[Peace-discuss] Fwd: AWARE Anti-War Teach In

[Carl G. Estabrook]

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> From: Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: AWARE Anti-War Teach In
> Date: July 27, 2017 at 9:37:46 AM CDT
> To: C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com>
> Cc: Francis A Boyle <fboyle at illinois.edu>, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>, David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>, Whitney Rich <richwhitney at frontier.com>, "tomasroyer at gmail.com" <tomasroyer at gmail.com>, Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga <lupalasaga at gmail.com>, Nick G <Ngoodell42 at gmail.com>, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com>, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>, Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>
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> I’m requesting everyone on this email to desist communicating on the below topic. I’ve asked Carl to redo this conversation on the Peace Discuss List, it is a very worthwhile conversation and most of you are on the Peace Discuss List, if not let me know and I’ll put you on it. I’ve asked for limitation of mass emails in relation to the Teach In, in order to prevent confusion.
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> Thank you 
>> On Jul 27, 2017, at 07:29, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Even the ‘Hydrocarbon War’ (1990-present) can be seen as just one aspect of US war-making since 1945, a period in which US presidents have killed more than 20 million people to maintain the world economic dominance that the US 1% inherited after World War II, the US being the only undamaged major country in 1945.
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>> US policy-makers since the “Open Door’ (1899) saw the greatest threat to the US economic elite to be the economic integration of Eurasia, under whatever auspices. (That’s what WWII in the Pacific was about.) Here the great gain was the destruction of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere (and the atomic intimidation of the USSR at Hiroshima and Nagasaki) - and the great setback was 'the loss of China' in 1949. (That’s what the Vietnam War was about - the maintenance of US economic dominance in Asia-Pacific.)   
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>> The Israeli attack on Egypt in 1967 destroyed secular Arab nationalism (and aided the rise of religious resistance - radical Islam - which was encouraged by the US, just as Israel encouraged Hamas against the the secular PLO). Israel's ’Six-Day War,’ in 1967, delivered control of Mideast energy resources ('hydrocarbons’) to the US. Israel, which the US had dismissed in the Suez Crisis a decade earlier, became the leading US client and the “stationary aircraft carrier” for US control of the Mideast.
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>> It’s control of - and not just access to - those hydrocarbons that the US insists upon. The US in fact imports little oil from the Mideast for domestic purposes: most of what the US uses at home comes from the the Atlantic basin - the US itself, Canada, Venezuela, and Nigeria. But control of the greatest source of world energy gives the US government a choke-hold over other economies that do depend on it, from Germany to China. (The Pentagon refers to this situation as “offshore control” of China - although some have suggested that the growth of renewables and the current China-Russia entente substantially reduces that offshore control - and fuels US war provocations against China, especially in the S. China Sea, as well as the TPP, in an alternate attempt to retard Chinese economic development.)
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>> A generation ago, US planners feared that popular revulsion at what the US had done in SE Asia (by 1969, 70% of Americans told pollsters that the US war in Vietnam was “fundamentally wrong and immoral,” not “a mistake”) would prevent US military operations to retard Asian development - the “Vietnam syndrome.” The Hydrocarbon War was also meant to control the only enemy the US ruling class really fears - the US public. After the First Gulf War, President Bush Sr., with his family’s characteristic candor, exclaimed, “...by God, we've kicked the Vietnam syndrome once and for all!” 
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>> America’s WWII hegemony continues to decline relatively, as Eurasia develops and integrates economically. In response, the US political establishment produced the only president ever to be at war throughout two presidential terms: President Obama bombed eight countries and conducted what was correctly called 'The Most Extreme Terrorist Campaign of Modern Times' - his drone assassinations, with which he killed thousands, mostly civilians, including hundreds of children. The goal remained as it had been for more than a century: the world economic dominance of the US economic elite - particularly in regard to Eurasia - for which Mideast hydrocarbons were an instrument - perhaps increasingly ineffective.
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>> —CGE
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>>> On Jul 27, 2017, at 7:47 AM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
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>>> Actually,  we have been at war continuously  since Bush Sr.’s War against Iraq to steal Persian Gulf Oil and Gas in 1990-1991—27 years. Thucydides looked at a series of wars on the Greek Peninsula over a period of 27 years and said, no, this is one war, which he called the Peloponnesian War. So what we have seen here for the past 27 years is not a series of wars, but one war: The Hydrocarbon War by the United States to steal the world’s oil and gas. Fab.
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>>> Francis A. Boyle
>>> Law Building
>>> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
>>> Champaign IL 61820 USA
>>> 217-333-7954 (phone)
>>> 217-244-1478 (fax)
>>> (personal comments only)
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>>> From: Boyle, Francis A 
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 4:51 PM
>>> To: Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com>; David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Whitney Rich <richwhitney at frontier.com>
>>> Cc: tomasroyer at gmail.com; Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga <lupalasaga at gmail.com>; Nick G <Ngoodell42 at gmail.com>; Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com>; Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>
>>> Subject: RE: AWARE Anti-War Teach In
>>> 
>>> Maybe we can think of this event as:
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>>> “Light at the End of the Tunnel”
>>> 
>>> After 16 years of war.
>>> 
>>> Fab
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