WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

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 […]

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 […]