OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAY, #113, FEBRUARY
15, 2023
End the War
Ron Jacobs. “We Need an International Antiwar Movement.”
Kathy Kelly and Nick Mottern. War Crimes.
Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.
Ben Norton. Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism. “World at dangerous crossroads, only two paths forward: anti-imperialist
socialism or fascist barbarism.” Multipolarista.
END THE WAR
RON
JACOBS.
“We Need an
International Antiwar Movement, Not a Cheerleading Squad for the Arms Industry.”
Counterpunch. May 3, 2022.
Painting: Paths Of Glory by Christopher R. W.
Nevinson (1917)
A ceasefire between
the warring parties, a Russian withdrawal, a halt to arms shipments, a
negotiated peace and an end to NATO. This is what the international left should
be organizing around in regards to the Russia-Ukraine war. It shouldn’t be
calling for stepped up arms shipments to Ukraine’s military or defending
Moscow’s invasion. When all is said and done and this war is stopped, the most
likely situation for the vast majority of Ukrainian working people will be one
where their greatest enemy could well be the Ukrainian government. Likewise, if
the war goes on long enough, the greatest enemy of the vast majority of Russian
working people could well be their government. The oligarchs in both nations
will still be oligarchs, while the Russian and Ukrainian people will bear the
costs—human, financial, and otherwise—for the war.
If the reader thinks
the current conflict will somehow end with a different outcome, they need to
revisit the history of war, especially war of the modern kind. You
know, where civilian populations are bombed, conscripts are forced to kill and
die in the thousands; where international bankers make loans to all sides until
the battle begins. All the while generals and politicians talk nonsense about
the principles being defended as if most of them had any principles that
couldn’t be purchased. MORE https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/03/we-need-an-international-antiwar-movement-not-a-cheerleading-squad-for-the-arms-industry/
Ron Jacobs is the author of Daydream Sunset:
Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by
CounterPunch Books. His latest offering is a pamphlet titled “Capitalism: Is
the Problem.” He lives in Vermont. He can be reached at: ronj1955@gmail.com.
War Crimes
MILITARY-CORPORATE-CONGRESSIONAL-PRESIDENTIAL
WAR CRIMES. Merchants of Death War Crimes
Tribunal, VFP Weekly E-News (10-24-22). Kathy Kelly and Nick Mottern are involved in the creation of the Merchants of Death War Crimes
Tribunal, (Online, Nov. 10-13, 2023). VFP advisory board members
Marjorie Cohn and Ann Wright, and noted human rights lawyer Bill Quigley, are
assisting Tribunal organizers, who intend to document ways in which Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Raytheon and drone
producer General Atomics have aided and abetted U.S. war crimes since 9/11.
Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism
Ben Norton. “World at dangerous crossroads, only two paths forward: anti-imperialist
socialism or fascist barbarism.”
Multipolarista. November 10, 2022 (more by Multipolarista). (Posted Nov 12, 2022).
The
US-led imperialist world system is in deep crisis, so it wages a new cold war
to prevent multipolarity, while lurching toward fascism. The left must offer a
true alternative path that opposes both the far right and the liberal pro-NATO
chauvinists. [See Hett’s The Death
of Democracy on how the many parties and factions left to right struggled
for power in the Weimar Republic while Hitler destroyed or absorbed one at a
time and gained the Chancellorship. –D]
Capitalism, Imperialism, WarAmericas, Europe,
Russia,
Ukraine,
United StatesNewswire This is the
speech that Multipolarista editor Ben Norton delivered at the International
Manifesto Group event commemorating
the one-year anniversary of the publication of its manifesto “Through Pluripolarity to Socialism.” https://mronline.org/2022/11/12/world-at-dangerous-crossroads-only-two-paths-forward/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=world-at-dangerous-crossroads-only-two-paths-forward&mc_cid=58d9bf966b&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e
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