Our Phantasmagoric Agenda: Class 15– It’s OCTOBER 13!!!!
History 100 (US to 1877)
Class 15 —nearly done!
SIGN IN SIGN IN SIGN IN!!
Why are things as they are? We make our own histories but not in circumstances we chose.
We can comprehend and change the world. What we do counts. Things change!
http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/265/the-sounds-of-resistance-the-role-of-music-in-south-africas-anti-apartheid-movement
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October 13th and 14th:
- 54 – Roman Emperor Claudius is poisoned to death under mysterious circumstances. His 17-year-old stepson Nero succeeds him to the Roman throne
- .1845 – A majority of voters in the Republic of Texas approve a proposed constitution that, if accepted by the U.S. Congress, will make Texas a U.S. state.
- 1925 – An Anti-French uprising in French-occupied Damascus, Syria. (All French inhabitants flee the city.)
- 1943 – Prisoners at the Nazi German Sobibór extermination camp in Poland revolt against the Germans, killing eleven SS guards, and wounding many more. About 300 of the Sobibor Camp’s 600 prisoners escape, and about 50 of these survive the end of the war
- .1949 – Eleven leaders of the American Communist Party are convicted, after a nine-month trial in a Federal District Court, of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government.
- 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U.S. Air Force U-2 reconnaissance plane and its pilot fly over the island of Cuba and take photographs of Sovietmissiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads being installed and erected in Cuba.
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- 1968 – Vietnam War: Twenty-seven soldiers are arrested at the Presidio of San Francisco in California for their peaceful protest of stockade conditions and the Vietnam War.
- 1968 – Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps will send about 24,000 soldiers and Marines back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty in the combat zone there.
- 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and later executed
Our Agenda
1. What is up? We’ll miss the scintillating Dem debates! Russia, USA, SYRIA, Iraq
2. I’ll send you a list of “what’s up resources that I check on your request.
3. 2 Educational Videos on the Great Flint Strike Against GM
4. Discussion after each video
5. Wrap up of what we did and fond farewells.
Everything is due midnight October 15th
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Below, Fling Michigan
History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. ~Voltaire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZDiaRZy0Ak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZB57b3lPQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOemvzHPkfo
October 8th 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.
1939 – World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKO6fdA3EUU
1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
book suggestion
Our Agenda
1. WHAT is UP???
*Doctors without borders on the US bombing of a hospital
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/unspeakable-msf-nurse-recounts-attack-msfs-kunduz-hospital
Dr. Joanne Liu, the international president of Doctors Without Borders, repeated her demand for an independent investigation led by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission to “establish what happened in Kunduz, how it happened, and why it happened.”White House officials said the president had confidence that the investigative effort now underway, including an inquiry being conducted by the Department of Defense, would be “transparent, it will be thorough, and it will be objective.”
White House officials said the president had confidence that the investigative effort now underway, including an inquiry being conducted by the Department of Defense, would be “transparent, it will be thorough, and it will be objective.”
*Docs Without Borders on the TPP
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses its dismay that TPP countries have agreed to United States government and multinational drug company demands that will raise the price of medicines for millions by unnecessarily extending monopolies and further delaying price-lowering generic competition. The big losers in the TPP are patients and treatment providers in developing countries. Although the text has improved over the initial demands, the TPP will still go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access to medicines in developing countries, which will be forced to change their laws to incorporate abusive intellectual property protections for pharmaceutical companies.
*Flint, Michigan Poisoning children with led in the water
the guidance from Flint officials about the temporary water supply they switched to in 2014 — partly to save money — sounded assuring. In a notice sent to residents in July, city officials declared: “This is not an emergency. If a situation arises where the water is no longer safe to drink, you will be notified within 24 hours.”
*LA Times Headline :
In Putin’s military escalation in Syria, one clear loser: Obama
The outcome of Vladimir Putin’s bold military gamble in Syria is far from clear, but in the short term, one loser seems certain: President Obama.
The Kremlin raised the stakes Wednesday by firing cruise missiles into Syria from warships nearly 1,000 miles away as Obama’s critics at home and abroad said Putin’s escalating attempt to bolster Syrian President Bashar Assad already has made the White House look weak and wavering.
The White House has been poised for weeks to quietly shift more U.S. military support to seasoned Kurdish militias and other rebel fighters in northern Syria. But at this point, any change in policy will appear to be in response to Putin’s muscular moves, not a new initiative to help solve the multi-sided conflict.
