The Peace Press — Saturday, April 27, 2024 edition
I reiterate — — -again, major kudos to the students at Columbia University and the faculty walking out to support them and to students and faculty around the country for standing up and vigorously protesting against hate, oppression, injustice,war crimes and genocide being committed by the State of Israel upon Gaza. Hopefully more student encampments will begin sprouting up all around the nation and world too. Keep defying the violent police thugs in blue. Shame on all the university presidents and leadership teams pandering more to the donor class rather than defending any known principles of academic freedom, free thought and expression. Shame on you!!! So defy them too!!! Defy!!! Defy!!! Defy!!! If they act like protesting genocide is illegal, then break the law, break the law, break the law and keep breaking the law again and again and again!! Unjust laws should be violated as often as humanely possible!!! You have a moral obligation to break unjust laws!!! I have been arrested numerous times protesting the wars. Protesting war criminal Israeli policy is an act of love of humanity and not an act of hate. Protesting to ensure that international law is upheld is admirable.
So please remember to ignore, laugh at and categorically dismiss ridiculous, offensive and comical false accusations of anti-Semitism that wrongly posits Israeli Jews as primary victims when it is actually Gazans and Palestinians who are the primary victims and this has been true for many years even decades. Never lose sight of who the primary victims are actually. This is not to say that there are no Israeli victims, for there indeed are, however, this is to say that those people are the victims of blowback from the originating oppressive, racist, violent, murderous Israeli policy that predates the violent reactions of resistance against it. So tell all those who make such false accusations like the pseudo-Fascist war-criminal Benny Netanyahu and other such non-victims to take their ridiculous, comical accusations and shove them far up their ass. Go pound sand Benny and Biden!!! Vote against both of these lying, propagandist-driven, war-criminal, genocidal jackasses who now crush peace protests while they accuse others of authoritarianism and genocide!!! Hypocrisy!!!’ Then laugh off their obvious stupidity and ignorance best exemplified by their false accusations and carry on by speaking out against injustice, genocide, war and hatred. Speak out, protest and keep protesting against Israeli genocide.
Boycott, divest and sanction until both a cease-fire and a Palestinian State is established. Stand up against U.S./Israeli war, imperialism, oppression and mass murder!!!! Even if you are arrested, keep on protesting!!!!
Agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate and agitate!!!
Never give up and never surrender — — — — Wage Peace and persevere!!!
“Empire managers and propagandists are losing their minds about student protests against the genocide in Gaza on university campuses, so naturally we’re seeing a mad push to frame this as the result of interference by Russia, China, Iran and Hamas. These demented conspiracies of foreign influence come even as Israel’s prime minister openly calls for the US government to quash the university protests by any means necessary.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/empire-managers-say-russia-china
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“Campus Crackdown on Protests, PLUS: Interview with Columbia Student Protesters | SYSTEM UPDATE #261”
https://rumble.com/v4rl8gc-system-update-show-261.html
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“The GWU administration had given the students until 7 p.m. Thursday to vacate the yard. They refused and were continuing their protest on Friday, reports Joe Lauria.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/26/gwu-students-defy-university-continue-gaza-protest/
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“Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety.”
https://zeteo.com/p/i-am-a-jewish-student-at-columbia
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“It is a brilliant, courageous speech about Jewish principles and the “false idol of Zionism”. Please watch it. Given the cowardly college administrators who are whipping up the lie that opponents of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians are “anti-Semitic”, as a rationalization for students and writers and teachers to lose their jobs in the typical McCarthyite fashion, this speech by Naomi Klein needs to be watched far and wide:”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/24/naomi_klein_seder
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“The author has no doubt the Western political elite are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/26/craig-murray-worse-than-you-can-imagine/
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“All the frenzied shrieking about pro-Palestine protests at universities these last few days makes it clear that our civilization is so twisted and insane that it sees protesting a genocide as far worse than committing one. Which is about as backwards as any society could possibly be.
