Tag: World War Has Begun

NOVANEWS By John Pilger Global Research   Below is a relevant article selected from the GR archive, first published in March 2016. This is an edited version of an address by John Pilger at the University of Sydney, entitled A World War Has Begun: I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit.” Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 — the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve...