Who Opposed Nuking Japan?

“The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn’t necessary to hit them with that awful thing.” —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower “In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on...

Playing Nuclear Chicken – or is it Russian Roulette?

"It was not immediately clear how close the U.S. military recon jet was flying near Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave between NATO allies Poland and Lithuania. This fall, Russia moved nuclear-capable ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad, putting some European capitals in...

Stop doing what you’re not doing? AGAIN?

Iran's imaginary nukes and other war-lies: Take 83  - - - It's the sort of bureaucratic lying-by-obfuscation below which caused the U.S. to unnecessarily nuke Japan twice in three days, attack North Vietnam for an incident which Defense Sec. Robert McNamara admits...

The easiest campaign promise??

Both War Party candidates (Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama) have stumbled all over themselves -- and each other -- to promise the government of Israel  they won't let Iran produce a nuclear bomb. Unless they begin to believe their own propaganda as Kennedy did (which...

…Fear Based on Fact?

While I work on pledge drive, I torment myself by playing CNNMSNBCFOX in the background. Today's tortured viewing included a rerun of A Nuclear Iran: The Expert Intel. It wasn't as bad as one might expect --the calm measured Hillary Mann Leverett was given a...

AP Iran Scare Piece Proves Itself Wrong

Where's old Doc Prather when we need him? George Jahn, the David Sanger of the Associated Press, has a scary new piece out. And though the story seems to have gotten plenty of attention with it's big headline "Iran Prez Said Pushing for Nukes," on further inspection...

Iran: Parallax view

NOAM CHOMSKY: The Brookings Institute just a few months ago released extensive polls of what Arabs think about Iran. ...They show that Arab opinion ...—holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second major threat is the United...