The Peace Press — Wednesday, April 24, 2024 edition
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. 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 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. Tell those who make such false accusations to take their ridiculous, comical accusations and shove them far up their ass.
I hope ever more students stand up against the pseudo-Fascist actions and war crimes of the Israeli government. Taking such noble, admirable, inspiring action against such human injustice and utilizing one’s human right to Free Speech codified by the First Amendment to accomplish it is a goal we should all seek to aspire. Kudos to all the students protecting Free Speech by using it. Resist all censorship!!! Don’t let Israel turn us into a Fascist nation by abolishing Free Speech!!! Resist Israeli authoritarianism!!! Israel has become the modern Pharaoh — -food for thought this Passover.
Tell the politicians and the Congress to eat shit — — and then keep protesting against censorship and keep protesting for peace and justice and human rights!!! No one has a right to not be offended and taking offense is not the same as feeling unsafe. If someone is pounding on your door screaming threats, that is a good reason to feel unsafe. But if merely hearing any offensive ideas also makes you feel unsafe, well that’s just tough shit. That is the nature of Free Speech which should sometimes make you feel uncomfortable. So get over it. Deal with it. And if any wealthy trustees or other monied leaders don’t like what I’m saying right now, well then they can pucker-up and kiss my big fat pasty white ass!!! Get it?
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!
“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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“While expressing gratitude for solidarity actions, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar — whose daughter was suspended — said that “this about the genocide in Gaza and the attention has to remain on that.””
“The Guardian reported that “hundreds of members of the teaching cohort at Columbia walked out in solidarity with the students who were arrested” while “students put protest tents back up in the middle of campus on Monday after they were torn down last week when more than 100 arrests were made.”
Yonah Lieberman, co-founder of IfNotNow, a Jewish-led U.S. group that organizes against Israel’s apartheid, declared: “Solidarity with these faculty members. Shame on establishment politicians and agitators who are smearing the anti-war protest at Columbia as anything other than what it is: a courageous stand for freedom and peace.""
https://www.commondreams.org/news/columbia-university-protests
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“Historic Gaza Protests at Columbia U. Enter Day 6; Campus Protests Spread Across Country.”
https://youtu.be/gP5ZP_2SHG4?si=w2gc3dd5iQXGxDFd
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“Said’s legacy reads today as a scathing condemnation of the hypocrisy of U.S. liberal institutions, their moral corruption, and the hollowness of the very values that they profess to teach.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/23/edward-said-warned-of-anti-palestine-mccarthyism-on-campus/
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“US police arrested more than 100 protesters who had set up camp to demonstrate against Israel’s war on Gaza from Columbia University’s campus in New York.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/4/19/over-100-pro-palestine-protesters-arrested-at-us-university
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“Pro-Palestinian rallies expand to multiple US campuses.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_h8KloeQzM
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“After throwing a foot-stomping tantrum earlier this morning, Shai Davidai, an untenured Columbia University business professor, was denied access to campus.
A self-proclaimed Zionist, Davidai is an Israeli-American who served in the IDF (“proud of it”) and has continually harassed Columbia’s pro-Palestine activists, labeling them anti-semitic, pro-Hamas “terrorists.”
On several occasions, Davidai called for the National Guard to be brought in to brutalize pro-Palestine students. He’s even gone so far as to characterize Columbia protestors as “Hitler-youth.””
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/22/columbia-universitys-shai-davidais-family-tied-to-weapons-manufacturing/
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“Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than your feelings. Your feelings don’t matter.
Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than playing along with the persecution-LARPing of Zionist university students.
Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than some privileged Ivy Leaguers pretending to feel “unsafe” or “unwelcome” on campus.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stopping-the-slaughter-in-gaza-is
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“The non-violence training to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ships to Gaza has been intense. As hundreds of us from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, we were briefed about what we might encounter on this voyage. “We have to be ready for every possibility,” our trainers insisted.
The best scenario, they said, is that our three ships–one carrying 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid and two carrying the passengers — will reach Gaza and accomplish our mission.”
