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97 WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #97, OCTOBER 26, 2022 NUCLEAR WAR

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Gerald Sloan.  “Assisted Suicide.”Join NAPF for the Next Nuclear Dangers Zoom DiscussionDick.  From Holocene to Anthropocene: the Military Bridge. ASSISTED SUICIDE By Gerald H. Sloan Superpowers are playing chicken with nuclear weapons while we try to teach our children how to be better persons. Where’s the contradiction here when words like “shark attack” inspire more fear than “nuclear winter?” No words in any language can span the yawning chasm, no system link such epic doublethink. How to explain to the next generation this abrogation on so vast a scale, no calculus by which our overseers do not fail? Join Us […]

October Time Exchange Potluck

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Tues Oct 25 – 6:30 pm – Omni Center These potlucks are becoming very sweet affairs. Put this date on your calendar and plan to come check it out this month. Join us at this month’s Potluck to learn more about how a time bank works and how you can be part of it.

OMNI CELEBRATES UNITED NATIONS DAY OCTOBER 24, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-united-nations-day-october-24-2022.html For a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology compiled by Dick Bennett www.omnicenter.org/donate/ Contents UN Day 2022 Frederick Glaysher’s “Dag Hammarskjöld” FCNL Urges Contact Rep. UN General Assembly 77United Nations Foundation Fulbright on Nationalism “Dag Hammarskjöld” by Frederick Glaysher Dag Hammarskjöld No more of these sad tones of fear and the scourge of war, of chaos and anarchy, of the passions of humankind. Though the first movements wander among the dark and threatening conflicts of Beethoven’s Ninth, the “Ode to Joy” shall come. All the millions will unite as brothers, surrendered to the way of peace, to a higher […]

US-NATO-UKRAINE-RUSSIA WAR ANTHOLOGY #26 October 18, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-us-nato-ukraine-russia-war.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at Stake.       In the middle of WWI, the highly decorated British Army officer and celebrated poet, Siegrfried Sassoon, wrote “Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration” denouncing the war for being “prolonged by those who have the power to end it.”  The British War Department chose not to courtmartial Sassoon, but instead sent him to an Army hospital specializing in “shell shock” patients (PTSD today).  The military purpose of the hospital was to return soldiers back to the war in France. Its political purpose […]

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #96, October 19, 2022

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-96-october-19.html STOPPING the Ukraine War: OMNI’s 26 Anthologies, the Case for Peace CONTENTS OMNI’S US, NATO, RUSSIA, UKRAINE ANTHOLOGY #14, March 19, 2022  http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-russiaukraine-newsletteranthology.htmlKatrina vanden Heuvel.  End the Invasion and Stop the Killing. HISTORY Jeremy Kuzmarov.  Russia’s Invasion Was Provoked: CIA’s William Burns. Dr. Gerald Horne.  “What’s to Be Done in Eastern Europe.”  US: Regime    Change in Russia. Tomgram/Tom Dispatch. “William Astore.” William Astore.  US Cold War, US Arsenal “When Did the Ukraine War Begin?”  US Empire, NATO, 2004 Orange      Revolution, 2006 Decision, 2014 Coup in UK and Maidan Massacre,      Minsk Protocols. Oliver Stone and Igor Lopatonok.  Ukraine on Fire.  […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #97, OCTOBER 17, 2022

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 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-97-october-17.html    Bob Stern.  Earth First! Journal.Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong, eds. The Green New Deal and the Future of Work.David Gelles.  Patagonia’s Stockholder is the Earth. Bob Stern.  Earth First! Journal, 40th Anniversary Edition.  Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021. https://fe.quixotes.org/archive/410-fall-2021/earth-first-journal/ Wow! I thought, look at all that color! Can it really be the Earth First! Journal? They pulled out all the stops creating this collage of Earth First! art, poetry, history and personal reminiscences of radical eco-warriors over the past 40 years!    (Continued) Craig Calhoun and Benjamin Y. Fong, eds. The Green New Deal and the Future of Work.  Columbia […]

TORTURE, WAR CRIMES, LAWLESSNESS COLLECTION #12

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OMNI TORTURE, WAR CRIMES, LAWLESSNESS COLLECTION #12,https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-torture-anthology-12.html Compiled by Dick Bennett, Building a Culture of Peace and Justice  (#1 October 5, 2007; #2 May 9, 2011; #3 June 26, 2011; #4 Oct. 21, 2011; #5 Feb. 25, 2012; #6 June 12, 2012; #7 Feb. 23, 2013; #8 June 23, 2013; #9 April 16, 2014; #10, January 26, 2015; #11, March 30, 2016).    This collection is arranged in reverse chronological order from 2022 to 2016, for the experience of investigating a subject deeper into its past.  See end for Torture #11, and to preceding anthologies. Contents Torture #12 John Kiriakou.  CIA, […]

CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #96, OCTOBER 10,   2022. 

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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-climate-memo-mondays-96-october-10.html New hope-centered resistance books, article, legislation:Friederici, Beyond Climate Breakdown.Gottlieb,  Care-Centered Politics.Charlie Wood.Burnout.Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. 2 new climate resistance books from MIT Peter Friederici.  Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope.   Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore.  MIT, 2022.  200 pp.  “We need new stories—stories that center the persistence of life, rather than of capitalism.” Robert Gottlieb.  Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet.  MIT, 2022.Description   Author(s)   Praise Why a care economy and care-centered politics can influence and reorient such issues as health, the environment, climate, race, inequality, gender, and immigration. Charlie Wood.“There’s No Place for Burnout in […]