Monthly Archives: August 2022

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-89-august-31.html Chris Hedges.  “Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War.” World Beyond War.  The War Abolisher Awards of 2022.Dick Bennett.  “Finding Hope.” Chris Hedges.  “Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War.” The prosecution of permanent war requires permanent censorship. No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan, will bleed for a very long time. This is by design. On August 24, the Biden administration announced yet another massive military aid package to Ukraine worth nearly […]

Dan Kovalik.  The Plot to Scapegoat RussiaTom Engelhardt.  Tomgram: “Is the Never-Ending Story Ending?” The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin By Dan Kovalik, Introduction by David Talbot.  Skyhorse, 2017.  Publisher’s Description An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact, the two […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/war-watch-wednesdays-87-august-17-2022.html NONVIOLENCE, PACIFISMFrancesco Da Vinci.  I Refuse to Kill.In September 2022, World BEYOND War will hold a weekly discussion each of four weeks of I Refuse to Kill: My Path to Nonviolent Action in the ’60s with the author Francesco Da Vinci as part of a small group WBW [zoom] book club limited to a group of 18 participants. Francesco will send each participant a signed hardback. We’ll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions. SIGN UP HERE. Chris Hedges: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-86-august-10.htmlBarry Sanders.  The Green Zone.  War v. Planet and Civilization.. Dick wrote the following as a KPSQ weekly editorial, #18, Sat. Feb. 24, 2018.  He presented them in 5 to 7 minutes from April 2017 to September 29, 2018 on the weekly program “Folkus,” directed by Jim Lukens. My topic was the convergence of US twentieth-and twenty-first centuries capitalism, wars, climate catastrophe, and population and consumption increase.  (Convergence with the corona virus pandemic, which has killed over a million of US populace, didn’t begin until in 2019.) War v. Environment. Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism […]