Dick’s Newsletter 2025

US OLIGARCHY ANTHOLOGY #1 January 20, 2025

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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 […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #210, JANUARY 1, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-210-january-1.html HOPE FOR NEW YEAR TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Noam Chomsky and Nathan Robinson, The Myth of American Idealism: How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World.  2024.   Pp. 207-9. The US Began the Nuclear Threatening and Race for Nuclear Superiority.“The United States began developing plans for potential nuclear attacks against the Soviet Union years before the Soviets had nuclear weapons of their own. . . .The Truman administration did not hesitate to use nuclear weapons as a means of diplomatic coercion.”  Chomsky and Robinson, pp. 208-9 (I have quoted C&R verbatim but have arranged their text […]