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COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE  (#11 Oct. 8, 2011; #12 Jan. 31, 2012; #13 Feb. 22, 2012; #14 Feb. 26, 2012; #15 March 17, 2012; #16 April 12, 2012; #17 May 21, 2012; #18, July 9, 2012; #19 August 13, 2012; #20 Sept. 10, 2012; #21, Dec. 14, 2012; #22 March 5, 2013; #23 Nov. 12, 2013; #24 March 5, 2014; #25 January 17, 2015; #26, July 28, 2015; #27, June 3, 2018; #28, June 21, 2019; #29, July 11, 2019; #30, August 9, 2019; #31, August 23, 2019.) https://omnicenter.org/donate/ CONTENTS IRAN ANTHOLOGY #32 […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/convergence-of-war-and-warming-and-7-14.html As climate changes stress our human institutions, we are likely to face deadly conflicts over critical resources.  Klare. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nuclear-defense-climate-change/          The threats of wars and warming, their causes and consequences, are well studied, but facing and reversing those threats are, to say the least, nascent sciences.  We know well also the success of organizing denial of or distracting people from the harms of both.  Another reason might be that they are studied piecemeal, when they are occurring simultaneously.   And this factor has been little studied.  The result is constant underestimating.  A war alone is incalculably horrendous.  A war during […]

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/omni-ecosocialism-anthology-2-july-22.html Collected by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology Ecosocialism is a vision of a transformed society in harmony with nature, and the development of practices that can attain it. It seeks alternatives to all socially and ecologically destructive systems, such as capitalism, fossil-fuel based economy, patriarchy, racism, and homophobia.  (From #1, Google search).  CONTENTS OF ECOSOCIALISM ANTHOLOGY #2 BOOKS David Camfield.   Future on Fire: Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change.  PM Press, 2022.  128. Kohei Saito.  Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism.  2017. ARTICLES  (nearly all published in 2022) Garzón Espinoza.  “The Limits to Growth.” Jayatri Ghosh.  “Climate Imperialism […]

Philip Martin, “Style” page editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, recently reviewed a new novel by Michael Landweber, which Martin categorized as a “utopian fantasy.” Martin described Landweber’s The Damage Done as “about the end of violence, “at least the end of person-on-person physical violence” because “some mysterious force has made it impossible for us to hurt one another. A bully goes to punch the bullied and the fist loses velocity….Bullets hang in the air.” A dissident imprisoned for his attacks against “Dear Leader” “finds his torturers impotent”; “politicians wonder how they might continue to make war”; the Pope wonders if […]