[Peace-discuss] NfN #423 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

News from Neptune #423
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCdInznoRts
A "Truth and Lies on US Wars" edition

Links to items referenced on the show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk -- Battle of Kursk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Normandy -- Invasion of Normandy

Peter Kuznick on "D-Day: How the US Supported Hitler’s Rise to Power" 
interview with Paul Jay on The Real News
https://therealnews.com/stories/d-day-how-the-us-supported-hitlers-rise-to-power 
-- transcript
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaWz42tmxug -- video

The Unknown War (1978)
Billed on one Reddit.com discussion as "20 part documentary series about 
the Eastern Front of World War II which was withdrawn from TV airings in 
the US for being too sympathetic to the Soviet struggle against Nazi 
Germany." (source: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/Documentaries/comments/4m07bf/the_unknown_war_1978_20_part_documentary_series/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_War_(Documentary) -- about the series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAR4nmj8q10&list=PL4w-2j6Q0Qj54wIYLSAGuYUic6tgyorO7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BYz6UzF-j4&list=PLr7tdO3Zp0VFhTUH2LD9NYPzBh9uc3Kxb 
-- all parts

George F. Will on "When war was the answer"
https://www.djournal.com/opinion/columnists/george-will-when-war-was-the-answer/article_b37b9780-8929-5a6d-a449-9a32be7d24ca.html 
-- one copy of this widely reprinted article but only available in certain 
regions (possibly only inside the US)
https://archive.fo/m8biz -- an archive copy, globally accessible

"Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization" by 
Nicholson Baker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Smoke
ISBN: 9781416572466

Henry V -- St. Crispin's Day speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9fa3HFR02E -- Laurence Olivier's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-yZNMWFqvM -- Kenneth Branagh's version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7NrnLsr5g -- Richard Burton's version (audio)

Jeffrey St. Clair on "The Dams That Kill Orca"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/112277/

David Swanson on "You Can Almost Count on Each New Mass Shooter Being a 
Veteran"
http://davidswanson.org/you-can-almost-count-on-each-new-mass-shooter-being-a-veteran/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/04/you-can-almost-count-on-each-new-mass-shooter-being-a-veteran/

Rachel Maddow's ratings are falling
https://www.thewrap.com/rachel-maddow-just-had-her-lowest-rated-month-of-the-trump-presidency/
https://www.fiweh.com/05/28/2019/rachel-maddow-just-had-her-lowest-rated-month-of-the-trump-presidency
https://news.ntd.com/ratings-for-msnbcs-rachel-maddow-drop-for-fifth-straight-month_336692.html

Rep. Rodney Davis on "Honoring our fallen with actions this Memorial Day"
https://votesmart.org/public-statement/1249395/herald-review-honoring-our-fallen-with-actions-this-memorial-day
https://herald-review.com/opinion/davis-honoring-our-fallen-with-actions-this-memorial-day/article_1b1919fd-2754-53e8-bd80-f459e7932263.html

Related to drone warfare:
"Drone" (2014 film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(2014_film)

Related to anti-war movement within the US armed forces during the Vietnam War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir!_No_Sir!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJF9MEU9XA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nPJgeg6hpA -- copies of the movie online

"Ho" by David Halberstam
ISBN-10: 0742559939
ISBN-13: 978-0742559936

Mueller Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZCXFmlEjmg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCcByndW6ag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvAxhhk9QwU -- PBS NewsHour reports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjzF2Cx1UY -- PBS NewsHour/FrontLine 
special report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvapuwssM8E -- Jimmy Dore interviews Aaron 
Maté on Mueller's statement

Rob Urie on "Electoral Politics Versus Democracy"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/07/electoral-politics-versus-democracy/

Sen. Bernie Sanders on "Bernie Sanders: I Know Where I Came From. Does 
President Trump?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/opinion/bernie-sanders-trump.html

Adolph Reed on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like"
https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like

Sundiata Cha-Jua articles in The News-Gazette
http://www.news-gazette.com/author/sundiata-cha-jua

Adolph Reed on "Judith Stein and the Historical Materialist Study of 
American Political History"
https://nonsite.org/article/judith-stein-and-the-historical-materialist-study-of-american-political-history

-J