A successor to the Stealth bomber is planned that would not only be capable of bearing nuclear weapons, but could fly pilotless.
Taking Drones to Their Logical Conclusion: Nuclearize Them!
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Review: America, Hitler, and the UN
According to convention, the United Nations began with the signing of the UN charter in San Francisco in 1945. From that beginning, the organization evolved into a global deliberative body of nearly 200 member states. For some, the UN is incapable of managing an anarchic international system. For others, the UN represents an attempt by the major powers following World War II to maintain or expand their empires by dressing them in the guise of an international democratic order.
The War Against Al Jazeera and Sami al-Hajj
Sami Al-Hajj was classified as an “enemy combatant” whose “access to senior terrorist leaders demonstrates his probable connections to the al-Qaida network and other militant jihadist organizations.” He was presented as “a member of al-Qaida who is an expert in logistics with direct ties to al-Qaida leadership.” However, new evidence has come to light that now shows the U.S. government hoped to use al-Hajj as an intelligence source, perhaps even an informant, to spy on Al Jazeera’s operations, or to track down Taliban and al Qaeda leaders.
60-Second Expert: DSK
The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), who has been charged with rape and forced imprisonment of a 32-year-old Guinean hotel worker at a $3,000-a-night luxury hotel in New York, can be seen through the feminist lens of the “personal is political.” As his personal case is being investigated, it is important to point out that the disrespect for women demonstrated by the man at the highest levels of leadership within the IMF is quite consistent with the gender bias inherent in the IMF’s institutional policies and practice.
Disarm to Prevent Proliferation? Or Halt Proliferation to Enable Disarmament?
To progressives, keeping states from seeking to develop nuclear-weapons programs requires us to begin disarmament as a show of good faith. Conservatives claim to see no evidence of that working.
Nuclear Pits: Death in Its Most Concentrated Form
A new facility under construction in Los Alamos that’s pivotal to the manufacture of “nuclear pits” is emblematic of Americans’ ambivalence about nuclear weapons.
Fukushima Be Damned, Federal Court Brushes Off Seismic Nuke Risks
The United States can’t have it both ways: ratifying disarmament treaties while building facilities to arm nuclear warheads.
Obama’s Reset: Arab Spring or Same Old Thing?
This week, the words will take center stage. On Thursday, according to administration officials, President Obama will “reset” American policy in the Middle East with a major address offering a comprehensive look at the Arab Spring, “a unified theory about the popular uprisings from Tunisia to Bahrain,” and possibly a new administration approach to the region.
The Citizens’ Pact for a Mexico in Peace
The war against drugs is a manifestation of policies and international agreements that cast Mexico as the battlefield and where the poor of this country and Central America pay the staggering price of their lives so that drugs arrive at their destination and business empires thrive.
Cakewalk to (Baghdad) Tehran
Many of the same people who led the push for regime-change in Baghdad now have their sights set on Tehran.