WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #122, APRIL 19, 2023

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #122, APRIL 19, 2023

Prabir Purkayastha.   “Last Nuclear Agreement suspended.”
Daniel Högsta.  “Two ICAN events.”
Daniel Ellsberg. “Threats of initiating nuclear war—by Russia or the US-- are and always have been immoral and insane.”  Oppose the threateners. 

 

FOR ARMS CONTROL

Prabir Purkayastha.   “Biggest threat from Ukraine war: Last Nuclear Agreement suspended.”  (Posted Mar 07, 2023).  Originally published: NewsClick.in  on March 5, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in) 

“This is perhaps the most dangerous moment in our history after the Cuban Missile Crisis. The fact that it is not being perceived as such is the real tragedy.”

“War rarely stays within the boundaries set or desired for it. That makes returning to arms control crucial for the survival of humanity. “   

[This is a tutorial, comprehensive over-view that prepares us to speak for arms control agreements  against these horrific preparations for war.  –Dick]

https://mronline.org/2023/03/07/biggest-threat-from-ukraine-war/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=biggest-threat-from-ukraine-war&mc_cid=84358fd184&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e

 

FOR ABOLISHING NUCLEAR WEAPONS: ICAN

Daniel Högsta.  “Two ICAN events you don’t want to miss.”

ICAN <admin@icanw.org>  These actions in Norway although past offer inspiration around the world.	Mar 3, 2023, 3:08 PM (2 days ago)
With nuclear-risk at an all time high, we are strengthening ties between communities into an unstoppable movement against nuclear weapons. That’s why at ICAN, we love to create different spaces for people from around the world to come together. We have two exciting events coming up soon, and want you to join us. The ICAN Act on It Forum will take place in Oslo next week, on March 9 and 10. There are just a few tickets left for this exciting event we’re co-hosting with ICAN Norway. The Forum features workshops, speakers, panels and discussions about how we can abolish nuclear weapons, and of course, plenty of opportunities to plot how we’ll get nuclear-armed and nuclear-complicit states to end nuclear weapons. We’ll also be getting together at the iconic Oslo City Hall- where the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony happens each year. You can find the programme here!  This email is also the last call for the Hiroshima G7 Youth Summit; the deadline for applications closes Monday, March 6th! This Summit is a once in a lifetime opportunity to visit Hiroshima, meet with survivors, learn about the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and work together to influence the position of governments and connect with others in advance of the G7 summit. Daniel Högsta Interim Executive Director ICAN Support ICAN’s work.  Check it out: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: ICAN

 

Daniel Ellsberg, our great peacemaker, has terminal cancer,  Here is a passage from his sobering yet  inspiring announcement.   To read his whole letter go to: 

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/daniel-ellsberg-pentagon-papers

  “. . . I was able to devote those years to doing everything I could think of to alert the world to the perils of nuclear war and wrongful interventions: lobbying, lecturing, writing and joining with others in acts of protest and non-violent resistance.

I wish I could report greater success for our efforts. As I write, "modernization" of nuclear weapons is ongoing in all nine states that possess them (the US most of all). Russia is making monstrous threats to initiate nuclear war to maintain its control over Crimea and the Donbas--like the dozens of equally illegitimate first-use threats that the US government has made in the past to maintain its military presence in South Korea, Taiwan, South Vietnam, and (with the complicity of every member state then in NATO ) West Berlin. The current risk of nuclear war, over Ukraine, is as great as the world has ever seen.

China and India are alone in declaring no-first-use policies. Leadership in the US, Russia, other nuclear weapons states, NATO and other US allies have yet to recognize that such threats of initiating nuclear war--let alone the plans, deployments and exercises meant to make them credible and more ready to be carried out--are and always have been immoral and insane: under any circumstances, for any reasons, by anyone or anywhere.

It is long past time--but not too late!--for the world's publics at last to challenge and resist the willed moral blindness of their past and current leaders. I will continue, as long as I'm able, to help these efforts. There's tons more to say about Ukraine and nuclear policy, of course, and you'll be hearing from me as long as I'm here.