Why Are We Tempting Nuclear Annihilation?

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DEMOCRATIC WORLD FEDERALISTS

PEACEFUL | JUST | SUSTAINABLE | WORLD

July 6, 2023

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July 6, 2023

'Why Are We Tempting Nuclear Annihilation?' Max Blumenthal to UN Security Council

Max Blumenthal

EU Parliament Pushes for Probe with ICC into Israeli War Crimes

News Desk, the Cradle

Mainstream Media Colludes with US Government to Conceal Source of Syria's Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis

Jeremy Kuzmarov

9/11: Whodunnit? and Why It Matters to the Peace Movement

Marilyn Langlois

Horrendous U.S. international crimes go unprosecuted

Comparing Two U.S.-Government Catastrophes: Bush's 2003 Iraq Invasion, & Obama's 2014 Coup in Ukraine

Eric Zuesse

'Why Are We Tempting Nuclear Annihilation?' Max Blumenthal Addresses UN Security Council

Max Blumenthal

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Why are we doing this? Why are we tempting nuclear annihilation by flooding Ukraine with advanced weapons and sabotaging negotiations at every turn?

We have been told by people like Sen. Dick Durbin that Ukraine is “literally in a battle for freedom and democracy themselves,” and we must therefore supply it with weapons “for as long as it takes,” as President Biden said. Anyone who opposes military aid to Ukraine opposes the defense of democracy, according to this logic.

So where is the democracy in Volodymyr Zelensky’s decision to ban opposition parties, criminalize the media outlets of his legitimate political opponents, jail his top political rival, round up his top deputies, raid Orthodox Churches and arrest clergymen?

And where is the democracy in Zelensky’s recent decision to suspend elections in 2024 on the grounds that martial law has been declared? Well, it seems that Ukraine’s democracy is harder to find these days than its military’s suddenly inconspicuous commander-in-chief, Valeriy Zaluzhny.

EU Parliament Pushes for Probe with ICC into Israeli War Crimes

News Desk, the Cradle

Several members of the EU’s Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee have proposed a resolution calling for the EU to assist the International Criminal Court (ICC) in investigating and prosecuting the Israeli government for its war crimes against Palestinians in the occupied territories. The resolution was pushed forward by Swedish Social Democrat Evin Incir, who is also the EU’s rapporteur for recommendations of relations with the Palestinian Authority (PA). The resolution was proposed on 27 June, with 41 votes in favor, 21 against, and nine abstentions, with a plenary vote scheduled for July.

Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government to Conceal Source of Syria's Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis

Jeremy Kuzmarov

Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and incredibly brazen theft by U.S. forces of 66,000 barrels of Syrian oil per day (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age.

9/11: Whodunnit? and Why It Matters to the Peace Movement

Marilyn Langlois

TRANSCEND Media Service

Editor's note: After 9/11, I was stunned by "Inside Job" (2004) by Jim Marrs whom I interviewed. Marrs was not crazy. (I'm a psychologist with years of professional experience.) I also met the late world federalist David Ray Griffin, a brilliant professor, who tore apart the 9/11 Commission Report. Griffin, and other 9/11 truth researchers I met were not only not crazy, they were of superior intelligence and mentally quite healthy.

The following article by Marilyn Langlois posits that those who are really responsible for 9/11 (they haven't been caught yet) are also most likely responsible for US war after war after war. She shows convincingly that real conspiracies do occur.

The evidence in my opinion is overwhelming: 9/11 really was an inside job, and the American people have been fooled. [I teach activists that... "If you are not a conspiracy theorist, you don't understand the situation!"] -- Roger Kotila, Ph.D., DWF NEWS

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“I have chosen this time and this place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and the truth is too rarely perceived–yet it is the most important topic on earth: world peace…”

— President John F. Kennedy

Sixty years later it behooves us more than ever to penetrate the tenacious ignorance of which Kennedy spoke. To honor my friend and colleague, TRANSCEND member Prof. Graeme MacQueen, who passed away in April, this editorial addresses topics he was passionate about, namely peace, justice, and truth, in particular 9/11 truth.

If we’re not willing to open our minds to the abundant evidence refuting the (government's) narrative, fed to us mere minutes after the heinous crimes of 9/11 unfolded before our eyes, that a band of foreign militants from the Middle East was solely responsible for those crimes, then we risk continuing to fall prey to propaganda leading to unending wars and suffering.

Horrendous U.S. international crimes go unprosecuted

Comparing Two U.S.-Government Catastrophes: Bush's 2003 Invasion Of Iraq, & Obama's 2014 Coup in Ukraine

Eric Zuesse

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The U.S. Government lied its way into invading and destroying Iraq in 2003, and the U.S. Government lied throughout and since its 2014 coup in and destruction of Ukraine in 2014. Both operations are and were based upon lies that the U.S. Government, and its vassal-nations, (‘allies’) reiterate — or at least tolerate — even to this day. Because the U.S. Government is the world’s most powerful, George W. Bush has not been executed for what he did to Iraq, and Barack Obama has not been executed for what he did to Ukraine.

Neither of those two has even faced an international criminal tribunal for the horrors that he initiated against — and which conquered (one by outright invasion, and the other by subterfuge and coup) — a distant country which had posed no threat to the aggressor-nation, the United States. How can the world even pretend to care about international justice, in such a circumstance?

When the U.S. Government takes over in a country, the people who suffer the most are the public. And there’s no one to defend their interests. No one even to present their case.

A big error in the design of the U.N. is that the General Assembly wasn’t given the full authority over all international courts to judge all international cases, to the exclusion of any other legal body, and also to the exclusion of the Security Council. Until that reform is instituted, we still are in a primitive world, nothing that should be called “civilized.” It’s still only a might-makes-right world, not a civilized one.