WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-195-september.html Struggle—La Lucha–for Democracy Dick.  Anti-Democratic Republican Party Advancing.Prabhat Patnaik.  Worldwide Attenuation of Democracy.Dick.  The Idea of Democracy, The Democrats v. The Republicans,  the ACLU and Electoral Democracy/Voting Rights.   Anti-Democratic Forces Advancing.  The extreme right-wing Republican Party, heavily financed by wealthy individuals and corporations and reinforced by its new comprehensive Project 2025, has gained control of the presidency for one term and is striving to repeat that victory; it instigated a (failed) insurrection against Pres. Trump’s defeat; it now controls or almost controls both Senate and House;  its majority of justices control the US Supreme Court; […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-194-september.html ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Art Hobson.  Nuclear Weapons and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).ICAN  UN International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, Book Club by Back from the Brink.NUCLEAR WEAPONS RESISTANCE ORGANIZATIONS      Art Hobson.   “Nuclear War Spells Doom for Civilization:  We Can Rid the Planet of this Scourge.”   NWADG 3 September 2024. This article was originally published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette and is published here with their permission.  This article was originally published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette and is published here with their permission.  […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-193-september.html Geoffrey Levin to Speak on Dissent Past and FutureUnited Nations Summit of the FutureJoe Conason’s It Can Happen Here Looking Back to Guide the Future 1978: War Resisters League members demonstrated simultaneously against nuclear weapons in Red Square, Moscow, and on the White House Lawn.  [I will be citing notable historical events like this one in the future, drawn from the War Resisters League Peace Calendars.  –D] THE NAKBA AND US JEWISH DISSENTGeoffrey Levin is an assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Prior to joining Emory’s faculty, Levin was […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-192-august-28.html PEACE HEROESKathy KellyDaniel EllsbergVeterans for Peace KATHY KELLYKathy Kelly.  “Museum of Unnatural History.”  The Catholic Worker (August-September 2012).  A distinctive meditation on Kabul, Afghanistan’s Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation Museum (OMAR) and Dr. Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book.  The Museum contains ordnance and land mines used in Afghanistan over four decades of warfare and photographs of maimed people.  The Butter Battle Book is a parable of the Cold War and its fragile, dangerous nuclear stalemate, with only MAD “holding off attempts by either side to exterminate the other” in WWIII.   “…in many ways […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-191-august-21.html PEACEMAKING: PREVENT PREPARING FOR WAR, STOP WARS.   Compiled by Dick Bennett PROTEST THURSDAY IN ROGERS,   Abel Tomlinson <abeltomlinson@gmail.com> wrote: Dear Y’all, This Thursday at 8 A.M., many of the top Military-Industrial Complex* war profiteering corporations are holding a “Mid-America Defense Summit” at Embassy Suites in Rogers, AR (3303 Pinnacle Hills Parkway). This event will feature speeches by Congressman Steve Womack, Senator John Boozman and Governor Sarah H. Sanders, and leaders from the war profiteering industry. Sponsors of the event include arms dealers Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Aerojet Rocketdyne, General Dynamics and others. Strikingly, the University of Arkansas, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-190-august-14.html ANOTHER WAR: SUDAN As soon as I read the latest Tomgram in July, I thought to place it in WWW, and wondered about the causes of the Sudan disaster, and US involvement.  I hoped the UN’s diverse agencies were still helping despite their small budgets. The UN Security Council voted to withdraw its UNITAMS mission there (Russia abstaining), but the UN is keeping some of its humanitarian agencies.  Below is the google response to my “UN in Sudan” search and a message I had received from UNFPA in April.   From these reports, I learn of […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-189-august-7.html Robert Edwards.  Resisting the Right: How to Survive the Gathering Storm.  OR Books, 2024.  320 pages .  Paperback and E-book.    Foreword by JAMES CARROLL. “Combines the revelations of unfolding tragedy with the artistry of a story-teller.”  —Bill Moyers “Profoundly disturbing.”  —Kai Bird “Details with precision the perilous place we are in as a country.”  —Amy Hanauer Publisher’s description:   Resisting the Right is a handbook for surviving a far-right take-over of the United States. Today, that prospect is a frightening reality. It threatens the irreversible destruction of America’s democratic system.  In a powerful and necessary intervention, Robert […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-188-july-31.html RIGHT TURN USA: Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 Project 2025 Continues The Historic… Fascist Project By Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. The right wing counter-revolution has been going on for more than 50 years. The Powell Memo was a 1971 directive from soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, instructing the US Chamber of Commerce how to defeat the “attack on the American free enterprise system”. The Contract with America 1994 outlined Newt Gingrich’s plan for Republican Party control of congress. -more- Southern Poverty Law Center:  Year in Hate and Extremism Report The extreme right prepares for the […]