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https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-90-september.html The Art of Un-War. Krzysztof Wodiczko’s films and public interventions against militarization and war.Chris Hedges on the Collapse of Civilizations. https://account.newday.com/streaming/?film=ART-01&preview=GHlu3DPx5d3xrKIfMy Videos The Art Of Un-War New Day Films Play Video Renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko has practiced socially engaged art for over five decades and has dedicated his life and art in denouncing militarization and war. An instigator for social change, Wodiczko’s powerful public art interventions disrupt the valorization of state-sanctioned aggression and challenge our complacency towards war, xenophobia and displacement. The film focuses on Wodiczko’s social practice art and the recurring themes of war, trauma and displacement in Wodiczko’s […]
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-91-september.htmlGrace Blakeley. “Turning the Earth into money w/ John Bellamy Foster.” Alberto Garzón Espinosa. “The Limits to Growth: Ecosocialism or Barbarism.”Drew Costley and Matthew Brown. “Study says carbon’s costs undercounted” Humans and Nature under Capitalism Grace Blakeley. “Turning the Earth into money w/ John Bellamy Foster.” Mronline.org (posted May 12). Grace talks to John Bellamy Foster, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and editor of Monthly Review. They discuss Marx’s theory of nature and the relationship between humanity and nature under capitalism. (For the interview, click the title. See Sparrow, Crimes Against Nature.) WHEN DID WE KNOW? (that the […]
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-economic-growth-anthology-4.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and ECOLOGY https://omnicenter.org/donate/ GROWTH, EXPANSION the Dynamo of Capitalism #4 Earlier Newsletters (#1, June 17, 2016, http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/06/growth-watch.html #2, July 10, 2016, https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2016/07/growth-watch-2.html #3, October 20, 2018, https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/10/omni-growth-watch-newsletter-2.html #4 TABLE OF Contents:PART ONE: ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE, 2016, 2019, ideologically biased mainstream advocate of neoliberal capitalism, enemy of climate 2016 XNA Parking Deck $30 million. 2019 12% rise in traffic NWA. See George Monbiot’s corrective, “Love Flights.”Access highway to be improved.Welcome gas and oil Boom includes some smog. Plastics Boom. Coal down but some new mines. PART TWO: RECENT COMMENTARY ON GROWTH […]
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-89-august-31.html Chris Hedges. “Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War.” World Beyond War. The War Abolisher Awards of 2022.Dick Bennett. “Finding Hope.” Chris Hedges. “Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War.” The prosecution of permanent war requires permanent censorship. No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation’s war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan, will bleed for a very long time. This is by design. On August 24, the Biden administration announced yet another massive military aid package to Ukraine worth nearly […]
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-climate-memo-mondays-90-august-29.htmlJohn Bellamy Foster’s summary and review of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report.Joanna Person-Michener. “ Must act on climate.” John Bellamy Foster. “Be moderate…we only want THE EARTH!” Mronline.org (7-22-22). . . .In terms of the scientific consensus on climate change, the reports of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are most important. The planetary emergency is not, however, confined to climate change, and also encompasses the entire set of planetary boundaries that are now being crossed [CONVERGENCE], demarcating the earth as a safe home for humanity. Most of my comments here, though, will center on climate change. In […]
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-afghanistan-newsletter-28-august.html Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice (#8 April 15, 2011; #9 June 10, 2011; #10 July 3, 2011; #11 July 13, 2011; #12 Sept. 5, 2011; #13 Oct. 2, 2011; #14 Oct. 15, 2011; #15 Feb. 14, 2012 ; #16 April 27, 2012; #17 May 3, 2012; #18 Oct. 20, 2012; #19 Jan. 14, 2013; #20 August 17, 2013; #21, Feb. 4, 2014; #22, Feb. 22, 2015; #23, August 22, 2017; #24, Dec. 27, 2020; #25, August 22, 2021; #26, Oct., 14, 2021; #27, Oct. 23, 2021;) Contribute to OMNI: www.omnicenter.org/donate/ What’s at stake: […]
Dan Kovalik. The Plot to Scapegoat RussiaTom Engelhardt. Tomgram: “Is the Never-Ending Story Ending?” The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Putin By Dan Kovalik, Introduction by David Talbot. Skyhorse, 2017. Publisher’s Description An in-depth look at the decades-long effort to escalate hostilities with Russia and what it portends for the future.Since 1945, the US has justified numerous wars, interventions, and military build-ups based on the pretext of the Russian Red Menace, even after the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991 and Russia stopped being Red. In fact, the two […]
