WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-173-april-17.html PEACEMAKINGUnited Nations and Better World CampaignCasa Cry, Catholic Worker Newsletter UNITED NATIONS Exciting news! Each year, the Better World Campaign.org publishes a comprehensive guide highlighting America’s crucial role on the global stage through its engagement with the United Nations. This guide equips supporters, policymakers, and inquiring minds with insights to understand the value of U.S. involvement in the UN. It spotlights the value of UN funds and programs in advancing U.S. interests, explains constructive engagement on UN reforms, advocates for full U.S. engagement with key UN bodies, and more. Briefing Book [I checked out BWC, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-172-april-10.html Joel Kovel.  Red Hunting in the Promised Land. TOM ENGELHARDT.   “A Slow-Motion World War III?” (Sovietphobia.)  Joel Kovel.  Red Hunting in the Promised Land. In the wake of the Cold War, an eminent social critic examines the roots of America’s anticommunist frenzy.   IWW.“The most original and revealing study of the fear-and-loathing obsession–anticommunism–that has driven [America] loony for most of this century. Every aspect of our lives, public and private, has been debased by this plague. Kovel’s book, in brilliantly showing cause, may offer some sort of cure as we approach a new and hopefully sane […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-171-april-3.html PEACEMAKERS Kasturba GandhiCode PinkICAN Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist   PBS   https://www.pbs.org › show › kasturba-gandhi-accident… Kasturba Gandhi: Accidental Activist tells the story of how she became one of the first women activists in modern history. [In contrast to Gandhi’s nonviolence is the Wounded Warriors organization: “Veterans always support other veterans.”  That’s the problem; unless they support nonviolent peacemaking, justice, and restoration of the earth, WW is only one more nail in the militarization coffin.  –D] Dick, don’t miss Congress dodging my questions! Medea Benjamin,  3-24-24  [See her up front left in the last photo.]            […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-170-march-27.html Michael Swanson.  The War State.OMNI, AFSC, FCNL Mission Statement. Michael Swanson.   The War State: The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963.  2013.[For readers who have not studied US post-WWII/ColdWar/Imperial history, this book provides a basic introduction simply and clearly written; those who know the history will find this a good review and handy reference (despite its lack of an Index.  –Dick] Author’s Overview Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its […]

2024 Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-168-march-13.html Peacemaking, PeacemakersJust Foreign PolicyVeterans for PeaceInternational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Just Foreign PolicyJames R. The American people want to see an immediate ceasefire in occupied Palestine, and our pressure for peace is working. Just days ago, Vice President Kamala Harris gave a statement calling for an immediate six-week ceasefire—the first time the administration has used this language. But the Biden administration needs to put its money where its mouth is – if the U.S. does nothing to hold Israel and Netanyahu accountable, then nothing will change. With Netanyahu threatening to invade Rafah and […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-167-march-6.html   Compiled by Dick Bennett Peacemakers’ Responsibility: If We Fail to Prevent a War, then We Must Stop the War. War in Ukraine: MAKING SENSE OF A SENSELESS CONFLICT byMEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES.    An important antidote to war propaganda” — Mairead McGuire, activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize .     50% off “Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence”  read by Eunice Wong. Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation against the Gaza genocide was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. CHRIS HEDGES Report.    .MAR 2, 2024. In Case You Missed These Episodes:  Catching Up […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-165-february.html Norman Solomon. War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (New York: The New Press, 2023), 272 pages.Rev. “Corporate Media, Political Elites, and Perpetual War” by David Michael Smith, Monthly Review (December 5, 2023). (Dec 01, 2023).  Topics: Capitalism  Imperialism  Media  Political economy  Terrorism  War Places: Americas  United States Publisher’s description: David Michael Smith reviews journalist Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible, an eloquent moral call to end the bloody state of perpetual war that the United States has engaged in since the advent of the “war on terror.”   Long recognized as one of this country’s most incisive journalists and media critics, Norman Solomon has […]

NATIONALISM, MILITARISM, WARMAKING, WHITE CHRISTIANITY V. DEMOCRACY, Hitler and Trump v. Democracy      In Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next, Bradley Onishi argues that the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was the outcome of years of a subculture’s preparation for war to overthrow the US democracy.  The eleven chapters take us from the rise of White Christian nationalism’s reaction to the social rights revolution of the 1960s to the reactionary insurrection of January 6, 2021.  At the center of the bifurcation of the nation into pro- and anti-democracy, Onishi sees the expanding myth of the […]