From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Mar  2 14:02:33 2021
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 08:02:33 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Jimmy Dore on how "Joe Biden is the
 terrorist in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, the Sudan,
 Venezuela. We are the terrorists. FYI."
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J.B. 

Here is another Jimmy Dore program with Max Blumenthal discussing Dr. Cornel West, and the "real reason Harvard won?t give him tenure.? I didn?t note any profanity so perhaps it can be used by UPTV? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8-xpLxpIg


> On Feb 28, 2021, at 13:31, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks J.B., these VDO?s may not be played on UPTV, but they can be posted on FB. :)
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 28, 2021, at 13:10, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Recent Jimmy Dore videos worth your time:
>> 
>> "CAUGHT: BBC/Reuters Paid To Do Government Propaganda"
>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8mycEVgGQ
>> 
>> "Biden Betrays Working People Again -- Backtracks $15 Minimum Wage"
>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRP6xPqPWGA
>> 
>> "Twitter Censoring Foreign Policy Criticism w/Max Blumenthal"
>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=yI4AuWlO9iA
>> 
>> "Biden Does Air Strikes Before Relief Checks!"
>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=10w4MhIEr7Q
>> 
>> 
>> From this last link: Even after the Syrian air strikes which killed "at least 22 people" (according to the BBC) and Secretary of War (oops, "Defense") Lloyd J. Austin (our man from the Board of Directors at Raytheon where he still is and just got paid $1.7 million from Raytheon) told us: "we're confident in the target we went after, we know what we hit We're confident that target was being used by the same Shia militia that conducted the strikes" and these strikes were "very deliberate".
>> 
>> Jen Psaki (Pres. Joe Biden's current press secretary) questioned the 2017 Syrian strikes under Trump asking "Also what is the legal authority for strikes?", doesn't challenge the recent anti-Syrian strikes. Commentator David French comparably claimed Trump's Syrian strikes were "Unconstitutional and imprudent. Trump's Syria policy is a dangerous mess." but Biden's Syrian strikes are "Good. Targeting out troops should carry a consequence.". Lying at the behest of the establishment carries no punishments.
>> 
>> Sadly, none of these videos can be played on UPTV because of some 'foul' language not killing innocents abroad in Syria and denying people $2,000 COVID "relief" checks despite promises to the contrary, or denying a federal minimum wage hike.
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From moboct1 at aim.com  Tue Mar  2 21:21:11 2021
From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien)
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2021 21:21:11 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Jimmy Dore on how "Joe Biden is the terrorist
 in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, the Sudan,
 Venezuela. We are the terrorists. FYI."
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Karen: Thanks for sharing this.? Yes, I remember Max from the Nation Mag in the 2000s tiptoeing around so as not to offend Katrina or Obama.? But?I was only a subscriber and not a journalist so I refused to take it when Katrina vanden Heuvel admonished Nation readers and all good "Liberals" in 2008 if they did not support Obama they couldn't be considered serious progressives.? That was the last time I cancelled my subscription to the Nation.? I know I missed some good reporting since from journalists such as Blumenthal, so I re-subscribed to the Nation again last year and am happy to report that the tone of political reporting has (mostly) vastly improved and I haven't been insulted by any editor since trying to label me for my political preference, which does not include any Democrats (if I can help it).? And? shame on Harvard for not honoring Cornel West with tenure which he richly deserves, for punitive reasons because of his integrity in support of Palestinians and BDS, offending Harvard's most lucrative donors (and countless state laws, thanks to AIPAC) which I suppose are his most egregious offenses.??
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Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Jimmy Dore on how "Joe Biden is the terrorist in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, the Sudan, Venezuela. We are the terrorists. FYI."

J.B. 

Here is another Jimmy Dore program with Max Blumenthal discussing Dr. Cornel West, and the "real reason Harvard won?t give him tenure.? I didn?t note any profanity so perhaps it can be used by UPTV? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8-xpLxpIg


> On Feb 28, 2021, at 13:31, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Thanks J.B., these VDO?s may not be played on UPTV, but they can be posted on FB. :)
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 28, 2021, at 13:10, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Recent Jimmy Dore videos worth your time:
>> 
>> "CAUGHT: BBC/Reuters Paid To Do Government Propaganda"
>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=eJ8mycEVgGQ
>> 
>> "Biden Betrays Working People Again -- Backtracks $15 Minimum Wage"
>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=SRP6xPqPWGA
>> 
>> "Twitter Censoring Foreign Policy Criticism w/Max Blumenthal"
>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=yI4AuWlO9iA
>> 
>> "Biden Does Air Strikes Before Relief Checks!"
>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=10w4MhIEr7Q
>> 
>> 
>> From this last link: Even after the Syrian air strikes which killed "at least 22 people" (according to the BBC) and Secretary of War (oops, "Defense") Lloyd J. Austin (our man from the Board of Directors at Raytheon where he still is and just got paid $1.7 million from Raytheon) told us: "we're confident in the target we went after, we know what we hit We're confident that target was being used by the same Shia militia that conducted the strikes" and these strikes were "very deliberate".
>> 
>> Jen Psaki (Pres. Joe Biden's current press secretary) questioned the 2017 Syrian strikes under Trump asking "Also what is the legal authority for strikes?", doesn't challenge the recent anti-Syrian strikes. Commentator David French comparably claimed Trump's Syrian strikes were "Unconstitutional and imprudent. Trump's Syria policy is a dangerous mess." but Biden's Syrian strikes are "Good. Targeting out troops should carry a consequence.". Lying at the behest of the establishment carries no punishments.
>> 
>> Sadly, none of these videos can be played on UPTV because of some 'foul' language not killing innocents abroad in Syria and denying people $2,000 COVID "relief" checks despite promises to the contrary, or denying a federal minimum wage hike.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Peace mailing list
>> Peace at lists.chambana.net
>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Sat Mar  6 02:11:32 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 20:11:32 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] UBI shown to work... again.
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Every study of a UBI I know of shows the same thing -- it works to keep people out of 
insolvency, desperation, and increases the odds the recipient will find paying work.

Here's another UBI report saying much the same thing -- 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/03/stockton-universal-basic-income/ begins:
> Residents of Stockton, Calif., who received $500 a month from a first-of-its-kind
> guaranteed-income program were more likely to find full-time jobs, be happy and
> stay healthy, according to a year-long study published Wednesday.
> 
> Supporters of universal income programs ? which provide regular, unconditional
> payments from the government to people ? say the findings should dispel common
> criticisms of the idea, such as that money with no strings attached will become a
> disincentive for people to work or will encourage them to spend it on drugs and
> alcohol.
> 
> Recipients of the monthly payments were twice as likely to gain full-time
> employment than others, according to data analysis by a pair of independent
> researchers, Stacia West of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Amy
> Castro Baker of the University of Pennsylvania. Most of the money distributed was
> spent on food or other essentials. Tobacco or alcohol made up less than 1 percent
> of tracked purchases.


So why won't the establishment use their access to power to push for a UBI? I'd guess 
that power over other people's lives is an end unto itself (much like money) and a 
very valued power. Hence those in power will pay the price to make sure there is no 
American UBI.

Don't let Rep. Tlaib's work on this fool you, the Democrats won't get you a UBI any 
more than having 2 Medicare for All bills in Congress now gets you Medicare for All 
(a consistently highly-approved plan which outranks any HMO and support for which 
spans Democrats, Republicans, and the largest political group -- Independents).

And this news comes at almost the same time as we see the Senate Democrats vote down 
a $15 minimum wage (which itself is too little too late to be a living wage by now). 
The so-called "Justice Democrats" (self-described progressives) aren't using their 
leverage to raise a finger of objection. Jimmy Dore's live on this right now with a 
video to come and covered another aspect of this in 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xfyMmEdEQ40.

From jbn at forestfield.org  Sun Mar  7 05:02:26 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2021 23:02:26 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air,
 News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV
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Here's a list of videos I just sent to Jason Liggett from UPTV to run during AWARE on 
the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV timeslots.

Thanks to Karen Aram for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq8-xpLxpIg -- Jimmy Dore 
with Max Blumenthal on why Dr. Cornel West didn't get tenure from Harvard University. 
I haven't had time to watch that in its entirety yet but if you haven't already sent 
that to Jason to run on UPTV I'll put it in my next batch after watching the full 
video. I've fallen behind in watching videos because of other concerns that take up 
all of my free time.

-J




Empire Files

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=W4hLfURevxc -- (5m 24s) "Biden's First Act Of War Hits 
3 Countries"

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=wkbtxR-pWbM -- (8m 38s) "US Kisses Saudi Crown + 
Taliban's Tet Offensive"



RT

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hSNxxWkm8bY -- (4m 27s) "US 'wasted' billions on buildings, 
vehicles in Afghanistan - report"



Democracy at Work

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wc3MToWD69Y -- (29m 46s) "Economic Update: The System 
Implodes: Amazon, Evictions, Tax Abuses, & Minimum Wages"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AzmtFP7UZS8 -- (29m 15s) "Economic Update: Why Capitalism 
Reproduces Inequality & a Solution"


The Grayzone

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mBdO1Rc9ctU -- (23m 26s) "Tulsi Gabbard calls out the US 
dirty war on Syria that Biden, aides admit to"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=36C3gmE3fWY -- (22m 25s) "State Dept. official who fled UK 
after fatal crash is US spy, attorney admits"



Moderate Rebels

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=S53knMwFKAs -- (1h 3m 10s) "Debunking US media propaganda 
against leftists in Latin America, from Venezuela to Nicaragua"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sbtxhGHF7EE -- (59m 26s) "Life in Venezuela under US 
sanctions, resisting the imperial gangsters in Washington"



Popular Resistance

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8jYOf9G8FX8 -- (27m 05s) "Sanctions Kill Toolkit Tutorial"

From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net  Thu Mar 11 14:39:17 2021
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:39:17 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Sugestions for UPTV
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News The Corporate Media Is Scared You'll See! ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

			
	
 

Here are some suggestions Jeff, for UPTV broadcast.

