WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

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.  […]

OMNI’s War and Warming Newsletter: OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #147, OCTOBER 11, 2023 (jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com) Preventing and Stopping WarsWe Ended World War I and WWII; We Can End the Ukraine WarArmistice Day Nov. 11David Swanson’s Book, Leaving WWII BehindDivestment from War Profiteering, Mass-Killing Corporations Gear Up for Armistice Day! November 11, 2023, is the 105th anniversary of the signing of the World War I armistice that ceased hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect on the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. With this instrument, nations still recovering from the dreadful nightmare of WWI, one […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-146-october-4.html NUCLEAR WEAPONSTom Dispatch and Andrea Mazzarino.  “At the Brink.”Robert Weissman, “AI ADDS TO NUCLEAR DANGER.”  “Andrea Mazzarino, Nuclear Deterrence, Really?”September 28, 2023.  TomDispatch via uark.onmicrosoft.com . . .Today, as TomDispatch regular Andrea Mazzarino reminds us, not just two but nine countries are nuclear-armed and the possibility of a nuclear war has increased accordingly. In addition, we now know that even a conflict in which the U.S. played no part could create a “nuclear winter” that would devastate this country, too. And yet, despite the recent hit movie Oppenheimer, nuclear fears and fantasies are now largely in absentia. Bert, it seems, ducked, covered, and never came up again. So, I think […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-145-september.html Abel Tomlinson.  Protest #7 This SaturdayCaitlin Johnstone.  End Aggressions by Both Sides to End the War.Joseph Gerson. US Uses of its Nuclear Arsenal for Empire. Stop Ukraine War: Peace Protest #7 this Saturday Dear friends, We are holding our 7th monthly peace protest to Stop the Ukraine War this Saturday, September 30th, at 11 A.M. at Washington County Courthouse.  We hope to see you there! We must keep standing up to say No More War, not only to stop the killing of Ukrainians & Russians, and to stop the threat of nuclear war, but also to stop the long war our leaders […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-144-september.htmlWorld Beyond War.   Abolish War.Joe Lauria.   “9/11: Why Americans Are Never Told Why.”Katrina Vanden Heuvel.  “Putin, Prigozhin, and Russia’s Future.” RECENT (AND FORTHCOMING) WORLD BEYOND WAR ACTIVITIESSome find it hard to believe, but NATO is planning a big celebration of 75 years of itself, with meetings beginning July 9, 2024, in Washington, D.C., at which we can expect many presidents, prime ministers, foreign secretaries, and weapons dealers. We are planning a summit on Saturday July 6 and a rally on Sunday July 7, as well as various other actions in the days before and after that weekend — including working with allies planning […]