2. A look back at the Civil War and on to Reconstruction, and its end.
3. Korea and, perhaps, South AfricS
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October 6 was boring so here is
October 7th! 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1950 – Mother Teresa builds an order called Missionary of Charity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4
- 1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. Below , Bush is talking about success in Iraq. “..major combat actions have ended..and the United States and our allies have prevailed. ..we fought for liberty and peace..”
Our Agenda
- What IS up??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fdklU9hyiM
* Trans Pacific Pipeline vs China and its already completed trade partnership
*US Bombing hospital from C130 (remember “Puff?) for 30 minutes = war crime?
*Big decisions for Supremes! abortion, affirmative action, union dues (agency shop)
2. US society up and into Civil War: development of capitalism, empire, and legal racism
But 1954 did not end “legal” segregation in schools, housing, daily life. No reparations?
The Texas textbooks that refer to slaves as “workers.”
http://www.oncoursesystems.com/school/webpage/14424/743808
3. What is fascism? This will help in understanding the failure of socialism and S. Africa.
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill
October 1 1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia”, capture Damascus.
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
Monument to Commandant Wirz at Andersonville Prison–tried and hanged for “Crimes Against Humanity.” He claimed he was innocent, “only following orders.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUwDdqEe1GE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMBCfxIqP-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU83R7rpXQY
Agenda
1. What IS up?
*UAW Members Rejected Fiat-Chrysler deal–what next?
*Russia bombs Syria–Obama warns Russia not to hit civilians and Kerry claims they needed US permission.
2. Coda–wrapping up lessons from Vietnam
3. USA to just after 1848–and maybe a bit beyond
4. Student discussion groups after break–besides Korea, what else shall we touch on?
5. What is fascism?
- R. Palme Dutt (British Indian)
Issues to Grasp
- What is feudalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Capitalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Democracy/republic
- Nationalism–done satisfactorily?
- Imperialism—Done satisfactorily?
- US Constitution and Bill of Rights–the debates
- How to treat religion? Done Satisfactorily?
- Racism (who gains?) Done satisfactorily?
- Civil War and Jim Crow
- Socialism Done Satisfactorily?
- Communism Done Satisfactorily?
- Fascism
- Why war on war?
- What is the strategy of guerrilla war, i.e., the indirect ofr “Fabian” approach?
- Why repeated financial crisis? Done satisfactorily?
- Why have government? (who gains?) Done Satisfactorily?
- Why WWI
- Why WWII
- Vietnam Wars?
- USSR and Russia
- China Before, during,and after Mao Done Satisfactorily?
- Afghan War Done Satisfactorily?
- Iraq war–done satisfactorily?
- Syria
- S. Aftrica
- Israel
- Resistance–past and present: unions, IWW, CPUSA, SDS, Occupy=Organization
- The university systems and how to do them –done satisfactorily?
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Eleven
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. ~Herodotus, The History of Herodotus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AkLE4X-bbU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwCdKedb8_g
September 29: 1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1960 – Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w685Ltq9AGI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLqpJ-0VLio
What IS UP???
*Putin arrives–Syria and Iraq and?
Obama to Putin:“I lead the strongest military the world has ever known.” Then he talks “world peace…”
“I will never hesitate to protect my country and our allies unilaterally and by force when necessary.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3mgnnhIYWI
- first anniversary of the 43 Kidnapped!
- UAW Might vote down Contract–then what?
Afghanistan–Kunduz falls–the Taliban are coming….what defeats men with guns?
Agenda
Please put evaluations in my red bag during break or after class
1. Vietnam
2. Devine until 1848
Issues to Grasp
- What is feudalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Capitalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Democracy/republic
- Nationalism–done satisfactorily?
- Imperialism—Done satisfactorily?
- US Constitution and Bill of Rights–the debates
- How to treat religion? Done Satisfactorily?
- Racism (who gains?) Done satisfactorily?
- Civil War and Jim Crow
- Socialism Done Satisfactorily?
- Communism Done Satisfactorily?
- Fascism
- Why war on war?
- What is the strategy of guerrilla war, i.e., the indirect ofr “Fabian” approach?
- Why repeated financial crisis? Done satisfactorily?
- Why have government? (who gains?) Done Satisfactorily?
