Today in Writing History June 4, 1917: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall won the first Pulitzer prize for biography. They wrote about their mother Julia Ward Howe, the feminist, abolitionist, pacifist author and poet. You can read the biography here.
Howe not only wrote the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic; she also wrote the pacifist 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation. Also known as the Appeal to Womanhood Throughout the World, the proclamation called on women to unite worldwide for peace. In 1872, Howe called for a Mother’s Day for Peace to be celebrated each year on June 2. Yet today, women throughout the U.S. and Europe (along with the men) are calling for ever more heavy weaponry and NATO troops to be sent to the Ukrainian killing fields, where over 200,000 Ukrainians have already lost their lives, and where this now direct NATO involvement risks precipitating WWIII between nuclear-armed powers, neither of which show any indication that they are willing to back down or negotiate an end to the slaughter. Where is the peace movement today? Or, is some slaughter justified in the name of capitalism (er, I mean against despotism)? And, if that is true, where are all the people screaming for war against India? Philippines? Italy? Saudi Arabia? El Salvador? Egypt? Sudan? And Israel?
The Ukrainian authorities have formally asked their #NATO allies to help them, from outside Ukrainian territory, to shoot down Russian missiles, a request that has already begun to be analyzed by the Government in #Warsaw.
“The issue is being weighed from a legal and technical point of view, but no decisions have been made,” said Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Pawel Wronski, noting that the request had been received directly from kyiv.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's representative to NATO, Natalia Galibarenko, confirmed in an interview published this Thursday by Ukrinform that kyiv has made this same request within the Atlantic alliance. #Ukraine#Russia#WW3 huffingtonpost.es/global/polon…
“Zelensky will ask #NATO to shoot down missiles of the Russian Armed Forces, as the United States and Great Britain did when Iran hit Israel,” writes Politico.
#Ukraine is the playground for American weapons companies to test their fancy new weapons with direct involvement of NATO staff and support.
But don’t you dare calling it a #NATO operation because these are “volunteers” and the companies are paid by Ukraine (well, US and EU to be fair), so it can’t be traced back to NATO at all. It is all for the greater good to defend “democracy” and “freedom”.
📝 This is definitely one short video you don't want to miss, as Stephen reveals putin's biggest lie with such simplicity, I was annoyed I didn't realise it myself - awesome
Fugitive #Wirecard COO Jan #Marsalek used compromised intelligence officials in #Vienna to spy on European citizens and plot break-ins and assassinations by elite Russian hit squads. He also obtained a #Nato government’s cutting-edge cryptography machine and smuggled stolen senior Austrian civil servants’ phones to #Moscow.
CBS News: "The U.S. has picked up intelligence that Iran is planning a retaliatory attack that would include a swarm of Shahed-136 loitering drones and cruise missiles. Officials say the timing and target are unknown, but a proportional response to the #Damascus attack would be to hit an Israeli diplomatic facility. The attack is likely to come between now and the end of #Ramadan next week.
Another important unknown is where the drones and missiles would be launched — from Iraq or Syria, which could prompt a thin claim of deniability by #Tehran — or from Iranian territory."
It's sickening to read all the garbage posts about Iranian attack against Israel which has absolute 0 intelligence value, but perfect propaganda tool, draw attention away from horrendous war crimes of Israel in and around Al Shifa hospital and the murder of #WCK volunteers.
And forgot about the fact that Israel literally declared war on Iran and there are no "proportional" response to such declaration than an all out war.
That is exactly what Netanyahu has been dreaming about so #GenocideJoe and "defensive" #NATO comes to his rescue.
Macron: There is not a 'risk of war', there is war; a Russian victory in the #Ukraine war is an existential threat to #Europe and #France
'People who are against French troops being sent to Ukraine are against our sovereignity and are in favor of defeat'
#Macron, answering a question from a French Netizen named Antoine on Twitter/X:
Dear Antoine, thank you for your question. Very clearly, we are not at war with Russia. France is a force for peace which is not and will never be in an escalation situation.
What I said is that vis-à-vis our allies and our European partners, vis-à-vis History too, we have a responsibility, that of being a strong and ready France to adapt to the choices that #Russia would make.
This is why it is necessary not to immediately set limits for ourselves in the face of an enemy who does not set any limits.
Wanting peace does not mean choosing defeat or letting Ukraine down.
Estonian Prime Minister Kallas has refused to guarantee that the country's military will not be sent to Ukraine
During her speech, parliamentarians demanded that the prime minister guarantee that the Estonian Defence Forces would not involve in military operations in Ukraine.
I don't make such promises because circumstances can change.... We have clearly chosen a side here, and that side is Ukraine, because Russia is a direct threat to us.
🔴 "If you are a #Baltic state, you are really worried about whether you are next. They know #putin. They know what he is capable of. And, frankly, if #Ukraine falls, I really believe that #NATO will be in a fight with #russia," #US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin said.