The Peace Press — Saturday, April 20, 2024 edition
“Speaker Johnson’s ignominious betrayal of fiscal sanity might well be the death knell for the GOP. He is apparently risking his speakership on behalf of $95 billion of foreign aid boondoggles that Uncle Sam cannot remotely afford, and which actually provide zero benefit to the homeland security of America. And we do mean zero, as in nothing, nichts, nada, nyet and nugatory, as we amplify below.
What Johnson’s impending Waterloo means, therefore, is not merely the prospect of another wild and wooly succession battle, but actually that there is no point at all in the preservation of a Republican majority and GOP House Speaker. After all, the Washington GOP has become so infected with neocon warmongers and careerist pols who spend a lifetime basking in the imperial projects and pretensions of the world’s War Capital that apparently the best the House GOP caucus could do when it ejected the previous careerist deep stater from the Speaker’s chair was to tap the current dim-witted nincompoop.
The Republican party is thus truly beyond redemption. As JFK once said about the CIA, its needs to be splintered into a thousand pieces and swept into the dustbin of history.”
https://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2024/04/19/speaker-johnsons-ignominious-betrayal/
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“A massive military aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan has cleared a major hurdle in Congress and is headed for a floor vote as early as Saturday. House Speaker Mike Johnson has come under intense pressure from Democrats to advance the bills, and faces a revolt from within his own party as dissident Republicans threaten to oust him from his position.
A procedural vote to consider the aid package — composed of separate bills for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan worth a combined $95.3 billion — sailed through the House 316–94. The measure passed with bipartisan support, despite opposition from a group of Republicans.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/19/95-billion-foreign-war-bills-move-toward-house-vote/
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“Congress is shamefully choosing a failed approach of fueling genocide rather than saving Palestinian and Israeli lives,” said Rep. Cori Bush.”
“Progressive lawmakers on Friday dissented as the Republican-controlled U.S. House advanced legislation to provide more military funding to Israel as well as Ukraine and Taiwan, with Rep. Cori Bush condemning a committee’s refusal to consider an amendment aimed at securing a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/progressives-oppose-israel-aid
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“Particularly about questionableb peace supporter, Jim McGovern, one of four Democrats who has now enabled the future military slaughter for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan and AOC’s bloodthirsty screed in support of more war!!”
~Alice Slater
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/20/vhxy-a20.html
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“It’s high time for the two powers that have done the most to wreck the Middle East to support the true path to peace.”
“This week, the U.S. and U.K. had the chance to correct decades of their blatant geopolitical errors in the Israel-Palestine conflict by welcoming Palestine as the 194th United Nations member state.”
“More than any other countries, the U.S. and U.K. have wrecked the Middle East through their non-stop meddling and imperial arrogance. This week they had the chance to make some amends.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/18/us-uk-should-welcome-palestine-statehood-at-un/
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“A majority of U.N. member states recognize Palestinian statehood, but the U.S. and most E.U. countries lag behind.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/europe-palestinian-state
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“Despite Biden’s pledge to support a two-state solution, cables argue that Palestine should not be granted U.N. member status.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/17/united-nations-biden-palestine-statehood/
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“This is the evidence that President Biden’s talk about a two-state solution is nothing but idle talk,” said one former Lebanese diplomat.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinian-statehood
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Despite the U.S. veto of the Palestinian State, take the matter into your own hands by vowing to boycott, divest and sanction until not only a permanent cease-fire is established but also until a Palestinian State is also established.
“On Thursday, the US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have granted Palestine status as a full UN member state, a move that goes against President Biden’s claim that he favors a two-state solution.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/18/us-vetoes-palestinian-bid-for-full-un-membership/
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“Video of the full U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday in which the U.S. vetoed full U.N. membership for Palestine as the Russian delegation walked out in protest before Israel’s speech. Joe Lauria reports.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/19/watch-us-vetoes-palestine-un-membership-as-russia-walks-out/
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“For decades the US has supported patently illegal Israeli measures at an exorbitant cost to the US economy and US prestige in the world stage. The Global majority perceives the US and Israel as the greatest dangers to the peace and security of mankind[4]. US actions in the UN and elsewhere have cemented this perception.
