Where have all the flowers gone? | Salim Mansur

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Jul 162023
 


In 1955, songwriter Pete Seeger penned the quintessential anti-war folk song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,” which would later resonate with the public expressing opposition to the Military-Industrial Complex’s involvement in Southeast Asia in the 1960s. Today, there is a noticeable absence of comparable songs that rally people against governments’ decisions to prolong the conflict in Ukraine—decisions resulting in significant loss of life and expenditure.

The absence of widespread protest and condemnation from the public seems to be emboldening our politicians to persist with their controversial war strategies. The silence and apparent indifference can inadvertently be interpreted as consent, raising concerns about the potential escalation to a full-scale armed conflict between NATO countries and Russia. While the use of nuclear weapons in such a scenario remains unlikely, it was a genuine fear during the 1960s, leading to the construction of fallout shelters in backyards and drills that taught children to seek shelter during a nuclear attack.

Professor Salim Mansur from Western University joins Robert Vaughan in discussing this perceived indifference among the public towards an impending global conflict, drawing a comparison to the protest movements of the Beatniks and Hippies in the 60s. They contend that Western culture underwent significant changes over the past fifty years, with any semblance of reason and objectivity being supplanted by wokeism and subjectivity. They conclude that the West has become a culture of nihilism, narcissism, and hedonism led by the self-absorbed and immature and that our anti-intellectual culture could potentially lead to the end of what remains of our civilization.

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Peace For All Time: Reflections on John F. Kennedy’s Peace Speech | Salim Mansur

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Jul 082023
 


This year marks the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s “Peace Speech” which was given on June 10th, 1963 as the commencement address at American University.

It was a speech quickly forgotten by the press, perhaps because it spoke of peace rather than of war. As Kennedy himself remarked at the time, “I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war—and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task.”

Kennedy’s remarkable oration was given just months after the Cuban Missile Crisis and at a time when the world was readying itself for a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. It is all the more urgent that we revisit Kennedy’s momentous words as we are today teetering on the brink of a nuclear war with Russia. This time, however, the belligerent parties are not the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact they are the United States and NATO.

On June 7th, Salim Mansur, professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario published an article on Substack called “Blessed are the peacemakers: Recalling JFK.” In it, he brings into context our current predicament with Russia and likens it to those dramatic events of 60 years ago.

In this conversation Salim and Robert Vaughan review Kennedy’s presentation in the hope that some might remember that no matter what issue of the day has political favor they all pale in comparison to the very real threat of a World War between powers who both possess nuclear weapons and that there are wise words from the past which offer up a solution to such madness.

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Armistice or annihilation—Ukraine’s end game | Salim Mansur

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Feb 012023
 

“The collective West has brought us to the precipice of a nuclear Armageddon.” So says our guest professor Salim Mansur.

Those seeking peace are searching the West in vain for any among its leaders, media, or intelligentsia calling for peace. All seem blinded by an irrational and unjustified Russophobia. The result is a general populace duped into thinking that this is a “just war” and Ukraine must win despite the threat of a nuclear conclusion.

“There can be no just war in the nuclear age,” notes Professor Mansur. “There has to be an immediate ceasefire, an armistice, and then we talk and engage with what will be the position of Ukraine and meeting the interests of Russia and the interests of other European countries.”

There are historic precedents for the situation the West finds itself in. During the stalemate of WWI and after the loss of 15 to 22 million lives there came the realization that the only way to end the bloodshed was an armistice—not a surrender but an acknowledgment that nothing further could be gained by either side in continuing the conflict. And on November 11, 1918, an armistice was signed and at 11:00 am that day the guns went silent.

The same awareness came about during the war in Vietnam when Walter Cronkite went on the air in a rare opinion piece and said, “To say that we are mired in stalemate seems to be the only realistic if unsatisfactory conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could.” President Johnson was reported to have said “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” Such was the power of the media then and, although considerably weakened, such is the power of the media today.

So too, in this conflict involving nuclear combatants, there must come the understanding that all hostilities must cease and negotiations for the partition of Ukraine begin. A continuation of the conflict may only lead to the unthinkable.

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Canada—From peacemaker to warmonger | Salim Mansur

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Oct 252022
 

Many Canadians are wondering how Canada has gone from being a leader in global peacemaking to a nation of saber-rattling warmongers.

Former Liberal Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for his role while Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez Crisis of 1956. Since then Canada has garnered a reputation abroad as a nation of peacemakers, taking part in many UN Blue Beret missions throughout the world.

Today, however, under the leadership of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Christia Freeland Canada has become a nation of belligerent warmongers entering into the Russo-Ukraine conflict on the side of the corrupt regime of Volodymyr Zelenskyy—a move which could embroil Canada in a war with Russia.

