Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Analysis by Marsha B. Cohen WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) – As Israeli Defence Forces munitions experts sorted through 300 tonnes of weapons found on a German-owned, Cypriot-operated cargo ship flying the Antiguan flag, Israeli politicians were sifting through the various talking points that could be offloaded from the vessel. [...]
DISARMAMENT: Closer To Making Utopia Feasible?
October 28, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY TARO ICHIKAWA Republished with permission from IDN-InDepthNews Service HIROSHIMA (IDN) – “What we see here is tragic, but even more tragic is all that was lost without a trace,” said Yoriko Kawaguchi as tears welled up in her eyes. She had just completed a tour of the Hiroshima [...]
MIDEAST: ‘France, U.S. Pushing Arabs Into Nuclear Race’
October 25, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Fareed Mahdy* ISTANBUL, Oct 25 (IPS) – The decision by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates to build nuclear reactors has unleashed frenetic, politically backed competition between giant corporations from France, the U.S., Japan and South Korea to win contracts estimated at more than 40 billion dollars. This may [...]
CHINA AS NUCLEAR PROLIFERATOR
September 26, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN It was known in 2004 that A.Q.Khan, Pakistan’s nuclear scientist, who is wanted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, for interrogation in connection with his nuclear proliferation to North Korea, Iran and Libya, had left a letter with his wife Henny of Dutch origin and their daughter giving [...]
