OMNI US WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS Nos. 1-99, 12-23-20/11-9-22

 

US WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS Nos. 1-99
12-23-20/11-9-22

TITLES & Links IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF PUBLICATION

1. 12-23-20.  2 new books on US wars: Vine and Sorensen

This announcement of 2 new books on US aggressive warmaking and empire marks the inauguration of OMNI’s US War Watch Wednesdays (WWW) . 

CHRISTIAN SORENSEN.  UNDERSTANDING THE WAR INDUSTRY. 

DAVID VINE.  The United States of War:  A Global History of America's Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/12/us-war-watch-wednesdays.html

2. 12-30-20.  Two Books v. US Nuclear Weapons.  Scott Ritter.  SCORPION KING: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons.  FROM MAD TO MADNESS: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning by Diana Johnstone, Paul H. Johnstone

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/12/war-watch-wednesdays-www.html

 

3.  1-6-21.  DANIEL SJURSEN.  Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War. 

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/01/war-watch-wednesdays-www-3.html

 

4.  1-13-21 “The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed.  How US military spending keeps rising even as the Pentagon flunks its audit.” 

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/01/war-watch-wednesdays-january-13-2021.html

 

5. 1-20-21 CELEBRATE THE UNITED NATIONS’ NUCLEAR BOMB BAN TREATY.  SIGN PETITION DEMANDING UAF END BOMB BUILDING

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/01/war-watch-wednesdays-5.html

 

6. 1-27-21.  NUCLEAR ZERO: Let’s make the next four years count.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/01/war-watch-wednesdays-6.html

 

7. 2-3-21.  1) Two Books on US Empire: BURBACH & TARBELL, IMPERIAL OVERSTRETCH: George W. Bush and the Hubris of Empire.  . Daniel Immerwahr. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.  2) Call to Congress to Reject Biden’s nomination of Victoria Nuland as Under-secretary of State.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/02/war-watch-wednesdays-7.html

 

8.  2-10-21.  Medea Benjamin. “The U.S. War Machine [remains unchanged] Now Under New Management” & “How Does Washington Rob the Entire World?”

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/02/8-war-watch-wednesdays.html

 

9.  2-17-21.  Book Review: David Swanson, Leaving World War II Behind.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/02/war-watch-wednesdays-9.html

 

10. 2-24-21.  Two Books on Korean War.  Bruce Cumings’ The Korean War: A History, and A.B. Abrams’ Immovable Object: North Korea’s 70 Years at War with American Power.  

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/02/war-watch-wednesdays-10.html

 

11. 3-3-21.   Anti-war Poetry

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/03/war-watch-wednesdays-11.html

 

12.  3-12-2. Global Zero video on authority to launch nuclear war

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/03/war-watch-wednesdays-12.html

 

13.  3-17-21.  Nuclear Bombs Factory at Rocky Flats, Nukes Outlawed Jan. 22, 2021, President Biden & Pentagon Budget

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/05/war-watch-wednesdays-13.html

 

14.  3-24-21.  Climate Change and Nuclear War/Winter.  Michael Mann, The New Climate War.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/03/war-watch-wednesday-14.html

 

15. 3-31-21.  Extinctions, Climate Catastrophe, Militarism, Endless Wars: Making the Connections.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/03/war-watch-wednesdays-15.html

 

16. 4-7-21.  Climate and Militarism, Biden’s Nuclear Missiles.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/04/war-watch-wednesdays-16.html

 

17. 4-14-21.  MLK Jr. v. Poverty, Racism, and WAR, Biden Continues Warfare State

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/04/war-watch-wednesdays-17.html

 

18.  4-21-21.  Refuting Missile Defense & Refuting Market Defense. 

