Hell is empty—all the Americans are here. Edward Curtin's blistering attack on the lies of Hiroshima

Meanwhile the Gods await your Fiery Knowing

From our garden. Picked early because the Blue Jays were eating them. We left a few for the birds.

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Greetings y Saludos

Last night my wife and I saw The Tempest in the Dominican Theatre, San Rafael.

It was one of the best productions of the play that I have seen (including Stratford-on-Avon where I grew up.) I left the theatre in altered space and today I'm still feeling the effects.

The story cracks open with—what else—a tempest. Overwhelmed by the fury of the storm Ferdinand cries out:

Hell is empty—all the devils are here!

Oh my god. You could say that again.

Later on in the play, Ferdinand's soon-to-be bride Miranda calls out the classic lines:

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O, wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world

That has such people in’t!

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Line after line Shakespeare nails it.

What a world! Prospero, his magic books, a Pythonesque butler and jester, intrigue, jealousy, Ariel and Caliban, angel and not-quite devil. Love, glorious love, how beautiful is the courtship of Ferdinand and Miranda. (Does romance still exist in our modern world?) The renunciation of power. And finally, an extraordinary act of Forgiveness.

The Tempest is a mystery. It takes you into a world of magic and enchants you. Then, like morning mist dissolving into the day, when you come back to reality, you are left with a faint, sweet taste on your tongue. A dream that was... real? Can this be? Magic? Yes, magic is real! As the play fades away, like all good dreams do, you are left wondering: what was that all about?

Right now I don't know. Mystery is mist. Who knows when it will next swathe you in the embrace of sweet unknowing and let you lick the lethe dew off its cheeks.

I can tell you one thing though: The Tempest is subversive.

I'm surprised that Elizabethan MI6 didn't take Shakespeare out. Christopher Marlow was not so lucky. In later years they certainly had it in for Percy Bysshe Shelley.

In the last chapter I spoke about how the ruling classes don't want you to know about spirit, magic and anything to do with an afterlife.

I have spoken many times about Shakespeare, Shelly and the power of poetry. In a future stack I will have Hamlet courting Frieda Kahlo in iambic pentameter. The play's the thing. Indeed. With Shakespeare and the great collegium of poets, Dante and Cervantes to name a few, we shall outwit the Anglo-American Ruling Classes and destroy the ring of power. And they shall be put on trial. After severe justice there will be forgiveness.

In his final play Shakespeare understood the power of love. Ultimately what has been undone can only be resolved with forgiveness.

Meanwhile, bring on romance. You can be sure that after Brevolution the forgotten arts of love will blossom.

On a final and happy note, Prospero is now the librarian at Fearless Arts Café.

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While August and the eightieth anniversary are still with us, I want to return to the theme of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today is part one of a three part series.

In the spirit of great literature, I want to look at the first use of the atom bomb through the fine writing of Edward Curtin.

In the following stack I will take us to the Japanese Memorial Garden in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco where a few pictures will tell the story.

In the third stack in the nuclear holocaust series, I will introduce Bophonomon, the arch demon Asura who, due to the atom bomb, has now set out to destroy the substance of our earth. Bophonomon is a demon of unimaginable ferocity who in 1930 was set free from his chains and unleashed upon humanity by the hubris of the scientists (and later the politicians) who brought the ultimate monster into earth existence.

As I have always said, we have to face the Mystery of Evil. Don't worry though. In the Fearless Arts Café we always look at spiritual wickedness through the Ponoquarium of Spectacular Evil. When you're done looking, the naiads take it away again. And then we send you home with flowers.

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Below follows Edward Curtin's The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From Global Research [here.]

I have been reading (and quoting) Edward Curtin for many years. As a 'Warrior of Words' (James Douglass) he is an exemplar of great literature infusing itself into geheimerstaatsréal and, in so doing, uplifting evil into the realm of the Good, the True and the Beautiful.

Spirit always squeezes itself into great writing.

Enjoy.

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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Edward Curtin • Global Research • August 05, 2025

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“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint…But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.”

C. S. Lewis, author’s preface, 1962, The Screwtape Letters

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American history can only accurately be described as the story of demonic possession, however you choose to understand that phrase. Maybe radical “evil” will suffice. But right from the start the American colonizers were involved in massive killing because they considered themselves divinely blessed and guided, a chosen people whose mission would come to be called “manifest destiny.” Nothing stood in the way of this divine calling, which involved the need to enslave and kill millions of innocent people that continues down to today. “Others” have always been expendable since they have stood in the way of the imperial march ordained by the American god. This includes all the wars waged based on lies and false flag operations. It is not a secret, although many Americans, if they are even aware of it, prefer to see it as a series of aberrations carried out by “bad apples.” Or something from the past. Most know nothing about it, for they have never opened a history book.

