<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">News from Neptune #285 - a Public Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestic edition - on Urbana (IL) Public TV, 25 September 2015:</b><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class=""><<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnsFpQlLIPo" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnsFpQlLIPo</a>>.</i></div></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="">=====================</div><div class="">Materials referred to include</div><div class=""><br class="">“Act now: support Pope's call to end arms trade” <br class=""><<a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/" class="">https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/</a>…><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pope Decries “Shameful and Culpable Silence” on Arms Sales “Drenched in Innocent Blood”<br class=""><<a href="https://theintercept.com/…/pope-decries-shameful-culpable-…/" class="">https://theintercept.com/…/pope-decries-shameful-culpable-…/</a>>.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman” (2015) by Greg Grandin<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“How Does the Subaltern Speak? Postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril,” by Vivek Chibber<br class=""><<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/…/…/how-does-the-subaltern-speak/" class="">https://www.jacobinmag.com/…/…/how-does-the-subaltern-speak/</a>><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“U.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations: 2015 Proves to Be Record-Breaking Year for the Military’s Secret Military,” By Nick Turse </div><div class=""><<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176048/" class="">http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176048/</a>><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“How America built its empire: The real history of American foreign policy that the media won’t tell you” </div><div class=""><<a href="http://www.salon.com/…/how_america_built_its_empire_the_re…/" class="">http://www.salon.com/…/how_america_built_its_empire_the_re…/</a>><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“The War Nerd: Why is the F-35 Like an Albanian Mushroom?” </div><div class=""><<a href="https://pando.com/…/069e2ba30f09f40e47df2d981dc160f9d33bb2…/" class="">https://pando.com/…/069e2ba30f09f40e47df2d981dc160f9d33bb2…/</a>><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy” (1977) by Lawrence H. Shoup & William Minter<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014” (2015) by Lawrence H. Shoup<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“The real issues in the Salaita case: Palestine, neoliberalism, and the corporate university” by David Green on September 8, 2014 </div><div class=""><<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/…/…/neoliberalism-corporate-university" class="">http://mondoweiss.net/…/…/neoliberalism-corporate-university</a>><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“Response to Cary Nelson” by Robert Warrior </div><div class=""><<a href="http://www.aaup.org/…/jo…/volume-6-2015/response-cary-nelson" class="">http://www.aaup.org/…/jo…/volume-6-2015/response-cary-nelson</a>><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">===========================<br class="">Representative Rodney Davis (IL-13)<br class="">US House of Representatives<br class="">September 24, 2015<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear Representative Davis:<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After the Pope’s speech yesterday, any member of Congress who votes to purchase any more weapons for the Pentagon - or to give or sell weapons to countries like Saudi Arabia or Israel - should be driven from office. These votes need to be publicized.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Your predecessor, former Representative Timothy Johnson, although initially in favor of President Bush’s war-making, reversed himself and pledged to vote against any monies for war in the Mideast. You should do the same.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You should support former Representative Ron Paul’s call for dismantling foreign US military bases - there are hundreds of them around the world - and bringing all US troops (and mercenaries) home.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The US is not threatened with invasion, and US invasions of other countries, especially in the Mideast, have been the cause of vast misery, for which you and other members of Congress are responsible.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Dr.) C. G. Estabrook<br class="">News from Neptune<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">###</div></body></html>