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Cardoza Law School Ignores Dershowitz To Honor Jimmy Carter

Law School’s decision to honor former President Jimmy Carter generated a lot of bluster and outrage from the reactionary wing of the Jewish community.

(CHICAGO) - Despite vicious opposition from Alan Dershowitz, Cardoza Law School honored former President Jimmy Carter this week for his career of work on peace and conflict resolution.

The International Advocate for Peace award was given to Carter by the student-run Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Cold War Thinking is Dangerous

The world is not made more secure by maintaining any level of nuclear weapons.

(PORTLAND, OR) - The people who brought you to the very cusp of nuclear war in the Cold War want the US to keep doing so.

Well, some of them do. Others don’t.

What You Should Know About North Korea, But Don`t

History explains why North Korea gets so nervous when the US flies nuclear equipped bombers so close to their country.

(JAMESTOWN, RI) - Once again, as in the run-up to the war in Iraq, mainstream media is misleading you by not reporting key facts that are relevant to the continuing North Korean saga.

To believe North Korea is a threat to the US is sheer nonsense and defies logic.

Five Good Reasons Not to Nuke Washington, DC

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kim Jong-un's Nuclear Threats...

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming Truth Jihad) - When I heard that North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un was threatening to nuke Washington, DC, and "engulf the nation's capital in a sea of flames," my first thought was:

"At last, a politician with a plan that could actually solve our nation's most pressing problems."

BREAKING: U.S. on Alert for Nuclear Blast Overhead

'Space launch vehicle' could put kill electric grid, devastate nation.

(WASHINGTON DC WND) - U.S. officials quietly are expressing concern that North Korea could use its "space launch vehicle" to explode a high-altitude nuclear device over the United States.

This would create an electromagnetic pulse that would destroy major portions of the U.S. electrical grid system as well as the nation's critical infrastructures.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Market Unkind to Nuclear Reactor Plants

The latest news from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today in Reactor Reax, the Wall Street Journal reports, Natural Gas: Killing Coal and Nuclear, and Maybe The Grid, nuclear regulators under fire for delay of post-Fukushima safety requirements, Imperium Watch: Market Unkind to Nuclear Plants.

A rat body linked to Blackout at Atomic Site, and CTV News reports that nuclear waste cleanup liability cost up by $2.4 B.

Listen to Iran

Khamenei alleged that the U.S. wants the nuclear issue to remain unresolved to have a basis for sanctions.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made this frank and reasonable statement that reminded me that Iraq also consistently denied it had WMDs but the Clinton and Bush regimes dismissed the denials (although they may have known the truth).

Khameni said the best way to resolve the standoff would be for the West to recognize Iran's right to enrich uranium and agree to a monitoring process to ensure that it won't be used for weapons.

Fish Caught off Fukushima Show Record Levels of Radioactive Cesium

Record cesium level detected in fish caught near Fukushima nuclear plant.

(KYODO Japan Times) - Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught in waters near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

That is equivalent to 7,400 times the state-set limit deemed safe for human consumption.

Reactor Reax Top Stories - Washington Post: In U.S., Nuclear Energy Loses Momentum...

The latest nuclear news from Physicians for Social Responsibility.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today in Reactor Reax, nuclear energy is losing momentum in the U.S., amid economic head winds; in Fukushima Fallout, CBS News reports that the meltdown in Japan forced 170,000 people from their homes, many of them permanently.

Calvert Cliffs Reactor/License Denial - NRC Upholds CC-3 License Rejection on Foreign Ownership Grounds

Commissioners stopped short of completely dismissing UniStar’s license application.

(WASHINGTON DC) - NRC Commissioners today upheld the denial of a construction/operating license for the proposed Calvert Cliffs-3 nuclear reactor in Maryland.

The decision marks the first time in history that NRC Commissioners upheld the denial of a license for a commercial nuclear reactor, and only the second time a license for a commercial nuclear facility has been denied.