From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Wed Dec 1 16:16:53 2021 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:16:53 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Markey co-sponsors Paul-Sanders-Lee JRD to end Saudi war-blockade on Yemen Message-ID: I see Markey but not Warren. What's up with that? What about Durbin? Is Chicago in the house? *312! 312!* What about Baldwin? Is Milwaukee in the house? What about Klobuchar? Is Minneapolis-St. Paul in the house? Doesn't BernieBro Keith Ellison have a relationship with her? What about Murphy? I live in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where Lexington and Concord are. I can see Connecticut from my house. Surely there are some Democrats in Connecticut who voted for Ned Lamont against Joe Lieberman in 2006 who would like to enforce Biden's promise in the Democratic Platform to end the Saudi war on Yemen. Maybe they could organize a sit-in at a Senate office in Hartford. "We can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way." Isn't DeLauro good on Yemen? Maybe she can get to him. What about Van Hollen and Cardin? Is Maryland in the house? What about Kaine? Is Virginia in the house? What about Sherrod Brown? Is Ohio in the house? What about Stabenow? Is Michigan in the house? What about Ossoff and Warnock? Is Georgia in the house? Maybe Hank Johnson can get to them. What about Gillibrand? Is New York in the house? Is the Working Families Party in the house? Is IfNotNow in the house? Justice Democrats signed the letter. Doesn't Justice Democrats have a significant relationship with them? Isn't there a significant Jewish Voice for Peace contingent in New York? Didn't they once get Gillibrand to un-cosponsor an AIPAC bill, something that almost never happens on Planet Earth? What about Whitehouse? Is Rhode Island in the house? What about Murray? Is Seattle in the house? What about Heinrich? 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I thought that ending the Yemen blockade was supposed to be easier than ending the Gaza blockade. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/30/47-groups-urge-congress-avert-human-rights-failure-blocking-bidens-saudi-arms-sale 47 Groups Urge Congress to Avert 'Human Rights Failure' by Blocking Biden's Saudi Arms Sale "The Biden administration in its very first weeks committed both to center human rights in foreign policy and to end U.S. complicity in the war in Yemen. Allowing this sale to stand breaks that commitment." BRETT WILKINS November 30, 2021 Slamming the Saudi-led coalition's war crimes in Yemen?which are often perpetrated with U.S.-supplied weaponry?47 advocacy groups on Monday published a joint letter to congressional lawmakers urging them to block the Biden administration's "wrongful" planned $650 million arms sale to the repressive Middle Eastern monarchy. At issue is the proposed sale of 280 AIM-120C-7/C-8 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles and 596 LAU-128 missile rail launchers in a package that would also include spare parts, support, and logistical services. The missiles, which would be fitted to Saudi fighter jets, are manufactured by Raytheon, on whose board Lloyd Austin sat before becoming U.S. defense secretary this year. The letter's signatories urge members of Congress to pass resolutions by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to block the sale and end "U.S. complicity in the Saudi-led coalition's gross violations of international law in Yemen, including its blockade." "For nearly seven years, U.S.-supported Saudi forces have unlawfully targeted civilian objects and infrastructure via indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks that have killed and injured thousands of civilians in Yemen," the letter's authors write. "These aerial bombardments include myriad war crimes and have exacerbated the catastrophic humanitarian crisis." The signers note the Saudi military's "use of U.S.-manufactured weapons in airstrikes" that have hit "hospitals, schools, and civilian homes?killing healthcare providers, teachers, and entire families, including children." The letter continues: Despite the claim of "defensive use," the proposed sale of these AIM-120 air-to-air missiles and hundreds of missile launchers are not exclusively defensive, and can reasonably be used to support offensive operations. These missiles lend another tool for Saudi-led forces to maintain and enforce their brutal blockade, particularly by raising their ability to threaten aircraft that would seek to land. More broadly, continuing to arm Saudi forces allows their grave rights violations and fueling of one of world's worst humanitarian crises to evade accountability, and amounts to support and political cover for the illegal blockade. Last December, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that the Saudi-led war had caused 233,000 deaths, "including 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services, and infrastructure" exacerbated by the blockade. Last week, the United Nations Development Program published a report projecting the war's death toll will reach 377,000 by the end of the year, with children under the age of five accounting for 70% of the casualties. "U.S. involvement should have ended following [President Joe] Biden's declaration to end U.S. support for the coalition," the authors assert, referring to the president's February announcement that his administration would stop backing "offensive operations," including weapons transfers, in the war. "The Biden administration in its very first weeks committed both to center human rights in foreign policy and to end U.S. complicity in the war in Yemen," the letter concludes. 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But I won't discredit either one of them.? ?We need a strong leader like Trump to stand up to Russia and China. Their leaders are not woke!!!? ? BIden and the Bad Dems must be snuffed out of Office.? ?Show strength to the bully and they?ll think twice before messing with us. Be weak and they?ll keep bullying!? USA ? ?We need to do a better job of explaining why America needs to engage globally.? ?We won?t be there for anyone if we don?t stop the current administration. They have set out to kill the USA and their power in the world ? ?Wouldn?t be this way if Trump was in office, you put Biden in reap what you sew!!!? ?I hope that everyone is reporting that fool with the ? emojis. He/she is threatening our Blessed USA? ?More like Democrats stoled the election.? ? < snip> ? From r-szoke at illinois.edu Sat Dec 4 23:21:47 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2021 23:21:47 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Global "Strategic competition" Message-ID: Snippets from live coverage (Fox News crawl of 12/4), re the 2021 Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley CA ; Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth was one of the panelists Announced theme: ?Strategic Competition between the USA? and other world powers ?Most Relevant is selected, so some replies may have been filtered out.? ? ?We know where the virus came from! Dems want a communist country and must be stopped! Republican RINOS paid big bucks to vote with Dems! No one is working for We the PEOPLE!? ?I love Trump but he wasn't Reagan. ????? Trump was an amazing president. But I won't discredit either one of them.? ?We need a strong leader like Trump to stand up to Russia and China. Their leaders are not woke!!!? ? BIden and the Bad Dems must be snuffed out of Office.? ?Show strength to the bully and they?ll think twice before messing with us. Be weak and they?ll keep bullying!? USA ? ?We need to do a better job of explaining why America needs to engage globally.? ?We won?t be there for anyone if we don?t stop the current administration. They have set out to kill the USA and their power in the world ? ?Wouldn?t be this way if Trump was in office, you put Biden in reap what you sew!!!? ?I hope that everyone is reporting that fool with the ? emojis. He/she is threatening our Blessed USA? ?More like Democrats stoled the election.? ? < snip> ? From jbn at forestfield.org Tue Dec 7 06:16:24 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 00:16:24 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Craig Murray is freed Message-ID: <63c75420-7ece-c47d-0d30-c62718a8538e@forestfield.org> https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2021/12/concentration-of-power/ is his latest essay and he's interviewed by George Galloway in https://youtube.com/watch?v=FCxN8-E__8w (27m 39s for intro or 30m 40s for start of interview). You'll recall that John Kiriakou (former CIA agent, the only man who went to prison for the US government torture program because he revealed that program) spoke with Redacted Tonight's Lee Camp in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrVWeA2QmWk. Kiriakou said that Murray was the courier for the leaked DNC emails, physically obtaining a USB key containing those emails from Seth Rich on the night of the 2016 Sam Adams award ceremony and later conveying those emails to WikiLeaks. Consider this exchange between Kiriakou and Camp during a discussion of the Robert Muller report and Muller's investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. [starting at 3m55s into https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrVWeA2QmWk ] > Lee Camp: And this is one of the many holes in the Muller report, which still > found no collusion, but they [the FBI] didn't even talk to Julian Assange. > > John Kiriakou: They never even /asked/ to talk to Julian Assange. > > Lee Camp: It's amazing. > > John Kiriakou: And I'll tell you who else they didn't talk to was Ambassador Craig > Murray. Craig's the former ambassador to Uzbekistan. He came here [to the US] > right around that time in 2016 to participate in a Sam Adams award ceremony. Sam > Adams is a group of retired CIA, NSA, other intelligence officers and we were > giving an award. Well, Craig loves to go out drinking after these award > ceremonies. That night he didn't. That night he said he had an important meeting. > As it turned out his important meeting was to meet someone who he's never named > who gave him a thumb drive with all of the information on it -- all of the DNC > emails-- > > Lee Camp: Wow. > > John Kiriakou: --which he then took to WikiLeaks. > > Lee Camp: Wow. > > John Kiriakou: So if he has come out to confess that it was not a hack, not a > Russian hack, 'I physically carried the documents to WikiLeaks', why did the FBI > never want to interview him? > > Lee Camp: That's incredible, I didn't even know that detail. But there's been a > lot of other evidence brought forward that this was not a hack, it was a leak. It > was from the inside. > > John Kiriakou: It was; Bill Binney, the former Technical Director at the NSA has > said repeatedly -- including in the Oval Office -- that the rate of speed with the > information was uploaded shows -- proves -- that it could not possibly have been > done remotely. It had to have been done on-site on a thumb drive. > > Lee Camp: Yeah, but that upends the whole 'Russia did it' idea so we can't have > that. From mkb3 at icloud.com Tue Dec 7 22:12:30 2021 From: mkb3 at icloud.com (Morton K. Brussel) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 16:12:30 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Our Rulers Are Not Rational Creatures: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix References: <20211207005548.2.e0ce333e67ad2b0c.h2ltvo4l@mg2.substack.com> Message-ID: FYConsideration? > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter > Subject: Our Rulers Are Not Rational Creatures: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix > Date: December 6, 2021 at 6:55:48 PM CST > To: mkb3 at icloud.com > Reply-To: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter > > > Our Rulers Are Not Rational Creatures: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix > > Caitlin Johnstone > Dec 7 > > Listen to a reading of this article: > > Our Rulers Are Not Rational Creatures by Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone > Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone > The most powerful people in our world pursue power for its own sake and do so with amoeba-like levels of wisdom and insight. Don't attribute any higher order of decision-making capability to them than you would to any random acquaintance in your life. If anything, attribute less. Most people are deeply unconscious and patterned. Ruling elites are no exception, and in fact they are more unconscious. It's a common error to think of these people as rational actors; really their minds are running on autopilot in response to conditioning put in place long ago.? That's why you'll see them continuing policies which destroy the biosphere they depend on for survival or escalating military aggressions between nuclear powers. They're not making cool, rational decisions, they're acting out impulses within themselves that they don't understand. You'll hear people say "They wouldn't nuke themselves, it's irrational" or "If the climate situation was really that bad they'd have taken drastic action long ago," but this assumes you're dealing with rational minds and not what are essentially neurological computer programs.?Really you're just looking at highly traumatized organisms mindlessly acting out patterns set in place much earlier in their lives to cope with distress and gain a feeling of safety and security. And virtually none of those patterns are useful for running the world in a sane way. Any analysis which holds that elites wouldn't do something simply because it's not rational is an analysis which omits the important fact that, as Robert Heinlein put it, "Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal." These people are not gods. They're barely even humans. Reading by Tim Foley. > ? > > We survived the nuclear horror of the cold war only to see our rulers turn around and start another one for no legitimate reason, this time against two nations simultaneously. And almost no one objected. > > The first cold war was colored by a healthy fear of nuclear annihilation, by support for detente in mainstream political factions, and by an understanding that this was a situation we should ideally get ourselves out of as soon as possible. This new cold war features none of these, and is against two nuclear powers, Russia and China, instead of just one. Twice as many unpredictable moving parts. Twice as many things that can go cataclysmically wrong. And this one's got a whole new dimension of danger in the race to put weapons in space. Our odds here are not good. > > I probably won't feel such an urgent need to keep talking about this as much once I start seeing some real sustained acknowledgement in mainstream circles that there is a very very dangerous game being played here and heroic efforts need to be made to de-escalate it. But right now there just isn't. Everyone is asleep at the wheel. Nobody's noticing how dangerous this nuclear tightrope walk is getting. > > ? > > China is the same kind of country it was during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. All that's changed is the level of power it has on the world stage, and therefore the threat level it poses to US planetary domination. > > ? > > China is building up its military might in correct anticipation of an eventual confrontation with the US empire. The empire's choices are now (A) abandon the goal of indefinite unipolar hegemony and pursue detente, or (B) orchestrate some kind of massive attack soon before China becomes too powerful to defeat. > > ? > > I will admit to