From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Aug  2 15:17:39 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 08:17:39 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Message from Ajamu Baraka
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Ajamu Baraka <https://www.facebook.com/ajamu.baraka?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARDwuBhTCbwaPzdkzZdX2HVrGr4glKvIQT_HA_Obl3z1ay-uJVdXYYC92DDaT7AqydXjHdCeKnmKrAbo&hc_ref=ARRJMunCErYLPmTH8gUOjWDNkfTLlaFQ3Y3F-0_TLQV4c7-kw6r_t_caczJRkBBp060&fref=nf>
1h <https://www.facebook.com/ajamu.baraka/posts/10158454139959513> ? 
Let's be clear: The democrat party, like the republican party, is a party committed to white supremacy and imperialist domination of the planet. Neither Black Lives or any other lives mean anything to the interests of capital, so drop the BS. Corporations, the bourgeois media and the state appear to be in full collaboration in trying to use Black lives matter slogan to de-politicize and de-radicalize the capitalist/imperialist systemic crisis. That attempt must be rejected. If anyone is framing this moment as one concerned only with something called racial justice, not in full opposition to capitalism, is silent on U.S. warmongering, believes that the repressive state apparatus will be tamed through voting and that Biden and democrats represent a marked departure from the agenda of white supremacist imperialist domination domestically and internationally - you are hearing someone who is confused, an opportunist or an outright collaborator who is legitimizing the state and sheepdogging the people into reformism.
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Mon Aug  3 03:06:37 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 22:06:37 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Dr. Francis Boyle interviewed by George Galloway from
 2020-08-02
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Dr. Francis Boyle interviewed by George Galloway
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SoFgXs-qT8Q
from about 5 hours ago
Starts 1h 16m 08s into the recording
Ends 1h 26m 47s into the recording

Prof. Boyle discusses the US nuclear bombings of Japan at Nagasaki & Hiroshima, its 
legality (these bombings were not legal, they were war crimes), and necessity (these 
bombings were not necessary).

-J

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Aug  4 16:29:23 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 11:29:23 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Live Action News Daily Digest: August 4th
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Aug  5 22:27:01 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 15:27:01 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Interesting discussion in the early ninety's related to
 Black Power with Elaine Brown, Kwame Ture and others.....
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB28754D8D6DE2F59BFB1067D4A34B0@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH67l9_Tk5g

From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Thu Aug  6 03:09:18 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 22:09:18 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Ridiculous praise for John Lewis
Message-ID: <EA70DC34-9556-485B-9287-5008EEBEF258@newsfromneptune.com>

https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/07/27/ridiculous-praise-for-john-lewis/?fbclid=IwAR37HiMboT9m1aWA-804EL0mMmx_48DH1lze8z0DAZEg95ijk_07x-hW_EA

From jbw292002 at gmail.com  Thu Aug  6 04:25:00 2020
From: jbw292002 at gmail.com (John W.)
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 23:25:00 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Ridiculous praise for John Lewis
In-Reply-To: <EA70DC34-9556-485B-9287-5008EEBEF258@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <EA70DC34-9556-485B-9287-5008EEBEF258@newsfromneptune.com>
Message-ID: <CAPnrEOV_+ZkhKc7nCwSUsDBYToYEp9YVo2T=Bcy6SPVQP+_ECQ@mail.gmail.com>

I thought you weren't a fan of propaganda, Carl.  I thought you were an
advocate of thinking for oneself!


On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 10:10 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>
> https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/07/27/ridiculous-praise-for-john-lewis/?fbclid=IwAR37HiMboT9m1aWA-804EL0mMmx_48DH1lze8z0DAZEg95ijk_07x-hW_EA
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Aug  6 11:36:39 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 04:36:39 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Ridiculous praise for John Lewis
In-Reply-To: <CAPnrEOV_+ZkhKc7nCwSUsDBYToYEp9YVo2T=Bcy6SPVQP+_ECQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <EA70DC34-9556-485B-9287-5008EEBEF258@newsfromneptune.com>
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John,

This isn?t the best article, but its one of many written by Black Activists, in anger over Clinton?s disparagement of Kwame Ture vs. John Lewis. It?s not about the individuals as much as its about that which they supported. 

John Lewis chose to work within the system, and whatever his attempts may have been working within such a corrupt system, they were ineffective. All one has to do is look at the results. African Americans are worse off today than they were during the sixty?s. We as white people may not think so due to integration, diversity and the accomplishments of many African Americans, but they are a few in comparison to the many.

Read what I posted in respect to a discussion in the early ninety?s by many Black intellectuals on this very topic, they can explain it better than I.

Please see: 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH67l9_Tk5g <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH67l9_Tk5g>


> On Aug 5, 2020, at 21:25, John W. via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I thought you weren't a fan of propaganda, Carl.  I thought you were an advocate of thinking for oneself!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 10:10 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
> https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/07/27/ridiculous-praise-for-john-lewis/?fbclid=IwAR37HiMboT9m1aWA-804EL0mMmx_48DH1lze8z0DAZEg95ijk_07x-hW_EA <https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/07/27/ridiculous-praise-for-john-lewis/?fbclid=IwAR37HiMboT9m1aWA-804EL0mMmx_48DH1lze8z0DAZEg95ijk_07x-hW_EA>
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Thu Aug  6 11:38:22 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 06:38:22 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Ridiculous praise for John Lewis
In-Reply-To: <CAPnrEOV_+ZkhKc7nCwSUsDBYToYEp9YVo2T=Bcy6SPVQP+_ECQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <EA70DC34-9556-485B-9287-5008EEBEF258@newsfromneptune.com>
 <CAPnrEOV_+ZkhKc7nCwSUsDBYToYEp9YVo2T=Bcy6SPVQP+_ECQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Not surprisingly, it gives an accurate account - unlike self-serving eulogizers.


> On Aug 5, 2020, at 11:25 PM, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I thought you weren't a fan of propaganda, Carl.  I thought you were an advocate of thinking for oneself!
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 10:10 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/07/27/ridiculous-praise-for-john-lewis/
> _______________________________________________
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> Peace at lists.chambana.net
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Aug  6 12:23:23 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 05:23:23 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Ridiculous praise for John Lewis
In-Reply-To: <C42A5D42-33DB-480D-A832-971802C73F94@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <EA70DC34-9556-485B-9287-5008EEBEF258@newsfromneptune.com>
 <CAPnrEOV_+ZkhKc7nCwSUsDBYToYEp9YVo2T=Bcy6SPVQP+_ECQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <C42A5D42-33DB-480D-A832-971802C73F94@newsfromneptune.com>
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John

Another article is Paul Streets in Counterpunch: 

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/misleaders-at-a-funeral-bill-clinton-and-barack-obama-eulogizing-racial-justice-in-the-name-of-john-lewis/?fbclid=

I also recommend the Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, and the Black Agenda Report where many African American activists write and express their opinions.

Even local Sundiata Cha Jua had this to say: 

Sundiata Cha-Jua <https://www.facebook.com/sundiata.chajua.9?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARBkEdpHYTIyFMkN_EkLtel0Uvmw8hep1EE5kK2-5BZdMYAvwbRppSv-gUDDWGubajm6anZhxqpFq9s6&hc_ref=ARTsy3vpHAlNKoulFAn1Xbsjldq_euvmUuxJyAdOCnnz7S1JSxRQohMtkN5Zz2PBnw8&fref=nf>
6d <https://www.facebook.com/sundiata.chajua.9/posts/2989030277862062> ? 
We?ve been quiet and had chosen not to comment on John Lewis but the arch criminal neoliberal Bubba the bigot Clinton does not get a pass to attack Kwame Ture.
Why do Black people not see this racist for who he is? The Clinton years were the fourth and fifth Reagan terms.
The best we can say is that Lewis was a fighter, a stubborn warrior who held his ground?non-violent integrationism?in subservience to a degenerate racist capitalist empire. Lewis could not be moved by the evidence of the worsening conditions of our people, he was immune to new knowledge, he stubbornly stayed stuck in a 1963 dream despite living proof that it was really a nightmare. He stubbornly refused to move to 1966 let alone 2016.
Kwame had his faults but stubborn refusal to make strategic adjustments to new situations was not one of them. America and Negro liberals can and should honor Lewis, he was a defiant warrior for their causes, not so much for us Black folk who desire to right the first wrong, the taking of our human right to self-determination.

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Aug  6 14:07:11 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 07:07:11 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Ridiculous praise for John Lewis
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR13MB28694704419DC21630263077A3480@BYAPR13MB2869.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>
References: <EA70DC34-9556-485B-9287-5008EEBEF258@newsfromneptune.com>
 <CAPnrEOV_+ZkhKc7nCwSUsDBYToYEp9YVo2T=Bcy6SPVQP+_ECQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <C42A5D42-33DB-480D-A832-971802C73F94@newsfromneptune.com>
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John 

I?m re-posting my previous statement as it was when cutting and pasting by FB links.

Local Prof. Sundiata Cha Jua: 

"We?ve been quiet and had chosen not to comment on John Lewis but the arch criminal neoliberal Bubba the bigot Clinton does not get a pass to attack Kwame Ture.
> 
> Why do Black people not see this racist for who he is? The Clinton years were the fourth and fifth Reagan terms.
> The best we can say is that Lewis was a fighter, a stubborn warrior who held his ground?non-violent integrationism?in subservience to a degenerate racist capitalist empire. Lewis could not be moved by the evidence of the worsening conditions of our people, he was immune to new knowledge, he stubbornly stayed stuck in a 1963 dream despite living proof that it was really a nightmare. He stubbornly refused to move to 1966 let alone 2016.
> Kwame had his faults but stubborn refusal to make strategic adjustments to new situations was not one of them. America and Negro liberals can and should honor Lewis, he was a defiant warrior for their causes, not so much for us Black folk who desire to right the first wrong, the taking of our human right to self-determination.?

>  Paul Streets article in Counterpunch: 
> 
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/misleaders-at-a-funeral-bill-clinton-and-barack-obama-eulogizing-racial-justice-in-the-name-of-john-lewis/?fbclid=
> 
> I also recommend Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, and the Black Agenda Report where many African American activists write and express their opinions.
> 


From brussel at illinois.edu  Thu Aug  6 17:34:53 2020
From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 17:34:53 +0000
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss]  Ridiculous praise for John Lewis
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Paul Street is too often wildly off-key, as for example this phrase in his defense(?) of John Lewis:

"the splendid Russian expatriate Masha Gessen <https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/> ?. "
She?s been part of the Russiagate syndrome!

As for Kwame Tur?, I have now only vague memories of disappointment.



On Aug 6, 2020, at 9:07 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

John

I?m re-posting my previous statement as it was when cutting and pasting by FB links.

Local Prof. Sundiata Cha Jua:

"We?ve been quiet and had chosen not to comment on John Lewis but the arch criminal neoliberal Bubba the bigot Clinton does not get a pass to attack Kwame Ture.

Why do Black people not see this racist for who he is? The Clinton years were the fourth and fifth Reagan terms.
The best we can say is that Lewis was a fighter, a stubborn warrior who held his ground?non-violent integrationism?in subservience to a degenerate racist capitalist empire. Lewis could not be moved by the evidence of the worsening conditions of our people, he was immune to new knowledge, he stubbornly stayed stuck in a 1963 dream despite living proof that it was really a nightmare. He stubbornly refused to move to 1966 let alone 2016.
Kwame had his faults but stubborn refusal to make strategic adjustments to new situations was not one of them. America and Negro liberals can and should honor Lewis, he was a defiant warrior for their causes, not so much for us Black folk who desire to right the first wrong, the taking of our human right to self-determination.?

Paul Streets article in Counterpunch:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/misleaders-at-a-funeral-bill-clinton-and-barack-obama-eulogizing-racial-justice-in-the-name-of-john-lewis/?fbclid=

I also recommend Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, and the Black Agenda Report where many African American activists write and express their opinions.


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Mort

Paul Street is often a bit off, of late, but he has also been spot on. 
He is only one writer in relation to this topic offering too much detail, but detail that others may not. 

I don?t recommend ever reading just one source, for the uninitiated. I take his comment regarding Gessen as sarcasm, but it matters not. 

As to Kwame Ture  I have been posting his many podcasts and he is anything but disappointment. His statements in the recent debate make the point, in response to Angela Davis comment in the early ninety?s that ?African Americans are worse off than ever before." His response was ?we live in the best of times and the worse of times, yes African Americans are worse off, but their consciousness has been awakened.? He always offers not just the solution to racism, which is socialism, anti-imperialism, and an end to capitalism, the cause of exploitation. All of which is overlooked by the John Lewis crowd and those working within the system. 

Again, Prof. Sundiata, though somewhat critical of Kwame nonetheless calls out those who vilify him, while promoting John Lewis. 

> On Aug 6, 2020, at 10:34, Brussel, Morton <brussel at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> Paul Street is too often wildly off-key, as for example this phrase in his defense(?) of John Lewis:
> 
> "the splendid Russian expatriate Masha Gessen? <https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/>?. "
> She?s been part of the Russiagate syndrome!
> 
> As for Kwame Tur?, I have now only vague memories of disappointment. 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 6, 2020, at 9:07 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> John 
>> 
>> I?m re-posting my previous statement as it was when cutting and pasting by FB links.
>> 
>> Local Prof. Sundiata Cha Jua: 
>> 
>> "We?ve been quiet and had chosen not to comment on John Lewis but the arch criminal neoliberal Bubba the bigot Clinton does not get a pass to attack Kwame Ture.
>>> 
>>> Why do Black people not see this racist for who he is? The Clinton years were the fourth and fifth Reagan terms.
>>> The best we can say is that Lewis was a fighter, a stubborn warrior who held his ground?non-violent integrationism?in subservience to a degenerate racist capitalist empire. Lewis could not be moved by the evidence of the worsening conditions of our people, he was immune to new knowledge, he stubbornly stayed stuck in a 1963 dream despite living proof that it was really a nightmare. He stubbornly refused to move to 1966 let alone 2016.
>>> Kwame had his faults but stubborn refusal to make strategic adjustments to new situations was not one of them. America and Negro liberals can and should honor Lewis, he was a defiant warrior for their causes, not so much for us Black folk who desire to right the first wrong, the taking of our human right to self-determination.?
>> 
>>> Paul Streets article in Counterpunch: 
>>> 
>>> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/misleaders-at-a-funeral-bill-clinton-and-barack-obama-eulogizing-racial-justice-in-the-name-of-john-lewis/?fbclid= <https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/misleaders-at-a-funeral-bill-clinton-and-barack-obama-eulogizing-racial-justice-in-the-name-of-john-lewis/?fbclid=>
>>> 
>>> I also recommend Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, and the Black Agenda Report where many African American activists write and express their opinions.
>>> 
>> 
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 11:33:48 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Margaret Kimberly of the Black Agenda Report on China
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https://soundcloud.com/user-92939733/us-whipping-up-war-hysteria-against-china

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Aug  7 12:02:45 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 05:02:45 -0700
Subject: [Peace] By John Pilger
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/03/atomic-bombings-at-75-john-pilger-another-hiroshima-is-coming-unless-we-stop-it-now/?fbclid=IwAR3IqmyoAq

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Aug  7 13:38:35 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 06:38:35 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Eyes on the Prize (1986)
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My favorite, strategy and tactics behind the scenes??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77-3R_Qd9gA

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Aug 11 14:17:06 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 07:17:06 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Chris Hedges on what is to come.....
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August 10th, 2020
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Princeton, New Jersey (Scheerpost <https://scheerpost.com/2020/08/10/chris-hedges-americas-death-march/>) ? The terminal decline of the United States will not be solved by elections. The political rot and depravity will continue to eat away at the soul of the nation, spawning what anthropologists call crisis cults ? movements led by demagogues that prey on an unbearable psychological and financial distress. These crisis cults, already well established among followers of the Christian Right and Donald Trump, peddle magical thinking and an infantilism that promises ? in exchange for all autonomy ? prosperity, a return to a mythical past, order and security. The dark yearnings among the white working class for vengeance and moral renewal through violence, the unchecked greed and corruption of the corporate oligarchs and billionaires who manage our failed democracy, which has already instituted wholesale government surveillance and revoked most civil liberties, are part of the twisted pathologies that infect all civilizations sputtering towards oblivion. I witnessed the deaths of other nations during the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and later in the former Yugoslavia. I have smelled this stench before.

The removal of Trump from office will only exacerbate the lust for racist violence he incites and the intoxicating elixir of white nationalism. The ruling elites, who first built a mafia economy and then built a mafia state, will continue under Biden, as they did under Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, to wantonly pillage and loot. The militarized police will not stop their lethal rampages in poor neighborhoods. The endless wars will not end. The bloated military budget will not be reduced. The world?s largest prison population will remain a stain upon the country. The manufacturing jobs shipped overseas will not return and the social inequality will grow. The for-profit health care system will gouge the public and price millions more out of the health care system. The language of hate and bigotry will be normalized as the primary form of communication. Internal enemies, including Muslims, immigrants and dissidents, will be defamed and attacked. The hypermasculinity that compensates for feelings of impotence will intensify. It will direct its venom towards women and all who fail to conform to rigid male stereotypes, especially artists, LGBTQ people and intellectuals. Lies, conspiracy theories, trivia and fake news ? what Hannah Arendt called ?nihilistic relativism? ? will still dominate the airwaves and social media, mocking verifiable fact and truth. The ecocide, which presages the extinction of the human species and most other life forms, will barrel unabated towards its apocalyptic conclusion.

?We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it,? Pascal wrote.

The worse it gets ? and it will get worse as the pandemic hits us in wave after deadly wave with an estimated 300,000 Americans dead by December <https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html> and possibly 400,000 by January ? the more desperate the nation will become. Tens of millions of people will be thrown into destitution, evicted from their homes and abandoned. Social collapse, as Peter Drucker observed in Weimar Germany in the 1930s, brings with it a loss of faith in ruling institutions and ruling ideologies. With no apparent answers or solutions to mounting chaos and catastrophe ? and Biden and the Democratic Party have already precluded the kind of New Deal programs and assault on oligarchic power that saved us during the Great Depression ? demagogues and charlatans need only denounce all institutions, all politicians, and all political and social conventions while conjuring up hosts of phantom enemies. Drucker saw that Nazism succeeded not because people believed in its fantastic promises, but in spite of them. Nazi absurdities, he pointed out, had been ?witnessed by a hostile press, a hostile radio, a hostile cinema, a hostile church, and a hostile government which untiringly pointed out the Nazi lies, the Nazi inconsistency, the unattainability of their promises, and the dangers and folly of their course.? Nobody, he noted, ?would have been a Nazi if rational belief in the Nazi promises had been a prerequisite.? The poet, playwright and socialist revolutionary Ernst Toller, who was forced into exile and stripped of his citizenship when the Nazis took power in 1933, wrote much the same in his autobiography: ?The people are tired of reason, tired of thought and reflection. They ask, what has reason done in the last few years, what good have insights and knowledge done us.? After Toller committed suicide in 1939, W.H. Auden in his poem ?In Memory of Ernst Toller? wrote:

 We are lived by powers we pretend to understand:
They arrange our loves; it is they who direct at the end
The enemy bullet, the sickness, or even our hand.

The poor, the vulnerable, those who are not white or not Christian, those who are undocumented or who do not mindlessly repeat the cant of a perverted Christian nationalism, will be offered up in a crisis to the god of death, a familiar form of human sacrifice that plagues sick societies. Once these enemies are purged from the nation, we are promised, America will recover its lost glory, except that once one enemy is obliterated another takes its place. Crisis cults require a steady escalation of conflict. This is what made the war in the former Yugoslavia inevitable. Once one stage of conflict reaches a crescendo it loses its efficacy. It must be replaced by ever more brutal and deadly confrontations. The intoxication and addiction to greater and greater levels of violence to purge the society of evil led to genocide in Germany and the former Yugoslavia. We are not immune. It is what Ernst J?nger called a ?feast of death.?

These crisis cults are, as Drucker understood, irrational and schizophrenic. They have no coherent ideology. They turn morality upside down. They appeal exclusively to emotions. Burlesque and celebrity culture become politics. Depravity becomes morality. Atrocities and murder become heroism. Crime and fraud become justice. Greed and nepotism become civic virtues. What these cults stand for today, they condemn tomorrow. At the height of the reign of terror on May 6, 1794 during the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre announced that the Committee for Public Safety now recognized the existence of God. The French revolutionaries, fanatical atheists who had desecrated churches and confiscated church property, murdered hundreds of priests and forced another 30,000 into exile, instantly reversed themselves to send to the guillotine those who disparaged religion. In the end, exhausted by the moral confusion and internal contradictions, these crisis cults yearn for self-annihilation.

The French sociologist Emile Durkheim <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emile-Durkheim> in his classic book ?On Suicide <https://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Penguin-Classics-Emile-Durkheim-ebook/dp/B002RI9XE2>? found that when social bonds are shattered, when a population no longer feels it has a place or meaning in a society, personal and collective acts of self-destruction proliferate. Societies are held together by a web of social bonds that give individuals a sense of being part of a collective and engaged in a project larger than the self. This collective expresses itself through rituals, such as elections and democratic participation or an appeal to patriotism, and shared national beliefs. The bonds provide meaning, a sense of purpose, status and dignity. They offer psychological protection from impending mortality and the meaninglessness that comes with being isolated and alone. The breaking of these bonds plunges individuals into deep psychological distress. Durkheim called this state of hopelessness and despair anomie, which he defined as ?ruleless-ness.?


A protester demonstrates for racial and economic justice in Milwaukee, July 20, 2020. Morry Gash | AP
Ruleless-ness means the norms that govern a society and create a sense of organic solidarity no longer function. The belief, for example, that if we work hard, obey the law and get a good education we can achieve stable employment, social status and mobility along with financial security becomes a lie. The old rules, imperfect and often untrue for poor people of color, nevertheless were not a complete fiction in the United States. They offered some Americans ? especially those from the white working and middle class ? modest social and economic advancement. The disintegration of these bonds has unleashed a widespread malaise Durkheim would have recognized. The self-destructive pathologies that plague the United States ? opioid addiction, gambling, suicide, sexual sadism, hate groups and mass shootings ? are products of this anomie. So is our political dysfunction. My book, ?America: The Farewell Tour <http://freshstore.truthdig.com/america-the-farewell-tour/>,? is an examination of these pathologies and the widespread anomie that defines American society.

