{"id":19110,"date":"2016-03-23T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19110"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T19:24:22","slug":"start-of-a-new-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19110","title":{"rendered":"Start of a New World War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Start of a New World War<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Propaganda about Russian and Chinese \u201caggression\u201d has cloaked the reality of the U.S. and the West moving aggressively to encircle both countries, the\u00a0start of a new world war, says John Pilger.<\/p>\n

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I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Whenever I tell people where I have been, they ask, \u201cWhere is that?\u201d If I offer a clue by referring to \u201cBikini,\u201d they say, \u201cYou mean the swimsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Few seem aware that the bikini swimsuit was named to celebrate the nuclear explosions that destroyed Bikini island. Sixty-six nuclear devices were exploded by the United States in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958 \u2014 the equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs every day for 12 years.<\/p>\n

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President Barack Obama uncomfortably accepting the Nobel Peace Prize from Committee Chairman Thorbjorn Jagland in Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2009. (White House photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Bikini is silent today, mutated and contaminated. Palm trees grow in a strange grid formation. Nothing moves. There are no birds. The headstones in the old cemetery are alive with radiation. My shoes registered \u201cunsafe\u201d on a Geiger counter.<\/p>\n

Standing on the beach, I watched the emerald green of the Pacific fall away into a vast black hole. This was the crater left by the hydrogen bomb they called \u201cBravo.\u201d The explosion poisoned people and their environment for hundreds of miles, perhaps forever.<\/p>\n

On my return journey, I stopped at Honolulu airport and noticed an American magazine called\u00a0Women\u2019s Health<\/em>. On the cover was a smiling woman in a bikini swimsuit, and the headline: \u201cYou, too, can have a bikini body.\u201d A few days earlier, in the Marshall Islands, I had interviewed women who had very different \u201cbikini bodies\u201d; each had suffered thyroid cancer and other life-threatening cancers.<\/p>\n

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