OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #127, MAY 24, 2023. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/05/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-127-may-24.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace,
Justice, and Ecology.
Our next monthly Nuclear War Protest is this Saturday, May 27th at 11 A.M. at Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville.
Abel Tomlinson. 5 Major Escalations Toward Nuclear War
In These Times. Phyllis Bennis and Vijay Prashad Stand with
MLKJR. against US Aggression.
5 Major Escalations Toward Nuclear War
Dear Friends,
At the upcoming protest, I’m thinking it would be a good idea to also highlight
recent escalations of war with Russia and China that bring us closer and closer
to the brink of nuclear war. Please let me know if any other recent
escalations come to mind.
1. For
instance, the West, specifically the UK with US support, has begun
shipping Storm Shadow missiles to
Ukraine that enable attacks much deeper, range of 150 miles, into Russian
territory.
2. The
United States has also recently just given a green light to its NATO allies, specifically
the UK and Netherlands, to begin
providing nuclear-capable F16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
3. We also
recently witnessed drone attacks on the Kremlin, which
Russia claims was an assassination attempt on Putin. Although Kiev and
the U.S. deny responsibility, its most likely some division of the Ukrainian
government organized it. Interestingly, Zelensky went on a sustained
world tour after the attack, in what appears an avoidance of returning to Kiev
and possible retaliatory assassination attempts by Russia.
4. The
West, specifically the U.K. with the support of the U.S., has begun shipping
poisonous depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine. The details of this
escalation are outlined here very well by Elizabeth
Vos of Consortium News, who came to our last protest.
Additionally, there is considerable speculation that the recent Russian bombing of a major weapons depot in Khmelnytsk in West
Ukraine, which caused a massive mushroom
cloud explosion, could have included the NATO –supplied depleted uranium
weapons. If true, this would mean NATO, which “cares deeply about Ukrainians”,
helped the West Ukrainian Government in Kiev poison its own people and lands,
instead of poisoning East Ukrainians and their lands as intended.
5. In
terms of escalation of war with China, a leading Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton threatened
that the U.S. may bomb Taiwan’s TSMC factory in
order to hurt China. TSMC is the world’s largest semiconductor factory, and
if attacked it would not just harm Taiwan and China, but also the entire global
economy, and all the technological manufacturing dependent on
semiconductors. This kind of attack on a supposed ally nation to harm a
chosen enemy nation is directly analogous to the Biden Administration bombing the
Nordstream pipeline, which harmed its allies in Germany
and all of the E.U. in order to harm its chosen enemy Russia. A
great analysis by journalist Danny Haiphong of
this backfiring threat is here.
Abel Tomlinson
Attachments
OMNI’s WWW is an arm of the world
peace movement, little reported by corporate media past and present. (The US had 1200 peace
organizations in 2001, the last time I counted them.)
The following two essays appeared together in
In
These Times (Oct. 2017) under the umbrella title of “The U.S. Is Bombing
at Least Six Countries. How Can the
Anti-War Movement Step Up?”
Phyllis Bennis. “No
Movement Is an Island.”
Bennis (long-time peacemaker, author of books including Understanding ISIS and New Global War on Terror: a Primer)
urges us to stand with MLK Jr.’s
call for a unified movement against “the giant triplets of racism, extreme
materialism [capitalism], and militarism.”
She adds, “as Dr. King surely would have, protection of the planet.” With this ecological addition, King provides
us with a comprehensive program of resistance to the US warfare state.
Vijay Prashad. “No Parley
with Liberal Interventionists” [reinforcing MLKJr].
Prashad
(editor of LeftWord Books) wants the anti-war movement to assert “a strong
position against the [bipartisan] warfare state” and “a clear anti-imperialist
platform” that censures “the violence wrought by the U.S. government” with five
policies for peace, including: investigating civilian casualties by US, ending
CIA arms sales to right wing forces, and, preeminently, conversion of military
industry to peaceful production (Camden!)..