NucNews Headlines - collected January 1-31, 2007
Full text of articles can be found at http://nucnews.net by date


---- NUCLEAR

Former officials finally see the light
By Amitabh Pal
The Progressive
April 25, 2006
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0426-32.htm

Polonium-210's quiet trail of death
The radioactive substance had killed long before the unsolved poisoning of a former Russian spy
By Karen Kaplan and Thomas H. Maugh II
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
January 1, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimes697.html

Nuclear energy is resurgent
From South America to Asia, governments turn to once-shunned source
By Doug Struck
Jan 6, 2007 Washington Post
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16497285/

Pope warns of nuclear weapons crisis
By Phil Stewart
Mon 8 Jan 2007 (Reuters)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=39772007

Kissinger for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
By Amitabh Pal
January 5, 2007 The Progressive
http://www.progressive.org/mag_apb010507

Doomsday clock to move closer to nuclear Armageddon
CHICAGO (AFP) Jan 13, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070113022551.7agiv5qv.html

"DOOMSDAY CLOCK" HAND TO BE MOVED, REFLECTING
WORSENING NUCLEAR, CLIMATE THREATS TO WORLD
Fri. 12 Jan 2007
The Bulletin <press@thebulletin.org>

Doomsday Clock Will Move Closer to Midnight
WASHINGTON, DC, January 12, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-12-05.asp

World's first thermonuclear reactor
Yury Zaitsev, for RIA Novosti
Friday January 12, 2007
http://www.centralchronicle.com/20070112/1201302.htm

Chemical Train Explosion Forces Evacuations
By THEO EMERY
Published: January 16, 2007
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/us/16cnd-train.html?hp&ex=1169010000&en=60493332a0ef2726&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Climate change, nuclear threats push world towards Doomsday
LONDON (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070117172752.5saz0cla.html

It is 5 minutes to Midnight
"Doomsday Clock" Moves Two Minutes Closer To Midnight
Physicians launch International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear weapons
17 January 2007 ACDN
http://acdn.france.free.fr/spip/article.php3?id_article=263&lang=en

New nuclear power ‘wave’ — or just a ripple?
How millions for lobbying, campaigns helped fuel U.S. industry's big plans
By Mike Stuckey
Senior news editor
MSNBC Jan 22, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16272910/

Doomsday Clock Ticking Faster
by Praful Bidwai (Inter Press Service)
January 24, 2007
http://www.antiwar.com/bidwai/?articleid=10383


---- accidents and safety

Truck carrying radioactive material involved in minor crash
1/4/2007 (AP)
http://www.kcoy.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=70d1914a-28c5-4e64-92f2-de28f9b5915e

U.S. Submarine, Japanese Ship Collide
By JIM KRANE
Associated Press Jan 9, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16533245/

Study casts doubt on nuclear waste storage safety
By Patricia Reaney Wed Jan 10, 2006 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070110/sc_nm/nuclear_storage_dc_1

Canned nuclear waste cooks its container
Estimates of radiation damage to materials have been too low.
Philip Ball
11 January 2007 Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070108/full/070108-6.html

Letter - Quantification of actinide alpha-radiation damage in minerals and ceramics
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v445/n7124/abs/nature05425.html

Four nuclear plants in NE alerted over problem at Minnesota plant
January 18, 2007 Associated Press
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/01/18/four_nuclear_plants_in_ne_alerted_over_problem_at_minnesota_plant/

Radiation release, false data prompt Hanford safety review
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, January 18, 2007
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6600AP_WA_Hanford_Safety.html?source=rss

Vermont Yankee notified of turbine issue at similar plant
January 19, 2007
By Susan Smallheer, Rutland Herald Staff
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070119/NEWS/701190330/1003/NEWS02

Radiation release, false data prompt Hanford safety review
Story Updated: Jan 19, 2007
By Associated Press
http://www.komoradio.com/news/local/5264121.html

Divers find risky work in nuclear reactor pools
BY KATHRYN KRANHOLD THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007
http://nwanews.com/adg/Business/179431/

Nuclear Divers, A Definite Breed
Posted Jan 20th 2007 Divester, by Willy Volk
http://www.divester.com/2007/01/20/nuclear-divers-a-definite-breed/

Faulty welding cited in shutdown
By Kirsti Marohn kmarohn@stcloudtimes.com
Published: January 20. 2007 St. Cloud Times, MN
http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070120/NEWS01/101190045

Waste disposal at Yucca Mountain unsafe
By Joseph Strolin
Posted on Sun, Jan. 21, 2007
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/16511726.htm

UK Nuclear plant faces action after worker contaminated
By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor
January 28, 2007 UK Sunday Herald
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1152848.0.nuclear_plant_faces_action_after_worker_contaminated.php

Safety system problem prompts emergency shutdown at Russian nuclear plant
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 (AP)
http://www1.wsvn.com/news/articles/world/MI38598/



---- africa

Algeria to host African conference on nuclear
Xinhua January 08, 2007
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/08/eng20070108_339199.html

Africa: Continent 'Entitled to Reap the Benefits of Atomic Energy'
SciDev.Net (London)
January 11, 2007
http://allafrica.com/stories/200701110822.html

Africa: Continent 'Entitled to Reap the Benefits of Atomic Energy'
January 14, 2007 Peak Oil
http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22372

Nigerian NGOs to sue US over WMD claims
From correspondents in Niamey
January 14, 2007 Agence France-Presse
http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,21057247-5005961,00.html

Namibia: More Uranium Found
The Namibian (Windhoek)
January 15, 2007
Brigitte Weidlich
http://allafrica.com/stories/200701150195.html

Namibia seeks to use its own reserves
16 January 2007 (WNN)
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/nuclearPolicies/Namibia_seeks_to_use_its_own_reserves.shtml?jmid=676375364

Algeria: African Nations Express Interest in Nuclear Energy
Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)
January 22, 2007 All Africa
http://allafrica.com/stories/200701221053.html

Workers march on nuclear corporation
Johannesburg, South Africa
24 January 2007 -- Sapa
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/&articleid=296843



---- asia

Vietnam to upgrade sole nuclear reactor
Source: SGGP – Translated by The Vinh
Thursday, January 18, 2007
http://www.thanhniennews.com/education/?catid=4&newsid=24371

Report: Japan, China eyeing action plan on civil nuclear cooperation
Associated Press (January 23, 2007)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/news/display_news_story.cfm?Section=WireNews&Category=HOME&NewsID=143602



---- australia

Nuclear Solution
Mon, Jan 01, 2007 Iran Daily
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2747/html/energy.htm#s199530

Australian PM Says Nuclear Power Inevitable
Story by Fayen Wong
REUTERS AUSTRALIA: January 2, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39665/story.htm

PM's power plan wrong: Garrett
Michelle Grattan, Canberra
January 2, 2007 The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pms-power-plan-wrong-garrett/2007/01/01/1167500062309.html?from=rss

Nuclear power is the story of the past
By Peter Garrett
January 2, 2007 The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/nuclear-power-is-the-story-of-the-past/2007/01/01/1167500057942.html

False future parades a green sheen
Peter Garrett
January 2, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/false-future-parades-a-green-sheen/2007/01/01/1167500060557.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

The yellowcake road winds back to Mary K
Robin Bromby January 04, 2007
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21008570-643,00.html

Nuclear plant target for stolen rocket launchers, police allege
Les Kennedy and Craig Skehan
January 6, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/nuclear-plant-target-for-stolen-rocket-launchers-police-allege/2007/01/05/1167777281891.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Government and WA argue over uranium
By Nicolas Perpitch
January 08, 2007 AAP
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21027371-5005941,00.html

Rocket attack allegedly planned on 'nuclear place'
Kim Arlington
January 11, 2007 The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/rocket-attack-allegedly-planned-on-nuclear-place/2007/01/10/1168105052480.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

Nuclear inquiry accused of ignoring advice
Katharine Murphy, Canberra
January 15, 2007 The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/nuclear-inquiry-accused-of-ignoring-advice/2007/01/14/1168709615884.html

PM stresses on civilian nuke cooperation at East Asia summit
From correspondents in Asia Pacific
Monday, January 15, 2007 India eNews
http://www.indiaenews.com/asia/20070115/35854.htm

Ziggy wrong on cost: scientist
Matthew Warren, Environment writer
January 16, 2007 Australian
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21065357-601,00.html?from=public_rss

Liberals demand nuclear power summit
PAUL STARICK, CHIEF REPORTER
January 25, 2007 The Australian
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21113574-5006301,00.html

Lucas Heights nuclear reactor shuts down
30th January 2007
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=20062

Coastal sites flagged for nuke reactors
January 30, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Coastal-sites-flagged-for-nuke-reactors/2007/01/30/1169919339949.html

Nuclear group dismisses concerns over dumping waste
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 Australia Broadcasting
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1836594.htm

Howard's disingenuous Nuclear Power debate
January 30, 2007 Perth Indymedia
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=default&featureview=465

Portland on nuclear list
SHANE FOWLES
January 31, 2007 Warrnambool Standard (Australia)
http://www.the.standard.net.au/articles/2007/01/31/1169919375258.html



---- balkans

Consequences of depleted uranium exposure in Balkan
Belgrade /10/01/ 07
http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/novina/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=2&NrArticle=50340&NrIssue=241&NrSection=20


---- britain

Livingstone and Greenpeace launch nuclear campaign
Publisher: Ian Morgan
18/12/2006, 24dash.com
http://www.24dash.com/news/58/14456/index.htm

Britain to Close Two Oldest Nuclear Power Stations
Story by Jeremy Lovell
REUTERS UK: January 2, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39669/story.htm

SNP plan to criminalise pro-Trident politicians
By Paul Hutcheon
January 07, 2007 UK Sunday Herald
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1107515.0.snp_plan_to_criminalise_protrident_politicians.php

Nuclear site to reopen after leak
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/6249049.stm

Most Britons Want International Deal Banning All Nuclear Weapons
by Staff Writers
London (AFP) Jan 15, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Most_Britons_Want_International_Deal_Banning_All_Nuclear_Weapons_999.html

Safety staff to meet Sizewell bosses
16 January 2007
DAVID GREEN
http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED15%20Jan%202007%2022%3A08%3A28%3A230

Tories want to go nuclear with new green clean energy plan
'There is nothing clean about radioactive waste'
The Canadian Press
DENNIS BUECKERT
January 18, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/cp/2298154804397455193640006570001640070679

Blair accused of nuclear waste ‘cover-up’
Colin Brown
RINF Friday, January 19th, 2007
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/blair-accused-of-nuclear-waste-cover-up

Threat to 500 clean-up jobs
By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor
January 22, 2007 Est 1999
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1137146.0.threat_to_500_cleanup_jobs.php

SNP plan £1m toll for Trident
SNP-led Scottish Executive would openly challenge the government’s decision to renew Trident
By Paul Hutcheon
January 22, 2007 UK Sunday Herald
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1137148.0.snp_plan_1m_toll_for_trident.php

Threat to 500 clean-up jobs DOUNREAY: CASH CRISIS
(The Sunday Herald Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Financial Times [January 23, 2007]
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/01/23/2269297.htm

Nuclear research centre unveiled
Friday, 26 January 2007 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/6301205.stm

Vengeance is her name and vengeance her only purpose
EBEN HARRELL (eharrell@scotsman.com)
Saturday, 27th January 2007
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=139832007

No to development on nuclear site
Oldbury Power Station is set to be decommission in 2008
Monday, 29 January 2007 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/6311435.stm



---- business

Reshaping nuclear fuel
Doughnut-shaped fuel can cut nuclear energy's environmental impact
Technology News - American Chemical Society
January 3, 2007
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2007/jan/tech/kb_nuclear.html

Australia and China ratify nuclear fuel deal
Friday January 5, 2007 (AFP)
http://au.biz.yahoo.com/070105/33/11ghc.html

Company caught in fallout of feds’ nuclear laws; New regulations too expensive for Plymouth business
By TAMARA RACE and SUE REINERT
The Patriot Ledger, January 6, 2007
http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2007/01/06/news/news03.txt

Company caught in fallout of feds’ nuclear laws; New regulations too expensive for Plymouth business
Carl Borsari, owner of Nuclear Instrument Co., clears out his business in Plymouth after 35 years. New regulations on radiation forced him to shut his doors. (LISA BUL/The Patriot Ledger)
By TAMARA RACE and SUE REINERT
The Patriot Ledger Saturday, January 06, 2007
http://ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2007/01/06/news/news03.txt

