In this introduction to the memoir of a Nagasaki bombing victim, historian Peter Kuznick shows why the bombs were dropped and how some victims’ anger propelled the Japanese anti-nuclear movement.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target – China.
Australia is not a real country, and it doesn’t have a real government, writes Caitlin Johnstone. It is functionally nothing more than a U.S. military/intelligence asset.
As the leading purveyor of violence and terror, the U.S. inevitably becomes its own opponent, writes William J. Astore.
The U.S. military has for years been using mass media to inflame public interest in alleged UFOs, and it’s entirely possible it is a domestic ploy to get more Space Force funding, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
Progressives reacted with disgust at the misplaced priorities made evident by the Senate’s approval of the Pentagon budget and the GOP’s proposal on Covid-19 relief.
Michael Klare says naval robotic warfare is beginning to move out of dystopian futuristic fantasies and into official battlefield visions.
There is a lot to read into this moment, but one thing’s clear. The U.S. doesn’t know what time it is.
A NYT Magazine piece on Colin Powell and the case to invade Iraq highlights an NIE that was prepared not to determine the truth, but rather to “justify” preemptive war on Iraq, where there was nothing to preempt.
The U.S. phase of the “universal civilization” project has utterly destroyed the state structures of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, writes Pepe Escobar.