being more rude to hysterical anti-China types than I am to most people. This is partly because the agendas they're facilitating are so dangerous, and partly because they're often a very abrasive combination of stupid and uninformed yet arrogant and condescending. They've seriously got the worst low-info/high confidence ratio of any faction I've ever encountered. > > ? > > > Caitlin Johnstone ? > @caitoz > If this prediction had proved correct, the rapidly tightening Russia-China tandem we're seeing today would never have happened, and China would be far weaker on the world stage as a result. This is the real reason there's been such panicked aggression against both nations lately. > Artyom Lukin @ArtyomLukin > Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Hillary Clinton admits there was an expectation in Washington Russia would have no choice but to become the West's junior partner due to the fear China could take over the Russian Far East. /1 > https://t.co/pJQeF0eCxf > December 6th 2021 > > 12 Retweets39 Likes > > ? > > Many Bible verses have done lots of damage over the years, but among the most destructive has been "The poor you will always have with you" from Matthew 26:11. It's been used often to argue that poverty cannot be eliminated, which at this point in our development is simply false. > > As Buckminster Fuller once said, "It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry." > > Allowing poverty to continue is now a choice. It's not a choice being made by you or me or any ordinary person, but it is still a choice, being made by the drivers of global capitalism. We could eliminate it, but we don't, and we accept this as normal because we're brainwashed. > > We could be living in a world where people collaborate with each other toward everyone's benefit but instead we're waiting around to find out if we'll all die in a nuclear holocaust because some neocons convinced everyone in Washington that the US must maintain unipolar hegemony. > > ? > > "How come you still write about the world like nothing's changed since Covid?" > > Because as far as my line of commentary is concerned nothing has. We're still hurtling toward armageddon and dystopia just as I was describing before 2020, there are just new justifications and details behind some aspects of that trajectory. We're still headed for disaster unless the people rise up and use the power of their numbers to turn us away from the trajectory toward doom, and that's still not going to happen as long as people are being propagandized. This is all still the case just as it was in 2019. > > The emotions of the Hot News Story of the Day often make it hard for people to clearly see the horrific nature of the status quo that has already been in place for a long time , the abuses of which have been far, far greater than the Covid-related ones. In terms of abusive systems held in place by propaganda and authoritarian force, the ones we had in place in 2019 dwarf the measures we've seen put in place since by orders of magnitude. Many just didn't notice them because they've been conditioned to accept them as normal. > > A big part of what I do here is try to help people see the mundane horrors of the status quo with fresh eyes. If someone was teleported here from an alternate Earth with a healthy society, they'd never stop screaming. > > ? > > Leftists who spend a lot of energy conformity-policing the online left are admitting that they're only in this for the egoic currency of social media reactions. There's no other reason to look at our world's problems and decide that's the most useful expenditure of your energy. If you look at the dire straits humanity is in and then decide you're going to spend your time and energy calling Jimmy Dore a fascist or Max Blumenthal an anti-vaxxer or whatever, you're admitting you're not in this to make the world better. You're not interested in fixing this thing. > > ? > > > Caitlin Johnstone ? > @caitoz > The US opposes legally binding restrictions on the use of lethal autonomous weapons because its plans for the future involve widespread use of those weapons. > > > US rejects calls for regulating or banning ?killer robots? > US official proposes ?non-binding code of conduct? at United Nations but campaigners disagree > theguardian.com > December 5th 2021 > > 186 Retweets369 Likes > > ? > > The most powerful people in our world pursue power for its own sake and do so with amoeba-like levels of wisdom and insight. Don't attribute any higher order of decision-making capability to them than you would to any random acquaintance in your life. If anything, attribute less. > > Most people are deeply unconscious and patterned. Ruling elites are no exception, and in fact they are more unconscious. It's a common error to think of these people as rational actors; really their minds are running on autopilot in response to conditioning put in place long ago. > > That's why you'll see them continuing policies which destroy the biosphere they depend on for survival or escalating military aggressions between nuclear powers. They're not making cool, rational decisions, they're acting out impulses within themselves that they don't understand. > > You'll hear people say "They wouldn't nuke themselves, it's irrational" or "If the climate situation was really that bad they'd have taken drastic action long ago," but this assumes you're dealing with rational minds and not what are essentially neurological computer programs. Really you're just looking at highly traumatized organisms mindlessly acting out patterns set in place much earlier in their lives to cope with distress and gain a feeling of safety and security. And virtually none of those patterns are useful for running the world in a sane way. > > Any analysis which holds that elites wouldn't do something simply because it's not rational is an analysis which omits the important fact that, as Robert Heinlein put it, "Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal." > > These people are not gods. They're barely even humans. > > ? > > You're far from the truth if you believe the official government runs things. You're closer to the truth if you believe unelected plutocrats and secretive agencies run things. You're standing in the truth if you see that the self is an illusion and no one ultimately runs things. > > ? > > It's not true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder; the absence of beauty is. Beauty is everywhere; it's the natural, default state of perception. 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For more info on who I am, where I stand, and what I?m trying to do with this platform, click here . > > > Bitcoin donations:1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2 > > If you liked this post from Caitlin?s Newsletter , why not share it? > Share > ? 2021 Caitlin Johnstone Unsubscribe > 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mkb3 at icloud.com Tue Dec 7 22:17:43 2021 From: mkb3 at icloud.com (Morton K. Brussel) Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 16:17:43 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Madness Message-ID: By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 7, 2021 At World BEYOND War we are inspired by the organization of events in Australia against the USUKA, er AUKUS, alliance and in agreement with the statement released by Australians for War Powers Reform. Our sympathies for the French weapons industry are nonexistent. U.S. and UK weapons don?t kill any more or less than French ones. The problem is the subservience of the Australian government to the U.S. government, rather than to the Australian people (who were of course never asked), and the U.S. agenda madly driving the world closer to nuclear war. Helen Caldicott told me yesterday that she believed Australia was practically a 51st U.S. state. That sums up the problem well, although Australia might need to get in line for a higher number, since people tell me the same thing in Canada, and Israel, and Japan, and South Korea, and over two dozen NATO countries, and so on. Did the Australian government learn nothing from Afghanistan, that it wants in on a war on China that would end life on Earth? Has 80 years of Pearl Harbor propaganda immobilized parliamentarian brains? Is the world really going to put up with a ?democracy summit? the purpose of which is weapons sales and tell itself that it?s advancing democracy? The Australian government and the people and governments of the world should be inspired by the people rallying in Australia on December 11th to say No to the whole filthy pretense that nuclear submarines are the products of sane minds, that the nuclear danger can be further increased by people who care about their children, and that there?s time to waste ignoring the climate crisis while puffing up a leading contributor to it, namely the industry of mass murder. Instead of democracy summits and new acronyms for genocide, we need people to move their governments to uphold the rule of law applied equally, to democratize the United Nations rather than pretending it doesn?t exist, to compel the nuclear governments to obey the law, to advance the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and to promote human rights by example rather than through the twisted hypocritical atrocities that nobody believes in but too many tolerate: threatening, starving, bombing, and poisoning people for human rights. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Thu Dec 9 04:01:08 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2021 22:01:08 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor and Senior Columnist on "Democratic Party Betrayal, Abortion, and the Supreme Court" Message-ID: <66241d38-22b1-9b90-6dcd-8d53fdfc8176@forestfield.org> From https://www.blackagendareport.com/democratic-party-betrayal-abortion-and-supreme-court which debunks another often asked question used to push people to reflexively support the Democratic Party. > ?What about the Supreme Court?? Those words are used to thwart any discussion > which questions support for the Democratic Party. The democrats maintain their > hold on voters who would otherwise be rid of them by dredging up the fear of the > federal judiciary falling under Republican Party control. The legal right to > abortion is one of the issues used to keep millions of people from leaving the > democrats once and for all. > > After decades of democrats? corruption, inaction, and lies, the right to abortion > is indeed at risk. The majority of Supreme Court justices are republican > appointees. They may uphold a Mississippi law which severely restricts abortion > access or even overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which declared a > constitutional right to abortion. The boogeyman of right wing judicial control is > now real and the democrats have only themselves to blame. Unfortunately, most of > their voters still go along with their faux outrage when they should be > questioning the whole rotten apparatus. > > The democratic party is called a ?big tent? which includes corporate interests, > wealthy funders, well funded think tanks, elite academia, and left leaning voters. > Black people are the constituency they depend upon the most, although one would > never know that by looking at the policies the democrats hold near and dear. > > Black voters in particular are caught in a trap, seeing themselves as powerless to > do anything except keep republicans out of office. The openly white supremacist > nature of the republicans is not met with any opposition by the party that fails > to fight for them. Instead fear mongering and betrayal of their most loyal voters > are their favorite means of getting support. The political duopoly are like fake > heroes and fake villains in professional wrestling. The differences are all for > show. > > The bloom was off the rose in 2016 after the hope and change promised by Barack > Obama was revealed to be nothing more than neo-liberal business as usual. Many > democrats were disgusted when the primaries were rigged against Bernie Sanders. > Hillary Clinton?s ?pied piper strategy? amplified Donald Trump, and the > combination of miscalculation and hubris gave him the electoral college votes > needed to win and to make lifetime judicial appointments. > > Hillary Clinton was so sure she would defeat Trump that she chose senator Tim > Kaine as her running mate. Kaine is one who straddles the fence claiming he is > personally opposed to abortion because he is a Catholic while claiming he would > defend Roe v. Wade. Clinton herself foolishly sought to portray herself as being > ambivalent about abortion, thinking she would get support from some conservative > voters. Of course real conservatives were in love with Donald Trump. So-called > moderate republicans voted for him too. Hillary?s efforts to be as slick as Bill > Clinton were laughable and her sad attempt at Clintonian triangulation led to > Trump?s victory. > > Democrats don?t like to mention that Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have stepped down > when Barack Obama asked her. He also didn?t fight for his nominee Merrick Garland > because he assumed that a president Hillary Clinton would have her choices. The > miscalculations are guarded like a shameful family secret lest left leaning > democrats question the cult leadership and head for the exits. > > Of course the constant demand that leftists stick with the democrats over the > issue of abortion falls apart upon even cursory examination. House Speaker Nancy > Pelosi was taken to task in 2017 for saying that abortion was ?fading? as an issue > of concern to her party?s members. In 2018 when democratic voters were urged to > give control of the House to democrats and diminish Donald Trump?s power she said > abortion was not a litmus test issue. While voters are harangued to stay with the > democrats as if they are a political lifeboat, the leadership make clear that they > don?t care what their constituents want and only raise issues at opportune moments > to raise money and keep the rank and file in line. > > Democrats are only serious about neo-liberal austerity, protection of corporate > interests, and carrying out imperialism abroad. Everything else is propaganda > meant to convince the gullible to stay in their camp. Liberals think themselves > superior and sneer at white republicans for voting against their interests. They > are no better, allowing themselves to be fooled again and again by SCOTUS fear > mongering when their party could protect abortion rights with legislation if they > really wanted to do so. > > The joke is on liberals who want to relitigate the 2016 debacle by blaming > everyone but the people who should have won the election they said was so > important. The barbarians are not just at the gate, they have breached the walls > and the democrats are responsible. But even as they fail in the electoral arena, > their propaganda knows no bounds. They never discuss legislating abortion rights > and their constituents never take them to task. > > MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters are no more indoctrinated than the average > democrat voter. The discredited leadership exemplified by the likes of Nancy > Pelosi have a strong hold on their members despite failing them time and again. > The only sure prediction of the 2024 presidential campaign is that the need to > control the federal judiciary will again be trotted out to end any questions or > hesitation to support the party that fails its people so often. > > Democrats have been fooled into thinking that only the courts can protect abortion > rights. In fact, legislation