WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-207-december.html  Resisting Militarism, Wars, and Empire GEORGE ORWELL AWARDS from the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH [Everyone should read Orwell’s 1984, and everyone connected professionally or indirectly to the study of LANGUAGE and POLITICS should be promoting the NCTE awards.   Maybe I’m talking about everybody.–Dick]This award recognizes people who have made notable contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has given out this award since 1975. Wars and other dysfunctions are planned,  started, and sustained by deception by language manipulation.  The award is given to an author, editor, […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-206-december.html FOUR ACTIONS (=HOPE) FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE “Peacebuilding Next to Russia”: Finnish perspectives webinar.UN PROGRAMME OF ACTION ON A CULTURE OF PEACE.Back from the Brink.  Communities to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Public Citizen v. Supreme Court’s presidential  immunity decision.l Dear Dick,Join us on Saturday, December 14 for an online panel on “Peacebuilding Next to Russia” to hear from Finnish perspectives on peace.Finland and Russia not only share a 1,340-kilometer (833 miles) border, but also a long history. There have been many conflicts and disagreements, many of which have been resolved without violence and war. Now, as tensions build, it is […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-205-november.html Thomas Ricento.   Can the US Survive White Christian Nationalism?Robert F. Keeler.   Can the US Survive Militarism?Raymond Barglow.  Can the US Survive Authoritarianism?  US White Christian Nationalism Thomas Ricento.   “Can America Survive as a Secular Democracy? Free Inquiry (Dec. 2024 – Jan. 2025).  The question can be understood only via a truthful history of the US that recognizes the secondary role of immigrants seeking religious freedom and the primacy of colonialism and imperialism.  Ricento recommends Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s excellent book: Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021).  […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-204-november.html RootsAction Teach-In: Defuse Nuclear War, and documentary: A Common Insanity with Daniel Ellsberg. Books reviewed in Washington Report on Middle East Affair,  Nov.-Dec. 2024.   ROOTSACTION EDUCATION:  Teach-In Network, Defuse Nuclear War Coalition, and film documentary –A Common Insanity Dear Dick,  10-22-24[Two of these three RAE missions directly oppose nuclear war; the third, v. Israel, because it is a nuclear-armed nation threatening several nations in the ME, esp. Iran.  –D] To push back against college crackdowns on student activism to end Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, the RootsAction Education Fund just launched the national Teach-In Network. […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-203-november.html Dr. Yousaf on genocide in Gaza, UAF Bell Aud. 2282, Thursday Nov. 14, 5:30.Dick on Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Nov.-Dec. 2024).    Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, AR pediatrician, tomorrow Thurs., 5:30You are invited to attend a testimonial event where Dr. Ahmad Yousaf, an Arkansas pediatrician and the director of an intensive care unit in Little Rock, will share his experiences providing emergency medical care during the genocide in Gaza at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah earlier this year.    The event will take place this Thursday, November 14th, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-202-november.html Sidney Lens.  The Forging of the American Empire.  Crowell, 1971.  2nd ed. Haymarket and Pluto, 2003.  Foreword by Howard Zinn. https://www.haymarketbooks.org › books › 1080-the-for…     1st ed. Mullins Main E183.7 .L45. [At least since 1971 schools have had a text book of US aggressions abroad and its coverup doublespeak.  Is this history—of course brought up to date!– being taught in the public schools and colleges in 2024?  –D] Publisher’s description:This is the story of a nation—the United States—that has conducted more than 160 wars and other military ventures while insisting it loves peace.  In the process, the […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-201-october.html Recent OMNI ANTHOLOGIES against WAR IRAN #33, OCTOBER 22, 2024.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-iran-anthology-33-october-22-2024.html NORTH KOREA #8, October 12, 2024.      https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-north-korea-anthology-8-october-12.html MILITARIZATION OF SPACE, #9,  OCTOBER 9, 2024.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-stop-us-militarization-of-space.htmlCHINA, #6,  OCTOBER 4, 2024.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-us-cold-waragainst-china.html  World war III #2, SEPTEMBER 29, 2024.   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-world-war-iii-anthology-2.htmlUKRAINE WAR #33, September 12, 2024. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-ukraine-war-33-september-12-2024.htmlUNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE SEPTEMBER 21, 2024. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-united-nations-international-day.htmlVENEZUELA  #5, AUGUST 27, 2040.  https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2151229136087998997/3753817779419620546

Compiled by Dick Bennett          https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-200-october.html On War Jewish Voice for Peace. Stop Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. Bob Woodward.  War. (three wars—Ukraine, the Middle East, and the struggle for the American presidency)  Publisher’s description.Andrew Cockburn. Note on Bob Woodward’s War.Scott Horton.  Letter to Woodward about War. JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE Dear Dick,  If you’re feeling gutted and unsure of how to move forward, as Israel’s genocide in Gaza only deepens and expands into the region, you are not alone. It’s in these very times that we need to come together — because we can only stop the bombs through […]