[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: Letter from an American; May 29, 2020 (Heather Cox Richardson)

[John Foran]

I'm with John H as to "the science" -  "Perhaps the only scientific
conclusion is who knows, mixed with a little wishful thinking"

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 3:54 PM John Holloway <johnholloway at prodigy.net.mx>
wrote:

> Hi Jai, hi Laurence,
>
>
>
>                 Many thanks for all this. I agree, Jai, that “tranquil”
> was a badly chosen word.  And I agree very much, Laurence, that
> “objectively bad” does not necessarily lead to explosion. There has been
> such a huge number of articles and books on the effects of the virus that I
> am having trouble getting my mind around the main issues in the debates.
> But certainly one important theme has been the gloomy view that we will
> come out into a highly controlled world where the possibility of struggle
> will be much reduced. I suspect that the opposite may be true, that we will
> be coming out into a volcanically explosive world in spite of the very real
> increase in vigilance. The combination of an unprecedented world economic
> crisis which will almost certainly last for years together with the
> powerfully demystifying effect of the coronacrisis and the enormous anger
> at the way in which the virus-and-lockdown has hurt the poor so much harder
> than the rich point in this direction. In the case of the US it seems that
> discussions and actions are broadening out beyond the immediate stimulus
> (the murder of George Floyd) to the issues of mass unemployment and the
> discriminatory impact of the disease. All of which clearly does not mean
> that there will be similar explosions in other countries, but it does mean
> that we at least need to pose the question of the US  events in a broader
> context. I suppose it’s too comfortable for the world left to rub our hands
> in glee at what’s happening at the centre of the putrefying empire, rather
> than taking it as a challenge: if they can do it, why can’t we? (I am most
> certainly not thinking of either of you as being such gleeful
> hand-rubbers.) Perhaps the only scientific conclusion is who knows, mixed
> with a little wishful thinking.
>
>
>
>                 Best wishes, John
>
>
>
> *From: *WSM-Discuss <wsm-discuss-bounces at lists.openspaceforum.net> on
> behalf of Laurence Cox <Laurence.Cox at mu.ie>
> *Reply-To: *Discussion list about emerging world social movement <
> wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>
> *Date: *Monday, June 1, 2020 at 5:30 PM
> *To: *Discussion list about emerging world social movement <
> wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [WSMDiscuss] Fwd: Letter from an American; May 29, 2020
> (Heather Cox Richardson)
>
>
>
> Hi Jai,
>
> Thanks for this!
>
> It is really hard, watching the dramatic events in the States, to think
> beyond them. Not only because so much of what happens there takes that
> particular nation-state as its horizon of thought (in practice if not
> always verbally) but also because the US is a symbol for so much of the
> rest of the world, its language and media are so powerful, and of course it
> has itself been that powerful, hegemonic force. It has been striking, in
> relation to the virus, to see the remains of that hegemony (crumbling for
> some time, not least under the pressure of movements elsewhere) fragmenting
> yet further, within its own boundaries as well as outside.
>
> Patrick tells me I’m wrong on South Africa (alas!) and I’ll take it from
> him…
>
> But on India (and elsewhere) I think the missing piece, as always, is that
> an “objectively bad” situation doesn’t in itself predict anything. So the
> failure of the state is a problem when it is seen to be such, giving rise
> to a real loss of legitimacy (and not simply of temporary unpopularity of
> the current ruling party). If the dominant response (as e.g. in the UK)
> even of critics is one framed around what the state **should** be doing,
> with deep belief in the NHS as the correct vehicle for that, then people
> are going to put their energies in that direction – despite the fact that
> the Johnson govt has an untouchable majority for the next 4 ½ years, and
> the only effective opposition is coming from teachers and parents (to early
> school opening) and from Scotland (and to some extent Wales and NI)
> refusing to play along. Of course that could change, but the point is not
> just the failure of the state but how it is read. Similarly too, I think,
> with people’s own coping mechanisms. People being poor (for example) is not
> a problem for the powers that be if they starve on the road or in the
> countryside, or emigrate. It is a problem if they seize the land, engage in
> rent strikes, redistribute food, blockade highways or whatever.
>
> And yes, surely those coping mechanisms (and people’s relationship to the
> state) are contextual, shaped by structures that work in specific ways (we
> know caste has not prevented massive movements in South Asia in the past,
> and race and class are ubiquitous on a very big picture but obviously lived
> differently in different countries, or the same country at different times.
> I don’t think we can really know these things with a bird’s-eye view, but
> only from having a close-up sense (as I know you do) of how these
> movements, and the communities they draw from, are working at the moment:
> what has changed since the 1970s, or the 1990s, in their worlds?
>
> I do think the biggest thing affecting levels of “unrest” is (almost
> tautologically) the degree of “independent historical action” – the extent
> to which people have already learnt the habit of working together with
> their peers in trying to reshape their world, without relying on the
> powerful, the wealthy or their own cultural privilege to do so. If people
> are used to understanding themselves as effective (collective) actors, that
> makes a huge difference. Or, as Lenin observed, if the state in a time of
> crisis calls on them to act in radically different ways, yanks them into
> the public sphere … and they then come to set their own agendas.
>
> I’m hoping though – and particularly in the States where organisers have
> really surprised many of us outside the country, not just now but also in
> relation to the scale of recent strikes – that it is not just a question of
> reacting, of temporarily breaking the dead space of neoliberalism,
> important though that is. Change needs struggle; but not every struggle
> produces change – and neoliberalism has been extraordinarily good at
> selectively coopting the language and symbols of individual struggles. Are
> there at least elements of the alliances that might be needed to challenge
> the wider power structures in the dying empire? Or signs of the hegemonic
> alliances that underpin that empire starting to fragment?
