Lists of OMNI’s Russia/Ukraine Anthologies,
Article counts, links, and tables of contents
Published Russia/Ukraine article count
#1-18(2014-2022): 306
#19: 31 articles
#20: 14 articles
#21: 12 articles
#22: 13 articles
#23: 16 articles
#24: 32 articles
#25: 20 articles
#26: 16 articles
#27: 12 articles
#28: 23 articles
Total: 495
Published
article count from #1 to #18 Russia/Ukraine Anthologies (2014-20220 = 306. From #19 to 28 = 189. Total = 495.
Total number of entries: 306. From
#19-28 = 189. Total 495
List
of Links
RUSSIA (UKRAINE)
NEWSLETTER #1
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/03/russia-ukraine-newsletter-1.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #2
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/04/russiaukraine-newsletter-2.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #3
May 16, 2014.
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/05/russiaukraine-newsletter-3.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #4
July 22,
2014.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/07/russiaukraine-newsletter-4.html
Russia/Ukraine
Newsletter #5 2017
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/03/russia-newsletter-5-from-violence-to.html
Russia/Ukraine
Newsletter #6, September 1, 2016
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/09/russia-newsletter-6.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine NEWSLETTER #7, October 3, 2017
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/10/omni-russia-newsletter-7.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine
NEWSLETTER #8, 11-10-21
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-russia-newsletter-8-11-10-21.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine
NEWSLETTER #9, 2018-2020
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-9-1-20-22.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine
NEWSLETTER #10, Jan. 28, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-10-january-28.html
RUSSIA (AND UKRAINE)
NEWSLETTER #11, 2-21-22
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-russia-newsletter-11-february-24.html
RUSSIA/Ukraine
NEWSLETTER #12,
March 5, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/russia-ukraine-newsletteranthology-12.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE
NEWSLETTER #13,
March 12, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletter-13-march.html
RUSSIA/UKRAINE
NEWSLETTER/ANTHOLOGY, #14, March 19,
2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletteranthology.html
RUSSIA, UKRAINE ANTHOLOGY
#15, March 27, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russia-ukraine-anthology-15-march.html
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, cold war
ii ANTHOLOGY #16,
April 2, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-cold-war-ii.html
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, cold war
ii ANTHOLOGY #17, April 8, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-cold-war-ii_8.html
US,
NATO, Russia, Ukraine War Anthology #18, April 12, 2022 HTTPS://JAMESRICHARDBENNETT.BLOGSPOT.COM/2022/04/OMNI-US-RUSSIA-UKRAINE-WAR-ANTHOLOGY-18.HTML
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war
ANTHOLOGY #19
4-29-2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war,
ANTHOLOGY #20, mAY 6, 2022.
Consequences of War, Control OF
INFORMATION and CENSORSHIP,
and seeking PEACE https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war
ANTHOLOGY, #21:
HISTORY, ORIGINS, CAUSES,
MEANING OF THE WAR; MAY 28, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war_29.html
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war
ANTHOLOGY, #22: peace
June 10, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
WAR ANTHOLOGY #23:
NAZIS AND NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE
June
19, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
US,
NATO, UKRAINE v. RUSSIA WAR
#24
origins, consequences, peace
July
4, 2022
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/us-nato-ukraine-v-russia-war-24.html
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
WAR #25
AUGUST
7, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-25.html
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
WAR ANTHOLOGY #26
October
18, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
WAR ANTHOLOGY #27
November
26, 2022
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-anthology-27.html
Ukraine
War Anthology #28
February
18, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/02/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
Tables
of Contents
Most
of these entries were necessarily from sources other than the corporate
mainstream because US mainstream newspapers support the nation in its wars.
RUSSIA (UKRAINE)
NEWSLETTER #1
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/03/russia-ukraine-newsletter-1.html
March 21, 2014.
Compiled by Dick
Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
In this
newsletter: The US superpower, imperial propaganda system is inciting
fear and hatred of Russia, as in Cold War days against the Soviet Union, but
alternative views are readily available in numerous independent print or online
magazines. If we are to have peace in the world we must be able to see
the world as others see it, particularly as “enemies” see it.
CONNECTION
BETWEEN US ENCIRCLEMENT
OF CHINA AND RUSSIA: See OMNI’s
newsletters/blogs on US Imperialism Westward Pacific/E. Asia
Contents Russia Newsletter
#1, 2014
Dick, US Empire
and Corporate Media: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Patrick Smith, US/New
York Times Spin
Stephen Cohen,
Anti-Russia Is Old Anti-Soviet
Alternative Analysis
The Nation Editorial
Alterman, Cold War
Hysteria Revived
How Russia/Ukraine Look
in Beijing
Charles Pierce, Dick
Cheney’s View
Luke Harding, US Refuses Crimea Poll
Ray McGovern, Putin
Says No to Regime Change on Its Border
Bruce Gagnon, Danger of
War Following US-led Coup for Gas and Oil
Pilger, Other Coups,
Same Superpower
Robert
Freeman, Ukraine and WWI over Energy
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #2
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/04/russiaukraine-newsletter-2.html
April 10, 2014.
In this
newsletter: The US superpower, imperial propaganda system is inciting
fear and hatred of Russia, as in Cold War days against the Soviet Union, but
alternative views are readily available in numerous independent print or online
magazines. They need your financial support. If we are to
have peace in the world we must be able to see the world as others see it, to
qualify and test official dogma.
Contents Russia/Ukraine #2
Alternative Perspectives
Who Is Threatening Whom?
Dick, Google
Search: US Bases Surrounding Russia
Steve Weissman:
US Participated in Coup That Toppled Yanukovytch
Stephen Cohen, Cold War
Again?
Two Essays from Bruce
Gagnon
Bruce Gagnon, Boxing in
the Bear (with Francis Boyle and Chandra Muzaffar)
Gagnon, Preparing for
War with Russia
Franklin Spinney, What
Is the Real Price of Starting a New Cold War?
US Corporate Old Cold War Media
Ira Chernus:
Showdown with Russia Sells Newspapers
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #3
May 16, 2014.
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/05/russiaukraine-newsletter-3.html
Out of the ignorance and complacency engendered by the avoidance of reality
comes hatred and war.
The opening of a Jewish prayer from the Sabbath service: “Disturb us,
Adonai, ruffle us from our complacency; make us dissatisfied.
Dissatisfied with the peace of ignorance, the quietude which arises from a
shunning of the horror, the defeat, the bitterness and the poverty, physical
and spiritual, of humans. Shock us, Adonai, deny to us the false Shabbat
which gives us the delusions of satisfaction amid a world of war and
hatred.”
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore,
is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing
only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated
evil of the whole." -- Robert H. Jackson, Chief U.S.
