[Peace-discuss] Good LTE to the N-G today

[C G Estabrook]

Thanks for our letter-to-the-editor in the News-Gazette today (to which they gave the headline, “Military service isn’t glorious”).

The local daily should be called on their glorification the military & American wars (which are estimated to have killed 20-30 million people since WWII). —CGE

> On Jan 23, 2019, at 7:31 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Carl and David
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> I don’t think your researcher is quite correct, nor is he wrong, regarding Aaron Mate leaving the Real News. Aaron was interviewed by someone, saw it on my tablet, couldn’t find it online at the time. It may have been Jimmy Dore, but Aaron complained, not his exact words, that the Real News is looking at being “more balanced” by interviewing those that oppose their views. Mate who made mincemeat out of those faux journalists promoting Russiagate, and war, clearly opposes the idea, as do I. 
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> It’s the path that those media in peril due to lack of funding have taken, and though some might refer to it as “free speech,” when that free speech isn’t backed up by evidence, when that free speech is just propaganda as is russiagate, then we just have more of the same like CNN, NPR, Democracy Now, leaving us with few sources of reliable news. 
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> In spite of that, I agree with Paul Jay, too much focus on russiagate, or Trump becomes counterproductive in that its just distractions from what is taking place in the world, what the USG is doing, which is what I want from news. What is the US doing now in Venezuela, Lebanon, Nicaragua, what is the US doing now regarding US social services. What are we doing in Macedonia, with Nato. Focusing on the faux news one way or the other, focusing on what this one said or didn’t say is irrelevant. Focusing on electoral politics which is as we know, anything but democratic, of little value.
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> Trump should not be the center of attention, he is just a symptom of our decaying system. Yes, the House today signed a bill preventing Trump from disbanding or dissolving Nato, Rt.com wrote about it. Rather silly actually as 
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> Trump never attempted to disband Nato, he simply suggested or demanded Europeans pay their fair share, why should they when it does nothing for them? It does show the intent of the “House,” with provocations of Russia. 
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