From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Fri Feb 1 00:15:16 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:15:16 -0600 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for Saturday's AWARE demo In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If you're going to leaflet on Venezuela in Champaign, it might be good to include something about Durbin, because he's been particularly bad. [...] Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) seemed to speak for the bipartisan foreign policy establishment when he welcomed Trump’s decision to recognize the newcomer, declaring on the Senate floor his support for Guaidó, who was relatively unknown in Venezuela until about a month ago. The comments reflect the degree to which the Democratic Party remains less willing to question its long-standing support for U.S. intervention in the affairs of foreign governments. [...] - POLITICS 01/30/2019 06:34 pm ET Updated 4 hours ago Where Democratic Presidential Contenders Stand On The Venezuelan Crisis Some of them agree with President Trump’s decision to recognize the country’s opposition leader as the legitimate president. By Daniel Marans, Nick Robins-Early, and Travis Waldron https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/venezuela-juan-guaido-donald-trump-2020-democrats_us_5c520bd0e4b04f8645c745f4 === Robert Reuel Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:27 PM Karen Aram via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > Here is one on offer from Adrian of the Green Party, posted on FB: > > > Adrian Boutureira Sansberro < > https://www.facebook.com/adrianboutureira?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDmKc6qg1fmuUBfhfK-tU1OOWxB1leV4a0lkH0cIhCIqQFTkwKNSZn6RBDFgF-eqIw-gWsYQ8LljtZF&hc_ref=ARTp2wlGTmjUD0umtBX7TZHwFDCUH66VMWXsUKWpfUWkxCwdFuD3kJGk8V8mRNPQVy0&fref=nf> > < > https://www.facebook.com/adrianboutureira?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDmKc6qg1fmuUBfhfK-tU1OOWxB1leV4a0lkH0cIhCIqQFTkwKNSZn6RBDFgF-eqIw-gWsYQ8LljtZF&hc_ref=ARTp2wlGTmjUD0umtBX7TZHwFDCUH66VMWXsUKWpfUWkxCwdFuD3kJGk8V8mRNPQVy0&fref=nf > > > 23 hrs > · > Hello all, > Planning a rally in your hometown? Please use this release freely: > For immediate release, January 30, 2019 > What: > XXXXXXXX plans to mobilize its membership to express our strong opposition > to any form of US intervention into the internal affairs of the sovereign > nation of Venezuela. > When: > XXXXXXXX. > Where: > XXXXXXXXXXX > Contacts: > XXXXXXXXX > Background > In mid-December, Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s right-wing > opposition-controlled National Assembly, traveled to Washington, Colombia, > and Brazil. The exact nature of Guaidó's discussions with the right-wing > government officials of these nations is unknown, but on Jan. 15, Vice > President Pence made a telephone call to Guaidó. > On Jan. 21, encouraged by the right-wing governments of Colombia, Brazil, > and the U.S., a small group of Venezuelan National Guard soldiers attempted > and failed to execute a military coup. Vice President Pence called Guaidó > again the next day, and the day after that, Jan. 23, Guaidó declared > himself the interim president of Venezuela. > 17 years prior, the Bush Administration openly backed a violent and deadly > coup that temporarily deposed then-president Hugo Chavez. In the years > since, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have also supported the > right-wing opposition and its neoliberal plans for a Venezuelan economy > subservient to U.S. interests. While Trump allies with fascists like > Bolsonaro in Brazil and murderous monarchs like Mohammed Bin Salman in > Saudi Arabia, his administration continues to serve U.S. imperial policies > by attempting to overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government in > Venezuela and institute neoliberal policies that would plunder the > Venezuelan economy at the service of the oligarchs and wealthy that lead > the Venezuelan opposition. > U.S. President Donald Trump's appointments of John Bolton as National > Security Advisor and Elliot Abrams as "Special Envoy to Venezuela" bode > particularly ill for Venezuela's future. Abrams was convicted during the > Iran Contra investigation of withholding information from Congress to help > cover up atrocities committed by the Reagan Administration-backed > right-wing governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and by the > Contras against Nicaragua, and mischaracterized the U.S.’s brutal and often > criminal policy towards El Salvador as a "fabulous achievement." > Under the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan government set up > large-scale social programs to combat poverty. Workers and indigenous > peoples have been empowered. The state has taken control of resources that > were formerly in the hands of foreign multinationals. But the United States > and its allies refuse to tolerate any attempt by a poor country to buck the > neoliberal order and institute any kind of socialist reforms, so they keep > attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government. > The opposition is run by wealthy Venezuelans who are of European descent > and have often targeted Chavistas who are poor and often of African and > indigenous heritage. Many of the leaders of the opposition are the same > leaders who led and supported the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in > 2002. This opposition has openly incited violence and murdered people > because they were pro-government. They have harassed and shot journalists > and plotted to blow up pro-government news stations. This is fascism. > Demand > We oppose this latest coup attempt and the direct and illegal U.S. role in > it, and demand that our elected officials stand up and speak out against it > now. To do anything less is to aid and abet another U.S.-engineered > imperialist crime in this hemisphere. There have been too many already. > This sharp escalation of attacks on Venezuela comes after long U.S. > campaign of destabilizing the Venezuelan economy and society. Destabilizing > Venezuela to achieve “regime change” and the imposition of yet another > anti-working class, anti-indigenous, anti-environmentalist, right-wing > government subservient to global capitalism, like those of Jair Bolsonaro > in Brazil and Ivan Duque in Colombia, is not in the interests of the > Venezuelan working people, or of workers in the United States. > Under both President Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela > has repeatedly shown its willingness to maintain friendly relations with > the United States and its people, even going so far as to help poor > communities in the United States by providing them with discounted heating > oil. The people of the United States need to speak out forcefully and > immediately to put a stop to the Trump administration’s reckless actions > against Venezuela, which could easily lead to a civil war with regional and > U.S. participation. We urge everyone to immediately contact their senators > and representatives to demand an end to this illegal and dangerous > intervention in the affairs of a sovereign nation which has done nothing to > harm our country or its people. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Jan 31, 2019, at 13:00, C G Estabrook via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > > https://blackagendareport.com/racist-imperialist-war-venezuela > > > > A better flyer for Saturday's AWARE demo. --CGE (there in spirit) > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Feb 1 02:07:40 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 02:07:40 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: 2/2: No War on Venezuela w/ Guest Speaker Live from Caracas! References: <5c53a44a65edc_1060f46af50502f@asgworker-qmb3-2.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: [PSL] [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/psl/mailings/3321/attachments/original/NY-Venezuela.jpg?1548985159]Forum: No War on Venezuela! Sat., Feb. 2, 6 pm 3460 W. Lawrence Join the facebook event and share widely Join us for an anti-war forum to expose the media and Trump regime lies about Venezuela, stop the attempted right-wing coup, denounce the illegal sanctions and mobilize against U.S. plans for war in Venezuela. We will have speakers, solidarity and organizing! ** Special guest live from Caracas: Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza, former Consul General of Venezuela in Chicago ** John Beacham, ANSWER Chicago Coordinator $5 to $10 Donation. Feb. 2 is the 20th Anniversary of Hugo Chavez's inauguration after his stunning and decisive 1998 electoral victory. We will have a special remembrance of Comandante Chavez at the meeting. A right-wing coup attempt against the democratically elected president Nicolás Maduro is underway in Venezuela, orchestrated by the Trump White House and the CIA along with its junior partners — the so-called Lima Group. We are witnessing once again a classic example of U.S. imperialism and its proxies attempting to carry out an illegal regime change operation against a progressive government. People all over the world need to stand in solidarity with Venezuela in this critical moment. The U.S. sanctions on Venezuelan oil are criminal and a cruel attack on the population of Venezuela. Sanctions on Iraq's economy by the United States and the United Nation led to 750,000 unnecessary deaths -- half of whom were children. The sanctions were also precursor to a war that led to the destruction of Iraq, the deaths of millions of civilians and the rises of ISIS. No good can come from U.S. regime change efforts. Nicolás Maduro is the democratically elected president of Venezuela. He was elected with over 67% of the vote in elections that were held in May at the request of the opposition so that peace talks between the government and the opposition could continue. It was the opposition that broke off the talks with the government. Venezuela's elections (which Jimmy Carter called the best in the world) and constitution are infinitely more democratic than the United States. Venezuela is the only country in the world to hold a public audit of the vote on election night. Join us to #resist the racist Trump administration's attempted coup and war on Venezuela and their ominous threats against Cuba, Nicaragua and all of Latin America. 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I’m afraid I can’t. —CGE > > > > > On Jan 31, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > > > > If you're going to leaflet on Venezuela in Champaign, it might be good > to include something about Durbin, because he's been particularly bad. > > > > [...] > > Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) seemed to speak for the > bipartisan foreign policy establishment when he welcomed Trump’s decision > to recognize the newcomer, declaring on the Senate floor his support for > Guaidó, who was relatively unknown in Venezuela until about a month ago. > The comments reflect the degree to which the Democratic Party remains less > willing to question its long-standing support for U.S. intervention in the > affairs of foreign governments. > > > > [...] > > > > - POLITICS 01/30/2019 06:34 pm ET Updated 4 hours ago > > Where Democratic Presidential Contenders Stand On The Venezuelan Crisis > > Some of them agree with President Trump’s decision to recognize the > country’s opposition leader as the legitimate president. > > By Daniel Marans, Nick Robins-Early, and Travis Waldron > > > https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/venezuela-juan-guaido-donald-trump-2020-democrats_us_5c520bd0e4b04f8645c745f4 > > > > === > > > > Robert Reuel Naiman > > Policy Director > > Just Foreign Policy > > www.justforeignpolicy.org > > naiman at justforeignpolicy.org > > (202) 448-2898 x1 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:27 PM Karen Aram via Peace-discuss < > peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > Here is one on offer from Adrian of the Green Party, posted on FB: > > > > > > Adrian Boutureira Sansberro < > https://www.facebook.com/adrianboutureira?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDmKc6qg1fmuUBfhfK-tU1OOWxB1leV4a0lkH0cIhCIqQFTkwKNSZn6RBDFgF-eqIw-gWsYQ8LljtZF&hc_ref=ARTp2wlGTmjUD0umtBX7TZHwFDCUH66VMWXsUKWpfUWkxCwdFuD3kJGk8V8mRNPQVy0&fref=nf> > < > https://www.facebook.com/adrianboutureira?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDmKc6qg1fmuUBfhfK-tU1OOWxB1leV4a0lkH0cIhCIqQFTkwKNSZn6RBDFgF-eqIw-gWsYQ8LljtZF&hc_ref=ARTp2wlGTmjUD0umtBX7TZHwFDCUH66VMWXsUKWpfUWkxCwdFuD3kJGk8V8mRNPQVy0&fref=nf > > > > 23 hrs > · > > Hello all, > > Planning a rally in your hometown? Please use this release freely: > > For immediate release, January 30, 2019 > > What: > > XXXXXXXX plans to mobilize its membership to express our strong > opposition to any form of US intervention into the internal affairs of the > sovereign nation of Venezuela. > > When: > > XXXXXXXX. > > Where: > > XXXXXXXXXXX > > Contacts: > > XXXXXXXXX > > Background > > In mid-December, Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s right-wing > opposition-controlled National Assembly, traveled to Washington, Colombia, > and Brazil. The exact nature of Guaidó's discussions with the right-wing > government officials of these nations is unknown, but on Jan. 15, Vice > President Pence made a telephone call to Guaidó. > > On Jan. 21, encouraged by the right-wing governments of Colombia, > Brazil, and the U.S., a small group of Venezuelan National Guard soldiers > attempted and failed to execute a military coup. Vice President Pence > called Guaidó again the next day, and the day after that, Jan. 23, Guaidó > declared himself the interim president of Venezuela. > > 17 years prior, the Bush Administration openly backed a violent and > deadly coup that temporarily deposed then-president Hugo Chavez. In the > years since, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have also supported > the right-wing opposition and its neoliberal plans for a Venezuelan economy > subservient to U.S. interests. While Trump allies with fascists like > Bolsonaro in Brazil and murderous monarchs like Mohammed Bin Salman in > Saudi Arabia, his administration continues to serve U.S. imperial policies > by attempting to overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government in > Venezuela and institute neoliberal policies that would plunder the > Venezuelan economy at the service of the oligarchs and wealthy that lead > the Venezuelan opposition. > > U.S. President Donald Trump's appointments of John Bolton as National > Security Advisor and Elliot Abrams as "Special Envoy to Venezuela" bode > particularly ill for Venezuela's future. Abrams was convicted during the > Iran Contra investigation of withholding information from Congress to help > cover up atrocities committed by the Reagan Administration-backed > right-wing governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and by the > Contras against Nicaragua, and mischaracterized the U.S.’s brutal and often > criminal policy towards El Salvador as a "fabulous achievement." > > Under the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan government set up > large-scale social programs to combat poverty. Workers and indigenous > peoples have been empowered. The state has taken control of resources that > were formerly in the hands of foreign multinationals. But the United States > and its allies refuse to tolerate any attempt by a poor country to buck the > neoliberal order and institute any kind of socialist reforms, so they keep > attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government. > > The opposition is run by wealthy Venezuelans who are of European descent > and have often targeted Chavistas who are poor and often of African and > indigenous heritage. Many of the leaders of the opposition are the same > leaders who led and supported the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in > 2002. This opposition has openly incited violence and murdered people > because they were pro-government. They have harassed and shot journalists > and plotted to blow up pro-government news stations. This is fascism. > > Demand > > We oppose this latest coup attempt and the direct and illegal U.S. role > in it, and demand that our elected officials stand up and speak out against > it now. To do anything less is to aid and abet another U.S.-engineered > imperialist crime in this hemisphere. There have been too many already. > This sharp escalation of attacks on Venezuela comes after long U.S. > campaign of destabilizing the Venezuelan economy and society. Destabilizing > Venezuela to achieve “regime change” and the imposition of yet another > anti-working class, anti-indigenous, anti-environmentalist, right-wing > government subservient to global capitalism, like those of Jair Bolsonaro > in Brazil and Ivan Duque in Colombia, is not in the interests of the > Venezuelan working people, or of workers in the United States. > > Under both President Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela > has repeatedly shown its willingness to maintain friendly relations with > the United States and its people, even going so far as to help poor > communities in the United States by providing them with discounted heating > oil. The people of the United States need to speak out forcefully and > immediately to put a stop to the Trump administration’s reckless actions > against Venezuela, which could easily lead to a civil war with regional and > U.S. participation. We urge everyone to immediately contact their senators > and representatives to demand an end to this illegal and dangerous > intervention in the affairs of a sovereign nation which has done nothing to > harm our country or its people. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Jan 31, 2019, at 13:00, C G Estabrook via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > >> > >> https://blackagendareport.com/racist-imperialist-war-venezuela > >> > >> A better flyer for Saturday's AWARE demo. --CGE (there in spirit) > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Peace mailing list > >> Peace at lists.chambana.net > >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace-discuss mailing list > > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Feb 1 13:03:52 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 13:03:52 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Document detailing economic warfare in Venezuela Message-ID: https://grayzoneproject.com/2019/01/30/us-economic-warfare-venezuela/ From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Feb 1 20:35:02 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 20:35:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Alan Nairn on DN related to Elliot Abrams Message-ID: It’s really detailed as to Abrams crimes, but not for the faint of heart. https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/30/allan_nairn_trump_s_venezuela_envo From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Feb 1 20:35:02 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 20:35:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Alan Nairn on DN related to Elliot Abrams Message-ID: It’s really detailed as to Abrams crimes, but not for the faint of heart. https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/30/allan_nairn_trump_s_venezuela_envo From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Feb 2 02:27:04 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 02:27:04 +0000 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=5BNew_post=5D_=E2=80=9CI_Oppose_Interve?= =?utf-8?q?ntionism=2C_But-=E2=80=9D_But_Nothing=2E_Stop_Being_A_Pro_Bono_?= =?utf-8?q?CIA_Propagandist=2E?= References: <139971992.5889.0@wordpress.com> Message-ID: New post on Caitlin Johnstone [https://i1.wp.com/caitlinjohnstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-caitlinpic1.jpg?resize=32%2C32&ssl=1] [http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/12152988a68a6d4dae7506812444c18f?s=50&d=monsterid&r=G] “I Oppose Interventionism, But-” But Nothing. Stop Being A Pro Bono CIA Propagandist. by Caitlin Johnstone In a recent interview with The Corbett Report, the Ron Paul Institute's Daniel McAdams spoke disdainfully of those ostensibly anti-interventionist libertarians who picked this moment of all times to loudly and aggressively condemn Venezuela's president Maduro, just as the US power establishment is ramping up its campaign to topple the Venezuelan government. "All of a sudden now there are millions of Venezuela experts in America, and many of them could not point Venezuela out on a map five days ago," McAdams said. "And everyone has to have this disclaimer, 'Well, I know it's probably worse than North Korea, but the US government shouldn't get involved.' It's cowardice, because once the war starts, they can say 'Hey I never called for US intervention!' No, but you're a conveyor belt for propaganda. You're a conveyor belt to get the machine ginned up for war. And so you've got to stand up and take responsibility." [http://img.youtube.com/vi/UpZRPOpnz3g/0.jpg] McAdams has for years consistently operated in the hub of one of America's most forceful and effective branches of opposition to US interventionism, and he is absolutely correct here. On both sides of America's political divide, the primary objections you will see to this administration's campaign to delegitimize and topple the US government are prefaced with a strong condemnation of Maduro followed by some feeble equivocations voicing vague objections to Trump's actions, if that. Even more often, what you will see is excuses made for the US government's aggressive attempts to control who runs Venezuela, followed by some mumbling along the lines of "I don't want us to go to war, though" dribbling out of the corner of their mouths. Some silly, arbitrary line in the sand saying that Trump's current ongoing starvation sanctions, CIA covert ops and premeditated campaign to delegitimize and overthrow Venezuela's government is fine, and hey, maybe arming some right-wing militias via Columbia would be fine too, but don't send American troops to do the killing or we'll be a tad upset. All these wimpy, wishy washy "I oppose US interventionism sorta kinda but not really P.S. fuck Maduro" mouth noises are infuriatingly obnoxious, for a number of reasons. Firstly, someone who claims to be antiwar or anti-interventionist but reserves their objections solely for the most overt forms of warfare is not really antiwar or anti-interventionist, because warfare in modern times is designed to take many less overt forms in order to prevent the kind of attention-grabbing public objections seen over Vietnam and Iraq. A look at what the US empire did to Libya and Syria shows that hundreds of thousands can be killed, millions can be displaced, and humanitarian disasters beyond our ability to imagine can be unleashed without any overt conventional invasion. Secondly, by wrapping your resistance to US warmongering in loud criticisms of the Venezuelan government and "Go people's rebellion!" cheerleading, you are functioning as a pro bono propagandist for the CIA and the US State Department, and thereby helping to advance the warmongering agendas of those depraved agencies. Before they launch missiles, they launch narratives. Before they drop bombs, they drop ideas. Before they invade, they propagandize. Before the killing, there is manipulation. The front line of any antiwar movement is a fight against mass media psyops. What you're doing matters. — Caitlin Johnstone [⏳] (@caitoz) January 24, 2019 All US-led military agendas begin with propaganda. If the public were allowed to see the reality of war with fresh eyes, they would all instantly recoil in horror and adamantly demand its immediate end. The only reason the US-centralized empire is able to sow death and destruction around the world without this happening is because of propaganda, which is why Americans are the most aggressively propagandized people in the world: the violent agendas of the most powerful military force ever assembled are far too important to be left up to the will of the citizenry. So before they can launch missiles, planes, and ships, they launch propaganda. They launch mass media psyops. They launch narrative control campaigns to make sure that Americans hate the leader of Targeted Nation X and want the people of Targeted Nation X to have Freedom and Democracy[™]. Day after day after day, they seed the idea that Targeted Leader X "must go", until the story has become so thoroughly indoctrinated that it almost looks like the US and its allies have no choice but to intervene with increasingly violent measures. When you help advance those propaganda narratives, you are actively facilitating the first steps of war in a very real way. It's the same as if you personally picked up a rifle and began picking people off; the only difference is that you're participating in an earlier stage of the bloodshed rather than a later one. The people are just as dead in the end as if you personally had killed them with your own hands, you just helped with an earlier part of the mechanizations of war rather than a later one. Hell, the one firing the bullets is arguably in a more moral position, because at least they're putting something on the line and reckoning sincerely with the reality of what they're doing. The one hiding behind a keyboard and acting as a pro bono war propagandist while inserting "...but I oppose direct interventionism" at the end is vastly more cowardly and dishonest. In the end, the one with the gun is just delivering the bullet that was put in the mail by the propagandist. Life pro tip: If you find yourself cheering for the same "people's uprising" in a foreign nation that the US State Department says you should cheer for, it's because you've been propagandized. Please revise your media consumption habits and critical thinking skills accordingly. — Caitlin Johnstone [⏳] (@caitoz) February 1, 2019 Over and over and over I run into this stupid herd mentality while arguing about this stuff online where people (seemingly deliberately) conflate the notion of Venezuelans sorting out Venezuelan affairs with US interventionism. I'll be clearly and explicitly condemning US interventionism, and some foam-brained Trump supporter will come up to me saying "I don't understand, Caitlin! Why don't you support the Venezuelan people??" That phrase, "the Venezuelan people," incidentally, is exclusively used in propaganda articles to refer to those who support regime change in Venezuela, as documented hereby Fair.org's Alan MacLeod. Like the people who support their government aren't Venezuelan people. And I don't mean to just single out Trump supporters here; they're just the ones who are more vocally gung-ho for this particular intervention. For the last two years I've had Democrats up in my face all the time calling me a "genocide denier" and an "Assad apologist" for opposing the Syrian war propaganda and demanding to know why I hate the Syrian people. The rest of the time I'm being asked why I don't support the Iranian people by Republicans and why I love Putin by Democrats. This mind virus is totally bipartisan. "I oppose interventionism, but I like to act as a pro bono CIA propagandist and regurgitate US State Department talking points at every opportunity." ~ Old partisan hack proverb — Caitlin Johnstone [⏳] (@caitoz) February 1, 2019 It is unlikely that the US war machine is gearing up for an all-out invasion of Venezuela as its Plan A. That's not its MO. First we're likely to see continually tightening starvation sanctions, more narrative control, more CIA covert operations, and the arming of oppositional militias within Venezuela. If that doesn't work we can perhaps expect to see some drone warfare and a coalition being formed, with ground troops sent in only if these other measures fail to rip the country apart by themselves, and only if our rulers can manufacture consent for it. The time to begin disrupting that consent-manufacturing apparatus is now, not later. The only thing keeping the public from using its numbers to force an end to imperialist warmongering is that most people lack a deep understanding of how horrific and widespread it is, and the only thing preventing them from developing that understanding is propaganda. By regurgitating the propaganda narratives being spouted by neoconservative death cultists like Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Elliott Abrams, you are helping them pave the road to acts of mass slaughter as sure as if you were perpetrating it yourself. If you wouldn't go to a country and start killing everyone between you and its leader personally, stop helping to construct the narrative framework that is being set up to accomplish exactly that. The most powerful thing in our society is narrative. Please treat it with an appropriate level of respect. ____________________ Thanks for reading! 