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Lajany Otum | 1 Jul 04:54
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Japanese Defence Minister tells why it was necessary for US to A-bomb Japan

From <http://search.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20070701a1.html>

A-bombings 'couldn't be helped': Kyuma

Defense chief says USSR had to be kept from attacking
Compiled from Kyodo, AP

Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma said Saturday he thinks the dropping of the atomic bombs by the U.S. in the
closing days of World War II "could not be helped," as it was aimed at preventing the Soviet Union from
entering the war against Japan.

"I understand the bombings brought the war to its end. I think it was something that couldn't be helped,"
Kyuma said in a speech at a university in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture.

The remarks may become another headache for the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which has been
already gripped by the pension fiasco and other scandals, ahead of the July 29 House of Councilors election.

Though Prime Minister Abe defended Kyuma, saying, "I understand that he was presenting the thinking of the
United States in those days," the remarks drew immediate criticism from atomic bomb victims.

It is rare for Cabinet ministers in the only nation to suffer an atomic bombing to make such remarks.

The U.S. "dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki even though it knew Japan would lose the war," said
Kyuma, who represents the Nagasaki No. 2 district. He said the U.S. must have thought the use of an atomic
bomb would prompt Japan's surrender, thus preventing the Soviet Union from declaring war against Japan.

"Luckily Hokkaido was not occupied. In the worst case, Hokkaido could have been taken by the Soviet Union,"
he said. "I don't hold a grudge against the United States."

Kyuma said he still wonders whether the bombings were absolutely necessary because the U.S. victory was certain.
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Marvin Gandall | 1 Jul 06:10
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Re: sectarians on Leslie Cagan on UFPJ national assembly in Chicago

Carrol wrote:

> Even if the CP ceased to exist tomorrow, the anti-war effort would be
> dominated by some kind of coalition of which the leading elements (and
> the majority of the mass base) were attached more or less firmly to the
> DP. That is the simple reality. This does not mean we should work with
> the DP as Marvin Gandall and others argue (that's hopeless), but it does
> mean that the non-electoral coalitions we must work with will be
> dominated by DP sympathizers. If the DP voters were to quit the local
> anti-war group, that  group would suddenly reduce to two people -- Jan
> and me. That is a good image of the balance of forces on the national
> level.
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Since you strangely brought me into this discussion, I'll reply.

It seems to me to make good sense for US leftists to look for opportunities
to work with the "the DP base". This is not tantamount to working with "the
DP" which implies political identification with the party's  leadership and
program. This is how present and former CP'ers and others on the US left who
are active in the DP look at the matter and, while you may disagree with
this position, you should at least try to consider and present it more
honestly.

Neither you nor anyone else can say whether this stance is "hopeless" or
not, and that a future radicalization is destined to bypass the DP and flow
directly to a third party. History will decide, and so far, history has
shown otherwise; successive generations of US workers - white, black, and
brown - and their representative organizations have expressed their
disatisfaction with the system within rather than outside of the Democratic
party.
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Paula | 1 Jul 07:45
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Re: Domenico Losurdo: Classical German philosophy, a critique of liberalism and "critical Marxism"

Regarding the last paragraph in this essay - I find it amazing that anyone 
could describe what is happening in China today as 'the construction of 
socialism'.

Paula C.

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Paula | 1 Jul 08:58
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Re: Donald Worster on global warming

Worster says:

> Yet which place is worse off today? New York, which lost two major
> buildings and thousands of lives to terrorists? Or New Orleans, which
> lost many lives as well and may never recover much of its displaced
> population or destroyed territory after being hit by a hurricane that
> drew its energy from warming gulf waters?

This argument is outrageous. Surely the New Orleans tragedy was not caused 
by the hurricane. Surely it was caused by the authorities' total disregard 
for the welfare of the population, especially the poor. Surely what happened 
in the Superdome had nothing to do with the climate.

And surely our rulers love to have environmentalism cover up their crimes.

Paula C. 

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Lajany Otum | 1 Jul 09:52
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Michael Parenti: Lies, War and Empire


Part I
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZTrY3TQpzw>

Part II
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaTPDFsDdIk>

		
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Walter Lippmann | 1 Jul 13:11
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Pastors Aid For Cuba Detained At Canadian Border

-PLEASE FORWARD-

Saturday, June 30, 2007

IFCO/Pastors for Peace Action Alert 

Call your Senators and Representatives (202- 224-3121) and
Email Your Senators http://www.senate.gov/  and
Representatives http://www.house.gov/writerep/ Now and Monday!

Please pass this on to your email lists and phone trees!

Homeland Security Officials "Detain" Medical Supplies Destined for
Cuba at Maine/Québec Border Despite Earlier Successful Crossings
Today With Five Tons of Medical Aid Collected by Canadians for Cuba.

