Yearly Archives: 2024

CONVERGENCE OF CATASTROPHES WARS AND WARMING, ANTHOLOGY #1

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-convergence-of-catastrophes-wars.html Compiled by Dick Bennett, for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology March 8, 2024 HTTPS://OMNICENTER.ORG/DONATE What’s at Stake:   These essays reveal how rapidly and significantly awareness has grown world-wide of the full scope of increasing, intensifying, interrelated problems.   But not so much in the US.   ― Thomas Hardy RESISTING DOOM of CONVERGING CATASTROPHES CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS NOWAnd our stance should be??   4-15-23      Dante in “The Inferno” places fence-sitters (one translation) just outside Hell, stung eternally by swarming wasps.   Another translation renders the word opportunists.      If nuclear weapons and global warming each alone threatens our […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #167, March 6, 2024

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-167-march-6.html   Compiled by Dick Bennett Peacemakers’ Responsibility: If We Fail to Prevent a War, then We Must Stop the War. War in Ukraine: MAKING SENSE OF A SENSELESS CONFLICT byMEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES.    An important antidote to war propaganda” — Mairead McGuire, activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize .     50% off “Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence”  read by Eunice Wong. Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation against the Gaza genocide was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. CHRIS HEDGES Report.    .MAR 2, 2024. In Case You Missed These Episodes:  Catching Up […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #168, MARCH 4, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-climate-memo-mondays-168-march-4.html Robert Hunziker.  “Fastest Warming on Earth.”Bendell and Read.  Deep Adaptation. ROBERT HUNZIKER .  “Fastest Warming on Earth.”  Counterpunch FEBRUARY 23, 2024.FacebookTwitterRedditEmail . . .As the massive glaciers recede, space opens at the edge of permafrost, releasing ancient methane. . . .Methane detected in the High Arctic puts a big hole in the Global Methane Pledge of more than 100 countries that agreed to cut emissions 30% by 2030. It’s an add-on that nobody knows how to deal with.  The High Arctic location is Svalbard, Norway (pop. 2,642) which is the fastest warming region of the planet only […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #167, FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-167-february.html Dana R. Fisher Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action (on climate inaction).  Julie Hollar.  Grossly Inadequate Reporting by the Mainstream Media of the Climate Emergency. “Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks To Climate Action” By Michaela Herrmann, DeSmog.  PopularResistance.org (2-15-24).   Professor Dana R. Fisher’s new book, Saving Ourselves: Climate Shocks to Climate Action. Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action―but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private-sector […]

WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM ANTHOLOGY #1 February 21, 2024

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-white-christian-nationalism.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake: CONTENTS Dan Partland. God and Country: A Major New Documentary Examines the Rise, Power–and Threat—of Christian Nationalism.  Bradley Onishi.  “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next.”  Lerone Martin.  The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.  Jennifer Rubin.  “Losing Status, Wealth, and Privilege. Why White Christian Nationalists are in such a panic.”    Donald Yacovone.  Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity. […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #165, FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-165-february.html Norman Solomon. War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (New York: The New Press, 2023), 272 pages.Rev. “Corporate Media, Political Elites, and Perpetual War” by David Michael Smith, Monthly Review (December 5, 2023). (Dec 01, 2023).  Topics: Capitalism  Imperialism  Media  Political economy  Terrorism  War Places: Americas  United States Publisher’s description: David Michael Smith reviews journalist Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible, an eloquent moral call to end the bloody state of perpetual war that the United States has engaged in since the advent of the “war on terror.”   Long recognized as one of this country’s most incisive journalists and media critics, Norman Solomon has […]

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY/POVERTY USA AND WORLD ANTHOLOGY #7, February 19, 2024

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-economic-inequalitypoverty-usa-and.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology HTTPS://Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS Books Mark Paul.  The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights. John Freeman.  Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation. Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page.  Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It. articles Ian Angus.  “Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class.”  Chris Hedges. “Know Thine Enemy: We are Ruled by One War Party and One Political Class.” Katharina Buchholz. “The Living Wage Gap.” Prabhat Patnaik. “What the GDP Hides.” Ari Paul. “Source Who […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #166, FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-climate-memo-mondays-166-february.html This week on Yale Climate Connections January 29 – February 2, 2024 Organizers aim to improve the South’s climate resilienceSocial justice advocate Lea Campbell… pivoted to environmental issues in 2016 as a series of major storms and other crises rocked the state.  Now, her work to build mutual aid and other community networks is one example of the ways Southerners are working to improve the region’s resilience in the face of disaster. Keep reading.   [Q: is the South facing disaster or catastrophe or chaos by cc??  Is there an emergency? –D] More stories featured this weekShould climate change […]