CODEPINK in the News Round-Up: September, 2021

Code Pink and Food Not Bombs Protest, UPI.com, September 12, 2021

On 9/11 Anniversary, Anti-War Group Says 'Cut the Pentagon for People, Planet, and Peace, Common Dreams, September 10, 2021

U.S./Canada Hands Off Venezuela Monthly Online Picket Teri Mattson, Panelist

China’s ‘Very Tricky Situation,’ Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, September 2, 2021

The Toxic Relationship between Oil and the Military, Katya Forsyth andFrederick Kerr, Global Center for Climate Justice, September 2, 2021

Women-led organization CODEPINK criticizes U.S. wars that destroy lives abroad and at home, Li Jingjing, CGTN, September 2, 2021

'Outrageous' and 'Shameful': House Panel Approves $37.5B Boost to Pentagon Budget, Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, September 1, 2021

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eric dynamic commented 2021-09-19 03:55:01 -0400
What never fails to amaze me is the total failure of critical analysis by the news media. We have this:

] HASC Committee Chair Adam Smith:
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] But Smith said Tuesday at an event with the Brookings Institution that he does not have “an enormous amount of sympathy” for those arguments, pointing to the large amounts spent this year on coronavirus relief and the proposed $3.5 trillion in new spending on priorities such as health care, child care, and education. The House also approved seven appropriations bills at the end of July amounting to $770 billion.
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] “I don’t support the argument: ‘Look at the defense budget, oh my gosh we can’t spend another $25 billion because we have all these other priorities,’” he said. “We spend a lot of money on all those other priorities.”

But anyone who gives the least damn about the honest health of the country can attack Smith’s reasoning (which amounts to “yeah, whatever.”)
We can never hear the OBVIOUS OBJECTIONS to such stupid reasoning in the mainstream media.

Yeah, we spend LOTS of money on [things people need], why spend MORE [fixing broken and inequitable things which can indeed use the extra cash to good purpose]?
Smith says “I see no good reason not to WASTE more money on NEEDLESS, DESTRUCTIVE and HARMFUL purposes” and leaves that as “the HASC position”,
and does so with a straight face, the media punting entirely on pointing out that Smith said no more in defense of his position than “yeah, whatever.” Namely,
just because the money we’ve already spent has all been wasted and did no one any good, is not a reason not to waste more money in the same way.

The man holds elected office. I suggest that people who can’t reason properly should not remain in office.

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