WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #149, OCTOBER 25, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Laurence Shoup.  US Wars for Empire and the Council of Foreign Relations. Convergence and Work for Peace Meehan Crist.  Beware Rising Temperatures Leading to Violence NukeWatch.  Wars Increase Warming and Risk Nuclear War Understanding Our Situation.  You Ask Yourself, How Did We Get Into So Many Wars?  Here’s one part of the puzzle. Laurence H. Shoup.  “Giving War a Chance.”  Monthly Review (May 2022).       Shoup’s review of Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict by Elbridge A. Colby offers rich revelations […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-148-october.html US MilitarismNukewatch QuarterlyUS Peace Prize to NNOMY US Militarism        US militarism is pervasive, but often so small and unobtrusive that it seems natural.  “Were you in the Service?  Thank you for your service” said the clerk at my hardware store, and he wasn’t referring to nurses or teachers. The military-corporate complex foregrounding jobs isspread throughout the congressional districts.  This system for war is so pervasively routine that it seems natural when Congress every year heaps more money on the amount the militarist President already requested, and the public makes no outcry!  In contrast, countless urgent needs are underfunded.  […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #147, OCTOBER 11, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Preventing and Stopping WarsWe Ended World War I and WWII; We Can End the Ukraine WarArmistice Day Nov. 11David Swanson’s Book, Leaving WWII BehindDivestment from War Profiteering, Mass-Killing Corporations Gear Up for Armistice Day! November 11, 2023, is the 105th anniversary of the signing of the World War I armistice that ceased hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. With this instrument, nations still recovering from the dreadful nightmare of WWI, one […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-146-october-4.html NUCLEAR WEAPONSTom Dispatch and Andrea Mazzarino.  “At the Brink.”Robert Weissman, “AI ADDS TO NUCLEAR DANGER.”  “Andrea Mazzarino, Nuclear Deterrence, Really?”September 28, 2023.  TomDispatch via uark.onmicrosoft.com . . .Today, as TomDispatch regular Andrea Mazzarino reminds us, not just two but nine countries are nuclear-armed and the possibility of a nuclear war has increased accordingly. In addition, we now know that even a conflict in which the U.S. played no part could create a “nuclear winter” that would devastate this country, too. And yet, despite the recent hit movie Oppenheimer, nuclear fears and fantasies are now largely in absentia. Bert, it seems, ducked, covered, and never came up again. So, I think […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-145-september.html Abel Tomlinson.  Protest #7 This SaturdayCaitlin Johnstone.  End Aggressions by Both Sides to End the War.Joseph Gerson. US Uses of its Nuclear Arsenal for Empire. Stop Ukraine War: Peace Protest #7 this Saturday Dear friends, We are holding our 7th monthly peace protest to Stop the Ukraine War this Saturday, September 30th, at 11 A.M. at Washington County Courthouse.  We hope to see you there! We must keep standing up to say No More War, not only to stop the killing of Ukrainians & Russians, and to stop the threat of nuclear war, but also to stop the long war our leaders […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-144-september.htmlWorld Beyond War.   Abolish War.Joe Lauria.   “9/11: Why Americans Are Never Told Why.”Katrina Vanden Heuvel.  “Putin, Prigozhin, and Russia’s Future.” RECENT (AND FORTHCOMING) WORLD BEYOND WAR ACTIVITIESSome find it hard to believe, but NATO is planning a big celebration of 75 years of itself, with meetings beginning July 9, 2024, in Washington, D.C., at which we can expect many presidents, prime ministers, foreign secretaries, and weapons dealers. We are planning a summit on Saturday July 6 and a rally on Sunday July 7, as well as various other actions in the days before and after that weekend — including working with allies planning […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-143-september.html Dick Bennett.  Two Books on the US Warfare StateDmitri Kovalevich.   “Class and Nation in the Conflict in Ukraine.” Chris Hedges Report.  “There Are Very Few Good Films About War.  20 Days in Mariupol is an Exception.”   Manufacturing Consentin the Warfare State    I am reshelving my books after a broken water pipe, and am finding books I want to read again. Fred Cook’s The Warfare State (1962)(Mullins UA23.C673) remains a good source of understanding the true nature of our nation—a bully in 1962 and 61 years later still a bully, including still “making verbal declarations of war on Russia.,” still “:less possible […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-142-september.html Abel Tomlinson. “Negotiate Peace Now”David Bromwich.  “Living on a Planet” Negotiate Ukraine Peace Now.  August 28, 2023. Negotiate Ukraine Peace Now – Abel Tomlinson (wordpress.com) As the U.S. proxy war with Russia in Ukraine grinds on, and Joe Biden demands billions more for war, we must ask when will this end?  How much more blood and treasure will be spilled for a lost cause?  All signs indicate the much-hyped Ukraine counter-offensive has failed.  Even pro-war mainstream media and some pro-war politicians are admitting so, and some are starting to understand the war is unwinnable.  But wasted blood and treasure are nothing compared to the […]