“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...
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David Henderson to Speak on “An Economist’s Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy”
Antiwar.com's economist David Henderson will be speaking Saturday, May 14, 3:00pm PT at the Monterey Peace and Justice Center located at 1364 Fremont Blvd., in Seaside, California. Professor Henderson, a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford...
Why “we” REALLY nuked both Hiroshima & Nagasaki. In just 3 days.
OLIVER STONE: ... Every school kid -- still, my daughter in her school, in private school, in good school, is still learning this: We dropped the bomb because we had to, because the Japanese resistance was fanatic, and we would have lost many American lives taking...
VERIFIED: Where Wars Do — and Don’t Come From
Where wars DO come from: "It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation." --Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The...
Mass murder: Monkey see monkey do?
JUAN GARCÉS: "... Hitler asked his generals to be ready to invade Poland, and to exterminate the population in those territories, because German population should replace this population. Some generals say, "My Führer, there will a provoking of cry in the...
He NAILS it!
Regular antiwar.com contributor Tom Engelhardt NAILS it - - - on Democracy Now! too. Tom Engelhardt on "The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s" Here: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/18/afghan
Counting Afghanistan Casualties…Through 15 Other Countries
Although several news outlets spent the day barking about the Afghanistan death toll crossing the 1,000 mark, the truth is that casualty counting is a little more complicated. Icasualties.org is where the media are grabbing that 1,000 figure. The Web site does report...
Hiroshima AND Nagasaki: The Inside Story
At 8:16 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the world got a glimpse of its own mortality. At that moment, the city of Hiroshima was obliterated by a fireball that sent waves of searing heat, then a deafening concussion, across the landscape. Three days later, a second...
Stinnett Responds to NSA’s Pearl Harbor Claims
At Scott Horton's suggestion, I wrote Robert Stinnett, author of Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, and asked "about the new story [1,2] that the NSA has debunked the Pearl Harbor foreknowledge narrative." His response is as follows: Memo for Anthony...