Articles by H. Patricia Hynes

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The Plague of Plastic: The Other Petroleum Curse
H. Patricia Hynes | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 May 2026

3 May 2026 – Microplastics, those miniscule particles smaller than 5 millimeters which plastics physically break down into, have now infiltrated every part of the planet: the highest point of the Himalayas; the deepest depths of the sea; the snow of Antarctica.

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African Feminists Emphasize Key to Global Peace
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Oct 2018

25 Sep 2018 – Peace is quintessentially a woman’s issue, most clearly when the continuum of male violence against women in its private, social and structural dimensions is grasped. “That continuum of violence persists along a scale of force (fist to nuclear bomb); space (the home, the street, the village, the city, the battlefield and the nation); and time (pre-war, wartime and post-war).”

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The Birth of American Empire
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Oct 2018

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire – A book by Stephen Kinzer

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