From cgestabrook at gmail.com Sat Mar 2 00:43:33 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 18:43:33 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune for March 1 Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qezuDBnm0pY&fbclid=IwAR0B2rR0dF8ogbZ3I-KhJEebpMWcd_0LtJO-Dq2LMEZXrvXJ9n0R03GycQU Welcome to News from Neptune for March 1, in the ninth week of 2019. I’m Carl Estabrook. Our program is conceived in the spirit of Rosa Luxemburg - murdered by a social democratic government a century ago - who said, “The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.” That begins by calling things by the right name, particularly in regard to socialism and capitalism. Our mentor Noam Chomsky says, “Terms like capitalism & socialism have been so evacuated of meaning that I don't like to use them. There's nothing remotely like capitalism in existence. To the extent there ever was, it disappeared by the 1920’s. Every industrial society is one form or another of state capitalism.” That doesn’t deny that state capitalist regimes that called themselves socialist made immense strides in the 20th century - in Russia & China, notably. Since the last decade of that century, our program has been a weekly hour of spontaneous & unrehearsed discussion of the news of the week and its coverage by the media, done in the spirit of Noam Chomsky - first, on a so-called community radio station - and now via Urbana Public TV and YouTube. (Earlier editions of this program are available at . ) Chomsky says that in the U.S. media, “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.” David Green & I will try to say some true things on today’s “WAR PARTY WINS” edition of News from Neptune. ============== “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum – even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” [Chomsky] From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Mar 3 03:53:31 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 03:53:31 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Film of Stealth Militarization of Africa Panel Discussion References: <1551570700992.89966@urbanaillinois.us> Message-ID: > > https://youtu.be/cxfdxppipe4 > From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Mar 3 03:53:31 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 03:53:31 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Film of Stealth Militarization of Africa Panel Discussion References: <1551570700992.89966@urbanaillinois.us> Message-ID: > > https://youtu.be/cxfdxppipe4 > From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Mar 3 12:59:19 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 12:59:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace] It's estimated 40, 000 Yellow Vests demonstrated in the 16th week of protests across France. Message-ID: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Mar 3 12:59:19 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 12:59:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace] It's estimated 40, 000 Yellow Vests demonstrated in the 16th week of protests across France. Message-ID: From cgestabrook at gmail.com Wed Mar 6 05:14:36 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 23:14:36 -0600 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air, March 5, 2019 Message-ID: <981EC1EE-C76A-4F5F-8C7C-D249E29FFA4B@gmail.com> Urbana Public Television Check out today’s edition of “AWARE on the Air” https://youtu.be/VP9PFO7mehA ### From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Mar 8 00:28:02 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 00:28:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Alert: Nationwide blackout hits Venezuela, Rubio calls for 'widespread unrest' References: <5c81b3e35e0ea_1067f6f8f4c8658c@asgworker-qmb3-11.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: [ANSWER Coalition] ALERT — Venezuela in the crosshairs: Nationwide blackout hits Venezuela Most of Venezuela has been suddenly plunged into darkness in a nationwide blackout. The state electricity authority in Venezuela says one of the country’s main power plant has been subject to an attack. Venezuelans were on their way home after work when nearly all of the nation’s lights went out. Just today, Sen. Rubio said at the Senate hearing on Venezuela that “widespread unrest” in the country should be promoted to advance Washington’s goal of regime change. Trump, Bolton and the CIA are going to pull out all the stops to overthrow the government and impose an ultra-right wing, semi-fascist government in Venezuela. The U.S. anti-war movement is mobilizing to march on the White House on Saturday March 16. Hands off Venezuela! No coup, no sanctions, no war! Please make an urgently needed donation to this demonstration in response to the looming threat of war against Venezuela. If you have not yet made your arrangements, you can buy a bus ticket now on the ANSWER Coalition website from Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Newark / New Brunswick, NJ; New Haven, CT; New York City (Manhattan or Bronx); Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; vans are also being organized from cities across the Midwest. The stakes couldn't be higher. Take action now! ANSWER Coalition http://www.answercoalition.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Mar 8 16:03:21 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 16:03:21 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Excellent article on Venezuela and Columbia References: Message-ID: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/07/setting-the-stage-for-an-encounter-at-the-colombia-venezuela-border/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Mar 9 17:01:19 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 17:01:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace] :UPDATE: SHUT DOWN CREECH! Spring 2019, STOP U.S. DRONE STILLING References: Message-ID: Drones are “almost more frightening than nuclear weapons because nuclear weapons are not being used but this kind of targeting is going to destroy the world as we know it to be in completely new ways.” -Arundhati Roy killingNOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice, and certainly without probable cause. This is being done without any judicial or legislative oversight. Please urge the Congress to legislate against violations of the US constitution and demand investigation of all responsible. PLEASE SEND A "GOT IT” REPLY to ASSURE US THAT YOU GOT THIS MESSAGE! Thanks! 3 WEEKS TO SHUT DOWN CREECH, SPRING 2019 March 30-April 5. Details Here! Register Here! 10 Years of Drone Resistance at Creech Killer Drone Base Join CODEPINK, Veterans For Peace, and other activists ! Buy your tickets to Las Vegas soon! Drones are “almost more frightening than nuclear weapons because nuclear weapons are not being used but this kind of targeting is going to destroy the world as we know it to be in completely new ways.” -Arundhati Roy [cid:17F07DA8-9779-4D05-B929-CD3080B0427A at hsd1.ca.comcast.net] Watch 2 min. disturbing plea by Col. Julian Cheater CREECH COMMANDER “Hunters: Deliver Justice!” says Col. Cheater. Really? Hunting people is Justice??? U.S. drone murdering contunues to expand. Important Articles to Read: US Army Uses Special Ops Drone Squadron to “Decimate ISIS” Trump Ends Rule Requiring US to Disclose Number of Civilians Killed by Drone Strikes The Gray Eagles have been smuggled into Fort Carson with lots of happy talk We hope you will join us in saying no to this cruel & bloody madness! Bring friends! Eleanor, Maggie & Toby Details Here! Register Here! SHUT DOWN CREECH, Fall 2018: [cid:C08A63AE-2F63-4BC6-9D52-958D57C92A9C at hsd1.ca.comcast.net] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: photo 3.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 61114 bytes Desc: photo 3.jpeg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 20181002_071507.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 125473 bytes Desc: 20181002_071507.jpeg URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Mar 9 17:43:07 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2019 17:43:07 +0000 Subject: [Peace] The Yellow Vests are back Message-ID: https://sputniknews.com/europe/201903091073080249-yellow-vests-protests/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Mar 12 11:33:17 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:33:17 +0000 Subject: [Peace] US Budget for Worldwide War, White House requests more for military, less for social services. Message-ID: HERE WE GO, requests for cuts in social services while providing more to the military than the Pentagon requested, by the White House, with the usual fun and games by the Democrats: A US BUDGET FOR WORLDWIDE WAR 12 March 2019 The budget request made public Monday by the White House must be taken by the international working class as a serious warning. The US government is preparing for full-scale war abroad and savage attacks on the living standards and social benefits of working people at home. The most powerful imperialist state is seeking a record level of military spending, while demanding unprecedented cuts in spending on social necessities such as healthcare, education and the environment. The Trump administration proposes to give the Pentagon an increase nearly double that sought by the military establishment itself—a 4.7 percent rise over current spending, double the 2.4 percent increase for which Defense Department officials had been planning. The dollar amount of the increase is $34 billion, while the Pentagon asked for only $17 billion. Total US military spending of $750 billion would be larger than the 2018 military spending of the next 14 countries combined—China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, India, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Brazil, Australia, Italy, Israel and Iraq. Perhaps the most startling and ominous figure in the budget request is the proposed increase for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), the all-purpose war-fighting category that includes funding for the US interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, drone warfare across the wider Middle East and North Africa, and the US military buildup on the borders of Russia (European Deterrence Initiative). While the fiscal year 2019 budget provides $69 billion for OCO, the request for FY 2020 balloons to a staggering $164 billion. Initial press reports, citing White House sources, claim that this is an accounting gimmick, reclassifying a significant portion of the regular Pentagon budget as OCO in order to allow the military nominally to comply with spending caps set in 2011 under a bipartisan budget agreement between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans, but routinely evaded in congressional budget deal-making since then. Under that scenario, the Trump administration would declare that it was now observing the caps, imposing them on domestic spending through a savage across-the-board cut of at least five percent. Meanwhile, overall military spending would soar, since money for the OCO is not counted towards the spending caps. Whatever the truth of such assertions, funneling almost $100 billion more into Overseas Contingency Operations has implications far beyond Trump’s maneuvers with Congress, and would surely provoke alarm in Tehran, Moscow and Beijing. It would give the Pentagon more than enough money to fight a major war, such as an invasion of Iran or Venezuela, both targets of Trump fist-shaking in recent months, or North Korea, if the current talks between Washington and Pyongyang collapse completely. This vast sum could even be used to finance the initial stages of a war with China or Russia, if such a conflict did not immediately escalate into a world-destroying nuclear holocaust. Moreover, given Trump’s ongoing effort to use the declaration of a bogus “national emergency” on the US-Mexico border to redirect Pentagon funds towards the building of his border wall, the creation of a gigantic $164 billion OCO slush fund would give the commander-in-chief virtually free rein for military operations around the world, or within the United States itself. For a sense of the scale of the war allocation, the $164 billion OCO fund by itself is roughly equal to the total military budget of China, at $168 billion, and nearly three times the $63 billion military budget of Russia. It would pay for Trump’s border wall many times over. Specific military spending categories that have been reported include $104 billion for research and development, with the main focus on hypersonic weapons (missiles and planes flying much faster than sound), on artificial intelligence systems (cyberwarfare and automated battlefield weapons), and “space-based technologies.” The Navy will contract for two new Gerald Ford-class supercarriers, costing upwards of $13 billion apiece. The Air Force will buy upgraded F-15 fighter jets from Boeing and more F-35s from Lockheed Martin. Tens of