REPORT CARD
Doenges, Judy
REPORT CARD Judy Doenges Teaching Peaceful Policy U.S. DEFENSE POLICY: MAINSTREAM VIEWS AND NONVIOLENT ALTERNATIVES by Bob Irwin and Beverly Woodward International Seminars on Training for...
...Latin American scholar William Leo-Grande presented the most interesting argument at this forum, suggesting that the CIA's covert operations may not be designed to overthrow the Sandinistas or to move the government to the Right, but instead may be intended to radicalize the Nicaraguan revolution...
...The United States will "give up" Nicaragua to keep the rest of Latin America, according to this theory...
...The Boston Study Group examines the strength of both countries and concludes, "The United States stands alone: It is the world's only truly global power...
...Participation in formulating a U.S...
...defense policy, they add, will be realized by disseminating information about alternatives to the arms race...
...Senator Frank Church told forum participants...
...It is important, if we are to have a democratic society, that people be informed and active participants in shaping policy," say the authors of this study...
...However, dethroning the weapons establishment is a formidable task, and an expectation of achieving results in discussion groups could produce the very apathy the manual's authors try to guard against...
...DEFENSE POLICY: MAINSTREAM VIEWS AND NONVIOLENT ALTERNATIVES by Bob Irwin and Beverly Woodward International Seminars on Training for Nonviolent Action, Box 515, Waltham, MA 02254...
...One of the recommended studies comes from the Committee on the Present Danger, and the authors give no clue as to how nonviolent policies can be developed from the works of such a hawkish organization...
...COVERT OPERATIONS AGAINST NICARAGUA by the Campaign for Political Rights 201 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002...
...Covert actions subvert democracy at home as well as abroad, he said...
...He suggested that "covert action" is "an antiseptic term, a semantic disguise for murder, coercion, blackmail, bribery, the spreading of lies, whatever is deemed useful in bending other countries to our will...
...Although some covert operations, such as the Nicaraguan adventure, are no longer secret, the Government continues to engage in skulduggery...
...military policy is addressed in readings from the Center for Defense Information, the Boston Study Group, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ells-berg, among others...
...The authors seems to hope for a marriage, through creative thinking, between those who seek to arm the United States to the teeth and those who want to ban the bomb...
...For more than a year, the CIA has been contributing substantial amounts of money, military equipment, and guidance to groups seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan government...
...Most likely," he said, "the policy of hostility will move the revolution in the direction of the Cuban model," which, the Reagan Administration hopes, will discourage other countries from emulating Nicaragua's course...
...Covert operations are "acts of concealed warfare," former U.S...
...CIA at War U.S...
...According to the authors, "empowerment" comes after analyzing varying viewpoints and brainstorming with others in "macro-analysis seminars," groupings which ultimately seek change through nonviolent action...
...5.50...
...Government uses the threat of nuclear destruction to back its foreign policy...
...Covert Operations Against Nicaragua, the transcript of a day-long public forum held last May, experts on foreign policy, CIA abuses, and Latin American affairs comment on what one Nicaraguan priest calls a "well prepared strategy to isolate, destabilize, and delegitimize the Nicaraguan revolution...
...Ellsberg and Chomsky explain how the U.S...
...According to Morton Halperin, another forum speaker and head of the Center for National Security Studies, the spies consider themselves beyond the reach of the American political process...
...Soviet and U.S...
...Fortunately, the American press has exposed much of the secret operation...
...Two sections on nonviolent alternatives and a set of readings entitled "The Broader Context: Toward Understanding and Action" fill out the manual...
...5.00...
...Those who wish to educate the public will find the report's bibliography useful: Suggested readings cover a wide range of issues and are designed to "deepen aware* ness of the choices reflected in current policies...
...Again, a diverse group of readings is suggested for use in seminars, but no analysis is provided of their value...
...Defense Policy is a good resource manual for community activists and educators...
...Participants in brainstorming sessions are left to determine which perspectives are valid...
...In U.S...
...Unfortunately, the publicity does not seem to have deterred the Reagan Administration from trying to topple the Sandinistas...
Vol. 47 • March 1983 • No. 3