could protect abortion permanently, but their party > has refused to do that. Now that SCOTUS control is lost because of their > corruption and betrayals, they continue to spin lies that bamboozle the party > faithful. From jbn at forestfield.org Thu Dec 9 23:00:18 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 17:00:18 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <52977e20-2b7e-a3fa-0c8b-f5c3c867fcc3@forestfield.org> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. I might not be able to get to add more videos soon. Enjoy. -J Labor's World View TV ================================================== More Perfect Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans https://youtube.com/watch?v=F8-7w2U01WY -- (6m 29s) Mobile Home Residents TAKE ON Wall Street And Win https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIg87BEapMs -- (6m 18s) The Media Is Ignoring An Economic BOOM For Workers https://youtube.com/watch?v=WoMOTMpIm4s -- (5m 33s) A Loophole in NJ Law Is Killing Casino Workers https://youtube.com/watch?v=prQ_ZIPHm7s -- (2m 43s) STRIKE ALERT: Airport Workers Walk Out https://youtube.com/watch?v=mEK64vbVdmk -- (4m 21s) Walmart Workers Demand A $15 Minimum Wage https://youtube.com/watch?v=9hPtnTVJq0w -- (4m 57s) PetSmart Workers EXPOSE Horrendous Conditions laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=eYfqAbdnWQY -- (49m) ATU 192 Transit Workers & Unions Speak Out For Hazard Pay-Oakland General Strike Recalled https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_Eo_ZTuJzM -- (1h 33m 2s) AFL-CIO, Imperialism, Zionism and The Palestinian Struggle https://youtube.com/watch?v=4w-24vu7Jro -- (20m 40s) Assassinations, The AFL-CIO, AIFLD, Solidarity Center & NED With Frank Hammer RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=AgiSzTav0v0 -- (8m 10s) Georgia workers held at gunpoint in modern day slavery operation News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== Grayzone https://youtube.com/watch?v=iKNfvyKBDLw -- (30m 35s) Alex Saab: Wife of kidnapped diplomat describes his torture & illegal arrest https://youtube.com/watch?v=dg3r5hs9WBA -- (45m 58s) Biden keeps Trump's crushing sanctions yet blames Iran for nuclear impasse https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeEwARv4jL4 -- (22m 2s) Did the CIA kill JFK? Oliver Stone on his explosive new film https://youtube.com/watch?v=rCtipOQEDG0 -- (36m) War in Ethiopia fueled by Western propaganda RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TPmGMJ-07E -- (7m 8s) How Black people have been victims of medical racism in the US| InfoBites https://youtube.com/watch?v=1e5BgxJuCQs -- (27m 27s) The Black Agenda -- Chris Hedges interviews Ajamu Baraka on the late Glen Ford's new book "The Black Agenda". Ford was the former head of BlackAgendaReport.com. Interview transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/542157-new-global-order-mccoy/ acTVism Munich https://youtube.com/watch?v=LwsJXapUBmw -- (8m 42s) Send Assange to the country that plotted to assassinate him? | Stella Moris speaks out https://youtube.com/watch?v=U7tFvOA_EWk -- (20m 33s) The Jakarta Method - How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Dec 10 15:09:10 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:09:10 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV In-Reply-To: <52977e20-2b7e-a3fa-0c8b-f5c3c867fcc3@forestfield.org> References: <52977e20-2b7e-a3fa-0c8b-f5c3c867fcc3@forestfield.org> Message-ID: J.B. and Bourema I am adding two VDO?s just viewed this morning as critical, and highly informative. Though a critic of Democracy Now, this is of the utmost importance to the American people: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/9/biden_military_spending_bill_approval Another informative VDO from Democracy Now, which is typical. It presents the horrible conditions of slavery and death refugees/immigrants from Africa face, known as the "Invisible Wall,? but they do not provide any information related to who, why, and how this situation came about. It?s a direct result of the destruction of Libya by the US and our Nato alliance of 2011. https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/9/shadow_immigration_europe_libya_migrants > On Dec 9, 2021, at 5:00 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > > Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. > > As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. > > I might not be able to get to add more videos soon. Enjoy. > -J > > > > > > Labor's World View TV > ================================================== > > More Perfect Union > https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans > https://youtube.com/watch?v=F8-7w2U01WY -- (6m 29s) Mobile Home Residents TAKE ON Wall Street And Win > https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIg87BEapMs -- (6m 18s) The Media Is Ignoring An Economic BOOM For Workers > https://youtube.com/watch?v=WoMOTMpIm4s -- (5m 33s) A Loophole in NJ Law Is Killing Casino Workers > https://youtube.com/watch?v=prQ_ZIPHm7s -- (2m 43s) STRIKE ALERT: Airport Workers Walk Out > https://youtube.com/watch?v=mEK64vbVdmk -- (4m 21s) Walmart Workers Demand A $15 Minimum Wage > https://youtube.com/watch?v=9hPtnTVJq0w -- (4m 57s) PetSmart Workers EXPOSE Horrendous Conditions > > laborvideo > https://youtube.com/watch?v=eYfqAbdnWQY -- (49m) ATU 192 Transit Workers & Unions Speak Out For Hazard Pay-Oakland General Strike Recalled > https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_Eo_ZTuJzM -- (1h 33m 2s) AFL-CIO, Imperialism, Zionism and The Palestinian Struggle > https://youtube.com/watch?v=4w-24vu7Jro -- (20m 40s) Assassinations, The AFL-CIO, AIFLD, Solidarity Center & NED With Frank Hammer > > RT > https://youtube.com/watch?v=AgiSzTav0v0 -- (8m 10s) Georgia workers held at gunpoint in modern day slavery operation > > > > > News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air > ================================================== > > Grayzone > https://youtube.com/watch?v=iKNfvyKBDLw -- (30m 35s) Alex Saab: Wife of kidnapped diplomat describes his torture & illegal arrest > https://youtube.com/watch?v=dg3r5hs9WBA -- (45m 58s) Biden keeps Trump's crushing sanctions yet blames Iran for nuclear impasse > https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeEwARv4jL4 -- (22m 2s) Did the CIA kill JFK? Oliver Stone on his explosive new film > https://youtube.com/watch?v=rCtipOQEDG0 -- (36m) War in Ethiopia fueled by Western propaganda > > RT > https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TPmGMJ-07E -- (7m 8s) How Black people have been victims of medical racism in the US| InfoBites > https://youtube.com/watch?v=1e5BgxJuCQs -- (27m 27s) The Black Agenda -- Chris Hedges interviews Ajamu Baraka on the late Glen Ford's new book "The Black Agenda". Ford was the former head of BlackAgendaReport.com. Interview transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/542157-new-global-order-mccoy/ > > acTVism Munich > https://youtube.com/watch?v=LwsJXapUBmw -- (8m 42s) Send Assange to the country that plotted to assassinate him? | Stella Moris speaks out > https://youtube.com/watch?v=U7tFvOA_EWk -- (20m 33s) The Jakarta Method - How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Dec 10 16:43:13 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:43:13 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Another good one from Democracy Now, interview with "The Nations" Katrina Vanden Heuvel Message-ID: A one-sided narrative?. Another reasonably good "Democracy Now" interview, with Katrina Vanden Heuvel of "The Nation," magazine in relation to Russia and the Ukraine. The widow of Prof. Stephen Cohen, a Russian specialist, she tiptoes around her liberal base of support, but makes clear that US support for the Minx Accords, ending Nato provocations, given the US controls Nato, are necessary solutions to the pending debacle. https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/8/putin_biden_sanctions_russia_ukraine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Fri Dec 10 20:39:10 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:39:10 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever. References: <3f2cfb72-8085-4687-99c5-581617e2a48a@salsalabs.org> Message-ID: <6C323433-D6A9-45C6-9647-4CD49E6F032E@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Defending Rights & Dissent > Subject: Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever. > Date: December 10, 2021 at 2:32:37 PM CST > To: "Carl G. Estabrook" > Reply-To: info at RightsandDissent.org > > > > > > Dear Carl g., > > This morning, a UK High Court ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face prosecution under the Espionage Act. The Biden administration (following the Trump administration?s lead) wants to put Assange on trial for publishing truthful information in the public interest. > > Assange?s prosecution under the Espionage Act is a threat to press freedom. Reach out to your member of Congress now. > This week has been an eventful one for the Espionage Act, and it?s high time for Congress to take notice, and to take action. > > On Sunday, millions of Americans tuned into a 60 Minutes interview with Reality Winner and learned how whistleblowers charged under the Espionage Act cannot testify about what they leaked or why they leaked it. > On Tuesday, the House Rules Committee killed an amendment from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) that would have allowed whistleblowers to testify about their purpose for disclosing documents and forced prosecutors to prove a defendant under the Espionage Act had the specific intent to harm US national security. > On Wednesday, Daniel Hale, convicted under the Espionage Act for telling the public the truth about the US drone program, received Blueprint for Free Speech?s International Award for Whistleblowing. Hale could not speak on his own behalf, as he is in a communications management unit. > And now we have this terrible ruling from the UK High Court. > > The Biden DOJ can certainly drop this Trump-era prosecution and cease the use of the Espionage Act against whistleblowers. > > But we also need Congress to step up and take serious steps to reform the Espionage Act. We need you to take action today! > > Take Action! > > > Subscribe > > Donate > > Our Work > > Defending Rights & Dissent > 1325 G St. NW Suite 500 | Washington, District of Columbia 20005 > 202.552.7408 | info at rightsanddissent.org > Follow Us > > > Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser > Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbw292002 at gmail.com Fri Dec 10 21:45:44 2021 From: jbw292002 at gmail.com (John W.) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:45:44 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever. In-Reply-To: <6C323433-D6A9-45C6-9647-4CD49E6F032E@newsfromneptune.com> References: <3f2cfb72-8085-4687-99c5-581617e2a48a@salsalabs.org> <6C323433-D6A9-45C6-9647-4CD49E6F032E@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: I'll just say here that it's interesting to read about Daniel Ellsberg's indictment and trial under the Espionage Act (for the Pentagon Papers), and see how his situation compared to Assange's. John Wason On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 2:40 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *Defending Rights & Dissent > *Subject: **Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage > Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever.* > *Date: *December 10, 2021 at 2:32:37 PM CST > *To: *"Carl G. Estabrook" > *Reply-To: *info at RightsandDissent.org > > > > > > > > Dear Carl g., > > This morning, a UK High Court ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited > to the US to face prosecution under the Espionage Act. The Biden > administration (following the Trump administration?s lead) wants to put > Assange on trial for publishing truthful information in the public interest. > > > *Assange?s prosecution under the Espionage Act is a threat to press > freedom. Reach out to your member of Congress now.* > > > This week has been an eventful one for the Espionage Act, and it?s high > time for Congress to take notice, and to take action. > > - On Sunday, millions of Americans tuned into a 60 Minutes interview > with Reality Winner and learned how whistleblowers charged under the > Espionage Act cannot testify about what they leaked or why they leaked it. > - On Tuesday, the House Rules Committee killed an amendment > > from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) that would have allowed whistleblowers to > testify about their purpose for disclosing documents and forced prosecutors > to prove a defendant under the Espionage Act had the specific intent to > harm US national security. > - On Wednesday, Daniel Hale, convicted under the Espionage Act for > telling the public the truth about the US drone program, received Blueprint > for Free Speech?s International Award for Whistleblowing. Hale could not > speak on his own behalf, as he is in a communications management unit. > > *And now we have this terrible ruling from the UK High Court.* > > The Biden DOJ can certainly drop this Trump-era prosecution and cease the > use of the Espionage Act against whistleblowers. > > But we also need Congress to step up and take serious steps to reform the > Espionage Act. *We need you to take action today!* > > > Take Action! > > > Subscribe > > Donate > > Our Work > > > *Defending Rights & Dissent* > 1325 G St. NW Suite 500 | Washington, District of Columbia 20005 > 202.552.7408 | info at rightsanddissent.org > > Follow Us > > > > Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser > > Unsubscribe > > or Manage Your Preferences > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Estabrook via Peace-discuss To: Peace Cc: Peace Discuss Sent: Fri, Dec 10, 2021 2:39 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever. Begin forwarded message: From: Defending Rights & Dissent Subject: Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever. Date: December 10, 2021 at 2:32:37 PM CST To: "Carl G. Estabrook" Reply-To: info at RightsandDissent.org | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | | | Dear?Carl g.,? This morning, a UK High Court ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face prosecution under the Espionage Act. The Biden administration (following the Trump administration?s lead) wants to put Assange on trial for publishing truthful information in the public interest.? Assange?s prosecution under the Espionage Act is a threat to press freedom. Reach out to your member of Congress now. This week has been an eventful one for the Espionage Act, and it?s high time for Congress to take notice, and to take action. - On Sunday, millions of Americans tuned into a 60 Minutes interview with Reality Winner and learned how whistleblowers charged under the Espionage Act cannot testify about what they leaked or why they leaked it.? - On Tuesday, the House Rules Committee killed an amendment from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) that would have allowed whistleblowers to testify about their purpose for disclosing documents and forced prosecutors to prove a defendant under the Espionage Act had the specific intent to harm US national security.? - On Wednesday, Daniel Hale, convicted under the Espionage Act for telling the public the truth about the US drone program, received Blueprint for Free Speech?s International Award for Whistleblowing. Hale could not speak on his own behalf, as he is in a communications management unit.? And now we have this terrible ruling from the UK High Court. 