NucNews Headlines - collected July 1-20, 2006
Full text of articles can be found at http://nucnews.net by date

---- NUCLEAR

Global nuclear stockpiles, 1945-2006
By Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen
July/August 2006  pp. 64-66 (vol. 62, no. 4)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=ja06norris

Campaigner attacks nuclear inquiry's credibility
Reporter: Kerry O'Brien
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
Broadcast: 03/07/2006
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1677668.htm

An Axis of Nuts
Ready, Aim, Fear
By MISSY COMLEY BEATTIE
July 5, 2006
http://www.counterpunch.org/beattie07052006.html

India, IAEA hold 'productive' talks on Nuke Safeguards pact
July 08, 2006
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?rep=2&aid=307886&sid=NAT&ssid=

Nuclear power 'to expand across G8'
Press Association
Sunday July 9, 2006 10:23 AM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-5939467,00.html

Scientist assails N-energy plan
Wednesday, July 12, 2006 - Bangor Daily News
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=137226

G8 backs nuclear power development
July 16, 2006 Australia Broadcasting
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1687834.htm

The G-8's Risky Nuclear Embrace
Mark Hertsgaard Mon Jul 17, 2006 The Nation http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060717/cm_thenation/20060731hertsgaard2


---- accidents and safety

Radioactive tritium found in soil
By Ken Leiser
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
07/01/2006
http://www.topix.net/r/05KQAC65=2B9p3CnEOW2BSxTcpkw3wbx8gMlU4x68t=2FoLQHKQn6bOtc5OXTEGVaMyEu4HgMV3J=2F74szEGKiwgO=2BI=2BWe4wtafaZGpkrI49SytXVLvLQObvuvabXWMiQ0FZKW03XADeQFbNMfamF=2FvLGTVi1WUa595z5Bs8RhjYuzu=2BGoGlx2=2F2RlVFJGcnm3twkV

Higher Thyroid Cancer Rate From Chernobyl Confirmed
SOURCE: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, July 5, 2006.
REUTERS US: July 7, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37149/story.htm

Anger over nuclear flask mistake
Friday, 7 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/5158526.stm

DOE says it's prepared for wildfires on nuclear sites
Christopher Smith
The Associated Press
Edition Date: 07-13-2006
http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060713/NEWS06/607130346


---- africa

Uganda finds sizeable uranium deposits
Richard Mutumba & Peter Nyanzi
Posted Thu, 06 Jul 2006 Business Africa
http://www.businessinafrica.net/news/east_africa/660030.htm

Niger permits Chinese uranium search

> From correspondents in Niamey  

July 17, 2006 Agence France-Presse
http://couriermail.news.com.au/story/0,20797,19814182-1702,00.html?from=rss


---- asia

Asia going nuclear amid rising oil prices, concerns over global warming
WASTE DISPOSAL LOOMS AS BIGGEST CHALLENGE
Updated 7/8/2006 By Michael Casey, Associated Press
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-08-nuclearasia_x.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060709/ap_on_bi_ge/asia_nuclear_renaissance;_ylt=Am2hug.LhuAMsaomxEO9U7Cs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3bGI2aDNqBHNlYwM3NDk-

Nuclear waste a challenge in Asia
(AP) Updated: 2006-07-09 15:37
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2006-07/09/content_636956.htm

Nuclear Waste Looms As Challenge in Asia
July 10, 2006 — By Michael Casey, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10831


---- australia

'We should not be exporting uranium because you are exporting cancer' - Dr. Helen Caldicott
July 2, 2006 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/we-should-not-be-exporting-uranium/2006/07/01/1151174440560.html?page=fullpage

Nuclear task force won't make recommendations
Tuesday, July 4, 2006 Australia Broadcasting
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1678773.htm

Macfarlane visit creates red faces
By Denis Peters  July 05, 2006 AAP
http://couriermail.news.com.au/story/0,20797,19694863-2,00.html?from=rss

Australian PM rules out storing nuclear waste from overseas
Thu Jul 6, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060706/sc_afp/australiaenergynuclear_060706102033

PM interfering in nuclear inquiry: Labor
From: AAP
July 06, 2006
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19703327-29277,00.html?from=public_rss

Expert warns of nuclear attack risk
July 13, 2006 AAP
http://couriermail.news.com.au/story/0,20797,19775361-1702,00.html?from=rss

ANSTO granted nuclear reactor licence
Friday July 14, 206 Australia Broadcasting
http://au.news.yahoo.com/060714/21/zrxm.html

Nuclear reactor safe enough: watchdog
July 14, 2006 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Nuclear-reactor-safe-enough-watchdog/2006/07/14/1152637845528.html

Howard eyes "energy superpower" status for Australia, backs nuclear
SYDNEY (AFP) Jul 17, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060717075814.78nj27ej.html

The nuclear debate we have to have
John Howard
July 18, 2006 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/the-nuclear-debate-we-have-to-have/2006/07/17/1152988467790.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Howard wants nuclear waste dump in Australia, Opposition says
Thursday July 20, 2006 Australian Broadcasting Corporation
http://au.news.yahoo.com/060719/21/zuat.html


---- britain

BNFL sees positive nuclear future
Renewed interest is changing the nuclear landscape
Monday, 3 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5140444.stm

Documents reveal hidden fears over Britain's nuclear plants
Unexplained cracks in reactor cores increase likelihood of accident, say government inspectors
John Vidal and Ian Sample
Wednesday July 5, 2006
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1812795,00.html

Hinkley Point B Reactor crack fears played down
Wednesday, 5 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5149650.stm

Secret Documents Reveal UK Government Inspectors Fears Over Defective Nuclear Reactors
05 July 2006, WebWire
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=16161

British Nuclear Warheads Could Be Triggered By Road Crash Reports: New Scientist
by Staff Writers
London (AFP) Jul 05, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/British_Nuclear_Warheads_Could_Be_Triggered_By_Road_Crash_Reports_New_Scientist_999.html

Road crash could set off nuclear blast
05 July 2006 New Scientist magazine, page 12 By Rob Edwards
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125594.300-road-crash-could-set-off-nuclear-blast.html
Web Links
* UK Ministry of Defence declassified report, (pdf format, 8MB)
http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/mg19125594.300.pdf

New laws to deliver nuclear stations in Britain
By Christopher Adams, Political Correspondent
Published: July 5 2006 22:01  Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms/s/649845ce-0c56-11db-86c7-0000779e2340.html

Nuclear planning to be speeded up
Thursday, 6 July 2006 BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5154054.stm

Cabinet backs energy plan as debate hots up
Thu, 6 Jul 2006 Epolitix
http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200607/14b83622-effa-4067-b7ae-e603e1d936b1.htm

Blair Risks Public Nuclear Power Backlash, U.K. Lawmakers Say
Mark Deen in London <markdeen@bloomberg.net>
July 9, 2006 19:11 EDT (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aOFJ79zIb6YE

Call for reaction to nuclear plan
Sunday, 9 July 2006 BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/jersey/5162376.stm

Government faulted for "hasty" nuclear review
Mon Jul 10, 2006 (Reuters) By Adrian Croft
http://go.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=1313411&section=news&src=rss/uk/topNews

Labour and the nuclear lobby
BBC Analysis
By Brian Wheeler
Political reporter, BBC News
Monday, 10 July 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5149676.stm

Nuclear to power ahead of renewables
Experts fear that billions in government subsidies are set to go to the nuclear sector at the expense of green energy, writes Neasa MacErlean
Monday July 10, 2006
Guardian Unlimited
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,,1817110,00.html?gusrc=rss

Review says 'no need for nuclear'
Monday, 10 July 2006 BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5165482.stm

Documents Show Cracks in UK Reactors as Blair Prepares to Push Nuclear Power
Aaron Glantz, OneWorld US Mon Jul 10, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20060710/wl_oneworld/45361361961152542226

Nuclear power plants get go-ahead
Tuesday, 11 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5166426.stm

Fight against stations plans 'only starting'
By Debra Douglas
11 July 2006 Belfast Telegraph UK
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=698351

Sure, nuclear power is safer than in the past - but we still don't need it
It's true that another Chernobyl couldn't happen in a new reactor, but the case against is as strong as ever
George Monbiot = http://www.monbiot.com
Tuesday July 11, 2006
The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/columnist/story/0,,1817537,00.html

Nuclear power stations to be fast-tracked through planning
By Jenny Booth and agencies, July 11, 2006 UK Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2264655,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=Britain

Darling gives nuclear assurance
Hunterston B nuclear power station in Ayrshire is due to close by 2011
Tuesday, 11 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5167974.stm

