Well, the neo-crazies are wandering around in a daze, stunned by the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to Mohamed ElBaradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, rather than to Bonkers Bolton, architect of our...
Doing Bush’s Bidding
The Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) begins by affirming "that all parties to the treaty are entitled to participate in the fullest possible exchange of scientific information for and to contribute alone or in cooperation with other...
Saving Face
Iran will not be deterred "by anything short of a threat of force," said Arieh Eldad, a member of Israel's right-wing National Union Party, part of a delegation of Knesset members visiting Washington this week. What programs is he threatening? Well, apparently the...
Pleading Incompetence
No one including the Iranians at their (nonexistent) equivalent of our Los Alamos Laboratory can make a nuclear weapon until they have managed to acquire multi-kilogram quantities of almost pure uranium-235, uranium-233, or plutonium-239. For that...
US-Israeli Diplomatic Triumph Over Iran
Last week the United States bullied, blackmailed and/or intimidated members of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency into passing a Resolution that, among other things: "Finds that Iran's many failures and breaches of its obligations to...
Case Closed, Condi
Ever since Condi Rice became secretary of state, she and her lackeys have been running around in circles of diminishing radius, muttering something about the "necessity" of referring Iran to the UN Security Council for "action." What necessity?...
Such a Blot
Colin Powell recently confessed that his presentation of US "intelligence" which turned out to be all wrong to the UN Security Council to justify Bush's unprovoked and unsanctioned war of aggression against Iraq was a "blot" on his...
Weapons of Mass Murder
In announcing his preemptive invasion of Iraq, President Bush had this to say: "Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime...
Neocrazies Foiled
According to Article IV of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: "All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological...
WMD Postmortem
Drawing upon the findings of the (a) Iraq Survey Group, (b) U.S. and British official investigations, (c) contemporary Iraqi official documents, and (d) personal memoirs of UN officials and others, Associated Press reporter Charles Hanley has constructed a highly...


