a presidential election.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-france-protests-idUSKCN0WX1EE\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.reuters.com\/article\/us-france-protests-idUSKCN0WX1EE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.oregonlive.com\/home\/olive-media\/width960\/img\/oregonian\/photo\/2016\/03\/31\/-e67c13f15e87b9d4.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Portland State University students, supporters shut down trustees meeting<\/h1>\n<p>Portland State University students and supporters shut down the school&#8217;s governing board meeting Thursday before trustees could vote on a 4 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduates.<\/p>\n<p>After the disruption, the trustees moved to a basement conference room across campus and ultimately approved the tuition increase, anyway. The new location, an emergency communications conference room, was in an unmarked room in the basement of the school&#8217;s engineering building.<\/p>\n<p>The tuition increase amounts to roughly $303 more per year for Oregon residents. For non-Oregonians attending PSU, the 3.5 percent increase represents an $843 yearly increase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is, frankly, pushing it beyond where I&#8217;m comfortable with,&#8221; President Wim Wiewel said when explaining the tuition increase to the trustees before the vote.<\/p>\n<p>But as with other Oregon universities, the PSU board faces looming pension-fund obligations that will hit its balance sheet next year. While PSU and other schools received more state funding in the 2015-17 biennium, &#8220;our costs are likely to increase by $15 million&#8221; next year, leaving a $5.6 million shortfall.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/education\/index.ssf\/2016\/03\/portland_state_university_stud_4.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.oregonlive.com\/education\/index.ssf\/2016\/03\/portland_state_university_stud_4.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qnc6Kt-7vjc\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qnc6Kt-7vjc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.sdreader.com\/img\/photos\/2015\/02\/03\/RADAR-maryeannefox_t658.jpg?ff95ca2b4c25d2d6ff3bfb257febf11d604414e5\" alt=\"Marye Anne Fox\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"h717840-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\"><strong>An ex\u2013University of California chancellor and UCSD chemistry professor who made a gross annual state salary of $212,711 in 2014 has surrendered another lucrative corporate board seat in the world of private education.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"h717840-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;On March 17, 2016, Dr. Marye Anne Fox resigned from the Board of Directors of Bridgepoint Education, Inc., effective immediately,&#8221; says a notice filed by the San Diego\u2013based company with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h717840-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;Dr. Fox&#8217;s decision to resign from the Board was for personal reasons not related to any disagreement with the Company relating to the Company&#8217;s operations, policies or practices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"h717840-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The former UCSD chancellor&#8217;s exit follows by less than a month the March 1 resignation by current UC Davis chancellor Linda Katehi from the board of for-profit college company DeVry Education Group; a week earlier she had accepted the $70,000-a-year position.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h717840-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The ensuing controversy over Katehi&#8217;s private-sector involvement, including her receipt of $420,000 during a board gig for publisher Wiley &amp; Sons, drew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/investigations\/the-public-eye\/article63917982.html\">calls for reform<\/a> by state legislators, including San Diego state senator Marty Block.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h717840-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">&#8220;It\u2019s become apparent in the last 24 hours that some of the CEOs of these campuses have more than one job and make a lot of money in other places,\u201d Block said.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/24\/ticker-fox-tip-toes-out-bridgepoints-hen-house\/#\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2016\/mar\/24\/ticker-fox-tip-toes-out-bridgepoints-hen-house\/#<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline entry-title\">Audit shows UC admission standards relaxed for out-of-staters<\/h1>\n<p>The University of California has been admitting thousands of students from out of state with lower grades and test scores than state residents as a way to raise cash, a state audit released Tuesday reveals.<\/p>\n<p>In the last three years, nearly 16,000 nonresident undergraduates \u2014 about 29 percent of those admitted \u2014 have won spots at the coveted public university with grade-point averages and scores below the median of admitted Californians, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auditor.ca.gov\/pdfs\/reports\/2015-107.pdf\">116-page audit<\/a>. The report criticizes university practices it says undermine state residents\u2019 access to UC in favor of nonresidents, who pay about three times the basic tuition and fees of in-state students: $38,108 versus $13,400.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s Master Plan for Higher Education says UC should admit only nonresidents who are at least as qualified as the \u201cupper half of residents who are eligible for admission,\u201d according to the report from State Auditor Elaine Howle.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2011, UC changed that threshold so that nonresidents only had to \u201ccompare favorably\u201d with residents, the audit notes.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Audit-shows-UC-admission-standards-relaxed-for-7215364.php\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Audit-shows-UC-admission-standards-relaxed-for-7215364.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"permalinkable\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"sfgate-photo-9724682\" src=\"http:\/\/ww3.hdnux.com\/photos\/45\/06\/14\/9724682\/3\/920x1240.jpg\" alt=\"The University of California Admitted Nearly 16,000 Nonresident Undergraduates Over the Past Three Academic Years With Grade Point Averages and Scores on All Tests That Fell Below the Median of Admitted Residents Photo: CA State Auditor Report\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Over 10 % of UK libraries are currently under threat \u2013<\/strong> over <a href=\"http:\/\/publiclibrariesnews.blogspot.com\/\">500 out of a total UK public library provision of just over 4500<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Library closures and cutbacks are determined by the local authority, but may be influenced by spending\/funding restrictions imposed on them by central government.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0The duty of a local council to provide a\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.voicesforthelibrary.org.uk\/?page_id=1347\">comprehensive and efficient<\/a> library service\u201d is a legal obligation under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/1964\/75\">1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act<\/a>. The Act also prohibits charging for book loans.