From stuartnlevy at gmail.com  Tue Jul  2 14:52:14 2019
From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 09:52:14 -0500
Subject: [Peace] July 4th parade: AWARE is #94. Come ~10:30ish to Assembly
 Hall parking lot!
Message-ID: <3013c59c-46fb-fa23-3bce-426c0748e51e@gmail.com>

AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort, has a spot in the C-U July 4th
parade. *We are entry #94, *near the end of the parade.

Who can be there??   So far I've heard from Rohn, Karen M, and Stuart.

We'll have a few anti-war/anti-imperialist/pro-peace signs, or bring
your own.

The parade's theme this year: Flight in Space.

*Where:* We gather in the Assembly Hall (state farm center) parking lot.
Entrances are on Kirby (north end of lot) and St Mary's Rd (south end).
If you're driving in but your car won't be part of the parade, they'll
have you park in the north end of the lot.   Look for our entry number: 
*#94.*

*When: *They'd like us there "after 10am", so I'll suggest *gathering
around 10:30am.**
***
Parade starts around 11am.  Guessing that our tail of the parade might
move by noon or so.

*Weather:  *expected to be warm, high 80s.   *Chance of
rain/thunderstorms.   *They'll make a weather call by 8am Thursday.

They'd like cars to be decorated, so Carl, we will want a way to hang a
sign or two on your convertible.
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Jul  2 16:34:51 2019
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 11:34:51 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [OccupyCU] July 4th parade: AWARE is #94. Come
 ~10:30ish to Assembly Hall parking lot!
In-Reply-To: <3013c59c-46fb-fa23-3bce-426c0748e51e@gmail.com>
References: <3013c59c-46fb-fa23-3bce-426c0748e51e@gmail.com>
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Tape, I should think. And perhaps a flagpole behind the driver’s seat.



> On Jul 2, 2019, at 9:52 AM, Stuart Levy via OccupyCU <occupycu at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort, has a spot in the C-U July 4th parade. We are entry #94, near the end of the parade.
> 
> Who can be there??   So far I've heard from Rohn, Karen M, and Stuart.
> 
> We'll have a few anti-war/anti-imperialist/pro-peace signs, or bring your own.
> 
> The parade's theme this year: Flight in Space.
> 
> Where: We gather in the Assembly Hall (state farm center) parking lot. Entrances are on Kirby (north end of lot) and St Mary's Rd (south end). If you're driving in but your car won't be part of the parade, they'll have you park in the north end of the lot.   Look for our entry number:  #94.
> 
> When: They'd like us there "after 10am", so I'll suggest gathering around 10:30am.
> 
> Parade starts around 11am.  Guessing that our tail of the parade might move by noon or so.
> 
> Weather:  expected to be warm, high 80s.   Chance of rain/thunderstorms.   They'll make a weather call by 8am Thursday.
> 
> They'd like cars to be decorated, so Carl, we will want a way to hang a sign or two on your convertible.
> _______________________________________________
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> OccupyCU at lists.chambana.net
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Tue Jul  2 21:06:15 2019
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 16:06:15 -0500
Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #485 notes
Message-ID: <a0e9d928-f8a4-9f04-6655-ac486368962f@forestfield.org>

AWARE on the Air #485
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snxHF_n1tR4

Diana Johnstone on "The San Francisco Murals and the Suicide of the Left"
http://www.unz.com/article/the-san-francisco-murals-and-the-suicide-of-the-left/
https://www.globalresearch.ca/san-francisco-murals-suicide-left/5682193

Gerald Horne interviewed on Democracy Now on 2014-06-27 about "The 
Counter-revolution of 1776"
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/27/counter_revolution_of_1776_was_us
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/1776-counter-revolution-us-origins/

"The Counter-Revolution of 1776" by Gerald Horne
Complete book:
EPub format: 
https://libcom.org/files/The%20Counter-Revolution%20of%201776_%20-%20Horne,%20Gerald.epub
Mobi format: 
https://libcom.org/files/The%20Counter-Revolution%20of%201776_%20-%20Horne,%20Gerald_0.mobi

"Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow" by 
Gerald Horne
ISBN-10: 1583674454
ISBN-13: 978-1583674451

Economic Update: Rise and Fall of the USSR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-TWFKw4tU

-J

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Jul  3 16:00:15 2019
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 11:00:15 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [OccupyCU] July 4th parade: AWARE is #94. Come
 ~10:30ish to Assembly Hall parking lot!
In-Reply-To: <3013c59c-46fb-fa23-3bce-426c0748e51e@gmail.com>
References: <3013c59c-46fb-fa23-3bce-426c0748e51e@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <73A03FF3-D23A-4F27-93AF-54A0545B98D9@newsfromneptune.com>

Stuart—

I’m afraid I’m not up to the rigors of the parade (even driving) - much as I’d like to, as I have in the past.

Regrets, Carl



> On Jul 2, 2019, at 9:52 AM, Stuart Levy via OccupyCU <occupycu at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort, has a spot in the C-U July 4th parade. We are entry #94, near the end of the parade.
> 
> Who can be there??   So far I've heard from Rohn, Karen M, and Stuart.
> 
> We'll have a few anti-war/anti-imperialist/pro-peace signs, or bring your own.
> 
> The parade's theme this year: Flight in Space.
> 
> Where: We gather in the Assembly Hall (state farm center) parking lot. Entrances are on Kirby (north end of lot) and St Mary's Rd (south end). If you're driving in but your car won't be part of the parade, they'll have you park in the north end of the lot.   Look for our entry number:  #94.
> 
> When: They'd like us there "after 10am", so I'll suggest gathering around 10:30am.
> 
> Parade starts around 11am.  Guessing that our tail of the parade might move by noon or so.
> 
> Weather:  expected to be warm, high 80s.   Chance of rain/thunderstorms.   They'll make a weather call by 8am Thursday.
> 
> They'd like cars to be decorated, so Carl, we will want a way to hang a sign or two on your convertible.
> _______________________________________________
> OccupyCU mailing list
> OccupyCU at lists.chambana.net
> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/occupycu


From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Thu Jul  4 11:05:36 2019
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 06:05:36 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [OccupyCU] July 4th parade: AWARE is #94. Come
 ~10:30ish to Assembly Hall parking lot!
In-Reply-To: <73A03FF3-D23A-4F27-93AF-54A0545B98D9@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <3013c59c-46fb-fa23-3bce-426c0748e51e@gmail.com>
 <73A03FF3-D23A-4F27-93AF-54A0545B98D9@newsfromneptune.com>
Message-ID: <CANDTtdkJE5QqG-v1Mj-YDihk1M4_LWugwCNQbMFwxgidCZ8M-w@mail.gmail.com>

Anyone wanting Healthcare not Warfare or Medicare For All signs, come to
PDA (red Ford Ranger) at back end of entry #86 before parade takes off

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:01 AM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Stuart—
>
> I’m afraid I’m not up to the rigors of the parade (even driving) - much as
> I’d like to, as I have in the past.
>
> Regrets, Carl
>
>
>
> > On Jul 2, 2019, at 9:52 AM, Stuart Levy via OccupyCU <
> occupycu at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >
> > AWARE, the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort, has a spot in the C-U July 4th
> parade. We are entry #94, near the end of the parade.
> >
> > Who can be there??   So far I've heard from Rohn, Karen M, and Stuart.
> >
> > We'll have a few anti-war/anti-imperialist/pro-peace signs, or bring
> your own.
> >
> > The parade's theme this year: Flight in Space.
> >
> > Where: We gather in the Assembly Hall (state farm center) parking lot.
> Entrances are on Kirby (north end of lot) and St Mary's Rd (south end). If
> you're driving in but your car won't be part of the parade, they'll have
> you park in the north end of the lot.   Look for our entry number:  #94.
> >
> > When: They'd like us there "after 10am", so I'll suggest gathering
> around 10:30am.
> >
> > Parade starts around 11am.  Guessing that our tail of the parade might
> move by noon or so.
> >
> > Weather:  expected to be warm, high 80s.   Chance of
> rain/thunderstorms.   They'll make a weather call by 8am Thursday.
> >
> > They'd like cars to be decorated, so Carl, we will want a way to hang a
> sign or two on your convertible.
> > _______________________________________________
> > OccupyCU mailing list
> > OccupyCU at lists.chambana.net
> > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/occupycu
>
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The same goes for the Russian Foreign Ministry’s envoy to Asian countries and in particular the presidential advisor on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov’s promise<https://globalresearch.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2&id=62561d102c&e=236e62457b> a few days later that Iran “won’t be alone” if the US attacks it. Alt-Media<https://globalresearch.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2&id=d8d6de9efb&e=236e62457b> interpreted this through its members’ typical wishful thinking perspective to mean that Russia was implying a direct military intervention against the US in support of Iran if a conflict were to break out, when in reality he was most likely talking about the political and moral support that the rest of the world would extend to the Islamic Republic in that scenario. Shortly after, a Russian official told Sputnik<https://globalresearch.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2&id=4b89f7ea09&e=236e62457b> that “we are open to discussions” with Iran about selling it the S-400s, which was also wrongly reported in the outlet’s own headline as “Russia ready to deliver S-400 to Iran” when it literally only signaled its interest in starting talks about this.

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To elaborate, the three quoted Russian officials were uncharacteristically enthusiastic about their support of Iran, which should have immediately been a dead-giveaway to keen observers that something was up. Furthermore, the fact that Alt-Media didn’t report on the entirety of Patrushev’s comments from that event, especially about how “Russia puts special attention on ensuring Israel’s security<https://globalresearch.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2&id=571c26aa40&e=236e62457b>“, should have been another sign that a perception management operation was in progress. More than likely, Russia wanted to capitalize on the outpouring of global support for Iran after it downed an American drone earlier that week and misportray itself as the Islamic Republic’s loyal “ally” in order to redirect some of the sympathy towards its Mideast policy as well, all of which would make “Israel’s” forthcoming strikes all the more unexpected.

It’s doubtful that Iranian decision makers fell for this perception management operation that was probably mostly targeting the general audience at large and not the strategic one in the Islamic Republic, but then again, Tehran still can’t seem to accept that India has turned against it<https://globalresearch.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2&id=9c9976766a&e=236e62457b> so it’s theoretically possible that it also didn’t see this coming either. That said, many Iranians have reportedly been killed over nearly the past four years since Russia militarily intervened in Syria and began to “passively facilitate” “Israel’s” strikes there, so it would be strange for them to think that this would change after what Patrushev said at the historic Jerusalem Summit about ensuring “Israel’s” security, which is nothing more than a euphemism for continuing to allow it to bomb the IRGC in Syria.

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From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net  Thu Jul  4 14:51:15 2019
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2019 09:51:15 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss]
 the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america
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Excellent article Carl !

David J.

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From jbn at forestfield.org  Fri Jul  5 22:45:33 2019
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2019 17:45:33 -0500
Subject: [Peace] NfN #427 notes
Message-ID: <bf1fdff3-62f8-91a2-ff83-17d80397a94a@forestfield.org>

News from Neptune #427
A "Fourth of July: A Celebration of Slavery" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvgbejEYxSc

A list of links to references mentioned on the show.

Barbara Jeanne Fields's "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of 
America" quoted in this Seth Ackerman Jacobin article
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/07/hillary-clinton-democatic-primary-sanders-netroots/

Related:
http://www.marxmail.org/quotes/barbara_jeanne_fields.htm
https://newleftreview.org/issues/I181/articles/barbara-jeanne-fields-slavery-race-and-ideology-in-the-united-states-of-america 
-- New Left Review's issue 181 (subscription required) is the source of the 
quote in the Jacobin article.
https://shetterly.blogspot.com/2015/08/barbara-j-fields-brilliant-observation.html
Gerald Horne:
- interviewed on Democracy Now on 2014-06-27 about "The Counter-revolution 
of 1776"
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/27/counter_revolution_of_1776_was_us
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/1776-counter-revolution-us-origins/
- book: "The Counter-Revolution of 1776"
EPub format: 
https://libcom.org/files/The%20Counter-Revolution%20of%201776_%20-%20Horne,%20Gerald.epub
Mobi format: 
https://libcom.org/files/The%20Counter-Revolution%20of%201776_%20-%20Horne,%20Gerald_0.mobi
- book: "Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow"
ISBN-10: 1583674454
ISBN-13: 978-1583674451


Bacon's Rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion

David Harvey interview in Jacobin
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/

"A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey
ISBN-13: 978-0199283279
ISBN-10: 0199283273



News-Gazette editorial "Green pastures for Emanuel"
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorial-green-pastures-for-emanuel/article_7af25589-34cf-589f-8b87-011764d6a063.html

Christopher Rugaber on "Why wealth gap has grown despite record-long 
economic growth"
https://www.apnews.com/df1ca4016d27405791c10eb5772c06a4/gallery/9378268361a94c50ae7c475605fbf236
https://nypost.com/2019/07/01/why-the-wealth-gap-has-grown-despite-record-economic-growth/

Federal Reserve System
https://www.federalreserve.gov/

Distributional Financial Accounts
https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/efa/efa-distributional-financial-accounts.htm



Paul Street on "How to Properly Criticize RussiaGate"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/02/how-to-properly-criticize-russiagate-2/

C.J. Polychroniou interviews Noam Chomsky for Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-trump-is-consolidating-far-right-power-globally/

Louis Proyect's commentary on Chomsky's interview
https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2019-July/290444.html

Redacted Tonight VIP (Lee Camp) interview of John Kiriakou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrVWeA2QmWk



Roger Harris on "Why the US Puppet President of Venezuela is Toast"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/why-the-us-puppet-president-of-venezuela-is-toast/

Lucas Koerner & Ricardo Vaz's articles on fair.org
https://fair.org/home/nyt-parrots-us-propaganda-on-hezbollah-in-venezuela/
https://fair.org/home/theres-far-more-diversity-in-venezuelas-muzzled-media-than-in-us-corporate-press/
https://fair.org/home/pathological-deceit-the-nyt-inverts-reality-on-venezuelas-cuban-doctors/

Lucas Koerner on "This is Hell!"
Recent interview: https://thisishell-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/mp3/20190629A.mp3
Show RSS feed: https://thisishell.com/rss.xml

Anatoly Kurmanaev on "Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in 
Decades, Economists Say"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/americas/venezuela-economy.html

Anatoly Kurmanaev on "Venezuelan Navy Captain Accused of Rebellion Dies 
After Signs of Torture"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/29/world/americas/venezuela-torture.html

Nick Cumming-Bruce on "Venezuela Forces Killed Thousands, Then Covered It 
Up, U.N. Says"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/04/world/americas/venezuela-police-abuses.html



Local congressional candidate discussion
Wednesday 7PM Caffé Paradiso
801 S Lincoln Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 384-6066
Caffé Paradiso website: http://www.enjoyparadiso.com/
Caffé Paradiso store information: 
https://www.yelp.com/biz/caffe-paradiso-urbana



Issues with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's (D-HI) politics
https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/02/13/is-tulsi-gabbard-really-anti-war-no-shes-pro-drone-and-for-surgical-strikes/ 
-- J.B. Nicholson's take on her pro-war views
https://stevesalaita.com/tulsi-gabbard-and-the-art-of-the-half-sentence/ -- 
Steve Salaita's critique of her views on Palestine
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/roaming-charges-when-the-band-plays-hail-to-the-chief-they-point-the-tank-at-you-lord/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/28/roaming-charges-crash-test-dummy-politics/ 
-- Jeffrey St. Clair's notes on Tulsi Gabbard



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-J

From stuartnlevy at gmail.com  Sat Jul  6 16:49:27 2019
From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 11:49:27 -0500
Subject: [Peace] demonstration at 2pm, or no?
Message-ID: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>

Hello peaceable people,

Is anyone thinking to take part in an AWARE demonstration at 2pm today?

I'd be happy to say that our July 4th participation covered that, but if
others are inclined to, I could be there and bring some signs.



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From davidgreen50 at gmail.com  Sat Jul  6 16:51:50 2019
From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 11:51:50 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] demonstration at 2pm, or no?
In-Reply-To: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>
References: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAOiGAyH9OWMHw3gwb7dwEDGp3gsU026ffSt70nRJ6Rvze_ybxw@mail.gmail.com>

I can go either way, but I'm happy to take the day off, even though I also
took Thursday off.

On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 11:50 AM Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Hello peaceable people,
>
> Is anyone thinking to take part in an AWARE demonstration at 2pm today?
>
> I'd be happy to say that our July 4th participation covered that, but if
> others are inclined to, I could be there and bring some signs.
>
>
>
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sat Jul  6 17:22:26 2019
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 12:22:26 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] demonstration at 2pm, or no?
In-Reply-To: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>
References: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>
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Doug will probably be there, with his flag, so I’ll attend, if the rain stays away…


> On Jul 6, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello peaceable people,
> 
> Is anyone thinking to take part in an AWARE demonstration at 2pm today?
> 
> I'd be happy to say that our July 4th participation covered that, but if others are inclined to, I could be there and bring some signs.
> 
> 
> 
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From stuartnlevy at gmail.com  Sat Jul  6 17:48:02 2019
From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 12:48:02 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] demonstration at 2pm, or no?
In-Reply-To: <35ED9D07-F75A-4BF3-8BD2-D53CC653784E@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>
 <35ED9D07-F75A-4BF3-8BD2-D53CC653784E@newsfromneptune.com>
Message-ID: <778fc3ab-bcea-d644-e9f0-0f40f3c62544@gmail.com>

OK then, let's do something against the wars, 2-4pm.   Current forecast
calls for warm (high 80s) and muggy but dry.

I'll gather together a subset of the signs. ...


On 7/6/19 12:22 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> Doug will probably be there, with his flag, so I’ll attend, if the rain stays away…
>
>
>> On Jul 6, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello peaceable people,
>>
>> Is anyone thinking to take part in an AWARE demonstration at 2pm today?
>>
>> I'd be happy to say that our July 4th participation covered that, but if others are inclined to, I could be there and bring some signs.
>>
>>
>>
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From james.manrique at gmail.com  Sat Jul  6 17:50:00 2019
From: james.manrique at gmail.com (James M)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 12:50:00 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] demonstration at 2pm, or no?
In-Reply-To: <778fc3ab-bcea-d644-e9f0-0f40f3c62544@gmail.com>
References: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>
 <35ED9D07-F75A-4BF3-8BD2-D53CC653784E@newsfromneptune.com>
 <778fc3ab-bcea-d644-e9f0-0f40f3c62544@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CADB8ByfaD29yHZ5O=fcLsnaBZZfV3EXO9Hq+f=zQYPhL1bVfvQ@mail.gmail.com>

I'll try to make a showing as well.

On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 12:48 PM Stuart Levy via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> OK then, let's do something against the wars, 2-4pm.   Current forecast
> calls for warm (high 80s) and muggy but dry.
>
> I'll gather together a subset of the signs. ...
>
>
> On 7/6/19 12:22 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
> Doug will probably be there, with his flag, so I’ll attend, if the rain stays away…
>
>
>
> On Jul 6, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> Hello peaceable people,
>
> Is anyone thinking to take part in an AWARE demonstration at 2pm today?
>
> I'd be happy to say that our July 4th participation covered that, but if others are inclined to, I could be there and bring some signs.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Peace-discuss mailing listPeace-discuss at lists.chambana.nethttps://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
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>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Jul  6 18:11:45 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 18:11:45 +0000
Subject: [Peace] demonstration at 2pm, or no?
In-Reply-To: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>
References: <74c85a5d-7557-1c69-6bc2-befc5d260831@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB607727ACB5B755BDD2742A91A3F40@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

I will be there, though not sure how long I can be there.


> On Jul 6, 2019, at 09:49, Stuart Levy via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello peaceable people,
> 
> Is anyone thinking to take part in an AWARE demonstration at 2pm today?
> 
> I'd be happy to say that our July 4th participation covered that, but if others are inclined to, I could be there and bring some signs.
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Jul  7 00:47:58 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 00:47:58 +0000
Subject: [Peace] The ISO and others
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB60771EE9C7A5EC2C4458F858A3F70@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

[Socialism Conference 2019 anti-imperialists]
NON-PROFIT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX<https://thegrayzone.com/category/non-profit-industrial-complex/>July 6, 2019<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/>
<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/>
DSA/Jacobin/Haymarket-sponsored ‘Socialism’ conference features US gov-funded regime-change activists
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The 2019 Socialism Conference, sponsored by American leftist juggernauts the DSA, Jacobin magazine, and ISO’s Haymarket Books, features regime-change activists from multiple US government-funded NGOs.
By Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal
________________________________

Socialism is now apparently brought to you by the US State Department.

From July 4 to 7, thousands of left-wing activists from across the United States are gathering in Chicago for the 2019 Socialism Conference<http://archive.fo/GbmTo>.

At this event, some of the most powerful institutions on the American socialist — but avowedly anti-communist — left have brought together a motley crew of regime-change activists to demonize Official Enemies of Washington.

One anti-China panel at the conference features speakers from two different organizations that are both bankrolled by the US government’s soft-power arm the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/20/inside-americas-meddling-machine-the-us-funded-group-that-interferes-in-elections-around-the-globe/>, a group founded out of Ronald Reagan’s CIA in the 1980s to grease the wheels of right-wing regime-change efforts and promote “free markets” across the planet.

Another 2019 Socialism Conference panel rails against the socialist governments of Nicaragua and Cuba — two-thirds of John Bolton’s “troika of tyranny” — with outspoken proponents of regime change. One of the speakers, Dan La Botz, hosted an event in 2018 that featured right-wing Nicaraguan activists<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/06/19/ned-nicaragua-protests-us-government/> wearing masks and disguised as students, who were junketed to meet with Republican lawmakers in Washington by the US government-funded right-wing organization Freedom House.

The Socialism Conference’s regime-change lobbying “Nicaragua expert” La Botz has admitted in leaked emails obtained by The Grayzone that “there is virtually no left among the opposition” to Nicaragua’s democratically elected socialist government.

La Botz, a leader within Democratic Socialists of America, likewise acknowledged in these emails that there is “little likelihood of an outcome to the rebellion that goes beyond a more democratic capitalist regime.” But he has still vociferously lobbied for Nicaragua’s Sandinista government to be overthrown by US government-backed insurgents — and is using his platform at the biggest socialist conference in the United States to do it.

