From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Tue Dec 1 00:16:06 2020
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:16:06 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Why Is The Center For American Progress Betraying
The Left?
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Neera Tanden was just appointed by Biden to be the head of the OMB ( Office
of Management and Budget ) and instantly received an endorsement from
Neo-Con Republican War Monger Bill Kristol. That should tell you everything.
However, for those who are not familiar with the obnoxious Neo-Liberal Neera
Tanden and her corporate funded think tank - "The Center for Corporate
Progress ", oops, I mean " The Center For American Progress ", here is an
article from two years ago ( Dec. 2018 ) that goes into a lot of good (
horrible ) detail.....From the article - " The Center for American
Progress, however, is cozy with some of America?s largest and most
controversial companies. Though it is quick to emphasize that corporate
donations constitute only a small part of its funding, in 2013 alone CAP
received support from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, Citigroup, the
American Beverage Association, Comcast, BlueCross BlueShield, weapons
manufacturer Northrop Grumman, and Walmart. The government of the United
Arab Emirates (which regularly carries out forced disappearances and
torture) has given over $500,000. Investigative journalist Ken Silverstein,
in an important 2013 investigation of CAP?s funding, was told by multiple
former staffers that when CAP was seeking support from Saudis it muted its
criticism of the Saudi kingdom. (CAP continues to conceal the identities of
many of its largest donors.) "
Current Affairs
Why Is The Center For American Progress Betraying The Left?
As the left tries to fight against inequality and exploitation, the main
?progressive? think tank joins forces with right-wing free market
capitalists
* Nathan J.
Robinson
filed 13 December 2018 in
Politics
The Center for American Progress is one of the
largest
and most important think tanks in Washington, certainly the preeminent
?progressive? think tank. It describes its agenda as promoting ?bold,
progressive ideas? and releases a number of extremely useful
reports and fact
sheets. In 2008, TIME branded it ?
Obama?s idea factory.? CAP has strong ties with both Obama and the
Clintons?it was founded by close Clinton confidante John Podesta and its
president, Neera Tanden, previously worked for both Bill and Hillary
Clinton. The New Republic has described it as ?stuffed to the gills with
staffers who have either worked in previous Democratic administrations or
will go on to work in future ones.?
The phrase ?progressive? is often associated with the left wing of the
Democratic Party, by contrast with its ?moderate? wing, and progressives are
typically skeptical of corporate influence in politics. The Center for
American Progress, however, is cozy with some of America?s largest and most
controversial companies. Though it is quick to emphasize that corporate
donations constitute only a small part of its funding, in 2013 alone CAP
received support from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, Citigroup, the
American Beverage Association, Comcast, BlueCross BlueShield, weapons
manufacturer Northrop Grumman, and Walmart. The government of the United
Arab Emirates (which regularly carries out
forced disappearances and torture) has
given over $500,000.
Investigative journalist Ken Silverstein, in an
important 2013 investigation of
CAP?s funding, was told by multiple former staffers that when CAP was
seeking support from Saudis it muted its criticism of the Saudi kingdom.
(CAP continues to
conceal the identities of many of its largest donors.)
CAP president Neera Tanden has described herself as ?
a loyal soldier? for
Hillary Clinton and despite heading a ?nonpartisan? think tank, worked
behind the
scenes during the 2016 primary to try to erode Bernie Sanders? support.
Leaked internal emails reveal Tanden?s own political instincts to depart
from what is typically considered ?progressive.? She
advised the Clinton
campaign against a $15 minimum wage, and in one disturbing instance, as
Glenn Greenwald
has
reported, argued ?that Libyans should be forced to turn over large portions
of their oil revenues to repay the U.S. for the costs incurred in bombing
Libya, on the grounds that Americans will support future wars only if they
see that the countries attacked by the U.S. pay for the invasions.?
The Center for American Progress does not just accept shady donations. It
also gives them. Journalist Andrew Perez
reported that
according to financial disclosure forms, CAP donated $200,000 last year to
the American
Enterprise Institute. The AEI is a right-wing free-market think tank perhaps
best known as the longtime home of
racist
social scientist Charles Murray. When Current Affairs challenged Tanden on
Twitter about the donation, she
replied:
We have a joint program on defending democracy from the rise of
authoritarianism. Here?s the press release from the CAP website. Welcome
[Current Affairs] to cover the many papers we have jointly authored. This is
a critical topic more media should focus on.
Naturally, Current Affairs gladly accepts the invitation to focus on CAP?s
collaboration with the AEI. I looked at two of the ?reports? that they have
produced together so far. First, it is still unclear why CAP is giving AEI
$200,000. The reports Tanden links to are a few pages each, more like
extended op-eds than scholarly works, and involve no original research. They
both focus not on ?authoritarianism? as Tanden says, but on what they call
?authoritarian populism.? This is important, because while Tanden suggests
that nobody could object to ?defending democracy from the rise of
authoritarianism,? we know that to the American Enterprise Institute,
?democracy? and ?authoritarianism? do not necessarily mean what they mean to
you and me. When the AEI speaks of democracy, it means ?laissez-faire
capitalism? and when it speaks of ?authoritarianism? it means ?minimum wage
laws? or any mildly redistributive social policies that could threaten
American Enterprise. Tanden wants to wave away concerns about the
collaboration, because after all everyone agrees democracy is good. But the
question is?what are we actually ?defending? here?
The CAP/AEI report ?
Drivers of Authoritarian
Populism in the United States? defines what it means by ?populism?:
?political parties and leaders that are anti-establishment and that divide
society into two groups: self-serving elites and good, ordinary people.? By
that definition, Bernie Sanders clearly falls under the ?populist?
umbrella?he is anti-establishment and believes that ordinary people are
being fleeced by self-serving elites. The report says that populism is not
inherently bad, and emphasizes that it is targeted against the bigoted form
of populism. But in the CAP/AEI discussion of European ?authoritarian
populism,? it?s clear that
economic leftists are included in the
category:
A 2017 study, which looked at elections across Europe between 1980 and 2016,
found that there is an asymmetry in drivers of support for right- and
left-wing authoritarian populists. While the right wing seems unresponsive
to changes in objective economic characteristics, the support for left-wing
extreme populists, such as Syriza in Greece or Podemos in Spain, is
sensitive both to rates of economic growth and to unemployment. The rise of
the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Jeremy
Corbyn, can be viewed in a similar fashion.
Podemos, Syriza, and Corbyn??authoritarians?? Why? What could possibly put
them in a category alongside
Viktor Orb?n? The CAP/AEI
reports are actually extremely vague, saying they believe in ?a market
economy with shared prosperity? and ?economic openness? but not making it
particularly clear what that means. After all, who is against ?openness? and
?prosperity?? Who wants to be closed and poor? But it?s clear that what
they?re actually talking about is free market capitalism. Corbyn, Syriza,
and Podemos are only ?authoritarian? if you subscribe to the radical
libertarian theory that wealth redistribution is totalitarian. CAP/AEI are
cagey about saying that they?re teaming up to defend capitalism from
leftists, but that?s precisely the implication of the reports? statement
that left parties are ?authoritarian populism? that needs defeating in order
to preserve ?democracy.?
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From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Tue Dec 1 00:21:24 2020
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:21:24 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?iso8859-7?q?Biden=27s_cabinet_appointments_-__?=
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Biden's cabinet appointments - First the WAR MONGER Anthony Blinken and now
Bruce Reed, who helped develop the '94 Crime Bill, pushed broken windows
policing & cuts to Social Security & Medicaid. Reed was the executive
director of the Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission during President Obama's
first term. The Bowles-Simpson commission proposed getting Democrats and
Republicans to work together to enact massive cuts to Social Security and
Medicare, including raising the retirement age.............
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The Biden Administration is starting to roll out Executive Branch
appointments, and one name being floated is extremely concerning: The
American Prospect has reported that career deficit hawk Bruce Reed is being
considered for a post in the administration. Putting someone in the
administration who will prioritize paying down the deficit ahead of all
other concerns in charge is a recipe for cutting our earned benefits and
turning the COVID recession into a depression. Rejecting Reed will be a
major test for the soul of the Biden presidency.
Reed was the executive director of the Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission
during President Obama's first term. The Bowles-Simpson commission proposed
getting Democrats and Republicans to work together to enact massive cuts to
Social Security and Medicare, including raising the retirement age.
Joe Biden must not repeat Obama's mistake. We need our government to spend
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to prevent small businesses from closing permanently, and to make sure
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From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Tue Dec 1 00:29:32 2020
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:29:32 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Tony Blinken, Biden's new Secretary of State
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Tony Blinken, Biden's new Secretary of State, pushed for clandestine weapons
shipments to jihadist "moderate rebels" in Syria, Neo-Nazi so called
"freedom fighters" in Ukraine, and praised Trump for bombing Syria.
So much for "defeating fascism"!
What You Need to Know About Tony Blinken
Biden?s apparent choice for secretary of state most recently played the
influence game in Washington.
by Jonathan Guyer
November 23, 2020
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For nearly two decades, Tony Blinken has served as President-elect Joe
Biden?s closest foreign-policy adviser, from the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee to the Obama White House. That Biden would choose him for a
high-ranking position in his administration was never in doubt. On Sunday,
we learned what that position would be: secretary of state.
Blinken is already being greeted by soft profiles focusing on his diplomatic
career, his youthful days spent in Europe, and his love of guitar. But for a
better sense of how he might actually craft foreign policy, it is essential
to look at his recent work as a strategic consultant, a brand of Washington
influence-peddling that has gotten little scrutiny. Strategic consultants
draw upon their contacts and knowledge of Washington to advise powerful
corporations; they do everything but lobby. This summer, I interviewed 60
Washington insiders as I investigated
how
Blinken?s firm parlays connections into profit. The Biden transition team
would like you to overlook Blinken?s corporate career, but it?s crucial to
understand the most recent r?sum? item of America?s next top diplomat.
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1. After Serving Obama, He Cashed In
Blinken launched
WestExec Advisors with fellow Obama national-security chiefs in 2018.
WestExec?s very name?a reference to the
avenue that runs along
the White House?suggested that its founders were trading off of their recent
experience in the Oval Office and were angling for positions in the next
administration. Blinken became a partner at a private equity firm named Pine
Island, too. It was quite a change for someone who spent most of his career
in government and had served most recently as Vice President Biden?s
national-security adviser (2009?2013) and as deputy secretary of state
(2015?2017). He and Mich?le Flournoy, a former senior defense official,
registered the firm in Delaware and had a party to open their downtown D.C.
office suite with honchos from the Obama administration.
Who was the firm advising? WestExec staffers cited nondisclosure agreements
and declined to name clients. But in conversations with members of the firm,
I learned that Blinken and Flournoy used their networks to build a large
client base at the intersection of tech and defense. An Israeli surveillance
startup turned to them. So did a major U.S. defense company. Google
billionaire Eric Schmidt and Fortune 100 companies went to them, too.
?We are driven by helping companies who think they have a cool commercial
capability, and they think that there?s a market for it in the federal
space,? one WestExec employee told me. I found the lack of transparency
troubling. One key thing to watch for is which clients Blinken will reveal
in financial disclosures and Senate confirmation hearings.
Blinken knew his gig at WestExec would be temporary. Indeed he was so
confident that the firm arranged for an
exceptional contingency in its lease that allowed it to be
terminated without a penalty if a Democrat won the White House. Flournoy is
now a top contender for secretary of defense, and several other WestExec
staffers are likely to hold key roles in the administration. The firm?s
strategic planning has paid off.
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2. He?ll Push Biden Toward the Middle
Biden will become president at the time of a pandemic, an economic crisis,
and a crisis of American leadership. With Blinken as secretary of state,
we?re likely to see a return to an old guard of Democratic foreign policy.
Blinken has a ?quite cautious, don?t-rock-the-boat approach,? one of his
former colleagues told me. ?But we?re not at a risk-averse moment in our
history. It?s time for bold ideas.? That Blinken took a leading role in
guiding Biden?s
mistaken approaches to Iraq does not bode well
for a long-overdue withdrawal of America from conflicts in the Middle East.
Another issue is that Blinken seems to be more comfortable
working with neoconservatives than with progressives. When
the Biden campaign attacked Women?s March organizer Linda Sarsour in a call
this summer, activists raised concerns. The campaign
walked it back, and Blinken later apologized to the Muslim and Arab
American community. While some progressive foreign-policy experts have
supported the
Blinken pick, the Biden team only listens to progressives on foreign policy
when they make noise.
3. He?s Going to Be Powerful Because There Is No Biden Doctrine
As senator and vice president, Biden?s only consistent approach to the world
has been an emphasis on personal relationships, especially with foreign
leaders. This malleable worldview has given the national-security
establishment influence in advancing their own agendas within Biden?s team,
and it also means that key advisers have an outsized role in
decision-making.
Blinken recently offered a glimpse of Biden?s approach to statecraft on a
CBS podcast. ?There is overreliance on the military
tool and an under-reliance on, for example, on diplomacy. And that would
change in a Biden administration,? Blinken said. The podcast was sponsored
by a major weapons maker. ?At Lockheed Martin, your mission is ours,? read
an announcer. The tagline threw everything Blinken had said into question.
It makes it even more glaring that the paper of record
notes on A1 that Blinken plays in a band, but neglects to
mention his recent work for corporate and defense clients.
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From r-szoke at illinois.edu Tue Dec 1 05:07:44 2020
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 05:07:44 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Truth vs. truthiness
Message-ID:
Most Republicans Say They Doubt the Election. How Many Really Mean It?
