The first atomic bomb burst at 8:15 a.m. over the city of Hiroshima leaving its impression on a watch that disappeared 44 years later, reports Joe Lauria.
On the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Joe Lauria retells the story of Akiko…

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target — China.




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This outcome adds to a growing list of union-led actions across Europe in solidarity with Palestine and against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Ana Vracar reports.




By Ana Vracar
Peoples Dispatch

Italian port workers secured a significant win last…

Palestinians and all supporters of justice worldwide should urgently seize this critical opportunity to decisively defeat the Israeli Hasbara for good, writes Ramzy Baroud.




By Ramzy Baroud
Common Dreams
I rarely visit Rome without stopping at the…

Mick Hall covers the upgrade of the U.S. intelligence agency's Wellington operation to "counter the CCP" as another milestone of U.S. meddling in the Asia-Pacific.



By Mick Hall
in Whangarei, New Zealand
Special to Consortium News

The opening…

Now the countless images of starving Palestinians — men, women, children, ordinary people, doctors, nurses, aid workers — have pushed matters to the point we can now call genocide by its proper name.

By Patrick Lawrence 
ScheerPost
Correct nomenclature…

Taking a cue from the Declaration of Independence, M. Reza Behnam submits facts "to a candid world" that impel the dissolution of a destructive liaison.



By M. Reza Behnam
Z-Network
It has become abundantly clear that after 250 years, a second American…

Author and attorney Jennifer Harbury describes the "Silent Holocaust" in Guatemala and its links to the genocide in Gaza, using "any methods of barbarity necessary."
By Chris Hedges
The Chris Hedges Report

Known as the “Silent Holocaust,” the genocide…

An all-Christian American crew used the steeple of Japan’s most prominent Christian church as the target for an act of unspeakable barbarism, writes Gary G. Kohls.

What Imperial Japan Couldn't Do in 250 Years American Christians Did in Nine Seconds
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On Aug. 9, 1945, as Japan’s high command met on surrender plans, the U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki killing 74,000 people instantly, a decision that's never been adequately explained, writes John LaForge.




By John LaForge
“The rights and…

As many as 300,000 people, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, marched across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge last weekend with the support of Australia’s Supreme Court and Sydney’s mayor in a sign of Western resistance to genocide.

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Russia's representative to the United Nations told the Security Council on Sunday that Israel is putting "Palestinians in ghettos" and seeks their "complete annihilation."
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By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News

Dmitry A. Polyanskiy, Russia's…

Economic sanctions lead to half a million civilian deaths a year, according to a study in The Lancet. Those imposed unilaterally and illegally by the EU and U.S. are the most lethal.



By Vijay Prashad
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research…

Israel targeted a press tent in Gaza on Sunday and massacred five more Al Jazeera journalists. This adds to Israel's historic slaughter of journalists, many of whom are now facing starvation.



By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams
The Israeli military on…

The more depraved Israel’s actions, the more antisemitic it is to point out the truth. This is win-win for colonialism, lose-lose for humanity. 




By Jonathan Cook
Jonathan-Cook.net

There’s a dangerous paradox that helps to dissuade people, especially…

As Medicare turned 60, Max Richtman urges Americans to stop the White House and Congress from shredding one of the greatest legacies of LBJ's Great Society.



By Max Richtman
Common Dreams
Medicare recently turned 60 years old, marking the day when…

Ramzy Baroud says Western institutions' delayed recognition of Israel's Gaza genocide is consistent with an historic erasure of Palestinians' telling their own story.



By Ramzy Baroud
Z Network

The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released…

Israel's use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza repeats the history of the U.S. and Canada where settler colonizers destroyed Indigenous communities’ access to food, writes Rosalyn R. LaPier.




By Rosalyn R. LaPier
The Conversation 
There…