WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

32.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 28, 2021https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-32-july-28-2021.html VS. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARApplies to NUCLEAR WARfrom Linus Pauling’s Nobel Peace Lecture 1963        Pauling protested the huge US expenditure for research and development of biological and chemical war, which had increased “sixteenfold in a decade.”  He points out especially the horrors of nerve gas and toxins such as botulism, viruses (yellow fever), and bacterial spores (anthrax) which could “kill tens of hundreds of millions of people.”  And the special danger of large-scale development of weapons of mass destruction by the US is that it might spread around the world.  He appeals to […]

31.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 21, 2021WAR AND PEACE  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-july-21-2021.html AMERICA INVADES CHRISTOPHER KELLY, STUART LAYCOCK.HOW WE’VE INVADED OR BEEN MILITARILY INVOLVED WITH ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH.   Book Publishers Network, 2014. 396. The authors posit what many have long suspected: the United States has invaded or been militarily involved with almost every country on the globe. Kelly, a longtime military-history buff, readily admits in his introduction that he drew inspiration for his first book from Laycock’s previous work (All the Countries We Invaded: And a Few We Never Got Round To, 2012), which covers Great Britain’s overseas excursions. The two […]

Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-july-14-2021.html Tom Engelhardt.  A Nation Unmade by War.  Haymarket, May 2018. Publisher’s Description From the election from hell to the future according to Donald Trump, A Nation Unmade by War surveys American exceptionalism in the age of absurdity. As veteran author Tom Engelhardt argues, despite having a more massive, technologically advanced, and better-funded military than any other power on the planet, in the last decade and a half of constant war across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa, the United States has won nothing. Its unending wars, in fact, have only contributed to a world […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-july-7-2021.html Andrew Bacevich.  After the Apocalypse:  America’s Role in a World Transformed. The premise of this book is quite simple: Regardless of whether our self-inflicted contemporary apocalypse leads to renewal or further decline, the United States will find itself obliged to revise the premises informing America’s role in the world. Put simply, basic U.S. policy must change. “Even before COVID-19 swept the nation, taking hundreds of thousands of American lives, cumulative policy failures ought to have made it clear that a national security paradigm centered on military supremacy, global power projection, decades-old formal alliances, and wars that never seemed to […]

28.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 30, 2021https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/28.html Prevent Wars, Block US Aggression: Pass HR 256.Defend Critical Media and Denounce US Censorship and Hypocrisy.Roots of US Colonialism and Empire: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and David Vine books reviewed by Michael E. TigarPeacemakers H.R. 256: PASSED!  Michael Galant 6-26-21 10:51 AM (1 hour ago) Dick — It was just 18 months ago when Trump ordered the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, bringing Iran and the United States to the brink of a catastrophic war.  The claimed legal authority to do so? An 18-year-old law authorizing the invasion of Iraq. What have these two things got […]

By Dick Bennett Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuelaby Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger. Monthly Review P, 2021. In March 2015, President Obama initiated sanctions against Venezuela, declaring a “national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in Venezuela.” Each year, the U.S. administration has repeated this claim. But, as Joe Emersberger and Justin Podur ague in their timely book, Extraordinary Threat, the opposite is true: It is the U.S. policy of regime change […]