Dick’s Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology May 25, 2025 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-ukraine-war-anthology-34-may-25.html What’s at Stake:   A true—a complete and accurate– martial history of the USA.  Walter Hixson:  “From Columbus to the “forever wars” of the modern Middle East, Americans have sought imperial domination over other peoples, invariably deemed inferior, and have regularly chosen to go to war with them.”   These 34 anthologies (approx. 500 articles and books) provide that history for the US, Russia, and Ukraine, giving citizens the foundation for resistance; indeed, the foundation, available since 2014, had it been taught instead of the false […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-trump-authoritarian-totalitarian.html What’s at Stake:  For over a hundred years the people of the United States of America have struggled to realize the idea of democracy initiated by its revolution against the King of England.  It was a bare beginning:  blacks and women were excluded from the vote.  The Constitution has been amended 27 times.   “The Supreme Court typically decides around 80 cases each year, with a significant portion of those cases involving constitutional interpretation“ (google).     People who dislike learning and hate even the idea of democracy, hate the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/may-day-labor-day-international-workers.html What’s at Stake:  “Our movement is historic: every year on International Workers Day, millions of people take to the streets around the world, commemorating workers’ struggles of the past and building power for the future.” CONTENTS Fayetteville, AR MAYDAY 2025 NYC MobilizationWin Without War WWWProgressive Change Campaign Committee PCCCProgressive Caucus Action Fund PCAF People Power UnitedVeterans for Peace Social Media Toolkit – Google Drive UUSJ Enews (2024 articles that arrived too late for inclusion in 2024 Anthology.) TEXTS May Day Workers Day Picnic of UA Education Assoc/Local 965 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-earth-day-april-22-2025.html What’s at Stake:   This April 22, the 55th Earth Day, reminds us of our struggle to create a livable planet for all, and how much is still at stake. Yet Arkansas’ members of Congress want to turn back the clock.   Futile as it might seem, let them know how you feel, to add to your protests.    Arkansas Senators, Representatives, and Congressional … CONTENTS EARTH DAY APRIL 22, 2025 OR Books AFSC, American Friends Service Committee FCNL, Friends Committee for National Legislation UUSJ, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-supporting-nevada-desert.html Nevada Desert Experience  “The Fierce Urgency of Now!” – Sacred Peace Walk in Nevada April 12-18, 2025. You don’t often get email from info@nevadadesertexperience.org. Learn why this is important Web version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward TABLE OF CONTENTS • Sacred Peace Walk. April 12-18 • Why We Walk • TO USE A MOUNTAIN – yucca mountain documentary • “The Only Sane Solution” Resisting Nuclear Weapons in Europe Sacred Peace Walk. April 12-18 When Martin Luther King Jr. referenced “The fierce urgency of now” in his speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, he was […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and the Idea of Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-trump-authoritarian-totalitarian.html What’s at Stake:  Observers were studying currents of US authoritarianism in the 1930s as Sinclair Lewis’ novel It Can’t Happen Here illustrates, long before Trump appeared in his first term Jan. 20, 2017.    Defenders of the US idea of democracy have had a long time to build its structure, yet it seems fragile under Trump’s onslaught.               CONTENTS 2008 Myerson and Roberto.  “Fascism and the Crisis of Pax American.” 2016 John Broich.  We Asked Sixteen Historians. Noam Chomsky     Heather Saul.  Noam Chomsky’s […]

INSURRECTION ANTHOLOGY January 2, 2022 OMNI TRUMP, AUTHORITARIANISM, AUTOCRACY, FASCISM, NAZISM ANTHOLOGY #1, March 20, 2025 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-insurrection-anthology-january-2.html https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-trump-authoritarianism-autocracy.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and Idea of Democracy https://Omnicenter.org/donate What’s at Stake:  Recently when I began editing articles and books into a new Anthology on Trump and Fascism, I realized my Anthology on “Trump’s Insurrection” constituted a first Trump-Fascism Anthology.  Among the lessons of these anthologies are how fragile is our “democracy” and how long and how emphatically we have been warned. OMNI: INSURRECTION ANTHOLOGY January 2, 2022, go to https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-insurrection-anthology-january-2.htmlThis anthology gathers articles, books, […]

(Reprinted). http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2014/03/russia-ukraine-newsletter-1.html https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-russia-newsletter-1-russia-and.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. [Note: in a few years I changed my title from Newsletter to the more accurate Anthologies.   I am reprinting Anthology #1 because a decade later some part of the anti-war position seems to have reached the new War Lord, and President Trump seems about to end the US-NATO-Ukraine-Russia War!  It’s good time to review the struggle of truth-tellers and peace-makers to prevent then to stop the Ukraine War.] What’s at Stake:    The US superpower, imperial propaganda system is inciting fear and hatred of Russia, as […]