About People’s Protests, Just Asking
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned” ~ Richard Feynman, American Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Laureate People around Arshinakeri (Koppal Dt, Karnataka)…
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Three generations have lived under the threat of human-made factors disrupting life and life-nurturing conditions
Earth is universally identified as predominantly the planet of human beings, but actually human beings in their present form have a history of probably just about 0.1 million years (or…
Ironic Dependency: Russian Uranium and the US Energy Market
Be careful who you condemn and ostracise. They just might be supplying you with a special need. While the United States security establishment deems Russia the devil incarnate helped along…
What the Air Force Doesn’t Want Us to Notice on Election Night
Much significance will happen at the end of Election Day, and a countdown will begin at 11:00 p.m. PDT on November 5th. While everyone’s attention will be on who our…
Fukushima: Stumbling Through Deconstruction of Reactor Meltdowns
Here is an AI-Generated Podcast based on the article Melted fuel still vexing test extraction methods Thirteen years on from the catastrophic triple explosions and reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in…
Blind Power: Nuclear plant’s irreversible impact on public and environment
Prerna Gupta talks to Dilnaz Boga about those affected by Tarapur Atomic Power Station (TAPS) in India’s thirst for electricity Prerna Gupta is a PhD student at the Institute for…
Nuclear Fever: War Mongering on Iran
The recent string of exaggerated military successes – or at least as they are understood to be – places Israel in a situation it has been previously used to: prowess…
Nuclear Clouds over the Middle East can spread far and wide
In the ongoing war in the Middle East, news that Iran could think of changing its nuclear doctrine is very disturbing but not unexpected. As the situation is developing in…
Nihon Hidankyo’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Could Not Have Come at a More Important Moment
With the world, our species, facing the greatest danger of nuclear apocalypse since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this year's Peace Prize will refocus world attention on the urgency of…
Recently the World Has Been like Responding to Fire by Pouring Gasoline in it
Imagine a high-rise building inhabited by many persons that is on fire. Surely this is the time to forget all differences and get together to extinguish the fire. Unfortunately instead…
October’s Surprise Party
As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins here in New England. Call it October’s Surprise Party. The turning leaves with all their colors come to announce the…
As US prepares to allow NATO weapons to strike Russia, Putin threatens nuclear retaliation
Amid ongoing high-level meetings between NATO leaders and Ukrainian officials at the United Nations over plans to allow Kiev to strike Russian cities with NATO weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin…
A Nuclear War in Ukraine Is a Distinct Possibility
The war in Ukraine has been going on for 2.5 years with no end on sight. Not only that, but we are now close to a nuclear war, according to…
The Armageddon Agenda: Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, and the Race to Oblivion
The next president of the United States, whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump, will face many contentious domestic issues that have long divided this country, including abortion rights, immigration, racial…
Revisiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Visit to Hiroshima to participate in the All Asia Conference of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in 2009 and again on the occasion of 20th World…
AI-controlled apes with apps at 90 minutes to mid-night
What further evidence do the inhabitants of planet Earth need to have to convince them the liveable climate, the lungs of the Earth, is sharply deteriorating, species are dying, the…
The Need for stronger peace movement
There is a strong case for arguing that the number of nuclear weapons at world level should have never been allowed to increase to three digits, let alone four or…
The Quest for Peace and Order Amidst Deepening Humanitarian Crisis
First the Zaporizhzhia and now the nuclear power plant in Kursk under threat are issues of extreme concern. UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on…
Ukraine’s Hiroshima Moment is Drawing Closer
In August 1945, the US atom bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then, nuclear weapons have never been used in conflict. That may soon change as Ukraine…
Sixty Seconds Before Midnight and a Looming War
As world affairs continue to deteriorate with a looming war in the Middle East between Israel and Iran that will surely draw in the US, the possibility of a nuclear…
Poland’s Purchase of Nuclear Power Plants Driven More by Strategic Considerations
Poland became a NATO member in the first controversial eastward expansion of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the subsequent controversy over attempts to make Ukraine a…