billions will go to update and modernize US nuclear weaponry. Then there is a $9.2 billion “emergency requirements” item that would “address border security and hurricane recovery.” The portion devoted to “hurricane recovery” is for past and future damage to US military facilities and the cost of deploying US military resources during and after a storm, not for civilian needs. And “border security” would give Trump yet another pot of money to fund the US-Mexico border wall, in addition to the $8.6 billion formally requested in the budget for that purpose. While proposing this bonanza for the Pentagon, the Trump budget would impose the biggest cuts in Medicaid and Medicare in history, nearly $2 trillion over 10 years. Medicaid would be converted into block grants to the states, with spending increases limited to the rate of overall inflation, not the much higher rate of health care cost inflation, forcing almost immediate cuts by the states. In addition, the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare would be repealed, cutting off health coverage for more than 10 million people. The total savings over 10 years are estimated at $1.1 trillion. Another $845 billion would be slashed from Medicare by slashing reimbursements to hospitals and other health care providers and eliminating “waste, fraud and abuse.” According to a White House summary reported by the Washington Post, other federal social spending would be slashed even more in percentage terms, although by smaller dollar amounts: $327 billion over 10 years from food stamps, housing assistance and other means-tested programs; $200 billion from retirement programs for federal and postal workers; $207 billion from college student loan programs, including those that provide food and housing assistance; cuts of 32 percent from the Environmental Protection Agency, 22 percent from the Department of Transportation, 11 percent from the Department of the Interior, 12 percent from the Department of Education and 12 percent from the Department of Health and Human Services. The response by congressional Democrats and the media to the Trump budget has been to focus on the $8.6 billion request for the border wall—the issue that was the trigger for a 35-day partial shutdown of the federal government that ended in late January. This is a deliberate diversion, allowing the Democrats to posture as intransigent opponents of Trump while they quarrel with him over a sum that represents less than two one-thousandths of a $4.6 trillion budget. The Democratic leadership fully embraced Trump’s military budget as part of a bipartisan deal last year, and it is just as enthusiastically in support of the Pentagon this year. In fact, the Democrats have generally attacked Trump from the right on foreign policy, demanding a more aggressive stance toward Russia in Syria and Eastern Europe, against North Korea, and in opposition to China, particularly on trade. Even on border security, the Democrats are in full support of further massive spending increases to deploy more technology and hire more Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement thugs to persecute immigrants, so long as it isn’t labeled as money for Trump’s wall. The delivery of Trump’s proposed budget begins an entirely predictable and cynical sham fight in Washington. The Democrats will denounce the proposed cuts in Medicaid, Medicare and other social programs and vow to fight them to the death. They will ultimately do a deal with Trump that includes major new cuts in social programs, which do not, however, go as far as the White House proposals, in return for full funding for the US military-intelligence apparatus, the most reactionary and dangerous force on the planet. Patrick Martin WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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What's up with that? http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2019-03-14/letter-the-editor-bush-poor-choice-award.html Letter to the Editor | Bush a poor choice for award Thu, 03/14/2019 - 8:34pm | The News-Gazette The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation is showcasing more poor decisions. They are not financial this time. They announced that former President George W. Bush is their 2019 Lincoln Leadership Prize recipient, praising him for things that truly deserve condemnation. They praise the No Child Left Behind Act, but states balked at federal overreach and Congress declined to reauthorize it in 2007. They praise his global HIV/AIDS initiative and fail to mention the Global Gag Rule on family planning he reinstated from Ronald Reagan's era. They praise his global coalition building "to remove violent regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq," but anti-American sentiment abounds, and violent regimes now mimic us by using anti-terrorism as an excuse to crush dissent. The people of Afghanistan and Iraq did nothing to threaten us pre-9/11, but they have every reason to hate us now. Lincoln struggled to bring the country together against the warped ideology and market forces supporting slavery. His idea of coalition building involved listening to people who disagreed with him. Bush promoted American solidarity by telling us to go shopping. His idea of coalition building was "you are either with us or against us." The legacy of Bush's presidency is the economic and moral downfall of America. He tore Southwest Asia apart for his own interests, and it has cost us nearly five trillion dollars. This cost does not reflect the generations of American, coalition and "enemy" children left behind in his wake. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Mar 19 11:44:23 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:44:23 +0000 Subject: [Peace] THU, MAR 28 AT 7 PM CDT Film Night: Shadow War in the Sahara Lincoln Hall Room 1066, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL Message-ID: Party for Socialism and Liberation - Champaign-Urbanaadded an event. 10 hrs · A few weeks ago, we hosted a panel featuring several UIUC faculty, activists, and a PhD candidate on how the US has militarized Africa through the stealthy methods of neocolonialism. Come join us at this follow up event in which we will view the Al Jazeera documentary called "The Shadow War in the Sahara", which investigates the tactics and effects of the militarization of Africa. After it is over, we will facilitate discussion on this documentary and the broader implications of the militarization of Africa. For more information on the documentary: https://www.aljazeera.com/…/shadow-war-sahara-1610090250238… THU, MAR 28 AT 7 PM CDT Film Night: Shadow War in the Sahara Lincoln Hall Room 1066, 702 S Wright St, Urbana, IL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brussel at illinois.edu Tue Mar 19 16:24:56 2019 From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:24:56 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Something to bother one's conscience Message-ID: <87C0CDC5-2564-457B-B117-CBC3E05B1F30@illinois.edu> I proffer this for your thoughts: https://portside.org/2019-03-18/defy-thought-police-stand-assange Thanks to John Pilger Mort -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbw292002 at gmail.com Tue Mar 19 16:36:04 2019 From: jbw292002 at gmail.com (John W.) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:36:04 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Something to bother one's conscience In-Reply-To: <87C0CDC5-2564-457B-B117-CBC3E05B1F30@illinois.edu> References: <87C0CDC5-2564-457B-B117-CBC3E05B1F30@illinois.edu> Message-ID: I had no idea that Assange was living under such stark conditions in the Ecuadorian embassy. I'm curious why they take him in on the one hand, and then treat him so shabbily on the other. Thanks for sharing this, Mort. On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:25 AM Brussel, Morton K via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: I proffer this for your thoughts: > > https://portside.org/2019-03-18/defy-thought-police-stand-assange > > Thanks to John Pilger > > Mort > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net Tue Mar 19 17:13:53 2019 From: davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net (David Johnson) Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:13:53 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Something to bother one's conscience In-Reply-To: References: <87C0CDC5-2564-457B-B117-CBC3E05B1F30@illinois.edu> Message-ID: <00d801d4de77$21fe5ea0$65fb1be0$@comcast.net> John, The answer to that question is that when Rafael Correa did not run for re-election as the President of Ecuador ( due to constitutional restrictions ) , which he had already served his two 5-year term limits, his vice-president Lenin Moreno ran and was elected. As soon as Moreno took office, he immediately shifted policies 180 degrees from the Left-wing progressive Rafael Correa ( who by the way attended the U of I here in C-U for his graduate degree in Economics ) to right-wing neo-liberal austerity policies and immediately sucking up to the U.S. government. Correa was closely aligned with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia, and forced the U.S. to close all of its military bases in Ecuador. When the U.S. protested Correa famously stated ; “ You won’t allow Ecuador to have a military base in Florida, why should you be allowed to have any here. “. Correa also sued Exxon and other oil companies and forced them to clean up their pollution in Ecuador. Hence Assange started as a welcomed guest in the London Ecuadorian embassy to now a prisoner who is being psychologically tortured and denied food and medicine at times, as well as confined to one room. Moreno is trying to force Assange to leave the embassy on his own so that the Brits can arrest him as soon as he steps out the door and then turn him over to the CIA / State Department for extradition to the U.S for trial and sent to a super max federal prison in solitary confinement with no access to family or attorneys. See article below about the traitor Lenin Moreno. David J. Lenín Moreno’s Betrayal By Timm Benjamin Schützhofer Ecuador's Lenín Moreno has allied with former political opponents to implement a conservative economic agenda, threatening to undo the country’s strides in tackling poverty and inequality under Rafael Correa. https://images.jacobinmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/15171743/1024px-RENDICIO%CC%81N_DE_CUENTAS_LENIN_MORENO_41425901925.jpg Lenín Moreno celebrating his first year in office at the National Assembly in Quito on May 24, 2018 Agencia de Noticias ANDES / Wikimedia Commons Are social conditions in Ecuador beginning to deteriorate ? A report released in June 2018 on poverty and inequality by Ecuador’s National Institute of Statistics and Census found that poverty crept up slightly between June 2017 and June 2018, with 24.5 percent of the population living in poverty, up from 23.1 percent the year before. While these numbers may appear low, they could be a sign of things to come as the Ecuadorian government under Lenín Moreno doubles down on economic policies favoring austerity and deregulation while attempting to discredit the Left. The political and economic prognosis appeared quite different when Moreno was elected in April 2017, representing the center-left ruling party, Alianza País (Country Alliance), narrowly defeating neoliberal banker Guillermo Lasso. The Latin American left, against the backdrop of a resurgent Right turn, was relieved: onlookers expected Moreno to continue the progressive advances his predecessor, Rafael Correa, had made during his tenure in office under the Citizens’ Revolution, with perhaps a softer edge. But once in office, Moreno swiftly pivoted on his campaign promises, governing with a right-wing neoliberal agenda that has already chipped away at the gains of the Citizens’ Revolution and could threaten to bury it entirely. Alianza País is now split. Moreno, who served as Correa’s vice president from 2007 to 2013, has changed the party leadership and its priorities. Correa and his supporters left the party in January 2018 and have not been allowed to form their own party structures since. Meanwhile, under Moreno’s leadership, Alianza País has lost much of its previous support. Since his inauguration, Moreno has claimed his government inherited an economic and institutional crisis, presenting neoliberal adjustment policies and austerity as the solution. In the process, Moreno and his allies have lambasted Correa-era infrastructure projects as examples of government corruption and mismanagement as well as cornerstone education and technology projects , such as the innovation hub known as Yachay City of Knowledge. He also cautioned that the recently refurbished oil refinery in Esmeraldas was severely damaged — its scheduled temporary shutdown was postponed repeatedly until it was finally enacted in March 2019. Moreno has claimed that Correa installed a camera in the presidential