Big shifts of resources — money and energy and attention — from useful projects to wars have happened during World War II, on September 11 twenty-five years ago today, and in Trump's proposal for next year's U.S. government (augmented by his badgering of other governments to do the same).
September 11 — the license that Netanyahu claimed for genocide ("This is our September 11") — is not a thing to celebrate. September 21 —the International Day of Peace— is something to celebrate, and an occasion for demanding peace!
The legislation now moving through the U.S. Congress takes major steps to merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries
into a single war and genocide machine, potentially eliminating any
public notice of or possibility to block U.S. weapons shipments to
Israel. The same legislation vastly increases U.S. military spending to a level far above the rest of the world’s military budgets combined.
Part of U.S. military spending goes to aiding the militaries of other
countries, part to pressuring other countries to increase their military
spending, part to occupying other countries with U.S. bases (now increasingly being attacked), and part
to producing propaganda for war and — in a deadly vicious cycle — to
further increasing military spending the next year.
We can and must stop this legislation as a global movement for peace!
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