[Peace-discuss] Thought for the day

[Robert Naiman]

I don't think there's any reason to despair about this, at least not yet. A
very big thing just happened in the U.S. in terms of U.S. politics. A
nonviolent protester was killed by a fascist at an antifascist rally, and
then Trump spectacularly asserted in a press conference that white
supremacists are morally equivalent to antifascists. That is a big deal,
it's normal that it's taking a lot of attention from people in the U.S. -
it's taking a lot of attention all over the world. Prominent voices in
Israel are outraged about Netanyahu's unwillingness to denounce it - that's
what a big deal it is.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/world/middleeast/netanyahu-trump-charlottesville.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/08/17/why-did-netanyahu-wait-so-long-to-condemn-anti-semitism-in-charlottesville/

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/08/16/543913980/israels-netanyahu-faces-criticism-for-delayed-reaction-to-charlottesville-rally

Congress is out of session. We don't have any really good hooks right now
to sharpen contradictions over U.S. imperialism, nothing that could
plausibly compete for attention with the domestic drama.

But when the Congress comes back at the beginning of September, I believe
that we are going to have a big fight about U.S. participation in the
famine-inducing Saudi war in Yemen.


Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

House: Use War Powers to Save A Million Yemeni Kids from Cholera & Famine
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/force-vote-on-saudi-war?r_by=1135580

@clairecmc, @SenDonnelly, @Sen_JoeManchin, @MarkWarner, @SenBillNelson:
#StopArmingSaudi War Crimes in Yemen
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/senate-stop-arming-saudi?r_by=1135580


On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Dianna Visek via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> I agree.  And the American people are now inwardly focused, on the latest
> non-PC utterances or Trump's latest tweet, missing what's going on in the
> rest of the world.
>
> Dianna
>
>
>
> On Friday, August 18, 2017, 9:20:22 AM CDT, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
> I guess they've won. The USG and their supporters of imperialist wars.
> They have Americans fighting in the streets, or on social media, over
> "racism" or rather the politically incorrect things that people say, like
> they fight over their "teams" the home team vs. the visiting team. This is
> "right vs. left, Dems vs. Repubs., or fascists vs. democracy supporters.
> You know, the simple good guys vs. bad guys.
>
> In the meantime the US continues to kill and destroy, overseas, where we
> don’t have to see, if we don't wish.
>
> Reality, we're not going to end racist policies by simply covering up with
> politically correct speech or by fighting amongst ourselves. This is a
> tried and true tactic, used over and over again, pitting one against
> another so they don't notice the abuses by those in power
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