Our best writers and prophets have told us the truth: Thoreau, Twain, William James, MLK, Fr. Daniel Berrigan, et al.: we are a nation of killers of the innocent. We are conscienceless. We are brutal. We are in the grip of evil forces.

The English writer D. H. Lawrence said it perfectly in 1923:

“The American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer. It has never yet melted.”

It still hasn’t.

When on August 6 and 9, 1945 the United States killed 200-300 thousand innocent Japanese civilians with atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they did so intentionally. It was an act of sinister state terrorism, unprecedented by the nature of the weapons but not by the slaughter. The American terror bombings of Japanese cities that preceded the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—led by the infamous Major General Curtis LeMay—were also intentionally aimed at Japanese civilians and killed hundreds of thousands of them.

Is there an American artist’s painting of Tokyo destroyed by the firebombing to go next to Picasso’s Guernica, where estimates of the dead range between 800 and 1,600?

In Tokyo alone more than 100,000 Japanese civilians were burnt to death by cluster bombs of napalm. All this killing was intentional. I repeat: Intentional. Is that not radical evil? Demonic? Only five Japanese cities were spared such bombing. Sixty-seven cities were fire-bombed.

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As a conclusion to firestorms of General Curtis LeMay, in August 1945 the atomic bombings were an intentional holocaust, not to end the war, as the historical record amply demonstrates, but to send a message to the Soviet Union that we could do to them what we did to the residents of Japan. President Truman made certain that the Japanese willingness to surrender in May 1945 was made unacceptable because he and his Secretary-of-State James Byrnes wanted to use the atomic bombs—“as quickly as possible to ‘show results’” (in Byrnes’ words)—to send a message to the Soviet Union.

So “the Good War” was ended in the Pacific with the “good guys” killing hundreds of thousand Japanese civilians to make a point to the “bad guys,” who have been demonized ever since. Shortly after, in September 1945 the U.S War Department made plans to wipe out the U.S.’s ally, the Soviet Union, with a massive nuclear strike aimed at 66 major cities. Professor Michel Chossudovsky documents it [here.*]

Satan always wears the other’s face.

Many Baby Boomers like to say they grew up with the bomb. They are lucky. They grew up. They got be scared. They got to hide under their desks and wax nostalgic about it. Do you remember dog tags? Those 1950s and 1960s? The scary movies?

The children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who died under our bombs on August 6 and 9, 1945 didn’t get to grow up. They couldn’t hide. They just went under. To be accurate: we put them under. Or they were left to smolder for decades in pain and then die. But that it was necessary to save American lives is the lie. It’s always about American lives, as if the owners of the country actually cared about them. But to tender hearts and innocent minds, it’s a magic incantation. Poor us!

Fat Man, Little Boy—how the names of those atomic bombs echo down the years to the now fat Americans who grew up in the 1950s and who think like little boys and girls about their country’s demonic nature. Innocence—it is wonderful! We are different now. “We are great because we are good” that’s what Hillary Clinton told us. The Libyans can attest to that. We are exceptional, special. The 2020 election was said to prove that if we can defeat Mr. Pumpkin Head and restore America to its “core values,” all will be well.

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Now that they were restored with Biden’s support for the U.S. proxy war against Russia via Ukraine and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, delusionary Trump 2024 voters might be learning that those core values are bipartisan. “We are great because we are good,” goes the mantra.

We kill, therefore we are.

There is a straight line from the nuclear bombing of Japan to the arrant U.S. support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.

Perhaps you think I am cynical. But understanding true evil is not child’s play. It seems beyond the grasp of most Americans who need their illusions. Evil is real. There is simply no way to understand the savage nature of American history without seeing its demonic nature. How else can we redeem ourselves at this late date, possessed as we are by delusions of our own God-blessed goodness?

But so many Americans play at innocence. They excite themselves at the thought that with the next election the nation will be “restored” to the right course. Of course there never was a right course, unless might makes right, which has always been the way of America’s rulers.

Today, as in 2016, Trump is viewed by so many as an aberration. He is far from it. He’s straight out of a Twain short story. He’s Vaudeville. He’s Melville’s confidence man. He’s us. Did it ever occur to those who are fixated on him that if those who own and run the country wanted him gone, he’d be gone in an instant? He can tweet and tweet idiotically, endlessly send out messages that he will contradict the next day or minute, but as long as he protects the super-rich, accepts Israel’s control of him, and allows the CIA-military-industrial complex to do its world-wide killing and looting of the treasury, he will be allowed to entertain and excite the public—to get them worked up in a lather in pseudo-debates. And to make this more entertaining, he will be opposed by the “sane” Democratic opposition, whose intentions are as benign as an assassin’s smile.

