William Arkin

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William Arkin
Arkin in 2019
Born
William Morris Arkin

(1956-05-15) May 15, 1956 (age 67)[1]
Alma materNew York University
Occupation(s)Political commentator, activist, journalist
Websitehttps://williamaarkin.wordpress.com/

William Morris Arkin (born May 15, 1956) is an American

activist, blogger, and former United States Army soldier. He has previously served as a military affairs analyst for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times
.

Biography

Arkin was born in New York City in 1956. After attending public school in Manhattan, he briefly attended New York University before dropping out to enlist in the military shortly after his 18th birthday.

Work

Arkin served in

mini-nuke” research efforts by the Pentagon in 1992 led to a 1994 Congressional ban and ultimately a pledge by the U.S. government not to develop new nuclear weapons. His discovery of secret U.S. plans to secretly move nuclear weapons to a number of overseas locations involved governments from Bermuda to Iceland to the Philippines
.

Arkin led

cluster bombs
and about civilian casualties and the cascading effects of the bombing of electrical power.

Arkin was also founding member of the Arms Project of Human Rights Watch and wrote their first comprehensive report on cluster bombs. He then provided an analysis of the causes of civilian casualties after the Kosovo war (1999). Arkin has also visited war zones in the former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Eritrea and Israel on behalf of governments, the United Nations and independent inquiries.

From 1985 until 2002, he wrote a column in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists called the "Last Word", and co-authored a bi-monthly publication by the Natural Resources Defense Council called the "Nuclear Notebook."

He has served as an independent consultant and held positions at the Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Defense Information, Greenpeace and Human Rights Watch.

He has worked as an

New York Times
(from 1998 until January, 2003 it was the Dot.Mil column).

From 2007 to 2008, he was a Policy Fellow at

Maxwell AFB, Alabama.[2]

On October 15, 2003, Arkin released video and audiotapes documenting General

War on Terrorism" in religious terms in speeches at churches. Arkin followed up with a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece that accused the general of being "an intolerant extremist" and a man "who believes in Christian 'jihad'."[3]

In February 2007, Arkin responded to an

antiwar sentiment at home, and especially by people who say they support the troops, but not the war. In his Washington Post blog, Arkin wrote, "We pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?"[4]

Arkin is co-author of

nominee, as well as recipient of a half dozen other major journalism awards.

Arkin has advised the

Center for Naval Analysis).[2] He has also been a consultant on Iraq to the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations
.

On January 4, 2019, Arkin resigned from NBC News. In an article about his resignation CNN described him as a critic of "perpetual war" and the "creeping fascism of homeland security".[5]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ U.S. Public Records Index, Vols. 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ^ a b "William M. Arkin Biography". Washington Post. February 13, 2007.
  3. ^ Arkin, William (2003-10-16). "The Pentagon Unleashes a Holy Warrior" (Online Periodical). Los Angeles Times. p. 1. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  4. Washington Post
    . Retrieved 2007-03-20.
  5. ^ Stelter, Brian (January 3, 2019). "NBC News veteran warns of 'Trump circus' in 2,228-word farewell". CNN. Retrieved August 11, 2022.

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