WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

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”], […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-216-february.html Dick Bennett.  Annie Jacobsen’s new book Nuclear War: A Scenario. NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION     The best introduction to Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024) is probably a book published 39 years ago–Dr. Helen Caldicott’s Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War (rev. 1986).  Here is a key passage from Missile Envy:  “The logical consequence of the preparation for nuclear war is nuclear war.  The behavior that perpetuates this race to oblivion can be changed only when people actually allow themselves to contemplate the true medical and ecological implications of such an event.  Only […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett .   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-215-february.html    US Imperialism Abel Tomlinson.  “Silent Propaganda.”Leila Sansour. The Racket. Abel Tomlinson’s latest article on US imperialism has been published by Covert Action Magazine.  The basic fact that the United States is an empire is perhaps the most systematically taboo subject within mainstream American information systems and public discourse. U.S. imperialism is almost never discussed in depth, critically or intelligently, within corporate media or the educational system. It is never mentioned by candidates of the two dominant political parties, or brought up at presidential debates. It is rarely mentioned even within universities, outside of a […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-213-january.html Bertram Gross.  Friendly Fascism: NCTE George Orwell Award. [I am recovering from covid, feeling much better today.  I had roughly prepared WWW 213 before the virus struck.] Gross’ analysis of US fascism is over 40 years old but is truer today than then. Bertram Gross.  Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America.  M. Evans & Co., 1980.  South End P (paper), 1980. Gross cites George Orwell’s novel 1984, published in 1948, several times while elucidating the politics of oligarchies..   In a section entitled “Triplespeak” (p. 204) he begins with the contradiction-and deception- riddled […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-212-january.html Claude Julien. America’s Empire.  Pantheon/Random House, 1971.  Vintage, 1973.   Not in Mullins Library. Wikipedia’s description 1971.Reacting against a common preconception, he publishes the stand out book L’Empire Américain (America’s Empire) in 1968, which received the French literary award of the Prix Aujourd’hui.[7] The book argues that, despite the USA not possessing colonies, they do, regardless, constitute an “Empire without borders”.[8] “It is nowadays the most powerful that history has ever known, by its manufacturing capacity (with 6% of the world’s population, the USA account for 43% of the non-communist world’s production), by its military power, by its catching dynamism and […]