Yearly Archives: 2025

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #248, SEPTEMBER 24, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-248-september.html   ADG Report on Trump’s Reversal on Ukraine.Ted Snider.  “So Much for the Nobel Peace Prize.”Ted Carpenter.  “Who Is Trying To Start World War 3?” Scott Ritter.  The Death of Ukraine. “Trump backs victory for Ukraine” by  MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI AND ILLIA NOVIKOV.  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Sep 24, 2025).   Trump backs victory for Ukraine.  He shifts opinion, supports Kyiv retaking its territory.   Read more… [I hope you have time to read these excellent essays in their entirety.  –D] “So Much for the Nobel Peace Prize” by Ted Snider.  Antiwar.com (Sep 16, 2025).   ACURA (9-24-25).  19 Comments The […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #249, September 22, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-249-september.html THE ONGOING, VARIEGATED RESISTANCE TO OVERSHOOT, WARS, HEAT, TYRANNY. VFP: Wake up to Climate Crisis (and No MAS)Tour Sept. 26-Earth Overshoot Day. [See #248:SEPTEMBER 21:  SUN DAY AND INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE .  Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun.]NCTE’S George Orwell Award For Truth Against Doublethink, Doublespeak, Doubletalk.ACLU’S Legal Actions.(All of them depend upon our support.) The Wake Up to Climate Crisis and NO MAS (NO Military Air Shows) Tour begins Sept. 26 in San Diego, CA. After actions and events around the “Top Gun” air show at the Miramar USMC airbase, the group of veterans and […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #247, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-247-september.html Scott Ritter.  “Putin’s Gambit” for Arms Control.Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun and Renewed Hope. Trump Truthteller?  The DOD Is What It Always Was—the DOW.         Putin’s Gambit by Scott Ritter.  Sept. 22, 2025. There has never been a more important time for arms control. And the US government has never been so ill-prepared to meet this challenge. Enter Project 38.   Scott Ritter                                                                                                                   Project 38 is a campaign that seeks to promote effective arms control and disarmament policy and, in doing so, avoid the dangers of a new nuclear arms race […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #248, September 15, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-248-september.html David Orr on Climate and Democracy. Sun Day September 21. Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun. EcoWatch. “Recording of David Orr on the Interrelated Threats of Climate & Democracy” From  Move to Amend.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?    (Illuminations without which we’ll be blindsided by the enemies of C&D.  –D)   SUN DAY September 21With one month to go, there are now over 150 Sun Day events planned where we can come together to celebrate the power of clean energy.  (Btw, 9-21 is also the International Day of Peace.  A doubly auspicious day!) Events are planned in in 32 states […]

SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA ANTHOLOGY #7, September 16, 2025

 in Current Events / Dick's Newsletter 2025

(Highlighting JUNE 10, 2025, Anniversary of June 10, 1963, JFK’s Peace Speech, Scott Ritter’s Citizens’ Summit 2025, and 100 Years of US Enmity against SU/Russia). Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake:  Seeing the World as Others See It      The bafflingly widespread dislike of neocon capitalist, oligarchical Russia is partly traceable to the long exclusion of Soviet/Russian culture in the US.  For example, how many of you have read a book by a Soviet or Russian writer, or even an essay?  I grew aware of this void in the 1970s when I began to study […]

Annual OACC Conference

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Oct 26-28 Hammond Mill Camp West Plains MO Here’s an interesting FYI: The Ozark Area Community Congress is an ecological network and a forum for idea exchange; individual participants work in their own fascinating respective fields, but meet annually to share about their work. It’s been meeting annually for 46 years. A number of Omni folks have talked about how much they’ve enjoyed the camp, the people, and the topics that’ve been presented. Many people feel it’s bioregionalism at its best. For a glimpse at the kinds of projects people are working on check out the webpage. You’ll likely recognize […]

Save Our Heartland Forest!

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Save Our Heartland Forest Still waiting on the bore tests to show how unsuitable this ridge is for building a huge middle school with sports fields and traffic. There are better places for a new Ramey. Here’s info from Andrea Fournet about opportunities to join the Save our Heartland Forest effort. Thanks for your interest.  Here is the link to the petition for people to sign! And here’s the facebook page where you can follow what’s happening