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Feb 2 13:03:31 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 13:03:31 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Hands off Venezuela demonstration today, downtown Champaign Message-ID: A.W.A.R.E. The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana Monthly Demonstration February 2, 2019, 2-4 p.m., Corner of Main & Neil, Champaign U.S. HANDS OFF VENEZUELA In mid-December, Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s right-wing opposition-controlled National Assembly, traveled to Washington, Colombia, and Brazil. The exact nature of Guaidó's discussions with the right-wing government officials of these nations is unknown, but on Jan. 15, Vice President Pence made a telephone call to Guaidó. On Jan. 21, encouraged by the right-wing governments of Colombia, Brazil, and the U.S., a small group of Venezuelan National Guard soldiers attempted and failed to execute a military coup. Vice President Pence called Guaidó again the next day, and the day after that, Jan. 23, Guaidó declared himself the interim president of Venezuela. 17 years prior, the Bush Administration openly backed a violent and deadly coup that temporarily deposed then-president Hugo Chavez. In the years since, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have also supported the right-wing opposition and its neoliberal plans for a Venezuelan economy subservient to U.S. interests. While Trump allies with fascists like Bolsonaro in Brazil and murderous monarchs like Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, his administration continues to serve U.S. imperial policies by attempting to overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government in Venezuela and institute neoliberal policies that would plunder the Venezuelan economy at the service of the oligarchs and wealthy that lead the Venezuelan opposition. U.S. President Donald Trump's appointments of John Bolton as National Security Advisor and Elliot Abrams as "Special Envoy to Venezuela" bode particularly ill for Venezuela's future. Abrams was convicted during the Iran Contra investigation of withholding information from Congress to help cover up atrocities committed by the Reagan Administration-backed right-wing governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and by the Contras against Nicaragua, and mischaracterized the U.S.’s brutal and often criminal policy towards El Salvador as a "fabulous achievement." Under the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan government set up large-scale social programs to combat poverty. Workers and indigenous peoples have been empowered. The state has taken control of resources that were formerly in the hands of foreign multinationals. But the United States and its allies refuse to tolerate any attempt by a poor country to buck the neoliberal order and institute any kind of socialist reforms, so they keep attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government. The opposition is run by wealthy Venezuelans who are of European descent and have often targeted Chavistas who are poor and often of African and indigenous heritage. Many of the leaders of the opposition are the same leaders who led and supported the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002. This opposition has openly incited violence and murdered people because they were pro-government. They have harassed and shot journalists and plotted to blow up pro-government news stations. This is fascism. Demand: We oppose this latest coup attempt and the direct and illegal U.S. role in it, and demand that our elected officials stand up and speak out against it now. To do anything less is to aid and abet another U.S.-engineered imperialist crime in this hemisphere. There have been too many already. This sharp escalation of attacks on Venezuela comes after long U.S. campaign of destabilizing the Venezuelan economy and society. Destabilizing Venezuela to achieve “regime change” and the imposition of yet another anti-working class, anti-indigenous, anti-environmentalist, right-wing government subservient to global capitalism, like those of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Ivan Duque in Colombia, is not in the interests of the Venezuelan working people, or of workers in the United States. Under both President Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has repeatedly shown its willingness to maintain friendly relations with the United States and its people, even going so far as to help poor communities in the United States by providing them with discounted heating oil. The people of the United States need to speak out forcefully and immediately to put a stop to the Trump administration’s reckless actions against Venezuela, which could easily lead to a civil war with regional and U.S. participation. We urge everyone to immediately contact their senators and representatives to demand an end to this illegal and dangerous intervention in the affairs of a sovereign nation which has done nothing to harm our country or its people. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Feb 2 13:03:31 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 13:03:31 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Hands off Venezuela demonstration today, downtown Champaign Message-ID: A.W.A.R.E. The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana Monthly Demonstration February 2, 2019, 2-4 p.m., Corner of Main & Neil, Champaign U.S. HANDS OFF VENEZUELA In mid-December, Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s right-wing opposition-controlled National Assembly, traveled to Washington, Colombia, and Brazil. The exact nature of Guaidó's discussions with the right-wing government officials of these nations is unknown, but on Jan. 15, Vice President Pence made a telephone call to Guaidó. On Jan. 21, encouraged by the right-wing governments of Colombia, Brazil, and the U.S., a small group of Venezuelan National Guard soldiers attempted and failed to execute a military coup. Vice President Pence called Guaidó again the next day, and the day after that, Jan. 23, Guaidó declared himself the interim president of Venezuela. 17 years prior, the Bush Administration openly backed a violent and deadly coup that temporarily deposed then-president Hugo Chavez. In the years since, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have also supported the right-wing opposition and its neoliberal plans for a Venezuelan economy subservient to U.S. interests. While Trump allies with fascists like Bolsonaro in Brazil and murderous monarchs like Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, his administration continues to serve U.S. imperial policies by attempting to overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government in Venezuela and institute neoliberal policies that would plunder the Venezuelan economy at the service of the oligarchs and wealthy that lead the Venezuelan opposition. U.S. President Donald Trump's appointments of John Bolton as National Security Advisor and Elliot Abrams as "Special Envoy to Venezuela" bode particularly ill for Venezuela's future. Abrams was convicted during the Iran Contra investigation of withholding information from Congress to help cover up atrocities committed by the Reagan Administration-backed right-wing governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and by the Contras against Nicaragua, and mischaracterized the U.S.’s brutal and often criminal policy towards El Salvador as a "fabulous achievement." Under the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan government set up large-scale social programs to combat poverty. Workers and indigenous peoples have been empowered. The state has taken control of resources that were formerly in the hands of foreign multinationals. But the United States and its allies refuse to tolerate any attempt by a poor country to buck the neoliberal order and institute any kind of socialist reforms, so they keep attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government. The opposition is run by wealthy Venezuelans who are of European descent and have often targeted Chavistas who are poor and often of African and indigenous heritage. Many of the leaders of the opposition are the same leaders who led and supported the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002. This opposition has openly incited violence and murdered people because they were pro-government. They have harassed and shot journalists and plotted to blow up pro-government news stations. This is fascism. Demand: We oppose this latest coup attempt and the direct and illegal U.S. role in it, and demand that our elected officials stand up and speak out against it now. To do anything less is to aid and abet another U.S.-engineered imperialist crime in this hemisphere. There have been too many already. This sharp escalation of attacks on Venezuela comes after long U.S. campaign of destabilizing the Venezuelan economy and society. Destabilizing Venezuela to achieve “regime change” and the imposition of yet another anti-working class, anti-indigenous, anti-environmentalist, right-wing government subservient to global capitalism, like those of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Ivan Duque in Colombia, is not in the interests of the Venezuelan working people, or of workers in the United States. Under both President Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has repeatedly shown its willingness to maintain friendly relations with the United States and its people, even going so far as to help poor communities in the United States by providing them with discounted heating oil. The people of the United States need to speak out forcefully and immediately to put a stop to the Trump administration’s reckless actions against Venezuela, which could easily lead to a civil war with regional and U.S. participation. We urge everyone to immediately contact their senators and representatives to demand an end to this illegal and dangerous intervention in the affairs of a sovereign nation which has done nothing to harm our country or its people. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Feb 2 17:13:15 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 17:13:15 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Hands off Venezuela demonstration today, downtown Champaign References: Message-ID: A.W.A.R.E. The Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana Monthly Demonstration February 2, 2019, 2-4 p.m., Corner of Main & Neil, Champaign U.S. HANDS OFF VENEZUELA In mid-December, Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s right-wing opposition-controlled National Assembly, traveled to Washington, Colombia, and Brazil. The exact nature of Guaidó's discussions with the right-wing government officials of these nations is unknown, but on Jan. 15, Vice President Pence made a telephone call to Guaidó. On Jan. 21, encouraged by the right-wing governments of Colombia, Brazil, and the U.S., a small group of Venezuelan National Guard soldiers attempted and failed to execute a military coup. Vice President Pence called Guaidó again the next day, and the day after that, Jan. 23, Guaidó declared himself the interim president of Venezuela. 17 years prior, the Bush Administration openly backed a violent and deadly coup that temporarily deposed then-president Hugo Chavez. In the years since, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations have also supported the right-wing opposition and its neoliberal plans for a Venezuelan economy subservient to U.S. interests. While Trump allies with fascists like Bolsonaro in Brazil and murderous monarchs like Mohammed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, his administration continues to serve U.S. imperial policies by attempting to overthrow a democratically elected left-wing government in Venezuela and institute neoliberal policies that would plunder the Venezuelan economy at the service of the oligarchs and wealthy that lead the Venezuelan opposition. U.S. President Donald Trump's appointments of John Bolton as National Security Advisor and Elliot Abrams as "Special Envoy to Venezuela" bode particularly ill for Venezuela's future. Abrams was convicted during the Iran Contra investigation of withholding information from Congress to help cover up atrocities committed by the Reagan Administration-backed right-wing governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, and by the Contras against Nicaragua, and mischaracterized the U.S.’s brutal and often criminal policy towards El Salvador as a "fabulous achievement." Under the Bolivarian Revolution, the Venezuelan government set up large-scale social programs to combat poverty. Workers and indigenous peoples have been empowered. The state has taken control of resources that were formerly in the hands of foreign multinationals. But the United States and its allies refuse to tolerate any attempt by a poor country to buck the neoliberal order and institute any kind of socialist reforms, so they keep attempting to overthrow the democratically elected government. The opposition is run by wealthy Venezuelans who are of European descent and have often targeted Chavistas who are poor and often of African and indigenous heritage. Many of the leaders of the opposition are the same leaders who led and supported the attempted coup against Hugo Chavez in 2002. This opposition has openly incited violence and murdered people because they were pro-government. They have harassed and shot journalists and plotted to blow up pro-government news stations. This is fascism. Demand: We oppose this latest coup attempt and the direct and illegal U.S. role in it, and demand that our elected officials stand up and speak out against it now. To do anything less is to aid and abet another U.S.-engineered imperialist crime in this hemisphere. There have been too many already. This sharp escalation of attacks on Venezuela comes after long U.S. campaign of destabilizing the Venezuelan economy and society. Destabilizing Venezuela to achieve “regime change” and the imposition of yet another anti-working class, anti-indigenous, anti-environmentalist, right-wing government subservient to global capitalism, like those of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Ivan Duque in Colombia, is not in the interests of the Venezuelan working people, or of workers in the United States. Under both President Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela has repeatedly shown its willingness to maintain friendly relations with the United States and its people, even going so far as to help poor communities in the United States by providing them with discounted heating oil. The people of the United States need to speak out forcefully and immediately to put a stop to the Trump administration’s reckless actions against Venezuela, which could easily lead to a civil war with regional and U.S. participation. We urge everyone to immediately contact their senators and representatives to demand an end to this illegal and dangerous intervention in the affairs of a sovereign nation which has done nothing to harm our country or its people. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Tue Feb 5 17:38:25 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 11:38:25 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Jewish Voice for Peace asks for calls on Duckworth against unconstitutional anti-BDS bill In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is actually only one of the horrible things in the bill - it also opposes U.S. withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michael Deheeger Date: Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 11:18 AM Subject: Duckworth Hey all - I know a lot of folks are already on this, but if you have lists you can quickly forward something to to direct calls to Senator Duckworth on S.1, see some language you can lift below. She has been getting calls, feedback on one of them so far is "she has not made known her position on it, and we'll find out after she votes". Repurposed a national action alert from an earlier procedural bill for this purpose: *Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth has voted several times to advance the bill and is getting pushback for it. A few dozen calls could have an impact - so today, PLEASE use this form to look up her contact information and use the suggested script to make a 30 second call. Durbin has been a consistent opponent of the bill, so if you want to call and thank him for opposing, that's great too.)* *Call your senators and tell them to stand up for our First Amendment rights and protect our right to boycott! Click here for a sample script and a phone number to call your Senator. [https://secure.everyaction.com/dYaJwnx1NEGepcFMNruTXA2 ]This bill was prevented from passing three times during the shutdown, thanks to your mobilizing and the support of allies like the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, ACLU, MoveOn, and Indivisible. Democrats rightly refused to support a wall on the U.S. Mexico border. Now, we need to demand they not switch sides to attack those of us who oppose Israel's apartheid wall.Call your senators and tell them to stand up for our First Amendment rights and protect our right to boycott! Click here for a sample script and a phone number to call your Senator [https://secure.everyaction.com/dYaJwnx1NEGepcFMNruTXA2 ] .No legislator should have anything to do with any legislation that opposes human rights for Palestinians - period. And nobody should support laws that the ACLU has called unconstitutional. They were already overturned by federal courts in Kansas and Arizona, and lawsuits are ongoing in Texas and Arkansas. That’s why Rubio and others who want to stop the growing movement for Palestinian rights are trying to sneak this legislation through the Senate’s first bill of the year.This is an underhanded move to push through something we’ve powerfully fought back against. It’s time to raise your voice now. Join me and thousands of others across the country and say no to Rubio and yes to fighting for freedom, justice and equality.Call your senators and tell them to stand up for our First Amendment rights and protect our right to boycott! Click here for a sample script and a phone number to call your Senator [https://secure.everyaction.com/dYaJwnx1NEGepcFMNruTXA2 ] .* Michael -- Michael Deheeger | Congressional Organizer | Jewish Voice for Peace Pronouns: He, his, him (847) 494-0356 <%28415%29%20823-4838> | michael at jewishvoiceforpeace.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Fri Feb 8 00:31:15 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 18:31:15 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News-Gazette Letter to the Editor | Duckworth breaks oath with vote Message-ID: http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2019-02-05/letter-the-editor-duckworth-breaks-oath-with-vote.html Letter to the Editor | Duckworth breaks oath with vote Tue, 02/05/2019 - 4:15am | The News-Gazette U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth's vote for S.1, the "Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act," is a Constitutional disgrace. This legislation will encourage state and local governments to restrict Americans' right to free speech, a right that all members of Congress take an oath to protect. The time-honored sanction of boycotts was used in Montgomery, Ala., South Africa and currently in Iran, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, Syria and many places around the globe — purportedly to pressure governments to become more democratic and more humane, at least that's what successive administrations and Congresses have told Americans. Whether this is what our government should be doing (or actually is doing) is left for other debates. This letter asks: Why has Duckworth hypocritically voted to restrict Americans' right to use boycotts to fight Palestinian oppression, the same boycotts the U.S. uses across the globe? Duckworth's support of S.1 demonstrates her contempt for democratic freedoms. It violates her oath to uphold the Constitution. How can Duckworth vote against the very freedoms at home that she presumably fought for in Iraq? Emma Lazarus, whose sonnet "The New Colossus" is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, also wrote: "Until we are all free, we are none of us free." Duckworth's vote is insensible to understanding freedom, or she just doesn't care about some people, which amounts to racism. She allows liberal use of sanctions everywhere but Palestine. This makes her motives and actions suspect. SHERI DALEY Champaign === === Robert Reuel Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Feb 8 00:39:16 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 00:39:16 +0000 Subject: [Peace] News-Gazette Letter to the Editor | Duckworth breaks oath with vote In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Robert, the author is a friend, I have cc’d her on this email communication. She just today received a response to her letter from Tammy, please see: "​The concerns regarding freedom of speech implications are rightly being litigated before Federal courts and would be subject to further debate and amendment in the House of Representatives, if that chamber even takes up the bill. This bill does not protect a state or local BDS law from being challenged in court by an individual on constitutional grounds. On Feb 7, 2019, at 16:31, Robert Naiman via Peace > wrote: http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2019-02-05/letter-the-editor-duckworth-breaks-oath-with-vote.html Letter to the Editor | Duckworth breaks oath with vote Tue, 02/05/2019 - 4:15am | The News-Gazette U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth's vote for S.1, the "Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act," is a Constitutional disgrace. This legislation will encourage state and local governments to restrict Americans' right to free speech, a right that all members of Congress take an oath to protect. The time-honored sanction of boycotts was used in Montgomery, Ala., South Africa and currently in Iran, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, Syria and many places around the globe — purportedly to pressure governments to become more democratic and more humane, at least that's what successive administrations and Congresses have told Americans. Whether this is what our government should be doing (or actually is doing) is left for other debates. This letter asks: Why has Duckworth hypocritically voted to restrict Americans' right to use boycotts to fight Palestinian oppression, the same boycotts the U.S. uses across the globe? Duckworth's support of S.1 demonstrates her contempt for democratic freedoms. It violates her oath to uphold the Constitution. How can Duckworth vote against the very freedoms at home that she presumably fought for in Iraq? Emma Lazarus, whose sonnet "The New Colossus" is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, also wrote: "Until we are all free, we are none of us free." Duckworth's vote is insensible to understanding freedom, or she just doesn't care about some people, which amounts to racism. She allows liberal use of sanctions everywhere but Palestine. This makes her motives and actions suspect. SHERI DALEY Champaign === === Robert Reuel Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Fri Feb 8 02:07:38 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2019 20:07:38 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News-Gazette Letter to the Editor | Duckworth breaks oath with vote In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Well, I give credit to Duckworth for responding directly to the author. But the response is shameful. First of all, she is saying: don't look to me to defend your Constitutional rights, look to the courts. This is not a response one we should accept from an Illinois Senator. The position of the ACLU, correctly, is that legislatures should not pass unconstitutional laws. We shouldn't have to go to court to defend ourselves from unconstitutional laws. Legislatures shouldn't pass them in the first place. Second, she is saying: don't worry, the House is probably not going to pass this, might not even take it up. That is another form of responsibility-shirking. It was her job to vote the right way when the issue was in front of her, not shirk responsibility for voting the right way to someone else. Durbin voted the right way. Why couldn't Duckworth do it? === Robert Reuel Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 6:39 PM Karen Aram wrote: > Robert, the author is a friend, I have cc’d her on this email > communication. She just today received a response to her letter from Tammy, > please see: > > "​The concerns regarding freedom of speech implications are rightly being > litigated before Federal courts and would be subject to further debate and > amendment in the House of Representatives, if that chamber even takes up > the bill. This bill does not protect a state or local BDS law from being > challenged in court by an individual on constitutional grounds. > > > On Feb 7, 2019, at 16:31, Robert Naiman via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2019-02-05/letter-the-editor-duckworth-breaks-oath-with-vote.html > > Letter to the Editor | Duckworth breaks oath with vote > Tue, 02/05/2019 - 4:15am | The News-Gazette > > > U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth's vote for S.1, the "Strengthening America's > Security in the Middle East Act," is a Constitutional disgrace. > > This legislation will encourage state and local governments to restrict > Americans' right to free speech, a right that all members of Congress take > an oath to protect. > > The time-honored sanction of boycotts was used in Montgomery, Ala., South > Africa and currently in Iran, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela, Syria and many > places around the globe — purportedly to pressure governments to become > more democratic and more humane, at least that's what successive > administrations and Congresses have told Americans. > > Whether this is what our government should be doing (or actually is doing) > is left for other debates. > > This letter asks: Why has Duckworth hypocritically voted to restrict > Americans' right to use boycotts to fight Palestinian oppression, the same > boycotts the U.S. uses across the globe? > > Duckworth's support of S.1 demonstrates her contempt for democratic > freedoms. It violates her oath to uphold the Constitution. > > How can Duckworth vote against the very freedoms at home that she > presumably fought for in Iraq? > > Emma Lazarus, whose sonnet "The New Colossus" is engraved on the pedestal > of the Statue of Liberty, also wrote: "Until we are all free, we are none > of us free." Duckworth's vote is insensible to understanding freedom, or > she just doesn't care about some people, which amounts to racism. > > She allows liberal use of sanctions everywhere but Palestine. This makes > her motives and actions suspect. > > SHERI DALEY > > Champaign > > === > > === > > Robert Reuel Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > naiman at justforeignpolicy.org > (202) 448-2898 x1 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act