[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #419 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

News from Neptune #419
A "Another Coup Coup" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBElODqEZFk

A list of links to references made on the show.

Dexter Filkins on "John Bolton on the Warpath"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/john-bolton-on-the-warpath

Pepe Escobar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_Escobar -- includes links to his many 
articles for multiple publications (RT, Counterpunch, The Real News, 
TomDispatch, etc.)

"Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?" book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Anybody_Here_Play_This_Game%3F

Max Fischer on "What Makes a Coup Succeed? Confidence, Consensus and a 
Sense of Inevitability"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/world/americas/venezuela-coup.html

Jon Queally on "Biden Sides With Trump, Bolton, and Pompeo in Backing Coup 
Effort in Venezuela"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/01/biden-sides-trump-bolton-and-pompeo-backing-coup-effort-venezuela

Paul Krugman on "The Trouble With Joe and Bernie"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/opinion/sanders-biden-2020.html

David Brooks on "The Revolt of the Democratic Elites"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/opinion/biden-bernie-democrats.html

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVeXom6HzIQ -- Jimmy Dore on 
Bernie Sanders' recent Fox News "Town Hall meeting" where the host asked 
the audience about supporting a Sanders-style Medicare for All instead of 
their private work-supplied healthcare. The audience was in widespread 
agreement; Medicare for All is worth switching to.

Matt Bruenig on "Universal Health Care Might Cost You Less Than You Think"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/opinion/medicare-for-all-cost.html

Dr. Dean Baker on "Medicare for All Act: Testimony Before House Rules 
Committee" (Testimony by Dr. Dean Baker, Senior Economist, Center for 
Economic and Policy Research to the House of Representatives, Rules 
Committee, April 30, 2019.)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/medicare-for-all-act-testimony-before-house-rules-committee/

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on "legitimacy" of "Maduro regime"
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-punts-on-venezuela-says-shell-defer-to-caucus-leadership
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/democrats-split-in-responses-to-venezuela-crisis/

Jeffrey St. Clair in "Roaming Charges: Biden in Plain Sight"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/03/roaming-charges-biden-in-plain-sight/

Impeachable offenses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment#Impeachable_offenses

Glenn Greenwald vs. James Risen on what treason means
Transcript: 
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/21/intercepted-podcast-russiamania-glenn-greenwald-vs-james-risen/
Video: 
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/21/video-glenn-greenwald-and-james-risen-debate-the-trumprussia-investigation/

War of Aggression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression

New York Times Editorial Board on "A Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opinion/cartoon-nytimes.html

Philip Weiss on "I was wrong about anti-Semitism going away"
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/04/wrong-about-semitism/

Aaron Maté on Russiagate
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1124136736563638272

C. G. Estabrook
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2019-04-23/letter-the-editor-us-waging-war-all-over-the-globe.html

[Sadly, the News-Gazette doesn't make it easy to find particular letters to 
the editor. Please do add a link to David Green's recent letter to the 
editor if you know the URL for that letter.]

-J