Dick’s Newsletters 2022

OMNI US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #23:NAZIS AND NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE June 19, 2022 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/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 regarding the war.       First, an important motivation of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is the long, active, armed presence of Nazis and then Neo-Nazis there.    During WWII–to Russians the Great Patriotic War against the Nazi invasion, let’s not forget, in which Ukrainians fought on the Nazi side–killed some 20 million Russians.   The essays explain how Nazi presence in the Ukraine exacerbated Putin’s fear of NATO and helped to motivate his invasion […]

OMNI US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY, #22:  peace June 10, 2022 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS: WAYS TO PEACE, June 10, 2022 Art Hobson. “The Irrationality of War.”US Peace Council. “A Manufactured Crisis In Ukraine Is Victimizing The World’s Peoples” Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Reiner Braun.  “NO to NATO, YES to Peace with Russia.” Voices from Donbass.    Kristine Melnikova     Alexey AlbuTed Snider.   Diplomacy. Jeffrey Sachs.  Negotiated Settlement. Yanis Varoufakis.  Negotiated Settlement. Deb Sawyer.  Steps to Peace v. Nuclear War. Black Liberation Movement. Dismantle NATO. Katrina vanden Heuvel.  “We […]

78. Climate Memo Mondays, #78, June 6, 2022 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/climate-memo-mondays-78.html Ashley Dawson, ExtinctionChris McGreal, Exxon Must Go To Trial CLIMATE BOOKS DEDICATED TO CHILDREN EXTINCTION IS UPON USOne hundred species are disappearing every day.  Insects are especially vulnerable with more than 40% of species experiencing population declines in the past decade. From The Guardian: “Human nature isn’t driving mass extinction – as some have argued – but our acceptance of capitalism is,” according to Professor Ashley Dawson. In his recent, slim, eye-opening book, Extinction: A Radical History, Dawson lays out the case that our current global economic system is pushing the […]

OMNI UN NUCLEAR ABOLITION DAY JUNE 2, 2022https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/omni-un-nuclear-abolition-day-june-2.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ Notable dates for your calendar:August is Nuclear Free Future Month.JULY 7 United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted on the 7th July 2017, acceded by 122 State Parties.    “Implementing the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.”  The TPNW entered into force in January 2022. The latest issue of the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament explores how to implement its provisions and build a sustainable regime that will contribute to its goals. Browse now. TEXTS Google Search […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war_29.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ Contents of #21 ANTHOLOGY WAR Marius Trotter.  The Russian Perspective, The Crucial History:   FROM WWII TO 2022 The US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR BEGINS IN 2014The Maidan Coup J. Kuzmarov.  2014 Odessa Massacre. John Walsh.  Coup Against Elected Pro-Russian President and Attacks on     Donetsk and Lugansk (Donbass) Pro-Russians. Fergie Chambers.  Neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion Torture vs. Donbass Pro-    Russian Rebels. Statement from Black Liberation Movement.MR Editors, From 2014 to Present. Samir Amin.  Large Geo-Political Context.  Triad of Western Control,Anatol Lieven.  Dangers of US Proxy War.NATO ExpansionGlobal Times.  Now Finland and […]

OMNI NATO ANTHOLOGY #1 May 20, 2022 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-nato-anthology-1-may-20-2022.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ Contents of NATO ANTHOLOGY #1 Maps of NATO Expansion (add Sweden and Finland) Harry Targ.  History of NATO Ratcheting up Cold War TwoRick Rozoff.  “NATO’s War against Yugoslavia” 1999.Rozoff.  NATO “Bombing of Chinese Embassy” 1999. Kerstin Tuomala.  NATO-US War Game in Finland 2017. Ukraine Maidan Coup 2014. Patrick Lawrence.  “The New Iron Curtain.”Moving Along Russia’s Southern Border.  Jeremy Kuzmarov.     Kazakhstan. Geraldina Colotti.  “NATO Tentacles from Europe to Latin America.” NATO Military Drills in Estonia Near Russian Border,   Russia […]

OMNI US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war, ANTHOLOGY #20, mAY 6, 2022. Consequences of War, Control OF INFORMATION and CENSORSHIP, and seeking PEACE https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake:  Wartime State, Corporate Rapacity and Repression, and Populist Patriotism v. Free Speech and Peace. CONTENTS #20, CONSEQUENCES OF WAR (10): CONTROL OF INFORMATION/CENSORSHIP.  RESISTANCE: PEACEMAKING. Patrick Lawrence.  “The US Bubble of Pretend.” George Paulson.  Scott Ritter and President Poroshenko. Glenn Greenwald.  “The Censorship Campaign against Western Criticism of    NATO….” Evan Reif.  War of Repression against “anyone who dares to speak against […]

OMNI US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY #19 4-29-2022https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/omni-us-nato-russia-ukraine-war.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake:   “If people want to understand the war in Ukraine, they need to read widely about it, from different perspectives, including the Russian one, to try and discern the truth about what is going on for themselves.”  MR editors.  The official rationalizations are receiving massive support from the White House, Pentagon, Congress, and mainstream media (including PBS).  In these anthologies we hear some anti-war perspectives. CONTENTS OF US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE war ANTHOLOGY #194-29-2022 ORIGINS, CAUSES […]