combined four individual measures that would independently address: security aid to Israel initiated under the Obama Administration; support for our Jordanian allies’ fight against the Islamic State; sanctions against the Syrian financial system; and State and local initiatives concerning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Some votes are inherently more difficult than others, and no legislation is perfect. While I strongly oppose the BDS movement, I have long had concerns about the way the Combating BDS Act and similar legislation seeks to address the movement. Specifically, I am concerned that the bill as drafted could be interpreted to change longstanding U.S. policy towards Israeli settlement activity and the implications the bill has on domestic freedom of speech protections. The concerns regarding freedom of speech implications are rightly being litigated before Federal courts and would be subject to further debate and amendment in the House of Representatives, if that chamber even takes up the bill. This bill does not protect a state or local BDS law from being challenged in court by an individual on constitutional grounds. Ultimately however, my concerns with the Combating BDS Act did not outweigh the remaining majority of this legislation, which represent important measures to concretely support our allies and address serious national security concerns. This legislation would preserve Obama Administration international agreements that promote regional security through cooperation with our allies. It would also give the Trump Administration more tools to levy sanctions against human rights abusers in the Assad regime in Syria. That is why I joined a bipartisan group of senators to pass this bill by a vote of 77-23 on February 5, 2019. National security challenges facing our country will only grow in complexity and size in the coming years. Whether countering the threat of terrorism, combating the proliferation of nuclear weapons or simply working together to respond to major global challenges, effective international cooperation is more important than ever in advancing our core security interests overseas to make Americans safer at home. Thank you again for contacting me on this important issue. If you would like more information on my work in the Senate, please visit my website at www.duckworth.senate.gov. You can access my voting record and see what I am doing to address today’s most important issues. I hope that you will continue to share your views and opinions with me and let me know whenever I may be of assistance to you. Sincerely, Tammy Duckworth United States Senator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Feb 8 15:12:30 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:12:30 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Excellent article offering solutions in relation to Venezuela Message-ID: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/06/corporate-titans-target-venezuela/ From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Feb 8 17:53:51 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 17:53:51 +0000 Subject: [Peace] HR1 Message-ID: Fr[https://blackagendareport.com/themes/newsclick/assets/images/facebook.png] [https://blackagendareport.com/themes/newsclick/assets/images/twitter.png] [https://blackagendareport.com/themes/newsclick/assets/images/mail.png] HR 1 is the premiere legislative initiative of Democrats in the 116th Congress. It contains 571 pages of proposals and findings and such, but only two of HR 1’s dozens of provisions have a reasonable chance of passing the House and obtaining the bipartisan support in the Senate needed to become law. The first is a provision of HR 1 which deputizes the intelligence, police and prisonestablishment and their contractors to produce an annual report on the threats posed to the security of the US electoral system posed by Americans who might be under the influence of foreign powers. HR 1 cites as the “congressional findings” justifying the legislation a set of cowardly accusations levied by an anonymous group but given wide distribution by the Washington Post, as Glen Greenwald wrote about at the time. Greenwald mentions that Black Agenda Report was one of the institutions anonymously accused. Still, the cowardly accusations somehow count as “congressional findings” robust enough for HR 1 to institutionalize an annual report from the Pentagon, the the intel, the cops and their contractors SECOND HR 1 is surgically aimed to eliminate federal matching funds for Green Party candidates by raising the qualifying amount from its current level of $5,000 in each of 20 states to $25,000 in 20 states. HR 1 would cut funding for a Green presidential candidate in half, and by making ballot access for a Green presidential candidate impossible in several states it would also guarantee loss of the party’s ability to run for local offices. Speaker Pelosi says HR 1 will get a House vote some time in the next few weeks. The reality is that the impressive voting rights proposals in HR1 and the somewhat less impressive ethics legislation in it too are nothing but cynical vanishing bait. HR 1’s actual legislative payloads, that is, the parts of HR 1 actually intended to attract enough Republican support to pass into law are its proposal to cut third party campaign funding in half and its institutionalizing an annual threat report to be written by the Pentagon and the cops. All the other parts of HR 1 are dead on arrival in the US Senate. Senate Republicans have no reason give away voter caging or gerrymandering. Why would they do that? But enough of them will cheerfully cross the aisle to cut the matching funds of third parties, and to institutionalizing the Pentagon, spies and cops to produce an annual report on the threat to electoral security. Democrats are a capitalist party, they are a government party, and this is how they govern. HR 1 reaches back a hundred years into the Democrat playbook politicians created a foreign menace to herd the population into World War 1, which ended in the Red Scare and a couple of red summers, waves of official and unofficial violence and deportations against US leftists and against black people. The Red Scare led to the founding of the FBI, the core of the nation’s permanent political police. All that was a gift from the Democrats a hundred years ago. Fifty years ago these were the same civil servants who gave us the assassinations, the disinformation and illegality of COINTELPRO, and much, much more before that and since then. HR 1 says let’s go to the Pentagon and the cops, let’s order them to discover threats to the electoral system posed by Americans working to save themselves and the planet. It amounts to Democrats siccing the Homeland Security dogs on us. HR 1 should pose some immediate questions to so-called House Progressives, and perhaps to our DSA friends as well. Do House Progressives support knocking the Green Party off the ballot in a dozen or more states? Does DSA? If narrowing voter choices is not voter suppression, its hard to imagine what else is. Do House Progressives really endorse deputizing the Pentagon, Homeland Security and the police state to do annual reports on alleged security threats from Americans? If they don’t, why are they signed on to HR 1? For Black Agenda Report, I’m Bruce Dixon. Find us on the web at www.blackagendareport.com, and find Black Agenda Radio and Black Agenda Radio Commentaries anywhere you get podcasts. Please know that Google and Facebook and Twitter and other commercial social media game their algorithms to suppress the appearance of our content in searches, so the only way you can be sure you’re getting our free weekly email updates each and every week is to visit www.blackagendareport.com on your computer or mobile device and hitting the subscribe button. 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As electoral reform including getting big money out of politics has become more popular among voters, the Democrats are using it as a smokescreen to push for changes that will continue to restrict voter choice and silence opposition parties like the Green Party. As reported in Black Agenda Report, "HR 1 pretends to be a voting rights bill, but is...intended to rebrand Democrats as the party of voting rights, despite their dismal non-record of struggle to protect or expand these rights." The proposed bill, which has not been introduced as of yet,will create a huge barrier for smaller parties like the Green Party from fielding a Presidential candidate because it "...quintuples the amount Green presidential campaigns are required to raise to qualify for federal matching funds from $5,000 in each of 20 states by the last day of 2019, to $25,000 per state in 20 states, and the deadline falls at the end of this very year." (Black Agenda Report). With grassroots support, the Green Party presidential ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka was able to be a visible and robust opposition to the two corporate candidates in 2016 by organizing state by state to raise the 5,000 dollars needed to qualify for Federal matching funds. Many of you were a part of that and we appreciate your support. Now we need your help in getting the word out to build opposition now to this disingenuous “voting rights” bill. Please sign our Petition against H.R.1 and share widely to your networks! https://greenparty.good.do/democracy/STOPHR1/ If you can also make a donation today it will help us continue our fight for Voters' Rights! Thank you! [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/gpus/mailings/2119/attachments/original/Red_Contribute_Button.png?1549648084] Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org/ Green Party of the United States · PO Box 75075, Washington, DC 20013, United States . This email was sent to karenaram at hotmail.com. 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Abysmal Poverty under US Proxy Rule (1918-1998) By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner We discuss the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, its history as an oil proxy nation since the discovery of oil in 1918, through successive dictatorships, coups d’etats, a fake nationalization of the oil industry, the Chavista movement and destabilization through financial warfare, with a special emphasis on Michel Chossudovsky’s personal experience there conducting a study on poverty in 1975 as Advisor to the Venezuelan Minister of Planning. Read more... US Influence in Venezuela Is Part of a Two Centuries-old Imperial Plan By Shane Quinn Root causes of the ongoing crises in Venezuela may be increasingly apparent, as the situation in the country reaches a perilous state. Venezuela contains one fifth (20%) of the planet’s known oil reserves, equal to the combined quantities of Iran and Iraq, while leaving Saudi Arabia trailing in second place. Read more... 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Abysmal Poverty under US Proxy Rule (1918-1998) By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner We discuss the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, its history as an oil proxy nation since the discovery of oil in 1918, through successive dictatorships, coups d’etats, a fake nationalization of the oil industry, the Chavista movement and destabilization through financial warfare, with a special emphasis on Michel Chossudovsky’s personal experience there conducting a study on poverty in 1975 as Advisor to the Venezuelan Minister of Planning. Read more... US Influence in Venezuela Is Part of a Two Centuries-old Imperial Plan By Shane Quinn Root causes of the ongoing crises in Venezuela may be increasingly apparent, as the situation in the country reaches a perilous state. Venezuela contains one fifth (20%) of the planet’s known oil reserves, equal to the combined quantities of Iran and Iraq, while leaving Saudi Arabia trailing in second place. Read more... A Military Coup in Venezuela? Not Without the Military’s Support By Prof. Ociel Alí López The probable outcomes range from a military intervention led by the United States in alliance with Colombia and Brazil to a prolonged stay in power for Maduro to the possibility of a Russian and Chinese intervention or a military coup. In the following text, we will analyze each of these potential outcomes. Read more... Hackers Take Over Venezuelan Embassy Sites in Several Countries By Telesur Venezuelan embassy officials in Argentina condemned Thursday’s cyber attack after hackers commandeered the ministry’s website and published a statement in support of the self-declared “interim president,” Juan Guaido. Read more... No Coup! No War! Hands Off Venezuela! By Eduardo Correa Senior and James Patrick Jordan The whole world has been shocked by the words on the yellow tablet displayed “inadvertently” during a White House briefing by National Security Advisor John Bolton. The jaundiced man scribbled on his jaundiced papers: “Afghanistan -> Welcome the Talks,” followed underneath by, “5,000 troops to Colombia.” Read more... US-led Military Coup in Venezuela Modelled on Chile, 1973? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky While the US for the moment is not contemplating direct military intervention, both Colombia and Brazil are slated to intervene militarily, if required, in Venezuela’s border regions, doing the “dirty work” on behalf of the Pentagon. Read more... A “Twelve Step Method” to Conduct Regime Change: From Chile (1973) to Venezuela (2019) By tricontinental Most of the Global South remains trapped by the structures put in place by colonialism. Colonial boundaries encircled states that had the misfortune of being single commodity producers – either sugar for Cuba or oil for Venezuela. Read more... War after War: Will the US “Pull Out” of Afghanistan to Strike a New War Elsewhere? 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Message-ID: So much for the US leaving Syria From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Feb 11 23:41:27 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:41:27 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Breaking News: 16 Civilians Dead as US Coalition Pounds Village in Southeastern Syria. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Even if they don’t negate Trumps plans of pulling out the 2,000 troops he placed in Syria, in 2017. We have had a military presence in Syria for years, at least since 2011. We don’t need those troops to conduct bombing raids. We will likely never leave Syria. > On Feb 11, 2019, at 13:49, C G Estabrook wrote: > > Sounds like the Pentagon is negating Trump’s plans. They’ve done it before. > > >> On Feb 11, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: >> >> So much for the US leaving Syria >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Feb 11 23:41:27 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 23:41:27 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Breaking News: 16 Civilians Dead as US Coalition Pounds Village in Southeastern Syria. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Even if they don’t negate Trumps plans of pulling out the 2,000 troops he placed in Syria, in 2017. We have had a military presence in Syria for years, at least since 2011. We don’t need those troops to conduct bombing raids. We will likely never leave Syria. > On Feb 11, 2019, at 13:49, C G Estabrook wrote: > > Sounds like the Pentagon is negating Trump’s plans. They’ve done it before. > > >> On Feb 11, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: >> >> So much for the US leaving Syria >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > From r-szoke at illinois.edu Tue Feb 12 20:07:37 2019 From: r-szoke at illinois.edu (Szoke, Ron) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 20:07:37 +0000 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?_=5BFriday_Forum=5D_The_State_of_Community_Viol?= =?utf-8?q?ence_with_Tracy_Parsons=2CCity_of_Champaign=E2=80=80=E2=80=8B?= =?utf-8?b?4oCv77u/77u/4oGf4oCH?= References: <5c62e5e3a8116_494b640edf819397d7@ip-10-0-0-28.mail> Message-ID: <9F403D78-B4BE-4DF5-A070-30D3364D9C01@illinois.edu> From: University YMCA > Subject: [Friday Forum] The State of Community Violence with Tracy Parsons,City of Champaign ​    Date: February 12, 2019 at 9:28:35 AM CST To: Ronald Szoke > Reply-To: > [https://d2zhgehghqjuwb.cloudfront.net/accounts/7994/original/1436127791866-5rl0vhqlx2m7k3xr-e41092cff6f5a628297f27ac8a1b9a34.jpg?1436127793] [https://d2zhgehghqjuwb.cloudfront.net/accounts/7994/original/SP19_FF_Facebook_Banner_-_parsons.png] Friday Forum with Tracy Parsons The State of Community Violence in Champaign Friday, April 5 at 12:00pm University YMCA | Latzer Hall Tracy Parsons, Community Relations Manager for the City of Champaign discusses the state of community violence and what the City of Champaign is doing to address community safety. About the speaker: Tracy Parsons is responsible for coordinating and facilitating the work of the Champaign Community Coalition. Mr. Parsons helps the Coalition successfully implement sustainable strategies which improve the lives of area youth and families through an effective collaboration of diverse community partners and service agencies. Mr. Parsons has been making a difference in the lives of families across the Champaign County area for more than 20 years. Prior to joining the City of Champaign in 2015, Mr. Parsons served as Project Director of the ACCESS Initiative of Champaign County from 2010-2015 and President/CEO of the Urban League of Champaign County from 1994 to 2007. Mr. Parsons’ active involvement in the community also affords him the opportunity to serve on the Board of Directors of several businesses and social service organizations. Mr. Parsons holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Northwestern University. 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Be a part of this absolutely necessary mobilization against war and in defense of Latin American sovereignty. Bus seats are first come first serve, so do not delay. Get your tickets now! Purchase bus ticket(s) here now, $120 (plus small fee) Bus tickets are non-refundable. No exceptions. Reply to this e-mail for more info or to purchase tickets by cash or check! The bus meetup time is 5 pm on March 15 at 140 S. Columbus Drive (The Back of the Art Institute of Chicago). We will then ride to DC, arriving in the morning of March 16. We will join the march and then depart back to Chicago in the early evening, arriving back in Chicago early on the morning of March 17. We urgently need donations so that every person who wants to stand with Venezuela and Latin America as we march on the White House in DC can do so: Full Bus Scholarship(s), $122 Half Bus Scholarship(s), $62 Donate another amount here If you need financial assistance to get on the buses, please call 733-885-3991 to get on the scholarship list. Bus tickets are non-refundable. No exceptions. Bus seats are first come first serve, so do not delay. Get your tickets now! Created with NationBuilder, software for leaders. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Bus seats are first come first serve, so do not delay. Get your tickets now! Purchase bus ticket(s) here now, $120 (plus small fee) Bus tickets are non-refundable. No exceptions. Reply to this e-mail for more info or to purchase tickets by cash or check! The bus meetup time is 5 pm on March 15 at 140 S. Columbus Drive (The Back of the Art Institute of Chicago). We will then ride to DC, arriving in the morning of March 16. We will join the march and then depart back to Chicago in the early evening, arriving back in Chicago early on the morning of March 17. We urgently need donations so that every person who wants to stand with Venezuela and Latin America as we march on the White House in DC can do so: Full Bus Scholarship(s), $122 Half Bus Scholarship(s), $62 Donate another amount here If you need financial assistance to get on the buses, please call 733-885-3991 to get on the scholarship list. Bus tickets are non-refundable. No exceptions. Bus seats are first come first serve, so do not delay. Get your tickets now! Created with NationBuilder, software for leaders. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Feb 12 22:11:47 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:11:47 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Hands off Venezuela! All out on Feb 23 and March 30 References: Message-ID: [http://nepajac.org/UNAChillstatement_files/image001.jpg] Hands off Venezuela! No Coup, No Sanctions, No War Protest US aggression against Venezuela All out on February 23 and March 30 The U.S. imperial colossus is poised once again to launch a regime change invasion and war on Venezuela. The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), in alliance with hundreds of antiwar and social justice organizations across the country, has set February 23 for nationally-coordinated antiwar protests in cities across the country. Additionally, UNAC, and the National Steering Committee organized to build the March 30 Washington, D.C. mobilization to oppose NATO, voted unanimously to include in the March 30 action a key focus on U.S. Hands Off Venezuela! The Trump administration and its top officials, from National Security Adviser John Bolton, Vice President Mike Pence to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, invoking the heinous Monroe Doctrine of 1823, and backed to the hilt with bi-partisan congressional support, has proclaimed Venezuela to be in the U.S. imperial “backyard." Working people in the U.S. are faced once again with an open bi-partisan promoted imperialist war, with the Trump administration stating that its objective is to obliterate once and for all the sovereign governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, designated by President Trump as the “troika of tyranny.” [read more] [http://nepajac.org/ProMaduro.jpg] February 23, the 1 month anniversary of the U.S. - backed coup attempt in Venezuela - will be marked by internationally coordinated actions in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and against the U.S. Wall Street and Pentagon's drive to war. Actions are being planned on and around that date in local areas throughout the U.S. and other countries. Join an action in your area or plan an action. Go to https://www.nowaronvenezuela.org/23feb/ for more information. March 30 has been called as a international mobilization to protest NATO as it comes to Washington, DC to "celebrate" its 70th anniversary. Because of the emergency situation and potential war on Venezuela, the organizers have decided to make Venezuela a focus of the March 30 action. The country of Colombia, which borders Venezuela, has become the first NATO partner in Latin America and may soon be a full member of NATO. The U.S. and Colombia have planned an invasion of Venezuela in the guise of providing "humanitarian aid" to the people. As people come from around the country and from many other countries to protest NATO, we want to make it clear to the U.S. government that we will oppose any attempt at regime change from the U.S. and its NATO and other allies. For more information and to endorse the March 30 demonstration, please go to http://no2nato2019.org/ A Call for International Actions on the 5th Memorial Day of the Attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. International Protests have been called [http://nepajac.org/Odessa1.png] [http://nepajac.org/odessa3.jpg] May 2, 2019, will mark five years since a right-wing mob attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people and more than 100 injured. Today there still is no justice in sight for the mourners of the victims. [read more] Read the UNAC Blog https://unac.notowar.net/ Recent Articles Palestine * Call for A Palestine Liberation Movement * The One State Assembly, calls on supporters of Palestinian rights to Sign or Endorse their statement calling for One Democratic State in Palestine. It is time to stand up for Palestine Now! Venezuela 101 * UNAC Statement on the U.S. Led Coup in Venezuela * The UNAC AC calls for actions to support Venezuelan sovereignty against U.S. aggression * Why the Black Alliance for Peace Opposes U.S. Intervention in Venezuela * Black Alliance for Peace perceives the war on Venezuela as a hypocritical expression of White Supremacy * Veterans Call to Resist U.S. Coup in Venezuela * Veterans For Peace oppose the War on Venezuela in terms of uncontrolled militarism and disrespect for international law. * Stop the US-led Coup against Venezuela * US Peace Council describes the dangers of this assault on Venezuela, the rest of Latin America and even US citizens * Venezuela gov’t beats back attempted coup * John Catalinotto provides an early report of the resilience of the Veneuelan government under an all out economic and political attack from the United States * Venezuela Assumes OPEC Presidency, Unveils Foreign Oil Investment Deals * Paul Dobson gives some back ground on why the U.S. is escalating their attack on Venezuela's Bolivarian government now. * Corporate Titans Target Venezuela * John Lesnick * Venezuela: What Activists Need To Know About The US-Led Coup * Kevin Zeese and Dr. Margaret Flowers provide a basic understanding of the issues in play in Venezuela and the balance of power * US-Led Coup In Venezuela: The Plot Thickens * Kevin Zeese and Dr. Margaret Flowers follow up on their original report with some bizarre details about Juan Guaido's political following. Prisoners and Prisons * Keep the pressure on DA Krasner to free Mumia! * John Leslie calls on us to confront the dishonest judicial establishment on Mumia abu Jamal's behalf * “New” DA same as old DA in Mumia Abu-Jamal case * Betsey Piette describes the continuing attempts to deny Mumia his day in court * Arrest of Marzieh Hashemi Reveals the Nature of Bipartisan Police State * Baraka Ajamu looks at Ms. Hashemi's detention as a reflection of the growing impunity of our racist police state * Statewide Network Rallies Hundreds for Prison Justice in Virginia * Phil Wilayto writes about prison reform activism in Virginia More on Imperial Wars * Sanctions Are Wars Against Peoples * MoA's Bernhard compares global sanctions to siege warfare and * Code Talking: UN Security Council on War and Peace in DR Congo * Ann Garison looks at international manipulation of the Congo's elections * Samir Amin, Imperialism and the ‘Arab Spring’ * Tim Anderson addresses the blindness of so many anti-imperialist analysts including Samir Amin, to the accomplishments of the battered governments under imperial attack and the fierce patriotism of the people. The Naked Imperium * We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth * John C. Goodwin talks about the erasure of Dr. King's true radicalism from his history by the State cooptation of his name. * Marie Colvin, Homs and Media Falsehoods about Syria * Rick Sterling looks at the truth about Marie Colvin's death in Syria as she is elevated to martyr status in the MSM * Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony * Michael Hudson provides insight into the deadly blowback that is forming from U.S. abuse of dollar hegemony through international sanctions and U.S. defiance of international law. * Yes, Gov. Northam Should Resign – But He’s Not the Only Problem * Phil Wilayto says we have to look more deeply at the structural racism that is reflected in Northam's college prank to see how broad and deep its roots run. Please donate to keep UNAC strong: https://www.unacpeace.org/donate.html If your organization would like to join the UNAC coalition, please click here: Join -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Feb 12 22:11:47 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:11:47 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Hands off Venezuela! All out on Feb 23 and March 30 References: Message-ID: [http://nepajac.org/UNAChillstatement_files/image001.jpg] Hands off Venezuela! No Coup, No Sanctions, No War Protest US aggression against Venezuela All out on February 23 and March 30 The U.S. imperial colossus is poised once again to launch a regime change invasion and war on