>
> I am, at least, delighted to see not just Irish solidarity with the
> struggles in the US from a very wide range of different movements (and
> disavowal of the Irish-American racism so widespread in American police
> departments and politics more generally), but also a widespread recognition
> that these issues – racism and police violence – also matter here, so that
> people are simultaneously and in large enough numbers given the context
> expressing solidarity and calling for an end to the incarceration of
> asylum-seekers. And that much of the organising is coming from migrant-led
> groups.
>
> Watching with bated breath…
>
> Laurence
>
> Monday, June 1, 2020
>
>
>
> Yes, thanks Laurence, for your detailed response and thoughts.
>
> Just a couple of thoughts, on this very intense day : One, John, I’m a
> little… puzzled by your use of the word ‘tranquil’, in our present context
> !  People in other places and other parts of the world might not be
> expressing themselves in terms of militant resistance as they are in the US
> (and in South Africa, Laurence reminds us), but the sheer, enormous, and
> multiple impacts of not the pandemic but of how the state and capital has
> dealt and is dealing with the virus (and not to forgotten, which they in
> turn are fully responsible for, in the first place) has been and is
> continuing to be hugely violent for the vast majorities of peoples
> everywhere, and so - and in short ! -, I don’t think there is any question
> of ‘tranquility’ anywhere, for a long long time.  But maybe you were just
> signalling a less obviously and actively conflictual atmosphere… and where
> I otherwise generally agree with you, that we are at a stage where things
> are still emerging, and so we perhaps don’t yet have any idea of how (and
> where) they are going to go.
>
> (Not to speak of the distinct possibility of second and possible third
> waves of this virus, and the intersecting impacts of the crisis of climate
> and of climate change, as we have just seen in the Bay of Bengal area… both
> of which, I suspect, will hugely change equations even more.)
>
> But I’d like to come back to your response, Laurence.  If we broadly agree
> with your analysis, then India too fits in – but, as far as I know, the
> kind of militant reaction we’re seeing in the US and South Africa is not
> happening there, at least as yet.  It would be good if people in India now,
> and working on / with this emerging situation, were to come in here; but if
> not, then why not ?
>
>             I say this not to contest your frame but to suggest that there
> may be other factors that we also have to take into account, such as
> particular, contextual, structural factors; and where in India, I suspect
> that the divisions that caste and class (and race) bring into society plays
> a huge role – and that in turn make difficult, if not actually prevent, the
> kind of mass reaction that we are today seeing in the US and South Africa.
>
>             As it happens, there is an article that has just come out on
> this in India (‘Why Indians Don’t Come Out on the Streets Against Regular
> Police Brutality’, on *The Wire*, June 1 2020, at
> https://thewire.in/rights/george-floyd-protests-india-police-brutality),
> but sadly it doesn’t tell us very much.
>
>             Just a thought, to add to what you have said.
>
>             Jai
>
>
>
>
> On May 31, 2020, at 6:00 PM, John Holloway <johnholloway at prodigy.net.mx>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Many thanks, Laurence, for such a full reply. I still wonder whether we
> are in for a period of upheaval, as in the US, or relative tranquility in
> the coming year. Not in the sense that governments have kept people locked
> in against their wishes, but more in the sense of a coming together of
> unprecedented crisis with young people’s frustrations with, in many cases,
> repudiation of the incompetence of governments. I wonder, but as with so
> many things at the moment, the best answer is probably “I don’t know”,
> though I think probably a period of upheaval.
>
>
>
>                 Greetings, John
>
>
>
> *From: *WSM-Discuss <wsm-discuss-bounces at lists.openspaceforum.net> on
> behalf of Laurence Cox <Laurence.Cox at mu.ie>
> *Reply-To: *Discussion list about emerging world social movement <
> wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>
> *Date: *Sunday, May 31, 2020 at 5:20 AM
> *To: *Discussion list about emerging world social movement <
> wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [WSMDiscuss] [EXTERNAL] Re: Fwd: Letter from an American;
> May 29, 2020 (Heather Cox Richardson)
>
>
>
> I’m … not seeing that in western Europe, or in the stories of movements in
> the virus that we’ve been publishing on Interface (plug:
> https://interfacejournal.net) from around the world.
>
>
>
> Certainly in Ireland it seems to me the reverse: it was civil society that
> pushed the state into taking action around the virus, and while many are
> struggling with “lockdown” (a horrible word, derived from US prisons
> incidentally) those who are actively contesting it are rightly seen as
> dangerous. Not coincidentally, the opponents of lockdown are also visibly
> affected by the crazier strands of US thought.
>
>
>
> The familiar tendency of US writers to talk as if their own, very strange,
> country was the world in all significant respects (and their
> overrepresentation in spaces of intellectual production, including left
> intellectual production) doesn’t help here. I can see that Irish activists
> recognise the significance **in US terms** of what is happening there, as
> they have done in the past (and did, immediately previously, in solidarity
> with Navajo and Hopi responses to the virus). And, as in many countries,
> engaging not only in (distanced) solidarity demos but also in contesting
> racism and police violence in Ireland.
>
>
>
> But then it is also true that Ireland (like much of western Europe) can
> see light at the end of the tunnel in terms of the most coercive lockdown
> measures, and concerns are turning more to what the future will look like
> in terms of the impact of ongoing restrictions and recession – and the kind
> of world we want to see after this.