Emily Badger
NYT Mon, November 30, 2020
Since the election, surveys have consistently found that about 70% to 80% of Republicans don?t buy the results. They don?t agree that Joe Biden won fair and square. They say the election was rigged. And they say enough fraud occurred to tip the outcome.
Those numbers sound alarmingly high, and they imply that the overwhelming majority of people in one political party in America doubt the legitimacy of a presidential election. But the reality is more complicated, political scientists say. Research has shown that the answers that partisans (on the left as well as on the right) give to political questions often reflect not what they know as fact, but what they wish were true. Or what they think they should say.
It is incredibly hard to separate sincere belief from wishful thinking from what political scientists call partisan cheerleading. But on this topic especially, the distinctions matter a lot. Are Republican voters merely expressing support for the president by standing by his claims of fraud ? in effectively the same way Republicans in Congress have ? or have they accepted widespread fraud as true? Do these surveys suggest a real erosion in faith in American elections, or something more familiar, and temporary?
? ?
[ I think "truthiness" means statements that sound as if they OUGHT to be true because they tend to reduce cognitive dissonance. ~ RSz. ]
From r-szoke at illinois.edu Tue Dec 1 05:07:44 2020
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 05:07:44 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Truth vs. truthiness
Message-ID:
Most Republicans Say They Doubt the Election. How Many Really Mean It?
Emily Badger
NYT Mon, November 30, 2020
Since the election, surveys have consistently found that about 70% to 80% of Republicans don?t buy the results. They don?t agree that Joe Biden won fair and square. They say the election was rigged. And they say enough fraud occurred to tip the outcome.
Those numbers sound alarmingly high, and they imply that the overwhelming majority of people in one political party in America doubt the legitimacy of a presidential election. But the reality is more complicated, political scientists say. Research has shown that the answers that partisans (on the left as well as on the right) give to political questions often reflect not what they know as fact, but what they wish were true. Or what they think they should say.
It is incredibly hard to separate sincere belief from wishful thinking from what political scientists call partisan cheerleading. But on this topic especially, the distinctions matter a lot. Are Republican voters merely expressing support for the president by standing by his claims of fraud ? in effectively the same way Republicans in Congress have ? or have they accepted widespread fraud as true? Do these surveys suggest a real erosion in faith in American elections, or something more familiar, and temporary?
? ?
[ I think "truthiness" means statements that sound as if they OUGHT to be true because they tend to reduce cognitive dissonance. ~ RSz. ]
From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Tue Dec 1 15:53:00 2020
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 09:53:00 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] " The Left Versus Neo- Liberals "
Message-ID: <004b01d6c7fa$0cb99a50$262ccef0$@comcast.net>
A more accurate title IMO would be ? The Left Versus Neo-Liberals ?
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The Left Versus the Left
Progressive media is filling the void
By Mark Fogarty on January 8th,
2020
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It is commonly understood that there is a bias in the television news media
with Fox News on the right and MSNBC and their ilk on the left, but the real
conflict is between the corporate left broadcast media and the independent
progressive left media ? a conversation many might not be aware is
happening. What divides the two camps is simple: It comes down to where you
get your news.
Claiming that MSNBC and CNN, among others, represent the ideas of the left
shows a misunderstanding that most people under 30 get their news online.
More than 39 million people
have cut the cord and no longer have
access to cable.
While left-leaning corporate broadcast media has been consumed with Russian
conspiracies (albeit appropriate, given our corrupt commander-in-chief), a
new independent left has emerged. Provided by podcasts, left-wing magazines
and YouTube channels, this new left is less likely to be controlled by
corporate interests and presents a world-view different from their corporate
counterparts.
If you get your news from MSNBC you might think that the Russiagate case was
a slam dunk, Bernie Sanders has no shot of winning, the Ukraine
investigation is the most important story of our time and Nancy Pelosi is
the first line of defense against Donald Trump.
Get your news online and you?d see the holes on the Russiagate story, learn
that Bernie Sanders has been consistently second in the polls and has the
best chance of beating Trump in the 2020 election. And you?d see that while
the so-called #resistance pretends to fight Trump, the democratic leadership
gave him $750 billion for his already bloated military budget, allowed a ban
on trans soldiers to go through, gave him money for his wall and to create a
Space Force and voted for the Patriot Act to be renewed.
The emergence of the independent left exposes the limits of the corporate
media. It isn?t that the corporate media reports a different take than the
left; the corporate media simply refuses to report anything that does not
support the agenda of their corporate overlords.
One of the most glaring omissions by the mainstream media was the protest at
Standing Rock. The protest arose in 2016 when Dakota Access LLC attempted to
build a 1,172-mile oil pipeline adjacent to the Standing Rock Reservation.
Worries that the proximity of the oil to the reservation?s water supply
would cause environmental catastrophe created one of the longest protests in
American history. While independent media began coverage right away, the
mainstream media was months late to the story.
Four years later, the media that came late to the party on Standing Rock
continues to deny reality and refuses to cover one of the only presidential
candidates courageous enough to join the protest at Standing Rock: Bernie
Sanders (the only other to join the protest was Tulsi Gabbard).
They leave outsider candidates like Bernie, Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang
out of graphics and keep their names out of headlines, while pushing the
candidates (like Amy Klobuchar) who fit their agenda, no matter their
floundering in the polls. CNN once reported the headline ?Buttigieg a strong
fourth,? Leaving out what one might argue is the little detail that Bernie
Sanders had emerged in second place. Whether the Bernie blackout is
conspiracy to favor candidates who won?t come for the corporate media?s
bottom line or unconscious bias is up for debate, but its existence is
undeniable.
Is MSNBC aware of the bias toward support of the military industrial complex
or part of some vast conspiracy? Readers of Noam Chomsky?s Manufacturing
Consent know this is not how it works. When Chomsky was asked by journalist
Andrew Marr if he believed Marr was pushing a narrative he didn?t believe in
to toe the party line Chomsky replied, ?I?m sure you believe everything
you?re saying
but if you believed something different, you wouldn?t be
sitting where you are sitting.?
The divide is growing right under the nose of those who believe they are
informed. But the truth is, you can consume five newspapers a day and watch
CNN, MSNBC and NBC daily and still miss a massive and essential conversation
about what is happening in the world.
Watch CNN and you will never hear about America?s complacency in the
genocide in Yemen. You might not know that the Obama administration?s
intervention in Libya has reduced the corrupt-yet-somewhat functioning
dictatorship into a nightmare state where slaves are sold on the street.
It would be easy to dismiss the YouTubers and podcasters as sad tin foil hat
types, broadcasting from their momma?s basement ? and lord knows there?s
plenty of that on YouTube, but this new left comes with its own set of
credentials.
Take, for example, Krystal Ball, Cenk Uygar and Dylan Ratigan. All used to
work for MSNBC and left or were fired when it became obvious they wouldn?t
play ball. Krystal Ball was given her walking papers from MSNBC when she
dared suggest Hillary Clinton was not the best candidate to beat Donald
Trump. Dylan Ratigan quit out of frustration and Cenk Uyger was pushed out
of his time slot for being too hard on Barack Obama. He went on to grow his
network, The Young Turks, into the largest political show in YouTube
history.
The progressive left plays the role of journalist no matter who is in power,
leveling criticisms at left and right whenever they do wrong. This kind of
journalism is desperately needed in our time.
This new left caters to a news-hungry crowd of young voters who have never
and will never own cable. They are pissed, they are politically active and
they are the future of the country. Dismissing the significance of this
audience and where they get their information is a mistake the Democrats
make at their own risk, yet still it seems to go all but ignored by the
Democratic party.
There is a vital conversation to be had as to what it means to be left and
what it means to resist, yet the participants seem to be having this
conversation in two different bubbles: one paid for by the military
industrial complex and one made for the people, by the people. Which one is
more likely to tell the truth?
If you want to get out of your bubble, but don?t know where to begin, check
out a a sampling of some of the best of progressive media at
motifri.com/leftvleft.
WHERE TO CATCH PROGRESSIVE NEWS
The Young Turks
TYT network is the first major progressive news network on Youtube. Hosted
by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, TYT offers commentary and investigative
journalism, pop culture news and more.
Follow @cenkuygur, @AnaKasparian
NOTE: Uygur is currently running for congress and mainstream media has done
a ton to smear him for blogs he wrote and things he said over a decade ago.
What they don?t tell you is ? he founded the Justice Democrats (the
organization that gave us AOC), founded the Wolfpac to get money out of
politics, fostered the career of many female journalists and has the most
diverse cross-section of commentators than any other network, employing
trans, LBQT, black & Latinx commentators. In other words, he has done more
for progressive policies than anyone in media.
Righteous anger level = Four middle fingers to the establishment
The Jimmy Dore Show
Jimmy Dore split off from The Young Turks over a disagreement on Russiagate.
To his credit, Cenk Uygur let Jimmy remain on the show until Jimmy decided
to leave. The two remain friends. Now Jimmy runs his own show and performs
live comedy show all around the US. Self-described as a ?jagoff comedian,?
Jimmy is one of the most effective debunkers of mainstream media lies.
Follow @jimmy_dore
Righteous anger level = = Five middle fingers and one for your momma. Jimmy
is the angriest of them all, and possibly the most entertaining.
Rolling Stone presents: Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi
&
Katie Halper.
Rolling Stone, continuing over a half a century tradition of being a voice
for progressive media, recently began a podcast with Matt Taibbi and Katie
Halper. Taibbi is the guy who took over Hunter S. Thompson?s old gig,
chronicling fear and loathing on the campaign trail. Paired up with the
hilarious Katie Halper, each week they give us the four foodgroups:
Democrats suck, Republicans suck, something weird, something funny and most
stoned moment of the week.
Follow @kthalps, @mtaibbi
Chapo Trap House
Chapo Trap House is one of the most popular progressive podcasts and part of
?The Dirtbag Left,? a term coined by Trap House?s female member, Amber A?Lee
Frost. They are dirtbags because they refuse to moderate their anger to
operate in polite society, and the result is a show that is brutally honest,
filthy, hilarious and relentless in its criticism of American politics.
Follow @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE
Righteous anger level = Five middle fingers.
The Gray Zone
The Gray Zone created by Max Blumenthal is the home of Aaron Mat?, who won
an award for his coverage of the Russiagate scandal. Blumenthal and Mat? do
a great job of forcing American?s to confront hard truths about the
country?s role on the world?s stage.
Follow @MaxBlumenthal, @aaronjmate
Righteous anger level = four middle fingers
Kim Iversen
Kim Iversen has carved a niche out for herself as one of the prime defenders
of Tulsi Gabbard and Gabbard?s stance on ending America?s policy of regime
change wars. While the mainstream media has painted Tulsi as everything from
a Russian asset to a closet Republican, Iversen shows her for what she is ?
one of the most principled people in congress.
Righteous anger level = two middle fingers
Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim writes for The Intercept and works for The Young Turks as an
investigative journalist. Grim has been called ?a left-wing populist attack
dog? and he is, breaking stories that expose the DNC. Apparently, doing the
job of exposing truth is ?attacking? ? I thought it was journalism.
Follow him @ryangrim
Glen Greenwald
Glen Greenwald is no longer welcome on MSNBC after refuting their Russiagate
narrative one too many times. Greenwald won the Pulitzer-Prize for his
coverage of the secret surveillance program run by the NSA and remains one
of the most unflinching critics of the American government
Follow him @ggreenwald
The Hill: Rising with Krystal and Saagar.
The Hill is producing one of the most subversive and brilliant shows on the
internet. It looks like a morning show, complete with a milquetoast theme
music and brightly lit set, but the hosts ,former MSNBC anchor, Krystal Ball
and (sort-of) Republican Saagar Enjeti offer unflinching commentary
criticizing both sides of the aisle.
Follow @krystalball, @esaagar
Empire Files with Abby Martin
Abby Martin has created a series of hard-hitting documentaries on American
Imperialism. She?s as harsh a critic of US interventionism as they come, and
it is hard to deny the evidence she presents ? that our country is still a
bad actor on the world?s stage.
Follow @AbbyMartin
The Tim Black Show
Self described as ?America?s most watched black independent media on the
left? the Tim Black show is funny, provocative and tackles topics the
mainstream press ignores.
Follow @RealTimBlack
Sam Seder and the Majority Report
Former Air America anchor Sam Seder offers progressive commentary alongside
Michael Brooks.
Follow @ SamSeder, @
_michaelbrooks
Secular Talk with Kyle Kulinski
Founding member of the Justice Democrats, Kyle Kulinski, is one of the most
entertaining and eviscerating commentators on the left.
Follow at KyleKulinski
This is by no means a comprehensive list, for HONORABLE MENTIONS check out:
The Michael Brooks show
, Redacted
Tonight , The Rational
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From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Tue Dec 1 16:06:42 2020
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 10:06:42 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Why Is The Center For American Progress
Betraying The Left?
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There is a Left David,
But it does NOT include Neo-liberals or phony ? progressive ? Democrats.
I wish it was larger, more coordinated, etc.. but I am hopeful for the future ( even though the short and medium term will be difficult ) if for no other reasons being the political inclination of a majority of younger people under 35 ( polls indicating their favorable view of ? Socialism ? ), the proliferation on YouTube of REAL Left news programs ( see my recent post ), and the fact the Neo-Liberals are becoming more arrogant and telling people to ? go fuck themselves if they don?t like how they are doing things ?., etc along with the coming storm of economic downturn ( foreclosures, evictions, no healthcare, unemployment with no UBI, etc. ).
I hate to see the latter happen, but the Neo-Liberals and the Republicans created this problem and their policies are not going to help and there will be only the Neo-Liberals to blame.
Of course that ? opportunity ? ( I hate to call it that ) is also a time of danger, in that it can just as easily be exploited and organized by the Fascists.
We are living in interesting times, and it is going to get a lot more interesting. I just hope I live to see a revolutionary change for the better, both in the U.S. and the world.
I hope you are doing well David. Stay safe.
David J.
From: David Green [mailto:davidgreen50 at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2020 8:27 AM
To: David Johnson
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Why Is The Center For American Progress Betraying The Left?
>From Tanden to Robinson, they are all corporate neoliberal. Their differences are performative and aestheticized. The "left" is a phantom. It has no material interest in the working class. Tanden and Robinson are literally on the same team. The same club, as George Carlin would have said.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 6:16 PM David Johnson via Peace-discuss wrote:
Neera Tanden was just appointed by Biden to be the head of the OMB ( Office of Management and Budget ) and instantly received an endorsement from Neo-Con Republican War Monger Bill Kristol. That should tell you everything. However, for those who are not familiar with the obnoxious Neo-Liberal Neera Tanden and her corporate funded think tank - "The Center for Corporate Progress ", oops, I mean " The Center For American Progress ", here is an article from two years ago ( Dec. 2018 ) that goes into a lot of good ( horrible ) detail.....From the article - " The Center for American Progress, however, is cozy with some of America?s largest and most controversial companies. Though it is quick to emphasize that corporate donations constitute only a small part of its funding, in 2013 alone CAP received support from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, Citigroup, the American Beverage Association, Comcast, BlueCross BlueShield, weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman, and Walmart. The government of the United Arab Emirates (which regularly carries out forced disappearances and torture) has given over $500,000. Investigative journalist Ken Silverstein, in an important 2013 investigation of CAP?s funding, was told by multiple former staffers that when CAP was seeking support from Saudis it muted its criticism of the Saudi kingdom. (CAP continues to conceal the identities of many of its largest donors.) "
Current Affairs
Why Is The Center For American Progress Betraying The Left?
As the left tries to fight against inequality and exploitation, the main ?progressive? think tank joins forces with right-wing free market capitalists?
* Nathan J. Robinson
filed 13 December 2018 in Politics
The Center for American Progress is one of the largest and most important think tanks in Washington, certainly the preeminent ?progressive? think tank. It describes its agenda as promoting ?bold, progressive ideas? and releases a number of extremely useful reports and fact sheets . In 2008, TIME branded it ?Obama?s idea factory .? CAP has strong ties with both Obama and the Clintons?it was founded by close Clinton confidante John Podesta and its president, Neera Tanden, previously worked for both Bill and Hillary Clinton. The New Republic has described it as ?stuffed to the gills with staffers who have either worked in previous Democratic administrations or will go on to work in future ones.?
The phrase ?progressive? is often associated with the left wing of the Democratic Party, by contrast with its ?moderate? wing, and progressives are typically skeptical of corporate influence in politics. The Center for American Progress, however, is cozy with some of America?s largest and most controversial companies. Though it is quick to emphasize that corporate donations constitute only a small part of its funding, in 2013 alone CAP received support from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, Citigroup, the American Beverage Association, Comcast, BlueCross BlueShield, weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman, and Walmart. The government of the United Arab Emirates (which regularly carries out forced disappearances and torture ) has given over $500,000 . Investigative journalist Ken Silverstein, in an important 2013 investigation of CAP?s funding, was told by multiple former staffers that when CAP was seeking support from Saudis it muted its criticism of the Saudi kingdom. (CAP continues to conceal the identities of many of its largest donors.)
CAP president Neera Tanden has described herself as ?a loyal soldier ? for Hillary Clinton and despite heading a ?nonpartisan? think tank, worked behind the scenes during the 2016 primary to try to erode Bernie Sanders? support. Leaked internal emails reveal Tanden?s own political instincts to depart from what is typically considered ?progressive.? She advised the Clinton campaign against a $15 minimum wage, and in one disturbing instance, as Glenn Greenwald has reported , argued ?that Libyans should be forced to turn over large portions of their oil revenues to repay the U.S. for the costs incurred in bombing Libya, on the grounds that Americans will support future wars only if they see that the countries attacked by the U.S. pay for the invasions.?
The Center for American Progress does not just accept shady donations. It also gives them. Journalist Andrew Perez reported that according to financial disclosure forms, CAP donated $200,000 last year to the American Enterprise Institute . The AEI is a right-wing free-market think tank perhaps best known as the longtime home of racist social scientist Charles Murray. When Current Affairs challenged Tanden on Twitter about the donation, she replied :
We have a joint program on defending democracy from the rise of authoritarianism. Here?s the press release from the CAP website. Welcome [Current Affairs] to cover the many papers we have jointly authored. This is a critical topic more media should focus on.
Naturally, Current Affairs gladly accepts the invitation to focus on CAP?s collaboration with the AEI. I looked at two of the ?reports? that they have produced together so far. First, it is still unclear why CAP is giving AEI $200,000. The reports Tanden links to are a few pages each, more like extended op-eds than scholarly works, and involve no original research. They both focus not on ?authoritarianism? as Tanden says, but on what they call ?authoritarian populism.? This is important, because while Tanden suggests that nobody could object to ?defending democracy from the rise of authoritarianism,? we know that to the American Enterprise Institute, ?democracy? and ?authoritarianism? do not necessarily mean what they mean to you and me. When the AEI speaks of democracy, it means ?laissez-faire capitalism? and when it speaks of ?authoritarianism? it means ?minimum wage laws? or any mildly redistributive social policies that could threaten American Enterprise. Tanden wants to wave away concerns about the collaboration, because after all everyone agrees democracy is good. But the question is?what are we actually ?defending? here?
The CAP/AEI report ?Drivers of Authoritarian Populism in the United States ? defines what it means by ?populism?: ?political parties and leaders that are anti-establishment and that divide society into two groups: self-serving elites and good, ordinary people.? By that definition, Bernie Sanders clearly falls under the ?populist? umbrella?he is anti-establishment and believes that ordinary people are being fleeced by self-serving elites. The report says that populism is not inherently bad, and emphasizes that it is targeted against the bigoted form of populism. But in the CAP/AEI discussion of European ?authoritarian populism,? it?s clear that economic leftists are included in the category :
A 2017 study, which looked at elections across Europe between 1980 and 2016, found that there is an asymmetry in drivers of support for right- and left-wing authoritarian populists. While the right wing seems unresponsive to changes in objective economic characteristics, the support for left-wing extreme populists, such as Syriza in Greece or Podemos in Spain, is sensitive both to rates of economic growth and to unemployment. The rise of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, can be viewed in a similar fashion.
Podemos, Syriza, and Corbyn??authoritarians?? Why? What could possibly put them in a category alongside Viktor Orb?n ? The CAP/AEI reports are actually extremely vague, saying they believe in ?a market economy with shared prosperity? and ?economic openness? but not making it particularly clear what that means. After all, who is against ?openness? and ?prosperity?? Who wants to be closed and poor? But it?s clear that what they?re actually talking about is free market capitalism. Corbyn, Syriza, and Podemos are only ?authoritarian? if you subscribe to the radical libertarian theory that wealth redistribution is totalitarian. CAP/AEI are cagey about saying that they?re teaming up to defend capitalism from leftists, but that?s precisely the implication of the reports? statement that left parties are ?authoritarian populism? that needs defeating in order to preserve ?democracy.?
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From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 10:51:43 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Why Is The Center For American Progress
Betraying The Left?
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Thanks David, you too!
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 10:06 AM David Johnson
wrote:
> There is a Left David,
>
>
>
> But it does NOT include Neo-liberals or phony ? progressive ? Democrats.
>
>
>
> I wish it was larger, more coordinated, etc.. but I am hopeful for the
> future ( even though the short and medium term will be difficult ) if for
> no other reasons being the political inclination of a majority of younger
> people under 35 ( polls indicating their favorable view of ? Socialism ?
> ), the proliferation on YouTube of REAL Left news programs ( see my recent
> post ), and the fact the Neo-Liberals are becoming more arrogant and
> telling people to ? go fuck themselves if they don?t like how they are
> doing things ?., etc along with the coming storm of economic downturn (
> foreclosures, evictions, no healthcare, unemployment with no UBI, etc. ).
>
> I hate to see the latter happen, but the Neo-Liberals and the Republicans
> created this problem and their policies are not going to help and there
> will be only the Neo-Liberals to blame.
>
> Of course that ? opportunity ? ( I hate to call it that ) is also a time
> of danger, in that it can just as easily be exploited and organized by the
> Fascists.
>
>
>
> We are living in interesting times, and it is going to get a lot more
> interesting. I just hope I live to see a revolutionary change for the
> better, both in the U.S. and the world.
>
>
>
> I hope you are doing well David. Stay safe.
>
>
>
> David J.
>
>
>
> *From:* David Green [mailto:davidgreen50 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 01, 2020 8:27 AM
> *To:* David Johnson
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] Why Is The Center For American Progress
> Betraying The Left?
>
>
>
> From Tanden to Robinson, they are all corporate neoliberal. Their
> differences are performative and aestheticized. The "left" is a phantom. It
> has no material interest in the working class. Tanden and Robinson are
> literally on the same team. The same club, as George Carlin would have said.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020, 6:16 PM David Johnson via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> Neera Tanden was just appointed by Biden to be the head of the OMB (
> Office of Management and Budget ) and instantly received an endorsement
> from Neo-Con Republican War Monger Bill Kristol. That should tell you
> everything. However, for those who are not familiar with the obnoxious
> Neo-Liberal Neera Tanden and her corporate funded think tank - "The Center
> for Corporate Progress ", oops, I mean " The Center For American Progress
> ", here is an article from two years ago ( Dec. 2018 ) that goes into a lot
> of good ( horrible ) detail.....From the article - " The Center for
> American Progress, however, is cozy with some of America?s largest and most
> controversial companies. Though it is quick to emphasize that corporate
> donations constitute only a small part of its funding, in 2013 alone CAP
> received support from Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, Citigroup, the
> American Beverage Association, Comcast, BlueCross BlueShield, weapons
> manufacturer Northrop Grumman, and Walmart. The government of the United
> Arab Emirates (which regularly carries out forced disappearances and
> torture) has given over $500,000. Investigative journalist Ken Silverstein,
> in an important 2013 investigation of CAP?s funding, was told by multiple
> former staffers that when CAP was seeking support from Saudis it muted its
> criticism of the Saudi kingdom. (CAP continues to conceal the identities of
> many of its largest donors.) "
>
>
>
> *Current Affairs *
>
> *Why Is The Center For American Progress Betraying The Left? *
>
> As the left tries to fight against inequality and exploitation, the main
> ?progressive? think tank joins forces with right-wing free market
> capitalists?
>
> - Nathan J. Robinson
>
>
> filed 13 December 2018 in Politics
>
>
> The Center for American Progress is one of the largest and most important
> think tanks
> in
> Washington, certainly the preeminent ?progressive? think tank. It describes
> its agenda as promoting ?bold, progressive ideas? and releases a number of
> extremely useful reports and fact sheets
> . In 2008, *TIME *branded
> it ?Obama?s idea factory
> .?
> CAP has strong ties with both Obama and the Clintons?it was founded by
> close Clinton confidante John Podesta and its president, Neera Tanden,
> previously worked for both Bill and Hillary Clinton. The *New Republic *has
> described it as ?stuffed to the gills with staffers who have either worked
> in previous Democratic administrations or will go on to work in future
> ones.?
>
> The phrase ?progressive? is often associated with the left wing of the
> Democratic Party, by contrast with its ?moderate? wing, and progressives
> are typically skeptical of corporate influence in politics. The Center for
> American Progress, however, is cozy with some of America?s largest and most
> controversial companies. Though it is quick to emphasize that corporate
> donations constitute only a small part of its funding, in 2013 alone CAP received
> support from
>
> Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, Citigroup, the American Beverage
> Association, Comcast, BlueCross BlueShield, weapons manufacturer Northrop
> Grumman, and Walmart. The government of the United Arab Emirates (which
> regularly carries out forced disappearances and torture
> )
> has given over $500,000
> . Investigative
> journalist Ken Silverstein, in an important 2013 investigation
>
> of CAP?s funding, was told by multiple former staffers that when CAP was
> seeking support from Saudis it muted its criticism of the Saudi kingdom.
> (CAP continues to conceal the identities
> of many of its
> largest donors.)
>
> CAP president Neera Tanden has described herself as ?a loyal soldier
> ? for Hillary Clinton
> and despite heading a ?nonpartisan? think tank, worked behind the scenes
> during the
> 2016 primary to try to erode Bernie Sanders? support. Leaked internal
> emails reveal Tanden?s own political instincts to depart from what is
> typically considered ?progressive.? She advised
> the Clinton campaign
> against a $15 minimum wage, and in one disturbing instance, as Glenn
> Greenwald has reported
> ,
> argued ?that Libyans should be forced to turn over large portions of their
> oil revenues to repay the U.S. for the costs incurred in bombing Libya, on
> the grounds that Americans will support future wars only if they see that
> the countries attacked by the U.S. pay for the invasions.?