palace to monitor his every move. The new authorities also tried to put Correa on trial on numerous occasions in a clear attempt of political persecution. One of the attempts was to put Correa on trial for kidnapping without noteworthy evidence. Interpol failed to issue a red alert notice citing human rights. Far from a personal feud between two leading politicians, less than two years into his term in office Moreno has proven that, despite being elected as a candidate of the Left, his government is executing a right-wing agenda. The Citizens’ Revolution The Citizens’ Revolution, led by Rafael Correa from 2007 to 2017, followed a period of high instability and dissatisfaction with the neoliberal development model. Influential and politically well-connected business groups were able to negotiate special regulations and capture rents through cartels and monopolies. Between 1996 and 2006, no elected president had been able to complete his term of office. In the late 1990s, Ecuador slid into a severe crisis following financial deregulation. Economic output plummeted and the state shelled out billions to rescue the banks. Then-President Jamil Mahuad, whose government had close ties with the financial sector , was eventually overthrown in a popular uprising in early 2000, shortly after announcing the country’s official dollarization. Even before the crisis, inequality had increased massively. In the period between 1999 and 2005, hundreds of thousands of Ecuadorians left the country, mainly to Spain and the United States. The remittances they sent home, along with rising oil revenues, were essential to economic recovery. However, while economic crisis eased, political instability continued. In 2005, the next elected president, Lucio Gutiérrez, was toppled. The slogan “Que se vayan todos”, or “Out with them all,” illustrated that protests took aim at the entire political-economic establishment. Rafael Correa’s election marked a fundamental change in Ecuadorian politics. His Citizens’ Revolution passed one of the world’s most progressive constitutions in 2008, approved by popular vote in 2008. The new constitution marked a clear departure from neoliberalism by enshrining the principle of good living, or buen vivir in Spanish or sumak kawsay in Quechua, and emphasized social and cultural rights, a stronger role of the state, and socially and environmentally sustainable development. Given the dissatisfaction with the established party system and its ties to business elites, Correa’s actions to limit the influence of the special interest groups were highly popular. His approval rating was close to 74 percent in 2007 and only dropped below 50 percent in 2016, according to Latinobarometro. The Correa government owed much of its popularity to its massive investments in public infrastructure, roads, hydroelectric power plants, schools, health centers, and other projects. In order to reduce reliance on volatile oil revenues, the government spearheaded a fight against tax evasion and avoidance, leading to significant increases in fiscal revenues including social security from 12.7 percent in 2006 to 20.5 percent in 2015. Oil revenues were no longer invested abroad for low returns at home, but used to strengthen social and economic infrastructure in Ecuador. Many of these investments help to stabilize today’s foreign trade balance. Ecuador’s per capita economic growth averaged 1.5 percent between 2006 and 2016, well above the growth rate of 0.6 percent from 1980 to 2006. The proportion of residents with unmet basic needs fell from 52 percent in 2006 to less than 36 percent in 2014. However, the government faced criticism for pushing through an extractivist agenda and not going far enough to put the rights of nature enshrined in the constitution into practice. The government’s relations to social movements and trade unions were fraught. Social movements opposed Correa’s rejection of a rapid transition from extractivism, which has long been a cornerstone of Ecuador’s economy. At the same time, some of the better-organized trade unions and social movement organizations that had gained niches of influence in the government before the Citizens’ Revolution, found themselves shut out of political decision-making under the Correa government. When Correa began to push through an anti-corporatist agenda, the most affected groups were elite representatives, but trade unions and social movements lost presence within the state apparatus as well. In response, these groups started to oppose the government. Beyond that, the Correa government’s confrontational style fueled conflicts with social movements. Government attempts to withdraw legal status from the environmentalist NGO Acción Ecológica certainly contributed to the narrative of an authoritarian government as well as government attempts to ouster the Indigenous CONAIE federation from its head office in Quito, allegedly due to continued violations of the legal terms of usage. While the Correa government denounced violence by anti-government groups, Indigenous and environmentalist movements saw government support for extractivism as the root cause for violence. Though in some cases these movements charged Correa with not going far enough, most saw his party as more supportive of the rights of nature than other parties, owing in part to social movements’ initial support for Moreno. The Citizens’ Revolution entered a difficult period in 2014, in part due to the crash in oil prices. Oil exports plummeted from about $13 billion in 2014 to little more than $5 billion in 2016. Total exports fell from $25.8 billion to just $16.8 billion. A devastating earthquake in 2016 worsened the situation. Due to dollarization, the government had less recourse for adjusting exchange rates. Credit requirements rose while interest rates for new loans increased. Ecuador’s economic output stagnated in 2015 and fell by 1.2 percent in 2016 according to ECLAC figures. Yet by 2017, the economy was growing again. The Correa government withstood pressures for more radical steps towards austerity that would have deepened the crisis. Instead, it developed creative mechanisms to withstand external shocks and stabilize the economy, for instance by making use of Central Bank loans to the government. Given the severity of the unexpected events and the limited capacity of a dollarized economy to respond, the economic downturn was surprisingly mild and short compared to previous crises. Despite that, Ecuador’s conservative opposition portrayed a supposedly large and unproductive state apparatus as the root cause of an unprecedented economic emergency. Though corruption in large infrastructure projects no doubt played a role, accounts in corporate media are exaggerated. In particular, opponents used the large scale corruption scandals surrounding the state-owned oil company Petroecuador and the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to emphasize a narrative of a rotten state that begged a radical shift in the country’s development strategy. Elected Left, Governing Right Once elected, Moreno declared that unlike Correa, he would fight corruption and reduce debts. By adopting the right wing’s framing, Moreno gave legitimacy to neoliberal policies and the return of business elites to the highest levers of state power. Net public debt, which is more telling than gross public debt figures, was still relatively low when Moreno took office. In May 2017 it had reached 27.7 percent, up from 12.2 percent in 2009, but still far from the 65.1 percent it had reached in 2000. In early 2018, Moreno gained support for institutional changes through a seven-part referendum, carried out in February 2018 without the approval of the constitutional court and lacking basic conditions of a fair process. Questions on the referendum were politically misleading: for example, it proposed to restrict the territory for additional oil production in Yasuní National Park from 1030 to 300 hectares. But the state-owned extraction company only planned to drill in 236 hectares of the national park even prior to the referendum, meaning the passage of that section of the referendum meant little in practice. Moreno also proposed to add close to 60,000 hectares to the zone as a way to cull support from environmentally-concerned or progressive citizens , while planning to loosen restrictions to oil extraction and tourism in the buffer zones close to the park. Meanwhile, the government’s attempt to repeal a Capital Gains Law revealed the new administration’s ties with the real estate sector. Without proof, the Moreno administration presented the law as responsible for a downturn in the construction sector. One of the main goals of the referendum, however, was to block Correa’s eventual return to power by banning reelection and to dissolve the Council for Citizen’s Participation and Social Control (CPCCS). The autonomous CPCCS was part of a transparency effort, responsible for appointing authorities to various federal, electoral, and judicial posts. The new government labeled it as too close to Correa and made it responsible for the selection of officials who turned out to be corrupt. Instead of trying to find ways to make it more autonomous, the referendum gave the executive branch alone the right to nominate the members of a new transitional council. The transitional council, CPCCS-T, was granted powers far beyond the constitution , justified as necessary to ffighting corruption. CPCCS-T president Julio César Trujillo oversaw the ouster of dozens of high-ranking officials in the Justice Department and state regulatory agencies, and appointed interim successors. In August 2018, the CPCCS-T purged the Constitutional Court judges, alleging that their predecessors in the original CPCCS had not acted independently when designating the judges. Although new judges have been selected in a questionable process, Ecuador has been without a Constitutional Court for months. Today, the Moreno government caters to the interests of rent-oriented sectors, whose influence the Correa administration had sought to curb, with some success. Although Moreno initially kept Correa’s economics team mostly intact, he has since replaced the remaining progressive economists with neoliberal ideologues and representatives of private sector interests. Most notably, Moreno appointed Richard Martínez , former president of the Ecuadorian Business Committee, as Minister of Finance in May 2018, marking a radical shift to the Right in comparison to Moreno’s first finance minister, Carlos de la Torre . While Martínez is Moreno’s third finance minister, he is the first to accept Moreno’s figures on the country’s debt. Moreno’s figure of about $60 billion in public debt is an exaggeration, as it includes liabilities such as fines from international arbitrations that are usually not counted as public debt, as well potential fines that may turn into liabilities in future. Moreno has used the calculation to accuse Correa of surpassing the official limit for public debt, which the Citizens’ Revolution set at 40 percent of GDP, which he used to justify another lawsuit against Correa. This, along with other actions, has undermined investors’ confidence in Ecuador’s ability to service its debt and increased the risk-premium for government bonds in spite of rising oil prices. This has limited the country’s ability to effectively restructure its public debt in a useful way. In February 2019, Ecuador reached a loan agreement with the IMF, alongside additional loans from the World Bank and other financial institutions. Information on their terms and conditions is still limited—but recent massive layoffs in the public sector could provide a first hint. Without winning an election, the economic elites and their representatives have gradually returned to the levers of state power as Moreno has appointed right-wing figures to top offices. After the elected Vice President Jorge Glas was removed from office and imprisoned on corruption charges based on shaky evidence, Maria Alejandra Vicuña became Moreno’s second vice president. Vicuña, a long-term supporter of the Citizens’ Revolution, a former parliamentarian, and a member of the leftist Bolivarian Alfarist Alliance (ABA)—a current within Alianza País—began to denounce alleged corruption within the Citizens’ Revolution, but was herself forced to step down over corruption allegations. She allegedly compelled her office staff in parliament to contribute a fraction of their salaries to her personal bank account, which she later declared was to benefit the ABA movement. In late 2018, radio broadcaster Otto Sonnenholzner was appointed Moreno’s third vice president. While Vicuña, whose leftist background did not inspire confidence in economic elites, had been elected by a narrow margin, Sonnenholzner received the support of Moreno’s Alianza País and the main right-wing parties. The parliamentary faction of the Citizens’ Revolution loyal to Rafael Correa voted against Sonnenholzner. What’s