<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0Some councils are suggesting that library services can be run by volunteers. This takes no account of the professional and ethical standards to which professional librarians must adhere,\u00a0including data protection.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voicesforthelibrary.org.uk\/campaigns\/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-library-closurescampaigns\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.voicesforthelibrary.org.uk\/campaigns\/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-library-closurescampaigns\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corruption endemic in capitalist schools: <\/strong>Detroit Public Schools\u2019 new emergency manager announced sweeping policy changes Tuesday to combat fraud in the wake of felony bribery charges against 13 current and former DPS employees and one vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen people \u2014 including 12 current and former principals \u2014 were charged Tuesday in a nearly $1 million bribery and kickback scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Manager Steven Rhodes, installed by the state March 1 to run DPS, placed current staffers on unpaid leave and suspended business with the vendor charged in the case. He also suspended all purchases by individual schools until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes said the alleged actions of the individuals charged are reprehensible and represent a breach of the public trust that has deprived DPS students of more than $2.7 million in resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot overstate the outrage that I feel about the conduct that these DPS employees engaged in that led to these charges,\u201d said Rhodes, a retired federal judge who oversaw Detroit\u2019s bankruptcy. \u201cAnd I am sure that this sense of outrage is shared by the other dedicated and committed DPS employees, as well as DPS parents and everyone who is interested in the future success of DPS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/capitalist-school.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19397\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/capitalist-school.jpg\" alt=\"capitalist school\" width=\"486\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/capitalist-school.jpg 486w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/capitalist-school-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Also charged in the case are:<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Tanya Bowman, 48, of Novi, former principal of Osborn Collegiate Academy.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Nina Graves-Hicks, 52, of Detroit, former principal of Davis Aerospace Tech High.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Josette Buendia, 50, of Garden City, principal of Bennett Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0James Hearn, 50, of West Bloomfield Township, principal of Marcus Garvey Academy.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Beverly Campbell, 66, of Southfield, former principal at Rosa Parks School and Greenfield Union Elementary-Middle School.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Gerlma Johnson, 56, of Detroit, former principal at Drew Academy and Earhart Elementary-Middle School.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Stanley Johnson, 62, of Southfield, principal of Hutchinson Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Tia\u2019Von Moore-Patton, 46, of Farmington Hills, principal at Jerry L. White Center High School.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Willye Pearsall, 65, of Warren, former principal at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Ronnie Sims, 55, of Albion, former principal of Fleming Elementary and Brenda Scott Middle School.<\/p>\n<p>\u25a0Clara Smith, 67, Southfield, principal at Thirkell Elementary.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">550 teachers now needed in the UAE<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"adaptive img-responsive\" title=\"550 teachers now needed in the UAE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teachaway.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/adaptive\/public\/public_schools_private_schoolsin_abu_dhabi_14.png?itok=zea0fJ-1\" alt=\"550 teachers now needed in the UAE\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The number of English, mathematics, business studies, physics, chemistry, and biology vacancies has been upped to approximately <em><strong>550<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>More openings doesn\u2019t mean you have longer to apply, though! Interview spots are filling rapidly and UK dates are coming up in just over a week &#8212; March 19th and 20th in London and March 21st and 22nd in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>North American dates will be released very soon, but are expected to fall in late April or early May. (I\u2019ll update you on this as soon as I know the dates and locations for these interview sessions).<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t want qualified teachers to miss out on these great global teaching opportunities in Abu Dhabi City, Al Ain, Sharjah, and Ras Al Khaimah. Successful candidates will earn a salary of 21,000 AED (approximately $5700 USD) per month, tax-free. Flights to and from the UAE at the beginning and end of the contract are provided, as well as health insurance.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachaway.com\/2016\/03\/08\/550-teachers-now-needed-uae#.Vv7f0R-kihI.facebook\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.teachaway.com\/2016\/03\/08\/550-teachers-now-needed-uae#.Vv7f0R-kihI.facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 data-pb-field=\"customFields.web_headline\">CIA left explosive material on Loudoun school bus after training exercise<\/h1>\n<p>CIA left \u201cexplosive training material\u201d under the hood of a Loudoun County school bus after a training exercise last week, a bus that was used to ferry elementary and high school students to and from school on Monday and Tuesday with the material still sitting in the engine compartment, according to the CIA and Loudoun County officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Loudoun County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the CIA said in statements Thursday that the explosive material was left behind after a training exercise at Briar Woods High School during spring break. The CIA said it was a training scenario for explosives-detecting dogs.