Media With Conscience News: Speak, Memory

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Media With Conscience News

 

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Speak, Memory

Walter A. Davis

 

ImageBrevity may be the soul of wit in the original meaning of that

term: the act of intelligence. (I.e., the act that cuts through all

the ideological bullshit and goes straight to the heart of horror.)

 

Today is the 61st anniversary of the dropping of an Atomic Bomb on the

city of Hiroshima. The first act of global, state terrorism. (The

second three days later on Nagasaki, the city with the largest

Christian population in Japan.)

 

Today a new kind of nuclear war is being fought-- as harbinger to the

next kind of nuclear war, which will be fought tomorrow.

 

The suppressed story about the Iraq War is the use by the U.S. of

depleted uranium weaponry. The cut to the chase: the U.S. littered

Iraq with between 315 and 350 tons of depleted uranium during

Operation Desert Storm. Five times as much was used during the 2003

invasion. Every shell shot from an Abrams tank contains 10 pounds of DU.

 

The result: all of Iraq is now littered with radioactive dust from DU.

The Departments of Energy and Defense, of course, continue to argue

that there is no scientific evidence to support the claim that DU is

harmful. Massive evidence exists to the contrary. (See online, for

example, Depleted Uranium Watch, the Uranium Medical Research Center

in Toronto and the Traprock Peace Center. See also chapter 4 of

Death's Dream Kingdom.) The result, for Iraq, is a condition beyond

genocide. I term it eco-cide: the deliberate production of a

condition of permanent radiological, biological and/or chemical

contamination whereby death comes to inhabit an entire ecosystem.

 

Desert Storm was not, however, the first use of DU. DU was used by

Israel under U.S. army supervision in 1973! Nor is Iraq the latest

territory subjected to DU radiation contamination. At the end of last

month the U.S. rushed shipments of at least 100 GBU28 " bunker buster "

bombs containing depleted uranium warheads to Israel for use against

targets in Lebanon and Gaza.

 

And so, with due regard for all semantic considerations, what we have

today in Lebanon deserves to be classified as a Nuclear War. Fixation

on Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs has blinded us to the steady advance by

the military-industrial complex of alternative nuclear weapons. The

logic of their use is, of course, always the same: the justification

of the next step. DU in Iraq and Lebanon today. In Iran tomorrow…?

And then…? But have no fear, the only country that ever dropped an

Atom Bomb will continue to preside over deciding who gets to be a

member of the nuclear club, no matter how many countries it has to

nuke to retain that hegemony.

 

These are thoughts to keep in mind as we remember again those who

perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What's that adage about those who

fail to understand the past?

 

Biographical: Walter A Davis, is the Editor in Chief of MWC News

 

Contact Dr. Davis

 

What is your thought on this?

[Guest guest]

The writer the previous piece needs to

read the the " Rape Of Nanking " by Iris

Chang " . The A bombs on Japan are example of chickens

coming home to roost. Further, Japanese

would have developed the bomb had they

the resources. They certain gave it a consideration

and their scientiets were sharper than those

of the German Third Riech. Indeed, one author claims

they made an effort in the area of the world

now called North Korea.

 

Feeling that warm and glowing feeling.

 

 

 

, " califpacific "