Venezuela. The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), in alliance with hundreds of antiwar and social justice organizations across the country, has set February 23 for nationally-coordinated antiwar protests in cities across the country. Additionally, UNAC, and the National Steering Committee organized to build the March 30 Washington, D.C. mobilization to oppose NATO, voted unanimously to include in the March 30 action a key focus on U.S. Hands Off Venezuela! The Trump administration and its top officials, from National Security Adviser John Bolton, Vice President Mike Pence to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, invoking the heinous Monroe Doctrine of 1823, and backed to the hilt with bi-partisan congressional support, has proclaimed Venezuela to be in the U.S. imperial “backyard." Working people in the U.S. are faced once again with an open bi-partisan promoted imperialist war, with the Trump administration stating that its objective is to obliterate once and for all the sovereign governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, designated by President Trump as the “troika of tyranny.” [read more] [http://nepajac.org/ProMaduro.jpg] February 23, the 1 month anniversary of the U.S. - backed coup attempt in Venezuela - will be marked by internationally coordinated actions in solidarity with the people of Venezuela and against the U.S. Wall Street and Pentagon's drive to war. Actions are being planned on and around that date in local areas throughout the U.S. and other countries. Join an action in your area or plan an action. Go to https://www.nowaronvenezuela.org/23feb/ for more information. March 30 has been called as a international mobilization to protest NATO as it comes to Washington, DC to "celebrate" its 70th anniversary. Because of the emergency situation and potential war on Venezuela, the organizers have decided to make Venezuela a focus of the March 30 action. The country of Colombia, which borders Venezuela, has become the first NATO partner in Latin America and may soon be a full member of NATO. The U.S. and Colombia have planned an invasion of Venezuela in the guise of providing "humanitarian aid" to the people. As people come from around the country and from many other countries to protest NATO, we want to make it clear to the U.S. government that we will oppose any attempt at regime change from the U.S. and its NATO and other allies. For more information and to endorse the March 30 demonstration, please go to http://no2nato2019.org/ A Call for International Actions on the 5th Memorial Day of the Attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. International Protests have been called [http://nepajac.org/Odessa1.png] [http://nepajac.org/odessa3.jpg] May 2, 2019, will mark five years since a right-wing mob attack on the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of at least 42 people and more than 100 injured. Today there still is no justice in sight for the mourners of the victims. [read more] Read the UNAC Blog https://unac.notowar.net/ Recent Articles Palestine * Call for A Palestine Liberation Movement * The One State Assembly, calls on supporters of Palestinian rights to Sign or Endorse their statement calling for One Democratic State in Palestine. It is time to stand up for Palestine Now! Venezuela 101 * UNAC Statement on the U.S. Led Coup in Venezuela * The UNAC AC calls for actions to support Venezuelan sovereignty against U.S. aggression * Why the Black Alliance for Peace Opposes U.S. Intervention in Venezuela * Black Alliance for Peace perceives the war on Venezuela as a hypocritical expression of White Supremacy * Veterans Call to Resist U.S. Coup in Venezuela * Veterans For Peace oppose the War on Venezuela in terms of uncontrolled militarism and disrespect for international law. * Stop the US-led Coup against Venezuela * US Peace Council describes the dangers of this assault on Venezuela, the rest of Latin America and even US citizens * Venezuela gov’t beats back attempted coup * John Catalinotto provides an early report of the resilience of the Veneuelan government under an all out economic and political attack from the United States * Venezuela Assumes OPEC Presidency, Unveils Foreign Oil Investment Deals * Paul Dobson gives some back ground on why the U.S. is escalating their attack on Venezuela's Bolivarian government now. * Corporate Titans Target Venezuela * John Lesnick * Venezuela: What Activists Need To Know About The US-Led Coup * Kevin Zeese and Dr. Margaret Flowers provide a basic understanding of the issues in play in Venezuela and the balance of power * US-Led Coup In Venezuela: The Plot Thickens * Kevin Zeese and Dr. Margaret Flowers follow up on their original report with some bizarre details about Juan Guaido's political following. Prisoners and Prisons * Keep the pressure on DA Krasner to free Mumia! * John Leslie calls on us to confront the dishonest judicial establishment on Mumia abu Jamal's behalf * “New” DA same as old DA in Mumia Abu-Jamal case * Betsey Piette describes the continuing attempts to deny Mumia his day in court * Arrest of Marzieh Hashemi Reveals the Nature of Bipartisan Police State * Baraka Ajamu looks at Ms. Hashemi's detention as a reflection of the growing impunity of our racist police state * Statewide Network Rallies Hundreds for Prison Justice in Virginia * Phil Wilayto writes about prison reform activism in Virginia More on Imperial Wars * Sanctions Are Wars Against Peoples * MoA's Bernhard compares global sanctions to siege warfare and * Code Talking: UN Security Council on War and Peace in DR Congo * Ann Garison looks at international manipulation of the Congo's elections * Samir Amin, Imperialism and the ‘Arab Spring’ * Tim Anderson addresses the blindness of so many anti-imperialist analysts including Samir Amin, to the accomplishments of the battered governments under imperial attack and the fierce patriotism of the people. The Naked Imperium * We Need a Martin Luther King Day of Truth * John C. Goodwin talks about the erasure of Dr. King's true radicalism from his history by the State cooptation of his name. * Marie Colvin, Homs and Media Falsehoods about Syria * Rick Sterling looks at the truth about Marie Colvin's death in Syria as she is elevated to martyr status in the MSM * Trump’s Brilliant Strategy to Dismember U.S. Dollar Hegemony * Michael Hudson provides insight into the deadly blowback that is forming from U.S. abuse of dollar hegemony through international sanctions and U.S. defiance of international law. * Yes, Gov. Northam Should Resign – But He’s Not the Only Problem * Phil Wilayto says we have to look more deeply at the structural racism that is reflected in Northam's college prank to see how broad and deep its roots run. 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On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 2:08 PM Szoke, Ron via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > *From: *University YMCA > *Subject: **[Friday Forum] The State of Community Violence with Tracy > Parsons,City of Champaign ​   * > *Date: *February 12, 2019 at 9:28:35 AM CST > *To: *Ronald Szoke > *Reply-To: * > > > > > *Friday Forum with Tracy Parsons* > > *The State of Community Violence in Champaign* > Friday, April 5 at 12:00pm > University YMCA | Latzer Hall > > Tracy Parsons, Community Relations Manager for the City of Champaign > discusses the state of community violence and what the City of Champaign is > doing to address community safety. > > *About the speaker: *Tracy Parsons is responsible for coordinating and > facilitating the work of the Champaign Community Coalition. Mr. Parsons > helps the Coalition successfully implement sustainable strategies which > improve the lives of area youth and families through an effective > collaboration of diverse community partners and service agencies. > > Mr. Parsons has been making a difference in the lives of families across > the Champaign County area for more than 20 years. Prior to joining the City > of Champaign in 2015, Mr. Parsons served as Project Director of the ACCESS > Initiative of Champaign County from 2010-2015 and President/CEO of the > Urban League of Champaign County from 1994 to 2007. Mr. Parsons’ active > involvement in the community also affords him the opportunity to serve on > the Board of Directors of several businesses and social service > organizations. > > Mr. Parsons holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Northwestern > University. > > > Invite Friends on Facebook > > > > > > *This lecture is part of the spring 2019 Friday Forum Lecture Series, > "RESIST: building a culture of nonviolence"* To learn more about the > Spring 2019 Friday Forum Lecture series, visit: *universityymca.org/friday-forum > * > > *This series was made possible thanks to the generous support of our > partners: * > Center for Global Studies, Channing-Murray Foundation, UIUC School of > Social Work, First Mennonite Church of Urbana-Champaign, Wesley United > Methodist Church and Foundation, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, > the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana > Champaign, the Chapel of St. John the Divine, and Urbana Champaign Friends > Meeting > > > > > > > > *www.universityymca.org* > > > > > > > > > > > > > [image: footer image] > This email was sent to r-szoke at illinois.edu > *why did I get this?* > > unsubscribe from this list > > update subscription preferences > > > University YMCA · 1001 S Wright St · Champaign · Illinois · 61820 > www.universityymca.org/support_us > > > [image: Robly Email Marketing] > > > Click here to view the online version. > [image: > google analytics] > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Unacceptable Levels flyer.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 5061326 bytes Desc: Unacceptable Levels flyer.jpg URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Feb 13 16:47:49 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:47:49 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: The National Park Service can stop Dynegy's project. Give them the support they need to do it. References: Message-ID: [https://d1kxpthy2j2ikk.cloudfront.net/Uploads/9247/images/EJC%20horizontal%20logo%2C%20large.jpg] [https://d1kxpthy2j2ikk.cloudfront.net/Uploads/9247/images/New%20East%20Stabilization.jpeg] Write the National Park Service! They Can Stop Dynegy's Cap and Leave Project How? The National Park Service (NPS) can - and should - determine that Dynegy's riverbank stabilization project, which is Step #1 in Dynegy's plan to cap its pits and leave the ash in place, does not comply with requirements of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The NPS, along with the the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) as the state administrator, are bound by Sections 7(a) and 10(a) of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to protect and enhance the river’s free-flowing condition, water quality, and outstanding remarkable values for which the river gained its designation. These values include scenic, recreational, ecological, geologic and historic resources. But Dynegy's project, with its planned excavation of contaminated riverbanks and river bed, massive fill below the ordinary high water mark for a distance of 2,000 linear feet, does none of that. Instead, it would: * Artificially constrain the river’s free flowing condition. * Degrade water quality in the river. * Harm recreational use of the river. * Degrade the scenic value of the river. ​When combined with stabilization installed along the New East Ash Pit in 2016, the wall (white rip-rap) along the west bank of this National Scenic River would be nearly 1/2 mile long. The National Park Service cannot determine that this project, with its attendant impacts, is consistent with the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Click to learn more. Then send a letter to give the NPS the support it needs to withhold its approval. We've prepared talking points to make personalizing your letter easy. Please do this today. We don't know when the National Park Service plans to issue its Evaluation and Determination Letter, but we do know your letter can make a difference. [https://d1kxpthy2j2ikk.cloudfront.net/Uploads/9247/images/National%20Scenic%20River.jpeg] We've Got a Hearing on Dynegy's Section 401 Certification! Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. Danville Area Community College (Gymnasium) 2000 East Main Street, Danville, Illinois 61832 ​This Illinois EPA hearing is related to Dynegy's riverbank stabilization project, not the overall closure plan for its three coal ash pits. The hearing will focus on violations of state water quality standards (focusing on the Illinois Pollution Control Board's Rules) and noncompliance with specific sections of the Clean Water Act. The Illinois EPA will also consider testimony related to interference with public recreation. We need you to attend. The gymnasium at Danville Area Community College holds 800 people, and it is important to fill a majority of those seats. EJC plans to hold two meetings in March to help people understand the scope of this hearing, and prepare oral or written testimony. One of these meetings will be held in Danville on Thursday, March 14, the other in Urbana on Wednesday, March 20. This is the time to engage. Please don't sit this one out! Click for Notice of Hearing Click for Public Notice, which provides background on the project [EJC Objects to Dynegy's Section 404 Permit] EJC Says Dynegy's Riverbank Stabilization Project Requires an Environmental Impact Statement This past January, EJC officially objected to the issuance of a Joint Section 404 / 401 Permit by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (DA) for Dynegy's proposed riverbank stabilization project which would allow the utility to cap the pits and forever leave them in the floodplain of the Middle Fork River. It is our opinion that a practicable alternative exists that would have less impact on the aquatic system (e.g. ash removal and relocation away from the river and its floodplain), and that the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (1969) have not been met. These include: * An accurate description of Purpose and Need. * A thorough consideration of reasonable alternatives that will meet the Purpose and Need of the project. * An analysis and documentation of impacts associated with each alternative and the development of measures to mitigate unavoidable impacts. * The implementation of a public participation process, including a public hearing in order to ensure that critical information and public interest are reflected in the permit decision. Click here to read our letter, which provides the basis of our objection and request for an EIS and public hearing. [https://d1kxpthy2j2ikk.cloudfront.net/Uploads/9247/images/Unacceptable%20Levels.jpeg] Film Screening of Unacceptable Levels A story about the chemicals in our bodies, how they got there, and what we can do about it February 22, 6:30pm Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana Champaign 309 West Green Street, Urbana Unacceptable Levels opens a dialogue about the effects that chemicals in everyday products have on the environment and on our bodies. The film explores the lack of regulatory oversight on industrial chemicals in consumer goods - from cosmetics to household cleaning products, to industrial farming - and inspires consumers to push for changes that protect us all. “A lot of the pesticides are made from coal tar, just like a lot of pharmaceuticals, that’s all waste product in search of a dumping ground and the dumping ground is us” - Will Allen, author of “War on Bugs” The film is free, and pizza will be provided! Take a pledge to eliminate pesticide use in your yard or garden and get a free sign to post in your yard. Sponsored by The People's Climate Movement and Prairie Group of the Sierra Club Cosponsored by Eco-Justice Collaborative, Prairie Rivers Network, and The Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana Champaign [https://d1kxpthy2j2ikk.cloudfront.net/Uploads/9247/images/AMBUCS_001.jpeg] Say Hello to EJC and Protect the Middle Fork Citizens Group at this Year's AMBUCS Home Show Saturday, March 2, from 10am to 5pm Sunday, March 3, from 11am to 4pm David Palmer Arena, 100 W Main St, Danville, IL Every March AMBUCS hosts the Home & Living Expo at the Palmer Arena. Featuring more than 75 exhibitors, numerous stage acts, and lots of giveaways, the Expo is a spring fixture in Danville. The AMBUCS Home & Living Expo is a charity event. All proceeds are used to help create independence for people with disabilities especially children. Eco-Justice Collaborative, along with the Protect the Middle Fork Citizens Advocacy Group, is one of the exhibitors again this year. Stop by our booth and learn how you can get involved. Be sure to pick up one of our yard signs. [https://d1kxpthy2j2ikk.cloudfront.net/Uploads/9247/images/Final%20Middle%20Fork%20Yard%20Sign_002.jpeg] The signs are free, but a donation of $10 is encouraged to help cover costs. [https://d1kxpthy2j2ikk.cloudfront.net/Uploads/9247/images/DONATE.png] Eco-Justice Collaborative 919 W. University Avenue Champaign IL 61821 United States If you believe you received this message in error or wish to no longer receive email from us, please unsubscribe. [https://act.myngp.com/el/BVcQ92_Sb0EPl9VSO0DapTC4NSMzGfKYICIq1LIUj6I=/WXnUk7199cthjTVhpTstmLZ39FtyFAniJYcp6QLozEc=] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Militarization_of_Africa.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 253886 bytes Desc: Militarization_of_Africa.pdf URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Feb 14 23:03:15 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:03:15 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Emergency Powers "Impeachable": "All You Need is One Brave Member" References: Message-ID: From: Institute for Public Accuracy > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:16 PM To: Boyle, Francis A > Subject: Emergency Powers "Impeachable": "All You Need is One Brave Member" Emergency Powers "Impeachable": "All You Need is One Brave Member" [on Twitter] The New York Times reports: "Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Senate Passes Spending Bill." FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle at illinois.edu Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He was legal adviser to Rep. Henry B. González when he released classified material on the House floor in 1992 in an attempt to impeach George H. W. Bush following the start of the the Gulf War and wrote the first draft of the Gonzalez Impeachment Resolution. Bush would later write in hismemoirs that if the Gulf War “drags out, not only will I take the blame, but I will probably have impeachment proceedings filed against me.” Boyle said today: "While establishment Democrats are eyeing various legal challenges to the possibility that Trump will declare a national emergency to get around Congress not agreeing on as much funding for a border wall as he would like, the most direct remedy is impeachment. A Bill of Impeachment could consist of articles including for (1) violating Article 1, Section 7 of the United States Constitution: 'All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives...' (2) Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution: 'No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law…' (3) It also violates the Federal Anti-Deficiency Statute. "This should be initiated immediately. All you need is one brave member of the U.S. House of Representatives to meaningfully assert that body's Power of the Purse. Trump's indications that he will override that legislative power and the seeming acquiescence by some Democrats is illegitimate and dangerous and subverts a fundamental premise of the Constitution.” RootsAction.org recently released an alert: "Donald Trump has no Constitutional right to spend money that has been appropriated for something else ... Click here to ask your Congress member to let Trump know that they will back impeachment if he declares a 'national emergency.'" For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 February 14, 2019 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Institute for Public Accuracy, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Feb 14 23:03:15 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:03:15 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Emergency Powers "Impeachable": "All You Need is One Brave Member" References: Message-ID: From: Institute for Public Accuracy > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:16 PM To: Boyle, Francis A > Subject: Emergency Powers "Impeachable": "All You Need is One Brave Member" Emergency Powers "Impeachable": "All You Need is One Brave Member" [on Twitter] The New York Times reports: "Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Senate Passes Spending Bill." FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle at illinois.edu Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He was legal adviser to Rep. Henry B. González when he released classified material on the House floor in 1992 in an attempt to impeach George H. W. Bush following the start of the the Gulf War and wrote the first draft of the Gonzalez Impeachment Resolution. Bush would later write in hismemoirs that if the Gulf War “drags out, not only will I take the blame, but I will probably have impeachment proceedings filed against me.” Boyle said today: "While establishment Democrats are eyeing various legal challenges to the possibility that Trump will declare a national emergency to get around Congress not agreeing on as much funding for a border wall as he would like, the most direct remedy is impeachment. A Bill of Impeachment could consist of articles including for (1) violating Article 1, Section 7 of the United States Constitution: 'All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives...' (2) Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution: 'No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law…' (3) It also violates the Federal Anti-Deficiency Statute. "This should be initiated immediately. All you need is one brave member of the U.S. House of Representatives to meaningfully assert that body's Power of the Purse. Trump's indications that he will override that legislative power and the seeming acquiescence by some Democrats is illegitimate and dangerous and subverts a fundamental premise of the Constitution.” RootsAction.org recently released an alert: "Donald Trump has no Constitutional right to spend money that has been appropriated for something else ... Click here to ask your Congress member to let Trump know that they will back impeachment if he declares a 'national emergency.'" For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 February 14, 2019 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org Sent via ActionNetwork.org. 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Also will definitely help generate momentum and excitement inside DC for the roll out https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/430012-democrats-seek-cosponsors-for-new-medicare-for-all-bill https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2019/02/14/the-health-202-jayapal-to-roll-out-sweeping-medicare-for-all-bill-by-month-s-end/5c6496121b326b71858c6b85/?utm_term=.ada6d9507aea https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-progressives-work-single-payer-bill-debate-heats -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Fri Feb 15 17:05:47 2019 From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 11:05:47 -0600 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] some good news about Medicare For All In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <007801d4c550$b26de8b0$1749ba10$@comcast.net> Encouraging, but the corporate Democrats are doubling down on their opposition to single payer. We need to be aware of this and not delude ourselves that the Democratic party will save us. The ONLY reason there are so many Congressional sponsors currently is the EXTREME pressure that has been applied in the last few years. See article below and it’s references…… Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All, But Corporate Media Pretend Not to Notice Glen Ford , BAR executive editor 14 Feb 2019 Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All, But Corporate Media Pretend Not to Notice Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All, But Corporate Media Pretend Not to Notice When the top Democrat secretly plots to subvert a proposal supported by the vast majority of her party, that’s supposed to be news -- unless the corporate media decide otherwise. “The plutocrat-owned press is protecting Pelosi from the extreme embarrassment.” Thanks to Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid in 2016, his signature Medicare for All proposal is the litmus issue for Democrats in the unfolding 2020 campaign. With supermajority support among Democratic and independent voters and backed by more than half of Republican s, the single payer scheme was endorsed by a majority of Democratic candidates in November’s House races. Most of the declared Democratic presidential candidates claim to back Medicare for All, including even New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, who has accepted more money from Big Pharma than any other member of his party . So compelling is the issue, a Politico-Harvard poll shows that fully 84 percent of Democrats want the party to make Medicare for All “an extremely important priority.” It should be huge news, then, that the top Democrat in Congress, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, is actively working to discredit and sideline the most popular domestic political proposal of the century. But, apparently not. The Intercept’s February 5 blockbuster, “Top Nancy Pelosi Aide Privately Tells Insurance Executives Not to Worry About Democrats Pushing ‘Medicare for All,’” was picked up by only one “mainstream” corporate media outlet: Newsweek . In burying this bombshell, the plutocrat-owned press is protecting Pelosi from the extreme embarrassment of being caught conspiring with insurance companies to subvert Democratic voters’ highest priority issue, with the obvious aim of derailing Bernie Sanders’ anticipated second run for the presidency. “Nancy Pelosi is actively working to discredit and sideline the most popular domestic political proposal of the century.” The Intercept got its hands on the slide presentation that Pelosi advisor Wendell Primus presented to Blue Cross Blue Shield executives on December 4. Primus assured the executives that Democratic leadership has “strong reservations” about Medicare for All and “would be allies to the insurance industry in the fight against single-payer health care.” The slide presentation outlined Pelosi’s three-prong attack on single payer: 1. Cost: “Monies are needed for other priorities.” 2. Opposition: “Stakeholders are against; Creates winners and losers.” 