Greenwashing The War In Ukraine

Now in its second year, the war in Ukraine has already produced two ecological disasters: the largest methane release in history from the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, and an enormous flood of agricultural lands from the breach in the Nova Kakhova dam on the Dnieper River.

Both have been blamed on Russia, but thinking people aren't buying it. In both cases, Russia could have simply shut off the flow of gas or opened the floodgates without bombing anything. 

Enter luminaries of the climate movement to defend the empire's run up to WW3.

Greta Thunberg: 

This ecocide as a continuation of Russia's unprovoked[emphasis mine] full-scale invasion of Ukraine is yet another atrocity which leaves the world lost for words. 

Bill McKibben:

It’s amazing to watch people across the planet rallying to the defense of brave Ukraine—choirs singing outside Russian embassies, soccer teams refusing to play Russian teams. And it’s wonderful to watch governments rise to the occasion: shutting off airspace to Russian airplanes, or kicking them off international banking protocols.

Annalena Baerbock, German Green and German Foreign Minister:

Howie Hawkins, U.S. Green and 2020 candidate for president:

What's going on?

It's not like these folks don't know the outsize role that militarism plays in driving climate crisis.

The notion that fighting wars for access to fossil fuels requires a lot of fossil fuels has been both well-documented and, in recent years, widely shared. So how is it that Greens and other environmental advocates are suddenly cheerleaders for NATO's war on Russia?

It's not sudden, in fact. The leading national organizations focused on climate crisis in the U.S. have long since been infiltrated and hollowed out by the Democratic Party, and disinclined to criticize woke militarism. One of the DNC's many false dichotomies is Republicans bad for environment, Democrats good. This flies in the face of facts on the ground, both in the Biden administration and the Obama administration.

But the DNC strategy is really very clever: find movements with traction and then slowly control them from within while leaving their facades in place.

This is why environmental groups like the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, 35o.org et al. have consistently failed to oppose soaring Pentagon budgets, hundreds of military bases around the globe, air shows that burn highly polluting jet fuel for entertainment, and increasingly common rocket launches that damage shoreline breeding grounds.

Here in Maine a coalition effort to block construction of a rocket launch site just offshore from Acadia National Park drew zero support from any of the state branches of the organizations named above. The "orange man bad" hysteria promoted the false dichotomy belief that anything Democrats was, by contrast, good. But Dems serve the same corporations that Republicans do, and their immense failures to steward our crumbling ecosystem are right there for those with eyes to see them.

It's not strictly an environmental organization, but the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has also thrown down on the NATO side of the war in Ukraine.

My reply:

I do not "like" your tweet bashing Russia. Your pro-NATO stance is hurting your credibility with me. According your own account of who's spending on nukes, the U.S. is way out in front at $43.7 billion or $83,143 per minute (an interesting metric).

With its NATO allies UK & France, $56.1 billion vs. Russia's $9.6 billion. Which of these countries have used nuclear weapons? Depleted uranium? ICAN's mission of a nuclear ban has not & will not be realized if you continue to support U.S./NATO imperialism.

Hastening the likelihood of nuclear weapons use by provoking war with Russia -- and, incidentally, China -- is a crime against life on our planet. And there's nothing green about it.

Provocations In The East, False Flags In The West

A roundup of war news, spreading rapidly as the U.S. empire thrashes about in its death throes. History suggests that 800+ military bases around the planet might look like they offer a solution to losing the consent of the governed: the president currently has 31% approval (Quinnipiac) and 75% of registered voters in his own party don't want him to run again in 2024 (CNN).

House Speaker Pelosi in Taiwan

Despite being warned that her visit to Taiwan violates previous U.S. agreements to respect China's sovereignty, she persists.

Meanwhile on the streets of Taipei pic.twitter.com/j2eTCqOETK

— Meiguolao Watcher ☭ (@Dragondescendan) August 2, 2022

In a likely too little, too late move, the Biden administration announces a feeble competitor for infrastructure projects where China's Belt and Road Initiative is already well underway in Africa.

Drone bombing Afghanistan 

Despite "withdrawing" from Afghanistan and stealing their funds abroad to prevent the Taliban government from feeding the hungry, plus funding Al Qaeda in Syria for years as "moderate rebels", the U.S. announced it had assassinated a top Al Qaeda leader in Kabul. 

"Justice has been delivered," claimed the U.S. president despite the fact that extrajudicial murder is about as far from justice as you can get. The president claimed that assassinating Ayman al-Zawahiri is a sign of America's resolve. (To do the bidding of Israel's government, I think he forgot to add.)

U.S. troops in Yemen

The long humanitarian disaster of Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen has only been possible with logistical support from its U.S. ally. Now the president of the U.S. has confimed to Congress -- you know, the legislative branch of government that used to have the sole authority to wage war -- that the U.S. has troops in Yemen as well. (Proxy war with Iran in Yemen is an element of the U.S. close alliance with colonial occupier Israel in Palestine, and despite Biden campaigning on a promise to end U.S. support for the Saudi's war there.)

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Spreading the false flag news that Russian, not Ukrainian, forces bombed a Russian POW camp filled with captured fighters of the Azov battalion. Why would Ukraine do that? Because dead men tell no tales of forced conscription and botched operations.

Source: SanctionsKill.org

Sanctions on Venezuela and numerous other non-compliant nations. The U.S. president recently called the regions south of the U.S. border "America's front yard" perhaps indicating we are no longer a bad neighbor but now think we own the continent.

Ben Norton, "The End of U.S. Hegemony and the Rise of BRICS", Mintpress News:

In the past two decades, the U.S. grip on global power has been slipping, and new nations and organizations have begun to emerge that challenge American dominance. One of these is the BRICS, an economic and increasingly political bloc of emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Argentina, Iran and others have expressed an interest in joining this alliance, which has now laid out plans for its own bank and international currency, two moves strike at the heart of American economic hegemony.

“Now that the U.S. has sanctioned one-quarter of the global population, and especially now with the economic war on Russia, BRICS has emerged as this new economic infrastructure bringing countries together that want to get around Western sanctions,”

 

War at home: Russiaphobia used as pretext for violent attacks on Black organization, the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP).

From August 1, 2022 Black Alliance for Peace press release:

On Friday, July 29, 2022, the FBI executed multiple raids against APSP’s Uhuru House in St. Petersburg, Florida and their Uhuru Solidarity Center in St. Louis, Missouri and the private residence of APSP Chairman Omali Yeshitela also in St. Louis. The FBI employed flashbang grenades and handcuffed Yeshitela and his wife while their house was raided.  

The FBI claims that the raids are connected to the federal indictment of a Russian national, Aleksandr Ionov, alleging that he has been working to spread "Russian propaganda" in the United States.

Source: Trzmiel/Shutterstock

 

Nuclear war looming?

From In-Depth News "Caring About Nuclear Sharing: A Setback for Nuclear Arms Control": 

It is estimated that between 100 and 150 American B61 nuclear weapons are stationed in five countries: Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. NATO has now announced its desire to modernise its nuclear deterrence..

NATO officials were enthusiastic about the widely shared willingness to modernise the nuclear sharing concept. Jessica Cox, Chief of NATO’s nuclear policy directorate said: “We’re moving fast and furiously towards F-35 modernization and incorporating those into our planning and exercising…” And she added that “the aircraft’s advanced features also will boost the capabilities of alliance members and F-35 customers like Poland, Denmark or Norway who might be tasked with supporting actual nuclear sharing missions.”

Cox is the bland bureaucratic face of discussions preparing for total annihilation. But don't let her tone fool you. 

Educate yourself, and speak out against the WW3 madness.

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