Lists of OMNI’s Russia/Ukraine Anthologies, Article counts, links, and tables of contents
Published Russia/Ukraine article count
#1-18(2014-2022): 306
#19: 31 articles
#20: 14 articles
#21: 12 articles
#22: 13 articles
#23: 16 articles
#24: 32 articles
#25: 20 articles
#26: 16 articles
#27: 12 articles
#28: 23 articles
Total: 495
Published article count from #1 to #18 Russia/Ukraine Anthologies (2014-20220 = 306. From #19 to 28 = 189. Total = 495.
Total number of entries: 306. From #19-28 = 189. Total 495
List of Links
RUSSIA (UKRAINE) NEWSLETTER #1
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/03/russia-ukraine-newsletter-1.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #2
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/04/russiaukraine-newsletter-2.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #3
May 16, 2014.
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/05/russiaukraine-newsletter-3.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #4
July 22, 2014.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/07/russiaukraine-newsletter-4.html
Russia/Ukraine Newsletter #5 2017
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/03/russia-newsletter-5-from-violence-to.html
Russia/Ukraine Newsletter #6, September 1, 2016
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/09/russia-newsletter-6.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine NEWSLETTER #7, October 3, 2017
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/10/omni-russia-newsletter-7.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine NEWSLETTER #8, 11-10-21
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-russia-newsletter-8-11-10-21.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine NEWSLETTER #9, 2018-2020
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-9-1-20-22.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine NEWSLETTER #10, Jan. 28, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-10-january-28.html
RUSSIA (AND UKRAINE) NEWSLETTER #11, 2-21-22
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-russia-newsletter-11-february-24.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine NEWSLETTER #12,
March 5, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/russia-ukraine-newsletteranthology-12.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #13,
March 12, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletter-13-march.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER/ANTHOLOGY, #14, March 19, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletteranthology.html
RUSSIA, UKRAINE ANTHOLOGY #15, March 27, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russia-ukraine-anthology-15-march.html
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, cold war ii ANTHOLOGY #16,
April 2, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-cold-war-ii.html
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, cold war ii ANTHOLOGY #17, April 8, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-cold-war-ii_8.html
US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine War Anthology #18, April 12, 2022 HTTPS://JAMESRICHARDBENNETT.BLOGSPOT.COM/2022/04/OMNI-US-RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-ANTHOLOGY-18.HTML
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY #19
4-29-2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war, ANTHOLOGY #20, mAY 6, 2022.
Consequences of War, Control OF INFORMATION and CENSORSHIP,
and seeking PEACE https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY, #21:
HISTORY, ORIGINS, CAUSES, MEANING OF THE WAR; MAY 28, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war_29.html
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY, #22: peace
June 10, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #23:
NAZIS AND NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE
June 19, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
US, NATO, UKRAINE v. RUSSIA WAR
#24 origins, consequences, peace
July 4, 2022
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/us-nato-ukraine-v-russia-war-24.html
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR #25
AUGUST 7, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-25.html
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #26
October 18, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #27
November 26, 2022
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-anthology-27.html
Ukraine War Anthology #28
February 18, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/02/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
Tables of Contents
Most of these entries were necessarily from sources other than the corporate mainstream because US mainstream newspapers support the nation in its wars.
RUSSIA (UKRAINE) NEWSLETTER #1
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/03/russia-ukraine-newsletter-1.html
March 21, 2014.
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
In this newsletter: The US superpower, imperial propaganda system is inciting fear and hatred of Russia, as in Cold War days against the Soviet Union, but alternative views are readily available in numerous independent print or online magazines. If we are to have peace in the world we must be able to see the world as others see it, particularly as “enemies” see it.
CONNECTION BETWEEN US ENCIRCLEMENT OF CHINA AND RUSSIA: See OMNI’s newsletters/blogs on US Imperialism Westward Pacific/E. Asia
Contents Russia Newsletter #1, 2014
Dick, US Empire and Corporate Media: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Patrick Smith, US/New York Times Spin
Stephen Cohen, Anti-Russia Is Old Anti-Soviet
Alternative Analysis
The Nation Editorial
Alterman, Cold War Hysteria Revived
How Russia/Ukraine Look in Beijing
Charles Pierce, Dick Cheney’s View
Luke Harding, US Refuses Crimea Poll
Ray McGovern, Putin Says No to Regime Change on Its Border
Bruce Gagnon, Danger of War Following US-led Coup for Gas and Oil
Pilger, Other Coups, Same Superpower
Robert Freeman, Ukraine and WWI over Energy
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #2
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/04/russiaukraine-newsletter-2.html
April 10, 2014.
In this newsletter: The US superpower, imperial propaganda system is inciting fear and hatred of Russia, as in Cold War days against the Soviet Union, but alternative views are readily available in numerous independent print or online magazines. They need your financial support. If we are to have peace in the world we must be able to see the world as others see it, to qualify and test official dogma.
Contents Russia/Ukraine #2
Alternative Perspectives
Who Is Threatening Whom?
Dick, Google Search: US Bases Surrounding Russia
Steve Weissman: US Participated in Coup That Toppled Yanukovytch
Stephen Cohen, Cold War Again?
Two Essays from Bruce Gagnon
Bruce Gagnon, Boxing in the Bear (with Francis Boyle and Chandra Muzaffar)
Gagnon, Preparing for War with Russia
Franklin Spinney, What Is the Real Price of Starting a New Cold War?
US Corporate Old Cold War Media
Ira Chernus: Showdown with Russia Sells Newspapers
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #3
May 16, 2014.
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/05/russiaukraine-newsletter-3.html
Out of the ignorance and complacency engendered by the avoidance of reality comes hatred and war.
The opening of a Jewish prayer from the Sabbath service: “Disturb us, Adonai, ruffle us from our complacency; make us dissatisfied. Dissatisfied with the peace of ignorance, the quietude which arises from a shunning of the horror, the defeat, the bitterness and the poverty, physical and spiritual, of humans. Shock us, Adonai, deny to us the false Shabbat which gives us the delusions of satisfaction amid a world of war and hatred.”
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S. Prosecutor, Nuremberg Military Tribunal
“It has been a mainstay of this book that successful antiwar movements are those that have been able to make direct links with those in the flight path of US aggression and to bring their struggles and concerns directly into the US political arena. Indeed, direct comprehension of their urgent struggles has often been a radicalizing factor in antiwar campaigns.”” Richard Seymour, American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism (2012). p. 193.
