Dick’s Newsletters 2022

(#1: 3-3-08; #2 Nov. 16, 2012; #3 Nov. 17, 2013; #4 May 31, 2014; #5 July 28, 2014; #6 August 30, 2014; #7 April 8, 2015; #8 May 13, 2021; #9, October 15, 2023; #10, October 23, 2023). http://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS GAZA #11 Chris Hedges.  “Exterminate All the Brutes.”United Nations General Assembly Calls for a Ceasfire“How to Begin the End of the Occupation”Ask Your Congress Member to Cosponsor Ceasefire NOW Resolution To Stop the Cycle of Violence, the U.S. Must Quit Supporting Israel’s Occupation. “Israeli war on Gaza sparks ‘largest mass mobilization of Jews in American history’ .” “Israel-Palestine war: Mounting evidence […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-united-nations-conference-of.html  Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/donate/ 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conferences 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27)  CONTENTS UN COP 27 Original Announcement: COP 27 – UN Foundation Climate Change Conference #27.     UN Foundation. “Climate Justice, COP, and an 8 billion milestone.” OMNI Center.  Achievement, US Role. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  Loss and Damage Fund Achieved, but    not stopping warming. Vijay Prashad.  Loss and Damage Fund achieved, little else. George Monbiot.  A bleak assessment.  The Governments chose to do nothing that could change our catastrophic trajectory. Bill McKibben in The […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-101-november.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS OF US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #27  (9 articles, one book) Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies.  War In Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict.   CENSORSHIPCaitlin A. Johnstone.  “PayPal blocks multiple alternative media figures critical of U.S. empire narratives.”“100 million Russian books in line for ban.”ATROCITIESArt Hobson on Atrocities, Killing Civilians.“UN slams Ukrainian attack on Donetsk maternity hospital.” Eva Bartlett.   “Western media and politicians prefer to ignore the truth….”Jeremy Kuzmarov.  Ukrainian Shelling of Donetsk.Patrick Buchanan.  “The Real Purpose of the Ukraine War for the US and Ukraine […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-refugees-anthology-1.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS (two short intro. essays, 2022 Google search, 3 books) Eve Andrews, Staff Writer.  “What is a ‘climate refugee’ and how many are there?”  Grist, Jun 20, 2019.Atossa Araxia Abrahamian .   “Warming to Climate Refugees?”  The Nation (Feb. 17, 2020).  Google Search 4-24-22BooksRobert McLeman.   Climate and Human Migration.   2013.Simon Behrman and Aviden Kent.  Climate Refugees: Beyond the Legal Impasse?  2018.Giovannni Sciaccaluga.   International Law and the Protection of Climate Refugees.  2020. TEXTS  [This essay sifts basic issues.  –Dick] Eve Andrews Staff Writer for Grist.  What is a ‘climate refugee’ […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-economic-inequalitypoverty-usa-and.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice. (#1 July 13, 2013)   “…if way to the Better there be,it exacts a full look at the Worst.”—Thomas Hardy   Contents: Social and Economic Justice #2   Struggle for Justice USA Campus Equity Week UAF 2013 Peace Alliance, Restorative Justice EPA, Environmental Justice   Economic Inequality USAChris Hedges.   Father Michael Doyle in Camden, N.J. Unequal Pay Bryan Stevenson.  Just Mercy Taibbi.   The Divide The Rich: 12 Own $1 Trillion   TEXTS   GLOBAL JUSTICE HISTORY OF STRUGGLE Roth, Review of Galeano, Calendar of Human History   STRUGGLE […]

https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/preview/2151229136087998997/3704348734885590267 Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology CONTENTS Google Search Sabaton Dylan Ochs #5 Anti-War Newsletter #5, December 19, 2016 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/12/anti-war-newsletter-5.html TEXTS FOR ANTIWAR ANTHOLOGY #6:  MUSIC GOOGLE ANTIWAR SONGS 11-12-22 Google organizes them into 9 categories: 1980s, Vietnam, 2000s, 2010s, 1960s, 1970s, modern, WW2, and reddit. Also see: The Water’s Edge » The Twenty Best Vietnam Protest Songs – Blogs blogs.cfr.org/lindsay/2015/03/05/the-twenty-best-vietnam-protest–songs/31 Top Songs About War & Anti-War – Music Industry How To https://www.musicindustryhowto.com › songs-about-war  31 Top Songs About War & Anti-War · “War” by Edwin Starr · “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath · “Gimme Shelter” […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omn-armistice-day-2022.html WE, THE PEOPLE BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE FOR THE PLANET. Compiled by Dick Bennett www.omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at stake:  The erasure of Armistice Day, renaming it Veterans Day by the militarists, tragically trumpeted our country’s history of militarism and aggression.   See H. Patricia Hynes, Nov 11, 2021.  But we can restore its original purpose and proper title.  Honor Armistice Day on November 11th as a Day of Peace.  Create or Join a demonstration.  Fly the UN flag.  Celebrate stopping wars: Stop the Ukraine War!  Stop the Cold War of hating commie Russkies that began in 1918. CONTENTS ARMISTICE […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-cuba-anthology-11-november-6-2022.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake:  The Long, Unjustified, Cruel US War against Cuba, and Cuban Resistance and Achievements. CONTENTS #11 US Meddling, Intervention, Subversion (of Cuba and US Constitution), Blockade, Propaganda, Armed Invasion, Kidnapping, Murder McAdoo.   Embargo. Landau.  “Punish Cuba” Bill.The Nation Editorial. Wayne Smith.  Overthrowing Castro a “Costly Cuba Policy.”Peter Kornbluh.  UN v. US Embargo.The Nation Editorial. Peter Kornbluh and William Leogrande v. Embargo.Margaret Flowers.  “Biden’s Disastrous Foreign Policy.” Cubaminrex.  “Cuba Responds” re Biden and Trump. Cuban Resistance (and International Allies) Dunn.  “Beginning of the Cuban Revolution.”  Ben Norton.  […]