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This Week in People’s History, Feb 26-Mar 4, 2025

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Newspaper headline reading ENDING OF ALL LIFE BY HYDROGEN BOMB HELD A POSSIBILITY Building a Doomsday Machine (1950), A Rogue Agency? (1975), Origins of International Women’s Day (1909), Gradual Emancipation Is Better than None (1780), Kicking Jim Crow off the Bus (1955), Robeson’s Best (1940), Happy Birthday, Vivaldi! (1725)

Tidbits – Oct. 17 – Reader Comments: Swing State Confidential; Ta-Nehisi Coates-Letter From Israel; Palestine–the Last Year; While You Were So Worried Socialism Would Take Your Freedoms; CIA Says No Evidence Iran Has Decided To Build a Nuclear Weapon

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Reader Comments: Swing State Confidential; Ta-Nehisi Coates - A Letter from Israel; Palestine-The Last Year; While You Were So Worried Socialism Would Take Your Freedoms...; CIA Says No Evidence Iran Has Decided To Build a Nuclear Weapon; more...

The Race That Can’t Be Won

Jessica T. Mathews The New York Review
A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one.

Let’s Think About How To Build a More Peaceful World

Lawrence S. Wittner Z
The time has arrived to consider bolstering international institutions that can build a more peaceful world. The current presidential campaign provides an appropriate place for raising this issue. We have a personal stake in ensuring human survival.

Tidbits – June 27 – Reader Comments: Trump Worked To Destroy Unions; Remembering Troublemakers-Frank Emspak, Conn Hallinan; AFL-CIO Union Organizer Program; Rethinking the Elections: MAGA Threat and Challenges Facing Progressives and Union Activists;

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Reader Comments: Trump Worked to Destroy Unions; Remembering Troublemakers - Frank Emspak ,Conn Hallinan; AFL-CIO Union Organizer Apprenticeship Program; Rethinking the Elections: MAGA Threat and Challenges Facing Progressives and Union Activists;

How Israel Became a Nuclear Power

Emma Claire Foley Jacobin
Israel’s nuclear program is its worst-kept secret. It was made possible through the support of Western nations like France and has thrived due to a cynical attitude toward nonproliferation that has made the world more dangerous.
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