Trade loss risk if India nuclear deal is blocked
From:ireland.com
Monday, 8th January, 2007
http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/topstories/9645495?view=Eircomnet

U.S. nuclear plant trade insurance eyed
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007 (Kyodo)
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?appURL=nn20070109a4.html

Duke's CEO joins nuke group
The Charlotte Observer
January 11, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/kri/3778723690242947038334119068441501390802

Areva unveils new company to oversee DOE contracts
11 January 2007 PennWell Corporation, Tulsa, OK
http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/281890/6/ARTCL/none/none/Areva-unveils-new-company-to-oversee-DOE-contracts/

Mike McConnell, Booz Allen and the Privatization of Intelligence
Friday, January 12th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/151224

Uranium 2007: The Year of the Price Hiccup, asks StockInterview
Mining News, January 13, 2007
http://paguntaka.org/2007/01/13/uranium-2007-the-year-of-the-price-hiccup-asks-stockinterview/

Northrop Grumman To Provide Ongoing Launcher Support For Trident II Nuclear Missiles
The contract includes support of 14 Ohio-class U.S. submarines (SSBN-730 through SSBN-743) and up to four U.K. submarines (Vanguard-class). Also included is support for the conversion of the first four Ohio-class submarines (SSBN-726 through SSBN-729) to a conventional weapon system (SSGN, nuclear-powered guided missile submarine).
by Staff Writers
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Northrop_Grumman_To_Provide_Ongoing_Launcher_Support_For_Trident_II_Nuclear_Missiles_999.html

North Korea Defends Nuclear Weapon Test As Negotiators Talk
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/North_Korea_Defends_Nuclear_Weapon_Test_As_Negotiators_Talk_999.html

Three Promising Ways to Invest in Nuclear Energy
by David Landis
The Kiplinger Washington Letter
February 2007 (posted online January 19, 2007)
http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2007/02/nuclear.html

Navy Puts Newest Warship on Hold
David Axe | January 18, 2007
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,122313,00.html

US Air Force Awards Northrop Grumman Contract For ICBM Guidance Modernization Program
2006 marks major achievements in ICBM modernization effort
by Staff Writers
Clearfield UT (SPX) Jan 19, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Air_Force_Awards_Northrop_Grumman_Contract_For_ICBM_Guidance_Modernization_Program_999.html


---- canada

'Dirty bomb' attack could cripple economy: CSIS
Tue. Jan. 2 2007 Canadian Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070102/dirty_bomb_070102/20070102?hub=Canada

Pressure rising in Ontario's nuclear-reactor debate
MURRAY CAMPBELL
06/01/07 Toronto Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20070106.CAMPBELL06%2FTPStory%2FTPComment%2F%3Fpage%3Drss%26id%3DGAM.20070106.CAMPBELL06&ord=1168072366799&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true

Four Alberta companies express interest in buying nuclear power
Tue Jan 9, 2007 (CP)
By Judy Monchuk
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070109/business/oilsands_nuclear_1

Dion dismisses nuclear power in oilsands extraction
Jason Fekete, CanWest News Service; Saturday, January 13, 2007 Calgary Herald
jfekete@theherald.canwest.com
http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.html?id=b82cb455-9a3f-472a-a585-affa59168642&k=23241

Canada can get rich by going green, Dion says
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 16, 2007
CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/16/dion-toronto.html

Nuclear waste disposal plan could come within months
Wednesday, January 17, 2007 CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/01/17/nuclear-waste.html

Team Candu partnership could form the basis of private sector bid for AECL
The Canadian Press
ROSS MAROWITS
January 19, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/cp/3361199611147712717413375577333837200747

Dion shifts nuclear stand
KAREN HOWLETT
20/01/07 Toronto Globe & Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070120.DION20/TPStory/TPNational/?page=rss&id=GAM.20070120.DION20

Tories 'not afraid' of nuclear, Lunn says
'No greenhouse gases'
Chris Wattie
National Post
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=1fcb9fd5-599e-4e17-a6a1-8210000ea60d

Canada pushes nuclear power to get at oil sands
By Randall Palmer Thu Jan 25, 2007 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070125/wl_canada_nm/canada_climate_canada_col_1


---- china

China Assures Israeli PM On Iranian Nuclear Bomb
by Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) Jan 10, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/China_Assures_Israeli_PM_On_Iranian_Nuclear_Bomb_999.html

U.S. presses China on armed submarine encounter
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published January 11, 2007
http://washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070110-112623-9814r

Chinese scientists conduct more tests on thermonuclear fusion reactor
Source: Xinhua January 15, 2007
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/15/eng20070115_341314.html

With N Korea in mind, China upgrades radioactivity monitoring
Wed Jan 17, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070117/wl_afp/chinankoreanuclearweaponsenergy

China Conducts Anti-Satellite Missile Test
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1432220

Concern over China's missile test
The missile was reportedly launched near Xichang Space Centre
Friday, 19 January 2007 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/6276543.stm

China's experimental thermonuclear fusion reactor halfway there
Xinhua January 22, 2007
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200701/22/eng20070122_343620.html

China's power generating capacity tops 622 mln kilowatts
Xinhua January 23, 2007
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/23/eng20070123_343745.html

GOP Senator: Confront China Weapons Test
ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 29, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-US-China-Missile-Test.html?_r=1&oref=slogin



---- depleted uranium

Scientists to study risks from uranium weapons
01 January 2007 Yorkshire Today, UK
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1951377

Enforcement tops environmentalists' agenda
By Tara Godvin
Associated Press
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
http://starbulletin.com/2007/01/02/news/story05.html

Edward James Olmos Accuses Puerto Rico, Washington of Delaying Vieques Bombing Range Cleanup
January 03, 2007 — By Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11958

Test bombs may contain radioactive elements
By John Upton
San Joaquin News Service
Last updated: Thursday, Jan 04, 2007 -
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2007/01/04/news/8_tritium_070104.txt

New study detects traces of uranium in South Lebanon
By Rym Ghazal
Lebanon Daily Star staff
Thursday, January 04, 2007
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=78163

U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Training film
Posted Jan 4, 2007 by Critical_Conformity in Lifestyle
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/85204/U_S_Army_Depleted_Uranium_Training_film

Your Tax Dollars In Action
DU Birth Deformities Forever For Afghan Babies
Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
http://www.afghanistanafterdemocracy.com
mdmiraki@ameritech.net
1-6-7 Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general74/afgg.htm

Livermore Lab: Force of explosions may triple
Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2007 By Jake Armstrong
Record Staff Writer
January 08, 2007
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/1733688.php
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070108/A_NEWS/701080321

Uranium 'killing Italian troops'
Depleted uranium shells were used to destroy Yugoslav tanks
By Christian Fraser
BBC News, Rome, Wednesday, 10 January 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6247401.stm

Declaration from World Uranium Summit
by jimstaro
Fri Jan 12, 2007
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/1/12/18503/4755

The Anti-Empire Report Some things you need to know before the world ends - Johnny got his gun PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 13 January 2007
by William Blum Atlantic Free Press
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/665/32/

Site 300 test threat
Tracy Press/ Saturday, 13 January 2007
http://tracypress.com/content/view/7024/2/

Gulf War Profiteering - Victors and Victims, by Christiane N. Martens and Paul V. Rafferty
2007-01-17 UN Observer
http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=3079&blz=1

Depleted Uranium, Diabetes, Cancer And You
by Dr. Alan Cantwell
Global Research, January 18, 2007
Rense.com
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CAN20070118&articleId=4508

Arab Meeting to Follow up Israeli Nuclear Activity
Saturday, January 20, 2007 (SANA)
http://www.sana.org/eng/22/2007/01/20/97772.htm

Letter: Fulk overstates facts
Tracy Press, California / Saturday, 20 January 2007
By Steve Hall
http://tracypress.com/content/view/7228/2/

2006 Conflict Left Lebanon Littered with Toxic Waste
BERLIN, Germany, January 23, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-23-04.asp

Skopje Municipal Mayor Proposes Renaming Streets after NATO’s Kosovo War Heroes
1/27/2007 (Balkanalysis.com)
http://www.balkanalysis.com/2007/01/27/skopje-municipal-mayor-proposes-renaming-streets-after-nato%E2%80%99s-kosovo-war-heroes/

Smoothbore Discarding Sabot Sniper Rifle
January 29, 2007
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htweap/articles/20070129.aspx

China concerned over U.S. export controls
January 30, 2007 (Reuters)
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2007/01/30/china_concerned_over_us_export_controls/

Fulk’s depleted uranium ‘facts’ are sound
Russell “Ace” Hoffman /For the (CA) Tracy Press Tuesday, 30 January 2007
http://tracypress.com/content/view/7479/2/


---- europe

German Co. Reopens Debate on Nuclear Phase-Out
Tue, Jan 02, 2007 Iran Daily
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2748/html/energy.htm#s199776

EDF signs production deal with independent energy supplier
01-03-2007, 15h16
PARIS (AFP)
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=157779

Finnish government opens door for more nuclear power
HELSINKI (AFP) Jan 05, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070105153220.qfbqephh.html

Czech Republic's Temelin nuclear unit shut down for test
PRAGUE (AFP) Jan 06, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070106111425.sjld3h4r.html
related story:
Czech Republic's Temelin nuclear reactor back on stream
Sun Jan 7, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070107/sc_afp/czechaustriaenergy_070107110646

Reactor could be cleaner alternative
Posted by the Ocean County Observer on 01/6/07
BY DON BENNETT
STAFF WRITER
Ocean County Observer on 01/6/07
http://www.ocobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070106/NEWS01/701060340/1002

Poll: Only 20 percent of Europeans favor use of nuclear power
Bradenton Herald Staff Reports
Mon, Jan. 08, 2007
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/16410803.htm

Germany questions nuclear phase out
Tue, 09 Jan 2007 UPI
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/18667.html

Minister: Nuclear power vital to Slovenia
9 January 2007
http://www.b92.net/eng/news/globe-article.php?yyyy=2007&mm=01&dd=09&nav_category=123&nav_id=38963

Germany may end anti-nuclear policy
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
10 January 2007 UK Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2140262.ece

Germany may retain nuclear power
By Steve Rosenberg
BBC News, Berlin
Wednesday, 10 January 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6249881.stm

Senior members of Germany's government have suggested retaining nuclear power as a way of diversifying the country's sources of energy.

Nuclear Power in Germany: A Chronology
10.01.2007
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2306337,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

Poland moves closer to joining Baltic nuclear plant project
Agence France-Presse | Jan 10, 2007
http://www.defencetalk.com/news/publish/wmd/Poland_moves_closer_to_joining_Baltic_nuclear_plant_project17009857.php

EU breathes sigh of relief over Belarus-Russia energy accord
Sat Jan 13, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070113/ts_afp/russiabelarusenergyeu_070113215340

Most Germans oppose nuclear power phase-out: poll
BERLIN (AFP) Jan 14, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070114153825.7w89kfxj.html

EU 'energy revolution' does not convince
Monday 15 January 2007 EurActiv | Updated: Monday 5 February 2007
http://www.euractiv.com/en/energy//article-160875

Merkel Asks for Realistic Alternatives to Nuclear Energy
15.01.2007 Deutsche Welle
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2311285,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

EU won't let Lithuania delay closing Soviet-era atomic reactor
18 Jan 2007 bbj.hu
http://www.bbj.hu/main/news_21473_eu%2Bwont%2Blet%2Blithuania%2Bdelay%2Bclosing%2Bsoviet-era%2Batomic%2Breactor.html

Baltic nuclear project capacity to double
January 19 2007 PennWell Corporation, Tulsa, OK
http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/282596/6/ARTCL/none/none/Baltic-nuclear-project-capacity-to-double/

Berlin warned on phasing out nuclear energy
Financial Times News January 22, 2007
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20070122&ID=6370109

General Electric interested in Lithuania nuke plant project: official
VILNIUS (AFP) 01-23-2007
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=160201

Bulgaria to ask EU to restart closed nuclear reactors
VRATZA (AFP) Jan 26, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070126151831.c2wjwzt6.html

Nuclear disarmament at last appears in a big French newspaper!
Disarm to Develop
Editorial by François Régis Hutin, director of OUEST-France
Translated from French by Peter Low for ACDN
27 January 2007 ACDN
http://acdn.france.free.fr/spip/article.php3?id_article=268&lang=en

Sweden Files Nuclear Plant Complaint
Monday January 29, 2007 (AP)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070129/sweden_nuclear_incident.html?.v=1