The US and Israel are rightly perceived as dangerous bullies. There is no love lost for the US and Israel. No doubt, the US alliance with Israel has caused the US to lose authority and credibility in the eyes of the Global Majority, precisely because the US has defended the indefensible, justified the unjustifiable, engaged in apology of genocide.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/19/us-vetos-palestines-bid-for-un-membership/
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“The New York Times coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream US media, is a disgrace to journalism.
This assertion should not surprise anyone. US media is driven neither by facts nor morality, but by agendas, calculating and power-hungry. The humanity of 120 thousand dead and wounded Palestinians because of the Israeli genocide in Gaza is simply not part of that agenda.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/20/cruelty-of-language-the-nyts-leaked-gaza-memo/
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“The shocking revelation of the New York Times’s offensive internal style guide on language it will not permit in its Palestine reporting should prompt a broad examination of the paper’s longtime bias.”
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/a-secret-internal-nytimes-memo-reveals-the-papers-anti-palestinian-bias-is-even-worse-than-we-thought/
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“”Secretary Austin, why are you denying Israel’s genocide in Gaza?” advocates asked the defense secretary at a hearing.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinian-mother-austin
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“The Middle East is on the brink of war precisely because western politicians indulged for decades every military excess by Israel.”
https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2024/04/17/the-west-now-wants-restraint-after-months-of-fueling-a-genocide-in-gaza/
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There is no opposition to war, as we have said since the day it began. Not after six months, either. The call “No to Rafah” is heard only from Washington, not Kaplan Street. The call “No to Rafah” is still not strong enough even from Washington. It is not yet joined by concrete threats. Only Washington can save Rafah now, and Rafah must be saved. Its residents and refugees have suffered enough.
https://archive.is/928nV
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“After six months of war in Gaza, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says it has brought only “relentless death and destruction” to Palestinians. Since Hamas’s deadly attack on October 7, 2023, more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed, thousands have been injured, hundreds of thousands have been displaced and many are daily dying of starvation.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/israels-war-campaign-systematic-devastation-assassination-and-stalemate/
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“It is in Israel’s interest to provoke a confrontation with Iran and, for the sake of the Palestinians, it’s important for Iran not to take the bait.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-iran-dangerous-game
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“Israel is in growing danger — but the responsibility lies more in Washington than in Tehran.”
https://archive.is/yZRH6
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“Iran’s chosen response to the fatal strike on its embassy seems not to have been about retaliation nor escalation. If it had been, they would have fired more missiles than drones, and they would not have announced the drones as soon as they were launched nor declared the operation “concluded” before they arrived. They would not have shared in advance the details and timing of the operation with Saudi Arabia, other Gulf countries, and Turkey, a member of NATO, who then, predictably, shared it with the United States.
The chosen response was about re-establishing deterrence.”
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/this-weekend-iran-changed-everything/
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The paper’s author found that the five largest military contracts to major tech firms between 2018 and 2022 “had contract ceilings totaling at least $53 billion combined.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-industrial-complex-big-tech
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“While the attention of the world is focused on Gaza, abuses in the West Bank, fueled by decades of impunity and complacency among Israel’s allies, are soaring.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/west-bank-communities-israeli-settlers
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“Ori Givati, an IDF veteran with the organization “Breaking the Silence,” speaks out #Gaza #Palestine” on Breakthrough News.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4VwUVaEFbU8
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“Norman Finkelstein Returns: The Future of Israel’s War in Gaza | SYSTEM UPDATE #259”
https://rumble.com/v4q23p2-system-update-show-259.html
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“The UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) released a report showing that Gazans rounded up by the Israeli military have been subjected to severe abuses. UNRWA found some of its employees were subject to coercion and forced to make false statements about the organization’s alleged ties to Hamas. Tel Aviv used those confessions to persuade Washington and over a dozen other nations to cut funding for UNRWA.
Published on Tuesday, the new report details how Israeli soldiers in Gaza have rounded up thousands of people throughout the months-long conflict. Those Palestinians have been moved into various detention centers across Israel and face inhumane conditions and brutal treatment by the military. “
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/un-report-finds-palestinians-face-severe-abuses-in-israeli-detention/
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“Richard Norton-Taylor looks at Britain’s latest military intervention in the most volatile region in the world.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/19/rafs-support-for-israel-stretches-concept-of-self-defence/
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Remember, this is the same kind of hate that led the Nazis to murder 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. There is no difference between this type of hate and that type of hate. Congratulation, Ben Gvir for honoring the Nazis and their hatred by emulating them and in doing so, flattering them.
“Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the execution of Palestinians to make room in Israel’s overcrowded prisons.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/18/israels-ben-gvir-calls-for-executing-palestinians-to-make-more-room-in-prisons/
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“Israel may have declared war on Hamas, but it is civilians Israel is murdering and maiming by the tens of thousands. With Israel’s atrocities on daily display, the impulse to blame Hamas for them is just knee-jerk tribalism.
Even staunch Israeli apologists are disquieted by the Palestinian body count. Yet it takes strong forces of experience, and even stronger forces of reason, to realign one’s allegiances and transgress against the tribe. So these apologists sublimate their discomfiture by lamenting, vaguely, the terrible suffering in Gaza–stopping short of blaming Israel for its own heinous acts.
Hamas’ depravity notwithstanding, it should not pain decent people to condemn Israel’s own barbarism. This is a no-brainer for myriad experts on human rights law, including at the U.N. and the U.S. State Department. Anyone who has difficulty acknowledging Israel’s war crimes needs to examine their own tribalism and prejudice.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/19/israel-vs-itself/
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Speaking of Nazism and its censorship-oriented ways, this story — — -the rise of the new pro-Israel German Nazis:
“Berlin resident Udi Raz, who is Israeli, helped organise a conference shut down by German police. He has lost his job for referring to Israeli ‘apartheid’ and been branded an antisemite.”
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/germany-crackdown-israel-gaza-jewish-activist
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“Unlike Washington, Berlin — Israel’s second-largest arms supplier — has consented to full jurisdiction of the ICJ so it is an easier target for Nicaragua’s lawsuit, writes Marjorie Cohn.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/18/nicaraguas-case-against-germany-arming-israel/
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“Sahra Wagenknecht on the Failing War in Ukraine, the State of German Politics, and Her New Political Party | SYSTEM UPDATE #260”
https://rumble.com/v4qg6nb--system-update-260.html
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“Columbia University made a huge mistake calling the cops on student protesters,” said one educator. “It has transformed the activism of hundreds of students into a student movement of thousands.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/college-students-columbia-solidarity
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More on the authoritarian German action as they defend genocide:
https://youtu.be/24J1IkwtyDQ?si=8woHU3cUklb-8Qu0
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“Israel’s allowed to bomb an Iranian consulate, but Iran’s not allowed to strike back. The US is allowed to surround China with war machinery, but it would be World War Three if China ever tried to militarily encircle the US. NATO is allowed to expand to Russia’s doorstep and amass proxy forces on its border, but the last time Moscow placed a credible military threat anywhere near the United States, the US responded so aggressively that the world almost ended.
The “rules-based international order” that the US-centralized power structure purports to uphold just means an order in which the US makes up the rules and nations had better obey them. It means rules for thee but not for me.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/rules-based-order-means-rules-for
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“So as things stand right now it looks like the cycle of escalation between Iran and Israel has thankfully ended or at least paused, which means now all we have to worry about is a horrific massacre in southern Gaza.”
https://substack.com/inbox/post/143739713
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“One of the reasons I often pivot to poetry and emotion-laden prose in my commentary on Gaza is because it’s so very easy to let ourselves become numb to the horrors of what’s being done there day after day and month after month — but it’s so very, very important not to.
It would be so very easy to get overwhelmed and start letting one day of lies and atrocities blend into the next until it becomes this amorphous gray blob on the periphery of our attention. Reports like IDF sniper drones playing the sounds of distressed women and children to lure civilians out into the open and then shooting them, or Israeli officials ridiculously claiming they had no idea that blowing up a consulate building full of Iranian military officers would be seen as an escalation, have been coming out on a daily basis now, and it’s tempting to let yourself become overwhelmed and stop caring as much.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/dont-let-them-numb-you-to-whats-happening
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“As an American Jew, I am compelled to embrace the power of my own voice, and refuse complicity with collective violence.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/delayed-biden-s-motorcade-gaza
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“The letter cites a lengthy list of credible reports that Israel has possessed nuclear weapons for decades. Because Israel has not signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT), the Symington-Glenn Amendments to the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976.”
