The Guilty A-Bomb Scientist Who Committed Suicide
August 4, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. – Charles Dickens On this day in 1945, two days out from the attack on Hiroshima: – On the island of Tinian, Little Boy is ready to go, […]
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When FBI Bugged Oppenheimer As He Talked About First ‘A-Bomb Movie’
August 3, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Three days until Hiroshima Day. Continuing my daily Countdown to Hiroshima over at my Pressing Issues blog, this time for August 3, 1945: – On Tinian, Little Boy is ready to go, awaiting word on the weather, with General Curtis LeMay to make […]
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Conflicts of Interest: War-Loving Victoria Nuland Gets Promoted to Second Ranking Diplomat
August 3, 2023
On COI #451, Kyle Anzalone discusses the war in Ukraine and Victoria Nuland’s new role as acting Deputy Secretary of State. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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Putting Warheads on Foreheads
August 2, 2023
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I was reading an article from 2007 by an Air Force master sergeant, “We are called Airmen,” only to stumble on these lines: You have to be able to understand what part you play in America’s defense. You have to be disciplined and willing to maintain your […]
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‘Make Peace, You Fools!’ – Ron Paul Interviews Col. Douglas Macgregor
August 2, 2023
From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Former senior advisor to President Trump’s Secretary of Defense and decorated war hero Col. Douglas Macgregor joins today’s Liberty Report to discuss the state of the US/NATO proxy war with Russia through Ukraine. Is there danger of further escalation from the Biden Administration and what might that look like? […]
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Japan Hits Oppenheimer Promo
August 2, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Today’s headline in The New York Times, while slow in arriving, should not have surprised anyone: ‘Barbenheimer’ Isn’t Funny in Nuclear-Scarred Japan. It seems that for days, ““Twitter users in Japan, where nuclear bombings by the U.S. military during World War II killed […]
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A Famine of Peace
August 1, 2023
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. There is a famine of peace in the world today. I came across that phrase, “famine of peace,” in an article in the New Yorker that reported on a papal envoy sent to advocate for a truce and diplomacy to President Joe Biden. Biden, a practicing Catholic, […]
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Ron Paul: As Confidence In Military Plummets, DC Swamp Calls for a Draft
August 1, 2023
From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: As new data comes out from Gallup showing a deep American crisis in confidence in the US military, a new op-ed in the Pentagon-friendly Military.com is calling for a “limited” military draft to fill the growing gaps between projected force needs and recruitment. Are they trying to grease the […]
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August 5th Antiwar Protest in Minneapolis
August 1, 2023
From the Minnesota Peace Action Coalition: Minneapolis Saturday protest to speak out against U.S. wars on atomic bombing anniversary The weekend of August 5 will mark 78 years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan during World War 2. Twin Cities anti-war and peace groups are planning a protest to mark the atomic anniversary with […]
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The Amazing Saga of Manhattan Project Engineer Who Tried to Halt the Atomic Bombings
August 1, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A sure sign of the cultural impact of a hit movie is that, after the first week, we are still seeing one article after another inspired by it, from the often silly (who is buying Oppie’s hat?) to the serious. Somewhere in between […]
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