3. “Implementation challenges.” Primus’s mission was to enlist the insurance industry as allies in Pelosi’s planned counter-campaign to reduce drug prices, which is also good for Big Insurance bottom lines. But that requires assuring the insurance fat-cats that Medicare for All will, in Hillary Clinton’s words, “never, ever come to pass.” Pelosi’s strategy is to orchestrate a defense of what’s left of Obamacare while softening up the drug industry over prices -- in a possible alliance with Donald Trump, who signaled his willingness to partner with Democrats on the issue in his State of the Union address: “It is unacceptable that Americans pay vastly more than people in other countries for the exact same drugs, often made in the exact same place. This is wrong, this is unfair, and together we will stop it. We will stop it fast. I am asking the Congress to pass legislation that finally takes on the problem of global freeloading and delivers fairness and price transparency for American patients.” “Passage of Medicare for All would open Pandora’s box, shattering the corporate consensus on endless austerity and the sanctity of the ‘market.’” In light of the Primus presentation, it is clear that Pelosi had her “Grand Bargain” with Trump and the GOP in mind when she spoke of "a responsibility to seek common ground where we can,” shortly after the polls closed in November. "Openness and transparency, accountability [and] bipartisanship [are] a very important part of how we will go forward." Pelosi’s game plan to deal with single payer supporters in her own party is exactly the opposite: subversion and backdoor deals to undermine Medicare for All, in secret. The corporate media is part of the conspiracy of silence on Pelosi’s undercover Medicare for All machinations, just as they collude in ignoring Bernie Sanders’ steady stream of speeches on this issue and a slew of wildly popular proposals that would end private exploitation of a whole range of services to the people. Although single payer healthcare would directly benefit most businesses that employ workers, by eliminating profit-driven insurance payments and driving down drug and hospital costs, passage of Medicare for All would open Pandora’s box, shattering the corporate consensus on endless austerity and the sanctity of the “market.” Nobody but the Lords of Capital believes in the “market,” which is nothing but the state-protected right to profiteer from essential human needs. To preserve the fiction that “there is no alternative” to capitalist markets (Margaret Thatcher), the corporate media erases the people’s public options through its control of the political narrative. “Bernie Sanders can’t grasp the connection.” That’s what Russiagate is really about – not fantasy plotters in Moscow, but silencing actual dissent to the corporate narrative at home. Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders and his brand of Democrat “socialists” can’t grasp the connection. They embrace the half of the corporate narrative that justifies endless war with Russia, China, Syria, and now Venezuela – while rejecting its twin: endless austerity. And then they wonder why the corporate narrative is just as hostile to single payer, free college tuition and a Green New Deal as it is to Putin, Assad and Maduro. Which leaves them at the mercy of their conniving corporate overseer, Nancy Pelosi. BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford at BlackAgendaReport.com. From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Debra Schrishuhn via Peace-discuss Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 6:58 AM To: peace; peace-discuss Subject: [Peace-discuss] some good news about Medicare For All Some more good press about the new MFA bill and the cosponsorship drive! It could be really helpful for us that people know that the bill will have at least 100 cosponsors when its introduced – the press may help us get some more offices over the line in the next few days! 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[https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/answercoalition/mailings/2665/attachments/original/Hands_Off_Venezuela_March16.jpg?1549560761]Download the flyer Help promote the national march today by: 1. Sharing the graphics that have been created to promote the march on social media, websites and blogs 2. Help distribute the march flyer that as been created in your community You can access the promotional material for the march here. NEW TRANSIT CENTERS ADDED! The following cities have committed so far to come to D.C.! * Asheville, NC * Atlanta, GA * Baltimore, MD * Boston, MA * Cincinnati, OH * Champaign-Urbana, IL * Chicago, IL * Detroit, MI * Madison, WI * Miami Valley, OH * Milwaukee, WI * Minneapolis, MN * New Haven, CT * New York, NY * Philadelphia, PA * Pittsburgh, PA If you want to travel to Washington, D.C. with the ANSWER Coalition fill out this form. On March 16, the people of the United States will come together to say: * U.S. hands off Venezuela! * NO to the coup — the U.S. does not have the right to select other country’s leaders! * NO to the sanctions, oil embargo and economic war on Venezuela that aims to cause suffering for ordinary people in the country. * NO to intervention and war from the U.S. and their proxies in the region. Donate to the march! It costs many thousands of dollars to organize the logistics, print the outreach materials and reserve the transportation for this National March. This effort relies on supporters like you! 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[Share on Facebook] [Share on Twitter] [https://assets.nationbuilder.com/answercoalition/mailings/2671/attachments/original/finalizedprofilemarch16.png?1550196577] We are now just under one month away from the national march on the White House in Washington D.C. on Saturday, March 16. As everyday people inside the United States we have a historical responsibility to organize against endless U.S. war and empire. [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/answercoalition/mailings/2665/attachments/original/Hands_Off_Venezuela_March16.jpg?1549560761]Download the flyer Help promote the national march today by: 1. Sharing the graphics that have been created to promote the march on social media, websites and blogs 2. Help distribute the march flyer that as been created in your community You can access the promotional material for the march here. NEW TRANSIT CENTERS ADDED! 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Feb 16 23:45:15 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:45:15 +0000 Subject: [Peace] A litmus test for the movement References: <5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee.b209f21775.20190216234142.5eab9ce4bb.ac265918@mail68.suw151.rsgsv.net> Message-ID: [Donate to build our anti-imperialist forces!] The global Pan-European Colonial/Capitalist White Supremacist patriarchy is conspiring against the Bolivarian revolutionary process in Venezuela—and some Black folks are going along with it. Why? The Black misleadership class and the media also piled onto Virginia politicians for wearing Blackface, yet they aren’t opposing the white supremacy of U.S. interventions. Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) National Organizer Ajamu Baraka writes about this cognitive dissonance in the West. We at BAP are attempting to re-connect the internationalist position of the Black radical tradition to the Black masses, who represent 90 percent of Black people in the United States. That is what prompted our February 6 statement: Black Working Class Will Never Abandon Venezuela! BAP Outreach Coordinator YahNé Ndgo read out loud our initial January 26 statement that explains why we oppose U.S. intervention in Venezuela. Watch her here: Hands Off Venezuela! We encourage BAP members and our allies in the struggle to organize local actions (particularly targeting the district offices of Congressional Black Caucus representatives) as part of the global mobilization in solidarity with the people of Venezuela on February 23. Mark your calendars for the evening of February 21 to watch a live discussion on Venezuela featuring a special guest. It will air on BAP’s Facebook page. Like us if you haven’t already. We’ll release the exact time and other details on our Facebook page in the coming days. The Cuban government released a statement February 14 on Venezuela we want to lift up because of its support for abiding international law as well as a regional pact: “What is being defined today is whether the legitimacy of a government emanates from the express and sovereign will of its people, or from the recognition of foreign powers.” --- BAP members: Please await information to register for the next BAP membership call being held February 23. Besides the usual BAP business, we will focus our discussion on Venezuela. Details to come on the member listserv. --- Despite intervention and election interference by the United States, the Haitian people are once again taking to the streets to defend their national sovereignty. We cannot ignore our African diasporic people in the first Black republic of Haiti responding to racist exploitation. We continue our work to shut down AFRICOM and request that you continue sharing our petition online and circulate the physical version (find it here) in places you organize: schools, workplaces, houses of worship and prisons. Check out BAP member and Black Agenda Report publisher Glen Ford’s public-service announcement on the U.S. Out of Africa! campaign. Feel free to use the PSA in your community-radio programs and podcasts—and tag us online when you do! BAP also continues our effort to dismantle the global military arm of the Pan-European colonial-imperialist project: NATO. We support the national mobilizations to oppose NATO’s decision to celebrate its 70th anniversary in Washington, D.C., on April 4—the same day as the 51st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We see this as a desecration of Dr. King and the Black population’s opposition to war and imperialism. The national mobilizations include: 1. The No to NATO, War and Racism March, starting at Lafayette Square in front of the White House at 1 p.m., March 30; 2. A Concert for Peace and to End War, sponsors include the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Concert in Franklin Square in Washington, D.C., 1 p.m.-8 p.m., March 31; 3. World Peace Council Anti-NATO Conference, St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., 3 p.m.-7 p.m., March 31; 4. No to NATO—Yes to Peace and Disarmament Counter Summit, location to be announced, all day April 2; 5. No to NATO—Yes to Peace Festival, St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, 12 p.m.-10 p.m., April 3; 6. Procession from MLK Memorial to rally at Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., day time, April 4, details to come; 7. BAP’s 2nd Anniversary Event: No Compromise, No Retreat in the Fight to End Militarism and War, Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Washington, D.C., 7 p.m.-9 p.m. No compromise. No retreat. Struggle to win, Ajamu, Jaribu, Margaret, Netfa, Paul, Vanessa and YahNé Coordinating Committee Black Alliance for Peace P.S. We are completely dependent on the people. Contribute to our 2019 fund. [We need $25,000! Donate today!] Copyright © 2019 Black Alliance for Peace, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Feb 16 23:45:15 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 23:45:15 +0000 Subject: [Peace] A litmus test for the movement References: <5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee.b209f21775.20190216234142.5eab9ce4bb.ac265918@mail68.suw151.rsgsv.net> Message-ID: [Donate to build our anti-imperialist forces!] The global Pan-European Colonial/Capitalist White Supremacist patriarchy is conspiring against the Bolivarian revolutionary process in Venezuela—and some Black folks are going along with it. Why? The Black misleadership class and the media also piled onto Virginia politicians for wearing Blackface, yet they aren’t opposing the white supremacy of U.S. interventions. Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) National Organizer Ajamu Baraka writes about this cognitive dissonance in the West. We at BAP are attempting to re-connect the internationalist position of the Black radical tradition to the Black masses, who represent 90 percent of Black people in the United States. That is what prompted our February 6 statement: Black Working Class Will Never Abandon Venezuela! BAP Outreach Coordinator YahNé Ndgo read out loud our initial January 26 statement that explains why we oppose U.S. intervention in Venezuela. Watch her here: Hands Off Venezuela! We encourage BAP members and our allies in the struggle to organize local actions (particularly targeting the district offices of Congressional Black Caucus representatives) as part of the global mobilization in solidarity with the people of Venezuela on February 23. Mark your calendars for the evening of February 21 to watch a live discussion on Venezuela featuring a special guest. It will air on BAP’s Facebook page. Like us if you haven’t already. We’ll release the exact time and other details on our Facebook page in the coming days. The Cuban government released a statement February 14 on Venezuela we want to lift up because of its support for abiding international law as well as a regional pact: “What is being defined today is whether the legitimacy of a government emanates from the express and sovereign will of its people, or from the recognition of foreign powers.” --- BAP members: Please await information to register for the next BAP membership call being held February 23. Besides the usual BAP business, we will focus our discussion on Venezuela. Details to come on the member listserv. --- Despite intervention and election interference by the United States, the Haitian people are once again taking to the streets to defend their national sovereignty. We cannot ignore our African diasporic people in the first Black republic of Haiti responding to racist exploitation. We continue our work to shut down AFRICOM and request that you continue sharing our petition online and circulate the physical version (find it here) in places you organize: schools, workplaces, houses of worship and prisons. Check out BAP member and Black Agenda Report publisher Glen Ford’s public-service announcement on the U.S. Out of Africa! campaign. Feel free to use the PSA in your community-radio programs and podcasts—and tag us online when you do! BAP also continues our effort to dismantle the global military arm of the Pan-European colonial-imperialist project: NATO. We support the national mobilizations to oppose NATO’s decision to celebrate its 70th anniversary in Washington, D.C., on April 4—the same day as the 51st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We see this as a desecration of Dr. King and the Black population’s opposition to war and imperialism. The national mobilizations include: 1. The No to NATO, War and Racism March, starting at Lafayette Square in front of the White House at 1 p.m., March 30; 2. A Concert for Peace and to End War, sponsors include the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Concert in Franklin Square in Washington, D.C., 1 p.m.-8 p.m., March 31; 3. World Peace Council Anti-NATO Conference, St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., 3 p.m.-7 p.m., March 31; 4. No to NATO—Yes to Peace and Disarmament Counter Summit, location to be announced, all day April 2; 5. No to NATO—Yes to Peace Festival, St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church, 12 p.m.-10 p.m., April 3; 6. Procession from MLK Memorial to rally at Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., day time, April 4, details to come; 7. BAP’s 2nd Anniversary Event: No Compromise, No Retreat in the Fight to End Militarism and War, Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Washington, D.C., 7 p.m.-9 p.m. No compromise. No retreat. 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If you like this idea, you can support it short of going to Springfield by filing a witness slip in support of the bill:      http://my.ilga.gov/WitnessSlip/Create/115873?committeeHearingId=16489&LegislationId=115873&LegislationDocumentId=146992&HCommittees2%2F24%2F2019-page=1&committeeid=0&chamber=H&nodays=7&_=1550446153089 There's a committee hearing on it - Energy and Environment - this Tuesday at 3pm, so file a slip before then if you're going to.   Visible support might help it go further.      -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Feb 18 22:52:31 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 22:52:31 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Panel on US Militarization of Africa References: Message-ID: Panel discussion Thursday, 21st. of Feb.,2019. (7:00 - 9:00pm) Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Rm.#1092 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Speaker highlights will include Father John Dear (activist and prolific author, most recently “They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace & Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change”), Krys Chupp (Christian Peacemaker Teams), anti-war activist Kathy Kelly , and Jennie Belle (Church World Service, speaking March 1st on the current Sanctuary Movement in collaboration with a community-wide symposium on immigration on Feb. 28th). Here's the schedule so far: February 22 – Tamar Manasseh, Mothers Against Senseless Killings (Chicago) March 1 – Jennie Belle, Church World Service, Immigration and Sanctuary issues March 8 – Elaine Shpungin, Conflict 180 (on Restorative Justice practices) March 15 – Kryss Chupp, Christian Peacemaker Teams March 29 – Michael Metz, author, Radicals in the Heartland April 5 – Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence April 12 – Father John Dear, activist and author, They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace & Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change ** For more information, go to Friday Forum Friday Forum All lectures are on Fridays at 12:00pm. Friday Forum is a weekly lecture series held during the fall and spring... This message comes to you from the Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting, 1904 E. Main Street in Urbana, Illinois. We welcome you to join us for worship each Sunday at 10:30am. 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URL: From cgestabrook at gmail.com Wed Feb 20 02:04:10 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 20:04:10 -0600 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air, February 19, 2019 Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZZigt4Z0o&fbclid=IwAR2omq3zs1L7Wd8xKmDa_eGT_xwDjNS7zaHtFYsKtuaAH2ntEoz4lzuwWv8 ======================= Links mentioned in this edition: https://off-guardian.org/2019/02/12/making-globalism-great-again/ https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ADxyJ9Ae4cs/shashi-tharoor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Smoke https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/02/11/peter-jacksons-cartoon-war http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/25914913/inside-story-how-legendary-nfl-broadcaster-bob-costas-ended-excised-football-nbc-espn http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/29/entertainment/la-ca-conversation29-2009nov29 https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/02/13/is-tulsi-gabbard-really-anti-war-no-shes-pro-drone-and-for-surgical-strikes/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_(2018_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ferryman_(play) https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/trump-administration-threatens-families-of-venezuelan-military-5188f4d51920 https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/read-it-more-than-70-scholars-join-noam-chomsky-to-sign-petition-to-stop-the-us-from-interfering-in-venezuelan-politics/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/305897426305/ —CGE From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Feb 21 15:05:10 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:05:10 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Panel on US Militarization of Africa References: Message-ID: Panel discussion Thursday, 21st. of Feb.,2019. (7:00 - 9:00pm) Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Rm.#1092 Come join us for a panel on the stealth escalation of U.S. military presence in Africa, February 21st at 7PM in Lincoln Hall, Room 1092. The panel will feature UIUC faculty members Lou Turner and Ken Salo, student activist Karen Olowu, and PhD candidate Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga. The panelists will discuss decolonization and national liberation struggles, the impact of U.S. military interventionism in African countries, and strategies for fighting back against American imperialism across the African continent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Institute To: John Doe Susan Parenti and Mark Enslin of the School for Designing a Society in Urbana present two new works... [image: The Gesundheit! Institute] SCHOOL FOR DESIGNING A SOCIETY at RHINOFEST 2019! *STOP THAT in 13 Scenes (by Susan Parenti) Reindeer Science [w/ puppets, songs & electronics](by Mark Enslin & Keith McKenney)* For More info, visit https://rhinofest.com/stop-that * The adults in the room have no time, while corporations are granted personhood and a megaphone. Kids have organized vigils and pipeline blockades--seen and not heard. Other species are not silent on the issue. We are looking for the requisite listener.* * Susan Parenti and Mark Enslin of the School for Designing a Society in Urbana present two new works: Stop That! a play by Parenti on climate change which won the INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre National Call for Scripts in 2018; and an Immigration Puppet Show, a touring work performed on the Majestic Puppet Theater Stage!* *Join us at Prop Thtr, 3502 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618. (773) 742-5420SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 at 7pm SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 at 7pm COST: $15* Learn More -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We are looking for the requisite listener. > > Susan Parenti and Mark Enslin of the School for Designing a Society in Urbana present two new works: Stop That! a play by Parenti on climate change which won the INNER VOICES Social Issues Theatre National Call for Scripts in 2018; and an Immigration Puppet Show, a touring work performed on the Majestic Puppet Theater Stage! > > Join us at Prop Thtr, 3502 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL 60618. (773) 742-5420 > > SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 at 7pm SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 at 7pm COST: $15 > > Learn More -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brussel at illinois.edu Mon Feb 25 20:04:55 2019 From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:04:55 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Bernie again In-Reply-To: <2DDEA016-5FA6-4D3D-B003-B93F6709F705@gmail.com> References: <2DDEA016-5FA6-4D3D-B003-B93F6709F705@gmail.com> Message-ID: This darkened (overwrought) sarcasm tends to obscure what should be seriously considered. It’s well overcooked, and not quite amusing. (IMHO) > On Feb 25, 2019, at 1:50 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote: > > http://www.unz.com/chopkins/the-magic-socialist/ > > Will any of this dark sarcasm make it into UI classrooms? > > —CGE > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Feb 25 20:33:43 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 20:33:43 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Bernie again In-Reply-To: References: <2DDEA016-5FA6-4D3D-B003-B93F6709F705@gmail.com> Message-ID: What I don’t like, is the lumping of all, left Democrats, DSA, Bernie supporters, under the banner of “socialists,” Democratic socialists perhaps. There are distinct differences in the various groups, and those who truly support socialism as Marxists, don’t support anyone running as a Democrat. We know very well, anyone doing that is a “reformist,” and while reform would be nice, its so unlikely the ruling elites will ever allow the roots of capitalism be destroyed. “Medicare for All,” like the "New Green Deal," will be so watered down as to be of little consequence. I know, a little is better than nothing, but until we change our system of capitalism we will continue to have insurance cos., pharma cos. controlling our healthcare system. We will continue to have devastation of earth, with global warming, given the Green New Deal has already been watered down in respect to the use of fossil fuels. And, we will have continued, perpetual war, and imperialism. The very topic none of the left Democrats, the DSA, Bernie, or pseudo socialist groups care to discuss. The article does make some good points, in relation to who controls what, and why, but given it will never make it into the classrooms of America, its sarcasm appears to diminish socialism, as if a “disneyland utopia.” Therefore its counterproductive. > On Feb 25, 2019, at 12:04, Brussel, Morton K via Peace wrote: > > This darkened (overwrought) sarcasm tends to obscure what should be seriously considered. It’s well overcooked, and not quite amusing. (IMHO) > >> On Feb 25, 2019, at 1:50 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote: >> >> http://www.unz.com/chopkins/the-magic-socialist/ >> >> Will any of this dark sarcasm make it into UI classrooms? >> >> —CGE >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace-discuss mailing list >> Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Feb 26 01:17:02 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:17:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Roger Waters calls out Bernie and AOC "The Mint Press" Message-ID: February 25th, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein 1 Comment FacebookTwitterRedditEmailMore292 WASHINGTON — As socialists rally in the United States over their country’s backing of a right wing coup in Venezuela, the supposedly socialist members of Congress – Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – are hitting talking points that worry critics like Roger Waters and activists in the streets alike. The Pink Floyd bassist and composer took billionaire Sir Richard Branson to task last week as he organized a benefit concert for the Venezuelan opposition in neighboring Colombia, MintPress News reported. Now, Waters, who says that “socialism is a good thing” and in 2015 backed Sanders, is wondering if he’s “f-ing kidding” us. Sanders announced his candidacy for 2020 last week. Waters’ expression of shock was made in reply to the Senator’s tweet on Saturday, which demanded that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro “allow humanitarian aid into the country.” Waters pulled no punches, questioning whether Sanders is really “the perfect stooge for the one percent.” [https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fundraiser-Icon-400x2.jpg] The Venezuelan government has rejected U.S. aid as a pretext for further intervention and an affront to their border sovereignty. Elliott Abrams, who was recently named United States Special Representative for Venezuela, was previously involved in a plot to send $27 million in weapons disguised as humanitarian aid to right wing contras. Meanwhile, an airliner with links to the CIA has flown weapons into the country and the agency responsible for delivering it, USAID, has a history of torturing leftists in South America. Poignantly, Waters warned Sanders not to “collude” with the architects of the U.S.’s coup policies: neoconservative warmongers Elliott Abrams and John Bolton, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a champion of the wealthy right wing pink wave emigre scene in Miami. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/794619281271033856/Fs0QQaH7_normal.jpg] Bernie Sanders ✔@SenSanders · Feb 23, 2019 The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1086653124499070977/yoZudnGM_normal.jpg] Roger Waters ✔@rogerwaters Bernie, are you f-ing kidding me! if you buy the Trump, Bolton, Abrams, Rubio line, “humanitarian intervention” and collude in the destruction of Venezuela, you cannot be credible candidate for President of the USA. Or, maybe you can, maybe you’re the perfect stooge for the 1 %. 