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/04/22/will-the-freedom-flotilla-sail-to-gaza/
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“Morale is running high among the 200 volunteers from all over the world preparing to sail on the freedom flotilla to Gaza. If anyone has doubts about the motivations of the people taking this particular risk for the benefit of a besieged people and freedom.”
https://worldbeyondwar.org/200-caring-people-are-ready-to-sail-on-the-freedom-flotilla-to-gaza/
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President Joe Biden — — — go fuck yourself!!! Take your false accusations and shove them your old crusty ass!!!
“On Monday, President Biden smeared protesters at college campuses around the country opposed to the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as “antisemitic.””
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/22/president-biden-smears-pro-palestinian-protesters-as-antisemitic/
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“Journalists at the paper were asked to avoid the terms “genocide,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “occupied territory.” Indeed, over the past six months, newspapers and television shows in the United States have generally written about the genocidal violence using passive voice: bombs fell, people died. Even on social media, where the terrain is often less controlled, the ax fell on key phrases; for instance, despite his professions of commitment to free speech, Elon Musk said that terms such as “decolonization” and phrases such as “from the river to the sea” would be banned on X.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/elites-in-the-global-north-are-scared-to-talk-about-palestine/
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“The latter bill also passed overwhelmingly in a 360–58 vote. Dubbed the “21st Century Peace through Strength Act,” the law will allow the White House to bring new sanctions on Russia and Iran, as well as ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing platform TikTok unless its parent company, ByteDance, divests its foreign ownership stakes. The same bill also authorizes the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Kiev, after Washington opted to seize Moscow’s US-based funds in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Libertarian-leaning Rep. Thomas Massie, who voted down all four bills, condemned Speaker Johnson following Saturday’s session, saying he was “sharing the GOP Speakership with Democrats” while suggesting he had colluded with the rival party to ram through the Ukraine aid.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/20/house-passes-95-billion-foreign-war-bills/
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“Most Americans do not want our government to write a blank check to further Prime Minister Netanyahu’s war in Gaza,” a group of nearly 20 of the 37 no-voting lawmakers said.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/historic-number-dems-vote-no-israel
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“Enough is enough,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “We cannot continue to fund this horrific war.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-military-funding-israel
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“Israeli strikes hit the southern Gaza city of Rafah Saturday night into Sunday morning, killing 22 people, including 18 children, The Associated Press reported.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/21/israeli-strikes-kill-22-in-rafah-including-18-children/
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Sounds like a scene straight out of the Holocaust:
Mass graves of people mutilated and bound means Israeli soldiers are acting exactly like the fucking Nazis. Israeli Nazis, how sad and pathetic.
“Palestinian rescue workers said they found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands bound and others with their skin, organs, or heads removed.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mass-grave-gaza-nasser-hospital
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“A mass grave created by the IDF has been uncovered at a Gaza hospital, where Palestinian civilians appear to have been the victims of a gruesome massacre.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-turning-hospitals-into
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“”Hospitals are entitled to very special protection under international humanitarian law,” said Volker Türk, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/un-rights-chief-mass-graves
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“As Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza unfolds, the spectre of Yosef Weitz lives on, writes Stefan Moore.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/23/israels-architect-of-ethnic-cleansing/
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“Palestinian rescue workers said they found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands bound and others with their skin, organs, or heads removed.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/mass-grave-gaza-nasser-hospital
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“The hypocrisy of the United States government knows no limits. On April 18, a proposal was submitted to the United Nations Security Council to admit Palestine as a full member, thus effectively recognizing the state of Palestine. Of the fifteen members of the Security Council, twelve voted in favor, two abstained, and the United States, using its veto power, opposed it. This, after frantic lobbying by the U.S. of the other nations on the Security Council to convince at least one of them to vote with the U.S., so the U.S. would not have to stand alone, again, in its support for the apartheid regime of Israel.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/united-states-hypocrisy-again/
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“While occasionally, softly, and grudgingly calling for “restraint” from all parties, Washington has continued its policy of supporting the Israeli regime no matter what it does, and blaming Israel’s adversaries for every Bad Thing that happens in the Middle East.