- Why WWI
- Why WWII
- Vietnam Wars?
- USSR and Russia
- China Before, during,and after Mao Done Satisfactorily?
- Afghan War Done Satisfactorily?
- Iraq war–done satisfactorily?
- Syria
- S. Aftrica
- Israel
- Resistance–past and present: unions, IWW, CPUSA, SDS, Occupy=Organization
- The university systems and how to do them –done satisfactorily?
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb (not if Zinn has his way)
Don’t make me take attendance after the break. SWC accreditation!
September 24 1869 – “Black Friday“: Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
2013 – A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.
2014 – The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars.
The full movie is online–Rosewood happened in 1923
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD5fMMXwZs8
What is up? Petraeus is back! He wants all out war on Syria now. It’s a shift from allying with AQ.
David Petraeus Is Sentenced to Probation in Leak Investigation
As part of the plea agreement, Mr. Petraeus admitted that he gave his lover, Paula Broadwell, who was writing a biography about him, black notebooks that contained sensitive information about official meetings, war strategy and intelligence capabilities, as well as the names of covert officers.
According to court documents, he discussed the black books during an interview that Ms. Broadwell taped with Mr. Petraeus while she was working on the biography, telling her, “They are highly classified, some of them.”
Three weeks later, he gave her the notebooks.
In 2012, the F.B.I. opened a cyberstalking investigation after a friend of Mr. Petraeus’s reported to the authorities that she was receiving threatening messages from someone who appeared to know a lot about Mr. Petraeus’s whereabouts. It was later revealed that the person sending the messages was Ms. Broadwell.
During that investigation, Mr. Petraeus was questioned by F.B.I. agents at the C.I.A. headquarters, where he was serving as director. As part of his plea, Mr. Petraeus admitted that he misled the agents by telling them that he had not given Ms. Broadwell classified information.
Three days after President Obama was re-elected in November 2012, Mr. Petraeus resigned, admitting to the affair but saying he had done nothing illegal. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/david-petraeus-to-be-sentenced-in-leak-investigation.html?_r=0
2. Farewell Yogi!
- “Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.”
- “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
- “It’s déjà vu all over again.”
- “We made too many wrong mistakes.”
- “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up someplace else.”
- “It gets late early out here.”
3. Will FARC give up their guns?
Putin opens 10,ooo seat Mosque in Moscow
Will the Saudis crucify a young man for demonstrating for democracy?
More than 700 die on the hajj pilgrimage.
The Russians are Coming! Putin!
Advice about colleges and universities
*Get scholarships! Grades suck, but grades matter. What would Kim Philby do?
*Select the best possible school–with the best reputation–schools are Not equal (UC vs CSU vs CC)
*Determine to finish from the outset. Don’t just stick your toe in.
*Find a mentor–fast–get help with right classes and schedule. Visit profs during office hours.
*Stay away from frats/sororities and 7 day a week parties.
*Make an effort to connect with and learn from people from different backgrounds. Make friends!
*Pick classes with care–ask your mentor–other students–don’t count on RateMyProf.
*Read the syllabus! Follow it. Keep up.
*Sit in front if you can stand it.
*Use writing centers. If they suck and always only use formulas, get Ken Macrorie’s I Search Paper online.
*Proofread. Don’t just spell check. Get someone else to proof too.
*Create a disciplined schedule that includes exercise at least 30 minutes a day 4 days a week.
Don’t be discouraged by crappy classes, bad profs. If someone is stealing your education–steal it back. You are responsible for your own education.
Don’t be suckered by bad, for-profit colleges (Corinthean, etc.) as you will get a worthless degree and lots of debt.
A fine prof who is a friend adds: eat right and sleep. And become a serious person. That is, some of the best things in life aren’t fun or entertaining. Finally, I would say that even though all colleges aren’t alike, what you get out of them is to a large extent, much larger than an 18 year old would usually expect, up to you. There are tons of incredibly intelligent people even in crappy schools. Be serious about finding them.
Tuesday. Vietnam Wars. Also, please bring an anonymous class evaluation. How am I doing with my responsibilities as a prof? How are you doing as a student. On the whole, do you understand the processes of history?
Zinn on the effort to exterminate the Indians
Above, Osceola, leader of the Florida Seminoles: captured under a white flag, died in prison: 1838. The Seminoles never surrendered.