Prosecutor, Nuremberg Military Tribunal
“It has been a mainstay of this book that successful antiwar movements are
those that have been able to make
direct links with those in the flight path of US aggression and
to bring their struggles and concerns directly into the US political
arena. Indeed, direct comprehension of their urgent struggles has often
been a radicalizing factor in antiwar campaigns.”” Richard
Seymour, American Insurgents: A Brief History of American
Anti-Imperialism (2012). p. 193.
J. William Fulbright during the height of the Cold War attempted to extend
his Exchange Program to the Soviet
Union, but his plan to acquire a part of WWII Lend Lease money the
Russians were repaying was scuttled by US Sovietphobes. See The
Price of Empire. Another Arkansas native, Betty
Bumpers, wife of then Senator Bumpers, created the women’s organization, Peace
Links, to exchange women from the US and Russia and other
countries.
Contents Russia/Ukraine Newsletter #3
Contexts
Davies, Historical
Background of US Coups
William Blum, New Cold
War, Same Old US Aggression
Bellant, Far Right
Forces in Russia
Amy
Goodman, Ukraine Between Old Cold War
Peter Hart, Distorting
Putin
Dick, Fulbright’s
Exchange Program for Official Enemies
Veterans for Peace
Opposes US Troops to Ukraine
Michael Gordon, US
Ratcheting Up the Threats, Deploying Troops in E. Europe
Cockburn, Crisis into
Catastrophe?
Hooper, Solution Appalling?
McMullen, Russian
Greed?
Mayer, Decline of US
Empire?
Moss, Whose Advice to
Trust?
Wittner, US Should
Use Its Military?
Lieven, The Way Out?
Forum of 3 Essays on US
and Ukraine in Z Magazine April 2014
Norman Solomon: Obama, International Law, US Double-Standards, and
Blaming Putin
Chandra Muzaffar, US Behind
Ouster of Democratically Elected President
Ajamu Baraka, US Ukraine Policy
Marred by Contradictions and Double
Standards
Parry, Obama Only One Able to Prevent
War
NATO
Kucinich on NATO
McGovern on NATO
MEDIA
Two Essays by Robert
Parry on Anti-Russian US Corporate Media
Obama Admin. and US Mainstream Media Sing the Old Imperial
Song
Neocon and Media Support of US Propaganda Campaign
Two Essays by
Peter Hart in EXTRA! also on US Corporate Media
With Official Enemies, Too Much Is Not Enough
Drill for More Oil and Gas Here, and Sell to Russia’s Customers
Gordon, NYT
Parry, Bias of NYT
RUSSIA/UKRAINE NEWSLETTER #4
July 22,
2014.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/07/russiaukraine-newsletter-4.html
Contents
Russia/Ukraine Newsletter #4
HISTORICAL CONNECTIONS
Polner,
Manipulated Crisis
Moss,
Another Cold War?
Watkins,
Comparing Annexations
Johnstone,
Understanding Putin
Blum,
US Media War Against Putin and Russia
US or Russian Exceptionalism?
NATO’S
Eastward Expansion
THE
CRISIS 2013-
Pilger,
the Larger Coup in Washington, D.C.
Gagnon,
US and NATO Intervention
Parry,
Kerry’s State Department’s Fiasco
Dahlburg,
Poroshnko\Ukraine Signs Up with EU
Moeri,
Be Critical of Imperialisms
Zunes,
Non-violence
Four
Articles Via HAW
Fuerst,
Germany
US
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Parry,
Ukraine’s Presidential Election
Contents: Russia Newsletter #5 2017
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/03/russia-newsletter-5-from-violence-to.html
Who’s
the Threat? Surrounding Russia. Think Peace.
Dick,
Finland and US Sign Military Accord
Blum,
Who’s the Threat?
Carden,
US Interventionist Orthodoxy and Ukraine
Herman,
US Double Standards, the Orthodoxy, and Ukraine
Katrina
vanden Heuvel, Break Through Orthodoxy to Peace Zone
Noam
Chomsky, Try to Understand the Other Point of View
Trump
and Russia
Stephen
Cohen, “Against Kremlin-Baiting
Chris
Hedges, Hacking by Russia?
Contents: Russia
Newsletter #6, September 1, 2016
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/09/russia-newsletter-6.html
“Russia Wants War” Graphic
NATO’s Eastward Expansion a Broken Promise
(2009)
Democracy Now, Stephen Cohen on the
New Cold War (2014)
2016
Russian Vows Response to NATO Buildup
6-30
Putin Warns Finland Not to Join NATO 7-2
Ann Wright, Views of Russian Citizens 7-5
US Mayors Criticize Obama Admin. for Risking
War 7-6
Klare, West Preparing for War against Russia
7-7
Russians Have Right to Be Alarmed at US ABM
7-13
I MADE A BIG EFFORT TO DISSEMINATE RUSSIA
NEWSLETTER #6, AND RECEIVED NO REPLIES. Perhaps the Cold War
Sovietphobia now Russophobia is more widespread and entrenched still today than
I had feared. The new book by Dan Kovalik, The Plot to
Scapegoat Russia, has plenty to say about this.
CONTENTS: RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #7, October 3, 2017
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/10/omni-russia-newsletter-7.html
Graphic: Russia Wants War?
Dick, Who’s the Aggressor?
Noam Chomsky, US/NATO Provocations
Kathy Kelly, NATO, Crimea
Protesting NATO in Lapland
New Book by Dan Kovalik, The Plot to
Scapegoat Russia
Publisher’s Description
Dick, Page 29 of The
Plot on USSR
Cindy Sheehan’s Interview of
Kovalik
Other Comment on Russophobia
Kuzmarov and Marciano, The
Russians Are Coming, Again
Cindy, Anthony Freda, Morgan
Freeman
Bruce Shapiro, Investigate Russian
Hacking Without Cold War Hysteria
Russia, Afghanistan, and Diplomacy
CONTENTS: RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #8, 11-10-21
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-russia-newsletter-8-11-10-21.html
NEW
COLD WAR AND RUSSOPHOBIA
2021 Russiagate
Tomlinson and Paulson
2018
Transcend Media Service
Muzzafar,
“The Geopolitics of Targeting Russia”
Petras,
“UK, the EU, and the US Gangs Up on Russia”
Klare,
“The New Cold War”
Marcetic,
US and Russia: Fake News
Kuzmarov
and Marciano (book), The Russians Are
Coming Again
2017
Kuzmarov
and Marciano (essay), “The Russians Are Coming, Again”
ADG Reports US Sends
Troops to Russian Border, google search
Oliver
Stone DVD, Ukraine on Fire
Cohen,
Democrats Repudiate FDR’s Detente
CONTENTS, RUSSIA
NEWSLETTER #9, 2018-2020
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-9-1-20-22.html
WAYS US WARRIORS GO
TO WAR
Bruce Gagnon. What is the US Agenda? NATO Expansion and
Regime Change
George
Paulson. Russophobia
Biden.
