Dick’s Newsletter 2026

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2026/09/omni-ai-automation-robotics-anthology-1.html Compiled by Dick Bennett Contents 2026Garrison Lovely.  Obsolete: The AI Industry’s Trillion-Dollar Race to Replace Us – and How to Stop It.Caitlin Johnstone.   “The Real Danger Of AI Is That It Is Run by Evil Warmongers. “ 2024Robert Weissman.   “AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS, AI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE massive possibility for fraud.”Review of Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence, by Matteo Pasquinelli.2023“Moving Too Fast on New Technology” by Coralie Koonce.Matteo Pasquinelli, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence.David Price, Review of Vonnegut’s books.   “Kurt Vonnegut [1950s] Warned Us About the Dangers of Automation.”2020New Laws of Robotics with Frank […]

(Dick’s TC library).  Compiled by Dick Bennett 9-28-26.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2026/09/criticism-of-tom-cotton-2026-2015-dicks.html ContentsCode Pink.  Rev. of Cotton’s Book on China.  2026. Andre Pagliarini.  “Beyond Accountability.  How Dictators and Nazis have eluded the international justice system. . . .”Sharon Zhang. “Senator Says European Nations Must Sanction Trump and Rubio Before US Wrecks ICC.” Jim Hightower.   Tom Cotton Doublespeaker. Cotton and NRA.Andrew Harnik on Cotton the Cold Warrior.Steve Benen.   Cotton, China Infiltrating, US not Racist Nation.Slavery and 1619 Project.Military InterventionTik-TokIranFacebook statement v. China7 articles from google search.Capitol Mobs.Andrew de Millo. TC Running for President.Charles Pierce.  “TC’s Bottomless Ambition.”Arwa Mahdawi.  “Think TC Is Bad?”Jeet Heer.  TC “…Could Unite the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice,  Ecology,  and Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2026/09/omni-ukraine-war-anthlogy-38-september.html What’s at Stake:   In these 38 anthologies this one war provides a rich mine of studies of the  causes and solutions of wars.   Preventing and stopping wars have been the great themes of the United Nations, and these anthologies provide their substance.        A sub-set of the subject, particularly well-illustrated by this war, is the question of when the war began.  Once that is established, numerous other topics are clarified.  But what if the two sides disagree, as they often do, over the starting date, and as […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2026/07/omni-sovietrussophobia-anthology-9-july.html What’s at Stake: In his Preface to J. W. Fulbright’s book, The Arrogance of Power, Francis Wilcox describes Fulbright’s concept of “two Americas”: “One is the America of Abraham Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson, the other is the America of Theodore Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots…a dominant strand of democratic humanism and a lesser but durable strand of intolerant puritanism.”  Our ask is to make sure the dominant strand prevails, but the current trend is toward “a more strident and aggressive American policy.”  This warning was written in 1966. CONTENTSPart I: SovRussophobiaPart II: Peacemaking Part I: […]