OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #251, OCTOBER 15, 2025.

 

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #251, OCTOBER 15, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.

 

NO KINGS Demonstration, FAYETTEVILLE, this SATURDAY 18^TH, NOON, COURT HOUSE.

From Indivisible:  Sat. Oct. 18, 9:30-11:30 am, Rogers.   We’ll meet on the public sidewalks at the intersection of South Promenade Boulevard & Crown Lane, Rogers, AR 72758.

 

 

 

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS AND AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
Join millions at 'No Kings' protest

At gatherings big and small; in cities and towns; on street corners, campuses, bridges and town squares; in parks, train stations, city halls and more—AFT members will join with allies nationwide on Oct. 18 for a “No Kings” day of action even bigger than the one we held in June. Millions of people are coming together to reclaim our democracy, denouncing Trump’s authoritarian power grab and peacefully embracing the power of the people to demand dignity, affordability and opportunity for all. Here’s how you and your members can get involved. Here’s where you can find an event near you.

University loyalty pledge is ‘entirely corrupt’  When the Trump administration demanded “loyalty oaths” to force colleges and universities (including the University of Virginia, above) to support the president unconditionally, top leaders at the AFT and the American Association of University Professors called the move what it is: “entirely corrupt.” The offer of preferential treatment for institutions that court government favor “stinks of favoritism, patronage, and bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten and AAUP President Todd Wolfson, who urged institutions to reject such collusion. Read their scathing statement here and sign the petition against compacts here

 

 

Robert Reich.   Inequality Media Civic Action.
Dear Dick,
Next Saturday, Oct. 18, millions of Americans all over the country will join together at more than 2,000 events across all 50 states to tell Donald Trump that we have NO KINGS in America. . . .  Donald Trump is doing everything he can to make himself a king — defying the courts, issuing arbitrary decrees, and disregarding checks and balances.   Trump’s militarized army of anti-immigration thugs is terrorizing communities and arresting people without due process. He’s using the power of the federal government to silence dissent on university campuses and in the media. He’s weaponizing the Justice Department against political enemies and shuttering entire agencies by illegally refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress.   These are the actions of a lawless authoritarian, and we shouldn’t stand for it.   Express Donate: $9    

P.O. Box 9323, Berkeley,  CA 94709

 

 

[VFP-all] “Oct 18: No Kings, No Warmongers — March with Veterans For Peace.”   Gerry Condon via uark.onmicrosoft.com .   Oct .14, 2025.   From: Veterans ForPeace <vfp@veteransforpeace.org>   View and share this email as a web page.

 

Working Families Party
Dick, In America, we have no kings.   But day after day, Trump becomes even more of a wannabe dictator with his deployments of ICE and the National Guard around the country, and Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was even caught saying that he had complete, unrestricted power on the matter.   He was wrong. Power still belongs to the people, and it’s time to show it by coming together in numbers they can’t ignore.   This Saturday, millions of people will be joining the No Kings Day of Action across the country. Will you be one of them? Click here to find and RSVP for a No Kings Day of Action protest near you.

Progressive Caucus Action FundDick
President Trump thinks he can rule this country like a monarch, but in America, we don’t do kings. On October 18, we’re rising up to prove it.    Since day one, Trump and his MAGA enablers have acted like the rules don’t apply to them, seizing local police departments, deploying federal forces against peaceful protestors, taking U.S. citizens, and slashing vital services while funneling billions to their billionaire allies. Now, he’s even hinting at a third term. Enough.   The Progressive Caucus Action Fund is standing with our neighbors and fellow Americans to remind President Trump and his enablers that America has No Kings. Will you join us? Find a protest near you.

 

Tell Congress: Fight back against Trump’s domestic military deployments by rejecting the NDAA!   9-6-25

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War Budget Watch @ Win Without War <info@winwithoutwar.org>                                              Dick: Just this summer, Trump has used the military to occupy major U.S. cities, intimidate political opponents, and run cover for a mass deportation campaign that is leaving communities in fear.   Trump’s efforts to weaponize our military against the people are inflammatory, dangerous, and dictatorial. Fortunately, we’re about to face a critical chance to push back.   In a matter of days, Congress will be voting on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a must-pass funding bill that sets the budget for the Pentagon, which is currently overseeing the deployments of armed federal troops to our cities and towns. . . .  [Congress has not yet passed the final bill, -- Dick 10-15-25.]