Putin a Killer
John
Pilger. “In Ukraine, the US is dragging
us towards war with Russia.”
Matt Taibbi. “10 Ways to Call Something Russian Disinformation Without Evidence.”
Alan MacLeod. False Bounty Claim.
McGovern, Russiagate
Boyd-Barrett, Russiagate as “puerile narrative.”
Galloway. Macron: the Problem is
USA
Russia’s 100,000 Troops
Grossman. NATO Maneuvers.
WAYS TO
PEACE
All of the Above
Hobson. Reverse NATO Expansion and US Withdrawal from NATO
Dick. Critical Thinking Through Exposure
of Fallacies
CONTENTS
RUSSIA NEWSLETTER #10, Jan. 28, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-russia-newsletter-10-january-28.html
This anthology begins with indignation by
Tomlinson, WBW, and Butterfield, moves to analysis and action by Lowendorf,
Franklin, and Prashad, to an appeal for peace by WBW, and to the extensive
scholarship of Prof. Zunes
REVISED 1-30-22 TO ADD 3 ESSAYS FROM POPULAR
RESISTANCE.ORG 1-30-22.
Call To Action: No War With
Russia Over Ukraine.
Endless War Is the Empire’s Last
Dance.
A War Only America And Britain
Seem To Want.
Abel Tomlinson. “The US Wants War, Not Russia.”
World Beyond War. “No
War in Ukraine!”
Greg Butterfield. “Ukraine, U.S. drum up war threats against Donbass and Russia.” April
8, 2021.
Henry Lowendorf reports the ”terribly
destructive U.S. foreign policy” that “has no moral, or legal, or logical
authority.”
Matt Taibbi via George Paulson. “Let’s Not Have
a War.”
H. Bruce Franklin. “Another Game of Russian Roulette,” on the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
Vijay Prashad.
“Why Ukraine’s borders are back at the center of geopolitics.”
WBW, Appeal for Negotiation, a mini-anthology within a mini-anthology.
Stephen Zunes. “The U.S., Russia, and
Ukraine.” (and critiques of Zunes)
CONTENTS RUSSIA (AND
UKRAINE) NEWSLETTER #11, 2-21-22
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-russia-newsletter-11-february-24.html
Perspectives Leading to
Diplomacy
Putin’s/Russia’s
Thinking
Joe Lauria, Putin’s 3,350-word Speech: NATO
Is the Issue
Chris Hedges on the Economic Motives for
NATO Expansion
Minsk Agreements
Rahman, Ukraine at Fault
Ray McGovern, Russia and China
German-Russian Pipeline Agreement
Whitney, Germany and Russia, Nordstream 2
Pipeline
George Paulson
Art Hobson
John Foster (author of Oil and World Politics), Nordstream,
NATO, and Equal Security
M. K. Bhadrakumar, From
Recognition of Donbass Provinces to Invasion
Donbass Refugees
US’/Biden’s Thinking
Tomlinson, War on Russia
Hess and Davis, Sanctions as War
“Hidden Costs of
Sanctions”
Kuzmarov, Yalta: US and Soviet Russia
Bromwich, Mainstream Media for War
Peace Thinking
Jack Matlock, Analysis of US and Russian
Arguments
What Could Ukraine—and US and
Russia--Think?
Art Hobson, Neutrality
Scott Ritter, Neutrality
Shea and Pavlova, Austria’s Neutrality
J. William Fulbright, Empathy, Democratic
Humanism, Diplomacy
RUSSIA
NEWSLETTER #12,
March 5, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/russia-ukraine-newsletteranthology-12.html
No one has asked why equal time is not given
to official US history and positions, perhaps because the explanation is
obvious. The US possesses, as part of
its military power (greater than the next six countries combined), probably the
most powerful propaganda system in all history.
A single citizen who reports contrary opinions might be guilty of
whistling in the dark but is not guilty of violating the protocols of news
reporting under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Several news reports I have seen show Putin
sitting alone, conversing with one to three people at the far end of a long
table. The commentators remark about how
isolated he is as autocratic ruler of Russia.
Biden always has several people with him. But is Biden greatly less isolated than
Putin? Does he hear from the many
opponents of NATO expansion, for example?
I have seldom heard any of his staff or any commentators on the news
networks represent Putin’s perspectives.
We stand, then, with
About Face:
“We are in
solidarity with all people who find themselves in harm's way for a war that was
preventable. May all those seeking shelter and safety from all horrible
violence be greeted with open arms.”
About Face: Veterans Against the War
CONTENTS (most entries received March 1-4, too many to
include all): RUSSIA
INVADES UKRAINE FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Most of these essays discuss causes of the Ukraine-Russia War of 2022.
Introductory
Abel, Experts Warning
about NATO Expansion
Mearsheimer, 2015 and
2022 Critical of the West
Mary Elise Sarotte,
2010 and 2021, BushI, Baker, Kohl, NATO, Not
One Inch
Failed Minsk Agreements
2014 and 2015
Feb. 28, 2022, Putin puts Russia on nuclear alert.
UAF Faculty Panel on
Ukraine and Russia
Abel from audience challenges the mostly
Cold Warrior speakers and warns of WWIII danger from NATO expansion.
Jeremy Kuzmarov: From Brzezinsky to
Biden inducing invason to bankrupt Russia
TomDispatch: JFK
(Andrew Bacevich) offers advice to Biden
About Face Veterans
against the War: “DemilitarizeU” Ukraine and Russia
Peace Action, Ceasefire, humanitarian aid, diplomacy
Naomi Klein, The Intercept (March 1). A wide-ranging essay by one of our best.
Kuttab, “Ukraine,
Palestine, International Law, and BDS”
Art: Russia out of
Ukraine, NATO out of Existence
David Adams, “The Fall
of Putin,” US and Russia will crash because of overmilitarization
Greg Coleridge (via Ellen Barfield, VFP), “War Is (Still) a Racket” this one a
war over resources
Adam Schiff (via Abel),
a US proxy war v. Russia.
RUSSIA/UKRAINE
NEWSLETTER #13,
March 12, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletter-13-march.html
Pity the Nation
Pity the nation whose people are
sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti
THE BIASES BY US LEADERS, MEDIA, AND
PUBLIC AGAINST RUSSIA AND ITS LEADER PUTIN HAD BECOME SO EXTREME BY FEBRUARY
2022 THAT WE MIGHT FORGIVE THE AVERAGE CITIZEN FOR THINKING THEY KNEW THE WHOLE
TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH. Here
are some questions and corrections:
WHAT MOTIVATED RUSSIA’S ATTACK ON UKRAINE?
In What Ways and to what Extent Was It Provoked by the US and the
West? What are the consequences of US
bigotry against Russia and Putin? What did the US contribute to the rise of
right wing in Ukraine? Many other questions are raised and answered by the
following critics.
CONTENTS RUSSIA’S
INVASION OF UKRAINE #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
RUSSIA/UKRAINE
NEWSLETTER/ANTHOLOGY, #14, March 19,
2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletteranthology.html
WHAT MOTIVATED RUSSIA’S ATTACK ON
UKRAINE? In What Ways and to what Extent
Was It Provoked by the US and the West?
What are the consequences of US bigotry against Russia and Putin? What
is the right wing in Ukraine?
Nazis? What did the US contribute
to the rise of right wing in Ukraine? Should there be a no-fly zone? Describe the expansion of NATO and Russia’s
response. Many other questions are
raised and answered by the following critics.
CONTENTS US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE
ANTHOLOGY #14
Katrina vanden Heuvel. End the Invasion
and Stop the Killing.
HISTORY
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Russia’s Invasion Was Provoked: CIA’s William
Burns.
Dr. Gerald Horne. “What’s to Be Done in Eastern Europe.” US: Regime
Change in Russia.
Tomgram/Tom Dispatch. “William Astore.”
William Astore. US Cold War, US Arsenal
“When Did the Ukraine War Begin?” US Empire, NATO, 2004 Orange
Revolution, 2006 Decision, 2014
Coup in UK and Maidan Massacre,
Minsk Protocols.
Oliver Stone and Igor Lopatonok. Ukraine
on Fire. How and When the
War Started (before the 2014 coup,
before the 2004 Orange Revolution).
Abel Tomlinson. “Ukraine Manufacturing Atrocities to Draw in
NATO.”
Fournier, “No Flies Polls.”
Remembering US Aggression
Nelson Peery, Black Fire, the Bloody US Pacification of the Philippines. Brian
Terrell, “US Policy Toward Russia and Its Neighbors.” US
Aggression, Truman Doctrine, Carter
Doctrine, NATO, Sanctions, Selling
Weapons, Nuclear Weapons Treaty.
END THE WAR
Vanden Heuvel (above)
AFSC. Diplomacy, Refugee Protection,
Humanitarian Assistance
About Face. DemilitarizeU.
UNITED NATIONS
UN Wire. Support Refugees
BE INFORMED
No Chemical/Biological Warfare
US/Russian Counterclaims re Biowarfare.
NO HUMAN SHIELDS
Population Fund vs. Alleged Russian
Attack on Hospital.
UNHCR.
Human Rights Violations in Belarus.
RUSSIA, UKRAINE ANTHOLOGY #15
March 27, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russia-ukraine-anthology-15-march.html
CONTENTS
NATO AND wHY DOES uKRAINE
mATTER?
Jordan Smith, “They Saw
It Coming.” The New Republic (April 2022).
Quick Summary of NATO Formation and
Expansion (Dick)
Diana Johnstone. “For Washington, War Never Ends.” Consortium
News (March 16, 2022).
Mary Elise
Sarotte. Not One Inch. Apparently the
definitive book on US, NATO,
Ukraine, and Russia.
WWIII
Caitlin Johnstone. Report on Steven Starr. Call to World to Pay Attention to Nuclear
WWIII.
Bryan Dyne Interviews
Steven Starr on WWIII and Nuclear Winter.
Art Hobson. Pondering Ukraine in Context of Nuclear War.
No Fly Zone: 2 Articles
Zelensky Calls for No Fly Zone
Ben Burgis.
No Fly Zone Will Start WWIII
Ukraine’s Wealth Part
of the Conflict? but little discussed.
SANCTIONS Add to the
Conflict and Hypocrisy.
War, Propaganda, and
Hypocrisy: 4 Essays
Wars are Misinformation and Delusion
Machines
Free Ourselves of Propaganda Tunnels.
Ukrainian Nazis and Propaganda by Omission
Lt. Gen. Fabio Mini, Interview on
Hypocrisy in Wars the Ukraine/Russia War
Russian or CIA Lied in
the Election, Biden’s Laptop
Youtube, US Hypocrisy
IMF Connection
Russia and China
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, cold war
ii ANTHOLOGY #16, April 2, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-cold-war-ii.html
contents of russia, ukraine, new cold hot war #16
TomDispatch. New Cold and Hot
Wars and Swelling Military.
Four Articles via Historians for Peace 3-23-22
Stephen Krotkin, Putin
in Russian History.
Alfred McCoy, Putin and
Xi Jinping in Eurasia.
Juan Cole, We Shouldn’t Want a NATO No Fly Zone.
Andrew Bacevich, US v. International Order.
US Mainstream Reporting
Disinformation in
Dongass
Christelle Néant, “Mariupol—Civilians Denounce the Crimes
of the Fighters of the Neo-Nazi Azov
Regiment.”
Max Blumenthal, Dubious BBC Correspondent.
Andi Olluri, Another War Not Reported.
Provocations and Sanctions: “The Irony of Sanctions Against Russia”
Remembering 2014: Dongass
And the Cold War and NATO: Albright
Daniel Kovalik, “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Signifies the End
of …Unipolar American Power”
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, cold war
ii ANTHOLOGY #17, April 8, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-cold-war-ii_8.html
What’s
at Stake: Like the UN Charter and the
Quakers’ AFSC and FCNL, OMNI’s anthologies seek a world free of war and the threat of
war. These anthologies provide views
alternative to those of the US War Party (the Democrats and Republicans) and
their mainstream media.
Contents of #17
Origins, CAUSES of the war
Sonja Van den Ende. Russian Perspective for Donbass republics of
Donetsk and Luhansk.
Editor of MR. Origins of New Cold
War.
Jacques Baud Interviewed by Thomas Kaiser.
US: Prevent German and
Russian Cooperation.
US the Biggest Spoiler, Welcomes War between Ukraine and Russia.
TeleSUR. Washington’s Role in Ukraine
Jeopardizes World Stability.
Sanctions.
EU to Continue to Send Weapons to Ukraine.
Nazis in Ukraine. Putin’s Aim to
De-Nazify Ukraine.
Patrick Lancaster. Ukrainian and Azov
Forces.
Ukraine: Obama, Trump, Biden.
Jonathon Cook. Biden on Regime Change of
War Criminal Putin.
consequences of the
war
Atrocities: Bucha.
Mision Verdad, Art Hobson, Evan Bukey.
Nuclear Risks: NIRS.
Food Crisis, Hunger: Michelle
Nichols, Ukrainian Farmers.
