WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #80,

 

80.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #80, June 29, 2022

Jacqueline Luqman.   “WHEN AMERICA NO LONGER EXPORTS CARNAGE AS A BUSINESS MODEL, MAYBE WE’LL STOP SEEING IT IN THE STREETS HERE.”  Black Agenda Report.

·       June 11, 2022.  Popular Resistance.org (6-12-22). 

• https://www.blackagendareport.com/when-america-no-longer-exports-carnage-business-model-maybe-well-stop-seeing-it-streets-here

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The Tears, Prayers, And Thoughts Regarding Mass Shootings Are Sincerely Expressed By Most People.

But hypocrisy and cynicism loom very large for Joe Biden and congress. They want us to believe that state violence is disconnected from violence carried out by individuals.

Speaking in the dimly lit Cross Hall in the White House, and flanked on either side by rows of candles and the soft lighting of the chandeliers and torchiere lamps above and behind him, Joe Biden conjured up his best human emotions to deliver an impassioned promise that he would do something about gun violence in this country.  “How much more carnage are we willing to accept?” Biden asked, demanding Republicans in particular end their blockade of gun control votes.

Here is Joseph Biden and the Congress he leads repeatedly approving hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons to be sent to Ukraine in a war that the US and their white supremacist international army NATO started with the sole purpose of provoking Russia.

The Biden Administration and everyone in Congress has approved military support to Ukraine repeatedly since February, seven times to be exact, on February 25, March 12, March 16, April 5, April 13, April 21, and April 24. The earlier military support packages averaged about $30 million a day and to be clear they did not include economic and humanitarian support and the costs of U.S. forces deployed to Europe to address the crisis. This current package increases the aid level to $135 million a day.

The defense contractors make millions from the US government ordering more weapons, and it does not matter to anyone in the defense industrial complex nor in Congress that many of the people who are receiving these weapons and other military aid are right-wing, neo-Nazi fanatics who just carried out an eight-year civil war against ethnic Russians in Donbas and Lugansk. In fact they KNOW who they are giving weapons to, and they continue to do it while telling you and me that it is PUTIN who needs to be stopped.

So who does Biden think he’s fooling standing behind a podium feigning outrage and invoking God in wondering when will the carnage on our streets end, when he is pouring carnage onto the streets of Ukraine to the tune of $135 million a day.

When the US stops enabling the carnage all over the world as a business model, maybe then we’ll stop seeing the blowback on our streets.

 

ACTIONS FROM VETERANS FOR PEACE, Weekly E-News, June 9, 2022

Cancel RIMPAC The Pacific Peace Network and its allied organizations call for the cancellation of the dangerous, provocative and destructive international Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval war practice and for increased citizen pressure for a demilitarized Pan-Pacific Zone of Peace. RIMPAC naval war practice, the largest naval war maneuvers in the world, will take place off Hawai’i and the West Coast of the U.S. from June 29 to August 4, 2022. At RIMPAC 2022, over 25,000 military personnel, 38 ships, 170 aircraft, 4 submarines from 26 countries will practice war simulations engaging "enemy forces." Sign the Petition!   Memorial Day 2022 Recap Given the most recent news on yet another school shooting, this year Memorial Day seemed even more poignant. As veterans we know the legacy and culture of violence U.S. militarism wreaks on our society.  Peace at home, Peace Abroad is more than a slogan, but rather a commitment to tirelessly work against the violence in our society that holds weapons of war in higher priority than the safety of our children and children around the globe.   Visit our 2022 Memorial Day recap page where you will find images and reports of VFP members and chapters taking action to remember ALL victims of war. View our Memorial Day 2022 photo album here.

Don’t Nuke the Pacific! July 2, 2022 (Sat), 5pm(EDT), 2pm(PDT) Japan has plans to release 1.28 million metric tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean starting in 2023 and continuing for more than 30 years. TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) claims the water is clean, though Tritium remains, as it is processed by ALPS (The Advanced Liquid Processing System). It has 25 Exhaust filters to prevent leakage of radioactive materials, but all filters were found to be broken in 2019. Again in 2021, 24 of 25 filters were found to be broken. Can you trust them? Register here!     New Nuclear Arms Race at VFP's No Nukes meeting Friday, June 10, at 6 pm Eastern, 3 pm Pacific. Lawrence S. Wittner, an award-winning American historian, writer and activist for peace and social justice, will be the guest speaker of the Veterans For Peace Nuclear Abolition Working Group this Friday, June 10, at 6 pm Eastern, 3 pm Pacific. Wittner, a Professor of History Emeritus at Albany State University of New York, speaks regularly about our nuclear dilemma, and recently addressed Maryland Peace Action on “The New Nuclear Arms Race and How to End It.”   There will be a short period for Q and A after his talk.  All are welcome to attend. Zoom link (Is also posted on the VFP website calendar)