>
> The Center for American Progress does not just accept shady donations. It
> also gives them. Journalist Andrew Perez reported that
> according
> to financial disclosure forms, CAP donated $200,000 last year to the American
> Enterprise Institute
> . The AEI is
> a right-wing free-market think tank perhaps best known as the longtime home
> of racist
>
> social scientist Charles Murray. When *Current Affairs *challenged Tanden
> on Twitter about the donation, she replied
> :
>
> *We have a joint program on defending democracy from the rise of
> authoritarianism. Here?s the press release from the CAP website. Welcome
> [Current Affairs] to cover the many papers we have jointly authored. This
> is a critical topic more media should focus on.*
>
> Naturally, *Current Affairs *gladly accepts the invitation to focus on
> CAP?s collaboration with the AEI. I looked at two of the ?reports? that
> they have produced together so far. First, it is still unclear why CAP is
> giving AEI $200,000. The reports Tanden links to are a few pages each, more
> like extended op-eds than scholarly works, and involve no original
> research. They both focus not on ?authoritarianism? as Tanden says, but on
> what they call ?authoritarian populism.? This is important, because while
> Tanden suggests that nobody could object to ?defending democracy from the
> rise of authoritarianism,? we know that to the American Enterprise
> Institute, ?democracy? and ?authoritarianism? do not necessarily mean what
> they mean to you and me. When the AEI speaks of democracy, it means
> ?laissez-faire capitalism? and when it speaks of ?authoritarianism? it
> means ?minimum wage laws? or any mildly redistributive social policies that
> could threaten American Enterprise. Tanden wants to wave away concerns
> about the collaboration, because after all *everyone agrees democracy is
> good*. But the question is?what are we actually ?defending? here?
>
> The CAP/AEI report ?Drivers of Authoritarian Populism in the United States
> ?
> defines what it means by ?populism?: ?political parties and leaders that
> are anti-establishment and that divide society into two groups:
> self-serving elites and good, ordinary people.? By that definition, Bernie
> Sanders clearly falls under the ?populist? umbrella?he is
> anti-establishment and believes that ordinary people are being fleeced by
> self-serving elites. The report says that populism is not *inherently *bad,
> and emphasizes that it is targeted against the *bigoted *form of
> populism. But in the CAP/AEI discussion of European ?authoritarian
> populism,? it?s clear that economic leftists are included in the category
>
> :
>
> *A 2017 study, which looked at elections across Europe between 1980 and
> 2016, found that there is an asymmetry in drivers of support for right- and
> left-wing authoritarian populists. While the right wing seems unresponsive
> to changes in objective economic characteristics, the support for left-wing
> extreme populists, such as Syriza in Greece or Podemos in Spain, is
> sensitive both to rates of economic growth and to unemployment. The rise of
> the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, under the leadership of Jeremy
> Corbyn, can be viewed in a similar fashion.*
>
> Podemos, Syriza, and Corbyn??authoritarians?? Why? What could possibly put
> them in a category alongside Viktor Orb?n
> ? The CAP/AEI reports
> are actually extremely vague, saying they believe in ?a market economy with
> shared prosperity? and ?economic openness? but not making it particularly
> clear what that means. After all, who is against ?openness? and
> ?prosperity?? Who wants to be closed and poor? But it?s clear that what
> they?re actually talking about is free market capitalism. Corbyn, Syriza,
> and Podemos are only ?authoritarian? if you subscribe to the radical
> libertarian theory that wealth redistribution is totalitarian. CAP/AEI are
> cagey about saying that they?re teaming up to defend capitalism from
> leftists, but that?s precisely the implication of the reports? statement
> that left parties are ?authoritarian populism? that needs defeating in
> order to preserve ?democracy.?
>
>
>
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] " The Left Versus Neo- Liberals "
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Mort,
Those are all TV news programs on YouTube that are listed in the article.
The media sites you mention are print and are all excellent. With the exception of the ? Intercept?.
Although they do still have some decent journalists like Ryan Grimm, Lee Fang, and Jeremy Schahill. At least for now.
David J.
From: Brussel, Morton K [mailto:brussel at illinois.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2020 4:37 PM
To: David Johnson
Cc: Brussel, Morton K
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] " The Left Versus Neo- Liberals "
The list of ?good? alternative sites omits some, for example, Consortium News (Why?), Roots Action, Truthout, CommonDreams, The Intercept(?), ?others. It is not ?good? to leave out ?good? alternative antiwar and peace sites. How about wikileaks?
But a useful article, nonetheless.
Mort
On Dec 1, 2020, at 9:53 AM, David Johnson via Peace-discuss wrote:
A more accurate title IMO would be ? The Left Versus Neo-Liberals ?
Motif
Providence, Rhode Island News, Events, Music, Shows, Film, Art
The Left Versus the Left
Progressive media is filling the void
By Mark Fogarty on January 8th, 2020
It is commonly understood that there is a bias in the television news media with Fox News on the right and MSNBC and their ilk on the left, but the real conflict is between the corporate left broadcast media and the independent progressive left media ? a conversation many might not be aware is happening. What divides the two camps is simple: It comes down to where you get your news.
Claiming that MSNBC and CNN, among others, represent the ideas of the left shows a misunderstanding that most people under 30 get their news online. More than 39 million peoplehave cut the cord and no longer have access to cable.
While left-leaning corporate broadcast media has been consumed with Russian conspiracies (albeit appropriate, given our corrupt commander-in-chief), a new independent left has emerged. Provided by podcasts, left-wing magazines and YouTube channels, this new left is less likely to be controlled by corporate interests and presents a world-view different from their corporate counterparts.
If you get your news from MSNBC you might think that the Russiagate case was a slam dunk, Bernie Sanders has no shot of winning, the Ukraine investigation is the most important story of our time and Nancy Pelosi is the first line of defense against Donald Trump.
Get your news online and you?d see the holes on the Russiagate story, learn that Bernie Sanders has been consistently second in the polls and has the best chance of beating Trump in the 2020 election. And you?d see that while the so-called #resistance pretends to fight Trump, the democratic leadership gave him $750 billion for his already bloated military budget, allowed a ban on trans soldiers to go through, gave him money for his wall and to create a Space Force and voted for the Patriot Act to be renewed.
The emergence of the independent left exposes the limits of the corporate media. It isn?t that the corporate media reports a different take than the left; the corporate media simply refuses to report anything that does not support the agenda of their corporate overlords.
One of the most glaring omissions by the mainstream media was the protest at Standing Rock. The protest arose in 2016 when Dakota Access LLC attempted to build a 1,172-mile oil pipeline adjacent to the Standing Rock Reservation. Worries that the proximity of the oil to the reservation?s water supply would cause environmental catastrophe created one of the longest protests in American history. While independent media began coverage right away, the mainstream media was months late to the story.
Four years later, the media that came late to the party on Standing Rock continues to deny reality and refuses to cover one of the only presidential candidates courageous enough to join the protest at Standing Rock: Bernie Sanders (the only other to join the protest was Tulsi Gabbard).
They leave outsider candidates like Bernie, Tulsi Gabbard and Andrew Yang out of graphics and keep their names out of headlines, while pushing the candidates (like Amy Klobuchar) who fit their agenda, no matter their floundering in the polls. CNN once reported the headline ?Buttigieg a strong fourth,? Leaving out what one might argue is the little detail that Bernie Sanders had emerged in second place. Whether the Bernie blackout is conspiracy to favor candidates who won?t come for the corporate media?s bottom line or unconscious bias is up for debate, but its existence is undeniable.
Is MSNBC aware of the bias toward support of the military industrial complex or part of some vast conspiracy? Readers of Noam Chomsky?s Manufacturing Consent know this is not how it works. When Chomsky was asked by journalist Andrew Marr if he believed Marr was pushing a narrative he didn?t believe in to toe the party line Chomsky replied, ?I?m sure you believe everything you?re saying? but if you believed something different, you wouldn?t be sitting where you are sitting.?
The divide is growing right under the nose of those who believe they are informed. But the truth is, you can consume five newspapers a day and watch CNN, MSNBC and NBC daily and still miss a massive and essential conversation about what is happening in the world.
Watch CNN and you will never hear about America?s complacency in the genocide in Yemen. You might not know that the Obama administration?s intervention in Libya has reduced the corrupt-yet-somewhat functioning dictatorship into a nightmare state where slaves are sold on the street.
It would be easy to dismiss the YouTubers and podcasters as sad tin foil hat types, broadcasting from their momma?s basement ? and lord knows there?s plenty of that on YouTube, but this new left comes with its own set of credentials.
Take, for example, Krystal Ball, Cenk Uygar and Dylan Ratigan. All used to work for MSNBC and left or were fired when it became obvious they wouldn?t play ball. Krystal Ball was given her walking papers from MSNBC when she dared suggest Hillary Clinton was not the best candidate to beat Donald Trump. Dylan Ratigan quit out of frustration and Cenk Uyger was pushed out of his time slot for being too hard on Barack Obama. He went on to grow his network, The Young Turks, into the largest political show in YouTube history.
The progressive left plays the role of journalist no matter who is in power, leveling criticisms at left and right whenever they do wrong. This kind of journalism is desperately needed in our time.
This new left caters to a news-hungry crowd of young voters who have never and will never own cable. They are pissed, they are politically active and they are the future of the country. Dismissing the significance of this audience and where they get their information is a mistake the Democrats make at their own risk, yet still it seems to go all but ignored by the Democratic party.
There is a vital conversation to be had as to what it means to be left and what it means to resist, yet the participants seem to be having this conversation in two different bubbles: one paid for by the military industrial complex and one made for the people, by the people. Which one is more likely to tell the truth?
If you want to get out of your bubble, but don?t know where to begin, check out a a sampling of some of the best of progressive media at motifri.com/leftvleft.
WHERE TO CATCH PROGRESSIVE NEWS
The Young Turks
TYT network is the first major progressive news network on Youtube. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, TYT offers commentary and investigative journalism, pop culture news and more.
Follow @cenkuygur, @AnaKasparian
NOTE: Uygur is currently running for congress and mainstream media has done a ton to smear him for blogs he wrote and things he said over a decade ago. What they don?t tell you is ? he founded the Justice Democrats (the organization that gave us AOC), founded the Wolfpac to get money out of politics, fostered the career of many female journalists and has the most diverse cross-section of commentators than any other network, employing trans, LBQT, black & Latinx commentators. In other words, he has done more for progressive policies than anyone in media.
Righteous anger level = Four middle fingers to the establishment
The Jimmy Dore Show
Jimmy Dore split off from The Young Turks over a disagreement on Russiagate. To his credit, Cenk Uygur let Jimmy remain on the show until Jimmy decided to leave. The two remain friends. Now Jimmy runs his own show and performs live comedy show all around the US. Self-described as a ?jagoff comedian,? Jimmy is one of the most effective debunkers of mainstream media lies.
Follow @jimmy_dore
Righteous anger level = = Five middle fingers and one for your momma. Jimmy is the angriest of them all, and possibly the most entertaining.
Rolling Stone presents: Useful Idiots with Matt Taibbi & Katie Halper.
Rolling Stone, continuing over a half a century tradition of being a voice for progressive media, recently began a podcast with Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper. Taibbi is the guy who took over Hunter S. Thompson?s old gig, chronicling fear and loathing on the campaign trail. Paired up with the hilarious Katie Halper, each week they give us the four foodgroups: Democrats suck, Republicans suck, something weird, something funny and most stoned moment of the week.
Follow @kthalps, @mtaibbi
Chapo Trap House
Chapo Trap House is one of the most popular progressive podcasts and part of ?The Dirtbag Left,? a term coined by Trap House?s female member, Amber A?Lee Frost. They are dirtbags because they refuse to moderate their anger to operate in polite society, and the result is a show that is brutally honest, filthy, hilarious and relentless in its criticism of American politics.
Follow @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE
Righteous anger level = Five middle fingers.
The Gray Zone
The Gray Zone created by Max Blumenthal is the home of Aaron Mat?, who won an award for his coverage of the Russiagate scandal. Blumenthal and Mat? do a great job of forcing American?s to confront hard truths about the country?s role on the world?s stage.
Follow @MaxBlumenthal, @aaronjmate
Righteous anger level = four middle fingers
Kim Iversen
Kim Iversen has carved a niche out for herself as one of the prime defenders of Tulsi Gabbard and Gabbard?s stance on ending America?s policy of regime change wars. While the mainstream media has painted Tulsi as everything from a Russian asset to a closet Republican, Iversen shows her for what she is ? one of the most principled people in congress.
Righteous anger level = two middle fingers
Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim writes for The Intercept and works for The Young Turks as an investigative journalist. Grim has been called ?a left-wing populist attack dog? and he is, breaking stories that expose the DNC. Apparently, doing the job of exposing truth is ?attacking? ? I thought it was journalism.
Follow him @ryangrim
Glen Greenwald
Glen Greenwald is no longer welcome on MSNBC after refuting their Russiagate narrative one too many times. Greenwald won the Pulitzer-Prize for his coverage of the secret surveillance program run by the NSA and remains one of the most unflinching critics of the American government
Follow him @ggreenwald
The Hill: Rising with Krystal and Saagar.
The Hill is producing one of the most subversive and brilliant shows on the internet. It looks like a morning show, complete with a milquetoast theme music and brightly lit set, but the hosts ,former MSNBC anchor, Krystal Ball and (sort-of) Republican Saagar Enjeti offer unflinching commentary criticizing both sides of the aisle.
Follow @krystalball, @esaagar
Empire Files with Abby Martin
Abby Martin has created a series of hard-hitting documentaries on American Imperialism. She?s as harsh a critic of US interventionism as they come, and it is hard to deny the evidence she presents ? that our country is still a bad actor on the world?s stage.