Economic War: Prabir Purkayastha on US Dollar.
PEACEFUL FUTURE?
Constructive Peace Talks Now.
Negotiations after Ceasefire: 3 Articles from the Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists.
US, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war
ANTHOLOGY #18
April 12, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-russia-ukraine-war-anthology-18.html
CONTENTS
OF US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine War Anthology #18, April 12, 2022
Control
of Information in the US regarding the US, NATO, Russia, Ukraine War
What we mean by alternatives to official war news: that of the US War Party and
its media. We have chosen different
sources.
Survey
of OMNI’s 18 R/U Anthologies, 2014-2022:
Total number of entries: 306.
Most
of these entries were necessarily from sources other than the corporate
mainstream because US mainstream newspapers support the nation in its wars.
A
few examples from #18: The Unz Review, Extra! (FAIR), CovertAction Magazine, Internationalist
360, Orinoco Tribune, The 14th Newsletter, Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, Multipolarista, Dissident Voice, Consortium News, UN Wire
ORIGINS, CAUSES OF THE WAR
NATO
“NATO Is a Problem, Not The Solution.” Popular
Resistance.org
“The
U.S. proxy war in Ukraine,” Monthly
Review.
US Proxy War and Imperial Strategy
US-Led Provocations
US
Peace Council Statement On Russia’s Military Intervention In Ukraine. Popular Resistance.
US
DEMONIZING RUSSIA, PUTIN. SANCTIONS
Larry
C. Johnson: “The Ukrainian Army Has Been Defeated’”. Unz Review
“Escalation
without consequences on the Op-Ed page.” FAIR
CovertAction Bulletin Podcast: “U.S. Hypocrisy—CIA
Trains Insurgents in Ukraine.”
“U.S.
and NATO allies arm neo-Nazi units in Ukraine as Foreign Policy elites yearn
for Afghan-style insurgency.” Internationalist
360
“U.S.
Congress admits Nazi role in Ukraine.” Orinoco
Tribune.
“U.S.
Media Decries Brutal Russia Invasion of Ukraine—(But) Russians Were Welcomed as
Liberators in Southern Ukraine.” CovertAction Magazine
“US Media Pushing for World War III.” Consortium News (Via Abel Tomlinson)
Scarcity of CRITICAL THINKING (a cause of war too
little taught by our public schools):
“This is not the age of certainty. We are in the time
of contradictions.” The Fourteenth
Newsletter (2022).
“Russia’s non-proliferation disinformation campaign.” Monthly Review.
“What Western leaders need to remember about
Zelensky’s emotional appeals.” Roger
Peterson.
“Ukraine is
brutally repressing the left, criminalizing socialist parties, imprisoning
activists.” Monthly Review
Aggressor Nations: US Context of Russia/Ukraine War.
The United States of War: A Global
History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State
by David Vine.
CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR
“Which war crimes might Russians have committed in
Ukraine?” BAS (March 24, 2022). Video.
Propaganda of Hatred during Wars
“Fabricating Putin quotes and banning paraplegic
athletes to undermine Russia: how low can the West go?” Monthly
Review.
Atrocities: Bucha
Joe Lauria.
“Questions Abound About Bucha Massacre.”
Consortium.
“The Bucha Provocation.” Moon of Alabama.
CENSORSHIP [both cause and consequence of war, part of
the deception inseparable from war].
Peoples
Dispatch. “Lee Camp on
censoring anti-war voices.”
“Pity the Nation.:
Monthly Review
Opposition political parties banned in Ukraine and
‘unified information policy’ imposed. Monthly Review
ILLNESSES WORSENING
WHO issues warning over Ukraine as Russia exits
HRC. UN Wire
WORLD HUNGER
Hunger crisis looms as Ukraine war drives food costs
up. UN Wire
George Paulson on book The First Casualty (of war is
the truth) by Philip Knightly
POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES
Simulations reveal an attack on Ukrainian nuclear
facilities could have possibly been worse than Chernobyl. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
PEACE
“U.S. Leaders Claim to Care About the Suffering of the
Ukrainian People, But Will They Step Up and Make the Compromises Necessary to
End the War?” Covert Action magazine.
“An antidote to
the ‘split’ in the U.S. Peace Movement: anti-interventionism.” Monthly
Review
“Divided World: The UN Condemnation of Russia is
endorsed by Countries run by the richest, oldest, Whitest people on Earth but
only 41% of the World’s population.” Monthly
Review
“Halfway to the End of the War.” Monthly Review
“Student event: Discussing Ukraine and the future of
arms control with Michael Krepon.”
Student Pugwash USA
Dawn Stover.
“10 must-read Twitter threads on the war in Ukraine.” The
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
CONTENTS OF US,
NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY #19 4-29-2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
What’s at Stake:
“If people want to understand the war in Ukraine, they need to read widely
about it, from different perspectives, including the Russian one, to try and
discern the truth about what is going on for themselves.” MR
editors. The official rationalizations
are receiving massive support from the White House, Pentagon, Congress, and
mainstream media (including PBS). In
these anthologies we hear some anti-war perspectives.
ORIGINS,
CAUSES OF THE WAR
Should
NATO Exist? Klion Yes. Madar No.
Hawes, “History Returns Again,” Historical Background of the War
Guy Mettan, “Zelenskymania,” Inevitable and Improvised,
Winners and Losers, Switzerland
Ruined, CyberWar, “Stratcom”
Alastair Crooke, “War It Is—and Escalation Is Coming”
John Ross, “What Is Propelling the U.S. into Increasing
International Aggression?”
Ivan
Eland, “’Unprovoked Attacks’ from 1812 to 9-11.”
Richard Falk. “Why Ukraine?”
Ukrainian
Nazis
Evan Reif, “NED Finances Key Ukrainian
Propaganda….” and a
Journalist
“Russian Abhorrence of Nazi Influence
in Ukraine”
US
Biological Warfare Labs in Ukraine?
Bhadrahumar, “Migratory Birds of Mass
Destruction”
Whitney, “…Possible U.S. Preparations
for Biological Warfare”
Bruce Gagnon, Interview on U.S. Goal of Russian Regime Change
CONSEQUENCES
OF THE WAR
Civilian
Deaths
Tomgram/TomDispatch,
“Nick Turse, Bodies Beyond Bucha”
Nick Turse, “The Civilian Deaths You
Haven’t Heard About”
Arms
Proliferation
Branko
Marcetic, “The U.S. Has No Idea Where Its Ukrainian
Military Aid is Going”
Censorship
(see #20)
Washington Post Calls for Censoring
Chinese Media, Praises
Purge of Russian Outlets
Media
Bias (see #20)
Jeff Cohen, Corporate Media and Official
Enemies
Caitlin Johnstone, Corporate Media Control
of Public’s
Perception
New
Cold War, WWIII
Michael
Klare, A more dangerous world
Guterres,
UN Wire
Displaced People, Refugees Increasing
PEACE
WWIII? West’s War on Russia
Abby
Martin, FCNL, “Questions for the US Anti-War Movement”
Rafaela
Demerath, Congress Must Invest in Peacemaking
Tomgram,
Tom Dispatch, “Andrew Bacevich, American Militarism
A Persistent Malady.”
