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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

Part 2: The Tiffany Property – What’s going on over there?

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Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology Fayetteville could have handled things differently.  She still can. The short , unvarnished version of our perspective on these lawsuits is this: there is manipulation going on behind the scenes from people who want to take over our property, which has become valuable. They’re exploiting a situation that we should have handled differently. Richard is actually trying to deal with it responsibly, in cooperation with the city’s Code Compliance Department, and with care for the low-income renters living there. He’s doing what he can in spite of city pressure and manipulation from self-interested parties. […]

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #206, DECEMBER 4, 2024

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Compiled by Dick Bennett  https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-206-december.html FOUR ACTIONS (=HOPE) FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE “Peacebuilding Next to Russia”: Finnish perspectives webinar.UN PROGRAMME OF ACTION ON A CULTURE OF PEACE.Back from the Brink.  Communities to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.Public Citizen v. Supreme Court’s presidential  immunity decision.l Dear Dick,Join us on Saturday, December 14 for an online panel on “Peacebuilding Next to Russia” to hear from Finnish perspectives on peace.Finland and Russia not only share a 1,340-kilometer (833 miles) border, but also a long history. There have been many conflicts and disagreements, many of which have been resolved without violence and war. Now, as tensions build, it is […]