New wave of nuclear power fired up by 2016
By Katherine Griffiths (Filed: 11/07/2006) UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/07/11/ccnuc11.xml

The Government's report on the Energy Review is released today
11th July 2006 Energy Review
http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/review/index.html

Nuclear Future - Marketing and PR
July 12, 2006 Potential Energy, UK
http://www.potentialenergyuk.com/?p=68

UK Short cut to boost wind and nuclear power
By George Jones and Charles Clover
(Filed: 12/07/2006)  UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/12/nener12.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/12/ixuknews.html

MPs press over nuclear subsidies
Some Labour MPs are suspicious of the subsidy claims
Wednesday, 12 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5171800.stm

Nuclear power is 'colossal mistake' says Livingstone
Publisher:  Ian Morgan
12/07/2006 24dash.com http://www.24dash.com/news/58/8016/index.htm

UK Nuclear Focus May Boost Emissions - Green Groups
Story by Nick Trevethan
REUTERS UK: July 12, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37203/newsDate/12-Jul-2006/story.htm

Blair’s Energy Review: Save the Nuclear Industry
Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 8:23 am
Press Release: Greenpeace
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0607/S00218.htm

Industry 'backs new-generation nuclear power'
Terry Macalister
Thursday July 13, 2006
The Guardian
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1819998,00.html

Britain shares nuclear plant concerns, envoy insists Saturday, July 15, 2006 Ireland Online
http://www.online.ie/Home/News.aspx?newsId=403654
               Lothians MP attacks Darling over plans to replace Torness
BILL JACOBS WESTMINSTER EDITOR
Mon 17 Jul 2006 Scotsman
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1039082006

Nuclear plant warned after leak
The water leaked during routine tests at Sellafield
Tuesday, 18 July 2006 BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/5191874.stm

Nuclear threat to Bromley
Tuesday 18th July 2006 UK News Shopper
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/display.var.838858.0.nuclear_threat_to_bromley.php


---- business

Investors to calculate nuclear returns
BBC Analysis
By Jorn Madslien
Business reporter, BBC News
Monday, 10 July 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5153368.stm

French nuclear reactor maker eyes UK
By Rory Cellan-Jones
Business correspondent, BBC News, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
Monday, 10 July 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5166142.stm

Commodities Billionaire Jim Rogers Calls for Higher Uranium Prices
Sarasota, Fla. 7/10/2006 1:36 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)
http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?storyid=9063&ret=Default.aspx

Areva profit warning dampens nuclear energy industry optimism - UPDATE
13.07.2006 (AFX)
by Andrew Newby <Andrew.Newby@afxnews.com>
http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2006-07/artikel-6699168.asp

Ceradyne buys facility, product line to enter nuclear waste business
Thursday July 13, 2006
American City Business Journals http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/060713/1315364.html?.v=1

India's top atomic centre in search of commercial benefits
Chennai, July 19, 2006 (IANS) http://www.bihartimes.com/news06/marchall/19july03.html


---- canada

Nuclear fallout victims find health here
By Robyn Chambers
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 Chilliwack, Canada, Times
http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/issues06/073106/features.html


---- china
China rejects UN resolution on NKorea
by Cindy Sui Tue Jul 11, 2006 (AFP)
http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fafp%2F20060711%2Fts_afp%2Fnkoreamissile_060711102032%26printer%3D1%3B_ylt%3DAkvLo4C12LTBhRkYLztfVb.ROrgF%3B_ylu%3DX3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

Energy-hungry China to seek uranium in Niger
Mon Jul 17, 2006 (Reuters) By Abdoulaye Massalatchi
http://za.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2006-07-17T123815Z_01_BAN745491_RTRIDST_0_OZABS-NUCLEAR-NIGER-CHINA-20060717.XML

China eyes uranium power plays
By Mandi Zonneveldt
July 17, 2006 Australia Finance News
http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,19808413-462,00.html


---- depleted uranium

Israel's War On Palestinian Children
Saturday, 1 July 2006, 1:37 pm
Opinion: Green Left Weekly - Australia
By John Pilger
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00005.htm

Pentagon Misinformation the Only Sure Thing in This War
by Ramzy Baroud, July 1, 2006 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/baroud.php?articleid=9230

Doing the Wrong Thing in Afghanistan
Depleted Uranium: The Definitive Moral Paradox
Michael Clarke, Vive le Canada
July 7, 2006
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m24460&l=i&size=1&hd=0
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060706210639293
Horrific photo of d.u. baby
http://www.uruknet.info/pic.php?f=image6.gif

Uranium bombing in Iraq contaminates Europe
Bob Nichols
July 9, 2006
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060708064938448
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m24494&l=i&size=1&hd=0

Diabetes and Depleted Uranium
Italian Embassy Cover up Continues
by Bob Nichols
Tuesday Jul 11th, 2006 (San Francisco Bay View) http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/11/18287057.php

'Nuclear' book wins £10,000 prize
Wednesday, 12 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5170700.stm

A Soldier's Heart Then and Now
By Chante Wolf
Wednesday 12 July 2006
Pulse of the Twin Cities http://www.pulsetc.com/article.php?sid=2581

Israel 'is using chemical ammunition' in Gaza
by Duraid Al Baik
July 13, 2006
Gulf News
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=AL%2020060713&articleId=2730

Firms convert uranium Power plants cleared for use
ASSOCIATED PRESS
July 16, 2006
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060716/BUSINESS/607160314/1003


---- europe

France gets nuclear fusion plant
Tuesday, 28 June, 2005 BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4629239.stm?ls

States may oppose French reactor
Thursday, 6 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/5155628.stm

Finland's 5th Nuclear Reactor Delayed -- by 1 Year
Tuesday July 11, 2:14 pm ET
By Matti Huuhtanen, Associated Press Writer
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060711/finland_nuclear_plant_delay.html?.v=2

E.ON May Have to Sell Nuclear Plants to Buy Endesa, People Say
July 13, 2006 (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a4pS_PKX9q94


---- india
Another fine mess you've gotten us into, Condi!
Posted: July 1, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50872

India, IAEA to discuss safeguards agreement
India News
Thursday, July 6th, 2006
http://indiaenews.com/2006-07/13927-india-iaea-safeguards-agreement.htm

India’s special circumstances
Sunday, 9th July, 2006 New Vision (Uganda)    
By Gwynne Dyer
http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/20/508452

India test-fires nuclear-capable missile
Updated 7/9/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-09-india-missile_x.htm

Facts about India's Agni-III missile
NEW DELHI (AFP) Jul 09, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060709114656.63ygivgp.html

IDPD Seminar Demands Scrapping of Indo-US Nuclear Deal     suklasen
From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@indiatimes.com>
Date: 9th July 2006
      First test-firing of new Indian nuclear-capable missile fails
Updated 7/10/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-10-india-missile-test_x.htm

India tests missile able to reach Beijing
July 10, 2006 The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19735333-2703,00.html

India shrugs off failure of long-range missile
NEW DELHI, (AFP) Jul 10, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060710095412.styhh2xl.html

India Reports a Long-Range Missile Test
By HARI KUMAR and DAVID E. SANGER
July 10, 2006 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/world/asia/10india.html?ei=5088&en=6b32149e204ea99f&ex=1310184000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

Indian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Fail Major Test
By Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
Washington (UPI) Jul 14, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Indian_Intercontinental_Ballistic_Missile_Fail_Major_Test_999.html

CNDP Reiterates Opposition to Indo-US Nuke Deal
From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@indiatimes.com>
Date: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:02 pm

India in the Shadow of the Nuclear Lobby
July 15, 2006 14:56 | by Subramanian Udayakumar
SPECTREZINE
http://www.spectrezine.org/resist/India.htm

See also:
http://www.spectrezine.org/MiddleEast/Damveld.htm

Agni Failure Bad News For India
by Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 17, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Agni_Failure_Bad_News_For_India_999.html

US lawmakers to act on India nuclear deal: official
Mon Jul 17, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060717/pl_afp/usindianuclear_060717210331

Go easy, says French scientist
NT Bureau
Kalpakkam, July 19, 2006 http://www.newstodaynet.com/19jul/rf14.htm

Nuke Deal: Debating the pros and cons      By: Indrajeet Rai
Zee News, July 19, 2006
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/print_articles.asp?rep=2&aid=277689&sid=ZNS
     
---- iran

US Military Doubts Bombing Of Iran Would succeed
The Bush administration has refused to rule out possible military action if diplomatic efforts fail to persuade Iran to halt sensitive uranium enrichment work.
by Staff Writers
New York (AFP) Jul 02, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Military_Doubts_Bombing_Of_Iran_Would_succeed_999.html

