From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Dec 1 23:42:31 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 17:42:31 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pepe Escobar's column Message-ID: Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind. But to what purpose Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves I do not know. T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton Spare a thought to the Polish farmer snapping pics of a missile wreckage ? later indicated to belong to a Ukrainian S-300. So a Polish farmer, his footfalls echoing in our collective memory, may have saved the world from WWIII ? unleashed via a tawdry plot concocted by Anglo-American ?intelligence?. Such tawdriness was compounded by a ridiculous cover-up: the Ukrainians were firing on Russian missiles from a direction that they could not possibly be coming from. That is: Poland. And then the U.S. Secretary of Defense, weapons peddler Lloyd ?Raytheon? Austin, sentenced Russia was to blame anyway, because his Kiev vassals were shooting at Russian missiles that should not have been in the air (and they were not). Call it the Pentagon elevating bald lying into a rather shabby art. The Anglo-American purpose of this racket was to generate a ?world crisis? against Russia. It?s been exposed ? this time. That does not mean the usual suspects won?t try it again. Soon. The main reason is panic. Collective West intel sees how Moscow is finally mobilizing their army ? ready to hit the ground next month ? while knocking out Ukraine?s electricity infrastructure as a form of Chinese torture. Those February days of sending only 100,000 troops ? and having the DPR and LPR militias plus Wagner commandos and Kadyrov?s Chechens do most of the heavy lifting ? are long gone. Overall, Russians and Russophones were facing hordes of Ukrainian military ? perhaps as many as 1 million. The ?miracle? of it all is that Russians did quite well. Every military analyst knows the basic rule: an invasion force should number three times the defending force. The Russian Army at the start of the SMO was at a small fraction of that rule. The Russian Armed Forces arguably have a standing army of 1.3 million troops. Surely they could have spared a few tens of thousands more than the initial 100,000. But they did not. It was a political decision. But now SMO is over: this is CTO (Counter-Terrorist Operation) territory. A sequence of terrorist attacks ? targeting the Nord Streams, the Crimea Bridge, the Black Sea Fleet ? finally demonstrated the inevitability of going beyond a mere ?military operation?. And that brings us to Electric War. Paving the way to a DMZ The Electric War is being handled essentially as a tactic ? leading to the eventual imposition of Russia?s terms in a possible armistice (which neither Anglo-American intel and vassal NATO want). Even if there was an armistice ? widely touted for a few weeks now ? that would not end the war. Because the deeper, tacit Russian terms ? end of NATO expansion and ?indivisibility of security? ? were fully spelled out to both Washington and Brussels last December, and subsequently dismissed. As nothing ? conceptually ? has changed since then, coupled with the Western weaponization of Ukraine reaching a frenzy, the Putin-era Stavka could not but expand the initial SMO mandate, which remains denazification and demilitarization. Yet now the mandate will have to encompass Kiev and Lviv. And that starts with the current de-electrification campaign ? which goes way beyond the east of the Dnieper and along the Black Sea coast towards Odessa. That brings us to the key issue of reach and depth of Electric War, in terms of setting up what would be a DMZ ? complete with no man?s land ? west of the Dnieper to protect Russian areas from NATO artillery, HIMARS and missile attacks. How deep? 100 km? Not enough. Rather 300 km ? as Kiev has already requested artillery with that kind of range. What?s crucial is that way back in July this was already being extensively discussed in Moscow at the highest Stavka levels. In an extensive July interview, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov let the cat ? diplomatically ? out of the bag: ?This process continues, consistently and persistently. It will continue as long as the West, in its impotent rage, desperate to aggravate the situation as much as possible, continues to flood Ukraine with more and more long-range weapons. Take the HIMARS. Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov boasts that they have already received 300-kilometre ammunition. This means our geographic objectives will move even further from the current line. We cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Vladimir Zelensky, or whoever replaces him, will control to have weapons that pose a direct threat to our territory or to the republics that have declared their independence and want to determine their own future.? The implications are clear. As much as Washington and NATO are even more ?desperate to aggravate the situation as much as possible? (and that?s Plan A: there?s no Plan B), geoeconomically the Americans are intensifying the New Great Game: desperation here applies to trying to control energy corridors and setting their price. Russia remains unfazed ? as it continues to invest in Pipelineistan (towards Asia); solidify the multimodal International North South Transportation Corridor (INTSC), with key partners India and Iran; and is setting the price of energy via OPEC+. A paradise for oligarchic looters The Straussians/neo-cons and neoliberal-cons permeating the Anglo-American intel/security apparatus ? de facto weaponized viruses ? won?t relent. They simply cannot afford losing yet another NATO war ? and on top of it against ?existential threat? Russia. As the news from the Ukraine battlefields promise to be even grimmer under General Winter, solace at least may be found in the cultural sphere. The Green transition racket, seasoned in a toxic mixed salad with the eugenist Silicon Valley ethos, continues to be a side dish offered with the main course: the Davos ?Great Narrative?, former Great Reset, which reared its ugly head, once again, at the G20 in Bali. That translates as everything going swell as far as the Destruction of Europe project is concerned. De-industrialize and be happy; rainbow-dance to every woke tune on the market; and freeze and burn wood while blessing ?renewables? in the altar of European values. A quick flashback to contextualize where we are is always helpful. Ukraine was part of Russia for nearly four centuries. The very idea of its independence was invented in Austria during WWI for the purpose of undermining the Russian Army ? and that certainly happened. The present ?independence? was set up so local Trotskyite oligarchs could loot the nation as a Russia-aligned government was about to move against those oligarchs. The 2014 Kiev coup was essentially set up by Zbig ?Grand Chessboard? Brzezinski to draw Russia into a new partisan war ? as in Afghanistan ? and was followed by orders to the Gulf oil haciendas to crash the oil