Antinuclear

TODAY. Julian Assange, atrocities, nuclear war, AI, “Oppenheimer”, and the whole damn thing.

Julian Assange languishes in his solitary confinement cell for 23 hours a day in a British dungeon. He awaits the decision of the High Court on whether to let him appeal against extradition to the USA., for trial on the trumped up charges of espionage. Doesn’t really matter – even if he wins this one- then his appeal won’t be heard for months. Either way, the USA is killing this man – dragging out the whole abusive process.

It’s an atrocity against an individual. But the, the USA, especially under the Biden administration, (and I’m sure, under a Trump one) – is cool with atrocities.

Indeed – that’s why they’re persecuting Assange – because he exposed the USA’s military atrocities to the world. That is investigative journalism. The USA MUST kill Assange (probably slowly and “respectably”) so that the world will accept that no-one is to call the USA to account for military atrocities.

It’s almost comic – right now the USA is sending aid to starving Gazans with one hand, and with the other hand, sending to Israel weapons and money for the mass killing of Gazans.

America is participating in this atrocity –

and doing the profitable business that it loves most – selling killing machines to the world. I was fascinated to find the USA Naval Institute enthusiastically welcome a new murder toy  a “transnational coalition kill chain”, for war against China.

America’s military-industrial-nuclear-complex is ecstatic with this system, already  used , in the Navy’s own word in the “kill chain architecture leveraged against Russia”. Now they’re selling it to Taiwan – Link 16 – a system for kinetic warfare which will allow the Taiwan/ROC military to integrate and coordinate all its warfighting platforms with US, NATO, Japanese, Korean, Australian militaries in combined arms warfare. – sea, air, and land forces linked for lethal effect. All to be linked with low-earth orbit satellites and other Space Force assets. Taiwan can  lead a multinational war offensive against China.

This war could involve a nuclear first strike. “The United States should consider nuclear first use if conventional forces cannot stop a Chinese invasion force from reaching Taiwan.“

If we’re talking about atrocities, I think that for the USA to make a nuclear strike on China – would be an atrocity. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell sees Ukraine as a “unified field” of war with China. He revels in the possibility of a “magnificent symphony of death” in Asia.

With Julian Assange dead – what journalist would dare investigate and expose these plans and events?

Now, what about AI? New military AI technology is being developed in the name of national security. “The U.S. has stated a very active interest in integrating AI across all warfighting functions,” said Benjamin Boudreaux, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.  It’s a bit of a worry. Previous near-nuclear-attacks were prevented by the instinctive actions of individuals like Stanislav Petrov. Is AI going to be intelligent in that way?

The film “Oppenheimer” swept seven Academy Awards. Certainly a great film, but now being used by the nuclear lobby in this case The Nuclear Threat Initiative, to promote nuclear power, pretending that this industry has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. By the way, “Barbie’s $1.4 billion gross far exceeds Oppenheimer’s $950 million gross. But then “Barbie” was the story of Barbie finding the real world to be dominated by men (not perhaps the message to appeal to the men who run things like the Oscars, and just about everything else)

What do do about all this? Just let it all happen?

Well, there are millions of people who don’t want this insane militaristic system- so we all should be able stop the madness controlled by a relatively small phalanx world-wide. But how?

March 12, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized