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Unavailable, Unethical, Unhinged: U.S. H-bomb Unit in Germany Should be First to Go
Anti-nuclear activists placed sunflowers, a symbol of nuclear disarmament, in the fence at Germany’s Büchel air base Thur., July 24, marking the 30th anniversary of protests at the base. Photo by Luthar Lange. For the last four years, the U.S. hydrogen bombs stationed in Germany have been stranded at Büchel Air Force Base, southeast of Cologne, unavailable to the fighter jets and pilots that are rehearsed and ready to detonate them against Russia.
Scientist’s Warnings Against Radiation
Cindy Folkers and Ian Fairlie have written an essential book. The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation presents the findings of 39 scientists who studied and raised alarms over the health effects of radiation exposure and who consequently suffered severe blowback from universities, government and industry. The scientists proved that radiation risks have “consistently been underestimated” for decades. Their findings angered both nuclear profiteers and research grant authorities.
Radiation Exposure Rule Changes to Increase Cancer Rates
Among the hundreds of Trump White House executive orders (EO), No. 14300 directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken its long-standing radiation exposure rule, “Standards for Protection Against Radiation.
Blind Eyes at the United Nations While the U.S. Bombs for Nonproliferation
There is deadly irony in the juxtaposition of Trump’s ‘anti-nuclear war’ on Iran, and the ongoing United Nations Review Conference for the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, or NPT RevCon. The decision to initiate a war of aggression against Iran killing thousands of civilians was made (among other public pretexts) in order to prevent Iran’s allegedly intended future construction of a nuclear weapon.
“A War Of Aggression Constitutes An International Crime:” Doesn’t This Describe The War Against Iran?
African News By John LaForge Photos: Wikimedia Commons “It is the plot and the act of aggression which we charge to be crimes.”– Supreme Court Justice Robert H.
War crimes in the Middle East
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By John LaForge With Spain and Austria refusing to allow their airspace to be used for the massive, unprovoked U.S. bombardment of Iran, there is international denunciation of this illegal action; and the initiation of the U.S. carpet bombing of Iran is clearly unlawful in view of the UN Charter, the Kellogg Briand Pact, the Geneva Protocol, and the Nuremberg Charter of 1945.
Talks with the US end without a deal over excessive US demands: Iran
Talks with the US end without a deal over excessive US demands: Iran Al Mayadeen | April 12, 2026 Iran’s Tasnim News Agency reported on Sunday morning that US-Iran talks ended with no agreement due to “excessive US demands” that prevented the formation of a common framework. The agency said Washington sought to secure concessions it had failed to achieve through military escalation, including demands related to Iran’s enriched materials and control over the Strait of Hormuz.
Feeling Better, Getting Worse: How Psychiatric Drugs Create the Illusion They Cure
Feeling Better, Getting Worse: How Psychiatric Drugs Create the Illusion They Cure An Essay on Short-Term Improvement, Long-Term Dependence, and the Evidence Patients Never See Lies are Unbekoming | April 9, 2026 Of 18,426 patients enrolled in 71 antidepressant trials — 67,319 pages of clinical data, a stack seven metres high, obtained from drug regulators and read for the first time by Peter Gøtzsche’s research group — 12 percent more dropped out while taking the drug than while taking...
‘Nobody Told Me’: Former Mental Health Patient Calls Out Dangerous Side Effects of Psychiatric Drugs
‘Nobody Told Me’: Former Mental Health Patient Calls Out Dangerous Side Effects of Psychiatric Drugs By Jill Erzen | The Defender | April 1, 2026 The mental health system is failing children by treating everyday struggles as “chronic illness requiring lifelong pharmaceutical treatment,” former psychiatric patient Laura Delano told lawmakers this week.
Dr. Abu-Sitta: Beirut ‘felt like a day in Shifa Hospital’
Dr. Abu-Sitta: Beirut ‘felt like a day in Shifa Hospital’ By Janna Kadri | Al Mayadeen | April 11, 2026 A wave of Israeli bombardments that killed hundreds of civilians across Lebanon within minutes was deliberately designed to overwhelm the country’s healthcare system and maximize deaths, Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta told Al Mayadeen. “Basically, in a period of 10 minutes, over 1,400 people were wounded and 340 were killed,” he said.
Iran Has Won the War, It Will Be Up to the US to Secure the Peace: Mohammad Marandi
Iran Has Won the War, It Will Be Up to the US to Secure the Peace: Mohammad Marandi Sputnik – 11.04.2026 Whether or not Iran-US peace negotiations succeed depends entirely on the American side, renowned international affairs commentator Dr. Mohammad Marandi told Sputnik, commenting on Saturday’s unprecedented face-to-face talks in Islamabad, Pakistan. Iran didn’t start the war, it wasn’t the one to escalate it, and it wasn’t the one to call for a halt in hostilities.