price. Moscow had to protect Russophones in Crimea and Donbass ? and that led to more Western sanctions. All of it was a setup. For 8 years, Moscow refused to send its armies even to Donbass east of the Dnieper (historically part of Mother Russia). The reason: not to be bogged down in another partisan war. The rest of Ukraine, meanwhile, was being looted by oligarchs supported by the West, and plunged into a financial black hole. The collective West deliberately chose not to finance the black hole. Most of the IMF injections were simply stolen by the oligarchs, and the loot transferred out of the country. These oligarchic looters were of course ?protected? by the usual suspects. It?s always crucial to remember that between 1991 and 1999 the equivalent of the present entire household wealth of Russia was stolen and transferred overseas, mostly to London. Now the same usual suspects are trying to ruin Russia with sanctions, as ?new Hitler? Putin stopped the looting. The difference is that the plan of using Ukraine as just a pawn in their game is not working. On the ground, what has been going on so far are mostly skirmishes, and a few real battles. But with Moscow massing fresh troops for a winter offensive, the Ukrainian Army may end up completely routed. Russia didn?t look so bad ? considering the effectiveness of its mincing machine artillery strikes against Ukrainian fortified positions, and recent planned retreats or positional warfare, keeping casualties down while smashing Ukrainian withering firepower. The collective West believes it holds the Ukraine proxy war card. Russia bets on reality, where economic cards are food, energy, resources, resource security and a stable economy. Meanwhile, as if the energy-suicide EU did not have to face a pyramid of ordeals, they can surely expect to have knocking on their door at least 15 million desperate Ukrainians escaping from villages and cities with zero electrical power. The railway station in ? temporarily occupied ? Kherson is a graphic example: people show up constantly to warm up and charge their smartphones. The city has no electricity, no heat, and no water. Current Russian tactics are the absolute opposite of the military theory of concentrated force developed by Napoleon. That?s why Russia is accumulating serious advantages while ?disturbing the dust in a bowl of rose-leaves?. And of course, ?we haven?t even started yet.? (Republished from Strategic Culture Foundation by permission of author or representative) From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Dec 6 06:57:55 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 00:57:55 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [marxmail] Anthony Cordesman on the US-Russia proxy war in Ukraine References: Message-ID: <4185F1A9-C319-4328-9580-EC42CF25D229@newsfromneptune.com> Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: John Edmundson > Date: December 5, 2022 at 11:24:52 PM CST > To: marxmail at groups.io > Subject: Re: [marxmail] Anthony Cordesman on the US-Russia proxy war in Ukraine > Reply-To: marxmail at groups.io > > ? > I'm not in a US microsect; I'm not even in the US, but it seems to me (correct me if I'm wrong) that the question is not whether or not the US/NATO is waging a proxy war. Every time a major power bankrolls and/or supplies weapons to another country's war effort it's fighting a proxy war. That's what proxy war is - war by proxy. > > So of course the US has used the tension, and subsequent armed conflict, in Ukraine to fight a proxy war. But it was begun when Russia annexed the Crimea and the Donbas regions. Does the US and NATO seek to use this to weaken Russia? Of course it does. But we're not in the 1960s or 70s, when, whatever your opinion of the USSR, there was a conflict between fundamentally different and mutually opposed systems. This is not the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, where, right or wrong, there was a movement that at least purported to be socialist, being 'aided' by that intervention. Now it's capitalist US/NATO vs capitalist Russia. There's no Ukrainian socialist movement begging for Russian aid, and to be sure, if there was, Putin wouldn't care a jot about it. So the stakes are different. And in all of this is a whole bunch of Ukrainians who are defending their country from invasion, and that actually matters. > > Comradely, > John > >> On Tue, 6 Dec 2022, 14:22 Marv Gandall, wrote: >> Those on the list who recoil at the notion that the US is engaged in a proxy war with Russia either don?t appreciate or acknowledge that this view is not only widely held by most Marxists and others on the international left, but is shared by well-connected analysts across the political spectrum. For a recent example, see veteran US strategist Anthony Cordesman?s commentary on the website of the Center for Strategic and International Studies entitled "United States Aid to Ukraine: An Investment Whose Benefits Greatly Exceed its Cost" >> >> Cordesman, writing for an elite rather than a mass audience, doesn?t hesitate to describe the conflict as a US proxy war designed to weaken Russi, justifying the massive aid extended to the Ukrainians before and after the Russian invasion. >> >> "Focusing on the price tag of aid. instead of the value of what it buys", says Cordesman, "ignores the fact that the war in Ukraine has become the equivalent of a proxy war with Russia, and a war that can be fought without any U.S. military casualties..it ignores the fact that Russia is far poorer than the U.S. and its allies. It ignores the fact that Russia is already paying far more of its Gross National Product and economy to fight the war in the Ukraine than the U.S. and its partners, and that Russia has suffered massive losses of weapons, war reserves, and military personnel. >> >> "Providing aid to Ukraine effectively has forced Russia to fight a proxy war in which both the U.S. and Europe could exploit the fact they have a massive strategic advantage in both defense spending and total economic resources.? >> >> As Cordesman notes, the proxy war was well underway before the invasion. "Ukraine only survived the initial Russian attack?, he writes, "because of the past flow of aid, extensive and detailed warnings from U.S., British, and other intelligence sources, and the early aid efforts of the U.S. and its partner nations...any U.S. failure to provide massive continuing aid after the Russian invasion began would have been the equivalent of a proxy war that the United States had decisively lost in spite of all its military strength.? He could also have added US pressure on the Zelensky government to abandon the Minsk Accords in favour of armed action against the pro-Russian Donbas separatists. >> >> So long as Putin rejects a peace settlement on US terms, Cordesman concludes, ?the worst case becomes a continuing the flow of aid in what will remain a proxy war, and one where the U.S. will continue to receive major strategic gains by weakening one of its two major threats. It will also be a struggle that will keep sending a clear message about U.S. resolve to China." >> >> Full: