Nagasaki bound: bomb No. 2, “Fat Man” Seventy-six years and three days ago Hiroshima was incinerated. Three days later, on August 9, it was Nagasaki’s turn. Estimates of the immediate consequences – not attempting to reckon those in the months, … Read More »
In a closely argued piece for CounterPunch on the seventy-fifth anniversary of Hiroshima, Belgian born historian Jacques Pauwels, now a Canadian citizen, explores why it happened. Mythmaking and the Atomic Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Myth: The war in the … Read More »
The Economist today: “It’s been raining snakes amid the recent heavy downpour,” reported the Mumbai edition of the Times of India on July 26th, in a news piece about a rock python which “refused to be evicted” from an autorickshaw. The same paper … Read More »
As argued in a recent post, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and associated projects like the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank which now gives the global south an alternative to the punitive terms of IMF/World Bank loans, have lifted hundreds of … Read More »
Snow is falling on the wide sidewalks of the historic city of Xi’an, but people don’t seem to be troubled by the bitter cold. One of the oldest cities in China, Xi’an is now vibrant, optimistic and stunningly beautiful. Sidewalks … Read More »
Facebook, yesterday. * Re John-Mark Considine’s claims of frenetic Sinophobia in the West, see the first of my China Reads, a closer look at the allegations, given wall to wall publicity despite evidential paucity, of “Uighur genocide”. Re my own … Read More »
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… They are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor…. They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they … Read More »
Guardian yesterday. The above is a still from this footage … … which is billed as showing “debris from China’s largest rocket falling to Earth”. Not only is there no comparable footage for a US rocket launch, but even the … Read More »
Just another tale from the archives of US democracy in action. Craig Brittain, who last year ran for Arizona Senator as a Republican, was former owner of a website – IsAnyoneDown dot com – which posted nude pictures of women … Read More »
Uighur brouhaha? A simple map can be worth a thousand words … To say I’m alarmed by the sinophobic bellicosity of Washington and its thermonuclear satellites, my country very much included, would be a gross understatement. In the world’s three … Read More »