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Can International Organizations Survive the Rightwing, Nationalist Onslaught?

At a time when international cooperation provides the key to preventing a variety of global calamities―including nuclear war, climate catastrophe,...

18.07.2025 3

CounterPunch

Lawrence Wittner

Trump Is Following the Project 2025 Playbook to Destroy Workers’ Rights

The massive curbs on workers’ rights that have occurred during the first month of the Trump administration signal it’s likely that plenty more will...

23.02.2025 3

Common Dreams

Lawrence Wittner

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power

If wages in underdeveloped nations and in advanced industrial nations are not keeping pace with the vast accumulation of capital by the world’s...

27.12.2024 9

Common Dreams

Lawrence Wittner

A Global Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty and Corporate Power

In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly paid workers? This October,...

25.12.2024 2

CounterPunch

Lawrence Wittner

Why War Criminals Don't Like the ICC

The desire of the “great powers” to safeguard themselves from the enforcement of international law is exemplified by the record of the U.S....

08.12.2024 4

Common Dreams

Lawrence Wittner

Resistance to the International Criminal Court by the World’s Most Powerful Nations

The International Criminal Court’s recent issuance of arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav...

04.12.2024 4

CounterPunch

Lawrence Wittner

A Government for the World

Donald Trump’s latest rollout of his hyper nationalist “America First” policy underscores the world’s long-term slide toward catastrophe. Within...

18.11.2024 2

CounterPunch

Lawrence Wittner

From National Security to International Security

Have human institutions evolved sufficiently to cope with the modern world? When it comes to national security, the answer appears to be: No. Ever...

14.10.2024 20

CounterPunch

Lawrence Wittner

Will the Right’s Anti-Immigrant, Divide-and-Conquer Tactics Work in 2024?

The economically and socially privileged and their political parties have long recognized that, to defeat the drive for the expansion of economic...

26.09.2024 10

Common Dreams

Lawrence Wittner

Anti-Immigrant Agitation in a Nation of Immigrants

In recent days, Donald Trump and his Republican running mate, JD Vance, have doubled down on their false and defamatory claims about...

24.09.2024 3

CounterPunch

Lawrence Wittner

Project 2025 Provides a GOP Blueprint for Destroying America’s Labor Unions

The approach of Labor Day provides an appropriate time to reflect upon how Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans, if restored to power, will deal...

29.08.2024 3

CounterPunch

Lawrence Wittner

How Donald Trump Undermined the Health and Safety of American Workers

Even in the ostensibly “good” years before the onset of the pandemic, the absence of adequate health and safety measures under the Trump...

16.08.2024 2

Common Dreams

Lawrence Wittner