OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #219, MARCH 5, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #219, MARCH 5, 2025.  Compiled by Dick Bennett

PREVENTING, STOPPING WARS

Rally for Palestine  Join Us Saturday, March 8, Court House, 1:00: Protest for Palestine!  Friendsofpalestinenwa   Mar 3, 2025    We invite you to stand with us in solidarity at an upcoming protest against the actions of Israel and the U.S., calling out the tactics of forced displacement and mass deportation that target refugees, migrants, and indigenous people.This is a crucial moment to raise our voices against injustice and advocate for the rights of those who are being forcibly displaced. Join us as we come together to demand change and show our support for Palestine and all affected communities.   Please spread the word and bring friends, family, and allies. Every voice matters!   In solidarity,   Friends of Palestine NWA

End the Empire
Claude Julien.  America’s Empire.  Pantheon, 1971.
Chapter One explains the rationale of the US “empire without frontiers,” and its Sovietphobia, militarism, wars, military-corporate complex, and propaganda machine. 
23 “…the internal prosperity of the United States depends in very large part on its freedom of access to the natural resources of the entire world, and more especially of the poor countries…the American economic empire is organized to protect and extend that freedom of access to the minerals and to the agricultural products of the Third World… .that position of privileged consumer.  And every day, considerable efforts are expended in maintaining and reinforce the positions already acquired.”
24 “The political, diplomatic, and military apparatus of the United States, the large American corporations as well as trade unions and, if need be, religious organizations all lend support to the same cause” of being the world’s largest consumer.
25- “And, naturally, it does not guarantee to all countries that freedom of access ‘on equal terms,’” particularly not to communist countries, since [speaking ironically], “communism remains the only real enemy of freedom.”   The rest of the chapter traces this dogma that has turned US foreign policy into a grotesque labyrinth of double standards, doublethink contradictions, and hypocrisies.

Be for Peace.
In 1916, March 4, Montana elected Jeannette Rankin the first woman in the House of Representatives.  Rankin went on to vote against WWI and WWII, and to lead marches against the Viet Nam War.

END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #219, MARCH 5, 2025.