The economic structures, even before the pandemic, were reconfigured to mock faith in a meritocracy and the belief that hard work leads to a productive and valued role in society. American productivity <https://www.google.com/search?q=define+economic+productivity&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab>, as The New York Times pointed out <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/magazine/americans-jobs-poverty-homeless.html>, has increased 77 percent since 1973 but hourly pay has grown only 12 percent. If the federal minimum wage was attached to productivity, the newspaper wrote, it would be more than $20 an hour now, not $7.25. Some 41.7 million workers, a third of the workforce, earn less than $12 an hour, and most of them do not have access to employer-sponsored health insurance. A decade after the 2008 financial meltdown, the Times wrote, the average middle class family?s net worth is more than $40,000 below what it was in 2007. The net worth of black families is down 40 percent, and for Latino families the figure has dropped 46 percent. Some four million evictions are filed each year. One in four tenant households spends about half its pretax income <https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/Harvard_JCHS_Americas_Rental_Housing_2020.pdf> on rent. Each night some 200,000 people <https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/The-State-of-Homelessness-in-America.pdf> sleep in their cars, on streets or under bridges. And these stark figures represent the good times Biden and the Democratic Party leaders promise to restore. Now, with real unemployment probably close to 20 percent ? the official figure of 10 percent excludes those furloughed or those who have stopped looking for work ? some 40 million people are?at risk of being evicted by the end of the year <https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/economy/eviction-stimulus/index.html>. An estimated 27 million people are expected to lose their health insurance <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-pandemic-health-care-25-million-risk-losing-coronavirus/>. Banks are stockpiling reserves of cash to cope with the expected wave of bankruptcies and defaults <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/business/personal-bankruptcies-coronavirus.html> on mortgages, student loans, car loans, personal loans and credit card debt. The ruleless-ness and anomie that defines the lives of tens of millions of Americans was orchestrated by the two ruling parties in the service of a corporate oligarchy. If we do not address this anomie, if we do not restore the social bonds shattered by predatory corporate capitalism, the decay will accelerate.
This dark human pathology is as old as civilization itself, repeated in varying forms in the twilight of ancient Greece and Rome, the finale of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires, revolutionary France, the Weimar Republic and the former Yugoslavia.

The social inequality that characterizes all states and civilizations seized by a tiny and corrupt cabal ? in our case corporate ? leads to an inchoate desire by huge segments of the population to destroy. The ethnic nationalists Slobodan Milo?evi?, Franjo Tudjman, Radovan Karad?i? and Alija Izetbegovi? in the former Yugoslavia assumed power in a similar period of economic chaos and political stagnation. Yugoslavs by 1991 were suffering from widespread unemployment and had seen their real incomes reduced by half from what they had been a generation before. These nationalist demagogues sanctified their followers as righteous victims stalked by an array of elusive enemies. They spoke in the language of vengeance and violence, leading, as it always does, to actual violence. They trafficked in historical myth, deifying the past exploits of their race or ethnicity in a perverse kind of ancestor worship, a mechanism to give to those who suffered from anomie, who had lost their identity, dignity and self-worth, a new, glorious identity as part of a master race. When I walked through Montgomery, Alabama, a city where half of the population is African-American, with the civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson a few years ago, he pointed out the numerous Confederate memorials, noting that most had been put up in the last decade. ?This,? I told him, ?is exactly what happened in Yugoslavia.?

A hyper-nationalism always infects a dying civilization. It feeds the collective self-worship. This hyper-nationalism celebrates the supposedly unique virtues of the race or the national group. It strips all who are outside the closed circle of worth and humanity. The world instantly becomes understandable, a black and white tableau of them and us. These tragic moments in history see people fall into collective insanity. They suspend thought, especially self-critical thought. None of this is going away in November, in fact it will get worse.

Joe Biden, a shallow, political hack devoid of fixed beliefs or intellectual depth, is an expression of the nostalgia of a ruling class that yearns to return to the pantomime of democracy. They want to restore the decorum and civic religion that makes the presidency a form of monarchy and sacralizes the organs of state power. Donald Trump?s vulgarity and ineptitude is an embarrassment to the architects of empire. He has ripped back the veil that covered our failed democracy. But no matter how hard the elites try this veil cannot be restored. The mask is off. The fa?ade is gone. Biden cannot bring it back.

Political, economic and social dysfunction define the American empire. Our staggering inability to contain the pandemic, which now infects over 5 million Americans, and the failure to cope with the economic fallout the pandemic has caused, has exposed the American capitalist model as bankrupt. It has freed the world, dominated by the United States for seven decades, to look at other social and political systems that serve the common good rather than corporate greed. The diminished stature of the United States, even among our European allies, brings with it the hope for new forms of government and new forms of power.

It is up to us to abolish the American kleptocracy. It is up to us to mount sustained acts of mass civil disobedience to bring down the empire. It poisons the world as it poisons us. If we mobilize to build an open society, we hold out the possibility of beating back these crisis cults as well as slowing and disrupting the march towards ecocide. This requires us to acknowledge, like those protesting in the streets of Beirut, that our kleptocracy, like Lebanon?s, is incapable of being salvaged. The American system of inverted totalitarianism, as the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin called it, must be eradicated if we are to wrest back our democracy and save ourselves from mass extinction. We need to echo the chants by the crowds in Lebanon? <https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/opinions/beirut-blast-anderson-opinion-intl/index.html>calling for the wholesale removal of its ruling class ? kulyan-yani-kulyan ? everyone means everyone.
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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Tue Aug 11 21:13:01 2020
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:13:01 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Webonar: Police State and the War on Youth in Time of COVID
 & Uprisings"Tues August 11, 2020 at 6PM
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Dear anti- war anti-racism effort,?This event is tonight, about police in LA and their spying tactics, by a MediaJustice network member organization. / "From the FBI?s surveillance of Black activists to social media spying by local law enforcement, we need immediate and effective surveillance self-defense strategies. But with an overwhelming amount of apps and software available, we also need clear information about digital security tools by and for communities of color that actually keep us safe.By the way, the MJ exchange has loads of webinars and teach-ins going on.?- Karen Medina
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Police State and the War on Youth in Time of COVID
& Uprisings

WEBINAR PART 21 ? Tues August 11 at 6PM

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Recordings of Webinars 1 ? 20 HERE --- Not A Moment In Time: Zine Issue 1 - 2 HERE

Surveillance 101 Teach-In 1 - 2 HERE --- State of Community Health: Bulletin 1 ? 3 HERE

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The
National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to expand
oppression, to expand surveillance, accumulate new weapons, push boundaries,
and justify its violence.? Join us at
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition over Zoom for our Power Not Paranoia Webinar Part 21
on Tuesday August 11th at 6 PM PDT.

We will be discussing how Covid and the uprisings
connect to students returning to school in the next couple of weeks, and how
local youth-led uprisings connect to uprisings in Palestine and around the
globe. Join the
fight!

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Zoom Details for Tuesday August 11th:



Topic: Stop LAPD Spying
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Join Zoom Meeting

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From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:20:48 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Webonar: Police State and the War on Youth in Time of
 COVID & Uprisings" Tues August 11, 2020 at 6PM
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?Here is the link to past webinars by Stop LAPD Spying Coalition: https://stoplapdspying.org/action/webinars/? ?For instance, Webinar #14 was: "Defunding Police & Reinvesting in Communities in time of COVID & Uprisings: direct link: https://youtu.be/TDhpZZ4ctwYPace e bene,- Karen Medina
-------- Original message --------From: kmedina67 <kmedina67 at gmail.com> Date: 8/11/20  16:13  (GMT-06:00) To: Peace List <peace at lists.chambana.net> Subject: Webonar: Police State and the War on Youth in Time of COVID & Uprisings" Tues August 11, 2020 at 6PM Dear anti- war anti-racism effort,?This event is tonight, about police in LA and their spying tactics, by a MediaJustice network member organization. / "From the FBI?s surveillance of Black activists to social media spying by local law enforcement, we need immediate and effective surveillance self-defense strategies. But with an overwhelming amount of apps and software available, we also need clear information about digital security tools by and for communities of color that actually keep us safe.By the way, the MJ exchange has loads of webinars and teach-ins going on.?- Karen Medina-------- Original message --------Subject: [MJ Exchange] TODAY Tues 8/11 @ 6PM - Police State & the War on Youth **
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY **

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Police State and the War on Youth in Time of COVID
& Uprisings

WEBINAR PART 21 ? Tues August 11 at 6PM

?

Recordings of Webinars 1 ? 20 HERE --- Not A Moment In Time: Zine Issue 1 - 2 HERE

Surveillance 101 Teach-In 1 - 2 HERE --- State of Community Health: Bulletin 1 ? 3 HERE

?

The
National Security Police State always uses crisis like this to expand
oppression, to expand surveillance, accumulate new weapons, push boundaries,
and justify its violence.? Join us at
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition over Zoom for our Power Not Paranoia Webinar Part 21
on Tuesday August 11th at 6 PM PDT.

We will be discussing how Covid and the uprisings
connect to students returning to school in the next couple of weeks, and how
local youth-led uprisings connect to uprisings in Palestine and around the
globe. Join the
fight!

?

Zoom Details for Tuesday August 11th:



Topic: Stop LAPD Spying
Coalition
Time: August 11, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Aug 12 19:38:30 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:38:30 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Immunity Impunity
References: <5f34415513e16_52c83ffcc099788c95765@ip-10-0-0-73.mail>
Message-ID: <B0815E51-3C80-49DC-86D8-D4A46BA2BB96@newsfromneptune.com>



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: PCAF <info at progressivecaucusactionfund.org>
> Subject: Immunity Impunity
> Date: August 12, 2020 at 2:21:57 PM CDT
> To: cgestabrook at gmail.com
> Reply-To: info at progressivecaucusactionfund.org
> 
> 
> (Source: JenSorensen.com <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/-JmN8Zg8w7Lv_vK9HtcWm0mRghJKl8rjardIoAkUYtde8c3oBhN0agk7MudKVuUWVJyuzhtDYODH5RgkrI26w5jKFzuxEQvWRiUdFGU7snGqNWL9Tsd3cQS4QC6L_7ST31_iS3UixqkO9drUGJn6l5aXLFsIVxGBVNl2AqJFMHBGRkaZGQh53UQTnhN6G9KsGAKS6wfMarfFTQb8_jUc4rUZVLQVvuw3jqwm3bstIwApGghR9QMYqPj5Q8V-CgC59M-sSm6bsEghBrOqSYW8BHIgjcBCI6ttpzEqZXf7sGCwCCAUEl5h9sX33_MDleMrKZzivAligPZmY4qBmFpDnbJQjPx2Ztec99MNeVgXuBNwnEPTxrx2KxPI_sFh6_Rx/349/CiTWMjGaRFikqHVp_V87dQ/h0/UIADYEYUgTDCfAb1G1EL-xxYYvtpl9XQ-wtVAABxt9E>)
> 
> Fight back against Senator Mitch McConnell?s plan to give corporations sweeping immunity from lawsuits related to COVID-19.
> 
> Call Senator Richard J. Durbin at (202) 224-2152 and Senator Tammy Duckworth at (202) 224-2854. Please leave a voicemail or a message with a staffer.
> 
> Tell them: "My name is CG and I live in CHAMPAIGN, Illinois. Companies that recklessly expose workers or customers to COVID-19 must be held accountable. Please reject corporate immunity for COVID-19."
> 
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From susanroseparenti at gmail.com  Wed Aug 12 19:45:19 2020
From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 14:45:19 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Move in NOW: 1 Bedrm in Crystal lake Park--just $450 covers
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Message-ID: <CAKfUjSGK_omYOm-a7OgMaXcS_UBiRcLRQGq6owhDa7rK=1EyMQ@mail.gmail.com>

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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Wed Aug 12 20:17:07 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 15:17:07 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Brigadier General Anthony Tata
References: <7c1e5583cf821935a029077a24ff25b1@bounce.bluestatedigital.com>
Message-ID: <F5192F62-D7FB-4CF6-B06F-7B59E38E2209@newsfromneptune.com>



> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Tammy Duckworth <tammy at tammyduckworth.com>
> Subject: Brigadier General Anthony Tata
> Date: August 12, 2020 at 3:03:58 PM CDT
> To: Withdraw all US troops from the Mideast US war-making is criminal <cge at shout.net>
> Reply-To: tammy at tammyduckworth.com
> 
> 
> 
> Withdraw all US troops from the Mideast ?
> 
> The Trump administration has consistently gone out of their way to politicize our military ? and they?ve just done it again.
> 
> The White House nominated retired Brigadier General Anthony Tata for the third highest civilian position in the Department of Defense ? but once we learned that he had shared Islamaphobic tweets and conspiracy theories in the past, they pulled his nomination before the Senate had a chance to reject him.
> 
> But then the Trump administration went forward anyway and appointed Tata as Deputy Undersecretary of Policy in an ?acting? capacity with similar responsibilities, effectively circumventing Congress.
> 
> This is totally out of line. No president should go around Congress like this. Sign my petition if you agree:
> 
> Add your name if you agree that the White House should remove Tata from this post immediately. A president should NOT go around Congress like this. <https://secure.tammyduckworth.com/page/m/21273d5f/10b2f104/77f4a31e/4c0db308/962258807/VEsH/p/eyJlM3R5WldaamIyUmxmWDA9IjoiZW0yMDA4MTItMS1mdWxsIn0%3D/?g=kXxFcsQot1Beaxw1NaSB7kA>
> Thank you for speaking out.
> 
> All my best,
> 
> Tammy Duckworth
> 
> ADD YOUR NAME
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Thu Aug 13 01:14:42 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:42 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AOTA & NFN timeslots
Message-ID: <7798e6b1-d93c-8699-7280-62db85e5d7fe@forestfield.org>

Videos I recently sent to UPTV's Jason Liggett for playing during AOTA & NFN timeslots.



RT

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iCEEFaP39K0 -- (28m 8s) Chris Hedges interviews Greg 
Palast on voter fraud and stealing elections.

Transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/497436-voter-fraud-greg-palast/

The majority of this interview concerns how the Republicans are fixing the voting 
system against likely Democratic Party voters, thereby illegally and unethically 
increasing the odds of a Republican win. Palast says that this was behind Trump's 
2016 win against Hillary Clinton and Palast cites uncounted votes in Michigan as an 
example.

I'm recommending this interview despite one glaring problem with Palast's analysis: 
the Democrats don't give us evidence that they care about losing in this way. I don't 
concur with Palast's race-based explanation for why the Congressional Black Caucus 
(nor, apparently, other "progressive" Democrats) won't raise election problems as an 
issue. We got 4+ years of Russiagate and virtually no election irregularity analysis. 
Perhaps both arms of the business party are working well enough as-is regardless of 
which party wins, so there's no hurry to look out for the disenfranchised.






Grayzone

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xpq4SNJNcmA -- (5m 10s) "Western media's favorite 'Hong 
Kong activist' is US regime-changer in yellowface" -- are "Kong Tsung-gan" and "Xun 
Yuezang" pseudonyms for Brian Kern? Grayzone highlights some connections which "would 
mean that Brian Kern is Kong Tsung-gan in yellowface" (as Grayzone put it at 2m38s in 
this report).

Report: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/08/hong-kong-western-media-yellowfacing-amnesty/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=oEcuygrqTSE -- (14m 40s) "Twitter spreads nonstop US 
gov't paid propaganda, while falsely claiming it bans state media ads"

Report: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/10/twitter-us-state-media-ads-voa-persian/

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qhNXrwRL5Ic -- (38m 56s) "US gov regime-change plot in 
Nicaragua exposed"




Lee Fang/Intercept

https://youtube.com/watch?v=AGplYzKYgyQ -- (1h 21m 39s) "Covid strengthens ruling 
class grip on the U.S." (Lee Fang sitting in for Glenn Greenwald)




Jimmy Dore -- sequential segments of Dore's 2020-08-11 interview with Max Blumenthal

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4uEGmRgBHvQ -- (10m 47s) "It's a Big Club & We Ain't In 
It!" on how the Democrats are running an ad which misrepresents George Carlin's 
routine, and how the Democrats and Republicans both mistreat girls and women.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzuA3fjTUg0 -- (20m 6s) "Biden Pick His VP -- KAMALA Is A 
Cop!"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wlDXJbdkOas -- (15m 50s) "Kamala & Biden's Endless Circle 
of Hypocrisy!"



Consortium News

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iRGEp5_QX0Q -- (9m 5s) "Former Guardian Journalist Nick 
Davis: Crimes in the Afghan War Logs"

From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Aug 13 12:04:56 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:04:56 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Carl's excellent letter to the NG
Message-ID: <DM6PR13MB28753A78CE776BCC19085700A3430@DM6PR13MB2875.namprd13.prod.outlook.com>

Elites are our common enemy

The current political unrest in America, dangerous as it is, seems to be a ?battle by night? ? all sides are obscured in the surrounding media darkness.

On one side are Trump supporters ? working-class and middle-class Americans who see themselves (rightly) oppressed by a financial elite ? an elite of perhaps no more than 20 percent of the population. Trump is also supported by members of that elite who want to maintain that situation.

On the other side are Black Lives Matters and working-class and middle-class Americans who also see themselves (rightly) oppressed by that financial elite.

Both sides ? opposed as they are to each other ? finally must know that their real enemy is that elite ? and each side suspects the other of allying with that elite.

It?s time to ?call things by their right names? ? to recognize that the common enemy of the majority is that financial elite. That?s demonstrated by the shameful way the president and Congress have dealt with the real economic suffering of the majority ? by giving out financial favors to their rich friends and corporations.

Until we together demand support from the government and Congress for those suffering from the current terrible economic situation, the elite can continue to profit by setting the two groups against one another ? and the majority will suffer.

C.G. ESTABROOK

Champaign
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From deb.pdamerica at gmail.com  Thu Aug 13 12:08:28 2020
From: deb.pdamerica at gmail.com (Debra Schrishuhn)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:08:28 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Immunity Impunity
In-Reply-To: <B0815E51-3C80-49DC-86D8-D4A46BA2BB96@newsfromneptune.com>
References: <5f34415513e16_52c83ffcc099788c95765@ip-10-0-0-73.mail>
 <B0815E51-3C80-49DC-86D8-D4A46BA2BB96@newsfromneptune.com>
Message-ID: <CANDTtdn9ftriG2gyE0R17y++t8hX6v5-HM9QeaTU_RQgJX1GCw@mail.gmail.com>

