Monthly Archives: July 2025

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #240, JULY 30 , 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett. Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments World BEYOND War A logo with a world map AI-generated content may be incorrect. To: The presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States From: Add your name here! We, the people of good will, of all walks of life, living on all continents and professing different creeds and religions, direct your attention to the threat of an all-out nuclear war that can erupt very easily either due to deliberate actions of any nuclear-weapons state or because […]

Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza

 in Current Events

UN org UN Human Rights Counci / Sérine Meradji Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, makes remarks at the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. 26 March 2024 Human Rights There are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories said on Tuesday.  Francesca Albanese was speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where she presented her latest report, entitled ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’, during an […]

Homeless Solutions on August 7

 in Current Events

Thursday August 7 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center 3274 N. Lee Ave. Here’s a really awesome place to learn what’s happening about homelessness and low income housing in Fayetteville, and other stuff related. This is a critical time to fix this huge problem because there are forces above our pay grade who want to “solve” homelessness by cruelty. Fayetteville needs to do something NOW!

Meet-up With Common Good

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Tuesday July 29 – noon to 1:30 – Center for Nonprofits, McCauley Hall 1200 W. Walnut, Rogers Common Good is the new name for the IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation), that has finally taken hold of its own future and it wants to include you in the Common Good. Great group of diverse people trying to make this region what it really wants to be. Come check them out!

Hiroshima Nagasaki Memorial coming up August 10

 in Hiroshima Nagasaki

Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration scheduled for SUNDAY AUGUST 10, 7:00 pm at Omni. Harmonia and Geoff Oelsner will be performing and Dr. Michael Anthony will tell the story of the Nuclear One explosion in Russellville and how it relates to nuclear war! Put this moving event on your calendar, and stay tuned for more information. Respond of the Facebook event please. More info there! Hiroshima Nagasaki Commemoration 2025

“We Are Winning: Three Genres, Two Wars, Two Colonels, and a General” by Dick Bennett, College English Association, March 25, 2010

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-are-winning-three-genres-two-wars.html      We watch the ways the wars are reported, trying to understand empire.  From the many, I have chosen examples from three genres for comment.       First, an Associated Press report of the war in Afghanistan.      This cheerleading article describes a US battalion commander in Afghanistan in 2009 considered to be a success against the insurgency by General Petraeus himself, architect of counter-insurgency, who visits with congratulations. Second, in my local newspaper a series of 66 page-one “Salutes to American Valor” of combat medal-winners in the Iraq and Afghan wars. The 66 narratives of fearsome combat anecdotes signify, at […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #239, JULY 23, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/war-watch-wednesdays-239-july-23-2025.html OMNI HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025Why Did the US Nuclear Annihilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki?FCNL:  the RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT was expanded.  OMNI HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025August 10, 7p.m., at OMNI, Lee St.MC Kelly MulhollanKeynote speaker Prof. Michael Anthony, UAF History Dept.Songs by Still on the Hill, Geoff Oelsner, and HarmoniaReading of names.Discussion following with Prof. Art Hobson Why Did the US Nuclear Annihilate Hiroshima and Nagasaki? William Hartung and Ben Freeman.  The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America Into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home.   2025. Prior to the fall of Berlin, Allied intelligence […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #240, JULY 21, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-240-july-21.html Shrinking Biodiversity.Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.  Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown. Peter Sinclair.  Why Storms Are Getting Stronger. SHRINKING BIODIVERSITYUN Global Biodiversity Assessment 1,140 pages.   Google replied to my query regarding diversity:  “The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimates that at least 157,100 species are threatened with extinction, including more than 44,000 that are endangered.”    Extinctions are increasing and more rapidly.    Two items from Climate and Capitalism 2024.Illusions of Climate TechnologyAndreas Malm and Wim Carton.   OVERSHOOT: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown.   https://climateandcapitalism.com/2024/12/06/this-years-best-books-for-reds-and-greens/#comment-161780Even before 1.5 degrees, climate disasters are intensifying […]