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John Laforge

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Nuclear Abolition is Focus of UN Meetings in New York

All this week, professional dreamers who insist on the abolition of nuclear weapons have been meeting at the United Nations in New York. The very...

06.03.2025 9

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John Laforge

Fukushima Pollution Solution: Spread Radioactivity Far and Wide

The bulk of the radioactivity in the wastewater being pumped into the ocean is from tritium, the radioactive form of hydrogen, and carbon-14, neither...

24.02.2025 9

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John Laforge

U.S. Anti-War/Anti-Poverty Activist Ends 7.5-Month Prison Term in Germany

Solitary nonviolent witness appears painfully ineffective in the age of state terrorism and vigilante shooting sprees. Yet Susan Crane of Redwood...

16.01.2025 10

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John Laforge

Fukushima: Disaster Response is to Spread Radioactive Waste to the Commons

Japan has doubled down on the nuclear industry’s routine practice of spreading radioactive pollutants to public air space and to common...

12.12.2024 20

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John Laforge

Take a Lesson from Paul Nitze: Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Melvin A. Goodman, national security columnist for Counterpunch.org, presents a fine review of the absurdities today’s U.S. nuclear weapons...

11.09.2024 4

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John Laforge