From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Jun 1 21:26:25 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 16:26:25 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] LIVE Tonight: The Acquittal of Hillary's Lawyer, a Verdict in the Depp/Amber Trial, and a Clear Narrative Shift in Ukraine Message-ID: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/live-tonight-the-acquittal-of-hillarys From jbn at forestfield.org Fri Jun 3 14:45:41 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 09:45:41 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pepe Escobar on CrossTalk Message-ID: <9936b1f0-9bba-e82b-2f05-fdf14195a50e@forestfield.org> CrossTalk | ?Sanctions, more sanctions? (Peter LaVelle, Pepe Escobar, Tom Luongo, and Charles Ortel panel show) https://rumble.com/v176ip3-crosstalk-sanctions-more-sanctions.html From moboct1 at aol.com Fri Jun 3 16:50:04 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 16:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Grayzone video (J. B. Nicholson's Link to video 5/30/22 about the trial of Michael Sussman) References: <1150831531.3791146.1654275004110.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1150831531.3791146.1654275004110@mail.yahoo.com> After spending l-l/2 hours listening to Max Blumenthal, Aaron Matte and Ray McGovern's entertaining discussion of DNC complicity in the "Russiagate-Alfa Bank Hoax/Crock" trial (Grayzone May 30, 2022), I was shocked, SHOCKED! (guess I shouldn't have been) to hear news next day that Michael Sussman (Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign attorney) was ACQUITTED of charges that he LIED to the FIB [sic].? That's a "crock"!? Wonder how much that trial cost US (us)? taxpayers... Midge -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Fri Jun 3 19:55:25 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 14:55:25 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] RT: "African Union wants Russian sanctions lifted"; BBC: "Russian military control" shows more land than land "Held or regained by Ukraine" Message-ID: Apparently the US-based sanctions against Russia are also harming Africa (these same sanctions are also harming Americans). RT: The continent faces the worst hunger in decades as global food prices soar. From https://www.rt.com/business/556561-africa-wants-russian-sanctions-lifted/ > Western sanctions against Russia threaten Africa with a food security crisis, the > head of the African Union (AU) and Senegalese President Macky Sall said during a > meeting, in Sochi, on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He advocated > the abolition of restrictions that apply to Russian grain crops and mineral > fertilizers. > > ?Sanctions against the Russian Federation have exacerbated the situation because > we no longer have access to grain, especially wheat from Russia, and most > importantly, to fertilizers, which poses a serious threat to food security on the > continent,? said Sall. > > He pointed out two major problems, the global food crisis and anti-Russia > sanctions, and said those problems needed to be worked out so that food products, > in particular grains and fertilizers, are removed from the sanctions list. > > President Putin, meanwhile, said that Russian-African relations are currently at a > new stage of development, which is very important for both sides. ?I would like to > remind that our country has always been on the side of Africa, supported Africa in > the fight against colonialism,? he said. > > According to Putin, the volume of bilateral trade between Russia and the continent > has been growing and is up by more than 34% in the first months of this year. > > The United Nations has warned recently of a worsening global food crisis due to > the conflict in Ukraine and Western sanctions on Russia. The situation is > particularly dire in East Africa, a region that has traditionally procured roughly > 90% of its imported grain from Russia and Ukraine. > > According to the UN World Food Program, even before the crisis in Ukraine, around > 13 million people in the Horn of Africa suffered from hunger. Moreover, according > to the agency, the situation could become even more troublesome due to a drought > that affected crops and killed livestock in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia. > > The UN estimates that the global food crisis could put 323 million people on the > brink of starvation. Related: CrossTalk | ?Sanctions, more sanctions? (with guests Charles Ortel, Tom Luongo, and Pepe Escobar) https://rumble.com/v176ip3-crosstalk-sanctions-more-sanctions.html Description: "Writing in the New York Times, US President Joe Biden says he does not want a NATO-Russia war. He was unclear about how the conflict in Ukraine should end and negotiations do not appear to be a high priority. In the meantime, the EU has agreed to a sixth round of sanctions. All the while, Ukraine is losing on the battlefield." Regarding the claim, "Ukraine is losing on the battlefield", consider the map (https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1681D/production/_124998129_ukraine_invasion_east_map_-nc.png also attached) included in the report from the state-owned establishment-friendly outlet BBC. In this report the area in red indicating "Russian military control" is a significantly larger than the area in purple marked "held or regained by Ukraine": Ukraine war in maps: Tracking the Russian invasion https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: _124998129_ukraine_invasion_east_map_-nc.png Type: image/png Size: 475211 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Jun 4 01:43:02 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 20:43:02 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Woke killing: US Marines makes a joke real Message-ID: From https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1531994393950953472 posted by the U.S. Marines > Throughout June, the USMC takes #Pride in recognizing and honoring the > contributions of our LGBTQ service members. We remain committed to fostering an > environment free from discrimination, and defend the values of treating all > equally, with dignity and respect. > > #PrideMonth #USMC with the attached picture "Actual USMC advertisement 2022-06-01.jpeg". A response from 'Thomas the Dank Engine' in https://twitter.com/ComradeJumico/status/1532035353070161921 replied "Y'all saw this meme and thought 'good idea!'" with the attached picture "LGBT+ killing.jpeg". Jimmy Dore covered this on his live show today, archived post will come soon. 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Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your video pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members video pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's video pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's video pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== RT Ukraine fires top official behind claims of 'Russian atrocities' https://rumble.com/v173362-ukraine-fires-top-official-behind-claims-of-russian-atrocities.html Germany vows more weapons for Ukraine...weapons Berlin doesn't have https://rumble.com/v1738fi-germany-vows-more-weapons-for-ukraine...weapons-berlin-doesnt-have.html Ukraine frustrated over uncertain EU membership https://rumble.com/v173g7v-ukraine-frustrated-over-uncertain-eu-membership.html ?Russiagate hoax?: Former US attorney general slams case as alleged ?dirty trick? https://rumble.com/v16y7ed-russiagate-hoax-former-us-attorney-general-slams-case-as-alleged-dirty-tric.html CrossTalk | ?Sanctions, more sanctions? (Peter LaVelle, Pepe Escobar, Tom Luongo, and Charles Ortel panel show) https://rumble.com/v176ip3-crosstalk-sanctions-more-sanctions.html European sanctions stunt global trade - Kremlin economic adviser https://rumble.com/v176os9-european-sanctions-stunt-global-trade-kremlin-economic-adviser.html Multipolarista Insane NY Times propaganda whitewashes Guantanamo prison camp https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3R70z7Mwno US model for 'democracy' Colombia has 2 massacres per week https://youtube.com/watch?v=T7473WNwfmE US meddling in Colombia's election, warns left-wing vice presidential candidate Francia M?rquez https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vjo4erYTtcs The Socialist Program with Brian Becker Official US Policy: We Can ?Win? a Nuclear War https://youtube.com/watch?v=D04jY96H8dQ Labor's World View TV ================================================== More Perfect Union How to Stop an Amazon Warehouse From Taking Over Your Town https://youtube.com/watch?v=7HEHkGKccS8 Construction Workers FIGHT BACK Against Greedy Developers https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ct8R6lH9f8o Dollar General Workers Walk Out Over Extreme Heat https://youtube.com/watch?v=rkbNwrcLLpE North Carolina Amazon Workers Are Unionizing https://youtube.com/watch?v=5SeZq0HA_eU Starbucks Is Using Absurd Excuses to Fire Union Leaders https://youtube.com/watch?v=HGazyDfIX_w Jimmy Dore Show The 100th Starbucks Store Votes To Join Union! https://youtube.com/watch?v=BgUVZt9aToY https://rumble.com/v16sjab-the-100th-starbucks-store-votes-to-join-union.html