China and Socialism: Same old anti-communist crap continues to ooze from the AFL-CIO

Monday, November 22, 2010

Same old anti-communist crap continues to ooze from the AFL-CIO

Monday, November 22, 2010

Same old anti-communist crap continues to ooze from the AFL-CIO

http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/11/21/report-the-real-story-behind-disney-toys-not-suited-for-children/

My response:

I doubt this is true about the child labor--- the conditions do sound a lot like what workers are subjected to at Lillian Vernon, Wal-mart and in the Indian Gaming Industry. I find it very strange that the AFL-CIO makes up these stupid stories about China when your own "coalition partner," the Democratic Party, devised the "Compacts" creating the Indian Gaming Industry which now has some two-million Americans--- mostly young or very old and many people of color including thousands of "undocumented workers"--- employed in loud, noisy, smoke-filled casinos at poverty wages working for a bunch of violent mobsters like the Fertitta's where workers have no rights at all under state or federal labor laws... and not once have you mentioned any of this on your blog or anyplace else... but, you publish a "report" accusing China of allowing child labor without one single shred of proof.

I will tell you what... if the AFL-CIO will pay for the trip, and Richard Trumka will accompany me, I will arrange with Chinese officials to go with us to visit these plants in question to see what's going on--- if, upon our return, Richard Trumka will come with me to see what is going on in the Indian Gaming Industry.

China definitely has its problems; but, exploiting child labor is not one of them.

Say, have you ever seen the faces of child poverty on Indian Reservations right here in the United States?
I am sure Richard Trumka could have accompanied his buddy Barack Obama to India and seen real exploitation of child labor.

I notice you don't publish the child victims of Obama's dirty wars on your blog, either. How many Chinese troops and drones do you see killing children?

Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council

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An Open Letter to President Barack Obama from Sidney J. Gluck

Attached is an open letter to President Barack Obama.

I don't know whether you agree with my point of view or not; but I am functioning out of the feeling that the negative aspects of capitalism are becoming obvious to people all around the world regardless of class positions, that understanding its avaricious nature brings them closer to Marx's analysis of the system which all of you can read his seminal word on "Capital." Chapter 26 which deals with the law of capitalist accumulation will give you the prototype of which the USA's capitalism is the arch example of its worst (together with the British who started out but are following along with the USA).

Globalization is a mess and everyone knows that the USA has created more poverty with its capital investments than existed before the global expansion. We know that formal colonial countries are seeing through this domination and are moving in directions which reject the control of foreign capital in their own developments. WE ARE LIVING IN A CENTURY OF EPOCHAL CHANGE. Our hope is that the change which is now developing in the form of a bipolar economic structure will continue to redevelop economies technologically and sustainably. We hope too that the ultimate resolution of differences between the double-structured world economic system will not be resolved by warfare. That is the most important struggle we must be involved with. A peaceful acceptance of epochal change and the survival of all in a better world.

Sincerely,

Sidney J. Gluck

Dear President Obama,

The world economic crisis sparked by the financial sector of our country has put the capitalist system on a defensive more openly than any other time in history. I am one of many who strongly supported your candidacy based on your vocalization of much of what we felt had to be changed in our country to make it more livable for those of us who produce the wealth and intellectual atmosphere.

You are facing the sharpest attack from the ranks of the Republican Party. We all admire your diplomatic ability to deal with those who disagree with you; but, the time has come when you must take an ideological position in order to clarify the issues involved in building a new type of economic structure in the country. This means that the dominance of the financial institutions in the political decisions affecting the majority must be defended openly against misrepresentations and manipulations which we all now know come from the unsupported defense of government that gives primacy to capital accumulation whether it be finance capital or industrial capital.

You do not have to embrace socialism. That is not the ideological position that put you in power. You were put in the White House with a promise to govern in the name of the working majority. True, you would like to have support from all sections of political and economic forces, but YOU WILL NOT GET IT.

If you continue to move along supporting the program of the financial circles in our country, your presidency is DOOMED. Listen to the needs of the majority and cater to it.

You can announce openly that you are not for socialism but you are for correcting the ills of the capitalist system and to relinquish domination of other countries allowing them to move independently as their people desire.

The Republican Party is pressing for the continuation of the kind of economic distortions that has dragged the world down. Openly facing this fact will help you reshape our country’s goals.

We are in an epoch of change. We must remove barriers and encourage each nation to resolve their day to day problems created by greed and distorted wealth accumulation. It does not make you a socialist to talk for Main Street but they need a spokesman in high places that will act for them.

