62 years ago, on August 9th, 1945, the second of the only two atomic bombs (a plutonium bomb) ever used as instruments of aggressive war (against essentially defenseless civilian populations) was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by an all-Christian bomb crew. The well-trained American soldiers were only "doing their job," and they did it efficiently.
It had been only 3 days since the first bomb, a uranium bomb, had decimated Hiroshima on August 6, with chaos and confusion in Tokyo, where the (…)
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The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story
10 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Inheriting the Fireballs of Hell: The Hiroshima Challenge
7 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 comment5 Minutes to Midnight, Atomic Time: Half Past Sanity
Bee Z. Bendigedig Bombshelter.org August 7, 2007
As the world teeters on the brink of total Armageddon, thanks to a global network of war profiteers, multi-billionaire weapons manufacturers, corrupted politicians, apathetic and sociopathic mobs of industrial consumers, we once again cross the memorial marker of the first atomic bombing of civilian populations on our planet at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Every year, as an American (…) -
SOLIDARITY FOREVER BY PETE SEEGER (VIDEO PLUS LYRICS)
18 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Solidarity Forever (Tune: John Brown’s Body) (by Ralph Chaplin, January 1915 )(9th edition, 1916) When the Union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun. Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one? But the Union makes us strong.
Solidarity forever! Solidarity forever! Solidarity forever! For the Union makes us strong.
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite Who would lash us into (…) -
1789, The Spirit of the French Revolution
14 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
By Lucien Louvrier
In a brilliant synthesis entitled "1789, The Heritage and the Memory" ("1789, l’héritage et la mémoire"), French historian Michel Vovelle sums up a lifetime of research into the French Revolution’s heritage and the history of its memory in French society and beyond.
To conflate in a dense historiographic synthesis the sum of a lifetime of research on the French Revolution is a formidable achievement, especially as the author takes in both the political, institutional, (…) -
Peek a Boo
8 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentWe hold our hands in front of our faces and tell an infant, “Peek a boo!” Then we put our hands back in front of our face and ask, “Where’s the baby?” From the earliest days of life we are thus trained that some how out of sight equals out of mind. But just like in the childish game we are startled when it comes back and says again, peek a boo.
Perhaps it is just an evolutionary flaw, a hole in our intelligence that only rears it’s head from time to time. Slowing, but not eliminating human (…) -
Zyklon B on the US Border By ALEXANDER COCKBURN (COUNTERPUNCH)
2 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Zyklon B on the US Border
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Zyklon B came to El Paso in the 1920s. In 1929, for example, a U.S. Public Health Service officer, J.R. Hurley, ordered $25 worth of the material—hydrocyanic acid in pellet form—as a fumigating agent for use at the El Paso delousing station, where Mexicans crossed the border from Juárez. Zyklon, developed by DEGESCH (the German Vermin-combating Corporation) was made in varying strengths, with Zyklon C, D and E representing gradations in (…) -
US DEMOCRATS :42 House Democrats Back U.S. Terror Academy Democrats and the School of the Americas
2 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
June 25, 2007 42 House Democrats Back U.S. Terror Academy Democrats and the School of the Americas
By DAN BACHER
Two San Joaquin Valley Representatives, Dennis Cardoza of Merced and Jim Costa of Fresno, were among 42 Democrats that voted to keep the world’s foremost torture school, the School of the Americas, open during a House vote on June 21. The vote was 203 yes, 214 no, 1 voting "present" and 19 not voting.
Cardova, Costa and 40 other Democrats voted no on the McGovern/Lewis (…) -
US-Vietnam Group Tackles Toxic Agent Orange Legacy
26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The Ford Foundation is coordinating the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange. The group’s aim is to build a bipartisan humanitarian approach to cleaning up "Agent Orange." It says past diplomatic efforts have been difficult.
One member of the group, Todd Whitman says the time is right for the two countries to address the chemical’s legacy and to bring discussion of the unresolved issue into the mainstream.
Agent Orange was used by the U.S. military to strip jungle cover in (…) -
Vietnamese Delegation in U.S. to Sue Chemical Companies for Ongoing Effects of Agent Orange Frida
24 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Vietnamese Delegation in U.S. to Sue Chemical Companies for Ongoing Effects of Agent Orange
Friday, June 22nd, 2007 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/22/1459211
U.S. warplanes dumped about 18 million gallons of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese government says this has left more than 3 million people disabled. We speak with two Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and their lawyers about how the toxin has affected their lives and why they’re suing over three (…) -
Palestine: The 40th Anniversary of Occupation by Prof. Francis Boyle Global Research, June 7,
8 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Palestine: The 40th Anniversary of Occupation
By Prof. Francis Boyle
Global Research, June 7, 2007 PalestineChronicle.com
Israel and the United States are still doing everything humanly possible to promote a Palestinian civil war by means of arming, financing and encouraging comprador Palestinian surrogates toward that diabolical end.
On the 40th Anniversary of the so-called Six Day War, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Palestinians were on the verge of a civil (…)