WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #99, NOVEMBER 9, 2022.
Medea Benjamin and
Nicolas J.S. Davies. War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless
Conflict.
Two from the Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Times the world came close to
nuclear disaster.
How many nuclear weapons did the US and
USSR have?
Justice
for the Marshall Islands.
NUCLEAR WAR
Medea Benjamin and
Nicolas J.S. Davies. War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless
Conflict.
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No one, including the most bullish
supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The
fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of
front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan,
will bleed for a very long time. This is by design. The militarists who have
waged permanent war costing trillions of dollars over the past two decades
have invested heavily in controlling the public narrative. The enemy, whether
Saddam Hussein or Vladimir Putin, is always the epitome of evil, the new
Hitler. Those we support are always heroic defenders of liberty and
democracy. Anyone who questions the righteousness of the cause is accused of
being an agent of a foreign power and a traitor. The mass media cravenly disseminates
these binary absurdities in 24-hour news cycles. Its news celebrities and
experts, universally drawn from the intelligence community and military,
rarely deviate from the approved script. Day and night, the drums of war
never stop beating. Its goal: to keep billions of dollars flowing into the
hands of the war industry and prevent the public from asking inconvenient
questions. Medea Benjamin, who along with Nicolas J.S. Davies, authored War
in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, place the war in
Ukraine in its proper historical and cultural context, warning that a
protracted war in Ukraine threatens open warfare between the United States
and Russia and nuclear Armageddon.
Joining me to discuss her book is Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and
author of Drone Warfare, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi
Connection, and Inside Iran. Share |
Three Articles in
Retrospect
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Two from the Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Josh Meyer, USA
TODAY (Oct. 12, 2022,
updated Oct. 13). “Cuban Missile Crisis, a misplaced tape: Times the world came close to
nuclear disaster.” Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists (Oct. 20, 2022). |
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NUCLEAR RISK Hans M.
Kristensen, Robert S.
Norris (October 12, 2022).
“60 years later: How many nuclear weapons did the US and USSR have in
the Cuban Missile Crisis?” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Oct. 20, 2022). To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the
start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Bulletin is
re-printing this Nuclear Notebook entry to provide essential details about
the numbers and types of US and Soviet nuclear weapons that were operational
during the crisis. Read more. (Editor’s
note: To mark the upcoming sixtieth anniversary of the start of the Cuban
Missile Crisis, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is
re-printing this Nuclear Notebook, which was originally published on November
1, 2012.) |
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