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This veneer of honesty in government, shrouds the corruption of other Presidents, Obama being a good example. They become billionaires living lavish lifestyles after leaving office. Obama also broke US laws, killing thousands, using drones, a form of execution without due process, with bombs that are now responsible for the flourishing slave trade of African immigrants/refugees across the continent when he had Libya destroyed. He is responsible for US interventions and war in Yemen, and Syria. He escalated the war in Afghanistan, etc., etc., Obama is also responsible for having Africom placed in all but two African nations during his reign in power, which shows his disdain for his African heritage. Obama was never disgusting, he was smart, attractive and he said all that we wanted to hear, I voted for him, the first time. The only racism he exhibited was when he made fun of those AfroAmericans suffering from poisoned water in Michigan, they got it, even if white liberals didn't. Rewards are received by Presidents after leaving office, on behalf of those major corporations whom they supported while in office. The funds generally come as a result of "public speaking engagements." In the case of many government employee's, non Presidents, it comes as the highly paid positions available after leaving office. One must admit, our ruling elites are brilliant when it comes to PR, cover ups, and fooling the American people, but "you can't fool all of the people, all of the time," as said by Mark Twain. KAram https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-bill-to-prevent-future-blatant-corruption-in-reaction-to-trumph -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nicholson) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 14:55:19 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Why Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Dore go on Tucker Carlson's FOX show and more on the importance of the Assange persecution Message-ID: <97837dbe-bac0-6cd3-6145-3d47b5786a1f@forestfield.org> Released segments of a recent Jimmy Dore interview with Glenn Greenwald from 2021-12-11 https://youtube.com/watch?v=7-mjCEPW1LQ -- (34m 42s) MSNBC?s Non-Stop Lying About Julian Assange https://youtube.com/watch?v=RgOJR_S7TqQ -- (25m 55s) US & UK Destroying Assange & Press Freedom I recommend watching both of the above clips in their entirety and the links provided below as well. Sadly, swearing prevents me from recommending these Jimmy Dore segments to UPTV which (as far as I know) still won't run segments where people speak freely and as adults typically do particularly on matters of great importance, such as the continuing torture and imprisonment of Julian Assange. Around 18m into https://youtube.com/watch?v=7-mjCEPW1LQ you can see and hear Glenn Greenwald discuss with Jimmy Dore how establishment media handles discussing Julian Assange -- largely they don't talk about Assange at all (and, although it doesn't come up in the Dore/Greenwald discussion, establishment media has to be pushed into giving any kind of response about Assange). As evidence for this point, you can see how the BBC (state-funded UK establishment media outlet) handled Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev "pushed back" (as they say) against a BBC interviewer (a clip which you can find in https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469395830876553219 among other posts) where Greenwald wrote: > Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, is an authoritarian, but he's also > right that no western journalist has any right or credibility to assume a position > of moral superiority about press freedom attacks given what the US/UK are doing to > Assange. Greenwald explains the recent US government win with the UK High Court in not only reversing the previous ruling on not extraditing Assange to the US (because Assange's health is so fragile that it is feared that Assange might commit suicide) but keeping Assange in Belmarsh Prison (a maximum security UK prison) while his legal proceedings play out. It was recently revealed that Assange suffered a transient ischemic attack (a "ministroke" per the following URL) on October 27 (says https://on.rt.com/bmxm referring to the Daily Mail interview with Assange's fiancee Stella Moris). We better understand the continuing effort to keep Assange in prison from Greenwald's recent publications: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469350801332125698 > Democrats want Assange imprisoned for life because his 2016 reporting reflected > poorly on Hillary and the DNC and, they think, helped Trump. > > Democrats are complete authoritarians: craving the imprisonment of journalists who > oppose them. They're everything they claimed Trump was. Article https://greenwald.substack.com/p/julian-assange-loses-appeal-british Video https://rumble.com/vqjzc0-uk-court-approves-bidens-extradition-request-for-assange.html Greenwald also puts into context the value of not personifying structural opposition; don't believe that if we could retire or replace the right people in power that we'd be better off. The problems we often face are structural and best understood by analyzing that structure and acting to challenge and work around that structure. This is often easier said than done. The coordinated attacks on Alex Jones' social media accounts were met with a shrug by so many on the authoritarian left because the authoritarian left refused to look at that case as anything but asking each other "Do you agree with or like Alex Jones?" which is not the relevant question at all. While the specific charges facing Assange don't mention the DNC email leaks, the DNC email leaks were embarassing & damaging to the DNC and the DNC email leaks help us understand why the Democrats still pursue keeping Assange in prison, any prison, today. So I ask if you're going to respond to any of this claiming something critical about the coverage Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson (see https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469301908598931457 for more on this or the above interview with Dore), et al provide on the Assange matter please back up your claims with sources. Ad hominem responses (where you tacitly admit that you won't discuss the matter on its merits but you instead go against someone advocating for freeing Assange) aren't helpful but deserve source citations as well. And be prepared to meet a challenge explaining away so many other people who agree with freeing Assange (see https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469350801332125698 for a list of Greenwald's tweets listing some of the notable people) because Assange did the journalism that make the establishment look like the compliant, docile PR repeaters that they are. From jbn at forestfield.org Sun Dec 12 21:14:00 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 15:14:00 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <170c4251-0dd0-a9a4-9ece-b9a328dabc1f@forestfield.org> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== Grayzone https://youtube.com/watch?v=NLpPyuzxSf4 -- (1h 59m 54s) Is Russia really planning a war in Ukraine - or is Washington? https://youtube.com/watch?v=EDADaUXL6kM -- (33m 35s) Nicaragua recognizes China, breaks ties with Taiwan. Is a Panama Canal alternative coming soon? https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DGnxwcG14 -- (1h 7m 52s) 'Willing': Brian Jackson?s revolutionary music, from Gil Scott-Heron to today RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=kbunf9hut5Q -- (58s) CIA admits it's MESSING with crypto but won't say how https://youtube.com/watch?v=elRE113LDs8 -- (57s) OUTRAGE over British verdict on Assange extradition to US https://youtube.com/watch?v=YYU1EWI67SY -- (1m 31s) WikiLeaks exposed American war crimes ? now Assange will be extradited to US https://youtube.com/watch?v=ycWkLlDU6QY -- (1m 13s) 'How cynical' | Assange's fiance on US winning the extradition appeal https://youtube.com/watch?v=_VzFJ9csons -- (27m 21s) Assange can be extradited, says court https://youtube.com/watch?v=MHqGAgP9CG0 -- (6m 35s) 'Britain acting like US' poodle' | Ex MP Chris Williamson weighs in on Assange High Court ruling https://youtube.com/watch?v=iknte-VBxkc -- (1m 28s) They ?were supposed to have a precise target? | Syrian family hit by US drone strike https://youtube.com/watch?v=fW4R-GdGwd4 -- (5m 2s) Media blackout on Yemen War protects Joe Biden | By Robert Inlakesh https://youtube.com/watch?v=UFAOozjUNpU -- (1m 26s) NO MORE | Hundreds denounce US media coverage on Horn of Africa https://youtube.com/watch?v=1e5BgxJuCQs -- (27m 27s) The black agenda Consortium News https://youtube.com/watch?v=9aC6t0c2jRA -- (5m 8s) Craig Murray: Assange High Court Ruling & Path Ahead https://youtube.com/watch?v=DoqqxJxBvYg -- (23m 26s) Joe Lauria on the Assange High Court ruling https://youtube.com/watch?v=fB0AJId1xNg -- (9m 58s) Mercouris & Goodale OSA & Espionage Acts & Democracy Glenn Greenwald https://rumble.com/vqjzc0-uk-court-approves-bidens-extradition-request-for-assange.html -- (1h 6m 2s) LIVE: UK COURT APPROVES BIDEN'S EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR ASSANGE acTVism Munich https://youtube.com/watch?v=7RX45X8RRcU -- (6m 53s) Can we save Assange? We will not give up! Abby Martin, Snowden, Chomsky & others speak out! Labor's World View TV ================================================== More Perfect Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=VN_QjyhvpiE -- (4m 33s) Moderna's Greed Is Causing A Global Vaccine Shortage. Biden Can Stop It. laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=PtQRvguf3AU -- (21m 9s) Justice For Cab Drivers! Taxi Drivers Demand Their Money Back From San Francisco Officials Status Coup News https://youtube.com/watch?v=o4yG6qChZr4 -- (11m 14s) Starbucks Workers CELEBRATE Winning First Unionized Starbucks https://youtube.com/watch?v=mfSOUfnaWsM -- (12m 42s) Amazon HR FREAKS OUT At Union Organizer Pushing Back https://youtube.com/watch?v=J2Rcl9BL7eI -- (10m 17s) Amazon Union Organizer ARRESTED While Organizing https://youtube.com/watch?v=DhULmdBQIEA -- (8m 45s) Law Students BOYCOTT Corporate Law Firm Crusading Against Steven Donziger https://youtube.com/watch?v=29tC-3UgDq4 -- (9m 36s) Steve Grumbine Explains the GREED Behind Inflation From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Dec 13 16:38:39 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:38:39 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Shared Post] Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange References: Message-ID: <46201A5E-1B44-482B-BAC6-C87ED679EDC4@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: cgestabrook > Subject: [Shared Post] Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange > Date: December 13, 2021 at 10:36:49 AM CST > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: cgestabrook > > cgestabrook (cgestabrook at gmail.com) thinks you may be interested in the following post: > > Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange > https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/13/hedges-the-execution-of-julian-assange/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Estabrook via Peace-discuss To: Peace Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net Sent: Mon, Dec 13, 2021 10:39 am Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Shared Post] Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange Begin forwarded message: From: cgestabrook Subject: [Shared Post] Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange Date: December 13, 2021 at 10:36:49 AM CST To: cgestabrook at gmail.com Reply-To: cgestabrook cgestabrook (cgestabrook at gmail.com) thinks you may be interested in the following post: Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/13/hedges-the-execution-of-julian-assange/ _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Tue Dec 14 01:22:10 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 19:22:10 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Jimmy Dore moves to Rumble -- https://rumble.com/c/TheJimmyDoreShow Message-ID: <8366f3b0-101e-30b7-c396-449a37631270@forestfield.org> Jimmy Dore said on tonight's live stream that: 1. Wednesday (2021-12-15) he'll interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his new book "The Real Anthony Fauci- Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health" at 1:30PM Pacific Time. This live stream will be on Rumble and Rokfin, not on YouTube due to Jimmy Dore's unwillingness to deal with YouTube censorship. 2. Jimmy Dore Show's new home will become Rumble at https://rumble.com/c/TheJimmyDoreShow also due to YouTube censorship. Jimmy Dore is one of the few places you can get interviews with interesting people such as Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald, Nick Cruz, The Grayzone's Aaron Mate, Anya Parampil, Max Blumenthal, and various other people who offer takes which you won't hear on establishment media. From mkb3 at icloud.com Tue Dec 14 04:42:15 2021 From: mkb3 at icloud.com (Morton K. Brussel) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:42:15 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Growing Franco-German Estrangement Message-ID: <56352297-B914-4423-9649-A6477DB6B954@icloud.com> Here is the link to the article: https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/13/diana-johnstone-the-growing-franco-german-estrangement/ By Diana Johnstone. One of her cogent recent reports. Important. States the current situation clearly, but without drawing definite conclusions/prognostications. Interesting comments about energy. ?mkb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mkb3 at icloud.com Tue Dec 14 04:42:15 2021 From: mkb3 at icloud.com (Morton K. Brussel) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:42:15 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Growing Franco-German Estrangement Message-ID: <56352297-B914-4423-9649-A6477DB6B954@icloud.com> Here is the link to the article: https://consortiumnews.com/2021/12/13/diana-johnstone-the-growing-franco-german-estrangement/ By Diana Johnstone. One of her cogent recent reports. Important. States the current situation clearly, but without drawing definite conclusions/prognostications. Interesting comments about energy. ?mkb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From r-szoke at illinois.edu Wed Dec 15 01:35:45 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:35:45 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Horrorshow! Sex & subversion on campus ! Message-ID: Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK by Matthew C. Ehrlich (Author) University of Illinois Press; First edition (December 14, 2021), Paperback, 240 pages, $24.95 In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job. Matthew Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom. Their cases also embodied the stark divide over beliefs and values--a divide that remains today. Ehrlich delves into the issues behind these academic controversies and places the events in the context of a time rarely associated with dissent, but in fact a harbinger of the social and political upheavals to come. An enlightening and entertaining history, Dangerous Ideas on Campus illuminates how the university became a battleground for debating America's hot-button issues. > About the Author Matthew C. Ehrlich is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His books include Kansas City vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era and Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, winner of the James W. Tankard Book Award. ? from the blurb on Amazon online From r-szoke at