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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 learn that their new weapon had exploded over a Japanese city when it is … Continue reading “Truman’s A-Bomb Announcement Set ‘Hiroshima Narrative’ To This Day”

Eight people were wounded.

Chinese diplomacy has done it again. By hosting a historic signing of a unity agreement between 14 Palestinian political parties in Beijing on July 23, China has, once more, shown its ability to play a global role as a peace broker. For years, China has attempted to play a role in Middle East politics, particularly … Continue reading “The Beijing Declaration: How Chinese Diplomacy United Palestinian Groups”

While Israel’s apparent assassination of Hamas’ top leader – and cease-fire negotiator – Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s capital has heightened tensions in an already tense situation, the most important lesson to be learned from this escalation is that Israel is dangerously desperate. As a result, the US is in danger of being dragged into a … Continue reading “Killing Hamas Leader: An Act of Israeli Desperation”

Sometime before he withdrew from the presidential race, President Joe Biden secretly reaffirmed his own self-willed and self-created authority to kill persons in other countries, so long as the CIA and its military counterparts have “near certainty” that the target of the homicide is a member of a terrorist organization. That standard was concocted by … Continue reading “When Presidents Kill”

In just two years, China has facilitated a breakthrough deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran; and Fatah and Hamas. Over time, that could pave the way to peace in the Middle East, after decades of unwarranted violence – including the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. On July 23, 14 Palestinian factions including rivals Hamas … Continue reading “The Beijing Declaration: Quest for Middle East Peace After the Haniyeh Assassination”

BBC coverage of the attack on a football pitch in the Golan Heights on Saturday has been intentionally misleading. The BBC’s evening news entirely ignored the fact that those killed by the blast are a dozen Syrians, not Israeli citizens, and that for decades the surviving Syrian population in the Golan, most of them Druze, … Continue reading “More Dead Children. More BBC ‘News’ Channeling Israeli Propaganda as Its Own”

You couldn’t make these things up. I’m thinking about Oxfam’s recent 66-page report on Israel’s devastation of Gaza’s water supplies. As Julia Conley of Common Dreams reported, “Israel has systematically reduced the water available in Gaza by 94%, with just 4.74 liters per resident obtainable each day – less than a third of the recommended … Continue reading “Starvation in Sudan: The Missing War”

Ten people were wounded.

In a shameful moment for U.S. history, an accused war criminal addressed Congress on July 24. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to plead for more arms for his war on Gaza, where the International Court of Justice has found it “plausible” that Israel is committing genocide. “Give us the tools faster and we’ll finish … Continue reading “The US Must Stop Arming Israel”