WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-96-october-19.html STOPPING the Ukraine War: OMNI’s 26 Anthologies, the Case for Peace CONTENTS OMNI’S US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE ANTHOLOGY #14, March 19, 2022  http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletteranthology.htmlKatrina vanden Heuvel.  End the Invasion and Stop the Killing. HISTORY Jeremy Kuzmarov.  Russia’s Invasion Was Provoked: CIA’s William Burns. Dr. Gerald Horne.  “What’s to Be Done in Eastern Europe.”  US: Regime    Change in Russia. Tomgram/Tom Dispatch. “William Astore.” William Astore.  US Cold War, US Arsenal “When Did the Ukraine War Begin?”  US Empire, NATO, 2004 Orange      Revolution, 2006 Decision, 2014 Coup in UK and Maidan Massacre,      Minsk Protocols. Oliver Stone and Igor Lopatonok.  Ukraine on Fire.  […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-90-september.html The Art of Un-War.  Krzysztof Wodiczko’s films and public interventions against militarization and war.Chris Hedges on the Collapse of Civilizations. https://account.newday.com/streaming/?film=ART-01&preview=GHlu3DPx5d3xrKIfMy Videos The Art Of Un-War          New Day Films Play Video Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko has practiced socially engaged art for over five decades and  has dedicated his life and art in denouncing militarization and war. An instigator for social change, Wodiczko’s powerful public art interventions disrupt the valorization of state-sanctioned aggression and challenge our complacency towards war, xenophobia and displacement. The film focuses on Wodiczko’s social practice art and the recurring themes of war, trauma and displacement in Wodiczko’s […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-89-august-31.html Chris Hedges.  “Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War.” World Beyond War.  The War Abolisher Awards of 2022.Dick Bennett.  “Finding Hope.” Chris Hedges.  “Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War.” The prosecution of permanent war requires permanent censorship. No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan, will bleed for a very long time. This is by design. On August 24, the Biden administration announced yet another massive military aid package to Ukraine worth nearly […]

Dan Kovalik.  The Plot to Scapegoat RussiaTom Engelhardt.  Tomgram: “Is the Never-Ending Story Ending?” The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin By Dan Kovalik, Introduction by David Talbot.  Skyhorse, 2017.  Publisher’s Description An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact, the two […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/war-watch-wednesdays-87-august-17-2022.html NONVIOLENCE, PACIFISMFrancesco Da Vinci.  I Refuse to Kill.In September 2022, World BEYOND War will hold a weekly discussion each of four weeks of I Refuse to Kill: My Path to Nonviolent Action in the ’60s with the author Francesco Da Vinci as part of a small group WBW [zoom] book club limited to a group of 18 participants. Francesco will send each participant a signed hardback. We’ll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions. SIGN UP HERE. Chris Hedges: Soldiers Speak Out Against America’s Misguided Wars […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-86-august-10.htmlBarry Sanders.  The Green Zone.  War v. Planet and Civilization.. Dick wrote the following as a KPSQ weekly editorial, #18, Sat. Feb. 24, 2018.  He presented them in 5 to 7 minutes from April 2017 to September 29, 2018 on the weekly program “Folkus,” directed by Jim Lukens. My topic was the convergence of US twentieth-and twenty-first centuries capitalism, wars, climate catastrophe, and population and consumption increase.  (Convergence with the corona virus pandemic, which has killed over a million of US populace, didn’t begin until in 2019.) War v. Environment. Barry Sanders, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism […]

73.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #73, May 11, 2022   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-723-may-11.htmlJohn Mearsheimer and Stephen Cohen Challenge the US/NATO Narrative.Stephen Cohen’s Book War With Russia? Has Been Republished.Dee Knight.  “Showdown at ‘Credibility Gulch’ in Ukraine War.”   Critique of US-NATO Explanation of the Origins and Causes of the Ukraine War “Taking Aim at Ukraine: How John Mearsheimer and Stephen Cohen Challenged the Dominant Narrative.”Interfering in another state is tricky business – so says the gutsy University of Chicago international relation…  Forwarded by From Sonny San Juan, Jr. Stephen F. Cohen.  War With Russia?:  From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate (2019). Skyhorse […]

 OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #63, March 2, 2022 Glenn Petersen.  War and the Arc of Human ExperienceTodd Miller, Build Bridges, Not Walls https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-63-march-2.html GLENN PETERSEN. War and the Arc of Human Experience. Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. Glenn Petersen flew seventy combat missions in Vietnam when he was nineteen, launching from an aircraft carrier in the Tonkin Gulf. He’d sought out the weighty responsibilities and hazardous work. But why? What did the cultural architecture of the society he grew up in have to do with the way he went to war? In this book he looks at the war from an […]