From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Sep 1 21:57:16 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2019 21:57:16 +0000 Subject: [Peace] LIBERAL CONFUSION ABOUT THE HONG KONG PROTESTS AND THE US ROLE, from Kevin Zeese Message-ID: Kevin Zeese 19 mins · There is confusion about Hong Kong in the US. I shared comments from various lists from KJ Noh from people who doubted or minimized the US role in Hong Kong or used the protests to go on an anti-China diatribe. KJ is an expert on China and Asia and brings some clarity to the debate. Here is the article that came from discussing the issues with him.LIBERAL CONFUSION ABOUT THE HONG KONG PROTESTS AND THE US ROLE By K. J. Noh, Popular Resistance September 1, 2019 | EDUCATE! Above: Protesters hold a placard featuring President Donald Trump and US flags as they take part in a march at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, July 21, 2019. By Vincent Yu for AP. Note: I shared comments about Hong Kong from people on liberal or left-leaning lists with K. J. Noh, a Korean-American who is an expert on China and other Asian countries. He has provided clear commentary on our podcast and other outlets about what is happening in Hong Kong. The comments I shared were from people who doubted or minimized the role of the United States in the uprising saying things like “how could the US get hundreds of thousands to protest?” or “There are a lot of things going on in Hong Kong, you can’t blame the US” or who go through long lists of criticism about China. I asked KJ for his response, which he provides after this introductory comment. It is a shame these protests are being used by some to put forward anti-China diatribes on left-leaning lists as doing so plays into the US national security strategy of “Great Power Conflict” with China and are helping to manufacture consent for US-China conflict. These comments create the same kind of confusion on the left as we have recently seen with US interventions in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Syria, Iran, and Ukraine. It is easier for some people on the left to look back at similar US actions from the 1950s, 60s or 70s and understand them than it is for people to see what is going on while it is happening. This is understandable because we are given a lot of misinformation in the US media, from the bi-partisans in Washington, DC as well as from the national security apparatus in the US as well as some in left-leaning discussion groups. In every country there are divisions based on race, religion, ethnicity and class and every government makes mistakes, often serious mistakes. Imagine if Russia had been providing $1 million in funding annually for a protest movement in New York (NYC is a little larger than Hong Kong) since 1996, as well as training activists and funding polling and NGOs all to create a separatist movement in NY. After all, many small population Republican states have more Senators than large populated urban areas like NYC. The US “democracy” is unfair to New Yorkers. And, imagine there were wealthy people who had conflicts with the US government who decided to spend their fortune to support that anti-US/separatist movement in NYC in mass media they own. There are serious problems in the United States, e.g. mass incarceration, a racially unfair justice system, police violence and killings, violence against protesters, economic racism, the wealth divide, and the unfair economy to working people, especially against people of color. And, in two elections this century, candidates who did not win the most votes became president because of the Electoral College. When there were events like the Eric Garner killing, or the mass arrests around Occupy Wall Street or so many other incidents, Russia-funded groups could use those to encourage an uprising. There already were protests around some of these events, imagine how much bigger and more aggressive they would be if protesters had gas masks, armor, and weapons — all provided by the foreign power-funded protest movement. And, imagine how the foreign-funded groups could manipulate these protests for their agenda. With these kinds of uprisings, there would be a serious discussion of NYC separating from the US for “real democracy.” New York has a massive economy on its own, why should it suffer from a Senate and Electoral College dominated by low-population states? New Yorkers are not fairly represented in Washington, DC. Their tax dollars are being sent to low population states. It is a modern form of taxation without representation. It is unfair. New Yorkers should demand real democracy! It is easy to construct a US/NYC (or any other major city) version of the China/Hong Kong story. There are many problems in mainland China and there are many problems in Hong Kong. There are legitimate reasons for the people of Hong Kong to revolt, but would they be anti-China revolts rather than revolts against the unfair uber-capitalist economy created by UK colonization without more than two decades of US foreign funding, foreign training of protesters, and anti-China media in Hong Kong? Would protesters be waiving the US and UK flags? China and Hong Kong have to work out their relationship. It would be much better for both if the US and the UK stayed out of it and stopped intervening. This is not a pro-China position or an anti-Hong Kong position, it is a non-intervention, anti-imperialist position. As people in the US, our focus should be stopping the harm being done by the United States. There are many ways the US funds opposition groups and causes divisions in other countries. The US Agency for International Development ($16.8 billion annual funding) has been tied to such activities as has the Central Intelligence Agency (budget classified). Freedom House receives $25 million annually from the US government for its activities around the world. A major overt regime change organization is the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which has played a large role in Hong Kong. According to the most recent published annual report of the NED for 2016 (published in 2019), the NED received $180 million from the US government, up from $153 million. The NED made more than 1,700 grants in more than 90 countries, in 2016. NED has four core projects it funds. These include the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute (controlled by leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties), the Center for International private Enterprise controlled by the Chamber of Commerce and the Solidarity Center controlled by the AFL-CIO. This allows NED to fund political and economic activity throughout the world. A major part of US foreign policy is creating opposition movements in countries the US is in competition with or that are perceived as enemies of US Empire. People in the US should not underestimate the impact of the United States in many protests around the world, whether it is manipulating them, as is often the case, or creating them. There are legitimate protests but when protests display some of the characteristics Noh describes below, people in the US should question them. Noh provides examples of why you know this is not a popular revolt, but one manipulated by US and oligarch interests and concludes with how people on the left who support popular movements should respond so they are not part of the “blind chorus” that enables US regime change. KZ The Banality Of Protest: Western “Progressives” Support Yet Another Color Revolution In Hong Kong Misinformed “progressive” western “activists” and pundits are putting down their remote controls and organic smoothies just long enough to tweet out that Hong Kong protesters need to be supported as paragons of virtue and justice. Some have even blogged and bloviated about the importance of these protests as a struggle for freedom against “dictatorship”. Most of these individuals never question why, out of the thousands of daily protests, or the 200-plus ongoing global independence movements, or the 50-plus ongoing violent conflicts, this particular struggle has been curated to penetrate the thick fog of their ignorance and their lightning-flash attention span. Most of these individuals wouldn’t be able to distinguish Hong Kong from Hokkaido, and couldn’t tell Putonghua from Toisanhua from Cantonese. Most have never seen or spent a day in China. In fact, you know it’s not a real color revolution until the stupid section of the western “progressive” blogosphere gets to cheerleading. This is what they are willfully missing: 1. It’s not a progressive popular uprising if the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is involved. The NED is the soft-power coup arm of the US government, doing what the CIA used to do–regime change and dirty tricks–by other means. The NED is crawling all over this. This is an off-the-rack NED project. 2. It’s not a progressive popular uprising if the key funder and fluffer is a fascist media billionaire with close ties to the most reactionary elements of Western rightwing reaction: Hong Kong’s Rupert Murdoch, Jimmy Lai, the owner of the misogynist, racist, xenophobic, Next Media/Next Digital Corporation/Apple Daily is the driver of this. 3. It’s not a progressive popular uprising if the key leaders are racist, anti-immigrant, secessionists that court and consort with powerful rightwing extremists and regime change ideologues in the US (John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Marco Rubio, Eliot Engel, Larry Diamond, etc). John Bolton, for God’s sake? 4. You know it’s not a progressive popular uprising when foreign powers (US Congress, State Dept) proclaim their ardent support for the protestors, write bills, make threats, and threaten consequences if the protests are not allowed by the government. When was the last time the US government actually supported a real populist movement? 5. You know it’s not a popular progressive uprising—at least one with a shred of sense– when the protesters make appeals for US intervention or want to go back to being a colony: a shamelessly white supremacist, colonial Apartheid state without a hint of democracy or representation. 6. Popular progressive uprisings don’t wave US flags, UK flags, chant colonial slogans, use swastikas and alt-right symbols, terrorize children, spew hate speech (“Chee Na”), or beat unconscious people with US flags. Fascists do. 7. Popular progressive movements for democracy and free speech don’t try to shut down free speech and terrorize all who disagree with them. Let’s say you missed all of these. Here are some other things to note: 1. Protest-in-a-box, for free: There has been incredible preparation, logistics, organization, and funding. Apologies to dear Rosa Luxembourg, revolutions in this era don’t just happen by themselves, and they certainly don’t fund themselves. Tens of thousands of protestors, prepared with a flush kit of hardhats, gas masks, filters, goggles, zip ties, staves, lasers, gloves, and body armor don’t just appear spontaneously. They don’t just improvisationally start creating complex logistics lines using predetermined hand signals while brandishing slick, corporate-designed banners, logos, animation, and soundbite-catchphrases in English. That requires incredible organization, training, and funding. See 1 & 2 above. 2. The Sudden Color of Violence: Note the Blitzkrieg-fast turn to violence. The Modus Operandi for color revolutions is to first instigate mass protests over a minor pretext (here, a carefully-crafted extradition bill, already suspended), followed by a very quick (prepared) escalation to violence: US-supported color revolutions need to escalate to violence quickly, the better to crowd out critical reflection, drown the mediascape with emotional images and riot porn, the better to “catapult the propaganda”, the better to create chaos and confusion, the better to bring down a government by shock, or to render it immobile, impotent, or trigger a crackdown, thereby delegitimating it. They need and rely on disruptive terror to intimidate and delegitimate; to create confusion for ongoing sabotage, to throw sand in the gears, and to create structural friction in the conditions of living that render ordinary existence intolerable. These are well-honed CIA regime change tactics, practiced and documented all over the world, designed to inflame more discontent, outrage, and protests. These tactics of geometric escalation are also designed to instigate an overreaction by the authorities, the better to use in propaganda and to trigger more agitation. This is happening as we speak: (The NY Times’ “Marginal Violence theory” is a red herring to distract you like the violence assaults the core, asymptotes shockingly towards total violence).Here are some of the specific tactics, right out of the color revolution template. * Mass Violence, including attacking police and bystanders with Molotov Cocktails, blinding lasers, air guns, grenade launchers, slingshots, bricks, steel pipes, sharpened steel bars, baseball bats, sledgehammers, knives, etc. Bombs and automatic weapons have also been found and confiscated. * Mass Terror Tactics: violent bullying and intimidation, of passers-by, Krystallnacht-style trashing of stores, Rodney King-type beat downs, “Pulp Fiction”-style torture (kidnapping, lynching, and torture of journalist (mass beatings/revival with water/further beatings)); Terrorizing of “opponents” and “non-sympathizers” through leaks, doxing, threats, cyber threats, and boycotts, and attacking families and their residences (the dorms where the children and wives of the police live). Open incitement on how to kill police., and attempted murder through ambush attacks. * Infrastructure Attacks: Attacks on buildings (police stations, legislative chambers, dorms), mass disruption of traffic and logistics (airports, metro, tollbooths, violent roadblocks, setting fires to barricade in the police, massive street fires, coordinated sabotage of traffic lights (to create accidents). If a tiny fraction of these types of actions had been unleashed in New York, DC, or London, western authorities would have let loose with lethal force 13 weeks ago. In fact, as a point of reference, in France, police have killed protestors, blinded 24, and injured 2200 in the Gilet Jaunes protests. 1. Fetishistic Demands: These are demands that don’t address the actual conditions that have created the discontent—rampant inequality and the festering structural violence of a financialized neoliberal state–but rather contentless, rhetorical, ad-campaign demands that can’t or won’t be met, all the better to justify continued chaos, outrage, and violence. 2. Intense, Hyper-coordinated Information Warfare: coordinated, directed, saturated messaging and censorship in the western press and media: * One-sided blasting of protest porn or decontextualized police violence, with non-stop pro-protestor commentary and editing; * Endless, mindless, China-bashing echo-chambering in the media; * Coordinated, mass white-washing, justification, and erasure of the protestors’ over-the-top violence; * Censorship and mass erasure of almost all voices critical of the protests on the MSM, YouTube, FB, and Twitter: over 200,000 twitter accounts pre-emptively and instantaneously suspended on grounds of supposed “coordination” and undermining “legitimacy and political positions of the protest movement on the ground”. This coordinated, mass censorship happened the exact moment some glimmers of truth started to come out and started to discredit the protests. If there was any doubt as to whether US social media companies function as the subcontracted perception management arms of the security-surveillance state, you have here your proof. Compare this saturated, single-message, biased coverage also with the minimal coverage of the current situations in: * Kashmir, in which Indian troops are currently blockading and violently occupying (where the independent special autonomous status of the region has been already revoked), * France’s Gilets Jaunes, an ongoing popular protest, where 24 people have been blinded, 2200 injured, and 11 have died, * West Papua & Papua, Indonesia, where Indonesian troops are currently on a murderous rampage, * Catalonia, where an independence movement successful at the ballots was violently put down, * South Korea’s Candlelight revolution, a massive populist uprising in South Korea (which over a similar timeframe was covered in three articles in the NY Times, as opposed to 78 articles current on Hong Kong) * Almost any other real popular protest around the world. To ask why this saturation coverage and support–out of all the other movements and struggles—you then understand what you’re up against. Full Spectrum Resistance: In the post-Soviet era, the Pentagon and its allies came up with the doctrine of “Full Spectrum Dominance“. This is a war doctrine that aims for total domination in all spheres and battle spaces: not just military battle, but also in the domains of civil disturbance, information warfare, and social perception, in particular, network “operational narrative dominance”. This is what’s going on here. Progressives–if you actually are that–you need to keep your eyes open, your minds alert, and think sharply, critically, objectively as you wander into this battlespace. Color revolutions and regime change operations simply can’t happen without you: they need you to become the blind chorus, the vapid echo chamber, the ditzy cheerleaders, and the jaundiced, prejudiced, ignorant umpires in this dirty game of information warfare. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Sep 2 11:59:32 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 11:59:32 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Cuba: U.S. government earmarks millions to hinder Cuban medical cooperation Message-ID: Cuba: U.S. government earmarks millions to hinder Cuban medical cooperation By Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs Aug 30, 2019 20316 Note: Following is a statement by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs on one of the increased blockade measures, including lawsuits against Cuba arising from the implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton law.Originally posted on Radio Rebelde. The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement strongly rejecting a USAID program against Cuban medical cooperation. Cuban News Agency reproduces the full text of the statement: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly denounces and condemns the recent aggression against Cuba by the Government of the United States through a USAID program aimed at financing actions and the search for information to discredit and sabotage the international cooperation provided by Cuba in the area of health in dozens of countries and for the benefit of millions of people. It is an effort that adds to the gross pressures exerted against various governments to hinder Cuban cooperation and to previous efforts of the same purpose, such as the special parole program aimed at the theft of human resources trained in Cuba. The core of the immoral slander consists in alleging, without any foundation, that Cuba engages in human trafficking or the practice of slavery and in attempting to denigrate the meritorious work that hundreds of thousands of Cuban health professionals and technicians in various countries, particularly in the Third World, have voluntarily carried out throughout history. This is an insult to the bilateral and intergovernmental cooperation programs, all legitimately established between the Cuban government and the governments of dozens of countries, which have been consistent with the United Nations guidelines on South-South cooperation and have responded to the health requirements that those governments themselves have sovereignly defined. It is an attempt against a solidarity effort that has received the recognition of the international community and the specific praise of the highest executives of the United Nations, the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization. These lies are revealing of the low moral standing of the U.S. government and the politicians who are in the business of aggression against Cuba. The campaign has millions of dollars in funds and the complicity of several major media outlets and, in particular, unscrupulous reporters who sacrifice their supposed impartiality and objectivity to serve the political interests of the U.S. government. For decades and even today, in those nations with the most unfavorable economic conditions, this cooperation has been and is being offered as a gesture of solidarity, whose expenses are covered almost entirely by Cuba. Similarly, and in line with the United Nations conceptions of cooperation among developing countries, it is offered in several nations on the basis of complementarity and partial compensation for services rendered. It consists of a totally fair and legitimate exchange among developing countries, many of which have natural wealth, economic dimensions or higher levels of industrial development than Cuba, but lack the human resources that our State has managed to generate; dedicated professionals and humanists willing to work in the most difficult conditions; and the concepts of health coverage that years of successful experience have allowed us to build. The Cuban technicians and professionals who participate in these programs do so absolutely freely and voluntarily. During the fulfillment of their mission, they continue to receive their full salary in Cuba and also have a stipend in the country of destination, along with other forms of compensation. In cases in which Cuba receives compensation for the cooperation provided, these collaborators have the merit of providing a highly valuable, fair and totally legitimate contribution to the financing, sustainability and development of the free and massive health system that is accessible to each and every Cuban, as well as to the cooperation programs that are deployed in many parts of the world. Access to health is a human right and the United States commits a crime by denying it or obstructing it with political motives or aggression. Havana, 29 August 2019 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Sep 3 00:52:07 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 00:52:07 +0000 Subject: [Peace] The Moderate Rebels podcasts/Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton Message-ID: Most recent two are in relation to Hong Kong. https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebels -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Sep 3 12:10:57 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 12:10:57 +0000 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?_=22Hong_Kong=E2=80=99s_Enemy_Within=22_from_Co?= =?utf-8?q?unterpunch?= Message-ID: Hong Kong’s Enemy Within by THOMAS HON WING POLIN FacebookTwitterRedditEmail[https://uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/dropzone/2017/09/atoa-print-icon.png] The bedrock of any nation is its government — the manifestation of its sovereignty and protector of its people. But what if the personal loyalties of a substantial portion of civil servants do not lie with the sovereign? Worse, what if these allegiances are actually more to other powers — forces that are at odds with the sovereign and working to undermine its interests? Naturally, such a situation would never be tolerated in any normal jurisdiction. Hong Kong, under One Country, Two Systems (OCTS), is not a normal jurisdiction. Its sovereign is China, but large swathes of the special administrative region’s power structure are not only alienated from it, but also feel attached to the Western values and worldview of their former colonial masters. That’s because under OCTS, decolonization has been merely nominal. Under normal conditions, it would not be a problem if government officials maintained a strict, professional political neutrality, as they are required to do. But in times of extreme stress, like the present, the underlying tensions have burst forth with a vengeance. As the US Empire unleashes a full-spectrum war against China and a color revolution against Hong Kong, the local government has itself become arguably the biggest obstacle in the SAR to a resolution favorable to the sovereign. Over the past two months, it has been increasingly clear that many civil servants are actively or passively helping the very pro-”democracy” protesters and rioters that the administration is trying to curb. The sickness of Hong Kong’s 180,000-strong government starts at the top. The Carrie Lam administration remains flat on its back, after its knockout two months ago by the blackshirt shocktroops of local Beijing-haters and their Anglo-American allies. As the democracy thugs rampage throughout Hong Kong, terrorizing ordinary folk, disrupting their lives and trashing the economy, all Lam has done is to keep turning the other cheek, offer “dialogue” with de facto terrorists and try to bribe them with cash handouts. That might have made some sense two months ago, but are laughable amid the hugely escalated violence today. Essentially, top officers of the Hong Kong SAR government are neocolonial civil servants more conditioned to following and executing orders than providing bold, visionary leadership. As a veteran Hong Kong observer says: “Our government is dysfunctional. The top officers took decades to climb to where they are. Each is more concerned about retiring with a hefty pension than sticking their neck out, leaving a bad name in public … or with securing a final promotion. So don’t look for our government ‘leaders’ to calm this perfect storm.” The problem of neocolonials then extends to all major departments of the SAR administration. How serious is it? A preliminary estimate has been circulating online recently. It places the percentages of pro-”democracy,” anti-Beijing personnel at: + Legislators 40% + Judges 80% + + Department of Justice 50% + Medical & Health 30% + + Teachers 50% + + Education officials 70% + + Media (RTHK) 90% + Social welfare 95% + Environment & Public Health 50% + Customs 30% + Fire Services 20% + Police Nearly 20% If such figures are anywhere near the truth, they would help explain a phenomenon of fundamental importance: why Hong Kong, in the two decades since reunification with China, has drawn further away from its motherland rather than closer to it. Government leadership (or lack of it) directly impacts all aspects of life in Hong Kong. When the “Cockroach Revolution” is over, those in charge of a needed reform & rectification campaign to follow will have to do a proper, thorough job. Real decolonization will be essential, if Hong Kong is to have a sound, constructive future as a genuine part of China. Well-placed mainland friends have started to talk about a “second return to the motherland” for Hong Kong. Both Beijing and Hong Kong got key parts of the first return wrong — quite disastrously, as present events are proving. They must not repeat the mistake. The author is a veteran journalist based in Hong Kong. He contributes to 21SilkRd in Facebook. Join the debate on Facebook More articles by:THOMAS HON WING POLIN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Tue Sep 3 12:16:10 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 07:16:10 -0500 Subject: [Peace] WaPo: Lawmakers make new push to end Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: "We're getting the band back together." - Jake Blues https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmakers-seek-to-end-saudi-bombing-campaign-in-yemen/2019/09/02/c28e123a-6204-4315-8598-9fc66f0c8b70_story.html *Lawmakers make new push to end Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen* By John Hudson and Missy Ryan September 2 at 8:41 PM A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers is making a new push to end the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen amid intensifying criticism of the air war following an attack on a rebel-run prison that may have killed more than 100 people Sunday. The lawmakers’ goal is to prohibit U.S. logistical support for the coalition’s airstrikes through an amendment to the annual defense policy bill, a move that they hope would effectively ground the air campaign by banning the U.S. provision of spare parts that Saudi Arabia needs to maintain its planes. The measure would also restrict certain forms of intelligence-sharing. The amendment, first presented by Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, already passed in the House’s version of the defense authorization, and now members of both chambers are pressing their colleagues not to remove it during conference negotiations with the Senate. “We strongly urge you to include the House provision that prohibits military support for the Saudi-led coalition’s war” against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the lawmakers said in a letter obtained by The Washington Post that was signed by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), as well as Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah), and Reps. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and dozens of others. “Inclusion of this amendment would ensure that our men and women in uniform are not involved in a war which has never been authorized by Congress, and continues to undermine rather than advance U.S. national security interests,” the lawmakers wrote. The letter is addressed to the top Republicans and Democrats on the armed services committees, who will negotiate a range of disparities between the House and Senate versions of the bill, including other Democratic amendments to reverse President Trump’s ban on transgender troops and prohibit spending military money on military parades and Trump’s properties. The lawmakers’ appeal comes as the Yemen conflict drags on in its fifth year, with the civilian death toll rising and feuding among factions allied with key U.S. partners complicating prospects for peace. The Trump administration has urged a swift halt to clashes in southern Yemen between forces affiliated with the internationally recognized government, which is closely linked to Saudi Arabia, and forces backed by the kingdom’s chief partner in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates. U.S. officials have long called for a political solution to end the war, but the Trump administration also has increasingly framed the conflict in terms of a larger regional standoff with Iran. Mounting congressional frustration with Saudi Arabia — fueled partly by the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year — has resulted in a series of bipartisan legislative steps over the past year but has failed to end U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in the war. Pentagon officials argue that a decision last year to halt aerial refueling of Saudi jets has limited military support. But the United States continues to share certain intelligence on Yemen with Saudi Arabia, even as it moves ahead with massive arms sales to the kingdom. The House-passed version would also restrict U.S. maintenance of Saudi flight operations. Saudi officials have said they would prefer to press ahead with Washington as its primary military partner but that they can rely on other nations if needed. Pentagon officials see Saudi Arabia as an important regional partner and a counterweight to Iran. But the stalemated conflict in Yemen, which has killed tens of thousands of people and thrust millions into near-famine conditions, has prompted widespread humanitarian criticism of the United States and Saudi Arabia. On Monday, Yemeni medical workers pulled bodies from the bombed-out detention center run by the rebels that was hit Sunday. Dozens of people were wounded and more than 100 people were “presumed killed” in the attack, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Saudi officials said the facility was being used as an arms deport, and a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Col. Turki al-Maliki, called it a “legitimate military target.” “Now we must use Congress’s power of the purse to block every nickel of taxpayer money from going to assist the Saudi dictatorship as it bombs and starves civilians in Yemen,” Sanders said in a statement. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Sep 3 16:41:47 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 16:41:47 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Young Noam Chomsky/1978 Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPVugDNDNIQ&fbclid=IwAR3YeqDcdTnvRlG7FDk91ITmBHpbUZuJuElSYgH47mH8eAO5_Vk17XPWHRE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Tue Sep 3 18:43:31 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 13:43:31 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Jack Reed commits: he'll end Saudis' Yemen war on NDAA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [...] Amid pressure from progressive activists, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed is pledging to try and keep language in the upcoming military spending bill that would end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. [...] https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/sen-reed-urged-to-push-for-us-pullback-in-yemen/ Sen. Reed urged to push for US pullback in Yemen POLITICS by: Ted Nesi Posted: Sep 3, 2019 / 01:45 PM EDT / Updated: Sep 3, 2019 / 01:48 PM EDT [image: sen. reed_273365] PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Amid pressure from progressive activists, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed is pledging to try and keep language in the upcoming military spending bill that would end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Three amendments aimed at ending the Yemen conflict were included in the funding bill passed by the Democratic-controlled House, but it’s unclear whether it will make the cut following conference negotiations with the Republican-controlled Senate. More than a dozen local progressive groups, including the Rhode Island Working Families Party and the Rhode Island Progressive Democrats, sent a letter to Reed on Tuesday urging him to fight for the Yemen language through his position as the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Citing UN reports that more than 24 million people need aid due to the war, the groups wrote, “Ending hostilities is the essential first step toward easing the humanitarian emergency and negotiating a political solution to the conflict.” The Washington Post reported a bipartisan group of lawmakers have sent Reed and other top Armed Services Committee leaders their own letter of support. Reed’s position on Yemen has drawn close scrutiny after he was one of a handful of Senate Democrats who voted last year to continue U.S. support for the Saudis there. Last fall, however, he reversed course and backed a resolution proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders to end American backing. In a statement Friday, Reed spokesperson Chip Unruh said retaining the Yemen language would be a priority for the senator during final negotiations over the 2019-20 defense appropriations bill, which is expected to be hammered out in the coming weeks. “Senator Reed believes we should not provide support to offensive military operations against the Houthis as part of the ongoing civil war in Yemen,” Unruh told WPRI 12, referring to a group that has rebelled against the country’s military. Unruh said Reed has backed 22 resolutions of disapproval to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia and also introduced a bill, the Saudi Arabia Accountability and Yemen Act, aimed at de-escalating the conflict. “He’ll continue demanding real accountability from Saudi leaders for human rights abuses and a more active, constructive role for the United States in pushing for a negotiated settlement to end the war and humanitarian crisis in Yemen,” Unruh said. A spokesperson for U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse did not immediately respond to a question about his position on the Yemen language. Rhode Island’s two congressmen, Democrats David Cicilline and Jim Langevin, are both strongly supportive of reducing U.S. support for the Saudis in Yemen. Cicilline co-sponsored one of the three amendments at issue, while Langevin has said he will push for them as a member of the House Armed Services Committee expected to take part in conference negotiations. David Segal, a former Rhode Island state representative who now leads the advocacy group Demand Progress, argued in an email that Reed should heed those who have contacted him about the Yemen war. “Reed must decide if he will wield the vast power he has secured as ranking member of the Armed Services Committee to stand with all of them — or, alternatively, if he will effectively side with the Trump administration and Saudi Arabia’s murderous dictator as untold thousands more die in Yemen,” Segal said. Ted Nesi (tnesi at wpri.com) is WPRI 12’s politics and business editor and a Target 12 investigative reporter. He is a weekly panelist on Newsmakers and hosts Executive Suite . Follow him on Twitter and Facebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Created with NationBuilder, the essential toolkit for leaders. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Sep 5 16:51:38 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 16:51:38 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #434 notes In-Reply-To: <343A77BC-116E-47C9-8951-EADE95FF34B1@gmail.com> References: <343A77BC-116E-47C9-8951-EADE95FF34B1@gmail.com> Message-ID: Carl Yes, you did, as you accepted defeat, in your argument with J.B. over Tulsi. Her statement that she would support any candidate the DNC comes up with, is to acknowledge she is not really anti-war. Loyalty to the Party comes first, that means whether Democrat or Republican, the candidate no matter what they say as a candidate, is not really anti-war. > On Sep 5, 2019, at 08:52, C G Estabrook wrote: > > What I said was that it was regrettable that Gabbard, the only anti-war contender for the Democratic nomination for president, said that she would support the Democratic nominee, whoever that turned out to be. > > It looks as though those opposed to the Obama-Trump wars will have to vote for a third party, probably the Greens. > > >> On Aug 31, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote: >> >> I take it back, a worthwhile listen, if only to hear Carl say he was wrong about Tulsi Gabbard and JB Nicholson has been right. Which by extension includes me, as I have been saying for some time, Tulsi is a sheepherder for the DNC focusing on anti-war activists... >> >> >> >> >>> On Aug 30, 2019, at 16:45, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >>> >>> News from Neptune #434 >>> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdeGjETKXE >>> A "What the 2020 Election Is About" edition >>> >>> A list of links to items referenced on the show. >>> >>> >>> >>> Recent Joe Biden talk (and talk of those speaking on his behalf) courtesy of the Jimmy Dore program >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xb4llOhgU -- Biden's Press Secretary's "word salad" on how climate change debate is a bad idea and the time for it was in the past (when the Democrats also said it was a bad idea to have that debate) >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbV3l5j3S4E -- Jill Biden admitting her husband is a horrible choice but somehow 'electable' and ultimately we must give up everything to "defeat Trump", right? >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbE2E9dvGg -- Biden attacking Mexicans in secret video. >>> >>> Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interviewed by CBS >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI -- "Defeating Trump" is Rep. Gabbard's goal even if it means supporting whatever Democrat gets the nomination. >>> https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/ -- a brief video ending with Rep. Gabbard conceding that she'll endorse any Democrat, even one who holds values ostensibly opposite to hers. >>> >>> Related: >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaH2rSgQzLE -- Bernie Sanders said he'll vote for Biden in 2020 if Biden is the nominee. >>> >>> 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/ >>> >>> B.B. King >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King >>> >>> B.B. King's "The Thrill is Gone" >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oica5jG7FpU >>> >>> Tulsi Gabbard with The Intercept in January 2018 >>> https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ >>> >>> Primo Nutmeg interview >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GyqD0t2t8 -- video >>> http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/9417a19f73964ff599a9cb7b84a5d268/www.buzzsprout.com/205226/1016930-171-tulsi-gabbard.mp3?blob_id=2161843 -- audio >>> >>> David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette >>> https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html >>> >>> Donald Trump on Jewish "great disloyalty" for voting Democrat >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/trump-jewish-voters.html -- Julie Hirschfeld Davis on "Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great Disloyalty’" >>> https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459219-most-voters-disapprove-of-trumps-jewish-loyalty-comment-poll -- Rachel Frazin on "Most voters disapprove of Trump's Jewish 'loyalty' comment: poll" >>> >>> >>> Long Stephen Miller articles from The New York Times >>> >>> Rasputin >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin >>> >>> Jason DeParle on "How Stephen Miller Seized the Moment to Battle Immigration" (from 2019-08-17) >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html >>> >>> Michelle Cottle on "Stephen Miller Can’t Act Alone" (from 2019-04-09) >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/opinion/stephen-miller-trump-immigration.html >>> >>> Matt Flegenheimer on "Stephen Miller, the Powerful Survivor on the President’s Right Flank" (from 2017-10-09) >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Norman Finkelstein on Israel being an "alt-right country" >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/embed/8e2uhX4QfJw -- Norman Finkelstein Q&A >>> >>> Peter Bolton on "Norman Finkelstein tells The Canary that anti-Corbyn smears have ‘nothing whatever to do with antisemitism’" >>> https://www.thecanary.co/exclusive/2019/08/15/norman-finkelstein-tells-the-canary-that-anti-corbyn-smears-have-nothing-whatever-to-do-with-antisemitism/ >>> >>> DaysOfPalestine.com on "Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein says ‘Israel is a nation of murderers’ loved by the far right" >>> https://daysofpalestine.com/post/12616/jewish-scholar-norman-finkelstein-says-%E2%80%98israel-is-a-nation-of-murderers%E2%80%99-loved-by-the-far-right >>> >>> >>> >>> Patrick Cockburn articles on independent.co.uk >>> https://www.independent.co.uk/author/patrick-cockburn >>> "Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990." >>> >>> Lily Puckett on "Trump administration considering blocking $250m in military assistance to Ukraine" >>> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-ukraine-military-funding-john-bolton-russia-pentagon-latest-a9084291.html >>> >>> Continuity of policy: US administrations supporting Nazis >>> https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html -- contains pointer to a 600-page Justice Department report (http://documents.nytimes.com/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases?ref=us#p=1) about how Nazis were given "safe haven" in US >>> https://www.stpete4peace.org/Ukraine -- including criticism of "Progressive media provides cover for US intentions in Ukraine" >>> https://www.rt.com/news/450740-ukraine-radio-nazi-article/ -- "US-funded Ukrainian radio defends neo-Nazi group, deletes article when called out" >>> >>> >>> >>> Jimmy Dore on New York Times editorial board's "pathetic apology for Russiagate coverage failure" >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivCPmU3tjo >>> >>> >>> >>> David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles >>> https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/ >>> RSS feed: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/rss >>> >>> David Harvey interview in Jacobin >>> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ >>> >>> "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey >>> ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 >>> ISBN-10: 0199283273 >>> >>> "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty >>> ISBN-10: 0674979850 >>> ISBN-13: 978-0674979857 >>> Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf >>> >>> Michael Roberts' blog "The Next Recession" >>> https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> Recent Dean Baker articles on Trump's trade war with China >>> https://fair.org/home/dean-baker-on-trumps-trade-war-leo-fitzpatrick-on-wireless-merger/ >>> https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-trade-war-with-china-is-waged-to-make-the-rich-richer/ >>> >>> >>> >>> Moderate Rebels (Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton) on "Hong Kong's real colonial history, and the protests' anti-China right-wing nativism - with Carl Zha" >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38bOtUEXcc -- video >>> https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moderaterebels/Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_1.mp3?dest-id=553365 -- audio >>> >>> Doug Henwood interviews Brian Hioe on Hong Kong protests >>> http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2019/19_08_22.mp3 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Noam Chomsky on reading business press >>> >>> https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87f6c >>> "My impression in general is that the business press is more open, ... get the facts right..." (used as part of an ad for Financial Times) >>> >>> https://chomsky.info/20081010/ >>> http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,583454,00.html -- October 10, 2008 Der Spiegel interview of Chomsky includes: >>>> SPIEGEL: How does it benefit politicians when the populace drives a lot, >>>> eats a lot and goes shopping a lot? > >>>> Chomsky: Consumption distracts people. You cannot control your own >>>> population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. The >>>> business press has been quite explicit about this goal. >>> https://chomsky.info/20101101/ >>> http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?267553 -- November 1, 2010 Outlook magazine (from India) interview of Chomsky includes: >>>> What has to be done is not really specific to the media. It is to >>>> develop a more functional democratic society, a more democratic culture. >>>> As far as the elites are concerned they want the public to be >>>> disciplined, passive, obedient and directed to other things. Take a look >>>> at the history of the huge public relations and advertising industry >>>> that we have today. It developed in the freest countries in the world — >>>> England and the US — around the time of the First World War. >>>> Incidentally, that was the time Lippmann was writing. It was developed >>>> very consciously, out of the understanding that enough freedom had been >>>> won by popular struggle and the population could not be controlled by >>>> force. Therefore, it was thought necessary to control attitudes and >>>> beliefs. In the business press of the 1920s, you can read very openly >>>> about the need to divert people to what they call the superficial thing >>>> in life like fashionable consumption. If we can direct people to that, >>>> they will keep out of our hair, we can run things. You see that in >>>> India, certainly. >>> >>> Business Insider >>> https://www.businessinsider.com/ >>> >>> Sonam Sheth on "US spies say Trump's G7 performance suggests he's either a 'Russian asset' or a 'useful idiot' for Putin" >>> https://www.businessinsider.com/spies-react-trump-g7-summit-russian-asset-2019-8 >>> >>> -J >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Peace mailing list >>> Peace at lists.chambana.net >>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >> > From cgestabrook at gmail.com Thu Sep 5 15:52:54 2019 From: cgestabrook at gmail.com (C G Estabrook) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 10:52:54 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #434 notes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <343A77BC-116E-47C9-8951-EADE95FF34B1@gmail.com> What I said was that it was regrettable that Gabbard, the only anti-war contender for the Democratic nomination for president, said that she would support the Democratic nominee, whoever that turned out to be. It looks as though those opposed to the Obama-Trump wars will have to vote for a third party, probably the Greens. > On Aug 31, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote: > > I take it back, a worthwhile listen, if only to hear Carl say he was wrong about Tulsi Gabbard and JB Nicholson has been right. Which by extension includes me, as I have been saying for some time, Tulsi is a sheepherder for the DNC focusing on anti-war activists... > > > > >> On Aug 30, 2019, at 16:45, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >> >> News from Neptune #434 >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdeGjETKXE >> A "What the 2020 Election Is About" edition >> >> A list of links to items referenced on the show. >> >> >> >> Recent Joe Biden talk (and talk of those speaking on his behalf) courtesy of the Jimmy Dore program >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xb4llOhgU -- Biden's Press Secretary's "word salad" on how climate change debate is a bad idea and the time for it was in the past (when the Democrats also said it was a bad idea to have that debate) >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbV3l5j3S4E -- Jill Biden admitting her husband is a horrible choice but somehow 'electable' and ultimately we must give up everything to "defeat Trump", right? >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbE2E9dvGg -- Biden attacking Mexicans in secret video. >> >> Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interviewed by CBS >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI -- "Defeating Trump" is Rep. Gabbard's goal even if it means supporting whatever Democrat gets the nomination. >> https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/ -- a brief video ending with Rep. Gabbard conceding that she'll endorse any Democrat, even one who holds values ostensibly opposite to hers. >> >> Related: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaH2rSgQzLE -- Bernie Sanders said he'll vote for Biden in 2020 if Biden is the nominee. >> >> 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/ >> >> B.B. King >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King >> >> B.B. King's "The Thrill is Gone" >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oica5jG7FpU >> >> Tulsi Gabbard with The Intercept in January 2018 >> https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ >> >> Primo Nutmeg interview >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GyqD0t2t8 -- video >> http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/9417a19f73964ff599a9cb7b84a5d268/www.buzzsprout.com/205226/1016930-171-tulsi-gabbard.mp3?blob_id=2161843 -- audio >> >> David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette >> https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html >> >> Donald Trump on Jewish "great disloyalty" for voting Democrat >> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/trump-jewish-voters.html -- Julie Hirschfeld Davis on "Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great Disloyalty’" >> https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459219-most-voters-disapprove-of-trumps-jewish-loyalty-comment-poll -- Rachel Frazin on "Most voters disapprove of Trump's Jewish 'loyalty' comment: poll" >> >> >> Long Stephen Miller articles from The New York Times >> >> Rasputin >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin >> >> Jason DeParle on "How Stephen Miller Seized the Moment to Battle Immigration" (from 2019-08-17) >> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html >> >> Michelle Cottle on "Stephen Miller Can’t Act Alone" (from 2019-04-09) >> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/opinion/stephen-miller-trump-immigration.html >> >> Matt Flegenheimer on "Stephen Miller, the Powerful Survivor on the President’s Right Flank" (from 2017-10-09) >> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house.html >> >> >> >> >> Norman Finkelstein on Israel being an "alt-right country" >> >> https://www.youtube.com/embed/8e2uhX4QfJw -- Norman Finkelstein Q&A >> >> Peter Bolton on "Norman Finkelstein tells The Canary that anti-Corbyn smears have ‘nothing whatever to do with antisemitism’" >> https://www.thecanary.co/exclusive/2019/08/15/norman-finkelstein-tells-the-canary-that-anti-corbyn-smears-have-nothing-whatever-to-do-with-antisemitism/ >> >> DaysOfPalestine.com on "Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein says ‘Israel is a nation of murderers’ loved by the far right" >> https://daysofpalestine.com/post/12616/jewish-scholar-norman-finkelstein-says-%E2%80%98israel-is-a-nation-of-murderers%E2%80%99-loved-by-the-far-right >> >> >> >> Patrick Cockburn articles on independent.co.uk >> https://www.independent.co.uk/author/patrick-cockburn >> "Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990." >> >> Lily Puckett on "Trump administration considering blocking $250m in military assistance to Ukraine" >> https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-ukraine-military-funding-john-bolton-russia-pentagon-latest-a9084291.html >> >> Continuity of policy: US administrations supporting Nazis >> https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html -- contains pointer to a 600-page Justice Department report (http://documents.nytimes.com/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases?ref=us#p=1) about how Nazis were given "safe haven" in US >> https://www.stpete4peace.org/Ukraine -- including criticism of "Progressive media provides cover for US intentions in Ukraine" >> https://www.rt.com/news/450740-ukraine-radio-nazi-article/ -- "US-funded Ukrainian radio defends neo-Nazi group, deletes article when called out" >> >> >> >> Jimmy Dore on New York Times editorial board's "pathetic apology for Russiagate coverage failure" >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivCPmU3tjo >> >> >> >> David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles >> https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/ >> RSS feed: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/rss >> >> David Harvey interview in Jacobin >> https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ >> >> "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey >> ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 >> ISBN-10: 0199283273 >> >> "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty >> ISBN-10: 0674979850 >> ISBN-13: 978-0674979857 >> Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf >> >> Michael Roberts' blog "The Next Recession" >> https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/ >> >> Recent Dean Baker articles on Trump's trade war with China >> https://fair.org/home/dean-baker-on-trumps-trade-war-leo-fitzpatrick-on-wireless-merger/ >> https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-trade-war-with-china-is-waged-to-make-the-rich-richer/ >> >> >> >> Moderate Rebels (Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton) on "Hong Kong's real colonial history, and the protests' anti-China right-wing nativism - with Carl Zha" >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38bOtUEXcc -- video >> https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moderaterebels/Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_1.mp3?dest-id=553365 -- audio >> >> Doug Henwood interviews Brian Hioe on Hong Kong protests >> http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2019/19_08_22.mp3 >> >> >> >> >> >> Noam Chomsky on reading business press >> >> https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87f6c >> "My impression in general is that the business press is more open, ... get the facts right..." (used as part of an ad for Financial Times) >> >> https://chomsky.info/20081010/ >> http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,583454,00.html -- October 10, 2008 Der Spiegel interview of Chomsky includes: >>> SPIEGEL: How does it benefit politicians when the populace drives a lot, >>> eats a lot and goes shopping a lot? > >>> Chomsky: Consumption distracts people. You cannot control your own >>> population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. The >>> business press has been quite explicit about this goal. >> https://chomsky.info/20101101/ >> http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?267553 -- November 1, 2010 Outlook magazine (from India) interview of Chomsky includes: >>> What has to be done is not really specific to the media. It is to >>> develop a more functional democratic society, a more democratic culture. >>> As far as the elites are concerned they want the public to be >>> disciplined, passive, obedient and directed to other things. Take a look >>> at the history of the huge public relations and advertising industry >>> that we have today. It developed in the freest countries in the world — >>> England and the US — around the time of the First World War. >>> Incidentally, that was the time Lippmann was writing. It was developed >>> very consciously, out of the understanding that enough freedom had been >>> won by popular struggle and the population could not be controlled by >>> force. Therefore, it was thought necessary to control attitudes and >>> beliefs. In the business press of the 1920s, you can read very openly >>> about the need to divert people to what they call the superficial thing >>> in life like fashionable consumption. If we can direct people to that, >>> they will keep out of our hair, we can run things. You see that in >>> India, certainly. >> >> Business Insider >> https://www.businessinsider.com/ >> >> Sonam Sheth on "US spies say Trump's G7 performance suggests he's either a 'Russian asset' or a 'useful idiot' for Putin" >> https://www.businessinsider.com/spies-react-trump-g7-summit-russian-asset-2019-8 >> >> -J >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > From brussel at illinois.edu Fri Sep 6 03:08:30 2019 From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 03:08:30 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #434 notes In-Reply-To: References: <343A77BC-116E-47C9-8951-EADE95FF34B1@gmail.com> Message-ID: <49AF27AC-80A5-4346-8C1F-E3DBB8A33664@illinois.edu> …"Tulsi. Her statement that she would support any candidate the DNC comes up with, is to acknowledge she is not really anti-war. …" This conclusion does not logically follow. She would like to be the Dem candidate. Hence, she is not likely to disavow the party, and she may still be against U.S. war policies. On Sep 5, 2019, at 11:51 AM, Karen Aram via Peace > wrote: Carl Yes, you did, as you accepted defeat, in your argument with J.B. over Tulsi. Her statement that she would support any candidate the DNC comes up with, is to acknowledge she is not really anti-war. Loyalty to the Party comes first, that means whether Democrat or Republican, the candidate no matter what they say as a candidate, is not really anti-war. On Sep 5, 2019, at 08:52, C G Estabrook > wrote: What I said was that it was regrettable that Gabbard, the only anti-war contender for the Democratic nomination for president, said that she would support the Democratic nominee, whoever that turned out to be. It looks as though those opposed to the Obama-Trump wars will have to vote for a third party, probably the Greens. On Aug 31, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss > wrote: I take it back, a worthwhile listen, if only to hear Carl say he was wrong about Tulsi Gabbard and JB Nicholson has been right. Which by extension includes me, as I have been saying for some time, Tulsi is a sheepherder for the DNC focusing on anti-war activists... On Aug 30, 2019, at 16:45, J.B. Nicholson via Peace > wrote: News from Neptune #434 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdeGjETKXE A "What the 2020 Election Is About" edition A list of links to items referenced on the show. Recent Joe Biden talk (and talk of those speaking on his behalf) courtesy of the Jimmy Dore program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xb4llOhgU -- Biden's Press Secretary's "word salad" on how climate change debate is a bad idea and the time for it was in the past (when the Democrats also said it was a bad idea to have that debate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbV3l5j3S4E -- Jill Biden admitting her husband is a horrible choice but somehow 'electable' and ultimately we must give up everything to "defeat Trump", right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbE2E9dvGg -- Biden attacking Mexicans in secret video. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interviewed by CBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI -- "Defeating Trump" is Rep. Gabbard's goal even if it means supporting whatever Democrat gets the nomination. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/ -- a brief video ending with Rep. Gabbard conceding that she'll endorse any Democrat, even one who holds values ostensibly opposite to hers. Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaH2rSgQzLE -- Bernie Sanders said he'll vote for Biden in 2020 if Biden is the nominee. 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/ B.B. King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King B.B. King's "The Thrill is Gone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oica5jG7FpU Tulsi Gabbard with The Intercept in January 2018 https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ Primo Nutmeg interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GyqD0t2t8 -- video http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/9417a19f73964ff599a9cb7b84a5d268/www.buzzsprout.com/205226/1016930-171-tulsi-gabbard.mp3?blob_id=2161843 -- audio David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html Donald Trump on Jewish "great disloyalty" for voting Democrat https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/trump-jewish-voters.html -- Julie Hirschfeld Davis on "Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great Disloyalty’" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459219-most-voters-disapprove-of-trumps-jewish-loyalty-comment-poll -- Rachel Frazin on "Most voters disapprove of Trump's Jewish 'loyalty' comment: poll" Long Stephen Miller articles from The New York Times Rasputin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin Jason DeParle on "How Stephen Miller Seized the Moment to Battle Immigration" (from 2019-08-17) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html Michelle Cottle on "Stephen Miller Can’t Act Alone" (from 2019-04-09) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/opinion/stephen-miller-trump-immigration.html Matt Flegenheimer on "Stephen Miller, the Powerful Survivor on the President’s Right Flank" (from 2017-10-09) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house.html Norman Finkelstein on Israel being an "alt-right country" https://www.youtube.com/embed/8e2uhX4QfJw -- Norman Finkelstein Q&A Peter Bolton on "Norman Finkelstein tells The Canary that anti-Corbyn smears have ‘nothing whatever to do with antisemitism’" https://www.thecanary.co/exclusive/2019/08/15/norman-finkelstein-tells-the-canary-that-anti-corbyn-smears-have-nothing-whatever-to-do-with-antisemitism/ DaysOfPalestine.com on "Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein says ‘Israel is a nation of murderers’ loved by the far right" https://daysofpalestine.com/post/12616/jewish-scholar-norman-finkelstein-says-%E2%80%98israel-is-a-nation-of-murderers%E2%80%99-loved-by-the-far-right Patrick Cockburn articles on independent.co.uk https://www.independent.co.uk/author/patrick-cockburn "Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990." Lily Puckett on "Trump administration considering blocking $250m in military assistance to Ukraine" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-ukraine-military-funding-john-bolton-russia-pentagon-latest-a9084291.html Continuity of policy: US administrations supporting Nazis https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html -- contains pointer to a 600-page Justice Department report (http://documents.nytimes.com/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases?ref=us#p=1) about how Nazis were given "safe haven" in US https://www.stpete4peace.org/Ukraine -- including criticism of "Progressive media provides cover for US intentions in Ukraine" https://www.rt.com/news/450740-ukraine-radio-nazi-article/ -- "US-funded Ukrainian radio defends neo-Nazi group, deletes article when called out" Jimmy Dore on New York Times editorial board's "pathetic apology for Russiagate coverage failure" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivCPmU3tjo David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/ RSS feed: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/rss David Harvey interview in Jacobin https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 ISBN-10: 0199283273 "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty ISBN-10: 0674979850 ISBN-13: 978-0674979857 Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf Michael Roberts' blog "The Next Recession" https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/ Recent Dean Baker articles on Trump's trade war with China https://fair.org/home/dean-baker-on-trumps-trade-war-leo-fitzpatrick-on-wireless-merger/ https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-trade-war-with-china-is-waged-to-make-the-rich-richer/ Moderate Rebels (Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton) on "Hong Kong's real colonial history, and the protests' anti-China right-wing nativism - with Carl Zha" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38bOtUEXcc -- video https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moderaterebels/Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_1.mp3?dest-id=553365 -- audio Doug Henwood interviews Brian Hioe on Hong Kong protests http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2019/19_08_22.mp3 Noam Chomsky on reading business press https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87f6c "My impression in general is that the business press is more open, ... get the facts right..." (used as part of an ad for Financial Times) https://chomsky.info/20081010/ http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,583454,00.html -- October 10, 2008 Der Spiegel interview of Chomsky includes: SPIEGEL: How does it benefit politicians when the populace drives a lot, eats a lot and goes shopping a lot? > Chomsky: Consumption distracts people. You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. The business press has been quite explicit about this goal. https://chomsky.info/20101101/ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?267553 -- November 1, 2010 Outlook magazine (from India) interview of Chomsky includes: What has to be done is not really specific to the media. It is to develop a more functional democratic society, a more democratic culture. As far as the elites are concerned they want the public to be disciplined, passive, obedient and directed to other things. Take a look at the history of the huge public relations and advertising industry that we have today. It developed in the freest countries in the world — England and the US — around the time of the First World War. Incidentally, that was the time Lippmann was writing. It was developed very consciously, out of the understanding that enough freedom had been won by popular struggle and the population could not be controlled by force. Therefore, it was thought necessary to control attitudes and beliefs. In the business press of the 1920s, you can read very openly about the need to divert people to what they call the superficial thing in life like fashionable consumption. If we can direct people to that, they will keep out of our hair, we can run things. You see that in India, certainly. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Sep 6 11:49:19 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 11:49:19 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #434 notes In-Reply-To: <49AF27AC-80A5-4346-8C1F-E3DBB8A33664@illinois.edu> References: <343A77BC-116E-47C9-8951-EADE95FF34B1@gmail.com> <49AF27AC-80A5-4346-8C1F-E3DBB8A33664@illinois.edu> Message-ID: I’m sorry Mort, but what doesn’t logically follow is anyone assuming we can end war with a Democrat or Republican President in the White House as if they are all powerful, they are owned by those who put them there. Both Party’s are owned by the corporate elites, and all those who profit from war. By war I mean, interventions, sanctions, and our use of proxy’s. A Bernie or Tulsi in the WH would be better than Trump on domestic issues which is a reason to support them. Though many of us thought that of Obama. On Sep 5, 2019, at 20:08, Brussel, Morton K > wrote: …"Tulsi. Her statement that she would support any candidate the DNC comes up with, is to acknowledge she is not really anti-war. …" This conclusion does not logically follow. She would like to be the Dem candidate. Hence, she is not likely to disavow the party, and she may still be against U.S. war policies. On Sep 5, 2019, at 11:51 AM, Karen Aram via Peace > wrote: Carl Yes, you did, as you accepted defeat, in your argument with J.B. over Tulsi. Her statement that she would support any candidate the DNC comes up with, is to acknowledge she is not really anti-war. Loyalty to the Party comes first, that means whether Democrat or Republican, the candidate no matter what they say as a candidate, is not really anti-war. On Sep 5, 2019, at 08:52, C G Estabrook > wrote: What I said was that it was regrettable that Gabbard, the only anti-war contender for the Democratic nomination for president, said that she would support the Democratic nominee, whoever that turned out to be. It looks as though those opposed to the Obama-Trump wars will have to vote for a third party, probably the Greens. On Aug 31, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss > wrote: I take it back, a worthwhile listen, if only to hear Carl say he was wrong about Tulsi Gabbard and JB Nicholson has been right. Which by extension includes me, as I have been saying for some time, Tulsi is a sheepherder for the DNC focusing on anti-war activists... On Aug 30, 2019, at 16:45, J.B. Nicholson via Peace > wrote: News from Neptune #434 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdeGjETKXE A "What the 2020 Election Is About" edition A list of links to items referenced on the show. Recent Joe Biden talk (and talk of those speaking on his behalf) courtesy of the Jimmy Dore program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xb4llOhgU -- Biden's Press Secretary's "word salad" on how climate change debate is a bad idea and the time for it was in the past (when the Democrats also said it was a bad idea to have that debate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbV3l5j3S4E -- Jill Biden admitting her husband is a horrible choice but somehow 'electable' and ultimately we must give up everything to "defeat Trump", right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbE2E9dvGg -- Biden attacking Mexicans in secret video. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interviewed by CBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI -- "Defeating Trump" is Rep. Gabbard's goal even if it means supporting whatever Democrat gets the nomination. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/ -- a brief video ending with Rep. Gabbard conceding that she'll endorse any Democrat, even one who holds values ostensibly opposite to hers. Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaH2rSgQzLE -- Bernie Sanders said he'll vote for Biden in 2020 if Biden is the nominee. 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/ B.B. King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King B.B. King's "The Thrill is Gone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oica5jG7FpU Tulsi Gabbard with The Intercept in January 2018 https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ Primo Nutmeg interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GyqD0t2t8 -- video http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/9417a19f73964ff599a9cb7b84a5d268/www.buzzsprout.com/205226/1016930-171-tulsi-gabbard.mp3?blob_id=2161843 -- audio David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html Donald Trump on Jewish "great disloyalty" for voting Democrat https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/trump-jewish-voters.html -- Julie Hirschfeld Davis on "Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great Disloyalty’" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459219-most-voters-disapprove-of-trumps-jewish-loyalty-comment-poll -- Rachel Frazin on "Most voters disapprove of Trump's Jewish 'loyalty' comment: poll" Long Stephen Miller articles from The New York Times Rasputin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin Jason DeParle on "How Stephen Miller Seized the Moment to Battle Immigration" (from 2019-08-17) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html Michelle Cottle on "Stephen Miller Can’t Act Alone" (from 2019-04-09) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/opinion/stephen-miller-trump-immigration.html Matt Flegenheimer on "Stephen Miller, the Powerful Survivor on the President’s Right Flank" (from 2017-10-09) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house.html Norman Finkelstein on Israel being an "alt-right country" https://www.youtube.com/embed/8e2uhX4QfJw -- Norman Finkelstein Q&A Peter Bolton on "Norman Finkelstein tells The Canary that anti-Corbyn smears have ‘nothing whatever to do with antisemitism’" https://www.thecanary.co/exclusive/2019/08/15/norman-finkelstein-tells-the-canary-that-anti-corbyn-smears-have-nothing-whatever-to-do-with-antisemitism/ DaysOfPalestine.com on "Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein says ‘Israel is a nation of murderers’ loved by the far right" https://daysofpalestine.com/post/12616/jewish-scholar-norman-finkelstein-says-%E2%80%98israel-is-a-nation-of-murderers%E2%80%99-loved-by-the-far-right Patrick Cockburn articles on independent.co.uk https://www.independent.co.uk/author/patrick-cockburn "Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990." Lily Puckett on "Trump administration considering blocking $250m in military assistance to Ukraine" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-ukraine-military-funding-john-bolton-russia-pentagon-latest-a9084291.html Continuity of policy: US administrations supporting Nazis https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html -- contains pointer to a 600-page Justice Department report (http://documents.nytimes.com/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases?ref=us#p=1) about how Nazis were given "safe haven" in US https://www.stpete4peace.org/Ukraine -- including criticism of "Progressive media provides cover for US intentions in Ukraine" https://www.rt.com/news/450740-ukraine-radio-nazi-article/ -- "US-funded Ukrainian radio defends neo-Nazi group, deletes article when called out" Jimmy Dore on New York Times editorial board's "pathetic apology for Russiagate coverage failure" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivCPmU3tjo David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/ RSS feed: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/rss David Harvey interview in Jacobin https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 ISBN-10: 0199283273 "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty ISBN-10: 0674979850 ISBN-13: 978-0674979857 Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf Michael Roberts' blog "The Next Recession" https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/ Recent Dean Baker articles on Trump's trade war with China https://fair.org/home/dean-baker-on-trumps-trade-war-leo-fitzpatrick-on-wireless-merger/ https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-trade-war-with-china-is-waged-to-make-the-rich-richer/ Moderate Rebels (Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton) on "Hong Kong's real colonial history, and the protests' anti-China right-wing nativism - with Carl Zha" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38bOtUEXcc -- video https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moderaterebels/Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_1.mp3?dest-id=553365 -- audio Doug Henwood interviews Brian Hioe on Hong Kong protests http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2019/19_08_22.mp3 Noam Chomsky on reading business press https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87f6c "My impression in general is that the business press is more open, ... get the facts right..." (used as part of an ad for Financial Times) https://chomsky.info/20081010/ http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,583454,00.html -- October 10, 2008 Der Spiegel interview of Chomsky includes: SPIEGEL: How does it benefit politicians when the populace drives a lot, eats a lot and goes shopping a lot? > Chomsky: Consumption distracts people. You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. The business press has been quite explicit about this goal. https://chomsky.info/20101101/ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?267553 -- November 1, 2010 Outlook magazine (from India) interview of Chomsky includes: What has to be done is not really specific to the media. It is to develop a more functional democratic society, a more democratic culture. As far as the elites are concerned they want the public to be disciplined, passive, obedient and directed to other things. Take a look at the history of the huge public relations and advertising industry that we have today. It developed in the freest countries in the world — England and the US — around the time of the First World War. Incidentally, that was the time Lippmann was writing. It was developed very consciously, out of the understanding that enough freedom had been won by popular struggle and the population could not be controlled by force. Therefore, it was thought necessary to control attitudes and beliefs. In the business press of the 1920s, you can read very openly about the need to divert people to what they call the superficial thing in life like fashionable consumption. If we can direct people to that, they will keep out of our hair, we can run things. You see that in India, certainly. 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URL: From moboct1 at aim.com Fri Sep 6 13:29:24 2019 From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #434 notes In-Reply-To: <49AF27AC-80A5-4346-8C1F-E3DBB8A33664@illinois.edu> References: <343A77BC-116E-47C9-8951-EADE95FF34B1@gmail.com> <49AF27AC-80A5-4346-8C1F-E3DBB8A33664@illinois.edu> Message-ID: <49422800.3638207.1567776564196@mail.yahoo.com> But what would/will she do as president?  Cave to Deep State pressures (as all the other Dems did/would do)?  I'm sure the rewards are great...  -----Original Message----- From: Brussel, Morton K via Peace To: Karen Aram Cc: Brussel, Morton K ; J.B. Nicholson ; Peace ; Peace Discuss Sent: Thu, Sep 5, 2019 10:09 pm Subject: Re: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #434 notes …"Tulsi. Her statement that she would support any candidate the DNC comes up with,is to acknowledge she is not really anti-war. …"  This conclusion does not logically follow.  