David J.

 

Week Of Mar 9, 2021

News The Corporate Media Is Scared You'll See!


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Democracy Now have decided to join in with the State Department?s push for a new Cold War with China ? my guest Danny Haiphong has the story on this  <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkMuu3CAMhp8m7BoBJglZsDhSO6tz1FWl7iICnhnaBCJwJsrbl3Qky5Kvv_05S_hI-TRbKsQuN9G5oYl4lAWJMLO9YJ6CN1KPXCjmjfJCd5qFMt0z4mrDYijvyLZ9XoKzFFK8-pXsevY0M_SgnBJOI9eCgxZ-0LIf6pK74HJ4i9rdB4wODb4wnykiW8yTaCsNfDTyVu04jvZMO-0zti6tV8aSezZwezXw_fePzw1-Ht9uX79YMJLLqiSEADlK2YpWD773jqs76HF0s4ZO6L6HznsQwwy2UXx9yLbscyHr_l4CLBtvX8H_Sc9YUhSqE7WrFpwt1Eak69-pxuseA50TRjsv6N8o6M3zP5zpgRFz5ewnS0b0olP9CAPvuHz_XlkBqGEU0LF6gU91KpoF0dl1qysfmP8BxPKLlQ> Moment of Clarity

The DNC are pushing a bill under the guise of expanding voting rights that would make it significantly harder for third parties to get ballot access? on  <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkNuK3DAMhp8mvgyWDxnnwheFslC67CsEx9ZkvE3sYCszpE9fpwNCoOMvfd4RLrmcds-V2OUmOne0CV91RSIs7KhYphisMCMHxYJVAYw2LNbpXhA3F1dL5UC2H_MavaOY09WvhB7YwwL4u9MIdx8G7UYpjQij1mA4N86p-S3qjhAxebT4xHLmhGy1D6K9dvJHJz6avV6v_swHHTP2Pm9XxpF_dPLj2cmfv9b9t_r7ue1fC4tWcAFcAoAUoxA99OYWhuC5ukszjn42sukPg9QhSLjN0nWKb4vo6zFXcv7PJcCKDe4Zw3d-pJoTKA2tqxW8q9QnpOvfqcXbkSKdEyY3rxjeKOjN8z-cacGEpXEOkyMLA2g1jPLGNRfv3xsrKdVtBKlZuyDkNpXsiujdtreVC5Z_YQKNFQ> Moment of Clarity

A group of academics have circulated a lie-filled open letter aimed at censoring The Grayzone?s reporting on Ecuador?s pseudo-progressive candidate Yaku P?rez ? on  <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJw1kUtuxCAMhk8z7BLFPPJYsOim14gc8CS0CURApsqcvqRRJWSM7d-2PgxmmkM89R5SZpcZ87mT9vSTVsqZIjsSxdFZzfuhAcmslhZ61TOXxmck2tCtOseD2H5MqzOYXfBXveSqZYsG04oeSKJSLQiYFCduSFpuBgA54D0UD-vIG9L0ongGT2zVS857eoiPB_8sJy80RzzfJVebsJUIbziUqxGXuTw0aGlzpro3rwz5FGL1L6vIHGhL4MTvo9op0ruImNNXo0YAgOAD5zXUfWdbaxr5FP0wmKkXCvq2FcpaAd0k8CGbbeZ1OqaU0Xxf-7CoLb6c_QpLGepBKihVJWEw5dpTvvCM5b0d3uVzJI_TSvYml2_8fyzHmTzF8i12xKyhBSXbQXSNaviNqqAVQnYDCMXKBjYUldcrkcFtLy1nir9djpx6> The Grayzone

Widespread protests were a feature of 2020, engulfing 68 nations. However, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a pro-regime-change think tank based in DC, is most preoccupied with those in China and Russia ? on  <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkU2OwyAMhU9TdonCTxJYsJjNXCMi4KbMBIiw06q3HzKVEBjbD54-e0ewlfq2R0Fi17bQ-wCb4YU7EEFlJ0JdYrBCm4ErFqwKXI-aRVzuFSC5uFuqJ7DjXPfoHcWSr34lxok9rOZiUlwb30RKKsG1mAYtpQlOS6fnz6fuDBGyBwtPqO-Sge32QXTgTX7dxHdbr9erTzHTUQHxstf7klreY8TurBtgF3yHxUe3dwlCdN091oTdUUsqBNdJgIRdKk9IkAmbWsyjMaoFLFoxCD5IzrkURoie93oOU_CDukttjF-1HLmeJjmGIPm8SndTQ9pEj-eK5PzvZYhVG9wzhp_yyFgyVyNvXa3gHVKfgS5KS7unM0d6L5DdukP4AKTPFP6RLhtkqG06YXFk-cRHNRk5D-MgPsQaYSnVbLgcWXMQSlNluwN4l4725Ab1D_30oAQ> MintPress News

	
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Welcome back to the Ledger,

Last week I spoke with several brave people who face oppression, violence, & punishment for doing the right thing. Enjoy those interviews & more below.

Keep fighting!

- Lee

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They Don't Want Us Talking About This (w/ Kit Cabello)

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Refusing The IDF (w/ Sivan Tal)

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New Bill Designed To Destroy 3rd Parties

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Facing Prison For Fighting Injustice w/ Lillian House

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Big Oil Is Really Scared! w/ Steven Donziger

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The TRUTH About China w/ Danny Haiphong

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The Topic We've Never Covered (CC Podcast #147?)

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The Secret Nuclear Fallout, & Operation Mongoose - Gov't Secrets #32

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REVEALED: Factory Farms Cook Animals Alive

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How To End Homelessness Now

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BREAKING: Jaw-Dropping Development In Malcolm X Assassination

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Coup-supporting academics spread lies to censor The Grayzone reporting exposing Ecuador?s pseudo-left candidate Yaku P?rez

The Grayzone | Ben Norton

A collection of coup-supporting academics are lobbying to censor The Grayzone?s  <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwtkd2OpCAQhZ-mudPwq3jBxdzMa5gSqpVtBcNPT5ynX9zehBxS1Ck4-bBQcI3pMmfMhdwyl-tEE_An71gKJlIzptk7w_VEmSTOSMe00sTn-ZkQD_C7KakiOeuyewvFx3D7JVcD2QyMMDAN1CocF2afXLBFi2WgT8251PzzKFTnMVg0-MZ0xYBkN1spZ36Irwf_bqtsuCa4fluvt_FoJ5xy1jbKbxmaXPCq3YkJf7sT7Naq4l8d2goupq7mzsZ6Nh_x5p6lgjEm-MR5z3o9usFZKp9CT5NtCRXTwyCUc4KNi4CHpMfK-1yXXMC-7ggkGQdv7_7ELeQYmFSsuVrDQi59wHITmVt91ODLNWOAZUf3gVU-xP_hm1cMmNpPuBmKYQNTcpjESBX9T6fRFEKOExOKtAQutqlgdkQLx9muXDH9BRn7l5Y> factual journalism exposing Ecuador?s presidential candidate Yaku P?rez. P?rez is a self-declared environmentalist from a US government-backed party who has supported numerous right-wing coups in Latin America, advanced xenophobic conspiracies, and demonized poor people in his country.

The academics have published a deceptive and distortion-laden  <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJw9kUtuhDAMhk8z2YHyhLDIopteA4XEQFpIUGJmxO2bKVWlyFJs_358dhZhSfkyRypI3mbE6wAT4VU2QIRMzgJ5DN5wPVAmiTfSM600CWWcM8Buw2Ywn0COc9qCsxhSfOdLrjqyGtFx6aTV1oFwgmo591aoWfdUd5Rzfze1pw8QHRh4Qr5SBLKZFfF4iI8H_6zvBVNrs1vDE9qUl9tTLaecUVELCdUzVR1vVfmX1T2OtP0p0gGxubdqMDXgA6ZcmjQ3X9alKcTGRt_sKeK6XU2GZ4BXlZFg7i6MMcEHzlvW6t533lE5Cz0MbtJCMd11QnkvWD8J-5B0X3hbzqmgdd-tSzvJxttn8F9pjSVFJhWrWTXgbME2Ar4BjvW_nzHgNUK00wb-Zov3gX5pjwtEyPVwfrRoWMeU7AbRU0X5DbPCF0L2AxOK1Al8qqpoNgBn96OWXCD_ALOBpsE> open letter that egregiously misrepresents my factual reporting and absurdly smears me as ?racist and misogynist,? based on absurd insinuations and outright falsehoods.

 <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJw1kUtuxCAMhk8z7BLFPPJYsOim14gc8CS0CURApsqcvqRRJWSM7d-2PgxmmkM89R5SZpcZ87mT9vSTVsqZIjsSxdFZzfuhAcmslhZ61TOXxmck2tCtOseD2H5MqzOYXfBXveSqZYsG04oeSKJSLQiYFCduSFpuBgA54D0UD-vIG9L0ongGT2zVS857eoiPB_8sJy80RzzfJVebsJUIbziUqxGXuTw0aGlzpro3rwz5FGL1L6vIHGhL4MTvo9op0ruImNNXo0YAgOAD5zXUfWdbaxr5FP0wmKkXCvq2FcpaAd0k8CGbbeZ1OqaU0Xxf-7CoLb6c_QpLGepBKihVJWEw5dpTvvCM5b0d3uVzJI_TSvYml2_8fyzHmTzF8i12xKyhBSXbQXSNaviNqqAVQnYDCMXKBjYUldcrkcFtLy1nir9djpx6> Click to read.