Andrew Jackson, Slaver, land grabber, Indian fighter (prezzie 1829-37)
A Brief History of the Trail of Tears Cherokee web site http://www.cherokee.org/AboutTheNation/History/TrailofTears/ABriefHistoryoftheTrailofTears.aspx
Devine on the expansion of Capital and Empire in the USA!
Students’ groups: What of our check list of: Class? Race? Nation? Sex/Gender? Culture?
Plenary discussion–Review of discussion groups; Why the Panic of 1837? Hint: it is a result of the development of the ontology of social being!
“Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
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People Without a Historical Memory can Become Collectively Mad, Fast!
*Joe Hill Invaded Mexico! “Remembering the Mexican IWW
above, Ricardo Magnon who led the IWW’s efforts for a revolution in Mexico
Movies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L0e3_6_0nw
September 22
1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.
1919 – The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
Second Quote of the Day, from Occupy San Diego: “The Constitution says I have a right to revolution.”
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29: VIETNAM WARS! DON”T MISS!
http://www.richgibson.com/vietnam/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djw_PEPmOns
Our Agenda
1. What’s up? Pope to USA from Cuba ($2.8 billion for child abuse in US alone + the Mob + Vatican Bank, Junipero Serra!)
and China’s Xi JinPing (corruption? Human rights? economy stagnant, pivot!) to the USA! “Preserving US primacy in the global system ought to remain the central objective of the US grand strategy in the 21st century.” Robert Blackwell Council on Foreign Relations.
Fashion! Gibson IS fashionable (especially in his modeling days).
1 in 5 female undergrads report a sexual assault.
VW Busted–Profiteering vs Environment on 11 million cars.
2. Devine through Chapter 9 –Empire! Capital!
What contradictions do you see in the material world up to around 1825?
Washington Farewell Address:
(1) No Kings or monarchs
(2) Two terms –22nd amendment (3) Stay out of permanent alliances, i.e. European Wars,
(3) Beware of Two Party system (Jefferson vs Hamilton), love of party over country
(4) Avoid standing military “avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
(5) Don’t let local interests (north/southeast/west) dominate national interests as all trade, etc., is linked.
Still…who will do the work? Everything nearly makes sense–but for SLAVERY.
Lewis and Clark (May 1804 to September 1806) PBS interactive map http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/trailmap/
James Monroe (Monroe Doctrine (US as empire internally and externally)
What is rising up in what is now the USA and the world?
*Capitalism
*Empire
*The social ontology of being (wth is that?)
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Why are things as they are? We make our own history but not in circumstances we chose.
People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. ~James Baldwin,Notes of a Native Son
http://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm
September 17 1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee‘s Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
1900 – Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
2001 – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
Agenda
Side note–Paper deluge! GOOD! But I won’t meet my 36 hour response time! Sorry!
1. Movies to watch this weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9oY4rmDaWw
Dirty Wars online Free at http://putlocker.is/watch-dirty-wars-online-free-putlocker.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZUlRGI74vI
2. What’s Up?
*Only four or five U.S.-trained Syrian fighters remain on the battlefield , $500 million plan!
Richard Haas. Chair of Council on Foreign relations, on Syria and the Middle East: “It’s going to get worse before it gets worse. It reminds me of the 30 years war. It is the worst crisis since WWII. It is a toxic mix of religion, politics, and money.”
*Hungarian riot police in the border town of Röszke have used water cannon and teargas against refugees wanting to enter the country from Serbia.,
*Nobody charged for GM'[s deaths
*the number of homeless children in public schools has doubled since before the recession, reaching a record national total of 1.36 million in the 2013-2014 school year, according to new federal data.
3. Discussion of Sun Tzu and “The Art of War.”
4. Devine through Chapter 9 (maybe)
Issues to Grasp
- What is feudalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Capitalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Democracy/republic
- Nationalism–done satisfactorily?
- Imperialism—Done satisfactorily?
- US Constitution and Bill of Rights–the debates
- How to treat religion? Done Satisfactorily?
- Racism (who gains?) Done satisfactorily?
- Civil War and Jim Crow
- Socialism Done Satisfactorily?
- Communism Done Satisfactorily?
- Fascism
- Why war on war?
- What is the strategy of guerrilla war, i.e., the indirect ofr “Fabian” approach?
- Why repeated financial crisis? Done satisfactorily?