https://www.csis.org/analysis/united-states-aid-ukraine-investment-whose-benefits-greatly-exceed-its-cost >> >> >> >> >> >> > > _._,_._,_ > Groups.io Links: > You receive all messages sent to this group. > > View/Reply Online (#20764) | Reply To Group | Reply To Sender | Mute This Topic | New Topic > > POSTING RULES & NOTES > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. > Your Subscription | Contact Group Owner | Unsubscribe [carl at newsfromneptune.com] > _._,_._,_ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Fri Dec 9 04:42:15 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 22:42:15 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Abortion is not healthcare References: <3D.AA.21746.FD212936@emsmta16> Message-ID: <699D485B-03FC-4BC5-A5A9-BE58B592C0CD@newsfromneptune.com> Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Martin Fox > Date: December 8, 2022 at 10:37:53 AM CST > To: Carl Estabrook > Subject: Abortion is not healthcare > Reply-To: martin.fox at prolifealliance.org > > ? > > > Dear Carl, > > In a desperate attempt to keep raking in taxpayer dollars, Planned Parenthood is spreading lies to mask its life-ending business as ?healthcare.? > > For example, Planned Parenthood publicly claims to provide prenatal care. > > But when a pregnant woman investigated this claim, ninety-four of the ninety-seven facilities she called refused to help her. > > ?Planned Parenthood offers abortions so they don?t offer prenatal care,? admitted one employee from Tempe, Arizona. > > Another employee from Merrillville, Indiana confessed, ?No, we don?t do prenatal service. I mean, it?s called ?Planned Parenthood.? I know it?s kind of deceiving.? > > But you and I have long known the truth about the abortion giant. > > As Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood manager, stated, ?Their business model is simple. Sell abortions. Increase revenue. Don?t be fooled by the smoke and mirrors.? > > The fact is, every day across the nation, Planned Parenthood rips babies apart, poisons them, or sucks them out of their mothers? wombs with a vacuum powerful enough to crush a tin can. > > So it?s pretty clear that Planned Parenthood isn?t in the business of ?healthcare.? > > They?re in the business of ending unborn lives. > > For Life, > > Martin Fox, President > National Pro-Life Alliance > > P.S. If you can, please chip in with a contribution by clicking here. Your National Pro-Life Alliance is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions to keep our vital programs running. Unlike Planned Parenthood, we receive no government funding. > > > The National Pro-Life Alliance's address is 5211 Port Royal Road, Suite 500, Springfield, VA 22151. > > Not produced or e-mailed at taxpayer expense. > > Because of NPLA's tax-exempt status under IRC Sec. 501(c)(4) and its state and federal legislative activities, contributions are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions (IRC ? 170) or as business deductions (IRC ? 162(e)(1)). Privacy Policy. > > > This message was intended for: carl at newsfromneptune.com > You were added to the system February 8, 2021. > For more information click here. Update your preferences > Unsubscribe | Unsubscribe via email > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmedina67 at gmail.com Fri Dec 9 05:36:36 2022 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67) Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:36:36 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Abortion is not healthcare In-Reply-To: <699D485B-03FC-4BC5-A5A9-BE58B592C0CD@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <6392c967.020a0220.a7ad0.025d@mx.google.com> Planned Parenthood was the only place i could get healthcare when i was a poor graduate student and not employed as a TA over the summer.?- Karen Medina"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" - Mark Twain -------- Original message --------From: "C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" Date: 12/8/22 22:42 (GMT-06:00) To: peace , Peace Discuss Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Abortion is not healthcare Sent from my iPhoneBegin forwarded message:From: Martin Fox Date: December 8, 2022 at 10:37:53 AM CSTTo: Carl Estabrook Subject: Abortion is not healthcareReply-To: martin.fox at prolifealliance.org? Dear Carl, In a desperate attempt to keep raking in taxpayer dollars, Planned Parenthood is spreading lies to mask its life-ending business as ?healthcare.? For example, Planned Parenthood publicly claims to provide prenatal care. But when a pregnant woman investigated this claim, ninety-four of the ninety-seven facilities she called refused to help her. ?Planned Parenthood offers abortions so they don?t offer prenatal care,? admitted one employee from Tempe, Arizona. Another employee from Merrillville, Indiana confessed, ?No, we don?t do prenatal service. I mean, it?s called ?Planned Parenthood.? I know it?s kind of deceiving.? But you and I have long known the truth about the abortion giant. As Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood manager, stated, ?Their business model is simple. Sell abortions. Increase revenue. Don?t be fooled by the smoke and mirrors.? The fact is, every day across the nation, Planned Parenthood rips babies apart, poisons them, or sucks them out of their mothers? wombs with a vacuum powerful enough to crush a tin can. So it?s pretty clear that Planned Parenthood isn?t in the business of ?healthcare.? They?re in the business of ending unborn lives. For Life, Martin Fox, President National Pro-Life Alliance P.S. If you can, please chip in with a contribution by clicking here. Your National Pro-Life Alliance is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions to keep our vital programs running. Unlike Planned Parenthood, we receive no government funding. The National Pro-Life Alliance's address is 5211 Port Royal Road, Suite 500, Springfield, VA 22151. Not produced or e-mailed at taxpayer expense. Because of NPLA's tax-exempt status under IRC Sec. 501(c)(4) and its state and federal legislative activities, contributions are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions (IRC ? 170) or as business deductions (IRC ? 