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Palestinians and Israelis agree that the Gaza resistance was the main reason behind Israel’s forced decision to accept a ceasefire and begin its gradual withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
The oddity is that Palestinians—dying, resisting, but remaining steadfast in Gaza—usually stand at the polar opposite of everything the Israeli government and military represent.
The same is true for the Israeli government. Yet, from the very start of the Israeli genocide, both sides entered into an undeclared agreement: the Israelis wanted to destroy the Palestinian resistance and take full control of Gaza, while the Palestinians wanted to thwart the Israeli objectives.
We launch GREEP Zoom #212 with a lovely poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, who tells us about the feminist community of Rohava in northern Syria.
Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces Prof. ERIC KINGSON takes us on a long journey for saving Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, which he says have deep popular support.
MARGARET VILLANI expresses her concern about the lethal swoop now trashing Medicare & Medicaid.
ELLEN GOTTLIEB from Save Social Security & Medicare Now.com tells us of upcoming Florida events.
Longtime organizer DANIELA GIOSEFFI warns that the dispersal of personal from Social Security & Medicare comprise an urgent threat.
We hear from ROBERT COPLIN on California’s SSI shortcomings.
KEVIN EISENSTADT seeks guidance on the best time to take SSI benefits.
DONALD SMITH and MICKI LEADER warn about the need to sustain public support for these public institutions.
Grassroots organizing questions come from BRYAN BLAKELY.
Environmental broadcaster KEN GALE checks in from WBAI with vital green info about ECO-RADIO.
The Free Press does not make a habit of posting links to articles readily available elsewhere. This is an exception. On Judge Napolitano podcast “Judging Freedom” he interviews former weapons inspector Scott Ritter. About 20 minutes in, Ritter begins to discuss the nuclear arms race with respect to Trump's comments suggesting he can negotiate a treaty in order to reduce our nuclear arsenal.
Ritter says that this is a “Paradigm shifting that we all should support”. Napolitano asks Ritter about the Military Industrial Complex expected push back on Trump's offer to reduce military spending and reduce nuclear weapon. Ritter suggests Trump will castrate the MI complex, and that he has already succeeded in removing deep state obstacles.
Ritter says, and I agree, that this is a “Dream come true”, and points out that there is a “revolution taking place”. T Scott suggests that Trump has already castrated the MI Complex, and that he will be able to put America on a path to achieve peace.
The interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjzocs-2PcQ
It is Presidents’ Day, and President Donald Trump has made a bold statement regarding military spending—one that no other president in modern history has made. He claims he could cut the Pentagon budget by about 50%.
President Trump has suggested a major cut in defense spending, proposing that the United States, Russia, and China each reduce their military budgets by 50%. He has also expressed a desire to begin denuclearization and arms control discussions with both Russia and China to accomplish this objective.
Military contractors poured $4,440,605 into Kamala Harris’s campaign—more than double what they contributed to Donald Trump. Yet, even with the support of establishment figures like Dick Cheney, their favored candidate fell short. The defeat of the military contractor’s candidate may have consequences for the industry.
Now, with President Trump in office and a bold initiative to cut Pentagon spending by 50%, the defense industry faces a challenge unlike any before.
Is It An Inalienable Human Right to Self-Destruct and Take Others With You?
Are a few decades of electric power really worth future millennia of radioactive waste deadly to all living things?
Nuclear Logic
Atomic reactors were originally developed to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. Using the heat of their operation to produce steam pressure to drive turbines to generate electric power was a convenient cover story necessary to overcome people’s fear and repugnance against using nuclear weapons after the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Since nuclear reactors’ inception, over 50 years of repeated official promises to ban nuclear weapons have never been honored.
Every nuclear power reactor in every nuclear nation, and the accumulated radioactive spent fuel from its operation, is a potential nuclear weapon-in-place for saboteurs and terrorists.
Uranium mining, milling, enriching, fuel fabrication and nuclear reactors are also the industrial foundation for nuclear weapons production.
The ‘inalienable right’ to have nuclear power therefore also carries with it the right to make nuclear bombs.