J. William Fulbright during the height of the Cold War attempted to extend his Exchange Program to the Soviet Union, but his plan to acquire a part of WWII Lend Lease money the Russians were repaying was scuttled by US Sovietphobes. See The Price of Empire. Another Arkansas native, Betty Bumpers, wife of then Senator Bumpers, created the women’s organization, Peace Links, to exchange women from the US and Russia and other countries.
Contents Russia/Ukraine Newsletter #3
Contexts
Davies, Historical Background of US Coups
William Blum, New Cold War, Same Old US Aggression
Bellant, Far Right Forces in Russia
Amy Goodman, Ukraine Between Old Cold War
Peter Hart, Distorting Putin
Dick, Fulbright’s Exchange Program for Official Enemies
Veterans for Peace Opposes US Troops to Ukraine
Michael Gordon, US Ratcheting Up the Threats, Deploying Troops in E. Europe
Cockburn, Crisis into Catastrophe?
Hooper, Solution Appalling?
McMullen, Russian Greed?
Mayer, Decline of US Empire?
Moss, Whose Advice to Trust?
Wittner, US Should Use Its Military?
Lieven, The Way Out?
Forum of 3 Essays on US and Ukraine in Z Magazine April 2014
Norman Solomon: Obama, International Law, US Double-Standards, and
Blaming Putin
Chandra Muzaffar, US Behind Ouster of Democratically Elected President
Ajamu Baraka, US Ukraine Policy Marred by Contradictions and Double
Standards
Parry, Obama Only One Able to Prevent War
NATO
Kucinich on NATO
McGovern on NATO
MEDIA
Two Essays by Robert Parry on Anti-Russian US Corporate Media
Obama Admin. and US Mainstream Media Sing the Old Imperial
Song
Neocon and Media Support of US Propaganda Campaign
Two Essays by Peter Hart in EXTRA! also on US Corporate Media
With Official Enemies, Too Much Is Not Enough
Drill for More Oil and Gas Here, and Sell to Russia’s Customers
Gordon, NYT
Parry, Bias of NYT
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #4
July 22, 2014.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/07/russiaukraine-newsletter-4.html
Contents Russia/Ukraine Newsletter #4
HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS
Polner, Manipulated Crisis
Moss, Another Cold War?
Watkins, Comparing Annexations
Johnstone, Understanding Putin
Blum, US Media War Against Putin and Russia
US or Russian Exceptionalism?
NATO’S Eastward Expansion
THE CRISIS 2013-
Pilger, the Larger Coup in Washington, D.C.
Gagnon, US and NATO Intervention
Parry, Kerry’s State Department’s Fiasco
Dahlburg, Poroshnko\Ukraine Signs Up with EU
Moeri, Be Critical of Imperialisms
Zunes, Non-violence
Four Articles Via HAW
Fuerst, Germany
US MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Parry, Ukraine’s Presidential Election
Contents: Russia Newsletter #5 2017
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/03/russia-newsletter-5-from-violence-to.html
Who’s the Threat? Surrounding Russia. Think Peace.
Dick, Finland and US Sign Military Accord
Blum, Who’s the Threat?
Carden, US Interventionist Orthodoxy and Ukraine
Herman, US Double Standards, the Orthodoxy, and Ukraine
Katrina vanden Heuvel, Break Through Orthodoxy to Peace Zone
Noam Chomsky, Try to Understand the Other Point of View
Trump and Russia
Stephen Cohen, “Against Kremlin-Baiting
Chris Hedges, Hacking by Russia?
Contents: Russia Newsletter #6, September 1, 2016
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/09/russia-newsletter-6.html
“Russia Wants War” Graphic
NATO’s Eastward Expansion a Broken Promise (2009)
Democracy Now, Stephen Cohen on the New Cold War (2014)
2016
Russian Vows Response to NATO Buildup 6-30
Putin Warns Finland Not to Join NATO 7-2
Ann Wright, Views of Russian Citizens 7-5
US Mayors Criticize Obama Admin. for Risking War 7-6
Klare, West Preparing for War against Russia 7-7
Russians Have Right to Be Alarmed at US ABM 7-13
I MADE A BIG EFFORT TO DISSEMINATE RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #6, AND RECEIVED NO REPLIES. Perhaps the Cold War Sovietphobia now Russophobia is more widespread and entrenched still today than I had feared. The new book by Dan Kovalik, The Plot to Scapegoat Russia, has plenty to say about this.
CONTENTS: RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #7, October 3, 2017
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/10/omni-russia-newsletter-7.html
Graphic: Russia Wants War?
Dick, Who’s the Aggressor?
Noam Chomsky, US/NATO Provocations
Kathy Kelly, NATO, Crimea
Protesting NATO in Lapland
New Book by Dan Kovalik, The Plot to Scapegoat Russia
Publisher’s Description
Dick, Page 29 of The Plot on USSR
Cindy Sheehan’s Interview of Kovalik
Other Comment on Russophobia
Kuzmarov and Marciano, The Russians Are Coming, Again
Cindy, Anthony Freda, Morgan Freeman
Bruce Shapiro, Investigate Russian Hacking Without Cold War Hysteria
Russia, Afghanistan, and Diplomacy
CONTENTS: RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #8, 11-10-21
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-russia-newsletter-8-11-10-21.html
NEW COLD WAR AND RUSSOPHOBIA
2021 Russiagate
Tomlinson and Paulson
2018 Transcend Media Service
Muzzafar, “The Geopolitics of Targeting Russia”
Petras, “UK, the EU, and the US Gangs Up on Russia”
Klare, “The New Cold War”
Marcetic, US and Russia: Fake News
Kuzmarov and Marciano (book), The Russians Are Coming Again
2017
Kuzmarov and Marciano (essay), “The Russians Are Coming, Again”
ADG Reports US Sends Troops to Russian Border, google search
Oliver Stone DVD, Ukraine on Fire
Cohen, Democrats Repudiate FDR’s Detente
CONTENTS, RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #9, 2018-2020
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-9-1-20-22.html
WAYS US WARRIORS GO TO WAR
Bruce Gagnon. What is the US Agenda? NATO Expansion and Regime Change
George Paulson. Russophobia
Biden. Putin a Killer
John Pilger. “In Ukraine, the US is dragging us towards war with Russia.”
Matt Taibbi. “10 Ways to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence.”