The US and Israeli regimes remain in a bear hug through which not so much as a single ray of daylight passes. And THAT makes the world more dangerous.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/us-foreign-policy-no-daylight-is-where-peace-dies-in-darkness/
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“For example, take the word “terrorism.” The New York Times regularly refers the Hamas regime as “terrorists,” while describing the far more extensive Israeli acts of state terrorism as “military operations.” Since October 7th, the Israeli military superpower has killed over 500 times more children than Hamas killed in their raid through a still uninvestigated collapse of Israel’s vaunted multi-tiered border security.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/22/palestinians-as-the-others/
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“The latest strikes on the southern Gaza city bring laws governing U.S. transfers of weaponry into the spotlight, reports Jake Johnson.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/22/idf-kills-18-kids-hours-after-house-votes-billions-to-israel/
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“They’re hunting civilians with armed quadcopters in Gaza.
The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them.
This is reportedly happening at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, where people live in total darkness at night and have no connection to the outside world.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-gaza-the-sniper-drones-are-crying
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“The appalling spike in settler violence against Palestinians in recent days is part of a decadeslong state-backed campaign to dispossess, displace, and oppress Palestinians in the occupied West Bank,” said one Amnesty official.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-settler-attacks-west-bank
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“The U.S. House on Saturday passed a bill including a prohibition on funding the agency, due to Israel’s unsubstantiated claims that UNRWA employees have terrorism links.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/unrwa-2667835600
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“A nation that acts as a hegemon leads a community that it is a part of with the consent of that community because of shared goals and values. A nation that aims beyond hegemony for primacy thwarts the ambitions of the international community in pursuit of its own goals.”
https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2024/04/21/palestine-and-iran-american-hegemony-as-self-interest/
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“On Earth Day, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers donning their environmentalist hats, waxing poetic about their love for the planet while disregarding the devastation their actions wreak. The harsh reality is that alongside their hollow pledges lies a trail of destruction fueled by military aggression and imperial ambitions, all under the guise of national security”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/21/war-genocide-on-earth-day/
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“The Israeli prime minister has a history of encouraging Washington to get involved in Middle Eastern conflicts.”
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/benjamin-netanyahu-pushing-war-iran-210604
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“The mass food drive for Gaza was also a campaign to contest the growth of Christian Zionism in the country and deepen ties with the Palestinian struggle.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/22/vijay-prashad-landless-brazilians-gaza/
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“Direct retaliatory strikes mark a new phase of the Islamic Republic’s conflict with Israel.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/22/asad-abukhalil-irans-strategic-patience-is-spent/
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“The clusterf*ck in the US House of Representatives this past weekend is surely the final straw. The dreadful grip of the UniParty on national security policy has finally produced sheer madness in a single package.”
https://original.antiwar.com/David_Stockman/2024/04/23/the-unipartys-day-of-infamy/
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“Even though well aware of Kiev’s glorification of Nazi butchers and its current terrorist activities, Congress still voted for $61 billion to support Zelensky’s despotic regime.”
https://john365.substack.com/p/more-than-just-war-profiteering-the
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““We’re already seeing things on the battlefield begin to shift a bit in Russia’s favor,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Congress last week. On the eastern front, according to Ukrainian military leader Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukrainian positions have “worsened significantly in recent days.”
Even if, miraculously, the US and its partners can overcome Ukraine’s disadvantage in artillery shells and air defenses, no amount of money can manufacture the soldiers needed to fire them.”
https://www.aaronmate.net/p/more-billions-for-war-profiteers
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“It has been a while since the United States won a war. It looks as though we are about to lose yet another one — the war in Ukraine. This is a proxy war justified as an effort to “weaken and isolate” Russia. Our strategic defeat in this effort now leaves us with three unpalatable alternatives. We can continue to support Ukraine as Russia grinds it to bits and reduces it further in size and population. We can escalate the war, as French President Emmanuel Macron has advocated, despite the Russian threat to answer us with counter-escalation, possibly to the nuclear level. Or we can face up to failure and save what we can of Ukraine by negotiating with Russia. I know which of these choices I would prefer, and I suspect you do too. And, however this unwise and unnecessary war ends, we need to ensure that there are no more like it in future.