Govt-Linked CSIS Urges DC To Partner with Social Media Firms To ?Promote Protests Movements?

MintPress News | Alan Macleod

A  <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkcuu4yAMhp-m7BrFXHJZsDib8xqRA27KDIEInFZ5-6FTybL8y1d9dsi05XLZI1cWH7fwdZBN9K6RmKmIs1JZgrdymnvQwlvtYTKTCHV5FKIdQ7RcThLHucbgkENOn3otzSCe1hAMHpXp5TTOChzCDAOsRoIbjdb9dymePlByZOlF5cqJRLRP5qPe1M9N_jZ7v9-dq6F2uWxNYsJ4NdnCLeYV4_3IMXDb36KSmSrXOyZ_f5x8Frp72rMr6C4RrOwl9AoAlJyl7KCbRj941-uHmubZrZMyMA2DMt4rGFeFN93vm-zquVZG97dzeRfFenwF_yc_U80JtIFW1RIOK3eJ-INjaXo_U-BroYRrJP8lxV_c_9ktGyUq7Q1-QbYNjdHDrMa-AfuiaSiV0uMMyoh2gc-tK9lI5HA_2siNyj-GMpkn> new report from Washington D.C.-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) concludes that the U.S. government should work closely with social media companies to ensure that protest movements around the world result in an outcome more conducive to American interests. Along with intern Riley McCabe, the organization?s senior fellow, Samuel Brannen, argued that the White House, State Department, and intelligence community must explore deeper coordination with major tech companies that provide global media platforms: 

The U.S. government should think creatively about public-private partnerships that can expand its toolkit to defend the legitimate rights of political protestors globally, including preserving the digital rights of peaceful democratic activists while muting harmful mis- and disinformation from violent state and nonstate actors seeking to tip the balance in various countries. 

 <https://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkU2OwyAMhU9TdonCTxJYsJjNXCMi4KbMBIiw06q3HzKVEBjbD54-e0ewlfq2R0Fi17bQ-wCb4YU7EEFlJ0JdYrBCm4ErFqwKXI-aRVzuFSC5uFuqJ7DjXPfoHcWSr34lxok9rOZiUlwb30RKKsG1mAYtpQlOS6fnz6fuDBGyBwtPqO-Sge32QXTgTX7dxHdbr9erTzHTUQHxstf7klreY8TurBtgF3yHxUe3dwlCdN091oTdUUsqBNdJgIRdKk9IkAmbWsyjMaoFLFoxCD5IzrkURoie93oOU_CDukttjF-1HLmeJjmGIPm8SndTQ9pEj-eK5PzvZYhVG9wzhp_yyFgyVyNvXa3gHVKfgS5KS7unM0d6L5DdukP4AKTPFP6RLhtkqG06YXFk-cRHNRk5D-MgPsQaYSnVbLgcWXMQSlNluwN4l4725Ab1D_30oAQ> Click to read.

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From jbn at forestfield.org  Sat Mar 13 02:35:02 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:35:02 -0600
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Suggestions for UPTV
In-Reply-To: <004b01d71684$5b92f210$12b8d630$@comcast.net>
References: <004b01d71684$5b92f210$12b8d630$@comcast.net>
Message-ID: <7e4bef40-bf45-5e51-ad0f-be3e1aca618a@forestfield.org>

David Johnson wrote:
> Here are some suggestions Jeff, for UPTV broadcast.

I'll check out these videos (all of which are on the Redacted Tonight YouTube 
channel, I believe) but one problem is that Lee Camp, like Jimmy Dore, swears. We've 
been told that UPTV won't air swearing and this really cuts into what clips we can 
offer up for replaying there.

It's very unfortunate because there's quite a lot of good stories that are covered 
with right-minded principals on Redacted Tonight (the only news comedy show to do 
this), Common Censored, and Moment of Clarity. Lee Camp or his Common Censored 
co-host Eleanor Goldfield swears in all of them.

For example, remember that lawsuit ex-Bernie Sanders supporters launched against the 
DNC corporation when Sanders was "cheated"[1] out of his chance at winning that 
party's 'primary'? Lee Camp covered that on Redacted Tonight at the time this was 
current news and virtually nobody else covered this story. I found that piece and 
that lawsuit puts a lot of corporate-owned party politics into perspective, but we 
can't play Lee Camp's segments on that.

Here are some examples of what I'm referring to from the clips you listed:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IlpK4zLmpNg -- (7m 42s) Moment of Clarity: "New Bill 
Designed To Destroy 3rd Parties (Web Exclusive)"

Fucking: 5m 33s ("this is one of the most disastrous bills I've ever fuckin' seen").


https://youtube.com/watch?v=507WVduP-3I -- (41m 33s) Common Censored: "The Topic 
We've Never Covered (CC Podcast #147)"

Shit: 1m 14s ("if it did I'd be much more inclined to light shit on fire")


https://youtube.com/watch?v=kEKReJvVO4s -- (58m 38s) "The Secret Nuclear Fallout, & 
Operation Mongoose - Gov't Secrets #32"

Fucked: 1m 46s ("I got fucked by Patreon")


Just search for "[_]" (the string YouTube substitutes for certain words) in the 
subtitles if you're using a movie player that will read the subtitles generated by 
YouTube, or extract the subtitles and search the subtitles alone (I prefer youtube-dl 
to download YouTube videos, ffmpeg to let youtube-dl make Mastroka files, and then I 
extract subtitles with the mkvtoonix tools).

I'm far too much of a free speech advocate to complain to Lee Camp, Jimmy Dore, 
Eleanor Goldfield, or anyone else making shows that they should stop speaking as they 
wish. I aim my complaints at either UPTV or speech rules UPTV must comply with. I'd 
rather all shows let people say whatever they want and then host reaction shows where 
people explain their views to the contrary (such as airing Lee Camp then airing 
someone explaining why they don't agree with Lee Camp's views). I do not blame Jason 
Liggett nor do I think he made the policy there. This is also part of the reason why 
I find the Internet to be a more liberated medium than cable TV.




[1] It's difficult to argue that Sanders was cheated because:
1. He didn't react or behave as one who was cheated,

2. He ran the same campaign again afterwards and met with the same result and didn't 
say much about it then either,

3. Most important reason (which trumps the other two reasons above) is structural: As 
Bruce Spiva said in http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf 
speaking to the court in his official capacity as the DNC corporation lawyer:

> Bruce Spiva: [...] We're gonna, you know, choose our standard bearer, and we're
> gonna follow these general rules of the road, which we are voluntarily deciding,
> we could have ? and we could have voluntarily decided that, Look, we're gonna go
> into back rooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that
> way. That's not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also
> been their right [...]

I think that the late Bruce Dixon had it right in 
https://blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary -- Sen. Bernie 
Sanders is a sheepdog for the Democratic Party. This also explains why Sanders 
doesn't complain about his alleged mistreatment even when his supporters do.

From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net  Mon Mar 15 15:22:34 2021
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:22:34 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Congressional Democrats Betray Voters
Message-ID: <002d01d719af$0781fe90$1685fbb0$@comcast.net>

Published on 

Saturday, March 13, 2021

by 

 <https://www.commondreams.org> Common Dreams

Perfidy Meets Putty-Congressional Democrats Betray Voters

Where is the outcry among Democratic politicians to reverse completely the
corporate takeover of Medicare?

by

 <https://www.commondreams.org/author/ralph-nader> Ralph Nader

 
<https://commons.commondreams.org/t/perfidy-meets-putty-congressional-democr
ats-betray-voters/88996> 48 Comments

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speak
after a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speak
after a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tasos
Katopodis/Getty Images)

Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party's presidential and
Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their
pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in
charge of the House and the Senate. The Democrats' leaders are abandoning
their promises and retreating into a cowardly corporatist future.

Here is the present scene. Leading Democrats, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, have decided to spend tens of billions
of taxpayer dollars to subsidize the giant health insurance companies like
Aetna and United Healthcare to "cover recently laid-off workers and those
who purchase their own coverage," as The New York Times reported. There are
no price restraints on the gouging insurance premiums or loophole-ridden
policies. That is why giant corporate socialist insurers love the "American
Rescue Plan," which gives them socialist cash on the barrelhead. The law
lets insurers decide how and whether they pay healthcare bills with co-pays,
deductibles, or grant waivers. All these anti-consumer details are buried in
the endless and inscrutable fine print.

"A modified Obamacare, with no price ceilings, will hardly reduce the tens
of thousands of American deaths every year because people cannot afford
health insurance to get diagnosed and treated in time to prevent
fatalities."

Whatever happened to the Democrats' (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren,
Pramila Jayapal, etc.) demand for single-payer - everybody in, nobody out -
with free choice of doctors and hospitals instead of the existing cruel, and
profiteering industry for which enough is never enough? Senator Sanders
often mentioned a Yale study, published on February 15, 2020, that found:

Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any
other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance,
and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Efforts are ongoing to
repeal the Affordable Care Act which would exacerbate health-care
inequities. By contrast, a universal system, such as that proposed in the
Medicare for All Act, has the potential to transform the availability and
efficiency of American health-care services. Taking into account both the
costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through
the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal
health-care system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national
health-care expenditure, equivalent to more than $450 billion annually.."
(See the study:
<https://nader.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c5cfd22327c3214afb5955d02&i
d=456ec4b546&e=8e411e9705> Improving the Prognosis of Health Care in the
USA, February 15, 2020).