Merging of largest US socialist organizations

The 2019 Socialism Conference is advertised under the catchy slogan: “No borders, no bosses, no binaries.”

Each ticket comes in at a neat $105 per person (or a $250 “solidarity rate,” for the hardcore supporters) — and this doesn’t include the rate for the rooms at the hotel where it’s held.

For years, the Socialism Conference functioned as a platform for the International Socialist Organization (ISO), a small group steeped in the tradition of sectarian American Trotskyite politics, which pushed a hardline anti-communism and attacked virtually all socialist governments in history as “not truly socialist.”

Founded in 1977 after a long line of sectarian splits, the ISO never became a significant political force. It was mostly relegated to recruiting young impressionable students on liberal arts college campuses.

As an avowedly anti-communist organization, the ISO eschewed symbols long associated with the communist left, like hammers and sickles and red flags. Instead, it chose a clenched fist — one eerily similar to the symbol used by the US government-funded Serbian activist group Otpor<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/03/11/us-regime-change-blueprint-proposed-venezuelan-electricity-blackouts-as-watershed-event-for-galvanizing-public-unrest/> and similar offshoots in Eastern Europe, which carried out Washington-backed neoliberal “color revolutions” in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the restoration of capitalism.

[ISO Otpor fist symbols]

The ISO claimed to be anti-war, but its leaders spent a disproportionate percentage of their time and resources attacking the anti-imperialist left. They could more accurately be referred to as the anti-anti-imperialist left.

This March, the ISO voted to dissolve<http://socialistworker.org/2019/04/02/the-isos-vote-to-dissolve-and-what-comes-next> — in a decision some former members joked was the most democratic act ever undertaken by the organization, which had been dominated by an unelected leadership of veteran Trotskyite activists.

The dissolution was prompted by evidence that the ISO’s steering committee mishandled sexual assault allegations. It also came as the ISO’s membership was shrinking and rapidly being absorbed by a newly burgeoning anti-communist organization, the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA.

Now that the ISO has dissolved, some of its past prominent members have entered the ranks of the DSA, burrowing from within to inject their anti-anti-imperialist politics into the group.

Because Trotskyites are so sectarian and notoriously incapable of holding together organizations, they are infamous for infiltrating larger, more popular groups and trying to take them over, in a tactic known as entryism.

This is precisely the strategy being used by former members of the ISO — and by another tiny US Trotskyite organization, Solidarity<https://solidarity-us.org/>, which was led by anti-Nicaragua regime-change activist and Socialism Conference speaker Dan La Botz, now a leader in DSA.

Democratic Socialists of America is the largest self-described socialist organization in the United States, with more than 60,000 card-carrying members. It is also very heterogeneous, with many internal contradictions and conflicting political views.

In 2019, for the first time, the organizers of the Socialism Conference — including many holdovers from the ISO leadership — joined together with two new sponsors: DSA, and the closely DSA-allied Jacobin magazine, another platform for anti-communist and anti-anti-imperialist politics.

At the bottom of the Socialism conference website<https://socialismconference.org/>, a note reads, “Brought to you by Haymarket, Jacobin, and the Democratic Socialists of America.” Haymarket is the book publishing arm of the now defunct ISO, and its editorial board features some of the group’s former leaders.

[Socialism 2019 sponsors Haymarket Jacobin DSA]

Top speakers at the conference include Democracy Now host Amy Goodman, Jacobin magazine founder and editor Bhaskar Sunkara, and journalist Naomi Klein, the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies<https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/about/gloria-steinem-endowed-chair-media-culture-and-feminist-studies> at Rutgers University. Klein was chosen to head the final plenary, titled “Care and Repair<http://archive.fo/ZqZ0j>: The Revolutionary, Democratic Power of a Global Green New Deal.”

The 2019 Socialism Conference, like its annual predecessors, combines calls for radical economic democratic transformation and progressive social progress with the demonization of independent foreign governments that are targeted by the US government for regime change, such as Nicaragua, Cuba, Syria, Iran, China, and Russia.

The schedule of panels<http://archive.fo/Oobbj> on foreign policy and international issues features a veritable who’s who of leftist regime-change activists.

Curiously, the 2019 Socialism Conference has no panels devoted specifically to Venezuela<https://thegrayzone.com/category/venezuela/>, which since this January has endured a US-led right-wing coup attempt, and which is suffering under suffocating sanctions that amount to a de facto economic blockade. In the past, the ISO has harshly criticized Venezuela’s democratically elected socialist government, condemning Presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro for not being radical enough and for not supposedly implementing the vague concept of “socialism from below.”

In this way, the 2019 Socialism Conference also stands out as a sign of the effective political merging of what had previously been two distinct political trends: the Cliffite Trotskyites of the International Socialist Organization and the anti-communist social democrats of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Anti-China ‘workers’ rights’ groups funded by anti-labor US government

One of the most eyebrow-raising panels at the 2019 Socialism Conference is entitled “China and the US<http://archive.fo/JJaB2>: Inter-Imperial Rivalry or Class Struggle and Solidarity?” The panel portrays the US and China as equally malicious imperialist powers, downplaying and whitewashing the uniquely destructive nature of Washington’s foreign wars and corporate domination.

The panel features three speakers, two of whom work for anti-China groups that are funded by the US government’s regime-change arm, the National Endowment for Democracy. The third speaker is Ashley Smith, a former leader of the ISO who has spent the past eight years romanticizing foreign-backed, far-right sectarian Islamist “moderate rebels<https://moderaterebels.com/syria-cia-al-qaeda-episode-2-show-notes/>” in Syria.

[Socialism 2019 China US inter-imperial rivalry panel]

The first speaker listed on the panel is Elaine Lu<http://archive.fo/tU0aU>, the program officer at China Labor Watch. This group is described by the Socialism conference website simply as “a New York-based NGO advocating for workers’ rights in China.”

What Socialism Conference sponsors DSA, Jacobin, and Haymarket did not disclose is that its speaker’s employer is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy.

The NED states without qualification that its goals include supporting “free markets” abroad. At the top of the about page on its website is a video of right-wing cold warrior Ronald Reagan inaugurating the US government-funded body.

[NED Ronald Reagan free markets]

The National Endowment for Democracy’s 990 tax forms<https://archive.org/details/NED990> show how Washington’s regime-change arm has bankrolled China Labor Watch for years. Substantial NED funding goes back to at least 2009<https://archive.org/stream/NED990/NED_Form990_2010#page/n27/mode/2up>.

According to the NED’s 2015 form 990<https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2016/521/344/2016-521344831-0e541065-9.pdf>, China Labor Watch received a $150,000 grant that year. On the NED’s 2013<http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/521/521344831/521344831_201409_990.pdf> tax form, it lists another $110,000 grant<https://thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/China-Labor-Watch-NED-funding-2013.png> for China Labor Watch.

[China Labor Watch NED funding 2015]

In 2014<https://archive.org/stream/NED990/NED_Form990_2015#page/n285/mode/2up>, China Labor Watch got $150,000 from the NED<https://thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/China-Labor-Watch-NED-funding-2014.png>. According to the group’s annual report that year<http://chinalaborwatch.org/2014%20CLW%20Annual%20Report%20-%20EN%20---FINAL.pdf>, its total revenues for all of 2014 was $238,003, meaning 63 percent, or nearly two-thirds of its funding came from the US government.

China Labor Watch’s other major donor is the Tides Foundation, a liberal organization that also happened to be one of the main financial sponsor’s of the ISO’s parent non-profit. In 2014, Tides gave $40,645<https://www.tides.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Tides-Foundation-2014-Federal-990-Pub-Disc-Copy.pdf> to China Labor Watch, another 17 percent of its budget that year.

Joining Elaine Lu as the other main speaker on the Socialism Conference’s anti-China panel is Kevin Lin<http://archive.fo/GJFnA>, who coordinates the China program at the Washington, DC-based NGO the International Labor Rights Forum.

The Socialism Conference once again failed to mention that this group is also bankrolled by the National Endowment for Democracy.

[International Labor Rights Forum NED funding 2016]

According to the NED’s 2016 form 990<https://pdf.guidestar.org/PDF_Images/2017/521/344/2017-521344831-0fb44a26-9.pdf>, the US government’s regime-change arm gave the International Labor Rights Forum $150,000 that year alone.

The International Labor Rights Forum likewise received $96,590<https://thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/International-Labor-Rights-Forum-NED-funding-2015.png> from the NED in 2015, and $62,500<https://archive.org/stream/NED990/NED_Form990_2015#page/n299/mode/2up> in 2014.

The Socialism Conference also identified Kevin Lin as a co-editor of the Made in China journal<https://madeinchinajournal.com/>, which focuses on labor rights. A disclaimer<https://madeinchinajournal.com/about-us/> at the bottom of the publication’s swanky website notes that it is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020<https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020>, a neoliberal business program which the European Commission describes as “the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe’s global competitiveness.”

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These are the financiers behind the speakers that the Socialism Conference and its sponsors the DSA, Jacobin, and Haymarket brought together to explain why China is a malevolent imperialist power.

Some of these groups may seem progressive, but they operate in effect as vehicles for US government soft power, exploiting the cause of human rights or labor rights to undermine and destabilize foreign governments that Washington has targeted for regime change.

China Labor Watch and the International Labor Rights Forum are far from the only ostensibly progressive anti-China groups funded by the US government.

Other China-related NED grantees include “human rights” organizations like the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-china-internment-camps-uighur-muslims/>, Human Rights in China<https://www.hrichina.org/en>, China Aid<https://www.chinaaid.org/>, China Change<https://chinachange.org/about/>, and China Rights in Action<https://www.tides.org/project/china-rights-in-action-inc/> (another Tides grantee), along with the New York-based Chinese Feminist Collective<https://thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Chinese-Feminist-Collective-NED-funding.png> and news websites like China Digital Times<https://chinadigitaltimes.net/>.

China Labour Bulletin, which maintains a map of strikes<https://maps.clb.org.hk/strikes/en> going on across the gigantic country, is likewise frequently cited by left-wing websites in the US. While its slogan is “Supporting the Workers’ Movement in China,” China Labour Bulletin<https://clb.org.hk/> (CLB) is actually based in Hong Kong, and it is funded by the US government.

CLB notes on its website that it “receives grants from a wide range of government<https://clb.org.hk/content/aboutus#aboutus-4> or quasi-government bodies, trade unions and private foundations, all of which are based outside of China.” For decades, CLB’s founder and executive director Han Dongfang broadcasted anti-China programming on Radio Free Asia<https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html>, a US government-funded propaganda outlet that was founded by the CIA to push anti-communist disinformation. Han’s work is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, and he was a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

The ISO’s newspaper Socialist Worker has praised Han Dongfang<https://socialistworker.org/2010/07/27/a-giant-stirs-in-china> as a leftist hero, without ever disclosing his extensive links to the US government’s regime-change machinery. Socialist Worker has repeatedly<https://socialistworker.org/blog/critical-reading/2010/06/03/class-struggle-china?quicktabs_sw-recent-articles=6-20> drawn on the work<https://socialistworker.org/2015/07/21/bubbles-bounces-and-busts-in-china> of China Labour Bulletin, over more than a decade<http://socialistworker.org/2004-2/524/524_05_China.php>. The ISO’s journal the International Socialist Review<https://isreview.org/issue/95/chinas-changing-working-class> has also relied on the US government-funded organization’s research, and Jacobin magazine has noted CLB’s “roots<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2010/09/weekly-sisyphus-1> go back to the Tiananmen Square protests.”

Human Rights Watch, another key part of the regime-change lobby, has lionized Han, happily noting that his show on the US government’s Radio Free Asia “is one of the network’s most popular programs<https://www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/china/scholars/t15/handongfang.htm>.”

China is just one of the countries where the US government’s soft-power arm funds such putative progressive groups. The NED likewise funds many liberal anti-Cuba organizations, such as the Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, Center for a Free Cuba, the Cuban Institute for the Freedom of Expression and Press, and the news website CubaNet<https://www.cubanet.org/>. Or there are NED-funded groups pushing regime change against Syria and Iran, like the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies<http://dchrs.org/> and Human Rights Activists in Iran<http://www.hra-iran.org/en/>.

While the United States has one of the lowest rates of unionization<https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/06/20/which-countries-have-the-highest-levels-of-labor-union-membership-infographic/#a10495e33c04> in the industrialized world, a bloody history of worker repression and anti-labor laws, and historically weak unions among those that still do exist, its regime-change arm the NED has funded workers’ rights groups to promote a progressive image of America abroad.

For decades, for instance, the NED has bankrolled the international Solidarity Center of the major union federation the AFL-CIO. The center receives tens of millions of dollars from the US government’s regime-change arm annually, and returns the favor by avoiding topics that would anger the US State Department and bite the hand that feeds it.

Throughout the Cold War, the AFL-CIO remained a reliably anti-communist union that received funding from US government agencies, including the CIA, in order to combat and ultimately try to eliminate communist influence in the American labor movement. It was a textbook example of a controlled opposition.

This is not to say that NED-funded groups cannot at times have a positive impact on the lives of average people and intellectuals operating in repressive environments. But their work is always part of a larger agenda, with ulterior imperial motives guiding them along the way. A controlled opposition can make some changes, but it always remains controlled.

‘Socialist’ lobbying for US-backed right-wing coup in Nicaragua

Another noteworthy 2019 Socialism Conference panel, called “Problems of the US Left: The Cases of Cuba and Nicaragua<http://archive.fo/W7f9W>,” is led by Dan La Botz and Samuel Farber, veteran Trotskyite activists and outspoken proponents of regime change in the two respective countries.

The speakers’ problem with the US left appears to be that it has demonstrated too much solidarity with socialist governments in Havana and Managua, which, in their view from inside the United States, “rely more on bureaucracy than democracy.”

Farber is a Cuban exile who left the country for unspecified reasons in 1958<https://havanatimes.org/features/cuba-since-1959-a-critical-assessment/> – a year before its revolution – and spent the rest of his life as a professional critic of its socialist government. Today, he contributes regular attacks on the Cuban Revolution to journals from Jacobin<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/cuba-1968-fidel-castro-revolution-repression> to New Politics<https://newpol.org/alternative-cuba/> to In These Times, where he published a trenchant denunciation<http://inthesetimes.com/article/19672/fidel-castro-1926-2016-death-history-communist-party> of Fidel Castro upon his death in 2016.

Farber accuses Castro of developing a model of “state capitalism,” wielding a term Trotskyite ideologues routinely fling at any revolutionary government that is insufficiently pure. He calls for<https://havanatimes.org/features/cuba-since-1959-a-critical-assessment/> “a revolutionary democratic alternative… through socialist resistance from below.”

The concept of regime change “from below” is also central to the rhetoric of exile groups like the People’s MEK<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/27/us-officials-iranian-cult-mek-regime-change/>, a US- and Saudi-backed cult of personality that calls for toppling Iran’s government through “indigenous regime change.”

Dan La Botz, for his part, has risen to prominence as a full-time opponent of another member of the Trump administration’s “troika of tyranny”: the socialist government of Nicaragua, and the Sandinista movement that it represents.

La Botz has published an anti-Sandinista manifesto with ISO publisher Haymarket Books, which is advertised<https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1121-what-went-wrong-the-nicaraguan-revolution> as a survey of “the failures of the Nicaraguan Revolution, by one of the most important Marxist-historians of Latin America.”

In June 2018, as a US-backed, violent regime-change attempt surged across Nicaragua<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/07/30/how-washington-and-soft-power-ngos-manipulated-nicaraguas-death-toll-to-drive-regime-change-and-sanctions/>, threatening the rule of democratically elected President Daniel Ortega, La Botz attempted to mobilize left-wing US support for the anti-Sandinista opposition. That month, he joined an anti-Sandinista event<https://www.facebook.com/SionSaintPeters/videos/1891011874264117/> — co-sponsored by DSA’s New York branch, Haymarket, the academic journal NACLA, and the Marxist Education Project — at Saint Peter’s Church in New York City, to drum up local support for the coup.

The event featured speeches by several Nicaraguan anti-Sandinista activists who were involved in the regime-change attempt, including self-described students who wore masks on stage, concealing their identities from the audience.

[Dan La Botz Nicaragua coup event masks]

The Grayzone has obtained internal DSA email reports authored by La Botz which revealed that, days after the event at Saint Peter’s Church, those same students met with right-wing Republican legislators on Capitol Hill, including neoconservative Senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

The students beamed with pride, appearing without masks in photo ops with the avowedly anti-socialist members of Congress. Their trip was financed by Freedom House<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/06/19/ned-nicaragua-protests-us-government/>, a right-wing soft-power organization that is funded almost entirely by the US government.

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The students’ US-backed delegation included Victor Cuadras, a fanatical right-wing activist who openly supported<https://twitter.com/AndinoCuadras/status/1110620957368999938>Donald Trump’s agenda for Latin America and blamed the governments of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua for the caravan of desperate asylum seekers on the US-Mexico border.

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On June 15, 2018, Dan La Botz sent an email report to DSA leadership, reflecting on the event. He acknowledged that “the Nicaraguans both on the panel and in the public had virtually no political analysis and no vision or program for the future of their country.”

Then in a follow-up email report sent to DSA leadership on July 24, La Botz defended the students’ collaboration with neoconservative politicians like Rubio and Cruz.

“The students, ages 21 to 24 or so, who spoke on our panel then went off to speak with Republican legislators, guided by a rightwing foundation,” he wrote. “While, of course, we do not think that this is a good strategy, this is perfectly understandable given that the Republicans are in power and have the ability to do something about Nicaragua.”

While marketing the anti-Sandinista activists as grassroots youth deserving of left-wing solidarity, La Botz admitted in his internal DSA report, “Nicaraguan opponents of the regime in the United States hold a wide variety of political views, though there is virtually no left among the opposition here that I am aware of.”

And while publicly framing the regime-change operation in Nicaragua as a progressive uprising, La Botz privately conceded, “There is, however, little likelihood of an outcome to the rebellion that goes beyond a more democratic capitalist regime.”

[Dan La Botz Nicaragua email]An excerpt from an email report on Nicaragua to DSA leadership, written by Dan La Botz

As The Grayzone reported in 2018, the US government’s regime-change arm the National Endowment for Democracy boasted of spending millions on anti-Sandinista civil society and media outfits “to lay the groundwork for insurrection”<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/06/19/ned-nicaragua-protests-us-government/>in the years and months ahead of the coup.

While the coup attempt in Nicaragua was portrayed as a peaceful people’s uprising by figures like La Botz, it was in fact a violent putsch that saw armed elements erect roadblocks across the country, holding up<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/07/30/how-washington-and-soft-power-ngos-manipulated-nicaraguas-death-toll-to-drive-regime-change-and-sanctions/> ambulances, torturing<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1021930885279571968>, brutalizing<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1020930881656061952>, kidnapping, and murdering<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1040110998085152768> supporters of the Sandinistas.

Anti-Sandinista insurgents dragged an unarmed, on-leave police officer to death from a truck and then burnt his corpse<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=c3ap2Hgn4P0> at a roadblock. They raped a 10-year-old girl<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ArNPlM6zMo> at a roadblock and burnt the homes<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1025546351516499968> of local Sandinista legislators. They occupied and ransacked a public university campus<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1020910512429821954>, wrecked a women’s health center<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1020916732859469824>, and torched a daycare center<https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1020910512429821954>.

The armed opposition wreaked this havoc while attacking police stations<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnRSNIznjzU> with mortars and gunfire, during a national dialogue in which the police were ordered to remain in their barracks. In the end, Nicaragua’s opposition caused the deaths of over 60 innocent people<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/07/30/how-washington-and-soft-power-ngos-manipulated-nicaraguas-death-toll-to-drive-regime-change-and-sanctions/>, while grinding the country’s previously productive economy to a halt.

Once the coup was extinguished, the US Congress passed the Nica Act without debate<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/12/14/congress-sanctions-nicaragua-nica-act/>, imposing harsh sanctions on Nicaragua’s economy that emulated those already leveled against Venezuela and Iran.

On January 9, Dan La Botz appeared at a meeting of the New York City DSA Anti-War Working Group to amp up the attack on Nicaragua’s socialist government. There, he was challenged by Gunar Olsen<https://thegrayzone.com/author/gunar-olsen/>, a contributor to The Grayzone, about the event he organized last year with masked right-wing Nicaraguan students sponsored by Freedom House.

La Botz claimed that the event had originally been planned as a discussion of his book, but that “somebody said, these students were coming through. And I said, that sounds great.”

He continued: “My view is, they came from their country because someone gave em some money, and they can come to the United States and they wanted to talk to somebody who might be able to help their country… It may have been though that there were some conservative political forces working with them and the Republicans, it may have been that there was some of those four students that was more hip than the others but it wasn’t my impression.”

La Botz concluded by telling Olsen and the DSA crowd, “I don’t feel at all bad, I don’t think it was a terrible thing. I think they were four young people coming to this country that wanted to speak there. We didn’t know they were going there, we didn’t know where they were heading, I didn’t know they were gonna speak there. Would I do it again? If I knew what was going to happen I’d probably say, let’s see if we can find some other students.”

However, in his private email assessment of the event to DSA leadership, La Botz had defended the students’ subsequent meetings with right-wing Republicans as “perfectly understandable.”

In his internal DSA report, La Botz went on to characterize those in the US left that opposed the coup in Nicaragua as “foreign leftists” who are “backers of Putin, Assad, Iran, Hamas, and now Ortega.”

La Botz did not respond to several attempts to reach him by phone.

‘Revolutionary socialists’ funded by the non-profit industrial complex

The force behind the annual Socialism Conference, the International Socialist Organization marketed itself as a radical, even revolutionary movement supporting “socialism from below.” But it was deeply embedded in the non-profit industrial complex.

The ISO operated legally through its parent non-profit organization the Center for Economic Research and Social Change<https://cersc.org/>. A tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, CERSC received huge grants from the Tides Foundation.

The Tides Foundation is well known for funding progressive groups, but only as long as they do not rock the boat too much.

A Canadian environmental activist who has participated in projects funded by Tides told The Grayzone that the foundation funded a trip to the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, but eventually pulled funding for their environmental group’s excursion to the 2012 UN conference in Doha, Qatar, because the foundation was afraid the activists would carry out peaceful forms of civil disobedience.

