[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune for July 8, July 15, and July 22

[C. G. Estabrook]

Produced and directed by Yousef Kash for Urbana Public Television:

July 22: a "Who’s Neo?” edition (#309): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gVkb3HBls&feature=em-subs_digest <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gVkb3HBls&feature=em-subs_digest>

July 15: a "Worse Than You Thought” edition (#308): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaCYnbkRRdo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaCYnbkRRdo>

July 8: a "Who's a Warmonger?" edition (#307): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnZtH9AGi54 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnZtH9AGi54>

It’s the first US presidential election in more than 40 years in which a major party candidate doesn’t profess allegiance to neoliberal and neocon principles. As a result, hysterical neocons are already talking of a coup against President Trump! (INMTU: “If Trump wins, a coup isn't impossible here in the U.S.” - James Kirchick LA Times 21 July.) The eminently neoliberal/neocon New York Times can’t believe what it’s hearing from Trump (nor, it seems, can it report it straight); and neocon Max Boot tweets, “Trump is reading straight from talking points of anti-American dictators.”

Noam Chomsky (for whom News from Neptune is named) is said to predict (1) that we will have a Trump presidency and (2) "the left" will play a small but significant role in making it happen. 

"So this is really the class war. And it’s the class war of Wall Street and the corporate sector of the Democratic side against Trump on the populist side. And who knows whether he really means what he says when he says he’s for the workers and he wants to rebuild the cities, put labor back to work. And when he says he’s for the blacks and Hispanics have to get jobs just like white people, maybe he’s telling the truth, because that certainly is the way that the country can be rebuilt in a positive way.” [Michael Hudson] 

—CGE
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