She would like to be the Dem candidate. Hence, she is not likely to disavow the party, and she may still be against U.S. war policies.  On Sep 5, 2019, at 11:51 AM, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: Carl Yes, you did, as you accepted defeat, in your argument with J.B. over Tulsi. Her statement that she would support any candidate the DNC comes up with, is to acknowledge she is not really anti-war. Loyalty to the Party comes first, that means whether Democrat or Republican, the candidate no matter what they say as a candidate, is not really anti-war. On Sep 5, 2019, at 08:52, C G Estabrook wrote: What I said was that it was regrettable that Gabbard, the only anti-war contender for the Democratic nomination for president, said that she would support the Democratic nominee, whoever that turned out to be. It looks as though those opposed to the Obama-Trump wars will have to vote for a third party, probably the Greens. On Aug 31, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote: I take it back, a worthwhile listen, if only to hear Carl say he was wrong about Tulsi Gabbard and JB Nicholson has been right. Which by extension includes me, as I have been saying for some time, Tulsi is a sheepherder for the DNC focusing on anti-war activists... On Aug 30, 2019, at 16:45, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: News from Neptune #434 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdeGjETKXE A "What the 2020 Election Is About" edition A list of links to items referenced on the show. Recent Joe Biden talk (and talk of those speaking on his behalf) courtesy of the Jimmy Dore program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5xb4llOhgU -- Biden's Press Secretary's "word salad" on how climate change debate is a bad idea and the time for it was in the past (when the Democrats also said it was a bad idea to have that debate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbV3l5j3S4E -- Jill Biden admitting her husband is a horrible choice but somehow 'electable' and ultimately we must give up everything to "defeat Trump", right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYbE2E9dvGg -- Biden attacking Mexicans in secret video. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard interviewed by CBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI -- "Defeating Trump" is Rep. Gabbard's goal even if it means supporting whatever Democrat gets the nomination. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/ -- a brief video ending with Rep. Gabbard conceding that she'll endorse any Democrat, even one who holds values ostensibly opposite to hers. Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaH2rSgQzLE -- Bernie Sanders said he'll vote for Biden in 2020 if Biden is the nominee. 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/ B.B. King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King B.B. King's "The Thrill is Gone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oica5jG7FpU Tulsi Gabbard with The Intercept in January 2018 https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/intercepted-podcast-white-mirror/ Primo Nutmeg interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GyqD0t2t8 -- video http://audio.voxnest.com/stream/9417a19f73964ff599a9cb7b84a5d268/www.buzzsprout.com/205226/1016930-171-tulsi-gabbard.mp3?blob_id=2161843 -- audio David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html Donald Trump on Jewish "great disloyalty" for voting Democrat https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/us/politics/trump-jewish-voters.html -- Julie Hirschfeld Davis on "Trump Accuses Jewish Democrats of ‘Great Disloyalty’" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/459219-most-voters-disapprove-of-trumps-jewish-loyalty-comment-poll -- Rachel Frazin on "Most voters disapprove of Trump's Jewish 'loyalty' comment: poll" Long Stephen Miller articles from The New York Times Rasputin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin Jason DeParle on "How Stephen Miller Seized the Moment to Battle Immigration" (from 2019-08-17) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/us/politics/stephen-miller-immigration-trump.html Michelle Cottle on "Stephen Miller Can’t Act Alone" (from 2019-04-09) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/opinion/stephen-miller-trump-immigration.html Matt Flegenheimer on "Stephen Miller, the Powerful Survivor on the President’s Right Flank" (from 2017-10-09) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-white-house.html Norman Finkelstein on Israel being an "alt-right country" https://www.youtube.com/embed/8e2uhX4QfJw -- Norman Finkelstein Q&A Peter Bolton on "Norman Finkelstein tells The Canary that anti-Corbyn smears have ‘nothing whatever to do with antisemitism’" https://www.thecanary.co/exclusive/2019/08/15/norman-finkelstein-tells-the-canary-that-anti-corbyn-smears-have-nothing-whatever-to-do-with-antisemitism/ DaysOfPalestine.com on "Jewish scholar Norman Finkelstein says ‘Israel is a nation of murderers’ loved by the far right" https://daysofpalestine.com/post/12616/jewish-scholar-norman-finkelstein-says-%E2%80%98israel-is-a-nation-of-murderers%E2%80%99-loved-by-the-far-right Patrick Cockburn articles on independent.co.uk https://www.independent.co.uk/author/patrick-cockburn "Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990." Lily Puckett on "Trump administration considering blocking $250m in military assistance to Ukraine" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-ukraine-military-funding-john-bolton-russia-pentagon-latest-a9084291.html Continuity of policy: US administrations supporting Nazis https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/us/14nazis.html -- contains pointer to a 600-page Justice Department report (http://documents.nytimes.com/confidential-report-provides-new-evidence-of-notorious-nazi-cases?ref=us#p=1) about how Nazis were given "safe haven" in US https://www.stpete4peace.org/Ukraine -- including criticism of "Progressive media provides cover for US intentions in Ukraine" https://www.rt.com/news/450740-ukraine-radio-nazi-article/ -- "US-funded Ukrainian radio defends neo-Nazi group, deletes article when called out" Jimmy Dore on New York Times editorial board's "pathetic apology for Russiagate coverage failure" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivCPmU3tjo David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/ RSS feed: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/rss David Harvey interview in Jacobin https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/07/david-harvey-neoliberalism-capitalism-labor-crisis-resistance/ "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 ISBN-10: 0199283273 "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty ISBN-10: 0674979850 ISBN-13: 978-0674979857 Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf Michael Roberts' blog "The Next Recession" https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/ Recent Dean Baker articles on Trump's trade war with China https://fair.org/home/dean-baker-on-trumps-trade-war-leo-fitzpatrick-on-wireless-merger/ https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-trade-war-with-china-is-waged-to-make-the-rich-richer/ Moderate Rebels (Max Blumenthal & Ben Norton) on "Hong Kong's real colonial history, and the protests' anti-China right-wing nativism - with Carl Zha" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38bOtUEXcc -- video https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moderaterebels/Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_1.mp3?dest-id=553365 -- audio Doug Henwood interviews Brian Hioe on Hong Kong protests http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2019/19_08_22.mp3 Noam Chomsky on reading business press https://www.ft.com/content/bcdefd38-3beb-3506-b24c-82285ac87f6c "My impression in general is that the business press is more open, ... get the facts right..." (used as part of an ad for Financial Times) https://chomsky.info/20081010/ http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,583454,00.html -- October 10, 2008 Der Spiegel interview of Chomsky includes: SPIEGEL: How does it benefit politicians when the populace drives a lot, eats a lot and goes shopping a lot? > Chomsky: Consumption distracts people. You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. The business press has been quite explicit about this goal. https://chomsky.info/20101101/ http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?267553 -- November 1, 2010 Outlook magazine (from India) interview of Chomsky includes: What has to be done is not really specific to the media. It is to develop a more functional democratic society, a more democratic culture. As far as the elites are concerned they want the public to be disciplined, passive, obedient and directed to other things. Take a look at the history of the huge public relations and advertising industry that we have today. It developed in the freest countries in the world — England and the US — around the time of the First World War. Incidentally, that was the time Lippmann was writing. It was developed very consciously, out of the understanding that enough freedom had been won by popular struggle and the population could not be controlled by force. Therefore, it was thought necessary to control attitudes and beliefs. In the business press of the 1920s, you can read very openly about the need to divert people to what they call the superficial thing in life like fashionable consumption. If we can direct people to that, they will keep out of our hair, we can run things. You see that in India, certainly. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Sep 10 13:38:35 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:38:35 +0000 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?US_Media_Propaganda=2E_Drawing_=E2=80=9CLibera?= =?utf-8?b?bHPigJ0gYW5kIOKAnExlZnRpc3Rz4oCdIGludG8gdGhlIENJQeKAmXMgT3Ji?= =?utf-8?q?it=2E_NPR?= Message-ID: * US Nato War * Economy * Civil Rights * Environment * Poverty * Media * Justice * 9/11 * War Crimes * Militarization * History * Science US Media Propaganda. Drawing ?Liberals? and ?Leftists? into the CIA?s Orbit. NPR Will NPR Now Officially Change Its Name to National Propaganda Radio? By Edward Curtin Global Research, September 08, 2019 Region: USA Theme: Intelligence, Media Disinformation [https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/plugins/print-me/images/printme.png] 93 19 2 115 [https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Npr_headquarters-2-400x295.jpg] Back in the 1960s, the CIA official Cord Meyer said the agency needed to ?court the compatible left.? He knew that drawing liberals and leftists into the CIA?s orbit was the key to efficient propaganda. Right-wing and left-wing collaborators were needed to create a powerful propaganda apparatus that would be capable of hypnotizing audiences into believing the myth of American exceptionalism and its divine right to rule the world. The CIA therefore secretly worked to influence American and world opinion through the literary and intellectual elites. Frances Stonor Saunders comprehensively covers this in her 1999 book, The Cultural Cold War: The CIA And The World Of Arts And Letters, and Joel Whitney followed this up in 2016 with Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World?s Best Writers, with particular emphasis on the complicity between the CIA and the famous literary journal, The Paris Review. By the mid-1970s, as a result of the Church Committee hearings, it seemed as if the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. had been caught in flagrante delicto and disgraced, confessed their sins, and resolved to go and sin no more. Then in 1977, Carl Bernstein wrote a long piece for Esquire? ?The CIA and the Media? ? naming names of journalists and media (The New York Times, CBS, etc.) that worked hand-in-glove with the CIA, propagandizing the American people and the rest of the world. It seemed as if all would be hunky-dory now with the bad boys purged from the American ?free? press. Seemed to the most na?ve, that is, by which I mean the vast numbers of people who wanted to re-stick their heads in the sand and believe, as Ronald Reagan?s team of truthtellers would announce, that it was ?Morning in America? again with the free press reigning and the neo-conservatives, many of whom had been ?converted? from their leftist views, running things in Washington. So again it is morning in America this September 6, 2019, and the headline from National Public Radio announces the glad tidings that NPR has named a new CEO. His name is John Lansing, and the headline says he is a ?veteran media executive.? We are meant to be reassured. It goes on to say that Mr. Lansing, 62, is currently the chief executive of the government agency, The U.S. Agency for Global Media, that oversees Voice of America, Radio and Television Marti, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others. We are furthermore reassured by NPR that Lansing ?made his mark in his current job with stirring defenses of journalism, free from government interference.?The announcement goes on to say: America?s ?Righteous? Russia-gate Censorship. ?Russia Bashing All the Time? Lansing has earned an advanced degree in political agility. At the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Lansing championed a free press even as leaders of many nations move against it. ?Governments around the world are increasingly cracking down on the free flow of information; silencing dialogue and dissent; and distorting reality,? Lansing said in a speech he delivered in May to the Media for Democracy Forum. ?The result, I believe, is a war on truth.? He continued: ?Citizens in countries from Russia to China, from Iran to North Korea, have been victimized for decades. But now we?re seeing authoritarian regimes expanding around the globe, with media repression in places like Turkey and Venezuela, Cambodia and Vietnam.? So we are reassured that the new head of NPR, the chief of all U.S. propaganda, is a champion of a free press. Perhaps NPR will soon enlighten the American public by interviewing its new head honcho and asking him if he thinks Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, by exposing America?s war crimes, and Edward Snowden, by exposing the U.S. government?s vast electronic surveillance programs of its own citizens, deserve to be jailed and exiled for doing the job the American mainstream ?free press? failed to do. What NPR failed to do. Perhaps they will ask him if he objects to the way his own government ?interfered? in the lives of these three courageous people who revealed truths that every citizen of a free country is entitled to. Perhaps they will ask him if the U.S. government?s persecution of these truthtellers is what he means by there being ?a war on truth.? Perhaps they will ask him if he thinks the Obama and Trump administrations have been ?distorting reality? and waging a war on truth. Perhaps not. Of course not. Don?t laugh, for the joke will be on you if you listen to NPR and its sly appeal to ?liberal? sensibilities. If you are wondering why we have had the Russia-gate hoax and who was responsible (see/hear Russia expert Prof. Stephen Cohen here) and are now involved in a new Cold War and a highly dangerous nuclear confrontation with Russia, read Lansing?s July 10, 2019 testimony before the House Appropriations Sub-Committee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs: ?United Sates Efforts to Counter Russian Disinformation and Malign Influence.? Here is an excerpt: USAGM provides consistently accurate and compelling journalism that reflects the values of our society: freedom, openness, democracy, and hope. Our guiding principles?enshrined in law?are to provide a reliable, authoritative, and independent source of news that adheres to the strictest standards of journalism?. Russian Disinformation. And make no mistake, we are living through a global explosion of disinformation, state propaganda, and lies generated by multiple authoritarian regimes around the world. The weaponization of information we are seeing today is real. The Russian government and other authoritarian regimes engage in far-reaching malign influence campaigns across national boundaries and language barriers. The Kremlin?s propaganda and disinformation machine is being unleashed via new platforms and continues to grow in Russia and internationally. Russia seeks to destroy the very idea of an objective, verifiable set of facts as it attempts to influence opinions about the United States and its allies. It is not an understatement to say that this new form of combat on the information battlefield may be the fight of the 21st century. Then research the history of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Voice of America, Radio and Television Marti, etc. You will be reassured that Lansing?s July testimony was his job interview to head National Propaganda Radio. Then sit back, relax, and tune into NPR?s Morning Edition. It will be comforting to know that it is ?Morning in America? once again. * Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc. Distinguished author and sociologist Edward Curtin is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization. Featured image is from Wikimedia Commons The original source of this article is Global Research Copyright ? 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One of the best ??.. https://youtu.be/t1ld-1K-yJ0 _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Sep 10 18:37:49 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:37:49 +0000 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?BREAKING=3A_US_Behind_Hong_Kong_Protests_?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=93_Admits_US_Policymaker?= Message-ID: [https://36s81n24kn0c1i9se62v6acw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1-Hong-Kong.jpg] Tony Caralucci 21st Century Wire The US continues to deny any involvement in ongoing unrest in China?s special administrative region of Hong Kong. However, even a casual look at US headlines or comments made by US officials and policymakers ? makes it clear the unrest not only suits US interests, but is spurred-on almost exclusively by them. The paradoxical duality of nearly open support of the unrest and denial of that support has led to headlines like the South China Morning Post?s, ?Mike Pompeo rebukes China?s ?ludicrous? claim US is behind Hong Kong protests.? The article claims: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said it is ?ludicrous? for China to claim the United States is behind the escalating protests in Hong Kong. Pompeo rebuked Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, who had claimed violent clashes in the city prompted by opposition to the Hong Kong government?s controversial extradition bill were ?the work of the US?. However, even US policymakers have all but admitted that the US is funneling millions of dollars into Hong Kong specifically to support ?programs? there. The Hudson Institute in an article titled, ?China Tries to Blame US for Hong Kong Protests,? would admit: A Chinese state-run newspaper?s claim that the United States is helping pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong is only partially inaccurate, a top foreign policy expert said Monday. Michael Pillsbury, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told Fox News National Security Analyst KT McFarland the U.S. holds some influence over political matters in the region. The article would then quote Pillsbury as saying: We have a large consulate there that?s in charge of taking care of the Hong Kong Policy Act passed by Congress to ensure democracy in Hong Kong, and we have also funded millions of dollars of programs through the National Endowment for Democracy [NED] ? so in that sense the Chinese accusation is not totally false. A visit to the NED?s website reveals an entire section of declared funding for Hong Kong specifically. The wording for program titles and their descriptions is intentionally ambiguous to give those like US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo plausible deniability. However, deeper research reveals NED recipients are literally leading the protests. The South China Morning Post in its article, ?Hong Kong protests: heavy jail sentences for rioting will not solve city?s political crisis, former Civil Human Rights Front convenor says,? would report: Johnson Yeung Ching-yin, from the Civil Human Rights Front, was among 49 people arrested during Sunday?s protest ? deemed illegal as it had not received police approval ? in Central and Western district on Hong Kong Island. The article would omit mention of Johnson Yeung Ching-yin?s status as an NED fellow. His profile is ? at the time of this writing ? still accessible on the NED?s official website, and the supposed NGO he works for in turn works hand-in-hand with US and UK-based fronts involved in supporting Hong Kong?s current unrest and a much wider anti-Beijing political agenda. Johnson Yeung Ching-yin also co-authored an op-ed in the Washington Post with Joshua Wong titled, ?As you read this, Hong Kong has locked one of us away.? [https://36s81n24kn0c1i9se62v6acw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ching_Yin_Johnson_Yeung_FellowNED-1024x646.jpg] Wong has travelled to Washington DC multiple times, including to receive ?honors? from NED-subsidiary Freedom House for his role in leading unrest in 2014 and to meet with serial regime-change advocate Senator Marco Rubio. It should also be noted that the Washington Post?s Anne Applebaum also sits on the NED board of directors. [https://36s81n24kn0c1i9se62v6acw-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/NED_AnneApplebaum-1024x758.jpg] This evidence, along with extensively documented ties between the United States government and other prominent leaders of the Hong Kong unrest reveals US denial of involvement in Hong Kong as yet another willful lie told upon the international stage ? a lie told even as the remnants of other victims of US interference and intervention smolder in the background. The direct ties and extreme conflicts of interest found under virtually every rock overturned when critically examining the leadership of Hong Kong?s ongoing unrest all lead to Washington. They also once again reveal the Western media as involved in a coordinated campaign of disinformation ? where proper investigative journalism is purposefully side-stepped and narratives shamelessly spun instead to frame Hong Kong?s ongoing conflict in whatever light best suits US interests. What?s worse is big-tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Google purging thousands of accounts attempting to reveal the truth behind Hong Kong?s unrest and the true nature of those leading it. If this is the level of lying, censorship, and authoritarianism Washington is willing to resort to in order for Hong Kong?s opposition to succeed, it begs one to wonder what this so-called opposition is even fighting for. Certainly not ?democracy? or ?freedom.? *** Author Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher, writer and special contributor to 21st Century Wire. Over the last decade, his work has been published on a number of popular news and analysis websites, and also on the online magazine ?New Eastern Outlook?. See Tony?s work at his 21WIRE archive. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Sep 10 18:41:02 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 18:41:02 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: The Mustache is out! References: <5d77eb6e47190_e021b2af5c9190@asgworker-qmb3-10.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: [CODEPINK.ORG] [Bolton] Dear Karen? Four months ago in May, we cajoled Donald Trump into sending out the email below about firing John Bolton. We collected around close to 5,000 signatures and traveled to Bolton?s home in Maryland to deliver them--and carry out a citizens arrest of the warhawk! Though Bolton refused to come to the door and accept our citizens' arrest, we knew we were on the right track. Today the wonderful news came in: Bolton has been fired! Bolton?s position in Trump?s cabinet was contrary to Trump?s campaign promises to bring troops home and to have a less interventionist foreign policy than his predecessors. Bolton played a key role in the collapse of Trump?s North Korea talks with Kim Jong-Un and was determined to see the US carry out regime change in Venezuela and war with Iran. Now, as he is leaving, peace lovers around the world are emitting a sigh of relief. As we celebrate Bolton?s departure, we are also aware of all the work ahead of us to turn around the dangerous and destructive policies that Bolton--and Trump--champion. Send a message now to Senators Reed and Schumer, Rep. Adam Smith, and Speaker Pelosi to make sure the amendments to prevent and end wars make it into the final version of the National Security Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The people of Yemen, Iran, Korea, Afghanistan, and more can?t wait. The best way to celebrate Bolton?s department is by working for peace, Ann, Ariel, Caroline, Carley, Clara, Jodie, Maya, Mark, Medea, Megan, Nancy, Paki, Ryan, Rose, Teri, Tighe, Ursula, and Zena ________________________________ May 19, 2019 from Donald Trump (via CODEPINK): Dear Karen? For once the fake news is reporting the truth: I am pissed at The Mustache, aka John Bolton. For months he has been telling me it would be easy to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, but Maduro turned out to be a tough cookie and this Guaido guy turned out to be a dud. The only coup Guaido and The Mustache have actually pulled off is right here in Washington DC, where we sent in some cops to raid the Venezuelan Embassy and arrest four ?I-don?t-like-war? protestors so we could hand the place over to the coup guys. But in Venezuela, the coup is nothing, nada, and now The Mustache and the South Florida crazies want me to do it all for them by sending in the Marines? Uh, I don?t think so. The Mustache is not just gunning for war in Venezuela; he seems to be working overtime to push me into a war with Iran. He?s talking nonsense about sending 120,000 troops to the Middle East!!! Is he crazy? After all, I?ve said about getting us out of stupid wars? I know my buddies in the Middle East ? Brass Balls Bibi and Prince Bone Saw Bin Salman ? would like me to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, but my generals tell me that would be a VERY BAD idea. You know what else I don?t like about The Mustache? He?s getting too much publicity. He acts like he?s the President and I don?t like that one bit. You know I love to fire people and The Mustache has been hanging around too long for my taste but I need your opinion: Is it time for me to say, John Bolton, You're Fired? Click here and CODEPINK will deliver his pink slip. I?ve been told countless times by U.S. intelligence that Iran isn?t a threat, but The Mustache has been whispering all kinds of crap in my ear: Iran has a nuclear weapons program, Iran sabotaged Saudi oil ships, Iran is responsible for the war in Yemen, Iran is ready to attack us. Does he think that just because I don?t read intelligence briefings, I?ll be so stupid as to believe him? I keep telling him and Mr. Boeing at the Pentagon, Patrick Shanahan, that I really don?t want to go to war with Iran. But The Mustache is not listening. I don?t mind being a tough guy. I was happy to tear up Obama?s disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal. I?ve been imposing all the sanctions The Mustache says I should ? on Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and probably on countries I don?t even know about. But I?m starting to think The Mustache is implementing his own agenda ? his cockamamie Project for the New American Century instead of my ?Make America Great Again.? Even with North Korea, whenever I try to talk with my pal Kim Jong Un, he steps in to sabotage it. So whadda you think? Should I fire his ass? Click here if you want me to fire Bolton and CODEPINK will deliver his pink slip. Even I know that the war in Iraq was a HUUUGE mistake, the single worst decision ever made. I?m not gonna be the same dummy George Bush was, letting The Mustache and his chickenhawks take me to war ? especially not in an election year. But he could very well stage a false flag incident that would force my hand. What do you think? Is it time for The Mustache to get the boot? 