From jbn at forestfield.org Thu Apr 1 02:34:59 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:34:59 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=3W_9H0a9LBY -- (28m 58s) "War Against Italian Fed-Ex_Amazon Logistics Workers - Police & Government Repression Attacks Escalate" https://youtube.com/watch?v=u-n1Neu5qwM -- (1h 5m 22s) "The AFL-CIO, NED, Solidarity Center & US Labor Imperialism With Kim Scipes" Grayzone https://youtube.com/watch?v=qZkxaEC1xjY -- (28m 52s) "Max Blumenthal debunks US accusation of China's 'genocide' against Uighurs" https://youtube.com/watch?v=0D77XLKWTPA -- (1h 4m 40s) "Inside China, Xinjiang, and the US empire's war drive - with Daniel Dumbrill" RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=jkA8RQuAaOk -- (11m 13s) "NATO Bombs on Yugoslavia | Short Doc" From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Apr 1 21:24:48 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 16:24:48 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Kwame Ture interview (1995) so relevant today Message-ID: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eM4rP-qHMc From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Apr 4 17:50:19 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2021 12:50:19 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: [New post] Tankie, Conspiracy Theorist, And Other Pejorative Tools Of Narrative Control References: <139971992.9728.0@wordpress.com> Message-ID: > > New post on Caitlin Johnstone > > > Tankie, Conspiracy Theorist, And Other Pejorative Tools Of Narrative?Control by Caitlin Johnstone > Bloomberg pundit Noah Smith had a very revealing interaction on Twitter the other day that I've been meaning to write about ever since. > > It began with Smith sharing a screenshot of an article by journalist Yasha Levine which condemns US imperialist escalations against China and ties them to the sudden spike in anti-Asian hate crimes we've been seeing. Smith shared his screenshot with the caption, "I hold by my prediction that the American Left is going to split into A) social democrats, and B) foreign-policy-obsessed pseudo-tankies." > > "How do we stop the B group from driving the narrative?" one of Smith's followers asked him. > > "Well, first we teach everyone the word 'tankie'!" Smith replied, with a Substack article he authored explaining that any leftist who opposes western imperialist agendas against China should be branded with that label and dismissed. > > Well, first we teach everyone the word "tankie"!https://t.co/zzMSygnasw > ? Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) March 29, 2021 > Which is just so refreshing in its honesty, really. It's been obvious for ages that such pejoratives are being used by imperialists to control the narrative in a way that benefits ruling power structures, but it's not often you'll have a mainstream narrative manager come right out and say that this is exactly what they are trying to do. > > Smith's admission that he is training his audience to bleat the word "tankie" at any leftist who is "obsessed" with a tiny trivial matter like US foreign policy in order to control the dominant foreign policy narrative is born out by the rest of his Twitter activity, which sees him repeating that word constantly and weaponizing it against anyone who expresses skepticism of the empire's official foreign policy narratives. > > "Tankie" used to be a term which referred specifically to British communists who supported the Soviet Union, but under the facilitation of narrative managers like Smith it's enjoying a mainstream resurrection in which it is commonly weaponized against anyone to the left of Bernie Sanders who opposes US imperialist agendas. I wrote against anti-imperialism for years without anyone ever applying that pejorative to me, but now it comes up on a near-daily basis. I haven't changed the basics of my beliefs or my approach to anti-imperialism, but the widespread use of "tankie" as a pejorative against people like me most certainly has changed. > > It joins the ranks of famous weaponized pejoratives like "Russian bot", "CCP propagandist", "Assadist", and the one size fits all perennial favorite "conspiracy theorist" in labels which can be applied to ensure the dismissal of anyone who voices skepticism of narratives that are being promoted by known liars to facilitate the agendas of murderous psychopaths. Another new crowd favorite is "genocide denier", a label that gets applied to anyone who points out the glaring plot holes in the imperial Uyghur narrative which narrative managers are overjoyed about being able to use because it lets them equate skepticism of a geostrategically significant US narrative with Nazism. > > What these pejoratives accomplish, as Noah Smith is well aware, is the ability to inoculate the mainstream herd from the wrongthink of anyone to whom that label has been applied. That way they never have to engage the argument or the evidence that gets laid out contradicting the official imperial line; as long as they can convince enough people to accept their pejorative as legitimate, they have a magical phrase they can utter to dispel any anti-imperialist argument which appears anywhere in the information ecosystem. > > ASPI, Australian think tank funded by weapons makers & states including the US, just put out a hilarious report attacking @TheGrayzoneNews ' Xinjiang coverage. > > ASPI doesn't challenge a single fact. It instead tallies Chinese diplomats retweeting us. (https://t.co/DBCsS4N9BJ ) > > ? Aaron Mat? (@aaronjmate) April 3, 2021 > This is a major part of an imperial narrative manager's job these days: smearing anti-imperialists and critical thinkers as untrustworthy. The debate is never to be engaged and counter-arguments are never to be made; why engage in a debate you will probably lose when you can simply explain to everyone why nobody should listen to the other side? > > A perfect example of this would be the recent smear piece the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) put out on The Grayzone with the title "Strange bedfellows on Xinjiang: The CCP, fringe media and US social media platforms ". > > As explained in a thread by Grayzone's Aaron Mat?, the government-funded and arms industry-funded think tank ASPI makes no effort in its report to dispute or debunk any of the reporting that The Grayzone has been putting out on China or on anything else. Rather, they simply work to associate the outlet with the Chinese government by citing incidents in which Chinese officials shared Grayzone articles on social media. By fallaciously associating The Grayzone with the Chinese government, narrative managers now have a weapon which enables them to dismiss the outlet as "CCP propaganda". > > As anyone who has been active in anti-imperialist online discourse knows, this is an extremely common tactic which narrative managers and their indoctrinated herd use to dismiss questions, criticisms and evidence which is inconvenient to the US-centralized imperial war machine. Try countering their claims with a well-sourced article full of robust argumentation and solid evidence, and they'll dismiss you with a "Ha ha, THAT outlet? That outlet is propaganda!" Because it came from an anti-imperialist outlet like The Grayzone or Consortium News instead of an outlet which never fails to support US military agendas like?The New York Times . > > Attacking the Source: Establishment Loyalists? Favorite Online Tactic https://t.co/d9spksuuFA > ? Consortium News (@Consortiumnews) December 19, 2019 > But it's a completely ridiculous tactic if you think about it. All they're really saying is "You can't use that anti-imperialist outlet to substantiate your anti-imperialist position! You can only use the pro-US outlets which have helped deceive westerners into backing every US war!" It's also logically fallacious ; attacking the source instead of the argument is what people do when they can't attack the argument. > > Citing an empire-targeted government sharing an anti-imperialist article as evidence that that government is tied to that outlet in some way is an equally absurd argument; obviously governments are going to cite evidence and arguments which favor them, and the imperialist western media isn't going to be publishing such evidence or arguments. The fact that western anti-imperialists and nations like Russia and China both oppose western imperialism doesn't mean western anti-imperialists work for Russ or China, it means those groups all oppose western imperialism for their own reasons. Since western imperialism is the most murderous and oppressive force on this planet, it's to be expected that multiple different groups will oppose it. > > Pay attention to the way imperial narrative managers try to use smears and pejoratives to file away anti-imperialists into a "don't listen to the things this person says" box, and help others pay attention to it too. This is no more legitimate an argument than the Wizard of Oz yelling "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain," and it should be treated with no more respect than that. > > _____________________ > > New book: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix . > > The best way to get around the internet censors and make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list for at my website or on Substack , which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. My work is entirely reader-supported , so if you enjoyed this piece please consider sharing it around, liking me on Facebook , following my antics on Twitter , or throwing some money into my tip jar on Ko-fi , Patreon or Paypal . If you want to read more you can buy my books . For more info on who I am, where I stand, and what I?m trying to do with this platform, click here . 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Apr 4 20:14:50 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2021 15:14:50 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Ajamu Baraka Interview on the need to decolonize the US Message-ID: https://radiofreesunroot.com/2021/03/09/the-vital-need-to-decolonize-feat-ajamu-baraka/ From karenaram at hotmail.com Tue Apr 6 01:32:02 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 20:32:02 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Fwd: Japan lines up with US against China over Taiwan References: Message-ID: > > Japan lines up with US against China over Taiwan > Ben McGrath > 21 hours ago > > > > > > The United States and Japan are preparing to escalate the confrontation with Beijing over Taiwan, which will be discussed in the upcoming summit between US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Originally slated for April 9, the meeting?Biden?s first in-person meeting with a foreign leader since coming to office?will now take place a week later. > > > Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force [Credit: Destroyer Squadron 15] > Reportedly, the two leaders will release a joint statement on Taiwan?the first since 1969 when Richard Nixon and Eisaku Sato declared Taiwan was important for Japan?s security. On Sunday, Suga pledged to work closely with Washington in ratcheting up its pressure on Beijing. ?It is important for Japan and the United States to work together and maintain deterrence to create an environment in which Taiwan and China can find a peaceful solution,? he stated. > > The talk of ?a peaceful solution? seeks to mask the fact that Tokyo is trying to justify ?deterrence??that is, a military build-up by Japan and the US targeting China. Moreover, it is Washington, not Beijing that is deliberately undermining the ?One China? framework, which has maintained a shaky peace in the Taiwan Strait since 1979. > > During last month?s ?two plus-two? meeting involving US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken with their Japanese counterparts, Taiwan was a major focus of discussion. Austin raised the possibility, with Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi, of the Japanese military being deployed in the event of a US or Taiwanese clash with Beijing. > > Kishi told Austin that Tokyo would review the possibility of dispatching troops ?given the strait?s geographical proximity and the possibility of an armed conflict there, affecting the safety of Japanese citizens,? according to the Kyodo news agency, despite that being a clear violation of Japan?s post-World War II constitution. Even under Japan?s 2015 ?collective self-defense? security legislation, Tokyo would have to claim that conflict over Taiwan jeopardized Japan. > > > > Foreword to the German edition of David North?s?Quarter Century of War > Johannes Stern, 5 October 2020 > After three decades of US-led wars, the outbreak of a third world war, which would be fought with nuclear weapons, is an imminent and concrete danger. > > > Last Thursday, Taiwan?s representative in Japan, Hsieh Chang-ting, called for Japan to play a larger role in confronting Beijing, suggesting that it enact legislation similar to the US 1979 Taiwan Relations Act, which authorizes US arms sales to Taiwan and military action against supposed Chinese aggression. He declared: ?The current enemy [of China] is the United States. Japan will be next? If Taiwan is unified by China, Japan would have to face China directly.? > > Beijing?s hawkish Global Times hit back in an opinion piece on March 30, warning: ?If Japan makes any substantive move that impairs China?s national interests on the Taiwan question, China will take countermeasures against it. Japan?s loss will sharply outweigh its gain if it ties itself on the US anti-China chariot and sows discord across the Taiwan Straits.? > > Among the other accusations directed at Beijing, Washington and Tokyo are seizing on Beijing?s new coast guard law, which took effect in February, in an attempt to paint Beijing as an immediate threat to Japan, and thereby provide the justification for Japanese military intervention over Taiwan. However, the law is itself a response to numerous and increasingly belligerent US provocations during the Trump administration, including calling into question the ?One China? policy, which states that Taiwan is a part of China and to which Washington formally agrees. > > Beijing?s law was drawn up toward the end of 2020. It allows the coast guard to use weaponry in territory Beijing claims, risking a clash with Japanese vessels around the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea. Biden and Suga are also set to reconfirm that the US-Japan Security Treaty covers the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. > > The US and Japan are preparing joint military drills focused on the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, including the possibility that exercises could take place on two of the uninhabited rocky outcrops, which would undoubtedly further antagonize China. In 2014, the US, for the first time, openly sided with Japan over the territorial dispute. > > Under guidelines updated in 2015 under the Obama administration, the Japanese military would play the leading role in a military response to China, while the US would provide support, including transporting Japanese troops into potential battles. > > Washington has fraudulently painted the confrontation with Beijing as concerning ?human rights? and the need to maintain a ?free and open? Indo-Pacific. While again seizing on Hong Kong and Xinjiang