Please note that you cannot leave a voicemail at Sen Durbin's DC number.
However, his Springfield office (217-492-4378) does allow the voicemail
option.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:39 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *PCAF <info at progressivecaucusactionfund.org>
> *Subject: **Immunity Impunity*
> *Date: *August 12, 2020 at 2:21:57 PM CDT
> *To: *cgestabrook at gmail.com
> *Reply-To: *info at progressivecaucusactionfund.org
>
> *(Source: JenSorensen.com
> <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/-JmN8Zg8w7Lv_vK9HtcWm0mRghJKl8rjardIoAkUYtde8c3oBhN0agk7MudKVuUWVJyuzhtDYODH5RgkrI26w5jKFzuxEQvWRiUdFGU7snGqNWL9Tsd3cQS4QC6L_7ST31_iS3UixqkO9drUGJn6l5aXLFsIVxGBVNl2AqJFMHBGRkaZGQh53UQTnhN6G9KsGAKS6wfMarfFTQb8_jUc4rUZVLQVvuw3jqwm3bstIwApGghR9QMYqPj5Q8V-CgC59M-sSm6bsEghBrOqSYW8BHIgjcBCI6ttpzEqZXf7sGCwCCAUEl5h9sX33_MDleMrKZzivAligPZmY4qBmFpDnbJQjPx2Ztec99MNeVgXuBNwnEPTxrx2KxPI_sFh6_Rx/349/CiTWMjGaRFikqHVp_V87dQ/h0/UIADYEYUgTDCfAb1G1EL-xxYYvtpl9XQ-wtVAABxt9E>)*
>
> Fight back against Senator Mitch McConnell?s plan to give corporations
> sweeping immunity from lawsuits related to COVID-19.
>
> *Call Senator Richard J. Durbin at (202) 224-2152 and Senator Tammy
> Duckworth at (202) 224-2854.* Please leave a voicemail or a message with
> a staffer.
>
> Tell them: "My name is CG and I live in CHAMPAIGN, Illinois. Companies
> that recklessly expose workers or customers to COVID-19 must be held
> accountable. Please reject corporate immunity for COVID-19."
>
> Then, help us tally your call and report on it here.
> <https://u1584542.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/P8Elou2Rvc0qoMPEUZrMXcOpy_XqN4R2ZGjoK-5zZnk6gVFZ1bAZYY22mWHMkylxQ99c4tLs3fGprsmifS8KP6hAYn9boMl-3-Z17-Ftu5LGnpgAbuKZmQVcPBcb0P5NvqHSFpO92Zhxgr_ruH27-sB4YUXfWVFmI2ZOu_SVT6KiXDCOS0NE4jkCuxuYAi9bFZKNJR5hDB5fFx8vc9NOtpl40qHULeLIJYa_V123JbBGZ4rvr_9-CErWP6Q-EZgIG9FFHearPsbNZVJ_l9QCA7BQSzhAW7hqx6sr_rzoMoYAWxYF9LW_SI_mMzsd4la6VPxVue47ysttNFTwfMaMIMkd5cpcQ_3ZZjui4Gl-oDEXe4QOFgPRPnLMdClbzHDWErfkdWR7kkrIfKHfIN1cHA/349/CiTWMjGaRFikqHVp_V87dQ/h1/-cfc6CpW9oSZiClT0A5a8HUuymOK6PHNT9cSVxReaZo>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Aug 13 16:25:37 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 09:25:37 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Where is Resistance to Structural Violence of
 Capitalism?
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>  <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=ca7d305040&e=b209f21775>
> The reality in the United States has come to this: 160,000 dead in four months, thousands hospitalized, and many thousands sick or afraid to be sick because they have no sick days and no health insurance. Every week for 20 weeks, over 1 million people filed new claims for unemployment benefits. Real unemployment rates are around 32 percent. In some Black and Brown urban communities, youth unemployment is running between 60 percent and 80 percent. Yet, Congress and the White House are playing games with the extended, enhanced unemployment benefits. "Free market? capitalism has been exposed as a fraud: Instead of delivering the "good life," capitalism generates misery and systematic human-rights abuses. This has created a deep crisis of legitimacy.
> 
> During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the capitalist rulers made concessions to workers to ease the consequences of capitalist failure. Despite that, iberal historical revisionists claim the programs of the ?New Deal? represented the enlightened leadership of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the racist, upper-class patrician who sat in the White House. What is striking today is instead of the people storming the citadels of power demanding their economic needs be met, Republicans and Democrats have been allowed to play?with impunity?the most obscene and cynical game with people?s lives. That is because unlike the 1930s?when the organized people forced concessions from the rulers?progressive and radical forces today lack the institutional capacity and ideological clarity to challenge the U.S. state and win. Even our most progressive expressions of political opposition represented in the so-called Black Lives Matter movement seem unable to pivot to a general opposition to the system, despite it killing more African/Black life than police violence has.
> 
> The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has taken on the task of building the organizational structure the African/Black working class needs to organize a new radical movement in the United States that combines the power of colonized peoples, the exploited working class, the oppressed and the marginalized into a force that will rid the planet of war, hunger and exploitation.
> 
> 
> PRESS AND MEDIA
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> This week, BAP member and Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Fordwrote about the mistake <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=336a8ba56e&e=b209f21775> today?s activists are making in not giving enough weight to the plight of our political prisoners in his piece about Black August.
> 
> BAP?s recent newsletter on Black August was re-printed <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=7729c83375&e=b209f21775> in Black Agenda Report.
> 
> Netfa Freeman, who represents BAP member organization Pan-African Community Action (PACA) on BAP?s Coordinating Committee, interviewed former political prisoner Jihad Abdulmumit <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=f563b03419&e=b209f21775>, chairperson of the National Jericho Movement, as part of the Black August coverage on WPFW?s ?Voices with Vision.?
> 
> The recent concern that Trump deploying federal agents in cities like Portland was the start of fascism in the United States is unfounded. Black and Brown communities have long dealt with disappearances at the hands of police like the NYPD?s ?Jump Out Boys.? <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=b850a140a3&e=b209f21775>
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> BAP Coordinating Committee member Margaret Kimberley discussed the latest U.S. move to hijack Chinese social-media giant Tik Tok on CGTN here <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=aafc779611&e=b209f21775>and here <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=b729a00e92&e=b209f21775>. Margaret also spoke about the U.S. demonization of China on a CodePink webinar <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=e7de8bf201&e=b209f21775>. 
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> Margaret and BAP National Organizer Ajamu Baraka discussed on Radio Sputnik?s ?The Critical Hour? how the rapid shift to absentee voting during the coronavirus pandemic has emerged as a central issue in the 2020 U.S. elections. The conversation starts at 59:35 minutes <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=48861a4f6f&e=b209f21775> into the show.
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> Margaret?s talk from the July 25 ?No to the New Cold War in China? <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=187df89f10&e=b209f21775> webinar that Ajamu and Margaret participated in has been printed in the Global Times <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=c15a2a6d2a&e=b209f21775>.
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> BAP Supporter Network Co-Coordinator Danny Haiphong wrote on how the silence of the U.S. left lays the foundation for a new cold war with China <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=e68cf6d013&e=b209f21775>.
> 
> Netfa wrote about how the U.S. is using a Russian presence in Libya to further U.S. interests <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=dfeb91dd12&e=b209f21775> on the continent and globally. Black Star News re-printed <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=93e0accec3&e=b209f21775> his article. Netfa spoke about this issue on Radio Sputnik?s ?Political Misfits? <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=dd741be5f2&e=b209f21775> and this interview was cited in a Sputnik article <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=a37c850a7d&e=b209f21775>. He also discussed the longstanding political issues behind the Zimbabwean government's decision to compensate white former landowners, why the move is generating outrage among many Zimbabweans as the country's economy continues to struggle under the burden of U.S. sanctions, and attempts to link the protests in Zimbabwe with the struggle against U.S. police. The interview with BAP member Jacqueline Luqman and co-host Sean Blackmon of Radio Sputnik's "By Any Means Necessary" starts at 37:57 minutes <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=e2affe67d9&e=b209f21775>.
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>  
> EVENTS
> August 15-16: The Black Is Back Coalition, of which BAP is a member organization, is holding its annual conference online with the theme, ?Fight for Black Power: Free All Political Prisoners.? Register today. <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=72d4addeae&e=b209f21775>
> August 15: Cooperation Jackson is hosting a People?s Assembly <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=32ea35c3f1&e=b209f21775> on the housing crisis and on combating police terrorism at 1 p.m. at the Ida B. Wells Plaza, 1128 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, Mississippi.
> August 23: At 1 p.m. PST/4 p.m. EST, BAP will hold the first in our Educational Webinar Series. The topic is ?How the International War Against Black People Is Being Waged Locally - & How We Unify Against It? <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=e9433125cc&e=b209f21775>. We will be focusing on organizing in Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area, but participants from anywhere are welcome.
> August 29: Cooperation Jackson is organizing an art exhibit <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=0ed3778da8&e=b209f21775> to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina at 1 p.m. at the Ida B. Wells Plaza, 1128 W. Capitol Street, Jackson, Mississippi.
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> TAKE ACTION
> The Black Latina Girls and Women Fund <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=e556ead4de&e=b209f21775> was created by BAP member organization AfroResistance, a Black Latina women-led organization in the service of Black Latinx women in the Americas. This fund offers financial support by giving money directly to Black Latin womxn, girls and femmes who are experiencing severe financial need across the region, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether in Brazil, Colombia, United States or Panama, Black Latina girls, women, and femmes are organizing in their local communities in the fight against several forms of state violence. You can donate here <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=771399776e&e=b209f21775> and people are encouraged to use the hashtag #BlackLatinaGWFund.
> Ask your local, state and federal candidates to sign BAP?s?2020 Candidate Accountability Pledge <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=43712e5bf4&e=b209f21775>. If you are a candidate, distinguish yourself from the other corporate warmongering candidates by signing the pledge.
> Sign up to join BAP?s U.S. Out of Africa Network <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=4854c3b205&e=b209f21775> to receive the bi-weeklyAFRICOM Watch Bulletin <https://blackallianceforpeace.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5845ddb951de35b8eb11e0eee&id=f24362304d&e=b209f21775> in your inbox.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Fri Aug 14 19:50:47 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:50:47 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING
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> ANOTHER HIROSHIMA IS COMING
> By John Pilger <http://johnpilger.com/articles/another-hiroshima-is-coming-unless-we-stop-it-now>.
> August 6, 2020 | EDUCATE! <https://popularresistance.org/educate/>
> Above photo: A human nuclear blast ?shadow? formed on bank steps after the explosion of the atom bomb in Hiroshima (1945).i.imgur.com. <https://www.reddit.com/domain/i.imgur.com/>
> Unless We Stop It Now.
> In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from  five ?ground zeros? for nuclear weapons ? from Hiroshima to Bikini, Nevada to Polynesia and Australia. He warns that unless we take action now, China is next.
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> When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.
> 
> At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite.
> 
> I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties. I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.
> 
> He described a huge flash over the city, ?a bluish light, something like an electrical short?, after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell. ?I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no skin or hair. I was certain I was dead.???Nine years later, I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukaemia.
> 
> ?No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin? said The New York Times front page on 13 September, 1945, a classic of planted disinformation. ?General Farrell,? reported William H. Lawrence, ?denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.?
> 
> Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, had braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of the Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the ?press pack?.
> 
> ?I write this as a warning to the world,? reported Burchett in the London Daily Express  of September 5,1945. Sitting in the rubble with his Baby Hermes typewriter, he described hospital wards filled with people with no visible injuries who were dying from what he called ?an atomic plague?.
> 
> For this, his press accreditation was withdrawn, he was pilloried and smeared. His witness to the truth was never forgiven.
> 
> The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was an act of premeditated mass murder that unleashed a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of America?s war propaganda in the 21st century, casting a new enemy, and target ? China.
> 
> During the 75 years since Hiroshima, the most enduring lie is that the atomic bomb was dropped to end the war in the Pacific and to save lives.
> 
> ?Even without the atomic bombing attacks,? concluded the United States Strategic Bombing Survey of 1946, ?air supremacy over Japan could have exerted sufficient pressure to bring about unconditional surrender and obviate the need for invasion. ?Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts, and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey?s opinion that ? Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war [against Japan] and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.?
> 
> The National Archives in Washington contains documented Japanese peace overtures as early as 1943. None was pursued. A cable sent on May 5, 1945 by the German ambassador in Tokyo and intercepted by the US made clear the Japanese were desperate to sue for peace, including ?capitulation even if the terms were hard?. Nothing was done.
> 
> The US Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, told President Truman he was ?fearful? that the US Air Force would have Japan so ?bombed out? that the new weapon would not be able ?to show its strength?. Stimson later admitted that ?no effort was made, and none was seriously considered, to achieve surrender merely in order not to have to use the [atomic] bomb?.
> 
> Stimson?s foreign policy colleagues ? looking ahead to the post-war era they were then shaping ?in our image?, as Cold War planner George Kennan famously put it ? made clear they were eager ?to browbeat the Russians with the [atomic] bomb held rather ostentatiously on our hip?. General Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project that made the atomic bomb, testified: ?There was never any illusion on my part that Russia was our enemy, and that the project was conducted on that basis.?
> 
> The day after Hiroshima was obliterated, President Harry Truman voiced his satisfaction with the ?overwhelming success? of ?the experiment?.
> 
> The ?experiment? continued long after the war was over. Between 1946 and 1958, the United States exploded 67 nuclear bombs in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific: the equivalent of more than one Hiroshima every day for 12 years.
> 
> The human and environmental consequences were catastrophic. During the filming of my documentary, The Coming War on China, I chartered a small aircraft and flew to Bikini Atoll in the Marshalls. It was here that the United States exploded the world?s first Hydrogen Bomb. It remains poisoned earth. My shoes registered ?unsafe? on my Geiger counter. Palm trees stood in unworldly formations. There were no birds.
> 
> I trekked through the jungle to the concrete bunker where, at 6.45 on the morning of March 1, 1954, the button was pushed. The sun, which had risen, rose again and vaporised an entire island in the lagoon, leaving a vast black hole, which from the air is a menacing spectacle: a deathly void in a place of beauty.
> 
> The radioactive fall-out spread quickly and ?unexpectedly?. The official history claims ?the wind changed suddenly?. It was the first of many lies, as declassified documents and the victims? testimony reveal.
> 
> Gene Curbow, a meteorologist assigned to monitor the test site, said, ?They knew where the radioactive fall-out was going to go. Even on the day of the shot, they still had an opportunity to evacuate people, but [people] were not evacuated; I was not evacuated? The United States needed some guinea pigs to study what the effects of radiation would do.?
> 
> Like Hiroshima, the secret of the Marshall Islands was a calculated experiment on the lives of large numbers of people. This was Project 4.1, which began as a scientific study of mice and became an experiment on ?human beings exposed to the radiation of a nuclear weapon?.
> 
> The Marshall Islanders I met in 2015 ? like the survivors of Hiroshima I interviewed in the 1960s and 70s ? suffered from a range of cancers, commonly thyroid cancer; thousands had already died. Miscarriages and stillbirths were common; those babies who lived were often deformed horribly.
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> Unlike Bikini, nearby Rongelap atoll had not been evacuated during the H-Bomb test. Directly downwind of Bikini, Rongelap?s skies darkened and it rained what first appeared to be snowflakes.  Food and water were contaminated; and the population fell victim to cancers. That is still true today.
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> I met Nerje Joseph, who showed me a photograph of herself as a child on Rongelap. She had terrible facial burns and much of her was hair missing. ?We were bathing at the well on the day the bomb exploded,? she said. ?White dust started falling from the sky. I reached to catch the powder. We used it as soap to wash our hair. A few days later, my hair started falling out.?
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> Lemoyo Abon said, ?Some of us were in agony. Others had diarrhoea. We were terrified. We thought it must be the end of the world.?
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> US official archive film I included in my film refers to the islanders as ?amenable savages?. In the wake of the explosion, a US Atomic Energy Agency official is seen boasting that Rongelap ?is by far the most contaminated place on earth?, adding, ?it will be interesting to get a measure of human uptake when people live in a contaminated environment.?
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> American scientists, including medical doctors, built distinguished careers studying the ?human uptake?. There they are in flickering film, in their white coats, attentive with their clipboards. When an islander died in his teens, his family received a sympathy card from the scientist who studied him.
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> I have reported from five nuclear ?ground zeros? throughout the world ? in Japan, the Marshall Islands, Nevada, Polynesia and Maralinga in Australia. Even more than my experience as a war correspondent, this has taught me about the ruthlessness and immorality of great power: that is, imperial power, whose cynicism is the true enemy of humanity.
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> This struck me forcibly when I filmed at Taranaki Ground Zero at Maralinga in the Australian desert. In a dish-like crater was an obelisk on which was inscribed: ?A British atomic weapon was test exploded here on 9 October 1957?. On the rim of the crater was this sign:
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> Warning: Radiation Hazard
> Radiation levels for a few hundred metres around this point may be above those considered safe for permanent occupation.
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> For as far as the eye could see, and beyond, the ground was irradiated. Raw plutonium lay about, scattered like talcum powder: plutonium is so dangerous to humans that a third of a milligram gives a 50 per cent chance of cancer.
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> The only people who might have seen the sign were Indigenous Australians, for whom there was no warning. According to an official account, if they were lucky ?they were shooed off like rabbits?.
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> Today, an unprecedented campaign of propaganda is shooing us all off like rabbits. We are not meant to question the daily torrent of anti-Chinese rhetoric, which is rapidly overtaking the torrent of anti-Russia rhetoric. Anything Chinese is bad, anathema, a threat: Wuhan ?. Huawei. How confusing it is when ?our? most reviled leader says so.
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> The current phase of this campaign began not with Trump but with Barack Obama, who in 2011 flew to Australia to declare the greatest build-up of US naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region since World War Two. Suddenly, China was a ?threat?. This was nonsense, of course. What was threatened was America?s unchallenged psychopathic view of itself as the richest, the most successful, the most ?indispensable? nation.
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> What was never in dispute was its prowess as a bully ? with more than 30 members of the United Nations suffering American sanctions of some kind and a trail of the blood running through defenceless countries bombed, their governments overthrown, their elections interfered with, their resources plundered.
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> Obama?s declaration became known as the ?pivot to Asia?. One of its principal advocates was his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who, as WikiLeaks revealed, wanted to rename the Pacific Ocean ?the American Sea?.
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> Whereas Clinton never concealed her warmongering, Obama was a maestro of marketing.?I state clearly and with conviction,? said the new president in 2009, ?that America?s commitment is to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.?
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> Obama increased spending on nuclear warheads faster than any president since the end of the Cold War. A ?usable? nuclear weapon was developed. Known as the B61 Model 12, it means, according to General James Cartwright, former vice-chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that ?going smaller [makes its use] more thinkable?.
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> The target is China. Today, more than 400 American military bases almost encircle China with missiles, bombers, warships and nuclear weapons. From Australia north through the Pacific to South-East Asia, Japan and Korea and across Eurasia to Afghanistan and India, the bases form, as one US strategist told me, ?the perfect noose?.
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> A study by the RAND Corporation ? which, since Vietnam, has planned America?s wars ? is entitled War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable. Commissioned by the US Army, the authors evoke the infamous catch cry of its chief Cold War strategist, Herman Kahn ? ?thinking the unthinkable?. Kahn?s book, On Thermonuclear War, elaborated a plan for a ?winnable? nuclear war.
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> Kahn?s apocalyptic view is shared by Trump?s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an evangelical fanatic who believes in the ?rapture of the End?. He is perhaps the most dangerous man alive. ?I was CIA director,? he boasted, ?We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like we had entire training courses.?  Pompeo?s obsession is China.
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> The endgame of Pompeo?s extremism is rarely if ever discussed in the Anglo-American media, where the myths and fabrications about China are standard fare, as were the lies about Iraq. A virulent racism is the sub-text of this propaganda. Classified ?yellow? even though they were white, the Chinese are the only ethnic group to have been banned by an ?exclusion act? from entering the United States, because they were Chinese. Popular culture declared them sinister, untrustworthy, ?sneaky?, depraved, diseased, immoral.
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> An Australian magazine, The Bulletin, was devoted to promoting fear of the ?yellow peril? as if all of Asia was about to fall down on the whites-only colony by the force of gravity.
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> As the historian Martin Powers writes, acknowledging China?s  modernism, its secular morality and ?contributions to liberal thought threatened European face, so it became necessary to suppress China?s role in the Enlightenment debate ?. For centuries, China?s threat to the myth of Western superiority has made it an easy target for race-baiting.?
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> In the Sydney Morning Herald, tireless China-basher Peter Hartcher described those who spread Chinese influence in Australia as ?rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows?. Hartcher, who favourably quotes the American demagogue Steve Bannon, likes to interpret the ?dreams? of the current Chinese elite, to which he is apparently privy. These are inspired by yearnings for the ?Mandate of Heaven? of 2,000 years ago. Ad nausea.
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> To combat this ?mandate?, the Australian government of Scott Morrison has committed one of the most secure countries on earth, whose major trading partner is China, to hundreds of billions of dollars? worth of American missiles that can be fired at China.
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> The trickledown is already evident. In a country historically scarred by violent racism towards Asians, Australians of Chinese descent have formed a vigilante group to protect delivery riders. Phone videos show a delivery rider punched in the face and a Chinese couple racially abused in a supermarket. Between April and June, there were almost 400 racist attacks on Asian-Australians.
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> ?We are not your enemy,? a high-ranking strategist in China told me, ?but if you [in the West] decide we are, we must prepare without delay.? China?s arsenal is small compared with America?s, but it is growing fast, especially the development of maritime missiles designed to destroy fleets of ships.
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> ?For the first time,? wrote Gregory Kulacki of the Union of Concerned Scientists, ?China is discussing putting its nuclear missiles on high alert so that they can be launched quickly on warning of an attack? This would be a significant and dangerous change in Chinese policy??
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> In Washington, I met Amitai Etzioni, distinguished professor of international affairs at George Washington University, who wrote that a ?blinding attack on China? was planned, ?with strikes that could be mistakenly perceived [by the Chinese] as pre-emptive attempts to take out its nuclear weapons, thus cornering them into a terrible use-it-or-lose-it dilemma [that would] lead to nuclear war.?
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> In 2019, the US staged its biggest single military exercise since the Cold War, much of it in high secrecy. An armada of ships and long-range bombers rehearsed an ?Air-Sea Battle Concept for China? ? ASB ? blocking sea lanes in the Straits of Malacca and cutting off China?s access to oil, gas and other raw materials from the Middle East and Africa.
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> It is fear of such a blockade that has seen China develop its Belt and Road Initiative along the old Silk Road to Europe and urgently build strategic airstrips on disputed reefs and islets in the Spratly Islands.
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> In Shanghai, I met Lijia Zhang, a Beijing journalist and novelist, typical of a new class of outspoken mavericks. Her best-selling book has the ironic title Socialism Is Great! Having grown up in the chaotic, brutal Cultural Revolution, she has travelled and lived in the US and Europe. ?Many Americans imagine,? she said, ?that Chinese people live a miserable, repressed life with no freedom whatsoever. The [idea of] the yellow peril has never left them? They have no idea there are some 500 million people being lifted out of poverty, and some would say it?s 600 million.?
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> Modern China?s epic achievements, its defeat of mass poverty, and the pride and contentment of its people (measured forensically by American pollsters such as Pew) are wilfully unknown or misunderstood in the West. This alone is a commentary on the lamentable state of Western journalism and the abandonment of honest reporting.
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> China?s repressive dark side and what we like to call its ?authoritarianism? are the facade we are allowed to see almost exclusively. It is as if we are fed unending tales of the evil super-villain Dr. Fu Manchu. And it is time we asked why: before it is too late to stop the next Hiroshima.
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Subject: [Peace] Why Capitalism is in Constant Conflict With Democracy by
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Why Capitalism is in Constant Conflict With Democracy <https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/why-capitalism-is-in-constant-conflict-with-democracy/>by RICHARD D. WOLFF <https://www.counterpunch.org/author/rwolff0998/>Facebook <https://www.counterpunch.org/#facebook>Twitter <https://www.counterpunch.org/#twitter>Reddit <https://www.counterpunch.org/#reddit>Email <https://www.counterpunch.org/#email> <https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/11/why-capitalism-is-in-constant-conflict-with-democracy/print/>

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The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage. Anticipating that, most capitalists opposed and long resisted extending suffrage beyond the rich who possessed capital. Only mass pressures from below forced repeated extensions of voting rights until universal suffrage was achieved?at least legally. To this day, capitalists develop and apply all sorts of legal and illegal mechanisms to limit and constrain suffrage. Among those committed to conserving capitalism, fear of universal suffrage runs deep. Trump and his Republicans exemplify and act on that fear as the 2020 election looms.

The problem arises from capitalism?s basic nature. The capitalists who own and operate business enterprises?employers as a group?comprise a small social minority. In contrast, employees and their families are the social majority. The employer minority clearly dominates the micro-economy inside each enterprise. In capitalist corporations, the major shareholders and the board of directors they select make all the key decisions including distribution of the enterprise?s net revenues.

Their decisions allocate large portions of those net revenues to themselves as shareholders? dividends and top managers? executive pay packages. Their incomes and wealth thus accumulate faster than the social averages. In privately held capitalist enterprises their owners and top managers behave similarly and enjoy a similar set of privileges. Unequally distributed income and wealth in modern societies flow chiefly from the internal organization of capitalist enterprises. The owners and their top managers then use their disproportionate wealth to shape and control the macro-economy and the politics interwoven with it.

However, universal suffrage makes it possible for employees to undo capitalism?s underlying economic inequalities by political means when, for example, majorities win elections. Employees can elect politicians whose legislative, executive, and judicial decisions effectively reverse capitalism?s economic results. Tax, minimum wage, and government spending laws can redistribute income and wealth in many different ways. If redistribution is not how majorities choose to end unacceptable levels of inequality, they can take other steps. Majorities might, for example, vote to transition enterprises? internal organizations from capitalist hierarchies to democratic cooperatives. Enterprises? net revenues would then be distributed not by the minorities atop capitalist hierarchies but instead by democratic decisions of all employees, each with one vote. The multiple levels of inequality typical of capitalism would disappear.