https://www.veteransforpeace.org/files/8917/1345/5099/VFP_Israel_nukes_ltr_FINAL____4-18-24.pdf
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“In a letter to President Joe Biden and top members of his administration, Veterans For Peace asserts that U.S. law requires the cutoff of all weapons shipments to Israel.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-nukes-halt-military-aid
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“Join us to hear a live update from Istanbul on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which is leaving in a few days to break the siege of gaza with humanitarian aid!”
https://www.nonviolenceinternational.net/gaza_freedom_flotilla_update?recruiter_id=258
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“It is in Israel’s interest to provoke a confrontation with Iran and, for the sake of the Palestinians, it’s important for Iran not to take the bait.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-iran-dangerous-game
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The Duran with Brian Berletic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lvyfr-Fty0
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The Duran on Ukraine math not adding up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N2qXqncR-0&t=29s
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The Duran on Russia and China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxdZg_hbsF4
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Brian Berletic on the Philippines:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zE0RTAkZ0I
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“Stand with Filipino Peace Activists: Don’t Let the PERA Act Pass through Congress!
Send a letter to the House of Representatives today to ask them to vote no on the Philippines Enhanced Resilience Act (PERA Act), which would authorize $2.5 BILLION dollars of foreign military financing to the Philippines over the next five years. The US continues to act out its imperial agenda and militarize nations in the Asia-Pacific, antagonizing China and destroying the natural environment. The anti-China militancy must END before it’s too late!”
https://www.codepink.org/stoppera?utm_campaign=stop_pera_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink
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Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIf8ZiBPNwA&t=863s
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Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Jason Beardsley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IyeCoFrCJE
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Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with former Swiss Intelligence Officer Jacques Baud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhkUSY8pYE
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Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with former CIA Analyst Mike Dimino:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foNfvFquNSU
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Judge Napolitano with Libertarian Connor Freeman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F18Hwl_1fpo
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Judge Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Phil Giraldi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9HDnuXnCI8
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Judge Napolitano with Aaron Mate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdHm_FvGjPY
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Judge Napolitano with U.S. Senator and Dr. Rand Paul:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Uz44iC8lo
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Judge Napolitano with University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQPem_y4qFc
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Judge Napolitano with Max Blumenthal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_w_UCM3Ebo
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Judge Napolitano with former Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHUOjpEpkns
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Judge Napolitano with former CIA Analysts Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHUOjpEpkns
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Danny Haiphong with former USMC Major Scott Ritter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DBCH_l93As
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Garland Nixon with former USMC Major Scott Ritter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H-1nvpnOgY
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“Today we have some interesting thematic developments in the context of Ukraine’s future sustainment outlook.”
https://substack.com/inbox/post/143693712
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“The corporate media covers conflicts like Israel and Iran’s with win-lose abstraction, even when we’re on the brink of World War III.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/media-cover-war-like-problem
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“As I wrote in an earlier piece on the lead up to Iran’s drone and missile barrage in Israel on the 14th of April, the Iranians clearly gave advanced warning of their plans to neighboring states in the Persian Gulf as well as Turkey. U.S. officials vehemently denied that and then insisted that Israel scored an overwhelming victory. Enjoy the smell of political bullshit. It is being piled higher and deeper.”
https://sonar21.com/the-iran-attack-what-did-the-u-s-know-and-when-did-it-know/
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“The trilateral militarization of the US, Japan and the Philippines has officially started. From missiles to nuclearization, it could cast a dark shadow over the Philippines and Southeast Asia.”
https://original.antiwar.com/Dan_Steinbock/2024/04/17/trilateral-militarization-from-missiles-to-nukes/
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“Song lyrics tell me to be proud to be an American, yet war and profligate preparations for more of the same are omnipresent here. My government spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined (and most of them are allies). In this century, our leaders have twice warned of an “axis of evil” intent on harming us, whether the fantasy troika of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea cited by President George W. Bush early in 2002 or a new one — China, Russia, and North Korea — in the Indo-Pacific today. Predictably given that sort of threat inflation, this country is now closing in on a trillion dollars a year in “defense spending,” or close to two-thirds of federal discretionary spending, in the name of having a military machine capable of defeating “evil” troikas (as well as combatting global terrorism). A significant part of that huge sum is reserved for producing a new generation of nuclear weapons that will be quite capable of destroying this planet with missiles and warheads to spare.
