[Peace-discuss] [Peace] News from Neptune #433 notes

[Karen Aram]

Glad to see David challenging Carl in relation to Trump. Carl is very good at saying “Trump is not the problem,” and making whatever excuses available for Trump doing what he does, or not doing, what he said he would do as a candidate. 
The duality/duplicity in relation to Carl’s blaming Obama for everything, is blatantly obvious and kills the credibility of NFN and AWARE, so it does need to be addressed. 

David, again challenges the organizations “proud of being focused on only domestic issues,” which excuses their support for US imperialism, thus supporting US crimes of imperialism, which includes the genocide being perpetrated against the Palestinians. 

Again, a socialist focuses on class, but one doesn’t need to be a socialist to recognize that a people should be more concerned with killing and destroying of others, and to turn away from such violence, to ignore is being complicit. What is it they say, ‘when good men turn away from evil, evil reigns?”

No comment on gun control, given that is one of those issues I focused on strongly for many years, and have now given up. I see little being accomplished with piecemeal activities, I support overthrowing our system of capitalism, but have little hope of that happening until people are dying of starvation in the streets, not just being shot by police in the streets, but by then it will be too late. 



> On Aug 16, 2019, at 16:38, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> News from Neptune #433
> A "Ferragosto" edition
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-gPghwla-M
> 
> Ferragosto
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferragosto
> 
> Peterloo Massacre
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre
> 
> Michael Roberts on "The political economy of Peterloo"
> https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/08/16/the-political-economy-of-peterloo/
> 
> Michael Roberts' blog: The Next Recession
> https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/
> 
> Kurt Hackbarth on "An $8 Billion Murder Industry"
> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/el-paso-shooting-us-mexico-weapons-arms
> 
> Lyndsay Jones on "Chicago teacher, 'Nazi expert' to lead Bend the Arc event on white nationalism in schools"
> https://www.news-gazette.com/news/chicago-teacher-nazi-expert-to-lead-bend-the-arc-event/article_5772a027-b6cf-574c-b078-83919e382c7d.html
> https://www.news-gazette.com/news/expert-in-hate-groups-gets-call/article_5772a027-b6cf-574c-b078-83919e382c7d.html
> 
> The Great Replacement
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Replacement
> 
> Bat Ye'or
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_Ye%27or
> 
> Rebecca Kheel on "Trump to meet with national security team on Afghanistan peace plan"
> https://thehill.com/policy/defense/457703-trump-to-meet-with-national-security-team-on-afghanistan-peace-plan
> 
> "No More Cages" coverage
> https://www.wcvb.com/article/no-ice-no-prisons-no-more-cages-banner-unfurled-over-fenway-park-green-monster/28583049
> https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/no-ice-no-prisons-no-more-cages-banner-unfurled-over-green-monster/ar-AAFdT5w
> 
> Jean-Yves Camus
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Yves_Camus
> 
> Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement by Robert I. Friedman
> ISBN-10: 0394580532
> ISBN-13: 978-0394580531
> 
> Yoram Hazony
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoram_Hazony
> 
> The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virtue_of_Nationalism
> ISBN-10: 9781541645370
> ISBN-13: 978-1541645370
> 
> Related:
> https://theintercept.com/2019/05/05/israel-virture-of-nationalism-book/ -- Murtaza Hussain on "Why Yoram Hazony Book “Virtue of Nationalism” Gets It Wrong"
> 
> Gun buyback program
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_buyback_program
> 
> Beto O'Rourke on gun buyback
> https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/16/beto-orourke-buyback-gun-1466128
> https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mandatory-buy-back-means-confiscation/
> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beto-orourke-gun-control_n_5d556fc8e4b0d8840fef8cea
> https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456445-orourke-open-to-mandatory-gun-buyback-program
> 
> Aaron Maté: "Trump starves Venezuela, Democrats are silent"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37-PILH78Ys
> 
> Anatoly Kurmanaev and Isayen Herrera on "Venezuela’s Maduro Cracks Down on His Own Military in Bid to Retain Power"
> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/americas/venezuela-military-maduro.html
> 
> Jennifer Matsui on "La Danse Mossad: Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein"
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/la-danse-mossad-robert-maxwell-and-jeffrey-epstein/
> 
> "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead
> 
> J.B. Nicholson's notes
> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-August/051144.html
> 
> -J
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