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News from Neptune #434
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdeGjETKXE
A "What the 2020 Election Is About" edition

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Recent Joe Biden talk (and talk of those speaking on his behalf) courtesy 
of the Jimmy Dore program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xb4llOhgU -- Biden's Press Secretary's 
"word salad" on how climate change debate is a bad idea and the time for it 
was in the past (when the Democrats also said it was a bad idea to have 
that debate)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbV3l5j3S4E -- Jill Biden admitting her 
husband is a horrible choice but somehow 'electable' and ultimately we must 
give up everything to "defeat Trump", right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbE2E9dvGg -- Biden attacking Mexicans in 
secret video.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interviewed by CBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI -- "Defeating Trump" is Rep. 
Gabbard's goal even if it means supporting whatever Democrat gets the 
nomination.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/ -- a 
brief video ending with Rep. Gabbard conceding that she'll endorse any 
Democrat, even one who holds values ostensibly opposite to hers.

Related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaH2rSgQzLE -- Bernie Sanders said he'll 
vote for Biden in 2020 if Biden is the nominee.

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/

B.B. King
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King

B.B. King's "The Thrill is Gone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oica5jG7FpU

Tulsi Gabbard with The Intercept in January 2018
https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/

Primo Nutmeg interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GyqD0t2t8 -- video
http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/9417a19f73964ff599a9cb7b84a5d268/www.buzzsprout.com/205226/1016930-171-tulsi-gabbard.mp3?blob_id=2161843 
-- audio

David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html

Donald Trump on Jewish "great disloyalty" for voting Democrat
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/trump-jewish-voters.html -- 
Julie Hirschfeld Davis on "Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great 
Disloyalty’"
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459219-most-voters-disapprove-of-trumps-jewish-loyalty-comment-poll 
-- Rachel Frazin on "Most voters disapprove of Trump's Jewish 'loyalty' 
comment: poll"

Long Stephen Miller articles from The New York Times

Rasputin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin

Jason DeParle on "How Stephen Miller Seized the Moment to Battle 
Immigration" (from 2019-08-17)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html

Michelle Cottle on "Stephen Miller Can’t Act Alone" (from 2019-04-09)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/opinion/stephen-miller-trump-immigration.html

Matt Flegenheimer on "Stephen Miller, the Powerful Survivor on the 
President’s Right Flank" (from 2017-10-09)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house.html

Norman Finkelstein on Israel being an "alt-right country"

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8e2uhX4QfJw -- Norman Finkelstein Q&A

Peter Bolton on "Norman Finkelstein tells The Canary that anti-Corbyn 
smears have ‘nothing whatever to do with antisemitism’"
https://www.thecanary.co/exclusive/2019/08/15/norman-finkelstein-tells-the-canary-that-anti-corbyn-smears-have-nothing-whatever-to-do-with-antisemitism/

DaysOfPalestine.com on "Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein says ‘Israel is a 
nation of murderers’ loved by the far right"
https://daysofpalestine.com/post/12616/jewish-scholar-norman-finkelstein-says-%E2%80%98israel-is-a-nation-of-murderers%E2%80%99-loved-by-the-far-right

Patrick Cockburn articles on independent.co.uk
https://www.independent.co.uk/author/patrick-cockburn
"Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises 
in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with 
The Independent since 1990."

Lily Puckett on "Trump administration considering blocking $250m in 
military assistance to Ukraine"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-ukraine-military-funding-john-bolton-russia-pentagon-latest-a9084291.html

Continuity of policy: US administrations supporting Nazis
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html -- contains pointer to a 
600-page Justice Department report 
(http://documents.nytimes.com/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases?ref=us#p=1) 
about how Nazis were given "safe haven" in US
https://www.stpete4peace.org/Ukraine -- including criticism of "Progressive 
media provides cover for US intentions in Ukraine"
https://www.rt.com/news/450740-ukraine-radio-nazi-article/ -- "US-funded 
Ukrainian radio defends neo-Nazi group, deletes article when called out"

Jimmy Dore on New York Times editorial board's "pathetic apology for 
Russiagate coverage failure"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivCPmU3tjo

David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/
RSS feed: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/rss

David Harvey interview in Jacobin
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ 

"A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey
ISBN-13: 978-0199283279
ISBN-10: 0199283273

"Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty
ISBN-10: 0674979850
ISBN-13: 978-0674979857
Complete book: 
https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf

Michael Roberts' blog "The Next Recession"
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/

Recent Dean Baker articles on Trump's trade war with China
https://fair.org/home/dean-baker-on-trumps-trade-war-leo-fitzpatrick-on-wireless-merger/
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-trade-war-with-china-is-waged-to-make-the-rich-richer/

Moderate Rebels (Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton) on "Hong Kong's real colonial 
history, and the protests' anti-China right-wing nativism - with Carl Zha"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38bOtUEXcc -- video
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moderaterebels/Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_1.mp3?dest-id=553365 
-- audio

Doug Henwood interviews Brian Hioe on Hong Kong protests
http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2019/19_08_22.mp3

Noam Chomsky on reading business press

https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87f6c
"My impression in general is that the business press is more open, ... get 
the facts right..." (used as part of an ad for Financial Times)

https://chomsky.info/20081010/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,583454,00.html -- October 
10, 2008 Der Spiegel interview of Chomsky includes:
> SPIEGEL: How does it benefit politicians when the populace drives a lot,
> eats a lot and goes shopping a lot? >
> Chomsky: Consumption distracts people. You cannot control your own
> population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. The
> business press has been quite explicit about this goal.
https://chomsky.info/20101101/
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?267553 -- November 1, 2010 Outlook 
magazine (from India) interview of Chomsky includes:
> What has to be done is not really specific to the media. It is to
> develop a more functional democratic society, a more democratic culture.
> As far as the elites are concerned they want the public to be
> disciplined, passive, obedient and directed to other things. Take a look
> at the history of the huge public relations and advertising industry
> that we have today. It developed in the freest countries in the world —
> England and the US — around the time of the First World War.
> Incidentally, that was the time Lippmann was writing. It was developed
> very consciously, out of the understanding that enough freedom had been
> won by popular struggle and the population could not be controlled by
> force. Therefore, it was thought necessary to control attitudes and
> beliefs. In the business press of the 1920s, you can read very openly
> about the need to divert people to what they call the superficial thing
> in life like fashionable consumption. If we can direct people to that,
> they will keep out of our hair, we can run things. You see that in
> India, certainly.

Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/

Sonam Sheth on "US spies say Trump's G7 performance suggests he's either a 
'Russian asset' or a 'useful idiot' for Putin"
https://www.businessinsider.com/spies-react-trump-g7-summit-russian-asset-2019-8

-J