OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #165, FEBRUARY 21, 2024.

 

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #165, FEBRUARY 21, 2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.

Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (New York: The New Press, 2023), 272 pages.
Rev. “Corporate Media, Political Elites, and Perpetual War” by David Michael Smith, Monthly Review (December 5, 2023).

(Dec 01, 2023).  Topics: Capitalism  Imperialism  Media  Political economy  Terrorism  War Places: Americas  United States

Publisher’s description: David Michael Smith reviews journalist Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible, an eloquent moral call to end the bloody state of perpetual war that the United States has engaged in since the advent of the “war on terror.”   Long recognized as one of this country’s most incisive journalists and media critics, Norman Solomon has written a new book that deserves to be widely read. In less than three hundred pages, he marshals a remarkable amount of information to document the contours of the so-called war on terror waged by the United States since 9/11, the terrible human costs incurred abroad and at home, and the ways in which corporate media and political elites strive to make this perpetual war and its catastrophic consequences almost entirely invisible to the public.   | more…  Source 
David Michael Smith is a former professor of government and union president at College of the Mainland in Texas City, Texas. He is the author of Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2023).

VFP Challenges Blinken to suspend arms shipments to Israel
paulcox890@comcast.net paulcox890@comcast.net via uark.onmicrosoft.com  Feb 13, 2024,Veterans For Peace has just sent the attached letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and accompanying press release, outlining the numerous laws and treaties that the US is violating in support of the ongoing Israeli slaughter of Palestinians and demanding that the US suspend arms shipments to Israel.  This is a serious challenge to US’s whining policy of asking Israel to please be more careful while continuing to pour vast quantities of armaments into their attacks on Gaza and, increasingly, the West Bank. , https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/02/13/veterans-demand-termination-of-weapons-to-israel/ 

TAKE ACTION:   If you have any contacts with media—print, broadcast,  or online—forward these documents to them. Also, please send it to your representative or senator, your governor, your city council—wherever leaders need to confront their own lack of action against this most egregious of war crimes.  

Paul Cox  Veterans For Peace

Chapter 69  paulcox@sonic.net

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Jeremy Kuzmarov.  Warmonger: How Clinton’s Malign Foreign Policy Launched the US Trajectory from Bush II to Biden.  Clarity P, Atlanta, Ga., 2023.