You are in an enviable yet complicated position. Exposing the negative effect of unregulated finance capital which dominates humanity today would memorialize you for the next thousand years. The Bush Administration preempted the first move to deal with the economic crisis by bailing out the perpetrators who squandered every cent in bonuses and bashes. You are now faced with additional steps to bail out the industrial capitalists who have the responsibility of reshaping these enterprises into a new technological and green economy whose purpose is to raise the living standards of all.

The fulfillment of your promises requires that you take an ideological position. You will go down in history as having broken the racial barrier but it will end at that if you continue to be consumed by the economic crisis. OUR SYSTEM NEEDS CHANGE. Do what you can within that system. This means openly opposing the Republican Party’s program already on the road to capturing the presidency and congress in 2010 before they bring us further down. Don’t let them bully you with the “socialist” label.

The ball is in your court to change the situation. In your most diplomatic way you must take an ideological position to correct the problems of the system as you promised and restore true democracy which favors the needs of the majority.

Sincerely,

Sidney J. Gluck

China: Wal-Mart store unionized

Once Wal-Mart Corporation authorized its store in Shenyang, capital of China’s northeastern Liaoning Province, to bargain collectively with employees, only five hours were required on July 15 for managers and the employees’ union to negotiate overtime pay, paid vacations, social security improvements and annual 8 percent wage increases for two years. The store thus became the first of Wal-Mart’s 100 stores in China to conclude negotiations with a union.

In 2006, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions began a high profile campaign to unionize all Wal-Mart stores in China. Last year, according to the China Labor Bulletin, Shenyang city issued its “Collective Contract Regulation” under which managers are fined for rejecting union requests for bargaining.

Re: China Inspired Interrogations at Guantanamo

I am surprised that Portside ran the story from the NY
Times on "China Inspired Interrogations at Guantanamo"
without any comments or questions. After years of
denial of defense and torture, do you really believe
the CIA and American Military Establishment concoction
which implies blame for the use of torture on incidents
in pre-industrial China patched together to justify
their own actions? Can you not see a cover-up
following the victory for the detainee’s legal rights
to defense? Using China as the scapegoat for torture
when history abounds in its practice by other nations
would be chosen by them as more effective in setting
up a smoke screen using fears and suspicions about
modern China today for an easy sell and public
acceptance of their own dastardly actions.

Sincerely,
Sidney Gluck

About the Olympics in China...

Just received a note from a dear friend and colleague on the meaning of the Olympics which is being denigrated at the present time by Western delusionary pressures to impair the effect of what will be a magnificent Olympics in Beijing later this year. His reference is to the origins and meaning of the Olympics. I wanted to share this with you:

"My understanding of the origin of the games held at Mt Olympus was that warriors from Sparta and Athens were to lay down their arms during the truce period of the games. Heroes were those who won in the games not at war. We need a truce during the Olympics."

Sidney J. Gluck

Much is being made of a "letter" circulating in China...

... Signed by 17 prominent Chinese Communists identified as "conservatives."

As far as I can tell only one person has read the "letter;" Mark Magnier who wrote about it in the LA Times.

I am publishing that article at the bottom of our blog, along with my e-mail to the writer requesting the complete "letter." I find it very dishonest that so many people are commenting on a "letter" even though they have not read it, as if they had read the "letter" itself.

In fact, all that these people are doing is commenting on an article written by Mark Magnier about a "letter" none of us has had the opportunity to read for ourselves... to me this says something about the way discussions take place in this country.

The problem is, this journalist has a responsibility to make the entire "letter" available for everyone to read; at least upon request.

Our blog will have something to say about this "letter" once we see the actual "letter."

We have received a number of e-mails asking for comment on our blog about this "letter." We can't comment on something we haven't seen.

We will publish the entire "letter" here on our China and Socialism Blog once Mark Magnier or someone else makes it available.

I have written to the Chinese source requesting a copy of the "letter" in English.

You may also contact the source of the "letter" at the e-mail address which is included at the website link in the article below.

