[Peace] AWARE on the Air, tonight at 10

[C. G. Estabrook]

Tonight at 10pm on channel six the C-U Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort presents a 
road-company version of the McLaughlin Group -- not a sporadic finite simple 
group, as mathematicians might think, but a weekly public affairs program 
cablecast on Urbana Public Television.

The group is finite but large, as attendance is sporadic, and tonight includes

   --Karen Medina describing upcoming local events, as recorded by Randall 
Cotton at the last AWARE meeting;
   --Conrad Wetzel reporting on a successful panel on post-traumatic stress 
disorder, sponsored by AWARE;
   --Barbara Kessel announcing events involving the "U.S. war corporation," 
Blackwater;
   --Ron Szoke wondering "Why did he do it?" and perhaps accepting Iago's (and 
Bush's?) motiveless malignancy;
   --Wayne Johnson reflecting on the fate of the Republic at the "Republican 
National Convention" [sic];
   --David Harley considering the American murder of civilians in Afghanistan;
   --and finally Mort Brussel offering some animadversions on electoral acumen, 
with yr. obdt. servt. answering in kind.

Tonight's program was supposed to conclude with a statement by the Brazilian 
journalist Pepe Escobar, who writes for the excellent Asia Times Online. (His 
prescient article, "Get Osama! Now! Or else...", was published by ATO two weeks 
before the attacks of 11 September 2001.)  Time ran out, then as now, first as 
tragedy and then as farce, but his curtain line (so to speak) is worth quoting:

"McCain and Obama are on the same wavelengths. What the US establishment wants, 
no matter who is elected in November, is still full-spectrum dominance."

	--CGE <www.newsfromneptune.com>