to distract from the real issues, on March 25 Biden bluntly stated the motivating fear in Washington, that China would eclipse the US economically and strategically. > > ?China has an overall goal, and I don?t criticize them for the goal, but they have an overall goal to become the leading country in the world, the wealthiest country in the world and the most powerful country in the world. That?s not going to happen on my watch because the United States are (sic) going to continue to grow and expand,? Biden declared. > > Biden, along with both the Democratic and Republican parties, is seeking to whip up an anti-China atmosphere over Taiwan, Hong Kong and Xinjiang in order to justify military intervention that would quickly grow into a devastating conflict with another nuclear-armed country. > > The US and Japan are directly responsible for transforming Taiwan into one of the world?s most dangerous flashpoints. Japan annexed Taiwan in 1895, after defeating China in the First Sino-Japanese War, recognizing that the island was a strategic base for its broader ambitions in Southeast Asia and the Chinese mainland. After a half century of brutal Japanese colonial rule, the island was returned to China following Japan?s defeat in World War II. > > When the 1949 Chinese Revolution overthrew the Kuomintang (KMT) regime headed by the US-backed dictator Chiang Kai-shek, he fled with his forces to Taiwan. The repressive KMT regime on Taiwan was protected by the US navy and allowed to posture as the legitimate government of all China. In the lengthy negotiations following US President Nixon?s 1972 visit to Beijing, the status of Taiwan was the most fraught obstacle to establishing diplomatic relations. While Washington finally agreed to the One China Policy, signaling that Beijing, not Taipei, was the legitimate government of all China, the Taiwan Relations Act ensured Beijing had only nominal jurisdiction over Taiwan. > > By forging closer ties with Taiwan against China, Japan and the US are moving toward the junking of the One China policy, which has been the bedrock of diplomatic relations with China for more than four decades and, in doing so, setting course for an inevitable clash involving the world?s three largest economies. > > READ MORE > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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(Image credit: Flickr/Seattle City Council) Ernest Lou, a Seattle business executive and long-time supporter of the Democratic Party, filed the recall initiative in September and included six charges. The charges include using city resources to carry out the Tax Amazon ballot initiative and failing to comply with public disclosure requirements, allowing Socialist Alternative to make employment decisions regarding her City Council office, leading protesters to Democratic Mayor Jenny Durkan?s private residence, and letting anti-police violence demonstrators into Seattle City Hall on one occasion while it was closed to the public for COVID-19. There are also two charges regarding her support for the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), which were subsequently dismissed by Judge Jim Rogers in the King County Superior Court on September 16th. The petition has received financial backing from Jeannie Nordstrom (the wife of the former chairman and CEO of Nordstrom department stores), art gallery owner Stacey Levitan, web hosting firm Sound Strategies and other upper-middle class and capitalist layers. When asked about the recall effort?s chances, their campaign manager Henry Bridger expressed his confidence and said that their backers were like most people in District 3, ?Democrat or liberal.? Now that the state Supreme Court has given the legal green light for the recall drive to proceed, the lower King County Superior Court must finalize the summary of the recall charges. Recall petitioners have 180 days to collect more than 10,000 signatures from District 3, which Sawant represents. The number of signatures represents 25 percent of the almost 43,000 votes cast in the November 2019 race. If the signatures are collected, a recall election would commence, with the hopes of it being added to the August primary elections ballot. Henry Bridger said that campaign backers don?t want to appear on the General Election ballot due to the question possibly bringing a higher turnout and influencing other electoral races. ?This is about her, not about electing someone,? Bridger said Thursday. If Sawant is recalled, District 3 voters will not be choosing a replacement until the next regular election in 2023. That undemocratic privilege lies with the City Council, which would appoint a replacement within 20 days of the vacancy. The World Socialist Web Site does not politically support Sawant, but the campaign to undemocratically remove her from office is an attempt by the local Democratic Party establishment to intimidate and suppress social opposition to police violence, racism, and social inequality which was aggravated by the Trump administration?s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and which continues to deepen under the Biden administration. Ernest Lou, the petition?s original applicant, supported Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 Democratic Party primary elections. In the fall, Lou described himself as a ?big bleeding heart liberal,? later adding that, ?She [Sawant] is the leftist version of the right-wing version of Trump. She?s a cancer in Seattle.? Sawant is the target of this reaction due to her association with police violence protests and the ?Tax Amazon? campaign, which imposed a minuscule payroll tax of less than 2 percent on Amazon and other large corporations. Jeff Bezos publicly opposed the payroll tax increase and supported Sawant?s political opponent in the 2019 City Council election. To give a sense of the political motivations behind the campaign, it is worth comparing the way the state supreme court treated the recall petition with another recent recall initiative against Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. The latter was launched on a left-wing basis to oppose Durkan?s excessive use of force against peaceful protesters during the anti-police violence movement last year. However, the supreme court did not allow the anti-Durkan petition to move forward in October. Despite its origins in the Democratic Party, the recall petition has garnered considerable right-wing and Republican support. On the ?Recall Kshama Sawant? Facebook page, supporters wrote: ?Good riddance to the American hating socialist,? ?If she wants change why doesn?t she go work at the Red Light District in India?? ?Get that Marxist out of city government NOW!!? ?This woman should be deported,? and ?behead her.? More recently, Sawant received death threats from a Seattle Fire Department email address. The Socialist Equality Party (US) issued a public statement calling on the city to launch an immediate investigation and provide protection for Sawant, her staff and their families. ?If you need help leaving, try jumping head first off the top floor of your building, I?ll even come push you,? the individual wrote as early as December 2020. After a delayed response from the city to carry out an investigation, Seattle police finally arrested 42-year-old Andrew Thomas Finseth on charges of ?cyberstalking, computer trespass, and identity theft.? The events in Seattle illustrate the rightward trajectory of the entire political establishment, with the Democratic Party extending the ?bipartisan? olive branch to the far right as the ruling class becomes increasingly concerned over left-wing social opposition from below. On a national level, the