West Suburban Peace Coalition announces winners of 2024 Peace Essay Contest

 

West Suburban Peace Coalition announces winners of 2024 Peace Essay Contest

 

The West Suburban Peace Coalition (WSPC) has announced the winners of its 2024 Peace Essay Contest. Contestants submitted essays answering the question ‘How can we foster a more peaceful nation and world.

 

Ist Place – Linnea Barron, Wheaton IL 

 

2nd Place – Ailee Viana, Wheaton IL 

 

3rd Place - Angel Mosqueda, Berwyn IL 

 

Ms. Barron addressed the need of colleges and universities to divest from weapons makers who promote war instead of peace thru funding and lobbying Congresspersons to support belligerent US foreign wars. By so doing, institutions of higher education would also be more consistent with the values they are they are charged with instilling in future American leaders. 

 

Ms. Barron received $1,000 for her winning entry. Ms. Viana and Ms. Mosqueda received $200 and $100, respectively.

 

West Suburban Peace Coalition (www.faithpeace.org), based in Glen Ellyn, IL, has been holding its annual peace essay contest since 2013 as part of its continuing mission to promote peace in Chicago's western suburbs and beyond.

 

For further information contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com.

 

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Time to join the peace movement?

 

Time to join the peace movement?

 

US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is going on 3 years with hundreds of thousands dead, putting Ukraine on US life support. US enabling the genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza with over 50,000 tons of genocide weapons that has killed over 50,000 Palestinians. The Biden administration and military are provoking and planning for war with China in the Far East. 

 

What could be worse? Sitting on the sidelines while the US barrels forward with multiple wars that could go nuclear.

 

For the past 12 years West Suburban Peace Coalition (WSPC) has been pushing back against the madness of US foreign policy that further endangers peoplekind every day. 

 

Based in Glen Ellyn, IL, WSPC’s mission is to promote peace in Chicago’s western suburbs and beyond thru

 

• Educational Forums via Zoom on important topics related to peace. 

 

• Our annual Peace Essay Contest to promote awareness of and foster a more peaceful nation and world. 

 

• We lobby the president and Congress to use diplomacy instead of senseless war to resolve international disputes

 

• We use social media and print/electronic journalism to spread our message peace.

Membership is $15 for individuals; $30 for organizations. Membership forms may be obtained at our website www.faithpeace.org.

 

Or, simply send check payable to WSPC for $15 (organizations $30) to: WSPC c/o Walt Zlotow, 340 Greenfield, Glen Ellyn IL 60137

 

The sidelines offer no safe haven in a world consumed with war. Time to get involved? Thanks for considering

Rowley op-ed fearing apathy to US unipolar world dominance is simply a pitch for endless US warfare worldwide

Rowley op-ed fearing apathy to US unipolar world dominance is simply a pitch for endless US warfare worldwide

 

 

Storer H. Rowley et al. offered a bizarre analysis lamenting voter apathy for US foreign affairs news in his Chicago Tribune op-ed ‘Americans are losing interest in our nation’s crucial role in the world.’

 

 

Rowley is aghast that polling showing declining voter interest in foreign policy will lead to new US isolationism. He fails to mention that both the Biden administration and mainstream media suppress any debate whatsoever on American adventurism abroad to create that apathy.

Voters are not stupid when it comes to having a voice in US weaponizing the Ukraine war instead of negotiating its end, enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza with over 50,000 tons of weapons, escalating tensions with China that could explode into war.

 

 

They know they have no voice since it is totally ignored, whether during an election or afterwards. Voters are spoon fed the national security state party line that any criticism of US adventurism abroad elicits the ‘isolationism’ word that hearkens back to Neville Chamberlain’s sellout of Czechoslovakia 86 years ago. Storer buys into that inapplicable analogy which the Tribune willingly amplifies.

 

 

Voters simply move on when they’re endlessly told the preposterous memes, repeated by Storer, that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked and it’s the first in Putin’s planned march into Western Europe.

 

 

Storer H. Rowley and his colleagues are entitled to promote the catastrophes America has visited upon the people of Ukraine and Gaza as the proper antidote to growing public isolationism. But the Chicago Tribune is irresponsible in signaling its readers that US adventurism abroad is truth without a semblance of opposing opinion. That is not good journalism.

With US billions and diplomatic support, Ukraine and Israel are destroying themselves

With US billions and diplomatic support, Ukraine and Israel are destroying themselves

 

Joe Biden began his presidency doing a great thing for peace. Three years ago he ended America’s illegal, immoral, criminal war in Afghanistan.

 

But Biden is no friend of peace. He’s spent the last three years instigating and funding proxy war in Ukraine to weaken Russia, and funding and enabling Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. 

 

Neither of these murderous wars could continue without America’s endless billions and fervent moral support in word and deed. 

 

But both Ukraine and Israel have fallen for US support to head down the path to failed state status.

Ukraine is already there. A fifth of their land gone. Economy shattered. Military largely destroyed. Millions displaced internally or fled to o other countries. Dependent upon on massive, non-repayable loans from the US and NATO countries simply to function. Cancelled elections spell the end of Ukrainian democracy. It could hardly be worse. 

 

This all could have been avoided had the US not demanded Ukraine join NATO to isolate Russia from the European political economy, and supported a coup toppling the Ukrainian president who sought economic relations with Russia. Nor would it have happened had Ukraine President Zelensky rebuffed Biden’s NATO membership overtures and provided regional autonomy to Donbas as promised under the 2015 Minsk II Accords. 

 

While not the basket case Ukraine is, Israel appears hell bent to join it as a failed state. By exploiting the October 7 Hamas attack to initiate all out genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Israel is destroying itself as well. Outside of the Biden administration, it has lost worldwide support as a moral nation. It has greatly weakened Israel’s economy, overtaxed it military, irrevocably divided its populace, forced over 60,000 citizens to flee northern Israel, and embarked on a self destructive war it cannot win. 

 

Make that 2 wars. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has provoked blowback in northern Israel from both Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. Like Hamas in Gaza, neither of these two additional opponents can be defeated by Israel alone. Just like with Ukraine, endless billions from Biden will not turn the tide.

 

Both Zelensky in Ukraine and Netanyahu in Israel have one Hail Mary toss to fling….bring the US directly into the battle on their side. Zelensky has been promoting this explicitly since his losing war with Russia began 31 month ago. Netanyahu, is more discreet, simply taking provocative actions like bombing Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon and Syria, engaging in terrorism using explosive cellphones and pagers, all designed to ignite regional war involving Iran that the US would feel compelled to join. 

 

So far President Biden has resisted direct US involvement in both senseless wars. But either could blow up in his face at any moment, triggering direct US involvement. Should that occur, we’ll see much worse than Ukraine and Israel self destructing. America and the rest of the world’s 193 countries might well join them.