Lawrence Wittner

  • Game of war

    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...

  • Building solidarity

    The rise of globally-based social movements appears to have developed out of the growing interconnection of nations, economies, and peoples spawned...

  • Disasters of 2020

    The disasters of 2020 were not shocking enough to jolt the world’s most powerful nations out of their traditional preoccupation with enhancing...

  • Weapon-free world

    Given the fact that nuclear war means the virtual annihilation of life on earth, it’s remarkable that many people continue to resist building a...

  • Return of fascism

    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...

  • Nuclear powers

    At the beginning of February 2019, the two leading nuclear powers took an official step toward resumption of the nuclear arms race. On February 1,...

  • The billionaires

    In March 2018, Forbes reported that it had identified 2,208 billionaires from 72 countries and territories. Collectively, this group was worth $9.1...

  • The proposal

    The Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, launched decades ago in another time of nuclear crisis, suggests one possible strategy. Developed at the end of...

  • Tax the rich

    The Trump-GOP tax cut of $1.5 trillion in December 2017 provided the latest payoff to the wealthy. It lowered the top tax rate, slashed the...

  • Who benefits from booms?

    Although the US mass media are awash with stories about America’s “booming economy,” the benefits are distributed very unequally, when they...

  • The secret to happiness

    America’s oft-quoted Declaration of Independence, when discussing “unalienable rights,” focused on “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of...

  • Problems of the super rich

    NEW YORK: A study just released by UBS, a major global financial services company, has revealed that, during 2016, the total wealth of the...

  • Nuclear war

    On April 11, Donald Trump, irked by North Korea’s continued tests of nuclear weapons and missiles, tweeted that “North Korea is looking...

  • Nuclear warfare

    The accession of Donald Trump to the US presidency brings us face-to-face with a question that many have tried to avoid since 1945: Should anyone...