From cgestabrook at gmail.com  Mon Jan  1 21:45:10 2018
From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 15:45:10 -0600
Subject: [Peace] No new AWARE ON THE AIR on Tuesday 2 January
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The regular recording of AWARE ON THE AIR on Tuesday 2 January is canceled.

—CGE

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Jan  2 13:30:09 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 13:30:09 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demonstration
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I’m sorry Carl, I don’t like to be so critical of your work, given I know you understand and speak on the issues with a depth of understanding above and beyond that of most. 

However, with the exception of the very first statement, this flyer focuses on “Trump," as if he was “the anti-war candidate.”  That may have been the thinking of some, but it was never the thinking of the majority of members of AWARE, nor the majority of the American people. And even if it was, we should be focused on war, not politics of the two/one Party system, since the continuation and escalation of perpetual “war/imperialism”  is merely a continuation of US foreign policy, no matter who is in power given our capitalist system.  

I don’t expect the flyer to represent my opinion in relation to the two Party’s or capitalism, as I believe it should represent all who are opposing war, whatever their political affiliation. 

This flyer does not represent AWARE. We have many flyers, you have constructed previously, that better reflects the situation with some updating. A mention of US intervention in the election of Honduras, turmoil in Iran, continuing military presence in Syria, Afghanistan, spread of military presence in the Sahel, with the continuing provocations of North Korea, China and Russia. 

No need to mention Russiagate or Trump. 

My humble opinion, and I will not comment on this topic any further. 


> On Jan 2, 2018, at 03:36, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> [It may be too cold to hold the regular AWARE anti-war demonstration scheduled for Saturday 6 January, but here's a proposed flyer on the state of US war-making. (One page, one side: small print.)]
> 
> IN THE PAST YEAR, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MADE WAR
> AROUND THE WORLD - AS IT HAS FOR YEARS. THAT MUST STOP.
> 
> The Arrival of Trump. One year ago, expectations for 2017 were running high. Donald Trump was about to take office, and predictions ranged from a new era of US policy pursuing peace and international partnership, to the US becoming a puppet of Russia, and even World War III. Of course, none of these happened, and such forecasts now seem as propagandistic in favor of established US policy as they probably should have at the time.
> 
> Trump’s evident ignorance of foreign and security issues, combined with his lack of loyal allies within Washington’s political establishment, made him vulnerable to the pressure and influence of the politicians, officials, think tanks, lobbyists, advisors and journalists representing the same special interest groups that had long driven US foreign policy. Within weeks, Trump confirmed senior officials with largely the same hostility for example towards Russia and/or Iran that might have been expected of Hillary Clinton.
> 
> Seeing him as a threat to the established order, elements within what might be called the Deep State [or ‘the permanent government’] targeted Trump in a relentless campaign to undermine his credibility and threaten his removal from office. Perhaps fearing international isolation if Trump delivered on his campaign promises to restore good relations with Russia and end US support for the war in Syria, the ‘intelligence services’ [CIA, NSA, etc.] appear to have been a key driver of this.
> 
> But Trump left no doubt as to US priorities by making Saudi Arabia and Israel his first overseas visits – coinciding with a massive Saudi arms deal and planned increase in US military aid to Israel.
> 
> For the Washington lobbyists and US foreign policy establishment, this was business as usual. Yet it was in respect of Syria a month earlier that Trump learned how he was expected to behave.
> 
> Syria, Iraq and the Middle East. In response to an alleged chemical attack at Khan Sheikhun in April, Trump without waiting for any investigation launched cruise missiles at Syrian forces. In doing so, he immediately gained the (albeit short lived) approval of the same US politicians and media who for months had remorselessly condemned him.
> 
> Trump’s missile attack was largely symbolic however, causing little damage to Syria’s military capability and having no impact upon the largely successful prosecution of the war against Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and other rebel groups that over the last year has arguably brought the country now closer to a restoration of peace than at any time since 2011. This was helped not only by the military support of Russia and Iran, by also by their cooperation with Turkey in attempting to forge a realistic peace process, with the long and destructive ‘Assad must go’ mantra of the US and its allies now rendered irrelevant.
> 
> 2017 was particularly a year of relative tranquility for the people of Syria’s largest city Aleppo, which until its retaking by Syrian forces in December 2016 had for years been largely occupied by US UK backed, Islamist dominated rebels.
> 
> US politicians and media had for months daily warned that massacres would be perpetrated by the Syrian government “if Aleppo fell,” but these didn’t occur – just as they also hadn’t occurred in other recaptured cities, such as Homs. Meanwhile, throughout 2017 displaced civilians began returning in large numbers to their homes – suggesting that US claims that it had been Assad they’d been fleeing from, rather than war or the rebels the US and UK had backed, were likely wrong.
> 
> While perhaps forced to do so by the reality of the battlefield, Trump did seem to honor his pledge to stop US funding and arming of Syria’s rebels. With it largely at an end, the massive scale of the arming program was at last publicly revealed, laying to rest the long US media-propagated myth of US policy in Syria having been one of non-intervention.
> 
> Not only did the arming of Syria’s rebels fuel and prolong a war that has killed some 400,000 people, but also many of the arms supplied by the US and its allies ended up in the hands of the same Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists the US and its allies were purporting to fight. But the US and its allies have long regarded Islamist forces as a useful foreign policy tool, regardless of their disdain of democracy, human rights or other claimed ‘US values.’
> 
> Even three years after its air campaign to “degrade” IS began, evidence continued to emerge over the last year to suggest the US and its allies still see IS as much as an asset as an enemy to be destroyed. In December 2016 for example, despite intensive US surveillance, IS forces were able to cross open desert to attack Palmyra, just at the time US backed rebels were under intense military pressure in Aleppo.
> 
> Similarly, the US reportedly facilitated the escape of IS fighters from Raqqa, and appeared to strike a deal with IS fighters to allow the US’ SDF proxies an unopposed advance in their race to seize Deir ez-Zor oilfields, thereby preventing their retaking by forces loyal to Assad. This illustrates how even now, the uninvited and hence unlawful US presence in Syria continues.
> 
> As in Syria, 2017 also saw IS largely defeated in Iraq. US-led airstrikes undoubtedly played a role in this – but at great civilian loss of life that barely featured in US UK media, unlike the daily coverage of alleged mass civilian casualties when Syria and Russia were, for example, carrying out operations in Aleppo. Indeed, only now is the extent of US-led killing of civilians in, for example, Raqqa and Mosul starting to receive prominent coverage in US UK media.
> 
> The same applies to the Saudi air campaign and blockade against Yemen which, using US and UK supplied weapons, continued throughout the year at catastrophic civilian cost, yet which receives only infrequent and mainly uncritical coverage in a US UK media that mostly would rather parrot US and Israeli claims that Iran is the source of the region’s instability.
> 
> Russia, Russia, Russia. 2017 was the year Russia was blamed by Western politicians and media for everything. Russia was blamed for cyber-attacks, despite little evidence being offered, and despite that in some cases the blame for the attack seemed to shift according to which ‘enemy’ state was most in need of vilification at the time.
> 
> Throughout 2017, it was also repeatedly reported that Russia is interfering in other countries’ elections and referendums. These claims are often reported as fact yet, despite long running and intensive investigations, the hard evidence to support such allegations remains almost entirely absent – for example in Germany, France, the US and the UK.
> 
> US Decline? The recent UN votes against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and for example the US position on climate change and Iran, show a US arguably more isolated from world opinion, including even its close allies, than at any time in recent history.
> 
> Yet rather than work to cultivate partnerships to deal with common issues such as Korea or terrorism, the US continues to publicly designate potential allies as enemies, as for example in its recent security strategy document – and to seek confrontation rather than cooperation, as arguably in its decision to send arms to Ukraine.
> 
> The US remains the world’s most powerful nation. But unless it can be forced to act in the interests of peace, stability, of its own people and the wider world rather than in the narrow interests of the American economic elite - the ‘corporate globalists’ who often appear to be driving its policies - its influence in an increasingly multipolar world will likely decline. If 2017 is any guide, it seems perhaps even less likely now that Trump will prevent this than it did a year ago.
> 
> [Adapted by cge from <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fop-edge%2F414697-trump-us-russia-jerusalem%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc9e422246b77478f846b08d551d52c9e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636504898374559305&sdata=0BbAsXwtwixCmwX0da21ikZ0nC5ZwcAXLmhFv5YV5Jo%3D&reserved=0>]
> 
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Jan  2 14:19:57 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:19:57 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Powerful Hollywood Women Unveil Anti-Harassment Plan,
 Collective Action for all women.
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Now we’re getting somewhere, collective action, not just for Hollywood stars but for working class women as well. Go Ladies go!!!!

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Some of the women who have established Time’s Up, clockwise from top left: the actresses America Ferrera and Eva Longoria; the lawyer Nina L. Shaw; the actress Reese Witherspoon; the producer Shonda Rhimes; and the lawyer Tina Tchen.CreditClockwise from top left: first two photos, Brinson+Banks for The New York Times; Oriana Koren for The New York Times; Jimmy Morris/European Pressphoto Agency; Brinson+Banks for The New York Times; Alex Wong/Getty Images

Driven by outrage and a resolve to correct a power imbalance that seemed intractable just months ago, 300 prominent actresses and female agents, writers, directors, producers and entertainment executives have formed an ambitious, sprawling initiative to fight systemic sexual harassment in Hollywood and in blue-collar workplaces nationwide.

The initiative includes:

— A legal defense fund, backed by $13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses and workers at farms, factories, restaurants and hotels — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it.

— Legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims.

— A drive to reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that has already begun making headway.

— And a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black.

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Called Time’s <https://www.timesupnow.com/> Up<https://www.timesupnow.com/>, the movement was announced on Monday with an impassioned pledge of support to working-class women in an open letter signed by hundreds of women in show business, many of them A-listers. The letter also ran as a full-page ad in The New York Times, and in La Opinion, a Spanish-language newspaper.

“The struggle for women to break in, to rise up the ranks and to simply be heard and acknowledged in male-dominated workplaces must end; time’s up on this impenetrable monopoly,” the letter says.

The group is one answer to the question of how women in Hollywood would respond to cascading allegations that have upended the careers of powerful men in an industry where the prevalence of sexual predation has yielded the minimizing cliché of the “casting couch,” and where silence has been a condition of employment.

Time’s Up also helps defuse criticism that the spotlight on the #MeToo movement has been dominated by the accusers of high-profile men, while the travails of working-class women have been overlooked<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/us/the-metoo-moment-blue-collar-women-ask-what-about-us.html>.

This was highlighted in November, when an open letter was sent on behalf of 700,000 female farmworkers<http://time.com/5018813/farmworkers-solidarity-hollywood-sexual-assault/> who said they stood with Hollywood actresses in their fight against abuse. Time’s Up members said the letter bolstered their resolve to train their efforts on both Hollywood and beyond.

“It’s very hard for us to speak righteously about the rest of anything if we haven’t cleaned our own house,” said Shonda Rhimes, the executive producer of the television series “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Scandal” and “How to Get Away With Murder,” who has been closely involved with the group.

“If this group of women can’t fight for a model for other women who don’t have as much power and privilege, then who can?” Ms. Rhimes continued.

Other Time’s Up members include the actresses Ashley Judd, Eva Longoria, America Ferrera, Natalie Portman, Rashida Jones, Emma Stone, Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon;<https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/movies/reese-witherspoon-goes-against-type-in-wild.html> the showrunner Jill Soloway; Donna Langley, chairwoman of Universal Pictures; the lawyers Nina L. Shaw<https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/movies/shes-the-hollywood-power-behind-those-seeking-a-voice.html> and Tina Tchen, who served as Michelle Obama’s chief of staff; and Maria Eitel, an expert in corporate responsibility who is co-chairwoman of the Nike Foundation.

“People were moved so viscerally,” said Ms. Eitel, who helps moderate Time’s Up meetings, which began in October. “They didn’t come together because they wanted to whine, or complain, or tell a story or bemoan. They came together because they intended to act. There was almost a ferociousness to it, especially in the first meetings.”

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Time’s Up is leaderless, run by volunteers and made up of working groups. One group oversaw the creation of a commission, led by Anita Hill<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/movies/anita-hill-hollywood-commission-sexual-harassment.html>and announced in December, that is tasked with creating a blueprint for ending sexual harassment in show business.

Another group, 50/50by2020<https://5050by2020.com/>, is pushing entertainment organizations and companies to agree to reach gender parity in their leadership tiers within two years. It already can claim a victory. In early December<https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/icm-partners-pledges-reach-50-50-gender-parity-by-2020-1064634>, after Ms. Rhimes pressed him, Chris Silbermann, a managing director at ICM Partners, pledged that his talent agency would meet that goal.

“We just reached this conclusion in our heads that, damn it, everything is possible,” Ms. Rhimes said. “Why shouldn’t it be?”

There is also a group ensuring that minorities and gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people are heard. “No one wants to look back and say they stood at the sidelines,” said Lena Waithe, a star of the Netflix series “Master of None” and part of that working group.

