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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 On this day in 1945, two days out from the attack on Hiroshima: – On...
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Three days until Hiroshima Day. Continuing my daily Countdown to Hiroshima over at my Pressing Issues blog, this time for August 3, 1945: – On Tinian, Little Boy is...
On COI #451, Kyle Anzalone discusses the war in Ukraine and Victoria Nuland's new role as acting Deputy Secretary of State. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. I was reading an article from 2007 by an Air Force master sergeant, “We are called Airmen,” only to stumble on these lines: You have to be able to understand what part you play in America's defense. You have...
