[Peace-discuss] NfN #405 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

News from Neptune #405
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38HWlxJDQ5o
A "Missing the Point" edition

Links to some items mentioned on the show.

Greg Grandin on "George H.W. Bush, Icon of the WASP Establishment—and of 
Brutal US Repression in the Third World"
https://www.thenation.com/article/george-h-w-bush-icon-of-the-wasp-establishment-and-of-brutal-us-repression-in-the-third-world/

Side note: Grandin is also the author of "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of 
Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City", a book about the Brazilian towns 
(named for Henry Ford) where Ford set up rubber plantations and tried to 
make Brazilian workers adopt American ways and harvest rubber for Ford 
Motors. The plantations were economically unsuccessful and Ford's 
exploitation cost Ford millions of dollars.

Download a copy: 
https://archive.org/download/FordlandiaTheRiseAndFallOfHenryFordsForgottenJungleCity/Fordlandia%20The%20Rise%20and%20Fall%20of%20Henry%20Ford%27s%20Forgotten%20Jungle%20City.pdf

Other formats: 
https://archive.org/details/FordlandiaTheRiseAndFallOfHenryFordsForgottenJungleCity

Interviews:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/2/fordlandia_the_rise_and_fall_of
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fordlandia/



Sylvain Cypel on "From Sans Culottes to Gilets Jaunes: Macron’s Marie 
Antoinette Moment"
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/12/11/from-sans-culottes-to-gilets-jaunes-macrons-marie-antoinette-moment/



Thomas B. Edsall on "The Robots Have Descended on Trump Country"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/opinion/robots-trump-country-jobs.html



C.J. Hopkins on "Beware the Trumpenleft!"
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-27/cj-hopkins-beware-trumpenleft



Rich Whitney on "General Motors’ Factories Should Not Be Closed. They 
Should Be Turned Over to the Workers"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/14/general-motors-factories-should-not-be-closed-they-should-be-turned-over-to-the-workers/



Leo Panitch interviews on The Real News' "Reality Asserts Itself"
https://therealnews.com/series/reality-asserts-itself-leo-panitch



Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk on "Sartre, Said, Chomsky and the 
Meaning of the Public Intellectual"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/14/sartre-said-chomsky-and-the-meaning-of-the-public-intellectual/

-J