[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #420 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

News from Neptune #420 notes
An "Oil and Poisoned Water" edition.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsJR0bKCyHw

Links to items referenced on the show.



Jimmy Dore interviews Greg Palast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeNCbXVHrR8 -- quote comes from this segment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-FiLFFDnk

Previous letter to the editor by David Green
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2019-04-20/letter-the-editor-life-good-those-1-percent-households.html

This is Hell! interview of Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1053-rosemary-batt-eileen-appelbaum
Show file: https://thisishell-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/mp3/20190427D.mp3
Show RSS feed: https://thisishell.com/rss.xml

Taxing wealth instead of taxing income
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/to-reduce-inequality-tax-wealth-not-income.html 
-- Daniel Altman op-ed for the New York Times
https://equitablegrowth.org/wealth-taxation-an-introduction-to-net-worth-taxes-and-how-one-might-work-in-the-u-s/
https://americansfortaxfairness.org/tax-fairness-briefing-booklet/fact-sheet-taxing-wealthy-americans/



Al Kagan on "Vietnam Today: Did Anyone “Win” the Vietnam War?"
http://publici.ucimc.org/2019/04/vietnam-today-did-anyone-win-the-vietnam-war/

Richard Esbenshade on "What Can We Learn from the Yellow Vests?"
http://publici.ucimc.org/2019/04/what-can-we-learn-from-the-yellow-vests/

Patricia Simpson on "No Time to Wait: Let’s Make a Green New Deal!"
http://publici.ucimc.org/2019/04/no-time-to-wait-lets-make-a-green-new-deal/

News-Gazette Editorial Board on "Barr's battle"
http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2019-05-10/editorial-barrs-battle.html



Craig Murray on "The Real Muellergate Scandal"
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/05/the-real-muellergate-scandal/

More on Craig Murray: Alex Salmond interviews Craig Murray published 
2019-05-10 in an episode called "Ambassador of Controversy" starts at 5m04s 
talking mainly about torture and being smeared for exposing torture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3dx3x05gYg -- Part of the Alex Salmond 
show on RT.



Doug Henwood's Left Business Observer news
https://lbo-news.com/

"Behind the News" show
RSS feed: http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php

Doug Henwood's critique
https://lbo-news.com/2019/05/06/misreading-the-latest-jobs-numbers/

Jack Rasmus's response to Doug Henwood
https://jackrasmus.com/2019/05/06/why-government-job-stats-are-inaccurate-a-reply-to-doug-henwoods-apology-defense-of-government-reports/

Doug Henwood on "Responding to Rasmus’s response"
https://lbo-news.com/2019/05/07/responding-to-rasmuss-response/

Doug Henwood "Uber Is a Scam"
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/uber-ipo-profitability-value-labor-costs

F. Scott Fitzgerald quote
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10367-let-me-tell-you-about-the-very-rich-they-are

Ernest Hemingway on the difference of the wealthy
https://www.inspirationalstories.com/quotes/ernest-hemingway-the-rich-were-dull-and-they-drank/

Related:
http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2009/11/rich-are-different-famous-quote.html 
-- on the source of the quotes



Venezuelan embassy in Washington D.C. under siege
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc2bmR6ACT0 -- RT report on current situation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apCKhc3NON8 -- earlier GrayZone report

Noam Chomsky on "History of US Rule in Latin America: Resistance to the 
Coup in Honduras"
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ
Edited partial transcript: 
https://mronline.org/2009/12/26/history-of-us-rule-in-latin-america-resistance-to-the-coup-in-honduras/

This is Hell! with Chuck Mertz interviews Andrew Cockburn
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1054-andrew-cockburn
Show file: https://thisishell-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/mp3/20190504D.mp3

Andrew Cockburn on "No Joe! Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy"
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/03/joe-biden-record/


"What's My Name?" HBO program
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/whats-my-name-muhammad-ali

Muhammad Ali vs. Sonny Liston fight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali-liston#The_fight -- which contains no 
reference to the quote but describes the reaction to the name 'Muhammad Ali'.

"What's my name?" quote
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_vs._Ernie_Terrell
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/05/cassius-clay-became-muhammad-ali_n_4903050.html



Paul Krugman on "Trump Is Terrible for Rural America"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/trump-rural-america.html

-J