Seriously, try to imagine a crazier, more upside-down civilization than one which gets more angry at people protesting genocidal atrocities than it does at people committing them. A civilization where people wear their pants on their head and walk backwards all day? That would be less crazy. A civilization where the dogs own the people and the children go to work while the parents go to school? That would be less crazy.
It’s as wrong as you can possibly get anything in this world. It’s actually hard to imagine how anyone could get anything more wrong. If you’ve accepted daily massacres of innocent civilians as the baseline normal and appropriate thing, and regard any opposition to this as a freakish and evil abomination, then you’re as screwed up and confused about reality as any other stark raving lunatic in town. Maybe worse.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-this-dystopia-opposing-a-genocide
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“Quashing University Protests and Banning TikTok To Make the Kids Love Israel”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/25/catilin-johnstone-quashing-university-protests-and-banning-tiktok-to-make-the-kids-love-israel/
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Naomi Klein: Jews Must Raise Voices for Palestine, Oppose “False Idol of Zionism”
https://youtu.be/U75KcMUjMyI?si=VbBJyipbiIHPgsXa
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Keep on protesting and tell the authoritarian neo-Fascist Benjamin Netanyahu to go fuck himself. Fuck off, Benny!!!! Don’t let Israel rob America of its Free Speech human rights — — — keep loudly protesting Israel policy in Gaza. What is happening at universities are acts of love, peace and justice. What is happening in Gaza is the product of unbridled hatred. Know who the real authoritarian hatemongering fascists are — — — — -they are Israeli.
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday called for a crackdown on Americans protesting against Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza at college campuses across the United States.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/24/netanyahu-calls-for-crackdown-on-pro-palestine-protesters-in-the-us/
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“Backers of Israel’s war have lost the battle for hearts and minds, so they’ve ginned up a controversy over student protests — they want us talking about anything other than the genocide in Gaza.”
“To ask the question is to answer it. Over the past six months, Israel’s response to Hamas’s brutal atrocities in October has been so disproportionate, indiscriminate, and savage that the war and its backers have not only lost any moral high ground they might have had, they’ve lost the US public as a whole.
With the war now deeply unpopular, and only losing more hearts and minds every day as Americans watch the list of Israeli atrocities pile up and up, its supporters have decided their only recourse is to simply gin up a controversy to draw the media and politicians’ attention away from what has been widely declared a genocide in Gaza, while simultaneously making themselves, the supporters of this crime, out to be the real victims.
This is why we’ve now seen several unseemly, often embarrassing attempts by the war’s supporters to manufacture victimhood at the hands of the nonviolent protesters.”
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/student-protests-antisemitism-war-gaza/
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“Biden’s partner in crimes against humanity is now endangering U.S. college students,” said one Palestinian rights advocate.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/netanyahu-college-protests
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“The current president of Columbia, Minouche Shafik, an Egyptian-born American economist and a baroness, has surely not acted on her own impulses to establish what she might call “Law and Order.” Rather, she has surely followed the orders, the prayers and wishes of trustees, deep pockets and alumni who have wanted to see demonstrators punished for exercising freedom of speech and for practicing old-fashioned American civil disobedience.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/columbia-protests-now-and-in-68/
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“The rebellious events at Columbia last week have spurred rebellions of students and sometimes others at a rapidly enlarging community of campuses, including at my personally much-despised alma mater, MIT.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/25/columbia-nyu-the-new-schoolmit-tufts-emerson-berkeley-chicago-chapel-hill-everywhere-2/
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“No one is free until everyone is free,” read a banner representing a Seder plate. “Jews say stop arming Israel.”
“As U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer prepared to vote on Tuesday night for a foreign aid package including billions to continue arming Israel in its bombardment of Gaza, roughly 300 protesters were arrested outside his home in Brooklyn for holding an “emergency Passover seder” protest, demanding the U.S. end its support for an assault that has killed at least 34,262 Palestinians.