Well, House Speaker Pelosi is discouraging House Democrats from supporting
Representative Pramila Jayapal's H.R. 1384, Medicare for All Act of 2019,
the gold standard for single-payer. News reports indicate that
Representative Jayapal (D-WA) and Representative. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) will
reintroduce their Medicare for All bill next week. Speaker Pelosi is telling
Democrats in the House to focus instead on the modest expansion of Obamacare
with its corporate welfare, utter complexity and seriously inadequate
coverage. Almost eighty million Americans are presently uninsured or
underinsured - a level that will not be significantly reduced for deprived
workers by tweaking Obamacare during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A modified Obamacare, with no price ceilings, will hardly reduce the tens of
thousands of American deaths every year because people cannot afford health
insurance to get diagnosed and treated in time to prevent fatalities. The
Yale study also found that: "ensuring health-care access for all Americans
would save more than 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year
compared with the status quo." Tweaking Obamacare does little to stem the
relentless surge in healthcare prices and profits in our country, which is
unique for not placing billing ceilings on medical procedures and drugs.
This "get whatever you can" behavior by the vendors is so uncontrolled that
healthcare billing fraud and abuse is costing people one billion dollars A
DAY! Malcolm Sparrow, who is an applied mathematician at Harvard, estimates
medical billing fraud amounts to at least ten percent of all healthcare
expenses each year.

Obamacare does nothing to limit the perverse incentives of a fee-for-service
system that includes unnecessary operations, over-diagnosis, and
over-prescribing all of which increase the risks of preventable casualties.
A Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine peer-reviewed study in 2016
estimates that close to 5000 lives are lost weekly due to such "preventable
problems" just in hospitals (see:
<https://nader.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c5cfd22327c3214afb5955d02&i
d=f3c5523bf8&e=8e411e9705> Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading
Cause of Death in the U.S., May 3, 2016).

It gets worse. Year after year, the corporate Democrats, along with the
Republicans, are facilitating expanding corporate takeovers of Medicare and
Medicaid. The giant and widening attack on Medicare is called "Medicare
Advantage," which more accurately should be called "Medicare
[Dis]advantage." Our corporatized government, under both Parties, has been
allowing deceptive promotional seductions of elderly people to take Medicare
[Dis]advantage - now fully 40% of all Medicare beneficiaries - which is just
a corporate insurance plan with multiple undisclosed tripwires.

Former President Trump worsened what he inherited from the Democrats in
outsourcing Medicare. He launched something called "direct contracting"
that, "could fully turn Medicare over to private health insurers" declared
Diane Archer, former chair of Consumer Reports, in her article on March 8,
2021. Medicare Advantage premiums can be pricey. According to Kay Tillow,
Executive Director of the Nurses Professional Organization, "The Medicare
Advantage Plans are smiling all the way to the bank. In 2019 each Medicare
Advantage beneficiary cost taxpayers $11,822 while those in original
Medicare cost $10,813 each - that's over $1,000 more and over 9% more per
person for the for-profit insurers!"

Where is the outcry among Democratic politicians to reverse completely the
corporate takeover of Medicare? Last year, many Democratic candidates
pontificated about the need for single-payer health insurance, but now in
Congress, we are scarcely hearing a peep about this vital human right. Their
campaign rhetoric is just distant memory. Tragically, it is now harder than
ever for the elderly to get out of Medicare [Dis]advantage and go back to
traditional Medicare.

Millions of elderly people are deceived by televised marketing lies and
slick brochures.  The hapless Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should
investigate and end the deceptions. Congressional investigations and
hearings are long overdue. As the authoritative Dr. Fred Hyde says about the
so-called Medicare Advantage: "It's not what you pay, it's what you get."
That is, the corporate health plan works until they get sick, until "they
want their doctor and their hospital." Dr. Hyde was referring to the narrow
networks where these companies park their beneficiaries.

More astonishing in this story of the rapacious corporate takeover of
Medicare is that AARP promotes these flawed plans to their members, takes
paid ads by big insurers in AARP publications, and derives income from this
collaboration.

Imagine, over 50,000 SEIU retirees are automatically placed by their unions
in these Medicare [Dis]advantage traps without first being allowed to choose
traditional Medicare.

This whole sordid sabotage of the nineteen sixties Democrats' dream, under
President Lyndon Johnson, of taking the first step toward universal
healthcare coverage for everyone, begs for more exposes. It begs for more
clamor by the progressive Democrats in Congress who are strangely passive so
far. I'm speaking of Representatives Jayapal, Raskin, Ocasio-Cortez (AOC),
and the receding "Squad," as well as Senators Warren and Sanders. If we
can't expect these stalwarts to start the counterattack that will save
lives, save trillions of dollars over the years, focus on prevention not
just treatment, and diminish the anxiety, dread, and fear, that the citizens
of Canada and other western nations do not experience because they are
insured from birth on, who is left to defend the American people against the
arrogant health insurance corporate barons?

I'm sending this column to these self-styled progressive Democrats along
with a two-page specific critique of corporate Medicare from the Physicians
for a National Health Program (PNHP) website. PNHP's membership counts over
15,000 pro-single-payer physicians. In a comment on the PNHP site, Don
McCanne, M.D., says, "Remember, the mission of private, for-profit Medicare
Advantage insurers is to make money, whereas the mission of our traditional
Medicare program is to provide health care. We are supporting a program that
deferentially caters to the private insurers and their interests when we
should be supporting a program that is designed to take care of patients.
Those being deceived by the private Medicare Advantage marketing materials
really do not realize the bad deal they may be getting until they face the
private insurer barriers to needed care. Silver Sneakers won't take care of
that." (See:
<https://nader.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=c5cfd22327c3214afb5955d02&i
d=71d27e89e1&e=8e411e9705>
https://pnhp.org/news/russell-mokhiber-explains-why-private-medicare-advanta
ge-plans-are-a-bad-deal/)

If you care about this issue, tell your Members of Congress it is time to
pass Medicare for All represented by H.R. 1384.

 

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From stuartnlevy at gmail.com  Tue Mar 16 04:13:50 2021
From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 23:13:50 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Join the "Cold War Truth Commission" online this
 Sunday - Kathy Kelly, Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg and many others
In-Reply-To: <ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340.ad6ff43922.20210316020345.524bc81a19.bce9faf3@mail34.suw151.rsgsv.net>
References: <ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340.ad6ff43922.20210316020345.524bc81a19.bce9faf3@mail34.suw151.rsgsv.net>
Message-ID: <7408ec14-0609-502e-93bc-601fc902ea04@gmail.com>

*"Cold War Truth Commission" *online presentation *this Sunday, 3/21,
3pm - 10pm Central time,* with many speakers whose names are familiar to
readers of this list, including Kathy Kelly, Norman Solomon, Medea
Benjamin, David Swanson, Bruce Gagnon, Daniel Ellsberg, Matthew Hoh, Ann
Wright ...


On line via Zoom.?? Register here:?? *https://www.codepink.org/03212021
<https://www.codepink.org/03212021>**
<https://www.codepink.org/03212021>*

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Join the "Cold War Truth Commission" online this Sunday -
Kathy Kelly, Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg and many others
Date: 	Tue, 16 Mar 2021 02:03:53 +0000
From: 	To End All Wars <kathy.vcnv at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	kathy.vcnv at gmail.com
To: 	stuartnlevy at gmail.com



<font color="black">Join the "Cold War Truth Commission" online this
Sunday - Kathy Kelly, Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg and many
others</font> On Zoom - 3-10pm Central Standard Time.

/Kathy will give one of the testimonies at Sunday's Cold War Truth
Commission along with a lineup of magnificent speakers.? The schedule
below is Pacific Daylight Time!
- Kathy Kelly, Sarah Ball, and Sean Reynolds/



*Witness For Peace Southwest, CODEPINK & Addicted To War *invite you to
join:
*THE COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION *
A Day of Education, Testimonials & Action

Come spend the day with us while we put the COLD WAR on TRIAL!