Brussels rules out reopening Bulgarian nuclear reactors
BRUSSELS (AFP) Jan 30, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070130181052.qrwvwce6.html

Sweden files nuclear plant complaint
30th January 2007 AFP
http://www.thelocal.se/6246/20070130/



---- india

India And Pakistan Swap Nuclear Site Lists
by Staff Writers
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 02, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/India_And_Pakistan_Swap_Nuclear_Site_Lists_999.html

India Could Dump U.S. Nuclear Deal: Envoy
By REUTERS
January 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-india-usa-nuclear.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

Synchronised talks needed to seal N-deal
Rajeev Deshpande 13 Jan, 2007 IST TIMES NEWS NETWORK
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Synchronised_talks_needed_to_seal_\N-deal/articleshow/1162037.cms

Russia to supply nuclear fuel to Indian Kudankulam NPP in 2Q07
22/ 01/ 2007 (RIA Novosti)
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070122/59495736.html

Putin visit - India, Russia nuclear ties to overshadow India-US nuclear deal
January 22, 2007 Mining News
http://paguntaka.org/2007/01/22/putin-visit-india-russia-nuclear-ties-to-overshadow-india-us-nuclear-deal/

Russia to pitch for Indian nuclear market during Putin trip
01-23-2007
NEW DELHI (AFP)
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=160222

Russia, India to Sign Multibillion Nuclear Reactor Deal
23.01.2007 MosNews
http://www.mosnews.com/money/2007/01/23/indianuclear.shtml

Putin in India to Push for Nuclear Deal
The Associated Press
By NIRMALA GEORGE
January 25, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2149545637160922527219147415800057825709

Russia, India Cement Nuclear Ties
The Associated Press
By NIRMALA GEORGE
January 25, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0664719184103110538218499040950987886152

4 more reactors for Koodankulam
India-Russia `memorandum of intent' for more units at new sites also
Amit Baruah
Friday, Jan 26, 2007 The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/26/stories/2007012616170100.htm

Russia could build 10 reactors in India – vice premier
26.01.2007, 13.33
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11192568&PageNum=0

Putin Clinches Reactor Deal
By Anatoly Medetsky
Staff Writer
January 26, 2007 Moscow Times
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/01/26/001.html

Putin concludes two-day visit
Jan 26, 2007 (PTI)
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200701262010.htm

Putin honours two Indians, says India has 'brilliant prospects'
Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, January 26, 2007
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1912474,0008.htm

Expanding the War to Iran: Another “Urban Legend?”
Leon Hadar | January 26, 2007 IRC
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3945

Sonia Gandhi Says India Still Wants Global Nuclear Disarmament
by Staff Writers
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 29, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Sonia_Gandhi_Says_India_Still_Wants_Global_Nuclear_Disarmament_999.html

Energy tops Indo-Russian priority list
Asia Times Tuesday, January 30, 2007
http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22865


---- iran

Iran Warns West Of Historic Slap Over Nuclear Drive
Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 02, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Iran_Warns_West_Of_Historic_Slap_Over_Nuclear_Drive_999.html

Iran to 'honor principles' of nuclear control treaty: negotiator
by Dan Martin Thu Jan 4, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070105/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpoliticschinadiplomacy_070105044826

Iranian MP: Majlis does not favor leaving NPT
Sunday, January 07, 2007 - ©2005 IranMania.com
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=48657&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

Iran's Khamenei rejects UN nuclear resolution
by Aresu Eqbali (AFP) Mon Jan 8, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070108/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpoliticsun_070108144223

Iran Conservatives Scold Fiery Ahmadinejad
by Staff Writers
Tehran (AFP) Jan 10, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Iran_Conservatives_Scold_Fiery_Ahmadinejad_999.html

No power behind Iranian president's nuclear threat
By Thomas M.P. Barnett/Syndicated columnist
Sunday, January 14, 2007 Massachusetts Daily News Tribune
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/opinion/8999004779195662328

Iran: Thinking the Unthinkable
By Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy In Focus columnist
January 15, 2007
http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/3910

Iran eyes at least 3,000 centrifuges at nuclear plant
TEHRAN (AFP) Jan 15, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070115082928.rmjbqkxh.html

US Defends Gulf Buildup, Calls Iran Actions 'Very Negative'
by Staff Writers
Brussels (AFP) Jan 15, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Defends_Gulf_Buildup_Calls_Iran_Actions_Very_Negative_999.html

Iran says ready to receive Chirac envoy
TEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070117145520.wz4pra7p.html

Iran ready but says strike on nuclear sites unlikely
TEHRAN (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070117174520.ten4w51l.html

US defence chief seeks Saudi support on Iran
RIYADH (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070117185008.ejpuhf32.html

Iran shoots down U.S. spy drone amid growing military pressure
2007-01-17 (Xinhua)
by Liang Youchang
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/17/content_5615540.htm

Iran’s President Criticized Over Nuclear Issue
By NAZILA FATHI and MICHAEL SLACKMAN
New York Times
January 18, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt814.html

IAEA Suspends Some Technical Aid To Iran
by Staff Writers
Vienna (AFP) Jan 18, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/IAEA_Suspends_Some_Technical_Aid_To_Iran_999.html

New signs of India-Pakistan atom arms race: study
Reuters, January 19, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/reuters/3467157620395198918032592633351983329918

Iran Plans to Conduct Missile War Games
Jan 21, 2007 (AP)
By NASSER KARIMI
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070121/D8MPN8A81.html

Iran’s strongman loses grip as ayatollah offers nuclear deal
Marie Colvin and Leila Asgharzadeh, Tehran
UK Times January 21, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2557946,00.html

Iranians, Americans see room for compromise in nuclear row: poll
WASHINGTON (AFP) Jan 24, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070124160029.ojsvlkjr.html

Debunking Iran's nuclear myth makers
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi
Jan 25, 2007 Asia Times
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IA25Ak03.html

U.N. says Iran plans nuclear development
Updated 1/26/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-26-iran-nukes_x.htm

Iran And US Between The Logic Of Sanctions And The Logic Of War
by Pyotr Goncharov
RIA Novosti political commentator
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 26, 2007
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/16579047.htm

US Warns Iran Of Global Wrath If It Cranks Up Nuclear Capacity
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Warns_Iran_Of_Global_Wrath_If_It_Cranks_Up_Nuclear_Capacity_999.html

Iran 2 to 3 years away from building a nuclear weapon
1/31/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-31-iran_x.htm

Iran Two To Three Years From Nuclear Weapon Says Institute For Strategic Studies
by Staff Writers
London (AFP) Jan 31, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Iran_Two_To_Three_Years_From_Nuclear_Weapon_Says_Institute_For_Strategic_Studies_999.html


---- israel

Israel's Bad Influence
by Charley Reese, January 6, 2007 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=10276

Israel denies it’s planning Iran nuclear attack
U.K. newspaper reports Israel intends to strike up to three targets in Iran
January 7, 2006 Associated Press
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16509109/

Arab Meeting to Follow up Israeli Nuclear Activity
Saturday, January 20, 2007, (SANA)
http://www.sana.org/eng/22/2007/01/20/97772.htm

'Israel is a nuclear threshold state'
By ANSHEL PFEFFER
Jan. 22, 2007 Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467784060&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israel should develop nuclear energy: minister
JERUSALEM (AFP) Jan 23, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070123143351.7cvfph0i.html



---- japan

Russia seeks Japan N-help
The Yomiuri Shimbun (Jan. 1, 2007)
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/20070101TDY01004.htm

Toshiba may go it alone to develop nuclear reactor
Friday January 5, 2006 (Reuters)
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070105/3/2vaez.html

US downplays US-Japan emergency plan
WASHINGTON (AFP) Jan 06, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070105230522.2kizg0le.html

One-letter change ends decades of military policy
By Richard Halloran
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published January 8, 2007
http://washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070107-112850-8755r

Japan Makes Defense Agency Full Ministry
By CARL FREIRE
Associated Press Jan 8, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16532989/

Japan,US to support US nuclear power projects-media
TOKYO, Jan 8, 2007 (Reuters)
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070108/3/2veln.html

Japan to recognize India as nuclear state: report
Tue Jan 9, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070110/wl_asia_afp/indiajapandiplomacynuclear_070110031114

Japan to Subsidize Uranium Exploration
From Earth Times
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/japan-to-subsidize-uranium-exploration.html

Japan Nuclear Reactor Resumes Operation
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Japan-Nuclear.html?pagewanted=print

U.S., Japan Sign Nuclear Power Cooperation Plan
WASHINGTON, DC, January 10, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-10-01.asp

Reactor in '04 deadly steam accident is restarted
FUKUI (Kyodo) Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/member.html?appURL=nn20070111a3.html

Radioactive water leak at Japanese nuclear plant
TOKYO (AFP) Jan 15, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070115101455.35pw63re.html

Japan's energy initiative welcomed
K. Venugopal, January 17, 2007 The Hindu
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/17/stories/2007011707001200.htm


---- korea

North Korea Hails Nuclear Test In Year Of Victory
by Simon Martin
Seoul (AFP) Jan 1, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/North_Korea_Hails_Nuclear_Test_In_Year_Of_Victory_999.html

Activity spotted at North Korea nuclear test site
By Jack Kim Thu Jan 4, 2006 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070105/ts_nm/korea_north_test_dc_6

‘DPRK won’t dare conduct new atomic test’
Tuesday, January 09, 2007 Pakistan International News
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=38196

US Stealth Fighters To Be Deployed In South Korea
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Jan 10, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Stealth_Fighters_To_Be_Deployed_In_South_Korea_999.html

North Korea To Face Tough Year
by Lee Jong-Heon
UPI Correspondent
Seoul (UPI) Jan 11, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/North_Korea_To_Face_Tough_Year_999.html

US Stealth Fighters Arrive In South Korea
The F-117.
by Staff Writers
Seoul N Korea (AFP) Jan 11, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Stealth_Fighters_Arrive_In_South_Korea_999.html

Southeast Asia Warns North Korea On Nuclear Test
by Staff Writers
Cebu (AFP) Jan 14, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Southeast_Asia_Warns_North_Korea_On_Nuclear_Test_999.html

North Korea Billed $2 Bln for Scrapped Nuclear Deal
By REUTERS
January 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-korea-north-reactors.html?pagewanted=print

Russia urges US to lift North Korea sanctions: report
MOSCOW (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070117131027.wzr2eayj.html

Top US envoy holds 'useful' N Korea talks in Berlin
BERLIN (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070117151524.dqu0029i.html

Sanctions and War on the Korean Peninsula
Martin Hart-Landsberg and John Feffer | January 17, 2007 Foreign Policy In Focus
http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/3913

US General Wants Restructure Of UN Command In South Korea
by Staff Writers
Seoul (AFP) Jan 18, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_General_Wants_Restructure_Of_UN_Command_In_South_Korea_999.html

North Korea Says Positive US Attitude May Bring Nuclear Breakthrough
Kim Kye-Gwan
by Staff Writers
Beijing (AFP) Jan 23, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/North_Korea_Says_Positive_US_Attitude_May_Bring_Nuclear_Breakthrough_999.html



---- latinamerica

The Hot Alternative
Global Warming Increases Lure Of Nuclear Plants
January 8, 2007
By DOUG STRUCK, Washington Post
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-nuke0108.artjan08,0,5466154.story

Latin American leaders debate role of state in major industries
By Jack Chang
McClatchy Newspapers Fri, Jan. 19, 2007
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/16502299.htm



---- mideast

US Blacklists Syrian Outfits Over WMD Charges
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 04, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Blacklists_Syrian_Outfits_Over_WMD_Charges_999.html

Egypt May Develop Nuclear Weapons
1/5/2007 United Press International
http://www.nrdc.org/news/newsDetails.asp?nID=2423

Arab media: Mubarak surprised Olmert regarding nukes
Important media outlets in Arab world address Egyptian president's remarks during his meeting with prime minister, in which he hinted his country would develop nuclear weapons. Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram reports that this indeed is Mubarak's plan. Sources in Israel: Remark directed at Iran
Roee Nahmias
Published: 01.05.07, YNet
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3348813,00.html

Jordan seeks nuclear power for peaceful means: Abdullah
JERUSALEM (AFP) Jan 19, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070119064508.b0v1tq1v.html

Jordan's King Abdullah II wants his own nuclear program
Updated 1/19/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-19-jordan-nukes_x.htm

Arab Meeting to Follow up Israeli Nuclear Activity
Saturday, January 20, 2007
http://www.sana.org/eng/22/2007/01/20/97772.htm

US Deploys More Muscle To Gulf As Iran Crisis Continues
By Laura Heaton
UPI Intelligence Correspondent
Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Deploys_More_Muscle_To_Gulf_As_Iran_Crisis_Continues_999.html

Iran Launches Missile Tests Amid Fresh Nuclear Defiance
by Farhad Pouladi
Tehran (AFP) Jan 22, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Iran_Launches_Missile_Tests_Amid_Fresh_Nuclear_Defiance_999.html



---- missile defense

Lockheed Martin And ATK Demonstrate Complete Booster System For Submarine Intermediate Range Missiles
by Staff Writers
Sunnyvale CL (SPX) Jan 16, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Lockheed_Martin_And_ATK_Demonstrate_Complete_Booster_System_For_Submarine_Intermediate_Range_Missiles_999.html

Russia warns U.S. over Czech missile defence base
Updated Sat. Jan. 20 2007 Associated Press
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070120/missile_defence_070120/20070120?hub=World&s_name=

A New Player at Star Wars
By JOSEPH KAHN
New York Times
January 20, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/nyt818.html

Missile shield 'threatens Russia'
The US has had mixed results from its missile tests
Monday, 22 January 2007 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6286289.stm

Czechs agree to start talks with U.S. on missile defense site
Posted 1/24/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-24-czechs_x.htm

U.S. Missiles in E. Europe Opposed by Locals, Russia
Kremlin Calls Proposed Interceptors a 'Clear Threat'
By Bruce I. Konviser
Special to The Washington Post
Sunday, January 28, 2007; A16
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012701370_pf.html


---- russia

Anniversary Of The Nuclear Football
by Viktor Litovkin
RIA Novosti military commentator
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 29, 2006
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Anniversary_Of_The_Nuclear_Football_999.html

Nuclear trafficking - A radioactive subject
Clamping down on the trade in illicit nuclear materials sometimes offends Russia
Feb 1st 2007 The Economist print edition
Alex Williamson
http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8633393

Russian nuclear submarine breakdown sparks alarm
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AFP) Jan 11, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070111091513.wnzcjm9p.html

Russian Missiles Delivered to Iran: Ivanov
By REUTERS
January 16, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-russia-iran-missiles.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

Russia Approves Nuclear Restructuring
Friday January 19, 2007 (AP)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070119/russia_nuclear.html?.v=1

British to help raise Russian nuclear sub
Peter Almond and Mark Franchetti, Moscow
UK Sunday Times, January 21, 2007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2557885,00.html

Federation Council passes law on state-owned nuclear holding
24.01.2007 (Itar-Tass)
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11184274&PageNum=0

Russian 'smuggled weapons-grade uranium'
Luke Harding in Moscow
Thursday January 25, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/georgia/story/0,,1998753,00.html

Georgian uranium smuggling case throws Russia on defensive
1/26/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-25-uranium_x.htm?csp=34

Russia calls uranium incident a ploy
Los Angeles Times
By David Holley
January 26, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/trb/1274281629299467310423299519981913244967

Russian City May Be Source for Uranium
The Associated Press
By JIM HEINTZ
January 27, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/3217992173404369643719629395840261576064

Russian City May Be Source for Uranium
The Associated Press
By JIM HEINTZ
January 27, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/3217992173404369643719629395840261576064

Russia shuts down reactor after technical failure
MOSCOW (AFP) Jan 30, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070130130957.v7te9kq7.html


---- security

The nuclear power industry wants rules about protecting new reactors from air attacks.
The Roanoke Times, Va. (January 1, 2007)
http://pepei.pennnet.com/news/display_news_story.cfm?Section=WireNews&Category=HOME&NewsID=142565

Russia will help build the world’s first thermonuclear reactor
03/ 01/ 2007 (Yury Zaitsev for RIA Novosti)
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20070103/58353557.html

U.S. Study Finds More Nuclear Trafficking Than IAEA
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2007/01/us-study-finds-more-nuclear.html

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Considers Requiring More Guards
January 8, 2007 Occuptional Safety and Health Magazine
http://www.ohsonline.com/stevens/ohspub.nsf/NewNews/152259C05904762E8625725D004E4806?Opendocument

Nuclear risk could be an inside job
Charles Ferguson
January 9, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/nuclear-risk-could-be-an-inside-job/2007/01/08/1168104921045.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

A Call for Station Guards
January 13, 2007 CBS21
http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=96ddc42a-dbfe-407f-8ec6-5fb8daa9c829

Anti-nuclear crowd questions plant safety from airliner attack
By: PAUL SISSON - Staff Writer
January 13, 2007 North Coast Times
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/13/news/coastal/21_38_471_12_07.txt

Computer Simulation Monitors Traffic in Contraband Nuclear Material
2007-01-17 CCN Magazine
http://www.ccnmag.com/news.php?id=4737

Georgian Sting Seizes Bomb Grade Uranium
The Associated Press
By DESMOND BUTLER
January 25, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/4147863012087608571536434825504009104323

Sting illustrates how easy it is to obtain nuclear material
Jan 25, 2007 Associated Press
http://www.keprtv.com/news/national/5360491.html

Offer of uranium an unsettling reminder of nuclear material on black market
1/25/2007 By Desmond Butler, Associated Press
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-25-uranium_x.htm

Britain Warns Over Re-Emerging Nuclear Threat
by Staff Writers
London (AFP) Jan 25, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Britain_Warns_Over_Re_Emerging_Nuclear_Threat_999.html

Russia, Georgia Trade Accusations In Uranium Case
(InterPressNews)
January 25, 2007
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/01/634c5d62-e8cf-478d-9d93-31abb4b44b46.html

'Sausage trader' caught selling weapons grade uranium
Friday January 26, 2007 INDEPENDENT
By Andrew Osborn
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10420987

The Cold War's Deadly Legacy: How the U.S.'s Atom for Peace Program Helped Spread Nuke Technology to Iran and Beyond
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/30/1515256

U.S. nuclear regulator nixes air defenses
Tue, 30 Jan 2007
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/25468.html

Feds: Nuke Plant Air Defense Plans Impractical
By H. Josef Hebert
AP 01/30/07
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/55457.html

An atomic threat made in America
How the U.S. spread bomb-grade fuel worldwide — and failed to get it back. First of two parts.
By Sam Roe
Chicago Tribune staff reporter
Published January 28, 2007
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0612100375dec10,1,5792385.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true

'Hot' patients setting off radiation alarms
Reuters
January 28, 2007
By Jane Sutton
http://www.topix.net/content/reuters/3553846408330650508612333507493627535248

NRC APPROVES FINAL RULE AMENDING SECURITY REQUIREMENTS
January 29, 2007 NRC
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2007/07-012.html

Agency: Nuclear plants secure enough if attacked by air
January 29, 2007 (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/reactor.security/index.html?section=cnn_latest

The search for a magic fuel
Former Cold War rivals face scientific riddle in race to spare world from nuclear peril. Last of a two-part series.
By Sam Roe
Chicago Tribune staff reporter
Published January 29, 2007
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/chi-061209atoms-day2-story,1,5401825.htmlstory?coll=chi-news-hed

Nuclear Agency: Air Defenses Impractical
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 30, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Reactor-Security.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

Lawmakers threaten to close nuke lab over security lapses
(AP) 1/30/2007
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-30-congress-nuclear-security_x.htm

White House, Congress feud over weapons labs
Security breaches at Los Alamos highlight a hearing by exasperated House panelists
James Sterngold, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/31/MNGQCNRSRF1.DTL

NRC releases nuke plant security measures, leaves aviation regulation up to FAA
January 31, 2007 Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2007/070131nrc.html


---- space

Moscow, Beijing eye space weapons
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
January 17, 2007
http://washtimes.com/national/20070116-101320-7600r.htm

Space programme no threat: China
Sunday, February 18, 2007 Pakistan International
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=39598

China's Test and War in Space
by Karl Grossman
Published on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0123-29.htm

Russia slams U.S. space weapon plans
Associated Press
Thu, Jan. 25, 2007
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/16542838.htm

Nuclear security agency at risk
House committee, angered by Los Alamos bungling, may also call for lab's dismemberment
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wed, Jan. 31, 2007
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/nation/16586727.htm?source=rss&channel=cctimes_nation


---- ukraine

Russian and Ukrainian nuclear companies ink deal
RBC, 29.01.2007, Moscow
http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20070129172314.shtml


---- treaties

Rogue state threatens nuke attack against Iran
Rohan Pearce
12 January 2007
From: International News, Green Left Weekly issue #694
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/694/36055

Exception to India may weaken NPT regime: Japan
From correspondents in Delhi, India, January 18, 2007 India eNews
http://www.indiaenews.com/india/20070118/36247.htm

China's Anti-Satellite Test Widely Criticized, U.S. Says No New Treaties Needed
Jeremy Singer and Colin Clark
Space News Staff Writers
SPACE.com Sat Jan 20, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070120/sc_space/chinasantisatellitetestwidelycriticizedussaysnonewtreatiesneeded


---- ukraine

TVEL to fuel Ukrainian nuclear plants
16 January 2007 (WNN)
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/corporate/TVEL_to_fuel_Ukrainian_nuclear_plants.shtml?jmid=676375364


---- u.n.

Bush to nominate Khalilzad for U.N. ambassador
(AP) 1/8/2007
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-08-UN-khalilzad_x.htm

ElBaradei renews call for nuclear bomb-free world
Tue Jan 9, 2007 (Reuters)
By William Maclean
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldnews&storyID=2007-01-09T180650Z_01_L09116904_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-ELBARADEI.xml


---- u.s. nuc weapons

Nixon White House Considered Nuclear Options Against North Vietnam, Declassified Documents Reveal
Nuclear Weapons, the Vietnam War, and the "Nuclear Taboo"*
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 195
Edited by William Burr and Jeffrey Kimball
Posted - July 31, 2006
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB195/index.htm

A BIPARTISAN PLEA FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION
A World Free of Nuclear Weapons
By GEORGE P. SHULTZ, WILLIAM J. PERRY, HENRY A. KISSINGER and SAM NUNN - With a Commentary By David Krieger
Publication date : 5 January 2007
http://acdn.france.free.fr/spip/article.php3?id_article=261&lang=en

U.S. Selecting Hybrid Design for Warheads
By WILLIAM J. BROAD, DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER
New York Times
January 7, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt1_7_7_2.htm

US to announce new nuclear warhead
January 08, 2007 Pakistan International
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=38123

Mishap In Dismantling Nuclear Warhead
by Staff Writers
Austin (UPI) Jan 08, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Mishap_In_Dismantling_Nuclear_Warhead_999.html

First Deployment Of Minuteman III Carrying MK21 Reentry Vehicle
by Staff Writers
Clearfield UT (SPX) Jan 09, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/First_Deployment_Of_Minuteman_III_Carrying_MK21_Reentry_Vehicle_999.html

Raptors, Robots, and Rods from God
by Frida Berrigan and Tom Engelhardt
Tom Dispatch, January 10, 2007
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=10300

Iranian bank denies U.S. charge it is a weapons proliferator
Wed Jan 10, 2007 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070110/ts_nm/usa_iran_bank_dc

Engineer Says Bomb Test Plan Incomplete
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 11, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Mushroom-Cloud.html?pagewanted=print

Lockheed Martin Wins 600 Million Dollar Trident Nuclear Missile Deal
The Trident II/D5 is the sixth generation of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) program, which started in 1955
by Staff Writers
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Lockheed_Martin_Wins_600_Million_Dollar_Trident_Nuclear_Missile_Deal_999.html

Busywork for Nuclear Scientists
January 15, 2007 New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/opinion/15mon1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print


---- u.s. nuc facilities

Nuclear agency head dismissed for lapses
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan 4, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070105/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/nuclear_dismissal_10

Nuclear Head Resigns over Security Breaches
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/05/1539252

Bush Picks New Head of Nuclear Agency
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
The Associated Press
Saturday, January 6, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/05/AR2007010500775_pf.html
On the Net:
Energy Department: http://www.doe.gov
National Nuclear Security Administration: http://www.nnsa.doe.gov

U.S. DOE to pursue spent nuclear fuel recycling plan
8 January 2007
http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/281550/6/ARTCL/none/none/US-DOE-to-pursue-spent-nuclear-fuel-recycling-plan/

U.S. Moves to Become Global Nuclear Fuel Supplier
WASHINGTON, DC, January 8, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-08-05.asp