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/cia-left-explosive-material-on-loudoun-school-bus-after-training-exercise\/2016\/03\/31\/428f9824-f78d-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/cia-left-explosive-material-on-loudoun-school-bus-after-training-exercise\/2016\/03\/31\/428f9824-f78d-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html<\/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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ResponsiveImage-image\" src=\"https:\/\/prod01-cdn04.cdn.firstlook.org\/wp-uploads\/sites\/1\/2014\/10\/456049284-article-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"720\" data-reactid=\".ti.1.0.0.2.0.0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Official doctrine of endless War: <\/strong>Long before Americans were introduced to the new 9\/11 era super-villains called ISIS and Khorasan, senior Obama officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/may\/17\/endless-war-on-terror-obama\">were openly and explicitly stating<\/a>\u00a0that America\u2019s \u201cwar on terror,\u201d already 12 years old, would last\u00a0<em>at least\u00a0<\/em>another decade. At first, they injected these decrees only anonymously; in late 2012,\u00a0<em>The Washington Post \u2013<\/em>\u00a0disclosing the administration\u2019s secret creation of a \u201cdisposition matrix\u201d to decide who should be killed, imprisoned without charges, or otherwise \u201cdisposed\u201d of \u2013<em>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/plan-for-hunting-terrorists-signals-us-intends-to-keep-adding-names-to-kill-lists\/2012\/10\/23\/4789b2ae-18b3-11e2-a55c-39408fbe6a4b_story.html\">reported these remarkable facts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely\u00a0<em>to be extended at least another decade<\/em>. Given the way al-Qaida continues to metastasize, some officials said\u00a0<em>no clear end is in sight<\/em>. . . . That timeline suggests that the United States<em>\u00a0has reached only the midpoint of what was once known as the global war on terrorism<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In May, 2013, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on whether it should revise the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF). A committee member asked a senior Pentagon official, Assistant Secretary Michael Sheehan, how long the war on terror would last; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2013\/05\/decades-of-war\/\">his reply<\/a>: \u201cAt least 10 to 20 years.\u201d\u00a0<em>At least.\u00a0<\/em>A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed afterward \u201cthat Sheehan meant the conflict is likely to last 10 to 20 more years from\u00a0today\u00a0\u2014 atop the 12 years that the conflict has already lasted.\u201d As Spencer Ackerman put it: \u201cWelcome to America\u2019s Thirty Years War,\u201d one which \u2013 by the <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/2010\/06\/29\/elena-kagan-and-lindsey-graham-on-the-gwot-the-sequel\/\">Obama administration\u2019s own reasoning<\/a> \u2013 has \u201cno geographic limit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listening to all this, Maine\u2019s independent Sen. Angus King said: \u201cThis is the most astounding and most astoundingly disturbing hearing that I\u2019ve been to since I\u2019ve been here. You guys have essentially rewritten the Constitution today.\u201d Former Bush DOJ lawyer Jack Goldsmith \u2013 himself an ardent advocate of broad presidential powers \u2013 was at the hearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/2013\/05\/quick-reactions-to-extraordinary-armed-services-committee-hearing-on-the-aumf\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">and noted<\/a>\u00a0that nobody even knows against whom this endless war is being waged: \u201cAmazingly, there is a very large question even in the Armed Services Committee about who the United States is at war against and where, and how those determinations are made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of that received remarkably little attention given its obvious significance. But any doubts about whether Endless War \u2013 <em>literally<\/em> \u2013 is official American doctrine should be permanently erased by this week\u2019s comments from two leading Democrats, both former top national security officials in the Obama administration, one of whom is likely to be the next American president&#8230;.Clinton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2014\/06\/09\/the-6-big-issues-where-hillary-clinton-and-barack-oabma-disagree\/\">made clear in her book<\/a> that virtually all of her disagreements with Obama\u2019s foreign policy were the by-product of her view of Obama as insufficiently hawkish, militaristic and confrontational.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2014\/10\/07\/key-democrats-led-hillary-clinton-leave-doubt-endless-war-u-s-doctrine\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">theintercept.com\/2014\/10\/07\/key-democrats-led-hillary-clinton-leave-doubt-endless-war-u-s-doctrine\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"https:\/\/truthaholics.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/mlk-war-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"334\" data-total-count=\"1352\"><strong>The Ideological Origins of ISIS in US Ally Saudi Arabia\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cWahhabism is fundamental to the Islamic State\u2019s ideology,\u201d said Cole Bunzel, a scholar of Wahhabi history at Princeton University and the author of a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/files\/CP_265_Bunzel_Islamic_States_Final.pdf\">paper<\/a> on Saudi Arabia and the Islamic State. \u201cIt informs the character of their religion and is the most on-display feature, in my opinion, of their entire ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"303\" data-total-count=\"3574\">Among 20 terrorist episodes in Saudi Arabia since late 2014, the killing of Sergeant Rashidi was the third in which citizens had secretly joined the Islamic State and killed relatives in the security services. In each case, they justified their acts by saying Saudi Arabia practiced a corrupted version of the faith, a charge aimed at a kingdom that holds itself up as the only true Islamic state.\u00a0 &#8230;.the Islamic State poses a new challenge, by turning aspects of Saudi Arabia\u2019s conservative creed against it. Wahhabism has been molded over the years to serve the interests of the monarchy, emphasizing obedience to the rulers and condemning terrorist attacks, even against those seen as apostates.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"220\" data-total-count=\"3794\">Still, among the Islamic State\u2019s many enemies, Saudi Arabia is the only one that considers the Quran and other religious texts its constitution, criminalizes apostasy and bans all forms of unsanctioned public religion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"297\" data-total-count=\"4091\">The country was founded on an alliance between the Saud family, whose members became the monarchs, and a cleric named Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab, whose teachings were used to justify military conquest by labeling it jihad against those deemed to be infidels, most of whom were other Muslims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"270\" data-total-count=\"4361\">Sheikh Abdul-Wahhab\u2019s descendants still dominate the religious institutions of the Saudi state, which now play down the violence in the country\u2019s history and emphasize aspects convenient to an all-powerful royal family, like the importance of obeying the leadership.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/01\/world\/middleeast\/isis-saudi-arabia-wahhabism.html?_r=0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/01\/world\/middleeast\/isis-saudi-arabia-wahhabism.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"270\" data-total-count=\"4361\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/bc\/SyriaWWII_en.svg\/300px-SyriaWWII_en.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\" voices-title\">Why is David Cameron so silent on the recapture of Palmyra from the clutches of Isis?<\/h1>\n<div class=\"intro\">In the end, it was the Syrian army &#8211; and its Hizballah chums from Lebanon, and the Iranians, and the Russians &#8211;\u00a0who drove the Isis murderers out of <a href=\"http:\/\/Palmyra...mil\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">Palmyra&#8230;mil<\/a>itary defeat that Isis has suffered in more than two years. The recapture of Palmyra, the Roman city of the Empress Zenobia.