US leads G7 in ambassadors’ boycott of ceremony commemorating atomic bombing of Nagasaki
The United States has led a boycott by six G7 members of Friday’s ceremony commemorating the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during World War II. Justified on the basis that the…
America’s Most Criminal Act: The Atomic Bombings of Japan
On December 7, 1941, Japan carried out a premeditated and ruthless attack on U.S. ships at Pearl Harbor. At the time, America was already in World War II on the…
World-Ending Maneuvers? Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today
by William D. Hartung and Hekmat Aboukhater The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large…
The Fallout of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Dangers of Nuclear Energy
The dangers of nuclear energy were understood when the WW2 Allied Forces feared that Hitler’s Germany would produce and use a nuclear bomb, to conclude WW2 in his favour. It…
The Global Backlash Against Globalization
They were all buddy-buddy for the cameras, going for a joy ride in a deluxe limo and toasting each other at a gala dinner. In June, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was…
US Lackey Australian Labor Government Betrays Humanity Over Existential Nuclear Threat: Put Labor Last
Australia under a racist, unprincipled, climate criminal, war criminal, Zionist-subverted and cravenly US lackey Labor Government has betrayed the World in relation to the key existential threats to Humanity from…
Honor the Victims of the Nuclear Age by Bringing It to an End
Taking nuclear disarmament seriously is not only an existential imperative at this very moment, but an obligation of all state parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The following speech was…
Donald Trump’s Reckless Infatuation with Nuclear Weapons
Over the past decade and more, nuclear war has grown increasingly likely. Most nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements of the past have been discarded by the nuclear powers or will…
When diplomacy takes a back seat, Humanitarian crisis is bound to increase, including nuclear danger
The missile attack on Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv, Ukraine on 8th July 2024 by the Russian forces is very disturbing. Since the start of the conflict in Gaza 31 out…
NATO’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War
The world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Back then, however, the fear of total destruction consumed the public; today, few people seem…
The X Factor and Maximum Risk Period in the Quest for Dominance
The most worrying aspect of contemporary world is the possibility of a devastating nuclear war. However several experts say that due to the concept of mutually assured destruction, such a…
Can we rest assured that just because of the unacceptably high costs of nuclear war and World War III, these will never happen?
In the middle of several very serious questions haunting humanity today the one which looms over all others is this terrible one—how high is the possibility of World War 3/…
The Art of the Submarine Or 5,824 Hiroshimas Per Sub
Walk through any art museum and you’re likely to see a mix of the classical and contemporary, impressionist and surrealist, refined and raw, beautiful, eerie, and provocative. Looking at art…
Does Israel Have 90 Nuclear Warheads or 200?
Israel is upgrading its nuclear arsenal maintains the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute(SIPRI). With regards its deathly weapons, Israel maintains what its terms “nuclear ambiguity”, neither confirming nor denying the possession of…
Acting As If It Weren’t Really So
Laughing on the bus/Playing Games with the faces/She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy/I said, “Be careful his bowtie is really a camera” – America by Paul Simon…
Nuclear Armageddon Is Us
As a late-stage baby boomer, a child of the 1960s, I grew up dreaming about America’s nuclear triad. You may remember that it consisted of strategic bombers like the B-52…
Nuclear Pakistan’s Comprador Cowardice
Pakistan's prime minister, Shahbaz Sharif, declared the 28th of May as a public holiday. Indeed, the House of Sharif, the family in control of one of the two dynastic political parties…
What Can We Do to Disperse the Gathering Dark Clouds of Nuclear War and World War III?
A constant, huge danger for world is the existing stock of over 12,000 nuclear weapons that are capable of annihilating all humanity and most other forms of life several times…
Emerging Technologies Accentuate the Already Very Serious Threat of Nuclear Weapons
While very serious life-threatening conditions have existed at the planetary level for several decades due to the accumulation of nuclear weapons, a number of emerging technologies are aggravating this danger…
Why and How Climate Response Needs a Paradigm Shift
Two basic aspects of climate change are well-established—one that it is a very important, existential issue and second, that a huge reduction in fossil fuels is essential to check climate…
“Is Palestine Burning?”
[Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Chief of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the War Cabinet Meeting somewhere in Circa 2027, May 1st.] IDF Chief: Sir, we have killed over 200,000…
Nuclear weapons guarantee catastrophe on our planet To speak in favour of Nuclear weapons is irresponsible
Speaking in an election rally in Pipariya town in Hoshangabad Parliamentary constituency in Madhya Pradesh on 15 April 2024 the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has made a mockery of…
Nuclear Weapons Are the Biggest Single Danger for Humanity and All Forms of Life
Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 : Father Kleinsorge, a German missionary, heard pathetic voices of people asking for water. When he managed to reach the place from where the voice had…
Night for Day or Day for Night in the Heart of Darkness
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space,Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earthSwung blind…
Oppenheimer’s legacy – Portents of a nuclear war on a burning planet
The 24 hours media news cycle clouds the minds of people, perpetrators and hapless victims alike, to the future dimension, whether that of future generations or of the natural world…
The growing gulf between what the world needs and what is happening must be bridged before it is too late
Imagine a situation in which some residents of a skyscraper notice a fire that can spread to the entire building and ring the alarm bells. However the manager of the…
NUKE vs Climate Catastrophe
For the decades I've spent as a belligerent, anarchical, front-line, direct-action tree-hugging rabble-rouser, I’ve watched discussions in the conventionally structured, due-process oriented, charitable status-guarding, foundation-funded movement evolve through "official narrative"…
Living on the Wrong World:A Planetary Cease-Fire Is Desperately Needed
On this planet of ours, it almost doesn’t matter who’s right and who’s wrong when it comes to our wars. Actually, let me correct that thought slightly: it certainly does…
Climate Crisis And Nuclear Waste In The U.S.
Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report. An ABC News report (Climate change could unearth, disturb Cold…
China Urges A ‘No-First-Use’ Treaty
States with the largest nuclear arsenals should negotiate a treaty on no-first-use of nuclear weapons against each other or make a political statement in this regard, the Chinese foreign ministry's…
Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic, Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons
Yes, the Doomsday Clock keeps ticking — it’s now at 90 seconds to midnight, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — but the ultimate time bomb never gets the attention that it…
Cleaning Out the Basement of My Life, And Grappling with Nuclear Dangers at 90 Seconds to Midnight
What’s in your basement? Mine is full of things I’ve mostly forgotten about — tools I bought for projects I never completed, long abandoned sports equipment, furniture I planned on…
The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
by Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first…
The Ultimate Twosome – Nukes and Climate Change in 2024
Honestly, what strange creatures we are. Nothing stops us when it comes to destruction, does it? (And I’m not even thinking about the utter, ongoing devastation of Gaza.) I mean,…
What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday
Top American officials in the “national security” establishment are notably good at smooth rhetoric and convenient silences. Their scant regard for truth or human life has changed remarkably little since…
Could Israel’s War on Gaza Go Nuclear?
Israel’s robust military, the fourth-strongest in the world, is ravaging Gaza and, along with armed settlers, terrorizing Palestinians in the West Bank following the brutal Hamas massacres of October 7th. Like so many other colonial projects,…
At the Brink? Contemplating the Unimaginable Costs of a Nuclear War
Despite Russian hints about the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, consider it strange — amid other world-endangering possibilities — how little attention nuclear destruction gets anymore.…
From the Partial Test Ban Treaty to a Nuclear Weapons-Free World
This September is the sixtieth anniversary of U.S. and Soviet ratification of the world’s first significant nuclear arms control agreement, the Partial Test Ban Treaty. Thus, it’s an appropriate time…
The Oppenheimer Imperative: Normalising Atomic Terror
The atomic bomb created the conditions of contingent catastrophe, forever placing the world on the precipice of existential doom. But in doing so, it created a philosophy of acceptable cruelty,…
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