>
>
>
> I do think that had the lockdown been much more greatly extended we would
> have seen a greatly increased politicisation, and I want to hope that this
> will also be part of the effect, but I don’t think we can assume that will
> be universal. My 2c on that particular subject, from six weeks back (
> https://www.interfacejournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Cox.pdf):
>
>
>
> “If we used this formula to predict possible outcomes, we would expect to
> see the greatest movement surges come in those countries where (1) the
> government has initially refused to act, and then acted in ways that are
> widely seen to be ineffective and that privilege the interests of capital,
> of the security state and of culturally dominant groups against those of
> the vast majority; (2) where the local rationalities of the majority – as
> renters and shanty-town dwellers, employees and workers in the informal
> economy, welfare recipients and incarcerated people, and a thousand other
> situations – have been pushed to breaking point by the virus and the
> lockdown; and (3) where “independent historical action” – bottom-up
> self-organisation, social movements – have been strongest, before and
> during the crisis.”
>
>
>
> I think it’s unsurprising in these terms that the US and South Africa
> appear particularly significant at the moment.
>
>
>
> Laurence
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* WSM-Discuss <wsm-discuss-bounces at lists.openspaceforum.net> *On
> Behalf Of *John Holloway
> *Sent:* Saturday 30 May 2020 19:37
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> *Subject:* Re: [WSMDiscuss] Fwd: Letter from an American; May 29, 2020
> (Heather Cox Richardson)
>
>
> *WARNING*
>
> Many thanks, Jai. And beyond the US? A more general pressure cooker effect?
>
>
>
>                 John
>
>
>
> *From: *WSM-Discuss <wsm-discuss-bounces at lists.openspaceforum.net> on
> behalf of Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net>
> *Reply-To: *Discussion list about emerging world social movement <
> wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>
> *Date: *Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 1:32 PM
> *To: *Post WSMDiscuss <wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>
> *Cc: *Post Crisis of Civilisation and Alternative Paradigms <
> crisis-de-civilizacion-y-paradigmas-alternativos at googlegroups.com>, Post
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> *Subject: *Re: [WSMDiscuss] Fwd: Letter from an American; May 29, 2020
> (Heather Cox Richardson)
>
>
>
> Saturday, May 30, 2020
>
>
>
> I think so… but not just the pressure of the lockdown but also the
> pressure of the enormous – and highly selective – violence of the manner in
> which the pandemic has been handled by the state and by corporations has
> inflicted on US American life, precisely singling out and hitting (and
> killing) racialised minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and older people,
> treating them as the detritus of society…   Ultimately, this violence is no
> different from what happens on the streets, and that has just happened,
> again.
>
> This is something that people within US society should of course really
> comment on, but I believe that this dawning realisation is only deepening
> people’s emerging understandings of the structural realities of life in
> contemporary US American society – though not necessarily, as yet, anyway,
> in a systematic, ‘organised’ way.  And so at one level yes, what I guess we
> are seeing at the moment is a so-called ‘spontaneous’ expression of Basta
> !  And of your scream of ‘No !’, John…  and that is Enough is enough !
>
> The question is how far this will go, and - in part - of how the forces
> that have been taking shape will now organise this power – that, as Howard
> Zinn said, no government can control…
>
>             And where the state of course knows this…
>
>             Jai
>
>
>
> On May 30, 2020, at 2:12 PM, John Holloway <johnholloway at prodigy.net.mx>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Is what is happening an expression of a pressure cooker effect of the
> lockdown? A prelude to what might happen in many other places?
>
>
>
> *From: *WSM-Discuss <wsm-discuss-bounces at lists.openspaceforum.net> on
> behalf of Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net>
> *Reply-To: *Discussion list about emerging world social movement <
> wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>
> *Date: *Saturday, May 30, 2020 at 1:07 PM
> *To: *Post WSMDiscuss <wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>, Post Social
> Movements Riseup <social-movements at lists.riseup.net>, Post Crisis of
> Civilisation and Alternative Paradigms <
> crisis-de-civilizacion-y-paradigmas-alternativos at googlegroups.com>, Post
> Debate <Debate-list at fahamu.org>
> *Subject: *[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: Letter from an American; May 29, 2020
> (Heather Cox Richardson)
>
>
>
> Saturday, May 30, 2020
>
> *Viruses in movement…, The US in movement…, The world in movement…*
>
> “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is
> the time of monsters.”
>
> [in relation also to the posts I’ve done since yesterday on what is
> happening in the US at the moment, here are some reflections of a columnist
> in the US on the present and emerging situation that might interest some –
> and even, perhaps, in subscribing to her newsletter, which often contains
> very interesting, revealing aspects of what it is to be like to be within
> the US – within the belly of the beast - in these historic times…
>
> [What to me is interesting though, is that she has not reflected at all,
> in this post in any case, on how the very particular situation that the US
> is presently in – still at an acute stage of the pandemic, unlike so many
> of other parts of the world, and with little let-up in sight, which is so,
> so tragic (and criminal) – and how this enormous moment is, perhaps, also
> impacting on what is happening, and that is emerging… and on the fury, and
> ‘madness’, that has gripped the country.  Yes, the violence on George Floyd
> and on Breonna Taylor has been systemic, and structural, and has happened
> before and will happen again.  But I suspect that the ways in the tragedy
> of how the pandemic has been handled in the US is also kicking in, in
> different ways… :
>
> *Letter from an American*
>
> Heather Cox Richardson
>
>             JS
>
> fwd
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
>
> *From: *Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American <
> heathercoxrichardson at substack.com>
>
> *Subject: May 29, 2020*
>
> *Date: *May 30, 2020 at 2:45:13 AM EDT
>
> *To: *jai.sen at cacim.net
>
> *Reply-To: *"Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American" <
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> May 29, 2020
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> “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is
> the time of monsters.”