Alan MacLeod. False Bounty Claim.
McGovern, Russiagate
Boyd-Barrett, Russiagate as “puerile narrative.”
Galloway. Macron: the Problem is USA
Russia’s 100,000 Troops
Grossman. NATO Maneuvers.
WAYS TO PEACE
All of the Above
Hobson. Reverse NATO Expansion and US Withdrawal from NATO
Dick. Critical Thinking Through Exposure of Fallacies
CONTENTS RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #10, Jan. 28, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-10-january-28.html
This anthology begins with indignation by Tomlinson, WBW, and Butterfield, moves to analysis and action by Lowendorf, Franklin, and Prashad, to an appeal for peace by WBW, and to the extensive scholarship of Prof. Zunes
REVISED 1-30-22 TO ADD 3 ESSAYS FROM POPULAR RESISTANCE.ORG 1-30-22.
Call To Action: No War With Russia Over Ukraine.
Endless War Is the Empire’s Last Dance.
A War Only America And Britain Seem To Want.
Abel Tomlinson. “The US Wants War, Not Russia.”
World Beyond War. “No War in Ukraine!”
Greg Butterfield. “Ukraine, U.S. drum up war threats against Donbass and Russia.” April 8, 2021.
Henry Lowendorf reports the ”terribly destructive U.S. foreign policy” that “has no moral, or legal, or logical authority.”
Matt Taibbi via George Paulson. “Let’s Not Have a War.”
H. Bruce Franklin. “Another Game of Russian Roulette,” on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Vijay Prashad. “Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics.”
WBW, Appeal for Negotiation, a mini-anthology within a mini-anthology.
Stephen Zunes. “The U.S., Russia, and Ukraine.” (and critiques of Zunes)
CONTENTS RUSSIA (AND UKRAINE) NEWSLETTER #11, 2-21-22
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-russia-newsletter-11-february-24.html
Perspectives Leading to Diplomacy
Putin’s/Russia’s Thinking
Joe Lauria, Putin’s 3,350-word Speech: NATO Is the Issue
Chris Hedges on the Economic Motives for NATO Expansion
Minsk Agreements
Rahman, Ukraine at Fault
Ray McGovern, Russia and China
German-Russian Pipeline Agreement
Whitney, Germany and Russia, Nordstream 2 Pipeline
George Paulson
Art Hobson
John Foster (author of Oil and World Politics), Nordstream,
NATO, and Equal Security
M. K. Bhadrakumar, From Recognition of Donbass Provinces to Invasion Donbass Refugees
US’/Biden’s Thinking
Tomlinson, War on Russia
Hess and Davis, Sanctions as War
“Hidden Costs of Sanctions”
Kuzmarov, Yalta: US and Soviet Russia
Bromwich, Mainstream Media for War
Peace Thinking
Jack Matlock, Analysis of US and Russian Arguments
What Could Ukraine—and US and Russia--Think?
Art Hobson, Neutrality
Scott Ritter, Neutrality
Shea and Pavlova, Austria’s Neutrality
J. William Fulbright, Empathy, Democratic Humanism, Diplomacy
RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #12,
March 5, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/russia-ukraine-newsletteranthology-12.html
No one has asked why equal time is not given to official US history and positions, perhaps because the explanation is obvious. The US possesses, as part of its military power (greater than the next six countries combined), probably the most powerful propaganda system in all history. A single citizen who reports contrary opinions might be guilty of whistling in the dark but is not guilty of violating the protocols of news reporting under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Several news reports I have seen show Putin sitting alone, conversing with one to three people at the far end of a long table. The commentators remark about how isolated he is as autocratic ruler of Russia. Biden always has several people with him. But is Biden greatly less isolated than Putin? Does he hear from the many opponents of NATO expansion, for example? I have seldom heard any of his staff or any commentators on the news networks represent Putin’s perspectives.
We stand, then, with About Face:
“We are in solidarity with all people who find themselves in harm's way for a war that was preventable. May all those seeking shelter and safety from all horrible violence be greeted with open arms.” About Face: Veterans Against the War
CONTENTS (most entries received March 1-4, too many to include all): RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Most of these essays discuss causes of the Ukraine-Russia War of 2022.
Introductory
Abel, Experts Warning about NATO Expansion
Mearsheimer, 2015 and 2022 Critical of the West
Mary Elise Sarotte, 2010 and 2021, BushI, Baker, Kohl, NATO, Not One Inch
Failed Minsk Agreements 2014 and 2015
Feb. 28, 2022, Putin puts Russia on nuclear alert.
UAF Faculty Panel on Ukraine and Russia
Abel from audience challenges the mostly Cold Warrior speakers and warns of WWIII danger from NATO expansion.
Jeremy Kuzmarov: From Brzezinsky to Biden inducing invason to bankrupt Russia
TomDispatch: JFK (Andrew Bacevich) offers advice to Biden
About Face Veterans against the War: “DemilitarizeU” Ukraine and Russia
Peace Action, Ceasefire, humanitarian aid, diplomacy
Naomi Klein, The Intercept (March 1). A wide-ranging essay by one of our best.
Kuttab, “Ukraine, Palestine, International Law, and BDS”
Art: Russia out of Ukraine, NATO out of Existence
David Adams, “The Fall of Putin,” US and Russia will crash because of overmilitarization
Greg Coleridge (via Ellen Barfield, VFP), “War Is (Still) a Racket” this one a war over resources
Adam Schiff (via Abel), a US proxy war v. Russia.
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #13,
March 12, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletter-13-march.html
Pity the Nation
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
THE BIASES BY US LEADERS, MEDIA, AND PUBLIC AGAINST RUSSIA AND ITS LEADER PUTIN HAD BECOME SO EXTREME BY FEBRUARY 2022 THAT WE MIGHT FORGIVE THE AVERAGE CITIZEN FOR THINKING THEY KNEW THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. Here are some questions and corrections:
WHAT MOTIVATED RUSSIA’S ATTACK ON UKRAINE? In What Ways and to what Extent Was It Provoked by the US and the West? What are the consequences of US bigotry against Russia and Putin? What did the US contribute to the rise of right wing in Ukraine? Many other questions are raised and answered by the following critics.
