WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #67

 

67.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #67, MARCH 30, 2022

Webinar on Lies of Empire from CovertAction Magazine
Making the Forever War: Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism. 

 

Teach-in Webinar - War in Ukraine: How the Lies of Empire Stand in the Way of a Diplomatic Resolution.  Digging deep to unearth the facts behind the war in Ukraine.   THIS FRIDAY - APRIL 1 - AT 7pm EST  [Outstanding panelists. –D]
To register, send an email to: Register@CovertActionMagazine.com.
You will receive a reply with the Zoom Webinar link.

 

The world has been horrified by recent events in Ukraine.

The mainstream media has not been reporting the facts including a hidden history of nefarious covert activities that fit with the past pattern of U.S. foreign policy.

This Teach-in Webinar will illuminate the backstory the media has not reported, and challenge the dominant narrative about the war. 

We will further raise concerns about the growing threat of nuclear conflagration while provoking discussion about what the peace movement should now be doing.

Speakers include:
Ray McGovern, Former CIA Analyst and Russia expert, founder Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity 
John Kiriakou, CIA whistleblower and Radio Sputnik host
Jeremy Kuzmarov, CAM Managing Editor and author of The Russians Are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce

Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, journalist, exposed U.S. biolabs in Ukraine

Horace Campbell, international peace & justice scholar, Prof. of African American Studies & Political Science, Syracuse University

Gerald Horne, historian, author, Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston

James Carden, Adviser U.S.-Russia bilateral commission during the Obama administration & Ex. Editor of The American Committee for East-West accord

Chris Kaspar de Ploeg, author Ukraine in the Crossfire

Andrei Martyanov, expert on Russian military affairs, author The Real Revolution in Military Affairs

Ron Ridenour, peace activist, author The Russian Peace Threat 

To register, send an email to: Register@CovertActionMagazine.com.
You will receive a reply with the Zoom Webinar link.

 

Making the Forever War

Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.  Edited by Mark Philip Bradley and Mary L. Dudziak  University of Massachusetts Press, 2021.   Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Series.  232 Pages

The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving end of U.S. military force. At the center of her inquiries was a seeming paradox: How can the United States stay continually at war, yet Americans pay so little attention to this militarism?

Making the Forever War brings Young's articles and essays on American war together for the first time, including never before published works. Moving from the first years of the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, and more recent “forever" wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Young reveals the ways in which war became ever-present, yet more covert and abstract, particularly as aerial bombings and faceless drone strikes have attained greater strategic value. For Young, U.S. empire persisted because of, not despite, the inattention of most Americans. The collection concludes with an afterword by prominent military historian Andrew Bacevich.