>
> America feels completely chaotic today. Protesters are marching in major
> cities, sometimes looting; police appear to be attacking them and the
> journalists covering the protests. Rather than calming the situation, the
> president has thrown gasoline on the fire, which escalated yesterday’s
> fight with Twitter. Trump launched a blistering verbal attack on China and
> announced that the United States is withdrawing from the World Health
> Organization in the midst of a deadly pandemic. Meanwhile, new information
> suggests that the Trump administration did, indeed, collude with Russia.
>
> George Floyd is dead. So is Breonna Taylor. And so are more than 100,000
> victims of a deadly pandemic.
>
> The news is overwhelming. It is designed to be overwhelming.
>
> This sort of chaos and confusion destabilizes society. In that confusion,
> as tempers run hot, people who are desperate for certainty return to old
> patterns and divide along traditional lines. Many are willing to accept a
> strong leader who promises to restore order, or simply are so distracted
> and discouraged they stop caring what their leaders do. They simply hunker
> down and try to survive.
>
> As cities across the country erupted in protest last night over the murder
> of George Floyd and everything that deadly demonstration of white male
> dominance over another human’s life symbolized, Trump tweeted: “….These
> THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that
> happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is
> with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when
> the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”
>
> Twitter slapped a warning on the tweet, noting that it “violated the
> Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.” In response, the official White
> House twitter account retweeted what Trump had written… and Twitter slapped
> a warning on that, too. This is the first time Twitter has attached such a
> notice to any public figure’s tweets.
>
> This afternoon, Trump appeared briefly in the Rose Garden not to address
> the protests, but to attack China and to announce he was withdrawing the
> U.S. from the WHO.
>
> Trump accused China of a slew of misdeeds, including espionage and
> economic warfare, and called China an existential threat. He promised to
> ban certain Chinese nationals from the U.S., but identified no concrete
> measures he’s planning to take.
>
> It seems Trump has decided his best bet for reelection is to use China as
> a foil. He is trying to blame China for America’s mounting coronavirus
> deaths, which is his excuse for withdrawing from the WHO, over which he
> insists China has “total control.” (This is false; the WHO has 194 member
> states, and until now, we were a leading partner in it.) He left without
> taking any questions.
>
> Trump’s withdrawal from the WHO removes America from yet another
> international partnership. This horrified doctors and epidemiologists.
> Health researcher Dr. Atul Gawande called it a “disaster.” “I can’t imagine
> a worse thing to do in the midst of a pandemic and ongoing work to fight
> back TB, HIV, polio, and other health threats,” he tweeted. Former National
> Security Advisor Susan Rice agreed: “Unspeakably stupid and self-defeating.”
>
> Defense technology journalist Kelsey D. Atherton made a different, and
> quite crucial, point. “[M]aybe the weirdest thing about the right’s
> strategy of quitting international institutions is they were built,
> expressly, to give the United States an outsized role in shaping and
> directing the post-1945 international order, but they can only do that so
> long as the US stays in.”
>
> He’s right. Once again, Trump has led the US out of an international
> agreement that we used to dominate. Just two days ago, president of the
> Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass said that Trump’s foreign policy
> doctrine should be called the “Withdrawal Doctrine.” Trump has pulled out
> of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact designed to pressure
> China to meet international rules; the Paris climate accord; the 2015 Iran
> nuclear deal; the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia,
> limiting nuclear weapons; UNESCO, the U.N.’s educational, scientific, and
> cultural agency; the Open Skies Treaty that allowed countries to fly over
> each other to monitor military movements. He pulled U.S. troops away from
> our former Kurdish allies in Syria, and has threatened to leave the North
> Atlantic Treaty Organization—NATO—that ties 30 North American and European
> countries into a military alliance.
>
> Now he has withdrawn the US from the World Health Organization that
> combats global disease and pandemics.
>
> The U.S. walking away from our former allies benefits other countries,
> notably Russia, which is keen to destabilize NATO alliances.
>
> The Russia story, too, is back in the news, with Trump’s new Director of
> National Intelligence John Ratcliffe today releasing summaries of the phone
> calls between Michael Flynn—who was advising Trump on foreign policy—and
> Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. What was released were not transcripts,
> although Senator Chuck Grassley, who released them, and much of the media
> that reported on them, all called them transcripts. These are summaries of
> the conversations. Occasionally they have quotations in them, but they are
> not the whole conversation.
>
> Even so, they were bad enough. They show Flynn taking a weirdly weak
> position considering he knew the Russians had attacked the election. Rather
> than making demands, Flynn reassured Kislyak that the Trump team would roll
> back sanctions and retaliation for Russian interference in the 2016
> election, established that Trump and Putin would talk immediately upon
> Trump taking office, and talked about a secure video link between the two
> leaders.
>
> Asha Rangappa, a former FBI counterintelligence specialist, explained back
> in 2017 that Flynn’s lying to the FBI indicated just how bad the
> conversations were, and then explained just why they were so bad. For the
> U.S. to expel a diplomat is exceedingly rare and difficult, and usually
> results in a tit-for-tat expulsion of one of our diplomats. In both cases,
> the individuals usually are spies, which means that losing them is a big
> deal for our intelligence. For the Obama administration to expel 35
> Russians in response to Russia’s attack on our 2016 election, along with
> imposing economic sanctions, was a microphone-dropping sign to Russia that
> we would not look the other way.
