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Obama's Diplomacy in Iran: what went right, and what didn't

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By David Shorr - Mar. 13 (Review) - The Obama administration started out by making strong diplomatic gestures to Iran, briefly yielding a fuel-swap deal in which Iran seemed interested. But as talks dissolved, the administration soon found itself wedded to steadily escalating sanctions with little maneuvering room left to pursue negotiations -- all while Iran ran down the clock and continued to enrich uranium. Parsi's book alternately challenges and praises the president -- mostly challenges -- while presenting a behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest threats facing the United States as well as the acumen and dexterity it demands.

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Green Politics

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Green Party Newsletter - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - The article on the Riverview Gardens School District in St. Louis, along with the discussion of recent events in Wisconsin, form a pattern on how public employees are scapegoats for the ills of the present economic system. Unions are notably pressured to give up more of workers' benefits and rights. This is discussed in the interview with Paul Pechter, where he feared that the attacks on unions would be successful, and lamented the failed strategy and tactics of the unions in the past.

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Happy Savages: What We Did to the Marshall Islanders

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Robert Koehler - Feb. 16 (Review) - Robert C. Koehler "Thirty seconds to zero . . . six, five, four, three, two, one." "Castle Bravo" -- Bikini Atoll, March 1, 1954 Suddenly a big orange blossom fills the screen, accompanied by ukuleles and lovely — I mean Strangelovian — Polynesian music. The blossom is actually Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb blast, the largest U.S. test ever, detonated over Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954. read ...

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WATCH: Newt Gingrich's Moon Colony On 'SNL'

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Are Partisan Politics in Congress putting the US at Risk for Nuclear Terrorism?

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

thebulletin.org - By Fissile Materials Working Group - Sep. 15 (Editorial) - Partisan politics in Congress appear to be putting the United States (and the rest of the world) at risk for nuclear terrorism. Why can't they get it together to keep our country safe?

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Confronting the Nuclear Industry

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

resistinc.org - By Janet Greenwald - Jul. 01 (Opinion) - As we receive dire reports from our friends in Japan and watch the levels of radiation in our rain and drinking water creep up, many progressive-thinking people feel frustrated that the Obama administration still considers nuclear power a necessary part of the “mix” of energy sources for our future—and the nuclear bomb a necessary part of our weapons reparatory. Neither should be part of our future.

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Despite Intelligence Rejecting Iran as Nuclear Threat, U.S. Could Be Headed for Iraq Redux

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Seymour Hersh, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Jun. 03 (Opinion) - In his latest article for the New Yorker magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says the United States might attack Iran based on distorted estimates of Iran's nuclear and military threat – just like it did with Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq. Hersh reveals that despite using Iranian informants and cutting edge surveillance technology, U.S. officials have been unable to find decisive evidence that Iran has been moving enriched uranium to an underground weapon-making center.

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Washington State Utility Contemplating Use of Same Dangerous Plutonium Fuel that Threatens Japan

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

foe.org - Mar. 14 (Press Release) - Fukushima Daiichi reactor number 3 – one of the reactors in Japan that has suffered a partial meltdown and that remains endangered – is using an unusual, highly volatile form of reactor fuel that is not yet used in the U.S. but that has been proposed for use at the Columbia Generating Station near Richland, Washington.

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As Dems Work to Ratify START Treaty, Jonathan Schell Says U.S.-Russia "Nuclear Standoff" Defies "Rational Explanation"

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Jonathan Schell - Dec. 21 (Interview) - The White House is predicting victory in its long-running standoff with Republicans on a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START, calls for the United States and Russia to cut their deployed arsenals to 1,550 nuclear warheads and 700 missile silos and bombers each. We speak with leading nuclear disarmament advocate, Jonathan Schell.

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Why New Start Must Be Ratified

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Aviation Week and Space Technology - By Editors, - Nov. 19 (Editorial) - Many opponents of voting now argue that the Senate needs more time to fully consider all the issues. But that strains credulity. The Senate Armed Services Committee held six hearings on the treaty, the Foreign Relations Committee another dozen before endorsing it in a 14-4 vote.

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We Don't Need To 'Keep Fear Alive'

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rick Hanson, Ph.D. - Oct. 03 (Opinion) - Colbert doesn't need a rally to keep fear alive. Alarming messages are all around us, like the news about global warming or the "Threat Level Orange" announcements every few minutes in the airport.

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Henry Red Cloud of Oglala Lakota Tribe on Native American Anti-Nuclear Activism, Uranium Mining, and the Recession's Toll on Reservations

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Henry Red Cloud - Sep. 30 (Interview) - The Nuclear-Free Future Awards are being awarded tonight at New York's historic Cooper Union. The prize has been described as the most important anti-nuclear award in the world. We speak to one of this year's winners, Henry Red Cloud, the great-great grandson of Chief Red Cloud. Henry Red Cloud is a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and founder of Lakota Solar Enterprises, one of the nation's first Native American-owned and -operated renewable energy companies.

