Tag: Global War and Violence

Gurugram’s is a hard-won economic gain. But Nuh violence shows it’s imploding

PRAVEEN SWAMI Erased from our memory by high-rise buildings and malls, Gurugram, and the Mewat region that sprawled to its south, imploded into a macabre carnival of killing during Partition. “Whole villages were razed; scores of mosques desecrated; thousands killed or forced on pain of death to convert to Hinduism”, historian Ian Copland writes, “and many… Read More Gurugram’s is a hard-won economic gain. But Nuh violence shows it’s imploding

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Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings “nuclear tests”? The U.S. government said so

By NORMAN SOLOMON In 1980, when I asked the press office at the U.S. Department of Energy to send me a listing of nuclear bomb test explosions, the agency mailed me an official booklet with the title “Announced United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 Through December 1979.” As you’d expect, the Trinity test in New Mexico… Read More Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings “nuclear tests”? The U.S. government said so

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Funny and very scary: John Oliver on Nuclear Weapons

 First posted September 09, 2014 America has over 4,800 nuclear weapons, and we don’t take terrific care of them. It’s terrifying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g See also:  Maybe there is a God after all: US Air Force nearly detonated atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961 Noam Chomsky – How Many Minutes to … Hiroshima Day 2014. If some extraterrestrial species… Read More Funny and very scary: John Oliver on Nuclear Weapons

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On 78th anniversary of atomic bomb, Hiroshima mayor says nuclear deterrence ‘folly’

Japan has marked the 78th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima where the mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the G7 leaders’ notion of nuclear deterrence a “folly”. On Sunday a peace bell tolled at 8.15am, the time the bomb was dropped. About 50,000 participants in the outdoor memorial ceremony… Read More On 78th anniversary of atomic bomb, Hiroshima mayor says nuclear deterrence ‘folly’

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America is on the brink of another civil war, this one fuelled by Donald Trump / Trump has lost control of his own image

the early U.S. was a settlers’ empire, a political and military force with the main goal to provide farm families (and speculators) with more land. So it went for generations. Jason Opal The indictment of former United States president Donald Trump on charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is the most… Read More America is on the brink of another civil war, this one fuelled by Donald Trump / Trump has lost control of his own image

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Satyapal Malik airs pre-poll fear, says ‘they’ would not allow any normal parliamentary election

Former governor Satyapal Malik has claimed that “they” would not allow a normal parliamentary election in 2024, pointing to how the 2019 polls had been “hijacked after the Pulwama tragedy and the subsequent Balakot surgical strike”. Malik told The Telegraph in an interview: “Ye kuchh bhi kar sakte hain (They can do anything). Something big… Read More Satyapal Malik airs pre-poll fear, says ‘they’ would not allow any normal parliamentary election

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Citizens, Opposition Leaders Flay Modi Govt for ‘Compromising’ National Security

At a convention in Delhi, the speakers called for a white paper on the Pulwama/Balakot incidents and the spike in communal violence across several states. Major political parties that are part of the Opposition Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Union government of compromising national security… Read More Citizens, Opposition Leaders Flay Modi Govt for ‘Compromising’ National Security

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