From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Wed Dec 1 16:16:53 2021 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:16:53 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Markey co-sponsors Paul-Sanders-Lee JRD to end Saudi war-blockade on Yemen Message-ID: I see Markey but not Warren. What's up with that? What about Durbin? Is Chicago in the house? *312! 312!* What about Baldwin? Is Milwaukee in the house? What about Klobuchar? Is Minneapolis-St. Paul in the house? Doesn't BernieBro Keith Ellison have a relationship with her? What about Murphy? I live in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where Lexington and Concord are. I can see Connecticut from my house. Surely there are some Democrats in Connecticut who voted for Ned Lamont against Joe Lieberman in 2006 who would like to enforce Biden's promise in the Democratic Platform to end the Saudi war on Yemen. Maybe they could organize a sit-in at a Senate office in Hartford. "We can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way." Isn't DeLauro good on Yemen? Maybe she can get to him. What about Van Hollen and Cardin? Is Maryland in the house? What about Kaine? Is Virginia in the house? What about Sherrod Brown? Is Ohio in the house? What about Stabenow? Is Michigan in the house? What about Ossoff and Warnock? Is Georgia in the house? Maybe Hank Johnson can get to them. What about Gillibrand? Is New York in the house? Is the Working Families Party in the house? Is IfNotNow in the house? Justice Democrats signed the letter. Doesn't Justice Democrats have a significant relationship with them? Isn't there a significant Jewish Voice for Peace contingent in New York? Didn't they once get Gillibrand to un-cosponsor an AIPAC bill, something that almost never happens on Planet Earth? What about Whitehouse? Is Rhode Island in the house? What about Murray? Is Seattle in the house? What about Heinrich? 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I thought that ending the Yemen blockade was supposed to be easier than ending the Gaza blockade. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/30/47-groups-urge-congress-avert-human-rights-failure-blocking-bidens-saudi-arms-sale 47 Groups Urge Congress to Avert 'Human Rights Failure' by Blocking Biden's Saudi Arms Sale "The Biden administration in its very first weeks committed both to center human rights in foreign policy and to end U.S. complicity in the war in Yemen. Allowing this sale to stand breaks that commitment." BRETT WILKINS November 30, 2021 Slamming the Saudi-led coalition's war crimes in Yemen?which are often perpetrated with U.S.-supplied weaponry?47 advocacy groups on Monday published a joint letter to congressional lawmakers urging them to block the Biden administration's "wrongful" planned $650 million arms sale to the repressive Middle Eastern monarchy. At issue is the proposed sale of 280 AIM-120C-7/C-8 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles and 596 LAU-128 missile rail launchers in a package that would also include spare parts, support, and logistical services. The missiles, which would be fitted to Saudi fighter jets, are manufactured by Raytheon, on whose board Lloyd Austin sat before becoming U.S. defense secretary this year. The letter's signatories urge members of Congress to pass resolutions by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to block the sale and end "U.S. complicity in the Saudi-led coalition's gross violations of international law in Yemen, including its blockade." "For nearly seven years, U.S.-supported Saudi forces have unlawfully targeted civilian objects and infrastructure via indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks that have killed and injured thousands of civilians in Yemen," the letter's authors write. "These aerial bombardments include myriad war crimes and have exacerbated the catastrophic humanitarian crisis." The signers note the Saudi military's "use of U.S.-manufactured weapons in airstrikes" that have hit "hospitals, schools, and civilian homes?killing healthcare providers, teachers, and entire families, including children." The letter continues: Despite the claim of "defensive use," the proposed sale of these AIM-120 air-to-air missiles and hundreds of missile launchers are not exclusively defensive, and can reasonably be used to support offensive operations. These missiles lend another tool for Saudi-led forces to maintain and enforce their brutal blockade, particularly by raising their ability to threaten aircraft that would seek to land. More broadly, continuing to arm Saudi forces allows their grave rights violations and fueling of one of world's worst humanitarian crises to evade accountability, and amounts to support and political cover for the illegal blockade. Last December, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that the Saudi-led war had caused 233,000 deaths, "including 131,000 from indirect causes such as lack of food, health services, and infrastructure" exacerbated by the blockade. Last week, the United Nations Development Program published a report projecting the war's death toll will reach 377,000 by the end of the year, with children under the age of five accounting for 70% of the casualties. "U.S. involvement should have ended following [President Joe] Biden's declaration to end U.S. support for the coalition," the authors assert, referring to the president's February announcement that his administration would stop backing "offensive operations," including weapons transfers, in the war. "The Biden administration in its very first weeks committed both to center human rights in foreign policy and to end U.S. complicity in the war in Yemen," the letter concludes. 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I might not be able to get to add more videos soon. Enjoy. -J Labor's World View TV ================================================== More Perfect Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans https://youtube.com/watch?v=F8-7w2U01WY -- (6m 29s) Mobile Home Residents TAKE ON Wall Street And Win https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIg87BEapMs -- (6m 18s) The Media Is Ignoring An Economic BOOM For Workers https://youtube.com/watch?v=WoMOTMpIm4s -- (5m 33s) A Loophole in NJ Law Is Killing Casino Workers https://youtube.com/watch?v=prQ_ZIPHm7s -- (2m 43s) STRIKE ALERT: Airport Workers Walk Out https://youtube.com/watch?v=mEK64vbVdmk -- (4m 21s) Walmart Workers Demand A $15 Minimum Wage https://youtube.com/watch?v=9hPtnTVJq0w -- (4m 57s) PetSmart Workers EXPOSE Horrendous Conditions laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=eYfqAbdnWQY -- (49m) ATU 192 Transit Workers & Unions Speak Out For Hazard Pay-Oakland General Strike Recalled https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_Eo_ZTuJzM -- (1h 33m 2s) AFL-CIO, Imperialism, Zionism and