OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS,
#108, JANUARY 11, 2023
Nuclear War
Doomsday Clock from Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists
Art Hobson. Praise for How
the West Brought War to Ukraine.
Subtitle of Book: Understanding
How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe.
Benjamin Abelow. Publishing success of his book.
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Ukraine War Threatens Nuclear War
Benjamin Abelow. How the West Brought War to
Ukraine.
Please read this short
book about the Ukraine War, praised by Art Hobson,12-22-22
[WWW reviewed this
book in #104, Dec. 14. I got my copy from Barnes and Noble 1-2-23. Dick]
Dear Friends,
I’m sending this
out to a large group. The following book
https://www.amazon.com/How-West-Brought-Ukraine-Understanding/dp/0991076702
is well worth
the short time required to read it. In 8 brief chapters, the author
brings home the major arguments against US foreign policy on Ukraine, and how
NATO expansion inevitably led to the present situation. The author agrees
with most opinion that the invasion was a strategic and moral mistake, and
explains how NATO pushed Putin into it. The solution is a negotiated
settlement as soon as possible. Americans, in their current frenzy of
superpatriotism and self-congratulation, need to read this or any number of
well-informed books about this war. The advantage of this one is that
it’s brief and to the point. It’s recommended by Chomsky, Mearsheimer, and many other advocates of
an intelligent US foreign policy.
Peace – Art
Note on Abelow and
Nuclear Risk:
His sub-title: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe.
Note from Abelow to
Dick on popularity of his breakthrough book:
After coming out with the English edition, I hired a translator and then came
out with a German edition. A Swiss news magazine (Die Weltwoche ["The
World Week"]) approached me out of the blue and arranged to produce a
special magazine-formatted edition of the German translation. That edition was
shrink-wrapped with the magazine's weekly issue and distributed to the
magazine's 40,000 regular subscribers and newsstand buyers. Then, another
unexpected event: a Swiss businessman with no connection to either Russia or
Ukraine who read that special edition arranged to have another 300,000 copies
printed and sent by mail to households in the cantons of Zurich and Bern. Those
are the two most important cantons financially and politically. Those 300,000
copies were mailed at the end of November.
Since then, I've
signed translation contracts with publishers in Poland and Slovenia (the latter
is being published by the publishing arm of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences
and Arts) and I have a (knock wood) soon-to-be-consummated offer from an
Italian publisher. A literary agency in
France is looking for a French publisher, and an international book broker here
in the States has queried sub-agents and publishers in 40 other countries; I'm
waiting to hear what comes of that.
If people want to
learn more, or to find out where they can order the book, I encourage them to
visit my website (www.benjaminabelow.com). If they want to see the special Swiss
magazine edition, they can view and download it here (https://weltwoche.ch/wp-content/uploads/wewo2022_43_UKRA-1.pdf). It's worth a look even if you don't read
German because it is illustrated with beautiful and evocative landscape
paintings by the artist Archip Kuindschi (1841–1910), for whom a museum is
named in Mariupol, Ukraine.
Finally, if anyone has
ideas for mass distributions in the U.S., I encourage them to contact me and we
can discuss it. With thanks -- Ben Abelow (b.abelow.2022@gmail.com). [And
we can purchase several copies to give to schools or friends. –Dick]
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