OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #220, MARCH 12, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #220, MARCH 12, 2025.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.

Stopping the Ukraine War, Ending the Gaza Genocide, Opposing Imperial Incarceration

Jeffrey Sachs.  “Negotiating Lasting Peace in Ukraine.”

David Swanson.  “The Five Excuses for Genocide”

Benjamin Weber.  American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.

 

Jeffrey Sachs.  “Negotiating Lasting Peace in Ukraine.”  Consortium News (3-7-25). 
Ukraine will have to cede more territory than it would have in April 2022 — when the U.S. and U.K. talked it out of a peace deal — but it will gain sovereignty and international security arrangements. Read here...

 

“The Five Excuses for Genocide” [in Gaza].   By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, March 4, 2025
https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-five-excuses-for-genocide/

[Forwarded by Sonny San Juan March 5, 2025, Aipac interview:: Trying to explain genocide of Gaza.]

On Monday I interviewed a member of the Executive Committee of AIPAC. I asked him how he could defend and promote apartheid and genocide. He was not a legal witness; I could not order him not to change the subject. Still, he provided pretty clear (if very weak) excuses for genocide, which I think can be broken up into five types. . . .    -David Swanson is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org. He hosts Talk World Radio.

US  IMPERIALISM, WARS, AND PRISONS
Benjamin Weber.  American Purgatory: Prison Imperialism and the Rise of Mass Incarceration.   The New Press, 2023.
Publisher’s description: 
A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe.“    American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration. It will forever change how we understand this country.” —Clint Smith, bestselling author of How the Word Is Passed: A  Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.   In this explosive new book, historian Benjamin Weber reveals how the story of American prisons is inextricably linked to the expansion of American power around the globe.   A vivid work of hidden history that spans the wars to subjugate Native Americans in the mid-nineteenth century, the conquest of the western territories, and the creation of an American empire in Panama, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, American Purgatory reveals how “prison imperialism”—the deliberate use of prisons to control restive, subject populations—is written into our national DNA, extending through to our modern era of mass incarceration. Weber also uncovers a surprisingly rich history of prison resistance, from the Seminole Chief Osceola to Assata Shakur—one that invites us to rethink the scope of America’s long freedom struggle.