more, Vicuña’s corruption has apparently been used to provide cover for larger scandals , such as thousands of unauthorized bank debts for allegedly contracting insurance policies without clients’ consent or offshore funds allegedly used to furnish Moreno’s apartment in Geneva. The latter was the tip of the iceberg of a much wider scandal of bribes and offshore bank accounts surrounding Moreno. To protect the president, Ecuadorian institutions have so far blocked demands for an investigation of these events. Meanwhile, Moreno’s policymaking has severely affected the state’s capacity to monitor, control, and regulate private economic activities. After the 2018 referendum, the government started to propose and implement neoliberal economic policies more directly—namely through Moreno’s new economic policy, adopted in June 2018. Its measures include liberalizing foreign trade, introducing new tax exemptions, creating tax loopholes, removing barriers to capital flight into tax havens, and implementing austerity measures. The law prohibits the Central Bank from lending to the government, and requires public banks and social security to invest in private bonds and equities. The law also slashes any leeway in the field of monetary policies despite dollarization, an attempt to impose fiscal discipline. At the same time, the legislation includes an amnesty for billions of unpaid social insurance contributions and tax payments. The Limits of Conservative Restoration Initially, Moreno’s turn against his predecessor appeared to pay off politically with a spike in approval ratings in his first months in office. He was able to rely on a broad alliance of left- and right-wing critics of Correa. Private media, profoundly hostile towards Correa, boosted his cause. Scandals, media spectacle, and a discourse of an oppressive state under Correa have enabled Moreno to dismantle the Citizens’ Revolution and undermined confidence in the public sector. Meanwhile, Moreno’s assertion that his government inherited a severe economic crisis and a highly indebted country is used to justify economic adjustment. For example, in late 2018 his administration increased the price of fuel , which may be a positive step environmentally in the long run, but in the short term will trigger growing discontent among the population and will weaken the purchasing power of Ecuadorian consumers. As Moreno pursues his conservative agenda, a growing number of social sectors have begun to distance themselves from the government. The government’s neoliberal policies have not thus far led to the promised economic success, and reflexive attempts to blame problems on Correa are losing effectiveness. The deterioration of social conditions that we have seen already is a warning that Ecuador is in danger of sliding back into the same kind of instability and political crisis that characterized the era before the Citizens’ Revolution. From: Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of John W. via Peace Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 11:36 AM To: Brussel, Morton K Cc: Debevec, Paul T; Raether, Manfred J; Ravenhall Geoff; Peace; Mochel, Jack M Subject: Re: [Peace] Something to bother one's conscience I had no idea that Assange was living under such stark conditions in the Ecuadorian embassy. I'm curious why they take him in on the one hand, and then treat him so shabbily on the other. Thanks for sharing this, Mort. On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:25 AM Brussel, Morton K via Peace wrote: I proffer this for your thoughts: https://portside.org/2019-03-18/defy-thought-police-stand-assange Thanks to John Pilger Mort _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The comparison to attacks by ballistic missiles is laughable; we are making war but are not at war. That Bob Naimon wants to protect Sanders and Tulsi is understandable, for he thinks like a practical politician. Morality has little play here. —mkb > On Mar 20, 2019, at 12:16 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss wrote: > > https://news.antiwar.com/2019/03/19/german-court-govt-must-question-if-us-drone-strikes-are-legal/ > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Thu Mar 21 00:17:38 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 19:17:38 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Other countries stopping US crimes In-Reply-To: <1B4D54E1-2785-4B7A-B0AE-74A56C54D330@illinois.edu> References: <6DFDDFAD-E32F-4529-8683-F5DED00A0287@gmail.com> <1B4D54E1-2785-4B7A-B0AE-74A56C54D330@illinois.edu> Message-ID: You're deliberately not hearing me. Perhaps that shouldn't be surprising. I spent a lot of time trying to do something about the drone strike issue. Lobbied Members and staff. Worked with Kucinich to introduce legislation. Went around giving talks. Wrote about it. Did alerts. Went on delegations to Pakistan and Yemen. Tried lots of different things. The "end the drone war" frame is not helping anything happen in DC right now. There is zero prospect of banning drones. There are no allies for this demand who can do anything in Washington. There is no prospect for finding any at the present juncture. U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan are part of the war in Afghanistan. The most likely way to end U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan is to end the war and pull U.S. troops out. That is a million times more likely than ending drone strikes in Afghanistan on their own. If we want to end the war in Afghanistan, we need a lot more engagement on it than we have now. Things are very very quiet. When Trump threatened to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and drawdown in Afghanistan, McConnell crammed through an amendment in the Senate against it. There was very little pushback. We did an alert. Nobody else did, as far as I recall. People should think about whether they're serious about ending wars or not. Ending wars requires engagement in the political process. That's how we got where we are on ending the Saudi war in Yemen. And we're not done yet. === Robert Reuel Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 4:55 PM Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > The Naimon position on the use of drones is grotesque, patently > ridiculous. The U.S. is not at war with the countries it has been > bombing/droning. It is well documented that innocents have been a large > component of those killed by drone attacks. The rationale for individual > attacks has been shown to be more than faulty, grudges of those > interrogated often the reason, for example. It is murder with no recourse > to any recognized juridical entity except in the inner sanctum of the > administration. The comparison to attacks by ballistic missiles is > laughable; we are making war but are not at war. > > That Bob Naimon wants to protect Sanders and Tulsi is understandable, for > he thinks like a practical politician. 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Women—particularly marginalized, imprisoned, lesbian, and abused women—pay the highest price for this trend, as sex-based protections and resources are rolled back in the name of “inclusivity.” Despite their unwavering support for individual expression, each speaker has faced repercussions for critically analyzing gender identity, including threats of violence, professional blacklisting, and loss of friendships. They join for this event in the hope it will encourage wider civil and respectful discussion. No lives will be harmed or erased while exploring these topics. *Panelists:* *Corinna Cohn* is an adult transsexual from Indianapolis. Having undertaken hormone therapies and sex reassignment surgery as a teenager, Corinna addresses the responsibilities accrued by a male inhabiting the social role of women, and what young people should know before making an irreversible commitment to transition. *Carey Callahan *is a detransitioned woman and family therapist from Ohio. She explores the role of sexism in the rise of youth referrals for gender dysphoria and the portrayal of detransitioners in the media. *Nina Paley* is an animator from Urbana, best known for feature films *Sita Sings the Blues* and *Seder-Masochism*. An outspoken critic of both censorship and sexism, she has been no-platformed and blacklisted locally and abroad for saying penises are male. *Moderator:* *Traci Nally *is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for News-Gazette Media. For over 30 years, she has worked in the areas of defamation, access to public records and meetings, protection of reporters’ newsgathering privileges, and other first amendment and free speech related matters. *This program is not sponsored by the Urbana Free Library* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Sun Mar 24 12:35:17 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 07:35:17 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Panel at UFL today at 3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Nina claims in her letter to the U of I that U of I faculty have campaigned to blacklist her and prevented her new film from being shown at Ebertfest, which is co-sponsored by the UI College of Media. http://blog.ninapaley.com/2019/02/28/open-letter-to-the-university-of-illinois/ Let's ask the Art Theater to show Nina's film during Ebertfest, as a protest in favor of free speech. The Art is just a block from the Virginia. It would be easy enough for people attending Ebertfest to walk over. You remember the scene in *The Cradle Will Rock *where the cast have to walk through the streets of New York City to another theater because the WPA has shut down their production under political pressure from fascists in Congress. It can be like that. We can encourage people to walk over en masse from the Virginia to the Art. It would be easy enough to spread the word to people who are attending Ebertfest. We would get press. It would boost the reputation of the Art, as an institution in this town that is independent of the University. What do you think? On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:02 AM David Green via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > From my friend Nina Paley: > > *Does Sex Matter?* > > *Gender Identity vs. Material Reality* > > *Saturday (today) March 23rd, 3-5 p.m.* > > *Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium (downstairs)* > > > > A transwoman, a detransitioner, and a radical feminist walk into a > Library…Speaking from different perspectives on modern gender identity > politics, these three panelists agree that all people broadly deserve civil > rights protections. But should gender identity replace sex as a legal > category? Women—particularly marginalized, imprisoned, lesbian, and abused > women—pay the highest price for this trend, as sex-based protections and > resources are rolled back in the name of “inclusivity.” > > Despite their unwavering support for individual expression, each speaker > has faced repercussions for critically analyzing gender identity, including > threats of violence, professional blacklisting, and loss of friendships. > They join for this event in the hope it will encourage wider civil and > respectful discussion. > > No lives will be harmed or erased while exploring these topics. > > *Panelists:* > > *Corinna Cohn* is an adult transsexual from Indianapolis. Having > undertaken hormone therapies and sex reassignment surgery as a teenager, > Corinna addresses the responsibilities accrued by a male inhabiting the > social role of women, and what young people should know before making an > irreversible commitment to transition. > > *Carey Callahan *is a detransitioned woman and family therapist from > Ohio. She explores the role of sexism in the rise of youth referrals for > gender dysphoria and the portrayal of detransitioners in the media. > > *Nina Paley* is an animator from Urbana, best known for feature films *Sita > Sings the Blues* and *Seder-Masochism*. An outspoken critic of both > censorship and sexism, she has been no-platformed and blacklisted locally > and abroad for saying penises are male. > > *Moderator:* > > *Traci Nally *is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for > News-Gazette Media. For over 30 years, she has worked in the areas of > defamation, access to public records and meetings, protection of reporters’ > newsgathering privileges, and other first amendment and free speech related > matters. > > *This program is not sponsored by the Urbana Free Library* > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Sun Mar 24 17:12:21 2019 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:12:21 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Panel at UFL today at 3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That's a great idea. I would attend. BTW, the film is available online (as is her first film), as Nina opposes copyright restrictions. The event yesterday was enlightening and moving in a non-manipulative way. It was video