[Peace] [Peace-discuss] 'Consistent ethic of life'

[Anne Parkinson]

Perhaps you noticed the N-G sentence in its (AP) Charles Krauthammer obituary today: 

 "Krauthammer is credited with coining the term 'the Reagan Doctrine' for President Reagan's doctrine of aiding anti-Communist movements worldwide. " 

That sent me looking for old news articles on the fall of the Berlin wall and the Eastern bloc revolutions. 

 I knew Reagan's presidency (and his Vice President H.W. Bush, former head of the CIA) was famous for keeping brutal dictator Noriega in Panama and for Oliver North illegally selling arms to Iran to arm guerrillas against Daniel Ortega's people-supported Sandinistas in Nicaragua (Iran-Contra).  I was under the impression the Berlin wall fell and the Eastern bloc revolutions happened after Reagan's presidency. And they did: in 1989. 

How else can this be worded? " President Reagan's doctrine of enforcing Multi-National-Corporation policies by legal and illegal means, including conducting peace talks with Gorbachev, the Cold War, the School of the Americas that taught torture, and allowing the CIA to foment anti-democratically-elected regime change around the world. 

Returning to how and when the Berlin wall felI, the article below fits in very well with the "consistent ethic of life," Carl.The last paragraphs particularly are quite interesting. Not all credit is given to PJP - Baptists and other Christians are included. I would say that Love won - and always will - no matter which religions.

Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall? - The Imaginative Conservative
  
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    On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 8:01 AM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
 

 I highly recommend this VDO by Vincent Emanuelle, a former marine, as he travels through his views on war, activism, the left, what comes after capitalism, and how to survive in a dystopian world. 
All done in one hour, by a 32 year old, two years ago. Hubris for one so young, right? Wrong, some of the greatest thinkers did their best work when in their twenties and thirty’s.

https://youtu.be/NEjOnh75Apk




On Jun 18, 2018, at 13:37, bjornsona--- via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
Dear Carl: I just found this podcast: "Future Left" and thought you might find some of the topics and voices represented here interesting. Torie Bosch & Roy Scranton are on this  Nov. 17, 2017 edition discussing an anthology of stories they edited which imagines our future. It starts slow- gets much better halfway through.   I am a Roy Scranton fan since his essays were published in the NYT, and now collected in his short, frank, says-what-very-few-others-wiil-say book: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. (Which possibly should have been titled Learning to Live in the Anthropocene!) 
https://player.fm /series/podcasts-future-left/ep-80-what-future-w-torie-bosch-roy-scranton

Scranton, Roy. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights Books: San Francisco,CA) 2015. ISBN978-0-87286-669-0 www.city lights.com
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------ Original message------From: Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss Date: Mon, Jun 18, 2018 12:00 PMTo: Peace-discuss List;Cc: prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net;Peace;Subject:[Peace-discuss] 'Consistent ethic of life'
A number of our friends and colleagues on these lists seem to have been disturbed recently by my defense of what has been called a ‘consistent ethic of life’:  
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_life_ethic>.
That reminds me, tangentially, of a dinner party we gave for our late friend Nat Hentoff in 1992: our dozen guests were all good liberals, but Nat and I were the only ones who said we wouldn't vote for Bill Clinton. I think we were right. —CGE_______________________________________________
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