WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

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 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-187-july-24.html The Nuclear Resister provides an ongoing archive of political prisoner protesters.  For example, the June 26, 2024, number contains data on US [Gaza] Cease Fire! arrests on pp. 1 and 5ff. P. 1 “Ceasefire Now!” “Beginning on page 5, this issue of The Nuclear Resister continues the day-by-day reports of ceasefire arrests in the U.S. and Canada.   From last October through mid-June, The Nuclear Resister has tallied more than 8,800 arrests on over 350 occasions across more than 125 cities and towns in 36 states and 5 provinces. . . .More than 3,400 of the arrests […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett ACTIONS AGAINST WAR AND WARMAKERSGaza ProtestsClimate Crisis and Militarism Connections Sinophobia Friends of Palestine Gaza Protests Continue! July Protests (via OMNI Center Newsletter) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555082533749&mibextid=LQQJ4d Friends of Palestine continue their Friday Protests. Friday July 19 in Bentonville – Memorial Park by the Skatepark – 6:30-7:30 Friday July 26 in Fayetteville – Washington County Courthouse – 6:00-7:00 Climate Crisis and Militarism Project meeting.  Veterans for Peace VFP.  WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 5 pm CDT. CCMP focuses on the connections between U.S. militarism and the climate crisis and seeks to mobilize veterans and the general public to push the Pentagon […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-183-june-26.html Dr. Caldicott.  Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War Chris Bambery.  NATO Risks Catastrophe Dr. Helen Caldicott.  Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War.  Bantam Books, Rev. ed., 1986.  This book was written over 30 years ago, but it is relevant today as a history of the post-WWII animosity of the USA against Soviet ideology and economics, now rivalry with Russia.  Here are a few of the chapters:  “Pathogenesis: The Pathological Dynamics of the Arms Race.”  The opening pages discuss how:  “From the beginning, the nuclear arms race in America has been fueled […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-182-june-19.html PEACEMAKING, PEACEMAKERSJesus, Philip BerriganUnited Nations JESUS A REVOLUTIONARY FOR PEACE AND NONVIOLENT ACTIONBrad Wolf.    A Ministry of Risk: Philip Berrigan, Writings on Peace and Nonviolence.  Fordham UP, 2024.     Rev. by Mark Colville in The Catholic Worker (May 2024).      When Dana Copp, M.D., and I started OMNI in 2001, for peace and nonviolence, we did not have Jesus in the forefront of our minds, though we did have some of his followers, like Martin Luther King, Jr.  Copp was a scientist and I was a young skeptic, and such aspects of Jesus’ life as exorcism, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/war-watch-wednesdays-181-june-12-2024.html US Imperialism, Pituffik Space Base, Daniel Ellsberg Week) US Imperialism, Thule (Greenland) Air Force Base, now Pituffik Space Base, May 17, 2024 from a Greenland Base for War to a Base for Space War, and Daniel Ellsberg Week June 10-16. Google to find some of the already numerous and rapidly increasing published articles on Thule/Pituffik   An outstanding example follows, packed with information, significantly observing the convergence of nuclear and climate dangers.   But its excellent reportage is one-sided—USAALLTHE WAY–without self-examination, devoid of other national perspectives, untouched by awareness of its origins in Cold War I and […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/06/war-watch-wednesdays-180-june-5-2024.html JACQUES BAUD’S BOOKS ON THE UKRAINE WAR in chronological order of publication 2022-2024, published by Max Milo, Paris.  Click on each title for the author’s (or publisher’s) description.   A statement he made in 2022 regarding the Ukrainian conflict provides a superlative illustration of Baud’s challenge to the reporting of the war by Western leaders and mainstream media.  These books are on order at UAF’s Mullins Library, providing faculty and students a scholarly alternative to the official, anti-Russian, pro-war propaganda.  –Dick Operation Z: The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine.  2022.  Governing by Fake News: […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-179-may-29-2024.html WORLD WAR II, the “Good War?” David Swanson.  Leaving WWII Behind. Daniele Ganser.  USA: The Ruthless Empire.   “In Leaving World War II Behind, David Swanson brilliantly destroys the myth that even if war is generally a bad thing World War II was the good war.  In a stunning, fact-laden exposition, Swanson demonstrates the systemic failures of the western governments together with their corporate enablers that generated the practices of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and concentration camps, empowering Hitler.  Swanson shows incontrovertibly that it was an underlying drive to preserve capitalism and destroy communist encroachment that […]