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WikiLeaks: Advancing an Israeli Agenda?

How do we reconcile the Israel lobby’s apparently schizophrenic reaction to WikiLeaks? Could it be that Julian Assange has killed two birds for Israel with one document dump?

(OSAKA, Japan) - Like 9/11, WikiLeaks has been singularly good for Israel.

Asked on the night of September 11, 2001 what the terrorist attacks meant for U.S.-Israel relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, the then former prime minister, tactlessly but accurately replied, “It’s very good.”

Reactor Reax: Nuclear Energy Reporting This Week

The latest stories from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The nuclear industry is seeking to capitalize on legitimate concerns about climate change in order to gain access to the federal, state and local subsidies necessary to prop up this mature but uneconomic energy industry.

Connecting Dots from Assange to Vanunu

...and On Waiting a Response from The White House.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - In early December 2010, I received this email inquiry:

“Right after the first leaks, suddenly the Swedish authorities want to arrest Assange for investigation of an incident involving what they themselves call 'consensual sex.'...And won’t give any details. Then, when the recent leaks took place, suddenly there is an international warrant for him. Does that sound remotely like a frame?"

Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed, Two Injured

Recently released Wikileaks documents show not just Israel, but Saudi Arabia also, could pose a threat to Iran's nuclear program.

(TEHRAN PRESS TV) - An Iranian academic has been killed and another university professor and his wife wounded in two separate car explosions in Tehran.

Yet unknown terrorists exploded the cars of the two academics in separate places on Monday morning, Fars news agency reported.

Vanunu and Pollard: Time for Compassion and Common Sense

Information Pollard sold a quarter of a century ago is old news now, as is everything Vanunu knew about Israel’s Dimona plant.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Jonathan Jay Pollard was born in 1954 in Texas and grew up in an affluent family in Indiana. Until 1998 Israel publicly denied that Pollard was an Israeli spy, although it granted him citizenship in 1995.

Last week the relentless campaign to release Pollard was reignited with a letter signed by more than 30 Democratic members of the House calling on the president to grant clemency to the confessed spy.

Cosmic Irony and Vanunu Mordechai

“I am not harming Israel. I am not interested in Israel. I want to tell you something very important. I suffered here 18 years because I am a Christian, because I was baptized into Christianity...” - Mordechai Vanunu

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Cosmic Irony is the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations.

It also encompass’s the belief that the universe is so large and man so small that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man.

Enduring Nuclear Commitments and Persistent Dissent

65 years after Little Boy and Fat Man, we all suffer from the continuous ionizing radiation pollution and contamination in the US and other locations.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Today, Obama released plans to invest more than $85 billion over the next decade to "modernize the U.S. nuclear weapons complex that supports our deterrent."

This represents a $4.1 billion increase over the next five years relative to the plan provided to Congress in May. This level of funding is unprecedented since the end of the Cold War.

Open Letter: Please Grant Mordechai Vanunu Free Departure Out of Israel

Vanunu is a former Israeli nuclear technician who was imprisoned for 18 years after revealing details of Israel's nuclear weapons program in 1986.

(BERLIN) - In this letter the signatories ask the two ministers to give Mordechai Vanunu free departure to enable him to participate in the ceremonial act for the bestowal of the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Medal next month in Berlin.

Mordechai Vanunu is the laureate of the Carl von Ossietzky Medal 2010.

Group Wants Nuclear Loan Guarantees Blocked if France Refuses Support for U.S. Nonproliferation Standards

Nonproliferation/U.S. Nuclear Loan Guarantees - Bipartisan Group to Obama: Block Edf-Areva Nuclear LGs If France Refuses to Support America’s Global Nonproliferation Standards

(NEW YORK) - Leading US nuclear control experts from both the Right and the Left - called on President Obama today to condition the provision of any US federal energy loan guarantees to foreign nuclear suppliers.

Specifically, this would require countries wishing to expand their nuclear business in the US to support strong US nonproliferation standards for nuclear exports globally.

May Aung San Suu Kyi`s Light Shine on Tel Aviv and onto Berlin

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Hours before her anticipated release scores of supporters gathered near the home of Nobel Peace Prize laureate pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hoping to see her in her first few minutes of freedom after seven years of house detention under Myanmar's ruling generals.

Aung San Suu Kyi swept to victory in the 1990 election by a landslide on top of the National League for Democracy party, but the military refused to hand over power and clamped down on opponents.