The Palestinian Struggle https://youtube.com/watch?v=4w-24vu7Jro -- (20m 40s) Assassinations, The AFL-CIO, AIFLD, Solidarity Center & NED With Frank Hammer RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=AgiSzTav0v0 -- (8m 10s) Georgia workers held at gunpoint in modern day slavery operation News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== Grayzone https://youtube.com/watch?v=iKNfvyKBDLw -- (30m 35s) Alex Saab: Wife of kidnapped diplomat describes his torture & illegal arrest https://youtube.com/watch?v=dg3r5hs9WBA -- (45m 58s) Biden keeps Trump's crushing sanctions yet blames Iran for nuclear impasse https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeEwARv4jL4 -- (22m 2s) Did the CIA kill JFK? Oliver Stone on his explosive new film https://youtube.com/watch?v=rCtipOQEDG0 -- (36m) War in Ethiopia fueled by Western propaganda RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TPmGMJ-07E -- (7m 8s) How Black people have been victims of medical racism in the US| InfoBites https://youtube.com/watch?v=1e5BgxJuCQs -- (27m 27s) The Black Agenda -- Chris Hedges interviews Ajamu Baraka on the late Glen Ford's new book "The Black Agenda". Ford was the former head of BlackAgendaReport.com. Interview transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/542157-new-global-order-mccoy/ acTVism Munich https://youtube.com/watch?v=LwsJXapUBmw -- (8m 42s) Send Assange to the country that plotted to assassinate him? | Stella Moris speaks out https://youtube.com/watch?v=U7tFvOA_EWk -- (20m 33s) The Jakarta Method - How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Dec 10 15:09:10 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:09:10 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV In-Reply-To: <52977e20-2b7e-a3fa-0c8b-f5c3c867fcc3@forestfield.org> References: <52977e20-2b7e-a3fa-0c8b-f5c3c867fcc3@forestfield.org> Message-ID: J.B. and Bourema I am adding two VDO?s just viewed this morning as critical, and highly informative. Though a critic of Democracy Now, this is of the utmost importance to the American people: https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/9/biden_military_spending_bill_approval Another informative VDO from Democracy Now, which is typical. It presents the horrible conditions of slavery and death refugees/immigrants from Africa face, known as the "Invisible Wall,? but they do not provide any information related to who, why, and how this situation came about. It?s a direct result of the destruction of Libya by the US and our Nato alliance of 2011. https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/9/shadow_immigration_europe_libya_migrants > On Dec 9, 2021, at 5:00 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > > Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. > > As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. > > I might not be able to get to add more videos soon. Enjoy. > -J > > > > > > Labor's World View TV > ================================================== > > More Perfect Union > https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans > https://youtube.com/watch?v=F8-7w2U01WY -- (6m 29s) Mobile Home Residents TAKE ON Wall Street And Win > https://youtube.com/watch?v=HIg87BEapMs -- (6m 18s) The Media Is Ignoring An Economic BOOM For Workers > https://youtube.com/watch?v=WoMOTMpIm4s -- (5m 33s) A Loophole in NJ Law Is Killing Casino Workers > https://youtube.com/watch?v=prQ_ZIPHm7s -- (2m 43s) STRIKE ALERT: Airport Workers Walk Out > https://youtube.com/watch?v=mEK64vbVdmk -- (4m 21s) Walmart Workers Demand A $15 Minimum Wage > https://youtube.com/watch?v=9hPtnTVJq0w -- (4m 57s) PetSmart Workers EXPOSE Horrendous Conditions > > laborvideo > https://youtube.com/watch?v=eYfqAbdnWQY -- (49m) ATU 192 Transit Workers & Unions Speak Out For Hazard Pay-Oakland General Strike Recalled > https://youtube.com/watch?v=o_Eo_ZTuJzM -- (1h 33m 2s) AFL-CIO, Imperialism, Zionism and The Palestinian Struggle > https://youtube.com/watch?v=4w-24vu7Jro -- (20m 40s) Assassinations, The AFL-CIO, AIFLD, Solidarity Center & NED With Frank Hammer > > RT > https://youtube.com/watch?v=AgiSzTav0v0 -- (8m 10s) Georgia workers held at gunpoint in modern day slavery operation > > > > > News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air > ================================================== > > Grayzone > https://youtube.com/watch?v=iKNfvyKBDLw -- (30m 35s) Alex Saab: Wife of kidnapped diplomat describes his torture & illegal arrest > https://youtube.com/watch?v=dg3r5hs9WBA -- (45m 58s) Biden keeps Trump's crushing sanctions yet blames Iran for nuclear impasse > https://youtube.com/watch?v=HeEwARv4jL4 -- (22m 2s) Did the CIA kill JFK? Oliver Stone on his explosive new film > https://youtube.com/watch?v=rCtipOQEDG0 -- (36m) War in Ethiopia fueled by Western propaganda > > RT > https://youtube.com/watch?v=-TPmGMJ-07E -- (7m 8s) How Black people have been victims of medical racism in the US| InfoBites > https://youtube.com/watch?v=1e5BgxJuCQs -- (27m 27s) The Black Agenda -- Chris Hedges interviews Ajamu Baraka on the late Glen Ford's new book "The Black Agenda". Ford was the former head of BlackAgendaReport.com. Interview transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/542157-new-global-order-mccoy/ > > acTVism Munich > https://youtube.com/watch?v=LwsJXapUBmw -- (8m 42s) Send Assange to the country that plotted to assassinate him? | Stella Moris speaks out > https://youtube.com/watch?v=U7tFvOA_EWk -- (20m 33s) The Jakarta Method - How the US brutally exterminated Leftist Movements during the Cold War > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Dec 10 16:43:13 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:43:13 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Another good one from Democracy Now, interview with "The Nations" Katrina Vanden Heuvel Message-ID: A one-sided narrative?. Another reasonably good "Democracy Now" interview, with Katrina Vanden Heuvel of "The Nation," magazine in relation to Russia and the Ukraine. The widow of Prof. Stephen Cohen, a Russian specialist, she tiptoes around her liberal base of support, but makes clear that US support for the Minx Accords, ending Nato provocations, given the US controls Nato, are necessary solutions to the pending debacle. https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/8/putin_biden_sanctions_russia_ukraine -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Fri Dec 10 20:39:10 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:39:10 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever. References: <3f2cfb72-8085-4687-99c5-581617e2a48a@salsalabs.org> Message-ID: <6C323433-D6A9-45C6-9647-4CD49E6F032E@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Defending Rights & Dissent > Subject: Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever. > Date: December 10, 2021 at 2:32:37 PM CST > To: "Carl G. Estabrook" > Reply-To: info at RightsandDissent.org > > > > > > Dear Carl g., > > This morning, a UK High Court ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited to the US to face prosecution under the Espionage Act. The Biden administration (following the Trump administration?s lead) wants to put Assange on trial for publishing truthful information in the public interest. > > Assange?s prosecution under the Espionage Act is a threat to press freedom. Reach out to your member of Congress now. > This week has been an eventful one for the Espionage Act, and it?s high time for Congress to take notice, and to take action. > > On Sunday, millions of Americans tuned into a 60 Minutes interview with Reality Winner and learned how whistleblowers charged under the Espionage Act cannot testify about what they leaked or why they leaked it. > On Tuesday, the House Rules Committee killed an amendment from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) that would have allowed whistleblowers to testify about their purpose for disclosing documents and forced prosecutors to prove a defendant under the Espionage Act had the specific intent to harm US national security. > On Wednesday, Daniel Hale, convicted under the Espionage Act for telling the public the truth about the US drone program, received Blueprint for Free Speech?s International Award for Whistleblowing. Hale could not speak on his own behalf, as he is in a communications management unit. > And now we have this terrible ruling from the UK High Court. > > The Biden DOJ can certainly drop this Trump-era prosecution and cease the use of the Espionage Act against whistleblowers. > > But we also need Congress to step up and take serious steps to reform the Espionage Act. We need you to take action today! > > Take Action! > > > Subscribe > > Donate > > Our Work > > Defending Rights & Dissent > 1325 G St. NW Suite 500 | Washington, District of Columbia 20005 > 202.552.7408 | info at rightsanddissent.org > Follow Us > > > Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser > Unsubscribe or Manage Your Preferences -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbw292002 at gmail.com Fri Dec 10 21:45:44 2021 From: jbw292002 at gmail.com (John W.) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:45:44 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever. In-Reply-To: <6C323433-D6A9-45C6-9647-4CD49E6F032E@newsfromneptune.com> References: <3f2cfb72-8085-4687-99c5-581617e2a48a@salsalabs.org> <6C323433-D6A9-45C6-9647-4CD49E6F032E@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: I'll just say here that it's interesting to read about Daniel Ellsberg's indictment and trial under the Espionage Act (for the Pentagon Papers), and see how his situation compared to Assange's. John Wason On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 2:40 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *Defending Rights & Dissent > *Subject: **Breaking: The UK High Court Ruled Against Assange. Espionage > Act Reform is Now More Urgent Than Ever.* > *Date: *December 10, 2021 at 2:32:37 PM CST > *To: *"Carl G. Estabrook" > *Reply-To: *info at RightsandDissent.org > > > > > > > > Dear Carl g., > > This morning, a UK High Court ruled that Julian Assange can be extradited > to the US to face prosecution under the Espionage Act. The Biden > administration (following the Trump administration?s lead) wants to put > Assange on trial for publishing truthful information in the public interest. > > > *Assange?s prosecution under the Espionage Act is a threat to press > freedom. Reach out to your member of Congress now.* > > > This week has been an eventful one for the Espionage Act, and it?s high > time for Congress to take notice, and to take action. > > - On Sunday, millions of Americans tuned into a 60 Minutes interview > with Reality Winner and learned how whistleblowers charged under the > Espionage Act cannot testify about what they leaked or why they leaked it. > - On Tuesday, the House Rules Committee killed an amendment > > from Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) that would have allowed whistleblowers to > testify about their purpose for disclosing documents and forced prosecutors > to prove a defendant under the Espionage Act had the specific intent to > harm US national security. > - On Wednesday, Daniel Hale, convicted under the Espionage Act for > telling the public the truth about the US drone program, received Blueprint > for Free Speech?s International Award for Whistleblowing. Hale could not > speak on his own behalf, as he is in a communications management unit. > > *And now we have this terrible ruling from the UK High Court.* > > The Biden DOJ can certainly drop this Trump-era prosecution and cease the > use of the Espionage Act against whistleblowers. > > But we also need Congress to step up and take serious steps to reform the > Espionage Act. *We need you to take action today!* > > > Take Action! > > > Subscribe > > Donate > > Our Work > > > *Defending Rights & Dissent* > 1325 G St. NW Suite 500 | Washington, District of Columbia 20005 > 202.552.7408 | info at rightsanddissent.org > > Follow Us > > > > Having trouble viewing this email? View it in your web browser > > Unsubscribe > > or Manage Your Preferences > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This veneer of honesty in government, shrouds the corruption of other Presidents, Obama being a good example. They become billionaires living lavish lifestyles after leaving office. Obama also broke US laws, killing thousands, using drones, a form of execution without due process, with bombs that are now responsible for the flourishing slave trade of African immigrants/refugees across the continent when he had Libya destroyed. He is responsible for US interventions and war in Yemen, and Syria. He escalated the war in Afghanistan, etc., etc., Obama is also responsible for having Africom placed in all but two African nations during his reign in power, which shows his disdain for his African heritage. Obama was never disgusting, he was smart, attractive and he said all that we wanted to hear, I voted for him, the first time. The only racism he exhibited was when he made fun of those AfroAmericans suffering from poisoned water in Michigan, they got it, even if white liberals didn't. Rewards are received by Presidents after leaving office, on behalf of those major corporations whom they supported while in office. The funds generally come as a result of "public speaking engagements." In the case of many government employee's, non Presidents, it comes as the highly paid positions available after leaving office. One must admit, our ruling elites are brilliant when it comes to PR, cover ups, and fooling the American people, but "you can't fool all of the people, all of the time," as said by Mark Twain. KAram