The Bomb and the Drone: The Grim Reaper Keeps Taking Its Toll
Ed Kinane @ Truthout - The lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki belong always before us. The agony of those two cities must remain our dark beacon.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki wasn't so much about targets as about audiences. We - or rather, the very highest reaches of the US government - annihilated a couple hundred thousand nameless, unarmed, undefended human beings to warn the world: "Don't mess with us; we run things now."
Thanks to its atomic prowess –-showcased at Hiroshima and Nagasaki - for over 65 years the United States has been able to hold the planet hostage. It deploys nuclear blackmail to further its corporations' grip on the world's resources and markets. But such gunboat diplomacy has only partially succeeded. Read more.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki wasn't so much about targets as about audiences. We - or rather, the very highest reaches of the US government - annihilated a couple hundred thousand nameless, unarmed, undefended human beings to warn the world: "Don't mess with us; we run things now."
Thanks to its atomic prowess –-showcased at Hiroshima and Nagasaki - for over 65 years the United States has been able to hold the planet hostage. It deploys nuclear blackmail to further its corporations' grip on the world's resources and markets. But such gunboat diplomacy has only partially succeeded. Read more.
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