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“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
- Martin Luther King Jr
In this issue of The Progressive, we delve deeper into the theme of U.S. domination and meddling in countless regions across the globe.
Jim Carrier recalls that in May, President Joe Biden paid tribute to the victims of the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima. It was a solemn occasion, yet at the same time, a “new nuclear arms race is underway—more treacherous, expensive, and unpredictable than the one the United States set in motion seventy-eight years ago,”
Alfred Meyer explains how the United States—with bipartisan support—is rebuilding its nuclear weapons complex in order to modify and redesign old weapons into new, more usable ones with different capabilities.
August 23 will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Yohuru Williams links its legacy to prominent movements of recent years, including Black Lives Matter and the fight for civil rights by the LGBTQ+ community.
Cover artist Dan Bejar, an award winning conceptual illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York relays the this theme in the latest issue.
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