Alan L. Maki

For the China and Socialism Blog

Professor Sidney J. Gluck Honorary Director and Advisor Professor Emeritus New School for Social Research Co-PresidentUS-China People's Friendship Association PresidentSholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation. For fifty years, Professor Gluck has pursued concurrent careers in business, education, the arts and public interest advocacy. He was educated at the City College of New York in Business Administration and Economics, The New York School of Textile Technology in Fabric Technology and Design, the New School for Social Research in History, Art and Philosophy and a Masters/PhD program in Political Economy at its Graduate Faculty. He also earned a degree in Political Science at the Empire State College of New York. His business career, starting in the late 1930's, was interrupted by assignments to special projects during World War II and was responsible for a number of developments: introduced the heat set method to stabilize uneven nylon fibers for parachutes; initiated spun glass/fiber laminates with epoxy for bullet-proof vests (now used for small boats). A subsidy from Catalina Mills helped establish his own company, Malibu Textiles, a leading innovator in rubber thread stretch fabrics. He won several textile-related patents during this period. Later, as a consultant, he served major firms such as Canadian Celanese Corporation (reorganized elastic fabric weaving operation), Burlington Mills and Textiles Morelos de Cuernavaca, Mexico, (established stretch yarn spinning and weaving venture); and Darlington Fabrics (created generic Antron/Spandex fabric still used in swimsuits). As President and CEO of London-based Staflex International, Ltd., he introduced fusible interlinings revolutionizing garment construction in the USA. On "retiring" in the mid 70's, he purchased Royal Studios and specialized in decorative fabric design, technology and management and subsequently created a print-converting division for Kravet Fabrics, who he now serves as Development Consultant for the creation of new base fabrics. In the field of education Professor Gluck was Chairman of the Economics and Politics Department of the Jefferson School of Social Science; adjunct Professor of Economics at Ramapo College School of Social Relations; and has been a member of the Social Science Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York (now known as New School University) for twenty years. He has also taught at textile institutes including Parsons School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, Philadelphia College of Textile Science, and the New York School for Interior Design. As an artist, Professor Gluck has exhibited works in painting, photography, and fabric design at MIT and Parsons among other galleries. One photgraphic show titled Children in New York Subway has been exhibited in eight museums in Russia and the USA. His latest professional portraits, transformed by computer and printed in oil-enhanced inks on canvas, had a most successful first of its kind exhibit at the National Arts Club in September 1997. In the area of political advocacy, Professor Gluck organized opposition to exorbitant bail for political defendants and the elimination of chauvinistic crime reporting. He organized the Live and Let Live movement which turned public sentiment from the brink of war with China over Quemoy and Matsu, the island outposts of Taiwan (a precursor of SANE). The Live and Let Live seven-point program was used by President Nixon in opening relations with China. Later, Professor Gluck was Treasurer of committees for Medical Aid to Cuba and Chairman of the Emergency Committee for Disaster Relief to Cuba (Hurricane Flora, 1963) and he garnered public opposition to USA invasion and occupation of Grenada during the Cold War. He was Co-Director of World Fellowship of Faiths with Dr. Willard Uphaus from 1957 to 1967. For many years, Professor Gluck has worked to support affirmative action, including newspaper ad campaigns which he initiated. He is currently President of the Sholom Aleichem Memorial Foundation; a member of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) and the Union for Radical Political Economists (URPE) and Co-Chairman of the US-China Society of Friends. He hosts a public access TV Show in New York on Pacific Rim News Review in its sixth year, which is syndicated, and he is a regular contributor to news analysis on radio. Among his past affiliations are: Board member, International Committee for the Dance Library of Israel; Co-President of the US-China People's Friendship Association, New York Chapter, and Chairman for Outreach Member, Advisory Committee of Technion University, Israel; American Association of Textile Colorists and Chemists (AATCC); and a Secretary of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee which merged with the Center for Constitutional Rights. China Related Studies and Activities Professor Gluck has taught Political and Economic Science for over fifty years, specializing in Classical Marxism (including Dialectical Materialism), and has made a special study of China since the inception of its modern government. For over 20 years he lectured on a comprehensive series of these subjects at the New School for Social Research. He received weekly, monthly and quarterly publications from Beijing (Peking) in English and has followed the twists and turns of modern Chinese history from Maoism and its relations to Russian Communism, through Chou En Lai's diplomatic protection of advocacy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, to Deng Xiaoping's Modernization and Opening to the West and Jiang Zemin's reforms and advance to globalization. In 1955, Professor Gluck organized the Live and Let Live movement which turned public sentiment from the brink of war with China over Quemoy and Matsu, the island outposts of Taiwan (a precursor of SANE). The Live and Let Live seven-point program was used by President Nixon in opening relations with China, having been transmitted to the President through Professor Gluck's association as economic advisor to a Chinese American businessman who headed the Nationalities Committee of the Republican Party at the time. As a professional business consultant, Professor Gluck has followed the structural changes from a command economy to a market economy with "Socialist" regulations and their effects on the population. He has visited China a number of times. In fact, the Minister of Culture extended the privilege to take photographic portraits of the Terra Cotta Soldiers in the pit of the Museum in Xian that have been widely exhibited, as have photo essays of people, historic places, and construction. He has lectured extensively on the restructuring of Chinese society and written articles which have appeared in the Beijing Press and the United States. Professor Gluck has an in-depth knowledge of the ideological gyrations and theories which have motivated changes in China's modern history. He hosts a public access TV show in New York on Pacific Rim New Review in its sixth year which is syndicated and is also a regular contributor to news analysis on radio. His insights encompass differences between Japanese and USA capitalisms and varied structures of East Asia economies. Professor Gluck was Co-President of the US-China People's Friendship Association, New York Chapter, until September 1999. He headed its Outreach activity. He is Co-Founder and Chairman of the US-China Society of Friends which is a new membership organization of professionals from various fields interested in exchanges between the two countries. He is also active in programming contacts for Chinese groups visiting the USA and organizing China visits by professional groups from the States. Professor Gluck is regularly invited to speak at Chinese-American community functions. Professor Gluck joined Wyith's advisory council as the Honorary Director and Advisor in July 2002. Sidney J. Gluck has a very informative web site you might want to check out: http://www.sidneyjgluck.com/