\u00a0And we are silent.\u00a0Yes, folks, the bad guys won, didn&#8217;t they? Otherwise, we would all be celebrating, wouldn&#8217;t we?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/why-is-david-cameron-so-silent-on-the-recapture-of-palmyra-from-the-clutches-of-isis-a6955406.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/why-is-david-cameron-so-silent-on-the-recapture-of-palmyra-from-the-clutches-of-isis-a6955406.html<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"intro\">\n<div class=\"content__header tonal__header u-cf\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column\">\n<h1 class=\"content__headline js-score\">China accuses Japan of threatening Pacific peace with military law<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst\" data-link-name=\"standfirst\" data-component=\"standfirst\">\n<p>Claims follows passing of law allowing Japanese troops to fight on foreign soil for first time since end of second world war&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">China<\/a> has accused Japan\u2019s \u201cwarlord\u201d prime minister, Shinzo Abe, of threatening peace in the region, following the enactment on Tuesday of controversial laws allowing Japanese troops to fight on foreign soil for the first time since the end of the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>The security laws, which <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/18\/japanese-soldiers-could-fight-abroad-again-after-security-bill-passed\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">were passed<\/a> last September after <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/sep\/17\/japan-chaotic-vote-security-bills\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">chaotic scenes<\/a> in parliament, reinterpret the country\u2019s pacifist constitution to enable <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"in-body-link\">Japan<\/a> to exercise collective self-defence \u2013 or coming to the aid of the US and other allies \u2013 in overseas conflicts.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/mar\/29\/china-accuses-japan-of-threatening-peace-in-pacific-with-new-law\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/mar\/29\/china-accuses-japan-of-threatening-peace-in-pacific-with-new-law<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"intro\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/media\/images\/67616000\/gif\/_67616829_south_china-sea_1_464.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"247\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"intro\">.<\/div>\n<div class=\"intro\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"646\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/NavBarSlices\/MCCNavbar_r4_c2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"79\" height=\"10\" name=\"MCCNavbar_r4_c2\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/NavBarSlices\/MCCNavbar_r4_c4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"79\" height=\"10\" name=\"MCCNavbar_r4_c4\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/NavBarSlices\/MCCNavbar_r4_c6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"79\" height=\"10\" name=\"MCCNavbar_r4_c6\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/NavBarSlices\/MCCNavbar_r4_c8.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"10\" name=\"MCCNavbar_r4_c8\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/NavBarSlices\/MCCNavbar_r4_c10.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"10\" name=\"MCCNavbar_r4_c10\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/NavBarSlices\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"646\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><b><span style=\"color: #0000cc;\"><b>ANOTHER SENIOR NAVAL OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY<br \/>\nTO ACCEPTING BRIBES &#8211; CAPT DANIEL DUSEK SAYS<br \/>\nHE LEAKED SHIP MOVEMENT INTEL TO CRIMINAL<br \/>\nMASTERMIND (&#8220;FAT LEONARD&#8221; FRANCIS) OF GLENN<br \/>\nDEFENSE MARINE ASIA IN EXCHANGE FOR CASH,<br \/>\nGIFTS AND PROSTITUTES &#8211; 26-YEAR NAVY VETERAN<br \/>\nFACES UP TO FIVE YEARS IN PRISON WHEN HE<br \/>\nIS SLATED TO BE SENTENCED IN APRIL <\/b><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/Images\/dusek.jpg\" alt=\"CAPT DANIEL DUSEK\" width=\"154\" height=\"191\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Just four more years. That&#8217;s all it would have taken for Navy CAPT Daniel Dusek to reach the 30-year service mark and retire on 75% base pay. Now, he stands a chance of seeing part of those years looking out through prison cell bars.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Oregon native and ROTC graduate could get up to five years in the slammer when he is sentenced in San Diego in April.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Dusek is just the latest Navy officer to admit guilt on leaking ship movement information to a crooked port-of-call contractor and &#8220;steering&#8221; big warships &#8211; like the mammoth carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln &#8211; into docking facilities controlled by Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarycorruption.com\/dusek.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.militarycorruption.com\/dusek.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Fired Marine commander charged with sexual assault<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand-img-horiz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/bee2c0ca166ac4d99ab7c04800cd562c3aa786ea\/c=247-0-1198-715&amp;r=x404&amp;c=534x401\/local\/-\/media\/2015\/02\/13\/GGM\/MilitaryTimes\/635594362393887428-MAR-Col.-Shane-Tomko-1.jpg\" alt=\"635594362393887428-MAR-Col.-Shane-Tomko-1\" data-mycapture-src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2015\/02\/13\/GGM\/MilitaryTimes\/635594362393887428-MAR-Col.-Shane-Tomko-1.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/84249e58e65cbc185583a827f0fbda107c3bb7b0\/r=500x280\/local\/-\/media\/2015\/02\/13\/GGM\/MilitaryTimes\/635594362393887428-MAR-Col.-Shane-Tomko-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The former commander of the Wounded Warrior Regiment is accused of abusive sexual contact, fraternization and\u00a0wrongful possession of a controlled substance, according to Marine Corps officials.<\/p>\n<p>Col. T. Shane &#8220;Rhino&#8221; Tomko, who\u00a0was relieved of command in February\u00a02015, faced allegations of misconduct that were investigated by the\u00a0Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said Rex Runyon, a spokesman for Marine Corps Installations Command.<\/p>\n<p>Charges \u2014\u00a0including conspiracy to obstruct justice, violations of general orders and conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman \u2014\u00a0were\u00a0preferred against Tomko on Feb. 11, Runyon told Marine Corps Times.