[Peace] News from Neptune for 25 September 2015

[C. G. Estabrook]

News from Neptune #285 - a Public Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestic edition - on Urbana (IL) Public TV, 25 September 2015:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnsFpQlLIPo>.

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Materials referred to include

“Act now: support Pope's call to end arms trade” 
<https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/…>

Pope Decries “Shameful and Culpable Silence” on Arms Sales “Drenched in Innocent Blood”
<https://theintercept.com/…/pope-decries-shameful-culpable-…/>.

“Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman” (2015) by Greg Grandin

“How Does the Subaltern Speak? Postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril,” by Vivek Chibber
<https://www.jacobinmag.com/…/…/how-does-the-subaltern-speak/>

“U.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations: 2015 Proves to Be Record-Breaking Year for the Military’s Secret Military,” By Nick Turse 
<http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176048/>

“How America built its empire: The real history of American foreign policy that the media won’t tell you” 
<http://www.salon.com/…/how_america_built_its_empire_the_re…/>

“The War Nerd: Why is the F-35 Like an Albanian Mushroom?” 
<https://pando.com/…/069e2ba30f09f40e47df2d981dc160f9d33bb2…/>

“Imperial Brain Trust: The Council on Foreign Relations and United States Foreign Policy” (1977) by Lawrence H. Shoup & William Minter

“Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014” (2015) by Lawrence H. Shoup

“The real issues in the Salaita case: Palestine, neoliberalism, and the corporate university” by David Green on September 8, 2014 
<http://mondoweiss.net/…/…/neoliberalism-corporate-university>

“Response to Cary Nelson” by Robert Warrior 
<http://www.aaup.org/…/jo…/volume-6-2015/response-cary-nelson>

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Representative Rodney Davis (IL-13)
US House of Representatives
September 24, 2015

Dear Representative Davis:

After the Pope’s speech yesterday, any member of Congress who votes to purchase any more weapons for the Pentagon - or to give or sell weapons to countries like Saudi Arabia or Israel - should be driven from office. These votes need to be publicized.

Your predecessor, former Representative Timothy Johnson, although initially in favor of President Bush’s war-making, reversed himself and pledged to vote against any monies for war in the Mideast. You should do the same.

You should support former Representative Ron Paul’s call for dismantling foreign US military bases - there are hundreds of them around the world - and bringing all US troops (and mercenaries) home.

The US is not threatened with invasion, and US invasions of other countries, especially in the Mideast, have been the cause of vast misery, for which you and other members of Congress are responsible.

(Dr.) C. G. Estabrook
News from Neptune

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