Juan Cole / Informed CommentOct 15, 2024
Their certainty that the “people of Gaza” would win the prize speaks volumes about how the genocide is viewed outside the North Atlantic world. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Norman Solomon / TruthdigAug 3, 2023
“Perhaps 10,000 military personnel lost their lives in the bomb but the vast majority of the 125,000 dead in Hiroshima would be women and children.” Three days later, when an atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki, “it was officially described as a ‘naval base’ yet less than 200 of the 90,000 dead were military personnel.” Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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NICOLE WINFIELD and MARI YAMAGUCHI / The Associated PressNov 23, 2019
He goes further than any other pontiff, saying merely having atomic bombs is to be condemned, ahead of his visits to Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchAug 19, 2019
In the real-life version of the dystopian novel "1984" we seem to be caught in, Trump is our very own idiosyncratic version of Big Brother. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Paul Jay / The Real News NetworkJun 6, 2019
On the anniversary of D-Day, American University's Peter Kuznick reflects on one of the most shameful chapters in our nation's history. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigAug 6, 2018
The story of how an iconic sculpture in Southern California was saved leads our commemoration of the 73rd anniversary of the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Paul Street / TruthdigJun 13, 2018
Monstrous U.S. war crimes since the early 1950s have gone down George Orwell's "memory hole." Now, we have no concept of empathy—or reality. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Rory Fanning / JacobinJan 20, 2018
Two U.S. military veterans go to Japan to discuss the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the urgent need for nuclear disarmament. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Eric Ortiz / TruthdigJan 15, 2018
The world now stands "at the very limit," said the leader of the Catholic Church. "I am really afraid of this.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
The Associated PressDec 10, 2017
Setsuko Thurlow, who was 13 when a U.S. atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima, heads a group that is urging 50 countries to ratify an international treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Marjorie Cohn / TruthoutOct 13, 2017
The president's bombastic threats may portend a catastrophic attack that could affect the entire world. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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