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A month-long U.N. conference on halting the spread of nuclear weapons neared the end of its first week Friday deadlocked over how to strengthen the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The meeting opened Monday without a set agenda. Diplomats warned it could end in four weeks without a final statement even as U.N. officials and disarmament advocates … Continue reading “US Nuclear Weapons Hypocrisy Highlighted at Conference”

The voices of veterans who have served in Iraq is among the most important in convincing the public and government officials that the war in Iraq is wrong and the occupation must be ended. The interview below is with Patrick Resta of Iraq Veterans Against the War. Patrick, who served as a combat medic in … Continue reading “Iraq Vet: End the Occupation Now”

“Now it’s time for the cherry on the cake: have a photo-op with both leaders smiling, preferably in the Oval Office, announcing that their respective nations are firmer friends than ever. The admirable ways in which this tragic incident was handled, with great cooperation on both sides, only strengthens their resolve to stand by one … Continue reading “Berlusconi and Bush Renew Their Vows”

Excuse me if I sound irritable, but according to the gonzocons, I should by now be under a pile of smoking rubble. We’re having the British general election today. On Sept. 25 last year, gonzocon spiritual director Michael Novak gushingly reported the pearls of wisdom that the disgraced liar and now thankfully ex-prime minister of … Continue reading “The Gonzocon Terror Lie”

It was June 26, 2003, and three friends – Naor Gilon, chief of political affairs at the Israeli embassy in Washington; Steve Rosen, longtime policy director and key operative of the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC); and Keith Weissman, AIPAC’s senior Iran specialist – were meeting for lunch at the Tivoli restaurant in Arlington, … Continue reading “Larry Franklin
and the
Axis of Espionage”

Kosovo’s Continuing Tragedy An old saying in Washington urges one to "believe nothing until it has been officially denied." Washington, Brussels, and the UN have been denying for years that their policies in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo have in effect established a quasi-independent state, which would eventually officially separate from Serbia. Their deeds, … Continue reading “Slouching Toward Secession”

The latest attempt to move on from the Iraq war was set out by Prime Minister Blair last weekend. He was quoted by the BBC as saying: “We do say sorry for all those people who have died, but I cannot apologize for taking the country to war.” In other words, he’s sorry for the … Continue reading “Blair’s ‘Sorry’ Is Not Good Enough”

“Intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy.” Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would see those words in black and white – and beneath a SECRET stamp, no less. For three years now, we in Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) have been saying that the CIA and its British … Continue reading “Proof the Fix Was In”

On Aug. 6, 1945, the day that was to prove the blindingly bright dawn of the atomic age, Little Boy, a 9,700-pound baby with the look of “an elongated trash can with fins,” had already been loaded into the specially prepared bomb bay of a B-29. The night before, in large letters, mission commander Col. … Continue reading “The Nuclear Renaissance”

The U.S. government doesn’t like what the media is reporting in Iraq, but don’t worry, they have a solution: shoot them, then arrest them. At the beginning of last month, a cameraman with CBS press credentials was shot and arrested on suspicion of “insurgent activity.” As usual, the military’s story went through a few different … Continue reading “The War Party’s
War on the Media”