WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-143-september.html Dick Bennett.  Two Books on the US Warfare StateDmitri Kovalevich.   “Class and Nation in the Conflict in Ukraine.” Chris Hedges Report.  “There Are Very Few Good Films About War.  20 Days in Mariupol is an Exception.”   Manufacturing Consentin the Warfare State    I am reshelving my books after a broken water pipe, and am finding books I want to read again. Fred Cook’s The Warfare State (1962)(Mullins UA23.C673) remains a good source of understanding the true nature of our nation—a bully in 1962 and 61 years later still a bully, including still “making verbal declarations of war on Russia.,” still “:less possible […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-142-september.html Abel Tomlinson. “Negotiate Peace Now”David Bromwich.  “Living on a Planet” Negotiate Ukraine Peace Now.  August 28, 2023. Negotiate Ukraine Peace Now – Abel Tomlinson (wordpress.com) As the U.S. proxy war with Russia in Ukraine grinds on, and Joe Biden demands billions more for war, we must ask when will this end?  How much more blood and treasure will be spilled for a lost cause?  All signs indicate the much-hyped Ukraine counter-offensive has failed.  Even pro-war mainstream media and some pro-war politicians are admitting so, and some are starting to understand the war is unwinnable.  But wasted blood and treasure are nothing compared to the […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-141-august-30.html Art Hobson.  “Ending the nuclear weapons threat:USA and others must support U.N. treaty.”NWADG 22 August 2023 . . . The bad news is that, along with global warming, The Bomb is an existential threat to civilization.  The good news is that the chances of real action on both issues are now at an all-time high.            For global warming, this is because the evidence is now obvious daily, making it absurd for the fossil fuel industry to continue its decades-long propaganda campaign supporting oil production.           For nuclear weapons, this is because of the United Nations’ “Treaty on the […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2023/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-140-august-23.html Against Nuclear Holocaust Back from the BrinkAbolishing Nuclear Weapons Back from the Brink | Bringing Communities Together to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (preventnuclearwar.org) Back from the Brink is a US-based grassroots coalition of individuals, organizations and elected officials working together toward a world free of nuclear weapons and advocating for common sense nuclear weapons policies to secure a safer, more just future. We call on the United States to lead a global effort to prevent nuclear war by: Actively pursuing a verifiable agreement among nuclear-armed states to eliminate their nuclear arsenals Renouncing the option of using nuclear weapons first Ending […]

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 […]