>
> But Flynn assured Kislyak that they could expect a different response from
> the Trump administration, essentially telling Russia that, so far as the
> Trump team was concerned, the 2016 attack was okay. So the Russians did not
> retaliate as expected for the expulsion of their diplomats. But Trump could
> not get rid of the sanctions and instead, in July 2017, under great
> pressure, signed a bipartisan sanctions bill that had such strong support
> Congress could override his veto. In retaliation for the measure, Russia
> expelled 775 American diplomats, crippling our intelligence in that country.
>
> And over all this looms Covid-19, which has killed more than 104,000 of us
> already. Infections are climbing again.
>
> I started out tonight by noting that this chaotic onslaught of news is
> designed to divide Americans and make us fall back into old animosities in
> order either to get us to accept a strong leader or to exhaust us until we
> quit caring what happens. In either case American democracy is over.
>
> But there is another possibility. Chaos does not have to destroy us. The
> leaders creating it are doing so precisely because they know they are not
> in control, and the same uncertainty they are trying to leverage can just
> as easily be used by their opponents. At this crazy, frightening, chaotic
> moment, it is possible to reach across old lines and create new alliances,
> to reemphasize that most Americans really do share the same values of
> economic fairness and equality before the law, and to rebuild a “government
> of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
>
> The old world is certainly dying, but the shape of the new world
> struggling to be born is not yet determined.
>
> —
>
> Notes:
>
> Tweets:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/trump-twitter-minneapolis-george-floyd.html
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkE1uxCAMhU8z7IIICdNkwaKbXiMi4ARafiJwmsntCx3JwvAs-5lPK4Q95VseqSA5C-TFGTmLgX-wgRg5mn4SE3Fl2TJAUM5LzCeQ41y90wpdiq2BMzEMxEpQ_MlWsZmNjx-92disJtGP6zbNvKoTaTaLOo2DqEHCL-Q7RSBeWsSjPIbPB_-qcV0XjTe6AIXqFKrCGWc1MdHucz0QtI3Jp_1uj3yGo8PLIULugosR1JG8K90OKe_QbT7dhloMnjjZZtWFGXuOg5hoT1-HvWDdY8rrY2Rh57Sca0Glf5o7yfJbOVog1qJW2gUaARuCpVbDGR3eC0S1ejBvOvjG-f9ZvA-QEa7ioS33FisywXo-Pkk1MqlyjdKCQgtZp1d22qpsSop_dwSPwg>
>
>
> https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2020-05-29/after-contentious-week-trump-falls-short-when-he-meets-the-press
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkEGOwyAMRU9TdkQUQposWMxmrhER4jRMCSAwk-b2A1MJyV_fMv5-RiM8Q7pUDBlJyZBmu6pJCv5ggqyqX--jHInN85YADm2dwlSAxLI4azTa4NsAZ1IIsishgT1GLo1gWgyjHDhnm1602KZ1Eoskbc2sy2rBG1DwC-kKHohTO2LMN_F149_1nefZlezhzJ0JRzWarCUGZ9GaJnWqwkGTnHFGmaR8av6GkKgJHsHXeCXTE-BFa-oj0k07l2neQ0J67uDpDvQAwEyxqpggZ2JV-68exNjQCzl29-4d9xOWpw9pufXsePIulyWjNq8WjyT1o22Xwdem0cYenQdsiObaPYq3eM3g9eJg_dDDD-5_GHhFUO08B1iTf8yKVLI77wdSF62hcvdqB11DJhPeyZpdpzUH_wfLspsB>
>
> Gawande:
>
> [image: Image removed by sender.]*Atul Gawande* *@Atul_Gawande*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEluwzAMfE10NLTHOeiQS_oMQwsTq7UlQ6Lq-PeVG4AHDgkOZ8ZbhFcuh9lyRdIqlCkGc1OCX6kgwcjARjWSWKdnAVhtXAyWBmRrboneYszpPOBUCUFm8wyOOQ_iGaz0MAoltHBUUZBw5Tdw5Hwz2RYiJA8GfqEcOQFZzIy41Yu4X_ijF-4REcrg89rRHdsyfdndpgAdVrTYam8Y11qq8ca0oiOj-qoEiV0Lp10OpVoKNQ5seG_zDu6VcnEXSdcXH2pzncT_nPykmG8bhwqpL731cR0S4Glw6tu1pYjHBMm6BcLHO37C-reCxwYmwV4XOAV_hj0QRRmXmvRHIffUkpnB4gzF53eJfrYl1Jz-AGdwgco>
>
> *Pulling out of WHO is a disaster for the lives and health of all people,
> including Americans. I can’t imagine a worse thing to do in the midst of a
> pandemic and ongoing work to fight back TB, HIV, polio, and other health
