Lawrence S. Wittner: While nuclear weapons and wars exist, annihilation beckons
It’s been a long time since the atomic bombings of August 1945, when people around the planet first realized that world civilization stood on the brink of doom.
It’s been a long time since the atomic bombings of August 1945, when people around the planet first realized that world civilization stood on the brink of doom.

We hear that reproductive rights are on the ballot, in a bid to elect lawmakers who will codify reproductive rights into black letter law. Anything else on the ballot?
Russian dictator Vladmir Putin has backed himself into a corner in Ukraine. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, asked Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” how the U.S. should deal with a cornered Putin, offered a quick one-word response: “Carefully.”

What does surrender look like in the world of geopolitics? To my mind, this gets pretty close:

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 230-201, largely along party lines, to approve a stopgap funding measure to keep the federal government open until at least mid-December.

RapidFlight, an integrated end-to-end unmanned aircraft systems provider founded in 2021, will invest $5.5 million to open a facility in Manassas.

In a world haunted by the specter of nuclear war, needlessly aggressive competition among nations could lead to an apocalyptic catastrophe.

We’re drowning under the weight of too much debt, too many wars, too much power in the hands of a centralized government, too many militarized police, too many laws, too many lobbyists, and generally too much bad news.
On the 21st anniversary of the September 11 attacks, U.S Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Recently ranked the most bipartisan member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger reaffirms her priorities to Americans a new ad.
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