Capitalism?s ongoing political problem has been how best to prevent employees from forming just such political majorities. During its recurring times of special difficulty (periodic crashes, wars, conflicts between monopolized and competitive industries, pandemics), capitalism?s political problem intensifies and broadens. It becomes how best to prevent employees? political majorities from ending capitalism altogether and moving society to an alternative economic system.

To solve capitalism?s political problem, capitalists as a small social minority must craft alliances with other social groups. Those alliances must be strong enough to defuse, deter, or destroy any and all emerging employee majorities that might threaten capitalists? interests or their systems? survival. The smaller or weaker the capitalist minorities are, the more the key alliance they form and rely upon is with the military. In many parts of the world, capitalism is secured by a military dictatorship that targets and destroys emerging movements for anti-capitalist change among employees or among non-capitalist sectors. Even where capitalists are a relatively large, well-established minority, if their social dominance is threatened, say by a large anti-capitalist movement from below, alliance with a military dictatorship may be a last resort survival mechanism. When such alliances culminate in mergers of capitalists and the state apparatus, fascism has arrived.

During capitalism?s non-extreme moments, when not threatened by imminent social explosions, its basic political problem remains. Capitalists must block employee majorities from undoing the workings and results of the capitalist economic system and especially its characteristic distributions of income, wealth, power, and culture. To that end capitalists seek portions of the employee class to ally with, to disconnect from other, fellow employees. They usually work with and use political parties to form and sustain such alliances.

In the words of the great Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci, the capitalists use their allied political party to form a ?political bloc? with portions of the employee class and possible others outside the capitalist economy. That bloc must be strong enough to thwart the anti-capitalist goals of movements among the employee class. Ideally, for capitalists, their bloc should rule the society?be the hegemonic power?by controlling mass media, winning elections, producing parliamentary majorities, and disseminating an ideology in schools and beyond that justifies capitalism. Capitalist hegemony would then keep anti-capitalist impulses disorganized or unable to build a social movement into a counter-hegemonic bloc strong enough to challenge capitalism?s hegemony.

Trump illustrates the current conditions for capitalist hegemony. First and foremost, his government lavishly funds and celebrates the military. Secondly, he delivered to corporations and the rich a huge 2017 tax cut despite their having enjoyed several prior decades of wealth redistribution upward to them. Thirdly, he keeps deregulating capitalist enterprises and markets. To sustain his government?s largesse to its capitalist patrons, he notoriously cultivates traditional alliances with portions of the employee class. The Republican Party that Trump inherited and took over had let those lapse. They had weakened and led to dangerous political losses. They had to be rebuilt and strengthened or else the Republican Party could no longer be the means for capitalists to craft and organizationally sustain a hegemonic bloc. The GOP would then likely fade away, leaving the Democratic Party for the capitalists to ally with and use for such a hegemonic bloc.

Capitalists have switched hegemonic allies and agents between the two major parties repeatedly in U.S. history. Just as the Republican Party let its alliances with sections of the employee class lapse, opening the space for Trump, so too did the Democratic Party with its traditional allies. That opened space for Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the progressives. To revive and rebuild the Republican Party as a hegemonic ally with U.S. capitalists, Trump had to give a good bit more to Christian fundamentalists, white supremacists, anti-immigration forces, chauvinists (and anti-foreigners), law-and-order enthusiasts, and gun lovers than the old GOP establishment did. That is why and how he defeated that establishment. For historical reasons, Clinton, Obama, and the old Democratic Party establishment survived yet again despite giving little to their employee class allies (workers, unions, African Americans, Latinx, women, students, academics, and the unemployed). They kept control of the party, blocked Sanders and the growing progressive challenge, and won the popular vote in 2016. They lost the election.

Capitalists prefer to use the Republicans as their hegemonic partner because the Republicans more reliably and regularly deliver what capitalists want than the Democrats do. But if and when the Republican bloc of alliances weakens or otherwise functions inadequately as a hegemonic partner, U.S. capitalists will shift to the Democrats. They will accept less favorable policies, at least for a while, if they gain a solid hegemonic partner in return. Were Trump?s alliances with portions of the employee class to weaken or dissolve, U.S. capitalists will go with the Biden-Clinton-Obama Democrats instead. If needed, they would also go with the progressives, as they did in the 1930s with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Trump repeatedly aims to strengthen his alliances with the more than a third of American employees who seem to approve of his regime, no matter the offense given to others. He counts on that being enough for most capitalists to stay with the Republicans. After all, most capitalists prefer Republicans; his regime strongly supported the military and corporate profiteering. Only Trump?s and the Republicans? colossal failures to prepare for or contain both the pandemic and the capitalism-caused economic crash could shift voter sentiment to elect Democrats. So Trump and the Republicans concentrate on denying those failures and distracting public attention from them. The Democratic Party establishment aims to persuade capitalists that a Biden regime will better manage the pandemic and crash, deliver a larger mass base to support capitalism, and only marginally reform its inequalities.

For the progressives inside and outside the Democratic Party, a major choice looms. Many have felt it. On the one hand, progressives may access power as the most attractive hegemonic allies for capitalists. By sharpening rather than soft-pedaling social criticisms, progressives may give capitalist employers stronger hegemonic alliances with employees than the traditional Democratic establishment can or dares to offer. That is roughly what Trump did in displacing the traditional establishment of the Republican Party. On the other hand, progressives will be tempted by their own growth to break from the two-party alternation that keeps capitalism hegemonic. Instead, progressives could then open up U.S. politics so that the public would have greater free choice: an anti-capitalist and pro-socialist party competing against the two traditional pro-capitalist parties.

Capitalism?s political problem arose from its intrinsically undemocratic juxtaposition of an employer minority and an employee majority. The contradictions of that structure clashed with universal suffrage. Endless political maneuvers around hegemonic blocs with alternative sections of the employees allowed capitalism to survive. However, eventually those contradictions would exceed the capacity of hegemonic maneuvers to contain and control them. A pandemic combined with a major economic crash may provoke and enable progressives to make the break, change U.S. politics, and realize the long-overdue social changes.

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> "Forgiveness" is a concept that is constantly exploited by manipulative abusers. If anything our world suffers from an overabundance of forgiveness: toward murderous power structures, toward lying news media, toward rapacious oligarchs and cronyistic politicians. Don't forgive them.
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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:50:54 -0700
Subject: [Peace] The Democrats and Republicans: Two wolves hunting the
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The Democrats and Republicans: Two wolves hunting the United States Postal Service
By Shuvu Batta 
15 August 2020
The move to privatize the US Postal Service led by Trump and the Postmaster General, top Trump donor Louis DeJoy, has sparked massive outrage throughout the United States. A petition <https://www.change.org/p/save-the-usps> to ?Save the USPS? on Change.org has over 1.2 million signatures as of this writing. Another petition calling on Congress and the White House to fully fund the USPS on Moveon.org has over 425,000 signatures.
The United States Postal Service is by far the most popular government agency, with a Pew Research survey released last year reporting that over 91 percent of respondents hold a favorable view. It delivers mail, at a flat rate, to unprofitable locations such as rural areas, delivering essential items at relatively low cost in comparison to its competitors. With the outbreak of COVID-19, the USPS and the service it provides has been rendered far more essential.
However, at this critical time, USPS has centralized its leadership <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/11/usps-a11.html> around DeJoy, which puts a question mark on the integrity of mail-in balloting in the November election, and delayed mail delivery nationwide. People around the country report delays in shipments of essential items, such as medicine, for as long as several weeks. VICE has recently reported that the USPS is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without any official explanation or reason given.
However, the drive to privatize the USPS is not solely an objective of the Republican Party and the Trump administration. The Democratic Party, the other wing of the capitalist political system, is equally responsible.
In a recent statement <https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2020/0807-pmg-bog-meeting-comments.htm>, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said that the cause of USPS? problems ?[stemmed] from substantial declines in mail volume, a broken business model and a management strategy that has not adequately addressed these issues.? However, the truth is that the USPS has been sabotaged by its leadership, by both its Board of Governors and the political leaders in Congress and the White House responsible for nominating and electing them.
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The Postal Service?s budget crisis started in 2006, with the landmark Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act passed by the Republican George W. Bush administration. The act required the prefunding of the health benefits of retirees, a requirement no other entity, public or private, has to make. This required putting away an extra $5.6 billion per year, strongly contributing to the USPS? loss of over $62.4 billion between 2007 and 2016.
The bill was passed with a bipartisan consensus. It was co-sponsored by Republican John M. McHugh of New York and two Democrats, Henry Waxman of California and Danny K. Davis of Illinois. It was passed almost unanimously <https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2005430> in the House of Representatives with 201 Democrats voting Yes and one abstaining. Among Republicans, 208 voted Yes, 20 No, and two abstained. Bernie Sanders of Vermont <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/sand-a05.html>, then a member of the House of Representatives, voted Yes. It passed the Senate, then composed of 44 Democrats and 55 Republicans, without a roll call vote through ?unanimous consent.? A direct consequence of this action was the reduction of the USPS workforce by over 65,000 postal workers in 2009 and the start of yearly budget deficits.
Democratic President Barack Obama <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/01/10/pers-j10.html>continued and accelerated the assault on USPS workers.
In 2011, under the pretext of reducing the federal budget deficit, the Obama administration outlined a plan to restructure the Retiree Health Benefit Fund and ?refund? $6.8 Billion from the fund to the federal government. In response, The American Postal Workers Union ignored the attack and announced in a statement, ?APWU Praises Obama?s effort, but Long-Term Solution is Needed.? During his term in office, Obama nominated a Republican board of governors, and the management pushed through severe restructuring. During his term, over 3,700 Post Offices were shut down and over 150,000 career employee positions were cut. The real estate firm CBRE, headed by Richard Blum, the husband of California Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein, won the contract to sell off the post offices.
President Donald J. Trump has further accelerated the attack on the post office in an unprecedented manner, but enjoys bipartisan support <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/04/usps-a04.html>. The latest nominees for board of governors were composed of figures of both parties and were unanimously approved.
The ?opposition? offered by the Democratic Party against Trump and DeJoy?s attacks on USPS workers has been of a purely verbal character. The Democrats have signed on to a letter demanding measures in the final spending bill that would give the agency $25 billion in one-time spending, but this proposal would never pass the Republican-controlled Senate and would be vetoed by Trump even if it were to pass. The same is true of new legislation introduced Wednesday in the House of Representatives that aims to reverse the recent changes instituted by Postmaster Louis DeJoy. Democrats showed no such concern for the future of the post office when they controlled both houses of Congress during the beginning of Obama?s first term.
The reality is that the dictatorial powers exercised by Trump, not only in denying funding for the postal service and its ability to provide universal mail-in voting during a pandemic, but also in carrying out police-state measures in cities across the US <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/23/poli-j23.html> and spearheading the back-to-school drive <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/13/scho-a13-1.html>, have been based on the groundwork laid by the previous administration of the Democratic Party.
Alongside the dismantling of the USPS, President Obama proclaimed the right of the president to assassinate American citizens without due process, killing three US citizens in drone strikes, expanded the militarization of police departments, and presided over an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent of the population to the top 10, only recently to be surpassed by Trump.
The Democratic party is attempting to direct the opposition brewing among postal workers and all sections of workers against Trump toward the election of former vice president Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/13/pers-a13.html>. Biden recently tweeted, ?We can?t let Donald Trump destroy the Postal Service.?
But Biden served in the Obama administration, which spearheaded its own attacks not just on postal workers but on autoworkers and the entire working class in the aftermath of the 2009 recession. This has not prevented the APWU from endorsing Biden, demonstrating its role as a tool of management and political prop for the Democratic Party.
The fight to halt the privatization of the United States Postal Service requires instead the mobilization of the working class completely independent of the Democratic Party and its trade union appendages. This requires the formation of rank-and-file safety committees of postal workers, connected with teachers, autoworkers and all other workers, toward the movement of a general strike <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/pers-a05.html> .
We urge all postal workers that agree with this article to reach out to us <https://www.wsws.org/en/special/contact.html>, and to organize their fellow co-workers in their workplaces. We will assist you every step of the way.

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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sat Aug 15 22:50:02 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 17:50:02 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Feast of the Assumption, August 15
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Feast of the Assumption, August 15

"We cannot confess anything in regard to [Mary's] assumption more glorious than what we confess as our hope for ourselves: eternal life, which God himself wants to be for us. For the hope we have for our whole person in the unity of our existence ? that single existence which we explain to ourselves as a unity of body and soul ? is the resurrection of the body and eternal life. In our liturgical praise of the assumption of the Blessed Virgin we seek [speak?] only of the one act of God in regard to that one person, but it is something that we likewise expect for ourselves. Ultimately, nothing more is said of her than what God one day, we hope, will say to us?We profess our faith in the permanent validity of history as flesh and blood; we profess our hope and love for the earth, which is not merely the parade ground or theater for our spiritual life, to be abandoned as soon as finality supervenes, and which perhaps itself, even though radically transformed, enters equally with the person?s spirit into the glory of the eternal God.

"We acknowledge the dignity of the body, which is not merely a tool to be used and thrown away, but the historical, concrete reality and revelation of the free person who is realized in it and works within it for the finality of its freedom?this feast tells us that those whom God loves are redeemed, are saved, are finally themselves; they are so with their concrete history, with their whole bodily nature in which alone a person is truly himself. He is not a ?ghost,? not a ?soul,? but a human being completely saved. Everything remains. We can?t imagine it. Of course not. All talk about the soul in bliss, the glorified body, the glory of heaven amounts to the unvarnished, blind statement of faith: this person is not lost. He is what he has become, raised up in the implacable obviousness and absoluteness of the living God, raised up in the transcendent, ineffable mystery we call God.

"We can?t say more than this. We don?t try to paint a picture, we don?t imagine anything. Everything has gone through the harsh transformation we call death. What else could we say except that death is not the last word ? or rather that it is our last word, but not God?s."

--Karl Rahner, SJ




From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sun Aug 16 18:05:25 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:05:25 -0500
Subject: [Peace] I agree with Adolph Reed
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/adolph-reed-controversy.html


From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sun Aug 16 20:53:04 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:53:04 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [marxmail] August 12-22,
 1945: Washington Starts the Korean and Vietnam Wars -
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> August 14, 1945. The day Japan surrendered. I was eleven year old. I was crammed in the back of a pickup packed with other boys and girls, all yelling our hearts out as loud as we could to be heard over the cacophony of honking horns and howling air raid sirens. We were part of an impromptu motorcade weaving through the evening streets of our Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn. Everywhere we went?past the sidewalk fruit and vegetable stands, the storefront A&P exuding the smell of freshly ground coffee, the fish market and the kosher delicatessen along Avenue J, the small row houses and big apartment houses on the side streets, along Coney Island Avenue, with its rows of small stores dotted with small restaurants and soda fountains, where the electric trolley cars were clanging their bells nonstop?more and more cheering people poured onto the sidewalks, waving American flags and homemade signs, hugging, dancing. We kids in the truck were all screaming, ?Peace! Peace! The war is over!? We believed this was the end of not just this war but of war itself, that we were all going to live the rest of our lives in a prosperous and victorious nation, on a peaceful planet.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Mon Aug 17 15:01:15 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 08:01:15 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [New post] Abnormalize The Status Quo
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> Abnormalize The Status?Quo <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/08/17/abnormalize-the-status-quo/>by Caitlin Johnstone <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2>
> If we'd been living in a healthy society and then suddenly had this society's sick, insane status quo thrust upon us by powerful people, we'd have all been out in the streets making life very hard for those powerful people in an instant.
> 
> We are in the same situation now. We are having a wildly insane status quo thrust upon us by the powerful and for the benefit of the powerful. Only difference is we're not all out in the streets, and instead of thrusting this horrible situation upon us suddenly, they've been doing it this entire time.
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> Which is precisely why we're not out in the streets. We were born into this mess, so we assume it's normal and that things are supposed to be this way. But it isn't, and they aren't.
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> What is normal is health. Health is the normal default condition. If you wake up with a fever and stabbing pain in your abdomen you don't say "Ah well I guess that's normal now, you can't expect to just not have a fever and stabbing abdominal pain," you recognize that there's an urgent problem and you take action to fix it.
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> Even if you'd been sick your entire life, you would understand that your situation is not normal. You would understand that the basic default condition is health, but some dysfunction in your specific system has deprived you of that normal state of being.
> 
> In order for us to begin pushing back on the dysfunction of our current system, we need to begin looking at it in the same way. We need to clearly come to see how spectacularly divergent it is from the basic default condition of health. How sick it is. How abnormal it is.
> 
> We need to see clearly that health is normal and sickness is abnormal, whether you're talking about an individual or a society.
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> It's not normal for a civilization to be dominated by plutocrats and secretive government agencies and to only get offered the choice between two authoritarian corporate warmongers in a fake election to a position of leadership that is almost entirely fake.
> 
> It's not normal for there to be enough wealth to feed and care for everyone and yet instead have people with unfathomable amounts of money while others die of lack.
> 
> It's not normal for a globe-spanning empire to dominate our species with endless military violence and starvation sanctions for the sole purpose of maintaining and expanding the unipolar hegemony of a few sociopathic manipulators.
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> It's not normal for us to be destroying our ecosystem in order to grow an economy that is ultimately an imaginary construction in our minds instead of learning to collaborate harmoniously with that ecosystem.
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> It's not normal for us all to be competing against each other at the expense of the entire world instead of collaborating with each other for the good of the entire world.
> 
> We need to get crystal clear that these things are not normal, because our entire society is completely saturated with skilful manipulations telling us that they are.
> 
> I write a lot about the more egregious, incendiary lies that the mass media have notoriously promulgated like WMDs in Iraq, Russiagate, the imaginary Labour antisemitism crisis etc. But the most destructive lies the mass media tell us are not the ones that stand out the most in our collective memory. The most damaging lies they tell us are the little ones they tell us many times every single day by way of spin, omission, half-truth and distortion in order to give us the impression that this status quo is normal and inescapable.
> 
> You see it in the way they talk about politicians who stand even a tiny bit outside the warmongering oligarchic beltway consensus like they are radical extremists. You see it in the way they'll focus on protests in Belarus or Hong Kong while ignoring them in Bolivia or France. You see it in the way they ignore Yemen when it's the single most horrific thing happening on our planet right now. You see it in all the sitcoms and movies where debt and low wages and other symptoms of status quo dysfunction are almost never a featured concern.
> 
> You see it in innumerable other ways, day in and day out, and they add up. They add up for someone who was born into a gravely dysfunctional system and has never known anything resembling health to compare it to. They're like someone who has always been sick, who has also never known or heard about anyone who is healthy.
> 
> You can tell me we've never had a healthy society since the dawn of civilization all you want. All you are telling me is that we have always been sick. Being sick all your life doesn't mean health isn't normal or that health shouldn't be urgently sought; if anything it means it should be sought more urgently.
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> It is not human nature to be this sick, and anyone who tells you it is is lying. Anyone who tells you it's human nature to be greedy, violent, domineering and abusive isn't telling you about humanity's nature, they're telling you about their own nature. And it's probably a bad idea to turn your back on them.
> 
> We can have health. We can have normality. But just as you won't return to health by pretending that your fever and abdominal pains are normal, we can't create a healthy society as long as we allow ourselves to be manipulated into the belief that our backwards, insane status quo is what normality looks like.
> 
> So abnormalize the status quo. Abnormalize it every chance you get. Abnormalize it by holding a clear idea in your mind of what a healthy society would look like, then point out all the bizarre deviations from that vision at every opportunity. Remind people that this is crazy. Assure them that it doesn't have to be this way. That the only thing keeping it this way is the fact that the powerful keep pouring vast troves of wealth into manipulating us into thinking that we should.
> 
> Help people see what health is so that they can see what sickness is. Interrupt conversations about which flavor of sickness would be preferable this election season to point to what real health would look like. Disrupt all attempts to normalize our status quo, and use whatever reach you have to help abnormalize it.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Aug 19 01:00:27 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:00:27 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: On Bombs And Bombings
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>  <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2>	
> On Bombs And?Bombings <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/08/18/on-bombs-and-bombings/>by Caitlin Johnstone <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2>
> For a full week now <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/israel-carries-air-strike-gaza-balloon-bombs-rockets-200816055219330.html> the Israeli army has been bombing Gaza, a population that is about to run out of fuel <https://ppost24.com/post/804/gaza-to-plunge-in-full-darkness-in-days#.XzrDQI2cbzg.twitter> for its only power plant due to a years-long Israeli program of deliberate siege warfare <https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-starvation-diet-gaza/11810>.
> 
> Yesterday the US ordered an airstrike <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-war-deadly-clash-between-us-and-syrian-forces-qamishli-checkpoint-airstrike-today-2020-08-17/> on Syrian forces, killing one, when they refused to let the illegal occupying force past a checkpoint in northern Syria.
> 
> In both cases an arm of the US-centralized empire used wildly disproportionate force against people who stood against a hostile occupation of their own country. In both cases the more powerful and violent occupiers claimed they were acting in "self-defense". In both cases dropping explosives from the sky upon human beings barely made the news.
> 
> ISRAEL is dropping bombs on Gaza and no one is talking about it.. WHYYYYY.????#Gaza <https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> #GazaUnderAttack <https://twitter.com/hashtag/GazaUnderAttack?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> pic.twitter.com/gGhl8bYKOk <https://t.co/gGhl8bYKOk>
> ? Elaa Naqvi (@greyhairs_) August 17, 2020 <https://twitter.com/greyhairs_/status/1295478503694114816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
> Bombs should not exist. Explosives designed to blow fire and shrapnel through human bodies should not be a thing. In a sane world, there wouldn't be bombs, and if some mentally unbalanced person ever made and used one it would be a major international news story.
> 
> Instead, bombs are cranked out like iPhones at enormous profit <https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/21/military-spending-defense-contractors-profiting-from-war-weapons-sales/39092315/>, and nearly all bombings are ignored. Many bombs are being dropped per day <https://truthout.org/articles/bring-the-troops-home-but-stop-the-bombing-too/> by the US and its allies, with a massive civilian death toll <https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civilian-casualties-war/>, and almost none of those bombings receive any international attention. The only time they do is generally when a bombing occurs that was not authorized by the US-centralized empire.
> 
> This is one of those absolutely freakish things about our society that has become normalized <https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/abnormalize-the-status-quo-22c3ce53cd26> through careful narrative management, and we really shouldn't allow it to be. The fact that explosives designed to rip apart human anatomy are dropped from the sky many times per day for no other reason than to exert control over foreign countries should horrify us all.
> 
> An interesting social experiment when you talk to someone might be to tell them solemnly, "There's been a bombing." Then when they say "What?? Where??", tell them "The Middle East mostly. Our government and its allies drop many bombs there per day in order to keep a resource-rich geostrategic region balkanized and controllable."
> 
> Then watch their reaction.
> 
> "There's been a bombing."
> "WHAT??? Where???"
> "The Middle East mostly. Our government drops many bombs per day on human beings with families and dreams."
> "Oh thank God! I thought you were talking about a real place."
> 
> ? Caitlin Johnstone  (@caitoz) August 18, 2020 <https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1295525893125754881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
> You will probably notice a marked change in demeanor as the person learns that what you meant is different from what they thought you meant. They will likely act as though you'd tricked them in some way. But you didn't. You just called a thing the thing that it is, and let their assumptions do the rest.
> 
> When someone gravely tells you "There's been a bombing," what they almost always mean is that there has been a suspected terrorist attack in a western, majority-white nation. They don't mean the kind of bombing that kills exponentially more people and does exponentially more damage than terrorism in western nations. They don't mean the kind of terrorism that our government enacts and approves of.
> 
> There's a lot of pushback nowadays against the racism and prejudices that are woven throughout the fabric of our society, and rightly so <https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/meditations-on-whiteness-6f737950bf6>. But what doesn't get nearly enough attention in this discourse is the fact that while some manifestations of bigotry may have been successfully scaled back somewhat in our own countries, it was in a sense merely exported overseas.
> 
> The violence that is being inflicted overseas in our name by the US-centralized empire is more horrific than any manifestation of racism we're ever likely to encounter at home. It is more horrific than the pre-integration American South. It is more horrific than even slavery itself. Yet even the more conscious among us fail to give this relentless onslaught of violence a proportionate degree of recognition and condemnation, even while the consent for it is largely born of the unexamined bigoted notion <https://medium.com/@geri.danton/a-type-of-bigotry-we-dont-talk-about-but-should-7ad9f4d74305> that violence against people in developing and non-western countries does not matter.
> 
> Is there an "-ism" to describe a complete lack of regard for the lives of people in developing nations?https://t.co/M1Hm3sF0jL <https://t.co/M1Hm3sF0jL>
> ? Geri Danton (@DantonGeri) March 20, 2019 <https://twitter.com/DantonGeri/status/1108475435866820608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>
> Like many other forms of bigotry, this one has been engineered and promulgated by powerful people who benefit from it. If the mainstream news media were what it purports to be, namely an institution dedicated to creating an informed populace about what's truthfully going on in the world, we would see the bombings in foreign nations given the same type of coverage that a bombing in Paris or London receives.
> 
> This would immediately bring consciousness to the unconscious bigotry that those in the US-centralized empire hold against people in low and middle income countries, which is exactly why the plutocrat-owned media do not report on it in this way. The US-centralized empire is held together by endless violence, and the plutocrats who run it have built their kingdoms upon the status quo of that empire.
> 
> When people set out to learn what's really going on in their world they often start cramming their heads with history and geopolitics facts and figures, which is of course fine and good. But a bigger part of getting a clear image of what's happening in the world is simply turning your gaze upon things you already kind of knew were happening, but couldn't quite bring yourself to look at.
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From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman)
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Subject: [Peace] Jewish Insider: AIPAC pouring 100K into attack ads against
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If you're an American who cares about Palestinian rights, the most
important thing happening in America right now is the Showdown between
Jewish Insurgency and Jewish Establishment in Massachusetts One.

