![]() Ukraine – once part of the Soviet Union – has become a CIA theme park. Not since Hitler invaded the Soviet Union have foreign troops presented such a demonstrable threat to Russia. In the last eighteen months, the greatest build-up of military forces since World War Two – led by the United States – is taking place along Russia’s western frontier. General James Cartwright, a former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, “Going smaller weapon more thinkable.” The cost over thirty years is more than $1 trillion.Ī mini nuclear bomb is planned. Nuclear warhead spending alone rose higher under Obama than under any American president. The Obama administration has built more nuclear weapons, more nuclear warheads, more nuclear delivery systems, more nuclear factories. Obama was subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. A torrent of platitudes flowed from the media. He pledged himself to make “the world free from nuclear weapons”. In 2009, President Obama stood before an adoring crowd in the centre of Prague, in the heart of Europe. YOU CAN HELP SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MEDIA THROUGH OUR LATEST POZIBLE CROWD SOURCING CAMPAIGN. ![]() HOUSE AD – NEW MATILDA SURVIVES ON CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OUR READERS. How many people are aware that a world war has begun? At present, it is a war of propaganda, of lies and distraction, but this can change instantaneously with the first mistaken order, the first missile. The founder of modern propaganda, Edward Bernays, described this phenomenon as “the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the habits and opinions” of democratic societies. I relate this experience as a warning and to interrupt a distraction that has consumed so many of us. Unlike the smiling woman in the magazine, all of them were impoverished: the victims and guinea pigs of a rapacious superpower that is today more dangerous than ever. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: “You, too, can have a bikini body.” A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different “bikini bodies” each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers. On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called Women’s Health. The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called “Bravo”. Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. ![]() My shoes registered “unsafe” on a Geiger counter. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 19 – the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for twelve years.īikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, “Where is that?” If I offer a clue by referring to “Bikini”, they say, “You mean the swimsuit.”įew seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The following is an edited version of an address given by John Pilger at the University of Sydney, entitled ‘A World War Has Begun’.
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