Power providers banking on getting a hand from Uncle Sam
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
By SUDEEP REDDY / The Dallas Morning News
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/011607dnbusnuclearcosts.2fbdd34.html

Nuclear Chief Pushes for Safer Plants
In today's world, it's not likely the DOE will self-regulate like it has in the past
The Associated Press
By H. JOSEF HEBERT
January 16, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0317393181126991239922033329182736639846

Nuclear plants getting warmer reactions
Regulators, public more receptive to power source
08:28 AM CST on Tuesday, January 16, 2007
By SUDEEP REDDY / The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/011607dnbusnuclearregs.310140c.html

NRC seeks to terror-proof nuclear plants
By Bonnie Pfister
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, January 18, 2007
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/business/s_489073.html

Nuclear Regulatory Workforce Challenged
January 18, 2007 Associated Press
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&Date=20070118&ID=6356722

GAO Report: NRC Needs Increased Funding to Handle Heavier Workload
Thursday, January 18, 2007 NEI Nuclear Notes
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/gao-report-nrc-needs-increased-funding.html

Lack of Budget Could Hurt Nuclear Energy Revival, Official Says
The senior member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission warned on Monday that the failure of Congress to pass a detailed budget for the current fiscal year could damage the nuclear renaissance that the government tried so hard to encourage with the energy bill of 2005.
By MATTHEW L. WALD, January 23, 2007 NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/washington/23nuke.html

New nuclear power ‘wave’ — or just a ripple?
How millions for lobbying, campaigns helped fuel U.S. industry's big plans
By Mike Stuckey
Senior news editor
MSNBC Jan 23, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16272910/

Nuclear renaissance in neutral, NRC member says
Matthew L. Wald
New York Times News Service
Tue, Jan. 23, 2007
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/16527780.htm

One Environmentalist Confronts the Nuclear Question
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 NEI Nuclear Notes
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/one-environmentalist-confronts-nuclear.html



---- alabama

NRC backs TVA's plan for Unit 1 restart
Utility has to adjust schedule to bring Unit 2 back up first
Thursday, January 11, 2007
By BRIAN LAWSON <brian.lawson@htimes.com>
Huntsville Times Business Writer
http://www.al.com/business/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/business/1168510630109320.xml&coll=1


---- arizona

APS names new executive to oversee troubled nuke plant
The Associated Press
1.09.2007
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/38144.php

Palo Verde gets new manager
APS nuclear chief chosen a week before panel makes key decision on safety ranking of plant
Mark Shaffer
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 10, 2007 12:00 AM
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0110biz-paloverde0110.html


---- arkansas

Tests show no leaks at Nuclear One plant
BY BILL W. HORNADAY
Friday, January 12, 2007 Arkansas Democrat Gazette
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Business/178663/


---- california

Force of explosions may triple
Boost pending appeal over fears of radiation
By Jake Armstrong
Record Staff Writer
January 08, 2007 6:00 AM
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070108/A_NEWS/701080321

Uranium a big threat to Tracy
Marion Fulk/For the Tracy Press Tuesday, 09 January 2007
http://tracypress.com/content/view/6856/2/

San Onofre reactor back at full production
Air leak had trimmed electricity generation to 29 percent for one reactor
By VIK JOLLY
The Orange County Register
Thursday, January 11, 2007
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1540962.php

Air leak found, fixed at San Onofre nuclear power plant
The Associated Press
Published: Thursday, January 11, 2007
http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California/CA_BRF_SoCal_San_Onofre_270457C.shtml

Anti-nuclear crowd questions plant safety from airliner attack
By: PAUL SISSON - Staff Writer
Friday, January 12, 2007 North County Times
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/13/news/coastal/21_38_471_12_07.txt

Sheriff seeks grant to fortify Diablo Canyon
They are looking for ways to increase security around a facility so that its potential as a terrorist target is reduced
The San Luis Obispo Tribune
January 14, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/kri/1654447497314914279716979762044272669331

The Economics of Building a Nuclear Power Plant in Fresno
by Alan Cheah and Mark Stout
Wednesday Jan 17th, 2007
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/01/17/18348080.php



---- florida

Nuclear plant slips away
By BARBARA BEHRENDT, St. Petersburg, FL Times Staff Writer
Published January 1, 2007
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/01/Citrus/Nuclear_plant_slips_a.shtml

Progress Energy worker's illness alarms clinic
By JOHN FRANK and CATHERINE E. SHOICHET
Published January 11, 2007 St. Petersburg, FL, Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/11/Citrus/Progress_Energy_worke.shtml

Other choices besides nuclear energy
By ELAINE NICHOLS
Published January 30, 2007
St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/01/30/Citrus/Other_choices_besides.shtml


---- kansas

New Nuclear In Kansas?
From the AP:
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2007/01/new-nuclear-in-kansas.html


---- kentucky

Paducah task force revising grant request: Congressional resolution creates uncertainty among those involved with possible nuclear recycling plant.
(Paducah Sun, The (KY) (KRT) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) [January 10, 2007]
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/01/10/2236840.htm

Three months remain for Paducah to prove it is suitable for plant
Associated Press
Wed, Jan. 31, 2007
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/16587526.htm


---- maine

Wiscasset Site Scouted For New Power Plant
Web Editor: Rhonda Erskine, Online Content Producer
Created: 1/3/2007 WCSH Portland Maine
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=48856


---- massachusetts

Pilgrim Plant A Threat? - Hearings To Be Held Wednesday
TheBostonChannel.com, January 24, 2007
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/10831946/detail.html

Union seeks federal help to resolve staffing issue
January 26, 2007 ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/01-07/01-27-07/02state-region.htm


---- michigan

Old Nuke Plant Site OK'd for Public Use
The Associated Press
By JOHN FLESHER
January 11, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0126204869076519725101473834301507188667

U.S. Approves License for Nuclear Plant
Wednesday January 17, 2007 (AP)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070117/cms_energy_license_approval.html?.v=1

Palisades' license renewed for 20 years
Tuesday, January 18, 2007
By Lynn Turner
lturner@kalamazoogazette.com 388-8564
http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1169137261301840.xml&coll=7

Michigan attorney general opposes proposed sale of Palisades Nuclear Plant
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 (AP)
http://hollandsentinel.com/stories/012307/local_20070123007.shtml

Michigan's Cox against Palisades sale
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 UPI
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/23182.html

Palisades nuclear facility relicensed by government
By Bill Brown, Editor
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Allegan County News
http://www.allegannews.com/articles/2007/01/25/local_news/3.txt


---- minnesota

Nuke-plant neighbors get vouchers for radiation drug
By TOM MEERSMAN
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
03-JAN-07
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=NUKENEIGHBORS-01-03-07

Monticello - Nuclear plant starts up again after repairs
Welding problem caused Jan. 10 shutdown
BY DENNIS LIEN
Wed, Jan. 24, 2007 St. Paul Pioneer Press
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/politics/16531018.htm?source=rss&channel=twincities_politics


---- missouri

Westminster students arrested for nuclear plant breach
By KIMBERLY LONG
The Fulton Sun
Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007
Shawn K. Milligan
http://www.fultonsun.com/articles/2007/01/23/news/342news11.txt


---- nevada

Is the Yucca Dump Doomed?
January 02, 2007 — By Lisa Friedman, Daily News, Los Angeles
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11948

It's 2007, and time to give Yucca Mountain a brake
by Abby Johnson
January 10, 2007 Nevada Appeal
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20070110/OPINION/101100047

Second possible route for Yucca Mountain rail line to get study
Associated Press Fri, Jan. 12, 2007
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/16446821.htm

ARCO Ordered to Investigate Radioactivity at Anaconda Mine
SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 17, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-17-09.asp#anchor3


---- new jersey

Don't vacillate on plant
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/8/07
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007701080314

Oyster Creek performs efficiently without polluting the air
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/9/07
BY JAMES MCGOVERN
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007701090340

Plant representatives not invited to discussion
Ocean County Observer on 01/15/07
BY BOB VOSSELLER
STAFF WRITER
http://www.ocobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/NEWS/701150314

Gov. Corzine tours Oyster Creek facility
Posted by the Ocean County Observer on 01/15/07
BY BOB VOSSELLER
STAFF WRITER
http://www.ocobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/NEWS/701150313

Monticello nuclear plant out of service
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press
January 17, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/kri/3699501354373435237035291494201767365787

Nuclear Plant Shut Down After Box Breaks Loose
Jan 17, 2007 (AP)
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_016225203.html


---- new mexico

Hot waste one step closer to WIPP
Thursday, January 18th, 2007 SF New Mexican:
Rob Galbraith
http://www.topix.net/r/04cYFSNgzWhGlDOKuEPUCbW=2BAzQzUdMGTH6EWeh=2B6Nujf1K0Q9n6UEX3y93i4tlxSivhdV=2FiGZlE7Z2ozCUy=2BUQ=3D=3D

Sandia Computer Simulation Monitors Traffic In Contraband Nuclear Material
by Staff Writers
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jan 19, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Sandia_Computer_Simulation_Monitors_Traffic_In_Contraband_Nuclear_Material_999.html


---- new york

Federal regulators: Indian Point safety drill found no significant problems
By GREG CLARY
THE NY JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: January 9, 2007)
Federal regulators yesterday confirmed their initial reaction to a one-day emergency-response drill at Indian Point in November, saying the every-other-year exercise turned up no "significant" problems.

Indian Point owner seeks deadline extension for new siren system
The Associated Press
January 11, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0288979070134856757012538142142188405589

Entergy’s IP sirens to take longer than expected
Thursday, January 11, 2007 Mid-Hudson News
http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/Entergy_siren_delay-11Jan07.htm

Indian Point owner wants more time on emergency sirens
By GREG CLARY
THE NY JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: January 12, 2007)
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070112/NEWS01/701120365/1017

Hudson River fish found to contain radioactive isotope
By GREG CLARY
THE NY JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: January 16, 2007)
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007701160357

Indian Point Nuclear Plant In Fishy Controversy
wcbstv.com
January 16, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/cbs/3621388501374627406612851748622766716965?threadid=HJ1JM8EF9BCJ119A

Deadline extended for new emergency sirens around Indian Point
The Associated Press
January 23, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2117780522261817231840915926320607934421



---- ohio

Piketon group receives grant for site study
The Central Ohio Gazette Staff, February 1, 2007
http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/B8/20070201/NEWS01/702010316/1002

Ill workers criticize government for burying nuclear plant records
Monday, January 08, 2007 (AP)
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/01/08/20070108-B4-02.html

100+ Groups Call on Congress to Oppose High-Level Radioactive Waste Dumping Plan in Ohio
JANUARY 9, 2007 Nuclear Information Resource Service
Mary Olson, NIRS Southeast Office 828-675-1792
Kevin Kamps, 301-270-6477
http://www.commondreams.org/news2007/0109-03.htm
The letter can be accessed at:
http://www.nirs.org/nukerelapse/congactions/01-08piketonsign-onlettersignatures.pdf

Citizens divided on Piketon 30-year license
By LORI McNELLY
Central Ohio Gazette City Editor
Januay 10, 2007
http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/B8/20070110/NEWS01/701100301/1002

Fernald cleanup celebrated
Ceremony marks project's completion, honors workers
BY PEGGY O'FARRELL | POFARRELL@ENQUIRER.COM
Saturday, January 20, 2007 Cincinnati Enquirer
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007701200434

Audit questions documents used to reject sick workers' claims
Associated Press
Sun, Jan. 28, 2007
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/16568025.htm


---- pennsylvania

Owner of TMI increases energy output for 4th year
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
From staff reports
http://www.pennlive.com/business/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/business/1169511904268160.xml&coll=1


---- south carolina

SRNL to help in study of fusion
Tue, Jan 16, 2007 Aiken Standard
By PHILIP LORD
Senior writer
http://www.aikenstandard.com/news/292463609587886.php

Cherokee County, S.C.: Duke Energy Ceo reveals doubts about nuclear plant
The Charlotte Observer
January 19, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/kri/2854345017094502821335626686422643800594


---- tennessee

Rebar problem costs BWXT millions
By FRANK MUNGER, munger@knews.com
Knoxville News Sentinel
January 3, 2007
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5254086,00.html

Nuclear weapons plant manager fees hurt by construction delay
By DUNCAN MANSFIELD
Associated Press Writer
January 6, 2007
http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/ap-nuclear-weapons-plant-manager-fees-hurt-by-construction-delay/69569.htm