They say that a mistake is only a mistake if you don’t learn from it. Our country has recently made a lot of mistakes in its foreign policies. Sadly, we don’t seem to be learning much of anything from this experience. We have instead invented something uniquely American called a “forever war.” Such wars routinely fail. Still, we keep launching them.”
https://original.antiwar.com/Chas_Freeman/2024/04/22/what-can-we-learn-from-our-forever-war-in-ukraine/
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“The peace movement recognizes that, although Hamas’s action of October 7 came as a surprise, it did not simply erupt out of the blue. The uprising had a 75-year gestation starting with the Nakba of 1948 and the establishment of the settler colonialist State of Israel.
Initially, there was less clarity regarding the events in Ukraine of February 24, 2022. With research and reflection, most of the movement came to understand the conflict did not begin that day. The supposedly “unprovoked” Russian intervention in Ukraine was sparked by NATO moving closer and closer to the Russian border, the 2014 Maidan coup, the sabotage of the Minsk agreements, etc.”
https://original.antiwar.com/Roger_Harris/2024/04/23/the-north-american-peace-movement-at-an-inflection-point/
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“We don’t need psychoanalysis or self-serving cheerleading about how ‘indispensable’ America is. We need sober advice on how to responsibly back off.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-global-leadership/
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Brian Berletic: “US Passes $61 Billion Ukraine Spending Bill But Lacks Arms/Ammunition to Send in Sufficient Amounts”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VpZO2fbumk
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“The “blood-drenched arms traders” (Pope Francis) won big today, as the House voted to throw billions more good money after bad at the MICIMATT, while calling those billions “support for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan”. Surely time to sing loudly the MICIMATT song.”
https://raymcgovern.com/2024/04/20/blood-drenched-arms-traders-win-again/
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Ukraine will lose the war and nothing can change that fact now. Sending U.S. military advisors to Ukraine will only help get them killed.
“The US is considering increasing its small military presence in Ukraine by sending up to 60 additional military advisers, POLITICO reported on Saturday, the same day the House approved $61 billion in spending for the proxy war.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/21/us-considering-sending-military-advisers-to-ukraine/
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Why do Democrats love the Nazis of Ukraine but hate them in Charlottesville? Partisan politics that’s why.
“The Senate is expected to pass $61 billion in spending for the proxy war on Tuesday, then Biden will sign it into law”
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/04/22/us-planning-larger-than-normal-weapons-package-for-ukraine-that-will-include-armored-vehicles/
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“Our ruling class is far along in creating a simplistic good vs evil narrative which they hope to get into the history books — should anyone survive to write them — but for those of us living through it, it’s obvious the only cause would be the madness of today’s rulers. The most devastating of wars do not commonly arise out of unsolvable problems, but from rulers who refuse to solve them. Further, the drive towards oblivion is usually obvious to many observers, even if the rulers and much of the public are caught in a jingoistic mania. Things are just the same today."
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/world-war-iii-isnt-preordained-no-matter-what-they-say/
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“Let me start with this caveat — If the following report is true, the war in Ukraine has entered a new realm of danger. Dima (not my Brazilian buddy Nima) reports that French troops are now on the ground in Odessa.
This is insane. Macron is ignoring history and playing a dangerous game of Russian Roulette. Only all of the chambers of the revolver are loaded. Many of these French soldiers will die or fall wounded. And for what?”
https://sonar21.com/france-reportedly-ups-the-ante-in-the-war-with-russia/
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“The Armenian prime minister may not know it, but he is playing a dangerous game.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/leading-armenia-down-the-primrose-path/
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“The historical record shows that, in his over two decades in power, Putin has not “kept going.” When Russian forces have been deployed, they have been limited to specific objectives when they could have easily kept going, as in Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, when military conquest could have been accomplished with ease.
The second is that Putin has said as much. Putin is often quoted as saying that “people in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart.” The second part of his statement is quoted less often: “And those that do regret it have no brain.””
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-putin-bent-on-conquering-europe/
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“The American brand will suffer so long as Washington pretends its capacities are limitless.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-it-game-set-match-to-moscow/
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“There has been a lot of talk about the Russian Zircon/Tsirkon missile recently, particularly in light of strikes on Kiev in late March that were said to have used it. Since then, there have been several high level efforts from experts to delve into the precise details of the missile’s operation and secretive characteristics.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/3m22-zircon-debunking-misconceptions
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“NATO’s crisis can be summarized as this:
First, the geopolitical formations that existed following the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact no longer exist.