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US Attending Hiroshima Memorial "Enormously Important," Says Robert Jay Lifton

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Robert Jay Lifton - Aug. 06 (Interview) - Sixty-five years ago today, the United States dropped a bomb nicknamed "Little Boy" on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. An estimated 140,000 people died immediately or succumbed to burns and radiation sickness soon after the blast. This year, Japan marked this somber anniversary with a representative of the US government in attendance for the very first time. We speak with leading American psychiatrist, author and longtime opponent of nuclear weapons, Robert Jay Lifton.

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How to Dismantle 23,000 Atom Bombs

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Valerie Plame Wilson - Jul. 26 (Interview) - Plame laid low for a couple of years. But now she's lent her expertise as an expert on nuclear proliferation to Countdown to Zero, the new documentary from the makers of An Inconvenient Truth that aims to jumpstart a post-Cold War movement to ban the bomb.

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In North Korea, the worst is yet to come

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Moran - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - Of course, North Korea routinely threatens war. This time may be no different. But ever since stories of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s imminent demise after a stroke began circulating last year, Korea watchers have been reading into the regime’s every move.

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The Senate Kills International Relations.

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Tim Fernholz - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - A situation where it is impossible for the United States to enter into formally binding international agreements is one where the president has one hand tied behind his back anytime he seeks to engage with another country, friend or foe -- how can any president assert U.S. leadership abroad if world leaders realize that there is no way his political opponents at home will allow him or her to make a deal? While the president's unfettered authority to act destructively in foreign affairs merits a rethinking of the executive's legal authorities, the reverse situation -- the inability of the president to act constructively abroad -- is just as worrisome.

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Paranoid, Isolated, Fundamentalists, armed with 200 nukes.

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Robert Perry - Jun. 02 () - Foreign policy analysts around the world are quietly worrying about the prospects of having a very erratic state. After Israel’s lethal attack in international waters on a civilian flotilla carrying relief supplies to Gaza, a troubling question arises: Have Israeli authorities, who possess a major nuclear arsenal, become dangerously erratic?

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Earning His Nobel Prize

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Robert Scheer - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - At last, a believable sighting of that peace president many of us thought we had elected. Give Barack Obama credit, big time, for the startling progress he has made in tempering the threat of nuclear annihilation.

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Katy Hall: 'Green Zone': Paul Greengrass & Matt Damon Take On Iraq

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Katy Hall - Mar. 09 (Review) - Will Miller find WMD in Iraq? Will American reconstruction efforts in Baghdad go as planned in the face of growing insurgency? Of course not, but there are enough frenetic firefights to maintain a satisfying level of suspense.

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The NYT Veers Neocon

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Robert Parry - Feb. 28 (Opinion) - Many American progressives don't want to recognize how bad the U.S. mainstream news media has become. It's easier to praise a few exceptions to the rule and to hope that some pendulum will swing than to undertake the challenging task of building a new and honest media infrastructure. But the hard reality is that the U.S. news media is getting worse, with now both premier national newspapers - the New York Times and the Washington Post - decidedly sliding into the neocon camp, where the likes of the Wall Street Journal have long resided.

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Full-Court Press: The "Four Horsemen" Call for a Nuclear Weapons Spending Surge

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Darwin Bond Graham, Will Parrish, Nicholas Robinson - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - In the December edition of Z Magazine we published a lengthy feature examining the new politics of "anti-nuclear nuclearism," a rhetoric whereby hawkish elites vaguely tout the goal of "disarmament" in order to actually boost nuclear weapons spending and advance a long-term, militarized, pro-nuclear vision. read more

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Funding Public Health Care with a Publicly Owned Bank: How Canada Did It

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Op Ed News - By Ellen Brown - Jan. 25 (Opinion) - The Massachusetts gubernatorial upset means the President may have to start over with his health care bill. The good news is that there's still a chance for the public option the voters thought they would be getting. How to fund it? The way Canada did -- with credit issued by the government's own central bank.

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Iran and the Goldilocks Principle: Why Kuperman is Completely Wrong and the Leveretts are Only Partly Right and There are no Tunnel Bombs

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Jan. 07 (Opinion) - In the past three weeks, Iran observers have been baffled by the range of opinion appearing on the op-ed page of The New York Times concerning Iran, and the uneven reporting on that country. Before the holidays, Alan Kuperman, a political scientist at the University of Texas Austin, called for bombing Iran-- becoming the first respectable academic in the US to take a position usually associated with discredited angry Neoconservatives such as John Bolton. Kuperman's argument is wrong in almost every particular, and that the NYT editors published it was considered alarming by many Iranists. We all remember how the newspaper printed a long series of bald-faced lies and easily disproved fantasies about 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq in 2002, which certainly helped legitimate and pave the way for war on that country. We worried that the fix was in against Iran.

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Iran Sanctions Are a Precursor to War

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Information Clearing House - By Ron Paul - Dec. 22 (Advocacy) - If a foreign government attempted to isolate the US economically, cut off our supply of gasoline, or starve us to death, would it cause Americans to admire that foreign entity? Or would we instead unite under the flag for the survival of our country?

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Missile Defense Could Be the Silver Bullet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - By Dmitry Trenin - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - In the eyes of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the “resetting” of U.S.-Russian relations became a reality only six weeks ago, when U.S. President Barack Obama announced his decision to reconfigure U.S. missile defense plans for Europe. Putin called Obama’s step “courageous,” which, coming from him, is perhaps the highest form of personal approbation

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