11K 2:27 PM - Feb 23, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 6,412 people are talking about this Ben Becker an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, was protesting in New York City on Saturday against the coup as Sanders called on Maduro to comply with Washington’s demands. He told MintPress: There were actions in hundreds of cities worldwide this past weekend, endorsed by a large spectrum of progressive and anti-war organizations. I attended a protest of many hundreds at the Trump building on Wall Street, which an important target given the role of U.S. corporations and banks in strangling Venezuela’s economy. They are salivating about the oil profits in particular they would gain from regime change, a goal that the Trump administration speaks openly about.” Sanders’ Foreign Policy Advisor Matt Duss took the attacks on the Maduro government further, tweeting a headline from the pages of the Daily Beast verbatim: “Socialists Should Take a Stand on Venezuela: No Trump, No Maduro, No War.” [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/794619281271033856/Fs0QQaH7_normal.jpg] Bernie Sanders ✔@SenSanders · Feb 23, 2019 The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1022910342446215168/4xTVK9nc_normal.jpg] Abby Martin ✔@AbbyMartin you know better than to endorse a stunt led by war criminals who have snuck weapons in aid shipments in the past. This stance will not make democrats like you more and will only lose you support from socialists 5,760 12:40 PM - Feb 23, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,329 people are talking about this The article, written by journalist and notorious troller of Syria anti-interventionists Charlie Davis, distanced itself from the Trump-style regime change wherein Elliott Abrams, who is associated with “death squads,” is leading the charge. But while Davis portrays Abrams as the “bad cop,” leftwing thought leaders like himself serve as the “good cops” of empire. Yes, Trump does not “give a half a goddam about democracy,” but he is also “not necessarily wrong,” Davis argues before rambling in denunciation of Maduro’s supposed authoritarianism. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/744995006335713281/VhvMr50L_normal.jpg] #HandsOffVenezuela at OLAASM · Aug 4, 2018 Replying to @OLAASM Pretty wild that Charles Davis, a liberal-at-best from the empire itself, is deploying these commonplace & widespread memorandums to try to delegitimize & erase the leftism of actual fucking warriors who personally fought the US operations directly... But here we are. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/744995006335713281/VhvMr50L_normal.jpg] #HandsOffVenezuela at OLAASM I really want to see Davis come tell guerrilla veterans in the FMLN that – because their party is coerced into cooperation memorandums with the empire to protect their people being deported by the US – that they have lost their left credentials in his Yankee estimation. 14 4:45 PM - Aug 4, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy See #HandsOffVenezuela's other Tweets Davis also painted Ecuador’s rightward drifting government, which has placed Julian Assange in de-facto solitary confinement and issued an arrest warrant against its socialist ex-president Rafael Correa, as a “social democracy.” Despite all this, Duss promoted the shoutout Davis gave his boss, tweeted the passage: In the US, this position has been echoed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who issued a statement stressing opposition to any foreign-imposed regime change in Venezuela—while noting Venezuelans should be provided the opportunity to change their regime on their own, if they so choose.” While Senator Sanders seems to support a supposedly “democratic” kind of regime change in Venezuela, journalist Ben Norton, who has spent the past two weeks in Venezuela amid the flailing coup attempt, says it is the opposition that is un-democratic. On Twitter, Norton accused the Venezuelan opposition of dropping “all pretense of wanting democracy and demand[ing] a coup and war.” He told MintPress: The corporate media and the US government it so obediently echoes frequently claims that Venezuela is a “dictatorship,” but my past few weeks here in Caracas have shown precisely the opposite: Venezuela remains an impressively democratic country — despite non-stop foreign intervention, internal sabotage and violence from the opposition, and threats of war from the US and right-wing US-allied governments in Latin America.” Becker argued a similar position, telling MintPress: The opposition has an unelected ‘president’ who proclaimed himself such at a protest, and has now exiled himself to Colombia to beg foreign governments to invade. They pressued all opposition candidates to not run in the last elections and demanded international observers to not come and observe them. Meanwhile, the Chavista government has conducted 24 elections in the last 20 years.” Becker further laid into what he characterized as a cynical stunt to provoke regime change: As both the UN and Red Cross affirmed, ‘humanitarian aid’ by definition has to be apolitical, neutral and requested by the receiving country. This wasn’t humanitarian aid — it was a stunt designed to provide the imagery for intervention. Venezuela accepted just this week ten times more actual aid from Russia, Cuba, China and the Pan American Health Organization. The Maduro government’s stance on this is completely logical: it won’t accept phony “aid” from the countries that are simultaneously stealing the government’s assets, sanctioning their industries and seizing their bank accounts — all of which makes it harder to import food and medicine. “ He added that Sanders had received backlash from fellow Democrats merely for refusing to recognize Juan Guaido as President of Venezuela. Sanders’ tactic for years has been to run to the right on foreign policy issues so as to protect his New Deal-style domestic program. He’s always distanced himself from actual socialist projects that have been targeted and demonized by the U.S. Empire to assure the corporate-owned media that his vision is closer to Denmark or Sweden. Now that Sanders is a main target of Trump’s anti-socialist rhetoric and that he’s a potential front-runner for the nomination, I expect we’ll see more of that from him.” The Anti-Maduro Millennial During an Instagram Live, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked the Maduro government. “What people don’t understand is that this is really kind of an issue of authoritarianism versus democracy in many different ways,” she said. “This is really an issue of a failure of democracy.” Because Instagram Live videos are automatically deleted after 24 hours, the clip in which Cortez spoke on Venezuela was brought to light by a right wing account which attacked her for live streaming herself cooking while giving “cooking lessons, dating tips and even interior design advice.” Cortez said she wanted to “empower and center the people of Venezuela and the will of the public.” “What I believe in above all else is a true democracy; is democracy as a form of government; democracy in the workplace; democracy in our economy,” Cortez said. But Norton has seen just that as he has “traveled through barrios interviewing average working-class Venezuelans.” He says he has been “blown away by the democratic and revolutionary spirit that still pervades the community, despite the economic difficulties that do indeed exist — in no small part because of years of crippling US sanctions, economic warfare, and a de facto embargo, along with well-documented speculation and hoarding by capitalists inside the country.” “The Chavista movement has encouraged democracy at many levels, from thriving communes and local councils to feminist organizations and the community-organized CLAP [Local Food Production and Provision Committees] food program,” Norton added. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1048703090839310336/C4YpHdmM_normal.jpg] Ben Norton ✔@BenjaminNorton · 8h Replying to @BenjaminNorton The conflict in Venezuela *is* precisely about ideology, @AOC. The violent right-wing US-backed opposition wants nothing less than the total eradication of Chavismo. The opposition is exterminationist As a US-backed opposition politician admitted, they want "the Pinochet option" [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1048703090839310336/C4YpHdmM_normal.jpg] Ben Norton ✔@BenjaminNorton Far-right billionaire-in-chief Trump and neocon war hawks John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Elliott Abrams, and Marco Rubio have spent all their energy trying to overthrow Venezuela's elected government, but "socialist" @AOC instead blames Venezuela, while it is under brutal attack. 449 9:01 AM - Feb 25, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 145 people are talking about this “Instead of accepting all the propaganda against Venezuela,” Becker argues, “people who consider themselves democratic socialists should really study it for themselves.” He continued: Venezuela’s socialists have held and won many elections and used the electoral process to carry out major wealth redistributions in favor of the poor and working class, with missions for housing, health care and education. But it provoked a massive backlash of course from the oligarchy, and the world’s major financial and corporate powers. The ‘billionaire class’ doesn’t just give up their power without a fight and has a lot of tools at their disposal — that’s true in Venezuela and the United States.” The initial tweets from her colleague Ilhan Omar were far clearer, based in a principled anti-war position and even provided context about the roots of Venezuela’s economic crisis. By contrast, Ocasio-Cortes is following the same strategy as Sen. Sanders, which falsely believes you can advance a progressive agenda (and your own career) at home by saying as little as possible about foreign policy and conceding to the rhetoric of anti-communism.” There are certain things that the U.S. ruling class can tolerate debate over in terms of domestic policy, but on the bottom line issue of the U.S. Empire, they all unite when it’s time to attack. The corporate-owned media makes sure no one gets out of line and you are cast out as a pariah. “ Importantly, Cortez also slammed Elliott Abrams from the left, saying that he “pled guilty to crimes” in relation to the Iran-Contra scandal. She added that Abrams is a “legit criminal. Plead guilty.” While the is no question that Abrams the other gangsters running U.S. regime change projects throughout the Cold War to today are not innocent, Cortez repeated a tired trope of criminal justice hawks: that people are “legit criminals” so long as they “plead guilty.” Studies show that 97 percent of federal defendants resolve their cases through plea bargaining. “If anything, reporting here at the grassroots in Venezuela has further clarified to me how authoritarian my own country is: The United States, the world’s biggest incarceration nation, could stand to learn a lesson about democracy from Venezuelans,” Norton told MintPress News. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Feb 26 01:17:02 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:17:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Roger Waters calls out Bernie and AOC "The Mint Press" Message-ID: February 25th, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein 1 Comment FacebookTwitterRedditEmailMore292 WASHINGTON — As socialists rally in the United States over their country’s backing of a right wing coup in Venezuela, the supposedly socialist members of Congress – Senator Bernie Sanders (VT) and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – are hitting talking points that worry critics like Roger Waters and activists in the streets alike. The Pink Floyd bassist and composer took billionaire Sir Richard Branson to task last week as he organized a benefit concert for the Venezuelan opposition in neighboring Colombia, MintPress News reported. Now, Waters, who says that “socialism is a good thing” and in 2015 backed Sanders, is wondering if he’s “f-ing kidding” us. Sanders announced his candidacy for 2020 last week. Waters’ expression of shock was made in reply to the Senator’s tweet on Saturday, which demanded that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro “allow humanitarian aid into the country.” Waters pulled no punches, questioning whether Sanders is really “the perfect stooge for the one percent.” [https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Fundraiser-Icon-400x2.jpg] The Venezuelan government has rejected U.S. aid as a pretext for further intervention and an affront to their border sovereignty. Elliott Abrams, who was recently named United States Special Representative for Venezuela, was previously involved in a plot to send $27 million in weapons disguised as humanitarian aid to right wing contras. Meanwhile, an airliner with links to the CIA has flown weapons into the country and the agency responsible for delivering it, USAID, has a history of torturing leftists in South America. Poignantly, Waters warned Sanders not to “collude” with the architects of the U.S.’s coup policies: neoconservative warmongers Elliott Abrams and John Bolton, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), a champion of the wealthy right wing pink wave emigre scene in Miami. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/794619281271033856/Fs0QQaH7_normal.jpg] Bernie Sanders ✔@SenSanders · Feb 23, 2019 The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1086653124499070977/yoZudnGM_normal.jpg] Roger Waters ✔@rogerwaters Bernie, are you f-ing kidding me! if you buy the Trump, Bolton, Abrams, Rubio line, “humanitarian intervention” and collude in the destruction of Venezuela, you cannot be credible candidate for President of the USA. Or, maybe you can, maybe you’re the perfect stooge for the 1 %. 11K 2:27 PM - Feb 23, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 6,412 people are talking about this Ben Becker an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, was protesting in New York City on Saturday against the coup as Sanders called on Maduro to comply with Washington’s demands. He told MintPress: There were actions in hundreds of cities worldwide this past weekend, endorsed by a large spectrum of progressive and anti-war organizations. I attended a protest of many hundreds at the Trump building on Wall Street, which an important target given the role of U.S. corporations and banks in strangling Venezuela’s economy. They are salivating about the oil profits in particular they would gain from regime change, a goal that the Trump administration speaks openly about.” Sanders’ Foreign Policy Advisor Matt Duss took the attacks on the Maduro government further, tweeting a headline from the pages of the Daily Beast verbatim: “Socialists Should Take a Stand on Venezuela: No Trump, No Maduro, No War.” [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/794619281271033856/Fs0QQaH7_normal.jpg] Bernie Sanders ✔@SenSanders · Feb 23, 2019 The people of Venezuela are enduring a serious humanitarian crisis. The Maduro government must put the needs of its people first, allow humanitarian aid into the country, and refrain from violence against protesters. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1022910342446215168/4xTVK9nc_normal.jpg] Abby Martin ✔@AbbyMartin you know better than to endorse a stunt led by war criminals who have snuck weapons in aid shipments in the past. This stance will not make democrats like you more and will only lose you support from socialists 5,760 12:40 PM - Feb 23, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,329 people are talking about this The article, written by journalist and notorious troller of Syria anti-interventionists Charlie Davis, distanced itself from the Trump-style regime change wherein Elliott Abrams, who is associated with “death squads,” is leading the charge. But while Davis portrays Abrams as the “bad cop,” leftwing thought leaders like himself serve as the “good cops” of empire. Yes, Trump does not “give a half a goddam about democracy,” but he is also “not necessarily wrong,” Davis argues before rambling in denunciation of Maduro’s supposed authoritarianism. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/744995006335713281/VhvMr50L_normal.jpg] #HandsOffVenezuela at OLAASM · Aug 4, 2018 Replying to @OLAASM Pretty wild that Charles Davis, a liberal-at-best from the empire itself, is deploying these commonplace & widespread memorandums to try to delegitimize & erase the leftism of actual fucking warriors who personally fought the US operations directly... But here we are. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/744995006335713281/VhvMr50L_normal.jpg] #HandsOffVenezuela at OLAASM I really want to see Davis come tell guerrilla veterans in the FMLN that – because their party is coerced into cooperation memorandums with the empire to protect their people being deported by the US – that they have lost their left credentials in his Yankee estimation. 14 4:45 PM - Aug 4, 2018 Twitter Ads info and privacy See #HandsOffVenezuela's other Tweets Davis also painted Ecuador’s rightward drifting government, which has placed Julian Assange in de-facto solitary confinement and issued an arrest warrant against its socialist ex-president Rafael Correa, as a “social democracy.” Despite all this, Duss promoted the shoutout Davis gave his boss, tweeted the passage: In the US, this position has been echoed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, who issued a statement stressing opposition to any foreign-imposed regime change in Venezuela—while noting Venezuelans should be provided the opportunity to change their regime on their own, if they so choose.” While Senator Sanders seems to support a supposedly “democratic” kind of regime change in Venezuela, journalist Ben Norton, who has spent the past two weeks in Venezuela amid the flailing coup attempt, says it is the opposition that is un-democratic. On Twitter, Norton accused the Venezuelan opposition of dropping “all pretense of wanting democracy and demand[ing] a coup and war.” He told MintPress: The corporate media and the US government it so obediently echoes frequently claims that Venezuela is a “dictatorship,” but my past few weeks here in Caracas have shown precisely the opposite: Venezuela remains an impressively democratic country — despite non-stop foreign intervention, internal sabotage and violence from the opposition, and threats of war from the US and right-wing US-allied governments in Latin America.” Becker argued a similar position, telling MintPress: The opposition has an unelected ‘president’ who proclaimed himself such at a protest, and has now exiled himself to Colombia to beg foreign governments to invade. They pressued all opposition candidates to not run in the last elections and demanded international observers to not come and observe them. Meanwhile, the Chavista government has conducted 24 elections in the last 20 years.” Becker further laid into what he characterized as a cynical stunt to provoke regime change: As both the UN and Red Cross affirmed, ‘humanitarian aid’ by definition has to be apolitical, neutral and requested by the receiving country. This wasn’t humanitarian aid — it was a stunt designed to provide the imagery for intervention. Venezuela accepted just this week ten times more actual aid from Russia, Cuba, China and the Pan American Health Organization. The Maduro government’s stance on this is completely logical: it won’t accept phony “aid” from the countries that are simultaneously stealing the government’s assets, sanctioning their industries and seizing their bank accounts — all of which makes it harder to import food and medicine. “ He added that Sanders had received backlash from fellow Democrats merely for refusing to recognize Juan Guaido as President of Venezuela. Sanders’ tactic for years has been to run to the right on foreign policy issues so as to protect his New Deal-style domestic program. He’s always distanced himself from actual socialist projects that have been targeted and demonized by the U.S. Empire to assure the corporate-owned media that his vision is closer to Denmark or Sweden. Now that Sanders is a main target of Trump’s anti-socialist rhetoric and that he’s a potential front-runner for the nomination, I expect we’ll see more of that from him.” The Anti-Maduro Millennial During an Instagram Live, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked the Maduro government. “What people don’t understand is that this is really kind of an issue of authoritarianism versus democracy in many different ways,” she said. “This is really an issue of a failure of democracy.” Because Instagram Live videos are automatically deleted after 24 hours, the clip in which Cortez spoke on Venezuela was brought to light by a right wing account which attacked her for live streaming herself cooking while giving “cooking lessons, dating tips and even interior design advice.” Cortez said she wanted to “empower and center the people of Venezuela and the will of the public.” “What I believe in above all else is a true democracy; is democracy as a form of government; democracy in the workplace; democracy in our economy,” Cortez said. But Norton has seen just that as he has “traveled through barrios interviewing average working-class Venezuelans.” He says he has been “blown away by the democratic and revolutionary spirit that still pervades the community, despite the economic difficulties that do indeed exist — in no small part because of years of crippling US sanctions, economic warfare, and a de facto embargo, along with well-documented speculation and hoarding by capitalists inside the country.” “The Chavista movement has encouraged democracy at many levels, from thriving communes and local councils to feminist organizations and the community-organized CLAP [Local Food Production and Provision Committees] food program,” Norton added. [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1048703090839310336/C4YpHdmM_normal.jpg] Ben Norton ✔@BenjaminNorton · 8h Replying to @BenjaminNorton The conflict in Venezuela *is* precisely about ideology, @AOC. The violent right-wing US-backed opposition wants nothing less than the total eradication of Chavismo. The opposition is exterminationist As a US-backed opposition politician admitted, they want "the Pinochet option" [https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1048703090839310336/C4YpHdmM_normal.jpg] Ben Norton ✔@BenjaminNorton Far-right billionaire-in-chief Trump and neocon war hawks John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Elliott Abrams, and Marco Rubio have spent all their energy trying to overthrow Venezuela's elected government, but "socialist" @AOC instead blames Venezuela, while it is under brutal attack. 449 9:01 AM - Feb 25, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 145 people are talking about this “Instead of accepting all the propaganda against Venezuela,” Becker argues, “people who consider themselves democratic socialists should really study it for themselves.” He continued: Venezuela’s socialists have held and won many elections and used the electoral process to carry out major wealth redistributions in favor of the poor and working class, with missions for housing, health care and education. But it provoked a massive backlash of course from the oligarchy, and the world’s major financial and corporate powers. The ‘billionaire class’ doesn’t just give up their power without a fight and has a lot of tools at their disposal — that’s true in Venezuela and the United States.” The initial tweets from her colleague Ilhan Omar were far clearer, based in a principled anti-war position and even provided context about the roots of Venezuela’s economic crisis. By contrast, Ocasio-Cortes is following the same strategy as Sen. Sanders, which falsely believes you can advance a progressive agenda (and your own career) at home by saying as little as possible about foreign policy and conceding to the rhetoric of anti-communism.” There are certain things that the U.S. ruling class can tolerate debate over in terms of domestic policy, but on the bottom line issue of the U.S. Empire, they all unite when it’s time to attack. The corporate-owned media makes sure no one gets out of line and you are cast out as a pariah. “ Importantly, Cortez also slammed Elliott Abrams from the left, saying that he “pled guilty to crimes” in relation to the Iran-Contra scandal. She added that Abrams is a “legit criminal. Plead guilty.” While the is no question that Abrams the other gangsters running U.S. regime change projects throughout the Cold War to today are not innocent, Cortez repeated a tired trope of criminal justice hawks: that people are “legit criminals” so long as they “plead guilty.” Studies show that 97 percent of federal defendants resolve their cases through plea bargaining. “If anything, reporting here at the grassroots in Venezuela has further clarified to me how authoritarian my own country is: The United States, the world’s biggest incarceration nation, could stand to learn a lesson about democracy from Venezuelans,” Norton told MintPress News. Top Photo | Roger Waters performs during his “Us + Them” tour stop at Staples Center on, June 20, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) Alexander Rubinstein is a staff writer for MintPress News based in Washington, DC. He reports on police, prisons and protests in the United States and the United States’ policing of the world. He previously reported for RT and Sputnik News. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Feb 26 16:15:43 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:15:43 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Forum on Venezuela Message-ID: VENEZUELA: WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHAT CAN WE DO? 6:00 pm, March 2nd. @ St. Peter’s UCC 905 S. Russell St. Champaign, Il PARTY FOR SOCIALISM & LIBERATION "Since its creation, the United States has sought to expand its power, ruthlessly attacking any nation that poses a threat to “democracy.” The US is currently supporting violent, racist and anti-working class forces in Venezuela, seeking to undermine their national sovereignty.” “Come to our forum to learn more, and learn how you can be apart of the real resistance on our trip to Washington, DC on March 16th!” Donate to the CU trip to Washington DC! https://www.gofundme.com/help-send-pslcu-to-washington-dc From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Feb 26 16:15:43 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:15:43 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Forum on Venezuela Message-ID: VENEZUELA: WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHAT CAN WE DO? 6:00 pm, March 2nd. @ St. Peter’s UCC 905 S. Russell St. Champaign, Il PARTY FOR SOCIALISM & LIBERATION "Since its creation, the United States has sought to expand its power, ruthlessly attacking any nation that poses a threat to “democracy.” The US is currently supporting violent, racist and anti-working class forces in Venezuela, seeking to undermine their national sovereignty.” “Come to our forum to learn more, and learn how you can be apart of the real resistance on our trip to Washington, DC on March 16th!” Donate to the CU trip to Washington DC! https://www.gofundme.com/help-send-pslcu-to-washington-dc From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Feb 27 19:35:39 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:35:39 +0000 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Our_goal=3A_to_get_out_40=2C000_newspape?= =?utf-8?q?rs_telling_the_truth_about_Venezuela_=E2=80=94_can_you_help=3F?= References: <5c76cff787b4a_88a86def5c4267e@asgworker-qmb3-9.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: [Party for Socialism and Liberation] Home About Join Us Support Sign up Help counter Trump's lies and the media propaganda about Venezuela! Donate to the printing of 40,000 anti-war newspapers Organizers in over 120 cities have already signed up to distribute [Share on Facebook][Share on Twitter] Dear Karen -- The Trump administration is trying to engineer yet another coup in Latin America. They have brought us to the brink of a new war and along with the corporate media, are working hard to convince an extremely skeptical population to support new aggression. The interventionists failed in their major provocation this past weekend but the White House continues to say that "all options are on the table." They will certainly regroup and make another attempt. Fake self-declared president Juan Guaidó is begging for foreign armies to invade. We must remain on high alert. [https://assets.nationbuilder.com/psl/mailings/3402/attachments/original/march_venezuela_cover.png?1551215531] Help the printing and distribution of 40,000 issues of this newspaper! 