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Treasure Island`s Toxic Problem

Turns out that old Treasure Island Naval Station is some of the 'hottest' property in San Francisco...

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Blue Angels jet fighters racing across the sky maybe 500 feet above me, were practicing for an air show so the Navy could show off what it considers the very best in personnel, training and equipment.

Their presence over the old Treasure Island Naval Station that day was ironic, because I was visiting the island to see the Navy at its most decrepit and toxic.

The International Community and Mordechai Vanunu`s 56th Birthday

Happy birthday 'V' - millions of people all over the world are on your side!

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - The Israeli nuclear weapons whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was born 56 year ago, on 14 October 1954. The former Israeli nuclear technician, in citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, went public with the details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.

Shortly after that he was lured to Italy by a Mossad spy, drugged, kidnapped by Israeli intelligence agents.

2010`s Carl von Ossietzky Medal, Mordechai Vanunu and More MEDIA Failures

Vanunu is still waiting for Freedom NOW!

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - On September 15, 2010 I broke the following story but was asked to pull it until the official announcement was made on October 2, 2010. I did.

But on September 19, PRESS TV published "Medal for Israeli nuclear whistleblower". That story has been disseminated all over the World Wide Web, but NOT one reporter bothered to contact Mordechai Vanunu for details...

Why and How to Shut Down a Nuclear Weapons Facility

“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it..." - Lewis Mumford, 1946

(KANSAS CITY, Mo.) - Close to one-hundred concerned, thoughtful citizens attended the premier showing of Countdown to Zero, at the Tivoli theater August 13th, and many of them also attended the weekend long conference that culminated on August 16, 2010.

Bolton Beats the War-Drum and Mordechai Vanunu`s Third Coming

When I became the spy for the world, I did it all for the people of the world. If governments do not report the truth, and if the media does not report the truth, then all we can do is follow our consciences..." - Israeli Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - A few days ago, John Bolton, Bush's Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from 2001-2005, now reduced to the role of FOX News commentator, called on Israel to attack Iran "now".

He said Israel had "eight days" left to launch a military strike against Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility before Iran injects enriched uranium obtained from Russia into it.

Sources Report Israel Will Back Off Threats Toward Iran

The cruel joke in context with this, is that Israel has had nuclear weapons pointed at Iran and other nations for over twenty years.

(SALEM, Ore.) - When I wrote, Americans Won't Back Attack on Iran two days ago, I have to admit it was executed with a great deal of optimism.

This week we learn that President Barack Obama is actually backing Israel down from its world ending charade against Iran's supposed capability of building a nuclear weapon- at least for the time being. Either way it is at least a step in the right direction.

The Fire of Resistance VS Nuclear Weapons

The fire of resistance against nuclear weapons has been smoldering for three decades.

(KANSAS CITY) - On Monday morning, August 16th, 14 nonviolent peace activists were arrested after blocking a Caterpillar truck on the site of a proposed WMD Facility in Kansas City, Missouri.

While choruses of "we shall not be moved" rose up and sunflower seeds were scattered down, citizens of all ages and shades of diversity, gathered to protest continued production of U.S. nuclear weapons, to demand a clean up of the old KC facility and they also exposed another collaboration of corporations and politicians who collude while the tax payer pays for it all.

Nuclear Loan Guarantee/FOIA Lawsuit Filed - Obama Administration Sued for Hiding Details of $8.3 Billion Taxpayer-Backed Reactor

Illustrating the Validity of GAO Report Criticisms, U.S. Energy Department Stonewalls FOIA Request For Months After White House Announcement; One of Few Documents Released Was Censored 244 Times.

(ATLANTA, Ga.) - U.S. taxpayers are being denied timely access to information that could be used to assess the risk to their pocketbooks posed by the controversial $8.33 billion federal loan guarantee for two proposed nuclear reactors at Southern Company’s Plant Vogtle in Georgia.

This information, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE).

Vanunu Released from Solitary Confinement But Still Not Free

Israel's nuclear weapons whistleblower freed.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - What Vanunu will say about his 76 days in solitary that ended on August 8, 2010, with a whimper from a spokesman for the prisons authority:

"Mordecai Vanunu was freed from prison on Sunday morning" remains to be heard, but what Vanunu wrote after his first 8 years in prison was:

International Petition for Full Freedom for Mordechai Vanunu

All Vanunu has wanted since he emerged from 18 years in a tomb sized windowless cell on April 21, 2004, has been the right to leave Israel and fade into the world, to have a job, a home and family.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - During my first of seven trips to Israel Palestine in 2005, I was in the midst of writing my first book, KEEP HOPE ALIVE.

If all goes as planned I will be in Iran this November researching for my fourth book, What YOU were doing when my gods were Beatles and Dylan.