“They funded some people — those who wouldn’t rock the boat because they didn’t want people engaging in civil disobedience,” the Canadian environmental activist told The Grayzone.

Another activist published a “whistleblower’s open letter to Canadians<https://www.scribd.com/document/79228736/Whistleblower-s-Open-Letter-to-Canadians>” explaining that the Tides Foundation, which funded many environmentalists in the country, was “too afraid of reprisals from the government to act,” after the office of right-wing Prime Minister Stephen Harper threatened to challenge the foundation’s charitable status.

Why a milquetoast liberal foundation would fund the ISO, a supposedly revolutionary socialist organization, raises serious questions about that group’s agenda.

In fact, while the Tides Foundation was serving as one of the biggest financiers of the ISO, it was also funding Democratic Party-aligned organizations and even pro-Israel groups like J Street and the New Israel Fund, which actively campaign against the Palestinian call for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel) and support the preservation of a settler-colonialist ethnically exclusivist state.

Haymarket Books, blending important literature with regime change propaganda

While the ISO was marginal during its existence, it punched above its weight through front organizations and prominent members who worked in the mainstream media and academia.

The ISO’s publishing arm, Haymarket Books, has been especially influential. Haymarket describes itself as a “radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher based in Chicago,” which had been the base for the ISO.

Haymarket has indeed published many important books on pressing issues. However, it has supplemented these works with anti-anti-imperialist screeds that echo the US State Department’s rhetoric, but framed as “from the left.”

Among Haymarket’s most aggressively marketed releases of 2018 was “The Impossible Revolution,” a collection of essays by the Syrian exiled writer Yassin al-Haj Saleh, who now lives in Turkey and functions as a lodestar to self-styled left-wing supporters of regime change in Syria.

Al-Haj Saleh’s book was blurbed by Charles Lister<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJuMbIXk7iQ>, a former functionary of the UK’s Conservative Party who became a top lobbyist for arming Salafi-jihadist insurgents in Syria at the Gulf monarchy-funded<https://theintercept.com/2017/08/09/gulf-government-gave-secret-20-million-gift-to-d-c-think-tank/> Middle East Institute in Washington, DC.

State Department cables exposed by WikiLeaks indicate that Yassin al-Haj Saleh was a US government informant<https://search.wikileaks.org/?q=yassin+haj+saleh> in regular correspondence with American officials in Damascus. One such memo, dated April 24, 2006<https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS1848_a.html>, features advice by al-Haj Saleh apparently delivered to US officials in the country to use Islamism as a weapon against the government of Bashar al-Assad.

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Haymarket has also recently published “Indefensible,” a book-length denunciation<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/14/hens-d14.html> of the anti-imperialist left by the writer Rohini Hensman.

The manifesto features ham-fisted attacks on journalists Julian Assange<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/05/24/trump-charges-assange-press-freedoms-media-obama/>, John Pilger, and Seymour Hersh, along with unqualified support for virtually every US and NATO military intervention in the past 30 years, as well as the dirty war on Syria<https://thegrayzone.com/category/syria/> and the Maidan coup in Ukraine.

Anand Gopal<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/17/inte-o17.html>, a journalist who routinely appears at ISO events while serving as a fellow<https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/anand-gopal/> at the State Department and corporate-funded<https://www.newamerica.org/our-funding/> New America Foundation, praised<https://www.roamagency.com/isbn9781608469116/> Hensman’s book as a guide to “how to be a principled internationalist in the era of imperialism.”

More recently, Hensman took to the DSA’s official website<https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/the-enemys-enemy-is-not-your-friend/> to attack The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal, Seymour Hersh, and Robert Fisk as “neo-Stalinists” engaged in a “convergence” with neo-Nazis. No evidence was provided to support the extreme claim.

Ashley Smith<http://archive.fo/3e0KR>, an ideologue of the now-defunct ISO, says he is currently writing another anti-anti-imperialist book for Haymarket entitled “Socialism and Anti-Imperialism.”

Tiny, irrelevant Trotskyite groups, from South to North America

Trotskyite groups are notorious throughout the world for their extreme sectarian tendencies. The organizations rarely last long, frequently splintering into tiny groupuscules over political disagreements.

Unsurprisingly, then, the so-called “left” opposition in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba — which is celebrated by Trotskyite groups like the ISO — is in fact infinitesimal and insignificant.

Nils McCune, a socialist and environmental activist who has lived in Nicaragua for years, explained in an interview on our podcast Moderate Rebels<https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebels/nicaragua-right-wing-us-coup-managua-episode-22> that one of these parties, the Movement for the Renovation of Sandinismo (MRS) is a tiny group that is irrelevant<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/15/how-nicaraguas-left-wing-opposition-mrs-are-ngo-opportunists-lobbying-the-west-for-regime-change/> in the country. Unable to mobilize popular support, this “left” opposition can only lobby the US government for regime change.

As Blumenthal, a co-author of this article, revealed in MintPress News<https://www.mintpressnews.com/how-an-american-anthropologist-tied-to-us-regime-change-proxies-became-the-msms-man-in-nicaragua/249868/>, the MRS has received direct support from the US government in its campaign to prevent the election of Daniel Ortega as president, and lobbied for sanctions against Nicaragua after he was elected.

Similarly, in Venezuela the ostensible left opposition has offered “critical support” to Washington’s regime change efforts.

This February, a leader of the marginal Venezuelan Trotskyite group Marea Socialista held a friendly meeting with Juan Guaidó<https://orinocotribune.com/critic-chavismo-met-with-guaido>, the US-appointed right-wing coup leader.

On February 5, Guaidó tweeted a photo of a meeting with Marea Socialista’s Nicmer Evans.

Juan Guaidó<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/01/29/the-making-of-juan-guaido-how-the-us-regime-change-laboratory-created-venezuelas-coup-leader/> hails from the far-right party Voluntad Popular<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/18/exxon-ambassador-carlos-vecchio-venezuela-coup-lobbyist/>, which was practically founded by the US government and has been deeply involved in street violence throughout Venezuela.

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Jesus Rodriguez Espinoza, a Chavista who lives in Venezuela and is editor of the independent news website, the Orinoco Tribune<https://orinocotribune.com/>, told The Grayzone when we reported in the country in February that Marea Socialista is “tiny” and has “no power.” He was genuinely surprised at how much coverage<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6d7SR1GwBg> these minuscule groups have received in the US progressive media, because inside Venezuela they have negligible influence.

Yet the Trotskyite organization has constantly been given a platform<https://socialistworker.org/2019/02/06/socialists-and-the-fight-for-democracy-in-venezuela> by the ISO’s newspaper Socialist Worker (Marea Socialista even enjoys its own tag on the website<https://socialistworker.org/author/marea-socialista>). Jacobin Magazine, the self-declared “leading voice of the American left,” has also given a huge platform<https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/04/chavez-maduro-venezuela-mud-psuv> to Marea Socialista operatives to push for what they call a “Chavismo from below” — despite the fact that the Trotskyite group is virtually unknown to average Venezuelans, including to millions of poor and working-class Chavistas.

Also featured in the February 5 photo of the meeting with US-backed coup leader Juan Guaidó was the anti-Maduro liberal intellectual Edgardo Lander<https://www.tni.org/en/profile/edgardo-lander>, who is popular in anti-communist left-wing circles in the US but almost unknown inside Venezuela. Like Marea Socialista, Lander has enjoyed very positive coverage in the progressive Anglo press.

Democracy Now<https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/2/a_debate_on_maduro_two_venezuelans>, which has advanced regime-change propaganda<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/14/syrian-network-for-human-rights-opposition-snhr/> on Syria<https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/19/commission-for-international-justice-and-accountability-cija-syria-al-qaeda/> on repeated occasions, offered its platform to Lander this May. Hosts Amy Goodman and Nermeen Sheikh lobbed softball questions at the intellectual, and failed to disclose that he met with Guaidó.

In his Democracy Now segment, Lander admitted that his outfit is a “small collective,” whereas the Chavista movement he criticizes is massively popular in working-class barrios across the country.

The International Socialist Organization has played a similar role in the US, with little visibility outside the left and almost no grassroots base.

Now that the ISO has disbanded, its veterans can reach into the rapidly growing ideologically diffuse world of Democratic Socialists of America, using platforms like Socialism 2019 to infect DSA’s youthful core with the imperial politics of regime change – but always “from the left,” and always “from below.”

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By Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah<https://www.amazon.com/Republican-Gomorrah-Inside-Movement-Shattered/dp/1568584172>, Goliath<https://www.amazon.com/Goliath-Life-Loathing-Greater-Israel/dp/1568586345>, The Fifty One Day War<https://www.amazon.com/51-Day-War-Ruin-Resistance/dp/156858511X>, and The Management of Savagery<https://www.versobooks.com/books/2868-the-management-of-savagery>. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza<https://killinggaza.com/>. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.

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Media outlets falsely claimed the UN reported China is holding a million Uighurs in camps. The claim is based on unsourced allegations by an American commission member, US-funded outfits, and a shadowy government-funded opposition group.
By Ben Norton<https://grayzoneproject.com/author/ben-norton/> and Ajit Singh<https://grayzoneproject.com/author/ajit-singh/>
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Numerous major media outlets, from Reuters to The Intercept, have claimed that the United Nations has reports that the Chinese government is holding as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in “internment camps.” But a close examination of these news stories, and of the evidence behind them — or the lack thereof — demonstrates that the extraordinary claim is simply not true.

A spokesperson from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) confirmed in a statement to The Grayzone that the allegation of Chinese “camps” was not made by the United Nations, but rather by a member of an independent committee that does not speak for the UN as a whole. That member happened to be the only American on the committee, and one with no background of scholarship or research on China.

Moreover, this accusation is based on the thinly sourced reports of a Chinese opposition group that receives funding from foreign governments and is closely tied to exiled pro-US activists. There have been numerous reports of discrimination against Uighur Muslims in China. However, information about camps containing 1 million prisoners has originated almost exclusively from media outlets and organizations funded and weaponized by the American government to turn up the heat on Beijing.

A blatant falsehood introduced by Reuters and echoed across mainstream media

On August 10, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination conducted its regular review of China’s compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The review, which is conducted periodically for all 179 parties to the Convention, has generated a frenzied response by the Western corporate press — one which is uniformly misleading.

On the day of the review, Reuters<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-that-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU> published a report with an explosive headline: “U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps.”

The claim was feverishly reproduced by outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post to denounce China and call for international action. Even The Intercept<https://theintercept.com/2018/08/13/china-muslims-uighur-detention/>’s Mehdi Hasan belted out the breathless headline, “One Million Muslim Uighurs Have Been Detained by China, the U.N. Says. Where’s the Global Outrage?”

The impression readers were given was that the UN had conducted an investigation and had formally and collectively made such charges against China. In fact, the UN had done no such thing.

The headline of Reuters’ report attributed its explosive claim to the UN; yet the body of the article ascribed it simply to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. And this committee’s official website makes it clear that it is “a body of independent<https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cerd/pages/cerdindex.aspx> experts,” not UN officials.

What’s more, a look at the OHCHR’s official news release<https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23452&LangID=E> on the committee’s presentation of the report showed that the only mention of alleged re-education “camps” in China was made by its sole American member, Gay McDougall. This claim was then echoed by a Mauritanian member, Yemhelhe Mint Mohamed.

During the committee’s regular review of China, McDougall commented that she was “deeply concerned” about “credible reports” alleging mass detentions of millions of Uighurs Muslim minorities in “internment camps.” The Associated Press<https://apnews.com/35ab4fdc95a64a849e8d9a960bab50df> reported that McDougall “did not specify a source for that information in her remarks at the hearing.” (Note that the headline of the AP news wire is much weaker than that of Reuters: “UN panel concerned at reported Chinese detention of Uighurs.”)

Video of the session confirms that McDougall provided no sourcing to back up her remarkable claim.

This is to say, one American member of an independent UN body made a provocative claim that China was interning 1 million Muslims, but failed to provide a single named source. And Reuters and the Western corporate media ran with it anyway, attributing the unsubstantiated allegations of one US individual to the UN as a whole.

In an email to The Grayzone, OHCHR spokesperson Julia Gronnevet confirmed that the CERD was not representative of the UN as a whole. “You are correct that the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is an independent body,” Gronnevet wrote. “Quoted comments were made during public sessions of the Committee when members were reviewing State parties.”

Thus the OHCHR implicitly acknowledged that the comments by McDougall, the lone American member of an independent committee, were not representative of any finding by the UN as a whole. The report by Reuters is simply false.

‘Credible reports’ from a government-funded opposition group with zero transparency

In addition to this irresponsible misreporting, Reuters and other Western outlets have attempted to fill in the gaps left by McDougall, referring to reports made by so-called “activist group” the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). Conveniently left out of the story is that this organization is headquartered in Washington, DC.

CHRD, which receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from unnamed governments, advocates full-time against the Chinese government and has spent years campaigning on behalf of extreme right-wing opposition figures.

CHRD is not at all transparent about its funding or personnel. Its annual<https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CHRD-2017-Annual-Report-of-Situation-of-HRDs-in-China_Feb-2018.pdf> reports<https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/They-Target-My-Human-Rights-Work-As-a-Crime-CHRD-Report-on-the-Situation-of-Chinese-Human-Rights-Defenders-2016.pdf> contain notes stating, “This report has been produced with the financial support of generous donors.” But the donors are never named.

Publicly available 990 IRS filing forms reviewed by The Grayzone show that the organization is substantially funded by government grants. In fact, in 2015 virtually all of the organization’s revenue came from government grants.

[Chinese Human Rights Defenders form 990 2015]

CHRD’s 2015 form 990<https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2015/260/523/2015-260523708-0cd17926-9.pdf> discloses that $819,553 of its $820,023 revenue that year (99.94 percent) came from government grants. A measly $395 came from investments, with another $75 from other sources.

According to its 2016 form 990<https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2016/260/523/2016-260523708-0e4e77e4-9.pdf>, CHRD received $859,091 in government grants in that year.

[Chinese Human Rights Defenders form 990 2016]

Which government provided these grants is not clear. The Grayzone did not receive a response to several emailed interview requests sent to the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders.

However, it appears likely that CHRD could be receiving funding from the US government-backed National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

A search of the NED’s grants database<http://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-search.php?organizationName=&region=&projectCountry=&amount=&fromDate=&toDate=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&search=Chinese+human+rights+defenders&maxCount=25&orderBy=Year&start=1&sbmt=1> shows funding from 2014 and 2015 totaling approximately half a million dollars to “support the work of Chinese human rights defenders.” It is not clear if this is a reference to the organization specifically, but the description accompanying the grants matches that of CHRD.

[NED Chinese Human Rights Defenders]

CHRD has used its generous funding to provide grants<http://web.archive.org/web/20080905170443/http://crd-net.org/xx/index5.asp> to opposition activists inside China, bankrolling dozens upon dozens of projects in the country<http://web.archive.org/web/20080905172636/http://crd-net.org/xx/index7.asp>.

On its tax forms, CHRD lists its address<https://www.hrw.org/contact-us#Washington> as the Washington, DC office of Human Rights Watch<https://www.alternet.org/world/nobel-peace-laureates-slam-human-rights-watchs-refusal-cut-ties-us-government>. HRW has long been criticized<https://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/11/debate_is_human_rights_watch_too> for its revolving door with the US government<https://www.alternet.org/world/nobel-peace-laureates-human-rights-watch-close-your-revolving-door-us-government> and its excessively disproportionate focus<https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/human-rights-watch-honduras-venezuela-kenneth-roth> on designated enemies of Washington like China, Venezuela<http://www.coha.org/taking-human-rights-watch-to-task/>, Syria, and Russia.

Human Rights Watch did not respond to an email from The Grayzone inquiring about its relationship with CHRD.

A who’s who of right-wing opposition activists

The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ forms 990 also reveal that the board of the organization is a Who’s Who of exiled Chinese anti-government activists.

The chair of the group is the US-based activist Su Xiaokang<https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304070304577393643330521080>, who proclaimed that the Chinese public supposedly “wants the U.S. to watch over activists, and is disappointed when Washington fails.” Fellow US-based dissident Teng Biao<https://twitter.com/tengbiao> is a CHRD director who has sarcastically boasted of how the Chinese communist party dubbed him a “reactionary<http://www.chinafile.com/confessions-reactionary>.”

CHRD’s secretary is the American academic Perry Link, who has built<https://www.ft.com/content/4f970144-e658-11e3-9a20-00144feabdc0> his<https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/the-long-shadow-of-chinese-blacklists-on-american-academe/33359> public<https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/blacklisting-scholars.html> reputation<http://www.initiativesforchina.org/?p=1206> on winding up on the Chinese government’s academic “blacklist<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv4F4cqMvSk>.” Link testified for the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs<https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA16/20141204/102778/HHRG-113-FA16-Wstate-LinkP-20141204.pdf> in 2014, claiming that the Chinese government is threatening academic freedom in the US.

In his congressional testimony, CHRD secretary Link insisted the US government should crack down on the Chinese government’s Confucius Institute organization and instead fund its own pro-US Chinese-language programs. Link characterized Chinese-language programs as a potential American weapon against the Chinese communist party, arguing they could “very arguably do more to blunt the CPC’s advance than the [B-2 Spirit Bomber] airplane could.”

These are some of the pro-US, anti-Chinese government figures who lead the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders.

Otherwise, there is very little publicly available information about CHRD. It appears to largely be the brainchild of its international director, Renee Xia, an opposition activist who has publicly called for the US government to impose sanctions<https://twitter.com/ReneeXiaCHRD/status/994922358870855680> on Chinese officials under the Magnitsky Act.

Support for a ‘non violence advocate’ who loves America’s wars

The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ founder, Xia, was a strong supporter<https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=liu%20xiaobo%20from%3AReneeXiaCHRD&src=typd> of the imprisoned hard-right neoconservative Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, and she campaigned years for his release.

An archived version of the group’s website shows that as far back as 2010<http://web.archive.org/web/20110721182653/http://chrdnet.org/2010/12/10/free-liu-xiaobo-now-an-open-letter/>, CHRD was vociferously advocating on behalf of Liu, while likening the Chinese government to Nazi Germany.

While Liu Xiaobo became a cause celebre of the Western liberal intelligensia, he was a staunch supporter of colonialism<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-winner-liu-xiaobo-chinese-dissident>, a fan of the most blood-soaked US military campaigns, and a hardcore libertarian.

As writers Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong reported in The Guardian in 2010, Liu led numerous US government-funded right-wing organizations that advocated mass privatization and the Westernization of China. He also expressed openly racist views against the Chinese. “To choose Westernisation is to choose to be human,” Liu insisted, lamenting that traditional Chinese culture had made its population “wimpy, spineless, and fucked up.”

While CHRD described Liu as an “advocate of non-violence,” he practically worshiped President George W. Bush and strongly supported the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, as well as the war in Afghanistan. “Non-violence advocate” Liu was even a fan of America’s wars in Korea and Vietnam, which killed millions of civilians<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars/2011/12/05/gIQALCO4eP_story.html?noredirect=on>.

CHRD’s most recent China report<https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%20Documents/CHN/INT_CERD_NGO_CHN_31915_E.pdf> — the one cited by Reuters and other outlets to give credence to the allegations of Uyghur re-education camps — further highlights the organization’s links to Washington and compromised impartiality.

Most sources on the Uighur ‘camps’ story are US government-linked

A look at the sourcing of the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ research raises many doubts about its legitimacy. For one, the most-cited source in the CHRD report, accounting for more than one-fifth of the 101 references, is Radio Free Asia, a news agency created by the CIA during the Cold War pump out anti-China propaganda, and still today funded by the US government.

Even The New York Times has referred to Radio Free Asia as a “Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the CIA<https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html>.” Along with Voice of America, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Radio y Televisión Martí, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Radio Free Asia (RFA) is operated by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency of the US government under the supervision of the State Department. Describing its work<https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/> as “vital to U.S. national interests,” BBG’s primary broadcasting standard<https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/oversight/legislation/standards-principles/> is to be “consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States.”

The near-total reliance on Washington-linked sources is characteristic of Western reporting on Uighurs Muslims in China, and on the country in general, which regularly features sensational headlines and allegations.

In addition to CHRD and RFA, it is common for news reports to cite the World Uighur Congress<https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/asia/china-xinjiang-detention-camps-intl/index.html>, an organization funded by the NED<http://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-search.php?organizationName=world+uyghur+Congress&region=&projectCountry=&amount=&fromDate=&toDate=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&search=&maxCount=25&orderBy=Year&start=1&sbmt=1>. At a recent NED event, The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal interviewed World Uighur Congress chairman Omer Kanat<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/20/inside-americas-meddling-machine-the-us-funded-group-that-interferes-in-elections-around-the-globe/>, who took credit for furnishing many of the claims of internment camps to Western media.

Another favorite congressional and mainstream media source for information about China is the Jamestown Foundation<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-repugnant-campaign-to-destroy-a-minority-people/2018/05/20/9fe061b4-5ac0-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html?utm_term=.ea5ccee52d3f>, a neoconservative think tank founded during the height of the Cold War by Reagan administration personnel with the support of then-CIA Director William J. Casey.  Former Jamestown board members include Dick Cheney and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

The latest incident of misreporting by Reuters is part of a trend of increasingly hostile, Cold War-like coverage of China by the Western press — one that coincides with Washington’s push for conflict with Beijing.

In a series of policy statements, the Trump administration has repeatedly identified the “threat” posed by “economic and military ascendance” of China, with Defense Secretary James Mattis declaring that “Great Power competition<https://therealnews.com/stories/trump-admin-says-china-and-russia-are-top-us-national-security-threats-not-terrorism>, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of U.S. national security.”

Growing anxious about its diminishing global dominance, the United States seeks to forestall the rise of of an alternative node of international power. A longstanding component of US imperialism is the use of ostensibly impartial “civil society groups” and “think tanks” to promote narratives in the media supportive of US foreign policy goals. Often under the guise of “humanitarian concern,” such stories aim to stir up public outrage and weaponize it to advance imperial ambitions.

This time-tested program is at the heart of the intensifying campaign against China, and as the latest raft of bogus stories demonstrated, the corporate media is eager to play along.

