OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #144, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #144, SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 
World Beyond War.   Abolish War.
Joe Lauria.   “9/11: Why Americans Are Never Told Why.”
Katrina Vanden Heuvel.  “Putin, Prigozhin, and Russia’s Future.”

RECENT (AND FORTHCOMING) WORLD BEYOND WAR ACTIVITIES Some find it hard to believe, but NATO is planning a big celebration of 75 years of itself, with meetings beginning July 9, 2024, in Washington, D.C., at which we can expect many presidents, prime ministers, foreign secretaries, and weapons dealers. We are planning a summit on Saturday July 6 and a rally on Sunday July 7, as well as various other actions in the days before and after that weekend -- including working with allies planning a peace walk from Santa Monica, California, to join us in Washington, D.C. with events all along the way. World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of the institution of war.

 

Around the World: Photos from the March for Climate and Peace in New York City on Sunday Talk World Radio: Greg Barns on Efforts to Free Julian Assange Make a Tableau AUDIO: Discussion from 25th Kateri Peace Conference Videos of Kateri Peace Conference Video: Kathy Kelly Serenades War Profiteers The Global Monroe Doctrine Giving the Peace Choir a Microphone The Pentagon is the Elephant In the Climate Activist Room How To Write And Talk About War, And How Not To Our Town and Everyone’s Town Should Be Rallying for Peace Prioritizing Human Rights in Relations with Saudi Arabia Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist or a Peacemaker? Announcement of 6th International Conference for World Balance

 

 

On September 5, 2023, members of WILPF, the WBW California chapter, and the Guadalupe Catholic Worker peacefully protested at the Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc, California, saying NO to the Minuteman III ICBM test launch from Vandenberg to the Marshall Islands.

“9/11: Why Americans Are Never Told Why.”  Consortium News (9-13-23). 
When Western media discuss terrorism against the West, such as 9/11, the motive is almost always left out, even when the terrorists state they are avenging longstanding Western violence in the Muslim world, reports Joe Lauria. Read here...

 

Stop the War.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel.  “Putin, Prigozhin, and Russia’s Future.”
The Nation (7.24-31.2023).  A one-page summary and analysis of the revolt by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenary troops in Russia: the “grave risks that would be posed by the Russian state’s disintegration, the terrifying possibility of Russia’s losing control of its nuclear weapons,” the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the refugee crisis, and “new waves of repression.”   Vanden Heuvel calls for “urgently needed diplomacy.”

Compiled by Dick Bennett