WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #18

 WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #18

Announcement: The 3rd monthly protest to Stop the University of Arkansas Nuclear Weapons Program is Tuesday, April 27th at 12:30 P.M.  The protest will be held at the intersection of MLK Blvd and Razorback Road (1417 MLK Blvd, Fayetteville).

 

War and Warming

“…if way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.”
Thomas Hardy, ”In Tenebris II.”

 

Refuting Missile “Defense”

“Defense gives rise to more offense” is the key to the empty hope of missile “defense.”   The only defense is a total ban on nuclear bombs and their missiles.  One of the several persuasive reasons the author gives is that the US is led by the War Party—the Democrats and Republican bipartisan support for war.  “It is high time to end this bipartisan consensus.  We should demand that the MD program be drastically cut back, if not canceled altogether.  Instead, U.S. should take the lead in proposing a global ban on MD systems.”   Subrata Ghoshroy. “Global Ban on ‘Missile Defense’ Needed.”  Space Alert! (Winter-Spring 2021).

 

Refuting Market “Defense”: We Must Do EVERYTHING Differently

“…we must do everything differently to ensure the planet’s survival.”   “The one thing all those thousands of [IPCC] scientists agree on as our only hope—that the economic structures that mediate our relation to the planet must be profoundly altered—is the one thing Kerry and Biden are quite careful not to consider at all.”  Ben Ehrenreich, “Suicide Prevention.”  The New Republic (April 2021).

  Let’s not forget the peacemakers and the warmakers:  
April 15, 1967: the largest anti-Vietnam war mobilization in U.S. history up to that time.
April 16, 1862: Pres. Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery.
April 17, 1965: first march on Washington against the war on Vietnam.
April 18, 1997: Plowshares “Choose Life” action at Bofors weapons factory in Sweden.
April 19, 1775, the US Revolution turned violent at Lexington and Concord in the first of many wars of expansion  (Source: Peace Almanac by WBW)