Iran condemns assassination threats against Iranian negotiators amid US talks
Iran condemns assassination threats against Iranian negotiators amid US talks Press TV – April 11, 2026 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has called for public condemnation of the assassination threats leveled against Iranian negotiators amid ongoing talks with the United States that are aimed at permanently ending the US-Israeli aggression against the country.
Between war and industrial breakdown: The US-Israeli attrition crisis
Between war and industrial breakdown: The US-Israeli attrition crisis The Cradle | April 10, 2026 The US–Israeli war on Iran has laid bare a structural crisis at the heart of Washington’s war machine – one that calls into question its ability to sustain prolonged conflict, let alone replenish what it expends.
Pressure builds on Iran to ‘drop’ Lebanon ceasefire demand as Islamabad talks hang in balance
Pressure builds on Iran to ‘drop’ Lebanon ceasefire demand as Islamabad talks hang in balance The Cradle | April 11, 2026 Pakistani officials are pressuring the Iranian delegation in Islamabad to enter talks with their US counterparts by “dropping” demands for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to information obtained by Lebanese journalist and The Cradle columnist Dr. Mohamad Hassan Sweidan.
In another clash report, US denies agreement to release Iran’s assets
In another clash report, US denies agreement to release Iran’s assets Al Mayadeen | April 11, 2026 The United States has denied reports stating it agreed to release Iran’s frozen assets in Qatar and other foreign banks, one of Tehran’s prerequisite for negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan. A senior Iranian source had stated that the United States in fact agreed, describing the move as a sign of “seriousness” ahead of potential negotiations in Islamabad, according to a report by Reuters.
La recuperación gangrenada de Fukushima
Artículo publicado originalmente en Beyond Nuclear International. Viene de la primera parte. Cualquier exposición a la radiación es peligrosa, pero los efectos adversos como la enfermedad por radiación, los trastornos inmunitarios o los cánceres causados por el contacto con el suelo radiactivo tardarían años o décadas en aparecer, debido al período de latencia entre la exposición a la radiación y la aparición de los problemas de salud inducidos.
Trump’s False Rationale For War With Iran
Africa News Reported By John LaForge Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons The president says Iran must not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. In his February 24 speech to Congress, he said of Iran’s leaders, “They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon.’” This is untrue, as we have heard “those secret words” many times.
OPINION: No rationale for presidential war on Iran
US Posted Saturday, February 28, 2026 1:04 pm The president says Iran must not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. In his February 24 speech to Congress, he said of Iran’s leaders, “They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon.’” This is untrue, as we have heard “those secret words” many times.
No Rationale for Presidential War on Iran
The president says Iran must not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. In his February 24 speech to Congress, he said of Iran’s leaders, “They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon.’” This is untrue, as we have heard “those (not-at-all) secret words” many times.
Illegal Orders and the Criminals Who Give Them
The president and secretary of defense have failed in their effort to see to the execution of six members of Congress after the lawmakers had the nerve to urge members of the U.S. military to refuse illegal orders, in other words, to obey the law. The six Democrats — House members Jason Crow of Colo., Maggie Goodlander and Chris Deluzio of New Hampshire, and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, and Senators Mark Kelly of Ariz. and Elissa Slotkin of Mich.
La recuperación de Fukushima se ve plagada de contratiempos
Artículo publicado originalmente en Beyond Nuclear International. Japón es una de las zonas más propensas a los terremotos del mundo, y los seísmos habituales traen recuerdos traumáticos del 11 de marzo de 2011, cuando un terremoto sin precedentes dejó 19 000 muertos y destruyó la central nuclear de Fukushima-Daiichi, con seis reactores.
Illegal Orders and the Criminals Who Give Them
The president and secretary of defense have failed in their effort to see to the execution of six members of Congress after the lawmakers urged members of the U.S. military to obey the law. The six Democrats — Representatives Jason Crow of Colo., Maggie Goodlander and Chris Deluzio of New Hampshire, and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, as well as Senators Mark Kelly of Ariz. and Elissa Slotkin of Mich.
Radioactive Contamination of Shrimp, Cloves, Shoes, Zinc Powder Original
The widespread cesium-137 contamination that spread far beyond an industrial area in Indonesia has led to radioactive contamination of exported shrimp, cloves, shoe parts, and concentrated zinc powder. The contaminated products were exported to the United States, the Netherlands, and possibly elsewhere. The discovery of shipping containers contaminated with cesium-137 at several U.S. seaports last August led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to urge a recall of tons of the frozen shrimp.
