Monthly Archives: September 2024

UKRAINE WAR #33 September 12, 2024

 in Dick's Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecologyhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-ukraine-war-33-september-12-2024.html CONTENTSPeace TalksAbel Tomlinson.   Two Messages on Peace Conference.Global South v. WestBen Norton.  Ukraine War Unpopular in USSachs.  “Putin Offers Diplomacy.”ACURA.  Poll: “Putin Wants Ukraine Ceasefire.”“A Green Deal for Post-war Ukraine.” Prashad.  China’s 12-Point Peace Plan.Kevin.  China’s Peace Plan.Quaker Peace Statement.Fulbright’s Exchange and Bumper’s Peace Links. Causes of and Continuation of the WarBenjamin Abelow.  How the West Brought War to Ukraine.Kit Klarenberg.   “Civil War in Donbass 10 Years On.” RussophobiaACURA.  William Drew.  “The Hoover Institution Declares War on Russia.”Rubenstein.  US Weapons to Azov Battalion.Associated Press.  “New #225 Million…to Ukraine.”Dave DeCamp.  […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #194, SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-194-september.html ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Art Hobson.  Nuclear Weapons and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).ICAN  UN International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, Book Club by Back from the Brink.NUCLEAR WEAPONS RESISTANCE ORGANIZATIONS      Art Hobson.   “Nuclear War Spells Doom for Civilization:  We Can Rid the Planet of this Scourge.”   NWADG 3 September 2024. This article was originally published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette and is published here with their permission.  This article was originally published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette and is published here with their permission.  […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #195, SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

 in Climate Memo Mondays

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-195-september.html RESISTANCE The Green New Deal.Marian Starkey.  POPULATION CONNECTION. BIG WIRES ACT.  CCL.  Jan Schaper. Arkansas ACCL.  Ft. Smith Seminar. The IDEA OF A GREEN NEW DEAL inspires the world. These two short books you might want to add to your library. Stan Cox.  The Green New Deal. Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin.  Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal.   POPULATION CONNECTION AVAILABLE TO ALLGood morning, Dick,  This excellent magazine is now live on our website! Please share and promote Population Connection content whenever you get the chance—no permission needed.    www.popconnect.org/magazine Thanks, again! Marian Starkey, MSc V- P […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #193, SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-193-september.html Geoffrey Levin to Speak on Dissent Past and FutureUnited Nations Summit of the FutureJoe Conason’s It Can Happen Here Looking Back to Guide the Future 1978: War Resisters League members demonstrated simultaneously against nuclear weapons in Red Square, Moscow, and on the White House Lawn.  [I will be citing notable historical events like this one in the future, drawn from the War Resisters League Peace Calendars.  –D] THE NAKBA AND US JEWISH DISSENTGeoffrey Levin is an assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Prior to joining Emory’s faculty, Levin was […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #194, SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-194-september.html Nandita Lal.  Wars and Climate: NATO v. Essential Climate Investment.Caitlin Johnstone. And the Gaza War.  Critique of Democratic Party.Overpopulation.  Garrett Hardin.  Living within Limits.John Bellamy Foster.  The Dialectics of Ecology. “The Earth Can’t Endure NATO’s Ambitions.” Editor.  mronline.org (8-12-24). NATO’s growing militarism doesn’t just risk widening war, but is deeply implicated in the mounting climate catastrophe, argues Nandita Lal. Originally published:Counterfire  on August 8, 2024 by Nandita Lal (more by Counterfire)  |  (Posted Aug 11, 2024).   Imperialism, Inequality, Movements, StrategyGlobalNewswireNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) NATO’s expansionary military targets are deeply at odds with the need to scale down global emissions to avoid […]