The protest was led by anti-Zionist Jewish organizers with Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, with a large round banner representing a traditional Seder plate at the center of the protest at Grand Army Plaza, a block from Schumer’s home.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/schumer-protest-gaza
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“The Washington D.C. police turned down a request by George Washington University president to clear out the anti-genocide encampment on campus, reports Joe Lauria.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/27/dc-police-refuse-gwu-request-to-arrest-students/
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“Beyond the horrors in Gaza and the long tragic history of the oppression of Palestinians, student protestors are trying to save their own nation from its death-dealing spiral.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/campus-protests-gaza-martin-luther-king
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“”Please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government,” said the Vermont senator to Israel’s prime minister.”
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“”Antisemitism is a vile and disgusting form of bigotry that has done unspeakable harm to many millions of people,” continued Sanders, who lost family members to the Nazi Holocaust. “But, please, do not insult the intelligence of the American people by attempting to distract us from the immoral and illegal war policies of your extremist and racist government. Do not use antisemitism to deflect attention from the criminal indictment you are facing in the Israeli courts.””
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-netanyahu-antisemitism
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“There is a question of historical responsibility towards injustice, genocide, and fascism,” said Stephen Kapos. “If you are indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt.”
“Kapos is part of a small group of Shoah survivors and their descendants who “demonstrate disagreement with the use of the Holocaust experience as a cover by the Zionists and the state of Israel.” They attend protests wearing signs around their necks reading, “This Holocaust Survivor Says Stop the Genocide in Gaza!””
https://www.commondreams.org/news/holocaust-survivors-gaza-genocide
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“To sustain this level of blind support for Israel, the U.S. must erode its own democracy,” said one foreign policy expert. “And that is what we see happening on U.S. campuses now.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/emory-protests-arrests
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It is working — — keep on protesting:
“Amnesty International has documented several cases in which Israeli forces used Boeing-made weaponry to commit atrocities in Gaza.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/boeing-portland-state-university
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“As we speak, college students across the country have created protest spaces in solidarity with the people of Gaza. These protesters have a variety of demands, but they all coalesce on one truth: this war must end. But instead, political leaders who once claimed to defend freedom of speech and the right of assembly have either stood by or actively supported police violence on the demonstrators.”
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/no-more-war-a-lasting-ceasefire-in-gaza/?link_id=0&can_id=47a5c6149ee762f6123396616fde5b90&source=email-these-champions-need-to-hear-from-you-3&email_referrer=email_2295573___subject_2822556&email_subject=bidens-moment-in-history
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“University students across the country, facing mass arrests, suspensions, evictions and expulsions are our last, best hope to halt the genocide in Gaza.”
“Not one university president has denounced Israel’s destruction of every university in Gaza. Not one university president has called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Not one university president has used the words “apartheid” or “genocide.” Not one university president has called for sanctions and divestment from Israel.
Instead, heads of these academic institutions grovel supinely before wealthy donors, corporations — including weapons manufacturers — and rabid right-wing politicians. They reframe the debate around harm to Jews rather than the daily slaughter of Palestinians, including thousands of children.
They have allowed the abusers — the Zionist state and its supporters — to paint themselves as victims. This false narrative, which focuses on anti-Semitism, allows the centers of power, including the media, to block out the real issue — genocide. It contaminates the debate. It is a classic case of “reactive abuse.” Raise your voice to decry injustice, react to prolonged abuse, attempt to resist, and the abuser suddenly transforms themself into the aggrieved.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/25/chris-hedges-revolt-in-the-universities/
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The violent repression we’re facing as peaceful anti-war protesters is appalling.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-students-civil-case
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“Rep. Ayanna Pressley condemned “misinformation that aims to undermine this movement, outside agitators that detract from peaceful solidarity actions, and the aggressive response by law enforcement.””
https://www.commondreams.org/news/student-protest
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“The former New York Times Middle East bureau chief was speaking to a protest at Princeton University on Thursday when campus police came to lead him away.”
