OMNI WAR WATCH
WEDNESDAYS, #170, MARCH 27, 2024. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Sharon John Bellamy
Foster. “The U.S. Quest for Nuclear
Primacy.”
Rudahl. Sharon Rudahl. Ballad of an American: A Graphic Biography of
Paul Robeson.
John
Bellamy Foster. “The U.S. Quest for
Nuclear Primacy:The
Counterforce Doctrine and the Ideology of Moral Asymmetry.” The Monthly Review (February 2024). https://monthlyreview.org/2024/02/01/the-u-s-quest-for-nuclear-primacy/ [The
final paragraph summarizing the essay’s criticism of US culpability might
appear unconvincing devoid of the argument and evidence preceding it. This is an invitation to read the
argument. –D] “The most likely result
of the current Western view that nuclear weapons can be used to achieve
political and military ends is that they will indeed end up being used,
with the destruction of virtually all of humanity. The fact that the entire Western nuclear
strategy since 1991 has been based on counterforce targeting, first-strike
capability, nuclear primacy, and limited nuclear war, viewing thermonuclear
weapons as useful instruments in the struggle to secure a unipolar world order of
and for US capitalism, means that the United States/NATO today constitutes the
single greatest existential threat to humanity via a Third World War (that is,
outside of the planetary ecological crisis).”
SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA
Sharon Rudahl. Ballad of an American: A
Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson, edited by Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware.
Rutgers U, 2020. 142 pp.
Reviewed by Michael D. Yates. “‘Ballad of an American’: The Illustrious Life of Paul Robeson, Newly
Illustrated.” (Nov 01, 2023)
Topics: Culture Inequality Media Movements Race Places: Americas United States
“The book, Ballad of An American,
is a beautifully rendered graphic biography that takes readers, especially
those not familiar with Robeson, on an exciting journey through his remarkable
life. He rose like a shooting star, from humble beginnings to the height of
worldwide acclaim—and he fell nearly as rapidly as he shot to stardom,
destroyed by the U.S. government and powerful right-wing elements after the
Second World War. He was deemed a danger to the white and imperialist ruling
class, and with good reason. As we shall see, what Robeson stood for and acted
upon threatened to incite an uprising by the working class, especially the
Black superexploited part of it.”