Another group is devising legislation to tackle abuses and address how nondisclosure agreements silence victims of sexual harassment. “People settling out in advance of their rights is obviously something that can’t continue,” said Ms. Shaw, a prominent lawyer whose clients have included Lupita Nyong’o and Ava DuVernay.

Ms. Tchen is spearheading the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which is administered by the National Women’s Law Center’s Legal Network for Gender Equity, and will connect female victims of sexual harassment with lawyers. Major donors include Ms. Witherspoon, Ms. Rhimes, Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, and the talent agencies ICM Partners, the Creative Artists Agency, William Morris Endeavor and United Talent Agency.

Time’s Up has also been urging women to wear black at the Golden Globes on Sunday, to use the red carpet to speak out against gender and racial inequality, and to raise awareness about their initiative and the legal fund.

“This is a moment of solidarity, not a fashion moment,” Ms. Longoria said. A vast majority of the women who had been contacted and planned to attend the ceremony pledged to participate, she said.

“For years, we’ve sold these awards shows as women, with our gowns and colors and our beautiful faces and our glamour,” Ms. Longoria said. “This time the industry can’t expect us to go up and twirl around. That’s not what this moment is about.”

Time’s Up was formed soon after The New York Times reported in early October that the producer Harvey Weinstein<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html> had reached multiple settlements with women who had accused him of sexual misconduct.

As more women stepped forward, and more men were accused of abuse, a group of female talent agents met at Creative Artists to discuss the problem and explore solutions. The group soon expanded to dozens and, eventually, about 150 participants (it has since doubled as the actresses who joined expanded to New York and London), who meet weekly at the agency and in living rooms across Los Angeles, as well as for daylong workshops.

Katie McGrath, who runs the production company Bad Robot with her husband, J. J. Abrams (both are also major donors to the legal fund)<https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/movies/jj-abrams-takes-steps-to-lift-diversity-in-filmmaking.html>, said that the women realized from the start that they needed to figure out “what we wanted out of this moment, and what was going to be required in order to shift and pivot from this horror to structural change.”

Several of the women said their work with Time’s Up presented a rare opportunity to meet regularly and pool efforts with other powerful women. In an industry overwhelmingly dominated by men, they said, they were usually one of the few actresses on set, or one of the few female writers or producers in a room.

“We have been siloed off from each other,” Ms. Witherspoon said. “We’re finally hearing each other, and seeing each other, and now locking arms in solidarity with each other, and in solidarity for every woman who doesn’t feel seen, to be finally heard.”

No one can predict whether this burst of energy will lead to lasting changes. Time’s Up members said the meetings had brought disagreements and frustrations as well. “It’s not as satisfying as finding a silver bullet,” Ms. Ferrera said. “We all recognize there’s no such thing.” But, she added, “not taking action is no longer an option.”

Ms. Rhimes said working with the group of women reminded her of a feeling she got as a child, when her mother took her around the neighborhood in a wagon to register black women to vote. “We’re a bunch of women used to getting stuff done,” she said. “And we’re getting stuff done.”
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If and when time allows.

> On Jan 2, 2018, at 06:44, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Why don’t you write a one-page flyer that gets those things together?
> 
> This one was taken from an RT article, but an original one will be better.
> 
> Do a draft, and I’ll suggest edits.
> 
> Or edit this one, to include what you want. —CGE
> 
> 
>> On Jan 2, 2018, at 7:30 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I’m sorry Carl, I don’t like to be so critical of your work, given I know you understand and speak on the issues with a depth of understanding above and beyond that of most. 
>> 
>> However, with the exception of the very first statement, this flyer focuses on “Trump," as if he was “the anti-war candidate.”  That may have been the thinking of some, but it was never the thinking of the majority of members of AWARE, nor the majority of the American people. And even if it was, we should be focused on war, not politics of the two/one Party system, since the continuation and escalation of perpetual “war/imperialism”  is merely a continuation of US foreign policy, no matter who is in power given our capitalist system.  
>> 
>> I don’t expect the flyer to represent my opinion in relation to the two Party’s or capitalism, as I believe it should represent all who are opposing war, whatever their political affiliation. 
>> 
>> This flyer does not represent AWARE. We have many flyers, you have constructed previously, that better reflects the situation with some updating. A mention of US intervention in the election of Honduras, turmoil in Iran, continuing military presence in Syria, Afghanistan, spread of military presence in the Sahel, with the continuing provocations of North Korea, China and Russia. 
>> 
>> No need to mention Russiagate or Trump. 
>> 
>> My humble opinion, and I will not comment on this topic any further. 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 2, 2018, at 03:36, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [It may be too cold to hold the regular AWARE anti-war demonstration scheduled for Saturday 6 January, but here's a proposed flyer on the state of US war-making. (One page, one side: small print.)]
>>> 
>>> IN THE PAST YEAR, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MADE WAR
>>> AROUND THE WORLD - AS IT HAS FOR YEARS. THAT MUST STOP.
>>> 
>>> The Arrival of Trump. One year ago, expectations for 2017 were running high. Donald Trump was about to take office, and predictions ranged from a new era of US policy pursuing peace and international partnership, to the US becoming a puppet of Russia, and even World War III. Of course, none of these happened, and such forecasts now seem as propagandistic in favor of established US policy as they probably should have at the time.
>>> 
>>> Trump’s evident ignorance of foreign and security issues, combined with his lack of loyal allies within Washington’s political establishment, made him vulnerable to the pressure and influence of the politicians, officials, think tanks, lobbyists, advisors and journalists representing the same special interest groups that had long driven US foreign policy. Within weeks, Trump confirmed senior officials with largely the same hostility for example towards Russia and/or Iran that might have been expected of Hillary Clinton.
>>> 
>>> Seeing him as a threat to the established order, elements within what might be called the Deep State [or ‘the permanent government’] targeted Trump in a relentless campaign to undermine his credibility and threaten his removal from office. Perhaps fearing international isolation if Trump delivered on his campaign promises to restore good relations with Russia and end US support for the war in Syria, the ‘intelligence services’ [CIA, NSA, etc.] appear to have been a key driver of this.
>>> 
>>> But Trump left no doubt as to US priorities by making Saudi Arabia and Israel his first overseas visits – coinciding with a massive Saudi arms deal and planned increase in US military aid to Israel.
>>> 
>>> For the Washington lobbyists and US foreign policy establishment, this was business as usual. Yet it was in respect of Syria a month earlier that Trump learned how he was expected to behave.
>>> 
>>> Syria, Iraq and the Middle East. In response to an alleged chemical attack at Khan Sheikhun in April, Trump without waiting for any investigation launched cruise missiles at Syrian forces. In doing so, he immediately gained the (albeit short lived) approval of the same US politicians and media who for months had remorselessly condemned him.
>>> 
>>> Trump’s missile attack was largely symbolic however, causing little damage to Syria’s military capability and having no impact upon the largely successful prosecution of the war against Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and other rebel groups that over the last year has arguably brought the country now closer to a restoration of peace than at any time since 2011. This was helped not only by the military support of Russia and Iran, by also by their cooperation with Turkey in attempting to forge a realistic peace process, with the long and destructive ‘Assad must go’ mantra of the US and its allies now rendered irrelevant.
>>> 
>>> 2017 was particularly a year of relative tranquility for the people of Syria’s largest city Aleppo, which until its retaking by Syrian forces in December 2016 had for years been largely occupied by US UK backed, Islamist dominated rebels.
>>> 
>>> US politicians and media had for months daily warned that massacres would be perpetrated by the Syrian government “if Aleppo fell,” but these didn’t occur – just as they also hadn’t occurred in other recaptured cities, such as Homs. Meanwhile, throughout 2017 displaced civilians began returning in large numbers to their homes – suggesting that US claims that it had been Assad they’d been fleeing from, rather than war or the rebels the US and UK had backed, were likely wrong.
>>> 
>>> While perhaps forced to do so by the reality of the battlefield, Trump did seem to honor his pledge to stop US funding and arming of Syria’s rebels. With it largely at an end, the massive scale of the arming program was at last publicly revealed, laying to rest the long US media-propagated myth of US policy in Syria having been one of non-intervention.
>>> 
>>> Not only did the arming of Syria’s rebels fuel and prolong a war that has killed some 400,000 people, but also many of the arms supplied by the US and its allies ended up in the hands of the same Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists the US and its allies were purporting to fight. But the US and its allies have long regarded Islamist forces as a useful foreign policy tool, regardless of their disdain of democracy, human rights or other claimed ‘US values.’
>>> 
>>> Even three years after its air campaign to “degrade” IS began, evidence continued to emerge over the last year to suggest the US and its allies still see IS as much as an asset as an enemy to be destroyed. In December 2016 for example, despite intensive US surveillance, IS forces were able to cross open desert to attack Palmyra, just at the time US backed rebels were under intense military pressure in Aleppo.
>>> 
>>> Similarly, the US reportedly facilitated the escape of IS fighters from Raqqa, and appeared to strike a deal with IS fighters to allow the US’ SDF proxies an unopposed advance in their race to seize Deir ez-Zor oilfields, thereby preventing their retaking by forces loyal to Assad. This illustrates how even now, the uninvited and hence unlawful US presence in Syria continues.
>>> 
>>> As in Syria, 2017 also saw IS largely defeated in Iraq. US-led airstrikes undoubtedly played a role in this – but at great civilian loss of life that barely featured in US UK media, unlike the daily coverage of alleged mass civilian casualties when Syria and Russia were, for example, carrying out operations in Aleppo. Indeed, only now is the extent of US-led killing of civilians in, for example, Raqqa and Mosul starting to receive prominent coverage in US UK media.
>>> 
>>> The same applies to the Saudi air campaign and blockade against Yemen which, using US and UK supplied weapons, continued throughout the year at catastrophic civilian cost, yet which receives only infrequent and mainly uncritical coverage in a US UK media that mostly would rather parrot US and Israeli claims that Iran is the source of the region’s instability.
>>> 
>>> Russia, Russia, Russia. 2017 was the year Russia was blamed by Western politicians and media for everything. Russia was blamed for cyber-attacks, despite little evidence being offered, and despite that in some cases the blame for the attack seemed to shift according to which ‘enemy’ state was most in need of vilification at the time.
>>> 
>>> Throughout 2017, it was also repeatedly reported that Russia is interfering in other countries’ elections and referendums. These claims are often reported as fact yet, despite long running and intensive investigations, the hard evidence to support such allegations remains almost entirely absent – for example in Germany, France, the US and the UK.
>>> 
>>> US Decline? The recent UN votes against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and for example the US position on climate change and Iran, show a US arguably more isolated from world opinion, including even its close allies, than at any time in recent history.
>>> 
>>> Yet rather than work to cultivate partnerships to deal with common issues such as Korea or terrorism, the US continues to publicly designate potential allies as enemies, as for example in its recent security strategy document – and to seek confrontation rather than cooperation, as arguably in its decision to send arms to Ukraine.
>>> 
>>> The US remains the world’s most powerful nation. But unless it can be forced to act in the interests of peace, stability, of its own people and the wider world rather than in the narrow interests of the American economic elite - the ‘corporate globalists’ who often appear to be driving its policies - its influence in an increasingly multipolar world will likely decline. If 2017 is any guide, it seems perhaps even less likely now that Trump will prevent this than it did a year ago.
>>> 
>>> [Adapted by cge from <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fop-edge%2F414697-trump-us-russia-jerusalem%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc9e422246b77478f846b08d551d52c9e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636504898374559305&sdata=0BbAsXwtwixCmwX0da21ikZ0nC5ZwcAXLmhFv5YV5Jo%3D&reserved=0>]
>>> 
>>> ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois>
>>> ~ U.S. troops and weapons out of the Mideast ~ Medicare for all ~ universal basic income ~
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> 


From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Jan  2 15:09:22 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:09:22 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demonstration
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I have gone through and done a quick edit, for now.

Will get back to it later with more. Others may wish to add or subtract from that which either you or I have done.