From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Jun 5 00:28:53 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 19:28:53 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Leading columns on international economy & war Message-ID: <884DF500-BBC2-488B-8637-92C5BC77DE0E@newsfromneptune.com> Trying to read the excellent columns by P. Escobar on the war and the International economy encounters two difficulties: (1) the author's elusive (because so allusive) style; and (2) his banishment by the vicious company that should make his work readily available. Happily (until one is appropriately dismayed by the content) all his recent columns are available here: . Tolle, lege. Love, cge ### From r-szoke at illinois.edu Sun Jun 5 03:04:44 2022 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 03:04:44 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] ON THE GUN FETISH Message-ID: The gun nuts keep telling us things like ?Guns don?t kill people; it?s (mentally sick?) people who kill people.? They are right in this respect: an armory of a thousand untouched guns, will not, spontaneously and by itself, harm anyone. But neither will a crowd of a thousand randomly chosen unarmed people fatally injure anyone unless some of them are actually psychotic and happen to also be carrying weapons such as knives, swords, clubs, or possibly to be thinking of their vehicle as a lethal weapon. So, it?s overwhelmingly people WITH GUNS ? not crazy people without guns ? who engage in gun violence and kill numerous people. The problem then, if you want to decrease massacres of groups of people, is to adopt policies such as: (1) keep people and guns apart as much as possible, as is already done with military weapons; (2) implement frequently mentioned ?common-sense? policies such as ?Red Flag? laws; (3) registration of all guns, gun owners, & gun users; (4) proficiency training & testing to at least the level of automobile drivers; (5) require proof of liability insurance; and (6) since so many seem unable to understand it, repeal the Second Amendment, as was done with the Prohibition (18th) amendment when it was found to be intolerable by the great majority of Americans. From r-szoke at illinois.edu Sun Jun 5 03:04:44 2022 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 03:04:44 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] ON THE GUN FETISH Message-ID: The gun nuts keep telling us things like ?Guns don?t kill people; it?s (mentally sick?) people who kill people.? They are right in this respect: an armory of a thousand untouched guns, will not, spontaneously and by itself, harm anyone. But neither will a crowd of a thousand randomly chosen unarmed people fatally injure anyone unless some of them are actually psychotic and happen to also be carrying weapons such as knives, swords, clubs, or possibly to be thinking of their vehicle as a lethal weapon. So, it?s overwhelmingly people WITH GUNS ? not crazy people without guns ? who engage in gun violence and kill numerous people. The problem then, if you want to decrease massacres of groups of people, is to adopt policies such as: (1) keep people and guns apart as much as possible, as is already done with military weapons; (2) implement frequently mentioned ?common-sense? policies such as ?Red Flag? laws; (3) registration of all guns, gun owners, & gun users; (4) proficiency training & testing to at least the level of automobile drivers; (5) require proof of liability insurance; and (6) since so many seem unable to understand it, repeal the Second Amendment, as was done with the Prohibition (18th) amendment when it was found to be intolerable by the great majority of Americans. From moboct1 at aim.com Sun Jun 5 17:29:44 2022 From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 17:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] ON THE GUN FETISH In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1942682317.4112755.1654450184445@mail.yahoo.com> Good one, Ron!? Someone may not even have to be "mentally sick" to use a gun in a fit of anger, but just the empowerment of having access to?firearms might be enough to get someone with a grievance to "settle up" to assuage his/her ego in a fit of anger, but regret it later when it's too late. mo'b -----Original Message----- From: Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net ; peace-discuss Cc: kathyszoke at gmail.com Sent: Sat, Jun 4, 2022 10:05 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] ON THE GUN FETISH The gun nuts keep telling us things like ?Guns don?t kill people; it?s (mentally sick?) people who kill people.?? They are right in this respect: an armory of a thousand untouched guns, will not, spontaneously and by itself, harm anyone.? But neither will a crowd of a thousand randomly chosen unarmed people fatally injure anyone unless some of them are actually psychotic and happen to also be carrying weapons such as knives, swords, clubs, or possibly to be thinking of their vehicle as a lethal weapon.? ??? So, it?s overwhelmingly people WITH GUNS ? not crazy people without guns ? who engage in gun violence and kill numerous people.? The problem then, if you want to decrease massacres of groups of people, is to adopt policies such as:? (1)? keep people and guns apart as much as possible, as is already done with military weapons; (2) implement frequently mentioned ?common-sense? policies such as ?Red Flag? laws; (3) registration of all guns, gun owners, & gun users; (4) proficiency training & testing to at least the level of automobile drivers; (5) require proof of liability insurance; and (6) since so many seem unable to understand? it, repeal the Second Amendment, as was done with the Prohibition (18th) amendment when it was found to be intolerable by the great majority of Americans. _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Sun Jun 5 22:31:01 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 22:31:01 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Woke killing: US Marines makes a joke real In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I wrote: > Jimmy Dore covered this on his live show today, archived post will come > soon. The segment from Friday's show (2022-06-03) has been posted and is available at multiple locations including: https://rumble.com/v179ulg-u.s.-marines-gay-virtue-signal-backfires.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzMV9miZksk Jimmy Dore's Twitter posts list his next upcoming live stream shortly before that show goes live https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore You can download posted shows or stream the show via a program called "yt-dlp": Latest yt-dlp version installer https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp Source code for yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp yt-dlp usage example on the command line to download from youtube.com: yt-dlp 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzMV9miZksk' The default settings are pretty reasonable and it's quite straightforward to download from many sites by changing the URL. Movie viewers like mpv (download installer from https://mpv.io/installation/) will use yt-dlp to stream YouTube videos which is handy if you want to see a live stream. From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Jun 11 21:47:37 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 16:47:37 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Hear from Eva Bartlett, on the ground in the Donbas, talk about her work and how Ukraine wants to kill her Message-ID: <1cafc07f39b5967fa458e84e162d1f5642a46619.camel@forestfield.org> Coverage of and recent interviews by Eva Bartlett, an independent reporter who is on the ground in the Donbas Republics. (Convo Couch) Russia, Ukraine, On The Ground Coverage w/ Eva Bartlett Shorter extract: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-0D22KcXoc Full interview: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ikR0XVM7bc This interview features interesting takes on (all time references to shorter extract video): - People get put on the Ukraine kill list Bartlett is on for doing innocent things including driving a pensioner to the place where they can pick up their pension (around 1m30s) - Whether Bartlett "entered Ukraine illegally" (3m) - "People who have been put on that kill list have been killed." (6m40s) - CBC as propagandistic state-funded media who are "notorious war propagandists, not to be trusted on anything perhaps not even the weather" (4m18s) - allegations of using civilians as human shields matches what was said to be occurring in Syria (17m) And so many more points. (Eva K Bartlett) Ukraine has a kill list, and I'm on it https://youtube.com/watch?v=JgdI-RIcRzw (by way of Eva K Bartlett) "Shes exposing the TRUTH in Ukraine and they dont like it Redacted Conversation with Eva Bartlett" https://youtube.com/watch?v=N7QEvz4X1zg Western Claims of Russian Mass Graves Near Mariupol Another Fake News Hoax--I Know, I Went To See https://youtube.com/watch?v=CeEnCcn1S3I -J From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Jun 11 22:47:18 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2022 17:47:18 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] The Biden Administration Is in No Rush to Help