From paulmueth at yahoo.com Sun May 1 18:27:23 2022 From: paulmueth at yahoo.com (Paul Mueth) Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 18:27:23 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fw: What the Rabbi said . . . In-Reply-To: <1329926785.2349858.1651158800684@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1329926785.2349858.1651158800684.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1329926785.2349858.1651158800684@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <894929245.3252396.1651429643208@mail.yahoo.com> Greets all, These are my best examples of the institutional power of ultranationalists in post 2014, anyone got others?If you have head of parliament you can block Minsk Normandy solution.? If you have the head of secret police, we?ll . . .? Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone Begin forwarded message: On Thursday, April 28, 2022, 10:13 AM, Paul Mueth wrote: Greets,? Here are the extreme rightists?that I referred to last night.??Andriy Parubiy, Arsen Avakov The former was chair of the Rada, parliament for four years.? The latter was head of secret police for seven years until he was indeed ousted by Zelensky.? They both embody the institutional power of the ultranationalist right.?? What the Rabbi said . . .? Criticism of Arsen Avakov >From Wikipedia? A number of experts point out that during Avakov's time as Minister of Internal Affairs, the reform of main Ukrainian law enforcement agency fell through.[40] Started out on 7 November 2015 with entering into force of a new law "On the National Police", the former Ukrainian militsiya has simply changed its name and most of its staff remained unchanged.[40] In November 2014, Ukraine's chief rabbi?Yaakov Bleich?condemned Avakov's appointment of?Azov Battalion?deputy commander?Vadym Troyan?as?Kyiv Oblast?police chief, and demanded that "if the interior minister continues to appoint people of questionable repute and ideologies tainted with fascism and right-wing extremism, the interior minister should be replaced."[41] He wasn?t for seven years. ? Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Sun May 1 19:42:32 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 14:42:32 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <47a63f1b-8dc4-5c26-97a6-c8bc72eb60c6@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 ================================================== theAnalysis.news Who Benefits From a Protracted Ukrainian War? An interview with Patrick Cockburn. https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Vl9LmBU90U Transcript: https://theanalysis.news/do-russia-and-the-u-s-want-long-term-war-patrick-cockburn/ CGTN Challenging Western Narratives -- interview with Ben Norton https://youtube.com/watch?v=pAmnmb1i2-s Glenn Greenwald The 1/6 Prosecutions Proceed with Little Attention - Interview with Journalist Julie Kelly https://rumble.com/v11zscy-the-16-prosecutions-proceed-with-little-attention-interview-with-journalist.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=UKq7YZRQy0Y WashPost's Doxing of @LibsOfTikTok Reveals Who Corporate Journalists See as Their Targets https://rumble.com/v11n4sn-taylor-lorenzs-doxxing-of-libsoftiktok-reveals-who-corporate-journalists-se.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=9cNkaZbpoak The Grayzone Reporting from the ground in Donbas https://youtube.com/watch?v=s-SubcsJRtI RT Iraqi refugees: millions displaced since 2003 https://rumble.com/v12mdbv-iraqi-refugees-millions-displaced-since-2003.html No evidence of mass graves found at site of alleged 'second Bucha' https://rumble.com/v126kw6-no-evidence-of-mass-graves-found-at-site-of-alleged-second-bucha.html Labor's World View TV ================================================== laborvideo The AFL-CIO CIA Attack and Murder Against Mexico City Ford Workers & El Golpe https://youtube.com/watch?v=b5E7Db7rYxU The Israeli Histadrut, Zionism, The AFL-CIO & Imperialism With Carol Lang https://youtube.com/watch?v=HLtLDS0FbSE Attacks On NYC MTA Transit Riders, Transit Workers & Capitalism https://youtube.com/watch?v=X23AJuR8JTw The AFL-CIO & CIA In South Africa & Jabu Ndlovu With SA Trade Union Organizer David Hemson https://youtube.com/watch?v=s7fN1q0cmdM More Perfect Union A Clean Sweep in Virginia: 5 Starbucks Stores Vote to Unionize https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_8FLYrqjuQ LEAKED: Starbucks CEO Trashes Unionizing Workers https://youtube.com/watch?v=7O1lOvZqpGQ How Tax Prep Companies Blocked A Free Tax Filing System https://youtube.com/watch?v=T1uKcrjt1fg Starbucks Reprimands Barista For Wearing Earbuds In Closed Cafe https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_QDJu37tw From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun May 1 22:29:41 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 1 May 2022 17:29:41 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Disturbing column from Escobar Message-ID: <99602198-677B-4D8A-965C-E5DC3D6B1CC9@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/29/empire-of-lies-eager-receive-sarmat-business-card/ From moboct1 at aol.com Mon May 2 13:59:40 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 13:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Disturbing column from Escobar In-Reply-To: <99602198-677B-4D8A-965C-E5DC3D6B1CC9@newsfromneptune.com> References: <99602198-677B-4D8A-965C-E5DC3D6B1CC9@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <949302125.1996044.1651499980296@mail.yahoo.com> "Hmmm....can't locate this page";;; "Disturbing"? indeed--Pepe another casuallty of censorship...?? -----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss To: peace Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net Sent: Sun, May 1, 2022 5:30 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] Disturbing column from Escobar https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/29/empire-of-lies-eager-receive-sarmat-business-card/ _______________________________________________ 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 carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon May 2 17:17:26 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 12:17:26 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Four_reasons_to_distrust_UCSF?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZcyBzdHVkeSBhbGxlZ2luZyBzYWZldHkgb2Yg4oCYbm8tdGVzdOKAmSBh?= =?utf-8?q?bortion_pill_protocol?= References: <1651511009410.320dd953-2af9-4fa3-b008-0e65ae2133c3@bf10x.hubspotemail.net> Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Live Action News > Subject: Four reasons to distrust UCSF?s study alleging safety of ?no-test? abortion pill protocol > Date: May 2, 2022 at 12:06:12 PM CDT > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > Reply-To: info at liveaction.org > > > Hello Friend of Life, > > Welcome to a new week! > > Here are four of our top pro-life news articles we picked for you: > > Four Reasons to Distrust UCSF?s Study Alleging Safety of ?No-Test? 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Estabrook) Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 12:28:11 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] chomsky-calls-trump-the-one-western-statesman-with-a-sensible-plan-for-resolving-russia-ukraine-crisis Message-ID: <38C66BAF-F977-41CF-A2DB-CDC8E17A9770@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chomsky-calls-trump-the-one-western-statesman-with-a-sensible-plan-for-resolving-russia-ukraine-crisis/ar-AAWNIQq From jbn at forestfield.org Mon May 2 22:47:57 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 17:47:57 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] strategic-culture.org-hosted webpages might not be reachable In-Reply-To: <99602198-677B-4D8A-965C-E5DC3D6B1CC9@newsfromneptune.com> References: <99602198-677B-4D8A-965C-E5DC3D6B1CC9@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <7315c717-a7bd-0c77-d148-2e77725412f1@forestfield.org> C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote: > https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/04/29/empire-of-lies-eager-receive-sarmat-business-card/ It looks like the webserver at www.strategic-culture.org (151.236.80.5) is not responding to requests now, therefore any URL beginning with "https://www.strategic-culture.org" will fail. It's not clear why this webserver is failing. According to whois data, the strategic-culture.org domain expires on 2023-06-08, so this would not appear to be an unpaid domain registration bill resulting in loss of control over the domain name. Perhaps some router in between us and 151.236.80.5 is down and thus not routing any of our packets. But the Russian nameserver is responding to queries and returning data (hence one can look up the www.strategic-culture.org hostname and get the IP address I listed above). In the meantime, if you'd like to see a recent Pepe Escobar interview, consider watching: Russia, China, and the Post-Dollar World w/Pepe Escobar https://youtube.com/watch?v=iin3STk2Ank which is an interview with The Left Lens (from Black Agenda Report). From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed May 4 15:25:20 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 10:25:20 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Pope_Francis_Says_NATO_Started_War_in_?= =?utf-8?b?VWtyYWluZSBieSDigJhCYXJraW5nIGF0IFB1dGlu4oCZcyBEb29y4oCZ?= Message-ID: <70213667-2117-4321-B9F2-D121E0B8A8C1@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-says-nato-started-war-in-ukraine-by-barking-at-putins-door?source=email&via=desktop Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ?Barking at Putin?s Door? The pontiff defended Putin and claimed?without foundation?that it was ?others who created the conflict? in Ukraine. From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed May 4 16:16:05 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 11:16:05 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Views on the war Message-ID: <2A193451-6B1E-4D88-8A0B-54114CCC455F@newsfromneptune.com> Noam Chomsky said earlier this week that former President Donald Trump is the ?one Western statesman? who has laid out a ?sensible? proposition to resolve the Russia-Ukraine crisis. In an in an interview with Thijmen Sprakel on Tuesday, Chomsky said that the proposed solution included ?facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe?in which there are no military alliances but just mutual accommodation.? ?He didn?t say it, but it?s something like what George H.W. Bush ? the first Bush, not the second ? proposed in the early 90s, when after the collapse of the Soviet Union, proposed what they called a partnership for peace, which would be open for Europeans generally or Asians as well,? Chomsky continued, going on to stress that in his view, limiting NATO?s expansion and eliminating military alliances in Europe is key. Trump has resisted condemning Vladimir Putin for his actions, and instead criticized NATO for ?stand[ing] back? from the conflict. ?Emmanuel Macron in his initiatives trying to contact Putin suggested something similar,? Chomsky said, referencing the French president?s efforts to dissuade Russia?s president from further escalating his country?s invasion of Ukraine. ================================= Max Blumenthal at MaxBlumenthal Biden wants $33 billion for Ukraine. That's almost 2x as much as the Dept of Interior's budget, more than 15x as much as the Bureau of Indian Affairs' budget, about the same as the Dept of Energy's budget, and half the State Dept's budget. And most of it will go to arms makers. ================================= JD Vance @JDVance1, America Firster critic of US involvement in Ukraine, has just won Ohio's GOP primary. His opponent will be Tim Ryan, a Bill Kristol-backed Democrat who favors massive arms transfers to Ukraine and to "look at we need to do to China." Ryan is going to run on the war. Both candidates will push new Cold War escalation w/ China while Tim Ryan plumps for votes from E. European emigres hungry for Ukraine intervention. Ryan only registered during the 2020 Dem primary as the Afghan forever war attack dog vs Tulsi Gabbard. Republican Vance should be supported against Democrat Tim Ryan as Senator from Ohio. ================================= Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ?Barking at Putin?s Door? https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-says-nato-started-war-in-ukraine-by-barking-at-putins-door [The pope has the better of the argument. ?CGE] From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed May 4 17:03:10 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 12:03:10 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] pope-says-nato-may-have-provoked-russian-invasion-of-ukraine Message-ID: <16C70504-6DE1-4F6C-B214-A9E4282D169E@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-05-03/card/pope-says-nato-may-have-provoked-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-E7VAcqXGK8xNoHxJPQFs From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed May 4 19:27:50 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 14:27:50 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] us-nato-dangerously-aim-to-destroy-russias-military Message-ID: <19F88590-3B0B-4EF9-8B4A-5C45C4073CE2@newsfromneptune.com> The US is rapidly arming Ukraine and has a new found confidence in the possibility of defeating Russia and not having to compromise on the issue of Ukrainian neutrality. The statements by Biden, Austin, Blinken, and Sullivan, Pelosi's imperial visit to Kyiv, and this latest statement by the Ukrainian defence minister about the present reality of Ukraine's "de facto" NATO membership in NATO all attest to that. I believe that only a protracted stalemate and the inflationary effects of the war on Western public opinion may persuade NATO planners to end the war by giving Russia an assurance of Ukrainian neutrality - on paper, for what it's worth. From today's Asia Times: US, NATO dangerously aim to destroy Russia?s military It is now official US and NATO policy to damage Russia?s armed forces to a degree that it will take a very long time to recover By FRANK LEDWIDGE MAY 4, 2022 https://asiatimes.com/2022/05/us-nato-dangerously-aim-to-destroy-russias-military/?mc_cid=99e5d49e1a&mc_eid=8fb953d004 _._,_._,_ From rwhelbig at gmail.com Wed May 4 19:47:03 2022 From: rwhelbig at gmail.com (Roger Helbig) Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 12:47:03 -0700 Subject: [Peace-discuss] us-nato-dangerously-aim-to-destroy-russias-military In-Reply-To: <19F88590-3B0B-4EF9-8B4A-5C45C4073CE2@newsfromneptune.com> References: <19F88590-3B0B-4EF9-8B4A-5C45C4073CE2@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: The original article source has not got the political baggage of Asia Times https://theconversation.com/ukraine-nato-and-the-us-aim-to-destroy-the-russian-military-it-looks-as-if-they-may-have-the-means-to-do-it-182255 Roger On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 12:28 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > The US is rapidly arming Ukraine and has a new found confidence in the > possibility of defeating Russia and not having to compromise on the issue > of Ukrainian neutrality. The statements by Biden, Austin, Blinken, and > Sullivan, Pelosi's imperial visit to Kyiv, and this latest statement by the > Ukrainian defence minister about the present reality of Ukraine's "de > facto" NATO membership in NATO all attest to that. I believe that only a > protracted stalemate and the inflationary effects of the war on Western > public opinion may persuade NATO planners to end the war by giving Russia > an assurance of Ukrainian neutrality - on paper, for what it's worth. > > From today's Asia Times: > > US, NATO dangerously aim to destroy Russia?s military > It is now official US and NATO policy to damage Russia?s armed forces to a > degree that it will take a very long time to recover > By FRANK LEDWIDGE > MAY 4, 2022 > > > https://asiatimes.com/2022/05/us-nato-dangerously-aim-to-destroy-russias-military/?mc_cid=99e5d49e1a&mc_eid=8fb953d004 > _._,_._,_ > > _______________________________________________ > 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... 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My opening line, > which you quote, does not assume any particular order to the events after a > ceasefire is in place. There is no magic involved. If one looks to > history, they will clearly see that most wars end with a negotiated > settlement. This is especially true for those provoked and carried out by > the United States since 1944. In 1965, when the US movement against the US > war on the Vietnamese took a giant step forward, it called for > negotiations. The prowar crowd in the government, media, military and > corporate America said we the movement was dreaming. So did the cynics in > the media and population. Nonetheless, the antiwar organizers of all > persuasions carried on with their organizing and saw the movement grow > bigger and bigger. In 1973, a peace agreement was signed between the US > and the Vietnamese liberation armies. This was the result of the conflict > on the ground, the determination of the Vietnamese people and the > international.antiwar Movement that existed. Of course, Washington > couldn't actually accept the terms of the negotiations and continued to > fund their disintegrating proxy army based out of what was then called > Saigon. The Pentagon also continued bombing raids, covert ops and other > support until April 30, 1975, when it left in a hurry after the proxy army > gave up. > While the situation in Ukraine is a very far cry from the revolutionary > war for independence fought by the Vietnamese--Ukraine's government is not > revolutionary or socialist, for starters--my point is that the fact of a > large, occasionally militant international antiwar movement was an > important peace in ending that war. That's the direct lesson. > Given the important differences between that war and the one between > Ukraine and Russia, I look for more appropriate historical periods to look > at when considering the conflict in Ukraine. Let me suggest Spring 1914. > Empires are on edge, with one seeing itself as the dominant and only > empire. That latter empire rejects compromise and prevents its > allies/clients from accepting it, too. The growing intransigence of the > empires ultimately result in war. First, among one,two, or three nations, > then all hell breaks lose. The socialist movement is at first opposed to > the war their analysis tells them is coming. Indeed, they call for an > international movement against the war. However, others calling themselves > socialist fall prey to the fever, approve war funding and conscription and, > after a few years of the most incredible violence perpetrated on humans by > other humans, the war ends in the midst of mutinies, revolution and various > crowns scurrying to keep face. The socialist champions of that > international antiwar movement which faltered and then disappeared help > foment one of those revolutions in Germany and are murdered by order of the > social democrats in power--many of the same people who abandoned the call > for peace and jumped on the imperial war wagon. > The analogy is not perfect, in part because 100 years have passed. But I > stick by my position. We need an international antiwar movement, not a > cheerleading squad for the arms industry. Demanding peace is not calling > for more war. > _._,_._,_ > ------------------------------ > Groups.io Links: > > You receive all messages sent to this group. > > View/Reply Online (#16530) | 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] > _._,_._,_ > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Thu May 5 01:45:37 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 20:45:37 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Views on the war In-Reply-To: <2A193451-6B1E-4D88-8A0B-54114CCC455F@newsfromneptune.com> References: <2A193451-6B1E-4D88-8A0B-54114CCC455F@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <9aab7339-ab27-068f-4193-c28c3a4d79a2@forestfield.org> C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Noam Chomsky said earlier this week that former President Donald Trump is the ?one > Western statesman? who has laid out a ?sensible? proposition to resolve the > Russia-Ukraine crisis. > > In an in an interview with Thijmen Sprakel on Tuesday, Chomsky said that the > proposed solution included ?facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them > and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe?in which there > are no military alliances but just mutual accommodation.? > > ?He didn?t say it, but it?s something like what George H.W. Bush ? the first Bush, > not the second ? proposed in the early 90s, when after the collapse of the Soviet > Union, proposed what they called a partnership for peace, which would be open for > Europeans generally or Asians as well,? Chomsky continued, going on to stress that > in his view, limiting NATO?s expansion and eliminating military alliances in > Europe is key. Noam Chomsky also recently said in an interview with "The Young Turks": > Politics is the daily activism that is teaching people why Trump is one of the, > fact of the matter, is the most dangerous figure in human history. Literally, > there has been no one else -- Hitler, anyone else -- who is dedicated to > destroying the prospects of human life on Earth in the next -- in the short term, > and that's exactly what he's doing. Chomsky said this while trying to convince people to vote against Trump. Source: https://rumble.com/v13bl4f-050222-3-chomsky-praises-trump-on-ukraine.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=OVesAq7eQyk Those are the same Jimmy Dore Show clip which features the above quoted Chomsky clip. C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ?Barking at Putin?s Door? > https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-says-nato-started-war-in-ukraine-by-barking-at-putins-door > > [The pope has the better of the argument. ?CGE] Related: https://www.rt.com/russia/554166-international-law-military-operation-ukraine/ -- Daniel Kovalik: Why Russia's intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law From moboct1 at aol.com Thu May 5 13:50:47 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 13:50:47 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Views on the war In-Reply-To: <9aab7339-ab27-068f-4193-c28c3a4d79a2@forestfield.org> References: <2A193451-6B1E-4D88-8A0B-54114CCC455F@newsfromneptune.com> <9aab7339-ab27-068f-4193-c28c3a4d79a2@forestfield.org> Message-ID: <818224111.2728982.1651758647119@mail.yahoo.com> YEAH, BUT... Trump can't be trusted (any more than Biden or other politicians); and G. H. W. Bush is the one who introduced the "NEW WORLD ORDER" after crowing about being victorious in Iraq War #1. Midge?? -----Original?Message-----.. From: J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net Sent: Wed, May 4, 2022 8:46 pm Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Views on the war C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Noam Chomsky said earlier this week that former President Donald Trump is the ?one > Western statesman? who has laid out a ?sensible? proposition to resolve the > Russia-Ukraine crisis. > > In an in an interview with Thijmen Sprakel on Tuesday, Chomsky said that the > proposed solution included ?facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them > and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe?in which there > are no military alliances but just mutual accommodation.? > > ?He didn?t say it, but it?s something like what George H.W. Bush ? the first Bush, > not the second ? proposed in the early 90s, when after the collapse of the Soviet > Union, proposed what they called a partnership for peace, which would be open for > Europeans generally or Asians as well,? Chomsky continued, going on to stress that > in his view, limiting NATO?s expansion and eliminating military alliances in > Europe is key. Noam Chomsky also recently said in an interview with "The Young Turks": > Politics is the daily activism that is teaching people why Trump is one of the, > fact of the matter, is the most dangerous figure in human history. Literally, > there has been no one else -- Hitler, anyone else -- who is dedicated to > destroying the prospects of human life on Earth in the next -- in the short term, > and that's exactly what he's doing. Chomsky said this while trying to convince people to vote against Trump. Source: https://rumble.com/v13bl4f-050222-3-chomsky-praises-trump-on-ukraine.