My country, to be blunt, has long been addicted to war, killing, violence, and massive preparations for more of the same. We need an intervention. We need to confront our addiction. Yet when it comes to war and preparations for future conflicts, our leaders aren’t even close to hitting rock bottom. They remain in remarkable denial and see no reason to change their ways.”
https://original.antiwar.com/William_Astore/2024/04/18/there-is-only-one-spaceship-earth/
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“California Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s recent claims that Code Pink and other peace protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza are either Russian or Chinese funded is absurd and insulting, and Veterans For Peace calls on her to withdraw such allegations and apologize. In October of 2023, Pelosi told a group of Code Pink protesters (all of whom were White Americans), to “Go back to China where your headquarters is.””
“Asna Tabassum’s solidarity with Palestinians, especially as a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, while Israel relentlessly bombs civilians in Gaza, may actually be what USC doesn’t want to “‘present as an image.’”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/usc-valedictorian
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“A senior airman based in Niger said US personnel are ‘being held hostage’ by the US reluctance to leave”
“The Biden administration’s refusal to withdraw from Niger despite an order from the post-coup government to leave has put US troops in the country in danger, a senior Air Force leader said in a letter to CongressEditSign that was obtained by The Washington Post.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/17/whistleblower-says-us-is-putting-troops-in-danger-by-refusing-to-leave-niger/
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“Following a meeting between President Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, there’s no sign a US withdrawal from Iraq will happen anytime soon despite earlier calls from al-Sudani’s government for an end to the presence.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/17/no-sign-of-us-withdrawal-from-iraq-after-pm-visits-washington/
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“US-backed Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria are responsible for torture and “mass death” due to inhumane conditions at detention facilities that were set up after the defeat of ISIS, Amnesty International said in a new report on Wednesday.
Amnesty said that the US is “involved in most aspects of the detention system,” which holds more than 56,000 people, including 30,000 children, 14,500 women, and 11,500 men.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/17/amnesty-us-backed-kurds-in-syria-are-running-torture-prisons-and-responsible-for-mass-death/
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“The assurance that Julian Assange will be allowed to rely on the First Amendment in his defence is a blatantly weak piece of sophistry.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/17/craig-murray-the-farce-of-us-diplomatic-assurances/
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Faulty Assurances: the Judicial Torture of Assange Continues
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/18/faulty-assurances-the-judicial-torture-of-assange-continues/
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“The former British diplomat Craig Murray discusses the meaning of the U.S. “assurances” on Julian Assange and the brewing disaster in the Middle East on CN Live!”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/18/watch-murray-on-assanges-non-assurance-and-mideast-crisis/
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“Caitlin Johnstone on moves by U.S. authorities to shield the system from political fallout over the Assange case.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/18/assange-case-moves-forward-as-cia-covers-its-tracks/
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“The legal team representing high-powered insurers Lloyd’s and Arch says that since the Nord Stream explosions were “more likely than not to have been inflicted by… a government,” they have no responsibility to pay for damages to the pipelines. To succeed with that defense, the companies will presumably be compelled to prove, in court, who carried out those attacks.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/17/uk-insurers-refuse-pay-nord-stream/
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“Just as the USA Patriot was perverted from its stated intent to fight terrorism abroad and was instead used to covertly crack down on the American people (allowing government agencies to secretly track Americans’ financial activities, monitor their communications, and carry out wide-ranging surveillance on them), Section 702 has been used as an end-run around the Constitution to allow the government to collect the actual content of your conversations (phone calls, text messages, video chats, emails and other electronic communication) without a warrant.”
https://original.antiwar.com/jwhitehead/2024/04/18/warrantless-surveillance-makes-a-mockery-of-the-constitution/
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“It’s not about who RISAA allows the government to spy on, it’s about who RISAA allows the government to force to spy,” explained one critic.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-section-702-renewa
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Frederick Douglass: “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
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“In the past, in the interest of building a broad-based movement united for peace and non-interventionism, I have allied with everyone and anyone who also expressed a genuine interest in peacemaking and non-interventionism. This includes past antiwar alliances with everyone from pinkos to proud boys and anyone in between — — both groups I have allied with in the past — -not because I agreed with their ideologies because I don’t agree with either of them — -I do not approve of racism or Marxism, but I united with each solely in the interest of unity for peace and non-interventionism as a national policy. Ideology is not the point, unity is the point. Anyone who doesn’t like that I choose unity over ideology can kiss my mother-loving, big, chubby gay-bear, fat ass. Anyone can talk the talk about unity, but the real principled test is: can you walk the walk? My boots were made for walking, girl !!! <finger-snap with attitude>
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!”
