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American Casualties of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Program

August 16, 2016

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - When Americans think about nuclear weapons, they comfort themselves with the thought that these weapons’ vast destruction of human life has not taken place since 1945—at least not yet. But, in reality, it has taken place, with shocking levels of U.S. casualties.

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Posted in Analysis, August 2016 | No Comments »

Democratic Socialism Returns to the U.S.

July 16, 2016

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - It’s clear that democratic socialism has made a comeback in American life.

Tags: Bernie Sanders, Democratic Socialists of America, Eugene V. Debs, Hillary Clinton, Lawrence S. Wittner, Michael Harrington, New Deal
Posted in Analysis, July 2016 | No Comments »

Why Tuition-Free College Makes Sense

June 12, 2016

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - The major argument for free public college and university education is the same as for free public education in general: like the free public elementary and high schools already existing in the United States, free public higher education provides educational opportunity for all and strengthens the American workforce.

Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Bernie Sanders, Charles Koch, David Koch, Hillary Clinton, Lawrence S. Wittner
Posted in Analysis, June 2016 | No Comments »

“Modernizing” the Opportunities for Nuclear War

April 19, 2016

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - A fight now underway over newly-designed U.S. nuclear weapons highlights how far the Obama administration has strayed from its commitment to build a nuclear-free world. The fight, as a recent New York Times article indicates, concerns a variety of nuclear weapons that the U.S. military is currently in the process...

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Posted in Analysis, April 2016 | No Comments »

Has the Time Come for Democratization of the Economy?

January 6, 2016

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - Many Americans are becoming fed up with economic inequality. Of course, they might be distracted by xenophobia and fear-mongering, which have been promoted assiduously in recent months by pro-corporate politicians. Even so, there are growing indications that Americans favor democracy not only in their politics, but in their...

Tags: Charles Koch, David Koch, John Birch Society, Lawrence S. Wittner, Sheldon Adelson, Wal-Mart’s Waltons
Posted in Analysis, January 2016 | No Comments »

Democratic Socialism Has Deep Roots in American Life

November 5, 2015

LAWRENCE WITTNER - The shock and disbelief with which many political pundits have responded to Bernie Sanders’ description of himself as a “democratic socialist”—a supporter of democratic control of the economy—provide a clear indication of how little they know about the popularity and influence of democratic socialism over the course of American history.

Tags: Keystone XL pipeline, Lawrence S. Wittner, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Posted in November 2015, What's Happening In the Movement | No Comments »

After the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers Also Play by the Rules?

September 30, 2015

LAWRENCE WITTNER - When all is said and done, what the recently-approved Iran nuclear agreement is all about is ensuring that Iran honors its commitment under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) not to develop nuclear weapons. But the NPT—which was ratified in 1968 and which went into force in 1970—has two kinds of provisions....

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Posted in Analysis, September 2015 | No Comments »

What Do Americans Think About Economic Inequality?

August 17, 2015

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - Academician Dr. Lawrence Wittner performed many literature reviews in his scholarly career; this essay is a mini-version of US citizen opinion on the questions surrounding our growing gap between rich and everyone else, as well as the decimation of the middle class. In this clear and objective logical survey of...

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Posted in Analysis, August 2015 | No Comments »

Are Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament Agreements of Any Value?

July 27, 2015

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - The recent announcement of a nuclear deal between the governments of Iran and other major nations, including the United States, naturally draws our attention to the history of international nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. What accounts for their advent on the world scene and what have they accomplished?

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Posted in Analysis, July 2015 | No Comments »

Who Are the Nuclear Scofflaws?

April 2, 2015

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - Given all the frothing by hawkish U.S. Senators about Iran’s possible development of nuclear weapons, one might think that Iran was violating the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). But it’s not.

Tags: Lawrence S. Wittner, Nuclear Nonproliferaton Treaty
Posted in April 2015, What's Happening In the Movement | 1 Comment »

Will the U.S. Government Stand Alone in Rejecting Children’s Rights?

March 13, 2015

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - Within a matter of months, the U.S. government seems likely to become the only nation in the world still rejecting the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Sometimes called “the most ratified human rights treaty in history,” the Convention has been ratified by 195 nations, leaving the...

Tags: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Lawrence S. Wittner
Posted in Analysis, March 2015 | No Comments »

Are the U.S. and Russian Governments Once Again on the Nuclear Warpath?