The don's hoard of fleas
By JOHN LAFORGE The Drill Baby Don has unveiled a new yacht club for mobsters. Perhaps his humorless advisors didn’t realize how closely its moniker, Board of Peace, resembles the title Golding’s novel of savagery Lord of the Flies. The Don’s membership fee for his, let’s call it the ‘Hoard of Fleas,’ is a cool $1 billion in cash that will be collected in brown paper bags. kAm“~?46 E96 3@2C5 :D 7@C>65[ H6 42? 5@ AC6EEJ >F49 H92E6G6C H6 H2?E[” E96 3=@?5 s@?
The Don’s Hoard of Fleas
The Drill Baby Don has unveiled a new yacht club for mobsters. Perhaps his humorless advisors didn’t realize how closely its moniker, Board of Peace, resembles the title Golding’s novel of savagery Lord of the Flies. The Don’s membership fee for his, let’s call it the ‘Hoard of Fleas,’ is a cool $1 billion in cash that will be collected in brown paper bags. “Once the board is formed, we can do pretty much whatever we want,” the blond Don bomber ominously told the Davos gathering Dec. 21.
El tritio filtrado que llegó al Mississippi
Artículo publicado originalmente en Southside Pride. En abril del año pasado, informé sobre las falsas garantías ofrecidas por Xcel Energy y la Comisión Reguladora Nuclear (NRC) en relación con la fuga de noviembre de 2022 del reactor nuclear de Monticello, Minnesota, de unos 829.000 galones de agua de refrigeración que contenían una enorme concentración de tritio radiactivo (técnicamente, 5,2 millones de picocurios por litro).
Venezuela, Wars of Aggression, and Nuremberg Law
The judges at their bench (left) in Room 600 at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, during proceedings against leading Nazi figures for war crimes at the International Military Tribunal (IMT), Germany, 1945. Image Wikipedia.
OPINION: Murder most foul --
Navy Veteran And Author Says Boat Strikes Are Unconstitutional At a press conference Tuesday, President Trump and his cabinet including the Defense Secretary, addressed the growing scrutiny on the US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisles are questioning the use of the president’s commander-in-chief authority to sanction these attacks without the lack of congressional approval.
Nuremberg Law should apply to nuclear weapons Before they’re used again
With another film depiction of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal story being debuted, today’s plans and preparations involving thermonuclear weapons should be adjudged in this historical context, before they are used again. Justice Jackson said in his opening remarks to the Tribunal that if the law it was about to enforce was to be viewed as legitimate, it must be applied universally, and not only to the defeated.
Nuremberg Law Should Apply to Nuclear Weapons Before They’re Used Again
With another film depiction of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal story being debuted, today’s plans and preparations involving thermonuclear weapons should be adjudged in this historical context, before they are used again. The United States was instrumental in creating the Nuremberg Charter, Principles and Judgment, and in orchestrating the Tribunals. The chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H.
Nuremberg Law Should Apply To Nuclear Weapons Before They’re Used Again
Black International News By John LaForge Photos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia Commons With another film depiction of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal story being debuted, today’s plans and preparations involving thermonuclear weapons should be adjudged in this historical context, before they are used again. The United States was instrumental in creating the Nuremberg Charter, Principles and Judgment, and in orchestrating the Tribunals.
Missile Defense Fraud Goes Ballistic: Needless, Unworkable, Gold-Plated, Dangerous, & Corrupt Original
The nuclear weapons thriller “A House of Dynamite,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow, depicts the catastrophic failure of U.S. anti-ballistic missiles to shoot down a long-range nuclear-armed missile, fired by unidentified assailants in the eastern Pacific, which is honing in on Chicago. In the film, two “ground-based interceptors” (GBIs) are fired at the terror-inducing missile, but one misfires and the other just misses.
Retired general condemns NATO's nuclear exercise
NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This year’s thermonuclear dry run —dubbed Steadfast Noon — got started Oct. 13, according to NATO’s press office and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, or SHAPE, in Mons, Belgium.
Retired general condemns NATO's nuclear exercise
NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This year’s thermonuclear dry run —dubbed Steadfast Noon — got started Oct. 13, according to NATO’s press office and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, or SHAPE, in Mons, Belgium.
NATO’s Nuclear Threats on Parade
NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This year’s thermonuclear dry run—dubbed Steadfast Noon—got started October 13 according to NATO’s press office and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, or SHAPE, in Mons, Belgium.
NATO’s Nuclear Threats on Parade
NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This year’s thermonuclear dry run⸺dubbed Steadfast Noon⸺got started October 13 according to NATO’s press office and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, or SHAPE, in Mons, Belgium.
