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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...

27.02.2026 10

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John Laforge

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...

23.02.2026 10

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John Laforge

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...

26.01.2026 10

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Venezuela, Wars of Aggression, and Nuremberg Law

“To initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing from other war crimes in that...

05.12.2025 6

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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...

17.11.2025 10

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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...

18.09.2025 10

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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...

06.08.2025 10

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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...

04.07.2025 10

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Who’s on the List of Radical Left Thugs that Live Like Vermin?

I’m married to a German citizen who’s a life-long resident here in Hamburg, and I spent most of the winter and spring in this city of two-million...

17.05.2025 10

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John Laforge

Who’s on the List of Radical Left Thugs that Live Like Vermin?

I’m married to a German citizen who’s a life-long resident here in Hamburg, and I spent most of the winter and spring in this city of two-million...

16.05.2025 6

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John Laforge

Nuclear Abolition is Focus of UN Meetings in New York

All this week, professional dreamers who insist on the abolition of nuclear weapons have been meeting at the United Nations in New York. The very...

06.03.2025 10

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Fukushima Pollution Solution: Spread Radioactivity Far and Wide

The bulk of the radioactivity in the wastewater being pumped into the ocean is from tritium, the radioactive form of hydrogen, and carbon-14, neither...

24.02.2025 10

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U.S. Anti-War/Anti-Poverty Activist Ends 7.5-Month Prison Term in Germany

Solitary nonviolent witness appears painfully ineffective in the age of state terrorism and vigilante shooting sprees. Yet Susan Crane of Redwood...

16.01.2025 10

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