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At a joint press conference on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Biarritz last month, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a new ?partnership for the security and stability in the Sahel,? or P3S. The details of the partnership will be released later this year. It will reportedly incorporate more African nations into the occupation of the country, beyond the current G5 Sahel force of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. ?Faced with the extension of the terrorist phenomenon, we have decided to ? increase this support,? Macron said. ?All our efforts are obviously useful, but our aim is a change of scale and method.? There are already approximately 4,000 French troops stationed in Mali, and more than 800 German soldiers operating as part of a United Nations force of over 15,000 military and police personnel. [https://www.wsws.org/asset/4e8a4041-7df8-4856-9c5d-a151dd0eb55I/image.jpg?rendition=image480]An MQ-9 Reaper drone Now this brutal occupation is to be expanded further. Under the cynical and fraudulent banner of the fight against terrorism and protecting the population, the intervention by German and French imperialism is aimed at subjugating the resource-rich region of West Africa, and stabilizing the puppet regime in Bamako against rising opposition among the country?s workers and oppressed masses. The Bamako regime is despised and has a documented record of carrying out summary executions and torture of its opponents. The French military has already deployed four unarmed surveillance Reaper drones, purchased from the US military, to provide targeting for air strikes and ground operations in the Mali war. In March, the Macron administration announced that by the end of 2019, the French military will deploy armed drones into the country, the first time they will be used anywhere by France. By 2020, they are to be equipped with Hellfire missiles. The drone attacks will be controlled from a French military base at Niamey, in neighboring Niger. In parallel, the military?s supply of drones will be increased from five units currently to 12 in 2025, and 25 in 2030. This spring, the Cognac air base in southern France will inaugurate its first squadron dedicated to drone warfare, the ?Surveillance, reconnaissance and attack squad.? In other words, the war in the Sahel is the testing ground for French imperialism to develop the methods for wars of occupation in the Middle East and Africa perfected by the CIA and the US military over the past 20 years in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia. The expansion of France?s armed drone fleet makes clear that the ruling class envisages years of uninterrupted wars on a scale eclipsing what is already taking place. After more than six years, the war in Mali has led to the deaths of at least 6,000 people. It has caused a refugee crisis, with tens of thousands of people forced to flee their homes. France intervened in January 2013 against a collection of separatist and Islamist forces that gained arms in the course of the NATO war in Libya in 2011 and travelled to northern Mali in 2012. Paris, Berlin and their imperialist allies and local proxies have been unable to achieve their objective of establishing control of northern Mali for the Bamako government. The occupying forces are correctly viewed in the native population as a hostile force tasked with subjugating the country. The Bamako regime they are backing is guilty of horrific crimes against the population. A report published by Human Rights Watch in April 2018, for example, documented the deaths of at least 27 men and the torture of two others at the hands of the military during a single operation in the Mopti region of central Mali from February to March of that year. It cited ?multiple accounts of mass arrests followed by the discovery of common graves.? The killings targeted the Muslim ethnic Peuhl community. The investigators interviewed relatives in Sokolo who said that the army arrested seven Peuhl men celebrating a baptism on February 21, including the head of the village and several of his family members. Six days later, the Malian government reported that all the men had been killed during ?fighting? in the region. Article continues below the form On March 25, residents in Dogo told investigators they had identified six bodies of men in a common grave who had been arrested three days earlier. The local mayor said all the men were known as merchants and had no involvement with armed Islamist groups. The obvious question is what role French special forces troops played in these and other massacres of civilians or those suspected of harboring sympathies to Islamist or separatist anti-government forces. The occupying powers are in any case implicated in all of these crimes, which are carried out with their knowledge by a government that they are supporting. Reports of extrajudicial killings and torture by the Malian authorities over the past two years have been met with near-total silence in the French media, which has shown little interest in exposing the reality of the war to workers in France and Europe. The Bamako regime is also suspected of facilitating an escalating wave of communal killings between ethnic Dogon and Peuhl communities. There have been dozens of massacres in the last six months, including an attack on a Peuhl village on March 23 that killed over 150 people, and a retaliatory massacre in June on a town in Sobane Kou, killing at least 95 Dogons, including dozens of women and children. The government depends upon the Dogon militia for its security operations, and Malian government forces reportedly either participated in or allowed killings in Peuhl communities, which are majority Muslim. Germany?s S?ddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, which supports the war, noted on August 29 that ?the state indirectly supports the militias, which are now terrorizing the population, in order to assert its influence in contested regions.? Communal massacres in towns are now regularly followed by demonstrations against the government. Le Monde, which has supported French imperialism?s war in the Sahel from the beginning, provided a rare glimpse of the hostility to troops in an article published on August 19. The reporters, travelling with a convoy of UN soldiers, noted that after they arrived with tanks and trucks in a majority Dogon village, they were greeted by protests and stones thrown by civilians. ?On the right, a man who arrived at the same time as the [UN] patrol in the town is threatened by the inhabitants. Everyone sees him as a traitor, who guided the blue-helmets there,? it admitted. The townspeople ?stood up against the tanks and demanded that the MINUSMA [UN force] leave.? In April, the Malian Prime Minister was forced to resign after a wave of protests. The war in Mali is part of a new drive by the imperialist powers to subjugate and carve up Africa. French imperialism is also responding to the growing influence of new competitors in the region, including China and Russia. A report published in December 2018, by the Portail de l?intelligence ?conomique (Economic intelligence portal), a think tank closely linked to French intelligence, noted that Chinese investments in Africa, the largest of any country, increased by 1,400 percent between November 2015 and 2016. It stated that China?s ?strategy of influence in Africa resides in putting forward aid ?without conditions,? unlike Europe and particularly France.? Its position reflects longstanding fears of French imperialist strategists that France ?risks being sidelined from the new international scenario opening up before Africa and is threatened with seeing its economic interests damaged by new parties present in the African economy.? Mali is a geostrategically critical country in West Africa. Northern Mali, where French occupying forces are concentrated, borders Niger, from where France sources the majority of its uranium supplies. Mali itself contains at least three large deposits of uranium, located in Falea, 200 miles west of Bamako, with an estimated 5,500 tonnes of uranium, and Samit, in the Goa region, with another 220 tonnes. Mali is now the third largest producer of gold in Africa, after Ghana (located close to Mali?s south) and South Africa. An article published last month by Al Jazeera, entitled ?Time for a gold rush in West Africa,? cited Lebohang Sekhokoane, a mining research analyst at South Africa?s Public Investment Corporation. ?Low-cost deposits in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Ivory Coast offer the long-term investment potential the PIC prefers, rather than the five to 10-year lifespan of projects in South Africa, she said.? The analyst added that ?When you look at the gold sector in West Africa, that?s where the sun is rising.? The WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Sep 11 14:02:31 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:02:31 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Article related to film regarding majority African refugees and the hell they suffer in Paris due to western imperialism Message-ID: * Print * Leaflet * Feedback * Share ? Toronto International Film Festival 2019: Part 1 Paris Stalingrad: The plight of refugees in the French capital, once ?one of the best cities? By David Walsh 11 September 2019 This is the first in a series of articles devoted to the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (September 5-15). This year?s Toronto International Film Festival, now more than half over, includes some 330 feature and short films from 84 countries. At this point it already seems possible to assert that the most interesting and serious films at this year?s event concern immigrants and refugees and conditions in the Middle East and North Africa. This is not accidental. The refugee crisis is a gaping wound that humanity has suffered. [https://www.wsws.org/asset/32514375-286e-495a-a604-e6f0ff316ecN/image.jpg?rendition=image480]Refugees in Paris Stalingrad As the WSWS reported recently, there are now more refugees than at any time since World War II. The number of people forcibly displaced around the world nearly doubled from 43.3 million in 2009 to 70.8 million in 2018. Vast numbers of men, women and children have been forced to leave their homes in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa by a quarter century of wars waged?or manipulated?by the US and the European powers. Millions more have been forced to flee unspeakable poverty produced by imperialist domination in Central America and Mexico. Perhaps reflecting as well the emergence of mass opposition to the misery, in Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Sudan and Algeria, in the ?yellow vest? [gilets jaunes] movement in France, several films suggest that retribution is coming for those in authority. In Atlantics (Mati Diop), unpaid workers in Dakar, Senegal, forced to cross the sea by boat in search of opportunity, return to haunt their exploiter. In Les Mis?rables (Ladj Ly), oppressed and tormented youth in the eastern suburbs of Paris seek to exact revenge. Hearts and Bones (Ben Lawrence) from Australia and Love Child (Eva Mulvad) from Denmark, each in its own way, treat those in flight from atrocities or traumas at home. In My English Cousin (Karim Sayad), an Algerian man who moved to England?s northeast in 2001 contemplates returning home. Rabah Ameur-Za?meche?s South Terminal frighteningly captures the reality of Algeria?s civil war. One of the most intriguing works at the festival, Ibrahim: A Fate to Define (Lina Al Abed), concerns the filmmaker?s father, a Palestinian militant, perhaps executed by his own organization. In one of the early sequences in Paris Stalingrad (directed by Hind Meddeb), about the plight of asylum seekers on the streets of the French capital, a young man addresses the camera: ?Historically, Paris is one of the best cities?now we are sleeping in the streets.? The title of the film refers to the area near the Stalingrad M?tro station in Paris, located at a square named for the Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43) in World War II. Many refugees gathered in the area before being pushed out by the police and city authorities. The filmmaker, a Paris native, begins her film at dawn, as the police conduct another raid. ?I decided to take my camera and shoot.? We see lines of unfortunate people, people who have been on the move for years in some cases, shunted around by bureaucrats, pointlessly. A well-fed official loses his temper. It must be very stressful to treat people so heartlessly. [https://www.wsws.org/asset/dd60698d-5353-45ba-820a-93b75ece202I/image.jpg?rendition=image480]?The police erased our lives? There is an informal refugee camp on the boulevard. The police destroy it, carting everything off, including tents, mattresses, blankets. Someone says, ?The police erased our lives.? The immigrants lead ?a life without rest.? One kid says, ?A single night [on the streets] is horrible.? And these people, from Africa and Asia, spend months and even years like that. Hind Meddeb, the director, introduces us to Souleymane, a young man from Darfur in Sudan. His father was a farmer. Both his father and brother were killed. ?Our country is beautiful, but war is everywhere.? He has spent five years on the road, from 13 to 18. Paris, he says, is ?cold.? But it?s only autumn. We meet a 14-year-old from Bangladesh. It is heart-breaking. The police harass a distraught pregnant woman. They prevent a local woman from helping, pushing her away. Generosity is illegal. Article continues below the form Souleymane walks around Paris reciting poems. He also sings love songs. Human beings are very resilient. He has seen awful things. He and a friend explain that in Libya, ?we were like sheep, locked up in pens.? Souleymane adds, ?They didn?t care if you died.? He worked in a gold mine near the border of Chad and Libya. ?You?re a slave. They?d just kill you.? [https://www.wsws.org/asset/67f4fcf5-4a7f-4a3b-8f31-45c6d103cf7F/image.jpg?rendition=image480]Souleymane in Paris Stalingrad Another local woman helps two 16-year-olds from Guinea in West Africa. It?s kind of her, but these are temporary, band-aid solutions. The police launch another raid. The repression and pressure are constant. The authorities decide to place 4,000 people around Paris. They take them by bus, but hundreds have to wait all day. It?s a ?humiliating, degrading? process. In the rain, in the midst of this terrible situation, Souleymane and others recite the verses of Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, a Sudanese poet. The filmmaker explains in her narration that ?defending our borders is now taking place in the heart of our cities.? ?What a system,? someone comments. ?What can we do?? We see the boulders the city of Paris placed under the Porte de la Chapelle bridge in February 2017 to prevent refugees setting up camp there. When Pia Klemp, the former captain of the refugee rescue ship Juventa, who with her crew saved thousands of refugees in the Mediterranean, rejected an honorary award bestowed by the Socialist Party mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, she referred to this cruel act. The French government begins sending people back to Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan, as though those countries were now safe. They put lives in danger. Fortunately, Souleymane receives his papers. He begins an apprenticeship in an auto repair shop. He now has a coat. But only 27 percent of asylum requests were granted in France in 2018. Many of those rejected ?didn?t have their paperwork in order,? as one media report explains. Meddeb?s Paris Stalingrad is an indictment of the French and Paris governments and the official political spectrum in France, from the ?far left? to the right. All the parties and the trade unions are complicit in this process. The WSWS recently noted, ?Every night in Paris, in sprawling tent encampments under highway overpasses, in local playgrounds and parks, thousands of refugees go to sleep on the street. They receive no government housing, no money, no food and have no legal right to work. They are the victims of a criminal anti-immigrant regime overseen by the French state and the European Union and supported by the entire French political establishment.? If artists are beginning to open their eyes, it is a welcome development. Subsequent articles will discuss the complexities and contradictions of this process. To be continued The WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Wed Sep 11 17:38:22 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:38:22 -0500 Subject: [Peace] CAPA: Tell Sens Durbin & Duckworth to End US Complicity in the Yemen war In-Reply-To: <18.7F.26883.10D297D5@asv11mtam002.ngpweb.com> References: <18.7F.26883.10D297D5@asv11mtam002.ngpweb.com> Message-ID: Dear Robert, In the coming weeks, House and Senate leadership will decide which provisions will remain in the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Different versions of the bill passed each chamber over the summer, and House-Senate negotiators are now working out a final agreement. We want the final version to include a House-passed provision to end U.S. military involvement in the brutal Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen. That amendment was introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna (CA-17), Adam Smith (WA-09), Adam Schiff (CA-28), and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and passed by a bipartisan vote of 240-185. It is very similar to the Yemen War Powers Resolution passed by both the House and Senate with bipartisan majorities during the spring of 2019 but vetoed by President Donald Trump. We now have a real chance to end this war, which has never been authorized by Congress. The Saudi-UAE led coalition?s aerial bombardment of Yemen is one of the leading causes of civilian casualties in the war and a driver of the world?s largest humanitarian crisis. More than half of the country?s population is on the brink of starvation and over 1 million people have contracted cholera, with an alarming 10,000 new cases each week. The United States has the leverage to stop the killing, starting by ending its logistical and intelligence support for the bombing. *Call Senators Durbin and Duckworth at 202-224-3121 today, and urge they to state publicly that they will not support an NDAA that doesn't also end US support for the Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen! * *Why end U.S. military support for the Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen?* - Congress has never authorized the use of U.S. military force in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, making such participation unconsitutional. - The Saudi-led war in Yemen is exacerbating the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with nearly 22 million people in need of emergency assisstance. - Save the Children estimates that at least 85,000 children under the age of five have died from hunger and disease since 2015. Thank you for all you do for peace! Sincerely, Marcia Bernsten and Timi Papas, co-chairs of the CAPA Foreign Policy Working Group *Friendly Reminder to take advantage of our EARLY BIRD ticket rates to our 40th Annual Dinner! This special ends tomorrow -* *Make Your Reservation Today!* Chicago Area Peace Action 535 Custer Ave Evanston, IL 60202 United States -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Wed Sep 11 19:49:16 2019 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:49:16 -0500 Subject: [Peace] CAPA: Tell Sens Durbin & Duckworth to End US Complicity in the Yemen war In-Reply-To: References: <18.7F.26883.10D297D5@asv11mtam002.ngpweb.com> Message-ID: I called.?? Neither office has been getting many calls about this issue - the staffer in Duckworth's office even said there should be more - so, people of AWARE, please do call! On 9/11/19 12:38 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace wrote: > > > > ? > > Dear Robert, > > In the coming weeks, House and Senate leadership will decide which > provisions will remain in the FY2020 National Defense Authorization > Act (NDAA). Different versions of the bill passed each chamber over > the summer, and House-Senate negotiators are now working out a final > agreement. > > We want the final version to include a House-passed provision to end > U.S. military involvement in the brutal Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen. > That amendment was introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna (CA-17), Adam Smith > (WA-09), Adam Schiff (CA-28), and Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and passed > by a bipartisan vote of 240-185. It is very similar to the Yemen War > Powers Resolution passed by both the House and Senate with bipartisan > majorities during the spring of 2019 but vetoed by President Donald Trump. > > We now have a real chance to end this war, which has never been > authorized by Congress. The Saudi-UAE led coalition?s aerial > bombardment of Yemen is one of the?leading causes > ?of > civilian casualties in the war and a driver of the world?s largest > humanitarian crisis. More than half of the country?s population is on > the brink of starvation and over 1 million people have contracted > cholera, with an alarming 10,000 new cases each week. The United > States has the leverage to stop the killing, starting by ending its > logistical and intelligence support for the bombing. > > *Call Senators Durbin and Duckworth at 202-224-3121 today, and urge > they to state publicly that they will not support an NDAA that doesn't > also end US support for the Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen!?* > > *Why end U.S. military support for the Saudi-UAE led war in Yemen?* > > * Congress has never authorized the use?of U.S. military force in > the Saudi-led war in Yemen, making such participation unconsitutional. > * The Saudi-led war in Yemen is exacerbating the world's worst > humanitarian crisis, with nearly 22 million people in need of > emergency assisstance. > * Save the Children estimates that at least 85,000 children under > the age of five have died from hunger and disease since 2015. > > > Thank you?for all you do for peace! > > Sincerely,? > Marcia Bernsten and Timi Papas, co-chairs of the CAPA Foreign Policy > Working Group > > /Friendly Reminder to take advantage of our?*EARLY BIRD* ticket > rates?to our 40th Annual Dinner! This special ends tomorrow -/ > */_Make Your Reservation Today!_/* > > > Chicago Area Peace Action > 535 Custer Ave > Evanston, IL 60202 > United States > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Sep 14 00:55:21 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:55:21 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Event Tomorrow! Party for Socialism and Liberation References: Message-ID: Hello! Tomorrow, September 14, we are hosting the forum "US Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Assault on Immigrants". The racist assault on immigrants has deep roots in the white supremacist history of the United States. Racism and exclusionary immigrant policies are woven into the fabric of this country's history. We will discuss how US imperialism and intervention in Latin America has led to worsening conditions for the people living there, and has forced many to migrate. Once here, they find brutal treatment and detention instead of the refuge they deserve. We will be collecting donations, and all proceeds will go toward assisting undocumented, unaccompanied minors in Champaign-Urbana. The event will be held at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (202 S. Broadway Ave Ste1, Urbana, IL). Check out the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/387168205323680/ Hope to see you there! Peter Sentz Party for Socialism and Liberation Champaign-Urbana -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From moboct1 at aim.com Mon Sep 16 14:41:08 2019 From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:41:08 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace] Fwd: The Mustache is out! References: <336431199.8015425.1568644868058.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <336431199.8015425.1568644868058@mail.yahoo.com> Well maybe the Mustache is gone in body, but not yet in spirit?? I'd almost stake a wager that the "Saudi refinery?explosion" was a??Bolton?caper (how could he be blamed now that he's not around to kick anymore) to possibly self-destruct?surplus Saudi petrol, boosting sagging?oil prices for an ailing industry,?and at the same time why not make it count against the Great Satan? ?(One little drone could do the job and be consumed?without trace).? It has all the fingerprints of a cynical?former?manipulator?(am I reading too much Caitlin Johnston of late...)?Midge??