June 7, 2022

Taos meeting Friday 6/10: "Propaganda, plutonium, and the proxy war in Ukraine;" Santa Fe meeting Wednesday 6/15; meanwhile coffee, open house at LASG tomorrow, 8:30 am

Permalink for this letter (tomorrow). Please forward. Prior letters to this New-Mexico-oriented list.
Previously (06/05/22): Monday 6/6 in-person/virtual discussion with Indivisible Albuquerque: nuclear weapons, Ukraine, propaganda, and what we can do; yard signs available; LASG coffee Wednesday 6/8 8:30 am
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Dear fellow citizens --

The world is changing very fast now, faster than many of us realize.

Taos meeting this Friday, 6/10

Please join us on Friday, June 10th from 1:30-3:30 pm at the Taos Public Library, 402 Camino De La Placita (map), for "Propaganda, plutonium, and the proxy war in Ukraine." Erich Kuerschner, scholar and activist, will also speak. There will be plenty of time for discussion.

If you are in the area and are concerned about the war in Ukraine and about radically expanding nuclear weapons production at Los Alamos please come, and bring a friend!

Santa Fe meeting next Wednesday, 6/15

For those in the greater Santa Fe area we will take up these same topics (or a close variation, incorporating new material and events) a week from tomorrow, Wednesday 6/15, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 107 W Barcelona Road (map).

Background

As mentioned last time, some background for the Ukraine part of the discussion was provided in our May 10 letter. A lot has happened since then, obviously.

This May 10 letter to selected congressional staff is our most recent published update on plutonium warhead core ("pit") production. Follow the links for more.

Two of the most important articles on what is really in play "in Ukraine" this week:

• Some Other People's Thoughts On The U.S. Role In The Ukraine And Europe, "Bernhard," Moon of Alabama blog, 6/7/22, citing
• "The World Doesn’t Work That Way Anymore," Alistair Crooke, Strategic Culture, 6/6/22.

These analysts may or may not be right, but if what they say is shocking to you please accept our sympathies. We are all in for rude awakenings.

Also, today someone sent us an interesting Anatol Lieven piece, "Why Russian intellectuals are hardening support for war in Ukraine" (Responsible Statecraft, 6/6/22), citing the important essay by Dmitri Trenin, "How Russia must reinvent itself to defeat the West's 'hybrid war'" (RT, 5/23/22).

As to the escalating problem of censorship and propaganda, please see many of the recent articles at Consortium News, now under fire precisely because of its quality and veracity. Again, our democratic losses are greater than most people realize.

Open house

As noted previously, tomorrow morning at 8:30 am the Study Group will serve beverages and snacks from 8:30 am to 10:30 am or so to anyone who would like to visit. There's a lot to talk about these days!

If this proves valuable we will do it again the following Wednesday, and so on.

Right now we have plenty of organic kale from the backyard garden! Please help us eat it up!

Greg and Trish, for the Study Group