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Memorial Day Reflections from a Vietnam War US Medic Veteran & Seeking Honest Casualty Rates: Release Lira! Part II

On Memorial Day we share reflections from Alan Pogue a Vietnam Medic and Chaplain assistant on how to honor the memories of the fallen. Alan Pogue co-founder of the Austin Chapter of Veterans for Peace also is on KOOP Radio’s Community Council and describes his experiences in Vietnam including the 1968 Tet Offensive.
We also highlight an important development over the last couple of years, namely that while US foreign policy has a long history of promoting war and conflict since post WWII that has promoted and sought to maintain a US unipolar economic and military dominance in the world, we have been sidelined as China and Russia, as proof of an emerging multi polar world, have been instrumental in promoting diplomatic reconciliation between Syria and Turkey, between Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as between Saudi Arabia and Syria. Meanwhile, the Yemen – Saudi Arabia conflict since 2015 is moving towards resolution while the Arab League are welcoming back diplomatic relations with Syria all being brokered by China and or Russia while the US sits on the sideline.
We also return to our focus on jailed and unjust jailing of journalist Gonzalo Lira since 5/1 in Ukraine and share words of his father and those of Alexander Mercouris, editor of the Duran. We return to the issue of casualty rates and suggest that the US public is once again being deceived into believing Russia not Ukraine is suffering debilitating fatality rates. We present our contradictory findings in the form of six different estimates in time from August 2022 through May 2023 that are internally consistent with each other and include military as well as non-military political leaders from all sides of the conflict.
Additionally, we include evidence to suggest that the fatality numbers we believe to be closest to the truth, and which are completely and diametrically opposed by our government and mainstream media provided numbers, are in fact ones whose integrity YOU should pay attention to and consider as trustworthy. That evidence is cited from a March 2023 posting from the Moon of Alabama which documents the number of shellings a reflection of the artillery advantage that Russia has displayed since the initiation of their Special Operation invasion in February 2022. Those numbers are a staggering 10 to 1 ratio (admitted to by both sides) and the author provides proof that past wars casualty rates generally parallel artillery superiority. We suggest this makes the western claims that Russian losses are multiple times greater than Ukraine’s clearly a deceitful misrepresentation.
Please join us tonight as we seek to raise the fog of propaganda and bring light into the darkness our media and government is promoting around the Ukraine war.
Again we believe a potential motive to mislead the US public about these casualty rates is that if the US public knew of the truly one-sided carnage taking place, , as the honorable people we are, we would demand an end to the war. A war that continues because we (our US government) are the primary funders of and therefore are primarily responsible for.
Siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/29/23 pgatos00@gmail.com

Memorial Day Reflections from a Vietnam War US Medic Veteran & Seeking Honest Casualty Rates: Release Lira! Part II

On Memorial Day we share reflections from Alan Pogue a Vietnam Medic and Chaplain assistant on how to honor the memories of the fallen. Alan Pogue co-founder of the Austin Chapter of Veterans for Peace also is on KOOP Radio’s Community Council and describes his experiences in Vietnam including the 1968 Tet Offensive.
We also highlight an important development over the last couple of years, namely that while US foreign policy has a long history of promoting war and conflict since post WWII that has promoted and sought to maintain a US unipolar economic and military dominance in the world, we have been sidelined as China and Russia, as proof of an emerging multi polar world, have been instrumental in promoting diplomatic reconciliation between Syria and Turkey, between Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as between Saudi Arabia and Syria. Meanwhile, the Yemen – Saudi Arabia conflict since 2015 is moving towards resolution while the Arab League are welcoming back diplomatic relations with Syria all being brokered by China and or Russia while the US sits on the sideline.
We also return to our focus on jailed and unjust jailing of journalist Gonzalo Lira since 5/1 in Ukraine and share words of his father and those of Alexander Mercouris, editor of the Duran. We return to the issue of casualty rates and suggest that the US public is once again being deceived into believing Russia not Ukraine is suffering debilitating fatality rates. We present our contradictory findings in the form of six different estimates in time from August 2022 through May 2023 that are internally consistent with each other and include military as well as non-military political leaders from all sides of the conflict.
Additionally, we include evidence to suggest that the fatality numbers we believe to be closest to the truth, and which are completely and diametrically opposed by our government and mainstream media provided numbers, are in fact ones whose integrity YOU should pay attention to and consider as trustworthy. That evidence is cited from a March 2023 posting from the Moon of Alabama which documents the number of shellings a reflection of the artillery advantage that Russia has displayed since the initiation of their Special Operation invasion in February 2022. Those numbers are a staggering 10 to 1 ratio (admitted to by both sides) and the author provides proof that past wars casualty rates generally parallel artillery superiority. We suggest this makes the western claims that Russian losses are multiple times greater than Ukraine’s clearly a deceitful misrepresentation.
Please join us tonight as we seek to raise the fog of propaganda and bring light into the darkness our media and government is promoting around the Ukraine war.
Again we believe a potential motive to mislead the US public about these casualty rates is that if the US public knew of the truly one-sided carnage taking place, , as the honorable people we are, we would demand an end to the war. A war that continues because we (our US government) are the primary funders of and therefore are primarily responsible for.
Siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/29/23 pgatos00@gmail.com

