47 Years Ago in My Lai: 'We were there to kill ideology' | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “We weren’t there to kill human beings, really. We were there to kill ideology” - Lt. William Calley Officially termed an “incident” (as opposed ...

Nuclear Calendar -- March 10, 2015 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Scheduled national and international events related to nuclear weapons and proliferation issues. March 10, 2015 March 6-15 House of Repre ...

Snowden Doc: NSA/GCHQ Stole Vital Cell Phone Encryption Keys | Jon Queally

Reporting by The Intercept, based on documents leaked by whistleblower, reveals how spy agencies hacked world's largest SIM card manufacturer 'One of the biggest Snowden stories yet,' says journalist ...

Germany's Balancing Act | William T. Hathaway

William T. HathawayWilliam T. Hathaway -- World News Trust March 7, 2015 Angela Merkel, Germany's conservative chancellor, is steering a cautious course between two conflicting pressures. On the one ...

Meet The Planet’s Most Dangerous Nuclear Rogue State | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 7, 2015 Our history books and newspaper headlines portray an ever-benevolent United States as minding its own business, yet incessantly pla ...

Radioactive Water At Fukushima Site Leaks Into Ocean, Tepco Says | Masumi Suga

'Nuclear Love.' Artwork by Ben Heine Feb. 25, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it’s investigating the cause of a spike in radiation levels in drainage water that it believes subseque ...

Update Of Minsk Peace Deal | Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig RobertsFeb 13, 2015 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- In my last column I provided reasons for believing that the Ukraine deal will fail. I saw a larger downside for Russia and the Donetsk and Luh ...

The Useless Agreement That Everybody Wanted | The Saker

Feb. 13, 2015 (The Vineyard Of The Saker) -- I have to say that I am both amused and appalled at the completely over-the-top reaction of most commentators to what we might as well call the Mink-2 Agr ...

A Cynical Ukraine Deal That Just Might Work | Bloomberg Editors

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Feb. 12, 2015 (Bloomberg Business) -- This morning’s cease-fire agreement for Ukraine is horribly flawed, yet far better than the alternative: Without it, the cou ...

The Minsk 'Agreement' | Alexander Mercouris

Illustration: Pablo Picasso (diana caccavale/Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)Feb. 12, 2015 (The Vineyard of The Saker) -- Already there is debate about who has "won" and who has "lost" in the Minsk talks. The ...

Ukraine Cease-Fire Sealed | Daryna Krasnolutska, Ilya Arkhipov & Helene Fouquet

Feb. 12, 2015 (Bloomberg) -- The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France agreed on a cease-fire to stem the conflict that’s devastated eastern Ukraine and triggered the worst crisis in more th ...