February 17, 2015

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - A quarter century after the end of the Cold War and decades after the signing of landmark nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements, are the U.S. and Russian governments once more engaged in a potentially disastrous nuclear arms race with one another? It certainly looks like it.

Tags: 1987 INF Treaty, Ashton Carter, Cold War, Crimea, Lawrence S. Wittner, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1947, Putin, Start Treaty of 2011, Ukraine
Posted in Analysis, February 2015 | No Comments »

How Rich Are the 400 Richest Americans – and What Do They Do with Their Money?

January 20, 2015

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - In the supposedly classless society of the United States, the wealthiest Americans are doing remarkably well. According to Forbes, a leading business magazine, the combined wealth of the 400 richest Americans has now reached the staggering total of $2.3 trillion. This gives them an average net worth of $5.7...

Tags: Gates Foundation, John Birch Society, Koch Brothers, Lawrence S. Wittner, Walmart, Walton Foundation
Posted in Analysis, January 2015 | 1 Comment »

Doom from the Depths: Coming Your Way

August 9, 2014

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - Ever since the horrors of submarine warfare became a key issue during World War I, submarines have had a sinister reputation. And the building of new, immensely costly, nuclear-armed submarines by the U.S. government and others may soon raise the level of earlier anxiety to a nuclear nightmare.

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Posted in Analysis, August 2014 | No Comments »

What To Tell People When They Say We Should Use the Military

May 20, 2014

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - Is overwhelming national military power a reliable source of influence in world affairs? If so, the United States should certainly have plenty of influence today. For decades, it has been the world’s Number 1 military spender. And it continues in this role.

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Posted in Analysis, May 2014 | No Comments »

Clinging to Mass Violence

October 16, 2013

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - Is the human race determined to snuff itself out through mass violence? There are many signs that it is.

Tags: Afghanistan, Doomsday Clock, drones, Lawrence S. Wittner, NATO, NRA, nuclear war, peace movements, terrorism, United Nations, War on Terror, World Court
Posted in Analysis, October 2013 | No Comments »

Defense Giant Tries to Feed at the Public Trough

March 18, 2013

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER - At this time of severe cutbacks in government funding for food stamps, early childhood education, and Meals on Wheels, some Maryland legislators are hard at work looking out for the welfare of one of the world’s wealthiest corporations. Under a bill rapidly advancing in the legislature of that state, the...

Tags: Huge tax relief for large corporation, Lawrence S. Wittner, Lockhead Martin Corporation, Welfare for large corporations
Posted in Analysis, March 2013 | No Comments »

Republican Small Government Aspirations Exposed

September 17, 2012

LAWRENCE WITTNER - The Republican Party has stood up with remarkable consistency for the post-9/11 U.S. government policies of widespread surveillance, indefinite detention without trial, torture, and extraordinary rendition. It has also supported government subsidies for religious institutions, government restrictions on immigration and free passage across international boundaries, government denial of collective bargaining rights...

Tags: ACLU, Afghanistan, Bradley Manning, civil liberties, El Salvador, environmental regulations, George H. W. Bush, GOP, Grenada, Iran, Iraq, jingoism, Julian Assange, Kuwait, Lawrence S. Wittner, Libya, military, Mitt Romney, Nicaragua, Panama, public education, public health, racial minorities, Randolph Bourne, Republican Party, Ron Paul, statism, the Balkans, U.S. Representative, welfare services, widespread surveillance, Wikileaks
Posted in Analysis, September 2012 | No Comments »

Nuclear Terrorism: How It Can Be Prevented

February 2, 2010

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER: The recent furor over an unsuccessful terrorist attempt to blow up an airliner is distracting us from considering the possibility of a vastly more destructive terrorist act: exploding a nuclear weapon in a heavily-populated area.

Tags: fissile material, Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, Lawrence S. Wittner, non-proliferation treaty, nuclear weapons, terrorism, War on Terror
Posted in Analysis, Feb 2010, Opinion | No Comments »

When “Public Options” Serve the Public — and When They Don’t

October 1, 2009

LAWRENCE S. WITTNER: Currently, there is nothing more controversial in President Barack Obama's health care reform proposal than the "public option." Much of the controversy, of course, has been generated by private insurance companies, determined to safeguard their hefty profits, and by Republican politicians, eager to destroy anything that might redound to the benefit...

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Posted in Archive, Oct 2009 | No Comments »

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