On COI #455, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the latest on US government surveillance, Russia, China, and Palestine. Connor breaks down a report from the White House recommending the renewal of a controversial law which enables Washington to spy on foreign...
How the Media Responded to Hiroshima Bomb
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...
78 Years Ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: What Oppenheimer Wrought
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...
Game Over: Majority of All Americans Oppose More Aid to Ukraine
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...
He Took the Only Photos in Hiroshima on the Day of Bombing (And Then They Were Suppressed)
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...
US Foreign Policy Disinformation War Against Americans
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...
78 Years Ago: Truman’s Announcement Set the ‘Hiroshima Narrative’ That Endures Today
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...
Why No Hollywood Movie on Nagasaki A-Bombing?
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...
Little Known: Oppenheimer Thought Hiroshima Would Be Bombed After Dark
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...
Don’t Put US Sailors and Marines on Commercial Ships
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...


