How the Media Responded to Hiroshima Bomb
August 8, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Before “Barbieheimer” there was… “Bartenheimer.” With the need to focus on run-up to August 6 and aftermath of Hiroshima bombing, I’ve had less on the Oppenheimer film lately, though frankly there might not be much more to report or observe. I’ve covered a […]
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78 Years Ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: What Oppenheimer Wrought
August 7, 2023
From ScheerPost: Atomic bomb damage at Hiroshima, Japan seen by the USS Appalachian November 17, 1945.It’s been 78 years since the United States dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. While antiwar activists and nuclear weapon opponents have made great efforts to ensure the barbaric attack on Japanese civilians will […]
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Game Over: Majority of All Americans Oppose More Aid to Ukraine
August 7, 2023
From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: The pro-war and pro-Biden CNN has just released a poll that must have been painful for them: Americans across the board, whether Democrat or Republican or independent, whether liberal or conservative, now say they do NOT approve of any further US aid to Ukraine. As Ukraine has been Biden’s […]
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He Took the Only Photos in Hiroshima on the Day of Bombing (And Then They Were Suppressed)
August 7, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Yoshito Matsushige, a photographer for the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper in Hiroshima, took the only pictures in that city on August 6, 1945, that have surfaced since, and been confirmed. On that day, Matsushige wandered around Hiroshima for ten hours, carrying one of the […]
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US Foreign Policy Disinformation War Against Americans
August 6, 2023
From Tales of the American Empire Americans hear about a new “information war” strategy, formally known as wartime propaganda. Most don’t realize that it is a disinformation war, and they are the target. Most Americans don’t understand that the corporate media does not exist to inform them, but to mislead them. The US military has […]
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78 Years Ago: Truman’s Announcement Set the ‘Hiroshima Narrative’ That Endures Today
August 6, 2023
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. My photo, above, on another August 6, out on a branch of the Ota River, where thousands died, seeking relief. In the movie Oppenheimer the scientists at Los Alamos, as I observed yesterday, learn that their new weapon had exploded over a Japanese […]
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Why No Hollywood Movie on Nagasaki A-Bombing?
August 6, 2023
In the 1952 movie Above and Beyond, movie idol Robert Taylor played handsome Col. Paul Tibbetts, straight out of Central Casting, who piloted Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima 78 years ago today. We all grew up in awe of Tibbetts, Enola Gay and the perfect mission which incinerated Hiroshima from […]
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Little Known: Oppenheimer Thought Hiroshima Would Be Bombed After Dark
August 5, 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 In Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer, the physicist who directed the creation of the atomic bomb learns that the new weapon had exploded over a Japanese city on […]
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Don’t Put US Sailors and Marines on Commercial Ships
August 5, 2023
The Associated Press reports on a truly terrible idea that the Biden administration is considering: The US military is considering putting armed personnel on commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, in what would be an unheard of action aimed at stopping Iran from seizing and harassing civilian vessels, five American officials told The […]
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Abu Ghraib Contractor Torture Case Likely Heading to Trial After US Judge’s Order
August 4, 2023
Survivors of torture at the hands of U.S. troops and private interrogators cheered a federal judge’s rejection this week of an infamous military contractor’s latest bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Iraqis formerly jailed in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison during the early years of the American-led occupation. On Monday, Judge Leonie Brinkema of […]
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