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9 May, 2022

Imperial nostalgia and its perils

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Although great empires rank among the most powerful engines of world history, they are also among the most dangerous, especially as they brood over their decline.

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16 Apr, 2022

Military and economic power once again fail to produce happiness

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Military and economic power once again fail to produce happiness by Lawrence S. Wittner  835 words Although the rulers of...

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4 Apr, 2022

Who speaks for the world?

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Russia’s brutal war upon the nation of Ukraine should remind us that, for thousands of years, great powers have used their military might to launch military assaults upon smaller, weaker societies.

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7 Feb, 2022

What the Cuban Missile Crisis Can Teach Us About Today’s Ukraine Crisis

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Commentators on the current Ukraine crisis have sometimes compared it to the Cuban missile crisis. This is a good comparison?and not only because they both involve a dangerous U.S.-Russian confrontation capable of leading to a nuclear war.

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28 Jan, 2022

Let’s not allow the great powers to destroy the world

By Lawrence S. Wittner

The vast destruction wrought by the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945 should have been enough to convince national governments that the game of war was over...

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8 Jan, 2022

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the World’s Future

By Lawrence S. Wittner

by Lawrence S. Wittner  957 words Late January of this year will mark the first anniversary of the entry into...

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22 Nov, 2021

Most Americans look favorably on global governance

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Amid all the flag-waving, chants of “USA, USA,” and other nationalist hoopla that characterize mainstream politics in the United States, it’s easy to miss the fact that most Americans favor global governance...

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24 Oct, 2021

Why is U.S. military spending increasing to new, outlandish levels?

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Although critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe say the United States can’t afford it, there are no such qualms about ramping up funding for the U.S. military...

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11 Oct, 2021

Imagine a World with U.S.-China Cooperation

By Lawrence S. Wittner

China, Biden, Xi Jinping, cooperation, confrontation, militarization, Taiwan, South China Sea, nuclear weapons...

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19 Sep, 2021

The fate of Cassandra: Dire predictions go unheeded

By Lawrence S. Wittner

In ancient Greek mythology, Cassandra was a priestess who was able to predict the future but unable to convince others to act upon her prophecies...

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29 Aug, 2021

Building social solidarity across national boundaries

By Lawrence S. Wittner

It’s easy to conclude that it’s not. In 1915, as national governments produced the shocking carnage of World War I, Ralph Chaplin, an activist in the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote his stirring song...

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17 Aug, 2021

Baby teeth collected six decades ago will reveal the damage to Americans’ health caused by U.S. nuclear weapons tests

By Lawrence S. Wittner

In 2020, Harvard University’s T. C. Chan School of Public Health began a five-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that will examine the connection between early life exposure to toxic metals and later-life risk of neurological disease...

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12 Jul, 2021

Conflict or Cooperation in U.S.-China Relations?

By Lawrence S. Wittner

The United States and China, the world’s mightiest military and economic powers, are currently heading toward a Cold War or even a hot one, with disastrous consequences.

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28 Jun, 2021

Nationalism on the Decline

By Lawrence S. Wittner

Although, beginning in about 2015, nationalist political parties made enormous advances in countries around the world, more recently they have been on the wane.

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2 May, 2021

The Fateful Choice: Nuclear Arms Race or Nuclear Weapons-Free World

By Lawrence S. Wittner

The recent announcement by the British government that it plans a 40 percent increase in the number of nuclear weapons it possesses highlights the escalation of the exceptionally dangerous and costly nuclear arms race.

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