WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

43. WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, October 13, 2021   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-43-october-13.html  CONTENTS: US WARS: Indian Wars to War of TerrorWar of Extermination of Native Americans:  Indigenous People’s   Day,  October 11, 2021Brown University’s Costs of War Project, War of TerrorWar Profiteers War of Terror WAR OF EXTERMINATION OF NATIVE AMERICANS Honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 11, 2021, Veterans for Peace, 10-8-21 The federal holiday commemorating the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the “New World” is an affront to Indigenous peoples everywhere and particularly to native peoples of the Americas.  Veterans For Peace believes that the federal holiday commemorating the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the “New […]

Dick: J. K. Galbraith and US Autonomous Militarism and Empire.Alfred McCoy’s Books: In the Shadows of the American Empire; To Govern the Globe. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-october-6-2021.html Autonomous Militarism and Empire, Dick Bennett“Such military activities [invasions of many smaller, weak countries even though they posed no security threat to the US], however remote from any rationally established need, served in an important way the broad purpose of the military establishment.  They were visible justification of its eminence and power. . . .the autonomous power of the military establishment.”  (John Kenneth Galbraith, The Culture of Contentment, 1992, p. 140; chapters 10 and 11, “The Military […]

41.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, September 29, 2021.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-september-29.html US WAR OF TERROR.AFGHANISTAN: WAR IS A RACKET.AFSC: CONVERT WAR PROFITEERING MONEY.TO HUMAN NEEDS. Over two decades, U.S.’s global war on terror has taken nearly 1 million lives and cost $8 trillion.Editor. Mronline.org (9-4-21) Originally published: The Intercept by Murtaza Hussain (August 31, 2021.A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars.     The U.S Racketeering [WAR] Enterprise by Steve Fournier (August 16, 2021).  https://m.facebook.com/pg/forpinoys/posts/ The war in Afghanistan was a racketeering enterprise from top to bottom. A responsible judge (if […]

38.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, September 8, 2021https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-september-6.html September 21, Film All Quiet on the Western FrontArkansas Peace Week, September 19-26Petition v. U.S. Military Air Base Construction in Henoko, Okinawa Faulkner Center August 2021 Newsletter Edition 1 of 2 UN International Day of Peace In observance of The International Day of Peace on September 21, a rare screening of the Academy Award winning 1930 classic All Quiet on the Western Front will be shown at the Faulkner Center, with live musical accompaniment by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. This is a free event and the film will begin at 7 pm. It […]

36.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, August 25, 2021https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2151229136087998997/5877489834829129710 Antiwar Film: All Quiet on the Western FrontAntiwar Peacemakers:  Mohammad Ali  Angie Zelter ANTIWAR FILM All Quiet on the Western Front Sept 21 – A UN Intl Day of Peace and AR Peace Week Event 7:00 pm – Faulkner Performing Arts Center, UA ADMISSION FREE Co-Sponsored by the UA Dept of Communications Film Appreciation Society and Omni Center Live Accompaniment by The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra All Quiet on the Western Front opened to wide acclaim in the United States 1930. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made […]

33.   WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, August 4, 2021  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/08/war-watch-wednesdays-august-4-2021.html OMNI’S ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI      OMNI will resume its annual Remembrance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and this year Celebrate the new UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons, on Sunday evening of August 8, at OMNI, 7p.m.  Join with us in sorrow and yearning for the abolition of weapons of mass destruction capable of omnicide.  Please contact OMNI Director Gladys Tiffany or OMNI President Kelly Mulhollan either to offer your help or to express your support by attending.        Despite the dispiriting Covid 19 and dangerous variants and continued failure […]

32.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 28, 2021https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-32-july-28-2021.html VS. CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARApplies to NUCLEAR WARfrom Linus Pauling’s Nobel Peace Lecture 1963        Pauling protested the huge US expenditure for research and development of biological and chemical war, which had increased “sixteenfold in a decade.”  He points out especially the horrors of nerve gas and toxins such as botulism, viruses (yellow fever), and bacterial spores (anthrax) which could “kill tens of hundreds of millions of people.”  And the special danger of large-scale development of weapons of mass destruction by the US is that it might spread around the world.  He appeals to […]

31.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, JULY 21, 2021WAR AND PEACE  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-july-21-2021.html AMERICA INVADES CHRISTOPHER KELLY, STUART LAYCOCK.HOW WE’VE INVADED OR BEEN MILITARILY INVOLVED WITH ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH.   Book Publishers Network, 2014. 396. The authors posit what many have long suspected: the United States has invaded or been militarily involved with almost every country on the globe. Kelly, a longtime military-history buff, readily admits in his introduction that he drew inspiration for his first book from Laycock’s previous work (All the Countries We Invaded: And a Few We Never Got Round To, 2012), which covers Great Britain’s overseas excursions. The two […]