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Taking Nuclear War Seriously<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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With remarkably little public debate, the U.S. government has raised the risk of a nuclear conflagration with face-offs against Russia and now North Korea, an existential issue that Dennis J Bernstein discusses with journalist John Pilger.<\/p>\n

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Emmy-Award winning filmmaker John Pilger\u2019s latest film, The Coming War on China<\/i>, deals directly with the new projection of U.S. power into Asia, as well as the toll U.S. aggression has already taken on the people of the region.<\/p>\n

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Journalist John Pilger (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pilger started his career as a war correspondent in Vietnam and has been a strong critic of U.S. aggression in Asia ever since as he twice won Britain\u2019s Journalist of the Year Award. I spoke to Pilger on August 8 about the dangers from the current face-off between the U.S. and North Korea.<\/p>\n

Dennis Bernstein: John Pilger, your new piece is called \u201cOn the Beach 2017: The Beckoning of Nuclear War.\u201d Could you give a little context to that title?<\/p>\n

John Pilger: I read Nevil Shute\u2019s novel On the Beach<\/i> for the first time recently. It came out in 1959 and is about the aftermath of nuclear war. Actually, it isn\u2019t about war as such. It is about a great silence. At the front of the book, Shute quotes T.S. Eliot, who wrote \u201cWhen it happens it will be not with a bang but with a whimper.\u201d The novel is about the last US warship to survive, a submarine. The rest have all gone. The northern hemisphere is completely radioactive. The submarine heads south to Australia but is being followed by this closing blind of radioactivity. It is about a community in Australia that attempts to come to grips with the fact that the radioactivity is coming and will be there by September and that will be the end.<\/p>\n

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Taking Nuclear War Seriously With remarkably little public debate, the U.S. government has raised the risk of a nuclear conflagration with face-offs against Russia and now North Korea, an existential issue that Dennis J Bernstein discusses with journalist John Pilger. Emmy-Award winning filmmaker John Pilger\u2019s latest film, The Coming War on China, deals directly with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[130,6963,12938,7743,581,827,862],"class_list":["post-24753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-china","tag-consortium-news","tag-dennis-j-bernstein","tag-john-pilger","tag-nuclear-war","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24754,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24753\/revisions\/24754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}