Look back as far as you can to past U.S. presidents, the figureheads who “act under orders” (whose orders?), as did Ahab in his lust to kill the “evil” great white whale, and what do you see? You see servile killers in the grip of a sinister power. You see hyenas with polished faces. You see pasteboard masks. On the one occasion when one of these presidents dared to follow his conscience and rejected the devil’s pact that is the presidency’s killer-in-chief role, he—JFK—had his brains blown out in public view. An evil empire thrives on shedding blood, and it enforces its will through demonic messages.

Resist and there will be blood on the streets, blood on the tracks, blood in your face.

Despite this, President Kennedy’s witness, his turn from cold warrior to an apostle of peace in the final year of his presidency, remains to inspire a ray of hope in these dark days. As recounted by James Douglass in his masterful JFK and the Unspeakable, Kennedy agreed to a meeting in May 1962 with a group of Quakers who had been demonstrating outside the While House for total disarmament. They urged him to move in that direction.

Kennedy was sympathetic to their position. He said he wished it were easy to do so from the top down, but that he was being pressured by the Pentagon and others to never do that, although he had given a speech urging “a peace race” together with the Soviet Union. He told the Quakers it would have to come from below. According to the Quakers, JFK listened intently to their points, and before they left said with a smile, “You believe in redemption don’t you?”

Soon Kennedy was shaken to his core by the Cuban missile crisis when the world teetered on the brink of extinction and his insane military and “intelligence” advisers urged him to wage a nuclear war. Not long after, he took a sharp top-down turn toward peace despite their fierce opposition, a turn so dramatic over the next year that it led to his martyrdom. And he knew it would. He knew it would when he gave his extraordinary American University Commencement Address on June 10, 1963.

So hope is not all lost. There are great souls like JFK to inspire us. Their examples flash here and there. But to even begin to hope to change the future, a confrontation with our demonic past (and present) is first necessary, a descent into the dark truth that is terrifying in its implications. False innocence must be abandoned. Carl Jung, in “On the Psychology of the Unconscious,” addressed this with the words:

It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses – and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. The individual seldom knows anything of this; to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself. But let these harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster; and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster’s body, so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost. Having a dark suspicion of these grim possibilities, man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature. Blindly he strives against the salutary dogma of original sin, which is yet so prodigiously true. Yes, he even hesitates to admit the conflict of which he is so painfully aware.

How can one describe men who would intentionally slaughter so many innocent people? American history is rife with such examples up to the present day. The native peoples, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Gaza, Ukraine, Iran, etc.—the list is very long. Savage wars carried out by men and women who own and run the country, and who try to buy the souls of regular people to join them in their pact with the devil, to acquiesce to their ongoing wicked deeds. Such monstrous evil was never more evident than on August 6 and 9, 1945.

Unless we enter into deep contemplation of the evil that was released into the world with those bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are lost in a living hell without escape. And we will pay. Nemesis always demands retribution, as the ancient Greeks said. We have gradually been accepting rule by those for whom the killing of innocents is child’s play, and we have been masquerading as innocent and good children for whom the truth is too much to bear.

“Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one,” Screwtape, the devil, tells his nephew, Wormwood, a devil in training:

“the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

That’s the road we’ve been traveling, as Trump’s second term is showing us, as he facilely and recklessly talks of nuclear war and makes moves that make it more likely.

The projection of evil onto others works only so long. We must reclaim our shadows and withdraw our projections. Only the fate of the world depends on it.

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* Note. Here is the article by Prof Michel Chossudovsky referred to by Edward Curtin above:

80 Years Ago: The Hiroshima Nagasaki “Dress Rehearsal”: Oppenheimer and the U.S. War Department’s Secret September 15, 1945 “Doomsday Blueprint” to “Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map”

https://tinyurl.com/yc83sd3u

If you prefer a video summary you can watch a dicussion with James Corbett:

Interview 1879 – Michel Chossudovsky on the Hiroshima Nagasaki Dress Rehearsal • James Corbett | May 7, 2024 |

https://corbettreport.com/hiroshima-nagasaki-dress-rehearsal/

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Final word.

Edward Curtin's blistering critique of the Satanic reality of American power is deeply disturbing. The innocence of America was always false. It's a charade, a convenient fable that is increasingly dangerous to the survival of Planet Earth.

Read the Doomsday Blueprint. And then practice Fiery Knowing with the Full Resources of the Truth.

To activate the support of the Gods we have to know these things.

Miranda is watching the storm (below) and Prospero's books are being transferred to the Fearless Arts Café as we speak.

When the time is right Prospero will wave his wand and great things will happen.

Blessings

Steve

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The Tempest • Miranda watching the storm • John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)

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