Iran has until July 12 to stop enrichment
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 3, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060703/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear

Iran Again Says No Reply 'Til Mid-August
3:44 pm EDT July 4, 2006 Associated Press
http://www.wral.com/apworldnews/9467033/detail.html

Washington rejects a German compromise on Iran
By Gareth Porter
Middle East
Jul 6, 2006
(Inter Press Service)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HG06Ak01.html

ElBaradei: Turkey can help ease Iranian nuclear crisis
'I am very optimistic about a diplomatic solution'
Compiled by Lebanon Daily Star staff
Friday, July 07, 2006
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=73744

Frustrated World Powers Send Iran to U.N.
Jul 12, 2006, 6:49 PM (ET)
By ANNE GEARAN (AP)
http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fapnews.myway.com%2Farticle%2F20060712%2FD8IQNP6O9.html

New UN resolution on Iran, but sanctions remain elusive - analysts
PARIS (AFP) Jul 13, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060713154840.b5wqi9qg.html

Iran stands by nuclear program
Thursday, July 13, 2006 Reuters
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1686274.htm

Iran's leadership rejects freeze of sensitive nuclear work
by Siavosh Ghazi Sat Jul 15, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060715/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpolitics_060715161932

Iran calls Western incentives acceptable
Posted 7/16/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-16-iran-nuclear_x.htm

UN's Iran nuclear referral "not constructive"
By Alireza Ronaghi
Sun Jul 16, 9:48 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060716/ts_nm/nuclear_iran_talks_dc

Experts challenge White House on Iran’s influence
By Guy Dinmore
Financial Times (UK)
July 17, 2006
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/825e4f2e-15dc-11db-9950-0000779e2340.html


---- japan

Tohoku Elec shuts nuclear unit for unplanned checks
Friday July 7, 2006 (Reuters)
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060707/3/2mui4.html

New U.S. warship sails to Japan amid N. Korean missile standoff
Updated 7/9/2006 6:01 AM ET (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-08-missile-ship_x.htm

Japan Has Right To Protect Itself Says Foreign Minister
by Staff Writers
Tokyo (AFP) Jul 10, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Japan_Has_Right_To_Protect_Itself_Says_Foreign_Minister_999.html

Japan Considers Strike Against N. Korea
Jul 10, 2006 (AP) By MARI YAMAGUCHI
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060710/D8IP4UC81.html

Chubu Electric cuts profit by 100 bil. yen on nuke plant accident
TOKYO, July 11,2006 KYODO
http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=258911

Japan yields to resolution by China, Russia
Friday, July 14, 2006
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060714a1.html


---- korea

China proposing unofficial 6-party nuclear talks in July
(Kyodo) Saturday July 1, 2006
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060630/kyodo/d8iilk3g0.html

N Korea warns off US attack
SEOUL, July 3 (AFP) Jul 03, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060703105553.xycz2dvw.html

White House: N. Korea nuclear comment hypothetical
Mon Jul 3, 2006 11:16 AM ET (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060703/pl_nm/korea_north_usa_dc

U.S. envoy warns N. Korea on provocation
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer Mon Jul 3, 2006 9:25 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060704/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_nkorea_4

Pyongyang Denounces US For Deploying Spy Planes
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Jul 04, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Pyongyang_Denounces_US_For_Deploying_Spy_Planes_999.html

Chronology of North Korea missile program
By The Associated Press Tue Jul 4, 2006 9:11 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060705/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_missile_timeline_1

White House: Missiles Pose No U.S. Threat
Wednesday July 5, 2006 1:01 PM
By DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5931744,00.html

Cool Heads Needed On North Korea ICBM Tests
by Anthony H. Cordesman
UPI Outside View Commentator
Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Cool_Heads_Needed_On_North_Korea_ICBM_Tests_999.html

US And North Korean Neighbours Enraged At Missile Tests
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jul 05, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_And_North_Korean_Neighbours_Enraged_At_Missile_Tests_999.html

U.S., Allies Seek Punitive Action Against N. Korea
By Colum Lynch and Anthony Faiola
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, July 6, 2006; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/05/AR2006070500217_pf.html

Did Bush Administration Policy on North Korea Help Provoke Ballistic Missile Tests?
Thursday, July 6th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/06/1349234

US expresses concern over North Korea's weapon exports
Thu Jul 6, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060706/pl_afp/nkoreausmissile

Allies must 'plan for worst' from North Korea, Bush says
July 7, 2006 AP
BY DEB RIECHMANN
http://suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-korea07.html

N. Korea missile aimed at area off Hawaii - report
Friday July 7, 2006 8:06 AM (Reuters)
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060707/3/2mty8.html

UN deadlocked over how to censure North Korea for missile tests
07-07-2006 (AFP)
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=132449

China may veto resolution condemning N.Korea -- Wang
July 7 (KUNA)
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=884122

Air Routes Changed to Avoid Missiles
By Kim Rahn
rahnita@koreatimes.co.kr
Staff Reporter, Korea Times
07-07-2006
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200607/kt2006070717371410440.htm

North Korea and the vanishing American Empire
Does Kim Jung Il read the newspapers?
By Mike Whitney
07/08/06 "Information Clearing House"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13923.htm

North Korean Missile Test: Another Red Herring
by Charley Reese,  July 8, 2006 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=9268

North Korea knows how to get attention
By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Sat Jul 8, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060708/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_bluster

North Korean Official Repeats Threat Of Physical Measures
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Jul 08, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/North_Korean_Official_Repeats_Threat_Of_Physical_Measures_999.html

Bush bristles at claim he's failed on nuclear threat
Peter Wallsten, Peter Spiegel, Chicago
LOS ANGELES TIMES, REUTERS
July 9, 2006 The Age (Australia)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bush-bristles-at-claim-hes-failed-on-nuclear-threat/2006/07/08/1152240538236.html

Japan mulls North Korea strike
Updated 7/10/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-10-north-korea-japan_x.htm

Pyongyang Seeks Help From Seoul To Fend Off Calamity From Outside
by Park Chan-Kyong
Busan, South Korea (AFP) Jul 11, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Pyongyang_Seeks_Help_From_Seoul_To_Fend_Off_Calamity_From_Outside_999.html

US Military Exercise Violates North Koreans Sovereignty
by Jean-Jacques Cornish
Pretoria (AFP) Jul 11, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Military_Exercise_Violates_North_Koreans_Sovereignty_999.html

China and Russia introduce rival resolution on North Korean missile
Posted 7/12/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-12-missile-resolution_x.htm

US Cool To China-Russia Resolution On North Korea
by Staff Writers
Rostock, Germany (AFP) Jul 12, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Cool_To_China_Russia_Resolution_On_North_Korea_999.html

U.N. Security Council's resolution on North Korea
Saturday, July 15, 2006 CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/15/korea.res/

Security Council Rebukes N. Korea
Nations Agree To Demand End Of Missile Program
By Colum Lynch
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 16, 2006; A13
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071500565_pf.html

UN Demands End To North Korea Missile Program As Pyongyang Says No
by Giles Hewitt
United Nations (AFP) Jul 16, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/UN_Demands_End_To_North_Korea_Missile_Program_As_Pyongyang_Says_No_999.html

North Korea Launches Wartime Alert
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Jul 19, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/North_Korea_Launches_Wartime_Alert_999.html

North Korea Scraps North-South Family Reunions
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Jul 19, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/North_Korea_Scraps_North_South_Family_Reunions_999.html


---- latinamerica

U.S.-Origin Nuclear Fuel Returned from Argentina
NNSA program removes highly enriched uranium from Argentine nuclear reactor
U.S. Department of State
19 July 2006
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=July&x=20060719144611adynned8.585757e-02&chanlid=wha

Peru, Russia sign nuclear co-op agreement
2006-07-20 (Xinhua) http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/20/content_4859387.htm


---- mideast

IAEA chief cautions Turkey over nuclear energy plans
Fri Jul 7, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060707/wl_afp/turkeynucleariaea_060707160134


---- missile defense

South Korea to purchase SM-2 missiles
By BO-MI-LIM, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 3, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060703/ap_on_re_as/skorea_missile_defense

US 'ready to respond' on missiles

> From correspondents in Washington

05 july 06 AFP
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,19691104%255E1702,00.html

Bush Says Korean Missile Shows Need for Shield
By DAVID E. SANGER
New York Times
July 7, 2006
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt299.html

Tokyo to step up joint missile defense program: Nukaga
Friday, July 7, 2006 Japan Times
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20060707a5.html

