First Fifty War Watch Wednesdays
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