[van-announce] Hiroshima Day--50th Anniversary Korean Truce Special

[Charles Boylan]

  DISCUSSION   WED. AUGUST 6TH   7 P.M. TO 9 P.M.

  CFRO 102.7 FM (www.wakeupwithco-op.org) 

TWO HOUR HIROSHIMA DAY/50TH ANNIVERSARY KOREAN TRUCE SPECIAL!

Guests Include: John Steinbach, authority on Hiroshima and U.S. nuclear policy
                        David Morgan, Veterans Against Nuclear Weapons
                        Lorne Gershuny, Korean Truth Commision (just returned from North Korea)
                        Others

This Special thanks to Union Made (returning to regular broadcasting on Wed. August 20th 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.).

The 58th Anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. August 6, 1945 and the 50th Anniversary of the Korean Armistice signed July 27, 1953 are two historic events with profound immediate significance to present international relations, the danger of war and even nuclear war.  Join In.  Call us as part of a discussion to mark the 58th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as discuss the unfolding threat of war and even nuclear war on the Korean peninsula 50 years after the Korean Truce (but no peace treaty) was signed. 

Following is an editorial commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima published by TML  (August 6, 2003):

One Humanity, One Struggle! 
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Never Again!
At 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an Atomic bomb that exploded 580 metres above the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It contained a small amount of uranium-235 and produced the energy equivalent of 15,000 tons (15 kilotons) of TNT. On August 6, there were approximately 350,000 people in Hiroshima. Some 140,000 of them were dead by the end of December 1945. 

Three days after the Hiroshima attack, an American bomber abandoned its primary target of Kokura because of poor visibility and flew to its secondary target, Nagasaki. The United States dropped a second atomic bomb, containing plutonium which instantly killed 8,500 people in the Urakami district of Nagasaki. Four months after the atomic bombing, 74,000 people were dead and 75,000 had suffered injuries, that is, two-thirds of the city population. 

August 6 has now become a day to commemorate those who were killed in these horrendous crimes and express the determination of the peoples of the world to never again permit such crimes against humanity. Today this call takes on even greater urgency and immediacy as a result of the U.S. policy of launching "pre-emptive strikes," including nuclear strikes, and the collaboration of all the big powers in facilitating its ability to do so by refusing to take a principled stand. Fifty-eight years ago when the U.S. unleashed the atomic bomb on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, its aim was to send a message to the entire world that the post-war period would be one of acceptance of U.S. imperialist hegemony, or else... This was a deliberate attempt to halt the floodgates of the anti-fascist, anti-imperialist and anti-colonial struggles of the peoples of the world that were a great threat to the Anglo-American imperialists in the war they launched against communism and an obstruction to their ambition to smash humanity's path to progress. 

Today the United States has arrogantly adopted the policy of "pre-emptive" nuclear strikes against what it calls the "axis of evil" in complete violation of the Charter of the United Nations, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and all norms of civilized behaviour. At a time the call of history is for the peoples of the entire world to affirm their right to self-determination, the U.S. and other big powers have concocted the propaganda about weapons of mass destruction in the hands of terrorists and so-called rogue states as a pretext to attack countries which refuse to submit to their dictate. They also give themselves licence to arm themselves to the teeth and fill the world with their weapons. Canada is participating in this nuclear blackmail while it too pays lip-service to non-proliferation. But the crimes committed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki will not go away by threatening the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran and other countries for allegedly posing the "nuclear threat." It is a crime that those who used nuclear weapons in the past on an already defeated foe in order to threaten the entire world and those that today threaten their use through pre-emptive strikes try to claim that they are only acting in the interests of peace and human security.  

Today the U.S. imperialists want the world to believe that they have the interests of humanity at heart while they threaten all those who resist aggression, occupation and plunder. They and their allies in Canada and around the world want to divide the world between "civilized nations" and "rogue," "failed," "messy" or "ill-intentioned" states in order to justify their drive to dominate all of humanity with the aim of plundering the world's human and natural resources. The current occupation of Iraq by the U.S. and the disastrous situation in Afghanistan show that their main aim is to humiliate and defeat all those who affirm their right to decide their own fate without interference. The peoples of the world cannot be suppressed through force in this manner. 

Humanity's fight to rid the world of the nuclear weapons in the hands of the big powers and defeat the U.S. imperialist "new world order" requires stepping up the struggle to uphold the sovereignty and independence of all nations, big and small, and eliminate the threat or use of force to settle conflicts. 

On this occasion, TML pays its deepest respects to the Japanese victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to all peoples the world over who suffered and continue to suffer as a result of the U.S. imperialist dictate. The imperialist regime is criminal and must be ended if peace is to prevail. 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Never Again! 
One Humanity, One Struggle!

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