Dick’s Newsletter 2025

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #245, SEPTEMBER 3, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett. Friends of Palestine People’s Assembly TomorrowMilitarism in Arkansas OMNI Anthologies 2008 to Present. WARkansas People’s Assembly friendsofpalestinenwa invites you to this important gathering Thursday Sept 4 – 6:00 pm Good Shepherd Lutheran Church We’re coming together again to build community power in Northwest Arkansas. Join us for the WARkansas People’s Assembly on Thursday, September 4th. This assembly is a next in mobilizing against Arkansas becoming a war dependent economy, following our successful disruption of the Mid-America Aerospace and Defense Summit. Where we made it clear, the people of Arkansas do not welcome corporations that profit from war and genocide. Now, […]

LABOR DAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 ANTHOLOGY

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-labor-day-september-1-2025.html AI Overview (Google Search) Labor Day, celebrated on the first Monday in September in the U.S., is a federal holiday honoring American workers, while May Day, observed on May 1st globally, is International Workers’ Day, an international celebration of workers’ rights and power often marked by demonstrations, though its radical roots are often downplayed in the U.S. Both holidays emerged from the late 19th-century struggle for an eight-hour workday but diverged as American trade unions adopted Labor Day as a patriotic, mainstream event and radical labor groups […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #244, AUGUST 18, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays / Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-244-august-18.html Rebekah Jones. “The State of the Climate Report.” Yale Climate Communication Yale Climate Connections AMS Global Climate Report:  “The Planet Throws a Tantrum.” Aug 14, 2025.  Mesoscale News with Rebekah Jones rebekahjones@substack.com         The State of the Climate report released earlier today, delivers a stunning verdict: greenhouse gases—CO₂, methane, and the like—climbed to unprecedented heights, painting a picture of a world ever more trapped in its fever.   Carbon dioxide alone tipped the scales at around 422.8 ppm, a weight 52% heavier than pre-industrial skies. The growth rate today creeps ahead at more than 2.4 ppm per year, compared to […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #242, AUGUST 13, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  END CORPORATISM: Move to Amend Citizens United for a Government that Serves the Public Interest.. END EMPIRE:  Our Journey from Afghanistan. STOP Project 2025! END US CORPORATISM: MOVE TO AMEND CITIZENS UNITED.    It’s the System:  Stop the Arsonists.  Right now, people are rallying to save PBS.With the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s federal grants canceled, donations are pouring in from those who value quality, commercial-free news, educational programming, and cultural content. This outpouring is a powerful testament to the role of a free press in an informed society.  But the real crisis isn’t just the loss of […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #243, AUGUST 11, 2025

 in Climate Memo Mondays / Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-243-august-11.html Renata Alves.  “The Southern Ocean Shift: A Warning Sign….” Rebekah Jones.  “Trump admin removes climate reports, vows ‘revisions.’” Yale Climate Connections.  Communicating the Climate Catastrophe. The Southern Ocean Shift: A Warning Sign in Global Climate Circulation by Renata Alves.   PCI Messenger.  Post Carbon  Institute .   https://www.postcarbon.org/?utm_source=Post%20Carbon%20Institute&utm_campaign=6ec096e70f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_04_23_09_58_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-3d81828221-15592605&mc_cid=6ec096e70f&mc_eid=b82ba59825  A new scientific study sent a quiet but serious signal through the climate science community last week: researchers have detected a shift in the Southern Ocean’s circulation patterns. While the mainstream media barely registered the news, this finding could have significant implications for global climate dynamics and the resilience of Earth’s systems. […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #241, AUGUST 6, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/war-watch-wednesdays-241-august-6-2025.html Hiroshima was destroyed by atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.  Nagasaki on August 9. OMNI HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE 2025August 10, 7p.m., at OMNI, Lee St.MC Kelly MulhollanKeynote speaker Prof. Michael Anthony, UAF History Dept.Songs by Still on the Hill, Geoff Oelsner, and HarmoniaReading of names.Discussion following with Prof. Art Hobson If you ask, what can I do to abolish nuclear weapons, my first reply is: support an organization that opposes nuclear weapons and successfully supported the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.   ICAN was the leader, and won the Nobel Peace Prize, but several other organizations […]

Wordle 1,509 4/6OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #242, AUGUST 4, 2025Wordle 1,509 4/6

 in Climate Memo Mondays / Dick's Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-242-august-4.html Inside Climate News (ICN) 7-26-25 David Schwartzman on What’s stopping a transition to renewable energy? This week on Yale Climate Connections July 25 – 31, 2025   Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism     The deadliest floods in U.S. history     ‘It’s not over’: An open letter to David Suzuki This week’s radio episodesA warming climate means more mosquito bites     Waste from forest thinning gets new purpose in Northern California     Virtual power plants could transform electricity grids     Robotic machine helps rescue wood from the scrap heap     How […]

OMNI HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI REMEMBRANCE ANTHOLOGY 2025 #2AUGUST 4, 2025

 in Dick's Newsletter 2025 / Hiroshima Nagasaki

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/08/omni-hiroshima-nagasaki-remembrance.html What’s at Stake:  Just before and during the early 20th century, the Western powers expanded their colonialism into S. E. Asia and the Pacific.  The US took Hawaii, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippines.   The French took IndoChina; the Dutch Malaysia.    Japan began a war against eastern Asia.    In 1941 the US and UK blocked imports into Japan critical to empire.   On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the US declared war on Japan, Italy, and Germany.  In 1945  the US destroyed two Japanese cities […]