OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #148, OCTOBER 18, 2023

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US Militarism
Nukewatch Quarterly
US Peace Prize to NNOMY

US Militarism  

     US militarism is pervasive, but often so small and unobtrusive that it seems natural.  “Were you in the Service?  Thank you for your service” said the clerk at my hardware store, and he wasn’t referring to nurses or teachers. The military-corporate complex foregrounding jobs isspread throughout the congressional districts.  This system for war is so pervasively routine that it seems natural when Congress every year heaps more money on the amount the militarist President already requested, and the public makes no outcry!  In contrast, countless urgent needs are underfunded.  There are exceptions: Endometriosis is a cruel, terribly painful disease, and highly expensive and time-consuming not only to train doctors to perform operations, but to train them to diagnose the ailment.  Until now it might have taken ten years to diagnose the problem, and you might have had to mortgage your house to survive.  But Congress finally found the money.  It had given it to the Pentagon.   But family and medical profession pressure took back a little. 
       So we’re not yet Colombia.  Remember the children lost in the Colombian jungle after a plane crash had killed their parents and the pilot, and they the children were left to fend for themselves?   Finally they were found by soldiers and taken to the best hospital—yes, a military hospital.  Military hospitals are the best because the militarized representatives of the people increase the appropriation every year, few questions asked.   –Dick

Nukewatch Quarterly

I am one of 60 bulk print distributors of the Nukewatch Quarterly  magazine, because I believe it is one of the most important in the world—online or in print—, not merely because four times a year it provides comprehensive information on nuclear weapons, reactors, radio-active waste, & nonviolent resistance, but because its dedicated staff and volunteers advocate the reduction and abolition of nuclear weapons.   Join me  in distributing them in Arkansas: leave them in doctors’ offices for ample, or, best, carry them around, give to people, talk to them about nuclear war.  The Quarterly is a project of The Progressive Foundation, by the way, which publishes The Progressive Magazine, with a long history of nuclear opposition.   My Fall bundle, stamped as via OMNI, has just now arrived.  Here’s a sample on weapons . 
“How Weapons Makers Influence the Ukraine War Debate” by Ben Freeman.  “’Experts’ from [weapons] industry-funded think tanks are flooding the media, pushing for more arms without disclosing their benefactors.”

“Organizations Increasingly Condemn Nuclear Weapons ‘Sharing’ in Europe”   Excerpts from four declarations are provided.
“Medical Journals Call for Disarmament.”  “Over 100 medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, warned of the ongoing threat nuclear weapons pose to human and environmental health and safety, and calling for urgent action to abolish nuclear weapons.”

Every voice is needed to move these governments to diplomacy rather than weapons.