William D. Hartung

Feb 3, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Danaka Katovich |Lawrence Wittner |William D. Hartung

With the world awash in countless power-hungry cloud-computing and AI data centers, crypto mining farms, growing fleets of electrical vehicles, new all-electric homes and commercial buildings, existing power generation capacity and distribution grids globally are experiencing overloads and power supply shortages. In the US, operators are looking at increasing the electrical power supply by 3.5 gigawatts of additional generating power which is enough to power three million homes.

Jan 24, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Danaka Katovich |Lawrence Wittner |William D. Hartung |S G Vombatkere

I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. “Dear young people who have never experienced war, ‘Wars begin covertly. If you sense it coming, it may be too late.’” -Takato Michishita, survivor of the bombing of Nagasaki. On a rainy Saturday afternoon in the Catskill Mountains where New Yorkers went for the summer to escape the city heat,  Alice Slater’s mother took her to go see a movie in town.

Jan 24, 2025 | countercurrents.org | Lawrence Wittner |Danaka Katovich |William D. Hartung |S G Vombatkere

Will the world ever be free of the menace of nuclear annihilation? There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when―pressed by a popular upsurge against nuclear weapons―the nations of the world adopted a succession of nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. Starting with the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, these agreements helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

Jan 23, 2025 | truthout.org | Liz Theoharis |William D. Hartung

With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, advocates for peace, social justice, racial and economic equality, fair immigration policies, climate renewal, trans rights, and other movements for change are bracing for hard times. The new administration will be doggedly opposed to so many of the values we hold dear, as well as programs that have helped keep millions of Americans above the poverty line.

Jan 21, 2025 | fpif.org | William D. Hartung |John Feffer

Originally published in TomDispatch. A primary responsibility of the government is, of course, to keep us safe. Given that obligation, you might think that the Washington establishment would be hard at work trying to prevent the ultimate catastrophe — a nuclear war. But you would be wrong.