WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-167-march-6.html   Compiled by Dick Bennett Peacemakers’ Responsibility: If We Fail to Prevent a War, then We Must Stop the War. War in Ukraine: MAKING SENSE OF A SENSELESS CONFLICT byMEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS J.S. DAVIES.    An important antidote to war propaganda” — Mairead McGuire, activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize .     50% off “Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence”  read by Eunice Wong. Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation against the Gaza genocide was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. CHRIS HEDGES Report.    .MAR 2, 2024. In Case You Missed These Episodes:  Catching Up […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-165-february.html Norman Solomon. War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (New York: The New Press, 2023), 272 pages.Rev. “Corporate Media, Political Elites, and Perpetual War” by David Michael Smith, Monthly Review (December 5, 2023). (Dec 01, 2023).  Topics: Capitalism  Imperialism  Media  Political economy  Terrorism  War Places: Americas  United States Publisher’s description: David Michael Smith reviews journalist Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible, an eloquent moral call to end the bloody state of perpetual war that the United States has engaged in since the advent of the “war on terror.”   Long recognized as one of this country’s most incisive journalists and media critics, Norman Solomon has […]

NATIONALISM, MILITARISM, WARMAKING, WHITE CHRISTIANITY V. DEMOCRACY, Hitler and Trump v. Democracy      In Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next, Bradley Onishi argues that the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was the outcome of years of a subculture’s preparation for war to overthrow the US democracy.  The eleven chapters take us from the rise of White Christian nationalism’s reaction to the social rights revolution of the 1960s to the reactionary insurrection of January 6, 2021.  At the center of the bifurcation of the nation into pro- and anti-democracy, Onishi sees the expanding myth of the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-163-february.html NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN.  I Accuse!  HEREWITH A PROOF BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT THAT ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR FATOU BENSOUDA WHITEWASHED ISRAEL.  OR Books, 2019.  Publisher’s description: “Mr. Finkelstein[‘s]… research is certainly thorough. His characterizations, too, can be brilliant, and he spares nobody…” —The Economist “A compelling examination of a decision that unsettled many international lawyers and a reminder of the extent to which Palestinians have been let down by international institutions.”—Morning Star “One of the world’s most effective critics of Israel… Intense and eloquent.” —Mondoweiss.  This finely-honed indictment by a writer widely acknowledged for his forensic skills […]

 Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-162-january.html .  The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:  90 Seconds to Midnight,John LaForge.  The New B61-13 Nuclear Weapon. A Moment of Historic Danger: It’s Still 90 Seconds to Midnight!On Jan. 23, the Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight, still the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight. In their announcement, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, stewards of the Doomsday Clock, emphasized that the Clock could be turned back, but governments and people need to take urgent action. A variety of global threats cast menacing shadows over the 2024 Clock deliberations, including: the Russia-Ukraine […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-161-january.html Christian Sorensen.  Understanding the War Industry.Dennis Kucinich.  West v. East. The Pentagon Complex Pushing Us to WarCHRISTIAN SORENSEN.  UNDERSTANDING THE WAR INDUSTRY.  Clarity P, 2020.   (Clarity is one of the best publishing companies in the world for exposing abuse of power.) The War Industry infests the American economy like a cancer, sapping its strength and distorting its creativity while devouring its treasure. Stunning in the depth of its research, Understanding the War Industry documents how the war industry commands the other two sides of the military-industrial-congressional triangle. It lays bare the multiple levers enabling the vast and […]

 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-158-december.html   Compiled by Dick Bennett Local ISRAEL/PALESTINE PROTESTS:  Donations to our current campaign for justice and peace in Palestine can be made online with Venmo at this link: https://venmo.com/u/Abel-Tomlinson-1.    Or, checks can be mailed to Arkansas Antiwar Alliance, 60 West Smith St.Fayetteville, AR 72701Thank you,Abel TomlinsonPalestine Solidarity NWA, OrganizerArkansas Antiwar Alliance, OrganizerOMNI Peace Action Committee, Chair(479)283-5762 NOTE CHANGE OF NAME FOR ISRAEL/PALESTINE DEMONSTRATIONS:Palestine Solidarity NWA PSNWA Gaza Ceasefire Protests & Meeting The next PSNWA protests will be next weekend in Rogers and Bentonville. The focus of these protests is to call for a Ceasefire and to Save the Children. The U.N. reports that around 40% of the deaths from […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-157-december.html NUCLEAR MISSILES, NUCLEAR HYBRID WAR, ANOTHER REASON TO ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina write in The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump,  Chapter 4, ‘Hacking the Bomb,’” that “Cyber warfare has  become a standard element of the arsenal for what are now called ‘hybrid’ conflicts.”  “The United States’ use of cyberattacks against nuclear and missile programs in Iran and North Korea has changed the nature of warfare.  As the United States sets the example for hybrid conflicts, and as the tools to fight them proliferate, this boomerang […]