H. Patricia Hynes

H. Patricia Hynes is a retired professor of environmental health, directs the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice in western Massachusetts. She has written and edited 7 books, among them The Recurring Silent Spring. She writes and speaks on issues of war and militarism with an emphasis on women, environment, and public health.

nuclear weapons

Moving toward a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

H. Patricia Hynes

(Informed Comment) – Seventy-three years ago, on August 6 and August 9, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This tragic act launched an arms race in nuclear weapons, now spread to nine countries. After the first atomic blast, which killed 100,000 residents of Hiroshima immediately, the grievous […]

War

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire

H. Patricia Hynes

Review of “The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire” by Stephen Kinzer By the final decade of the 19th century, the American project sanctified as Manifest Destiny was complete. The western boundary of the United States now stretched to the Pacific Ocean, leaving in its wake the genocide of […]

Peace

JFK Made a Forgotten Turn toward Peace before He Was Killed; We’ve Abandoned it Entirely

H. Patricia Hynes

Fifty-five years ago President John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address that turned traditional national security policy on its head

Inequality

Why has the GOP grown the Military-Industrial Complex but slashed Human Security?

H. Patricia Hynes

The US has the highest rate of maternal deaths of any industrial country & we are the “child poverty capital”