https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-bill-to-prevent-future-blatant-corruption-in-reaction-to-trumph -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Dec 12 00:33:21 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 18:33:21 -0600 Subject: [Peace] My thoughts on the House passing a bill to prevent "blatant" corruption of Presidents while in office. Message-ID: My thoughts on the article below, related to the House passing a bill to prevent future blatant corruption in office. A veneer of honesty only, note the term "blatant," when describing corruption. Yes, Trump was blatantly corrupt, racist, and now we learn a rapist. And, yes he violated laws. He had us on the brink of war with Iran, when assassinating Solemieni. And, he was also disgusting as hell. How did we get him as President? The Dems. supported him as a candidate assuming he would be easy to beat. One of the reasons Assange was jailed was leaking documents that prove it. They didn't consider the anger of Democrat voters, those who after Obama, just stayed home and didn't vote. This veneer of honesty in government, shrouds the corruption of other Presidents, Obama being a good example. They become billionaires living lavish lifestyles after leaving office. Obama also broke US laws, killing thousands, using drones, a form of execution without due process, with bombs that are now responsible for the flourishing slave trade of African immigrants/refugees across the continent when he had Libya destroyed. He is responsible for US interventions and war in Yemen, and Syria. He escalated the war in Afghanistan, etc., etc., Obama is also responsible for having Africom placed in all but two African nations during his reign in power, which shows his disdain for his African heritage. Obama was never disgusting, he was smart, attractive and he said all that we wanted to hear, I voted for him, the first time. The only racism he exhibited was when he made fun of those AfroAmericans suffering from poisoned water in Michigan, they got it, even if white liberals didn't. Rewards are received by Presidents after leaving office, on behalf of those major corporations whom they supported while in office. The funds generally come as a result of "public speaking engagements." In the case of many government employee's, non Presidents, it comes as the highly paid positions available after leaving office. One must admit, our ruling elites are brilliant when it comes to PR, cover ups, and fooling the American people, but "you can't fool all of the people, all of the time," as said by Mark Twain. KAram https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-bill-to-prevent-future-blatant-corruption-in-reaction-to-trumph -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Dec 12 12:41:04 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 06:41:04 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Chris Hedges interviews Ajamu Baraka in relation to Glen Ford Message-ID: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/542630-ajamu-baraka-radical-black-press/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nicholson) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 14:55:19 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Why Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Dore go on Tucker Carlson's FOX show and more on the importance of the Assange persecution Message-ID: <97837dbe-bac0-6cd3-6145-3d47b5786a1f@forestfield.org> Released segments of a recent Jimmy Dore interview with Glenn Greenwald from 2021-12-11 https://youtube.com/watch?v=7-mjCEPW1LQ -- (34m 42s) MSNBC?s Non-Stop Lying About Julian Assange https://youtube.com/watch?v=RgOJR_S7TqQ -- (25m 55s) US & UK Destroying Assange & Press Freedom I recommend watching both of the above clips in their entirety and the links provided below as well. Sadly, swearing prevents me from recommending these Jimmy Dore segments to UPTV which (as far as I know) still won't run segments where people speak freely and as adults typically do particularly on matters of great importance, such as the continuing torture and imprisonment of Julian Assange. Around 18m into https://youtube.com/watch?v=7-mjCEPW1LQ you can see and hear Glenn Greenwald discuss with Jimmy Dore how establishment media handles discussing Julian Assange -- largely they don't talk about Assange at all (and, although it doesn't come up in the Dore/Greenwald discussion, establishment media has to be pushed into giving any kind of response about Assange). As evidence for this point, you can see how the BBC (state-funded UK establishment media outlet) handled Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev "pushed back" (as they say) against a BBC interviewer (a clip which you can find in https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469395830876553219 among other posts) where Greenwald wrote: > Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, is an authoritarian, but he's also > right that no western journalist has any right or credibility to assume a position > of moral superiority about press freedom attacks given what the US/UK are doing to > Assange. Greenwald explains the recent US government win with the UK High Court in not only reversing the previous ruling on not extraditing Assange to the US (because Assange's health is so fragile that it is feared that Assange might commit suicide) but keeping Assange in Belmarsh Prison (a maximum security UK prison) while his legal proceedings play out. It was recently revealed that Assange suffered a transient ischemic attack (a "ministroke" per the following URL) on October 27 (says https://on.rt.com/bmxm referring to the Daily Mail interview with Assange's fiancee Stella Moris). We better understand the continuing effort to keep Assange in prison from Greenwald's recent publications: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469350801332125698 > Democrats want Assange imprisoned for life because his 2016 reporting reflected > poorly on Hillary and the DNC and, they think, helped Trump. > > Democrats are complete authoritarians: craving the imprisonment of journalists who > oppose them. They're everything they claimed Trump was. Article https://greenwald.substack.com/p/julian-assange-loses-appeal-british Video https://rumble.com/vqjzc0-uk-court-approves-bidens-extradition-request-for-assange.html Greenwald also puts into context the value of not personifying structural opposition; don't believe that if we could retire or replace the right people in power that we'd be better off. The problems we often face are structural and best understood by analyzing that structure and acting to challenge and work around that structure. This is often easier said than done. The coordinated attacks on Alex Jones' social media accounts were met with a shrug by so many on the authoritarian left because the authoritarian