OMNI War Watch Wednesdays, #151, November 8, 2023

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #151, NOVEMBER 8, 2023 

Preventing and Stopping War

Don Timmerman.  The Gospel v. War
Ron Ridenour.  Ted Hall v. Nuclear War
Dmitri Kovalevich.   Hope for Peace Post-Ukraine War

 

Choosing Peacemakers as Our Leaders
"Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker said that there is no need of any special theology of peace. You just need to look at what the gospel asks and what war does. The gospel asks that we feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, welcome the homeless, visit the prisoner, and perform the works of mercy. War does the opposite. It makes my neighbor hungry, thirsty, homeless, a prisoner and sick.  Christ is the peacemaker, the reconciler. His method is the cross—accepting suffering with love, not inflicting it onto others. The invitation of the gospel to love is entirely contradictory with the use of military force. Christ's way of life was not the way of the military. It was a way of peacemaking. A way of making peace through the cross, through redemptive love."   A state is established with violence and continues through violence.  Self defense does not depend on violence. In fact, violence never leads to self- defense. Only love does that. No more war!  No more violence!   ‘A hero is one who makes one’s enemy a friend.’  The Talmud    Christianity is a life style initiated by Christ. “ ----Don Timmerman (with his wife Roberta leaders of the CASA MARIA CATHOLIC WORKER).  In the same no. of the CMCW is this q. from Eleanor Roosevelt:  “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”  

 

Hope for a Post-War Peaceful Future: Preventing WWIII.

Ron Ridenour.  “Ted Hall Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize For Helping to Prevent a Nuclear Holocaust in the 1950s.”  CovertAction Magazine (10-30-23).

Ted Hall Helped the Soviet Union to Counterbalance the U.S. Monopoly on Atomic Weaponry After World War II, Which Acted as a Deterrent Against Aggressive U.S. War Plans.   Dave Lindorff initiated the documentary film A Compassionate Spy, following a correspondence with Ted Hall’s 87-year-old widow, Joan Hall. Lindorff had written an article in 2017 proposing Ted Hall and Klaus Fuchs be granted the Nobel Peace Prize for sharing vital information about the atomic bomb development under way in Los Alamos, New Mexico—the Manhattan Project—in the mid-1940s.

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Hope for a Post-war Peaceful Future: Imagining Ukraine/Russia Peace.
Dmitri Kovalevich.   “Class and Nation in the Conflict in Ukraine.” 
Originally published: Al Mayadeen  on June 2, 2023  (more by Al Mayadeen).   (Posted Jun 03, 2023).   Google: Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.   Kovalevich is a Ukrainian journalist and activist of the banned communist organization 'Borotba'.

Class, Imperialism, WarAmericas, Europe, Russia, Ukraine, United StatesNewswire
[Here are the opening and closing sentences of the article.]

“Every military conflict these days has a class component; the soldiers directly involved in hostilities are usually drawn or conscripted from poorer social classes. The current conflict in Ukraine is no exception to this. . . . 

I am sure that after the cessation of hostilities, the ordinary masses of Ukrainian soldiers (not the ultranationalists) will quickly and easily find common ground again with their Russian compatriots in struggling for a better country and better world. This will not even require a long period to heal moral wounds. “

[To read the entire article:   https://mronline.org/2023/06/03/class-and-nation-in-the-conflict-in-ukraine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=class-and-nation-in-the-conflict-in-ukraine&mc_cid=5cf7e358cd&mc_eid=ab2f7bf95e

 

END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #151, NOVEMBER 8, 2023