At this time of severe cutbacks in government funding for food stamps, early childhood education, and meals on wheels, some Maryland legislators are hard at work in an attempt to shovel millions of dollars into the coffers of one of the world's wealthiest corporations: Lockheed Martin.
Published Articles by Lawrence Wittner
As you claim that your major goal is to reduce the deficit by cutting federal government spending, why not significantly reduce the $640 billion that nuclear weapons and related programs are slated to cost over the next decade? This vast government expenditure is not only unnecessary, but undermines the free enterprise system you praise so lavishly.
Although Obama won the 2008 election and entered office proclaiming a firm commitment to eliminating all nuclear weapons, there are numerous indications that that goal is being jettisoned.
Gun control issues are remarkably similar to arms control issues, for both deal with the problem posed by the availability of weapons.
This collection of scholarly articles by historians has much to tell Americans about the reality -- rather than the glamourized version -- of World War II.
Norman Cousins, founder and co-chair of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, played a key role in initiating and bringing to fruition the world's first formal nuclear arms control agreement.
Edward Wilson's new espionage novel does much to illuminate the Cold War crisis of the early 1960s -- and also provides an excellent read.
The disinterest of most Americans in the religious dimensions of Christmas reflects corporate-inculcated consumerism, which has become America's true religion.
Can local governments influence national security policy? Congress has the power to appropriate funds for military purposes and to declare war. But local governments sometimes have something to say about this -- especially when national policy has significant effects upon them.
On October 9, 2012, the legislature of Albany County, New York approved a proclamation calling upon Congress to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, cut the U.S. military budget, and use the savings to fund vital public programs at home.