illinois.edu Wed Dec 15 01:35:45 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:35:45 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Horrorshow! Sex & subversion on campus ! Message-ID: Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK by Matthew C. Ehrlich (Author) University of Illinois Press; First edition (December 14, 2021), Paperback, 240 pages, $24.95 In 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job. Matthew Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom. Their cases also embodied the stark divide over beliefs and values--a divide that remains today. Ehrlich delves into the issues behind these academic controversies and places the events in the context of a time rarely associated with dissent, but in fact a harbinger of the social and political upheavals to come. An enlightening and entertaining history, Dangerous Ideas on Campus illuminates how the university became a battleground for debating America's hot-button issues. > About the Author Matthew C. Ehrlich is a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His books include Kansas City vs. Oakland: The Bitter Sports Rivalry That Defined an Era and Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest, winner of the James W. Tankard Book Award. ? from the blurb on Amazon online From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Dec 15 22:32:39 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:32:39 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Brilliant comments on the current situation by Chomsky Message-ID: <44C84BED-70F6-43FC-B4E5-A7A1C69B3B43@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-YbPgfgfw ### From jbn at forestfield.org Thu Dec 16 00:14:48 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:14:48 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Max Blumenthal interviews CJ Hopkins Message-ID: <0c0738cd-d299-e6bf-725f-85ca98ac60fb@forestfield.org> I know that some of you enjoy CJ Hopkins, so: https://rokfin.com/stream/8808/Foreign-Agents-6--CJ-Hopkins-on-the-New-Normals-and-GloboCap-ideology You might need to get a Rokfin account or subscribe to Max Blumenthal's channel to see this. I haven't tested whether either of these are the case. From carl at newsfromneptune.com Fri Dec 17 00:06:37 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:06:37 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: =?UTF-8?q?Putin, _Xi_Running_Circles_Around_Biden=E2=80=99s_Hybrid_War?= References: <20211216150130.1.7C356F144BEC4E59@mg.unz.com> Message-ID: 'Washington still follows the Zbigniew Brzezinski-concocted Maidan plan laid out for cookie distributor Nuland in 2014. Yet seven years later, no American ?strategist? managed to understand why Russia would fail to invade Ukraine, which has been part of Russia for centuries. 'For these ?strategists?, it?s imperative that Russia faces a second Vietnam, after Afghanistan in the 1980s. Well, it?s not going to happen because Moscow has no interest whatsoever in ?invading? Ukraine. 'It does get more complicated. The ultimate fear dictating all US foreign policy since the early 20th century is the possibility of Germany clinching a new version of Bismarck?s 1887 Reinsurance Treaty with Russia. 'Add China to the combination and these three actors are able to control just about the entire Eurasian landmass. Updating Mackinder, the US would then be turned into a geopolitically irrelevant island. 'Putin-Xi may have examined not only how the imperial hybrid war tactics against them are floundering against them, as well as how the tactics are dragging Europe further into the abyss of irrelevance. 'For the EU, as former British diplomat Alastair Crooke points out, the strategic balance is a disaster: ?The EU has virtually ruptured its relations with both Russia and China ? at the same time. Washington?s hawks wanted it. A ?European Brzezinski? certainly would have advised the EU differently: never lose both in tandem ? you are never that powerful.?' > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Pepe Escobar / The Unz Review > Subject: Putin, Xi Running Circles Around Biden > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > > Washington still follows the Zbigniew Brzezinski-concocted Maidan plan laid out [by US diplomat] Nuland in 2014. Yet seven years later, no American ?strategist? managed to understand why Russia would fail to invade Ukraine, which has been part of Russia for centuries. > > For these ?strategists?, it?s imperative that Russia faces a second Vietnam, after Afghanistan in the 1980s. Well, it?s not going to happen because Moscow has no interest whatsoever in ?invading? Ukraine. > > It does get more complicated. The ultimate fear dictating all US foreign policy since the early 20th century is the possibility of Germany clinching a new version of Bismarck?s 1887 Reinsurance Treaty with Russia. > > Add China to the combination and these three actors are able to control just about the entire Eurasian landmass. Updating Mackinder, the US would then be turned into a geopolitically irrelevant island. > > Putin-Xi may have examined not only how the imperial hybrid war tactics against them are floundering against them, as well as how the tactics are dragging Europe further into the abyss of irrelevance. > > For the EU, as former British diplomat Alastair Crooke points out, the strategic balance is a disaster: ?The EU has virtually ruptured its relations with both Russia and China ? at the same time. Washington?s hawks wanted it. 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Enjoy. -J Labor's World View TV ================================================== More Perfect Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=r7xluFwl0ro -- (5m 19s) STRIKE ALERT: 100+ Baskin Robbins Cake Makers Walk Out https://youtube.com/watch?v=gRP_asprrQ0 -- (5m 18s) The Kellogg's Strike Is Working: Kellogg's Feels the Pain, While Workers Are Emboldened https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRbGNgDGG9o -- (5m 34s) What's Really Driving The Supply Chain Crisis? https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRcGi2Tg3mQ -- (38s) Casino workers forced to breathe secondhand smoke laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3IMyBvs4xU -- (7m 4s) Equal Pay For Equal Work! Kellogg Bakers Local 3G Striker Donivan Williams Speaks At UAW Local 5 https://youtube.com/watch?v=_qEya_TB4Pk -- (34m 59s) Unions, Taiwan & The Fight Against Covid With Catta Hu-Hsuan Chow with CTTU & NPOIU ED https://youtube.com/watch?v=u52tZhMIt7M -- (48m 39s) Demos, Billionaires & War On Teachers & Public Education From SFUSD To OUSD With Jack Gerson News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== Glenn Greenwald https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TizS6SPeSI -- (58m 36s) The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC Tells 4 Lies in a Two-Minute Clip Matt Orfalea https://youtube.com/watch?v=p9o1NnKJJRU (2m 21s) The Assange Case Changes Everything George Galloway https://youtube.com/watch?v=1g-4bv6QFFE (51m 3s) Julian Assange | Edward Snowden | Craig Murray : Western intolerance towards journalism MintPressNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-YbPgfgfw (53m 5s) -- ?Unregulated Capitalism is a Suicide Pact?: Noam Chomsky talks to Lowkey From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Dec 17 19:32:52 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:32:52 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would like to add: Ben Norton?s brief but to the point; Biden?s plan for Central America: Help US corporations exploit its people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663MAP-vbd > On Dec 17, 2021, at 12:03 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > > Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. > > As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. > > Enjoy. > -J > > > Labor's World View TV > ================================================== > > More Perfect Union > https://youtube.com/watch?v=r7xluFwl0ro -- (5m 19s) STRIKE ALERT: 100+ Baskin Robbins Cake Makers Walk Out > https://youtube.com/watch?v=gRP_asprrQ0 -- (5m 18s) The Kellogg's Strike Is Working: Kellogg's Feels the Pain, While Workers Are Emboldened > https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRbGNgDGG9o -- (5m 34s) What's Really Driving The Supply Chain Crisis? > https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans > https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRcGi2Tg3mQ -- (38s) Casino workers forced to breathe secondhand smoke > > laborvideo > https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3IMyBvs4xU -- (7m 4s) Equal Pay For Equal Work! Kellogg Bakers Local 3G Striker Donivan Williams Speaks At UAW Local 5 > https://youtube.com/watch?v=_qEya_TB4Pk -- (34m 59s) Unions, Taiwan & The Fight Against Covid With Catta Hu-Hsuan Chow with CTTU & NPOIU ED > https://youtube.com/watch?v=u52tZhMIt7M -- (48m 39s) Demos, Billionaires & War On Teachers & Public Education From SFUSD To OUSD With Jack Gerson > > > > News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air > ================================================== > > Glenn Greenwald > https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TizS6SPeSI -- (58m 36s) The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC Tells 4 Lies in a Two-Minute Clip > > Matt Orfalea > https://youtube.com/watch?v=p9o1NnKJJRU (2m 21s) The Assange Case Changes Everything > > George Galloway > https://youtube.com/watch?v=1g-4bv6QFFE (51m 3s) Julian Assange | Edward Snowden | Craig Murray : Western intolerance towards journalism > > MintPressNews > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-YbPgfgfw (53m 5s) -- > ?Unregulated Capitalism is a Suicide Pact?: Noam Chomsky talks to Lowkey > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Dec 17 19:34:14 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:34:14 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > On Dec 17, 2021, at 1:32 PM, karen aram wrote: > > I would like to add: Ben Norton?s brief but to the point; Biden?s plan for Central America: Help US corporations exploit its people: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663MAP-vbdc > > > >> On Dec 17, 2021, at 12:03 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >> >> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. >> >> As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. >> >> Enjoy. >> -J >> >> >> Labor's World View TV >> ================================================== >> >> More Perfect Union >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=r7xluFwl0ro -- (5m 19s) STRIKE ALERT: 100+ Baskin Robbins Cake Makers Walk Out >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=gRP_asprrQ0 -- (5m 18s) The Kellogg's Strike Is Working: Kellogg's Feels the Pain, While Workers Are Emboldened >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRbGNgDGG9o -- (5m 34s) What's Really Driving The Supply Chain Crisis? >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRcGi2Tg3mQ -- (38s) Casino workers forced to breathe secondhand smoke >> >> laborvideo >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3IMyBvs4xU -- (7m 4s) Equal Pay For Equal Work! Kellogg Bakers Local 3G Striker Donivan Williams Speaks At UAW Local 5 >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=_qEya_TB4Pk -- (34m 59s) Unions, Taiwan & The Fight Against Covid With Catta Hu-Hsuan Chow with CTTU & NPOIU ED >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=u52tZhMIt7M -- (48m 39s) Demos, Billionaires & War On Teachers & Public Education From SFUSD To OUSD With Jack Gerson >> >> >> >> News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air >> ================================================== >> >> Glenn Greenwald >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TizS6SPeSI -- (58m 36s) The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC Tells 4 Lies in a Two-Minute Clip >> >> Matt Orfalea >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=p9o1NnKJJRU (2m 21s) The Assange Case Changes Everything >> >> George Galloway >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=1g-4bv6QFFE (51m 3s) Julian Assange | Edward Snowden | Craig Murray : Western intolerance towards journalism >> >> MintPressNews >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-YbPgfgfw (53m 5s) -- >> ?Unregulated Capitalism is a Suicide Pact?: Noam Chomsky talks to Lowkey >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > From r-szoke at illinois.edu Sat Dec 18 19:44:11 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 19:44:11 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Those "surgical" air & drone strikes Message-ID: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/18/us/airstrikes-pentagon-records-civilian-deaths.html From r-szoke at illinois.edu Sat Dec 18 19:44:11 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 19:44:11 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Those "surgical" air & drone strikes Message-ID: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/18/us/airstrikes-pentagon-records-civilian-deaths.html From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Dec 19 00:01:57 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:01:57 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Putin and Xi Plot Their SWIFT Escape References: <20211218150050.1.F6793ED202246F23@mg.unz.com> Message-ID: <45BDBEAB-3450-49EB-895F-156CD8802B58@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Pepe Escobar / The Unz Review > Subject: Putin and Xi Plot Their SWIFT Escape > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > > The Unz Review ? An Alternative Media Selection Subscribe > A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media > Putin and Xi Plot Their SWIFT Escape Pepe Escobar ? Friday, December 17, 2021 ? 