Monthly Archives: July 2025

MILITARISM IN ARKANSAS ANTHOLOGY #4 JULY 10, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-militarism-in-arkansas-anthology-4.html Anthology #1, October 8, 2008. Anthology #2, October 10, 2012.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/11/omni-militarism-in-arkansas-2-oct-10.html Anthology #3, November 28, 2021. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/militarismmilitary-industrial.html   What’s at Stake: The extent of militarism and violence in the US.  Here are some examples in Arkansas. CONTENTS ARKANSAS MILITARISM #4 ARKANSAS Friends of Palestine NWA.  “Protest War Profiteering in Arkansas.” “Arkansas Aerospace Companies Map” and Camden.CAMDEN, AR’S MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Arkansas Business Staff.  “Voters Pick Lockheed Rocket System as ‘Coolest Thing Made in Arkansas.’” Lisa Hammersly.  “South Arkansas home to weapon that, generals say, is turning Ukrainian war’s tide.” […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #237, JULY 9, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-237-july-9.html   War against NaturePatrick Whitmarsh.  Writing our Extinction. Barry Sanders.  The Manifesto of Herman Melville. WAR AGAINST NATURE FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DEPICTED IN LITERATURE FROM MELVILLE TO DELILLO MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY NARRATIVE FICTION Writing Our Extinction: Anthropocene Fiction and Vertical Science by Patrick Whitmarsh.  Stanford UP, 2023.  228pp. Excerpts + more DescriptionReviewsAbout the Author Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment, including climate […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #238, JULY 7, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-climate-memo-mondays-238-july-7.html EcoWatchYale Program on Climate Change Communication Dick.   Turn Off Your AC?    Wednesday, May 28, 2025  “If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us.”— David Suzuki Agricultural Soil Can Contain Microplastics at 23x Higher Concentrations Than What Oceans Hold, Study Says Related: Experts Identify Emerging Threats to Bees, From Wars to Microplastics and Light Pollution  Trump Signs Executive Orders to Boost Nuclear Energy Even as Regulatory Body Remains Understaffed  Related: Amazon and Google Look to […]

INTERDEPENDENCE DAY ANTHOLOGY #7 JULY 4, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecologyhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-interdependence-day-anthology-7.html What’s at Stake:  What do July 4, 1776, and Independence Day mean?  This should be a Day of Reflection. CONTENTS Ace Thelin.   “A Different Revolution.” “Declare Your Independence From Mainstream Media.” Dennis Kucinich.  “Renewing a Desecrated Declaration of Independence.”About Face.  “Right to Refuse.”Rebekah Jones.  “We’ve lost the United States.” Win Without War. 7-3-25 [VFP-all] Michelle Ellner.   “What July 5th Taught Me That July 4th Never Did.”Noam Chomsky.  “Is Trump a Symptom or the System?”  YouTube (AI generated). The following articles written for 7-4-24 arrived after that Anthology was published. […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #236, JULY 2, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.     https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-236-july-2.html JOHN F. KENNEDY’S QUEST FOR PEACE JFK’s JUNE 10 PEACE SPEECH AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY CHRIS HEDGES INTERVIEWS PROF. SACHS ON HIS BOOK JFK’S QUEST FOR PEACE June 10th, Marks the Anniversary of the JFK Peace Speech at American University.  Jun 10, 2025 .“Lets us re-examine our attitude toward the Cold War…”   Read in browser »VIDEO Short: Peter Kuznick on the JFK Peace Speech.  Jun 10, 2025 .What Kennedy said is still relevant today, says Professor Kuznick.   Read in browser »A Simone Weil Center Symposium: John F. Kennedy’s Speech at American University.   Jun 10, 2025 .THE […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #237, JUNE 30, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-237-june-30.html 3 Items from OMNI CLIMATE URGENCY ANTHOLOGY  #2.  JUNE 30, 2025.Neil Faulkner.  “Covid, climate, and ‘dual metabolic rupture’.”Tom Engelhardt.  “Our Not-So-Slow-Motion Apocalypse”Dick.  More Urgencies: Lexicography. Neil Faulkner.  “Covid, climate, and ‘dual metabolic rupture’.”  We thought climate catastrophe the main danger. Now we know there is another. A double-whammy ecological crisis threatens collapse into dystopian chaos.  | more…  Pathogens, a great and terrible global threat to human and many a non-human alike, [are] as much a Sword of Damocles hovering above civilisation as climate change. Tom Engelhardt.  “Our [all species] Not-So-Slow-Motion Apocalypse: My Extreme World and (Un)Welcome […]