Preventable Misery: The Breadth, Consequences and Harm of Economic Sanctions with Dr. Francisco Rodriguez


Over the past six decades, there has been significant growth in the use of economic sanctions by Western powers with the overwhelming majority not endorsed by the UN. In 1960 less than 4 percent of countries were subject to sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union, or United Nations in the early 1960s; today, that share has risen to some 29 percent of world GDP and some two billion or more persons. In other words, more than one fourth of countries and nearly a third of the world economy are now subject to sanctions by the UN or Western nations.
Joining us tonight is the esteemed economist Dr Francisco Rodriguez, the Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. A native of Venezuela, he is also the founder of Oil for Venezuela, a non-profit organization focused on finding solutions to Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. We review the findings of his comprehensive study recently released on 5/4/2023 by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) entitled The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions. It reviews the findings of the thirty plus studies that have examined the same subject.
Sanctions, especially those not endorsed by the UN Security Council can be seen as a regressive act of economic war. It is an act of war because it is a direct attack on the welfare of an entire population not just those you seek to sanction. They directly attack the economic and nutritional well-being of the majority population through its main mechanism pf cutting off the government from foreign currency.
What we will learn in our show tonight is that when foreign currency is drastically reduced it means cutting back on government spending for health care. It means cutting back on government spending on education. It means cutting back on government spending for public services. It means cutting back on government spending for food assistance. It means cutting back on government spending for pensions. And perhaps its most pernicious aspect is that although it hurts everyone, it particularly disproportionately harms the most vulnerable within the sanctioned nation. Think about that. It is not just an act of economic war on a nation, it is regressive in that it disproportionately harms the most vulnerable.
Please join us tonight for important insights into how sanctions impact close to one third of the world population, are not supported by a another third of the world yet there is barely a peep of discussion within our mainstream media (MSM).
Siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/15/23 pgatos00@gmail.com

Preventable Misery: The Breadth, Consequences and Harm of Economic Sanctions with Dr. Francisco Rodriguez


Over the past six decades, there has been significant growth in the use of economic sanctions by Western powers with the overwhelming majority not endorsed by the UN. In 1960 less than 4 percent of countries were subject to sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union, or United Nations in the early 1960s; today, that share has risen to some 29 percent of world GDP and some two billion or more persons. In other words, more than one fourth of countries and nearly a third of the world economy are now subject to sanctions by the UN or Western nations.
Joining us tonight is the esteemed economist Dr Francisco Rodriguez, the Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. A native of Venezuela, he is also the founder of Oil for Venezuela, a non-profit organization focused on finding solutions to Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. We review the findings of his comprehensive study recently released on 5/4/2023 by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) entitled The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions. It reviews the findings of the thirty plus studies that have examined the same subject.
Sanctions, especially those not endorsed by the UN Security Council can be seen as a regressive act of economic war. It is an act of war because it is a direct attack on the welfare of an entire population not just those you seek to sanction. They directly attack the economic and nutritional well-being of the majority population through its main mechanism pf cutting off the government from foreign currency.
What we will learn in our show tonight is that when foreign currency is drastically reduced it means cutting back on government spending for health care. It means cutting back on government spending on education. It means cutting back on government spending for public services. It means cutting back on government spending for food assistance. It means cutting back on government spending for pensions. And perhaps its most pernicious aspect is that although it hurts everyone, it particularly disproportionately harms the most vulnerable within the sanctioned nation. Think about that. It is not just an act of economic war on a nation, it is regressive in that it disproportionately harms the most vulnerable.
Please join us tonight for important insights into how sanctions impact close to one third of the world population, are not supported by a another third of the world yet there is barely a peep of discussion within our mainstream media (MSM).
Siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/15/23 pgatos00@gmail.com

