nuclear weapons

ISRAEL BENEFITS AS WORLD LOSES

ISRAEL BENEFITS AS WORLD LOSES
 
Paul Balles
 
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think? --Peter Hitchens
 What started off as Arab Spring has turned morbidly into Arab Fall. What began as a seasonal description became directional and self-destructive.

Hypocrisy of the Paranoid

Hypocrisy of the paranoid
 
 
 Paul Balles

 
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. –Andre Gide
 
Hypocritical behaviour:
(MANAMA, Bahrain ) -  Carry fire in one hand and water in the other. To be duplicitous, to engage in double-dealing; to be two-faced, to speak with forked tongue.

“It is time we ban nuclear weapons”

Civil society statement to the UN high-level meeting on nuclear disarmament
Delivered by Nosizwe Lise Baqwa of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) on behalf of civil society
26 September 2013, New York
The use of a nuclear weapon on a major populated area would immediately kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of people—women, men, and children.

IPPNW to Prime Minister Abe: “Cancel Rokkasho”

The International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War’s co-presidents have sent the following letter to the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe, urging him to halt plans for nuclear fuel reprocessing, calling the program “unnecessary and hazardous” and “not consistent with Japan’s stated support for achieving a world freed from nuclear weapons.”
September 23, 2013
Your Excellency,