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Obama Stands Up to Israel, Tamps Down Iran War Threats

Barak: Israel "very far off" from decision on Iran attack".

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In a stunning departure from recent Israeli threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Wednesday used an interview with Israel's Army radio to assert that any attack on Iran "is very far off."

He added, "We haven't made any decision to do this."

Dancing the Apocalypso with the Microbial Gestapo

The BWC remains a paper tiger, a treaty in name only, with no means of dealing with violations and no way to verify compliance.

(GENEVA) - The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention was predicted to be a dud. According to a number of BWC watchers, the expectations for this conference accomplishing very much at all were quite low.

John Bolton was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security back in 2001 when the US stonewalled the long awaited verification protocols...

The Age of Wrong

“This is the age of Wrong and the followers of Right have passed away... Do you not see that the Divine Commands are neglected and what is forbidden is practiced with relish?” - Imam Husain (A.S.)

(TEHRAN) - At the behest of their war-profiteering corporate masters, the pseudo-scholarly pundits are once again prostituting themselves on the political streets of America by calling for a preemptive attack against Iran.

One recent call for a “surgical strike” comes from U.S. Council on Foreign Relations scholar Matthew Kroenig...

When is a terrorist not a terrorist? & War with Iran or not?

“On occasions scientists working on the nuclear program in Iran turn up dead. I think that’s a wonderful thing.” -

(LONDON) - The longer and complete form of the first question in the headline is - When is a terrorist not a terrorist in the eyes of the Obama administration (not to mention all of its predecessors) and the governments of the Western world?

Answer: When he or she is an Israeli Mossad agent or asset.

Nuclear Assassinations Just the Tip of the Iceberg

The US is not the only party which has chosen to be in denial...

(TEHRAN) - "I saw a motorcycle. They were wearing ski masks -- black ski masks. They were two people. I saw the motorcycle speed by. I saw them. It seemed as if they had something in their hands.”

This is how a female witness described the scene of the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.

It`s ALL a God Thing

Dorothy Day and Rachel Corrie told the stories of the oppressed. They both are dead, but as long as I can do something and have breath, I too will tell the stories I heard and try to be a peacemaker...

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Over the last few days, Dorothy Day has come up in many conversations with local people as well as Internet connections.

Coming soon is my book review of ALL IS GRACE, A Biography of Dorothy Day, by Jim Forest who knew her as a friend and mentor.

Activists have their Say in Court for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

A retired Navy nuclear submarine commander testified that national security strategy based on the threat of nuclear annihilation is dangerous...

(SEATTLE) - Peace activists made their case for the abolition of nuclear weapons, specifically the Trident nuclear weapons system, while on trial in a Kitsap County courtroom on January 4th and 5th for blocking the entrance to a local nuclear weapons base.

The ten defendants in two separate trials were charged with being “pedestrians on Roadway Unlawfully,” a traffic infraction.

Reactor Reax: Nuclear Industry Report

Examining the risks and ongoing situations that today define nuclear power and energy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - This week in Reactor Reax we hear more about the ongoing problems in Japan based on the recent tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima prefecture.

An LA Times report details the short-circuiting of the U.S. nuclear renaissance of new power plant construction.

County Trials this Week for Civil Resistance at Trident Submarine Base

They are charged with being “pedestrians in the roadway”, a traffic infraction.

(SEATTLE) - Eleven nuclear resisters will appear in a Kitsap County courtroom this week in two separate trials for their acts of civil resistance to the Trident nuclear weapons system.

The Trident submarine base at Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, contains the largest concentration of operational nuclear weapons. Each of the 8 Trident submarines at Bangor carries 24 Trident II (D-5) missiles...

Comparing Hitler`s `final solution` and Rajapaksa`s `final war` on LTTE

Groups urge opposition to heinous attempts to do business on the dead bodies of the Tamil martyrs.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The UN Report "on accountability in Sri Lanka" is finally out, it amounts to a further brandishing of the liberation struggle for separate Tamil Eelam as 'violent ethnic conflict'.

It is a follow-up on the joint statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and the Government of Sri Lanka made in 2009.