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WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #105, DECEMBER 21, 2022

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— https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-105-december.html NUCLEAR WAR Prevention and Justice Ron Ridenour. Preventing the Bomb.  CovertAction Magazine.Beatrice Fihn.  ICAN: ICC, Nuclear Weapons War Crimes.Union of Concerned Scientists.  Urge Congress cosponsor a resolution supporting nuclear justice in    the Marshall Islands.Robin Andersen.  FAIR.  Corporate Media and the Ultimate Insanity.Gerry Sloan.  Poets and “UnAmerican Activities.” NUCLEAR WEAPONS Glance Back to Building the Bomb Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes. CovertAction Magazine via gmail.mcsv.net   12-2-22 11:16 AM (2 hours ago)     Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #104, DECEMBER 14, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-104-december.html Ukraine WarBenjamin Abelow.   How the West Brought War to Ukraine.  Art Hobson. Dangers of the Ukraine War. Benjamin Abelow.  How the West Brought War to Ukraine.  May 8, 2022. Misguided American and NATO policies created the Ukraine crisis. Now they risk nuclear war.   https://medium.com/@benjamin.abelow/western-policies-caused-the-ukraine-crisis-and-now-risk-nuclear-war-1e402a67f44e  Preface: If you prefer to read this essay as a bookThis essay is now available, slightly modified and revised, in book form — Paperback, eBook, and Audible. You can purchase these at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local independent bookstore. You can also read more about me and my work at my website. A German-lauguage edition is available in […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #105, December 12, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-105-december.html RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE CATASTROPHEJeff Masters.  Rev. of Disasterology by Samantha Montano..João Pedro Stedile,   Global Disasters, Causes, and Solutions.Geoff and Leslie Oelsner.  Attunements for the Earth.Duncombe and Lambert. The Art of Activism. RESISTANCE TO CLIMATE CATASTROPHE Jeff Masters.   “Disasterology: Disasters from the Front Lines of  the Climate Crisis, by Samantha Montano, a book review.” POSTED IN EYE ON THE STORM, YALE Climate CONNECTIONS (nOV. 27, 2022). The U.S. emergency management and disaster response systems are desperately deficient, and cannot handle the onslaught of climate change-amplified disasters already besieging the nation. That’s the take-home message of Disasterology, the excellent 2021 book by […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #104, December 5, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-104-december.html Military Spending, Climate Crisis, China and USA Jeremy Kuzmarov.“… Vast Military Spending… Greatly Accelerates Climate Crisis.” Michael Klare.  “What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change?”    Jeremy Kuzmarov.“New Report Details How Vast Military Spending By the Richest Countries Greatly Accelerates Climate Crisis.”  CovertAction Magazine (Dec 05, 2022). So why do climate justice groups like 350.org support the war in Ukraine? While the world’s climate negotiators gathered for the COP27 summit in Egypt, a new report published by the Transnational Institute, a Dutch think tank, emphasizes how rising global military spending is a great threat to efforts to combat climate change. According to […]

United Nations Conference of Parties 27 (COP27) December 4, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-united-nations-conference-of.html  Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology https://omnicenter.org/donate/ 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conferences 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27)  CONTENTS UN COP 27 Original Announcement: COP 27 – UN Foundation Climate Change Conference #27.     UN Foundation. “Climate Justice, COP, and an 8 billion milestone.” OMNI Center.  Achievement, US Role. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.  Loss and Damage Fund Achieved, but    not stopping warming. Vijay Prashad.  Loss and Damage Fund achieved, little else. George Monbiot.  A bleak assessment.  The Governments chose to do nothing that could change our catastrophic trajectory. Bill McKibben in The […]

Aubrey Shepherd Memorial

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Aubrey’s friends and family are invited to share in a Celebration of Life Saturday, December 3, at 2:00 pm Omni Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology, 3274 N. Lee Ave., Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703 Please join us to honor Aubrey’s love of life, where all emotions are welcome and encouraged. As Aubrey loved all things sweet, please come with your favorite cookies or such, pictures, or words to share while we toast and roast a true one-of-a-kind guy.

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #102, NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-102-november.html WAR’S HORROR AND HOW TO STOP MINDLESS SLAUGHTER Dick, “Then Conscription Began.” Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Chris Hedges, The Greatest Evil Is War. Chris Hedges.  “Shadows of War,” War Photographs. Dick, WWI Armistice. Then Conscription Began By Dick Bennett The soldiers cheered “God and Country! for victory over the enemy.  God with us.   (Gott mit uns!)  Over five foot eight the volunteers came,cheering right and honor.They walked tall to kill the enemy,led by kilted bagpipes,into the wire, into the guns. After the Battle of the Marne […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #103 NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-climate-memo-mondays-103-november.html Resisting and Adapting to Climate Calamity Tom Athanasiou. Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal.Peter Friederici.  Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope.Robert Gottlieb.  Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet.  Bernie’s Green New Deal I am reviewing writings I had marked to return to.  One is “Bernie’s Secret Weapon: Only a Global Green New Deal Can Succeed” by Tom Athanasiou (The Nation, September 30, 2019).  The article is three years old, but even more relevant today, for crisis has become emergency, and the public remains apathetic. The “10-year, $16.3 trillion price tag” reflects the “hard scientific truth […]