OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #124, MAY 3, 2023
NUCLEAR PEACEMAKING
Joseph Gerson.
Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security (CPDCS).
Brett Wilkins. “UN. . . Path to Reverse 'Dangerous' Nuclear Trends.”
Scott Ritter Tells about Daniel Ellsberg, is publishing a book on Disarmament
in Russia, and plans a documentary.
Joseph Gerson. Campaign for Peace
Disarmament and Common Security.
jGerson80@gmail.com, www.cpdcs.org. Phone: 617-216-0576. Some organizations ask for donations even for
$1000 or over without offering details of their activities, especially of their
successes.. But the Campaign for Peace
Disarmament and Common Security led by Joseph Gerson provides two pages,
single-spaced, to list CPDCS’ actions to end and prevent war.
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Brett Wilkins. “UN Disarmament Official Lays Out Path to Reverse 'Dangerous' Nuclear Trends.” Common
Dreams (3-9-23). |
Disarmament in the Time of
Perestroika
SCOTT
RITTER, PEACEMAKER v. US SOVIETPHOBIA 2023
“What Would Daniel Ellsberg Do?” April 28, 2023
To read the entire letter and see the
illustration go to https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/what-would-daniel-ellsberg-do?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=6892&post_id=117978940&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email |
. . .I often think about Daniel Ellsberg as he
strode up the steps to the US District Court in San Francisco, on trial for
espionage charges that could have put him away for life. Aren’t you afraid to
go to prison, a reporter asked him. His response sticks with me to this day:
“Wouldn’t you go to prison to end this war?” he said, without hesitation.
The courage and conviction of that response still brings tears to my eyes.
“What would Daniel Ellsberg do” has become a mantra in my life, as I confront
the various challenges life puts in front of me. . . .
And it guides me today as I prepare to
embark on a new mission, one built around the desire to make arms control and
nuclear disarmament between the US and Russia a priority for the US government,
again in hopes of forestalling the possibility of a nuclear war. This mission
is derived from my book about the implementation of the Intermediate-range
Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, and my role as a weapons inspector tasked with
carrying out compliance verification inspections in support of this task. This
book, Disarmament in the Time of
Perestroika, was recently published in Russia, and I have
been invited to Russia to help promote the Russian language edition.
But this journey is far more than a simple
book tour. It is an act of citizen diplomacy which, once again, will put me in
opposition to the policies of my government and the Russophobia of many of my
fellow Americans.
“My book,” I explain in a statement I made to
the Russian media on the eve of my departure for Russia, “is about a time when
our two nations took seriously the important task of nuclear disarmament. Today
this mission has been halted in large part by the irrational fear of Russia on
the part of the American people. My goal in bringing this book to Russia is to
rekindle the spirit of friendship and cooperation that existed three decades
ago and, in doing so, help break down the wall of misunderstanding and
ignorance my fellow citizens have constructed that keeps our two nations apart.”
This book tour starts in Novosibirsk and will
span several thousand kilometers and eleven Russian cities. This is a journey
in the tradition of Van Cliburn, seeking to restore friendship between the US
and Russia one handshake at a time.
Our goal is to capture this experience so that
it can be brought back to my country as a documentary film which will be shown
to the American people so that they, too, will have a chance to share the
message that I am certain this tour will produce—of a shared humanity among our
two nations that transcends prejudice and fear, and which can return us to the
path of peaceful coexistence we once walked together, side by side, as friends.
. . .
END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #124, MAY 3, 2023
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