From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Jan 2 00:28:33 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 16:28:33 -0800 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Sat. Jan. 4 National Day of Action U.S. Troops Out of Iraq! References: <5e0d34207c77c_37b1efaf6075379@asgworker-qmb3-16.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: Join AWARE downtown Church and Neil Sts, Champaign 2:00-4:00pm to demand the US bring the troops home. > > > Sat. Jan. 4 National Day of Action > U.S. Troops Out of Iraq! > > > > On Saturday, January 4 the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK and others are calling on people from around the United States to organize local demonstrations to demand: NO MORE U.S. TROOPS TO IRAQ OR THE MIDDLE EAST! U.S. OUT OF IRAQ NOW! and NO WAR/NO SANCTIONS ON IRAN! > > SIGN ON AS AN ENDORSER?HERE! > In response to the massive protests in Iraq following the latest U.S. aerial assault that killed scores of Iraqis, Donald Trump has ordered 750 more U.S. troops to the Middle East and potentially 3,000 more. This is in addition to the 5,200 U.S. troops already stationed in Iraq. Every U.S. president over the last 28 years has ordered the bombing of Iraq. The decision by Donald Trump and the Pentagon to launch new air assaults against Iraqis in the past week ignited nationwide resistance by Iraqis who want to reclaim their full sovereignty and do not want Iraq to be used in a U.S. war on Iran. > > More than a million Iraqis have died during the past 28 years as a consequence of U.S. occupation, bombings and sanctions. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have either been killed or suffered life-changing wounds. The U.S. government has spent more than $3 trillion dollars in the on-going occupation and bombing of this oil-rich country. Instead of taking the United States out of this endless war, Trump is building up U.S. forces in the region and threatening a war with Iran. > > Initiators for this call include the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Popular Resistance, World Beyond War and many other anti-war and peace organizations. If you want to add your name as an endorser click here. > > To find an event near you or to have an event listed click here! > Demonstrations will also take place on Saturday, January 4 in the following cities. > > The White House - Washington D.C. > 12noon at the White House > > Albuquerque, NM > 2pm at Kirtland Airforce Base, San Mateo and Gibson Blvd > Initiated by ANSWER Albuquerque > > Chicago, IL > 12noon at Trump Tower > Initiated by ANSWER Chicago > > Los Angeles, CA > 1pm at Pershing Square > Initiated by ANSWER LA > > New York City, NY > 11am at Time Square > Initiated by ANSWER New York > > San Francisco, CA > 12noon at Powell and Market > Initiated by ANSWER San Francisco > > Arlington, MA > 12noon at Broadway Plaza, Mass. 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Jan. 4 National Day of Action U.S. Troops Out of Iraq! References: <5e0d34207c77c_37b1efaf6075379@asgworker-qmb3-16.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: Join AWARE downtown Church and Neil Sts, Champaign 2:00-4:00pm to demand the US bring the troops home. > > > Sat. Jan. 4 National Day of Action > U.S. Troops Out of Iraq! > > > > On Saturday, January 4 the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK and others are calling on people from around the United States to organize local demonstrations to demand: NO MORE U.S. TROOPS TO IRAQ OR THE MIDDLE EAST! U.S. OUT OF IRAQ NOW! and NO WAR/NO SANCTIONS ON IRAN! > > SIGN ON AS AN ENDORSER?HERE! > In response to the massive protests in Iraq following the latest U.S. aerial assault that killed scores of Iraqis, Donald Trump has ordered 750 more U.S. troops to the Middle East and potentially 3,000 more. This is in addition to the 5,200 U.S. troops already stationed in Iraq. Every U.S. president over the last 28 years has ordered the bombing of Iraq. The decision by Donald Trump and the Pentagon to launch new air assaults against Iraqis in the past week ignited nationwide resistance by Iraqis who want to reclaim their full sovereignty and do not want Iraq to be used in a U.S. war on Iran. > > More than a million Iraqis have died during the past 28 years as a consequence of U.S. occupation, bombings and sanctions. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have either been killed or suffered life-changing wounds. The U.S. government has spent more than $3 trillion dollars in the on-going occupation and bombing of this oil-rich country. Instead of taking the United States out of this endless war, Trump is building up U.S. forces in the region and threatening a war with Iran. > > Initiators for this call include the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Popular Resistance, World Beyond War and many other anti-war and peace organizations. 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Nicholson) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 20:30:49 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Notes Message-ID: Notes for items to discuss on News from Neptune. Have a good show guys. Happy new year! Theme: The beatings will continue until morale improves. -J Assange: ?Assange said, I?m slowly dying here? ? Friend recounts Christmas Eve call with WikiLeaks founder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjQgED7mulI -- RT interview extracts https://cdnv.rt.com/files/2019.12/5e0a358085f54063ac3beb15.mp4 -- Full RT interview https://on.rt.com/a85u -- RT article RT remains one of the few places one can get drumbeat updates on Assange's status. Corporate-friendly media (including Democracy Now) simply don't bother to keep up with his court hearings, health status, insider (possibly leaked) video, and therefore you can tell this is not an important case for them. This case might well be something they'd rather you didn't know about at all. RT interviewed British journalist Vaughan Smith who is also Julian Assange's friend. Smith received a Christmas Eve call from Assange who is still in Belmarsh prison (a maximum security prison) being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. Smith noted that the WikiLeaks founder had trouble speaking. Assange's extradition hearing is pending and expected to last a couple of weeks. Given the reports of the obviously biased judge he's dealt with so far, this hearing is not expected to go well for Assange. Here's what Smith said: (Text from the YouTube-hosted video which has interview responses extracted from the other rt.com-hosted video): > Julian rang me because he spent Christmas with me and my family in 2010 > while on bail all that time ago. I think he wanted simply a few minutes > of escape and to talk to us because of the memories he had of that happy > memory. His speech was slurred, he was speaking slowly; now, Julian is a > highly articulate, very clear person when he speaks. And he sounded > awful and it was very upsetting to hear him. The idea of him being > sedated has come from several people who visited him who had clearly > been told. And the British government have been asked about it and they > refuse to address that matter. What they say is they're not mistreating > him but clearly he's being kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a > day. He sounded awful and he said to me that "I'm slowly dying here". He > said that also to my wife, not, of course, to my children. His father > keeps telling us this. His father is telling us this too. You know, we > must stop this. What I find so depressing, as a country, is that clearly > we harbor political prisoners, we have political prisoners because > that's exactly what he is. I didn't think that we were the sort of > country that mistreated them in this way. https://on.rt.com/a88c -- ?US is torturing Chelsea Manning?: Top UN official says her treatment is ?cruel and degrading? > Chelsea Manning is being subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading > treatment, constituting torture by the US government over her refusal to > testify against whistleblower website WikiLeaks, a top United Nations > official has said. > > UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer accused the government of > torturing Manning in a November letter, which was just released on > Tuesday. In the letter, Melzer wrote that Manning is suffering ?an > open-ended, progressively severe measure of coercion? which fulfils ?all > the constitutive elements of torture.? > > Manning, a former Army intelligence analyst, was arrested on May 16 > after she refused to testify against WikiLeaks before a grand jury. She > is still being detained at the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia > and is facing fines of $1,000 a day. Nils Melzer tweeted https://twitter.com/NilsMelzer/status/1211819067503521792 > Just out: My official letter to #USGovt of 1 Nov 2019 explaining why > continued detention of @xychelsea is not a lawful sanction but an > open-ended, progressively severe coercive measure amounting to torture & > should be discontinued & abolished without delay https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=24925 -- Nils Melzer's letter Media: Democracy Now executive director and host Amy Goodman repeat corporate talking points, miss several countervailing points while Goodman reiterated her now years-old speech about the media and media responsibility. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpGgvLZpeV4 -- About 3 weeks ago Amy Goodman was the subject of an "Intercept" interview with Intercept co-founder and former Democracy Now journalist Jeremy Scahill. Part of the interview concerned the media: > Jeremy Scahill: It's kind of fascinating the evolution or devolution, > however you want to view it, of the way journalists and large news > organizations handle these situations because you will have on any given > day on cable news many many Democrats -- politicians, pundits, whatever > a Democratic strategist is -- and they're all talking about how we can't > trust anything that the Trump administration says. And then you have, > oh, when it comes to Israel policy, or certain issues around Saudi > Arabia, or now Iran, where you have very prominent Democrats who claim > to believe that Trump is the greatest threat ever to American democracy > who are actively promoting this administration's case for war. And you > do see some news organizations picking up on that and saying 'Yes, he's > dangerous, but on this issue it's about our national security'. > > Amy Goodman: The media, obviously, is extremely critical of Trump on a > number of issues. And I think you should be critical of those in power, > holding those in power accountable. The reason they found their backbone > is because he's directly attacking them and he has from the beginning of > his presidency, you know, 'the media is enemy of the people', he keeps > intoning and he names the news organizations, he names journalists, and > he targets them. So they're standing up, as they should. Except when it > comes to foreign policy. When President Trump bombs Syria, you know, you > had the networks CNN and MSNBC, when he dropped that MOAB -- the Mother > of All Bombs -- in Afghanistan that was developed by Bush that was not > dropped by Bush or Obama, within a few weeks Trump is dropping this in > Afghanistan with no clear reason why and you have both Brian Williams on > MSNBC and Fareed Zakharia on CNN in these cases saying that's when he > became president. > > [We hear clips of Zakharia saying this is "when [Trump] became President > of the United States, I think this was actually a big moment" and > Williams saying "we see these beautiful pictures at night from the decks > of these two US Navy vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean. I am tempted > to quote the great Leonard Cohen 'I am guided by the beauty of our > weapons'] > > Amy Goodman (continues): They cannot diverge from the President even as > try to protect themselves from him attacking them. > > Jeremy Scahill: Well, I would add another issue to that: the issue of > the targeting of journalists and journalistic sources. I mean, it was > like a national scandal when Jim Acosta had his valuable press pass > taken away for, you know, some days. And it was drumbeat coverage of > this on CNN. And yet you have had record numbers of prosecutions of > journalistic sources beginning with Reality Winner; this administration > has gone after The Intercept. And you had Daniel Pail, the alleged drone > whistleblower, facing 50 years in prison. Julian Assange, 18 criminal > counts alleging espionage, could spend more than a century and a half in > prison if he ends up being extradited to the United States. And you see > no solidarity there. If Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers > today, many many news organizations, journalists, media figures, > politicians would all be talking about the crime that he committed, and > he needs to pay the price for what he's done. And yes, I understand > this, but there are official channels to go through. I mean it's > remarkable, I don't care how many movies Tom Hanks is in about the > Pentagon Papers, the fact of the matter remains that largely in this > country there remains no journalistic solidarity when it's happening in > realtime. > > Amy Goodman: It is a critical issue that there is press solidarity. I > mean that makes the difference, because how do people learn about the > world if they don't know something personally about a country or a > person? They learn about it through the media and that's why it's so > critical. It can't just happen once. It's the drumbeat, front page > coverage that matters. And in this case, this matters enormously. > Whether it's Julian Assange, or Chelsea Manning, who remains in jail; > we're talking about a whistleblower, we're talking about a publisher. > And everyone has to take a stand cause it isn't even only about them > it's about everyone. The media is essential to the functioning of a > democratic society. The media's releasing information is about people's > right to know. When the media releases information, people can, when > they know something, do something about it. And that's why it's so > critical. Yes, it is critical that the media not act as a conveyor belt > for the lies of an administration, the lies so often take lives, but > exposes mean that people live. I think that the above does not represent a fair analysis of either Goodman's recent journalism or how her show has changed around the time of the 2016 US presidential election. During 2003 and the run-up to the war in Iraq, her show was easily recommendable. She'd repeat the New York Times' front page lies and then immediately debunk them by quoting people who knew better such as the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), Hans Blix's group, who clearly said that the narrative of Iraqi WMDs was untrue and did not reflect their experience from on-the-ground inspections. During the early part of that invasion, Democracy Now told the audience they were running reports from "unembedded" journalists -- journalists who didn't go with the militaries that invaded and occupied Iraq -- and this set DN apart from the corporate media which took pride in their "embedded" reports, showing us only what the establishment (courtesy of the military) wanted us to see. Around and after the 2016 election, things at DN changed. Goodman started repeating talking points that avoided making the Democratic Party (and Hillary Clinton's campaign) look bad without any counternarrative. It would be up to guests to debunk a corporate-friendly narrative (such as Glenn Greenwald debunking Russiagate stories). I don't give DN much credit for that because DN is a live show which means guests don't speak for the show and live airing makes editing out counterspeech obvious and clumsy. The headline segments are another matter entirely: in the headline segments you get nothing but what DN wants you to know. Some points in this Intercept interview require some unpacking because the interview leaves out salient details that could help us reach a different conclusion than this non-challenging interview would have us believe: * Scahill mentioned Reality Winner -- Winner was an intelligence contractor accused of leaking classified NSA documents about alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, leaked information to The Intercept. About an hour after The Intercept's publication of these NSA documents, the Justice Department announced it had arrested Winner charging her with violating the Espionage Act. How did the documents come to be identified as coming from Winner? Someone at The Intercept vetted the documents' veracity by sharing unredacted documents with the government and asking the US government if the documents were theirs. In June 2017 the New York Times published a few paragraphs on this which explain the situation. From https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/business/media/intercept-reality-winner-russia-trump-leak.html > The Intercept said it did not know the identity of its source, who > mailed the document in a plain envelope. But an F.B.I. affidavit > released on Monday described a series of actions by the news outlet, > such as sharing a copy of the document with the National Security > Agency, that allowed the document?s provenance to be quickly deduced. > > ?I haven?t seen a mistake this consequential before,? said Barton > Gellman, who reported for The Washington Post on the leaks provided by > Edward J. Snowden. > > In an interview, Mr. Gellman said The Intercept?s scoop was ?a really > good story? from a professional organization that ?knows a lot about > this stuff ? they have arguably the best operational security experts in > journalism over there.? > > ?So it?s baffling that they didn?t make use of them,? he added. > > National-security reporting is specialized, but journalists in the field > said Tuesday that The Intercept had appeared to ignore some basic > tenets. > > Sharing an original document when asking questions of government > officials, as The Intercept appears to have done, can expose metadata > and high-tech watermarks that may reveal a leaker?s identity. And an > affidavit asserts that The Intercept revealed to a second contractor > that the document was mailed from Augusta, Ga., where Ms. Winner > resides. Barton Gellman should become more familiar with WikiLeaks' setup; there's only one organization to leak to, according to CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, that's WikiLeaks. As to the likelihood Gellman and the NYT has the correct story here: it's plausible. Printer microdots are tiny dots on the backside of a printed page coming out of a modern laser printer. These dots can be found (if one looks for them) and used to identify a specific print job ID. Looking up the print job ID in the print logs can identify which user printed the job, on which printer, and at which time. So it's possible that Winner used her office's printer to print the leaked documents and then sent those documents in a plain envelope to The Intercept. And then The Intercept revealed way too much information in its hamfisted method of authenticating the documents. None of this is mentioned in Scahill & Goodman's interview. * Goodman said "you should be critical of those in power, holding those in power accountable" but she's been that "conveyor belt for the lies of an administration" on Russiagate (repeating and never debunking the lies of Russiagate which lead to, among other things, Russian sanctions which help injure and kill people as sanctions do everywhere else the US imposes them: Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, etc.). Goodman also repeatedly hosts Marcy Wheeler, a Russiagate repeater whom former DN journalist Aaron Mate has interviewed and debunked during his brief tenure at The Real News. Goodman also echoes and never debunks reports of what happened in the Skripal poisonings (in Salisbury, England in early March 2018). Similar poisonings also later happened in the same city which killed one person. There are many questions worth raising there but you're not likely to hear them on Democracy Now. All DN offers are a series of 1-paragraph headline stories (8 mentioning "Skripal") none of which incentivize the audience to ask about the details of the story such as why the attacks occur so close to a British chemical lab (like the one needed to formulate the alleged "nerve agent"), what involvement the Russian state has in this versus other non-state Russians such as the Russian mafia (as Seymour Hirsch told RT). DN offers enough information on this to support the Russiagate narrative and nothing to challenge that narrative. Goodman also echoes a corporate-compatible line on the recent alleged gas attack in Douma, Syria. Evidence at the time suggested that attack never happened, and the leaked reports from OPCW (Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) engineers say that the official OPCW report was untrue -- the gas canisters found on the scene were most likely "manually placed" and not dropped from the air. WikiLeaks has helped convey this OPCW information to us, and RT has been far more forthcoming with this story as it unfolds than Democracy Now. The mishandling of both the alleged Douma gas attack and Russiagate were cause for Aaron Mate to quit his job at DN. Mate would also leave The Real News and The Intercept for comparable reasons. Today he publishes with The Grayzone Project (with Ben Norton, Anya Parampil, and Max Blumenthal) on his own YouTube show "Pushback with Aaron Mate" and has won an Izzy award for his Russiagate debunking. None of this is mentioned in Scahill & Goodman's interview. * Jeremy Scahill mentioned "the issue of the targeting of journalists and journalistic sources". but left out what CNN's Jake Tapper told Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post on-air: "the Obama administration has used the Espionage Act to go after whistleblowers who leaked to journalists ... more than all previous administrations combined". Neither Obama's name nor his alarming statistic come up in this interview but this clip could have been found and the audio replayed (as The Intercept did for other portions of this interview). Goodman doesn't bring this up either. * Jeremy Scahill goes on to mention the 2018 kerfuffle involving CNN's Jim Acosta but it's not quite clear that Acosta's brief loss of press credentials pales in comparison to RT's under-pressure loss of capitol credentials in December 2017. Also, RT gets no mention in this Intercept interview, despite Goodman and Scahill agreeing that realtime "journalistic solidarity" is critical. RT was threatened with a FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) violation. You may have heard of FARA in the context of Russian gun rights activist Maria Butina who was smeared by the US government, charged with and convicted of a FARA violation. Butina recently finished serving prison time for her conviction and was deported to Russia. RT was put in a tough spot which is both unfair and requires extra work from them seemingly because they're Russian and they challenge the US Russiagate narrative. If RT didn't comply -- including RT America which is, as Redacted Tonight's host Lee Camp tells us at the start of every show since being threatened with FARA violation, "Where Americans in America covering American news are called foreign agents" -- RT would lose all credentials to be in the briefing sessions with other press. If they did comply, more work awaits them. Meanwhile other state-owned foreign news outlets (the BBC and France 24, to name a couple) were not similarly threatened or forced to do what RT does. RT explained: From https://on.rt.com/91l2 > Concerned that Americans may be watching ?foreign propaganda? (or > something different than what is offered on the mainstream media menu) > Representatives Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) introduced > the Countering Foreign Propaganda Act. > > In practice, it would force RT to do even more reporting to the US > government than it currently does under the Foreign Agents Registration > Act (FARA) and will also force it to broadcast every 30 minutes a > message saying it is funded by, and is ?under editorial control? of, a > foreign government. Apparently, the Federal Communications Commission > (FCC) will also be the arbiter of who is under editorial control and who > is not, because the BBC and France 24 would not be forced to disclose > the origins of their funding, according to Foreign Policy (FP) ? > presumably, because their messaging is simply accidentally, sort of, in > line with that of the British and French governments respectively. > > RT?s stance on a potential crackdown in the US was summarized by its > editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan: ?When the high from FARA is no > longer hard enough, the representatives switch to even harder > legislation.? This unfair approach to foreign so-called "agents" and propaganda continues to this day. You can see this announcement of foreign control and the increased logging requirements at the start of other RT America shows such as Chris Hedges' program "On Contact" and "Redacted Tonight". In https://on.rt.com/8um6 RT wrote: > Dave Lindorff, investigative journalist and founder of the news website > This Can?t Be Happening, believes that evicting RT from the US Congress > serves only to further demonize Russia, and that Russia will likely > remain the only victim. > > ?I think this is all focused on demonizing Russia and it has to do with > the military-industrial complex wanting to have an enemy and people > getting tired of the war on terror, so why not to have the revival of a > sort of Cold War. That?s a great way to get money for weapons systems, > like, really expensive ones,? Lindorff said. > > Since Russia is such a convenient scapegoat, Lindorff suggested that > pushing the anti-Russian narrative may come in handy for US Congress > members from both sides of the aisle, as it ?allows a congressperson > without having really to do anything to go back to their voters and say: > 'Oh, I?m taking a tough stand against this Russian interference in our > democratic system.'? > > The continuing anti-Russian hysteria has also been fueled by the > Democratic leadership, which is still ?trying steer people away from the > idea that they blew away the election by pushing the nomination of > Hillary Clinton who then blew the elections,? Lindorff argued. Amy Goodman and Democracy Now present no information about nor challenge to the inequities of Russiagate, RT's additional burdens, and thus offer no journalistic solidarity with the journalists of RT. * In regard to Trump calling the media the enemy of the people, Trump has more of a point than Goodman describes in this interview. Let's not forget that the vast majority of the corporate media repeatedly predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency in 2016. She lost and few in the media bothered to explain either that they were woefully wrong or tell their audience that they'd understand why the public would have so little trust for their methods. This alone represents a huge problem for anyone to conclude that Trump's media disdain is entirely without merit; every time we're reminded that he's POTUS versus what we were all told while he was a candidate is a sharp reminder of the failure of so much of the media. Right now, Bernie Sanders is getting less coverage on MSNBC than Amy Klobuchar despite his polling 7 times higher than Klobuchar. Kyle Kulinsky (known as "Secular Talk" on YouTube) posted about this in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9tnDuqJu2o -- a recent research project (the GDELT project) which tracked the number of mentions each Democratic Party presidential candidate received from December 16, 2019 through December 22, 2019 and compared the results to their polling popularity and their share of MSNBC mentions, and then listed the difference. See https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EMnRI-HXUAAMvkk.jpg for this chart. The largest difference is 11.9 points for Bernie Sanders -- Sanders got 238 mentions, making up 9.9% of MSNBC coverage but is polling at 21.8%, second only to Joe Biden at 30.4%. Most other candidates are within 4 points of difference between their polling and mentions on MSNBC (Buttigieg had 6.5 points difference and Klobuchar had 7 points difference). There's a reason people are using the "#BernieBlackout" hashtag on Twitter, and part of that is not just how he's being treated now but how this echoes his treatment by corporate media in 2016 (in other words, this isn't new and it's not surprising). Other examples include Russiagate stories like the Washington Post article claiming Russians are taking over the US electrical grid via a Vermont power station, virtually every episode of the Rachel Maddow show since Trump was duly elected (Aaron Mate in his Intercept article showed that Russigate stories make up the majority of Maddow's show's focus), the widespread repetition of various lies stemming from the debunked Steele dossier including that Trump urinated on a Russian prostitute while having extramarital sex, and the recent admissions from the Inspector General's report on 2016 FBI spying on Trump campaign members (spying which Trump has long alleged to be true but those with Trump Derangement Syndrome have argued never happened). The recent publication of the Afghan papers from the Washington Post clearly state that the Bush and Obama administrations had no idea who our Afghan enemies were, where they were, and yet we're now in our third administration to continue that war at the cost of billions every year. This WaPo report is only getting real coverage in the alternative media. A separate report about trillions of dollars which are unaccounted for in the first-ever Defense Dept. audit also gets covered only in alternative media (except for DN). These points also go to why so many people have no reason to believe the mainstream media when they tell us the US can't afford something (a counterpoint never raised to justify killing people). The Intercept has undergone a transformation as well: when it began it had a much smaller writing staff, they published far less frequently, and their publications were something to look forward to because each story was of high quality and stood up to inquiry. As the writing staff grew it became clear they were hiring people whose work was of a lesser quality; the kind of articles one finds in the New York Times (which still enjoys a largely undeserved good reputation). In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsY70_uIXNc or https://theintercept.com/2018/02/21/intercepted-podcast-russiamania-glenn-greenwald-vs-james-risen/ Glenn Greenwald and Jim Risen debate the Trump/Russia investigation and the article where Risen wrote: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/16/trump-russia-election-hacking-investigation/ > But if a presidential candidate or his lieutenants secretly work with a > foreign government that is a longtime adversary of the United States to > manipulate and then win a presidential election, that is almost a > textbook definition of treason. Which Greenwald, a Constitutional lawyer, called "Not just wrong but dangerously wrong" and then Greenwald explained clearly why he found Risen to be so wrong (pointing to the excellent article from James Vladeck https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/americans-have-forgotten-what-treason-actually-means-how-it-can-ncna848651 ). Despite the facts Greenwald raised in this debate, despite Vladeck's clear counterpoint to Risen's aforementioned assertion, Risen continues to defend Russiagate today. Greenwald said early on in this debate that Risen is "one of my heroes in journalism" but the devastating evidence to the contrary Greenwald brought is unignorable -- we are given ample reason to discount what Risen wrote, dismissing his input just as we do with so many other Russiagators. President Trump lies on important issues quite a bit. But this isn't unique to Trump; remember Obama's "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor"? That was a lie Obama took on tour across the country. The media most Americans are exposed to every day is riddled with what Trump famously calls "fake news". That term, fake news, has staying power precisely because it's not that hard to find fake news. But to listen to Amy Goodman in this Intercept interview you'd think that Trump's low opinion of the corporate media is entirely unjustified. -J From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Jan 2 15:11:01 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 07:11:01 -0800 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Behind the U.S. anti-China Campaign References: <001e01d5c178$821ca7d0$8655f770$@comcast.net> Message-ID: > > Behind the U.S. anti-China Campaign > https://unac.notowar.net/2019/12/21/behind-the-u-s-anti-china-campaign/ > Behind the U.S. anti-China Campaign ? Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad! > by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 18, 2018. In order to evaluate the claims of massive human rights violations of the Uyghurs, an ethnic and religious minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, it is important to know a few facts. > unac.notowar.net > > DECEMBER 21, 2019 UNAC EDITOR CHINA , IMPERIALISM > by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World , December 18, 2018 > In order to evaluate the claims of massive human rights violations of the Uyghurs, an ethnic and religious minority in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, it is important to know a few facts. > Geographic map of China. Notice that Xinjiang province has a large desert in the center and is surrounded by mountains. It borders Afghanistan, Pakistan and India among others. > Xinjiang Province in the far western region of China is an arid, mountainous and still largely underdeveloped region. Xinjiang has significant oil and mineral reserves and is currently China?s largest natural-gas-producing region. > It is home to a number of diverse ethnic groups, including Turkic-speaking Muslim Uyghurs, Tibetans, Tajiks, Hui and Han peoples. > Xinjiang borders five Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan and Pakistan, where more than 1 million U.S. troops and even more mercenaries, contractors and secret agents have operated over four decades in an endless U.S. war. > What is happening in Xinjiang today must be seen in the context of what has been happening throughout Central Asia. > Xinjiang is a major logistics center for China?s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. Xinjiang is the gateway to Central and West Asia, as well as to European markets. > The Southern Xinjiang Railway runs to the city of Kashgar in China?s far west where it is now connected to Pakistan?s rail network under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a project of the BRI. > The U.S. government is deeply hostile to this vast economic development project and is doing all it can to sabotage China?s plans. This campaign is part of the U.S. military?s ?Pivot to Asia,? along with naval threats in the South China Sea and support for separatist movements in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tibet. > No U.N. report on Xinjiang > The U.S. and its corporate media charge that the Chinese government has rounded up 1 million people, mainly Uyghurs, into concentration camps. News reports cite the United Nations as their source. > This was disputed in a detailed investigative report by Ben Norton and Ajit Singh titled, ?No, the UN did not report China has ?massive internment camps? for Uighur Muslims.? (The Grayzone.com , Aug. 23, 2018) They expose how this widely publicized claim is based entirely on unsourced allegations by a single U.S. member, Gay McDougall, on an ?independent committee? with an official sounding name: U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. > The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has confirmed that no U.N. body or official has made such a charge against China. > CIA/NED-funded ?human rights? > After this fraudulent news story received wide coverage, it was followed by ?reports? from the Washington-based Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders. This group receives most of its funds from U.S. government grants, primarily from the CIA-linked National Endowment for Democracy, a major source of funding for U.S. ?regime change? operations around the world. > The Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders shares the same Washington address as Human Rights Watch. The HRW has been a major source of attacks on governments targeted by the U.S., such as Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Syria and China. The network has long called for sanctions against China. > The CHRD?s sources include Radio Free Asia, a news agency funded for decades by the U.S. government. The World Uighur Congress, another source of sensationalized reports, is also funded by NED. The same U.S. government funding is behind the International Uyghur Human Rights and Democracy Foundation and the Uyghur American Association. > The authors of the Grayzone article cite years of detailed IRS filing forms to back up their claim. They list millions of dollars in generous government funding ? to generate false reports. > This whole network of supposedly impartial civil society groups, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks and news sources operates under the cover of ?human rights? to promote sanctions and war. > CIA-funded terror > Central Asia has experienced the worst forms of U.S. military power. > Beginning in 1979, the CIA, operating with the ISI Pakistani Intelligence Service and Saudi money, funded and equipped reactionary Mujahedeen forces in Afghanistan to bring down a revolutionary government there. The U.S. cultivated and promoted extreme religious fanaticism, based in Saudi Arabia, against progressive secular regimes in the region. This reactionary force was also weaponized against the Soviet Union and an anti-imperialist Islamic current represented by the Iranian Revolution. > For four decades, the CIA and secret Pakistan ISI forces in Afghanistan sought to recruit and train Uyghur mercenaries, planning to use them as a future terror force in China. Chechnyans from Russia?s Caucasus region were recruited for the same reason. Both groups were funneled into Syria in the U.S. regime-change operation there. These fanatical religious forces, along with other small ethnic groups, formed the backbone of the Islamic State group (IS) and Al-Qaida. > After the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center bombing, the very forces that U.S. secret operations had helped to create became the enemy. > Uyghurs from Xinjiang were among the Al-Qaida prisoners captured in Afghanistan and held in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo for years without charges. Legal appeals exposed that the Uyghur prisoners were being held there under some of the worst conditions in solitary confinement. > U.S. wars dislocate region > The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and the massive U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 created shock-waves of dislocation. Social progress, education, health care and infrastructure were destroyed. Sectarian and ethnic division was encouraged to divide opposition to U.S. occupations. Despite promises of great progress, the U.S. occupations sowed only destruction. > In this long war, U.S. prisons in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq were notorious. The CIA used ?enhanced interrogation? techniques ? torture ? and secret rendition to Guantanamo, Bagram and the Salt Pit in Afghanistan. These secret prisons have since been the source of many legal suits. > According to U.N. investigations, by 2010 the U.S. held more than 27,000 prisoners in over 100 secret facilities around the world. Searing images and reports of systematic torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Bagram airbase in Afghanistan surfaced. > Exposing coverup of war crimes > In July 2010 WikiLeaks published more than 75,000 classified U.S./NATO reports on the war in Afghanistan. > In October of that year, a massive leak of 400,000 military videos, photos and documents exposed, in harrowing detail, torture, summary executions and other war crimes. Army intelligence analyst former Private Chelsea Manning released this damning material to WikiLeaks. > Based on the leaked documents, the U.N. chief investigator on torture, Manfred Nowak, called on U.S. President Barack Obama to order a full investigation of these crimes, including abuse, torture, rape and murder committed against the Iraqi people following the U.S. invasion and occupation. > The leaked reports provided documentary proof of 109,000 deaths ? including 66,000 civilians. This is seldom mentioned in the media, in contrast to the highly publicized and unsourced charges now raised against China. > Prosecuting whistle blowers > The CIA?s National Endowment for Democracy pays handsomely for unsourced documents making claims of torture against China, while those who provided documentary proof of U.S. torture have been treated as criminals. > John Kiriakou, who worked for the CIA between 1990 and 2004 and confirmed widespread use of systematic torture, was prosecuted by the Obama administration for revealing classified information and sentenced to 30 months in prison. > Chelsea Manning?s release of tens of thousands of government documents confirming torture and abuse, in addition to horrific photos of mass killings, have led to her continued incarceration. Julian Assange of WikiLeaks is imprisoned in Britain and faces deportation to the U.S. for his role in disseminating these documents. > Rewriting history > How much of the coverage of Xinjiang is intended to deflect world attention from the continuing crimes of U.S. wars ? from Afghanistan to Syria? > In 2014 a Senate CIA Torture Report confirmed that a torture program, called ?Detention and Interrogation Program,? had been approved by top U.S. officials. Only a 525-page Executive Summary of its 6,000 pages was released, but it was enough to confirm that the CIA program was far more brutal and extensive than had previously been released. > Mercenaries flood into Syria > The U.S. regime-change effort to overturn the government of Syria funneled more than 100,000 foreign mercenaries and fanatical religious forces into the war. They were well-equipped with advanced weapons, military gear, provisions and paychecks. > One-third of the Syrian population was uprooted in the war. Millions of refugees flooded into Europe and neighboring countries. > Beginning in 2013, thousands of Uyghur fighters were smuggled into Syria to train with the extremist Uyghur group known as the Turkistan Islamic Party. Fighting alongside Al-Qaida and Al-Nusra terror units, these forces played key roles in several battles. > Reuters, Associated Press and Newsweek all reported that up to 5,000 Turkic-speaking Muslim Uyghurs from Xinjiang were fighting in various ?militant? groups in Syria. > According to Syrian media, a transplanted Uyghur colony transformed the city of al Zanbaka (on the Turkish border) into an entrenched camp of 18,000 people. Many of the Uyghur fighters were smuggled to the Turkish-Syrian border area with their families. Speaking Turkish, rather than Chinese, they relied on the support of the Turkish secret services. > China follows a different path > China is determined to follow a different path in dealing with fanatical groups that are weaponized by religious extremism. China?s action comes after terror attacks and explosives have killed hundreds of civilians in busy shopping areas and crowded train and bus stations since the 1990s. > China has dealt with the problem of religious extremism by setting up large-scale vocational education and training centers. Rather than creating worse underdevelopment through bombing campaigns, it is seeking to engage the population in education, skill development and rapid economic and infrastructure development. > Terrorist attacks in Xinjiang have stopped since the reeducation campaigns began in 2017. > Two worldviews of Xinjiang > In July of this year, 22 countries, most in Europe plus Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, sent a letter to the U.N. Human Rights Council criticizing China for mass arbitrary detentions and other violations against Muslims in China?s Xinjiang region. The statement did not include a single signature from a Muslim-majority state. > Days later, a far larger group of 34 countries ? now expanded to 54 from Asia, Africa and Latin America ? submitted a letter in defense of China?s policies. These countries expressed their firm support of China?s counterterrorism and deradicalization measures in Xinjiang. > More than a dozen member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the U.N. signed the statement. > A further statement on Oct. 31 to the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly explained that a number of diplomats, international organizations, officials and journalists had traveled to Xinjiang to witness the progress of the human rights cause and the outcomes of counterterrorism and deradicalization. >> ?What they saw and heard in Xinjiang completely contradicted what was reported in the [Western] media,? >> > said the statement. > Sara Flounders is an American political writer who has been active in ?progressive? and anti-war organizing since the 1960s. Sara is Co-Director of the International Action Center (IAC) and a member of the Secretariat of Workers World Party She also frequently writes for Workers World newspaper and publishes articles on the International Action Center website . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It would be laughable if not so obvious another vehicle setting the stage for future war or regime change with China, our ultimate goal of imperialism and hegemony. > On Jan 2, 2020, at 06:26, David Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > > US-China Trade War Aggravated by Uyghur and Hong Kong Support > https://unac.notowar.net/2019/12/08/us-china-trade-war-aggravated-by-uyghur-and-hong-kong-support/ > US-China Trade War Aggravated by Uyghur and Hong Kong Support ? Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad! > The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) is the largest and broadest antiwar and social justice coalition in the United States. Our purpose is to bring together the disparate organizations and issues representing people in struggle today and to unify in collective action in opposition to the major perpetrator of war and injustice in the world ? the United States government along with its ... > unac.notowar.net > > DECEMBER 8, 2019 UNAC EDITOR CHINA , FEATURED , HONG KONG , MIDDLE EAST WARS , SANCTIONS AND ECONOMIC WARFARE , SYRIA , TERRORISM > by Stephen Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse , December 5, 2019 > The Uyghur people are an ethnic group of Muslims in western China and they speak the ancient Turkic language, which is the root of the modern Turkish language. Their province is Xinjiang, and their capital city is Urumqi. China is a huge country, and to keep peace and harmony all ethnicities work together, and while respecting each other?s rights, they live as one people, like America. Recently, both US President Trump and the US House have made dramatic accusations against the Chinese government on sensitive domestic policies involving counter-terrorism measures and domestic safety issues. > The US House Uyghur Bill > The US House of Representatives passed Bill S.178, the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019 . The bill, which terms the detention centers ?political re-education camps ,? recommends targeted sanctions on members of the Chinese government and the Communist Party, as well as bans on the sale of US-made goods to ?any state agency in Xinjiang.? > China?s response to the US Bill > Hua Chunying , a spokesperson for China?s Foreign Ministry, said, ?We state our position clearly to the US that as Xinjiang is part of China.? She further stated, ?This bill deliberately smears the human rights condition in Xinjiang, slanders China?s efforts in de-radicalization and counter-terrorism and viciously attacks the Chinese government?s Xinjiang policy. The issue that Xinjiang faces is not about ethnicity, religion or human rights. Rather, it is about fighting violence, terrorism, and separatism.? Hua Chunying listed out numerous international organizations in 2019 who have commended China?s efforts in providing care to Muslim citizens, including the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. > Are all Uyghurs terrorists? > There is a small number of separatists seeking an independent Xinjiang, and are supported by outside influences, while the majority of the Uyghurs are peaceful Chinese citizens. Uyghurs run the risk of having their identity high-jacked by Radical Islam, which is a political ideology, and not a religion or a sect. The population is under-educated and lacking employment opportunities. The Chinese government is pursuing a policy of de-radicalization, vocational training, and language skills which could allow Uyghurs to advance in industry and society. > However, there have been complaints about the methods used by the Chinese government. American journalist, Rob Schmitz , visited the vocational training camps, and he reported, >> ?They said they were more like political indoctrination camps where inmates were forced to repeat communist slogans and had to attend classes that taught them their religious traditions were backward and harmful.? >> > Who benefits from turmoil in Western China? > Hua Chunying , said, >> ?Under the pretext of Xinjiang-related issues, the US attempts to sow discord among various ethnic groups in China, undermine prosperity and stability in Xinjiang, and contain China?s growth.? >> > The Uyghurs in Idlib and the role of President Erdogan of Turkey > In 1995, Erdogan, then-Mayor of Istanbul, gave a speech in which he stated, >> ?Eastern Turkestan is not only the home of the Turkic peoples, but it is also the cradle of Turkic history, civilization, and culture. The martyrs of Eastern Turkestan are our martyrs.? >> > He referred to the Uyghurs. > The ruling party of Pres. Erdogan, AKP, is an Islamist party. The Muslim Brotherhood is a global political party which is based on Radical Islam. Erdogan is a supporter and defender of the Muslim Brotherhood and the US is also home to the Muslim Brotherhood, with offices and members across the US. > Pres. Erdogan formed his mercenary army of Chinese citizens: the Uyghurs. He gave them Turkish passports , which they used to pass legally through Central Asia to arrive in Turkey. The immigration officials at the airport in Istanbul recognized these special passports, and didn?t confiscate them, but allowed the Chinese to pass through legally and enter Turkey. Pres. Erdogan had arranged for them to be transported from the airport into Idlib. > The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) is an armed Uyghur Salafist jihadist group in Idlib, while the organization?s core leadership is based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a presence in its home territory of China. Their goal is to establish an Islamic State in Xinjiang, and eventually all of Central Asia. Osama Bin Laden pledged his support for the group during a 1999 meeting in Afghanistan. Its members have trained with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The US Department of State labeled ETIM as a foreign terrorist organization. On July 28, 2016, TIP became an official faction of Jabhat al Nusra, which is an al-Qaeda group in Syria. > Erdogan?s plan depended on altering Syrian demographics; by repopulating Idlib province with jihadist Chinese Uyghurs, who attacked Syrian homeowners and farmers, causing them to flee and thus abandoning their properties to the foreigners. The Turkish President has a vision of a new Turcic colony annexed to Turkey. > Zanbaqi is a village located near Jisr al-Shughur. The residents numbered just 752 in 2004; however, today there are about 3,500 Uyghur TIP militants and their families living there, with their military camps training hundreds of children from these families. TIP trains Uyghur children to be ?little jihadists .? The children are to go back to China and transform China into an Islamic State. > On June 10, 2015, the Qalb Loze massacre was carried out as the Uyghurs slaughtered civilians. Churches and the Christian communities of Idlib were targeted by the Uyghurs, as they destroyed churches and kidnapped and beheaded Priests . > Terrorist acts in China by the Uyghurs > The history of terrorist acts in China by the Uyghurs goes back decades, but in recent years there were: 2008, bus explosion in Beijing; 2009, 200 died in riots in ?r?mqi; 2013, 5 died when a car crashed into a group of pedestrians in Beijing; 2014, 29 people stabbed to death and 130 injured, when 10 terrorists attacked people in the train station at Kunming ; 2014, Juma Tahir , an Uyghur cleric who had been the voice for peace, was stabbed to death by 3 terrorists. > Who is behind the Uyghurs in the US and the international stage? > The World Uyghur Congress is funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy of the United States. The Congress was formed in mid-April 2004 at a meeting in Munich, Germany, and works in tandem with the Uyghur American Association based in Washington, D.C. These groups want the western portion of China, which they call East Turkestan, to have independence from China, and their separatist goals and maneuvers are supported by the US and its allies, with additional funding coming from people in the Middle East. Former President of the Congress, Rebiya Kadeer , was arrested in 1999 for sending confidential Chinese government reports to her husband, who worked in the United States as a pro-Xinjiang independence broadcaster, where she now lives. > Hong Kong Interference and China?s Response > US President Trump signed into law the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 27. Beijing has strongly condemned the US law and accused Washington of supporting and perpetuating violence in the Asian financial hub. The law supports Hong Kong?s five-month-old pro-democracy movement and allows the U.S. to impose sanctions on those responsible for human rights violations in Hong Kong. China, in response, suspended US military visits to Hong Kong and has imposed sanctions on NGOs that supported, or aided, the violent protests, including the National Endowment for Democracy ; the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; the International Republican Institute, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House. China has asked the US to stop meddling in China?s domestic affairs. > The US-China trade war > Billions of dollars of tariffs on American and Chinese goods have been imposed by both countries in their yearlong trade war, which was expected to negotiate ?phase-one? in December, but in London, Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said it may be delayed until after the 2020 US Presidential election in November . Hua Chunying replied when asked about what effect recent US proclamations on the Uyghurs, and Hong Kong protests would have on the US-China trade war, ?Do you think if America takes actions to hurt China?s interests we won?t take any action?? > Steven Sahiounie is an independent Syrian political analyst and writer based in Lebanon; he has been covering the Syrian crisis since it?s onset in 2011 and has published several articles in numerous media outlets ? He is regularly interviewed by US, Canadian and German media. > DECEMBER 8, 2019 UNAC EDITOR CHINA , FEATURED , HONG KONG , MIDDLE EAST WARS , SANCTIONS AND ECONOMIC WARFARE , SYRIA , TERRORISM > by Stephen Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse , December 5, 2019 > The Uyghur people are an ethnic group of Muslims in western China and they speak the ancient Turkic language, which is the root of the modern Turkish language. Their province is Xinjiang, and their capital city is Urumqi. China is a huge country, and to keep peace and harmony all ethnicities work together, and while respecting each other?s rights, they live as one people, like America. Recently, both US President Trump and the US House have made dramatic accusations against the Chinese government on sensitive domestic policies involving counter-terrorism measures and domestic safety issues. > The US House Uyghur Bill > The US House of Representatives passed Bill S.178, the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2019 . The bill, which terms the detention centers ?political re-education camps ,? recommends targeted sanctions on members of the Chinese government and the Communist Party, as well as bans on the sale of US-made goods to ?any state agency in Xinjiang.? > China?s response to the US Bill > Hua Chunying , a spokesperson for China?s Foreign Ministry, said, ?We state our position clearly to the US that as Xinjiang is part of China.? She further stated, ?This bill deliberately smears the human rights condition in Xinjiang, slanders China?s efforts in de-radicalization and counter-terrorism and viciously attacks the Chinese government?s Xinjiang policy. The issue that Xinjiang faces is not about ethnicity, religion or human rights. Rather, it is about fighting violence, terrorism, and separatism.? Hua Chunying listed out numerous international organizations in 2019 who have commended China?s efforts in providing care to Muslim citizens, including the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. > Are all Uyghurs terrorists? > There is a small number of separatists seeking an independent Xinjiang, and are supported by outside influences, while the majority of the Uyghurs are peaceful Chinese citizens. Uyghurs run the risk of having their identity high-jacked by Radical Islam, which is a political ideology, and not a religion or a sect. The population is under-educated and lacking employment opportunities. The Chinese government is pursuing a policy of de-radicalization, vocational training, and language skills which could allow Uyghurs to advance in industry and society. > However, there have been complaints about the methods used by the Chinese government. American journalist, Rob Schmitz , visited the vocational training camps, and he reported, >> ?They said they were more like political indoctrination camps where inmates were forced to repeat communist slogans and had to attend classes that taught them their religious traditions were backward and harmful.? >> > Who benefits from turmoil in Western China? > Hua Chunying , said, >> ?Under the pretext of Xinjiang-related issues, the US attempts to sow discord among various ethnic groups in China, undermine prosperity and stability in Xinjiang, and contain China?s growth.? >> > The Uyghurs in Idlib and the role of President Erdogan of Turkey > In 1995, Erdogan, then-Mayor of Istanbul, gave a speech in which he stated, >> ?Eastern Turkestan is not only the home of the Turkic peoples, but it is also the cradle of Turkic history, civilization, and culture. The martyrs of Eastern Turkestan are our martyrs.? >> > He referred to the Uyghurs. > The ruling party of Pres. Erdogan, AKP, is an Islamist party. The Muslim Brotherhood is a global political party which is based on Radical Islam. Erdogan is a supporter and defender of the Muslim Brotherhood and the US is also home to the Muslim Brotherhood, with offices and members across the US. > Pres. Erdogan formed his mercenary army of Chinese citizens: the Uyghurs. He gave them Turkish passports , which they used to pass legally through Central Asia to arrive in Turkey. The immigration officials at the airport in Istanbul recognized these special passports, and didn?t confiscate them, but allowed the Chinese to pass through legally and enter Turkey. Pres. Erdogan had arranged for them to be transported from the airport into Idlib. > The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) is an armed Uyghur Salafist jihadist group in Idlib, while the organization?s core leadership is based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a presence in its home territory of China. Their goal is to establish an Islamic State in Xinjiang, and eventually all of Central Asia. Osama Bin Laden pledged his support for the group during a 1999 meeting in Afghanistan. Its members have trained with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. The US Department of State labeled ETIM as a foreign terrorist organization. On July 28, 2016, TIP became an official faction of Jabhat al Nusra, which is an al-Qaeda group in Syria. > Erdogan?s plan depended on altering Syrian demographics; by repopulating Idlib province with jihadist Chinese Uyghurs, who attacked Syrian homeowners and farmers, causing them to flee and thus abandoning their properties to the foreigners. The Turkish President has a vision of a new Turcic colony annexed to Turkey. > Zanbaqi is a village located near Jisr al-Shughur. The residents numbered just 752 in 2004; however, today there are about 3,500 Uyghur TIP militants and their families living there, with their military camps training hundreds of children from these families. TIP trains Uyghur children to be ?little jihadists .? The children are to go back to China and transform China into an Islamic State. > On June 10, 2015, the Qalb Loze massacre was carried out as the Uyghurs slaughtered civilians. Churches and the Christian communities of Idlib were targeted by the Uyghurs, as they destroyed churches and kidnapped and beheaded Priests . > Terrorist acts in China by the Uyghurs > The history of terrorist acts in China by the Uyghurs goes back decades, but in recent years there were: 2008, bus explosion in Beijing; 2009, 200 died in riots in ?r?mqi; 2013, 5 died when a car crashed into a group of pedestrians in Beijing; 2014, 29 people stabbed to death and 130 injured, when 10 terrorists attacked people in the train station at Kunming ; 2014, Juma Tahir , an Uyghur cleric who had been the voice for peace, was stabbed to death by 3 terrorists. > Who is behind the Uyghurs in the US and the international stage? > The World Uyghur Congress is funded in part by the National Endowment for Democracy of the United States. The Congress was formed in mid-April 2004 at a meeting in Munich, Germany, and works in tandem with the Uyghur American Association based in Washington, D.C. These groups want the western portion of China, which they call East Turkestan, to have independence from China, and their separatist goals and maneuvers are supported by the US and its allies, with additional funding coming from people in the Middle East. Former President of the Congress, Rebiya Kadeer , was arrested in 1999 for sending confidential Chinese government reports to her husband, who worked in the United States as a pro-Xinjiang independence broadcaster, where she now lives. > Hong Kong Interference and China?s Response > US President Trump signed into law the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act on November 27. Beijing has strongly condemned the US law and accused Washington of supporting and perpetuating violence in the Asian financial hub. The law supports Hong Kong?s five-month-old pro-democracy movement and allows the U.S. to impose sanctions on those responsible for human rights violations in Hong Kong. China, in response, suspended US military visits to Hong Kong and has imposed sanctions on NGOs that supported, or aided, the violent protests, including the National Endowment for Democracy ; the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; the International Republican Institute, Human Rights Watch and Freedom House. China has asked the US to stop meddling in China?s domestic affairs. > The US-China trade war > Billions of dollars of tariffs on American and Chinese goods have been imposed by both countries in their yearlong trade war, which was expected to negotiate ?phase-one? in December, but in London, Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said it may be delayed until after the 2020 US Presidential election in November . Hua Chunying replied when asked about what effect recent US proclamations on the Uyghurs, and Hong Kong protests would have on the US-China trade war, ?Do you think if America takes actions to hurt China?s interests we won?t take any action?? > Steven Sahiounie is an independent Syrian political analyst and writer based in Lebanon; he has been covering the Syrian crisis since it?s onset in 2011 and has published several articles in numerous media outlets ? He is regularly interviewed by US, Canadian and German media. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Thu Jan 2 20:17:24 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 15:17:24 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Al-Monitor: Pentagon: Preemptive strikes on table to deter Iran in Iraq In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm old enough to remember when Congress authorized the use of force. https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/01/pentagon-us-preemptive-strikes-deter-iran-iraq.html Pentagon: Preemptive strikes on table to deter Iran in Iraq Jack Detsch January 2, 2020 The Donald Trump administration is willing to take preemptive strikes to protect US forces and personnel in Iraq, top Pentagon officials said today, after Iran-backed forces breached the American embassy in Baghdad earlier this week in response to Pentagon airstrikes. "We will take preemptive action as well to protect American forces and protect American lives,? Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters in a Pentagon gaggle on Thursday. ?The game has changed, and we?re prepared to do what is necessary to defend our personnel and our interests and our partners in the region.? The Pentagon?s decision to leave wiggle room for preemptive strikes comes after the United States launched precision-guided bombs against five targets housing Khataib Hezbollah on Dec. 31, prompting the embassy breach. The US administration holds the Iran-backed group responsible for an attack on a Kirkuk military facility that killed one US contractor and wounded several troops. Following the tit-for-tat, the Pentagon has reinforced the US Embassy in Baghdad with 750 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne division and approximately 100 marines tasked with protecting American diplomats. The Defense Department blames Iran-backed Shiite militias for ?repeatedly? attacking US bases in Iraq, according to a Thursday statement from Esper and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley. The Pentagon believes the attacks are being directed by the leadership of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the United States labels as a terrorist organization. Milley, the US military?s top officer, said the groups had conducted as many as 15 attacks since October in a ?sustained campaign? that ?has increased in tempo and intensity? despite more than 14,000 US troops deploying to the Middle East to counter Iranian military activity since May, when the Trump administration ended sanctions waivers allowing nations to import oil from Tehran. ?We know that the intent of this last attack was in fact to kill American soldiers, sailors, airmen [and] marines,? Milley said. ?31 rockets aren?t designed as a warning shot. That?s designed to inflict damage and kill.? Milley described the protests at the embassy as a show ?for the camera? and said that anyone who attempts to overrun the facility ?will run into a buzzsaw.? Though Iraq did not permit US forces exiting Syria in November to remain permanently in Iraq and mounted protests over Tuesday?s strikes, Baghdad has not asked US forces to leave the country, Esper said. Though Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has repeatedly pushed for Khataib Hezbollah and other Iran-backed groups to obey commands from the Iraqi military, Esper and Milley questioned Baghdad?s efforts. "In my view, having spent a fair amount of time in Iraq, they have the capability,? Milley said. ?It?s a question of will. It?s a question of political will, and that?s not for us to decide." Abdul Mahdi resigned in November amid months of anti-corruption protests that left more than 500 Iraqis dead as security forces have fired on demonstrators, but has agreed to stay on as a caretaker until a successor is named. 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This attack has nothing to do with fighting the Islamic State and was carried out without any congressional approval, in violation of U.S. law. The strikes have also escalated the conflict with Iran, since the militia group?which is part of the official Iraqi security forces?has ties to Iran. > > Contact your senators and representative and tell them that you oppose U.S. military attacks in Iraq, more U.S. troops in the region, and Trump?s war on Iran. Tell Congress to speak out. > > This Saturday, January 4, we are protesting across the country. Join us? in Washington D.C., Albuquerque, NM, Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC, San Francisco, Miami, Arlington MA, Seattle, Atlanta, Denver, Ithaca, NY or email Carley at codepink.org? to organize a rally in your city! > > Iraqi Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi called the strikes a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and the attacks led to massive protests that besieged the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. They have also incensed Iraqi political leaders, who are calling for a full withdrawal of U.S. troops. The withdrawal of U.S. troops is actually what Trump had been promising the American people. But rather than exiting, the Trump administration announced the deployment of 750 more troops to the region and possibly another 4,000 soon. This is in addition to the 5,200 U.S. soldiers already there. > > While the Pentagon insists that the U.S. troop presence is solely to help Iraq fight ISIS, Trump himself has defined its mission as being to ?also to watch over Iran??putting Iraq in the middle of Trump?s war on Iran. > > The Trump administration is without question solely to blame for the current crisis. We predicted that Trump?s reckless decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose sanctions would backfire. We were right. > > Even though the Iraqi protesters have left the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the crisis is far from over, especially with Trump tweeting such grotesque threats as, ?...Iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost, or damage incurred, at any of our facilities. They will pay a very BIG PRICE! This is not a Warning, it is a Threat. Happy New Year!? > > There is nothing happy about beginning this new decade with threats of war and more troops deployed to the Middle East.Contact Congress now and tell your representatives that you oppose U.S. military attacks in Iraq. Tell them to speak out against more U.S. troops being sent to the region and to call for the U.S. to make peace with Iran. > > Don't forget to join us at nationwide protests this Saturday, January 4! > > Towards ending war in 2020, > Medea Benjamin and the entire CODEPINK team: Ann, Ariel, Asia, Carley, Caty, Cody, Emily, Enas, Jodie, Leonardo, Michelle, Nancy, Paki, Teri, and Tighe > > > > . > > To update your email subscription, contact info at codepink.org . > > > ? Copyright 2019 | www.codepink.org > Created with NationBuilder -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jan 3 04:46:36 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 20:46:36 -0800 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: BREAKING: Trump starts war on Iran: ALL OUT Sat. Jan. 4 National Day of Action References: <5e0ec478e76f4_8c35a6f5438693@asgworker-qmb3-9.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: Join ANSWER AND AWARE in the National Day of Action, demanding an end to war. Saturday 4th, 2:00 - 4:00 pm The Corner of Church & Neil Sts., Champaign, Il > > > > The Trump administration and Pentagon have moved to start a war with Iran by assassinating Qassem Soleimani, the top military leader of that country. If Iran openly assassinated a top U.S. general and bragged about it, there is no question that the United States would initiate full scale war. Trump and the Pentagon have acted illegally, in violation of the Constitution, the War Powers Act and international law. > > The targeted assassination and murder of a central leader of Iran is designed to initiate a new war. Unless the people of the United States rise up and stop it, this war will engulf the whole region and could quickly turn into a global conflict of unpredictable scope and potentially the gravest consequences. > > The Pentagon high command is recklessly bragging about this illegal, targeted assassination in the most crude and false manner. ?This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans,? stated the lying generals. They know that the objective of the strike is just the opposite. They want a war with Iran ? a country of more than 80 million people. Trump wants it too because he thinks it will guarantee his re-election in 2020. > > For all who believe in peace, for all who are opposed to yet another catastrophic war, now is the time to take action. On Saturday, January 4 in cities across the country there will be protests against a new war in the Middle East and calling for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and bases in the region. > > Endorsers (partial list): > > ANSWER Coalition > CODEPINK > Popular Resistance > Veterans for Peace > World Beyond War > Voices for Creative Non-Violence > American-Iranian Friendship Committee (AIFC) > United AntiWar Coalition (UNAC) > Dorothy Day Catholic Worker - D.C. > Minnesota Peace Action > Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Network > Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network > Rev. Graylan Hagler, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church Washington, D.C. > Maine WTR Resource Center > Hilton Head for Peace > Demonstrations will take place on Saturday, January 4 in the following cities: > > The White House - Washington D.C. > 12noon at the White House > > Chicago, IL > 12noon at Trump Tower > Initiated by ANSWER Chicago > > Los Angeles, CA? > 1pm at Pershing Square > Initiated by ANSWER LA > > New York City, NY > 11am at Time Square > Initiated by ANSWER New York > > San Francisco, CA > 12noon at Powell and Market > Initiated by ANSWER San Francisco > > Miami, FL > 1pm at Torch of Friendship, 301 Biscayne Blvd > Initiated by CODEPINK > > Albuquerque, NM > 2pm at Kirtland Airforce Base, San Mateo and Gibson Blvd > Initiated by ANSWER New Mexico > > Arlington, MA > 12noon at Broadway Plaza, Mass. Ave. and Medford St > Initiated by Arlington United for Justice with Peace (AUJP) > > Seattle, WA > 2pm at Westlake Park > Initiated by ANSWER Seattle > > Minneapolis, MN > 1pm at Mayday Plaza > Initiated by Minnesota Peace Action Coalition > > Atlanta, GA? > 3pm at Little Five Points > Initiated by ANSWER Atlanta > > New Haven, CT? > 3pm Sunday, January 5 at Church & Chapel Street > Initiated by ANSWER Connecticut > > Portland, Maine > 12noon at Congress Square Park > Initiated by Peace Action Maine > > Pittsburgh, PA > 12noon at Schenley Plaza > Initiated by ANSWER Pittsburgh > > Denver, CO > 2pm at Colorado State Capital Building > Initiated by ANSWER Colorado > > Philadelphia, PA > 12noon at City Hall (15th and Market St.) > > Lancaster, PA > 12noon at Lancaster County Prison > > Boulder, CO > 11am at Broadway and Canyon > > Brimingham, Alabama > 5pm at Five Points South > > Cleveland, OH > 12noon at Market Square > > El Paso, TX > 12noon Friday, January 3rd at the U.S. Federal Courthouse > > Fort Wayne, IN > 2pm at Allen County Courthouse Green > > Ithaca, NY > 10am at Corner of Clinton and Meadow Streets by CVS > > Northampton, MA > 11am in front of the Courthouse on Main St > > Santa Monica, CA > 2pm at Santa Monica Promande > > Madison, WI > 12pm at the Wisconsin State Capitol > To find an event near you or to have an event listed click here! > ___________________________________________ > > > > You can also keep up with ANSWER Coalition on Facebook . > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Jan 4 06:18:07 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 00:18:07 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #446 notes Message-ID: <48670f93-ea3a-8c12-508b-8843c6c90e0b@forestfield.org> News from Neptune #446 A "War with Iran? A Trap for Trump?" edition A list of links to items referenced on the show. Tucker Carlson Tonight show https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E Ben Norton on Trump's war with Iran https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1212915105429635073 Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort https://anti-war.net Karen Aram's post to the Peace mailing list about the Saturday, January 4, 2020 National Day of Action -- U.S. Troops Out of Iraq! https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015558.html The Angry Arab (As`ad AbuKhalil) on twitter.com https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ -- blog The Angry Arab on Consortium News https://consortiumnews.com/tag/asad-abukhalil/ Belt and Road Initiative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative Pepe Escobar on "The Peer Competitor to the US Has Now Emerged: The Russia-China Strategic Partnership" https://www.checkpointasia.net/the-peer-competitor-to-the-us-has-now-emerged-the-russia-china-strategic-partnership/ https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/06/article/putin-and-xi-step-up-the-strategic-game/ Statement by the U.S. Department of Defense on taking "decisive defensive action" to kill Qasem Soleimani https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2049534/statement-by-the-department-of-defense/ Precarious work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarious_work Trita Parsi on Democracy Now regarding Assassination of Iranian General https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/3/trita_parsi_us_assassination_of_iranian Yassin al-Haj Saleh on Democracy Now regarding Assad's government https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/2/syria_idlib_offensive_russia_assad The Grayzone's Syria articles (Ben Norton, Max Blumenthal, and Aaron Mat? are each with The Grayzone now) https://thegrayzone.com/category/syria/ Moon of Alabama on "U.S. Will Come To Regret Its Assassination of Qassim Soleimani" https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/us-will-come-to-regret-its-assassination-of-qassim-soleimani.html Gary Brecher's "The War Nerd" https://www.nsfwcorp.com/desk/war-nerd/ https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd mailto:radiowarnerd at gmail.com Shervin Malekzadeh on "Boys Go to Baghdad, Real Men Go to Tehran" https://lobelog.com/boys-go-to-baghdad-real-men-go-to-tehran/ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/15/boys-go-baghdad-real-men-go-tehran Jerri-Lynn Scofield on "Boys Go to Baghdad. Men Go to Tehran." https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/05/boys-go-to-baghdad-men-go-to-tehran.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/boys-go-to-baghdad-men-go-to-tehran.html Julie Wurth on "Local ACLU, NAACP chapters air concerns on achievement gaps in Unit 4" https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/education/local-aclu-naacp-chapters-air-concerns-on-achievement-gaps-in/article_861752a7-b070-54de-a488-b1e91031cbd7.html Related: Juliann Xu on "Unit 4 must address achievement gap" https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary/guest-commentary-unit-must-address-achievement-gap/article_3bdc67f6-454d-5c5e-95fc-2000d268a6fb.html David Green's most recent letter to the editor of the News-Gazette responding to the above News-Gazette articles https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-greed-to-blame-for-disparities/article_8287c6ef-77dc-5eb7-a09c-21bc2fcd8b51.html The News-Gazette "Editorial Board" (per the credit line) editorial https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-same-subject-different-time/article_65c76d43-d975-538e-a990-54d34b7efea1.html Basic income (also known as "Universal Basic Income" or "UBI") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Gordon Wood on the New York Times? 1619 Project" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/wood-n28.html Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times? 1619 Project" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/14/mcph-n14.html All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search Carol & Aaron Ammons on "Higher Ground" on WEFT http://new.weft.org/audio/2019/higherground/HigherGround_2019-12-21.mp3 Larry Elliott on "Thomas Piketty's new War and Peace-sized book published on Thursday" https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/09/thomas-pikettys-new-magnum-opus-published-on-thursday "Capital in the Twenty-first Century" by Thomas Piketty ISBN-10: 0674979850 ISBN-13: 978-0674979857 Complete book: https://dowbor.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14Thomas-Piketty.pdf David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/ RSS feed: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/rss January 2, 2020 episode: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/from-fordism-to-neoliberalism-and-beyond Populism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism J.B. Nicholson's notes https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-December/051610.html https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015559.html -J From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Jan 4 06:20:08 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 00:20:08 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #446 notes In-Reply-To: <48670f93-ea3a-8c12-508b-8843c6c90e0b@forestfield.org> References: <48670f93-ea3a-8c12-508b-8843c6c90e0b@forestfield.org> Message-ID: J.B. Nicholson wrote: > News from Neptune #446 > A "War with Iran? A Trap for Trump?" edition > > A list of links to items referenced on the show. I accidentally left out the URL of the video. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uWh2VP7qkg -J From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jan 4 14:43:54 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 06:43:54 -0800 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_jeremy_scahill_shared_=22Trump_Is_Doing?= =?utf-8?q?_the_Bidding_of_Washington=E2=80=99s_Mo=2E=2E=2Eplus?= References: Message-ID: > > > > > > What?s happening > jeremy scahill shared? > > The Intercept > Trump Is Doing the Bidding of Washington?s Most Vile Cabal > There?s no justification for assassinating foreign officials, including Qassim Suleimani. This is an aggressive act o... > Read more at Twitter? > jeremy scahill shared? > > > The Intercept > Trump Is Doing the Bidding of Washington?s Most Vile Cabal > There?s no justification for assassinating foreign officials, including Qassim Suleimani. This is an aggressive act o... > Read more at Twitter? > Ben Norton shared? > > ABC News > Pentagon to deploy roughly 3,500 more troops to Middle East amid tensions with Iran > The Pentagon is deploying roughly 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in response to rising tensions in the region w... > Read more at Twitter? > Ben Norton shared? > > > ABC News > Pentagon to deploy roughly 3,500 more troops to Middle East amid tensions with Iran > The Pentagon is deploying roughly 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in response to rising tensions in the region w... > Read more at Twitter? > Ben Norton shared? > > Defend WikiLeaks > Mexican President Calls for Assange?s Freedom > Mexican President Calls for Assange?s Freedom At a press conference in Mexico City this morning, Mexican President An... > Read more at Twitter? > Ben Norton shared? > > > Defend WikiLeaks > Mexican President Calls for Assange?s Freedom > Mexican President Calls for Assange?s Freedom At a press conference in Mexico City this morning, Mexican President An... > Read more at Twitter? > Ben Norton shared? > > The New York Times > How Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S. > The fateful decision in 1979 to admit Mohammed Reza Pahlavi prompted the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran an... > Read more at Twitter? > Ben Norton shared? > > > The New York Times > How Chase Bank Chairman Helped the Deposed Shah of Iran Enter the U.S. > The fateful decision in 1979 to admit Mohammed Reza Pahlavi prompted the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran an... > Read more at Twitter? > Ben Norton shared? > > U.S. > Iraqi parliament speaker condemns U.S. air strike: statement > Iraq's Speaker of Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi condemned on Friday a U.S. air strike in Baghdad that killed Iran's... > Read more at Twitter? > Ben Norton shared? > > > U.S. > Iraqi parliament speaker condemns U.S. air strike: statement > Iraq's Speaker of Parliament Mohammed al-Halbousi condemned on Friday a U.S. air strike in Baghdad that killed Iran's... > Read more at Twitter? > Aaron Mat? shared? > > The Grayzone > Top 20 The Grayzone stories of 2019: From Venezuela coup attempt to Russiagate delusions, information warfa... > 2019 was a big year for The Grayzone. We traveled the world and broke many stories, exposing the empire's schemes and... > Read more at Twitter? > Aaron Mat? shared? > > > The Grayzone > Top 20 The Grayzone stories of 2019: From Venezuela coup attempt to Russiagate delusions, information warfa... > 2019 was a big year for The Grayzone. We traveled the world and broke many stories, exposing the empire's schemes and... > Read more at Twitter? > > Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San?Francisco,?CA?94103 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jan 4 15:12:24 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 07:12:24 -0800 Subject: [Peace] A must listen: The Grayzone with Max, Ben, Aaron and Rania Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeQ_dx452WM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our foreign policy being conducted by the ?permanent state,? is without doubt, but doesn?t excuse the President or Administration carrying out or implementing interventions, sanctions, invasions, bombings etc. We took this stand when it was a Democrat in the WH, and the same applies to the Republican in the WH. That being said, Carl is absolutely on target in respect to the broader picture and goals of our corporate capitalist system. We were disappointed when Chomsky warned against Trump leaving us with Hilary whom we knew was a warmonger, rather than Jill Stein as the third Party candidate whom we knew would not bow to corporate supporters. Wm. Blum, god rest his soul, warned us in 2016 of the consequences of a Trump administration being the neocons supporting him, and their goals of control of Iran. He made the point which I think makes a lot of sense after reading Zbigniew?s ?The Grand Chess Board,? that being control of Russia requires control of Iran, not Blums exact words, but that is the essence and we should recognize that Russia is necessary to preventing US control of China, they need each other. This has been the strategy since the ?White Paper,? as Carl has pointed out frequently. It?s important we focus on the system and the power behind the throne which we know does not share the same ?interests? thus they do differ in relation to tactics, but the end goal control of Eurasia by whatever means still stands. China is the ultimate goal, their markets as well as labor, and these ideas and discussions date back to the late 1800?s. Imperialism is the foundation holding up our capitalist system, as it continues to impoverish most of the working class around the world, it is the tool being used to support capitalism and must be defeated. One step in the process is focus on class as David points out frequently. In spite of the bad weather and some thinking that there will be no war with Iran, is it something to be ignored? Hope to see you all this afternoon protesting wars in the Middle East. > On Jan 3, 2020, at 22:20, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > > J.B. Nicholson wrote: >> News from Neptune #446 >> A "War with Iran? A Trap for Trump?" edition >> A list of links to items referenced on the show. > > I accidentally left out the URL of the video. > > Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uWh2VP7qkg > > -J > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Sat Jan 4 18:15:43 2020 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 12:15:43 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #446 notes In-Reply-To: References: <48670f93-ea3a-8c12-508b-8843c6c90e0b@forestfield.org> Message-ID: Also, the David Harvey episode I referred to was actually the 2nd most recent: https://anticapitalistchronicles.libsyn.com/global-unrest On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 12:20 AM J.B. Nicholson via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > J.B. Nicholson wrote: > > News from Neptune #446 > > A "War with Iran? A Trap for Trump?" edition > > > > A list of links to items referenced on the show. > > I accidentally left out the URL of the video. > > Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uWh2VP7qkg > > -J > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Sun Jan 5 01:37:19 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 19:37:19 -0600 Subject: [Peace] The "war on alternative media" (RT, Grayzone, Jimmy Dore, etc.) is underway -- according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR2ZMduQE2s Message-ID: It's not clear which sources will go away but that will depend on how much they can afford to stay around and how much spine they show in response to censorship from their media hosts. RT, for instance, has hosted more of their own videos on their website in addition to posting them to YouTube. I suspect this is because the YouTube copies can be unpublished but different measures will be needed to adversely affect distributing the copies hosted on the rt.com website. The coordinated attack on Infowars was a test/tech-demo of sorts, and that appears to have worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjWllto0Xzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TZqRabzbZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR2ZMduQE2s -- "Democrats Pretend to Oppose Iran Attack They Enabled" also includes discussion of how alternative media that challenges the establishment will go away. These URLs are pointers to 3 recent Jimmy Dore segments from last night's Max Blumenthal (of The Grayzone) interview which ran live at the time of the interview. Jimmy Dore's staff breaks up the interview into topic-based segments. Due to uttering 'swear' words, we can't run them on UPTV which means without some censorship, they can't be part of AWARE on the Air or News from Neptune. As Dore & Blumenthal point out, Tucker Carlson is perhaps the only mainstream media voice challenging the Iran attack. You can see auto-generated captions on all of them now if you turn that on via the YouTube viewer. If you prefer to watch the media by downloading it, consider using the free software[1] youtube-dl program (from https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl ) which will write these auto-generated subtitles to a file (and include the auto-translated subs too, if so desired). Keep in mind that unless the uploader provides subtitles, YouTube auto-generated subtitles are based on speech-to-text translation. The quality varies; sometimes they're rather impressive and sometimes laughably wrong. Auto-translation adds subtitles for over 100 other languages based on whatever subtitles an uploader supplies or YouTube generates via speech-to-text (hence you'll get translations in over 100 languages on the aforementioned videos despite that Jimmy Dore is not hiring a team of translators to do this work). -J [1] Software you are free to run, share, and modify. Once you get a copy, run "youtube-dl --update" to update it to the latest version and easily keep up with new versions which add support for downloading videos from more websites (not just YouTube, despite the name). From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Jan 5 13:20:13 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 05:20:13 -0800 Subject: [Peace] Thank you Message-ID: Thank you to all those who came out Saturday to protest US wars, in some of the worse weather experienced in Champaign. Special thanks goes to Doug Clough who in his mid eighty's never misses the monthly event, standing the full two hours holding the peace flag, clarifying why so many of us are there with signs. Doug has been doing this for many, many years, through many, many wars. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sun Jan 5 19:25:42 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 13:25:42 -0600 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #446 In-Reply-To: References: <48670f93-ea3a-8c12-508b-8843c6c90e0b@forestfield.org> Message-ID: <1770E8B5-3955-4022-A1F0-6FC29FF4889E@newsfromneptune.com> I have no ?overly positive attitude to Trump.? I try to account for two things: (1) why Trump was elected (it wasn?t because most white voters are deplorable racists - the Democrat cover-story); and (2) why the political establishment is so desperate to remove him (they fear that he might act on his anti-war pledges from the campaign). The establishment?s job is to defend the one-percent?s foreign policy: war and war-provocations vs. Russia and China to retard Eurasian economic integration and so defend US world economic hegemony. Trump was the first major candidate in 40 years to attack the neocon (more war) and neolib (more austerity) policies of the Clinton/Bush/Obama administrations. Those attacks convinced enough voters - who of course knew what the US government was doing in their own lives, despite what the press said - to vote for him. They would have reelected him, if the ?permanent government' hadn?t convinced Trump to abandon those attacks and adopt the neolib & neocon policies he was attacking - now perhaps most disastrously in regard to war with Iran. Perhaps the most destructive thing good liberals have done is allow their politics to be reduced to ?ORANGE MAN BAD!? (which is after all a way of protecting Clinton-Bush-Obama foreign and domestic policy without having actually to defend those policies). Trump should be impeached immediately for the high crime he just committed - the assassination of a foreign leader. (And not for the nonsense in the House resolutions - which are based on his hesitation to kill Ukrainians; his predecessors had few hesitations in such matters.) Incidentally, Jill Stein is one of the few US politicians (even within the Green Party) who?ve said anything sensible about this presidential murder: =================== [Dr. Jill Stein at DrJillStein] Now THIS is grounds for #impeachment - treachery unleashing the unthinkable for Americans & people the world over: Trump asked Iraqi prime minister to mediate with #Iran then assassinated Soleimani - on a mediation mission. [jane arraf at janearraf] This is stunning - #Iraq prime minister tells parliament US troops should leave. Says @realDonaldTrump called him to ask him to mediate with #Iran and then ordered drone strike on Soleimani. Says Soleimani carrying response to Saudi initiative to defuse tension when he was hit. =================== ?CGE > On Jan 4, 2020, at 11:10 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote: > > > Excellent discussion, most folks know I agree completely with David Green in relation to Carl?s overly positive attitude to Trump, attempting a defense. Our foreign policy being conducted by the ?permanent state,? is without doubt, but doesn?t excuse the President or Administration carrying out or implementing interventions, sanctions, invasions, bombings etc. We took this stand when it was a Democrat in the WH, and the same applies to the Republican in the WH. > > That being said, Carl is absolutely on target in respect to the broader picture and goals of our corporate capitalist system. We were disappointed when Chomsky warned against Trump leaving us with Hilary whom we knew was a warmonger, rather than Jill Stein as the third Party candidate whom we knew would not bow to corporate supporters. > > Wm. Blum, god rest his soul, warned us in 2016 of the consequences of a Trump administration being the neocons supporting him, and their goals of control of Iran. He made the point which I think makes a lot of sense after reading Zbigniew?s ?The Grand Chess Board,? that being control of Russia requires control of Iran, not Blums exact words, but that is the essence and we should recognize that Russia is necessary to preventing US control of China, they need each other. This has been the strategy since the ?White Paper,? as Carl has pointed out frequently. > > It?s important we focus on the system and the power behind the throne which we know does not share the same ?interests? thus they do differ in relation to tactics, but the end goal control of Eurasia by whatever means still stands. China is the ultimate goal, their markets as well as labor, and these ideas and discussions date back to the late 1800?s. Imperialism is the foundation holding up our capitalist system, as it continues to impoverish most of the working class around the world, it is the tool being used to support capitalism and must be defeated. > > One step in the process is focus on class as David points out frequently. > > In spite of the bad weather and some thinking that there will be no war with Iran, is it something to be ignored? Hope to see you all this afternoon protesting wars in the Middle East. > > > > >> On Jan 3, 2020, at 22:20, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >> >> J.B. Nicholson wrote: >>> News from Neptune #446 >>> A "War with Iran? A Trap for Trump?" edition >>> A list of links to items referenced on the show. >> >> I accidentally left out the URL of the video. >> >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uWh2VP7qkg >> >> -J >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Jan 5 22:58:21 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 14:58:21 -0800 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: New Anti-War Movement Bursts Onto The Scene - Actions in 90 Cities References: <5e1268ed7b9f3_32ce422f5c73875@asgworker-qmb3-10.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: > > > New Anti-War Movement Bursts Onto The Scene - Actions in 90 Cities > > > > Dear Karen, > > Amazing job to everyone! A big shout out to the more than 15,000 people who participated in one of the demonstrations that took place in 90 cities and towns yesterday. > > Trump carried out an act of war against Iran and the people of the United States immediately went into the streets to say No New War! Trump tried to speak in our name when he carried out the drone assassination of Iranian General Soleimani and others at the Baghadad airport, but the people of this country are challenging his lies and organizing resistance. > > Together, we are building a new anti-war movement.? > The ANSWER Coalition and CODEPINK initiated the January 4 Call to Action on January 1, 2020. Overnight more than a hundred other endorsements came in. Within four days demonstrations took place in 90 cities and towns throughout the United States. > > Click here to view some of the national news coverage of yesterday's actions. > Trump?s Lies about the Assassination are Being Exposed > > Donald Trump?s lies about Iran are starting to come apart. According to the Prime Minister of Iraq, Soleimani was arriving in Baghdad as part of a mediation effort designed to reduce tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia. As his car was leaving the Baghdad airport to take him to negotiations where he was expected to give Iran's response to a Saudi proposal, his vehicle was blown up by a U.S. drone on Trump's orders. According to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Trump knew the purpose of Soleimani?s visit. Today, the Iraqi Parliament voted to expel all U.S. forces from their country. > > As the lies of the Trump administration are further revealed we must continue to demand no war with Iran and that U.S. troops leave the Middle East. > > Together, we are building a mass anti-war movement! Hundreds of volunteers are working day and night to build this movement, but funds are urgently needed. We can do this work with you, but not without you. Please make an urgently needed donation today! > > > ANSWER Coalition ? United States > > You can also keep up with ANSWER Coalition on Facebook . > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Trump tried to speak in our name when he carried out the drone assassination of Iranian General Soleimani and others at the Baghadad airport, but the people of this country are challenging his lies and organizing resistance. > > Together, we are building a new anti-war movement.? > The ANSWER Coalition and CODEPINK initiated the January 4 Call to Action on January 1, 2020. Overnight more than a hundred other endorsements came in. Within four days demonstrations took place in 90 cities and towns throughout the United States. > > Click here to view some of the national news coverage of yesterday's actions. > Trump?s Lies about the Assassination are Being Exposed > > Donald Trump?s lies about Iran are starting to come apart. According to the Prime Minister of Iraq, Soleimani was arriving in Baghdad as part of a mediation effort designed to reduce tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia. As his car was leaving the Baghdad airport to take him to negotiations where he was expected to give Iran's response to a Saudi proposal, his vehicle was blown up by a U.S. drone on Trump's orders. According to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Trump knew the purpose of Soleimani?s visit. Today, the Iraqi Parliament voted to expel all U.S. forces from their country. > > As the lies of the Trump administration are further revealed we must continue to demand no war with Iran and that U.S. troops leave the Middle East. > > Together, we are building a mass anti-war movement! Hundreds of volunteers are working day and night to build this movement, but funds are urgently needed. We can do this work with you, but not without you. Please make an urgently needed donation today! > > > ANSWER Coalition ? United States > > You can also keep up with ANSWER Coalition on Facebook . > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brussel at illinois.edu Mon Jan 6 00:05:50 2020 From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 00:05:50 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] News from Neptune #446 In-Reply-To: <1770E8B5-3955-4022-A1F0-6FC29FF4889E@newsfromneptune.com> References: <48670f93-ea3a-8c12-508b-8843c6c90e0b@forestfield.org> <1770E8B5-3955-4022-A1F0-6FC29FF4889E@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: <6E4817B7-B5F4-4500-BB73-9D1E978BA364@illinois.edu> A more coherent view of the current conjuncture, not falling for the absurd view that considers an incompetent, impetuous, vicious, and inconsistent Trump as a peace leader.: https://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2020/01/03/the-donald-is-now-america-firsts-own-assassin/ In any case, it is hard to give much credence to Carl?s speculations as to why the ?deep state? so mistrusts (if they do) Trump. He and Netanyahu seem linked minds. On Jan 5, 2020, at 1:25 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss > wrote: I have no ?overly positive attitude to Trump.? I try to account for two things: (1) why Trump was elected (it wasn?t because most white voters are deplorable racists - the Democrat cover-story); and (2) why the political establishment is so desperate to remove him (they fear that he might act on his anti-war pledges from the campaign). The establishment?s job is to defend the one-percent?s foreign policy: war and war-provocations vs. Russia and China to retard Eurasian economic integration and so defend US world economic hegemony. Trump was the first major candidate in 40 years to attack the neocon (more war) and neolib (more austerity) policies of the Clinton/Bush/Obama administrations. Those attacks convinced enough voters - who of course knew what the US government was doing in their own lives, despite what the press said - to vote for him. They would have reelected him, if the ?permanent government' hadn?t convinced Trump to abandon those attacks and adopt the neolib & neocon policies he was attacking - now perhaps most disastrously in regard to war with Iran. Perhaps the most destructive thing good liberals have done is allow their politics to be reduced to ?ORANGE MAN BAD!? (which is after all a way of protecting Clinton-Bush-Obama foreign and domestic policy without having actually to defend those policies). Trump should be impeached immediately for the high crime he just committed - the assassination of a foreign leader. (And not for the nonsense in the House resolutions - which are based on his hesitation to kill Ukrainians; his predecessors had few hesitations in such matters.) Incidentally, Jill Stein is one of the few US politicians (even within the Green Party) who?ve said anything sensible about this presidential murder: =================== [Dr. Jill Stein at DrJillStein] Now THIS is grounds for #impeachment - treachery unleashing the unthinkable for Americans & people the world over: Trump asked Iraqi prime minister to mediate with #Iran then assassinated Soleimani - on a mediation mission. [jane arraf at janearraf] This is stunning - #Iraq prime minister tells parliament US troops should leave. Says @realDonaldTrump called him to ask him to mediate with #Iran and then ordered drone strike on Soleimani. Says Soleimani carrying response to Saudi initiative to defuse tension when he was hit. =================== ?CGE On Jan 4, 2020, at 11:10 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss > wrote: Excellent discussion, most folks know I agree completely with David Green in relation to Carl?s overly positive attitude to Trump, attempting a defense. Our foreign policy being conducted by the ?permanent state,? is without doubt, but doesn?t excuse the President or Administration carrying out or implementing interventions, sanctions, invasions, bombings etc. We took this stand when it was a Democrat in the WH, and the same applies to the Republican in the WH. That being said, Carl is absolutely on target in respect to the broader picture and goals of our corporate capitalist system. We were disappointed when Chomsky warned against Trump leaving us with Hilary whom we knew was a warmonger, rather than Jill Stein as the third Party candidate whom we knew would not bow to corporate supporters. Wm. Blum, god rest his soul, warned us in 2016 of the consequences of a Trump administration being the neocons supporting him, and their goals of control of Iran. He made the point which I think makes a lot of sense after reading Zbigniew?s ?The Grand Chess Board,? that being control of Russia requires control of Iran, not Blums exact words, but that is the essence and we should recognize that Russia is necessary to preventing US control of China, they need each other. This has been the strategy since the ?White Paper,? as Carl has pointed out frequently. It?s important we focus on the system and the power behind the throne which we know does not share the same ?interests? thus they do differ in relation to tactics, but the end goal control of Eurasia by whatever means still stands. China is the ultimate goal, their markets as well as labor, and these ideas and discussions date back to the late 1800?s. Imperialism is the foundation holding up our capitalist system, as it continues to impoverish most of the working class around the world, it is the tool being used to support capitalism and must be defeated. One step in the process is focus on class as David points out frequently. In spite of the bad weather and some thinking that there will be no war with Iran, is it something to be ignored? Hope to see you all this afternoon protesting wars in the Middle East. On Jan 3, 2020, at 22:20, J.B. Nicholson via Peace > wrote: J.B. Nicholson wrote: News from Neptune #446 A "War with Iran? A Trap for Trump?" edition A list of links to items referenced on the show. I accidentally left out the URL of the video. 