Yearly Archives: 2025


OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #213, JANUARY 22, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-213-january.html Bertram Gross.  Friendly Fascism: NCTE George Orwell Award. [I am recovering from covid, feeling much better today.  I had roughly prepared WWW 213 before the virus struck.] Gross’ analysis of US fascism is over 40 years old but is truer today than then. Bertram Gross.  Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America.  M. Evans & Co., 1980.  South End P (paper), 1980. Gross cites George Orwell’s novel 1984, published in 1948, several times while elucidating the politics of oligarchies..   In a section entitled “Triplespeak” (p. 204) he begins with the contradiction-and deception- riddled […]


US OLIGARCHY ANTHOLOGY #1 January 20, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Equality January 20, 2025 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-us-oligarchy-anthology-1.html What’s at Stake:  This is the first OMNI anthology to be entitled “oligarchy,” but the reality of inordinate power of a few unelected individuals and corporations ruling the US government is familiar under a variety of labels.  See my anthologies, including on Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Cold War, Citizens United, Control of Information, Culture of War, Democracy, Economic Inequality, Fascism, Gaza, Gerrymandering, Imperialism, Israel, Military-Industrial-Congressional-Presidential Complex, NATO, Neocon, Right Wing, Ukraine War, Unions, Wars.   Resistance is also already familiar, to name a few topics: Common […]


Women’s March in Bentonville Saturday

Saturday Jan 18 – 11:00 am – 2:00 pm *Sponsored by LOUDwomen & The People’s March. Contact: annadean13@gmail.com if you would like to help organize! Benton County Courthouse, 106 Southeast A Street, Bentonville Our purpose is to protest the proposed agenda of the incoming administration. We will have guest speakers, march, and RESIST.  Let’s make it count in Arkansas! Contact: annadean13@gmail.com if you would like to help organize! https://map.peoplesmarch.com/events/women-s-march-bentonville-arkansas


Climate Moment

Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty, deaths  Research by Oxfam found that the world’s 50 richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. Their analysis also shows that the past three decades of consumption emissions of this wealthy group have caused global economic output to fall by $2.9tn and crop losses equivalent to the caloric needs of 14.5 million people a year. The wealthiest 1% – who tend to live climate-insulated, air-conditioned lives, mostly in the Global North – produce as much carbon pollution […]


Housing Task Force Meets

Weds January 23 – 5:30 pm – City Hall Room 326 First meeting after the new mayor comes onboard. What new thinking might be in store that’s different than before? If you’ve never attended these meetings, start the new year strong by observing citizen participation in action. The Task Force members are starting to get their feet solidly on the ground after several months of research. Now is the time they most need public input, especially about low-income housing and homelessness. What would you ask them to prioritize? A good Housing and Homelessness Coordinator to bring some expertise to this […]


Arkansas Renters United Meets

Saturday Jan 18 – 1:00 pm – Omni Center, 3274 N. Lee Ave. Renters in Northwest Arkansas are meeting tomorrow – Saturday January 18 – to talk about their concerns – which are many. Any Omni folks who are renting will find the discussions very relevant to their experience. Discussions are ALWAYS lively learning experiences. If you don’t rent but support rights and well-being for renters of course you’ll find it interesting too.


January 12 update on the Tiffany property

Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology It’s been an intense week of trying to work out schedules and details for all the people of the white house. 30 days was really not a charitable amount of time to ask low income people to make abrupt changes like this.  The while house is empty and the people have moved, thanks to you help. Of the eight, one found a normal apartment without help from you and me. It’s a studio that he’s paying not much more than he was paying before. He had the advantage of being a veteran. He didn’t […]


OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #212, JANUARY 15, 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-212-january.html Claude Julien. America’s Empire.  Pantheon/Random House, 1971.  Vintage, 1973.   Not in Mullins Library. Wikipedia’s description 1971.Reacting against a common preconception, he publishes the stand out book L’Empire Américain (America’s Empire) in 1968, which received the French literary award of the Prix Aujourd’hui.[7] The book argues that, despite the USA not possessing colonies, they do, regardless, constitute an “Empire without borders”.[8] “It is nowadays the most powerful that history has ever known, by its manufacturing capacity (with 6% of the world’s population, the USA account for 43% of the non-communist world’s production), by its military power, by its catching dynamism and […]