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Ajit Singh<https://thegrayzone.com/author/ajit-singh/>

Ajit Singh is a Canada-based writer and lawyer. He tweets at @ajitxsingh.

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August 23, 2018<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/23/un-did-not-report-china-internment-camps-uighur-muslims/>
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No, the UN did not report China has ‘massive internment camps’ for Uighur Muslims
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Media outlets falsely claimed the UN reported China is holding a million Uighurs in camps. The claim is based on unsourced allegations by an American commission member, US-funded outfits, and a shadowy government-funded opposition group.
By Ben Norton<https://grayzoneproject.com/author/ben-norton/> and Ajit Singh<https://grayzoneproject.com/author/ajit-singh/>
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Numerous major media outlets, from Reuters to The Intercept, have claimed that the United Nations has reports that the Chinese government is holding as many as 1 million Uighur Muslims in “internment camps.” But a close examination of these news stories, and of the evidence behind them — or the lack thereof — demonstrates that the extraordinary claim is simply not true.

A spokesperson from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) confirmed in a statement to The Grayzone that the allegation of Chinese “camps” was not made by the United Nations, but rather by a member of an independent committee that does not speak for the UN as a whole. That member happened to be the only American on the committee, and one with no background of scholarship or research on China.

Moreover, this accusation is based on the thinly sourced reports of a Chinese opposition group that receives funding from foreign governments and is closely tied to exiled pro-US activists. There have been numerous reports of discrimination against Uighur Muslims in China. However, information about camps containing 1 million prisoners has originated almost exclusively from media outlets and organizations funded and weaponized by the American government to turn up the heat on Beijing.

A blatant falsehood introduced by Reuters and echoed across mainstream media

On August 10, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination conducted its regular review of China’s compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The review, which is conducted periodically for all 179 parties to the Convention, has generated a frenzied response by the Western corporate press — one which is uniformly misleading.

On the day of the review, Reuters<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-un/u-n-says-it-has-credible-reports-that-china-holds-million-uighurs-in-secret-camps-idUSKBN1KV1SU> published a report with an explosive headline: “U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps.”

The claim was feverishly reproduced by outlets such as The New York Times and The Washington Post to denounce China and call for international action. Even The Intercept<https://theintercept.com/2018/08/13/china-muslims-uighur-detention/>’s Mehdi Hasan belted out the breathless headline, “One Million Muslim Uighurs Have Been Detained by China, the U.N. Says. Where’s the Global Outrage?”

The impression readers were given was that the UN had conducted an investigation and had formally and collectively made such charges against China. In fact, the UN had done no such thing.

The headline of Reuters’ report attributed its explosive claim to the UN; yet the body of the article ascribed it simply to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. And this committee’s official website makes it clear that it is “a body of independent<https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/cerd/pages/cerdindex.aspx> experts,” not UN officials.

What’s more, a look at the OHCHR’s official news release<https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23452&LangID=E> on the committee’s presentation of the report showed that the only mention of alleged re-education “camps” in China was made by its sole American member, Gay McDougall. This claim was then echoed by a Mauritanian member, Yemhelhe Mint Mohamed.

During the committee’s regular review of China, McDougall commented that she was “deeply concerned” about “credible reports” alleging mass detentions of millions of Uighurs Muslim minorities in “internment camps.” The Associated Press<https://apnews.com/35ab4fdc95a64a849e8d9a960bab50df> reported that McDougall “did not specify a source for that information in her remarks at the hearing.” (Note that the headline of the AP news wire is much weaker than that of Reuters: “UN panel concerned at reported Chinese detention of Uighurs.”)

Video of the session confirms that McDougall provided no sourcing to back up her remarkable claim.

This is to say, one American member of an independent UN body made a provocative claim that China was interning 1 million Muslims, but failed to provide a single named source. And Reuters and the Western corporate media ran with it anyway, attributing the unsubstantiated allegations of one US individual to the UN as a whole.

In an email to The Grayzone, OHCHR spokesperson Julia Gronnevet confirmed that the CERD was not representative of the UN as a whole. “You are correct that the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is an independent body,” Gronnevet wrote. “Quoted comments were made during public sessions of the Committee when members were reviewing State parties.”

Thus the OHCHR implicitly acknowledged that the comments by McDougall, the lone American member of an independent committee, were not representative of any finding by the UN as a whole. The report by Reuters is simply false.

‘Credible reports’ from a government-funded opposition group with zero transparency

In addition to this irresponsible misreporting, Reuters and other Western outlets have attempted to fill in the gaps left by McDougall, referring to reports made by so-called “activist group” the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD). Conveniently left out of the story is that this organization is headquartered in Washington, DC.

CHRD, which receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from unnamed governments, advocates full-time against the Chinese government and has spent years campaigning on behalf of extreme right-wing opposition figures.

CHRD is not at all transparent about its funding or personnel. Its annual<https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CHRD-2017-Annual-Report-of-Situation-of-HRDs-in-China_Feb-2018.pdf> reports<https://www.nchrd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/They-Target-My-Human-Rights-Work-As-a-Crime-CHRD-Report-on-the-Situation-of-Chinese-Human-Rights-Defenders-2016.pdf> contain notes stating, “This report has been produced with the financial support of generous donors.” But the donors are never named.

Publicly available 990 IRS filing forms reviewed by The Grayzone show that the organization is substantially funded by government grants. In fact, in 2015 virtually all of the organization’s revenue came from government grants.

[Chinese Human Rights Defenders form 990 2015]

CHRD’s 2015 form 990<https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2015/260/523/2015-260523708-0cd17926-9.pdf> discloses that $819,553 of its $820,023 revenue that year (99.94 percent) came from government grants. A measly $395 came from investments, with another $75 from other sources.

According to its 2016 form 990<https://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2016/260/523/2016-260523708-0e4e77e4-9.pdf>, CHRD received $859,091 in government grants in that year.

[Chinese Human Rights Defenders form 990 2016]

Which government provided these grants is not clear. The Grayzone did not receive a response to several emailed interview requests sent to the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders.

However, it appears likely that CHRD could be receiving funding from the US government-backed National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

A search of the NED’s grants database<http://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-search.php?organizationName=&region=&projectCountry=&amount=&fromDate=&toDate=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&search=Chinese+human+rights+defenders&maxCount=25&orderBy=Year&start=1&sbmt=1> shows funding from 2014 and 2015 totaling approximately half a million dollars to “support the work of Chinese human rights defenders.” It is not clear if this is a reference to the organization specifically, but the description accompanying the grants matches that of CHRD.

[NED Chinese Human Rights Defenders]

CHRD has used its generous funding to provide grants<http://web.archive.org/web/20080905170443/http://crd-net.org/xx/index5.asp> to opposition activists inside China, bankrolling dozens upon dozens of projects in the country<http://web.archive.org/web/20080905172636/http://crd-net.org/xx/index7.asp>.

On its tax forms, CHRD lists its address<https://www.hrw.org/contact-us#Washington> as the Washington, DC office of Human Rights Watch<https://www.alternet.org/world/nobel-peace-laureates-slam-human-rights-watchs-refusal-cut-ties-us-government>. HRW has long been criticized<https://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/11/debate_is_human_rights_watch_too> for its revolving door with the US government<https://www.alternet.org/world/nobel-peace-laureates-human-rights-watch-close-your-revolving-door-us-government> and its excessively disproportionate focus<https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/human-rights-watch-honduras-venezuela-kenneth-roth> on designated enemies of Washington like China, Venezuela<http://www.coha.org/taking-human-rights-watch-to-task/>, Syria, and Russia.

Human Rights Watch did not respond to an email from The Grayzone inquiring about its relationship with CHRD.

A who’s who of right-wing opposition activists

The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ forms 990 also reveal that the board of the organization is a Who’s Who of exiled Chinese anti-government activists.

The chair of the group is the US-based activist Su Xiaokang<https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304070304577393643330521080>, who proclaimed that the Chinese public supposedly “wants the U.S. to watch over activists, and is disappointed when Washington fails.” Fellow US-based dissident Teng Biao<https://twitter.com/tengbiao> is a CHRD director who has sarcastically boasted of how the Chinese communist party dubbed him a “reactionary<http://www.chinafile.com/confessions-reactionary>.”

CHRD’s secretary is the American academic Perry Link, who has built<https://www.ft.com/content/4f970144-e658-11e3-9a20-00144feabdc0> his<https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/the-long-shadow-of-chinese-blacklists-on-american-academe/33359> public<https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/blacklisting-scholars.html> reputation<http://www.initiativesforchina.org/?p=1206> on winding up on the Chinese government’s academic “blacklist<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv4F4cqMvSk>.” Link testified for the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs<https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA16/20141204/102778/HHRG-113-FA16-Wstate-LinkP-20141204.pdf> in 2014, claiming that the Chinese government is threatening academic freedom in the US.

In his congressional testimony, CHRD secretary Link insisted the US government should crack down on the Chinese government’s Confucius Institute organization and instead fund its own pro-US Chinese-language programs. Link characterized Chinese-language programs as a potential American weapon against the Chinese communist party, arguing they could “very arguably do more to blunt the CPC’s advance than the [B-2 Spirit Bomber] airplane could.”

These are some of the pro-US, anti-Chinese government figures who lead the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders.

Otherwise, there is very little publicly available information about CHRD. It appears to largely be the brainchild of its international director, Renee Xia, an opposition activist who has publicly called for the US government to impose sanctions<https://twitter.com/ReneeXiaCHRD/status/994922358870855680> on Chinese officials under the Magnitsky Act.

Support for a ‘non violence advocate’ who loves America’s wars

The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ founder, Xia, was a strong supporter<https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=liu%20xiaobo%20from%3AReneeXiaCHRD&src=typd> of the imprisoned hard-right neoconservative Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, and she campaigned years for his release.

An archived version of the group’s website shows that as far back as 2010<http://web.archive.org/web/20110721182653/http://chrdnet.org/2010/12/10/free-liu-xiaobo-now-an-open-letter/>, CHRD was vociferously advocating on behalf of Liu, while likening the Chinese government to Nazi Germany.

While Liu Xiaobo became a cause celebre of the Western liberal intelligensia, he was a staunch supporter of colonialism<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-winner-liu-xiaobo-chinese-dissident>, a fan of the most blood-soaked US military campaigns, and a hardcore libertarian.

As writers Barry Sautman and Yan Hairong reported in The Guardian in 2010, Liu led numerous US government-funded right-wing organizations that advocated mass privatization and the Westernization of China. He also expressed openly racist views against the Chinese. “To choose Westernisation is to choose to be human,” Liu insisted, lamenting that traditional Chinese culture had made its population “wimpy, spineless, and fucked up.”

While CHRD described Liu as an “advocate of non-violence,” he practically worshiped President George W. Bush and strongly supported the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq, as well as the war in Afghanistan. “Non-violence advocate” Liu was even a fan of America’s wars in Korea and Vietnam, which killed millions of civilians<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-ignore-the-civilians-killed-in-american-wars/2011/12/05/gIQALCO4eP_story.html?noredirect=on>.

CHRD’s most recent China report<https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CERD/Shared%20Documents/CHN/INT_CERD_NGO_CHN_31915_E.pdf> — the one cited by Reuters and other outlets to give credence to the allegations of Uyghur re-education camps — further highlights the organization’s links to Washington and compromised impartiality.

Most sources on the Uighur ‘camps’ story are US government-linked

A look at the sourcing of the Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders’ research raises many doubts about its legitimacy. For one, the most-cited source in the CHRD report, accounting for more than one-fifth of the 101 references, is Radio Free Asia, a news agency created by the CIA during the Cold War pump out anti-China propaganda, and still today funded by the US government.

Even The New York Times has referred to Radio Free Asia as a “Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the CIA<https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html>.” Along with Voice of America, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Radio y Televisión Martí, and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Radio Free Asia (RFA) is operated by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), a federal agency of the US government under the supervision of the State Department. Describing its work<https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/> as “vital to U.S. national interests,” BBG’s primary broadcasting standard<https://www.bbg.gov/who-we-are/oversight/legislation/standards-principles/> is to be “consistent with the broad foreign policy objectives of the United States.”

The near-total reliance on Washington-linked sources is characteristic of Western reporting on Uighurs Muslims in China, and on the country in general, which regularly features sensational headlines and allegations.

In addition to CHRD and RFA, it is common for news reports to cite the World Uighur Congress<https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/asia/china-xinjiang-detention-camps-intl/index.html>, an organization funded by the NED<http://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-search.php?organizationName=world+uyghur+Congress&region=&projectCountry=&amount=&fromDate=&toDate=&projectFocus%5B%5D=&search=&maxCount=25&orderBy=Year&start=1&sbmt=1>. At a recent NED event, The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal interviewed World Uighur Congress chairman Omer Kanat<https://thegrayzone.com/2018/08/20/inside-americas-meddling-machine-the-us-funded-group-that-interferes-in-elections-around-the-globe/>, who took credit for furnishing many of the claims of internment camps to Western media.

Another favorite congressional and mainstream media source for information about China is the Jamestown Foundation<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-repugnant-campaign-to-destroy-a-minority-people/2018/05/20/9fe061b4-5ac0-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html?utm_term=.ea5ccee52d3f>, a neoconservative think tank founded during the height of the Cold War by Reagan administration personnel with the support of then-CIA Director William J. Casey.  Former Jamestown board members include Dick Cheney and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

The latest incident of misreporting by Reuters is part of a trend of increasingly hostile, Cold War-like coverage of China by the Western press — one that coincides with Washington’s push for conflict with Beijing.

In a series of policy statements, the Trump administration has repeatedly identified the “threat” posed by “economic and military ascendance” of China, with Defense Secretary James Mattis declaring that “Great Power competition<https://therealnews.com/stories/trump-admin-says-china-and-russia-are-top-us-national-security-threats-not-terrorism>, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of U.S. national security.”

Growing anxious about its diminishing global dominance, the United States seeks to forestall the rise of of an alternative node of international power. A longstanding component of US imperialism is the use of ostensibly impartial “civil society groups” and “think tanks” to promote narratives in the media supportive of US foreign policy goals. Often under the guise of “humanitarian concern,” such stories aim to stir up public outrage and weaponize it to advance imperial ambitions.

This time-tested program is at the heart of the intensifying campaign against China, and as the latest raft of bogus stories demonstrated, the corporate media is eager to play along.

[ajit singh]
Ajit Singh<https://thegrayzone.com/author/ajit-singh/>

Ajit Singh is a Canada-based writer and lawyer. He tweets at @ajitxsingh.

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Subject: [Peace] No war in Iran, rally Saturday the 13th
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:34:14 +0000
Subject: [Peace] No war in Iran, rally Saturday the 13th
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation/ANSWER is joining the United National Anti-war Coalition, with other local groups in a nationwide event:


"No war in Iran! Join us on Saturday July 13th at 5pm to tell the US imperialists that we will not stand for war and aggression against Iran. Meet us on the southwest corner of West Side Park for a short fifteen to twenty minute rally before marching to downtown Champaign. "

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SAT, JUL 13 AT 5 PM CDT
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From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net  Wed Jul 10 12:55:33 2019
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 07:55:33 -0500
Subject: [Peace] No war in Iran, rally Saturday the 13th
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Below is the Facebook  link to the anti-war protest Saturday.

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1178743032325694/?notif_t=plan_user_invited <https://www.facebook.com/events/1178743032325694/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1562728440665044> &notif_id=1562728440665044 

 

 

From: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Karen Aram via Peace
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 6:34 AM
To: Peace; peace
Subject: [Peace] No war in Iran, rally Saturday the 13th

 

 

The Party for Socialism and Liberation/ANSWER is joining the United National Anti-war Coalition, with other local groups in a nationwide event: 

 

"No war in Iran! Join us on Saturday July 13th at 5pm to tell the US imperialists that we will not stand for war and aggression against Iran. Meet us on the southwest corner of West Side Park for a short fifteen to twenty minute rally before marching to downtown Champaign. "

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SAT, JUL 13 AT 5 PM CDT

 <https://www.facebook.com/events/1178743032325694/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22timeline%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22main_list%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D> Hands off Iran Demonstration

 <https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Side-Park-Champaign-Illinois/2369114976701618?__tn__=%2CdHH-R-R&eid=ARAj5itG1kO3XSwPXKS3114tyJvN1axbki9qg8aD0YCr7tHpDuXGyl0755UULh2CSKtka_ZPB37NyoxH> West Side Park Champaign Illinois · Champaign, IL

 

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Jul 10 13:02:43 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:02:43 +0000
Subject: [Peace] No war in Iran, rally Saturday the 13th
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I posted it earlier, the flyer on the Peace List, as well as FB. Did it not come through very well? Is it being blocked?
What I see on your below email appears to be scrambled. If that’s the case, with my announcements on the Peace List, as a result of “censorship?” I can’t imagine why, then I will from here on use links.

Thank you David

On Jul 10, 2019, at 05:55, David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net<mailto:davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>> wrote:

Below is the Facebook  link to the anti-war protest Saturday.


https://www.facebook.com/events/1178743032325694/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1562728440665044


From: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Karen Aram via Peace
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 6:34 AM
To: Peace; peace
Subject: [Peace] No war in Iran, rally Saturday the 13th


The Party for Socialism and Liberation/ANSWER is joining the United National Anti-war Coalition, with other local groups in a nationwide event:

"No war in Iran! Join us on Saturday July 13th at 5pm to tell the US imperialists that we will not stand for war and aggression against Iran. Meet us on the southwest corner of West Side Park for a short fifteen to twenty minute rally before marching to downtown Champaign. "
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SAT, JUL 13 AT 5 PM CDT
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West Side Park Champaign Illinois<https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Side-Park-Champaign-Illinois/2369114976701618?__tn__=%2CdHH-R-R&eid=ARAj5itG1kO3XSwPXKS3114tyJvN1axbki9qg8aD0YCr7tHpDuXGyl0755UULh2CSKtka_ZPB37NyoxH> · Champaign, IL


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From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net  Wed Jul 10 15:43:22 2019
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:43:22 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Pay no attention to the little (wo)men
 behind the curtain...
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In response to this, check out the link below to the latest episode of THE JIMMY DORE SHOW, with Aaron Matte -
 
" Mueller Repeatedly Contradicts Himself & Undermines Russiagate "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52P7G7AHiDg&t=179s

Like the Russiagate conspiracy theory, the Seth Rich leak / murder story has no evidence.
HOWEVER, it is a tad curious of how  and why the D.C. police have been handling the investigation of his murder unlike other murder cases.

David J.


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From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 10:14 AM
To: peace-discuss at anti-war.net; peace
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Pay no attention to the little (wo)men behind the curtain...

The political establishment & MSM are hysterical about suppressing the questions about the murder of Seth Rich - notably, was it done to prevent his authoritatively refuting the starting point of the Mueller report - that the Russians leaked the DNC emails [because he did it himself]?) As Queen Gertrude observes, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." 

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From: Charlie at thebulwark.com
Morning Shots

I know it’s fashionable in some circles to shrug off that whole Russia-thing, but you need to read this remarkable and disturbing piece from Yahoo News.  
 
WASHINGTON — In the summer of 2016, Russian intelligence agents secretly planted a fake report claiming that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was gunned down by a squad of assassins working for Hillary Clinton, giving rise to a notorious conspiracy theory that captivated conservative activists and was later promoted from inside President Trump’s White House, a Yahoo News investigation has found.

Russia’s foreign intelligence service, known as the SVR, first circulated a phony “bulletin” — disguised to read as a real intelligence report —about the alleged murder of the former DNC staffer on July 13, 2016, according to the U.S. federal prosecutor who was in charge of the Rich case. That was just three days after Rich, 27, was killed in what police believed was a botched robbery while walking home to his group house in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C., about 30 blocks north of the Capitol.

What the Russians began, Sean Hannity & Co. spread with alacrity and malice.
 
The conspiracy claims reached their zenith in May 2017 — the same week as Mueller’s appointment as special counsel in the Russia probe — when Fox News’ website posted a sensational story claiming that an FBI forensic report had discovered evidence on Rich’s laptop that he had been in communication with WikiLeaks prior to his death. Sean Hannity, the network’s primetime star, treated the account as major news on his nightly broadcast, calling it “explosive” and proclaiming it “might expose the single biggest fraud, lies, perpetrated on the American people by the media and the Democrats in our history.”

Exit take: The Yahoo story is a reminder that we have not yet come to grips with the enormity of the Russian attack… which is why Bob Mueller’s testimony next week will be a big f’ing deal.
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From cgestabrook at gmail.com  Wed Jul 10 14:39:57 2019
From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:39:57 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Eight Catholic Workers detained at Buechel, Germany
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> Date: Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 8:52 AM
> Subject: Eight Catholic Workers detained at Buechel, Germany
> To: <catholicworkerlist at gmail.com <mailto:catholicworkerlist at gmail.com>>
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>>> Eight members of the Catholic Worker movement detained while resisting US nuclear weapons at Buechel, Germany. Richard Bishop, Bitterroot Valley, Montana; Andrew Lanier, Jr., San Jose, California; Brian Terrell, Maloy, Iowa; Richard Barnard, London, UK; Margriet Bos and Susan van der Hijden, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Dietrich Gerstner and Birke Kleinwächter, Hamburg Germany
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>>> 10 JULY 2019 
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>>> CONTACT: Jürgen Hossbach, GAAA, 0160-90811-593; Marion Küpker, 0172-771-3266; John LaForge, +49-151-7557-6696
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>>> ACTIVISTS BRING “CEASE AND DESIST” ORDER TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS BASE
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>>> BUECHEL, Germany -- Eleven international peace activists entered the Büchel Air Base southwest of Frankfurt early this morning to deliver a self-named Treaty Enforcement Order declaring that the sharing of US nuclear weapons at the base is a “criminal conspiracy to commit war crimes.”
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>>> Upon entering the base’s main gate with a printed “cease and desist order,” insisted on seeing the base commander to deliver the order in person.
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>>>  
>>> “We refuse to be complicit in this crime,” said Brian Terrell of Voices for Creative Nonviolence in Chicago, Illinois. “We call for the nuclear bombs to be returned to the US immediately. The Germans want these nuclear weapons out of Germany, and so do we.”
>>> 
>>>  
>>> The group included people from Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. All eleven were detained by military and civilian authorities and were released after providing identification. 
>>> 
>>>  
>>> This is the third year in a row that a delegation of US peace activists has joined Europeans and others in protesting the US nuclear weapons at Büchel. The local group Nonviolent Action for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (GAAA) convenes the International Action Week, demanding  permanent ouster of the US nuclear weapons, cancellation of plans to replace today’s B61s with new hydrogen bombs, and Germany’s ratification of the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
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>>>  
>>> “Delivery of the ‘Cease and Desist Order’ is an act of crime prevention,” said John LaForge, of the US peace group Nukewatch and coordinator of the US delegation. “The authorities think the entry is a matter of trespass. But these nuclear bomb threats violate the UN Charter, the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and the 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.” he said, adding, “Interrupting government criminality is a duty of responsible citizenship.”
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>>>  
>>> Other activists detained included: Susan Crane, Ralph Hutchison, and Dennis DuVall, all from the United States
>>> 
>>> Susan van der Hijden of Amsterdam, who is just back from the US where she visited the Kansas City, Kansas site of a factory working on parts of the new replacement bomb, known as the B61-12. “The planning and training to use the US H-bombs that goes on at Büchel cannot be legal, because organizing mass destruction has been a criminal act since the Nuremberg Trials after WWII,” van der Hijden said.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Jul 10 20:51:57 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:51:57 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Andre Vltchek
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Andre Vltchek
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Captain America: A plague across the globe.

