OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #256, NOVEMBER
19, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Protesting US Warmaking: Scholars Telling the Truth, Nuns Disarming
Missiles, a Novelist Exploring War’s Effects, a Newsletter Editor Studies a
Government Study, a Citizen Assesses US Fascism..
The Trillion Dollar War Machine by William Hartung and Ben Freeman. Bold Type Books, 2025. For the publisher’s description see WWW #238, July
16, 2025. “This is it: the definitive
account of America’s wasteful, corrupt, and astonishingly ineffective military
industrial complex. William Hartung
and Ben Freeman have done their fellow citizens a great service. Taking their message to heart is a job for
the rest of us.” Andrew Bacevich, author
or editor of a dozen books on US militarism.
I have the book now and am strengthened by its scholarship, especially:
the breviloquent Introduction to the militarism that has befallen us, and how
it happened, that the full book particularizes;
and Part Three, “Selling the War Machine,” the warmonger profiteers and
their enablers. --D
Anti-War Documentary, 43 minutes.
Conviction (the steadfast resistance to US warmaking by Catholic
peacemakers 2019).
Story of 3 nuns prosecuted for
illegally entering a nuclear missile base near Greeley, CO, 2019 to
symbolically disarm the missiles.
Jackie Platte, Ardeth Hudson, and Carol Gilbert were charged with interfering
with US national defense, sabotage, damaging government property, and
vandalism. The judge denied 30
categories of law in their defense—international law, etc. They were sentenced July 2003. Ardeth was sentenced to 41 mos. in prison,
Carol to 33, and Jackie to 30.
Anti-War Novel
Dirty
Work is a 1989 novel by Larry Brown about
two severely wounded Vietnam veterans, Walter James (white) and Braiden Chaney
(black), who are in adjacent hospital beds. Over the course of one night,
they share their stories, memories, and pain, leading to a powerful and
devastating exploration of the war's effects. The novel is considered one
of the most powerful anti-war novels in American literature. Wikipedia.
Dick
is Moving…..Some Day
And along the way are many welcome reminders of how we got to 11-19-25.
The US Congressional Budget Office
published a study of Modernizing U.S. Strategic Offensive Forces: Costs,
Effects, and Alternatives (Nov. 1987)
Why are we “modernizing” and treating us to a euphemism for increasing our
nuclear weapons and making them more lethal?
Why are we spending such vast amounts of money for such an
enterprise? It’s the old Sovietphobia now
Russophobia. The second chapter compares
the ”force levels” of the US and SU (their mirror acronyms): SU must not be
allowed to outgun US. Chapter Three grapples with “U.S. and Soviet
Modernization Plans Beyond 1987.” And
Appendix D, “Soviet Strategic Forces,” summarizes the statistics of the
fearsome enemy’s ballistic missiles, derived mainly from the Pentagon’s Soviet
Military Power 1987. It is time pathological
liar President Trump returned the “Pentagon/DOD” to its original name: Department of War,
inadvertently telling the truth.
In The Traveler “Letters to
the Editor,” April 28, 2006, appeared a prescient warning of fascism by Abel
Tomlinson, “Is America Becoming Quasifascist?” After listing over a dozen features of fascism,
he cites as an example President Bush’s quasifascist “business-religious-political conglomeration.”
Trump has been a long-time coming. -D
END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #256, NOVEMBER 19, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
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