[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #425 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

News from Neptune #425
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyeioMElcyM
A "Killer's Trial" edition

Links to items referenced on the show.

Michael D. Shear, Eric Schmitt, Michael Crowley and Maggie Haberman on 
"Strikes on Iran Approved by Trump, Then Abruptly Pulled Back"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/world/middleeast/iran-us-drone.html

Related:
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-tweets-the-us-was-cocked-and-loaded-to-strike-iran-but-stooped-after-being-told-people-would-die-142915687.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/21/politics/trump-military-strikes-iran/index.html
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/trump-irans-shootdown-of-us-drone-was-a-very-big-mistake/news-story/23801308e8d7c8e1eb9864fba8d1b921

Kim Dotcom on US launching then canceling attack against Iran
https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1141942682555572225

Pres. Trump tweets about not attacking Iran (but being "cocked & loaded" to 
carry out the attack)
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1142055388965212161
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1142055392488374272

Soli Özel interview with Stephen Walt from 2019-06-12
https://www.institutmontaigne.org/en/blog/fall-american-primacy

"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" by John J. Mearsheimer and. 
Stephen M. Walt
ISBN-10: 0374531501
ISBN-13: 978-0374531508
Complete book: 
https://bamdadi.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/the-israel-lobby-and-us-foreign-policy-bamdadi-dot-com.pdf

Paul McLeary and Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on "Former Boeing Exec Shanahan 
Out at Pentagon, Former Raytheon Lobbyist Esper Steps In"
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/06/former-boeing-exec-shanahan-out-at-pentagon-former-raytheon-lobbyist-esper-steps-in/

Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Ask Your Local Death Squad"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/21/roaming-charges-ask-your-local-death-squad/



Robert W. Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_service

"Merchants of Death" by H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen
Complete book:
https://archive.org/download/MerchantsOfDeath-AStudyOfTheInternationalArmamentIndustry/MerchantsOfDeath-AStudyOfTheInternationalArmamentIndustryByH.c.Engelbrecht.pdf
https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/The%20Merchants%20of%20Death_2.pdf

More formats: 
https://archive.org/details/MerchantsOfDeath-AStudyOfTheInternationalArmamentIndustry



Rationale for the Iraq War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War



Ben Hubbard on "Military Reasserts Its Allegiance to Its Privileges"
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/world/middleeast/Egyptian-military-reasserts-its-allegiance-to-its-privileges.html

David D. Kirkpatrick on "Army Ousts Egypt’s President; Morsi Is Taken Into 
Military Custody"
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/world/middleeast/egypt.html

Mona Eltahawy 2013 tweet
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/352521826175426562

Ali Abunimah in response to aforementioned Mona Eltahawy tweet
https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1141141337162616832

Mona Eltahawy on "Mohamed Morsi Died in a Soundproof Cage"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/opinion/morsi-death-egypt.html

The Angry Arab (As`ad AbuKhalil) on twitter.com
https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ -- blog

The Angry Arab on Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/tag/asad-abukhalil/

The Angry Arab on "How to Bring Down a Regime in the Arab World"
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/18/the-angry-arab-how-to-bring-down-a-regime-in-the-arab-world/




Notes including those on Roger Stone's lawsuit
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-June/050950.html

William Barr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_barr



Medicare for All forum -- June 23, 2019 at Champaign Public Library (200 W. 
Green St, Champaign, IL 61820-5193) at 1PM
https://twitter.com/ChambanaDSA/status/1133546686029156352

Champaign-Urbana chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (organizer of 
Medicare for All forum above)
https://cudsa.red/

-J