# Gar Alperovitz
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gar alperovitz (born May 5, 1936) is an American historian and political economist. Alperovitz served as a fellow of King's College, Cambridge; a founding fellow of the Harvard Institute of Politics; a founding Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies; a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution; and the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics from 1999 to 2015. He also served as a legislative director in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate and as a special assistant in the US Department of State.
Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Originally written in 2015 for the 70th anniversary; updated in 2020 for the 75th anniversary; reposted below along with this podcast for the 79th anniversary.
It Should Never Be Done Again: Hiroshima, 75 Years Later
August 6, 1945. Hiroshima. A Japanese city roughly the size of Houston. Incin…
From Wealth Supremacy to Community Wealth Building: Models for Democratizing the Economy
Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. Not surprisingly, people are looking for alternatives. What if, instead of tweaking the system to reduce the damage, we reorganized entirely so that bot…
Community Wealth Building: Democratizing the Economy
In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the economy, creates more cooperative businesses, better care for communities, and builds wealth for the many, not just the few. This episode features American politic…
The Truth of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - PSMLS Class
The US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and August 8th 1945 were the first and only time nuclear weapons were used in on a civilian population. The nuclear bombings have long been pushed as “necessary evils” by the US bourgeois state. Tonight the Peoples School along with the Asian…
Authors Liza Newman & Gar Alperovitz on Conversations LIVE
At the top of the show host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Liz Newman to Conversations LIVE. Then at 30 min. past the hour, Webb welcomes author Gar Alperovitz to Conversations LIVE to discuss his new book.
#13. A Pause to Reflect
We now have an even dozen episodes of Lost Prophets under our belts. Time to stop, we thought, sit down by the side of the road, and look back down the mountain at the distance we’ve come.
Some key points that came up:
* We want to do archaeology of the future, not just forecasts of the past (Rus…
Best of G&R: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and "Atomic Diplomacy", 80 years later (G&R 407)
It's the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has the Doomsday Clock at 89 seconds to midnight, while Trump moves nuclear submarines closer to Russia in response to social media posts by Russian officials. Aerial photogr…
FDR Rejected Japan's Peace Offer in 1942. Was He Right?
Cordell Hull rejected Japan's peace offer 10 days before Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt said no at Casablanca. Truman had proof Japan would surrender — and stayed silent. Six days later: Hiroshima.
Four times Japan tried to end the war. Four times America said no. This episode asks the question historia…
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
On August 6 and 9, 1945, US B-29 bombers, dropped their nuclear bombs on the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands and consigning millions to disease and genetic defects. The accepted wisdom in the U.S. since has been that dropping the bombs on these Japanese cities w…
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