We need lawmakers to fight back against authoritarianism at every possible step, and that has to include REJECTING the NDAA. One of the surefire ways they’ll be compelled to do just that? Hearing from droves of constituents, like you.

We can’t risk this horrible bill becoming law because members of Congress think people like us aren’t paying attention or, worse, that we don’t care. Click here to tell Congress: Fight back against Trump’s domestic military deployments by rejecting the NDAA!

ACT NOW

 

 

 

END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #251, OCTOBER 15, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #252, October 13, 2025.

 

OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #252, October 13, 2025.    Compiled by Dick Bennett.

Inside Climate News Weekly.

Protecting Waterways and Wetlands.

Climate and Capitalism.
Ecological Marxism in the Anthropocene. 

 

INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS WEEKLY (October 11, 2025).   https://insideclimatenews.org/?utm_source=InsideClimate%20News&utm_campaign=9f32789f83-  Visit our website for the latest.   Sign up for more newsletters, including our twice-weekly “Today's Climate” and “Thursday's Inside Clean Energy.” Follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn and Bluesky.  Have a tip or story idea? Contact us.

 

 

PROTECTING WATERWAYS AND WETLANDS
Waterkeeper Alliance and Currents (August 2025).

Waterkeeper Alliance and partners submitted comments strongly condemning the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to reissue its Nationwide Permit program. These proposed changes would allow the destruction of tens of thousands of acres of waterways and wetlands across the United States without any meaningful review by the government or notice to the public, in gross violation of federal law. In 2021, the groups filed a lawsuit challenging the Corps’ Nationwide Permit 12 for oil and gas pipelines and continue to oppose the reissued permit, which allows pipelines—often hundreds or even thousands of miles long—to cross waterways and threaten wildlife without comprehensive environmental review.. . .

Inside Climate News Weekly (10-13-25) protecting wetlands.
Vilified in the past as wastelands, the watery ecosystems are in fact a linchpin of planetary stability, with their moist soils sequestering more carbon dioxide per unit than forests. With unmatched efficiency, they act as Earth’s kidneys, filtering pollution and recharging drinking water sources while preventing storm damage and flooding. For scores of communities, wetlands are a cradle of culture, a source of sustenance and a home. . . .

 

Climate & Capitalism <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com> 10-7-25 Has the Anthropocene Been Cancelled? Ian Angus anaylses the controversial decision not to recognize a radical change in the Earth System.   Source other recent articles ...  'Carbon markets dispossess our territories and criminalize our ways' Climate change adds 40 days to worldwide wildfire season Fossil fuel production plans contradict climate promises Wildfire smoke impact far greater than estimates: thousands killed

Ecological Marxism in the Anthropocene.  Monthly Review (October 2025).
John Bellamy Foster interviews Xu Tao and Lv Jiayi on the history of ecological Marxism.    They explore origins of the term Anthropocene and its predecessors, the concept of degrowth, the continuing influence of metabolic rift theory, and the cutting-edge issues facing young scholars of degrowth today.

+ read more

 

END OMNI CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS #252, October 13, 2025.   

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #250, OCTOBER 8, 2025.

 

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #250, OCTOBER 8, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.

 

NUCLEAR WAR DANGER

Scott Ritter.   Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024.
NCTE’s George Orwell Award.

Back from the Brink.  “Action Alert: Urge Your Local and State Officials to Show Leadership.”  

 

Nuclear War Danger, Need for Arms Control, Nuclear Weapons Abolition

Scott Ritter.   Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024.  Clarity P, 2025.

