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Greg Mitchell: For Veterans Day: The Great Atomic Film Cover-Up

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:55:29 -0800

Huffington Post - By Greg Mitchell - Nov. 11 (Special Report) - On this day, a special tribute to two of the most memorable, and remarkable, veterans I've ever encountered. It comes just two days after President Obama -- perhaps under new pressure as a Nobel Peace Prize winner -- said he would like to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki during his presidency. If he does, he would become the first sitting U.S. president to make that trip. In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan 64 years ago, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the bombings.

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Arabisto: Countering Benjamin Netanyahou's Orwellian Spin at the UN

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

arabisto.com - By Eileen Fleming - Sep. 29 (News Analysis) - In defense and support of freedom of the press, conscience and speech; this article should be read which counters every point Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's spun at the UN on September 24, 2009.

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Japanese Voters Oust Conservative Party, PM-Elect Hatoyama Critical of US "Market Fundamentalism"

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Steven Clemons, Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous - Sep. 01 (News Report) - In Japan, voters have ousted the right-leaning Liberal Democratic Party, or LDP, after fifty-five years of nearly uninterrupted governance. In elections on Sunday, the populist Democratic Party of Japan captured a record 308 of the 480 seats in the lower house of parliament. Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama, who is expected to become Japan’s new prime minister, has questioned the role of the 50,000 American troops deployed throughout Japan and, in a recent New York Times op-ed, blamed the global financial meltdown in part on what he called US “market fundamentalism.”

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Look Back at the US Atomic Bombing 64 Years Later

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat - Aug. 10 (Special Report) - We play the report of Wilfred Burchett, the first journalist to make it into Hiroshima, as well as Anthony Weller, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist George Weller, who was the first reporter to enter Nagasaki after the bombing, and we hear from Hiroshima survivor Shigeko Sasamori.

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"For the 64th Time: No More Nuclear War"

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat - Aug. 10 (Other) - We speak with nuclear physicist and disarmament activist Pervez Hoodbhoy, peace activist Frida Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

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The 64th Anniversary of USA Terrorism Enlightened by the Wisdom of Nonviolence

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Eileen Flemming - Aug. 05 (News Analysis) - This August 6th and 9th mark the 64th anniversary of the most brutal acts of terrorism upon innocent people; America's atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Pro-Nuclear Pundits Debunked

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Frida Berrigan: - Jul. 29 (News Analysis) - These four men: John Bolton, Richard Perle, Keith Payne and Frank Gaffney are far outside of the growing consensus on the need for decisive action to curb nuclear proliferation, and they have been on the wrong side of history for too long. They should not be considered legitimate nuclear experts and they should not be given free rein over our op-ed pages.

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Obama's Nuclear Gambit

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Steve Weissman - Jul. 14 (News Analysis) - Former UN Ambassador John Bolton, the mustachioed neocon, sometimes gets it half right. President Barack Obama is, in fact, reducing America's nuclear advantage over Russia, just as Bolton argues. But the hell-for-leather Bolton fails completely to understand what Obama is doing and why, as do many Obama supporters.

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Obama-Medvedev Nuclear Stockpile Deal "Disappointing," Says Leading Disarmament Advocate

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Jonathan Schell, Amy Goodman - Jul. 07 (News Report) - President Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on Monday and agreed to cut American and Russian nuclear stockpiles by at least one quarter and as much as one third.

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AP source: NKorea may be prepping new nuclear test

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

seattlepi.com - By Pamela Hess - Jun. 11 (News Report) - North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test, a show of defiance as the United Nations considers new sanctions on the dictatorship for conducting an underground nuclear explosion in May, according to a U.S. government official.

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BBC - Newsnight: Susan Watts: No noble gas from North Korea blast

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

bbc.co.uk - By Susan Watts - Jun. 11 (News Report) - But there was one thing everybody in the room wanted to know. Had the network of sensors picked up radionuclides from the North Korean explosion two weeks ago? Seismologists here today say they are comfortable that explosion was a nuclear test, but detecting radionuclide evidence in the form of radioactive gas is the "smoking gun". And the big news here is that they have not found that signal.

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Reporters' families seek mercy, N.Korea makes threats

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

news.asiaone.com - Jun. 09 (News Report) - Relatives of two U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea called on the reclusive state to show compassion, while Pyongyang threatened to use nuclear weapons to defend itself.