> 
> IN THE PAST YEAR, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MADE WAR
> AROUND THE WORLD - AS IT HAS FOR YEARS. THAT MUST STOP.
> 
> 
> The Trump Administration left no doubt as to US priorities by making Saudi Arabia and Israel his first overseas visits – coinciding with a massive Saudi arms deal and planned increase in US military aid to Israel.
> 
> For the Washington lobbyists and US foreign policy establishment, this was business as usual. 
> 
> Not only did the arming of Syria’s rebels fuel and prolong a war that has killed some 400,000 people, but also many of the arms supplied by the US and its allies ended up in the hands of the same Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists the US and its allies were purporting to fight. But the US and its allies have long regarded Islamist forces as a useful foreign policy tool, regardless of their disdain of democracy, human rights or other claimed ‘US values.’
> 
> Similarly, the US reportedly facilitated the escape of IS fighters from Raqqa, and appeared to strike a deal with IS fighters to allow the US’ SDF proxies an unopposed advance in their race to seize Deir ez-Zor oilfields, thereby preventing their retaking by forces loyal to Assad. This illustrates how even now, the uninvited and hence unlawful US presence in Syria continues.
> 
> As in Syria, 2017 also saw IS largely defeated in Iraq. US-led airstrikes undoubtedly played a role in this – but at great civilian loss of life. 
> 
> The same applies to The Saudi air campaign and blockade against Yemen which, using US and UK supplied weapons, training and logistics support continues
> 
> US Decline? The recent UN votes against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and for example the US position on climate change and Iran, show a US arguably more isolated from world opinion, including even its close allies, than at any time in recent history.
> 
> Yet rather than work to cultivate partnerships to deal with common issues such as Korea or terrorism, the US continues to publicly designate potential allies as enemies, as for example in its recent security strategy document – and to seek confrontation rather than cooperation, as arguably in its decision to send arms to Ukraine.
> 
> The US remains the world’s most powerful nation. But unless it can be forced to act in the interests of peace, stability, of its own people and the wider world rather than in the narrow interests of the American economic elite - the ‘corporate globalists’ who are driving its policies - its influence in an increasingly multipolar world is bringing humanity to the precipice of doom. 
> 
> ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois>
>                  ~ U.S. troops and weapons out of the Mideast ~ 
> 
> ###
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Jan  2 15:21:58 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 15:21:58 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demonstration
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We need to add something in relation to the most recent provocations of China, sanctions against Iran and N. Korea, as well as planned war across the nations of the Sahel. 

 I will see what I can come up with later, but if you or anyone else can provide……..sticking to the issue of (war, and what the USG is doing in relation to foreign policy) 

Other than “Costs of War” I don’t think our domestic concerns belong in the Anti-war “flyer.” We need to keep it simple, for the many who don’t even know we’re at war with currently eight nations. We want people to read the flyer. 

We can do other flyers with more in-depth information for the Market in the Spring, or for distribution at events. 
> 
>> 
>> IN THE PAST YEAR, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MADE WAR
>> AROUND THE WORLD - AS IT HAS FOR YEARS. THAT MUST STOP.
>> 
>> 
>> The Trump Administration left no doubt as to US priorities by making Saudi Arabia and Israel his first overseas visits – coinciding with a massive Saudi arms deal and planned increase in US military aid to Israel.
>> 
>> For the Washington lobbyists and US foreign policy establishment, this was business as usual. 
>> 
>> Not only did the arming of Syria’s rebels fuel and prolong a war that has killed some 400,000 people, but also many of the arms supplied by the US and its allies ended up in the hands of the same Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terrorists the US and its allies were purporting to fight. But the US and its allies have long regarded Islamist forces as a useful foreign policy tool, regardless of their disdain of democracy, human rights or other claimed ‘US values.’
>> 
>> Similarly, the US reportedly facilitated the escape of IS fighters from Raqqa, and appeared to strike a deal with IS fighters to allow the US’ SDF proxies an unopposed advance in their race to seize Deir ez-Zor oilfields, thereby preventing their retaking by forces loyal to Assad. This illustrates how even now, the uninvited and hence unlawful US presence in Syria continues.
>> 
>> As in Syria, 2017 also saw IS largely defeated in Iraq. US-led airstrikes undoubtedly played a role in this – but at great civilian loss of life. 
>> 
>> The same applies to The Saudi air campaign and blockade against Yemen which, using US and UK supplied weapons, training and logistics support continues
>> 
>> US Decline? The recent UN votes against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and for example the US position on climate change and Iran, show a US arguably more isolated from world opinion, including even its close allies, than at any time in recent history.
>> 
>> Yet rather than work to cultivate partnerships to deal with common issues such as Korea or terrorism, the US continues to publicly designate potential allies as enemies, as for example in its recent security strategy document – and to seek confrontation rather than cooperation, as arguably in its decision to send arms to Ukraine.
>> 
>> The US remains the world’s most powerful nation. But unless it can be forced to act in the interests of peace, stability, of its own people and the wider world rather than in the narrow interests of the American economic elite - the ‘corporate globalists’ who are driving its policies - its influence in an increasingly multipolar world is bringing humanity to the precipice of doom. 
>> 
>> ANTI-WAR ANTI-RACISM EFFORT - on Facebook at <AWARE of Champaign Urbana Illinois>
>>                 ~ U.S. troops and weapons out of the Mideast ~ 
>> 
>> ###
>> _______________________________________________
>> Peace-discuss mailing list
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Jan  3 02:54:33 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 02:54:33 +0000
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From niloofar.peace at gmail.com  Wed Jan  3 23:09:00 2018
From: niloofar.peace at gmail.com (Niloofar Shambayati)
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 17:09:00 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: discussing the costs of war
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> ​Hello everyone,
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> ​Representative Carol Ammons will be hosting a panel discussion ​on the
>> threats of nuclear war, the role of the U.S. in conflicts around the world,
>> the impacts of war on the . Please attend and participate in the
>> discussions:
>>  FB event <https://www.facebook.com/events/199644257272055/>
>> ​.
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> The event will also kick off the establishment of the Illinois
>>  chapter of WAND <https://www.wand.org/about/brief-history-of-wand/>
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Details of the program will be posted ​soon.

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From davegreen84 at yahoo.com  Thu Jan  4 15:03:06 2018
From: davegreen84 at yahoo.com (David Green)
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 15:03:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Peace] Saturday demo
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The forecast is even worse than previously, down to a high of 8. Obviously not a good day to stand outside.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Jan  4 15:22:55 2018
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 15:22:55 +0000
Subject: [Peace] The Role of Women in Stopping Nuclear War Program,
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With the threat of nuclear warning growing, now more than ever it is critical we bring to the table the voices of those directly impacted by war and organize ourselves to advocate for peaceful solutions.

Join Representative Carol Ammons and a panel of experts discussing topics ranging from historical overview of United States involvement in global conflict, current international relations between the United States and key countries, experiences of military personnel who have served on the ground during wartime, and hear the experiences of those who have been forced to relocate because of war.

The panel is the kickoff event to starting the Illinois Chapter of Women's Action for New Directions (WAND). WAND empowers women to be agents of change to reduce violence and militarism, support nuclear disarmament, and redirect excessive Pentagon spending to unmet human and environmental needs.

*All are welcome to attend the panel and join the Illinois Chapter of WAND.
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Fri Jan  5 03:58:10 2018
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 21:58:10 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Saturday demo
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Yes, thanks David. I have been outside walking a fair amount this week, and I think standing still in that wind tunnel for two hours in this bitter cold just might be life threatening to our most faithful precious anti war activists.
I would be willing to draw a chalk outline on the sidewalk with the words, "stop the wars" and call it a day. Ten minutes tops. Then some warm coffee and conversation. 

Karen Medina

-------- Original message --------From: David Green via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> Date: 1/4/18  09:03  (GMT-06:00) To: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, Peace List <peace at lists.chambana.net> Subject: [Peace] Saturday demo 
The forecast is even worse than previously, down to a high of 8. Obviously not a good day to stand outside.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Jan  6 14:51:49 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 14:51:49 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Trump's not another Hitler: he's
	another Obama
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Brilliant article, one of those “I wish I could say it the way she does.”

However, two points left out, minor if one looks at the big picture, but important to those now struggling due to the “new tax increase, favoring only the elites” implemented by the neocons, as well as the “austerity, and lack of jobs forcing many young people to join the military." Desperation has more to do with families sending off their young to fight in wars for Oligarchs, than “pride."
Add to this deregulation of Net Neutrality, taking place under the Trump administration, being supported by our local Republican, opposed by our two local Democrats. I’m not dismissing the censorship imposed by Obama, especially, incarceration of  “whistleblowers” but with the appointees by Trump heading up our institutions, it’s looking very much like fascism in the fast lane, as we destroy our institutions, and social services.

Social services and programs as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security maybe neoliberal, but without which, many people will sicken and die.

All that being said, yes, Caitlyn is right, it’s the “system, good cop vs. bad cop” that the people need to rise up against, and overturn, not just go after the Administration, or depend on elections, which we know are rigged.


On Jan 6, 2018, at 01:54, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:


Not a lot of people remember this, but George W Bush actually campaigned in 2000 against the interventionist foreign policy<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DF9SOVzMV2bc&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=z5HdGqIgjUrYN91d8BucersCT4ncW5QGIrJ78z2XTM4%3D&reserved=0> that the United States had been increasingly espousing. Far from advocating the full-scale regime change ground invasions that his administration is now infamous for, Bush frequently used the word “humble” when discussing the type of foreign policy he favored, condemning nation-building, an over-extended military, and the notion that America should be the world’s police force.

Eight years later, after hundreds of thousands of human lives had been snuffed out in Iraq and Afghanistan and an entire region horrifically destabilized, Obama campaigned against Bush’s interventionist foreign policy, edging out Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries partly because she had supported the Iraq invasion while he had condemned it. The Democrats, decrying the warmongering tendencies of the Republicans, elected a President of the United States who would see Bush’s Afghanistan and Iraq and raise him<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politifact.com%2Ftexas%2Fstatements%2F2016%2Foct%2F21%2Fjill-stein%2Fjill-stein-green-party-candidate-correct-about-us-%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=VE1%2BpopHxYHAX1Dbol96pcXhVasVwceFikXPBaLgFrI%3D&reserved=0> Libya, Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia, along with a tenfold increase in drone strikes<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebureauinvestigates.com%2Fstories%2F2017-01-17%2Fobamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=%2BXJa%2BeLzFdNGUhP2bIED1lEtucNHGM%2F8R62tYTov8tI%3D&reserved=0>. Libya collapsed into a failed state<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnationalinterest.org%2Fblog%2Fthe-skeptics%2Flibya-failed-state-its-americas-fault-23325&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=EIuu8vb%2Burdu1XTeucCeUWSe%2Bbf2y%2Fkc6rfMnInSoEs%3D&reserved=0> where a slave trade now runs rampant<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Flibyan-slave-trade-commodification_us_5a4f96a8e4b089e14dba6860&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=rm%2B1s5a1QMFtPy28aQ5mkn1CLOKkiwC%2FQNqUdFph24s%3D&reserved=0>, and half a million people died<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iamsyria.org%2Fdeath-tolls.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=TN48vYnmE03oOAVQizHOFrsQcPGttbci%2BVHWJoRbK9w%3D&reserved=0> in the Syrian war that Obama and US allies exponentially escalated<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40caityjohnstone%2Fthe-war-on-syria-can-show-you-whats-happening-in-our-world-6df7de60fd27&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=2hAXmRnMeGuppWxYV352yHaSB5G3%2BVTUHGQldxJoq2o%3D&reserved=0>.

Eight years later, a reality TV star and WWE Hall-of-Famer was elected President of the United States by the other half of the crowd who was sick to death of those warmongering Democrats. Trump campaigned on a non-interventionist foreign policy<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Fus-usa-trump-military%2Ftrump-lays-out-non-interventionist-u-s-military-policy-idUSKBN13W06L&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=dZBCWI5QA%2F9NeIUdAz0NPULTPjlKKg%2BOuHCxXkoNp5A%3D&reserved=0>, saying America should fight terrorists but not enter into regime change wars with other governments. He thrashed his primary opponents as the only one willing to unequivocally condemn Bush and his actions, then won the general election partly by attacking the interventionist foreign policy of his predecessor and his opponent, and criticizing Hillary Clinton’s hawkish no-fly zone agenda in Syria.

Now he’s approved the selling of arms to Ukraine<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdailysignal.com%2F2017%2F12%2F21%2Ftrump-approves-us-lethal-weapons-sales-ukraine-angering-moscow%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=4PWNnyATBz9fqNky8b2K7Cr01hpQTUdbr23wcr2S1us%3D&reserved=0> to use against Russia, a dangerously hawkish move that even Obama refused to make<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F06%2F12%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fdefying-obama-many-in-congress-press-to-arm-ukraine.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=W1%2Fe1Xq1C6%2BdUGvCsrFMySWPMEVDiem3O1S1TWvMAC0%3D&reserved=0> for fear of increasing tensions with Moscow. His administration has escalated troop presence in Afghanistan<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fworld%2F2017%2F9%2F19%2F16227730%2Ftrump-afghanistan-3000-troops-mattis&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=FBbBnx79Us8XAxEwzIWnAm8FbNsEl0aNu%2Bcrs3C5g18%3D&reserved=0> and made it abundantly clear that the Pentagon has no intention<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fjim-mattis-on-syria-were-not-just-going-to-walk-away-after-isis%2Farticle%2F2176990&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=%2Fcx0%2BKoQWc2GOXkkWV%2FQXAjliCLh9cw0b7THIb3khKE%3D&reserved=0> of leaving Syria anytime soon despite the absence of any reasonable justification<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.strategic-culture.org%2Fnews%2F2017%2F11%2F17%2Fsecretary-mattis-off-base-us-military-presence-syria-has-no-legal-grounds.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=ZipN14gHIUkfq7HvUGSLN26N5MKLmkYrK2NblkRrHVE%3D&reserved=0> for US presence there. The CIA had ratcheted up operations in Iran<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fcia-creates-new-mission-center-to-turn-up-heat-on-iran-1496426232%3Fmod%3De2tw&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=Cg4SM7YZQDBD4cspUCwBbpZRbobkt%2F17ZYiR2%2FByT1o%3D&reserved=0> six months into Trump’s presidency, shortly before the administration began running the exact same script against that country<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40caityjohnstone%2Fus-empire-is-running-the-same-script-with-iran-that-it-ran-with-libya-syria-2bb37b5c5af&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=LF3A%2Fjd9mEyQsrWCNW0Ti0SYu%2FNp1b61X76TZfVcKcM%3D&reserved=0> that the Obama administration ran on Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

Maybe US presidents are limited to eight years because that’s how long it takes the public to forget everything.

