WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #84

 

84 WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #84,July 27, 2022

Trillions for War, Billions for Climate and Planet.

World Beyond War’s online forum in August on pro-war bias of online cable news.

Biden’s anti-China Provocations.

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) nations held their first meeting at the United Nations in Vienna.

 

“$2 Trillion for War Versus $100 Billion to Save the Planet.”

Editor.  Mronline.org (7-23-22).  The West seems more fixated on spending social wealth on the military rather than addressing the climate catastrophe.  See CMM #

 

7-22-22.   CABLE TV NEWS AND JEFF COHEN’S Cable News Confidential, online in four small-group sessions over four weeks.  Exposes the pro-war biases of U.S. television news, cable news channels--Fox, CNN, and MSNBC.  When: For one hour on four Thursdays, August 4, 11, 18, 25, 2022. The time is 23:00 UTC (similar to GMT), 1 pm in Honolulu, 4 pm in Los Angeles, 7 pm in New York,

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Biden’s Reckless New Provocation Ratchets Up Risk of Nuclear War with China

By Jeremy Kuzmarov.  CovertAction Magazine. Jul 07, 2022 08:21 am.

Sending U.S. Warships into South China Sea and Taiwan Strait in Violation of UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

On June 25, the U.S. Navy sent a warship, the USS Benfold, to the South China Sea, only one day after a U.S. spy plane provocatively flew over the Taiwan Strait under the close monitoring of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).

According to CNN, the U.S. flyover came after China sent 29 planes into Taiwan’s self-declared air defense identification zone (ADIZ).

From China’s point of view, the U.S. spy plane mission on June 24 was especially provocative because it was the first U.S. military activity in the region after China made it clear that there are no “international waters” in the Taiwan Strait.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, China claims jurisdiction over the Taiwan Strait.

The PLA Eastern Theater Command organized aerial and ground forces and tracked the spy plane’s movements on high alert throughout its entire course on June 24 according to Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson of the PLA Eastern Theater Command. 

Shi slammed the Biden administration’s move as being “intentional,” whose purpose was “to disrupt the regional situation and endanger the cross-Straits peace and stability. We firmly oppose this,” she said.  […]

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as held at the United Nations in Vienna, with friends, allies, and members of UFPJ groups in attendance. It is the first time member states met since the TPNW was negotiated in 2017. The treaty entered into force in 2021, following ratification by 50 governments. As the number of states parties continues to grow, further pressuring nuclear armed states and their allies to act on abolition, this Meeting of States Parties laid out the practical matters and process for implementation of the totality of the legally binding treaty, “until every nuclear weapon is eliminated from the earth.” Read the full story by Matt De Vlieger, former UFPJ National Coordinator, reporting from Vienna.