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‘Wrong-sized’ missile sends new Trident cost soaring by £100m
ompatability worries as US firm takes on contractBy Rob Edwards, Environment Editor
BRITISH TAXPAYERS are having to fork out an extra £100 million this year to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system because of fears that the missile being designed in the US could be the wrong size.
The UK government is funding all of a contract for a US company to design a new missile compartment in an attempt to ensure that it will fit (…)

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The Caucasus — Washington Risks Nuclear War by Miscalculation
By F. William Engdahl, 11 August 2008
The dramatic military attack by the military of the Republic of Georgia on South Ossetia in the last days has brought the world one major step closer to the ultimate horror of the Cold War era—a thermonuclear war between Russia and the United States—by miscalculation. What is playing out in the Caucasus is being reported in US media in an alarmingly misleading light, making Moscow appear (…)

Croatian students demand right to free education
By: slobodni filozofski on: 10.05.2009 1st press release in English and German
PRESS RELEASE OF THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT INITIATIVE FOR THE RIGHT TO FREE EDUCATION
At a moment when the right to education for all is being tacitly eliminated under the bureaucratic code of "participation", by an administrative decree and without prior public discussion, despite the fact that the right to education is recognized as the universal and (…)

Russia ’losing to China on Iran S-300 quest’
Sat, 09 May 2009 18:14:06 GMT
Iran is reportedly seeking to buy a Chinese-made air defense system which is a variant of the Russian S-300.
In its quest for an advanced air defense system, Iran has reportedly shifted its hopes from Russia to China which owns a replica of the controversial Russian S-300.
As Iran’s quest for the advanced Russian-made S-300 air defense system is believed to have hit rock bottom, a report by RIA Novosti said (…)

Mother’s Day is about Mothers - Women who have had Children. What happens to those Children is of intense concern to Mothers and to those who love Mothers.
Unfortunately the US and its allies (the UK, White Australia, NATO and Apartheid Israel) are killing about 1,000 of Mothers’ Children EVERY DAY (see “Hey, hey USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: ).
A very timely reminder of the true origins of Mother’s Day has been provided by marvellous, humanitarian American (…)

On Friday, May 8, 2009, activists from the “Ashraf Protection Campaign” staged a rally in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. This is the 100th day that they have done so. They are concerned about preventing a “looming humanitarian crisis in Camp Ashraf,” according to their press release. Camp Ashraf is located in the town of Khalis, in Iraq, nearly “50 miles from the Iranian border.” About 4000 men, women and children—all political refugees from Iran—currently reside in (…)

The intrepid David Swanson digs up another damning memo written by that factotum of evil, Jay Bybee. This particular sinister scribbling did not involve the brutal torture of gulag captives, however. No, in this case, Jay had bigger fish to fry for his masters: the murder of more than a million people in a Hitlerian act of military aggression...
And so we come back full-circle in the filthy, bloodsoaked, incestuous nest of American power politics. Bill Clinton is now regarded as a Bush (…)

Bellaciao readers would be amused to learn that warmonger, Obama lackey and ferociously pro-war, pro-coal, anti-environment Australian PM Kevin Rudd reportedly “threw a tantrum” over a HAIRDRYER while in Occupied Afghanistan with Australian troops recently.
PM Kevin Rudd recently sent a further 500 troops to Occupied Afghanistan to continue the war against the Pathans and other Afghans (50% kids, 75% women and kids) that racist, colonialist, imperialist Britain started 160 years ago with (…)

Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
May 7, 2009
On October 16, 2004, President George W. Bush signed the Israel Lobby’s bill, the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act. This legislation requires the US Department of State to monitor anti-semitism world wide.
To monitor anti-semitism, it has to be defined. What is the definition? Basically, as defined by the Israel Lobby and Abe Foxman, it boils down to any criticism of Israel or Jews.
Rahm Israel Emanuel hasn’t been mopping floors at the (…)