Democratic Party has repeatedly attempted to downplay the coup attempt in Washington, D.C. on January 6, as well as the fascist plot to kidnap and murder their own Democratic governors Ralph Northam (Virginia) and Gretchen Whitmer (Michigan) last fall. President Biden has himself characterized protesters as ?violent? while praising police. The entire record of the Democratic Party, in Seattle and across the country, exposes the fantasy promoted by Socialist Alternative and other pseudo-left organizations that the Democratic Party can be pressured to the left and carry out progressive reforms. The Democratic Party?s involvement in the recall campaign illustrates how it is a blind alley for any genuine socialist movement of the working class. It is a party of Wall Street, the CIA and the military. It is a capitalist party that acts based on its class character, attempting to block any social opposition to the capitalist system it represents. Despite fundamental political differences, the Socialist Equality Party upholds the democratic right of Sawant to complete her term in the office to which she was twice elected. Her democratic election must not be overturned on the basis of absurd and legally baseless charges. WSWS.ORG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbn at forestfield.org Tue Apr 6 22:28:14 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 17:28:14 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Julian Assange and WikiLeaks-related stories in the news Message-ID: <746f29b9-3b9c-5e62-eda5-169dd3a0db67@forestfield.org> In light of the anniversary of the release of WikiLeaks' video "Collateral Murder" (https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/), here's some Julian Assange and WikiLeaks-related stories in the news. RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=3nWtOcYFg1U -- (2m 28s) "US says Assange will be safe there, but activists want the case dropped" https://youtube.com/watch?v=tY8eB_iip90 -- (1m 45s) "Silence! | RT America's correspondent's Twitter blocked for posting a video of alleged US war crimes" Consortium News https://youtube.com/watch?v=DhqooBv9bTA -- (5m 55s) "Australian Senators Janet Rice & Peter Whish-Wilson pledge to bring Assange home" https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zhm3MQTAdRM -- (34m 29s) "Lightning Talks: Assange Case - Next Steps" From jbn at forestfield.org Wed Apr 7 01:41:52 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 20:41:52 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: <9326e636-f1d4-3cb9-35e7-633983a177f7@forestfield.org> Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. -J RT https://yewtu.be/watch?v=soUaiQAyLuM -- (27m 51s) "Renegade Inc | The Empire Feeds off the Republic" with Grayzone's Ben Norton WikiLeaks https://youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik -- (39m 13s) Collateral Murder, full video Grayzone https://yewtu.be/watch?v=E4uotsKHuNQ -- (39m 43s) "As US continues New Cold War, Russia and China forge new ties" MintPressNews https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KAByzmfa0LA -- (1h 2m 44s) "US Escalates New Cold War as Diplomatic Gloves Come Off, with Carl Zha" laborvideo https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mooXPocphzM -- (18m 25s) "Brazilian Workers Face Covid, Bolsonaro, Racism & A Struggle Against Privatization" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=n4kFq2OxVA0 -- (6m 32s) "Italian FedEx Workers Fight Back" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=E7Renv6kzlI -- (5m 14s) "Strike By Seven Hundred SEIU 87Janitors In SF For PPE & A Contract: 26 Have Died From Covid" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_SHVKGgC-Xo -- (50m 23s) "Solidarity With Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers! STOP Union Busting In Bessemer & San Francisco" From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Apr 9 18:49:46 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 13:49:46 -0500 Subject: [Peace] If able to access, it's a very important podcast. Message-ID: The Moderate Rebels discuss Syria, and the McCarthyite letter signed by Noam Chomsky vilifying anti-war groups, such as the Moderate Rebels and their colleagues. Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, the Party for Socialism and Liberation as well as other anti-war groups. Their names were deleted from the list, and they go into detail as to why and by whom. They expose many including Gilbert Achcar whom I have criticized and labeled just what they reveal, based upon his statements. Coming from the Moderate Rebels, for those who don?t know them: Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton and Aaron Mate gives the criticism credibility. They also critique and disagree over Noam Chomsky?s inconsistency on issues, with respect, providing perhaps explanations for some of his statements of late. This is their post from the soundcloud but the visual can be accessed from their website and would be extremely valuable for UPTV even though AWARE as an organization wasn?t mentioned. https://soundcloud.com/search?q=As%20US%20sanctions%20suffocate%20Syrians%2C%20regime-change%20operatives%20%20attack%20anti&fbclid=IwAR3kl-lQXqi-ArevdO2f5P_LCooYquR6DWGeN4njL0g_IKgTQ7yqzRevTgY From karenaram at hotmail.com Sat Apr 10 01:10:21 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 20:10:21 -0500 Subject: [Peace] If able to access, it's a very important podcast. In-Reply-To: <984C9CF3-8C52-4EDE-BD71-2F106A7B593A@illinois.edu> References: <984C9CF3-8C52-4EDE-BD71-2F106A7B593A@illinois.edu> Message-ID: Mort, Thank you so much for your analysis which supports my opinion as well as the Moderate Rebels. It?s nice to know I?m not the only one, in this town at least, who recognizes what is taking place based upon the issue, and not mislead by the personalities/reputation of the individuals. As to quitting that which you subscribe to, please don?t as the information you provide related to those articles, many of us never see, is valuable, in the ?know thy enemy,? mantra. Or at least know those we can no longer trust their judgement in relation to US foreign policy. > On Apr 9, 2021, at 19:34, Brussel, Morton K wrote: > > It is more than regretable that some seem to find Gilbertt Ashcar respectable, including Le Monde Diplomatique (to which I subscribe). Do I unsubscribe? > > Also regretable are the letters that Noam Chomsky endorses, one just today appearing in The Nation (as an advertisement) about relations between the U.S. and China. That letter blames China as much as the U.S. for the present escalating cold war in the far east. This seems to me asinine. It is one example of Chomsky inconsistencies. As for the many others who subscribed to this letter?left wing stalwarts, such as Benis, Benjamin, Ellsberg, and others who should know better. Of course they no doubt have their rationalizations, as would Chomsky. . I find it dismaying. > > This letter is entitled "for a Sane U.S.-China Policy?. It is stupidly politic. > >> On Apr 9, 2021, at 1:49 PM, Karen Aram via Peace > wrote: >> >> The Moderate Rebels discuss Syria, and the McCarthyite letter signed by Noam Chomsky vilifying anti-war groups, such as the Moderate Rebels and their colleagues. Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, the Party for Socialism and Liberation as well as other anti-war groups. >> Their names were deleted from the list, and they go into detail as to why and by whom. >> >> They expose many including Gilbert Achcar whom I have criticized and labeled just what they reveal, based upon his statements. Coming from the Moderate Rebels, for those who don?t know them: Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton and Aaron Mate gives the criticism credibility. >> >> They also critique and disagree over Noam Chomsky?s inconsistency on issues, with respect, providing perhaps explanations for some of his statements of late. >> >> This is their post from the soundcloud but the visual can be accessed from their website and would be extremely valuable for UPTV even though AWARE as an organization wasn?t mentioned. >> >> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://soundcloud.com/search?q=As*20US*20sanctions*20suffocate*20Syrians*2C*20regime-change*20operatives*20*20attack*20anti&fbclid=IwAR3kl-lQXqi-ArevdO2f5P_LCooYquR6DWGeN4njL0g_IKgTQ7yqzRevTgY__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!DZ3fjg!tg6h3NY0OOou9fh11MfIzyQ4O2VFSn3qvRfqBQpjcHbpdEJih6DrvWAb8bldMLo$ >> _______________________________________________ >> Peace mailing list >> Peace at lists.chambana.net >> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace__;!!DZ3fjg!tg6h3NY0OOou9fh11MfIzyQ4O2VFSn3qvRfqBQpjcHbpdEJih6DrvWAb_MhF_Xo$ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It?s nice to know I?m not the only one, in this town at least, who recognizes what is taking place based upon the issue, and not mislead by the personalities/reputation of the individuals. > > As to quitting that which you subscribe to, please don?t as the information you provide related to those articles, many of us never see, is valuable, in the ?know thy enemy,? mantra. Or at least know those we can no longer trust their judgement in relation to US foreign policy. > > >> On Apr 9, 2021, at 19:34, Brussel, Morton K > wrote: >> >> It is more than regretable that some seem to find Gilbertt Ashcar respectable, including Le Monde Diplomatique (to which I subscribe). Do I unsubscribe? >> >> Also regretable are the letters that Noam Chomsky endorses, one just today appearing in The Nation (as an advertisement) about relations between the U.S. and China. That letter blames China as much as the U.S. for the present escalating cold war in the far east. This seems to me asinine. It is one example of Chomsky inconsistencies. As for the many others who subscribed to this letter?left wing stalwarts, such as Benis, Benjamin, Ellsberg, and others who should know better. Of course they no doubt have their rationalizations, as would Chomsky. . I find it dismaying. >> >> This letter is entitled "for a Sane U.S.-China Policy?. It is stupidly politic. >> >>> On Apr 9, 2021, at 1:49 PM, Karen Aram via Peace > wrote: >>> >>> The Moderate Rebels discuss Syria, and the McCarthyite letter signed by Noam Chomsky vilifying anti-war groups, such as the Moderate Rebels and their colleagues. Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, the Party for Socialism and Liberation as well as other anti-war groups. >>> Their names were deleted from the list, and they go into detail as to why and by whom. >>> >>> They expose many including Gilbert Achcar whom I have criticized and labeled just what they reveal, based upon his statements. Coming from the Moderate Rebels, for those who don?t know them: Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton and Aaron Mate gives the criticism credibility. >>> >>> They also critique and disagree over Noam Chomsky?s inconsistency on issues, with respect, providing perhaps explanations for some of his statements of late. >>> >>> This is their post from the soundcloud but the visual can be accessed from their website and would be extremely valuable for UPTV even though AWARE as an organization wasn?t mentioned. >>> >>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://soundcloud.com/search?q=As*20US*20sanctions*20suffocate*20Syrians*2C*20regime-change*20operatives*20*20attack*20anti&fbclid=IwAR3kl-lQXqi-ArevdO2f5P_LCooYquR6DWGeN4njL0g_IKgTQ7yqzRevTgY__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!DZ3fjg!tg6h3NY0OOou9fh11MfIzyQ4O2VFSn3qvRfqBQpjcHbpdEJih6DrvWAb8bldMLo$ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Peace mailing list >>> Peace at lists.chambana.net >>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace__;!!DZ3fjg!tg6h3NY0OOou9fh11MfIzyQ4O2VFSn3qvRfqBQpjcHbpdEJih6DrvWAb_MhF_Xo$ >> > > _______________________________________________ > Peace mailing list > Peace at lists.chambana.net > https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Sun Apr 11 20:35:10 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen Aram) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 15:35:10 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Ben Norton of the Moderate Rebels Message-ID: https://www.rt.com/shows/renegade-inc/519846-us-oligarchy-political-arena/ From jbn at forestfield.org Mon Apr 12 05:33:15 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:33:15 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. I see that Karen Aram sent an interview over to Jason Liggett of UPTV to run (the Moderate Rebels entry listed below came courtesy of Karen), and I think that's great. Thanks Karen! As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to Jason Liggett (jcliggett at urbanaillinois.us). I routinely ask him to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. -J Moderate Rebels https://youtube.com/watch?v=eIyDph25s10 -- (32m 49s) "As US sanctions suffocate Syrians, regime-change operatives attack anti-war movement in open letter" Shadowproof https://youtube.com/watch?v=eA6xzH7HW0Y -- (58m 44s) "Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant On The Ruling Elite's Recall Effort Against Her" https://youtube.com/watch?v=WnrvTA7UWtU -- (40m 58s) "Dissenter Weekly: Drone Whistleblower Becomes First Whistleblower To Be Convicted Under Biden" https://youtube.com/watch?v=PkIwGIVfORE -- (11m 56s) "Unauthorized Disclosure: COVID-19 And Vaccine-Hoarding By Rich Countries" RT https://youtube.com/watch?v=ykg7jvtEI0I -- (27m 23s) On Contact with Chris Hedges interviews Richard Wolff: "American Economic Illusions" Transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/520622-american-economic-illusion-projects/ Status Coup https://youtube.com/watch?v=ONm3SCgeJxc -- (8m) "Big Grocery CLOSES Stores Rather Than Pay Workers Fair Wages- Tina-Desiree Berg Reports On-Scene" https://youtube.com/watch?v=0d5GJHxAXnQ -- (6m 23s) "Amazon's SHOCKING Culture of FEAR Harms Efforts to Unionize" https://youtube.com/watch?v=CJU9nXv_W0Q -- (7m 57s) "WHISTLEBLOWER: Amazon DECEIVES for Profit by Cloaking COVID" https://youtube.com/watch?v=z2gBTLfGzLE -- (12m 32s) "Biden's SHAMEFUL Faux-Progressivism Turns to Student Loans" From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Apr 17 15:25:29 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 10:25:29 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Greenwald's "Journalists, Learning They Spread a CIA Fraud About Russia, Instantly Embrace a New One" is worth your time Message-ID: Greenwald has written the best debunking of the recent allegation that Russia placed bounties on the heads of US soldiers in Afghanistan I've read so far and he also includes a clear explanation of the problem of press subservience to the state, debunking the next evidenceless lie from Biden's Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and the international relevance of these lies (hint: the US kills people based on these lies). In https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-learning-they-spread Greenwald explains how that was always knowable as US government propaganda spread by establishment stenographers, how the admission of CIA sourcing came about, and what the new Russian lie is (quoting that article): > On Thursday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, run by Biden?s Treasury > Secretary Janet Yellen, issued a short Press Release[1] about