Dick’s Newsletters 2022

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-united-nations-day-october-24-2022.html For a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology compiled by Dick Bennett www.omnicenter.org/donate/ Contents UN Day 2022 Frederick Glaysher’s “Dag Hammarskjöld” FCNL Urges Contact Rep. UN General Assembly 77United Nations Foundation Fulbright on Nationalism “Dag Hammarskjöld” by Frederick Glaysher Dag Hammarskjöld No more of these sad tones of fear and the scourge of war, of chaos and anarchy, of the passions of humankind. Though the first movements wander among the dark and threatening conflicts of Beethoven’s Ninth, the “Ode to Joy” shall come. All the millions will unite as brothers, surrendered to the way of peace, to a higher […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake.       In the middle of WWI, the highly decorated British Army officer and celebrated poet, Siegrfried Sassoon, wrote “Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration” denouncing the war for being “prolonged by those who have the power to end it.”  The British War Department chose not to courtmartial Sassoon, but instead sent him to an Army hospital specializing in “shell shock” patients (PTSD today).  The military purpose of the hospital was to return soldiers back to the war in France. Its political purpose […]

OMNI TORTURE, WAR CRIMES, LAWLESSNESS COLLECTION #12,https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-torture-anthology-12.html Compiled by Dick Bennett, Building a Culture of Peace and Justice  (#1 October 5, 2007; #2 May 9, 2011; #3 June 26, 2011; #4 Oct. 21, 2011; #5 Feb. 25, 2012; #6 June 12, 2012; #7 Feb. 23, 2013; #8 June 23, 2013; #9 April 16, 2014; #10, January 26, 2015; #11, March 30, 2016).    This collection is arranged in reverse chronological order from 2022 to 2016, for the experience of investigating a subject deeper into its past.  See end for Torture #11, and to preceding anthologies. Contents Torture #12 John Kiriakou.  CIA, […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-96-october-10.html New hope-centered resistance books, article, legislation:Friederici, Beyond Climate Breakdown.Gottlieb,  Care-Centered Politics.Charlie Wood.Burnout.Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. 2 new climate resistance books from MIT Peter Friederici.  Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope.   Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore.  MIT, 2022.  200 pp.  “We need new stories—stories that center the persistence of life, rather than of capitalism.” Robert Gottlieb.  Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet.  MIT, 2022.Description   Author(s)   Praise Why a care economy and care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration. Charlie Wood.“There’s No Place for Burnout in […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-weapons-of-mass-destruction.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.   (#1 July 16, 2012; #2, 9-7-13; #3, July 4, 2021). https/:omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS #4 WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION    And US CollegesNUCLEAR WEAPONS OMNI Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembrance Abolition of Nuclear Weapons International Campaign US Latest War BudgetUAF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CHEMICAL WEAPONSArt Hobson. “Chemical weapons, and war.”  (WWI).  A poem for these times. George Paulson.  WWII US Mustard Gas. Veterans for Peace Reports  Agent Orange.US & Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange. Fifty Years of US Chemical War in S. E. Asia. BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS US Germ Warfare […]

UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-united-nations-international-day.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/DONATE/ CELEBRATING  ARKANSAS PEACE WEEK CONTENTS UN International Day of Peace 21 September, 2022Arkansas Peace Week 2022 World Beyond War: Wear a Sky-blue Scarf UN International Day of Peace 21 September – the United Nations https://www.un.org › events › peaceday › background The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations General Assembly. Two decades later, in 2001, the General Assembly unanimously …UN International Day of Peace The International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) is observed around the […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-us-lawlessness-anthology-2.html COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY (#1, 4-24-17) https://omnicenter.org/donate/ LAWLESSNESS ANTHOLOGY #2 CONTENTSUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.  “’Suicidal’ war on nature.”Samuel Totten (Editor). Dirty Hands and Vicious Deeds:The US Government’s Complicity in Crimes against Humanity and Genocide.World Beyond War.  “Enough is Enough. BDS the US.”Dick.  Lawlessness and Lying. US PresidentsRichard Painter, Peter Golenbock.   American Nero: The History of the Destruction of the Rule of Law, and Why Trump Is the Worst Offender.Dahlia Lithwick.  “Defending the Rule of Law in the Trump Era.” US WARSBrett Wilkins.  “Jimmy Carter.   US ‘Most Warlike Nation in History of the World’.”Bob […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-economic-growth-anthology-4.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and ECOLOGY https://omnicenter.org/donate/ GROWTH, EXPANSION the Dynamo of Capitalism #4 Earlier Newsletters (#1, June 17, 2016, http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/06/growth-watch.html #2, July 10, 2016, https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/07/growth-watch-2.html #3, October 20, 2018, https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/10/omni-growth-watch-newsletter-2.html #4 TABLE OF Contents:PART ONE:   ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, 2016, 2019, ideologically biased mainstream advocate of neoliberal capitalism, enemy of climate 2016 XNA Parking Deck $30 million. 2019 12% rise in traffic NWA.  See George Monbiot’s corrective, “Love Flights.”Access highway to be improved.Welcome gas and oil Boom includes some smog. Plastics Boom. Coal down but some new mines. PART TWO:  RECENT COMMENTARY ON GROWTH […]