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  • CIA reveals: We said in 1974 that Israel had nuclear weapons
    11 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    CIA reveals: We said in 1974 that Israel had nuclear weapons
    Last update - 02:28 11/01/2008 By Amir Oren
    The Central Intelligence Agency, backed by bodies including the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Defense Intelligence Agency, determined in August 1974 that Israel had nuclear "weapons in being," a "small number" of which it "produced and stockpiled."
    Israel was also suspected of providing nuclear materials, equipment or technology to Iran, South (…)

  • Sibel Edmonds speaks
    7 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    And she’s naming names.
    http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/
    – http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2...
    – http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...
    – http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspo...
    – http://www.justacitizen.com/images/...
    “If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials,” she said.
    Strangely, or perhaps not, a number of people seem to have dual allegiance. No?

  • Sneak peek at a desert Armageddon
    4 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ...a veritable industry was built around parsing the literal fallout if deterrence should fail. Indeed, it was Herman Kahn, who founded the Hudson Institute, who in 1965 wrote the book On Escalation, which included an escalation ladder, whose final and 44th step was "spasm or insensate war". In a somewhat similar spirit, a recently released briefing has been making waves. The briefing is turning heads because it was written by Anthony Cordesman, who was a former director of intelligence (…)

  • Aviano, Ghedi mayors sign petition to ban possession of nuclear weapons
    18 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Aviano, Ghedi mayors sign petition to ban possession of nuclear weapons By Kent Harris, Stars and Stripes Tuesday, December 18, 2007
    AVIANO, Italy — The mayors of two towns in Italy with U.S. bases thought to house nuclear missiles have signed onto a petition calling for a global end to such weapons by 2020.
    Stefano Del Cont, mayor of Aviano since June, said he and Anna Giulia Guarneri, the mayor of Ghedi, joined hundreds of other city leaders around the globe in seeking the ban. (…)

  • IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran
    8 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    IDF to show US nuclear data on Iran
    Yaakov Katz – jpost.com December 6, 2007
    Disappointed after failing to make their case on Iran and influence the outcome of the United States’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released this week, Military Intelligence will present its hard core evidence on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program on Sunday to the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff during a rare visit he will be making to Israel.
    Admiral Michael Mullen will land in Israel (…)

  • Media mixed on Iran nuclear report
    5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Media mixed on Iran nuclear report
    Iran’s press has broadly welcomed a US intelligence report suggesting Tehran is not actively pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, although some papers caution against seeing this as a victory over the US.
    Israeli press comment notes the differences in US and Israeli perceptions of Iran. The Russian media saw the report as a vindication of Moscow’s policy of engagement with Iran, and the Chinese media thought it was an embarrassment for President (…)

  • Putin asks Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces to "be ready" for aggressors
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday warned that Moscow would not remain indifferent to NATO’s "muscle-flexing" and said Russia’s nuclear forces would be ready for an adequate response to any aggressor.
    Putin, speaking to top generals less than two weeks before December 2 parliamentary elections, said the NATO military alliance had built up its forces close to Russia’s borders.
    "We see that military resources of certain states and members of the NATO alliance are being built up (…)

  • Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sherwood Ross November 19, 2007
    By firing radioactive ammunition, the U.S., U.K., and Israel may have triggered a nuclear holocaust in the Middle East that, over time, will prove deadlier than the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan.
    So much ammunition containing depleted uranium(DU) has been fired, asserts nuclear authority Leuren Moret, "The genetic future of the Iraqi people for the most part, is destroyed."
    "More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing (…)

  • U.S. Navy steps up fuel deliveries to Gulf forces
    25 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. military has stepped up chartering of tankers and requests for extra fuel in the U.S. Central Command area, which includes the Gulf, shipping and oil industry sources say.
    23 Nov 2007 11:07:33 GMT Source: Reuters
    By Stefano Ambrogi
    A Gulf oil industry source said the charters suggested there would be high naval activity, possibly including a demonstration to Iran that the U.S. Navy will protect the Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route during tensions (…)

  • depleted uranium : Wall Street Czars depopulating the World
    21 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Leuren Moret
    Leuren Moret is an American independent scientist and international expert on radiation and public health issues. She has devoted her life to awakening the public to the destructive consequences of depleted uranium munitions that are used by the US military. She has made relentless efforts to stop the US from continuing to pollute the environment.
    Q. The US is using DU weapons in violation of international treaties. Why is not the international community forcing the US to (…)