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David William Pear
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David is a columnist writing on foreign affairs, economic, and political and social issues. He is an honorary Associate Editor of The Greanville Post, and a former Senior Editor of OpEdNews.com. His articles have been published by OpEdNews, The Real News Network, Truth Out, Consortium News, Global Research, The American Herald Tribune, and many other publications.
He is active in social issues relating to peace, race relations and religious freedom, homelessness and equal justice. David is a member of Veterans for Peace, Saint Pete for Peace, CodePink, and International Solidarity Movement.
In 2019 David spent 2 months in Russia on one of his frequent people-to-people peace missions. In 2017 David spent 3 weeks in South Korea researching the Korean War of 1950 to 1953. In 2016 David spent 10 weeks in Palestine with the Palestinian lead non-violent resistance group International Solidarity Movement, and returned again in 2018. In February of 2015 he was part of a people-to-people delegation to Cuba with CodePink. In November of 2015 he was a delegate with CodePink to Palestine to show solidarity with Palestinians.
David has a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Maryland and attended classes at George Washington University for a certification as a financial planner (CFP). He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania program as a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA).
David is a Special Forces combat veteran of the illegal U.S. war of aggression against the people of Vietnam. In 1999 he returned to Vietnam for 3 weeks on a mission of reconciliation and peace.
In 2009 David retired from Morgan Stanley after 35 years as a Senior Vice President, CIMA and CFP.
David resides in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. His hobbies include boating, RV'ing and motorcycle touring. He is also a licensed skydiver (USPA-inactive), with over 300 free-fall parachute jumps.
[His articles are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License.]
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Let's Declare a Pandemic Amnesty SHARE
The Atlantic--- Emily Oster
I have been reflecting on this lack of knowledge thanks to a class I’m co-teaching at Brown University on COVID. We’ve spent several lectures reliving the first year of the pandemic, discussing the many important choices we had to make under conditions of tremendous uncertainty."
Some of these choices turned out better than others.
But the thing is: We didn’t know.
FBI Asks Court for 66 Years to Release Information From Seth Rich's Computer SHARE
The FBI is asking a U.S. court to reverse its order that it produce information from Seth Rich's laptop computer.
If the court does not, the bureau wants 66 years to produce the information.
Rich was a Democratic National Committee staffer when he was killed on a street in Washington in mid-2016. No person has ever been arrested in connection to the murder.
The FBI, after claiming it never possessed Rich’s laptop or any information from it, acknowledged in 2020 that it had thousands of files from the computer.
U.S. Liberal Democrats Urge Biden to Seek Negotiated Ukraine Settlement SHARE
U.S. liberal Democrats Urge Biden to Seek Negotiated Ukraine Settlement
Thirty members of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Progressive Caucus have urged President Joe Biden to “pursue direct diplomacy” to seek a negotiated settlement to end the war in Ukraine.
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Pfizer Didn't Know if Covid Vaccine Stopped Transmission SHARE
A senior Pfizer executive has admitted that the drug company did not know whether its Covid vaccine prevented transmission of the virus when it began rolling out the shots globally.
Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, was testifying before the European Union Parliament on Monday when she was asked the question by Dutch MEP Rob Roos.
— appearing in the place of Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla, who had been called to testify but pulled out of the hearing earlier this month — replied that the company had to “move at the speed of science”.
What Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson Don't Understand About War - The Atlantic SHARE
The success of the Ukrainian military over the past few months, along with the evolution of the Ukrainian state itself toward a more tolerant, more liberal norm, reveals what makes a better army in the modern world. Brains mean more than brawn, and adaptability means more than mindless aggression. Openness to new ideas and new equipment, along with the ability to learn quickly, is far more important than a simple desire to kill.
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Exposed: Covert Pro-Western Info Op SHARE
Declassified Australia’s Peter Cronau flags and analyzes a report by researchers at Stanford University and Graphika about a massive secret propaganda operation being run out of the U.S. The report, from late August, has been buried by the Western media.
A covert online propaganda operation said to be the world’s largest promoting “pro-Western narratives” has been found to be operating primarily out of the United States, targeting Russia, China and Iran.
The Democratic Party, Now the Leading Party of War SHARE
Last May a remarkable column by Stephen Kinzer appeared in the Boston Globe. It was headlined: "Republicans Return To Their Roots As The Antiwar -
More significantly, the subheading ran: "Since the Vietnam era, Americans have come to expect antiwar rhetoric from liberal Democrats. Cancel that." It began:
"With Americans now engulfed in passion for Ukraine, it wasn’t surprising that President Biden proposed sending $33 billion worth of weaponry and other aid to Ukraine’s beleaguered military. Nor was it surprising that Congress raised the number to $40 billion, or that both the Senate and House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor. Hidden within that lopsided vote, though, was a shocker: Every single "no" vote – 11 in the Senate and 57 in the House – came from a Republican.
US, UK Sabotaged Peace Deal Because They "Don't care about Ukraine" SHARE
Former Swiss intelligence officer and NATO adviser Jacques Baud on the next phase of the Russia-Ukraine war and new allegations that the US and UK undermined a peace deal that could have ended it.
The West's aim "is not the victory of Ukraine, It's the defeat of Russia," Baud says. "The problem is that nobody cares about Ukraine. We have just instrumentalized Ukraine for the purpose of US strategic interests -- not even European interests."
German Broadcaster DW Adopts Commitment to Israel in Code of Conduct SHARE
In its code of conduct DW says that it stands for "freedom, democracy and human rights" which it describes as being a "cornerstones of our journalistic and development message and profile". Promoting itself as a progressive organisation, the broadcaster adds: "We advocate the values of freedom and, wherever we are, take independent and clear positions, especially against any and all kinds of discrimination including sexism, racism and antisemitism."
