John Pilger warns of Hiroshima happening again.

 
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.

At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite.

I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties.

I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.

He described a huge flash over the city, “a bluish light, something like an electrical short”, after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell.

I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no skin or hair. I was certain I was dead.

Nine years later, I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukaemia.

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Another Hiroshima Is Coming… Unless We Stop It Now

John Pilger warns of Hiroshima happening again.

 
When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open.

At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite.

I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then I walked down to the river where the survivors still lived in shanties.

I met a man called Yukio, whose chest was etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.

He described a huge flash over the city, “a bluish light, something like an electrical short”, after which wind blew like a tornado and black rain fell.

I was thrown on the ground and noticed only the stalks of my flowers were left. Everything was still and quiet, and when I got up, there were people naked, not saying anything. Some of them had no skin or hair. I was certain I was dead.

Nine years later, I returned to look for him and he was dead from leukaemia.

Continue reading @ Information Clearing House.

4 comments:

  1. Absolute Beijing propaganda there. Wilfully fails to mention the wee fact that China knew how bad the current pandemic wopuld become and therefore quietly instructed it's proxies in Australia to buy up all PPE gear and ship it back to China before the shit hit the fan.

    Also seems to ignore the creeping Sino influence in the Australian Education system particularly the Universities, along with widespread spying on Australian soil, or the rampant buying of vast farming tracts of land held by Beijing holding companies.

    And has the author an answer why even the merest hint of criticism towards China is met with severe bullying including but not limited to financial punishment?

    Or why China is building huge military fortressess in sea lanes far from their shores?

    Why there is no end to cyber attacks originating in China against Western infrastructures?

    Why have they insisted on the terms of reference for any WHO investigation into COVID19 MUST refer to it's 'zoonotic' origin? Hardly impartial that one.

    Australia has sided with the US for many reasons, and there's very few of them irrational.

    And don't even get me started on Japan's actions leading upto the bombings. They brought it upon themselves for their actions in Korea alone. Funny how the author just fails to mention the 'harsh terms' of surrender the Japanese referred to included keeping what they occupied!

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  2. This article is par for the course for John Pilger whose dislike of everytnhing Western blinds him from seeing the machinations of other 'imperialist' powers such as Russia and China. Sad to see the decline of somebody who used to be such a brilliant crusading journalist into a cliche spouting hack.

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  3. Well, here we go again. More illinformed bullshit. I suppose you guys believe that the bomb stopped the war and saved thousands of lives. None of the high ranking US military generals agreed with dropping the bomb. It was completely unnecessary. Japan was already defeated. Only the army remained intact. They were negotiating a surrender but the US couldn't allow them to surrender to the Soviet Union. That would have thwarted their own expansion in the far East. As for Pilger, he is one of the few journalists with the integrity to defend Julian Assange and press freedom. The corporate media are only interested in human rights in other countries not the UK/US.

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    1. Eddie,

      The fact is that the ordinary Japanese soldier would still have fought tooth and nail across the many islands of the South Pacific, costing the US more lives after a long European campaign and if they were already defeated as you say why did they not surrender after the first bomb?

      If they were really considering surrendering why withdraw four divisions from the Kwantung Army in Manchuria in March '45 to strengthen the forces on mainland Japan, and why 45 new divisions were activated between February and May 1945? Including 16 that were high quality mobile divisions?

      US military own estimates of casualities on the required invasion of the Jap manland put the casualities on the allies side as being upto 4 million with about a million dead. On the Jap side it was considerably higher- up to 10 million casualities with 3-4 million dead.

      Hirohito even said it was the Soviet invasion which really pushed his surrender too. Whichever way you cut it the bombings saved millions of lives.

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