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MPs 'regret' use of UK arms by Israel in Gaza | The Jewish Chronicle »
Posted by: dissent 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
A committee of MPs has said it was regrettable that arms components made in the UK were “almost certainly” used by Israel in the conflict ...
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Hussam Mohammed Amin:Former Iraqi Weapons Monitor Describes US Abuse For The First Time »
Posted by: Mikunited 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
By Michael Bronner Special to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund Major General Hussam Mohammed Amin, named the "Six of Clubs" on the Bush Administration's ...
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Japan's atomic cities bid for 2020 Olympics »
Posted by: Zurbin 1 month ago in News
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are launching a joint bid for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
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Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's Tomihisa Taue are ...Read (242) | Share | Discuss (1) | Read Full Story at cbc.ca
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Gun rights advocates sue over university weapons ban – OregonLive.com »
Posted by: gbudavid 3 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Gun rights advocates filed a suit today in the Oregon Court of Appeals seeking a ruling on the validity of a weapons ban at the ...
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Nuclear power in ASEAN region a security risk: Greenpeace warns »
Posted by: gpsea1 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Greenpeace today warned that that the recent nuclear weapons testing in North Korea has underscored the dangerous connection between nuclear power and nuclear arms, and ...
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Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara »
Posted by: BronxBomber 5 days, 8 hours ago in Science & Technology
Sahara Desert - Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was ...
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U.S. Officials Say Israel Struck in Sudan »
Posted by: dissent 7 months, 3 weeks ago in News
WASHINGTON — Israeli warplanes bombed a convoy of trucks in Sudan in January that was believed to be carrying arms to be smuggled into Gaza, according ...
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The Most Dangerous Nuclear Facility in the Middle East »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
There is no good evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. It has offered to allow regular International Atomic Energy Agency inspections of the ...
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Don't Israel's nuclear weapons count? »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Leaders of the rich nations have turned their fire on Iran, quite rightly. On Friday came news that the Islamic Republic had been building a ...
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Obama Versus the Angry White Men »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
On Monday, two men were spotted carrying semi-automatic weapons outside the venue where President Barack Obama delivered his latest speech on healthcare reform. When asked ...
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Obama v. Military-Industrial Complex »
Posted by: Tumultuous 3 weeks, 2 days ago in Political Opinion
The president has addressed the problem incrementally, reducing growth in spending in his first defense budget, establishing a timeline for withdrawal of American military forces ...
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US has lost 220,000 weapons in Afghanistan »
Posted by: Fedquip 9 months ago in News
A report from the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that at least 87,000 of these weapons can no longer be accounted for. An ...
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Time for an Israeli Strike? »
Posted by: jerusalemhosts 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Time for an Israeli Strike? With Iran's hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel's decision of whether ...
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Weapons failed U.S. troops in 2008 Afghanistan firefight - Washington Times »
Posted by: monicachenoa 1 month ago in Political News
It was chaos during the early-morning assault last year on a remote U.S. outpost in Afghanistan, and Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 carbine had ...
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Obama sets goal of world without nuclear weapons »
Posted by: Progressive 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
STRASBOURG, France - Welcomed with thunderous cheers, President Barack Obama told a European audience on Friday that he is setting a dramatic goal of "a world ...
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