Dick’s Newsletter 2025

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #249, September 22, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-249-september.html THE ONGOING, VARIEGATED RESISTANCE TO OVERSHOOT, WARS, HEAT, TYRANNY. VFP: Wake up to Climate Crisis (and No MAS)Tour Sept. 26-Earth Overshoot Day. [See #248:SEPTEMBER 21:  SUN DAY AND INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE .  Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun.]NCTE’S George Orwell Award For Truth Against Doublethink, Doublespeak, Doubletalk.ACLU’S Legal Actions.(All of them depend upon our support.) The Wake Up to Climate Crisis and NO MAS (NO Military Air Shows) Tour begins Sept. 26 in San Diego, CA. After actions and events around the “Top Gun” air show at the Miramar USMC airbase, the group of veterans and […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #247, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-247-september.html Scott Ritter.  “Putin’s Gambit” for Arms Control.Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun and Renewed Hope. Trump Truthteller?  The DOD Is What It Always Was—the DOW.         Putin’s Gambit by Scott Ritter.  Sept. 22, 2025. There has never been a more important time for arms control. And the US government has never been so ill-prepared to meet this challenge. Enter Project 38.   Scott Ritter                                                                                                                   Project 38 is a campaign that seeks to promote effective arms control and disarmament policy and, in doing so, avoid the dangers of a new nuclear arms race […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #248, September 15, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-248-september.html David Orr on Climate and Democracy. Sun Day September 21. Bill McKibben, Here Comes the Sun. EcoWatch. “Recording of David Orr on the Interrelated Threats of Climate & Democracy” From  Move to Amend.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?    (Illuminations without which we’ll be blindsided by the enemies of C&D.  –D)   SUN DAY September 21With one month to go, there are now over 150 Sun Day events planned where we can come together to celebrate the power of clean energy.  (Btw, 9-21 is also the International Day of Peace.  A doubly auspicious day!) Events are planned in in 32 states […]

SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA ANTHOLOGY #7, September 16, 2025

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(Highlighting JUNE 10, 2025, Anniversary of June 10, 1963, JFK’s Peace Speech, Scott Ritter’s Citizens’ Summit 2025, and 100 Years of US Enmity against SU/Russia). Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology What’s at Stake:  Seeing the World as Others See It      The bafflingly widespread dislike of neocon capitalist, oligarchical Russia is partly traceable to the long exclusion of Soviet/Russian culture in the US.  For example, how many of you have read a book by a Soviet or Russian writer, or even an essay?  I grew aware of this void in the 1970s when I began to study […]

VENEZUELA ANTHOLOGY #7, SEPTEMBER 11, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-venezuela-anthology-7-september-11.html http://omnicenter.org/donate/ WHAT’S AT STAKE:   “Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998 Washington has waged a relentless war against the Bolivarian revolution, “ William Camacaro.   “These aggressive policies seek to extend US dominance in Latin America, no matter the human cost,” CodePink. END THE MONROE DOCTRINE “VENEZUELA: No War, No Overthrow, No Coup, No Sanctions / Ni guerra, ni derrocamiento, ni golpe, ni sanciones.”   World Beyond War. 8-29-25. Target: The United States GovernmentWe call on the U.S. government to abide by the rule of law and the will […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #246, SEPTEMBER 10, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-246-september.html Palestine Book Club Discusses The Book of Disappearance.Sachs and Fares.  “How to Stop Israel Starving Gaza.”Eyewitness Palestine Interviews Omar, a Deaf Palestinian. The Palestine Book Club meets again on Tuesday, September 23 at 6:30 PM at Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville (28 E Center St) to discuss The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, longlisted for the International Booker Prize.   “What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react?”Discussion leader: Ted Swedenburg, Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas (tsweden@uark.edu).   Pearl’s Books has kindly ordered several copies, and it is also available online […]

LABOR DAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 ANTHOLOGY (revised 9-5)

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology CONTENTS(See #1: https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-labor-day-september-1-2025.html) From ARkansas to Massachusetts.Labor Day and May Day.FAYETTEVILLE, ARRalph Nader.  “A Compact for American Workers to Share This Labor Day.”“No economic justice without workers’ justice” by Pramila Jayapal.“Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day” by Stephen Prager. Jon Queally.   “Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class.”UUSJ.  “Workers Over Billionaires.”Brett Wilkins.  “Americans Take to the Streets for 1,000+ ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Labor Day Rallies.” Brad Reed.  “‘Brazenly Anti-Worker’: Labor Day Reports Highlight Trump Attacks on Unions.”“”Labor Day, Chicago, […]

UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANTHOLOGY #1 September 4, 2025

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-united-states-supreme-court.html What’s at Stake:    “Since Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2009, the Court has been at war with any effort to limit the political influence of the rich.”  CONTENTS “The Supreme Court’s Key Role in Polarizing American Politics”  by Garrett Epps. The SC Undermining the EPA’s Ability to Slow Climate Change by Jared Sexton.The new Supreme Court ruling will be devastating for the climate, wildlife and people by John Noel.  Supreme Court Rulings Drastically Weaken the EPA Strengthen State Control of Elections by Paul Waldman. New […]