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=OVesAq7eQyk Those are the same Jimmy Dore Show clip which features the above quoted Chomsky clip. C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ?Barking at Putin?s Door? > https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-says-nato-started-war-in-ukraine-by-barking-at-putins-door > >? [The pope has the better of the argument.? ?CGE] Related: https://www.rt.com/russia/554166-international-law-military-operation-ukraine/ -- Daniel Kovalik: Why Russia's intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law _______________________________________________ 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... 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Nicholson via Peace-discuss To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net Sent: Wed, May 4, 2022 8:46 pm Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Views on the war C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Noam Chomsky said earlier this week that former President Donald Trump is the ?one > Western statesman? who has laid out a ?sensible? proposition to resolve the > Russia-Ukraine crisis. > > In an in an interview with Thijmen Sprakel on Tuesday, Chomsky said that the > proposed solution included ?facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them > and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe?in which there > are no military alliances but just mutual accommodation.? > > ?He didn?t say it, but it?s something like what George H.W. Bush ? the first Bush, > not the second ? proposed in the early 90s, when after the collapse of the Soviet > Union, proposed what they called a partnership for peace, which would be open for > Europeans generally or Asians as well,? Chomsky continued, going on to stress that > in his view, limiting NATO?s expansion and eliminating military alliances in > Europe is key. Noam Chomsky also recently said in an interview with "The Young Turks": > Politics is the daily activism that is teaching people why Trump is one of the, > fact of the matter, is the most dangerous figure in human history. Literally, > there has been no one else -- Hitler, anyone else -- who is dedicated to > destroying the prospects of human life on Earth in the next -- in the short term, > and that's exactly what he's doing. Chomsky said this while trying to convince people to vote against Trump. Source: https://rumble.com/v13bl4f-050222-3-chomsky-praises-trump-on-ukraine.html https://youtube.com/watch?v=OVesAq7eQyk Those are the same Jimmy Dore Show clip which features the above quoted Chomsky clip. C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Pope Francis Says NATO Started War in Ukraine by ?Barking at Putin?s Door? > https://www.thedailybeast.com/pope-francis-says-nato-started-war-in-ukraine-by-barking-at-putins-door > >? [The pope has the better of the argument.? ?CGE] Related: https://www.rt.com/russia/554166-international-law-military-operation-ukraine/ -- Daniel Kovalik: Why Russia's intervention in Ukraine is legal under international law _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss _______________________________________________ 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... 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URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Fri May 6 20:24:24 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 15:24:24 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] us-pushes-fake-stories-to-goad-russia-into-escalation Message-ID: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/us-pushes-fake-stories-to-goad-russia-into-escalation.html#more From jbn at forestfield.org Sat May 7 00:19:03 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 6 May 2022 19:19:03 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <4bb18400-579c-56ab-41a9-4f55f1616052@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 ================================================== The Left Lens (Black Agenda Report) Russia, China, and the Post-Dollar World w/Pepe Escobar https://youtube.com/watch?v=iin3STk2Ank The Socialist Program with Brian Becker (BreakThrough News) Escalation in Ukraine: The Nuclear War Danger is Real https://youtube.com/watch?v=W2QjDGvQU2Y Glenn Greenwald Biden Wants $33 Billion More For the War in Ukraine. Which Americans Benefit? https://youtube.com/watch?v=pChC1JsvJAM https://rumble.com/v13fkbf-biden-wants-33-billion-more-for-the-war-in-ukraine.-which-americans-benefit.html The Extremist 1/6 Prosecutions Proceed with Little Attention - Interview with Journalist Julie Kelly https://youtube.com/watch?v=UKq7YZRQy0Y https://rumble.com/v11zscy-the-16-prosecutions-proceed-with-little-attention-interview-with-journalist.html MintPressNews MintPress New Livestream: Suspended For Revealing COVID Death Inflation https://youtube.com/watch?v=i761gMgEMnQ Jerusalem: Al-Aqsa In The Snipers Scope w/ Lowkey & Dr. Ramzy Baroud https://youtube.com/watch?v=api-yVqNGEw Moderate Rebels (Grayzone) Economist Michael Hudson explains inflation crisis and Fed's secretive $4.5 trillion bank bailout https://youtube.com/watch?v=m7eAbbVMr_4 Julian Assange's fianc?e Stella Moris discusses CIA threats and US extradition dangers https://youtube.com/watch?v=W4QNb9kNtxk Consortium News Lowkey with Mint Press News & Consortium News Editors on PayPal Ban https://youtube.com/watch?v=myOnvRto75c Labor's World View TV ================================================== Status Coup News Interview with Amazon Labor Union Attorney: "We Need the Support of the Federal Government" https://youtube.com/watch?v=A1y2-UGBOxo CEOs Cry THEY are Under Attack Amidst Housing Crisis, Skyrocketing Inflation https://youtube.com/watch?v=hDGbQlOhMDA More Perfect Union Minor League Baseball Players EXPLOITED By Billionaire Owners https://youtube.com/watch?v=KNDGvIFVki4 Inside The Second Staten Island Amazon Union Election https://youtube.com/watch?v=tvteGR1Vc3I Howard Schultz Illegally Threatens To Withhold Benefits From Unionizing Workers https://youtube.com/watch?v=sRoTS1ndaY0 Amazon Fired A Pro-Union Worker. Workers Are Fighting Back https://youtube.com/watch?v=EE4HWmCAyu4 laborvideo USW 5 Chevron Richmond Refinery Strike Continues Report By USW 5 President BK White https://youtube.com/watch?v=a539XtLez6Y MayDay South Africa, The Clover Dairy Strike, Privatization & Imperialism With GIWUSA Memetlwe Sebei https://youtube.com/watch?v=C8O7-lu804s East Bay Unionists Oppose Port Privatization of Howard Terminal For Billionaire GAP A's Stadium https://youtube.com/watch?v=X7BOde5wq_E Shut It Down! OEA Strikes & ILWU Shuts Docks In Fight Against Privatization https://youtube.com/watch?v=a4ozf6qiQSw From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun May 8 01:51:52 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 20:51:52 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time References: <20220508004343.3.efd5e7ce08bd1fa0@mg2.substack.com> Message-ID: <58CEA25C-F833-4079-AE01-30F06C9EB467@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter > Subject: Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time > Date: May 7, 2022 at 7:43:43 PM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter > > > Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time > > Caitlin Johnstone > May 8 > > Listen to a reading of this article: > > Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time by Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone > Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone > ? > > Antiwar libertarian hero Scott Horton has a viral tweet going around which reads simply, "Biden's refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history." > > Kind of smacks you in the face, doesn't it? I've never seen anyone put it quite like that before, but if you think about it, how could it not be true? > > It's just a simple fact that the Biden administration is actually hindering?diplomatic efforts to negotiate an end to this war , and that it has refused to provide Ukraine with any kind of diplomatic negotiating power regarding the possible rollback of sanctions and other US measures to help secure peace. Washington's top diplomats have consistently been conspicuously absent from any kind of dialogue with their counterparts in Moscow. > > Statements from the administration in fact indicate that they expect this war to drag on for a long time , making it abundantly clear that a swift end to minimize the death and destruction is not just uninteresting but undesirable for the US empire. > > > Scott Horton > @scotthortonshow > Biden's refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history. > May 5th 2022 > > 1,766 Retweets8,558 Likes > > And this isn't just another war. This is a proxy war being waged by one of the world's two top nuclear forces against the world's other top nuclear force. This is more serious than Iraq. It is more serious than Vietnam. It is more serious than any US war that has happened in the lifetime of anyone likely to be reading these words, because Russia has increasingly valid reasons to believe its very existence as a nation is being threatened. This is therefore a war that could very easily result in the death of everyone on earth . > > The US Secretary of "Defense" has openly said that America's goal is to "weaken" Russia in this war. Biden himself has made statements which can only be interpreted as calls for regime change in Moscow. US officials have been leaking to the press claims that US intelligence has directly facilitated the killing of Russian generals and the sinking of a Russian war ship . > > The imperial political/media class are not even denying that this is a US proxy war anymore. In an alarmingly rapid pivot from the mass media's earlier position that calling this a proxy war is merely an "accusation " promoted solely by Russia , we're now seeing the use of that term becoming more and more common in authorized news outlets. The New Yorker came right out and declared that the US is in "a full proxy war with Russia" the other day, and US congressman Seth Moulton recently told Fox News that the US is at war with Russia through a proxy. > > "At the end of the day, we've got to realize we're at war, and we're not just at war to support the Ukrainians," Moulton said. "We're fundamentally at war, although it's somewhat through proxy, with Russia. And it's important that we win." > > > Eli Stein > @Fight_Back_NYC > Wait what? We are officially in a proxy war with Russia? Did anyone sign up for this? > > May 2nd 2022 > > 328 Retweets925 Likes > > How fast did that happen? How fast were we paced from "It's Russian propaganda to call this a proxy war" to "Obviously this is a proxy war and we need to make sure we win"? Fast enough to make your head spin, that's for sure. > > And it's not just a proxy war, it's a proxy war the US knowingly provoked. We know now that the US intelligence cartel had clear vision into Russia's plans to launch this invasion, which means they also knew how to prevent it. A few low-cost maneuvers like promising not to add Ukraine to NATO as well as promising Zelensky that the US would protect him and his government from the violent fascist factions who were threatening to kill him if he honored the Minsk agreements and made peace with Russia as Ukrainians elected him to do. That's all it would have taken. > > Many, many western experts warned for many years that the actions of the US and NATO would lead to the confrontation we're now being menaced with. There was every opportunity to turn away from this war, and instead the US-centralized empire hit the accelerator and drove right into it. Knowingly. > > The whole thing was premeditated. All with the goal of weakening Russia and effecting regime change in Moscow in order to secure US unipolar hegemony . > > > Arnaud Bertrand > @RnaudBertrand > Most fascinating thing about the Ukraine war is the sheer number of top strategic thinkers who warned for years that it was coming if we continued down the same path. > > No-one listened to them and here we are. > > Small compilation ? of these warnings, from Kissinger to Mearsheimer. > March 1st 2022 > > 20,543 Retweets45,492 Likes > > The Biden administration was the last in a long line of decision makers to choose this world-threatening confrontation over peace. There was an opportunity to avert this horror, and that opportunity wasn't taken. > > Allowing the world to come this close to nuclear war already makes Biden the worst US president since Bush. At least. History may well show his to be the single most depraved presidency of all time. > > Preventing nuclear war is a US president's single most important job. It's so important you shouldn't even really have to talk about it, because it's so self-evidently the number one priority. And this administration is just rolling the dice on nuclear conflict with increasing frequency every day. > > Even if humanity survives this standoff (and the one with China that's next in line ), Biden will still have been an unforgivably depraved president for allowing it to get this close. There's no excuse whatsoever for just casually rolling the dice on all terrestrial life like this. > > Just seriously meditating on what nuclear war is and what it means should be enough to show anyone that any flirtation with the remotest possibility of inflicting it on our world is unforgivable. It's the worst crime anyone could possibly commit short of actual nuclear war. > > Now all we can do is hope some small spark of sanity ignites deep within our species before we snuff ourselves out for good. > > _________________________ > > My work is entirely reader-supported , so if you enjoyed this piece please consider sharing it around, following me on Facebook , Twitter , Soundcloud or YouTube , or throwing some money into my tip jar on Ko-fi , Patreon or Paypal . If you want to read more you can buy my books . The best way to make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list for at my website or on Substack , which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. Everyone, racist platforms excluded, has my permission to republish, use or translate any part of this work (or anything else I?ve written) in any way they like free of charge. For more info on who I am, where I stand, and what I?m trying to do with this platform, click here . 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 Unsubscribe > 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun May 8 01:56:12 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 20:56:12 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time References: <20220508004343.3.efd5e7ce08bd1fa0@mg2.substack.com> Message-ID: <289AAFDC-800D-4CA5-B38B-163C70A6B075@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter > Subject: Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time > Date: May 7, 2022 at 7:43:43 PM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter > > > Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time > > Caitlin Johnstone > May 8 > > Listen to a reading of this article: > > Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time by Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone > Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone > ? > > Antiwar libertarian hero Scott Horton has a viral tweet going around which reads simply, "Biden's refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history." > > Kind of smacks you in the face, doesn't it? I've never seen anyone put it quite like that before, but if you think about it, how could it not be true? > > It's just a simple fact that the Biden administration is actually hindering?diplomatic efforts to negotiate an end to this war , and that it has refused to provide Ukraine with any kind of diplomatic negotiating power regarding the possible rollback of sanctions and other US measures to help secure peace. Washington's top diplomats have consistently been conspicuously absent from any kind of dialogue with their counterparts in Moscow. > > Statements from the administration in fact indicate that they expect this war to drag on for a long time , making it abundantly clear that a swift end to minimize the death and destruction is not just uninteresting but undesirable for the US empire. > > > Scott Horton > @scotthortonshow > Biden's refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history. > May 5th 2022 > > 1,766 Retweets8,558 Likes > > And this isn't just another war. This is a proxy war being waged by one of the world's two top nuclear forces against the world's other top nuclear force. This is more serious than Iraq. It is more serious than Vietnam. It is more serious than any US war that has happened in the lifetime of anyone likely to be reading these words, because Russia has increasingly valid reasons to believe its very existence as a nation is being threatened. This is therefore a war that could very easily result in the death of everyone on earth . > > The US Secretary of "Defense" has openly said that America's goal is to "weaken" Russia in this war. Biden himself has made statements which can only be interpreted as calls for regime change in Moscow. US officials have been leaking to the press claims that US intelligence has directly facilitated the killing of Russian generals and the sinking of a Russian war ship . > > The imperial political/media class are not even denying that this is a US proxy war anymore. In an alarmingly rapid pivot from the mass media's earlier position that calling this a proxy war is merely an "accusation " promoted solely by Russia , we're now seeing the use of that term becoming more and more common in authorized news outlets. The New Yorker came right out and declared that the US is in "a full proxy war with Russia" the other day, and US congressman Seth Moulton recently told Fox News that the US is at war with Russia through a proxy. > > "At the end of the day, we've got to realize we're at war, and we're not just at war to support the Ukrainians," Moulton said. "We're fundamentally at war, although it's somewhat through proxy, with Russia. And it's important that we win." > > > Eli Stein > @Fight_Back_NYC > Wait what? We are officially in a proxy war with Russia? Did anyone sign up for this? > > May 2nd 2022 > > 328 Retweets925 Likes > > How fast did that happen? How fast were we paced from "It's Russian propaganda to call this a proxy war" to "Obviously this is a proxy war and we need to make sure we win"? Fast enough to make your head spin, that's for sure. > > And it's not just a proxy war, it's a proxy war the US knowingly provoked. We know now that the US intelligence cartel had clear vision into Russia's plans to launch this invasion, which means they also knew how to prevent it. A few low-cost maneuvers like promising not to add Ukraine to NATO as well as promising Zelensky that the US would protect him and his government from the violent fascist factions who were threatening to kill him if he honored the Minsk agreements and made peace with Russia as Ukrainians elected him to do. That's all it would have taken. > > Many, many western experts warned for many years that the actions of the US and NATO would lead to the confrontation we're now being menaced with. There was every opportunity to turn away from this war, and instead the US-centralized empire hit the accelerator and drove right into it. Knowingly. > > The whole thing was premeditated. All with the goal of weakening Russia and effecting regime change in Moscow in order to secure US unipolar hegemony . > > > Arnaud Bertrand > @RnaudBertrand > Most fascinating thing about the Ukraine war is the sheer number of top strategic thinkers who warned for years that it was coming if we continued down the same path. > > No-one listened to them and here we are. > > Small compilation ? of these warnings, from Kissinger to Mearsheimer. > March 1st 2022 > > 20,543 Retweets45,492 Likes > > The Biden administration was the last in a long line of decision makers to choose this world-threatening confrontation over peace. There was an opportunity to avert this horror, and that opportunity wasn't taken. > > Allowing the world to come this close to nuclear war already makes Biden the worst US president since Bush. At least. History may well show his to be the single most depraved presidency of all time. > > Preventing nuclear war is a US president's single most important job. It's so important you shouldn't even really have to talk about it, because it's so self-evidently the number one priority. And this administration is just rolling the dice on nuclear conflict with increasing frequency every day. > > Even if humanity survives this standoff (and the one with China that's next in line ), Biden will still have been an unforgivably depraved president for allowing it to get this close. There's no excuse whatsoever for just casually rolling the dice on all terrestrial life like this. > > Just seriously meditating on what nuclear war is and what it means should be enough to show anyone that any flirtation with the remotest possibility of inflicting it on our world is unforgivable. It's the worst crime anyone could possibly commit short of actual nuclear war. > > Now all we can do is hope some small spark of sanity ignites deep within our species before we snuff ourselves out for good. > > _________________________ > > My work is entirely reader-supported , so if you enjoyed this piece please consider sharing it around, following me on Facebook , Twitter , Soundcloud or YouTube , or throwing some money into my tip jar on Ko-fi , Patreon or Paypal . If you want to read more you can buy my books . The best way to make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list for at my website or on Substack , which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. Everyone, racist platforms excluded, has my permission to republish, use or translate any part of this work (or anything else I?ve written) in any way they like free of charge. For more info on who I am, where I stand, and what I?m trying to do with this platform, click here . 