12/16/2025
JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE. Tuesday, December 16, 3 PM in Providence
Stand with the RI Anti-War Committee to demand that the current CEASEFIRE holds in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Call for a halt to U.S. aid to Israel and instead, provide sufficient humanitarian aid for the Palestinians. No more attacks on Lebanon, Venezuela and Iran. We meet every Tuesday and Friday at 3 PM (winter hours) at the intersection of Francis and Gaspee Streets across from the Providence Place Mall. Bring friends, signs and banners. Share our Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1543251136800039/1543251156800037.
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Full-spectrum dominance. What has it gained for Americans? The U.S. doctrine that has directed American military policy for the last two or three decades stipulates that the U.S. should be able to fight and win a major conflict and also a minor one at the same time. It has led to American military spending that now nears one trillion dollars a year and surpasses the combined total of the next nine countries with the largest militaries in the world. Has this policy made Americans any safer, or reduced the threat of more wars? On the contrary, other countries, rather than remain content as second-rate powers, have doubled down on building up their armed forces.
In addition, countries that the U.S. considers adversaries, are taking their cue from America and following their own self-interests rather global cooperation. Russia, for example, after failing to get the NATO alliance to take its concerns about NATO expansion seriously, decided to take matters into their own hands and invade Ukraine. China, after the U.S. surrounded it with dozens of bases in countries like South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Australia, embarked on a military build-up that brought its arsenal of missiles and naval forces up to and on par with the U.S. In computer simulated war games that the Pentagon conducts yearly, the red team (China) has defeated the blue team (the U.S.) each year since 2018.
In the battle to stay ahead, the U.S. has turned to its allies to ramp up expansion of their militaries. The hope is that with their allies the U.S. could defeat Russia and China. Already that plan is drawing push-back from American officials. The concern is that such a project will require the U.S. to share its military technology with other countries.
Notably, no one in the U.S. political class is talking about what would be the most sensible of all plans which would be to seek a path towards a reduction and eventual elimination of conventional and nuclear weapons. The wealthy, of course, would oppose such a venture because they profit so handsomely from weapons production and war.
