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Castle Bravo test

March 1^st marks seventy years since the US used its biggest ever nuclear weapon – on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The bomb was 15 megatons, a thousand times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.  On this day we acutely remember the victims of the Castle Bravo nuclear blast and all other victims of the nuclear era, which has brought untold pain, death and damage, affecting both people and the planet in profoundly destructive and damaging ways.

Between 1946 and 1958 the US detonated 67 nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands. The blasts vaporized whole islands, carved craters into the shallow lagoons and exiled hundreds of people from their homes. The Castle Bravo blast was the largest of all, sending  Particulate and gaseous fallout around the entire planet.

Continue reading “Remembering Nuclear Victims: Commemorating 70th Anniversary of the US Largest Nuclear Blast”

The illegal and pointless U.S. war in Yemen continues

There is no question that the Israeli government is responsible for these deaths. It is beyond shameful that the US would block a statement that says so, but it is consistent with the administration’s indefensible policy of unconditional backing for an atrocious war. The flour massacre, as some are calling it, is the dreadful result of the Israeli government’s use of starvation as a weapon combined with its indiscriminate use of violence against the Palestinian population.

Continue reading “The Flour Massacre and the Airdrop Gimmick”

Job 1 for any president is not to spew personal insults at world leaders to inflame delicate issues of war and peace.

At a campaign stop Wednesday, Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” (Son of a Bitch). Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was much more circumspect in pushing back, saying, “Such boorish statements from the mouth of a US leader are hardly capable of hurting the head of another country in any way, much less President Putin. But it is a great shame for the country (US) itself,”

Biden knows better. He made that scurrilous remark to ramp up support for his reelection with voters who have largely abandoned him on his lost proxy war against Russia destroying Ukraine, and his enabling Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Continue reading “Biden Needs Muzzle To Stop Reckless, Inflammatory Personal Attacks”

We are excited to announce that Dave DeCamp has won a Pierre Sprey Award for his work covering the news for Antiwar.com. Dave won a runner-up prize along with Gareth Porter, a renowned investigative journalist and long-time contributor to Antiwar.com.

Max Blumenthal, founder of The Grayzone, has won the top prize for his work exposing truths about the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that the mainstream media has ignored.

Named after a well-known critic of the US war machine, the Pierre Sprey Award for Defense Reporting and Analysis is funded by Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen to celebrate “clear-thinking and courageous” analysis that exposes the military-industrial complex.

The panel that chose the winners is made up of these members:

Winslow Wheeler worked on national security issues for both Republican and Democratic US Senators; directed multiple significant studies at GAO and authored or edited books, anthologies, commentaries, and articles while at the Center for Defense Information and the Project On Government Oversight.

Tom Christie is a defense analyst who worked a the Pentagon for more than three decades. At the time of his retirement, he was the most senior civil servant in the Department of Defense.

Franklin Spinney is a former Pentagon analyst. In the early 1980s, he authored the “Spinney Report,” detailing the Pentagon’s reckless and costly pursuit of complex weapons systems. In 2003, he received the “Good Government Award” from the Project on Government Oversight.

Andrew Cockburn is the Washington, D.C. editor of Harper’s Magazine. He has authored several books on American defense policy, including Spoils of War, Power, Profit, and the American War Machine.

Click here for more information on the award winners

Reprint from Sam Husseini’s substack.   This is a developing news story and may be updated as more information is obtained. If you value such information, please support this Substack.

“Jane Doe” has been at Grady Hospital since Dec. 1. The hospital did not respond to repeated inquiries.

On Dec. 1, a woman immolated herself with a Palestinian flag outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta.

Now, according to the Atlanta Fire Rescue Department, the woman — referred to in their report as “Jane Doe” — is alive and “in stable condition” at Grady Memorial Hospital, where she has been since the immolation.

Continue reading “‘Jane Doe’ Who Immolated Herself at Israeli Consulate in Atlanta Last Year Is Still Alive”

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

What do the foreign policy “experts” do when their policies aren’t working? They demand more of the same, of course. So it is that two failed years of Western sanctions are met with demands to do more of what is not working. Also today, Rep. Massie warns us about the upcoming stopgap budget deal. Finally… let’s check in on how that war on the Houthis is going…

Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.