In the lead-up to the November elections those of us on the left who backed third parties were promised over and over and over again by Democratic party loyalists that if Hillary Clinton failed to secure the election there’d be goose-stepping stormtroopers patrolling the streets and murdering non-whites with impunity, concentration camps for Muslims and white supremacist extermination programs. Comparisons to Hitler went on nonstop, and anyone who failed to fall in line with the mainstream liberal narrative can attest that they were accused of aiding actual, literal Nazism on a regular basis.

A year into Trump’s presidency, and not only did the apocalyptic predictions of national genocide fail to come true, he’s not even deporting as many immigrants as Obama<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fnews%2Funited-states%2F21732561-deportation-has-also-become-considerably-more-random-donald-trump-deporting-fewer-people&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=kqxeaEKK7AoyBhP0OPMg4ffWS7%2FN0sz8KRDUiR6ngBw%3D&reserved=0>. He is, however, out-bombing him<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.vice.com%2Fen_us%2Farticle%2F8xvn8v%2Fmore-bombs-more-boots-more-casualties&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=gF94lpBjhMu3SIx5SYJyKgy5sMZ6xcZMsV83T0iuZQ4%3D&reserved=0>.

We were promised another Hitler. Instead, we got another Obama, who was himself another Bush. The march into corporatist Orwellian police state at home and globalist oligarchic hegemony abroad continues unhindered for the United States of America.

And of course that march would have continued had Hillary won as well, it just would have looked a bit different. Fewer environmental deregulations, likely catastrophic escalations against the Syrian government and possibly Russia, the exact same approaches to Iran, just as much hawkishness toward North Korea but minus the tweets about button sizes, no attempts at dismantling Obama’s corporatist healthcare plan. Not much more than that.

Nobody wants to hear this. The Democrats still want to believe that the sitting president is simultaneously a Nazi, a Kremlin secret agent, an idiot, and a lunatic, and Trump supporters want to believe that he’s a populist savior fighting to liberate the nation from the claws of the deep state. Because of their partisan blinders they will both find reasons to believe they’ve got a savior or a traitor in the White House despite the fact that their country’s actual policy and behavior remains more or less the same.

I still sometimes get Democrats telling me<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40caityjohnstone%2Fthe-latter-ebafaadc293c&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=CkfmiSP3EbHQMGBUlRO4LE65estjd%2FShQPVMECF71Zc%3D&reserved=0> that Trump is about to flip into Hitler 2.0 any minute now and start throwing non-whites into extermination camps. Whenever I point out that they were wrong about their “your choices are Hillary or Hitler” alarmism I get a bunch of them telling me “give him time”. Well he’s had time. They were wrong. They didn’t get a Nazi, they got another shitty neocon. And since the Dems have been paced into alignment with the neocons there’s no one left to oppose their agendas, which is why we’re seeing so little pushback on Trump’s Iran saber rattling.

I get Trump supporters telling me that he’s fighting the deep state, but the only way you can believe that at this point is to redefine “deep state” to mean “Democrats and their supporters”, which would actually just be more partisan bickering, which is all we’re actually seeing at this point. The only people you see pushing the collusion narrative and working for impeachment at this point are Democrats and Never-Trumpers; now that Trump has proven himself a good, compliant little boy the intelligence community has been putting its energy into the anti-detente propaganda effort to manufacture support for its new cold war escalations instead.

The MAGA crowd tells me their guy has de-escalated the Syrian situation in an attempt to paint him as less pro-war than his predecessor, but that’s not even true either. Until US troops actually leave Syria, all this administration has done is kill a bunch of people (many of them civilians<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.motherjones.com%2Fpolitics%2F2017%2F08%2Famerica-is-bombing-the-hell-out-of-syrian-civilians%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=HL3JfkM5G4c25VLUT9BAzxe1H9tqT7ISPmdRNtOvczU%3D&reserved=0>), occupy parts of a sovereign nation, and refuse to leave. Why are those troops still there when Syria and its allies are perfectly capable of handling any remaining traces of ISIS as they have been? No good reason, that’s for sure.

This is not the fault of the American people. The American people consistently vote against interventionist wars (as evidenced by the fact that winning presidential candidates have to campaign against them), and while they may be guilted by the tribe into flag-waving once the troops are there, they consistently say no to every request for consent for more empire-building wars. In my recent article<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40caityjohnstone%2Fus-empire-is-running-the-same-script-with-iran-that-it-ran-with-libya-syria-2bb37b5c5af&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=LF3A%2Fjd9mEyQsrWCNW0Ti0SYu%2FNp1b61X76TZfVcKcM%3D&reserved=0> about how the CNN/CIA narrative is running the same script for Iran as they did for Libya and Syria, most of the pushback I received was from good people who wanted to make sure I knew that they didn’t consent to military intervention, they were simply offering their support for the people of Iran.

Which is about as naive and sweet as a kid wanting to help the nice old man find his puppy. I understand you wanting to help find the puppy America, but for God’s sake please don’t get in that man’s van.

So the will of the American people has been heard loud and clear. They do not consent to more regime change wars and more military interventions. They do not want that.

Through the trickery of the mainstream media though, they are paced by fear-mongering and guilting into a reluctant, bargaining, “Well okay then…” consent which is quickly turned over into flag-waving enthusiasm because you have to support your troops, don’tchaknow? And I get that! Everyone knows a serviceman or woman; you don’t want to make them feel sad or like their life is being wasted. That’s such a tragedy! Who wants to make that conscious?

Let’s be clear, too: the troops are often from some of the finest of working and middle-class families across the States, families whose strong sense of morality about right and wrong led their young sons and daughters to make the courageous decision to enter the armed forces. These young men and women were born with the most exemplary of desires. They want to make the world a better place and they are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to do so. People love these families and they love their children.

These young people really are our best new humans. They are so committed to the highest interest that they would put aside their self-interest to do so. Do you know how rare that quality is in a human? And these young people are being taken from us young, whether that be by death or by destroying their beautiful minds as they are warped by the war machine into thinking that evil is good. Taken and used to pump up the egos of a selfish few.

In a healthy culture, the highest interest would dictate the desires of these young men and women. Unfortunately, the “highest interest” which should be assessed by the will of the people, is not being heard. It is not being enacted. The will of the people has repeatedly said that it does not want to send these young people off to kill another country’s young people to shore up the share portfolios of a few cancerous beings. The will of the people consistently says no to that, but it has been corralled by a small group of bloodthirsty vampires, parasites who will happily lay any amount of young bodies to waste to win their tiny dick battles until they are finally satisfied with the amount of zeroes on their bank statements.

Spoiler alert: they never will be.

Americans talk about “seeing through the partisan bullshit” of US politics like it’s some kind of magical superpower, but it’s not. Both parties act in slightly different ways toward the exact same ends, working together like the jab-cross combination of a boxer<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40caityjohnstone%2Fdems-and-gop-work-together-like-a-boxers-1-2-punch-to-knock-you-out-edbbefc92bf8&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93057d8044ca4f2a573508d554eb9bb5%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636508293264569681&sdata=qKdhtxPnR%2Bo%2Fhgs0Ov3liouKRCWuYTVe7zRX2nhSZm8%3D&reserved=0> to advance the same warmongering, corporatist oligarchic agendas, and there’s no reason to believe any of them about anything. America has two corporatist war parties who serve a plutocratic class of elites; one of them wears a cowboy hat, the other has pink hair. That’s it. That’s all you need to see to free yourself from the illusion.

Please stop attacking one another for the evils that have been inflicted on you by this small group of sociopaths, America. Stop buying into the two-party good cop/bad cop schtick that the elites use to turn urban Americans against rural Americans and turn your anger toward your real enemies.

—Caitlin Johnstone

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From stuartnlevy at gmail.com  Sat Jan  6 16:58:36 2018
From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (stuartnlevy)
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 10:58:36 -0600
Subject: [Peace] No AWARE demonstration today...
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It sounds as though we are cancelling today's AWARE demonstration.  It is just too cold.  Confirming this from David's and Karen's messages yesterday.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Jan  8 18:49:25 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 18:49:25 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Why Biss is perhaps the best candidate
 for governor
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Is Biss a Green? This was one of Rich Whitney’s suggestions.

We know candidates say a lot of things, so its important who the Party is, in reference to whether they will act upon it after being elected.

On Jan 8, 2018, at 09:56, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:



Begin forwarded message:

From: Nico Probst <info at danielbiss.com<mailto:info at danielbiss.com>>
Subject: Tax LaSalle Street
Date: January 5, 2018 at 7:30:03 PM CST
To: "C. G. Estabrook" <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>>
Reply-To: info at danielbiss.com<mailto:info at danielbiss.com>


[https://s.bsd.net/biss/main/page/-/daniel_litesa_LogoAssets_BissWallace_2colorvertical%20%281%29.png]<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc5%2F2033875481%2FVEsH%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=hW8tCVod%2BnNlobt0yQ2vu1vsaoBXMEsqQUBtvBPJPt0%3D&reserved=0>



We’ve been told our state is broke and that we can’t afford to fund the programs working families need.

Don’t believe it.

The truth is that we live in one of the wealthiest states in the nation. Fourteen of the richest people in the world live right here in Illinois.

We can afford to invest in Illinois, and we can absolutely pay for it.

One way to do it is by putting a small tax on financial transactions in Chicago, known as the LaSalle Street tax.<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc2%2F2033875481%2FVEsE%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=xXlcNPNtELOtlEuMG6TH8gIE8uJv5Db5krWyaw3kBvY%3D&reserved=0> Daniel’s proposal is estimated to increase revenue by $10-$12 billion every year. Watch this video to learn more:<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc3%2F2033875481%2FVEsF%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=MALA2ZqQDoBk8NmFMc42irEHcxevEL2kWAC5OkqL4pM%3D&reserved=0>

[Watch the LaSalle Street tax video now!]<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc3%2F2033875481%2FVEsC%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=8oUxHGPffUKPWWNBW9ggsGchKlGXrJHsYwNBMy5%2Bu5A%3D&reserved=0>

When you or I go to the store to buy an item, we are charged a sales tax on it. But when wealthy investors go to the stock exchanges on LaSalle Street, they aren’t charged a dime.

Bruce Rauner, JB Pritzker, and Chris Kennedy will say that taxing financial transactions will drive investors away, but we already know other places that tax financial transactions are doing just fine.

The LaSalle Street tax is fair and the extra revenue could be used to help fund our community schools, ensure health care for all, pay for free college tuition, and bring our state out of debt -- all while creating good-paying jobs.

This is just one of a few ways we can tackle our budget problems, but I need your help.

If you believe in taxing LaSalle Street and investing in Illinois’ working people, please add your name to show you’re with Daniel.<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc2%2F2033875481%2FVEsD%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=JVO9Kzn%2FgAEZg5W%2FFked05GeTnIBPuKD3gTsoXJsijI%3D&reserved=0>

Thanks for taking action,

Nico

Nico Probst
Deputy Campaign Manager
Biss for Illinois














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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Jan  8 19:33:37 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:33:37 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Why Biss is perhaps the best candidate
 for governor
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Then you were being facetious when you suggested voting for him, because he supports the Lasalle Street Tax?

On Jan 8, 2018, at 11:27, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>> wrote:

He’s a Democrat who dumped his lt-gov candidate from the ticket for supporting BDS.

Apparently he’s as weak on apartheid as our local legislators, Democrat state senator Scott Bennett and Democratic state representative Carol Ammons, who refused to vote against Senate Bill 1761, supporting Israeli apartheid. (They would not have refused to vote against South African apartheid, and the Israeli form is worse, in the occupied territories.)

Pour encourager les autres*, I plan to vote against all incumbents, regardless of party. They haven’t done well.

—CGE

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* British Admiral John Byng's execution is referred to in Voltaire's novel ‘Candide' with the line "Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres" – "In this country, it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."



On Jan 8, 2018, at 12:49 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

Is Biss a Green? This was one of Rich Whitney’s suggestions.

We know candidates say a lot of things, so its important who the Party is, in reference to whether they will act upon it after being elected.

