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Hiroshima Day 2014: Why National Security Has Nothing to Do With Security by Noam Chomsky and Tom Engelhardt An Unrecognized Loss: Message From Hiroshima The Hiroshima Myth and the Glorification of American Militarism by Gary G. Kohls

Sarfraz Manzoor charts the extraordinary story of jazz in India

The war in Gaza has strengthened both the Muslim Right and the Jewish Right; while the results have been disastrous for the people of Gaza, they aren’t good for the people of Israel either. Meredith Tax asks, what does this mean for the two state solution?

There is a perverted logic to Israel’s repeated use of the Big Lie—Große Lüge—the lie favored by tyrants from Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin to Saddam Hussein. The Big Lie feeds the two reactions Israel seeks to elicit—racism among its supporters and terror among its victims.

Today, to raise one’s voice, in view of the massacre perpetrated in Gaza is, and I write this with conscience, France’s duty. France, whose commitment to the existence and the security of Israel is unwavering, but who, at the same time, cannot neglect the rights and duties of Israel in its quality as a nation state. I appeal to all those who are tempted to recoil in the face of the perennial return to war: now is time to speak and to act. It is time to measure the dead end in which France finds itself, aligned and so certain of the merits of force as recourse. It is time to pull off the veil of lies, of omissions and of half-truths, to support the hope for change.