Hedges sent the following statement to Consortium News:
“Princeton University, like most universities around the country, is wildly overreacting from its surveillance of student activists to its rush to criminalize the most tepid forms of dissent. This will only fuel the fires of protest. These universities are frightened, not ultimately by the students, but by the clear moral issues these students raise that expose the moral bankruptcy and complicity in mass murder by all of our leading institutions. What these institutions and those who run them have failed to realize is that there is nothing they can do now. They have been exposed for who and what they are.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/25/princeton-police-stop-hedges-speech-on-gaza/
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“A flotilla of boats, organised by dozens of activists including Nelson Mandela’s grandson and loaded with tons of lifesaving aid, is set to sail to Gaza on Friday.”
https://www.newarab.com/news/nelson-mandelas-grandson-join-gaza-flotilla
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“They had a chance to put their votes where their mouths has been, but in the end chose a different path.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/democrats-approve-us-aid-to-israel
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“Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of just three Senate Democratic caucus members to oppose the bill, said that “U.S. taxpayers should not be providing billions more to the extremist Netanyahu government.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-israel-aid
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“We humanize what is going on the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human.”
— Hannah Arendt
“We cannot rely on the silenced to tell us about their suffering.”
— Hanan Ashrawi
https://thefloutist.substack.com/p/the-importance-of-speech
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Speech that got Yanis Varoufakis BANNED from Germany on Palestine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JXXBhruGhc
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“An open assault on the First Amendment is occurring across America, as college students who are peacefully exercising their Constitutional right to freedom of speech, challenging government policies, are being arrested in droves.”
https://denniskucinich.substack.com/p/american-spring
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In 1968, the Vietnam War was the decisive moral issue of the time. In 2024, Israel’s genocidal warfare in Gaza is the decisive moral issue. The likelihood of an ugly Israeli military campaign in southern Gaza will lead to additional Palestinian deaths and to increased fury at home and abroad.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/26/the-years-1968-and-2024-will-history-repeat-itself/
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“A top Hamas political official has told The Associated Press that the Palestinian group would be open to a five-year truce with Israel and would disarm and become solely a political party if a Palestinian state was established along the pre-1967 borders.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/25/hamas-official-says-group-willing-to-disarm-for-two-state-solution/
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“How many fights would Israel pick with Iran, Syria, and Lebanon if it didn’t have the US threatening to pound anyone who doesn’t comply with its every demand?
Without the US backing its every play, might not Israel eventually consider withdrawing to within its own borders and leaving the state of Palestine to chart its own future course, instead of continuing decades of military occupation both rooted in, and giving rise to, numerous large and small wars?”
https://original.antiwar.com/thomas-knapp/2024/04/24/us-foreign-policy-no-daylight-is-where-peace-dies-in-darkness/
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“The tent feels like it’s on fire,” said one young refugee mother. “It’s so hot you can’t bear it, especially with young children.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-heatwave
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“Katz’s untimely death is merely one among many reported ‘friendly fire’ casualties inflicted by Israeli forces on and since October 7.
While the IDF has acknowledged 41 deaths among its own troops resulting from “operational accidents” throughout the war, it offers no official figures for hostages killed under similar circumstances.”
https://original.antiwar.com/Will_Porter/2024/04/25/how-many-israelis-killed-by-friendly-fire/
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“”While continuing to give Israel billions of dollars in support to wage war on the Gaza Strip, the Biden administration this week has declined to join the growing global demands for an international probe into mass graves discovered at hospitals in the besieged Palestinian enclave.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-mass-grave
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“The Department of Education is probing claims that the school discriminated against Palestinian and Arab students amid Israel’s war on Gaza.”