TVA contractor faces $190,000 in OSHA fines
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
By BRIAN LAWSON
brian.lawson@htimes.com
Huntsville, AL, Times Business Writer
http://www.al.com/business/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/business/1169633981271140.xml&coll=1

Loose air line shuts down Sequoyah nuclear reactor
1/24/2007 Associated Press
http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-26/116967479371850.xml&storylist=alabamanews

Fire started during Y-12 operation in December
Officials say blaze sparked during dismantlement task, no one hurt
By FRANK MUNGER, munger@knews.com
January 29, 2007, Knoxville News
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5312573,00.html


---- vermont

Global warming distorts VY case
January 16, 2007 Rutland Herald
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070116/NEWS/701160321/1037/OPINION02

Yankee discovers safety failure; says problem fixed
January 24, 2007
By DAVID GRAM The Associated Press
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070124/NEWS/701240369/1004/NEWS03


---- virginia

Dominion gets NRC approval for North Anna reactors
From NBC12 News
Jan 3, 2007 Associated Press
http://www.nbc12.com/news/state/5073566.html


---- washington

Low-level waste landfill records falsified
Published Saturday, January 13th, 2007
By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald staff writer
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/8558225p-8451749c.html

Records falsified at Hanford nuclear waste dump
Story Updated: Jan 16, 2007
By Associated Press
http://www.komotv.com/news/local/5206796.html

40,000 Tons of Carcasses & Waste Reburied at Hanford
Jan 16, 2007 Associated Press
http://www.keprtv.com/news/5220121.html


---- us nuc waste

Oak Ridge incinerator to burn another 10 million pounds of waste
January 3, 2007
By ADAM LONGO
(WATE) 6 News Reporter
http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=5888826

Workers dig up four-legged nuclear legacy
By Annette Cary
McClatchy News Service
Published: Monday, January 15, 2007
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/01/15/a3.nat.hanford.0115.p1.php?section=nation_world

First remote-handled waste shipment arrives at WIPP in New Mexico
January 24, 2007 ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_NM_WIPP_Hot_Waste.html?source=rss

Nuke industry mindful of Reid
Association won't push bills to speed work on waste repository
By STEVE TETREAULT
STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Jan. 24, 2007 Las Vegas Review-Journal
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2007/Jan-24-Wed-2007/news/12156788.html

Colorado Company Licensed to Strip Uranium from Water
WASHINGTON, DC, January 30, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-30-09.asp#anchor2


---- MILITARY


---- afghanistan

Afghanistan a source of worry
Sen. Clinton says more troops needed to fight Taliban, not in Iraq
By Julian E. Barnes and Peter Spiegel
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
January 13, 2007
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gates13jan13,0,1105223.story?coll=la-home-headlines
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/latimes198.htm

India announces $100 mln more aid for Afghanistan
By Reuters
Tuesday January 23, 07
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070123/137/6bfhy.html

Bucking U.S., Afghanistan won’t spray heroin
Karzai reportedly would spray fields in 2008 if harvest doesn’t decline
MSNBC Jan 25, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16807707/


---- africa

US 'helped Ethiopian choppers target Somalia Islamists'
Thu Jan 4, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070104/wl_africa_afp/somaliaunrestethiopia_070104092712

US says its pursuit of Somali "al-Qaeda terrorists" a right
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Thursday January 4, 2007
http://rawstory.com/news/2006/US_says_its_pursuit_of_Somali_al_Qa_01042007.html

U.S. ships block escape route as Somalia assault readies
January 5, 2007 (AP)
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/01/05/somalia.assault.ap/index.html

Algeria to host African conference on nuclear
Xinhua January 08, 2007
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/08/eng20070108_339199.html

Witnesses: U.S. strikes on al-Qaeda suspects kill 31 Somali civilians
Updated 1/9/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-09-al-qaeda-airstrikes_x.htm

U.S. Special Ops Forces Strike Somalia
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1454242

Pentagon: Somalia Part of War on Terror
By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/01/09/national/w091152S14.DTL

Somalia brings memories of past US debacles
January 10, 2007 Pakistan News International
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=38520

US 'lacks intelligence' for high-tech warfare
Tuesday January 16, 2007 - INDEPENDENT
By Steve Bloomfield
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10419271

Experts warn US air raids in Somalia may be inefficient, harmful
by Michel Moutot Sun Jan 28, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070128/wl_africa_afp/ussomaliaunrest_070128214831


---- arms

Russia says US sanctions on arms dealers 'illegal'
Sat Jan 6, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070106/wl_afp/russiausiransyria_070106202640

Gaza terrorists seek to use Katyushas
By YAAKOV KATZ
Jan. 8, 2007 Jerusalem Post | Updated Jan. 10, 2007
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467688097&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Frida Berrigan, How the Pentagon Stole the Future
January 9, 2007
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=155521

Iran gets army gear in Pentagon sale
Posted 1/16/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-16-army-gear_x.htm

Russia completes delivery of missiles to Iran
Tue Jan 16, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070116/wl_mideast_afp/russiairandefence_070116161338

Pakistan buying 700 missiles from US
Thursday, January 18, 2007 Pakistan International News
http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=5300

Pressure builds on Blair over weapons probe
An international economic policy group is questioning the British prime minister's decision to call off an inquiry into Saudi arms deals.
By Mark Rice-Oxley | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
January 22, 2007
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0122/p07s02-woeu.html

U.S. May Impose Sanctions on Russia for Tor-M1 Deliveries
Jan. 25, 2007 Kommersant
http://www.kommersant.com/p-9940/Tor-M1_missile_deliveries_Iran

How hot is the heat-ray gun?
The heat gun's dish could make a target for an RPG
By Patrick Jackson
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6300985.stm

U.S. Urged to Stop Selling Cluster Bombs to Israel
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/30/1515235

Report: Russia negotiating sale of air defense missiles to Venezuela
1/30/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-30-russia-venezuela_x.htm

Lawmaker says Pentagon's suspension of F-14 part sales falls short
1/31/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-31-pentagon-surplus_x.htm

US General Accuses Iran On Weapons Supplies
Iran has the ability to flood Iraq with vast amounts of weapons
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_General_Accuses_Iran_On_Weapons_Supplies_999.html


---- asia

US military power seen at risk by China's satellite-busting ability
by P. Parameswaran Tue Jan 23, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070123/pl_afp/chinaspacemilitaryus_070123143316


---- balkans

Is Kosovo just an accident of war, and can it thrive as an independent state?
By Stephen Castle, Europe Correspondent
Published: 26 January 2007 UK Independent
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2186485.ece

Russia Gets its Warm-Water Port And Other Balkan Ironies for the Year Ahead
by Christopher Deliso
balkanalysis.com
January 26, 2007 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=10395


---- britain

3,000 British troops to pull out of Iraq by May
The number of British troops in Iraq will be cut from 7,200 to 4,500
By Thomas Harding in Basra and Toby Harnden in Washington
12/01/2007 UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/11/wiraq11.xml

Ictu calls for benefits of nuclear energy to be debated
From:ireland.com
Wednesday, 24th January, 2007
http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/topstories/9740442?view=Eircomnet

'Nuclear weapons plan ''rational'''
Thursday, 25 January 2007 (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6298121.stm

40-YEAR NUCLEAR CHARGES
26 January 2007 UK Daily Record
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=40%2Dyear-nuclear-charges-%26method=full%26objectid=18532513%26siteid=66633-name_page.html

Pentagon Unveils Heat-Inducing Ray-Gun: Non-Lethal Crowd Control or Dangerous Weapon?
Friday, January 26th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1559240


---- business

Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Guns
by Richard Cummings, January 2007 Playboy Magazine
http://www.playboy.com/magazine/features/lockheed/

Our Mercenaries in Iraq: Blackwater Inc and Bush's Undeclared Surge
Friday, January 26th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1559232

Israel to buy US bomb kits for $100M
By STEVE WEIZMAN
BW Exclusives
Associated Press January 29, 2007
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8MV20IO0.htm


---- chemical weapons

Resource for vets helps correct mistakes
Sunday, Jan 21, 2007 Utica OD
By RAY LENARCIC
http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070121/NEWS05/701210310/1013


---- china

Ten most significant developments in sci-tech in 2006
By People's Daily Online
January 22, 2007
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/22/eng20070122_343621.html


---- iran

Iran says it has arrested a nuclear spy
Tue Jan 9, 2006 Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear_spy_2

US General Accuses Iran On Weapons Supplies
Iran has the ability to flood Iraq with vast amounts of weapons
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_General_Accuses_Iran_On_Weapons_Supplies_999.html



---- iraq

Iraq threatens arrest of police officer
By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan 4, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_jamil_hussein

Iraq admits split in army
1/10/2007 REUTERS
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Gulf%2C+Middle+East+%26+Africa&month=January2007&file=World_News20070110338.xml

Better armor lacking for new troops in Iraq
From the Baltimore Sun
By David Wood
Originally published January 10, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/baltsun10.html

Iraqis not ready to lay down arms
Militias are their best protection, they say, and Bush's new plan is a recipe for disaster
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 12, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimes725.html

War costs are hitting historic proportions
The price tag for the Iraq conflict and overall effort against terrorism is expected to surpass Vietnam's next year
By Joel Havemann
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 14, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimes738.html

Baghdad morgue took 16,000 bodies in 2006
Sun Jan 14, 2006 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070114/wl_nm/iraq_morgue_dc

Iraq refugee crisis exploding
40% of middle class believed to have fled crumbling nation
Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/16/MNG2MNJBIS1.DTL

Saddam cousin says actions against Kurds justified
Updated 1/24/2007 Ali Hassan al-Majid (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-01-24-chemicalali_x.htm

LA Times Baghdad Bureau Chief Borzou Daragahi: The Intensity of the Bloodbath Is Increasing
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/30/1516203


---- israel / palestine

US seeks 86 million dollars in military aid to Palestinians
Fri Jan 12, 2006 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070112/pl_afp/mideastpalestinian

Most Israelis want Olmert, Peretz to follow Halutz's lead and quit - poll
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Friday, January 19, 2007
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=78740


---- landmines

Weapon of war -- killer of innocents
Like landmines, U.S. wants its cluster bombs
Frida Berrigan
Sunday, January 7, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/01/07/ING2INDCJ91.DTL

De-mining official expects South to be clear of cluster bombs by year's end
By Mohammed Zaatari
Daily Star staff
Thursday, January 11, 2007
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=78428

Land mines kill Colombian troops
From correspondents in Bogota
January 14, 2007 Agence France-Presse
http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,21985,21057253-5005961,00.html

Landmines kill 7 police, paramilitaries in C.India
16 Jan 2007 Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL252569.htm


---- latin america

Bush seeks cooperative ties with Sandinista leader
Updated 1/9/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-09-ortega_x.htm

Nations hope to make Nicaragua an ally
TRACI CARL
Associated Press Sat, Jan. 20, 2007
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/16506181.htm

Colombian Government Is Ensnared in a Paramilitary Scandal
By SIMON ROMERO
New York Times
January 21, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt1_21_7_2.htm

Nicaragua's Ortega to US: We'll pick own friends
MSNBC Jan 22, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16459898/

Venezuela's Chavez says U.S. ambassador could be expelled if he keeps 'meddling'
Updated 1/26/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-25-chavez_x.htm


---- mideast

Bush Escalates Iraq War with 20,000 More Troops; Threatens Iran, Syria with Military Action
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1536230

Lebanon: UN calls for urgent aid to clean up toxic debris from summer war with Israel
23 January 2007 UN News Centre
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=21304&Cr=lebanon&Cr1=


---- nato

Jordan bids for NATO center
Jan. 8, 2007 United Press International
http://washtimes.com/upi/20070108-102255-5874r.htm


---- pacific

RP to study civilian uses of nuclear power
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Manila Times
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/jan/16/yehey/top_stories/20070116top2.html


---- prisoners of war

Torture, Suicide and Imprisonment: A Look Back at Five Years of Guantanamo
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1536252

Former Guantanamo Prisoner, Brother of Current Prisoner in Cuba to Call for Closure of Prison Camp
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1536256

"A Deep Sense of Depression and Hopelessness" - Guantanamo Attorney on State of Imprisoned Clients
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1537200

Some at Guantanamo Mark 5 Years in Limbo
Big Questions About Low-Profile Inmates
By Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 16, 2007; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011501227_pf.html

Diary of a Guantánamo Attorney
By H. Candace Gorman
January 16, 2007 In These Times
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2966/