https://jewishinsider.com/2020/08/can-rep-richard-neal-fend-off-a-challenge-from-alex-morse/

Can Rep. Richard Neal fend off a challenge from Alex Morse?
The longtime Massachusetts congressman is facing a formidable Democratic
primary challenger
By Matthew Kassel
Jewish Insider
August 20, 2020

With less than two weeks remaining until Massachusetts?s primary election
on September 1, Democratic Majority for Israel is pouring more than
$100,000 into advertising against Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse, a young
progressive challenger running against longtime incumbent Rep. Richard Neal
(D-MA) in the state?s 1st congressional district.

If that sounds familiar, it may be because DMFI, a pro-Israel group,
recently reared its head in another race, spending nearly $2 million on
attack ads targeting Jamaal Bowman, a former middle school principal who
defeated Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) in New York?s June 23 primary by 15
percentage points.

Mark Mellman, DMFI?s president and CEO, isn?t cowed by Engel?s loss, and
defended his organization?s effort to boost Neal in an email statement.
?Chairman Neal has consistently supported a strong U.S.-Israel
relationship. Mayor Morse does not,? Mellman told Jewish Insider. According
to Mellman, Morse ? who supports conditioning aid to Israel ? ?fails to
meet the standard set by over 95% of House Democrats.? Mellman added that
Morse had ?enthusiastically accepted support from IfNotNow,? a group that
Mellman characterized as ?an organization that refuses to recognize
Israel?s right to exist, in any borders.?

Mellman did not respond to a follow-up question asking how DMFI would spend
the money.
IfNotNow, for its part, did not hesitate to taunt DMFI?s failure in New
York. ?They spent $2 million trying to defeat Jamaal Bowman,? said Yonah
Lieberman, a co-founder of IfNotNow. ?This is another last-ditch effort
that will fail again.?

Morse himself, who is Jewish, appeared unbothered by the ad spend at a
moment when pro-Israel donors are struggling to adapt to a new campaign
finance and advertising landscape.

?As a congressman, I will use my voice to amplify the grassroots activism
of Palestinians and Jewish Israelis to achieve a just future for both
peoples, as well as make sure that U.S. support for Israel is used to
address security concerns, not perpetuate human rights violations,? Morse
told JI through a spokesperson on Wednesday.

The 31-year-old upstart congressional candidate, who has served as the
mayor of Holyoke since 2012, has reason to think that he can dethrone Neal,
the powerful chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.

This cycle, a number of upstart challengers ? including Bowman in the
Bronx, Cori Bush in St. Louis and Marie Newman in the Chicago suburbs ?
have succeeded in toppling long-serving Democratic incumbents. Each
candidate was backed by Justice Democrats, the progressive political action
committee that previously described Israel as a ?human rights violator.?

Morse, who was endorsed by Justice Democrats when he launched his campaign
last summer, is hoping he can join his compatriots in the House.

?I certainly admire the members of ?The Squad,?? Morse told JI in an early
August interview, referring to the quartet of left-leaning congresswomen
including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida
Tlaib (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA). He added that he ?would be proud
to be among their progressive voices in Washington.?

Though there is scant publicly available data on the race, an internal poll
from Morse?s campaign, released this week, put Morse just 5 points behind
his opponent, with 41% of the vote and 13% of voters still undecided.
?We?re confident we have a pathway to victory,? Morse declared.

Still, Morse?s campaign, which has pulled in approximately $841,000, was
nearly upended about two weeks ago, when the College Democrats of
Massachusetts alleged in a letter that Morse, who is gay, and worked as an
adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, had taken
advantage of ?his position of power for romantic or sexual gain.?

Since then, reporting from The Intercept has challenged that narrative,
suggesting that the College Democrats were in cahoots with the state
Democratic Party to sabotage Morse?s campaign. Neal has denied that he knew
anything about such plans.

Rather than tanking his prospects, the scandal only appears to have
increased Morse?s profile.

?It drew more attention to Morse, not just within the district but from
people outside,? said Robert Boatright, a professor in the department of
political science at Clark University in Worcester. ?Before the scandal, I
think he would have probably come up a little bit short,? Boatright told
JI. ?Now, it?s pretty hard to predict.?

Morse, who supports Medicare for All and the Green New Deal, cites his
nearly decade-long tenure serving Holyoke as evidence that he is prepared
to represent the 1st district, a vast swath that includes western and
central Massachusetts.

?I would arrive with nine years of governing executive experience on so
many issues that people think are reserved for the federal government or
national issues,? he said, alluding, among other things, to his support for
recreational cannabis use as well as his efforts weaning Holyoke off of
fossil fuels.

When it comes to foreign policy, Morse holds views that have become de
rigueur among members of his far-left cohort ? particularly as they relate
to Israel. He supports, for instance, conditioning aid to the Jewish state.

?As an American, I believe our foreign policy must be grounded in our
values, and U.S. support for Israel must be used to address security
concerns,? he said, adding, ?We should be very clear about not allowing our
tax dollars to be used to subsidize the expansion of settlements, the
destruction of Palestinian homes or the detention of Palestinian children.?

Morse has visited Israel once, on a Birthright trip in 2008 during his
freshman year at Brown University. His brief visit to the Jewish state, he
said, was a meaningful one.

?The Holocaust museum, in particular, was a really powerful experience,? he
said of his visit to Yad Vashem. ?It made me feel more connected to fellow
Jews in a way that I hadn?t been connected before, just given our people?s
common struggle for freedom and humanity and what happened in history and
just knowing and realizing the evil that humans can perpetuate against
others. I think that?s a lesson that we have to live with every day.?

While he doesn?t back the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,
Morse told JI that he would not take action, if he is elected to Congress,
to legislate against the views of those who do. ?Despite my personal
position,? he said, ?I would continue to oppose legislation that would
criminalize or prevent other folks from exercising their free speech and
First Amendment rights in regards to BDS.?

Neal positions himself as a firm supporter of the Jewish state. ?Israel is
a representative democracy,? he told JI in a recent interview. ?They
embrace the tenets of a constitutional democracy, free speech, freedom of
the press and the right to assemble. And I?ve seen the debate in the
Knesset. It?s pretty stormy.?

Candy Glazer, a longtime Democratic activist in Massachusetts and an AIPAC
national council member, said Neal has been a reliable ally of the Jewish
community in western Massachusetts.

?We can always depend on Richie Neal,? she told JI, noting that the
congressman has been a strong advocate against the BDS movement. ?He has
just been a very loyal supporter on almost every issue.?

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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Thu Aug 20 19:39:49 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:39:49 -0500
Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_=5BePalestine=5D_Mondoweiss=3A_Trump_an?=
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> Subject: [ePalestine] Mondoweiss: Trump and Netanyahu?s celebration of failure (By Sam Bahour)
> Date: August 20, 2020 at 2:30:56 PM CDT
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> Mondoweiss
> 
> Trump and Netanyahu?s celebration of failure
> 
> By Sam Bahour
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>  <http://bit.ly/Trump-and-Netanyahus-celebration-of-failure>
> 
> READ and COMMENT at:
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:42:09 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Duration of Isolation and Precautions for Adults with
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Thu Aug 20 20:44:46 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:44:46 -0700
Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?The_cancellation_of_professor_Adolph_Reed=2C_J?=
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The cancellation of professor Adolph Reed, Jr.?s speech and the DSA?s promotion of race politics
By Niles Niemuth
18 August 2020
The New York Times published a lengthy news article last week highlighting an instructive incident that took place earlier this year within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). A speech by professor emeritus of political science Adolph Reed, Jr. was cancelled due to objections by the AFROSOCialist and Socialists of Color Caucus over his ?reactionary and class reductionist form of politics.?

Adolph Reed, Jr. in the classroom (Photo: Publicbooks.org)
The race-based caucus claimed that by inviting Reed to address a political education session on the COVID-19 crisis, the Philadelphia and NYC Lower Manhattan chapters had launched a ?reactionary, class reductionist and at best, tone deaf? assault on members of the DSA who are racial or ethnic minorities. Reed is an African-American professor who has a decades-long history in critiquing racial identity politics from a left-wing perspective.
According to the Times, Reed had intended to speak to the branches about why the obsessive focus of ?the left? on the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on African-Americans undermined efforts to organize across racial lines and advance health and economic justice for all Americans. Reed backed Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 and 2020 and was a founding member of the Labor Party initiative headed by union leader Tony Mazzocchi.
Reed had criticized the race reductionism of the Times?s 1619 Project in an interview <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/20/reed-d20.html> with the World Socialist Web Site in December, no doubt raising the ire of the racialists in the DSA and broader pseudo-left who have staunchly defended the reactionary racialist falsification of American history.
The morning the event was to take place, the AFROSOCialist Caucus demanded <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GnMhl9Mi1UKKbBdX2ygsbAOT9IBlzfrtlPmoxDtdJ5k/edit> that Reed?s talk be cancelled and instead that there be a debate of his ?class reductionist analysis versus our intersectional socialist analysis.? The leaders of the DSA?s New York chapter quickly responded to the letter by cancelling the event.
The AFROSOCialist Caucus boasts of receiving generous funding for its first training session in 2017 from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, which is associated with the Left Party in Germany and operates thanks to the infusion of tens of millions of dollars annually from the German state.
The furious reaction within the DSA leadership to the invitation to Reed reveals how deeply the organization is imbued with the reactionary and right-wing politics of racial division. The extreme hostility to any analysis based on the primacy of class expresses the interests of affluent sections of the petit bourgeoisie, who utilize racial and identity politics in the fight over positions of power and privilege within the apparatus of the state, the trade unions, academia and corporations.
Significantly, a leading voice in the campaign against Reed is professor of African-American studies at Princeton University Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who is cited by the Times as a representative of those who see race as ?America?s primal wound,? which takes priority over ?ephemeral class solidarity.?
?Adolph Reed and his ilk believe that if we talk about race too much we will alienate too many, and that will keep us from building a movement,? claimed Taylor. ?We don?t want that?we want to win white people to an understanding of how their racism has fundamentally distorted the lives of Black people.?
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That is, all white people?and particularly white workers?are racist and are responsible for the conditions faced by black workers. Taylor chided Reed?s plans to focus on the class issues that underly racial inequality in his talk as ?a provocation. It was quite incendiary.?
Taylor is a former leading member of the now-defunct pseudo-left International Socialist Organization (ISO), which dissolved itself <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/02/inte-a02.html> in 2019 amidst factionally instigated denunciations of sexual assault and cover-up. As the WSWS explained at the time, the aim of this dissolution was to facilitate the integration of its leadership into the political orbit of the Democratic Party.
Taylor embodies this integration. She is now frequently published in the New York Times and the New Yorker, in addition to the DSA-affiliated Jacobin magazine. She also has close connections with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the lead author of the New York Times?s 1619 Project <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/03/proj-a03.html>. As a member of the ISO and after, Taylor has been a specialist in racial politics, publishing books on Black Lives Matter and the Combahee River Collective <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/02/1619-d02.html>.
The only dissent over the cancellation of Reed?s speech from within the DSA came from the Class Unity caucus, which calls itself a ?Marxist pole of attraction? that works from within and outside the DSA to work toward shedding the organization?s reliance on the Democratic Party and creating a ?true workers party.?
Class Unity?s editorial committee released a statement criticizing middle class ?DSA liberals? in the organization?s leadership for cancelling the Reed event out of concern for their own career advancements.
?The strategy of keeping our heads down and ?doing the work? is insufficient,? the statement declares. ?Our failure to organize against liberals in DSA has left us weak and incapable of defending basic principles of free speech, let alone Marxism.?
The statement provides a revealing account of the DSA from within the organization. They write that ?far from being principled ideological formations,? AFROSOCialist and other caucuses ?are by and large branding exercises to facilitate competition between the squabbling cliques of middle-class careerists and social climbers who constitute their leadership strata, with rank-and-file caucus members largely excluded from a meaningful role in decision-making.?
The conflict within the DSA reflects certain tactical differences. In particular, the Class Unity caucus strongly backed the campaign of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party primaries. Sanders is now campaigning heavily for Biden. Last year, the AFROSOCialist Caucus demanded that the DSA?s National Political Committee withhold the organization?s endorsement of Sanders over his refusal to unequivocally support reparations for slavery. In that case DSA leadership followed the majority of the membership that had voted to back Sanders.
Those within the DSA and in its periphery, including Reed himself, who are opposed to the obsessive fixation with identity politics, have to understand its more fundamental political roots and relation to the strategy of the Democratic Party.
The ban on criticism of identity politics within the DSA and vicious denunciations of Marxism as ?class reductionism? is in line with the Democrats? broader goals of promoting identity politics to divide the working class. At the same time, such politics is a mechanism through which priveleged sections of the upper middle class advance their own interests.
The promotion of racialist politics is central to the strategy of the Democratic Party in the 2020 elections. This has been made clear by Biden?s selection of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. The choice of the former attorney general of California, who threatened to jail the parents of truant students and defied Supreme Court orders to release prisoners from the state?s criminally overcrowded jails, as vice president is being hailed as historic based solely on the basis of the ?intersectionality? of her various identities?female, African-American and Indian-American.
The blocking of Reed from speaking on right-wing racialist grounds should make absolutely clear, for those who had any doubts, that the DSA is not in any sense a Marxist organization that speaks for the interests of the working class or fights for genuinely revolutionary socialist politics. WSWS.ORG
 
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From jbn at forestfield.org  Sat Aug 22 05:27:27 2020
From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:27:27 -0500
Subject: [Peace] AOTA & NFN video recommendations
Message-ID: <e70cb3df-c020-6735-fa24-b0c06a8c00e6@forestfield.org>

Here are the latest batch of videos I recommended to UPTV's Jason Liggett for running 
during AOTA & NFN. As before, I've recommended to prioritize my suggestions behind 
anyone else's in case there's something else you'd rather be seen instead.

-J





BlackAgendaReport.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsdUc0jY5CM -- (39m 44s) Left Lens episode 4: 
BlackAgendaReport.com's Margaret Kimberley & Danny Haiphong discuss "Why Trump Can 
Still Win and Why We Must Oppose U.S.' New Cold War Against China".





Consortium News

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qs3JCnhsNI -- (22m 12s) "More Courtroom Chaos at 
Assange August Hearing with Deepa Driver" -- a summary of recent courtroom action in 
the ongoing Assange hearings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIp9jziqqbU -- (1h 4m 56s) "WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: 
What it means for Press Freedom" -- WikiLeaks on the importance of the Iraq War Logs.





Grayzone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31qQcY_kX9c -- (1h 18m 45s) "DNC embraces neocons, 
and Russiagate just won't die" -- Aaron Mat?, Ben Norton, and Max Blumenthal review 
the DNC offering in the Biden campaign (which is basically nothing, eminently 
fulfilling Biden's promise to his rich donors "Nothing would fundamentally change", 
and ongoing Russiagate claims.






CODEPINK live pre-DNC commentary

Thanks to Morton Brussel for this video pointer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgwGh9-uPio -- (1h 24m) Medea Benjamin, Phyllis 
Bennis, and Vijay Prasad on foreign policy.





No to the New Cold War in China

A series of short talks, each talk from a different speaker, all addressing this 
topic, objecting to a new cold war with China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLgbxjQ3moY -- (10m 27s) Max Blumenthal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXVz-0KcBtA -- (7m 15s) Margaret Kimberley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO6xkRB5FG0 -- (6m 40s) Qiao Collective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFYHwSDd180 -- (9m 54s) Radhika Desai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RcR4B16iFo -- (6m 58s) Carlos Ron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVclN5fQnMY -- (7m 12s) Vijay Prashad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwEAAsXb72A -- (6m 2s) Yang Hangyi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDbMNtf5_NU -- (3m 27s) Kate Hudson

From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com  Sat Aug 22 16:07:44 2020
From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:07:44 -0400
Subject: [Peace] Today is the deadline to register to vote in the Sept. 1
 Dem Primary in MA
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Today is the deadline to register to vote in the September 1 Democratic
Primary in Massachusetts. Make sure all your Massachusetts friends know
that today is the deadline to register to vote in the primary. You have to
register as a Democrat to vote in the Democratic Primary in Massachusetts.
Every registered Democrat in Massachusetts gets to vote in the hotly
contested Markey-Kennedy race. Markey, with AOC, is the co-lead of Green
New Deal. Pelosi is backing Kennedy. That concludes my argument. In
addition, people in MA-1 [western MA] get to vote in the Alex Morse-Richard
Neal race [Neal is only MA Dem who wouldn?t sign Green New Deal, and he's
chair of Ways & Means which writes the tax code and can get rid of fossil
fuel subsidies, if we defeat Neal we get to fight for a Ways & Means Chair
who will remove fossil fuel subsidies], there is the Ihssane Leckey race
for the open seat vacated by Kennedy, there's a contested primary in
Boston.

