Harry Blain
Harry Blain is a PhD student at the City University of New York majoring in International Relations.
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Views Tuesday, July 02, 2019 American Concentration Camps, Then and Now In our history textbooks, “Japanese internment,” as it’s carelessly called, features as a mistake, blunder, or brief departure from constitutional piety following the trauma of Pearl Harbor. The summary detention of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — around 80,000 of whom were American citizens... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 09, 2018 Wars Come and Go in Gaza, But Economic Violence Is Every Day “They just seem — well — less developed, less innovative, less productive than the Israelis.” This was one of the many objections I faced during a recent attempt to secure support for a petition condemning the 12-year siege of Gaza. While it seemed honest, it was also probably influenced by a time-... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 26, 2018 America’s Hypocrisy on Free Trade Is Dangerous How did the United States get rich? The textbooks tell us it was the “free enterprise” genie. The Founding Fathers, they say, had the foresight to construct a political and economic vision of a commercial republic, committed to private property, open markets, and individual liberty. Slavery was the... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 24, 2017 The US Is Stockpiling Nuclear Arms, and the Cost Is Astonishing Overwhelmed with stories of high-level indictments, intrigues, investigations, and scandals, the American public can be forgiven for missing revelations about an issue of some importance: our nuclear weapons. Thanks to an October 31 report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we now have a 30-... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 20, 2017 The U.S. Is Stockpiling Nuclear Arms, and the Cost Is Astonishing Overwhelmed with stories of high-level indictments, intrigues, investigations, and scandals, the American public can be forgiven for missing revelations about an issue of some importance: our nuclear weapons. Thanks to an October 31 report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we now have a 30-... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 19, 2017 What Happened to the Arms Trade Treaty? April 2, 2013 was an unusually happy day at UN headquarters in New York. After years of pressure from civil society groups, the General Assembly adopted a new treaty establishing “the highest possible common standards” for regulating the “international trade in conventional arms.” The Arms Trade... Read more |