{"id":22164,"date":"2016-11-12T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22164"},"modified":"2016-11-12T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T17:52:09","slug":"reasons-to-risk-nuclear-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22164","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to Risk Nuclear Annihilation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reasons to Risk Nuclear Annihilation<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0The latest neocon\/liberal-hawk scheme is for the U.S. population to risk nuclear war to protect corrupt politicians in Ukraine and Al Qaeda terrorists in east Aleppo, two rather dubious reasons to end life on the planet, says Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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Obviously, I never wanted to see a nuclear war, which would likely kill not only me but my children, grandchildren, relatives, friends and billions of others. We\u2019d be incinerated in the blast or poisoned by radiation or left to starve in a nuclear winter.<\/p>\n

But at least I always assumed that this horrific possibility would only come into play over something truly worthy, assuming that anything would justify the mass extinction of life on the planet.<\/p>\n

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\"Peter<\/a><\/p>\n

Peter Sellers playing Dr. Strangelove as he struggles to control his right arm from making a Nazi salute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now, however, Official Washington\u2019s neocons and liberal interventionists are telling me and others that we should risk nuclear annihilation over which set of thieves gets to rule Ukraine and over helping Al Qaeda terrorists (and their \u201cmoderate\u201d allies) keep control of east Aleppo in Syria.<\/p>\n

In support of the Ukraine goal, there is endless tough talk at the think tanks, on the op-ed pages and in the halls of power about the need to arm the Ukrainian military so it can crush ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine who\u00a0dared object to the U.S.-backed coup in 2014<\/a>\u00a0that ousted their elected President Viktor Yanukovych.<\/p>\n

And after \u201cliberating\u201d eastern Ukraine, the U.S.-backed Ukrainian army would wheel around and \u201cliberate\u201d Crimea from Russia, even though 96 percent of Crimean voters voted to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia \u2013 and\u00a0there is no sign they want to go back<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, the world would be risking World War III over the principle of the West\u2019s right to sponsor the overthrow of elected leaders who don\u2019t do what they\u2019re told and then to slaughter people who object to this violation of democratic order.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reasons to Risk Nuclear Annihilation Exclusive:\u00a0The latest neocon\/liberal-hawk scheme is for the U.S. population to risk nuclear war to protect corrupt politicians in Ukraine and Al Qaeda terrorists in east Aleppo, two rather dubious reasons to end life on the planet, says Robert Parry. Obviously, I never wanted to see a nuclear war, which would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,1607,6963,1769,179,14553,2127,5792,581,7203,694,821,862,865,1823],"class_list":["post-22164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-aleppo","tag-consortium-news","tag-corruption","tag-crimea","tag-hawks","tag-interventionism","tag-neocon","tag-nuclear-war","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-world-war-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22166,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22164\/revisions\/22166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}