Ukraine Negotiate an End to the War | Branko Marcetic | Jacobin In-Reply-To: References: <3CE84200-10DB-4F9E-896E-3B1E35606DDC@earthlink.net> Message-ID: <8c2d8cf0-aac4-f3ee-25ce-6d96cba05a27@forestfield.org> C. G. Estabrook wrote: > https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/peace-talks-diplomacy-negotiations-ukraine-russia-war-biden-johnson Marcetic finds that Russian "battlefield gains remain so disappointing". It's not clear what he expected. Russia has long said it wants a buffer from an advancing NATO from the West (which also shows the lie of NATO's claim not to expand "one inch eastward") and that is reflected in a map from May 31, 2022 from state-funded BBC (https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1681D/production/_124998129_ukraine_invasion_east_map_-nc.png); this map shows Russian control over the eastern and southern part of Ukraine (a swath from Izyum to Melitopol) with a tiny sliver in the northeast controlled by Ukraine. How things change -- the pro-war, pro-empire New York Times[1] is now changing their reporting (per https://lbry.bcow.xyz/@RT:fd/kiev_narrative_0707:2). Ukraine's now former human rights ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova recently admitted that "maybe I overdid it" in her evidenceless claims of sexual crimes from Russian soldiers as a means of war which she fabricated. She was fired but her claims ran in establishment-serving media (https://lbry.bcow.xyz/@RT:fd/claims_overdid_09:9). NYT is reporting that the finger-pointing about Ukraine's loss has begun. This probably means that the end of this proxy war is coming if the US can't find a way to keep the war going (and contrary to what Sen. Risch recently said, "This war will never be over..." in his effort to keep the grift going[2]). Russia has been long backed into this US-backed anti-Russian regime change war which constitutes an existential threat to Russia. This isn't "Vladimir Putin's forever war" like Newsweek and The Atlantic claim or even "Putin is Preparing for a Long War" like the NYT reported. It's the US' attempt at forever war and the US pushed Russia into a response dating back many years starting with the US's coup of Ukraine; this didn't start in February 2022. Establishment outlets apparently won't give drumbeat coverage of the Maidan, the years of bombing the Donbas (or the over ten thousand dead there), and the US role in these things. Jimmy Dore is still one of far too few who reports on these developments correctly: Ukraine Needs To Admit Defeat NOW! Says Top U.S. Military Leader https://rumble.com/v182lbr-ukraine-needs-to-admit-defeat-now-says-top-u.s.-military-leader.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=A9bnFWmHggk U.S. Wants Ukraine War To Last Forever https://rumble.com/v182ldp-u.s.-wants-ukraine-war-to-last-forever.html [1] The NYT is highly overrated but I know of people who take it seriously so it's useful to point out when the NYT's belligerence changes. [2] Building on https://www.risch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2022/3/opinion-why-ukraine-matters which includes self-contradictory pro-war language such as: > The way we protect U.S. interests and stay out of this fight is by giving > Ukrainians the tools to defend their sovereignty. Give Ukraine missiles. Give them > airplanes. Give them humanitarian assistance. Give them equipment to defend > themselves against Putin?s war machine, and do it faster. and comments given in hearings as shown in: https://rumble.com/v182ldp-u.s.-wants-ukraine-war-to-last-forever.html From jbn at forestfield.org Mon Jun 13 02:24:14 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 21:24:14 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <40e4bdeb2260993efb307392ec64aa1eb5135738.camel@forestfield.org> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your video pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members video pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's video pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's video pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== RT 'My whole family dead' | Afghans seek compensation for 'righteous' US drone strike https://rumble.com/v17arw0-my-whole-family-dead-afghans-seek-compensation-for-righteous-us-drone-strik.html UNICEF urges the world to focus not only on Ukraine https://rumble.com/v17w7qr-unicef-urges-the-world-to-focus-not-only-on-ukraine.html ?US did not help any country of the region to develop? - Political scientist on Summit of Americas https://rumble.com/v17w32p-us-did-not-help-any-country-of-the-region-to-develop-political-scientist-on.html ?What does West think sending more weapons to Ukraine?? - Russian Delegation on Arms Control https://rumble.com/v17w27v-what-does-west-think-sending-more-weapons-to-ukraine-russian-delegation-on-.html Foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine conflict sentenced to death in DPR https://rumble.com/v17vwtz-foreign-mercenaries-fighting-in-ukraine-conflict-sentenced-to-death-in-dpr.html ?The whole world is facing great crisis created by sanctions of the West? - Valdai club expert https://rumble.com/v17vuin-the-whole-world-is-facing-great-crisis-created-by-sanctions-of-the-west-val.html Kiev?s human rights ex-commissioner says she ?overdid it? in her claims https://rumble.com/v17vswv-kievs-human-rights-ex-commissioner-says-she-overdid-it-in-her-claims.html Multipolarista (Ben Norton) US wants to surround China with missiles ? but can?t find Asian country to host them https://youtube.com/watch?v=YP_i2MqNeXQ Labor's World View TV ================================================== RT Anti-Russian sanctions could force thousands of Italian workers into unemployment https://rumble.com/v17atsc-anti-russian-sanctions-could-force-thousands-of-italian-workers-into-unempl.html More Perfect Union Target Workers Are Organizing Company's First Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=7NlrNox1FvM Jack in the Box Workers in San Diego are on Strike https://youtube.com/watch?v=RygggM0Njog Investors Demand Starbucks Stop Union-Busting As Stocks Plummet https://youtube.com/watch?v=bVJ6cdSeYuM Delta Flight Attendants Explain Why They're Unionizing https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLi9e5HuAt4 Trader Joe?s Workers Confront Manager Over Safety Concerns https://youtube.com/watch?v=zxB_PXEqWhw Memphis Seven Win Starbucks Union Election https://youtube.com/watch?v=n6cDXKXXpNg Work Until You Bleed: Amazon?s Workplace Safety Problem | The Class Room https://youtube.com/watch?v=_4WAjRa5ZlI Minnesota Construction Workers Face Rampant Wage Theft https://youtube.com/watch?v=66v08yHWdj4 From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Jun 18 22:07:57 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 17:07:57 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Pro-war_propaganda_expos=C3=A9s=3A_USA?= =?utf-8?q?_Today_removes_23_made-up_articles=2C_captured_Americans_encour?= =?utf-8?q?age_staying_home?= Message-ID: <39b71ef5-6307-5527-2858-5e44fe7701b3@forestfield.org> Things aren't looking good for the establishment media: fake news expos? and admission of publishing "fabricated" (USA Today's word) stories, American fighters admit bungled Ukrainian military and buying into western "propaganda" (the word chosen by one of these fighters), and Rowling being both foolish and late to the game. In a way, this is all an indirect pointer of how valuable WikiLeaks is: WikiLeaks has published more leaked information than any other outlet and never had cause to retract one of their publications. USA Today removes 23 made-up articles Video https://lbry.bcow.xyz/@RT:fd/Fake-Wars:3 https://rumble.com/v18wu7p-fake-wars-usa-today-removes-23-made-up-articles.html USA Today announcement of article removals https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/06/16/usa-today-audit-reporter/7647731001/ -- links to the removed stories, pledges to "Improve our process for those who want to lodge complaints or request corrections" without specifying how anything will change. Additional reporting https://www.rt.com/news/557317-usa-today-removes-articles/ West misleading people with info about Russia - surrendered American fighters to RT Article https://www.rt.com/news/557340-us-fighters-captured-ukraine/ Video https://rumble.com/v18vso0-west-misleading-people-with-info-about-russia-surrendered-american-fighters.html https://lbry.bcow.xyz/@RT:fd/surrendered-fighters:e J.K. Rowling consents to use of 'killing curse' on Ukrainian missiles Article https://www.rt.com/news/557319-rowling-ukraine-zelensky-prank/ Vovan and Lexus (Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov) prank another celebrity and we get more evidence of their 'low-octane thinking' (as CrossTalk's Peter Lavelle sometimes describes such behavior on CrossTalk). For example, Rowling was quoted to say, "I certainly support much harsher sanctions against Russia". I'm not for censorship or "cancelling" but even if I were, don't worry: Rowling is far too profitable to the establishment to be cancelled. -J From jbn at forestfield.org Tue Jun 21 01:23:54 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 20:23:54 