WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

— Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-156-december.html GAZA in The NationThe December 18, 2023 number provides five articles entirely or partly about the eradication of Gaza and demands for a ceasefire. D. D.  Guttenplan (for The Nation).  “Stop the War.”  “An immediate cease-fire remains the essential first step…”Mohammed El-Kurd.  “The Right to Speak for Ourselves.”  “Palestinians are denied the freedom to tell our own story.”Atef Abu Saif.  “A Month in Gaza.”   “Life and death under the bombardment.”Spencer Ackerman.  “Forever Wars. The ‘rules based international order’ is all about US hegemony.”Elie Mystal.  “Biden on the Brink.”   The “Trump would be worse” argument isn’t […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-155-december.html Gaza Decimation: New Book by Finkelstein Usaid Siddiqui.  “Book Review: Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom.”  The New Arab.  28 Feb., 2018. Norman Finkelstein’s work is an incisive guide to Gaza’s destruction, offering crucial analysis rarely found in the western media, writes Usaid Siddiqui. A July 2017 Amnesty International report raised the alarm over Gaza, calling attention to the deteriorating conditions in the besieged territory, which was witnessing the rapid collapse of its health system, and what it described as “crisis point”.  In unambiguous terms, the report singled out Israel’s “brutal land, sea and air blockade” responsible for the mass suffering of […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #153, NOVEMBER 22, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Gabriel Piterberg.  Best books on Zionism.Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. The best books on Zionism and Anti-Zionism, recommended by Israeli historian, Gabriel Piterberg, have challenged the Zionist Israeli narrative of modern history.   (google)   https://fivebooks.com/best-books/zionism-anti-zionism/ “Zionism is the national political movement dedicated to the establishment and preservation of a Jewish state in the land of Israel. You’re an Israeli historian but you are not a Zionist. Perhaps you could tell us about your background and how your views on Israel and the conflict with the Palestinians have evolved and developed. […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-152-november.html CHRISTIANITY, RACE, NATIONALISM, US EMPIRE, War and PeaceDick.  Books on Christian NationalismPope Francis’s book Against War: Building a Culture of Peacevia World Beyond War White Christian Nationalism and Empire (and v. democracy) More attention is needed to the role of religions in the growth of US militarism and empire.  Mainstream church membership has declined, but the association of religion with right wing ideology has apparently increased.   Here are some books: Bradley Onishi.  Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism.  Related: Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry.  The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to […]

Preventing and Stopping War Don Timmerman.  The Gospels v. WarRon Ridenour.  Ted Hall Sharing Secrets v. Nuclear World War IIIDmitri Kovalevich.   Hope for Peace Post-Ukraine War Choosing Peacemakers as Our Leaders“Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker said that there is no need of any special theology of peace. You just need to look at what the gospel asks and what war does.The gospel asks that we feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, welcome the homeless, visit the prisoner, and perform the works of mercy. War does the opposite. It makes my neighbor hungry, thirsty, homeless, […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-150-november.html Dick Bennett.   AIR WAR As most of you know, I am clearing my home preparing to move to a smaller, more convenient residence, at a slow pace because I can’t resist rereading books and articles (of course eventually I must start dumping boxes without looking inside!).  Like the following: Anthony Sampson.  Empires of the Sky: The Politics, Contests, and Cartels of World Airlines (Random House, 1984). “How far has air travel changed the political map of the world?  Certainly, there is not much left of the rhetoric of unification—about abolishing frontiers or creating one world—which prevailed after Blėriots first […]

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.  […]