- Why have government? (who gains?) Done Satisfactorily?
- Why WWI
- Why WWII
- Vietnam Wars?
- USSR and Russia
- China Before, during,and after Mao Done Satisfactorily?
- Afghan War Done Satisfactorily?
- Iraq war–done satisfactorily?
- Syria
- S. Aftrica
- Israel
- Resistance–past and present: unions, IWW, CPUSA, SDS, Occupy=Organization
- The university systems and how to do them
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history will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill
September 15 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1916 – World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
Kipling: 
If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
September 15 1950 – Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon
- 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
Agenda
1. What IS Up? Test scores (fast) Ferguson (fast) to 7:00
2. Student groups– do you understand the issues checked off below? What else, if anything, would you like to learn? To 7:2o ish.
Then to the Iraq war…torture memos still secret…Russia and Iran to Syria
What I Didn’t Find in Africa
By JOSEPH C. WILSON 4th Published: July 6, 2003
WASHINGTON — Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?
Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.
For 23 years, from 1976 to 1998, I was a career foreign service officer and ambassador. In 1990, as chargé d’affaires in Baghdad, I was the last American diplomat to meet with Saddam Hussein. (I was also a forceful advocate for his removal from Kuwait.) After Iraq, I was President George H. W. Bush’s ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe; under President Bill Clinton, I helped direct Africa policy for the National Security Council. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.html
3. The conclusion of the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederacy, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, Federalism,
below, Washington before Valley Forgebattle
below, jefferson
below, James Madison
Zinn: Federalist Paper 10, written by James Madison, made clear why a strong central government was needed: to curb the potential demand of a “majority faction” for “an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked object.”
And so the Constitution set up big government, big enough to protect slave-holders against slave rebellion, to catch runaway slaves if they went from one state to another, to pay off bondholders, to pass tariffs on behalf of manufacturers, to tax poor farmers to pay for armies that would then attack the farmers if they resisted payment, as was done in the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania in 1794. Much of this was embodied in the legislation of the first Congress, responding to the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/BigGovernWhom_Zinn.html
Issues to Grasp
- What is feudalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Capitalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Democracy/republic
- Nationalism–done satisfactorily?
- Imperialism—Done satisfactorily?
- US Constitution and Bill of Rights–the debates
- How to treat religion? Done Satisfactorily?
- Racism (who gains?) Done satisfactorily?
- Civil War and Jim Crow
- Socialism Done Satisfactorily?
- Communism Done Satisfactorily?
- Fascism
- Why war on war?
- What is the strategy of guerrilla war, i.e., the indirect ofr “Fabian” approach?
- Why repeated financial crisis? Done satisfactorily?
- Why have government? (who gains?) Done Satisfactorily?
- Why WWI
- Why WWII
- Vietnam Wars?
- USSR and Russia
- China Before, during,and after Mao Done Satisfactorily?
- Afghan War Done Satisfactorily?
- Iraq war–done satisfactorily?
- Syria
- S. Aftrica
- Israel
- Resistance–past and present: unions, IWW, CPUSA, SDS, Occupy=Organization
- The university systems and how to do them
SIGN IN SIGN IN SIGN IN!!!!
September 10 class 6
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army. He was captured. Before he was hanged: ” “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
- 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters’ Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her “to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them”. She would become known as Mother Teresa.
- 1955 – The television series Gunsmoke premieres on CBS . It was the second western television series written for adults. The first was the Lone Ranger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65JxnUW7Wk4
September 11 1973 – A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet (+ CIA) topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power until ousted in a referendum in 1988, staying in power until 1990.
- Students in Groups? What do you feel you have not learned well enough so far? AND, What do you know about 9/111/2001 and the invasion of Afghanistan and what do you want to learn?
2. What is up? Sept 11 2001 and the Afghan Invasion
Above, “Remnants of an army” when Brits fled Kabul, Afghanistan, they left with 16,000 people. One survived unhurt. 1842.
Afghanistan has been known as the “Graveyard of empires” for 150 years.
Above, British author Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
The Young British Soldier
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,
An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased
Ere 'e's fit for to serve as a soldier.
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
So-oldier OF the Queen!
Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,
You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay,
An' I'll sing you a soldier as far as I may:
A soldier what's fit for a soldier.
Fit, fit, fit for a soldier . . .