Follow @AbbyMartin
The Tim Black Show
Self described as ?America?s most watched black independent media on the left? the Tim Black show is funny, provocative and tackles topics the mainstream press ignores.
Follow @RealTimBlack
Sam Seder and the Majority Report
Former Air America anchor Sam Seder offers progressive commentary alongside Michael Brooks.
Follow @SamSeder, @_michaelbrooks
Secular Talk with Kyle Kulinski
Founding member of the Justice Democrats, Kyle Kulinski, is one of the most entertaining and eviscerating commentators on the left.
Follow at KyleKulinski
This is by no means a comprehensive list, for HONORABLE MENTIONS check out:
The Michael Brooks show, Redacted Tonight, The Rational National
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From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 14:10:40 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Possible HHS Pick Shielded Nursing Homes From
Liability During COVID Outbreak
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This article doesn?t mention Raimondo?s horrible dealings with Union
Workers and her theft of Rhode Island State Employees? pension fund monies.
David J.
Possible HHS Pick Shielded Nursing Homes From Liability During COVID
Outbreak
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has presided over one of the deadliest COVID
outbreaks and helped shield nursing home companies from accountability - and
she could get the nation's top health care job
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This report was written by Julia Rock and Andrew Perez.
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has presided over one of the deadliest COVID
outbreaks in the country - and new documents obtained by The Daily Poster
detail how she helped nursing home lobbyists shield health care companies
from coronavirus-related lawsuits.
Now, Raimondo - a former Wall Street executive - is reportedly being
considered for the nation?s top health care policy job in the incoming
Biden administration.
Politico
reported last week that Raimondo, who made her name
slashing state workers? pensions, is one
of the finalists to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
under President-elect Joe Biden. Raimondo was also previously considered for
Treasury Secretary, according to the
American Prospect.
As governor, Raimondo has
slammed proposals to expand Medicare to cover everyone. Amid the
pandemic in August, her administration
approved health insurance companies?
steep premium increases that were
criticized by the state?s Democratic attorney general as ?unnecessary and
ill-advised.? Health insurers have been raking in
record profits, with fewer people seeking care because of the pandemic.
Raimondo has also pushed for Medicaid cuts that nursing home workers
warned
would result in unsafe staffing levels - and in April, she issued an
executive order sought by health care industry lobbyists that shielded
nursing homes from lawsuits when their business decisions injure or kill
people. The order was later expanded to shield nursing homes, hospitals, and
other health care providers.
While the Biden transition is reportedly
considering Raimondo for HHS Secretary, residents and workers in Rhode
Island?s nursing homes have faced deadly consequences. Documents obtained
by The Daily Poster show that Raimondo quickly responded to lobbyists?
demands for an executive order granting them legal immunity during the
pandemic.
?What immunity has done is allow nursing homes to act unreasonably without
accountability,? one personal injury lawyer told the
Providence Journal last month.
Rhode Island currently has one of
the highest
coronavirus death rates by population in the country, according to data from
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 70 percent
of COVID-19 deaths in the state have been linked to long-term care
facilities -
only two other states have seen similar
nursing home death rates, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The state?s hospitals are completely full. On Monday, patients were
admitted to field hospitals for the first time in Rhode Island
during the pandemic.
Legal Liability
On April 9, top officials from Rhode Island?s nursing home lobbying groups
sent a
letter to Raimondo?s office requesting she give nursing home
facilities immunity from civil liability if their residents faced injury or
death from COVID. The Daily Poster obtained a copy of the letter through a
public records request.
The letter - from the Rhode Island Health Care Association, the Rhode Island
Assisted Living Association and LeadingAge RI - noted that nursing home
facilities did not have enough personal protective equipment (PPE) and were
experiencing staffing shortages due to ?worker call-outs, quarantines and
fear.?
The organizations requested that the governor issue an executive order
making nursing home facilities and workers "immune from civil liability for
any injury or death alleged to have been sustained... in the course of
providing medical or other health and personal care services in support of
the state of Rhode Island's response to the COVID-19 outbreak.?
One day later, the governor?s office issued an
executive order granting the lobbyists what they had asked for: Facilities
including hospitals and nursing homes were classified as emergency
management facilities and granted immunity from civil liability, except in
cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct.
A subsequent
order
reauthorizing the provision said the immunity provision applied to ?health
care entities, health care professionals and health care workers? at
hospitals, nursing homes, and long-term care facilities.
?Reinventing Medicaid?
In 2015, newly-elected Governor Raimondo
announced her plans to ?reinvent Medicaid,? a proposal that would result
in cuts to Medicaid in each of her proposed budgets for the next five years.
At the time, nursing home administrators warned what the cuts would mean for
their facilities - staffing cuts. One
said in
a subcommittee hearing: ?It?s keeping me up at night. It?s making me very
nervous. We have a lot of sick, elderly frail people in these nursing homes
and when you look at what you have to do to provide for them and for the
people that care for them? Probably 90 percent of our employees are
mothers, single mothers. Women.?
Another administrator said, ?Have we lost sight of the individuals we have
an obligation to protect and care for? These individuals? lives are
literally hanging in the balance.?
Raimondo?s plan also involved privatizing management of Medicaid in the
state,
outsourcing management to
private insurers. By 2018,
over
60 percent of the state?s Medicaid budget went to private health insurers.
That year, hospital administrators
called
Raimondo?s round of cuts to Medicaid ?devastating.?
The governor?s proposed budget for 2020, introduced before the pandemic
broke out in the U.S., included
nearly $60 million in Medicaid cuts.
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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 21:13:41 +0000
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Subject: [wbw-discussion] Biden?s Actions So Far Would Have Ye Olde Resistance in the Streets If He Were Republican
Date: December 2, 2020 at 2:16:38 PM CST
To: David Swanson >
Biden?s Actions So Far Would Have Ye Olde Resistance in the Streets If He Were Republican
By David Swanson
https://davidswanson.org/bidens-actions-so-far-would-have-ye-olde-resistance-in-the-streets-if-he-were-republican/
Take a gander, if you can stomach it, at buildbackbetter.gov.
Now, be honest, if this were the work of a Republican would you be ready to protest?
Not only did you not vote for anything new, as the vast majority of the nominees and the policy proposals are long-established moss-gathering Washingtonians, but the new additions here and there are the worst of the bunch.
Biden, who had no foreign policy platform on his campaign website, and no foreign policy task force, has suddenly, post-election, prioritized empowering warmongers.
This is a president elect openly nominating a group of revolving door war profiteers with shameless but secretive schemes for profiting from mass killing.
There?s not a single nominee for anything who?s taken a stand for disarmament, peace, a green new deal, Medicare for all, or a serious shift to progressive taxation.
Amidst all the hyped diversity, there?s not a single nominee for anything who?s opposed the waging of wars on nations full of men, women, and children with a little bit darker skin tone.
There?s also not a single nominee who would stand for being called ?progressive? unless there was a paycheck in it.
There?s a nominee for Secretary of State who wanted to chop Iraq up into three separate puppet states, thinks the U.S. should get more serious about belligerence toward Russia, and wants us to be clear that by ?ending wars? nobody means ending, you know, wars.
The rumored nominee not yet added for Secretary of ?Defense? is itching for war with China.
The nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget proposed attacking Libya to steal its oil ? but in a very feminist way.
The rumored nominee for CIA is a torturer.
The nominee for special envoy on climate is not anyone with any particular knowledge of climate, but someone with years of experience digging the hole we?re in: John Kerry.
The nominee for director of national ?intelligence? helped multiply the drone murders 10-fold.
The nominee for National Security Advisor has pushed war making in Libya and Syria.
The rumored nominee for Housing and Human Services has just presided over one of the world?s worst COVID outbreaks, during which she approved huge health insurance premium increases and gave nursing home corporations legal immunity.
The buildbackbetter.gov website doesn?t just list nominees, but also policy proposals. Here, of course, foreign policy disappears again. Poof! There?s no mention of the federal budget, how much should go where, what wars or bases or treaties or weapons customers or weapons purchases should be handled how. Nothing.
Instead, there?s a pile of vague campaign platitudes about climate. There?s a long list of nice sounding commitments on race, such as ?Support second chances for economic success.? A few of them are more concrete and useful, such as ?Stopping the transfer of weapons of war to police forces.? What about ending mass incarceration? What about ending the death penalty? What about ending student debt, creating Medicare for All, making college part of public education, taxing billionaires, converting to peaceful industries, expanding Social Security, creating a Green New Deal? What about the good old Employee Free Choice Act? What about a living wage? There?s an economic plan with no mention of any of this. There?s a COVID plan that amounts to a half-assed duplication of what other nations have been doing for months ? so of course it seems good by U.S. standards.
This is the problem: lowered standards. But for all the talk of ?believing science? there?s little recognition in U.S. politics that climate collapse, nuclear danger, environmental destruction, and war proliferation don?t grade on a curve. Disasters destroy whether or not you can imagine something even worse, whether or not you can imagine a more offensive presentation.
Seriously, how is it that this buffoonish crowd of grifters and recycled corporate platforms is not generating massive protests?
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Subject: ?Rebel Girl? Elizabeth Gurley Flynn terrified Portland political leaders in early 20th century, lives on in imagination
?Rebel Girl? Elizabeth Gurley Flynn terrified Portland political leaders in early 20th century, lives on in imagination
https://www.oregonlive.com/.../rebel-girl-elizabeth...
Updated Dec 02, 10:06 AM; Posted Dec 02, 7:04 AM
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the best-known -- and most militant -- labor organizers of the early 20th century. (Library of Congress)
By Douglas Perry | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn never had much use for politicians.
?My, how terribly embarrassing it must be to each of you to say all those nice things about yourself,? she quipped at a 1915 candidates forum that had seen a phalanx of Portland City Council hopefuls speak.
She then launched into a speech of her own, even though she wasn?t running for any office. ?Labor,? she exclaimed, ?is the foundation of society.?
Flynn, who died in 1964 and quickly slipped into obscurity, is now having a pop-culture moment.
Credit for the revival goes to author Jess Walter, whose well-received new novel ?The Cold Millions? adds Flynn to a bevy of memorable fictional characters during the 1909 free-speech battle in Spokane.
I.W.W.
An I.W.W. member wears a hat card at a free-speech rally. Many cities and states early in the 20th century passed speech-suppressing laws to prevent union organizing. (Library of Congress)
Walter captures Flynn?s hard-charging charisma, showing the 19-year-old socialist storming onstage at a rally, ?purposefully striding toward the crowd like she might dive in, her toes stopping at the stage edge. She leaned forward. ?Listen,? took a few breaths, ?brothers and sisters, have we ever seen such trying times?? "
Walter, who frequently sets his novels in his hometown of Spokane, told The Oregonian/OregonLive last month that the tension between labor and capital in the American economic system ?is very much in my bones, the unfairness. And to see the way much of the working class has been separated from building in their own interests breaks my heart.?
Jess Walter's new novel is an exploration of 'unfairness'
The author will speak at this year's Portland Book Festival. His sprawling novel's larger-than-life characters ? a mix of historical and fictional figures ? mingle amid Spokane?s heyday just after the turn of the 20th century.
This viewpoint perhaps inevitably brought him to Flynn, known in her heyday as ?The Rebel Girl? and the ?East Side Joan of Arc.? The Bronx-raised Flynn was a central figure in the real-life contretemps Walter limns in ?The Cold Millions,? when the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World tried to overwhelm Spokane?s efforts to enforce an anti-union ordinance.
Stewart Holbrook, the bard of the Northwest before Walter, wrote of Flynn ?shouting on a Trent Avenue corner for the workers to rise up, shake off their chains and do battle for free speech.? Her celebrity, Holbrook pointed out, was invaluable to the I.W.W. in Spokane: ?fairly sober reporters affirmed that a flash from the girl?s blue-gray eyes would serve to light a Sweet Caporal [cigarette].?
The Lilac City battle would not be a Pacific Northwest one-off for Flynn -- or for the I.W.W., better known as the Wobblies. Flynn regularly made appearances around the region for the ?One Big Union? cause and to support various local strikes.
I.W.W.
The establishment viewed the I.W.W.'s call for "one big union" as dangerous and unAmerican.
She especially liked Portland, coming through time and again to raise money and recruit workers.
?Either labor must rule or capital must rule,? she said in a speech at downtown?s Multnomah Hotel. ?It?s a war for control, and we are quite frank about it.?
Four years after the Spokane upheaval, the I.W.W.?s fight for free speech reached the Rose City, when Mayor H. Russell Albee banned all ?street speaking except religious speeches? in an effort to squash a strike at the Oregon Packing Co. on Southeast 8th Avenue at Belmont Street. The police told the strikers, most of whom were women, to ?quit picketing, quit speaking, quit parading, or else face a jail sentence.? When the picketers still refused to disperse, a legion of mounted cops swooped in.
Flynn wasn?t involved in the strike at the Portland fruit cannery -- she was back east leading silk-mill workers in New Jersey -- but her friend Dr. Marie Equi waded into the fight and kept her apprised.
After helping to establish the American Civil Liberties Union, Flynn took up residence in Portland in the 1920s. By then she was suffering from persistent health problems. Long divorced from a Minnesota ore miner, she lived at Equi?s Southwest Portland home for years, too weak to rejoin the barricades. ?I always felt I was in jail here,? she later said.
Flynn?s ill health ?was not just physical,? says Michael Munk, a longtime chronicler of local radical history and author of the 2007 book ?The Portland Red Guide.? ?The way I understood it, she was kind of depressed.?