recorded by two different people, so I assume it will be available for viewing, which I recommend. It lasted the entire 2 hours, and both the presentations and audience comments/questions were densely and intelligently substantive, sometimes to the point of being overwhelming. Apparently there was a pre-event protest, or at least expression of solidairty, upstairs at the UFL an hour prior to the event, by the trans community. I was hoping the the N-G would deign to cover the proceedings, and I sent Jim Dey a note encouraging that, but apparently not, at least from today's paper. On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 7:35 AM Robert Naiman wrote: > > Nina claims in her letter to the U of I that U of I faculty have > campaigned to blacklist her and prevented her new film from being shown at > Ebertfest, which is co-sponsored by the UI College of Media. > > > http://blog.ninapaley.com/2019/02/28/open-letter-to-the-university-of-illinois/ > > Let's ask the Art Theater to show Nina's film during Ebertfest, as a > protest in favor of free speech. > > The Art is just a block from the Virginia. It would be easy enough for > people attending Ebertfest to walk over. > > You remember the scene in *The Cradle Will Rock *where the cast have to > walk through the streets of New York City to another theater because the > WPA has shut down their production under political pressure from fascists > in Congress. It can be like that. We can encourage people to walk over en > masse from the Virginia to the Art. > > It would be easy enough to spread the word to people who are attending > Ebertfest. > > We would get press. It would boost the reputation of the Art, as an > institution in this town that is independent of the University. > > What do you think? > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:02 AM David Green via Peace-discuss < > peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > >> From my friend Nina Paley: >> >> *Does Sex Matter?* >> >> *Gender Identity vs. Material Reality* >> >> *Saturday (today) March 23rd, 3-5 p.m.* >> >> *Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium (downstairs)* >> >> >> >> A transwoman, a detransitioner, and a radical feminist walk into a >> Library…Speaking from different perspectives on modern gender identity >> politics, these three panelists agree that all people broadly deserve civil >> rights protections. But should gender identity replace sex as a legal >> category? Women—particularly marginalized, imprisoned, lesbian, and abused >> women—pay the highest price for this trend, as sex-based protections and >> resources are rolled back in the name of “inclusivity.” >> >> Despite their unwavering support for individual expression, each speaker >> has faced repercussions for critically analyzing gender identity, including >> threats of violence, professional blacklisting, and loss of friendships. >> They join for this event in the hope it will encourage wider civil and >> respectful discussion. >> >> No lives will be harmed or erased while exploring these topics. >> >> *Panelists:* >> >> *Corinna Cohn* is an adult transsexual from Indianapolis. Having >> undertaken hormone therapies and sex reassignment surgery as a teenager, >> Corinna addresses the responsibilities accrued by a male inhabiting the >> social role of women, and what young people should know before making an >> irreversible commitment to transition. >> >> *Carey Callahan *is a detransitioned woman and family therapist from >> Ohio. She explores the role of sexism in the rise of youth referrals for >> gender dysphoria and the portrayal of detransitioners in the media. >> >> *Nina Paley* is an animator from Urbana, best known for feature films *Sita >> Sings the Blues* and *Seder-Masochism*. An outspoken critic of both >> censorship and sexism, she has been no-platformed and blacklisted locally >> and abroad for saying penises are male. >> >> *Moderator:* >> >> *Traci Nally *is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for >> News-Gazette Media. For over 30 years, she has worked in the areas of >> defamation, access to public records and meetings, protection of reporters’ >> newsgathering privileges, and other first amendment and free speech related >> matters. >> >> *This program is not sponsored by the Urbana Free Library* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace-discuss mailing list >> Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Sun Mar 24 17:22:13 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:22:13 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Panel at UFL today at 3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Let's do a public letter to the Art Theater suggesting this idea and ask a bunch of people to sign it. Even if they don't ultimately agree to the idea, perhaps because the logistics can't be worked out, the public letter can serve as an indirect rebuke to UIUC for messing with Nina's free speech rights and artistic expression. === Robert Reuel Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (202) 448-2898 x1 On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 12:12 PM David Green via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > That's a great idea. I would attend. > > BTW, the film is available online (as is her first film), as Nina opposes > copyright restrictions. > > The event yesterday was enlightening and moving in a non-manipulative way. > It was video recorded by two different people, so I assume it will be > available for viewing, which I recommend. It lasted the entire 2 hours, and > both the presentations and audience comments/questions were densely and > intelligently substantive, sometimes to the point of being overwhelming. > > Apparently there was a pre-event protest, or at least expression of > solidairty, upstairs at the UFL an hour prior to the event, by the trans > community. I was hoping the the N-G would deign to cover the proceedings, > and I sent Jim Dey a note encouraging that, but apparently not, at least > from today's paper. > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 7:35 AM Robert Naiman < > naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote: > >> >> Nina claims in her letter to the U of I that U of I faculty have >> campaigned to blacklist her and prevented her new film from being shown at >> Ebertfest, which is co-sponsored by the UI College of Media. >> >> >> http://blog.ninapaley.com/2019/02/28/open-letter-to-the-university-of-illinois/ >> >> Let's ask the Art Theater to show Nina's film during Ebertfest, as a >> protest in favor of free speech. >> >> The Art is just a block from the Virginia. It would be easy enough for >> people attending Ebertfest to walk over. >> >> You remember the scene in *The Cradle Will Rock *where the cast have to >> walk through the streets of New York City to another theater because the >> WPA has shut down their production under political pressure from fascists >> in Congress. It can be like that. We can encourage people to walk over en >> masse from the Virginia to the Art. >> >> It would be easy enough to spread the word to people who are attending >> Ebertfest. >> >> We would get press. It would boost the reputation of the Art, as an >> institution in this town that is independent of the University. >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:02 AM David Green via Peace-discuss < >> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: >> >>> From my friend Nina Paley: >>> >>> *Does Sex Matter?* >>> >>> *Gender Identity vs. Material Reality* >>> >>> *Saturday (today) March 23rd, 3-5 p.m.* >>> >>> *Urbana Free Library, Lewis Auditorium (downstairs)* >>> >>> >>> >>> A transwoman, a detransitioner, and a radical feminist walk into a >>> Library…Speaking from different perspectives on modern gender identity >>> politics, these three panelists agree that all people broadly deserve civil >>> rights protections. But should gender identity replace sex as a legal >>> category? Women—particularly marginalized, imprisoned, lesbian, and abused >>> women—pay the highest price for this trend, as sex-based protections and >>> resources are rolled back in the name of “inclusivity.” >>> >>> Despite their unwavering support for individual expression, each speaker >>> has faced repercussions for critically analyzing gender identity, including >>> threats of violence, professional blacklisting, and loss of friendships. >>> They join for this event in the hope it will encourage wider civil and >>> respectful discussion. >>> >>> No lives will be harmed or erased while exploring these topics. >>> >>> *Panelists:* >>> >>> *Corinna Cohn* is an adult transsexual from Indianapolis. Having >>> undertaken hormone therapies and sex reassignment surgery as a teenager, >>> Corinna addresses the responsibilities accrued by a male inhabiting the >>> social role of women, and what young people should know before making an >>> irreversible commitment to transition. >>> >>> *Carey Callahan *is a detransitioned woman and family therapist from >>> Ohio. She explores the role of sexism in the rise of youth referrals for >>> gender dysphoria and the portrayal of detransitioners in the media. >>> >>> *Nina Paley* is an animator from Urbana, best known for feature films *Sita >>> Sings the Blues* and *Seder-Masochism*. An outspoken critic of both >>> censorship and sexism, she has been no-platformed and blacklisted locally >>> and abroad for saying penises are male. >>> >>> *Moderator:* >>> >>> *Traci Nally *is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for >>> News-Gazette Media. For over 30 years, she has worked in the areas of >>> defamation, access to public records and meetings, protection of reporters’ >>> newsgathering privileges, and other first amendment and free speech related >>> matters. >>> >>> *This program is not sponsored by the Urbana Free Library* >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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After it is over, we will facilitate discussion on this documentary and the broader implications of the militarization of Africa. For more information on the documentary: https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2016/10/shadow-war-sahara-161009025023817.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Mar 26 13:35:45 2019 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:35:45 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg Message-ID: ...it wouldn’t be surprising if you had missed the Associated Press report about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announcing that the United States “will revoke or deny visas to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere.” In fact, said Pompeo, some visas may already have been denied or revoked, but he refused to “provide details as to who has been affected and who will be affected” (supposedly to protect the confidentiality of visa applicants). National Security Advisor John Bolton had already signaled such a move last September in a speech to the Federalist Society. In what the Guardian calledan “excoriating attack” on the International Criminal Court, or ICC, Bolton said, “The United States will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court.” By “unjust prosecution,” he clearly meant any attempt to hold Americans accountable for possible war crimes. An exception even among exceptional nations, the United States simply cannot commit such crimes. Hence, by the logic of Bolton or Pompeo, any prosecution for such a crime must, by definition, be unjust… From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Mar 26 16:08:06 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:08:06 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Middle Fork Hearing tonight Message-ID: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 6 PM – 9 PM CDT Danville Area Community College 2000 E. Main Street, Martin Luther King Memorial Way, Danville, Illinois 61832 Hosted by Eco-Justice Collaborative [https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/c0.15.843.444a/p843x403/53435152_10157178624042318_7429691138816081920_o.jpg?_nc_cat=106&_nc_eui2=AeFGiXEwghccNcPZMD6v1Q9265ivu4x2YDvAfrsEf4mLU8KGkd16rGpgZ8AUetIIeLBjRdClSqLCikQFfF9dBdy1I-PwMmZ5xrRKsozK1vKCyA&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=b579712fa3a85e590b5023e8532fe40f&oe=5D45DDDC] TUE, MAR 26 AT 6 PM CDT March 26 Middle Fork Hearing! Danville Area Community College · Danville, IL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Mar 26 16:25:55 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:25:55 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Film Night: Shadow War References: Message-ID: [Image may contain: text] CU folks! 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Mar 26 19:05:58 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 19:05:58 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Eyewitness Venezuela: National Speaking Tour Message-ID: [https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-1/p112x112/22815497_169312890314246_7559466187794609200_n.png?