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/04/war-watch-wednesdays-18.html         

 

19. 4-28-21. Norway’s WWII Nonviolence, US Schools, Nonviolence and Climate Denial.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/04/war-watch-wednesdays-19.html

 

20. 5-5-21.  Patrick Cockburn. War in the Age of Trump & Abolish Nuclear Weapons

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/05/war-watch-wednesdays-20.html

 

21. 5-12-21.  Tom Englehardt. Slaughter Central: The U.S. as a Mass-Killing Machine

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/05/21-war-watch-wednesdays-5-12-21.html

 

22. 5-19-21.  John Horgan.  The End of War  & the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.  http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/05/22.html

 

23.  5-26-21.  Conn Hallinan.  “Are You Serious Awards 2021.”  Dispatches From The Edge.”

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/05/war-watch-wednesdays-may-26-2021.html

 

24.  6-2-21. David Vine.  The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State.  2020. 

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/24.html

 

25.  6-9-21.  CHALMERS JOHNSON. FOUR BOOKS ON THE US EMPIRE
“BLOWBACK” TRILOGY AND DISMANTLING THE EMPIRE review by Paul Leonard, 

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/war-watch-wednesdays-25.html

 

26.  6-16-21. Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger.  Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela. Monthly Review, 2021.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/26-war-watch-wednesdays-june-16-2021.html

 

27.  6-23-21.  Paul Farmer.  Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History (2020)

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/war-watch-wednesdays-27.html

 

28.  6-30-21.  HR 256 Passed and U.S. Govt Shutting Down Opponents Media (Democracy Now). 

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/06/28.html

 

29.   7-7-21.  Andrew Bacevich.  After the Apocalypse:  America's Role in a World Transformed.  And Raoul Peck.  Exterminate All the Brutes.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-july-7-2021.html

30.  7-14-21.  Tom Engelhardt.  A Nation Unmade by War.  Haymarket, May 2018.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-july-14-2021.html

 

31.  7-21-21.  CHRISTOPHER KELLY, STUART LAYCOCK.         HOW WE'VE INVADED OR BEEN MILITARILY INVOLVED WITH ALMOST EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH.  2014.  and Kathy Kelly.  Bending the Arc: Striving for Peace and Justice in the Age of Endless War.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-july-21-2021.html

 

32.  7-28-21. Linus Pauling’s Nobel Peace Lecture 1963 and other news on Biden and Nuclear Spending.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/07/war-watch-wednesdays-32-july-28-2021.html

 

33. 8-4-21. OMNI’S ANNUAL REMEMBRANCE OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI 2021 and other antiwar news.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/08/war-watch-wednesdays-august-4-2021.html

 

34.  8-11-21. Stephen Vittoria and Mumia Abu Jamal. Murder Incorporated: Three books on US imperialism. 2018 to 2020.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/08/war-watch-wednesdays-34.html

 

35. 8-18-21.  Kate Kizer, Win Without War, Et al.  FROM PENTAGON AND MILITARY CONTRACTORS TO WARS AND  CATASTROPHIC WARMING TO EXTINCTIONS AND REFUGEES.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/

 

36.  Mohammad Ali and Angie Zelter.  Antiwar Film: All Quiet on the Western Front.

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2151229136087998997/5877489834829129710 

 

37.  Peacemaking: Film, Sculpture, Magazine, Antiwar film, All Quiet on the Western Front, Kaminsky’s Peace Rock, Catholic Worker.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/war-watch-wednesdays-37.html

 

38. 9-8-21.  September 21, Film All Quiet on the Western Front; Arkansas Peace Week, September 19-26; Petition v. U.S. Military Air Base Construction in Henoko, Okinawa.  
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/omni-climate-memo-mondays-september-6.html  

 

39. 9-8-21. Susan Sontag.  Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2015/09/september-11-families-for-peaceful.html

 

40.  9-22-21. Robert Weissman. In Memory of the Lives Lost for Peace. Dennis Kucinich and Department of Peace Act of 2021. Hank Kaminsky Peace Rock.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/war-watch-wednesdays-40.html

 

41. 11-29-21. US War of Terror. Afghanistan War is a Racket. AFSC: Convert War Profiteering Money to Human Needs

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-september-29.html

 

