[Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #447 notes

Sun Jan 12 00:48:01 UTC 2020

News from Neptune #447
A "U.S. War Crimes" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKa6ZLXKTy8

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

ANSWER panel discussion on war finance and related matters (3-4PM)
Independent Media Center
https://www.ucimc.org/
202 South Broadway, #100, Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 344-8820
programdirector at ucimc.org
Hosted by "ANSWER C-U"

C. G. Estabrook on "Illinois Anti-Warriors and the Attractive Senator"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/29/illinois-anti-warriors-and-the-attractive-senator/

C. G. Estabrook's articles for Counterpunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/author/dr8gereswubecra/

David Green's recent letters to the editor of the News-Gazette
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-harassment-study-is-silly-propaganda/article_9d4eee6b-a8fa-5d8a-8609-169c0d256af9.html 
-- "Harassment study is silly propaganda"
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html 
-- "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc"

ANSWER: Act Now to Stop War & End Racism Coalition
https://www.answercoalition.org/

T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
> We shall not cease from exploration
> And the end of all our exploring
> Will be to arrive where we started
> And know the place for the first time.
> Through the unknown, remembered gate
> When the last of earth left to discover
> Is that which was the beginning;
> At the source of the longest river
> The voice of the hidden waterfall
> And the children in the apple-tree
> Not known, because not looked for
> But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
> Between two waves of the sea.

Selective Service System website crashes amid questions, fears of another military draft
https://wqad.com/2020/01/06/selective-service-system-website-crashes-amid-questions-fears-of-another-military-draft/
https://krdo.com/news/politics/2020/01/03/selective-service-system-website-crashes-amid-questions-and-fears-of-another-us-military-draft/
https://fox8.com/2020/01/04/us-selective-service-website-crashes-amid-fears-of-military-draft/

Connor Mannion on "Tucker Carlson Slams Trump’s Strike on Top Iranian General: ‘Lumbering Toward’ 
War with Iran"
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-slams-trumps-strike-on-top-iranian-general-lumbering-toward-war-with-iran/

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

Alexandria Kobryn on "Message of those at Urbana anti-war rally: ‘Why are we doing this?’"
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/message-of-those-at-urbana-anti-war-rally-why-are/article_9b7ed3d6-dd4b-5222-8c11-769983afc3fd.html

Aaron Maté on Twitter.com
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1215689196188422146
> And he's already done a lot. Back in 2017, Senator Sanders was the *only* member of the
> Democratic caucus in either chamber to vote against new sanctions on Iran.

Caitlin Johnstone on "Starvation Sanctions Are Worse Than Overt Warfare"
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/23/starvation-sanctions-are-worse-than-overt-warfare/
https://archive.md/wip/Cx3mn

Related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04BZ7_eaDB0 -- Rania Khalek on the lethality of sanctions.
https://sanctionskill.org/

US war in Vietnam was not just a mistake but a crime
https://monthlyreview.org/2016/12/01/lessons-from-the-vietnam-war/
https://www.laprogressive.com/vietnam-war-crime/

Norman Solomon "War With Iran is at Stake–and Democrats’ High Jump Over Low Standards Aren’t Helping"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/war-with-iran-is-at-stake-and-democrats-high-jump-over-low-standards-arent-helping/

Student Loan Repayment Programs for military members
http://www.military.com/education/money-for-school/student-loan-repayment.html
https://www.studentdebtrelief.us/news/does-the-military-pay-for-college/
https://studentloanhero.com/featured/strategies-army-officer-repay-68000-debt/ -- essentially a 
self-help ad for how to use one's military pay to pay down student debt.

Joseph Bauers on "Lies, lies, lies drive war theme"
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-lies-lies-lies-drive-war-theme/article_6848caac-e56e-542d-adde-df2cffd8ffca.html

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin briefing and "shitshow" reaction 
recordings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul01ILKtGVo
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/god-almighty-that-was-a-shitshow-white-house-reporter-blasts-pompeo-mnuchin-presser 
-- inadvertently on-mic reaction from a White House reporter saying "God almighty, that was a shitshow!"

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

Louis Proyect on "Project 1619 and Its Detractors"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/project-1619-and-its-detractors/

Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like"
https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like

Cedric Johnson's articles on nonsite.org
https://nonsite.org/author/cedjohnson

J.B. Nicholson's notes
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051768.html
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015599.html

-J