_nc_cat=100&_nc_eui2=AeFxm_RszoW0HOwIhNjsXdKjJJB6XySiljSfNo2Pa7koMiGPdRymYDEm2Zl9P9ImLNJ3mtXdy0D5aliLPIR4yMunwSRx354KVf1s0k6rCkFijg&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=5383a260fe3e60ce1921b7d896f8fdbe&oe=5D028934] * clock Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 7 PM – 9 PM CDT * pin Lincoln Hall, room TBD, 702 S Wright St, Urbana Party for Socialism and Liberation - Champaign-Urbanaadded an event. On the heels of a month-long trip through Venezuela in the midst of growing U.S. aggression, journalist and anti-war leader Gloria La Riva will speak in numerous cities on the current situation in Venezuela, with a progressive perspective on the crucial issues facing the Venezuelan people: the U.S. economic sanctions, the U.S. media blockade, and the people's organizing efforts to overcome the aggression. This tour is coming to Champaign-Urbana on April 4th. La Riva will show exclusive first-hand video footage from her trip and answer the questions: What is the Bolivarian revolution all about? Is Venezuela suffering an economic collapse? What is the role of the U.S., is the danger of U.S. war near? How can people in the United States get involved? Join us for this important discussion. THU, APR 4 AT 7 PM CDT Eyewitness Venezuela: National Speaking Tour w/ Gloria La Riva[Image may contain: 1 person, text] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Wed Mar 27 04:13:56 2019 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 23:13:56 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Mueller madness (fill out your bracket) Message-ID: <8533A22F-7557-4DCC-A66B-A9D4C1735054@newsfromneptune.com> https://nypost.com/2019/03/25/mueller-madness-the-media-pundits-who-got-it-most-wrong/ Amidst all the fun, it's worthwhile remembering why the US political establishment concocted this smear against Trump: they were desperately afraid he would reduce the Obama administration's wars and war provocations, which were designed to prevent the emergence of Russia and China as what Brzezinski called 'peer competitors' for US economic hegemony. That fear has subsided, as the neocons are back in control. —CGE From cgestabrook at gmail.com Wed Mar 27 15:57:04 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:57:04 -0500 Subject: [Peace] War and rumors of war Message-ID: <48E8722C-AEC4-4D13-862A-99FA13B9F408@gmail.com> There must be a general strike across this country if the US uses military force against Venezuela and Russia. https://www.rt.com/news/454901-russia-leave-venezuela-trump/ ================================================ Russia must get out of Venezuela, all options open - Trump Published time: 27 Mar, 2019 15:32 Edited time: 27 Mar, 2019 15:51 US President Donald Trump has warned that Russia must get out of Venezuela. Two planeloads of Russian troops are currently in the Latin American country under the terms of a 2001 cooperation treaty. Around 100 Russian troops touched down in Venezuela on Saturday, a show of support for President Nicolas Maduro’s government. The move caused consternation in Washington, however, with Vice President Mike Pence calling the deployment an “unnecessary provocation.” Pence also called on Russia to withdraw its support of Maduro and “stand with Juan Guaido,” the Washington-sponsored opposition leader who declared himself interim president in January. The Russian Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, insisted that the deployment was carried out "in strict accordance with the constitution of that country and with full respect for its legal norms." US officials have repeatedly warned Russia against intervening in the Guaido/Maduro power struggle. National Security Adviser John Bolton tweeted on Monday that the “United States will not tolerate hostile foreign military powers meddling with the Western Hemisphere’s shared goals of democracy, security, and the rule of law.” ### From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Mar 27 17:26:48 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:26:48 +0000 Subject: [Peace] War and rumors of war In-Reply-To: <48E8722C-AEC4-4D13-862A-99FA13B9F408@gmail.com> References: <48E8722C-AEC4-4D13-862A-99FA13B9F408@gmail.com> Message-ID: I couldn’t agree more, let’s hope this is just more bluster by Trump and not to be taken seriously. > On Mar 27, 2019, at 08:57, C G Estabrook via Peace wrote: > > There must be a general strike across this country if the US uses military force against Venezuela and Russia. > > https://www.rt.com/news/454901-russia-leave-venezuela-trump/ > ================================================ > Russia must get out of Venezuela, all options open - Trump > Published time: 27 Mar, 2019 15:32 > Edited time: 27 Mar, 2019 15:51 > > US President Donald Trump has warned that Russia must get out of Venezuela. Two planeloads of Russian troops are currently in the Latin American country under the terms of a 2001 cooperation treaty. > > Around 100 Russian troops touched down in Venezuela on Saturday, a show of support for President Nicolas Maduro’s government. The move caused consternation in Washington, however, with Vice President Mike Pence calling the deployment an “unnecessary provocation.” > > Pence also called on Russia to withdraw its support of Maduro and “stand with Juan Guaido,” the Washington-sponsored opposition leader who declared himself interim president in January. > > The Russian Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, insisted that the deployment was carried out "in strict accordance with the constitution of that country and with full respect for its legal norms." > > US officials have repeatedly warned Russia against intervening in the Guaido/Maduro power struggle. National Security Adviser John Bolton tweeted on Monday that the “United States will not tolerate hostile foreign military powers meddling with the Western Hemisphere’s shared goals of democracy, security, and the rule of law.” > > ### > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Mar 28 12:31:33 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:31:33 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Film Night: Shadow War time change References: Message-ID: Time change from 7:00 to 7:30 pm. [Image may contain: text] _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cgestabrook at gmail.com Fri Mar 29 19:51:16 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:51:16 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: CIA air wars [signature needed] References: <1db6-cfa-5c9e761e@list.winwithoutwar.org> Message-ID: <3AF753F4-B168-4791-8247-F7ACED1243D9@gmail.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Tara Tabassi" > Subject: CIA air wars [signature needed] > Date: March 29, 2019 at 2:46:51 PM CDT > To: "C. G. ESTABROOK" > Reply-To: info at winwithoutwar.org > > > C. G.— > > Red Alert: This month, Trump signed an Executive Order that could allow the CIA to become a secret killing squad, with no way to know how many people they kill. [1] > > Drone strikes have tripled under Trump. He already snuck the CIA dangerous authority to conduct shadow drone wars around the world that are killing civilians, including Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan. And now there is literally nothing in U.S. law requiring reporting on civilian casualties by the CIA — making those wars completely invisible. > > But Congress can stop the CIA from waging secret air wars around the world — by banning the CIA from conducting drone strikes entirely. So it’s time for us to make sure Congress hears us loud and clear: > > Tell Representative Rodney Davis and Senators Richard J. Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to ban the secret CIA drone strikes NOW! > > Since Trump took office, finding out who the U.S. is killing through lethal air wars has become nearly impossible. > > The Pentagon claims it has killed no civilians in its Somalia drone war over the last 2 years. But we know drone strikes have killed civilians in Somalia — and the U.S. is the only government conducting airstrikes in the country [2]. In other words: the CIA is almost certainly launching secret drone strikes killing Somali civilians, and then flat-out lying about it! > > Halimo Mohamed Abdi was hit by a drone strike in Bariire, outside of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Before losing consciousness, she saw three little boys, ages 9, 10, and 16, die in explosions. The strike broke her hips, left shrapnel in her thigh and terrible burns on her chest. After being hospitalized for 3 months, she returned to her home in ruins and 25 of her goats dead. She was forced to move to a camp housing tens of thousands of Somalis fleeing U.S. airstrikes, and fighting between Al Shabab and the Somali government. [3] > > We cannot let our government conduct unchecked, secret wars that kill and displace people around the world. That’s why we have to get Congress to ban CIA air wars NOW. > > Act Now: Tell Representative Rodney Davis and Senators Richard J. Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to ban CIA drone strikes. > Thank you for working for peace, > > Tara, Kate, Mariam, and the Win Without War team > > > --- > > [1] The Atlantic, "Trump Just Gave Himself More Power to Kill in Secret " > > [2] Foreign Policy, "U.S. Bombardments Are Driving Somalis From Their Homes " > > [3] The Nation, "Inside the Secretive US Air Campaign In Somalia " > > > > > > > > > Donate > > Win Without War is a project of the Center for International Policy. > 1 Thomas Circle NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005 > (202) 656-4999 | info at winwithoutwar.org > > This email was sent to carl at newsfromneptune.com . Email is the most important way for us to reach you about opportunities to act. If you'd like to receive fewer mailings, click here . If you need to remove yourself from our email list, click here to unsubscribe . > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On the heels of a month-long trip through Venezuela in the midst of growing U.S. aggression, journalist and anti-war leader Gloria La Riva will speak in numerous cities on the current situation in Venezuela, with a progressive perspective on the crucial issues facing the Venezuelan people: the U.S. economic sanctions, the U.S. media blockade, and the people's organizing efforts to overcome the aggression. This tour is coming to Chicago on April 6. La Riva will show exclusive first-hand video footage from her trip and answer the questions: 1. What is the Bolivarian revolution all about? 2. Is Venezuela suffering an economic collapse? 3. What is the role of the U.S., is the danger of U.S. war near? 4. How can people in the United States get involved? Join us for this important discussion and stay for the social after with beer and wine for a small donation! $5 to $10 donation requested. $20 to $50 solidarity donation to help with the costs of this important tour. 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On the heels of a month-long trip through Venezuela in the midst of growing U.S. aggression, journalist and anti-war leader Gloria La Riva will speak in numerous cities on the current situation in Venezuela, with a progressive perspective on the crucial issues facing the Venezuelan people: the U.S. economic sanctions, the U.S. media blockade, and the people's organizing efforts to overcome the aggression. This tour is coming to Chicago on April 6. La Riva will show exclusive first-hand video footage from her trip and answer the questions: 1. What is the Bolivarian revolution all about? 2. Is Venezuela suffering an economic collapse? 3. What is the role of the U.S., is the danger of U.S. war near? 4. How can people in the United States get involved? Join us for this important discussion and stay for the social after with beer and wine for a small donation! $5 to $10 donation requested. $20 to $50 solidarity donation to help with the costs of this important tour. 