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Government Officials Who Push Button Of Nuclear Weapons Will Die First, As They Should

August 9, 2025 Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance. Educate! Accountability, Hiroshima, Japan, Nuclear Ban Treaty, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, War crimes

For the past five days I have been in Hiroshima, Japan speaking at a conference on the 80th Anniversary of the horrific and unnecessary U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We have now travelled to Nagasaki to participate in an international conference there and the commemoration of the August 9 atomic bombing of that city. Archived documents reveal that the Japanese government was going to surrender. The decision of the Truman administration to go ahead and incinerate with atomic bombs 210,000 citizens of two Japanese cities as a warning to the Soviet Union was a war crime of the highest degree.

Pentagon Paves Way To Reclaim Ukraine-Bound Arms To US Stockpiles

August 9, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Ukraine, United States, Wars and Militarism, weapons

A memo written by the US Defense Department’s policy chief will allow US weapons and equipment earmarked for Ukraine to be diverted back into US stockpiles, CNN reported on 8 August. According to four people who have read the memo, the policy represents “a dramatic shift” that could see billions of dollars of weapons redirected to shore up dwindling US supplies. The memo was written last month by US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, but has become public ahead of US President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting is tentatively scheduled for next week. Items desired by Ukraine’s military that are in short supply in the US include interceptor missiles, Patriot air defense systems, and artillery ammunition.

Syria: Nearly 10,000 Killed Since West-Friendly Militants Seized Power

August 9, 2025 Press TV, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Hayat Tahrir al-sham (HTS), Israel, Massacres, Regime Change, Syria, Violence

The SOHR reported on Thursday that “due to ongoing violence by local and foreign militants,” at least 9,889 people had been killed since 8 December 2024, the day Damascus fell under the controversial rule of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group. The SORH said that 7,449 civilians were among the victims, including 396 children and 541 women. It also stressed that there has been no accountability for killings carried out by members of HTS-affiliated armed factions. This is while “in some cases, perpetrators are being covered up and facts are being distorted.”

US Increases Bounty On President Nicolás Maduro To $50 Million

August 9, 2025 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Educate! Bolivarian Revolution, Nicolas Maduro, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The Venezuelan government has said that the increase in the reward for the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro by US Attorney General Pam Bondi is “ridiculous” and that it is part of a “propaganda operation” and a “desperate distraction” from the internal problems facing the United States. Bondi published a video on August 7, announcing that the US Department of Justice and Department of State are offering USD 50 million for “information leading to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro”. This is not the first time the US government has tried to pressure the Bolivarian government in this way. In 2020, the US Department of Justice offered USD 15 million for Maduro’s arrest. The accusations were based on alleged acts of “narco-terrorism” by the Venezuelan government.

A Tribute To All Those Who Fought For A Better World

August 8, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Frantz Fanon, Revolution, Revolutionaries

In July, a few days after the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, I had lunch with his daughter, Mireille Fanon Mendès-France. When I commented that Fanon had died so young, at thirty-nine, Mireille corrected me: ‘No, thirty-six’. Even three more years would have been a gift – to him because he might have been able to finish other work and spend more time with his family, and to us because we might have gotten the book that would have come after The Wretched of the Earth – perhaps one on how to construct a national project that would not succumb to the pitfalls of narrow nationalism. But that was not to be. Thinking of my conversation with Mireille and the legacy her father left behind, I asked the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research team to help me make a list of revolutionary leaders and intellectuals who died before their fortieth birthday.

Fast Food Nation Revisited

August 8, 2025 Steve Early, Popular Resistance. Educate! Book Review, Deindustrialization, Low wages, Worker Rights, Working Class

De-industrialization in the northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match the employment opportunities of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting lower wages, limited job benefits, and reduced job security propelled many workers, their families, and communities into a downward spiral. Two great regional story tellers—Russell Banks and Richard Russo—ploughed this field, with great personal insight. Both endured difficult childhoods, marked by absent or unreliable blue-collar fathers who left single moms in charge. In their short fiction and novels, both Banks and Russo chronicled the tragedies and tribulations of white-working class people living in hometowns like their own.

Zionist Shakedown

August 8, 2025 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Apartheid, Genocide, International Law, Israel, Zionism

It is rare for the peoples of the world to be of one mind, to have unanimity of opinion on any subject, yet we are seeing that phenomenon take place right now. There is very little disagreement over whether or not the United States backed regime in Israel is committing war crimes and genocide. Millions of people have protested on the streets, conducted boycotts, and urged their governments to join in condemnation of Israel at the International Court of Justice and at the United Nations. It is no exaggeration to say that there were feelings of joy around the world when the International Criminal Court (ICC) finally issued an arrest warrant for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump Administration Wants To Turn US Cities Into Occupied Territory

August 8, 2025 Jesse MacKinnon, Common Dreams. Educate! DHS, Domestic Occupation, Law Enforcement, Trump Administration

By any rational measure, the Trump administration’s internal Department of Homeland Security memo—obtained by The New Republic—reads less like a briefing on immigration enforcement and more like a blueprint for domestic occupation. Strip away the bureaucratic throat clearing and what you find is blunt language: “homeland defense,” “personnel detailed within ICE and CBP,” “Al Qaeda or ISIS cells operating freely inside America.” The lines are being drawn. The administration is preparing to turn American cities into zones of military containment. Los Angeles, it turns out, was the test run. National Guard and Marines were deployed there under the excuse of protests, and the memo declares it a “good indicator of the type of operations (and resistance) we’re going to be working through for years to come.”

