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Tag Archives: Hiroshima
Hiroshima Denial is Terror
By Finian Cunningham Source: Information Clearing House Those who deny history, or who are oblivious, are apt to repeat it. That is the frightening, perhaps most disturbing aspect of the 75th anniversary this week of the American atomic bombing of … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Deep State, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, military spending, society, State Crime, war
Tagged American History, Atomic Bombs, empire, Genocide, geopolitics, Hiroshima, imperialism, Mass Murder, Nagasaki, Nuclear War, State Terror, US Foreign Policy, war, War Crime
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ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: Scholars Speak Out Against ‘Unnecessary’ Attacks
Japan was ready to surrender, making the atomic bombings of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and Nagasaki two days later, totally unnecessary and morally indefensible, say a panel of scholars in two video discussions. By Consortium News The debate … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, society, State Crime, war
Tagged atomic bombings, Dana Priest, empire, Gar Alperovitz, Genocide, geopolitics, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, imperialism, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin, Nagasaki, Peter Kuznick, US Foreign Policy, Walter Pincus, war
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Death: A Simple Idea with a Powerful Punch
By Edward Curtin Source: Off-Guardian Since death is one idea that has no history except as an idea and not a reality any of us have experienced, it is the most frightening idea there is and also quite simple. It … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, black ops, conditioning, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Health, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, NGOs, Oligarchy, Philosophy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agenda ID2020, Big Pharma, Bill Gates, CDC, coronavirus, Covid-19, Death, DOSTOEVSKY, Dystopia, Edward Curtin, elites, fear, Freud, George Orwell, HANS MORGENTHAU, Hiroshima, Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health, NUCLEAR BOMB, Pandemic, Peter Koenig, Pharmaceuticals, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology, Technocracy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Economic Forum
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Nuclear War: Just Another Day
By Colin Todhunter Source: OffGuardian Catastrophic events that send the world into turmoil happen on ‘just another day’. The atom bomb that exploded over Hiroshima took place while thousands of ordinary folk were just going about their everyday business … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, media, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged agritech, elites, empire, geopolitics, Hiroshima, imperialism, Militarism, Neoliberalism, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Socialism, Thatcherism, Theresa May, Tony Benn, US Foreign Policy, war
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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
By Edward Curtain Source: Dissident Voice Ahab is forever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed. ‘Twas rehearsed by thee and me billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act under orders. — Herman Melville, … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, culture, Empire, Geoengineering, History, imperialism, society, State Crime, war
Tagged American History, empire, General Curtis LeMay, Genocide, Hiroshima, imperialism, James Byrnes, Mass Murder, Nagasaki, Nuclear War, State Crime, war, war crimes, War Criminals, World War II
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The World Will Not Mourn the Decline of U.S. Hegemony
By Paul Street Source: Consortium News There are good reasons to bemoan the presence of the childish, racist, sexist and ecocidal, right-wing plutocrat Donald Trump in the White House. One complaint about Trump that should be held at arm’s-length by … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neocons, Neoliberalism, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, American Century, American History, Chile, CIA, Democracy, Donald Trump, empire, geopolitics, Hiroshima, imperialism, Indonesia, iraq, Korean War, My Lai Massacre, Nagasaki, NATO, Neocons, Neoliberals, Serbia, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Hegemony, Vietnam, war
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There’s Only One Rogue Nuclear State, and it’s the USA
By Bruce A. Dixon Source: Black Agenda Report This week marks the anniversary of two monstrous war crimes, the nuking of two undefended Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The fake history I learned as … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Dystopia, Empire, History, Militarization, society, State Crime, war
Tagged American History, Cold War, empire, Genocide, geopolitics, Hiroshima, imperialism, Nagasaki, Nuclear Terror, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Rogue State, State Terror, US Foreign Policy, war crimes, WWII
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