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Whitewashing Hiroshima: The Uncritical Glorification of American Militarism
Gary G. Kohls, MD
Back in 1995, the Smithsonian was preparing an honest, historically-accurate display dealing with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Amid much right-wing reactionary wrangling, from various ultrapatriotic veterans groups all the way up to the Newt Gingrich/GOP-dominated Congress, the Smithsonian was forced to eliminate all of the painful but historically important parts of the story - the Japanese civilian perspective. So again we had another example of powerful politically conservative groups influencing public policy - and history - because they couldn’t handle what was necessary to face up to unpleasant historical truths.
AUGUST 6,1945 / THE DAY OF INFAMY EXPOSED
Allen L Roland
Nuclear bomb victim in Hiroshima hospital
Most Americans are unaware that the war with Japan would have ended soon without the devastating atomic bombs. American intelligence was fully aware of Japan's desperate search for ways to honorably surrender weeks before the order was given for the mass slaughter of not only 80,000 innocent Japanese civilians but also 12 American Navy pilots incinerated in a Hiroshima jail:
I was a young child when America dropped an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima but I felt its enormous emotional impact. I literally shuddered when I imagined the devastating death toll and somehow innately knew that the world would never be the same again. I also, as an American, felt the gnawing sense of collective guilt that we, as a country, had a responsibility to at least warn the Japanese before inflicting such catastrophic damage.
Is It Israel or Jesus?
Tom Compton
An appeal requesting sponsors to send a member of my Sunday school class at my large evangelical church to Israel to help the Israel Defense Force (I.D.F.) through The National Project for Volunteers for Israel ("an international effort that assists the Israel Defense Force on military bases, primarily, and other places." Website: sar-el.org) was passed out last week. It stated that "Israel, the epicenter of our faith and the world, is surrounded by hostile forces putting much pressure on the Jewish people there…The roots of our faith are inextricably woven together with Israel and Jerusalem." As I understand the Bible, Jesus Christ, alone, is the epicenter of our faith and His death on the cross provided the means for salvation and the forgiveness of our sins constituting a New Covenant. According to John 14: 6 "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me'."
Israel has become the new American Idol. The mantra of “We will always support Israel” is disturbing enough coming from the President, the Congress, and our media, but when Christian Evangelical Churches across America are the loudest voices in the chorus, it’s time to investigate.
Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms
Allan Uthman
Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?
"Yasser tearfully described that when he reached the top of the steps 'the party began. … They started to put the [muzzle] of the rifle [and] the wood from the broom into [my anus]. They entered my privates from behind.' ... Yasser estimated that he was penetrated five or six times during this initial sodomy incident and saw blood 'all over my feet' through a small hole in the hood covering his eyes." – by Physicians for Human Rights' "Broken Laws, Broken Lives," a report containing firsthand accounts of men who endured torture by U.S. personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay.
Vaccination Myths and Truths
by Stephen Lendman
Alan G. Philips is an attorney with the following credentials:
-- he's one of the few American lawyers whose practice includes vaccine exemption and waiver issues;
-- he advises other attorneys seeking help for their own clients on vaccine exemptions;
-- he co-founded Citizens for Healthcare Freedom (CHF) as "a grassroots, nonprofit organization supporting an exciting new Consumer Health Freedom Act in North Carolina" where he lives and practices law;
The Obama opiate -- crisis deepens, crowds cheer
Larry Chin
Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities.
No attention to the fact that the Obama administration’s global war strategy, which puts Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Latin America, and other regions into new military-intelligence crosshairs, promises the expansion of global instability, resource conquest, and “war on terrorism” ruin.
No attention to the fact the Obama administration is loaded with elites who are as dangerous and corrupt as those of the preceding administration.
No attention to the fact that nothing has “changed,” except that there is a “rock star” figurehead sitting in the Oval Office who is smart and not stupid; calculating rather than blatant.
Secrets of the Tehran Archive
Edward Jay Epstein
CIA Documents from the US embassy in Iran were shredded into thin strips and Iranians managed to piece them back together. In 1983 they were published in 54 volumes titled "Documents From the U.S. Espionage Den"
The heart of the intelligence business is the an illegal enterprise: the surreptitious theft of state secrets from other nations. The surreptitious part of the equation is crucial since it provides unexpected knowledge. This endeavor also requires air-tight secrecy because the usefulness of the intelligence derived from this data depends on the other side not realizing that it is missing or compromised. Once an adversary realizes that a particular secret is known, it can take effective action to diminish its value. For example, if a nation finds out that one of its diplomatic codes has been broken, it can either change the code or use it as a channel to transmit messages it wants its adversary to read.
Healthcare System or Disease Industry?
Walter Goodpastor
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” - Adolf Hitler
Billions of dollars are pumped into the U.S. “healthcare” system annually, and therein lies the problem. According to Transparency International’s influential Global Corruption Report 2006- www.transparency.org/publications/gcr, medical care is one of the most corrupt industries in the world – precisely because such an enormous amount of public wealth is made available to those who profit from it.
Duty to Warn: The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story
Gary G. Kohls, MD
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Nagasaki
64 years ago, on August 9th, 1945, the second of the only two atomic bombs ever used as instruments of mass destruction was dropped on the defenseless civilian city of Nagasaki, Japan, by an all-Christian bomb crew who had been training for this mission for months. The crew was only “doing it’s job,” and they did it with military efficiency and precision.
It had been only 3 days since the first bomb, a uranium bomb, had incinerated Hiroshima, with chaos and confusion in Tokyo, where Japan’s fascist military government leaders and the Emperor Hirohito had been searching for months for a way to an honorable end to the war, a war which had exhausted Japan to virtually moribund defenseless state.
What’s New?
Khaled Amayreh from occupied Jerusalem
A Palestinian demonstrator
runs for cover as Israelis
fire teargas in a West Bank
village near Ramallah
Is Washington retreating in the face of Israel's refusal to halt settlement building?
US officials visiting Israel this week have once again failed to convince the government of Binyamin Netanyahu to freeze Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell held several rounds of talks with Israeli leaders, centring on efforts to revive the peace process with the Palestinians as well as on Iran's nuclear programme. As is customary, the two officials assured Israeli leaders of Washington's "iron- clad commitment to Israel's security" and of the two countries' "enduring special relations".
Two other American officials, National Security Advisor James Jones, and Special Assistant Dennis Ross, are due to arrive in Israel later.
Gates told Israel that the US was getting "tougher" with Iran, saying he understood Israeli fears over the Iranian nuclear programme.
Such reassurances have yet to convince the Israeli leadership to heed American demands for a settlement freeze as Israeli government officials almost daily vow to continue to build settlements in "the Land of Israel".
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