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Terrifying reports from the Ukraine-Russia front underscore an inescapable new nuclear reality: In the age of drone warfare, the myth of atomic reactor safety has been exploded.
No matter how thick the containment domes, or how vehement the industry denials, a quantum leap in the killing power of weaponized drones has completely blown past official atomic safety assurances.
The unwelcome new reality has been brought home by two recent features in the New York Times.
A devastating, Pulitzer-level dispatch from C.J. Chivers in the Times Magazinecovering the Ukrainian killing fields seems to announce a total transformation in trench warfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/magazine/drones-weapons-ukraine-war.html
TATANKA BRICCA discusses the chances that Joe Biden will save the life of Leonard Peltier, who’ll be released before 1/20 or die.
A minor correction comes from MYLA RESON…and still more from MIKE HERSH.
Young Progressive Democrats of America is represented by HARTZELL GRAY, who inspires our movement to recruit young activists.
NICOLE UNG urges us to help free whistleblower Charles Littlejohn.
Myla and DAVID SALTMAN talk about beloved corporate-assaulted attorney STEVE DONZIGER who has been privately prosecuted by Chevron Oil.
GAVRILAH WELLS of Amnesty International recalls Trump's mass killings of 13 federal prisoners and urges Biden to keep pardoning folks, especially Peltier.
NICOLE CORRADO evokes the need to sanction a Russian billionaire helping Musk buying Twitter.
Election expert RAY LUTZ shows disturbing statistics from Nevada indicating serious irregularities in the Democratic turnout.
The insane prosecution against JOHN BRAKEY for merely making a public records request is explained by SUSAN PYNCHON.
DON MCCANNE emphasizes the need for youth in the progressive movement.
NANO - A Synoptic Perspective
Building on and extending the work of Elana Freeland's, books The Geoengineered Transhuman and Under an Ionized Sky, as well as that of atmospheric scientist Clifford Carmicom, and Dr.
The Presidential Election
Trump barely won the presidential election in November. Although he claims that his victory gave him a mandate to implement an extreme right-wing agenda, the numbers say otherwise. His margin of victory was the smallest of any presidential election since 1900. And we should bear in mind that Trump’s vote is unfairly buttressed by widespread right-wing gerrymanding in “red” states. James M. Lindsay cites the following “official” numbers in an article for the Council for Foreign Relations (https://cfr.org/article/2024-election-numbers).
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless official vowed that “we will continue to provide the capabilities necessary for Israel's defense.” Following the reports last month from Amnesty International and
