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OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #208, DECEMBER 18, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett     https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-208-december.html WARRINGMatthew Ehret Insights.  “Which Foreign Policy Paradigm for the USA? Hegemony and Annihilation or Restoration of Sanity?”  TRANSCEND Media Service.  10 Dec 2024. Compared to the great initiatives of the past 260 years, the USA of the past several decades is a strange and foolish creature running roughshod over the dignity of people and nations in a race for mass nuclear extermination. PREVENTING WARSTHE NUCLEAR RESISTER (Nov. 12, 2024). This number reports on resisters jailed from California to New Hampshire.  A day- by- day record of the US and Canadian protesters of the genocide in Gaza […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #209, DECEMBER 16, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-209-december.html PLANET OVER PROFITPOP is a youth-led climate justice group building people power and using direct action to take on the fossil fuel industry and put Planet Over Profit. Fossil fuel companies – and the banks and asset managers that finance them – are driving us off the cliff of climate collapse.    The wealthiest 1%, with their dirty investments and private jets and yachts, rob us of a livable future while ordinary people struggle to make ends meet and survive.   If our so-called “leaders” won’t act on climate, it’s on us to hold them accountable and reclaim […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #207, DECEMBER 11, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-207-december.html  Resisting Militarism, Wars, and Empire GEORGE ORWELL AWARDS from the NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH [Everyone should read Orwell’s 1984, and everyone connected professionally or indirectly to the study of LANGUAGE and POLITICS should be promoting the NCTE awards.   Maybe I’m talking about everybody.–Dick]This award recognizes people who have made notable contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has given out this award since 1975. Wars and other dysfunctions are planned,  started, and sustained by deception by language manipulation.  The award is given to an author, editor, […]

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #208, DECEMBER 9, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-climate-memo-mondays-208-december.html More Books from “Ecosocialist Bookshelf”Articles from Climate and Capitalism MORE BOOKS FROM “Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2024.”  September 2, 2024.   Climate change silently accumulates a thousand tiny conflagrations, increasing health risks for billions of people, reducing productivity and amplifying inequality in a host of ways. Rob Jackson.  INTO THE CLEAR BLUE SKY: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere.  Simon & Schuster.  Jackson, chair of the Global Carbon Project, argues that we must not only slash emissions, but also repair the damage by removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.  Restoring the atmosphere means reducing the amount of greenhouse […]

OMNI SOVIET/RUSSOPHOBIA ANTHOLOGY #5

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COMPILED BY DICK BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-sovietrussophobia-anthology-5.html What’s at Stake:  The search for the truth.   I watch detective mysteries on PBS especially for their appreciation of the human intellect and scrupulous ethics.  All present the search,  not for an alternative reality, as the W. Bush administration claimed proudly for itself, but for the truth to be discovered.  The latest Hercule Poirot drama, “Sad Cypress,” recounted the story of a young woman accused of premediated murder.  Under British law, she was innocent until proven guilty, and had been permitted to hire a skilled lawyer to […]

“PEARL HARBOR DAY,” COLONIAL PACIFIC WORLD WAR II ANTHOLOGY #9, December 7, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/pearl-harbor-day-colonial-pacific-world.html What’s at stake:  So one-sided has been the reporting and history of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, that dozens of “detective” historians have been inspired to correct the record concerning that “Day of Infamy.”  These writings are found in OMNI’s nine “Pearl Harbor Day” Anthologies beginning in 2008. CONTENTS Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe. Imperial and Colonial Background.2021. Robert Fantina.  Propaganda, Lies and False Flags: How the U.S. Justifies Its Wars.   2020.  Understanding a “war without mercy.” CHRISTOPHER […]

Americana Highways Video Premier of All of Us Are Immigrants

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All of Us Are Immigrants” is Daniel Boling on guitar and lead vocals; Kelly Mulhollan on humming; Char Rothschild on accordion and tin whistles; Jono Manson on humming; and Donna Mulhollan on humming. Americana Highways is hosting this premiere of C. Daniel Boling’s song “All of Us Are Immigrants” from his forthcoming album Love, Dan, which is due to be released on November 22 More about Dan Boling and “Love Dan” at this link to Amaricana Highways