OMNI WAR
WATCH WEDNESDAYS
#253, OCTOBER 29, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Emmanuel Todd. Russophobia.
Robert Reich. Stopping Bullies.
Marge Piercy. Conservative Majority (poem).
Anti-war: Johnstone Paints Benjamin.
Emmanuel Todd.
“Russia is our Rorschach.” ACURA (Oct 21, 2025).
Last April, I was interviewed by a Russian television
channel about Western Russophobia and I had an epiphany. . . .“our
Russophobia has nothing to do with you. It’s a fantasy, a pathology of
Western societies, an endogenous need of ours
to imagine a Russian monster.” Read in browser » [The author focuses on France. An earlier, famous psychiatric explanation
of US Soviet policies is Missile Envy: The Arms Race and Nuclear War by Dr. Helen Caldicott (rev. 1986), in two
chapters: “Pathogenesis: The Pathological Dynamics of the Arms Race” and
“Etiology: Missile Envy and Other Psychopathology.” The
book needs updating in its missile statistics, but in analysis of policy it
remains au courant. –D]
BULLY
USA
Robert Reich 8-4-25
Dear Dick, As you may know, I’m very short. I’ve always
been very short. In fact, I never got taller than 4 feet 11 inches. (And in the
last few years, I’ve been shrinking.) Just
as I came up short, America has come up short as well. If you need proof, look
no further than Donald Trump. That’s
why I titled my memoir, Coming up Short: A Memoir of My America. I wrote this book to share what I’ve
learned in my life, and 50 years in politics, about stopping bullies —
at a time in American history when we’re dealing with an authoritarian bully
who has encouraged bullying throughout the nation and the world. . . . Click here to donate $39
or more to Inequality Media Civic Action — and get a thank-you gift of my new
book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America. . . .
Marge Piercy’s Poem to Trumpers and Trump
“The Extreme Court.” Monthly Review
(January 2025). https://monthlyreview.org/articles/the-extreme-court/#:~:text=Their%20values%20are%20clear,like%20Trump%20He%20becomes%20him.
Google’s response to my inquiry
about the poem reveals the weakness of Artificial Intelligence. Google:
“The politically charged
poem is a fierce critique of the U.S. Supreme Court, its conservative majority,
and its influence on society. “ The “extreme court” of the poem is the
“conservative majority” of wealthy people, corporations, Christian
nationalists, and above all Trump all concentrated against the poor and other
vulnerable people. AI was misled by the
title: the U. S. Supreme Court is not
alluded to in the poem. However, the poem is a critique of the USSC
because the majority of the Court represent Trump and Trumpsters.
two anti-war heroes: Caitlin Johnstone paints medea benjamin.
Caitlin Johnstone. “New Painting: Medea
Benjamin. “ Oct 20.
2025.
One of
my favorite anti-war heroes. Oil on
canvas. [Click on title for additional
photos of the painting. OMNI has
welcomed the co-founder of CODE PINK here twice. --D]
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“Voices from Vietnam” –
Film Screening & Discussion
Tuesday,
November 11, 5:30pm
Walker Community Room
A Different Vietnam War
Wednesday, November 12, 6pm
Walker Community Room
DICK’S
SOURCES FOR HIS ANTHOLOGIES AND WEEKLIES
10-22-25 https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2025/10/dicks-sources-for-his-anthologies-and.html
END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #253, OCTOBER 29, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
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