1,200 Words > Vladimir Putin got straight to the point. At the opening of his one hour and fourteen minute video conversation with Xi Jinping on 15 December, he described Russia-China relations as ?an example of genuine inter-state cooperation in the 21st century.? > > Their myriad levels of cooperation have been known for years now ? from trade, oil and gas, finance, aerospace and the fight against Covid-19, to the progressive interconnection of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU). > > But now the stage was set for the announcement of a serious counter-move in their carefully coordinated ballet opposing the relentless Hybrid War/Cold War 2.0 combo deployed by Empire. > > As Assistant to the President for Foreign Policy Yuri Ushakov succinctly explained, Putin and Xi agreed to create an ?independent financial structure for trade operations that could not be influenced by other countries.? > > Diplomatic sources, off the record, confirmed the structure may be announced by a joint summit before the end of 2022. > > This is a stunning game-changer in more ways than one. It had been extensively discussed in previous bilaterals and in preparations for BRICS summits ? mostly centered on increasing the share of yuan and rubles in Russia-China settlements, bypassing the US dollar, and opening new stock market options for Russian and Chinese investors. > > Now we?ve come to the crunch. And the catalyzing event was none other than US hawks floating the ? financially nuclear ? idea of expelling Russia from SWIFT, the messaging network used by 11,000+ banks in over 200 countries, as well as financial institutions, for rapid money transfers worldwide. > > Cutting off Russia from SWIFT would be part of a harsh new sanctions package developed in response to an ?invasion? of Ukraine that will never happen ? mainly because the only ones praying for it are professional NATO warmongers. > > Profiting from a strategic blunder > > Once again, an American strategic blunder offers the Russia-China self-described ?comprehensive strategic partnership? the chance to advance their coordination. > > Ushakov put it very diplomatically: it?s time to bypass a SWIFT mechanism ?influenced by third countries? to form ?an independent financial structure.? > > That amounts to a serious game-changer for the entire Global South ? as scores of nations yearn to be released from a de facto US dollar dictatorship, complete with recurring Fed quantitative easing circus packages. > > Russia and China have been experimenting with their alternative payment systems for quite a while now: the Russian SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages) and the Chinese CIPS (Cross Border Interbank Payment System). > > It won?t be easy, as the most powerful Chinese banks are deep into SWIFT and have expressed their reservations about SPFS. Yet, they will have to inevitably integrate prior to the launch of the new mechanism, possibly in late 2022. > > Once the most important Russian and Chinese banks ? from Sberbank to the Bank of China ? adopt the system, the path opens for other banks across Eurasia and the Global South to join in. > > In the long run, SWIFT, prone to non-stop American political interference, will be increasingly marginalized, or restricted to Atlanticist latitudes. > > Bypassing the US dollar, on trade and all sorts of financial settlements, is an absolutely central plank of the ever-evolving Russia-China notion of a multipolar world. > > The road will be long, of course, especially when it comes to offering a solid counterpoint to the US-controlled global financial system, a maze that includes the humongous investment houses of the BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street variety, with their interlocking shareholding of virtually every major multinational company. > > Yet a SWIFT escape will rapidly gain momentum, because it is inextricably linked to a series of developments that Putin-Xi touched upon in their conversation, the most important of which are: > > 1. The progressive interconnection of BRI and EAEU, offering expanding roles to the BRICS-run New Development Bank (NDB) as well as the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). > > 2. The increasing geopolitical and geo-economic reach of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), especially after the admission of Iran in October. > > 3. And crucially, the upcoming Chinese presidency of the BRICS in 2022. > > China in 2022 will invest deeply in BRICS+ . This expanded BRICS club will be linked to a development process that includes: > > 1. The consolidation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ? a massive East Asia trade deal uniting China, the ASEAN 10 and Japan, and South Korea, as well as Australia and New Zealand. > > 2. The African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA). > > 3. And the memoranda of understanding signed between the EAEU and MERCOSUR and between the EAEU and ASEAN. > > Anchoring West Asia > > Yaroslav Lissovolik, one of the world?s leading experts on BRICS+, argues that it?s now time for BRICS+ 2.0, operating in a system that opens ?the possibility for bilateral and plurilateral agreements to complement the core network of regional alliances formed by BRICS countries and their respective regional neighbors.? > > So if we?re talking about a major qualitative jump in terms of economic development across the Global South, the question is inevitable. What about West Asia? > > All these interconnections, plus an escape from SWIFT, will certainly profit the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), arguably the flagship BRI project, to which Beijing plans to annex Afghanistan. > > CPEC will be progressively connected to the future Iran-China corridor via Afghanistan, part of the 20 year Iran-China strategic deal in which BRI projects will be prominently featured. Iran and China already trade in yuan and rials, so settlements between Iran and China in a non-SWIFT mechanism will be a given. > > What happened to Iran is a classic example of SWIFT becoming hostage of imperial political manipulation. Iranian banks were expelled from SWIFT in 2012, because of pressure from the usual suspects. In 2016, access was restored as part of the JCPOA, clinched in 2015. Yet in 2018, under the Trump administration, Iran was once again cut off from SWIFT. > > None of that will ever happen with Iran joining the new Russia-China mechanism. > > And that leads us to the interconnection of China?s BRI expansion in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. The reconstruction of Syria may be largely financed via the non-SWIFT mechanism. Same for China buying Iraqi energy. Same for the reconstruction of a Yemen possibly hosting a Chinese-owned port, part of the ?string of pearls.? > Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Israel may remain in the US financial sphere of influence, or lack thereof. And even if there is no BRICS nation anchoring West Asia, and no regional integration economic agreement on the horizon, the role of the economic integrator is bound to be eventually played by China. > > China will play a similar role to Brazil anchoring MERCOSUR, Russia anchoring the EAEU and South Africa anchoring the SADC/SACU. > > Both BRI and the EAEU will get a tremendous boost by bypassing SWIFT. You simply can?t go multipolar if you trade using (devalued) imperial legal tender. > > BRI, EAEU and those interlocking economic development agreements, combined with digital technology, will be integrating billions of people in the Global South. > > Think of a possible, auspicious future spelling out cheap telecom delivering financial services and world market access, in a non-dollar environment, to all those who have been so far cut off from a truly globalized economy. > > > Unsubscribe From This Mailing List -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Dec 19 00:13:41 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:13:41 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] "Chinese Aggression" Is Just China Responding To US Aggression Message-ID: <3E3BB9BF-0C1E-4B69-9711-CBA17458757A@newsfromneptune.com> https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/chinese-aggression-is-just-china?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email From jbn at forestfield.org Sun Dec 19 21:59:33 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:59:33 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Those "surgical" air & drone strikes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <482dd07c-ddc7-c043-8ce5-aa3787071abe@forestfield.org> Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss wrote: > https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/18/us/airstrikes-pentagon-records-civilian-deaths.html Thanks for pointing us to this. It's nice to see establishment media report on this (albeit far too rarely; kind of like how corporate comic John Oliver did a one-off episode of "Last Week Tonight" about drone war in https://youtube.com/watch?v=K4NRJoCNHIs about 7 years ago). It also would have been nice of the NYT to mention why Daniel Hale went to prison (see https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/27/drone-whistleblower-daniel-hale-sentenced-45-months-prison-exposing-us-war-crimes for info on this). Hale is a drone whistleblower. That NYT article doesn't mention Hale by name. Information on what happened to Hale would help explain why "The only official accounting of that promise is the hidden Pentagon documents.". How many people will remember this when the next Tulsi Gabbard comes along? That person could get also credit for being called a "peace candidate" and "anti-war" while endorsing drone strikes just like Gabbard did. Gabbard very clearly endorsed drone strikes when she did an interview with The Intercept in January 2018 (see and hear https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ starting around 28m43s into the recording), including her use of the pro-war propaganda "surgical strikes": > Jeremy Scahill: I?m wondering what your position, I know that in the past you have > said that you favor a small footprint approach with strike forces and limited use > of weaponized drones. Is that still your position that you think that?s the ? to > the extent that you believe the U.S. military should be used around the world for > counterterrorism, is that still your position? > > Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: Well, when we?re dealing with the unconventional threat of > terrorist groups like ISIS, al Qaeda and some of these other groups that are > affiliated with them, we should not be using basically what has been and continues > to be the current policy of these mass mobilization of troops, these long > occupations and trillions of dollars going in, really abusing the Authorization to > Use Military Force and taking action that expands far beyond the legal limitations > of those current AUMFs. > > So, with these terrorist cells, for example, yes, I do still believe that the > right approach to take is these quick strike forces, surgical strikes, in and out, > very quickly, no long-term deployment, no long-term occupation to be able to get > rid of the threat that exists and then get out and the very limited use of drones > in those situations where our military is not able to get in without creating an > unacceptable level of risk, and where you can make sure that you?re not causing, > you know, a large amount of civilian casualties. I wrote more about this in https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/02/13/is-tulsi-gabbard-really-anti-war-no-shes-pro-drone-and-for-surgical-strikes/ Far better insight came from Heather Linebaugh. Linebaugh served in the United States Air Force from 2009 until March 2012. Her bio in The Guardian says she worked in intelligence as an imagery analyst and geo-spatial analyst for the drone program during the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Two years before Rep. Gabbard said the above Heather Linebaugh said the following in the "National Bird" documentary: > Hearing politicians speak about drones being precision weapons, being able to make > 'surgical strikes', to me it's completely ridiculous, completely ludicrous to even > make those statements. It's as flawed as it can be with those people operating it > from across the world. If they really think they can send a bomb through a window > of a compound and hit one militant then why are we seeing so many civilians die of > collateral damage? I'd like to ask those politicians have they not been notified > of that? Do they not know what's going on in their own war that they're > controlling? "National Bird" also features Daniel Hale. You can see a clip of Hale & Linebaugh in "National Bird" in https://youtube.com/watch?v=1T0k110d6W4 . I recommend watching the entire documentary. Linebaugh is also the author of: "I worked on the US drone program. The public should know what really goes on" in https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/29/drones-us-military From jbn at forestfield.org Sun Dec 19 22:53:51 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 16:53:51 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Those "surgical" air & drone strikes In-Reply-To: <482dd07c-ddc7-c043-8ce5-aa3787071abe@forestfield.org> References: <482dd07c-ddc7-c043-8ce5-aa3787071abe@forestfield.org> Message-ID: <1074d789-814e-d005-1f5d-1577a4210b82@forestfield.org> I wrote: > Two years before Rep. Gabbard said the above Heather Linebaugh said the following > in the "National Bird" documentary: > > "Hearing politicians speak about drones being precision weapons, being able to > make 'surgical strikes', to me it's completely ridiculous, completely ludicrous to > even make those statements. It's as flawed as it can be with those people > operating it from across the world. If they really think they can send a bomb > through a window of a compound and hit one militant then why are we seeing so many > civilians die of collateral damage? I'd like to ask those politicians have they > not been notified of that? Do they not know what's going on in their own war that > they're controlling?" Following my own advice to post sources and so that you know I'm not making this up, hear Heather Linebaugh say this in "National Bird" in https://youtube.com/watch?v=2xF4HILHpzs starting around 7m4s. It looks like someone has uploaded the entire documentary in segments. So for however long, you can see PBS' "Independent Lens" airing of "National Bird" by watching the following videos in this order: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1T0k110d6W4 https://youtube.com/watch?v=2xF4HILHpzs https://youtube.com/watch?v=R0u46nJk48c https://youtube.com/watch?v=7_Hzr0pMJAU https://youtube.com/watch?v=WJ2U3lnfQsA https://youtube.com/watch?v=zGBcAS0lY4s It seems to me that any party with drones can use drones to foment the kind of war Tulsi Gabbard said she was against (regime change war). And the reality of drone war is that it kills (by far) more innocent civilians than targets (not to endorse the notion that the targets are reasonably or ethically arrived at). So Gabbard's objection to regime change war is not to be taken seriously. Put differently, to quote the words of Heather Linebaugh, any claim of objecting to war made while supporting drone war is "completely ridiculous, completely ludicrous" and "as flawed as it can be". From mkb3 at icloud.com Tue Dec 21 02:57:25 2021 From: mkb3 at icloud.com (Morton K. Brussel) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:57:25 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] US-Russia security matters. Analysis Message-ID: Cogent! https://original.antiwar.com/Gilbert_Doctorow/2021/12/19/a-surprise-russian-ultimatum-new-draft-treaties-to-roll-back-nato/ Alarming. By Gilbert Doctorow How will the US respond, or not, to Russia?s demands? A conflict is not inconceivable along the borders of Russia, or even further field. A lurking disaster everyone should be ttentive to, but no one in our major media is. ?mkb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Fri Dec 24 22:59:15 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 16:59:15 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Jimmy Dore's RFK Jr. interview covers establishment-friendly media, an issue which adversely affects anti-war coverage too Message-ID: <97badb49-9ff9-9021-c2e8-cf1fd170e548@forestfield.org> Consider how many more friends we have when we talk about war conspiracies that have backing. Some of those friends with whom we can commiserate and organize are those challenging the validity of the COVID-19 narrative we've been told. Jimmy Dore interviews RFK Jr. about his new book "The Real Anthony Fauci" https://rumble.com/vr9t7m-uncensored-rfk-jr.