Alan L. Maki lives in northern Minnesota and has been involved in the peace, labor, civil rights, and environmental movements for over 30 years; he is a socialist. At present Alan is working with casino workers across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan who are trying to organize a union, and working with people in northern Minnesota that are struggling to save the Big Bog, the primary freshwater aquifer in the state--- this bog is being mined for peat. Alan is an elected member of the state central committee of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party. In his spare time during the spring and fall you can find Alan fly fishing on the Dark River, a pristine designated trout stream;in the winter ice fishing on Lake-of-the-Woods. Alan L. Maki has a daily blog: http://thepodunkblog.blogspot.com/

Why this blog...

This is a weekly blog about China and socialism. This blog will feature long-time respected China expert Sidney J. Gluck. E-mail us all your questions and we will provide some answers and or commentary. If you have comments, questions, your own perceptions that may coincide--- or differ from ours--- let's have a discussion. We aren't afraid of controversy, and we respect all views. History and present developments in China are very important; change is taking place at a rapid pace in China as everywhere. There is simply too much that is misunderstood about China today, or not being presented at all, for us to not discuss China.

On the "Letter" signed by 17 prominent members of the Communist Party of China...

The following is my e-mail to Mark Magnier:

Mr. Magnier;

Would you e-mail me the complete letter in English which you refer to in the article below?

I don’t think it is right that people should have to rely on your interpretation of a letter without being able to read the entire letter.

I can not find this letter in its entirety anyplace on the internet; only people commenting on this letter based upon your interpretation of it.

I find it ironic that people would be commenting on a letter as if they have read it for themselves when all they have done is read your interpretation of a letter which no one is willing to make available.

I would like to read the letter for myself.

Alan L. Maki

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Letter accuses China's party of drift

The 17 signatories, ex-officials and academics, say
policies make a mockery of Marxism.

By Mark Magnier
Times Staff Writer

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china18jul18,0,6811467.story?coll=la-home-center

July 18, 2007

BEIJING -- A rare open letter signed by 17 former top
officials and conservative Marxist scholars ahead of a
key party meeting accuses China's top leaders of
steering the country in the wrong direction, pandering
to foreigners, betraying the workers' revolution and
jeopardizing social stability.

"We're going down an evil road," says the letter on the
website http://www.maoflag.net . "The whole country is
at a most precarious time."

The challenge is unusual because of the importance of
its signatories and its timing before this fall's party
congress, an event held every five years and a key date
on the political calendar.

Most public dissent in China generally comes from the
beleaguered ranks of human rights activists and minority
religious groups seeking to reduce the Communist Party's
power. By contrast, those who affixed their names to
this document included former government ministers, a
former ambassador to Russia, ex-army officers and
academics from elite universities and think tanks. And
their emphasis was on restoring party control of an
economy that has moved rapidly toward capitalist
practices in recent years.

The letter provides an unusual public view of
ideological differences within the party, which
generally tries to present a unified front.