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 Unsubscribe > 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun May 8 14:16:41 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 09:16:41 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Megalopolis x Russia: Total War References: <20220508140359.1.3F9C13CB9737774D@mg.unz.com> Message-ID: <9011A597-2ACA-4591-8B36-F1867984363F@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Pepe Escobar / The Unz Review > Subject: Megalopolis x Russia: Total War > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > > The Unz Review ? An Alternative Media Selection Subscribe > A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media > Megalopolis x Russia: Total War Pepe Escobar ? Friday, May 6, 2022 ? 1,900 Words > > After careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the ?indispensable nation?. > > But it?s our fate / To have no place to rest, / As suffering mortals / Blindly fall and vanish / From one hour / To the next, / Like water falling / From cliff to cliff, downward / For years to uncertainty. > > Holderlin, Hyperion?s Fate Song > > Operation Z is the first salvo of a titanic struggle: three decades after the fall of the USSR, and 77 years after the end of WWII, after careful evaluation, the Kremlin is rearranging the geopolitical chessboard to end the unipolar hegemony of the ?indispensable nation?. No wonder the Empire of Lies has gone completely berserk, obsessed in completely expelling Russia from the West-centric system. > > The U.S. and its NATO puppies cannot possibly come to grips with their perplexity when faced with a staggering loss: no more entitlement allowing exclusive geopolitical use of force to perpetuate ?our values?. No more Full Spectrum Dominance. > > The micro-picture is also clear. The U.S. Deep State is milking to Kingdom Come its planned Ukraine gambit to cloak a strategic attack on Russia. The ?secret? was to force Moscow into an intra-Slav war in Ukraine to break Nord Stream 2 ? and thus German reliance on Russian natural resources. That ends ? at least for the foreseeable future ? the prospect of a Bismarckian Russo-German connection that would ultimately cause the U.S. to lose control of the Eurasian landmass from the English Channel to the Pacific to an emerging China-Russia-Germany pact. > > The American strategic gambit, so far, has worked wonders. But the battle is far from over. Psycho neo-con/neoliberalcon silos inside the Deep State consider Russia such a serious threat to the ?rules-based international order? that they are ready to risk if not incur a ?limited? nuclear war out of their gambit. What?s at stake is nothing less than the loss of Ruling the World by the Anglo-Saxons. > > Mastering the Five Seas > > Russia, based on purchasing power parity (PPP), is the 6th economy in the world, right behind Germany and ahead of both the UK and France. Its ?hard? economy is similar to the U.S. Steel production may be about the same, but intellectual capacity is vastly superior. Russia has roughly the same number of engineers as the U.S., but they are much better educated. > > The Mossad attributes Israel?s economic miracle in creating an equivalent of Silicon Valley to a base of a million Russian immigrants. This Israeli Silicon Valley happens to be a key asset of the American MICIMATT (military-industrial-congressional-intelligence-media-academia-think tank complex), as indelibly named by Ray McGovern. > > NATOstan media hysterically barking that Russia?s GDP is the size of Texas is nonsense. PPP is what really counts; that and Russia?s superior engineers is why their hypersonic weapons are at least two or three generations ahead of the U.S. Just ask the indispensable Andrei Martyanov . > > The Empire of Lies has no defensive missiles worthy of the name, and no equivalents to Mr. Zircon and Mr. Sarmat. The NATOstan sphere simply cannot win a war, any war against Russia for this reason alone. > > The deafening NATOstan ?narrative? that Ukraine is defeating Russia does not even qualify as an innocuous joke? (compare it with Russia?s ?Reach Out and Touch Someone? strategy). The corrupt system of SBU fanatics intermingled with UkroNazi factions is kaput. The Pentagon knows it. The CIA cannot possibly admit it. What the Empire of Lies has sort of won, so far, is a media ?victory? for the UkroNazis, not a military victory. > > Gen Aleksandr Dvornikov, of Syria fame, has a clear mandate: to conquer the whole of Donbass, totally free up Crimea and prepare the advance towards Odessa and Transnistria while reducing a rump Ukraine to the status of failed state without any access to the sea. > > The Sea of Azov ? linked to the Caspian by the Don-Volga canal ? is already a Russian lake. And the Black Sea is next, the key connection between the Heartland and the Mediterranean. The Five Seas system ? Black, Azov, Caspian, Baltic, White ? enshrines Russia as a de facto continental naval power. Who needs warm waters? > > Moving ?at the speed of war? > > The pain dial, from now on, will go up non-stop. Reality ? as in facts on the ground ? will soon become apparent even to the NATOstan-wide LugenPresse. > > The woke Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen Mark Milley, expects Operation Z to last years. That?s nonsense. The Russian Armed Forces may afford to be quite methodical and take all the time needed to properly demilitarize Ukraine. The collective West for its part is pressed for time ? because the blowback from the real economy is already on and bound to become vicious. > > Defense Minister Shoigu has made it quite clear: any NATO vehicles bringing weapons to Kiev will be destroyed as ?legitimate military targets?. > > A report by the scientific service of the Bundestag established that training of Ukrainian soldiers on German soil may amount, under international law, to participation in war. And that gets even trickier when coupled with NATO weapons deliveries: ?Only if, in addition to the supply of weapons, the instruction of the conflict party or training in such weapons were also an issue would one leave the secure area of ??non-warfare.? > > Now at least it?s irretrievably clear how the Empire of Lies ?moves at the speed of war? ? as described in public by weapons peddler turned Pentagon head, Lloyd ?Raytheon? Austin. In Pentagonese, that was explained by the proverbial ?official? as ?a combination of a call center, a watch floor, meeting rooms. They execute a battle rhythm to support decision-makers.? > > The Pentagonese ?battle rhythm? offered to a supposedly ?credible, resilient and combat-capable Ukraine military? is fed by a EUCom system that essentially moves weapons orders from Pentagon warehouses in the U.S. to branches of the Empire of Bases in Europe and then to the NATO eastern front in Poland, where they are trucked across Ukraine just in time to be duly incinerated by Russian precision strikes: the wealth of options include supersonic P-800 Onyx missiles, two types of Iskander, and Mr. Khinzal launched from Mig-31Ks. > > Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed Moscow is perfectly aware the U.S., NATO and UK are transferring not only weapons but also loads of intel. In parallel, the collective West turns everything upside down 24/7 shaping a new environment totally geared against Russia, not caring for even a semblance of partnership in any area. The collective West does not even consider the possibility of dialogue with Russia. > > Hence talking to Putin is ?a waste of time? unless a ?Russian defeat? in Ukraine (echoing strident Kiev P.R.) would make him ?more realistic?. For all his faults, Le Petit Roi Macron/McKinsey has been an exception, on the phone with Putin earlier this week. > > The neo-Orwellian Hitlerization of Putin reduces him, even among the so-called Euro-intelligentzia, to the status of dictator of a nation chloroformed into its 19th century nationalism. Forget about any semblance of historical/political/cultural analysis. Putin is a late Augustus, dressing up his Imperium as a Republic. > > At best the Europeans preach and pray ? chihuahuas yapping to His Master?s Voice ? for a hybrid strategy of ?containment and engagement? to be unleashed by the U.S., clumsily parroting the scribblings of denizens of that intellectual no-fly zone, Think Tankland. > > Yet in fact the Europeans would rather ?isolate? Russia ? as in 12% of the world?s population ?isolating? 88% (of course: their Westoxified ?vision? completely ignores the Global South). ?Help? to Russia will only come when sanctions are effective (as in never: blowback will be the norm) or ? the ultimate wet dream ? there?s regime change in Moscow. > > The Fall > > UkroNazi P.R. agent Ursula von der Lugen presented the sixth sanction package of the Europoodle (Dis)Union. > > Top of the bill is to exclude three more Russian banks from SWIFT, including Sberbank. Seven banks are already excluded. This will enforce Russia?s ?total isolation?. It?s idle to comment on something that only fools the LugenPresse. > > Then there?s the ?progressive? embargo on oil imports. No more crude imported to the EU in six months and no more refined products before the end of 2022. As it stands, the IEA shows that 45% of Russia?s oil exports go to the EU (with 22% to China and 10% to the U.S.). His Master?s Voice continues and will continue to import Russian oil. > > And of course 58 ?personal? sanctions also show up, targeting very dangerous characters such as Patriarch Kirill of the Orthodox Church, and the wife, son and daughter of Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov. > > This stunning display of stupidity will have to be approved by all EU members. Internal revolt is guaranteed, especially from Hungary, even as so many remain willing to commit energy suicide and mess up with the lives of their citizens big time to defend a neo-Nazi regime. > > Alastair Crooke called my attention to a startling, original interpretation of what?s goin? on, offered in Russian by a Serbian analyst, Prof. Slobodan Vladusic. His main thesis, in a nutshell: ?Megalopolis hates Russia because it is not Megalopolis ? it has not entered the sphere of anti-humanism and that is why it remains a civilization alternative. Hence Russophobia.? > > Vladusic contends that the intra-Slav war in Ukraine is ?a great catastrophe for Orthodox civilization? ? mirroring my recent first attempt to open a serious debate on a Clash of Christianities . > > Yet the major schism is not on religion but culture: ?The key difference between the former West and today?s Megalopolis is that Megalopolis programmatically renounces the humanistic heritage of the West.? > > So now ?it is possible to erase not only the musical canon, but also the entire European humanistic heritage: the entire literature, fine arts, philosophy? because of a ?trivialization of knowledge?. What?s left is an empty space, actually a cultural black hole, ?filled by promoting terms such as ?posthumanism? and ?transhumanism?.? > > And here Vladusic gets to the heart of the matter: Russia fiercely opposes the Great Reset concocted by the ?hackable?, self-described ?elites? of Megalopolis. > > Sergey Glazyev, now coordinating the draft of a new financial/monetary system by the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) in partnership with the Chinese, adapts Vladusic to the facts on the ground (here in Russian, here in an imperfect English translation). > > Glazyev is way more blunt than in his meticulous economic analyses. While noting the Deep State?s aims of destroying the Russian world, Iran and block China, he stresses the U.S. ?will not be able to win the global hybrid war?. A key reason is that the collective West has ?put all independent countries in front of the need to find new global currency instruments, risk insurance mechanisms, restore the norms of international law and create their own economic security systems.? > > So yes, this is Totalen Krieg, Total War ? as Glazyev spells it out with no attenuation, and how Russia denounced it this week at the UN: ?Russia needs to stand up to the United States and NATO in its confrontation, bringing it to its logical conclusion, so as not to be torn between them and China, which is irrevocably becoming the leader of the world economy.? > > History may eventually register, 77 years after the end of WWII, that neocon/neoliberalcon psychos in Washington silos instigating an inter-Slavic war by ordering Kiev to launch a blitzkrieg against Donbass was the spark that led to the Fall of the U.S. Empire. > > > Unsubscribe From This Mailing List -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From moboct1 at aol.com Sun May 8 14:43:35 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 14:43:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time In-Reply-To: <1543486762.436793.1652020371850@mail.yahoo.com> References: <20220508004343.3.efd5e7ce08bd1fa0@mg2.substack.com> <289AAFDC-800D-4CA5-B38B-163C70A6B075@newsfromneptune.com> <1687895786.435649.1652019995923@mail.yahoo.com> <1543486762.436793.1652020371850@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1953516036.445159.1652021015724@mail.yahoo.com> AMEN, AMEN, CAITLIN!? SAD BUT TRUE. MO'B -----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net Cc: Peace Sent: Sat, May 7, 2022 8:56 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time Begin forwarded message: From: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter Subject: Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time Date: May 7, 2022 at 7:43:43 PM CDT To: cgestabrook at gmail.com Reply-To: Caitlin Johnstone from Caitlin?s Newsletter | | | | | | Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time | | Caitlin Johnstone | May 8 | | | | | | | | | Listen to a reading of this article: | | Ukraine Alone Makes Biden The Worst US President In A Long Time by Going Rogue With Caitlin JohnstoneGoing Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone | ? Antiwar libertarian hero Scott Horton has a viral?tweet?going around which reads simply, "Biden's refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history." Kind of smacks you in the face, doesn't it? I've never seen anyone put it quite like that before, but if you think about it, how could it not be true? It's just a simple fact that the Biden administration is actually?hindering?diplomatic efforts?to?negotiate an end to this war, and that it?has refused?to provide Ukraine with any kind of diplomatic negotiating power regarding the possible rollback of sanctions and other US measures to help secure peace. Washington's top diplomats have consistently been?conspicuously absent?from any kind of dialogue with their counterparts in Moscow.? Statements?from the administration?in fact indicate that they expect this war to?drag on for a long time, making it abundantly clear that a swift end to minimize the death and destruction is not just uninteresting but undesirable for the US empire. Scott Horton @scotthortonshowBiden's refusal to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine is the greatest scandal in American political history. May 5th 2022 1,766 Retweets8,558 Likes And this isn't just another war. This is a proxy war being waged by one of the world's two top nuclear forces against the world's other top nuclear force. This is more serious than Iraq. It is more serious than Vietnam. It is more serious than any US war that has happened in the lifetime of anyone likely to be reading these words, because Russia has increasingly valid reasons to believe its very existence as a nation is being threatened. This is therefore a war that could very easily result in?the death of everyone on earth. The US Secretary of "Defense"?has openly said?that America's goal is to "weaken" Russia in this war. Biden himself has made statements which?can only be interpreted?as calls for regime change in Moscow. US officials have been leaking to the press claims that US intelligence has directly facilitated the?killing of Russian generals?and the?sinking of a Russian war ship. The imperial political/media class are not even denying that this is a US proxy war anymore. In an alarmingly rapid pivot from the mass media's earlier position that calling this a proxy war is merely an "accusation" promoted solely?by Russia, we're now seeing the use of that term becoming more and more common in authorized news outlets.?The New Yorker?came right out?and declared that the US is in "a full proxy war with Russia" the other day, and US congressman Seth Moulton recently?told Fox News?that the US is at war with Russia through a proxy. "At the end of the day, we've got to realize we're at war, and we're not just at war to support the Ukrainians," Moulton said. "We're fundamentally at war, although it's somewhat through proxy, with Russia. And it's important that we win." Eli Stein @Fight_Back_NYCWait what? We are officially in a proxy war with Russia? Did anyone sign up for this? May 2nd 2022 328 Retweets925 Likes How fast did that happen? How fast were we paced from "It's Russian propaganda to call this a proxy war" to "Obviously this is a proxy war and we need to make sure we win"? Fast enough to make your head spin, that's for sure. And it's not just a proxy war, it's a proxy war the US knowingly provoked. We know now that the US intelligence cartel had clear vision into Russia's plans to launch this invasion, which means they also knew how to prevent it. A few low-cost maneuvers like?promising not to add Ukraine to NATO?as well as promising Zelensky that the US would protect him and his government from the violent fascist factions who were?threatening to kill him?if he honored the Minsk agreements and made peace with Russia as Ukrainians elected him to do. That's all it would have taken. Many, many western experts?warned for many years?that the actions of the US and NATO would lead to the confrontation we're now being menaced with. There was every opportunity to turn away from this war, and instead the US-centralized empire hit the accelerator and drove right into it. Knowingly. The whole thing was premeditated. All with the goal of weakening Russia and effecting regime change in Moscow in order to?secure US unipolar hegemony. Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrandMost fascinating thing about the Ukraine war is the sheer number of top strategic thinkers who warned for years that it was coming if we continued down the same path.No-one listened to them and here we are.Small compilation ? of these warnings, from Kissinger to Mearsheimer. March 1st 2022 20,543 Retweets45,492 Likes The Biden administration was the last in a?long line?of decision makers to choose this world-threatening confrontation over peace. There was an opportunity to avert this horror, and that opportunity wasn't taken. Allowing the world to come this close to nuclear war already makes Biden the worst US president since Bush. At least. History may well show his to be the single most depraved presidency of all time. Preventing nuclear war is a US president's single most important job. It's so important you shouldn't even really have to talk about it, because it's so self-evidently the number one priority. And this administration is just?rolling the dice on nuclear conflict?with increasing frequency every day. Even if humanity survives this standoff (and the one with China that's?next in line), Biden will still have been an unforgivably depraved president for allowing it to get this close. There's no excuse whatsoever for just casually rolling the dice on all terrestrial life like this. Just seriously meditating on what nuclear war is and what it means should be enough to show anyone that any flirtation with the remotest possibility of inflicting it on our world is unforgivable. It's the worst crime anyone could possibly commit short of actual nuclear war. Now all we can do is hope some small spark of sanity ignites deep within our species before we snuff ourselves out for good. _________________________ My work is?entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece please consider sharing it around, following me on?Facebook,?Twitter,?Soundcloud?or?YouTube, or?throwing some money into my tip jar on?Ko-fi,?Patreon?or?Paypal. If you want to read more you can?buy my books. The best way to make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list for at?my website?or?on Substack, which will get you an email notification for everything I publish.?Everyone, racist platforms excluded,?has my permission?to republish, use or translate any part of this work (or anything else I?ve written) in any way they like free of charge.?For more info on who I am, where I stand, and what I?m trying to do with this platform,?click here. 