[Peace] News from Neptune for March 29

Sat Mar 30 16:30:18 UTC 2019

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