She had seen years of defeats, after all. Strikes that had petered out or been crushed, the conviction and execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn addresses striking silk workers in Paterson, N.J., in 1913. (Photo courtesy of the Newark Public Library)Newark Public Library
During the decade she spent living in the Rose City, Flynn, a dedicated socialist since her teens, moved further to the left. The Wobblies, Holbrook wrote, had dismissed the Communists as the ?Comicals,? but in 1937 Flynn joined the American Communist Party. In the 1950s she was convicted of conspiracy under the anti-communist Smith Act and sentenced to three years behind bars.
It had been a long, winding road to federal prison for Flynn. Back in the days when she could spark a Sweet Caporal with a stern look, Flynn was considered a threat only to exploitative industrialists, not the entire U.S. political system. In her remarks that 1915 day at the Portland candidates? forum, she offered the office-seekers a suggestion on how they could improve their stump speeches.
?Not one of you, with all your reference to economy, businesslike methods and so on, has made any reference to labor,? she said.
A late-arriving candidate, theatrical producer George Baker, spoke up. ?You didn?t wait to hear me,? he said.
When his turn came, Baker abandoned his prepared remarks and, according to The Oregonian, insisted that his goal was to make Portland ?a better city for the workingman and all other good citizens.?
Baker would win a council seat -- and in 1917 he became Portland?s mayor.
Two years later, police raided the I.W.W.?s local headquarters on Southwest Second Ave., near Burnside. Mayor Baker, citing a new law designed to stop ?the circulation of inflammatory literature? that encouraged general strikes, demanded that the Wobblies be evicted from their building and run out of the city.
-- Douglas Perry
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The Lame-Duck Executioner: Trump Prepares to Execute Five Prisoners in Closing Days of Presidency
? from Democracy Now transcript with Amy Goodman, Nov. 30, 2020
We look at the unprecedented five federal executions President Trump?s Department of Justice has scheduled before Inauguration Day, starting with Brandon Bernard on International Human Rights Day* and ending with Dustin Higgs on January 15, Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Four of the people set to die are Black men, and the other is Lisa Montgomery, a severely mentally ill white woman who faced a lifetime of sexual abuse and would be the first woman executed in nearly 70 years. ?When you give absolute power over life and death to government officials, they can really do what they want,? responds Sister Helen Prejean, one of the world's most well-known anti-death-penalty activists. She also discusses the life and legacy of Bill Pelke, who co-founded the group Journey of Hope and partnered with Prejean to campaign against the death penalty and spare the life of the woman who was 15 years old when she killed his grandmother.
? --
* Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
From r-szoke at illinois.edu Mon Dec 7 03:58:55 2020
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 03:58:55 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Intent to execute
Message-ID:
The Lame-Duck Executioner: Trump Prepares to Execute Five Prisoners in Closing Days of Presidency
? from Democracy Now transcript with Amy Goodman, Nov. 30, 2020
We look at the unprecedented five federal executions President Trump?s Department of Justice has scheduled before Inauguration Day, starting with Brandon Bernard on International Human Rights Day* and ending with Dustin Higgs on January 15, Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. Four of the people set to die are Black men, and the other is Lisa Montgomery, a severely mentally ill white woman who faced a lifetime of sexual abuse and would be the first woman executed in nearly 70 years. ?When you give absolute power over life and death to government officials, they can really do what they want,? responds Sister Helen Prejean, one of the world's most well-known anti-death-penalty activists. She also discusses the life and legacy of Bill Pelke, who co-founded the group Journey of Hope and partnered with Prejean to campaign against the death penalty and spare the life of the woman who was 15 years old when she killed his grandmother.
? --
* Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on 10 December. It commemorates the day in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
From r-szoke at illinois.edu Mon Dec 7 19:03:22 2020
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 19:03:22 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] The Killing Agenda
Message-ID:
Pardons and Pentobarbitol: Trump?s Lame Duck Swan Song
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan,
Democracy Now, Dec. 3, 2020
Pardons and pentobarbitol are defining the waning weeks of Donald Trump?s presidency. Speculation is rampant over whether Trump will grant himself a preemptive pardon, along with his three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, his son-in-law Jared Kushner; and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. If Trump does, he?ll be the first president in U.S. history to pardon himself.
Meanwhile, the 54 people on federal death row can expect no such mercy from Trump. He has already executed eight federal prisoners, ending a 30-year hiatus in federal executions, and intends to kill five more before he leaves office on January 20th. Four of those scheduled to die are African American men and the other is the only woman on federal death row. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years. These will be the first federal executions to occur during an outgoing president?s ?lame duck? period in over 130 years, since President Grover Clevelend executed three men of color. Cleveland lost the election, but would be the only president to win again, four years later.
The federal government?s only death chamber, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, is only equipped to kill by lethal injection. In order to expedite the killing spree, the Trump administration has issued a rule change, authorizing federal executions to take place by firing squad, poison gas, or electrocution as well. The change was to take effect on Christmas Eve, highlighting how cruel and barbaric the death penalty is. The effective date was quietly shifted to December 28th.
The next federal prisoner scheduled to die is Brandon Bernard, on December 10th ? International Human Rights Day. All but one of his jurors was white, and now, five of them say he should not be executed. The next day, December 11th, Alfred Bourgeois is set to be killed. Cory Johnson, whose attorneys say has an IQ of 69 and thus falls below the Supreme Court?s standard allowing the death penalty, has an execution date of January 14th. Dustin Higgs is the final of the four African American men Trump intends to execute just days before he leaves office. Higgs is slated to die on January 15th, Martin Luther King, Jr.?s birthday.
Study after study has confirmed deep racial bias in the application of the death penalty, primarily targeting African American defendants in crimes with white victims.
?It?s a paroxysm of violence,? Cornell law professor Sandra Babcock said on the Democracy Now! news hour. She is an advocate for Lisa Montgomery, the sole woman on federal death row. Babcock described the horrific childhood that Montgomery suffered:
?She was a victim of incest, of gang rape, of child sex trafficking, of unimaginable violence for her entire life, before she committed the crime for which she was sentenced to death. She is profoundly mentally ill....her stepfather built her a special room off the side of their trailer so he and his buddies could go in and rape her. Her mother sold her to the plumber and to the electrician, told her that she had to earn her keep.? Babcock added, ?The jury never heard about the scope of her abuse or its impact. She is the most broken of the broken.?
Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death in 2008 for the murder of a pregnant woman named Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Montgomery lives, imprisoned, under constant sedation with powerful antipsychotic drugs to treat her severe mental illness. ?There are at least 16 women who have committed very similar crimes, and prosecutors in those cases recognized that these crimes are the product of trauma and mental illness,? Babcock explained.
During a legal visit with Montgomery in November, her two principal attorneys contracted COVID-19. A federal judge granted a delay, but her execution date has now been reset for January 12th.
The Pew Research Center recently reported that Trump has used the power of clemency far less than any president in modern history, granting only 28 pardons and 16 commutations, including several to his political allies ? less than one-half of one percent of clemency requests. President Barack Obama granted clemency 1,927 times, by comparison.
? ?
# # #
From r-szoke at illinois.edu Mon Dec 7 19:03:22 2020
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 19:03:22 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] The Killing Agenda
Message-ID:
Pardons and Pentobarbitol: Trump?s Lame Duck Swan Song
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan,
Democracy Now, Dec. 3, 2020
Pardons and pentobarbitol are defining the waning weeks of Donald Trump?s presidency. Speculation is rampant over whether Trump will grant himself a preemptive pardon, along with his three eldest children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, his son-in-law Jared Kushner; and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani. If Trump does, he?ll be the first president in U.S. history to pardon himself.
Meanwhile, the 54 people on federal death row can expect no such mercy from Trump. He has already executed eight federal prisoners, ending a 30-year hiatus in federal executions, and intends to kill five more before he leaves office on January 20th. Four of those scheduled to die are African American men and the other is the only woman on federal death row. She would be the first woman executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years. These will be the first federal executions to occur during an outgoing president?s ?lame duck? period in over 130 years, since President Grover Clevelend executed three men of color. Cleveland lost the election, but would be the only president to win again, four years later.
The federal government?s only death chamber, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, is only equipped to kill by lethal injection. In order to expedite the killing spree, the Trump administration has issued a rule change, authorizing federal executions to take place by firing squad, poison gas, or electrocution as well. The change was to take effect on Christmas Eve, highlighting how cruel and barbaric the death penalty is. The effective date was quietly shifted to December 28th.
The next federal prisoner scheduled to die is Brandon Bernard, on December 10th ? International Human Rights Day. All but one of his jurors was white, and now, five of them say he should not be executed. The next day, December 11th, Alfred Bourgeois is set to be killed. Cory Johnson, whose attorneys say has an IQ of 69 and thus falls below the Supreme Court?s standard allowing the death penalty, has an execution date of January 14th. Dustin Higgs is the final of the four African American men Trump intends to execute just days before he leaves office. Higgs is slated to die on January 15th, Martin Luther King, Jr.?s birthday.
Study after study has confirmed deep racial bias in the application of the death penalty, primarily targeting African American defendants in crimes with white victims.
?It?s a paroxysm of violence,? Cornell law professor Sandra Babcock said on the Democracy Now! news hour. She is an advocate for Lisa Montgomery, the sole woman on federal death row. Babcock described the horrific childhood that Montgomery suffered:
?She was a victim of incest, of gang rape, of child sex trafficking, of unimaginable violence for her entire life, before she committed the crime for which she was sentenced to death. She is profoundly mentally ill....her stepfather built her a special room off the side of their trailer so he and his buddies could go in and rape her. Her mother sold her to the plumber and to the electrician, told her that she had to earn her keep.? Babcock added, ?The jury never heard about the scope of her abuse or its impact. She is the most broken of the broken.?
Lisa Montgomery was sentenced to death in 2008 for the murder of a pregnant woman named Bobbie Jo Stinnett. Montgomery lives, imprisoned, under constant sedation with powerful antipsychotic drugs to treat her severe mental illness. ?There are at least 16 women who have committed very similar crimes, and prosecutors in those cases recognized that these crimes are the product of trauma and mental illness,? Babcock explained.
During a legal visit with Montgomery in November, her two principal attorneys contracted COVID-19. A federal judge granted a delay, but her execution date has now been reset for January 12th.
The Pew Research Center recently reported that Trump has used the power of clemency far less than any president in modern history, granting only 28 pardons and 16 commutations, including several to his political allies ? less than one-half of one percent of clemency requests. President Barack Obama granted clemency 1,927 times, by comparison.
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From jbn at forestfield.org Tue Dec 8 03:41:33 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 21:41:33 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Rachel Blevins commentary worth hearing/watching on
"Mother of All Talkshows" -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=AD0RZJIrgm8 at
26m10s
Message-ID:
On George Galloway's "Mother of All Talkshows" episode 77
(https://youtube.com/watch?v=AD0RZJIrgm8) jump to 26m10s to hear/see RT journalist
Rachel Blevins' commentary, she's got a good take on domestic and foreign policy
including why we didn't hear much about foreign policy in the 2020 POTUS race
so-called "debates" -- people would have quickly seen that there was not much
difference between Trump and Biden.
-J
From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Dec 8 05:02:05 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 23:02:05 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Eleventh Circuit Rules Against NSA
Whistleblower Reality Winner's Appeal For Compassionate Release
References: <20201208004329.1.ir1qrff4klp@mg2.substack.com>
Message-ID: <786393CF-651A-4616-8FAB-6E0143E946D7@newsfromneptune.com>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Kevin Gosztola
> Subject: Eleventh Circuit Rules Against NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner's Appeal For Compassionate Release
> Date: December 7, 2020 at 6:43:29 PM CST
> To: cgestabrook at gmail.com
> Reply-To: "Kevin Gosztola"
>
> If you would like to support journalism on whistleblowers, become a subscriber to The Dissenter newsletter today.
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> Eleventh Circuit Rules Against NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner's Appeal For Compassionate Release
> Billie Winner-Davis, Winner's mother, says, "Even though I had tried not to get my hope up, I am still crushed by this denial."
> Kevin Gosztola
> Dec 8
>
> Photo: Reality Winner (Used with permission from StandWithReality.org )
>
> The 11th United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against NSA whistleblower Reality Winner's request for compassionate release from a federal prison, even though COVID-19 remains a pervasive threat.
>
> Narrowly, the appeals court decided [PDF ] a lower court did not "abuse its discretion" when it refused to grant Winner a hearing to present evidence about her specific medical conditions that put her at risk at Federal Medical Center Carswell.
>
> "It is true that the court ruled, without holding an evidentiary hearing, that Ms. Winner had not shown 'that her specific medical conditions under the particular conditions of confinement at FMC Carswell place her at a risk substantial enough to justify her early release' and that she 'is in a medical prison," the appeals court declared.
>
> The court added, "This ruling, while succinct, does not constitute a 'fail[ure] to apply the proper legal standard' or a failure 'to follow proper procedures in making its determination.'"
>
> "We are devastated," Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, stated. "It seems like there is so much bias against my daughter," and, "Even though I had tried not to get my hope up, I am still crushed by this denial."
>
> Winner filed the appeal on May 12. She urged the 11th Circuit to reverse a district court ruling and release her into home confinement.
>
> Her attorneys warned, ?The entire basis for Reality?s motion?and so many like hers?is that she cannot afford to wait until she is removed from FMC Carswell in a stretcher, or worse, before she is afforded relief.?
>
> Winner tested positive for COVID-19 in July, as confirmed cases in Carswell spiked over 500. However, the appeals court showed no sense of urgency as the virus spread in the facility.