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?Unsubscribe 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104 | | _______________________________________________ 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 naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Sun May 8 15:28:16 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Sun, 8 May 2022 11:28:16 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] The Stranger [Seattle]: Rep. Adam Smith Could Help Stop the War in Yemen by Cosponsoring a New Bill, but Right Now He's Still Thinkin' on It In-Reply-To: References: <0ffc01d84f9f$ec544650$c4fcd2f0$@centurylink.net> <9E960041-69C2-4615-9FBD-17C11E0E7D91@yemenfoundation.org> Message-ID: Please spread this all around. Especially to anyone you know who lives in Seattle. https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2022/05/06/72620997/rep-adam-smith-could-help-stop-the-war-in-yemen-by-cosponsoring-a-new-bill-but-right-now-hes-still-thinkin-on-it Rep. Adam Smith Could Help Stop the War in Yemen by Cosponsoring a New Bill, but Right Now He's Still Thinkin' on It by Rich Smith ? May 6, 2022 at 6:25 pm This past March, the United States marked its eighth year of support for a Saudi-led war in Yemen that has *killed* nearly 400,000 people and pushed millions to the brink of starvation. There's a bunch of bad stuff going on in the world right now, but the United Nations *calls* the situation in Yemen "the world's worst humanitarian crisis." In his capacity as chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Seattle-area Congressman Adam Smith holds *immense power* in ending this ongoing crisis. Earlier this week a coalition of local and Washington state organizations sent him a *letter* asking him to support a bill that could do just that. So far, he remains "open" but noncommittal to the legislation, which seems odd given his previous support for nearly identical proposals, and odd given general support for the bill from a number of slightly less hawkish members of the foreign policy establishment. In their letter, the organizations ? including the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Country Doctor Community Health Centers, and various anti-war and progressive groups ? asked Smith to cosponsor a *forthcoming* War Powers Resolution to end U.S. military participation in the Saudi attacks on Yemen. The legislation, which fellow Western Washingtonian Rep. Pramila Jayapal and Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio will introduce soon, basically mirrors the language of proposed amendments to the 2020-22 versions of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have "terminated" all US logistical support, intelligence sharing, spare parts transfers, and maintenance of Saudi warplanes. The country uses the planes to conduct air raids in Yemen. As the organizers note, this January Saudi planes hit a migrant detention facility and a telecoms facility, *killing* at least 60 people, injuring more than 200, and triggering *a four-day internet outage* across the country. Foreign policy *experts* agree that Saudi Arabia cannot keep its planes in the air if the US stops fixing them up when they land, so President Joe Biden's signature on this bill would ground the Saudi air force, prevent them from continuing to wage this war, and end the naval and arial blockades that sank nearly 20 million Yemenis into food insecurity. In short, it could end the world's worst humanitarian crisis. But Rep. Smith is still thinkin' on it. Over the phone, he said he hasn't signed onto the legislation because the sponsors haven?t introduced it yet. When asked why not sign on as an original cosponsor given his previous support for similar legislation, he said he's seen some drafts and has a couple concerns. One of those concerns involves procedure, and the other involves strategy. Both concerns perplex me for different reasons; his procedural concern seems ironic, and his strategic concern contradicts previous votes he's taken on the issue. His procedural concerns involves the vehicle of the legislation and its language. Rather than stick the policy in a bill that runs through the regular process of committee meetings and markups, the current prime sponsors used a joint resolution under the War Powers Act of 1973, a law Congress passed after Vietnam to reduce the President's power to make war without Congressional oversight. Essentially, this vehicle fast-tracks the legislation to the House and Senate floors, and then, if successful, up to the President's desk. Most importantly, the proposal's language defines spare parts transfers and maintenance of Saudi warplanes as "hostilities" under the War Powers Act's definition of the term. Smith said he's concerned "but not overwhelmingly concerned" about passage of this bill "potentially setting a precedent" that would lead to Congress weighing in more often in this speedy way when it comes to other conflicts around the world where US personnel keep warplanes up and running. Smith's concern here seems somewhat minor and strange given his position. Successful passage of the bill could motivate other members of Congress to try to shut down US "hostilities" in other wars around the globe, but those Reps would still need to rally support to end our involvement in whichever conflict was at issue. Given how long it's taken to get the US even this close to ending its complicity with literally the worst thing happening on the planet, rallying that support seems like a heavy lift. Furthermore, it's unclear why the chair of the House Armed Services Committee would worry about setting a precedent that would give Congress (and, theoretically, the people) *more power *in deciding when the US does war stuff. But, ya know, to each his own. Smith said a letter written in July of 2021 by Oxfam, Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and other groups informs his strategic concerns. In the letter, those groups argued that the pressure on the Saudi's worked to reduce air strikes but embolden the Houthis, who they blame for keeping the war going and for poaching the humanitarian aid sent to the country. "We are concerned that any Congressional engagement that ignores these changes and assigns US defense assistance substantial responsibility for driving the conflict and the humanitarian crisis would be counterproductive. Such engagement relieves pressure and diverts scrutiny from the armed actors who continue to put their own military and political interests ahead of the survival of the Yemeni people," they wrote. Despite the views expressed in that letter, Smith, as *The Stranger* reported at the time, boldly went on to support an amendment in the NDAA that would end US logistical support for the war, which, if successful, would certainly have counted as "Congressional engagement" on the matter. The amendment, however, ended up failing, likely due to opposition from the Biden Administration. Smith acknowledged the discrepancy between signing onto the NDAA amendment in 2021 despite concerns from those groups and weighing those concerns more heavily now, but said "I was troubled by it then, and I'm troubled by it now," adding that Oxfam and Mercy Corps have not changed their position on this issue. He also emphasized that he's still just working through his thought process, and added that he'd received another draft of the legislation's language today. "I?m going to look at it. This is a process," he said. "I want peace in Yemen. I don?t want the Houthis to win. I don?t want the Saudis to win. I want peace," he said. While Rep. Smith continues to deliberate, others prominent members of the national security establishment are signing on. California Rep. Adam Schiff, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, signed onto the resolution as a cosponsor. And if that guy doesn't have problems with precedent or with emboldening the Houthis in a war they've *pretty much already won* , then it's not clear who else should. And, of course, closer to home, more than a dozen anti-war organizations think Smith shouldn?t have a problem with any of that either. If there?s some other constituency at play here, Smith didn?t mention them. That said, even if the bill gets through the House, President Biden's recalcitrance on this issue and a 50-50 Senate will be sizable hurdles to jump. Rich Smith Rich Smith is The Stranger's associate editor. He writes about politics, books, and performance. You can read his poems at www.richsmithpoetry.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue May 10 02:40:30 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 21:40:30 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Lila_Rose_on_Tucker_Carlson=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=98When_people_learn=E2=80=A6_what_abortion_is=2C_they_ch?= =?utf-8?b?YW5nZeKAmQ==?= References: <1652123221735.d915e9ac-f099-40ce-88ab-17bf8763dec4@bf10x.hubspotemail.net> Message-ID: <75F8A3E7-8246-4711-BE11-4938C83BAC2B@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Live Action News > Subject: Lila Rose on Tucker Carlson: ?When people learn? what abortion is, they change? > Date: May 9, 2022 at 2:08:52 PM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: info at liveaction.org > > > CG, > > In light of the SCOTUS draft leak, today we are again sharing 5 important articles with you on this topic instead of the usual 4. > > We want to make sure you have all the relevant information you need during this truly pivotal moment in the history of the pro-life movement! > > Lila Rose on Tucker Carlson: ?When People Learn? 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[...] Live Action?s Abortion Procedures videos have caused everyday Americans to change their minds about abortion once they are educated about the reality of abortion procedures > Read more > > > Get the Facts: Illegal Abortion Did Not Lead to Thousands of Women?s Deaths > > The fabricated statistics came from those who wanted to manipulate the public?s emotions to decriminalize abortion. We know this because former NARAL co-founder Bernard Nathanson admitted that the 5,000-10,000 annual death statistic fed to the public and media in the late 1960s was completely made up. > Read more > > > What Happens if the Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade? > > Some have worried that ending Roe would mean women immediately lose access to abortion, that women could face criminal penalties, and that they wouldn?t be able to access certain types of health care. Many of the ongoing concerns are overblown or false. > Read more > > > VIEW ALL RECENT NEWS > > Thank you for joining us to build a Culture of Life! Be sure to share these articles with your friends and family! > > For Life, > > The Live Action News Team > > Increase Your Pro-Life Impact > Your donation can have a greater impact than ever before right now. Every dollar you give enables us to reach 34 more people with the truth about abortion. Fuel radical cultural transformation during this most critical time by donating right now. Your loving gifts are the only reason we are able to continue our critical work. Thank you!! > - The Live Action Team > Give to End Abortion > > > Live Action is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Gifts are tax-deductible in the United States. > No goods or services are offered or given in exchange for contributions. > > Make your gift here: give.liveaction.org > Live Action, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 102 PMB 111, Arlington, VA 22201, (510) 854-9867 > Unsubscribe Manage preferences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue May 10 18:10:27 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 13:10:27 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Florida mom shares story of adopting abortion survivor References: <1652204375775.609c05c1-6d3a-4e43-983f-0b38b9d95b7f@bf10x.hubspotemail.net> Message-ID: <255754B6-B400-4706-B9AE-42AB53E7A877@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Live Action News > Subject: Florida mom shares story of adopting abortion survivor > Date: May 10, 2022 at 12:42:17 PM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: info at liveaction.org > > > CG, > > We hope your week is going well so far! > > Florida Mom Shares Story of Adopting Abortion Survivor > > Tonya, Hope?s birth mother, was a 22-year-old single mother of two when she learned she was pregnant again. She had a first-trimester abortion, which she believed to be successful. A couple of months later, Tonya realized the abortion had failed when she began feeling movement in her womb. > Read more > > > In Wake of Supreme Court Draft Overturning Roe, Episcopal Church Reaffirms Abortion Support > > > Several leaders in the Episcopal Church reaffirmed their pro-abortion stance in the wake of a leaked draft that indicates the Supreme Court may soon overturn Roe v. Wade, with one leader calling those who oppose abortion ?extremists.? > Read more > > > Ohio Lawmaker Introduces ?Trigger Bill? to Protect Nearly Every Preborn Child > > The Human Life Protection Act, House Bill 598, outlaws nearly all abortions, including those resulting from rape or incest. If it passes the legislature and is signed by Gov. Mike DeWine, it would only go into effect should the Supreme Court put the ability to regulate abortion back in the hands of the states ? a possibility that seems closer than ever. > Read more > > > Senate to Vote This Week on Making Abortion a ?Right,? Overruling All State Protections for Preborn > > The pro-abortion effort to pass the Women?s Health Protection Act has been presumed as ?destined to fail? by The Washington Post, but that has not stopped pro-abortion lawmakers from attempting to push it forward in an election year. > Read more > > > VIEW ALL RECENT NEWS > > Thank you for all you are doing to defend the most vulnerable among us in this pivotal time. Be sure to share these articles with your friends and family! > > For Life, > > The Live Action News Team > > Increase Your Pro-Life Impact > Your donation can have a greater impact than ever before right now. Every dollar you give enables us to reach 34 more people with the truth about abortion. Fuel radical cultural transformation during this most critical time by donating right now. Your loving gifts are the only reason we are able to continue our critical work. Thank you!! > - The Live Action Team > Give to End Abortion > > > Live Action is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Gifts are tax-deductible in the United States. > No goods or services are offered or given in exchange for contributions. > > Make your gift here: give.liveaction.org > Live Action, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 102 PMB 111, Arlington, VA 22201, (510) 854-9867 > Unsubscribe Manage preferences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue May 10 22:13:56 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 17:13:56 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Answers to arguments you are hearing References: <1652220374162.3abb230e-1772-477e-8797-12fa10971721@bf10x.hubspotemail.net> Message-ID: <706D133B-49A3-4191-A6D8-BAAF5F13C597@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Lauren Bielinski > Subject: Answers to arguments you are hearing > Date: May 10, 2022 at 5:10:34 PM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: lauren.bielinski at liveaction.org > > CG, > > Since the SCOTUS draft opinion leaked last week, you?ve probably seen or heard many concerned people, saying they think women "need" to be able to kill their preborn children via abortion for certain specific reasons. > > And many are saying these reasons - such as rape or medical conditions - are why we have to keep abortion legal. > > When you hear these arguments, I encourage you to engage in these discussions, to lean into the challenging conversations online and in person ? > > And, we have a resource to equip you in these conversations! > > We have a video series called ?Pro-Life Replies? to answer some of these most common pro-abortion arguments. > > Here are just a few of the video topics: > How to Reply to: "Women Will Die From Illegal Abortions" > How to Reply to: "Abortion In Cases of Rape" > How to Reply to: "Abortion Can Be Medically Necessary" > How to Reply to: "My Body, My Choice" > Watch the videos here: > https://prolifereplies.liveaction.org/ > > CG, your voice is needed right now. > > Here's the overall heart of the matter: Abortion is never healthcare because intentionally killing an innocent human is never healthcare. > > Any other medical procedure that a woman might need during pregnancy is NOT abortion as long as it does not involve intentionally killing her preborn child. > > Overturning Roe would only mean the intentional killing of a child in the womb can be prohibited by state laws now. Nothing else. No other medical procedure will be affected. > > Allowing the states to decide is a step in the right direction, but still does not end abortion to the point of making it completely illegal and unthinkable everywhere - which is our ultimate goal. > > CG, these difficult conversations about abortion are highly important to engage in now more than ever. > > In our nation, in your community, maybe even in your family, you have the opportunity to speak up for defenseless preborn children and for men and women who need to hear the truth about abortion. > > Thank you for boldly using your voice to speak the truth! > > For Life, > > Lauren Bielinski > VP of Strategic Partnerships > > > Live Action is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Gifts are tax-deductible in the United States. > No goods or services are offered or given in exchange for contributions. > > Make your gift here: give.liveaction.org > Live Action, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 102 PMB 111, Arlington, VA 22201, (510) 854-9867 > Unsubscribe Manage preferences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From moboct1 at aim.com Wed May 11 18:48:36 2022 From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 18:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Her camera was a weapon??? In-Reply-To: <627be7a14f232_686a11a8f505973d@asgworker-qmb3-21.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> References: <627be7a14f232_686a11a8f505973d@asgworker-qmb3-21.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: <1844230454.1225703.1652294916778@mail.yahoo.com> To J. B. Nicholson at peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net Encl. suggestion for discussion on Neptune.? Sad... Midge O'Brien -----Original Message----- From: Ariel Gold, CODEPINK To: Midge O'Brien Sent: Wed, May 11, 2022 11:43 am Subject: Her camera was a weapon??? CODEPINK - Communications#yiv5283189115 h1 {font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;line-height:46px;font-weight:bold;}#yiv5283189115 #yiv5283189115 p {font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:#333333;line-height:26px;font-size:17px;}#yiv5283189115 ul {font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:#333333;line-height:26px;font-size:17px;}#yiv5283189115 li {font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:#333333;line-height:26px;font-size:17px;}#yiv5283189115 tr {font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:#333333;line-height:26px;font-size:17px;}#yiv5283189115 td {font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;color:#333333;line-height:26px;font-size:17px;}#yiv5283189115 a {color:#630084;text-decoration:none;}Demandjustice for Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shotdead by the Israeli military. today?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ????????????????????? | | | | Demandjustice for Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shotdead by the Israeli military. | ACT NOW! | | Dear Midge, 51-year-oldPalestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh wascovering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp thismorning when soldiers shot her in the face and killed her.Both her blue protective vest and her helmet were clearly marked?PRESS.?? Demandthe U.S. State Department conduct a thorough investigation and theimmediate suspension of U.S. military aid. In avideo showing the aftermath of Shireen being shot, a man can be heardyelling, ?Injured! Shireen, Shireen, oh man, Shireen!Ambulance!? Al Jazeera journalist Shatha Hanaysha, alsowearing a helmet and vest marked as press, can be seen crouching downtrying to reach Shireen but being forced back by Israeli gunfire.The soldiers ?did not stop firing even after shecollapsed,? Hanaysha said. ?I couldn?t even extend my arm topull her because of the shots. The army was adamant onshooting to kill.? Following their killing of Shireen,the Israeli military took to Twitter to announce that they wereinvestigating the possibility that Shireen had been killed ?byPalestinian armed gunfire.? The Israeli Foreign Ministry offered toconduct a joint investigation with the Palestinian Authority andIsraeli military spokesperson Kochav Ran on Army radio accused her andher colleagues of being ? armed withcameras.? ?I encourage a thoroughinvestigation into the circumstances of her death and the injury of atleast one other journalist today in Jenin,? tweeted U.S. AmbassadorTom Nides. But, he didn?t specify that Israel must not be allowed toinvestigate and exonerate itself as has happened far too manytimes.? Callon the U.S. State Department to require a full investigation ? not byIsrael ? into the grotesque and blatant murder of ShireenAbu Akleh. The U.S. must immediately suspend militaryaid to Israel pending the investigation. Unfortunately, there's more. As thePalestinian people and advocacy community were mourning Shireen?sdeath, Israeli police descended upon Shireen?s family home where theyconfiscated the Palestinian flags flying outside. Elsewhere thismorning, Israeli bulldozers started to forcibly displace the MasaferYatta Palestinian villages in the South Hebron hills.?? The Biden administrationhas repeatedly said that it iscommitted to equal measures of freedom, security, dignity, and prosperity for Palestinians andIsraelis. But, in the words of author and activist Grace Paley, ?theonly recognizable feature of hope is action.? JoinCODEPINK in calling for action. Demand justice forShireen. Ariel and the entire CODEPINK team: Ann, Clay, Danaka,Emily, Farida, Justina, Jodie, Kelly, Leonardo, Marcy, Mark, Medea,Michelle, Nancy, Olivia, Paki,? Sam, Samantha, Teri, Shea, andSuzie P.S.?Special promotion ?this weekend only ? buy one of CODEPINK's new?t-shirts?and plant a treeand make sure to?RSVP to join usinD.C.June 17-19 for the PoorPeople's Campaign.? | | This email was sent to moboct1 at aim.com. To unsubscribe, click here. 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| | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | | | | Donate Here | | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | | EDUCATE | | | | | | | | ORGANIZE | | | | | | | | ADVOCATE | | | | | | | | | Israeli Occupation Forces murdered Abu Akleh as she covered an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin Dear?Midge, As the world learns of the Israeli Occupation Forces? brutal assassination of Al Jazeera journalist and Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) extends its sincere condolences to Shireen's family, Al Jazeera, and the entire Palestinian media family. Today, AMP demands that the Biden administration condemn Israel?s murder of a U.S. citizen and well-renowned journalist, ensuring that Israel pays the price for the brutal assassination of a fellow American, and courageous human being. How quickly would the Biden administration and the State Department react to the murder of a U.S. citizen and journalist in any other country around the globe? What would the condemnations look like? Would we consider sanctions? AMP urges U.S. officials to act with consistency. So far, the U.S. response has been disgraceful. Abu Akleh was an American citizen, murdered in cold blood by a state that receives billions of dollars in American taxpayer funding every year. It is likely that Abu Akleh was shot by an American subsidized weapon and bullet, paid for by our tax dollars.? State Dept. spokesperson, Ned Price, stated ?We are heartbroken by and strongly condemn the killing of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank. The investigation must be immediate and thorough and those responsible must be held accountable. Her death is an affront to media freedom everywhere.? This is not enough! Demanding an ?investigation? into the murder of an American on foreign soil is only a slap on the wrist. Without proper accountability coming from the U.S. as an ally, Israel will continue to terrorize the Palestinian people, make a mockery of international law, and continue to disrespect the United States which provides it with a lifeline.? Day in and day out, Israel proves its ugly and brutal nature. It believes that it?s a state above well-established international law, not subject to the same standards and values as the international community. Israel is not satisfied with the war crimes it commits every day against the tormented Palestinian people. It?s not satisfied with the amount of civilian blood that it sheds. It?s not satisfied with the ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes and businesses, not to mention the displacement of thousands in the process. It?s not satisfied with imprisoning thousands of Palestinians, including women and children, old and young. It?s not satisfied with its collective punishment of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, nor its brutal siege and blockade of nearly two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It?s not satisfied with the massive theft of Palestinian lands and the establishment of illegal settlements.? Israel is more than an apartheid settler-colonial regime; it?s a rogue state that is rebellious against every value that defines humanity. It?s a pariah and a terrorist state that must be treated as such. Israel and its supporters and apologists are keen to silence the voices of truth, suppressing and targeting anyone who dares to speak against its criminal behavior. Shireen is only the latest victim in a long list of journalists murdered by Israel.? The description is of the essence: Israeli occupation forces murdered Abu Akleh with a bullet to the head while she was covering Israeli raids of the West Bank city of Jenin. Abu Akleh was wearing a PRESS vest, clearly identifying herself as a journalist, but Israel?s record on freedom of the press speaks for itself: a case study of apartheid within journalism.? Israel succeeded in killing a messenger of the truth, as millions mourn a woman who broke barriers and emerged in the early 2000s as a brilliant voice on the ground in Palestine. However, Israel continues to fail in killing the message and the truth.? The U.S. has played a primary role in supporting Israeli occupation and settler colonialism over the past 8 decades. That?s why it must transform into a responsible and consistent player, curbing Israel's terrorism, trailblazing, and steering clear of complicity in its crimes.? We cannot stand against aggression in Ukraine and be complicit in it with respect to Palestinians. If the U.S. and the West truly believe Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, then they should apply the same standard to Israel's actions in occupied Palestine. Selective humanity and morality are inhumane, immoral, and undemocratic. This complicity must end! | | | | | | | | | | ? Sincerely,? Dr. Osama Abuirshaid Executive Director | | | | | | ? | | | | American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging & educating Americans on Palestinian rights and the Israeli occupation. 