its targeting of > Russian-Ukrainian political consultant, Konstantin Kilimnik, with new sanctions. > One sentence of this press release asserted a claim that the Mueller > investigation, after searching for eighteen months, never found: namely, that > ?Kilimnik provided the Russia intelligence services with sensitive information on > polling and campaign strategy? that he received from then-Trump campaign manager > Paul Manafort. > > Is it true that Kilimnik passed this polling data to the Kremlin? Maybe. But > there is no way for a rational person ? let alone someone calling themselves a > ?journalist? ? to conclude that it is true. Why? Because, like the CIA tale about > Russian bounties ? a claim they learned yesterday had no evidence ? this is > nothing more than a U.S. Government assertion that lacks any evidence. [1] https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1382705877719908361 [...] > But the far more important point is the U.S. media's willingness ? their > subservient eagerness ? to obediently treat U.S. government pronouncements as > Truth. Just like with the Russia bounty story, where there were ample reasons to > doubt it from the start, the same is true of this Treasury Press Release. To begin > with, if this were such a smoking gun "confirming? collusion, why did the Mueller > investigation after eighteen months of highly aggressive subpoena-driven > investigative activity not discover it? > > Let's express this as clearly as it can be expressed. Any journalist who treats > unverified stories from the CIA or other government agencies as true, without > needing any evidence or applying any skepticism, is worthless. Actually, they are > worse than worthless: they are toxic influences who deserve pure contempt. Every > journalist knows that governments lie constantly and that it is a betrayal of > their profession to serve as mindless mouthpieces for these security agencies: > that is why they will vehemently deny they do this if you confront them with this > accusation. They know it is a shameful thing to do. > > But just look at what they are doing: exactly this. These are not journalists. > They are obsequious spokespeople for the CIA and other official authorities. Even > when they learn that they deceived millions of people by uncritically repeating a > story that the CIA told them was true, they will ? on the very same day that they > learn they did this ? do exactly the same thing, this time with a one-paragraph > Treasury Department Press Release. These are agents of disinformation: state > media. And when they speak, you should listen to them with the knowledge of what > they really are, and treat them accordingly. I think the entire article is worth reading. From karenaram at hotmail.com Wed Apr 21 16:12:18 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:12:18 -0500 Subject: [Peace] The threat of Nuclear War by Caitlin Johnstone Message-ID: US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for America's nuclear arsenal, tweeted the following on Tuesday: "The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as their least bad option." The statement, which STRATCOM called a "preview" of the Posture Statement it submits to US Congress every year, was a bit intense for Twitter and sparked a lot of alarmed responses . This alarm was due not to any inaccuracy in STRATCOM's frank statement, but due to the bizarre fact that our world's increasing risk of nuclear war barely features in mainstream discourse. #USSTRATCOM Posture Statement Preview: The spectrum of conflict today is neither linear nor predictable. We must account for the possibility of conflict leading to conditions which could very rapidly drive an adversary to consider nuclear use as their least bad option. pic.twitter.com/4Oe7xkl05L ? US Strategic Command (@US_Stratcom) April 20, 2021 STRATCOM has been preparing not just to use its nuclear arsenal for deterrence but also to "win" a nuclear war should one arise from the (entirely US-created) "conditions" which are "neither linear nor predictable". And it's looking increasingly likely that one will as the prevailing orthodoxy among western imperialists that US unipolar hegemony must be preserved at all cost rushes headlong toward America's plunge into post-primacy . The US has been ramping up aggressions with Russia in a way that has terrified experts , and it looks likely to continue doing so. These aggressions are further complicated on increasingly tense fronts like Ukraine, which is threatening to obtain nuclear weapons ?if it isn't granted membership to NATO, either of which would increase the risk of conflict. Aggressions against nuclear-armed China are escalating on what seems like a daily basis at this point, with potential flashpoints in the China Seas, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, India, and any number of other possible fronts. STRATCOM commander Charles Richard told the?Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that China's nuclear capabilities are advancing so rapidly that they're not even bothering with intelligence vetted more than a month ago in their briefings because it's probably already out of date, urging an upgrade in America's nuclear infrastructure. Richard reportedly testified that a portion of China's nuclear arsenal has been recently primed for ready use. The fact that those in charge of US nuclear weapons now see both Russia and China as a major nuclear threat, and the fact that US cold warriors are escalating against both of them, is horrifying. This is to say nothing of tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and nuclear-armed India, between nuclear-armed Israel and its neighbors, and between nuclear-armed North Korea and the western empire. While China keeps the majority of its forces in a peacetime status, increasing evidence suggests China has moved a portion of its nuclear force to a Launch on Warning (LOW) posture and are adopting a limited ?high alert duty? strategy. @US_Stratcom testimony at SASC right now. ? Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) April 20, 2021 The?Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has the 2021 Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight, citing the rising threat of nuclear war: "Accelerating nuclear programs in multiple countries moved the world into less stable and manageable territory last year. Development of hypersonic glide vehicles, ballistic missile defenses, and weapons-delivery systems that can flexibly use conventional or nuclear warheads may raise the probability of miscalculation in times of tension. Events like the deadly assault earlier this month on the US Capitol renewed legitimate concerns about national leaders who have sole control of the use of nuclear weapons. Nuclear nations, however, have ignored or undermined practical and available diplomatic and security tools for managing nuclear risks. By our estimation, the potential for the world to stumble into nuclear war?an ever-present danger over the last 75 years?increased in 2020. An extremely dangerous global failure to address existential threats?what we called 'the new abnormal' in 2019?tightened its grip in the nuclear realm in the past year, increasing the likelihood of catastrophe." In a recent interview with /Phoenix Media Co-op/'s Slava Zilber, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft nuclear policy specialist Joe?Cirincione described a ramp-up in weapons technology among all nuclear-armed nations in the world, the future of which he described as "bleak": "We right now have a global nuclear arms race . Each of the nine ?nuclear-armed nations are building new weapons. Some are replacing weapons that are getting old. Others are expanding their arsenals. But all of these new weapons represent new capabilities for these countries. So you?re seeing a qualitative and a quantitative arms race that is completely unchecked. "If you look at the data ?that?s collected by the Federation of American Scientists, for example, you see that ? since the 1980s at the height of the Cold War ? we have slashed the global nuclear arsenals. We went from a world in 1986 where there were almost 70,000 nuclear weapons in the world down to where we are now where there?s just about 13,500 nuclear weapons. Tremendous progress. 