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/24/umass-amherst-palestine-protests-harassment/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
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“After former President Donald Trump blew up the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, President Joe Biden has so far failed to re-negotiate it.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/hope-iran-us-nuclear-deal
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with former Swiss Intelligence Officer Jacques Baud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbbBZ4FwQsQ&t=629s
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“The US confirmed on Wednesday that it had secretly sent Ukraine long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) last month as part of a $300 million arms package.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/24/us-secretly-armed-ukraine-with-long-range-atacms-last-month/
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“The ink has yet to dry on the signed Ukrainian aid, but it has finally passed both House, Senate, and the final Biden rubberstamp. As predicted here, the list of new items is “long” but mostly constitutes the secondary munitions types which aren’t as easily expendable and therefore still exist in some quantity. The primary ones, i.e. artillery shells and such, are still heavily backlogged.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-42424-comedown-after-post
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“Similar Russian legislation passed in 2012 (and subsequently modified in 2019 and 2021) proved to be the death knell for US, UK, and EU-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that had spent more than two decades trying to, according to their leaders, shape Russian civil society along western lines.
But the Russian government saw things differently. These same NGOs, the Russian government maintained, were involved in fomenting a soft-power coup by tearing down public confidence in government while simultaneously promoting so-called political opposition that, by receiving money and instructions from abroad, was less a product of Russian democracy, and more a tool of malign foreign interests.”
https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/dream-georgiadream
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Brian Berletic on Georgia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1F4ZzO67k
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“China on Wednesday denounced new US military aid for Taiwan that’s included in a massive $95 billion foreign aid bill President Biden has signed into law, warning that it will make a conflict more likely.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/24/china-says-us-military-aid-for-taiwan-increases-risk-of-conflict/
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The Duran on the coming fall of Ukraine and the Russian juggernaut:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d498eSF9u6c
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Ray McGovern interviewed by Nima Alkhorshid: Trust Evaporated at turn of 2021/22. 12/30/21, Biden to Putin: US has no intention to put offensive strike missiles in Ukraine; 1/21/22, Blinken to Lavrov fuhgeddaboutit; 2/12/22, Biden to Putin fuhgeddaboutit; 2/24/22, Putin just cannot fuhgeddaboutit.
https://youtu.be/3Q31n7n2hHk
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Judge Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Phil Giraldi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1a6F6cCcOo
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Judge Napolitano with Aaron Mate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSJkW_yam8I&t=2s
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Judge Napolitano with University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2-Wu6JQzp4
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Judge Napolitano with Max Blumenthal: Israel Directly Interferes in US Politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbLYpfyfDHE
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Judge Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern and former State Department Official and USMC Captain Matthew Hoh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaq3FghN7t4
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Judge Napolitano with former Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EXpURqjXSY
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis on Russian/Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6McUWF-0Lok
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis on Russian/Ukraine 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlOvgX33bc
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis on Ukraine funding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlOvgX33bc&t=132s
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“Russia announced this week that its bilateral trade with China has almost completely moved away from using the U.S. dollar, highlighting the two countries’ commitment to reducing their reliance on the U.S.-led economic system.
Aside from reducing dependency on the Western-dominated global currency, these ‘de-dollarization’ efforts allow Russia and China to avoid the myriad sanctions now preventing Moscow from doing business on the international market.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-russia-trade/
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“The propaganda demonizing Putin and Russia has been so successful that the US is piggy backing its anti-China prowar propaganda on it. See this disgusting clip from the Blinken press conference.
Some parts of the peace movement unfortunately bear a lot of responsibility for this, because instead of countering the anti-Russian propaganda, these groups have bowed to the Russophobia and Putin bashing in the name of preserving “credibility.”
Perhaps it is time to reverse this and apologize for it. It has been a grave error, putting us that much closer to nuclear war.
Realist commentators like Mearsheimer and the late, great Stephen Cohen provide examples of a better approach. The US is “responsible” for the Ukraine proxy war the purpose of which is not to help Ukraine but to “weaken” Russia, more accurately to break it up — or deprive it of its sovereignty and impoverish it.