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Jenin????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? | | | | | | Having trouble viewing this email??View it in your web browser | | | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | | | | Donate Here | | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | | EDUCATE | | | | | | | | ORGANIZE | | | | | | | | ADVOCATE | | | | | | | | | Israeli Occupation Forces murdered Abu Akleh as she covered an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin Dear?Midge, As the world learns of the Israeli Occupation Forces? brutal assassination of Al Jazeera journalist and Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) extends its sincere condolences to Shireen's family, Al Jazeera, and the entire Palestinian media family. Today, AMP demands that the Biden administration condemn Israel?s murder of a U.S. citizen and well-renowned journalist, ensuring that Israel pays the price for the brutal assassination of a fellow American, and courageous human being. How quickly would the Biden administration and the State Department react to the murder of a U.S. citizen and journalist in any other country around the globe? What would the condemnations look like? Would we consider sanctions? AMP urges U.S. officials to act with consistency. So far, the U.S. response has been disgraceful. Abu Akleh was an American citizen, murdered in cold blood by a state that receives billions of dollars in American taxpayer funding every year. It is likely that Abu Akleh was shot by an American subsidized weapon and bullet, paid for by our tax dollars.? State Dept. spokesperson, Ned Price, stated ?We are heartbroken by and strongly condemn the killing of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank. The investigation must be immediate and thorough and those responsible must be held accountable. Her death is an affront to media freedom everywhere.? This is not enough! Demanding an ?investigation? into the murder of an American on foreign soil is only a slap on the wrist. Without proper accountability coming from the U.S. as an ally, Israel will continue to terrorize the Palestinian people, make a mockery of international law, and continue to disrespect the United States which provides it with a lifeline.? Day in and day out, Israel proves its ugly and brutal nature. It believes that it?s a state above well-established international law, not subject to the same standards and values as the international community. Israel is not satisfied with the war crimes it commits every day against the tormented Palestinian people. It?s not satisfied with the amount of civilian blood that it sheds. It?s not satisfied with the ongoing demolition of Palestinian homes and businesses, not to mention the displacement of thousands in the process. It?s not satisfied with imprisoning thousands of Palestinians, including women and children, old and young. It?s not satisfied with its collective punishment of Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, nor its brutal siege and blockade of nearly two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It?s not satisfied with the massive theft of Palestinian lands and the establishment of illegal settlements.? Israel is more than an apartheid settler-colonial regime; it?s a rogue state that is rebellious against every value that defines humanity. It?s a pariah and a terrorist state that must be treated as such. Israel and its supporters and apologists are keen to silence the voices of truth, suppressing and targeting anyone who dares to speak against its criminal behavior. Shireen is only the latest victim in a long list of journalists murdered by Israel.? The description is of the essence: Israeli occupation forces murdered Abu Akleh with a bullet to the head while she was covering Israeli raids of the West Bank city of Jenin. Abu Akleh was wearing a PRESS vest, clearly identifying herself as a journalist, but Israel?s record on freedom of the press speaks for itself: a case study of apartheid within journalism.? Israel succeeded in killing a messenger of the truth, as millions mourn a woman who broke barriers and emerged in the early 2000s as a brilliant voice on the ground in Palestine. However, Israel continues to fail in killing the message and the truth.? The U.S. has played a primary role in supporting Israeli occupation and settler colonialism over the past 8 decades. That?s why it must transform into a responsible and consistent player, curbing Israel's terrorism, trailblazing, and steering clear of complicity in its crimes.? We cannot stand against aggression in Ukraine and be complicit in it with respect to Palestinians. If the U.S. and the West truly believe Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine, then they should apply the same standard to Israel's actions in occupied Palestine. Selective humanity and morality are inhumane, immoral, and undemocratic. This complicity must end! | | | | | | | | | | ? Sincerely,? Dr. Osama Abuirshaid Executive Director | | | | | | ? | | | | American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging & educating Americans on Palestinian rights and the Israeli occupation. AMP is a premier national organization in the Palestine solidarity movement. | | | | | Make a contribution here | | | | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | | | American Muslims for Palestine 6404 Seven Corners Place?Ste N?|?Falls Church,?Virginia?22044 703.534.3032?|?info at ampalestine.org | | | Follow AMP on Social Media | | | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | | | | ? | | | | | | | Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences | | | | | -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Wed May 11 21:05:54 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 17:05:54 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Her camera was a weapon??? In-Reply-To: <1844230454.1225703.1652294916778@mail.yahoo.com> References: <627be7a14f232_686a11a8f505973d@asgworker-qmb3-21.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> <1844230454.1225703.1652294916778@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Let's see if we can get Dick Durbin to say and do something about this. Every time we talk to a Congressional office about this, we should emphasize the fact that she was a U.S. citizen. Durbin's DC office: 202.224.2152 Chicago office: 312.353.4952 Springfield office: 217.492.4062 On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 2:49 PM Mildred O'brien via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > To J. B. Nicholson at peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net > > Encl. suggestion for discussion on Neptune. Sad... > > Midge O'Brien > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ariel Gold, CODEPINK > To: Midge O'Brien > Sent: Wed, May 11, 2022 11:43 am > Subject: Her camera was a weapon??? > > Demand justice for Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot > dead by the Israeli military. today > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? > [image: CODEPINK.ORG] > > > > > > Demand justice for Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, shot > dead by the Israeli military. > > ACT > NOW! > > > Dear Midge, > > *51-year-old Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh > was covering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp this > morning when soldiers shot her in the face and killed her.* Both her blue > protective vest and her helmet were clearly marked ?PRESS.? > > *Demand the U.S. State Department conduct a thorough investigation and the > immediate suspension of U.S. military aid.* > > > In a video showing the aftermath of Shireen being shot, a man can be heard > yelling, *?Injured! Shireen, Shireen, oh man, Shireen! Ambulance!?* Al > Jazeera journalist Shatha Hanaysha, also wearing a helmet and vest marked > as press, can be seen crouching down trying to reach Shireen but being > forced back by Israeli gunfire. *The soldiers ?did not stop firing even > after she collapsed,?* Hanaysha said. ?I couldn?t even extend my arm to > pull her because of the shots. *The army was adamant on shooting to > kill.?* > > Following their killing of Shireen, the Israeli military took to Twitter > to announce that they were investigating the possibility that Shireen had > been killed ?by Palestinian armed gunfire.? The Israeli Foreign Ministry > offered to conduct a joint investigation with the Palestinian Authority and > Israeli military spokesperson Kochav Ran on Army radio accused her and her > colleagues of being *? armed with cameras.?* > > ?I encourage a thorough investigation into the circumstances of her death > and the injury of at least one other journalist today in Jenin,? tweeted > U.S. Ambassador Tom Nides. But, he didn?t specify that Israel must not be > allowed to investigate and exonerate itself as has happened far too many > times. > > *Call on the U.S. State Department to require a full investigation ? not > by Israel ? into the grotesque and blatant murder of Shireen **Abu Akleh.* > > The U.S. must immediately suspend military aid to Israel pending the > investigation. > > Unfortunately, there's more. As the Palestinian people and advocacy > community were mourning Shireen?s death, Israeli police descended upon > Shireen?s family home where they confiscated the Palestinian flags flying > outside. Elsewhere this morning, Israeli bulldozers started to forcibly > displace the Masafer Yatta Palestinian villages in the South Hebron hills. > > The Biden administration has repeatedly said that it is committed to > equal measures of freedom, security, dignity, and prosperity for > Palestinians and Israelis. But, in the words of author and activist Grace > Paley, ?the only recognizable feature of hope is action.? *Join CODEPINK > in calling for action. Demand justice for Shireen.* > > > *Ariel and the entire CODEPINK team: Ann, Clay, Danaka, Emily, Farida, > Justina, Jodie, Kelly, Leonardo, Marcy, Mark, Medea, Michelle, Nancy, > Olivia, Paki, Sam, Samantha, Teri, Shea, and Suzie* > > *P.S. **Special promotion ? this weekend only ? buy one of CODEPINK's > new **t-shirts > **and > plant a tree and make sure to **RSVP to join us in**D.C. June 17-19 > > **for the Poor People's Campaign. * > > [image: Donate Now!] > > ------------------------------ > > This email was sent to moboct1 at aim.com. To unsubscribe, click here > . > > > To update your email subscription, contact info at codepink.org. > > ? 2021 CODEPINK.ORG > > | Created with NationBuilder > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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... 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Yeah, I always heard that "he helped a lot of people"--that's what his staff was for, and all the calls he made as a Congressman were no doubt reelection fundraising.? The article didn't mention anything about his early stint in the?Air Farce (sic) Academy (did he flunk out?), before he came home to go to law school and launch his political career, with the help of his YAF colleagues ("Young Americans for Freedom").? According to his reputation in Springfield, If he were in office today he would be at the top of the #ME TOO list.? Midge -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He's saying that we can't trust the Israeli government to investigate itself. OK, a bunch of people are saying, "Duh, we knew that." But this is *Cardin* saying it, the Mother of all Senate Jewish Validators. If *Cardin* can say this, *any Member of Congress can say it*. All they have to do is stand behind Cardin, use Cardin for cover, quote-retweet Cardin's tweet. "I agree with Senator Cardin." That's it. That's all they have to do. In thirty seconds, they can participate in a world-historical act and march on the stage of history. https://twitter.com/SenatorCardin/status/1524568667182313480 [image: image.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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What does "independent" mean in this context? "Independent" of the Israeli government. He's saying that we can't trust the Israeli government to investigate itself.? OK, a bunch of people are saying, "Duh, we knew that." But this is Cardin saying it, the Mother of all Senate Jewish Validators. If Cardin can say this, any Member of Congress can say it.? All they have to do is stand behind Cardin, use Cardin for cover, quote-retweet Cardin's tweet. "I agree with Senator Cardin." That's it. That's all they have to do. In thirty seconds, they can participate in a world-historical act and march on the stage of history.? https://twitter.com/SenatorCardin/status/1524568667182313480 _______________________________________________ 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... 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This is the time to pitch in to change history, like an Amish barn-raising. On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 6:06 PM Mildred O'brien via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > "SUPER-DOOPER CLOSE TO AIPAC?"? I don't trust Ben Cardin > > mo'b > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss > To: peace ; Peace Discuss < > peace-discuss at anti-war.net> > Sent: Fri, May 13, 2022 11:56 am > Subject: [Peace-discuss] 5/11: *Cardin* called for *"independent"* > investigation of journalist's killing > > > Look at this. *Cardin*. 2nd top Dem on SFRC. Super-dooper close to AIPAC. > One of four Dem Senators who voted against Obama's Iran deal. Jewish. > Impeccable Jewish credentials, untouchable, a fortress, Mother of all > Validators. > > Calling for an "*independent*" investigation, the day of the event. > > What does "independent" mean in this context? "Independent" of the Israeli > government. He's saying that we can't trust the Israeli government to > investigate itself. > > OK, a bunch of people are saying, "Duh, we knew that." But this is > *Cardin* saying it, the Mother of all Senate Jewish Validators. > > If *Cardin* can say this, *any Member of Congress can say it*. > > All they have to do is stand behind Cardin, use Cardin for cover, > quote-retweet Cardin's tweet. "I agree with Senator Cardin." That's it. > That's all they have to do. 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"Red rover, red rover, let another HFAC member come over." *"Independent investigation" is the key.* Please RT and spread. https://twitter.com/joaquincastrotx/status/1525279736942977026 [image: image.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 1337130 bytes Desc: not available URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Sat May 14 14:43:06 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 10:43:06 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] BERNIE: U.S. must demand "independent investigation" into Shireen's killing In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please RT and spread. "Independent investigation" is the key. https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1525175388892168192 [image: image.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Unfortunately I couldn't find a video in this codepink.org post (https://www.codepink.org/her_camera_was_a_weapon) to run during the News from Neptune timeslot. Without a video to run I'm afraid that we won't be able to discuss this important topic as there is no discussion portion of News from Neptune. But thanks for keeping the show in mind and suggesting something that I'm sure the guys would want to take up. From jbn at forestfield.org Sun May 15 00:53:53 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 19:53:53 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <7e4c10ea-0665-4c40-a5d3-831e1f24a087@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 'They wanted to skin blacks & Jews' - French volunteer on Ukrainian neo-Nazis https://rumble.com/v14h93b-they-wanted-to-skin-blacks-and-jews-french-volunteer-on-ukrainian-neo-nazis.html Volunteers deliver basic necessities to front-line Ukrainian towns https://rumble.com/v14h5ip-volunteers-deliver-basic-necessities-to-front-line-ukrainian-towns.html EU mulls unlawfully using seized Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine https://rumble.com/v1476wc-eu-mulls-unlawfully-using-seized-russian-assets-to-rebuild-ukraine.html CGTN (China Global Television Network) What we know so far about the attack on the Al Jazeera journalist https://youtube.com/watch?v=NM0Zl7ZMr0U MintPressNews Shireen Abu Akleh was Assasinated by Israel https://youtube.com/watch?v=418BCRmKl78 The Grayzone US People's Convoy blocked from protesting in DC https://youtube.com/watch?v=c2dorhC6uPc Glenn Greenwald The US Anti-War Left is Dead. The Squad's $40b War Vote Just Killed It. https://youtube.com/watch?v=MITADUnILww https://rumble.com/v14fh3w-the-us-anti-war-left-is-dead.-the-squads-40b-war-vote-just-killed-it..html Labor's World View TV ================================================== Democracy at Work Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - US Labor - Supply vs. Demand https://youtube.com/watch?v=bcCu4AP_S98 Ask Prof Wolff - How Marx Defines Capital and Why It Matters https://youtube.com/watch?v=6fOtDtAjtdY laborvideo On 2022 May Day: Fight For Labor Party & Against War Abroad & War At Home Pushed by Republicrats https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Ja1jdJ0wWs SF 2022 May Day March & Speakers From Bay Area Labor Councils https://youtube.com/watch?v=2VxZ5Sgfce0 On May1 It's Time For A General Strike & Fighting Labor Movement! ILWU10 Former Pres Trent Willis https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vnwsnx0oNC4 The Grayzone US People's Convoy blocked from protesting in DC https://youtube.com/watch?v=c2dorhC6uPc From jbn at forestfield.org Mon May 16 03:13:40 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 15 May 2022 22:13:40 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] More on people taken to be peaceful but stumped for war Message-ID: Ben Norton (now independently of The Grayzone on his own channel, "Multipolarista") has a video -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=_QHoW8Vf8wg -- where he discusses "neocon 'right-wing populism' scam" (Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and Glenn Greenwald are mentioned) with his guest Robbie Martin (https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey) brother of Abby Martin (Empire Files). Unfortunately the video is 2h 13m and doesn't get into presenting evidence until 40m in. The same topic, in different hands, would take far less time to present evidence of people from the recent past saying pro-war things or challenging obviously true things (such as Greenwald challenging Norton on . There are good points made along the way. One of the themes is that almost all of the examples contain information how we shouldn't understand the people shown to be anti-war but stumping for different wars. Don't take someone who objects to one war (say, the US war against Russia via Ukraine) to be anti-war. They might object to one war and want war somewhere else; internecine conflicts within the ruling class and those who do the bidding of the ruling class exist. Here's one example I found on Martin's tweets. All of the webpages listed below can be fed to yt-dlp for downloading and viewing offline if desired. Tulsi Gabbard from July 27, 2014 https://www.msnbc.com/taking-the-hill/watch/should-us-be-involved-in-ukraine-conflict--312796739629 in which over 1,000 Palestinians were killed. These remarks were copied from the captions. > IT'S SUCH A DIFFICULT AND HEARTBREAKING SITUATION FOR ALL OF US TO SEE WHAT IS > HAPPENING THERE FOR THE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES WHO ARE BEING AFFECTED BY THIS > CONFLICT. AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO SEE A WAY THROUGH IT BECAUSE YOU HAVE A SITUATION > WHERE ISRAEL IS DEALING WITH THE TERRORIST ORGANIZATION WHOSE STATED MISSION IS TO > OBLITERATE ISRAEL AND ISRAEL'S POSITION OF STANDING AND NEEDING TO DEFEND ITSELF > AND ITS PEOPLE. Then Rep. Gabbard goes on in this way in this show. She also brought up Ukraine's sovereignty and said that she said (remarks hand transcribed): > We've gotta look at Russia's incursion on Ukraine, Ukraine sovereignty, and the > fact that any conventional warfare tactics that Russia employs in invading Ukraine > can't be countered by Ukraine; they can't go mano-a-mano on this. So we've gotta > look to see what support we can give through taking action through very harsh > financial and economic sanctions against Russia but also seeing what kind of > military aid and training and equipment that we can provide to both the Ukrainian > people but also the others -- Baltic states and others who are nearing Russia -- > so they can counter these conventional tactics with unconventional warfare because > that's the only way that Russia will start to get the message that this is not > something they're going to walk in the front door on without any cost to their own > people and their own families. Robbie Martin in https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey/status/1524086636488773633 > a creepy reminder that in 2015 Tulsi Gabbard was not only trying to out-hawk Obama > and Biden on Ukraine/Russia + was still being a total Israel apologist blaming > massive Palestinian civilian casualties on Palestinian 'terrorists' not Israel and in https://nitter.42l.fr/FluorescentGrey/status/1524087520576692224 > what continues to impress me about Tulsi's followers is that absolutely none of > them hold her accountable for anything she said in the past, the clock 'starts' > pretty much as soon as she 180'd into saying very generic boiler plate anti-war > stuff Which I found to be true as well, hence my own blog post about Gabbard's statements I've referred to here multiple times. Gabbard now says different things which sound more or less critical of US policy including the regime change war against Russia in https://youtube.com/watch?v=m8kHJ2-D5uA and https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTx6JCCESFI for example (Gabbard commented on Pres. Biden saying "For god's sake, this man [Putin] cannot remain in power" was no gaffe). In https://youtube.com/watch?v=pbk5KghrD3I she compared Biden/Harris' DHS publication vetting to be a "ministry of truth" comparable to what happens in dictatorships. Gabbard is out of power now, hence she's more free to be critical of policies chosen by the party to which she's clearly loyal. There are mentions of other people in power -- Pete Buttigieg, for example -- and their neoconservative-supporting past but it's not clear where the information passed on to us comes from. It is disappointing because it doesn't take long to quote a post to twitter.com. Norton & Martin make other allegations about talk show hosts (Tucker Carlson, Saagar Enjeti) and reporters (Matt Stoller, Glenn Greenwald) which I take to be less important because these people aren't in power. Rep. Gabbard whose comments above were made when she was in Congress. Some of the claims are far less compelling because the claims are raised without clips or pointers to published information. It would have been far better to gather the evidence, organize clips/posts by person, and present the themes afterwards. From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Mon May 16 15:15:19 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 11:15:19 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Think like a staffer about DC strategy on protecting the human rights of Palestinian civilians In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Suppose that there are two cars stuck in the snow, and you want to help get the two cars out of the snow. One car has a bunch of people trying to push it out. The other car has no people trying to push it out except its driver. What?s the morally righteous way to proceed? One way to think about the situation might be: the first car already has a bunch of people trying to push it out, so that?s taken care of. I should go try to help the poor guy who?s trying to push his car out of the snow by himself, because he has no people helping him. Here?s how a Congressional staffer might think about the problem. First join the crowd trying to push out the first car, and make sure that car gets out of the snow, thereby proving that you can get at least one car out of the snow. When the crowd succeeds in getting the first car out of the snow, they?re going to feel like a million bucks, like they rule the world, like they can accomplish anything they want. Recruit those people to go get the second car out of the snow. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Abu Akleh was wearing protective gear prominently marked with the English word ?PRESS? when she was shot. Ali Samoudi, another journalist with Abu Akleh, was shot in the back during the same attack. Samoudi said the group of journalists Abu Akleh worked with that day had made Israeli forces aware they were present to cover the incursion. He also stated that in the attack, one bullet missed, the next one struck him in the back, and the next shot hit Abu Akleh. She was taken to the hospital soon thereafter and pronounced dead. Israeli representatives, including the Israeli Prime Minister, initially suggested the journalist had been shot by Palestinian gunmen, but subsequently, Israeli officials have been more cautious in their public statements. Palestinian witnesses at the scene claim an Israeli sniper targeted the journalists. Following the killing, Israeli authorities circulated video footage of Palestinian gunmen firing down an alleyway, suggesting that it was this gunfire that killed Abu Akleh, but Israeli human rights organization B?Tselem has since demonstrated that the footage was taken in a different part of the city from where Abu Akleh was killed. This is not the first time Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian journalist. For example, an Israeli sniper killed Yaser Murtaja , a Palestinian reporter covering the Great March of Return in Gaza in 2018. Like Abu Akleh, Murtaja was also wearing a vest with the word PRESS when he was shot. According to the United Nations , more than 40 Palestinian Journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since 2000. As was the case with Abu Akleh and Murtaja, these killings included journalists clearly marked as press. CMEP is shocked at the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. Freedom of the press must be protected, and the killing of journalists, especially when they are plainly distinguishable by their press vests, represents a clear violation of international law. CMEP?s executive director Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon, says, ?We are deeply grieved by this news and condemn the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. Our hearts go out to her family and loved ones. We call for an investigation and will advocate for accountability.? CMEP calls on the United States to ensure a fair and independent investigation into Abu Akleh?s murder and to hold the responsible parties accountable. **** *Formed in 1984, Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) is a coalition of more than 30 national church communions and organizations, including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Evangelical traditions that works to encourage US policies that actively promote a comprehensive resolution to conflicts in the Middle East with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. 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Nicholson) Date: Tue, 17 May 2022 23:59:02 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Jimmy Dore covering US warmaking in Africa which you don't hear about in many other places Message-ID: <7b19309f-8660-5a8b-785e-858e105b1a4e@forestfield.org> In https://rumble.com/v1518vt-biden-sends-troops-back-to-somalia-reversing-trump-withdrawal.html Jimmy Dore covered the US return to troops in Somalia where the US "will help Somalia's fledgling government fight the al-Shabaab militant group, which is affiliated with al Qaeda" according to the New York Post in https://nypost.com/2022/05/16/biden-sends-us-troops-back-to-somalia-reversing-trump-pullout/ . Here Dore pointed out, "Wait a minute, I thought we liked al Qaeda in Syria. We were helping fund them. I thought they were our friends!" Around 4 minutes into that video, Jimmy Dore referred to another video in which he interviewed a journalist about Ethiopia. https://rumble.com/v13t8zs-050622-4-tigray-civil-war.html is that interview with Hermela Aregawi. From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Wed May 18 15:20:10 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 11:20:10 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Haaretz: Progressive Democrat Declares Victory in Pennsylvania Primary Despite Unprecedented AIPAC Opposition In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: What a headline! Proclaim Jubilee throughout the land and set the captives free. https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-progressive-democrat-declares-victory-in-pennsylvania-primary-despite-unprecedented-1.10806747 [image: image.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Nicholson via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > In > > https://rumble.com/v1518vt-biden-sends-troops-back-to-somalia-reversing-trump-withdrawal.html > Jimmy Dore covered the US return to troops in Somalia where the US "will > help > Somalia's fledgling government fight the al-Shabaab militant group, which > is > affiliated with al Qaeda" according to the New York Post in > > https://nypost.com/2022/05/16/biden-sends-us-troops-back-to-somalia-reversing-trump-pullout/ > . Here Dore pointed out, "Wait a minute, I thought we liked al Qaeda in > Syria. We > were helping fund them. I thought they were our friends!" > > Around 4 minutes into that video, Jimmy Dore referred to another video in > which he > interviewed a journalist about Ethiopia. > https://rumble.com/v13t8zs-050622-4-tigray-civil-war.html is that > interview with > Hermela Aregawi. > _______________________________________________ > 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 carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed May 18 20:53:03 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 15:53:03 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Kindergarteners_given_inappropr?= =?utf-8?q?iate_sexual_=E2=80=98grooming=E2=80=99_assignment_at_school?= References: <1652905787402.513db0e1-3276-42fe-82b7-380769416639@bf10x.hubspotemail.net> Message-ID: <64DDEBEC-97F6-4C6C-B144-E332A6A74B80@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Live Action News > Subject: Kindergarteners given inappropriate sexual ?grooming? assignment at school > Date: May 18, 2022 at 3:32:53 PM CDT > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: info at liveaction.org > > > Hi Mr. Estabrook, > > We hope your Wednesday is going well! > > Here are a few of our top articles for you: > > Kindergarteners Given Inappropriate Sexual ?Grooming? 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Estabrook ### From moboct1 at aol.com Thu May 19 00:39:22 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 00:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] End US support for war In-Reply-To: <90BB072A-F326-421A-9241-A086E7025E49@newsfromneptune.com> References: <90BB072A-F326-421A-9241-A086E7025E49@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <519890172.82519.1652920762598@mail.yahoo.com> THE LAST TIME I CHECKED, MITCH McCONNELL WAS A REPUBLICAN. WHAT BIDEN HAS IS A BIPARTISAN WAR--TO HELP BOOST HIS POLL RATINGS... m O'B -----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss To: Peace Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net Sent: Wed, May 18, 2022 4:15 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] End US support for war Republicans are the only members of Congress voting against the administration?s massive spending on its proxy war in Ukraine. I?m reversing the habits of lifetime and voting only for Republicans. End US sustenance for war. ?Dr. C. G. Estabrook ### _______________________________________________ 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 carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu May 19 03:16:29 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 22:16:29 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] [marxmail] Some Thoughts on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict in Week Number Twelve - CounterPunch.org In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <28B5256B-EF52-466C-8D7C-2A6AA89A1F27@newsfromneptune.com> Scott Ritter's Switcheroo: "Why I Radically Changed My Overall Assessment" MIKE WHITNEY ? MAY 16, 2022 ? On Sunday, the foreign policy blogs were abuzz with the news that Scott Ritter had done ?an about-face in his assessment of the war?. It appears that the ex-Marine had examined recent developments in Ukraine and concluded that it?s going to be much harder for Russia to win than he had originally thought.. Naturally, the news of Ritter?s reversal sent shockwaves across the internet, especially among the people who follow events in Ukraine closely and who greatly admire his even-handed analysis. Some of these people clearly felt betrayed by Ritter?s comments and blasted him as a ?concern troll? which refers to a person who feigns sympathy while actually feeling the opposite. This is a terrible way to treat a guy who?s devoted so much of his time to informing people about an issue of which they might know very little without his research. Besides, Ritter is no hypocrite. Quite the contrary. It?s fair to say, however, that Ritter has probably been the most outspoken proponent of the ?Russia is winning? theory, a hypothesis that runs counter to everything we read in the legacy media or see on the cable news channels. Unfortunately, Ritter?s views on the matter have changed dramatically, and that?s due almost entirely to developments on the ground. As Ritter candidly admits, ?The military aid the west is providing to Ukraine is changing the dynamic and if Russia doesn?t find a way to address this meaningfully? the conflict will never end.? That?s quite a turnaround from a statement he made just weeks earlier that, ?Russia is winning the war, and winning it decisively.? So, what changed? What are the so-called developments that led to Ritter?s volte-face? Here are a few excerpts from the interview that triggered the fracas. Ritter was joined by Ray McGovern and host Garland Nixon on Saturday Morning Live. (The quotes are copied from video. I accept blame for any mistakes.) Scott Ritter (start at 47:50 minute mark) ? ?The thing that frustrates me? is that, it was my assessment that it would be very hard for Ukraine to absorb this new equipment and material (Material? the additional lethal weapons that have recently been shipped to Ukraine) but the howitzers are already operating against Russia. (And) They are having an effect in the Kharkov region. Not all 90 of them, but they have several batteries in place that are being used. How did this happen? And this is why I have radically changed my overall assessment, because I had been operating on the assumption that Russia would be able to interdict the vast majority of this equipment, but Russia has shown itself unable or unwilling to do this and? as a result? the Ukrainians are having meaningful impact on the battlefield. Not in the areas of main contention, like the Donbass, but on the periphery. This is why Russia has carried out tactical withdrawals north of Kharkov, because in order to match Ukraine?s best capabilities, Russia would have to divert resources from its main effort which Russia has decided not to do. So, they are re-configuring the battlefield. (trading land in different areas)?(?Saturday Morning Live with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, You Tube) So, while Ritter?s sympathies have not changed in the slightest, it?s clear that his analysis has. At first, he didn?t think that the deluge of lethal weaponry would affect the outcome of the war. Now he?s not so sure. It?s a honest mistake but, still, he needed to ?come clean? and explain the factors that contributed to his U-turn. Here?s more from the same interview: Scott Ritter? This is a transformative moment in the war, because what it means is that demilitarization is not taking place. For all the forces Russia is destroying in the east, Ukraine is rebuilding significant capability (in the west) I liken this to Moscow in December 1941, when the Germans were moving towards Moscow and the Russians just started throwing things at them., sacrificing everything to slow the German offensive. until General Winter and the combination of Siberian divisions gave them the ability to counterattack. The Germans were bled white and they were stopped and turned back. If Russia doesn?t change the calculation, then that is the trajectory we are heading on., because 200,000 troops?however capable they may be, are only capable of doing so much. And the fighting that?s taking place right now ?even though it is slaughtering Ukrainians? it isn?t cost free to the Russians. They?re losing equipment, they?re losing men, they?re losing material, and unless Putin mobilizes or transfers forces in, those aren?t being replaced. So, instead of having 200,000 online, Russia might have 180,000 men. And if you don?t think removing 20,000 men doesn?t change the options available to the Russian leadership, then you don?t know anything about war.? So, I believe Russia is going to win in the east, they are grinding them down as we speak, they are slaughtering them; the amount of death and destruction that is being dealt to the Ukrainians is unimaginable, but I believe the Ukrainians are willing to take these losses in order to buy time to reconstitute a military that will challenge Russia Because unless Russia is willing to jump across the Dnieper River and head into western Ukraine where it can eliminate the strategic depth that the Ukrainians are being gifted by the Russians, then demilitarization of Ukraine is not going to take place. It can?t take place when tens of billions of dollars of equipment is pouring in and Russia is not able to interdict it. The fact that these advanced howitzers are operating on the front lines right now, shows there?s something wrong with the Russian methodology. And?unless they alter that methodology? I think we?re in for a very long summer.? (?Saturday Morning Live with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, You Tube) It?s hard to grasp what Ritter is saying here. Is he actually suggesting that Putin expand the current ?special operation? into a full-blown World War? At one point, he casually opines that Russia will have to mobilize 1 and a half million men (Note: Russia currently only has 200,000 in Ukraine) if they want to prevail in Ukraine and then move on to Finland. It?s impossible to tell by Ritter?s tone whether he is simply making an objective observation of ?what is needed? to succeed or if he is making an explicit recommendation that he thinks Russia?s High Command should consider. I can?t answer that. Here?s more from the interview: Scott Ritter(5:20 mark)? ?The idea that the Ukrainian military has been eliminated as an effective fighting force is a flawed concept, and unless Russia broadens its special military operation? probably to the point of changing it form a special military operation to a war which includes the totality of Ukrainian battle-space?(then) this is a conflict that is dangerously close to becoming unwinnable by Russia which means that while they can complete their objectives in the east with 200,000 troops, they aren?t able to prevent Ukraine from rearming and reequipping when Ukraine is being provided with tens of billions of dollars of equipment by NATO ?Whenever you provide your enemy with ?safe space? to rebuild military capability, you?re never going to win. ? Yes, Russia is winning in the east which is what they said their objective was all along. And they are accomplishing that. That is the special Military Operation. But now we?re talking about ?war?, and I don?t think Russia has made that transition yet. This is a defacto proxy war between the west and Russia using Ukrainian forces as NATO?s sword. The object of this is to ?bleed Russia dry?. And if Russia doesn?t change the dynamic, Russia will be bled dry.? Zelensky has indicated that he?s willing to mobilize a million people, at a time when the west is ready to provide the funding and equipment to turn those million men into a real military threat. So, I see what has been happening in the last few weeks as being decisive. The military aid the west is providing is changing the dynamic and if Russia doesn?t find a way to address this meaningfully, and to eliminate it as a military capability? then the conflict will never end.? (?Saturday Morning Live with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern, You Tube) There it is from the horse?s mouth. Readers will have to draw their own conclusions. IMHO, Scott Ritter is gradually adjusting to the idea that the conflict in Ukraine is not a just regional skirmish between two quarrelsome neighbors, nor is it a proxy-war between NATO and Russia. No. Ukraine is the first phase of a broader plan for crushing Russia, collapsing its economy, removing its leaders, seizing its natural resources, splintering its territory, and projecting US power across Central Asia to the Pacific Rim. Ukraine is about hegemony, empire, and pure, unalloyed power. Most important, Ukraine is the first battle in a Third World War, a war that was concocted and launched by Washington to ensure another unchallenged century of American primacy. > On May 18, 2022, at 3:15 PM, David Green wrote: > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/18/some-thoughts-on-the-russia-ukraine-conflict-in-week-number-twelve/ > > Ron Jacobs has offered a consummately judicious summary in regard to Ukraine. It's interesting, however, that this is now a minority view on Counterpunch. The nature of American hegemony, and the responsibilities of a credible antiwar movement are elided more often than not. > > David Green > _._,_._,_ From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Thu May 19 18:10:43 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 14:10:43 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Demand Progress: Yemen War Powers Resolution "expected soon" In-Reply-To: References: <010401d86b9d$bbdefbe0$339cf3a0$@yemenfoundation.org> Message-ID: If you use Twitter, please retweet. "Be the change you want to see." https://twitter.com/demandprogress/status/1526969384048021504 [image: image.png] > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 206466 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Fri May 20 03:11:49 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 22:11:49 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] End US support for war In-Reply-To: <90BB072A-F326-421A-9241-A086E7025E49@newsfromneptune.com> References: <90BB072A-F326-421A-9241-A086E7025E49@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Republicans are the only members of Congress voting against the administration?s > massive spending on its proxy war in Ukraine. From https://www.rt.com/news/555717-chip-roy-ukraine-war/ > ?I?m wondering when we voted to go to war?? ? US Congressman > > Chip Roy accused his fellow lawmakers of waging a ?proxy war? so they can ?look > all fancy with our blue and yellow ribbons? > > Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) has condemned House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer for > stating that the US is ?at war,? presumably with Russia. Roy hammered Democrats > and Republicans alike for deepening America?s involvement in the Ukraine conflict > in order to ?feel good about ourselves.? > > In a video clip posted by Roy?s press office on Wednesday, the Texas Republican > took aim at Hoyer for declaring on Friday that the US is ?at war,? and that > critics of the Democratic Party should ?focus on the enemy? instead of rising > energy costs at home. > > ?When I hear the majority leader of the other party say ?a time of war?...I?m > wondering when we voted to go to war?? Roy said. > > ?If we're gonna have a proxy war, and we're gonna give $40 billion to Ukraine, > because we want to look all fancy with our blue and yellow ribbons and feel good > about ourselves, maybe we should actually have a debate in this chamber,? he > continued. > > Roy was one of 57 House Republicans who voted against the passage of the $40 > billion military and economic aid bill for Ukraine earlier this month. However, > the bill had strong bipartisan support and passed with 368 votes to 57. It is now > expected to pass the Senate later this week. > > Republican lawmakers opposing the bill either argue that the money would be better > spent solving domestic issues or that pumping military aid into Ukraine risks > drawing the US into war with nuclear-armed Russia, or both. > > Roy, who described the bill as ?garbage,? reiterated these arguments on Wednesday. > ?When the border of this country is wide open?and fentanyl is pouring in and we > have $30.5 trillion of debt and gas prices are spiking and $1,100 to fill a tank > of diesel, and we go ?oh, blank check for $40 billion.? > > ?By the way, I?m looking at my colleagues on this side of the aisle on that same > point,? he concluded. > > Aside from supporting the $40 billion package making its way through Congress, the > Biden administration has already given Ukraine nearly $4 billion worth of weapons > since February, has placed an embargo on Russian oil and gas imports, and imposed > several rounds of economic sanctions on Moscow. > > With the US arming Ukraine and sharing intelligence with Kiev?s forces, Russian > Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Washington of waging a ?proxy war? > against Russia, while Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev claimed > on Tuesday that the West has used Ukraine as pretext to fight an ?undeclared war? > against Russia?s ?very statehood.? Related: ?Russia not our enemy? ? US congressman [Paul Gosar (R-Arizona)] https://www.rt.com/news/555388-paul-gosar-putin-ukraine/ From jbn at forestfield.org Fri May 20 03:16:19 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 22:16:19 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Even George W. Bush knows he committed a "wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq" Message-ID: <07a09f7a-d066-2c37-73fd-ac8433c244e6@forestfield.org> https://rumble.com/v15bagr-bush-slams-unjustified-invasion-of-iraq.html > In contrast, Russian elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or > otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an > absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a > wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean, of Ukraine. [Mutters] > Iraq. Anyway. I'm 75. [laughter] Uh. [...] From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Fri May 20 17:47:11 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 13:47:11 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] AAI: 57 Members support U.S. investigation for Shireen Abu Akleh In-Reply-To: References: <7679F4C0-358A-48AA-8F4F-61A7AED1FE0B@comcast.net> Message-ID: This is some kind of record for Members of Congress speaking up for a Palestinian human rights issue. And look who cooperated on this letter: Jews, Arabs, Muslims, Christans. [image: image.png] "This is a BFD," as President Biden would say. ==== *From:* Jim Zogby *Date:* May 20, 2022 at 11:44:08 AM EDT *Subject:* *Robert- you did it! 57 Members support U.S. investigation for Shireen Abu Akleh* ? [image: Arab American Institute Logo] Dear Susan, You made the difference. In just 48 hours you, and countless others like you, spoke out in favor of justice for Shireen Abu Akel. The result? One-fourth of House Democrats responded and *agreed with you - on the record!