OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #127, MAY 24, 2023

 

 OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #127, MAY 24,  2023.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/05/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-127-may-24.html   Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.

Our next monthly Nuclear War Protest is this Saturday, May 27^th at 11 A.M. at Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville.

Abel Tomlinson.  5 Major Escalations Toward Nuclear War
In These Times.  Phyllis Bennis and Vijay Prashad Stand with MLKJR. against US Aggression.

5 Major Escalations Toward Nuclear War

Dear Friends,
At the upcoming protest, I’m thinking it would be a good idea to also highlight recent escalations of war with Russia and China that bring us closer and closer to the brink of nuclear war.  Please let me know if any other recent escalations come to mind.
             1.       For instance, the West, specifically  the UK with US support, has begun shipping Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine that enable attacks much deeper, range of 150  miles, into Russian territory.   
            2.       The United States has also recently just given a green light to its NATO allies, specifically the UK and     Netherlands, to begin providing nuclear-capable F16 fighter jets to Ukraine.  
           3.       We also recently witnessed drone attacks on the Kremlin, which Russia claims was an assassination attempt on Putin.  Although Kiev and the U.S. deny responsibility, its most likely some division of the Ukrainian government organized it.  Interestingly, Zelensky went on a sustained world tour after the attack, in what appears an avoidance of returning to Kiev and possible retaliatory assassination attempts by Russia.
          4.       The West, specifically the U.K. with the support of the U.S., has begun shipping poisonous depleted uranium weapons to Ukraine.  The details of this escalation are outlined here very well by Elizabeth Vos of Consortium News, who came to our last protest.  Additionally, there is considerable speculation that the recent Russian bombing of a major weapons depot in Khmelnytsk in West Ukraine, which caused a massive mushroom cloud explosion, could have included the NATO –supplied depleted uranium weapons.  If true, this would mean NATO, which “cares deeply about Ukrainians”, helped the West Ukrainian Government in Kiev poison its own people and lands, instead of poisoning East Ukrainians and their lands as intended.  
       5.       In terms of escalation of war with China, a leading Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton threatened that the U.S. may bomb Taiwan’s TSMC factory in order to hurt China. TSMC is the world’s largest semiconductor factory, and if attacked it would not just harm Taiwan and China, but also the entire global economy, and all the technological manufacturing dependent on semiconductors.  This kind of attack on a supposed ally nation to harm a chosen enemy nation is directly analogous to the Biden Administration bombing the Nordstream pipeline, which harmed its allies in Germany and all of the E.U. in order to harm its chosen enemy Russia.  A great analysis by journalist Danny Haiphong of this backfiring threat is here.
Abel Tomlinson

Attachments

 UK escalation, Storm Shadow long-range missiles to Ukraine
Massive explosion blows up missile-storing facility in Ukraine 
US Threatening Taiwan’s TSMC in War with China

OMNI’s WWW is an arm of the world peace movement, little reported by corporate media past and present.  (The US had 1200 peace organizations in 2001, the last time I counted them.) 
The following two essays appeared together in In These Times (Oct. 2017) under the umbrella title of “The U.S. Is Bombing at Least Six Countries.  How Can the Anti-War Movement Step Up?”

Phyllis Bennis.  “No Movement Is an Island.”
Bennis (long-time peacemaker, author of books including Understanding ISIS and New Global War on Terror: a Primer) urges us to stand with MLK Jr.’s call for a unified movement against “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism [capitalism], and militarism.”  She adds, “as Dr. King surely would have, protection of the planet.”  With this ecological addition, King provides us with a comprehensive program of resistance to the US warfare state.

Vijay Prashad.  “No Parley with Liberal Interventionists” [reinforcing MLKJr].
Prashad (editor of LeftWord Books) wants the anti-war movement to assert “a strong position against the [bipartisan] warfare state” and “a clear anti-imperialist platform” that censures “the violence wrought by the U.S. government” with five policies for peace, including: investigating civilian casualties by US, ending CIA arms sales to right wing forces, and, preeminently, conversion of military industry to peaceful production (Camden!)..