Bacevich, “Putin Changed the Subject,
But Confronting MLKJr’s
‘Giant Triplets’ Is More
Urgent.” What would Martin Say?
Vijay
Prashad, “We Want a World Without Walls”
Chris
de Ploeg, “Weapons Are Not Helping”
Jeffrey
Knopf, The Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, Abolish Nuclear
Weapons
BAS on Nuclear Arms
Control
War
Abolition 101
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war,
ANTHOLOGY #20, mAY 6, 2022.
Consequences of War, Control OF
INFORMATION and CENSORSHIP,
and seeking PEACE https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
What’s at
Stake: Wartime State, Corporate Rapacity and Repression,
and Populist Patriotism v. Free Speech and Peace.
CONTENTS
#20,
CONSEQUENCES
OF WAR (10): CONTROL OF INFORMATION/CENSORSHIP.
RESISTANCE: PEACEMAKING.
Patrick
Lawrence. “The US Bubble of Pretend.”
George
Paulson. Scott Ritter and President Poroshenko.
Glenn
Greenwald. “The Censorship Campaign
against Western Criticism of
NATO….”
Evan
Reif. War of Repression against “anyone
who dares to speak against the
Kyiv regime.”
Jeremy
Kuzmarov. “Ukraine Hunts Down Traitors
Helping Russia.”
Chris
Hedges. “American Commissars.”
Caitlin
Johnstone. “Pay Pal Blocks [Criticism]
of U.S.”
Margaret
Kimerley. “Obama Wants Censorship.”
Johnstone. “Being Anti-War Isn’t Easy.”
CPNN. Russian Nobel Laureate Attacked in Russia.
Silencing Occurring Also in
Russia.
PEACE
(3)
Art Hobson.
“Why must we make war? The frailties of Homo sapiens.”
UN’s
Guterres
Ukraine
Pacifist Movement
Medea
Benjamin and Nicolas Davies. “This Is
How the US Could Help Bring Peace to Ukraine”
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war
ANTHOLOGY, #21:
HISTORY, ORIGINS, CAUSES,
MEANING OF THE WAR; MAY 28, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war_29.html
Contents
of #21 ANTHOLOGY
WAR
Marius
Trotter. The Russian Perspective, The
Crucial History:
FROM WWII TO 2022
The
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR BEGINS IN 2014
The Maidan Coup against Elected Pro-Russian President.
J.
Kuzmarov. 2014 Odessa Massacre.
John
Walsh. Coup Against Elected Pro-Russian
President and Attacks on
Donetsk and Lugansk (Donbass)
Pro-Russians.
Fergie
Chambers. Neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion
Torture vs. Donbass Pro-
Russian Rebels.
Statement
from Black Liberation Movement.
MR Editors. From 2014 to Present.
Samir
Amin. Large Geo-Political Context. Triad of Western Control.
Anatol Lieven. Dangers of US Proxy War.
NATO Expansion
Global Times. Now Finland and Sweden and Risk of
European War.
Glenn
Greenwald. US Bipartisan (the War Party)
Support for War $$.
Richard
Ochs. US Biggest Lies for War.
PEACE
Jeremy
Kuzmarov. US and Russian Tradition of
Friendship.
Nancy
Spannaus. “U.S. and Russia Have a Long
History.
US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war
ANTHOLOGY, #22: peace
June 10, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html
CONTENTS: WAYS TO PEACE, June 10, 2022
Art Hobson. “The Irrationality of War.”
US Peace Council. “A Manufactured Crisis In Ukraine Is Victimizing The World’s Peoples”
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Reiner Braun. “NO to NATO, YES to Peace with Russia.”
Voices from Donbass.
Kristine Melnikova
Alexey Albu
Ted Snider. Diplomacy.
Jeffrey Sachs.
Negotiated Settlement.
Yanis Varoufakis.
Negotiated Settlement.
Deb Sawyer. Steps to
Peace v. Nuclear War.
Black Liberation Movement. Dismantle NATO.
Katrina vanden Heuvel.
“We Need a Real Debate.”
Ryan Costello. Build a renewed antiwar movement.
Borowitz. Dark Comedy
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
WAR ANTHOLOGY #23: NAZIS AND NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE
June
19, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
What’s at stake regarding the war.
First, an
important motivation of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the long, active, armed
presence of Nazis and then Neo-Nazis there.
During WWII--to Russians the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi
invasion, let’s not forget, in which Ukrainians fought on the Nazi side--killed
some 20 million Russians. The essays explain how
Nazi presence in the Ukraine exacerbated Putin’s fear of NATO and helped to
motivate his invasion of Ukraine.
Second, the war has nothing to do with our or the world’s urgent
problems at home, except to make all of them worse! And the war could have been prevented, then
and still now stopped.
Second, Bacevich’s essay at the end makes
the case that “fascists” abroad offer no existential threat to the United
States. The US constitutional system is
threatened, but that threat is within, including an attempted coup.
You
might want to take several months to read these critically, but scan this Contents to glimpse the history of US
warfare against the Soviet Union, a history that has been so grossly
under-reported by the US mainstream media that now our leaders and our nation
are going to war yet again based upon ignorance and bigotry induced by the US
propaganda system.
Here are a few
articles giving Ukraine’s history from pre-WWII to present, but most of them
deal with the civil war beginning 2014 between the Ukrainian breakaway
provinces, supported by Russia, following the coup against the elected
pro-Russian president, and the main Ukrainian “Maidan” government in Kiev.
[The
“Maidan” uprising of 2014 is named after Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence
Square) in Kyiv and refers to the anti-Russian citizens including
neo-fascists who threw out the elected pro-Russian President Viktor
Yanukovych in a coup and installed the
anti-Russian “Maidan” regime.]
CONTENTS US, NATO, UKRAINE,
RUSSIA #23, Nazis in Ukraine (twenty essays)
Evan
Reif. 3-Part Series. I. From Pre-WWII Ukrainian Fascists to Post-WWII
Anti-Communist Heroes. [Stepan Bandera was the
anti-communist head of the militant wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and during WWII supported the Nazis.]
II. Yaroslav Stetsko and CIA Secret War Behind
Iron Curtain.
