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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">J.B. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>The Analysis, is very worthwhile. Phyllis Bennis does an excellent job of presenting a reasonable analysis and suggestion of reparations, though when did the USG ever pay reparations for the damage done by our government? <div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Larry Wilkerson was a real disappointment, given he has been criticizing the USG for our interventions and destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan for sometime now. Yes, he takes a strategic geo-political position which is necessary, but as Phyllis points out, he does it as the USG, opposing China and Russia, which is exactly why the US is there in the first place, beginning with the Carter Administration in 1979 when Zbigniew Berezinski began his policy of arming the Taliban to give Russia their Vietnam.</div><div class=""> </div><div class="">A lot could be said in reference to Wilkerson’s bringing up Korea, but as Paul Jay said, let’s stick to Afghanistan.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wasn’t able to finish the podcast tonight, but was it ever noted that pulling out our troops to send elsewhere, we’re not bringing them home, we’re still leaving our “advisors,” “contractors" and trained mercenaries, etc., because I don’t believe for a moment we will ever leave Afghanistan. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please see below from Leo Zhou:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"The photos are of urban Afghanistan under the socialist government which took power in 1979. But the under educated and very religious farmers in the rural areas of that time were not big fans.</div><span class="knj5qynh oo9gr5id qv66sw1b mau55g9w aigsh9s9 iv3no6db fe6kdd0r nxhoafnm hpfvmrgz c8b282yb hzawbc8m jq4qci2q ht8s03o8 ik7dh3pa a8c37x1j d3f4x2em keod5gw0 oi732d6d c1et5uql d2edcug0 a3bd9o3v" dir="auto"><div dir="auto" class="">The USA saw this opportunity, and took it: by funding religious fundamentalists in the country side, creating the Mujahideen, headed by a "freedom fighter" called Osama Bin Laden, to mount a rebellion against the socialist government. </div><div dir="auto" class="">The socialist government of Afghanistan then asked the USSR for help. A fundamentalist theocracy next door was the last thing the Soviets wanted, so answered the invitation, and sent troops to Afghanistan to help preserve the socialism that you see in the photos. </div><div dir="auto" class="">Then the USA military entered, justified by lies: "to protect Afghanistan from the USSR and from religious Fundamentalism". </div><div dir="auto" class="">By the year 2000, Osama had kind of began to understand, and the militant extremists became anti-USA. And we all know what happened after 9/11."</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></span><div class=""><img alt="" class="pmk7jnqg datstx6m kr520xx4 i09qtzwb n7fi1qx3 j9ispegn k4urcfbm" referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://scontent.fpia1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-0/p403x403/32349450_1029883730492603_2053896525368524800_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=NPX00h1MhAwAX_c9-nz&_nc_ht=scontent.fpia1-1.fna&tp=6&oh=bf9fd0b0920a929d2ed5562294cb71a2&oe=60CA552D"></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 16, 2021, at 7:23 PM, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV.<br class=""><br class="">As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to Jason Liggett (<a href="mailto:jcliggett@urbanaillinois.us" class="">jcliggett@urbanaillinois.us</a>). I routinely ask him 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.<br class=""><br class="">I won't submit videos for a couple of weeks due to a very busy personal and work schedule, so this should last while I'm unable to get time to watch and collect links for appropriate videos for these timeslots.<br class=""><br class="">-J<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Katie Halper<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=HLVJYmRvvKQ" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=HLVJYmRvvKQ</a> (1h 39m 45s) -- "Norman Finkelstein on Israel & What's happening Here"<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">MintPressNews<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=KV_ACbhN1ik" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=KV_ACbhN1ik</a> (35m 54s) -- ""Impossible To Deal With The Number Of Casualties" - Gaza Doctor Warns Of Imminent Israeli Assault"<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">RT<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=qqxS5OMXOGQ" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=qqxS5OMXOGQ</a> (17m 31s) -- "Roger Waters | Israel won’t change its ‘murderous’ policies unless the govt is pressured"<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=QSToH4lkEpU" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=QSToH4lkEpU</a> (2m 6s) -- "'Hamas uses population as human shield' | IDF spokesperson to RT"<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QASuZWLw" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=iv0QASuZWLw</a> (27m 21s) -- "Palestinian and Israeli hostilities" -- Chris Hedges interviews Dr. Sami Al-Arian<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">theAnalysis.news<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZRpJGnCANTY" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZRpJGnCANTY</a> (37m 40s) -- "Does the U.S. Owe Reparations to Afghanistan, Should U.S. Troops Leave? – Bennis & Wilkerson" -- interesting and sensible responses from Phyllis Bennis and Larry Wilkerson is there to make the argument for continued US occupation. Paul Jay offers his response which quickly marginalizes any moral response -- let Afghans decide what to do with their country -- to Bennis to bring up at all. Paul Jay brings his usual neither-nor viewpoint to this at one point saying "I have particularly no interest or care whether the United States remains a predominant player in that region" (29m 09s). I think Phyllis Bennis is worth hearing from so I recommend this segment almost entirely on that basis.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZHEixyYoXiw" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZHEixyYoXiw</a> (43m 09s) -- "Israel's War on Palestine - Ali Abunimah"<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">World Socialist Web Site<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=BAV2HvHqCek" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=BAV2HvHqCek</a> (3m 14s) -- "Striking Jacobs Douwe Egberts workers in the UK speak out against fire and rehire"<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Dsm7dG-HVg" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Dsm7dG-HVg</a> (2h 9m 21s) -- "When the workers took power: 150 Years since the Paris Commune"<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">laborvideo<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=OBhACvTjq8k" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=OBhACvTjq8k</a> (46m 32s) -- "May Day 2021! Time For Labor Unity & Voices In San Francisco Of Working People"<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZL9cSolNFw" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZL9cSolNFw</a> (6m 49s) -- "On Workers Memorial Day 2021 Former OSHA WPP Lawyer & Investigator Darrell Whitman Speaks Out!"<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Grayzone<br class=""><br class="">You can get this video from either site:<br class=""><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=xRoPOX_W9QY" class="">https://youtube.com/watch?v=xRoPOX_W9QY</a> (1h 36m 49s) -- "Killing Gaza"<br class=""><a href="https://vimeo.com/549520612" class="">https://vimeo.com/549520612</a> (1h 36m 49s) -- "Killing Gaza"<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/KillingGaza/status/1393599322881671174" class="">https://twitter.com/KillingGaza/status/1393599322881671174</a> encourages us to share this movie:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">In light of the mass-murder campaign Israel is carrying out in the Gaza Strip, we have now made the documentary ‘Killing Gaza’ free. It’s available in English, Spanish, Arabic, French, German and Portuguese. Please watch, share and<br class="">distribute widely. <a href="http://vimeo.com/549520612" class="">vimeo.com/549520612</a><br class=""></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br class="">Peace mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br class="">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>