Canada won't join missile defense, for now
By Pamela Hess
UPI Pentagon Correspondent
Jul. 7, 2006 at 8:57AM
http://washtimes.com/upi/20060706-042023-4410r.htm

The Illusion of Operational Readiness of National Missile Defense
By Lt. General Robert Gard (USA, Ret.) & John D. Isaacs
Jul 8, 2006, 09:36
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_22467.shtml

Independent Working Group Issues Major Report on Ballistic Missile Defense
From: Sheila Baker <she4bikes@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:42 am

Missile test planned Wednesday morning
July 18, 2006
Santa Maria Times Staff report
http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2006/07/18/news/centralcoast/news05.txt

Vandenberg set to launch unarmed Minuteman July 18, 2006 Santa Barbara News Press
By Nora K. Wallace
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=LOCAL&ID=564771978137960487&Archive=false

US mission: missile defense base in Europe
A team of missile experts from the Department of Defense arrives in the Czech Republic Tuesday to scout out possible sites.
By Jeffrey White | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
July 18, 2006
http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/world/~3/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2F2006%2F0718%2Fp04s01-woeu.html

Czech bid for US missile base
The US wants to expand its missile defence system
Tuesday, 18 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/5191784.stm

US to deploy missile interceptors at Japan base
Wed Jul 19, 2006 (Reuters)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-07-20T011737Z_01_T334636_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-JAPAN-USA.xml

Vandenberg launches unarmed missile
Posted 7/20/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-07-20-vandenburg_x.htm

U.S. successfully launches unarmed intercontinental missile in test   July 20, 2006 5:45 AM (AP)
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=NATIONAL&ID=564773154422391869
    
---- pacific

U.S. Congressional Delegation Tours Nuke-Impacted Islands
by Aenet Rowa, Yokwe Online, July 17, 2006 - photos courtesy of Bikini Atoll Liaison Jack Niedenthal
http://www.yokwe.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1435


---- pakistan

Pakistan determined to get nuclear power - deal or no deal
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 India eNews
http://indiaenews.com/2006-07/14604-pakistan-determined-nuclear.htm


---- russia

Russia plans atomic energy expansion
MOSCOW, July 1 (AFP) Jul 01, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060701085748.r2m9qvga.html

Georgian Leader Warns of Russian Threat
U.S. Support Meant as Message to Putin
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 7, 2006; A11
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/06/AR2006070601602_pf.html

Russia, USA expected to move forward on civilian nuclear cooperation
Posted 7/8/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-08-russiausa-nuclear_x.htm

U.S. and Russia to Enter Civilian Nuclear Pact
Bush Reverses Long-Standing Policy, Allows Agreement That May Provide Leverage on Iran
By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 8, 2006; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/07/AR2006070701588.html?referrer=email

US to dangle nuclear deal in exchange for Russia's help on Iran
by Maxim Kniazkov Sun Jul 9, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060709/wl_afp/usrussianuclear_060709201618
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/07/09/afx2866024.html

Russia offered to help N. Korea
By Michael Hirst
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Published July 9, 2006
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060709-122650-1820r

Russians get help to clean nuclear waste
July 10, 2006 (UPI)
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060710-124402-2546r

U.S. May Ask Russian Help With Nuke Waste
By Jul 10, 2006 (UPI)
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/science/article_21227447.shtml

US offers Russia nuclear deal to support Western action against Iran
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 10 July 2006 UK Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1169743.ece

Russia says no plans to store foreign spent nuclear fuel
11/ 07/ 2006 (RIA Novosti)
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060711/51174005.html

Russia wants to store nuclear waste
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 12, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_go_pr_wh/g8_us_russia_nuclear_1

Domenici, Bingaman Oppose Effort to Open U.S. Market to More Enriched Uranium from Russia
Opening U.S. Market to Russian Fuel Deemed Harmful to Industry
July 12th, 2006 U.S. Senate Press Release
http://energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=235029&Month=7&Year=2006

Senators oppose Russia nuclear deal at G8
By Tom Doggett Thu Jul 13, 2006 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060713/pl_nm/group_usa_nuclear_dc_2

Putin mocks Cheney's criticism as failed shot
Jibe underscores tensions ahead of G-8 summit
By STEVE GUTTERMAN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, July 13, 2006
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/277408_russia13.html

Russia Joins Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor Project
14.07.2006 MosNews
http://mosnews.com/money/2006/07/14/nuclearproject.shtml

Russia Is Not a Lost Cause
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Antiwar.com July 15, 2006
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=9305

No plans for Russia to change stance on Iran - nuclear chief
15/ 07/ 2006 (RIA Novosti)
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060715/51403651.html

US And Russia Building A Friendship Based On Nuclear Waste
by Mark N. Katz
Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_And_Russia_Building_A_Friendship_Based_On_Nuclear_Waste_999.html

To Nuke or Not to Nuke
by Gordon Prather
Antiwar.com July 18, 2006
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=9321


---- security

Is Cat Litter Really Radioactive?
And how do we detect nuclear materials at the border?
By Daniel Engber
Posted Wednesday, June 8, 2005, at 7:13 PM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2120491/

Nuclear materials 'dangerously vulnerable'
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 13, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060713/ap_on_re_eu/nuclear_threats_3

US awards $1.16 bln for nuclear scanning of cargo
"The single biggest threat we worry about in terms of protecting this country and securing the homeland is the threat of a weapon of mass destruction, and at the very top of the scale is a nuclear device or a radiological device"
July 14, 2006 (Reuters)
By Deborah Charles
http://www.topix.net/content/reuters/2070779283363599859920971881301021135402?threadid=I9GPPE1TVUR1QG4L

U.S. to Install New Nuclear Detectors at Ports
The $1.2 billion in contracts will go toward scanning for weapons with greater accuracy.
By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 15, 2006
http://q13.trb.com/la-na-radiation15jul15,0,1225255.story?coll=kcpq-home-2

U.S. to Spend $1.2 Billion on Detecting Radiation
By ERIC LIPTON
July 15, 2006 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/15/us/15secure.html?_r=1&oref=login&pagewanted=print

U.S. and Russia Will Police Nuclear Terrorists
By DAVID E. SANGER
New York Times
July 15, 2006
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/nws/nytimes97.htm

Russian, U.S. Presidents Plan to Control Global Nuclear Fuel Enrichment
STRELNA, Russia, July 15, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-15-01.asp


---- space

Weapons in outer space
By William Marshall  |  July 5, 2006 Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/07/05/weapons_in_outer_space/

Putin Pledges to Raise NGO Nuclear, Climate Concerns at G8 Summit
MOSCOW, Russia, July 7, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-07-02.asp


---- treaties

Non-proliferation policy full of inconsistencies, critics say
By Stephen J. Hedges
Chicago Tribune
Sun, Jul. 09, 2006
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/15002371.htm

Defiant Iran threatens to quit nuclear treaty
by Stefan Smith Thu Jul 13, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060713/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpolitics_060713162813


---- u.n.

UNSC unanimously adopts resolution on DPRK missile launches
2006-07-16 06:31:24 (Xinhua)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/16/content_4838562.htm


---- u.s. nuc weapons

US nuclear scientists back in race
Ralph Vartabedian in Los Angeles
July 1, 2006 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-nuclear-scientists-back-in-race/2006/06/30/1151174393386.html


---- u.s. nuc facilities

Nuclear Power Revival Viewed as Inevitable by U.S. Researcher
06 July 2006
USINFO - U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=July&x=20060706173216SAikceinawz0.2218897

Nuclear Power Industry Planning Seven New Reactors
HOUSTON, Texas, July 12, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-12-09.asp#anchor1


---- connecticut

Dome nearly down at old nuclear plant
The Hartford Courant, Connecticut (July 17, 2006)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/news/display_news_story.cfm?Section=WIREN&Category=HOME&NewsID=137006


---- idaho

NUCLEAR REACTOR TO BE DISMANTLED
Jul 14, 2006 (AP)
http://www.topix.net/r/05KQAC65=2B9p3CnEOW2BSxTdO6W1y1MCuiARzawtAaSYX=2FhvoxYl93yVrkndl9rjQZ09DQ3Rb1AfC0fntsWtNdmufw5fD90zPuQatlW=2Butz1VqA4wN=2FP5cBiL6z0O9=2FdwK

Reactor used to simulate 3 Mile Island accident to be dismantled
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, July 14, 2006
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_ID_Reactor_Dismantling.html?source=rss


---- illinois

Valve fails, causes nuclear reactor to shut down for 49 hours
July 7, 2006 AP
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4343998