left refused to look at that case as anything but asking each other "Do you agree with or like Alex Jones?" which is not the relevant question at all. While the specific charges facing Assange don't mention the DNC email leaks, the DNC email leaks were embarassing & damaging to the DNC and the DNC email leaks help us understand why the Democrats still pursue keeping Assange in prison, any prison, today. So I ask if you're going to respond to any of this claiming something critical about the coverage Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Tucker Carlson (see https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469301908598931457 for more on this or the above interview with Dore), et al provide on the Assange matter please back up your claims with sources. Ad hominem responses (where you tacitly admit that you won't discuss the matter on its merits but you instead go against someone advocating for freeing Assange) aren't helpful but deserve source citations as well. And be prepared to meet a challenge explaining away so many other people who agree with freeing Assange (see https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1469350801332125698 for a list of Greenwald's tweets listing some of the notable people) because Assange did the journalism that make the establishment look like the compliant, docile PR repeaters that they are. From jbn at forestfield.org Sun Dec 12 21:14:00 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 15:14:00 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <170c4251-0dd0-a9a4-9ece-b9a328dabc1f@forestfield.org> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== Grayzone https://youtube.com/watch?v=NLpPyuzxSf4 -- (1h 59m 54s) Is Russia really planning a war in Ukraine - or is Washington? https://youtube.com/watch?v=EDADaUXL6kM -- (33m 35s) Nicaragua recognizes China, breaks ties with Taiwan. Is a Panama Canal alternative coming soon? https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z_DGnxwcG14 -- (1h 7m 52s) 'Willing': Brian Jackson?s revolutionary music, from Gil Scott-Heron to today RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=kbunf9hut5Q -- (58s) CIA admits it's MESSING with crypto but won't say how https://youtube.com/watch?v=elRE113LDs8 -- (57s) OUTRAGE over British verdict on Assange extradition to US https://youtube.com/watch?v=YYU1EWI67SY -- (1m 31s) WikiLeaks exposed American war crimes ? now Assange will be extradited to US https://youtube.com/watch?v=ycWkLlDU6QY -- (1m 13s) 'How cynical' | Assange's fiance on US winning the extradition appeal https://youtube.com/watch?v=_VzFJ9csons -- (27m 21s) Assange can be extradited, says court https://youtube.com/watch?v=MHqGAgP9CG0 -- (6m 35s) 'Britain acting like US' poodle' | Ex MP Chris Williamson weighs in on Assange High Court ruling https://youtube.com/watch?v=iknte-VBxkc -- (1m 28s) They ?were supposed to have a precise target? | Syrian family hit by US drone strike https://youtube.com/watch?v=fW4R-GdGwd4 -- (5m 2s) Media blackout on Yemen War protects Joe Biden | By Robert Inlakesh https://youtube.com/watch?v=UFAOozjUNpU -- (1m 26s) NO MORE | Hundreds denounce US media coverage on Horn of Africa https://youtube.com/watch?v=1e5BgxJuCQs -- (27m 27s) The black agenda Consortium News https://youtube.com/watch?v=9aC6t0c2jRA -- (5m 8s) Craig Murray: Assange High Court Ruling & Path Ahead https://youtube.com/watch?v=DoqqxJxBvYg -- (23m 26s) Joe Lauria on the Assange High Court ruling https://youtube.com/watch?v=fB0AJId1xNg -- (9m 58s) Mercouris & Goodale OSA & Espionage Acts & Democracy Glenn Greenwald https://rumble.com/vqjzc0-uk-court-approves-bidens-extradition-request-for-assange.html -- (1h 6m 2s) LIVE: UK COURT APPROVES BIDEN'S EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR ASSANGE acTVism Munich https://youtube.com/watch?v=7RX45X8RRcU -- (6m 53s) Can we save Assange? We will not give up! Abby Martin, Snowden, Chomsky & others speak out! Labor's World View TV ================================================== More Perfect Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=VN_QjyhvpiE -- (4m 33s) Moderna's Greed Is Causing A Global Vaccine Shortage. Biden Can Stop It. laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=PtQRvguf3AU -- (21m 9s) Justice For Cab Drivers! Taxi Drivers Demand Their Money Back From San Francisco Officials Status Coup News https://youtube.com/watch?v=o4yG6qChZr4 -- (11m 14s) Starbucks Workers CELEBRATE Winning First Unionized Starbucks https://youtube.com/watch?v=mfSOUfnaWsM -- (12m 42s) Amazon HR FREAKS OUT At Union Organizer Pushing Back https://youtube.com/watch?v=J2Rcl9BL7eI -- (10m 17s) Amazon Union Organizer ARRESTED While Organizing https://youtube.com/watch?v=DhULmdBQIEA -- (8m 45s) Law Students BOYCOTT Corporate Law Firm Crusading Against Steven Donziger https://youtube.com/watch?v=29tC-3UgDq4 -- (9m 36s) Steve Grumbine Explains the GREED Behind Inflation From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Dec 13 16:38:39 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:38:39 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [Shared Post] Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange References: Message-ID: <46201A5E-1B44-482B-BAC6-C87ED679EDC4@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: cgestabrook > Subject: [Shared Post] Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange > Date: December 13, 2021 at 10:36:49 AM CST > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > Reply-To: cgestabrook > > cgestabrook (cgestabrook at gmail.com) thinks you may be interested in the following post: > > Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange > https://scheerpost.com/2021/12/13/hedges-the-execution-of-julian-assange/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Dec 15 22:32:39 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:32:39 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Brilliant comments on the current situation by Chomsky Message-ID: <44C84BED-70F6-43FC-B4E5-A7A1C69B3B43@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-YbPgfgfw ### From carl at newsfromneptune.com Fri Dec 17 00:06:37 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:06:37 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: =?UTF-8?q?Putin, _Xi_Running_Circles_Around_Biden=E2=80=99s_Hybrid_War?= References: <20211216150130.1.7C356F144BEC4E59@mg.unz.com> Message-ID: 'Washington still follows the Zbigniew Brzezinski-concocted Maidan plan laid out for cookie distributor Nuland in 2014. Yet seven years later, no American ?strategist? managed to understand why Russia would fail to invade Ukraine, which has been part of Russia for centuries. 'For these ?strategists?, it?s imperative that Russia faces a second Vietnam, after Afghanistan in the 1980s. Well, it?s not going to happen because Moscow has no interest whatsoever in ?invading? Ukraine. 