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/04\/01\/fired-marine-commander-charged-sexual-assault\/82525012\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/04\/01\/fired-marine-commander-charged-sexual-assault\/82525012\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commander at Marine boot camp fired over investigation\u00a0 <\/strong>A commander at the Marine Corps\u2019 East Coast training depot has been fired after being investigated for alleged misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Joshua Kissoon, commanding officer of the 3rd Recruit Training Battalion at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, was relieved on Thursday, according to a news release from the training depot. He had assumed command of the training battalion June 25, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Paul Cucinotta, commanding officer of the Recruit Training Regiment, relieved Kissoon due to \u201ca loss of trust and confidence in Kissoon&#8217;s abilities to serve in command after reviewing the results of an Inspector General of the Marine Corps&#8217; investigation,\u201d according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn investigation pertaining to Lt. Col. Kissoon was conducted by the Office of the Inspector General of the Marine Corps and provided to Col. Cucinotta on Feb. 29, 2016,\u201d said Capt. Gregory Carroll, a spokesman for the training depot.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll did not elaborate on what allegations the IG looked into or whether they were substantiated, but stressed that it wasn&#8217;t tied to a recent recruit&#8217;s death at the depot.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/03\/31\/parris-island-commander-fired-after-ig-investigation\/82464478\/?=cache\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.marinecorpstimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/03\/31\/parris-island-commander-fired-after-ig-investigation\/82464478\/?=cache<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand-img-vertical\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/2feee69581913188b2cf299f4cee3495a99e38ea\/r=537&amp;c=0-0-534-712\/http\/cdn.tegna-tv.com\/-mm-\/e70e495eacb2f31c45eb696a0801ad54ebe29515\/c=0-0-2250-3000\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/03\/31\/GGM\/MarineCorpsTimes\/635950180311426333-Kissoon.JPG\" alt=\"635950180311426333-Kissoon.JPG\" data-mycapture-src=\"http:\/\/cdn.tegna-tv.com\/media\/2016\/03\/31\/GGM\/MarineCorpsTimes\/635950180311426333-Kissoon.JPG\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"http:\/\/cdn.tegna-tv.com\/-mm-\/c8d0da1902572f66ef9a261b438c490f3cbd7735\/r=320x400\/local\/-\/media\/2016\/03\/31\/GGM\/MarineCorpsTimes\/635950180311426333-Kissoon.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"page_title\">Leaders in Washington for nuclear summit without Russia<\/h1>\n<p>The fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit under President Obama has brought more than 50 world leaders to Washington. But icy relations with Russia have left Moscow out in the cold.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in Washington wraps up Friday without Russia, which hosts the world&#8217;s largest repository of nuclear material.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from more than 50 countries are meeting for the fourth and final time under the leadership of US President Barack Obama. (What will happen with the initiative after Obama&#8217;s term ends in January is unclear).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/leaders-in-washington-for-nuclear-summit-without-russia\/a-19159530\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.dw.com\/en\/leaders-in-washington-for-nuclear-summit-without-russia\/a-19159530<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"357\" data-total-count=\"357\"><strong>Seals as Commodities <\/strong>Eric Greitens\u2019s bid for governor of Missouri hinges on his experience as a <a title=\"More articles about Navy Seals.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/navy_seals\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Navy SEALs member<\/a>, which he has chronicled in three books and promotes on his <a href=\"http:\/\/ericgreitens.com\/\">campaign web<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ericgreitens.com\/\">site<\/a>, where he is pictured wearing his combat uniform, holding a rifle. \u201cIn the SEALs we learned, \u2018there is no prize for second place in a gunfight,\u2019\u00a0\u201d he said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricGreitens\/status\/712404781302550528\">recently on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"444\" data-total-count=\"801\">Now Mr. Greitens, seeking the Republican nomination, finds himself in a battle with some former comrades, who charged in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n80ED088t5A&amp;feature=youtu.be\">slickly produced YouTube video<\/a> that he exaggerated his record and was unduly benefiting from his time in the SEALs. The dispute lays bare a widening rift among <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More articles about Navy Seals.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/navy_seals\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Navy SEALs<\/a>, provoked by what leaders and many in the ranks describe as rampant commercial and personal exploitation of a brotherhood that once prized discretion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"578\" data-total-count=\"1379\">In recent months, the Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, Calif., which oversees the elite force, has told its men to lower their profile and tried to rein in public appearances by active-duty members. The Pentagon imposed a rule last September restricting the appearance of service members in video games, movies and television shows. Current and former members have widely circulated <a href=\"http:\/\/calhoun.nps.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/10945\/47927\/15Dec_Crowell_Forrest.pdf?sequence=3&amp;isAllowed=y\">a pointed critique<\/a> \u2014 titled \u201cNavy SEALs Gone Wild: Publicity, Fame, and the Loss of the Quiet Professional\u201d \u2014 that laments the commercialization and warns that it is doing harm&#8230;.the pushback has had little sway over former members who are increasingly giving paid speeches, sounding off on politics on Fox News and stamping the force\u2019s name on hats, backpacks, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.navyseals.com\/seal-multi-mens-daily-multivitamin-multimineral\/\">vitamins<\/a> and even a campaign bus. A television show by the Weinstein Company, working with a former SEALs consultant, is set <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/tv\/news\/jeremy-renner-knightfall-history-seal-team-six-series-1201673500\/\">to air on the History channel<\/a> later this year, and a half-dozen books are scheduled to roll off the presses in coming months, adding to the 100-plus published by former SEALs since 2001.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/03\/us\/navy-seals-split-over-members-benefiting-from-hard-earned-brand.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/03\/us\/navy-seals-split-over-members-benefiting-from-hard-earned-brand.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"578\" data-total-count=\"1379\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freakinglife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/slippery-slope-penguin-art-by-Amy-Davis-Roth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline\">US Is Weighing More Special Forces Troops for Syria: Official<\/h1>\n<p>US officials are weighing sending more special forces troops to Syria, where the contingent of American fighters currently numbers around 50, a senior military official told AFP on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A US official speaking on the condition of anonymity said the additional troops would be used to bolster US special forces sent to Syria several months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Presumably they would do more of what they&#8217;re already doing,&#8221; said the official, who said the mission would be expected to take on &#8220;no new capabilities but an increase of the current capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The official said no determination has been made about the number of troops who could be sent or whether they will be sent at all.