Dick’s Newsletter 2025

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-militarism-in-arkansas-anthology-4.html Anthology #1, October 8, 2008. Anthology #2, October 10, 2012.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/11/omni-militarism-in-arkansas-2-oct-10.html Anthology #3, November 28, 2021. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/militarismmilitary-industrial.html   What’s at Stake: The extent of militarism and violence in the US.  Here are some examples in Arkansas. CONTENTS ARKANSAS MILITARISM #4 ARKANSAS Friends of Palestine NWA.  “Protest War Profiteering in Arkansas.” “Arkansas Aerospace Companies Map” and Camden.CAMDEN, AR’S MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Arkansas Business Staff.  “Voters Pick Lockheed Rocket System as ‘Coolest Thing Made in Arkansas.’” Lisa Hammersly.  “South Arkansas home to weapon that, generals say, is turning Ukrainian war’s tide.” […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecologyhttps://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/07/omni-interdependence-day-anthology-7.html What’s at Stake:  What do July 4, 1776, and Independence Day mean?  This should be a Day of Reflection. CONTENTS Ace Thelin.   “A Different Revolution.” “Declare Your Independence From Mainstream Media.” Dennis Kucinich.  “Renewing a Desecrated Declaration of Independence.”About Face.  “Right to Refuse.”Rebekah Jones.  “We’ve lost the United States.” Win Without War. 7-3-25 [VFP-all] Michelle Ellner.   “What July 5th Taught Me That July 4th Never Did.”Noam Chomsky.  “Is Trump a Symptom or the System?”  YouTube (AI generated). The following articles written for 7-4-24 arrived after that Anthology was published. […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-237-june-30.html 3 Items from OMNI CLIMATE URGENCY ANTHOLOGY  #2.  JUNE 30, 2025.Neil Faulkner.  “Covid, climate, and ‘dual metabolic rupture’.”Tom Engelhardt.  “Our Not-So-Slow-Motion Apocalypse”Dick.  More Urgencies: Lexicography. Neil Faulkner.  “Covid, climate, and ‘dual metabolic rupture’.”  We thought climate catastrophe the main danger. Now we know there is another. A double-whammy ecological crisis threatens collapse into dystopian chaos.  | more…  Pathogens, a great and terrible global threat to human and many a non-human alike, [are] as much a Sword of Damocles hovering above civilisation as climate change. Tom Engelhardt.  “Our [all species] Not-So-Slow-Motion Apocalypse: My Extreme World and (Un)Welcome […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   PEACE MOVEMENT VFP.  Peace and Planet News.Don Timmerman.  CASA CRY,  Catholic Worker.The Dalai Lama on “The Reality of War.”AFSC.  Relief to Gaza.Peace Literacy Institute. Peacemaking and PeacemakersYou will enjoy Peace and Planet News, Veterans for Peace’s peace, justice, and ecology magazine.  VFP is an anti-war, anti-warming, anti-fascist org. now, and you will be seeing it in WWW and anthologies.  (Preceding VFP publications: Weekly E-News, PIOT Peace in Our Times, War Crimes Times).   –D CASA CRY, NEWSLETTER OF CASA MARIA Catholic Worker.don2roberta@yahoo.com        May 30, 2025           CASA CRY                                 JUNE, 2025“I once confronted a priest who was praising the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-climate-memo-mondays-236-june-23.html  Yale Climate Connections: Cities Sue Big OilNIRS: Nuclear Information & Resource ServiceCLIMATE & CAPITALISM (3-18-25). “This week on Yale Climate Connections” (May 30 – June 5, 2025).   Read to the bottom for a special Tom Toro cartoon available only to newsletter readers. “Puerto Rican municipalities take on Big Oil in court using a law made for the mob.”   Melissa “Missy” Sims is an attorney with a long history of confronting powerful fossil fuel interests. Now she’s part of a legal team representing more than three dozen municipalities in a landmark lawsuit against Exxon and more […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-israel-and-iran-anthology-3-june.html What’s at Stake: “The devastation that a war could bring cannot be overstated — millions of lives hang in the balance.”  Preventing a war embodies the highest of human values. CONTENTS ISRAEL AND IRAN ANTHOLOGY #3 Win Without War.  6-22   “Sign now to urge your members of Congress to use their constitutional authority to STOP WAR WITH IRAN.” Beth Miller.  Jewish Voice for Peace.  6-22.Mark Leon Goldberg.  6-22.   “A Reckless and Unnecessary War.” Global Dispatches.Roots Action Teach-in.  6-22. Mike Ferner, Terry Lodge, Col. Douglas MacGregor.  Veterans for […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-israel-and-iran-anthology-2-6-20-25.html What’s at Stake: The UN CHARTER FORBIDS NATIONAL AGGRESSIONS. JUST TO SAY ‘VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL LAW’ IS MEANINGLESS AND SAYS NOTHING TO EDUCATE OR WIN SUPPORT. A BILL OF PARTICULARS IS NEEDED: THE HOW AND THE WHY OF THE VIOLATION:  THE UNITED STATES HELPED IMPORTANTLY IN DRAFTING THE U N CHARTER.  THE UNITED STATES SENATE RATIFIED IT BY AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.   IN CHAPTER 1. ARTICLE 2, #4,  THE U N CHARTER FORBIDS, EXCEPT AS AND WHEN AUTHORIZED BY THE SECURITY COUNCIL,THE USE OF FORCE AGAINST ANOTHER STATE, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, and ECOLOGY https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-united-nations-world-refugees-day.html (OMNI Anthology #1 June 20, 2008; #2 Dec. 4, 2011; #3 June 20, 2012; #4, June 20, 2014; #5, June 20, 2015; #6 June 20, 2017; #7, June 20, 2018; #8, June 20, 2019; #9, June 20, 2020; #10, June 20, 2021; #11, June 20, 2022; #12, June 20, 2023; #13, June 20, 2024; #14, June 20, 2025). http://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake: “The Day offers an opportunity to build empathy and understanding for the plight of refugees and to recognize their resilience in rebuilding their lives. “  […]