---- louisiana

The Lowdown on the Louisiana Energy Services Uranium Enrichment Facility
Leave no stone unturned. That's how professionals execute a program to get a project launched. The turnaround of Louisiana Energy Services (LES) is nothing short of spectacular. Resurrected from the dead, the LES enrichment facility is quickly moving forward. After being shunned by two states, in a grueling saga lasting fifteen years, LES finally found a home in New Mexico for its uranium enrichment plant. Our brief encounter with LES President Jim Ferland and his right hand man, Marshall Cohen, Vice President of Communications, demonstrated they are serious players with a no-nonsense approach to making the LES uranium enrichment facility operational. How did we reach that conclusion? It began with a story we wrote.
July 11, 2006 InvestorIdeas.com
http://miningsectorstocks.com/Articles/071106a.asp


---- maine

Could Maine Yankee become a regional nuclear waste site?
By BART JANSEN, Washington D.C. Correspondent
Sunday, July 16, 2006 Portland Press Herald
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060716nuclear.shtml


---- maryland

A nettle-some problem on Potomac
Jellyfish force one Maryland power plant to to temporarily reduce output, jam others.
Date published: 7/15/2006
By FRANK DELANO Fredericksburg, Va. Free Lance-Star http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/072006/07152006/206385


---- michigan

State considers purchase of former nuclear plant site
July 12, 2006 Associated Press
http://www.topix.net/r/05KQAC65=2B9p3CnEOW2BSxTdRTKhDJ0xDET1R03DtrVmQWW2uM=2FSqoeuoITtxLkZK227djGLK=2BSwO8kY15wScvfZKDP0s0wfWji84vRF0bGvmkn0=2BKsgG=2FRgKLvKql2rwa

Entergy buying Michigan nuclear generator
7/12/2006, 8:42 a.m. CT
By ALAN SAYRE
The Associated Press   
http://www.topix.net/r/05KQAC65=2B9p3CnEOW2BSxTQD91ZjZAx5tTSDN9KWCkJeCH=2F=2BsO72Sf62Sh3UlVCn3FcIMfkbPbbt6o40ykrrTeJVQnyQTztwTahxAkAwmeWZJBKL53A8s6rI4NfAovw1bEOG91jWmRXt1na8NC7xNw=2F0cUNFXu=2BnaYcNsG=2FgPYeA=3D
On the Net:
Entergy Corp.: http://www.entergy.com
Consumers Energy: http://www.consumersenergy.com


---- nevada

Layoff notices set for Yucca staff
Workers to be warned about reorganization of planned nuclear waste repository
By STEVE TETREAULT
Jul. 15, 2006
Las Vegas Review-Journal http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jul-15-Sat-2006/news/8508331.html

Less Than Meets The Eye in Yucca Layoff Story
Monday, July 17, 2006 NEI Nuclear Notes
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2006/07/less-than-meets-eye-in-yucca-layoff.html#links

New Opening Date for Yucca Mountain Waste Dump Is 2017
July 19, 2006 — By Erica Werner, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10892

Timetable for Yucca Mountain Has Nuclear Waste Arriving in 2017
WASHINGTON, DC, July 19, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-19-09.asp#anchor1

Doubts raised over nuclear waste plan
By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 19, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060719/ap_on_go_ot/yucca_mountain_2


---- new mexico

NRC Approves New Enrichment Plant
Foreign-owned nuclear fuel facility would be first of its type to be built in U.S.
Jeff Johnson, July 3, 2006
Chemical & Engineering News Volume 84, Number 27, p. 10 http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/i27/8427notw6.html

NNSA proposes more nuclear work for Los Alamos lab
Last Update: 07/06/2006 By: Associated Press
http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=26642&cat=NMTOPSTORIES


---- new york

Indian Point 3 safely shuts down
Thursday, July 6, 2006 Mid-Hudson News NY
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/IP3_shutdown-06Jul06.htm

Ginna to boost its output of power
36-year-old nuke plant OK'd for 16% increase
Staff and wire reports
(July 12, 2006) Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
http://www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060712/BUSINESS/607120362

Nine Mile Point to lose about 150 jobs
July 15, 2006, Newsday
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--nuclearstationcut0715jul15,0,7957781.story

Tapping spiritual values to seek an agreement on Indian Point
By LEN MANIACE
lmaniace@lohud.com
THE NY JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: July 20, 2006)
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060720/NEWS02/607200354/1204


---- north carolina

Duke professor Howell named director of nuclear lab
Thursday, July 13, 2006 Associated Press
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article_ap?id=88288


---- ohio

Last bit of nuclear waste gone from Mound Facility
By Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff Writer, July 14, 2006 Dayton Daily News
http://www.daytondailynews.com/search/content/localnews/daily/071406mound.html


---- oregon

OSU tests new reactor design
New concepts for power plants are streamlined, theoretically safer
By WILLIAM McCALL
AP Business Writer
Saturday, July 15, 2006 http://www.topix.net/r/05KQAC65=2B9p3CnEOW2BSxTb47d2bGMRMmJwGBQ8NGlrDNU99R193FN4lQZ9juzZsP6XYxHwoySzjs9alJdrHftuCxTxCpKGeD6HX017trQR9JzvH1pfvY7KSPguBn=2B8vQ
ON THE NET:
Energy Department: http://www.ne.doe.gov/
Westinghouse: http://www.westinghousenuclear.com/
General Electric: http://www.gepower.com/businesses/ge—nuclear/en/index.htm


---- pennsylvania

Exelon Pushes To Store Nuclear Fuel In Limerick
Jul 10, 2006 (AP) http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_191084935.html

Storing nuclear waste in spotlight at Limerick
Officials at the power plant in Montgomery County will defend their plans to store used reactor fuel in outdoor vaults at a meeting Tuesday.
By Mike Urban
Reading, PA, Eagle, July 10, 2006
http://www.readingeagle.com/re/lead/1539784.asp

Exelon moves closer to Limerick storage facility
By Sandy Bauers
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Fri, Jul. 14, 2006
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/15034799.htm


---- south carolina

Startup of second nuclear facility begins at Savannah River Site
Associated Press Mon, Jul. 10, 2006
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/15008228.htm
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/15008228.htm


---- tennessee

Y-12 plant lauded for uranium conversion
By RICHARD POWELSON, powelsonr@shns.com
July 14, 2006 Knoxville News Sentinel http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4843575,00.html


---- washington

Washington State Seeks to Bar More Waste from Hanford Nuclear Site
July 13, 2006 — By Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10856
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/nation/story/3329031p-12259870c.html


---- MILITARY

---- afghanistan

Karzai: Revealed, Reviled, Orphaned, and at Bay
by Bahlol Lohdi, July 1, 2006 Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com/orig/lohdi.php?articleid=9229

U.S. to give $2B in military weapons, vehicles to Afghan army
Updated 7/3/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-03-afghan-army_x.htm


---- africa

Secrets & lies
While researching Kenya, she found shocking truths about the British empire
By David Mehegan, Boston Globe Staff  |  July 3, 2006 http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/bost19.html

Darfur combat 'worse' since deal
Some 2m people have fled three years of fighting
Thursday, 6 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/5155984.stm

Ethiopia Threatens to Invade Somalia
Thursday, July 20th, 2006
Headlines Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/20/1434244


---- arms
Yemen denies arms supply to Somalia
By Nasser Arrabyee, Correspondent
07/03/2006 Gulf News
http://www.gulf-news.com/region/Yemen/10050961.html

US unveils package for $5bn arms sale to Pakistan
Tuesday, July 04, 2006 Pakistan International News
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=1767

Nuclear deal will boost US military sales to India
By Arun Kumar
Wednesday, 05 July 2006
http://www.nerve.in/news:2535007201

Second secret report on Saudi deal
By Christopher Hope, Industry Editor (Filed: 07/07/2006) UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/07/07/cnsaudi07.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/07/07/ixcity.html

WMDs in Slow Motion
The US and other states have scuppered a deal to control the deadly trade in small arms
by Mary Robinson
Tuesday, July 11, 2006 by the Guardian/UK
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0711-31.htm

US plans up to US$1 billion arms sale to Australia
12.30pm Saturday July 15, 2006 REUTERS http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10391436

FACTSHEET: U.S. Military Assistance and Arms Tranfers to Israel
From: "Frida Berrigan" <BerrigaF@newschool.edu>
Date: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:46 pm


---- asia

South Korea survey angers Japan

The islands are small, but highly symbolic in S Korea-Japan relations
Monday, 3 July 2006 BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/5139726.stm


---- business

Pentagon to End Multi-Billion Halliburton Contract
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
Headlines Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/145250

Army to rebid Halliburton's logistics contract
By Will Dunham Wed Jul 12, 2006 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060712/ts_nm/arms_halliburton_iraq_dc


