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Mastering Deception and the Hegemonic Code

Back in the ‘80’s of the last century, we spent more than a decade documenting the impact of U.S. foreign, military and nuclear policies on the island nations and peoples of the Pacific.

We start GREEP Zoom #203 with a gorgeous poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, enhanced by our meeting on BEETHOVEN’S birthday.

We then, with a shout-out from MYLA RESON, visit the horrendous case of LEONARD PELTIER, as well as the one of STEVE DONZIGER.

TATANKA BRICCA promises to contact CHASE IRON EYES for next week’s gathering.

JOHN STEINER reminds us that 34 Members of Congress have written Biden asking for Leonard’s freedom.

KARLA SAND and HEDY TRIPP report in from Minnesota on choices for a new Chair of the Democratic National Committee.

The great JERRY ASHTON reports in on his campaign to erase medical debt, having helped retire many billions in medical debt.

We are then joined by the great GREG PALAST who tells us what we do & do not know about mass disenfranchisement in the 2024 election.

ELENA RUMIANTSEVA, LYNN FEINERMAN, CHARLOTTE DENNETT, DONALD SMITH also contribute important insights.

Engineer STEVE CARUSO adds his belief that all is not well with the 2024 outcome.

YONNA PATTON & STELLA FAIR introduce the diversity issue to our screen.

ROB KALL checks in from Op Ed News.

Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a different kind of censorship, with consequences that can only be described as dire. 

 Long before the current devastating war on Gaza and the escalation of Israeli violence and repression in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices have been censored. 

 Some date the censorship to an agreement in 2016 that, according to the Israeli government, sought to “force social networks to remove content that Israel considers to be incitement.”

In thousands of movies and tv shows, a future is imagined in which full-grown adult humans with less self-control than toddlers both get into fist fights at the drop of a hat and possess the technology to obliterate entire cities or planets at the touch of a button. The fantasy of living in outerspace certainly does not help us preserve the one place we know how to live. But the most damaging fantasy here is that of maintaining widespread acceptance of violence and continuing to exist into an age of easy annihilation by the decision of a random person or of a machine. Our current luck — the number of times we have nearly had a nuclear war and avoided it — is almost unbelievable. The luck that would be required for much of science fiction to exist is not believable at all.

Nuclear Danger
Countless observers believe that we are right now closer to nuclear war than ever before. There are a number of reasons to take this seriously:

Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road to Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising. 

 Though annexation has been on the Israeli agenda for years, this time around a 'great opportunity' - in the words of extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich - has presented itself and, from an Israeli point of view, cannot be missed.