162(e)(1)). Privacy Policy. This message was intended for: carl at newsfromneptune.com You were added to the system February 8, 2021. For more information click here. Update your preferences Unsubscribe | Unsubscribe via email -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From moboct1 at aol.com Fri Dec 9 13:41:16 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (moboct1 at aol.com) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 13:41:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: Abortion is not healthcare In-Reply-To: <699D485B-03FC-4BC5-A5A9-BE58B592C0CD@newsfromneptune.com> References: <3D.AA.21746.FD212936@emsmta16> <699D485B-03FC-4BC5-A5A9-BE58B592C0CD@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <1548989320.1901122.1670593276213@mail.yahoo.com> l agree;? ABORTION IS NOT HEALTHCARE--CERTAINLY NOT FOR A FETUS! Midge -----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace To: peace ; Peace Discuss Sent: Thu, Dec 8, 2022 10:43 pm Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Abortion is not healthcare Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Martin Fox Date: December 8, 2022 at 10:37:53 AM CST To: Carl Estabrook Subject: Abortion is not healthcare Reply-To: martin.fox at prolifealliance.org ? | Dear Carl, In a desperate attempt to keep raking in taxpayer dollars, Planned Parenthood is spreading liesto mask its life-ending business as ?healthcare.? For example, Planned Parenthoodpublicly claims to provide prenatal care. But when a pregnant woman investigated this claim,ninety-four of the ninety-seven facilities she called refused to help her. ?PlannedParenthood offers abortions so they don?t offer prenatal care,? admitted one employee from Tempe, Arizona. Another employee from Merrillville, Indiana confessed, ?No, we don?t do prenatal service. I mean, it?s called?Planned Parenthood.? I know it?s kind of deceiving.? But you and Ihave long known the truth about the abortion giant. As Abby Johnson, a former PlannedParenthood manager, stated, ?Their business model is simple. Sell abortions. Increase revenue. Don?t be fooled by the smoke andmirrors.? The fact is, every day across the nation, Planned Parenthood rips babiesapart, poisons them, or sucks them out of their mothers? wombs with a vacuum powerful enough to crush a tin can. So it?s pretty clear that Planned Parenthood isn?t in the business of ?healthcare.? They?re in the business of ending unborn lives. ForLife, Martin Fox, President National Pro-Life Alliance P.S. If you can, please chip in with a contributionby clicking here. Your National Pro-Life Alliance is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions to keep our vital programs running.Unlike Planned Parenthood, we receive no government funding. The National Pro-Life Alliance's address is5211 Port Royal Road, Suite 500, Springfield, VA 22151. Not produced or e-mailed at taxpayerexpense. Because of NPLA's tax-exempt status under IRC Sec. 501(c)(4) and its state andfederal legislative activities, contributions are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions (IRC ? 170) oras business deductions (IRC ? 162(e)(1)). Privacy Policy. | This message was intended for: carl at newsfromneptune.com You were added to the system February 8, 2021. For more information click here. Update your preferences Unsubscribe | Unsubscribe via email _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmedina67 at gmail.com Sat Dec 10 22:14:31 2022 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:14:31 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: Abortion is not healthcare In-Reply-To: <1548989320.1901122.1670593276213@mail.yahoo.com> References: <3D.AA.21746.FD212936@emsmta16> <699D485B-03FC-4BC5-A5A9-BE58B592C0CD@newsfromneptune.com> <1548989320.1901122.1670593276213@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: > ABORTION IS NOT HEALTHCARE > Midge Abortion had better be healthcare if we value the life of the woman. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kmedina67 at gmail.com Sat Dec 10 22:29:46 2022 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 16:29:46 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: Abortion is healthcare In-Reply-To: References: <3D.AA.21746.FD212936@emsmta16> <699D485B-03FC-4BC5-A5A9-BE58B592C0CD@newsfromneptune.com> <1548989320.1901122.1670593276213@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Women's health is not valued. Thirty years ago, I went to the emergency room because I was afraid that I was having a miscarriage. All they did was tell me that yes I had had a miscarriage and they sent me home. No counseling, no helpful information, not one bit of concern for the "why?" Because, it turns out, miscarriages happen a lot. And back before the 1990s, nobody talked about things like miscarriages in public. I had no clue that my grandmothers had had miscarriages, my aunts, ... it was like that with cancer too. If a man in the family had cancer, everyone was talking about it quietly; but if a woman in the family had cancer there was silence. Women's health is just not valued. And if your skin is a bit darker, ... then your healthcare is not even taught in medical school. -karen medina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From moboct1 at aol.com Sat Dec 10 23:23:39 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (moboct1 at aol.com) Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 23:23:39 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: Abortion is not healthcare In-Reply-To: References: <3D.AA.21746.FD212936@emsmta16> <699D485B-03FC-4BC5-A5A9-BE58B592C0CD@newsfromneptune.com> <1548989320.1901122.1670593276213@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <949963966.365193.1670714619135@mail.yahoo.com> I think I (intended to) added: not healthcare "for the Fetus" - although with an unintended, unwanted pregnancy, emotional healthcare for the pregnant woman.? Pregnancy involves two persons. Midge -----Original Message----- From: Karen Medina via Peace-discuss To: moboct1 at aol.com Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net Sent: Sat, Dec 10, 2022 4:15 pm Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Fwd: Abortion is not healthcare > ABORTION IS NOT HEALTHCARE> Midge Abortion had better be healthcare if we value the life of the woman. _______________________________________________ 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 kmedina67 at gmail.com Mon Dec 12 02:25:57 2022 From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina) Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 20:25:57 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Netflix is streaming "Farha" a film with Palestinian characters Message-ID: This article was brought to my attention by Janet Wesse and I thought I would share it with Peace-discuss. It talks about the film "Farha" --about a Palestinian girl, her father, --- and how Israel was upset that Netflix is streaming it. Best regards, -karen medina Article title: "Jordan's official Oscar entry Farha grants the Palestinian Diaspora permission to narrate" [in the Middle East Monitor ] by Dr Suja Sawafta On 1 December [2022], Netflix began streaming* Farha *(2021) worldwide, despite immense pressure directed at the platform to prevent its debut. The film is director Darin J. Sallam's first full-length feature and chronicles the coming-of-age story of its heroine, Farha, a 14-year-old Palestinian teenager who possesses a voracious appetite for books and learning. Farha's cultural background is that of a villager ? her Arabic dialect infused with the authenticity often associated with Palestinian grandparents, particularly the generation born in the decade just before or that of the Nakba itself. Yet, what makes Farha a distinguished heroine isn't necessarily her linguistic veracity, it is her bravery and her desire to pursue her education at a school in the neighbouring city. At the start of the film, she is seen at one with the land, collecting water from the local spring, eating