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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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Thursday, December 29, 2016Diplomatic Recognition for the State of Palestine Mr. President Obama do what 136 other countries have done: You can grant International Recognition of the State of Palestine by the United States of America.
Wednesday, December 28, 2016Fake News: Obama Scrambles to Save the Peace Process Mr. Obama, recognize the existence of the State of Palestine. Tell Israel to tear down the apartheid wall.
Tuesday, December 27, 2016Netanyahu's Temper Tantrum Israel has been in defiance of international law, UN Resolution 242 and the United Nations Charter for 50 years.
Thursday, November 24, 2016Palestine or Genocide? Israel not only chose apartheid, built a "security wall" (i.e. The Apartheid Wall) to imprison Palestinians in the West Bank, which is now the world's largest outdoor prison, but also continued the criminal pursuit of ethnic cleansing. Israel is an apartheid state and enforces strict segregation of Palestinians, especially in occupied Palestine.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016Progressives Eat Their Own Children Progressives are now eating their own children. They are blaming everybody but themselves for Trump. They are still talking Clinton propaganda that Trump was the fault of Jill Stein, Russian hackers, Wikileaks, and "disloyal" Bernie and Stein supporters. Those that are disloyal to anti-war and progressive principles are those that backed Clinton as the lesser evil.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016Palestine Diary #3 "Five days after Yom Kippur Jews begin the celebration of Succot...While not officially a holiday, the five day period after Yom Kippur leading up to Sukkot are the most dangerous days in the Jewish calendar" [for Palestinians]
Friday, October 14, 2016Palestine Diary #2 Palestine Diary is a series of articles that I am posting as I tour occupied Palestine. I am recording my experiences and stories that I believe to be true. In Palestine the truth and a camera to record it are a most powerful weapon against lies, propaganda, crimes against humanity and the effort to cover them up.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016Palestine Diary of a Tourist (Number 1) Palestine, including the so-called West Bank is a prison...a maximum security prison. The ugly lie is that the Palestinians' movements are being "restricted for security". The truth is that Zionists want all the land...without "Arabs" on it; land without Arabs is much more valuable than land with Arabs on it.
Thursday, September 29, 2016The New York Times Cheers for War with Russia Main stream media anti-Putin propaganda makes a war with Russia almost inevitable. The propaganda today is worse than it was during the Cold War with the USSR. Example: Over 90% of MSM images of Putin are negative, insulting, ridicule or demonize him.
Monday, September 5, 2016Jill Stein Makes Toast of Chris Wallace Fox News Sunday 9-4-2016 Jill Stein makes toast out of Chris Wallace. All Wallace can do is to stammer "ok, let's move on...and sorry we ran out of time"...exposes Hillary and Trump as warmonger profiteers.Compared to Jill even Bernie looks like a "neocon". Leaves me asking, "When are progressives going to back candidates that represent their agenda and stop debating strategic-voting and lesser evil.
Wednesday, November 18, 2015The West's Asymmetric Terrorism When the West commits massive terrorism, the public does not mourn. Americans and Europeans do not paint their Facebook page with the color of the flag of the countries that the West destroys. The mainstream media seldom reports the deaths, and when they do it is usually said to be unfortunate collateral damage. The victims are dehumanized.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015CodePink Delegation to Palestine A delegation of 23 members of the women's peace activist group CodePink just returned from a 9 day tour of Palestine. I was among the delegates that wanted to show my solidarity with the Palestinian people, meet with Palestinian activist groups and learn about conditions on the ground first hand. The itinerary included visits to the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Nus Jbeil, Sebastia, Jenin, and East Jerusalem.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015Benghazi: Hillary Clinton and C.I.A. Crimes The death of Ambassador Stevens and the political fallout for Hillary Clinton has provided the textbook on how the U.S. uses C.I.A. operations to fund secret wars of aggressive regime change and install compliant puppet governments.
Sunday, October 4, 2015Islamophobia: Why Do We Hate Them? Islamophobia is racism and religious intolerance. It is used by those who want to further their personal, political and financial agendas that benefit them from hate, war, empire and exploitation. Islamophobia should be called what it is: Racism and ignorance.
Saturday, September 26, 2015Syria: Where are the Moderate Freedom Fighters A possible history of the Syrian civil war.
Monday, September 21, 2015"Mr. Obama considers Mr. Putin a Thug"---New York Times "Mr. Putin's Mixed Messages on Syria", by the New York Times editorial board.
Sunday, September 20, 2015Syria: Has Putin Called Obama's Bluff? Major revelations have come out this week that Obama's war against ISIL is a failure. Obama blames the war he got himself into in Syria on neocons, Republicans and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After over 250,000 deaths and millions of refugees, Obama says he is open to talking with the Russians about Syria. It may lead to a diplomatic solution. Otherwise there will be more war, refugees and chaos.
Saturday, September 12, 2015Syria: The U.S.-Russian standoff according to the New York Times New York Times editorial, "Russia's Risky Military Moves in Syria" of September 11, 2015
Saturday, August 15, 2015Progressives Should Be Applauding Trump Donald Trump has added real excitement to the race for the White House in 2016. He has also raised many progressive issues in common with Bernie Sanders, such as reindustrialization and rebuilding the middle class. Progressives should be applauding that people are agreeing on real issues that can benefit the American people instead of dividing them.
Thursday, July 9, 2015Hillary's Neocon Legacy: Coups, Dictators, Corruption, Chaos, Executions and Assassination Hillary's legacy is the right-wing coup in Honduras, the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, the destruction of Libya, military dictatorship in Egypt and the Iraq War. As President she will surround herself with her neocon advisors. They will favor continuing unending war and harmful trade agreement. Her backers are Wall Street, bankers, corporations and the MIC. This is not guessing--it is who she is and has been.
