WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #17

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #17

Announcement: The 3rd monthly protest to Stop the University of Arkansas Nuclear Weapons Program is two weeks from today, April 27th at 12:30 P.M.  The protest will be held at the intersection of MLK Blvd and Razorback Road (1417 MLK Blvd, Fayetteville).

 MLK Jr. v. Poverty, Racism, and WAR
Biden Continues Warfare State

Dr. King’s Call To Tackle Evils Of Racism, Economic Exploitation, And WarBy Alice Slater, In Depth News. Popular Resistance.org (6-17-20)   Martin Luther King, Jr. King called us to address “Three major evils—the evil of racism, the evil of poverty, and the evil of war” to the consternation of the establishment. It is time to tell the truth about the US-Russian relationship and US complicity in driving the nuclear arms race if we are ever to reverse it as well as the race to weaponize space. Perhaps, by addressing the triple evils, we can fulfill King’s dream and the mission envisioned for the United Nations, to end the scourge of war! At a minimum, we should be promoting UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ call for a global ceasefire while our world attends... -more-   TAKE ACTION

Biden Continues Lawless Bombing
Danny Sjursen.  “Forever War Once More.”  In These Times (April 2021).  On Feb. 25, US bombed Syria along its border with Iraq.  “Biden’s first major foreign policy decisions bring us no closer to an overdue exit from the Middle East” than did Trump’s.  “Biden is seemingly continuing the only thing American empire has left to offer: tough-guy theater.”  Sjursen is a contributing editor at Antiwar.com and author of Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War.  Heyday Books, 2020.

Let’s not forget peacemakers and warmakers (WBW, Peace Almanac)
April 10, 1998: Good Friday Agreement began end to Northern Ireland civil war.
April 11, 1996: Treaty of Pelindaha was signed in Cairo making entire African continent a nuclear weapons-free zone.
April 12, 1935: nation-wide strike by college students against armed conflict.
April 13, 1917: Pres. Wilson established the Committee on Public Information propaganda campaign in support of US entry into WWI.