This Sunday, March 21st
3-10p CT (1-8p PT, 4-11p ET)
FREE EVENT ON ZOOM

Register Here:***www.codepink.org/03212021*
<https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=287a1d6dcd&e=ad6ff43922>**
*For More Information Contact Rachel: **sojournerrb at yahoo.com*
<mailto:sojournerrb at yahoo.com>*? 310-971-8280 or Frank at:
**frank.dorrel at gmail.com* <mailto:frank.dorrel at gmail.com>*? 310-838-8131*

?
*1pm PDT* 	?
Rachel Bruhnke and Frank Dorrel 	*Opening Remarks*

Part I: *_Roots of U.S. Anti-Communism and Cold War_*
Blase Bonpane (written testimony) 	*The Cold War*
Ramsey Clark (Film clip) 	*Plutocracy: Wealth Runs This Country*
Jim Lafferty 	*Why We Need This Truth Commission to Expose ?Cold War? Lies*
Peter Kuznick 	*Henry Wallace and the Cold War?s beginning*
Oliver Stone (Film clip) 	*The Untold History of the United States *
Daniel Ellsberg 	*The Role of the Military-Industrial-Congressional
Complex in Starting and Maintaining the Cold War*
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (written testimony) 	*Excerpt From ?The Second
Bill of Rights? State of the Union Speech 1944*
*2pm PDT (approx) * 	?
Rossana Cambron 	*Anti-Communism As a Weapon Against Progress*
Gerald Horne (written testimony) 	*The U.S. Cold War As a Self-Inflicted
Wound*
Carol Frances Likens (recorded testimony) 	*The Red-baiting of
Abolitionists in 1850!*
Rick Fellows 	*The Pro-Fascist Nature of U.S. Anti-Communism*
Mike Feinstein 	*Is the Fear of ?Communists? a Big Deal in Europe? A
Green?s Perspective*
Jeremy Kuzmarov 	*A Sequence of Lies, The U.S Cold War, and Today*
*3pm PDT (approx) * 	?
Michael Novick 	*The White Supremacist Nature of The U.S. Cold War*
Alice Slater 	*Historical and Current U.S. Cold War Against Russia*
Norman Solomon 	*Why So Many Progressives Bought Into the ?Russiagate?
Frenzy*
Gil Scott Heron (music video) 	*Work For Peace (Military & The Monetary) *

Part II:*_The Domestic U.S. Cold War_*
Mumia Abul-Jamal & Stephen Vittoria (written testimony) 	*Citizens?
Commission to Investigate the FBI*
Julia Scoville (recorded testimony) 	*McCarthyism, Employment Fears, and
the Vilification of Solidarity*
Susan Gossman (recorded testimony) 	*What HUAC Did to My Father*
Gregory Godels 	*McCarthyism?s Effect on American workers. Case Study:
Pittsburgh, PA*
Richard Moser (recorded testimony) 	*How The American People Lost The
Cold War: U.S. Empire and the Decline of American Democracy*
Mickey Huff 	*Censoring of The Truth During The U.S. Cold War to Today*
*4pm PDT (approx) * 	?
Chris Venn 	*The Housing Crisis, Land Accumulation and Cold War Ideology*
Carley Towne 	*The Cost of U.S. Militarism in The U.S. Cold War to Today*
Bruce Gagnon 	*Weaponizing Space in The U.S. Cold War to Today*
David Vine 	*There Was Nothing ?COLD? About The Cold War*
Kathy Kelly 	*War Resistance In the 1980?s As Foundation for 1991 Iraq
War Resistance*
David Swanson 	*Combatting The Lies of The U.S. Cold War Today*
Jeff Cohen 	*U.S. News Media: The Enduring Cold War Legacy*
Ed Rampell (recorded testimony) 	*HUAC, the Hollywood Blacklist and
McCarthyism: Cold War Cancel Culture*
Peter McLaren 	*The U.S. Cold War Against Liberation Theology and The
Ascendance Of The Religious Right*
*5pm PDT (approx) * 	?
Rev. Steve Wilson 	*The Red-Baiting of Progressive Religious Values In
the U.S. Cold War*
John Hankey (recorded testimony) 	*The U.S. Cold War and The Murder of
?Communal? Values*
Gerry Condon 	*Resist War! A Message to Today?s Youth*
YOUTH VOICES 	?
Emily Dorrel (Tic Toc video) 	*A Warning on American Hypocrisy*
Mary Miller 	*My Generation*
Alma Bruhnke 	*The Pledge of Allegiance, ?God? and The U.S. Cold War*
Open Mic for Youth (2-minute testimonies) 	?
Marcy Winograd (recorded testimony) 	*The Cold War in the U.S. Classroom*
*6pm PDT (approx) * 	?
Eric Mann 	*Combatting Anti-Communism in The 1960?s*
Carl Boggs 	*The Environmental Catastrophe of Militarism and The U.S.
Cold War*
Sara Thomkksen (music video 	*Is it for Freedom? *

Part III: *_The U.S. Global Cold War, Then and Now_*
Roy Bourgeois Film Clip 	*School of Assassins: Resistance to Cold War
Training at Fort. Benning, GA*
Barbara Trent Film Links 	*Cover-Up: Behind The Iran-Contra Affair? and
?The Panama Deception*
Medea Benjamin 	*The U.S. Cold War vs. African Liberation Struggles*
Danny Sjursen, Ret. Maj. Army 	*Cold War In The Heartland: Patriotic
Dissent In The Cold War*
*7pm PDT (approx) *
Nuri Ronaghy 	*Origins of U.S.-Iranian Tension: The 1953
CIA-Orchestrated Coup Against Iran*
Peter Phillips 	*The NSA and CIA Protects Concentrated Global Capitalism*
Gail Walker 	*Lucius Walker: The Legacy of a Visionary Pastor for Peace*
Matthew Hoh 	*Afghanistan as a Pawn in the U.S. Cold War*
Ann Wright 	*Inside and Outside the Military Industrial Complex*
Jodie Evans 	*Historical and Current U.S. Cold War Against China*
*8pm PDT (approx) ?*
John Parker 	*The Cold War and Continued Conflict With Syria*
Miguel Angel 	*The Ongoing U.S. Cold War Against Honduras: Perspective
From An Exile*
Alicia Rivera 	*The U.S. Cold War Against El Salvador and Its Aftermath*
Alicia Jrapko (written testimony) 	*The Dirty War in Argentina,
Operation Condor and the U.S. Cold War*
S. Brian Willson (written testimony) 	*U.S. Involvement in Creating and
Sustaining the Cold War Against Korea*
Joel Andreas (recorded testimony) 	*The Rise of Aerial Bombardment
Throughout the Cold War*
Nadya Williams (recorded testimony) 	*CIA Intrigue, the 1965 Coup
Against Indonesia and Its Aftermath*
Rachel Bruhnke and Frank Dorrel 	*Closing Remarks*
*INVITATION TO WATCH: ?What I?ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The
War against the Third World
<https://vcnv.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340&id=1f366ee03b&e=ad6ff43922>?
- Frank Dorrel ?*
*Public Open Mic and Chat Testimonies*


*Scholars & Citizen Testimonials Will Help Us Learn The History of The
Cold War & Its Relevance To U.S. Political Corruption & To Today?s
Global Chaos.*

*IN-PERSON or PRE-RECORDED TESTIMONY on: CIA-backed Global Interventions
of The Cold War; McCarthyism and the crushing of labor and the left in
the U.S.; the Cold War Nuclear Legacy; Hollywood and the Blacklist; the
?Red Scare? of the 1930?s; and the red-baiting of social activists as
far back as 1850!*

*?I think it?s a great idea! Ideologically, it's right on?.**? Oliver
Stone on The Cold War Truth Commission*

*Hosted **by**Rachel Bruhnke **of**Witness For Peace Southwest
**and**Frank Dorrel **of**ADDICTED To WAR*

*Endorsed by**: CODEPINK, WORLD BEYOND WAR, ROOTSACTION, KPFK 90.7 FM
Radio, Veterans For Peace, CovertAction Magazine, Media Freedom
Foundation, Project Censored, PeaceWorkers, Global Network Against
Weapons and Nuclear Power In Space, School of The Americas Watch,
Harriet Tubman Center For Social Justice, Anti-Racist Action, COVID-19
Global Solidarity Coalition * *and ADDICTED To WAR *

*ZOOM Tech Support from Mary Miller and Emily Dorrel - Both of CODEPINK*

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From jbn at forestfield.org  Tue Mar 16 17:23:23 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:23:23 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air,
 News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV
Message-ID: <8cf6fba2-5e07-17c2-3dc3-907a603392d4@forestfield.org>

Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, 
and Labor's World View TV.




Shadowproof

https://youtube.com/watch?v=P_y75MJ1NPY -- (43m 39s) "Dissenter Weekly: Congolese 
Whistleblowers Face Death Sentences In Attack On Freedom Of Expression"



RT

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T3I-zvH6u84 -- (4m 23s) "Surprise, surprise | trust in 
media at all-time low in UK & U.S."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=D-ofDw0ZkRc -- (4m 49s) "US health dept ADMITS lobbying 
Brazil to REJECT Russia?s Sputnik V vaccine"



Grayzone

https://youtube.com/watch?v=olLcUxnDZ2o -- (24m 59s) "5 former OPCW officials join 
prominent voices to call out Syria cover-up"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=36C3gmE3fWY -- (22m 25s) "State Dept. official who fled 
UK after fatal crash is US spy, attorney admits"



Empire Files

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_HEs2CnVQUs -- (54m) "A Guide to US Empire in Africa: 
Neocolonial Order & AFRICOM"



Democracy at Work

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ULmC17PPO7I -- (11m 30s) "AskProfWolff: Why Use the word 
"Socialism""

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EsNTVmh_3Fg -- (3m 12s) "Capitalism rewards profit while 
people go hungry - Dr. Fraad & Julianna Forlano"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-dXVH9heO-I -- (3m 57s) "How capitalism hit home in 
freezing Texas - Dr. Harriet Fraad & Julianna Forlano"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lzZ2N6stTE4 -- (19m 22s) "Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: 
China's Economic Rise - Part 1"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3CEkvjzDtz4 -- (20m 13s) "Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: 
China's Economic Rise - Part 2"


From jbn at forestfield.org  Wed Mar 17 01:28:07 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:28:07 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] "Cold War Truth Commission" with many speakers on
 2021-03-21 being recorded and shared somewhere? If so, where?
In-Reply-To: <7408ec14-0609-502e-93bc-601fc902ea04@gmail.com>
References: <ad474c00c83953a2b8e225340.ad6ff43922.20210316020345.524bc81a19.bce9faf3@mail34.suw151.rsgsv.net>
 <7408ec14-0609-502e-93bc-601fc902ea04@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7602f1a6-5e82-8e0b-129d-e8d81d133dba@forestfield.org>

Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss wrote:
> *"Cold War Truth Commission" *online presentation *this Sunday, 3/21,
> 3pm - 10pm Central time,* with many speakers whose names are familiar to
> readers of this list, including Kathy Kelly, Norman Solomon, Medea
> Benjamin, David Swanson, Bruce Gagnon, Daniel Ellsberg, Matthew Hoh, Ann
> Wright ...

