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    Nuclear weapons are incompatible with international humanitarian law
    April 2011
    Peter Weiss

    The Vancouver Declaration affirms the incompatibility of nuclear weapons with International Humanitarian Law.

    Learning from Disaster? After Sendai
    March 2011
    Richard Falk

    Despite a terrible history with nuclear technology, corporate and state actors try to disconnect these mega disasters from the energy industry in order to "normalise" that which continues threatens our very existance.

    Video: In Depth with Phyllis Bennis
    January 2011
    Phyllis Bennis

    Phyllis Bennis talks in depth about her life, career, and work.

    Pernicious parallels
    December 2010
    Mariano Aguirre

    The United States' protracted fight against insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have raised the spectre of the Vietnam war. A review on recent literature on US wartime policies from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan.

    From apartheid South Africa to Palestine
    October 2010
    Patrick Bond

    With settlement expansion and continuing human rights abuses against Palestinians, the lessons from the anti-apartheid movement continue to motivate the growing global opposition to the occupation.

    Why the U.S. won't cut ties with Israel, no matter how extreme its government gets
    August 2010
    Phyllis Bennis

    Israel's defence minister spends much more time in Washington than the nation's pro-"ethnic cleansing" foreign minister; no wonder when the US is committing hundreds of billions of US taxes to Israel's militarization.

    Obama’s Nuclear Postures
    July 2010
    Zia Mian

    The latest US government nuclear review shows that Obama's nuclear policy - rhetoric aside - is no different to previous administrations, seeking to retain nuclear weapons for the indefinite future and accepting scant constraint on how these weapons might be used.

    Secret Israel–South Africa Nuclear Deal Exposed
    June 2010
    Praful Bidwai

    Recently declassified 'top secret' documents show that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa’s white-racist apartheid regime in 1975.

    A final document without finality: The NPT review outcome
    June 2010

    The 5-year review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ended with more of a whimper than a bang.

    Can a Security Council "Coalition of the Unwilling" Defy Washington's Sanctions Crusade?
    May 2010
    Phyllis Bennis

    Renewed U.S. efforts to bring sanctions against Iran are more backlash for being snubbed in favour of a tripartite deal with Turkey and Brazil than they are about nuclear proliferation. A UN Security Council coalition may be able to block U.S. pressure for sanctions that would only punish...

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