OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #211, JANUARY 8, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #211, JANUARY 8, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett

Leading the TV news this Wednesday morning: fires in Los Angeles, Trump wants Panama and Greenland for US national security and the free world v. Russia and China.

William Astore.  The US Empire of Air, Naval, and Land Bases.

Patrick Lawrence.  The US is Spoiling for a Fight.

Chomsky and Robinson.  How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World.

 

William Astore.   “The Trillion-Dollar Blob.”  ACURA.  Dec 06, 2024.   “America has a bellicose, bullying, immature leadership that thinks military might is the answer to everything, as reflected by U.S. Special Forces in 80+ countries and roughly 800 bases globally. That global presence is unsustainable. It is also folly.”    Read in browser »
Patrick Lawrence.   “Our World  of Wars, Our War of Worlds.  Consortium News (1-6-25).    “The U.S. imperium is effectively spoiling for decisive confrontations with any power that threatens its crumbling primacy.”   Read here...

Noam Chomsky and Nathan Robinson.  The Myth of American Idealism:  How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World.  (2024).   “In the twenty-first century, there are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe—and we are hurtling toward them knowingly.  Moreover, the world faces these threats in significant part because of choices made by U.S. corporations and the U.S. government over the course of decades.  Our own country’s actions have helped to create a situation of unprecedented peril. . . .today we face threats that are altogether different in terms of their sheer scale.  For the first time, our entire species faces collective disasters.  The environmental and nuclear weapons threats are truly existential, and what we choose to do will determine the fate not only of our species but of all the other species on Earth.”  (205-6).