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U.S. Threatens New Nuclear Tests To Push China Into A Treaty It Does Not Want
The Trump administration is hostile to any agreement that restricts its abilities to build, test and deploy nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER JUNE 2013
31 May 2013 — Housmans NEWS 1. STIR subscription offer2. London’s Burning season, July-August at Housmans Continue reading
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Video: Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street)
The community of occupiers at Liberty Plaza have sparked the process of building a movement that now transcends any one physical landmark. The tools to keep the movement alive belong to all of us. Continue reading
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NATO summit: ‘Not rational enough’ By Eric Walberg
The two-day NATO foreign ministers meeting on 22-23 April focussed on the military alliance’s 21st century Strategic Concept and on the war in Afghanistan. Top on the agenda was putting paid to any notion that nuclear weapons might be removed from Europe; rather, they would be integrated into the Pentagon’s pan-European interceptor missile programme in… Continue reading
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America’s Imperial Design: World Military Superiority Without Nuclear Weapons By Rick Rozoff
The U.S. led three major wars in less than four years against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq from 1999-2003 and in all three cases deployed from tens to hundreds of thousands of “boots on the ground” after air strikes and missile attacks. The Pentagon established military bases in all three war zones and, although depleted uranium… Continue reading
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US-Russian START treaty: A comprehensive flicker By Eric Walberg
Russian security experts fondly recall that Cold War-era arms control began with the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which curtailed further work on defensive weapons. The logic of the subsequent SALT and START agreements was based on the certainty that neither side could defend itself from a nuclear attack and therefore had no choice but to… Continue reading
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Reagan’s ghost: Starwars stops START By Eric Walberg
Russian confidence that US President Barack Obama might represent a fundamental change in the direction of US foreign policy is fast eroding. Even pro-Western analyst Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Centre reflects, “The people who see Russia as a problem are still at the Pentagon,” and he predicts that even if Obama lasts… Continue reading
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