OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #138, AUGUST 9, 2023.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #138, AUGUST 9, 2023.

 

USA, WARMAKER

As you might know, I am reshelving my books after having to box them up following a frozen pipe this winter and restoration.  It’s given me an opportunity to read again books that help explain why I am opposed to US foreign policy of wars and empire.  For example, The Roots of American Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Power and Purpose by Gabriel Kolko (1969).   Here’s from the Introduction, p. xi:  “For a growing number of Americans the war in Vietnam has become the turning point in their perception of the nature of American foreign policy, the traumatizing event that requires them to look again at the very roots, assumptions, and structure of a policy that is profoundly destructive and dangerous.  Vietnam is the logical outcome of a consistent reality we should have understood long before the United States applied much of its energies to ravaging one small nation.”    --D

 

 

Monroe Doctrine to Control Latin America
   Ronald Fernandez.  Cruising the Caribbean: U.S. Influence and Intervention in the Twentieth Century.  Common Courage P, 1994.

US colonialism in the Caribbean was characterized by 1) the racism of traditional colonialism and 2) this distinctive addition: exceptionalism, both guaranteed by US cannons.  An exceptional people (USA) deserved special license.  Other nations thought themselves superior, “but only the United States was the heavenly appointed missionary of democracy and development” –in interests of US autocracy .   In 1823, President James Monroe “codified these beliefs in the doctrine that bears his name.”  (Dick)

 

Corporate Warmaker Investments

US Funds Invest in Nuclear & Cluster Bombs.  Consortium News (7-19-23). 

Some of the largest corporate retirement funds are among the most heavily invested in weapons banned under international law, finds a corporate accountability watchdog. Read here...

 

Fossil Fuels, UK too
BP’s Wars, Coups & Dictators.  Consortium News (7-21-23). 

From Iran to Azerbaijan, Iraq to Nigeria, Russia to Venezuela, British foreign policy is largely captured by the global climate polluter BP, writes Mark Curtis. Read here...