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <10ba40bbd46afed341614a9a340d59c7f92db513.camel@forestfield.org> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your video pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members video pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's video pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's video pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== All-In Podcast #AIS: Glenn Greenwald & Matt Taibbi discuss the new political divide, moderated by David Sacks https://youtube.com/watch?v=cGOHiKo7dFY The Socialist Program with Brian Becker from BreakThrough News International Peoples? Assembly: New Global Movement Against Capitalism & For Socialism https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2dpJBqoTc8 BreakThrough News U.S. Hypocrisy on Press Freedom Is ?Absolutely Striking? Says Assange?s Brother https://youtube.com/watch?v=AL5Zqt5kdSg Shadowproof UK Admits To Spying On WikiLeaks Attorney, Plus Spanish Court Summons Former CIA Director Pompeo https://youtube.com/watch?v=hKyFJgjBedo UK Authorizes Julian Assange's Extradition: Interview With Italian Journalist Stefania Maurizi https://youtube.com/watch?v=LzjYGZ4KZPg Empire Files Lakota Human Remains Stolen from US Army Massacre Hoarded by Private Museum https://youtube.com/watch?v=5KODQMVjL2I Abby Martin Confronts Sec. of State Blinken Over Israeli Murder of Shireen Abu Akleh https://youtube.com/watch?v=XIhHN3LJSao Abby Martin?s Speech on US Sanctions & Economic Gangsterism https://youtube.com/watch?v=qG2G5sC7qWA Jimmy Dore Show Julian Assange Extradition A Frontal Attack On Freedom Of The Press https://rumble.com/v18v2et-julian-assange-extradition-a-frontal-attack-on-freedom-of-the-press.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=mCLnqbpis20 YouTube Censoring Voices Supporting Julian Assange https://rumble.com/v18v3ah-youtube-censoring-voices-supporting-julian-assange.html RT Israel Gets Away With Striking Syria?s Primary Airport | By Robert Inlakesh https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/damascus_airport_17:9 https://rumble.com/v18t0jx-israel-gets-away-with-striking-syrias-primary-airport-by-robert-inlakesh.html acTVism Munich EXCLUSIVE: Noam Chomsky on Ukraine, Russia-NATO, Assange, Shireen Abu Akleh & COVID-Measures https://youtube.com/watch?v=QMY9-zJJm-M https://rumble.com/v18kwsy-exclusive-noam-chomsky-on-ukraine-russia-nato-assange-shireen-abu-akleh-and.html Labor's World View TV ================================================== The Socialist Program with Brian Becker from BreakThrough News International Peoples? Assembly: New Global Movement Against Capitalism & For Socialism https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q2dpJBqoTc8 More Perfect Union Starbucks Shuts Down Ithaca Store In Retaliation For Unionizing https://youtube.com/watch?v=lK4DO2IhMFw Dollar General Workers EXPOSE CEO's Lies https://youtube.com/watch?v=iEmSqcXIPXA San Francisco Tenants Take On City's Largest Landlord https://youtube.com/watch?v=wG3HMZoDkHU These Doctors Make Less Than Minimum Wage. Here's How They're Fighting Back. https://youtube.com/watch?v=vgzVwIrtvYk Why Is The Rent So Damn High In Florida? https://youtube.com/watch?v=mymA9qWgVhk These Apple Store Workers Could Form The Company's First Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=byEiar632hs RT Cost-of-living march | Over 70,000 workers rally in Brussels https://rumble.com/v1960d9-cost-of-living-march-over-70000-workers-rally-in-brussels.html From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Jun 21 17:58:42 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:58:42 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=5Bmarxmail=5D_On_Ukraine=2C_?= =?utf-8?q?=27progressive=27_proxy_warriors_spell_disaster_=7C_Aaron_Mat?= =?utf-8?q?=C3=A9_=7C_Substack?= References: <77CC5E51-8EDC-45C2-8AF4-4BE34E0B5148@earthlink.net> Message-ID: https://mate.substack.com/p/on-ukraine-progressive-proxy-warriors From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Jun 22 16:16:31 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:16:31 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Mom=E2=80=99s_heart_changed_aft?= =?utf-8?q?er_doctor_saved_her_and_her_baby_after_an_illegal_abortion_atte?= =?utf-8?q?mpt?= References: <1655913904225.358cae1a-3d25-442c-a25d-d8734e216c25@bf10x.hubspotemail.net> Message-ID: > > Hi Friend of Life, > > We hope your week is off to a good start! > > We have an urgent opportunity for you. > > From now until the end of June, your gift will be MATCHED dollar for dollar, having twice the impact! > > That means when you donate now to Live Action, you can double your impact and reach millions of people with our ?What Is Abortion?? videos and content so we can truly make abortion unthinkable in our cities, our states, and our nation. > > Will you join us in this urgent mission by donating before June 30? > Give to End Abortion > > > Mom?s Heart Changed After Doctor Saved Her and Her Baby After an Illegal Abortion Attempt > > The mother decided she wanted her child and changed her mind about having an abortion; all that was needed was a little time. 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Nicholson) Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 04:40:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Craig Murray and George Galloway on Julian Assange Message-ID: <1975e9d6c3cfcaeba0849bad051bc184@forestfield.org> Craig Murray and George Galloway on Julian Assange https://youtube.com/watch?v=BoYQDU5nuhQ That interview was part of the following: Mother of All Talk Shows #161 with George Galloway https://youtube.com/watch?v=G-STnM6TyDE Some of the highlights of that interview: - Julian Assange now gets to appeal to the High Court on important issues including freedom of speech, freedom of journalists to publish, the US spying on every room of the Ecuadorian embassy (literally all of Assange's visitors were spied on including Assange's discussion with his lawyers which is usually grounds for case dismissal), and political extradition. - talking about what the US calls the "New York Times problem" of not holding the NYT (and other publishers) to the same standard as Assange is being held to for publishing the same war logs. - The Guardian ran the war logs information from WikiLeaks before WikiLeaks published it -- while WikiLeaks was reviewing and redacting names to prevent people mentioned by name from coming to harm, The Guardian ran information from those documents first. The Guardian faces no prosecution. WikiLeaks made no money from publishing this but The Guardian did. - Two Guardian journalists -- Luke Harding & David Leigh -- published the password to get the unredacted information as a chapter heading in a book. This was published, Luke & Leigh claim, as a joke. They then claimed to be shocked when people figured out that they had published the password as a chapter heading. -J From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Jun 26 23:18:09 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:18:09 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=E2=80=98The_war_is_not_even_ha?= =?utf-8?q?lf-over=E2=80=99=3A_In_Washington=2C_Ukraine=E2=80=99s_leaders_?= =?utf-8?q?beg_for_aid?= Message-ID: <3D06934B-50C9-4A03-8112-CFAA266BEFFD@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "POLITICO's National Security Daily" > Subject: ?The war is not even half-over?: In Washington, Ukraine?s leaders beg for aid > Date: June 22, 2022 at 3:40:18 PM CDT > To: > Reply-To: "POLITICO, LLC" > > Jun 22, 2022 View in browser > > > BY LARA SELIGMAN , PAUL MCLEARY AND QUINT FORGEY > > > A bipartisan group of senators meets with members of Ukraine's parliament June 15, 2022, on Capitol Hill. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images > > With help from Alex Ward, Lee Hudson and Daniel Lippman > > Send tips | Subscribe here | Email Alex | Email Quint > Ukrainian officials are urgently making the rounds in Washington, D.C., this month to lock in support for their cause, before Americans lose interest in a war that increasingly looks like a grinding and deadly stalemate. > > Kyiv fears it might fail to preserve what has thus far been overwhelmingly bipartisan support in Congress for sending arms and assistance to Ukraine amid pressing domestic issues in the U.S. ? including skyrocketing gas prices, baby formula shortages and what will be a wild midterm election season. > > Images from Ukraine are no longer blanketing the airwaves or front pages, in part because it?s become extremely dangerous to send reporters to the front lines. And some American lawmakers are beginning to criticize the billions of dollars in assistance that President JOE BIDEN has provided to Kyiv since the start of the war. > > But Ukraine needs money and weapons now more than ever if they are to have any hope of repelling Russian forces from their land, OLEKSANDRA ?SASHA? USTINOVA, a member of Ukraine?s parliament, told POLITICO last Friday. > > Russian and Ukrainian forces remain locked in a heated artillery battle in the Donbas region this week. Hundreds of civilians are said to be holed up in Sievierodonetsk?s Azot chemical plant, as Russia tightens its grip on the city. Meanwhile, Moscow captured several more