> threats. America First does not work for global disease.*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEluwzAMfE10NLTHOeiQS_oMQwsTq7UlQ6Lq-PeVG4AHDgkOZ8ZbhFcuh9lyRdIqlCkGc1OCX6kgwcjARjWSWKdnAVhtXAyWBmRrboneYszpPOBUCUFm8wyOOQ_iGaz0MAoltHBUUZBw5Tdw5Hwz2RYiJA8GfqEcOQFZzIy41Yu4X_ijF-4REcrg89rRHdsyfdndpgAdVrTYam8Y11qq8ca0oiOj-qoEiV0Lp10OpVoKNQ5seG_zDu6VcnEXSdcXH2pzncT_nPykmG8bhwqpL731cR0S4Glw6tu1pYjHBMm6BcLHO37C-reCxwYmwV4XOAV_hj0QRRmXmvRHIffUkpnB4gzF53eJfrYl1Jz-AGdwgco>
>
> *STAT @statnews
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEluwzAMfE10NLTHOeiQS_oMQwsTq7UlQ6Lq-PeVG4AHDgkOZ8ZbhFcuh9lyRdIqlCkGc1OCX6kgwcjARjWSWKdnAVhtXAyWBmRrboneYszpPOBUCUFm8wyOOQ_iGaz0MAoltHBUUZBw5Tdw5Hwz2RYiJA8GfqEcOQFZzIy41Yu4X_ijF-4REcrg89rRHdsyfdndpgAdVrTYam8Y11qq8ca0oiOj-qoEiV0Lp10OpVoKNQ5seG_zDu6VcnEXSdcXH2pzncT_nPykmG8bhwqpL731cR0S4Glw6tu1pYjHBMm6BcLHO37C-reCxwYmwV4XOAV_hj0QRRmXmvRHIffUkpnB4gzF53eJfrYl1Jz-AGdwgco>*
>
> *BREAKING: Trump announces that U.S. is terminating its relationship with
> the World Health Organization. Story to come.*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEluwzAMfE10NLTHOeiQS_oMQwsTq7UlQ6Lq-PeVG4AHDgkOZ8ZbhFcuh9lyRdIqlCkGc1OCX6kgwcjARjWSWKdnAVhtXAyWBmRrboneYszpPOBUCUFm8wyOOQ_iGaz0MAoltHBUUZBw5Tdw5Hwz2RYiJA8GfqEcOQFZzIy41Yu4X_ijF-4REcrg89rRHdsyfdndpgAdVrTYam8Y11qq8ca0oiOj-qoEiV0Lp10OpVoKNQ5seG_zDu6VcnEXSdcXH2pzncT_nPykmG8bhwqpL731cR0S4Glw6tu1pYjHBMm6BcLHO37C-reCxwYmwV4XOAV_hj0QRRmXmvRHIffUkpnB4gzF53eJfrYl1Jz-AGdwgco>
>
> *May 29th 2020*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEluwzAMfE10NLTHOeiQS_oMQwsTq7UlQ6Lq-PeVG4AHDgkOZ8ZbhFcuh9lyRdIqlCkGc1OCX6kgwcjARjWSWKdnAVhtXAyWBmRrboneYszpPOBUCUFm8wyOOQ_iGaz0MAoltHBUUZBw5Tdw5Hwz2RYiJA8GfqEcOQFZzIy41Yu4X_ijF-4REcrg89rRHdsyfdndpgAdVrTYam8Y11qq8ca0oiOj-qoEiV0Lp10OpVoKNQ5seG_zDu6VcnEXSdcXH2pzncT_nPykmG8bhwqpL731cR0S4Glw6tu1pYjHBMm6BcLHO37C-reCxwYmwV4XOAV_hj0QRRmXmvRHIffUkpnB4gzF53eJfrYl1Jz-AGdwgco>
>
> *4,141 Retweets10,868 Likes
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEluwzAMfE10NLTHOeiQS_oMQwsTq7UlQ6Lq-PeVG4AHDgkOZ8ZbhFcuh9lyRdIqlCkGc1OCX6kgwcjARjWSWKdnAVhtXAyWBmRrboneYszpPOBUCUFm8wyOOQ_iGaz0MAoltHBUUZBw5Tdw5Hwz2RYiJA8GfqEcOQFZzIy41Yu4X_ijF-4REcrg89rRHdsyfdndpgAdVrTYam8Y11qq8ca0oiOj-qoEiV0Lp10OpVoKNQ5seG_zDu6VcnEXSdcXH2pzncT_nPykmG8bhwqpL731cR0S4Glw6tu1pYjHBMm6BcLHO37C-reCxwYmwV4XOAV_hj0QRRmXmvRHIffUkpnB4gzF53eJfrYl1Jz-AGdwgco>*
>
>
>
> Rice:
>
> [image: Image removed by sender.]*Susan Rice* *@AmbassadorRice*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEuOwyAMPU1ZRnxCmi5YzGYOMBeIDDgNMwlE4Ezb248zlZCFn2W_TwDCe6kvt5dG4mhYpxTdzRp9lUZE10c12lGkNs0VcYO0OqoHiv3wawpAqeRzQUtrjFjc2M_9bIE79DAOo_cw46xvmsERpBInzQRHTJgDOvzF-ioZxeoWor1dzMdFf_KjRyLC2oWycfexeWgNYqlfKSADjYCOxh-lh6EflDE3bbladVUisRotWYKUQ2_s2KnuuS8P9Pdcqr_0crvrrh2ej4Sfk0FU9w2pa5h5GCCkrctIp8WJp9uRE70mzOBXjG_39I7r3wy9dnQZH23FU_Ib5EisVLofBBPFwrlltyDQgjWUZ01hgRpbyX9IOIJm>
>
> *Unspeakably stupid and self-defeating https://t.co/R3Fbiq5GeL*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEuOwyAMPU1ZRnxCmi5YzGYOMBeIDDgNMwlE4Ezb248zlZCFn2W_TwDCe6kvt5dG4mhYpxTdzRp9lUZE10c12lGkNs0VcYO0OqoHiv3wawpAqeRzQUtrjFjc2M_9bIE79DAOo_cw46xvmsERpBInzQRHTJgDOvzF-ioZxeoWor1dzMdFf_KjRyLC2oWycfexeWgNYqlfKSADjYCOxh-lh6EflDE3bbladVUisRotWYKUQ2_s2KnuuS8P9Pdcqr_0crvrrh2ej4Sfk0FU9w2pa5h5GCCkrctIp8WJp9uRE70mzOBXjG_39I7r3wy9dnQZH23FU_Ib5EisVLofBBPFwrlltyDQgjWUZ01hgRpbyX9IOIJm>
>
> *Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEuOwyAMPU1ZRnxCmi5YzGYOMBeIDDgNMwlE4Ezb248zlZCFn2W_TwDCe6kvt5dG4mhYpxTdzRp9lUZE10c12lGkNs0VcYO0OqoHiv3wawpAqeRzQUtrjFjc2M_9bIE79DAOo_cw46xvmsERpBInzQRHTJgDOvzF-ioZxeoWor1dzMdFf_KjRyLC2oWycfexeWgNYqlfKSADjYCOxh-lh6EflDE3bbladVUisRotWYKUQ2_s2KnuuS8P9Pdcqr_0crvrrh2ej4Sfk0FU9w2pa5h5GCCkrctIp8WJp9uRE70mzOBXjG_39I7r3wy9dnQZH23FU_Ib5EisVLofBBPFwrlltyDQgjWUZ01hgRpbyX9IOIJm>*
>
> *Pulling out of WHO is a disaster for the lives and health of all people,
> including Americans. I can’t imagine a worse thing to do in the midst of a
> pandemic and ongoing work to fight back TB, HIV, polio, and other health
> threats. America First does not work for global disease.
