OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #242, AUGUST 13, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #242, AUGUST 13, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett. 

 

END CORPORATISM: Move to Amend Citizens United for a Government that Serves the Public Interest..

END EMPIRE:  Our Journey from Afghanistan.

STOP Project 2025!

 

 

END US CORPORATISM: MOVE TO AMEND CITIZENS UNITED.    It’s the System:  Stop the Arsonists. 

Right now, people are rallying to save PBS.   With the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s federal grants canceled, donations are pouring in from those who value quality, commercial-free news, educational programming, and cultural content. This outpouring is a powerful testament to the role of a free press in an informed society.  But the real crisis isn’t just the loss of PBS—it’s the system.  It’s the system where powerful interests dominate elections, flood our airwaves with propaganda, and influence laws written by corporate lobbyists—while politicians cut funding for essential public services.  We should absolutely support PBS and other institutions under attack. But we must not lose sight of the root cause. We can’t just fight fires—we need to stop the arsonists.  
Move to Amend is working for the long-term solution: the “We the People” Amendment, which affirms two essential truths—corporations are not people, and money is not speech. This reform is the foundation for a government that serves the public interest, not corporate agendas. . . .  MORE https://www.movetoamend.org/?utm_campaign=pbs_fundraising_ask&utm_medium=email&utm_source=movetoamend

 

END US WARMAKING: Afghanistan

BOOK CLUB:  Our Journey from Afghanistan: A Story of Survival and Hope.   For this book club, World BEYOND War President Kathy Kelly will join the two authors who have written their remarkable story . . . and 18 of you.   In September, 2025, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion for each of four weeks of the book Our Journey from Afghanistan: A Story of Survival and Hope with the authors Zar & Kasim, and with Kathy Kelly.   When you register for the club, we will mail you a paperback copy of the book.   We'll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.

 

FIGHTING BACK AGAINST PROJECT 2025

Public Citizen <president@citizen.org> 7-28-25. 
[I am asked, what can I do against all these crises?  My frequent reply is: support an effective organization.  And one of the best is Public Citizen, founded by Nader.  Its legal office is filing cases against wars, warming, corporations, you name it.  For the public, for us.  Here’s an example]:

“Still *another* win in court against Trump regime.”

Things are happening fast with our various lawsuits against the Trump regime.
Last week we emailed you about a big win in one of our lawsuits. In that case, a federal judge ordered the administration to restore a critical database about the funding allocated to various agencies. That database went dark after Russell Vought, one of the primary architects of the infamous Project 2025 manifesto, took charge of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Now we have another victory to share in a completely different case.
Here are the basics:   For six decades, Job Corps has helped millions of at-risk youth by providing job training, housing, and assistance with GEDs.   The Job Corps program has continued with ongoing bipartisan support in Congress — even when President Richard Nixon wanted to shrink it and President Ronald Reagan wanted to eliminate it altogether.  But then Donald Trump was reelected, and tried to do what Nixon and Reagan couldn’t. In May — in flagrant defiance of the law — the Trump regime announced that it was suspending the Job Corps program and closing all 99 Job Corps centers nationwide.   Public Citizen — with Southern Poverty Law Center as co-counsel — filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful decision to close the Job Corps centers.

Last Friday, the court ruled in our favor and put on hold the Trump regime’s decision to close the Job Corps centers. 
The judge wrote that the administration’s actions were “unprecedented” and that it “unequivocally” acted “unlawfully” in its scheme to kill the storied Job Corps program. 
MORE ABOUT TAKING THE REGIME TO COURT. . . .

[Note on jobs and our 2 Parties:  both Parties are warmongers that use wars to produce jobs, but the Dems simultaneously still seek civilian New Deal plans and practices for producing jobs and DEI, while the Republicans… well, as you see.    –D]

 

END WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #242, AUGUST 13, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.