WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #138, AUGUST 9, 2023. jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com);  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-138-august-9.html USA, WARMAKER As you might know, I am reshelving my books after having to box them up following a frozen pipe this winter and restoration.  It’s given me an opportunity to read again books that help explain why I am opposed to US foreign policy of wars and empire.  For example, The Roots of American Foreign Policy: An Analysis of Power and Purpose by Gabriel Kolko (1969).Here’s from the Introduction, p. xi:  “For a growing number of Americans the war in Vietnam has become the […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-136-july-26.html Abel Tomlinson.  Stop Ukraine War, No Nuclear War Stop Ukraine War & No Nuclear War Protest #5 Dear Friends, Please join us this Saturday for our 5th monthly protest calling for a Stop to the Ukraine War & a Stop the Threats of Nuclear War. We need Peace in Ukraine, and Peace with Russia and China, and peace with every nation. We will also have a special message this month to oppose the U.S. shipment of internationally-condemned cluster bombs to Ukraine, which will harm Ukrainian civilians for decades to come, as they did in Vietnam, Laos, etc. These arms […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-134-july-12.htmlJuan Cole, From Militarism to Invading Ourselves.Roots Action.  Unrestrained US Military Spending.WBW’s Nonviolent Resistance to Militarism conference September 22-24. OMNI at FARMER’S MARKET this Saturday, JULY 15, 2023. Our Table is at the NW corner of Fayetteville Square beginning 8 a.m.   We have free copies of Nukewatch Quarterly, Jeffrey Sachs’ article on US/NATO provoking the Ukraine War, two urgent petitions, and more to explain why we should take action against the Ukraine War.  Sandy Lee-Shirley, Abel Tomlinson, Dick Bennett, and more. Here is the conclusion of Cole’s analysis of the Bush, Cheney, Rice admin.’s lying, illegal, cruel, atrocious invasion of Iraq […]

 Joe Lauria.   “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.” Chris Hedges.  “They Lied….”                Editors.  Monthly Review.  A Socialist Disarmament Strategy. Joe Lauria.  Special to Consortium News.  “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story.”  July 6, 2023. Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine.  (Forwarded by E. San Juan, Jr.) AMERICAN EMPIRE, ANALYSIS, HISTORY, INTELLIGENCE, RUSSIA, RUSSIAGATE, UKRAINE, WIKILEAKS The way to prevent understanding of the Ukraine war is to suppress its history. A cartoon version says the conflict began in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine.  There was no other cause, according to this version, other than […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-132-june-28.html US THREATENING WAR AGAINST ANOTHER NUCLEAR POWER OMNI at FARMER’S MARKET this Saturday, June 30, 2023. Our Table is at the NW corner of Fayetteville Square beginning 8 a.m.   We have free copies of Nukewatch Quarterly, Sachs’ article on US/NATO provoking the Ukraine War, an urgent petition, and more to explain why we should take action against the Ukraine War. Three NUCLEAR articles from Consortium News (6-21-23).Scott Ritter.  “On Horseradish & Nuclear War.”“When Vladimir Putin was recently asked about the potential use of nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine, an understanding of back-alley Russian slang was needed to understand […]

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-131-june-21.html ·       Arkansas Resistance to Nuclear War and Global Warming.OMNI has a table at Farmer’s Market for the next six Saturdays, through July 29, to join our voice with others around the world opposing wars, WWIII, nuclear holocaust, and seeking to contain fossil fuels and rising temperature causing climate change.   ·       Art Hobson, UAF professor, on the danger of nuclear holocaust in the Ukraine War. ·       Wikipedia.  Arkansas’ Betty Bumpers’ Nuclear Peacemaking. “Russia’s attack was not ‘unprovoked’ Where will the stalemate end?”  Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu   NWADG, 20 June 2023      . . . In order to prevent having yet another NATO-armed […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #130, JUNE 14, 2023. (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) ·       Melvin Goodman.  Corporate Media’s Support for Militarism  ·       Abel.  Peacemakers’ ad in NYT. [Both pro-war and pro-peace enrich the NYT!] ·       MR Editors .  “The United States of War.”    Melvin Goodman.   “The Mainstream Media’s Unwillingness to Challenge U.S. Militarization.”  Counterpunch (JUNE 2, 2023).    FacebookTwitterRedditEmail The Washington Post finally conceded in an editorial last week that the United States must “spend smarter” when it comes to defense.  Instead of looking for ways to cut defense spending, however, the Post simply wants to spend differently.  It favors more spending on conventional […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/06/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-129-june-7.htmlNorman Solomon.  War Made Possible by corporate mainstream media.TomDispatch. Andrew Bacevich.  What “victory” for Ukrainians might mean.Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies.  Stop the Ukraine War Now.Women Cross DMZ: 2023 Korea Peace Advocacy Week. Why do most US citizens accept the US Empire and its wars?  Norman Solomon argues in War Made Possible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (2023) that the corporate mainstream media and US political leaders conceal the tragic consequences of war.  US leaders have perpetuated war since WWII by distancing the public from the killing and costs via high tech warmaking, and via […]