[I received a welcome article employing careful
analysis of the evidence pertaining to how many ethnic Russians were killed by
the Ukrainian army from 2014 to 2022 by Michael Karadjis. Truth is the first and continuing victim of
war, leaders lie, and gullible, patriotic populations, the US sometimes
foremost, rush to the slaughter. So I
believe critical thinking should be taught from K-12. https://mkaradjis.com/2022/06/16/on-the-fantastic-tale-that-the-ukrainian-army-killed-14000-ethnic-russians-in-donbas-between-2014-and-2022/ These 23 anthologies serve that need by
resisting the one-sided, militaristc reporting of the 2024-
US-NATO-Ukraine-Russia war. of 2014-present.
–Dick]
Ben
Norton. “Inside Operation Gladio: How
[CIA and] NATO Supported Nazis and Terrorists” v. USSR.
2014-
“Stadiums
of Hate,” Violent Nazism and Racism in Ukraine.
Caitlin Johnstone. Azov Battalion Drops
Neo-Nazi Symbol.
Stepan
Malentsov. The War should be for
socialism not just the denazification of Ukraine.
Gordon
Hahn. “Eight Years Ago in Odessa.” The right-wing murder of pro-Russian
protesters of the anti-Russian government that gained power by a coup.
Ron Ridenour. Iceland Welcomes Zelensky, But
No Mention of some Inconvenient History.
Voices from Dombas: Malnikov and Katya A (Donetsk),
Alexey Albu (Lugansk)
John Parker.
Three More on Odessa.
Alexander Rubenstein. US Citizens Fighting with Ukrainian Army.
Caitlin Johnstone.
Azov Battalion Removes Neo-Nazi Symbol.
Laurent
Brayard. 3-part series on right-wing
neo-nazi leaders: Biletsky, Igor Mosiychuk, and Evgueny Karas.
Mehmet
Perinҫek. “The Donbas Diaries Part II:
The Azov Battalions.”
Jacques
Baud. Denounces Western coverage of
Ukraine Invasion.”
Lev Golinkin. “Neo-Nazis and the Far
Right Are on the March in Ukraine.”
Andrew
Bacevich. “The F-Word…Repurposed and
Misapplied.”
Earlier anthologies contain additional articles
on Ukrainian Nazis.
US,
NATO, UKRAINE v. RUSSIA WAR
#24
origins, consequences, peace
July
4, 2022
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/us-nato-ukraine-v-russia-war-24.html
What’s at stake. These anthologies on the Ukrainian War were
gathered to show how much more complicated were its causes, how much more
ruinous were its consequences, and how many more alternatives to war were
possible than have been explored by US leaders or reported in US mainstream
media (MSM). My belief is that the
people of the US and the world wish to understand the complications of US wars
and do not desire again to be engaged in massive destruction and mass slaughter
without the fullest and most careful consideration. --Dick
CONTENTS US, NATO,
Ukraine, Russia Anthology #24
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|
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Dick
– The US Press is doing a terrible job of reporting this war. This even
includes the PBS news, and NPR. There is no context, no history, little
about the details of strategy or diplomacy, little explanation of why any
particular incident (such as the siege of Mariupol) might have occurred, little
discussion of alternatives. Reporting is mostly one-dimensional and
simple-minded. Most of it consists of tragic stories of civilian
suffering. And all of it is infused with flag-waving patriotism and
simple “good guys and bad guys” mentality. It’s not that simple.
Putin’s invasion was immoral and (worse yet) stupid, but he is not
Hitler. It is important for us to hear the stories of suffering because
they teach us the reality and the tragedy of war, but the focus should be much
broader than this. There should be much more commentary, including
commentary from left-wingers and right-wingers. The only discussion seems
to come from the US government and military people. There should be much
more history, much more criticism. Basically, the reporting is irrational
and emotional. A suggestion: Letters to the editor are an
effective way to reach the public. Our group should write, and encourage
others to write, such letters. Peace – Art
CAUSES of the WAR #24
Mark Rolofson. A Brief History
Shapiro. President Clinton and NATO Expansion.
Carey. Western (Sovietphobia) Russophobia: United Kingdom.
Krieger. “Putin’s Offer to Negotiate on
Nukes” Rejected.
Kuzmarov. MIC War Profiteering.
Lauria. Censorship: Nulan-Pyatt Tape,
Smoking Gun of Kiev Coup 2014.
Kuzmarov. Propaganda: US National Endowment for
Democracy Awards
to anti-Russian NGOs.
Norton. Conspiracy: “U.S. Government Plots to Break
Up Russia in Name
of ‘Decolonization.’”
McCoy. Another Cold War = Nuclear Threat, US $2
Trillion.
Hornberger. “What If the U.S. Had Invaded the Ukraine?”
Chomsky and
Barsamian. War and Warming, and Orwell’s
Doublethink.
CONSEQUENCES
Moon of Alabama. US Escalation.
Brenner. World Has Changed Opposite to
Plans.
Al Mayadeen Net. Censorship: Stone’s Film Ukraine on Fire.
Steve Sweeney. Ukrainian Crackdown on Left and other Opponents.
Ritter. “Lithuania’s Brinkmanship.”
UN WIRE. Casualties in the War.
Johnstone. CIA in Ukraine.
Moon of Alabama. Zelensky Lied re Burned Shopping Center.
Salami. Egypt’s Tightrope Neutrality.
Knight. “Joe Biden’s saber-rattling threatens World War III—with China and Russia.”
CONCORD
Hixson. Principal Needs for Peace, to prevent and
stop wars.
Kuzmarov and
Brown. End False Ukrainian Reports of
Russian atrocities.
World Beyond War, Code
Pink, and International Peace Bureau. “Peace
Wave” International Appeal for End
to the War.
United for Peace and
Justice: 4 International Reports.
Ukraine [Anti-] War Resources
US Conference of Mayors Adopts Peace
Resolution
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons First Meeting in Vienna
Condemnation of Nuclear Threats (Abolish
Nuclear Weapons)
UFPJ Peace Petition
Paul Ingram. “Russia’s Nuclear Threat.”
Lynch. Conflict Transformation.
Koehler. “Embracing the Complexity of Peace.”
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
WAR #25
AUGUST
7, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-25.html
CONTENTS
UKRAINE WAR #25
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-25.html
Causes
of the War
Gerald
Sussman. The Long CIA Propaganda War
Bryce
Greene. “What’s Missing from Corporate
Media’s [MSM] Ukraine Coverage?” 2022.
Patrick
Lawrence. “The Great Acquiescence—Glory
to Ukraine.” 2022.
Michael
Welton. “”…How John Mearsheimer and
Stephen Cohen Challenged the Dominant Narrative.” 2022.
