Wed. 8/8/12: Nuclear crisis special!
Note: We were unable to broadcast the Helen Caldicott interview live, so it will be broadcast next Tuesday, 11 to noon Central, on NoLiesRadio (archived here shortly after the show).
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Legendary anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott |
Today's show: 3-5 pm Central, American Freedom Radio (archived here.) Post your questions to my Facebook page.
We're in that no-man's-land, smack in the middle of the dog days of August between Hiroshima Day and Nagasaki day, waiting for the next bomb to drop. During the first hour of the first show, Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari will correct some common misconceptions about Iran, which is being targeted in Israel's attempt to drag the US into World War III. Iran is a signatory in good standing to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has no nuclear weapons or weapons program according to the CIA, and is leading the effort to ban ALL nuclear weapons from the Middle East. Israel, on the other hand, has used the Non-Proliferation Treaty for toilet paper, holds 400 nukes, and is targeting all the capitals of the Middle East and Europe with its nuclear weapons. Additionally, Israel has allegedly used nuclear weapons against the US at least three times: In the Beirut Marine barracks bombing of 1983, the nuclear-assisted demolition of the Twin Towers on 9/11, and against Indonesia in the Bali hotel bombing of 2002. Don't be surprised if they nuke Chicago and try to blame it on Iran.
2nd hour: Jerry Mazza, whose Hiroshima Day poem is published below.
AUGUST
6th
AGAIN
by Jerry Mazza
August
6th,
I stand before
Monk
Shinran Shonin, founder Jodo
Shinshu
Sect of Buddhism, bronze
statue
surviving atom blast,
Hiroshima—his
gaze unfazed,
2.5
kilometers northwest
of
the center of detonation,
symbol
now of peace and hope
gifted
by people of Hiroshima
to
people New York Buddhist Church,
way
back in 1955,
Riverside
Drive, 104th
and
5th,
not far away from Pupin Hall,
Columbia
University,
Manhattan
Project, Nevis cyclotron’s
design
place, Oppenheimer living
Riverside
and 88th,
this
poet three blocks away for years,
the
mad uranium stashed downtown,
by
Army Corps of Engineers,
270
Broadway, Chambers Street,
now
19 hundred 46
radioactive
products produced
by
nuclear weapons atomic reactors
as
per Oak Ridge Weapons Lab,
America,
U.S.A.
What
can I say oh Monk of Bronze,
your
age of heart more lasting as you
sought
the one way to salvation?
You’ve
arrived but have the rest of us
born
again as death or life?
I
cross myself before your journey
in
August sunlight, brighter that day
as
thousands of suns blinded to fate
and
resurrected three days later
as
I in my mere seventh year
could
hardly imagine cheers and jeers
of
celebration and victory.
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