OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #151, NOVEMBER
8, 2023
Preventing and Stopping War
Don Timmerman. The Gospel v. War
Ron Ridenour. Ted Hall v. Nuclear War
Dmitri Kovalevich. Hope for
Peace Post-Ukraine War
Choosing
Peacemakers as Our Leaders
"Dorothy Day of the Catholic Workersaid that there is no need of any special theology of peace. You just
need to look at what the gospel asks and what war does.The gospel asks
that we feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, welcome
the homeless, visit the prisoner, and perform the works of mercy. War does the
opposite. It makes my neighbor hungry, thirsty, homeless, a prisoner and
sick. Christ is the peacemaker, the reconciler. His method is the
cross—accepting suffering with love, not inflicting it onto others. The
invitation of the gospel to love is entirely contradictory with the use of
military force. Christ's way of life was not the way of the military. It was a
way of peacemaking. A way of making peace through the cross, through redemptive
love." A state is established with violence and continues
through violence. Self defense does not
depend on violence. In fact, violence never leads to self- defense. Only love
does that. No more war! No more violence! ‘A hero
is one who makes one’s enemy a friend.’ The
Talmud Christianity is a life style initiated by
Christ. “ ----Don Timmerman (with his wife Roberta leaders of the
CASA MARIA CATHOLIC WORKER). In the same
no. of the CMCW is this q. from Eleanor Roosevelt: “When will our
consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather
than avenge it?”
Hope
for a Post-War Peaceful Future: Preventing WWIII.
Ron
Ridenour. “Ted Hall Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize For Helping to
Prevent a Nuclear Holocaust in the 1950s.” CovertAction Magazine (10-30-23).
Ted Hall Helped the Soviet Union to Counterbalance the U.S.
Monopoly on Atomic Weaponry After World War II, Which Acted as a Deterrent
Against Aggressive U.S. War Plans. Dave
Lindorff initiated the documentary film A
Compassionate Spy, following a correspondence with Ted Hall’s 87-year-old
widow, Joan Hall. Lindorff had written an article in 2017 proposing Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs be granted
the Nobel Peace Prize for sharing vital information about the atomic bomb
development under way in Los Alamos, New Mexico—the Manhattan Project—in the
mid-1940s.
Hope
for a Post-war Peaceful Future: Imagining Ukraine/Russia Peace.
Dmitri Kovalevich. “Class and Nation in the Conflict in Ukraine.”
Originally
published: Al Mayadeen on June 2, 2023 (more by Al Mayadeen). (Posted Jun 03, 2023). Google: Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel. Kovalevich is a Ukrainian journalist and activist of the banned
communist organization 'Borotba'.
Class, Imperialism, WarAmericas, Europe,
Russia,
Ukraine,
United StatesNewswire
[Here are the opening and closing sentences of the article.]
“Every military
conflict these days has a class
component; the soldiers directly involved in hostilities are usually drawn or
conscripted from poorer social classes. The current conflict in Ukraine is no
exception to this. . . .
I am sure that after
the cessation of hostilities, the ordinary masses of Ukrainian soldiers (not
the ultranationalists) will quickly and easily find common ground again with
their Russian compatriots in struggling for a better country and better world.
This will not even require a long period to heal moral wounds. “
[To read the entire
article: https://mronline.org/2023/06/03/class-and-nation-in-the-conflict-in-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=class-and-nation-in-the-conflict-in-ukraine&mc_cid=5cf7e358cd&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e
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