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Monthly Archives: August 2024
OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #192, AUGUST 28, 2024
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-192-august-28.html PEACE HEROESKathy KellyDaniel EllsbergVeterans for Peace KATHY KELLYKathy Kelly. “Museum of Unnatural History.” The Catholic Worker (August-September 2012). A distinctive meditation on Kabul, Afghanistan’s Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation Museum (OMAR) and Dr. Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book. The Museum contains ordnance and land mines used in Afghanistan over four decades of warfare and photographs of maimed people. The Butter Battle Book is a parable of the Cold War and its fragile, dangerous nuclear stalemate, with only MAD “holding off attempts by either side to exterminate the other” in WWIII. “…in many ways […]
VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #5 AUGUST 27, 2024
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-venezuela-anthology-5-august-27.html COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY CONTENTS VENEZUELA #5 US WAR AGAINST VENEZUELADe La Cruz, et al. Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War.Ensberger and Podur. Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela.“Biden Extends U.S. Campaign to Crush Venezuela.”(5 articles).Alan MacLeod. “…US Plans for War and Terror against Venezuela.”Dan Beeton. “The Venezuelan Coup, 20 Years Later.”Ryan Swan. “Venezuela Seeks Investigation [of war crimes] by ICC.”“Alex Saab Is Being Tortured….”Ricardo Vaz. US Meddling in Elections.Jonathan Ng. “The US Is…Strangling Venezuela.”UN Special Rapporteur Alena Douhan Reports on US v. […]
OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #193, AUGUST 26, 2024
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-193-august-26.html Arkansas Climate League Resource Center.Green Energy and Education Seminar.Greenpeace: Tracking Extreme Weather.Jill Stein: “Democrats are gaslighting us on the climate crisis.” 2-7-24 Hello Arkansas Climate League Friend, We’re launched! On Sunday 2/4 dozens of new and longstanding friends stopped by the Elizabeth McGill Drop-In Center in Fort Smith to celebrate the opening of our Climate League Resource Center. Herbert McGill Director of the McGill Center and Outreach Coordinator for the Climate League emceed the event. The Climate League Resource Center will be staffed by Mr. McGill. Local residents can visit the Center to get information […]
HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2024 AUGUST 6 AND 9 (AUGUST 4 EVENT, Part III), 2024
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecologyhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance_21.html Part I: https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-186-july-17.html Part II: https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance.html OMNI HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI PROGRAM 2024 PART III PROGRAM August 4, 2024Theme: What did we learn? The event occurred Sunday August 4, 2024, at the Omni Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology. Part III was published as soon as the presentations could be assembled online. CONTENTS OF PART III ProgramPresentations at ProgramHiroshima-Nagasaki Anthology #3 2024 PROGRAM Speakers and TopicsTheme: What did we learn? Sunday August 4, 2024, Omni Center for Peace6:00 p.m. meal prepared by Alex and MayDay Kitchen chefs. 6:30 – Program — Kelly Mulhollan MC Opening […]
OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #191, AUGUST 21, 2024
Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-191-august-21.html PEACEMAKING: PREVENT PREPARING FOR WAR, STOP WARS. Compiled by Dick Bennett PROTEST THURSDAY IN ROGERS, Abel Tomlinson <abeltomlinson@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Y’all, This Thursday at 8 A.M., many of the top Military-Industrial Complex* war profiteering corporations are holding a “Mid-America Defense Summit” at Embassy Suites in Rogers, AR (3303 Pinnacle Hills Parkway). This event will feature speeches by Congressman Steve Womack, Senator John Boozman and Governor Sarah H. Sanders, and leaders from the war profiteering industry. Sponsors of the event include arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Aerojet Rocketdyne, General Dynamics and others. Strikingly, the University of Arkansas, […]
OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #192, AUGUST 19, 2024
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-192-august-19.html Late Breaking: Protest v. Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. Equador. Nature’s Rights.Yunkaporta. Indigenous Thinking.Greenpeace. Climate Action. Breaking News: PROTEST THURSDAY MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-CONGRESSIONAL COMPLEX, the USA’s TOP SINGLE PRODUCER OF CO2This Thursday at 8 A.M., many of the top Military-Industrial Complex war profiteering corporations are holding a “Mid-America Defense Summit” at Embassy Suites in Rogers, AR (3303 Pinnacle Hills Parkway). This event will feature speeches by AR politicians and arms dealers. We must speak out. We will be protesting on the sidewalks in front of Embassy Suites event center in Rogers. Please be there at about 7:45, so we are visible to event […]
WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #190, AUGUST 14, 2024
Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-190-august-14.html ANOTHER WAR: SUDAN As soon as I read the latest Tomgram in July, I thought to place it in WWW, and wondered about the causes of the Sudan disaster, and US involvement. I hoped the UN’s diverse agencies were still helping despite their small budgets. The UN Security Council voted to withdraw its UNITAMS mission there (Russia abstaining), but the UN is keeping some of its humanitarian agencies. Below is the google response to my “UN in Sudan” search and a message I had received from UNFPA in April. From these reports, I learn of […]