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The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United States is that it is necessary to credit Bernie Sanders with making “socialism” a benign term in national political discourse. The price of socialism’s admission to polite conversation here in the belly of the hegemonic capitalist beast is that it must always be chaperoned by the word “democratic” so as to distinguish it from supposedly “authoritarian” ideologies of the same name. The “democratic” modifier works wonders, magically enlarging the historical “socialist” camp to include President Franklin Roosevelt, a wealthy guy that never thought of himself as a socialist but whose 1944 Economic Bill of Rights is the verbatim source of Bernie Sanders’ brand of socialism. At the same time, almost all the actual socialist movements and governments in human history are demonized. Under this “democratic” form of socialism, the capitalist ruling class is never overthrown, but nevertheless acquiesces to reforms that grant working people basic economic and political rights. Seeing no necessity to overthrow the Lords of Capital at home, the Sandernista socialists have no principled objection to the military-political-economic structures of global capitalism -- a system most people in the world call imperialism. But American “democratic socialists” don’t like that word because it tends to upset the U.S. ruling class. Moreover, Bernie’s brand of “socialists” carry around much the same list of enemy nations as their right-wing and “centrist” corporate comrades: Libya, Syria, and now Venezuela – the “authoritarian” socialists. Sanders’ socialism is devoid of solidarity -- except with those like-minded social democrats in white western Europe who long ago made peace with their own ruling classes and their predations in the colonized world, and who now accept the global domination of the U.S. war machine. V.I. Lenin put it succinctly in his 1917 volume, Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism. “The leaders of the present-day, so-called, ‘Social-Democratic’ Party of Germany are justly called ‘social-imperialists,’ that is, socialists in words and imperialists in deeds.” In current U.S. terms, “social imperialists” like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are weak on peace -- only slightly less warlike than their corporate Democratic Party colleagues. In the face of President Trump’s blatant acts of war against Venezuela, including an ongoing attempted coup, savage economic sanctions, the outrageous theft of billions in economic assets, and threats of armed intervention, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez make weak noises against military action while accepting the rationale of the aggression. Neither has a word to say about international law, a subject that has been banished from polite discourse in the imperial headquarters country. When it comes to Venezuela, Bernie lies like an imperialist, and so does his protégé, Ocasio-Cortez. Venezuela is the champion nation of the hemisphere, and possibly the world, when it comes to holding free and fair elections under international observation. "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world," said former president Jimmy Carter, who is no socialist of any kind. During the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders slandered the man who set this democratic and socialist process in motion, the late Hugo Chavez. “Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously,” Sanders wrote in a fundraising letter. “They suggested I’d be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even tried to link me to a dead communist dictator” -- meaning Chavez, whose repeated re-elections were without blemish. In his CNN Town Hall this week, Sanders issued a scaled back lie against the socialist government of Venezuela. “I think the evidence is pretty clear that the last election in Venezuela was not a free and fair election under international supervision,” he said, parroting the coup-makers line with no justification in fact. Having thus delegitimized the government in Caracas and endorsed the rationale for the attempted coup and possible invasion, Sanders then pretends to be a peacemaker: “As you know, the United States overthrew democratically elected governments in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala and in other countries around the world. So, as someone who fervently believes in human rights and democracy, we have got to do everything we can. But I think sometimes you have unintended consequences when a powerful nation goes in and tells people who their government will be. So my view is that, whether it is Saudi Arabia which is the despotic regime, or whether it is Venezuela we must do everything we can to create a democratic climate. But I do not believe in US military intervention in those countries.” Ocasio-Cortez badmouthed Venezuela the night of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, framing the conflict as “an issue of authoritarian regime versus democracy” -- thus encouraging the coup-makers who, if successful, would carry out their threats to “exterminate” socialism in Venezuela. Of the Democratic presidential contenders, only Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii anti-war congressperson who does not call herself a socialist, was emphatically anti-intervention. Gabbard tweeted: “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders — so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” The rest of the Democratic candidates are warmongering imperialist pigs. Sen. Kamala Harris: “What’s happening in Venezuela is a crisis. The people who have fled Maduro’s dictatorial regime deserve safety and protection. As President, I would immediately extend TPS status to Venezuelans. It’s the right thing to do. America must show moral leadership in this hemisphere.” Kirsten Gillibrand is all-in for the coup. A spokesperson for the New York Senator told the Huffington Post : that Gillibrand “supports working with our allies to recognize Juan Guaidó -- who was legitimately elected -- as the interim president under the Constitution until Venezuela can hold new elections, And while she believes economic sanctions are the appropriate response to achieve this, she does not support sending troops to Venezuela.” Elizabeth Warren regurgitated the imperial propaganda. “The Venezuelan people deserve free and fair elections, an economy that works, and the ability to live without fear of violence from their own government,” said the Massachusetts Senator. Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was already on record as having said, last year: “We’ve seen Nicolás Maduro undermine Venezuelan democracy and create a regional economic and humanitarian catastrophe.” New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was a lower-key warmonger: “Maduro is alarming to me on many levels.” Meanwhile, the 14-member Lima Group of white elite-led Latin American nations and the European bloc – Washington’s only allies in its strangulation of Venezuela – ruled out military action against Venezuela. Africa, the Caribbean (except for The Bahamas) and most of the rest of the world oppose the lawless U.S. actions and threats. At last count 38 members of the U.S. House had signed on as co-sponsors of H.R 1004, which would prohibit military action against Venezuela without permission of Congress. Among the co-sponsors is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “socialist” who, like Bernie Sanders, is glad to validate the 20-year-long bipartisan destabilization campaign against Venezuela, but balks at the ultimate imperial logic of actual U.S. invasion. This is what passes for “progressive” and even “socialist” among a phony and incoherent left that is incapable of real solidarity with any social forces in the world that are not vouched for by the rulers and their media. They have not learned the first thing about socialism, which is that you can’t be a socialist and an imperialist at the same time. --Glen Ford ================================================= AWARE is the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana This flyer is circulated at AWARE’s monthly anti-war demonstration by ### From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Thu Feb 28 17:15:47 2019 From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:15:47 -0600 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demo March 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <005701d4cf89$3f124c60$bd36e520$@comcast.net> " Meanwhile, the 14-member Lima Group of white elite-led Latin American nations and the European bloc – Washington’s only allies in its strangulation of Venezuela – ruled out military action against Venezuela. " Yet they recognize self-proclaimed Juan Guido as President and advocate that new elections be held, ahead of the scheduled elections in 2 years, which in and of itself is anti-democratic. Hell, if that is the new standard, I want a new election in the U.S. starting with a new Democratic primary election with international observers, an end to ALL voter disenfranchisement for any reason and verifiable paper ballots. Which would make a lot more sense since the last election in the U.S. there was numerous cases of election fraud in addition to the Dem primary. Especially in Florida in the Wasserman-Schultz vs. Tim Canova race in which the county election official ADMITTED that she destroyed the paper ballots. She was forced to resign but no new election was held nor did the election official even get fined much less serve jail time. Lastly, even Glen Ford got something wrong. ... The EU as a bloc does NOT recognize Juan Guido and a call for new elections. There are 28 EU countries and only ELEVEN out of 28 support this. The other 17 EU countries recognize Maduro as the legitimately elected President of Venezuela. Yet that is all you see in the U.S. and worldwide corporate press is that the EU does not recognize Maduro. Yet in reality it is a MINORITY of EU countries that is against Maduro. Yet when I attempted to do a Google search SPECIFICLLY ASKING ; " Which EU countries support Maduro ". Guess what the results were ?... NOTHING , only articles about the EU supporting the U.S. etc... Censorship is alive and well, don't fool yourself otherwise. Here is a list of EU countries that recognize Maduro - Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta. Not to mention we have to remember that of the EU countries that are opposed to Maduro, that it is the neo-liberal elites of those countries and NOT the majority of the citizens. It really amazes how liberal Democrats, and even Sanders and Cortez who claim to be " Socialists ", follow in lock step without any questions right behind Trump and the military industrial complex in solidarity for empire. As opposed to even thinking about much less mentioning violations of international law in interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, in particular with acts of terrorism and economic sanctions which is also a war crime. And of course you will NEVER see them stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people or the people of any other country. David J. -----Original Message----- From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:44 AM To: Peace Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net Subject: [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demo March 2 The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists ================================= The US left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” who have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world. The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United States is that it is necessary to credit Bernie Sanders with making “socialism” a benign term in national political discourse. The price of socialism’s admission to polite conversation here in the belly of the hegemonic capitalist beast is that it must always be chaperoned by the word “democratic” so as to distinguish it from supposedly “authoritarian” ideologies of the same name. The “democratic” modifier works wonders, magically enlarging the historical “socialist” camp to include President Franklin Roosevelt, a wealthy guy that never thought of himself as a socialist but whose 1944 Economic Bill of Rights is the verbatim source of Bernie Sanders’ brand of socialism. At the same time, almost all the actual socialist movements and governments in human history are demonized. Under this “democratic” form of socialism, the capitalist ruling class is never overthrown, but nevertheless acquiesces to reforms that grant working people basic economic and political rights. Seeing no necessity to overthrow the Lords of Capital at home, the Sandernista socialists have no principled objection to the military-political-economic structures of global capitalism -- a system most people in the world call imperialism. But American “democratic socialists” don’t like that word because it tends to upset the U.S. ruling class. Moreover, Bernie’s brand of “socialists” carry around much the same list of enemy nations as their right-wing and “centrist” corporate comrades: Libya, Syria, and now Venezuela – the “authoritarian” socialists. Sanders’ socialism is devoid of solidarity -- except with those like-minded social democrats in white western Europe who long ago made peace with their own ruling classes and their predations in the colonized world, and who now accept the global domination of the U.S. war machine. V.I. Lenin put it succinctly in his 1917 volume, Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism. “The leaders of the present-day, so-called, ‘Social-Democratic’ Party of Germany are justly called ‘social-imperialists,’ that is, socialists in words and imperialists in deeds.” In current U.S. terms, “social imperialists” like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are weak on peace -- only slightly less warlike than their corporate Democratic Party colleagues. In the face of President Trump’s blatant acts of war against Venezuela, including an ongoing attempted coup, savage economic sanctions, the outrageous theft of billions in economic assets, and threats of armed intervention, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez make weak noises against military action while accepting the rationale of the aggression. Neither has a word to say about international law, a subject that has been banished from polite discourse in the imperial headquarters country. When it comes to Venezuela, Bernie lies like an imperialist, and so does his protégé, Ocasio-Cortez. Venezuela is the champion nation of the hemisphere, and possibly the world, when it comes to holding free and fair elections under international observation. "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world," said former president Jimmy Carter, who is no socialist of any kind. During the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders slandered the man who set this democratic and socialist process in motion, the late Hugo Chavez. “Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously,” Sanders wrote in a fundraising letter. “They suggested I’d be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even tried to link me to a dead communist dictator” -- meaning Chavez, whose repeated re-elections were without blemish. In his CNN Town Hall this week, Sanders issued a scaled back lie against the socialist government of Venezuela. “I think the evidence is pretty clear that the last election in Venezuela was not a free and fair election under international supervision,” he said, parroting the coup-makers line with no justification in fact. Having thus delegitimized the government in Caracas and endorsed the rationale for the attempted coup and possible invasion, Sanders then pretends to be a peacemaker: “As you know, the United States overthrew democratically elected governments in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala and in other countries around the world. So, as someone who fervently believes in human rights and democracy, we have got to do everything we can. But I think sometimes you have unintended consequences when a powerful nation goes in and tells people who their government will be. So my view is that, whether it is Saudi Arabia which is the despotic regime, or whether it is Venezuela we must do everything we can to create a democratic climate. But I do not believe in US military intervention in those countries.” Ocasio-Cortez badmouthed Venezuela the night of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, framing the conflict as “an issue of authoritarian regime versus democracy” -- thus encouraging the coup-makers who, if successful, would carry out their threats to “exterminate” socialism in Venezuela. Of the Democratic presidential contenders, only Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii anti-war congressperson who does not call herself a socialist, was emphatically anti-intervention. Gabbard tweeted: “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders — so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” The rest of the Democratic candidates are warmongering imperialist pigs. Sen. Kamala Harris: “What’s happening in Venezuela is a crisis. The people who have fled Maduro’s dictatorial regime deserve safety and protection. As President, I would immediately extend TPS status to Venezuelans. It’s the right thing to do. America must show moral leadership in this hemisphere.” Kirsten Gillibrand is all-in for the coup. A spokesperson for the New York Senator told the Huffington Post : that Gillibrand “supports working with our allies to recognize Juan Guaidó -- who was legitimately elected -- as the interim president under the Constitution until Venezuela can hold new elections, And while she believes economic sanctions are the appropriate response to achieve this, she does not support sending troops to Venezuela.” Elizabeth Warren regurgitated the imperial propaganda. “The Venezuelan people deserve free and fair elections, an economy that works, and the ability to live without fear of violence from their own government,” said the Massachusetts Senator. Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was already on record as having said, last year: “We’ve seen Nicolás Maduro undermine Venezuelan democracy and create a regional economic and humanitarian catastrophe.” New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was a lower-key warmonger: “Maduro is alarming to me on many levels.” Meanwhile, the 14-member Lima Group of white elite-led Latin American nations and the European bloc – Washington’s only allies in its strangulation of Venezuela – ruled out military action against Venezuela. Africa, the Caribbean (except for The Bahamas) and most of the rest of the world oppose the lawless U.S. actions and threats. At last count 38 members of the U.S. House had signed on as co-sponsors of H.R 1004, which would prohibit military action against Venezuela without permission of Congress. Among the co-sponsors is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “socialist” who, like Bernie Sanders, is glad to validate the 20-year-long bipartisan destabilization campaign against Venezuela, but balks at the ultimate imperial logic of actual U.S. invasion. This is what passes for “progressive” and even “socialist” among a phony and incoherent left that is incapable of real solidarity with any social forces in the world that are not vouched for by the rulers and their media. They have not learned the first thing about socialism, which is that you can’t be a socialist and an imperialist at the same time. --Glen Ford ================================================= AWARE is the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana This flyer is circulated at AWARE’s monthly anti-war demonstration by ### _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Feb 28 17:29:54 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:29:54 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demo March 2 In-Reply-To: <005701d4cf89$3f124c60$bd36e520$@comcast.net> References: <005701d4cf89$3f124c60$bd36e520$@comcast.net> Message-ID: Brilliant analysis by David Johnson, and Glen Ford below. Thank you Carl Estabrook, for this discussion clarifying the differences between Socialists, and Democratic Socialists, who are basically Democrats. I would add: Opposing US intervention or war, by the Democrats does not mean they support “Peace.” We have been intervening in nations through out the world, for decades, by way of proxies. We have Columbia lined up for this one, and I’m sure other US allies as well. Crime bosses like the Mafia, and the Chinese Triads never get their hands dirty…….they ensure others do the work for them. > On Feb 28, 2019, at 09:15, David Johnson via Peace wrote: > > " Meanwhile, the 14-member Lima Group of white elite-led Latin American nations and the European bloc – Washington’s only allies in its strangulation of Venezuela – ruled out military action against Venezuela. " > > Yet they recognize self-proclaimed Juan Guido as President and advocate that new elections be held, ahead of the scheduled elections in 2 years, which in and of itself is anti-democratic. > Hell, if that is the new standard, I want a new election in the U.S. starting with a new Democratic primary election with international observers, an end to ALL voter disenfranchisement for any reason and verifiable paper ballots. Which would make a lot more sense since the last election in the U.S. there was numerous cases of election fraud in addition to the Dem primary. Especially in Florida in the Wasserman-Schultz vs. Tim Canova race in which the county election official ADMITTED that she destroyed the paper ballots. She was forced to resign but no new election was held nor did the election official even get fined much less serve jail time. > > Lastly, even Glen Ford got something wrong. ... The EU as a bloc does NOT recognize Juan Guido and a call for new elections. There are 28 EU countries and only ELEVEN out of 28 support this. The other 17 EU countries recognize Maduro as the legitimately elected President of Venezuela. > Yet that is all you see in the U.S. and worldwide corporate press is that the EU does not recognize Maduro. Yet in reality it is a MINORITY of EU countries that is against Maduro. > Yet when I attempted to do a Google search SPECIFICLLY ASKING ; " Which EU countries support Maduro ". Guess what the results were ?... NOTHING , only articles about the EU supporting the U.S. etc... Censorship is alive and well, don't fool yourself otherwise. > > Here is a list of EU countries that recognize Maduro - Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta. > > Not to mention we have to remember that of the EU countries that are opposed to Maduro, that it is the neo-liberal elites of those countries and NOT the majority of the citizens. > > It really amazes how liberal Democrats, and even Sanders and Cortez who claim to be " Socialists ", follow in lock step without any questions right behind Trump and the military industrial complex in solidarity for empire. As opposed to even thinking about much less mentioning violations of international law in interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, in particular with acts of terrorism and economic sanctions which is also a war crime. > And of course you will NEVER see them stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people or the people of any other country. > > David J. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:44 AM > To: Peace > Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demo March 2 > > The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists > ================================= > > The US left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” who have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world. > > The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United States is that it is necessary to credit Bernie Sanders with making “socialism” a benign term in national political discourse. The price of socialism’s admission to polite conversation here in the belly of the hegemonic capitalist beast is that it must always be chaperoned by the word “democratic” so as to distinguish it from supposedly “authoritarian” ideologies of the same name. The “democratic” modifier works wonders, magically enlarging the historical “socialist” camp to include President Franklin Roosevelt, a wealthy guy that never thought of himself as a socialist but whose 1944 Economic Bill of Rights is the verbatim source of Bernie Sanders’ brand of socialism. At the same time, almost all the actual socialist movements and governments in human history are demonized. > > Under this “democratic” form of socialism, the capitalist ruling class is never overthrown, but nevertheless acquiesces to reforms that grant working people basic economic and political rights. Seeing no necessity to overthrow the Lords of Capital at home, the Sandernista socialists have no principled objection to the military-political-economic structures of global capitalism -- a system most people in the world call imperialism. But American “democratic socialists” don’t like that word because it tends to upset the U.S. ruling class. Moreover, Bernie’s brand of “socialists” carry around much the same list of enemy nations as their right-wing and “centrist” corporate comrades: Libya, Syria, and now Venezuela – the “authoritarian” socialists. > > Sanders’ socialism is devoid of solidarity -- except with those like-minded social democrats in white western Europe who long ago made peace with their own ruling classes and their predations in the colonized world, and who now accept the global domination of the U.S. war machine. V.I. Lenin put it succinctly in his 1917 volume, Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism. “The leaders of the present-day, so-called, ‘Social-Democratic’ Party of Germany are justly called ‘social-imperialists,’ that is, socialists in words and imperialists in deeds.” > > In current U.S. terms, “social imperialists” like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are weak on peace -- only slightly less warlike than their corporate Democratic Party colleagues. In the face of President Trump’s blatant acts of war against Venezuela, including an ongoing attempted coup, savage economic sanctions, the outrageous theft of billions in economic assets, and threats of armed intervention, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez make weak noises against military action while accepting the rationale of the aggression. Neither has a word to say about international law, a subject that has been banished from polite discourse in the imperial headquarters country. > > When it comes to Venezuela, Bernie lies like an imperialist, and so does his protégé, Ocasio-Cortez. Venezuela is the champion nation of the hemisphere, and possibly the world, when it comes to holding free and fair elections under international observation. "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world," said former president Jimmy Carter, who is no socialist of any kind. During the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders slandered the man who set this democratic and socialist process in motion, the late Hugo Chavez. “Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously,” Sanders wrote in a fundraising letter. “They suggested I’d be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even tried to link me to a dead communist dictator” -- meaning Chavez, whose repeated re-elections were without blemish. In his CNN Town Hall this week, Sanders issued a scaled back lie against the socialist government of Venezuela. “I think the evidence is pretty clear that the last election in Venezuela was not a free and fair election under international supervision,” he said, parroting the coup-makers line with no justification in fact. > > Having thus delegitimized the government in Caracas and endorsed the rationale for the attempted coup and possible