WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-261-december.html This final War Watch Wednesday draws attention to the danger of a nuclear WWIII.  Only planetary warming poses a greater threat to all species. To eliminate the danger of nuclear holocaust, three movements are important, and one is essential.   1.     The Peace Movement.    The overall problem is US militarism and aggressive empire.   OMNI has participated and is participating actively in many ways to this noble movement to avert catastrophic, planetary destruction.    A new book again explains the US War Machine and sets forth necessary remedies fundamental to the peace movement:  The Trillion Dollar War Machine: […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/war-watch-wednesdays-260-december-17.html [WWW has never been more needed, but next week’s edition will be its final issue, unless you will be the new editor.  I am preparing to move to an assisted living residence.  -D] Military-corporate-gov-media-neofascist Complex US Militarism and Warmaking. Kathleen Barry.  Unmaking War, Remaking Men:  How Empathy. . . . Nan Levinson. “Who’s Responsible When a Military Order is Illegal?” Theocracy Watch. Russophobia.US Corporate Media Increasingly Centralized.Common Cause.   Defending Arkansas PBS.Robert Reich.  Major Media Being Bought by Trump’s Billionaire Friends. TEXTS Empathy Unmaking War, Remaking Men: How Empathy Can Reshape Our Politics, Our Soldiers and Ourselves […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/war-watch-wednesdays-259-december-10.html NONVIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, REASON, NEGOTIATION:  GLUES FOR CIVILIZATiON. DECEMBER 10 IS UN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY.1948: UN General Assembly led by Eleanor Roosevelt passes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). “On this international human rights day, join us in working to eliminate nuclear weapons.” Alicia Sanders-Zakre, ICAN <admin@icanw.org> 12-10-25 .  2017 Nobel Peace Prize.  ICAN is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.     Place de Cornavin 2, Geneve 1201, Switzerland. PBS Documentary of Christian Nonviolent Peacemaker Dorothy Day.  Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story.  DD and history of The Catholic Worker organization, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/12/war-watch-wednesdays-258-december-3-2025.html Ted Snider   “Ukraine Peace Talks:” Scott Ritter.   “Highway to Hell”  in a trilogy devoted to necessity of arms control.Help PM Press and OR Books Build the Future. Ted Snider   “Ukraine Peace Talks: Concessions or Done Deals?”  ACURA (Dec. 03, 2025).  The latest attempt at U.S. mediated peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are in disarray with the chance of success rapidly shrinking. Trump originally offered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a plan that “He’ll have to like… and if he doesn’t like it, then you know, they should just keep fighting.” And he demanded an answer […] […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-257-november.html Nukewatch Quarterly, Fall 2025.The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine by Andrew Cockburn.US Peace Memorial Prize to VFP’s Gerry Condon. Nukewatch Fall 2025 Quarterly Newsletter Nukewatch  Quarterly <nukewatchquarterly@gmail.com>Sat, Nov 22, 2025. The Fall 2025 edition of the Nukewatch Quarterly is now ready for viewing online! Click here to read the whole newsletter “cover to cover” on our website![Please subscribe.  Its subject—preventing nuclear war—makes it one of the most important magazines—in print or online–in the world.    –D]US Peace Memorial Peace Prize. The Threat: Inside the Soviet Military Machine is a 1983 book by Andrew Cockburn that argues the Soviet military was not as […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-254-november.html Commemorate the End of the Vietnam War. Veterans for Peace Reclaims Armistice DayArt Hobson.  Ukraine Nuclear War Danger is Disturbingly High.Greg Mello.  Kathryn Bigelow’s New Film on Nuclear War:  A House of Dynamite.“Commemorate the End of the Vietnam War.”  With Larry Rottmann.   Nov. 1 to Nov. 12 “Faces from Vietnam”: Exhibition of Photographs at FPL top floor.  Tues. Nov. 11, 5:30, “Voices from Vietnam”: Film and discussion.Wed., Nov. 12, 6:00, “A Different Vietnam War.”   Narratives of war presented by veterans Larry Rottmann, Tim Burrows, and Eli Redstone.   With live music. More: Go to faylib.org/events Veteran of the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-253-october.html Emmanuel Todd. Russophobia. Robert Reich. Stopping Bullies. Marge Piercy. Conservative Majority (poem). Anti-war: Johnstone Paints Benjamin.Voices from Vietnam Coming to Fayetteville.Dick’s Sources Emmanuel Todd. “Russia is our Rorschach.” ACURA (Oct 21, 2025).Last April, I was interviewed by a Russian television channel about Western Russophobia and I had an epiphany. . . .“our Russophobia has nothing to do with you. It’s a fantasy, a pathology of Western societies, an endogenous need of ours to imagine a Russian monster.” Read in browser » [The author focuses on France. An earlier, famous psychiatric explanation of US Soviet policies […]