CONTENTS RUSSIA’S INVASION OF UKRAINE #13
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletter-13-march.html
Abel Tomlinson, Ukraine Peace Protest Follow-Up
Bryce Greene, Russia Was Provoked
Scott Ritter, Harms of US Russophobia
Attempt to Shut up Prof. Mearsheimer at U of Chicago
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, US Support for Ukrainian Neo-
Nazis
Lucas Leiroz, Understanding Ukrainian Nazism
Steven Starr, Russia’s Fear of NATO’s Encroachment and Nuclear
Weapons
Ben Burgis, No to No-Fly Zone
March 1 to 7: International Week to Stop War with Russia
Moon of Alabama, Disarming Ukraine, Day 7
Oliver Boyd Barrett, Ukraine, Planetary Crisis, Threatening Nuclear War
Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa, Ukraine, US, NATO Expansion, China,
Russophobia
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER/ANTHOLOGY, #14, March 19, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletteranthology.html
WHAT MOTIVATED RUSSIA’S ATTACK ON UKRAINE? In What Ways and to what Extent Was It Provoked by the US and the West? What are the consequences of US bigotry against Russia and Putin? What is the right wing in Ukraine? Nazis? What did the US contribute to the rise of right wing in Ukraine? Should there be a no-fly zone? Describe the expansion of NATO and Russia’s response. Many other questions are raised and answered by the following critics.
CONTENTS US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE ANTHOLOGY #14
Katrina vanden Heuvel. End the Invasion and Stop the Killing.
HISTORY
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Russia’s Invasion Was Provoked: CIA’s William Burns.
Dr. Gerald Horne. “What’s to Be Done in Eastern Europe.” US: Regime
Change in Russia.
Tomgram/Tom Dispatch. “William Astore.”
William Astore. US Cold War, US Arsenal
“When Did the Ukraine War Begin?” US Empire, NATO, 2004 Orange
Revolution, 2006 Decision, 2014 Coup in UK and Maidan Massacre,
Minsk Protocols.
Oliver Stone and Igor Lopatonok. Ukraine on Fire. How and When the
War Started (before the 2014 coup, before the 2004 Orange Revolution).
Abel Tomlinson. “Ukraine Manufacturing Atrocities to Draw in NATO.”
Fournier, “No Flies Polls.”
Remembering US Aggression
Nelson Peery, Black Fire, the Bloody US Pacification of the Philippines. Brian Terrell, “US Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors.” US
Aggression, Truman Doctrine, Carter Doctrine, NATO, Sanctions, Selling
Weapons, Nuclear Weapons Treaty.
END THE WAR
Vanden Heuvel (above)
AFSC. Diplomacy, Refugee Protection, Humanitarian Assistance
About Face. DemilitarizeU.
UNITED NATIONS
UN Wire. Support Refugees
BE INFORMED
No Chemical/Biological Warfare
US/Russian Counterclaims re Biowarfare.
NO HUMAN SHIELDS
Population Fund vs. Alleged Russian Attack on Hospital.
UNHCR. Human Rights Violations in Belarus.
RUSSIA, UKRAINE ANTHOLOGY #15
March 27, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russia-ukraine-anthology-15-march.html
CONTENTS
NATO AND wHY DOES uKRAINE mATTER?
Jordan Smith, “They Saw It Coming.” The New Republic (April 2022).
Quick Summary of NATO Formation and Expansion (Dick)
Diana Johnstone. “For Washington, War Never Ends.” Consortium News(March 16, 2022).
Mary Elise Sarotte. Not One Inch. Apparently the definitive book on US, NATO,
Ukraine, and Russia.
WWIII
Caitlin Johnstone. Report on Steven Starr. Call to World to Pay Attention to Nuclear
WWIII.
Bryan Dyne Interviews Steven Starr on WWIII and Nuclear Winter.
Art Hobson. Pondering Ukraine in Context of Nuclear War.
No Fly Zone: 2 Articles
Zelensky Calls for No Fly Zone
Ben Burgis. No Fly Zone Will Start WWIII
Ukraine’s Wealth Part of the Conflict? but little discussed.
SANCTIONS Add to the Conflict and Hypocrisy.
War, Propaganda, and Hypocrisy: 4 Essays
Wars are Misinformation and Delusion Machines
Free Ourselves of Propaganda Tunnels.
Ukrainian Nazis and Propaganda by Omission
Lt. Gen. Fabio Mini, Interview on Hypocrisy in Wars the Ukraine/Russia War
Russian or CIA Lied in the Election, Biden’s Laptop
Youtube, US Hypocrisy
IMF Connection
Russia and China
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, cold war ii ANTHOLOGY #16, April 2, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-cold-war-ii.html
contents of russia, ukraine, new cold hot war #16
TomDispatch. New Cold and Hot Wars and Swelling Military.
Four Articles via Historians for Peace 3-23-22
Stephen Krotkin, Putin in Russian History.
Alfred McCoy, Putin and Xi Jinping in Eurasia.
Juan Cole, We Shouldn’t Want a NATO No Fly Zone.
Andrew Bacevich, US v. International Order.
US Mainstream Reporting
Disinformation in Dongass
Christelle Néant, “Mariupol—Civilians Denounce the Crimes
of the Fighters of the Neo-Nazi Azov Regiment.”
Max Blumenthal, Dubious BBC Correspondent.
Andi Olluri, Another War Not Reported.
Provocations and Sanctions: “The Irony of Sanctions Against Russia”
Remembering 2014: Dongass
And the Cold War and NATO: Albright
Daniel Kovalik, “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Signifies the End
of …Unipolar American Power”
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, cold war ii ANTHOLOGY #17, April 8, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-cold-war-ii_8.html
What’s at Stake: Like the UN Charter and the Quakers’ AFSC and FCNL, OMNI’s anthologies seek a world free of war and the threat of war. These anthologies provide views alternative to those of the US War Party (the Democrats and Republicans) and their mainstream media.
Contents of #17
Origins, CAUSES of the war
Sonja Van den Ende. Russian Perspective for Donbass republics of
Donetsk and Luhansk.
Editor of MR. Origins of New Cold War.
Jacques Baud Interviewed by Thomas Kaiser. US: Prevent German and
Russian Cooperation.
US the Biggest Spoiler, Welcomes War between Ukraine and Russia.
TeleSUR. Washington’s Role in Ukraine Jeopardizes World Stability.
Sanctions.
EU to Continue to Send Weapons to Ukraine.
Nazis in Ukraine. Putin’s Aim to De-Nazify Ukraine.
Patrick Lancaster. Ukrainian and Azov Forces.
Ukraine: Obama, Trump, Biden.