-tells-shocking-truth-about-anthony-fauci.html You won't find this interview on YouTube, per Jimmy Dore, because YouTube won't let him mention some of the material contained within the interview such as published studies which challenge the Big Pharma-driven narrative on how to handle COVID-19. Jimmy Dore has made it clear what he is told to say from YouTube and that he intends to make Rumble the home of his show, probably because of the YouTube censorship. Around 34m into the above recording they got into discussing media misinformation. > Jimmy Dore: [...] We all remember the story, because I reported it here, about how > Rolling Stone had a dubious article that got picked up ubiquitously in the news > media and it was how about in Oklahoma people couldn't get treatment in their > emergency rooms because there were so many people showing up that were sick from > taking ivermectin -- the horse prescription, ivermectin, so there's a human > version, and there's a - just like there's a human version of penicillin -- so > they launch this fake story and it got picked up by everybody and it turned out it > was a completely bogus story. So how does something like this get suppressed > [incomprehensible] How would you explain -- I understand how it happens -- but how > would you explain to somebody how studies like that are printed and published at > the NIH can still get suppressed ubiquitously? > > RFK Jr.: Well, you know, I don't, like, go off into too big of a tangent but there > is one. Two articles this week in The Defender[1] which is Children Health Defense's > newsletter, that specifically showed how the intelligence agencies now are > manipulating three journals specifically: one The Daily KOS, two The Daily Beast, > and three Rolling Stone with carefully planted individuals[2]. And this article by > Dick Russell [who] has been writing about the CIA for his entire career. I urge > people to go and read it and it talks specifically about that article by Rolling > Stone which was just a fraud. It was a complete fraud. What it said was that there > were so many ivermectin people who were dying from ivermectin poisoning in > Oklahoma hospitals and gunshot victims were unable to get medical care. And it > showed a picture, this is how ridiculous this story is, it showed a picture of a > long line of mainly black alleged gunshot victims who are waiting outside of this > hospital, the ivermectin poisoning victims to clear a few beds so that some of > these poor gunshot victims could get in. So if you even think about this -- where > did all these gunshot victims, there's 40 people in that line, why didn't I hear > of this massacre that happened in Oklahoma where all these gunshot casualties were > about. What they found later is that Rolling Stone had taken a stock of a group of > people lined up to take the vaccine four months earlier and they had relabeled it > with a caption that said 'Gunshot victims waiting for nonexistent beds in > hospitals'. [...] The hospital came forward itself and said 'we haven't seen a > single poisoning victim from ivermectin in the entire state of Oklahoma'. This is > just rank fraud. Rolling Stone never retracted it. And it spread all across the > globe, as you say, it was in Newsweek, USA Today, all of the major -- NBC, ABC, > CBS -- [...] Rachel Maddow did a major story on it. Nobody ever apologized. It > just is part of this extraordinary propaganda campaign that feels very very like > all of us are being manipulated. And if you read the last chapter of my book, > "Germ Games", it tells how that happened to be in America; how did this vast > lockstep manipulation occur all the liberal democracies pivoted in an instant and > performed a coup d'etat against democracy and constitutional governance and > constitutional rights across the globe. It was baffling to most people but if you > read that chapter of the book you'll understand how they did it. [1] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/ [2] A two-part series: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cia-liberal-media-outlets-the-real-anthony-fauci/ and https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/the-daily-beast-ties-to-cia/ The above was followed by discussion of merely questioning the information we're being given. I recommend watching the entire video. It seems to me that this media influence adversely affects a number of important topics including something apropos here on peace-discuss -- anti-war discussion. Why is it bad to remind people that the establishment media news is sponsored by weapons manufacturers (General Electric, Boeing, etc.) and thus clearly benefit from more war? Recently we've seen those who question the basis for, say, the US/UK/French coordinated attack on Douma called "conspiracy theorists" when they're actually well backed by evidence from the OPCW which was suppressed in the OPCW's final report after an OPCW leadership change. Perhaps people like Aaron Mat? should be called conspiracy analysts since what they're saying appears to be the analysis of a real conspiracy. Some topics are simply forbidden to discuss on YouTube. Primo Radical is another interviewer who distributes his work on YouTube. YouTube recently removed his interview with Cynthia McKinney because (per https://twitter.com/PrimoRadical/status/1474133654259613712) she "responded to a patron question asking whether or not there were irregularities in the Georgia vote count during the 2020 election" which YouTube claimed violated their "misinformation policy" because "[c]ontent that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of the U.S. 2020 presidential election is not allowed on YouTube". This discussion (and how you can't host a discussion like this on some services) also illustrates why people are shifting away from YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. RT DE (German-language RT) has been censored off of YouTube on questionable grounds. That fight continues, but RT has published some articles on the subject: https://www.rt.com/russia/544027-rt-response-german-channel-ban/ Sadly, some of them are shifting to other single points of censorship by choosing one other video hosting site. Instead they should distribute their videos widely, license their videos to share, and recognize that the works that stick around are those that are easily copied to multiple points of distribution. There's nothing special about Rokfin or Rumble. We can't have reasonable discussion on how well those sites withstand censorship until they are tested. If the US and UK government retarget their censorship campaign on Rokfin or Rumble we'll see how they react. So far we know that Alphabet (which owns Google, YouTube), Twitter, and Meta (formerly Facebook) have failed to stand up to governmental inquiries. A natural question (which site should I pick?) misses a larger more important point: choosing among brands is choosing a new master. Having masters is not freedom. From r-szoke at illinois.edu Sat Dec 25 04:15:05 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 04:15:05 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Bertrand Russell on authority & the future Message-ID: Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "The liberal attitude does not say that you should oppose authority. It says only that you should be free to oppose authority, which is quite a different thing. The essence of the liberal outlook in the intellectual sphere is a belief that unbiased discussion is a useful thing and that men should be free to question anything if they can support their questioning by solid arguments. The opposite view, which is maintained by those who cannot be called liberals, is that the truth is already known, and that to question it is necessarily subversive." ? Bertrand Russell, The Best Answer to Fanaticism--Liberalism; Its calm search for truth, viewed as dangerous in many places, remains the hope of humanity (16 December 1951), The New York Times Magazine, p. 183 // Bertrand Russell?s message to people living 1,000 years in the future BBC program Face-to-Face (1959): > Interviewer John Freeman BBC: Suppose, Lord Russell, this film would be looked at by our descendants, like a Dead Sea scroll in a thousand years? time. What would you think it?s worth telling that generation about the life you?ve lived and the lessons you?ve learned from it? > Bertrand Russell: I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. > The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don?t like. We can only live together in that way. And if we are to live together and not die together, we should learn the kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet. === From r-szoke at illinois.edu Sat Dec 25 04:15:05 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 04:15:05 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Bertrand Russell on authority & the future Message-ID: Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "The liberal attitude does not say that you should oppose authority. It says only that you should be free to oppose authority, which is quite a different thing. The essence of the liberal outlook in the intellectual sphere is a belief that unbiased discussion is a useful thing and that men should be free to question anything if they can support their questioning by solid arguments. The opposite view, which is maintained by those who cannot be called liberals, is that the truth is already known, and that to question it is necessarily subversive." ? Bertrand Russell, The Best Answer to Fanaticism--Liberalism; Its calm search for truth, viewed as dangerous in many places, remains the hope of humanity (16 December 1951), The New York Times Magazine, p. 183 // Bertrand Russell?s message to people living 1,000 years in the future BBC program Face-to-Face (1959): > Interviewer John Freeman BBC: Suppose, Lord Russell, this film would be looked at by our descendants, like a Dead Sea scroll in a thousand years? time. What would you think it?s worth telling that generation about the life you?ve lived and the lessons you?ve learned from it? > Bertrand Russell: I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this: When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed. But look only, and solely, at what are the facts. > The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple. I should say love is wise, hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don?t like. We can only live together in that way. And if we are to live together and not die together, we should learn the kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet. === From r-szoke at illinois.edu Mon Dec 27 05:02:04 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:02:04 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Joan Didion, 1934-2021 Message-ID: Joan Didion (Dec. 5, 1934?Dec. 23, 2021) I open another issue of _Daedalus_, this one devoted to the concept of ?happiness.? One piece on happiness, the joint work of Robert Biswas-Diener of the University of Oregon and Ed Diener and Maya Tamir of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, noted that although ?research has shown that people can adapt to a wide range of good and bad life events in less than two months,? there remained ?some events to which people are slow or unable to adapt completely.? Unemployment was one such event. ?We also find,? the authors added, ?that it takes the average widow many years after her spouse?s death to regain her former level of life satisfaction.? Was I ?the average widow?? What in fact would have been my ?former level of life satisfaction?? => _The Year of Magical Thinking_ (Knopf, 2005, pages 169-170) From r-szoke at illinois.edu Mon Dec 27 05:02:04 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:02:04 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Joan Didion, 1934-2021 Message-ID: Joan Didion (Dec. 5, 1934?Dec. 23, 2021) I open another issue of _Daedalus_, this one devoted to the concept of ?happiness.? One piece on happiness, the joint work of Robert Biswas-Diener of the University of Oregon and Ed Diener and Maya Tamir of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, noted that although ?research has shown that people can adapt to a wide range of good and bad life events in less than two months,? there remained ?some events to which people are slow or unable to adapt completely.? Unemployment was one such event. ?We also find,? the authors added, ?that it takes the average widow many years after her spouse?s death to regain her former level of life satisfaction.? Was I ?the average widow?? What in fact would have been my ?former level of life satisfaction?? => _The Year of Magical Thinking_ (Knopf, 2005, pages 169-170) From kmedina67 at gmail.com Mon Dec 27 17:15:22 2021 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:15:22 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Joan Didion, 1934-2021 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <61c9f4af.1c69fb81.e2d8a.a218@mx.google.com> Hi Ron,I am not sure i see why this (potential) conversation starter was sent to peace-discuss, but, sure, i will push the topic toward anti-war topics.*Trauma -- like witnessing war, witnessing people dying, experiencing physical violence themselves (including sexual assault)*Tools -- [i will leave this blank so that perhaps we can together build a list of tools that help us be resilient]*Support -- social support, access to information, access to mental health care, ...I have not read deeply on the topic of recovery. But i have observed a? significant number of people longitudinally and have observed that their ability to "adapt" is not a fixed ability.?For instance, a teenager has very few tools in their toolbox at the point in their life that they are growing away from their parents. If something life-changing happens during these years, their ability to "adapt" or recover is significantly slowed. Unless they have infrastructure (support people other than their parents, ready access to information, and professional help) in their lives that can help them find and develop the tools, they are very likely to latch on to anything else that comes their way. The life preservers that they latch on to can often take them farther away from long-term skill building.?Most of the people we send off to war are under the age of 25. "The rational part of a teen?s brain isn?t fully developed and won?t be until age 25 or so."?* "recent research has found that?adult and teen brains work differently. Adults think with the prefrontal cortex, the brain?s rational part. This is the part of the brain that responds to situations with good judgment and an awareness of long-term consequences. Teens process information with the amygdala. This is the emotional part."I maintain that war affects those who witness it in ways that may distract their abilities to develop life skills and can completely disable their ability to function in social situations (like living, working, and relating with other humans).Tangent: If a teen trusts you with a problem they are experiencing,"Remind [the person] that they ARE resilient and competent. Because they?re so focused in the moment, teens have trouble seeing that they can play a part in changing bad situations. It can help to remind them of times in the past that they thought would be devastating but turned out for the best."