Opinion

The film “Oppenheimer” focuses on the role played by the brilliant physicist, Julies Robert
Oppenheimer, in the creation of the first atomic and plutonium bombs. It suggests that he was
at the center of organizing the scientific and technical work on the first bombs. Then after the
bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, he became tormented by
the destructive power of the bombs and advocated futilely for international control of these
weapons. He lost his security clearance as a result of this position and lived on in relative
obscurity without any influence on policy. However, the U.S. remained committed to nuclear
weapons, to a first-use policy, helped to precipitate the Cold War, and all this continues to this
day.
Here is a summary of what occurred in what became known as the Manhattan Project from the
Wikipedia public encyclopedia (https://wikipedia.org/Manhattan_Project).
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“The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that

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Whatever you think you know about the relationship between gas and oil fracking and increased cancers, contaminated air, water and soil, and the acceleration of climate change, chances are you don’t know enough, say environmental advocates at Save Ohio Parks.

The statewide 501(c)4 organization dedicated to educating the public about the health, environmental and planet-warming effects of fracking under state parks and public lands announces a new public education service: in-person or virtual presentations on the facts about fracking.

The meetings include a Power Point presentation and audience Q&A on topics including:

Moral injury is the social, psychological, and spiritual harm that arises from a betrayal of one’s core values, such as justice, fairness, and loyalty. 

“Moral Injury” - Psychology Today, emphasis added.

I became interested in the term "moral injury" when I read of suicides of IDF soldiers who have served in Gaza. One reservist who committed suicide by self-immolation is quoted as saying, "I smell and see burning bodies all the time."

It's the concept that violence and injustice have more victims than the directly victimized. And can affect how we function and are able to fight back when we participate in, witness, or fail to prevent something of intolerable evil.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Cross-border rocket attacks on the morning of July 29, by U.S.-armed Thailand and China-assisted Cambodia, "violated" a ceasefire brokered by President Trump who linked it to possibly lowering his 36 percent U.S. import taxes on exports from the two Southeast Asian nations.

Thai and Cambodian army commanders however met for lunch on July 29 and appeared to put a halt to their six days of bloodiest fighting in a decade.

Thailand blamed Cambodia for violating the first day of the ceasefire on July 29 by firing their dreaded Soviet-era, truck-mounted, multi-rocket artillery which unleashed unguided warheads onto Thai soil, prompting Thailand to retaliate with higher precision artillery.

Beyond the battlefield, the fighting may be bolstering the hawkish, highly politized, Royal Thai Army's influence which appears to be gaining some domination over Bangkok's fractured elected coalition government after officials indicated the military was being allowed to unilaterally make decisions where and when to open fire.

For decades, countless U.S. officials have proclaimed that the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable. Now, the ties that bind are laced with genocide. The two countries function as accomplices while methodical killing continues in Gaza, with both societies directly – and differently – making it all possible.

 The policies of Israel’s government are aligned with the attitudes of most Jewish Israelis. In a recent survey, three-quarters of them (and 64 percent of all Israelis) said they largely agreed with the statement that “there are no innocent people in Gaza” – nearly half of whom are children.

COVERT TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN AND WASHINGTON, D.C., JULY 29, 2025--Following up on its initial protest, decrying U.S.

Myth #1: Infidel does not mean "Westerner" or a "non-Muslim". The term refers to disbelievers, people who do not believe in God. It is also mentioned in the Bible, and it means the same in Arabic. Muslims refers to Jews and Christians as the "people of the book." Muslim men are allowed to marry Christians and Jews but not disbelievers or "kafirs."

Myth #2: While Sec. Pete Hegseth has his body littered with tattoos, he has never been a gang member, and no one accused him of aggravated assault, robbery, rape, and murder. Reason? He's a white man and neither Latino nor Black!