Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News

SCOTT RITTER: The Murder of Others

An atomic cloud hangs over the Japanese city of Nagasaki after the US dropped the second nuclear bomb on the country.

The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.

On the Call Not to Protest in Chicago

According to LA Times editorialists, Chicago in 1960 and 1964 had good protesters who “worked within the party apparatus.” The 1968 protesters, they say, were bad and “set back the cause,” writes Riva Enteen.

Chris Hedges: A Diary of Genocide

An interview with Atef Abu Saif, the Palestinian novelist who chronicled his experience surviving the most recent onslaught in Gaza. Born in the besieged territory, Saif has known war his whole life.