I asked the following via their webform:

> Will the "Cold War Truth Commission" (live on Zoom on 2021-03-21) be recorded and
> uploaded somewhere everyone can download and view it?
> 
> I'd recommend archive.org at a minimum but common video streaming sites would do
> too. Perhaps upload to many places so no one place can censor you?
> 
> Thanks.

Maybe I'll get a response.

If anyone already knows the answer, I'd appreciate a URL.

Thanks.

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Thu Mar 18 20:14:28 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 15:14:28 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=5Bmarxmail=5D_Documentary_?=
 =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=98The_Boys_Who_Said_No!=E2=80=99_recalls_anti-draft=2C_a?=
 =?utf-8?q?nti-war_movement?=
References: <cwqR.1616098398254692198.xK0k@groups.io>
Message-ID: <04DD2BC5-7FD2-4DF2-AD8E-E314AD50897C@newsfromneptune.com>



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Alan Ginsberg" <ginsberg.alan1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [marxmail] Documentary ?The Boys Who Said No!? recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
> Date: March 18, 2021 at 3:13:18 PM CDT
> To: marxmail at groups.io
> Reply-To: marxmail at groups.io
> 
> People's World
> 
> March 17, 2021
> By Eric A. Gordon
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared. The Boys Who Said No!: Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War is featured in the Socially Relevant Film Festival online and is available for free viewing now but only until March 21 at 8:59 p.m. (I assume that?s in whatever time zone you?re in, but to be on the safe side, I advise you not to wait that long!)
> 
> Oscar-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich directs this story of a growing mass movement of war resisters who choose conscience (and their own lives!) over killing peasants halfway around the globe who never did them any harm. By attempting to halt the war machine?and not only to save their own skins?they were also hoping to spare any other American death, danger and disability, and to allow the peoples of the former French Indo-China in today?s Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, the freedom to determine their own national destinies.
> 
> Even without having developed, in many cases, a sophisticated analysis of U.S. global interests and the way the U.S. sought to take over from the dying French and British empires, these resisters implicitly recognized an imperialist war when they saw one.
> 
> At first, the movement was small and isolated. The filmmakers take pains to associate it with the conscience acquired in the Civil Rights movement. Throughout, they make the connection between the deprivation of human and voting rights in the U.S. and the moral and political stances activists Black and white people assumed once the Vietnam War started heating up, especially after Lyndon B. Johnson became president in late 1963.
> 
> Among those whose voices are heard here are the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was not the first to make public his understanding of the linkages between the domestic and the global struggles. In fact, his story is part of the larger one the film develops, showing how slow and gradual, how depressingly incremental was the growing support for the Resistance. MLK visits Joan Baez in Santa Rita Prison and ties the racial justice and peace movements in an impassioned speech. It is this phase of King?s activism, as well as his support for the labor movement, that is generally left out of the sanitized picture of the saintly preacher who talked about the long arc of justice.
> 
> The film chronicles a youth-led movement of draft resisters who ended the draft and helped end the brutal war. These events, taking place in the latter half of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, are practically ancient history now for most of the world?s population that is, after all, under the age of 60 and has no active memory of the period.
> 
> Viewers will be introduced to a host of prominent individuals who stood with the draft resisters, such as Dr. Benjamin Spock, Stokely Carmichael, Daniel Ellsberg, Father Dan Berrigan, as well as a roster of resisters themselves, now in their 70s. If there is one featured resister in the film, that would have to be David Harris, who wound up getting sentenced to three years in federal prison (he served 20 months). Remarkable film footage survives of many of his speeches, which not only attracted thousands to join him in resisting the draft, but also impressed folksinger Joan Baez. The two married, and had a son together, though life together after prison did not work out successfully and they separated. Film footage includes secretly recorded scenes inside federal prisons.
> 
> Another resister who graces the film off and on is boxer Muhammad Ali. The face of the anti-war and anti-draft movement has come down to the present day as Caucasian, as if it were only privileged white college students who got ?woke? to the peril that faced then. But this was not the case at the time, and the documentary establishes the larger truth that many young Black men and their families also burned or tore up their draft cards, or later on, as the SSS started collapsing administratively, just stopped showing up at pre-induction physicals, as other young men also did.
> 
> Interviewees recall the militant public actions they took to oppose the war and refuse any part in it. These were not, as they were called, ?draft dodgers,? and they did not pay off doctors to find phony disqualifying ?bone spurs.? They were beaten mercilessly as they sat in, blocked induction entrances, leafletted the young men entering, marched and sang. They demonstrated a courage to defend human rights, including their own, that was fully the equal of others who were drafted and sent overseas to fight. They knew they would be physically harmed, arrested, tried, sent to prison, and subjected to possibly years of punishment and long retribution for their conscience, yet stayed the course and took the risks. An estimated 570,000 men resisted the draft in one form or another.
> 
> Other Americans, not susceptible to the draft themselves, supported the anti-war movement in a myriad of ways, some quite dramatic, such as raiding SSS offices and destroying files. In time, some college chaplains and ministers of religion came to see the immortality of the war and joined the movement. Women played an important role as family members, draft counselors, people who helped run anti-war coffeehouses and attended trials, as well as demonstrated.
> 
> The crafty Richard Nixon makes a number of appearances in the film. Those of short memory may not recall that in 1968 he actually ran as a peace candidate! We are reminded here of the long, slow slog toward the final d?nouement as he gradually withdrew some American troops and turned Vietnam into more of an air war. Eventually, under Nixon, the draft was abolished in 1973.
> 
> That was not the only success of the anti-war movement. Though the war proceeded mercilessly, at various points it could easily have gotten much worse, but the growing disaffection with it prevented further and more brutal escalation. After 1968, a majority of American public opinion had turned against the war. If the U.S. government in the end wound the war down?in 1973 turning it over almost entirely to South Vietnamese puppet forces?it?s not because anyone in the White House had concluded it was wrong, but only unwinnable. Any further escalation, such as the 1970 invasion of Cambodia, would only result in the further disheveling of the American social fabric.
> 
> Let it never be claimed that the anti-war movement did no good. Over time, the courts started listening to the resisters, taken by the depth of their sincerity, willing, as they were, to go to jail rather than compromise their souls. Up to 90% of those indicted were not convicted.
> 
> Ideologically, The Boys Who Said No! takes a strong nonviolent position. Acts of violence and destruction did take place on the part of some who after years and years became frustrated with the continuing progress of the war, but the futility of it became apparent. The way to win over the great masses of the American people simply had to be nonviolent in the spirit of Gandhi, Dr. King, Joan Baez, and other leaders. Columbia University student activist Mark Rudd, who later spent years in the Weather Underground, makes a brief appearance here, reflecting on how ?gullible? and out of touch he was at the time.
> 
> As one who was personally active in the anti-draft, anti-war movement at that time (and did a little jail time myself), I noticed some things rather pointedly left out. In the filmmaker?s zeal to remind viewers of the Civil Rights inspiration to the first wave of anti-war protesters, she brings in a number of references to the Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). I have no problem with that, and it was a positive contribution. But on the big college campuses where the movement really took off, the main organizing was led by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which goes unmentioned.
> 
> This is not the place to recount my own experience, but I have done so in an essay, ?My SDS Activist Years in New Orleans? in You Say You Want a Revolution: SDS, PL, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance (San Francisco: 1741 Press, 2019). It felt a little weird to see myself and the entire organization I thought was so critical to the anti-war movement submerged in the turbulent stream of history, but I guess it?s time to start getting used to the feeling of erasure! Or was this part of the ?cancel culture??
> 
> Also slighted are the investigative trips made to Hanoi under wartime conditions by American peace activists (Jane Fonda is still remembered not so fondly in many super-patriotic quarters, but there were others as well, including Herbert Aptheker from the CPUSA with Tom Hayden and Staughton Lynd). Another response from the young men subjected to the draft was to emigrate?to Canada, Scandinavia or other places?some of them permanently.
> 
> Left out, too, was Jimmy Carter?s amnesty. On the first full day of his presidency, Jan. 21, 1977, Carter granted unconditional pardons to the hundreds of thousands who had evaded the draft, either by leaving the country or by refusing to cooperate with SSS. The best-known American to serve in Vietnam and then turn against the war upon his return was, of course, John Kerry, but he does not appear in the film either.
> 
> These are in the end small observations and not meant to detract from the necessity of this film now while so many of the principals in the movement are still with us. The ending is beautiful, tying the spirit of resistance which had become so internalized in us to the movements of today.
> 
> To see the film go here <https://srff.sparqfest.live/en/2021/the-boys-who-said-no?fbclid=IwAR2nCwthow47ZjEKNHfyd0KewCNKcb2THo4pJPO6aFCGyCHW3aDQTGvjgg8>. Remember: Only until March 21 at 8:59 p.m. The trailer can be seen at that same site.
> 
> Eric A. Gordon is the author of a biography of radical American composer Marc Blitzstein, co-author of composer Earl Robinson?s autobiography, and the translator (from Portuguese) of a memoir by Brazilian author Hadasa Cytrynowicz. He holds a doctorate in history from Tulane University. He chaired the Southern California chapter of the National Writers Union, Local 1981 UAW (AFL-CIO) for two terms and is director emeritus of The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring Southern California District. In 2015 he produced ?City of the Future,? a CD of Soviet Yiddish songs by Samuel Polonski. He received the Better Lemons "Up Late" Critic Award for 2019, awarded to the most prolific critic. His latest project is translating the fiction of Manuel Tiago (pseudonym for ?lvaro Cunhal) from Portuguese. The first two books, "Five Days, Five Nights" and "The Six-Pointed Star," are available from International Publishers NY.
> 
> https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/documentary-the-boys-who-said-no-recalls-anti-draft-anti-war-movement/ <https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/documentary-the-boys-who-said-no-recalls-anti-draft-anti-war-movement/>
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Fri Mar 19 00:34:25 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:34:25 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] US-backed Bolivian coupsters are being arrested,
 tried
Message-ID: <f80e71c0-673a-69f9-4740-127c92576ebd@forestfield.org>