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Latest North Korea Provocations Stem from Missed US Opportunities for Demilitarization

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Bruce Cumings - May. 29 (News Analysis) - There’s an article in the New York Times where someone in the Pentagon—I think it was Rumsfeld, but it was anonymous—was quoted saying, “If I’m Kim Jong-il, I’m running around wondering, you know, what’s likely to hit me next.” Is this any way to run a foreign policy, to threaten to decapitate the leadership of a country that we’re technically at war with? So—with nuclear weapons? So this is the real situation. And if I or you were in North Korea, uppermost in our mind would be American nuclear weapons.

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North Korean blast smaller than thought

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

news.asiaone.com - May. 26 (News Report) - The yield is about four kilotonnes equivalent of TNT, with an uncertainty range from three to eight kilotonnes," Martin Kalinowski, a professor at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker Centre for Science and Peace Research (ZNF), at the University of Hamburg, told AFP.

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Koreas Heading Back to Cold War Era?

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Korea Times - By Kim Sue-young - May. 26 (News Analysis) - After a decade of reconciliation, the two Koreas appear to be heading back to the confrontational Cold War era, with inter-Korean tension escalating to a 10-year peak. South Korea decided Tuesday to join in a U.S.-led initiative to prevent proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), a move that came following North Korea's second nuclear test and a test-firing of three missiles Monday.

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North Korea Conducts Nuclear Weapons Test -- News from Antiwar.com

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AntiWar - May. 24 (Breaking News) - South Korea’s cabinet is holding an emergency meeting this morning after it detected an “artificial earthquake” in North Korea, a sign that the nation may have conducted a test explosion of an atomic weapon.

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The Case of the Missing H-Bomb: The Pentagon Has Lost the Mother of All Weapons

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Jeffrey St. Clair - May. 19 (Special Report) - Coastal residents want the weapon located and removed. "Plutonium is a nightmare and their own people know it," said Pam O'Brien, an anti-nuke organizer from Douglassville, Georgia. "It can get in everything--your eyes, your bones, your gonads. You never get over it. They need to get that thing out of there."

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NATO Upsets Russia Over Georgia

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By William F. Engdahl - May. 14 (News Report) - Economist and author William F. Engdahl says the military maneuvers inside Georgia underscore continued tensions between Russia and the NATO, which has expanded eastward to Russia’s borders since the end of the Cold War.

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Radiation Exposure from 50 Years of Uranium Mining Continues to Affect Spokane Indian Reservation

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Twa-le Abrahamson - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - The Spokane Reservation is about forty-five miles northwest of the city of Spokane. And when the mines opened, the workforce was largely tribal people, and a lot of women worked in the mines at that time. And so, we’ve heard a lot of stories of women that worked there that were placed in certain positions because they were over childbearing age. And we’ve lost a lot of our people to illnesses related to—which we feel are related to the mine and the contaminants at the mine.

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Hanford Nuclear Reservation: A Look at the Nation's Most Polluted Nuclear Weapons Production Site

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Karen Dorn Steele - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - That’s correct. President Obama may not have heard of it, but this is a huge scandal, in that $50 billion has been spent or will be spent over the thirty years of—that is planned to clean up Hanford. And there’s been a lot of wasted money, and that’s what we looked at.

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North Korea: Where Truth Lies

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - Apr. 10 (News Analysis) - While most media sources agree that North Korea failed at testing a missile, Koreans insist they successfully launched a satellite....

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North Korea launches missile

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jiyeon Lee - Apr. 06 (News Report) - They are not quite indifferent to the news of what happens in the secretive state, but people have learned to live with the nature North Korea, having experienced several missile tests already and even a nuclear test conducted in the North a few years ago. The streets of Seoul remained calm.

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IAEA fails to elect successor to ElBaradei

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Earth Times - Mar. 27 (News Report) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) failed Friday in a new attempt to elect a successor to its outgoing director general, Mohammed ElBaradei. Neither Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano nor his South African rival, Abdul Samad Minty, gained the required two-thirds majority in two votes taken by the nuclear watchdog's 35-member board.

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Japan Joins the Race for Uranium Amid Global Expansion of Nuclear Power

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

japanfocus.org - By Hisane Masaki - Mar. 22 (News Report) - Energy-hungry Japan is revving up its drive to secure uranium abroad as global demand for nuclear power rises amid stubbornly high oil and gas prices and growing environmental concerns. Major Japanese trading and energy firms are looking at multibillion yen investments in uranium mine projects, with electronics conglomerate Toshiba in February purchasing Westinghouse, the US power plant arm of British Nuclear Fuels, for about US$5.4 billion.

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NATO and Russia perform an intricate dance

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Teri Schultz - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - Perhaps nothing has evoked modern-day threats of a “new Cold War” like the testy relations between Moscow and NATO, the alliance set up in 1949 to counter threats from the Soviet Union and, after 1955, its Warsaw Pact satellites.

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