Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Exhibition to commemorate the U.S. bombing of Japan
Times of India |29 July 2010 Atom-bomb exhibition to be held in London HIROSHIMA: The annihilation of mankind in Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings in World War II by the US will be on exhibit next month at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum here. The exhibition, "After the Bomb Dropped: How Hiroshima and Nagasaki Suffered," will run [...]
Remembering the only use of nuclear weapons, killing 215,000 innocent civilians
RIA Novosti | 29 July 2010 UN chief to pay tribute to victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will visit Japan next week to pay tribute to the victims of U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II and hold talks with the country's government, UN spokesman [...]
Japanese P.M. Hatoyama to resign over U.S. refusal to vacate Okinawa base
China Daily | Agencies | 1 June 2010 Japanese leader faces mounting calls to step down "]TOKYO - Japan's embattled prime minister faced growing pressure Tuesday from within his own party to resign ahead of July elections over his broken campaign promise to move a US Marine base off the southern island of Okinawa. Prime Minister Yukio [...]
How Hollywood Covers Up American War Crimes
The Japan Times | By Charles Buress | 7 May 2010 War epics on screen skip mass slaughter of civilians "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." -- Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, architect of the 1945 U.S. bombing of 66 Japanese cities, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in which "probably close to four hundred [...]
Japan Overtakes China as Top Foreign Financier of U.S. Wars
China Daily | By Li Jing | 18 February 2010 China's holdings of US Treasury debt slashed China sold $34b in bonds in Dec; Japan becomes biggest foreign holder China drastically slashed its holdings of United States government debt last December, allowing Japan to retake its place as the largest foreign holder of US Treasury bonds. China [...]
The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan
Foreign Policy in Focus | By Nick Terse | 11 February 2010 In the nineteenth century, it was a fort used by British forces. In the twentieth century, Soviet troops moved into the crumbling facilities. In December 2009, at this site in the Shinwar district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, U.S. troops joined members of the Afghan [...]
Afghan-Taleban Statement on the London Conference
Voice of Jihad | 28 January 2010 Statement of the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan regarding the London Conference The world knows that America brutally and illegally attacked the Islamic Emirate and our nation after 9/11 under the pretext of the so-called War on Terror, occupying our dear country. This global crime [...]
Osama bin Ladin’s Letter to the Americans (6 October 2002)
Jump to Start of Post, or to Osama bin Ladin’s Letter: 1. Why are we fighting and opposing you? 2. What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you? 3. Conclusion With the recent release of an—almost certainly fake—"Osama bin Ladin" voice recording, "experts" are being quoted to attribute motives and interpretations to the [...]
For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big To Blow
The Nation | By Naomi Klein | 21 December 2009 Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN. There's plenty of blame to go around, but [...]
Pearl Harbour Deaths, 2,370; Hiroshima, 170,000
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