The US-backed Bolivian coupsters are being arrested -- TeleSUR English reports in 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bxlfkSWI2Y4 that Jeanine ??ez was arrested and more 
recently sentenced to 4 months pre-trial detention. The report also says:

> Also arrested on Saturday was ??ez's former Energy Minister Rodrigo Guzman and
> Justice Minister Alvaro Coimbra. On Sunday, a far-right civilian activist, Yasir
> Molina, who the government said led a group participating in the 2019 protests
> leading the coup against Evo Morales were also arrested.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xJ-3MsawN7k also carries the same report.

From jbn at forestfield.org  Sun Mar 21 21:50:45 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:50:45 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Dave_DeCamp_via_antiwar=2Ecom=3A_SecDe?=
 =?utf-8?q?f_Austin_to_North_Korea=3A_US_Ready_to_=E2=80=98Fight_Tonight?=
 =?utf-8?b?4oCZ?=
Message-ID: <dcfe70a2-4b1a-036c-940b-a071942d3ccb@forestfield.org>

https://news.antiwar.com/2021/03/18/secdef-austin-to-north-korea-us-ready-to-fight-tonight/

> SecDef Austin to North Korea: US Ready to ?Fight Tonight?
> Pyongyang said the US must roll back its 'hostile policies' to restart talks
> Dave DeCamp Posted on March 18, 2021
> 
> Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned North Korea that US forces are ready to
> ?fight tonight?[1] after Pyongyang denounced Washington and Seoul?s decision to
> resume military exercises. The US and South Korea are resuming military drills
> after pausing them for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
> 
> ?Our force remains ready to fight tonight, and we continue to make progress toward
> the eventual transition of wartime Operational Control to a [Republic of
> Korea]-commanded, future Combined Forces Command,? Austin said from Seoul on
> Thursday[2].
> 
> Austin also said the US remains committed to the ?denuclearization? of the Korean
> Peninsula, a demand that is a non-starter for negotiations with Pyongyang. A more
> realistic approach from the Biden administration would be an offer to ease
> sanctions in exchange for a freeze in North Korea?s nuclear arsenal.
> 
> Also on Thursday, a North Korean official said the US would have to drop its
> ?hostile policies?[3] to restart nuclear talks. ?We have already declared our stand
> that no DPRK-US contact and dialogue of any kind can be possible unless the US
> rolls back its hostile policy towards the DPRK,? said Choe Son-hui, North Korea?s
> first vice minister of foreign affairs.


[1] 
https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/defense-secretary-to-north-korea-us-is-ready-to-fight-tonight/
[2] 
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-austin-republic-of-korea-foreign-minister-chung-eui-yong-and-republic-of-korea-defense-minister-suh-wook-at-a-joint-press-availability/
[3] 
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/17/north-korea-says-wont-restart-talks-until-us-drops-its-hostile-policies.html



From jbn at forestfield.org  Tue Mar 23 02:14:19 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 21:14:19 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Project Veritas allowed to continue defamation suit
 against New York Times,
 promises informative discovery & a means of interpreting Russiagate claims
Message-ID: <7dbe293a-efc5-5286-dc89-c1a3deffb393@forestfield.org>

Quoting https://on.rt.com/b48l

> New York Times used ?deceptive disinformation? to smear Project Veritas, acted
> with ?reckless disregard? and ?malice?, judge rules
> 
> New York Times used ?deceptive disinformation? to smear Project Veritas, acted
> with ?reckless disregard? and ?malice?, judge rulesNew York Times used ?deceptive
> disinformation? to smear Project Veritas, acted with ?reckless disregard? and
> ?malice?, judge rules Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe speaks at the 2021
> Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) ?  REUTERS/Octavio Jones A
> defamation suit from Project Veritas against the New York Times is moving forward,
> as a judge has ruled the newspaper posed opinion as fact in their coverage of the
> conservative news outlet.
> 
> A New York Supreme Court judge handed Veritas, known for its undercover and
> whistleblowing videos, a big ?win? this week, allowing a defamation suit against
> the paper and two reporters to proceed forward.
> 
> In the ruling denying a motion to dismiss the suit, the Times was accused of
> acting with ?actual malice? and ?reckless disregard? in multiple articles covering
> a 2020 video report from Veritas on alleged illegal voting practices taking place
> in Minnesota. It was not the only voter fraud allegation Veritas covered in 2020,
> with one video expose actually leading to the arrest of a Texas political
> consultant on charges of election fraud and illegal voting.
> 
> In the Minnesota video, multiple people are seen taking part in or discussing
> ballot harvesting and linking the act to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota). The report
> alleged ballots were being paid for and even filled out for voters to favor
> certain candidates. One ballot harvester featured in the video, Liban Osman, has
> since claimed[1] footage of him was heavily edited and that he was offered money to
> connect the alleged fraud to Omar ? an allegation Project Veritas denied.
> 
> The five Times articles in question called Veritas? Minnesota videos deceptive,
> but Justice Charles Wood determined this was not fact, but rather opinion from
> reporters Maggie Astor and Tiffany Hsu.
> 
> ?The Articles that are the subject of this action called the Video ?deceptive,?
> but the dictionary definitions of ?disinformation? and ?deceptive? provided by
> defendants? counsel certainly apply to Astor?s and Hsu?s failure to note that they
> injected their opinions in news articles, as they now claim,? he wrote in his
> decision[2].
> 
> Astor referred to a ?long history? of releasing ?manipulated or selectively edited
> footage? on the part of Veritas in an article, while Hsu called the video
> ?deceptive? in coverage.
> 
> Wood said this sort of vague coverage ?could be viewed as exposing Veritas to
> ridicule and harm to its reputation as a media source because the reader may read
> these news Articles, expecting facts, not opinion, and conclude that Veritas is a
> partisan zealot group, deceptively editing video, and presenting it as news.? Also
> on rt.com ?He was setting me up?: Project Veritas accused of offering $10,000 for
> activist to say Ilhan Omar involved in voter fraud scheme
> 
> Lawyers for the Times argued that a reader could determine that specific wording
> such as ?deceptive? is opinion-based and cited other news outlets that used
> similar language, but Wood said the paper did not meet ?their burden to prove that
> the reporting by Veritas in the Video is deceptive.?
> 
> Project Veritas founder James O?Keefe has celebrated the court victory as a ?win?
> for his news outlet and promised that Astor and even New York Times executive
> editor Dean Baquet will now be put under oath ?where they will be forced to answer
> our questions.?
> 
> ?Project Veritas will record these depositions and expose them for the world to
> see,? he said.

[1] https://on.rt.com/arwc
[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20518694-order_denying_motion_to_dismiss



Also discussed in https://youtube.com/watch?v=xGqClalrbz8 -- (24m 37s) The Gaggle 
with Peter and George -- "TG 295: New York Times Suffers Major Legal Setback". As 
this discussion says, discovery (where evidence is handed over to opposing parties) 
should be very interesting. This case also promises to have something interesting to 
say regarding interpreting Russiagate, the ongoing baseless conspiracy theory that 
started as a way to provide an excuse for Mrs. Clinton's loss to a TV game show host 
for POTUS and became a lot more over the past 5 years including a basis for war in 
the form of anti-Russian sanctions.

-J

From jbn at forestfield.org  Thu Mar 25 00:35:57 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:35:57 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air,
 News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV
Message-ID: <a61244a0-ae2c-8f09-44c8-84160d51b1f7@forestfield.org>

Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, 
and Labor's World View TV.




laborvideo
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMIgEJUyBXsO4ckVj3dYasw

https://youtube.com/watch?v=PTuawY8Qnz8 -- (2h 3m 21s) "Noam Chomsky on the 
State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ctm4c_OnRYU -- (26m 46s) "The AFL-CIO,  Privatization, 
Ukraine, NED  & Imperialism" -- there's not enough coverage on the National Endowment 
for Democracy (NED; a US imperialist cut-out) and this talk explicitly urges you to 
connect international imperialism with what's going on to workers at home.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rvHNktE-kAA -- (26m 54s) "US Privatization Of Ukraine, 
Puerto Rico, PG&E & The Natalie Jeresko Ana Montosantos Connections"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ilaiwLrziyM -- (31m 9s) "US Capitalism, The Ukraine & 
Imperialism With George Wright"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WzUsLrlie_Q -- (57m 55s) "Kim Scipes on The AFL-CIO's 
Secret War against Developing Country Workers -  Solidarity or Sabotage?"




