OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS,
#129, JUNE 7, 2023.
Norman Solomon. War
Made Possible by corporate mainstream media.
TomDispatch. Andrew Bacevich. What
“victory” for Ukrainians might mean.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas
Davies. Stop the Ukraine War Now.
Women Cross DMZ: 2023 Korea Peace Advocacy Week.
Why do most US citizens accept the US Empire
and its wars? Norman Solomon argues in War Made Possible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military
Machine (2023) that the
corporate mainstream media and US political leaders conceal the tragic
consequences of war. US leaders have perpetuated war since WWII by
distancing the public from the killing and costs via high tech warmaking, and via
the mainstream news media that rely heavily on “ military narratives that
euphemize and shroud” the violence and mask massive Pentagon budgets while
neglecting domestic needs.
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“When Will US Join
Global Call to End Ukraine War? by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies.
CounterCurrents.org, 31/05/2023.
Here is the conclusion; to read the full essay go to https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/when-will-us-join-global-call-to-end-ukraine-war/
…..The initial decision of the United States
and NATO member countries to try to help Ukraine resist the Russian invasion
had broad public support. However, blocking promising peace negotiations and
deliberately choosing to prolong the war as a chance to “press” and “weaken” Russia changed the nature of the war and
the U.S. role in it, making Western leaders active parties to a war in which
they will not even put their own forces on the line.
Must our leaders wait until a murderous war of
attrition has killed an entire generation of Ukrainians, and left Ukraine in a
weaker negotiating position than it was in April 2022, before they respond to
the international call for a return to the negotiating table?
Or must our leaders take us to the brink of
World War III, with all our lives on the line in an all-out nuclear war, before they will permit a ceasefire and a
negotiated peace?
Rather than sleepwalking into World War III or
silently watching this senseless loss of lives, we are building a global
grassroots movement to support initiatives by leaders from around the world that
will help to quickly end this war and usher in a stable and lasting
peace. Join
us.
Medea Benjamin is the cofounder of CODEPINK for
Peace, and the author of
several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and
Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Nicolas J. S. Davies is an independent journalist, a
researcher with CODEPINK and the author of Blood on Our Hands: The American
Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.
https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/when-will-us-join-global-call-to-end-ukraine-war/
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