[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #446 notes

Sat Jan 4 06:18:07 UTC 2020

News from Neptune #446
A "War with Iran? A Trap for Trump?" edition

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Tucker Carlson Tonight show
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E

Ben Norton on Trump's war with Iran
https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1212915105429635073

Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort
https://anti-war.net

Karen Aram's post to the Peace mailing list about the Saturday, January 4, 2020 National Day of 
Action -- U.S. Troops Out of Iraq!
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015558.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/

Belt and Road Initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

Pepe Escobar on "The Peer Competitor to the US Has Now Emerged: The Russia-China Strategic Partnership"
https://www.checkpointasia.net/the-peer-competitor-to-the-us-has-now-emerged-the-russia-china-strategic-partnership/
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/06/article/putin-and-xi-step-up-the-strategic-game/

Statement by the U.S. Department of Defense on taking "decisive defensive action" to kill Qasem 
Soleimani
https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2049534/statement-by-the-department-of-defense/

Precarious work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarious_work

Trita Parsi on Democracy Now regarding Assassination of Iranian General
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/3/trita_parsi_us_assassination_of_iranian

Yassin al-Haj Saleh on Democracy Now regarding Assad's government
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/2/syria_idlib_offensive_russia_assad

The Grayzone's Syria articles (Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal, and Aaron Maté are each with The Grayzone 
now)
https://thegrayzone.com/category/syria/

Moon of Alabama on "U.S. Will Come To Regret Its Assassination of Qassim Soleimani"
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/us-will-come-to-regret-its-assassination-of-qassim-soleimani.html

Gary Brecher's "The War Nerd"
https://www.nsfwcorp.com/desk/war-nerd/
https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd
mailto:radiowarnerd at gmail.com

Shervin Malekzadeh on "Boys Go to Baghdad, Real Men Go to Tehran"
https://lobelog.com/boys-go-to-baghdad-real-men-go-to-tehran/
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/15/boys-go-baghdad-real-men-go-tehran

Jerri-Lynn Scofield on "Boys Go to Baghdad. Men Go to Tehran."
https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/05/boys-go-to-baghdad-men-go-to-tehran.html
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/boys-go-to-baghdad-men-go-to-tehran.html

Julie Wurth on "Local ACLU, NAACP chapters air concerns on achievement gaps in Unit 4"
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/education/local-aclu-naacp-chapters-air-concerns-on-achievement-gaps-in/article_861752a7-b070-54de-a488-b1e91031cbd7.html

Related: Juliann Xu on "Unit 4 must address achievement gap"
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/guest-commentary-unit-must-address-achievement-gap/article_3bdc67f6-454d-5c5e-95fc-2000d268a6fb.html 

David Green's most recent letter to the editor of the News-Gazette responding to the above 
News-Gazette articles
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-greed-to-blame-for-disparities/article_8287c6ef-77dc-5eb7-a09c-21bc2fcd8b51.html

The News-Gazette "Editorial Board" (per the credit line) editorial
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-same-subject-different-time/article_65c76d43-d975-538e-a990-54d34b7efea1.html

Basic income (also known as "Universal Basic Income" or "UBI")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times’ 1619 Project"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/wood-n28.html

Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project"
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/14/mcph-n14.html

All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project"
https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search

Carol & Aaron Ammons on "Higher Ground" on WEFT
http://new.weft.org/audio/2019/higherground/HigherGround_2019-12-21.mp3

Larry Elliott on "Thomas Piketty's new War and Peace-sized book published on Thursday"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/09/thomas-pikettys-new-magnum-opus-published-on-thursday

"Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty
ISBN-10: 0674979850
ISBN-13: 978-0674979857
Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf

David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/
RSS feed: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/rss
January 2, 2020 episode: 
https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/from-fordism-to-neoliberalism-and-beyond

Populism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

J.B. Nicholson's notes
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-December/051610.html
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015559.html

-J