---- chemical weapons

U.S. Will Miss Treaty Deadline to Destroy Chemical Weapons
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, July 10, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-10-01.asp


---- china

A Part of China, but Apart From It
Beijing Has Little Bearing on Ethnic Tibetan Villages in Sichuan Province
By Peter S. Goodman
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, July 4, 2006; D01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070301186_pf.html


---- europe

EU report: Some states worked with CIA
Jul. 7, 2006 United Press International http://washtimes.com/upi/20060707-060932-3062r.htm

---- iraq

Armed and ready: private soldiers in Iraq
Nick McKenzie
July 1, 2006 The Age http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/age15.html

The Logic of Withdrawal (Book Excerpt)
3 July 2006 Electronic Iraq
Anthony Arnove, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal
http://electroniciraq.net/news/2401.shtml

Iraq's Hakim says amnesty should include killers of US troops
Monday July 3, 2006 France-Presse
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/060703/1/41vi7.html

Iraq seeks Saudi investments
Monday July 03, 2006 (1226 PST) Pakistan News Service http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=148761

Iraqi PM outlines peace plan in UAE
Mon Jul 3, 2006 9:18 AM ET (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060703/wl_mideast_afp/iraqgulfdiplomacy

Turkey Backs Iraq Reconciliation Plan
By Amberin Zaman
Ankara
03 July 2006
http://voanews.com/english/2006-07-03-voa37.cfm

Drones reshaping Iraq's battlefields
Source: U.S. Army
By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY
Posted 7/6/2006 10:36 PM ET http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2006-07-06-uavs-iraq_x.htm

Iraq's New Army Uses Creaky Soviet-Era Armored Vehicles to Recreate a Mailed Fist
By JAMES GLANZ
July 7, 2006 New York Times
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt301.html


---- israel / palestine
The government is losing its reason
Mon., July 03, 2006 Haaretz Editorial
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/733036.html

Assad steps up support for Palestinians amid soldier crisis
Mon Jul 3, 2006 11:55 AM ET (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060703/wl_mideast_afp/mideastunrestsyriaassad

Living conditions in Gaza grim
Tuesday July 4, 2006 INDEPENDENT By Donald MacIntyre
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10389594

Iran president criticizes Israeli offensive
Posted 7/7/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-07-07-iran-israel_x.htm

Israeli use of poisonous material alleged
GAZA, July 10, 2006 (UPI)
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060710-081624-7700r

Israel Launches Heaviest Bombing of Lebanon in 24 Years; Airport Attacked, Over 40 Civilians Killed
Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/13/1421237

Israel asks to buy US jet fuel for military aircraft
Fri Jul 14, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060714/pl_afp/mideastisraelus

Israel's 'Operation Summer Rains' Offensive Includes Internationally Banned Toxic Weapons        PDF         Print         E-mail
IMEMC & Agencies - Friday, 14 July 2006, 11:14
http://www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20020&Itemid=1

Noam Chomsky: U.S.-Backed Israeli Policies Pursuing "End of Palestine"; Hezbollah Capture of Israeli Soldiers "Very Irresponsible Act" That Could Lead To "Extreme Disaster"
Friday, July 14th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/14/146258

Bush Refuses to Press Israel for Truce
By TOM RAUM
Associated Press Writer
July 15, 2006
http://wokv.com/common/ap/2006/07/15/D8IS7LVO0.html

Britain urged to ban £23m arms trade with Israel
By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent
Published: 15 July 2006 UK Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1178600.ece

Strikes Are Called Part of Broad Strategy
U.S., Israel Aim to Weaken Hezbollah, Region's Militants
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 16, 2006; A15
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071500957_pf.html

Lebanese run for cover as Israeli jets rip into the heart of Hizbollah
By Tim Butcher in Lebanon
(Filed: 17/07/2006) UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=NZNSUM3MZAQ2XQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/07/17/wmid417.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/17/ixuknews.html

World Health Organization: Lebanese Residents Displaced by Israeli Bombardment Expected to Top 900,000
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/18/1442244

United States to Israel: you have one more week to blast Hizbullah
Bush 'gave green light' for limited attack, say Israeli and UK sources
Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall and Patrick Wintour
Wednesday July 19, 2006
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1823817,00.html

U.S. OKs Israel Continuing Attack For Another Week
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/19/1345246

Where Are Bush's Critics Now?
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Antiwar.com July 19, 2006
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=9328


---- landmines

HPG signs ‘Deed of Commitment for Adherence to a Total Ban on Anti-Personnel Mines’
DozaMe.org, July 15, 2006
http://dozame.org/blog/2006/07/15/hpg-signs-deed-of-commitment-for-adherence-to-a-total-ban-on-anti-personnel-mines/


---- latin america

Calderon blasts plan for wall along U.S.-Mexico border
By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers
Fri, Jul. 07, 2006
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14990875.htm

The US Military Descends on Paraguay
Benjamin Dangl, July 12, 2006 The Nation Online
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060717/dangl

U.S. Official Says Venezuela Has Close Ties to Terrorist States
Venezuela Denies Not Providing Protection to U.S. Ambassador
Thursday, July 13, 2006 Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203414,00.html

Venezuela rebuffs U.S. requests for information on terror suspects
By Pablo Bachelet
McClatchy Newspapers
Fri, Jul. 14, 2006
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/15042040.htm

Chavez Lashes Out at U.S. Over Mideast
The Associated Press
Saturday, July 15, 2006; 12:18 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071500044_pf.html


---- mideast

Israel unable to take on Iran: Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN (AFP) Jul 14, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060714114253.09edicba.html

Israel pounds Lebanon
Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:42 AM ET (Reuters)
By Alistair Lyon, Middle East Correspondent
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-07-15T114237Z_01_L11538533_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST.xml&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1

Syrian President Bashar Al-Asad on U.S. Foreign Policy, the Resistance in Iraq, Syrian-Lebanese Relations and More
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/18/1442253

A Sampling of Arab TV Coverage of the Middle East Crisis
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/18/1442249

Saddam 'warns Syria against alliance with Iran'
Jul 18, 2006 Deutsche Presse-Agentur
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1181877.php/Saddam_warns_Syria_against_alliance_with_Iran

Bush: Syria trying to influence Lebanon
By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer Tue Jul 18, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060718/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_mideast

Turkey Signals It's Prepared to Enter Iraq
By LOUIS MEIXLER, 07.18.2006 Associated Press
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/07/18/ap2887214.html
    

---- nato

Former Rumsfeld aide nominated as top NATO commander
Posted 7/14/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-07-14-craddock-NATO_x.htm

Guantanamo general to head Nato
General Craddock resisted pressure to reprimand a Guantanamo officer
Friday, 14 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/americas/5181910.stm

NATO`s crisis in Afghanistan
By Martin Sieff Jul 14, 2006, 13:35 GMT (UPI)
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/southasia/article_1180855.php/Analysis_NATO%60s_crisis_in_Afghanistan

Four Nations Face Barriers as They Seek Bids to Join NATO
By NICHOLAS WOOD
New York Times, July 19, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/world/europe/19nato.html
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt7_19_06_6.htm


---- prisoners of war

Europe Decries U.S. on Guantanamo Situation
July 18, 2006 Angus-Reid
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12577
Source: Program on International Policy Attitudes
Methodology: Online interviews with 1,059 American adults, conducted from Jun. 27 to Jul. 2, 2006. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent. Telephone interviews with 1,004 British adults, conducted from Jun. 13 to Jun. 25, 2006. Margin of error is 3.2 per cent. Telephone interviews with 1,002 German adults, conducted from Jun. 6 to Jun. 25, 2006. Margin of error is 3.2 per cent. Face-to-face interviews with 1,639 Polish adults, conducted from Jun. 9 to Jun. 13, 2006. Margin of error is 3.2 per cent. Face-to-face interviews with 1,639 Indian adults, conducted from Jun. 19 to Jun. 25, 2006. Margin of error is 2.5 per cent.
Complete Poll (PDF)
http://www.angus-reid.com/admin/collateral/pdfs/polls/PIPA_World.pdf

Americans Want to End Secret Prisons
July 19, 2006 Angus Reid Global Scan : Polls & Research
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12590


---- russia / chechnya

Russian opposition asks G-8 to push Putin
By MARIA DANILOVA, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 12, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_re_eu/g8_russia_opposition

Putin signs measure reducing military duty
Wed Jul 12, 2006 Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060712/ap_on_re_eu/russia_draft


---- spies

Al-Qaeda 'bid to infiltrate MI5'
Police said the flow of new terrorist-related cases was accelerating
Monday, 3 July 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5142908.stm