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Estados Unidos Fuera de África Arabic الولايات المتحدة خارج إفريقيا! عريضة إغلاق AFRICOM October 1, 2018 marked the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Africa Command - AFRICOM - that was created on October 1, 2008. The total estimated cost for AFRICOM in 2018 is $236.9 million. AFRICOM’s establishment began the new scramble for Africa, an effort by the United States to practice full spectrum dominance over the entire continent with thousands of U.S. troops now stationed in some 30 African countries with dozens of U.S. bases across Africa. The governments that have allowed the U.S. to station U.S. troops and bases in their countries have relinquished their sovereignty to the United States empire, whose goal is to prevent independent forces from emerging and to establish hegemony over the entire continent. Therefore, we, the Undersigned, join Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) in its demand that AFRICOM be immediately dismantled. We say that AFRICOM is an integral part of the military industrial complex, that we oppose an embodiment of U.S. imperialism, and it is therefore a great danger to the people of Africa and the world. We demand that the members of the Congressional Black Caucus immediately convene congressional hearings on AFRICOM and that the United States close all of its military bases in Africa and cease using it to house drone bases and other means of state sponsored terror. Part of AFRICOM’s stated mission is to “promote regional security, stability, and prosperity.” But its very nature precludes the development of any of these conditions. We say no to U.S. interventions anywhere in the world and to the continued presence of military bases outside or inside the territory of the U.S. We say no to any African government which may agree to house the AFRICOM headquarters. Such an act would be a betrayal to the cause of independence for the entire continent and would be a further act of aggression against African people. U.S out of Africa! End the War on Africa and African people in the U.S. and abroad! Stand with the People – Oppose War and Militarism in Every part of the World! Close all U.S. and NATO bases! Start a petition of your own This petition starter stood up and took action. Will you do the same? Start a petition Updates Like and Retweet the facts about AFRICOM Push this petition. Build the mass movement against both militarized domestic state repression, and the policies of de-stabilization, subversion and the permanent war agenda of the U.S. state globally.... [https://assets.change.org/photos/9/vv/fp/gLvVfPJtRqzXscz-128x128-noPad.jpg?1538252189] Black Alliance for Peace 2 weeks ago View all updates Report a policy violation ________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Mar 30 13:49:12 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 13:49:12 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Please sign the petition Message-ID: U.S. Out of Africa! Shut Down AFRICOM Petition [https://assets.change.org/photos/1/ih/lh/NqihlHyoGnpHvGs-800x450-noPad.jpg?1538378452] [https://assets.change.org/photos/9/vv/fp/gLvVfPJtRqzXscz-48x48-noPad.jpg?1538252190] Black Alliance for Peace started this petition to House Armed Services Committee and 3 others Pétition En Français Die Petition Unterschreiben États-Unis, Sortez de l’Afrique! USA raus aus Afrika! Petición En Español ký tên thỉnh nguyện! Estados Unidos Fuera de África Arabic الولايات المتحدة خارج إفريقيا! عريضة إغلاق AFRICOM October 1, 2018 marked the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Africa Command - AFRICOM - that was created on October 1, 2008. The total estimated cost for AFRICOM in 2018 is $236.9 million. AFRICOM’s establishment began the new scramble for Africa, an effort by the United States to practice full spectrum dominance over the entire continent with thousands of U.S. troops now stationed in some 30 African countries with dozens of U.S. bases across Africa. The governments that have allowed the U.S. to station U.S. troops and bases in their countries have relinquished their sovereignty to the United States empire, whose goal is to prevent independent forces from emerging and to establish hegemony over the entire continent. Therefore, we, the Undersigned, join Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) in its demand that AFRICOM be immediately dismantled. We say that AFRICOM is an integral part of the military industrial complex, that we oppose an embodiment of U.S. imperialism, and it is therefore a great danger to the people of Africa and the world. We demand that the members of the Congressional Black Caucus immediately convene congressional hearings on AFRICOM and that the United States close all of its military bases in Africa and cease using it to house drone bases and other means of state sponsored terror. Part of AFRICOM’s stated mission is to “promote regional security, stability, and prosperity.” But its very nature precludes the development of any of these conditions. We say no to U.S. interventions anywhere in the world and to the continued presence of military bases outside or inside the territory of the U.S. We say no to any African government which may agree to house the AFRICOM headquarters. Such an act would be a betrayal to the cause of independence for the entire continent and would be a further act of aggression against African people. U.S out of Africa! End the War on Africa and African people in the U.S. and abroad! Stand with the People – Oppose War and Militarism in Every part of the World! 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Mar 30 17:26:19 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:26:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune for March 29 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > > I found yesterdays NFN, https://youtu.be/HON84MPaoVc, particularly interesting and informative. > > Carl’s new strategy of being positive, in relation to a Democrat, then allowing others to point out the flaws, is quite refreshing. > We need to thank Code Pink for providing the information and data proving what I suspect in relation to Tulsi Gabbard, that of her being a “sheepherder” for the Democrat Party, attempting to sway the anti-war crowd, by “talking about war.” It’s about time someone “talks about it.” However, candidates will talk about whatever they deem necessary to get votes, and funding. The DNC would shut her down if they didn’t like what she is doing. Poor woman, she does retain her cool, when taking so much criticism from those who support war, whatever their political affiliation, but that doesn’t make her Presidential material, nor is it proof she is “anti-war” as Code Pink proves. > Perhaps I misinterpret David, in referring to the “kidnap, of Adolph Eichmann?” are you implying, that is the beginning of the immoral behavior of the Mossad, Shin Bet? > I realize many at the time felt Israel and the US should always take the moral high ground and follow the law. Just as many think “Truth and Reconciliation” to be justice. If they had kidnapped and tortured and/or murdered Eichmann, I would agree. If they had done what the Mossad did in the seventy’s in relation to Munich, by murdering the members of Black September responsible for terrorism perpetrated against athletes in the Olympics, I would agree. They didn’t, they brought a war criminal to trial, he received “due process,” and the relatives and victims had justice, if one can ever achieve justice for crimes against humanity. I would have, preferred prison for life, solitary confinement as we do with political prisoners in the US, like Chelsea Manning, as I don’t support the death penalty. However, allowing a war criminal, Eichmann wasn’t “just a military man following orders,” he was one of the architects of the “final solution,” to live out their life in comfort is not only an injustice, but an example of inhumanity, inequality, and racism. Imagine a future where US war criminals flee the US and take up residence in Israel or KSA, I wouldn’t be concerned if the Iraqi’s or Libyans then kidnapped and took them back to their nation for trial by the victims. It would be more just than these people living in wealth and splendor throughout the rest of their days as if heroes, as is current. > > On Mar 30, 2019, at 09:30, C G Estabrook wrote: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON84MPaoVc > > News from Neptune #415 > A "Boys of Summer” edition [Links and notes by J.B. Nicholson] > Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON84MPaoVc > > Links to items referenced on the show. > > Roger Kahn's "Boys of Summer" > ISBN-10: 0060883960 > ISBN-13: 978-0060883966 > > > > George Will on "Democratic candidates are channeling late-night infomercials" > https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/03/10/george-f-will-democratic/ > > > > Michael Roberts on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in a 3-part series on his blog: > > Modern monetary theory – part 1: Chartalism and Marx > Part 1: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/modern-monetary-theory-part-1-chartalism-and-marx/ > > MMT 2 – the tricks of circulation > Part 2: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/mmt-3-a-backstop-to-capitalism/ > > MMT 3 – a backstop to capitalism > https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/mmt-3-a-backstop-to-capitalism/ > > > > Rob Urie on "Re: The Green New Deal: First, Shoot the Economists" > https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/29/re-the-green-new-deal-first-shoot-the-economists/ > > > > Doug Henwood on MMT > https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/modern-monetary-theory-isnt-helping > > Randy Wray on "Response to Doug Henwood’s Trolling on MMT in Jacobin" > https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/randy-wray-response-doug-henwoods-trolling-mmt-jacobin.html > > Originally published in > http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/02/response-to-doug-henwoods-trolling-in-jacobin.html > > > > > Jim Dey on "Polls say progressive tax is popular — or is it?" > http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2019-03-29/jim-dey-polls-say-progressive-tax-popular-%E2%80%94-or-it.html > > > > "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty > Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf > > > Tobin Tax > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax > > > > > CodePink on "War and Peace and the 2020 Presidential Candidates" > https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/27/war-and-peace-and-2020-presidential-candidates > > > Sen. Sanders on NBC's "Meet the Press" > https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/bernie-sanders-would-use-drones-to-fight-terror-542522435844 > > > > > > UPI on "Rafi Eitan, spy who captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, dies" > https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/03/24/Rafi-Eitan-spy-who-captured-Nazi-Adolf-Eichmann-dies/5831553484489/ > > New York Times on "Rafi Eitan, 92, Israeli Spymaster Who Caught Eichmann, Is Dead" > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/obituaries/rafi-eitan-dead.html > > > > > Associated Press on "New Zealand bans manifesto of accused Christchurch killer, igniting debate about censorship and free speech" > https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3003087/new-zealand-bans-manifesto-accused-christchurch-killer > > > > > Jonathan Cook on "Trump’s Green Light to Israel: First the Golan, Then the West Bank?" > https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/trumps-green-light-to-israel-first-the-golan-then-the-west-bank/ > > Related: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1v4fbljx4 -- Pres. Trump deems Golan Heights to be part of Israel > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsoip2fsb1E -- RT: Russia, Turkey blast move to recognize Golan Heights as Israeli > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3segzWTLsk -- Ruptly: UN Security Council meeting on Syria & Golan Heights recognition > > > Map of Golan Heights > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Golan_Heights_Map.PNG > > > > > Russia Defies US Threats Over Venezuela > Transcript: https://therealnews.com/stories/russia-defies-us-threats-over-venezuela > Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MX_LS_NqQA > > > > > J.B. Nicholson on "Is Tulsi Gabbard really anti-war? No, she’s pro-drone and for “surgical strikes”." > https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/02/13/is-tulsi-gabbard-really-anti-war-no-shes-pro-drone-and-for-surgical-strikes/ > > January 2018 Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interview with Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept > Transcript: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ > Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PPY1407171456.mp3 > > > > > > Adeel Hassan, Karen Zraick and Alan Blinder on "Morris Dees, a Co-Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Is Ousted" > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/morris-dees-southern-poverty-law-center-fired.html > > > Alexander Cockburn on "King of the Hate Business" > https://www.thenation.com/article/king-hate-business/ > > > > Paul Craig Roberts on "Now We Will Find Out If Trump Is Really The President Or Merely A Figurehead" > https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/03/25/now-we-will-find-out-if-trump-is-really-the-president-or-merely-a-figurehead/ > > -J > From cgestabrook at gmail.com Sat Mar 30 16:30:18 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 11:30:18 -0500 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune for March 29 Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON84MPaoVc News from Neptune #415 A "Boys of Summer” edition [Links and notes by J.B. Nicholson] Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON84MPaoVc