82 WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, July 13, 2022
Chris Hedges. “No Way Out but War.” May 22, 2022.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war
Permanent war has cannibalized the
country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new
military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana.
I could not copy the graphic “No Guts No
Glory” by Mr. Fish
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The United States, as
the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine
illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high
speed trains. No universal health care. No viable Covid relief program. No
respite from 8.3 percent inflation. No infrastructure programs to repair
decaying roads and bridges, which require $41.8 billion to fix the 43,586 structurally deficient bridges, on average 68 years old. No
forgiveness of $1.7 trillion in student debt. No addressing income inequality. No program to feed the 17 million children who go to bed each night hungry. No rational gun
control or curbing of the epidemic of nihilistic violence and mass shootings.
No help for the 100,000 Americans who die each year of drug overdoses. No minimum
wage of $15 an hour to counter 44 years of wage stagnation. No respite from gas prices that are projected to hit $6 a
gallon.
The permanent war
economy, implanted since the end of World War II, has destroyed the private
economy, bankrupted the nation, and squandered trillions of dollars of taxpayer
money. The monopolization of capital by the military has driven the US debt to
$30 trillion, $ 6 trillion more than the US GDP of $ 24
trillion. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year. We spent more on the
military, $ 813 billion for fiscal year 2023, than the next nine countries,
including China and Russia, combined.
We are paying a heavy
social, political, and economic cost for our militarism. MORE https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/no-way-out-but-war
The Quest for
Peace in Islamic Tradition by Abbas Aroua, with a foreword by Johan Galtung. 2013. Publisher’s description:
This contribution from an insider Muslim author provides peace workers with a
few resources from Islamic tradition that could be used when addressing a conflict
rooted in an Islamic context. It presents briefly a number of basic Islamic
concepts that are often misunderstood and misused. It addresses the issues of
peace and war, conflict and conflict transformation, the requirements for
decent work, the concept of «work of goodness» as well as other issues related
to Islam/West relations, the tensions that may arise between Muslims and
Westerners and the way to deal with them.
About the Author: Medical and health physicist, Abbas Aroua is adjunct
professor at the Lausanne Faculty of Biology and Medicine. He is also the
founder in 2002 and director of the Cordoba Foundation of Geneva (CFG) for
peace studies. Involved in research, training and mediation the CFG focuses on
conflicts in or involving the Muslim world.
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2022/06/please-pitch-in-to-avoid-tms-bankruptcy/comment-page-1/#comment-95915
John Paul
Lederach. Building Peace: Sustainable
Reconciliation in Divided Societies. United States Institute of Peace (February 1,
1998).
A major work from a seminal figure in the
field of conflict resolution, Building Peace is John Paul Lederach's
definitive statement on peacebuilding. Marrying wisdom, insight, and passion,
Lederach explains why we need to move beyond "traditional" diplomacy,
which often emphasizes top-level leaders and short-term objectives, toward a
holistic approach that stresses the multiplicity of peacemakers, long-term
perspectives, and the need to create an infrastructure that empowers resources
within a society and maximizes contributions from outside.
Sophisticated yet pragmatic, the volume explores the dynamics of contemporary
conflict and presents an integrated framework for peacebuilding in which
structure, process, resources, training, and evaluation are coordinated in an
attempt to transform the conflict and effect reconciliation.
Building Peace is a substantive reworking and expansion of a work
developed for the United Nations University in 1994. In addition, this volume
includes a chapter by practitioner John Prendergast that applies Lederach's
conceptual framework to ongoing conflicts in the Horn of Africa.
NEEDED:
A GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
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Dear Friends,
I have just posted my culture of peace blog for July,
entitled :
"NEEDED: A GLOBAL MOVEMENT FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT"
You will find it at https://decade-culture-of-peace.org/blog/?p=1457
In case you have not already received it, this month's CPNN bulletin is
entitled "TWO THEMES OF PEACE: COLOMBIA AND NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT" You
may
find at https://cpnn-world.org/new/?p=27587
If you wish to make a comment on the blog or bulletin, you may write to
me at coordinator@cpnn-world.org and I will put your comment on line.
Because of the flood of spam, I have discontinued the direct application
of comments.
Thank you for your interest in the culture of peace.
David Adams
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