OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAY, #113, FEBRUARY 15, 2023
End the War
Ron Jacobs. “We Need an International Antiwar Movement.”
Kathy Kelly and Nick Mottern. War Crimes. Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.
Ben Norton. Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism. “World at dangerous crossroads, only two paths forward: anti-imperialist socialism or fascist barbarism.” Multipolarista.
END THE WAR
RON JACOBS. “We Need an International Antiwar Movement, Not a Cheerleading Squad for the Arms Industry.” Counterpunch. May 3, 2022.
Painting: Paths Of Glory by Christopher R. W. Nevinson (1917)
A ceasefire between the warring parties, a Russian withdrawal, a halt to arms shipments, a negotiated peace and an end to NATO. This is what the international left should be organizing around in regards to the Russia-Ukraine war. It shouldn’t be calling for stepped up arms shipments to Ukraine’s military or defending Moscow’s invasion. When all is said and done and this war is stopped, the most likely situation for the vast majority of Ukrainian working people will be one where their greatest enemy could well be the Ukrainian government. Likewise, if the war goes on long enough, the greatest enemy of the vast majority of Russian working people could well be their government. The oligarchs in both nations will still be oligarchs, while the Russian and Ukrainian people will bear the costs—human, financial, and otherwise—for the war.
If the reader thinks the current conflict will somehow end with a different outcome, they need to revisit the history of war, especially war of the modern kind. You know, where civilian populations are bombed, conscripts are forced to kill and die in the thousands; where international bankers make loans to all sides until the battle begins. All the while generals and politicians talk nonsense about the principles being defended as if most of them had any principles that couldn’t be purchased. MORE https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/03/we-need-an-international-antiwar-movement-not-a-cheerleading-squad-for-the-arms-industry/
Ron Jacobs is the author of Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by CounterPunch Books. His latest offering is a pamphlet titled “Capitalism: Is the Problem.” He lives in Vermont. He can be reached at: ronj1955@gmail.com.
War Crimes
MILITARY-CORPORATE-CONGRESSIONAL-PRESIDENTIAL WAR CRIMES. Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, VFP Weekly E-News (10-24-22). Kathy Kelly and Nick Motternare involved in the creation of the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, (Online, Nov. 10-13, 2023). VFP advisory board members Marjorie Cohn and Ann Wright, and noted human rights lawyer Bill Quigley, are assisting Tribunal organizers, who intend to document ways in which Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Raytheon and drone producer General Atomics have aided and abetted U.S. war crimes since 9/11.
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism
Ben Norton. “World at dangerous crossroads, only two paths forward: anti-imperialist socialism or fascist barbarism.” Multipolarista. November 10, 2022 (more by Multipolarista). (Posted Nov 12, 2022).
The US-led imperialist world system is in deep crisis, so it wages a new cold war to prevent multipolarity, while lurching toward fascism. The left must offer a true alternative path that opposes both the far right and the liberal pro-NATO chauvinists. [See Hett’s The Death of Democracy on how the many parties and factions left to right struggled for power in the Weimar Republic while Hitler destroyed or absorbed one at a time and gained the Chancellorship. –D]
Capitalism, Imperialism, WarAmericas, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswire This is the speech that Multipolarista editor Ben Norton delivered at the International Manifesto Group event commemorating the one-year anniversary of the publication of its manifesto “Through Pluripolarity to Socialism.” https://mronline.org/2022/11/12/world-at-dangerous-crossroads-only-two-paths-forward/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-at-dangerous-crossroads-only-two-paths-forward&mc_cid=58d9bf966b&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e