83 WAR WATCH
WEDNESDAYS, #83, July 20, 2022
Hedges. “The Pimps of War.”
AFSC: Cut the
Pentagon Budget.
US Conference
of Mayors’ Peace Resolution.
UPJ: Resources
for Understanding the War.
Chris Hedges.
“The Pimps of
War.” The Chris Hedges Report. Apr 10, 2022.
The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who
orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have
never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.
[I could not copy the graphic “The Pimps of War” by Mr.
Fish. Click on url.]
The same cabal of war mongering pundits, foreign policy
specialists and government officials, year after year, debacle after debacle,
smugly dodge responsibility for the military fiascos they orchestrate. They are
protean, shifting adroitly with the political winds, moving from the Republican
Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors
to neocons to liberal interventionists. Pseudo intellectuals, they exude a
cloying Ivy League snobbery as they sell perpetual fear, perpetual war, and a
racist worldview, where the lesser breeds of the earth only understand
violence.
They are pimps of war, puppets of the Pentagon, a state
within a state, and the defense contractors who lavishly fund their think tanks
– Project for the New American Century, American Enterprise Institute, Foreign
Policy Initiative, Institute for the Study of War, Atlantic Council and
Brookings Institution. Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic-resistant
bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does not matter how wrong they are, how
absurd their theories, how many times they lie or denigrate other cultures and
societies as uncivilized or how many murderous military interventions go bad.
They are immovable props, the parasitic mandarins of power that are vomited up
in the dying days of any empire, including ours, leaping from one
self-defeating catastrophe to the next.
I spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent reporting
on the suffering, misery, and murderous rampages these shills for war
engineered and funded.
MORE https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-pimps-of-war
SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2022 |
AFSC Weekend Reading |
Tell Congress: Invest in
peace—not war and militarism: This week, the House of Representatives took up the
National Defense Authorization Act. Members voted on Pentagon spending, nuclear
weapons, and other critical issues that affect the lives, safety, and health of
people around the globe. We need to keep up the pressure on Congress to move
away from militarism and invest in peace. If you haven’t already, urge your
representative to cut the Pentagon budget!
U.S. Conference of Mayors Adopts Bold New Mayors for Peace
Resolution
Organizations
against War via United for Peace and Justice (June 2022)
Ukraine War
Resources
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