WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-war-watch-wednesday-109-january-18.html #106 rejected US bellicose militarism. #107 advocated empathy and stewardship. #108 warned of nuclear holocaust. All of these messages are finally appeals to block war, named in the UN Charter as the worst crime against humanity.   But some people must experience the terrible cruelty and destruction of war, either directly or by reading about or viewing them, before they will act.  That is why combat veterans are among the most persuasive opponents of war.   Dalton Trumbo attempted to provide that experience in his novel, Johnny Got His Gun KNOWLEDGE OF WAR’S CONSEQUENCES, ENDING WAR Johnny Got His Gun by […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-108-january.htmlNuclear WarDoomsday Clock from Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsArt Hobson. Praise for Abelow’s How the West Brought War to Ukraine.Subtitle:  Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe.  Benjamin Abelow.  Publishing success of his book.  DOOMSDAY CLOCK Watch the 2023 Doomsday Clock announcement.  BAS (1-9-23).  Tune in January 24 at 10AM EST to hear what leading scientists have set the Doomsday Clock to for 2023. Read more. Ukraine War Threatens Nuclear WarBenjamin Abelow.   How the West Brought War to Ukraine.Please read this short book about the Ukraine War, praised by Art Hobson,12-22-22 [WWW […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-107-january-4.html Sandra Richter. Stewards of Eden.Empathy.  Lubna and the Pebble, The Expanding Circle, The Price of Empire Sandra Richter, Stewards of Eden.SCOT MCKNIGHT.    “War and the Environment.”  JULY 7, 2020.“The Bible speaks directly about war and the environment. If you besiege a town for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you must not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them. Although you may take food from them, you must not cut them down. Are trees in the field human beings that they should come under siege from you? Think about the wisdom of this, […]

— https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-105-december.html NUCLEAR WAR Prevention and Justice Ron Ridenour. Preventing the Bomb.  CovertAction Magazine.Beatrice Fihn.  ICAN: ICC, Nuclear Weapons War Crimes.Union of Concerned Scientists.  Urge Congress cosponsor a resolution supporting nuclear justice in    the Marshall Islands.Robin Andersen.  FAIR.  Corporate Media and the Ultimate Insanity.Gerry Sloan.  Poets and “UnAmerican Activities.” NUCLEAR WEAPONS Glance Back to Building the Bomb Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes. CovertAction Magazine via gmail.mcsv.net   12-2-22 11:16 AM (2 hours ago)     Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-104-december.html Ukraine WarBenjamin Abelow.   How the West Brought War to Ukraine.  Art Hobson. Dangers of the Ukraine War. Benjamin Abelow.  How the West Brought War to Ukraine.  May 8, 2022. Misguided American and NATO policies created the Ukraine crisis. Now they risk nuclear war.   https://medium.com/@benjamin.abelow/western-policies-caused-the-ukraine-crisis-and-now-risk-nuclear-war-1e402a67f44e  Preface: If you prefer to read this essay as a bookThis essay is now available, slightly modified and revised, in book form — Paperback, eBook, and Audible. You can purchase these at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local independent bookstore. You can also read more about me and my work at my website. A German-lauguage edition is available in […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-102-november.html WAR’S HORROR AND HOW TO STOP MINDLESS SLAUGHTER Dick, “Then Conscription Began.” Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Chris Hedges, The Greatest Evil Is War. Chris Hedges.  “Shadows of War,” War Photographs. Dick, WWI Armistice. Then Conscription Began By Dick Bennett The soldiers cheered “God and Country! for victory over the enemy.  God with us.   (Gott mit uns!)  Over five foot eight the volunteers came,cheering right and honor.They walked tall to kill the enemy,led by kilted bagpipes,into the wire, into the guns. After the Battle of the Marne […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-101-november.html US Endless War and Ways to Stop the US System of War Dick, US Pervasive War System, Part I Hedges and Bacevich, “the folly of endless war” Walter Hixson, [US History of] Imperialism and War Quakers’ Way to Peace US Patriotism, US Militarism, and US WAR, Part I Why have we been at war since 1941?   The inclusive, pervasive patriotism is a main origin,  with its arrogant US Christian nationalism and US exceptionalism inserted in every nook and cranny of USA.  We are taxed and disciplined by relentless, yet to most invisible, patriotic propaganda for militarism, empire, and war.  […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-100-november.html ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS VFP No to Nukes.Alfred Meyer.  No to Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons.Rev. Carl Kabat.  Few Fools for Christ.Patrick Mazza.  US Could Use Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear.Ben Norton. “UN votes 152 to 5 telling Israel to get rid of its nuclear weapons,” NO TO NUKES, LET’S DO IT TOGETHER VFP Spokane – SAY NO TO NUKES Picket and Rally.”   VFP Weekly E-News (10-24-22). VFP Spokane, in conjunction with Defuse Nuclear War and UNAC developed a strategy and held an event to “Say No To Nukes” at the Foley Federal Courthouse on October 14th. Information packets were left at Senator Patty Murray’s […]