OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #144, SEPTEMBER
20, 2023
World
Beyond War. Abolish War.
Joe Lauria. “9/11: Why Americans Are Never Told Why.”
Katrina Vanden Heuvel. “Putin, Prigozhin, and Russia’s Future.”
RECENT (AND
FORTHCOMING) WORLD BEYOND WAR ACTIVITIES Some find it hard to
believe, but NATO is planning a big celebration of 75 years of
itself, with meetings beginning July 9, 2024, in Washington, D.C.,
at which we can expect many presidents, prime ministers, foreign secretaries,
and weapons dealers. We are planning a summit on Saturday July 6 and a
rally on Sunday July 7, as well as various other actions in the days before and
after that weekend -- including working with allies planning a peace walk
from Santa Monica, California, to join us in Washington, D.C. with events all
along the way. |
On September 5, 2023,
members of WILPF, the WBW California chapter, and the Guadalupe Catholic Worker
peacefully protested at the Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc,
California, saying NO to the Minuteman III ICBM test launch from
Vandenberg to the Marshall Islands. |
“9/11: Why Americans Are
Never Told Why.” Consortium News (9-13-23).
When Western media discuss
terrorism against the West, such as 9/11, the motive is almost always left out,
even when the terrorists state they are avenging longstanding Western violence
in the Muslim world, reports Joe Lauria. Read here...
Stop
the War.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel. “Putin,
Prigozhin, and Russia’s Future.”
The Nation (7.24-31.2023). A one-page summary
and analysis of the revolt by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenary troops
in Russia: the “grave risks that would be posed by the Russian state’s
disintegration, the terrifying possibility of Russia’s losing control of its
nuclear weapons,” the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the refugee crisis, and
“new waves of repression.” Vanden
Heuvel calls for “urgently needed diplomacy.”
Compiled by Dick Bennett