On Jan 8, 2018, at 09:56, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:



Begin forwarded message:

From: Nico Probst <info at danielbiss.com<mailto:info at danielbiss.com>>
Subject: Tax LaSalle Street
Date: January 5, 2018 at 7:30:03 PM CST
To: "C. G. Estabrook" <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>>
Reply-To: info at danielbiss.com<mailto:info at danielbiss.com>


[https://s.bsd.net/biss/main/page/-/daniel_litesa_LogoAssets_BissWallace_2colorvertical%20%281%29.png]<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc5%2F2033875481%2FVEsH%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=hW8tCVod%2BnNlobt0yQ2vu1vsaoBXMEsqQUBtvBPJPt0%3D&reserved=0>



We’ve been told our state is broke and that we can’t afford to fund the programs working families need.

Don’t believe it.

The truth is that we live in one of the wealthiest states in the nation. Fourteen of the richest people in the world live right here in Illinois.

We can afford to invest in Illinois, and we can absolutely pay for it.

One way to do it is by putting a small tax on financial transactions in Chicago, known as the LaSalle Street tax.<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc2%2F2033875481%2FVEsE%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=xXlcNPNtELOtlEuMG6TH8gIE8uJv5Db5krWyaw3kBvY%3D&reserved=0> Daniel’s proposal is estimated to increase revenue by $10-$12 billion every year. Watch this video to learn more:<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc3%2F2033875481%2FVEsF%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=MALA2ZqQDoBk8NmFMc42irEHcxevEL2kWAC5OkqL4pM%3D&reserved=0>

[Watch the LaSalle Street tax video now!]<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc3%2F2033875481%2FVEsC%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=8oUxHGPffUKPWWNBW9ggsGchKlGXrJHsYwNBMy5%2Bu5A%3D&reserved=0>

When you or I go to the store to buy an item, we are charged a sales tax on it. But when wealthy investors go to the stock exchanges on LaSalle Street, they aren’t charged a dime.

Bruce Rauner, JB Pritzker, and Chris Kennedy will say that taxing financial transactions will drive investors away, but we already know other places that tax financial transactions are doing just fine.

The LaSalle Street tax is fair and the extra revenue could be used to help fund our community schools, ensure health care for all, pay for free college tuition, and bring our state out of debt -- all while creating good-paying jobs.

This is just one of a few ways we can tackle our budget problems, but I need your help.

If you believe in taxing LaSalle Street and investing in Illinois’ working people, please add your name to show you’re with Daniel.<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faction.danielbiss.com%2Fpage%2Fm%2F7ce14dc7%2F7054470e%2Ffc8e036%2F64c04dc2%2F2033875481%2FVEsD%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C12e284668cc548784d2008d556c130d2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636510310096551236&sdata=JVO9Kzn%2FgAEZg5W%2FFked05GeTnIBPuKD3gTsoXJsijI%3D&reserved=0>

Thanks for taking action,

Nico

Nico Probst
Deputy Campaign Manager
Biss for Illinois














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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Jan 10 12:32:50 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:32:50 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Resisting Internet Censorship: Online discussion with
 Chris Hedges and David North
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The webinar will explore the political context of the efforts to censor the Internet and abolish net neutrality, examine the pretexts used to justify the suppression of free speech (i.e., “fake news”), and discuss political strategies to defend democratic rights. Hedges and North will also field questions from on-line listeners.



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David North has played a leading role in the international socialist movement for forty-five years, and is presently the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and national chairperson of the Socialist Equality Party (US). His published works include A Quarter-Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left: A Marxist Critique; and In Defense of Leon Trotsky.

Andre Damon has written extensively on Google’s censorship of left wing, anti-war, and progressive web sites.



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By Andre Damon

The year 2018 has opened with an international campaign to censor the Internet. Throughout the world, technology giants are responding to the political demands of governments by cracking down on freedom of speech, which is inscribed in the US Bill of Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and countless international agreements.

Bloomberg, the financial news service, published a blog post titled “Welcome to 2018, the Year of Censored Social Media,” which began with the observation, “This year, don’t count on the social networks to provide its core service: an uncensored platform for every imaginable view. The censorship has already begun, and it’ll only get heavier. Read more<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsocialequality.us10.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D380cabff931cd452085b8d4a5%26id%3De7cabb69e9%26e%3D2cb7388bc9&data=02%7C01%7C%7C2238ed5b10c7451944be08d557e16a4a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636511548022158649&sdata=z2FQ8Dni5fgJgPf1JYg378JpYmA4ZRd6sTKFkyCxH7k%3D&reserved=0> »





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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 10 22:46:07 2018
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 16:46:07 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Saturday,
 Join/Listen to We Wanna Woke Justice Sing at Urbana Indoor Farmer's
 Market
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Dear Peace,
Want a different way to demonstrate for justice and peace?
let's sing at the farmer's market!
See below>

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Subject: SAT: Join/Listen to We Wanna Woke Justice Sing at Urbana
Indoor Farmer's Market


Saturday, January 13
9:45-11:00a
Urbana Indoor Farmer's market - Find the Urbana Public Arts Booth
(center of Lincoln Square Mall, downtown urbana)

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/320097878482552/

Come on out and sing (or listen)! We'll teach/perform quick-to-learn
songs that celebrate our collective power to make social change. It's
invigorating and inspiring in these literally dark times!

Join the choir group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/981631761968396/

We are a community of people who:

- educate each other and the greater community about social and
political issues through making a visible and audible presence
- engage and release our grief, joy, anger, courage, frustration, love
together so that we can keep going in the work of social justice
- build resilient community that can withstand difficult times
- provide a community resource for social justice events

"Will there be singing in the dark times? Yes, there will be singing
about the dark times" - Bertolt Brecht

-- 

“We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels
of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Jan 11 15:10:01 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:10:01 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Sunday, January 14th a must listen
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Watch BAP members discuss U.S. militarism on the African continent at the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases<https://www.facebook.com/noforeignbases/?fref=mentions&hc_location=group> conference.

Find the livestream on our Facebook page at 11:45 a.m., Sunday, Jan. 14, or view it at blackallianceforpeace.com/bases<http://blackallianceforpeace.com/bases>

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Jan 14 13:41:22 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 13:41:22 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Announcement of Rally
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                                                       RALLY AT THE UI LAW SCHOOL TO RESIST

                  The Dean’s Public Engagement Lecture by Malcolm Stewart, Deputy Solicitor General for the Trump/Sessions Department of Injustice!


                                           Wednesday, January 24, 3-4pm  Law School Plaza
                                     504 E Gregory Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 (Across from Krannert Art Museum)

Law Dean Amar is bringing in this Top Trump/Sessions  Legal Henchman to propagandize Their Party Line. For the past year, he and his Department  have  been arguing the Trump/Session Cases in the US Supreme Court and Lower Federal Courts and will continue to do so for Trump/Sessions: The Muslim Travel Ban; Against  Dreamers; Against Sanctuary Cities; Against Migrants; Against Blacks; Against LGBTs; Against Labor;For War; etc. Every reprehensible policy and practice that Trump adopts will make its way to the US Supreme Court and Stewart and his Office  will argue in favor of  Trump/Sessions and against the American People.  Right now, Trump has a solid right-wing majority on the Supreme Court with his Man Gorsuch.

Please join us in demonstrating our concern over the continuing downward spiral of human rights both here and abroad by our government of elites, with the abandonment of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Our continued militarization, and war on people around the world in order to occupy and steal their resources. With further oppression and exploitation of the working class, and People of Color in this nation.





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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Jan 14 15:29:49 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 15:29:49 +0000
Subject: [Peace] LIVE STREAMING SHORTLY OF CONFERENCE ON MILITARY BASES
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https://youtu.be/Evz1DPTfq_g

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Jan 17 00:04:32 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 00:04:32 +0000
Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Why_today=C2=92s_meeting_on_internet_cen?=
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Subject: Why today’s meeting on internet censorship is so important (7 PM EST)


Live video webinar with Chris Hedges and David North: Organizing resistance to Internet censorship




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Support has poured in from across the world in anticipation of tonight's event, "Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship," featuring David North and Chris Hedges.

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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:29:43 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Help Stop Sexism!
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I know nothing about Senator Cardin, or Maryland politics. I agree with Cindy Sheehan, in relation to “womens’ marches.”
If we care about women, we should stop killing them, overseas, women of color, and on a daily basis with our foreign policy, of perpetual war.

However, it should be noted, the local Progressive Democrats of America, did hold a joint panel last summer in relation to the “Costs of War” both human, and monetary. That program sparked a movement to produce a program comprising a member of WAND “Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament,” coming up in February. In addition to bringing Medea Benjamin of CODE PINK, to Champaign a couple years ago, speaking against war, they support healthcare over warfare.

So let’s stop bashing the group and work with them in common cause to change US foreign policy.

Chelsea Manning as a candidate opposing Cardin, is worth supporting, as she has proven herself to be not just courageous, but a true humanitarian.

Hopefully now that PDA knows what we think of Senator Cardin, they will take another look at their promotion.

On Jan 17, 2018, at 07:23, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

And you evade my question on war policy, Mike.

I've had one of your 'Healthcare Not Warfare’ stickers on my car for a while - but’s that’s not the position of Sen. Cardin, whom you cry up in your "Support the Women’s March” ad.

Do you support him or his opponent in the Maryland Democratic primary?

Your pedigree is attractive - but the last Democratic US president - he of the eight wars and “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times,” his drone assassinations - became president by co-opting the anti-war movement. Are you doing the same thing?

Regards, CGE


On Jan 17, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Mike Fox <mikefox at pdamerica.org<mailto:mikefox at pdamerica.org>> wrote:

You just don't know who we are, evidently, C.G.

Our seminal campaign is Healthcare Not Warfare.  We have an issue organizing team on End Wars And Occupations.  Barbara Lee -- the single strongest peace advocate in congress -- is on our advisory board.  Our org came out of the Dennis Kucinich campaign in 2004.   We've never endorsed a corporatist Dem.  We got Bernie to run and didn't endorse Clinton after she got the nomination.  The only group with the word "Democrat" in it that I'm aware of that did that.

Peace, health, and prosperity to you and yours,

M



On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:03 AM, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>> wrote:
"Yep, that's one of the issues we stand for, CJ.” What issue, Mike? Bringing all US troops home?

PDA seems to me to be a sheep-dogging operation, retrieving disaffected Democrats for the Obama-Clinton neocon & neoliberal policies - more war and more inequality.

I’m opposed to those policies. Regards, C. G. Estabrook


On Jan 17, 2018, at 8:43 AM, Mike Fox <mikefox at pdamerica.org<mailto:mikefox at pdamerica.org>> wrote:

Yep, that's one of the issues we stand for, CJ.

Looks like there isn't a march in Champaign.  Would you be willing to support another event with phone calls to fellow PDA members to make sure they're showing up/showing solidarity?

Mike Fox
National Staff, Progressive Democrats Of America

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 8:47 AM, C G Estabrook <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>> wrote:
Sen. Cardin is a principal fomenter of the ‘Russiagate' nonsense - designed to force the Trump administration back into the Obama-Clinton politics of war and war provocations!

Remember e.g. that Clinton as Secretary of State defended the US killing in Afghanistan by saying it was to secure the rights of women.

We should listen to ‘Progressive Democrats of America’ only when they begin to call for bringing all US troops (and weapons) home.

—CGE


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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Thu Jan 18 10:10:01 2018
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 04:10:01 -0600
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Help Stop Sexism!
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Apologies to all for the length of this response. Some answers don't
fit on a bumper sticker.

First of all, Karen, thank you for your kind words about Progressive
Democrats of America and our local work toward peace. You and Niloofar
were driving partners in the Costs of War panel event, and even though
it took a little bit of time, I am so glad it bore some useful fruit.

Yes, we brought Medea Benjamin, who is also on our national advisory
board, to Champaign for her book tour. She worked with PDA and other
organizations to cover the Chicago and upstate area, then PDA arranged
for three downstate stops through our local chapters in the Metro-East
region, Springfield, and Champaign-Urbana. BTW, the CU stop was the
most successful, and Medea was very pleased, and I thank all who
attended and helped make it a great success, and those individuals and
organizations who aided in the organizing effort. Mike Fox personally
arranged a 3-day/7-stop tour for her in Florida, and PDA chapters
across the country stepped up to host Medea and help her spread her
message of peace.

Carl, you should have read our "Help Stop Sexism!" email more
carefully. In it we applaud Sen. Cardin as the lead sponsor in the US
Senate for the bill removing the ratification deadline for the Equal
Rights Amendment, another one of our long-standing issue efforts, and
his leadership in that capacity is what we are praising in this email.
It is by no means a blanket endorsement of his career or a specific
endorsement for his re-election. He is the lead Senate sponsor for a
bill to get the long-overdue ERA Amendment passed, and we acknowledge
his leadership on this issue.

Not to get too much in the weeds, but PDA's national endorsement
policy--both of legislation and for candidates--comes from the ground
up. In the case of US Senate candidates, PDA members in the entire
state are polled after local chapters agree in principle and after the
candidate completes an exhaustive questionnaire (this year I believe
it is about 15 pages in length with numerous and pointed queries about
the candidate's positions on international and domestic policy). To
the best of my knowledge, neither Ms Manning nor Sen Cardin nor
Maryland chapters have requested an endorsement in that Senate race,
nor have the candidates completed the questionnaire.