>
> Finally, on November 17, the 11th Circuit convened a hearing and granted Winner's attorney an opportunity to make the case that a district court had wrongly ruled against her.
>
> The 11th Circuit has a notorious reputation when it comes to appeals from prisoners. In June, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stated , ?The 11th Circuit is significantly out of step with other courts.?
>
> According to the New York Times, the appeals court tends to require that prisoners use a form that is so small one is lucky to fit 100 words. That submission can be the basis for rulings on appeals without ?even an individualized response from the government.?
>
> The 11th Circuit acknowledged that Winner "suffers from depression and an eating disorder, both of which affect her ability to 'cope with stress and uncertainty, such as incarceration and the invasion of a novel disease.'"
>
> "For Ms. Winner, her 'routines allow her to cope and hold the things she is unable to control together.' But as a result of the lockdown of the federal prison system on account of COVID-19, she cannot engage in her regular routine and is left with 'no way to exercise any coping mechanism for the stress of her own underlying conditions,'" the appeals court further noted.
>
> It did not dispute that Winner's eating disorder was likely exacerbated in "unhealthy and even dangerous ways," as a result of a lockdown at Carswell and "worries about COVID-19."
>
> "Ms. Winner says prison is 'a particularly dangerous place' for her during the pandemic because of the close living quarters, continual transfer of prisoners in and out, and the lack of supplies such as hand sanitizer," the appeals court recognized.
>
> But the 11th Circuit showed indifference to her complaint by ignoring confinement conditions during a pandemic. It did not contemplate whether conditions were "extraordinary and compelling" enough to warrant her release under the First Step Act and instead focused on a technical aspect of the judicial process.
>
> Earlier this year, Winner submitted an application for a pardon. It does not seem likely that Trump will pardon Winner, yet there is a campaign among her supporters to convince President-elect Joe Biden to free her.
>
> "My daughter continues to struggle with the reality of COVID-19 and total lockdown conditions within the prison. Everyday the prison staff find new ways to torment her, whether by restricting her ability to exercise or rejecting her mail," her mother shared.
>
> Winner is eligible for release in November 2021. She pled guilty in 2018 to one count of violating the Espionage Act when she disclosed an NSA report to The Intercept. She believed the report contained evidence that Russian hackers targeted United States voter registration systems during the 2016 election.
>
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From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:21:19 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Eleventh Circuit Rules Against NSA
Whistleblower Reality Winner's Appeal For Compassionate Release
In-Reply-To: <786393CF-651A-4616-8FAB-6E0143E946D7@newsfromneptune.com>
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Dear Carl:? Thanks for sending this.? Good to know you're back on the job; hope you're on the mend.??
Poor Reality; the system was stacked against her with a moniker like hers.? Reckon she got a taste of reality when she "messed" with the D.S.? "She musta been guilty or she wouldn't be locked up, right?"--shades of soon-to-be POTUS.? And who wouldn't have an eating disorder on daily prison fare of moldy baloney sandwiches?
Maybe you? didn't get my email yesterday which I posted under the galligher name?? Will try again under? gmail.
Midge
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Eleventh Circuit Rules Against NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner's Appeal For Compassionate Release
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From: Kevin Gosztola
Subject: Eleventh Circuit Rules Against NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner's Appeal For Compassionate Release
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Eleventh Circuit Rules Against NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner's Appeal For Compassionate Release
Billie Winner-Davis, Winner's mother, says, "Even though I had tried not to get my hope up, I am still crushed by this denial."
| Kevin Gosztola | Dec 8 | | | |
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Photo: Reality Winner (Used with permission from?StandWithReality.org)
The 11th United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against NSA whistleblower Reality Winner's request for compassionate release from a federal prison, even though COVID-19 remains a pervasive threat.
Narrowly, the appeals court decided [PDF] a lower court did not "abuse its discretion" when it refused to grant Winner a hearing to present evidence about her specific medical conditions that put her at risk at Federal Medical Center Carswell.
"It is true that the court ruled, without holding an evidentiary hearing, that Ms. Winner had not shown 'that her specific medical conditions under the particular conditions of confinement at FMC Carswell place her at a risk substantial enough to justify her early release' and that she 'is in a medical prison," the appeals court declared.
The court added, "This ruling, while succinct, does not constitute a 'fail[ure] to apply the proper legal standard' or a failure 'to follow proper procedures in making its determination.'"
"We are devastated," Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, stated. "It seems like there is so much bias against my daughter," and, "Even though I had tried not to get my hope up, I am still crushed by this denial."
Winner filed the appeal on May 12. She urged the 11th Circuit to reverse a district court ruling and release her into home confinement.?
Her attorneys warned, ?The entire basis for Reality?s motion?and so many like hers?is that she cannot afford to wait until she is removed from FMC Carswell in a stretcher, or worse, before she is afforded relief.?
Winner tested positive for COVID-19 in July, as confirmed cases in Carswell spiked over 500. However, the appeals court showed no sense of urgency as the virus spread in the facility.
Finally, on November 17, the 11th Circuit convened a hearing and granted Winner's attorney an opportunity to make the case that a district court had wrongly ruled against her.
The 11th Circuit has a notorious reputation when it comes to appeals from prisoners. In June, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor?stated, ?The 11th Circuit is significantly out of step with other courts.?
According to the New York Times, the appeals court tends to require that prisoners use a form that is so small one is lucky to fit 100 words. That submission can be the basis for rulings on appeals without ?even an individualized response from the government.??
The 11th Circuit acknowledged that Winner "suffers from depression and an eating disorder, both of which affect her ability to 'cope with stress and uncertainty, such as incarceration and the invasion of a novel disease.'"
"For Ms. Winner, her 'routines allow her to cope and hold the things she is unable to control together.' But as a result of the lockdown of the federal prison system on account of COVID-19, she cannot engage in her regular routine and is left with 'no way to exercise any coping mechanism for the stress of her own underlying conditions,'" the appeals court further noted.
It did not dispute that Winner's eating disorder was likely exacerbated in "unhealthy and even dangerous ways," as a result of a lockdown at Carswell and "worries about COVID-19."
"Ms. Winner says prison is 'a particularly dangerous place' for her during the pandemic because of the close living quarters, continual transfer of prisoners in and out, and the lack of supplies such as hand sanitizer," the appeals court recognized.
But the 11th Circuit showed indifference to her complaint by ignoring confinement conditions during a pandemic. It did not contemplate whether conditions were "extraordinary and compelling" enough to warrant her release under the First Step Act and instead focused on a technical aspect of the judicial process.
Earlier this year, Winner?submitted an application?for a pardon. It does not seem likely that Trump will pardon Winner, yet there is a campaign among her supporters to convince President-elect Joe Biden to free her.
"My daughter continues to struggle with the reality of COVID-19 and total lockdown conditions within the prison. Everyday the prison staff find new ways to torment her, whether by restricting her ability to exercise or rejecting her mail," her mother shared.
Winner is eligible for release in November 2021. She pled guilty in 2018 to one count of violating the Espionage Act when she disclosed an NSA report to The Intercept. She believed the report contained evidence that Russian hackers targeted United States voter registration systems during the 2016 election.
She was detained after her arrest in 2017 and has served a majority of her 63-month sentence.
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From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:41:17 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] FW: The real Venezuela is not what you think
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Image removed by sender. Newly re-elected Venezuelan President Nicolas
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The real Venezuela is not what you think
The U.S. press doesn't tell you what Maduro has done for the poor
DANIEL KOVALIK
https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2018/05/25/The-real-Venezuela-is-not-wh
at-you-think/stories/201805240020
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The real Venezuela is not what you think
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The U.S. press doesn't tell you what Maduro has done for the poor.
www.post-gazette.com
MAY 24, 2018
11:00 PM
Daniel Kovalik teaches international human rights at the University of
Pittsburgh Law School. His most recent book is "The Plot to Attack Iran."
.
I just returned from observing my fourth election in Venezuela in less than
a year. Jimmy Carter has called Venezuela's electoral system "the best in
the world," and what I witnessed was an inspiring process that guarantees
one person, one vote, and includes multiple auditing procedures to ensure a
free and fair election.
I then came home to the United States to see the inevitable "news" coverage
referring to Venezuela as a "dictatorship" and as a country in need of
saving. This coverage not only ignores the reality of Venezuela, it ignores
the fact that the U.S. is the greatest impediment to democracy in Venezuela,
just as the U.S. has been an impediment to democracy throughout Latin
America since the end of the 19th century.
Prior to the Venezuelan presidential election on May 20 - an election which
included an opposition candidate, Henri Falcon, from the business community
- the U.S. government announced that it would not recognize the outcome, no
matter who won. The U.S. had gone so far as to threaten Mr. Falcon with
sanctions if he even ran in the election. The U.S. also threatened further
economic sanctions on Venezuela if incumbent leftist Nicolas Maduro won -
sanctions that even Mr. Falcon's economic adviser has said were leading to
the collapse of the Venezuelan economy. President Donald Trump kept to his
promise in this regard, announcing more onerous sanctions the day after the
election, which will further immiserate the Venezuelan people.
Meanwhile, while members of the more radical, right-wing opposition had
themselves been calling for presidential elections and had agreed to hold
them in May, the U.S. leaned on them to back out of this deal before it was
signed. Following this, the radical opposition, backed by the U.S., called
for people to boycott the vote.
The result was that Mr. Maduro won in a landslide. But it was not only the
boycott - observed mostly in wealthier communities, as I witnessed - that
won the day for Mr. Maduro. There were other reasons you will never hear
about in the U.S. press.
First, the true patriots of Venezuela, not surprisingly, resent the United
States' devastating economic sanctions as well its constant call for regime
change. Some U.S. officials even talk of military intervention to overthrow
Mr. Maduro. In part, the vote for Mr. Maduro was a vote against U.S.
meddling in the affairs of Venezuela.
In addition, despite the real hardships in Venezuela - for which the U.S. is
largely to blame - most of Venezuela's poor are better off now than they
were before the Bolivarian Revolution of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. For
example, over the past 7 years, the government has built 2 million units of
housing for low-income Venezuelans. In a country of only some 30 million
people, these units are now home to a large proportion of the Venezuelan
population. The current government also has provided free health care and
subsidized food.
Before Chavez, the sprawling poor barrios which ring the cities were
literally not on any government maps, and they had no utilities and no
election centers. After Chavez, the existence of these barrios was
recognized for the first time, and they were provided with utilities, health
service, election stations and, most important, dignity. Chavez even started
a world-class music program which has now provided 1 million underprivileged
children with music education. One graduate of this program, Gustavo
Dudamel, is now considered one of the greatest conductors in the world!
Grateful for a government on their side and flouting U.S. extortion, the
poor came out to vote in large numbers for Mr. Maduro. These are the same
poor, by the way, who came down from the mountains in 2002 to demand the
return of Hugo Chavez to power after he was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup
and kidnapped.
But you never hear the voices of these poor people in the U.S. press. You
never hear their side of the story, how they have benefitted from the
Bolivarian Revolution and how desperately they do not want to go back to how
things were before.
While they have been given a voice in Venezuela, it remains muzzled in this
country, and by a press which passes off pro-intervention and pro-war
propaganda as journalism. It is no wonder the United States continues to
careen into one disastrous military adventure after another.
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From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 03:15:25 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace-discuss] FW: The real Venezuela is not what you think
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Yeah.? The real news seldom reported in the USA.? Thanks to you and Daniel Kovalik.
Midge
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] FW: The real Venezuela is not what you think
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https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2018/05/25/The-real-Venezuela-is-not-what-you-think/stories/201805240020
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The real Venezuela is not what you think | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The U.S. press doesn't tell you what Maduro has done for the poor.
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Daniel Kovalik teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. His most recent book is ?The Plot to Attack Iran.?
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I just returned from observing my fourth election in Venezuela in less than a year. Jimmy Carter has called Venezuela?s electoral system ?the best in the world,? and what I witnessed was an inspiring process that guarantees one person, one vote, and includes multiple auditing procedures to ensure a free and fair election.?
?I then came home to the United States to see the inevitable ?news? coverage referring to Venezuela as a ?dictatorship? and as a country in need of saving. This coverage not only ignores the reality of Venezuela, it ignores the fact that the U.S. is the greatest impediment to democracy in Venezuela, just as the U.S. has been an impediment to democracy throughout Latin America since the end of the 19th century.
Prior to the Venezuelan presidential election on May 20 ? an election which included an opposition candidate, Henri Falcon, from the business community ??the U.S. government announced that it would not recognize the outcome, no matter who won. The U.S. had gone so far as to threaten Mr. Falcon with sanctions if he even ran in the election. The U.S. also threatened further economic sanctions on Venezuela if incumbent leftist Nicolas Maduro won ? sanctions that even Mr. Falcon?s economic adviser has said were leading to the collapse of the Venezuelan economy. President Donald Trump kept to his promise in this regard, announcing more onerous sanctions the day after the election, which will further immiserate the Venezuelan people.
Meanwhile, while members of the more radical, right-wing opposition had themselves been calling for presidential elections and had agreed to hold them in May, the U.S. leaned on them to back out of this deal before it was signed. Following this, the radical opposition, backed by the U.S., called for people to boycott the vote.
The result was that Mr. Maduro won in a landslide. But it was not only the boycott ? observed mostly in wealthier communities, as I witnessed ? that ?won the day for Mr. Maduro. There were other reasons you will never hear about in the U.S. press.
