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CALENDAR: Counter-Inaugural Bawl Ball in Tacoma - Sat., Jan. 21 @ 7pm

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Written by Mark Jensen
Published: 16 December 2016

Together with several other groups UFPPC is co-sponsoring a Counter-Inaugural Bawl Ball on the evening of Sat., Jan. 21.[1]  --  A $10 cover fee includes memorable party favors!  --  The event will be held at the Asia Pacific Cultural Center starting at 7:00 p.m.  --  Music will be provided by a local dance band, The Derivatives -- descended from The Disclaimers, who graced similar events 2005 and 2009.  --  No-host bar & all attire welcome.  --  If funds raised exceed costs, the balance will be donated to several local groups (to be announced).  --  RSVP appreciated (but not required) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the number of people in the subject line....

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ESSAY: Reflections on 10 years of marching for peace (Kristi Nebel)

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Written by Kristi Nebel
Published: 07 November 2016

The 2016 Veterans Day parade in Auburn is the largest west of the Mississippi.  --  After marching for the tenth straight year with the Tacoma Chapter of Veterans for Peace on Saturday, Kristi Nebel wrote up her reflections for the UFPPC website.[1]  --  "I think a parade is a very curious event," she said.  --  "I consider it to be a very elemental thing, an almost primitive display of people just walking in front of other people.  --  Yet it evokes such a powerful response.  --  A quiet little thunderbolt erupts in some of them as their eyes alight on the words 'Veterans for Peace.'"  ...  

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LECTURE: The political rhetoric of perpetual war

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Written by Bill Bridges
Published: 26 September 2016

In this essay, recently retired UW-Tacoma prof Rob Crawford analyzes the presidential campaign rhetoric of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.  --  He concludes:  "Clinton is committed to the ideology of American exceptionalism; Trump is hoping to win over the nationalist, whatever-it-takes, xenophobic sector of the electorate; he wants to rip off this mask of justification which has been the ideological foundation of the national security state and put in its place the justification of 'what’s in it for us.'"  --  "[U]nlike Clinton, Trump’s entire candidacy is a call to war."  --  As for ISIS, "both candidates . . . have embraced the proposition that ISIS poses a grave and imminent threat to the U.S. and they have pledged to 'defeat and destroy' it. . . . This is the recipe for a 'forever war' with ISIS or with its next incarnation."[1]  --  Crawford's essay is adapted from a talk delivered to a meeting of the Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation on Sept. 18; it was posted by CounterPunch on Sept. 26....

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  2. BACKGROUND: Understanding where pandemics come from
  3. FORUM: 'There has never been U.S. isolationism' (Andrew Bacevich)
  4. BOOKS: Winston Churchill, the adulatory legend and the elusive reality
  5. BACKGROUND: Are we going to Scarborough Shoal?
  6. NEWS: Erdogan using failed coup to recast Turkey's national myth & supplant Ataturk
  7. SCIENCE: Information theory was useless in cracking the genetic code
  8. BOOKS: US geostrategists differ on everything except that US will & must remain supreme
  9. BOOKS: NYT reviewer cheers proposal to expand US military, bring back draft
  10. ANALYSIS: Drone warfare erases boundary between war & peace

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