-Eric E. Johansson, Veterans for Peace, California
(also, please understand that although I have united with extremist-idealist factions in the past in the interest of unity against war, I am much more of a middle-of-the-road-realist as I think the economic class system represents the civilizational natural order for our species, although the gap between rich and poor should probably be narrowed through aggressive taxation upon corporations and individual persons too. Also, I do not have one racist or hateful bone in my body as my Asian husband, who is of half-Filipino and half-Chinese descent can attest. I don’t hate immigrants; I married one. He, like my Swedish grandfather, emigrated to the United States legally through the legal immigration channels that every person seeking to emigrate to this country should pursue. All those who simply violate the law by jumping the border, thus opting for not following the legal channels to obtain entry into the U.S., should be promptly arrested and deported, and treated more harshly with every repeat offense. Why should the U.S. honor the wishes of those who desire to emigrate if their very first act of entering the country is to first break the law by circumventing the legal guidelines for officially emigrating? One standard for all. Rule of Law. That is not racist, it is respectful of the Rule of Law. Prior to meeting my husband, I was most definitely an equal-opportunity sex lover who gleefully had fabulous sex with members of every race, color and creed — — hundreds of them, mostly men but not exclusively. My husband and I love to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race TV show too. I also play on a fabulous softball team as the pitcher in the very diverse, accepting and welcoming San Francisco Gay Softball League. I share all of this only to illustrate that who I am willing to unite in common cause with, does not in any way represent who I am as a person. Widespread, mass unity against perpetual war, against Empire and against growing national security state oppression is essential to preserve our commonly shared liberty and peace. We are all in this together so let’s get past the immature, ideological bullshit, come together and unite in common cause for our shared future together.)
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Unite, from pinkos to proud boys and everyone in between against the wars and against the Empire!! If peace is your priority, this should be no problem for you but if ideology is your priority, then the kind of unity I propose could be a problem for you. Drop the ideological bullshit and UNITE!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!
https://www.unitedforpeace.org/
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“How could a weak, toothless central government that possessed no military largesse wage war or command a global Empire? It couldn’t, could it? Doesn’t having a smaller, more limited government also get us to a non-Imperialist, non-military interventionist place? Can people unite around non-interventionism alone? Just imagine for a moment the vast people power of a mass movement that could be harnessed by achieving a Left-Right loose alliance against war and Empire. Oh, the immense power it would wield.”
~Eric E. Johansson
(Is it arrogant to put my name next to some great people? Not really, they were just human beings and so am I, but please understand that I am actually much more middle-of-the-road because I find both sides (the more public services argument or the limited government argument) to both be legitimate arguments worthy of consideration and that is why I ask the question above because I think it is a question that more Progressives should ask. But as for myself, my inner stars shine brightly Progressive yet I still bear strong Libertarian stripes. This rather nationalist, flag-oriented reference may sound silly to some but it perfectly encapsulates how I see myself as a principled patriot realist doing my duty to my country and to our world.
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!
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“Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
~George Washington
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“Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
~James Madison
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“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
— Noam Chomsky
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https://honeste.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/websites-to-help-you-stay-informed/
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Daily news podcasts to help you stay informed:
Alexander Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal?app=desktop
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The Duran on YouTube with Alexander Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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Brian Berletic at The New Atlas on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
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Scott Ritter on Substack:
https://substack.com/profile/96369147-scott-ritter
https://www.scottritterextra.com/
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Danny Haiphong:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOxLhz6B_elvLflntSEfnzA
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Colonel Douglass MacGregor on Youtube:
(He has many meaningful, insightful, analytical things to say based on a deep understanding of military matters from his many years of experience in the military — — -but just prepare to dismiss a few of his other dog-whistle comments that he offers which he utters to appeal to a particular Conservative base — — just as the Liberals do to rally their base too — — -so just roll your eyeballs and ignore those few silly comments — — — because most of his analysis and insights and experiences are rich in detail, in fact-based analysis and said bluntly and directly.