Jonathon Cook. Biden on Regime Change of War Criminal Putin.
consequences of the war
Atrocities: Bucha.
Mision Verdad, Art Hobson, Evan Bukey.
Nuclear Risks: NIRS.
Food Crisis, Hunger: Michelle Nichols, Ukrainian Farmers.
Economic War: Prabir Purkayastha on US Dollar.
PEACEFUL FUTURE?
Constructive Peace Talks Now.
Negotiations after Ceasefire: 3 Articles from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY #18
April 12, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-war-anthology-18.html
CONTENTS OF US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine War Anthology #18, April 12, 2022
Control of Information in the US regarding the US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine War
What we mean by alternatives to official war news: that of the US War Party and its media. We have chosen different sources.
Survey of OMNI’s 18 R/U Anthologies, 2014-2022:
Total number of entries: 306.
Most of these entries were necessarily from sources other than the corporate mainstream because US mainstream newspapers support the nation in its wars.
A few examples from #18: The Unz Review, Extra! (FAIR), CovertAction Magazine, Internationalist 360, Orinoco Tribune, The 14th Newsletter, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Multipolarista, Dissident Voice, Consortium News, UN Wire
ORIGINS, CAUSES OF THE WAR
NATO
“NATO Is a Problem, Not The Solution.” Popular Resistance.org
“The U.S. proxy war in Ukraine,” Monthly Review.
US Proxy War and Imperial Strategy
US-Led Provocations
US Peace Council Statement On Russia’s Military Intervention In Ukraine. Popular Resistance.
US DEMONIZING RUSSIA, PUTIN. SANCTIONS
Larry C. Johnson: “The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated’”. Unz Review
“Escalation without consequences on the Op-Ed page.” FAIR
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: “U.S. Hypocrisy—CIA Trains Insurgents in Ukraine.”
“U.S. and NATO allies arm neo-Nazi units in Ukraine as Foreign Policy elites yearn for Afghan-style insurgency.” Internationalist 360
“U.S. Congress admits Nazi role in Ukraine.” Orinoco Tribune.
“U.S. Media Decries Brutal Russia Invasion of Ukraine—(But) Russians Were Welcomed as Liberators in Southern Ukraine.” CovertAction Magazine
“US Media Pushing for World War III.” Consortium News (Via Abel Tomlinson)
Scarcity of CRITICAL THINKING (a cause of war too little taught by our public schools):
“This is not the age of certainty. We are in the time of contradictions.” The Fourteenth Newsletter (2022).
“Russia’s non-proliferation disinformation campaign.” Monthly Review.
“What Western leaders need to remember about Zelensky’s emotional appeals.” Roger Peterson.
“Ukraine is brutally repressing the left, criminalizing socialist parties, imprisoning activists.” Monthly Review
Aggressor Nations: US Context of Russia/Ukraine War.
The United States of War: A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic Stateby David Vine.
CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR
“Which war crimes might Russians have committed in Ukraine?” BAS (March 24, 2022). Video.
Propaganda of Hatred during Wars
“Fabricating Putin quotes and banning paraplegic athletes to undermine Russia: how low can the West go?” Monthly Review.
Atrocities: Bucha
Joe Lauria. “Questions Abound About Bucha Massacre.” Consortium.
“The Bucha Provocation.” Moon of Alabama.
CENSORSHIP [both cause and consequence of war, part of the deception inseparable from war].
Peoples Dispatch. “Lee Camp on censoring anti-war voices.”
“Pity the Nation.: Monthly Review
Opposition political parties banned in Ukraine and ‘unified information policy’ imposed. Monthly Review
ILLNESSES WORSENING
WHO issues warning over Ukraine as Russia exits HRC. UN Wire
WORLD HUNGER
Hunger crisis looms as Ukraine war drives food costs up. UN Wire
George Paulson on book The First Casualty (of war is the truth) by Philip Knightly
POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES
Simulations reveal an attack on Ukrainian nuclear facilities could have possibly been worse than Chernobyl. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
PEACE
“U.S. Leaders Claim to Care About the Suffering of the Ukrainian People, But Will They Step Up and Make the Compromises Necessary to End the War?” Covert Action magazine.
“An antidote to the ‘split’ in the U.S. Peace Movement: anti-interventionism.” Monthly Review
“Divided World: The UN Condemnation of Russia is endorsed by Countries run by the richest, oldest, Whitest people on Earth but only 41% of the World’s population.” Monthly Review
“Halfway to the End of the War.” Monthly Review
“Student event: Discussing Ukraine and the future of arms control with Michael Krepon.” Student Pugwash USA
Dawn Stover. “10 must-read Twitter threads on the war in Ukraine.” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
CONTENTS OF US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY #19 4-29-2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
What’s at Stake: “If people want to understand the war in Ukraine, they need to read widely about it, from different perspectives, including the Russian one, to try and discern the truth about what is going on for themselves.” MReditors. The official rationalizations are receiving massive support from the White House, Pentagon, Congress, and mainstream media (including PBS). In these anthologies we hear some anti-war perspectives.
ORIGINS, CAUSES OF THE WAR
Should NATO Exist? Klion Yes. Madar No.
Hawes, “History Returns Again,” Historical Background of the War
Guy Mettan, “Zelenskymania,” Inevitable and Improvised,
Winners and Losers, Switzerland Ruined, CyberWar, “Stratcom”
Alastair Crooke, “War It Is—and Escalation Is Coming”
John Ross, “What Is Propelling the U.S. into Increasing
International Aggression?”
Ivan Eland, “’Unprovoked Attacks’ from 1812 to 9-11.”
Richard Falk. “Why Ukraine?”
Ukrainian Nazis
Evan Reif, “NED Finances Key Ukrainian Propaganda….” and a
Journalist
“Russian Abhorrence of Nazi Influence in Ukraine”
US Biological Warfare Labs in Ukraine?