Links to items referenced on the show. Roger Kahn's "Boys of Summer" ISBN-10: 0060883960 ISBN-13: 978-0060883966 George Will on "Democratic candidates are channeling late-night infomercials" https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/03/10/george-f-will-democratic/ Michael Roberts on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in a 3-part series on his blog: Modern monetary theory – part 1: Chartalism and Marx Part 1: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/modern-monetary-theory-part-1-chartalism-and-marx/ MMT 2 – the tricks of circulation Part 2: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/mmt-3-a-backstop-to-capitalism/ MMT 3 – a backstop to capitalism https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/mmt-3-a-backstop-to-capitalism/ Rob Urie on "Re: The Green New Deal: First, Shoot the Economists" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/29/re-the-green-new-deal-first-shoot-the-economists/ Doug Henwood on MMT https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/modern-monetary-theory-isnt-helping Randy Wray on "Response to Doug Henwood’s Trolling on MMT in Jacobin" https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/randy-wray-response-doug-henwoods-trolling-mmt-jacobin.html Originally published in http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/02/response-to-doug-henwoods-trolling-in-jacobin.html Jim Dey on "Polls say progressive tax is popular — or is it?" http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2019-03-29/jim-dey-polls-say-progressive-tax-popular-%E2%80%94-or-it.html "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf Tobin Tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax CodePink on "War and Peace and the 2020 Presidential Candidates" https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/27/war-and-peace-and-2020-presidential-candidates Sen. Sanders on NBC's "Meet the Press" https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/bernie-sanders-would-use-drones-to-fight-terror-542522435844 UPI on "Rafi Eitan, spy who captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, dies" https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/03/24/Rafi-Eitan-spy-who-captured-Nazi-Adolf-Eichmann-dies/5831553484489/ New York Times on "Rafi Eitan, 92, Israeli Spymaster Who Caught Eichmann, Is Dead" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/obituaries/rafi-eitan-dead.html Associated Press on "New Zealand bans manifesto of accused Christchurch killer, igniting debate about censorship and free speech" https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3003087/new-zealand-bans-manifesto-accused-christchurch-killer Jonathan Cook on "Trump’s Green Light to Israel: First the Golan, Then the West Bank?" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/trumps-green-light-to-israel-first-the-golan-then-the-west-bank/ Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1v4fbljx4 -- Pres. Trump deems Golan Heights to be part of Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsoip2fsb1E -- RT: Russia, Turkey blast move to recognize Golan Heights as Israeli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3segzWTLsk -- Ruptly: UN Security Council meeting on Syria & Golan Heights recognition Map of Golan Heights https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Golan_Heights_Map.PNG Russia Defies US Threats Over Venezuela Transcript: https://therealnews.com/stories/russia-defies-us-threats-over-venezuela Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MX_LS_NqQA J.B. Nicholson on "Is Tulsi Gabbard really anti-war? No, she’s pro-drone and for “surgical strikes”." https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/02/13/is-tulsi-gabbard-really-anti-war-no-shes-pro-drone-and-for-surgical-strikes/ January 2018 Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interview with Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept Transcript: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PPY1407171456.mp3 Adeel Hassan, Karen Zraick and Alan Blinder on "Morris Dees, a Co-Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Is Ousted" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/morris-dees-southern-poverty-law-center-fired.html Alexander Cockburn on "King of the Hate Business" https://www.thenation.com/article/king-hate-business/ Paul Craig Roberts on "Now We Will Find Out If Trump Is Really The President Or Merely A Figurehead" https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/03/25/now-we-will-find-out-if-trump-is-really-the-president-or-merely-a-figurehead/ -J From cgestabrook at gmail.com Sat Mar 30 18:17:55 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 13:17:55 -0500 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune for March 29 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <174B33BC-F1BE-47A5-9E29-FA0C15A7A19E@gmail.com> Thanks for the comments. I appreciate how closely you listen to us. It might be interesting (as David suggested) to read Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem" (1963) in the present context . > On Mar 30, 2019, at 12:26 PM, Karen Aram wrote: > >> >> I found yesterdays NFN, https://youtu.be/HON84MPaoVc, particularly interesting and informative. >> >> Carl’s new strategy of being positive, in relation to a Democrat, then allowing others to point out the flaws, is quite refreshing. > >> We need to thank Code Pink for providing the information and data proving what I suspect in relation to Tulsi Gabbard, that of her being a “sheepherder” for the Democrat Party, attempting to sway the anti-war crowd, by “talking about war.” It’s about time someone “talks about it.” However, candidates will talk about whatever they deem necessary to get votes, and funding. The DNC would shut her down if they didn’t like what she is doing. Poor woman, she does retain her cool, when taking so much criticism from those who support war, whatever their political affiliation, but that doesn’t make her Presidential material, nor is it proof she is “anti-war” as Code Pink proves. > >> Perhaps I misinterpret David, in referring to the “kidnap, of Adolph Eichmann?” are you implying, that is the beginning of the immoral behavior of the Mossad, Shin Bet? > >> I realize many at the time felt Israel and the US should always take the moral high ground and follow the law. Just as many think “Truth and Reconciliation” to be justice. If they had kidnapped and tortured and/or murdered Eichmann, I would agree. If they had done what the Mossad did in the seventy’s in relation to Munich, by murdering the members of Black September responsible for terrorism perpetrated against athletes in the Olympics, I would agree. They didn’t, they brought a war criminal to trial, he received “due process,” and the relatives and victims had justice, if one can ever achieve justice for crimes against humanity. I would have, preferred prison for life, solitary confinement as we do with political prisoners in the US, like Chelsea Manning, as I don’t support the death penalty. However, allowing a war criminal, Eichmann wasn’t “just a military man following orders,” he was one of the architects of the “final solution,” to live out their life in comfort is not only an injustice, but an example of inhumanity, inequality, and racism. > > Imagine a future where US war criminals flee the US and take up residence in Israel or KSA, I wouldn’t be concerned if the Iraqi’s or Libyans then kidnapped and took them back to their nation for trial by the victims. It would be more just than these people living in wealth and splendor throughout the rest of their days as if heroes, as is current. > > >> > > > >> On Mar 30, 2019, at 09:30, C G Estabrook wrote: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON84MPaoVc >> >> News from Neptune #415 >> A "Boys of Summer” edition [Links and notes by J.B. Nicholson] >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HON84MPaoVc >> >> Links to items referenced on the show. >> >> Roger Kahn's "Boys of Summer" >> ISBN-10: 0060883960 >> ISBN-13: 978-0060883966 >> >> >> >> George Will on "Democratic candidates are channeling late-night infomercials" >> https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/03/10/george-f-will-democratic/ >> >> >> >> Michael Roberts on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) in a 3-part series on his blog: >> >> Modern monetary theory – part 1: Chartalism and Marx >> Part 1: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/modern-monetary-theory-part-1-chartalism-and-marx/ >> >> MMT 2 – the tricks of circulation >> Part 2: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/mmt-3-a-backstop-to-capitalism/ >> >> MMT 3 – a backstop to capitalism >> https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/mmt-3-a-backstop-to-capitalism/ >> >> >> >> Rob Urie on "Re: The Green New Deal: First, Shoot the Economists" >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/29/re-the-green-new-deal-first-shoot-the-economists/ >> >> >> >> Doug Henwood on MMT >> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/02/modern-monetary-theory-isnt-helping >> >> Randy Wray on "Response to Doug Henwood’s Trolling on MMT in Jacobin" >> https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/02/randy-wray-response-doug-henwoods-trolling-mmt-jacobin.html >> >> Originally published in >> http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/02/response-to-doug-henwoods-trolling-in-jacobin.html >> >> >> >> >> Jim Dey on "Polls say progressive tax is popular — or is it?" >> http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/2019-03-29/jim-dey-polls-say-progressive-tax-popular-%E2%80%94-or-it.html >> >> >> >> "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty >> Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf >> >> >> Tobin Tax >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax >> >> >> >> >> CodePink on "War and Peace and the 2020 Presidential Candidates" >> https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/27/war-and-peace-and-2020-presidential-candidates >> >> >> Sen. Sanders on NBC's "Meet the Press" >> https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/bernie-sanders-would-use-drones-to-fight-terror-542522435844 >> >> >> >> >> >> UPI on "Rafi Eitan, spy who captured Nazi Adolf Eichmann, dies" >> https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/03/24/Rafi-Eitan-spy-who-captured-Nazi-Adolf-Eichmann-dies/5831553484489/ >> >> New York Times on "Rafi Eitan, 92, Israeli Spymaster Who Caught Eichmann, Is Dead" >> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/obituaries/rafi-eitan-dead.html >> >> >> >> >> Associated Press on "New Zealand bans manifesto of accused Christchurch killer, igniting debate about censorship and free speech" >> https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/3003087/new-zealand-bans-manifesto-accused-christchurch-killer >> >> >> >> >> Jonathan Cook on "Trump’s Green Light to Israel: First the Golan, Then the West Bank?" >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/28/trumps-green-light-to-israel-first-the-golan-then-the-west-bank/ >> >> Related: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT1v4fbljx4 -- Pres. Trump deems Golan Heights to be part of Israel >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsoip2fsb1E -- RT: Russia, Turkey blast move to recognize Golan Heights as Israeli >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3segzWTLsk -- Ruptly: UN Security Council meeting on Syria & Golan Heights recognition >> >> >> Map of Golan Heights >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Golan_Heights_Map.PNG >> >> >> >> >> Russia Defies US Threats Over Venezuela >> Transcript: https://therealnews.com/stories/russia-defies-us-threats-over-venezuela >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MX_LS_NqQA >> >> >> >> >> J.B. Nicholson on "Is Tulsi Gabbard really anti-war? No, she’s pro-drone and for “surgical strikes”." >> https://digitalcitizen.info/2019/02/13/is-tulsi-gabbard-really-anti-war-no-shes-pro-drone-and-for-surgical-strikes/ >> >> January 2018 Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interview with Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept >> Transcript: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ >> Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/PPY1407171456.mp3 >> >> >> >> >> >> Adeel Hassan, Karen Zraick and Alan Blinder on "Morris Dees, a Co-Founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Is Ousted" >> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/us/morris-dees-southern-poverty-law-center-fired.html >> >> >> Alexander Cockburn on "King of the Hate Business" >> https://www.thenation.com/article/king-hate-business/ >> >> >> >> Paul Craig Roberts on "Now We Will Find Out If Trump Is Really The President Or Merely A Figurehead" >> https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/03/25/now-we-will-find-out-if-trump-is-really-the-president-or-merely-a-figurehead/ >> >> -J >> >