* Shireen Abu Akel was an American citizen and respected journalist. She deserves no less than a full investigation by the U.S. Department of State and the F.B.I. The importance of this changing tide cannot be understated. But you aren't done yet. Please check the list of 57 congressional signers. If your Representative is on it, call them through the U.S. House Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and say thank you.* Let them know you appreciate their stand for justice especially since Israeli military officials have already said there will be no investigation into this killing.* If you're Representative is not on the list of signers call (202) 224-3121. Once connected, tell the staffer you're a constituent and *ask why your Representative did not sign the Carson, Correa, Pascrell letter to "Support a U.S. Investigation into the Death of Palestinian-American Journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh." Remind them that Israeli military officials have already refused to investigate the killing of Shireen, a U.S. citizen. For the U.S. NOT to investigate the killing of an American is unacceptable.* I included the Carson, Correa, Pascrell letter below along with the list of 57 signers. You can also find the letter here . Thank you for standing up for justice for Shireen and for all Palestinians. -Jim ------------------------------ *Members of Congress supporting * *"A U.S. Investigation into the Death of Palestinian-American Journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh."* Andr? Carson J. Luis Correa Anna G. Eshoo Barbara Lee Ra?l M. Grijalva James P. McGovern Bill Pascrell, Jr. Marie Newman Debbie Dingell Ro Khanna Jamaal Bowman, Ed.D. Eleanor Holmes Norton Ilhan Omar John Garamendi Mark DeSaulnier Mark Pocan Jerry McNerney Susan Wild Peter Welch Mike Thompson Betty McCollum Donald S. Beyer Jr. Jes?s G. "Chuy" Garc?a Gwen S. Moore Zoe Lofgren Jackie Speier Seth Moulton Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. Alan Lowenthal Eric Swalwell Andy Levin Dwight Evans Veronica Escobar Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. Eddie Bernice Johnson Jared Huffman Jahana Hayes Nydia M. Vel?zquez John Yarmuth Marcy Kaptur Mark Takano Tom Malinowski Katherine M. Clark Stephen F. Lynch Joaquin Castro David E. Price Pramila Jayapal Ayanna Pressley Rashida Tlaib Peter A. DeFazio Chellie Pingree Jan Schakowsky Cori Bush Daniel T. Kildee Bonnie Watson Coleman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sheila Jackson Lee ------------------------------ Arab American Institute Foundation 1600 K Street, NW, Suite 601 Washington, DC 20006 United States *DONATE * [image: Arab American Institute Logo] [image: Facebook] [image: Twitter] [image: Instagram] Arab American Institute 1600 K St, NW, Suite 601 Washington, DC 20006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 44188 bytes Desc: not available URL: From r-szoke at illinois.edu Fri May 20 20:29:46 2022 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 20:29:46 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Bertrand Russell at 150 Message-ID: Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 - Feb. 2, 1970). Philosopher. Historian. Agnostic. Pacifist. Anti-war activist. Anti-nuclear activist. Anti-imperialist. Critic of organized religion. Graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge (1893). Author of "Why Men Fight" (1916), "Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays" (1918), "Why I Am Not A Christian" (1927), "Sceptical Essays" (1928), "In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays" (1935), "History of Western Philosophy" (1945), "The Will To Doubt" (1958), "Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare" (1959), and "Has Man A Future?" (1961), among many other works. Born in Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales. Died in Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales. Buried in Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell was a Welsh polymath. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic. His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, and various areas of analytic philosophy, especially philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He was a public intellectual, historian, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom. Russell was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians, and one of the founders of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore and his student and prot?g? Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism"." "When we speak of anything as ?free,? our meaning is not definite unless we can say what it is free from. Whatever or whoever is ?free? is not subject to some external compulsion, and to be precise we ought to say what this kind of compulsion is. Thus thought is ?free? when it is free from certain kinds of outward control which are often present. Some of these kinds of control which must be absent if thought is to be ?free? are obvious, but others are more subtle and elusive. To begin with the most obvious. Thought is not ?free? when legal penalties are incurred by the holding or not holding of certain opinions, or by giving expression to one?s belief or lack of belief on certain matters. Very few countries in the world have as yet even this elementary kind of freedom. In England, under the Blasphemy Laws, it is illegal to express disbelief in the Christian religion, though in practice the law is not set in motion against the well-to-do. It is also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. Therefore, whoever wishes to avoid becoming a criminal must profess to agree with Christ?s teaching, but must avoid saying what that teaching was. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy; and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan it is illegal to express disbelief in the divinity of the Mikado. It will thus be seen that a voyage round the world is a perilous adventure. A Mohammedan, a Tolstoyan, a Bolshevik, or a Christian cannot undertake it without at some point becoming a criminal, or holding his tongue about what he considers important truths. This, of course, applies only to steerage passengers; saloon passengers are allowed to believe whatever they please, provided they avoid offensive obtrusiveness. It is clear that the most elementary condition, if thought is to be free, is the absence of legal penalties for the expression of opinions. No great country has yet reached to this level, although most of them think they have. " From r-szoke at illinois.edu Fri May 20 20:29:46 2022 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 20:29:46 +0000 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Bertrand Russell at 150 Message-ID: Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 - Feb. 2, 1970). Philosopher. Historian. Agnostic. Pacifist. Anti-war activist. Anti-nuclear activist. Anti-imperialist. Critic of organized religion. Graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge (1893). Author of "Why Men Fight" (1916), "Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays" (1918), "Why I Am Not A Christian" (1927), "Sceptical Essays" (1928), "In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays" (1935), "History of Western Philosophy" (1945), "The Will To Doubt" (1958), "Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare" (1959), and "Has Man A Future?" (1961), among many other works. Born in Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales. Died in Penrhyndeudraeth, Gwynedd, Wales. Buried in Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell was a Welsh polymath. As an academic, he worked in philosophy, mathematics, and logic. His work has had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, and various areas of analytic philosophy, especially philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics. He was a public intellectual, historian, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom. Russell was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians, and one of the founders of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore and his student and prot?g? Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism"." "When we speak of anything as ?free,? our meaning is not definite unless we can say what it is free from. Whatever or whoever is ?free? is not subject to some external compulsion, and to be precise we ought to say what this kind of compulsion is. Thus thought is ?free? when it is free from certain kinds of outward control which are often present. Some of these kinds of control which must be absent if thought is to be ?free? are obvious, but others are more subtle and elusive. To begin with the most obvious. Thought is not ?free? when legal penalties are incurred by the holding or not holding of certain opinions, or by giving expression to one?s belief or lack of belief on certain matters. Very few countries in the world have as yet even this elementary kind of freedom. In England, under the Blasphemy Laws, it is illegal to express disbelief in the Christian religion, though in practice the law is not set in motion against the well-to-do. It is also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. Therefore, whoever wishes to avoid becoming a criminal must profess to agree with Christ?s teaching, but must avoid saying what that teaching was. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy; and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan it is illegal to express disbelief in the divinity of the Mikado. It will thus be seen that a voyage round the world is a perilous adventure. A Mohammedan, a Tolstoyan, a Bolshevik, or a Christian cannot undertake it without at some point becoming a criminal, or holding his tongue about what he considers important truths. This, of course, applies only to steerage passengers; saloon passengers are allowed to believe whatever they please, provided they avoid offensive obtrusiveness. It is clear that the most elementary condition, if thought is to be free, is the absence of legal penalties for the expression of opinions. No great country has yet reached to this level, although most of them think they have. " From moboct1 at aol.com Sat May 21 22:26:10 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 22:26:10 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Even George W. Bush knows he committed a "wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq" In-Reply-To: <07a09f7a-d066-2c37-73fd-ac8433c244e6@forestfield.org> References: <07a09f7a-d066-2c37-73fd-ac8433c244e6@forestfield.org> Message-ID: <350169651.688542.1653171970864@mail.yahoo.com> GW may blame his confession of guilt on a "Freudian slip," but it's really a slip of a guilty conscience... midge? -----Original Message----- From: J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss ,Sent: Thu, May 19, 2022 10:16 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] Even George W. Bush knows he committed a "wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq" https://rumble.com/v15bagr-bush-slams-unjustified-invasion-of-iraq.html > In contrast, Russian elections are rigged. Political opponents are imprisoned or > otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an > absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a > wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean, of Ukraine. [Mutters] > Iraq. Anyway. I'm 75. [laughter] Uh. [...] _______________________________________________ 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 May 22 02:35:17 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 21:35:17 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Ben Norton left The Grayzone and now runs Multipolarista Message-ID: According to https://youtube.com/watch?v=zJy0VXn-wN0 Ben Norton said he "was forced to create a whole new YouTube channel". It's not clear by whom he was allegedly forced, but since he was able to upload a new video there I'm guessing the forcing came from Max Blumenthal. There was a video on https://youtube.com/channel/UCNiXhsI4QtmQaeICpT-k7BQ announcing Norton's new channel but that video is no longer listed. That video is much like https://youtube.com/watch?v=zJy0VXn-wN0 . I don't know why Norton left The Grayzone and Norton didn't say why in either video I've seen on this issue. "Ben Norton ? Assistant editor, reporter, video producer" is (as of the time/datestamp on this email) listed in https://thegrayzone.com/about/ and mentioned in quotes from supportive other people on the same webpage. Moderate Rebels (the show Norton & Blumenthal co-hosted) ended in January 2022. Multipolarista is now up and running at https://multipolarista.com/ and https://youtube.com/channel/UCwlvSJdcMc7iGdR-aducSog . From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Sun May 22 15:19:22 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 11:19:22 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?J_Street=3A_We_took_on_AIPAC=E2=80=99s?= =?utf-8?q?_millions_and_won_=F0=9F=92=AA?= In-Reply-To: References: <76caa-4bc32-62856933@list.jstreet.org> Message-ID: Look how mean ol' J Street is brazenly taunting poor little AIPAC now, kicking sand in AIPAC's face, stealing AIPAC's lunch money. Poor little AIPAC. *How they suffer!* Isn't it *wonderful*? What a *mitzvah*! *Mazl tov!* Imagine, now, if Jessica Cisneros and All Her Friends and Relations defeat Henry Cuellar and Nancy Pelosi and AIPAC and the Democratic Establishment and Its Oligarchs in Texas 28 on Tuesday. No celebration in America will be more raucous than the rejoicing of the JWOTA, the Jews Who Openly Troll AIPAC. *#SayTheirName!* It will be like a Hungarian wedding. The party will go on all night long. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Laura Birnbaum, J Street Date: Wed, May 18, 2022 at 5:46 PM Subject: We took on AIPAC?s millions and won ? To: Mr. Robert Naiman [image: JStreetPAC] Robert, Last night -- after battling against an unprecedented $3 million of AIPAC and DMFI spending against her -- J Street-supported candidate Summer Lee triumphed over her AIPAC-backed opponent in Pennsylvania?s 12th District. *She was one of several J Street-backed candidates who won on a night that brought exciting wins and significant lessons for our movement.* The margin in Lee?s race was extremely close, just 446 votes at the most recent count -- with that number likely to grow as final precincts are tallied. [image: CNN graphic showing close race] Every dollar and every phone call made a difference. Standing with a wide range of allies, JStreetPAC and our new independent expenditures arm, the J Street Action Fund, helped a principled candidate who supports diplomacy-first American leadership triumph over *AIPAC?s largest-ever negative ad blitz.* In Oregon, J Street endorsee Andrea Salinas overcame an unbelievable $13 million in outside spending from billionaire-funded crypto SuperPACs. In North Carolina and Pennsylvania, J Street-supported candidates Cheri Beasley and John Fetterman advanced to the general election in battleground states. *At the same time, we saw the devastating and ominous impact that AIPAC?s overwhelming Democratic primary spending can have.* In North Carolina?s 4th district, conservative Don Davis defeated J Street endorsee Erica Smith after AIPAC and their allies spent $2.9 million -- more than both leading candidates? campaigns combined. *We should take a moment to be proud of our victories, but we also need to get to work. To overcome intensive right-wing attacks and keep electing pro-Israel, pro-peace champions across the country, we need to mobilize like never before.* Next Tuesday, J Street endorsee Jessica Cisneros faces off against AIPAC-supported Congressman Henry Cuellar, who has faced heavy criticism as the last anti-abortion Democrat in the House. We cannot afford to wake up next Wednesday to find out we fell just a few votes short -- we have to leave everything on the field. *Below we highlight four priority primary races in the weeks and months ahead. Please consider an urgent, direct contribution to these campaigns via JStreetPAC to help us fight back >> * These candidates are current and future champions who are likely to face a deluge of right-wing spending and attacks. We cannot let groups like AIPAC -- who simultaneously fundraise for extremist, Trump-aligned Republicans -- decide the future of American politics and foreign policy. We cannot let their right-wing, hawkish vision dominate the Democratic party and threaten the future of Israelis and Palestinians. *As Summer Lee showed us last night: When we stand together, we can win.* Laura Birnbaum National Political Director, J Street Four Priority Primaries [image: Rush a last minute contribution to help the Cisneros campaign fund more digital ads and turn out every last voter.] Next Tuesday Jessica Cisneros in TX-28 faces off against AIPAC-backed incumbent Henry Cuellar -- the very last anti-choice Democrat in the House of Representatives. The runoff follows a first round that saw less than 1,000 votes separating the pair. Just like with Lee, polls show Cisneros is on a knife-edge. *Rush a last-minute contribution to help the Cisneros campaign fund more digital ads and turn out every last voter >> * *Volunteer in Texas or remotely to help turn out every last Cisneros supporter >>* [image: Contribute now to the Ramirez campaign via JStreetPAC >>] A former social service director and community leader, Ramirez is backed by Emily?s List, Indivisible, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Reps. Chuy Garcia, Lauren Underwood and Jan Schakowsky. If elected, Ramirez will be the first Latina Congresswoman from the Midwest. *Contribute now to the Ramirez campaign via JStreetPAC >> * [image: Contribute now to the Edwards campaign via JStreetPAC] Former representative Donna Edwards was one of J Street?s first endorsees, one of the first Democrats to come out in support of President Obama?s Iran deal, and has been a consistent champion for democratic values before leaving Congress in 2017. Now, we?re proud to support her in her race for an open seat against Glenn Ivey, who is receiving AIPAC?s support. *Contribute now to the Edwards campaign via JStreetPAC >> * [image: Contribute now to the Levin campaign via JStreetPAC] Author of the Two-State Solution Act, Congressman Andy Levin is a champion of Jewish and democratic values and one of J Street?s greatest allies in Congress. Redistricting has forced Levin into a rare incumbent-on-incumbent primary battle against AIPAC endorsee Haley Stevens. AIPAC and DMFI are expected to invest significant resources into defeating Levin, one of the strongest advocates for bold American leadership to end the occupation and secure Israel?s future. *Contribute now to the Levin campaign via JStreetPAC >> * [image: Visit the JStreetPAC donation page here] *Your contribution, of any amount, will help strengthen these campaigns. Every dollar is passed through in full. 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Nicholson) Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 14:45:08 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <39947887-d435-7204-27b5-0ab0fd49a948@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 ================================================== Consortium News Joe Lauria What we risk if we lose Assange PEN Writers for Peace https://youtube.com/watch?v=1fsV9-BYqbs Uro? Lipu??ek - Censorship & Julian Assange - PEN International Writers for Peace Conference 2022 https://youtube.com/watch?v=f6ZrXdCSqtY Joe Lauria on Western censorship at PEN International Writers for Peace Conference https://youtube.com/watch?v=eoSBUBo4k20 Kristinn Hrafnsson at UK Home Office - May 17 2022 https://youtube.com/watch?v=_BCPYY7eGWc Stella Assange addresses large crowd outside UK Home Office https://youtube.com/watch?v=md9aBUZ0Q1Q Double Down News The CIA Plot to Kill My Husband Julian Assange | Stella Assange https://youtube.com/watch?v=3u8xedWY2Ek The Socialist Program with Brian Becker (BreakThrough News) Summit of Americas Collapsing: Region Says NO to Exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua https://youtube.com/watch?v=JstKLKreFVg Escalation in Ukraine: The Nuclear War Danger is Real -- interview with Greg Mello https://youtube.com/watch?v=W2QjDGvQU2Y Ukraine: From Proxy War to Nuclear War? -- interview with Eugene Puryear https://youtube.com/watch?v=7vbY4uRIpKk MintPressNews Guantanamo Bay and the US Global Empire, with Todd E. Pierce https://youtube.com/watch?v=ejJHLxqmws4 RT French ex-soldier back from Ukraine denounces his country's arming of Azov fighters https://rumble.com/v15jguj-french-ex-soldier-back-from-ukraine-denounces-his-countrys-arming-of-azov-f.html Bush slams 'unjustified' invasion of? Iraq https://rumble.com/v15bagr-bush-slams-unjustified-invasion-of-iraq.html Multipolarista What is 'socialism with Chinese characteristics'? Inside China's economic model https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wJwhkRz4Lk Labor's World View TV ================================================== laborvideo Italian Workers Strike Against NATO Imperialist War In Ukraine-Report By Si Cobas Roberto Luzzi https://youtube.com/watch?v=AM9wkHs2QIA More Perfect Union Workers Overcome Union-Busting At Gatorade Factory https://youtube.com/watch?v=waK8YLqD3bU Amazon Workers Walk Out To Demand Raises And Time Off https://youtube.com/watch?v=KKGphcKJ6jI Trader Joe's Workers Launch Historic Union Drive https://youtube.com/watch?v=mbMaElwDNzI Democracy at Work Today's First Steps to A Better Economy - David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles https://youtube.com/watch?v=smrrcsBki74 Ask Prof Wolff: Economic Implications of Abortion Access https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5zbeTBDOM Ask Prof Wolff: 3 Ways Government Has Historically Curbed Inflation https://youtube.com/watch?v=rM_SN-QCmNk Jobs: Making Americans into Robots - Economic Update with Richard Wolff https://youtube.com/watch?v=XsCCCthf-mU Why Food Prices Are Rising - Economic Update with Richard Wolff https://youtube.com/watch?v=LDs62mgRx2g Economic Update: Jobs Driving Us Mad https://youtube.com/watch?v=bFG26h433Vs From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun May 22 21:22:08 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 16:22:08 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] No Way Out but War Message-ID: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Mon May 23 11:47:16 2022 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 06:47:16 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] No Way Out but War In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hedges continues to apply the word "fascism" inappropriately, which undermines the credibility of his analysis, much of which is of course correct. DG On Sun, May 22, 2022, 4:22 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war > > _______________________________________________ > 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... 