Preventable Misery: The Breadth, Consequences and Harm of Economic Sanctions with Dr. Francisco Rodriguez


Over the past six decades, there has been significant growth in the use of economic sanctions by Western powers with the overwhelming majority not endorsed by the UN. In 1960 less than 4 percent of countries were subject to sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union, or United Nations in the early 1960s; today, that share has risen to some 29 percent of world GDP and some two billion or more persons. In other words, more than one fourth of countries and nearly a third of the world economy are now subject to sanctions by the UN or Western nations.
Joining us tonight is the esteemed economist Dr Francisco Rodriguez, the Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. A native of Venezuela, he is also the founder of Oil for Venezuela, a non-profit organization focused on finding solutions to Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. We review the findings of his comprehensive study recently released on 5/4/2023 by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) entitled The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions. It reviews the findings of the thirty plus studies that have examined the same subject.
Sanctions, especially those not endorsed by the UN Security Council can be seen as a regressive act of economic war. It is an act of war because it is a direct attack on the welfare of an entire population not just those you seek to sanction. They directly attack the economic and nutritional well-being of the majority population through its main mechanism pf cutting off the government from foreign currency.
What we will learn in our show tonight is that when foreign currency is drastically reduced it means cutting back on government spending for health care. It means cutting back on government spending on education. It means cutting back on government spending for public services. It means cutting back on government spending for food assistance. It means cutting back on government spending for pensions. And perhaps its most pernicious aspect is that although it hurts everyone, it particularly disproportionately harms the most vulnerable within the sanctioned nation. Think about that. It is not just an act of economic war on a nation, it is regressive in that it disproportionately harms the most vulnerable.
Please join us tonight for important insights into how sanctions impact close to one third of the world population, are not supported by a another third of the world yet there is barely a peep of discussion within our mainstream media (MSM).
Siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/15/23 pgatos00@gmail.com

Preventable Misery: The Breadth, Consequences and Harm of Economic Sanctions with Dr. Francisco Rodriguez


Over the past six decades, there has been significant growth in the use of economic sanctions by Western powers with the overwhelming majority not endorsed by the UN. In 1960 less than 4 percent of countries were subject to sanctions imposed by the United States, European Union, or United Nations in the early 1960s; today, that share has risen to some 29 percent of world GDP and some two billion or more persons. In other words, more than one fourth of countries and nearly a third of the world economy are now subject to sanctions by the UN or Western nations.
Joining us tonight is the esteemed economist Dr Francisco Rodriguez, the Rice Family Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies. A native of Venezuela, he is also the founder of Oil for Venezuela, a non-profit organization focused on finding solutions to Venezuela’s humanitarian crisis. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. We review the findings of his comprehensive study recently released on 5/4/2023 by the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) entitled The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions. It reviews the findings of the thirty plus studies that have examined the same subject.
Sanctions, especially those not endorsed by the UN Security Council can be seen as a regressive act of economic war. It is an act of war because it is a direct attack on the welfare of an entire population not just those you seek to sanction. They directly attack the economic and nutritional well-being of the majority population through its main mechanism pf cutting off the government from foreign currency.
What we will learn in our show tonight is that when foreign currency is drastically reduced it means cutting back on government spending for health care. It means cutting back on government spending on education. It means cutting back on government spending for public services. It means cutting back on government spending for food assistance. It means cutting back on government spending for pensions. And perhaps its most pernicious aspect is that although it hurts everyone, it particularly disproportionately harms the most vulnerable within the sanctioned nation. Think about that. It is not just an act of economic war on a nation, it is regressive in that it disproportionately harms the most vulnerable.
Please join us tonight for important insights into how sanctions impact close to one third of the world population, are not supported by a another third of the world yet there is barely a peep of discussion within our mainstream media (MSM).
Siempre fieles, Pgatos 5/15/23 pgatos00@gmail.com