Pacific Islands

Counter Punch
View In: Pacific IslandsIf ever there was a blatant statement of realpolitik masquerading as friendliness, the latest US-Pacific Island declarationmust count as one of them.  The Biden administration has been busy of late, wooing Pacific Island states in an effort to discourage increasingly sharp tilt towards China.  It ha...

Jacobin Magazine
View In: Pacific IslandsEarly in the morning of March 1, 1954, the United States detonated what was then the most powerful nuclear bomb in history at Bikini Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands. Known as Castle Bravo, the test ignited a four-mile-wide fireball, vaporized entire islands, contaminated more than seven thousan...