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The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats.

It used to be like this for quite some time. In the past, the West used to bully the world before and after each well-planned assault. Also, well-crafted propaganda used to be applied.

It was declared that things are done ‘legally’ and rationally. There were certain stages to colonialist and imperialist attacks: “define your goals”, “identify your victim”, “plan”, “brainwash your own citizens and people all over the world”, and then, only then, “bomb some unfortunate country back to the stone ages”.

Now, things are slightly different. “The leader of the free world” wakes up in the middle of the night, and he tweets. What comes from his computer, tablet or phone, (or whatever he uses), is spontaneous, unpolished and incredibly dangerous. Similar in substance to what made him wake up in the middle of the night, in a first place.

He does not seem to plan; he shoots off from the hip. Today, as I am writing this essay, he has declared that he has “five strategies for Venezuela”. Go figure. Bravo!

Earlier, as he was about to land outside London, he embarked on insulting the Mayor of the British capital, calling him names. A bit like we used to do to each other, when we were five years old, in the neighborhood playground.

He has been regularly offending Mexico, and of course Iran, China and Russia.

He basically tells the leader of the most populous nation on earth – China – to “be there”, at the G20 Summit, or else.

Whenever he and his lieutenants are in the mood, they get busy antagonizing everyone: Cuba and Nicaragua, DPRK and Venezuela, Bolivia and Syria.

Of course, the main “culprits” are always the ‘biggest bad boys’, Russia and China.

Anyone, at any time, could easily land on the proverbial hit list of President Trump, and hawks of his United States of A. It could be India (which, during ‘good submissive times’ is called by the West the “biggest democracy”, or perhaps Turkey (militarily the second mightiest NATO country). The world had been converted into an entity which appears to be run by a bloodthirsty and unpredictable dictatorship. The world is an entity where everyone is terrified of being purged, imprisoned, starved to death, or directly attacked, even liquidated.

It was always like this, at least in the modern history of the planet. Colonialism, neo-colonialism, imperialism: they have many different faces but one common root. Root that has been often hidden deep under the surface.

But this time it is all in the open, raw and brutally honest.

*

Both George W. Bush and Donald Trump have one thing in common: they are honest.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were both ‘suave’ presidents. They were loved in Europe, as they knew how to speak politely, how to dine elegantly, and how to commit mass murder in a ‘rational, righteous way’; ‘old-fashioned, European-style’.

The brutal, vulgar ways of W. Bush and Donald Trump, have been consistently shocking all those individuals who are pleased when things are done ‘stylishly’ and ‘politically correctly’; be it a coup or the starvation to death of millions through embargos. Or be it invasions or ‘smart’ bombing (practically, ‘smart’ meaning very far from the inquisitive eyes).

But it is not only the ‘offended sensibilities’ of predominantly European population, that matter.

The danger is that someone might take Donald Trump seriously, and respond accordingly.

In the past, verbal insults similar to those unleashed now by the US President, could easily have led to a war, or at least to the breaking up of diplomatic relationships.

And now?

In case Westerners have not realized it, yet – people all over the world are indignant. I talk to Libyans, Afghans, Iraqis, Venezuelans, Cubans, Iranians: they hate what comes from Washington; hate it with passion. They know that what is being done to them is terrorism, thuggery. But for now, they do not know how to defend themselves. Not yet, but they are thinking.

The entire world now resembles a brutal ghetto, or a slum, where a heavily armed gang controls the streets, and in fact every corner and alley.

At least in the past, subjugated people were able to hide behind decorative words and ideological pirouettes. They were able to ‘save their face’. They were sodomized in the name of ‘freedom’, ‘democracy’ and ‘human rights’. Now, a horrible reality is flying directly into all directions: “You will do as you are told!” “It is us who will decide.” “Obey, because we said so”. Entire proud nations are being reduced into states of slaves or even worse – lap dogs.

*

As everyone is well aware of, even lackeys and slaves often hold grudges. And abused dogs can bite.

Throughout history, slaves rebelled. True heroes came from rebellious and enslaved nations.

This, what we have now on our planet, is not good, not a healthy situation.

The more countries that are being intimidated, the higher the chances are that somewhere, soon, things will let go; collapse.

Only terrible fear, so far, assures that if a Syrian or a Libyan or an Afghan city is leveled to the ground, there is no real retaliation: urban areas in the USA stay intact.

Only incredible patience of the Russian or Chinese leaders guarantees that, so far, even as their economies are being battered by ridiculous sanctions, the two powerful nations do not retaliate and ruin the US financial system (which is only a paper tiger).

Trump dares. He tortures and humiliates more than half of the world, then looks straight ahead and laughs: “So what are you going to do now?”

So far, the world is doing nothing.

Even the proud and mighty Iran is not ‘crossing the line’. As millions of its people are suffering because of insane sanctions, the Iranian navy is not yet engaging the US battleships that are sailing very near its shores.

Even as more and more US bases are being built right next to both Russia and China’s borders, so far there are no substantial military bases being erected by Moscow or Beijing in places such as Nicaragua, Cuba or Venezuela.

*

All this may change, soon.

And the so much dreaded (by Washington) “domino effect” may actually take place.

Non-Western leaders have also their ‘bad days’ and terrible nights. They also wake up in the middle of the night, and think, want to communicate and to act.

Imagine an Iranian leader, waking up at 2AM, and suddenly feeling overwhelmed by wrath, because Iranian men, women and children are suffering, for no reason, as a result of the perverse sadism being regurgitated by the West. What if he Tweets an insult, too? What if he just orders, on a spur of the moment, to have all those obsolete US aircraft carriers and destroyers that are floating in the vicinity, be sunk? Iran can do it: everyone knows that it can! Technically, militarily, it is easy: those ships are just sitting ducks.

Then what? Will Washington nuke Iran?

Someone may say: The West is killing millions every year, anyway. Better to fight it, in order to stop it, once and for all. Others may join. And then, then what? Will Trump give orders to kill tens of millions, just to maintain control over the world?

What if the US navy vessels bump into a Russian or a Chinese ship, as they almost did in the South China Sea, recently? What if a Russian or Chinese ship sinks, dozens of sailors die. And there is a retaliation? Then what?

What if Syria has enough and begins shooting down Israeli military jets that are bombing it, and attacking North American and European ‘special forces’ that are still located, illegally, on its territory?

The US is engaged all over the world. France and the UK, too. And if you talk to the people in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, you very soon realize what the real feelings towards Washington are!

If you provoke the entire world, something very terrible may happen!

Now, there is an entire coalition of powerful nations, ready to defend themselves, and also defend each other. Militarily, economically, and ideologically.

The world is not a slave of the West, or the United States. It is not a latrine.

This is the new world. Considering the horrors that were spread by the West, for many long years and centuries, Asia, Africa, “Latin America”, the Middle East and Oceania, are unbelievably patient and forgiving. But the USA and Europe should not take this tolerance for granted. They should not provoke its former and present victims.

Now, we (the people from the previously ruined part of the world) are beginning to speak up: about what is being done to us – to China and Russia, to South America and Africa, and the Middle East. With awareness comes courage. With courage comes pride.

Do not misinterpret our kindness. It is not a weakness. Not anymore. Think twice before you speak (or Tweet). Think a thousand times, before you act!

*

[First published by NEO – New Eastern Outlook]



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About the Author
[https://www.greanvillepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/VltchekAndrei0987.jpg]<https://www.greanvillepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/VltchekAndrei0987.jpg>Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He has covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. Three of his latest books are his tribute to “The Great October Socialist Revolution”<https://www.amazon.com/dp/6027354399/> a revolutionary novel “Aurora”<https://www.amazon.com/Aurora-Andre-Vltchek/dp/6027354364/> and a bestselling work of political non-fiction: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire<https://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Lies-Empire-Andre-Vltchek/dp/6027005866>”. View his other books here<http://andrevltchek.weebly.com/books.html>. Watch Rwanda Gambit<https://vimeo.com/ondemand/rwandagambit>, his groundbreaking documentary about Rwanda and DRCongo and his film/dialogue with Noam Chomsky “On Western Terrorism”<http://www.amazon.com/Western-Terrorism-Hiroshima-Drone-Warfare/dp/0745333877>. Vltchek presently resides in East Asia and the Middle East, and continues to work around the world. He can be reached through his website<http://andrevltchek.weebly.com/> and his Twitter<https://twitter.com/AndreVltchek>. [/su_box]
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Jul 12 13:04:31 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:04:31 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Sunday morning the largest immigration raids in US history
 to take place targeting 2, 000 families in ten cities.
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB6077DBC2DC5AF7F956A89D0DA3F20@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

Trump’s raids and the stench of fascism
by Eric London
12 July 2019

On Saturday night, undocumented immigrants across America will say goodnight to their spouses, parents and children, fearing it may be the last time they are able to do so. Beginning Sunday, the Trump administration plans to launch the largest immigration raids in US history, targeting 2,000 families for arrest and deportation in 10 of the country’s most populous cities.

For the first time in a century, the US government will be conducting a military-style operation against its own people on a national scale. Scenes reminiscent of 1938 Germany or 1973 Chile will be playing out on the streets of the targeted cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Houston, Baltimore, Miami, Denver, San Francisco, Atlanta and New Orleans.

Thousands of armed police, backed by armored vehicles, drones and helicopters, will storm into working class neighborhoods, breaking down doors and snatching people from their homes and off the streets.

Though the raids will ostensibly target immigrants with “final orders of removal,” including many who never received notice that they were in deportation proceedings, the government has boasted that it will target anyone and everyone at the addresses it has selected. As the New York Times wrote yesterday:

The raids, which will be conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over multiple days, will include ‘collateral’ deportations, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the preliminary stage of the operation. In those deportations, the authorities might detain immigrants who happened to be on the scene, even though they were not targets of the raids.

Victims will be zip-tied and frog-marched to ICE vans, catching last glimpses of their loved ones. The government will transport the detainees to a network of concentration camps in isolated regions of the country, where their families will be unable or afraid to visit them. Once locked up, they will be at the mercy of the fascist types who guard the camps, where conditions are worse than under Japanese-American internment during World War II.

If a foreign country in the gun sights of American imperialism conducted such criminal operations—Iran, Venezuela, Syria, etc.—the entire US political establishment would be demanding a military intervention.

Instead, the Democratic Party is adapting to Trump’s plans. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a press conference yesterday urging Trump to consider a Democratic proposal to limit the right of refugees to seek asylum while physically present in the US. Pelosi said she thought Trump would find a bill sponsored by California Democrat Zoe Lofgren “appealing.”

Indeed, he would. According to a press release by Lofgren’s office, the Northern Triangle and Border Stabilization Act would “establish Designated Processing Centers throughout Central America to register and process refugees for resettlement to the US or elsewhere,” so that immigrants would stay in their homelands to apply for asylum instead of entering the US, where they have due process rights. This amounts to a repudiation of international asylum law, under which an individual has the right to enter a safe foreign country to escape persecution.

The Democratic plan calls for “additional staff to [Customs and Border Protection] facilities,” and “expands the authority of law enforcement agencies” to monitor the border.

The text of the Democrats’ bill also calls for an “information campaign on dangers of irregular migration” in Central America. In other words, the Democrats plan to run advertisements in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala—all countries devastated by a century of US imperialist war and exploitation—to frighten desperate refugees about the dangers of seeking asylum and thereby prevent them from coming to the US.

Those who want to defend immigrants must draw a balance sheet of the Democratic Party’s responsibility for the attack on foreign-born workers. The Democratic Party supported all of the major anti-immigrant legislation in the 1990s and 2000s, and Obama deported three million people during his two terms in office--more than the entire population of the city of Chicago!

“Left” Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib have bowed to the Democratic leadership and facilitated Trump’s anti-immigrant provocations. In June, Ocasio-Cortez dropped vocal opposition to providing another $5 billion to fund Trump’s anti-immigrant Gestapo after a three-hour meeting with Pelosi on Capitol Hill. She and Tlaib then voted “yes” to allow the appropriations bill to reach the House floor for a full vote.

Only later, after Pelosi had secured the votes for the bill’s passage, were Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib allowed to vote “no” to save face. Trump will now cash the check the Democrats gave him to fund this weekend’s raids.

While the Democrats are accommodating Trump and facilitating his dictatorial moves, anger is mounting among the people of the US and internationally. Hundreds of millions around the world are shocked, sickened and outraged by the construction of concentration camps in America, along with reports of abuse of detained children and photos of immigrants drowned in the Rio Grande.

Many thousands of Americans will take part in demonstrations across the country today to express their determination to prevent the worst crimes of the 20th century from being repeated on US soil in the 21st.

The chief task is to mobilize opposition in the working class to the attack on immigrants and democratic rights as a whole. All workers, regardless of immigration status, will be the targets of the types of police state measures being tested out against immigrants. Discussion on the strategy to oppose the attack must begin, including the organization of immigrant defense committees.

In the 1850s, after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, Northerners successfully mobilized masses of people to defend blacks from being captured by slave hunters in the North and sold into slavery. In 1851, a crowd of 2,500 people physically prevented the capture of escaped slave William “Jerry” Henry in Syracuse, New York. In 1854, 5,000 people rescued escaped slave Joshua Glover from a jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and helped him escape to Canada.

The horrors of the Fugitive Slave Act led millions to draw the conclusion that decades of rotten compromises had to cease and the abhorrent slave system had to be overthrown through mass revolutionary action.

Today, the crimes of the Trump administration and the complicity of the Democrats must lead to the same conclusion. The defense of immigrants requires abolishing the capitalist system, opening the borders and guaranteeing the right to travel the world and live and work in the country of one’s choice without fear of arrest or deportation.

Eric London

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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:04:31 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Sunday morning the largest immigration raids in US history
 to take place targeting 2, 000 families in ten cities.
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB6077DBC2DC5AF7F956A89D0DA3F20@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

Trump’s raids and the stench of fascism
by Eric London
12 July 2019

On Saturday night, undocumented immigrants across America will say goodnight to their spouses, parents and children, fearing it may be the last time they are able to do so. Beginning Sunday, the Trump administration plans to launch the largest immigration raids in US history, targeting 2,000 families for arrest and deportation in 10 of the country’s most populous cities.

For the first time in a century, the US government will be conducting a military-style operation against its own people on a national scale. Scenes reminiscent of 1938 Germany or 1973 Chile will be playing out on the streets of the targeted cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Houston, Baltimore, Miami, Denver, San Francisco, Atlanta and New Orleans.

Thousands of armed police, backed by armored vehicles, drones and helicopters, will storm into working class neighborhoods, breaking down doors and snatching people from their homes and off the streets.

Though the raids will ostensibly target immigrants with “final orders of removal,” including many who never received notice that they were in deportation proceedings, the government has boasted that it will target anyone and everyone at the addresses it has selected. As the New York Times wrote yesterday:

The raids, which will be conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over multiple days, will include ‘collateral’ deportations, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the preliminary stage of the operation. In those deportations, the authorities might detain immigrants who happened to be on the scene, even though they were not targets of the raids.

Victims will be zip-tied and frog-marched to ICE vans, catching last glimpses of their loved ones. The government will transport the detainees to a network of concentration camps in isolated regions of the country, where their families will be unable or afraid to visit them. Once locked up, they will be at the mercy of the fascist types who guard the camps, where conditions are worse than under Japanese-American internment during World War II.

If a foreign country in the gun sights of American imperialism conducted such criminal operations—Iran, Venezuela, Syria, etc.—the entire US political establishment would be demanding a military intervention.

Instead, the Democratic Party is adapting to Trump’s plans. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a press conference yesterday urging Trump to consider a Democratic proposal to limit the right of refugees to seek asylum while physically present in the US. Pelosi said she thought Trump would find a bill sponsored by California Democrat Zoe Lofgren “appealing.”

Indeed, he would. According to a press release by Lofgren’s office, the Northern Triangle and Border Stabilization Act would “establish Designated Processing Centers throughout Central America to register and process refugees for resettlement to the US or elsewhere,” so that immigrants would stay in their homelands to apply for asylum instead of entering the US, where they have due process rights. This amounts to a repudiation of international asylum law, under which an individual has the right to enter a safe foreign country to escape persecution.

The Democratic plan calls for “additional staff to [Customs and Border Protection] facilities,” and “expands the authority of law enforcement agencies” to monitor the border.

The text of the Democrats’ bill also calls for an “information campaign on dangers of irregular migration” in Central America. In other words, the Democrats plan to run advertisements in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala—all countries devastated by a century of US imperialist war and exploitation—to frighten desperate refugees about the dangers of seeking asylum and thereby prevent them from coming to the US.

Those who want to defend immigrants must draw a balance sheet of the Democratic Party’s responsibility for the attack on foreign-born workers. The Democratic Party supported all of the major anti-immigrant legislation in the 1990s and 2000s, and Obama deported three million people during his two terms in office--more than the entire population of the city of Chicago!

“Left” Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib have bowed to the Democratic leadership and facilitated Trump’s anti-immigrant provocations. In June, Ocasio-Cortez dropped vocal opposition to providing another $5 billion to fund Trump’s anti-immigrant Gestapo after a three-hour meeting with Pelosi on Capitol Hill. She and Tlaib then voted “yes” to allow the appropriations bill to reach the House floor for a full vote.

Only later, after Pelosi had secured the votes for the bill’s passage, were Ocasio-Cortez and Tlaib allowed to vote “no” to save face. Trump will now cash the check the Democrats gave him to fund this weekend’s raids.

While the Democrats are accommodating Trump and facilitating his dictatorial moves, anger is mounting among the people of the US and internationally. Hundreds of millions around the world are shocked, sickened and outraged by the construction of concentration camps in America, along with reports of abuse of detained children and photos of immigrants drowned in the Rio Grande.

Many thousands of Americans will take part in demonstrations across the country today to express their determination to prevent the worst crimes of the 20th century from being repeated on US soil in the 21st.

The chief task is to mobilize opposition in the working class to the attack on immigrants and democratic rights as a whole. All workers, regardless of immigration status, will be the targets of the types of police state measures being tested out against immigrants. Discussion on the strategy to oppose the attack must begin, including the organization of immigrant defense committees.

In the 1850s, after the Fugitive Slave Act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, Northerners successfully mobilized masses of people to defend blacks from being captured by slave hunters in the North and sold into slavery. In 1851, a crowd of 2,500 people physically prevented the capture of escaped slave William “Jerry” Henry in Syracuse, New York. In 1854, 5,000 people rescued escaped slave Joshua Glover from a jail in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and helped him escape to Canada.

The horrors of the Fugitive Slave Act led millions to draw the conclusion that decades of rotten compromises had to cease and the abhorrent slave system had to be overthrown through mass revolutionary action.

Today, the crimes of the Trump administration and the complicity of the Democrats must lead to the same conclusion. The defense of immigrants requires abolishing the capitalist system, opening the borders and guaranteeing the right to travel the world and live and work in the country of one’s choice without fear of arrest or deportation.

Eric London

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Jul 12 13:35:49 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:35:49 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd:  No war in Iran, rally Saturday the 13th
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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 13:35:49 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Fwd:  No war in Iran, rally Saturday the 13th
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Fri Jul 12 23:34:43 2019
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 18:34:43 -0500
Subject: [Peace] NfN #428 notes
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News from Neptune #428
A "Socialist Threat" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JwbSBsr_LU

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

2019 Socialism Conference
https://socialismconference.org/ -- conference website
https://archive.fo/GbmTo -- archive of the conference website

Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal on "DSA/Jacobin/Haymarket-sponsored 
‘Socialism’ conference features US gov-funded regime-change activists"
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/

Adolph Reed, Jr. on "Cargo cult politics" in "Splendors and Miseries of the 
Antiracist “Left”"
https://nonsite.org/editorial/splendors-and-miseries-of-the-antiracist-left-2

New Politics
https://newpol.org/

Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global 
Power"
ISBN 978-0-465-02954-9
Book: 
https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Brzezinski-Zbigniew.-Strategic-Vision-America-and-the-Crisis-of-Global-Power.pdf 
(this PDF is a bit oddly formatted, particularly a long list toward the end 
which needlessly occupies many pages)

John Pilger's "The Coming War With China"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot-acn1whrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7Bve0baPo -- Pilger interview about this 
film.

Wikipedia on "Woke"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke



Glen Ford on "Sanders vs the Endless Austerity Regime"
https://blackagendareport.com/sanders-vs-endless-austerity-regime

Some recent Jeffrey Epstein news and his connections to elites/power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgDA5iQ8r-Y -- was Epstein an informant for 
the US government?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcFpxFYngg -- CrossTalk on Epstein: what 
of justice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKjZXeJ8asI -- Why was Bill Clinton on 
Epstein's jet (The Lolita Express) at least 26 times, according to flight logs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHMyNytYV0 -- other "big names drop" as 
the scandal grows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFAX8uxgeA -- Alan Dershowitz defending 
Epstein and himself in his connection to Epstein on "The View".