C.I.A. Closes Unit Focused on Capture of bin Laden
By MARK MAZZETTI
New York Times
July 4, 2006
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt295.html

European Parliament Orders States, Banks to Disclose Bank Spy Role;
CIA Kidnap Victim Reveals Ordeal in Afghan Prison
Friday, July 7th, 2006
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/1355252

Spy or Risk Green Card: How the Bush Administration 'Recruits' Muslim Informants
Thursday, July 13th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/13/1421227

Italian spy chief questioned over CIA case
Sat Jul 15, 2006 (Reuters) By Emilio Parodi
http://today.reuters.com/news/ArticleNews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-07-15T123029Z_01_L1552981_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-ITALY-USA.xml


---- un

Lebanon: U.S. blocking call for cease-fire
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer
July 15, 2006, 9:43PM
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4049633.html

Condi and Her Gangs
by Gordon Prather
July 15, 2006 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=9308


---- us

Last Stand
The military’s problem with the President’s Iran policy.
By Seymour M. Hersh
07/02/06 "New Yorker"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13819.htm
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060710fa_fact

U.S. Military Deaths in Action in Iraq Reach 2,000, Army Says
July 3, 2006 (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aGy6fwWMPi9M&refer=

Judge Blocks War Game, Cites Danger to Wildlife
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 4, 2006; A05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070301233_pf.html

Problems Plague Army Weapons-Burning
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 4, 2006; A05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/03/AR2006070301207_pf.html

Judge Stops US Navy Using Sonar Off Hawaii
Story by Kristin Roberts
REUTERS US: July 4, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37095/story.htm

Seymour Hersh: Senior Pentagon Officials Challenging President Bush's Iran War Plans
Thursday, July 6th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/06/1349230

Nuking Iran Is Not Off the Table
by Jorge Hirsch, July 6, 2006 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=9255

Pentagon to buy new equipment for war
By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Fri Jul 7, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060707/ap_on_go_ot/us_iraq_spending_1;_ylt=AgKqGQsp8n2dijz_X2N4oyGGOrgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA2ZGZwam4yBHNlYwNmYw

Court Allows Sonar in RIMPAC War Games With New Restrictions
LOS ANGELES, California, July 9, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-09-01.asp

Bush may seek $110B more to fund wars
Jul. 13, 2006 Washington Times
http://washtimes.com/upi/20060713-065309-2185r.htm

Young veterans join unemployment lines
Posted 7/14/2006
By Katherine Hutt Scott, Gannett News Service
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-14-veterans-jobs_x.htm


---- POLICE / PRISONERS / COURTS / JUSTICE

Council To Vote On Crime Emergency Plan
Citizens Reportedly Want Neighborhood Cameras
July 19, 2006 NBC4
http://www.nbc4.com/news/9539980/detail.html#


---- homeland security / national intelligence

Law Enforcement, Emergency Safety Net Fraying in U.S. National Parks
WASHINGTON, DC, July 3, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-03-04.asp

Watchdog sees flaws in Homeland Security database
Updated 7/12/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-12-homelandsecurity_x.htm

Homeland Security Department Is Accused of Credit Card Misuse
By ERIC LIPTON
July 19, 2006 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/washington/19cards.html
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt7_19_06_5.htm


---- terrorism

Officials: Terror plotters targeted flood wall at Trade Center
Posted 7/13/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-13-tunnel-plot_x.htm


---- POLITICS


---- investigations

Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic
By Murray Waas, National Journal
Monday, July 3, 2006
http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/0703nj1.htm

Closing In on the Niger Uranium Hoax
Who lied us into war? The answer may be forthcoming…
by Justin Raimondo
Antiwar.com July 10, 2006
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9278

Italian Probe of CIA Abduction Broadens to Domestic Spying Scandal and "Black Propaganda" Misinformation Campaign by Italy Intel
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/144215

Former CIA officer accuses White House officials of 'whispering campaign'
Updated 7/14/2006 (AP) http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-07-14-plame-lawsuit_x.htm

Gonzales: Bush blocked eavesdropping probe
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer Tue Jul 18, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060718/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/eavesdropping_gonzales


---- propaganda wars

Re-Interpreting Iraq: Propaganda Campaign Underway
by Ramzy Baroud
July 1, 2006
GlobalResearch.ca
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BAR20060701&articleId=2716

Pentagon Misinformation the Only Sure Thing in This War
by Ramzy Baroud
Antiwar.com July 1, 2006
http://www.a/orig/baroud.php?articleid=9230

UK: Police hold mother-of-three for reading 'Independent' outside Downing Street
By Terry Kirby, Chief Reporter
Published: 01 July 2006 UK Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1152047.ece

China defends proposed law to fine media
By GILLIAN WONG, Associated Press Writer Mon Jul 3, 2006 8:27 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060704/ap_on_re_as/china_media_controls_1

American Majority Says Iraq War Pointless
July 4, 2006 Angus Reid Global Scan : Polls & Research
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/12437

I Am Angry
by Susan Fassanella
July 5, 2006 Lew Rockwell.com
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/fassanella1.html

Iraqi film makers risk all to tell their stories
07 Jul 2006 11:26:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Mike Collett-White
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/B894910.htm

The Washington Post’s War-mongering Scribe
By Mike Whitney
Al-Jazeerah, July 8, 2006
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/July/8%20o/The%20Washington%20Post's%20War-mongering%20Scribe%20By%20Mike%20Whitney.htm

'Axis of Evil:' Times Call For Diplomacy -- But From Whom?
by Joseph L. Galloway
Sunday, July 9, 2006 by the Miami Herald
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0709-24.htm

Republican lawmakers cite shells as WMD proof
By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published July 10, 2006
http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060710-123909-1428r

The One Percent Doctrine: Journalist Ron Suskind on the Deliberate U.S. Bombing of Al Jazeera, Losing Bin Laden and More
Friday, July 14th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/14/147205

Attention Deficit Americans Are Being Misled to War
by Paul Craig Roberts
July 15, 2006 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9311

You Won’t Read It Here First: India Curtails Access to Blogs
By SOMINI SENGUPTA, July 18, 2006 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/world/asia/19india.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fuj/nytimes93.htm


---- us politics

Democrats will send a message
July 3, 2006 Rutland Herald
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060703/NEWS/607030316/1037/OPINION02

Snow on the dismal failure of the administration's Korea policy
Josh Micah Marshall
(July 10, 2006 -- 02:49 PM EDT)
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008988.php

Veteran Journalist Robert Scheer on Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush
Monday, July 10th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/10/1356245

Senate Votes to Replace FEMA With a New Federal Agency
By ERIC LIPTON
July 12, 2006 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/washington/12fema.html?n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fOrganizations%2fH%2fHomeland%20Security%20Department%20&pagewanted=print

Lessons unlearned: Why Bush is failing in Iraq
By Steve Weinberg, Boston Globe Correspondent  |  July 13, 2006
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/07/13/lessons_unlearned_why_bush_is_failing_in_iraq/


---- voting

Populist Lopez Obrador Demands Full Vote Recount in Mexico's Closest-Ever Presidential Race
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/05/1329233

Subcomandante Marcos Says Zapatistas Received Reports of Electoral Fraud in Mexico Presidential Election
Thursday, July 6th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/06/1349226

Calderon Declared Victor in Disputed Mexico Race; Lopez Obrador Calls for Mass Rally
Friday, July 7th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/1356202

Contender Alleges Mexico Vote Was Rigged
Populist's Plan for Legal Challenge Ignites Boisterous Crowd at Massive Rally in Capital
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, July 9, 2006; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/08/AR2006070801010_pf.html

Lopez Obrador Releases Video of Apparent Ballot Stuffing
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Headlines Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/144208

Florida Con Salsa: Investigative Reporter Greg Palast Reports on Voter Fraud in Mexico's Presidential Election
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/146201


---- ENERGY
EU offers Russia deal on energy reform
By George Parker and Andrew Bounds in Brussels
Published: July 3 2006 19:16 Financial Times

EU to Seek Free Trade Area With Russia Later This Year
Monday July 3, 2006 8:24 am ET
By Constant Brand, Associated Press Writer
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060703/russia_trade.html?.v=1

Nuclear power is the future, says Blair - but not in Scotland
JAMES KIRKUP POLITICAL EDITOR
Wed 12 Jul 2006 The Scotman
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1013642006

'Global fear' over energy plans
Thursday, 13 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5170152.stm

For energy security, think nuclear
By Graham Allison International Herald Tribune
Published: July 13, 2006
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/13/opinion/edallison.php