Mindful of our ability to affect races and of the limited number of
solid progressive candidates running for federal office, PDA does not
endorse in every federal race.

Finally, PDA issue teams meet by conference call monthly and work
behind the scenes, both inside and outside the Democratic party, to
further goals of peace, prosperity, and equality--all fairly
complicated concepts requiring more than absolutist statements to
achieve measurable progress toward these goals.

Here is the opening statement  from our "End Wars and Occupations"
issue team, as found on our web site pdamerica.org:

"Since 2001, terrorism and instability have increased wherever the
U.S. has intervened militarily. We call on the President and Congress
to rethink the false premises of an ever-expanding 'global war on
terror' in which Western-led alliances of absolute monarchs, corrupt
governments and proxy forces fight endlessly proliferating enemies in
more and more countries."

You can read the full statement at our web site by going to
pdamerica.org and clicking on the Issues page. It contains specific
details on our position, legislation we have endorsed, our
accomplishments, ongoing projects, and our coalition partners,
including the following organizations:

National Priorities Project (NPP), United for Peace and Justice
(UFPJ), Code Pink, Win Without War, Project Defense Alternatives
(PDA), US Labor Against the War (USLAW), Jobs NOT Wars Campaign, Peace
Action

On the Issues page of our web site, interested readers will also find
equally detailed assessments of PDA's goals and work in the following
areas:

Healthcare Human Rights
Equal Rights Amendment
End Corporate Rule
Stop Global Warming
Voter Access Protection & Election Integrity
Economic and Social Justice

In addition right now we are working very closely with a range of
organizations to get a clean DREAM Act passed, and I urge everyone
reading this email to call your US Representative and US Senators and
tell them to get this bill passed now, rather than allowing more young
people to lose their protections under DACA.

Again, I apologize for the length of this response,but hope that it
clarifies PDA's mission and approach to national politics.

The way for us to get more things done is for more people to become
actively involved in local chapters and in our issue teams. For the
latter, visit our web site at pdamerica.org. For the former, contact
me at deb at pdamerica.org or contact Kevin Sandefur at
kevin at sandefur.com. Central Illinois PDA meets monthly on the second
Wednesday, 1pm Milo's Restaurant. All are welcome at our meetings.

For a more progressive future,

Debra Schrishuhn
PDA National Staffer
Chapter Co-Leader, Central Illinois PDA
Progressive Democrats of America
pdamerica.org




On 1/17/18, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> I know nothing about Senator Cardin, or Maryland politics. I agree with
> Cindy Sheehan, in relation to “womens’ marches.”
> If we care about women, we should stop killing them, overseas, women of
> color, and on a daily basis with our foreign policy, of perpetual war.
>
> However, it should be noted, the local Progressive Democrats of America, did
> hold a joint panel last summer in relation to the “Costs of War” both human,
> and monetary. That program sparked a movement to produce a program
> comprising a member of WAND “Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament,” coming
> up in February. In addition to bringing Medea Benjamin of CODE PINK, to
> Champaign a couple years ago, speaking against war, they support healthcare
> over warfare.
>
> So let’s stop bashing the group and work with them in common cause to change
> US foreign policy.
>
> Chelsea Manning as a candidate opposing Cardin, is worth supporting, as she
> has proven herself to be not just courageous, but a true humanitarian.
>
> Hopefully now that PDA knows what we think of Senator Cardin, they will take
> another look at their promotion.
>
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 07:23, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>>
> wrote:
>
> And you evade my question on war policy, Mike.
>
> I've had one of your 'Healthcare Not Warfare’ stickers on my car for a while
> - but’s that’s not the position of Sen. Cardin, whom you cry up in your
> "Support the Women’s March” ad.
>
> Do you support him or his opponent in the Maryland Democratic primary?
>
> Your pedigree is attractive - but the last Democratic US president - he of
> the eight wars and “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times,”
> his drone assassinations - became president by co-opting the anti-war
> movement. Are you doing the same thing?
>
> Regards, CGE
>
>
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Mike Fox
> <mikefox at pdamerica.org<mailto:mikefox at pdamerica.org>> wrote:
>
> You just don't know who we are, evidently, C.G.
>
> Our seminal campaign is Healthcare Not Warfare.  We have an issue organizing
> team on End Wars And Occupations.  Barbara Lee -- the single strongest peace
> advocate in congress -- is on our advisory board.  Our org came out of the
> Dennis Kucinich campaign in 2004.   We've never endorsed a corporatist Dem.
> We got Bernie to run and didn't endorse Clinton after she got the
> nomination.  The only group with the word "Democrat" in it that I'm aware of
> that did that.
>
> Peace, health, and prosperity to you and yours,
>
> M
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:03 AM, C G Estabrook
> <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>> wrote:
> "Yep, that's one of the issues we stand for, CJ.” What issue, Mike? Bringing
> all US troops home?
>
> PDA seems to me to be a sheep-dogging operation, retrieving disaffected
> Democrats for the Obama-Clinton neocon & neoliberal policies - more war and
> more inequality.
>
> I’m opposed to those policies. Regards, C. G. Estabrook
>
>
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 8:43 AM, Mike Fox
> <mikefox at pdamerica.org<mailto:mikefox at pdamerica.org>> wrote:
>
> Yep, that's one of the issues we stand for, CJ.
>
> Looks like there isn't a march in Champaign.  Would you be willing to
> support another event with phone calls to fellow PDA members to make sure
> they're showing up/showing solidarity?
>
> Mike Fox
> National Staff, Progressive Democrats Of America
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 8:47 AM, C G Estabrook
> <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Sen. Cardin is a principal fomenter of the ‘Russiagate' nonsense - designed
> to force the Trump administration back into the Obama-Clinton politics of
> war and war provocations!
>
> Remember e.g. that Clinton as Secretary of State defended the US killing in
> Afghanistan by saying it was to secure the rights of women.
>
> We should listen to ‘Progressive Democrats of America’ only when they begin
> to call for bringing all US troops (and weapons) home.
>
> —CGE
>
>
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 7:31 AM, Donna Smith for Progressive Democrats of
> America <info at pdamerica.org<mailto:info at pdamerica.org>> wrote:
>
> [Progressive Democrats of
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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Thu Jan 18 13:25:57 2018
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 07:25:57 -0600
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss]   Help Stop Sexism!
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I have circulated the information and we certainly support the event, as I told Karen some time ago. I personally will not attend because I have mobility issues and parking/walking on campus is very difficult for me. 
Deb

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> On Jan 18, 2018, at 7:07 AM, "Boyle, Francis A" <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Ok. Then will PDA be attending our Rally Against this  Trump/Sessions Legal  Hatchetman before the Law School next Wednesday from 3-4?
> Fab.
> For circulation to your groups, people and anyone you wish to attend the below:
> 
> 
>                                                       RALLY AT THE UI LAW SCHOOL TO RESIST 
> 
>                  The Dean’s Public Engagement Lecture by Malcolm Stewart, Deputy Solicitor General for the Trump/Sessions Department of Injustice!
> 
> 
>                                           Wednesday, January 24, 3-4pm  Law School Plaza
>                                     504 E Gregory Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 (Across from Krannert Art Museum)
> 
> Law Dean Amar is bringing in this Top Trump/Sessions  Legal Henchman to propagandize Their Party Line. For the past year, he and his Department  have  been arguing the Trump/Session Cases in the US Supreme Court and Lower Federal Courts and will continue to do so for Trump/Sessions: The Muslim Travel Ban; Against  Dreamers; Against Sanctuary Cities; Against Migrants; Against Blacks; Against LGBTs; Against Labor;For War; etc. Every reprehensible policy and practice that Trump adopts will make its way to the US Supreme Court and Stewart and his Office  will argue in favor of  Trump/Sessions and against the American People.  Right now, Trump has a solid right-wing majority on the Supreme Court with his Man Gorsuch.
> 
> Please join us in demonstrating our concern over the continuing downward spiral of human rights both here and abroad by our government of elites, with the abandonment of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Our continued militarization, and war on people around the world in order to occupy and steal their resources. With further oppression and exploitation of the working class, and People of Color in this nation. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Debra Schrishuhn via Peace-discuss
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 4:10 AM
> To: Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
> Cc: Donna Smith for Progressive Democrats of America <info at pdamerica.org>; kevin at sandefur.com; peace <peace at lists.chambana.net>; peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>; Mike Fox <mikefox at pdamerica.org>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Help Stop Sexism!
> 
> Apologies to all for the length of this response. Some answers don't fit on a bumper sticker.
> 
> First of all, Karen, thank you for your kind words about Progressive Democrats of America and our local work toward peace. You and Niloofar were driving partners in the Costs of War panel event, and even though it took a little bit of time, I am so glad it bore some useful fruit.
> 
> Yes, we brought Medea Benjamin, who is also on our national advisory board, to Champaign for her book tour. She worked with PDA and other organizations to cover the Chicago and upstate area, then PDA arranged for three downstate stops through our local chapters in the Metro-East region, Springfield, and Champaign-Urbana. BTW, the CU stop was the most successful, and Medea was very pleased, and I thank all who attended and helped make it a great success, and those individuals and organizations who aided in the organizing effort. Mike Fox personally arranged a 3-day/7-stop tour for her in Florida, and PDA chapters across the country stepped up to host Medea and help her spread her message of peace.
> 
> Carl, you should have read our "Help Stop Sexism!" email more carefully. In it we applaud Sen. Cardin as the lead sponsor in the US Senate for the bill removing the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment, another one of our long-standing issue efforts, and his leadership in that capacity is what we are praising in this email.
> It is by no means a blanket endorsement of his career or a specific endorsement for his re-election. He is the lead Senate sponsor for a bill to get the long-overdue ERA Amendment passed, and we acknowledge his leadership on this issue.
> 
> Not to get too much in the weeds, but PDA's national endorsement policy--both of legislation and for candidates--comes from the ground up. In the case of US Senate candidates, PDA members in the entire state are polled after local chapters agree in principle and after the candidate completes an exhaustive questionnaire (this year I believe it is about 15 pages in length with numerous and pointed queries about the candidate's positions on international and domestic policy). To the best of my knowledge, neither Ms Manning nor Sen Cardin nor Maryland chapters have requested an endorsement in that Senate race, nor have the candidates completed the questionnaire.
> 
> Mindful of our ability to affect races and of the limited number of solid progressive candidates running for federal office, PDA does not endorse in every federal race.
> 
> Finally, PDA issue teams meet by conference call monthly and work behind the scenes, both inside and outside the Democratic party, to further goals of peace, prosperity, and equality--all fairly complicated concepts requiring more than absolutist statements to achieve measurable progress toward these goals.
> 
> Here is the opening statement  from our "End Wars and Occupations"
> issue team, as found on our web site pdamerica.org:
> 
> "Since 2001, terrorism and instability have increased wherever the U.S. has intervened militarily. We call on the President and Congress to rethink the false premises of an ever-expanding 'global war on terror' in which Western-led alliances of absolute monarchs, corrupt governments and proxy forces fight endlessly proliferating enemies in more and more countries."
> 
> You can read the full statement at our web site by going to pdamerica.org and clicking on the Issues page. It contains specific details on our position, legislation we have endorsed, our accomplishments, ongoing projects, and our coalition partners, including the following organizations:
> 
> National Priorities Project (NPP), United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ), Code Pink, Win Without War, Project Defense Alternatives (PDA), US Labor Against the War (USLAW), Jobs NOT Wars Campaign, Peace Action
> 
> On the Issues page of our web site, interested readers will also find equally detailed assessments of PDA's goals and work in the following
> areas:
> 
> Healthcare Human Rights
> Equal Rights Amendment
> End Corporate Rule
> Stop Global Warming
> Voter Access Protection & Election Integrity Economic and Social Justice
> 
> In addition right now we are working very closely with a range of organizations to get a clean DREAM Act passed, and I urge everyone reading this email to call your US Representative and US Senators and tell them to get this bill passed now, rather than allowing more young people to lose their protections under DACA.
> 
> Again, I apologize for the length of this response,but hope that it clarifies PDA's mission and approach to national politics.
> 
> The way for us to get more things done is for more people to become actively involved in local chapters and in our issue teams. For the latter, visit our web site at pdamerica.org. For the former, contact me at deb at pdamerica.org or contact Kevin Sandefur at kevin at sandefur.com. Central Illinois PDA meets monthly on the second Wednesday, 1pm Milo's Restaurant. All are welcome at our meetings.
> 
> For a more progressive future,
> 
> Debra Schrishuhn
> PDA National Staffer
> Chapter Co-Leader, Central Illinois PDA
> Progressive Democrats of America
> pdamerica.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 1/17/18, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> I know nothing about Senator Cardin, or Maryland politics. I agree 
>> with Cindy Sheehan, in relation to “womens’ marches.”
>> If we care about women, we should stop killing them, overseas, women 
>> of color, and on a daily basis with our foreign policy, of perpetual war.
>> 
>> However, it should be noted, the local Progressive Democrats of 
>> America, did hold a joint panel last summer in relation to the “Costs 
>> of War” both human, and monetary. That program sparked a movement to 
>> produce a program comprising a member of WAND “Women’s Action for 
>> Nuclear Disarmament,” coming up in February. In addition to bringing 
>> Medea Benjamin of CODE PINK, to Champaign a couple years ago, speaking 
>> against war, they support healthcare over warfare.
>> 
>> So let’s stop bashing the group and work with them in common cause to 
>> change US foreign policy.
>> 
>> Chelsea Manning as a candidate opposing Cardin, is worth supporting, 
>> as she has proven herself to be not just courageous, but a true humanitarian.
>> 
>> Hopefully now that PDA knows what we think of Senator Cardin, they 
>> will take another look at their promotion.
>> 
>> On Jan 17, 2018, at 07:23, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss 
>> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.
>> net>>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> And you evade my question on war policy, Mike.
>> 
>> I've had one of your 'Healthcare Not Warfare’ stickers on my car for a 
>> while
>> - but’s that’s not the position of Sen. Cardin, whom you cry up in 
>> your "Support the Women’s March” ad.
>> 
>> Do you support him or his opponent in the Maryland Democratic primary?
>> 
>> Your pedigree is attractive - but the last Democratic US president - 
>> he of the eight wars and “the most extreme terrorist campaign of modern times,”
>> his drone assassinations - became president by co-opting the anti-war 
>> movement. Are you doing the same thing?
>> 
>> Regards, CGE
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 17, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Mike Fox
>> <mikefox at pdamerica.org<mailto:mikefox at pdamerica.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> You just don't know who we are, evidently, C.G.
>> 
>> Our seminal campaign is Healthcare Not Warfare.  We have an issue 
>> organizing team on End Wars And Occupations.  Barbara Lee -- the 
>> single strongest peace advocate in congress -- is on our advisory board.  Our org came out of the
>> Dennis Kucinich campaign in 2004.   We've never endorsed a corporatist Dem.
>> We got Bernie to run and didn't endorse Clinton after she got the 
>> nomination.  The only group with the word "Democrat" in it that I'm 
>> aware of that did that.
>> 
>> Peace, health, and prosperity to you and yours,
>> 
>> M
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 10:03 AM, C G Estabrook 
>> <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> "Yep, that's one of the issues we stand for, CJ.” What issue, Mike? 
>> Bringing all US troops home?
>> 
>> PDA seems to me to be a sheep-dogging operation, retrieving 
>> disaffected Democrats for the Obama-Clinton neocon & neoliberal 
>> policies - more war and more inequality.
>> 
>> I’m opposed to those policies. Regards, C. G. Estabrook
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 17, 2018, at 8:43 AM, Mike Fox
>> <mikefox at pdamerica.org<mailto:mikefox at pdamerica.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Yep, that's one of the issues we stand for, CJ.
>> 
>> Looks like there isn't a march in Champaign.  Would you be willing to 
>> support another event with phone calls to fellow PDA members to make 
>> sure they're showing up/showing solidarity?
>> 
>> Mike Fox
>> National Staff, Progressive Democrats Of America
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 8:47 AM, C G Estabrook 
>> <cgestabrook at gmail.com<mailto:cgestabrook at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Sen. Cardin is a principal fomenter of the ‘Russiagate' nonsense - 
>> designed to force the Trump administration back into the Obama-Clinton 
>> politics of war and war provocations!
>> 
>> Remember e.g. that Clinton as Secretary of State defended the US 
>> killing in Afghanistan by saying it was to secure the rights of women.
>> 
>> We should listen to ‘Progressive Democrats of America’ only when they 
>> begin to call for bringing all US troops (and weapons) home.
>> 
>> —CGE
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 17, 2018, at 7:31 AM, Donna Smith for Progressive Democrats of 
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Jan 18 20:30:36 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:30:36 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] AU prof: the US threatened by
 Russian-influenced make-up artists; Vox tells us how...
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RUBBISH, I say, most of the journalists, and news that is being targeted are those reporting “real news," to the American people, like WSWS. ORG,, RT.Com<http://rt.com>, The Real News, TruthDig, etc., by the US CIA, and their contractors.


