WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

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 […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #62, February 23, 2022  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-62-february.html Soviet Phobia/Russo Phobia: In the 1990s US decided to expand NATO threateningly eastward and to exclude Russia.  (DICK)Rajan Menon, War with Russia? February 8, 2022. Progress? Let’s see. We’ve gone from unending wars in distant lands against enemies capable of little more than wielding firearms and roadside bombs — and those conflicts were disasters — to the possibility of a war in the European heartland between nuclear-armed foes. I mean, honestly, what could possibly go wrong? And it was all fated to happen in Europe because of that anti-democratic nightmare of an […]

60.   WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS,#60   February 9, 2022Conversion Movement from war to peace:Mandy Smithberger, Shifting tax dollars from fear and militarization to hope and human needs.Michael Klare, Stopping the encirclement of China and Russia. jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-60-february-9.html “US should shift military spending to pandemic and climate change.”  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (11-26-21). The COVID-19 pandemic vividly illuminated the many ways in which the American approach to national security has been fundamentally focused on the wrong threats, writes Mandy Smithberger, director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight. Read more. TOMGRAM Michael Klare, Welcome to the New Cold War in […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-55-january-5.html End Nuclear War Preparation, Abolish Nuclear WeaponsContentsAbolish Nuclear Weapons, UN Nuclear Treaty BanBack from the Brink:  The Call to Prevent Nuclear War US and Iran Need for Leakers and Whistleblowers THIS THURSDAY! Jan 6 Nuclear Ban Treaty Planning Zoom — REGISTER NOW! Nukewatch <nukewatch1=lakeland.ws@vrmailer3.com> Unsubscribe 8:01 AM (7 hours ago) Dear Nuclear Abolitionists, The Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative is planning another day of action this January 22, 2022 to celebrate the day one year ago that nuclear weapons were banned! Just as a year ago, when over 100 actions across the US celebrated the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of […]

–52.  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #52, December 15, 2021   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-52-december.htmlWho Is Destroying Peace? Declining USA Bullies China/Russia, Earth, Outer Space, Itself: Eye-opener Readings about Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Taiwan, China Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service2 Dec 2021 – As I write, serious tension is building–again–around Ukraine, Iran and Taiwan while we could live in a much more peaceful and thriving world. Who and what are the constant peace destroyers? You are the object of a psychological operation to make you have only negative views about China.     Read more… Goading China to Go to War Dr. Chandra Muzaffar […]