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

Tue Jul 26 00:31:06 UTC 2016

Hello Carl and Friends,

Some very helpful and interesting posts on the presidential campaign in recent days, thanks.

As we work our way through the Clinton versus Trump binary (I won't vote for either), I think it important to note that neoliberalism (as an ethos, sensibility and set of policies) also has a domestic dimension that needs to be considered.

Trump is absolutely committed to placing neoliberal principles at the center of his domestic agenda. He has promised a ruthless "law and order," class based policing campaign that will deepen the affliction on poor neighborhoods (particular those of color). At the same time, purported "social engineeering" initiatives will be  shut down (e.g., affordable housing initiatives, Section 8 housing provision, school lunch programs) while the neocon. spin on the second amendment will be ferociously defended. Trump here unapologetically embraces a recipe of hyper privatization, evisceration of the welfare state, the killing of political dissent, a ramping up of the New Federalism, and the annihilation of what he terms "bad culture and bad individual choices."

His notion of helping the inner city poor becomes a cruel hoax.

On this neoliberal front, Trump far surpasses Clinton.

David Wilson

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From: C. G. Estabrook [carl at newsfromneptune.com]
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Subject: News from Neptune for July 8, July 15, and July 22

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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3D00gVkb3HBls-26feature-3Dem-2Dsubs-5Fdigest&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=DNx6A7MpkIj-hSvdj-EgZ9CXaZ0tcHke2XlxaIU7m8o&m=Q_GPMbK8zgSykJ68nqfnSTtrZTwSjn0p0seQ0ShlUK4&s=QIT22lGo30Z6_Fe3YMQDmBtvR0PsU_EHsOwRfSNBfJM&e=>

July 15: a "Worse Than You Thought” edition (#308): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaCYnbkRRdo<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DNaCYnbkRRdo&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=DNx6A7MpkIj-hSvdj-EgZ9CXaZ0tcHke2XlxaIU7m8o&m=Q_GPMbK8zgSykJ68nqfnSTtrZTwSjn0p0seQ0ShlUK4&s=YBmnFBbMwz0TokbBukCNNS9V3Hv1v1qbpc5e0c7Ma8k&e=>

July 8: a "Who's a Warmonger?" edition (#307): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnZtH9AGi54<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DMnZtH9AGi54&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=DNx6A7MpkIj-hSvdj-EgZ9CXaZ0tcHke2XlxaIU7m8o&m=Q_GPMbK8zgSykJ68nqfnSTtrZTwSjn0p0seQ0ShlUK4&s=HAydQSdbjcBeeV9OFO0Q77dzYwFaIz33ubr-Uugo23o&e=>

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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