The world stands on the precipice of a nuclear Armageddon, the byproduct of a confluence of the demise of the foundational principles of arms control that had served as a check on the world’s two largest nuclear-armed nations, the United States and Russia, and the geopolitical consequences of a failing hegemon clashing with an emerging multipolar reality. Nuclear weapons, once codified as weapons of deterrence intended never to be used, have morphed into weapons that have become integrated in the warfighting plans of the nuclear-armed powers. Deterrence is no longer in vogue—warfighting and war winning are.
There will be no winner in a nuclear conflict.
Critical thinking about the dangers posed by nuclear weapons, the necessity of arms control, and the consequences of nuclear war has never been more urgently needed. Highway to Hell: The Armageddon Chronicles, 2015-2024 affords the reader a comprehensive insight into these critical issues as they were unfolding,

[Ritter labors for World Peace in clarity and courage, particularly for amity between the US and Russia.   Check him out, and I hope you will join me in supporting his work.   See WWW 243, 247, 248. –Dick]

 

Announcing the Winner of NCTE’s George Orwell Award

For Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. This year’s winner: Sarah Stitzlein.    

Stitzlein is a philosopher of education whose work, according to the 2025 award selection committee, “challenges us to adopt a cross-disciplinary inquiry approach within citizenship education and grounds the work in current events that have a direct impact on public schools’ and teachers’ relationships with parents, politicians, and other stakeholders.”

The long history of the George Orwell Award reflects valuable work by educators, journalists, philosophers, podcasters, and more. Previous recipients include Ted Koppel and "Nightline," Noam Chomsky, Garry Trudeau and the "Doonesbury" cartoon, Arundhati Roy, John Stewart and The Daily Show, Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! and The Onion. In recent years, a scholar advocating for Linguistic Justice, a podcast by educators interrogating the space Black bodies occupy, and an educator and policy advocate demonstrating the need for enhanced educational opportunities for immigrant students have all had their work recognized.   Write to Emily Kirkpatrick, Exec. Dir. Of NCTE, about the next recipient!

 

 

“Action Alert: Urge Your Local and State Officials to Show Leadership.”   Back from the Brink  10-8-25 

                                                                                                                   

 

Hi Dick,   At Back from the Brink, we talk a lot about leadership. We need much more of it in order to make progress toward our goal of a world free of nuclear weapons.     We need more of this leadership from within our communities — our governors, mayors, city/town councilors, county commissioners, and state legislators. They are an important voice and have been elected to help keep us safe. And what they say matters to the decision-makers in Washington, including your members of Congress.   In that spirit, Back from the Brink is circulating a sign-on letter for local, county, and state elected officials which urges members of Congress to cosponsor H. Res. 317 in the House and S. Res. 323 in the Senate. These two nearly identical “Back from the Brink resolutions” articulate common-sense policies to prevent nuclear war, halt and reverse the global nuclear arms race, support impacted communities, and codify global nuclear disarmament as a moral and national security imperative.   We already have dozens of mayors, city/town councilors, county commissioners, and state legislators from around the country who have signed the letter, and we hope hundreds more will join them so we can send an unmistakable message to Congress — that nuclear weapons are a local issue and we demand real disarmament leadership from Washington.   We’ve created a one-click action customized for each state so you can contact your local and state elected officials, urging them to sign our H. Res. 317/S. Res. 323 sign-on letter. (Please read the note on the page for people who live in towns with fewer than 10,000 people.)   TAKE ACTION NOW   Perhaps you know some of these local and state officials or have existing relationships with them. If so, we’d love to hear from you and discuss ways we can encourage more leadership from them.     Feel free to reach out to Erick Fernandez at erick@preventnuclearwar.org with any questions.   Many thanks, Your friends at Back from the Brink   P.S. In just over 100 days, New START, the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia is set to expire. The time to raise our voices and demand leadership is now.  [One of the best actions you can take is to support the efforts by Scott Ritter to end the ancient hatred of the Soviet Union (now Russia) by the US.  Ritter is not only constantly writing and speaking for US/Rus amity, but he has created a peace organization with fellow spirits for peace in Russia.  Just google Scott Ritter, or contact me. –Dick]

 

 

 

END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #250, OCTOBER 8, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.