The most recent calendar posting is at: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/02/update-for-week-8-of-2025-proposal-to.html This current top post is the 902nd.
From Simplicius March 10th: A company of Russian soldiers infiltrated behind Ukrainian lines in Sudzha, Kursk, in pre-War Russia, March 7-8th by going through 12 kilometers of the now empty Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline (or the Bratstvo, Brotherhood, West-Siberian, or Trans-Siberian Pipeline; March 1, 1973-January 1, 2025? There was a major transatlantic crisis in the early 80's due to US opposition to Western Europe buying natural gas from the Soviets, with possible sabotage and perhaps revenge killing; there was a major fire at a compressor station in Urengoy December 15, 1983 and there were other accidents or attacks May 7, 2007, December 6, 2007, sometime in May 2014, June 17, 2014, and December 20, 2022)? A similar scenario with an empty pipeline was depicted in the 1987 James Bond movie The Living Daylights, and was discussed by Antony Blinken in his thesis and first book (is all of this part of the reason the Russians used the pipeline in the War now?) – simplicius76.substack.com/p/kursk-collapse-accelerates-as-daring , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhhorod_pipeline , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_W._Weiss
Apparently Sudzha was held by Germany October 18, 1941-March 3, 1943, before the great WWII Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943; the town was part of Ukraine before 1922 and the capital of the Provisional Workers' and Peasants' Government of Ukraine. Maybe that is part of the reason a statue of Lenin was taken down sometime before August 16, 2024 under the new Ukrainian occupation, which began on August 15th. A drone was reportedly shot down by Russia in Sudzha June 4, 2023: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudzha
The 'restoration' of our 1st Amendment rights under Trump-Vance; first Obama-Biden-Trump came for the anti-war activists, supporters of Palestine, and undocumented immigrants...?
From The People's Forum:
Emergency Mobilization! Release Mahmoud Khalil! Hands Off Our Students! ICE Off Our Campuses!
"Dear [ ],
Last night, DHS agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate [according to the BBC March 9th: "a permanent US resident" with a Green Card, etc.?], from his home. Khalil and his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, had just unlocked the door to their building when two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them. The agents initially refused to identify themselves, instead asking Khalil to confirm his identity before detaining him without explanation. Khalil is now in ICE detention.
TOMORROW WE TAKE TO THE STREETS!
We demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. Hands off our students! ICE off our campuses!
📅 Tomorrow, Monday, March 10 🕓 4PM 📍Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, NYC" |
[There will be a UNC Carolina Center for Jewish Studies "community lecture" "When is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic? Getting Beyond the Polemics" with Ethan Katz of UC Berkeley 5:30-7pm Monday, March 17th at UNC's Stone Center: jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/community-lecture-ethan-katz/ Their advertisement is below. Katz will speak on "‘The Jew, My Brother in Misery’: Frantz Fanon on Jews, Zionism, and Israel" 12:30-1:30pm at the Center's office in Pettigrew Hall on the 17th; RSVP is required.
The Center is co-sponsoring a conference, "How WWII Changed Iran’s Social, Political, and Cultural Landscape," 8am-5pm Wednesday, April 2nd (with special emphasis on Polish refugees in Iran, which was partially occupied by the Allied powers during WWII?). There will be a UNC and Duke workshop, "Jewish Studies in the Aftermath of October 7," 8am-5pm April 7th and there will be a lunch seminar, "Follow the Footsteps of the Goat," April 8th 12:45-2pm at their office; RSVP is required; etc. – jewishstudies.unc.edu/event/
"When is Anti-Zionism Antisemitic? Getting Beyond the Polemics
From Congress to campuses, advocates debate ceaselessly the relationship of antisemitism to anti-Zionism. Too often they treat it as a black-and-white question, and critique their opponents as morally inferior. This talk draws on the complex history of anti-Zionism to open a deeper conversation on this vexed topic.
Ethan Katz is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Berkeley. He is a historian of modern Europe and the Mediterranean, with specialties in modern Jewish history and the history of modern France and its empire. His major publications include The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard, 2015) (winner of a number of honors including the National Jewish Book Award); Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times, co-edited with Ari Joskowicz (UPenn, 2015); and Colonialism and the Jews (Indiana, 2017), co-edited with Lisa Moses Leff and Maud S. Mandel. He teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level on Jewish history, late modern Europe, the Mediterranean, Jews and Muslims, the Holocaust, religion in the modern world, modern France and its empire, and methodological approaches of Jewish studies and history. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. in History and French from Amherst College."]
[March 11th it was announced that the ACLU of NC, Emancipate NC, and Muslim Advocates are suing UNC-Chapel Hill over its' "ongoing punishment of certain individuals involved in the nondisruptive, pro-Palestine encampment on campus last spring" (in late April) – www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/en/press-releases/suit-filed-against-unc Meanwhile, from the right, UNC is one of something like 60 universities and colleges being investigated by the Trump-Vance administration over allegations of "anti-semitism" on campus. WUNC mentioned UNC's new, self-imposed, legal troubles March 12th, and NPR has been covering the Mahmoud Khalil case, though I wonder if they aren't very committed to covering it, because it is about the pro-Palestine and anti-war struggle. I definitely heard yet more condemnation of Venezuela from WUNC and maybe NPR March 12th, and suddenly I feel like I heard them call capitalist Venezuela "communist" for a second time, but it must have been a dream [if the Biden White House said it, it must be true, on NPR]. They had Adrian Florido in Florida (?) covering the Khalil case, and I think I remember recent anti-Venezuelan statements from him.] [NPR didn't mention the Uhuru or FRSO persecutions under Biden and Obama at all, to my knowledge.]
From bdsmovement.net – Israeli Apartheid Week 2025 is March 21st (the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination) to March 30th (Palestinian Land Day), with the theme “People Power Makes Apartheid History” "Resist. Rise. Decolonize."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Benin
I received these two articles, translated from French; slightly edited:
Editorial
Tous, ensemble en lutte pour le départ des troupes françaises et la fin de l’autocratie !
Aujourd’hui comme en 1989, notre peuple est encore confronté à un pouvoir autocratique. La tenue des Assises nationales, d’une nouvelle Conférence nationale est devenue incontournable. Mais aujourd’hui comme janvier 1989, Talon et son clan pensent qu’ils ont définitivement vaincu le peuple et qu’avec l’aide de la France coloniale qui mène contre notre peuple une guerre de reconquête par terroristes interposés et l’accompagnement des dirigeants du Parti Les Démocrates, ils pourront amener le peuple dans le jeu des élections d’avance gagnées par eux. Mais c’est oublier ce qu’est le peuple béninois et ses capacités d’invention et qu’il saura tirer les leçons du passé.
Les manifestations pour le départ des troupes françaises de notre pays, les protestations des employés et ouvriers contre les conditions esclavagistes autorisées par le pouvoir de Talon, principalement au profit des monopoles français et étrangers, indiquent que le peuple ne se tait pas. Alors, Ensemble, tous en lutte pour le départ des troupes françaises et la fin de l’autocratie, pour la souveraineté de notre pays, la liberté et la démocratie pour le peuple, et un pouvoir patriotique et de probité.
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