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/international\/mideast-africa\/2016\/04\/02\/us-weighs-more-special-forces-troops-syria\/82557180\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.defensenews.com\/story\/defense\/international\/mideast-africa\/2016\/04\/02\/us-weighs-more-special-forces-troops-syria\/82557180\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsan1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xap1\/v\/t1.0-9\/1013761_735455099827739_491961260_n.jpg?oh=9eca404625b86b9ab7b732722db13f47&amp;oe=5792545B\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Larry Summers Channels Paul Sweezy\u00a0 <\/strong>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/leaders\/21695392-big-firms-united-states-have-never-had-it-so-good-time-more-competition-problem\">cover story<\/a> in this week\u2019s Economist highlights, the rate of profitability in the United States is at a near-record-high level<b>, <\/b>as is the <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/original-size\/images\/print-edition\/20160326_FBC779_1.png\">share of corporate revenue<\/a> going to capital. The stock market is <a href=\"https:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/fred2\/graph\/?g=3YD7\">valued very highly by historical standards<\/a>, as measured by\u00a0Tobin\u2019s q ratio of the market value of the non-financial corporations\u00a0to the value of their tangible capital.\u00a0And the ratio of the market value of equities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/fred2\/graph\/?g=3YJg\">corporate sector to its GDP<\/a> is also unusually high.<\/p>\n<p>All of this might be taken as evidence that this is a time when the return on new capital investment is unusually high. \u00a0The rate of profit under standard assumptions reflects the marginal productivity of capital. A high market value of corporations implies that \u201cold capital\u201d is highly valued and suggests a high payoff to investment in new capital.<\/p>\n<p>This is an apparent problem for the <a href=\"http:\/\/larrysummers.com\/2016\/02\/17\/latest-on-the-secular-stagnation-hypothesis\/\">secular stagnation<\/a> hypothesis I have been advocating for some time, the idea that the U.S. economy is stuck in a period of lethargic economic growth.\u00a0Secular stagnation has as a central element a decline in the propensity to invest, leading to <a href=\"http:\/\/larrysummers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/LarrySummers-Central-Bank-of-Chile.pdf\">chronic shortfalls of aggregate demand<\/a> and difficulties in attaining real interest rates consistent with full employment.<\/p>\n<p>Yet matters are more complex. For some years now, real interest rates on safe financial instruments <a href=\"https:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/fred2\/graph\/?g=3Xlk\">have been low<\/a> and, for the most part, declining. And <a href=\"https:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/fred2\/graph\/?g=3YDG\">business investment<\/a> is either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/page\/files\/20150930_business_investment_in_the_united_states.pdf\">in line with cyclical conditions<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/econresdata\/notes\/feds-notes\/2016\/annual-data-on-investment-and-capital-stocks-20160302.html\">a little weaker<\/a> than would be predicted by cyclical conditions. This is anomalous, as in the most straightforward economic models the real interest rate is the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/publications\/es\/05\/ES0506.pdf\">risk-adjusted rate of return<\/a> on capital. And an unusually high rate of investment would be expected to go along with a high rate of return on existing capital.<\/p>\n<p>How can this anomaly be resolved?\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/03\/30\/larry-summers-corporate-profits-are-near-record-highs-heres-why-thats-a-problem\/?postshare=8941459564407146&#038;tid=ss_fb\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/03\/30\/larry-summers-corporate-profits-are-near-record-highs-heres-why-thats-a-problem\/?postshare=8941459564407146&#038;tid=ss_fb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51gBVkggOPL._SX334_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"title entry-title\">Stagnation and Financialization<\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"subtitle entry-title\">The Nature of the Contradiction<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<p>Paul Baran\u2019s and my book <em>Monopoly Capital<\/em>, begun in 1956 and published in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>This theory is best described, I think, as an \u201coveraccumulation\u201d theory. It holds that under monopoly capitalism as it has developed in the advanced capitalist countries during the twentieth century there is a strong, persistent, and growing tendency for more surplus value to be produced than can find profitable investment outlets. Where this situation obtains, as some followers of Keynes like Alvin Hansen suggested as long ago as the 1930s, the result will be a decline\u2014or slowdown in the rate of growth\u2014of output and income, with rising unemployment and falling rates of utilization of productive capacity. And this situation in turn puts an added damper on investment and economic growth. I said that this set of tendencies is both persistent and growing in intensity. The reason is that the process of monopolization\u2014what Marx called the concentration and centralization of production\u2014is a continuing one which has characterized the history of capitalism throughout the present century and is still operating. We can sum up by saying: the more monopolistic the economy, the stronger the tendency to stagnation.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/monthlyreview.org\/2014\/05\/01\/stagnation-and-financialization\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">monthlyreview.org\/2014\/05\/01\/stagnation-and-financialization\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"https:\/\/t1.ftcdn.net\/jpg\/00\/51\/29\/50\/240_F_51295036_YUFajSJ3T6hiH4EXtj1tlC9VtK5DWvdu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 data-pb-field=\"customFields.web_headline\">The controversial reason tens of thousands of people just lost their food stamps<\/h1>\n<p>The requirement, which generally stipulates that participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) who\u00a0do not have children or a disability must find a job within three months of receiving the benefit and work an average of 20\u00a0hours a week, was suspended in most states following the mortgage crisis amid widespread unemployment. Now, as jobs have returned,\u00a0the work mandate was automatically reinstated in many states at the beginning of this year, and the three-month allowance\u00a0for finding a job ended April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Even where unemployment remains relatively high, some governors have brought back the requirement, saying it encourages people\u00a0to rejoin the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly two dozen states where the rules are changing this week include Maryland, New York and Florida. Seventeen other\u00a0states have reinstated the work requirement in the past couple of years.