Very refreshing indeed!! Bravo, Colonel !!!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFqPvxUg163ZEz1vyxhVDXw
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“Our Country Our Choice is more than just a people’s movement; it’s a media platform as well. My vision was straightforward: identify over 10 million like-minded Americans and create the most extensive group of American activists ever assembled. Our mission is to inform every American about the importance of choosing decision-makers who will put an end to the intentional sabotage of our beloved nation and start serving us, the American people.”
https://ourcountryourchoice.com/
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Andy Boreham
“China is a complicated place, and there is definitely a lot of content out there that I don’t think accurately or fairly represents this huge country of 1.4 billion.
https://www.youtube.com/c/reportsonchina/about
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Dong Sheng news on China:
https://dongshengnews.org/en/news-on-china/
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Garland Nixon:
https://www.youtube.com/@garlandn
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Seymour Hersh on Substack
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/
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Chris Hedges on Substack:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/
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Niko House on Rokfin
https://rokfin.com/Niko?content=NEW
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Caitlin Johnstone on Substack:
https://substack.com/profile/14779628-caitlin-johnstone
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Aaron Mate on Substack:
https://mate.substack.com/
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David Sacks:
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks
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Lee Fang on Substack:
https://leefang.substack.com/
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Patrick Lawrence on Substack
https://thescrum.substack.com/
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Jeffrey Sachs:
https://www.jeffsachs.org/
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Former Army Colonel Daniel Davis:
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive/videos
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Breaking points with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints
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“But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all”
~John Quincy Adams
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/
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Lev Golinkin on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFhqe9nwfA4
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Matt Tabibi on Substack (Racket News):
https://www.racket.news/
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Big Serge on Substack:
https://bigserge.substack.com/
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Simplicius on Substack:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile
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Larry Johnson, former CIA Analyst at Sonar21:
https://sonar21.com/
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Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst:
https://raymcgovern.com/
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Mark Sleboda:
https://substack.com/profile/38224488-mark-sleboda
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Richard Medhurst on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1u_wJThc3_e5J4VVj7hQQ
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Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network:
https://www.youtube.com/@socialistmma8321/videos
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George Galloway on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial
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Mikael Valtersson
~Former officer Swedish Armed Forces/Air Defence, former defence politician and chief of staff Sweden Democrats. Current political and military analyst.
https://twitter.com/MikaelValterss1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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Alex Reporterfy
https://www.youtube.com/c/reporterfymedia
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Although I typically shy away and generally distrust most, if not all, televised corporate media, I must admit that recently on foreign policy issues, Tucker Carlson of Fox has been tickling my fancy. Now that Fox has fired him, I encourage everyone to stop watching Fox altogether. But Tucker’s past range of guests included figures from the anti-Establishment Left and Right and many voices in between giving access and airtime to a wider audience which only helps spread our message of peace and justice to a broader audience more quickly so kudos to Tucker for that. It is good to see some of our anti-Establisment views find a venue in the public space even one decidedly more to the Right.
You can now find Tucker Carlson on Twitter, see link below. — — Great job Tucker, keep socking it to them. I hope you and your attorneys keep fighting like hell against the Establishment. I hope your attorneys fight to allow you to speak freely until at least the year 2025 and hopefully much longer than that too.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
https://tuckercarlson.com/
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On Tucker’s eventual return, so kudos to him and to Elon Musk backing him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFxBWu5A114&feature=youtu.be
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Glenn Greenwald on Rumble: (Listening to Glenn Greenwald is quite an enthralling experience. I can’t figure out what moves faster, his brain or his mouth as he delivers rich, detailed analysis replete with razor-sharp logic on topics of substance and depth, delivered with perfect spoken diction, colorful language and mesmerizing eloquence. I am left flabbergasted in sheer delight every time I listen to him speak. Utterly dazzling!!! And he is a fellow sister with a heritage in the tribe too which I also find endearing.
https://rumble.com/c/GGreenwald
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“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth … If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. The theory of our Constitution is that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market . . . The First Amendment itself ensures the right to respond to speech we do not like, and for good reason. Freedom of speech and thought flows not from the beneficence of the state but from the inalienable rights of the person … Society has the right and civic duty to engage in open, dynamic, rational discourse.”
– United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709, 724 (2012).
