H. Patricia Hynes
H. Patricia Hynes is a retired Professor of Environmental Health from Boston University School of Public Health and current Chair of the Board of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice. She has written and edited seven books, among them The Recurring Silent Spring. She writes and speaks on issues of war and militarism with an emphasis on women, the environment, and public health.
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Views Wednesday, September 09, 2020 A Pandemic Within the Pandemic On March 23, 2020, as Covid 19 was overtaking the world, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres pleaded for peace: “To warring parties: Pull back from hostilities. Silence the guns; stop the artillery; end the airstrikes...End the sickness of war and fight the disease that is ravaging our world. It... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 09, 2020 The Atomic Bomb Poets and the Military Realists 75 Years After Nagasaki Poet survivors of the merciless, savage U.S. atomic bombing of Japan guide us to the deepest, most intimate loss and suffering of survivors, the hibakusha . Give back my Father give back my Mother. Give Grandpa, Grandma back; Give my sons and daughters back. Give me back myself. Give back the human... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Women Have Risen to Heroic Heights During Covid-19 Women have risen to heroic heights during this pandemic—comprising the majority of essential health care workers, leading successful countries in containing the coronavirus, homeschooling children while working from home. And yet, the global pandemic in physical and sexual violence against women... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 25, 2019 Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name In early 2019, the White House threatened to invade Venezuela, take down the government and replace it with their choice of president and political party. Though no missiles have been fired and no bombs dropped on the country, our government is waging a war by other means, namely criminal economic... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 03, 2019 The Measure of Our Happiness For the past seven years ago, the United Nations has issued a report titled the World Happiness Report. While this report may sound somewhat lightweight, it actually ranks countries by serious measures including income, freedom, trust in government, social support, life expectancy and how happy... Read more |
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Views Friday, March 01, 2019 Hands off Venezuela Hope and US Aid at the Border: the title of a recent New York Times video deodorizes the US attempt to overthrow President Maduro of socialist Venezuela and replace him with a hand-picked member of the Venezuelan elite, capitalist class. As the major media presents it, the US is altruistically... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 03, 2018 JFK, the Pentagon, and Two Roads Diverged Fifty-five years ago this weekend—on June 10, 1963—President John F. Kennedy delivered a commencement address at American University that, in fewer than 30 minutes, turned traditional national security policy on its head. Kennedy proclaimed that world peace is “the most important topic on earth…... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 10, 2018 Youth, Gun Control and the Pentagon To my astonishment, I began receiving daily news updates from the Pentagon, innocuously named the Early Bird Brief, about a month ago. One particularly perverse news brief warrants mention: the number of out-of shape and unfit youth is an imminent national security crisis— not because they matter... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Women are the Biggest Losers: Reflecting on the War in Iraq In the third week of December 2011, a confluence of political events profoundly affecting Iraqi and American women took place. Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 23, 2011 Reflections on Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan On Wednesday June 22, President Obama announced that 10,000 US combat troops will return from the war in Afghanistan by the end of 2011 and that all troops will be withdrawn by 2014. The news is profoundly welcomed by the military families. It’s also hailed by the significant majority of Americans who do not think the war is worth fighting and the growing number of Americans who feel that the killing of bin Laden achieved the original US goal of the war. Read more |