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Charges Against Vandenberg 15 Dropped: Putting Nuclear Weapons Policies on Trial

The 15 had been arrested on February 25th for protesting the launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

(SANTA BARBARA) - Charges were dismissed on Wednesday in federal court in Santa Barbara, Calif., against fifteen people, including four members of Veterans For Peace.

The NEW Fourth Estate`s Foreign Policy Questions To Presidential Candidates

The new estimate claims over the next decade the United States is looking at spending $370 billion for its “nuclear forces.”

(CLERMONT, FL) - The New Fourth Estate is comprised of Internet reporters who do not take orders from editors or paychecks from conglomerates.

We seek the truth and report as a matter of public service.

Iraq Records Huge Rise in Birth Defects: `New Study Links Increase with Military Action by Western Forces`

There is 'compelling evidence' to link the increased numbers of defects and miscarriages to military assaults

(LONDON THE INDEPENDENT U.K.) - "...a new study reports a 'staggering rise' in birth defects among Iraqi children conceived in the aftermath of the war.

"High rates of miscarriage, toxic levels of lead and mercury contamination and spiralling numbers of birth defects ranging from congenital heart defects to brain dysfunctions and malformed limbs have been recorded..."

Who Needs Red Lines: Iran or Israel?

What Israel fears most is not Iran but being left to its own devices by the West.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - In his recent speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the United States and its allies to define clear red lines for the Iranian nuclear program, emphasizing that Iran will reach the threshold at which it could manufacture a nuclear bomb by mid 2013.

A deep scrutiny of the past and of present events and trends tells a different story.

Iran Will `Soon` Build Nuclear Bomb

West Continues Speculation on Iran Nuclear Work.

(TEHRAN Iran Review) - One of the most common political tools, which has been always used by Western politicians is to aggrandize a security crisis anywhere in the world and repeat it in different ways.

During recent years, efforts made by Iran to master nuclear technology have been used as an excuse by the Western officials in order to cast doubt on peaceful goals of Iran's nuclear energy program and warn the world that Iran will “soon” build a nuclear bomb.

Vanunu Responds to Gunter Grass and My Question to SECURITY

In his new poem, Grass compares Vanunu to the Biblical Joseph, who was thrown into a cistern by his brothers

(CLERMONT, FL) - The International Press and in particular the Israeli Media have been buzzing all weekend regarding a new poem by German writer and Nobel laureate Gunter Grass.

In this new writing he calls Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower, Mordechai Vanunu, a "paragon" "modern-day hero” and a "righteous man, who has remained loyal to his country the entire time."

Apartheid Leader Lectures the UN

Netanyahu's war mongering and idiotic speech merely confirmed the obvious conclusion about this rogue state: it is run by lunatics.

(BETHLEHEM) - The Prime Minister of Apartheid Israel just lectured the United Nations General Assembly! He spent most of his time nagging those present as if they were school children about Iran.

He even insulted their intelligence by showing them a diagram of a "bomb" and drawing a red line on it (yes literally with an actual red marker).

The Think Tank Clown: Patrick Clawson

As he retreats from the podium, the viewer awakes to the inhumanity of this figure, this Scholar, Researcher, this Clown.

(LAVERNE, CA) - Clowns befuddle a crowd.

They appear a pretense of the normal but caricatured to evoke laughter, surprise, at times derision, but always in context where they absorb self-deprecation, become the butt of jokes, become the audiences’ self, a make believe self, receiving the jibes, jests and buffoonery never allowed when alone.

When `Freedom of Speech; Translates Into Hate Crime

If freedom of speech is a universal value, then it should not be limited when it comes to criticizing Israel and talking about its dominance over the U.S. Congress and mass media.

(TEHRAN) - They see the offensive movie which has insulted one of the world's most ancient, venerated and popular religions in the light of their ambassador and other diplomatic staff being killed overseas.

Breaking the Deadlock over Iran`s Nuclear Talks: A Practical Model

All nuclear sites of Iran are under full supervision of the agency and legal inspections of those sites and centers are carried out on a regular basis.

(TEHRAN) - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has proposed that a new round of negotiations should be held with Iran for the resolution of outstanding issues next month (in October).

The question here is why the IAEA is not ready to reach a final agreement with Iran via the clear agenda which has been already accepted by both sides and is widely known as the ‘modality’?