> https://t.co/gxcoATZN7T*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEuOwyAMPU1ZRnxCmi5YzGYOMBeIDDgNMwlE4Ezb248zlZCFn2W_TwDCe6kvt5dG4mhYpxTdzRp9lUZE10c12lGkNs0VcYO0OqoHiv3wawpAqeRzQUtrjFjc2M_9bIE79DAOo_cw46xvmsERpBInzQRHTJgDOvzF-ioZxeoWor1dzMdFf_KjRyLC2oWycfexeWgNYqlfKSADjYCOxh-lh6EflDE3bbladVUisRotWYKUQ2_s2KnuuS8P9Pdcqr_0crvrrh2ej4Sfk0FU9w2pa5h5GCCkrctIp8WJp9uRE70mzOBXjG_39I7r3wy9dnQZH23FU_Ib5EisVLofBBPFwrlltyDQgjWUZ01hgRpbyX9IOIJm>
>
> *May 29th 2020*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEuOwyAMPU1ZRnxCmi5YzGYOMBeIDDgNMwlE4Ezb248zlZCFn2W_TwDCe6kvt5dG4mhYpxTdzRp9lUZE10c12lGkNs0VcYO0OqoHiv3wawpAqeRzQUtrjFjc2M_9bIE79DAOo_cw46xvmsERpBInzQRHTJgDOvzF-ioZxeoWor1dzMdFf_KjRyLC2oWycfexeWgNYqlfKSADjYCOxh-lh6EflDE3bbladVUisRotWYKUQ2_s2KnuuS8P9Pdcqr_0crvrrh2ej4Sfk0FU9w2pa5h5GCCkrctIp8WJp9uRE70mzOBXjG_39I7r3wy9dnQZH23FU_Ib5EisVLofBBPFwrlltyDQgjWUZ01hgRpbyX9IOIJm>
>
> *860 Retweets3,609 Likes
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUEuOwyAMPU1ZRnxCmi5YzGYOMBeIDDgNMwlE4Ezb248zlZCFn2W_TwDCe6kvt5dG4mhYpxTdzRp9lUZE10c12lGkNs0VcYO0OqoHiv3wawpAqeRzQUtrjFjc2M_9bIE79DAOo_cw46xvmsERpBInzQRHTJgDOvzF-ioZxeoWor1dzMdFf_KjRyLC2oWycfexeWgNYqlfKSADjYCOxh-lh6EflDE3bbladVUisRotWYKUQ2_s2KnuuS8P9Pdcqr_0crvrrh2ej4Sfk0FU9w2pa5h5GCCkrctIp8WJp9uRE70mzOBXjG_39I7r3wy9dnQZH23FU_Ib5EisVLofBBPFwrlltyDQgjWUZ01hgRpbyX9IOIJm>*
>
>
>
> China:
> *https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/politics/trump-china-announcement/index.html*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUMtuxCAM_JrlVkRISLIHDr30NyIe3oU2mAicZvP3JV3J8mtkjz3OEDxzOfWWK7G9Qlmi13fVy0n0zOvBd7OaWazLowAkE1dNZQe27XaNzlDMeA1IofqeBd1NYjZutLPqTD-pefBimKy9Px7ezKP07KJZzO4joAMNv1DOjMBWHYi2eus_b_Kr2XEc3CFyl1OrpJCiBaGu_N7cltdI0dWWtmvS9uFCRPNhEPPe9iZAalBEDy8eKK0s6mtHO1KIcejVzDv-2sIB9om52Nsg0lPyuttKxv1crKzobxN5BWygMy4mjkDX20tD046RzgXQ2BX8WxF6S_j_IJ0baISjrkAE5d1sMinRyWFkjcjnpiXqAIYCFJdfJbpgiq8Z_wCNbYoP>
>
> Withdrawal doctrine:
> *https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/27/trumps-foreign-policy-doctrine-withdrawal-doctrine/*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJw9UMtuxCAM_JrlthEJIbs9cOilvxHxcAJtYhA4pfn7kq5UycKWR-MZxmqCNeZTpViIHQXyHJx6k2J4cMGcGl3_lE8WyrxkgF2HTVE-gKXDbMFqChEvwsClEMwrMDBNgvdWamcm6O1kl0VIENI8Fsctu2RmfbgAaEHBN-QzIrBNeaJUbuL9Nny0qrV2VRcfcKWIF6mzcW9ATAGbZmnjwAfeGpfX_GhPM7ancl9ihrDiPcXm8Ly7aCkHhHsN5F3WVW__u0ZiQV2Hmn_Op1HIZ9d3P8lXMCvGbG4j39ehK4cppO3X5YJl9alDVwAbaLUNe4dAVyJzQ_cDA50zoDYbuFdY9Er37-90JlAItWxABPm1bAlK3g_jxJqQiy1mVB40ecg2_uRgvc6uRPwFb66WEw>
>
> Russia and Europe:
> *https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/world/europe/unit-29155-russia-gru.html*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUMtuxCAM_JrltghIyOPAoZf-RsTDDbQJRGCazd-XdCXLtmZsjT1WI6wpX-pIBUktkJfg1Cw7MbKOONU7PsmJhLJ8ZYBdh01hrkCOarZgNYYU7wXBZNcRr7gxg-jNPAktJBvHQXMNVtp5HqcvGEZyyyy6ugDRgoJfyFeKQDblEY_y6D4e4rPFeZ40Xhh2KNSmvSGC8bkVzlpi0z2S8uZahZrTAa2pMeBTzFzKZ66lBP1cc6Ue942EdqBg7UbGhr6TE-X0dfgTzBpTNo-e7augpZqC2v7cgiSrbx1ogdhIq23YaQS8v14au99S1wJRmw3c2xB8O_j_H14HqAhn2QAR8htsLknGRT-QJuRSszIqDxo9ZJteOVivsysp_gEhXYh8>
>
> Summaries:
> *https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/politics/michael-flynn-declassified-documents/index.html*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMuSqyAQQL8m7EIhqIkLFrO5v2Fh00ZmsLGgvca_H5xUUU2_Hwcc4yvl026psNgL5jF4O3RGP5QR3ra-eXZPEco4Z8TVhWg57yi2fYoBHIdEV4FWnTFisaZV8PBmfjYdtA30vemHfnYNzAPq4aHFNWZ0uw9IgBb_Yz4ToYh2Yd7KzXzd9L_6juOQQCQhrdXSSqv6qe7Shyq2FAMHKFVdAywO432OJ9HdI0RXSpgD-rtPsK9IfKUF8viWC69RBHv1qwsr1beme8pGvrflwOlFKU-3Vq0vLcs-FXbwc20gsv12QRakGgQHYZWEfCEYa3TdKfA5Irkpov_Q4Q_Ov2P53NASHiUiM-aPsyLrVKPbXtRBPlWuZBd0vGCG9M7XTdmXRL_qbo5J>
>
> Russian expulsion:
> *https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/07/russia-expels-755-u-s-diplomats-in-retaliation-for-sanctions.html*
