Thoughts on War in Gaza and Ukraine

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. Some thoughts – more or less connected – on war in Gaza and Ukraine: Israel is engaged in a "traditional" war of conquest. Like the Romans destroyed Carthage, Israel is essentially destroying Gaza using...

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‘Silent Night’ in Nagasaki: Christmas 1945

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Decades before I started work on my award-winning documentary “Atomic Cover-up” in 2020, I had heard of the alleged episode: Japanese survivors of the second U.S....

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‘Tis the Season for War

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. As Christmas approaches, it doesn’t seem to be the season to be jolly, unless you’re a U.S. weapons manufacturer. It seems instead yet another season for war, as the president and Congress fight over how much...

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Sounding the Alarm on the Starvation of Gaza

The level of acute food insecurity in Gaza has become catastrophic, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today: Between 24 November and 7 December, over 90 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip (about 2.08 million...

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Biden Staffers Give the Boss a Lesson in Humanity

Last Wednesday night, dozens of President Biden’s employees held a vigil outside the White House. They called for a lasting cease-fire in Gaza to protest their Chief’s near total support, in weapons and words, of Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in...

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