Explaining its reason for granting Israel a special and privileged protective status not shown to anyone else, DW says: "Due to Germany's history, we have a special obligation towards Israel," and states that "Germany's historical responsibility for the Holocaust is also a reason for which we support the right of Israel to exist."
The intolerance toward any criticism of Israel in DW's code of conduct has sparked a debate about the contradiction between the broadcaster's commitment to universal values and what it calls "its special obligation towards Israel".
Address by the President of the Russian Federation SHARE
The subject of this address is the situation in Donbass and the course of the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine in 2014 as the result of an armed state coup. --
-- the aggressive policy of some Western elites, who are doing their utmost to preserve their domination and with this aim in view are trying to block and suppress any sovereign and independent development --
-- The goal of that part of the West is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy our country. They are saying openly --
High School Defends Transgender Teacher with Large Prosthetic Breasts SHARE
Kayla Lemieux, a teacher in Ontario, Canada, began her transition a year ago
The school has defended her and said they want the site to be safe for all
The manufacturing technology teacher went viral on social media this week
Kayla Lemieux, a Manufacturing Technology teacher at a school in Ontario, has been pictured online taking classes while wearing the prosthetics, which stretch her clothing and stick out prominently.
Main Steele Dossier Source Igor Danchenko was FBI Operative SHARE
The Russian analyst charged with lying to the FBI about his role in the infamous “Steele dossier” was allegedly a paid confidential human source for the agency, a newly unsealed court filing revealed Tuesday.
Igor Danchenko became a paid FBI informant in March 2017 — months after the feds started questioning him over his involvement in the dossier on former President Donald Trump, according to the filing by special counsel John Durham.
Danchenko, a Russian-born lawyer living in Virginia, was arrested in November last year as part of Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s Russia investigation.
Covid and the Political Bankruptcy of the Alternative Media SHARE
For decades, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University has ranked as a pillar of our academic establishment, and in 2020 he was selected to chair our Covid Commission, created to investigate all aspects of the deadly epidemic that had taken so many millions of lives.
In May, he co-authored an article in the prestigious PNAS journal presenting the strong evidence that the Covid virus had been bioengineered and calling for an independent investigation of its true origins, a dramatic pronouncement ignored by almost all Western media outlets.
-- alternative outlets have chosen to boycott Prof. Sachs almost as thoroughly as have their mainstream counterparts -- if this continues, alternative media will have revealed itself to be politically bankrupt and useless on a public issue of the greatest global importance, --
"Updated" Covid-19 mRNA Injections Approved After Testing on 8 Mice and 0 Humans SHARE
On August 31, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of both the Moderna Covid-19 injection and the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 injection. The EUAs now include the use of new “bivalent vaccines”, also known as “updated boosters”, that contain mRNA from the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 as well as a shared mRNA component of the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of the Omicron variant.
These regulatory agencies have neglected to inform the public that no human studies were done before the approval of the new “updated boosters” and that the clinical study referenced included only eight mice. This is both unprecedented and reckless.
Judge Orders Fauci to Cough It Up SHARE
A lawsuit against the federal government – Anthony Fauci in particular – from the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana has been brewing for a good part of the summer of 2022. The issue concerns the censoring of certain high-level experts on social media --
At issue is whether and to what extent the government itself has had a hand in encouraging tech companies to squelch speech rights. If so, this is unconstitutional. --
It is of course true that any private company can regulate itself and make terms of use. But matters are different when its managers directly collude with government agencies to distribute only information of high priority to administrative bureaucrats while censoring dissident voices at the behest of government and its interests.
UK Households Worst Hit in Western Europe SHARE
Heavy reliance on gas is behind price surge, with the impact on poorest households also the worst in Europe
The energy crisis is hitting UK household budgets harder than any country in western Europe, according to analysis by the International Monetary Fund. The difference between the cost burden on poor and rich households is also far more unequal in the UK compared with other countries.
2019 RAND Paper Warned US of Failure During Ukraine Conflict SHARE
Extending Russia, Competing from Advantageous Ground: The Rand Corporation, 2019
Geopolitical measures to bait Russia into overextending itself are likely impractical, or they risk second-order consequences
This report examines a range of possible means to extend Russia. As the 2018 National Defense Strategy recognized, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage.
(View below video on Odessee)
Lockdown effects feared to be killing more people than Covid SHARE
The effects of lockdown may now be killing more people than are dying of Covid, official statistics suggest.
Figures for excess deaths from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that around 1,000 more people than usual are currently dying each week from conditions other than the virus.
The Telegraph understands that the Department of Health has ordered an investigation into the figures amid concern that the deaths are linked to delays to and deferment of treatment for conditions such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Over the past two months, the number of excess deaths not from Covid dwarfs the number linked to the virus. It comes amid renewed calls for Covid measures such as compulsory face masks in the winter.
But the figures suggest the country is facing a new silent health crisis linked to the pandemic response rather than to the virus itself.
Zuckerberg Reveals the FBI Told His Company to be Wary of "Russian Disinformation" SHARE
Recently, I wrote about the disclosure of an alleged backchannel between the CDC and Twitter on censoring critics of the agency and its recommendations. Now, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed how the FBI warned Facebook about "Russian propaganda" before the Hunter Biden laptop story dropped in 2020. This follows reports that the FBI told agents…
Walensky, Citing Botched Pandemic Response, Calls for C.D.C. Reorganization SHARE
Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Wednesday delivered a sweeping rebuke of her agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it had failed to respond quickly enough and needed to be overhauled.
“To be frank, we are responsible for some pretty dramatic, pretty public mistakes, from testing to data to communications,” she said ---
It remains unclear whether Dr. Walensky, an infectious disease expert whom President Biden picked to lead the agency in December 2020, can bring about the changes many see as necessary ---
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