WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-233-june-11.html   “Why Socialism?AdbustersThe New Republic (May 2025). Robert Sepansic.  “Returning to the Dark Ages.” Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?”: The Enduring Legacy of His Classic Essay, edited and with an Introduction by by John Bellamy Foster.  Monthly Review P, 2025. First published more than seventy-five years ago in the inaugural issue of Monthly Review: An Independent Socialism Magazine, Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” is an unheralded classic. Written during the McCarthyite witch-hunt in the United States, it constituted an act of defiance, making a case for socialism unrivaled in its time or ours. Yet, its very existence has been an embarrassment […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-232-june-4.html US Right Wing Militarism Post WWIIScientists Call for Ban on Nuclear Weapons Testing. Jacqueline E. Sharkey.  Under Fire: U.S. Military Restrictions on the Media from Grenada to the Persian Gulf.Peace&Planet News.  Veterans for Peace.  [VfP recognizes three existential threats: wars, warming, fascism.Laleh Khalili.   Silicon Valley knows that war is good for business.Jimmy Tobias.  “The Nuclear Age, Reborn.”  June 3, 1957.   Linus Pauling and 2,000 other scientists join call for ban on nuclear weapons testing.  Eisenhower rejects plea.  Source: Peace Calendar 2025, Syracuse Cultural Workers. Jacqueline E. Sharkey.  Under Fire: U.S.Military Restrictions on the Media from […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-230-may-21.html Alice Slater.  “8 Steps Most Likely to Lead to [Nuclear] Peace on Earth.”Jill Stein Expanding the New Deal. 8 “STEPS MOST LIKELY TO LEAD TO PEACE ON EARTH” Alice Slater.  “Change the Conversation from Doomsday to Peace Day.”  Planet&Peace News (VfP, Spring 2025).  First published by World Beyond War. “There’s little doubt that Russia and China would be willing partners in these initiatives.  They have been proposing them to the United States and voting on them in the U.N. for more than 10 years.” Because nuclear weapons are utterly immoral and thanks to the Treaty completely […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-229-may-14.html May 16. Nakba Remembrance, 5:30 Friday. Caitlin Johnstone.  Resisting State Propaganda and Control. MIPPCIMATTC.  May 16th: Join Us for the Nakba Remembrance and ProtestFriendsofpalestinenwaWe invite you to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and join us on Friday, May 16th, from 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM at Washington County Courthouse for a protest in remembrance of the Nakba.       On May 15th, 1948, Palestinian communities were violently displaced, marking the beginning of the mass destruction of their land and the ongoing trauma they have endured. This event, known as the Nakba, continues to resonate today as violence and displacement persist.   In solidarity,  Friends […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/05/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-228-may-7-2025.html Three Arkies against War and Warmakers. Ann Wright, Bentonville, with the Gaza Flotilla Ship, Malta. Malcolm Cleveland, Fayetteville, on Costs of War. Bob Billig, Elkins, You-Tube, It’s a Police State. Three Arkies Speak and ACT UP against War and Warmakers From Bentonville AR’s International Peacemaker Offshore Malta [VFP-all] ANN WRIGHT: “I Am In Malta With The Gaza Flotilla Ship ‘Conscience’ Bombed By Israel.”   Forwarded by Gerry Condon via uark.onmicrosoft.com     to gerrycondon@veteransforpeace.org   https://popularresistance.org/i-am-in-malta-with-the-gaza-flotilla-ship-conscience-bombed-by-israel “As best that we can piece together what happened,, our ship “Conscience” which was anchored in international waters 13 nautical miles off Malta, an Israeli C-130 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-227-april-30.html Opposing Wars, Supporting Peace: VFP’s Peace and Planet News.Klein and Taylor.  “…Fight End Times Fascism.” Syracuse Cultural Workers.PBS Documentaries. New Print Edition of Peace & Planet News Available! Featuring articles by Chris Hedges, Alice Slater, Jack Gilroy, Ann Wright, Doug Rawlings, and more! Order a bundle today to distribute at your next demonstration, leave a stack at your local bookstore, or hand out on campuses. It’s a great tool to keep the resistance alive and informed. Order now. “Building a Movement to Fight End Times Fascism” By Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor.   Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-226-april-23_23.html Today Begins YOM HASHOAH, Holocaust Remembrance, Judaism. Friendsofpalestinenwa Gathering April 26.Zeteo Newsletter about Trump. Cullen Murphy.  Are We Rome? YOM HASHOAH.PBS presented Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 8 Years On, April 22.The Jewish Holocaustwas not only Nazi sociopathic mass murder but “a European-wide crime” that began in Lithuania and included the Netherlands. . Friendsofpalestinenwa  Dear Friends,   We’re excited to invite you to Come Together: A Community Gathering for and by the People, hosted by Friends of Palestine NWA on Saturday, April 26 at 6:00 PM at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville.   We’ll be sharing our 2025 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-225-april-16_39.html Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. US Peace Organizations. Herman and Chomsky.  Manufacturing Consent. International Peace Organizations, ex. WILPF. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Geneva). Women’s International League … About us Founded in 1915, the Women’s International League for Peace … History Together, they decided to create the International Women’s … Our Offices    Events …Take cheer that OMNI Is Part of an International Struggle FOR Peace, Justice, Ecology. Give more cheers for PEACEMAKERS, PEACE ORGANIZATIONS USA 2024 Entries with an asterisk are focused entirely or primarily on nuclear war. About Face, ACLU, […]