Dick’s Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-armistice-day-november-11-2024.html “In the US, Make it Armistice Day Again.”   Consortium News (11-11-24).  Declare an armistice in Gaza and Lebanon and make Veteran’s Day Armistice Day once more in the U.S., says Gerry Condon. Read here… A horrific war has been waged for over a year in the third-largest country in Africa: Sudan. Tens of thousands of people have already been killed. Many women are committing suicide to avoid rape. Sudan does not manufacture any of the weapons doing most of the killing. The bulk of the weapons are coming from the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-climate-urgency-emergency.html http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake:  “Emergency” became consensus five years ago.       Before then, a warming world was comfortingly called  “global warming” or “climate change.”     Then “climate catastrophe” or “climate calamity,” certainly not comforting labels, were recognized.  And now “climate emergency” takes precedence, or “chaos,”at least among scientists and the well informed populace.   Two examples from 2019: Brenda Looper in her column in the mainstream newspaper Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette (“Weighty Words,” 12-11-19, 7B) wrote about this rapid evolution of the language used to describe the increase of atmospheric […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-united-nations-day-october-24-2024.html As we celebrate d. Tell Congress to Support the UN od, healthcare, Support Humanitarian Aid Contact Us     202.887.9040 | membership@unausa.org United Nations Association of the United States of America1750 Pennsylvania Ave NW  #300Washington, DC, DC 20006 People also search for World Development Information Day  World Food Day World Mental Health Day World Teachers’ Day International Day for the Eradication of Poverty International Day of Rural Women People also ask What is the theme of UN Day 2024? What is 2024 the year of UN? Where is the UN Conference 2024? What are the dates for Unga 2024? International Days […]

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-iran-anthology-33-october-22-2024.html  (#11 Oct. 8, 2011; #12 Jan. 31, 2012; #13 Feb. 22, 2012; #14 Feb. 26, 2012; #15 March 17, 2012; #16 April 12, 2012; #17 May 21, 2012; #18, July 9, 2012; #19 August 13, 2012; #20 Sept. 10, 2012; #21, Dec. 14, 2012; #22 March 5, 2013; #23 Nov. 12, 2013; #24 March 5, 2014; #25 January 17, 2015; #26, July 28, 2015; #27, June 3, 2018; #28, June 21, 2019; #29, July 11, 2019; #30, August 9, 2019; #31, August 23, 2019; #32, July 25, […]

America today believes that when it comes to foreign policy, we are possessed with the “Midas Touch”—everything we do turns to gold. But the reality is, just like King Midas of old, everything we touch dies. King Midas was a Phrygian King believed to rule in the 2nd Millenium BC, whose territory encompassed the area of what is modern day Anatolian Plateau around the present-day city of Ankara. Publius Ovidius Naso, the Roman poet better known as Ovid, told the tale of King Midas in volume 11 of his 15-book anthology of Greek logical narrative, Metamorphoses. There, Midas befriended the satyr Silenus who, […]

Threatening War, Seeking Peace Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-north-korea-anthology-8-october-12.html (#1 July 19, 2012; #2 April 13, 2012; #3, Jan. 19, 2016; #4, Feb. 10, 2016; #5, March 12, 2016; #6, July 9, 2017; #7, October 29, 2017). What’s at stake:  “Throughout [post-WWII] there was a huge invisible lacuna in the official imagination: thinking about how to make peace.  That is what a Cold War is about; even though we are at peace we do not think about preserving peace, but about making war.  Perhaps it is easier, because making war depends precisely on […]

Keep Space for Peace Week (Oct 5-12, 2024) Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-stop-us-militarization-of-space.html(#1 December 13, 2006; #2 January 24, 2008; #3 October 4, 2008; #4 October 2-9, 2010; #5, October 1-8, 2011; #6, October 6-13, 2012; #7, March 28, 2020; #8, Sept. 20, 2021) CONTENTS ·       Bruce Gagnon.  “Keep Space for Peace Week October 5-12, 2024.” ·       Jeremy Kuzmarov. Futuristic Weapons: H. Bruce Franklin.“Ukraine. . .Testing Ground for Space-Based Weapons.”  ·       Caitlin Johnstone.  UFO Narratives and “Race to Weaponize Space.”  ·       Stop US Militarization of Space #8 ·       Stop Militarization of Space […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-us-cold-war-against-china.html COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake:   Our only hope for survival is to transfer the US away from its pathological hyper-active pursuit of endless enemies for endless war, to a hyper-concern for the climate crisis (and overpopulation, and pandemics).    CONTENTS WAR ·       Ben Norton.  “Cold War II…25 Anti-China Laws in One Week.” ·       Hannan Hussain.  US Hegemony in Africa Declining.  ·       Bernard DiMello.   “… India in Washington’s Anti-China ‘Pivot’.” ·       Chris Fry.  “US anti-China propaganda, a prelude to war:  Eyewitness views from China.” ·       Eve Ottenberg.   US Sanctions, China’s […]