[Peace-discuss] AWARE On The Air #502 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

AWARE On The Air #502
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3FuFvpvyeM

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Dr. Jill Stein on assassinating Soleimani
https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1213858241618337792

Jane Arraf followup to Dr. Jill Stein
https://twitter.com/janearraf/status/1213823941321592834

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an anti-war socialist
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from a letter to Coretta Scott in 1952:
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/21/mlk-was-a-socialist.html
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/coretta-scott

> "I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory
> than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to
> see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, viz, to
> block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems, it falls victim
> to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its
> usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses
> to give luxuries to the classes."

More quotes from MLK in https://boingboing.net/2019/01/21/mlk-was-a-socialist.html
> "As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told
> them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have
> tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that
> social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked,
> and rightly so, “What about Vietnam?” They asked if our own nation wasn’t using
> massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it
> wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my
> voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first
> spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own
> government. …"
> 
> “I started thinking about the fact that right here in our country we spend
> millions of dollars every day to store surplus food. And I said to myself: ‘I know
> where we can store that food free of charge — in the wrinkled stomachs of the
> millions of God’s children in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and even in our own
> nation, who go to bed hungry at night.’"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/16/1621178/-Dr-King-the-greatest-purveyor-of-violence-in-the-world-today-my-own-government 
-- one of the few things worth pointing to on this Democratic Party front group, 
"Daily Kos"



The ongoing Trump impeachment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEocwXiX2TQ -- Jimmy Dore and Stef Zamorano raise an 
interesting point on the impeachment:

> Jimmy Dore: [...T]he impeachment trial last night, last night I saw it was on
> [television] on the west coast. It was midnight, I flipped through the channels
> [and] it was still going on. So that's 3AM their time, right? That's nuts! Why do
> they pretend like they have to do that in the middle of the night?
> 
> Stef Zamorano: Why are they acting like this impeachment is such hard work and
> they couldn't be doing that shit all the time, getting us health care for
> everybody, giving us infrastructure, giving us a jobs program, working 24 hours
> until those things are handled.
> 
> Jimmy Dore: No shit, right?
> 
> Stef Zamorano: When have you seen Congress do that shit on behalf of the people
> like before they go out on vacation?
> 
> Jimmy Dore: Like, hey, we got to get to this-- there's people sleeping in the
> streets, we gotta address this right now. We got to do legislation at 3:00 in the
> morning. No. No. The only time they'll do shit like that is for bullshit like this
> [the Trump impeachment].

New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for Democratic Nominee
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/new-york-times-endorses-warren-klobuchar-940188/



Sheldon Richman on "Warmonger Cotton Accuses Antiwar Think Tank of Anti-Semitism"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/118648/


Notes from J.B. Nicholson
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051809.html



Aaron Maté interviews Scott Ritter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4


-J