fueling an empire
After World War ii, many Latin American nations welcomed ex-Nazi war criminals. ..…
After World War ii, many Latin American nations welcomed ex-Nazi war criminals. ..…
Washington and President Harry Truman wanted to test their two new super weapons on urban targets, and even more importantly, wanted to send message to Soviet Union, World War II ally. ..…
Agency for Global Media, USAGM, is now about $800 million annually, more than what the U.S. government spent on information and propaganda during World War II. ... VOA did this once before during World War II, when pro-Soviet communists joined its staff. ..…
Institute for Disarmament Research Renata Dwan has stated earlier this year that “the risks of the use of nuclear weapons … are higher now than at any time since World War II.' ... “The risk of nuclear weapons use is not higher now than at any time since World..…
To put that staggering number into perspective, the conservative estimate exceeds the total American loss of life in World War II. . ..…
Among the implications for more in the global picture that Shearing cites are the disintegration of the rules-based system that has governed international commerce since the end of World War II, and potential. ..…
America’s deliberate targeting of civilians, and its post-facto justifications, are clearly not unique, either in World War II, or in the wars before or since. ..…
The US decision to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 was meant to kick-start the Cold War rather than end the Second World War, according to two nuclear historians who say they have new evidence backing the controversial theory. . ... The most..…
., the son of a troubled, alcoholic World War II veteran and an outspoken liberal mother who had worked as a researcher at Time magazine. ..…
Japan and South Korea are both allies of United States and relations between the two have been testy, to say the least, since before World War II. ..…
TOKYO—What if Japan had been the first to use the atomic bomb in World War II—and what if its top-secret research provided the backbone for the nuclear threat the world now faces from North Korea? ..…
A second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 the same year and Japan surrendered six days later, bringing World War II to an end. . ..…
We knew about the horror of nuclear weapons from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki August, 1945 ending World War 2. . ..…
During World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb code-named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths. ..…
Yet it is not just US currency that is facing a challenge unlike any other since World War II, but the financial architecture of Wall Street and Washington that provides the basis for Western empire. ..…
That doesn’t mean it abides by the rules laid down by the US, World Bank and IMF after the second world war. ..…