WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-224-april-9.html Making Distinctions for Peace, Justice, and Ecology Roy Eidelson.  “The American Psychological Association and the Weaponization of Antisemitism.”  Alterman, Eric.   When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences.  Roy Eidelson.  “The American Psychological Association and the Weaponization of Antisemitism.”   https://royeidelson.com/the-american-psychological-association-and-the-weaponization-of-antisemitism/ Thank you for this opportunity. I want to use my 15 minutes to describe how the weaponization of antisemitism has impacted the American Psychological Association (APA) — and our profession more broadly — since the Hamas-led attacks inside Israel on October 7th, 2023. To be clear, these are my views alone, and I am not […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-climate-memo-mondays-225-april-7.html Wetlands Day?  To Wetlands!  The UN World Wetlands Day. Stephanie Elam, CNN.  Sea Lions Suffering from Domoic Poisoning.Greenpeace Trial.Lydia Wylie-Kellerman.  This Sweet Earth for the Children. INTERNATIONAL WETLANDS DAY is Today? According to Google with a splendid photo of a beaver.“How Beavers Are Preventing Wildfires and Fighting Drought in North America”   ©A family of beavers. Image by EBFoto via Depositphotos.   Imagine a creature that works tirelessly, shaping the landscape in ways that protect entire ecosystems. Enter the beaver, nature’s industrious engineer. These remarkable rodents are doing more than just building dams; they are playing a […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-223-april-2.html SEN. TOM COTTON, AR’S MCCARTHYITE RUSSOPHOBE“Senate Intelligence Committee hearing turns ugly with McCarthy-style lies about CODEPINK: Women for Peace.” Editor.  mronline.org (3-30-25). On March 25, at the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats with the five heads of intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, Senator Tom Cotton, accused on national TV a group I have worked with for over 20 years, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, of being funded by the Communist Party of China. During the hearing CODEPINK activist Tighe Barry stood up following the presentation of the Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard’s lengthy […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-222-march-26.html Ralph Nader.  Resisting “Trump’s Tyranny.”Maria Ressa.  How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future. “Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny” by Ralph Nader.  Facebook,  March 14, 2025.    (forwarded by Joanie Connors to OMNI Open Forum) There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice. . . . Don’t self-censoring people know that they are helping the Trumpian dread, threat and fear machine get […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-221-march-19.html Bayard Rustin, Opponent of War.Origins of US Wars.  Everyone a Historian.The Mother of US Wars: Westward Conquest. March 17 was the birthday of Bayard Rustin, civil rights organizer (1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom), pacifist, socialist, and gay advocate.   UAF’s Black Studies Program is partly supported by an endowment from OMNI. THE ORIGINS OF US WARS?   Become a scholar historian. Despite being the most wealthy and heavily armed empire in the history of the world, the agencies and think tanks whose task it is to justify that empire have produced no more numerous publications […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-219-march-5.html PREVENTING, STOPPING WARS Rally for Palestine  Join Us Saturday, March 8, Court House, 1:00: Protest for Palestine!  Friendsofpalestinenwa   Mar 3, 2025    We invite you to stand with us in solidarity at an upcoming protest against the actions of Israel and the U.S., calling out the tactics of forced displacement and mass deportation that target refugees, migrants, and indigenous people. This is a crucial moment to raise our voices against injustice and advocate for the rights of those who are being forcibly displaced. Join us as we come together to demand change and show our support […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/ Ukraine War: Truth of the Past Depends upon When you Begin and What’s Omitted  Joe Lauria.  “Help Us Fight the Psyopcracy.”  Consortium News (6-24-24). It’s not a physical enemy to combat but rather powerful messages lodged in millions of people’s minds. It’s come to rule over us. Read here… June 22, 2024 Cathy Vogan, executive producer of Consortium News‘ webcast CN Live!, coined a new term to describe rule by psyops, or psychological operations: psyopcracy.   And Consortium News is devoted to fighting it. According to Wikipedia:   “Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-217-february.html Origins of Wars:Walter Karp.  Indispensable Enemies: leaders’ desire for power.Herman and Chomsky.   Manufacturing Consent: media support of ruling power.Monthly Review:  failure to abide by international weapons treaties. Leaders’ Desire for Power Walter Karp, Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America.  Saturday Review P, 1973. “In prosecuting an aggressive foreign policy, the party oligarchs have been driven by no cause or interest external to themselves: by no fundamental economic interest, by no genuine threat to the security of the Republic, by no irresistible poplar demand.  Except in the post-World War I period [v. “Wilson’s war”], […]