"This is probably the first time so many high-ranking
people have spoken out like this," said He Husheng, a
professor of party history at People's University. "The
Central Committee is surely not happy at their
behavior."

The policies advocated by those signing the letter
include reversing a law passed this year that allows
private ownership of property, abandoning rules that
allow entrepreneurs to join the Communist Party,
imposing sharp restrictions on foreign investment,
putting an end to privatization of state assets and
placing a renewed emphasis on Marxist campaigns and
education.

The party's focus on economic liberalization has led to
a dangerous mix of widespread corruption, unemployment,
a growing wealth gap and potential social unrest, the
letter's authors argue.

If China continues down this path, the letter says, the
country will soon "have its own Boris Yeltsin" and "the
demise of the party and country would loom."

The signatories can expect a call from propaganda
officials "strongly suggesting" they delete their
letter, said He, the party history professor. If they
don't agree, it will be deleted for them, he added.

Indeed, by Tuesday afternoon the website appeared to be
blocked, with a "Service Unavailable" notice displayed
on the otherwise blank page, a fate more often reserved
for websites sponsored by human rights activists than
party stalwarts.

The seven-page letter appeared on the website late last
week, about two weeks after a key speech by President Hu
Jintao that appeared to be aimed at silencing critics
within the party. The timing suggests that significant
differences remain as party leaders try to unify their
ranks behind Hu's policies, which have attempted to open
up China's economy while maintaining control of the
political system.

"This shows that the disagreement within the party over
reform is pretty big and perhaps getting bigger," said
Wang Yukai, a professor at the National School of
Administration in Beijing. "This kind of open letter
will put quite some pressure on our leaders and only
have negative effects on proper decisions."

The letter, addressed to Hu and the party's Central
Committee, targets in particular capitalists and
foreigners who have flourished under policies that the
signatories say have eroded socialism, equality and
fairness.

"Party secretaries have become capitalists, and
capitalists have joined the party," the letter says.
"Foreign corporations are plundering domestic markets
and crushing our national economy." The signatories also
urged competitive internal elections for central party
members and the party secretary, a sign of the group's
displeasure with Hu's leadership.

The views expressed in the letter speak to a
constituency that has seen its power diminish under
China's ferocious economic growth, rapid social change
and growing diversity. The China Daily reported Tuesday
that almost 3 million of the party's 72.4 million
members now work in private business, up from almost
none a few years ago.

In addition to facing dissent from conservatives over
economic changes, Hu has come under fire from liberals
who have pushed for a more open political system. Those
views were aired in a cover story in the latest issue of
the liberal journal Yanhuang Chunqiu, which roughly
translates as History of the Chinese People. It argued
that though China has reformed economically, it
continues to drag its heels on important political
reforms outlined by paramount leader Deng Xiaoping in
the 1980s. These include reducing the excessive power of
the party and ending its overarching grip on the
government.

Some analysts denied that such articles were indications
of ideological differences in party ranks, arguing
instead that the diversity of opinion underscored
changes afoot in China.

"This is not significant at all," said Liu Zhiguang, a
professor at Peking University's School of Marxism and
Leninism. "This shows that different opinions can
coexist, or maybe that our leaders are just becoming
smarter."

Officially, China has no lobbyists, nor does its
monopoly political party consider lightly any outsiders
who attempt to influence its decisions. The Chinese
Communist Party has traditionally handed down policies
fully formed, in keeping with its preferred image as an
all-knowing, unified, paternalistic organization.

As China has become a more diverse society, and the
Internet has made censorship harder, however, the
leadership has been forced increasingly to contend with,
respond to and adapt to public opinion.

Experts said the 17 signatories had sought to influence
top leaders through internal party channels, but they
were rebuffed and, in frustration, decided to go public.

The letter by itself is unlikely to alter party
ideology, which if anything has become more rigid in
recent years as a bulwark against unsettling social
change, they said. But it could intensify divisions.

"These guys want to turn back the clock, but that's
impossible," said Wang of the National School of
Administration.

"I wouldn't say they're bad people. But we must move
forward. Such outdated opinions are a leftist tumor."

mark.magnier@latimes.com

Yin Lijin in The Times' Beijing Bureau contributed to
this report.

Copyright 2007 Los Angeles Times

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Sidney Gluck shares a letter with us that he sent to President Barack Obama

Dear Colleagues,

We are sharing with you a letter to President Barack Obama from one who is on his list of persons around the country from whom he requests answers to problems and advice. The distortion of information about China has reached a serious warlike content, which Obama is not counteracting and is actually being used as a front for finance capital’s drive to retain its dominance in the world economy (note his visit to India).

