“We live with a profound paradox. Our lives are powerfully affected by worldwide economic, communications, transportation, food supply, and entertainment systems…”
Lawrence Wittner
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“Long before the advent of the coronavirus pandemic left people around the world desperate for survival, a popular assumption emerged that national governments are also supposed…”
Lawrence Wittner
Published in: Common Dreams, Daily Koss, LA Progressive, War is a Crime, Anchorage Press, Z Net, Reader Support, EPeak World News, The Russophile, Counterpunch
Date: March 24,25,30,2020
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“It is often said that government budgets are “an expression of values.” Those values are clear in the Trump administration’s $4.8 trillion budget proposal for 2021, unveiled early this February…”
Lawrence Wittner
Published in: History News Network, The Smirking Chimp, Counterpunch, Bainbridge Island Review, Reader Supported News, Gulf Breeze News, Art Voice, LA Progressive
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“ampaigning for the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump promised that, if he was elected, “American worker[s] will finally have a president who will protect them and fight for them.” Has he kept this promise?… ”
Lawrence Wittner
Published in: Raw Story, History News Network, AlterNet, BuzzFlash, The Smirking Chimp, Daily Koss, War is a Crime, Z Net, LA Progressive, People’s World, Portside, Gilmer Free Press, Dissident Voice, Bellevue Reporter, Counterpunch, Snoqualmie Valley Record, Issaquah Reporter, Brewminate, Mercer Island
Date: February 23,24,March 2,3,4,5,2020
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“On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chicago Roundtable, Hutchins observed that Leon Bloy, a French philosopher, had referred to “the good news of damnation” under the assumption that only the fear of perpetual hellfire would motivate moral behavior…”
Lawrence Wittner
Published in: Counterpunch, History News Network, Bainbridge Island Review, War is a Crime, Daily Koss, Reader Supported News, Dissident Voice, Z Net, The Russophile, The Chronicle, LA Progressive, Sentinel News
Date: January 29,2020
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“Back in 1941, the year of my birth, fascism stood on the brink of conquering the world. During the preceding decades, movements of the Radical Right—mobilized by demagogues into a cult of virulent nationalism…”
Lawrence Wittner
Published in: The Smirking Chimp, Raw Story, War is a Crime, Alter Net, History News Network, WN, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, The Evening Times, Bainbridge Island Review, Z Net, LA Progressive, History News Network, Portside, Press & Journal, Brewminate
Date: January 5,6,7,10,15,2020
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