Dick’s Newsletter 2024

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-white-christian-nationalism.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake: CONTENTS Dan Partland. God and Country: A Major New Documentary Examines the Rise, Power–and Threat—of Christian Nationalism.  Bradley Onishi.  “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next.”  Lerone Martin.  The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism.  Jennifer Rubin.  “Losing Status, Wealth, and Privilege. Why White Christian Nationalists are in such a panic.”    Donald Yacovone.  Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity. […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-economic-inequalitypoverty-usa-and.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology HTTPS://Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS Books Mark Paul.  The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of Economic Rights. John Freeman.  Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation. Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page.  Democracy in America? What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do About It. articles Ian Angus.  “Dispossessed: Origins of the Working Class.”  Chris Hedges. “Know Thine Enemy: We are Ruled by One War Party and One Political Class.” Katharina Buchholz. “The Living Wage Gap.” Prabhat Patnaik. “What the GDP Hides.” Ari Paul. “Source Who […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-united-nations-international.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Join World BEYOND War for our 4th annual virtual film festival! Dear Dick, Join us next month for our annual virtual film fest from March 9-23! This year’s “Women & War” film festival theme explores the intersection of women, war, and militarized masculinity, as we mark International Women’s Day (March 8). The film fest begins with the newly released Israelism about the portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in American Jewish institutions; followed by Naila and The Uprising about the central role Palestinian women played in the First Intifada; and concluding with the […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-gaza-anthology-15-genocide.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake:  Among several, the US is giving $4 billion a year for arms to a country guilty of genocide. CONTENTS Miko Peled.  Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Since 1948.Chris Hedges.  The Brief Submitted by South Africa to the ICJ.Middle East Monitor.  The Indonesian Brief.Craig Murray.  Genocide in Gaza: Why It had Not Been Referred to the ICJ by Dec. 2023.  Richard Falk.   “In Gaza, the West is enabling the most transparent genocide in human history. “Margaret Kimberley.  “South Africa’s Case At World Court Also Exposes […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-yemen-watch-3-february-3-2024.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake: The most heinous crime is by those who perpetrate a war followed closely by those who do not try to stop it.  This Anthology of essays opposes the US/Saudi invasion of Yemen and any historical model that sustains and deepens US warmaking sciolism. (What’s at stake in regard to technology:  Smart phone reading requires brief texts and prioritizes snippets, when the subject of this anthology requires analysis.  Substantial texts make it impossible to employ small, hand-held screens.). CONTENTS Code Pink.  “Yemen Explained.” Johnstone.  […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI US DEMOCRACY, JANUARY 6, 2021, INSURRECTION ANTHOLOGY (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology, Efforts to Assess the Strength of US Democracy CONTENTS “Democracy on Trial,” PBS, FrontlinePortside, the Attempted Coup and Democracy. Responses.Robert Borosage.  Trump as Symptom of Plutocracy.Common Cause v. Gingrich and Republican Anti-Democracy MovementMonica Cruz.  “What Are The Lessons From The Trump-Backed Insurrection Of January 6?”Jeremy Kuzmarov.  Capitol Riot One-Year Anniversary: Was it a False-Flag Attack? David Sirota.   “How The Meltdown Became An Insurrection.”Dana Milbank.  “‘We are closer to civil war than any of us […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/01/omni-merchants-of-death-war-crimes.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology See also anthologies on International Tribunal on US Imperialism, Military Industrial Complex, Culture of War, Militarism, Individual US Wars, and more CONTENTS Brad Wolf.  “War for Profit”: From WWI to WWII to War Crimes Tribunal 2023 Kathy Kelly, Nick Mottern, Brad Wolf.  “Come War Profiteers, Give Account.”   November 10-13, 2023 Col. Wilkerson, “Next Evidentiary Video.” Tribunal’s investigation of the U.S. war on Afghanistan TEXTS From WWI to WWII to War Crimes Tribunal 2023 MAY 9, 2023 “”War for Profit: A Short History.” BY BRAD WOLF The first page […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. (#1: 3-3-08; #2 Nov. 16, 2012; #3 Nov. 17, 2013; #4 May 31, 2014; #5 July 28, 2014; #6 August 30, 2014; #7 April 8, 2015; #8 May 13, 2021; #9, October 15, 2023; #10, October 23, 2023; #11, Nov. 4 and Nov. 7, 2023; #12 , Nov. 16, 2023; #13, Dec. 16, 2023). http://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS FOR #14(Because I learned early in its history that social media often resulted in or was even designed to produce polarization via viral images that stimulated adrenaline and dopamine, I have delete […]