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Activists Stop Traffic at Navy`s West Coast Trident Submarine Base on Hiroshima Anniversary

A number of additional events were associated with the Ground Zero weekend.

(BANGOR, WA) - Peace activists with Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent action held a peaceful early morning vigil at the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor Main Gate as Navy and civilian employees entered the base. The vigil commemorated the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The Trident submarine base at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, just 20 miles from Seattle, Washington, contains the largest concentration of operational nuclear weapons.

Ordinary Citizens: the Silent Victims of Anti-Iranian Sanctions

Western warmongers are at work desperately trying to create WWIII.

(TEHRAN) - While the US and EU vehemently compete in the seemingly endless race of imposing sanctions on Iran, ordinary Iranian citizens are experiencing the most breathtaking, agonizing impacts of the crippling embargoes.

On July 31, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) sent a letter to all members of the U.S. Congress, demanding a concerted action to approve The Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act which imposes a new set of sanctions on Iran's energy and transportation sector.

He`s Blind to the `Bleedin` Obvious` Economic Consequence of Military Occupation
Is Romney Just a Pretty Face Then?

“All I can say is that this man needs a lot of education,” - Saeb Erekat, top Palestinian Authority negotiator

(LONDON) - Mitt Romney is listed among People magazine's 50 “most beautiful” of 2002. He was up there with Nicole Kidman, Britney Spears and Julia Roberts. But how pretty does he look in 2012?

This US presidential hopeful from AIPAC’s Republican wing came here to England and put his foot in it by questioning Britain‘s readiness to host the Olympics.

Israel, US Bent on Brewing Iran Crisis

Ihe US is hell bent on distorting the realities of the Islamic Republic as well as brainwashing public opinion in the world into believing that Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons.

(TEHRAN) - A report published on Sunday in Ha’aretz reveals that US National Security Adviser Tom Donilon has presented Washington's contingency plans for a possible attack on Iran to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once the nuclear negotiations reach an impasse.

However, the report was immediately denied by a top Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Transform Now Plowshares Continues a Long Tradition

Includes two statements from Transform Plowshares about Y-12 nuclear weapons facility.

(OAK RIDGE, TN) - Early this morning three plowshares activists performed a disarmament action in response to Government plans to invest $80 billion to sustain and modernize the nuclear weapons complex.

Talking Truth About Assange and Vanunu by Noble Laureate and a Candidate for US HOUSE

Many believe those in high places not only wish to punish Assange for outing them, but as a warning to others to remain silent.

(CLERMONT, FLA) - As concerned citizens of the World know, the Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is currently inside the Ecuadorian Embassy, in London, having gone there to ask for Political Asylum.

I would add my voices to that of many people of conscience, around the world, in urging President Correa to grant political asylum to Julian Assange.

Atom Bomb and the Era of Disinformation

"In Hiroshima, 30 days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world-people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly..." - “The Atomic Plague”

(DELHI) - A basic human nature is to cover-up misdeeds that could be embarrassing. Politicians go to any length without remorse so do military leaders.

Who is the Winner of Sanctions Game?

President Bush and his successor who came to power with the flaunting and pompous slogan of "change" identically pursued a policy of antagonism with Iran.

(TEHRAN) - Less than a week ago, the European Union put into effect its comprehensive oil embargo against Iran that member states agreement to on 23 January.

The EU's unilateral sanctions come after the US targeted Iran with sanctions against the country's Central Bank and threats to penalize foreign firms and banks which have financial transactions with Iranian counterparts.

Why Iran Should Sue US at International Court of Justice

Iran should move without further delay.

(BEIRUT Press TV) - This observer’s best ever (and shortest) job involved “sort of” representing Iran before The Hague-based International Court of Justice.

This was back in 1980 following the American hostage events when the US government sued the new Islamic Republic of Iran before the ICJ...

Elite Killers Kill At Large For Kidon, Mossad

Former White House Speaker Newt Gingrich has called for covert action, including "taking out their scientists" and cyberwarfare.

(TEHRAN) - A new book reveals that a department known as Kidon within the Mossad dispatched assassins to Iran to murder nuclear scientists, thereby stunting the country’s nuclear energy program.

The Kidon killers "excel at accurate shooting at any speed and staying steady to shoot and to place exquisitely shaped sticky bombs" and consider it their hallmark.