42. 10-6-21  WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS
Dick: J. K. Galbraith and US Autonomous Militarism and Empire.
Alfred McCoy, In the Shadows of the American Empire. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-october-6-2021.html

 

43. 10-13-21. US Wars: Indian Wars to War of Terror. War of Extermination of Native Americans: Indigenous People’s Day. Brown University’s Cost of War Project (War of Terror). War Profiteers War of Terror.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-43-october-13.html

 

44.  10-20-21. Anti-War & Pro-Peace Resources Database: We’ve compiled this database of useful resources of our own and links to those found elsewhere. World Beyond War, 10-18-21

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/war-watch-wednesdays-44.html

 

45. 10-27-21. ANTICIPATING ARMISTICE DAY. Two Anti-War Books by Kathy Beckwith. US Glamorizing Warriors: Gallagher and Powell

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-october-27.html

 

46.  11-2-21. Armistice Remembrance Day.  US Threatening and Preparing for War. US History: Murder Incorporated Forum. UN Charter, Chapter 1, Article 2.4: No Use or Threat

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-46-november-3.html

 

47.  11-10-21. Anti-Nuclear Weapons Petition. Armistice Day History and Remembrance. 

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/war-watch-wednesdays-47.html

 

48.  11-17-21. ICAN Pledge on Schools of Mass Destruction (Includes University of Arkansas). Arms Control Association Events.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-48-november.html  

 

 

49.  11-24-21. Tom Engelhardt, The World We Made, The Enemy We Need. And Welcome to the American Century: Even If It Is a Hell on Earth

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-49-november.html 

 

50.  12-1-21.  Pearl Harbor Day Newsletters: Clash of Empires to Control Pacific Ocean and East Asia.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/war-watch-wednesdays-50.html

 

Celebrate 50,  Nos. 1-50

The First 50 War Watch Wednesdays

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/first-fifty-war-watch-wednesdays.html

 

51.  12-8-21. Nuclear Weapons Dangers and Action.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/war-watch-wednesdays-51.html

 

52.  12-15-21. Who is Destroying Peace?

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-52-december.html

 

53.  12-22-21.  Kathy Beckwith. A Mighty Case Against War. (2015).

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/war-watch-wednesdays-53.html

 

54.  12-29-21. Syria, War of Aggression, New Cold War and NATO Russophobia.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/12/war-watch-wednesdays-54_29.html

 

55. 1-5-22. Nuclear Weapons Abolition.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-55-january-5.html

 

56. 1-12-22. William Astore. Pentagon as PentaGod. Farrow on Climate Change Displacement and border Militarization.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/war-watch-wednesdays-56.html

57.  1-19-22. Celebrate Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons, Helen Keller against war, Nonviolence and Permanent War.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/01/war-watch-wednesdays-57.html

 

58. 1-26-22. Hank Kaminsky’s Peace Rock.

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2021/09/hank-kaminskys-peace-rock.html

 

59. 2-2-22. Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Media Complex for War and Norman Solomon: War Made Easy.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/59-war-watch-wednesdays.html

60. Conversion Movement from War Spending to Peace, Stopping Encirclement of China and Russia.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-60-february-9.html

61. Nonviolence versus War.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/war-watch-wednesdays-61.html

62. Russophobia and NATO Expansion

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/02/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-62-february.html

63. Glenn Peterson, War and the Arc of Human Experience. Todd Miller, Build Bridges Not Walls

 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-63-march-2.html

64.  Fayetteville/OMNI Russia War Demonstration. Ukraine/NATO Conflict and Russophobia.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/war-watch-wednesdays-64.html

65. Costs of War and Imperialism.

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/65-war-watch-wednesdays-65.html

66. Military Complex, Antiwar Movement and Nuclear War

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/66-war-watch-wednesdays.html

67. Lies of Empire and Forever War

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/03/war-watch-wednesdays-67.html

68. Global Security System and Study of US Empire

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/war-watch-wednesdays68.html

69. NATO War Against Russia and Confronting Global Catastrophe

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/war-watch-wednesdays-69.html

70. Massive Military Spending and Climate Change & Nuclear War

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/04/70-war-watch-wednesdays.html

71. NATO-Ukraine War and War Propaganda

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/war-watch-wednesdays-71.html

72. War Propaganda and Ukraine War Provocation

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/war-watch-wednesdays-72.html

73. Top Scholars Challenge US Narrative on Ukraine and Stephen Cohen’s Book War With Russia?

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-723-may-11.html

74. Nuclear Winter and Climate Catastrophes, Scott Ritter Antiwar Work and Pentagon Simulation for War with China

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/war-watch-wednesdays-74.html

75. U.S. Plans to Destroy Russian Navy, Hedges on War Intractability & Russiaphobia

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/05/75-war-watch-wednesdays-75.html

76. Harms of U.S. Wars and North Korea insider perspective

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/war-watch-wednesdays-76.html

77. Global US Violence, Hope & Justice, and Antiwar Poets

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/77-war-watch-wednesdays.html

78. Iran Nuclear Scaremongering, US atrocities against insurgencies, and US Global & Domestic Violence

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/78-war-watch-wednesdays.html

79. Fascism & Travel, US Participation in WWII Unjustifiable, US Imperialism post-WWII, and Nuclear War Triggers

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/79-war-watch-wednesdays.html

80. Link Between US Violence Abroad & Domestically, and VFP on US War games, Nuclear Pollution & Nuclear Arms Race

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/06/war-watch-wednesdays-80.html

81. Antiwar Book Club, Weapons in Space, Biden’s Bloated War Budget, and UN Warning of Global Collapse

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/war-watch-wednesdays-81.html

82. Hedges on Permanent War, Peace & Islam, Peacebuilding, and Nuclear Disarmament

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/82-war-watch-wednesdays.html

83. Hedges on Pimps of War, Cutting the Pentagon Budget, US Mayors Peace Resolution, and Understanding War Resources

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/07/82-war-watch-wednesdays.html

84. Trillions for war, Cable News Pro-War Bias, Provoking China & Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/war-watch-wednesdays-84.html

85. The Warfare State, Imperial Propaganda & Incarceration and Narrative Control

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/war-watch-wednesdays-85.html

86. Book: The Green Zone by Barry Sanders

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-86-august-10.html

87. Pacifism and Veterans for Peace

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/war-watch-wednesdays-87-august-17-2022.html

88. Book: The Plot to Scapegoat Russia by Dan Kovalik and War and Climate Endgame

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-august-24-2022.html

89. Ukraine and Permanent War, War Abolishers Awards & Finding Hope

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/08/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-89-august-31.html

90. The Art of Un-War and the Collapse of Civilizations

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-90-september.html

91. Veterans for Truth on Ukraine War & US Culture of War

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-91-september.html

92. Ukraine and Permanent War, CIA Proxy War in Ukraine, and Tolstoy on Patriotism & Chrisitianity

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/war-watch-wednesdays-92.html

93. Superweapons & Imperialism and US-NATO-Ukraine-Russia Anthology #13

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/09/war-watch-wednesdays-92.html

94. Book: The Greatest Evil is War by Chris Hedges

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-94-october-5.html

95. Book: The Pentagon, Climate Change & War by Neta Crawford, NAPF and Petition to Stop Endless Wars

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/war-watch-wednesdays-95.html

96. Stopping Ukraine War: 26 OMNI Anthologies for Peace

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-96-october-19.html

97. Assisted Suicide poem by Gerald Sloan, Nuclear Dangers Discussion and from Holocene to Anthropocene

http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/10/war-watch-wednesdays-97.html

98. Kucinich Calls for Diplomacy, Nukewatch Quarterly, Warmongers & Dr. Strangeloves and No Place to Hide

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-98-november-2.html

99. Armistice Day, Senseless Ukraine War, Lessons of Cuban Missile Crisis & Marshall Islands

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2022/11/omni-war-watch-wednesdays-99-november-9.html