WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-252-october.html Dick.  Nukewatch Quarterly. Scott Ritter. Expiration of “New Start” Treaty and Beginning of New Arms Race.North Korea Expanding. The Fall 2025 number of Nukewatch Quarterly includes five important articles on US nuclear war preparation, four of them important essays by staff member John LaForge, who writes Nobel Peace Prize quality research on nuclear weapons . 1. A highlighted Editorial: “U.S. Pariah State Joins Israel in Outlaw Bombing of Iran.”  The bombing by planes and a submarine were ”acts of war and criminal conspiracies of the highest order.” 2.  A second article makes the case that “U.S. Atomic […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-251-october.html NO KINGS Demonstration, FAYETTEVILLE, this SATURDAY 18TH, NOON, COURT HOUSE. From Indivisible:  Sat. Oct. 18, 9:30-11:30 am, Rogers.   We’ll meet on the public sidewalks at the intersection of South Promenade Boulevard & Crown Lane, Rogers, AR 72758. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORJoin millions at ‘No Kings’ protest At gatherings big and small; in cities and towns; on street corners, campuses, bridges and town squares; in parks, train stations, city halls and more—AFT members will join with allies nationwide on Oct. 18 for a “No Kings” day of action even bigger than […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-249-october-1.html “Keep Our Heads” UP! VFP E-News Blast, Sept. 11.Washington Report on Middle East AffairsWill Threat of WWIII Inspire Another Global Cry for Peace? “KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN” definition.  “To avoid trouble, to try to avoid trouble or involvement in a difficult or dangerous situation by behaving in a quiet way, so that people will not notice you.  To remain inconspicuous in difficult or dangerous times.” In several groups recently I observed individuals keeping their head down when Trump was discussed.   Just the opposite of what Congressman John Lewis promoted, that people should create “good trouble,” “necessary trouble,” […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-248-september.html   ADG Report on Trump’s Reversal on Ukraine.Ted Snider.  “So Much for the Nobel Peace Prize.”Ted Carpenter.  “Who Is Trying To Start World War 3?” Scott Ritter.  The Death of Ukraine. “Trump backs victory for Ukraine” by  MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI AND ILLIA NOVIKOV.  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Sep 24, 2025).   Trump backs victory for Ukraine.  He shifts opinion, supports Kyiv retaking its territory.   Read more… [I hope you have time to read these excellent essays in their entirety.  –D] “So Much for the Nobel Peace Prize” by Ted Snider.  Antiwar.com (Sep 16, 2025).   ACURA (9-24-25).  19 Comments The […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-247-september.html Scott Ritter.  “Putin’s Gambit” for Arms Control.Bill McKibben.  Here Comes the Sun and Renewed Hope. Trump Truthteller?  The DOD Is What It Always Was—the DOW.         Putin’s Gambit by Scott Ritter.  Sept. 22, 2025. There has never been a more important time for arms control. And the US government has never been so ill-prepared to meet this challenge. Enter Project 38.   Scott Ritter                                                                                                                   Project 38 is a campaign that seeks to promote effective arms control and disarmament policy and, in doing so, avoid the dangers of a new nuclear arms race […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-246-september.html Palestine Book Club Discusses The Book of Disappearance.Sachs and Fares.  “How to Stop Israel Starving Gaza.”Eyewitness Palestine Interviews Omar, a Deaf Palestinian. The Palestine Book Club meets again on Tuesday, September 23 at 6:30 PM at Pearl’s Books in Fayetteville (28 E Center St) to discuss The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, longlisted for the International Booker Prize.   “What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react?”Discussion leader: Ted Swedenburg, Professor Emeritus, University of Arkansas (tsweden@uark.edu).   Pearl’s Books has kindly ordered several copies, and it is also available online […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett. Friends of Palestine People’s Assembly TomorrowMilitarism in Arkansas OMNI Anthologies 2008 to Present. WARkansas People’s Assembly friendsofpalestinenwa invites you to this important gathering Thursday Sept 4 – 6:00 pm Good Shepherd Lutheran Church We’re coming together again to build community power in Northwest Arkansas. Join us for the WARkansas People’s Assembly on Thursday, September 4th. This assembly is a next in mobilizing against Arkansas becoming a war dependent economy, following our successful disruption of the Mid-America Aerospace and Defense Summit. Where we made it clear, the people of Arkansas do not welcome corporations that profit from war and genocide. Now, […]