Notes from J.B. Nicholson
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-July/051033.html

No War in Iran
Saturday, July 13, 2019 at 5PM
Southwest corner of West Side Park (400 W. University Ave., Champaign, 
Illinois)

-J

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Jul 13 11:46:03 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 11:46:03 +0000
Subject: [Peace] War with Iran is inevitable
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB6077591643BF23AB4854F056A3CD0@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

https://www.mintpressnews.com/divine-missions-why-us-war-iran-inevitable/259979/?fbclid=IwAR2fSYXpxOCa-3EiKcSEfTBXcfqJc3YnxVHFafok5oJ2j9VKu7BvpQqWp2Q
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 13:25:28 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Rally today opposing war with Iran/all welcome to attend
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 13:25:28 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Rally today opposing war with Iran/all welcome to attend
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Jul 13 19:28:56 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 19:28:56 +0000
Subject: [Peace] NfN #428 notes
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David, Carl and JB

Excellent program, and now I offer my humble opinion:

I think the important message of the Graystone Project, in relation to the Socialism Conference, is the exposure of the ISO, as has been attempted by the WSWS.ORG<http://wsws.org>, as a DNC front.

I didn’t see the article as being a critique of the DSA, as the DSA has been very open, in relation to their support for Democrat candidates through electoral politics, which means reform from within the system, since dating back to the days of Michael Harrington, their founder. I personally don’t see it as viable, given where we are today, but thats another discussion and my opinion.

The ISO though the members I knew, did not support war or imperialism, many of the leaders do. This I discovered over years of reading their material, much of which means reading between the lines.

 However, their vilification of Bashar Assad, and open support for the “rebels” such as Al Nusra, which the USG supports as one of our jihadists, never has been acknowledged as error, with continued vilification of the Syrian government, and support for opposition groups which are clearly US supported jihadists. The true Syrian opposition to the government, has long dissipated,

The WSWS.ORG<http://wsws.org>, an arm of the  Socialist Equality Party, has been addressing this issue for years, what surprised me was the funding coming from the DNC, though it should be no surprise given in the time I was involved, seven months, I recall no discussions related to Marx, or Trotsky. As a member of the YSA the youth organization of the Socialist Workers Party, during the 70’s, that was the main focus, reading that which Trotsky said, often out of context thus rather boring. I object to the article painting all Trotskyist organizations with the same tar brush, as well as the use of the term Trotskyite, which is meant to be derogatory.

On another topic:

David, I was quite surprised at you, not taking seriously, all that has taken place over recent years beginning with Obama’s “pivot to Asia.” Carl addressed your question very well, as he has since I first took note of AWARE in early 2013 or 2012. There is little doubt in most political analysts minds these days, credible ones, that China is the ultimate target of imperialism by the US. First of course must come a break up of the friendship between China and Russia, which was accomplished so well by Obama’s “pivot.” Just as the Pentagon was not happy with Obama’s rush to the pivot at the time, given they were concentrating on the Middle east/Magreb and one can conduct only so many wars of provocation at a time. Also, as Wm. Blum pointed out, before the election of 2016, if the neocons take power, and they have with Trump, they will focus on Iran, as Iran is the stepping stone to Russia. What we see unfolding now, I see as “we were warned.”

Is the ultimate goal war with China, with bombs and destruction? Likely not, because China is seen as a target market, just as the middle east, the whole of Africa, has been targeted for control of their resources. To assume that the US isn’t hoping for regime change within China just as they are hoping for regime change within both Russia and Iran, in order to control those nations as we have done with the more vulnerable, is a mistake, our provocations, sanctions, and interventions covertly, are just that. However, if all is unsuccessful in acquiring regime change……..


On Jul 12, 2019, at 16:34, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

News from Neptune #428
A "Socialist Threat" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JwbSBsr_LU

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

2019 Socialism Conference
https://socialismconference.org/ -- conference website
https://archive.fo/GbmTo -- archive of the conference website

Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal on "DSA/Jacobin/Haymarket-sponsored ‘Socialism’ conference features US gov-funded regime-change activists"
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/

Adolph Reed, Jr. on "Cargo cult politics" in "Splendors and Miseries of the Antiracist “Left”"
https://nonsite.org/editorial/splendors-and-miseries-of-the-antiracist-left-2

New Politics
https://newpol.org/

Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power"
ISBN 978-0-465-02954-9
Book: https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Brzezinski-Zbigniew.-Strategic-Vision-America-and-the-Crisis-of-Global-Power.pdf (this PDF is a bit oddly formatted, particularly a long list toward the end which needlessly occupies many pages)

John Pilger's "The Coming War With China"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot-acn1whrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7Bve0baPo -- Pilger interview about this film.

Wikipedia on "Woke"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke



Glen Ford on "Sanders vs the Endless Austerity Regime"
https://blackagendareport.com/sanders-vs-endless-austerity-regime

Some recent Jeffrey Epstein news and his connections to elites/power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgDA5iQ8r-Y -- was Epstein an informant for the US government?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcFpxFYngg -- CrossTalk on Epstein: what of justice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKjZXeJ8asI -- Why was Bill Clinton on Epstein's jet (The Lolita Express) at least 26 times, according to flight logs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHMyNytYV0 -- other "big names drop" as the scandal grows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFAX8uxgeA -- Alan Dershowitz defending Epstein and himself in his connection to Epstein on "The View".

Notes from J.B. Nicholson
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-July/051033.html

No War in Iran
Saturday, July 13, 2019 at 5PM
Southwest corner of West Side Park (400 W. University Ave., Champaign, Illinois)

-J
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:29:18 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Some of the folks from AWARE at the PSL/ANSWER rally
 opposing war with Iran
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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:35:55 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Members of the PSL/ANSWER at the rally opposing war with
 Iran
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From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net  Sun Jul 14 14:26:05 2019
From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson)
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:26:05 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss]  NfN #428 notes
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FYI –

 

Five members of the DSA met yesterday to talk about the Gray zone project article about the ISO leadership merging into the DSA national, which I sent out the beginning of last week.

These members were very disturbed by the article and it will be a topic of discussion at the next formal meeting on July 27th. We want to send a letter of complaint to DSA national about this.

Also C-U DSA formally endorsed the anti-war protest yesterday earlier in the week.

 

I would really like to know how many other DSA members and chapters around the country are aware of this and if so, rather or not they are also upset.

You have to keep in mind that the entire culture of DSA changed in 2017 when a huge number of younger people and some older people as well joined the organization, increasing the size of DSA 10 fold.

Most of these younger people and some of the older people who joined in 2017 are not of the same mindset as Harrington et al. This is reflected in letters and articles in the monthly DSA newsletter.

So I wouldn’t be surprised that a confrontation may occur in the future within DSA about the ISO leadership and their pro-imperialist policies. 

WE will see. If the national DSA adopts the imperialist policies of the ISO merged leadership, I know that myself and at least 6 other members of the C-U DSA branch will resign.

 

David J.

 

From: Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Karen Aram via Peace-discuss
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 2:29 PM
To: Peace Discuss
Cc: J.B. Nicholson; Peace
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] NfN #428 notes

 

 

 

David, Carl and JB 

 

Excellent program, and now I offer my humble opinion:  

 

I think the important message of the Graystone Project, in relation to the Socialism Conference, is the exposure of the ISO, as has been attempted by the WSWS.ORG, as a DNC front. 

 

I didn’t see the article as being a critique of the DSA, as the DSA has been very open, in relation to their support for Democrat candidates through electoral politics, which means reform from within the system, since dating back to the days of Michael Harrington, their founder. I personally don’t see it as viable, given where we are today, but thats another discussion and my opinion. 

 

The ISO though the members I knew, did not support war or imperialism, many of the leaders do. This I discovered over years of reading their material, much of which means reading between the lines.

 

 However, their vilification of Bashar Assad, and open support for the “rebels” such as Al Nusra, which the USG supports as one of our jihadists, never has been acknowledged as error, with continued vilification of the Syrian government, and support for opposition groups which are clearly US supported jihadists. The true Syrian opposition to the government, has long dissipated, 

 

The WSWS.ORG, an arm of the  Socialist Equality Party, has been addressing this issue for years, what surprised me was the funding coming from the DNC, though it should be no surprise given in the time I was involved, seven months, I recall no discussions related to Marx, or Trotsky. As a member of the YSA the youth organization of the Socialist Workers Party, during the 70’s, that was the main focus, reading that which Trotsky said, often out of context thus rather boring. I object to the article painting all Trotskyist organizations with the same tar brush, as well as the use of the term Trotskyite, which is meant to be derogatory.

 

On another topic: 

 

David, I was quite surprised at you, not taking seriously, all that has taken place over recent years beginning with Obama’s “pivot to Asia.” Carl addressed your question very well, as he has since I first took note of AWARE in early 2013 or 2012. There is little doubt in most political analysts minds these days, credible ones, that China is the ultimate target of imperialism by the US. First of course must come a break up of the friendship between China and Russia, which was accomplished so well by Obama’s “pivot.” Just as the Pentagon was not happy with Obama’s rush to the pivot at the time, given they were concentrating on the Middle east/Magreb and one can conduct only so many wars of provocation at a time. Also, as Wm. Blum pointed out, before the election of 2016, if the neocons take power, and they have with Trump, they will focus on Iran, as Iran is the stepping stone to Russia. What we see unfolding now, I see as “we were warned.”

 

Is the ultimate goal war with China, with bombs and destruction? Likely not, because China is seen as a target market, just as the middle east, the whole of Africa, has been targeted for control of their resources. To assume that the US isn’t hoping for regime change within China just as they are hoping for regime change within both Russia and Iran, in order to control those nations as we have done with the more vulnerable, is a mistake, our provocations, sanctions, and interventions covertly, are just that. However, if all is unsuccessful in acquiring regime change……..

 





On Jul 12, 2019, at 16:34, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

News from Neptune #428
A "Socialist Threat" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JwbSBsr_LU

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

2019 Socialism Conference
https://socialismconference.org/ -- conference website
https://archive.fo/GbmTo -- archive of the conference website

Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal on "DSA/Jacobin/Haymarket-sponsored ‘Socialism’ conference features US gov-funded regime-change activists"
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/

Adolph Reed, Jr. on "Cargo cult politics" in "Splendors and Miseries of the Antiracist “Left”"
https://nonsite.org/editorial/splendors-and-miseries-of-the-antiracist-left-2

New Politics
https://newpol.org/

Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power"
ISBN 978-0-465-02954-9
Book: https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Brzezinski-Zbigniew.-Strategic-Vision-America-and-the-Crisis-of-Global-Power.pdf (this PDF is a bit oddly formatted, particularly a long list toward the end which needlessly occupies many pages)

John Pilger's "The Coming War With China"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot-acn1whrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7Bve0baPo -- Pilger interview about this film.

Wikipedia on "Woke"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke



Glen Ford on "Sanders vs the Endless Austerity Regime"
https://blackagendareport.com/sanders-vs-endless-austerity-regime

Some recent Jeffrey Epstein news and his connections to elites/power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgDA5iQ8r-Y -- was Epstein an informant for the US government?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcFpxFYngg -- CrossTalk on Epstein: what of justice?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKjZXeJ8asI -- Why was Bill Clinton on Epstein's jet (The Lolita Express) at least 26 times, according to flight logs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceHMyNytYV0 -- other "big names drop" as the scandal grows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QFAX8uxgeA -- Alan Dershowitz defending Epstein and himself in his connection to Epstein on "The View".

Notes from J.B. Nicholson
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-July/051033.html

No War in Iran
Saturday, July 13, 2019 at 5PM
Southwest corner of West Side Park (400 W. University Ave., Champaign, Illinois)

-J
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:26:37 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Photo's of the Party for Socialism and Liberation rally
 opposing war with Iran, Saturday
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Jul 15 11:39:46 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 11:39:46 +0000
Subject: [Peace] For those who don't believe the US plans of containment or
 regime change in Russia and China
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https://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-planning-a-three-front-long-war-against-china-and-russia/240100/?fbclid=IwAR1k8-8GnWTejmiFY6mdgPj
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Tue Jul 16 11:04:32 2019
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 06:04:32 -0500
Subject: [Peace] 1A Across America: Migrant Aid Divides Congregations - 1A
Message-ID: <5d2daf44.1c69fb81.84e04.ef6b@mx.google.com>


A friend of mine,  Alyssa Stebbing Episcopalian minister from The Woodlands, Texas, was interviewed on the 1A radio show,  talking about the situation at the border and churches there: https://the1a.org/shows/2019-07-11/1a-across-america-the-divide-in-faith-groups-over-migrant-aid
- Karen Medina"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" - Mark Twain
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Jul 17 16:16:18 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:16:18 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Rally opposing war with Iran, Saturday 7/13/19
References: <1563377821985.2143@urbanaillinois.us>
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> https://youtu.be/MPn3COnirIY
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Jul 17 16:16:18 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:16:18 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Rally opposing war with Iran, Saturday 7/13/19
References: <1563377821985.2143@urbanaillinois.us>
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> https://youtu.be/MPn3COnirIY
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Jul 18 11:08:58 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:08:58 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Film showing
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB6077C69D76DF46D049C4F7DBA3C80@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

Join The Party for Socialism and Liberation Champaign-Urbana 7 PM Friday, July 26th at the Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway Ave., Urbana, IL, for a presentation and discussion on Cuba’s formative revolutionary organization, the 26 of July Movement and its effect on the longstanding socialist state. We will be reviewing the history of the Cuban revolution and its notable figures and reforms instituted by the 26th of July Movement. A group discussion will follow the presentation. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Suggested $5 donation

FRI, JUL 26 AT 7 PM CDT
El Movimiento 26 de Julio: A Presentation<https://www.facebook.com/events/355052571830815/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22timeline%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22main_list%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D>
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center<https://www.facebook.com/ucimc/?__tn__=%2CdHH-R-R&eid=ARD9t4l9nbk7tFsfRXZZxYkdpI5DA6NrqmqAfW8FzCeTnVDeaQAXnbDgyGk2Vmsbj2upHyLN0c3c-vEx> · Urbana, IL

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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 11:08:58 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Film showing
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB6077C69D76DF46D049C4F7DBA3C80@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

Join The Party for Socialism and Liberation Champaign-Urbana 7 PM Friday, July 26th at the Independent Media Center, 202 S. Broadway Ave., Urbana, IL, for a presentation and discussion on Cuba’s formative revolutionary organization, the 26 of July Movement and its effect on the longstanding socialist state. We will be reviewing the history of the Cuban revolution and its notable figures and reforms instituted by the 26th of July Movement. A group discussion will follow the presentation. Snacks and drinks will be provided. Suggested $5 donation

FRI, JUL 26 AT 7 PM CDT
El Movimiento 26 de Julio: A Presentation<https://www.facebook.com/events/355052571830815/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22feed_story_type%22%3A%2222%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22%5B%7B%5C%22surface%5C%22%3A%5C%22timeline%5C%22%2C%5C%22mechanism%5C%22%3A%5C%22main_list%5C%22%2C%5C%22extra_data%5C%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D%22%7D>
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center<https://www.facebook.com/ucimc/?__tn__=%2CdHH-R-R&eid=ARD9t4l9nbk7tFsfRXZZxYkdpI5DA6NrqmqAfW8FzCeTnVDeaQAXnbDgyGk2Vmsbj2upHyLN0c3c-vEx> · Urbana, IL

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From jbn at forestfield.org  Fri Jul 19 22:22:34 2019
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 17:22:34 -0500
Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #429 notes
Message-ID: <ee30ed07-52ee-f51b-2f0a-5887bb37df5f@forestfield.org>

News from Neptune #429
A "True Crimes" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKR--PYPZKM

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

This show began with a version of a comment from C. G. Estabrook posted to 
Shelley Washburne Masar's Facebook page which she deleted.
https://www.facebook.com/shelley.masar

Rob Urie on "The Blob Fought the Squad, and the Squad Won"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/19/the-blob-fought-the-squad-and-the-squad-won/

"Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition" by Cedric Robinson
ISBN-13: 978-0807848296
ISBN-10: 0807848298
Complete book:
https://libcom.org/files/Black%20Marxism-Cedric%20J.%20Robinson.pdf
https://libcom.org/files/cedric-robinson-black-marxism-the-making-of-the-black-radical-tradition.epub
https://libcom.org/files/cedric-robinson-black-marxism-the-making-of-the-black-radical-tradition.mobi

Related:
https://bennorton.com/adolph-reed-identity-politics-is-neoliberalism/ -- 
Adolph Reed on "Identity Politics Is Neoliberalism"

Seneca Falls Convention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Falls_Convention

C.G. Estabrook on "All human life deserves respect"
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-all-human-life-deserves-respect/article_3de69788-bf17-57d2-9156-0fe029f477d3.html

David Underhill on "The Inequality of Equal Pay"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/19/the-inequality-of-equal-pay/

Universal Basic Income (UBI)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

Fran Lebowitz on for New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg:
> I object to people who are rich in politics. I don't think they should
> be allowed to be in politics. It is bad that rich people are in
> politics, it is bad for everybody but rich people, and rich people don't
> need any more help. Whenever people say, "Oh, he earned his money
> himself," I always say the same thing: "No one earns a billion dollars.
> People earn $10 an hour, people steal a billion dollars.
Thomas B. Edsall on "Integration vs. White Intransigence: Separate has 
never been equal."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/opinion/integration-politics.html

Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Big Man, Pig Man"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/19/roaming-charges-big-man-pig-man/

Notes from J.B. Nicholson
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-July/051055.html

Julie Wurth articles for the News-Gazette
https://www.news-gazette.com/users/profile/julie%20wurth/

Everett Dirksen on "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're 
talking real money."
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen
https://web.archive.org/web/20140127115225/http://www.dirksencenter.org:80/print_emd_billionhere.htm

Other people claim they heard Dirksen said it on The Tonight Show but The 
Dirksen Center says:
> Update, May 25, 2004. A gentleman who called The Center with a reference
> question relayed that he sat by Dirksen on a flight once and asked him
> about the famous quote. Dirksen replied, "Oh, I never said that. A
> newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I thought it sounded so good that
> I never bothered to deny it."
Violent death rates in the US compared to those of the other high-income 
countries, 2015 by Erin Grinshteyn, David Hemenway
Preventive Medicine Volume 123, June 2019, Pages 20-26
2015 article:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743519300659
2010 article:
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/fulltext
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(15)01030-X/pdf

-J

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Jul 23 17:28:05 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:28:05 +0000
Subject: [Peace] One of the best discussions ever, Max and Ben.....
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:28:05 +0000
Subject: [Peace] One of the best discussions ever, Max and Ben.....
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Wed Jul 24 23:18:36 2019
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:18:36 -0500
Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #487 notes
Message-ID: <ffc335fb-125b-be9e-ad91-45a578ace6b3@forestfield.org>

AWARE on the Air #487
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWRv15sufU

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Andre Vltchek on "Reason Why the West is Determined to Ignore China’s Success"
https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/17/reason-why-west-is-determined-to-ignore-china-s-success/

Related: "China and Ecological Civilization" John B. Cobb, Jr. in 
conversation with Andre Vltchek
ISBN 978-6025095450



Susan McWilliams on "The True and Only Lasch: On 'The True and Only 
Heaven', 25 Years Later"
https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/the-true-and-only-laschbr-on-ithe-true-and-only-heaven-i-25-years-later/

Which concludes:
> In our own time, when the noise of progressivism is louder than
> ever—often represented, among other ways, in the understandable but
> naive claims that the world has changed fundamentally during the past
> twenty-five years—it is a better time than ever to turn and return to
> The True and Only Heaven, to dive below the distracting noise of the
> moment and consider the greater currents upon which we are carried. In
> doing so, we may also ensure that the challenges Lasch set for himself
> were not undertaken in vain, and that he may continue to help us tie
> present to past.


Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad"
https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/celest.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The 
Celestial Railroad" in various formats.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNyckZdNoQw -- "On Contact with Chris 
Hedges"; Chris Hedges interviews Kerry-Anne Mendoza

-J

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Jul 25 14:43:54 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:43:54 +0000
Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #487 notes
In-Reply-To: <ffc335fb-125b-be9e-ad91-45a578ace6b3@forestfield.org>
References: <ffc335fb-125b-be9e-ad91-45a578ace6b3@forestfield.org>
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Again, thank you to J.B. Nicholson for placing programs and links on the Peace List, for all to view with ease. 

I especially liked Carl’s reading of the Andre Vltchek article related to China. While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia, it is a perfect contrast to the usual propaganda received from western media, which includes Al Jazeera. China is making progress in all areas.

I am especially fond of Vltchek, not because his writing is often beautifully poetic, but because he has a very sharp eye. He did an article on Thailand about six years ago, which impressed me, given his very astute analysis unlike so much of the propaganda we usually see in relation to the politics of this US aircraft carrier in SE Asia. He didn’t do what most journalists do, including those who live there, or reside in the region, focus on receiving their information from western embassy personnel, locals whether Thai or expat, or worse yet, the Foreign Correspondents Club. 

 Having lived in that nation for twenty two years, I knew what we were being told wasn’t real, but was only able to discover upon doing the research and discussions with Thai exiles, residing in the US due to their politics. The problems related to poverty and exploitation have existed in Thailand for decades even century’s, but very few see it for what it is, focusing on palace intrigue and Party politics. Little different than here.

> On Jul 24, 2019, at 16:18, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> AWARE on the Air #487
> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWRv15sufU
> 
> A list of links to items referenced on the show.
> 
> Andre Vltchek on "Reason Why the West is Determined to Ignore China’s Success"
> https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/17/reason-why-west-is-determined-to-ignore-china-s-success/
> 
> Related: "China and Ecological Civilization" John B. Cobb, Jr. in conversation with Andre Vltchek
> ISBN 978-6025095450
> 
> 
> 
> Susan McWilliams on "The True and Only Lasch: On 'The True and Only Heaven', 25 Years Later"
> https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/the-true-and-only-laschbr-on-ithe-true-and-only-heaven-i-25-years-later/
> 
> Which concludes:
>> In our own time, when the noise of progressivism is louder than
>> ever—often represented, among other ways, in the understandable but
>> naive claims that the world has changed fundamentally during the past
>> twenty-five years—it is a better time than ever to turn and return to
>> The True and Only Heaven, to dive below the distracting noise of the
>> moment and consider the greater currents upon which we are carried. In
>> doing so, we may also ensure that the challenges Lasch set for himself
>> were not undertaken in vain, and that he may continue to help us tie
>> present to past.
> 
> 
> Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad"
> https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/celest.htm
> https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" in various formats.
> 
> 
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNyckZdNoQw -- "On Contact with Chris Hedges"; Chris Hedges interviews Kerry-Anne Mendoza
> 
> -J
> _______________________________________________
> Peace mailing list
> Peace at lists.chambana.net
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Jul 25 20:29:57 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 20:29:57 +0000
Subject: [Peace] Dangerous encounter of warplanes from four nations over Sea
 of Japan
Message-ID: <SN6PR08MB607776FCF92D2DCA1E5F24D7A3C10@SN6PR08MB6077.namprd08.prod.outlook.com>

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Dangerous encounter of warplanes from four nations over Sea of Japan
By Ben McGrath
25 July 2019

A dangerous incident on Tuesday over the Sea of Japan, involving war planes from Russia, South Korea, China and Japan, has highlighted the growing risk of a major conflict that could engulf the region, one of the most strategic in the world.

According to Seoul’s Defense Ministry, the incident began when two Russian Tu-95 bombers and two Chinese H-6 bombers entered South Korea’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) between the Korean Peninsula and Japan without notice around 8:40 a.m. for 24 minutes. Shortly after that, an unarmed Russian A-50 early warning and observation aircraft allegedly twice entered airspace claimed by South Korea around the Dokdo/Takeshima Islets. Japan also claims the islets.

In response, South Korea dispatched F-15 and F-16 fighter jets. After sending 30 warning messages which went unanswered, according to Seoul, its fighters fired warning shots at the Russian A-50, 80 on the first incursion and 280 on the second.

Russia, which does not recognize Seoul’s ADIZ, initially said its planes were over international waters and that South Korean jets “conducted unprofessional maneuvers by crossing the course of Russian strategic missile carriers, threatening their security.” It added: “This is not the first time the South Korean pilots have unsuccessfully tried to prevent Russian aircraft from flying over the neutral waters.”

An ADIZ is different from a country’s 12-nautical-mile territorial limit. ADIZs have been declared unilaterally to justify a country demanding aircraft from foreign countries to identify themselves and to make known their flight paths despite being in international airspace. An ADIZ has no basis in international law. Japan’s ADIZ covers a large portion of the Sea of Japan, but does not include Takeshima/Dokdo.

Tokyo claimed that both Russian and South Korean aircraft had violated its airspace over the Dokdo/Takeshima islets and scrambled its own fighter jets. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga denounced both countries on Tuesday.

Suga stated: “We protested strongly based on the recognition that a Russian military aircraft flying over the Sea of Japan violated the territorial airspace near Takeshima in Shimane Prefecture twice.” He added: “In view of our stance on the sovereignty of Takeshima, it’s totally unacceptable and extremely regrettable that warning shots were fired by a South Korean military aircraft.”

Moscow later expressed regret for the A-50’s incursion over Dokdo/Takeshima and blamed the incident on a technical glitch. South Korea’s presidential secretary for public communication then downplayed the incident, saying: “Moscow said if the aircraft flew according to an initially planned route, this incident would not have occurred.”

According to Moscow, Russia and China were conducting their “first joint air patrol using long-range aircraft in the Asian-Pacific region.” The drills were “carried out in order to deepen and develop Russian-Chinese relations” and were “not aimed against third countries.”

Beijing took a more muted approach. At a media conference, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying rejected a questioner’s use of the word “intrusion.” Hua said: “I’d caution against using such terms, considering China and South Korea are friendly neighbors and the situation is not clear yet.”

This incident highlights the very sharp tensions in the Asia-Pacific. Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command’s Joint Intelligence Center, told CNN that firing warning shots in the air was “very, very serious” and “very, very rare.”

Allegations and misunderstandings could easily ignite a conflict. Despite Russia’s statement of regret, Peter Layton, an analyst at the Griffith Asia Institute in Australia, accused it of aggression, claiming: “This mission will have given them a comprehensive map of the (South Korean) national air defense system.”

While US fighter jets may not have been directly involved in the incident, Washington’s aggressive military build-up in the region created the conditions for the dangerous aerial incident. Both Beijing and Moscow have been denounced by Washington as “revisionist powers” and are targets for future US attack.

After a trip to Japan, US National Security Advisor John Bolton, one of the leading hawks in the Trump administration, arrived in Seoul for talks with South Korean officials the same day as the incident occurred. Bolton addressed the growing animosity between Seoul and Tokyo in an attempt to shore up the US alliances against China and Russia. Bolton and his South Korean counterpart Jeong Ui-yong discussed closer collaboration between the US and South Korean militaries in case of a future incident involving Russia or China, which would allow Washington to exploit the situation as it sees fit.

A statement yesterday on talks between Bolton and Defense Minister Jeong Gyeong-du declared: “The two sides shared an understanding on continued security cooperation between Seoul and Tokyo, and agreed to cooperate closely for the development of such bilateral ties, as well as trilateral relations involving the US.” As usual, they claimed the trilateral relationship was necessary to counter the North Korean “threat,” the pretext for the military buildup against China.

Beginning under Barack Obama’s administration, Washington has exploited long-festering territorial disputes in the Asia-Pacific to justify the military buildup against China and Russia in the region. This campaign has been stepped up under President Donald Trump, and now includes regular military provocations in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, thus raising tensions with Beijing.

Moscow and Beijing are deepening their military alliances in preparation for an attack by Washington or one of its allies. Last September near Vladivostok, the militaries from the two countries, alongside troops from Mongolia, held what Moscow described as the largest such exercise since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The joint drills involved in Tuesday’s clash over the Sea of Japan were carried out in the same vein.

Washington’s destabilization campaign however has had the unintended consequence of fueling growing animosity between Japan and South Korea, two key US allies. Both Seoul and Tokyo have been emboldened to press their own longstanding territorial and economic disputes against one another. It is not out of the question that a clash between South Korean and Japanese militaries could take place in the Sea of Japan, particularly as governments both whip up national sentiments to divert growing social tensions at home.

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From brussel at illinois.edu  Thu Jul 25 21:18:51 2019
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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 21:18:51 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss]  AWARE on the Air #487 notes
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…While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia,…

When he goes overboard, as he did in this article , he discredits his message. It was more than a "little overboard". Vitchek has done this kind of commentary before. Poetic license?

On Jul 25, 2019, at 9:43 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

Again, thank you to J.B. Nicholson for placing programs and links on the Peace List, for all to view with ease.

I especially liked Carl’s reading of the Andre Vltchek article related to China. While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia, it is a perfect contrast to the usual propaganda received from western media, which includes Al Jazeera. China is making progress in all areas.

I am especially fond of Vltchek, not because his writing is often beautifully poetic, but because he has a very sharp eye. He did an article on Thailand about six years ago, which impressed me, given his very astute analysis unlike so much of the propaganda we usually see in relation to the politics of this US aircraft carrier in SE Asia. He didn’t do what most journalists do, including those who live there, or reside in the region, focus on receiving their information from western embassy personnel, locals whether Thai or expat, or worse yet, the Foreign Correspondents Club.

Having lived in that nation for twenty two years, I knew what we were being told wasn’t real, but was only able to discover upon doing the research and discussions with Thai exiles, residing in the US due to their politics. The problems related to poverty and exploitation have existed in Thailand for decades even century’s, but very few see it for what it is, focusing on palace intrigue and Party politics. Little different than here.

On Jul 24, 2019, at 16:18, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

AWARE on the Air #487
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWRv15sufU

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Andre Vltchek on "Reason Why the West is Determined to Ignore China’s Success"
https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/17/reason-why-west-is-determined-to-ignore-china-s-success/

Related: "China and Ecological Civilization" John B. Cobb, Jr. in conversation with Andre Vltchek
ISBN 978-6025095450



Susan McWilliams on "The True and Only Lasch: On 'The True and Only Heaven', 25 Years Later"
https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/the-true-and-only-laschbr-on-ithe-true-and-only-heaven-i-25-years-later/

Which concludes:
In our own time, when the noise of progressivism is louder than
ever—often represented, among other ways, in the understandable but
naive claims that the world has changed fundamentally during the past
twenty-five years—it is a better time than ever to turn and return to
The True and Only Heaven, to dive below the distracting noise of the
moment and consider the greater currents upon which we are carried. In
doing so, we may also ensure that the challenges Lasch set for himself
were not undertaken in vain, and that he may continue to help us tie
present to past.


Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad"
https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/celest.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" in various formats.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNyckZdNoQw -- "On Contact with Chris Hedges"; Chris Hedges interviews Kerry-Anne Mendoza

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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 22:14:49 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss]  AWARE on the Air #487 notes
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Mort

I don’t agree. While China is not Utopia, and they have problems, which they continue to address. If one compares China to the US, they are improving the quality of life for their people daily, while we do the exact opposite.

I lived and worked in Shanghai for nearly two years 2007-2009, my daughter did also, teaching in a college a couple years later, in Suzhou, but I don’t base my opinion on our experiences alone. The many Americans and western nationals there, traveling the nation, were also impressed with that which they had no idea, given the propaganda we experience in the west. I also traveled up country, and experienced local communities, which were in the early stages of development.

If one compares it to Hong Kong, where I lived and worked for seven months in 2000-2001, and watched the city deteriorate as foreign company’s moved to Shanghai, coupled with the high cost of living, lack of housing and job opportunities its no wonder they have so many protests there now. That along with the US CIA funded NGO’s doing their usual false flag bits against China. If in the US we would have had severe crack downs by our government weeks ago.

I saw Shenzhen, in early development, now a thriving, modern city. They had empty city’s all across the nation, in  preparation for the future. The infrastructure of China, unlike ours, is new, modern and the most advanced in the world. Given the rapid development, I have no doubt what Andre sees there is way beyond that which I saw ten years ago.

If one compares China to the US, they are improving the quality of life for their people daily while building the BRI or Silk road across continents, they are not imperialist or hegemonous, and they haven’t invaded another nation militarily since 1979, Vietnam. Compared to our record of interventions, bombings, wars of destruction, it does beg the question, who is the monster to be feared?

China isn’t a utopia, but many expats returning to the US, are shocked by our poor transportation and infrastructure, the homelessness, poverty, plus the high cost of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, etc. To some, like Andre, China does begin to look a lot like Utopia, in comparison.


On Jul 25, 2019, at 14:18, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu<mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>> wrote:

…While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia,…

When he goes overboard, as he did in this article , he discredits his message. It was more than a "little overboard". Vitchek has done this kind of commentary before. Poetic license?

On Jul 25, 2019, at 9:43 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

Again, thank you to J.B. Nicholson for placing programs and links on the Peace List, for all to view with ease.

I especially liked Carl’s reading of the Andre Vltchek article related to China. While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia, it is a perfect contrast to the usual propaganda received from western media, which includes Al Jazeera. China is making progress in all areas.

I am especially fond of Vltchek, not because his writing is often beautifully poetic, but because he has a very sharp eye. He did an article on Thailand about six years ago, which impressed me, given his very astute analysis unlike so much of the propaganda we usually see in relation to the politics of this US aircraft carrier in SE Asia. He didn’t do what most journalists do, including those who live there, or reside in the region, focus on receiving their information from western embassy personnel, locals whether Thai or expat, or worse yet, the Foreign Correspondents Club.

Having lived in that nation for twenty two years, I knew what we were being told wasn’t real, but was only able to discover upon doing the research and discussions with Thai exiles, residing in the US due to their politics. The problems related to poverty and exploitation have existed in Thailand for decades even century’s, but very few see it for what it is, focusing on palace intrigue and Party politics. Little different than here.

On Jul 24, 2019, at 16:18, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

AWARE on the Air #487
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWRv15sufU

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Andre Vltchek on "Reason Why the West is Determined to Ignore China’s Success"
https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/17/reason-why-west-is-determined-to-ignore-china-s-success/

Related: "China and Ecological Civilization" John B. Cobb, Jr. in conversation with Andre Vltchek
ISBN 978-6025095450



Susan McWilliams on "The True and Only Lasch: On 'The True and Only Heaven', 25 Years Later"
https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/the-true-and-only-laschbr-on-ithe-true-and-only-heaven-i-25-years-later/

Which concludes:
In our own time, when the noise of progressivism is louder than
ever—often represented, among other ways, in the understandable but
naive claims that the world has changed fundamentally during the past
twenty-five years—it is a better time than ever to turn and return to
The True and Only Heaven, to dive below the distracting noise of the
moment and consider the greater currents upon which we are carried. In
doing so, we may also ensure that the challenges Lasch set for himself
were not undertaken in vain, and that he may continue to help us tie
present to past.


Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad"
https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/celest.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" in various formats.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNyckZdNoQw -- "On Contact with Chris Hedges"; Chris Hedges interviews Kerry-Anne Mendoza

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From brussel at illinois.edu  Fri Jul 26 00:30:33 2019
From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:30:33 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss]  AWARE on the Air #487 notes
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Karen,

I don’t disagree with what you say, i.e. that China has made tremendous strides to increase the welfare of their people and to develop their country. Also, I know that visitors have been tremendously impressed with the change there in an astoundingly short time. But people reading Vitchek will regard his descriptions as unbelievable propaganda. Had he toned down his description, this could have been avoided. For example, many villages in rural China are still in bad shape. People have been displaced  to less than admirable dwellings, unhappily, so that development could take places. Dam building, for example, had done this. This seems akin to what occured in the USSR in the 30’s.  Pollution has been very bad due to the mass construction of coal fired power plants, even as the authorities try to clean it up, which is admirable. Vitchek needed to leaven his description to admit that China still has far to go to become a nirvana.

I suppose that his description drew forth my skepticism. It needn’t have.

On Jul 25, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Mort

I don’t agree. While China is not Utopia, and they have problems, which they continue to address. If one compares China to the US, they are improving the quality of life for their people daily, while we do the exact opposite.

I lived and worked in Shanghai for nearly two years 2007-2009, my daughter did also, teaching in a college a couple years later, in Suzhou, but I don’t base my opinion on our experiences alone. The many Americans and western nationals there, traveling the nation, were also impressed with that which they had no idea, given the propaganda we experience in the west. I also traveled up country, and experienced local communities, which were in the early stages of development.

If one compares it to Hong Kong, where I lived and worked for seven months in 2000-2001, and watched the city deteriorate as foreign company’s moved to Shanghai, coupled with the high cost of living, lack of housing and job opportunities its no wonder they have so many protests there now. That along with the US CIA funded NGO’s doing their usual false flag bits against China. If in the US we would have had severe crack downs by our government weeks ago.

I saw Shenzhen, in early development, now a thriving, modern city. They had empty city’s all across the nation, in  preparation for the future. The infrastructure of China, unlike ours, is new, modern and the most advanced in the world. Given the rapid development, I have no doubt what Andre sees there is way beyond that which I saw ten years ago.

If one compares China to the US, they are improving the quality of life for their people daily while building the BRI or Silk road across continents, they are not imperialist or hegemonous, and they haven’t invaded another nation militarily since 1979, Vietnam. Compared to our record of interventions, bombings, wars of destruction, it does beg the question, who is the monster to be feared?

China isn’t a utopia, but many expats returning to the US, are shocked by our poor transportation and infrastructure, the homelessness, poverty, plus the high cost of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, etc. To some, like Andre, China does begin to look a lot like Utopia, in comparison.


On Jul 25, 2019, at 14:18, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu<mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>> wrote:

…While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia,…

When he goes overboard, as he did in this article , he discredits his message. It was more than a "little overboard". Vitchek has done this kind of commentary before. Poetic license?

On Jul 25, 2019, at 9:43 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

Again, thank you to J.B. Nicholson for placing programs and links on the Peace List, for all to view with ease.

I especially liked Carl’s reading of the Andre Vltchek article related to China. While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia, it is a perfect contrast to the usual propaganda received from western media, which includes Al Jazeera. China is making progress in all areas.

I am especially fond of Vltchek, not because his writing is often beautifully poetic, but because he has a very sharp eye. He did an article on Thailand about six years ago, which impressed me, given his very astute analysis unlike so much of the propaganda we usually see in relation to the politics of this US aircraft carrier in SE Asia. He didn’t do what most journalists do, including those who live there, or reside in the region, focus on receiving their information from western embassy personnel, locals whether Thai or expat, or worse yet, the Foreign Correspondents Club.

Having lived in that nation for twenty two years, I knew what we were being told wasn’t real, but was only able to discover upon doing the research and discussions with Thai exiles, residing in the US due to their politics. The problems related to poverty and exploitation have existed in Thailand for decades even century’s, but very few see it for what it is, focusing on palace intrigue and Party politics. Little different than here.

On Jul 24, 2019, at 16:18, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

AWARE on the Air #487
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWRv15sufU

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Andre Vltchek on "Reason Why the West is Determined to Ignore China’s Success"
https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/17/reason-why-west-is-determined-to-ignore-china-s-success/

Related: "China and Ecological Civilization" John B. Cobb, Jr. in conversation with Andre Vltchek
ISBN 978-6025095450



Susan McWilliams on "The True and Only Lasch: On 'The True and Only Heaven', 25 Years Later"
https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/the-true-and-only-laschbr-on-ithe-true-and-only-heaven-i-25-years-later/

Which concludes:
In our own time, when the noise of progressivism is louder than
ever—often represented, among other ways, in the understandable but
naive claims that the world has changed fundamentally during the past
twenty-five years—it is a better time than ever to turn and return to
The True and Only Heaven, to dive below the distracting noise of the
moment and consider the greater currents upon which we are carried. In
doing so, we may also ensure that the challenges Lasch set for himself
were not undertaken in vain, and that he may continue to help us tie
present to past.


Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad"
https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/celest.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" in various formats.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNyckZdNoQw -- "On Contact with Chris Hedges"; Chris Hedges interviews Kerry-Anne Mendoza

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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Jul 26 01:06:44 2019
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 01:06:44 +0000
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It is important we have the conversation, and I understand your reaction to Vltchek, as one who is skeptical, as we should be when too glowing a picture of anything is presented. I think his disgust at US propaganda vilifying China, has led him to over compensate.

When in China, I was privy to one of those villages being displaced, as my employer was constructing a nuclear power plant for the Chinese government, in the vicinity. The people resisted, hating to move, even though the new dwellings were superior to that of their village. Chinese culture requires they stay close to the land of their ancestors, and the tombs, so the dissatisfaction of moving, often has more to do with their ancient cultural practices, than quality of their new accommodations.

It’s unfortunate that dam building is often very necessary infrastructure improvement, and when its done “not for private profit,” as it would be here, but for the good of all, it requires acceptance.

On Jul 25, 2019, at 17:30, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu<mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>> wrote:

Karen,

I don’t disagree with what you say, i.e. that China has made tremendous strides to increase the welfare of their people and to develop their country. Also, I know that visitors have been tremendously impressed with the change there in an astoundingly short time. But people reading Vitchek will regard his descriptions as unbelievable propaganda. Had he toned down his description, this could have been avoided. For example, many villages in rural China are still in bad shape. People have been displaced  to less than admirable dwellings, unhappily, so that development could take places. Dam building, for example, had done this. This seems akin to what occured in the USSR in the 30’s.  Pollution has been very bad due to the mass construction of coal fired power plants, even as the authorities try to clean it up, which is admirable. Vitchek needed to leaven his description to admit that China still has far to go to become a nirvana.

I suppose that his description drew forth my skepticism. It needn’t have.

On Jul 25, 2019, at 5:14 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com<mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>> wrote:

Mort

I don’t agree. While China is not Utopia, and they have problems, which they continue to address. If one compares China to the US, they are improving the quality of life for their people daily, while we do the exact opposite.

I lived and worked in Shanghai for nearly two years 2007-2009, my daughter did also, teaching in a college a couple years later, in Suzhou, but I don’t base my opinion on our experiences alone. The many Americans and western nationals there, traveling the nation, were also impressed with that which they had no idea, given the propaganda we experience in the west. I also traveled up country, and experienced local communities, which were in the early stages of development.

If one compares it to Hong Kong, where I lived and worked for seven months in 2000-2001, and watched the city deteriorate as foreign company’s moved to Shanghai, coupled with the high cost of living, lack of housing and job opportunities its no wonder they have so many protests there now. That along with the US CIA funded NGO’s doing their usual false flag bits against China. If in the US we would have had severe crack downs by our government weeks ago.

I saw Shenzhen, in early development, now a thriving, modern city. They had empty city’s all across the nation, in  preparation for the future. The infrastructure of China, unlike ours, is new, modern and the most advanced in the world. Given the rapid development, I have no doubt what Andre sees there is way beyond that which I saw ten years ago.

If one compares China to the US, they are improving the quality of life for their people daily while building the BRI or Silk road across continents, they are not imperialist or hegemonous, and they haven’t invaded another nation militarily since 1979, Vietnam. Compared to our record of interventions, bombings, wars of destruction, it does beg the question, who is the monster to be feared?

China isn’t a utopia, but many expats returning to the US, are shocked by our poor transportation and infrastructure, the homelessness, poverty, plus the high cost of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, etc. To some, like Andre, China does begin to look a lot like Utopia, in comparison.


On Jul 25, 2019, at 14:18, Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu<mailto:brussel at illinois.edu>> wrote:

…While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia,…

When he goes overboard, as he did in this article , he discredits his message. It was more than a "little overboard". Vitchek has done this kind of commentary before. Poetic license?

On Jul 25, 2019, at 9:43 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

Again, thank you to J.B. Nicholson for placing programs and links on the Peace List, for all to view with ease.

I especially liked Carl’s reading of the Andre Vltchek article related to China. While Andre goes a little overboard  painting China as Utopia, it is a perfect contrast to the usual propaganda received from western media, which includes Al Jazeera. China is making progress in all areas.

I am especially fond of Vltchek, not because his writing is often beautifully poetic, but because he has a very sharp eye. He did an article on Thailand about six years ago, which impressed me, given his very astute analysis unlike so much of the propaganda we usually see in relation to the politics of this US aircraft carrier in SE Asia. He didn’t do what most journalists do, including those who live there, or reside in the region, focus on receiving their information from western embassy personnel, locals whether Thai or expat, or worse yet, the Foreign Correspondents Club.