Furthermore, we are sharing this with you to introduce China Wire (a copy of a recent issue in being included with our letter to Obama) to show realities in China’s dealing with economic and social problems – in this case, water. We recommend that you tune in to China Wire since, from time to time, they come through with a good deal of information with a positive approach to China and world relations. It is becoming one of our important sources. You will find all the information for the contacts on this copy. I suggest you pick up the last six months of their periodic editions on various subjects. We recommend highly that you get their issue of November 21^st, “News From China For The World” which includes a vast series of subjects dealing with civil society and international relations.

Sincerely,

Sidney J. Gluck

December 1, 2010

Attn President Obama

The White House 

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama,

When you first ran for the nomination as the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 2008, I wrote you a letter to call your attention to the fact that 21st century international relations should be handled through diplomacy rather than the military. While you did not acknowledge the letter, you did publicly express that sentiment during your bid for the nomination. Since then, we have had correspondence in what you might call a pocket kitchen cabinet, probably numbering in the low thousands, to which I have responded consistently.

The present development of foreign policy under the aegis of the Pentagon is hardly the promise that you made in your bid for support. There is great danger in current developments of a military alliance and maneuvers in the waters around China without considering the unresolved diplomatic problems among the Asian countries (in particular, the failure to follow through with agreed borders between North and South Korea for over fifty years). Nor is there mention of the fact that South Korea has engaged military development and joint action with the USA. Little is being said or done to extinguish fires that are beginning to kindle. It is a letdown and a danger to world relations. The cover-up is a constant distortion of China’s economic and political relations, which are essentially peaceful and based on fair trade and mutual development of underdeveloped countries. Much is made of Chinese capital (private and social) being invested in developing (in Africa in particular) and developed countries which result in positive gains for all.

True, there is economic competition. That is not new. But, the differences must be settled on the economic level in a diplomatic manner rather than building up the image of the Chinese enemy responsible for the economic problems that we face because of the distortions in our own economy (which have negatively affected fourteen million people without any sight of rehabilitation). The only exception – hurrah! – is the fact that corporations in the third quarter of this very 2010 have made more profit than any quarter in the last generation. There is no doubt that support of military production is reflected in these profits.

Mr. President, you owe it to us to stop joining in the parade of making China the culprit for our own economic dislocations. I recommend that you follow what Roosevelt did: set up a WPA (Works Progress Administration) to bail out working people since the federal government had paid attention to bailing out finance capital while failing to stimulate loans to industries willing to expand and develop our own economy with high tech and generation of jobs. This is your great challenge to fulfill your promises and the heartfelt desire of the tremendous movement which elected a black president for the first time in the hope that it would lead to a change in our economic and social direction. It brought forth a tremendous reaction from the wealthy far right who are succeeding in taking pieces of the federal government, but you are not publicly leading the people through giving them the facts of what is happening. You are allowing a smokescreen to be developed in the image of a foreign competitor and turning it into the military solution of legitimate differences in points-of-view. Why don’t you read the articles in the New York Times that appeared in their news of the week on the legitimacy of economic differences between China and the USA (with a good part of the world agreeing with those sentiments)?

You are at the cusp of all these developments, which demand a clear and honest expression of the differences to be settled peacefully and a warning about developing an aura of misrepresentations and a development of military alliances. Turn us away from economic and military warfare. Get back to the promise of peaceful growth and world cooperation.

Sincerely,

Sidney J. Gluck

P.S. Enclosed is considerable material on China’s involvement in human problems, whether they are internal or external, and dealings with its East Asian neighbors’ problems for mutual improvement, which is published by a private organization in China called “Moving Mountains”. They deal with human problems of social importance in a non-profit mode. These are services that we should be emulating instead of creating rumors about negatives as being the dominant features of China’s economic and governmental form. In the name of peace, please reflect a balance in our relationship and settle matters diplomatically.

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Monday, November 22, 2010

Same old anti-communist crap continues to ooze from the AFL-CIO

Monday, November 22, 2010

Same old anti-communist crap continues to ooze from the AFL-CIO

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Professor Sidney J. Gluck

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama from Sidney J. Gluck

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Re: China Inspired Interrogations at Guantanamo

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Much is being made of a "letter" circulating in China...

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