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FACT: 300 M in defense contracts awarded to Champaign County recipients. -80M of which was awarded to UIUC alone. CU residents must know how their community is directly involved with aiding U.S. imperialism! Saturday Jan. 11th @ the CU IMC 202 S. Broadway Ave. Event hosted by ANSWER-CU -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Jan 7 12:33:46 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 04:33:46 -0800 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Sat=2E_Jan=2E_25_=E2=80=93_Global_Day_o?= =?utf-8?q?f_Protest_=E2=80=93_No_War_On_Iran!?= References: <5e13b9fd51869_1edbabcf5c195be@asgworker-qmb3-10.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: > > > Sat. Jan. 25 > Global Day of Protest > > > The People of the World Say: > No War On Iran! > > > The Trump administration is dragging the United States into a war with Iran that could engulf the whole region and could quickly turn into a global conflict of unpredictable scope and the gravest consequences. > > The people of the world need to rise up and stop it. For all who believe in peace, for all who are opposed to yet another catastrophic war, now is the time to take action. On Saturday, January 25 in cities across the globe, there will be protests against a new war in the Middle East. Please join us. > > Click here to have a protest organized in your city listed! > > Initiators for this call include the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Popular Resistance, Black Alliance for Peace, National Iranian-American Council(NIAC), Veterans For Peace, US Labor Against the War (USLAW), Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), United National Anti-War Committee, Pastors for Peace/Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, International Action Center, United For Peace and Justice, Alliance For Global Justice (AFGJ), December 12th Movement, World Beyond War, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Dominican Sisters/ICAN, Nonviolence International, Food Not Bombs and many other anti-war and peace organizations. To add your name as an endorser click here. > ___________________________________________________ > Help sustain the anti-war work of the ANSWER Coalition by making an urgently needed donation. > > > ANSWER Coalition ? 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For all who believe in peace, for all who are opposed to yet another catastrophic war, now is the time to take action. On Saturday, January 25 in cities across the globe, there will be protests against a new war in the Middle East. Please join us. > > Click here to have a protest organized in your city listed! > > Initiators for this call include the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Popular Resistance, Black Alliance for Peace, National Iranian-American Council(NIAC), Veterans For Peace, US Labor Against the War (USLAW), Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), United National Anti-War Committee, Pastors for Peace/Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, International Action Center, United For Peace and Justice, Alliance For Global Justice (AFGJ), December 12th Movement, World Beyond War, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Dominican Sisters/ICAN, Nonviolence International, Food Not Bombs and many other anti-war and peace organizations. 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The OPCW was viewed as an impartial chemical watchdog organization but a shift in who benefits from OPCW publications (due to management changes) now force us to see the OPCW as increasingly an establishment lapdog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fVdPc-P0LQ -- RT https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-12-strongest-arguments-that-douma-was-a-false-flag-77d300b495c2 -- Caitlin Johnstone https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/15/the-opcw-and-douma-chemical-weapons-watchdog-accused-of-evidence-tampering-by-its-own-inspectors/ -- Jonathan Steele A few additional notes about the the alleged Douma gas attack of 7 April 2018 from RT's report because that is a video report where only automatic transcription is readily available. This phantom gas attack resulted in a very real coordinated US, UK, and French missile attack on Syria. Apparently not even world governments can do this alone; it takes a set of liars to carry this off: - Old liars are ready to serve the establishment's interests: The Navy's footage of this coordinated attack was widely replayed on corporate media. On Comcast-owned media, known fabricator Brian Williams (now famously) said he was "guided by the beauty of our weapons" while running the footage showing the rockets being launched. Three years prior Williams had been suspended without pay by NBC News President Deborah Turness for having lied about being in a military helicopter which was "forced down after being hit by an RPG [rocket propelled grenade]". Williams was also demoted from lead anchor for NBC to breaking anchor for MSNBC. - New OPCW management lied too: It took a year for the OPCW to publish on this alleged attack and the UK was pleased with the result: https://twitter.com/UK_OPCW/status/1101561760732057601 > Today's OPCW final report on the 7th of April 2018 attack in Douma confirms chemical weapons used > demonstrating the vital importance of the opcw's work this confirmed chlorine attack was only the > latest example of the Assad regime's chemical warfare attacks on its own population But this alleged gas attack made no sense politically as Assad was winning. People at the time stopped to ask why Assad would deploy "chemical warfare attacks on its own population". None of these questions show up in the corporate-friendly media (including Democracy Now). OPCW management cherry picked details in an attempt to make Assad look guilty. One member of the OPCW fact-finding mission wrote: > I was struck by how much the redacted version of the [OPCW] report misrepresented the facts. Many > of the facts and observations outlined in the full version are inextricably interconnected and, > by selectively omitting certain ones, an unintended bias has been introduced into the report, > undermining its credibility. As more OPCW leaked reports came out, as leakers spoke about what they reported to the OPCW (like in Brussels where one leaker spoke) we saw more details of how this plays out. Former OPCW engineer Ian Henderson wrote: > Observations at the scene of the two locations, [...] suggest that there is a higher probability > that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from > aircraft. "Manually placed" means both cylinders were likely staged on-site for inspectors to see. Anyone who draws this conclusion isn't dutifully repeating the establishment narrative. Henderson was later kicked out of the OPCW and the OPCW alleged he was not an employee. We later learned (via a leaked email) that Henderson was an employee, the OPCW had lied about Henderson being an employee and not a hired consultant, and (as you'll see below) there was effort to cover up the existence of Henderson's non-conformant report: "get this document [Henderson's report] out of DRA [the OPCW's system] and please remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever in DRA". - Uncooperative reporters are pushed to quit by media outlets that refuse to diverge from being faithful stenographers to power: Tareq Haddad, freelance journalist who resigned from Newsweek when it refused to publish his story about documents published by WikiLeaks concerning the alleged Douma gas attack. Haddad told RT: > Tareq Haddad: I kept pushing to try and do the story because I feel like it's of extreme, you > know, public interest the attacks turned on me -- editors who were kind of nitpicking on certain > things I was doing in my articles but it was purely on just to be able to attack me in an email. > So after I kept pushing, kept pushing, I essentially was told a couple of lines about why they > wouldn't run the OPCW story. At the moment there are very few Western, well, mainstream Western > journalists that are reporting on this. So I would say this is a complete failure of the media. > Our job as journalists is to hold government to account and if governments are going to war > on on false premises then, you know, and we have good evidence to suggest that now, and no one is > reporting it, then we're not doing our job as journalists. Fortunately for us, not everyone involved lies. - WikiLeaks is publishing OPCW Douma documents at https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/ which contains what they claim it contains (as is the norm with WikiLeaks) internal documentation describing not only what the engineers saw on-site but information of the internal cover-up to hide said engineer reports such as: > WikiLeaks: One of the documents is an e-mail exchange dated 27 and 28 February between members of > the fact finding mission (FFM) deployed to Douma and the senior officials of the OPCW. It > includes an e-mail from Sebastien Braha, Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, where he instructs that an > engineering report from Ian Henderson should be removed from the secure registry of the > organisation: > > ?Please get this document out of DRA [Documents Registry Archive]... And please remove all > traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever in DRA?. - Outsiders speak up and tell us news that contradicts the establishment narrative: Professor Richard Falk was in Brussels when the second whistleblower spoke. > Professor Richard Falk: Well, essentially he presented evidence and testimonials to the effect > that the final report could not be justified in the form that it was submitted, and that it had > been tampered with in such a way as to create a set of conclusions that corresponded with what > the US and Britain friends hoped would be the outcome of an investigation but the evidence didn't > support that outcome. There are other real reporters and clear summaries of what happened and when at the aforementioned links. -J From jbn at forestfield.org Wed Jan 8 00:25:36 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 18:25:36 -0600 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #500 notes Message-ID: AWARE on the Air #500 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh8jDlSemtA A list of links to items referenced on the show. On C. G. Estabrook having an "overly positive attitude to Trump" https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051752.html -- Karen Aram's post https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051755.html -- C. G. Estabrook's reply Other posts in this thread can be found in https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/thread.html#51755 Shervin Malekzadeh on "Boys Go to Baghdad, Real Men Go to Tehran" https://lobelog.com/boys-go-to-baghdad-real-men-go-to-tehran/ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/15/boys-go-baghdad-real-men-go-tehran Jerri-Lynn Scofield on "Boys Go to Baghdad. Men Go to Tehran." https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/05/boys-go-to-baghdad-men-go-to-tehran.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/boys-go-to-baghdad-men-go-to-tehran.html The Real News: "US Sanctions Leave Millions of Venezuelans Without Water" https://therealnews.com/stories/us-sanctions-leave-millions-of-venezuelans-without-water "Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried by Reuters for Over a Month" https://fair.org/home/study-linking-us-sanctions-to-venezuelan-deaths-buried-by-reuters-for-over-a-month/ -- news doesn't readily get out about the real harm of torturing Venezuelan via sanctions US sanctions on Venezuela led to 40,000 deaths https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/04/27/594506/US-sanctions-on-Venezuela-deaths https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/venezuela-sanctions-us-excess-death-toll-economy-oil-trump-maduro-juan-guaido-jeffrey-sachs-a8888516.html Where does the US get its oil from? US opinion versus reality https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/08/where-america-oil-come-from/ -- people believe it mostly comes from Saudi Arabia but the US imports about 183 million barrels of oil from SA and imports 701 million barrels from Canada (the Canadian tar sands work, the largest strip mining project in the world). Michael Hudson on US economic warfare -- Hudson from a keynote paper delivered on July 21, 2019 https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-26/michael-hudson-us-economic-warfare-and-likely-foreign-defenses https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/michael-hudson-u-s-economic-warfare-and-likely-foreign-defenses.html https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/22/u-s-economic-warfare-and-likely-foreign-defenses/ > Today?s world is at war on many fronts. The rules of international law and order put in place > toward the end of World War II are being broken by U.S. foreign policy escalating its > confrontation with countries that refrain from giving its companies control of their economic > surpluses. Countries that do not give the United States control their oil and financial sectors > or privatize their key sectors are being isolated by the United States imposing trade sanctions > and unilateral tariffs giving special advantages to U.S. producers in violation of free trade > agreements with European, Asian and other countries. Pepe Escobar on "The Economic Risks of Trump?s Reckless Assassination" https://www.asiatimes.com/2020/01/article/financial-n-option-will-settle-trumps-oil-war/ https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/06/the-economic-risks-of-trumps-reckless-assassination/ Who was Gen. Soleimani? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASjINUJp9bw -- The Grayzone report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_zwd9rYMPM -- "Iran and Qassem Soleimani defeated ISIS, while the US allies helped it" -Grayzone Soleimani was a messenger of peace when he was killed https://www.forexlive.com/news/%21/iraqi-pm-says-he-was-schedule-to-meet-with-soleimani-the-morning-he-was-killed-20200105 https://themindunleashed.com/2020/01/soleimani-iraq-peace-mission-trump-lied.html -- also includes claim that "Trump lied about 'Imminent attacks'" Continuity of policy: Obama's murderous administration used drone attacks and a secret "kill list" in his "Terror Tuesday" meetings where Obama reviewed CIA-supplied dossiers nicknamed "baseball cards" in selecting whom to assassinate. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/world/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html RT: "Trump follows Pentagon and State Department lead, says he wants US troops out of Iraq eventually ? but not just yet" https://on.rt.com/a8kl "Evidence? What evidence? Pompeo shows no proof of ?imminent? Soleimani attacks" -RT https://www.rt.com/usa/477663-pomepo-no-evidence-soleimani/ "Tucker Carlson Tonight" show https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E Nasrallah on the Assassination http://normanfinkelstein.com/2020/01/07/nasrallah-on-the-assassination/ https://video.moqawama.org/details.php?cid=1&linkid=2088 https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x7q41jd Dr. Jill Stein on assassinating Soleimani https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1213858241618337792 Jane Arraf followup to Dr. Jill Stein https://twitter.com/janearraf/status/1213823941321592834 Michael Hudson on "America Escalates Its ?Democratic? Oil War in the Near East" https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/06/america-escalates-its-democratic-oil-war-in-the-near-east/print/ -J From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Wed Jan 8 02:06:54 2020 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 20:06:54 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Protest US invasion of Iran this Thursday? Message-ID: <223B3C06-4E53-4D1A-B227-18F7D6BAB30B@gmail.com> Hello friends?Sometime on Thursday I?m going to stand somewhere with a sign saying something and alert people that cretinocity is occurring.The poor are getting poorer, the earth is burning up, and the rulers want to distract us with a little war. Am I THAT stupid? Anyone want to join me?Are there lists I should write to? From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Jan 8 02:47:15 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 18:47:15 -0800 Subject: [Peace] BREAKING NEWS: IRAN has fired ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq. Message-ID: Al Jazeera English is live now. 1 hr BREAKING: Iran says it has fired ballistic missiles at two military bases hosting US troops in Iraq. The Pentagon says more than a dozen missiles have been fired from Iranian territory. The Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and a base in Erbil have been hit. Iranian state TV said the attack was in retaliation to the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani. The White House says US President Donald Trump has been briefed and is monitoring the situation. All the latest updates: https://aje.io/vdgc9 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Jan 8 02:47:15 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 18:47:15 -0800 Subject: [Peace] BREAKING NEWS: IRAN has fired ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq. Message-ID: Al Jazeera English is live now. 1 hr BREAKING: Iran says it has fired ballistic missiles at two military bases hosting US troops in Iraq. The Pentagon says more than a dozen missiles have been fired from Iranian territory. The Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and a base in Erbil have been hit. Iranian state TV said the attack was in retaliation to the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani. The White House says US President Donald Trump has been briefed and is monitoring the situation. All the latest updates: https://aje.io/vdgc9 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Jan 8 04:14:03 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 20:14:03 -0800 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: More emergency demonstrations announced: "Step back from the brink -- No war with Iran!" References: <5e15529871621_7c5a770f6033539@asgworker-qmb3-14.nbuild.prd.useast1.3dna.io.mail> Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: ANSWER Coalition > Subject: More emergency demonstrations announced: "Step back from the brink -- No war with Iran!" > Date: January 7, 2020 at 19:55:04 PST > To: Karen Aram > > > More emergency demonstrations announced for Wednesday, Jan. 8: "Step back from the brink -- No war with Iran!" > > Los Angeles, Calif. > City Hall > 6:00 p.m. > RSVP on Facebook > Washington, D.C. > The White House > 3:00 p.m. > RSVP on Facebook > San Francisco, Calif. > Powell & Market > 5:00 p.m. > RSVP on Facebook > New York City, N.Y. > Times Square > 5:00 p.m. > RSVP on Facebook > Atlanta, Georgia > Woodruff Park (corner of Edgewood Ave SE and Peachtree St NW) > 5:30 p.m. > RSVP on Facebook > The Trump regime has brought the world to the brink of a catastrophic new war in the Middle East by ordering the assassination of one of Iran?s top leaders, Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Millions of people from all walks of life joined the huge funeral processions in Iraq as well as Iran demanding justice. Trump and his warmonger advisers knew that the leadership in Iran would have no alternative but to respond to the extreme provocation, opening the way for a massive new U.S. military assault on that country. > > "It is Trump and his administration which bear the full responsibility for the threat of a new and devastating war," said Richard Becker, representative of the ANSWER Coalition, "Prior to the assassination of Soleimani, Trump illegally broke the JCPOA, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal. The administration imposed harsh sanctions on Iran ? really an act of war ? seeking to strangle the economy and cause maximum suffering for the more than 80 million Iranian people." > > > ANSWER Coalition ? 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Message-ID: "Expelling the US military from Iraq and the surrounding region will be Iran?s ultimate goal, in retaliation against the killing of a commander Qassem Soleimani, President Hassan Rouhani has said." "Soleimani fought a heroic anti-terror campaign against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and Al Qaeda, Rouhani tweeted on Wednesday, adding that European nations ?would be in great danger now? if it wasn?t for the Iranian commanders efforts." ?Our final answer to his assassination will be to kick all US forces out of the region,? he vowed." From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Jan 8 16:51:48 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 08:51:48 -0800 Subject: [Peace] The Iranians are taking the high road. Message-ID: "Expelling the US military from Iraq and the surrounding region will be Iran?s ultimate goal, in retaliation against the killing of a commander Qassem Soleimani, President Hassan Rouhani has said." "Soleimani fought a heroic anti-terror campaign against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and Al Qaeda, Rouhani tweeted on Wednesday, adding that European nations ?would be in great danger now? if it wasn?t for the Iranian commanders efforts." ?Our final answer to his assassination will be to kick all US forces out of the region,? he vowed." From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Wed Jan 8 23:48:02 2020 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:48:02 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Protest tomorrow, 12 noon: NO WAR ON IRAN Message-ID: Tomorrow, Thursday, at 12 pm---RALLY. corner of Main and Vine, downtown Urbana. -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Most media won't cover how this went down. RT: "Ms. Ocasio-Cortez Goes to Washington: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) shamed into un-liking antiwar journalist?s tweet, apologizing for wrongthink" https://on.rt.com/a8kb -- RT's report: AOC posted https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1213184923626070017 > Last night the President engaged in what is widely being recognized as an act of war against > Iran, one that now risks the lives of millions of innocent people.Now is the moment to prevent > war & protect innocent people - the question for many is how, publicly & Congressionally: Two days later Rania Khalek posted https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/1213862390774845441 > A friend flying into the US says he hasn?t seen so much security since 9/11. The US is terrified > of how Iran will retaliate. Iran won?t attack civilians, that?s what al Qaeda does. But it shows > this assassination did the opposite of making Americans safer and our leaders know it. AOC 'liked' Khalek's post. RT noted that: > Khalek?s tweet was largely in the same vein, making the point that ?this assassination did the > opposite of making Americans safer and our leaders know it.? > > But it wasn?t the content of the tweet that infuriated these social media hall monitors, who have > been gently prodding AOC toward an anodyne centrism since she arrived in Washington; it was the > account doing the tweeting. Khalek is an outspoken opponent of US foreign policy, particularly > the draconian sanctions and endless regime-change wars that have all but destroyed large swathes > of the Middle East over the past two decades. She has made a lot of enemies in standing up for > the US?s bogeymen, and they came out in force to concern-troll AOC. > > ?I?m a big fan, but did you know you?ve committed a thoughtcrime?? seemed to be the general > message. Miriam Elder replied https://twitter.com/MiriamElder/status/1214184743295733761 > AOC liking a tweet by a Syrian war crimes denier who says Iran doesn?t target civilians is one > way to start the week. It?s possible to be critical of this situation without being ahistorical. S. Rifai replied https://twitter.com/THE_47th/status/1214152869236092929 > Hi @AOC, I am 1 of those ppl who disagrees w/ you, yet respects you and your work a lot. I wanted > to let you know that you have been following/liking tweets of someone who spent the last 5yrs > whitewashing mass murder in the Mid East. Rania is a full time Assad whitewasher. AOC removed her 'like' and RT noted: > Some, like ?professional troll? Maryam Nayeb Yazdi, who has made no secret of her loathing for > Iran?s current government, deleted their tweets after AOC was badgered into un-liking Khalek?s > message and - supposedly - apologizing via Direct Message for her ?crime?. Dan Cohen (who works with Rania Khalek) posted https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1214354319811719170 > The pressure campaign from pro-war trolls worked. @AOC unliked @RaniaKhalek?s tweet and thanked > them for alerting her that she committed a thought crime. Disturbing that she allows herself to > be pressured by such bullying. What happens when it?s over something more meaningful? So there's another target for the Assad whitewasher smear: AOC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeSSQZMqov4 -- Tulsi Gabbard (who opposes the assassination of Iranian Gen. Soleimani) explained to "Fox & Friends" (including sycophant Brian Kilmeade) why she objects to this assassination. Kilmeade is for whatever he thinks will agree with the leading Republican: he was against war in Iraq when candidate Trump objected to that war, but now he told Geraldo Rivera that he supports that same war after Geraldo Rivera pointed out that we were lied into that war by the US Government and this means we should not trust what they say when they claim Iran poses an imminent threat to us now. War: Sanctions are war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04BZ7_eaDB0 -- Rania Khalek's informative new video explaining what sanctions are, showing that sanctions have never caused a population to work against their government (thus allowing the US to take over that government), and this means that sanctions don't work as the US claims they do. If the goal is to kill people sanctions are quite effective. Sanctions are war. Liberals need to understand this reality. Related: https://sanctionskill.org/ -- This site points out that: > Sanctions are imposed by the United States and its junior partners against countries that resist > their agendas. They are a weapon of Economic War, resulting in chronic shortages of basic > necessities, economic dislocation, chaotic hyperinflation, artificial famines, disease, and > poverty. And a call to Action for International Days of Action Against Sanctions and Economic War from March 13 through March 15, 2020 Related: Caitlin Johnstone on "Starvation Sanctions Are Worse Than Overt Warfare" https://archive.md/wip/Cx3mn https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/23/starvation-sanctions-are-worse-than-overt-warfare/ -- > Iran?s economy is already floundering due to the steadily mounting sanctions that the Trump > administration has been heaping upon it since its withdrawal from the JCPOA last year. Crucial > goods are four times the price they used to be, sick Iranians are having difficulty obtaining > life-saving medicine, and life in general has been getting much more difficult for the poorest > and frailest Iranian civilians. > > For this reason, it is a very safe bet that there have been Iranians who have died because of the > sanctions. Being unable to obtain enough life-saving medicine will inevitably increase mortality > rates, as will inadequate nutrition and care for those whose health is at risk. There?s not > really any way around that, and it?s only going to get worse. > > And that?s exactly what was supposed to happen. As far as their intended purpose is concerned, > the sanctions are working. They?re doing exactly what they were intended to do: hurt Iranian > civilians. > > How do I know this? Well for one thing America?s Secretary of State has said it openly. The New > York Times reports the following: > > [begin NYT quote] > Last week, Mr. Pompeo acknowledged to Michael J. Morrell, a former acting director of the C.I.A., > that the administration?s strategy would not persuade Iranian leaders to change their behavior. > > ?I think what can change is the people can change the government,? he said on a podcast hosted by > Mr. Morrell, in what appeared to be an endorsement of regime change. > [end NYT quote] > > The Trump administration isn?t leveling these sanctions because it believes they?ll cause Tehran > to capitulate to Washington?s impossible list of demands; they know full well that that will > never happen. What they claim, based on no evidence or historical precedent whatsoever, is that > by making life so painful for the hungry and malnourished Iranian people they?ll be forced to > rise up against their government to effect regime change themselves. > > Can you think of anything more sociopathic than this? Off the top of my head, I personally > cannot. [...] War: The U.S., consistent with having built the largest occupation bases in the world, is not leaving Iraq anytime soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDphjFljGJk -- Despite the unaddressed leaked letter to the contrary, the US is not leaving Iraq. Protests: "No War On Iran" protests went national and more protests are planned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFz68h0OgwI -- Jimmy Dore spoke at one in Los Angeles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGuga15EliM -- Mike Prysner (Empire Files, works with Abby Martin) spoke at the same Los Angeles protest. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/08/we-need-everyone-streets-more-180-events-planned-across-us-protest-trumps-march-war -- more protests are planned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtnvZuPVxzs -- Code Pink's Medea Benjamin on how the US is less safe after US assassinated Soleimani; upcoming protests against war with Iran. "Iranians hit the obvious targets" in an effort to respond but avoid "a kind of escalating spiral that could lead to war" -- Chris Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK2LUaHs8DI -- interview with Hedges. > Chris Hedges: The Iranians hit the obvious targets, and you have to go back to the period of time > between the election of Barack Obama and his inauguration. There was a huge effort on the part of > Israel and many of the hawks within the Bush administration to strike Iran. At that point the > footprint of the U.S. within Iraq, in terms of its military, was much larger, of course. And the > Iranians made it clear that if that happened the Green Zone and several of those bases would not > exist. So I would imagine that as soon as that assassination was carried out there was an > assumption which proved to be correct -- that these would be the Iranian targets and they > therefore prepared: whether that was dispersing US troops or making sure there was protective > cover. This is probably, at this moment, the best scenario: because if there had been significant > numbers of U.S. dead or U.S. losses, that may have pushed the Trump administration to respond in > a kind of escalating spiral that could lead to war. -J From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Thu Jan 9 13:33:36 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 08:33:36 -0500 Subject: [Peace] 27 House Rs who voted for Khanna-Gaetz Iran war powers, by state In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Press reports indicate that the Iran War Powers Resolution will easily pass the House this afternoon, because it is backed by the House Democratic leadership. However, it matters how many Republican votes the Iran War Powers Resolution gets in the House this afternoon, because this will send a signal to Senate Republicans who are thinking about standing with Mike Lee and Rand Paul for Article I war powers. [600,000 people have watched *this cspan clip* of Senator Lee denouncing the Administration briefing as "insulting".] 27 likely candidates for House Republicans who may vote for the Iran War Powers Resolution this afternoon are the 27 House Republicans who voted for the Khanna-Gaetz amendment to NDAA to prohibit unconstitutional war with Iran. Here they are, by state. Please share any public information about any of these 27 Republicans publicly committing to vote yes. The sooner we can create a public perception that a bunch of House Republicans are going to vote yes this afternoon, the better off we will be. 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Thank you Robert Naiman, and the work of Just Foreign Policy Begin forwarded message: *From: *Robert Naiman via Peace *Subject: **[Peace] 27 House Rs who voted for Khanna-Gaetz Iran war powers, by state* *Date: *January 9, 2020 at 7:33:36 AM CST *To: *peace *Reply-To: *naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Press reports indicate that the Iran War Powers Resolution will easily pass the House this afternoon, because it is backed by the House Democratic leadership. However, it matters how many Republican votes the Iran War Powers Resolution gets in the House this afternoon, because this will send a signal to Senate Republicans who are thinking about standing with Mike Lee and Rand Paul for Article I war powers. [600,000 people have watched *this cspan clip* of Senator Lee denouncing the Administration briefing as "insulting".] 27 likely candidates for House Republicans who may vote for the Iran War Powers Resolution this afternoon are the 27 House Republicans who voted for the Khanna-Gaetz amendment to NDAA to prohibit unconstitutional war with Iran. Here they are, by state. Please share any public information about any of these 27 Republicans publicly committing to vote yes. The sooner we can create a public perception that a bunch of House Republicans are going to vote yes this afternoon, the better off we will be. [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2019/h463] AZ 4th R Gosar, Paul AZ 5th R Biggs, Andy AZ 6th R Schweikert, David CO 4th R Buck, Ken FL 1st R Gaetz, Matt FL 3rd R Yoho, Ted FL 19th R Rooney, Francis GA 10th R Hice, Jody IN 9th R Hollingsworth, Trey KY 1st R Comer, James KY 4th R Massie, Thomas MI 6th R Upton, Fred NY 23rd R Reed, Tom NC 11th R Meadows, Mark OH 4th R Jordan, Jim OH 8th R Davidson, Warren OH 16th R Gonzalez, Anthony OK 4th R Cole, Tom PA 1st R Fitzpatrick, Brian TN 2nd R Burchett, Tim TX 21st R Roy, Chip TX 25th R Williams, Roger TX 26th R Burgess, Michael TX 27th R Cloud, Michael VA 6th R Cline, Ben VA 9th R Griffith, Morgan WV 2nd R Mooney, Alex _____________ -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you Robert Naiman, and the years of work of Just Foreign Policy Begin forwarded message: *From: *Robert Naiman via Peace *Subject: **[Peace] 27 House Rs who voted for Khanna-Gaetz Iran war powers, by state* *Date: *January 9, 2020 at 7:33:36 AM CST *To: *peace *Reply-To: *naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Press reports indicate that the Iran War Powers Resolution will easily pass the House this afternoon, because it is backed by the House Democratic leadership. However, it matters how many Republican votes the Iran War Powers Resolution gets in the House this afternoon, because this will send a signal to Senate Republicans who are thinking about standing with Mike Lee and Rand Paul for Article I war powers. [600,000 people have watched *this cspan clip* of Senator Lee denouncing the Administration briefing as "insulting".] 27 likely candidates for House Republicans who may vote for the Iran War Powers Resolution this afternoon are the 27 House Republicans who voted for the Khanna-Gaetz amendment to NDAA to prohibit unconstitutional war with Iran. Here they are, by state. Please share any public information about any of these 27 Republicans publicly committing to vote yes. The sooner we can create a public perception that a bunch of House Republicans are going to vote yes this afternoon, the better off we will be. [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/116-2019/h463] AZ 4th R Gosar, Paul AZ 5th R Biggs, Andy AZ 6th R Schweikert, David CO 4th R Buck, Ken FL 1st R Gaetz, Matt FL 3rd R Yoho, Ted FL 19th R Rooney, Francis GA 10th R Hice, Jody IN 9th R Hollingsworth, Trey KY 1st R Comer, James KY 4th R Massie, Thomas MI 6th R Upton, Fred NY 23rd R Reed, Tom NC 11th R Meadows, Mark OH 4th R Jordan, Jim OH 8th R Davidson, Warren OH 16th R Gonzalez, Anthony OK 4th R Cole, Tom PA 1st R Fitzpatrick, Brian TN 2nd R Burchett, Tim TX 21st R Roy, Chip TX 25th R Williams, Roger TX 26th R Burgess, Michael TX 27th R Cloud, Michael VA 6th R Cline, Ben VA 9th R Griffith, Morgan WV 2nd R Mooney, Alex _____________ -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jan 10 00:27:32 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 16:27:32 -0800 Subject: [Peace] War Powers Resolution "Riddled with Holes" Message-ID: War Powers Resolution "Riddled with Holes" FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle at illinois.edu Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He said today regarding moves in Congress on Iran: "The Kaine resolution and the Slotkin resolution are riddled with so many holes that Trump/Pompeo et al. will drive a truck through them. The legislation proposed by Ro Khanna and Sanders has some problematic rhetoric, which should be dropped, but it is not in the operative provisions and it is consistent with the War Powers Resolution and the War Powers Clause of the Constitution and the United Nations Charter and would make a real difference." Boyle noted: "Slotkin's -- who notably came out of the CIA -- resolution talks of the president being free to act in case of 'an imminent armed attack.' This is not consistent with the War Powers Resolution and will likely assist Trump committing aggression. "Part of the reason we have these continuous wars is that Congress has failed to live up to its responsibilities. I advised Rep. Henry B. Gonz?lez and wrote the first draft of the Gonzalez Impeachment Resolution , introduced in 1991. George H. W. Bush would later write in hismemoirs that if the Gulf War 'drags out, not only will I take the blame, but I will probably have impeachment proceedings filed against me.' So that might have helped stop the first president Bush from trying to go to Baghdad in 1991. "Rep. Robert F. Drinan tried to impeach over Nixon's bombings and got shot down by most of the rest of Congress. If they had lived up to their responsibilities then, we'd live in a much better world." See New York Times?report from Aug. 1, 1973 on the first moves to impeach Nixon -- over bombing Cambodia. Boyle advised Sen. Patrick Moynihan and Rep. Dan Crane in the first use of the War Powers Resolution, after Reagan placed Marines in Lebanon. He added: "Unfortunately, a 'compromise' was struck and predictably led to disaster with the Marine barracks bombing." See New York Times report from Sept. 21, 1983: "Congress And Reagan Back Compromise On War Powers Keeping Marines In Lebanon ." Boyle added: "Part of the problem is my profession. As Noam Chomsky just noted : ?there is a respected profession, called ?international lawyers and law professors,? who can learnedly explain that words don?t mean what they mean.?" See accuracy.org news release just after Clinton's 1998 bombing of Iraq on the eve of his scheduled impeachment, featuring Boyle and the late head of the Center for Constitutional rights, Michael Ratner. For more crucial background, including the Obama administration's fears that he would be impeached if he bombed Syria, see recent accuracy.org news release: "Why Not Impeach Trump for War Crimes?" Boyle has been featured on several accuracy.org news releases with Paul Findley , the main author of the War Powers Resolution who died last year at 98. For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 January 9, 2020 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org @accuracy * ipaccuracy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jan 10 00:27:32 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 16:27:32 -0800 Subject: [Peace] War Powers Resolution "Riddled with Holes" Message-ID: War Powers Resolution "Riddled with Holes" FRANCIS BOYLE, fboyle at illinois.edu Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He said today regarding moves in Congress on Iran: "The Kaine resolution and the Slotkin resolution are riddled with so many holes that Trump/Pompeo et al. will drive a truck through them. The legislation proposed by Ro Khanna and Sanders has some problematic rhetoric, which should be dropped, but it is not in the operative provisions and it is consistent with the War Powers Resolution and the War Powers Clause of the Constitution and the United Nations Charter and would make a real difference." Boyle noted: "Slotkin's -- who notably came out of the CIA -- resolution talks of the president being free to act in case of 'an imminent armed attack.' This is not consistent with the War Powers Resolution and will likely assist Trump committing aggression. "Part of the reason we have these continuous wars is that Congress has failed to live up to its responsibilities. I advised Rep. Henry B. Gonz?lez and wrote the first draft of the Gonzalez Impeachment Resolution , introduced in 1991. George H. W. Bush would later write in hismemoirs that if the Gulf War 'drags out, not only will I take the blame, but I will probably have impeachment proceedings filed against me.' So that might have helped stop the first president Bush from trying to go to Baghdad in 1991. "Rep. Robert F. Drinan tried to impeach over Nixon's bombings and got shot down by most of the rest of Congress. If they had lived up to their responsibilities then, we'd live in a much better world." See New York Times?report from Aug. 1, 1973 on the first moves to impeach Nixon -- over bombing Cambodia. Boyle advised Sen. Patrick Moynihan and Rep. Dan Crane in the first use of the War Powers Resolution, after Reagan placed Marines in Lebanon. He added: "Unfortunately, a 'compromise' was struck and predictably led to disaster with the Marine barracks bombing." See New York Times report from Sept. 21, 1983: "Congress And Reagan Back Compromise On War Powers Keeping Marines In Lebanon ." Boyle added: "Part of the problem is my profession. As Noam Chomsky just noted : ?there is a respected profession, called ?international lawyers and law professors,? who can learnedly explain that words don?t mean what they mean.?" See accuracy.org news release just after Clinton's 1998 bombing of Iraq on the eve of his scheduled impeachment, featuring Boyle and the late head of the Center for Constitutional rights, Michael Ratner. For more crucial background, including the Obama administration's fears that he would be impeached if he bombed Syria, see recent accuracy.org news release: "Why Not Impeach Trump for War Crimes?" Boyle has been featured on several accuracy.org news releases with Paul Findley , the main author of the War Powers Resolution who died last year at 98. For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167 January 9, 2020 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org @accuracy * ipaccuracy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jan 10 16:13:56 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 08:13:56 -0800 Subject: [Peace] Another excellent Crosstalk with guest Prof. Marandi always worth a listen. Message-ID: Another excellent Crosstalk with guest Prof. Marandi always worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlkeyl4adJ0&t=11s&fbclid=IwAR1niR21f2y2pz94Pjk_Nznx_AdIm89bEW4b4lRi8muymBmmtcfA0V3j7QA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jan 10 16:13:56 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 08:13:56 -0800 Subject: [Peace] Another excellent Crosstalk with guest Prof. Marandi always worth a listen. Message-ID: Another excellent Crosstalk with guest Prof. Marandi always worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlkeyl4adJ0&t=11s&fbclid=IwAR1niR21f2y2pz94Pjk_Nznx_AdIm89bEW4b4lRi8muymBmmtcfA0V3j7QA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: Tomorrow, SAturday, 3-4pm, IMC [image: Image may contain: text] _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Fri Jan 10 19:59:25 2020 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:59:25 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Teach-In Tomorrow: Who in C-U profits from US War machine? Message-ID: [image: Image may contain: text] _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nicholson) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 18:48:01 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #447 notes Message-ID: <9e8dbef9-7f42-24b4-1786-ec81bdfd28b0@forestfield.org> News from Neptune #447 A "U.S. War Crimes" edition Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKa6ZLXKTy8 A list of links to items referenced on the show. ANSWER panel discussion on war finance and related matters (3-4PM) Independent Media Center https://www.ucimc.org/ 202 South Broadway, #100, Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 344-8820 programdirector at ucimc.org Hosted by "ANSWER C-U" C. G. Estabrook on "Illinois Anti-Warriors and the Attractive Senator" https://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/29/illinois-anti-warriors-and-the-attractive-senator/ C. G. Estabrook's articles for Counterpunch.org https://www.counterpunch.org/author/dr8gereswubecra/ David Green's recent letters to the editor of the News-Gazette https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-harassment-study-is-silly-propaganda/article_9d4eee6b-a8fa-5d8a-8609-169c0d256af9.html -- "Harassment study is silly propaganda" https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html -- "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" ANSWER: Act Now to Stop War & End Racism Coalition https://www.answercoalition.org/ T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets > We shall not cease from exploration > And the end of all our exploring > Will be to arrive where we started > And know the place for the first time. > Through the unknown, remembered gate > When the last of earth left to discover > Is that which was the beginning; > At the source of the longest river > The voice of the hidden waterfall > And the children in the apple-tree > Not known, because not looked for > But heard, half-heard, in the stillness > Between two waves of the sea. Selective Service System website crashes amid questions, fears of another military draft https://wqad.com/2020/01/06/selective-service-system-website-crashes-amid-questions-fears-of-another-military-draft/ https://krdo.com/news/politics/2020/01/03/selective-service-system-website-crashes-amid-questions-and-fears-of-another-us-military-draft/ https://fox8.com/2020/01/04/us-selective-service-website-crashes-amid-fears-of-military-draft/ Connor Mannion on "Tucker Carlson Slams Trump?s Strike on Top Iranian General: ?Lumbering Toward? War with Iran" https://www.mediaite.com/tv/tucker-carlson-slams-trumps-strike-on-top-iranian-general-lumbering-toward-war-with-iran/ Tucker Carlson Tonight https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E Alexandria Kobryn on "Message of those at Urbana anti-war rally: ?Why are we doing this??" https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/politics/message-of-those-at-urbana-anti-war-rally-why-are/article_9b7ed3d6-dd4b-5222-8c11-769983afc3fd.html Aaron Mat? on Twitter.com https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1215689196188422146 > And he's already done a lot. Back in 2017, Senator Sanders was the *only* member of the > Democratic caucus in either chamber to vote against new sanctions on Iran. Caitlin Johnstone on "Starvation Sanctions Are Worse Than Overt Warfare" https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/06/23/starvation-sanctions-are-worse-than-overt-warfare/ https://archive.md/wip/Cx3mn Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04BZ7_eaDB0 -- Rania Khalek on the lethality of sanctions. https://sanctionskill.org/ US war in Vietnam was not just a mistake but a crime https://monthlyreview.org/2016/12/01/lessons-from-the-vietnam-war/ https://www.laprogressive.com/vietnam-war-crime/ Norman Solomon "War With Iran is at Stake?and Democrats? High Jump Over Low Standards Aren?t Helping" https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/war-with-iran-is-at-stake-and-democrats-high-jump-over-low-standards-arent-helping/ Student Loan Repayment Programs for military members http://www.military.com/education/money-for-school/student-loan-repayment.html https://www.studentdebtrelief.us/news/does-the-military-pay-for-college/ https://studentloanhero.com/featured/strategies-army-officer-repay-68000-debt/ -- essentially a self-help ad for how to use one's military pay to pay down student debt. Joseph Bauers on "Lies, lies, lies drive war theme" https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-editor/letter-to-the-editor-lies-lies-lies-drive-war-theme/article_6848caac-e56e-542d-adde-df2cffd8ffca.html Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin briefing and "shitshow" reaction recordings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul01ILKtGVo https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/god-almighty-that-was-a-shitshow-white-house-reporter-blasts-pompeo-mnuchin-presser -- inadvertently on-mic reaction from a White House reporter saying "God almighty, that was a shitshow!" All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search Louis Proyect on "Project 1619 and Its Detractors" https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/10/project-1619-and-its-detractors/ Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like" https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like Cedric Johnson's articles on nonsite.org https://nonsite.org/author/cedjohnson J.B. Nicholson's notes https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051768.html https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015599.html -J From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Jan 12 15:23:03 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:23:03 -0800 Subject: [Peace] A very worthwhile interview by Chris Hedges with Ron Purser Message-ID: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/478003-mindfulness-meditation-capitalist-spirituality/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Jan 12 15:23:03 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 07:23:03 -0800 Subject: [Peace] A very worthwhile interview by Chris Hedges with Ron Purser Message-ID: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/478003-mindfulness-meditation-capitalist-spirituality/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Mon Jan 13 15:44:09 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:44:09 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Wars Are Like Trade Deals: Simple Majority of Congress is Enough to Stop Them In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159038944957656 Wars Are Like Bad Trade Deals: Simple Majority of Congress is Enough to Stop Them A central organizing project of my life since 2006 has been to try to do in Congress to U.S. wars what Lori Wallach of Public Citizen?s Global Trade Watch, for whom I worked in 1997-1998, tries to do to bad trade deals: stop them. In this sense, the passage by the House last Thursday of a concurrent resolution [not subject to presidential veto] ? exactly as envisioned by the War Powers Resolution of 1973 - to end Trump's unconstitutional war with Iran was like Fast Track '97, when we blocked Bill Clinton on the House floor from getting "fast track" authority to negotiate new trade and investment agreements. It would be salutary if a journalist like John Nichols, who has chronicled Congressional reform efforts in these two areas since Dennis Kucinich was in Congress, would write an article to educate activist public opinion about how wars are like bad trade deals and how trying to stop them is similar. I started thinking about this again this morning because I was listening to a story on This American Life related to migration from Mexico to the United States which noted the huge increase in that migration that occurred in the 1990s. Which, of course, was during the first years of the NAFTA agreement. One of the marketing stories of the NAFTA agreement prior to its passage by Congress was that it was going to reduce migration from Mexico to the United States by creating more economic opportunity in Mexico; the opposite happened. When you look back at what the NAFTA agreement was designed to do, which included replacing Mexican food production for Mexican consumers with U.S. food production for Mexican consumers, the claim that NAFTA was going to reduce migration from Mexico to the United States was preposterous. The Mexican farmers who were thrown out of work by U.S. agricultural dumping had to go somewhere. So the claim that NAFTA was going to reduce Mexican migration to the U.S. was about as preposterous as the claim that the U.S. invaded Iraq in order to address the alleged threat of weapons of mass destruction or to bring democracy and freedom and human rights to Iraqis. In both cases, it wasn't really a "mistake" - it was a bald-face lie, ?from the morning,? as the Palestinians say. One way that wars are like bad trade deals is that the owners of America have an agenda of permanently remaking a foreign country for the benefit of the owners, which agenda is going to victimize a lot of Americans, in addition to victimizing a lot of people in the foreign country which is intended to be victimized. The owners of America sometimes face a usually one-time-only obstacle of democratic accountability they have to get through in order to execute their victimization agenda: the Congress of the United States. In order to get their victimization agenda through Congress - the bad trade deal or the war ? the owners have to lie about what the actual effects of their agenda on the victims are going to be. Of course, the owners lie about what's going to happen to the intended victims in the foreign country which is intended to be victimized. That's not very hard to get away with, since the intended victims in the foreign country which is intended to be victimized don't generally vote in U.S. elections or have other good means for voice here. But the owners also lie about what's going to happen to intended victims in America as a result of their agenda, and that part can be trickier, because the intended victims in America do still have some voice in Congress occasionally, even if that voice is usually badly attenuated by the power in Washington of Big Money. So the opponents of the owners? agenda have to expose and oppose both sets of lies, but the opponents of the owners? agenda often have to prioritize exposing and opposing the lies about what's going to happen to the American victims, because those concerns are usually the engine that's pulling the train in terms of what Congress is going to do. In this sense, flag-draped caskets at Dover Air Force Base, the destruction of the World Trade Center by Saudis linked to the Saudi regime, and the assassination of U.S. resident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi regime are like the destruction of union manufacturing jobs in the Midwest by U.S. trade agreements. We can see the effects of these dynamics when we compare efforts to oppose unconstitutional war with Iran with efforts to oppose unconstitutional U.S. participation in the genocidal Saudi regime war in Yemen. The half-empty is this: the main reason that the House voted last Thursday to stop unconstitutional war with Iran while it didn't vote last Thursday to stop unconstitutional U.S. participation in the genocidal Saudi regime war in Yemen is that Iran has the capacity to kill Americans and starving children in Yemen and their parents do not. But the spectacular half-full whose robust implications are not yet on public display is this: the underlying mechanism of democratic accountability is exactly the same - Congress invoking the War Powers Resolution of 1973 exactly as intended to pass a concurrent resolution [not subject to presidential veto] to end unconstitutional U.S. participation in an unauthorized war; and when the House did this on Thursday, with the vigorous backing of the House Democratic leadership, they set a precedent that we can use to try to end the Yemen war, any time we want. On Thursday, top House Democratic leaders, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel, threw down for Congressional insistence that Congress can stop an unconstitutional war with a simple majority in both houses by passing a concurrent resolution [not subject to presidential veto] to direct the President to stop the unconstitutional war, exactly as envisioned by the War Powers Resolution of 1973, which is the law of the land. This is a game-changer in a Democratic House, because under the War Powers Resolution, any Member of the House can introduce a privileged concurrent resolution to end unconstitutional U.S. participation in a war any time the House is in session, and that bill must go to the floor for a vote if the sponsor insists. It doesn?t say anywhere in the War Powers Resolution that it has to be Ro Khanna. It could be Ilhan Omar. It could be Rashida Tlaib. It could be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. It could be Tulsi Gabbard. It could be Jim McGovern, it could be Barbara Lee, it could be Peter DeFazio, it could be Pramila Jayapal. To prevent the introduction of such a privileged concurrent resolution therefore requires the unanimous consent of every single House Democrat. And therefore, every single House Democrat can be held individually accountable for the failure to introduce such a resolution. Moreover, under the War Powers Resolution, any such resolution which is passed by the House is privileged in the Senate, which means that Mitch McConnell can?t block a Senate vote. So this means that if House Democrats are on record as opposing a war ? as they are on record opposing unconstitutional U.S. participation in the genocidal Saudi regime war in Yemen ? then a single House Democrat ? like Ilhan Omar, for example ? can pull the plunger on the pinball that will force a Senate vote which Mitch McConnell can do nothing to stop and which can pass the Senate with a simple majority. [Such privileged resolutions only require a simple majority in the Senate.] If we compare the world in which we ?only? need a simple majority in both houses to end an unconstitutional war with the world in which we need a two-thirds majority in both houses to end an unconstitutional war because we have to override a presidential veto, the world in which we ?only? need a simple majority in both houses to end an unconstitutional war is going to have much less war in it. Much less. For these reasons, the introduction and passage in the House of a concurrent resolution to end unconstitutional U.S. participation in the genocidal Saudi war in Yemen is an urgent priority; not only to end the war ? which would certainly be reason enough ? but to clarify and underscore and nail to the church door for all time the ?new normal? that we ?only? need a simple majority in both houses to end an unconstitutional war. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Jan 14 00:33:24 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 18:33:24 -0600 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] Wilkerson interview In-Reply-To: <00167CA4-D4FA-432E-BD0C-53B266B0C1F6@icloud.com> References: <00167CA4-D4FA-432E-BD0C-53B266B0C1F6@icloud.com> Message-ID: And the US political establishment - which aggressively conducted ?American empire war? in the previous administration (and long before) - very much wants us to believe that Trump is the problem - so that the war-making can continue undisturbed, with his departure. It?s a particularly cynical attempt to mislead US public opinion. Trump was the first major party presidential candidate in 40 years to *attack* the government?s expanding neocon and and neolib policies (more war and more austerity). Those attacks made him president (not America racism, as the Democrats insisted.) But in office he?s largely adopted those policies. Obama was the first US president ever to be at war throughout two presidential terms, but we may with luck have an election between two candidates thrown up by the burgeoning populist wave, Trump and Sanders, populism being the conviction that "a virtuous and homogeneous people [is under attack from] a set of elites and dangerous ?others? who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity, and voice.? The political establishment - working for the 1% - are desperate to see that the populist wave is suppressed (in both parties), and conventional candidates (like Pence and Biden) confront one another, so that American empire war & immiseration continue, regardless of the election returns. ======================== Wilkerson on 'Democracy Now': "America exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It?s part of who we are. It?s part of what the American Empire is. We are going to lie, cheat and steal, as Pompeo is doing right now, as Trump is doing right now, as Esper is doing right now, as Lindsey Graham is doing right now, as Tom Cotton is doing right now, and a host of other members of my political party, the Republicans, are doing right now. We are going to cheat and steal to do whatever it is we have to do to continue this war complex. That?s the truth of it. And that?s the agony of it. "What we saw President Trump do was not in President Trump?s character, really. Those boys and girls who were getting on those planes at Fort Bragg to augment forces in Iraq, if you looked at their faces and, even more importantly, if you looked at the faces of the families assembled along the line that they were traversing to get onto the airplanes, you saw a lot of Donald Trump?s base. That base voted for Donald Trump because he promised to end these endless wars. He promised to drain the swamp. Well, as I said, an alligator from that swamp jumped out and bit him. And when he ordered the killing of Qassem Soleimani, he was a member of the national security state in good standing. And all that state knows how to do is make war.? At that point, Amy Goodman (speaking for the political establishment) says, "I want to turn to President Trump?! Of course she does. ?CGE > On Jan 13, 2020, at 4:31 PM, Morton K. Brussel via Peace-discuss wrote: > > As strong a statement as one is likely to encounter against Trump and Company. I was impressed byhis fervor. > > https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/13/lawrence_wilkerson_american_empire_war?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=55dd9c28cd-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-55dd9c28cd-190166725 > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Tue Jan 14 15:51:18 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:51:18 -0500 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?NPR_Rakes_Esper_on_=E2=80=9CImminent_Threat=3F?= =?utf-8?b?IeKAnSBhbmQg4oCcQ29uc3RpdHV0aW9uYWwgV2FyIFBvd2Vyc+KAnQ==?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159042202582656 NPR Rakes Esper on ?Imminent Threat?!? and ?Constitutional War Powers? Pentagon boss Esper was on NPR this morning. NPR pressed Esper on ?imminent threat?? and Constitutional War Powers. It was absolutely glorious. NPR totally humiliated Esper. NPR made Esper sound like a lying fool. Which, of course, is exactly what he is. I?ve been listening to NPR for decades. I never heard this version of NPR before. It was like listening to the BBC. On the BBC, if a government official won?t answer a question, they just keep repeating the question over and over until the government official answers it, or until they feel they?ve adequately demonstrated exactly what important question it is that government officials are unable or unwilling to answer. Then, if the government official still won?t answer the question, they cut the broadcast clip right there. Like, if this government official is unable or unwilling to answer our questions, then there?s no point in talking to them anymore. Then, everybody who hears the interview knows exactly what important question it was that government officials were unable or unwilling to answer. The only difference between NPR this morning and the BBC was the tone. NPR has this deferential, reverential tone when they?re talking with or about Pentagon officials. ?Please, suh, can I have some more?? That was the same as usual. On the BBC, the reporters have this swashbuckling tone, like if government officials don?t hate you, then you?re not a real journalist. But that was the only difference between NPR and the BBC this morning, the tone. The effective content was the same. Government lying was exposed. Everybody who heard that NPR interview now knows that ?Imminent Threat? vs. Constitutional War Powers? is the question that Administration officials are unable or unwilling to answer. We?re getting the oppositional U.S. media right now that we were entitled to in October 2002. If we could have had this oppositional U.S. media in October 2002, before Congress approved the Iraq AUMF, we could have stopped the Iraq war. The most important reason why we?re getting the oppositional media we deserve right now and not the lapdog media we had in October 2002 is that we?re getting the oppositional Democratic leadership we deserve right now, not the lapdog Democratic leadership we had in October 2002. The U.S. media takes key cues from Congress about what the boundaries of permissible debate are and where to strategically press government officials. This is where the ?extra-parliamentary? antiwar Left got it badly wrong in the past by not engaging with Congress more, not just in the immediate run-up to war, but all the way along, when the seeds for war were being planted. U.S. media need two Batsignals from Congress in this juncture to go to town: 1. The ?opposition party? is mostly united in opposition. 2. There are some members of the President?s party speaking out. This is what?s happening right now. U.S. media are getting the two Batsignals they need from Congress, and they?re going to town. Members of Congress go on TV and they say, ?Imminent Threat??!! Constitutional War Powers!!? And U.S. media says, ?Woof, woof! Imminent threat??!! Woof, woof! Constitutional War Powers!!? Recall the scene in ?All the President?s Men? with Bob Woodward and ?Deep Throat?/Mark Felt in the parking garage. Associate FBI Director Mark Felt doesn?t tell Woodward what the truth is. He tells the Washington Post cub reporter from Wheaton, Illinois what the right questions to ask are. He tells Woodward what leads the Justice Department and the FBI would be pursuing if they didn?t have the misfortune to be headed by appointees of Richard Nixon. ?Follow the money!!!? This is what the Members of Congress are doing when they go to the microphone and say, ?Imminent Threat??!! Constitutional War Powers!!? They?re telling the U.S. media: ?Look over there! Follow this lead! Press government officials on this question! This question is their Achilles? Heel! This is the question they can?t answer!? The main reason that we didn?t have the dynamics in October 2002 that we?re having now is that key Democratic leaders in Congress folded immediately to the Bush Administration on the Iraq AUMF. Dick Gephardt, Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton folded immediately on the Bush Administration?s fraudulent case for war, and this undercut opposition in Congress, including Republican opposition. Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey asked, why would we attack Iraq? Iraq hasn?t attacked us. But Democratic House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt undercut Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey?s opposition to the war by announcing that he would work with the Bush Administration to pass an AUMF. It was widely perceived at the time that a key reason, if not the main reason, why Dick Gephardt, Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton folded immediately to the Bush Administration on the Iraq war was that they were all planning to run for President, and they believed that opposing the war would be a liability for their presidential ambitions. Let?s suppose that this causation story is substantially true. Here are the questions for the final exam: 1. When Dick Gephardt, Joe Biden, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton folded immediately to the Bush Administration?s fraudulent case for war because of their presidential ambitions, were they primarily concerned about the opinions of voters, or were they primarily concerned about the opinions of some other group of people? 2. If they were primarily concerned with the opinions of some other group of people, what group of people were they primarily concerned about? 3. What implications does this have for the present juncture? 4. What did Deep Throat say to Bob Woodward in the parking garage? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Tue Jan 14 18:34:55 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:34:55 -0500 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Eliot_Engel_v=2E_Steny_Hoyer_on_Ilhan_Omar?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_inclusion_in_the_Iran_War_Powers_reindeer_gam?= =?utf-8?q?es?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159042631132656 Eliot Engel v. Steny Hoyer on Ilhan Omar?s inclusion in the Iran War Powers reindeer games I assume that everybody who wants to know, knows by now that it was Rep. Ilhan Omar who pulled the plunger that set the pinball in motion in the House on Iran War Powers last Sunday that led to the passage of the Iran War Powers Resolution in the House on Thursday. On Sunday, Rep. Omar announced that she and Barbara Lee were introducing a House companion to the Iran War Powers Resolution that Tim Kaine had introduced in the Senate. Within hours, Dem leadership announced that Rep. Slotkin would be sponsoring an Iran War Powers Resolution. This was of course a violation of usual protocol among House Democrats. It was like in Lord of the Flies when a kid finds a cool seashell on the beach and another kid says, hey, that?s a cool seashell, it?s mine now. It was like Jackie Robinson getting spiked at the plate. But to her great credit, rather than complain that her protocol rights were being violated, Rep. Omar leveraged the situation for the benefit of humanity. She did Protocol Violation Jujitsu. She said, fine, I?ll stand down in favor of Slotkin, but in exchange you have to make the bill tougher. A loss for protocol respect was a win for humanity. But then House bully Steny Hoyer came and said, I don?t want Ilhan Omar to play in our reindeer games. But then Eliot Engel said: hey, buddy, that?s a member of my committee who you?re trying to push out of the schoolyard. So then Ilhan Omar got to play in the Iran War Powers reindeer games along with all of the other reindeer. Eliot Engel awards for the week: 1. Defended the binding concurrent resolution provisions of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 [the law of the land] by reading from the War Powers Resolution of 1973 on the House floor. 2. Stood up to House bully Steny Hoyer to insist on the inclusion of Ilhan Omar in the Iran War Powers reindeer games. 3. Maintained calm librarian demeanor while managing pro-Constitution side of House debate while a parade of Article I Haters accused Article I Defenders of being terrorist-loving surrender monkeys. Admittedly, this is Eliot Engel?s normal demeanor, so he had a home court advantage, but still, credit where credit is due. All God?s children have different gifts they can employ for the cause of justice. I gotta admit, I?m starting to like this Eliot Engel guy a little bit. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Tue Jan 14 20:44:25 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:44:25 -0500 Subject: [Peace] War Powers Enforcement Should Take Precedence Over Sponsorship Protocol In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159042980567656 War Powers Enforcement Should Take Precedence Over Bill Sponsorship Protocol There?s a customary protocol norm about bill sponsorship sometimes observed by House Democrats whose observance can make it much harder to end unconstitutional wars, because it fundamentally conflicts with the enforcement mechanism of the War Powers Resolution. If we could establish a new norm, that enforcing the War Powers Resolution takes precedence over this customary protocol norm about bill sponsorship, it would be easier to end unconstitutional wars. The customary protocol norm is that once a particular Member is perceived by other Members to be a leader on a particular issue, other Members will defer to that Member to continue to lead. This customary protocol norm contradicts a key feature of the War Powers Resolution enforcement mechanism, which is that in a War Powers Emergency ? the President is conducting an unconstitutional war that Congress has never authorized ? any Member of Congress can pull the fire alarm, any Member of Congress can call 911, regardless of who did what in the past. The enforcement mechanism of the War Powers Resolution is the introduction of a privileged resolution [which must go to the floor if the sponsor insists] directing the President to remove U.S. forces from the unconstitutional war. This is the fire alarm, the 911 of the War Powers Resolution. In order for the War Powers Resolution to work to stop unconstitutional wars as Congress intended in 1973, it must be the case that any Member can introduce a privileged resolution to end an unconstitutional war, regardless of who did what in the past. For example: right now the Administration is unconstitutionally participating in the Saudi war in Yemen. This assertion should not be controversial among honest people; Congress voted to explicitly affirm this assertion when it passed the Sanders-Lee-Murphy Yemen War Powers Resolution last year. The fact that this situation has persisted since March 2015 does not make it any less of a War Powers Emergency. The fact that this situation has persisted even after Congress explicitly voted to affirm that the war was unconstitutional last year certainly doesn?t make it any less of a War Powers Emergency. The passage by the House last Thursday of the concurrent [not subject to presidential veto] Iran War Powers Resolution, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Foreign Affairs Chair Eliot Engel explicitly affirming that under the War Powers Resolution of 1973 [which is law] a concurrent War Powers Resolution is binding, should increase our sense of urgency for using the same mechanism to end unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen. As a matter of elementary logic, if a concurrent Iran War Powers Resolution is binding, a concurrent Yemen War Powers Resolution is binding. If any House Democrat claims the contrary, we can simply cite Speaker Pelosi and HFAC Chair Engel as our validators, and that should end the argument. Q.E.D. Therefore, every single House Democrat who voted for the Sanders-Lee-Murphy Yemen War Powers Resolution ? which is every single House Democrat who was in the House at the time ? now has a ?joint and several? responsibility to introduce a concurrent binding Yemen War Powers Resolution to end unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen. If it was unconstitutional when the House passed the Sanders-Lee-Murphy resolution, it?s unconstitutional now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But Naiman assures us that the War Powers Resolution of 1973 specifically cites a concurrent resolution as the means by which congress can end an unauthorized war. Those who deny this, he says, are living in their own fantasy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Wed Jan 15 02:17:04 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:17:04 -0600 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air - Episode #501 notes Message-ID: <2e5e972d-25b0-26f3-0732-90f96cb8d56b@forestfield.org> AWARE on the Air - Episode #501 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4T5slexN8 A list of links to items referenced on the show. Dr. Jill Stein on assassinating Soleimani https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1213858241618337792 Jane Arraf followup to Dr. Jill Stein https://twitter.com/janearraf/status/1213823941321592834 Shervin Malekzadeh on "Boys Go to Baghdad, Real Men Go to Tehran" https://lobelog.com/boys-go-to-baghdad-real-men-go-to-tehran/ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/15/boys-go-baghdad-real-men-go-tehran Jerri-Lynn Scofield on "Boys Go to Baghdad. Men Go to Tehran." https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2019/05/boys-go-to-baghdad-men-go-to-tehran.html https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/05/boys-go-to-baghdad-men-go-to-tehran.html Daniele Albertazzi & Duncan McDonnell define populism http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103230/http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf Lawrence Wilkerson interview on Democracy Now in "?America Exists Today to Make War?: Lawrence Wilkerson on Endless War & American Empire" https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/13/lawrence_wilkerson_american_empire_war Ibn Riad - ??? ???? from a thread regarding "the anti-government protests that sprung up today in Iran, and the failed imperial plot that they point towards." https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1216217400598761474.html "Colour revolution" term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution Moon of Alabama on "The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos" https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/the-long-planned-us-assassinations-in-iraq-will-increase-the-political-chaos.html Bobby Allyn & Ari Shapiro on "Esper: U.S. Could Strike Iran Or Proxies 'Where Legally Available And Appropriate'" https://www.npr.org/2020/01/13/796102188/esper-u-s-could-strike-iran-or-proxies-where-legally-available-and-appropriate Zachary Cohen on "Barr and Pompeo shift justification for Iran strike from 'imminent' threat to deterrence" https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/politics/pompeo-barr-soleimani-strike-iran-rationale/index.html Jimmy Dore guest hosts The World According to Jesse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbkLcjxdZpg -J From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Jan 16 03:57:51 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:57:51 -0600 Subject: [Peace] New Silk Road Message-ID: https://www.blackagendareport.com/my-trip-china-exposed-shameful-lies-peddled-american-empire?fbclid=IwAR1K0om3kfvPzgtNChcglVKU7RlpOrRFjEaiKzopbKgRzdCtoZ5tsZKjAD0 = why the US should join rather than attempt to subvert the New Silk Road project (formerly called The Belt and Road Initiative - BRI). ?CGE From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Jan 16 16:04:42 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:04:42 -0600 Subject: [Peace] "Trump Administration Violated Law by Withholding Ukraine Security Aid" Message-ID: Trump Administration Violated Law by Withholding Ukraine Security Aid - US Congressional Watchdog https://sputniknews.com/us/202001161078053730-trump-administration-violated-law-by-withholding-ukraine-security-aid---us-congressional-watchdog/ Of course the "security aid" - money for weapons to kill its own people - *should* have been withheld from the nazi-infested government that the Obama administration installed in Ukraine by a coup against an elected president! The US political establishment wants to remove Trump for fear he won?t continue the Obama administration (& before) policies of war and war provocations against Russia (and China). The cornerstone of US fp for more than century (cf. 'Open Door,? 1899) has been to prevent an economic consolidation of Eurasia, for fear that that will limit the economic hegemony of the US 1%. ?CGE From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Thu Jan 16 16:46:52 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:46:52 -0500 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Is_=E2=80=9CWar_Powers_Impeachment=E2=80=9D_ge?= =?utf-8?b?dHRpbmcgYSDigJxDb250YWN0IEhpZ2jigJ0/?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159048792112656 Is ?War Powers Impeachment? getting a ?Contact High?? One of the longstanding aspirations of the War Powers Clause Restoration Movement has been to impeach the President ? any President ? for the crime of Unconstitutional War. The closest we?ve come to reaching the Holy Grail so far is that the House Judiciary Committee voted on an article of impeachment against Richard Nixon for the unconstitutional bombing of Cambodia. But the Unconstitutional War article of impeachment against Nixon failed in committee; it was opposed by the Democratic leadership of the committee on the grounds that it was crucial to have more Republican support, and there were other articles of impeachment against Nixon that had more Republican support. There?s been some debate in the War Powers Clause Restoration Movement over whether #UkraineGate impeachment represents progress towards reaching the Holy Grail. ?Two War Powers Clause Restorers, three opinions.? On the one hand, #UkraineGate impeachment demonstrates that, like art in a museum that?s ?art? because it?s in a museum, under our Constitution, a presidential crime is an ?impeachable offense? when the duly elected majority of the House of Representatives says it is. As soon as you can get a majority of the House of Representatives to approve an article of impeachment for it, it?s nailed to the church door for all time that it?s an ?impeachable offense.? What is ?potable water?? It?s water that you can drink without getting sick. So if you drink a glass of water and you don?t get sick, it was ?potable water.? If you can impeach the President for lying under oath in a deposition, then from now on, that?s an ?impeachable offense.? As Bobby Fischer said about pawn to king four: it?s ?best by test.? Also on the positive side of the ledger: #UkraineGate impeachment is about U.S. foreign policy. There?s a DNC Democrat gaslighting lie sometimes told by DNC Democrats that ?Americans don?t care about foreign policy.? DNC Democrats trot out this DNC Democrat gaslighting lie when they want to excuse the failure of the Democratic leadership in Congress to do anything about a U.S. war crime. They trotted out this DNC Democrat gaslighting lie to excuse the failure of the Democratic leadership in Congress to do anything about unconstitutional U.S. participation in the genocidal Saudi war in Yemen. Passage by Congress of the Sanders-Lee-Murphy Yemen War Powers Resolution, with every single Democrat and a bunch of Republicans voting yes, proved that the DNC Democrats had been lying and gaslighting all along. But there are other examples that prove that this is a DNC Democrat gaslighting lie. The response of ?ordinary Americans? to the earthquake in Haiti. The response of ?ordinary Americans? to Tahrir Square. The response of ?ordinary Americans? to Nixon?s illegal bombing of Cambodia. The response of ?ordinary Americans? to Obama?s threat to unconstitutionally bomb Syria in August 2013. The response of ?ordinary Americans? to Trump?s unconstitutional assassination of a top Iranian government official. In order to care, ?ordinary Americans? need two Batsignals. They need someone to tell them what?s happening. And they need someone to tell them a plausible story that there is something meaningful that they can do about it by normal means that are available to them. Then they care. That is the whole Torah. The rest is explanation. On the other hand, some have argued that the underlying policy issue in dispute on #UkraineGate is the failure of the President to faithfully execute ?more war? as Congress had demanded. On the other other hand, some have argued that the fundamental policy issue in dispute on #UkraineGate was not really the failure of the President to faithfully execute ?more war? as Congress had demanded. Zelensky didn?t want ?more war.? Zelensky wanted peace. Zelensky was elected on a platform of peace, of compromise, of let?s make a deal, of can?t we all just get along. Zelensky was the Rouhani of Ukraine. Let?s make a deal with the foreigners so they?ll leave us alone. All Zelensky wanted was a deal he could sell to the people who elected him as ?this is good enough to compromise and not be totally humiliated.? That was the context in which Trump tried to hold up the chits that Zelensky thought he needed to get the deal that he could sell to the people who elected him as this is good enough to compromise and not be totally humiliated; and Trump tried to hold up the chits that Zelensky thought he needed for self-interested reasons that had nothing to do with U.S. foreign policy. That?s like Blago saying to his buds on an FBI wiretap when he got to appoint a U.S. Senator: look what just fell into my lap. This is a valuable thing. I?m not giving this valuable thing away for free. That?s not how Americans reasonably expect normal U.S. presidents to behave, because the power of the U.S. presidency is not the personal property of the president. It belongs to the American people. The interest of the American people was a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine that didn?t unnecessarily humiliate Zelensky, because we could use more Zelenskys in the world, like we could use more Rouhanis in the world, people who are willing to compromise and make a deal to end and prevent wars. It?s not in the interests of the people who want to end and prevent wars for the Zelenskys and the Rouhanis of the world to get humiliated. So that was the situation until this week. But now, as Keynes said, there is new information, which is the current juxtaposition of Ukraine impeachment and Iran War Powers. And reading the press, it now seems that in the current juxtaposition, Iran War Powers Resolution is getting a contact high from Ukraine impeachment. They?re both about the Constitutional duties of the President and Congress; they?re both about a President who is willfully, repeatedly defying historic norms about how the President should behave in deference to the Constitutional powers of Congress; they?re both about the willingness of Congress to step up to the plate of asserting its Constitutional powers. So this War Powers Clause Restorer currently judges with high confidence that current events are bringing us significantly closer to the Holy Grail of impeaching the President ? any President ? for Unconstitutional War. Ask me again when we get an answer on whether the House Democratic leadership is ready to move on a veto-proof War Powers Resolution to end unconstitutional U.S. participation in the genocidal Saudi war in Yemen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Thu Jan 16 17:22:27 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 12:22:27 -0500 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Trump=E2=80=99s_Hail_Mary_=E2=80=9CFour_Embass?= =?utf-8?q?ies=E2=80=9D_Lie_Will_Go_Down_in_War_Powers_History?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159049034457656 Trump?s Hail Mary ?Four Embassies? Lie Will Go Down in War Powers History Every schoolgirl knows that Presidents lie. I.F. Stone taught us that. As the old anarcho-feminist joke went: ?How do you know when the President is lying? When *HER* lips are moving.? George W. Bush lied us into the Iraq war. Barack Obama lied when he said he would ?end the mindset that got us into war in the first place.? Bush lied us into war and Obama lied to keep us at war. Every schoolgirl knows that. But most Presidents don?t lie *CAVALIERLY*. They don?t lie about how tall they are, or whether or not they have a dog, or what they had for breakfast this morning, or what someone said to them in a ?private? conversation a year ago. A key reason that most Presidents don?t lie cavalierly is that most adult human beings don?t lie cavalierly. A key reason that most adult human beings don?t cavalierly is that even a strategic sociopath understands that there are downside risks to developing the reputation of being a cavalier liar. Would George W. Bush or Barack Obama have made up the ?four embassies? lie *ON THE FLY* while doing an interview on national TV? Would they have said afterwards that it didn?t matter if there was an ?imminent threat?? In other words, it just doesn?t matter what the truth about this is? Surely George W. Bush and Barack Obama would have gone about this in a more disciplined way. Surely they would have convened meetings of all the smart people in DC, come to some kind of expert consensus on what the Official Lies should be, and then had Message Discipline to all peddle roughly the same versions of the Official Lies on national TV. They wouldn?t have had to send poor little Esper to the national TV shows to walk back the President?s Spontaneous Lie. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Fri Jan 17 02:46:16 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:46:16 -0600 Subject: [Peace] notes Message-ID: <60d8063c-260b-6345-ce64-9a8ce57fd97e@forestfield.org> Notes for your consideration on News from Neptune in which one can find pointers to some media the mainstream corporate sources won't cover, and critique DN for their ongoing support of Russiagate. Have a great show, guys. https://on.rt.com/a910 -- Danielle Ryan op-ed on "Trump?s threat to freeze Iraq?s US bank account over request to withdraw troops is pure mobster-style intimidation" > On January 5, the Iraqi parliament voted to approve a resolution calling for the removal of US > troops. A day later, Donald Trump threatened to hit Iraqis with deadly economic sanctions ?like > they?ve never seen before? if Baghdad tries to expel American troops without first ?paying us > back? for an ?extraordinarily expensive air base? built there. > > Days later, when Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham grotesquely suggested that Iraq should indeed > "repay the American taxpayer" for the base ? built after US forces laid waste to the country in > an illegal invasion ? Trump, in typical fashion, did not even try to cloak his threat in > niceties, opting for unequivocal blackmail instead. > > "We have a lot of their money right now. We have 35 billion dollars of their money right now > sitting in an account ? and I think they'll agree to pay. I think they'll agree to pay, otherwise > we'll stay there.? > > How embarrassing for Americans this guy is. A disgrace. He sounds like a mobster or an > extortionist. #MAGA ?#Syria#Iraq#Trumppic.twitter.com/XbsNyp8Mi7 ? Walid (@walid970721) January > 12, 2020 > > Iraq keeps its revenue from oil sales, which accounts for 90 percent of its budget, in the New > York bank. Like many other countries around the world, they do this in order to be able to access > the dominant US dollar, but that comes with risks. Iraqi officials have warned of total economic > collapse if Trump goes through with the threat to impose new sanctions and hold the country?s > money hostage, at a time when Iraqis are struggling to get by and tensions in the region are > already on the rise. > > In this context, Trump?s comment to Ingraham sounds like the equivalent of something you might > hear in a mobster movie: You be good, do what we say ? and maybe then we won?t kill your family. > > What happened to Washington?s deep desire to secure freedom and democracy for the Iraqi people? > In a statement released following the Iraqi parliament?s vote to expel American troops ? which > have been present in the country to fight ISIS militants under a 2014 deal ? the US State > Department somehow managed to completely ignore the resolution and instead harp on about how it > is a ?force for good? in the region. Calling the US?s presence in the country ?appropriate,? the > statement shot down the notion that US troops would be leaving any time soon. Also on rt.com US > won?t heed Iraq?s call for troop withdrawal, calls military presence there ?appropriate? > > This is essentially the US once again asserting itself as a brute occupying force in Iraq, > blatantly ignoring Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi?s request for Washington to begin preparations > for withdrawal. Barely an eyebrow was raised in Western media, though, because for too long there > has been an assumption that American troops have a simple, unassailable right to be in Iraq. It > has somehow become completely normal and unremarkable for the US to dictate the terms of Iraq?s > survival. > > The statement went on to assert that the US wants to be a ?partner? to a ?sovereign? Iraq. A real > "partner" does not use threats of devastating economic warfare as leverage ? and if Trump or any > of the empire-driven neocons advising him were truly interested in a sovereign Iraq, they would > respect the wishes of the Iraqi parliament and set in motion a plan to remove America?s troops. > > This is pure thuggery. "The Trump administration warned Iraq this week that it risks losing > access to a critical government bank account if Baghdad kicks out American forces ... according > to Iraqi officials." https://t.co/ID9plNgyL5pic.twitter.com/TSDPsk2qfk ? Shashank Joshi (@shashj) > January 11, 2020 > > It?s not the first time the US has threatened to freeze Iraq?s Fed account and used its own money > as leverage to produce favored geopolitical outcomes. In 2008, the Bush administration used the > same tactic to force Iraq to sign an unpopular military deal prolonging its previous occupation. > Barack Obama admitted, after all, that the US engages in ?arm-twisting? to force other nations to > ?do what we need them to do.? > > If it came down to it, Washington would be perfectly happy to use Iraq as a battleground on which > to fight a war against Iran ? and this is exactly the reason why Iraqis have begun to feel > increasingly uneasy about a continued US troop presence in their country. Far from a ?force for > good? in the region, the US is a bringer of chaos ? and Iraq knows that better than anyone else. Assange: The railroading/show-trial continues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKj9Di580Cg -- An RT report from a rally outside Westminster Magistrates. Why RT? Because RT is one of very few outlets that reports on Assange's condition at all. This includes Democracy Now, where the most recent story featuring the word "Assange" is from December 5, 2019 (visit https://www.democracynow.org/search?utf8=?&query=assange to check if that's still true when you read this). A transcript from the video: > Speaker 1: We've had a short hearing today and practically the entire focus of it was the lack of > access that Julian Assange's legal team has had to their client. Gareth Peirce, Julian's > solicitor, said that since the last time that they talked in the court they've had precisely two > hours of contact with their client, he was brought to the court today because they expected to be > able to spend considerable amounts of time with him preparing the case here at court. The judge > told them that because of the number of other prisoners in the court that was going to be reduced > to just one hour, and it was clear, I think from the judge's attitude, which in previous hearing > has been distinctly unsympathetic, that even she thought that this was an outrageous denial of > proper preparation of this legal case. > > Speaker 2: Julian Assange is a publisher and a journalist, he is not someone who should be in > prison. If they have these ridiculous, ridiculous hearings about an American extradition request > then they should be done while he's on bail and in a safe environment with his friends his family > and his legal team. Coverage by the media: Warren/Sanders kerfuffle is really about corporate media lying on behalf of the establishment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTWM1_qIcI -- Jimmy Dore on Sanders/Warren debate coverage including clear evidence of CNN lying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X0OReq2IY -- Jimmy Dore on New York Times lying including citing CNN's baseless lying as backing for their own lying. CNN published an evidenceless claim sourced with 4 anonymous figures. The claim in https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-meeting/index.html reads: Headline: "Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren in private 2018 meeting that a woman can't win, sources say" by MJ Lee > The stakes were high when Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren met at Warren's apartment in > Washington, DC, one evening in December 2018. The longtime friends knew that they could soon be > running against each other for president. > > The two agreed that if they ultimately faced each other as presidential candidates, they should > remain civil and avoid attacking one another, so as not to hurt the progressive movement. They > also discussed how to best take on President Donald Trump, and Warren laid out two main reasons > she believed she would be a strong candidate: She could make a robust argument about the economy > and earn broad support from female voters. > > Sanders responded that he did not believe a woman could win. > > The description of that meeting is based on the accounts of four people: two people Warren spoke > with directly soon after the encounter, and two people familiar with the meeting. > > After publication of this story, Warren herself backed up this account of the meeting, saying in > part in a statement Monday, "I thought a woman could win; he disagreed." > > That evening in 2018, Sanders expressed frustration at what he saw as a growing focus among > Democrats on identity politics, according to one of the people familiar with the conversation. > Warren told Sanders she disagreed with his assessment that a woman could not win, three of the > four sources said. > > Sanders denied the characterization of the meeting in a statement to CNN. None of the 4 alleged sources are named and none clearly attended this meeting -- two of them spoke "directly soon after the encounter" (Is that a day later? 10 minutes after? A week later? What is "directly soon" exactly?) and two people were "familiar with the meeting". This language too is not the same as saying these anonymous people attended the meeting. Then there's what happened at the Democratic Presidential so-called Debate which CNN hosted and ran asking a question based on their own sourceless reporting: > CNN questioner: Senator Sanders, I do want to be clear here: You're saying that you never told > Senator Warren that a woman could not win the election. > > Bernie Sanders: That is correct. > > CNN questioner: Senator Warren, what did you think when Senator Sanders told you a woman could > not win the election? > > [Sanders shakes his head, the crowd laughs.] This CNN report and Q&A at the "debate" was so ridiculous that even MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program called it out: > Mika Brzezinski, "Morning Joe" co-host: I am completely confused as to why it turned from Bernie > Sanders saying I didn't say it to Elizabeth Warren being asked when he said it. So you turn to > Elizabeth Warren and say 'Did he say it?'. That's the issue. I mean, it's bizarre! What the heck > happened there? Are they listening? 'Cause you gotta listen when you do a debate and then take > the question to the next candidate! [...] By the way, I've had conversations, private > conversations, taken to the press and totally manipulated for the benefit of the person who was > sharing the story. This happens all the time. It's clear there is a misunderstanding or > Elizabeth Warren is focused on something that was said-- > > Jimmy Dore [interjecting]: OR -- third option -- she's [Sen. Warren] lying to gain a political > advantage and doing it in an underhanded, transparently slimy and dishonest way. That's the > third option and she [Brzezinski] left that one out. > > Mika Brzezinski, "Morning Joe" co-host: --and Bernie Sanders is not gonna be someone who says 'I > don't think a woman can win' that's just stupid! The panel on "Morning Joe" concurred with Brzezinski. Keep in mind, these are MSNBC show hosts: they are the same professional liars who (as Jimmy Dore said) "call anyone they don't agree with Russians and even to them this is beyond the pale". These are not upstanding journalists taking on the establishment, they're well-paid commentators who are part of the establishment defending the interests of the billionaires who own the MSNBC network. Jimmy Dore adds: > Jimmy Dore: Okay, I'm gonna unpack it for you Mika so you won't be confused anymore: This is a > hit job that originated, probably, at the Elizabeth Warren [campaign] and the DNC together came > up with this idea and then they called up CNN and they planted this story and they go 'We can't > give you any-- just write this story for us!' because CNN's in bed with the Democratic Party, the > establishment, and they were in bed for Hillary Clinton and now they're in the tank for Elizabeth > Warren. How do we know CNN's repeated claim is completely untrue? Here's a transcript of a segment of Bernie Sanders speaking on video on C-SPAN on January 20, 1988: > Bernie Sanders: The real issue is not whether you're black or white, whether you're a woman or a > man -- in my view a woman could be elected President of the United States -- the real issue is > whose side are you on? Are you on the side of the workers and poor people? Or are you on the side > of big money and the corporations? And we also know CNN is lying because Sanders tried to recruit Elizabeth Warren to run for US President in 2015, a point Joe Scarborough (co-host of "Morning Joe") brought up on-air. Consider another CNN interview with Jess McIntosh, political commentator (from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCwKh30WSd8 ) > Jess McIntosh: Yeah, I couldn't agree more, I think that the moment between Warren and Bernie is > obviously the one that's going to be replayed the most and I think that what Bernie forgot was > that this isn't a he said-she said story, this is a reported out story that CNN was part of > breaking... CNN doesn't consistently tell their audience who McIntosh was: she was the Communications Director for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. It stands to reason that she could have an axe to grind favoring a neo-con/neo-lib such as Elizabeth Warren and against someone with domestic policies like Sanders'. Later, the New York Times (see https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/us/politics/democratic-debate-recap.html ) published an article which distorted what happened: > Prompted by the moderators, Ms. Warren and Senator Bernie Sanders continued a back-and-forth over > the fraught subject of whether a woman could be elected president [...] Anyone who heard what Sanders said at the debate, knew of his history with Warren, or heard him in 1988 knows there was no debate about this. NYT article authors Shane Goldmacher and Jonathan Martin are lying on behalf of the establishment (which is rewarded and never punished) providing backing for the baseless claim that the two debated "whether a woman could be elected president". Perhaps now more people understand why Pres. Trump gets such an approving response when he calls CNN "fake news" and says the New York Times "is going to hell" (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doug-mills-new-york-times-photographer-trump-calls-a-genius-2019-12-17/). Anyone who recalls the Times' coverage of Iraqi WMDs leading up to the 2003 invasion & occupation of Iraq would argue saying the NYT is "going" to hell is generous to the Times. Russiagate/Coverage by the media: Democracy Now offers up more corporate-friendly Russiagate spin on the resignation of the Russian government and Pres. Putin's proposed changes. RT offers more information and a read that actually fits their own headlines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbf_2u511h8 -- RT report: > Try explaining this: when Putin empowers the office of president, the media accuses him of > seizing more power, more control over Russia. But when Putin gives up that power and hands it over > to Parliament at his own expense it is also because he's seizing more control over Russia. As > first to discover this syndrome, I named it 'Paranoid Putinophrenia' and there's a real > epidemic: jbn: RT offers a series of headlines from corporate media backing their claim: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/europe/russian-government-resigns-vladimir-putin-reforms-intl/ CNN: Russian government resigns as Putin proposes reforms that could extend his grip on power https://time.com/5765369/russia-prime-minister-medvedev-government-resigns/ Time: Putin engineers surprised Russian political shake-up that could keep him in power longer https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russian-pm-resigns-after-putin-announces-constitutional-overhaul_n_5e1f2403c5b674e44b90bd98 Huffpost: Russian government resigns as Putin plots post presidency power-grab jbn: I'll add one more headline to the mix: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/16/russia_putin_medvedev_tony_wood https://archive.md/wip/JntTr Democracy Now: Putin Proposes Sweeping Changes to Russian Constitution, Possibly Prolonging His Grip on Power But that DN headline is just as untrue as the corporate media and doesn't capture what their Russiagator guest, Tony Wood, said: > AMY GOODMAN: Do you see Putin doing something along the lines of what the Chinese President Xi > did with getting rid of term limits? > > TONY WOOD: I think, actually, we need to see this change and the set of changes that he?s > talking about as designed to avoid that solution. I think one of the reasons that these things > have happened is that since 2018, when Putin was re-elected to another six-year term, the > question on everyone?s minds has been ?What is going to happen in 2024? Is he going to stay > forever? Is he going to leave?? And what these changes do is really open up that question to say > he?s probably not going to stay as president, because he can?t do that, but here are a series of > other roles he could slip into, and he will have some kind of alternative power base. > > The other thing it says is that whoever becomes president after him is not going to have > anywhere near as much power as Putin has had. So, what?s confusing about this, I think ? and this > is why I think we need to see how this plays out ? is that it looks like Putin is carving out a > way for him to slide into a parallel role and remain powerful. So, he?s remaking a system, but > breaking it, as well, so that no one has as much power as he used to have. jbn: Wait -- if "he?s probably not going to stay as president, because he can?t do that" that doesn't "prolong his grip on power". And it makes us ask: why can't he stay in power? It's because of the changes he's making where he proposed limits on his own power and setting up a system where "whoever becomes president after him is not going to have anywhere near as much power as Putin has had"? And all of these changes are up to the people in two major ways: 1. The upcoming referendum vote -- the people will decide if they want these changes. 