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Palestine Solidarity in Japan

Posted by: John Phoenix FacebookTwitterRedditBlueskyEmail https://www.youtube.com/embed/lTp_cu10UO8?si=4oMxPup7sI0Avz28 Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, sitting in for Eric Draitser on CounterPunch Radio, talks with Hanin Siam, a Palestinian organizer based in Tokyo, Japan. They discuss the challenges of organizing the Palestine solidarity movement in Japan, including the nuances of their communities in Tokyo and Hiroshima. From the history of Japanese support for Palestine, to BDS, to the social and legal limitations of protest, Rebecca and Hanin cover the diverse strategies and public response to the fight for Palestinian Liberation in Japan. Follow @palestinejapan for more. Edited by Kryzia Villada. Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt is an artist and cultural worker engaging in...

US targeting China, deploying previously banned missiles in Japan

Posted by: John Phoenix As America’s strategic capabilities keep sinking (primarily due to its growing technological backwardness), the world’s most aggressive thalassocracy is determined to use its current imperial overstretch to jeopardize several adversaries simultaneously. Namely, the Pentagon is deploying previously banned medium and intermediate-range missiles in the vicinity of Russia, China and North Korea. The United States believes this could give it the best first-strike capabilities and possibly even put Moscow, Beijing and Pyongyang into a checkmate position. Warmongers and war criminals in Washington DC are surely aware that this approach is extremely risky, but they’re convinced that they could pull it off...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Gratuitous Mass Murder, Nuclear War, “A Lunatic Act”

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research, This important article first written by the late Stephen Lendman was first published on August 6, 2015. May the Legacy of Steven Lendman live. Today, 79 years ago, the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. *** The atomic age began on August 6, 1945 in real time – after its July 16 pre-dawn open-air birth in successful Alamogordo, NM testing. At the time, perhaps prophetically General Thomas Farrell said “(w)e were reaching into the unknown, and we did not know what might come of it.” Called by some “the father of the atomic bomb,” Robert Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad Gita saying: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” August 6 marks the 70th anniversary of one of h...