?References quoted:* "Understanding the Teen Brain"Article in the Health Encyclopedia, University of Rochester Medical Centerhttps://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=3051- Karen Medina"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" - Mark Twain -------- Original message --------From: "Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss" Date: 12/26/21 23:02 (GMT-06:00) To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net, peace-discuss Cc: Rebecca Privin , Bill Strutz Subject: [Peace-discuss] Joan Didion, 1934-2021 Joan Didion (Dec. 5, 1934?Dec. 23, 2021)I open another issue of _Daedalus_, this one devoted to the concept of ?happiness.?? One piece on happiness, the joint work of Robert Biswas-Diener of the University of Oregon and Ed Diener and Maya Tamir of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, noted that although ?research has shown that people can adapt to a wide range of good and bad life events in less than two months,? there remained ?some events to which people are slow or unable to adapt completely.?? Unemployment was one such event.? ?We also find,?? the authors added, ?that it takes the average widow many years after her spouse?s death to regain her former level of life satisfaction.??? ???? Was I ?the average widow??? What in fact would have been my ?former level of life satisfaction??? =>? _The Year of Magical Thinking_ (Knopf, 2005, pages 169-170)?? _______________________________________________Peace-discuss mailing listPeace-discuss at lists.chambana.nethttps://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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One piece on happiness, the joint work of Robert Biswas-Diener of the University of Oregon and Ed Diener and Maya Tamir of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, noted that although ?research has shown that people can adapt to a wide range of good and bad life events in less than two months,? there remained ?some events to which people are slow or unable to adapt completely.?? Unemployment was one such event.? ?We also find,?? the authors added, ?that it takes the average widow many years after her spouse?s death to regain her former level of life satisfaction.?? ? ? Was I ?the average widow??? What in fact would have been my ?former level of life satisfaction??? =>? _The Year of Magical Thinking_ (Knopf, 2005, pages 169-170)? _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From r-szoke at illinois.edu Tue Dec 28 04:32:02 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:32:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) Message-ID: Edward Osborne Wilson (6/10/1929?12/26/2021) > Book: _On Human Nature_ (Bantam Books pb, 1978, 272 pages) Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1979 In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior. [ Note: The anthropological monograph on the Yanomamo tribe of the Amazonian forest by Napoleon Chagnon that Wilson cites as supporting evidence (in chapter 5, on ?Aggression?) is another episode in the ?naked ape? controversy & has been bitterly disputed by other social scientists. ? RSz. ] > Book: _The Meaning of Human Existence_ (Liveright pb, 2014, 208 pages) How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize?winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence?from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends. Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way. Once criticized for a purely mechanistic view of human life and an overreliance on genetic predetermination, Wilson presents in The Meaning of Human Existence his most expansive and advanced theories on the sovereignty of human life, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet's sonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "The Riddle of the Human Species," "Free Will," or "Religion"; warning of "The Collapse of Biodiversity"; or even creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. The human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham. ? from the blurbs on Amazon From r-szoke at illinois.edu Tue Dec 28 04:32:02 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 04:32:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) Message-ID: Edward Osborne Wilson (6/10/1929?12/26/2021) > Book: _On Human Nature_ (Bantam Books pb, 1978, 272 pages) Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1979 In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior. [ Note: The anthropological monograph on the Yanomamo tribe of the Amazonian forest by Napoleon Chagnon that Wilson cites as supporting evidence (in chapter 5, on ?Aggression?) is another episode in the ?naked ape? controversy & has been bitterly disputed by other social scientists. ? RSz. ] > Book: _The Meaning of Human Existence_ (Liveright pb, 2014, 208 pages) How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize?winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence?from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends. Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way. Once criticized for a purely mechanistic view of human life and an overreliance on genetic predetermination, Wilson presents in The Meaning of Human Existence his most expansive and advanced theories on the sovereignty of human life, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet's sonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "The Riddle of the Human Species," "Free Will," or "Religion"; warning of "The Collapse of Biodiversity"; or even creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. The human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham. ? from the blurbs on Amazon From moboct1 at aim.com Tue Dec 28 15:30:19 2021 From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 15:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Ron Szoke: Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <755613192.1113288.1640705419333@mail.yahoo.com> Wilson made quite a leap - from ants to humans... mo'b -----Original Message----- From: Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net ; peace-discuss Cc: Rebecca Privin ; Bill Strutz Sent: Mon, Dec 27, 2021 10:32 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) Edward Osborne Wilson? (6/10/1929?12/26/2021)? > Book:? _On Human Nature_? (Bantam Books pb, 1978, 272 pages)? Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 1979? ??? In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior. ? ? [ Note: The anthropological monograph on the Yanomamo tribe of the Amazonian forest by Napoleon Chagnon that Wilson cites as supporting evidence (in chapter 5, on ?Aggression?)? is another episode in the ?naked ape? controversy & has been bitterly disputed by other social scientists.? ? RSz. ]? > Book:? _The Meaning of Human Existence_ (Liveright pb, 2014, 208 pages) ? ? How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" ? ? ? In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize?winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence?from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends. Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way. ? ? Once criticized for a purely mechanistic view of human life and an overreliance on genetic predetermination, Wilson presents in The Meaning of Human Existence his most expansive and advanced theories on the sovereignty of human life, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet's sonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "The Riddle of the Human Species," "Free Will," or "Religion"; warning of "The Collapse of Biodiversity"; or even creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. ? ? The human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham. ??? ??? ? from the blurbs on Amazon _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Thu Dec 30 03:46:07 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 21:46:07 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. One program is listed in both sets of videos because it's applicable to all of these shows. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== CGTN https://youtube.com/watch?v=krpIvj-_3mI -- (7m 8s) The U.S. War 'Business' https://youtube.com/watch?v=MdrznPMpdwI -- (28m 48s) Why is the United States constantly going to war? https://youtube.com/watch?v=CNjqppyesUE -- (45m 16s) Ex-Marine exposes U.S. govt's secret political interference in Asia RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mua9wksjnmY -- (28m 51s) Slow-motion execution of Julian Assange MintPressNews https://youtube.com/watch?v=kCGsDouRiWA -- (40m 6s) American Gulag: Inside the U.S.? Massive Prison System, with Chris Hedges Labor's World View TV ================================================== MintPressNews https://youtube.com/watch?v=kCGsDouRiWA -- (40m 6s) American Gulag: Inside the U.S.? Massive Prison System, with Chris Hedges laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=u0BjYZeEmpQ -- (21m 38s) The Union Busting War Against South African Clover Workers By Israeli Billionaire Family https://youtube.com/watch?v=BMmoNSci5WQ -- (8m 45s) "They want us ?working ourselves to death" Kellogg Battle Creek BCTGM Local 3G Rally Workers Speak More Perfect Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=ESmzpZO1PXQ -- (3m 1s) 2021: The Year Of The Worker https://youtube.com/watch?v=SPVMfbykmQk -- (5m 52s) Warrior Met Coal Miners Spend Christmas On Strike https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_EVnhraAw -- (5m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Two Amazon Workers Died After Being Denied Sick Leave At Bessemer, AL Warehouse From r-szoke at illinois.edu Thu Dec 30 06:35:04 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:35:04 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) Message-ID: Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 ? 26 December 2021) . . . was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology. Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born of mixed Xhosa and Motswana heritage to a poor family in Klerksdorp, South Africa. Entering adulthood, he trained as a teacher and married Nomalizo Leah Shenxane in 1955, with whom he had four children, including Mpho Tutu van Furth. In 1960, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and in 1962, he moved to the United Kingdom to study theology at King's College London. In 1966 he returned to Africa, teaching at the Federal Theological Seminary in South Africa, and then the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. In 1972, he became the Theological Education Fund's director for Africa, a position based in London but necessitating regular tours of the African continent. Back in southern Africa in 1975, he served first as dean of St Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg and then as Bishop of Lesotho. ? In 1985, Tutu became Bishop of Johannesburg and in 1986 the Archbishop of Cape Town, the most senior position in southern Africa's Anglican hierarchy. In this position, he emphasised a consensus-building model of leadership and oversaw the introduction of female priests. Also in 1986, he became president of the All Africa Conference of Churches, resulting in further tours of the continent. After President F. W. de Klerk released the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 and the pair led negotiations to end apartheid and introduce multi-racial democracy, Tutu assisted as a mediator between rival black factions. After the 1994 general election resulted in a coalition government headed by Mandela, the latter selected Tutu to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses committed by both pro and anti-apartheid groups. Following apartheid's fall, Tutu campaigned for gay rights and spoke out on a wide range of subjects, among them his support of Palestinians in the Israeli?Palestinian conflict (alongside his simultaneous belief in Israel's right to exist), his opposition to the Iraq War, and his criticism of South African presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. In 2010, he retired from public life. As Tutu rose to prominence in the 1970s, white conservatives who supported apartheid despised him, while many white liberals regarded him as too radical; many black radicals accused him of being too moderate and focused on cultivating white goodwill, while Marxist?Leninists criticised his anti-communist stance. He was popular among South Africa's black majority and was internationally praised for his work involving anti-apartheid activism, resulting in him receiving a range of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize. He also compiled several books of his speeches and sermons. ? from Wikipedia > book: The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World (Harper pb, $11.39) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa?s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness?helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation. Tutu's role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling one's story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu's wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world. ? from the blurb on Amazon From r-szoke at illinois.edu Thu Dec 30 06:35:04 2021 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:35:04 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) Message-ID: Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 ? 26 December 2021) . . . was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology. Desmond Mpilo Tutu was born of mixed Xhosa and Motswana heritage to a poor family in Klerksdorp, South Africa. Entering adulthood, he trained as a teacher and married Nomalizo Leah Shenxane in 1955, with whom he had four children, including Mpho Tutu van Furth. In 1960, he was ordained as an Anglican priest and in 1962, he moved to the United Kingdom to study theology at King's College London. In 1966 he returned to Africa, teaching at the Federal Theological Seminary in South Africa, and then the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. In 1972, he became the Theological Education Fund's director for Africa, a position based in London but necessitating regular tours of the African continent. Back in southern Africa in 1975, he served first as dean of St Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg and then as Bishop of Lesotho. ? In 1985, Tutu became Bishop of Johannesburg and in 1986 the Archbishop of Cape Town, the most senior position in southern Africa's Anglican hierarchy. In this position, he emphasised a consensus-building model of leadership and oversaw the introduction of female priests. Also in 1986, he became president of the All Africa Conference of Churches, resulting in further tours of the continent. After President F. W. de Klerk released the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 and the pair led negotiations to end apartheid and introduce multi-racial democracy, Tutu assisted as a mediator between rival black factions. After the 1994 general election resulted in a coalition government headed by Mandela, the latter selected Tutu to chair the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses committed by both pro and anti-apartheid groups. Following apartheid's fall, Tutu campaigned for gay rights and spoke out on a wide range of subjects, among them his support of Palestinians in the Israeli?Palestinian conflict (alongside his simultaneous belief in Israel's right to exist), his opposition to the Iraq War, and his criticism of South African presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. In 2010, he retired from public life. As Tutu rose to prominence in the 1970s, white conservatives who supported apartheid despised him, while many white liberals regarded him as too radical; many black radicals accused him of being too moderate and focused on cultivating white goodwill, while Marxist?Leninists criticised his anti-communist stance. He was popular among South Africa's black majority and was internationally praised for his work involving anti-apartheid activism, resulting in him receiving a range of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize. He also compiled several books of his speeches and sermons. ? from Wikipedia > book: The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World (Harper pb, $11.39) Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa?s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness?helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation. Tutu's role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling one's story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu's wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world. ? from the blurb on Amazon