Note that in Massachusetts, you must declare as part of your voter
registration your affiliation to the Democratic Party in order to vote in
the Democratic Primary. This is different from open primary states like
Illinois where any voter can just show up on Primary Election Day and
choose whether to take a Democratic ballot. This link can be used for three
different tasks: 1. registering to vote from scratch, including declaring
party affiliation; 2. updating party affiliation to Democrat; 3. Checking
voter registration, including verifying that your party affiliation is
Democratic Party.

https://www.sec.state.ma.us/OVR/

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If you want to share this info on Facebook, it's all collected right here:

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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Sat Aug 22 19:08:58 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:08:58 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: The Link Between Sex Trafficking, Abortion,
 and Planned Parenthood
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> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: Live Action News <info at liveaction.org>
> Subject: The Link Between Sex Trafficking, Abortion, and Planned Parenthood
> Date: August 22, 2020 at 10:06:18 AM CDT
> To: carl at newsfromneptune.com
> Reply-To: info at liveaction.org
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> 
> 
>  <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgX79N4J34zBNFwB_W8WlD5-4y47f_W1tbkKR7F7SWgW7RrkMl15X4T_VlPzV85nQDhLW1rt7wS3cbXJJW6ssy7L8GZ-RDW1pJ-wc7lfj8hW6QnR7S8tbrdlW6RcH-q6b-QNKW5SzjPN8G0_4fN7pyFYlv5Y03W2R5DPJ5NYyQvW2RLsvt1VQSd9W2Z2FHc2q3JnwW5BbMqR69z-byN6JXkJNg1YcGW4TyF1Q87RTW2W3jSyy54q6dKVN1TzXfbCh64HW6JGngd5JLSGdW4Hv37t2DHk1HVmLj7-5S4s6NW95_zVF4qXfK3W16dfdV31tdtwW4RS70h5NyjKT39jP1>
> The Link Between Sex Trafficking, Abortion, and Planned Parenthood <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgMdnN4HVNHZ8hXr_W7FRN-X1_Z1S_MDnKjKMkKbyW5B6Pr15H3M1wW7DDtGc5FF5LKW3ZKJdc5zn-vJV8h7nG39L3JmW6L5H584FVsX3W2PmV-l1z8kNpW7MktYL1YL4qpVj27CH1TRhw-N21czm2bF0K4W7vv1RR73bM2NW7smjxx8KF9VXW3K1K8H6yBd_BW2Cn9__8np2WQW1-Q7nW1-7dRLW7w5B288sryFyW4V28r23b_3PBW70p-Cn1t_7D7N8-9vNGV1XRLV9kXpf8hwRqcW5L3MTp7ktnD2VX04fT78_WYgW1dcn_15bqfjFW7nV3vb1lPM5s37X61>
> ?The abortion industry is profiting tremendously [from sex trafficking] ?financially,? explained Nita Belles, regional director for Oregonians Against Trafficking Humans. It?s a cruel, inhumane, brutal circle in which Planned Parenthood can often be found at the center. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgJk_W4kyF1P5nmfklW1Kv9S373QD_nV_z7Yk7fz0jWN13fvVr_cD-lW5BHvrZ6y3WbSVyfTKs2s4Wp0V8Q7m59m4BrkW72WBh34f75K8W7br9yl1Zlv3hW9gFpQP3Y7dKnW8b3q7l9kBm94W4-1gz84-s5W_W4XmsB22BsX6wW1KJwyJ69-DyFN4zTsj5ZJ3YyW8nnsdS3tbbTBW3SZ2ll8RZkbQW6Qc6Fr4Yr-gmW2lzxYX1P1969W4K2NJs7MbYMwW4qtwXd3mH_mhW6MN8yh8k7clBW3kqjr751Nhg9W3RL_Ty77VFGcW5d6wmR1jvPWcW67bj3X7l4q2F31LL1>
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> Journalists Who Exposed Planned Parenthood Scandal Seek Dismissal of Remaining Felony Charges <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9fc3lGnJV1-WJV7CgYNFW5dh3bH95J_s5W8PFtW_6kzQbKVL2NrH51V-LWW1RJQGY6zgF4YW7TQrLd4n2nTZW3JCwwC9dV207W7xKBsr4xmkz7W7dwG8f4Cl0_kW3VScG85PYSD_W6y0gd24hMsLwW38lzBw3JTQwMW4TH1876WcGkMW4kQPVC25B0BmW1_Syyk8s5BW4W6trlXt7VQb2FW6-P1Q97CVfJ-W878Mn31ZhD30W8c2bCx2K4llSW80X9qj1W-_shW8rMP3V95tKHDMvw6fdZYXMTW1LLvGc3XHxKhW90jPJ74lzR5DW1NLJRV7CNKPDN92cddG42lscW4tVljC6zvqNWW6nnfsp2c3dx-F54WMGXCJxN3j9m1>
> The original suit alleged that Merritt knowingly violated California state laws forbidding the recording of private conversations without the other party?s explicit consent, even though all recorded conversations were filmed in public places. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9fc3lGnJV1-WJV7CgLVmW8YSHfP2t118nW8WL4kY5XMktVW39zjDJ2l_9fVVgrXjh8SzvY3W29d3KF1kHC_1W11XM094djqcTVDgjpc2n_6R_W1Mh7W72cgcPhW8hmMSk7qf4c3W65Q2HX165x44W60kkJc5LnFgNN1M6K_87nwYVW9f3Zhj3Rq2RFW4zwz9-3ct1t8W2NQn2s1n74HzW5650m98ZlTh9W2x4QHY5_M1KjW8FVnTz9kCVVDW4D0nKs36M_43W8ZJnjb48w_pXW3PkpGj4D7FzsW8J3_VY4tHN6rW81jsxc7TQnMNW4rmQXR8YJtm6N5Y3n10V_57YW2z_ZL53DL7lNW6GMWr77svsz5W66CpYY5KrX0_3ccg1>
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> Lawmakers Demand Investigation Into Arrest of Pro-Life Students in D.C. <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgQX9W7Ms5Df5lgCKfW3qdD3j5rKT8kW6PRbGg8NJ7Y5W1V-gbW5nkvGdW5Z0Pp36hwkZRW5_KQm_4D1j-LW6MJKWr7yBvcvW466gqJ11ZvgMW6YqQb_3rzTdVW8Zpf5890m9XtW7vR2K66NLwjnW2c1F3p72ySSRW6DxQF23-9Nn5W6SpP4g6FV1YYVGfqT92ylVmvW3SqFyy8RZGs5W5RFMGB1mBjljN4qNHqvL80jDW4P4TZB7tCMnSW8yRplF6Z5-q1W6fcXyG2t7dCmVHz_ZD7m9GW0W36vQqT7KPQMgVbkPhw5NdXcfW1pj25z5CvPSsW3q8HTG5lzYCb3lJX1>
> Two lawmakers are calling for an investigation into the ?unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination? of two pro-life students who were arrested in Washington, D.C., after using sidewalk chalk to write the phrase ?Black Pre-Born Lives Matter? in front of a local Planned Parenthood. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgK5DW2Mp0227WVl17W1ZGrCP11fQtmW6SWYyR39zLLlW2KWR-l6ql9njW4xZ_zx7Xl-wJW7VWgZd8l4MB0W24kCHX7QlpDrW3Mx8lw72-7RQW3bBdpf8_4SYhW9l8cvS87PfrnW6yT3J-1ZgJjDW8nRnXw1X9-M2W5l-bLt7Km0wkVBzLNp3vQzfGW62T1B31v57YHV1fN3s5Tdg9gW2ckpRz2ZTz1wW2jzGJF74fg5bW5T8WTK1QvbCyW86D2cK2ywzzlMhclN1pmDYyW7lpTBM87Hd-CW4HBHzw3X8_45V_qZhZ7d7c8fN5M3zqDmlnfrN3b-YLLQtMHN3pxD1>
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> Austin City Council Reroutes Taxpayer Funding From Police Budget To ?Abortion Access? <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgQQzW7WP80Z1f-853W4_bmt15jJh-yMxl4DnRSdYJW45V1YS32t163W2qBPw274SFBCV3J4Cx3fjpZwW5MTtvr1LgmCtW4xRTdp5sLjLpVpvlLB7tkKQ7N5SqN74xdCHKW5b26Jq4WPxp5VnSRhc24BMyhW7MFh4t1f3_LMVNQ7yF677JGMW4M2Rgz434xw-W5xg-cQ5vThxNW5QHq4z5F36WmW4hFxXT4XHqD2W4t8vH75f7NTlW2X1bM75N2TQHW2MdVyh6tXGzxW2h9-jv3XCR_pW3MNnWT76-HF1V_9kmK2lC3TWW7XvTD14TxcgHW29vCzf3TkS5W31XT1>
> According to the Texas Tribune, the Council agreed to cut about $150 million from the Austin Police Department?s budget for 2021 after the department faced criticism in the death of an unarmed Black and Latino man in April and for the use of force against people participating in anti-police brutality protests. Instead, that money will go toward social programs that the Council believes will help end racism ? including abortion. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgYNsW2qCqNY8Gbg1WW7y3f_G4Lwhq1W4022QM34GK60W1jFkQ47_v2p2W3JbbLf1spjzJW2LrqPr7tGxL9VwjMSD74jYFJW1W_PdD23Rdj4W1tNrjN2TzmkhW5x5qVG8g1WmyW94-dVM7nJF1XW2ZKWN92_CyZkVlc7ZQ1RvQHrW25Ppp07HHWNjW2sJLx19jBq28N7s_6X8dW08VVp6BC7529kGBMq5djnRpQ4NW2hHX6W4hG6CvW1C8dRp2_1cB9W11qxDy1H8cf0W90wCZ45-HZZSW5mqVYL2Z0CjmW7m42v35SFqj4W6jvsBm8SgF3WW365rZV7hmFnB3h2y1>
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> Mother Receives Hate Mail Calling Her a ?Monster? for Not Aborting Her Children With Disabilities <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9fc3lGnJV1-WJV7CgBhjW1DhgnM5Q3264N85tjyp3tR0vV-y_5R756d6PW3tr_Pb4b2SZkN5YKTLS1fGd3W7-5F1j3w7ZTvW5835wj4v1dyjN6_SXJN2GNjPW3VYQxT5nwYh-W7rY1Vx7HqNz_W516Svq6NFCKkW5jCN9d8Vm1TWW4QSWjF7QJBR2W4DBm8h6Yw9bvW1V-1122_F7VyV2Sf782_7stbW17FdMD83bfMfW4wr0ZW3qlSJLW7kWt2b2Hsvl7W67WYpv63cGDcW1RxsY81ptjcFW1LZxdV9bLV7RW8zTBjt5m714bW3g_pZ38Nb5ZVW96K0163z2XbCW7WRlCz7tXHQgW7QZctv6x5hp4V7fk0Y7W5CzT38YN1>
> A British mother of four children, two of whom are autistic, reported this month that she received hate mail telling her she should have aborted her disabled children. The letter read in part, ?What kind of monster are you, and did you ever hear of abortion. You must be very stupid.? Ironically, included with the letter was a printed religious card which read, ?Prayer. Oh Holy Spirit Please help me and guide me. Say this 3 times plus per day.? Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9fc3lGnJV1-WJV7CgKr_W5s1yyL76cPxCW2sbGW-7Nf8CKV7Q2ZZ1HJzjnVDlP5x13F0WrW2CgBgx1M2N6YW3n7XL88TZZLBVMMCx15zVcLtW8C1p_42DC1-TVrCDwj74krVlW8Mp0lY97f5MGW85B4p31q7jYRW3JHLc914TcjpN6npbV1wQKy_W8PzCcC4P4MW8W1cTNjc7g0M3ZW2rTW-K8hny41W51JM9f2tCsTxW1VJ_Tf6xt6znW2kZ0vN8Qy9QTN8CPxRJTxFcPV_-7-S7xyrgGW7XNm8r5XCkZnW4-1fzJ86vKHBW7XRmv-6-yPSxW964zhm7gK42ZV1yxwT2TpdlbW7xjzfg6QmqG2W5Q--YY16YS6w3jbh1>
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> Thousands Line up To Adopt Boy in Foster Care After TV Appeal: ?I Hope One of Y?all Pick Me? <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgBGNW4kBPSM4TLp_VW3xLDQ43FtxvXW8Y42RG1pXBB7W7BXF035T1FjgVYn-7d5_2Hh_W51Cxsp6GLC5wW1ml63K2FgQv_W7k6dSB1FBY6QVgff3c6Rdv8HN8-stml3M3D0W27m9zM2c0y7rW7Q3Zr76FzbTPW6xtb1n3MGxPdW4BTSt_5_T3mgW1SxjsT6PVrW1W7Y68ry2HF5m6W3lvqvm4NFls-W1Ymd9c6fJTYRW996dWq6cs6j4W8ZXB0H2V5qZTW18__QN7Ym4S_W1FyyYP1n3f3lW4ZXmXh1T3pCFW7Vr3x28wphZgN7PBV_ccDzVvW2HTD_q68R-hq31d61>
> A heartwarming news story out of Oklahoma led to more than 5,000 adoption inquiries for one special little boy. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgBWcN7HBBHzqs-mMW8mwpdZ55BLffW6xf8V45F1NXxW247kJ82knd70W8N0Qt64zSMsBW8BdKvZ8lT27vW1QSZMC3vHQ-zVYxrLV52BLYfW7NgKj43y7wNNN8FLCc66cV6MW6_Rc3056CXYJW1xd-Vn1fKgjPW1cFH-87TmF-RN3NgKnjzxx5jW1GdKJb1J59M1W83gRsJ8KP15JW31l1gf7vN7b8W358yZl2f3sW-W3FDcx16Ky97fW4XcCQP9lzstYW8QLtBc8pR9lcN8pzjkftG81CW5KBDNw7hZmPyW3z4Lg69cSp8PVHkPXh39zyxjW3L97-c8VtCs43fHw1>
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> ?Light Blue Wave?: How the Pro-Life Movement Is Spreading Across Latin America <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7Cg-ZlW7FlSDl1nX0-lN1b4pJ84rgvBVgWfDm7vB5fNW1M645v8B65lMW1F_tqp2Rt8_sW5-cHXW1Tq6W4VYYGdT31S8sSW4KVjWc1lS52ZW174PpP4jCrF1W4BDqRg2MlyJ6W8WPl197vRQqHW5wzPBp3-NQ5jW4Q9Kh-2yTpMDW3xNhsT72C-MgN4MW8kyWnThmN8L09fHF6Q2LW45FN0D5lw9d5W33bfML6yj8DnW5kD1Cr6012y5W5pdRS84JfrV6W6xMNPP8Y0nWYW3vWBLJ24FphRW97fHQV77B8_LW8bFts09dX1TmW2gcmny2bWzb_W3MYY1M6BKh9-335d1>
> The pro-life message has been gaining traction across Latin America these past few years in a movement known as the ?Light Blue Wave.? The movement began in August 2018 after the Argentina?s Senate rejected a bill in a 38-31 vote that would have legalized abortion on demand. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgVKLW4H76D81DFQP4W82lsl47W51XkW59xxX-4NlmjQN20MhsVWCTcYVgXDHw5sF859W4Q5wh37v_4-SW5TCbjc5S_5R9W8M9W581Btlm9W3S-PPn2s7JfdW1k425M95S88tW3sGChW30QhZBW4Z376-7bKPSnW7Y2th623YBHYW6wpN231cRrzGW6029_05410vBW6j_9xy7cw2pdW3CFt9p37nfCxW11lkjB5_B-LbW6ClrlR5T1-9zW8H2KXF5K3cj7W8zsFSS7GzJ5kW2X12Pz23n7RlW6LlQV93QrhtjW40KRB-3Jfp1YW6svLzC25T-dxW82SZMk1d9Pdj3pc81>
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> Documents Reveal Keisha Atkins Was Repeatedly Drugged by Abortion Facility Before Her Death <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9fc3lGnJV1-WJV7CgN3QW8rJ-nq651s1vW83lB0R2K04YRW9g7VBK1H3j5ZW6YkXHC3NDrFWN2SWLKQXvw-4W8h6jmy7V9124W2351_f5QldBQW84Sw5h3xp2TyW4WJc6K37Dj6rW6Mmzkz73-lZvW3BmyLQ13yLB1W15y6wG3ZMMqbW5QjNwK8ntKwXW7d-RKq8ZcmtvW4gYSm18C_zMfW7fX6m87lmdzrW8sBGsq6tn40TW6q9sRK44DBXQW1bpt9m8Gt72lV_71Fd4Tc4khW2J7Dx44mNGYkW6XtQ1s5nFx_RVKSrQY16MLJ0W6WmmPQ16SJhYW17N5KY7S3gcyW65PfLT1KdsszW6wZ0-y7G9B84W4llCc97DRvJg33v61>
> Recently released documents from Abortion On Trial offer new insight into the death of 23-year-old Keisha Atkins. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9fc3lGnJV1-WJV7CgKQnW3q7Yhk58TBRxN2_ZFrZMq8HqW7gjjmx7flThSW6Pb1yJ2MHW1kW7KFRYj8ZrH43N35W6Rft5WPqW6pz8L37Qg7cGW5KT_5089n6pMW6dG1Qh5B4lG-W12dNDN4v9LpVW3xlyGJ9krXsTW58FNvm7pf1xPW3zh86h8yKvH_W1lr0Y-7VVVwtW6PKdYR5zXXSgN27TKj0C4H54W3SK8pH1CQrycW3G0Vd09k-jKhW8C00C-3cV83GW7wLTkV73ym02W1t56pM4S-hBQN4sH-2DhzVsvF8s3pQH9dxKN1DjbB2nYD-4W7xBBwG2BKxv1N49NyBmXHCjCW7rhdXY70S2PcW6Dqxj-1x5l9V3j671>
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> Bindi Irwin Is Pregnant: ?This Beautiful Little Being Has Become the Most Important Part of Our Lives? <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgSr1W1PrNby2vQj3yW1v_dv31mM_QwVxfFZD2665XpW1Hzjt78N7DkFW2LMTHt74-GkfW5m9cf0432JmkW8p-WpF6j6whcW8Pf3Nq5qHLPqW4zfnmf55nT9gW7wfy5b8SMdybW1z3c8y4VSXJxW16_z728p55mfW805H6h3gK2zGW78MMwf7f-D0sW2v0bDy5b1jnyW3NB_Jq6s5TZ5W4b6Y071yXtBSW9bNnxQ573PwDW1Trx2b4Kp6g3VkMXKl8L7yr7W24bpxX55_T8GW1MmwhZ2zs-PsW3yBBjl2TN8yzVCTYTB4q3g7NW49byVH4BQxktVt6xp92BjhQV2md1>
> Conservationist and celebrity Bindi Irwin has announced she is expecting her first child with husband Chandler Powell. Irwin, the daughter of late Australian conservationist Steve Irwin, married Powell just five months ago at the Australia Zoo in Queensland, which was opened by her grandparents and is still operated by the Irwin family. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgLHtW6Ck-MW2GNPV0W5zXtcf3hrhvpW3nrJqp3v-N3WW1mhcjY9bjG34W6rXh5p7BDbgmM1L2NLQVPVRW4pBv9h1ng7YJW40zqrM83_Md3W3j3DWH1D5bZ_W8fs4y-3617jkW5_HgFm37Ydt6N393BxzMgMvCN6t2Zvk_tB53W2mPSk41sQC78W6LMWVW1q_LYdW66g-s537mzDXV3QL5G59-JBCW1t7cPn4pDF60VKmbhv12tLQwW4yKbLm8S15xTW8F8KKP4-z7HGN23M5bDKc4dmW5vq0T590jL0PW2_T4Fb18mXlGW4wT8FL14cNN1W7H4sfY4zc6wC2m01>
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> I Aborted a Child Due To Incest. To This Day, I Still Deeply Mourn the Loss of My Baby. <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgHBlW3C562l7bJ9s0W69L44637K7ltW3drKlf6BplpdVHGG5H3j3lkgV18NmG4X_pQ-W7Y-WC0607_10W3PpRyV5-00wLW3Zqd_y1l6DvkW1HxtWW5-04Q1W3rSdRS3mPJySW145KLn8c3bqHW3b7xK9382qDYW2jvLKl365_5MW559T485sXsJzW1JwRzf5-_4NzW76n0qF5mZqGrW2Nx7f_8gyL9BW4Z0lMw5SjQ3HN2WW1rQ6SkqKW3K0czD4N9td7VxK2sC5MfGtbW2BRlzM5cXJ2tW1JX-1Q7fcCskW3ZRzlr692hfYW6HdJ0F3HYlHnW6R14_G2mF3bX38jS1>
> I had an abortion When I was 21. I did it out of fear because my child was conceived out of incest. [...] Still to this day I cry and deeply mourn the loss of my child. Nothing has hurt me more than knowing that I killed my baby. I was supposed to be there to protect him. I wanted him in my life so much but I was a coward and took the easy way out. I can?t stand myself for the decision I made. Read more <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/MXbPJ9hyrdvN8MWgXm36gdlW1zSvF_4f2RBbN4xH9dX3lGnpV1-WJV7CgT8yN14sffGrLS6dW8dy3942lS27PW7z486-32KTXgW7h-njL1GVpKhW8rsrYD5vBwyqW2Sfb1g2qvZlKVG60Rl9fhd-VW7GBggJ84Bkn4W8nLDkM436qxtW9fX3kL8DWlKvW8fzW066XwCNqN6j_9Snn_p-dW2YVFbD2VL-lpW21F_Sc6Jgh23N2_xF1Yjf9VFW57GhDv3XR0ydN8JfQBlhzsjDW5MGvPc3_0184N8JM7wDjTHZCW83J0XN2C61X5W6v2B_61lLp7PW5jhP173nZ1P3W1zVfwJ79mpM3W1LZNCM7Z98VcW1Jd2Wm6Z5Ws4N7Gptw9BBlvK3kXm1>
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From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com  Sun Aug 23 13:02:23 2020
From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:02:23 -0400
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Khanna?s ?Bold? Prediction that Pelosi?s Kennedy Endorsement Will Help
Markey Win Bigger

Following Pelosi?s endorsement of Kennedy over Markey, Ro Khanna ?boldly?
[his word] predicted on Twitter that Pelosi?s endorsement of Kennedy would
backfire and help Markey prevail by an even bigger margin.

This prediction was ?bold? in more ways than one. I didn?t think through
all of its implications at first.

It?s remarkable if the prediction is true. It?s remarkable that Khanna is
making the prediction on his Twitter feed.

Khanna is asserting that Pelosi?s endorsement is becoming politically
radioactive to Democratic Primary voters in competitive contested primaries
in Blue districts if the AOC forces are united on the other side. It?s
plausible that Khanna?s assertion is true, after Jamaal Bowman beat Engel,
after Marie Newman beat Lipinski, after Cori Bush beat Lacy Clay, after AOC
defeated Crowley,

If that is true, and if House Democrats come to understand that it is true,
it is hard to see how Pelosi could maintain her present power as Speaker in
a ?Democratic-controlled House? in the face of a concerted challenge to her
current leadership by House Democrats more in line with the sentiments of
the majority of Democrats who vote in contested Democratic primaries in
Blue districts.

It will be interesting to watch the shock wave from Massachusetts to the
House Democratic Caucus if Markey now defeats Kennedy. ?The shot heard
?round the world,? as it were.

If Markey now defeats Kennedy, we?ll be living in a post-Pelosi world in
terms of the dominance that Pelosi has wielded in Democratic Party politics
up until now. To articulate the thought is to visualize living in the
beautiful world in which it will be true. The Markey-Kennedy race is now a
referendum on Pelosi?s leadership in the Democratic Party. If Pelosi loses
the referendum, then we?re living in a post-Pelosi world, like Europe after
the Battle of Waterloo.

And if AOC voters turn out for Markey over Pelosi, then they will turn out
for Alex Morse over Pelosi?s fossil fuel bagman Richie Neal and for Ihssane
Leckey in the open seat vacated by Kennedy. So it will be a threefer. It
will be a hat trick, a triple play. It will be a three-run home run against
Pelosi?s mis-leadership of the Democratic Party.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sun Aug 23 19:08:20 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2020 12:08:20 -0700
Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Caitlin_Johnstone=3A_Why_The_=E2=80=98L?=
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> 
> New post on Caitlin Johnstone
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>  <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2>	
> Why The ?Lesser Evil? Is An?Illusion <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/08/23/why-the-lesser-evil-is-an-illusion/>by Caitlin Johnstone <https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2>
> There was a simultaneously hilarious and nightmare-inducing meme format that was popular not long ago called Creepy Garfield <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/creepy-garfield>, in which the familiar Jim Davis comic is re-imagined as a Lovecraftian horror genre in which the titular cat often features as an eldritch demigod who is tormenting his owner Jon in some existentially terrifying way.
> 
> A common theme is a comic which starts out like a normal Garfield cartoon in which Jon is talking to his obese pet in the usual way we all grew up reading, then it turns out we were completely misperceiving the situation and the cat's head is for example actually part of a tentacled hellbeast, perhaps dwelling within Jon himself.
> 
> Anyway, that's basically what the "two"-party political system is like.
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> 
> 
> When the comic starts out, you're looking at two separate and distinct political parties with completely different goals and platforms. One of them seems nice, the other is a bit of a jerk who's always eating all the lasagna. But subsequent panels reveal something far less comfortable to look at.
> 
> As you read on, it turns out that both the character on the left side of the panel and the one on the right side of the panel are actually just two tentacles on the same abyssal monster, who'd been putting on a two-headed performance within the small puppet show frame of the comic strip. In reality, they are both extensions of the same murderous oligarchic forces.
> 
> 
> 
> Those oligarchic forces use the illusion of the puppet show to manipulate the public into consenting to their continued rule. For example, in the US there's a pretend presidential race on right now in which voters are being presented with a nasty, fascistic idiot incumbent who is running against a character who is far from perfect, but at least he's not the tyrant who has been abusing and terrifying them for four years.
> 
> In reality, they're both part of the same oligarchic Cthulhu monster, whose continued rule is ensured by manipulating people into begging for the tentacle on the left.
> 
> Joe Biden is a half-dead piece of beltway flotsam who is held together by nothing but Aricept and crazy glue, and it's been his job to push for for wars, austerity and authoritarianism on behalf of his oligarchic donors since before most Bernie supporters were even born. Yet American progressives are being told to believe that they can push him to the left during his administration to help them stomach the idea of voting for him.
> 
> If he wins the imaginary US election, Biden's most progressive achievement will be having the most diverse, inclusive and intersectional cabinet of mass murderers ever assembled. He will function in the same way a skin suit full of government agencies, war profiteers and rapacious corporations would function if it became president, because that's essentially all he is as a person.
> 
> There are slightly different factions and agendas in the US oligarchy, and those can manifest as some of them backing one tentacle over the other <https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2020/06/30/biden-now-up-to-106-billionaire-donors-trump-has-93/#307d90dd2341> in various puppet shows. But what all oligarchs have in common is the need to maintain the same basic status quo upon which their respective kingdoms have been built, which means that while there might be some sectarian power struggles at the top, none of them are going to improve upon the oppressive, exploitative, Orwellian, imperialist status quo that is crushing ordinary human beings to death every single day.
> 
> So as far as ordinary human beings are concerned, all you're ever looking at is a giant bully telling you to beg him to punch you with his left fist or he'll punch you a bit harder with his right.
> 
> 
> 
>  
> What do you do in such a situation? What is the correct response when a powerful oligarchy is telling you that if you don't consent to being ruled by one of its puppets, it will brutalize disadvantaged communities and take away people's civil rights?
> 
> Is it to do as it says, hold your nose, and do everything you can to get the puppet on the left elected so that the oligarchic tentacle beast won't devour disempowered members of the population? Is it to refuse to appease the beast and elect the right tentacle in a deluded act of defiance? Is it to pour all your energy into building a third party?
> 
> Or is it to actually fight?
> 
> What if everyone just completely ignored the frame of the comic strip panels? What if they completely ignored the puppet show stage, and just stared directly at their infernal tormenter who is holding the puppets? What if instead of talking about elections all the time, they started pointing at the real reason elections never change anything?
> 
> If you are an American who is dissatisfied with the presidential choices you are being offered in election after election, consider focusing your energy on the status quo itself. Consider taking the energy you might have put into talking about Donald Trump and Joe Biden and putting it into waking up your countrymen <https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/how-to-defeat-the-empire-3bfdd468f439> to the fact that the political class is there to rob them and the media class is there to deceive them on behalf of their oligarchic owners?
> 
> What prevents real change from coming to the most powerful nation in the world is not the fact that the "lesser evil" loses elections, it's the fact that everyone's being manipulated into buying into a fake performance that is wholly owned and operated a single oligarchic force which benefits directly from oppression, exploitation and mass murder. It's that there is no "lesser evil".
> 
> The conversation about the political system should be dragged kicking and screaming into these waters at every opportunity. Refuse to clap along with any aspect of the puppet show, and keep pointing to the oligarchy behind the stage. The naked emperor only has invisible clothes until someone points out that his balls are showing.
> 
> Our job is to wake people up from this illusion. Our job is to wake them up from the dream.
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________
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From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com  Mon Aug 24 16:55:11 2020
From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 12:55:11 -0400
Subject: [Peace] To End the Wars, Visualize War Powers in a Post-Pelosi World
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To End the Wars, Visualize War Powers in a Post-Pelosi World

The open breach in the Democratic Party between the AOC/Justice
Democrats-led coalition and the Pelosi/Dem Megadonor-led coalition over the
?too close to call? Markey-Kennedy Senate race in Massachusetts this week
opens up a new vista of human freedom: the ability to visualize a
post-Pelosi, post-Dem Establishment Megadonor world in the Democratic
Party. I call this a ?post-Pelosi world? as a shorthand, acknowledging that
the key obstacle to reform is not merely an individual human being, but the
domination of the Democratic Party by the Dem Establishment Megadonor
coalition led by Pelosi.

To end the wars, we need to live in a post-Pelosi world. We need to live in
a world where Pelosi is not dominating the House Democratic Caucus by
trickling down Megadonor campaign cash like Mayor Daley the First
controlled the Chicago Democratic Machine.

If we want to live in that world, we need to start by visualizing it.

To end the wars, we need to restore Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the
United States Constitution - the War Powers Clause - which assigns the
decision to go to war to Congress, not the President. If the last two
decades of war have taught us anything, it?s that leaving this power in the
hands of the President and his royal court of Megadonor-genuflecting Blob
advisors is a guarantee of more war. Exactly as the authors of the
Constitution foresaw. Which is exactly why they assigned this power to
Congress, not the President.

To restore Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the United States
Constitution, we need to restore Section 2(c) and Section 5(c) of the War
Powers Resolution of 1973. Section 2(c) is a restatement of Article I,
Section 8, Clause 11 in the language of 1973. Section 5(c) is Thor?s Hammer
for enforcing Section 2(c). It states that notwithstanding anything else,
at any time that U.S. forces are involved in hostilities that Congress
hasn?t authorized, the President shall remove U.S. forces from those
hostilities if Congress so directs by concurrent resolution.

A ?concurrent? resolution is a resolution passed by both houses of Congress
without being submitted to the President for signature. Because it?s not
submitted to the President for signature, the President can?t veto it. As
outgoing House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel stated on the
House floor in January, the idea of this mechanism is 100% consistent with
the fundamental idea of Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution
and with the fundamental idea of Section 2(c) of the War Powers Resolution
of 1973 which restates Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution:
this war-deciding power belongs to Congress, not the President. Without the
mechanism of Section 5(c), the War Powers Resolution of 1973 would be
eviscerated and Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution would
be eviscerated.

In order to restore Section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution of 1973, we
need to live in a post-Pelosi world. As long as Pelosi is controlling the
House Democratic Caucus like Mayor Daley on behalf of the Dem Megadonor
coalition, Section 5(c) will be eviscerated, and with it the War Powers
Resolution of 1973, and with it Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S.
Constitution.

The key reason that we need to live in a post-Pelosi world to restore
Section 5(c) is that a key idea of the Section 5(c) concurrent War Powers
Resolution is that it?s a ?privileged? resolution. It concerns the
Constitutional privileges of the House, like impeachment, so it has a
priority status for floor consideration, like Priority Mail. It must go to
the floor for a vote if the sponsor insists. It cannot be killed by
inaction of the Foreign Affairs Committee. But if all the members of the
House Democratic Caucus are cowering before the Democratic Speaker like
frightened children, waiting for permission to speak, then the Section 5(c)
mechanism doesn?t work. The key idea of a ?privileged? resolution is the
ability to get to the floor for a vote without having to get permission
from the Speaker before you introduce your bill.

There are many paths to curbing the power of Pelosi to dominate the House
Democratic Caucus like Mayor Daley. A simple idea unites them all: weaken
and delegitimize Pelosi as a leader of the Democratic Party. Every time
Pelosi is defeated by the AOC/Justice Democrats-led coalition, Pelosi is
weakened and delegitimized as a leader of the Democratic Party.

This is also on the ballot in Massachusetts this week: a referendum on
weakening and delegitimizing Pelosi as a leader of the Democratic Party.
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From carl at newsfromneptune.com  Tue Aug 25 02:55:34 2020
From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook)
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:55:34 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Update: Glenn Greenwald will join our webinar on
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Aug 25 17:19:52 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:19:52 -0700
Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AOTA & NFN timeslots
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J.B. Thank you for the links to the discussions below: 

I especially appreciate those from the Grayzone, always very informative. The one by Ben Norton covering the VOA on Twitter should be heard by all. Most of us politically active during the seventies were well aware of the USG/CIA/VOA connection especially in relation to Asia, I knew Asians working for them at the time, Georgetown U. grad students, how else could they afford to go to school there? What makes this so compelling is Ben reveals the other organizations, and contractors involved and how they get away with the lies they do.

I agree with your analysis of the interview with Greg Palast. The information he reveals is worthwhile, and I always post Chris Hedges interviews on FB, this one I did not for the reason you give below. 


> On Aug 12, 2020, at 18:14, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> https://youtube.com/watch?v=iCEEFaP39K0 -- (28m 8s) Chris Hedges interviews Greg Palast on voter fraud and stealing elections.
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> Transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/497436-voter-fraud-greg-palast/
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> The majority of this interview concerns how the Republicans are fixing the voting system against likely Democratic Party voters, thereby illegally and unethically increasing the odds of a Republican win. Palast says that this was behind Trump's 2016 win against Hillary Clinton and Palast cites uncounted votes in Michigan as an example.
> 
> I'm recommending this interview despite one glaring problem with Palast's analysis: the Democrats don't give us evidence that they care about losing in this way. I don't concur with Palast's race-based explanation for why the Congressional Black Caucus (nor, apparently, other "progressive" Democrats) won't raise election problems as an issue. We got 4+ years of Russiagate and virtually no election irregularity analysis. Perhaps both arms of the business party are working well enough as-is regardless of which party wins, so there's no hurry to look out for the disenfranchised.
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> https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xpq4SNJNcmA -- (5m 10s) "Western media's favorite 'Hong Kong activist' is US regime-changer in yellowface" -- are "Kong Tsung-gan" and "Xun Yuezang" pseudonyms for Brian Kern? Grayzone highlights some connections which "would mean that Brian Kern is Kong Tsung-gan in yellowface" (as Grayzone put it at 2m38s in this report).
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> Report: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/08/hong-kong-western-media-yellowfacing-amnesty/
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> https://youtube.com/watch?v=oEcuygrqTSE -- (14m 40s) "Twitter spreads nonstop US gov't paid propaganda, while falsely claiming it bans state media ads"
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> Report: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/08/10/twitter-us-state-media-ads-voa-persian/
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> https://youtube.com/watch?v=qhNXrwRL5Ic -- (38m 56s) "US gov regime-change plot in Nicaragua exposed"
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> Lee Fang/Intercept
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> Jimmy Dore -- sequential segments of Dore's 2020-08-11 interview with Max Blumenthal
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> https://youtube.com/watch?v=4uEGmRgBHvQ -- (10m 47s) "It's a Big Club & We Ain't In It!" on how the Democrats are running an ad which misrepresents George Carlin's routine, and how the Democrats and Republicans both mistreat girls and women.
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> https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzuA3fjTUg0 -- (20m 6s) "Biden Pick His VP -- KAMALA Is A Cop!"
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> https://youtube.com/watch?v=wlDXJbdkOas -- (15m 50s) "Kamala & Biden's Endless Circle of Hypocrisy!"
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> Consortium News
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> https://youtube.com/watch?v=iRGEp5_QX0Q -- (9m 5s) "Former Guardian Journalist Nick Davis: Crimes in the Afghan War Logs"
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From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:28:50 -0700
Subject: [Peace] The Republican convention: Four nights of fascist filth
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The Republican convention: Four nights of fascist filth begin
25 August 2020
The Republican National Convention, which opened last night, must be taken as a serious warning by the working class. This event has an out-and-out fascist character. It is putting on display the most reactionary forces in American life: racists, anti-Semites, rabid anticommunists and militarists.
Such is the rotten character of the official political system that the dregs of humanity are accorded hours of prime time television and treated seriously as a legitimate part of public life. These forces have a very real prospect of consolidating their position at the head of the most powerful imperialist state on the planet.
Diatribes against socialism and open appeals to racism and xenophobia are vomited across the airwaves with little or no opposition from within the media establishment. On the contrary, one television network, Fox, is devoted entirely to the propagation of such views, while the others offer little more than half-hearted corrections, as though a four-day fascist propaganda show requires only a bit of fact-checking.
The opening night of the convention confirms the danger against which the WSWS and the Socialist Equality Party have consistently warned: Donald Trump and the Republican Party are seeking to establish an authoritarian, personalist movement, an American form of fascism, which would smash opponents through the use of brute force.
Trump does not have a purely electoral perspective. His convention is itself a demonstration of this, since it is primarily aimed at whipping up antisocialist hysteria in its right-wing base and justifying preemptive action by the police and military, as well as by ultraright paramilitary forces.
As far as the election campaign goes, Trump does not expect to convince a majority of the American people to support him. He did not win the popular vote in 2016, and he is the first American president to have gone through an entire term in office without ever having the support, in even a single opinion poll, of a majority of the American people.
He aims to create an environment in which there is enough uncertainty about the outcome of the vote?through his claims of massive fraud, outright sabotage of the mail-in vote, and efforts to disrupt in-person voting through the mobilization of police, sheriffs and immigration agents at the polls?that he can make a claim to retaining power.
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No Democrat has answered Trump?s declaration, made last week, that the outcome of the election may be unknown for weeks or even months after the polls close on November 3. This only demonstrates the fecklessness and unseriousness of the Democratic Party.
It is not that there is any broad support in the American population for Trump?s fascistic views. Quite the contrary, the trend is to the left, particularly among workers and youth. But there is a widespread and thoroughly justified feeling that the Democratic Party is no alternative and offers nothing to working people.
Millions of working people reject the big lie of the Republican convention--the claim that Trump has mobilized an effective response to the coronavirus pandemic that has infected nearly six million people in the US and killed more than 180,000. The United States has four percent of the world?s population, but 25 percent of the COVID-19 cases and 23 percent of the deaths. In its inept, corrupt and callous response to the pandemic, the Trump administration and the American ruling class have demonstrated the complete failure of American capitalism.
The danger confronting working people does not come from the inherent strength of the Trump camp but from the dead weight of the Democratic Party, which seeks to suppress the real opposition to the would-be Mussolini in the White House, which comes from below?the strikes and walkouts by teachers, autoworkers, warehouse and logistics workers triggered by the pandemic, the massive and unprecedented popular protests against police violence and racism.
Rather than saying what is?that Trump is moving to establish an authoritarian regime?and appealing to the American people against it, the Democrats seek to woo sections of the Republican Party itself: the former governors, senators and military-intelligence operatives who were paraded in front of the convention that nominated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
At the same time, they seek to split the working class along racial lines, continually counterposing race to class and blaming whites as a whole for the racial discrimination and violence that are the product of capitalism and the capitalist state. This emphasis on racial (and gender) identity actually gives Trump and the ultraright an opening to make an appeal to white workers facing the destruction of their jobs and living standards under the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic collapse it has triggered.
Trump won the presidential election in 2016 because the Democratic Party made a point of demonstrating its hostility to the working class, particularly in the industrial Midwest, the focal point of the destruction of jobs and wages during the eight years of the Obama-Biden administration.
The Democratic vote collapsed, not only in rural and small-town working class areas, but in the inner-city neighborhoods of Milwaukee, Detroit and Philadelphia, tipping the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to Trump and, with them, the White House.
With the nomination of the right-wing Biden-Harris ticket, the Democratic Party is running the 2020 election with the same strategy as 2016, making no appeal to the working class and seeking to further consolidate its standing as the favored party of Wall Street and the military-intelligence apparatus.
In their first joint interview since the convention, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris appeared on ABC News Friday night. In the course of nearly one hour, they made no mention of poverty, hunger, homelessness or the cutoff of the $600-a-week supplemental federal unemployment benefit upon which some 28 million workers, laid off because of the coronavirus pandemic, depended for their survival.
Ignoring the economic distress that unites millions of working people of every race and gender, the Democrats act as though there were no serious crisis, in a country where nearly 200,000 have died in the pandemic and 28 million are unemployed. Trump has a program?the forcible suppression of social contradictions using fascist methods. The Democrats have no program, except to claim that the horrors of capitalism would be made more tolerable if they were inflicted by a more ?diverse? selection of rulers.
The Socialist Equality Party is serious about the fight against Trump and fascism. For that very reason, we entirely oppose and reject the policy of the Democratic Party and of all its political apologists, from the liberal advocates of identity politics, to the corrupt trade unions, to the ex-radicals of the pseudoleft. Trump cannot be fought without a socialist program that mobilizes the working class, potentially the most powerful force in society, on a class basis.
Trump constantly points to the rising Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ. In this sense he is being honest: he has run the country in the interests of Wall Street. The Democrats represent the same constituency, but they seek to hide this fact from the working class, even as cash from the big banks and the stock exchange floods the Biden campaign coffers.
The essential role of the Democratic Party is to strangle social opposition to capitalism. They are all for opposition to Trump as long as it does not impinge upon the social interests of Wall Street. But the growing movement by the working class in opposition to capitalism provides the only possible basis for a real struggle against Trump and the financial oligarchy of which he is the most corrupt and reactionary representative.
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Tue Aug 25 17:53:15 2020
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Most people probably aren?t interested but Thailand was my home for 22 years, so my heart is there now, as well as Calif., and Portland. This protest by students  appears genuine in their call for the Red Shirt involvement. The Red Shirts were the group who supported Thaksin a populist that was supported by the poor in the poorest region of Thailand. Their call for the end of lese majeste, is a major step forward not dared before, the calling out of the names of those massacred in 1976 is another sign of legitimacy. Let?s hope it is, and not what maybe just another major power push by those in the west which I won?t go into.

Thai protest movement spreads across country?s northeast
By Owen Howell 
25 August 2020
Thailand?s student-led protest movement shows no signs of diminishing, as major rallies erupted over the past few days in the northeastern region of Isan. For more than a month now, large anti-government protests have been held almost daily.
Last week?s police operation, in which seven student leaders were arrested <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/22/thai-a22.html> on charges including sedition, has done little to intimidate or stifle the growing movement.
On Thursday, a protest in the northeastern city of Khon Kaen was organised by a local student group called Khon Kaen?s Had Enough. Around 1,000 people, mostly high school students, gathered at the Chao Por Lak Muang Shrine, where numerous students were invited on stage to deliver speeches.
The protest?s organisers also performed a Buddhist ritual, intended to chase Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha out of power. A main road was closed for the event, which drew a much larger crowd than anticipated.

Nakhon Ratchasima protest on Thursday, Credit: @arthemmarach (Twitter)
Siwakorn Namnuad, a leader of Khon Kaen?s Had Enough, told Khaosodreporters that Thursday was the first large-scale protest in the city centre. He noted the crowd?s enthusiastic response to the three demands of the protest movement: to dissolve parliament, end intimidation of political opponents, and rewrite the constitution.
?If our demands are not met, we will increase the scale of our operations. Students are ready to call for change; we are waiting for working age people to join us,? Siwakorn said. Opposition in Thailand?s rural north and northeast to Prayut?s military-controlled government has meant that the movement is expanding beyond high schools and universities in the region.
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Another large demonstration was held on Thursday at the Yo Ma Monument in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima. As in Khon Kaen, the crowd was estimated at over 1,000, while the stage was dominated by high school pupils.
Speakers denounced the 250 senators in office, all of them appointed by the military junta that assumed power in 2014, under Prayut?s leadership. They also made special appeals for the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan, widely despised for his critical role in the military coup and involvement in a 2018 corruption scandal.
Khon Kaen was the location for another rally on Saturday, arranged by student organisations from nine provinces under the name of the Isan Liberation Network. At the same time, a protest in Ubon Ratchathani was notable for the appearance of Parit Chirawak, a central leader of the Free Youth movement that has orchestrated the Thai protests.
In the north, a significant student rally within the grounds of Chiang Mai University was held by student group Community of MorChor. Attendance was so much greater than expected that the venue overflowed with students, and barriers had to be dismantled to accommodate members of the public drawn to the event. Police officers were reportedly scattered through the crowd taking pictures of the organisers.
According to Prachatai, student representatives on stage read out a list of Chiang Mai University students who had been killed during the bloody Thammasat University massacre in 1976. They also read the names of members of the Farmers? Federation of Thailand (FFT), involved in the peasant revolts of the 1970s, who died in the massacre.
One student leader called on the Red Shirts movement to participate more openly in upcoming protests. The Red Shirts, supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, staged mass demonstrations <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/05/thai-m27.html> in Bangkok in 2010, and were largely based in the north and northeast.
Anti-government activity in Bangkok, meanwhile, has continued since the August 16 rally <https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/19/thai-a19.html>, which drew tens of thousands of people and was the largest demonstration since the 2014 coup.
Around 400 high school students from across the capital besieged the Ministry of Education on Wednesday, showing the three-fingered salute in solidarity with the protests. When Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan and his aides appeared outside, the students treated them with contempt, jeering loudly and making thumbs-down gestures and then ordered them to the back of the crowd.
Some students blew whistles as he tried speaking to them, a disruptive tactic notoriously used in the 2014 protests that helped trigger the military coup, in which Nataphol himself had played a role.
Students from Rajini School, a private girls? school in Bangkok, yesterday wore white ribbons (a symbol of the protests), even after the school?s administration banned all forms of political expression on campus. A group of nearly 1,000 alumnae have signed an open letter to protest the ban.
On Sunday, students from four major Bangkok universities?Kasetsart, Silpakorn, Bangkok, and Rangsit?assembled on Sunday at the Lan Khon Meaung Square in Phra Nakhon district.