'It does get more complicated. The ultimate fear dictating all US foreign policy since the early 20th century is the possibility of Germany clinching a new version of Bismarck?s 1887 Reinsurance Treaty with Russia. 'Add China to the combination and these three actors are able to control just about the entire Eurasian landmass. Updating Mackinder, the US would then be turned into a geopolitically irrelevant island. 'Putin-Xi may have examined not only how the imperial hybrid war tactics against them are floundering against them, as well as how the tactics are dragging Europe further into the abyss of irrelevance. 'For the EU, as former British diplomat Alastair Crooke points out, the strategic balance is a disaster: ?The EU has virtually ruptured its relations with both Russia and China ? at the same time. Washington?s hawks wanted it. A ?European Brzezinski? certainly would have advised the EU differently: never lose both in tandem ? you are never that powerful.?' > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Pepe Escobar / The Unz Review > Subject: Putin, Xi Running Circles Around Biden > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > > Washington still follows the Zbigniew Brzezinski-concocted Maidan plan laid out [by US diplomat] Nuland in 2014. Yet seven years later, no American ?strategist? managed to understand why Russia would fail to invade Ukraine, which has been part of Russia for centuries. > > For these ?strategists?, it?s imperative that Russia faces a second Vietnam, after Afghanistan in the 1980s. Well, it?s not going to happen because Moscow has no interest whatsoever in ?invading? Ukraine. > > It does get more complicated. The ultimate fear dictating all US foreign policy since the early 20th century is the possibility of Germany clinching a new version of Bismarck?s 1887 Reinsurance Treaty with Russia. > > Add China to the combination and these three actors are able to control just about the entire Eurasian landmass. Updating Mackinder, the US would then be turned into a geopolitically irrelevant island. > > Putin-Xi may have examined not only how the imperial hybrid war tactics against them are floundering against them, as well as how the tactics are dragging Europe further into the abyss of irrelevance. > > For the EU, as former British diplomat Alastair Crooke points out, the strategic balance is a disaster: ?The EU has virtually ruptured its relations with both Russia and China ? at the same time. Washington?s hawks wanted it. 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Enjoy. -J Labor's World View TV ================================================== More Perfect Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=r7xluFwl0ro -- (5m 19s) STRIKE ALERT: 100+ Baskin Robbins Cake Makers Walk Out https://youtube.com/watch?v=gRP_asprrQ0 -- (5m 18s) The Kellogg's Strike Is Working: Kellogg's Feels the Pain, While Workers Are Emboldened https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRbGNgDGG9o -- (5m 34s) What's Really Driving The Supply Chain Crisis? https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRcGi2Tg3mQ -- (38s) Casino workers forced to breathe secondhand smoke laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3IMyBvs4xU -- (7m 4s) Equal Pay For Equal Work! Kellogg Bakers Local 3G Striker Donivan Williams Speaks At UAW Local 5 https://youtube.com/watch?v=_qEya_TB4Pk -- (34m 59s) Unions, Taiwan & The Fight Against Covid With Catta Hu-Hsuan Chow with CTTU & NPOIU ED https://youtube.com/watch?v=u52tZhMIt7M -- (48m 39s) Demos, Billionaires & War On Teachers & Public Education From SFUSD To OUSD With Jack Gerson News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== Glenn Greenwald https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TizS6SPeSI -- (58m 36s) The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC Tells 4 Lies in a Two-Minute Clip Matt Orfalea https://youtube.com/watch?v=p9o1NnKJJRU (2m 21s) The Assange Case Changes Everything George Galloway https://youtube.com/watch?v=1g-4bv6QFFE (51m 3s) Julian Assange | Edward Snowden | Craig Murray : Western intolerance towards journalism MintPressNews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-YbPgfgfw (53m 5s) -- ?Unregulated Capitalism is a Suicide Pact?: Noam Chomsky talks to Lowkey From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Dec 17 19:32:52 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:32:52 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would like to add: Ben Norton?s brief but to the point; Biden?s plan for Central America: Help US corporations exploit its people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663MAP-vbd > On Dec 17, 2021, at 12:03 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > > Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. > > As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. > > Enjoy. > -J > > > Labor's World View TV > ================================================== > > More Perfect Union > https://youtube.com/watch?v=r7xluFwl0ro -- (5m 19s) STRIKE ALERT: 100+ Baskin Robbins Cake Makers Walk Out > https://youtube.com/watch?v=gRP_asprrQ0 -- (5m 18s) The Kellogg's Strike Is Working: Kellogg's Feels the Pain, While Workers Are Emboldened > https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRbGNgDGG9o -- (5m 34s) What's Really Driving The Supply Chain Crisis? > https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans > https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRcGi2Tg3mQ -- (38s) Casino workers forced to breathe secondhand smoke > > laborvideo > https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3IMyBvs4xU -- (7m 4s) Equal Pay For Equal Work! Kellogg Bakers Local 3G Striker Donivan Williams Speaks At UAW Local 5 > https://youtube.com/watch?v=_qEya_TB4Pk -- (34m 59s) Unions, Taiwan & The Fight Against Covid With Catta Hu-Hsuan Chow with CTTU & NPOIU ED > https://youtube.com/watch?v=u52tZhMIt7M -- (48m 39s) Demos, Billionaires & War On Teachers & Public Education From SFUSD To OUSD With Jack Gerson > > > > News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air > ================================================== > > Glenn Greenwald > https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TizS6SPeSI -- (58m 36s) The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC Tells 4 Lies in a Two-Minute Clip > > Matt Orfalea > https://youtube.com/watch?v=p9o1NnKJJRU (2m 21s) The Assange Case Changes Everything > > George Galloway > https://youtube.com/watch?v=1g-4bv6QFFE (51m 3s) Julian Assange | Edward Snowden | Craig Murray : Western intolerance towards journalism > > MintPressNews > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-YbPgfgfw (53m 5s) -- > ?Unregulated Capitalism is a Suicide Pact?: Noam Chomsky talks to Lowkey > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Dec 17 19:34:14 