The aid collected in Québec by the Caravane d'amitié Québec-Cuba and
destined for maternity clinics and nursing homes in Cuba, included a
breast pump for nursing mothers, stethoscopes, used eyeglasses, a
Physicians Desk Reference (PDR) and surgical gowns.

Pastors for Peace spent six hours in a standoff with Homeland
Security attempting to negotiate passage of the medical aid before
the shipment was detained for thirty days to investigate it's
security threat to the U.S.

According to Greg Pease, (207- 297-2554) the Homeland Security
officer in charge, he received instructions not to permit anything in
transit to Cuba into the U.S.
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Walter Lippmann | 1 Jul 14:42
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Michael Moore: An Awesome First Night for "SiCKO"

I'd like to encourage everyone who can to get to a theater
and see "SiCKO" today. It makes a big difference from the
financial side if the first weekend goes well. I saw the
movie at the first performance on Friday afternoon and 
the audience really enjoyed the picture, which speaks to
problems which millions of us have here in the heartland
of liberty, capitalist style. Friends tell me that they've
seen one or another political group leafletting "SiCKO"'s
performances, and it's obvious that this is a movie, but
it's more than a movie. It's a political event and one to
be appreciated and encouraged. Though the parts shot in 
Cuba are of interest, as is the interview with the daughter
of Che Guevara, physician Aleida Guevara, the key to this
entire film is the idea that health care is a human right.

A particularly apt section was one in which we're shown
stridently anti-Communist propaganda films from the 1940s
and 1950s, including singing peasants on a collective farm
in the Soviet Union. Then images of Ronald Reagan and more
to show how the people of the United States have been very
heavily diseducated against the simple notion that healty
care is a human right. If you've ever seen the wonderful
graphics in the book RED SCARED, an anthology of Cold War
images and propaganda from Hollywood, this film brings 
that concept to the fore in a powerful manner.

Have other people here seen the film? Thoughts on it?

Walter Lippmann
Tinseltown, California
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Mark Lause | 1 Jul 15:01
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Re: Michael Moore: An Awesome First Night for "SiCKO"

Seeing the film ASAP is an excellent idea.  We'll try to get there later
today.

The interviews I've seen with Michael Moore have been just brilliant.  The
only person in my acquaintance who is howling about what a liar he is is
married into "the Proctor and Gamble family" here in America's largest
company town.

ML

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Fred Fuentes | 1 Jul 15:21
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Fidel Castro - The Killing Machine

REFLECTIONS BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF

THE KILLING MACHINE

     Sunday is a good day to read something that would appear to be
science fiction.

     It was announced that the CIA would be declassifying hundreds of
pages on illegal actions that included plans to eliminate the leaders
of foreign governments. Suddenly the publication is halted and it is
delayed one day. No coherent explanation was given. Perhaps someone in
the White House looked over the material.

     The first package of declassified documents goes by the name of
"The Family Jewels"; it consists of 702 pages on illegal CIA actions
between 1959 and 1973. About 100 pages of this part have been deleted.
 It deals with actions that were not authorized by any law, plots to
assassinate other leaders, experiments with drugs on human beings to
control their minds, spying on civil activists and journalists, among
other similar activities that were expressly prohibited.

     The documents began to be gathered together 14 years after the
first of the events took place, when then CIA director, James
Schlessinger became alarmed about what the press was writing,
especially all the articles by Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein
published in The Washington Post, already mentioned in the "Manifesto
to the People of Cuba".  The agency was being accused of promoting
spying in the Watergate Hotel with the participation of its former
agents Howard Hunt and James McCord.
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viren | 1 Jul 16:15
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Contradictions at Heilgendamm ?


>A summit of diminished expectations
> Vladimir Frolov
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> Presidents George Bush and Vladimir Putin are meeting to vent their 
> grievances and mask, through a show of camaraderie, the gaping void of 
> differences.
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> On July 1 and 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his American 
> counterpart George W. Bush at the Bush family's oceanfront summer retreat 
> in Kennebunkport, Maine. The setting implies a relaxed atmosphere of 
> boating and deep-sea fishing, which would be quite suitable for an 
> informal discussion of global affairs. Of course, George H.W. Bush will 
> drop by for a fireside chat with the two most powerful men in the world, 
> one of whom is his eldest son. No specific agreements are scheduled to be 
> unveiled at Kennebunkport. This is not accidental: the two Presidents will 
> find little substantive to agree on. They are meeting to vent their 
> grievances and mask, with a show of camaraderie, the gaping void of 
> differences.
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> Mr. Bush invited President Putin to his family home in early June, when
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