Dick’s Newsletter 2025

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 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-white-christian-plutocratic_20.html What’s at Stake:   “Christian nationalism radically shapes what Americans think about who they are as a people, what their future should look like, and how they should get there.”  Andrew Whitehead. CONTENTS Local Connection:  FFRF Chapter Actions. History Whitehead.  Taking America Back for God. Onishi.  Preparing for W ar: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism.Seidel.“The Shadow Network, Project 2025….”Seidel.   “Church-state separation and. . .Christian Nationalist abuse of power.”   Taylor.  The Violent Take It by Force. Du Mez.  Jesus and John Wayne. History, Analysis, Action American […]

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-sovietrussophobia-and.html What’s at Stake:   When Trump and Secretary Hegseth yesterday announced Trump’s decision to accept Putin’s terms for an end of the Ukraine War, I was completing this Anthology.   OMNI had published 6 anthologies offering 75 articles that increase evidence of Soviet/Russophobia as a central pathology dominating US culture and an impetus for many US wars.  In addition, most of the anthologies on US wars describe animosity toward the USSR/Russia, including the 34 anthologies on all aspects of the Ukraine War.   Ukraine War anthologies nos. 32-34 contain 66 […]

COMPILED BY dICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-world-war-iii-anthology-3-february.html 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.    Now “. . .The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has officially reset […]

COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/anticipating-israeli-bds-day-boycott.html Also see:   International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Nov. 29.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/un-international-day-in-solidarity-with.html Local Actions Tonight JANUARY 30, 2025 6:30 AT OMNI Boycott Documentary Screening and Discussion FAYETTEVILLE Friendsofpalestinenwa          Here is a reminder to come join us to watch Boycott and explore the intersection of civil rights, activism, and the legal system tonight.  Date: January 30th  Time: 6:30pm  Location: OMNI Center, 3274 N Lee Ave, Fayetteville, AR 72703 Did you know that Arkansas became a battleground over the right to boycott? “Boycott” delves into the stories of individuals, including […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Equality January 20, 2025 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-us-oligarchy-anthology-1.html What’s at Stake:  This is the first OMNI anthology to be entitled “oligarchy,” but the reality of inordinate power of a few unelected individuals and corporations ruling the US government is familiar under a variety of labels.  See my anthologies, including on Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Cold War, Citizens United, Control of Information, Culture of War, Democracy, Economic Inequality, Fascism, Gaza, Gerrymandering, Imperialism, Israel, Military-Industrial-Congressional-Presidential Complex, NATO, Neocon, Right Wing, Ukraine War, Unions, Wars.   Resistance is also already familiar, to name a few topics: Common […]