Atomic Bombings At 80: How US Spies Secured The Hiroshima Uranium

August 7, 2025 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! CIA, Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons, Uranium

Since the first use of a nuclear weapon in Hiroshima 80 years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1945, the story of where the uranium for the bomb came from and the covert operation the U.S. employed to secure it was little known. That was until the 2016 publication of the book, Spies in the Congo, by British researcher Susan Williams (Public Affairs Books, New York), which unveiled for the first time the detailed story of the deep cover race between the Americans and the Nazis to get their hands on the deadliest metal on earth. At the outset of World War II, when the U.S. launched the extraordinarily secret Manhattan Project, mines in North America and most of the rest of the world yielded ore with less than one percent uranium, considered inadequate to build the first atom bombs.

How US Imperialism Blackmails The World With Nuclear Weapons

August 7, 2025 Rhonda Ramiro and Sarah Raymundo, Mondoweiss. Educate! Hiroshima, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, US Imperialism

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-core atomic bomb on Hiroshima, instantly incinerating most of the city. The nuclear blast, radiation, and resulting firestorms killed 90,000 people immediately, with the death toll surpassing 100,000 by the end of 1945. Just three days later, on August 9, the U.S. struck again, obliterating Nagasaki with a plutonium bomb. The explosion killed 40,000 on impact, while another 70,000 perished by year’s end from burns, injuries, and radiation poisoning. Tens of thousands more later succumbed to radiation sickness, bringing the total death toll to nearly 200,000. Even 80 years later, survivors and their descendants continue to suffer from the bombings’ horrific aftereffects, cancers, birth defects, and generational trauma. Yet the Japanese and U.S. governments have denied them full state compensation and proper medical care, abandoning those who endured this imperialist atrocity.

Microsoft Helping Israel Spy On Millions Of Palestinians Since 2021

August 7, 2025 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Israel, Microsoft, Palestine, Surveillance

Israel has been using a Microsoft cloud platform to store massive amounts of data and intelligence on Palestinians in both the occupied West Bank and Gaza, according to a new investigation carried out by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian. The investigation reveals that Microsoft’s chief executive met in 2021 with the commander of Israel’s notorious Unit 8200 – the military intelligence unit involved in the pager terror attacks against Lebanon and other covert operations across the region. Unit 8200 chief Yossi Sariel convinced Microsoft’s Satya Nadella to grant Israeli military intelligence access to a “customized and segregated area” inside the Azure cloud platform, according to The Guardian.

FRSO Leader Sydney Loving Reflects On How China Is Building Socialism

August 7, 2025 Fight Back! News. Educate! China, Communism, Socialism, Urban Design

Fight Back! sat down with Sydney Loving, a participant in the 2025 Friends of Socialist China delegation, which recently returned from a ten-day visit across five cities in China. From revolutionary bases to high-tech cities and green development, the delegation witnessed firsthand the power of socialism to uplift the lives of the people. Loving is a member of the Central Committee of Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Fight Back!: How did you go to China? What was the purpose of the trip? Sydney Loving: The delegation was organized by Friends of Socialist China, a political project aiming to strengthen understanding and support for China on the basis of solidarity and truth.

Shining A Spotlight On The Federal Reserve’s War On The Working Class

August 7, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Federal Reserve, Inflation, Stagflation, Working Class

Describing the Federal Reserve chair’s monetary policies as “ill-advised,” the President and his Treasury Secretary doubled down on the White House’s urgent message: the central bank’s steadfast refusal to lower interest rates was strangling the economy by making it too costly for creditworthy borrowers—from prospective homebuyers to small business owners—to take out a loan. In a television interview, the President took aim at the Federal Reserve’s monetarist approach, which relies too much on a single factor—the money supply or the actual pool of banknotes in circulation—to tame inflation. Tightening the money supply through high interest rates tends to exert downward pressure on inflation, but it also discourages borrowing, and consequently, business activity that drives a consumer economy.

Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution In 1974

August 7, 2025 Rebecca John, DeSmog. Educate! Accountability, Plastics, pollution, Recycling

With international treaty negotiations aimed at addressing the plastic pollution crisis resuming in Switzerland this week, a new document reveals that one of the world’s largest plastic producers, DuPont, acknowledged as early as 1974 that recycling its plastic products was not possible. This new discovery also comes against the backdrop of two pending lawsuits alleging that U.S. plastic producers have deceived the public about the feasibility of recycling since the 1980s. For decades, the plastics industry has publicly advocated recycling as a strategy for managing plastic waste. But the document, a letter written in May 1974 by Charles Brelsford McCoy, a president and board chairman of DuPont, represents the earliest evidence to date of a top-level industry insider admitting that many commonly used plastic products cannot be recycled due to their complex chemical structures.

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