Daily Archives: June 27, 2024

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #183, June 26, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-183-june-26.html Dr. Caldicott.  Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War Chris Bambery.  NATO Risks Catastrophe Dr. Helen Caldicott.  Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War.  Bantam Books, Rev. ed., 1986.  This book was written over 30 years ago, but it is relevant today as a history of the post-WWII animosity of the USA against Soviet ideology and economics, now rivalry with Russia.  Here are a few of the chapters:  “Pathogenesis: The Pathological Dynamics of the Arms Race.”  The opening pages discuss how:  “From the beginning, the nuclear arms race in America has been fueled […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #184, JUNE 24 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-184-june-24.html LEGAL VICTORIES FOR PROTEST AND ACCOUNTABILITY “Hawaii Settles Climate Change Case Brought by Youth Activists.”  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette  (June 22, 2024).   Read more…    Hawaii settles climate change case brought by youth activists     [And what are AR’s governor, our county and city officials doing MEANINGFULLY to reduce cc? ] “Shell In Court Over Its ‘Dire’ Exacerbation Of The Climate Crisis.”  The Canary. PopularResistance.org (4-3-24).   Shell squared off against seven environmental groups in a Dutch appeals court on Tuesday 2 April, with climate activists accusing the multinational oil giant of failing to implement a landmark 2021 judgement – worsening […]