Having lived in that nation for twenty two years, I knew what we were being told wasn’t real, but was only able to discover upon doing the research and discussions with Thai exiles, residing in the US due to their politics. The problems related to poverty and exploitation have existed in Thailand for decades even century’s, but very few see it for what it is, focusing on palace intrigue and Party politics. Little different than here.

On Jul 24, 2019, at 16:18, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

AWARE on the Air #487
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liWRv15sufU

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Andre Vltchek on "Reason Why the West is Determined to Ignore China’s Success"
https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/17/reason-why-west-is-determined-to-ignore-china-s-success/

Related: "China and Ecological Civilization" John B. Cobb, Jr. in conversation with Andre Vltchek
ISBN 978-6025095450



Susan McWilliams on "The True and Only Lasch: On 'The True and Only Heaven', 25 Years Later"
https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/the-true-and-only-laschbr-on-ithe-true-and-only-heaven-i-25-years-later/

Which concludes:
In our own time, when the noise of progressivism is louder than
ever—often represented, among other ways, in the understandable but
naive claims that the world has changed fundamentally during the past
twenty-five years—it is a better time than ever to turn and return to
The True and Only Heaven, to dive below the distracting noise of the
moment and consider the greater currents upon which we are carried. In
doing so, we may also ensure that the challenges Lasch set for himself
were not undertaken in vain, and that he may continue to help us tie
present to past.


Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad"
https://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/celest.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/512 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" in various formats.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNyckZdNoQw -- "On Contact with Chris Hedges"; Chris Hedges interviews Kerry-Anne Mendoza

-J
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Sat Jul 27 00:10:34 2019
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:10:34 -0500
Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #430 notes
Message-ID: <1ffc660d-dff1-f553-648d-4a9ff0cbb634@forestfield.org>

News from Neptune #430
A "Mueller Time Out" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQmiNS6tNGA

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Jack Heyman on "Whitewashing American History: the WPA Mural Controversy in 
San Francisco"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/whitewashing-american-history-the-wpa-mural-controversy-in-san-francisco/

Unitarian Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign
https://uucuc.org/

Dead Pundit Society show on "The Racial and Political Legacy of the New 
Deal w/ Richard Walker"
Part 1 of 2: 
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/649213451-deadpundits-the-racial-and-political-legacy-of-the-new-deal-w-richard-walker.mp3
Part 2 of 2: 
http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/650143733-deadpundits-lessons-for-the-green-new-deal-from-the-past-w-richard-walker-b-side.mp3
RSS feed for Dead Pundit Society show: 
https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:292981343/sounds.rss

CUP (CU Progressives)
https://cup61820.org/

The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/white-supremacy-culture-characteristics.html

Diana Johnstone on "The San Francisco Murals and the “Suicide of the Left”"
https://www.globalresearch.ca/san-francisco-murals-suicide-left/5682193

Walter Benn Michaels on "It's Not Racism vs. Anti-Racism; It's Capitalism 
vs. Socialism"
https://www.thenation.com/article/what-is-the-left-without-identity-politics/
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/12/18/its-not-racism-vs-anti-racism-its-capitalism-vs-socialism

Zack Budryk on "Pressley defends breaking with 'squad' on BDS vote"
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/454596-pressley-defends-breaking-with-squad-on-bds-vote

Related: 
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/tulsi-gabbard-vote-against-bds-ayanna-pressley-united-states-congress-anti-bds-bill-20190725-0009.html 
-- Tulsi Gabbard, Ro Khanna, and Ayanna Pressley voted for AIPAC’s 
resolution to condemn BDS.

Related: https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/1154089799923298304 -- 
"Tulsi Gabbard, Ro Khanna & Ayanna Pressley all just voted for AIPAC’s 
resolution to condemn BDS. It’s not progressive to embolden Trump’s attacks 
& legitimize an apartheid state committing an ongoing massacre." (Abby Martin)

Related: 
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/18/mike-capuano-ayanna-pressley-massachusetts-primary/ 
-- Lee Fang, Zaid Jilani on "One of the Strongest Progressives in Congress 
Is Facing a Primary Challenger Invoking Identity and Change. Will She 
Unseat Him?"

J.B. Nicholson's notes
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-July/051073.html

-J

From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Mon Jul 29 20:24:55 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:24:55 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] WaPo: how Pete B. went from war
 protester to war veteran
In-Reply-To: <1DAEE8BE-72AD-4FFC-A93A-F1C16431CD5F@gmail.com>
References: <CALMNhNTa0NMy90BE-tV5UD03MsCPj2tG-bqSSj7anhR3qJY7Fg@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CALMNhNRD3OdTpP7rfvLE380KTGY+sBAb5tQJ+hH6Mikbq-9E3Q@mail.gmail.com>

It's amazing what these people get away with thanks to TV "news." Kamala
Harris got all this fawning TV "news" coverage for her takedown of Biden on
federally-forced busing. She later admitted that she is also against
federally-forced busing, the exact same position as Biden. The TV media are
rewarding favored candidates for shallow posturing. The NYT and WaPo race
to catch up. Not that I love the NYT and WaPo; I hate them too. But
compared to the TV "news" they are I.F. Stone.

===

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Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1





On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 3:07 PM C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> The best analysis of Buttigieg I’ve seen (I knew his father sightly at
> Notre Dame) is by Nathan Robinson in the excellent Current Affairs:
>
> <https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete>.
>
> And here’s Robinson’s interesting follow-up to his article: <
> https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/why-bother-trying-to-persuade-anyone
> >.
>
> —CGE
>
>
>
> > On Jul 29, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > This is pretty damning.
> >
> > "It was only after Barack Obama was elected, and just months before
> Buttigieg would launch his own political career, that he finally walked
> into the recruiting office.
> >
> > Only then did he decide to join a conflict that six years earlier he had
> denounced from the stage of an antiwar rally."
> >
> >
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/29/how-pete-buttigieg-went-war-protester-packing-my-bags-afghanistan/
> >
> > ===
> >
> > Robert Reuel Naiman
> > Policy Director
> > Just Foreign Policy
> > www.justforeignpolicy.org
> > naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> > (202) 448-2898 x1
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Mon Jul 29 21:15:36 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:15:36 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] WaPo: how Pete B. went from war
 protester to war veteran
In-Reply-To: <E5F210BD-8A71-49D1-80D7-F5B6E925B2C3@gmail.com>
References: <CALMNhNTa0NMy90BE-tV5UD03MsCPj2tG-bqSSj7anhR3qJY7Fg@mail.gmail.com>
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As horrible as the so-called "debates" are, there's always a chance for the
truth to break free.

Check this out. She's going to be on the debate stage.

2020 Democrat Marianne Williamson: U.S. backing "genocidal war" in Yemen
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marianne-williamson-on-face-the-nation-2020-democratic-candidate-says-u-s-backing-genocidal-war-in-yemen/

===

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Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 4:11 PM C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> I’m going to feature Robinson’s stuff on Buttigieg on AWARE ON THE AIR
> tomorrow, while the WaPo-faced MSM is featuring his war record…
>
> The political establishment as usual is frightened that peace may break
> out and constrain the pro-war-provocation/pro-concentration-of-wealth
> policies that have been the mainstay of all recent administrations.
>
> —CGE
>
> PS - I had the pleasure of knowing Stone slightly, long ago and far away.
> A great man - requiescat in pace.
>
>
> > On Jul 29, 2019, at 3:24 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > It's amazing what these people get away with thanks to TV "news." Kamala
> Harris got all this fawning TV "news" coverage for her takedown of Biden on
> federally-forced busing. She later admitted that she is also against
> federally-forced busing, the exact same position as Biden. The TV media are
> rewarding favored candidates for shallow posturing. The NYT and WaPo race
> to catch up. Not that I love the NYT and WaPo; I hate them too. But
> compared to the TV "news" they are I.F. Stone.
> >
> > ===
> >
> > Robert Reuel Naiman
> > Policy Director
> > Just Foreign Policy
> > www.justforeignpolicy.org
> > naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> > (202) 448-2898 x1
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 3:07 PM C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> > The best analysis of Buttigieg I’ve seen (I knew his father sightly at
> Notre Dame) is by Nathan Robinson in the excellent Current Affairs:
> >
> > <https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete>.
> >
> > And here’s Robinson’s interesting follow-up to his article: <
> https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/why-bother-trying-to-persuade-anyone
> >.
> >
> > —CGE
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jul 29, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > This is pretty damning.
> > >
> > > "It was only after Barack Obama was elected, and just months before
> Buttigieg would launch his own political career, that he finally walked
> into the recruiting office.
> > >
> > > Only then did he decide to join a conflict that six years earlier he
> had denounced from the stage of an antiwar rally."
> > >
> > >
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/29/how-pete-buttigieg-went-war-protester-packing-my-bags-afghanistan/
> > >
> > > ===
> > >
> > > Robert Reuel Naiman
> > > Policy Director
> > > Just Foreign Policy
> > > www.justforeignpolicy.org
> > > naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> > > (202) 448-2898 x1
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Peace-discuss mailing list
> > > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Peace-discuss mailing list
> > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
> > _______________________________________________
> > Peace-discuss mailing list
> > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
>
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From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org  Tue Jul 30 18:54:22 2019
From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:54:22 -0500
Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?JTA=3A_Max_Berger=2C_activist_against_Israel?=
	=?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_occupation=2C_is_now_aide_to_Elizabeth_Warren?=
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Let's make sure nothing bad happens to this guy.

If this guy keeps his job, it means these people are losing their power to
get people fired for criticizing the Israeli government.

https://www.jta.org/2019/07/29/united-states/meet-max-berger-the-jewish-anti-occupation-activist-on-elizabeth-warrens-campaign

Max Berger, an activist against Israel’s occupation, is an aide to
Elizabeth Warren
BY BEN SALES  JULY 29, 2019 3:08 PM

(JTA <http://www.jta.org/>) — Days after Israeli ground troops invaded Gaza
in 2014, a group of leftist millennial Jews gathered to plan a public
protest of the military operation.

The new group, which called itself IfNotNow, discussed a public
demonstration in front of the Conference of Presidents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, an establishment Jewish umbrella group.

Max Berger was one of the planners who urged them to take it a step
further: The protesters should get arrested at the Presidents’ Conference
headquarters in New York, he suggested. And they should recite kaddish, the
traditional Jewish mourner’s prayer, for Israelis and Palestinians who had
died in the fighting.

When the protest took place, on July 28, 2014, that’s what they did
<https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/9-young-Jews-arrested-at-NYC-anti-Israel-protest-369365>.
Berger was one of nine Jews arrested in the Presidents’ Conference building.

“Max, because of the experience that he brought, understood the value of
raising the stakes and bringing the crisis to the door of an institution
through the strategy of direct action in that way,” said Simone Zimmerman,
a fellow IfNotNow cofounder. “He knew how to bring that seriousness and
depth of pain and anger and betrayal, how to support a group into bringing
that out.”

IfNotNow was a new group, but for Berger, disruptive protest was an old
game. Berger, 33, is already a journeyman of the activist left, from Occupy
Wall Street to IfNotNow to Justice Democrats, the outfit that supported
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s unlikely primary win.

Now, he’s working for Sen. Elizabeth Warren as her director for progressive
partnerships, placing a leader of the millennial Jewish left-wing
insurgency inside an ascending Democratic presidential campaign.

The Warren campaign did not make Berger available for an interview. But his
friends, as well as the reams of online articles by him and quoting him,
indicate that he clicks with Warren’s combination of anti-establishment
rhetoric and detailed, wonky plans. In addition to IfNotNow, Berger
co-founded Momentum <https://www.momentumcommunity.org/>, a group that
trains progressive activists.

“Warren matches even his demeanor and his style of politics, which is very
deliberate and well thought out,” said Waleed Shahid, who has partnered
with Berger in progressive movements and is now the communications director
at Justice Democrats. “It’s funny that Warren’s slogan is ‘I have a plan
for that.’ Max would do trainings at Momentum about how organizations don’t
plan enough.”

Berger’s presence in the Warren campaign has also angered Jews on the
political right, and even some on the pro-Israel left. Canary Mission, the
anonymous blacklist of perceived anti-Israel “hate groups and their
members,” has an extensive dossier of his past tweets
<https://canarymission.org/individual/Max_Berger>and INN actions, accusing
him of “spreading hatred for Israel” and demonizing pro-Israel American
Jews. Others have cited Canary Mission in calling
<https://www.jns.org/opinion/zoa-urges-warren-to-fire-hamas-loving-israel-hating-ifnotnow-co-founder-max-berger/>
for
Berger to be fired
<https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-staffer-draws-criticism-for-anti-israel-tweet/>
.

Berger has deleted most of his tweets, but screenshots and quotations
preserved by his critics show personal support for boycotts of Israel (at
least as of two years ago) and calling Israel’s killing of Gazan protesters
in clashes on the border a “pogrom.” A tweet he wrote in 2017 says “I agree
with BDS, but it’s not a mistake to consider it largely anti-Zionist. For
Zionists, it’s an existential question.”

Carinne Luck, a co-founder of IfNotNow, clarified that while Berger
personally supports Israel boycotts, he does not identify with the Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions Movement.

For much of the Jewish pro-Israel mainstream, on the left as well as the
right, BDS is anathema, because its Palestinian leadership refuses to
accept a Jewish state in any part of historic Israel. Critics of IfNotNow
note that, according to its principles, the Jewish group does “not take a
unified stance on BDS, Zionism or the question of statehood.”

Mark Mellman, president and CEO of another new group, the Democratic
Majority for Israel, told JTA said it’s “deeply troubling at a policy level
that he cofounded an organization that does not recognize Israel’s right to
exist.” Mellman did not call for Berger to be fired.

The Progressive Zionists of California, a grassroots group of about 200
members, said IfNotNow displays “one-sided condemnation and vilification of
Israel” and called
<https://progressivezionist.wixsite.com/californiazionists/post/open-letter-to-senator-elizabeth-warren>
for
the Warren campaign to dismiss Berger, whom they grouped among “enemies of
Israel.”

“It puts [Warren] at risk to have someone with his public stances,” said
Susan George, a founding member of the California group and a 2016 delegate
for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. “Personally I’ve been a
huge fan of Elizabeth Warren. Since the financial crisis, she was my hero.
But to put someone like Max Berger in such a position to influence
progressives, it is concerning.”

But what critics see as a liability, Berger’s allies see as an an asset.
Berger’s hire is a sign, they said, that the Democratic party may be moving
left on Israel.

“It’s incredibly affirming and reassuring that the Warren campaign knew
everything there is to know about Max and still wanted him on board,” said
Luck. “I don’t think Elizabeth Warren’s campaign chose Max because of his
position on Israel-Palestine, but it does send a signal that someone with
views like Max’s would be there in such a serious political campaign.”

Berger’s presence on Warren’s campaign may be paying off for those who want
candidates to be tougher on Israel: When IfNotNow activists asked Warren
<https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/elizabeth-warren-says-yes-to-ending-the-occupation>,
at a campaign event, if she would “push the Israeli government to end the
occupation,” she replied, “Yes, yes,” then added, “So I’m there.”

In a June interview with The New York Times, Warren called Israel a “good
friend” and voiced support for a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
She said that the United States “cannot dictate the terms of a long-term
settlement” but added that “the current situation is not tenable.”

“They face enormous challenges and they are our strong ally,” she said. “We
need a liberal democracy in that region and to work with that liberal
democracy. But it is also the case that we need to encourage our ally, the
way we would any good friend, to come to the table with the Palestinians
and to work toward a permanent solution. I strongly support a two-state
solution.”

Berger has more moderate views than some of his Jewish leftist comrades. He
criticized
<https://thinkprogress.org/american-jews-shouldnt-let-the-right-smear-ilhan-omar-over-a-bad-tweet-8f9111074b1f/?fbclid=IwAR28CmAYf8zF0PX30dppJlUK6GoudFSUzP375x6XA--weTFfwbHWHrzqbNM>Rep.
Ilhan Omar’s statements echoing anti-Semitic stereotypes, as well as the
Movement for Black Lives accusing Israel of genocide
<https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-jews-must-fight-for-black-and-palestinian-freedom-1.5424320>.
He also encouraged the Jewish community to stand with both Omar and the
Black Lives Matter movement.

Berger grew up in Massachusetts and attended Reed College in Portland,
Oregon. His leftist streak started early. In high school, he organized a
trip to Washington, D.C. to protest against the Iraq War. His mother, Judy
Berger, remembers that he submitted a middle school paper about social
issues in Chiapas, Mexico, after he got interested in the local politics on
a family trip there.

“One of the teachers accused him of plagiarism and I was livid,” she said.
“There was no plagiarism involved. This was something this young kid was
concerned about and read about and knew about.”

After college, he worked at J Street, the liberal Israel lobby, as a new
media assistant. He gained notice as an organizer of the Occupy Wall Street
movement in 2011, where he was part of its more moderate wing.

“I don’t want to live in a fucking commune. I don’t want to blow shit up. I
want to get stuff done,” he told New York magazine.
<http://ag.com/news/politics/occupy-wall-street-2011-12/>

Berger bounced around progressive organizations. He worked for Rebuild the
Dream, founded by former Barack Obama aide Van Jones, as well as the
Progressive Change Campaign Committee. In 2017, after Donald Trump won the
presidential election, he and Shahid co-founded All of Us, a campaign to
elect progressive Democrats that eventually merged with Justice Democrats.

In 2016, he was an outspoken supporter of Bernie Sanders, writing in Haaretz
<https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-sanders-vs-the-out-of-touch-jewish-establishment-1.5433187>
that
the Vermont senator “speaks with a prophetic voice that is at the heart of
our tradition.” But even then, he carried a torch for Warren, writing
in a Medium
post
<https://medium.com/@maxberger/thoughts-on-the-first-demdebate-9d39d00470c0> on
the first debate between Sanders and Hillary Clinton that “there isn’t
anyone else on stage who people can imagine as president. [Clinton’s] real
victory came months ago when Elizabeth Warren decided not to run.”

“He ultimately, really is much more focused on a certain kind of winning or
a certain kind of impact,” said Lissy Romanow, Momentum’s executive
director, who also worked with Berger in IfNotNow. “He’s ultimately much
more sympathetic to Bernie’s ideology and his politics, and that
ultimately, what it will take to win and to govern, you will need something
more like what Warren has.”

Friends say Berger is also good at dealing with the kind of backlash he’s
experienced from his pro-Israel critics. Zimmerman, who was fired from
Sanders’ 2016 campaign
<https://www.jta.org/2016/04/14/politics/abe-foxman-bernie-sanders-head-of-jewish-outreach-should-be-fired-for-israel-criticism>
after
a similar wave of condemnation, recalls that he was supportive to her then
in speaking out for her and crafting an effective response.

Berger also has two tools to diffuse pressure, his friends say: an
addiction to Szechuan cuisine and bagels and lox, and a relentless gallows
humor. Berger’s Facebook cover photo, for example, is a popular meme of a
dog sipping coffee in a house engulfed in flames. In the classic meme,
meant to mock what leftists see as complacency in the face of American
democracy’s dire straits, the dog says “This is fine.” In Berger’s version,
the dog says “Give it a chance.”

“He does a very good Bernie impression,”said Shahid. “But I feel like that
will get him in trouble these days.”
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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Wed Jul 31 11:12:24 2019
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 06:12:24 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Voting Rights Vigil Aug 6
Message-ID: <CANDTtd=GoVRR1a=Edds9HGCHKSWO3NALsPnbOQ0RGhmC_e7mPg@mail.gmail.com>

Good morning.

Central IL chapter of Progressive Democrats of America is sponsoring a
Voting Rights Vigil at Rodney Davis' office on August 6 at noon as part of
a nationwide effort to "shine a light on voting rights." The Voting Rights
Act was passed 54 years ago. In 2013 the Supreme Court essentially gutted
it with the Shelby County v. Holder decision. Most recently, Rep. Davis
voted against HR 2272, the SAFE Act, addressing election security through
grant programs and requirements for voting systems and paper ballots. Sen.
McConnell refuses to bring any election security bills to the  Senate floor
for a vote (turns out he gets lots of money from electronic voting machine
manufacturers).

Champaign County finally has a County Clerk who is interested in increasing
and expanding voting locally. Join us at noon to express your support for
voting rights and get pumped up for canvassing, phonebanking, and other
activities to elect even more Democrats (hopefully progressive ones) in
Champaign County and beyond.


Here is link for Voting Rights Vigil on Aug 6, noon, Davis' office, 2004
Fox Dr, Champaign:

https://actionnetwork.org/events/voting-rights-act-vigil?referrer=debra-schrishuhn&source=direct_link

In solidarity,
Deb
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Wed Jul 31 23:19:01 2019
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:19:01 -0500
Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #488 notes
Message-ID: <80575b59-aefb-7270-b6e0-0ff3ba0c4204@forestfield.org>

AWARE on the Air #488
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DevlOQV-F8

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

Steve Hendrix, Josh Partlow on "How Pete Buttigieg went from war protester 
to ‘packing my bags for Afghanistan’"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/29/how-pete-buttigieg-went-war-protester-packing-my-bags-afghanistan/

Robert Naiman in response
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-July/051081.html

Nathan J. Robinson on "All About Pete"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE1AjPmC9dk -- Jimmy Dore and crew 
on wealthy actor Alyssa Milano's conclusion that policies don't matter and 
all that matters is "beating Trump" in 2020. She maintains this position 
because, for her and other members of the elite, policies really don't 
matter -- she has the healthcare she and her family need, she can afford a 
nice place to live, and knows where her next meals are coming from. She'd 
rather avoid a policy discussion rather than reveal how much a member of 
the 1% she is. The 99%, on the other hand, don't have this certainty about 
their immediate future. So for the 99% policies matter a great deal because 
neoliberalism (a set of policies which increase the distance between the 
wealthy and the poor and do so at an accelerating rate) hurt their 
interests. Those interests include a living wage, health care, having a 
good home in which to live (not merely avoiding homelessness) with 
lead-free paint and running potable water, and so many other things 
elitists like Milano can afford to buy if necessary. The poor lose their 
children to the neocon wars they must enter because joining the military is 
the only chance they have at going to college and having an increased 
chance of getting a full-time wage job. The operative factors of the 2016 
and 2020 US presidential elections are very much about class, not "beating 
Trump".

-J