Top Pentagon Official Calls for Boycott of Law Firms Representing Guantanamo Prisoners
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/17/1541233

Manual to allow executions based on hearsay
Pentagon plan for detainee trials could spark fresh bipartisan debate
MSNBC Jan 18, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16691101/

Britain Admits Awareness of CIA Prisons
By DAVID STRINGER
Jan 19, 2007 MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16715649/

The Waste Land: Declassified poetry from Guantánamo Bay
Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007. Harpers Magazine
By Ken Silverstein.
http://www.harpers.org/sb-the-waste-land-1169582427.html


---- russia / chechnya

546 militants in Chechnya surrender
1/15/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-15-chechnya_x.htm


---- space

Sen. Biden warns against space arms race
By DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writer Sun Jan 21, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_go_co/us_china


---- spies

CIA Immune System Still Working
Ray McGovern and W. Patrick Lang
January 04, 2007
TomPaine.com ( A Project of The Institute for America's Future )
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/01/04/cia_immune_system_still_working.php

CIA gets the go-ahead to take on Hizbollah
By Toby Harnden, US Editor
10/01/2007 UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2ZP5HZLPAT52TQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2007/01/10/wleb10.xml

Cheney: Credit checks aren't illegal
Updated 1/14/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-13-pentagon-bank-records_x.htm

Deletions in Army Manual Raise Wiretapping Concerns
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MARK MAZZETTI
New York Times
January 14, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/sf/nyt1_14_7_8.htm

CIA emphasizes flexibility in new strategy
Posted 1/15/2007
By Richard Willing, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-15-cia-strategy_x.htm

CIA leak case figures reject Cheney immunity
Wilson, Plame claim that vice president is not shielded from civil lawsuit
By Joel Seidman
Producer, NBC News Jan 16, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16661267

Foreign intelligence court to oversee domestic spying program
Updated 1/17/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-17-spying_x.htm

Bush won't reauthorize eavesdropping program
Wed Jan 17, 2007 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070117/ts_nm/surveillance_bush_dc_2

Gonzales Defends Delay on Domestic Spying Reversal
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1432220

Museum of Spies
Jim Dee | January 25, 2007
Editor: John Feffer, IRC
Foreign Policy In Focus
http://fpif.org/fpiftxt/3943

Revealed: FBI Internet Surveillance More Extensive Than Previously Known
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/1543233


---- un

China, Russia cast rare veto against U.S. on Myanmar
By Evelyn Leopold Fri Jan 12, 2006 (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070113/ts_nm/myanmar_un_dc


---- us

Aircraft Carrier Headed to Persian Gulf
Thursday, January 4, 2007 (AP)
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/01/04/national/w073127S23.DTL

2 new generals tapped to lead in Iraq
Reshuffling announced as Bush retools war plans and Democrats attack
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 8:28 p.m. ET Jan 5, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16480442/

Surgin' Generals' Warning
Jim Fine
January 09, 2007 TomPaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/01/09/surgin_generals_warning.php

Gates Cleans House at the Pentagon
New Pentagon chief is expected to oust the U.S. general involved in the Somalia strikes
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Michael Hirsh and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek Jan 9, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16549316/site/newsweek/

Oliver North says Bush plan 'eerily like Vietnam escalation'
RAW STORY Tuesday January 9, 2007
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Oliver_North_says_Bush_plan_eerily_0109.html

Pentagon Agrees to Stop Sharing Recruitment Data
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/10/150255

Pentagon to end limit on total active-duty time for Reserves; Marines, Army numbers to be boosted
By Robert Burns / AP Military Writer
01/11/2007
http://www.elpasotimes.com/election/ci_4994211

Bush borrows 'McMaster' plan from British
By Damien McElroy in Camp Ali Al Salem, Kuwait
UK Telegraph 12/01/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/11/wiraq114.xml

Retired Generals Slam Bush's Iraq Plan
(CBS News) Jan 18, 2007
http://cbs11tv.com/national/topstories_story_018175215.html

Pentagon sees U.S. war cost in Iraq rising
Thu 18 Jan 2007 (Reuters)
By Richard Cowan
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N18181226&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-2

Lawmakers criticize Pentagon for underestimating war costs
By James Rosen
McClatchy Newspapers
Thu, Jan. 18, 2007
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/16492821.htm

A Grim Milestone: 500 Amputees
TIME, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007 By MICHAEL WEISSKOPF/WASHINGTON
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1580531,00.html?cnn=yes

Army officer warns of Mental health woes
By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 19, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070119/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/veterans_mental_health_1

US hawks bolstered by China's weapons test in space: newspaper
Fri Jan 19, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070120/pl_afp/chinaspacemilitarybritain

NEWSWEEK Poll: Bush Unpopular, Congress Does Better
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Brian Braiker
Newsweek, Jan 20, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16720627/site/newsweek/

Prominent lobbyist Perle: U.S. will attack Iran if it obtains nukes
By Yossi Melman and Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondents
22/01/2007
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/816046.html

US fired up over new weapon
January 25, 2007 (AP)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2565138,00.html


---- POLICE / PRISONERS / COURTS / JUSTICE

FBI Surveillance Collects Internet Use in Massive Database
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/1543211


---- courts / tribunals

Judge lets charges against Army officer stand
Trial to proceed on refusal to deploy, criticism of Bush
Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, January 18, 2007
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/18/MNGRMNKF4I1.DTL

Appointment called unconstitutional
A lawyer alleges recent U.S. attorney selection violates appointments clause
By Henry Weinstein
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 25, 2007
http://fairuse.100webcustomers.com/fairenough/latimes770.html

Dismissal of Lawsuit Against Warrantless Wiretaps Sought
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 26, 2007; A05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012501434_pf.html


---- death penalty

Legal battles have lethal injection on trial
Posted 1/7/2007
By Kevin Johnson and Richard Willing, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-07-lethal-injection_x.htm


---- drug war

Doctors propose using Afghan opium as NHS pain-killer
By Justin Huggler, Asia Correspondent
UK Independent: 24 January 2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2180759.ece


---- homeland security / national intelligence

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration
Thursday, January 25th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/25/153210


-------- human rights

Cities go further to help homeless
Posted 1/23/2007
By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-23-homeless_x.htm


---- immigration / refugees

Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raids
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/1533211


---- justice

Bush Admin Asserts Powers to Open US Mail
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/05/1539252

FBI Documents Reveal Nixon, Reagan Intimidated Rehnquist Witnesses, and Detail the Late Chief Justice’s Addiction to Painkillers
Democracy Now! Friday, January 5th, 2007
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/05/1541237

Gonzales says Gitmo trial delays not U.S.’s fault
Attorney general blames the terror detainees’ lawyers for hindering process
Jan 16, 2007 Associated Press
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16656557/

Gonzales: Judges unfit to rule on terror policy
Attorney general says federal jurists should defer to president's will
Reuters, Jan 17, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16668110/

Feinstein claims White House using Patriot Act to oust prosecutors
January 20, 2007 KESQ
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?s=5961037

Even libraries in America are under siege by the infamous Patriot Act
By Kaleem Omar, Monday, January 22, 2007 Pakistan International
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=39741

Gonzales to release court order on domestic spying
1/31/2007
By Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-31-domestic-spying_x.htm


---- torture

Russian uranium trafficker tortured: brother
MOSCOW (AFP) Jan 26, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070126171500.70t36jji.html


----- POLITICS


---- investigations

Spy case puts Vice-President in the stand
Tim Reid, Washington
15 jan 07 Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,21058139,00.html

Defense official says Pentagon hid unspent funds in accounts
1/17/2007
By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-17-pentagon-funds_x.htm

Killing the Golden Goose
A Look at The Iraq Study Group Report
by Ed Kinane
www.dissidentvoice.org
January 18, 2007
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan07/Kinane18.htm

“We Knew Damn Well He’d Be Tortured” -- Sen. Patrick Leahy Questions Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Extraordinary Rendition Victim Maher Arar
Friday, January 19th, 2007
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1432225

Legal Scholars: Congress Has Constitutional Power to Limit Scope of Iraq War & Block Escalation
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/23/1530250

Libby: White House sacrificed him for Rove
Fitzgerald says Libby lied about Cheney; first witness takes stand
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Jan 23, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16770023/


---- propaganda wars

Experts fear journalist testimony in CIA leak case will erode freedom of press
1/2/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-02-cia-leak-reporters_x.htm

Full text of President Bush's speech
01/10/2007 Denver Post
http://test.denverpost.com/ci_4986746

New Film Exposes evangelical Hypocrisy/ Bush War Crimes
by Brother Raymond <raymond@beitshalomministries.org>
Wednesday January 10, 2007 Melbourne IndyMedia
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/135959.php

Hagel: Bush Plan Is 'Most Dangerous Blunder' Since Vietnam
KETV Omaha, January 11, 2007
http://www.ketv.com/newsarchive/10723405/detail.html

As Thousands Gather in Memphis for National Media Reform Conference, A Look at the State of the U.S. Media
Friday, January 12th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/151235

IFJ Condemns Government Closure of Three Radio Stations, Al Jazeera
Jan 15, 2007, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF JOURNALISTS - Media Release
http://www.garoweonline.com/stories/publish/article_7110.shtml

Bill Moyers: "Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial."
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/16/159222

Report: Cheney rejected Iran concessions
Thu Jan 18, 2007 Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070118/ap_on_go_pr_wh/britain_us_iran

U.S. officials say rumor of Iran strike not true
18 Jan 2007 Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18450915.htm

Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas on the Escalation of the Iraq War, Jimmy Carter's New Book & the Failings of the Washington Press Corps
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/22/1455252

Sen. Bernie Sanders: If You Are Concerned About Health Care, Iraq, the Economy, Global Warming You Must Be Concerned About Corporate Control of the Media
Monday, January 22nd, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/22/1455248


---- us politics

Ex-US spy chief to tackle North Korea, China as Rice's deputy
WASHINGTON (AFP) Jan 05, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070105183617.o7cnv0dy.html

McConnell To Direct Intelligence; Nuclear Agency Chief Is Fired
By KATHERINE SHRADER
Associated Press
January 5, 2007
http://www.nysun.com/article/46168

Elliot Abrams’ uncivil war
January 7th, 2007 Conflicts Forum
http://conflictsforum.org/2007/elliot-abrams-uncivil-war/

Antiwar GOP Rep. Ron Paul Running for President!
Thursday, January 11th, 2007 in Antiwar.com News by Justin Raimondo
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/01/11/antiwar-republican-congressman-ron-paul-is-running-for-president/

Cheney enters the twilight of his career
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Fri Jan 12, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_s_twilight

Libby Trial May Show Cheney's Role in Run-Up to War
By Cary O'Reilly and Holly Rosenkrantz
Jan. 12, 2006 (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aysa4JuacDb8&refer=home

Anti-war activists unforgiving of Clinton
By GLENN BLAIN
NY JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: January 14, 2007)
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070114/NEWS05/701140330/1021

Sen. Clinton meets with Karzai, troops
By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer Sun Jan 14, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070114/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

Sen. Clinton: More forces needed in Afghanistan
By Scott Schonauer, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Tuesday, January 16, 2007
http://stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=41786&archive=truer

The Irrelevance of Military Victory
by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), January 16, 2007 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/paul/?articleid=10330

Opponents of bulking up U.S. forces in Iraq agree on resolution
Updated 1/17/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-17-dems-iraq_x.htm

GOP Sen. Hagel takes aim at Bush: 'This is not a monarchy'
David Edwards and Mike Sheehan
Published: Wednesday January 17, 2007
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/GOP_Sen._Hagel_takes_aim_at_0117.html

Bush Admin Backs Down on Illegal Wiretapping
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/18/1623234

New Resolutions Lay Ground for Iraq War Showdown on Capitol Hill
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/18/1622241

US Lawmakers Demand Bush Ask Congress Before Invading Iran
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 18, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/US_Lawmakers_Demand_Bush_Ask_Congress_Before_Invading_Iran_999.html

Exclusive: Pelosi Says Bush 'Has to Answer for This War'
Nancy Pelosi Tells ABC News' Diane Sawyer That Democrats Won't Cut Off Funding to Iraq While Troops in Harm's Way
Jan. 19, 2007 ABC News
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/print?id=2805714

Conservatives slam Bush policies
By Eric Pfeiffer
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published January 20, 2007
http://washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070119-110926-3240r

Top US Arms Control Official Quits
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 25, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Top_US_Arms_Control_Official_Quits_999.html

