Dick’s Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/pearl-harbor-day-imperial-colonial.htmlhttps://omnicenter.org/donate   What’s at Stake:  The origins of WWII in the Pacific.   Ultimately the conflict of American and Japanese imperial interests in China led to war. Strictly speaking the USA got together with Britain and the Netherlands to freeze Japanese financial assets so that Japan would not be able to buy petroleum. The Japanese were thus forced to choose war or surrender. They chose to attack and thus the shooting war began December 1941.  From WikiAnswers. [Note: I reported my research on the Pearl Harbor attack 2006–2011 in a […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-256-november.html Protesting US Warmaking: Scholars Telling the Truth, Nuns Disarming Missiles, a Novelist Exploring War’s Effects, a Newsletter Editor Studies a Government Study, a Citizen Assesses US Fascism. The Trillion Dollar War Machine by William Hartung and Ben Freeman.  Bold Type Books, 2025.   For the publisher’s description see WWW #238, July 16, 2025.  “This is it: the definitive account of America’s wasteful, corrupt, and astonishingly ineffective military industrial complex.  William Hartung and Ben Freeman have done their fellow citizens a great service.   Taking their message to heart is a job for the rest of us.”  Andrew […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-venezuela-anthology-9-november-20.html What’s at stake: The U.S. is addicted to war. With the renaming of the Department of War, a proposed Pentagon budget of $1.01 trillion, and more than 750 military bases across some 80 countries, this is not a nation pursuing peace. For the past two decades, Venezuela has been a persistent target of U.S. regime change. The motive, which is clearly laid out by President Donald Trump, is the roughly 300 billion barrels of oil reserves beneath the Orinoco belt, the largest petroleum reserves on the planet. CONTENTSGrayzone.  Historical Patterns. Code Pink.  USA/CBS […]

UNCCD United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Drought   www.unccd.int   See Water Files UNITED FOR LAND – UNCCD NEWS ALERT UNCCD Secretariat   11-17-25         UPDATES FROM THE UNCCD SECRETARIAT AND THE GLOBAL MECHANISM 17 November 2025 View this email in your browser UN meeting to review global progress on desertification, land degradation and drought UNCCD CRIC23 is set to convene in Panama City, 1-5 December 2025. Representatives of 196 countries and the European Union will meet in Panama from 1-5 December 2025 to review their efforts against desertification, land degradation and drought under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-united-nations-climate-change.html COP 30 BEGINS NOVEMBER 10 What’s at Stake: The two-week conference will convene most of the world’s nations to accelerate action toward the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Marking 10 years since the Paris Agreement — when nearly every country pledged to limit global warming to well below 2ºC compared to pre-industrial levels — this year’s conference comes at a pivotal moment, amid growing evidence of the need for stronger and faster global climate action.  TEXTS COP30 The 30th United […]