85% reduction in the stockpile? "But it?s flattened out. There really haven?t been significant reductions for years. The 2010 New START ?agreement was the last successful arms control agreement. That was 11 years ago. There?s been no reduction agreement since then. There?ve been no talks about new reductions agreements. Now I think the future of arms control is bleak. It?s bleak. And I see no interest really in a new round of arms control either from the United States or from Russia. So I?m pessimistic about our prospects." As I all too frequently find myself having to remind people,?the primary risk here is not that anyone will /choose/?to have a nuclear war, it?s that a nuke will be deployed amid heightening tensions as a result of miscommunication, miscalculation, misfire, or malfunction, as nearly happened many times ?during the last cold war, thereby setting off everyone's nukes as per Mutually Assured Destruction. The more tense things get, the likelier such an event becomes. This new cold war is happening along /two/?fronts, with a bunch of proxy conflicts complicating things even further. There are so very many small moving parts, and it?s impossible to remain in control of all of them. People like to think every nuclear-armed country has one ?The Button? with which they can consciously choose to start a nuclear war after careful deliberation, but it doesn?t work that way. There are /thousands/?of people in the world ?controlling different parts of different nuclear arsenals who could independently initiate a nuclear war. *Thousands*?of ?The Buttons?. It only takes one. The arrogance of believing anyone can control such a conflict safely, /*for years*/, is astounding. A 2014 report ?published in the journal /Earth?s Future/?found that it would only take the detonation of 100 nuclear warheads to throw 5 teragrams of black soot into the earth?s stratosphere for decades, blocking out the sun and making the photosynthesis of plants impossible. This could easily starve every terrestrial organism to death that didn?t die of radiation or climate chaos first. China has hundreds of nuclear weapons; Russia and the United States have thousands . This should be the main thing everyone talks about. There is literally no more urgent matter on earth than the looming possibility that everyone might die in a nuclear war. But people don't see it. On a recent /Tucker Carlson Tonight/ appearance , former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard did a solid job describing the horrors of nuclear war and the very real possibility that it could be inflicted upon us due to America's insane brinkmanship with Russia. She spoke earnestly about how??such a war would come at a cost beyond anything we can really imagine,??painting an entirely accurate picture of "hundreds of millions of people dying and suffering, seeing their flesh being burned from their bones." Gabbard is correct, and was right to give such a confrontational account of what we are looking at right now. But if you read the replies to Gabbard's tweet in which she shared a clip from the interview, you'll see a deluge of commenters accusing her of "hyperbole", saying she's being soft on Putin, and admonishing her for appearing on Tucker Carlson. It's like they can't even hear what she's saying, how real it is, how significant it is. People's failure to wrap their minds around this issue is a testament to the power of normalcy bias , a cognitive glitch which causes us to assume that because something bad hasn't happened in the past, it won't happen in the future. We survived the last cold war by the skin of our teeth, entirely by sheer, dumb luck ; the only reason people are around to bleat "hyperbole" is because we got lucky. There's no reason to believe we'll get lucky in this new cold war environment; only normalcy bias says we will. Believing we'll survive this cold war just because we survived the last one is as sane as believing Russian roulette is safe because the guy passing you the gun didn't die. It's also a testament to the power of plain old psychological compartmentalization. People can't handle the idea of everything ending, of everyone they know and love dying, of watching their loved ones die in flames or from radiation poisoning right in front of them, all because someone made a mistake at the wrong time after a bunch of imperialists decided that US planetary domination was worth rolling the dice on the life of every terrestrial organism for. But mostly it's a testament to the ubiquitous malpractice of the western media. It's inconvenient to the agendas of the imperial war machine to have people protesting these insane cold war games of nuclear brinkmanship, so their media stenographers barely touch on this issue. If mainstream journalism actually existed, this flirtation with nuclear war would be front and center in everyone's awareness and people would be flooding the streets in protest against their lives being toyed with as casino chips in an insane all-or-nothing gamble. This is so much bigger than any of the petty little things we spend our mental energy on from day to day. It's bigger than whatever your number one pet issue is. It's bigger than your disdain for Moscow or Beijing. It's bigger than my disdain for the US empire. It's bigger than our political opinions. It's bigger than whatever argument we might be having on the internet. It's bigger than whether or not we've got a problem with Tulsi Gabbard appearing on Tucker Carlson. Because once the nukes start flying, none of that will matter. None of it. All that will matter is the fact that this is all ending. If you open the door and see a mushroom cloud growing on the horizon, all of your mental priorities will rearrange themselves real quick. We should not be in this situation. There is no good reason governments should be playing these games with these weapons. There is no good reason we can't just get along with each other and collaborate toward a healthy world together. Only the psychopathic agendas of power-hungry imperialists perpetuate this insane balancing act, and it benefits none of us ordinary people in any way. The rising threat of nuclear war is the most urgent matter in the world, and it's absolute madness that we're not talking about it all the time. Let's do what we can to change that. _______________________________ /New book:/ /Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix/ . /The best way to get around the internet censors and make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list for at //my website/ /?or on Substack , which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. My work is //entirely reader-supported/ /, so if you enjoyed this piece please consider sharing it around, liking me on //Facebook/ /, following my antics on //Twitter/ /, or //throwing some money into my tip jar on Ko-fi , //Patreon/ /?or //Paypal/ /. 