Exclusive: The U.S. news media has consistently created the impression that Iran is building a nuclear bomb and that its denials shouldn’t be taken seriously. However, U.S. and Israeli intelligence assessments may finally be eroding that smug certainty, Robert Parry reports. By Robert Parry What can one say when the Washington Post’s neoconservative editorial writers [...]

Say No! to the NATO/G8 Wars and Poverty Agenda A Conference to Challenge the Wars of the 1% Against the 99% Abroad and at Home. Say No! to the NATO/G8 Wars and Poverty Agenda A Conference to Challenge the Wars of the 1% Against the 99% Abroad and at Home. A Conference to Challenge the [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans on Wednesday vowed to block the Obama administration from sharply cutting the U.S. nuclear force, calling potential reductions of as much as 80 percent in the number of deployed weapons “reckless lunacy.” For more on this story, visit: News from The Associated Press.

14 February 2012 – On the 45th anniversary of the treaty that created a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Latin America and the Caribbean, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed the pact as an example of how regional initiatives can advance global norms on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and the peaceful use of atomic energy. “The Treaty of Tlatelolco [...]

14 February 2012 – A senior United Nations official called today on countries to boost their efforts and find common ground to reach an agreement and end the existing impasse within the world’s sole multilateral disarmament negotiating forum. “The level of frustration is approaching a tipping point,” said Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General [...]

On Sunday, the New START arms control treaty between US and Russia will have been in force for a year. By this time, according to the conditions laid down by the US Senate for ratifying the treaty, the Obama administration was supposed to have tried to start negotiations with Russia on tactical nuclear weapons, well [...]

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, February 6, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Summary of UNOCI weekly press conference (Abidjan, 02 February 2012) The UN Operation in Cote d’Ivoire (UNOCI) on Thursday February 2 2012 conducted a voluntary disarmament operation in Abidjan in collaboration with the Ivorian authorities, Deputy UNOCI spokesman Kenneth Blackman announced today. Speaking at UNOCI’s [...]

At a time when bipartisanship on Capitol Hill has essentially disappeared, an intriguing example of cross-party consensus has emerged in a relatively obscure area of foreign policy: closing overseas military bases. Since debt debates heated up last summer and with the Pentagon soon to release the details of budget reductions, a growing group of prominent [...]

The Obama Administration’s ‘new’ strategy for military spending was sold to the public as two things, an effort to reduce costs and a break from the old Cold War mentality toward a new, 21st century philosophy. In the end, it was neither. Almost the moment it was unveiled, the plan was revealed to actually be [...]

The Conference on Disarmament is in danger of sinking into irrelevancy. The warning has come from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a message to the nuclear disarmament forum in Geneva on Tuesday. Mr. Ban said “the tide of disarmament is rising, yet the Conference on Disarmament is in danger of sinking.” He said members not [...]