NATO’s Nuclear Attack Threats Continue in Europe
NATO’s nuclear attack threats are on parade and its leaders talk as if they are rational. “Deterrence suspended rational thinking in the Nuclear Age.” The likely consequences of nuclear war have no politically, militarily or morally acceptable justification, and therefore the threat to use nuclear weapons is indefensible. NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn.
Shrimp Sold at Walmart, Kroger and Elsewhere Across 29 States Recalled over Radioactive Contamination
In a story unprecedented in my memory, multiple cargo containers carrying shrimp from Indonesia to U.S. grocers were found contaminated with dangerously radioactive cesium-137 (Cs-137). None of the dozens of reports I reviewed explained how the cancer-causing isotope Cs-137⸺ a human-made radionuclide only produced inside nuclear reactors ⸺ spread to multiple cargo containers and some frozen shrimp.
Fukushima Recovery Plagued with Setbacks
Fukushima Workers Flee Site After Tsunami Scare Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone areas in the world, and the regular quakes raise traumatic memories of the March 11, 2011, record-breaker that left 19,000 dead and smashed the six-reactor Fukushima-Daiichi site. A magnitude 5.5 quake struck just off Japan’s southeast Tokara coast on July 3; a mag. 4.2 quake hit east of Iwaki, in Fukushima Prefecture July 12; and a mag. 4.1 quake shook the same area July 25.
Vonnegut on Nagasaki: “The most racist, nastiest act by this country, after human slavery”
Vonnegut on Nagasaki: “The most racist, nastiest act by this country, after human slavery” ““The rights and wrongs of Hiroshima are debatable,” Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, once said, “but I have never heard a plausible justification of Nagasaki” — which he labeled a war crime.” Author: John LaForge, August 7, 2014, https://www.peacevoice.info/2014/08/06/vonnegut-on-nagasaki-the-most-racist-nastiest-act-by-this-country-after-human-slavery/ For the full article: Vonnegut...
LaForge: U.S. atomic bombings didn’t save lives or end the war
Aug. 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius explosion (10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun) over the city.
U.S. atomic bombings didn’t save lives or end the war
By John LaForge August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius explosion (10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun) over the city.
U.S. Atomic Bombings Didn’t Save Lives or End the War
August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius explosion (ten thousand times hotter than the surface of the sun) over the city.
The Atomic Bombings Did Not Save Lives or End the War Original
This August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima[1] was the effect of jolting the city with a 60-million-degree (Celsius) explosion (ten thousand degrees hotter than the surface of the sun)[2].
OPINION: Trinity bomb test - risking doomsday they lit the match anyway
The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. When Robert Oppenheimer, the civilian head of the program, informed his boss, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Arthur Compton, about the test’s apocalyptic risk, Compton was appalled.
US/Israel Versus Iran - Round One
US/Israel Versus Iran – Round One By William Schryver – imetatronink – July 5, 2025 My summary assessment of the missile war over Israel during the 12-day-long first act of the ongoing war between Israel et alia and Iran et alia : The first Iranian counterstrike against Israel (14 June) began with a few hundred drones and relatively antiquated subsonic cruise missiles, whose primary mission was to soak up air to air and Iron Dome magazine depth.
Path to peace lies beneath our feet; strength will not bring true peace: Chinese foreign minister
Path to peace lies beneath our feet; strength will not bring true peace: Chinese foreign minister Global Times | July 5, 2025 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday criticized the notion of “might makes right,” questioning where rules and justice stand under such logic at a joint press conference in Paris with his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot. “Strength will not bring true peace; it may well open ‘Pandora’s box’.
Major Study: ‘Long Covid’ Caused by ‘Vaccines,’ Not Virus
Major Study: ‘Long Covid’ Caused by ‘Vaccines,’ Not Virus By Frank Bergman | Slay News | July 2, 2025 A shocking new peer-reviewed study has just confirmed that so-called “long Covid” is actually a side effect of the mRNA “vaccines” and not the virus.
Protesters in London defy ban to rally in support of Palestine Action
Protesters in London defy ban to rally in support of Palestine Action Palestine Action supporters outside London’s High Court in London, July 4, 2025. (Reuters) Press TV – July 5, 2025 In a direct challenge to the British government’s new ban, protesters have gathered in central London to show solidarity with the pro-Palestinian campaign group, Palestine Action.
Barbadian court hears genocide case over Israeli war crimes in Gaza
Barbadian court hears genocide case over Israeli war crimes in Gaza Press TV – July 5, 2025 In a potentially landmark action for global justice, the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration (CMPI) has initiated a pioneering case in the Supreme Court of Barbados, urging the government to address Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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