[Peace-discuss] NfN #416 notes

Sat Apr 6 20:16:32 UTC 2019

News from Neptune #416
A "The Press is Free Except for US Crimes: A Manning and Assange" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsUBtO1IJaQ

A list of links to references mentioned on the show.

Assange expulsion from Ecuadorian Embassy

 From https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1113966150046683136

> BREAKING: A high level source within the Ecuadorian state has told
> @WikiLeaks that Julian Assange will be expelled within "hours to days"
> using the #INAPapers offshore scandal as a pretext--and that it already
> has an agreement with the UK for his arrest.[1]
[1] 
https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/04/03/ecuador-twists-embarrassing-ina-papers-into-pretext-to-oust-assange/

was followed up later by WikiLeaks with:

> BREAKING: WikiLeaks now has secondary confirmation from another high
> level source within the Ecuadorian state.
One of the few outlets doing good reporting on WikiLeaks is RT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gotxLc-Bpnc -- Summary of news on 
2019-04-05 and interview with former Ecuadorian President Raphael Correa 
about Assange and Ecuadorian investigation into corruption allegations of 
current Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1p31ZnsPrE -- 10 hours of footage from 
outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London shot and run live during 
2019-04-05 after news broke that Assange would be expelled in "hours or 
days" as posted by WikiLeaks on their Twitter feed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z7dyyCGI6c -- RT: How Ecuador-US ties 
changed post-asylum granting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Iw8MbPi_4 -- RT: Julian Assange expulsion 
delayed

Related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0ejp6pKQ44 -- John Pilger: "The idea that 
Assange is a front for the Russians is absurd."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN9-1mSbO28 -- Ron Paul on NATO's 70th 
anniversary and Julian Assange

Nick Johnson on Michael Hudson on rent-seeking
https://peofdev.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/michael-hudson-on-rent-seeking/

Michael Hudson's "J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of 
Deception"
http://michael-hudson.com/2017/02/j-is-for-junk-economics-a-guide-to-reality-in-an-age-of-deception/

Peter Koenig on "J is for Junk Economics" review
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/05/12/review-michael-hudsons-j-is-for-junk-economics/

Michael Hudson on Junk Economics on "Democracy at Work"
Transcript: https://ratical.org/ratville/MichaelHudson-JunkEcon.html
Recording: https://ratical.org/ratville/MichaelHudson-JunkEconApr2017.mp3

"Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty
Complete book: 
https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf

"Requiem for the American Dream" (2015)

Film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9FBy0-oJw -- Complete film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP5lL5E8H30 -- Film with German audio

Noam Chomsky's "Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of 
Concentration of Wealth & Power"

Audiobook audio (the video is one frame held across the entire video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFkSiWGnayQ

Interview with Amy Goodman:
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlzODoqipT4
Media & Transcript: 
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/25/noam_chomsky_in_conversation_with_amy

Patrick Kingsley on "Anti-Semitism Is Back, From the Left, Right and 
Islamist Extremes. Why?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/world/europe/antisemitism-europe-united-states.html

Lee Fang on "Lyft and Other Gig Economy Giants Cash In With IPOs Before 
Labor Laws Catch Up With Them"

https://theintercept.com/2019/04/01/lyft-ipo-gig-economy-labor-law/

Andrew Yang on Universal Basic Income (UBI), foreign policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S43Aluf1sz8 -- 2020 Democratic Party 
presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Jimmy Dore's show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZJiZC89HBc -- Keiser Report on UBI which 
also brings up the Andrew Yang piece below from realclearpolitics.com.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/13/andrew_yang_universal_basic_income_is_not_socialism_is_good_for_markets.html 
-- Alaskan oil wealth is shared in part with Alaskans. UBI is quite old, 
UBI is not socialism, UBI is "good for markets"

Andrew Yang on foreign policy -- David's quote comes from this page
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/foreign-policy-first-principles/

Greg Grandin's "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall 
in the Mind of America"
ISBN-10: 1250179823
ISBN-13: 978-1250179821

Grandin's interview with Amy Goodman
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/6/greg_grandin_on_the_end_of

Richard Ford's "Canada"
ISBN-10: 0061692034
ISBN-13: 978-0061692031

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_(novel)

Danny Haiphong on "Get Tulsi Gabbard on the Debate Stage"
https://www.blackagendareport.com/get-tulsi-gabbard-debate-stage

J.B. Nicholson on "Is Tulsi Gabbard really anti-war? No, she’s pro-drone 
and for “surgical strikes”."
https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/02/13/is-tulsi-gabbard-really-anti-war-no-shes-pro-drone-and-for-surgical-strikes/

Nashwa Bawab on "Beto O’Rourke: progressive except for Palestine"
https://electronicintifada.net/content/beto-orourke-progressive-except-palestine/25746

Texas Observer on "Eminent Disaster - A cabal of politicians and profiteers 
targets an El Paso barrio"
https://www.texasobserver.org/2483-eminent-disaster-a-cabal-of-politicians-and-profiteers-targets-an-el-paso-barrio/

Chris Helman and Lauren Debter on "Is Beto O’Rourke’s Wife Really A 
‘Billionaire’ Heiress? Not Likely." providing some background on the 
players and the situation with an objection to calling O'Rourke's 
father-in-law a "billionaire" when they estimate he "is more likely to have 
a net worth in the neighborhood of $500 million"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2018/11/04/is-beto-orourkes-wife-really-a-billionaire-heiress-not-likely/

Empire Notes (Abby Martin) interview with Bill Binney
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHs-E2e2V4

Nathan Thrall on "How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is 
Fracturing American Politics"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/magazine/battle-over-bds-israel-palestinians-antisemitism.html

Paul Street on "Identity Rules: A Report from Reddening Chicago"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/04/05/identity-rules-a-report-from-reddening-chicago/

-J