[Peace-discuss] NfN #422 notes

Fri May 31 22:26:06 UTC 2019

News from Neptune #422
A "Wait 'til Next Year" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HDN27-74eg

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Maggie Astor on "After Mueller’s Remarks, More 2020 Democrats Call for 
Impeachment"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/us/politics/impeaching-trump-democrats.html

Katie Glueck on "Four Years After Beau Biden’s Death, His Father Bonds With 
Voters in Pain"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/us/politics/joe-biden-beau-biden-death.html

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

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: Ryan Voles "Davis proposes designating Harristown post office as 
'Logan S. Palmer Post Office'"
https://herald-review.com/news/local/davis-proposes-designating-harristown-post-office-as-logan-s-palmer/article_7d1eaf35-659b-5690-8c3a-0fc1cb4a37c2.html

Andrew Cockburn on "The Military-Industrial Virus: How bloated defense 
budgets gut our armed forces"
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/06/the-pentagon-syndrome/

Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose, and T. Christian Miller on "Years of 
Warnings, Then Death and Disaster: How the Navy failed its sailors"
https://features.propublica.org/navy-accidents/us-navy-crashes-japan-cause-mccain/

Marshall Auerback on "Boeing Might Represent the Greatest Indictment of 
21st-Century Capitalism"
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/04/boeing-might-represent-the-greatest-indictment-of-21st-century-capitalism.html 
-- which points to 
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

Marshall Auerback on "This is Hell!" in episode "Capitalism and the Boeing 
737" (May 18, 2019)
https://thisishell-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/mp3/20190518A.mp3
Show RSS feed: https://thisishell.com/rss.xml

Putin Spring 2018 speech
https://www.c-span.org/video/?441907-1/russian-president-vladimir-putin-state-nation-address 
-- from March 1, 2018

You can download this speech using https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ -- 
youtube-dl -- so you can avoid running C-SPAN's non-free Javascript code 
and play the speech anytime you like, even offline. This particular 
recording comes with English translation over the Russian audio.

Articles about this speech:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/01/vladimir-putin-threatens-arms-race-with-new-missiles-announcement
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/world/europe/russia-putin-speech.html

Robert D. McFadden on "Thad Cochran, 81, Lawmaker Who Brought Largess to 
Mississippi, Dies"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/obituaries/senator-thad-cochran-death.html

Obama nuclear weapons spending
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2015/02/obamas-trillion-dollar-nuclear-weapons-gamble/104217/
https://www.armscontrol.org/blog/ArmsControlNow/2016-02-09/Last-Obama-Budget-Goes-for-Broke-on-Nuclear-Weapons
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2017-07/news/trump-continues-obama-nuclear-funding

Andrew Cockburn's "Kill Chain: Drones and The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins"
ISBN-10: 1250081637
ISBN-13: 978-1250081636

Sheryl Gay Stolberg on "Senate Passes $700 Billion Pentagon Bill, More 
Money Than Trump Sought"
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/politics/senate-pentagon-spending-bill.html

Alina Selyukh on "Why Suburban Moms Are Delivering Your Groceries"
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/25/722811953/why-suburban-moms-are-delivering-your-groceries

Jeanette Settembre on "Millions of senior citizens can’t afford food — and 
they’re not all living in poverty"
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/millions-of-senior-citizens-cant-afford-food-and-theyre-not-all-living-in-poverty-2019-05-16

Debra Pressey on "A dynamic duo: Scharlaus to be honored for helping 
community blossom"
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2019-05-22/dynamic-duo-scharlaus-be-honored-helping-community-blossom.html

David Brown on "Weapons worth $8B headed to Middle East over Congress' 
objections"
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/24/8-billion-weapons-middle-east-3323593
https://archive.fo/00Shk

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's reaction
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1132350371274248193

Leo Panitch on The Real News' "Reality Asserts Itself"
https://therealnews.com/series/reality-asserts-itself-leo-panitch

Kenneth Surin on "Israel/America or Netanyahu/Trump?"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/15/israel-america-or-netanyahu-trump/
Other Kenneth Surin articles on CounterPunch: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/ksurin0990/

Ben Norton on "Bipartisan Thirst for More War: 75% of US Congress Calls on 
Trump to Boost Intervention in Syria, to ‘Pressure’ Iran and Russia"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/bipartisan-thirst-more-war-75-congress-calls-trump-boost-intervention-syria-pressure-iran-russia/5678548
https://www.21cir.com/2019/05/bipartisan-thirst-for-more-war-75-of-us-congress-calls-on-trump-to-boost-intervention-in-syria-to-pressure-iran-and-russia/

Cedric Johnson on "What Black Life Actually Looks Like"
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/04/racism-black-lives-matter-inequality

Jim Kavanagh on "Swedish Sex Pistol Aimed at Assange"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/31/swedish-sex-pistol-aimed-at-assange/

Other Jim Kavanagh articles on CounterPunch: 
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/jimkav4905/

Related: Jonathan Cook on "Endless Procedural Abuses Show Julian Assange 
Case Was Never About Law"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/31/endless-procedural-abuses-show-julian-assange-case-was-never-about-law/

-J