figs straight from the communal trees and collecting almonds in her satchel, still intact and unpeeled. She goes through the motions of her chores in the village, but her mind often wanders into the literary worlds of the books she reads, novels gifted to her by her best friend Fareeda, who is from a city-dwelling family not far from the village from which Farha hails. The first scenes of the film show Farha as a dreamer, a girl who urges her father, a man of mayoral standing, to register her in the city's school. Her father is hesitant as he believes her economic livelihood is best secured through the arrangement of marriage and that the local Quran recitation learning groups provided by the Sheikh are a sufficient education. Still, Farha fights for her desire to learn and secures the support of many an ally in her extended family and community to finally convince her father. On the eve of the Nakba, he signs her enrolment certificate. Throughout the film, there are peripheral present-absent signifiers of just how troubling the situation in Palestine has become. Talk of resistance tactics and meetings between rebels and the officials hint that the historical events of the Nakba and its tragedy are on the cusp of eruption. These more politicised characters weave in and out of frames of the film, infiltrating the scenes with reminders, only to give way to Farha's experience, which remains at the centre. Slowly but surely, the viewer's understanding expands organically with Farha's, and we see that this curious girl, who had very little understanding of the depth of this dire situation, is forced to contend with its brutality as a witness and as a survivor of violence, loss and dispossession. In fact, Farha's father hides her in a closet where she remains trapped throughout the most violent moments that befall her village, and she is left alone to deal with the aftermath. *OPINION: Israel's terror against Gaza's children on Netflix * The film was produced by TaleBox, a production company co-founded by Sallam and producer Deema Azar. Ayah Jardaneh also served as the producer of the film. The film likewise received support from Laika Film & Television, Chimney, The Jordan Film Fund ? Royal Film Commission, the Swedish Film Institute and the Red Sea Film Fund (an initiative of the Red Sea Film Festival). It remains a largely Jordanian-based initiative, highlighting the lived experience of Palestine and Palestinians, with support from European-based organisations. On a political level, *Farha* has depicted the tragedy of the Nakba for the first time through film and employs what the late Palestinian American scholar, Edward Said, has called the "permission to narrate" the Palestinian experience against many odds. In response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and its aftermath, Said penned "Permission to Narrate" for the *Journal of Palestine Studies* in 1984. In it, he notes: "A disciplinary communications apparatus exists in the West both for overlooking most of the basic things that might present Israel in a bad light and for punishing those who try to tell the truth." In short, Said's argument can be summed up as such: despite declassified archives, countless human rights reports, international organisation inquiries and both official and ethnographic accounts of Palestinian plight and dispossession from Nakba to diaspora and from Nakba to military occupation, the Palestinians have been denied the right to narrate their own stories. They have also been denied the privilege of seeing their experience reflected back at them through film and literature and, by extension, preventing them from experiencing the catharsis that comes with artistic acknowledgement and representation. *Farha* has granted the Palestinian diaspora permission to narrate this story on one of the world's largest entertainment streaming platforms. More importantly, Farha's story has been recounted, in numerous iterations and manifestations, 700,000 times by the first generation of the dispossessed. The trauma of that memory remains forever fixed in the minds of the descendants of those who were forcibly displaced ? a global diasporic population of nearly six million people and counting ? approximately half of the total population of 12 million Palestinians across the historical homeland and outside of it. This population has been classified by the international community, despite its many failures towards it, as ipso facto stateless. [image: Palestinian's culture and heritage is the best weapon against the Occupation - Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor]] Palestinian's culture and heritage is the best weapon against the Occupation ? Cartoon [Sabaaneh/MiddleEastMonitor] While on the one hand, *Farha* has been hailed by many viewers as an incredible feat, it comes as no surprise that the film has been targeted by Israeli officials and has caused outrage. Israel's Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman issued a statement condemning Netflix , stating his belief that: "It's crazy that Netflix decided to stream a movie whose whole purpose is to create a false pretence and cite against Israeli soldiers." Though *Farha* has been screened globally in many film festivals and series since its debut in 2021, at venues such as Dubai-based Cinema Akil and intentional film festivals, including the Toronto Film Festival, the Red Sea Film Festival and others, it is its recent reincarnation on Netflix and its screening at Saraya, a theatre in Jaffa that has caused the most outrage towards the film. The Israeli government has threatened to act against Saraya and has encouraged a mass exodus of subscribers to Netflix. While many regional and international news networks hail the film for its artistic and historical merits, there is also a cacophony of discordant opinions about it, with publications like *Fox News* and *The Times of Israel* labelling the film as "terrible" or as "lies and libels", whilst other major publishers such as *The New York Times* tiptoe around the film's representations, selecting its words carefully to maintain its readership. Sites such as IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes have seen an onslaught of divided reviews: either five-star glowing recommendations from the film's supporters or comments of rage and disbelief from its detractors. In all the opinions emerging in the now global conversation surrounding this film, there has been no mention of Sallam's other smaller work, *The Parrot*, a 2016 short film she co-directed with Amjad Al-Rasheed. In eighteen powerful minutes, *The Parrot* follows the story of a Tunisian Jewish family who arrives in Haifa and takes up residence in a home belonging to a Palestinian Greek-Orthodox family. Their clothing, blue-tinted walls and Christian iconography, which borrow heavily from the aesthetic and colour-scape of local churches, are left behind by the displaced family. The breakfast and tea on the table are still hot, and the new occupants, played by Tunisian actress Hend Sabry as Rachel and Palestinian citizen of Israel Ashraf Barhom