WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

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 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-211-january-8.html Leading the TV news this Wednesday morning: fires in Los Angeles, Trump wants Panama and Greenland for US national security and the free world v. Russia and China. William Astore.  The US Empire of Air, Naval, and Land Bases. Patrick Lawrence.  The US is Spoiling for a Fight. Chomsky and Robinson.  How US Foreign Policy Endangers the World. William Astore.   “The Trillion-Dollar Blob.”  ACURA.  Dec 06, 2024.   “America has a bellicose, bullying, immature leadership that thinks military might is the answer to everything, as reflected by U.S. Special Forces in 80+ countries and roughly 800 […]

Christmas 2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-209-december.html Preventing Wars, Stopping WarsEmpathy:  Jesus, Scott RitterInternational LawInternational Children’s Peace Prize PREVENTING WARS, STOPPING WARS COMPASSION Jesus often spoke and acted for compassion; e.g., The Beatitudes.  Washing the feet of his disciples after a long, dusty day of travel.  The parable of the good Samaritan.  The parable of the lost son.  Jesus identified with suffering people and desired to bring them relief.   I grew up with the King James Bible, but today I read Thomas Jefferson’s Bible (i.e. Gospels), especially on Christmas Day. “In Search of Empathy” BY Scott Ritter (Dec 25, 2024).  […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett     https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-208-december.html WARRINGMatthew Ehret Insights.  “Which Foreign Policy Paradigm for the USA? Hegemony and Annihilation or Restoration of Sanity?”  TRANSCEND Media Service.  10 Dec 2024. Compared to the great initiatives of the past 260 years, the USA of the past several decades is a strange and foolish creature running roughshod over the dignity of people and nations in a race for mass nuclear extermination. PREVENTING WARSTHE NUCLEAR RESISTER (Nov. 12, 2024). This number reports on resisters jailed from California to New Hampshire.  A day- by- day record of the US and Canadian protesters of the genocide in Gaza […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-207-december.html  Resisting Militarism, Wars, and Empire GEORGE ORWELL AWARDS from the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH [Everyone should read Orwell’s 1984, and everyone connected professionally or indirectly to the study of LANGUAGE and POLITICS should be promoting the NCTE awards.   Maybe I’m talking about everybody.–Dick]This award recognizes people who have made notable contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has given out this award since 1975. Wars and other dysfunctions are planned,  started, and sustained by deception by language manipulation.  The award is given to an author, editor, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-206-december.html FOUR ACTIONS (=HOPE) FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE “Peacebuilding Next to Russia”: Finnish perspectives webinar.UN PROGRAMME OF ACTION ON A CULTURE OF PEACE.Back from the Brink.  Communities to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Public Citizen v. Supreme Court’s presidential  immunity decision.l Dear Dick,Join us on Saturday, December 14 for an online panel on “Peacebuilding Next to Russia” to hear from Finnish perspectives on peace.Finland and Russia not only share a 1,340-kilometer (833 miles) border, but also a long history. There have been many conflicts and disagreements, many of which have been resolved without violence and war. Now, as tensions build, it is […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-205-november.html Thomas Ricento.   Can the US Survive White Christian Nationalism?Robert F. Keeler.   Can the US Survive Militarism?Raymond Barglow.  Can the US Survive Authoritarianism?  US White Christian Nationalism Thomas Ricento.   “Can America Survive as a Secular Democracy? Free Inquiry (Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025).  The question can be understood only via a truthful history of the US that recognizes the secondary role of immigrants seeking religious freedom and the primacy of colonialism and imperialism.  Ricento recommends Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s excellent book: Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021).  […]