G8 Draft Highlights Deep Split over Nuclear Energy
July 14, 2006 — By Louis Charbonneau, Reuters
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10863

G8 Energy Security Plan Relies on Oil, Nuclear and Renewables
STRELNA, Russia, July 16, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-16-01.asp

G-8 gives some support to nuclear energy
By ALEX NICHOLSON, AP Business Writer Sun Jul 16, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060716/ap_on_bi_ge/russia_g8_energy_3

Facing a polluted future
Despite emission policies such as the Kyoto Treaty, we are still facing a bleak environmental future
Yolandi Groenewald   
17 July 2006 07:59
Johannesburg South Africa Mail&Guardian
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=277729&area=/insight/monitor/


---- alternative energy

Hawaii Ethanol Manufacturing Gets $1 Million Jumpstart
WASHINGTON, DC, July 3, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-03-09.asp#anchor3

Shell Plans Wind Farm for Maui Ranch
HOUSTON, Texas, July 3, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-03-09.asp#anchor4

Florida Looks to Biofuels to Fix Energy Woes
July 05, 2006 — By Phil Davis, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10809

U.S. Maps Ethanol Research to Replace 30 Percent of Gasoline
WASHINGTON, DC, July 7, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-07-01.asp

SNP energised by renewable future
Friday, 7 July 2006 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/5159028.stm

William McDonough on Nuclear Power
July 7, 2006 03:51 PM - Michael G. Richard, near Ottawa
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/mcdonough_nuclear.php

Shell Says Biofuels From Food Crops "Morally Inappropriate"
REUTERS SINGAPORE: July 7, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37152/newsDate/7-Jul-2006/story.htm

Shell Plans Cleaner Second Generation of Biofuels
Story by Gerard Wynn
REUTERS UK: July 10, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37164/story.htm

U.S. Farm Town Tries for All-Renewable Energy
July 10, 2006 — By Ashley M. Heher, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10834

France eyes more renewable energy, less nuclear dependence
PARIS, July 10 (AFP) Jul 10, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/060710154817.xk25a2tt.html

HK's CLP Eyes Renewable Energy Projects in Asia
Story by Alison Leung
REUTERS CHINA: July 10, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37162/story.htm

Fuel Scientists See Drawbacks to Clean Hydrogen
Story by Lucas van Grinsven, European Technology Correspondent
REUTERS NETHERLANDS: July 10, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37166/story.htm

Government, Industry to Collaborate on Next Generation Renewables
GOLDEN, Colorado, July 10, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-10-09.asp#anchor2

Wind Could be Third of French Energy Mix
Story by Muriel Boselli
REUTERS FRANCE : July 11, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37189/newsDate/11-Jul-2006/story.htm

Ethanol Maker Altra Breaks Ground for Ohio Plant
REUTERS US: July 12, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37209/story.htm

Britain Signals Increased Target for Biofuels Use
REUTERS UK: July 12, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37201/story.htm

Ethanol Maker Altra Breaks Ground for Ohio Plant
REUTERS US: July 12, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37209/newsDate/12-Jul-2006/story.htm

US Road Trip Rallies for Ethanol Stations
Story by Bernie Woodall
REUTERS US: July 13, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37221/story.htm

Ethanol Boom Could Hurt World's Poor - Expert
Story by Timothy Gardner
REUTERS US: July 14, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37256/story.htm

Indonesia Says Needs US$22 Billion Investment in Biofuels
REUTERS INDONESIA: July 14, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37252/story.htm

Cashing in on China's Renewable Energy Boom
Story by Alison Leung
REUTERS CHINA: July 17, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37280/newsDate/17-Jul-2006/story.htm

Britain's Solar Boat a Scientific Advance
July 19, 2006 — By Laura-Claire Corson, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10897

Toyota Considers US Effort for Alternative Fuels
Story by John Crawley
REUTERS US: July 19, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37326/newsDate/19-Jul-2006/story.htm

Morocco Pushes Renewable Energy as Oil Prices Soar
Story by Tom Pfeiffer
REUTERS MOROCCO: July 20, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37345/story.htm


---- OTHER


---- environment

U.S. Judge Blocks Navy Use of Sonar in RIMPAC War Games
LOS ANGELES, California, July 3, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-03-05.asp

'Green' Burials Growing in Popularity
July 03, 2006 — By William Kates, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10793

The Upside of Green Business
July 07, 2006 — By Gene Zaleski, Times and Democrat
Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10819

Thousands Displaced by Noxious Mud in Indonesia
REUTERS INDONESIA: July 10, 2006
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37167/story.htm

Poisonous mud wreaks havoc on Java
13/07/2006 Australia Broadcasting
http://www.abc.net.au/nature/news/NatureNews_1686353.htm

Gas exploration disaster hits Indonesia
Reporter: Geoff Thompson
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
Broadcast: 13/07/2006
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1686339.htm

Study Finds Beaches Sicken 1.5 Million in California
July 19, 2006 — By Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10899


---- ACTIVISTS

Have Peace Activists Ever Stopped a War?
by Lawrence S. Wittner
January 17, 2006
History News Network
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9543

Hippie Group Founder Urges Suit vs. Feds
By CHASE SQUIRES
The Associated Press
Sunday, July 2, 2006; 1:18 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/01/AR2006070101042_pf.html

Anti-war protesters begin July 4 fast
Mon Jul 3, 2006 (Reuters) By Amanda Beck
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-07-04T001123Z_01_N03375286_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-PROTEST.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Cindy Sheehan, Dick Gregory, Diane Wilson and hundreds more launch the "Troops Home FAST"
By: troopshomefast.org
Published: Jul 3, 2006 at 08:20 http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_38375.shtml

Anti-War Activists Arrested At Taste Of Chicago
Activists Were Leafleting Near Military Recruitment Booth
Jul 3, 2006 5:56 am (CBS)
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_184070041.html

Governor Schwarzenegger orders release of homeland security reports
Administration seeks to dispel idea it spies on activists
The Associated Press
July 3, 2006
http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060703/NEWS10/607030316/1024

Anti-nuke protesters disrupt Putin

> From correspondents in Moscow

July 05, 2006 The Australian
http://www.topix.net/r/05KQAC65=2B9p3CnEOW2BSxTRtarOzYaPa=2BMlKob3MUiK=2Fdp7CrzDQyicJXwhexVES9wk1GztfZMr7kvH7iEc7Z5znvXB0GB1PobqOOqJ=2BrEDu6XhPPImwHhzxZ2uiZX2CZ

Vietnam-Era Veteran Arrested at VA Medical Center for Wearing Peace T-Shirt
Thursday, July 6th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/06/1349239

Army Charges Lieutenant With Contempt and Conduct Unbecoming an Officer for Refusing Iraq Deployment and Criticizing Bush, War
Friday, July 7th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/1356221

Say 'No' to War Candidates
by Daniel Ellsberg, July 8, 2006 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ellsberg.php?articleid=9265

Wisconsin Green Party and Libertarian Party of Wisconsin Call for Impeachment of George W. Bush
Wisconsin Green Party
July 9th, 2006
http://www.gp.org/press/states/wi_2006_07_09b.shtml

Code Pink: Troops Home Fast: Nationwide Hunger Strikes Protest Iraq War
Monday, July 10th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/10/1356240

Environmentalists arrested in Russia after anti-nuclear protest
Tue Jul 11, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060711/sc_afp/g8summitenergynuclear_060711204227

The Rev. Billy Graham is No Phil Berrigan!
by William Hughes
(Thursday July 13 2006) Media Monitors Network
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/32462

Government Monitored Anti-War Group E-Mails
Report Shows Department of Defense Surveillance of UC Berkeley Students’ Plans to Hold Protest
BY Kaitlin Anderson
Contributing Writer
Thursday, July 13, 2006
http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=20897

Oregon Atomic Veterans Day Celebration Sunday, July 16
Friday, Jul 14, 2006 http://www.roguerivernews.com/articles/index.cfm?artOID=331614&cp=11031

The 1960s Antiwar Movement Revisited
David R. Henderson
Antiwar.com July 17, 2006
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=9315

Protesters Condemn G8 Support of Nuclear, Coal, Oil
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, July 17, 2006 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2006/2006-07-17-05.asp

Fighting in Lebanon produces its first conscientious objector
By Lily Galili, Haaretz Correspondent
19/07/2006     
http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/740241.html

New records on UCSC protests show deeper spying conspiracy
By ROGER SIDEMAN
SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL STAFF WRITER
July 19, 2006 http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/July/19/local/stories/05local.htm

Protests Across U.S. and Around the World Call for End to Israel Bombardment of Lebanon
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/19/1346204


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