Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Days that will live in Infamy At the beginning at the 20th century, two world-wide military conflicts of previously unheard of brutality, suffering and destruction shook the world. The first world war…
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Great Legacy of Kim Jong Il “Change” To look back the mid-1990s, President Kim Il Sung of thenorth Korea passed away. Broadcasts of world mass media covered the globe: The world has lost the greatest…
[anyplayer:url=http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/japan-protest-nuclear-plants-334/i7985a86e2dd4f3f3e8e4743581b7b8ba_00b0f9c5.flv type=FLV width=600 height=450] Thousands of activists have shown up for a protest around Japan’s parliament, demanding that the government not restart the nuclear power plants, which have been put on hold after last…
For 236 years the U.S. has defended democracy everywhere: Hillary Clinton asserted this in Cairo [1]. Thus she must have erased from history the more than 160 military interventions abroad that U.S. imperialism made starting…
Double-Standards Are Not Acceptable in Punishing Terrorists: KCNA Commentary The U.S. and the south Korean regime are pretending ignorance of the recent attempted state-sponsored terrorist act which stunned the world. But liars have short…
ADDENDUM OF RESEARCH NOTES AND SUPPORTING MATERIALS AND SOURCES Hidden History Alive Within the Present Quotations from “Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (updated edition), by William Blum, Common Courage…
Every time I am in China, I am struck with how kind, open, warm and helpful people are to me; especially as it is obvious that I am a foreigner, and many think, another American…
The shocking numbers come from the thyroid examination section of the “Sixth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey,” published by Fukushima Radioactive Contamination Symptoms Research (FRCSR) and translated by the blog Fukushima Voice. Shunichi Yamashita, M.D.,…
“Based on U.S. Energy Department data, assuming a total of 11,138 spent fuel assemblies are being stored at the Dai-Ichi site, nearly all, which is in pools. They contain roughly 336 million curies (~1.2 E+19…
Humanitarian wars, especially under the guise of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P),” are a modern form of imperialism. The standard pattern that the United States and its allies use to execute them is one where genocide and ethnic cleansing are vociferously alleged by a coalition of governments, media organizations, and non-governmental front organizations. The allegations – often lurid and unfounded – then provide moral and diplomatic cover for a variety of sanctions that undermine and isolate the target country in question, and thereby pave the way for military intervention. This is the post-Cold War modus operandi of the US and NATO. In facilitating this neo-imperialism, the United Nations has been complicit in the hijacking of its own posts and offices by Washington. Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan has been appointed a “special peace envoy” with a mediating role in Syria. Yet, how can Annan be evaluated as an “honest broker” considering his past instrumental role in developing the doctrine of R2P – the very pretext that has served to facilitate several US/NATO criminal wars of aggression? Furthermore, the evidence attests that the US and its allies – despite mouthing support for Annan’s supposed peace plan – are not interested in a mediated, peaceful solution in Syria.