settlements in the eastern Donbas and pounded Kharkiv in a renewed offensive against Ukraine?s second-largest city. > > ?I understand that people are getting tired of war ? so it is critical for us to keep this pressure from the media,? Ustinova said. ?That?s why we keep coming here and asking, ?please help us,? because the war is not even half-over. It?s worse now, and we need more weapons now than we ever used to.? > > The Ukrainian government is working to counteract the Russian narrative that by the time winter rolls around, the U.S. will be consumed by its own post-midterm political wrangling while Europe struggles with scarce gas supplies and soaring energy prices. > > Moscow?s tactic is to prolong the war until the West tires of the conflict, said DAVID ARAKHAMIA, the majority leader of Ukraine?s parliament and the chief negotiator with Russia. > > ?Everybody will be fully distracted from Ukraine. Then, they have an opportunity to push us into what they call peace on their own terms,? Arakhamia said ? referring to the capitulation of Ukrainian territories in the Donbas and possibly even more land in the country?s east. > > This week, Kyiv is pressing U.S. lawmakers to increase funding for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative ? signed into law as part of last year?s National Defense Authorization Act ? in this year?s defense policy bill, the Ukrainian officials said. > > Their argument is that, even if Ukraine defeats Russia in the coming months, Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN will continue to pose a threat. Continued U.S. support, they assert, will give Kyiv critical leverage in any future negotiations with Moscow. > > ?Our neighbor is not going to go away, even if we defeat. I mean, he?s still going to be there, and we will need weapons, the air defense systems and stuff to protect us,? Ustinova said. ?That will be a very clear message for Putin that the United States is backing Ukraine, so it?s not like a one-time supplemental.? > > But Ukraine worries U.S. lawmakers will try to politicize the conflict ahead of the midterm elections ? a move that plays directly into Putin?s hands, said Ustinova, who expects Moscow to invest in spreading division on social media and elsewhere. > > ?We know it might be very politicized, especially during the election campaign, honestly, in midterms. And that?s a huge threat for us,? Ustinova said. ?Once it gets politicized, we?re going to lose support, and that?s in favor of Russians.? > > Already, some U.S. lawmakers are starting to hint that they may not support additional aid packages for Ukraine unless the Biden administration shows it can account for every single dollar of assistance. Most prominently, Sen. RAND PAUL (R-Ky.) held up a $40 billion package, demanding that Congress appoint a special inspector general to monitor the funds. > > Ukrainian officials said they?d be more than happy to have an independent watchdog on the ground overseeing the weapons. In fact, they?ve been asking for just that. But Paul refused to meet with the Ukrainian delegation while it was in town, Arakhamia said. > > ?We have been asking ? begging you to send people, and then you come up with an amendment saying ?we want to put in [a special inspector general]??? Ustinova added of Paul?s efforts. ?Yes, please do.? > > Meanwhile, Pentagon officials are currently weighing sending four more High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems to Ukraine in the next aid package, potentially doubling the number of those weapons on the battlefield. The U.K. and Germany have also promised similar systems; meanwhile, German self-propelled howitzers arrived in Ukraine this week . > > But Ustinova said that?s not enough; Ukraine also needs longer-range rockets to gain a critical edge on a battlefield that now stretches for hundreds of miles in either direction. > > ?The Russians are 200 kilometers on our land,? Ustinova said. ?To shoot them there, we need a long-range [weapon] to be used on our territory, because otherwise, it?s just a ping pong game of artillery.? > > In addition, Kyiv says it needs more advanced air defense systems ? such as the joint U.S.-Norway Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System that currently defends Washington ? as well as sophisticated long-range drones like the Army?s MQ-1C Gray Eagle. > > The officials said Ukrainian forces could benefit from starting work now on learning how to operate weapons that the U.S. hasn?t yet approved, many of which require months of training. For example, if they?d begun practicing on the HIMARs weeks ago, before Washington officially decided to send the rocket launchers, they could have already been in the fight. > > The U.S. has declared that it won?t offer training unless there?s a ?political decision? to send the weapons, Ustinova said. But this condition isn?t written into law, she argued. > > ?We need it faster ? so by the time you get there ? we?ll just have people trained. Maybe we can buy something later,? she said. ?I mean, it just makes sense.? > > A message from Lockheed Martin: > > F-35: Strengthening our supply chain. Securing our future. > > F-35 production supports 298,000 advanced manufacturing jobs in America and generates an economic impact of more than $65 billion annually across U.S. communities. Learn more. > > THE INBOX > SOUTH KOREA SOURS ON CHINA: Continuing his chats with South Korean officials and experts while in Seoul, our own ALEX WARD keeps hearing that China is becoming an increasingly unpopular country on the peninsula. > > Roughly 70 percent of South Koreans now see China as the greatest threat facing their nation, one of the highest totals ever recorded. According to Alex?s reporting, China lost a significant amount of goodwill when it retaliated against South Korean companies in 2017 for installing a powerful U.S. missile-defense system. > > Views of China have declined dramatically in South Korea since then, and locals now say the U.S. is more important to the nation?s long-term future because it shares the same values and has a decadeslong relationship with Seoul. > > That?s not to say South Korea aims to cut ties with China, which is still far and away its biggest trading partner and will be for some time. However, while they can?t fully ignore Beijing, it?s clear that now ? more so than in recent years ? officials in Seoul must hew closer to their counterparts in Washington, D.C. > > This dynamic presents an opportunity for the Biden administration to leverage shifting sentiment into an even stronger alliance with South Korea. A closer relationship, of course, would also serve as a way to further confront China on the world stage. > > FIRST IN NATSEC DAILY ? GROUPS TELL CONGRESS TO STICK TO BIDEN?S BUDGET: More than five dozen local, state and national organizations signed a letter sent Tuesday to lawmakers on the House Appropriations, Armed Services and Budget committees, demanding that they ?refuse to provide any more funding for the military beyond what the President requested? in his more than $800 billion defense spending proposal. > > ?Handouts to the military-industrial complex come at the expense of funding to address urgent human needs,? the 63 groups wrote in the letter . ?Each time Congress adds billions to the Pentagon budget without being asked to do so, everyday Americans question why a seemingly endless supply of money exists for weapons and war, while funding to meet the direct needs of their families and community members ? from expanded health care to anti-child poverty measures to climate investments, and much more ? remains sparse.? > > The progressive, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen spearheaded the petition and sent a companion letter to the Senate last Thursday. ?Even in Washington, D.C., there should be broad consensus on this: Congress should not give the Pentagon ? an institution that can?t pass an audit ? more money than the Pentagon itself has requested. That?s a common sense position supported by the vast majority of Americans,? Robert Weissman, Public Citizen?s president, said in a statement. > > Among the letter?s signers are CODEPINK, the Council for a Livable World, Demand Progress, Greenpeace USA, Indivisible, MoveOn, the Sunrise Movement, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Veterans for Peace. > > PITIFUL RATINGS FOR PUTIN?S RUSSIA IN PEW POLL: New data released by the Pew Research Center ? and collected as part of its Spring 2022 Global Attitudes Survey of 18 nations ? shows that most respondents have a ?favorable? opinion of the U.S. (61 percent) and NATO (66 percent), while only a small minority of those surveyed have the same positive assessment of Russia (10 percent). > > Furthermore, 60 percent of respondents have confidence in Biden ?to do the right thing regarding world affairs,? with just 9 percent saying the same about Putin. And although 79 percent of those surveyed view the U.S. as a ?very/somewhat? reliable partner, 74 percent perceive partisan conflicts in America to be ?very strong/strong.? > > According to Pew?s RICHARD WIKE, JANELL FETTEROLF, MOIRA FAGAN and SNEHA GUBBALA , Putin?s ratings ?are at all-time lows now in every country where we have trend data,? and Russia?s ratings ?are also at all-time lows in nearly all countries in the study.? In the U.S., ?the partisan divide in trust in Putin seen during Trump?s administration has narrowed, with overwhelming majorities of both Democrats and Republicans now lacking trust in the Russian president.? > > The survey was conducted from Feb. 14 to May 11, largely in the months after Russia?s invasion of Ukraine began. Pew polled 23,484 adults in the following nations: the U.S., Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the U.K., Israel, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea. > > IT?S WEDNESDAY: Thanks for tuning in to NatSec Daily. This space is reserved for the top U.S. and foreign officials, the lawmakers, the lobbyists, the experts and the people like you who care about how the natsec sausage gets made. 