Reactions to John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’ Shook the Pro-Bomb Narrative
August 24, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Earlier this week, we looked at the genesis of John Hersey’s famous “Hiroshima” article for The New Yorker (which appeared 77 years ago this week) and book. Now here is the response to the landmark piece, including criticism that it did not go […]
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Come On, Ukraine, Learn From the US Military
August 23, 2023
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In today’s New York Times send-out, I saw the following story: Ukraine’s Forces and Firepower Are Misallocated, U.S. Officials Say American strategists say Ukraine’s troops are too spread out and need to concentrate along the counteroffensive’s main front in the south. Listen to the U.S. military, Ukraine! […]
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That Crucial Scene in Oppenheimer: Only One Bomb Victim, and She is American
August 23, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. There are hints that perhaps the very welcome media and intertube obsession with serious issues raised by Oppenheimer is drawing to a close. How else to explain that the two most cited related reports yesterday were that: 1) someone named Logan Paul, who […]
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Where Do You Get Your News? Who Do You Trust?
August 23, 2023
The answer for me and my staff has been the same for many years: Antiwar.com. I read Antiwar.com every day because it’s the best way to get a handle on the news without the steady barrage of propaganda that is served up nearly everywhere else. Do you want to know the truth about what’s happening […]
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More from ‘Oppenheimer’ Script, Now Published: A Fictional Laugh Line – and Missing Victims
August 22, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. As I hinted yesterday, I will now return to offering a few more notes, over several days, on the full script for Oppenheimer just published in paperback and, from the looks of it, selling like hotcakes. But first, if you dare, from The […]
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US Derides Wimpy Ukrainians Who Have Become ‘Casualty Adverse’
August 21, 2023
The US has come up a clever way of masking their contempt of the Ukrainian military in their failed counteroffensive against Russia. Dismayed that Ukraine is squandering US weapons by hurling them at Russian forces instead hurling themselves at the well-fortified invaders, armchair US military are calling the Ukrainians “casualty adverse,” a nice way of […]
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77 Years Ago: John Hersey Exposed Hiroshima Truths to the World
August 21, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. I’ll be returning to my notes on the newly-published paperback version of Christopher Nolan’s screenplay for Oppenheimer tomorrow (here was my first report last week). Today, a look at how John Hersey came to write his Hiroshima. But first, you might want to […]
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Conflicts of Interest: American Neo-Nazis Train to Fight for Ukraine
August 21, 2023
An American Neo-Nazi is training his “Blood Tribe” in Maine to travel to Ukraine and fight for Kiev. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
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Remembering the Antiwar.com Lawsuit Against the FBI
August 20, 2023
The FBI is one of the most powerful institutions in the United States. It has the mission of protecting the public from serious crime, our democratic system from corruption, and our national security from threats from hostile foreign nations. The U.S. government has given it enormous power to serve these missions, often under a thick […]
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Oppenheimer Hero: Making a Mountain Out of a Hill
August 19, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Today we present, for the first time, a guest contribution from someone I’ve known, if from a distance, for quite some time. Gene Dannen posted what follows as a Twitter (excuse me, an “X”) thread yesterday and I was so intrigued I asked […]
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