[Peace] AWARE on the Air #488 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

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