Iranian Nuclear Dispute: Resolution, not Humiliati
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Iranian Nuclear Dispute: Resolution, not Humiliation
Op_ed
By William deB. Mills
Monday, 21 September 2009
Treatment by American writers of recent official Washington opinion about the state of Iran's nuclear development seems curious. According to the New York Times, Washington now sees Iran as having the ability to start weaponizing uranium but as voluntarily not taking that step, a situation the Times portrays as raising tensions!
Ralph Nader on G-20, Healthcare Reform, Mideast Talks, Practical Utopia
Interviews
By MWC NEWS
Monday, 21 September 2009
As the United States prepares to host the Group of Twenty nations summit in Pittsburgh later this week, we speak with longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic, author and presidential candidate Ralph Nader. Nader discusses Congress’s failure to pass any meaningful financial reform on Wall Street over the past year and critiques Obama’s healthcare reform proposal. Ralph Nader also talks about his first work of fiction, “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” Nader describes the book in terms of a practical utopia, a fictional vision that could become a new reality.
Suppose the world had awakened this morning to the news that the Russian army had attacked and invaded Bolivia. Thousands of Russian paratroopers have landed in the country, securing airports, permitting hundreds of Russian transport planes to bring in tens of thousands of Russian soldiers.
Barack Obama, the US president, has said the world must address climate change now or suffer an "irreversible catastrophe", at a high-level conference on climate change at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
Barack Obama, the US president, is set to host a three-way meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, but with little apparent chance of a breakthrough in relaunching stalled peace talks.
Honduran security forces have dispersed thousands of pro-Zelaya protesters outside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, where Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president, has taken refuge.
The Egyptian and Bulgarian candidates for the top job at the United Nations' cultural body, Unesco, are set to face each other in a final round of voting.
Jimmy Carter, a former US president, has said that Washington knew about an abortive coup against Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, in 2002, and that it may even have taken part.
Hundreds of migrants, including children, have been detained in a police operation to clear a makeshift camp known as the "jungle" in the French port of Calais.