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Don't miss out, subscribe today . > > > > FLASHPOINTS > QUAKE KILLS 1,000 IN AFGHANISTAN: One of Afghanistan?s deadliest earthquakes in decades killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 more today in a remote, mountainous region near the Pakistani border, reports the Associated Press . > > The global response "could be hindered by the exodus of many international aid agencies from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover last August," AP writes. ?Moreover, most governments are wary of dealing directly with the Taliban, a reluctance that could slow the deployment of emergency aid and teams typically sent after such natural disasters.? > > Underscoring the urgency of the event, Haibatullah Akhundzadah, the Taliban?s reclusive supreme leader, called for ?the international community and all humanitarian organizations to help the Afghan people affected by this great tragedy and to spare no effort to help the affected people.? > > As AP notes, the 6.1 magnitude quake ?hits at a time when Afghanistan is already deep in one of the world?s worst humanitarian crises, with millions facing increasing hunger and poverty after the cutoff of international financing to the Taliban.? > > National security adviser JAKE SULLIVAN said in a statement that Biden ?is monitoring developments and has directed USAID and other federal government partners to assess U.S. response options to help those most affected.? He added that the U.S. is ?committed to continuing our support for the needs of the Afghan people as we stand with them during and in the aftermath of this terrible tragedy.? > > Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN also issued a statement , acknowledging that ?[t]he people of Afghanistan have undergone extraordinary hardship, and this natural disaster compounds an already dire humanitarian situation.? He continued: ?U.S. humanitarian partners are already responding, including by sending medical teams to help people affected, and we are assessing other response options.? > > KEYSTROKES > RUSSIA WAGES GLOBAL CYBERWAR: A report released today by Microsoft states that Russian hackers have attempted to infiltrate networks at more than 100 organizations in the U.S. and dozens across 42 other countries since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, per our own MAGGIE MILLER . > > Targets of the cyberattacks have included the foreign ministries of NATO states, humanitarian organizations, think tanks, IT groups and energy suppliers. The hackers successfully infiltrated these networks in almost 30 percent of the attempts, managing to steal data in about a quarter of those instances. > > The report illustrates the global breadth and reach of the Russian cyber campaign being waged to try to dissuade Ukraine?s allies from providing aid or to disrupt their operations. The volume of attempted hacks in recent months is also significantly higher than previously reported. > > HEALTH SYSTEMS FIGHTING OFF HACKERS: After cyberattacks on health systems mushroomed during the pandemic, even more could be coming in 2022, reports our own RUTH READER . From January through June, the Office of Civil Rights tallied 256 hacks and information breaches ? up from 149 for the same period a year ago and continuing an upward trend from 2021. > > The unrelenting rise in attacks jeopardizes patient safety and strains clinicians already worn out by the pandemic. In the worst cases, hackers can shut down hospital operations and siphon off patient data. The costs of getting hacked also put pressure on health systems to raise the price of services, while cyber insurers are limiting coverage and hiking premiums. > > Now, some health systems are asking the federal government to provide more security for what they consider critical national infrastructure. Although there have been various federal efforts to assist health systems with cyberattacks ? through the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI ? many health systems are calling for more support. > > THE COMPLEX > SENDING ?DOOMSDAY? TO THE BONEYARD: The Air Force is expected to rely on refurbished aircraft to replace its fleet of E-4B ?Doomsday? planes that typically fly the secretary of Defense or the chairman of the Joint Chiefs around the world, in a move similar to the service?s plan to replace its two Air Force One jets, reports our own LEE HUDSON . > > One option under consideration involves purchasing and refurbishing four low-mileage 747-800 aircraft owned by German carrier Lufthansa. But this path is raising eyebrows because the service made a similar decision with its Air Force One replacement, which is facing prolonged delays. The service bought two 747-8s and is modifying them into a flying White House. > > Still, the Air Force has limited options for the E-4B due to the requirement that the replacement aircraft will need four engines. That leaves the 747-800, which is the only four-engine plane in production today in the U.S. However, Boeing received its final order for a 747-800 in January 2021. > > While there are other commercial carriers flying the 747-800, the Air Force is expected to go to Lufthansa for the refurbished aircraft because the carrier owns many several low-mileage planes, per people familiar with the discussions. > > ON THE HILL > HASC BOOSTS BIDEN?S BUDGET: The House Armed Services Committee endorsed a $37 billion increase to Biden?s military spending plans today, slapping the White House with another bipartisan rewrite of its Pentagon budget, per our own CONNOR O?BRIEN (for Pros!). > > The 42-17 vote, during the panel?s deliberations on annual defense policy legislation, is the second bipartisan rebuke of Biden?s request in a week. Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee overwhelmingly approved a $45 billion increase last week. > > The amendment, sponsored by Reps. JARED GOLDEN (D-Maine) and ELAINE LURIA (D-Va.), increases the price tag of the annual National Defense Authorization Act to approximately $840 billion. It authorizes billions for more ships, aircraft, and air and missile defense systems, as well as efforts to mitigate the impact of runaway inflation on the military and troops. All Republicans were joined by 14 Democrats to adopt the proposal. > > HASC GREEN-LIGHTS SPACE NATIONAL GUARD: HASC also voted today to establish a Space National Guard, which would comprise troops from eight states and territories who are conducting space missions, Lee reports (for Pros!). The panel approved the proposal from Rep. JASON CROW (D-Colo.) by voice vote as part of a larger en bloc package. > > HASC voted last year to establish a standalone Space National Guard, but the push was sidelined amid opposition from the White House; the administration argued it would create yet another government bureaucracy. > > Lawmakers from both chambers are pursuing the effort again this year. A group of 12 senators, led by Sen. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-Calif.), introduced a bill last month to create a Space National Guard. > > If the HASC measure is included in the full House?s version of the NDAA, the two chambers will debate the issue as part of a compromise over a final defense policy bill. > > HOUSE APPROPS HIKES STATE DEPARTMENT FUNDING: House appropriators on Tuesday night debuted the text of their fiscal 2023 spending bill to run the State Department and foreign operations in fiscal 2023, proposing a 15 percent increase over current funding levels, writes our own JENNIFER SCHOLTES (for Pros!). > > The measure would provide almost $65 billion for the upcoming fiscal year, a more than $8 billion boost. The State Department would receive almost $18 billion, including nearly $6 billion for embassy security at more than 275 diplomatic posts. > > The bill also includes almost $31 billion for bilateral economic assistance to foreign countries, an increase of about 13 percent. Another $9 billion would go to international security assistance, a 1 percent hike. And more than $8 billion would be used for humanitarian assistance, a 17 percent boost. > > > > > > BROADSIDES > KHASHOGGI?S FIANCEE BLASTS ?MURDERER? MBS: HATICE CENGIZ, the Turkish fiancee of slain journalist JAMAL KHASHOGGI, freshly condemned Saudi Crown Prince MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN today upon his trip to Ankara, tweeting : ?The