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  • US and European allies provoke confrontation with Iran
    11 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Symonds
    The Bush administration with the support of the so-called EU-3-Britain, France and Germany-has seized on Iran’s decision to restart its uranium conversion facility at Esfahan as the pretext for condemning Tehran and threatening UN economic sanctions. Once again Washington and its allies, with the backing of the international media, are conducting a campaign of provocation and lies that will ultimately lead to open confrontation if Iran does not completely capitulate.
    The (…)

  • Like Nagasaki, August 9 is an orphan of history
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Harvey Wasserman
    And in that history, new, definitive evidence has finally surfaced that the atomic bombing there was completely unjustified.
    More than 80,000 human beings perished in Nagasaki three days after at least that many died in Hiroshima.
    The Bomb that destroyed this historic city was made of plutonium (Hiroshima’s was uranium).
    Whatever the case for nuking Hiroshima, it was far weaker for Nagasaki.
    The US had already shown it had this ultimate weapon. It showed it was (…)

  • Depleted uranium is WMD
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Leuren Moret
    My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal (…)

  • CIA allowed nuke spy to continue
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Former Dutch Prime Minister: nuclear proliferation to Libya, Iran and North Korea by the CIA tolerated Pakistani top spy Dr. Kahn.
    by Henk Ruyssenaars
    FPF - The Netherlands - August 9 - 2005 - "We were not allowed by the american intelligence service CIA to arrest Pakistani top spy Dr. Abdul Khan, whom we knew was stealing nuclear secrets from us for years." This accusation was made today by the former Prime minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers, in an investigating program - Argos - (…)

  • Depleted Uranium, Anthrax Vaccine & The Gulf War Syndrome, Part 1
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dr. James Howenstine
    More and more veterans have become chronically ill from a multitude of symptoms since the end of Gulf War I. For many years the U.S. government denied any responsibility for their mysterious symptoms. Only 7,035 men were injured in this war. A total of 580,400 soldiers served in the first Gulf War. By the end of 2000 325,000 of these troops had become disabled This means that 56 % of those who served in the first Gulf War were disabled within less than 10 years. (…)

  • Suppressed footage of Hiroshima after the bomb to air on cable TV
    7 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BY SADIA LATIFI
    Knight Ridder Newspapers
    WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Sixty years after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, a film documenting the aftermath is reminding Americans about the horrors of nuclear war.
    Footage from a U.S. government-produced film, which was labeled top secret and kept out of public view for decades, is included in "Original Child Bomb," a documentary that will air on many cable stations Saturday, the 60th anniversary of the day that Hiroshima (…)

  • Israeli Businessman Sentenced in Plot to Ship Nuclear Detonation Devices
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON (AP) - An Israeli businessman who conspired to ship controlled nuclear technology to Pakistan was sentenced to three years in federal prison.
    U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina on Thursday imposed the sentence on Asher Karni, who pleaded guilty last year to helping ship devices that could be used to test, develop and detonate nuclear weapons.
    Karni, who was based in South Africa, admitted routing sophisticated oscilloscopes and high-speed electrical switches through South (…)

  • The Danger of Nuclear War & The Imperative of Abolition
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mayors Campaign Hiroshi TAKA(Japan)
    Dear friends,
    Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Let me take this opportunity to extend my warmest greetings of solidarity to the movements for peace and justice in the USA. Your courageous actions for peace and against war, prior to and in the midst of the outrageous US military attack on Iraq, showed us that there was another face of the United States, which represents gentle, peace-loving USA. It has greatly helped to build a sense of global (…)

  • Thousands Demand: ’No Nuclear Weapons!’
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    On 60th Anniversary of US A-Bomb Attacks on Japan, Major Events Planned
    WASHINGTON - August 5 - Sixty years after U.S. atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Peace Action members will participate in actions at four U.S. nuclear weapons facilities and organize events nationwide to observe the anniversary of this tragedy on August 6th and 9th.
    Hibakusha-survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki-will visit nuclear weapons research and production sites to deliver their message: “No More (…)

  • No More Hiroshimas! No More Nagasakis! Events
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    August 6 and 9, 2005 mark the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States. We’re asking people to join at four central US nuclear weapons sites in major actions calling for an end to the development and production of nuclear warheads. Activities will recognize the devastation caused by nuclear weapons and memorialize the many victims of bomb production at every step - from uranium mining to design, to production, to testing and use.
    In Japanese (…)