Dick’s Newsletter 2024

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-211-december.html The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell.  2023. ·        Heat Will Kill You First bing.com/news    ·       ‘The heat will kill you first’: Author tracks climate crisis in real time Climate reporter Jeff Goodell says, to reverse the rapid rise in global temperatures, “the most … ·        Grist on MSN · ‘The Heat Will Kill You First’ is a chilling book — and a warning ·        ·Extreme heat will smother the South from Arizona to Florida ·        WBUR · ‘The Heat Will Kill You First’: How extreme heat […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology, 2024 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-student-protests-against-israeli.html What’s at Stake:  Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University,argues that universities should protect campus-wide free, non-violent exchange of ideas.  “It’s almost the end of the school year, and more than once I’ve been asked, “Don’t I wish we had just made it through a couple of more weeks without incident?” Mostly … no. How can I not respect students for paying attention to things that matter so much? I respect that they’re concerned about Gaza; I admire that they’re not entirely taken up with grades or […]

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-sovietrussophobia-anthology-5.html What’s at Stake:  The search for the truth.   I watch detective mysteries on PBS especially for their appreciation of the human intellect and scrupulous ethics.  All present the search,  not for an alternative reality, as the W. Bush administration claimed proudly for itself, but for the truth to be discovered.  The latest Hercule Poirot drama, “Sad Cypress,” recounted the story of a young woman accused of premediated murder.  Under British law, she was innocent until proven guilty, and had been permitted to hire a skilled lawyer to […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/pearl-harbor-day-colonial-pacific-world.html What’s at stake:  So one-sided has been the reporting and history of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, that dozens of “detective” historians have been inspired to correct the record concerning that “Day of Infamy.”  These writings are found in OMNI’s nine “Pearl Harbor Day” Anthologies beginning in 2008. CONTENTS Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe. Imperial and Colonial Background.2021. Robert Fantina.  Propaganda, Lies and False Flags: How the U.S. Justifies Its Wars.   2020.  Understanding a “war without mercy.” CHRISTOPHER […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecologyhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/thanksgiving-day-anthology-10-november.html http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake:   “In less than three generations the settlers would turn all of New England into a charnel house for Native Americans, and fire the economic engines of slavery throughout English-speaking America. Plymouth Rock is the place where the nightmare truly began. “  Glen Ford Contents National Day of Mourning  #10 James Loewen.  “The Truth About the First Thanksgiving.”Ruth Hopkins.    “The First Thanksgiving: Separating Myth From Fact.”  Arlo Guthrie.  Alice’s Restaurant. (Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center).Matt Taibbi and Jared Moore.    “Thanksgiving is Awesome.”Glen Ford.  The Black Agenda. Kisha […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-cop-29-2024-united-nations-climate.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly known as COP29, is the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference. COP29 was  held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024. Wikipedia ContentsCOP 29, BAKU, AZERBAIJAN“Books to help you keep your head after the election and COP29” by Michael Svoboda, November 21, 2024. Code PinkInside Climate NewsUAF Student Chosen for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). TEXTS COP29 Azerbaijan – United Nations Climate Change … cop29.az   https://cop29.az › …   This […]

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 […]