Kit
Klarenburg. “How CIA Front Laid
Foundations for Ukraine War.”
More
on Nazis in Ukraine (see Anthology #24)
Sonja Van den Ende. “Ruins of Azov Steel
Factory Display Nazi Insignia. “
Gregory
Shupak. “Pushing for War Over Ukraine
While Ignoring Its Nazi Ties.”
Sustaining
the War
George
Paulson. “The Politics of Biden’s
Escalation.”
Amy Goodman. “Western Mass Media.”
Ben
Norton. NATO Sacrificing Ukrainians.
Jeff Abramson. The US, Lethal Weapons,
and Russia.
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Brzezinski, Poland, US
Baltic Sea Base.
Ben Norton. “CIA and Western Special Ops
Are in Ukraine.”
Dave DeCamp. Biden: US Increasing
Military Presence in Europe.
Peace
Richard
Falk. “A European Call for an End to the
Ukrainian War.”
Rick Sterling. “Handling International
Crises from JFK to Biden.”
Kathy Kelly and Matt Gannon. “To Heal.
We Must Cultivate Hope.”
Jim Chambers. “Resisting the ‘Collective
West.’”
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
WAR ANTHOLOGY #26
October
18, 2022
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
What’s
at Stake.
In the middle of WWI, the highly decorated
British Army officer and celebrated poet, Siegrfried Sassoon, wrote “Finished
with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration”
denouncing the war for being “prolonged by those who have the power to end
it.” The British War Department chose
not to courtmartial Sassoon, but instead sent him to an Army hospital
specializing in “shell shock” patients (PTSD today). The military purpose of the hospital was to
return soldiers back to the war in France. Its political purpose was to silence
criticism of the war.
In her novel about these hospitals, Regeneration, Pat Barker considers
grotesque physical contortions, paralysis, deafness, blindness, muteness,
stammerings, nightmares, tremors, and memory lapses to be unconscious,
unwitting protests against the horrors of trench warfare, and the removal of
those behaviors—fitting “young men back into the role of warrior”-- as
patriotic psychiatry no matter how cruel the treatment. But Captain Sassoon was
an anomaly. He experienced some
nightmares, but nothing else. He wanted
to return to the war, where he might relieve the suffering of his
soldiers. He was physically and mentally
“fit.” But he opposed the war and would
not abandon his “A Soldier’s Declaration” that the war was being fought for the
“evil and unjust” ends of the leaders who exploit the “callous complacence” of
the civilian majority at home.
That’s a major problem to the War
Department, then and now.
Likewise
the United States and NATO refused to stop the rush to war by Ukraine
and Russia, but rather expedited it, as these twenty-six anthologies
demonstrate. Not only by expanding a
nuclear armed NATO to Russia’s border, or by quashing negotiations and arming
Ukraine, but by controlling information at home about the war the US advanced a
“good” Ukraine and an “evil” Russia, and a hideous war and heightened nuclear
danger. --Dick
CONTENTS
OF US/NATO/UKRAINE/RUSSIA WAR #26 October 18, 2022 (1 book and 15 essays)
Causes
Dan
Kovalik. The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep
State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin.
Laurence H. Shoup. “Giving War a
Chance. Council on Foreign Relations and Preparing for World
War.”
Cook. Hollywood.
Provocations.
Keeping
the War Going
Weiss. Ukraine v. International Law
Kuzmarov. US Involvement.
Knight. “Credibility Gulch.”
Global War: Two
Reports on Pelosi’s Vist to Taiwan
Consequences
de Sousa
Santos. An Overview
Stopping the War, Making Peace
Tulsi
Gabbard leaves the Democratic War Party.
Marcy Winograd and Media Benjamin report US history of nuclear extortion and
call for
stopping the Ukraine War as JFK did
the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Brad
Wolf on the
corrupting influence war and profits have on everything, including the press.
Chay Bowes. “War Propaganda About Ukraine. .
. . .”
Sonja
van den Ende. “Russians welcomed as liberators in many Eastern Ukrainian cities….”
John Parker. Western War, Western Media.
US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA
WAR ANTHOLOGY #27
November
26, 2022
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/us-nato-ukraine-russia-war-anthology-27.html
CONTENTS OF US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #27 (9 articles, one book)
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas
J.S. Davies. War In Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.
CONSEQUENCES OF WAR
CENSORSHIP
Caitlin A.
Johnstone. “PayPal blocks multiple alternative media figures critical of U.S. empire
narratives.”
“100 million Russian books in line for ban.”
ATROCITIES
Art Hobson on Atrocities, Killing Civilians.
“UN slams Ukrainian attack on Donetsk maternity hospital.”
Eva Bartlett. “Western media and politicians prefer to ignore the truth….”
Jeremy Kuzmarov. Ukrainian Shelling of Donetsk.
Patrick Buchanan. “The Real Purpose of
the Ukraine War for the US and Ukraine Is to Weaken Russia.”
Global Consequences of the War, several essays
Peoples
Dispatch. “The Real Path to Peace.”
Contents Ukraine War
#26
Ukraine
War Anthology #28
February
18, 2023
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/02/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html
CONTENTS #28
US/NATO’S WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
Current Actions Against the
War
World Beyond War, February 19
RALLY
United
for Peace and Justice, “Peaceful Alternatives to War,” February 24,
2023.
History
John
Mearsheimer, "The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis."
George Beebe.
"Ignoring the Ghosts of the 'Great War' - at Our Own
Peril"
Jeffrey D.
Sachs. "Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster."
Space
Alert interview
with John Walsh. “War against Russia and
China.”
Sustaining
the Ukraine War
Space Alert. “Kiev’s Nazi Forces Attack Donbass.”
Seymour
Hersh, “Nord Stream Sabotage Is the Dumbest.”
Caitlin Johnstone. CBS Silenced by
Ukraine Gov.
NYT Report on Civilians Killed.
Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists. Phoenix Ghost Drones to Ukraine.
Dave
DeCamp. Lend-Lease for Weapons.
Benjamin
Norton. Spanish Lawmaker on NATO’s Subservience to US Interests.
Anatole Lieven on Russian Intellectuals.
Fabrizio
Casari. Europe a Sinking Ship.
NATO
on Russia’s Western Border
Scott Ritter. “Lithuania’s Brinkmanship.”
Destabilizing Russia’s Southern Border.
Gavin O’Reilly on Uzbekistan.
MAKING
PEACE, STOP THE WAR, DIPLOMACY NOT SLAUGHTER
"Ending the War in Ukraine: Three Possible
Futures" By Rajan Menon.
US Public Support for the War Decreasing.
"Anatol Lieven on NATO Expansion & What a Ukraine Peace
Settlement Could Look Like."
Interview by Amy Goodman.
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