Background
Lens, Sidney was born on January 28, 1912 in Newark.
( From Mexico to Vietnam, from Nicaragua to Lebanon, and ...)
From Mexico to Vietnam, from Nicaragua to Lebanon, and more recently to Kosovo, East Timor and now Iraq, the United States has intervened in the affairs of other nations. Yet American leaders continue to promote the myth that America is benevolent and peace-loving, and involves itself in conflicts only to defend the rights of others; excesses and cruelties, though sometimes admitted, usually are regarded as momentary aberrations.This classic book is the first truly comprehensive history of American imperialism. Now fully updated, and featuring a new introduction by Howard Zinn, it is a must-read for all students and scholars of American history. Renowned author Sidney Lens shows how the United States, from the time it gained its own independence, has used every available means - political, economic, and military - to dominate other nations.Lens presents a powerful argument, meticulously pieced together from a huge array of sources, to prove that imperialism is an inevitable consequence of the U.S. economic system. Surveying the pressures, external and internal, on the United States today, he concludes that like any other empire, the reign of the U.S. will end -- and he examines how this time of reckoning may come about.
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This is a history of the United States amassed global power thru diplomacy and more than 160 wars. up to Vietnam .
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Describes the origins and history of strikes in the United States and discusses their purpose, effectiveness, and how their resolutions affect the relationship between employees and their employers.
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Lens, Sidney was born on January 28, 1912 in Newark.
Educational public schools, New York City.
He also wrote a history of United States. intervention abroad, The Forging of the American Empire, originally published in 1974 and republished in 2003 by Haymarket Books with a new introduction by Howard Zinn. And an autobiography, Unrepentant Radical. In 1967, he was among more than 500 writers and editors who signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to pay the 10% Vietnam War Tax surcharge proposed by president Johnson.
Lens was an editor of The Progressive.
In 1980, Lens was the Citizens Party (United States) candidate for United States Senate in Illinois.
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Candidate for Congress, 2d Illinois District, 1962, Illinois Legislature, 1964, United States Senate, Illinois, 1980. Board directors Chicago Council Foreign Relations. Co-chairman National Committee to End War in Vietnam, New Mobilization Committee to End War in Vietnam.
Chairman Justice, Action and Peace in Latin American, Impeach Nixon Committee, 1973., Institute Social Studies. Founder Mobilization for Survival. Co-chairman Coalition against Military Escalation.
Fellow Institute for Policy Studies (associate).
Married Shirley Ruben, 1946.