This website has links to many documents related to the U.N. Security Council resolution on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. GSI E-Alert Extraordinary Week at the United Nations Dear friends, This has been an historic week at the United Nations. The US President chairing a summit of the Security Council and its adoption of a far… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Nuclear
Understanding Obama’s U.N. Agenda
Joseph Gerson posted this analysis of President Obama’s speech and resolution adopted at the athe U.N. Security Council on nuclear disarmament. >><< Friends, As we are making sense of the President Obama’s speech and the resolution adopted yesterday in the U.N. Security Council, as well as today’s focus on Iran’s covert enrichment facility, among other… Read more »
Security Spending Primer: Getting Smart About The Pentagon Budget
Security Spending Primer: Getting Smart About The Pentagon Budget How do people influence federal spending decisions and stop fighting over smaller and smaller “slices of the budgetary pie”? What will make our nation more secure? National Priorities Project is proud to release the Security Spending Primer: Getting Smart About The Pentagon Budget. (PDF Document) This… Read more »
Nuclear waste, Eco-Mafia and international ecological catastrophe
This story is not directly related to militarization issues, but it was such an incredible story with connections to a number of conflicts and issues that relate to militarism and empire. There have been a number of stories on the internet recently about a former Mafia informant who identified sites where he helped to sink… Read more »
Micronesians fight for health care
Micro-managing Pacific immigrants face a death panel of their own. by Alan D. McNarie Sep 2, 2009 Retired cook Calvin Nelson says that when he came to Hawaii from Kwajalein after the United States had seized his home for a new missile range, he was told, “everything will be covered.” But 20 years later, he… Read more »
Fallout from nuclear tests leads to health crisis
Sep. 6, 2009 4:33 PM EDT Fallout from nuclear tests leads to health crisis MARK NIESSE Associated Press Writer HONOLULU (AP) – Pius Henry fears his adopted government will kill him, that the United States won’t live up to a health care obligation to people from Pacific islands where it tested nuclear bombs. Henry, a… Read more »
Micronesians told treatment will not end despite change in health care plan
Updated at 4:44 p.m., Monday, August 31, 2009 Micronesians told treatment will not end despite change in health care plan By David Waite Advertiser Staff Writer Members of Gov. Linda Lingle’s Cabinet did their best this morning to assure members of the Micronesian community in Hawaii who require kidney dialysis or chemotherapy that they will… Read more »
Army applies for permit to ‘possess’ depleted uranium
Army applies for possession permit, says it cannot remove depleted uranium Aug 28, 2009 – 12:38 PM | by Austin Zavala | The Hawaii Independent | Ewa For years, U.S. Army has denied there being any use of depleted uranium weapons on training grounds in Hawaii, until two years ago when rounds were found dating… Read more »
‘I Want To Live’ – Micronesians sit in Lingle’s office waiting for meeting
Photos: Ikaika Hussey/Hawaii Independent Today, Micronesians United held a demonstration at the State Capitol and sat in Governor Lingle’s office to protest the state’s plans to cut of crucial health care for Micronesians in Hawai’i, which they are entitled to under Compacts of Free Association with the U.S. The Hawaii Independent has excellent coverage of… Read more »
Navy fires top officer at Bangor Nuclear Weapons Facility
Navy Fires Top Officer at Bangor Nuclear Weapons Facility By Josh Farley Friday, August 21, 2009 BANGOR – Capt. Timothy J. Block, the commanding officer of Bangor’s nuclear weapons facility, has been relieved of duty, according to a Navy spokesman. Rear Adm. Stephen E. Johnson, the Navy’s director of strategic systems programs, removed Block on… Read more »
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