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America’s Barbaric Logic of Hiroshima 70 Years On
By Finnian Cunningham Source: Strategic Culture Foundation Even if we accept that there was a plausible military imperative to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – to bring about a swift defeat of Japan and thus an end … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Bomb, Atomic Bomb, Cold War, Dwight Eisenhower, empire, Gar Alperovitz, Genocide, Government Psychopothy, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, Nuclear War, radiation poisoning, Soviet Union, State Terror, The Greatest Generation, War Crime, World War 2, WW2
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Saturday Matinee: War Documentary Double Feature
“Hearts and Minds” (1974) and “The Atomic Cafe” (1982) are two of the most chilling and persuasive anti-war documentaries ever made (at least for viewers who are not psychopaths). Though the editorial choices of both films clearly reflect an anti-war … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Art, corporate news, culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Empire, Film, Geopolitics, History, media, patriotism, propaganda, Saturday Matinee, Social Control, society, State Crime, Video, war
Tagged Atomic Bomb, Hearts and Minds, Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Peter Davis, Pierce Rafferty, The Atomic Cafe, The Cold War, Vietnam, war, World War 2
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The Real Reasons America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan
Today marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, an event responsible for the deaths of up to 166,000 lives, most of whom were innocent civilians. This was followed by the use of another atomic bomb (using … Continue reading
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Tagged Atomic Bomb, Collateral Damage, empire, geopolitics, Hiroshima, Lew Rockwell, Nagasaki, Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Foreign Policy, Washington's Blog
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George Orwell on the Atomic Bomb
On this day in 1903, Eric Blair (who later adopted the pen name George Orwell) was born in Bihar, India. He’s best known as the author of “1984”, one of the greatest dystopian novels and a major influence on countless … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, media, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Atomic Bomb, Eric Blair, George Orwell, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nuclear War, Robert Montgomerie, You and the Atomic Bomb
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