Dick’s Newsletter 2025

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #261, December 24, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-261-december.html This final War Watch Wednesday draws attention to the danger of a nuclear WWIII.  Only planetary warming poses a greater threat to all species. To eliminate the danger of nuclear holocaust, three movements are important, and one is essential.   1.     The Peace Movement.    The overall problem is US militarism and aggressive empire.   OMNI has participated and is participating actively in many ways to this noble movement to avert catastrophic, planetary destruction.    A new book again explains the US War Machine and sets forth necessary remedies fundamental to the peace movement:  The Trillion Dollar War Machine: […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #260, December 22, 2025.

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-260-december.html OMNI’S FINAL CMM, unless someone will carry on its realistic analyses and ultimate hope.   OMNI continues its resistance to warming by its weekly general newsletter edited by Gladys Tiffany, its local actions, and its many anthologies already published and in preparation).  –Dick. RESISTANCEICN Sunday MorningCapitalism Nature SocialismMark Dunlea.   Putting Out the Planetary Fire.  2023.Green New Deal. Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun.  2025. Recently Published Resistance: Two Magazines and Two Books  ICN Sunday Morning <newsletters@insideclimatenews.org>  12-21-25.  ICN Sunday Morning is now available as a podcast! Listen and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeart.    Reader donations make our work […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #260, December 17, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/war-watch-wednesdays-260-december-17.html [WWW has never been more needed, but next week’s edition will be its final issue, unless you will be the new editor.  I am preparing to move to an assisted living residence.  -D] Military-corporate-gov-media-neofascist Complex US Militarism and Warmaking. Kathleen Barry.  Unmaking War, Remaking Men:  How Empathy. . . . Nan Levinson. “Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal?” Theocracy Watch. Russophobia.US Corporate Media Increasingly Centralized.Common Cause.   Defending Arkansas PBS.Robert Reich.  Major Media Being Bought by Trump’s Billionaire Friends. TEXTS Empathy Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #259, December 15, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-259-december.html [Next week’s CMM will be its last, unless someone continues it.  Even though the online newsletter/anthology is much more needed now than when it arose out of OMNI’s Climate Book Forum that began in 2006—when our study was Climate Change, and our subject is now Climate Emergency–, I must give it up.   Dick] Paris Climate Agreement after 10 Years.EarthJustice.United Nations.Ecosocialism. Climate and Capitalism. Yale Climate Connections. Paris Climate Agreement Today. “Need to know info on climate change.” fran@deane-alexander.com via uark.onmicrosoft.com   12-13-25.       [Orig. pub. The Guardian, forwarded by Fran Alexander.]   ‘A shift no country can […]

VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #10, December 14, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, Constitutional Republic https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-venezuela-anthology-10-december-12.html What’s at stake: LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND UNITED NATIONS CHARTERS:  Tariq Ali, Bush in Babylon, Chapter 7, “Empires and Resistance.”  Both Charters protest empire and preemptive invasions, and affirm self-determination and international law.  See pp. 191-93 particularly. But the Nobel Peace Prize was given to a coup leader backed by US? “María Corina Machado is a far-right Venezuelan coup leader who has been funded by the U.S. government since at least 2003. The Donald Trump administration is waging war on Venezuela, and if it can succeed in overthrowing the […]

CHRISTMAS FOR PEACE ANTHOLOGY December 12, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennetthttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-christmas-for-peace-anthology.html What’s at Stake.  The abolition of war. CONTENTS HIGHLIGHTS World Beyond War.  “Christmas Truces Past and Future.”  World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, chapters, and affiliated organizations advocating for the abolition of the institution of war. Howard Thurman.  Jesus and the Disinherited.PBS Christmas 1914 Truce on the Western Front, All Is Calm.Suggested readings, films, music on Jesus, War, and Capitalism.Jesus and Refugees.Silent Night, the 1914 Truce.OMNI Newsletters on NonviolenceVet Jim Hale’s Poem on WWI and VNWar.Joyeux NoèlMike Masterson on Commercialized Christmas TEXTS Christmas Truces Past and Future World BEYOND War           Dec 10, 2025 […]

CENTER FOR PEACE, JUSTICE, ECOLOGY, AND DEMOCRACY. ANTHOLOGY ON UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS. December 10, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-center-for-peace-justice-ecology.html What’s at Stake:  “We are experiencing a world where commitments to protect and promote human rights have reached alarming new lows. While we have long fought against the degradation of rights by insisting on accountability of state and private actors for harm and centering the demands of those most impacted by systems of oppression in the U.S. and around the world, we mark this moment while in a profound human rights crisis. This Human Rights Day invites a reckoning: How did a global system built in the name of “universal rights” become structurally incapable of constraining […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #258, December 1, 12, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-258-december.html NONVIOLENCE ORGANIZATIONS v. CATASTROPHIC SYSTEM OF CLIMATE and WARS:  BREAKING THE REGIME OF FOSSIL FUELS WAR FASCISM. [‘Flu” visited me Thanksgiving, the perfect day for an irony-minded host, and remains my guest today, giving my doctor an opportunity to tell me about real flu victims.  I had gathered several items for the next Memo, then fell behind, and then the following essay appeared in my inbox, perfect for a blog named “War and Warming” (recently amended to include population growth and fascism). –D] “SIGN NOW: Fossil fuels cause war.” Drew and the crew at 198 Methods <drew@198methods.org> Dec […]