invasion, Sanders then pretends to be a peacemaker: > “As you know, the United States overthrew democratically elected governments in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala and in other countries around the world. So, as someone who fervently believes in human rights and democracy, we have got to do everything we can. But I think sometimes you have unintended consequences when a powerful nation goes in and tells people who their government will be. So my view is that, whether it is Saudi Arabia which is the despotic regime, or whether it is Venezuela we must do everything we can to create a democratic climate. But I do not believe in US military intervention in those countries.” > > Ocasio-Cortez badmouthed Venezuela the night of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, framing the conflict as “an issue of authoritarian regime versus democracy” -- thus encouraging the coup-makers who, if successful, would carry out their threats to “exterminate” socialism in Venezuela. > > Of the Democratic presidential contenders, only Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii anti-war congressperson who does not call herself a socialist, was emphatically anti-intervention. Gabbard tweeted: “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders — so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” > The rest of the Democratic candidates are warmongering imperialist pigs. > > Sen. Kamala Harris: “What’s happening in Venezuela is a crisis. The people who have fled Maduro’s dictatorial regime deserve safety and protection. As President, I would immediately extend TPS status to Venezuelans. It’s the right thing to do. America must show moral leadership in this hemisphere.” > > Kirsten Gillibrand is all-in for the coup. A spokesperson for the New York Senator told the Huffington Post : that Gillibrand “supports working with our allies to recognize Juan Guaidó -- who was legitimately elected -- as the interim president under the Constitution until Venezuela can hold new elections, And while she believes economic sanctions are the appropriate response to achieve this, she does not support sending troops to Venezuela.” > > Elizabeth Warren regurgitated the imperial propaganda. “The Venezuelan people deserve free and fair elections, an economy that works, and the ability to live without fear of violence from their own government,” said the Massachusetts Senator. > > Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was already on record as having said, last year: “We’ve seen Nicolás Maduro undermine Venezuelan democracy and create a regional economic and humanitarian catastrophe.” > > New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was a lower-key warmonger: “Maduro is alarming to me on many levels.” > > Meanwhile, the 14-member Lima Group of white elite-led Latin American nations and the European bloc – Washington’s only allies in its strangulation of Venezuela – ruled out military action against Venezuela. Africa, the Caribbean (except for The Bahamas) and most of the rest of the world oppose the lawless U.S. actions and threats. > > At last count 38 members of the U.S. House had signed on as co-sponsors of H.R 1004, which would prohibit military action against Venezuela without permission of Congress. Among the co-sponsors is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “socialist” who, like Bernie Sanders, is glad to validate the 20-year-long bipartisan destabilization campaign against Venezuela, but balks at the ultimate imperial logic of actual U.S. invasion. This is what passes for “progressive” and even “socialist” among a phony and incoherent left that is incapable of real solidarity with any social forces in the world that are not vouched for by the rulers and their media. They have not learned the first thing about socialism, which is that you can’t be a socialist and an imperialist at the same time. > --Glen Ford > ================================================= > AWARE is the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana > > This flyer is circulated at AWARE’s monthly anti-war demonstration by > > ### > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Thu Feb 28 17:38:49 2019 From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:38:49 -0600 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demo March 2 In-Reply-To: References: <005701d4cf89$3f124c60$bd36e520$@comcast.net> Message-ID: <006f01d4cf8c$76c24040$6446c0c0$@comcast.net> Absolutely and excellent analogy Karen, about the dirty hands of crime bosses. What I have been throwing at Liberals in regards to their saying that they are sooo concerned about the " humanitarian crisis " in Venezuela, is for them to look right next door at Columbia if they want to see a REAL humanitarian crisis. In Columbia there are SEVEN MILLION internally displaced Columbian refugees as well as over ONE MILLION Columbian refugees who have sought sanctuary in VENEZUELA. The reason is that the Columbian government in conjunction with para military DEATH SQUADS have contracted out to multinational mining and agri-business companies to force people off of their lands and murder any and all who resist in any way. Columbia has the HIGHEST murder rate in the world for Union, community, and environmental activists, and has the 3rd highest murder rate for independent journalists. Of course when I mention these facts there is a deafening silence. David J. -----Original Message----- From: Karen Aram [mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 11:30 AM To: David Johnson Cc: C G Estabrook; Peace; peace-discuss at anti-war.net Subject: Re: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demo March 2 Brilliant analysis by David Johnson, and Glen Ford below. Thank you Carl Estabrook, for this discussion clarifying the differences between Socialists, and Democratic Socialists, who are basically Democrats. I would add: Opposing US intervention or war, by the Democrats does not mean they support “Peace.” We have been intervening in nations through out the world, for decades, by way of proxies. We have Columbia lined up for this one, and I’m sure other US allies as well. Crime bosses like the Mafia, and the Chinese Triads never get their hands dirty…….they ensure others do the work for them. > On Feb 28, 2019, at 09:15, David Johnson via Peace wrote: > > " Meanwhile, the 14-member Lima Group of white elite-led Latin American nations and the European bloc – Washington’s only allies in its strangulation of Venezuela – ruled out military action against Venezuela. " > > Yet they recognize self-proclaimed Juan Guido as President and advocate that new elections be held, ahead of the scheduled elections in 2 years, which in and of itself is anti-democratic. > Hell, if that is the new standard, I want a new election in the U.S. starting with a new Democratic primary election with international observers, an end to ALL voter disenfranchisement for any reason and verifiable paper ballots. Which would make a lot more sense since the last election in the U.S. there was numerous cases of election fraud in addition to the Dem primary. Especially in Florida in the Wasserman-Schultz vs. Tim Canova race in which the county election official ADMITTED that she destroyed the paper ballots. She was forced to resign but no new election was held nor did the election official even get fined much less serve jail time. > > Lastly, even Glen Ford got something wrong. ... The EU as a bloc does NOT recognize Juan Guido and a call for new elections. There are 28 EU countries and only ELEVEN out of 28 support this. The other 17 EU countries recognize Maduro as the legitimately elected President of Venezuela. > Yet that is all you see in the U.S. and worldwide corporate press is that the EU does not recognize Maduro. Yet in reality it is a MINORITY of EU countries that is against Maduro. > Yet when I attempted to do a Google search SPECIFICLLY ASKING ; " Which EU countries support Maduro ". Guess what the results were ?... NOTHING , only articles about the EU supporting the U.S. etc... Censorship is alive and well, don't fool yourself otherwise. > > Here is a list of EU countries that recognize Maduro - Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta. > > Not to mention we have to remember that of the EU countries that are opposed to Maduro, that it is the neo-liberal elites of those countries and NOT the majority of the citizens. > > It really amazes how liberal Democrats, and even Sanders and Cortez who claim to be " Socialists ", follow in lock step without any questions right behind Trump and the military industrial complex in solidarity for empire. As opposed to even thinking about much less mentioning violations of international law in interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, in particular with acts of terrorism and economic sanctions which is also a war crime. > And of course you will NEVER see them stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people or the people of any other country. > > David J. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 10:44 AM > To: Peace > Cc: peace-discuss at anti-war.net > Subject: [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demo March 2 > > The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists > ================================= > > The US left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” who have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world. > > The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United States is that it is necessary to credit Bernie Sanders with making “socialism” a benign term in national political discourse. The price of socialism’s admission to polite conversation here in the belly of the hegemonic capitalist beast is that it must always be chaperoned by the word “democratic” so as to distinguish it from supposedly “authoritarian” ideologies of the same name. The “democratic” modifier works wonders, magically enlarging the historical “socialist” camp to include President Franklin Roosevelt, a wealthy guy that never thought of himself as a socialist but whose 1944 Economic Bill of Rights is the verbatim source of Bernie Sanders’ brand of socialism. At the same time, almost all the actual socialist movements and governments in human history are demonized. > > Under this “democratic” form of socialism, the capitalist ruling class is never overthrown, but nevertheless acquiesces to reforms that grant working people basic economic and political rights. Seeing no necessity to overthrow the Lords of Capital at home, the Sandernista socialists have no principled objection to the military-political-economic structures of global capitalism -- a system most people in the world call imperialism. But American “democratic socialists” don’t like that word because it tends to upset the U.S. ruling class. Moreover, Bernie’s brand of “socialists” carry around much the same list of enemy nations as their right-wing and “centrist” corporate comrades: Libya, Syria, and now Venezuela – the “authoritarian” socialists. > > Sanders’ socialism is devoid of solidarity -- except with those like-minded social democrats in white western Europe who long ago made peace with their own ruling classes and their predations in the colonized world, and who now accept the global domination of the U.S. war machine. V.I. Lenin put it succinctly in his 1917 volume, Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism. “The leaders of the present-day, so-called, ‘Social-Democratic’ Party of Germany are justly called ‘social-imperialists,’ that is, socialists in words and imperialists in deeds.” > > In current U.S. terms, “social imperialists” like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are weak on peace -- only slightly less warlike than their corporate Democratic Party colleagues. In the face of President Trump’s blatant acts of war against Venezuela, including an ongoing attempted coup, savage economic sanctions, the outrageous theft of billions in economic assets, and threats of armed intervention, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez make weak noises against military action while accepting the rationale of the aggression. Neither has a word to say about international law, a subject that has been banished from polite discourse in the imperial headquarters country. > > When it comes to Venezuela, Bernie lies like an imperialist, and so does his protégé, Ocasio-Cortez. Venezuela is the champion nation of the hemisphere, and possibly the world, when it comes to holding free and fair elections under international observation. "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world," said former president Jimmy Carter, who is no socialist of any kind. During the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders slandered the man who set this democratic and socialist process in motion, the late Hugo Chavez. “Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously,” Sanders wrote in a fundraising letter. “They suggested I’d be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even tried to link me to a dead communist dictator” -- meaning Chavez, whose repeated re-elections were without blemish. In his CNN Town Hall this week, Sanders issued a scaled back lie against the socialist government of Venezuela. “I think the evidence is pretty clear that the last election in Venezuela was not a free and fair election under international supervision,” he said, parroting the coup-makers line with no justification in fact. > > Having thus delegitimized the government in Caracas and endorsed the rationale for the attempted coup and possible invasion, Sanders then pretends to be a peacemaker: > “As you know, the United States overthrew democratically elected governments in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala and in other countries around the world. So, as someone who fervently believes in human rights and democracy, we have got to do everything we can. But I think sometimes you have unintended consequences when a powerful nation goes in and tells people who their government will be. So my view is that, whether it is Saudi Arabia which is the despotic regime, or whether it is Venezuela we must do everything we can to create a democratic climate. But I do not believe in US military intervention in those countries.” > > Ocasio-Cortez badmouthed Venezuela the night of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, framing the conflict as “an issue of authoritarian regime versus democracy” -- thus encouraging the coup-makers who, if successful, would carry out their threats to “exterminate” socialism in Venezuela. > > Of the Democratic presidential contenders, only Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii anti-war congressperson who does not call herself a socialist, was emphatically anti-intervention. Gabbard tweeted: “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders — so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” > The rest of the Democratic candidates are warmongering imperialist pigs. > > Sen. Kamala Harris: “What’s happening in Venezuela is a crisis. The people who have fled Maduro’s dictatorial regime deserve safety and protection. As President, I would immediately extend TPS status to Venezuelans. It’s the right thing to do. America must show moral leadership in this hemisphere.” > > Kirsten Gillibrand is all-in for the coup. A spokesperson for the New York Senator told the Huffington Post : that Gillibrand “supports working with our allies to recognize Juan Guaidó -- who was legitimately elected -- as the interim president under the Constitution until Venezuela can hold new elections, And while she believes economic sanctions are the appropriate response to achieve this, she does not support sending troops to Venezuela.” > > Elizabeth Warren regurgitated the imperial propaganda. “The Venezuelan people deserve free and fair elections, an economy that works, and the ability to live without fear of violence from their own government,” said the Massachusetts Senator. > > Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was already on record as having said, last year: “We’ve seen Nicolás Maduro undermine Venezuelan democracy and create a regional economic and humanitarian catastrophe.” > > New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was a lower-key warmonger: “Maduro is alarming to me on many levels.” > > Meanwhile, the 14-member Lima Group of white elite-led Latin American nations and the European bloc – Washington’s only allies in its strangulation of Venezuela – ruled out military action against Venezuela. Africa, the Caribbean (except for The Bahamas) and most of the rest of the world oppose the lawless U.S. actions and threats. > > At last count 38 members of the U.S. House had signed on as co-sponsors of H.R 1004, which would prohibit military action against Venezuela without permission of Congress. Among the co-sponsors is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “socialist” who, like Bernie Sanders, is glad to validate the 20-year-long bipartisan destabilization campaign against Venezuela, but balks at the ultimate imperial logic of actual U.S. invasion. This is what passes for “progressive” and even “socialist” among a phony and incoherent left that is incapable of real solidarity with any social forces in the world that are not vouched for by the rulers and their media. They have not learned the first thing about socialism, which is that you can’t be a socialist and an imperialist at the same time. > --Glen Ford > ================================================= > AWARE is the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana > > This flyer is circulated at AWARE’s monthly anti-war demonstration by > > ### > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From cgestabrook at gmail.com Thu Feb 28 20:00:17 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:00:17 -0600 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Flyer for AWARE demo March 2 In-Reply-To: References: <005701d4cf89$3f124c60$bd36e520$@comcast.net> <006f01d4cf8c$76c24040$6446c0c0$@comcast.net> Message-ID: <11DC4DF3-8393-4465-9BA3-1F7D33852395@gmail.com> In spite of the weather, we should go ahead and demonstrate for as long as we can stand it on Saturday. I’ll have copies of this flyer ready for distribution Saturday at 2pm. We can rally around Doug’s flag, as we did last month. —CGE >>> >>> The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists >>> ================================= >>> >>> The US left makes celebrities of self-styled “socialists” who have no solidarity with real strugglers against imperialism in the world. >>> >>> The best evidence of the profound weakness of the “left” in the United States is that it is necessary to credit Bernie Sanders with making “socialism” a benign term in national political discourse. The price of socialism’s admission to polite conversation here in the belly of the hegemonic capitalist beast is that it must always be chaperoned by the word “democratic” so as to distinguish it from supposedly “authoritarian” ideologies of the same name. The “democratic” modifier works wonders, magically enlarging the historical “socialist” camp to include President Franklin Roosevelt, a wealthy guy that never thought of himself as a socialist but whose 1944 Economic Bill of Rights is the verbatim source of Bernie Sanders’ brand of socialism. At the same time, almost all the actual socialist movements and governments in human history are demonized. >>> >>> Under this “democratic” form of socialism, the capitalist ruling class is never overthrown, but nevertheless acquiesces to reforms that grant working people basic economic and political rights. Seeing no necessity to overthrow the Lords of Capital at home, the Sandernista socialists have no principled objection to the military-political-economic structures of global capitalism -- a system most people in the world call imperialism. But American “democratic socialists” don’t like that word because it tends to upset the U.S. ruling class. Moreover, Bernie’s brand of “socialists” carry around much the same list of enemy nations as their right-wing and “centrist” corporate comrades: Libya, Syria, and now Venezuela – the “authoritarian” socialists. >>> >>> Sanders’ socialism is devoid of solidarity -- except with those like-minded social democrats in white western Europe who long ago made peace with their own ruling classes and their predations in the colonized world, and who now accept the global domination of the U.S. war machine. V.I. Lenin put it succinctly in his 1917 volume, Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism. “The leaders of the present-day, so-called, ‘Social-Democratic’ Party of Germany are justly called ‘social-imperialists,’ that is, socialists in words and imperialists in deeds.” >>> >>> In current U.S. terms, “social imperialists” like Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are weak on peace -- only slightly less warlike than their corporate Democratic Party colleagues. In the face of President Trump’s blatant acts of war against Venezuela, including an ongoing attempted coup, savage economic sanctions, the outrageous theft of billions in economic assets, and threats of armed intervention, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez make weak noises against military action while accepting the rationale of the aggression. Neither has a word to say about international law, a subject that has been banished from polite discourse in the imperial headquarters country. >>> >>> When it comes to Venezuela, Bernie lies like an imperialist, and so does his protégé, Ocasio-Cortez. Venezuela is the champion nation of the hemisphere, and possibly the world, when it comes to holding free and fair elections under international observation. "As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world," said former president Jimmy Carter, who is no socialist of any kind. During the 2016 campaign, Bernie Sanders slandered the man who set this democratic and socialist process in motion, the late Hugo Chavez. “Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously,” Sanders wrote in a fundraising letter. “They suggested I’d be friendly with Middle East terrorist organizations, and even tried to link me to a dead communist dictator” -- meaning Chavez, whose repeated re-elections were without blemish. In his CNN Town Hall this week, Sanders issued a scaled back lie against the socialist government of Venezuela. “I think the evidence is pretty clear that the last election in Venezuela was not a free and fair election under international supervision,” he said, parroting the coup-makers line with no justification in fact. >>> >>> Having thus delegitimized the government in Caracas and endorsed the rationale for the attempted coup and possible invasion, Sanders then pretends to be a peacemaker: >>> “As you know, the United States overthrew democratically elected governments in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala and in other countries around the world. So, as someone who fervently believes in human rights and democracy, we have got to do everything we can. But I think sometimes you have unintended consequences when a powerful nation goes in and tells people who their government will be. So my view is that, whether it is Saudi Arabia which is the despotic regime, or whether it is Venezuela we must do everything we can to create a democratic climate. But I do not believe in US military intervention in those countries.” >>> >>> Ocasio-Cortez badmouthed Venezuela the night of Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, framing the conflict as “an issue of authoritarian regime versus democracy” -- thus encouraging the coup-makers who, if successful, would carry out their threats to “exterminate” socialism in Venezuela. >>> >>> Of the Democratic presidential contenders, only Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii anti-war congressperson who does not call herself a socialist, was emphatically anti-intervention. Gabbard tweeted: “The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders — so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” >>> The rest of the Democratic candidates are warmongering imperialist pigs. >>> >>> Sen. Kamala Harris: “What’s happening in Venezuela is a crisis. The people who have fled Maduro’s dictatorial regime deserve safety and protection. As President, I would immediately extend TPS status to Venezuelans. It’s the right thing to do. America must show moral leadership in this hemisphere.” >>> >>> Kirsten Gillibrand is all-in for the coup. A spokesperson for the New York Senator told the Huffington Post : that Gillibrand “supports working with our allies to recognize Juan Guaidó -- who was legitimately elected -- as the interim president under the Constitution until Venezuela can hold new elections, And while she believes economic sanctions are the appropriate response to achieve this, she does not support sending troops to Venezuela.” >>> >>> Elizabeth Warren regurgitated the imperial propaganda. “The Venezuelan people deserve free and fair elections, an economy that works, and the ability to live without fear of violence from their own government,” said the Massachusetts Senator. >>> >>> Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was already on record as having said, last year: “We’ve seen Nicolás Maduro undermine Venezuelan democracy and create a regional economic and humanitarian catastrophe.” >>> >>> New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker was a lower-key warmonger: “Maduro is alarming to me on many levels.” >>> >>> Meanwhile, the 14-member Lima Group of white elite-led Latin American nations and the European bloc – Washington’s only allies in its strangulation of Venezuela – ruled out military action against Venezuela. Africa, the Caribbean (except for The Bahamas) and most of the rest of the world oppose the lawless U.S. actions and threats. >>> >>> At last count 38 members of the U.S. House had signed on as co-sponsors of H.R 1004, which would prohibit military action against Venezuela without permission of Congress. Among the co-sponsors is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the “socialist” who, like Bernie Sanders, is glad to validate the 20-year-long bipartisan destabilization campaign against Venezuela, but balks at the ultimate imperial logic of actual U.S. invasion. This is what passes for “progressive” and even “socialist” among a phony and incoherent left that is incapable of real solidarity with any social forces in the world that are not vouched for by the rulers and their media. They have not learned the first thing about socialism, which is that you can’t be a socialist and an imperialist at the same time. >>> --Glen Ford >>> ================================================= >>> AWARE is the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign-Urbana >>> >>> This flyer is circulated at AWARE’s monthly anti-war demonstration by >>> >>> ### From cgestabrook at gmail.com Thu Feb 28 20:29:16 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:29:16 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Saturdays AWARE demo. for March, downtown. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: In spite of the weather, we should go ahead and demonstrate for as long as we can stand it on Saturday. I’ll have copies of this flyer ready for distribution Saturday at 2pm. We can rally around Doug’s flag, as we did last month. —CGE >>> >>> The Words and Deeds of Social Imperialists >>> ================================= > On Feb 28, 2019, at 10:51 AM, David Green wrote: > > Unfortunately I won't be able to attend the demo or (obviously) pick up the signs at Stuart's, so I will leave it to you and others to sort things out one way or another. > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 8:54 AM Karen Aram wrote: > > Weather isn’t looking good for Saturday, but if planning on doing the demo., I suggest using the same flyers David constructed last month, in relation to Venezuela. I have a couple, the rest are with Anne Parkinson. > > If Anne brings them, David won’t have to print off new ones. > >