political legitimacy he earns through the visits he makes to a different country every day doesn?t change the fact that he is a murderer.? > > ?None of the diplomatic engagements would legitimize the unfairness and the injustice,? Cengiz continued. ?We are in a fight to advocate and stand up for the morality and the humanitarian values that we uphold against the world leaders who ignore our most fundamental human rights, and remind the people who have forgotten about them, despite the so-called ?international order?. We have to continue to seek justice until every effort is futile. Ultimately, as an individual who puts her faith in eternal justice, I believe no crime goes unpunished.? > > Cengiz?s criticism came as bin Salman traveled to Turkey for the first time since Khashoggi?s killing in 2018, seeking to normalize ties. The de facto Saudi leader also visited Egypt and Jordan this week. According to an intelligence report released by the Biden administration last February, bin Salman ordered the murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and prominent dissident. > > Biden is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia as part of a Middle East tour next month, during which he will meet with top Saudi officials including MBS. > > TRANSITIONS > ? RANDY BERRY has been nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Namibia. He currently serves as U.S. ambassador to Nepal. > > ? ANJALI CHATURVEDI has been nominated to serve as general counsel at the Department of Veterans Affairs. She currently is a deputy assistant attorney general in the criminal division at the Justice Department. > > ? ROBERT WILLIAM FORDEN has been nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Cambodia. He currently serves as a senior adviser in the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau at the State Department. > > ? THOMAS HARVEY has been nominated to serve as a member of the Veterans Affairs Asset and Infrastructure Review Commission. He previously served as chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Veterans Affairs? Committee, deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration, and assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs for congressional relations, among other government roles. > > ? LUKA IGNAC has been named a program assistant for the Europe Center at the Atlantic Council. He recently earned his master?s degree in European studies from Georgetown University, where he was part of the inaugural cohort of McHenry Fellows at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He also served as executive co-chair of Georgetown's Transatlantic Policy Symposium. > > ? KRISTINA KVIEN has been nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Armenia. She currently serves as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. > > ? NICK LEISERSON is now assistant national cyber director for policy and programs. He most recently was deputy chief of staff for the Office of the National Cyber Director. > > ? MANUEL P. MICALLER JR. has been nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan. He currently serves as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, Nepal. > > ? ROLFE MICHAEL SCHIFFER has been nominated to serve as assistant administrator for Asia at the United States Agency for International Development. He currently serves as senior adviser and counselor on the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. > > ? LUCY TAMLYN has been nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She currently serves as charg? d?affaires, ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. > > ? PAMELA M. TREMONT has been nominated to serve as U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe. She currently serves as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden. > > > STEP INSIDE THE WEST WING: What's really happening in West Wing offices? Find out who's up, who's down, and who really has the president?s ear in our West Wing Playbook newsletter, the insider's guide to the Biden White House and Cabinet. For buzzy nuggets and details that you won't find anywhere else, subscribe today . > > > > WHAT TO READ > ? JOSEPH GEDEON and NAHAL TOOSI, POLITICO: ?The Pro-Putin Preacher the U.S. Won?t Touch ? > > ? JENNIFER HASSAN, ELLEN FRANCIS and MERYL KORNFIELD, The Washington Post: ?These Are the Journalists Killed During Russia?s War on Ukraine ? > > ? JENNY MORBER, Wired: ?Russia Should Pay for Its Environmental War Crimes ? > > TOMORROW TODAY > ? Blinken travels to Germany ahead of the Berlin Ministerial Conference ?Uniting for Global Food Security? on Friday. > > ? The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 9 a.m.: ? The Political Crisis in Iraq: Any Hope for Change? ? with AKEEL ABBAS, MOHANAD HAGE ALI, MARSIN ALSHAMARY, HARITH HASAN and ZEINAB SHUKER? > > ? House Foreign Affairs Committee, 9 a.m.: ?Classified Members Briefing on Somalia ? with LARRY ANDR? JR. and CHIDI BLYDEN? > > ? Senate Foreign Relations Committee , 9:15 a.m.: ?Full Committee Hearing: Nominations ? with DAVID PRESSMAN, GEOFFREY PYATT, ELIZABETH SHORTINO and ROBERT WOOD? > > ? The Federalist Society, 9:30 a.m.: ?2022 National Security Symposium: Next General National Security ? with GUS COLDEBELLA, WILLIAM HUGHES, ERIC KADEL, OONAGH MCDONALD, JUAN ZARATE and more? > > ? House Appropriations Committee, 10 a.m.: ? Subcommittee Markup: Fiscal Year 2023 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bills ? > > ? The Institute of World Politics, 10 a.m.: ?The Abraham Accords: What do they Mean for MENA? ? with NORMAN BAILEY? > > ? Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, 10:15 a.m.: ?Full Committee Hearing: Putting People First: Building Trust in Government through Customer Experience ? with MARTHA DORRIS, WILLIAM EGGERS and MATHEW LIRA? > > ? Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 11 a.m.: ?Business Meeting ? > > ? The United States Institute of Peace, 11 a.m.: ?Twitter Space Series: Why Russia?s War Against Ukraine Matters for Global Peace and Security Efforts ? with HEATHER ASHBY and WILLIAM TAYLOR? > > ? The Center for a New American Security, 12 p.m.: ?Military Food Insecurity and Financial Stability ? with WILLIAM FRENCH, KATHERINE KUZMINSKI and JESSICA STRONG? > > ? The Institute of World Politics, 12 p.m.: ?Anti-Ukrainian Propaganda in Poland ? with MARIA JUCZEWSKA? > > ? The Atlantic Council, 1 p.m.: ?Republics of Myth: How National Narratives Divide the U.S. and Iran ? with HUSSEIN BANAI, MALCOLM BYRNE, HOLLY DAGRES, BARBARA SLAVIN and JOHN TIRMAN ? > > ? The United States Institute of Peace, 1 p.m.: ?The Roots of Revolution in Sudan: Successes, Setbacks, and the Path Forward ? with MATTHEW CEBUL, ZAHRA HAYDER, JAWHARA KANU, MARIJA MAROVIC and MUNA QURASHI? > > ? House Foreign Affairs Committee, 2 p.m.: ? Classified Members Briefing on Ethiopia ? > > ? The Brookings Institution, 2:30 p.m.: ?Global China: U.S.-China Relations Through the Lens of Great Power Competition ? with JAMES GOLDGEIER, RYAN HASS, SUZANNE MALONEY, CONSTANZE STELZENM?LLER, ANGELA STENT and MARK WARNER? > > ? The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol , 3 p.m.: ?Committee Hearing ? > > ? The Atlantic Council, 3:30 p.m.: ?Future Foreign Policy: The Food Insecurity Crisis ? with EMMA ASHFORD, MATHEW BURROWS, DINA ESPOSITO, JOSEPH GLAUBER and ARIF HUSAIN? > > ? The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 3:30 p.m.: ? IISS-Americas Defense Trade Roundtable ? with E.J. HEROLD, MIKE MILLER, MIRA RESNICK and JIM TOWNSEND? > > Have a natsec-centric event coming up? Transitioning to a new defense-adjacent or foreign policy-focused gig? Shoot us an email ataward at politico.com or qforgey at politico.com to be featured in the next edition of the newsletter. > > And thanks to our editor, Ben Pauker, who?s also likely to stay up into early Thursday editing our copy. > > A message from Lockheed Martin: > > F-35: Strengthening our supply chain. Securing our future. > > The F-35 unites allies and partners, powers small businesses, and creates high-tech jobs. With 1,650 suppliers in 48 states, the F-35 program brings together the best of the industry to drive our competitiveness and help secure our world. Learn more. > > > Follow us on Twitter > > > Alex Ward @alexbward > Quint Forgey @QuintForgey > > FOLLOW US > > > > To change your alert settings, please log in at https://www.politico.com/_login?base=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com/settings > > This email was sent to carl at newsfromneptune.com by: POLITICO, LLC 1000 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA, 22209, USA > > Please click here and follow the steps to unsubscribe. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Jun 26 23:20:26 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 18:20:26 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=C2=A0Live_fire_from_the_Israel?= =?utf-8?q?i_army_in_Masafer_Yatta=2E?