ALERT: U.S. drops largest non-nuclear bomb ever used

[Shepherd]

The U.S. is widening and deepening its war-making in Syria and Afghanistan. There are dangerous signals that it is even moving toward the use of nuclear weapons. The following is now online at the PD and will be in the print edition tomorrow.

Today Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now” had scholars and others talking about the possibility of a nuclear exchange. That is now on her website; you can subscribe to her week-day emails at [email protected].

Or as poet Deena Metzger has written:
There are those who are trying to set fire to the world.
We are in danger.
There is time only to work slowly.
There is no time not to love.

US hit IS with largest non-nuclear bomb ever used
ROBERT BURNS, ASSOCIATED PRESS | April 13, 2017

WASHINGTON — U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said.

The bomb, known officially as a GBU-43B, or massive ordnance air blast weapon, unleashes 11 tons of explosives. When it was developed in the early 2000s, the Pentagon did a formal review of legal justification for its combat use.

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[Shepherd]

Following is the name of the article in today’s NY Times and the PD about the bomb dropped on Afghanistan, links to it, and a quote from it:

U.S. Drops ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on ISIS Caves in Afghanistan

https://santarosapressdemocrat.ca.ne...A01&artid=art_

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/w...=26895682&_r=0

Quotes from the article:

“While the damage from the bombing, which occurred at night in a remote area, was unclear, the strike quickly brought backlash. Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s former president, was among those who condemned it.
“’This is not the war on terror but the inhuman and most brutal misuse of our country as testing ground for new and dangerous weapons,’ Mr. Karzai wrote on Twitter. ‘It is upon us, Afghans, to stop the USA.’”

[O.W.]

At a press conference yesterday Trump referred to the military as "My military". Most scary he thinks it is his to do whatever with. Daily Kos is reporting news coming out of North Korea that they are evacuating 600,000 people from the capital as their madman Kim Jong Un (as opposed to our madman) is still on for the nuclear test he wants.

Evidently there were some other rumors about flights from China being cancelled which turned out to not be true, people were just staying away from all the threats and political climate. Living on the "left coast" we might not be as secure as we thought in the future.

Thank you Shepherd for reminding us that complacency is no longer an option.