2. The bulk of the changes shifts more power from a single authority to a more democratically determined body. It's also worth pointing out that if the people didn't want him to be in power as long as he was, they could have voted him out before. People did run against him in their most recent presidential election and they were heard from in televised debates (which is more than we can say for some US presidential candidates). To back the suspicion that Putin did something wrong by being President for so long we need evidence that he didn't really win re-elections. Tony Wood, Amy Goodman, and Nermeen Shaikh offer no such evidence. And it's telling that none of the participants quote Putin's own words. https://on.rt.com/a94d -- "Russian political earthquake: Putin sets out plan for Kremlin departure & Medvedev resigns" > Today, the president set out the roadmap for his exit from the Kremlin, more-or-less kicking off > the build-up to the transition of power. He will step down in 2024, or perhaps even earlier, and > he intends to dismantle the ?hyper-Presidential? system which allowed him to wield so much > control in office. This was introduced by Boris Yeltsin in 1993 with American support, after he > had used tanks to fire on the Parliament. Also on rt.com Russian government resigns after > President Putin?s state-of-the-nation address proposes changes to the constitution > > Putin plans to give more powers to the latter body, with the prime minister, in particular, > enjoying more authority. He also wants to bulk up the role of the State Council. Indeed, he will > probably end up there himself after leaving office, in some sort of ?elder statesman? role. The > body will consist of heads of Russian regions and members of the Presidential Administration. It > seems it will fulfill an advisory function. > > To achieve these goals, Putin wants to reduce presidential powers and introduce a two-term > limit. This would mean a maximum of 12 years in the Kremlin; he has already been there for 16. > The broad vision is to have more checks and balances, with a weaker presidency and other branches > of government strengthened. > > Make no mistake, Putin?s goal is to preserve the system which he inherited from Yeltsin, and > then tweaked. For all its faults, after a difficult birth it has given Russians the greatest > freedom and prosperity they have ever known. Even if much work remains to be done on > distributing economic gains more fairly. jbn: It's interesting that RT points out what DN does not -- RT points out that Putin got "the system which he inherited from Yeltsin", the system the US approved of (Yeltsin was the American-friendly stooge in Russia). But to hear corporate-friendly media talk about that system (or any derivative of it) now, there's no mention of the American-led past or that the proposed changes offer "more checks and balances, with a weaker presidency and other branches of government strengthened". Tony Wood wasn't clear on what the changes were (a clear description of the changes would have further highlighted the contradiction between Wood's role on DN as Russiagator versus the available evidence from Putin's speech describing his own proposed reforms). The far more informative RT reports on this have quoted Putin and offered a summary of the pending changes: > The Cabinet > Now: appointed by president, approved by parliament > After changes: appointed by parliament, president can't object > > Top security and military officials > Now: appointed by president > After changes: appointed by president with parliamentary consultation > > Power to dismiss supreme, constitutional judges > Now: courts decide > After changes: Parliament decides jbn: Democracy Now's Amy Goodman published a headline which reads "Russian Government Resigns as Vladimir Putin Seeks to Retain Power Beyond 2024" (https://www.democracynow.org/2020/1/16/headlines/russian_government_resigns_as_vladimir_putin_seeks_to_retain_power_beyond_2024) but she didn't tell the audience that Putin is expected to move to what's been described as an "advisory function" "in some sort of 'elder statesman' role" (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/478381-russian-government-resignation-mishustin/) which doesn't confer as much power as he has now. Nor was Goodman interested in telling her audience that the Russian voters will decide on whether to adopt Putin's proposed changes. Shame on you, Amy Goodman, Nermeen Shaikh, and the rest of the Democracy Now team. Your Russiagate-repeating means you've thrown away what street cred you earned years ago during the run-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. Labor: Amazon is still mistreating their workforce. Organizing proves fruitful to challenge management and reverse some minor violations of unduly harsh leave policies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP2ZHzof77E -- 218 Amazon co-workers and thousands of customers support more time off (and paid time off) for Amazon employees and strike to get sit-down talks with Amazon management. https://labornotes.org/2020/01/amazon-warehouse-workers-deliver-christmas-walkout -- "Amazon Warehouse Workers Deliver Christmas Walkout" > Workers at Amazon?s DSM1 warehouse in Sacramento celebrated Christmas in their own fashion?by > walking out. It was the latest move in their campaign for paid time off. > > Night-shift workers delivered a petition with 4,015 signatures to management during their 2:30 > a.m. break on December 23. After reading out loud their demands for a meeting with management and > paid time off, 36 of the 100 night-shift workers clocked out at 2:45 a.m. and walked off the job > mid-shift. > > ?A lot of people were scared, but it was encouraging to see how many people came through,? said > one of the workers who walked out. (The organizing committee has agreed that members won?t > identify themselves individually.) ?That was the best result from the action, showing ourselves > and our co-workers we can all do this. > > ?We didn?t cause any major disruptions necessarily to deliveries, but it was good to show people > we can stick together,? the worker added. [...] > The Sacramento group first took on the company over the most blatant effects of its strict > time-off policies, which allow workers to take just 20 unpaid hours off per quarter. In > September, a worker at the warehouse was fired for going one hour over her allotted unpaid time > off while her mother-in-law was dying in the hospital. Her co-workers quickly put together a > petition demanding that she be rehired and circulated it around the facility. > > While talking to other workers, the petitioners discovered that another worker had been fired for > a minor violation of the time-off policy, and demanded that he be rehired as well. The group > delivered 80 signatures to management. Within 24 hours, HR contacted the first worker to tell her > that she would be rehired with back pay; the second worker received his notification a few days > later. > > Getting these two workers rehired through collective action appears to be the first example of > such a win by Amazon workers in the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAQ5K2YySLw -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to put men (who identify as women) in women's prisons. Those who don't accept identity politics (or the notion that a man becomes a woman merely by claiming as such) argue this is a horrible and dangerous idea for women. RT's interview with journalist Megan Murphy. > Megan Murphy: [...] I am NOT saying anything hateful, really, what I'm defending are women's > rights and then I'm stating basic facts. You know, for example, you can't change sex. It's not > possible, if you're born male, to become female. I fully support people, you know, dressing, > behaving in ways that make them feel like they're living out full authentic lives, but a male > can't become a female, a female can't become a male. And that shouldn't be a controversial thing > to say but trans activists have so much control over this debate and narrative that anyone who > challenges the ideology behind transgenderism is labeled bigoted and, you know, 'no platformed', > ostracized, bullied, threatened with violence, of course. You know I've I've received death > threats -- just on Friday I got a call from the police as a as a death threat had been sent to > the event venue that I I'm scheduled to appear at for an upcoming event saying you know if you > don't shut it down I'm gonna come there and get rid of Megan myself, so it's it's quite scary. > [...] -J From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Fri Jan 17 13:57:03 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 08:57:03 -0500 Subject: [Peace] If You Care About Ending Wars, You Must Care Whether Presidential Candidates Lie In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159051932542656 If You Care About Ending Wars, You Must Care Whether Presidential Candidates Lie Some people are now claiming that it doesn?t matter if presidential candidates lie. Apparently, we?re supposed to be grateful now if Democratic presidential candidates lie less than Trump. This is like saying that we should be grateful to our spouses if they don?t beat us. We must enforce higher aspirations than Democratic presidential candidates who lie less than Trump. It makes no difference if presidential candidates promise to end endless wars if we already know that the presidential candidates are liars. This is true for other issues of course, health care, labor law reform, student debt, Social Security, trade. Obama promised to fight for a public option on health care and then he didn?t; Obama promised to protect Social Security and then he tried to cut Social Security; Obama promised to lead the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act and then he did nothing; Obama promised to repeal and replace NAFTA and then he did everything he could think of to try to cram the TPP down our throats which would have been ?NAFTA on steroids.? But let us focus here on wars. Trump promised to make America great again and said that great nations don?t fight endless wars. And yet here we are, three years into Trump?s term, and Trump hasn?t ended any wars, he?s escalated them. Obama promised not only to end the Iraq war but to ?end the mindset that got us into war in the first place.? He didn?t do either, and he started new wars in Libya, Syria, and Yemen, violating Article I of the Constitution each time. It?s currently a pipe dream to hope that we can meaningfully hold these people accountable to such promises after they are elected if they were lying; if the AFL-CIO couldn?t hold Obama accountable on trade and labor law reform, if the enviros couldn?t hold Obama accountable on climate change, if Obama couldn?t be held accountable on Social Security, or the public option, or closing Guantanamo, or CIA torture, or protecting national security whistleblowers, or ending ?signature strike? and ?side payment? assassinations, what prayer in God?s creation do we have of holding these people accountable on peace if they?re lying now? Who claimed that dropping bombs on Libya didn?t ?rise to the level of participation in hostilities?? Who pioneered the idea of expanding ?imminent threat? until it could cover the Moon? Of course, after the election, no matter who is elected, we have to try to do whatever we can with whatever tools we have. But at this juncture, we have to be honest about what we?ve been able to do with those tools so far, which is almost nothing in terms of practical effect. If you look at these things from an inside DC point of view, we?ve made tremendous progress. But when you check the news from Yemen, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Syria, we?ve accomplished almost nothing. We?ve established the principle that the President must not keep hundreds of thousands of U.S. ground troops in a foreign combat situation indefinitely. As former Republican Defense Secretary Robert Gates once said, any future Defense Secretary who advocates for a land war in Asia should have their head examined. So we accomplished that. We can check that one off. Besides that we have little to show for our efforts in DC. The Democratic presidential primary is a unique opportunity to change these dynamics which we will not have for another four to eight years. Whoever now says that the lying of presidential candidates doesn?t matter might as well get a tattoo that says, ?I love #EndlessWar.? And they should put the tattoo on their forehead, where we can all see it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The people who own America understand these dynamics very well, so they and their designees work very hard at three things: creating one-time choices for us that are very hard to reverse, limiting the number of apparent available choices, and then tricking us into making the worst available choice for us and the best available choice for them. Three things that we face have these dynamics in common: presidential elections, wars, and trade deals. In 2007-2008, it was a ?slam dunk? that Obama was the best available realistic choice among the presidential candidates from the point of view of those who were trying to end and prevent wars. Polls indicated that there were three realistic Democratic candidates: Clinton, Edwards, and Obama. Clinton and Edwards had voted for the Iraq war and were clearly close to and pandering to the pro-war wing of the Democratic Party. Obama had not been in Congress, but he had opposed the Iraq war and promised to end it and promised to engage Iran and other ?U.S. adversaries? diplomatically [including, it?s hard to remember now, Russia, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea.] But as soon as he was on track to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama started pivoting away from the things he had promised to do to ?end the mindset that got us into war in the first place.? And in the main, he never stopped pivoting away from the things he had promised to do, as much as he could get away with. He took Joe Biden as his running mate, the same Joe Biden who as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had ensured the passage of the authorization for the use of military force that enabled the catastrophic Iraq war. This choice was justified at the time as being necessary to appease the pro-war wing of the Democratic Party. Then he took Hillary Clinton, who had also voted for the Iraq war, as his Secretary of State. Again, this choice was justified as being necessary to appease the pro-war wing of the Democratic Party, but by this point, Obama had already been elected President. That should have been a big warning signal that people who wanted Obama to ?end the mindset that got us into war in the first place,? which he had promised to do, were in big trouble in terms of what Obama?s intentions were. It was also a strong indication that regardless of what happened in the election, regardless of who won, regardless of what they had promised to do, there was an entirely different process at work in Washington DC shaping Obama?s choices as President that had nothing to do with a democratic election, but had everything to do with appeasing the pro-war forces in the Democratic Party that Obama had run against. In my experience, if you try to raise these issues with Democrats, they tend to make dismissive excuses, like ?Republican obstruction.? But while there was undoubtedly ?Republican obstruction,? there were also key junctures where Obama did the opposite of what he had promised to do, where there was no ?Republican obstruction? explanation for his choice. One of the most spectacular of these choices, for those who care about war and peace, was Obama?s decision to use military force to overthrow the Libyan government without Congressional authorization in 2011. This was a violation of two key interrelated Obama promises: his promise to ?end the mindset that got us into war in the first place,? and his promise to respect Article I of the Constitution, reaffirmed by the War Powers Resolution in 1973, which says that Congress, not the President, decides when we go to war. ?Republican obstruction? didn?t force Obama to do this. On the contrary, the majority of House Republicans were against it. Obama?s Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, was against it. Gates, a Republican, had been Bush?s Defense Secretary after Bush fired Donald Rumsfeld following the 2006 Congressional election when Democrats took over Congress. But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Obama had defeated in the Democratic primary, promising that he would ?end the mindset that got us into war,? was strongly for it. This decision unleashed a lot of terrible consequences which we?re still living with today. It set a terrible precedent for presidential war without Congressional authorization which we are still working to unwind and which made a major contribution to the catastrophes in Yemen and Syria. Libya still doesn?t have a functioning government, it?s still the victim of an ongoing civil war and proxy war fueled by outside powers. The overthrow of the Libyan government unleashed Al Qaeda fighters and weapons into Africa and the Middle East, which is still causing destabilization today, and which is the purported justification for even more U.S. military action which Congress never authorized. Obama?s unilateral decision to overthrow the Libyan government, without Congressional authorization, created an expectation among the Syrian opposition that at the end of the day, Obama would do the same in Syria, and this made them more intransigent towards diplomatic and political efforts to end the Syrian civil war, a major contribution to that catastrophe. By the time that Obama helped launch the Saudi military intervention in Yemen in March 2015 without Congressional authorization, unleashing the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world which persists today, most Democrats were habituated to the idea that Obama uses military force without Congressional authorization. Dennis Kucinich was gone from Congress. There were no Democrats left to object. And the terrible Libya 2011 decision was largely supported by Democrats at the time [except for Dennis Kucinich and a group of House Democrats who stood with him for the Constitution and against Obama.] Indeed, those of us who opposed it were viciously attacked by Democrats as ?helping Republicans to hurt Obama.? And this was in the context of an Obama choice that was 100% the opposite of what he had promised to do, which was not forced on him by ?Republican obstruction? but by appeasing the pro-war wing of the Democratic Party which he had run against, which was opposed by his own Republican Secretary of Defense, and which choice he himself described as a ?turd sandwich,? right before he made the choice. This is the context in which Democrats who really care about ending endless war must now evaluate current promises by Democratic presidential candidates to end endless war. Every such promise like this was broken by Obama, and the people backing Obama did nothing about it, in fact they attacked the people who tried to do something about it. We?re about to make a turn which might lead to going the wrong way down a one-way street that will be hard to turn back from. And unfortunately, we?re living in a world of ?Mr. Pine?s Mixed-Up Signs.? All the street signs are wrong. Everything Democratic Presidential candidates say is completely meaningless as a judge of what they will do. We have to figure out some way to decide what the correct turn to make is without relying on the mixed-up road signs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brussel at illinois.edu Fri Jan 17 21:04:06 2020 From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 21:04:06 +0000 Subject: [Peace] How a Presidential Election is like a War or a Trade Deal In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3429B83C-C1DA-4F84-87CD-7F97C6E5ABFF@illinois.edu> A useful narrative, but that omits early indications that Obama could not be trusted, as Paul Street wrote about. And now? On Jan 17, 2020, at 12:45 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace > wrote: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159052620347656 How a Presidential Election is like a War or a Trade Deal Have you ever accidentally turned into a one-way street going the wrong way when there was significant traffic? It?s not always trivial to figure out how to safely extract yourself from your mistake. Somehow you have to turn your car around 180 degrees to get back into the legal flow of traffic, while the legal flow of traffic is swarming around you, honking at the annoying illegal obstacle in the middle of the legal flow of traffic. Some mistakes are easy to reverse. Some mistakes are hard to reverse. The people who own America understand these dynamics very well, so they and their designees work very hard at three things: creating one-time choices for us that are very hard to reverse, limiting the number of apparent available choices, and then tricking us into making the worst available choice for us and the best available choice for them. Three things that we face have these dynamics in common: presidential elections, wars, and trade deals. In 2007-2008, it was a ?slam dunk? that Obama was the best available realistic choice among the presidential candidates from the point of view of those who were trying to end and prevent wars. Polls indicated that there were three realistic Democratic candidates: Clinton, Edwards, and Obama. Clinton and Edwards had voted for the Iraq war and were clearly close to and pandering to the pro-war wing of the Democratic Party. Obama had not been in Congress, but he had opposed the Iraq war and promised to end it and promised to engage Iran and other ?U.S. adversaries? diplomatically [including, it?s hard to remember now, Russia, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea.] But as soon as he was on track to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama started pivoting away from the things he had promised to do to ?end the mindset that got us into war in the first place.? And in the main, he never stopped pivoting away from the things he had promised to do, as much as he could get away with. He took Joe Biden as his running mate, the same Joe Biden who as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had ensured the passage of the authorization for the use of military force that enabled the catastrophic Iraq war. This choice was justified at the time as being necessary to appease the pro-war wing of the Democratic Party. Then he took Hillary Clinton, who had also voted for the Iraq war, as his Secretary of State. Again, this choice was justified as being necessary to appease the pro-war wing of the Democratic Party, but by this point, Obama had already been elected President. That should have been a big warning signal that people who wanted Obama to ?end the mindset that got us into war in the first place,? which he had promised to do, were in big trouble in terms of what Obama?s intentions were. It was also a strong indication that regardless of what happened in the election, regardless of who won, regardless of what they had promised to do, there was an entirely different process at work in Washington DC shaping Obama?s choices as President that had nothing to do with a democratic election, but had everything to do with appeasing the pro-war forces in the Democratic Party that Obama had run against. In my experience, if you try to raise these issues with Democrats, they tend to make dismissive excuses, like ?Republican obstruction.? But while there was undoubtedly ?Republican obstruction,? there were also key junctures where Obama did the opposite of what he had promised to do, where there was no ?Republican obstruction? explanation for his choice. One of the most spectacular of these choices, for those who care about war and peace, was Obama?s decision to use military force to overthrow the Libyan government without Congressional authorization in 2011. This was a violation of two key interrelated Obama promises: his promise to ?end the mindset that got us into war in the first place,? and his promise to respect Article I of the Constitution, reaffirmed by the War Powers Resolution in 1973, which says that Congress, not the President, decides when we go to war. ?Republican obstruction? didn?t force Obama to do this. On the contrary, the majority of House Republicans were against it. Obama?s Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, was against it. Gates, a Republican, had been Bush?s Defense Secretary after Bush fired Donald Rumsfeld following the 2006 Congressional election when Democrats took over Congress. But Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom Obama had defeated in the Democratic primary, promising that he would ?end the mindset that got us into war,? was strongly for it. This decision unleashed a lot of terrible consequences which we?re still living with today. It set a terrible precedent for presidential war without Congressional authorization which we are still working to unwind and which made a major contribution to the catastrophes in Yemen and Syria. Libya still doesn?t have a functioning government, it?s still the victim of an ongoing civil war and proxy war fueled by outside powers. The overthrow of the Libyan government unleashed Al Qaeda fighters and weapons into Africa and the Middle East, which is still causing destabilization today, and which is the purported justification for even more U.S. military action which Congress never authorized. Obama?s unilateral decision to overthrow the Libyan government, without Congressional authorization, created an expectation among the Syrian opposition that at the end of the day, Obama would do the same in Syria, and this made them more intransigent towards diplomatic and political efforts to end the Syrian civil war, a major contribution to that catastrophe. By the time that Obama helped launch the Saudi military intervention in Yemen in March 2015 without Congressional authorization, unleashing the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world which persists today, most Democrats were habituated to the idea that Obama uses military force without Congressional authorization. Dennis Kucinich was gone from Congress. There were no Democrats left to object. And the terrible Libya 2011 decision was largely supported by Democrats at the time [except for Dennis Kucinich and a group of House Democrats who stood with him for the Constitution and against Obama.] Indeed, those of us who opposed it were viciously attacked by Democrats as ?helping Republicans to hurt Obama.? And this was in the context of an Obama choice that was 100% the opposite of what he had promised to do, which was not forced on him by ?Republican obstruction? but by appeasing the pro-war wing of the Democratic Party which he had run against, which was opposed by his own Republican Secretary of Defense, and which choice he himself described as a ?turd sandwich,? right before he made the choice. This is the context in which Democrats who really care about ending endless war must now evaluate current promises by Democratic presidential candidates to end endless war. Every such promise like this was broken by Obama, and the people backing Obama did nothing about it, in fact they attacked the people who tried to do something about it. We?re about to make a turn which might lead to going the wrong way down a one-way street that will be hard to turn back from. And unfortunately, we?re living in a world of ?Mr. Pine?s Mixed-Up Signs.? All the street signs are wrong. Everything Democratic Presidential candidates say is completely meaningless as a judge of what they will do. We have to figure out some way to decide what the correct turn to make is without relying on the mixed-up road signs. _______________________________________________ Peace mailing list Peace at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Fri Jan 17 21:38:47 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:38:47 -0500 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Let=E2=80=99s_Make_Dem_Leadership_Care_About_U?= =?utf-8?q?=2ES=2E_War_Victims_As_If_They_Were_U=2ES=2E_Soldiers?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159053118382656 Let?s Make Dem Leadership Care About U.S. War Victims As If They Were U.S. Soldiers Here?s a paradox of trying to ?reform U.S. foreign policy.? When we?re trying to stop some U.S. atrocity somewhere ? like ending unconstitutional U.S. participation in the genocidal Saudi regime war in Yemen ? national Democrats often say, ?Well, that?s going to be very hard, because Americans don?t really care about U.S. foreign policy.? But then, when the pro-war, pro-Empire wing of the Democratic Party wants to impose new sanctions somewhere to starve more civilians to death and take away their essential lifesaving medicines, in violation of U.S. and international law, that?s flying through the ?Democratic? House on the suspension calendar like ?a hot knife through butter.? That combination suggests that the causation story we?ve been sold by national Democrats doesn?t pass the smell test. The real truth is that some Americans? concerns about U.S. foreign policy are getting served. And other Americans? concerns about U.S. foreign policy are not getting served. Let?s raise the performance standards for national Democrats on these issues. Here?s a first step. House Democrats recently proved that they could pass a ?concurrent? [veto-proof] War Powers Resolution to end unauthorized and therefore unconstitutional U.S. participation in hostilities against Iran. There were only eight Democratic defections. The entire House Democratic leadership backed the Iran War Powers Resolution. Not only that, but Speaker Pelosi and House Foreign Affairs Chair Engel went in front of TV cameras and affirmed that under the War Powers Resolution of 1973 [which is U.S. law], such a ?concurrent? [veto-proof] War Powers Resolution is binding. Whatever else may be true, as a matter of logic and House procedure it must be the case that these same events could theoretically occur if the idea of ?Iran? were replaced by the idea of ?Saudi war in Yemen.? We already proved that Americans care about this when Congress passed the Sanders-Lee-Murphy ?joint? [veto-bait] War Powers Resolution, with every single Democrat and a bunch of Republicans voting yes. So in this case, at least, we can put that ?Americans don?t care? story to bed. So if there?s a problem ? and it?s not clear yet how much of a problem there is, because this proposition hasn?t been fully tested yet, that?s what makes it interesting ? the problem isn?t that ?Americans? don?t care. The problem is that the House Democratic leadership doesn?t care. Now we don?t know this yet, because the proposition hasn?t been fully tested yet. But that would be the logical conclusion, if we fully test the proposition and the House Democratic leadership refuses to move. Why would the House Democratic leadership be willing to do this on unconstitutional war with Iran, but not on unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi war in Yemen? An obvious explanation would be, Iran has missiles they can fire at U.S. military bases in Iraq, where U.S. soldiers are stationed. Whereas, starving children in Yemen don?t have any missiles they can fire at U.S. soldiers. Therefore, this proposition forms a nice little test, to see if we can get the House Democratic leadership to pretend to care about starving children in Yemen as if they were U.S. soldiers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Sat Jan 18 01:41:25 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:41:25 -0600 Subject: [Peace] How Trump rebelled against the generals Message-ID: <5AE2A0D6-CA11-4F35-AA5F-D3381FE52CCE@newsfromneptune.com> https://www.moonofalabama.org/2020/01/how-trump-rebelled-against-the-generals.html#more From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Sat Jan 18 15:37:52 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 10:37:52 -0500 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Let=E2=80=99s_have_a_big_anti-war_demo_in_Milw?= =?utf-8?q?aukee_on_July_13_at_the_DNC?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159055403547656 Let?s have a big anti-war demo in Milwaukee on July 13 at the DNC Let?s have a big anti-war demonstration in Milwaukee on July 13 at the Democratic National Convention. Let?s support this with local actions at Democratic Congressional offices on July 13, so people who are unable to travel to Milwaukee can participate. Every Congressional Democrat is a member of the Democratic National Committee, so on July 13 we can treat each Democratic Congressional office as a local DNC office, which in a way it is. Let?s support that with a call-in day to those Congressional offices, so people can participate without leaving wherever they are. Let?s raise a specific demand: that Congressional Democrats pass binding, veto-proof legislation to end U.S. wars. In particular, that Congress pass binding, veto-proof legislation to end Trump?s unconstitutional war with Iran and Trump?s unconstitutional war on behalf of Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Congress has already voted against these wars. But Congressional Democratic leadership have failed so far to pass binding, veto-proof legislation to end these wars, as they could have done, by passing binding veto-proof war powers resolutions, or by cutting the funding on ?veto-proof? ?must-pass? Pentagon spending bills. Under Article I of the Constitution, Congress is supposed to be deciding when we go to war, not Trump. Let?s couple this outside strategy with an inside strategy. Let?s push for the elected delegates to amend the Democratic Party Platform to call on Democrats in Congress to end U.S. wars, including the war with Iran and the Saudi war in Yemen, through binding veto-proof war powers resolutions and binding veto-proof funding prohibitions. At the end of a contested presidential primary, the Democratic Party is at its most democratic. The elected delegates to the convention are the people that Democratic primary voters just voted for when they voted for presidential candidates. According to current projections, there will be four groups of such elected delegates: Sanders delegates, Warren delegates, Buttigieg delegates, and Biden delegates. These delegates largely follow the instructions of their campaigns in voting on issues outside of the nominating process. Thus, raising these demands is a way of pressuring the campaigns, which will in turn pressure the Democratic members of Congress, who will also be delegates to the convention. Regardless of what happens at the convention, there?s likely not going to be a new U.S. president for at least another year from now, and we should be ending these wars now. Also regardless of what happens at the convention, under the Constitution, it will still be the job of Congress, not the President, to decide when we go to war. We?ve seen in the past that even though Congress already voted against these wars, when push came to shove, ending these wars wasn?t a priority for Democratic Congressional leadership when they had the opportunity to do so. Let?s change that on July 13. Perhaps, if they know they are going to face these demands on July 13, six months from now, Congressional Democratic leadership will feel pressured to act now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Sat Jan 18 20:56:52 2020 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 14:56:52 -0600 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Let=E2=80=99s_have_a_big_anti-war_demo_in_Milw?= =?utf-8?q?aukee_on_July_13_at_the_DNC?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Cheering on this idea! I'd be in, and (lacking any nearby congressional Dems) would be game to go to Milwaukee for a demonstration. On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 9:38 AM Robert Naiman via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159055403547656 > > Let?s have a big anti-war demo in Milwaukee on July 13 at the DNC > > Let?s have a big anti-war demonstration in Milwaukee on July 13 at the > Democratic National Convention. > > Let?s support this with local actions at Democratic Congressional offices > on July 13, so people who are unable to travel to Milwaukee can > participate. Every Congressional Democrat is a member of the Democratic > National Committee, so on July 13 we can treat each Democratic > Congressional office as a local DNC office, which in a way it is. > > Let?s support that with a call-in day to those Congressional offices, so > people can participate without leaving wherever they are. > > Let?s raise a specific demand: that Congressional Democrats pass binding, > veto-proof legislation to end U.S. wars. In particular, that Congress pass > binding, veto-proof legislation to end Trump?s unconstitutional war with > Iran and Trump?s unconstitutional war on behalf of Saudi Arabia in Yemen. > Congress has already voted against these wars. But Congressional Democratic > leadership have failed so far to pass binding, veto-proof legislation to > end these wars, as they could have done, by passing binding veto-proof war > powers resolutions, or by cutting the funding on ?veto-proof? ?must-pass? > Pentagon spending bills. Under Article I of the Constitution, Congress is > supposed to be deciding when we go to war, not Trump. > > Let?s couple this outside strategy with an inside strategy. Let?s push for > the elected delegates to amend the Democratic Party Platform to call on > Democrats in Congress to end U.S. wars, including the war with Iran and the > Saudi war in Yemen, through binding veto-proof war powers resolutions and > binding veto-proof funding prohibitions. > > At the end of a contested presidential primary, the Democratic Party is at > its most democratic. The elected delegates to the convention are the people > that Democratic primary voters just voted for when they voted for > presidential candidates. According to current projections, there will be > four groups of such elected delegates: Sanders delegates, Warren delegates, > Buttigieg delegates, and Biden delegates. These delegates largely follow > the instructions of their campaigns in voting on issues outside of the > nominating process. Thus, raising these demands is a way of pressuring the > campaigns, which will in turn pressure the Democratic members of Congress, > who will also be delegates to the convention. > > Regardless of what happens at the convention, there?s likely not going to > be a new U.S. president for at least another year from now, and we should > be ending these wars now. Also regardless of what happens at the > convention, under the Constitution, it will still be the job of Congress, > not the President, to decide when we go to war. > > We?ve seen in the past that even though Congress already voted against > these wars, when push came to shove, ending these wars wasn?t a priority > for Democratic Congressional leadership when they had the opportunity to do > so. Let?s change that on July 13. > > Perhaps, if they know they are going to face these demands on July 13, six > months from now, Congressional Democratic leadership will feel pressured to > act now. > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Sun Jan 19 12:22:45 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 07:22:45 -0500 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Let=E2=80=99s_have_a_big_anti-war_demo_in_Milw?= =?utf-8?q?aukee_on_July_13_at_the_DNC?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Let's think about different ways that we can "talk up" this idea. This is how we started the April 16, 2000 demonstrations against the IMF and the World Bank in Washington after we shut down the WTO in Seattle in late 1999. We started talking up the idea. Once the idea was ambient, people who know how to organize such things came in and organized it. On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:57 PM Stuart Levy wrote: > Cheering on this idea! I'd be in, and (lacking any nearby congressional > Dems) would be game to go to Milwaukee for a demonstration. > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 9:38 AM Robert Naiman via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > >> >> https://www.facebook.com/robert.naiman/posts/10159055403547656 >> >> Let?s have a big anti-war demo in Milwaukee on July 13 at the DNC >> >> Let?s have a big anti-war demonstration in Milwaukee on July 13 at the >> Democratic National Convention. >> >> Let?s support this with local actions at Democratic Congressional offices >> on July 13, so people who are unable to travel to Milwaukee can >> participate. Every Congressional Democrat is a member of the Democratic >> National Committee, so on July 13 we can treat each Democratic >> Congressional office as a local DNC office, which in a way it is. >> >> Let?s support that with a call-in day to those Congressional offices, so >> people can participate without leaving wherever they are. >> >> Let?s raise a specific demand: that Congressional Democrats pass binding, >> veto-proof legislation to end U.S. wars. In particular, that Congress pass >> binding, veto-proof legislation to end Trump?s unconstitutional war with >> Iran and Trump?s unconstitutional war on behalf of Saudi Arabia in Yemen. >> Congress has already voted against these wars. But Congressional Democratic >> leadership have failed so far to pass binding, veto-proof legislation to >> end these wars, as they could have done, by passing binding veto-proof war >> powers resolutions, or by cutting the funding on ?veto-proof? ?must-pass? >> Pentagon spending bills. Under Article I of the Constitution, Congress is >> supposed to be deciding when we go to war, not Trump. >> >> Let?s couple this outside strategy with an inside strategy. Let?s push >> for the elected delegates to amend the Democratic Party Platform to call on >> Democrats in Congress to end U.S. wars, including the war with Iran and the >> Saudi war in Yemen, through binding veto-proof war powers resolutions and >> binding veto-proof funding prohibitions. >> >> At the end of a contested presidential primary, the Democratic Party is >> at its most democratic. The elected delegates to the convention are the >> people that Democratic primary voters just voted for when they voted for >> presidential candidates. According to current projections, there will be >> four groups of such elected delegates: Sanders delegates, Warren delegates, >> Buttigieg delegates, and Biden delegates. These delegates largely follow >> the instructions of their campaigns in voting on issues outside of the >> nominating process. Thus, raising these demands is a way of pressuring the >> campaigns, which will in turn pressure the Democratic members of Congress, >> who will also be delegates to the convention. >> >> Regardless of what happens at the convention, there?s likely not going to >> be a new U.S. president for at least another year from now, and we should >> be ending these wars now. Also regardless of what happens at the >> convention, under the Constitution, it will still be the job of Congress, >> not the President, to decide when we go to war. >> >> We?ve seen in the past that even though Congress already voted against >> these wars, when push came to shove, ending these wars wasn?t a priority >> for Democratic Congressional leadership when they had the opportunity to do >> so. Let?s change that on July 13. >> >> Perhaps, if they know they are going to face these demands on July 13, >> six months from now, Congressional Democratic leadership will feel >> pressured to act now. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jan 20 16:08:52 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. 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URL: From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Mon Jan 20 16:13:25 2020 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:13:25 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech, each hour from 10am-4pm today, wrfu.net / WRFU 104.5FM Message-ID: <1a64fe7a-0466-2681-9539-6685e2829fe1@gmail.com> You can hear Martin Luther King's 1967 "Beyond Vietnam" speech on the air on WRFU (wrfu.net and 104.5FM), each hour from 10am to 4pm today, MLK day. It was a controversial speech, then and now. It is likely not a coincidence that he was murdered exactly one year later. This is Alternative Radio's recording of the speech. Their description: By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi," and the Washington Post declared that King had "diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people." One quote: Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of their concerns this query has often loomed large and loud: Why are you speaking about war, Dr. King? Why are you joining the voices of dissent? Peace and civil rights don't mix, they say. Aren't you hurting the cause of your people, they ask? And when I hear them, though I often understand the source of their concern, I am nevertheless greatly saddened, for such questions mean that the inquirers have not really known me, my commitment or my calling. Indeed, their questions suggest that they do not know the world in which they live. and: Since I am a preacher by trade, I suppose it is not surprising that I have seven major reasons for bringing Vietnam into the field of my moral vision. *There is at the outset a very obvious and almost facile connection between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I, and others, have been waging in America. A few years ago there was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if there was a real promise of hope for the poor -- both black and white -- through the poverty program. There were experiments, hopes, new beginnings. Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.* *Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would never live on the same block in Detroit. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.* My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years -- especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.**But they asked -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jan 20 16:25:57 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:25:57 -0600 Subject: [Peace] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_The_Puppet_Master_Behind_the_Most_Blata?= =?utf-8?q?nt_Coup_D=E2=80=99etat_in_US_History?= References: Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "F. William Engdahl" > Subject: The Puppet Master Behind the Most Blatant Coup D?etat in US History > Date: January 20, 2020 at 7:51:19 AM CST > To: cgestabrook at gmail.com > > Dear Readers, > > In this installment of my free newsletter series I have decided to share with you the hidden history of who was actually behind the February 2014 Ukraine crisis that forced President Viktor Yanukovic from office fleeing for his life. The consequence of the US-organized regime change, called by Stratfor founder, George Friedman ?the most blatant coup d?etat in US history,? has been a series of sanctions that have cost the EU member country economies more than ? 