On Jan 18, 2018, at 12:10, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/17/16878406/donald-trump-fox-news-russia-cia-foreign-spies<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fworld%2F2018%2F1%2F17%2F16878406%2Fdonald-trump-fox-news-russia-cia-foreign-spies&data=02%7C01%7C%7C093d3dcf116e4caac9f408d55eaf969c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636519030592854469&sdata=yByxniCkcGu3LVP%2FMRmyi496arwn7UOuWbpOjSkSUBI%3D&reserved=0>

Foreign spies could be manipulating Trump through Fox News:
the risks of Trump’s Fox News obsession | Sean Illing

Last month, AP reported that Russian intelligence agencies were pursuing journalists around the world in the same way they typically target politicians and government employees from hostile states.

Much of this activity, according to the report, was aimed at dissident journalists and bloggers who are perceived as threats to the Russian regime.

But Aki Peritz, a former CIA analyst and current adjunct professor at American University, believes that certain foreign spy agencies are very likely targeting one specific private institution: Fox News.

The reason is simple enough: The president of the United States watches Fox News — a lot — and therefore the channel has enormous influence on what he thinks, tweets, and does. As of last November, Trump had tweeted about the Fox News show Fox & Friends 88 times, according to the Washington Post’s Philip Bump.

I reached out to Peritz and asked him to lay out his case. A lightly edited transcript of our conversation follows.

Sean Illing

If you were a Russian spy, why would you target Fox News?

Aki Peritz

I wouldn’t merely say a Russian spy, I’d say a spy from any hostile intelligence service. We all know that the Russians are a hostile intelligence service, but they’re not the only game in town. It’s not like the Chinese are not involved in targeting media personalities. It’s not like the Iranians or other countries aren’t also targeting journalists. It’s important that we don’t make this purely  about Russia.

That said, if I were a hostile intelligence service, I would want to target the media source that the president, senior members of Congress and all their aides, many people in the Defense Department, people in the State Department, and the intelligence community watch. Fox, whatever you think of its content, has real power. They have all these networks into the government, but also into private industry and former government officials, who in turn influence the government.

So to put it simply, an intelligence service is looking for a way into power, and Fox News is certainly that. It’s also very, very hard to penetrate the US government, but it’s pretty easy to penetrate a media organization.

Sean Illing

So it’s not about the content of Fox News programming so much as the influence they have on powerful people?

Aki Peritz

It goes beyond influence. Obviously that’s a major component of this, but we know the president specifically interacts with Fox News and with Fox News personalities like Sean Hannity on Twitter, and many of his ideas seems to be plucked right out of Fox’s talking points.

We know that he talks to Sean Hannity. I’m sure that he talks to other people. There’s a regular interface, a dialogue that goes on between the president of the United States, presumably his senior-level officials, and this one particular company.

On the one hand, wouldn’t it be great if you were a hostile intelligence service and you could influence a person like Sean Hannity? I do not believe that Sean Hannity is a Russian asset, but that’s not the point. If you’re a spy, maybe you try to work his producers or the person who does his makeup — you look for any way inside that world.

Sean Illing

Can you walk me through the approach or process? A spy agency decides Fox News has captured the president’s attention, so they start to monitor it closely. Then what?

Aki Peritz

First, let’s start with the easier part: collecting information on the president. We obviously have his Twitter feed, which is a gold mine for intelligence. How many other world leaders are there where we literally know what they’re thinking about every day, with no filter? How many other leaders just say what they feel when they feel it, almost every day? Twitter is an invaluable insight into the mind of this man, and every foreign intelligence agency knows it. Imagine if we knew this much about Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping. It would be a massive intelligence gold mine.

So back to Fox News. A spy agency will notice, as I’m sure everybody has at this point, that the president watches Fox News a lot: specifically programs like Fox & Friends and Sean Hannity’s program. This means the president’s senior staff and senior members of Congress and the intelligence and diplomatic community are also watching, mostly because they’re all waiting for the president to make his decisions.

An intelligence service wants to collect information before it’s widely known, before it reaches decision-makers and the public. If you’ve co-opted a production assistant on one of these TV shows, they can tell you what’s coming, what message they’re going to pump out. They can send you an email or they can let you know what Fox News is going to be talking about and when. So they already know the script, and that’s one way to collect information.

Sean Illing

And what would you do if you wanted to start influencing this process?

Aki Peritz

Well, you try to nail down the person writing the scripts for Fox & Friends and you try to move key narratives around. You start putting ideas into the system, ideas which, eventually, will reach the president of the United States. This is not as difficult as you might expect. These are TV people; they’re not government people. They don’t expect to be co-opted by a hostile intelligence service, so these things happen very fast and without people really knowing it. They’re susceptible to blackmail.

Sean Illing

If you’re a spy looking to compromise or gain leverage over a journalist, be it at Fox or anywhere else, how would that process work?

Aki Peritz

The CIA has a general way of doing it, which is spot, assess, develop, and then recruit. You can say, “I want to target this organization. I know all the production assistants on Fox & Friends. Here are all their names.” Then you do a little bit of research on them, and then you bump into them at a party, or you go out for a drink, or you ask them out on a date, or you have your kids play with their kids at soccer.

You facilitate some sort of contact, and then you see whether they’re interested or they have any vulnerabilities. Maybe this individual has money problems. Maybe they have a gambling problem. Maybe they’re cheating on their spouse. Then you use your knowledge to leverage access, and you’re in. That’s a very crude way of putting it, but that’s basically how it’s done.

Sean Illing

Have you seen any evidence that something like this is happening?

Aki Peritz

I do not see any direct evidence that this is currently occurring, and that’s why I wrote the piece. I don’t work at Fox News, so I don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes. I wrote this as a warning to the people who do work at Fox News, people like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, and the people that work for them. Whatever they believe or don’t believe, they are targets.

The producers and assistants on these shows have probably never considered the possibility that their emails might be compromised or they might be subject to blackmail by a foreign national, by a foreign intelligence service, but they ought to be careful. That’s all I’m saying.

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Jan 22 21:38:02 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:38:02 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Upcoming rally reminder
In-Reply-To: <F3B9B12C-F816-4136-8F02-9989B433475B@hotmail.com>
References: <F3B9B12C-F816-4136-8F02-9989B433475B@hotmail.com>
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On Jan 22, 2018, at 13:37, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:

The Dean’s Public Engagement Lecture by Malcolm Stewart, Deputy Solicitor General for the Trump/Sessions Department of Injustice!

Wednesday, January 24,
3-4pm
Law School Plaza
504 E Gregory Drive, Champaign, IL 61820
(Across from Krannert Art Museum)

For the past year, Deputy Solicitor General Stewart and his Department  have  been arguing the Trump/Sessions Cases in the US Supreme Court and Lower Federal Courts and will continue to do so for Trump/Sessions: The Muslim Travel Ban; Against  Dreamers; Against Sanctuary Cities; Against Migrants; Against African Americans; Against LGBTQs; Against Labor; For War; etc. Every reprehensible policy and practice that Trump adopts will make its way to the US Supreme Court and Stewart and his Office will argue in favor of Trump/Sessions and against the American People.

Please join local progressive organizations in demonstrating our concern over the continuing downward spiral of human rights both here and abroad by our government of Trumpian sychophants, with the abandonment of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Mon Jan 22 23:53:41 2018
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (Karen Medina)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:53:41 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Allen Hall visiting artist is Shing Yin Khor
Message-ID: <CA+0uwiYNrc7-_suM5ZeP-C9j2mPa1+aDdmWPMWN+T3_ykBzexg@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Peace,

Allen Hall has another full schedule of artists for this semester.

Right now, Cartoonist, Shing Yin Khor, is at Allen Hall this week.
She creates comics, stories, zines, and other art at the intersection
of race, gender, immigrant stories, and queerness.
All programs are open to the public and take place in Allen Hall, 1005
W. Gregory Drive, Urbana. Free parking is available after 5pm in the
garage across the street.

[Sunday events already past, my apologies]
Monday, January 22
7pm - Cartooning and Drawing Workshop (South Rec Room)
An introductory guide to cartooning! An exploration of how to make
simple and engaging comic work, especially memoir and autobiographical
work. No drawing experience necessary.
Activity: Making a one page (or more) comic or drawing that will be
compiled into a collaborative zine.

9pm - Open Studio Tea-time (guest apartment)
Let’s sketch and draw together. We’ll provide a pile of art supplies
and some snacks.

Tuesday, January 23
7pm - Building Object-Narratives/Prop Design 101 (South Rec Room)
An introduction to narrative prop design for fictional characters. We
will fill out character sheets for personal characters that exist
within a fictional collaboratively invented universe, and brainstorm
and discuss how to make meaningful and symbolic props that help to
build their stories.
Activity: Mini-shields and objects: Participants will paint and
distress small symbolic heraldic devices (or logos!) or other objects,
on wooden blocks, that pair with their invented characters. These can
be turned into wall hangings, or just art objects to keep.

