Senate Preps for Russia War; Hiroshima Day Ritual at Los Alamos; Tonkin Gulf Deception not by LBJ

Senate Bill Preps for War With Russia. If there was an antiwar movement in the United States, the Russian Aggression Prevention Act of 2014 might be at the top of the list for defeat as a totally provocative, irrational piece of legislation that can only be viewed as paving the road for a preemptive first strike on Russia.

Annual Hiroshima Day Sackcloth And Ashes Ritual In Los Alamos. The Annual Hiroshima Day Sackcloth and Ashes Peace Vigil at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Aug 2nd, 2104. Participants are wearing some of the the oldest symbols of protest: sackcloth and sitting on ashes while repenting of the mortal sin of nuclear weapons.

The Real Tonkin Gulf Deception Wasn’t by Lyndon Johnson. The real deception on that day was that Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara’s misled LBJ by withholding from him the information that the US commander in the Gulf who had initially reported an attack by North Vietnamese patrol boats on US warships had now expressed serious doubts about the initial report and was calling for a full investigation by daylight.