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URL: From karenaram at hotmail.com Thu Apr 22 13:39:47 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (Karen) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 08:39:47 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Ben Norton: How Ecuador's US-backed fake 'eco-left' helped a right-wing banker win the election Message-ID: Another very important podcast by Ben of the Moderate Rebels, whereby he names the names of the many US CIA backed organizations in respect to not just Ecuador but throughout US history in relation to those across Europe, Asia and within the US. https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/06/yaku-perez-pachakutik-ecuador-us-coup/ From jbn at forestfield.org Sat Apr 24 20:20:22 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 15:20:22 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Why Jimmy Dore, Grayzone, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, et al aren't invited on MSNBC or CNN Message-ID: From the Jimmy Dore show last night: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IGx45OjCjC8 -- (16m 20s) "MSNBC Contributor Goes Off The Rails" about how the pro-war propagandist Jennifer Rubin is an exemplar for why real journalists (who challenge American wars) aren't invited on MSNBC & CNN. This helps explain Dore's repeated references to "having an MSNBC contract". In other clips (particularly during the live show where one would need a Patreon subscription to see them outside of the live show) Dore has multiply admitted that if he were offered the money MSNBC show hosts are offered to do pro-war work, he'd take that money and do the same work other MSNBC hosts do. But until that kind of offer comes along he'll spend his time exposing and debunking the people who get those offers. Sadly this Jimmy Dore clip cannot be played on UPTV because of the use of the term "shitlib" (a portmanteau of the words 'shitty liberal', I believe) among other words we can't air on UPTV even though the points made are proper material for AWARE on the Air highlighting the difference between the war news you get from establishment sources and the war news you get from non-establishment sources. -J From davidgreen50 at gmail.com Sat Apr 24 20:50:32 2021 From: davidgreen50 at gmail.com (David Green) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2021 15:50:32 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Why Jimmy Dore, Grayzone, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, et al aren't invited on MSNBC or CNN In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: But Chomsky is interviewed on Ezra Klein/NYT podcast lol On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 3:21 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace < peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote: > From the Jimmy Dore show last night: > > https://youtube.com/watch?v=IGx45OjCjC8 -- (16m 20s) "MSNBC Contributor > Goes Off The > Rails" about how the pro-war propagandist Jennifer Rubin is an exemplar > for why real > journalists (who challenge American wars) aren't invited on MSNBC & CNN. > This helps > explain Dore's repeated references to "having an MSNBC contract". > > In other clips (particularly during the live show where one would need a > Patreon > subscription to see them outside of the live show) Dore has multiply > admitted that if > he were offered the money MSNBC show hosts are offered to do pro-war work, > he'd take > that money and do the same work other MSNBC hosts do. But until that kind > of offer > comes along he'll spend his time exposing and debunking the people who get > those offers. > > Sadly this Jimmy Dore clip cannot be played on UPTV because of the use of > the term > "shitlib" (a portmanteau of the words 'shitty liberal', I believe) among > other words > we can't air on UPTV even though the points made are proper material for > AWARE on the > Air highlighting the difference between the war news you get from > establishment > sources and the war news you get from non-establishment sources. > > -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 Wed Apr 28 03:28:48 2021 From: jbn at forestfield.org (J.B. Nicholson) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 22:28:48 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Recommended videos for AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV Message-ID: Here are the videos I recommended to run during AWARE on the Air, News from Neptune, and Labor's World View TV. As a reminder: If anyone else has anything to run, please feel free to get your pointers to Jason Liggett (jcliggett at urbanaillinois.us). I routinely ask him to prioritize AWARE members pointers over mine for AWARE on the Air, Carl Estabrook & David Green's pointers over mine for News from Neptune, and David Johnson's pointers over mine for Labor's World View TV. -J RT Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ABNStB5QXzY (25m 36s) -- "Cancel Culture" Chris Hedges interviews Dan Kovalik Transcript: https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/521966-dan-kovalik-cancel-culture/ https://youtube.com/watch?v=7TtdLeCBXVo (26m) -- "Forgotten Genocides: The Sin of Silence (RT special documentary)" Grayzone https://youtube.com/watch?v=pG0pZBDpAJM (1h 7m 23s) -- "Facing Syria cover-up outcry, OPCW chief lies and US, UK, France evade" Aaron Mat? on news of the latest OPCW scandal -- covering up the faked Douma gas attack cover-up https://youtube.com/watch?v=W82C4MqKN_8 (26m 04s) -- "US gov detains CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin following Ecuador election" Red Lines' Anya Parampil interviews CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin https://youtube.com/watch?v=qZkxaEC1xjY (28m 52s) -- "Max Blumenthal debunks US accusation of China's 'genocide' against Uighurs" https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2zaFUzGqww (1h 4m 4s) -- Dan Cohen interviews Gordon Gao, Director of Strategic Research at Tsinghua University on western media and the Uyghurs laborvideo https://youtube.com/watch?v=l7rsObLWJOU (18m) -- "The Lessons Of The Bessemer Alabama Amazon Unionization Vote With Journalist Mike Elk" https://youtube.com/watch?v=K8QY3JhqJ4E (49m 50s) -- "OSHA, Whistleblowing, Racism, Workers Comp & Systemic Corruption with SLO Park Ranger Reginald Fagan" theanalysis.news Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wcvyF0GLtw4 (17m 41s) -- "'Why Should We Vote for a Party that Holds Us in Contempt?' - A Viewer Comment" Transcript: https://theanalysis.news/commentary/why-should-we-vote-for-a-party-that-holds-us-in-contempt-a-viewer-comment/ Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y0m-PM57w4s (34m 36s) -- Trump vs Biden on Foreign Policy ? Abby Martin Transcript: https://theanalysis.news/interviews/iran-the-major-difference-abby-martin-pt2-2/ Empire Files https://youtube.com/watch?v=c0PlVIfja0o (10m 07s) -- "Empire Update w/ Abby Martin: Arctic War, Aid to Israel Challenge, Army VR Money Pit" https://youtube.com/watch?v=FlztTxaBDK0 (12m 52s) -- "US Retreats From Afghanistan: Truth Behind The Empire?s Defeat" https://youtube.com/watch?v=nRWaaRYIldQ (16m 01s) -- "Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism's Pearl of Africa" From karenaram at hotmail.com Fri Apr 30 13:30:05 2021 From: karenaram at hotmail.com (karen) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 08:30:05 -0500 Subject: [Peace] Highly valuable and detailed VDO related to Afghanistan with Aaron Mate & Scott Horton Message-ID: A podcast with Aaron Mate of the Moderate Rebels, interviewing Scott Horton in relation to Afghanistan. Details provided that we have never seen or heard before from beginning to end, assuming there will be an end. I highly recommend this VDO for the AWARE UPTV program given it?s topic and information revealed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAK1KGCJgn0