MintPressNews
Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCc9UUSOBWC6VCkJUqnh-CLw

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ecTS1N49UZI -- (32m 36s) "Biden's 1.7 Ton Bombs Dropped 
on Sryria Amid Pandemic with Vanessa Beeley"



RT
Channels:
https://youtube.com/channel/UCpwvZwUam-URkxB7g4USKpg
https://youtube.com/channel/UCczrL-2b-gYK3l4yDld4XlQ
https://youtube.com/channel/UC_ab7FFA2ACk2yTHgNan8lQ

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WcyahFNYqxg -- (27m 10s) Chris Hedges interviews David 
Talbot on "America's Secret Government"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8mZ_VirIoAE -- (34m) "Code Pink & Why Peace Can Never 
Break Out (w/ Medea Benjamin)"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pCWs5B_HKoI -- (24m 31s) "The Horrors of Cyber Warfare & 
The Economics of the Covid-19 Stimulus"



World Socialist Web Site
Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCwQKTzuzDIazT37whnR0lqQ

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6J2_Gb8Xvvk -- (2h 12m 16s) "150 Years since the birth of 
Rosa Luxemburg"



Democracy at Work
Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCK-6FjMu9OI8i0Fo6bkW0VA

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6q72Q7Y2xJY -- (44m 28s) "All Things Co-op - Taking on 
Rosa Luxemburg's Critique of Co-ops"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oeEAhiARNPs -- (8m 07s) "AskProfWolff: Why A Worker Co-op 
Economy Would be Less Unstable"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mPjTyGiLEw8 -- (9m 33s) "AskProfWolff: Corporate Threats 
to Leave are Empty"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=y9MbNk9jTtA -- (9m 46s) "AskProfWolff: Profiteering 
Electric Companies"



Grayzone
Channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lNzVRiN_ga8 -- (28m 11s) "UN expert details crushing 
human toll of US sanctions on Venezuela"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y5uFYLIp2CI -- (46m 21s) "'No to Dictatorship': Why 
Haitians are protesting US-backed Mo?se"

From jbn at forestfield.org  Thu Mar 25 01:16:38 2021
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:16:38 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Saudi Arabia and the UAE are bombing Yemen with US
 backing again
Message-ID: <91b82ba6-fab2-7abc-c0ab-0d42efabc550@forestfield.org>

Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo on twitter.com) from 
https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1374092264364929025 on March 22, 2021:

> BREAKING: Saudi Arabia and the UAE are bombing #Yemen?s Sanaa International
> Airport right now, marking the 3rd straight day of attacks on the Yemeni capital.
> 
> This is a war crime.
> 
> And it is 100% backed by the administration of Joe Biden.

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Thu Mar 25 18:43:57 2021
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:43:57 -0500
Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_This_chart_shows_the_basic_prob?=
 =?utf-8?b?bGVtIOKAlCBKZWZm?=
References: <ABF7129E-8887-41D2-86C3-20F53B7DE224@alumni.virginia.edu>
Message-ID: <AEB7E49A-CB85-4EB1-9DC2-A11D0BF8184E@newsfromneptune.com>

Quite correct.

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Jeffrey Lang <langdesign at alumni.virginia.edu>
> Subject: This chart shows the basic problem ? Jeff
> Date: March 25, 2021 at 8:14:24 AM CDT
> To: Carl Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>
> 
> https://americanprospect.imgus11.com/public//3565db6cd4a46385bda2c9e4e65b0c26.png?r=1435448719
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad

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From r-szoke at illinois.edu  Sun Mar 28 21:12:31 2021
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:12:31 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Defending the Big Lie in Court
Message-ID: <BN6PR11MB19239E42A12249FA0354044F8C7F9@BN6PR11MB1923.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

Sidney Powell admits it was all a lie
This is not about Powell or even about Trump anymore. It?s about the complete abdication of integrity by leaders on the right ? Republican officeholders, conservative opinion leaders and right-wing TV.

From:  Chicago Sun-Times  
By Mona Charen  Mar 25, 2021 

It?s not good for Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic that allies of the president grossly defamed them, but it may turn out to be good for the country that they are availing themselves of legal remedies.
   Powell, a key propagandist in Trump?s big lie about the 2020 election, has issued a response to Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit. Let?s review some of the statements Powell made after the election:
Appearing on Newsmax on Nov. 17, Powell said she had a video showing Dominion founder John Poulos bragging, ?I can change a million votes, no problem at all.? The video did not exist.
At a press conference with Rudy Giuliani and others, Powell said Dominion had been ?created in Venezuela by Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election.? She said the machines had an algorithm that automatically flipped votes, and that George Soros? ?No. 2 person? was ?one of the leaders of the Dominion project.? Also false.
Her tone has changed.
   The reply Powell?s lawyers issued to Dominion?s complaint is a climb down. After challenging the court?s jurisdiction and venue (standard lawyer maneuvers) and adding the claim that her comments were First Amendment-protected political speech, they get to the substance and things get truly mind-bending.
Sure, Powell?s reply acknowledges, she made a series of claims about the election being stolen, but because she was clearly speaking in a political context, her comments must be construed as standard political exaggeration.
   The election truther?s argument, then, is that any factual claim, no matter how false, is insulated from consequences under defamation law if it is connected to politics. This is worse than ?my truth.? This is the claim that any politically motivated lie is fine.
    But Powell takes it to another level. She next argues that the very outlandishness of her false statements is a defense. Sure, her reply acknowledges, Powell had said, ?Democrats were attempting to steal the election and had developed a computer system to alter votes electronically.? But ?no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.?
   So, that?s it. The great lie that has poisoned our politics and inspired an attack on the Capitol and bids to become the incubus of future extremism and violence was such absurd bilge that ?no reasonable person would believe it.?
Of course, millions of Americans did and do believe it. The crazed mob that stormed the Capitol believed every word. Polls have found that between two-thirds and three-quarters of Republicans believe the election was fraudulent.
   This is not about Powell or even about Trump anymore. It?s about the complete abdication of integrity by leaders on the right ? Republican officeholders, conservative opinion leaders, right-wing TV and so forth. At first they countered Trump?s lies. Soon after, they began to avoid them. Next, they pretended to find them amusing. Then they shrugged. Finally, they joined. When enough people in authority tell lies, they cripple their audience?s capacity for reason. A few meritorious lawsuits cannot repair that.
Send letters to letters at suntimes.com

From r-szoke at illinois.edu  Sun Mar 28 21:12:31 2021
From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 21:12:31 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Defending the Big Lie in Court
Message-ID: <BN6PR11MB19239E42A12249FA0354044F8C7F9@BN6PR11MB1923.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

Sidney Powell admits it was all a lie
This is not about Powell or even about Trump anymore. It?s about the complete abdication of integrity by leaders on the right ? Republican officeholders, conservative opinion leaders and right-wing TV.

From:  Chicago Sun-Times  
By Mona Charen  Mar 25, 2021 

It?s not good for Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic that allies of the president grossly defamed them, but it may turn out to be good for the country that they are availing themselves of legal remedies.
   Powell, a key propagandist in Trump?s big lie about the 2020 election, has issued a response to Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit. Let?s review some of the statements Powell made after the election:
Appearing on Newsmax on Nov. 17, Powell said she had a video showing Dominion founder John Poulos bragging, ?I can change a million votes, no problem at all.? The video did not exist.
At a press conference with Rudy Giuliani and others, Powell said Dominion had been ?created in Venezuela by Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an election.? She said the machines had an algorithm that automatically flipped votes, and that George Soros? ?No. 2 person? was ?one of the leaders of the Dominion project.? Also false.
Her tone has changed.
   The reply Powell?s lawyers issued to Dominion?s complaint is a climb down. After challenging the court?s jurisdiction and venue (standard lawyer maneuvers) and adding the claim that her comments were First Amendment-protected political speech, they get to the substance and things get truly mind-bending.
Sure, Powell?s reply acknowledges, she made a series of claims about the election being stolen, but because she was clearly speaking in a political context, her comments must be construed as standard political exaggeration.
   The election truther?s argument, then, is that any factual claim, no matter how false, is insulated from consequences under defamation law if it is connected to politics. This is worse than ?my truth.? This is the claim that any politically motivated lie is fine.
    But Powell takes it to another level. She next argues that the very outlandishness of her false statements is a defense. Sure, her reply acknowledges, Powell had said, ?Democrats were attempting to steal the election and had developed a computer system to alter votes electronically.? But ?no reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.?
   So, that?s it. The great lie that has poisoned our politics and inspired an attack on the Capitol and bids to become the incubus of future extremism and violence was such absurd bilge that ?no reasonable person would believe it.?
Of course, millions of Americans did and do believe it. The crazed mob that stormed the Capitol believed every word. Polls have found that between two-thirds and three-quarters of Republicans believe the election was fraudulent.
   This is not about Powell or even about Trump anymore. It?s about the complete abdication of integrity by leaders on the right ? Republican officeholders, conservative opinion leaders, right-wing TV and so forth. At first they countered Trump?s lies. Soon after, they began to avoid them. Next, they pretended to find them amusing. Then they shrugged. Finally, they joined. When enough people in authority tell lies, they cripple their audience?s capacity for reason. A few meritorious lawsuits cannot repair that.
Send letters to letters at suntimes.com

From brussel at illinois.edu  Tue Mar 30 01:56:00 2021
From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 01:56:00 +0000
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Chomsky summary of U.S. foregn policy
Message-ID: <2572CECC-7F68-4DF2-AE53-24019356EDCB@illinois.edu>

Told calmly, with horror. But who reads this ?? What is important to discuss?

https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-bidens-foreign-policy-is-largely-indistinguishable-from-trumps/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f2824fa1-28b6-4033-8d7a-89a1be13a052