Those who seek to prevent a war with China should take a strong stand against Russia bashing. The destruction of Russia will go far to isolate and weaken China, opening the door to a war against Beijing.”
~VFP Member John V. Walsh
https://www.rt.com/news/596625-blinken-china-sanction-threat/
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The Duran on China:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxhq1yzyROQ
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“The fact that Russia has been able to defeat the US/NATO against their best war doctrine, their best strategy, their best intelligence, their best trainers, their best weaponry and a decade of preparation — this has been a huge shock to the ruling imperial elite in Washington,” he claimed. “That’s a clear warning in case they go to war with China because China’s watching the Ukraine war very, very carefully.”
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240425/blinkens-visit-to-china-signals-ongoing-hybrid-war-against-growing-world-power-1118115456.html
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Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson on the NordStream pipeline at the U.N.:
https://sonar21.com/my-speech-to-the-unsc-regarding-nord-steam/
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“It is unforgivable that over 281 million people are suffering acute hunger while the world’s richest continue to make extraordinary profits.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/global-hunger-spike
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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://original.antiwar.com/Brett_Wilkins/2024/04/24/report-sounds-alarm-over-growing-role-of-big-tech-in-us-military-industrial-complex/
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“Over the weekend, the House of Representatives passed four foreign aid bills that will allocate a combined $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and other “national security priorities.” House Republicans followed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) lead and joined with Democrats to deliver all the foreign aid President Joe Biden wanted without requiring much of anything in return.
The passage came after House Republicans had handed the president similar victories with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reauthorization and government spending.”
https://mises.org/mises-wire/cowardice-not-courage-led-house-republicans-side-democrats
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“There are five things the aid package will not do for Ukraine. It will not provide enough money. It will not provide the badly needed weapons, nor deliver them on time. It will not provide the even more badly needed troops. And it will not provide victory.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-61-billion-for-ukraine-wont-do/
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“Republican support for assistance to Kyiv was circling the drain. Then the former president proposed making it a loan and rescued it.”
https://www.readcontra.com/p/how-trump-saved-ukraine-aid
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“To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me… The time I spent in Abu Ghraib — it ended my life. I’m only half a human now.” That’s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about the 16 months he spent at that notorious prison in Iraq after being captured and detained by American troops on October 31, 2003. In the wake of his release, al-Majli has continued to suffer a myriad of difficulties, including an inability to hold a job thanks to physical and mental-health deficits and a family life that remains in shambles.”
https://original.antiwar.com/Maha_Hilal/2024/04/25/torture-abu-ghraib-and-the-legacy-of-the-us-war-on-iraq/
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Since our government continues to violate the Constitutional compact between the people and the government, I urge those who are in possession of military and corporate secrets (you know who you are) to continue freely sharing military and corporate secrets with other nations. If our government thinks they can spy on us without accountability, then we are not obligate to obey their laws either. You broke the compact so we can defy your laws.
Leak, leak, leak, leak and in doing so, bring transparency to our opaque government. Leak every secret you can no matter how dangerous it is.
“The White House backed surveillance reauthorization that, despite a fresh record of routine abuses, expands security agencies’ spying power, writes Kevin Gosztola.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/25/biden-increases-spying-on-americans/
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“As of this past weekend, we in America are headed to the same authoritarian place. Thanks to legislation that fell one vote short of demise in each house of Congress last weekend, America in 2024 will soon resemble East Germany in the late 1980s, where nearly everyone was a spy and no one could talk about it.”
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2024/04/24/killing-the-constitution/
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Kudos to Bytedance for telling the U.S. National Security State to go fuck itself — — -by instead choosing simply to shut down its American service as opposed to complying with an unConstitutional law passed by Congress.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/bytedance-to-shut-down-tiktok-in-us-over-divestment-demand/
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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).