Nakhon Ratchasima protest on Thursday, Credit: @arthemmarach (Twitter)
They were campaigning against the state persecution of political activists, in particular those condemned under the country?s draconian l?se majest? law, which criminalises any alleged criticism of the Thai monarchy. The student leaders announced that they would gather more often every time the government used the law to arrest protesters.
The response of Prayut?s government to the protest movement changed markedly after a rally on August 3, when student leaders added to the three initial demands a call to reform the monarchy.
King Vajiralongkorn?s ties with the military-backed government, along with his personal possession of crown assets, has provoked hostility throughout the population. This was demonstrated in the outrage on social media when Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the disbanded Future Forward Party, exposed a steep rise in the annual budget for Palace agencies over the last three years.
The amount was pegged at $US285 million for the next fiscal year?up 16.8 percent from last year, compared to a 3.1 percent rise in the overall national budget, Nation Thailand reported.
After the seven arrests last week, protest leader and vocal critic of the monarchy Panupong Jaadnok was arrested yesterday on sedition charges related to his participation in the August 10 rally, where a manifesto of 10 demands for monarchy reform was declared. Yesterday evening, he was transported to a police station in Pathum Thani, where Parit Chirawak said a protest would be held in his defence.
Two organisers of a student rally in the northern city of Lamphun have been ordered to report to police and hear charges against them. One of the students, Thanatorn Vitayabenjang, said in an interview with Al Jazeera: ?There?s been many cases where [police] tried to report protesters, but at the end of the day, after everyone is over that fear, it becomes a catalyst to come out more and go against the government.?
Many more protests are planned for the coming weeks. In Nakhon Ratchasima, protesters announced that a major student rally would take place on September 19 at Thammasat University?s main Tha Prachan campus in Bangkok. Free Youth has not yet revealed details, but stated its plans to camp out overnight, in what could be a massive rally of students and broader sections of society.
The Bangkok Post reported that security agencies were fearful of the upcoming protests. A meeting between Prime Minister Prayut and high-ranking military generals was held on Friday, in which preparations for possible mass upheavals were discussed. WSWS.ORG

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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Wed Aug 26 21:34:29 2020
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:34:29 -0500
Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Fwd: Live Action News Daily Digest:
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Thank you, Lois.And, I would add that women's reproductive rights, or lack of rights, affect the poor the most.?Just as slave owners legally owned the bodies, controlled the reproduction, and limited education for generations, so has the Catholic church created a power class to manipulate and interfere with women, especially poor women, gaining power over their own bodies and their reproduction. It has been quite effective at limiting the role of women to that of mother, thereby thwarting any chance of gaining time and energy for education. Classism.- Karen Medina"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" - Mark Twain
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Wed Aug 26 21:48:44 2020
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 14:48:44 -0700
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Well said Karen.


> On Aug 26, 2020, at 14:34, kmedina67 via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Thank you, Lois.
> And, I would add that women's reproductive rights, or lack of rights, affect the poor the most. 
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> Just as slave owners legally owned the bodies, controlled the reproduction, and limited education for generations, so has the Catholic church created a power class to manipulate and interfere with women, especially poor women, gaining power over their own bodies and their reproduction. It has been quite effective at limiting the role of women to that of mother, thereby thwarting any chance of gaining time and energy for education. Classism.
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From loisiyoga at gmail.com  Wed Aug 26 18:56:22 2020
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HI Carl,

I really like you and your intelligence, debate skills, and more. However,
I have to block you now because your stance against a woman's health and
right to choose breaks my heart and makes my stomach churn. I suggest a
different approach would be to support sex education, fully funded birth
control, higher pay for child care workers, Scandinavian model of paid
maternity and paternity leave with guarantee of job security, funding for
supporting families that have handicapped children, a monthly stipend for
every child until age 18 regardless of family income, and more. These are a
lot of issues that could use your genius and support instead of obsessing
on abortion.

love,
zlois

Love,
Lois

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 1:43 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

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> *Date: *August 26, 2020 at 12:31:52 PM CDT
> *To: *carl at newsfromneptune.com
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> Hi C. G.,
>
> We hope your week is going well!
>
> Here are some of our recent articles for you:
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>    - *WATCH: Two-year-old Ezekiel, a survivor of two attempted abortions,
>    sings praises to God*
>    <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/VWNscG6FLps3N8cdHtFy1V1pVfQRxk4fcD81N7nzPwG3p_9LV1-WJV7CgFg2W4Q4bKd5rHsWPTMCnP6YzR4qV145Dj7K4lwgV7Kht12x1cVmW584D1C84WFLzVgPKP58745H3W27zD7C86-W5kW3Jq7-g39NC0vW76MRSw2sglrtW1HDY6v54gF9mN5QV4MpPq_G5W8KryZ96S-3pjW8tfCgs2ZCRd9W5LvNcy7DZcFtW1SzF0M96js35W4Nzb-J8Kq1p3W6_gvxB7QQFy5V-Lcns8mFTHwVyZqp52wf-n0W8xSMz65hRwCyW5FRxh15_HMJPW349L1D6JFVcSW8PpNN05X6k7fW2WPZ5P1K6TVgVXs2sp1fm_NkW1lzQPq57KvdsW3Qw27R5jpRvGVDMD2-8K0MTG3j2R1>
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>    Eric and Mandy Godwin wanted to share the faith and joy of their
>    adopted son Ezekiel ? an abortion survivor ? with their friends and church
>    members. But now, the video of the sweet two-year-old singing along to a
>    Christian worship song has gone viral on Facebook, amassing more than two
>    million views. *Read more*
>    <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/VWNscG6FLps3N8cdHtFy1V1pVfQRxk4fcD81N7nzPwG3p_9LV1-WJV7CgH59W1k8gkH8c5Kl5W32byvn1wt71DW6-T5m-4ZhN7WW8w11mz6xHzS8VLyfrJ3H5WBbW8gJkyl4DLsnhW1sTs4X6vWcSQW7Dmkjh6md641W6bNkp98D8sD6W6QR8bV8kPwl2W57vFy07K2kghW62F69z8rfj2ZW82c7Cb7tpXXmW5WfFm11v7RQnW6Z7HD-3MkRSPW6ww_bV7ZpNSCMbnHzZnkBwzW6PLxJF8b78VRM595w3lGqfbW6K8fLF8l31KSW8T9tCk8j32GZW63rZXd2RhBN5W7y0KDS6QvQ0wN7PNqn_h__FMVrbGzn8thZfDN2kmttBy_4LrW4tlNGD3TxyS-W7vBJCm6F1bp634m_1>
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>    - *The late-term abortion that killed Keisha Atkins and her baby was
>    funded by taxpayers*
>    <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/VWNscG6FLps3N8cdHtFy1V1pVfQRxk4fcD81N7nzPwG3p_9LV1-WJV7CgKcsW5pMHvw1dtfJQW86tfgl5WXgrlW7GDmtx4_CXcbN38TQ9sThMk6W823WBF2j9QyyW4dkvtN6hLq2GN26CQx7B57tLVPKbPk7P7S6CN5hx-jXy3grbW2C1Qnq1tKmzpW31lKDj6mZmSLW82zdSc8hT8VQVPYc3Y4TR9VbW5MlpRd5nx1FKW6tDH0r4sGHzjW3wCxM_96NXZwW29jlxg39w_b6W4qSTH-74g-YLV9sjhj27tjkGW40f7tt8VlqTlW6LB34J8kG-N4W2hyKzS4hb1W3W7VsBj-9cBFrWW25LSlB5FY1TpW9hRm_n2jP4f2W74q7C83hCFwXW6JDGNG1V5063W5QZ-Zs69wt3m3h8h1>
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>    In 2017, 23-year-old Keisha Atkins died during an elective late-term
>    abortion at Southwestern Women?s Options in New Mexico. It has now come to
>    light that taxpayers paid for that abortion through New Mexico?s Medicaid
>    program. *Read more*
>    <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/VWNscG6FLps3N8cdHtFy1V1pVfQRxk4fcD81N7nzPwG3p_9LV1-WJV7CgH4MW4pJRts3VrgxLW458Qnf1xlR9ZW6zl4kc3lJ3StW1Hr8dp47P9y4W84yGvP8V8K0KW53t3tQ7DZDhWVgh8HX2VgZnFW4PWjV77XvxmgW7n_Z7S8kwdBCW7Tx_G29bJc4XW1mLRfY7HLTT7N8KjK0vshfhRW4zWq7H4_HLcNW220jD26w03HqW4TRkWh5HwC4fN4fyJtYXDkzfN8PMCgFf5KVSW2BjsTM1gtqjSW8Slgqp76C-YBVwg9kj6sS4TXW1P-zfJ4qG8pQW10YWbq7yV4M7VyGgJv2SLpxsW15hnmY1tGrLmW6QmFvq75mVClW86rrmC1hfstNW38n7Lz2WByHPW6s8zVr3VD0263mbq1>
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>    - *Former employees accuse another powerful abortion organization of
>    racism*
>    <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/VWNscG6FLps3N8cdHtFy1V1pVfQRxk4fcD81N7nzPwG3p_9LV1-WJV7CgBGnW1gw0tY5P9J04W7bdN1V8CQxJJW7XSgpY5t_xvHMhQ0ZxZh1F-W5vkw_34j7zhZW1vQW_X8MMXsDW1HcT-j3tKdGWW2mwMj53ffJHnW35kQ8r97FRgHW2p9K0g7slsd4W8vw29x7RpFWdW8FTnT16F6g42W7GTZ7s8Zx3jPW8_5-rY5_NXq7W8CC6TR7HXsGZW6Y_Fd47CPwdvW2TT3-45Xhk6MW3tvJGq8PxhDCN72jmJ-jyDrQW2x2VR89g7RKCW98VsQV18TH_BN87MxjkGsbPYW4YwTKC7QDTqTN3L0NdN-y4p3N3PPKkCfjyl3W81BrV78Vkl36W2Rjkn948yh54W1R_kjj3ZjV-D34PQ1>
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>    Employees of color within the abortion rights organization NARAL
>    Pro-Choice America are publicly accusing the organization of racism. The
>    employees? goal, according to Buzzfeed reporter Emma O?Connor, is to call
>    out the ?hypocrisy at their own organizations? and proclaim that the time
>    for ?white feminism? is over. *Read more*
>    <https://ht.t.hubspotemail.net/e2t/tc/VWNscG6FLps3N8cdHtFy1V1pVfQRxk4fcD81N7nzPwG3p_9LV1-WJV7CgYvHW6hD9GY2Kh96KW7yjR1m80MhhnW4h2T8g1_hYjGW6Pj7Qv70QJ7KW2t7Nk62_8qpgW1MGtcy2r9Y47V9fgxN2FSBcBW92S3yB7gkLWGV62ZBP2xKtP7W3kWGbZ17s0dYW8YTG636dSl4pW4KDqwd2Qr4xnW4lsSfy94xyhrW6wCgqv8Kpw06W4dXx8l5DjQJhW49mplL2Xd6HYW5qM7cC4fHyRlW154J_m2JGtDQW6Sz9Jn5XTfF_W3RgJqP2PJ2gkW7y7JfM2cdrNsVDmnSD1_134KW6lpnSp3DPw6pW89ffww4_zKlPW4PwBD4967HmCW929Y7W3yJtSbW9cf-p33frpJBW6nml_J8kvFgF3g021>
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From karenaram at hotmail.com  Sat Aug 29 11:44:57 2020
From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 04:44:57 -0700
Subject: [Peace] China launches missiles into South China Sea in response to
 US provocations
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China launches missiles into South China Sea in response to US provocations
By Ben McGrath 
29 August 2020
China on Wednesday launched at least two ballistic missiles that it described as ?aircraft carrier killers? during naval exercises in the South China Sea. The testing of these missiles is a response to military and other provocative measures carried out in the region by the United States and its allies.
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The increasing militarization of the region significantly heightens the danger of a global conflagration, which is ultimately driven by US imperialism.
The Chinese military fired its DF-21D and the DF-26B missiles from Zhejiang Province in the southeast and Qinghai Province in the northwest respectively. Both missiles landed in the South China Sea between Hainan and the disputed Paracel Islands. The US military stated that China fired at least four missiles.
The DF-21D has a range of 1,800 kilometers and is the world?s first anti-ship ballistic missile, according to Beijing. The DF-26B has a longer range of 4,000 kilometers and can carry a nuclear payload. China said it is also capable of striking naval vessels, and could reach the US military base on Guam. It was formally unveiled earlier this month and is an updated variant of a missile first officially displayed at China?s 2015 Victory Day parade marking the end of World War II.
The launches took place a day after Beijing accused the US military of flying a U-2 spy plane over Chinese naval drills in the Bohai Sea, deliberately entering a no-fly zone. China began holding live-fire drills in the sea, located near Beijing, last Monday and plans to continue until September 30.
China?s Defense Ministry demanded the US ?stop this kind of provocative behavior and take actual steps to safeguard peace and stability in the region.? It also warned that such flights could trigger misunderstandings or an ?unexpected incident,? namely a military exchange.
In response, Washington admitted that it had conducted a U-2 flight in the Indo-Pacific region, but dismissed Beijing?s concerns, saying: ?Pacific Air Forces personnel will continue to fly and operate anywhere international law allows, at the time and tempo of our choosing.?
A source close to the Chinese military told the South China Morning Post: ?This [the missile launches] is China?s response to the potential risks brought by the increasingly frequent incoming US warplanes and military vessels in the South China Sea.?
In addition to drills in the South China and Bohai Seas, China is conducting exercises in the Yellow Sea and near the Taiwan Strait. The drills in the South China Sea ran from Monday to today. Those in the Yellow Sea and near Taiwan took place from Saturday to Wednesday.
The US Defense Department hypocritically chastised Beijing in a statement Thursday, saying: ?Conducting military exercises over disputed territory in the South China Sea is counterproductive to easing tensions and maintaining stability.?
In recent weeks, the US has held its own war games involving two aircraft carriers in the South China Sea, as well as exercises in neighboring waters with India near the Malacca Strait and with Japan and Australia in the Philippine Sea.
In addition, the US is now conducting its biannual Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise near Hawaii alongside nine other nations?the largest naval exercise in the world. It is running from August 17 to 30. China had previously been invited to take part in 2014 and 2016, but had its invitation revoked in 2018 and is again absent this year.

A Chinese warship conducting a live-fire drill in 2015 [Credit: Chinese military]
Washington is also applying additional economic pressure to Beijing. On Wednesday, the Trump administration placed sanctions on 24 Chinese companies, supposedly for their roles in constructing artificial islets in the South China Sea. They have been banned from purchasing American goods. It is the first time Chinese companies have been sanctioned for their involvement in the territorial dispute.
For all its denunciations of supposed Chinese aggression, Washington has for decades sought to enforce its hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region. This included the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan, brutal wars against Korea and Vietnam, and support for right-wing dictators. Over the past decade, the US has enflamed longstanding but minor territorial disputes and ramped up tensions under the Obama administration?s ?pivot to Asia.? Under the Trump administration, it is now working to further militarily and economically confront China.
This agenda is accelerating as the US ruling class attempts to deflect growing domestic anger over its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and the developing economic crisis affecting millions of workers and youth. The Trump administration has accused Beijing of responsibility for the pandemic, with no evidence whatsoever, while pressing China over dangerous flashpoints like Taiwan.
In an interview on August 23, Trump issued a thinly-veiled threat that if Beijing attempted to assert control over Taiwan, Washington would launch an attack on China. ?I think it?s an inappropriate place to talk about it, but China knows what I?m going to do. China knows,? he stated.
Beijing considers Taiwan a renegade province and the US still formally adheres to the ?One China? policy that does not recognize Taiwan as an independent country.
Not to be out done, Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden is offering himself as a more belligerent option to Wall Street in dealing with China.
The most recent US military spending bill, which has been passed by both the House and Senate in Congress, contains a clause calling for the navy to conduct port calls in Taiwan with two hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy.
China has made clear that if a US military vessel stops in Taiwan, it would trigger a military response. As such, the decision to use medical vessels is a dangerous and calculated flirtation with this red line.
Washington?s provocations throughout the region risk the outbreak of a disastrous war with China that could quickly spiral into a nuclear conflict. The US is seeking to eliminate an economic competitor and return China to a semi-colonial state. WSWS.ORG
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From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com  Sat Aug 29 18:09:30 2020
From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 14:09:30 -0400
Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Alex_Morse=3A_=22right-wing_foreign_policy_PAC?=
	=?utf-8?q?=22_has_=E2=80=98emergency_fundraiser=E2=80=99_for_Neal?=
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Gee, I wonder if this "right-wing foreign policy PAC" has a *name*? Aren't
you a little bit curious, who this "right-wing foreign policy PAC" might
be?

Alex does give us one extra clue:

'Even worse, this "emergency fundraiser" is hosted by a hedge fund
billionaire, Jeffrey Talpins, who has dodged taxes for decades using the
carried interest loophole. Neal has stopped legislation closing that
loophole from even being considered in the Ways and Means Committee,
letting investment bankers like Mr. Talpins avoid paying their fair share.'

Ever heard of "Jeffrey Talpins" before?

Let's ask Ryan Grim, over at the *Intercept*. Maybe he knows something
about this...

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/11/ilhan-omar-israel-lobby-documentary/
PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY CAUGHT ON TAPE BOASTING THAT ITS MONEY INFLUENCES
WASHINGTON
An undercover Al Jazeera investigation informs the conversation about the
Israel lobby?s influence in Washington kicked off by Rep. Ilhan Omar?s
tweets.
Ryan Grim
February 11 2019, 6:31 p.m.

[...]

In the censored documentary, Ochs went on to describe a fundraiser hosted
by Jeff Talpins
<https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-talpins-is-the-hedge-fund-king-youve-never-heard-of-1543764284>,
a hedge fund giant, as similar as well. ?In New York, with Jeff Talpins, we
don?t ask a goddamn thing about the fucking Palestinians. You know why?
?Cause it?s a tiny issue. It?s a small, insignificant issue. The big issue
is Iran. We want everything focused on Iran,? Ochs says. ?What happens is
Jeff meets with the congressman in the back room, tells them exactly what
his goals are ? and by the way, Jeff Talpins is worth $250 million ?
basically they hand him an envelope with 20 credit cards, and say, ?You can
swipe each of these credit cards for a thousand dollars each.??

[...]
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From: Alex Morse <info at alexmorseforcongress.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 6:04 PM
Subject: A right-wing foreign policy PAC is promoting an ?emergency
fundraiser? for Richard Neal
To: Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>

Robert, today a right-wing foreign policy PAC sent out an email asking
their members to attend an "emergency fundraiser" for our opponent.

This PAC proudly supports Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn, and Mitch McConnell,
and now they?re throwing their support behind our opponent, Richie Neal.

Even worse, this "emergency fundraiser" is hosted by a hedge fund
billionaire, Jeffrey Talpins, who has dodged taxes for decades using the
carried interest loophole. Neal has stopped legislation closing that
loophole from even being considered in the Ways and Means Committee,
letting investment bankers like Mr. Talpins avoid paying their fair share.

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From kmedina67 at gmail.com  Mon Aug 31 20:40:57 2020
From: kmedina67 at gmail.com (kmedina67)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:40:57 -0500
Subject: [Peace] Actions that can be taken: Tomorrow is the first of the
 month and millions of tenants are at risk of losing their homes in the
 middle of a global pandemic
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Tomorrow is the first of the month and millions of tenants are at risk of losing their homes in the middle of a global pandemic ? unless...I am forwarding the following, which is from the ACLU, not because I want all on the peace list to join the ACLU, but because I know this group is not all politically left.?The one thing we can agree upon is that having people experience poverty costs the community more if dealing with it is kicked down the road of time:* people evicted are very likely to end up homeless,?* homelessness takes more money to get out of than just money because it also creates trauma in the lives.?* There are not enough homeless shelters in our town let alone all towns across the US.?* homeless people will be arrested for minor crimes (like being parked overnight in a no parking zone).?* Incarcerating people costs a lot more money than paying their rent.?The actions the ACLU are proposing are worth considering joining, even if you are fiscally conservative.?I send this to "peace" as it is a list of actions.I send this to "peace- discuss" as a discussion opportunity.Sincerely,Karen Medina
-------- Original message --------From: ACLU <aclu at aclu.org> Date: 8/31/20  14:07  (GMT-06:00) To: kmedina67 at gmail.com Subject: Rent is due tomorrow 

Here's what can be done immediately.

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Karen ?
Tomorrow is the first of the month and millions of tenants are at risk of losing their homes in the middle of a global pandemic ? unless we act. 
Congress will be back in session in one week, so here's what can be done immediately: Send a message to your senators and representative now and urge them to include at least $100 billion in funding toward emergency rental assistance in the next COVID-19 relief bill ? and extend and expand the already-expired federal eviction moratorium.
Kansas City resident Tiana Caldwell knows exactly how critical this situation is. She and her husband Derrick lost their jobs as COVID-19 hit. 
It was only because of a local moratorium that they were able to keep a roof above their heads. Since that expired, both they and her son could now be unhoused in a pandemic. A risk made far greater by the fact Tiana is a cancer survivor and immunocompromised.
Karen, this is one story out of far too many. Nationally, it is estimated that 30 to 40 million people could be at risk of eviction in the next several months, according to the Aspen Institute.
Communities of color and low-income women are amongst the most vulnerable due to a number of reasons, including staggering pay disparities, wealth gaps, and racial discrimination. And because of these historical inequalities and racism, Black women have evictions filed against them at double the rate of white renters or higher in 17 out of 36 states.
But Congress has the power to prevent this coming wave of mass evictions ? and help minimize the racial and economic inequities that are being exacerbated by this pandemic.
Let's make sure Congress gives us the rental relief we need. Send a message to your senators and representative now. 
Thank you for taking action,

Causten Rodriguez-Wollerman
Deputy Director of Equality Division Campaign, ACLU


















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