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Poor People’s Campaign — A new incarnation

May 11, 2022 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes This article originally appeared in the Greenfield Recorder. As a young woman in 1968, I was deeply inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.’s passion to stir the conscience of America about widespread poverty among people of all colors. With the Southern Christian […]

Can sanctions ever be just — let alone effective?

April 15, 2022 Patricia Hynes

*First published by Fellowship of Reconciliation* As a result of its brutal invasion of Ukraine, Russia is now the most sanctioned country in the world, leading one former Obama administration Treasury official to describe the situation as “financial nuclear war.” Western European countries, however, depend […]

How the US Government Segregated America

December 18, 2021 Patricia Hynes

by H. Patricia Hynes Originally published in Common Dreams For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of residents, community organizations, public housing staff and other professors on reducing and removing the many asthma triggers that caused the highest rates of asthma […]

Forty-Two Years in Afghanistan: Can a New US Foreign Policy avoid Hyper-Masculinist Ego?

September 27, 2021 Patricia Hynes

by H. Patricia Hynes Originally posted by Informed Comment on September 16th, 2021. The Deadly Sins of the US War in Afghanistan Today, that Congress together with the Executive Branch, the Pentagon, and military contractors should return to the National Cathedral to confess their deadly […]

Fukushima: A Lasting Tragedy

August 31, 2021 Patricia Hynes

Tens of years on, the United States, the largest owner of nuclear power plants, still promotes nuclear power as “safe and clean energy.” by H. Patricia Hynes Then In 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated northeast Japan, taking the lives of […]

Hope

July 6, 2021 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes We live in a time of diminishing hope with worsening climate crisis and insufficient will among those most responsible–major industrial countries–to radically reduce their emissions now, not a decade or three decades from now. We cohabitate with more than 13,000 nuclear weapons […]

Prelude to Tax Day

April 5, 2021 Patricia Hynes

by Pat Hynes Previously published in Common Dreams On Tax Day, there’s more than one elephant in the room, and they’re all in mansions. Elephants occupy the bulging mansions of 657 American billionaires, 43 of them new this past pandemic year. Their combined wealth soared […]