[Peace-discuss] 'News from Neptune' for Friday 14 September 2018

[David Green]

I would add this article, referred to on the program, although it's
problematic especially regarding Harrington.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/31/grappling-with-the-racism-of-the-dsas-founders/


On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 7:28 PM C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> News from Neptune #394 - "Listing to port" edition
> Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4b5ZYpfLf8
>
> Links to works referenced on the show:
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> Gary Olson's "Pope Francis and the Battle Over Cultural Terrain"
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> https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/14/pope-francis-and-the-battle-over-cultural-terrain/
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> 2/3rds of Progressive Democrats are silent on foreign policy. Why?
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> https://www.blackagendareport.com/two-thirds-progressive-democratic-congressional-candidates-completely-silent-foreign-policy
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> Matt Taibbi's "On the 10-year Anniversary of the Crash"
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> https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/financial-crisis-ten-year-anniversary-723798/
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> Margarethe von Trotta's film "Rosa Luxemburg" (1986)
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> Movie with hardcoded subtitles (runs 1h58m):
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiR0MmxB2qU
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> Carl Boggs on "Obama’s Imperial Presidency"
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> https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/14/obamas-imperial-presidency/
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> Anthony DiMaggio on the real threat to the US being "fascism in the White
> House" and threat #1: Donald Trump
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> https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/11/full-on-fascism-trump-makes-the-transition-in-his-war-on-the-press/
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> "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry
> about answers." -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
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> https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/ -- "Gravity's Rainbow" wiki
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> https://archive.org/details/WeisenburgerAGravitysRainbowCompanion --
> Weisenburger's "Gravity's Rainbow" companion in multiple formats.
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> John Steppling on Obama
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> https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/09/12/unravelling/
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> "Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did
> make me sad; they always made me glad." -- Malcolm X on Pres. Kennedy's
> assassination
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD6aX3dHR2k -- Malcolm X talking about
> his famous statement.
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> Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington Jr.'s book "The Other America: Poverty in
> the United States"
> ISBN: 0-684-82678-X
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> Harrington's book "Socialism"
> ISBN: 9780841501416
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> Harrington coined the term "neoconservatism".
>
> "Today's Other America: Corporate Power and Inequality" documentary based
> on "The Other America" book.
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> Maurice Isserman "The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington"
> ISBN: 1-58648-036-7
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> On Sep 16, 2018, at 1:55 PM, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4b5ZYpfLf8
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> {INTRO}  Good evening, & welcome to News from Neptune for the 37th week of
> 2018. I’m Carl Estabrook.
>
> Historians consider a generation to be about 25 years - roughly the time
> it takes for you to get to the age your parents are now.
>
> For more than a generation, this program has been a weekly hour of
> spontaneous & unrehearsed discussion of the news of the week and its
> coverage by the media - first, on a so-called community radio station - and
> now via Urbana Public TV and YouTube. (Earlier editions of this program are
> available at <archive.org>. )
>
> I’m now the age my parents would have been when we started the program.
> It’s not been an encouraging trip.
>
> Our program’s name, News from Neptune, comes from Noam Chomsky, who’s been
> writing sensible things about U.S. politics for more than twice as long as
> we’ve ben on the air. Chomsky says that in the U.S. media, “Either you
> repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say
> something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.”
>
> Tonight David Green & I  - will try to say some true things with thanks to
> Dr Know, J. B. Nicholson, for research. Know’s Notes are posted on the NEWS
> FROM NEPTUNE fb page
>
> We try to bear in mind the murdered Rosa Luxemburg’s remark, from a
> century ago
> “The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what
> is happening.”
>
> This is a “listing to port” edition (for a hurricane weekend). We’ll
> present lists of news stories that are generally ignored. Listing also
> means leaning - as port means ‘left.’  As antiquated as the left/right
> distinction may be in politics, we may say that this program leans to the
> left - i.e., lists to port.
>
> {OUTRO} You've been watching News from Neptune for the 37th week of 2018.
> News From Neptune is presented by Carl Estabrook & David Green. It is
> produced & directed by Jason Liggett & Ethan Young, with Andrew Scolari).
> This has been a “Listing to Port” edition.
>
> Our thanks to Research Director Dr. Know, J. B. Nicholson, the Third Man
> on News From Neptune - “Know’s Notes” are posted on the fb page for NFN
>
> Inshallah, we’ll be back next week with a new edition of News From Neptune
> - to remind you, in the words of Edward de Vere (in The Tempest),
>
> “...what’s past is prologue, what to come
> In yours and my discharge.”
>
> In the meantime, confusion to our enemies, and a good night to you.
>
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