= References: <4E.C4.18105.8CC33B26@asv11mtam003.ngpweb.com> Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "JVP Wire" > Subject: Live fire from the Israeli army in Masafer Yatta. > Date: June 22, 2022 at 11:01:12 AM CDT > To: "Cg Estabrook" > Reply-To: info at jewishvoiceforpeace.org > > > ? > Live fire from the Israeli army in Masafer Yatta > > The Israeli army has announced that it will conduct live-fire military exercises in Masafer Yatta. > > Past exercises have seen tanks roll through villages,destroying homes and terrorizing Palestinian residents. Current Israeli military plans include operations near seven villages, for a month. > > For JVP, live fire is clearly meant as a scare tactic to help Israel's ongoing effort to evict over one thousand residents of Masafer Yatta... > > Read more at Middle East Eye? > > ? > Two-Minute Action > Take two minutes right now to call your representative and senators and tell them to take action to stop the forced displacement of Palestinians from their land and homes in Masafer Yatta. > > JVP Action, our sister organization, has a tool for you to flood their lines to demand they take action now. > Call now > ? > Other News > NY Times: The bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh came from the approximate position of an Israel military vehicle. It was one of 16 bullets fir ed ?into the direction of 5 clearly marked journalists . > > Israeli government collapses, election set for October. The Bennett/Lapid ?government of change? has collapsed under pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu. > ? > Solidarity Reads > > How Netanyahu and apartheid brought down Israel?s government > > The Knesset's failure to re-authorize separate West Bank legal systems was the final straw, but Bibi remains the omnipresent issue driving Israeli politics. > Read now? > > ? > > > Jewish Voice for Peace > P.O. Box 589 > Berkeley, CA 94701 > United States > To change your subscription preferences: unsubscribe . > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Jun 29 03:31:37 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 22:31:37 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion References: <20220629030057.3.dc41d4747176288c@mg2.substack.com> Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter > Subject: Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion > Date: June 28, 2022 at 10:00:57 PM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter > > > Open in app > Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion > > Caitlin Johnstone > Jun 29 > > Listen to a reading of this article: > > Empire To Expand NATO In Response To War Caused By NATO Expansion by Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone > Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone > ? > > Turkey's President Erdo?an has officially withdrawn Ankara's objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid. > > The removal of Erdo?an's objection was reportedly obtained via significant natsec concessions from the other two nations largely geared toward facilitating Turkey's ongoing conflict with regional Kurdish factions, and it removes the final obstacle to Finland and Sweden beginning the process of becoming NATO members. Finland's addition will more than double the size of NATO's direct border with Russia, a major national security concern for Moscow. > > "Sweden and Finland moved rapidly to apply to NATO in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, reversing decades of security policy and opening the door to the alliance's ninth expansion since 1949," Axios reports . > > So the western empire will be expanding NATO again in response to a war that was predominantly caused by NATO expansion . Brilliant. > > > Antiwar.com > @Antiwarcom > Biden Says US Will Beef Up Military Presence in Europe as NATO Summit Begins in Madrid > NATO is set to agree on an expansion of its forces in Eastern Europe > by Dave DeCamp > @DecampDave #NATO #NATOSummit #Ukraine #Russia #Europe > news.antiwar.com/2022/06/28/bid? > June 28th 2022 > > 16 Retweets42 Likes > > At the same NATO summit, President Biden announced plans to ramp up US military presence in Europe in response to the Ukraine war. > > "Speaking with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S?nchez, Biden said the US will increase the number of US Navy Destroyers stationed at a naval base in Rota, Spain, from four to six," Antiwar's Dave DeCamp reports . "The president said that this was the first of multiple announcements the US and NATO will make at the summit on increasing their forces in Europe, steps being taken in response to Russia?s invasion of Ukraine." > > This news comes out as a new CNN report tells us that the Biden administration does not believe Ukraine has any chance of winning this war, yet still won't encourage any kind of negotiated settlement to end the bloodshed. > > From CNN: > > White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send. > > Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian "victory" -- adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly. US officials emphasized to CNN that this more pessimistic assessment does not mean the US plans to pressure Ukraine into making any formal territorial concessions to Russia in order to end the war. > > This would confirm what I and many others have been saying since Russia invaded : that this proxy war is being waged not with the intention of saving Ukrainian lives by delivering a swift defeat to Moscow but with the intention of creating a costly, gruelling military quagmire to weaken Russia on the world stage . > > This is further confirmed by a new Politico report that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has discouraged France's President Macron from facilitating a negotiated peace settlement between Moscow and Kyiv, which would support an earlier Ukrainian media report that Johnson had discouraged President Zelensky from such a settlement during his visit to Kyiv in April. > > > Mark Ames > @MarkAmesExiled > Confirms that Ukrainian Pravda story from a couple of months ago. Angloid political elites don't want this war to end until they're satisfied enough Russians are killed to kneecap Russia as a rival?no matter how many dead Ukrainians it takes to do so. > POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope > Settling the war in Ukraine now is a bad idea. > > Boris Johnson told Emmanuel Macron that such a move would ?give Putin license to manipulate both sovereign countries and international markets in perpetuity.? https://t.co/uWA49vf33T > June 27th 2022 > > 376 Retweets1,142 Likes > > These revelations emerge in the wake of western officials admitting that Ukraine is crawling with CIA personnel and special forces operatives from the US and other NATO countries. > > "As usual it appears that the administration wants to have it both ways: assure the American people that it is being 'restrained' and that we are not 'at war' with the Russians, but doing everything but planting a U.S. soldier and a flag inside Ukraine," writes Responsible Statecraft's Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of this admission. "The Russians may not see the distinction and consider this news as further evidence that their war is more with Washington and NATO than with Ukraine." > > The empire is guided by so little wisdom in its escalations against Russia that the US congress is now pushing expensive ship-launched nuclear cruise missiles on its naval forces even as the US Navy tells them it doesn't want those weapons and has no use for them. > > Like hey, just take the nukes anyway. What's the worst that could happen? > > > John Carl Baker > @johncarlbaker > Today in our extremely rational Pentagon budget: Congress funds nuclear weapon the Navy doesn't even want > > Congress Wants to Spend $45 Million on Nukes the Navy Said it Doesn?t Need > Both the House and the Senate want to bring back nuclear armed cruise missiles > vice.com > June 28th 2022 > > 39 Retweets74 Likes > > We need to really start taking seriously the possibility that a nuclear weapon could detonate as a result of misunderstanding or malfunction amid the chaos and confusion of all these frenzied, foolish escalations and lead to an exchange which ends our entire world. This nearly happened on multiple occasions in the last cold war, and there's no rational reason to believe we'll get lucky again. > > The only sane course of action here is de-escalation and detente, and all the major players in these escalations are pointed in the exact opposite direction. > > This is so much more dangerous than most people are letting themselves consider. It's being sustained by psychological compartmentalization, emotional avoidance, and a profound lack of wisdom. > > As David S. D?Amato recently remarked , "If our species does find a way to survive into the distant future, our descendants will look at right now as the near miss; they?ll think, 'Wow, that was close.' 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All works co-authored with my American husband Tim Foley. > > > Bitcoin donations:1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2 > > Like > > > Comment > > > Share > > If you liked this post from Caitlin?s Newsletter , why not share it? > Share > ? 2022 Caitlin Johnstone > 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 > Unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Jun 29 03:35:32 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. 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