OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #165, FEBRUARY
21, 2024. Compiled by Dick
Bennett.
Norman
Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its
Military Machine (New York: The New Press, 2023), 272 pages.
Rev.
“Corporate Media, Political Elites, and Perpetual War” by David Michael Smith, Monthly Review (December 5, 2023).
(Dec 01, 2023). Topics: Capitalism Imperialism Media Political economy Terrorism War Places: Americas United States
Publisher’s
description: David Michael Smith
reviews journalist Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible, an eloquent
moral call to end the bloody state of perpetual war that the United States has
engaged in since the advent of the “war on terror.” Long
recognized as one of this country’s most incisive journalists and media
critics, Norman Solomon has written a new book that deserves to be
widely read. In less than three hundred pages, he marshals a remarkable amount
of information to document the contours of the so-called war on terror waged
by the United States since 9/11, the terrible human costs incurred abroad and
at home, and the ways in which corporate media and political elites strive to
make this perpetual war and its catastrophic consequences almost entirely
invisible to the public. | more… Source
David Michael Smith is
a former professor of government and union president at College of the Mainland
in Texas City, Texas. He is the author of Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire (New
York: Monthly Review Press, 2023).
VFP Challenges Blinken to suspend arms
shipments to Israel
paulcox890@comcast.net paulcox890@comcast.net via uark.onmicrosoft.com 
Feb 13, 2024,Veterans For Peace has just sent the attached letter to
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and accompanying press release, outlining the
numerous laws and treaties that the US is violating in support of the
ongoing Israeli slaughter of Palestinians and demanding that the US suspend
arms shipments to Israel. This is a serious challenge to US’s whining
policy of asking Israel to please be more careful while continuing to pour vast
quantities of armaments into their attacks on Gaza and, increasingly, the West
Bank. , https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/02/13/veterans-demand-termination-of-weapons-to-israel/
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these documents to them. Also, please send it to your representative or
senator, your governor, your city council—wherever leaders need to confront
their own lack of action against this most egregious of war crimes.
Paul Cox
Veterans For Peace
Chapter 69
paulcox@sonic.net
510-418-3436
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