100 billion in lost trade over three years and have driven Russia to build far more positive economic and political ties with China and countries of Eurasia. Here I detail the insidious role of a man whose dark side is hidden behind a fa?ade of so-called philanthropy. In my book, NGO Tyranny, publication in November, 2017, the deceptive role of Washington NGOs in creating pro-Washington coups and wars since the early 1980?s is documented in detail. Here I present a picture of the role of the tax-exempt foundation of George Soros in Ukraine. If you find it interesting, please note you will receive email note from me when the NGO Tyranny book is available on Amazon. > > For a better reading experience I converted the text to a pfd-file which You can find in the attachment of this mail. It's 5 pages in A4 format. > > Thank you for your support and feel free to share this, > > F. William Engdahl > www.williamengdahl.com > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > An American Oligarch?s Dirty Tale of Corruption > > Author: F. William Engdahl > > > > Rarely does the world get a true look inside the corrupt world of Western oligarchs and the brazen manipulations they use to enhance their fortunes at the expense of the public good. The following comes from correspondence of the Hungarian-born billionaire, now naturalized American speculator, George Soros. The hacker group CyberBerkut has published online letters allegedly written by Soros that reveal him not only as puppet master of the US-backed Ukraine regime. They also reveal his machinations with the US Government and the officials of the European Union in a scheme where, if he succeeds, he could win billions in the plunder of Ukraine assets. All, of course, would be at the expense of Ukrainian citizens and of EU taxpayers. > > What the three hacked documents reveal is a degree of behind-the-scene manipulation of the most minute details of the Kiev regime by the New York billionaire. > > In the longest memo, dated March 15, 2015 and marked ?Confidential? Soros outlines a detailed map of actions for the Ukraine regime. Titled, ?A short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine,? the memo from Soros calls for steps to ?restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement.? To do the restoring, Soros blithely notes that ?General Wesley Clark, Polish General Skrzypczak and a few specialists under the auspices of the Atlantic Council [emphasis added?f.w.e.] will advise President Poroshenko how to restore the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk agreement .? > > Soros also calls for supplying lethal arms to Ukraine and secretly training Ukrainian army personnel in Romania to avoid direct NATO presence in Ukraine . The Atlantic Council is a leading Washington pro-NATO think tank . > Notably, Wesley Clark is also a business associate of Soros in BNK Petroleum which does business in Poland. > > Clark, some might recall, was the mentally-unstable NATO General in charge of the 1999 bombing of Serbia who ordered NATO soldiers to fire on Russian soldiers guarding the Pristina International Airport. The Russians were there as a part of an agreed joint NATO?Russia peacekeeping operation supposed to police Kosovo. The British Commander, General Mike Jackson refused Clark, retorting, ?I?m not going to start the Third World War for you .? Now Clark apparently decided to come out of retirement for the chance to go at Russia directly. > > > Naked asset grab > > In his March 2015 memo Soros further writes that Ukrainian President Poroshenko?s ?first priority must be to regain control of financial markets,? which he assures Poroshenko that Soros would be ready to assist in: ?I am ready to call Jack Lew of the US Treasury to sound him out about the swap agreement.? > > He also calls on the EU to give Ukraine an annual aid sum of ?11 billion via a special EU borrowing facility. Soros proposes in effect using the EU?s ?AAA? top credit rating to provide a risk insurance for investment into Ukraine. > > Whose risk would the EU insure? > > Soros details, ?I am prepared to invest up to ?1 billion in Ukrainian businesses. This is likely to attract the interest of the investment community. As stated above, Ukraine must become an attractive investment destination.? Not to leave any doubt, Soros continues, ?The investments will be for-profit but I will pledge to contribute the profits to my foundations. This should allay suspicions that I am advocating policies in search of personal gain. ? > > For anyone familiar with the history of the Soros Open Society Foundations in Eastern Europe and around the world since the late 1980?s, will know that his supposedly philanthropic ?democracy-building? projects in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine in the 1990?s allowed Soros the businessman to literally plunder the former communist countries using Harvard University?s ?shock therapy? messiah, and Soros associate, Jeffrey Sachs, to convince the post-Soviet governments to privatize and open to a ?free market? at once, rather than gradually. > > The example of Soros in Liberia is instructive for understanding the seemingly seamless interplay between Soros the shrewd businessman and Soros the philanthropist. In West Africa George Soros backed a former Open Society employee of his, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, giving her international publicity and through his influence, even arranging a Nobel Peace Prize for her in 2011, insuring her election as president. Before her presidency she had been well-indoctrinated into the Western free market game, studying economics at Harvard and working for the US-controlled World Bank in Washington and the Rockefeller Citibank in Nairobi. Before becoming Liberia?s President, she worked for Soros directly as chair of his Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA ). > > Once in office, President Sirleaf opened the doors for Soros to take over major Liberian gold and base metals assets along with his partner, Nathaniel Rothschild. One of her first acts as President was to also invite the Pentagon?s new Africa Command, AFRICOM, into Liberia whose purpose as a Liberian investigation revealed, was to ?protect George Soros and Rothschild mining operations in West Africa rather than champion stability and human rights .? > > > Naftogaz the target > > The Soros memo makes clear he has his eyes on the Ukrainian state gas and energy monopoly, Naftogaz. He writes, ?The centerpiece of economic reforms will be the reorganization of Naftogaz and the introduction of market pricing for all forms of energy, replacing hidden subsidies ?? > > In an earlier letter Soros wrote in December 2014 to both President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, Soros openly called for his Shock Therapy: ?I want to appeal to you to unite behind the reformers in your government and give your wholehearted support to a radical, ?big bang? type of approach. That is to say, administrative controls would be removed and the economy would move to market prices rapidly rather than gradually?Naftogaz needs to be reorganized with a big bang replacing the hidden subsidies ?? > > Splitting Naftogaz into separate companies could allow Soros to take control of one of the new branches and essentially privatize its profits. He already suggested that he indirectly brought in US consulting company, McKinsey, to advise Naftogaz on the privatization ?big bang .? > > > The Puppet-Master? > > The totality of what is revealed in the three hacked documents show that Soros is effectively the puppet-master pulling most of the strings in Kiev. Soros Foundation?s Ukraine branch, International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) has been involved in Ukraine since 1989. His IRF doled out more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall of the Soviet Union, creating the preconditions for Ukraine?s independence from Russia in 1991. Soros also admitted to financing the 2013-2014 Maidan Square protests that brought the current government into power. > > Soros? foundations were also deeply involved in the 2004 Orange Revolution that brought the corrupt but pro-NATO Viktor Yushchenko into power with his American wife who had been in the US State Department. In 2004 just weeks after Soros? International Renaissance Foundation had succeeded in getting Viktor Yushchenko as President of Ukraine, Michael McFaul wrote an OpEd for the Washington Post. McFaul, a specialist in organizing color revolutions, who later became US Ambassador to Russia, revealed: > > Did Americans meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine? Yes. The American agents of influence would prefer different language to describe their activities ? democratic assistance, democracy promotion, civil society support, etc. ? but their work, however labeled, seeks to influence political change in Ukraine. The U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for Democracy and a few other foundations sponsored certain U.S. organizations, including Freedom House, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute, the Solidarity Center, the Eurasia Foundation, Internews and several others to provide small grants and technical assistance to Ukrainian civil society. The European Union, individual European countries and the Soros-funded International Renaissance Foundation did the same . > > > Soros shapes ?New Ukraine? > > Today the CyberBerkut hacked papers show that Soros? IRF money is behind creation of a National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential decree from Poroshenko which allows the Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine?s legislature. Soros writes, ?The framework for bringing the various branches of government together has also emerged. The National Reform Council (NRC) brings together the presidential administration, the cabinet of ministers, the Rada and its committees and civil society. The International Renaissance Foundation which is the Ukrainian branch of the Soros Foundations was the sole financial supporter of the NRC until now ?? > > Soros? NRC in effect is the vehicle to allow the President to override parliamentary debate to push through ?reforms,? with the declared first priority being privatization of Naftogaz and raising gas prices drastically to Ukrainian industry and households, something the bankrupt country can hardly afford . > > In his letter to Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk, Soros hints that he played a key role in selection of three key non-Ukrainian ministers?Natalia Jaresko, an American ex- State Department official as Finance Minister; Aivras Abromavicius of Lithuania as Economics Minister, and a health minister from Georgia. Soros in his December 2014 letter, referring to his proposal for a ?big bank? privatization of Naftogaz and price rise, states, ?You are fortunate to have appointed three ?new Ukrainian? ministers and several natives (sic) who are committed to this approach .? > ??????? > Elsewhere Soros speaks about de facto creating the impression within the EU that the current government of Yatsenyuk is finally cleaning out the notorious corruption that has dominated every Kiev regime since 1991. Creating that temporary reform illusion, he remarks, will convince the EU to cough up the ?11 billion annual investment insurance fund. His March 2015 paper says that, ?It is essential for the government to produce a visible demonstration (sic) during the next three months in order to change the widely prevailing image of Ukraine as an utterly corrupt country.? That he states will open the EU to make the ?11 billion insurance guarantee investment fund . > > While saying that it is important to show Ukraine as a country that is not corrupt, Soros reveals he has little concern when transparency and proper procedures block his agenda. Talking about his proposals to reform Ukraine?s constitution to enable privatizations and other Soros-friendly moves, he complains, ?The process has been slowed down by the insistence of the newly elected Rada on proper procedures and total transparency .? > > Soros suggests that he intends to create this ?visible demonstration? through his initiatives, such as using the Soros-funded National Reform Council, a body organized by presidential decree which allows the Ukrainian president to push bills through Ukraine?s legislature. > George Soros is also using his new European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank to lobby his Ukraine strategy, with his council members such as Alexander Graf Lambsdorff or Joschka Fischer or Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, not to mention former ECB head, Jean-Claude Trichet no doubt laying a subtle role. > > George Soros, now 84, was born in Hungary as a Jew, George Sorosz. Soros once boasted in a TV interview that he posed during the war as a gentile with forged papers, assisting the Horthy government to seize property of other Hungarian Jews who were being shipped to the Nazi death camps. Soros told the TV moderator, ?There was no sense that I shouldn?t be there, because that was?well, actually, in a funny way, it?s just like in markets?that if I weren?t there?of course, I wasn?t doing it, but somebody else would.? > > This is the same morality apparently behind Soros? activities in Ukraine today. It seems again to matter not to him that the Ukrainian government he helped bring to power in February 2014 US coup d?etat is riddled with explicit anti-semites and self-proclaimed neo-Nazis from the Svoboda Party and Pravy Sektor. George Soros is clearly a devotee of ?public-private-partnership.? Only here the public gets fleeced to enrich private investors like Mr. Soros and friends. Cynically, Soros signs his Ukraine strategy memo, ?George Soros?A self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine, March 12, 2015.? > > > Strasse der Republik 17 > Wiesbaden Hessen 65203 > GERMANY > > Unsubscribe | Change Subscriber Options > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Newsletter_25_The_Secret_Puppet_Master_Behind_Ukraine_2014_Coup.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 156922 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Thu Jan 23 03:58:39 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 21:58:39 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Notes Message-ID: <7eda9116-35b7-0066-8c19-178cc8f2098c@forestfield.org> Just in case you need something to discuss, here are a few conversation starters. Have a good show guys. -J Diana Johnstone's latest for Consortium News and CN Live https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDZuNFwJ4BIRV_Z5IxFXVrA/videos -- Consortium News videos (including episodes of "CN Live!" their CN's talk and analysis show) https://consortiumnews.com/2020/01/17/french-popular-uprising-revolution-or-frozen-conflict/ -- Diana Johnstone's new article for ConsortiumNews.com: Thanks to Mort Brussel for the pointer. > The people are angry with their government. Where? Just about everywhere. So what makes ongoing > strikes in France so special? Nothing, perhaps, except a certain expectation based on history > that French uprisings can produce important changes ? or if not, can at least help clarify the > issues in contemporary social conflicts. > > The current ongoing social unrest in France appears to pit a majority of working people against > President Emmanuel Macron. But since Macron is merely a technocratic tool of global financial > governance, the conflict is essentially an uprising against policies that put the avaricious > demands of financial markets ahead of the needs of the people. This basic conflict is at the > root of the weekly demonstrations of Yellow Vest protesters who have been demonstrating every > Saturday for well over a year, despite brutal police repression. Now trade unionists, public > sector workers and Yellow Vests demonstrate together, as partial work stoppages continue to > perturb public transportation. > > In the latest developments, teachers in Paris schools are joining the revolt. Even the > prestigious prep school, the Lyc?e Louis le Grand, went on strike. This is significant because > even a government that shows no qualms in smashing the heads of working class malcontents can > hesitate before bashing the brains of the future elite. > > Pension System > > However general the discontent, the direct cause for what has become the longest period of unrest > in memory is a single issue: the government?s determination to overhaul the national social > security pension system. This is just one aspect of Macron?s anti-social program, but no other > aspect touches just about everybody?s lives as much as this one. > > French retirement is financed in the same way as U.S. Social Security. Employees and employers > pay a proportion of wages into a fund that pays current pensions, in the expectation that > tomorrow?s workers will pay for the pensions of those working today. > > The existing system is complex, with particular regimes for 42 different professions, but it > works well enough. As things are, despite the growing gap between the ultra-rich and those of > modest means, there is less dire poverty among the elderly in France than, for example, in > Germany. > > The Macron plan to unify and simplify the system by a universal point system claims to improve > ?equality,? but it is a downward, not an upward leveling. The general thrust of the reform is > clearly to make people work longer for smaller pensions. Bit by bit, the input and output of the > social security system are being squeezed. This would further reduce the percentage of GDP going > into wages and pensions. > > The calculated result: as people fear the prospect of a penniless old age, they will feel obliged > to put their savings into private pension schemes. > > In a rare display of old-fashioned working-class international solidarity, Belgian trade unions > have spoken out in strong support of French unions? opposition to Macron?s reforms, even > offering to contribute to a strike fund for French workers. Support by workers of one country > for the struggle of workers in another country is what international solidarity used to mean. It > is largely forgotten by the contemporary left, which tends to see it in terms of opening > national borders. This perfectly reflects the aspirations of global capitalism. > > The international solidarity of financial capital is structural. > > Macron is an investment banker, whose campaign was financed and promoted by investment bankers, > including foreign investors. These are the people who helped inspire his policies, which are > all designed to strengthen the power of international finance and weaken the role of the State. > > Their goal is to induce the State to surrender decision-making to the impersonal power of ?the > markets,? whose mechanical criterion is profit rather than subjective political considerations > of social welfare. This has been the trend throughout the West since the 1980s and is simply > intensifying under the rule of Macron. > > President Emmanuel Macron celebrating France?s victory over Croatia in the 2018 World Cup final > in Moscow. (Kremlin) > > The European Union has become the principal watch dog of this transformation. Totally under the > influence of unelected experts, every two years the EU Commission lays out ?Broad Economic > Policy Guidelines? ? in French GOP? (Grandes Orientations des Politiques ?conomiques), to be > followed by member states. The May 2018 GOP? for France ?recommended? (this is an order!) a set > of ?reforms,? including ?uniformization? of retirement schemes, ostensibly to improve > ?transparency,? ?equity,? labor mobility and ? last but definitely not least ? ?better control of > public expenditures.?. In short, government budget cuts. > > The Macron economic reform policy was essentially defined in Brussels. > > But Wall Street is interested too. The team of experts assigned by Prime Minister Edouard > Philippe to devise the administration?s economic reforms includes Jean-Fran?ois Cirelli, head of > the French branch of Black Rock, the seven trillion-dollar New York-based investment manager. > About two thirds of Black Rock?s capital comes from pension funds all over the world. > > Larry Fink, the American CEO of this monstrous heap of money, was a welcome visitor at the > Elys?e Palace in June 2017, shortly after Macron?s election. Two weeks later, economics minister > Bruno Le Maire was in New York consulting with Larry Fink. Then, in October 2017, Fink led a > Wall Street delegation to Paris for a confidential meeting (leaked to Le Canard Encha?n?) with > Macron and five top cabinet ministers to discuss how to make France especially attractive to > foreign investment. > > Larry Fink has an obvious interest in Macron?s reforms. By gradually impoverishing social > security, the new system is designed to spur a boom in private pension schemes, a field > dominated by Black Rock. These schemes lack the guarantee of government social security. Private > pensions depend on stock market performance, and if there is a crash, there goes your > retirement. Meanwhile, the money managers play with your savings, taking their cut whatever > happens. > > There is nothing conspiratorial about this. It is simply international finance at work. Macron > and his cabinet ministers are eager to have Black Rock invest in France. For them, this is the > way the world works. > > Larry Fink, third from right, receiving a Woodrow Wilson Award in April 2010. (Wilson Center, CC > BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons) > > The most cynical pretext for Macron?s pension reform is that combining all the various > professional regimes into a universal point system favors ?equality? ? even as it increases the > growing gap between salaried people and the super-rich, who don?t need pensions. > > But professions are different. At Christmas, striking ballet dancers illustrated this fact by > performing a portion of Swan Lake on the cold stones of the entrance to the Opera Garnier in > Paris. They were calling public attention to the fact that they cannot be expected to keep > working into their sixties, nor can other professions requiring extreme physical effort. > > The variations in the current French pension system perform a social function. Some > professions, such as teaching and nursing, are essential to society, but wages tend to be lower > than in the private sector. These professions are able to renew themselves by ensuring job > stability and the promise of comfortable retirement. Take away their ?privileges? and recruiting > competent teachers and nurses will be even harder than it is already. At present, medical > personnel are threatening to resign en masse, because conditions in hospitals are becoming > unbearable as a result of drastic cuts in budgets and personnel. > > Is There an Alternative? > > The real issue is a choice of systems: to be precise, economic globalization versus national > sovereignty. > > For historic reasons, most French people do not share the ardent faith of British and Americans > in the benevolence of the invisible hand of the market. There is a national leaning toward a > mixed economy, where the State plays a strong determining role. The French do not easily > believe that privatization is better, least of all when they can see it doing worse. > > Macron is an ardent devotee of the invisible hand. He seems to expect that by draining French > savings into an international investment giant such as Black Rock, Black Rock will reciprocate > by pumping investment into French technological and industrial progress. > > Nothing could be less certain. In the West these days, there is lots of low interest credit, > lots of debt, but investment is rarely creative. Money is used largely to buy what is already > there ? existing companies, mergers, stock trading (massive in the U.S.) and, for individuals, > housing. Most foreign investment in France buys up things like vineyards or goes into safe > infrastructure such as ports, airports and autoroutes. When General Electric bought out Alstom, > it soon broke its promise to preserve jobs and began cutting back. It also is depriving France > of control of an essential aspect of its national independence, its nuclear energy. > > In short, foreign investment may weaken the nation in terms in crucial ways. In a mixed economy, > profit-making assets such as autoroutes can increase the government?s capacity to make up for > periodic deficits in social security, among other things. With privatization, foreign > shareholders must get their returns. > > The United States, for all its ideological devotion to the invisible hand, actually has a > strongly State-supported military industrial sector, dependent on Congressional appropriations, > Pentagon contracts, favorable legislation and pressure on ?allies? to buy U.S.-made weaponry. > This is indeed a form of planned economy, one that fails utterly to meet social needs. > > The rules of the European Union prohibit a Member State such as France from developing its own > civil-oriented industrial policy, since everything must be open to unhindered international > competition. Utilities, services and infrastructure must all be open to foreign owners. > Foreign investors may feel no inhibition about taking their profits while allowing these public > services to deteriorate. > > The ongoing disruption of daily life seems to be forcing Macron?s government to make minor > concessions. But nothing can change the basic aims of this presidency. > > At the same time, the arrogance and brutal repression of the Macron regime increase demands for > radical political change. The Yellow Vest movement has largely adopted the demand developed by > Etienne Chouard for a new Constitution empowering citizen-initiated referendums ? in short, a > peaceful democratic revolution. > > But how to get there? Overthrowing a monarch is one thing, but overthrowing the power of > international finance is another, especially in a nation bound by EU and NATO treaties. Personal > animosity toward Macron tends to shelter the European Union from sharp criticism of its major > responsibility. > > A peaceful electoral revolution calls for popular leaders with a clear program. Fran?ois > Asselineau continues to spread his radical critique of the EU among the intelligentsia without > his party, the Union Populaire R?publicaine, gaining any significant electoral strength. > Leftist leader Jean-Luc M?lenchon has the oratorical punch to lead a revolution, but his > popularity seems to have suffered from attacks even harsher than those unleashed against Jeremy > Corbyn in Britain or Bernie Sanders in the U.S. With M?lenchon weakened and no other strong > personalities in sight, Marine Le Pen has established herself as Macron?s main challenger in the > 2022 presidential election, which risks presenting voters with the same choice they had in 2017. > > Asselineau?s analysis, Yellow Vest strategic mass, M?lenchon?s oratory, Chouard?s institutional > reforms ? these are elements that could theoretically combine (with others yet unknown) to > produce a peaceful revolution. But combining political elements is hard chemistry, especially in > individualistic France. Without some big surprises, France appears headed not for revolution > but for a long frozen combat. Redacted Tonight: Still the only comedy news show worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/user/redactedtonight/videos -- past show archive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9p7xInsU2E -- The most recent (as I type this) episode. Redacted Tonight is a great set of pointers and humor on other stories with a proper focus against war, against killing, and repeated (drumbeat) critiques of capitalism. A clear departure from every other news comedy show on terrestrial or cable TV. Economy: Maybe it is good to give poor people more money! Huh. Imagine that. https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/longevity/477423-raising-the-minimum-wage-by-1-could-decrease-the -- > Raising the minimum wage by just $1 per hour could lower suicide rates between 3.5 percent and > 5.9 percent among those with a high school education or less, according to a new study. > > Researchers estimated that an extra dollar an hour could have prevented almost 14,000 suicides > after the Great Recession, Business Insider reported Wednesday. > > Suicide is on the rise as a cause of death in the United States, increasing 33 percent in > prevalence from 1999 through 2017. To examine the relationship between suicide and hourly pay, > the researchers compared the effects of 478 changes in state minimum wages from 1990 to 2015. > Though the federal minimum wage hasn?t changed since 2009, states are able to make changes on > their own. > > The researchers found a correlation between increased wages and lower suicide rates, an effect > that was strongest during periods of high unemployment. > > "Our findings are consistent with the notion that policies designed to improve the livelihoods of > individuals with less education, who are more likely to work at lower wages and at higher risk > for adverse mental health outcomes, can reduce the suicide risk in this group," the authors > wrote. > > Increasing the minimum wage has emerged as a prominent issue in the 2020 presidential race, with > many Democratic candidates proposing an increase of the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15. > The recent findings suggest that such a change could help reduce the number of suicides by > lifting more Americans out of poverty, but other studies have estimated it could also result in a > loss of jobs. Economy: Could we do something besides killing with all that money? https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2019/US%20Budgetary%20Costs%20of%20Wars%20November%202019.pdf -- Cost of War study from November 2019. That's $3.8M per hour or $640,000 per minute. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/20/us-spent-6point4-trillion-on-middle-east-wars-since-2001-study.html -- > American taxpayers have spent $6.4 trillion on post-9/11 wars and military action in the Middle > East and Asia, according to a new study. > > That total is $2 trillion more than the entire federal government spending during the recently > completed 2019 fiscal year. The U.S. government spent $4.4 trillion during the fiscal year that > ended Sept. 30, according to the Treasury Department. > > The report, from the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University, > also finds that more than 801,000 people have died as a direct result of fighting. Of those, more > than 335,000 have been civilians. Another 21 million people have been displaced due to violence. > > The report comes as the Trump administration works to withdraw the U.S. military presence from > war-torn Syria. Last year, President Donald Trump went through a similar debate over whether to > withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, ultimately agreeing to keep them there but only after > repeatedly raising questions about why they should stay. > > The $6.4 trillion figure reflects the cost across the U.S. federal government since the price of > America's wars is not borne by the Defense Department alone, according to Neta Crawford, who > authored the study. > > Crawford explains that the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria have expanded > to more than 80 countries ? "becoming a truly global war on terror." > > The longer wars drag on, more and more service members will ultimately claim veterans benefits > and disability payments, the study points out. > > "Even if the United States withdraws completely from the major war zones by the end of FY2020 and > halts its other Global War on Terror operations, in the Philippines and Africa for example, the > total budgetary burden of the post-9/11 wars will continue to rise as the U.S. pays the on-going > costs of veterans' care and for interest on borrowing to pay for the wars," Crawford writes. > > In March, the Pentagon estimated that the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have cost each > taxpayer $7,623 through fiscal 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIEUGgSGVEo -- Newly appointed Grenfell inquiry figure has links to cladding firm. https://vocalviews.com/blog/2020/01/16/grenfell-tower-inquiry-families-raise-conflict-of-interest-concerns-with-pm/ RT's report on the continuing Grenfell inquiry tells us: - 315 buildings are still wrapped in flammable material according to the Ministry of Housing. - 72 died in the Grenfell building fire 31 months ago on June 14. - Benita Mehra is a civil engineer who was appointed to the Grenfell inquiry shortly before Christmas (2019) by PM Boris Johnson but Mehra ran a charity that received funding linked to US firm Arconic, which supplied the cladding that helped the fire spread, a conflict of interest. Related: https://on.rt.com/a5sf -- similar story with a principal Grenfell Tower contractor being awarded a new contract worth almost ?100 million to redevelop a London council estate (from November 2019) Labor: United States-Mexico-Canada pact (USMCA) (also called "NAFTA 2.0" chiefly by objectors) passes the Senate, of the Democrats running for president in the Senate, only Sen. Sanders voted against the bill, Sen. Warren voted for the USMCA. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UImjWJybYZM -- Jimmy Dore & co. coverage including critical coverage of how Sen. Warren "is your enemy" and the Democrats and Republicans agree to support this bill (as Sen. Durbin says below, "it's truly bipartisan"). https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/16/senate-north-american-trade-deal-usmca > One day after signing a new trade deal with China, Donald Trump received a second victory for his > trade agenda as the Senate passed a new North American pact. > > As as lawmakers prepared to read aloud charges against Trump in his impeachment trial the Senate > voted 89 to 10 pass the revised United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Trump is expected > to sign the deal next week. [...] > Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, marveled on Wednesday at how leaders of organized labor and farm > groups in his state appeared together to support the pact. > > ?They both agree that this USMCA trade agreement is a step forward, an improvement over the > original Nafta,? Durbin said. ?I think we?ve added to this process by making it truly > bipartisan.? Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) voted against USMCA. Coverage by the media: Drone warfare piques the attention of a UK watchdog https://dronewars.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/InTheFrame-Web.pdf -- the report. From https://dronewars.net/category/uk-drones-targeted-killing/ > Our new report looks at UK involvement in drone targeted killing and in particular at media > coverage of British citizens killed in such strikes. It argues that the government?s refusal to > discuss key details or policy issues around these operations has helped to curtail coverage, > creating a climate where targeted killing has become normalised and accepted, eroding human > rights norms. > > In recent days, we have seen exactly how far the US is willing to take targeted killing by armed > drone. The jump from targeting members of non-state groups classed as terrorists to the > assassination of top military personnel of a state that US is not at war with may appear huge in > terms of strategy and legality. Unfortunately, however, it is also inevitable. Drone Wars UK has > consistently argued that drones ? with their particular capabilities to stay airborne long > periods, hovering over targets, able to track them undetected before firing ?precision? missiles > ? were always likely to be used in provocative ways that blur the boundary between war and peace > and cause further destabilisation in international relations. > > In 2015, the UK military joined the small (now expanded) club of states who have engaged in > drone targeted killing. The first target was Reyaad Khan, a British member of ISIS, who was > killed alongside Ruhul Amin, another UK member of ISIS, and a Belgian national. The reason given > was the threat of an imminent attack orchestrated by Khan, someone who was part of a terrorist > group that could not be negotiated with. These are much the same reasons used to justify the US > targeting of Soleimani, which exemplifies how easy the jump from unknown non-state actor to major > military commander is in the ?war on terror?, of which armed drones are a central component. > > Although UK commanders insist that armed drones will only be used in the same way that any > weapon system would be, subject to the same international law and rules of engagement, it is > clear that drone targeted killing is attractive for domestic governments. It is seen as a > relatively risk free way of securing foreign policy goals without engaging in difficult and messy > diplomacy or troop deployment. As a form of military engagement it has been shown to have less > public resistance and the risks of conflict escalation are very real. > > Conversely, it has also been shown that public understanding and critical engagement with issues > of peace and war can be increased by comprehensive media coverage. Unfortunately, however, over > the past few years, as we have become increasingly familiar with the concept of armed drones > ?hunting down? terrorist suspects, debate on the issue remains severely hampered. This is > largely a resulted of media reports containing carefully controlled government messaging, whilst > ministers and officials refuse to engage in discussions about policy and legality, giving vague > answers to MPs? written questions and deploying the ?we never discuss intelligence matters? > line. > > In the first study of its kind in the UK, drone Wars has conducted research on media coverage of > UK drone targeted killing to see how far public understanding and debate have been enabled or > hindered by the way government have engaged with media. Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEe9bseVePc -- RT report on drone media coverage report above. The report mentions how drone warfare is carried out, drone casualties, the high degree of government secrecy about who is assassinated, and the cooperative media which can be relied upon to never scrutinize the killings while employing "carefully controlled government messaging". This messaging repeats claims that the victim was about to launch a terror attack with no evidence given to back the claim (very much like the lies that ostensibly justified killing Iran's Gen. Suleimani). Drones are cheaper than traditional bombers, remotely-controlled (and thus "safer" for those controlling them than traditional bombers and "boots on the ground"), and drones can hover in the clouds for long periods of time allowing surveillance before, during, and after a strike. OPCW leaks continue, OPCW's reputation continues to fall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IztEGCaVBro -- RT's report based on WikiLeaks-leaked meeting minutes from OPCW engineers that according to a toxicologist, a pharmacologist, and a bioanalytical chemist who were present in that meeting to discuss the evidence from the alleged Syrian "gas attack": > It was agreed among all present that the key 'take-away message' from the meeting was that the > symptoms observed were inconsistent with exposure to chlorine and no other obvious candidate > chemical causing the symptoms could be identified. And what of the claim that the gas canister photographed on a bed was dropped from above (as one would expect in a gas bomb attack, and as was claimed by the US and its allies before any investigation even took place)? Analysis of the best available evidence says that did not happen which means that canister was placed, not dropped, on the scene. Someone who had "unhindered access to the site and a fully rebel-controlled area". The OPCW tried to cover this up including expunging evidence to the contrary from their database (per an order from Sebastien Braha, Chief of Cabinet at the OPCW, in an email which was also leaked): > Please get this document [Henderson's report] out of DRA [DocumentsRegistry Archive] and please > remove all traces, if any, of its delivery/storage/whatever in DRA. RT also mentions that the leaked reports contain feedback from the OPCW chemists where the chemists question the "professionalism of the investigation in which chemists apparently had less authority than American intelligence agents. So much so that even a former Director-General of the OPCW (Jose Bustani, OPCW Director-General from 1997-2002") felt like writing a letter to the body he used to steer." Bustani did write that open letter wherein he called on the OPCW "to allow all members of the FFM [Fact-finding Mission] team to speak freely and without censure". WikiLeaks published 4 batches of leaked documents relating to the Douma chemical attack including e-mails, fact-finding mission reports, and whistleblower testimonies. Only one OPCW team member who took part in the final report was in Douma. A leaked memo reads: > The FFM [fact-finding mission] report does not reflect the views of all the team members that > deployed to Douma. Only one FFM team member (a paramedic) of the so-called 'FFM core team' was in > Douma. The FFM report was written by this core team. So the best available evidence from those on-the-ground tell us this alleged attack was a phantom, those who know best were purposefully ignored, and the official report was written overwhelmingly by people who weren't there and took their narrative from American intelligence agents. That's the basis of the US/UK/French coordinated rocket attack into Syria. Shades of Assange: Glenn Greenwald charged with crimes in Brazil, allegations of "hacking" reminiscent of what the US claims about Assange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd0N5wa86bY -- RT's report. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/glenn-greenwald-charged-with-cybercrimes-in-brazil-for-publishing-leaked-chats/ -- Cond? Nast's report. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/world/americas/glenn-greenwald-brazil-cybercrimes.html -- The New York Times report includes: > Citing intercepted messages between Mr. Greenwald and the hackers, prosecutors say the journalist > played a "clear role in facilitating the commission of a crime." > > For instance, prosecutors contend that Mr. Greenwald encouraged the hackers to delete archives > that had already been shared with The Intercept Brasil, in order to cover their tracks. > > Prosecutors also say that Mr. Greenwald was communicating with the hackers while they were > actively monitoring private chats on Telegram, a messaging app. Glenn Greenwald recently published an expos? series in The Intercept based on the "Operation Car Wash" leaked documents. What is Operation Car Wash? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash > Operation Car Wash is an ongoing criminal investigation by the Federal Police of Brazil, Curitiba > Branch. It began in March 2014 and was initially headed by investigative judge[a] S?rgio Moro, > and in 2019 by Judge Luiz Ant?nio Bonat [pt]. It has resulted in more than a thousand warrants of > various types. According to the Operation Car Wash task force, investigations implicate > administrative members of the state-owned oil company Petrobras, politicians from Brazil's > largest parties (including presidents of the Republic), presidents of the Chamber of Deputies and > the Federal Senate, state governors, and businessmen from large Brazilian companies. The Federal > Police consider it the largest corruption investigation in the country's history. > > Originally a money laundering investigation, it expanded to cover allegations of corruption at > Petrobras, where executives allegedly accepted bribes in return for awarding contracts to > construction firms at inflated prices. This criminal scheme was initially known as Petrol?o > (Portuguese for "big oil") because of the Petrobras scandal. The investigation is called > "Operation Car Wash" because it was first uncovered at a car wash in Bras?lia. > > The aim of the investigation is to ascertain the extent of a money laundering scheme, estimated > by the Regional Superintendent of the Federal Police of Paran? State in 2015 at R$6.4?42.8 > billion (US$2?13 billion), largely through the embezzlement of Petrobras funds. It has included > more than a thousand warrants for search and seizure, temporary and preventive detention, and > plea bargaining, against business figures and politicians in numerous parties. > > At least eleven other countries were involved, mostly in Latin America, and the Brazilian company > Odebrecht was deeply implicated. > > Investigators indicted and jailed some well-known politicians, including former presidents > Fernando Collor de Mello, Michel Temer and Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva. The scandal seemed to > challenge the impunity of politicians and business leaders and the structural corruption in the > political and economic system that had prevailed until then. This was initially thought possible > because of the independence of the judiciary. > > However documents leaked in June 2019 to Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept suggest that Judge > Sergio Moro may have been partial in his decisions, passing on 'advice, investigative leads, and > inside information to the prosecutors' to 'prevent Lula?s Workers? Party from winning' the 2018 > elections. Several top jurisprudence authorities and experts in the world have reacted to the > leaks by describing former President Lula as a political prisoner and calling for his release. Da > Silva was ultimately released on November 8, 2019. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4edeJiqY41E for a brief, 14m40s, summary from Greenwald himself. There are still more documents to come out, according to The Intercept. Brazil's governmental reaction is very much like the strategy the US is using against Julian Assange for publishing clear evidence of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan (the subject of the US case against Assange for which the US wants England to extradite Assange to the US). This will, undoubtedly, become another case we'll have to watch closely. -J From naiman.uiuc at gmail.com Thu Jan 23 15:12:55 2020 From: naiman.uiuc at gmail.com (Robert Naiman) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:12:55 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Dan Froomkin | Salon: Why is MSM going easy on Biden on Iraq? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://www.salon.com/2020/01/18/press-watch-why-is-the-mainstream-media-so-gentle-with-joe-biden/ Press Watch: Why is the mainstream media so gentle with Joe Biden?Joe Biden gives addled, incoherent answers about his troubling record ? and most in the media just let it slide DAN FROOMKIN JANUARY 18, 2020 5:00PM (UTC)This article was co-produced with Press Watch , a new website that monitors and critiques American political coverage. [...] mainstream journalists in the best positions to demand answers ? during sit-down interviews and televised debates ? have been remarkably gentle with Joe Biden. They ask about his decision to authorize the war in Iraq, but not about the many documented times he has lied about why he made that decision, and when he first realized the war was a mistake. [...] They let him associate himself with Barack Obama, but don't make him address the administration's many failures and betrayals, such as the way Obama embraced Bushism on matters of national security, and embraced neoliberal economics. Would he appoint the same roster of people to run his foreign and domestic policy? What reason is there to believe he wouldn't? [...] Most likely, these journalists ? the most elite of the journalistic elite ? are just plain comfortable with Biden, and don't feel remotely antagonistic, because he reflects their centrist, Washington cocktail-party ideology. He's not talking about rocking the boat. He's talking about going back to the way things were, and they were happy then. By not actively asking Biden any hard questions, these top-tier journalists are offering de facto support for the pre-Trump status quo ante, without overtly looking like they are taking sides. But if they allow a weak candidate to become the sole alternative to Trump, which appears to be the unacknowledged or unconscious goal, the net effect may be paving the way for four more years. *Biden and Iraq* Let me now expand on a few of the areas where Biden has avoided needed scrutiny and some recent missed opportunities, starting with Iraq. Biden has repeatedly maintained that he was deceived into voting for the authorization to use military force in Iraq by George W. Bush, which is flatly ludicrous. For a while, he insisted that he opposed the Iraq invasion as soon as it was launched, which is a lie. His comments are impossible to misinterpret. >From the Democratic debate on July 31 : *Biden*: From the moment "shock and awe" started, from that moment, I was opposed to the effort, and I was outspoken as much as anyone at all in the Congress and the administration. Biden also told NPR in early September that "Immediately, that moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment." Since then, Biden has made some muddled attempts at clarification. But regardless, there is ample evidence in the public domain that he was a booster of the war both before and after. As Tara Golshan and Alex Ward have written for Vox, [H]is record, well documented in speeches on the Senate floor, congressional hearings, and press interviews from 2001 through his time in the White House, is that of a senator bullish about the push to war who helped sell the Bush administration's pitch to the American public ? Biden bought into the Bush administration's argument. He elevated the administration's concerns about Hussein in the press. And in the months leading up to the vote authorizing war, he organized a series of Senate hearings, in close coordination with the White House, during which he echoed the administration's talking points about weapons of mass destruction." Soon after the invasion, Biden criticized the war effort for being underfunded. But that's a far cry from opposition. He said in September 2003 : If the Lord Almighty had come down and said, "Look, we're going to go in, we're going to take out Saddam, but let me tell you this administration is really going to mess this stuff up, the aftermath," then, I think I still probably would have voted, because you I believe that you had to enforce those international agreements that Saddam made. But it's a much closer call. And he added: I think to make the case that the use of force against Saddam was unjustified is, I think, the wrong case to make. In the Sept. 12 Democratic debate , Biden stumbled through an attempt to explain. All these Biden quotes are [sic]: Biden: I said something that was not meant the way I said it. I said "from that point on." What I was argued against in the beginning, once he started to put the troops in, was that in fact we were doing it the wrong way; there was no plan; we should not be engaged; we didn't have the people with us; we didn't have our ? we didn't have allies with us, et cetera. Clearly, Biden still hasn't come to terms with his massive error in judgment regarding what Sanders correctly described in the Jan. 14 debate as one of "the two great foreign policy disasters of our lifetimes," both of which "were based on lies." Letting him say he made a mistake and moving on is letting him off way too easy. [...] DAN FROOMKIN Dan Froomkin is Editor of Press Watch. He wrote the daily White House Watch column for the Washington Post during the George W. Bush administration, then served as Washington bureau chief and senior writer at Huffington Post, covering Barack Obama's presidency, before working as Washington editor at The Intercept. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.manrique at gmail.com Thu Jan 23 21:08:20 2020 From: james.manrique at gmail.com (James M) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:08:20 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Anyone want to Speak at the ANSWER demonstration this saturday? Message-ID: Hi All, Peter has asked if anyone from AWARE would like to speak at the ANSWER anti-war demonstration this Saturday (the 25th) at 1pm? I believe the demo is starting at the IMC in Urbana and then marching around downtown urbana and ending back at the IMC. Would anyone like to say a few words on behalf of AWARE? If not, no worries, I can say a few words. Just wanted to make sure to share this opportunity. Thanks! 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Dr. Jill Stein on assassinating Soleimani https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1213858241618337792 Jane Arraf followup to Dr. Jill Stein https://twitter.com/janearraf/status/1213823941321592834 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an anti-war socialist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from a letter to Coretta Scott in 1952: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/21/mlk-was-a-socialist.html https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/coretta-scott > "I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory > than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to > see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, viz, to > block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems, it falls victim > to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its > usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses > to give luxuries to the classes." More quotes from MLK in https://boingboing.net/2019/01/21/mlk-was-a-socialist.html > "As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told > them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have > tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that > social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked, > and rightly so, ?What about Vietnam?? They asked if our own nation wasn?t using > massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it > wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my > voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first > spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own > government. ?" > > ?I started thinking about the fact that right here in our country we spend > millions of dollars every day to store surplus food. And I said to myself: ?I know > where we can store that food free of charge ? in the wrinkled stomachs of the > millions of God?s children in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and even in our own > nation, who go to bed hungry at night.?" https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/16/1621178/-Dr-King-the-greatest-purveyor-of-violence-in-the-world-today-my-own-government -- one of the few things worth pointing to on this Democratic Party front group, "Daily Kos" The ongoing Trump impeachment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEocwXiX2TQ -- Jimmy Dore and Stef Zamorano raise an interesting point on the impeachment: > Jimmy Dore: [...T]he impeachment trial last night, last night I saw it was on > [television] on the west coast. It was midnight, I flipped through the channels > [and] it was still going on. So that's 3AM their time, right? That's nuts! Why do > they pretend like they have to do that in the middle of the night? > > Stef Zamorano: Why are they acting like this impeachment is such hard work and > they couldn't be doing that shit all the time, getting us health care for > everybody, giving us infrastructure, giving us a jobs program, working 24 hours > until those things are handled. > > Jimmy Dore: No shit, right? > > Stef Zamorano: When have you seen Congress do that shit on behalf of the people > like before they go out on vacation? > > Jimmy Dore: Like, hey, we got to get to this-- there's people sleeping in the > streets, we gotta address this right now. We got to do legislation at 3:00 in the > morning. No. No. The only time they'll do shit like that is for bullshit like this > [the Trump impeachment]. New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for Democratic Nominee https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/new-york-times-endorses-warren-klobuchar-940188/ Sheldon Richman on "Warmonger Cotton Accuses Antiwar Think Tank of Anti-Semitism" https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/21/118648/ Notes from J.B. Nicholson https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051809.html Aaron Mat? interviews Scott Ritter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4 -J From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Jan 25 15:11:59 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 07:11:59 -0800 Subject: [Peace] US citizen detained and interrogated by DHS agents about anti-war movement solidarity with Venezuela Message-ID: US citizen detained and interrogated by DHS agents about anti-war movement solidarity with Venezuela Share Tweet A US citizen who participated in the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective was detained, searched and interrogated for the second time by US government agents about his political beliefs and participation in the anti-war movement. By Max Blumenthal On his way back from a Christmas visit to his family in Nicaragua, 31-year-old US citizen Sergio Lazo Torrez was detained by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers at Fort Lauderdale International Airport on January 20, then interrogated by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents who grilled him about his involvement in the US anti-war movement. Torrez was a participant in the Venezuela Embassy Protection Collective, a group of activists and journalists formed in April 2019 to defend Venezuela?s embassy in Washington DC against a takeover attempt by the Trump-backed coup administration of Juan Guaido. As The Grayzone reported , Torrez was previously detained by CBP at Dulles International Airport on August 2 after returning from a solidarity trip to Venezuela with fellow members of the collective, including this reporter. There, he was questioned for several hours about his activities in Caracas and was forced to surrender his cellphone for a search. Torrez described the January 20 interrogation as longer and more intrusive than the last one. ?They made me feel powerless because you can?t defend yourself and they can do whatever they want,? he told The Grayzone. ?Even though I?m a US citizen, they told me that every time I come back to the country, I?m going to be forced to go through the same thing.? Sergio Lazo Torrez, a 31-year-old US citizen, has been interrogated twice by US officials about his political beliefs and anti-war activism As soon as Torrez arrived at the customs desk in Fort Lauderdale, he was taken aside and escorted into a windowless room. Two DHS agents in plainclothes entered and proceeded to interrogate him. They immediately probed his connections to the anti-war movement in the US, focusing in on Code Pink and International Answer, and demanding names of friends in the two organizations. Code Pink and Answer helped organize last year?s defense of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, and participated in the solidarity trip that August which culminated with a meeting with Venezuela?s elected president, Nicolas Maduro. According to Torrez, the DHS agents demanded to know who paid for the trip to Venezuela, and what was discussed at the Foro Sao Paolo the Embassy Protection Collective participated in. The Foro Sao Paulo is an annual gathering of leftist political forces in Latin America that was established by the Workers Party of former Brazilian President Lula Da Silva. Right-wing politicians like Sen. Marco Rubio have cast the forum in a conspiratorial light, painting it as an avenue for Cuban communist infiltration of the continent. Next, the DHS agents asked if anyone Torrez had traveled with had given money or gifts to Venezuelan officials. He said they had not. Venezuela is currently the target of a draconian US sanctions regime that forbids virtually all business transactions between US citizens and the country?s government. At this point, Torrez said he asked what he did wrong, protesting that he had already been asked similar questions during his interrogation last August. The officer insisted that he was conducting the kind of routine security check his agency employs to track down Americans who travel to Turkey and return with bags full of ISIS propaganda. Torrez explained that he was in Nicaragua simply to celebrate Christmas and New Year?s with his family. He then challenged the agent: ?Do I look like a terrorist? Most of the people doing terrorism in the US are white guys doing mass shootings.? At this point, the DHS agents seized Torrez?s phone and began rifling through his photos. They found one of a Nicaraguan man wearing a t-shirt that read, ?Fuck Trump.? This prompted them to ask Torrez, a naturalized US citizen, about his views of Trump and the US government. He refused to comment. After nearly four hours of interrogation and confinement, Torrez was let go. On his way out, DHS officers handed him a card directing him to a hotline for travelers who are subjected to frequent secondary screenings. They told him he can expect to be interrogated each time he returns to the US from a trip abroad. ?It?s just ridiculous being harassed for having a different political opinion and not agreeing with the international politics of this country or how this country thinks it can control the politics in Latin America and decide policy wherever it wants,? Torrez reflected. ?They think this harassment is a way to stop us from doing our activism, but it just gives us more energy to keep going,? he continued. ?It?s just adrenaline for us.? Four members of the Embassy Protection Collective are currently on trial for trespassing and interfering with the US State Department?s functions. Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, Adrienne Pine and David Paul face federal charges punishable by up to a year in prison, a $100,000 fine each, and restitution to the government for police time and damages if they are convicted. Max Blumenthal Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah , Goliath , The Fifty One Day War , and The Management of Savagery . He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza . Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America?s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions. thegrayzone.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Jan 25 20:31:38 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 14:31:38 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #448 notes Message-ID: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> News from Neptune #448 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF951fpWbV0 A "What War?" edition A list of links to items referenced on the show. Paul Street's articles on CounterPunch https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street/ Rob Urie's articles on CounterPunch https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3abre/ Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?" https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss -- RSS feed Recent Jimmy Dore Show pieces about Elizabeth Warren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JWIiVMj6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrzgVczc1Y -- CNN Conflates #MeToo & Warren's Attack On Bernie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyc--yEjHk -- Audio Confirms Warren's Attack On Bernie As Predicted! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXBm7aPPqA -- Progressive Destroys CNN's Garbage Bernie/Warren Reporting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_xK4_dpxw -- Bernie's Poll Numbers RISE After Warren Attack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UjRmQ5-CE -- Meghan McCain Twists Liz Warren Like Pretzel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X0OReq2IY -- NYTimes Blatantly Lying About Bernie/Warren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTWM1_qIcI -- Bernie/Warren Smackdown Start To Finish Paul Street on "A Letter From Iowa" https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-letter-from-iowa/ Tucker Carlson Tonight https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for Democratic Nominee https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html Daniele Albertazzi & Duncan McDonnell define populism http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103230/http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf Populism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism Katie Miranda's Elizabeth Warren as contortionist https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lizloz.jpg https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/warrens-praise-and-occasional-criticism-of-israel-reflects-liberal-establishment-thinking/ Jimmy Dore shows Krystal Ball confusing a Clinton advisor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GT2EOL13Wo Two suggestions on how to defeat New York Times' limited reading: 1. Turn off Javascript when reading pages from nytimes.com. This is easy to do in Firefox with the uMatrix browser add-on. This will also make all browsing faster. 2. Delete nytimes.com cookies after you no longer have any nytimes.com windows/tabs open. This is easy to do in Firefox with the Cookie AutoDelete add-on. These add-ons might work in other browsers as well, but I only recommend free software (software we're free to run, inspect, share, and modify). So I recommend Firefox. Elizabeth Bruenig on "Bernie Will Have to Fight Dirty" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sanders-biden-2020-corruption.html Elizabeth Bruenig 'tweet' on her young child https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1221067805698723843 DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva to the court in the lawsuit started by the Bernie Sanders 2016 supporters against the DNC on how much power the DNC has to determine their own corporate representative (also known as the Democratic Party candidate for US President) http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf Tulsi Gabbard suing Hillary Clinton on Aaron Mat?'s "Pushback with Aaron Mat?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BhVyWLBfQ Asad Abukhalili ("The Angry Arab") twitter.com posts on corporate media and corporate social media misrepresentation of the Iraqi protests against continued US occupation: https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1221131053609312256 -- "This crowd in Baghdad for example has been more circulated on social media than scenes of the hundreds of thousands in the anti-US protests of yesterday." https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1220918811517284352 -- "A million people took to the streets in Iraq again act US occupation but NYT managed to cite five people who are in favor of US occupation. Lousy journalism. ??I reject this kind of protest ? it is an abuse of the American and foreign presence,??" A followup from Hussain Bakar says the BBC is following suit in not covering the Baghdad protests properly either: https://twitter.com/HussainBakar1/status/1220920564941873153 -- "To some extent, same thing with the BBC too. A correspondent spoke about people who still yearn for the US' presence." Aaron Mat? interviews Scott Ritter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4 Jim Kavanagh on "Aftermath: The Iran War After the Soleimani Assassination" https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/ The Grayzone https://thegrayzone.com/ -- Main site https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos -- Videos Glen Ford on "Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party" (from February 11, 2016) https://blackagendareport.com/node/22770 > ?Blacks haven?t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming presence. > Instead, the Party has transformed us ? and overwhelmed our radical politics.? The > best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it leads to a > split in the Democratic Party, and an end to the Rich Man?s Duopoly. All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times? 1619 Project" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/15/clay-j15.html "Higher Ground" program on WEFT http://new.weft.org/publicaffairs/higherground.html Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like" https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like J.B. Nicholson's notes https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051809.html https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015648.html -J From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Jan 26 21:33:38 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:33:38 -0800 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #448 notes In-Reply-To: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> References: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: I liked Carl?s statement related to the NYT article making the point ?both Trump and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.? It?s too bad Americans don?t recognize ?class,? as the great divide recognizing the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one Party system of neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which our ruling elites have set us up. > On Jan 25, 2020, at 12:31, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > > News from Neptune #448 > Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF951fpWbV0 > A "What War?" edition > > A list of links to items referenced on the show. > > Paul Street's articles on CounterPunch > https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street/ > > Rob Urie's articles on CounterPunch > https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3abre/ > > Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?" > https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes > https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account > https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss -- RSS feed > > Recent Jimmy Dore Show pieces about Elizabeth Warren > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JWIiVMj6g > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrzgVczc1Y -- CNN Conflates #MeToo & Warren's Attack On Bernie > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyc--yEjHk -- Audio Confirms Warren's Attack On Bernie As Predicted! > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXBm7aPPqA -- Progressive Destroys CNN's Garbage Bernie/Warren Reporting > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_xK4_dpxw -- Bernie's Poll Numbers RISE After Warren Attack > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UjRmQ5-CE -- Meghan McCain Twists Liz Warren Like Pretzel > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X0OReq2IY -- NYTimes Blatantly Lying About Bernie/Warren > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTWM1_qIcI -- Bernie/Warren Smackdown Start To Finish > > Paul Street on "A Letter From Iowa" > https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-letter-from-iowa/ > > Tucker Carlson Tonight > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E > > New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for Democratic Nominee > https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html > > Daniele Albertazzi & Duncan McDonnell define populism > http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf > https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103230/http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf > > Populism > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism > > Katie Miranda's Elizabeth Warren as contortionist > https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lizloz.jpg > https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/warrens-praise-and-occasional-criticism-of-israel-reflects-liberal-establishment-thinking/ > > > > > > Jimmy Dore shows Krystal Ball confusing a Clinton advisor > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GT2EOL13Wo > > Two suggestions on how to defeat New York Times' limited reading: > > 1. Turn off Javascript when reading pages from nytimes.com. This is easy to do in Firefox with the uMatrix browser add-on. This will also make all browsing faster. > > 2. Delete nytimes.com cookies after you no longer have any nytimes.com windows/tabs open. This is easy to do in Firefox with the Cookie AutoDelete add-on. > > These add-ons might work in other browsers as well, but I only recommend free software (software we're free to run, inspect, share, and modify). So I recommend Firefox. > > Elizabeth Bruenig on "Bernie Will Have to Fight Dirty" > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sanders-biden-2020-corruption.html > > Elizabeth Bruenig 'tweet' on her young child > https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1221067805698723843 > > > > > DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva to the court in the lawsuit started by the Bernie Sanders 2016 supporters against the DNC on how much power the DNC has to determine their own corporate representative (also known as the Democratic Party candidate for US President) > http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf > > Tulsi Gabbard suing Hillary Clinton on Aaron Mat?'s "Pushback with Aaron Mat?" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BhVyWLBfQ > > Asad Abukhalili ("The Angry Arab") twitter.com posts on corporate media and corporate social media misrepresentation of the Iraqi protests against continued US occupation: > https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1221131053609312256 -- "This crowd in Baghdad for example has been more circulated on social media than scenes of the hundreds of thousands in the anti-US protests of yesterday." > > https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1220918811517284352 -- "A million people took to the streets in Iraq again act US occupation but NYT managed to cite five people who are in favor of US occupation. Lousy journalism. ??I reject this kind of protest ? it is an abuse of the American and foreign presence,??" > > A followup from Hussain Bakar says the BBC is following suit in not covering the Baghdad protests properly either: > > https://twitter.com/HussainBakar1/status/1220920564941873153 -- "To some extent, same thing with the BBC too. A correspondent spoke about people who still yearn for the US' presence." > > > > Aaron Mat? interviews Scott Ritter > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4 > > Jim Kavanagh on "Aftermath: The Iran War After the Soleimani Assassination" > https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/ > > The Grayzone > https://thegrayzone.com/ -- Main site > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos -- Videos > > > > > Glen Ford on "Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party" (from February 11, 2016) > https://blackagendareport.com/node/22770 >> ?Blacks haven?t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming presence. >> Instead, the Party has transformed us ? and overwhelmed our radical politics.? The >> best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it leads to a >> split in the Democratic Party, and an end to the Rich Man?s Duopoly. > > > > > > All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" > https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search > > Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times? 1619 Project" > https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/15/clay-j15.html > > "Higher Ground" program on WEFT > http://new.weft.org/publicaffairs/higherground.html > > Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like" > https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like > > > > J.B. Nicholson's notes > https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051809.html > https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015648.html > > -J > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Jan 26 23:48:22 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:48:22 -0800 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #448 notes In-Reply-To: References: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: Carl and David On the topic of racism, I suggest in addition to the African American scholars often referred to by you both, as well as CLR James, Ernst Mandel. In his brief book, ?The Meaning of World War Two,? recommended by David, it refers to the true origins of the war, and he clarifies the use of racism not as the ?cause of war,? but as a tool to vilify those we choose to victimize. I was watching a British series the other evening, dated 2004, dealing with WW2, and Nazi occupation, where the German Commander is saying, ?the reason for this war is we need to get rid of the Jews.? Only when we understand the true cause are we able to create and implement a solution. > On Jan 26, 2020, at 13:33, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: > > > > I liked Carl?s statement related to the NYT article making the point ?both Trump and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.? > It?s too bad Americans don?t recognize ?class,? as the great divide recognizing the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one Party system of neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which our ruling elites have set us up. > > >> On Jan 25, 2020, at 12:31, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >> >> News from Neptune #448 >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF951fpWbV0 >> A "What War?" edition >> >> A list of links to items referenced on the show. >> >> Paul Street's articles on CounterPunch >> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street/ >> >> Rob Urie's articles on CounterPunch >> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3abre/ >> >> Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?" >> https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes >> https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account >> https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss -- RSS feed >> >> Recent Jimmy Dore Show pieces about Elizabeth Warren >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JWIiVMj6g >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrzgVczc1Y -- CNN Conflates #MeToo & Warren's Attack On Bernie >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyc--yEjHk -- Audio Confirms Warren's Attack On Bernie As Predicted! >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXBm7aPPqA -- Progressive Destroys CNN's Garbage Bernie/Warren Reporting >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_xK4_dpxw -- Bernie's Poll Numbers RISE After Warren Attack >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UjRmQ5-CE -- Meghan McCain Twists Liz Warren Like Pretzel >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X0OReq2IY -- NYTimes Blatantly Lying About Bernie/Warren >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTWM1_qIcI -- Bernie/Warren Smackdown Start To Finish >> >> Paul Street on "A Letter From Iowa" >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-letter-from-iowa/ >> >> Tucker Carlson Tonight >> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E >> >> New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for Democratic Nominee >> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html >> >> Daniele Albertazzi & Duncan McDonnell define populism >> http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf >> https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103230/http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf >> >> Populism >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism >> >> Katie Miranda's Elizabeth Warren as contortionist >> https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lizloz.jpg >> https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/warrens-praise-and-occasional-criticism-of-israel-reflects-liberal-establishment-thinking/ >> >> >> >> >> >> Jimmy Dore shows Krystal Ball confusing a Clinton advisor >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GT2EOL13Wo >> >> Two suggestions on how to defeat New York Times' limited reading: >> >> 1. Turn off Javascript when reading pages from nytimes.com. This is easy to do in Firefox with the uMatrix browser add-on. This will also make all browsing faster. >> >> 2. Delete nytimes.com cookies after you no longer have any nytimes.com windows/tabs open. This is easy to do in Firefox with the Cookie AutoDelete add-on. >> >> These add-ons might work in other browsers as well, but I only recommend free software (software we're free to run, inspect, share, and modify). So I recommend Firefox. >> >> Elizabeth Bruenig on "Bernie Will Have to Fight Dirty" >> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sanders-biden-2020-corruption.html >> >> Elizabeth Bruenig 'tweet' on her young child >> https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1221067805698723843 >> >> >> >> >> DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva to the court in the lawsuit started by the Bernie Sanders 2016 supporters against the DNC on how much power the DNC has to determine their own corporate representative (also known as the Democratic Party candidate for US President) >> http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf >> >> Tulsi Gabbard suing Hillary Clinton on Aaron Mat?'s "Pushback with Aaron Mat?" >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BhVyWLBfQ >> >> Asad Abukhalili ("The Angry Arab") twitter.com posts on corporate media and corporate social media misrepresentation of the Iraqi protests against continued US occupation: >> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1221131053609312256 -- "This crowd in Baghdad for example has been more circulated on social media than scenes of the hundreds of thousands in the anti-US protests of yesterday." >> >> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1220918811517284352 -- "A million people took to the streets in Iraq again act US occupation but NYT managed to cite five people who are in favor of US occupation. Lousy journalism. ??I reject this kind of protest ? it is an abuse of the American and foreign presence,??" >> >> A followup from Hussain Bakar says the BBC is following suit in not covering the Baghdad protests properly either: >> >> https://twitter.com/HussainBakar1/status/1220920564941873153 -- "To some extent, same thing with the BBC too. A correspondent spoke about people who still yearn for the US' presence." >> >> >> >> Aaron Mat? interviews Scott Ritter >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4 >> >> Jim Kavanagh on "Aftermath: The Iran War After the Soleimani Assassination" >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/ >> >> The Grayzone >> https://thegrayzone.com/ -- Main site >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos -- Videos >> >> >> >> >> Glen Ford on "Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party" (from February 11, 2016) >> https://blackagendareport.com/node/22770 >>> ?Blacks haven?t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming presence. >>> Instead, the Party has transformed us ? and overwhelmed our radical politics.? The >>> best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it leads to a >>> split in the Democratic Party, and an end to the Rich Man?s Duopoly. >> >> >> >> >> >> All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" >> https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search >> >> Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times? 1619 Project" >> https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/15/clay-j15.html >> >> "Higher Ground" program on WEFT >> http://new.weft.org/publicaffairs/higherground.html >> >> Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like" >> https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like >> >> >> >> J.B. Nicholson's notes >> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051809.html >> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015648.html >> >> -J >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From jbn at forestfield.org Sun Jan 26 23:57:31 2020 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 17:57:31 -0600 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air recommendation on class and the importance of historian Howard Zinn In-Reply-To: References: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: <19627cbe-0493-4f9c-1c06-c45bb1d6c7b1@forestfield.org> Karen Aram wrote: > I liked Carl?s statement related to the NYT article making the point ?both Trump > and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.? > > It?s too bad Americans don?t recognize ?class,? as the great divide recognizing > the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one Party system of > neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which our ruling elites have > set us up. If you'd like to hear more on this, consider the following discussion on the importance of Howard Zinn (1922-2010) with Ray Suarez who has a new book out, "Conversations about A People's History: Truth Has a Power of Its Own". You've probably seen Suarez on PBS' "NewsHour" program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7KHRb2dxkY (28m23s) is the latest "On Contact" with Chris Hedges where Hedges interviews Ray Suarez about class and "A People's History of the USA" by Howard Zinn. Here's an excerpt from the opener: > Ray Suarez: It's one of the reasons why we've never had a successful class-based > politics in this country because people cling to other master statuses as the way > of to think of themselves rather than a person who shares an economic state of > being with someone very much unlike them but they both face the same oppression. > Zinn: this is a popular theme and since writing he returns to it again and again; > an economic analysis class location but also this terrible story of how working > people become each other's enemies. -J From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jan 27 00:59:34 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:59:34 -0600 Subject: [Peace] War with Iran Message-ID: <97D37E13-DEF2-4EEF-BD42-5B24D914FBC2@newsfromneptune.com> "...Iran will try its best to avoid all-out war. The U.S. will not. "This is the war that, as the NYT reports, 'Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for.' "It will start, upon some pretext, with a full-scale U.S. air attack on Iran, followed by Iranian and allied attacks on U.S. forces and allies in the region, including Israel, and then an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran?which they think will end it. It is an incomprehensible disaster. And it?s becoming almost impossible to avoid. "The best prospect for stopping it would be for Iran and Russia to enter into a mutual defense treaty right now. But that?s not going to happen. Neither Russia nor China is going to fight for Iran. Why would they? They will sit back and watch the war destroy Iran, Israel, and the United States.? ?CGE From jbw292002 at gmail.com Mon Jan 27 01:11:09 2020 From: jbw292002 at gmail.com (John W.) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:11:09 -0600 Subject: [Peace] War with Iran In-Reply-To: <97D37E13-DEF2-4EEF-BD42-5B24D914FBC2@newsfromneptune.com> References: <97D37E13-DEF2-4EEF-BD42-5B24D914FBC2@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 7:00 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > < > https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/ > > > > "...Iran will try its best to avoid all-out war. The U.S. will not. > > "This is the war that, as the NYT reports, 'Hawks in Israel and America > have spent more than a decade agitating for.' > > "It will start, upon some pretext, with a full-scale U.S. air attack on > Iran, followed by Iranian and allied attacks on U.S. forces and allies in > the region, including Israel, and then an Israeli nuclear attack on > Iran?which they think will end it. It is an incomprehensible disaster. And > it?s becoming almost impossible to avoid. > > "The best prospect for stopping it would be for Iran and Russia to enter > into a mutual defense treaty right now. But that?s not going to happen. > Neither Russia nor China is going to fight for Iran. Why would they? They > will sit back and watch the war destroy Iran, Israel, and the United > States.? > > ?CGE > Except fallout. Ain't there nuclear fallout??? ?? _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jan 27 01:23:33 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:23:33 -0600 Subject: [Peace] War with Iran In-Reply-To: References: <97D37E13-DEF2-4EEF-BD42-5B24D914FBC2@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: "Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.? ?Gen. Buck Turgidson > On Jan 26, 2020, at 7:11 PM, John W. wrote: > > Except fallout. Ain't there nuclear fallout??? ?? > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020, 7:00 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace wrote: > > > "...Iran will try its best to avoid all-out war. The U.S. will not. > > "This is the war that, as the NYT reports, 'Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for.' > > "It will start, upon some pretext, with a full-scale U.S. air attack on Iran, followed by Iranian and allied attacks on U.S. forces and allies in the region, including Israel, and then an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran?which they think will end it. It is an incomprehensible disaster. And it?s becoming almost impossible to avoid. > > "The best prospect for stopping it would be for Iran and Russia to enter into a mutual defense treaty right now. But that?s not going to happen. Neither Russia nor China is going to fight for Iran. Why would they? They will sit back and watch the war destroy Iran, Israel, and the United States.? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Jan 27 03:08:06 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:08:06 -0800 Subject: [Peace] War with Iran In-Reply-To: <97D37E13-DEF2-4EEF-BD42-5B24D914FBC2@newsfromneptune.com> References: <97D37E13-DEF2-4EEF-BD42-5B24D914FBC2@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: Carl Many say that Russia and China won?t intervene on behalf of Iran, but a war between the US, Iran, and Israel will impact all nations in the vicinity. Destruction of Iran by the US and/or Israel, means US control of the Straits of Hormutz, Yemen soon to fall to the KSA, and Eritrea with its proxy US military base involved in bombing Yemen, they are the two nations on each side of the Straits, both US allies once Yemen is finished off. The interruption of oil flowing to China and Russia if the Straits are block aided would bring them into the fray. I remember Wm. Blum?s warning that the neocons, if Trump was elected, would want war with Iran, or regime change if they can get it, as a stepping stone to Russia. Russia knows that very well, and China knows well what will happen to them if Russia falls, so I don?t see China or Russia backing off from supporting Iran anymore than Russia backed off from supporting Syria. Perhaps naive and wishful thinking on my part. > On Jan 26, 2020, at 16:59, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > > > > "...Iran will try its best to avoid all-out war. The U.S. will not. > > "This is the war that, as the NYT reports, 'Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for.' > > "It will start, upon some pretext, with a full-scale U.S. air attack on Iran, followed by Iranian and allied attacks on U.S. forces and allies in the region, including Israel, and then an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran?which they think will end it. It is an incomprehensible disaster. And it?s becoming almost impossible to avoid. > > "The best prospect for stopping it would be for Iran and Russia to enter into a mutual defense treaty right now. But that?s not going to happen. Neither Russia nor China is going to fight for Iran. Why would they? They will sit back and watch the war destroy Iran, Israel, and the United States.? > > ?CGE From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Jan 27 03:18:54 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:18:54 -0800 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air recommendation on class and the importance of historian Howard Zinn In-Reply-To: <19627cbe-0493-4f9c-1c06-c45bb1d6c7b1@forestfield.org> References: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> <19627cbe-0493-4f9c-1c06-c45bb1d6c7b1@forestfield.org> Message-ID: J.B. I did see Ray Suarez on Chris Hedges this morning, I never miss Hedges ?On Contact?. A socialist always recognizes ?class? as most important to focus on, if we are to eliminate inequality and exploitation. I also like Hedges two weeks ago, with Ron Purser whose book critiques ?Mindfulness,? which I see as a close relative of IP. I will check out the below links provided. Thank you again, for all you do. > On Jan 26, 2020, at 15:57, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > > Karen Aram wrote: >> I liked Carl?s statement related to the NYT article making the point ?both Trump and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.? >> It?s too bad Americans don?t recognize ?class,? as the great divide recognizing the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one Party system of neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which our ruling elites have set us up. > If you'd like to hear more on this, consider the following discussion on the importance of Howard Zinn (1922-2010) with Ray Suarez who has a new book out, "Conversations about A People's History: Truth Has a Power of Its Own". You've probably seen Suarez on PBS' "NewsHour" program. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7KHRb2dxkY (28m23s) is the latest "On Contact" with Chris Hedges where Hedges interviews Ray Suarez about class and "A People's History of the USA" by Howard Zinn. Here's an excerpt from the opener: > >> Ray Suarez: It's one of the reasons why we've never had a successful class-based politics in this country because people cling to other master statuses as the way of to think of themselves rather than a person who shares an economic state of being with someone very much unlike them but they both face the same oppression. Zinn: this is a popular theme and since writing he returns to it again and again; >> an economic analysis class location but also this terrible story of how working people become each other's enemies. > > -J > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jan 27 10:02:31 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:02:31 -0600 Subject: [Peace] US push for war Message-ID: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/john-bolton-trump-book-takeaways.html What this testifies to is the split between Trump's populism (opposed to the pro-war and pro-austerity policies of the last and previous administrations) and the establishment's push for war in the Mideast, to deter Eurasian economic development (China-Russia-Iran), seen as a threat to the profits of the US 1%. Bolton of course is a vicious neocon. ?CGE [On the US push for war with Iran, see : '...Iran will try its best to avoid all-out war. The U.S. will not. This is the war that, as the NYT reports, ?Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for.? It will start, upon some pretext, with a full-scale U.S. air attack on Iran, followed by Iranian and allied attacks on U.S. forces and allies in the region, including Israel, and then an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran?which they think will end it. It is an incomprehensible disaster. And it?s becoming almost impossible to avoid. 'The best prospect for stopping it would be for Iran and Russia to enter into a mutual defense treaty right now. But that?s not going to happen. Neither Russia nor China is going to fight for Iran. Why would they? They will sit back and watch the war destroy Iran, Israel, and the United States.? ### From moboct1 at aim.com Mon Jan 27 15:03:36 2020 From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] US push for war In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1527911639.20450055.1580137416813@mail.yahoo.com> Carl:? Thanks--I think--for sharing this comprehensive and disturbing analysis by Jim (no relation to Brett) Kavanagh.? Wow!? I'm not sure I can sleep at night instead of reaching for the Tullamore Dew.? Guess I shoulda been out on the street in freezing weather January 25 (for all the?good that would do on JCPOA).? Best to mobilize for Bernie?(for all the good that would do).? Impeachment is a lame waste of time... Midge?? -----Original Message----- From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss To: peace-discuss Cc: Peace Sent: Mon, Jan 27, 2020 4:03 am Subject: [Peace-discuss] US push for war https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/john-bolton-trump-book-takeaways.html What this testifies to is the split between Trump's populism (opposed to the pro-war and pro-austerity policies of the last and previous administrations) and the establishment's push for war in the Mideast, to deter Eurasian economic development (China-Russia-Iran), seen as a threat to the profits of the US 1%. Bolton of course is a vicious neocon. ?CGE [On the US push for war with Iran, see : '...Iran will try its best to avoid all-out war. The U.S. will not. This is the war that, as the NYT reports, ?Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for.? It will start, upon some pretext, with a full-scale U.S. air attack on Iran, followed by Iranian and allied attacks on U.S. forces and allies in the region, including Israel, and then an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran?which they think will end it. It is an incomprehensible disaster. And it?s becoming almost impossible to avoid. 'The best prospect for stopping it would be for Iran and Russia to enter into a mutual defense treaty right now. But that?s not going to happen. Neither Russia nor China is going to fight for Iran. Why would they? 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Ora pro nobis, CGE > On Jan 27, 2020, at 9:03 AM, Mildred O'brien wrote: > > Carl: Thanks--I think--for sharing this comprehensive and disturbing analysis by Jim (no relation to Brett) Kavanagh. Wow! I'm not sure I can sleep at night instead of reaching for the Tullamore Dew. Guess I shoulda been out on the street in freezing weather January 25 (for all the good that would do on JCPOA). Best to mobilize for Bernie (for all the good that would do). Impeachment is a lame waste of time... > > Midge > > > -----Original Message----- > From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss > To: peace-discuss > Cc: Peace > Sent: Mon, Jan 27, 2020 4:03 am > Subject: [Peace-discuss] US push for war > > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/john-bolton-trump-book-takeaways.html > > What this testifies to is the split between Trump's populism (opposed to the pro-war and pro-austerity policies of the last and previous administrations) and the establishment's push for war in the Mideast, to deter Eurasian economic development (China-Russia-Iran), seen as a threat to the profits of the US 1%. > > Bolton of course is a vicious neocon. > > ?CGE > > [On the US push for war with Iran, see : > > '...Iran will try its best to avoid all-out war. The U.S. will not. This is the war that, as the NYT reports, ?Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for.? It will start, upon some pretext, with a full-scale U.S. air attack on Iran, followed by Iranian and allied attacks on U.S. forces and allies in the region, including Israel, and then an Israeli nuclear attack on Iran?which they think will end it. It is an incomprehensible disaster. And it?s becoming almost impossible to avoid. > > 'The best prospect for stopping it would be for Iran and Russia to enter into a mutual defense treaty right now. But that?s not going to happen. Neither Russia nor China is going to fight for Iran. Why would they? They will sit back and watch the war destroy Iran, Israel, and the United States.? > > ### > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jan 27 19:37:47 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:37:47 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Environmental Voter Guide: We Just Graded the Candidates References: <5A.5A.19186.4FE2F2E5@asv11mtam002.ngpweb.com> Message-ID: <0FDF5B5C-695E-48A5-B2E2-B5BC98727854@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Kier?n Suckling, Center Action Fund" > Subject: Environmental Voter Guide: We Just Graded the Candidates > Date: January 27, 2020 at 12:41:55 PM CST > To: "Cg Estabrook" > Reply-To: kieran at centeractionfund.org > > > > Hi Cg, > > This is a critical election year ? and it's more important than ever we understand where candidates stand on the most important environmental issues of our time, and hold them accountable for their records and their promises. > > That's why just hours ago the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, the 501(c)(4) political arm of the Center, released our first-ever voter guide evaluating the major Democratic presidential candidates on the wildlife extinction emergency, protecting public lands, addressing environmental justice and taking on the climate crisis. > > Read the full guide and what's behind the grades here. > > The next four years will determine so much about the future of our planet. > > We need leaders who have the courage and vision to do what's needed to stem the extinction crisis, take on the global climate emergency, protect wild places and do right by local communities. > > It's time for all candidates ? as well as the Democratic Party ? to prioritize these critical issues. > > Take a look at the scorecard and then get involved so that whoever challenges Trump values wildlife and public lands as much as you do. > > For the wild, > > > > Kier?n Suckling > President of the Board > Center Action Fund > P.S. 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URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Mon Jan 27 21:09:27 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:09:27 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Warren fp team: pro-war/regime change Message-ID: https://thegrayzone.com/2020/01/26/elizabeth-warren-foreign-policy-team-pro-war-regime-change/ From jbw292002 at gmail.com Mon Jan 27 22:42:56 2020 From: jbw292002 at gmail.com (John W.) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:42:56 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #448 notes In-Reply-To: References: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 5:49 PM Karen Aram via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: Carl and David > > On the topic of racism, I suggest in addition to the African American > scholars often referred to by you both, as well as CLR James, Ernst > Mandel. In his brief book, ?The Meaning of World War Two,? recommended by > David, it refers to the true origins of the war, and he clarifies the use > of racism not as the ?cause of war,? but as a tool to vilify those we > choose to victimize. > I'm a bit confused. If war is used as a tool to vilify, to victimize (or dare I say exterminate?) how is that racial victimization not the cause, or a cause, of the war? What's the distinction? > I was watching a British series the other evening, dated 2004, dealing > with WW2, and Nazi occupation, where the German Commander is saying, ?the > reason for this war is we need to get rid of the Jews.? > > Only when we understand the true cause are we able to create and implement > a solution. > The "true cause".... The reason? In this example, getting rid of the Jews? Is that not the true cause? > > On Jan 26, 2020, at 13:33, Karen Aram via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > I liked Carl?s statement related to the NYT article making the point > ?both Trump and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.? > > It?s too bad Americans don?t recognize ?class,? as the great divide > recognizing the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one > Party system of neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which > our ruling elites have set us up. > > > > > >> On Jan 25, 2020, at 12:31, J.B. Nicholson via Peace < > peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > >> > >> News from Neptune #448 > >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF951fpWbV0 > >> A "What War?" edition > >> > >> A list of links to items referenced on the show. > >> > >> Paul Street's articles on CounterPunch > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street/ > >> > >> Rob Urie's articles on CounterPunch > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3abre/ > >> > >> Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?" > >> https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes > >> https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account > >> > https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss > -- RSS feed > >> > >> Recent Jimmy Dore Show pieces about Elizabeth Warren > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JWIiVMj6g > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrzgVczc1Y -- CNN Conflates #MeToo & > Warren's Attack On Bernie > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyc--yEjHk -- Audio Confirms Warren's > Attack On Bernie As Predicted! > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXBm7aPPqA -- Progressive Destroys > CNN's Garbage Bernie/Warren Reporting > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_xK4_dpxw -- Bernie's Poll Numbers > RISE After Warren Attack > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UjRmQ5-CE -- Meghan McCain Twists > Liz Warren Like Pretzel > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X0OReq2IY -- NYTimes Blatantly Lying > About Bernie/Warren > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTWM1_qIcI -- Bernie/Warren Smackdown > Start To Finish > >> > >> Paul Street on "A Letter From Iowa" > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-letter-from-iowa/ > >> > >> Tucker Carlson Tonight > >> > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E > >> > >> New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for > Democratic Nominee > >> > https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html > >> > >> Daniele Albertazzi & Duncan McDonnell define populism > >> > http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf > >> > https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103230/http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf > >> > >> Populism > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism > >> > >> Katie Miranda's Elizabeth Warren as contortionist > >> https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lizloz.jpg > >> > https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/warrens-praise-and-occasional-criticism-of-israel-reflects-liberal-establishment-thinking/ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Jimmy Dore shows Krystal Ball confusing a Clinton advisor > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GT2EOL13Wo > >> > >> Two suggestions on how to defeat New York Times' limited reading: > >> > >> 1. Turn off Javascript when reading pages from nytimes.com. This is > easy to do in Firefox with the uMatrix browser add-on. This will also make > all browsing faster. > >> > >> 2. Delete nytimes.com cookies after you no longer have any nytimes.com > windows/tabs open. This is easy to do in Firefox with the Cookie AutoDelete > add-on. > >> > >> These add-ons might work in other browsers as well, but I only > recommend free software (software we're free to run, inspect, share, and > modify). So I recommend Firefox. > >> > >> Elizabeth Bruenig on "Bernie Will Have to Fight Dirty" > >> > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sanders-biden-2020-corruption.html > >> > >> Elizabeth Bruenig 'tweet' on her young child > >> https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1221067805698723843 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva to the court in the lawsuit started by the > Bernie Sanders 2016 supporters against the DNC on how much power the DNC > has to determine their own corporate representative (also known as the > Democratic Party candidate for US President) > >> http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf > >> > >> Tulsi Gabbard suing Hillary Clinton on Aaron Mat?'s "Pushback with > Aaron Mat?" > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BhVyWLBfQ > >> > >> Asad Abukhalili ("The Angry Arab") twitter.com posts on corporate > media and corporate social media misrepresentation of the Iraqi protests > against continued US occupation: > >> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1221131053609312256 -- "This > crowd in Baghdad for example has been more circulated on social media than > scenes of the hundreds of thousands in the anti-US protests of yesterday." > >> > >> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1220918811517284352 -- "A > million people took to the streets in Iraq again act US occupation but NYT > managed to cite five people who are in favor of US occupation. Lousy > journalism. ??I reject this kind of protest ? it is an abuse of the > American and foreign presence,??" > >> > >> A followup from Hussain Bakar says the BBC is following suit in not > covering the Baghdad protests properly either: > >> > >> https://twitter.com/HussainBakar1/status/1220920564941873153 -- "To > some extent, same thing with the BBC too. A correspondent spoke about > people who still yearn for the US' presence." > >> > >> > >> > >> Aaron Mat? interviews Scott Ritter > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4 > >> > >> Jim Kavanagh on "Aftermath: The Iran War After the Soleimani > Assassination" > >> > https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/ > >> > >> The Grayzone > >> https://thegrayzone.com/ -- Main site > >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos -- > Videos > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Glen Ford on "Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party" (from > February 11, 2016) > >> https://blackagendareport.com/node/22770 > >>> ?Blacks haven?t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming > presence. > >>> Instead, the Party has transformed us ? and overwhelmed our radical > politics.? The > >>> best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it > leads to a > >>> split in the Democratic Party, and an end to the Rich Man?s Duopoly. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" > >> > https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search > >> > >> Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the > New York Times? 1619 Project" > >> https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/15/clay-j15.html > >> > >> "Higher Ground" program on WEFT > >> http://new.weft.org/publicaffairs/higherground.html > >> > >> Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually > Looks Like" > >> > https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like > >> > >> > >> > >> J.B. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Mon Jan 27 23:37:23 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:37:23 -0800 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #448 notes In-Reply-To: References: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: John, I didn?t say war is a tool used to vilify, I said racism is a tool used to vilify victims of our wars etc. Racism is a component, an important component, of war. The cause of war, colonialism, and imperialism is to steal or control the resources and/or to utilize the inexpensive labor for profit. Profit is the goal of capitalism. Capitalism will collapse without imperialism to prop it up. Understanding class is necessary to understanding inequality. I?m neither a teacher nor an academic, there are others who can explain it much better than I. I recommend reading ?The Black Jacobins?, by CLR James, and or the book by Ernst Mandel referred to below. . > On Jan 27, 2020, at 14:42, John W. wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 5:49 PM Karen Aram via Peace > wrote: > > Carl and David > > On the topic of racism, I suggest in addition to the African American scholars often referred to by you both, as well as CLR James, Ernst Mandel. In his brief book, ?The Meaning of World War Two,? recommended by David, it refers to the true origins of the war, and he clarifies the use of racism not as the ?cause of war,? but as a tool to vilify those we choose to victimize. > > I'm a bit confused. If war is used as a tool to vilify, to victimize (or dare I say exterminate?) how is that racial victimization not the cause, or a cause, of the war? What's the distinction? > > > I was watching a British series the other evening, dated 2004, dealing with WW2, and Nazi occupation, where the German Commander is saying, ?the reason for this war is we need to get rid of the Jews.? > > Only when we understand the true cause are we able to create and implement a solution. > > The "true cause".... The reason? In this example, getting rid of the Jews? Is that not the true cause? > > > > > On Jan 26, 2020, at 13:33, Karen Aram via Peace > wrote: > > > > > > > > I liked Carl?s statement related to the NYT article making the point ?both Trump and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.? > > It?s too bad Americans don?t recognize ?class,? as the great divide recognizing the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one Party system of neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which our ruling elites have set us up. > > > > > >> On Jan 25, 2020, at 12:31, J.B. Nicholson via Peace > wrote: > >> > >> News from Neptune #448 > >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF951fpWbV0 > >> A "What War?" edition > >> > >> A list of links to items referenced on the show. > >> > >> Paul Street's articles on CounterPunch > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street/ > >> > >> Rob Urie's articles on CounterPunch > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3abre/ > >> > >> Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?" > >> https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes > >> https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account > >> https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss -- RSS feed > >> > >> Recent Jimmy Dore Show pieces about Elizabeth Warren > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JWIiVMj6g > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrzgVczc1Y -- CNN Conflates #MeToo & Warren's Attack On Bernie > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyc--yEjHk -- Audio Confirms Warren's Attack On Bernie As Predicted! > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXBm7aPPqA -- Progressive Destroys CNN's Garbage Bernie/Warren Reporting > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_xK4_dpxw -- Bernie's Poll Numbers RISE After Warren Attack > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UjRmQ5-CE -- Meghan McCain Twists Liz Warren Like Pretzel > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X0OReq2IY -- NYTimes Blatantly Lying About Bernie/Warren > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTWM1_qIcI -- Bernie/Warren Smackdown Start To Finish > >> > >> Paul Street on "A Letter From Iowa" > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-letter-from-iowa/ > >> > >> Tucker Carlson Tonight > >> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E > >> > >> New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for Democratic Nominee > >> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html > >> > >> Daniele Albertazzi & Duncan McDonnell define populism > >> http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf > >> https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103230/http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf > >> > >> Populism > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism > >> > >> Katie Miranda's Elizabeth Warren as contortionist > >> https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lizloz.jpg > >> https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/warrens-praise-and-occasional-criticism-of-israel-reflects-liberal-establishment-thinking/ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Jimmy Dore shows Krystal Ball confusing a Clinton advisor > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GT2EOL13Wo > >> > >> Two suggestions on how to defeat New York Times' limited reading: > >> > >> 1. Turn off Javascript when reading pages from nytimes.com . This is easy to do in Firefox with the uMatrix browser add-on. This will also make all browsing faster. > >> > >> 2. Delete nytimes.com cookies after you no longer have any nytimes.com windows/tabs open. This is easy to do in Firefox with the Cookie AutoDelete add-on. > >> > >> These add-ons might work in other browsers as well, but I only recommend free software (software we're free to run, inspect, share, and modify). So I recommend Firefox. > >> > >> Elizabeth Bruenig on "Bernie Will Have to Fight Dirty" > >> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sanders-biden-2020-corruption.html > >> > >> Elizabeth Bruenig 'tweet' on her young child > >> https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1221067805698723843 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva to the court in the lawsuit started by the Bernie Sanders 2016 supporters against the DNC on how much power the DNC has to determine their own corporate representative (also known as the Democratic Party candidate for US President) > >> http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf > >> > >> Tulsi Gabbard suing Hillary Clinton on Aaron Mat?'s "Pushback with Aaron Mat?" > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BhVyWLBfQ > >> > >> Asad Abukhalili ("The Angry Arab") twitter.com posts on corporate media and corporate social media misrepresentation of the Iraqi protests against continued US occupation: > >> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1221131053609312256 -- "This crowd in Baghdad for example has been more circulated on social media than scenes of the hundreds of thousands in the anti-US protests of yesterday." > >> > >> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1220918811517284352 -- "A million people took to the streets in Iraq again act US occupation but NYT managed to cite five people who are in favor of US occupation. Lousy journalism. ??I reject this kind of protest ? it is an abuse of the American and foreign presence,??" > >> > >> A followup from Hussain Bakar says the BBC is following suit in not covering the Baghdad protests properly either: > >> > >> https://twitter.com/HussainBakar1/status/1220920564941873153 -- "To some extent, same thing with the BBC too. A correspondent spoke about people who still yearn for the US' presence." > >> > >> > >> > >> Aaron Mat? interviews Scott Ritter > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4 > >> > >> Jim Kavanagh on "Aftermath: The Iran War After the Soleimani Assassination" > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/ > >> > >> The Grayzone > >> https://thegrayzone.com/ -- Main site > >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos -- Videos > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Glen Ford on "Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party" (from February 11, 2016) > >> https://blackagendareport.com/node/22770 > >>> ?Blacks haven?t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming presence. > >>> Instead, the Party has transformed us ? and overwhelmed our radical politics.? The > >>> best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it leads to a > >>> split in the Democratic Party, and an end to the Rich Man?s Duopoly. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" > >> https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search > >> > >> Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times? 1619 Project" > >> https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/15/clay-j15.html > >> > >> "Higher Ground" program on WEFT > >> http://new.weft.org/publicaffairs/higherground.html > >> > >> Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like" > >> https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like > >> > >> > >> > >> J.B. Nicholson's notes > >> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051809.html > >> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015648.html > >> > >> -J > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Peace mailing list > >> Peace at lists.chambana.net > >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Jan 28 01:00:31 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:00:31 -0600 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #448 notes In-Reply-To: References: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6381 ?Material, social and ideological preconditions for the Nazi genocide? by Ernest Mandel This is the text of Ernest Mandel?s contribution to a symposium on the Nazi genocide held in Brussels in 1988. It was first published in French in Yannis Thanassekos and Heinz Wismann, eds., R?vision de l?Histoire: Totalitarisme, crimes et g?nocides nazis, Editions du Cerf, Paris 1990, pp. 169-74. The English translation was published in Gilbert Achcar. ed., The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, Verso, London 1999, pp. 225 - 232. > On Jan 27, 2020, at 4:42 PM, John W. wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 5:49 PM Karen Aram via Peace wrote: > > Carl and David > > On the topic of racism, I suggest in addition to the African American scholars often referred to by you both, as well as CLR James, Ernst Mandel. In his brief book, ?The Meaning of World War Two,? recommended by David, it refers to the true origins of the war, and he clarifies the use of racism not as the ?cause of war,? but as a tool to vilify those we choose to victimize. > > I'm a bit confused. If war is used as a tool to vilify, to victimize (or dare I say exterminate?) how is that racial victimization not the cause, or a cause, of the war? What's the distinction? > > > I was watching a British series the other evening, dated 2004, dealing with WW2, and Nazi occupation, where the German Commander is saying, ?the reason for this war is we need to get rid of the Jews.? > > Only when we understand the true cause are we able to create and implement a solution. > > The "true cause".... The reason? In this example, getting rid of the Jews? Is that not the true cause? > > > > > On Jan 26, 2020, at 13:33, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: > > > > > > > > I liked Carl?s statement related to the NYT article making the point ?both Trump and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.? > > It?s too bad Americans don?t recognize ?class,? as the great divide recognizing the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one Party system of neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which our ruling elites have set us up. > > > > > >> On Jan 25, 2020, at 12:31, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > >> > >> News from Neptune #448 > >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF951fpWbV0 > >> A "What War?" edition > >> > >> A list of links to items referenced on the show. > >> > >> Paul Street's articles on CounterPunch > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street/ > >> > >> Rob Urie's articles on CounterPunch > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3abre/ > >> > >> Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?" > >> https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes > >> https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account > >> https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss -- RSS feed > >> > >> Recent Jimmy Dore Show pieces about Elizabeth Warren > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JWIiVMj6g > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrzgVczc1Y -- CNN Conflates #MeToo & Warren's Attack On Bernie > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyc--yEjHk -- Audio Confirms Warren's Attack On Bernie As Predicted! > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXBm7aPPqA -- Progressive Destroys CNN's Garbage Bernie/Warren Reporting > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_xK4_dpxw -- Bernie's Poll Numbers RISE After Warren Attack > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UjRmQ5-CE -- Meghan McCain Twists Liz Warren Like Pretzel > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X0OReq2IY -- NYTimes Blatantly Lying About Bernie/Warren > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTWM1_qIcI -- Bernie/Warren Smackdown Start To Finish > >> > >> Paul Street on "A Letter From Iowa" > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-letter-from-iowa/ > >> > >> Tucker Carlson Tonight > >> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E > >> > >> New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for Democratic Nominee > >> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html > >> > >> Daniele Albertazzi & Duncan McDonnell define populism > >> http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf > >> https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103230/http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf > >> > >> Populism > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism > >> > >> Katie Miranda's Elizabeth Warren as contortionist > >> https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lizloz.jpg > >> https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/warrens-praise-and-occasional-criticism-of-israel-reflects-liberal-establishment-thinking/ > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Jimmy Dore shows Krystal Ball confusing a Clinton advisor > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GT2EOL13Wo > >> > >> Two suggestions on how to defeat New York Times' limited reading: > >> > >> 1. Turn off Javascript when reading pages from nytimes.com. This is easy to do in Firefox with the uMatrix browser add-on. This will also make all browsing faster. > >> > >> 2. Delete nytimes.com cookies after you no longer have any nytimes.com windows/tabs open. This is easy to do in Firefox with the Cookie AutoDelete add-on. > >> > >> These add-ons might work in other browsers as well, but I only recommend free software (software we're free to run, inspect, share, and modify). So I recommend Firefox. > >> > >> Elizabeth Bruenig on "Bernie Will Have to Fight Dirty" > >> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sanders-biden-2020-corruption.html > >> > >> Elizabeth Bruenig 'tweet' on her young child > >> https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1221067805698723843 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva to the court in the lawsuit started by the Bernie Sanders 2016 supporters against the DNC on how much power the DNC has to determine their own corporate representative (also known as the Democratic Party candidate for US President) > >> http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf > >> > >> Tulsi Gabbard suing Hillary Clinton on Aaron Mat?'s "Pushback with Aaron Mat?" > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BhVyWLBfQ > >> > >> Asad Abukhalili ("The Angry Arab") twitter.com posts on corporate media and corporate social media misrepresentation of the Iraqi protests against continued US occupation: > >> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1221131053609312256 -- "This crowd in Baghdad for example has been more circulated on social media than scenes of the hundreds of thousands in the anti-US protests of yesterday." > >> > >> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1220918811517284352 -- "A million people took to the streets in Iraq again act US occupation but NYT managed to cite five people who are in favor of US occupation. Lousy journalism. ??I reject this kind of protest ? it is an abuse of the American and foreign presence,??" > >> > >> A followup from Hussain Bakar says the BBC is following suit in not covering the Baghdad protests properly either: > >> > >> https://twitter.com/HussainBakar1/status/1220920564941873153 -- "To some extent, same thing with the BBC too. A correspondent spoke about people who still yearn for the US' presence." > >> > >> > >> > >> Aaron Mat? interviews Scott Ritter > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4 > >> > >> Jim Kavanagh on "Aftermath: The Iran War After the Soleimani Assassination" > >> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/ > >> > >> The Grayzone > >> https://thegrayzone.com/ -- Main site > >> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos -- Videos > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Glen Ford on "Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party" (from February 11, 2016) > >> https://blackagendareport.com/node/22770 > >>> ?Blacks haven?t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming presence. > >>> Instead, the Party has transformed us ? and overwhelmed our radical politics.? The > >>> best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it leads to a > >>> split in the Democratic Party, and an end to the Rich Man?s Duopoly. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" > >> https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search > >> > >> Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times? 1619 Project" > >> https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/15/clay-j15.html > >> > >> "Higher Ground" program on WEFT > >> http://new.weft.org/publicaffairs/higherground.html > >> > >> Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like" > >> https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like > >> > >> > >> > >> J.B. Nicholson's notes > >> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051809.html > >> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015648.html > >> > >> -J > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Peace mailing list > >> Peace at lists.chambana.net > >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace mailing list > > Peace at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Jan 28 01:03:09 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 19:03:09 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Tell Congress: Vote YES on Measures to Prevent War with Iran! References: <17b4f-2e11-5e2f6439@list.fcnl.org> Message-ID: <0E919274-4C90-4F7C-BE29-9F6CE7D1B291@newsfromneptune.com> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Hassan El-Tayyab, FCNL" > Subject: Tell Congress: Vote YES on Measures to Prevent War with Iran! > Date: January 27, 2020 at 4:29:27 PM CST > To: "Dr. C. G. Estabrook" > Reply-To: support at fcnl.org > > View online ? > > > > Dear C. G., > > On Thursday, Rep. Davis will vote on two important amendments to prevent war with Iran: > > Rep. Ro Khanna?s (CA-17) measure to prevent funding for an unauthorized war with Iran. > Rep. Barbara Lee?s (CA-13) repeal of the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force, which was recently invoked by the Trump administration as the legal basis for the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. > Act Now > In this moment of heightened tensions, every vote is critical. We must be unrelenting in calling on Congress to return to diplomacy, reassert its war authority, and prevent yet another endless war in the Middle East. > > Each time Congress votes on resolutions to prevent war, they are sending an undeniable message: the American people do not support war with Iran. > > Your voice is needed once again: Urge Rep. Davis to vote for these measures and prevent further unauthorized war. > > > Sincerely, > Hassan El-Tayyab > Legislative Manager for Middle East Policy > > > > > Update your contact information. > > We are Quakers and friends changing public policy. > > Find Events | Make a Donation | More About FCNL > Follow us on: > > > > 245 2nd Street NE Washington, DC 20002 | 800-630-1330 > > ? Friends Committee on National Legislation | Powered by ActionKit | Design by Threespot > > > > You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time. > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Jan 28 02:03:25 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:03:25 -0800 Subject: [Peace] News from Neptune #448 notes In-Reply-To: References: <8bec2e2a-960e-4543-9c70-df3d760b405a@forestfield.org> Message-ID: It should be noted that Ernest Mandel was a German born, Belgian Jew who fought in the Belgian underground resistance during the Nazi occupation. > On Jan 27, 2020, at 17:00, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > > http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article6381 > > ?Material, social and ideological preconditions for the Nazi genocide? by Ernest Mandel > > This is the text of Ernest Mandel?s contribution to a symposium on the Nazi genocide held in Brussels in 1988. It was first published in French in Yannis Thanassekos and Heinz Wismann, eds., R?vision de l?Histoire: Totalitarisme, crimes et g?nocides nazis, Editions du Cerf, Paris 1990, pp. 169-74. The English translation was published in Gilbert Achcar. ed., The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, Verso, London 1999, pp. 225 - 232. > > >> On Jan 27, 2020, at 4:42 PM, John W. wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 5:49 PM Karen Aram via Peace wrote: >> >> Carl and David >> >> On the topic of racism, I suggest in addition to the African American scholars often referred to by you both, as well as CLR James, Ernst Mandel. In his brief book, ?The Meaning of World War Two,? recommended by David, it refers to the true origins of the war, and he clarifies the use of racism not as the ?cause of war,? but as a tool to vilify those we choose to victimize. >> >> I'm a bit confused. If war is used as a tool to vilify, to victimize (or dare I say exterminate?) how is that racial victimization not the cause, or a cause, of the war? What's the distinction? >> >> >> I was watching a British series the other evening, dated 2004, dealing with WW2, and Nazi occupation, where the German Commander is saying, ?the reason for this war is we need to get rid of the Jews.? >> >> Only when we understand the true cause are we able to create and implement a solution. >> >> The "true cause".... The reason? In this example, getting rid of the Jews? Is that not the true cause? >> >> >> >>> On Jan 26, 2020, at 13:33, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> I liked Carl?s statement related to the NYT article making the point ?both Trump and Sanders as populists is opposition to neoliberal policies.? >>> It?s too bad Americans don?t recognize ?class,? as the great divide recognizing the shared grievances, and come together to reject our one Party system of neoliberalism, rather than fighting one another, for which our ruling elites have set us up. >>> >>> >>>> On Jan 25, 2020, at 12:31, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >>>> >>>> News from Neptune #448 >>>> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF951fpWbV0 >>>> A "What War?" edition >>>> >>>> A list of links to items referenced on the show. >>>> >>>> Paul Street's articles on CounterPunch >>>> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/paul-street/ >>>> >>>> Rob Urie's articles on CounterPunch >>>> https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3abre/ >>>> >>>> Benjamin Studebaker & Aimee Terese's show "What's Left?" >>>> https://soundcloud.com/whatisleftpod/ -- list of recent episodes >>>> https://twitter.com/whatisleftpod -- Twitter account >>>> https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:595199712/sounds.rss -- RSS feed >>>> >>>> Recent Jimmy Dore Show pieces about Elizabeth Warren >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5JWIiVMj6g >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vrzgVczc1Y -- CNN Conflates #MeToo & Warren's Attack On Bernie >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmyc--yEjHk -- Audio Confirms Warren's Attack On Bernie As Predicted! >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsXBm7aPPqA -- Progressive Destroys CNN's Garbage Bernie/Warren Reporting >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ_xK4_dpxw -- Bernie's Poll Numbers RISE After Warren Attack >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UjRmQ5-CE -- Meghan McCain Twists Liz Warren Like Pretzel >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5X0OReq2IY -- NYTimes Blatantly Lying About Bernie/Warren >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQTWM1_qIcI -- Bernie/Warren Smackdown Start To Finish >>>> >>>> Paul Street on "A Letter From Iowa" >>>> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/a-letter-from-iowa/ >>>> >>>> Tucker Carlson Tonight >>>> https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlTLHnxSVuIzrARlmz9oCfQEF08UV-v-E >>>> >>>> New York Times Endorses Both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar for Democratic Nominee >>>> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html >>>> >>>> Daniele Albertazzi & Duncan McDonnell define populism >>>> http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf >>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103230/http://www.palgrave.com/resources/sample-chapters/9780230013490_sample.pdf >>>> >>>> Populism >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism >>>> >>>> Katie Miranda's Elizabeth Warren as contortionist >>>> https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/lizloz.jpg >>>> https://mondoweiss.net/2020/01/warrens-praise-and-occasional-criticism-of-israel-reflects-liberal-establishment-thinking/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Jimmy Dore shows Krystal Ball confusing a Clinton advisor >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GT2EOL13Wo >>>> >>>> Two suggestions on how to defeat New York Times' limited reading: >>>> >>>> 1. Turn off Javascript when reading pages from nytimes.com. This is easy to do in Firefox with the uMatrix browser add-on. This will also make all browsing faster. >>>> >>>> 2. Delete nytimes.com cookies after you no longer have any nytimes.com windows/tabs open. This is easy to do in Firefox with the Cookie AutoDelete add-on. >>>> >>>> These add-ons might work in other browsers as well, but I only recommend free software (software we're free to run, inspect, share, and modify). So I recommend Firefox. >>>> >>>> Elizabeth Bruenig on "Bernie Will Have to Fight Dirty" >>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sanders-biden-2020-corruption.html >>>> >>>> Elizabeth Bruenig 'tweet' on her young child >>>> https://twitter.com/ebruenig/status/1221067805698723843 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> DNC lawyer Bruce Spiva to the court in the lawsuit started by the Bernie Sanders 2016 supporters against the DNC on how much power the DNC has to determine their own corporate representative (also known as the Democratic Party candidate for US President) >>>> http://jampac.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/042517cw2.pdf >>>> >>>> Tulsi Gabbard suing Hillary Clinton on Aaron Mat?'s "Pushback with Aaron Mat?" >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0BhVyWLBfQ >>>> >>>> Asad Abukhalili ("The Angry Arab") twitter.com posts on corporate media and corporate social media misrepresentation of the Iraqi protests against continued US occupation: >>>> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1221131053609312256 -- "This crowd in Baghdad for example has been more circulated on social media than scenes of the hundreds of thousands in the anti-US protests of yesterday." >>>> >>>> https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1220918811517284352 -- "A million people took to the streets in Iraq again act US occupation but NYT managed to cite five people who are in favor of US occupation. Lousy journalism. ??I reject this kind of protest ? it is an abuse of the American and foreign presence,??" >>>> >>>> A followup from Hussain Bakar says the BBC is following suit in not covering the Baghdad protests properly either: >>>> >>>> https://twitter.com/HussainBakar1/status/1220920564941873153 -- "To some extent, same thing with the BBC too. A correspondent spoke about people who still yearn for the US' presence." >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Aaron Mat? interviews Scott Ritter >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK2kc0eOGS4 >>>> >>>> Jim Kavanagh on "Aftermath: The Iran War After the Soleimani Assassination" >>>> https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/aftermath-the-iran-war-after-the-soleimani-assassination/ >>>> >>>> The Grayzone >>>> https://thegrayzone.com/ -- Main site >>>> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEXR8pRTkE2vFeJePNe9UcQ/videos -- Videos >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Glen Ford on "Throw Off the Dead Weight of the Democratic Party" (from February 11, 2016) >>>> https://blackagendareport.com/node/22770 >>>>> ?Blacks haven?t transformed the Democratic Party by our overwhelming presence. >>>>> Instead, the Party has transformed us ? and overwhelmed our radical politics.? The >>>>> best result that can occur from the Sanders campaign would be that it leads to a >>>>> split in the Democratic Party, and an end to the Rich Man?s Duopoly. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> All pages on the wsws.org site mentioning "1619 project" >>>> https://www.wsws.org/en/search.html?sectionId=&maxResults=100&phrase=1619+project&submit=Search >>>> >>>> Tom Mackaman on "An interview with historian Clayborne Carson on the New York Times? 1619 Project" >>>> https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/15/clay-j15.html >>>> >>>> "Higher Ground" program on WEFT >>>> http://new.weft.org/publicaffairs/higherground.html >>>> >>>> Adolph Reed, Jr. on "What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like" >>>> https://nonsite.org/editorial/what-materialist-black-political-history-actually-looks-like >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> J.B. Nicholson's notes >>>> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2020-January/051809.html >>>> https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace/2020-January/015648.html >>>> >>>> -J >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Peace mailing list >>>> Peace at lists.chambana.net >>>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Peace mailing list >>> Peace at lists.chambana.net >>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > From carl at newsfromneptune.com Tue Jan 28 05:06:51 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. 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Nicholson) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:06:08 -0600 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #503 notes Message-ID: AWARE on the Air #503 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTHaUeXsj4 Upcoming events: AWARE & ANSWER anti-war protest 2020-02-01 from 2PM-4PM on the corner of Church & Neil streets, Champaign, Illinois ANSWER teach-in 2020-02-08 at 1PM Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) in Urbana, Illinois -- https://www.ucimc.org/ Early election for UIUC campus March 2, 2020 Election Day March 17, 2020 Notes: Maj. Danny Sjursen on "The Impeachment Show: Asking All the Wrong Questions on Ukraine" https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/01/26/the-impeachment-show-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-on-ukraine/ Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker's "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. 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Barbara Lee's (CA-13) bill) https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-house-will-vote-lee-khanna-iran-bills-week-january-27 Carol Ammons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ammons https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/106935/carol-ammons -- summary of some of her votes Ranked voting (ranked-choice voting) and methods of counting such votes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting -J From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Jan 29 17:52:06 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:52:06 -0800 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #503 notes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Correction: It was not AWARE that had the meeting with Carol Ammons in relation to her vote on BDS, it was the local Green Party. Granted the Officers of the Prairie Greens are the same people in both organizations, but not all. Carol and her advisors did request this meeting with the Prairie Greens as a result of some with AWARE, notably Carl calling her out on her vote on the ?News from Neptune? as well as the "AWARE" programs. > On Jan 28, 2020, at 18:06, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: > > AWARE on the Air #503 > Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTHaUeXsj4 > > Upcoming events: > > AWARE & ANSWER anti-war protest > 2020-02-01 from 2PM-4PM on the corner of Church & Neil streets, Champaign, Illinois > > ANSWER teach-in > 2020-02-08 at 1PM Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) in Urbana, Illinois -- https://www.ucimc.org/ > > Early election for UIUC campus > March 2, 2020 > > Election Day > March 17, 2020 > > > > Notes: > > Maj. Danny Sjursen on "The Impeachment Show: Asking All the Wrong Questions on Ukraine" > https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/01/26/the-impeachment-show-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-on-ukraine/ > > Carol D. Leonnig and > Philip Rucker's "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America" > https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/youre-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-inside-trumps-stunning-tirade-against-generals/2020/01/16/d6dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html > > > > > Betsy Dirksen Londrigan > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_13th_congressional_district > > Tammy Duckworth > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth > > Stefanie Smith > https://www.stefanie2020.com/ > > Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee > > Rodney Davis > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Davis_(politician) > > > > > Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) on voting during the week of January 27 on bills to stop funding an unauthorized war with Iran and to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) (Rep. Barbara Lee's (CA-13) bill) > https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-house-will-vote-lee-khanna-iran-bills-week-january-27 > > Carol Ammons > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ammons > https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/106935/carol-ammons -- summary of some of her votes > > Ranked voting (ranked-choice voting) and methods of counting such votes > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting > > -J > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From carl at newsfromneptune.com Thu Jan 30 00:04:30 2020 From: carl at newsfromneptune.com (C. G. Estabrook) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:04:30 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Brexit Message-ID: <48D0CFE0-1381-4C80-B1C2-8FD3F954DD9E@newsfromneptune.com> ?There is a battle going on, in the West and elsewhere. It is globalism against populism. And you may loathe populism, but I?ll tell you a funny thing, it?s becoming very popular.? --Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party since 2019 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England until today globalism = an ideology based on the belief that goods ought to be able to cross national borders unfettered ("free trade and free access to markets"); a socio-economic system controlled by capitalist firms rather than national governments. populism = an ideology that "pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ?others? who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity, and voice.? ?CGE From jbw292002 at gmail.com Thu Jan 30 01:22:33 2020 From: jbw292002 at gmail.com (John W.) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:22:33 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Brexit In-Reply-To: <48D0CFE0-1381-4C80-B1C2-8FD3F954DD9E@newsfromneptune.com> References: <48D0CFE0-1381-4C80-B1C2-8FD3F954DD9E@newsfromneptune.com> Message-ID: I'm curious whose definition of "populism" this is. On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 6:05 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > ?There is a battle going on, in the West and elsewhere. It is globalism > against populism. And you may loathe populism, but I?ll tell you a funny > thing, it?s becoming very popular.? > --Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party since 2019 and Member of the > European Parliament (MEP) for South East England until today > > globalism = an ideology based on the belief that goods ought to be able to > cross national borders unfettered ("free trade and free access to > markets"); a socio-economic system controlled by capitalist firms rather > than national governments. > > populism = an ideology that "pits a virtuous and homogeneous people > against a set of elites and dangerous ?others? who are together depicted as > depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, > values, prosperity, identity, and voice.? > > ?CGE > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And you may loathe populism, but I?ll tell you a funny thing, it?s becoming very popular.? > --Nigel Farage, leader of the Brexit Party since 2019 and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England until today > > globalism = an ideology based on the belief that goods ought to be able to cross national borders unfettered ("free trade and free access to markets"); a socio-economic system controlled by capitalist firms rather than national governments. > > populism = an ideology that "pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous ?others? who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity, and voice.? > > ?CGE > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Thu Jan 30 17:34:50 2020 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:34:50 -0600 Subject: [Peace] Come live in a place you love! 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Name: 20171218_164733.jpeg Type: image/jpeg Size: 92154 bytes Desc: not available URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Jan 30 18:13:54 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 10:13:54 -0800 Subject: [Peace] AWARE on the Air #503 notes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Crosstalk has Brian Becker the Director of ANSWER on this weeks program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILRjIf03t0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2wqLnTlQR-XdsrJz-Ym-5Q5sGgrGF73fiR1S7VVfAeGnbW23tt4ssviYI > On Jan 29, 2020, at 09:52, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: > > Correction: It was not AWARE that had the meeting with Carol Ammons in relation to her vote on BDS, it was the local Green Party. Granted the Officers of the Prairie Greens are the same people in both organizations, but not all. > > Carol and her advisors did request this meeting with the Prairie Greens as a result of some with AWARE, notably Carl calling her out on her vote on the ?News from Neptune? as well as the "AWARE" programs. > > >> On Jan 28, 2020, at 18:06, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >> >> AWARE on the Air #503 >> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTHaUeXsj4 >> >> Upcoming events: >> >> AWARE & ANSWER anti-war protest >> 2020-02-01 from 2PM-4PM on the corner of Church & Neil streets, Champaign, Illinois >> >> ANSWER teach-in >> 2020-02-08 at 1PM Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) in Urbana, Illinois -- https://www.ucimc.org/ >> >> Early election for UIUC campus >> March 2, 2020 >> >> Election Day >> March 17, 2020 >> >> >> >> Notes: >> >> Maj. Danny Sjursen on "The Impeachment Show: Asking All the Wrong Questions on Ukraine" >> https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/01/26/the-impeachment-show-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-on-ukraine/ >> >> Carol D. Leonnig and >> Philip Rucker's "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America" >> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/youre-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-inside-trumps-stunning-tirade-against-generals/2020/01/16/d6dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html >> >> >> >> >> Betsy Dirksen Londrigan >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_13th_congressional_district >> >> Tammy Duckworth >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth >> >> Stefanie Smith >> https://www.stefanie2020.com/ >> >> Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee >> >> Rodney Davis >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Davis_(politician) >> >> >> >> >> Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) on voting during the week of January 27 on bills to stop funding an unauthorized war with Iran and to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) (Rep. Barbara Lee's (CA-13) bill) >> https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-house-will-vote-lee-khanna-iran-bills-week-january-27 >> >> Carol Ammons >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ammons >> https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/106935/carol-ammons -- summary of some of her votes >> >> Ranked voting (ranked-choice voting) and methods of counting such votes >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting >> >> -J >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace From brussel at illinois.edu Thu Jan 30 22:04:50 2020 From: brussel at illinois.edu (Brussel, Morton K) Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:04:50 +0000 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air #503 notes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9C6CC31E-A5DB-48C9-8B88-4C6F8E7C0C92@illinois.edu> The host can be annoying. Where did they dig up the middle guy? Becker was grinding his teeth wishing to comment more on what was said. > On Jan 30, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote: > > > > Crosstalk has Brian Becker the Director of ANSWER on this weeks program. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILRjIf03t0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2wqLnTlQR-XdsrJz-Ym-5Q5sGgrGF73fiR1S7VVfAeGnbW23tt4ssviYI > > >> On Jan 29, 2020, at 09:52, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: >> >> Correction: It was not AWARE that had the meeting with Carol Ammons in relation to her vote on BDS, it was the local Green Party. Granted the Officers of the Prairie Greens are the same people in both organizations, but not all. >> >> Carol and her advisors did request this meeting with the Prairie Greens as a result of some with AWARE, notably Carl calling her out on her vote on the ?News from Neptune? as well as the "AWARE" programs. >> >> >>> On Jan 28, 2020, at 18:06, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >>> >>> AWARE on the Air #503 >>> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTHaUeXsj4 >>> >>> Upcoming events: >>> >>> AWARE & ANSWER anti-war protest >>> 2020-02-01 from 2PM-4PM on the corner of Church & Neil streets, Champaign, Illinois >>> >>> ANSWER teach-in >>> 2020-02-08 at 1PM Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) in Urbana, Illinois -- https://www.ucimc.org/ >>> >>> Early election for UIUC campus >>> March 2, 2020 >>> >>> Election Day >>> March 17, 2020 >>> >>> >>> >>> Notes: >>> >>> Maj. Danny Sjursen on "The Impeachment Show: Asking All the Wrong Questions on Ukraine" >>> https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/01/26/the-impeachment-show-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-on-ukraine/ >>> >>> Carol D. Leonnig and >>> Philip Rucker's "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America" >>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/youre-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-inside-trumps-stunning-tirade-against-generals/2020/01/16/d6dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Betsy Dirksen Londrigan >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_13th_congressional_district >>> >>> Tammy Duckworth >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth >>> >>> Stefanie Smith >>> https://www.stefanie2020.com/ >>> >>> Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee >>> >>> Rodney Davis >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Davis_(politician) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) on voting during the week of January 27 on bills to stop funding an unauthorized war with Iran and to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) (Rep. Barbara Lee's (CA-13) bill) >>> https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-house-will-vote-lee-khanna-iran-bills-week-january-27 >>> >>> Carol Ammons >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ammons >>> https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/106935/carol-ammons -- summary of some of her votes >>> >>> Ranked voting (ranked-choice voting) and methods of counting such votes >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting >>> >>> -J >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Peace mailing list >>> Peace at lists.chambana.net >>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss From moboct1 at aim.com Fri Jan 31 14:32:49 2020 From: moboct1 at aim.com (Mildred O'brien) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:32:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air #503 notes In-Reply-To: <9C6CC31E-A5DB-48C9-8B88-4C6F8E7C0C92@illinois.edu> References: <9C6CC31E-A5DB-48C9-8B88-4C6F8E7C0C92@illinois.edu> Message-ID: <256215566.973382.1580481169381@mail.yahoo.com> I was amused by Ted Rall's reply to the question how to get our military out of the Middle East (by air, etc).? It reminded me of the burning question when it looked like U.S. wasn't winning the war on Vietnam: "how do we get out of Vietnam?."? Gene McCarthy's answer was "by sea, the same way we got there."? Pundits slammed him for being cynical, but in the end that's exactly how we did get out. Midge -----Original Message----- From: Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss To: Karen Aram Cc: Peace Discuss ; J.B. Nicholson ; Brussel, Morton K ; Peace ; C. G. Estabrook Sent: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 4:05 pm Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] AWARE on the Air #503 notes The host can be annoying. Where did they dig up the middle guy? Becker was grinding his teeth wishing to comment more on what was said. > On Jan 30, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss wrote: > > > > Crosstalk has Brian Becker the Director of ANSWER on this weeks program. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILRjIf03t0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2wqLnTlQR-XdsrJz-Ym-5Q5sGgrGF73fiR1S7VVfAeGnbW23tt4ssviYI > > >> On Jan 29, 2020, at 09:52, Karen Aram via Peace wrote: >> >> Correction: It was not AWARE that had the meeting with Carol Ammons in relation to her vote on BDS, it was the local Green Party. Granted the Officers of the Prairie Greens are the same people in both organizations, but not all. >> >> Carol and her advisors did request this meeting with the Prairie Greens as a result of some with AWARE, notably Carl calling her out on her vote on the ?News from Neptune? as well as the "AWARE" programs. >> >> >>> On Jan 28, 2020, at 18:06, J.B. Nicholson via Peace wrote: >>> >>> AWARE on the Air #503 >>> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTHaUeXsj4 >>> >>> Upcoming events: >>> >>> AWARE & ANSWER anti-war protest >>> 2020-02-01 from 2PM-4PM on the corner of Church & Neil streets, Champaign, Illinois >>> >>> ANSWER teach-in >>> 2020-02-08 at 1PM Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) in Urbana, Illinois -- https://www.ucimc.org/ >>> >>> Early election for UIUC campus >>> March 2, 2020 >>> >>> Election Day >>> March 17, 2020 >>> >>> >>> >>> Notes: >>> >>> Maj. Danny Sjursen on "The Impeachment Show: Asking All the Wrong Questions on Ukraine" >>> https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/01/26/the-impeachment-show-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-on-ukraine/ >>> >>> Carol D. Leonnig and >>> Philip Rucker's "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America" >>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/youre-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-inside-trumps-stunning-tirade-against-generals/2020/01/16/d6dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Betsy Dirksen Londrigan >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_13th_congressional_district >>> >>> Tammy Duckworth >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth >>> >>> Stefanie Smith >>> https://www.stefanie2020.com/ >>> >>> Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee >>> >>> Rodney Davis >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Davis_(politician) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) on voting during the week of January 27 on bills to stop funding an unauthorized war with Iran and to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) (Rep. Barbara Lee's (CA-13) bill) >>> https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-house-will-vote-lee-khanna-iran-bills-week-january-27 >>> >>> Carol Ammons >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ammons >>> https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/106935/carol-ammons -- summary of some of her votes >>> >>> Ranked voting (ranked-choice voting) and methods of counting such votes >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting >>> >>> -J >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Peace mailing list >>> Peace at lists.chambana.net >>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss _______________________________________________ Peace-discuss mailing list Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Jan 31 14:49:59 2020 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:49:59 -0800 Subject: [Peace] [Peace-discuss] AWARE on the Air #503 notes In-Reply-To: <256215566.973382.1580481169381@mail.yahoo.com> References: <9C6CC31E-A5DB-48C9-8B88-4C6F8E7C0C92@illinois.edu> <256215566.973382.1580481169381@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Midge Yes, loved it. How to get out of the Mideast, ?go to the airport, board a plane and leave.? Though McCarthy?s response is even better. > On Jan 31, 2020, at 06:32, Mildred O'brien wrote: > > I was amused by Ted Rall's reply to the question how to get our military out of the Middle East (by air, etc). It reminded me of the burning question when it looked like U.S. wasn't winning the war on Vietnam: "how do we get out of Vietnam?." Gene McCarthy's answer was "by sea, the same way we got there." Pundits slammed him for being cynical, but in the end that's exactly how we did get out. > > Midge > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss > To: Karen Aram > Cc: Peace Discuss ; J.B. Nicholson ; Brussel, Morton K ; Peace ; C. G. Estabrook > Sent: Thu, Jan 30, 2020 4:05 pm > Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] AWARE on the Air #503 notes > > The host can be annoying. Where did they dig up the middle guy? Becker was grinding his teeth wishing to comment more on what was said. > > > On Jan 30, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss > wrote: > > > > > > > > Crosstalk has Brian Becker the Director of ANSWER on this weeks program. > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zILRjIf03t0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2wqLnTlQR-XdsrJz-Ym-5Q5sGgrGF73fiR1S7VVfAeGnbW23tt4ssviYI > > > > > > >> On Jan 29, 2020, at 09:52, Karen Aram via Peace > wrote: > >> > >> Correction: It was not AWARE that had the meeting with Carol Ammons in relation to her vote on BDS, it was the local Green Party. Granted the Officers of the Prairie Greens are the same people in both organizations, but not all. > >> > >> Carol and her advisors did request this meeting with the Prairie Greens as a result of some with AWARE, notably Carl calling her out on her vote on the ?News from Neptune? as well as the "AWARE" programs. > >> > >> > >>> On Jan 28, 2020, at 18:06, J.B. Nicholson via Peace > wrote: > >>> > >>> AWARE on the Air #503 > >>> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTHaUeXsj4 > >>> > >>> Upcoming events: > >>> > >>> AWARE & ANSWER anti-war protest > >>> 2020-02-01 from 2PM-4PM on the corner of Church & Neil streets, Champaign, Illinois > >>> > >>> ANSWER teach-in > >>> 2020-02-08 at 1PM Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) in Urbana, Illinois -- https://www.ucimc.org/ > >>> > >>> Early election for UIUC campus > >>> March 2, 2020 > >>> > >>> Election Day > >>> March 17, 2020 > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Notes: > >>> > >>> Maj. Danny Sjursen on "The Impeachment Show: Asking All the Wrong Questions on Ukraine" > >>> https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2020/01/26/the-impeachment-show-asking-all-the-wrong-questions-on-ukraine/ > >>> > >>> Carol D. Leonnig and > >>> Philip Rucker's "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America" > >>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/youre-a-bunch-of-dopes-and-babies-inside-trumps-stunning-tirade-against-generals/2020/01/16/d6dbb8a6-387e-11ea-bb7b-265f4554af6d_story.html > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Betsy Dirksen Londrigan > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_13th_congressional_district > >>> > >>> Tammy Duckworth > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth > >>> > >>> Stefanie Smith > >>> https://www.stefanie2020.com/ > >>> > >>> Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Congressional_Campaign_Committee > >>> > >>> Rodney Davis > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Davis_ (politician) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) on voting during the week of January 27 on bills to stop funding an unauthorized war with Iran and to repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) (Rep. Barbara Lee's (CA-13) bill) > >>> https://khanna.house.gov/media/press-releases/release-house-will-vote-lee-khanna-iran-bills-week-january-27 > >>> > >>> Carol Ammons > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ammons > >>> https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/106935/carol-ammons -- summary of some of her votes > >>> > >>> Ranked voting (ranked-choice voting) and methods of counting such votes > >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting > >>> > >>> -J > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Peace mailing list > >>> Peace at lists.chambana.net > >>> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Peace mailing list > >> Peace at lists.chambana.net > >> https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Peace-discuss mailing list > > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Peace-discuss mailing list > Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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