OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #214, JANUARY 29, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #214, JANUARY 29, 2025.  Compiled by Dick Bennett

Doomsday Clock 89 Seconds to Midnight.
NUKEWATCH QUARTERLY (Winter 2024-25). 
New Corporate-Military-Congressional Warmaking Paradigm.
UN-USA, UN Today (Nov. 2024): what we can expect from Trump II. 

 

WHO’S WARNING US?    

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has made its annual Doomsday Clock announcement. It's now set at 89 seconds to midnight — the closest its ever been to catastrophe. Read the 2025 statement >    

For those who want to raise awareness around the announcement and help decrease existential threats, the Bulletin has also created a social media toolkit. Access the toolkit >

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WHO MAKES THE WARS?
While reviewing files of venerable anti-war organizations, I found this insightful passage on war and corporations in a letter from the War Resisters League (April 2005). 

In the course of running the Merchants of Death campaign, WRL’s Anti-Militarism Program Task Force has made an amazing discovery, one that amounts to a profound shift in the ancient paradigm of warmaking.  For centuries…opportunists or all dimensions, from weapons makers to battlefield scavengers, seized on the military adventures of nations for profits large and small.  In the 21^st century, however giant US corporations have reverse that pattern: today, instead of just making profits from opportune war, they have seized the war-making apparatus itself, so that they now make war for profit. . . . “  It’s another way of thinking about the military-industrial-congressional complex Eisenhower warned us about.    Corporations such as Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Halliburton, are conscripted by the U.S. armed forces to achieve corporate domination of the whole process of profiteering for war: promoting wars, manufacturing the weapons, selling the weapons. 

WHO TRIES TO PREVENT AND STOP WARS?
UN-USA, UN TODAY NOVEMBER 2024

          Listen to Global Dispatch's new episode: What the Republican Election Sweep Means for the United Nations:    Tune in and hear Peter Yeo, Executive Vice President of the United Nations Foundation, explain the nuances of how Republicans have traditionally approached the United States' relationship to the United Nations, what we can expect from the second Trump Administration.

 

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