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Selective Vision: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Arms

Wed, 2009-03-18 23:50 — aniketalam

This blog post is to alert our readers towards an excellent website -- Media Lens -- which brings out regular updates of the bias, political corruption and incompetence of the British mainstream media. With the slogan: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media, this website has been at the forefront of exposing the manner, often subtle and sometimes direct, in which 'independent' media in Britain has been complicit with the agenda of imperialism.

Cautionary Tales From a Nuclear War Zone -- Extracts

Sun, 2008-11-30 22:16 | Holly M. Barker and Barbara Rose Johnston
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The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, was one of scores of cold war nuclear tests that blanketed the nation with fallout. Johnston and Barker reveal the horrific history of human rights violations endured by the Marshallese. Article, an extract from the book, Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report (Paperback), courtesy Counterpunch.

Source: 
http://www.counterpunch.org/johnston11212008.html

The lies of Hiroshima live on, props in the war crimes of the 20th century

Wed, 2008-08-06 11:01 | John Pilger
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The 1945 attack was murder on an epic scale. In its victims' names, we must not allow a nuclear repeat in the Middle East

Israel's nuclear weapon status and the war drum beats of the corporate media

Sat, 2008-05-31 12:36 | Real News Network and Aijaz Ahmad

Real News Network video featuring Aijaz Ahmad analysing the nuclear weapon status of Israel and the perceptions of the US corporate media about the peacemaking moves of former US president Jimmy Carter. Video, courtesy "The Real News Network", www.therealnews.com .

Ten Years Later

Fri, 2008-05-30 10:29 | Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Professor Parvez Hoodbhoy writes in The Dawn, that it was a lie that the Bomb could protect Pakistan, its people, or its armed forces. The Bomb cannot help Pakistan recover the territory seized by the Baitullahs and Fazlullahs. Even the much-vaunted nuclear dividend turned out to be empty.Courtesy, Dawn newspaper

Under the Nuclear Shadow: Reviewing one decade of nuclear weapons in South Asia

Thu, 2008-05-22 18:24 | Aniket Alam

Aniket Alam recalls India's moment of shame when it tested nuclear devices in 1998, going against the nation's professed commitment for a nuclear weapon free world. He complains that even a democracy like India does not even have a minimal anti-nuclear domestic voice to temper the phallic hallucinations of our warmongers.