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Pilger’s Own Words

‘No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin‘ said The New York Times front page on 13 September 1945, a classic of planted disinformation, wrote Pilger. ‘General Farrell,‘ reported William H. Lawrence, ‘denied categorically that [the atomic bomb] produced a dangerous, lingering radioactivity.‘ Only one reporter, Wilfred Burchett, an Australian, braved the perilous journey to Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, in defiance of Allied occupation authorities, which controlled the ‘press pack‘

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Tragedy Revisited~II

Not much publicity has been given in this part of the world to the fact that the American Hispanics faced brutal discrimination and were the first victims of the Manhattan Project that produced the bomb. It is a little known historical fact that when the US conducted the Trinity test, the world‘s first atom bomb explosion, but not with the kind of devastating effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the radiation fallouts due to wind direction affected the Hispanics severely

A critical moment for the world we live in

A critical moment for the world we live in

Without being alarmist, one must take note of the fact that the possibility of a third world war has been more discussed this year – 2022 - than any previous year since 1945.

By SNS

02 November, 2022 8 mins read
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