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/04\/01\/why-tens-of-thousands-of-americas-poorest-people-just-lost-their-food-stamps\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_wb-foodstamps-1136am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2016\/04\/01\/why-tens-of-thousands-of-americas-poorest-people-just-lost-their-food-stamps\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_wb-foodstamps-1136am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/media.sdreader.com\/img\/photos\/2012\/10\/23\/second_lead_t658.jpg?ff95ca2b4c25d2d6ff3bfb257febf11d604414e5\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hillary Clinton Loses Patience with Greenpeace Activist Over Fossil Fuel Donations\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dC4Pvm6Oj4A?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><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\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.vice.com\/content-images\/contentimage\/no-slug\/f6b7b2bb69e72e491e747f1d4103fe79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">70,000 March in Poland against Immigration Crisis Hillbillary Created<\/h1>\n<p>Described as the \u2018largest demonstration in Polish history\u2019,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tvnwarszawa.tvn24.pl\/informacje,news,policja-70-tys-uczestnikow-marszu-doszlo-do-naruszen-prawa,185346.html\" target=\"_blank\">around 70,000 Polish nationalists<\/a>\u00a0took to the streets yesterday\u00a0in the city center of Warsaw against immigration into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anongalactic.com\/category\/eur\/\">Europe<\/a> and the European Union\u2014and in particular the latter\u2019s demands that Poland \u201cabsorb\u201d invaders who have flooded into Germany over the past few months. Protesters referred to the immigrants as invaders.\u00a0 The massive demonstration\u2014the largest such event yet in Poland\u2014comes only two weeks after the populist Law and Justice party, described by the controlled media as \u201cright wing\u201d\u2014convincingly won elections in that country, forcing out the previous administration which had not taken a firm enough line against the invasion of Europe.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/anongalactic.com\/50000-march-in-poland-against-immigration\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">anongalactic.com\/50000-march-in-poland-against-immigration\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solidarity for Never<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bogus &#8220;Movements&#8221; section:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chicago Teachers rally 2016\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PVqup7WlDEE?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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Weingarten-Obama.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Weingarten-Obama.jpg\" alt=\"Weingarten Obama\" width=\"484\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Weingarten-Obama.jpg 484w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Weingarten-Obama-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><strong>Jessie Jackson, Randi Weingarten, March Chicago school workers into arms of Dems 0n April Fools fake strike\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/usa\/los-angeles-times\/20160402\/281616714511287\/textview\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.pressreader.com\/usa\/los-angeles-times\/20160402\/281616714511287\/textview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chicago Teachers Union members head to the picket lines\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R21sygXS9A0?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<div id=\"attachment_19367\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ravitch-Van-Roekel.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19367\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ravitch-Van-Roekel.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Diane Ravitch, Friend of Education Award recipient speaks to delegates during the 2010 NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly.\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ravitch-Van-Roekel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ravitch-Van-Roekel-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Diane Ravitch, Friend of Education Award recipient speaks to delegates during the 2010 NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Vacillating Reactionary Ravitch Loves Social Nationalist Opt Outs for Capitalist Education in the Empire: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dianeravitch.net\/2016\/04\/02\/parents-you-have-the-right-to-opt-out\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">dianeravitch.net\/2016\/04\/02\/parents-you-have-the-right-to-opt-out\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quisling Calif Teachers Association easily steps in lead of fake Opt Out<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cta.org\/optout\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.cta.org\/optout<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>CPUSA Endorses Hillbillary\u00a0 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpusa.org\/taking-a-sober-look-at-the-2016-election\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.cpusa.org\/taking-a-sober-look-at-the-2016-election\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRWcw7yQnE-u88lfYvgoIMVbofZM9rG84c2Np5xU9QwFpi9g-II\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mandella&#8217;s Sellout legacy: Zuma + ANC\u00a0 <\/strong>President Jacob Zuma and his backers have dared his detractors in the ANC: fire the president and face the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>ANC insiders have told City Press that, among the tactics the Zuma camp is using in its fightback against those who want him recalled include warning that Parliament would have to be dissolved if Zuma is recalled, as it was also nailed by the Constitutional Court judgment, something that will threaten the job security of many MPs.\u00a0 The issue of cutting short Zuma\u2019s term, which has been gaining momentum since revelations that his friends the Guptas have been exercising excessive influence over his administration, was given impetus by this week\u2019s Constitutional Court ruling that he had in effect violated his oath of office through his handling of the Nkandla affair.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/city-press.news24.com\/News\/zuma-dares-anc-20160402\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">city-press.news24.com\/News\/zuma-dares-anc-20160402<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Spy versus Spy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christopher Hitchens Get Waterboarded | Vanity Fair\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4LPubUCJv58?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>Never Forget:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"pb-root\" class=\"\">\n<div class=\"pb-container\">\n<div id=\"f0wmoWM7SFn3Hp\" class=\"moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-3 pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-article-topper\" data-chain-name=\"no-name\" data-feature-name=\"no-name\" data-feature-id=\"article\/article-topper\">\n<div class=\"border-bottom-off border-bottom-\">\n<div id=\"article-topper\" class=\"article-topper\">\n<h1 data-pb-field=\"customFields.web_headline\">Report on CIA program details brutality, dishonesty (video too)<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An exhaustive five-year Senate investigation of the CIA\u2019s secret interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak verdict on a program launched in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, describing levels of brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish.<\/p>\n<p>The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee delivers new allegations of cruelty in a program whose severe tactics have been abundantly documented, revealing that agency medical personnel voiced alarm that waterboarding methods had deteriorated to \u201ca series of near drownings\u201d and that agency employees subjected detainees to \u201crectal rehydration\u201d and other painful procedures that were never approved.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/senate-report-on-cia-program-details-brutality-dishonesty\/2014\/12\/09\/1075c726-7f0e-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/senate-report-on-cia-program-details-brutality-dishonesty\/2014\/12\/09\/1075c726-7f0e-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"franklin\">The 119 detainees held in secret CIA prisons<\/h1>\n<p class=\"dotsHeader cf\"><span id=\"js-counter-harsh\" class=\"counterText\">39<\/span> <span class=\"headerText\">detainees were subjected to the CIA&#8217;s enhanced interrogation techniques<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dotsDescrip\">These interrogation techniques include close confinement, sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, prolonged standing, prolonged isolation and waterboarding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dotsHeader cf\"><span id=\"js-counter-wrongly\" class=\"counterText\">26<\/span> <span class=\"headerText\">detainees did not meet thestandard for detention<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dotsDescrip\">This is a conservative calculation and includes only CIA detainees whom the CIA itself determined did not meet the standard for detention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dotsDescrip\">It does not include individuals about whom there was internal disagreement within the CIA over whether the detainee met the standard or not, or the numerous detainees who, following their detention and interrogation, were found not to \u201cpose a continuing threat of violence or death to U.S. persons and interests\u201d or to be \u201cplanning terrorist activities.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/national\/cia-interrogation-report\/numbers\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/national\/cia-interrogation-report\/numbers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/160404_a19844-1000.jpg\" alt=\"Cartoon\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wait&#8211;there they are, behind your ear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Another church official has been hired at the Vatican to help write more meaningless church abuse policies that will help church officials look concerned but will be ignored by church officials<\/strong>. She\u2019s an Illinois native who has worked for US bishops and for the Illinois State Patrol. We wish this were an April Fool\u2019s Day joke but it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s needed is decisive action to expose and remove clerics who commit or conceal abuse. What\u2019s NOT needed are more church abuse policies. Such policies have existed for decades and have been ignored for decades. These policies help with public relations, not with public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Think about this for a second. Kettlekamp is admitting what every reasonable person knows: that there are thousands of predator priests across the world who have yet to be exposed, suspended, and prosecuted. So why isn\u2019t Pope Francis helping to expose them? He and Kettlekamp and Cardinal Sean O\u2019Malley and virtually every member of the Catholic hierarchy are, day after day, making the extraordinarily callous and reckless decision to sit back and just wait until brave victims, compassionate whistleblowers crusading journalists and determined prosecutors to blow the lid off continuing cover ups.<\/p>\n<p>Forget the poppycock about church policies, procedures, protocols, panels and \u2018best practices.\u2019 Where\u2019s the one bishop who says \u201cI\u2019m not waiting to be forced to act. I\u2019m exposing and removing predator priests who are molesting kids right now.\u201d And where\u2019s the one Vatican official who is insisting that all bishops do this?<\/p>\n<p>Theresa Kettlekamp says \u201ca challenging part\u201d of her new role, she said, is persuading church officials in parts of the world \u201cwhere saturation coverage in the media, massive payouts as a result of litigation, and so on \u2013 has not yet really arrived to get ahead of the curve.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapnetwork.org\/rome_vatican_hires_another_abuse_bureaucrat_victims_respond\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.snapnetwork.org\/rome_vatican_hires_another_abuse_bureaucrat_victims_respond<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net\/uncyclopedia\/images\/d\/da\/Rowdysaudis.jpg\/revision\/latest\/scale-to-width-down\/300?cb=20060522172607\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Since World War II, the CIA has:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>subsidized a Catholic lay organization that served as the political slugging arm of the pope and the Vatican throughout the Cold War;<\/li>\n<li>penetrated the American section of one of the wealthiest and most powerful Vatican orders;<\/li>\n<li>passed money to a large number of priests and bishops &#8212; some of whom became witting agents in CIA covert operations;<\/li>\n<li>employed undercover operatives to lobby members of the Curia (the Vatican government) and spy on liberal churchmen on the pope&#8217;s staff who challenged the political assumptions of the United States;<\/li>\n<li>prepared intelligence briefings that accurately pre-dicted the rise of liberation theology; and<\/li>\n<li>collaborated with right-wing Catholic groups to coun-ter the actions of progressive clerics in Latin America.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/1983\/07\/their-will-be-done\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.motherjones.com\/politics\/1983\/07\/their-will-be-done<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Best and Worst Things in the History of the World<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsan1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xlf1\/v\/t1.0-0\/s526x395\/12920365_816905061786231_7403627090690844475_n.jpg?oh=c007c6cb11ed26876bc22f3afc9b9143&amp;oe=578AFF5C\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"articleHeadline\">Former NFL Player Terrence Cody Sentenced to 9 Months After Starving Dog to Death for &#8216;Up to 10 Weeks,&#8217; Says Prosecutor<\/h1>\n<p>Former NFL player Terrence Cody was sentenced to nine months in jail last week by a Baltimore County judge after being convicted of a series of misdemeanors in a 2015 case involving the starvation death of his dog.<\/p>\n<p>In January of 2015, Cody, who played for the Baltimore Ravens from 2010 to 2014, brought his Canary Mastiff, Taz, to the vet. The dog was severely emaciated and underweight by about 50 pounds and died hours later, prosecutor Adam Lippe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/terrence-cody-sentenced-dog-neglect\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.people.com\/article\/terrence-cody-sentenced-dog-neglect<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Say Fight Back! 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