Bhadrahumar, “Migratory Birds of Mass Destruction”
Whitney, “…Possible U.S. Preparations for Biological Warfare”
Bruce Gagnon, Interview on U.S. Goal of Russian Regime Change
CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR
Civilian Deaths
Tomgram/TomDispatch, “Nick Turse, Bodies Beyond Bucha”
Nick Turse, “The Civilian Deaths You Haven’t Heard About”
Arms Proliferation
Branko Marcetic, “The U.S. Has No Idea Where Its Ukrainian
Military Aid is Going”
Censorship (see #20)
Washington Post Calls for Censoring Chinese Media, Praises
Purge of Russian Outlets
Media Bias (see #20)
Jeff Cohen, Corporate Media and Official Enemies
Caitlin Johnstone, Corporate Media Control of Public’s
Perception
New Cold War, WWIII
Michael Klare, A more dangerous world
Guterres, UN Wire
Displaced People, Refugees Increasing
PEACE
WWIII? West’s War on Russia
Abby Martin, FCNL, “Questions for the US Anti-War Movement”
Rafaela Demerath, Congress Must Invest in Peacemaking
Tomgram, Tom Dispatch, “Andrew Bacevich, American Militarism
A Persistent Malady.”
Bacevich, “Putin Changed the Subject, But Confronting MLKJr’s
‘Giant Triplets’ Is More Urgent.” What would Martin Say?
Vijay Prashad, “We Want a World Without Walls”
Chris de Ploeg, “Weapons Are Not Helping”
Jeffrey Knopf, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Abolish Nuclear
Weapons
BAS on Nuclear Arms Control
War Abolition 101
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war, ANTHOLOGY #20, mAY 6, 2022.
Consequences of War, Control OF INFORMATION and CENSORSHIP,
and seeking PEACE https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
What’s at Stake: Wartime State, Corporate Rapacity and Repression, and Populist Patriotism v. Free Speech and Peace.
CONTENTS #20,
CONSEQUENCES OF WAR (10): CONTROL OF INFORMATION/CENSORSHIP. RESISTANCE: PEACEMAKING.
Patrick Lawrence. “The US Bubble of Pretend.”
George Paulson. Scott Ritter and President Poroshenko.
Glenn Greenwald. “The Censorship Campaign against Western Criticism of
NATO….”
Evan Reif. War of Repression against “anyone who dares to speak against the
Kyiv regime.”
Jeremy Kuzmarov. “Ukraine Hunts Down Traitors Helping Russia.”
Chris Hedges. “American Commissars.”
Caitlin Johnstone. “Pay Pal Blocks [Criticism] of U.S.”
Margaret Kimerley. “Obama Wants Censorship.”
Johnstone. “Being Anti-War Isn’t Easy.”
CPNN. Russian Nobel Laureate Attacked in Russia. Silencing Occurring Also in
Russia.
PEACE (3)
Art Hobson. “Why must we make war? The frailties of Homo sapiens.”
UN’s Guterres
Ukraine Pacifist Movement
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies. “This Is How the US Could Help Bring Peace to Ukraine”
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY, #21:
HISTORY, ORIGINS, CAUSES, MEANING OF THE WAR; MAY 28, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war_29.html
Contents of #21 ANTHOLOGY
WAR
Marius Trotter. The Russian Perspective, The Crucial History:
FROM WWII TO 2022
The US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR BEGINS IN 2014
The Maidan Coup against Elected Pro-Russian President.
J. Kuzmarov. 2014 Odessa Massacre.
John Walsh. Coup Against Elected Pro-Russian President and Attacks on
Donetsk and Lugansk (Donbass) Pro-Russians.
Fergie Chambers. Neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion Torture vs. Donbass Pro-
Russian Rebels.
Statement from Black Liberation Movement.
MR Editors. From 2014 to Present.
Samir Amin. Large Geo-Political Context. Triad of Western Control.
Anatol Lieven. Dangers of US Proxy War.
NATO Expansion
Global Times. Now Finland and Sweden and Risk of European War.
Glenn Greenwald. US Bipartisan (the War Party) Support for War $$.
Richard Ochs. US Biggest Lies for War.
PEACE
Jeremy Kuzmarov. US and Russian Tradition of Friendship.
Nancy Spannaus. “U.S. and Russia Have a Long History.
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY, #22: peace
June 10, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
CONTENTS: WAYS TO PEACE, June 10, 2022
Art Hobson. “The Irrationality of War.”
US Peace Council. “A Manufactured Crisis In Ukraine Is Victimizing The World’s Peoples”
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Reiner Braun. “NO to NATO, YES to Peace with Russia.”
Voices from Donbass.
Kristine Melnikova
Alexey Albu
Ted Snider. Diplomacy.
Jeffrey Sachs. Negotiated Settlement.
Yanis Varoufakis. Negotiated Settlement.
Deb Sawyer. Steps to Peace v. Nuclear War.
Black Liberation Movement. Dismantle NATO.
Katrina vanden Heuvel. “We Need a Real Debate.”
Ryan Costello. Build a renewed antiwar movement.
Borowitz. Dark Comedy
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #23: NAZIS AND NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE
June 19, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
What’s at stake regarding the war.
First, an important motivation of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the long, active, armed presence of Nazis and then Neo-Nazis there. During WWII--to Russians the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invasion, let’s not forget, in which Ukrainians fought on the Nazi side--killed some 20 million Russians. The essays explain how Nazi presence in the Ukraine exacerbated Putin’s fear of NATO and helped to motivate his invasion of Ukraine. Second, the war has nothing to do with our or the world’s urgent problems at home, except to make all of them worse! And the war could have been prevented, then and still now stopped.
Second, Bacevich’s essay at the end makes the case that “fascists” abroad offer no existential threat to the United States. The US constitutional system is threatened, but that threat is within, including an attempted coup.
You might want to take several months to read these critically, but scan this Contents to glimpse the history of US warfare against the Soviet Union, a history that has been so grossly under-reported by the US mainstream media that now our leaders and our nation are going to war yet again based upon ignorance and bigotry induced by the US propaganda system.
Here are a few articles giving Ukraine’s history from pre-WWII to present, but most of them deal with the civil war beginning 2014 between the Ukrainian breakaway provinces, supported by Russia, following the coup against the elected pro-Russian president, and the main Ukrainian “Maidan” government in Kiev.
[The “Maidan” uprising of 2014 is named after Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyivand refers to the anti-Russian citizens including neo-fascists who threw out the elected pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in a coup and installed the anti-Russian “Maidan” regime.]
CONTENTS US, NATO, UKRAINE, RUSSIA #23, Nazis in Ukraine (twenty essays)
Evan Reif. 3-Part Series. I. From Pre-WWII Ukrainian Fascists to Post-WWII Anti-Communist Heroes. [Stepan Bandera was the anti-communist head of the militant wing of theOrganization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and during WWII supported the Nazis.]
II. Yaroslav Stetsko and CIA Secret War Behind Iron Curtain.
[I received a welcome article employing careful analysis of the evidence pertaining to how many ethnic Russians were killed by the Ukrainian army from 2014 to 2022 by Michael Karadjis. Truth is the first and continuing victim of war, leaders lie, and gullible, patriotic populations, the US sometimes foremost, rush to the slaughter. So I believe critical thinking should be taught from K-12. https://mkaradjis.com/2022/06/16/on-the-fantastic-tale-that-the-ukrainian-army-killed-14000-ethnic-russians-in-donbas-between-2014-and-2022/ These 23 anthologies serve that need by resisting the one-sided, militaristc reporting of the 2024- US-NATO-Ukraine-Russia war. of 2014-present. –Dick]
Ben Norton. “Inside Operation Gladio: How [CIA and] NATO Supported Nazis and Terrorists” v. USSR.
2014-
“Stadiums of Hate,” Violent Nazism and Racism in Ukraine.
Caitlin Johnstone. Azov Battalion Drops Neo-Nazi Symbol.
Stepan Malentsov. The War should be for socialism not just the denazification of Ukraine.
Gordon Hahn. “Eight Years Ago in Odessa.” The right-wing murder of pro-Russian protesters of the anti-Russian government that gained power by a coup.
Ron Ridenour.Iceland Welcomes Zelensky, But No Mention of some Inconvenient History.
Voices from Dombas: Malnikov and Katya A (Donetsk), Alexey Albu (Lugansk)
John Parker. Three More on Odessa.
Alexander Rubenstein. US Citizens Fighting with Ukrainian Army.
Caitlin Johnstone. Azov Battalion Removes Neo-Nazi Symbol.
Laurent Brayard. 3-part series on right-wing neo-nazi leaders: Biletsky, Igor Mosiychuk, and Evgueny Karas.
Mehmet Perinҫek. “The Donbas Diaries Part II: The Azov Battalions.”
Jacques Baud. Denounces Western coverage of Ukraine Invasion.”
Lev Golinkin. “Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are on the March in Ukraine.”
Andrew Bacevich. “The F-Word…Repurposed and Misapplied.”
Earlier anthologies contain additional articles on Ukrainian Nazis.
US, NATO, UKRAINE v. RUSSIA WAR
#24 origins, consequences, peace
July 4, 2022
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/us-nato-ukraine-v-russia-war-24.html
What’s at stake. These anthologies on the Ukrainian War were gathered to show how much more complicated were its causes, how much more ruinous were its consequences, and how many more alternatives to war were possible than have been explored by US leaders or reported in US mainstream media (MSM). My belief is that the people of the US and the world wish to understand the complications of US wars and do not desire again to be engaged in massive destruction and mass slaughter without the fullest and most careful consideration. --Dick
CONTENTS US, NATO, Ukraine, Russia Anthology #24
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Dick – The US Press is doing a terrible job of reporting this war. This even includes the PBS news, and NPR. There is no context, no history, little about the details of strategy or diplomacy, little explanation of why any particular incident (such as the siege of Mariupol) might have occurred, little discussion of alternatives. Reporting is mostly one-dimensional and simple-minded. Most of it consists of tragic stories of civilian suffering. And all of it is infused with flag-waving patriotism and simple “good guys and bad guys” mentality. It’s not that simple. Putin’s invasion was immoral and (worse yet) stupid, but he is not Hitler. It is important for us to hear the stories of suffering because they teach us the reality and the tragedy of war, but the focus should be much broader than this. There should be much more commentary, including commentary from left-wingers and right-wingers. The only discussion seems to come from the US government and military people. There should be much more history, much more criticism. Basically, the reporting is irrational and emotional. A suggestion: Letters to the editor are an effective way to reach the public. Our group should write, and encourage others to write, such letters. Peace – Art
CAUSES of the WAR #24
Mark Rolofson. A Brief History
Shapiro. President Clinton and NATO Expansion.
Carey. Western (Sovietphobia) Russophobia: United Kingdom.
Krieger. “Putin’s Offer to Negotiate on Nukes” Rejected.
Kuzmarov. MIC War Profiteering.
Lauria. Censorship: Nulan-Pyatt Tape, Smoking Gun of Kiev Coup 2014.
Kuzmarov. Propaganda: US National Endowment for Democracy Awards
to anti-Russian NGOs.
Norton. Conspiracy: “U.S. Government Plots to Break Up Russia in Name
of ‘Decolonization.’”
McCoy. Another Cold War = Nuclear Threat, US $2 Trillion.
Hornberger. “What If the U.S. Had Invaded the Ukraine?”
Chomsky and Barsamian. War and Warming, and Orwell’s Doublethink.
CONSEQUENCES
Moon of Alabama. US Escalation.
Brenner. World Has Changed Opposite to Plans.
Al Mayadeen Net. Censorship: Stone’s Film Ukraine on Fire.
Steve Sweeney. Ukrainian Crackdown on Left and other Opponents.
Ritter. “Lithuania’s Brinkmanship.”
UN WIRE. Casualties in the War.
Johnstone. CIA in Ukraine.
Moon of Alabama. Zelensky Lied re Burned Shopping Center.
Salami. Egypt’s Tightrope Neutrality.
Knight. “Joe Biden’s saber-rattling threatens World War III—with China and Russia.”
CONCORD
Hixson. Principal Needs for Peace, to prevent and stop wars.
Kuzmarov and Brown. End False Ukrainian Reports of Russian atrocities.
World Beyond War, Code Pink, and International Peace Bureau. “Peace
Wave” International Appeal for End to the War.
United for Peace and Justice: 4 International Reports.
Ukraine [Anti-] War Resources
US Conference of Mayors Adopts Peace Resolution
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons First Meeting in Vienna
Condemnation of Nuclear Threats (Abolish Nuclear Weapons)
UFPJ Peace Petition
Paul Ingram. “Russia’s Nuclear Threat.”
Lynch. Conflict Transformation.
Koehler. “Embracing the Complexity of Peace.”
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR #25
AUGUST 7, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-25.html
CONTENTS UKRAINE WAR #25
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-25.html
Causes of the War
Gerald Sussman. The Long CIA Propaganda War
Bryce Greene. “What’s Missing from Corporate Media’s [MSM] Ukraine Coverage?” 2022.
Patrick Lawrence. “The Great Acquiescence—Glory to Ukraine.” 2022.
Michael Welton. “”…How John Mearsheimer and Stephen Cohen Challenged the Dominant Narrative.” 2022.
Kit Klarenburg. “How CIA Front Laid Foundations for Ukraine War.”
More on Nazis in Ukraine (see Anthology #24)
Sonja Van den Ende. “Ruins of Azov Steel Factory Display Nazi Insignia. “
Gregory Shupak. “Pushing for War Over Ukraine While Ignoring Its Nazi Ties.”
Sustaining the War
George Paulson. “The Politics of Biden’s Escalation.”
Amy Goodman. “Western Mass Media.”
Ben Norton. NATO Sacrificing Ukrainians.
Jeff Abramson. The US, Lethal Weapons, and Russia.
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Brzezinski, Poland, US Baltic Sea Base.
Ben Norton. “CIA and Western Special Ops Are in Ukraine.”
Dave DeCamp. Biden: US Increasing Military Presence in Europe.
Peace
Richard Falk. “A European Call for an End to the Ukrainian War.”
Rick Sterling. “Handling International Crises from JFK to Biden.”
Kathy Kelly and Matt Gannon. “To Heal. We Must Cultivate Hope.”
Jim Chambers. “Resisting the ‘Collective West.’”
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #26
October 18, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
What’s at Stake.
In the middle of WWI, the highly decorated British Army officer and celebrated poet, Siegrfried Sassoon, wrote “Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration” denouncing the war for being “prolonged by those who have the power to end it.” The British War Department chose not to courtmartial Sassoon, but instead sent him to an Army hospital specializing in “shell shock” patients (PTSD today). The military purpose of the hospital was to return soldiers back to the war in France. Its political purpose was to silence criticism of the war.
In her novel about these hospitals, Regeneration, Pat Barker considers grotesque physical contortions, paralysis, deafness, blindness, muteness, stammerings, nightmares, tremors, and memory lapses to be unconscious, unwitting protests against the horrors of trench warfare, and the removal of those behaviors—fitting “young men back into the role of warrior”-- as patriotic psychiatry no matter how cruel the treatment. But Captain Sassoon was an anomaly. He experienced some nightmares, but nothing else. He wanted to return to the war, where he might relieve the suffering of his soldiers. He was physically and mentally “fit.” But he opposed the war and would not abandon his “A Soldier’s Declaration” that the war was being fought for the “evil and unjust” ends of the leaders who exploit the “callous complacence” of the civilian majority at home.
That’s a major problem to the War Department, then and now.
Likewise the United States and NATO refused to stop the rush to war by Ukraine and Russia, but rather expedited it, as these twenty-six anthologies demonstrate. Not only by expanding a nuclear armed NATO to Russia’s border, or by quashing negotiations and arming Ukraine, but by controlling information at home about the war the US advanced a “good” Ukraine and an “evil” Russia, and a hideous war and heightened nuclear danger. --Dick
CONTENTS OF US/NATO/UKRAINE/RUSSIA WAR #26 October 18, 2022 (1 book and 15 essays)
Causes
Dan Kovalik. The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin.
Laurence H. Shoup. “Giving War a Chance. Council on Foreign Relations and Preparing for World War.”
Cook. Hollywood.
Provocations.
Keeping the War Going
Weiss. Ukraine v. International Law
Kuzmarov. US Involvement.
Knight. “Credibility Gulch.”
Global War: Two Reports on Pelosi’s Vist to Taiwan
Consequences
de Sousa Santos. An Overview
Stopping the War, Making Peace
Tulsi Gabbard leaves the Democratic War Party.
Marcy Winograd and Media Benjamin report US history of nuclear extortion and call for
stopping the Ukraine War as JFK did the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Brad Wolf on the corrupting influence war and profits have on everything, including the press.
Chay Bowes.“War Propaganda About Ukraine. . . . .”
Sonja van den Ende. “Russians welcomed as liberators in many Eastern Ukrainian cities….”
John Parker. Western War, Western Media.
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #27
November 26, 2022
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-anthology-27.html
CONTENTS OF US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #27 (9 articles, one book)
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies. War In Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.
CONSEQUENCES OF WAR
CENSORSHIP
Caitlin A. Johnstone. “PayPal blocks multiple alternative media figures critical of U.S. empire narratives.”
“100 million Russian books in line for ban.”
ATROCITIES
Art Hobson on Atrocities, Killing Civilians.
“UN slams Ukrainian attack on Donetsk maternity hospital.”
Eva Bartlett. “Western media and politicians prefer to ignore the truth….”
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Ukrainian Shelling of Donetsk.
Patrick Buchanan. “The Real Purpose of the Ukraine War for the US and Ukraine Is to Weaken Russia.”
Global Consequences of the War, several essays
Peoples Dispatch. “The Real Path to Peace.”
Contents Ukraine War #26
Ukraine War Anthology #28
February 18, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/02/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
CONTENTS #28
US/NATO’S WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
Current Actions Against the War
World Beyond War, February 19 RALLY
United for Peace and Justice, “Peaceful Alternatives to War,” February 24,
2023.
History
John Mearsheimer, "The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis."
George Beebe. "Ignoring the Ghosts of the 'Great War' - at Our Own
Peril"
Jeffrey D. Sachs. "Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster."
Space Alert interview with John Walsh. “War against Russia and China.”
Sustaining the Ukraine War
Space Alert. “Kiev’s Nazi Forces Attack Donbass.”
Seymour Hersh, “Nord Stream Sabotage Is the Dumbest.”
Caitlin Johnstone. CBS Silenced by Ukraine Gov.
NYT Report on Civilians Killed.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Phoenix Ghost Drones to Ukraine.
Dave DeCamp. Lend-Lease for Weapons.
Benjamin Norton. Spanish Lawmaker on NATO’s Subservience to US Interests.
Anatole Lieven on Russian Intellectuals.
Fabrizio Casari. Europe a Sinking Ship.
NATO on Russia’s Western Border
Scott Ritter. “Lithuania’s Brinkmanship.”
Destabilizing Russia’s Southern Border.
Gavin O’Reilly on Uzbekistan.
MAKING PEACE, STOP THE WAR, DIPLOMACY NOT SLAUGHTER
"Ending the War in Ukraine: Three Possible Futures"By Rajan Menon.
US Public Support for the War Decreasing.
"Anatol Lieven on NATO Expansion & What a Ukraine Peace Settlement Could Look Like." Interview by Amy Goodman.