OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #232, JUNE 4 , 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett
US Right Wing Militarism Post WWII
Scientists Call for Ban on Nuclear Weapons Testing.
Jacqueline E. Sharkey.
Under Fire: U.S. Military Restrictions on the Media from Grenada to
the Persian Gulf.
Peace&Planet News. Veterans for Peace. [VfP recognizes three existential
threats: wars, warming, fascism.
Laleh Khalili.
Silicon
Valley knows that war is good for business.
Jimmy Tobias. “The Nuclear Age, Reborn.”
June 3, 1957. Linus Pauling and 2,000 other scientists join
call for ban on nuclear weapons testing.
Eisenhower rejects plea. Source: Peace
Calendar 2025, Syracuse Cultural Workers.
Jacqueline E. Sharkey.
Under Fire: U.S.Military Restrictions on the Media from Grenada to
the Persian Gulf (1955-1989).
Center for Public Integrity, 1991.
This revelatory
book has a wider range than the title suggests, for it covers not only the
invasion of Grenada (1983) and the war in the Gulf (1990-91), but also the
Vietnam War (1955-75), the Falklands/Malvinas War, and the invasion of Panama
(1988-89), four intro. chapters on the military and the media, and an excellent
final “Conclusions and Recommendations.”
The important book contrasts the Pentagon’s Principles of Information
that commit the military to policies free of political influence, to White
House and Pentagon repeated violations in both “letter and spirit” to maintain
public support for unjustifiable wars.
This repeated process is ruinous to democratic government because it
undercuts the democratic ideal that “in the United States the military is
the army of the people, not the President.” (Book available at Mullins Library, UAF.) See OMNI’s six online anthologies on the
increasing power of the executive branch, which Pres. Trump seeks to consummate
as the “Unitary Executive”: PRESIDENTIAL
POWER ANTHOLOGY #6, February 17, 2020, https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/02/us-presidential-power.html --Dick
Peace&Planet News. Veterans for Peace (Spring 2025). [Sometimes I’ll report this magazine in CMM, for VfP
recognizes three existential threats: wars, warming, fascism.
This no. of P&PN reports on wars mainly.]
Authoritarianism
Chris Hedges. “Surrendering to
Authoritarianism.”
Vinnie Rotondaro.
“Rule by Fiat a Bipartisan Legacy.”
Wars
Doug Rawlings.
“Forty Years Ago.” (Features a
frequent visitor to OMNI—Duncan Murphy.)
Jack Gilroy. “The
Perfidy of the Merchants of Death.”
Col. (Ret) Anne Wright (from Bentonville).
“They’re All Going to Hell.”
(Israeli and US officials for Gaza genocide and WB occupation ).
W.D. Ehrhart. “If a
Tree Falls in the Forest.” (Essay by a US poet about an Israeli poet.)
Col. (Ret) Ann Wright.
“Sen. Tom Cotton Tells McCarthyite Lies about Women’s Peace Group.” etc.
“Collective Property, Private Control” [for War}. Portside
Snapshot (June 2, 2025). By Laleh
Khalili. June 2, 2025. London
Review of Books. The U.S. was born in war and has waged
a war of some sort in every year of its existence. Silicon Valley knows
that war is good for business. Many of its most powerful
people want us to stop worrying about ethics or ecology and love the bomb.
NUCLEAR WAR WARNING
Jimmy Tobias. “The Nuclear
Age, Reborn.” The Nation (June
2025). “The Post-Cold War status quo has broken
down. In its place is a frightening
multipolar arms race.” “While most of the world looked away, a
new nuclear arms race has broken out between the US, Russia, and China,
raising the risk of nuclear confrontation to the highest in decades.” [A
significant appeal to us to pay attention against the arms race. You know what to say and do to try to wake up
Boozman and Cotton –D]
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