For example the Iranian nuclear industry is completely within the general framework of the nuclear industry which has no credible separation between peaceful and military uses. Of course its hard to call the bluff when its the leading industrial nations' own bluff. The mechanisms that are described in Robert Jungk's "Nuclear State" (1979) have undermined democracy and have recruited the media to produce a lot of 'professional' journalism. One of the scholars and independent experts who early on pointed out that the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty by way of promoting nuclear 'energy' in reality facilitates the proliferation of nuclear weapons was the late nuclear physicist Jens Scheer. As one of the architects of the West German nuclear program he knew.
He expressed this decades before the Pakistani physicist A Q Khan took crucial bomb making expertise from a Dutch power plant to Pakistan. It was the fertile foundation for that country's weapons program and a globe spanning weapons proliferation program that was 'necessary' to pay for Pakistan's nuclear missiles. Because this fundamental distortion of weapons as a side effect has been lapped by the public it is difficult to penetrate the diverse outflow of truth manufacturing by the nuclear mafia comprised of government, military and industry bodies. We can see this now in a lack of opposition against the unfolding expansion by the nuclear 'energy' industry which is riding the wave of global warming concerns and lobbying hard for a come back. Radiation and nuclear winter from a nuclear conflict, or an inevitable big accident made possible by the nuclear 'industry', potentially represents the ultimate ecological disaster and it can come a lot sooner than the equally avoidable greenhouse gas catastrophe. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons deserves support from green politics and all responsible human beings alike. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimates that the phase of relative stability regarding the danger of nuclear war in a long post WW2 era will come to an end. Within 10 or less years the nuclear club of currently about 7 or 8 members will grow to roughly 30 powers with an arsenal of nuclear weapons. To say we dont want a nuclear holocaust but we can have uranium mining and exploration in the Peel watershed is like saying we are against slavery but we deliver the shackles and the coffin ships; or in todays terms support investment into so called Free Trade Zones with concentration camp inspired sweat shops. This is what is going on in the border area between South and North Korea where North Koreans are kept as forced labour by Western corporations. North Korea's pariah status as rogue nuclear power with its measly five bombs or so is good for the free trade business even though they don't have quite enough of a nuclear arsenal to have a credible deterrence by Western standards. Constant threats and invasions against countries outside the Western sphere of neocolonial powers and institutions send the apocalyptic message to the world: "Get nuclear bombs and get enough of them, then you will be respected. But please, buy CANDU reactors as entry ticket into the weapons grade enrichment cycle. The Canadian tax payers are financing for free as in Chretien's CANDU sale to China". A few days ago the Ontario government put an end to government funding for future reactors because they make no economic sense. The answer of the CANDU reactor people was interesting: OK, OK despite solid nuclear propaganda from the CBC and other media we have been found out having wasted the wealth of nations while still brazenly marketing garbage to the Canadian people. But we still need Canadians to keep buying the CANDU junk in order to stay in business to cheat even more countries out of their livelihood. Nuclear free trade, financial fantasy and ideological obsession, this is the stuff the global crisis is made of.
Moral and intellectual cohesion was understood in the abolition of slavery and we need to be as good as our ancestors who stood up for humanism on those fronts, when it comes to the ultimate abuse instrument of our time, thousands of nuclear weapons ready to murder and starve billions of people. Voices of citizens that fit hardly anybody's idea of managing their right or left agendas are too easily ignored just as were those weird peace activists in the twilight years before WW1. Do we want to push insanity with no doubt high quality uranium ore from the Yukon? Bruce Cockburn said it best in a verse of his song Laughter:
A laugh for the sun redballing
Through the thermal inversion haze
A laugh for the nuclear good-time boys
Numbering all our days
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That is an Iraqi child. Your misuse of the photo speaks volumes about your veracity.
Peacetoyouandyours 2 years ago
@Peacetoyouandyours
Never heard of DU ammunition and its effect of causing radiation sickness?
defendconstitution 1 year ago