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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.
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;
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".
The Israeli Conundrum: ‘How to Deal with Iran’
By Ramzy Baroud
Israeli officials face a conundrum that may take more than military muscle-flexing to resolve: how to deal with Iran? The solution to this dilemma will require no less than sheer political genius.
It must be frustrating for Israeli policymakers and their friends and backers elsewhere to stand idle as Iran openly carries on with its nuclear-enrichment program, facing nothing but United States and European chest-thumping and a mere threat of more sanctions, which will unlikely bend Iranian resolve.
MEDICARE WORKS / MEDICARE SINGLE PAY FOR ALL AMERICANS
Allen L Roland
The best example of a single pay health system that works, despite constant Republican efforts to undermine it , is Medicare. Medicare for all Americans will put together and stabilize our broken heath care system:
Yesterday was the 44th birthday of Medicare, our popular senior Single Pay health care system ~ which President Lyndon Johnson signed into law on July 30, 1965. At the time, Johnson called the bill "the most revolutionary and most beneficial measure for older Americans since we passed Social Security itself back in 1935." "They will no longer have to suffer from misery and neglect and depend upon their relatives because they themselves cannot afford the cost of modern treatment," Johnson said ~ and he was correct !
The 64th Anniversary of USA Terrorism Enlightened by the Wisdom of Nonviolence
eileen fleming
This August 6th and 9th mark the 64th anniversary of the most brutal acts of terrorism upon innocent people; America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On Armistice Day, 1948 General Omar Nelson Bradley warned, "We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on The Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living."
Nothing in Sight to Replace the US Dollar as an International Reserve Currency
"The empire of the dollar is crashing." - Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President
"The U.S. dollar is a worthless piece of paper." - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President
[The U.S. dollar is] "losing its status as the world currency." - Xu Jian, vice director, People's Bank of China,
"It is the policy of the United States and it will remain the policy of the United States to remain committed to a strong dollar." - Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary, (July 15, 2009)
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