August 6th is the day to commemorate the first atom bomb dropped by
the US in 1945 on the citizens of Hiroshima in Japan. More than 140,
000 people were either vaporised immediately or died in the following
months of radiation sickness or horrific burns. Every Hiroshima Day,
people around the world reaffirm that this must never happen again.

In Kempsey this year, the commemoration was supported by the visit of
a group of dedicated Australians who are cycling from Rockhampton to
Canberra to raise awareness about the consequences of the nuclear

The American right - Under the weatherThe conservative movement that for a generation has been the sourceof the Republican Party’s strength is in the dumpsIllustration by Kevin KallaugherTHIRTY years ago Eric Hobsbawm, the dean of Marxist historians, chose as his subject, for the Marx memorial lecture, “The forward march of labour halted?” Things turned out [...]

See what 50 years will do:Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.1957 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack’s rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.2007 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his [...]

We’re hearing all the Talking Heads lamenting the rising food costs on the Magickal Talking Box every time we switch channels - if we hear it enough, perhaps we’ll be less outraged when we discover what it really means.The general ‘grain products’ will rise - this will be blamed on climate change and the drought, [...]

Edwin BlackSunday, November 9, 2003Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent andexterminated millionsin his quest for a so-called Master Race.But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn’t originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists [...]

Perhaps the most alarming slice of twentieth-century U.S. history is virtually unknown to the general public, including most scholars of American history. One hopes that a recent BBC documentary titled The Plot Against America and an article of the same name by Columbia Law School professor and longtime human rights activist Scott Horton, on the [...]

North Pole PositionBy Sam HopkinsIn one of my favorite comedy routines, Brit Eddie Izzard points out the absurdity of planting a flag as a method of claiming territory by European colonial powers. Russia has just become the new standard bearer of this long-dormant practice.On stage, Izzard, an Englishman with a French last name who was [...]

PREPARING FOR THE HARVESTDear Mr Bush, I dare you …Uncle Sam, Your Banker Will See You NowVideo: Soil - The Secret Solution to Global Warming

Published on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 by the New York Timesby Andy NewmanNEW YORK - The botanists forged through a thicket and crossed a rocky ravine bed. Their quarry, Polygonatum pubescens, was proving elusive. But they would not rest. They had promised a shipment of its seed to their partners in a bunker across the [...]