as Mousa, are haunted by the spectre of the family that once lived there and by the constant echoes of the parrot that was left behind and calls out after the Palestinian boy who owned him asking for a kiss. The parrot also repeats "where are you?" and "why are you looking at me like that" incessantly. *OPINION: Healing with humour, Palestinian comedians strike a chord in occupied cities * Yet, for viewers who are unaware of the Nakba, this imagery and the story of Palestinian displacement remain subliminal. Instead, what takes centre stage is the othering of Eastern Jews who find themselves in Euro-Israeli modernity, one that they can't quite figure out. As such, by the end of the short film, many viewers would engage in a conversation about the depiction of an intense encounter between the Tunisian Jewish family and their Ashkenazi neighbours, who look at the architecture and structure of the house in Haifa with envy, bewildered at how Eastern Jews, othered and orientalised, had acquired such luck. The film is as much a critique of ethnic relations among Israelis as it is about the Palestinian exodus, and, like *Farha*, it tells a tragic tale through beautifully directed cinematography and crafted set and costume designs. The pleasing nature of Sallam's use of pastels, verdure and white stone almost works as an antidote to the harsh emotional blow to the nerves that her cinematic tales have delivered thus far and will continue to do in the future. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Dec 14 18:44:08 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:44:08 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Join Rep. 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YouTube has made it clear to Dore that he can't host such talk on YouTube (and where he can he has to include a couple of sentences that he knows are suspicious at the least about the efficacy of the COVID-19 jabs or he risks losing his YouTube channel). So, for now, YouTube is apparently letting Rumble eat YouTube's lunch. Free software players like mpv will play live and downloaded Rumble shows, and free software downloaders like yt-dlp can download Rumble shows. Glenn Greenwald https://rumble.com/c/GGreenwald Live weekdays at 6PM Central Jimmy Dore https://rumble.com/c/TheJimmyDoreShow Live usually Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6PM Central but sometimes he goes live earlier Kim Iversen https://rumble.com/c/KimIversen Show is in previews now, said to run live weekdays at 5PM Central Tulsi Gabbard https://rumble.com/c/TulsiGabbard I'm not sure what her live schedule is or will be. I seem to find new interviews weekly on her channel. Russell Brand https://rumble.com/c/russellbrand Live weekdays at noon Central All times are current and need to be adjusted to keep up with timezone changes. From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Dec 22 00:15:44 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:15:44 -0800 Subject: [Peace-discuss] End war with Russia Message-ID: US must cease its war to ?weaken Russia,? as it says. The Biden administration must seek a ceasefire. Only defensive weapons and material aid should be provided to Ukraine. No offensive weapons. 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In-Reply-To: <1831291434.517539.1671674321733@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <63a3c6fb.050a0220.fe2d3.c71e@mx.google.com> The US is using the Ukrane as a pawn.We -- the US and the Ukrane -- should be investing in peace negotiations with Russia.- KarenPS i am worried about Noam Chomsky. He is extremely valuable to humankind -------- Original message --------From: moboct1--- via Peace Date: 12/21/22 19:58 (GMT-06:00) To: peace at lists.chambana.net Subject: [Peace] End war with Russia--YEAH SURE,? IN YOUR DREAMS! OFFICIALLY TAXPAYERS HAVE CONTRIBUTED $68 BILLION IN WEAPONRY SO FAR THIS YEAR TO UKRAINE PLUS THE $37 BILLION PLEGED TODAY BY PRESIDENT BIDEN TOTALING $105 BILLIONS) IN A KNEE-JERK WELCOME TO PRES. ZELINSKI WHO ADMITEDLY IS ON A VISIT TO APPEAL FOR STILL MORE MONEY FOR WEAPONS.? AS IF MORE WEAPONS WILL INCREASE THE POSSIBILITY OF RUSSIA'S DEFEAT.? HIS SUCCESS IN ACQUIRING "AS MUCH AS IT TAKES" (ONE FIGURE ADVANCED WAS A BILLION DOLLARS A DAY OR WHATEVER IT TAKES") WAS ASSURED BY BIDEN AND DEFENSE OFFICIALS (TO SAY NOTHING OF SILENT FUNDS?FROM THE CIA, WHICH IS ALWAYS OFF-BUDGET).??IT IS AFTER ALL THE PENTAGON'S WAR (ALBEIT A PROXY WAR, NO U.S. SOLDIERS AFTER AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ--AND IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING--VIETNAM!).? AMERICA?LOVES A BIPARTISON WAR (WHEN IT DOESN'T TAKE PLACE ON OUR REAL ESTATE), ESPECIALLY AGAINST OUR #1 ENEMY, POOTIN.LIKE INFLATION?? LIKE WAR?? OLE TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING: AMERICA PAYS TOO MUCH TO NATO!? BUT WITH A BUDGET OF $1.7 TRILLION, TO PARAPHRASE AN OLD ILLINOIS SENATOR (DIRKSEN) WHAT'S A FEW HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS?? "A BILLION HERE AND A BILLION THERE, PRETTY SOON IT ADDS UP TO SERIOUS MONEY"? ONLY THE TITANS OF WAR APPROVE.CEASE FIRE ANYONE???mo'b?----Original Message-----From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace Cc: Peace Discuss Sent: Wed, Dec 21, 2022 6:16 pmSubject: [Peace] End war with RussiaUS must cease? its war to ?weaken Russia,? as it says. The Biden administration must seek a ceasefire. Only defensive weapons and material aid should be provided to Ukraine. No offensive weapons.Sent from my iPhone_______________________________________________Peace mailing listPeace at lists.chambana.nethttps://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Fri Dec 23 05:31:20 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:31:20 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pepe Escobar alert Message-ID: <6d36287d-6ae0-6881-191f-da96068ebd63@forestfield.org> If you like Pepe Escobar's coverage, consider watching or listening to: https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/568576-ukraine-peace-europe-security/ with Pepe Escobar, Luc Rivet, and Gerald Celente where you can find video, audio, and likely soon also a transcript. Video of the same show is also on https://rumble.com/v21os36-crosstalk-illusive-peace.html https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/CT2112:a From carl at newsfromneptune.com Fri Dec 23 07:29:04 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:29:04 -0800 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Announcing Rage Against the War Machine! References: <63a50017328ab_8fac3fef3e390e781390ac@ip-10-0-0-225.mail> Message-ID: <3D32146A-F63F-4E0F-B3B8-5DCE47CD1A8E@newsfromneptune.com> Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "Nick Brana, People's Party" > Date: December 22, 2022 at 5:10:50 PM PST > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Subject: Announcing Rage Against the War Machine! > Reply-To: organize at peoplesparty.org > > ? > > CG, > > At this very moment Congress is rushing through a 2023 budget bill that will send Ukraine another $50 billion for war against Russia. That will bring the total to more than $100 billion this year, more than the entire US Federal Government's spending on housing assistance, labor, science, the environment, and transportation. > > > > We have had it with these damn wars blowing up the cost of food and gas, burning American resources, killing people abroad, and being used to take our civil liberties. For decades democracy in this country has been a sham. We all know that this country is actually ruled by a military-industrial deep state. They murdered JFK when he tried to disband the CIA. Now with the rise of China and the BRICS nations, the neocons at the Pentagon have brought us to the edge of a nuclear WW3 in Ukraine in their insane quest to maintain US hegemony at all costs. > > > > That's why on February 19, the anniversary of the war in Ukraine, we are partnering with the Libertarian Party and uniting people across left and right to Rage Against the War Machine! Join us for an anti-war rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. We'll be joined by veterans, speakers, rock bands, comedians, and more. Jimmy Dore, Medea Benjamin, Scott Horton, Garland Nixon, and many others will be there. > > > > We will demand that not one more penny go towards war in Ukraine and that the US negotiate peace. We will also demand the abolition of NATO, the CIA, war, and empire entirely. After the rally we will march to the White House to deliver our demands to Warmonger in Chief Joe Biden. > > > > > View and Share the Website on Social Media > Contribute to Support the Rally > > > Every week now there is some new shocking provocation against Russia, some of which were unthinkable even during the Cold War. The Ukrainian missile that hit Poland nearly triggered NATO's Article Five. Ukraine bombed Russian nuclear airbases and got US permission to keep attacking mainland Russia. The US is surfacing nuclear subs to menace Russia. > > > > This is why even the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says we need to negotiate an end to this war. It's why NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he fears that we are heading for a direct war with Russia -- right before saying that the solution is to escalate faster and harder. And it's why you need to join us at the Lincoln Memorial to Rage Against the War Machine. > > > > We're working to organize the biggest US anti-war protest in decades because that's what this moment in history calls for. We need funds for a stage, jumbotrons, large speakers, video production, buses to DC, banners, flyers, and more. We've set a target of $45,000. Please give what you can. Anything you can donate helps. > > > > Last night Libertarian Party Chair Angela McArdle and I announced the rally on The Jimmy Dore Show. Look out for the video, coming soon on his YouTube and Rumble channels. > > > > This February, we Rage Against the War Machine! > > > > Nick Brana > > National Chair > > People?s Party > > > > Contribute to Support our Work > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent via ActionNetwork.org. 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Estabrook) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:09:17 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=5BNew_post=5D_Benjamin_Netanya?= =?utf-8?q?hu_and_the_Final_=E2=80=98Execution_of_the_Palestinian_People?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZ?= References: <174340743.31683.0@wordpress.com> Message-ID: <66E44136-BA8E-4140-BDBC-DE416510CFF4@newsfromneptune.com> Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "scheerpost.com" > Date: December 29, 2022 at 4:12:55 PM CST > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Subject: [New post] Benjamin Netanyahu and the Final ?Execution of the Palestinian People? > > ? > scheerpost.com > Benjamin Netanyahu and the Final ?Execution of the Palestinian People? > SP Editor > Dec 29 > > Benjamin Netanyahu is swinging even further right than anyone could have imagined. [Screen shot / YouTube] > By Juan Cole | Informed Comment > > As part of his bargain with the fascist blocs of Religious Zionism and Jewish Power, according to the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, incoming Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke of an ?exclusive Jewish right? to expand settlements inside Israel praper, in Galilee and the Negev, as well as to plant squatters in the Palestinian West Bank. > > BECOME A SCheerPOST PATRON make a donation on paypal > An exclusive Jewish right to settle and live in the land implicitly announces that that the 6.5 million Palestinians who live on it are there by suffrage and maybe have no right to be there at all. That right is exclusively Jewish, Netanyahu says. > > A Jordanian newspaper called this plank of his platform ?the execution of the Palestinian people.? > > According to the Associated Press, Netanyahu announced that he will legalize those Israeli squatter-settlements on Palestinian-owned land that even Israel had considered illegal. He would vastly expand the number of Israeli squatters in the Palestinian West Bank. And ultimately, he pledged to annex the Palestinian West Bank entirely to Israel. > > Since Netanyahu has no intention of ever granting Israeli citizenship to the 3 million Palestinians living under Israeli military rule, the formal annexation of their territory would cement Israel?s Apartheid system of racial difference. > > According to Arab 48, the Adalah human rights organization denounced the platform as openly racist, discriminatory and Jewish supremacist, especially the language about exclusive Jewish rights to the land, which implies that Palestinian East Jerusalem will never be allowed to become the capital of a Palestinian state. Adalah called on the world to take a stand against this flagrant Israeli Apartheid. > > The outline of Netanyahu?s governmental program ominously said that preference would be given to former soldiers in the Israeli army for admission to university departments of medicine, law, computer science, accounting and engineering. Since the 21% of the population who are of Palestinian heritage are not permitted to serve in the military, this step would put them at a severe disadvantage in receiving admission to those departments. Only the small community of Druze are an exception to the ban on military service. > > He wants to make reforms in the education system. The mealy-mouthed contradictions are apparent in his pledge both to treat all communities equally and to use the education system to ?strengthen Jewish identity.? > > Likewise, he will safeguard the Jewish character of the state, but not upset the status quo among the various religions in Israel. (Most of the 21% who are of Palestinian heritage are Muslim, but there is a vocal Christian minority that is increasingly upset about Jewish attacks on churches and attempts to take away church lands. Netanyahu?s new best friends on the fascist Right are for anything but treating non-Jews equally or maintaining the status quo regarding Muslim and Christian places of worship. > > But of course Palestinian-Israelis are 21% of the population and sometimes