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By Andy Borowitz
By Hannah Arendt
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Apr 7, 2013
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Apr 2, 2013
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 1, 2013
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Larry Wright, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Mar 31, 2013
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Mar 29, 2013
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Iraq whistle-blower reminds us that Bush lied. Plus: Obama in the Holy Land, antagonizing fat people and fighting to save a great work of political art.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Iraq whistle-blower reminds us that Bush lied. Plus: Obama in the Holy Land, antagonizing fat people and fighting to save a great work of political art.
Posted on Mar 22, 2013
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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United States Department of Energy
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Five more tanks are leaking at a shuttered nuclear facility in Washington state.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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James Vaughan (CC-BY-SA)
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North Korea carried out its third and largest nuclear test since 2006 on Tuesday, drawing international condemnation and a rebuke from China, the nation’s closest ally.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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Mark Rain (CC-BY)
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The Iranian president has offered to negotiate personally with the United States over his country’s nuclear program—with one proviso.
Posted on Feb 10, 2013
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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AP/Vahid Salemi
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By Juan Cole — President Barack Obama said, “The Iranian government must face a world that stays united against its nuclear ambitions.” The refusal of 120 countries to boycott Iran undermines the point.
Posted on Sep 9, 2012
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Abode of Chaos (CC BY 2.0)
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Israel’s Channel 10 reported this week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is determined to attack Iran before the U.S. elections” and that Israel is now “closer than ever” to a military strike intended to foil Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Posted on Aug 25, 2012
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U.S. Air Force/Staff Sgt. Eric Harris
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By Bill Boyarsky — President Barack Obama is making sure that foreign policy will remain in the hands of the military-industrial complex. Whoever is in charge, the military, the intelligence spooks and the war industries always seem to co-opt the president.
Posted on Jun 20, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s quite possible that on Election Day, voters’ most urgent concerns—economic or not—will be driven by overseas events that neither President Obama nor his Republican opponent can predict or control.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By William Pfaff — European missile defense against the threat of hypothetical Iranian nuclear missile attack is a make-work project for the American aerospace industry and always has been.
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By Joe Conason — Unlike his irresponsible critics on the right, Obama cannot ignore the potential costs of another Mideast war, which could wreck fragile economies both here and abroad, increase the peril to U.S. troops in Afghanistan as well as throughout the region, and perhaps escalate into a global conflict of unpredictable scope.
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Thierry Ehrmann (CC-BY)
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By Amy Goodman — Democrats and Republicans agree on one thing: They’re going to force nuclear power on the public, despite the astronomically high risks, both financial and environmental.
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White House / Pete Souza
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AP claims a source familiar with high-level American-Israeli discussions says Israeli officials have made it clear they will not alert the U.S. before any attack by their country on Iran.
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By Eugene Robinson — We’ve heard this quickening drumbeat before. Last time, it led to the tragic invasion and occupation of Iraq. This time, if we let the drummers provoke us into war with Iran, the consequences will likely be far worse.
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By Richard Reeves — If this was the last Republican debate, or the last important one, it was as entertaining and revealing as most of the previous 19. And scary.
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AP / Ross D. Franklin
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By Robert Scheer — Here we go again. With the economy showing faint signs of life, the leading Republican candidates have returned to the elixir of warmongering to once again sway the gullible masses.
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White House / Pete Souza
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In the brief interview he gave NBC before the Super Bowl, President Obama declared, “I’ve been very clear that we’re going to do everything we can to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and creating an arms race, a nuclear arms race, in a volatile region.” Sounds like a very laudable goal, right? Except for the fact that the nuclear arms race in the Middle East is already under way.
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Thanks to the deplorable treatment of journalists during OWS, the U.S. drops in the Press Freedom Index; turns out, it’s more environmentally friendly to reuse an old building than to build a new one in its place; and a peaceful Occupy L.A. protester is charged with lynching. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 26, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — In recent weeks, radiation levels have spiked at the Fukushima nuclear power reactors in Japan, with recorded levels of 10,000 millisieverts per hour at one spot. This is the number reported by the reactor’s discredited owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., although that number is simply as high as the Geiger counters go.
