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  • THE IRAN PLANS
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
    Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb?
    The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been (…)

  • MEDIA BLACKOUT : UN INSPECTIONS OF IRAN ’NUKES’
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The media sycophants , having learned nothing from the disaster that it is Iraq, are now refusing to inform the American people that Iran has cooperated with UN inspectors for over 3 and 1/2 years......The UN ’S nuclear watchdog agency , the IAEA, has scowered the Islamic republic up one-side and down the other and has found no credible evidence - ZERO- that Iran is attempting to produce nuclear weapons...... This important deveopment has been blacked out.... We continually hear the (…)

  • Bush’s Act of Treason
    13 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    If treason is defined as "consciously acting in a way to harm one’s country or to benefit the enemy of one’s country," then the Bush administration has lately been engaged in an act of treason by openly planning for the first use of nuclear weapons against Iran, a non-nuclear nation.
    By the mere act of contingency planning for such a first use, the Bush administration has guaranteed that not just Iran, but probably many other nations that see themselves as remotely threatened by the U.S., (…)

  • The Human Costs of Bombing Iran by Matthew Rothschild (The Progressive)
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by The Progressive The Human Costs of Bombing Iran by Matthew Rothschild
    George Bush didn’t exactly deny Seymour Hersh’s report in The New Yorker that the Administration is considering using tactical nuclear weapons against Iran.
    Neither did Scott McClellan.
    Bush called it “wild speculation,” and McClellan said the United States would go ahead with "normal military contingency planning."
    Those are hardly categorical denials.
    So let’s look at (…)

  • New Chernobyl Study Challenges IAEA Report on Chernobyl Consequences
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    APRIL 11, 2006 11:20 AM
    TAKOMA PARK, Maryland - April 11 - A new study being released today in Kiev, Ukraine directly challenges the findings of a widely-criticized International Atomic Energy Agency/World Health Organization report from last September that predicted 4,000 likely cancer deaths as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
    The study was commissioned by Rebecca Harms, a Green Party member of the European Parliament, on behalf of the Greens/EFA in the European (…)

  • USA : Native Americans Want ’Bunker Buster’ Test Stopped
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by OneWorld.net Native Americans Want ’Bunker Buster’ Test Stopped by Haider Rizvi
    UNITED NATIONS - Native Americans want U.S. authorities to cancel plans to detonate 700 tons of explosives on what they say is tribal land in Nevada.
    The planned explosion, scheduled for June 2 some 90 miles from Las Vegas, is aimed at aiding U.S. efforts to develop ’’bunker buster’’ weapons capable of penetrating solid rock. Officials have suggested the test would (…)

  • FAS Urges White House to Exclude Nuclear Weapons From National Security Strategy in War on Terrorism
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    APRIL 7, 2006 3:25 PM
    CONTACT: Federation of American Scientists Ivan Oelrich, ioelrich@fas.org FAS Urges White House to Exclude Nuclear Weapons From National Security Strategy in War on Terrorism
    WASHINGTON - April 7 - Strategic Security Experts Available for Interviews —
    The new “National Security Strategy for the United States” published yesterday by the White House strengthens the role of nuclear weapons in preemptive military strikes against terrorists and hostile states (…)

  • Depleted uranium from Gulf War 2 spread across Europe
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/aldermastonrept.htm
    Depleted uranium from Gulf War 2 "Shock and Awe" bombing in 2003 spread across Europe and reached Britain within 9 days.
    This is fresh evidence that uranium armour piercing weaponry is illegal on account of its indiscriminate effects.
    European Biology and Bioelectromagnetics has published a paper: Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe? Evidence from the measurements of the Atomic Weapons (…)

  • US Plans Nuclear Attack on Iran
    9 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Plans Nuclear Attack on Iran http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=B9B8BBB3-994D-492B-AF5C-DCF557A1931F)&language=EN
    Washington, Apr 8 (Prensa Latina) The George W. Bush government plans to attack Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz, even using atomic bombs, "The New Yorker" magazine published in the issue that will
    come out Monday.
    A source quoted by the weekly said that the Pentagon’s plans are "huge, feverish and operational," and are clearly aimed at changing the power (…)

  • US Considers Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Saturday, April 8, 2006 by Agence France Presse http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0408-07.htm
    US Considers Use of Nuclear Weapons Against Iran
    The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a key Iranian suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine has reported in its April 17 issue.
    The article by investigative (…)