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen aram) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:34:14 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > On Dec 17, 2021, at 1:32 PM, karen aram wrote: > > I would like to add: Ben Norton?s brief but to the point; Biden?s plan for Central America: Help US corporations exploit its people: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663MAP-vbdc > > > >> On Dec 17, 2021, at 12:03 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >> >> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. >> >> As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. >> >> Enjoy. >> -J >> >> >> Labor's World View TV >> ================================================== >> >> More Perfect Union >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=r7xluFwl0ro -- (5m 19s) STRIKE ALERT: 100+ Baskin Robbins Cake Makers Walk Out >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=gRP_asprrQ0 -- (5m 18s) The Kellogg's Strike Is Working: Kellogg's Feels the Pain, While Workers Are Emboldened >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=vRbGNgDGG9o -- (5m 34s) What's Really Driving The Supply Chain Crisis? >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=I87g0b5cyUs -- (7m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Starbucks Worker FIRED After Revealing Union-Busting Plans >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRcGi2Tg3mQ -- (38s) Casino workers forced to breathe secondhand smoke >> >> laborvideo >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=D3IMyBvs4xU -- (7m 4s) Equal Pay For Equal Work! Kellogg Bakers Local 3G Striker Donivan Williams Speaks At UAW Local 5 >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=_qEya_TB4Pk -- (34m 59s) Unions, Taiwan & The Fight Against Covid With Catta Hu-Hsuan Chow with CTTU & NPOIU ED >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=u52tZhMIt7M -- (48m 39s) Demos, Billionaires & War On Teachers & Public Education From SFUSD To OUSD With Jack Gerson >> >> >> >> News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air >> ================================================== >> >> Glenn Greenwald >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=6TizS6SPeSI -- (58m 36s) The Real Disinformation Agents: Watch as NBC Tells 4 Lies in a Two-Minute Clip >> >> Matt Orfalea >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=p9o1NnKJJRU (2m 21s) The Assange Case Changes Everything >> >> George Galloway >> https://youtube.com/watch?v=1g-4bv6QFFE (51m 3s) Julian Assange | Edward Snowden | Craig Murray : Western intolerance towards journalism >> >> MintPressNews >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z-YbPgfgfw (53m 5s) -- >> ?Unregulated Capitalism is a Suicide Pact?: Noam Chomsky talks to Lowkey >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Dec 19 00:01:57 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:01:57 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Putin and Xi Plot Their SWIFT Escape References: <20211218150050.1.F6793ED202246F23@mg.unz.com> Message-ID: <45BDBEAB-3450-49EB-895F-156CD8802B58@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Pepe Escobar / The Unz Review > Subject: Putin and Xi Plot Their SWIFT Escape > To: carl at newsfromneptune.com > > The Unz Review ? An Alternative Media Selection Subscribe > A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media > Putin and Xi Plot Their SWIFT Escape Pepe Escobar ? Friday, December 17, 2021 ? 1,200 Words > Vladimir Putin got straight to the point. At the opening of his one hour and fourteen minute video conversation with Xi Jinping on 15 December, he described Russia-China relations as ?an example of genuine inter-state cooperation in the 21st century.? > > Their myriad levels of cooperation have been known for years now ? from trade, oil and gas, finance, aerospace and the fight against Covid-19, to the progressive interconnection of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU). > > But now the stage was set for the announcement of a serious counter-move in their carefully coordinated ballet opposing the relentless Hybrid War/Cold War 2.0 combo deployed by Empire. > > As Assistant to the President for Foreign Policy Yuri Ushakov succinctly explained, Putin and Xi agreed to create an ?independent financial structure for trade operations that could not be influenced by other countries.? > > Diplomatic sources, off the record, confirmed the structure may be announced by a joint summit before the end of 2022. > > This is a stunning game-changer in more ways than one. It had been extensively discussed in previous bilaterals and in preparations for BRICS summits ? mostly centered on increasing the share of yuan and rubles in Russia-China settlements, bypassing the US dollar, and opening new stock market options for Russian and Chinese investors. > > Now we?ve come to the crunch. And the catalyzing event was none other than US hawks floating the ? financially nuclear ? idea of expelling Russia from SWIFT, the messaging network used by 11,000+ banks in over 200 countries, as well as financial institutions, for rapid money transfers worldwide. > > Cutting off Russia from SWIFT would be part of a harsh new sanctions package developed in response to an ?invasion? of Ukraine that will never happen ? mainly because the only ones praying for it are professional NATO warmongers. > > Profiting from a strategic blunder > > Once again, an American strategic blunder offers the Russia-China self-described ?comprehensive strategic partnership? the chance to advance their coordination. > > Ushakov put it very diplomatically: it?s time to bypass a SWIFT mechanism ?influenced by third countries? to form ?an independent financial structure.? > > That amounts to a serious game-changer for the entire Global South ? as scores of nations yearn to be released from a de facto US dollar dictatorship, complete with recurring Fed quantitative easing circus packages. > > Russia and China have been experimenting with their alternative payment systems for quite a while now: the Russian SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages) and the Chinese CIPS (Cross Border Interbank Payment System). > > It won?t be easy, as the most powerful Chinese banks are deep into SWIFT and have expressed their reservations about SPFS. Yet, they will have to inevitably integrate prior to the launch of the new mechanism, possibly in late 2022. > > Once the most important Russian and Chinese banks ? from Sberbank to the Bank of China ? adopt the system, the path opens for other banks across Eurasia and the Global South to join in. > > In the long run, SWIFT, prone to non-stop American political interference, will be increasingly marginalized, or restricted to Atlanticist latitudes. > > Bypassing the US dollar, on trade and all sorts of financial settlements, is