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Bjoern Schwarz (CC-BY)
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Just two and a half months after Japan’s nuclear disaster kicked off a global rethink, Germany’s governing coalition has committed to closing down all of the country’s nuclear power plants by 2022. Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany will replace nuclear, which ... (more)
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Illustration by PZS based on a graphic by Cary Bass
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After five weeks of struggling to avoid a total meltdown at the quake- and tsunami-battered Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. has announced that it could be nine months before it is able to cool damaged reactors completely.
Posted on Apr 17, 2011
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By Arcadio Esquivel, Cagle Cartoons, La Prensa, Panama —
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The GOP begins to roll back Wall Street reform, college graduates are snubbing law school, and Washington’s pro-nuke consensus. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Jiho, Cagle Cartoons, France —
Posted on Mar 18, 2011
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flo21 (CC-BY-SA)
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The EU’s energy commissioner declared that all of Europe’s 143 nuclear reactors would be reviewed for safety and said of the Japanese crisis, “There is talk of an apocalypse and I think the word is particularly well chosen.” (more)
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By Amy Goodman — A reporter, describing the devastation of one city in Japan, wrote: “It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. I write these facts ... as a warning to the world.” The reporter was Wilfred Burchett, writing from Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 5, 1945.
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By Eugene Robinson — Nuclear power was beginning to look like a panacea—a way to lessen our dependence on oil, make our energy supply more self-sufficient and significantly mitigate global warming, all at the same time. Now it looks more like a bargain with the devil.
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A large explosion has occurred at the Unit 3 reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant. The explosion included a large orange flash, which indicates that it was likely the result of a hydrogen detonation. This explosion follows the partial destruction of the Unit 1 containment building in a previous hydrogen explosion.
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AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian
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In a confidential report released Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency says it has received new information that suggests Iran may be trying to develop a nuclear-armed missile, marking a crucial point in the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the U.N.
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AP / Fareed Khan
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By Fred Branfman — There are few scenarios more frightening for America than a domestic nuclear terrorist attack. We now know that U.S. policy is actually increasing the danger of a nuclear incident.
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AP / Sebastian Scheiner
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By Juan Cole — As the decade draws to a close, it is clear that the bright hopes inspired by Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech have markedly faded, and the disappointments have outweighed achievements in the most important arena for contemporary American foreign policy.
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Flickr / Tim Suess
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The Ukrainian government is planning to invite tourists inside the 30-mile exclusion zone to get up close and personal with nuclear disaster. The ministry of emergency situations says visitors should be safe—provided they don’t wander. ... (more)
Posted on Dec 14, 2010
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By Joe Conason — By stalling or killing President Obama’s new START treaty, Republicans would provide moral support to Iran, North Korea and any other rogue regime seeking to arm itself with nukes.
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Flickr / Douglas Muth (CC-BY-SA)
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Aspiring senator John Raese has said some strange things, but it’s hard to top “We need 1,000 laser systems put in the sky and we need it right now. That is [of] paramount importance.” Raese is so worried about nuclear attack, you see, he would like to deploy “right now” a technology that probably won’t be workable for at least 20 years.
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By William Pfaff — Of all of the sources of strategic delusion and political illusion today, nuclear weapons undoubtedly make the most prodigious contribution to hypocrisy and useless expense.
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AP / Javier Galeano
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By Saul Landau — After three hours of conversation, it is clear that Fidel Castro has definitely retired and now spends his time underlining President Obama’s books and reflecting on decades of revolution. Anyone who thinks Cuba is going capitalist, however, should check more carefully with the facts.
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AP / Vahid Salemi
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Drum roll, please. After 36 years in the making and with great help from Russia in its construction, Iran held a ceremony Saturday to mark the opening of the country’s first nuclear power plant. The event marked the beginning of the transfer of uranium fuel rods into the plant, which aims to start producing electricity later this year.
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AP / U.S. Air Force
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By Stanley Kutler — Today, it is common wisdom that President Truman had only two simple, stark choices: to use the bomb or invade and suffer a “million” casualties. There was, however, an alternative.
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