this video shows Nelson Mandela speaking at the Women's Forum on US Nuclear Weapons policy and history. (2 minutes).
Countering War Propaganda
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Nuclear War
Joseph Gerson, article on the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, interview in Morning Star, in London, 11.13.23
Joseph Gerson interviewed on his seminal book, Empire and the Bomb: how the U.S. uses nuclear weapons to dominate the world.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/reinforcing-imperium-joseph-gerson-us-nuclear-arsenal
The Dehumanization of War, by Robert Koehler, 11.12.23
UKRAINE WAR AND THE RISK OF NUCLEAR WAR:
“This is a War of Propaganda:” John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange | Talking Post with Yonden Lhatoo, 20 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9pEotvlW-s
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
(article in journalist Hersch's Substack Newsletter.)
Propaganda in the Ukrainian Proxy-War, w/ Noam Chomsky, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen, from the Duran (52 minutes).
https://rumble.com/v28w1tw-propaganda-in-the-ukrainian-proxy-war-w-noam-chomsky-
Ukraine: Scott Ritter, Daniel Ellsberg, Mathew Hoh: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eqrCrX7nC58&feature=share
Doctor John Campbell, UK health expert
(294) European nuclear risk - YouTube
“War Made Easy” Film Panel Discussion featuring Norman Solomon, Dennis Kucinich, Kathy Kelly & More, by RootsAction.org on 3/21/23,
an online in depth discussion of the war on Iraq, the media, and wars today.
The film “War Made Easy: How Presidents and the Pundits keep spinning us to death”” is still available for viewing on Youtube. (1 hour, 9 minutes.)
(18) War Made Easy - YouTube
(full film)
Propaganda in the Ukrainian Proxy-War, w/ Noam Chomsky, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen, from the Duran
https://rumble.com/v28w1tw-propaganda-in-the-ukrainian-proxy-war-w-noam-chomsky-
In Ukraine, US. fears “unacceptable” ceasefire, March 20,2023, by Aaron Mate
https://mate.substack.com/p/in-ukraine-us-fears-unacceptable
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/wolfgang-sporrer-interview-ukraine-war-diplomacy-minsk-agreements
Ukrainian Pacifist Movement:
https://mobile.twitter.com/sheliazhenko in article by Codepink's Marcy Winograd, Antiwar.com, January 17, 2023, in this excerpt asked Yurii to describe the pacifist, antiwar movement in Ukraine
Ukrainian Pacifist Movement: An Interview With Its Leader Yurii Sheliazhenko - World BEYOND War
Jeremy Corbyn, Ilhan Omar join hundreds calling for an end of war in Yemen | Middle East Eye
75+ US organizations endorse protests against war on Yemen this month | Al Mayadeen English
Consequences of school shootings and this uniquely American problem that also illustrates the costs of war: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-damage-to-human-body/
Women in South Africa's Struggle Against Apartheid: Resource Page - Just World Educational
ECONOMICS/EMPIRE:
Richard Wolff: Why the Economic Crisis Deepens: on the decline of the U.S. empire and the denial of U.S.. Feb. 2.23 57 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogH0wRD0Vkw&t=1636s
AWS Campaign intro.pdf - Google Drive
"americas without sanctions"
Economic warfare, economic sanctions
Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua
NATO
here is a recent article by Jeffrey Sachs that gives good info: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/path-to-peace-in-ukraine
I find this article to be a great pushback against the “Putin apologist” trope:
https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/05/patrick-lawrence-depleted-ukrainium/
And a great speech by Gerry Condon of V4P at a California peace march the same day as our VT protest: https://popularresistance.org/why-veterans-are-calling-for-peace-in-ukraine/
the march against NATO in DC in July: http://nonatoyespeace.org/
BOOKS:
George Orwell
"1984"
Neville Schute
"On the Beach"
Retired Army Major Danny Sjursen’s book, Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War:
https://www.internationalpolicy.org/people/Danny-Sjursen
Chris Hedges’ book, "War is a Force that Gives us Meaning"
https://www.supersummary.com/war-is-a-force-that-gives-us-meaning/summary/
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