According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Russia today is estimated to have 7,800 operational nuclear warheads in its arsenal. I emphasize “estimated” because Russia, like all the nuclear powers, remains quite secretive about its nuclear arsenal. Altogether, Russia’s nuclear arsenal of intact warheads is put at 17,000. The difference is classified as being …
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Neocons Earn an ‘F’ The Neocons and their champions should be charged, at the very least, with malfeasance for leading the US into an unnecessary Iraq war. By steering US foreign policy down the preemptive path without imminent threat, they have set precedents that make the world a more dangerous place. The consequences of their …
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According to the U.S. government, these before and after satellite images from Iran are evidence of nuclear activity and a subsequent cover-up. Ironically, the accusation is based on the identification of a U.S.-made radiation monitor at the site.
It hasn’t been a good week for Undersecretary of State Bolton. Some of the eggs he’s laid in the past year or so hatched as turkeys and have come home to roost. Back in October of 2002, one of Bolton’s munchkins claimed he had accosted a Democratic People’s Republic of Korea “diplomat” at a cocktail …
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From Dahr’s weblog How much worse does it need to get here before the occupiers consider changing their policy? 100 dead every day? In light of what happened here yesterday, it appears as though we’re heading in that direction. For those of you who think June 30 will signify a decrease in the number and …
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On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, the U.S. House of Representatives, in an overwhelming bipartisan vote, endorsed right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s efforts to colonize and annex large sections of the Palestinian West Bank, seized by Israel in the June 1967 war. This was not just another “pro-Israel” (or, more accurately, “pro-Israeli right”) resolution, but …
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You know, of course, that the alleged handover of Iraqi sovereignty on June 30 is a phony-baloney public-relations stunt. The armed forces will remain in the country. A U.S. embassy with 1,000 employees will open. In other words, it will be a continued occupation with an Iraqi face. What the White House hopes will happen …
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This column, the third in a series, concludes a discussion of the canon, the seven books which, read in the order given, will take the reader from the First Generation of modern war through the Fourth. As one Marine Corps captain, an instructor at The Basic School, said, “Unless the guy’s a rock, he can’t …
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TOKYO – Mariko Ishibashi, 26, a company receptionist, has already decided she will not cast her ballot next month in an election that could crucially determine Japan’s deployment of troops to join a multinational force in Iraq. “I am fed-up with Japanese politics,” Ishibashi, who holds a degree in American literature, tells IPS. Candidates in …
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DAMASCUS – When he downloaded some material on Syria and emailed it to his friends, Abdel Rahman al-Shaghouri did not think he would end up in prison. Al-Shaghouri, 32, already in prison since February 2003 for his “offense,” was sentenced this week to two-and-a-half years imprisonment by the security court. He was held guilty of …
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