3 Sep, 2023
From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World by Lawrence S. Wittner 960 words This September is...
3 Sep, 2023
28 Apr, 2022
The global suicide budget
“Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” I truly wish these words of Ike, uttered seven decades ago, were no longer quite so relevant. Perhaps what he should have called it was a “cross of irony.”
1 Apr, 2022
Save the planet, behead the military budget
Save the planet, behead the military budget by Robert C. Koehler 855 words Americans “need to imagine their vote has...
21 Oct, 2021
Gravy train: Corporate profiteering on national defense
A long time ago, Gordon Adams introduced the term “iron triangle” to characterize the interlocked relationship of the Pentagon’s military services, the corporations that contract with it to build weapons and provide services, and the Congressional committees that vote on military appropriations—in short...
4 Aug, 2021
Rejection of US Hiroshima Myths Long Overdue
Hiroshima was “a military base.” The US atomic bombings “ended the war,” and they “prevented an invasion and saved lives.” Our government’s tests of atomic weapons on people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 76 years ago...