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A Blanket of Fear (A Play in One Act)

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. — Harold Pinter

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Netanyahu (N) and Obama (O) are on the phone:

N: I want you to catch that schmuck Snowden, lock him up and silence him.

O: Why Ben? He's another whistle blower like Manning and Assange. How does he affect you?

UK`s Jack Straw Says Israel has Nuclear Weapons, Steals Palestinian Land

"Look, Israel has made statements in the past. Israeli ambassadors to the UN like myself have said that Israel won’t be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East." - Dr. Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador

(LONDON) - A tradition has developed in the West whereby politicians speak common sense and the truth, but only when they are no longer in power. Witness, for example, the former US president, Jimmy Carter.

Now Jack Straw, who was Britain’s foreign secretary at the time of the Anglo-American aggression against Iraq, has stepped forward to keep the tradition alive.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS): Closure Has Ocean Desalination Ramifications

So Cal Edison permanent closure in San Clemente might have far-reaching implications for other projects in California, including the Poseidon Huntington Beach Seawater Desalination Facility in Orange County.

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Statements made by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to the Times hint at possible multiple game changers regarding controversial “Once-Through-Cooling” (OTC) at power grid facilities.

The natural gas powered, AES-operated Huntington Beach plant that supplies SCE customers brought two (2) dormant, once-retired units back online last year to offset the SONGS being offline, and that’s where it starts getting intriguing.

US Discloses Israel`s Top-Secret Military Base Outraging Tel-Aviv

According to the bid requests, the Arrow 3 system will include six interceptor missiles in vertical launch positions to be placed at the base, with a gantry crane to be erected for further missiles.

(MOSCOW RT) - The US government has inadvertently revealed the details of a top-secret Israeli missile base in published bid requests, leaving military officials in Tel-Aviv in the state of shock.

Israel has turned to the US government with its plans to build a state-of-the-art facility to host the new ballistic-missile defense system, the Arrow 3, McClatchy's Washington Bureau reports.

Stop India-Japan Nuclear Agreement

Japan recently experienced the Fukushima nuclear disaster that proved once again that nuclear power plants are deadly.

(YORK, UK) - India and Japan have a chance to learn from history, very recent history, and abandon plans for further nuclear development under the India-Japan Nuclear Agreement

India has experienced a tremendous backlash from its use of nuclear power plants that are frequently the subject of intense political activism.

U.S. Senators Could Destroy America by Attacking Iran

There aren't enough prison cells to house the Americans who will rise up against an attack on Iran.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - If an elected official uses their power to force Americans into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel, they are not working in the American interest.

They are in fact committing treason; a crime or extreme act against one's sovereign or nation.

TOMORROW: Senate to Vote in Support of Israeli Strikes on Iran

Republican senators want to push weary combat forces into a war on Iran, which hasn't attacked another nation in over 300 years... all for apartheid Israel, a war crime state.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Tomorrow the Senate plans to vote in support of Israeli strikes on Iran.

They are expected to pass S.Res.65, which urges that if Netanyahu decides to bomb Iran, the U.S. should provide full support.

Syria: a Toast to Israeli State Terrorism

Are such peremptory attacks permissible in international law? No – international law only allows military actions in self-defence when under direct attack.

(DAMASCUS) - While the U.S. peddled the threat of chemical weapon use to justify its arming of the ‘opposition’ in Syria, Israel destroyed a chemical research facility near Damascus which was allegedly developing such weapons.

The attack unleashed every single potentially-poisonous particle on the Syrian public.

Was Syria `Nuked`? (INCLUDES VIDEO)

Striking evidence of the use of American EPW (Earth Penetrating Weapons) nuclear weapons in Syria has come to light. Experts say the proof is irrefutable.

(DAMASCUS Press TV) - Dramatic video footage from Syria reveals startling evidence that counters Israel’s claims of “surgical strikes” on weapons headed to Lebanon.

Syria had come under attack by Israel using, not just nuclear weapons, but an American nuclear bunker buster bomb.

Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone

The full report of the "Athens Dialogue" is now available online in four languages (English, Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi).

(SOUNION, Greece.) - The Athens Dialogue... seeks to establish a zone free of weapons of mass destruction in an area seething with tensions and misunderstandings. Both at the conceptual and practical level the discussions that took place were sober and pregnant with possibilities.

All this brings home to us the importance of initiatives such as the Athens Dialogue which aim to eliminate the bomb from an area rife with tensions and prone to conflict.