Is the NNSA is a bigger threat to American well-being than EITHER Russia or China?
• American leadership is failing: That is the argument of an eccentric new book that since January has stood near the top of France’s best-seller lists. It is called “La Défaite de l’Occident” (“The Defeat of the West”). Its author, Emmanuel Todd, is a celebrated historian and anthropologist who in 1976, in a book called “The Final Fall,” used infant-mortality statistics to predict that the Soviet Union was headed for collapse. - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/opinion/emmanuel-todd-decline-west.html
• “Of the 27 most developed countries, the U.S. has the highest infant mortality rate, despite spending more on health care, per capita, than any other country.”- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality
• USAID and NGOs for Narrative Control and War
“President Trump’s decision to cut funding to USAID revealed the extent to which the US government has been financing media, protests and other means to hijack civil society around the world.”…” One of these “NGOs” is the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) established by Reagan to take over some of the tasks of the CIA. These organizations are instruments for the US to govern the societies of other nations and pursue regime change when necessary.
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/usaid-and-ngos-for-narrative-control
Study Group Director Greg Mello:
"We come to bury the SWEIS, not to praise it.
"The most important thing about this SWEIS is that it comes long after, rather than before, the [Sept. 2, 2020] decision to add a pit factory to LANL.
"These hearings and 'comment opportunities' are being staged to create a veneer of legitimacy for decisions taken prior to environmental analysis, in direct violation of NEPA, and also to avoid proper NEPA analysis in the future. A completed SWEIS is, NNSA hopes, a NEPA 'get out of jail free' ticket.
"There has never been any valid environmental analysis of the choice to produce plutonium pits at LANL. The present process is NNSA's attempt to cover its tracks.
"There has never even been a business-case analysis by NNSA endorsing production in LANL's old plutonium building, an omission contrary to DOE regulations. In 2017 NNSA said don't do it there. It's still a terrible idea and NNSA knows it.
"These SWEIS "alternatives" aren't alternatives at all. By merely including all these projects in the SWEIS, NNSA will have done, by its lights, sufficient NEPA analysis to go ahead with any or all of them. They do not have to agree with any comments or engage with commenters in good faith.
"These hearings are designed to take democratic voice from civil society, not to provide it. NNSA is not here to listen and does not care what the public says.
“The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness. Indeed, lying is the mother of violence.”---- Gandhi
• "There is nothing comparable in our history to the deceit and the lying that took place as a matter of official Government policy in order to protect this [nuclear weapons] industry," said Mr.[Stewart] Udall. "Nothing was going to stop them and they were willing to kill our own people. ... "The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy," Mr. Udall said in a interview. "It induced us to conduct Government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality. Until the cold war, our country stood for something.”--- NY Times 8 June 1993
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.". -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security." ---Paul Nitze, A Threat Mostly to Ourselves - New York Times http://nyti.ms/TAG6pU
• History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such. -- Henry L. Stimson
• Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, said “there was never from about two weeks from the time I took charge of this Project any illusion on my part, but that Russia was our enemy and the project was conducted on that basis.”—
• We keep saying, 'We have no other course.' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course.' ----David Lilienthal, former AEC cochair
- “If the ultimate goal is to restore peace and fiscal responsibility in America, then the President challenging the military-industrial complex may be the most important fight of all and is deserving of our support.”Note [from the Kucinich article itself] :In the presidential race, defense contractors have donated:Kamala Harris – $4,440,605
https://denniskucinich.substack.com/p/president-trump-wants-to-cut-the
Erich Kuerschner, Institutional Economist
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