Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-208-december.html
WARRING
Matthew Ehret Insights. “Which Foreign Policy Paradigm for the USA? Hegemony and Annihilation or Restoration of Sanity?” TRANSCEND Media Service. 10 Dec 2024. Compared to the great initiatives of the past 260 years, the USA of the past several decades is a strange and foolish creature running roughshod over the dignity of people and nations in a race for mass nuclear extermination.
PREVENTING WARSTHE NUCLEAR RESISTER (Nov. 12, 2024).
This number reports on resisters jailed from California to New Hampshire. A day- by- day record of the US and Canadian protesters of the genocide in Gaza fills two full pages. Jailings for protesting a variety of issues are reported from around the world: Australia, Japan, Kazakhstan, New Zealand, England. The present condition of Daniel Hale, US drone warfare whistleblower, is described; Hale received the inaugural International Ellsberg Whistleblower Award. Two books are noted: Arise and Witness: Poems by Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, highly praised, and Ground Zero Comics: Move Beyond Nuclear Weapons. Seattle area residents will be interested especially in the second book, which centers on the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, home of the world’s largest concentration of deployed nuclear weapons just 20 miles away. And much more! –Dick
STOPPING WARS
Reminder: Film Screening Tomorrow!!
| friendsofpalestinenwa [This notice arrived too late for my last War Watch Wednesdays but the film offers important history and is available on You Tube. –D] | Dec 9, 2024, |
Hi friends,
Friends of Palestine Northwest Arkansas invites you to a film showing of “Gaza Fights for Freedom,” directed by Abby Martin. This Tuesday, December 10, 6-8 p.m. at the Fayetteville Public Library in the Ziegler Room.
“Gaza Fights for Freedom” elevates Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation by focusing on the Great March of Return, “the weekly, non-violent demonstrations organized by Gaza civil society, that lasted for 20 months and resulted in over 200 Palestinian deaths. Many if not most Americans never thought about or heard about the Gaza Strip prior to October 7, 2023. This film provides important insights into the decades-long struggle of Gaza Palestinians against occupation and in particular, the blockade Israel imposed on Gaza in 2007, that turned the Strip into a concentration camp.”
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PREVENTING AND STOPPING WARS
Ending Russophobia in UNGA
Jeremy Kuzmarov. “Intelligence services have penetrated and corrupted human rights NGOs, says former senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner.” Mronline.org (6-14-24).
On April 7, 2022, the UN General Assembly voted to exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.
Originally published:CovertAction Magazine on June 7, 2024 (more by CovertAction Magazine). WarAmericas, Europe, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswireOrganization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Responsibility to Protect Doctrine (R2P), UN General Assembly. [The Managing Editor of CAM lives in Tulsa. Give im and it your support. –D]
On April 7, 2022, the UN General Assembly voted to exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council. The resolution received the required two-thirds majority of those voting, minus abstentions, in the 193-member Assembly, with 93 nations voting in favor and 24 against.1
The vote was highly politicized and reflected the success of the Western information war against Russia, which was falsely blamed for launching an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and for committing the overwhelming majority of atrocities in the war, including a massacre at Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, which independent investigators concluded was actually carried out by Ukraine.
Alfred de Zayas, a former senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner and Secretary of the UN’s Human Rights Committee, wrote in his book The Human Rights Industry (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2023) that the UN General Assembly’s decision to exclude Russia “added to the general atmosphere of Russophobia that we have seen over the last three decades,” and “to the world’s perception of engineered bias in the UN itself, where the manipulation of States’ votes was enabled by a failure to call for a secret ballot, as requested by Russia.”2