they can have an impact on elections, so Netanyahu turned around and said in his platform that he would address issues in insecurity and crime in Palestinian-Israeli communities, and would invest in education and infrastructure for them. Very magnanimous of him, since apparently they are excluded from the exclusively Jewish right to even be there. > > His platform made a sinister call for a ?rebalancing? of the powers of the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, with the implication that the judiciary would be cut down to size. Netanyahu is on trial for corruption before the courts. Netanyahu apparently wants to strike down the prerogative of judicial review of laws that appear to contradict organic laws that have a constitutional character. In short, the supreme court could not overturn a law of the parliament or Knesset that its justices believe to be unconstitutional. > > It is sort of as as though Steve Bannon were elected president and started rejiggering the U.S. constitution and racial relations, only in Hebrew. > > Subscribe to our weekly newsletter > > * indicates required > Email Address * > > > > > > Juan Cole > Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. > > Informed Comment > Comment > Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from scheerpost.com. > Change your email settings at manage subscriptions. > Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: > https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/29/benjamin-netanyahu-and-the-final-execution-of-the-palestinian-people/ > Powered by WordPress.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sat Dec 31 07:22:18 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 01:22:18 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?New_year_and_new_Congress_won=E2=80=99?= =?utf-8?q?t_silence_the_same_old_war_drums_in_Washington?= Message-ID: <7EC03BEF-45EF-4097-B0F3-43B3711CCFC1@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.rt.com/news/569202-republicans-defy-voters-on-ukraine-policy/ Sent from my iPhone From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Dec 31 20:47:47 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:47:47 -0600 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?New_year_and_new_Congress_won=E2=80=99?= =?utf-8?q?t_silence_the_same_old_war_drums_in_Washington?= In-Reply-To: <7EC03BEF-45EF-4097-B0F3-43B3711CCFC1@newsfromneptune.com> References: <7EC03BEF-45EF-4097-B0F3-43B3711CCFC1@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <0d3abb9e-d96d-5b50-69d5-90e3264dff07@forestfield.org> C. G. Estabrook wrote: > https://www.rt.com/news/569202-republicans-defy-voters-on-ukraine-policy/ The same op-ed author, Tony Cox, wrote supportively of Tulsi Gabbard (former Democrat House rep from Hawaii): > In short, she was like a far better version of Kamala Harris. Try to imagine the > current vice president being younger, smarter, likable and principled. Sprinkle in > some extra credit points for military service and an ability to seem human, > without the uncontrollable laughing in the most inappropriate moments. That would > be Tulsi Gabbard. I don't share Cox's optimistic view of Gabbard, as many here already know. Gabbard's previous statements on war (supposedly against "regime change wars" but for "surgical strikes" via drone[1]) struck me as indistinguishable from pro-war positions, particularly given what we knew at the time. In 2015 Daniel Hale told us and in 2021 Marjorie Cohn reported in https://truthout.org/articles/drone-whistleblower-gets-45-months-in-prison-for-revealing-ongoing-us-war-crimes/ > During one five-month period during January 2012 to February 2013, nearly 90 > percent of those killed by drone strikes were not the intended target ... But > civilian bystanders were nonetheless classified as 'enemies killed in action' > unless proven otherwise. That report and The Intercept's 2015 "The Drone Papers" series (see https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/ for more) detailed the Obama/Biden administration's use of drones to kill people worldwide (including Americans and minors including Anwar & Abdulrahman al-Awlaki) apparently with no due process. Despite the reality of US drone war crimes, Gabbard was then called "anti-war" and "anti-establishment" by both her supporters and opponents (RT's CrossTalk show even called her "a real anti-war candidate" in https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/451973-tulsi-gabbard-peace-candidate/). The multi-year regime change war against Russia via Ukraine is being carried out in part with drones (contrary to a dismissive response suggesting this was not worthy of consideration) highlighting the unclarity of Gabbard's stance. A couple of paragraphs in that same Tony Cox op-ed piece caught my eye regarding the strategy of supporting Republicans in order to reject Democratic Party belligerency: > When Gabbard announced her exit from the Democratic Party on Tuesday, she spoke of > ?cowardly wokeness,? racial divisiveness, hostility toward people of faith and > weaponization of law enforcement against political opponents. But the one real > deal killer, the one truly irreconcilable difference, was war. ?I can no longer > remain in today?s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an > elitist cabal of warmongers,? she said. > > Sadly, she could have said the same thing about the Republican Party. As economist > and policy analyst Jeffrey Sachs pointed out in an interview on Monday, ?This > country is a war machine at the top.? He added, ?We are a security state. We have > a secret state which runs most of our foreign and military policy.? This coupled with Gabbard's stance against independent candidacy or running with a third party (as she told Primo Nutmeg) makes me wonder if she'll run for elective office again with the Republicans[3], a party no less belligerent than the Democrats she criticized. [1] Then Rep. Tulsi Gabbard told The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill in 2018 (see https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ for audio and transcript), "[...] 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 still don't think that people who maintain such conflicting views are seriously anti-war. [2] Star Wars actor Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) "revealed he sent over 500 drones to Ukraine via the country?s United24 fundraising platform in [September-October 2022]" (https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/565068-mark-hamill-drones-ukraine-ambassador/) or "The government in Kiev has requested from the US a number of C-RAM minigun air defense systems to counter Russian drone strikes [...]" (https://www.rt.com/russia/566164-ukraine-drone-air-defenses/). [3] As I wrote on 2022-10-11: "I'll give Gabbard credit for leaving a neocon party. I'll withdraw this credit if she later joins the Republicans because they're also a neocon party (these parties agree on all of the biggest issues of the day, issues that cost the most money and lives, because both of those parties are funded by same people/organizations)."