First, the true patriots of Venezuela, not surprisingly, resent the United States? devastating economic sanctions as well its constant call for regime change. Some U.S. officials even talk of military intervention to overthrow Mr. Maduro. In part, the vote for Mr. Maduro was a vote against U.S. meddling in the affairs of Venezuela.
In addition, despite the real hardships in Venezuela ? for which the U.S. is largely to blame ? most of Venezuela?s poor are better off now than they were before the Bolivarian Revolution of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro. For example, over the past 7 years, the government has built 2 million units of housing for low-income Venezuelans. In a country of only some 30 million people, these units are now home to a large proportion of the Venezuelan population. The current government also has provided free health care and subsidized food.
Before Chavez, the sprawling poor barrios which ring the cities were literally not on any government maps, and they had no utilities and no election centers. After Chavez, the existence of these barrios was recognized for the first time, and they were provided with utilities, health service, election stations and, most important, dignity. Chavez even started a world-class music program which has now provided 1 million underprivileged children with music education. One graduate of this program, Gustavo Dudamel, is now considered one of the greatest conductors in the world!
Grateful for a government on their side and flouting U.S. extortion, the poor came out to vote in large numbers for Mr. Maduro. These are the same poor, by the way, who came down from the mountains in 2002 to demand the return of Hugo Chavez to power after he was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup and kidnapped.
But you never hear the voices of these poor people in the U.S. press. You never hear their side of the story, how they have benefitted from the Bolivarian Revolution and how desperately they do not want to go back to how things were before.
While they have been given a voice in Venezuela, it remains muzzled in this country, and by a press which passes off pro-intervention and pro-war propaganda as journalism. It is no wonder the United States continues to careen into one disastrous military adventure after another.
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From jbn at forestfield.org Thu Dec 10 01:18:04 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:18:04 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Sources for better reporting on Venezuela
In-Reply-To: <006101d6cdbb$a07ec7d0$e17c5770$@comcast.net>
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Daniel Kovalik wrote:
> The real Venezuela is not what you think
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> The U.S. press doesn't tell you what Maduro has done for the poor
Also consider The Grayzone:
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos
Website: https://thegrayzone.com/
Venezuela Analysis
https://venezuelanalysis.com/
for news about Venezuela you won't find in establishment media.
From r-szoke at illinois.edu Thu Dec 10 04:11:02 2020
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 04:11:02 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Social status & prestige vs economic class ?
Message-ID:
Opinion
The Resentment That Never Sleeps
Rising anxiety over declining social status tells us a lot about how we got here and where we?re going.
By Thomas B. Edsall
Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.
NYT Dec. 9, 2020
More and more, politics determine which groups are favored and which are denigrated.
Roughly speaking, Trump and the Republican Party have fought to enhance the status of white Christians and white people without college degrees: the white working and middle class. Biden and the Democrats have fought to elevate the standing of previously marginalized groups: women, minorities, the L.G.B.T.Q. community and others.
The ferocity of this politicized status competition can be seen in the anger of white non-college voters over their disparagement by liberal elites, the attempt to flip traditional hierarchies and the emergence of identity politics on both sides of the chasm.
Just over a decade ago, in their paper ?Hypotheses on Status Competition,? William C. Wohlforth and David C. Kang, professors of government at Dartmouth and the University of Southern California, wrote that ?social status is one of the most important motivators of human behavior? and yet ?over the past 35 years, no more than half dozen articles have appeared in top U.S. political science journals building on the proposition that the quest for status will affect patterns of interstate behavior.?
Scholars are now rectifying that omission, with the recognition that in politics, status competition has become increasingly salient, prompting a collection of emotions including envy, jealousy and resentment that have spurred ever more intractable conflicts between left and right, Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives.
ADVERTISEMENT
Hierarchal ranking, the status classification of different groups ? the well-educated and the less-well educated, white people and Black people, the straight and L.G.B.T.Q. communities ? has the effect of consolidating and seeming to legitimize existing inequalities in resources and power. Diminished status has become a source of rage on both the left and right, sharpened by divisions over economic security and insecurity, geography and, ultimately, values.
The stakes of status competition are real. Cecilia L. Ridgeway, a professor at Stanford, described the costs and benefits in her 2013 presidential address at the American Sociological Association.
Understanding ?the effects of status ? inequality based on differences in esteem and respect? is crucial for those seeking to comprehend ?the mechanisms behind obdurate, durable patterns of inequality in society,? Ridgeway argued:
Failing to understand the independent force of status processes has limited our ability to explain the persistence of such patterns of inequality in the face of remarkable socioeconomic change.
?As a basis for social inequality, status is a bit different from resources and power. It is based on cultural beliefs rather than directly on material arrangements,? Ridgeway said:
We need to appreciate that status, like resources and power, is a basic source of human motivation that powerfully shapes the struggle for precedence out of which inequality emerges.
Ridgeway elaborated on this argument in an essay, ?Why Status Matters for Inequality?:
Status is as significant as money and power. At a macro level, status stabilizes resource and power inequality by transforming it into cultural status beliefs about group differences regarding who is ?better? (esteemed and competent).
In an email, Ridgeway made the case that ?status is definitely important in contemporary political dynamics here and in Europe,? adding that
<<
Status has always been part of American politics, but right now a variety of social changes have threatened the status of working class and rural whites who used to feel they had a secure, middle status position in American society ? not the glitzy top, but respectable, ?Main Street? core of America. The reduction of working-class wages and job security, growing demographic diversity, and increasing urbanization of the population have greatly undercut that sense and fueled political reaction. >>
The political consequences cut across classes.
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From r-szoke at illinois.edu Thu Dec 10 04:11:02 2020
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 04:11:02 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Social status & prestige vs economic class ?
Message-ID:
Opinion
The Resentment That Never Sleeps
Rising anxiety over declining social status tells us a lot about how we got here and where we?re going.
By Thomas B. Edsall
Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.
NYT Dec. 9, 2020
More and more, politics determine which groups are favored and which are denigrated.
Roughly speaking, Trump and the Republican Party have fought to enhance the status of white Christians and white people without college degrees: the white working and middle class. Biden and the Democrats have fought to elevate the standing of previously marginalized groups: women, minorities, the L.G.B.T.Q. community and others.
The ferocity of this politicized status competition can be seen in the anger of white non-college voters over their disparagement by liberal elites, the attempt to flip traditional hierarchies and the emergence of identity politics on both sides of the chasm.
Just over a decade ago, in their paper ?Hypotheses on Status Competition,? William C. Wohlforth and David C. Kang, professors of government at Dartmouth and the University of Southern California, wrote that ?social status is one of the most important motivators of human behavior? and yet ?over the past 35 years, no more than half dozen articles have appeared in top U.S. political science journals building on the proposition that the quest for status will affect patterns of interstate behavior.?
Scholars are now rectifying that omission, with the recognition that in politics, status competition has become increasingly salient, prompting a collection of emotions including envy, jealousy and resentment that have spurred ever more intractable conflicts between left and right, Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives.
ADVERTISEMENT
Hierarchal ranking, the status classification of different groups ? the well-educated and the less-well educated, white people and Black people, the straight and L.G.B.T.Q. communities ? has the effect of consolidating and seeming to legitimize existing inequalities in resources and power. Diminished status has become a source of rage on both the left and right, sharpened by divisions over economic security and insecurity, geography and, ultimately, values.
The stakes of status competition are real. Cecilia L. Ridgeway, a professor at Stanford, described the costs and benefits in her 2013 presidential address at the American Sociological Association.
Understanding ?the effects of status ? inequality based on differences in esteem and respect? is crucial for those seeking to comprehend ?the mechanisms behind obdurate, durable patterns of inequality in society,? Ridgeway argued:
Failing to understand the independent force of status processes has limited our ability to explain the persistence of such patterns of inequality in the face of remarkable socioeconomic change.
?As a basis for social inequality, status is a bit different from resources and power. It is based on cultural beliefs rather than directly on material arrangements,? Ridgeway said:
We need to appreciate that status, like resources and power, is a basic source of human motivation that powerfully shapes the struggle for precedence out of which inequality emerges.
Ridgeway elaborated on this argument in an essay, ?Why Status Matters for Inequality?:
Status is as significant as money and power. At a macro level, status stabilizes resource and power inequality by transforming it into cultural status beliefs about group differences regarding who is ?better? (esteemed and competent).
In an email, Ridgeway made the case that ?status is definitely important in contemporary political dynamics here and in Europe,? adding that
<<
Status has always been part of American politics, but right now a variety of social changes have threatened the status of working class and rural whites who used to feel they had a secure, middle status position in American society ? not the glitzy top, but respectable, ?Main Street? core of America. The reduction of working-class wages and job security, growing demographic diversity, and increasing urbanization of the population have greatly undercut that sense and fueled political reaction. >>
The political consequences cut across classes.
? ?
From jbn at forestfield.org Sun Dec 13 12:52:35 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 06:52:35 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Chris Hedges interviews Diana Johnstone
Message-ID: <55f05f4c-102f-aa8d-36ad-310d0e299de4@forestfield.org>
Chris Hedges interviews Diana Johnstone
Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=k_Th-25DLWc
Video & Transcript:
https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/509471-social-justice-left-activism/
Highly recommended.
From brussel at illinois.edu Sun Dec 13 20:10:49 2020
From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 20:10:49 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Chris Hedges interviews Diana Johnstone
In-Reply-To: <55f05f4c-102f-aa8d-36ad-310d0e299de4@forestfield.org>
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It is too bad that she has some difficulty verbally expressing her worthwhile ideas. She is 76 years old, and iconoclastic.
> On Dec 13, 2020, at 6:52 AM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss wrote:
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> Chris Hedges interviews Diana Johnstone
> Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=k_Th-25DLWc
> Video & Transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/509471-social-justice-left-activism/
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> Highly recommended.
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From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Mon Dec 14 00:26:55 2020
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2020 18:26:55 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] FW: PLEASE WATCH ! Forcing a vote on Medicare for
all. Using our political leverage !
Message-ID: <007301d6d1af$d5cbbef0$81633cd0$@comcast.net>
Time to take it to the next level and expose those who are gas lighting
sell outs !
#TheJimmyDoreShow
AOC Schooled By NFL's Justin Jackson On Forcing Med4all Vote Now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh6YOApFsRo
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Dec 14 19:17:21 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 13:17:21 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Statement of the U.S. Peace Council on 2020
U.S. Elections
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> From: "U.S. Peace Council U.S. Peace Council"
> Subject: Statement of the U.S. Peace Council on 2020 U.S. Elections
> Date: December 14, 2020 at 9:58:34 AM CST
> To: cgestabrook at gmail.com
> Reply-To: USPC at USPeaceCouncil.org
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> Statement of the U.S. Peace Council on 2020 U.S. Elections
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> Our Struggle for Peace and Social Justice
> Must Be Intensified!
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> December 12, 2020
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> November 3rd has passed and slightly more than a third of the eligible electorate chose the Democrat, slightly less than a third the Republican, and the remaining third chose none of the above by either not voting or casting a ballot for a third-party alternative. The threat of an October surprise did not materialize although Trump?s desperate attempts to nullify the results of the elections continue.
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> The important issues of war and peace facing humanity, especially for those of us in the belly of the beast with a special responsibility to address the actions of our own government, were non-issues in most if not all U.S. election campaigns.
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> Regardless of who occupies the Oval Office, the decadent trajectory of neoliberalism continues: imperialism abroad and austerity for working people at home. The permanent institutions of the state ? the Pentagon and the national security and surveillance apparatus ? endure.
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> Although Trump did not start any new wars, he did not end any of the now perpetual U.S. military engagements. The U.S. policy of sanctions against 39 countries, constituting a third of the world?s population, are a form of warfare that kills and maims similar to bombs. The wars abroad are increasingly mirrored by wars on the people at home, by the militarization of society ? in particular the police ? and by strangulation of the economy. The response by the major imperial powers to the pandemic of COVID-19, in particular in the U.S. and Europe, has exacerbated this war at home and exposed the social, political and economic cracks in late stage, monopoly capitalism.
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> Behind the ethnic and gender diversity of Joe Biden?s announced appointments is the continuity of the Obama-Biden administration?s engagement in permanent war and regime change and commitment to ?full spectrum dominance.? The promise of U.S. ?leadership? means, in fact, U.S. dominance of billions of people who did not choose the American state to rule them. These scourges will be not exorcized with the defeat of Donald Trump.
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> This fundamental continuity, beneath a fa?ade of bipartisan bickering, calls for an independent peace movement to promote these actions, among many others:
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> Drastically cut the military budget.
> Return all troops from all war zones and close all the foreign military bases.
> End all unilateral coercive measures (blockades and sanctions).
> Stop supporting allied wars and stop U.S. and allied assassinations.
> End the nuclear weapons escalation and sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
> Stop the cold war with China.
> Reestablish diplomatic relations with Cuba, end the blockade, and return Guant?namo.
> Negotiate with Iran, not assassinate and threaten military attacks.
> End the asphyxiating sanctions on Venezuela and reestablish diplomatic relations.
> Recognize and respect the right of Palestinians to self-determination and end its financial and diplomatic support for the apartheid state of Israel.
> Repeal the Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act (NICA Act).
> Fully abide by the UN Charter.
> Demilitarize the police.
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> Above all, we need to intensify our struggle for a just transition from a military to a peacetime economy to meet human and community needs and restore the environment, and join hands to build a world founded on cooperation, peace and respect for sovereignty of all nations.
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> U.S. Peace Council ? P.O. Box 3105, New Haven, CT 06515 ? (203) 387-0370 ? USPC at USPeaceCouncil.org?
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