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There Are Hopes for A Breakthrough in Iran-US Talks: Gary Sick

This interview was conducted in the final hours of which he held a historic, 15-minute phone conversation with his American counterpart Barack Obama.

(TEHRAN) - In less than 3 days, Iran and the six world powers (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) will be sitting at the negotiating table in Geneva to discuss the controversy over Iran’s nuclear program and find ways for getting out of the stalemate that has marred Iran’s relations with the West for more than one decade.

Following the victory of Dr. Hassan Rouhani in Iran’s June 14 presidential elections, hopes were revitalized that the nuclear standoff can be resolved...

Prove What You Don`t Have

Those who insisted that Iraq prove that it didn't have what it said it didn't have simply rejected Iraq's denial, which cost a million and a half lives and trillions of dollars.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Prove that you don't have what I believe you have! That was an exact demand made on Saddam Hussein. He scoffed. That brought "shock and awe", and Saddam was hanged on the mother of all ropes.

Prove that you don't have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The neocons sold the logic of that empty demand and the American public bought it.

`Damning Evidence` Becomes `No Clear Evidence`: Much-Delayed Report On Congenital Birth Defects In Iraq

"All studies done by the Ministry of Health prove with damning evidence that there has been a rise in birth defects and cancer, since the substances in question cause birth defects if the mother was exposed to them, or cancer, or in some cases, both." - senior MOH official in Baghdad

(LONDON) - In a 2010 alert, 'Beyond Hiroshima – The Non-Reporting Of Fallujah's Cancer Catastrophe', we noted the almost non-existent media response to the publication of a new study that had found high rates of infant mortality, cancer and leukemia in the Iraqi city.

The dramatic increases in these rates exceeded even those found in survivors of the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

They Don`t Want Us to Know About Israel`s Nukes

So let's ask about the rogue state's chemical weapons...

(LONDON) - UK Foreign Office ministers seem to have great difficulty answering simple questions about Israel’s terror capabilities.

It’s as if they don’t want to admit to the awful truth about the violent and lawless regime to which they’ve pledged everlasting support. Here’s a very recent example.

WHO Is Delaying Release of Iraqi Birth Defect Data?

Advocates wonder if truth is too toxic...

(WASHINGTON DC) - Observers say they are on the cusp of getting the hard evidence needed to prove Iraqis are suffering from a disproportionate rate of birth defects and cancers, likely due to massive pollution caused by the war.

So what’s the problem? Or should we say, WHO is the problem?

The WHO Must Release Report on Iraqi Birth Defects Now

"The indefinite postponement of the World Health Organisation's report is alarming scientists and activists."

(DETROIT) - Large parts of the Middle East are now contaminated with war pollutants.

In Iraq, war debris continues to wear away and erode populated cities. Such debris includes the wreckage of tanks and armoured vehicles, trucks and abandoned military ammunitions, as well as the remains of bombs and bullets.

A Palestinian in Hiroshima

Many Japanese yearn for a more caring society and support global solidarity, including with Palestine. This was shown vividly in our visit to Nagoya and Hiroshima.

(HIROSHIMA) - I and Oliver Stone both spoke at Hiroshima on the anniversary of the first nuclear bombing in human history and we are slated to speak in two days at Nagasaki on the anniversary of the second nuclear attack.

My speech is below in English (I will send the Japanese version later). These remain the most starkest of acts of state terror in Human history.

Harry Truman and Memory of Mass Murder

Weeks before the first bomb was dropped, Japan expressed its desire to surrender and end the war.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Harry Truman spoke in the U.S. Senate on June 23, 1941: "If we see that Germany is winning," he said, "we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible."

Did Truman value Japanese lives above Russian and German? There is nothing anywhere to suggest that he did.

Udall, Alexander Introduce Bipartisan Plan to Fulfill Commitment to Cold War Nuclear Workers

Bill Establishes an Independent Panel to Oversee Compensation Program, Add Transparency to Decisions Affecting Workers' Benefits

(KANSAS CITY) - Senators Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) reintroduced their bipartisan plan to create an independent advisory panel to help Cold War workers from Oak Ridge and other nuclear weapons facilities.

They're trying to help employees get the help they need to treat cancer and other illnesses they developed as a result of exposure to radiation.

We Can Afford Peace -- Peace activists at Seafair on July 31, 2013 in Elliott Bay

Event will take place with or without U.S. Navy fleet.

(ELLIOTT BAY) - Local activists will stage a water-based nonviolent demonstration for peace at the Seattle Seafair festival.

Other peace activists will meet on land near Pier 66 and at Piers 62/63 on the Seattle waterfront at the same time for a nonviolent demonstration for peace.