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  • Depleted uranium: A death sentence here and abroad
    20 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Leuren Moret
    “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
    Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently contaminating large regions and countries downriver with Agent Orange, and environmentally the most devastating war in world history. But since 1991, the U.S. has staged four nuclear wars using depleted uranium weaponry, which, like (…)

  • Mushrooming depleted uranium (DU) scandal blamed for Sec of Veterans Affairs departure
    1 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Project Censored Award Winner
    Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter charged Monday that the reason Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down earlier this month was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq War.
    Writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter No. 169, Arthur N. Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, stated, “The real reason for Mr. Principi’s departure was really never given, however a special (…)

  • The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next?
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next? Murray Polner January 29, 2005 I started wearing a "Don’t Bomb Iran" pin in my lapel when the number of American dead in the Iraq War passed the 1400 mark with some 10,000 others wounded, plus tens of thousands of uncounted Iraqi civilians. As W.H. Auden memorably and painfully asked in his "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier":
    "To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
    With casualty lists (…)

  • Gaps in French Briat death report
    4 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Diet Simon
    The French anti-nuclear movement Réseau Sortir du nucléaire charges that there are serious gaps in the state attorney’s report on how a young activist was killed in November by a nuclear waste train.
    Twenty-two-year-old Sébastien Briat died on 7 November near Avricourt in Lorraine when he tried to stop a train taking waste from a French plutonium plant for storage in Germany, where it had originated.
    He was one of a group of eight. Contrary to first reports, it is now (…)

  • Sharper watch on nuclear trains
    25 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Diet Simon
    After a nuclear waste train ran over and killed the French activist Sébastien Briat nearly seven weeks ago, such trains are under sharper observation, writes the leftwing newspaper, Neues Deutschland. Many environment campaigners are asking themselves whether such an accident could also happen in Germany and what sort of inhibition threshold there might be for careless and inconsiderate driving of such trains.
    The paper, which was the official mouthpiece of the communist (…)

  • German industry pushing for nuclear waste dump
    13 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    German industry pushing for final nuclear waste dump
    by Diet Simon
    The German government, industry and anti-nuclear activists are arguing publicly again about final storage of nuclear waste.
    Industry wants a salt deposit experts condemn as unsafe. The activists want it scrapped altogether. And the environment minister is promising examination of three new sites but hasn’t moved on that in six years.
    The president of the federation of industry, BDI, Michael Rogowski, has criticised (…)

  • Germany-France nuclear waste train Wednesday
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Diet Simon
    German anti-nuclear activists say another train carrying highly radioactive waste is to roll through densely populated North-Rhine Westphalia state to the French plutonium factory at La Hague during the night of December 14 to 15.
    The activists in the industrial Ruhr region and the neighbouring Münsterland area bordering on Holland say the Castor casket containing the waste will come from the power stations Stade near Hamburg and mostly likely also Grohnde on the Weser (…)

  • Nuclear train death: "Strategy to scare us"
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Göttingen (Germany) anti-nuclear activists have reflected on the dangers of railway actions after a train killed one in France. The following was stated at a demonstration by the AntiAtomPlenum Göttingen on 8 November, a day after Sébastien Briat died:
    “Perhaps for many of us it became clear for the first time yesterday that it is not just a cat-and-mouse game we play, we have to play, every year.
    ”But the fatal accident in Avricourt did not come from nowhere. In earlier years it was a (…)

  • The Lying Game, Revisited
    24 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iran has nukes - they really really do! Scout’s honor! Cross my heart and hope to die!
    by Justin Raimondo
    We live in a recurring nightmare. That’s the only conclusion one can draw from today’s headlines, which, as we draw closer to a confrontation with Iran, bear an eerie resemblance to yesterday’s breaking news. It seems like only yesterday that a Middle Eastern exile group – the Iraqi National Congress (INC) – was feeding the U.S. government "intelligence" that drew a fearsome portrait (…)

  • Mordechai Vanunu : long walk to freedom
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mordechai Vanunu served 18 years in an Israeli prison for blowing the whistle on the country’s nuclear weapons programme. Last week he was arrested again - but not before he had given Duncan Campbell the following exclusive interview
    by Duncan Campbell
    It was precisely noon in Jerusalem and the bells in the tower of St George’s Cathedral were echoing over the city. The short, trim man in the apricot shirt and dark trousers who was ringing them was smiling broadly. "Down there," he said, (…)