Bush faces rising rebellion from fellow Republicans over Iraq
by Charlotte Raab, Thu Jan 25, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070125/ts_alt_afp/usiraqpolitics

Cheney: Senate Resolution "Won't Stop Us"
Vice President Says It's "Hogwash" To Say Bush's Credibility Is At Stake In Iraq
WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) Jan. 25, 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/25/politics/main2397224.shtml

Kissinger, Albright urge Bush administration to talk to Iran and Syria strategy
The Associated Press
Published: January 31, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/31/america/NA-GEN-US-Iraq-Mideast.php


---- ENERGY

Many countries turning to nuclear power
Doug Struck
Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2007 12:00 AM
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0107nuclear0107.html

EU Commission to Present Energy Plan
The Associated Press
By BARRY HATTON
January 07, 2007
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/0325606627335093498730349881631967326228
On the Net:
World Energy Council: http://www.worldenergy.org
U.K. Energy Research Center: http://www.ukerc.ac.uk
European Renewable Energy Council: http://www.erec-renewables.org
New Energy Finance: http://www.newenergyfinance.com

Future Czech ForMin against Temelin arbitration in Austrian press
07.01.2007 Ceske Noviny
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=229580

Europeans firmly behind research into new energy technologies
08/01/2007 Financial Mirror
http://www.financialmirror.com/more_news.php?id=5737&nt=IT%20/%20Telecom

Kennedy & Kucinich Offer Up Iraq Plans
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/09/1454242

Nuclear Power Faces Reduced Role in Energy Mix
Story by Daniel Fineren
REUTERS UK: January 9, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39732/story.htm

EU citizens favor renewable energy
2007-01-09 Xinhua News Agency
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/09/content_5580964.htm

With Iraq Speech, Bush to Pull Away From His Generals
By Michael Abramowitz, Robin Wright and Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, January 10, 2007; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR2007010901872_pf.html

Nuclear power faces reduced share in global energy supply
Published: Sunday, 14 January, 2007 Gulf Times
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=127360&version=1&template_id=48&parent_id=28

House Revokes Oil Industry Subsidies and Tax Breaks
By J.R. Pegg
WASHINGTON, DC, January 18, 2007 (ENS)-
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-18-10.asp

Bush’s New Energy Proposals: A Break from the Past or More of the Same?
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/24/1534251

Africa Seen Missing out on Clean Energy Investment
REUTERS SOUTH AFRICA: January 31, 2007
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/40073/newsDate/31-Jan-2007/story.htm


---- alternative energy

Hy-Drive Bridge to Hydrogen Future
Tue, Jan 02, 2007 Iran Daily
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2748/html/energy.htm#s199776

Ethanol-Driven Vehicle Under Test in Malawi
Tue, Jan 02, 2007 Iran Daily
http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2748/html/energy.htm#s199776

Alternative-Energy Spending Fizzles Out
Congress ends without funding research programs, as the United States falls behind in alternative technologies.
By Kevin Bullis
Thursday, January 04, 2007 Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18003/

German Renewable Energy Usage at Record High in 2006
REUTERS GERMANY: January 5, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39703/story.htm

UK Government Must Spend More on Renewable Energy
Story by Jeremy Lovell
REUTERS UK: January 8, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39713/story.htm

New US Congress Looks to Boost Alternate Fuels
Story by Chris Baltimore
REUTERS US: January 8, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39709/story.htm

Electric, Hydrogen, Hybrid Cars Star at Detroit Auto Show
DETROIT, Michigan, January 8, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-08-01.asp

New US Congress Looks to Boost Alternate Fuels
Story by Chris Baltimore
REUTERS US: January 8, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39709/newsDate/8-Jan-2007/story.htm

Ted Turner Launches Solar Energy Business Venture
ATLANTA, Georgia, January 9, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-09-09.asp#anchor3

EU Seeks to Lower Energy Consumption
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 10, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-EU-Energy.html?pagewanted=print

Only Environmental Bill in First 100 Hours Up for Vote
WASHINGTON, DC, January 12, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-12-09.asp#anchor1

Energy needs drive leaders to alternatives
Sat, 13 Jan 2007 Earthtimes.org
Author : Energy News Editor
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/19725.html

Illinois Must Buy Flex Fuel Vehicles for State Fleet
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, January 16, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-16-09.asp#anchor4

Zapatero pins faith in renewable energy amid nuclear debate
MADRID (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070117145117.uncar2g7.html

Bush to Call for More Ethanol use Next Week - Sources
Story by Chris Baltimore
REUTERS US: January 17, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39866/story.htm

Solar Power Eliminates Utility Bills in U.S. Home
January 17, 2007 — By Jon Hurdle, Reuters
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12048

Asian and Pacific Nations Sign Clean Energy Pact
MANILA, Philippines, January 17, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-17-05.asp

North Carolina State Employees Support Renewables
RALEIGH, North Carolina, January 17, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-17-09.asp#anchor6

BP to Build Five U.S. Wind Farms This Year
HOUSTON, Texas, January 18, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-18-09.asp#anchor3

Solar Power Eliminates Utility Bills in US Home
Story by Jon Hurdle
REUTERS US: January 18, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39873/newsDate/18-Jan-2007/story.htm

New Mexico Gov. Wants Tax Cuts, Renewable Energy
Story by Jim Christie
REUTERS US: January 18, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39875/newsDate/18-Jan-2007/story.htm

House Approves Fees, Taxes on Oil Companies; Plans to Use Money for Renewable Fuels
January 19, 2007 — By H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12065

Geothermal Heat Mining Promises Abundant, Cheap Energy
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, January 22, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-22-05.asp

Areva, world's largest nuclear power firm, bids for wind power turbine maker
22 January 2007 Domain-B, The Information Company Private Limited
http://www.domainb.com/industry/power/20070122_nuclear.html

Getting More from Wood
January 24, 2007 — By Maury Thompson, Glens Falls, N.Y. Post-Star
Source: McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12083

Report: Renewable energy can account for half of global energy needs by 2050
The Associated Press
Published: January 25, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/26/europe/EU-GEN-EU-Renewable-Energy.php

Report Warns of Obstacles to Sustainable Biofuels Sector
January 26, 2007 — By Thomas Wagner, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12104

Clean Energy Seen 50 Pct of Supply by 2050 - Report
Story by Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
REUTERS NORWAY: January 29, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/40042/story.htm

Ground Broken for Largest Corporate Solar System
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey, January 31, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-31-09.asp#anchor6


----- OTHER


---- environment

Belarus Deal Signals Russia's Growing Clout
Gas Monopoly Won a Price Doubling
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 2, 2007; D01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100720_pf.html

Huge Ice Shelf Breaks Free in Canada's Far North
Story by Jeffrey Jones
REUTERS CANADA: January 2, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39667/story.htm

China's 2006 Weather -- Warm and Disastrous
REUTERS CHINA: January 2, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39666/story.htm

Analysis: The business of going green
By KRISTYN ECOCHARD
UPI Energy Correspondent
1/5/2007
http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=20070105-032706-9430r

UK Minister Attacks Airlines on Pollution
REUTERS UK: January 8, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39716/newsDate/8-Jan-2007/story.htm

Bison Will Be Moved to Former Chemical Weapons Site
WASHINGTON, DC, January 10, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-10-09.asp#anchor6

Air Pollution Blamed for Killing Thousands of Iranians
REUTERS IRAN: January 10, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39747/story.htm

Businesses dump 60% of all waste
By Rob Edwards, Environment Editor
January 14, 2007 Est 1999 UK sunday herald
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.1122049.0.businesses_dump_60_of_all_waste.php

Kansas Issues Fish Warnings for Mercury, PCBs, Perchlorate
TOPEKA, Kansas, January 16, 2007 (ENS)
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-16-09.asp#anchor5

Cutbacks Impede Climate Studies
U.S. Earth Programs In Peril, Panel Finds
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 16, 2007; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011501049_pf.html

Germany Gets Greener, but Habitats Still Endangered
17.01.2007 Deutsche Welle
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2313119,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

Sex-Changing Chemicals Found in US Potomac River
REUTERS US: January 19, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39899/story.htm

Navy Can Keep Using Sonar for Two Years
January 24, 2007 — By Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12090

Global warming more dangerous than nuclear weapons: Blix
by Paul Schemm Thu Jan 25, 2007 (AFP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070125/sc_afp/egyptnucleariranunblix_070125175332

Scientists Criticize Upcoming IPCC Report as Understated
Melting ice means global warming report all wet, say some experts who warn it'll be even worse
The Associated Press, Jan. 27, 2007
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=6240&method=full

FACTBOX - World's 10 Most Polluted Places
REUTERS INTERNATIONAL: January 29, 2007
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/40043/story.htm

Government Scientists Accuse Bush Administration of Interfering, Misleading on Climate Change
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/1543215


---- poverty

Study: 744,000 homeless in United States
1/10/2007 (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-10-homeless_x.htm

As Police Arrest Public Housing Activists in New Orleans, Federal Officials Try to Silence Leading Attorney for Low-Income Residents
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007 Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/31/1543227


---- ACTIVISTS

Pacifist's 50-Year Fight against War Carries on
As her 103rd birthday approaches, Irene Mensalvas steadfastly refuses to yield in the struggle for peace
by Rona Marech
Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Baltimore Sun
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0103-51.htm

Actor: US Navy Clean Puerto Rico
San Juan, Jan 3, 2007 (Prensa Latina)
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B01B0E157-67AC-4AF4-91A5-D4CBEDF38CE7%7D)&language=EN

Anti-war camp gears up for Watada's trial
Activities, vigils will support soldier who refused Iraq duty
By MIKE BARBER
Thursday, January 4, 2007 P-I REPORTER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/298360_watada04.html

Former US Policy Honchos Call For World Free Of Nuclear Arms
by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 04, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Former_US_Policy_Honchos_Call_For_World_Free_Of_Nuclear_Arms_999.html

A Mother Fights for a Soldier Who Said No to War
By Linton Weeks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 4, 2007; C01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010301914_pf.html

Ex-Guantanamo inmate to join protest outside prison camp
By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Saturday, January 06, 2007
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=78285

Sheehan arrives in Cuba to protest Gitmo
Posted 1/7/2007 By Anita Snow, Associated Press
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-06-sheehan-cuba_x.htm

Yarrow unveils Vietnam film
Project for PBS screened at library
Published: Sunday, January 7, 2007 Telluride Gateway
By Reilly Capps
http://www.telluridegateway.com/articles/2007/01/08/news/news03.txt

Yarrow unveils Vietnam film
Project for PBS screened at library
Published: Sunday, January 7, 2007 Telluride Daily Planet
By Reilly Capps
http://www.telluridegateway.com/articles/2007/01/08/news/news03.txt

Human Rights Delegation Heads to Guantanamo
Monday, January 8th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/08/1413238

1,200 Peace Activists Make Giant "Impeach" Sign on Beach
Monday, January 8th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/08/1413238

Ex-Prisoner Returns to Gitmo to Call for Prison Closure
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/10/150255

Jimmy Carter Speaks Truth to Propaganda
by Paul Craig Roberts
January 11, 2007 Antiwar.com
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=10304

Protests Worldwide for Gitmo Closure
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/11/1536223

Poll: 71% Oppose Iraq War Escalation
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/150246

Protests Worldwide Call for Gitmo Closure
Friday, January 12th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/12/150246

Anti-war activists protest Bush plan to send more troops to Iraq
By Jason Dearen
ASSOCIATED PRESS
1:08 a.m. January 12, 2007
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070112-0108-ca-iraq-protests.html

Councilwoman Suzanne Tucker refuses to release Site 300 e-mails
John Upton/Tracy Press Friday, 12 January 2007
http://tracypress.com/content/view/6960/2/

Service members join war protest
By John M.R. Bull 247-4768
January 15, 2007 Daily Press
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-protest.j16,0,1708460.story?track=rss

Tate in a State over "sensitive" photographs
15.01.2007 Indymedia| London
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360015.html

Peace Activist Challenges U.S. Fine Over Iraq Sanctions
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Democracy Now! Headlines
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/16/159218

The fine art of free speech
Mark Wallinger's re-creation of Brian Haw's Parliament Square protest wins over Serena Davies
UK Telegraph 16/01/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/01/16/bawall116.xml

Doomsday clock moves closer to nuclear Armageddon
LONDON (AFP) Jan 17, 2007
http://www.spacewar.com/2006/070117153812.6ieypw3x.html

Iraq War Resister Den