an absolutely central plank of the ever-evolving Russia-China notion of a multipolar world. > > The road will be long, of course, especially when it comes to offering a solid counterpoint to the US-controlled global financial system, a maze that includes the humongous investment houses of the BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street variety, with their interlocking shareholding of virtually every major multinational company. > > Yet a SWIFT escape will rapidly gain momentum, because it is inextricably linked to a series of developments that Putin-Xi touched upon in their conversation, the most important of which are: > > 1. The progressive interconnection of BRI and EAEU, offering expanding roles to the BRICS-run New Development Bank (NDB) as well as the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). > > 2. The increasing geopolitical and geo-economic reach of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), especially after the admission of Iran in October. > > 3. And crucially, the upcoming Chinese presidency of the BRICS in 2022. > > China in 2022 will invest deeply in BRICS+ . This expanded BRICS club will be linked to a development process that includes: > > 1. The consolidation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ? a massive East Asia trade deal uniting China, the ASEAN 10 and Japan, and South Korea, as well as Australia and New Zealand. > > 2. The African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA). > > 3. And the memoranda of understanding signed between the EAEU and MERCOSUR and between the EAEU and ASEAN. > > Anchoring West Asia > > Yaroslav Lissovolik, one of the world?s leading experts on BRICS+, argues that it?s now time for BRICS+ 2.0, operating in a system that opens ?the possibility for bilateral and plurilateral agreements to complement the core network of regional alliances formed by BRICS countries and their respective regional neighbors.? > > So if we?re talking about a major qualitative jump in terms of economic development across the Global South, the question is inevitable. What about West Asia? > > All these interconnections, plus an escape from SWIFT, will certainly profit the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), arguably the flagship BRI project, to which Beijing plans to annex Afghanistan. > > CPEC will be progressively connected to the future Iran-China corridor via Afghanistan, part of the 20 year Iran-China strategic deal in which BRI projects will be prominently featured. Iran and China already trade in yuan and rials, so settlements between Iran and China in a non-SWIFT mechanism will be a given. > > What happened to Iran is a classic example of SWIFT becoming hostage of imperial political manipulation. Iranian banks were expelled from SWIFT in 2012, because of pressure from the usual suspects. In 2016, access was restored as part of the JCPOA, clinched in 2015. Yet in 2018, under the Trump administration, Iran was once again cut off from SWIFT. > > None of that will ever happen with Iran joining the new Russia-China mechanism. > > And that leads us to the interconnection of China?s BRI expansion in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. The reconstruction of Syria may be largely financed via the non-SWIFT mechanism. Same for China buying Iraqi energy. Same for the reconstruction of a Yemen possibly hosting a Chinese-owned port, part of the ?string of pearls.? > Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Israel may remain in the US financial sphere of influence, or lack thereof. And even if there is no BRICS nation anchoring West Asia, and no regional integration economic agreement on the horizon, the role of the economic integrator is bound to be eventually played by China. > > China will play a similar role to Brazil anchoring MERCOSUR, Russia anchoring the EAEU and South Africa anchoring the SADC/SACU. > > Both BRI and the EAEU will get a tremendous boost by bypassing SWIFT. You simply can?t go multipolar if you trade using (devalued) imperial legal tender. > > BRI, EAEU and those interlocking economic development agreements, combined with digital technology, will be integrating billions of people in the Global South. > > Think of a possible, auspicious future spelling out cheap telecom delivering financial services and world market access, in a non-dollar environment, to all those who have been so far cut off from a truly globalized economy. > > > Unsubscribe From This Mailing List -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Dec 19 00:13:41 2021 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:13:41 -0600 Subject: [Peace] "Chinese Aggression" Is Just China Responding To US Aggression Message-ID: <3E3BB9BF-0C1E-4B69-9711-CBA17458757A@newsfromneptune.com> https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/chinese-aggression-is-just-china?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email From jbn at forestfield.org Thu Dec 30 03:46:07 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 21:46:07 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to UPTV (UPTV at urbanaillinois.us). I have continued to ask UPTV to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. One program is listed in both sets of videos because it's applicable to all of these shows. Enjoy. -J News from Neptune & AWARE on the Air ================================================== CGTN https://youtube.com/watch?v=krpIvj-_3mI -- (7m 8s) The U.S. War 'Business' https://youtube.com/watch?v=MdrznPMpdwI -- (28m 48s) Why is the United States constantly going to war? https://youtube.com/watch?v=CNjqppyesUE -- (45m 16s) Ex-Marine exposes U.S. govt's secret political interference in Asia RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mua9wksjnmY -- (28m 51s) Slow-motion execution of Julian Assange MintPressNews https://youtube.com/watch?v=kCGsDouRiWA -- (40m 6s) American Gulag: Inside the U.S.? Massive Prison System, with Chris Hedges Labor's World View TV ================================================== MintPressNews https://youtube.com/watch?v=kCGsDouRiWA -- (40m 6s) American Gulag: Inside the U.S.? Massive Prison System, with Chris Hedges laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=u0BjYZeEmpQ -- (21m 38s) The Union Busting War Against South African Clover Workers By Israeli Billionaire Family https://youtube.com/watch?v=BMmoNSci5WQ -- (8m 45s) "They want us ?working ourselves to death" Kellogg Battle Creek BCTGM Local 3G Rally Workers Speak More Perfect Union https://youtube.com/watch?v=ESmzpZO1PXQ -- (3m 1s) 2021: The Year Of The Worker https://youtube.com/watch?v=SPVMfbykmQk -- (5m 52s) Warrior Met Coal Miners Spend Christmas On Strike https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_EVnhraAw -- (5m 47s) EXCLUSIVE: Two Amazon Workers Died After Being Denied Sick Leave At Bessemer, AL Warehouse