First mind you steer clear o' the grog-sellers' huts,
For they sell you Fixed Bay'nets that rots out your guts --
Ay, drink that 'ud eat the live steel from your butts --
An' it's bad for the young British soldier.
Bad, bad, bad for the soldier . . .
When the cholera comes -- as it will past a doubt --
Keep out of the wet and don't go on the shout,
For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out,
An' it crumples the young British soldier.
Crum-, crum-, crumples the soldier . . .
But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:
You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:
If 'e finds you uncovered 'e'll knock you down dead,
An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier . . .
If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
Don't grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind;
Be handy and civil, and then you will find
That it's beer for the young British soldier.
Beer, beer, beer for the soldier . . .
Now, if you must marry, take care she is old --
A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest I'm told,
For beauty won't help if your rations is cold,
Nor love ain't enough for a soldier.
'Nough, 'nough, 'nough for a soldier . . .
If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath
To shoot when you catch 'em -- you'll swing, on my oath! --
Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er: that's Hell for them both,
An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.
Curse, curse, curse of a soldier . . .
When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,
Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,
Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck
And march to your front like a soldier.
Front, front, front like a soldier . . .
When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,
Don't call your Martini a cross-eyed old bitch;
She's human as you are -- you treat her as sich,
An' she'll fight for the young British soldier.
Fight, fight, fight for the soldier . . .
When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine,
The guns o' the enemy wheel into line,
Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine,
For noise never startles the soldier.
Start-, start-, startles the soldier . . .
If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier of the Queen!
Kiplings’s Outstanding poem “Tommy” is here http://quotations.about.com/cs/poemlyrics/a/Tommy.htm
Excerpt From Kipling’s Poem “White Man’s Burden” (1899) written to buttress American imperialism vs Spain, Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, etc.
Take up the White Man’s burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go send your sons to exile
To serve your captives’ need
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child
Take up the White Man’s burden
In patience to abide http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5478/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNb6SxXcD7g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWZ7bLG8PAo
“And for God’s sake keep shopping — “I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy” — and keep praying:
“And finally, please continue praying for the victims of terror and their families, for those in uniform and for our great country. Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.” (GWB) http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,175757,00.html
3. Devine and Zinn: Powerful ideas–The Enlightenment!
4. What is a revolution (Chalmers Johnson’s “Revolutionary Change”)
5. The radical American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution
Above John Locke
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above George III–tyrant
above Sam Adams
above John Adams
Above Tom Paine (“Common Sense”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xios_lZryfI
above, Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
Pending ?s and issues:
- What is feudalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Capitalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Democracy/republic
- Nationalism–done satisfactorily?
- Imperialism—Done satisfactorily?
- How to treat religion? Done Satisfactorily?
- Racism (who gains?) Done satisfactorily?
- Socialism Done Satisfactorily?
- Communism Done Satisfactorily?
- Fascism
- Why war on war?
- What is the strategy of guerrilla war, i.e., the indirect ofr “Fabian” approach?
- Why repeated financial crisis? Done satisfactorily?
- Why have government? (who gains?) Done Satisfactorily?
- Why WWI
- Why WWII
- Vietnam Wars?
- USSR and Russia
- China Before, during,and after Mao Done Satisfactorily?
- Afghan War
- Iraq war
- Syria
- S. Aftrica
- Israel
- Resistance–past and present: unions, IWW, CPUSA, Occupy=Organization
- The university systems and how to do them
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above Lyndie England torturing prisoner in Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
She served less than two years in prison as punishment for her actions and she still maintains that she does not regret what she did.
“A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.” Macauley. “The truth is in the Whole.” Hegel.
September 8th
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
1941 – World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union‘s second-largest city, Leningrad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yji2rjLdjkE
1974 – Watergate Scandal: US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
1978 – Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, provoked 88 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in Iran
Agenda
1. What IS up? Why Labor Day? Migration part 5.
2. My criticism of my answer to what if you are hungry and a hungry person asks for food?
3. What is racism?
Racism = indelible difference AND INNATE INFERIORITY linked to power and control
1 Racism becomes official, state, ideology and it is dangerous to oppose it.
2 Law forbids intermarriage
3. Segregation mandated by law
4. Out group cannot hold public posts
5. Segregation so powerful that Out group lives in poverty
6. Racism means death.
7. The unmentionable fact: Racism is profitable.
This was all true in the US South and much of the North, in South Africa, and Nazi Germany. It still is true in nearly all the world. Why?