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Does the U.S. not qualify > as a military-corporate-political authoritarian expansionist syndicate? > > Midge > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Green via Peace-discuss > To: C. G. Estabrook > Cc: Peace Discuss ; Peace > Sent: Mon, May 23, 2022 6:47 am > Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] No Way Out but War > > Hedges continues to apply the word "fascism" inappropriately, which > undermines the credibility of his analysis, much of which is of course > correct. > > DG > > On Sun, May 22, 2022, 4:22 PM C. G. 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Taiwan next?? Midge -----Original Message----- From: J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net Sent: Thu, May 19, 2022 10:12 pm Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] End US support for war C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Republicans are the only members of Congress voting against the administration?s > massive spending on its proxy war in Ukraine. From https://www.rt.com/news/555717-chip-roy-ukraine-war/ > ?I?m wondering when we voted to go to war?? ? US Congressman > > Chip Roy accused his fellow lawmakers of waging a ?proxy war? so they can ?look > all fancy with our blue and yellow ribbons? > > Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) has condemned House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer for > stating that the US is ?at war,? presumably with Russia. Roy hammered Democrats > and Republicans alike for deepening America?s involvement in the Ukraine conflict > in order to ?feel good about ourselves.? > > In a video clip posted by Roy?s press office on Wednesday, the Texas Republican > took aim at Hoyer for declaring on Friday that the US is ?at war,? and that > critics of the Democratic Party should ?focus on the enemy? instead of rising > energy costs at home. > > ?When I hear the majority leader of the other party say ?a time of war?...I?m > wondering when we voted to go to war?? Roy said. > > ?If we're gonna have a proxy war, and we're gonna give $40 billion to Ukraine, > because we want to look all fancy with our blue and yellow ribbons and feel good > about ourselves, maybe we should actually have a debate in this chamber,? he > continued. > > Roy was one of 57 House Republicans who voted against the passage of the $40 > billion military and economic aid bill for Ukraine earlier this month. However, > the bill had strong bipartisan support and passed with 368 votes to 57. It is now > expected to pass the Senate later this week. > > Republican lawmakers opposing the bill either argue that the money would be better > spent solving domestic issues or that pumping military aid into Ukraine risks > drawing the US into war with nuclear-armed Russia, or both. > > Roy, who described the bill as ?garbage,? reiterated these arguments on Wednesday. > ?When the border of this country is wide open?and fentanyl is pouring in and we > have $30.5 trillion of debt and gas prices are spiking and $1,100 to fill a tank > of diesel, and we go ?oh, blank check for $40 billion.? > > ?By the way, I?m looking at my colleagues on this side of the aisle on that same > point,? he concluded. > > Aside from supporting the $40 billion package making its way through Congress, the > Biden administration has already given Ukraine nearly $4 billion worth of weapons > since February, has placed an embargo on Russian oil and gas imports, and imposed > several rounds of economic sanctions on Moscow. > > With the US arming Ukraine and sharing intelligence with Kiev?s forces, Russian > Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused Washington of waging a ?proxy war? > against Russia, while Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev claimed > on Tuesday that the West has used Ukraine as pretext to fight an ?undeclared war? > against Russia?s ?very statehood.? Related: ?Russia not our enemy? ? US congressman [Paul Gosar (R-Arizona)] https://www.rt.com/news/555388-paul-gosar-putin-ukraine/ _______________________________________________ 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 carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue May 24 20:53:47 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 15:53:47 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Twenty-Two House Republicans Demand Accountability on Biden's $40b War Spending Message-ID: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/twenty-two-house-republicans-demand From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed May 25 01:43:43 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 20:43:43 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Tragedy in Texas References: Message-ID: <10726F67-9A71-4208-995B-29BCA449E979@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Liz Dunning" > Subject: Tragedy in Texas > Date: May 24, 2022 at 8:38:17 PM CDT > To: "C G ESTABROOK" > Reply-To: brady at bradyunited.org > > > > C G, > > This. Isn?t. Normal. No other country has to live this way. > > But, in the United States, we are witnessing another devastating massacre ? this time in Uvalde, TX, at an elementary school where 18 children and two adults were shot and killed. We are holding our kids and grandkids a little closer tonight. I have a pit in my stomach that this is the nation that my kids, all of our kids, have to grow up in. One where they have to worry if they are next, when they go to school. > > This tragedy is horrifying, enraging, but not surprising. Not anymore. > > This is the norm in our country, and it?s the only country of its kind. Where a school is not a safe place, but one where our children practice school shooter drills because they are at constant threat of gun violence. > This is our country: Elementary school children have once again been massacred because we refuse to address the nation?s gun violence epidemic. Congress?s inaction remains as constant as the tragedies we witness. > > Our country is in mourning agains and families, forever changed, are overwhelmed with grief. It?s grief like mine and like anyone?s who has lost a loved one to gun violence. This cycle will continue in our country unless we take bold, lifesaving action once and for all. > So, I remain steadfast in this fight while making space for grief. Because I know a better country is possible, but only if all of us fiercely support this work and each other. > Thank you for continuing to fight, even when it?s hardest. We won't stop until our children are finally safe. > Yours, > > Liz Dunning > Gun Violence Survivor > Vice President, Development > > The first 24 hours after a mass shootings are among the most critical. We have to rise up and show our commitment to endings gun violence now, while all eyes are on this story. Will you rush a donation right now to help us pass life-saving legislation and end gun violence? > > > > C G, thank you for supporting Brady. > > > If you're in this fight to create a better, safer country for future generations, join Brady today by making a gift. > > DONATE > > Brady > 840 First Street, NE > Suite 400 > Washington, DC 20002 > United States > > This message was sent to your email address. > > The Brady Campaign is a 501c(4) and donations to the Brady Campaign are not eligible for a tax deduction. If you would like to make a tax deductible donation today, please consider making a gift to the Brady Center. 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URL: From moboct1 at aol.com Wed May 25 14:41:03 2022 From: moboct1 at aol.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 14:41:03 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Tragedy in Texas In-Reply-To: <10726F67-9A71-4208-995B-29BCA449E979@newsfromneptune.com> References: <10726F67-9A71-4208-995B-29BCA449E979@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <995063641.1560937.1653489663406@mail.yahoo.com> Well, whadda ya expect of a bellicose nation constantly in search of "enemies" and proxy armies to fight them.? Before WW II almost every rural homestead had a "blunderbuss" or shotgun to eliminate the threat of wildcats or mad dogs and occasionally to provide food for the table. But since then the NRA has become a power to profit the private arms industry and appeal to those with macho ambitions.?? Once a permit to own small arms became a state requirement, the membership in NRA increased and was enriched and? challenged to legalize all kinds of weaponry, especially with returning veterans trained "to kill" in the military and the dumping of military type weapons on local police force.? When the police became armed with advanced weaponry it was just a matter of time before the armed populace wanted the same powerful weapons, and licensing laws were loosened followed by lax enforcement or none at all so that it became commonplace for drug syndicates or common criminals and even teenagers who can't?shoot straight to have high-powered weapons for "self defense" against rival gangs (and police) or school students or any defenseless random target. With the inevitable result of mass gun violence by demented or misguided individuals who should never?have access to lethal means to settle neighborhood grievances or murder innocent victims,? America is still the Wild West Midge?? - ----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss To: Peace Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net Sent: Tue, May 24, 2022 8:44 pm Subject: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Tragedy in Texas Begin forwarded message: From: "Liz Dunning" Subject: Tragedy in Texas Date: May 24, 2022 at 8:38:17 PM CDT To: "C G ESTABROOK" Reply-To: brady at bradyunited.org | | | | ? | | C G, ? This. Isn?t. Normal. No other country has to live this way. ? But, in the United States, we are witnessing another devastating massacre ? this time in Uvalde, TX, at an elementary school where 18 children and two adults were shot and killed. We are holding our kids and grandkids a little closer tonight. I have a pit in my stomach that this is the nation that my kids, all of our kids, have to grow up in. One where they have to worry if they are next, when they go to school. ? This tragedy is horrifying, enraging, but not surprising. Not anymore. This is the norm in our country, and it?s the only country of its kind. Where a school is not a safe place, but one where our children practice school shooter drills because they are at constant threat of gun violence.? | | This is our country: Elementary school children have once again been massacred because we?refuse?to address the nation?s gun violence epidemic. Congress?s inaction remains as constant as the tragedies we witness. ? Our country is in mourning agains and families, forever changed, are overwhelmed with grief. It?s grief like mine and like anyone?s who has lost a loved one to gun violence. This cycle will continue in our country unless we take bold, lifesaving action once and for all. | | So, I remain steadfast in this fight while making space for grief. Because I know a better country is possible, but only if all of us fiercely support this work and each other. | | Thank you for continuing to fight, even when it?s hardest. We won't stop until our children are finally safe.? | | Yours,? ? Liz DunningGun Violence SurvivorVice President, Development ? | | | | The first 24 hours after a mass shootings are among the most critical. We have to rise up and show our commitment to endings gun violence now, while all eyes are on this story.?Will you rush a donation right now to help us pass life-saving legislation and end gun violence? | | | | | | | ? C G, thank you for supporting Brady. If you're in this fight to create a better, safer country for future generations, join Brady today by making a gift. | | DONATE | | Brady 840 First Street, NE Suite 400 Washington, DC 20002 United States This message was sent to your email address. The Brady Campaign is a 501c(4) and donations to the Brady Campaign are not eligible for a tax deduction. If you would like to make a tax deductible donation today, please consider making a gift to the Brady Center.?Click here to donate. 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URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Wed May 25 15:22:11 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 11:22:11 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Jewish Voice 4 Peace: Thank CNN 4 truth-telling re Shireen Abu Akleh In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Everybody can do this. Click the button, takes 15 seconds. You can personalize your tweet. Takes five more seconds. === *From:* Jewish Voice for Peace *Sent:* Wednesday, May 25, 2022 10:36 AM === *Subject:* Thank CNN for telling the truth about Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Send a message: we need more honest journalism. Dear Robert, Renowned Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was *targeted* and killed by the Israeli military ? but the Israeli government refused to even allow an investigation into Shireen?s death. *Now CNN?s reporting has established, once and for all, the full role of the Israeli military.* *Click to tweet "Thank You" to CNN * But these brave reporters, and even CNN itself, are already coming under attack for telling the truth. *Can you help make sure CNN doesn?t cave and continues to tell the truth about Shireen? * When Shireen was killed, US media was quick to accept the Israeli military?s version of events. You played a key role in holding them accountable ? and we saw how The New York Times responded to your emails and made their reporting less biased. Let?s make sure CNN continues to tell the truth. *To act now, share this tweet to CNN: * *Click to tweet "Thank You" to CNN * Onwards, Sonya Meyerson-Knox Communications Director PS: Don?t use Twitter? 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Videos obtained by CNN, corroborated by testimony from eight eyewitnesses, an audio forensic analyst and an explosive weapons expert, suggest that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces. " https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html 'They were shooting directly at the journalists': New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces By Zeena Saifi , Eliza Mackintosh , Celine Alkhaldi, Kareem Khadder, Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore , CNN Video by Livvy Doherty and Oscar Featherstone, CNN Updated 2:04 PM ET, Tue May 24, 2022 *This story contains a disturbing image.* [...] The shaky video, filmed by Al Jazeera cameraman Majdi Banura, captures the scene when Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian-American was killed by a bullet to the head at around 6:30 a.m. on May 11. She had been standing with a group of journalists near the entrance of Jenin refugee camp, where they had come to cover an Israeli raid. While the footage does not show Abu Akleh being shot, eyewitnesses told CNN that they believe Israeli forces on the same street fired deliberately on the reporters in a targeted attack. All of the journalists were wearing protective blue vests that identified them as members of the news media. "We stood in front of the Israeli military vehicles for about five to ten minutes before we made moves to ensure they saw us. And this is a habit of ours as journalists, we move as a group and we stand in front of them so they know we are journalists, and then we start moving," Hanaysha told CNN, describing their cautious approach toward the Israeli army convoy, before the gunfire began. [...] On the day of the shooting, Israeli military spokesperson Ran Kochav told Army Radio that Abu Akleh had been "filming and working for a media outlet amidst armed Palestinians. They're armed with cameras, if you'll permit me to say so," according to The Times of Israel. The Israeli military says it is not clear who fired the fatal shot. In a preliminary inquiry , the army said there was a possibility Abu Akleh was hit either by indiscriminate Palestinian gunfire, or by an Israeli sniper positioned about 200 meters (about 656 feet) away in an exchange of fire with Palestinian gunmen ? though neither Israel nor anyone else has provided evidence showing armed Palestinians within a clear line of fire from Abu Akleh. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on May 19 that it had not yet decided whether to pursue a criminal investigation into Abu Akleh's death. On Monday, the Israeli military's top lawyer, Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, said in a speech that under the military's policy, a criminal investigation is not automatically launched if a person is killed in the "midst of an active combat zone," unless there is credible and immediate suspicion of a criminal offense. United States lawmakers, the United Nations and the international community have all called for an independent probe. But an investigation by CNN offers new evidence ? including two videos of the scene of the shooting ? that there was no active combat, nor any Palestinian militants, near Abu Akleh in the moments leading up to her death. Videos obtained by CNN, corroborated by testimony from eight eyewitnesses, an audio forensic analyst and an explosive weapons expert, suggest that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces. [...] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Wed May 25 18:17:31 2022 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 14:17:31 -0400 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Isaac4VT: Biden on Yemen war vs. Biden on gun violence in Texas In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please RT: https://twitter.com/isaacforvt/status/1529524096559628289 [image: image.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.png Type: image/png Size: 97628 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Tue May 31 00:01:51 2022 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 19:01:51 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <0ff528cc-6c41-6d07-bf61-4a976479fbae@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 A political hoax? Revelations about Hillary Clinton?s presidential campaign emerge https://rumble.com/v15xk47-a-political-hoax-revelations-about-hillary-clintons-presidential-campaign-e.html Glenn Greenwald Nicolle Wallace: "The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation" https://rumble.com/v15xkey-nicolle-wallace-the-typhoid-mary-of-disinformation.html acTVism Munich "Julian is a symbol of the freedom of speech" - Stella Moris https://youtube.com/watch?v=fAnUtEi7-l0 https://rumble.com/v15y2ly-julian-is-a-symbol-of-the-freedom-of-speech-stella-moris.html The Grayzone Intel-gate exposed, Nina's disinfo board 'paused' w/ Ray McGovern https://youtube.com/watch?v=sIYSo61YGig John Pilger Paying the Price - Killing the Children of Iraq https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yPgJRU2NI The Socialist Program with Brian Becker Doves Die in Ukraine: When Did Liberals Turn On Peace? With Eugene Puryear https://youtube.com/watch?v=RiO3mK3xiPw Labor's World View TV ================================================== More Perfect Union Los Angeles Strippers Are Unionizing https://youtube.com/watch?v=KH9fezxNSEQ laborvideo Tesla Worker Speaks Out At Twitter: Elon Musks Union Busting Tactics Of Intimidation & Threats https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjTdtdwau8g The Corporate Capture Of OSHA & US Government Corruption Cover-up With OSHA Lawyer Darrell Whitman https://youtube.com/watch?v=9bdNcG0hnY8 On 20th Anniversary of US AFL-CIO Supported Venezuela Coup Dr. Margaret Flowers Speaks Out https://youtube.com/watch?v=l2DEm-MLjyQ Chris Hedges On Imperialist Wars, Capitalist Media & The Censorship https://youtube.com/watch?v=iHUjDdEz0Xw Democracy at Work Organizing is an Antidote to Isolation - Capitalism Hits Home https://youtube.com/watch?v=ka-K3Eg7Nzw Ask Prof Wolff: Gas Taxes and Inflation https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tvr0DBMR1pg Ask Prof Wolff: How Worker Co-ops Handle Bankruptcy https://youtube.com/watch?v=5K9WMhmdZW0 GOP Puppets Try to Stop Student Debt Cancellation - Economic Update with Richard Wolff https://youtube.com/watch?v=2YZ7ok4yYxg From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue May 31 17:48:10 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 12:48:10 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] SCOTT RITTER: Phase Three in Ukraine Message-ID: <0B9692AD-77E0-497C-B437-6F33884CF2B9@newsfromneptune.com> Here is the link to the article: https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/30/scott-ritter-phase-three-in-ukraine/ From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue May 31 18:12:38 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 13:12:38 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] =?utf-8?q?The_New_York_Times=E2=80=99_Shift_on_V?= =?utf-8?q?ictory_in_Ukraine?= Message-ID: Here is the link to the article: https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/27/the-new-york-times-shift-on-victory-in-ukraine/ From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue May 31 21:26:09 2022 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 16:26:09 -0500 Subject: [Peace-discuss] The Biden Administration Is in No Rush to Help Ukraine Negotiate an End to the War | Branko Marcetic | Jacobin References: <3CE84200-10DB-4F9E-896E-3B1E35606DDC@earthlink.net> Message-ID: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/05/peace-talks-diplomacy-negotiations-ukraine-russia-war-biden-johnson ###