WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

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 […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-178-may-22-2024.html Assange, Truthteller. Peacemaking: Bakewell and Humanism.“A Future Without Nuclear Weapons” by Ward Hayes Wilson. ASSANGE: TRUTHTELLING “Julian Assange’s Final Appeal.”  The Hedges Report (2-18-24). Julian Assange will make his final appeal this week to the British courts to avoid extradition. If he is extradited it is the death of investigations into the inner workings of power by the press.   CHRIS HEDGES   [Hedges’ dire conclusion]:             Julian is persecuted because he provided the public with the most important information about U.S. government crimes and mendacity since the release of the Pentagon Papers. Like all great journalists, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-177-may-15-2024.html Nakba Day May 15.     Medea Benjamin and David Swanson.  NATO.Daniele Ganser.  USA the Ruthless Empire.  NAKBA DAY Friendsofpalestinenwa   5-14-24 Nakba Day commemorates the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, which comprised the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland in 1948, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people. Wikipedia During the war approximately half of Palestine’s population, 750,000 people were expelled from their homes.  By the end of the war, 78% of the total land area of the former Mandatory Palestine was controlled by Israel and at least 15,000 Palestinian Arabs had been […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/05/war-watch-wednesdays-176-may-8-2024.html Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, Doomsday Clock Statement . Israeli Nuclear Weapons v. Nuclear Proliferation Treaty.Dee Knight.  A Realistic Path to Peace. “Nuclear Dangers: Ukraine War, the Third Year.”  Zoom, 1p.m., ET, Grigory Yalinsky, previously announced. “A moment of historic danger: It is still 90 seconds to midnight 2024 Annual Report and Doomsday Clock Statement.”Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Rachel Bronson, President  & CEO; Editor, John Mecklin, January 23, 2024 https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/ Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/04/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-173-april-17.html PEACEMAKINGUnited Nations and Better World CampaignCasa Cry, Catholic Worker Newsletter UNITED NATIONS Exciting news! Each year, the Better World Campaign.org publishes a comprehensive guide highlighting America’s crucial role on the global stage through its engagement with the United Nations. This guide equips supporters, policymakers, and inquiring minds with insights to understand the value of U.S. involvement in the UN. It spotlights the value of UN funds and programs in advancing U.S. interests, explains constructive engagement on UN reforms, advocates for full U.S. engagement with key UN bodies, and more. Briefing Book [I checked out BWC, […]