Racism can be intellectually defeated by science but religious fanaticism cannot.
4. What is capitalism? (Mr Wilkins Micawber’s famous, and oft-quoted, recipe for happiness: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.”)
5. Why all the financial crises? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises
Foster’s book, immediately below, is the best academic work on 2008/09. He summarized his work here http://monthlyreview.org/2010/10/01/the-great-financial-crisis-three-years-on/
Taibbi’s book is well researched and very funny.
Lewis Corey is really Louis Farina. The full text of his book is online here https://www.marxists.org/archive/corey/1934/decline/intro1.html
Thomas Piketty recently wrote “Capital, in the 21st Century.” That refers back to Marx’ classic work: “Capital.” Piketty’s is an amazing collection of proofs about the rather obvious rise in inequality. Unfortunately, in the last chapter, he concludes with a solution: The Rich should give up a lot of their money.
The Originator of the Ponzi Schemes
Above, Bernie Madoff, recent Ponzi artist who stole $20 Billion and more–from his friends.
5. Devine and Zinn: Powerful ideas–The Enlightenment!
6. What is a revolution (Chalmers Johnson’s “Revolutionary Change”)
Pending ?s and issues:
- What is feudalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Capitalism?
- Democracy/republic
- Nationalism–done satisfactorily?
- Imperialism—Done satisfactorily?
- How to treat religion? Done Satisfactorily?
- Racism (who gains?)
- Socialism Done Satisfactorily?
- Communism Done Satisfactorily?
- Fascism
- Why war on war?
- What is the strategy of guerrilla war, i.e., the indirect ofr “Fabian” approach?
- Why repeated financial crisis?
- Why have government? (who gains?) Done Satisfactorily?
- Why WWI
- Why WWII
- Vietnam Wars?
- USSR and Russia
- China Before, during,and after Mao Done Satisfactorily?
- Afghan War
- Iraq war
- Syria
- S. Aftrica
- Israel
- Resistance–past and present: unions, IWW, CPUSA, Occupy=Organization
- The university systems and how to do them
Above, the man in the suit, surrounded by Nazi officials, is the US space program’s Werner von Braun
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Why are things as they are? We make our own history but not in circumstances we chose.
“History does not erase grievances but lays them about like Landmines.” Marx
September 2 1945 US Ally, Ho Chi Minh, issues a declaration of Independence for Vietnam
My Vietnam wars page http://www.richgibson.com/vietnam/
and an essay demonstrating the competing histories about the war http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/12/the-wars-on-vietnam/
September 3
1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy begins on the same day that U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign the Armistice of Cassibile aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta.
1944 – Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later.
1945 – A three-day celebration begins in China, following the Victory over Japan Day on September 2. This celebration is in full swing today, 2015
On good writing
Ken Macrorie’s thesis is linked below:
http://richgibson.com/isearch2.htm
This is the Penn State Writing Manual. I wrote it.
http://richgibson.com/writingmanual/Writeprj.htm
Our agenda
- What is up? Syrian toddler and the refugee/migrant crisis–why? SAT scores lowest in 10 years. Obama near the arctic–why?
- Questions about syllabus
- Why did the colonies in what became the US develop so differently from Mesoamerica?
- How shall we treat religion?The Spanish Inquisition (part 2), and the Spanish Requirement. (Key elements of the Inquisition: Set of disciplinary procedures targeting specific groups
codified in law
organized systematically, bureaucratic (instruction manuals, lawyers, etc)
enforced by surveillance and censorship–thought control
sustained over time,
backed by institutional power,
justified by a vision that there is one true path. Moral Certainty - The Spanish Requirement
- The contradictory relationship of indigenous people and the Europeans.
- Pending Question–why would loyal British subjects become revolutionaries?
Pending ?s and issues:
- What is feudalism? Done satisfactorily?
- Capitalism?
- Democracy/republic
- Nationalism–done satisfactorily?
- Imperialism—Done satisfactorily?
- How to treat religion?
- Racism (who gains?)
- Socialism
- Communism
- Fascism
- Why war on war?
- What is the strategy of guerrilla war, i.e., the indirect ofr “Fabian” approach?
- Why repeated financial crisis?
- Why have government? (who gains?)
