Abby Martin and Peter Kuznick: The Untold History of Imperial Japan and the Bomb

"XX-34 BADGER" atmospheric nuclear test - April 1953

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Dandelion Salad

with Abby Martin

teleSUR English on Jun 26, 2016

Obama’s high-profile trip to Hiroshima was accompanied by a media storm that gave endless justifications for the US use of the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. The myths are widely accepted in society, and underpin the notion of American exceptionalism.

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Why the British Said No to Europe by John Pilger

NATO protest Strasbourg 4-4-09

Image by Jos van Zetten via Flickr

Dandelion Salad

by John Pilger
johnpilger.com, June 25, 2016
June 27, 2016

The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.

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