UK anti-nuclear weapons protesters. More photos . . . By Commander Robert Green, Royal Navy, Retired, Peace Magazine Five days after my first birthday the Enola Gay bombed Hiroshima. When I was 24, I was a bombardier-navigator in a nuclear…
Category: International
The blindness of militarism
By Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Over the past weekend hundreds rallied in Gangjeong village in South Korea to protect the rocks and the plant and animal life on Jeju Island that will be…
NATO continues killing spree in Africa and Asia
By Rick Rozoff, Global Research, May 15, 2011 On May 13 President Barack Obama welcomed North Atlantic Treaty Organization secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen to the White House and the two pledged to continue the world’s two major wars, those…
The Fukushima nuclear disaster in perspective
By Dr. Helen Caldicott, Global Research, May 12, 2011 First I want to present this report, produced by the New York Academy of Sciences, a report on Chernobyl. It can be downloaded.(2) They translated 5,000 articles from Russian for the…
Last WW1 Vet Dies
By Al Jazeera English, May 5, 2011 A significant chapter in military history has ended with the death of the last combat veteran from World War I. Claude ‘Chuckles’ Choules, the last-known male survivor out of more than 70 million…
Can we bring the troops home now?
Robert Fisk: If this is a US victory, does that mean its forces should go home now? Iran spoke for many Arabs when it said Bin Laden’s death took away the West’s reason to have troops in the region By…
NATO ponders putting ground troops in Libya
Russia Today – Italy will host the next major international meeting on Libya. Leaders from NATO and the Arab league will gather this Thursday to plan the political transition following the departure or ousting of Libyan leader Mamuamar Gaddafi. And…
From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Hubris and Tragedy
by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies University of Lethbridge From Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the witches brew of melting, spewing and exploding nuclear matter at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Number One, the history of humanity’s first…
The Euro-US war on Libya: Official lies and misconceptions of critics
By James Petras and Robin B. Abaya, Global Research, Mar. 30, 2011 Introduction Many critics of the ongoing Euro-US wars in the Middle East and, now, North Africa, have based their arguments on clichés and generalizations devoid of fact. The…
Who are the Libyan freedom fighters and their patrons?
By Professor Peter Dale Scott, Global Research, March 25, 2011 Peter Dale Scott’s Libyan Notebook [Editor’s Note: Author’s selected quotations and analysis] Preface The world is facing a very unpredictable and potentially dangerous situation in North Africa and the Middle…