- Why WWI
- Why WWII
- Vietnam Wars?
- USSR and Russia
- China Before, during,and after Mao
- Afghan War
- Iraq war
- Syria
- S. Aftrica
- Israel
- Resistance–past and present: unions, IWW, CPUSA, Occupy=Organization
- The university systems and how to do them
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“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” John Gardner
September 1 1864 – American Civil War: the Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
Above, the USSR’s Joe Stalin and German Nazi Ribbentrop signed pact, dividing eastern Europe: August 23, 1929.
1939 – Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1997 – The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is announced by Buckingham Palace.
Our agenda
1. What is UP??? Inequality and racism (what is racism?); US Grand Strategy and China (China history?); US and Russia (akd USSR–history?); Obama and the Arctic;
2. Syllabus Questions?????? Momentary Review on Why have school? Union Tribune, books, as well as re-run: What is history? Why study it?
https://youtu.be/NJ_lgo5JvDw
3. How to think (from syllabus)
4. The Master/Slave contradiction (from syllabus)
5. What is feudalism?
6. The invasions of the Americas: Spain vs the rest of Europe. What is imperialism? See Luxemburg (German Marxist) linked to syllabus.
7. Conquest; The Aztecs and mezo-America (why so easy? Strengths and Weaknesses of both sides? examining contradictions…)
8. The Spanish inquisition (See also “The Grand Inquisitor”, Dostoyevsky)
Pending ?s and issues:
- What is feudalism?
- Capitalism?
- Democracy/republic
- Nationalism
- Imperialism
- How to treat religion?
- Racism (who gains?)
- Socialism
- Communism
- Fascism
- Why war on war?
- What is the strategy of guerrilla war, i.e., the indirect ofr “Fabian” approach?
- Why repeated financial crisis?
- Why have government? (who gains?)
- Why WWI
- Why WWII
- Vietnam Wars?
- USSR and Russia
- China Before, during,and after Mao
- Afghan War
- Iraq war
- Syria
- S. Aftrica
- Israel
- Resistance–past and present: unions, IWW, CPUSA, Occupy=Organization
- The university systems and how to do them
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“Americans know so little history, they cannot connect cause and effect.” Chalmers Johnson (author of the “Nemesis Trilogy”).
Võ Nguyên Giáp (25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013)
August 27 1189 – Third Crusade: The Crusaders begin theSiege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan.
- 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas. The battle ends on August 30.
- 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- Some photos Cranbrook School http://www.pbase.com/drjaysel/photographs_taken_on_the_grounds_of_cranbrook
Sign in! Sign In! Sign In!
Agenda
- What IS up? Financial Instability/volatility, war refugees pour out of Middle East to Europe–on land and water, New Yorker and Urban League Report on New Orleans post-Karina. Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh and Dr Seuss. Amelia Boynton Robinson
- Re-run/review: Why Have School? What is the social context of school (main things going on in society). What cannot be taught?
- What we did in studying school: examined contradictions of the promise and reality: skill training, ideological training, babysitting, school as the central organizing point of US life, Huge Markets–and that led to the material base of schooling–$$$. And remember: truancy laws. What is the education agenda?
- If someone stole your education; steal it back.
- Review syllabus
- From syllabus: how were you taught history? So, what IS history (again, see the syllabus). We will review this nearly every class.
- The Master/slave exercise http://richgibson.com/masterslave.htm
History 100 (US to 1877)
Why are things as they are? We make our own history but not in circumstances we chose.
“Education is not the learning of facts. It is rather the training of the mind to think.” Einstein. “We can comprehend and change the world.” Gibson.
Agenda
- Introductions: Dr Rich Gibson, PhD Pennsylvania State University, emeritus professor SDSU, adjunct professor SWC.
- Student Introductions: (a) Name? (b) From? (c)Past school(s) (d) past experience with history? (e) why are you here? (f) what are you curious about?
- Back to Prof Gibson–
- Exercise in Critical Thinking: Why have school? Contradictions of schooling?
- What are the main things going on in school?
- What are the main things going on in society?
- What is history? Why Study history?
- What is up? What’s going on in the world now? We will START most classes with What’s up? It would be a good idea to note this: http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2015/aug/24/global-stocks-sell-off-deepens-as-panic-grips-markets-live?CMP=soc_567
On Thursday we will discuss the syllabus which is on my web page here http://richgibson.com/