9pm - Queerness in Comics: Zine and Comics Reading and Discussion/Open
Studio (guest apartment)

Wednesday, January 24
7pm - Memoir and Community: A Zine Making Workshop (South Rec Room)
Let’s talk about the history of zines, take a look at collaborative
activist zine culture, and make some of our own!
Activity: Making one page foldy zines! We’ll make copies of all of
them so that we can build our own personal zine libraries on Thursday.

9pm - Race and Comics: Zine and Comics Reading and Discussion/Open
Studio (guest apartment)

Thursday, January 25
7pm - Lamp Making (South Rec Room)
We’re going to learn basic electrical circuits (practical circuits and
LEDs), and make some lamps or a light-up prop using found objects and
vintage materials!
Activity: We’re making lamps! They’re gonna be pretty rad lamps!

9pm - Zine and Art Sharing Party (guest apartment)
We’ll hand out copies of the collaborative zine (from Monday), and the
individual zines made earlier in the week. We’ll also have the props
and other objects built during the week out on display as a little
gallery show. Come and build your own personal zine libraries, and
look at art (and drink tea)!

From susanroseparenti at gmail.com  Tue Jan 23 23:05:27 2018
From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti)
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:05:27 -0600
Subject: [Peace] $500 - Home Near Crystal Lake Park
Message-ID: <CAKfUjSEDqiCA8=rSnCkf8ux_CLe9gaF-FRYF0Vm=rDOncvi21w@mail.gmail.com>

Welcome to our home in Crystal Lake Park. We have room available to move in
right away!

The room is fully furnished with new hardwood floors, new queen bed, and
hand-made curtains. The room has a very large closet, plenty of storage
space, central AC, a porch in the front, a fruit and flower garden in back.
The house is 5 blocks away from Downtown Urbana and located near the Gold
Bus Line for easy access. We have two friendly kitties living with us, so
we are looking for people who are friendly to kitties as well.
Unfortunately, no other pets would be allowed at this time. This home is
also a non-smoking home.

Rental price includes all utilities (heat, AC, water, sewage, internet,
trash, and recycle)

This bedroom is on the 2nd floor, west side of house, is 16'8" x 11'4"






​



https://chambana.craigslist.org/roo/d/large-one-bedroom-avai
lable/6431355155.html




-- 
*Susan Parenti*
*Educational Coordinator *

*The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net

*Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/designasociety>!*
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Jan 24 23:43:39 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:43:39 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Todays Rally
Message-ID: <SN1PR08MB1677092A8B42E45FF3C6C013A3E20@SN1PR08MB1677.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

<https://www.facebook.com/seeuiuc/?ref=nf&hc_ref=ARRuM84UCg9Cx_xRgn2LPAfMC8thlMzFJ7X-lA7ViZkCSUJoTMIarlEHsLHxAZzwoHQ>
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18 mins<https://www.facebook.com/events/1512428982146391/permalink/1522117011177588/?ref=1&action_history=null> · <https://www.facebook.com/events/1512428982146391/1522117027844253/?notif_t=admin_plan_mall_activity&notif_id=1516836221769657#>

Thanks for coming out in the cold today! This is just a reminder that, as activists, we would advise that you make sure that all of your Facebook profile settings are set to the maximum amount of privacy. There have been issues of harassment recently against those who take a stand in the community against injustice, and those responsible like to use Facebook to gain information about those they intend to pray on. If you have any questions or concerns feel free to message the page or me personally and I will be happy to talk. Thanks again!
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From susanroseparenti at gmail.com  Sat Jan 27 23:02:55 2018
From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti)
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:02:55 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Large One Bedroom , $500 per month,
 across from School for Design a Society--throw in the hot tub!
Message-ID: <CAKfUjSGWO3PfSO8FMDEc=cNZi-zxCursw6tkTu3Uc6eZktFmhw@mail.gmail.com>

Welcome to our home in Crystal Lake Park. We have a room available to move
into[image: Inline image 1][image: Inline image 2] right away!

The room is fully furnished with new hardwood floors, new queen bed, and
hand-made curtains. The room has a very large closet, plenty of storage
space, central AC, a porch in the front, a fruit and flower garden in back.
The house is 5 blocks away from Downtown Urbana and located near the Gold
Bus Line for easy access. We have two friendly kitties living with us, so
we are looking for people who are friendly to kitties as well.
Unfortunately, no other pets would be allowed at this time. This home is
also a non-smoking home.

Rental price($500) includes all utilities (heat, AC, water, sewage,
internet, trash, and recycle)

This bedroom is on the 2nd floor, west side of house, is 16'8" x 11'4"


-- 
*Susan Parenti*
*Educational Coordinator *

*The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net

*Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/designasociety>!*
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Jan 28 00:11:11 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:11:11 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Support the GEO for the 22nd Bargaining Session
Message-ID: <SN1PR08MB1677F4D5AF8CEC1B6BD7F69AA3E60@SN1PR08MB1677.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>


Support labor, support our grad employees at the U of I

GEO:

"At our last bargaining session, we presented the Admin with a comprehensive proposal with everything left on the table. This proposal included movement from on our original proposal on wages, healthcare, appointment terms, and child care. We did this in yet another attempt to do everything we can do avoid a strike."

...See More<https://www.facebook.com/karen.aram.1/posts/10214922001752755>
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<https://www.facebook.com/events/1925227534361726/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D>
JAN30
Going<https://www.facebook.com/karen.aram.1#>
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Tue 8:25 AM CST · Illinois Fire Service Institute<https://www.facebook.com/fsi.illinois.edu/> · Champaign, IL
Muhammad<https://www.facebook.com/PR0F.M0> and Joel<https://www.facebook.com/pinkoproselytizer> are going
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Jan 28 19:14:44 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:14:44 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Trump's crazy not to continue the Cold
	War!
In-Reply-To: <835F6FE5-315B-4B49-8CFA-330A01A2CA16@gmail.com>
References: <835F6FE5-315B-4B49-8CFA-330A01A2CA16@gmail.com>
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Carl

I meant to comment on this a while back.

While I agree with McCoy’s assessment of US goals of containment of Eurasia, which he thoroughly documents, as well as his exposure of the CIA “involvement” in drugs in SE Asia, and elsewhere. I have noted in addition to that which you refer, sees China and Russia through the same eyes as promoted by the USG, as threats to the West, and SE Asia.
Some time ago, I noted his having spent a lot of time in the Philippines he has the same view as many small vulnerable nations, that a growing and prosperous China, are a danger to them. Given the Chinese control and influence of banking and commerce throughout SE Asia, many indigenous folks have always feared China, the “red scare” another influence from the west. It’s much the same as the fear of “Jews” in Europe during the early and mid1900’s.
What I see is a fear of Chinese business influence coming from the overseas Chinese, dating back decades, being now applied to the mainland of today. Many westerners living in Asia, are influenced by the locals who don’t like the competition, and vice versa, many locals being influenced by the west.

However, many Asian nations/leaders are waking up to the realities of US militarism, hegemony and imperialism being much more frightening, than Chinese business and investments, but many like McCoy, who is old, maintain their views. Thus, they see three giants being the problem, rather than the one proven problem.



On Jan 16, 2018, at 07:38, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176373/tomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_tweeting_while_rome_burns/#more<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomdispatch.com%2Fpost%2F176373%2Ftomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_tweeting_while_rome_burns%2F%23more&data=02%7C01%7C%7C056864df64c24d9c04c408d55cf73cdb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636517139303185408&sdata=aPmr4OGJlaG8lc45W7UyMNBvtBrTFJpDvgi3vH170Sg%3D&reserved=0>

A strange piece by Alfred McCoy. No cold warrior from a generation ago could do better in defending the virtues of the American empire. He shows the effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome, excoriating what he sees as the Trump administration's departures from the neoconservative (and neoliberal) policies of the previous administration (and its predecessor) and all but praising its wars and war provocations "at the axial ends of Eurasia" (in a repeated Mackinderesque flourish).

"As Trump undercuts the U.S. strategic position at the axial ends of Eurasia, China is pressing relentlessly to displace the United States and dominate that vast continent with what New York Times correspondent Edward Wong calls 'a blunt counterpoint... synonymous with brute strength, bribery and browbeating.’"

He also buys the NYT account of Russian 'meddling' in Trump's election ('Russiagate')…

—CGE
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From brussel at illinois.edu  Sun Jan 28 19:51:32 2018
From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K)
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:51:32 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Trump's crazy not to continue the
	Cold	War!
In-Reply-To: <SN1PR08MB1677BB83FD05984DA943F28EA3E60@SN1PR08MB1677.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>
References: <835F6FE5-315B-4B49-8CFA-330A01A2CA16@gmail.com>
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Of possible interest: I read McCoy’s piece on tomdispatch.com<http://tomdispatch.com>, and couldn’t believe it was promoted there. Therefore, I sent off an email to tomdispatch explaining surprise and disappointment at McCoy’s acceptance of the standard views of the NYT, WP, WSJ, etc. regarding the dangers from Russia and China, not to say N. Korea and Iran. Yes, a better informed(?) cold warrior, McCoy, who stressed the need for a continued U.S. imperium.

—mkb

On Jan 28, 2018, at 1:14 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

Carl

I meant to comment on this a while back.

While I agree with McCoy’s assessment of US goals of containment of Eurasia, which he thoroughly documents, as well as his exposure of the CIA “involvement” in drugs in SE Asia, and elsewhere. I have noted in addition to that which you refer, sees China and Russia through the same eyes as promoted by the USG, as threats to the West, and SE Asia.
Some time ago, I noted his having spent a lot of time in the Philippines he has the same view as many small vulnerable nations, that a growing and prosperous China, are a danger to them. Given the Chinese control and influence of banking and commerce throughout SE Asia, many indigenous folks have always feared China, the “red scare” another influence from the west. It’s much the same as the fear of “Jews” in Europe during the early and mid1900’s.
What I see is a fear of Chinese business influence coming from the overseas Chinese, dating back decades, being now applied to the mainland of today. Many westerners living in Asia, are influenced by the locals who don’t like the competition, and vice versa, many locals being influenced by the west.

However, many Asian nations/leaders are waking up to the realities of US militarism, hegemony and imperialism being much more frightening, than Chinese business and investments, but many like McCoy, who is old, maintain their views. Thus, they see three giants being the problem, rather than the one proven problem.



On Jan 16, 2018, at 07:38, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176373/tomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_tweeting_while_rome_burns/#more<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomdispatch.com%2Fpost%2F176373%2Ftomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_tweeting_while_rome_burns%2F%23more&data=02%7C01%7C%7C056864df64c24d9c04c408d55cf73cdb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636517139303185408&sdata=aPmr4OGJlaG8lc45W7UyMNBvtBrTFJpDvgi3vH170Sg%3D&reserved=0>

A strange piece by Alfred McCoy. No cold warrior from a generation ago could do better in defending the virtues of the American empire. He shows the effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome, excoriating what he sees as the Trump administration's departures from the neoconservative (and neoliberal) policies of the previous administration (and its predecessor) and all but praising its wars and war provocations "at the axial ends of Eurasia" (in a repeated Mackinderesque flourish).

"As Trump undercuts the U.S. strategic position at the axial ends of Eurasia, China is pressing relentlessly to displace the United States and dominate that vast continent with what New York Times correspondent Edward Wong calls 'a blunt counterpoint... synonymous with brute strength, bribery and browbeating.’"

He also buys the NYT account of Russian 'meddling' in Trump's election ('Russiagate')…

—CGE
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Jan 29 16:49:18 2018
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:49:18 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [All Out for the 22nd Bargaining Session] Timeline
	Photos
References: <ed6af7c6051311e8be1c0002c9df6546-e75f9f38@ff6eb3408b9b612b6754c0f00275e9d46763cb3efe056485eb0dfabd491f8906>
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From niloofar.peace at gmail.com  Wed Jan 31 18:01:00 2018
From: niloofar.peace at gmail.com (Niloofar Shambayati)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:01:00 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Palestine: An Art Exhibition and Conversations with the
	Artists
Message-ID: <CAFLceaxRVxdPd0nJvk_MR4akBmb1Kue=AL70qEP57tvNyhgT2A@mail.gmail.com>

A not to be missed exhibition, informed by Palestinian experiences, and two
events with the artists:


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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Wed Jan 31 18:31:52 2018
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:31:52 -0600
Subject: [Peace] Who has TV studio uplink capacity in Champaign-Urbana they
	would make available?
Message-ID: <CALMNhNS+KgNDuDNTTm5jdSY-RdWk13eJ=DbHqpPYm0Dub_wWFg@mail.gmail.com>

>From time to time, RT TV calls me for an interview. Usually, they have
liked to do this in a studio, rather than via Skype; recently, they have
made this a requirement, rather than a preference.

Often, I have used the WILL-TV studio for this purpose. I like doing it
this way, because RT pays them for the studio time, so it's a way of
subsidizing WILL that doesn't cost me anything. Also, I like the people
there and it's convenient.

However, for whatever reason, that often doesn't work out. So I'm
interested to know to what extent this capacity exists elsewhere in
Champaign-Urbana or could be made to exist.

Any leads?

===

Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
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