WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #93

 

93 WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #93, September 28, 2022

US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA Anthology #13
Doug Storm’s Interview of H. Bruce Franklin on Superweapons and Imperialism.  

H. BRUCE FRANKLIN ON US Pursuit of  Superweapons and IMPERIALISM

     For fifty-nine years Bruce Franklin has “consistently exposed the workings of U.S. imperialism” and “the damage it has wrought” at home and abroad. 

    Here are two of his books.
    In 1988 he published War Stars: The Superweapon and the U.S. Imagination.  The book is about fantasies of superweapons in the US imagination dating from Robert Fulton’s ultimate weapons in the eighteenth century to Gen. Billy Mitchell and President Truman in the twentieth century.

    In his latest book, Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War (2018), he traces the parallels between U.S. foreign military aggressions and “the equally brutal tactics used on the home front to crush organized labor, antiwar, and civil rights movements.”   
     Here are a few of his comments from the interview.
On the US ethical failure in WWII: “…we lost that war.  We thought we were fighting against militarism, fascism, and imperialism, but because of “how we fought that war,” because we used air attacks on civilian populations “as a main strategy,” climaxed by the nuclear bombing of two Japanese cities, the US became a criminal nation. 

On the long aggression against Russia:  “We participated in invading Russia…from 1918 through 1920.  We refused to recognize the USSR until 1933. . . .

“H. Bruce Franklin’s Most Important Books: HBF Interviewed by Doug Storm.”  Monthly Review (September 2022).

 

US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA Anthology  #13

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletter-13-march.html

Abel Tomlinson, Ukraine Peace Protest Follow-Up

Bryce Greene, Russia Was Provoked

Scott Ritter, Harms of US Russophobia
   Attempt to Shut up Prof. Mearsheimer at U of Chicago

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies, US Support for Ukrainian Neo-
    Nazis

Lucas Leiroz, Understanding Ukrainian Nazism

Steven Starr, Russia’s Fear of NATO’s Encroachment and Nuclear
    Weapons

Ben Burgis, No to No-Fly Zone
March 1 to 7: International Week to Stop War with Russia
Moon of Alabama, Disarming Ukraine, Day 7

Oliver Boyd Barrett, Ukraine, Planetary Crisis, Threatening Nuclear War

Rachel Hu and Chris Garaffa, Ukraine, US, NATO Expansion, China,
    Russophobia

Contents Russia and Ukraine #12