[Peace] Politic worms

[kim kranich]

For me, truth and love are two different words for the same experience.  They are not separate from each other.

I enjoy News From Neptune.  Thanks forbthe program.

Kimberlie

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From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: Peace <peace at anti-war.net>
Sent: Sat, Jan 23, 2010 21:32:01 GMT+00:00
Subject: [Peace] Politic worms

News from Neptune on UPTV, Fridays 7pm, cable channel 6.

It's the 20th year for this program, which began as a Saturday morning 
discussion on local community radio.

The program begins from the conviction that, if you want to do the right thing, 
VERITAS precedes CARITAS - the truth is more important than love.  My favorite 
theologian, the late Oxford philosopher Herbert McCabe, used to say that 
holiness was not first of all about goodness, but about truth: if we can tell 
the truth about ourselves and our world, then goodness can take care of itself.

That seems to me right. The best will in the world can do the right thing only 
by accident, in the absence of an accurate analysis of the situation.

Our program has always been a spontaneous & unrehearsed discussion of the news 
of the week & its coverage by the media - in search of an accurate analysis.

But the task is not straightforward: Alexander Cockburn, proprietor of the best 
political newsletter on the web, CounterPunch.org, recently remarked - correctly 
it seems to me - "By and large, down the decades, the mainstream newspapers have 
— often rabidly — obstructed and sabotaged efforts to improve our social and 
political condition."

Our program's name, “News from Neptune,” honors Noam Chomsky, who to my mind has 
been talking sense about American politics for years.  Chomsky has said that -- 
in the US media -- “either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody 
is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from 
Neptune.”

My discussants on the program for the third week of January, 2010, are Wayne 
Johnson and Ron Szoke. Our format is to take up to 10 minutes each to talk about 
events of the week, and then take turns to ask one another questions about 
what's been said.

This edition was cablecast on January 22nd. On that day in 1521, Emperor Charles 
V, opened the Diet of Worms - in fact a meeting of the parliament, congress or 
Reichstag of the European Union in a small town on Rhine, but a favorite event 
for word-play by students of early modern history.  Even Shakespeare, who dearly 
loved a pun, couldn't resist: he has Hamlet say, when asked where is the body of 
the man he's just killed, that he's at supper:

	"At supper? Where?"
	"Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain
	convocation of politic worms are e'en at him."

So last week we were supposed to be "vagabonds & outlaws"; this week "politic 
worms" - gnawing on the body politic...

This program will be posted on the website <newsfromneptune.com>. I'd appreciate 
receiving your comments.   Inshallah, we'll be back next week with another 
edition, as we have for twenty years.

Confusion to our enemies. --CGE

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