ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: The Mystery of the Nagasaki Bomb

August 9, 2025
John LaForge

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.

The bombing of Nagasaki as seen from the town of Koyagi, about 13 km south, taken 15 minutes after the bomb exploded. In the foreground, life seemingly went on unaffected. (Wikipedia)

August 6, 2025
Peter Kuznick
In this introduction to the memoir of a Nagasaki bombing victim, historian Peter Kuznick shows why the bombs were dropped and how some victims’ anger propelled the Japanese anti-nuclear movement.

Mushroom cloud above Nagasaki after atomic bombing on August 9, 1945, taken by Charles Levy from one of the B-29 Superfortresses used in the attack.

Live: UN chief condemns planned Israeli takeover of Gaza

August 9, 2025

This comes as number of Palestinians starved to death rises to 201

Israel to occupy Gaza City

August 8, 2025

The security cabinet has approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to seize the enclave’s main settlement

Planes drop parachuted aid as Palestinians rush to collect it in western Gaza City amid Israeli strikes, August 7, 2025. © Getty Images / Mahmoud Abu Hamda/Anadolu

'The Silent Holocaust' — The Israeli and CIA Sponsored Guatemalan Genocide

August 6, 2025
Chris Hedges

Lawyer Jennifer Harbury discusses the gruesome details of the Guatemalan genocide, and the role that the CIA and Israel played in facilitating this gruesome erasure of the indigenous population.

Roger Waters composes a timeless hymn to resistance and perseverance

August 7, 2025
Pepe Escobar

Roger Waters has got a brand new song. It’s called Sumud. A ballad, but not just another ballad: actually a timeless Hymn to Resistance.

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown

August 7, 2025
H. Patricia Hynes
Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by increasing carbon dioxide (C02) in the atmosphere, may be sufficient in time to melt polar icecaps and submerge all coastal cities.  These predictions, which are proving accurate, were buried by the fossil fuel industry and their trade associations — who have countered critics with a smokescreen of fake science and disinformation campaigns.

The Christian Zionist View of Foreign Policy Is Holy War

August 6, 2025
Sara Gabler

Christian Zionists see Israel as the focus of US foreign policy — a handy euphemism for US empire.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a White House Faith Office luncheon in the State Dining Room at the White House on July 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/ Getty Images

‘Strategy of surrender’: Hezbollah condemns Lebanese cabinet decision on disarmament

August 6, 2025

The Lebanese cabinet called for a state monopoly on arms by the end of this year, without prioritizing an Israeli withdrawal or an end to attacks

اشرف مخلوقات

سرچشمهٔ جنگ و کشت و کشتار، حکام و سران دول می‌باشند که به منظور مخالفت با حاکم دیگری، و یا به منظور افزایش سرزمین تحت سلطه، مبادرت به جنگ می‌کنند. همین رفتار، شالوده و بنیان‌گذار خشم و خشونت در یک جامعه می‌باشد.ا

“End the Starvation”: Jewish Rabbis & Allies Outside NY Trump Hotel Call for U.S. to Stop Arming Israel

August 5, 2025

AMY GOODMAN: I’m going to turn right now to here in New York. There have been mass protests about what’s going on in Gaza and the West Bank, as Prime Minister Netanyahu says he’s going to occupy the entire Gaza Strip, escalate the war there. In Sydney, Australia, hundreds of thousands of people marched. On Friday, hundreds took over the office lobby of New York Senators Gillibrand and Schumer, who voted against Senator Bernie Sanders’ move to stop arming Israel. Last night, at Columbus Circle outside Trump International Hotel, hundreds also protested in a protest led by the Jewish American group IfNotNow and other Jewish leaders.

Reports: Netanyahu orders Israeli army to conquer all of Gaza

August 4, 2025
Qassam Muaddi

Israeli media is reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli army to expand its offensive in Gaza and reoccupy the entire Strip.

PEN America claims to support free speech, but fired me for speaking about Palestine

August 4, 2025
Kori Davis

The free speech organization PEN America fired me three days after I published an article about how they investigated me for sharing an article critical of Zionism. My termination is a sad reflection of PEN's censorious approach to Palestine.

A banner hanging at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2020 in New York City

What has become of Mauritania's fishermen fifteen years after the authorities signed an agreement with China?

August 4, 2025
Jean Sovon and Vivian Wu

Unchecked industrial fishing practices have severely depleted coastal waters in West Africa

Women wading out with baskets to meet a fishing boat in the shallows, to buy the fresh fish at Port de Pêche, or Fishermen's Beach, in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritania. Image from Wikipedia Attribution 2.0 Generic

LIVE BLOG: Hamas Rejects Witkoff’s Disarmament Claims as Aid Seekers Massacred – Day 666

August 3, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
60,430	148,722	14,000

Germany’s angel of history is screaming

August 1, 2025
Amos Brison

As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course — all in the name of atoning for Germany's own genocidal history.

Israel and Genocide

August 1, 2025
Mel Gurtov
What is Genocide?

How MTG became MAGA's moral compass on Gaza

August 1, 2025
Jack Hunter

Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene has bucked her president, called for yanking aid to Israel, and was the first Republican to call what is happening 'a genocide'

LIVE: Israel’s attacks on Gaza kill 41 as starvation deaths mount

July31, 2025
Nils Adler, Maziar Motamedi

'The Tide Is Turning,' Says Sanders as Majority of Senate Dems Vote to Block Arms Sales to Israel

July 31, 2025
Jake Johnson

"The American people do not want to spend billions to starve children in Gaza," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. "The Democrats are moving forward on this issue, and I look forward to Republican support in the near future."