[Peace] AWARE on the Air #500 notes

[J.B. Nicholson]

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