[Peace-discuss] [Peace] What does Bannon's exit mean?

Sat Aug 19 23:41:04 UTC 2017

My late classmate Perry Bullard (who later sent me a Buddhist monk - a refugee - from Vietnam) took Kissinger’s seminar when we were undergraduates.

He entertained us at dinner with stories of the phalanx of similarly dressed (dark suits, horn-rims, black attache-cases) grad students whom Henry  brought with him to every class…

Perry was an effective politcal radical and a man of infinite jest. I miss him. Requiescat in pace. —CGE

> On Aug 19, 2017, at 6:17 PM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Speaking of Doctor Strangelove, I might have told you that I deliberately went through the exact same PHD Program at Harvard that produced Kissinger before me. They gave me his old office at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs. Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!—indeed. Fab.
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> Posted on: Sunday, August 17, 2014 10:01 AM
> Author: Francis A. Boyle
> Subject: Kissy and Timmy and Me
>  
> “ You’re moving into Kissinger’s old office”
> Said Bud, the wizened old janitor
> And a decent guy at that
> 
> “His file cabinets are in there.”
> Sure enough they were
> So it must be true
> 
> “And down the hallway there
> Is Timothy Leary’s old office”
> So that must be true too
> 
> Kissy and Timmy
> Kissing Cousins in the Vanserg Building
> Amazing!
> 
> Did they pass in the hall?
> Glance at each other?
> Say a few words of greeting?
> The last probably not
> 
> Did they piss in the men’s room
> Silently standing next to each other?
> Maybe so.
> There was only one
> 
> The counterfactuals of history
> What if Timmy had given Kissy Acid?
> Timmy turn Kissy on?
> 
> Maybe the world would have become
> A more peaceful place
> With Kissinger on Acid
> 
> It certainly
> Could not have been
> Worse
> 
> The Kissinger War Prize
> For Vietnam
> Obama got one too
> 
> Those Norwegians
> Surely have
> A wicked sense of humor
> 
> “Timothy Leary’s dead,’
> “No! No!’
> “He’s on the outside,’
> “Looking in’”
> 
> The Moodies
> Bards of My Generation
> 
> 
> View article...
> 
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>  
> Francis A. Boyle
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> (personal comments only)
>  
> From: C G Estabrook [mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 4:36 PM
> To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>
> Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] What does Bannon's exit mean?
>  
> I was recently reminded of On the Beach - a fine movie & perhaps better novel:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)
>  
>  
> On Aug 19, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>  
> Doctor Strangelove for sure:
> Mien Fuhrer, I can walk!
> 
> Fab
> 
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C G Estabrook [mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 4:18 PM
> To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>
> Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] What does Bannon's exit mean?
> 
> Glad (in a sense) to do it.
> 
> It’s been suggested that we might follow up the teach-in with films on campus - “On the Beach,” Dr. Strangelove,” etc. - with panels that apply them to the present situation.   
> 
> —CGE
> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2017, at 4:11 PM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Well I guess it is timely that we will have our Peace Teach-In coming up on September 23. It looks like we are going to need it—the sooner the better. Thanks for being part of it.Fab.
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> From: C G Estabrook [mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 4:08 PM
> To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>
> Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] What does Bannon's exit mean?
> 
> Yes, it does, but they’re not without opposition, even from unlikely places. Even Sessions [!] is "resisting the US war machine…” 
> 
> “...Sessions, stalwart of the America First camp, has long been ‘the biggest skeptic in the room’ when the subject of a continued presence in Afghanistan arises in meetings of Trump’s war cabinet ... ‘The A.G. asks the same question: Is this what we were elected to do? And the answer to the question is no.’” <http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/08/15/way-trump-administration/>.
> 
> See now <http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/347200-trump-teases-decision-on-afghanistan-strategy>
> 
> —CGE
> 
> 
> On Aug 19, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> I don’t know Carl. According to today's Newspeak Times, it looks like the warmongers are firmly in control. How do you see it? fab.
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
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> Champaign IL 61820 USA
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Peace] What does Bannon's exit mean?
> 
> https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201708191056603401-steve-bannon-white-house-trump-war/
> 
> "Hysteria reigns on what is essentially a fight of identity versus class politics. The key variable to watch from now on is how — and if — Trump, helped by outsider Bannon, may emerge as the winner, finally empowered to implement economic nationalism.”
> 
> —CGE
> 
> 
> "American privilege is being able to celebrate the removal of the only figure in the administration who was resisting the US war machine because he has said offensive things.”
> --Caitlin Johnstone