-----Original Message----- From: Karen Aram via Peace To: Peace Discuss ; Peace Sent: Tue, Sep 10, 2019 1:41 pm Subject: [Peace] Fwd: The Mustache is out! | | | Dear Karen??Four months ago in May, we cajoled Donald Trump into sending out the email below about firing John Bolton. We collected around close to 5,000 signatures and traveled to Bolton?s home in Maryland to deliver them--and carry out a citizens arrest of the warhawk! Though Bolton refused to come to the door and accept our citizens' arrest, we knew we were on the right track.?Today the wonderful news came in: Bolton has been fired!?Bolton?s position in Trump?s cabinet was contrary to Trump?s campaign promises to bring troops home and to have a less interventionist foreign policy than his predecessors.?Bolton played a key role in the collapse of Trump?s North Korea talks with Kim Jong-Un and was determined to see the US carry out regime change in Venezuela and war with Iran. Now, as he is leaving, peace lovers around the world are emitting a sigh of relief.?As we celebrate Bolton?s departure, we are also aware of all the work ahead of us to turn around the dangerous and destructive policies that Bolton--and Trump--champion.?Send a message now to Senators Reed and Schumer, Rep. Adam Smith, and Speaker Pelosi to make sure the amendments to prevent and end wars make it into the final version of the National Security Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The people of Yemen, Iran, Korea, Afghanistan, and more can?t wait.?The best way to celebrate Bolton?s department is by working for peace, Ann, Ariel, Caroline, Carley, Clara, Jodie, Maya, Mark, Medea, Megan, Nancy, Paki, Ryan, Rose, Teri, Tighe, Ursula, and ZenaMay 19, 2019 from Donald Trump (via CODEPINK):Dear Karen?For once the fake news is reporting the truth:?I am?pissed?at?The Mustache, aka John Bolton. For months he has been telling me it would be easy to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, but?Maduro turned out to be a tough cookie?and this?Guaido guy turned out to be a dud. The only coup Guaido and The Mustache have actually pulled off is right here in Washington DC, where we sent in some cops to raid the Venezuelan Embassy and arrest four ?I-don?t-like-war? protestors so we could hand the place over to the coup guys. But in Venezuela, the coup is nothing, nada, and now The Mustache and the South Florida crazies want me to do it all for them by sending in the Marines??Uh, I don?t think so.The Mustache is not just gunning for war in Venezuela; he seems to be working overtime to push me into a?war with Iran. He?s talking nonsense about sending 120,000 troops to the Middle East!!! Is he crazy? After all, I?ve said about getting us out of stupid wars? I know my buddies in the Middle East ? Brass Balls Bibi and Prince Bone Saw Bin Salman ? would like me to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, but my generals tell me that would be a VERY BAD idea.You know what else I don?t like about The Mustache??He?s getting too much publicity. He acts like he?s the President and I don?t like that one bit. You know I love to fire people and The Mustache has been hanging around too long for my taste but I need your opinion:?Is it time for me to say, John Bolton, You're Fired? Click here and CODEPINK will deliver his pink slip.I?ve been told countless times by U.S. intelligence that Iran isn?t a threat, but The Mustache has been whispering all kinds of crap in my ear: Iran has a nuclear weapons program, Iran sabotaged Saudi oil ships, Iran is responsible for the war in Yemen, Iran is ready to attack us. Does he think that just because I don?t read intelligence briefings, I?ll be so stupid as to believe him? I keep telling him and Mr. Boeing at the Pentagon, Patrick Shanahan, that I really don?t want to go to war with Iran. But The Mustache is not listening.I don?t mind being a tough guy. I was happy to tear up Obama?s disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal. I?ve been imposing all the sanctions The Mustache says I should ? on Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and probably on countries I don?t even know about. But I?m starting to think The Mustache is implementing his own agenda ? his cockamamie Project for the New American Century instead of my ?Make America Great Again.? Even with North Korea, whenever I try to talk with my pal Kim Jong Un, he steps in to sabotage it.?So whadda you think? Should I fire his ass??Click here if you want me to fire Bolton and CODEPINK will deliver his pink slip.Even I know that the war in Iraq was a HUUUGE mistake, the single worst decision ever made. I?m not gonna be the same dummy George Bush was, letting The Mustache and his chickenhawks take me to war ? especially not in an election year. But he could very well stage a false flag incident that would force my hand.?What do you think? Is it time for The Mustache to get the boot?From the best president this country (and world) has ever had, President Donald Trump | | ???? | | This email was sent to?karenaram at hotmail.com.To stop receiving emails,??click here.?To update your email subscription, contact?info at codepink.org.? | | ? Copyright 2019 |??www.codepink.org? Created with?NationBuilder | ? _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman at justforeignpolicy.org Mon Sep 16 15:11:54 2019 From: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org (Robert Naiman) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:11:54 -0500 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Fwd: The Mustache is out! In-Reply-To: <336431199.8015425.1568644868058@mail.yahoo.com> References: <336431199.8015425.1568644868058.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <336431199.8015425.1568644868058@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: No conspiracy theory is necessary here. The Houthis claimed responsibility. They have the means and the motive. Or, as some who believe in just war theory might say, they have the means and the moral justification. On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 9:41 AM Mildred O'brien via Peace-discuss < peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > Well maybe the Mustache is gone in body, but not yet in spirit? I'd > almost stake a wager that the "Saudi refinery explosion" was > a Bolton caper (how could he be blamed now that he's not around to kick > anymore) to possibly self-destruct surplus Saudi petrol, boosting > sagging oil prices for an ailing industry, and at the same time why not > make it count against the Great Satan? (One little drone could do the job > and be consumed without trace). It has all the fingerprints of a > cynical former manipulator (am I reading too much Caitlin Johnston of > late...) > > Midge > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Aram via Peace > To: Peace Discuss ; Peace > Sent: Tue, Sep 10, 2019 1:41 pm > Subject: [Peace] Fwd: The Mustache is out! > > > > > [image: CODEPINK.ORG] > > > [image: Bolton] > > Dear Karen? Four months ago in May, we cajoled Donald Trump into sending > out the email below about firing John Bolton. We collected around close to > 5,000 signatures and traveled to Bolton?s home in Maryland to deliver > them--and carry out a citizens arrest of the warhawk! Though Bolton refused > to come to the door and accept our citizens' arrest, we knew we were on the > right track. *Today the wonderful news came in: Bolton has been fired! * > Bolton?s position in Trump?s cabinet was contrary to Trump?s campaign > promises to bring troops home and to have a less interventionist foreign > policy than his predecessors. *Bolton played a key role in the collapse > of Trump?s North Korea talks with Kim Jong-Un and was determined to see the > US carry out regime change in Venezuela and war with Iran. Now, as he is > leaving, peace lovers around the world are emitting a sigh of relief*. > As we celebrate Bolton?s departure, we are also aware of all the work > ahead of us to turn around the dangerous and destructive policies that > Bolton--and Trump--champion. *Send a message now to Senators Reed and > Schumer, Rep. Adam Smith, and Speaker Pelosi to make sure the amendments to > prevent and end wars make it into the final version of the National > Security Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)* > . > The people of Yemen, Iran, Korea, Afghanistan, and more can?t wait. > *The best way to celebrate Bolton?s department is by working for peace,* > *Ann, Ariel, Caroline, Carley, Clara, Jodie, Maya, Mark, Medea, Megan, > Nancy, Paki, Ryan, Rose, Teri, Tighe, Ursula, and Zena* > ------------------------------ > *May 19, 2019 from Donald Trump (via CODEPINK):* > Dear Karen? > *For once the fake news is reporting the truth:* I am *pissed* at *The > Mustache, aka John Bolton*. For months he has been telling me it would be > easy to oust Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, but *Maduro turned out > to be a tough cookie* and this *Guaido guy turned out to be a dud*. The > only coup Guaido and The Mustache have actually pulled off is right here in > Washington DC, where we sent in some cops to raid the Venezuelan Embassy > and arrest four ?I-don?t-like-war? protestors so we could hand the place > over to the coup guys. But in Venezuela, the coup is nothing, nada, and now > The Mustache and the South Florida crazies want me to do it all for them by > sending in the Marines?* Uh, I don?t think so.* > The Mustache is not just gunning for war in Venezuela; he seems to be > working overtime to push me into a *war with Iran*. He?s talking nonsense > about sending 120,000 troops to the Middle East!!! Is he crazy? After all, > I?ve said about getting us out of stupid wars? I know my buddies in the > Middle East ? Brass Balls Bibi and Prince Bone Saw Bin Salman ? would like > me to bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, but my generals tell me that would be a VERY > BAD idea. > *You know what else I don?t like about The Mustache?* He?s getting too > much publicity. He acts like he?s the President and I don?t like that one > bit. You know I love to fire people and The Mustache has been hanging > around too long for my taste but I need your opinion: *Is it time for me > to say, John Bolton, You're Fired? Click here and CODEPINK will deliver his > pink slip. > * > I?ve been told countless times by U.S. intelligence that Iran isn?t a > threat, but The Mustache has been whispering all kinds of crap in my ear: > Iran has a nuclear weapons program, Iran sabotaged Saudi oil ships, Iran is > responsible for the war in Yemen, Iran is ready to attack us. Does he think > that just because I don?t read intelligence briefings, I?ll be so stupid as > to believe him? I keep telling him and Mr. Boeing at the Pentagon, Patrick > Shanahan, that I really don?t want to go to war with Iran. But The Mustache > is not listening. > I don?t mind being a tough guy. I was happy to tear up Obama?s disastrous > Iran Nuclear Deal. I?ve been imposing all the sanctions The Mustache says I > should ? on Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and probably on countries I > don?t even know about. But I?m starting to think The Mustache is > implementing his own agenda ? his cockamamie Project for the New American > Century instead of my ?Make America Great Again.? Even with North Korea, > whenever I try to talk with my pal Kim Jong Un, he steps in to sabotage it. > *So whadda you think? Should I fire his ass?* *Click here if you want me > to fire Bolton and CODEPINK will deliver his pink slip. > * > *Even I know that the war in Iraq was a HUUUGE mistake*, the single worst > decision ever made. I?m not gonna be the same dummy George Bush was, > letting The Mustache and his chickenhawks take me to war ? especially not > in an election year. But he could very well stage a false flag incident > that would force my hand. *What do you think? Is it time for The Mustache > to get the boot? > * > From the best president this country (and world) has ever had, > *President Donald Trump* > [image: Donate Now!] > > > > > > > > > > > > This email was sent to karenaram at hotmail.com. > To stop receiving emails, click here > > . > To update your email subscription, contact info at codepink.org. > > ? Copyright 2019 | www.codepink.org > > > Created with NationBuilder > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Wed Sep 18 01:27:06 2019 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:27:06 -0500 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #492 notes Message-ID: AWARE on the Air #492 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALV6b86YoXk A list of links to items mentioned on the show. CBS interviews Tulsi Gabbard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVSYBNgOeI https://www.cbsnews.com/video/tulsi-gabbard-on-her-political-future/ Joel B. Pollak on "Tulsi Gabbard to Trump: ?We Are Not Your Prostitutes. You Are Not Our Pimp?" https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/09/16/tulsi-gabbard-to-trump-we-are-not-your-prostitutes-you-are-not-our-pimp/ Tulsi Gabbard tweets: "Hey @realdonaldtrump: being Saudi Arabia?s bitch is not ?America First.?" https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1065289231977738240 ". at realDonaldTrump Despicable. Offering to place our military assets under the command of a foreign country?Saudi Arabia?is a disgrace and betrayal of my patriotic brothers and sisters in uniform and to our Constitution. We are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp." https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1173723701373591552 Picture included in post: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEnnOBoUEAAMXLZ.jpg Theodore Postol on Tulsi Gabbard in interview with Aaron Mat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyKHBPvlCFw Netanyahu in Israel elections https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49735963 -- "Israel election result too close to call - exit polls" Gary Brecher's (pseudonym of John Dolan) Radio War Nerd https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6qV1M0aujeZ582k4gaD9wA/videos Related: The War Nerd articles across multiple archives http://pando.com/author/garybrecher/ -- PandoDaily (November 2013 - November 2015) https://www.nsfwcorp.com/desk/war-nerd/ -- NSFWCorp (September 2012-November 2013) http://www.exile.ru/articles/list.php?IBLOCK_ID=35&SECTION_ID=156 -- The Exile (April 2002 - May 2008) http://exiledonline.com/cat/war-nerd/ -- The Exiled Online (April 2011-September 2012) https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd/posts -- Current posts available behind paywall Caitlin Johnstone on "The Trump Administration Is Losing The Narrative Battle Over Iran" https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-trump-administration-is-losing-the-narrative-battle-over-iran-e903fdd179fb Dwight Eisenhower's warning of "the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower%27s_farewell_address -J From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Sep 21 01:32:35 2019 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:32:35 -0500 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #435 notes Message-ID: <722246bc-43fb-06b8-96e3-06a372178f3a@forestfield.org> News from Neptune #435 A "Five Little PEPpers and How They Grew" edition Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLCa6gi0Gkw A list of links to items referenced on the show. David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html Belden Fields on "Bend the Arc is doing good work" replying to David Green https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-bend-the-arc-is-doing-good/article_3b4b1742-1232-5f64-b2da-7c4d5d88a1d6.html Sherry Steigmann on "I reject group?s image of America" https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-i-reject-group-s-image-of/article_a276c4c0-d26f-58db-99d3-68b0581ec4ea.html Steven Salaita on "Except for Palestine" https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/except-for-palestine/ Marjorie Cohn on "The ?Progressive Except Palestine? Problem" https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/06/the-progressive-except-palestine-problem/ Donna Nevel on "There is no such thing as ?Progressive Except Palestine?" https://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/progressive-except-palestine/ Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Pompeo and Circumstance" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/roaming-charges-pompeo-and-circumstance/ which includes a quote from Eric Draitser David Brooks on "A Brief History of the Warren Presidency" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/elizabeth-warren.html Katie Halper on "Sydney Ember?s Secret Sources" https://fair.org/home/sidney-embers-secret-sources/ Jimmy Dore interviews Katie Halper on Sydney Ember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26Ff_KTlD4 Katie Halper & Matt Taibbi's show: Useful Idiots https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0ooGQ0asg4upSXzZA1Oinn3ALqVCndA Katie Halper on "Unauthorized Disclosure" http://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com/s6-episode-27-katie-halper-returns "Unauthorized Disclosure" RSS feed https://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com/rss Sydney Ember on "Young Voters Still ?Feel the Bern,? but Not Just for Bernie Sanders Anymore" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/politics/bernie-sanders-young-voters.html Megan Flowers on "Protesters rally at Drury Inn, call to shut down ICE" http://www.smilepolitely.com/culture/protesters_rally_at_drury_inn_call_to_shut_down_ice/ Adalberto Toledo on "UPDATE: 200 protest at Champaign hotel where ICE agents said to stay" https://www.news-gazette.com/news/update-protest-at-champaign-hotel-where-ice-agents-said-to/article_bfbc3103-a0fa-5a5e-b69b-29bae4aae7fa.html "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 ISBN-10: 0199283273 Mike Doyle and Craig Rost on "Building a Welcoming Economy" https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary-building-a-welcoming-economy/article_859ff35b-cbd6-546f-97c5-1862fc43ab4c.html Belt and Road Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative Zaid Jilani on "As Democrats Shift Left on Palestine, 2020 Contender Kamala Harris Gives Off-the-Record Address to AIPAC" https://theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kamala-harris-israel-aipac/ Maxwell Strachan on "Kamala Harris Releases Off-The-Record AIPAC Comments" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-aipac-off-the-record_n_5c734f6ae4b06cf6bb27892d Philip Weiss on "Kamala Harris skips AIPAC conference ? but AIPAC comes to her!" https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/kamala-harris-conference/ Jonathan Cook on "Israelis Have Shown Netanyahu the Door. Can He Inflict More Damage Before He Exits?" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/israelis-have-shown-netanyahu-the-door-can-he-inflict-more-damage-before-he-exits/ Gideon Levy's Haaretz articles https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968119 Gideon Levy on "Israel's Election Results Prove the Center Has Won and Ideology Is Dead" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-s-election-results-prove-that-the-center-has-won-and-ideology-is-dead-1.7863169 Democracy Now interview with Diana Buttu on "Israel?s Election Outcome Remains Unclear, But the ?Ultimate Loser? Will Be Palestinians" https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/israeli_election_results_netanyahu_gantz Caitlin Johnstone on "The Trump Administration Is Losing The Narrative Battle Over Iran" https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-trump-administration-is-losing-the-narrative-battle-over-iran-e903fdd179fb The Real News on "Documentary ?Blowout? Follows Climate Cost of Oil Boom from Fracking to Exports" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSOgaODVWE -- video https://therealnews.com/stories/documentary-blowout-follows-climate-cost-of-oil-boom-from-fracking-to-exports -- transcript RT: "Saudis say oil refinery attacks ?unquestionably sponsored by Iran?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ--l2oTCtY Related: https://on.rt.com/a23k -- "We stop, you stop! Houthis offer Saudi Arabia mutual halt to strikes in wake of devastating oil-plant attacks" https://on.rt.com/a21h -- "Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen?s Hodeidah in wake of refinery attacks claimed by Houthis" Martin Chulov on "Middle East drones signal end to era of fast jet air supremacy" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/16/middle-east-drones-signal-end-to-era-of-fast-jet-air-supremacy Pepe Escobar on "Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard" https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/09/article/how-the-houthis-overturned-the-chessboard/ Jonathan Cook on "Netanyahu Risks Triggering an Unwinnable War to Avoid Losing Election" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/12/netanyahu-risks-triggering-an-unwinnable-war-to-avoid-losing-election/ Julie Wurth on "UI trustees OK Killeen's bonus, urge quick action on sexual-misconduct reforms" https://www.news-gazette.com/news/ui-trustees-ok-killeen-s-bonus-urge-quick-action-on/article_9449a888-db07-11e9-99f4-ab89088eb260.html Justine Coleman on "Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke program portrays Islam too positively" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462202-trump-admin-say-unc-duke-programs-portray-islam-too-positively Collin Binkley on "Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language grant" https://www.apnews.com/430e62044dba43daa3f2332792cd97b2 Margaret Sidney's "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2770 Five Little Peppers series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Little_Peppers The Peppers: Mrs. Pepper ("Mamsie"), Ben (Ebenezer), Polly (Mary), Joel, Davie (David), and Phronsie (Sophronia) J.B. Nicholson's notes https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-September/051263.html -J From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Sat Sep 21 15:27:54 2019 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 10:27:54 -0500 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #435 notes In-Reply-To: <722246bc-43fb-06b8-96e3-06a372178f3a@forestfield.org> References: <722246bc-43fb-06b8-96e3-06a372178f3a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: Thank you Jeff, especially in regard to the PEP links. These inspire me to make a very firm response to BtA, and to Belden's criticism of me. On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 8:33 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > News from Neptune #435 > A "Five Little PEPpers and How They Grew" edition > Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLCa6gi0Gkw > > A list of links to items referenced on the show. > > > > David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the > News-Gazette > > https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html > > Belden Fields on "Bend the Arc is doing good work" replying to David Green > > https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-bend-the-arc-is-doing-good/article_3b4b1742-1232-5f64-b2da-7c4d5d88a1d6.html > > Sherry Steigmann on "I reject group?s image of America" > > https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-i-reject-group-s-image-of/article_a276c4c0-d26f-58db-99d3-68b0581ec4ea.html > > > > > Steven Salaita on "Except for Palestine" > https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/except-for-palestine/ > > Marjorie Cohn on "The ?Progressive Except Palestine? Problem" > > https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/06/the-progressive-except-palestine-problem/ > > Donna Nevel on "There is no such thing as ?Progressive Except Palestine?" > https://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/progressive-except-palestine/ > > > > > Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Pompeo and Circumstance" > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/roaming-charges-pompeo-and-circumstance/ > which includes a quote from Eric Draitser > > David Brooks on "A Brief History of the Warren Presidency" > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/elizabeth-warren.html > > Katie Halper on "Sydney Ember?s Secret Sources" > https://fair.org/home/sidney-embers-secret-sources/ > > Jimmy Dore interviews Katie Halper on Sydney Ember > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26Ff_KTlD4 > > Katie Halper & Matt Taibbi's show: Useful Idiots > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0ooGQ0asg4upSXzZA1Oinn3ALqVCndA > > Katie Halper on "Unauthorized Disclosure" > http://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com/s6-episode-27-katie-halper-returns > > "Unauthorized Disclosure" RSS feed > https://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com/rss > > Sydney Ember on "Young Voters Still ?Feel the Bern,? but Not Just for > Bernie Sanders Anymore" > > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/politics/bernie-sanders-young-voters.html > > > > > Megan Flowers on "Protesters rally at Drury Inn, call to shut down ICE" > > http://www.smilepolitely.com/culture/protesters_rally_at_drury_inn_call_to_shut_down_ice/ > > Adalberto Toledo on "UPDATE: 200 protest at Champaign hotel where ICE > agents said to stay" > > https://www.news-gazette.com/news/update-protest-at-champaign-hotel-where-ice-agents-said-to/article_bfbc3103-a0fa-5a5e-b69b-29bae4aae7fa.html > > > > > "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey > ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 > ISBN-10: 0199283273 > > Mike Doyle and Craig Rost on "Building a Welcoming Economy" > > https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary-building-a-welcoming-economy/article_859ff35b-cbd6-546f-97c5-1862fc43ab4c.html > > Belt and Road Initiative > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative > > > > > Zaid Jilani on "As Democrats Shift Left on Palestine, 2020 Contender > Kamala > Harris Gives Off-the-Record Address to AIPAC" > https://theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kamala-harris-israel-aipac/ > > Maxwell Strachan on "Kamala Harris Releases Off-The-Record AIPAC Comments" > > https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-aipac-off-the-record_n_5c734f6ae4b06cf6bb27892d > > Philip Weiss on "Kamala Harris skips AIPAC conference ? but AIPAC comes to > her!" > https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/kamala-harris-conference/ > > Jonathan Cook on "Israelis Have Shown Netanyahu the Door. Can He Inflict > More Damage Before He Exits?" > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/israelis-have-shown-netanyahu-the-door-can-he-inflict-more-damage-before-he-exits/ > > Gideon Levy's Haaretz articles > https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968119 > > Gideon Levy on "Israel's Election Results Prove the Center Has Won and > Ideology Is Dead" > > https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-s-election-results-prove-that-the-center-has-won-and-ideology-is-dead-1.7863169 > > Democracy Now interview with Diana Buttu on "Israel?s Election Outcome > Remains Unclear, But the ?Ultimate Loser? Will Be Palestinians" > > https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/israeli_election_results_netanyahu_gantz > > > > > Caitlin Johnstone on "The Trump Administration Is Losing The Narrative > Battle Over Iran" > > https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-trump-administration-is-losing-the-narrative-battle-over-iran-e903fdd179fb > > The Real News on "Documentary ?Blowout? Follows Climate Cost of Oil Boom > from Fracking to Exports" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSOgaODVWE -- video > > https://therealnews.com/stories/documentary-blowout-follows-climate-cost-of-oil-boom-from-fracking-to-exports > -- transcript > > RT: "Saudis say oil refinery attacks ?unquestionably sponsored by Iran?" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ--l2oTCtY > > Related: > https://on.rt.com/a23k -- "We stop, you stop! Houthis offer Saudi Arabia > mutual halt to strikes in wake of devastating oil-plant attacks" > https://on.rt.com/a21h -- "Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen?s Hodeidah > in > wake of refinery attacks claimed by Houthis" > > Martin Chulov on "Middle East drones signal end to era of fast jet air > supremacy" > > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/16/middle-east-drones-signal-end-to-era-of-fast-jet-air-supremacy > > Pepe Escobar on "Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard" > > https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/09/article/how-the-houthis-overturned-the-chessboard/ > > Jonathan Cook on "Netanyahu Risks Triggering an Unwinnable War to Avoid > Losing Election" > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/12/netanyahu-risks-triggering-an-unwinnable-war-to-avoid-losing-election/ > > > > > > Julie Wurth on "UI trustees OK Killeen's bonus, urge quick action on > sexual-misconduct reforms" > > https://www.news-gazette.com/news/ui-trustees-ok-killeen-s-bonus-urge-quick-action-on/article_9449a888-db07-11e9-99f4-ab89088eb260.html > > Justine Coleman on "Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke program > portrays Islam too positively" > > https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462202-trump-admin-say-unc-duke-programs-portray-islam-too-positively > > Collin Binkley on "Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language > grant" > https://www.apnews.com/430e62044dba43daa3f2332792cd97b2 > > > > Margaret Sidney's "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" > https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2770 > > Five Little Peppers series > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Little_Peppers > > The Peppers: Mrs. Pepper ("Mamsie"), Ben (Ebenezer), Polly (Mary), Joel, > Davie (David), and Phronsie (Sophronia) > > > > J.B. Nicholson's notes > > https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-September/051263.html > > -J > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Sep 21 20:04:53 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 20:04:53 +0000 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #435 notes In-Reply-To: References: <722246bc-43fb-06b8-96e3-06a372178f3a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: Excellent and informative episode. Thank you Jeff, for the many links provided, of valuable articles and programs. On Sep 21, 2019, at 08:27, David Green via Peace > wrote: Thank you Jeff, especially in regard to the PEP links. These inspire me to make a very firm response to BtA, and to Belden's criticism of me. On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 8:33 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace > wrote: News from Neptune #435 A "Five Little PEPpers and How They Grew" edition Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLCa6gi0Gkw A list of links to items referenced on the show. David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html Belden Fields on "Bend the Arc is doing good work" replying to David Green https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-bend-the-arc-is-doing-good/article_3b4b1742-1232-5f64-b2da-7c4d5d88a1d6.html Sherry Steigmann on "I reject group?s image of America" https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-i-reject-group-s-image-of/article_a276c4c0-d26f-58db-99d3-68b0581ec4ea.html Steven Salaita on "Except for Palestine" https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/except-for-palestine/ Marjorie Cohn on "The ?Progressive Except Palestine? Problem" https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/06/the-progressive-except-palestine-problem/ Donna Nevel on "There is no such thing as ?Progressive Except Palestine?" https://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/progressive-except-palestine/ Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Pompeo and Circumstance" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/roaming-charges-pompeo-and-circumstance/ which includes a quote from Eric Draitser David Brooks on "A Brief History of the Warren Presidency" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/elizabeth-warren.html Katie Halper on "Sydney Ember?s Secret Sources" https://fair.org/home/sidney-embers-secret-sources/ Jimmy Dore interviews Katie Halper on Sydney Ember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26Ff_KTlD4 Katie Halper & Matt Taibbi's show: Useful Idiots https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0ooGQ0asg4upSXzZA1Oinn3ALqVCndA Katie Halper on "Unauthorized Disclosure" http://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com/s6-episode-27-katie-halper-returns "Unauthorized Disclosure" RSS feed https://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com/rss Sydney Ember on "Young Voters Still ?Feel the Bern,? but Not Just for Bernie Sanders Anymore" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/politics/bernie-sanders-young-voters.html Megan Flowers on "Protesters rally at Drury Inn, call to shut down ICE" http://www.smilepolitely.com/culture/protesters_rally_at_drury_inn_call_to_shut_down_ice/ Adalberto Toledo on "UPDATE: 200 protest at Champaign hotel where ICE agents said to stay" https://www.news-gazette.com/news/update-protest-at-champaign-hotel-where-ice-agents-said-to/article_bfbc3103-a0fa-5a5e-b69b-29bae4aae7fa.html "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 ISBN-10: 0199283273 Mike Doyle and Craig Rost on "Building a Welcoming Economy" https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary-building-a-welcoming-economy/article_859ff35b-cbd6-546f-97c5-1862fc43ab4c.html Belt and Road Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative Zaid Jilani on "As Democrats Shift Left on Palestine, 2020 Contender Kamala Harris Gives Off-the-Record Address to AIPAC" https://theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kamala-harris-israel-aipac/ Maxwell Strachan on "Kamala Harris Releases Off-The-Record AIPAC Comments" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-aipac-off-the-record_n_5c734f6ae4b06cf6bb27892d Philip Weiss on "Kamala Harris skips AIPAC conference ? but AIPAC comes to her!" https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/kamala-harris-conference/ Jonathan Cook on "Israelis Have Shown Netanyahu the Door. Can He Inflict More Damage Before He Exits?" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/israelis-have-shown-netanyahu-the-door-can-he-inflict-more-damage-before-he-exits/ Gideon Levy's Haaretz articles https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968119 Gideon Levy on "Israel's Election Results Prove the Center Has Won and Ideology Is Dead" https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-s-election-results-prove-that-the-center-has-won-and-ideology-is-dead-1.7863169 Democracy Now interview with Diana Buttu on "Israel?s Election Outcome Remains Unclear, But the ?Ultimate Loser? Will Be Palestinians" https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/israeli_election_results_netanyahu_gantz Caitlin Johnstone on "The Trump Administration Is Losing The Narrative Battle Over Iran" https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-trump-administration-is-losing-the-narrative-battle-over-iran-e903fdd179fb The Real News on "Documentary ?Blowout? Follows Climate Cost of Oil Boom from Fracking to Exports" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSOgaODVWE -- video https://therealnews.com/stories/documentary-blowout-follows-climate-cost-of-oil-boom-from-fracking-to-exports -- transcript RT: "Saudis say oil refinery attacks ?unquestionably sponsored by Iran?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ--l2oTCtY Related: https://on.rt.com/a23k -- "We stop, you stop! Houthis offer Saudi Arabia mutual halt to strikes in wake of devastating oil-plant attacks" https://on.rt.com/a21h -- "Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen?s Hodeidah in wake of refinery attacks claimed by Houthis" Martin Chulov on "Middle East drones signal end to era of fast jet air supremacy" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/16/middle-east-drones-signal-end-to-era-of-fast-jet-air-supremacy Pepe Escobar on "Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard" https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/09/article/how-the-houthis-overturned-the-chessboard/ Jonathan Cook on "Netanyahu Risks Triggering an Unwinnable War to Avoid Losing Election" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/12/netanyahu-risks-triggering-an-unwinnable-war-to-avoid-losing-election/ Julie Wurth on "UI trustees OK Killeen's bonus, urge quick action on sexual-misconduct reforms" https://www.news-gazette.com/news/ui-trustees-ok-killeen-s-bonus-urge-quick-action-on/article_9449a888-db07-11e9-99f4-ab89088eb260.html Justine Coleman on "Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke program portrays Islam too positively" https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462202-trump-admin-say-unc-duke-programs-portray-islam-too-positively Collin Binkley on "Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language grant" https://www.apnews.com/430e62044dba43daa3f2332792cd97b2 Margaret Sidney's "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2770 Five Little Peppers series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Little_Peppers The Peppers: Mrs. Pepper ("Mamsie"), Ben (Ebenezer), Polly (Mary), Joel, Davie (David), and Phronsie (Sophronia) J.B. Nicholson's notes https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-September/051263.html -J _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Sep 23 17:33:39 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:33:39 +0000 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Department_of_Homeland_Security_counterterrori?= =?utf-8?q?sm_strategy_targets_left-wing_politics_as_=E2=80=9Cviolent_extr?= =?utf-8?b?ZW1pc23igJ0=?= Message-ID: * Print * Leaflet * Feedback * Share ? Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism strategy targets left-wing politics as ?violent extremism? By Kevin Reed 23 September 2019 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a new strategy document entitled, ?Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence? which expands the definition of terrorism to include what it calls ?domestic actors inspired by violent extremist ideologies.? The document was released by acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan on September 20 during an event to announce the strategy that was cohosted by two important think-tanks of the American ruling establishment, the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation. Although the document references recent right-wing violence and mass shootings in the United States, it does so in order to arrive at a key conclusion: the state apparatus previously erected after the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the name of the ?war on terror? is now being redirected against domestic social and political opposition in the name of fighting ?anti-authority and anti-government violent extremism.? The attempt to identify left-wing and socialist political organizations with ?violent extremism? is spelled out in relationship to opponents of US immigration policy. The DHS document gives the example of an event in July 2019 where ?an anarchist claiming affiliation with the ?antifa? movement? allegedly attempted to firebomb a US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement facility in Tacoma, Washington and threatened to shoot law enforcement officers as evidence of its claims. [https://www.wsws.org/asset/4c910404-25ca-41de-bc3f-4442a7f66aaH/image.png?rendition=image480]Kevin K MacAleenan being sworn in a Acting DHS Secretary The document then goes on to state, ?In recent years, adherents to particular violent extremist ideologies have sometimes abandoned them for other ideologies with similar sets of perceived enemies.? In other words, workers and young people who go through political experiences and begin to draw broader socialist revolutionary conclusions from their struggles should be identified as ?domestic terrorists.? That the purpose of the updated DHS strategy is to connect political opposition with violent extremism was articulated by acting Secretary McAleenan in releasing the 34-page document. ?While the threat posed by foreign terrorist organizations like the Islamic State and al-Qaeda persists,? he said, ?we are acutely aware of the growing threat from enemies, both foreign and domestic, who seek to incite violence in our Nation?s youth, disenfranchised, and disaffected, in order to attack their fellow citizens and fray at the seams of our diverse social fabric.? McAleenan?s reference to the danger that the youth, disenfranchised and disaffected can cause the ?social fabric? of American society to ?fray at the seams? is highly significant. The most conscious elements within the state?who are entrusted by the ruling elite with protecting and defending the capitalist ?homeland??have concluded that the US is on the brink of significant social and political struggles and that preparations must be made to suppress them. Above all, this means identifying left-wing and socialist political organizations and groups with ?violent extremism.? Permeating the DHS strategy is the conception that the methods deployed outside the country in the aftermath of 9/11 must now be used to confront the growth of mass social and political struggle within the US. For example, the document states in the Executive Summary, ?In an age of online radicalization to violent extremism and disparate threats, we must not only counter foreign enemies trying to strike us from abroad, but also those enemies, foreign and domestic, that seek to spur to violence our youth and our disaffected?encouraging them to strike in the heart of our Nation, and attack the unity of our vibrant, diverse American society.? Taken to its logical conclusion this means that the military-intelligence apparatus is preparing to use the methods pioneered under the ?war on terror? against anyone seeking to demonstrate the class character of American society and expose the fraudulent national unity between the working class and the ruling class. Article continues below the form Furthermore, in footnote, the DHS provides a definition of ?domestic terrorism? that ties ?unlawful violence, or a threat of force of violence? to efforts to ?effect societal, political, or other change, committed by a group or person based and operating entirely within the United States or its territories.? It says that the Federal Government?s conventional definition of a domestic terrorist?known as Homegrown Violent Extremists (HVEs) who have been inspired by Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs)?no longer applies in the present situation. The footnote states, ?It should be noted that many groups and individuals defined as ?domestic terrorists? are becoming increasingly transnational in outlook and activities.? Clearly, the DHS is seeking to identify socialist international political affiliation with ?violent extremism.? The shift in strategy by the DHS confirms that warnings made by the World Socialist Web Site over the past eighteen years that the dispensing with democratic and international laws in the course of the ?war on terror? would, sooner or later, be directed against American citizens especially those who oppose government policies. As is clear from the DHS statement, measures such as the declaration that ?enemy combatants? are exempt from the provisions of the Geneva Conventions or that endless detention without trial at the military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in violation of the US Constitution are now being prepared against American citizens. The DHS?s identification of left-wing and oppositional political movements with violent extremism in the US is part of a growing international trend. The German Secret Service (Verfassungsschutz) has maintained a list of ?left-wing extremist? groups as ?objects of observation? by the state. As is also the case in the US, all of the major parties of Germany?s ruling establishment have encouraged the development of extreme right-wing and neo-fascist political parties, the primary preoccupation of the state is the growth of support for socialist politics within the working class and among students. While US President Donald Trump has repeatedly encouraged violence by the extreme right-wing elements among his supporters, the Democrats as well as the corporate media have sought to downplay the connection between the White House and fascistic political tendencies. Above all, it is the emergence of an independent political movement of the working class based on the principles of socialist internationalism that is recognized by the state as a grave threat to the capitalist system. WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Sep 24 14:47:06 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:47:06 +0000 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?b?RndkOiBBbWVyaWNh4oCZcyDigJxIeWJyaWQgV2Fy4oCd?= =?utf-8?q?_against_China_has_Entered_a_New_Phase?= References: <60943479.11765078.1569333710747@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: A good article in relation to China/Hong Kong detailing the agreement etc., from a legal perspective. View this email in your browser [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2/images/34ba081c-8f2e-4693-9ae9-cea33fc210c3.jpg] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2/images/e71b4ed1-393a-4604-b910-78ab0fa0b7e2.png] [Share] Share [Tweet] Tweet [Forward] Forward America?s ?Hybrid War? against China has Entered a New Phase China and the Zombies of the Past By Christopher Black Global Research New Eastern Outlook Click to read this article in your browser. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/2cc48fb30f331d97157a65aa2/images/35cfaf69-aee4-409b-b54e-b4a618515ae0.jpg]The hybrid war, being conducted against China by the United States and its gaggle of puppet states from the UK to Canada to Australia, has entered a new phase. The first stage involved the massive shift of US air and naval forces to the Pacific and constant provocations against China in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. The second stage was the creation of disinformation about China?s treatment of minority groups, especially in Tibet and west China. That this propaganda campaign has been carried out by nations such as the US, Canada and Australia who have the worst human rights records in the world with respect to their indigenous peoples, subjected to centuries of cultural and physical genocide by those governments, and who refuse to protect their minority peoples from physical attacks and discrimination despite their human rights laws, shocks the conscience of any objective observer. But not content with that, the propaganda was extended to China?s economic development, its international trade, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, its Silk and Belt Road Initiative, its development bank, and other facilities and trade initiatives, through which China is accused of trying to control the world; an accusation made by the very nation that threatens economic embargo or worse, nuclear annihilation, to anyone, friend or foe, who resists its attempt to control the world. The fourth phase is the US attempt to degrade the Chinese economy with punitive ?tariffs,?essentially an embargo on Chinese goods. That the objective is not better trade deals but to bring China to its knees is the fact that the negative effect of these tariffs on American consumers, farmers and manufacturers is considered secondary to the principal objective. Last year it moved to a fifth phase, the kidnapping and illegal detention of Meng Wanzhou, the Chief Financial Officer of China?s leading technology company Huawei, in synchronicity with a massive campaign by the USA to force its puppets to drop any dealings with that company. Meng Wanzhou is still held against her will in Canada on US orders. Chinese have been harassed in the US, Australia and Canada. The latest phase in this hybrid warfare is the insurrection being provoked by the US, UK, Canada and the rest in Hong Kong, using tactics designed to provoke China into suppressing the rioters with force to amplify the anti-Chinese propaganda, or pushing the ?protestors? into declaring Hong Kong independent of China and then using force to support them. Mitch McConnell, an important US senator implicitly threatened just such a scenario in a statement on August 12th stating that the US is warning China not to block the protests and that if they are suppressed trouble will follow. In other words the US is claiming that it will protect the thugs in black shirts, the shirts of fascists. This new phase is very dangerous, as the Chinese government has time and again stated, and has to be handled with intelligence and the strength of the Chinese people. There is now abundant evidence that the UK and US are the black hand behind the events in Hong Kong. When the Hong Kong Bar association joined in the protests the west claimed that even the lawyers were supporting the protests in an attempt to bring justice to the people. But the leaders of that association are all either UK lawyers or members of law firms based in London, such as Jimmy Chan, head of the so-called Human Civil Rights Front, formed in 2002 with the objective of breaking Honk Kong away from China, such as Kevin Lam, a partner in another London based law firm, and Steve Kwok and Alvin Yeung, members of the anti-China Civic Party who are going to meet with US officials next week. Kwok has called for the independence of Hong Kong in other visits, some sponsored by the US National Security Council and has called for the US to invoke its Hong Kong Policy Act, which, among other things mandates the US president to issue an order suspending its treatment of Hong Kong as a separate territory in trade matters. The effect of this would be to damage China?s overall trade since a lot of its revenue comes through Hong Kong. The president can invoke the Act if it decides that Hong Kong ?is not sufficiently autonomous to justify it being treated separately from China.? In tandem with Kwok?s call for the use of that Act, US Senator Ted Cruz has filed a Bill titled the Hong Kong Revaluation Act requiring the president to report on ?how China exploits Hong Kong to circumvent the laws of the United States.? But it seems the anti-Chinese propaganda campaign is not having the effect they hoped. The New York Times ran a piece on August 13 stating, ?China is waging a disinformation war against the protestors.? Embarrassed by US consular officials being caught red-handed meeting with protest leaders in a hotel in Hong Kong last week and blatant statements of support for the protestors from the US, Canada and UK as well attempts to treat Hong Kong as an independent state, the US intelligence services have now been forced to try to counter China?s accounts of the facts by declaring anything China says as disinformation. The US and UK objectives are revealed in this statement from the article, ?Hong Kong, which Britain returned to Chinese rule in 1997, remains outside China?s firewall, and thus is sitting along one of the world?s most profound online divides. Preserving the city?s freedom to live without the mainland?s controls has become one of the causes now motivating the protests.? This statement flies in the face of the Basic Law, expressing the agreement between the UK and China when the UK finally agreed to leave Hong Kong. We need to be aware of what the Basic Law says. Promulgated in April 4 1990 but put into effect on July 1, 1997, the date of the hand over of the territory to China, the Preamble states: ?Hong Kong has been part of the territory of China since ancient times; it was occupied by Britain after the Opium War in 1840. On 19 December 1984, the Chinese and British Governments signed the Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong, affirming that the Government of the People?s Republic of China will resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong with effect from 1 July 1997, thus fulfilling the long-cherished common aspiration of the Chinese people for the recovery of Hong Kong. Upholding national unity and territorial integrity, maintaining the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong, and taking account of its history and realities, the People?s Republic of China has decided that upon China?s resumption of the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, a Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will be established in accordance with the provisions of Article 31 of the Constitution of the People?s Republic of China, and that under the principle of ?one country, two systems?, the socialist system and policies will not be practised in Hong Kong. The basic policies of the People?s Republic of China regarding Hong Kong have been elaborated by the Chinese Government in the Sino-British Joint Declaration. In accordance with the Constitution of the People?s Republic of China, the National People?s Congress hereby enacts the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People?s Republic of China, prescribing the systems to be practised in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, in order to ensure the implementation of the basic policies of the People?s Republic of China regarding Hong Kong.? Hong Kong is a part of China. That is the essential fact set out in the Basic Law agreed to by the UK as well as China. It is an administrative region of China. It is not an independent state and never was when Britain seized it through force and occupied it. So the claim that the protestors are trying to preserve something that never existed, freedom from China?s control, since Hong Kong is subject to China?s control, is bogus. The fact that China permitted Hong Kong to retain its capitalist system confirms this. The fact that China can impose socialism 50 years after or sooner if certain conditions are met, also confirms this. The pretexts for the riots, the first being a proposed extradition law between the mainland and Hong Kong which is similar to those that exist between provinces in Canada and states in the USA, the second being the claim that China?s insistence on its sovereignty over the territory somehow overrides the limited autonomy granted Hong Kong and threatens that autonomy, are without any foundation. One could easily split Canada into pieces based on such bogus arguments or again split up the USA, or even the UK as London sees its rule of Ireland, Wales and Scotland being challenged by nationalist groups. And we know very well what violent protests will bring in swift suppression of such forces if the central governments feel threatened, especially by the violence we see used by the black shirts in Hong Kong. We saw what happened in Spain when the Catalans attempted to split from Spain. The leaders of the movement are now in exile. We saw what the US is capable of against demonstrators when it shot them down at Kent State when students were demonstrating peacefully. These things are not forgotten. We know how the British will react to renewed attempts for a united Ireland. China is facing attacks on several fronts at once and it will require wisdom, endurance and the strength of the Chinese people to defend their revolution and rid themselves of colonial and imperialist domination, once and for all. Those who carry British and American flags in the protests in Hong Kong, reveal who they are. They are not the future of China. They are the living embodiment of a dead history and dead ideas, zombies of the past. * Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. 