Dick’s Newsletter 2024

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 […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-world-war-iii-anthology-2.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake:  On January 24, 2023, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock was moved to 90 seconds (1 minute, 30 seconds) before midnight, the closest it has ever been set to midnight since its inception in 1947. This adjustment was largely attributed to the risk of nuclear escalation that arose from the US/NATO/Ukraine vs. Russia War.  Only the threatening chaos of the climate emergency poses an equal or greater danger to our evolution. CONTENTS Daniel Ellsberg.  The Doomsday Machine. Dawn Stover.  “Facing Nuclear Reality. […]

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGYhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-israel-palestine-anthologies-18-9.html CONTENTS ISRAEL-PALESTINE #18 In Chronological Order 2016 to 2024 What’s at Stake:  Keeping Hope Alive in the Midst of Genocide. 2016Apcon and Young.  Documentary Film on Peacemakers.2018Freedom Flotilla Poetry Award to Local Poet Gerry Sloan. Heather Gray on Peace-making Peled Family. UNRWA Seeks FundingGlenn Greenwald.  Court Rules Boycotting Constitutional Free Speech. Rabbi Naomi Levy.  Rob Eshman Receives Press for Peace Award.Dr. Virginia Tilley Interviewed regarding Israel as an Apartheid Regime and the One-State Solution to the Conflict.Michael Sfard.(Book). The Wall and the Gate and the Palestinian struggle for […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-venezuela-anthology-6-september-15.html (#2, 7-16-20; #3, 9-9-20; #4, 2-14-21; #5, 8-27-24) http://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS OF VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #6 VENEZUELA’S STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCEUS-LED WAR vs. VENEZUELAUS Anti-Democratic Meddling in Venezuelan Elections.Alan MacLeod.  US Meddling in Venezuelan Elections.Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka.  “Venezuela Is a Democracy.”Peoples Dispatch.  Despite of or Because of Attacks on Its Electoral System, and even coup attempts, people around the world express solidarity with Venezuela.Ed Newman.  Alba Movements from 25 Countries Support Venezuela.Vijay Prashad.  Eye-witness Report from Caracas of the Election Declares Maduro’s Election fair and decisive, despite […]