Big Brother and the Holding Company I could do without, but I’ve been waiting four decades for someone with Janis Joplin’s raw talent and intensity. Finally, along comes Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes. Patience can sometimes be rewarded. There is now considerable impatience directed at President Obama for not doing more and working faster [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- caliphal succession as a marker in Egyptian-Iranian diplomacy at NAM ] . . Describing Egyptian President Morsi‘s speech in Iran at the Non-Aligned Movement conference, Rodger Shanahan of Australia’s Lowy Institute wrote, tellingly: Invoking the names of the first four caliphs (which never goes down well in uber-Shi’a Iran), his [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- news bulletin on Mahdist messianism, with a muddling mixing of metpahors ] . Dated yesterday, Hevidar Ahmed‘s piece on the Kurdish news site Rudaw, Shia Leader: The Awaited Imam Mahdi Will Fight the Kurds, confirms that Iraq’s Mahdist undercurrent has at least one well-placed adherent while also denying the specific [...]
The Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace are celebrating their 100th birthdays by creating a $50,000 prize to recognize individuals or institutions dedicated to advancing the cause of nuclear security. The prize is named after it’s first two recipients — Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar. Click after the jump to read [...]
On behalf of Charles, Scott and myself, I would like to extend congratulations to our esteemed friend Lexington Green, for the honor he has received.
I have a new article up at IVN: Five Foreign Policy Problems the Next President Must Face 3. THE NARCO-CARTELIZATION OF LATIN AMERICA The recent, much heralded “peace agreement” in El Salvador which reduced a sky high homicide rate from gang warfare is a white-flag harbinger of things to come where weak, failing or failed states in Latin [...]
Back in April, I asked how the Ground-based Midcourse Defense might be adapted in response to North Korea’s nascent (or embryonic) ICBM force. Thanks to Steven Aftergood of FAS, we now have the official answer. It’s included in the replies to Questions for the Record (QFRs) from a November 2011 hearing of the House Armed Services Committee. The hearing volume and [...]+anne+m.JPG)
: : skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable Our silent and complicit acceptance of nuclear weapons desperately needs to be examined . Planetary extinction is very real and very possible . Nuclear arms reduction and eventual elimination are critical . John Amadon , Veterans For Peace VFP Tuesday , August 28, 2012 In Memory of Anne Montgomery : Let the Children Live Dear , Friends In the long , hard struggle for a just , nonviolent , nbsp peaceful world there are participants who dedicate their lives so fully to the service of others truly to all humanity that they shine in a humble way bright as the noonday . sun Anne Montgomery , RSCJ , who passed away yesterday , is one of those
[ by Charles Cameron -- the destruction of sacred spaces considered -- réfléchissons ] . A church in Missouri is destroyed: because someone hated a black man becoming President. A mosque is destroyed in Massachusetts: because someone hated Islam. ** A synagogue is destroyed: during Kristallnacht. A mosque is destroyed: in Gaza. ** A mosque [...]
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt Just picked these up from two authors I very much like, though sadly, Everitt’s Hadrian also sits in my antilibrary waiting to be read. My normally manic reading pace took a major hit this past year due to my being ridiculously overscheduled and [...]
A minor miracle the other day. U.S. President Barack Obama drew a “red line” concerning Syria’s chemical weapons. Everyone understood what he meant. No one thought he was threatening to nuke Syria. Hallelujah! In case you missed it, President Obama responded to growing concern that the Syrian government might use chemical weapons by drawing a “red [...]
In a phone call at one o’clock in the morning on March 17, 2003, the U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA, Kenneth Brill, advised IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei to remove his inspectors from Baghdad immediately. The following day, the IAEA gave orders for personnel to leave Iraq. On March 19, the U.S. launched Operation Iraqi Freedom. Fast-forward nine years. We’re now moving into the fifth month [...]
Spurgeon Keeny, one of the founding fathers and practitioners of nuclear arms control, died last week, after a full life, well lived. Spurgeon loved Hieronymus Bosch as much as touch football. His understanding of arms control, nonproliferation, and the fuel cycle was encyclopedic, one reason why meetings with him were rarely brisk. Almost every issue [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear weapons-free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable Our silent and complicit acceptance of nuclear weapons desperately needs to be examined . Planetary extinction is very real and very possible . Nuclear arms reduction and eventual elimination are critical . John Amadon , Veterans For Peace VFP Tuesday , August 14, 2012 Declaration of the 2012 World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs 2012 World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs Declaration of the International Meeting Sixty-seven years after the US atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , about 20,000 nuclear weapons are still threatening the very survival of the human race . This threat must be rooted out as soon
Thanks to you, the White House got a clear message about the need to rid the world of nuclear weapons. On May 7, 2012, members of the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World coordinating committee presented our petition with 50,000 signatures that you helped collect to Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic [...]