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Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" Complete book: https://cleaves.zapto.org/news/attachments/dec2009/grandchessboard__brzezinski.pdf or get a copy from the CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/36/36669B7894E857AC4F3445EA646BFFE1_Zbigniew_Brzezinski_-_The_Grand_ChessBoard.doc.pdf British government's "imposition of trade of opium upon China" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars James Bradley's "The China Mirage" Complete book: http://www.kropfpolisci.com/china.us.liberalism.bradley.pdf Regarding people noticing similarities in fomenting war: Jimmy Dore's take on CBS's propaganda pushing war with Iran including feedback from multiple YouTube respondents who point out how CBS's coverage is "Total BS, we are being lied to just like we were with Iraq" and "'Fired from Iran, sources say'. Yes, the same sources that said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, same sources that said Gulf of Tonkin was 100% the fault of the north vietnamese" [sic] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfYQU5NNCk Licia Flynn's "Firm Denial" ISBN-10: 1732277737 ISBN-13: 978-1732277731 Licia Flynn's "Firm Resolve" ISBN-10: 1732277710 ISBN-13: 978-1732277717 Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" ISBN-10: 1250237238 ISBN-13: 978-1250237231 Read an excerpt: https://theintercept.com/2019/09/21/edward-snowden-permanent-record-book/ Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers on "Hong Kong In The Crosshairs Of Global Power And Ideological Struggles" https://popularresistance.org/hong-kong-in-the-crosshairs-of-global-power-and-ideological-struggles/ Redacted Tonight's Lee Camp interview with Michelle Greenstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AklaIcDvAsU Collapse of the American Empire lecture by Chris Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csI8JLJ15Ak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPk9HSLagVg -- Steve Paikin's related interview with Hedges Louis Proyect on "China, Saudia Arabia and the Fate of the Uyghurs" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/01/china-saudia-arabia-and-the-fate-of-the-uyghurs/ Belt and Road Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative Pres. Trump speech at the UN General Assembly https://www.c-span.org/video/?463700-1/president-trump-calls-global-trade-reform-un-speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJWvDyUCHPY "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 ISBN-10: 0199283273 Related to distracting people: https://bennorton.com/adolph-reed-identity-politics-is-neoliberalism/ -- Adolph Reed on "Identity Politics Is Neoliberalism" World Labor Hour archive http://stream.wrfu.net/wrfu-recordings/World%20Labor%20Hour/ "Moderate Rebels" channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNiXhsI4QtmQaeICpT-k7BQ/videos "Grayzone Project" channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos https://thegrayzone.com/ Max Blumenthal's "Goliath" ISBN-10: 1568586345 ISBN-13: 978-1568586342 "Goliath" Review by Steven Salaita https://www.palestine-studies.org/jps/fulltext/164378 "Moderate Rebels" shows on Hong Kong and China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcIWrkUFGic -- "US meddling in Hong Kong's protests and the new cold war on China with Carl Zha" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38bOtUEXcc -- "Hong Kong's real colonial history and the protests' anti-China right-wing nativism with Carl Zha" https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moderaterebels/ Audio of two-part interview with Carl Zha Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_1.mp3?dest-id=553365 Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_2.mp3?dest-id=553365 "Moderate Rebels" RSS feed https://moderaterebels.libsyn.com/rss -J From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Sep 25 15:21:47 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 15:21:47 +0000 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #493 notes In-Reply-To: <8ed4d540-6df2-fb1b-156a-bf266bced9a2@forestfield.org> References: <8ed4d540-6df2-fb1b-156a-bf266bced9a2@forestfield.org> Message-ID: Upon review. I made two major errors in speech: 1) I said the British exported opium to India, what I should have said is the British exported opium from India, to China. This was in reference to the US exporting opium to China, and I should have explained they imported the opium from Turkey to China. 2) I said something in reference to Chinese real estate billionaires raising prices and profiting, immediately after the handover, that is incorrect. They had been profiting from the rising prices of real estate long before the handover, under British colonialism, and continued to do so after the handover as Beijing does not control the economy of Hong Kong. I do question the insertion of the article in Counterpunch, by Louis Proyect, given he positions himself as a Marxist, while tearing down most Socialist organizations, individuals while supporting US war and interventions, primarily our covert ones. It?s true the Chinese did hire or attempted to hire, Erik Prince, company Frontier to work in Xinjiang province. Many overseas Chinese were complaining about this move. I can only assume its the ancient proverb of ?keep your friends close, your enemy?s closer, in practice.? If you have your friends on your payroll you can trust them, if you have your enemy?s on your payroll, you own them. I?m not sure that contract went through, because shortly thereafter Erik was meeting with Donald Trump in the Whitehouse in an attempt to set up what amounts to a ?paramilitary? in the US. On Sep 24, 2019, at 19:10, J.B. Nicholson via Peace > wrote: AWARE on the Air #493 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4RTcmB1Raw A list of links to items referenced on the show. Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard" Complete book: https://cleaves.zapto.org/news/attachments/dec2009/grandchessboard__brzezinski.pdf or get a copy from the CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/36/36669B7894E857AC4F3445EA646BFFE1_Zbigniew_Brzezinski_-_The_Grand_ChessBoard.doc.pdf British government's "imposition of trade of opium upon China" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars James Bradley's "The China Mirage" Complete book: http://www.kropfpolisci.com/china.us.liberalism.bradley.pdf Regarding people noticing similarities in fomenting war: Jimmy Dore's take on CBS's propaganda pushing war with Iran including feedback from multiple YouTube respondents who point out how CBS's coverage is "Total BS, we are being lied to just like we were with Iraq" and "'Fired from Iran, sources say'. Yes, the same sources that said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, same sources that said Gulf of Tonkin was 100% the fault of the north vietnamese" [sic] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKfYQU5NNCk Licia Flynn's "Firm Denial" ISBN-10: 1732277737 ISBN-13: 978-1732277731 Licia Flynn's "Firm Resolve" ISBN-10: 1732277710 ISBN-13: 978-1732277717 Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" ISBN-10: 1250237238 ISBN-13: 978-1250237231 Read an excerpt: https://theintercept.com/2019/09/21/edward-snowden-permanent-record-book/ Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers on "Hong Kong In The Crosshairs Of Global Power And Ideological Struggles" https://popularresistance.org/hong-kong-in-the-crosshairs-of-global-power-and-ideological-struggles/ Redacted Tonight's Lee Camp interview with Michelle Greenstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AklaIcDvAsU Collapse of the American Empire lecture by Chris Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csI8JLJ15Ak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPk9HSLagVg -- Steve Paikin's related interview with Hedges Louis Proyect on "China, Saudia Arabia and the Fate of the Uyghurs" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/03/01/china-saudia-arabia-and-the-fate-of-the-uyghurs/ Belt and Road Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative Pres. Trump speech at the UN General Assembly https://www.c-span.org/video/?463700-1/president-trump-calls-global-trade-reform-un-speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJWvDyUCHPY "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey ISBN-13: 978-0199283279 ISBN-10: 0199283273 Related to distracting people: https://bennorton.com/adolph-reed-identity-politics-is-neoliberalism/ -- Adolph Reed on "Identity Politics Is Neoliberalism" World Labor Hour archive http://stream.wrfu.net/wrfu-recordings/World%20Labor%20Hour/ "Moderate Rebels" channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNiXhsI4QtmQaeICpT-k7BQ/videos "Grayzone Project" channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos https://thegrayzone.com/ Max Blumenthal's "Goliath" ISBN-10: 1568586345 ISBN-13: 978-1568586342 "Goliath" Review by Steven Salaita https://www.palestine-studies.org/jps/fulltext/164378 "Moderate Rebels" shows on Hong Kong and China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcIWrkUFGic -- "US meddling in Hong Kong's protests and the new cold war on China with Carl Zha" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a38bOtUEXcc -- "Hong Kong's real colonial history and the protests' anti-China right-wing nativism with Carl Zha" https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/moderaterebels/ Audio of two-part interview with Carl Zha Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_1.mp3?dest-id=553365 Moderate_Rebels_Hong_Kong_Carl_Zha_part_2.mp3?dest-id=553365 "Moderate Rebels" RSS feed https://moderaterebels.libsyn.com/rss -J _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The need for the radical reorganization of society on a socialist basis has never been greater or more urgent,? said Gloria La Riva in announcing her 2020 presidential candidacy as the nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. La Riva?s vice-presidential running mate is the renowned Native leader and political prisoner Leonard Peltier, who has been unjustly incarcerated for more than 43 years. He was railroaded into prison by the FBI and federal prosecutors in 1976, despite his innocence. A worldwide movement demands his freedom. In a letter from the Federal Corrections Unit in Coleman Florida accepting the nomination, Leonard Peltier wrote: ?I am not only a Native traditionalist, but also a socialist, who is against any abuse and exploitation of the working and poor class! Plus, as you are well aware, we Natives are the true environmentalists. These are just reminders. Nothing has changed for me! So, I?m more than honored to accept your offer to run on your VP ticket.? In announcing their campaign, La Riva and Peltier say: ?The greatest threats confronting the working class and humanity worldwide include the growing danger of new and wider wars, catastrophic climate change, and the corporate destruction of stable employment ? which will have even more devastating consequences in the looming economic crisis. How long should a system endure if its ?boom time? keeps 40 percent of the population in or near poverty? How long should a system endure if its main way of increasing profit margins is to strip vital environmental protections, to loot the government resources with giveaways to the rich, to attack labor unions and other social protections? How long should a system endure if it sustains itself only through the war economy, military mobilization and foreign intervention? Over 140 million people are now dealing with unstable work, unaffordable housing, no savings, no health care, no retirement ? and no sign that the future will be any different. As the system plunges deeper into these crises, all in search of the almighty dollar, the question for the ruling class becomes how to maintain social control. Demagogues like Donald Trump scapegoat immigrants and launch new crusades against the women?s and LGBTQ movements. Both parties drain city and state budgets by investing in militarized police and racist mass incarceration ? the world?s largest prison system. Both parties expand the enormous Surveillance State that keeps watch on the entire population?s every move, every email, text, click and purchase ? hand in hand with the telecommunications monopolies. The ruling class is curtailing the right to protest and dissent, while heroic actions like Standing Rock are turned into felonies. Meanwhile, fascistic and white supremacists movements are encouraged to grow. The Wall Street bankers who committed widespread fraud and foreclosed on millions of families? homes and the pharmaceutical executives whose massive opioid drug dealing has left hundreds of thousands dead, walk free. People who want to change this state of affairs cannot rely on the Democratic Party leadership, which has put up no real resistance to the very real imminent threats, choosing instead to focus on the lie that Russia is responsible for Trump and his victory. This narrative completely hijacked the massive grassroots resistance to Trump in the months after his election, and sapped the energy of so many people who wanted to fight his atrocious attacks on immigrants, refugees, women, workers and the environment. When the Democrats had control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency from 2009-11, they did nothing to provide for the legalization of millions of undocumented workers. Today, the Democratic leaders criticize the criminal treatment of refugees by the Republican administration, without mentioning their own culpability in militarizing the border and expanding the deportation machine. Today they present no ?path to citizenship? or amnesty for the undocumented, and instead use their suffering for political grandstanding. On the vital issues of foreign policy, almost the entire Democratic Party applauded Trump?s bombing of Syria. Very few call to reverse his outrageous recognition of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. They attacked him for being too soft on North Korea and not carrying through his threat to bomb Iran. They support the militarization of the Asia Pacific, preparing for future conflicts against nuclear-armed China. Our campaign supports all reforms which benefit working class and poor people. But reforms by themselves are not enough and important reforms that were hard won by the working class are being wiped out. Capitalism is a corrupt, bankrupt system that is destroying the environment and the lives of countless millions, while the super-rich accrue obscene wealth. Its driving force is not just profit, but the maximization of profit, so resolving the rapidly accelerating climate crisis under capitalism is not possible. The whole military-industrial complex and bipartisan foreign policy establishment is willing to wage never-ending and larger wars just to preserve U.S. imperial power that is rapidly in decline. Socialism is a system where the wealth of society, created by the labor of working people, is used to create a sustainable environment while providing every person with a decent job or an income for those who can?t work, free education and affordable housing. Socialism does not mean greater taxes on the tiny class of corporate owners who control so much wealth and decision-making over the rest of society. It means removing them from power entirely, and creating new, truly democratic institutions in our neighborhoods and workplaces, at the city, state and national level. A socialist system would make the highest priority eliminating institutionalized racism, bigotry and inequalities. Police brutality and mass incarceration would be ended. Native treaties must be honored. Immediate right to citizenship must be granted to all people living in the United States. Socialism means making health care truly affordable by making it free for all people. The military-industrial complex and the Pentagon war machine, with its almost 1,000 bases around the world, are not for ?defense? but for Wall Street?s global empire. It should be dismantled. The blockades against Cuba, Venezuela and the sanctions against all the other countries, an expanding form of economic warfare, should be lifted. Access to contraception and abortion must be guaranteed to all women. Equality in every area of life must be realized for women and LGBTQ people. We are confident that our message of the La Riva/Peltier Presidential campaign will gain many supporters across the United States.? Leonard Peltier was the 2004 Presidential candidate of the California Peace and Freedom Party (PFP) and Gloria La Riva was the PFP?s 2016 candidate. They will be seeking the PFP Presidential nomination in 2020, as well as ballot access for the Party for Socialism and Liberation in many states. Contact: info at LaRivaPeltier2020.org Sign Up Endorse La Riva / Peltier [Share on Facebook] [Share on Twitter] Help spread the word about the campaign today by sharing this announcement on Facebook and Twitter! Questions? Comments? Contact us. You can also keep up with the PSL on Twitter or Facebook. Created with NationBuilder, the essential toolkit for leaders. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"This is?all?about a fight for raw, naked, brutal, political power by two corrupt factions of the American Power Elite... principles have little to do with it despite what they are saying." ? ? Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave. Champaign IL 61820 USA 217-333-7954 (phone) 217-244-1478 (fax) (personal comments only) ? From: Francis Boyle [mailto:francis.a.boyle at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 9:10 PM To: Boyle, Francis A Subject: ANALYSIS - Democrats Risk Losing Control Of US House By Impeaching Trump Over Zelenskyy Call - UrduPoint ? https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/analysis-democrats-risk-losing-control-of-u-721218.html#.XYwd6TtmiU4.gmail -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Fri Sep 27 23:50:05 2019 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:50:05 -0500 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #436 notes Message-ID: <05a776b1-4bbf-6ae8-6d6a-d47f59410ead@forestfield.org> News from Neptune #436 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oorczb4qSzo A "UKRAINE YOUR NECKS & YOU STILL CAN?T SEE / U.S. FOREIGN POLICY" edition A list of links to items referenced on the show. Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Rough Trade Transcript" https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/27/roaming-charges-rough-trade-transcript/ Peter Strzok/Lisa Page texts are referred to in many articles: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/14/fbi-agents-text-reportedly-disclosed-by-justice-watchdog-well-stop-trump-from-becoming-president.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/us/politics/fbi-texts-trump.html https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/report-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-fired-for-anti-trump-texts Nicholas Kristof on "Thousands More Jeffrey Epsteins Are Still Out There" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/opinion/sunday/human-trafficking-jeffrey-epstein.html The International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children in "Ernie Allen Statement in Response to President Obama?s Speech Launching a New Effort to Combat Human Trafficking at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York." press release https://www.icmec.org/press/ernie-allen-statement-in-response-to-president-obamas-speech-launching-a-new-effort-to-combat-human-trafficking-at-the-clinton-global-initiative-in-new-york/ Ellis E. Conklin, Martin Cizmar and Kristen Hinman on "Real Men Get Their Facts Straight" https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/06/29/real-men-get-their-facts-straight/ Jose D. Duran on "Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore Get Their Facts Wrong About Underage Sex Trafficking" https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/ashton-kutcher-and-demi-moore-get-their-facts-wrong-about-underage-sex-trafficking-6519454 points to https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/06/29/real-men-get-their-facts-straight-sex-trafficking-ashton-kutcher-demi-moore/ which appears to be unavailable. Use the above link instead. Alexander Cockburn on "COLUMN LEFT : Day Care, Satanism and ?Therapy? : Another case of secretive experts and vague indictments involving children in day care." https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-09-05-me-2148-story.html Related: Alexander Cockburn on "Katha?s Silence" https://www.counterpunch.org/1999/10/26/katha-s-silence/ Related: Debbie Nathan & Michael Snedeker's "Satan?s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt" Jimmy Dore interviews Aaron Mat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1BsWtp1d6w About 'Solidarity Sundays' https://www.solidaritysundays.org/about/our-story Kimberley A. Strassel on "Taking Out Joe Biden" https://www.wsj.com/articles/taking-out-joe-biden-11569538710 Related: "Whistleblower in Ukrainegate is a career CIA officer" -- Tucker Carlson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3sU6ngvuAM Related: "Ukraine has become the next Russia hoax" -- Tucker Carlson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU9aH4ia32w Related: "Democrats pin their hopes on flimsy 'evidence'" -- Tucker Carlson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKrZCipdx5s Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Julian E. Barnes on "Whistle-Blower Is a C.I.A. Officer Who Was Detailed to the White House" Related: http://archive.is/OPbJX Related: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/who-is-whistleblower.html Caitlin Johnstone on "MSM Defends CIA?s ?Whistleblower?, Ignores Actual Whistleblowers" https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/09/27/msm-defends-cias-whistleblower-ignores-actual-whistleblowers/ Tim Weiner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Weiner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Weiner#Books -- his bibliography Alexander Cockburn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cockburn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Cockburn#Bibliography -- his bibliography Michael Arria on "Women?s March cuts ties with another board member following ?Islamophobic smear campaign?" https://mondoweiss.net/2019/09/following-islamophobic-campaign/ Steven Salaita on "Except for Palestine" https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/except-for-palestine/ Related: Marjorie Cohn on "The ?Progressive Except Palestine? Problem" https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/06/the-progressive-except-palestine-problem/ Related: Donna Nevel on "There is no such thing as ?Progressive Except Palestine?" https://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/progressive-except-palestine/ Margaret Kimberley on "Freedom Rider: The WFP, Phony Outrage and Black Misleaders" https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-wfp-phony-outrage-and-black-misleaders -J From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Sep 28 20:14:52 2019 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 20:14:52 +0000 Subject: [Peace] Oct. 2 A Socialist Perspective on Climate Change Message-ID: OCT2 A Socialist Perspective on Climate Change Public ? Hosted by Party for Socialism and Liberation - Champaign-Urbana * clock Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 6:30 PM ? 8:30 PM CDT Next Week ? 63?84?F Partly Cloudy * pin Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center 202 S Broadway Ave Ste 1, Urbana, Illinois 61801 [Image may contain: 3 people, people standing and outdoor] "With demonstrations taking place across the country, the people are demanding systematic change. The planet is already dying, with the effects being felt disproportionally in the Global South. If we wait until it affects us personally it will be too late. Land should not be for profit, but capitalism requires exploitation of natural resources to function. Join us for a reading group and to discuss the forward through socialism, a system that preserves and protects the Earth and all people on it. " -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: