OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #134, JULY 12, 2023.

134.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #134, JULY 12, 2023.
Juan Cole, From Militarism to Invading Ourselves.
Roots Action.  Unrestrained US Military Spending.
WBW’s Nonviolent Resistance to Militarism conference September 22-24.

OMNI at FARMER’S MARKET this Saturday, JULY 15, 2023. 
Our Table is at the NW corner of Fayetteville Square beginning 8 a.m.   We have free copies of Nukewatch Quarterly, Jeffrey Sachs’ article on US/NATO provoking the Ukraine War, two urgent petitions, and more to explain why we should take action against the Ukraine War.  Sandy Lee-Shirley, Abel Tomlinson, Dick Bennett, and more.

Here is the conclusion of Cole’s analysis of the Bush, Cheney, Rice admin.’s lying, illegal, cruel, atrocious invasion of Iraq and its consequences.  To read the entire essay, go tohttps://tomdispatch.com/iraqs-climate-crisis/?utm_source=TomDispatch&utm_campaign=cf47e98021-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_07_13_02_04_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1e41682ade-cf47e98021-308836209#more

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Juan Cole, Invading Ourselves.  POSTED ON JULY 9, 2023.

. . .If, instead of invading Iraq, the American government had swung into action in the spring of 2003 to cut carbon dioxide output, as one of our foremost climate scientists, Michael Mann, was suggesting at the time, the emission of hundreds of billions of tons of CO2 might have been avoided. Humanity would have had an extra two decades to make the transition to a zero-carbon world. In the end, after all, the stakes are as high for Americans as they are for Iraqis.

If humanity doesn’t reach zero carbon emissions by 2050, we are likely to outrun our “carbon budget,” the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2, and the climate will undoubtedly go chaotic. What has already happened in Iraq, not to speak of the dire climate impacts that have recently left Canada constantly aflame, U.S. cities smoking, and Texans broiling in a record fashion would then seem like child’s play.

At that point, in short, we would have invaded ourselves.

A Trillion Here, A Trillion There.