WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-179-may-29-2024.html WORLD WAR II, the “Good War?” David Swanson.  Leaving WWII Behind. Daniele Ganser.  USA: The Ruthless Empire.   “In Leaving World War II Behind, David Swanson brilliantly destroys the myth that even if war is generally a bad thing World War II was the good war.  In a stunning, fact-laden exposition, Swanson demonstrates the systemic failures of the western governments together with their corporate enablers that generated the practices of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and concentration camps, empowering Hitler.  Swanson shows incontrovertibly that it was an underlying drive to preserve capitalism and destroy communist encroachment that […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-178-may-22-2024.html Assange, Truthteller. Peacemaking: Bakewell and Humanism.“A Future Without Nuclear Weapons” by Ward Hayes Wilson. ASSANGE: TRUTHTELLING “Julian Assange’s Final Appeal.”  The Hedges Report (2-18-24). Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.   CHRIS HEDGES   [Hedges’ dire conclusion]:             Julian is persecuted because he provided the public with the most important information about U.S. government crimes and mendacity since the release of the Pentagon Papers. Like all great journalists, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-177-may-15-2024.html Nakba Day May 15.     Medea Benjamin and David Swanson.  NATO.Daniele Ganser.  USA the Ruthless Empire.  NAKBA DAY Friendsofpalestinenwa   5-14-24 Nakba Day commemorates the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people. Wikipedia During the war approximately half of Palestine’s population, 750,000 people were expelled from their homes.  By the end of the war, 78% of the total land area of the former Mandatory Palestine was controlled by Israel and at least 15,000 Palestinian Arabs had been […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-176-may-8-2024.html Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Doomsday Clock Statement . Israeli Nuclear Weapons v. Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.Dee Knight.  A Realistic Path to Peace. “Nuclear Dangers: Ukraine War, the Third Year.”  Zoom, 1p.m., ET, Grigory Yalinsky, previously announced. “A moment of historic danger: It is still 90 seconds to midnight 2024 Annual Report and Doomsday Clock Statement.”Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Rachel Bronson, President  & CEO; Editor, John Mecklin, January 23, 2024 https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-173-april-17.html PEACEMAKINGUnited Nations and Better World CampaignCasa Cry, Catholic Worker Newsletter UNITED NATIONS Exciting news! Each year, the Better World Campaign.org publishes a comprehensive guide highlighting America’s crucial role on the global stage through its engagement with the United Nations. This guide equips supporters, policymakers, and inquiring minds with insights to understand the value of U.S. involvement in the UN. It spotlights the value of UN funds and programs in advancing U.S. interests, explains constructive engagement on UN reforms, advocates for full U.S. engagement with key UN bodies, and more. Briefing Book [I checked out BWC, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-172-april-10.html Joel Kovel.  Red Hunting in the Promised Land. TOM ENGELHARDT.   “A Slow-Motion World War III?” (Sovietphobia.)  Joel Kovel.  Red Hunting in the Promised Land. In the wake of the Cold War, an eminent social critic examines the roots of America’s anticommunist frenzy.   IWW.“The most original and revealing study of the fear-and-loathing obsession–anticommunism–that has driven [America] loony for most of this century. Every aspect of our lives, public and private, has been debased by this plague. Kovel’s book, in brilliantly showing cause, may offer some sort of cure as we approach a new and hopefully sane […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-171-april-3.html PEACEMAKERS Kasturba GandhiCode PinkICAN Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist   PBS   https://www.pbs.org › show › kasturba-gandhi-accident… Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist tells the story of how she became one of the first women activists in modern history. [In contrast to Gandhi’s nonviolence is the Wounded Warriors organization: “Veterans always support other veterans.”  That’s the problem; unless they support nonviolent peacemaking, justice, and restoration of the earth, WW is only one more nail in the militarization coffin.  –D] Dick, don’t miss Congress dodging my questions! Medea Benjamin,  3-24-24  [See her up front left in the last photo.]            […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-170-march-27.html Michael Swanson.  The War State.OMNI, AFSC, FCNL Mission Statement. Michael Swanson.   The War State: The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963.  2013.[For readers who have not studied US post-WWII/ColdWar/Imperial history, this book provides a basic introduction simply and clearly written; those who know the history will find this a good review and handy reference (despite its lack of an Index.  –Dick] Author’s Overview Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its […]