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Nuclear Weapons in Lithuania: Defense against Russia or Target for Terrorists?
Nuclear Weapons in Lithuania: Defense against Russia or Target for Terrorists? A complex geopolitical situation is forcing the Baltic States and their NATO allies to take unprecedented steps to increase defense capabilities and counter potential aggressors. A new Lithuanian military strategy approved in March describes Russian actions along with terrorism as the main threats […]
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Flashpoint for the Planet
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Flashpoint for the Planet Once upon a time, if a war was going to destroy your world, it had to take place in your world. The soldiers had to land, the planes had to fly overhead, the ships had to be off the coast. No longer. Nuclear war changed that equation forever and not […]
Start of a New World War
Start of a New World War Propaganda about Russian and Chinese “aggression” has cloaked the reality of the U.S. and the West moving aggressively to encircle both countries, the start of a new world war, says John Pilger. I have been filming in the Marshall Islands, which lie north of Australia, in the middle of the […]
Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns “We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons”
Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns “We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons” Less than two years ago, news of Russia test-firing an ICBM just as the east Ukraine civil war was heating up, was sufficient to send the stock market into a brief tailspin. Since then, the launches of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic […]
World War 3 Could Very Easily Turn Into The Very First Nuclear War In The Middle East
World War 3 Could Very Easily Turn Into The Very First Nuclear War In The Middle East Saudi Arabia already has nukes, Iran probably does, and the Russians are one of the two great nuclear powers on the entire planet. So if Saudi Arabia, Turkey and their Sunni allies do decide to conduct a full-blown ground […]
If Only the Nuclear Arsenal Were Fool Proof
If Only the Nuclear Arsenal Were Fool Proof In his book Atomic Accidents (Pegasus, 2014), James Mahaffey reports that the US has lost, destroyed or damaged nuclear weapons 65 times between 1945 and 1989. Jan. 24 was the anniversary of a B-52 crash in N. Carolina where two 6,500-lb hydrogen bombs fell from the plane and nearly […]
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran
Stocks Slump After Saudis Threaten Nukes Against “Nefarious” Iran Earlier this month, a black swan landed in the Mid-East when Saudi Arabia executed prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other “terrorists.” Most of those executed were not Shiites but that didn’t matter. Al-Nimr was a key voice among Saudi Arabia’s dissident Shiite minority […]
US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War – declassified document
US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War – declassified document © Airman John Parie / Reuters A newly released Cold War-era list of nuclear targets shows the US planned to inflict “systematic destruction” on enemy cities and target the “population” of those areas. It is the most comprehensive Cold War […]
America’s Debt to Bradley Manning
America’s Debt to Bradley Manning From the Archive: The U.S. mainstream media is again embracing a U.N. report critical of Iran’s alleged past work on a nuclear bomb, but leaks from Pvt. Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning exposed Yukiya Amano, the key U.N. official, as a front for U.S. and Israeli interests, as Robert Parry reported in 2011. One criticism about […]
Putin Hopes “There Will Be No Need To Nuke” The Islamic State
Putin Hopes “There Will Be No Need To Nuke” The Islamic State Earlier today, in a clear advance notice to the French and US navies which are both set to arrive just off the coast of Syria in the coming weeks, Russia for the first time targeted Islamic State targets in Syria with Kalibr land-attack […]
Polish Defense Minister denies wanting US nukes after deputy says otherwise
Polish Defense Minister denies wanting US nukes after deputy says otherwise © Kacper Pempel / Reuters The Polish Defense Minister has denied his country is seeking to deploy US nuclear weapons on its territory. The idea was mentioned by the minister’s deputy on Saturday. The NATO alliance allows non-nuclear countries to borrow US missiles. Deputy […]
U.S. Will Station New Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia
U.S. Will Station New Nuclear Weapons in Germany Against Russia Germany’s ZDF public television network headlines on Tuesday September 22nd, “New U.S. Atomic Weapons to Be Stationed in Germany,” and reports that the U.S. will bring into Germany 20 new nuclear bombs, each being four times the destructive power of the one that was used on Hiroshima. […]
Pushing the Edge on Nuclear War
Pushing the Edge on Nuclear War Exclusive: Official Washington’s neocons and liberal hawks are ratcheting up tensions again over Ukraine with the goal of humiliating and even destabilizing nuclear-armed Russia – and there’s no modern-day JFK to tamp down the enthusiasm, an existential risk that ex-U.S. diplomat William R. Polk examines. Decisions on nuclear weapons are […]
Neocons Falsify Iraq War ‘Lessons’
Neocons Falsify Iraq War ‘Lessons’ Having escaped accountability for the Iraq War disaster, U.S. neocons are urging the use of more military force in the Mideast, in line with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand to block the Iran nuclear deal. From their important perches of power, these war hawks also twist the history of their […]
Making Excuses for Saudi Misbehavior
Making Excuses for Saudi Misbehavior Exclusive: Saudi-Israeli apologists are doing back flips to justify why the U.S. interest in having peaceful relations with Iran should take a back seat to sectarian and regional desires of Riyadh and Tel Aviv, including that peace with Iran will cause the Saudis to misbehave even more, notes Daniel Lazare. As the former publisher of […]
