[Peace] UPTV programs this week

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Mort—

I’m delighted that you found the chat fascinating, and, yes, these are minimalist versions of the format for both shows: AWARE ON THE AIR is ideally a multi-member panel discussion, centering on US war; and NEWS FROM NEPTUNE, more extensive in topics and more concentrated in personnel (no more than three).

NEPTUNE began 25 years ago as un hommage to Chomsky’s ideas (hence the name), and his tilt to Clinton (because of the Republicans’ failure to recognize climate catastrophe) is the first serious position of his I can recall disagreeing with - and obviously not about climate change, just who was the lesser evil. And the jury is obviously out.

That said, I think it’s worth while to revisit Chomsky/Ashcar on Libya: their positions were not identical, and both were better informed on the situation than most. (Roughly, Chomsky thought the initial UN resolution could be justified, but definitely not the almost immediate hijacking of it by Clinton et al. for an air assault on Libya.)

And what Obama - and Putin - did in Syria is perhaps the worst reported (not by accident) story in the US media since the 1960s.

Inshallah, we’ll be able to talk about it in the new year. Thank you indeed for the encouragement. —CGE

 
> On Dec 31, 2016, at 11:21 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Congratulations on your impressive extemporaneous analyses and comments on the current state of affairs, domestic and foreign. I enjoyed listening. Maybe you will share your opinions in the near future on other critical issues; climate change and Trump's disdain thereof, and the “reset" towards the far east/China. Will Trump un reset?  The Syria situation needs emphasis—what is really going on there? Incidentally, Chomsky seems to favor a regime change there, as with his good friend Gilbert Ashcar, one of those on the “left" who advocated/supported the attack on Libya. 
> 
> A fascinating chat between the two of you. Will this format be repeated?
> 
> —mkb
> 
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>> On Dec 30, 2016, at 5:20 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> AWARE ON THE AIR - Episode #393 | Tuesday 27 December 2016.
>> Members and friends of AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana, present a weekly hour of discussion of the US government's war-making and its attendant racism: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzoJHMr_D2g>.
>> Produced and directed by Yousef Kash for Urbana (IL) Public TV.
>> 
>> NEWS FROM NEPTUNE - Episode #324, a Personal is Political edition | Friday 30 December 2016.
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NKkrwW7cIU>.
>> Since 1990, News from Neptune has been a weekly hour of spontaneous and unrehearsed discussion of the news of the week and its coverage by the media, first on a soi-disant community radio station, and now on Urbana (IL) Public TV.
>> This edition was produced and directed by Yousef Kash. The discussants are C. G. Estabrook and David Green.
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