> <http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkEGO5CAMRU9T7IgICZ30gsVs5hqRA66KuwlE2Jmuuv2QLgmBsWX9938AwUepL38UFnUy1oWi_3SDncygoh9jP7tZES_3irgDJS_1RHWca6IAQiVfC9a4YVCbD2aeJ4cRhhA_Jzf1I06j6SPcjY3GOnXJLHBGwhzQ4z-sr5JRJb-JHHwb_tzs33Y4Na4ulL3VGX9YQ476KImEAreeNf3UHnNd9WQm0Pg8MLGenNOnZh3pSGUHYU1ZVxRI9Eur76VqhhyuD3eb7ElR47emWTDmYxzc3PXd89h-cH3kUtfbaPaH7fhcWSB8X1Sq-i-gjjG3YYBAe5dRrlCWNt3PTPJaMMOaML7zknfAv_bldaC_XCUUwfputhCd6e34oZpQbOSU_YYgG9ZQnpXCBjVyyf8BM6KVsA>
>
>
> *https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/363060-missing-big-picture-in-flynn-plea-trump-team-crippled-american-diplomatic*
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> ____________________________
>
> Jai Sen
>
> Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of
> International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of
> Ottawa
>
> *jai.sen at cacim.net* <jai.sen at cacim.net>
>
> Now based in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325) and in Ottawa, Canada, on
> unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900)
>
> CURRENT / RECENT publications :
>
> Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – *The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our
> Dance*. Ebook and hard copy available at *PM Press*
> <http://www.pmpress.org/>
>
> Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – *The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us
> Move ?* (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration
> with OpenWord and PM Press.  Hard copy available at *MOM1AmazonIN*
> <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>
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> and *MOM1AUpFront* <http://www.authorsupfront.com/movements.htm>
>
> Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – *The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us
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> ____________________________
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> Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of
> International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of
> Ottawa
>
> *jai.sen at cacim.net* <jai.sen at cacim.net>
>
> Now based in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325) and in Ottawa, Canada, on
> unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900)
>
> CURRENT / RECENT publications :
>
> Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – *The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our
> Dance*. Ebook and hard copy available at *PM Press*
> <http://www.pmpress.org/>
>
> Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – *The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us
> Move ?* (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration
> with OpenWord and PM Press.  Hard copy available at *MOM1AmazonIN*
> <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>
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> ____________________________
>
> Jai Sen
>
> Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of
> International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of
> Ottawa
>
> *jai.sen at cacim.net* <jai.sen at cacim.net>
>
> Now based in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325) and in Ottawa, Canada, on
> unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900)
>
> CURRENT / RECENT publications :
>
> Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – *The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our
> Dance*. Ebook and hard copy available at *PM Press*
> <http://www.pmpress.org/>
>
> Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – *The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us
> Move ?* (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration
> with OpenWord and PM Press.  Hard copy available at *MOM1AmazonIN*
> <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>
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> Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – *The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us
> Move ?*.  New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press.  Ebook and
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