Second, the main aspect of the new global competition cannot be reduced to military terms. Rather, it is economic.
Third, Europe is now largely dependent on energy sources, trade and even technological integration with countries that the US perceives as enemies: China, Russia and others.
Therefore, if Europe allows itself to subscribe to the US polarized language on what constitutes enemies and allies it will pay a heavy price, especially as EU economies are already struggling under the weight of continued wars and constant disruption of energy supplies.”
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/22/natos-never-ending-war-the-75-year-old-bully-is-faltering/
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“The U.S. is not the most powerful country in the world anymore.”
https://raymcgovern.com/2024/04/21/reality-check-for-the-warmongering-president/
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“Seven years ago, then President Trump launched a U.S. trade war on China. In accordance with contemporary American praxis, this was a “forever war” — a constantly widening and escalating campaign with an ever-heavier military component, open-ended objectives, no criteria for judging success or failure, and no strategy for its termination.
Seven years into open economic and technological war on China, it is surely time to take stock of results to date. So, I want to address the many ways in which Sino-American antagonism is changing China, Asia, the United States, and the world politico-economic order.”
https://chasfreeman.net/the-fruits-of-discord-seven-years-of-sino-american-antagonism/
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The Duran: Preventing Ukraine collapse during US election:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icCOlWLQJsk
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The Duran: “Sahra Wagenknecht and the new left in Germany”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-XzfGlPi0c
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The Duran on Ukraine and Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZdsMZry9U8
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The Duran on China and Blinken:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhpaw0SoLXw
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“Iran and Israel at war? — Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yk08rSj5Tc
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“Theodore Postol is Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT on Iran’s recent attack.”
https://sonar21.com/ted-postols-analysis-of-irans-missile-attack-on-israel/
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Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Former USMC Captain and State Department official Matthew Hoh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzOssB-U4Fs
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Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIf8ZiBPNwA&t=923s
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Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9TvCvRGMrg
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Judge Napolitano with former British diplomat Alastair Crooke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks5xtVM0NpY
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Judge Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1J4vnVFJGc
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Judge Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6MtZO694Xo
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Judge Napolitano with former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWXyfFen--o&t=2s
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Judge Napolitano with Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JZ7ETAjIeI
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Judge Napolitano with former State Department Official and USMC Captain Matthew Hoh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLVvEWhhKvU&t=8s
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Judge Napolitano with former Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cuiclFzNck
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Judge Napolitano with Kyle Anzalone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG37NaExv_0
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Danny Haiphong with Scott Ritter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqiQtDs_L0
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Garland Nixon on NATO, Ukraine and Iran:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8LeS0lf7XQ
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“When future historians go searching for the final nail in the US coffin, they may well settle on the date April 20, 2024.
On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what’s left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the US president the power to shut down whatever part of the Internet he disagrees with.”
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2024/04/22/final-nail-in-americas-coffin/
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“A new report exposes a largely unknown fellowship that gives major arms companies outsized influence in defense policy.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/pentagon-corporate-america/
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Danny Haiphong with The Duran:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlA7cIyKaNg
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“Meanwhile, Iran has accelerated its nuclear research and its potential production facilities, amassing large stockpiles of uranium that, as the Washington Post reports, “could be converted to weapons-grade fuel for at least three bombs in a time frame ranging from a few days to a few weeks.””
https://original.antiwar.com/Bob_Dreyfuss/2024/04/23/handling-and-mishandling-the-iran-nuclear-program/
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“Can we get some healthcare please, or maybe feed some of the 40 million+ Americans who can’t get enough food?” asked the watchdog group Public Citizen.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-spending-record-high
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“An evocative exhibition at the E.U. parliament, which ran from April 2 to 5, transcended the physical confines of the military prison, offering a poignant glimpse into the lives of those ensnared within its walls.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/art-from-guantanamo
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“Prohibition is akin to expecting long-term victory in a game of Whack-a-Mole.”
https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Galen_Carpenter/2024/04/22/yet-another-drug-war-failure/
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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).
