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The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement Obama is being praised as a man of peace for the nuclear agreement with Iran. Some are asking if Obama will take the next step and repair US-Russian relations and bring the Ukrainian imbroglio to an end? If so he hasn’t told Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland […]
Framing Iran: Thomas Friedman’s War Wish
Framing Iran: Thomas Friedman’s War Wish Thomas Friedman, the New York Times op-ed-page representative of the foreign-policy elite, is unhappy with how the soon-to-be-completed Iran nuclear talks are going. He says President Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, hasn’t been tough enough. Obama holds all the cards, Friedman says, but somehow the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dictating […]
US Still Won’t Confirm Israeli Nukes
US Still Won’t Confirm Israeli Nukes Among the more absurd aspects of U.S. foreign policy is the persistent refusal to confirm that Israel has a nuclear arsenal, even as U.S. officials threaten and even attack other countries for allegedly harboring the intent to build a single bomb, hypocrisy that Sam Husseini dissects. Retired Gen. (and […]
Nuclear Agreement With Iran
Nuclear Agreement With Iran Washington’s issue with Iran has never been Iran’s nuclear energy program. The notion pushed by the neoconservatives that Iran only had a nuclear energy program (5% uranium enrichment) in order to hide a nuclear weapons program (95+% enrichment) was always a cover for Washington’s real opposition to Iran and Washington’s real […]
Nuke Russia?
Nuke Russia? The warlords of Washington haven’t ruled it out The War Party is a veritable propaganda machine, churning out product 24/7. Armed with nearly unlimited resources, both from government(s) and the private sector, they carpet-bomb the public with an endless stream of lies in order to soften them up when it’s time to roll. In the past, their […]
Trinity: 70 Years Later
Trinity: 70 Years Later The Atomic Blast That Shattered Our World It was 70 years ago, on July 16, 1945, that the first atomic bomb, named Trinity, was exploded at the White Sands Proving Ground, the nuclear test site near Alamagordo, NM. It was an event that changed world history forever, and created new health […]
Will Washington Kill Us All?
Will Washington Kill Us All? Did you know that Washington keeps 450 nuclear ICBMs on “hair-trigger alert”? Washington thinks that this makes us “safe.” The reasoning, if it can be called reason, is that by being able to launch in a few minutes, no one will try to attack the US with nuclear weapons. US […]
Beyond Iran And Pakistan: 7 Nuclear Wannabes
Beyond Iran And Pakistan: 7 Nuclear Wannabes The meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in 2011 following the Japanese tsunami forced a major rethink of nuclear power as a safe form of electricity generation. As radiation from the plant spewed into the ocean and nearby communities following an immediate evacuation, the world reaction was […]
Putin Warns “We Were Ready” To Use Nukes To Secure Crimea
Putin Warns “We Were Ready” To Use Nukes To Secure Crimea Having re-emerged from his hibernation, Vladimir Putin is wasting no time getting back to business. Having paced 40,000 troops on “snap-readiness,” AP reports that a documentary which aired last night shows Putin explaining that Russia was ready to bring its nuclear weapons into a state of alert […]
Russia Deploys Nuclear ICBM Launchers On Combat Patrol
Russia Deploys Nuclear ICBM Launchers On Combat Patrol Perhaps it is a coincidence that a day before John Kerry’s arrival in Kiev (a visit which “coincided” with a 35% devaluation of the local currency) where among other things the US statesman discussed the possibility of official (as opposed to unofficial) deliveries of US “lethal support” to […]
US refuses N. Korea’s proposal to suspend nuclear tests, calls it ‘implicit threat’
US refuses N. Korea’s proposal to suspend nuclear tests, calls it ‘implicit threat’ The White House has criticized North Korea’s proposal to temporarily halt nuclear tests if Washington cancels military drills with South Korea. Jen Psaki called the offer, reported in the media, “an implicit threat.” “A new nuclear test would be a clear violation […]
