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Russian “Doomsday Machine” an Answer to U.S. Decapitation Strategy – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (5/8)
The U.S. military still thinks that a nuclear war can be won by targeting Russian leadership in a bizarre Dr. Strangelove logic; it’s a recipe for unmitigated catastrophe, says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay Continue reading
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The Largest Act of Terrorism in Human History – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (4/8)
The British bombing of Hamburg in 1942, and the American firebombing of Japan in March 1945 that killed as many as 120,000 people in one night, created the conditions for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which were considered mere extensions of the firebombing tactics, says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul…(inc.… Continue reading
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Google abandons three projects which could ’cause harm’
In June, Mark Bridge reported that Google software engineers refused to work on a security feature to isolate and protect Pentagon data, because of moral concerns about the company helping the US to wage war. A dozen employees resigned in May according to Engadget and 4000 staff signed a petition against the project which was… Continue reading
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The Doomsday Machine: The Big Lie of the Cold War – Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (1/8)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Daniel Ellsberg tells host Paul Jay that US intelligence agencies knew that Stalin was not planning to invade Western Europe or seek world domination, but based on the myth, the world came close to nuclear war – and it’s all happening again Continue reading
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Why we persist in opposing the growing use of armed drones By Chris Cole
Over the past two weeks, campaigners have been in New York taking part in meetings at the UN urging diplomats to control the proliferation and use of armed drones. Drone Wars UK was one of the more than 50 organisations signing a joint statement released to coincide with the meetings. Continue reading
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US Trashing INF – Another Reckless Blow to World Security
The United States this week gave notice it is scrapping the second of three major arms control treaties. President Trump’s announced withdrawal from the INF Treaty this week follows the unilateral abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002 by his predecessor GW Bush. Continue reading
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INF Treaty Newslinks 25-26 October 2018
26 October 2018 — The New Dark Age Gorbachev hopes US allies will refuse to act as launch pads for new American missiles http://tass.com/politics/1027959 INF treaty withdrawal to undermine global trust in US — Czech leader http://tass.com/world/1027951 Continue reading
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Who profits from the end of the mid-range nuclear treaty? By Pepe Escobar
The US move to shelve the Intermediate-range Nuclear-Forces treaty could accelerate the demise of the whole post-WWII Western alliance, and herald a bad remix of the 1930s Continue reading
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INF Treaty Newslinks 24-25 October 2018
25 October 2018 — The New Dark Age “Trump Breaks the Historic Nuclear Treaty with Moscow”: The White House Prepares the Return of the Euromissiles https://www.globalresearch.ca/white-house-prepares-return-euromissiles/5657952 Austria concerned about US plans to exit INF Treaty, says top diplomat http://tass.com/world/1027811 Continue reading
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The White House prepares the return of the Euromissiles By Manlio Dinucci
The announcement that “Trump breaks the historic nuclear treaty with Moscow” – the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) – was no surprise. Now, however, it is official. To understand the scope of this act, we should review the historical context from which the INF Treaty was born. Continue reading
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Striking a Strategic Balance – Putin’s Preventive Response
I think that Vladimir Putin at Valdai not at all incidentally started talking about the increased danger of nuclear war, repeated the axiom about the readiness of Russia to take away the whole world with itself, and discussed the existence of the right to make a preventive strike. Continue reading
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Republicans and Democrats prepare bipartisan agenda of social cuts and war By Patrick Martin
The Democrats and Republicans are raising and spending a record amount, more than $5 billion, to carry out mudslinging attacks on each other and promote the illusion that voters have a real choice between these two equally right-wing parties controlled by the corporations and the wealthy. Continue reading
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A Dying Race Couldn’t Influence The Defense Of Western Civilization
The campaign against the military use of nuclear technology never lets up, even for a single day. The opponents of those deadly warheads have made a lot of progress: bans have been put in place against tests in the atmosphere, underwater, and in space. In general, the number of nuclear detonations has dropped significantly since… Continue reading
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Death Is in Charge of the Clattering Train of US Security Policy By Martin Sieff
Does the US Deep State really want to provoke a thermonuclear world war with Russia, China and Iran at the same time? The recklessness and confusion of US policies provoking major crises on every side certainly suggests so. Yet the truth may be even more terrifying. Continue reading
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US Tears up Landmark INF Treaty By Andrei Akulov
President Donald Trump has announced the decision to exit from the bedrock 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), which bans all land-based missiles carrying both nuclear and conventional warheads with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers, or 310 to 3,420 miles shorter- and intermediate-range missiles. It does not cover air-launched or sea-launched weapons. National… Continue reading
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While You Slept: The US Pentagon Declares “Russia is the Enemy” By Phil Butler
American foreign policy is more and more resembling the NFL’s and broadcast networks’ pre-game football hype before the Super Bowl. For those of you who grimaced while watching former President Barack Obama touchdown dancing and pretending to be a sports hero, the current POTUS is even worse. To make matters worse for humanity, many of… Continue reading
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The Pentagon’s insect army By Manlio Dinucci
The Pentagon is busy pursuing all sorts of research. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is studying the possibility of using insects to infect crops, while the Office of Naval Research hopes to use other insects as sensors, capable of detecting explosives. This is not science-fiction. Continue reading
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How the Tentacles of the US Military Are Strangling the Planet By Prof. Vijay Prashad
In June this year in Itoman, a city in Okinawa prefecture, Japan, a 14-year-old girl named Rinko Sagara read out of a poem based on her great-grandmother’s experience of World War II. Rinko’s great-grandmother reminded her of the cruelty of war. She had seen her friends shot in front of her. It was ugly. Continue reading
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“Porcine Plague” epidemic in Belgium: trigger is Pentagon experiments in Georgia
From the 100 000 page document published by the former Georgian Minister for National Security, Igor Guiorgadze, it appears that the Gilead Sciences lab at the Richard Lugar Centre, Tbilisi (Georgia) pursued chemical and biological weapons tests for the Pentagon [1]. These experiments, supposed to fight Hepatitis C, have cost the lives of 73 patients,… Continue reading
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Scientists Raise Alarm Over U.S. Bio-Weapon Programs By Moon of Alabama
Recent evidence about deadly tests of biological substances in Tbilisi, Georgia raised alarm about U.S. biological weapon research in foreign countries. European scientist are extremely concerned about a dubious research program, financed by the Pentagon, that seems designed to spread diseases to crops, animals and people abroad. The creation of such weapons and of special… Continue reading
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