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The Day The Sun Burst -- Nagasaki Remembered

Brian McKenna | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada
Read More: President Eisenhower, Chris Hedges, Fat Man, Atomic Bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Nagasaki Anniversary, Nagasaki Japan, Japan Nagasaki, Canada News
Brian McKenna

On August 9, 1945, just before 11 a.m., a solitary American bomber is making its final approach on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In the form of a plutonium 235 bomb called Fat Man, resembling a giant winged tumor, the B-29 is carrying death for some 100,000 Japanese. At that same moment, my aunt Reggie is almost directly below the bomber.

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Kevin O'Leary Has Us Under (Remote) Control

Gerald McEachern | Posted 08.15.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Short Term Gain vs. Long Term Future, Outsourcing Jobs, Competition vs. Cooperation, Kevin O'leary, Dragon's Den, Chris Hedges, Hydrogen-Powered Motocycle, Conformity, Capitalism as Religion, Money, Mattel, Canada Business News
Gerald McEachern

Kevin O'Leary is no rebel or outsider operating at the edges of society. He, in fact, operates at the top, much as a parasite does on its host. Does that make O'Leary a bad man? Not if we see him as merely a symptom of who we are -- a nation entranced by reality TV. The problem is, with a daily media diet of this kind of tripe, we and our society overlook the real issues.

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I Can't Escape the Man, and Neither Can You

Gerald McEachern | Posted 07.25.2012 | Canada
Read More: Chris Hedges, Cornell West, New Brunswick Election, Election New Brunswick, New Brunswick Driver's Test, Driving Test New Brunswick, Canada News
Gerald McEachern

How does the fact of U.S. journalists winning against the Obama administration in court on Thursday connect to stealing signs and punishing driver's tests in New Brunswick? It's all a part of an overarching pattern. We're living in times of growing intolerance and diminishing trust. And if civility and trust disappear, what do we have left?

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