Rather than advocating for a negotiated peace when Ukraine was given that chance early in the conflict, Canada opted to support a continuation of the war even though Ukraine is not a member of NATO and Canada has no obligation to take its side by contributing financial and military aid.

Had Ukraine agreed to Russia’s terms in the spring of 2022 the war would be over, Luhansk and Donetsk would be independent states and not necessarily Republics of Russia, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson would still be Oblasts of Ukraine and not Russian Regions, and all of those killed since that time would be alive today.

But Canada missed that opportunity for peacemaking as too have all other NATO member countries who seem bent on continuing this all-out proxy war with Russia.

Our guest, Professor Salim Mansur of Western University provides an in-depth analysis of the motives for such foolhardy aggression on the parts of NATO and Canada.

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780 – Nuclear holocaust?

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Oct 132022
 


Not since the Cuban missile crisis has the possibility of a nuclear weapon detonated on North American soil been seriously contemplated. Nor has there been any reason to do so, particularly given the recent unprecedented period of global peace under the presidency of Donald Trump.

Yet after only 24 months into his stolen presidency, Joe Biden’s government is sending strong signals that such a nuclear event is inevitable. This is suspicious, something generally predictable only by those planning to make it so.

Among the suspicious signals: Biden’s recent cryptic September 1 speech in Philadelphia, New York City’s public service announcement on surviving a nuclear attack, the city of Denver’s evacuation preparations involving “Bug-out bags” and the US government’s $290 million purchase of an anti-radiation drug to be distributed free to survivors of a nuclear attack.

Taken individually, each action alone would suggest that Biden’s government is planning a false flag event. Taken together, they practically scream “nuclear plandemic.”

Intending to blame Russia and Vladimir Putin for their false flag event, any nuclear narrative so framed will be a difficult sell particularly given recent events in Ukraine. Putin’s restraint in the face of the West’s aggression and hostility has consistently exhibited a level of morality and concern for human life that far exceeds that of NATO and its allies.

The more we learn about Putin, the more we come to respect him as a true world leader, one who is the exact opposite of how he has been portrayed in Western circles. The more we learn about the military alliance known as NATO, the less it is possible to respect any of its initiatives or actions on the world stage – at any time in its history. Increasingly it appears that NATO has never done anything Just Right for peace and freedom, while fooling much of the world to believe otherwise.

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768 – A new clear vision—of nuclear war

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Jul 212022
 


New York City’s recent “Nuclear Preparedness Public Service Announcement” sounded a lot like the city’s Covid one: don’t ask questions, stay inside, and trust public officials.

The announcement itself is a nuclear event, not only due to the nature of its warning, but because everything about it suggests another control agenda about to be imposed upon the American people.

And just as the public’s general ignorance about Covid, viruses, and climate matters has been used against them in advancing a Globalist agenda, so too, we can expect the public’s general ignorance about surviving a nuclear event to be used against them.

That’s why it is essential to know a few basic facts about the realities of any nuclear threat. Armed with valid knowledge, one becomes empowered to resist or counter any fake news or propaganda intended to create hysteria and panic.

No matter how you look at it, one thing is certain. Whenever governments tell us not to ask questions and to trust public officials, we have all the evidence we need to know that things are as far from being Just Right as they can get.

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Ukraine—Neocon’s war against Russia | Salim Mansur

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Jul 022022
 

Since the end of WWII, a number of international laws and treaties have been created among nations to allow for a more peaceful, if not orderly world. Albeit with many exceptions, these rules of conduct have served the world well. We have enjoyed an extended period of relative peace and have avoided another world war. This sense of security seems to be coming to an end as the West now faces possible military engagement with both Russia in Ukraine and Communist China in Taiwan.

How did we arrive at this point? Since at least the 1960s plans have been formulated and implemented to pave the way for a one-world government led by the United States in a grand hegemony of tyranny marked by corruption, censorship, the surveillance state, and Malthusian population control.

We were warned that this might happen by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy who, while not knowing precisely what form these nefarious plans might take, knew that it was a distinct possibility that the Military-Industrial Complex could be used with evil intent and on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas we discovered just how patently evil these people could be.

It is no longer a secret that there is a cabal of advisors orchestrating successive military campaigns throughout the globe of which Ukraine is but the latest.

The greatest opposition the cabal faces in its grand scheme is from countries like Russia which stubbornly adheres to a historic sense of national pride and which warned that it would not tolerate any attempts to alter that perspective.

In a direct challenge to any who would oppose them we have seen callous rogues like Johnson, the Bushes, Clinton, Obama, and a group of neoconservative policy advisors, take that once moral and enviable of nations, the United States of America, and transform it into a juggernaut of death and destruction.

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