WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-199-october.html PEACE-MAKERS ·       Dae-Han Song.  Peace in Korea and NE Asia ·       World BEYOND War: Use the United Nations to End the War on Gaza. ·        PEACE BY PEACE:  99 Steps Toward Violence Prevention and De-escalation.  Peace in Korea and NE Asia US REJECTION OF NK PEACE PROPOSALS BEGINNING IN 1990s, LEADING TO KIM JONG-UN’S New Year’s address on January 15, 2024 severing ties with the more than thirty years of peaceful reunification pursued by North Korea’s two previous leaders, and leading to the urgent need to see the world as others see it, in order […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-198-october-9.html ·       This Friday: A Year of Genocide, Silent Vigil ·        Abel Tomlinson’s Reply to the UN’s International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons ·       OMNI STOP US MILITARIZATION OF SPACE, ANTHOLOGY #9,  OCTOBER 9, 2024 This Friday: A Year of Genocide, Silent Vigil    friendsofpalestinenwa  Oct 8, 2024                     Hello all,    As many are aware, October 7th  marks one year of the ongoing genocide in Palestine. This Friday, October 11th, from 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., at the Washington County Courthouse, we will be joining as a community to mourn the lives […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-197-october-2.html Nuclear War Planning, Stopping Nuclear War “Nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles on German soil.”    Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen.  Elugelab Island vaporized by H-Bomb.  ICAN.  TPNW: UN treaty banning nuclear weapons.  International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Mad nuclear plans Editor.  mronline.org (8-4-24). UK Plans to Build New Missiles to Target Russia Linked to Pentagon’s Mad Conventional Strike Scheme. The Editors.  “Nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles on German soil .” Monthly Review  (September 2024, Volume 76, Number 4).   This month’s “Notes from the Editors” recounts the history of U.S. preparations for “prolonged and limited” nuclear war […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology.  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-196-september.html Michael Swanson.  The War State.   US National Security State.Henry Giroux. Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex.Sylvia J. Martin.  “UARCs: The American Universities that Produce Warfighters.”  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.  Research Funded by Pentagon. CORPORATIONS-PENTAGON-CONGRESS-WHITE HOUSE-EDUCATION–NSS COMPLEX Michael Swanson. The War State: The Cold War Origins Of The Military-Industrial Complex And The Power Elite, 1945-1963.   2013.Today when you factor in the interest on the national debt from past wars and total defense expenditures the United States spends almost 40% of its federal budget on the military. It accounts for over 46% of total world arms […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-195-september.html Struggle—La Lucha–for Democracy Dick.  Anti-Democratic Republican Party Advancing.Prabhat Patnaik.  Worldwide Attenuation of Democracy.Dick.  The Idea of Democracy, The Democrats v. The Republicans,  the ACLU and Electoral Democracy/Voting Rights.   Anti-Democratic Forces Advancing.  The extreme right-wing Republican Party, heavily financed by wealthy individuals and corporations and reinforced by its new comprehensive Project 2025, has gained control of the presidency for one term and is striving to repeat that victory; it instigated a (failed) insurrection against Pres. Trump’s defeat; it now controls or almost controls both Senate and House;  its majority of justices control the US Supreme Court; […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-194-september.html ABOLISH NUCLEAR WEAPONS Art Hobson.  Nuclear Weapons and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).ICAN  UN International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, Book Club by Back from the Brink.NUCLEAR WEAPONS RESISTANCE ORGANIZATIONS      Art Hobson.   “Nuclear War Spells Doom for Civilization:  We Can Rid the Planet of this Scourge.”   NWADG 3 September 2024. This article was originally published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette and is published here with their permission.  This article was originally published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette and is published here with their permission.  […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett    https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-193-september.html Geoffrey Levin to Speak on Dissent Past and FutureUnited Nations Summit of the FutureJoe Conason’s It Can Happen Here Looking Back to Guide the Future 1978: War Resisters League members demonstrated simultaneously against nuclear weapons in Red Square, Moscow, and on the White House Lawn.  [I will be citing notable historical events like this one in the future, drawn from the War Resisters League Peace Calendars.  –D] THE NAKBA AND US JEWISH DISSENTGeoffrey Levin is an assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Prior to joining Emory’s faculty, Levin was […]

Compiled by Dick Bennett   https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-192-august-28.html PEACE HEROESKathy KellyDaniel EllsbergVeterans for Peace KATHY KELLYKathy Kelly.  “Museum of Unnatural History.”  The Catholic Worker (August-September 2012).  A distinctive meditation on Kabul, Afghanistan’s Organization for Mine Clearance and Afghan Rehabilitation Museum (OMAR) and Dr. Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book.  The Museum contains ordnance and land mines used in Afghanistan over four decades of warfare and photographs of maimed people.  The Butter Battle Book is a parable of the Cold War and its fragile, dangerous nuclear stalemate, with only MAD “holding off attempts by either side to exterminate the other” in WWIII.   “…in many ways […]