Handout # 83: Peace & Planet News, Summer 2022 THIS IS NOT A DRILL
A Project of New York City Veterans For Peace
Copies available from Western North Carolina VFP chapter 099
This is a tabloid format newspaper containing 24 pages. Here are some of the contents:
No Way Out But War? By Chris Hedges
“Since all we do is war, all proposed solutions are military…War…will cripple Russia, will curb the growing economic and military clout of China. These are demented and dangerous fantasies”
Why I Must Speak Out By Roger Waters
“I believe that the root of all injustice and oppression has always been the same – the dehumanization of the other. mIt is the obsession with Us and Them that can lead us, regardless of racial or religious identity, into the abyss”.
Editorial There Is No Planet B By Mike Ferner
“Think about what it will take to save our Mother Earth and just do it. Do it with abandon. … Do it simply out of love and because it’s the right thing to do. …Do it because this is not a drill”.
The Greatest Threat to Western Press Freedom in Years By Glenn Greenwald
“One of the most insidious despotic innovations of the Obama Administration was to repurpose and revitalize the Wilson-era Espionage Act as an all-purpose weapon to punish whistleblowers”.
Working to Change the Culture of Militarism By Nate Goldschlag
“And those flags – people say they honor the people represented by those flags, their sacrifice. But in the wars of the last 70 years, who did they sacrifice their lives for”?
How Veterans Return From America’s Wars By Ann Jones
“ ‘You can’t assess his injuries in comparison to those of other soldiers who happen to be on the same plane. You have to assess them in comparison to who he was before.’ He is a boy who used to have legs and now he doesn’t”.
Post-Cold War NATO: From Europe’s Guard Dog into America’s Attack Dog By Scott Ritter
“From an ostensible defensive alliance, NATO has grown into an aggressor designed to promote ‘rules’ dictated by the United States”
We Cannot Allow the Ukraine Crisis to Lead to Nuclear War! By Gerry Condon
“What is absolutely needed is a ceasefire and negotiations to end the war as soon as possible”.
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