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InformationXanthe Hall, Juliane Hauschulz, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung aug -24
Neue Atomraketen sollen nach aktueller Planung nicht in Deutschland stationiert werden. Allerdings parallel zu dieser Entwicklung sieht die nukleare Teilhabe der NATO vor, dass die bisher in Deutschland stationierten, alten Atombomben durch die neuen B61-12 Atomwaffen ersetzt werden. Die Stationierung der neuen konventionellen Waffensysteme ist jedoch ein weiterer Schritt im aktuellen Rüstungswettlauf und erhöht das nukleare Risiko. Denn sowohl die Tomahawks als auch die Hyperschallwaffen könnten tief in russisches Staatsgebiet eindringen und nukleare Infrastruktur oder Teile des russischen Atomwaffenarsenals angreifen. Die Vorwarnzeiten schrumpfen bei dem Einsatz von Hyperschallraketen, sodass Entscheidungen innerhalb von Minuten getroffen werden müssen. Im schlimmsten Fall kann das zu einer „Use them or lose them“-Situation führen, in der die Entscheidung getroffen wird, das eigene nukleare Arsenal abzufeuern, bevor es von der gegnerischen Seite in einem Erstschlag zerstört wird. Damit wird die Gefahr von katastrophalen Missverständnissen und Fehlkalkulationen erhöht. Ein solches Szenario mag momentan noch weit entfernt erscheinen, doch die angekündigte Stationierung der neuen Waffensysteme bringt uns dieser Bedrohung ein gutes Stück näher.
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By WARWICK POWELL | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-07-29
The ongoing chaos that seems to be the defining characteristic of US domestic politics sets the backdrop for the attempts of the United States to reassert its hegemony across the world through the global expansion of NATO. US political chaos reflects a political economy that is failing to meet the aspirations of the US people, let alone enable the US to recover its position as the unparalleled global military hegemon.
"As a result of investments made under the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, NNSA was able to deliver more than 200 upgraded nuclear weapons to the Department of Defense last year. This is our largest delivery in one year since the end of the Cold War," Jill Hruby, administrator of the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA), said at the breakfast of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies "Peace through Strength."
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By Jonathan Turley (Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.)
I hope that our readers have read the response of NewsGuard's Gordon Crovitz to my recent criticism of the company's rating system for news sites. He makes important points, including the fact that the company has given high ratings to conservative sites and low ratings to some liberal sites. I have mutual friends of both…
I am particularly concerned over the reported government contracts given to NewsGuard by the Biden Administration as well as agreements with teacher unions to help filter or rate sites. The Twitter Files have shown an extensive system of funding and coordination between agencies and these companies. The funding of such private rating or targeting operations is precisely what I have warned about in congressional testimony as a type of “censorship by surrogate.” The government has been attempting to achieve forms of censorship indirectly that it is barred from achieving directly under the First Amendment.
Speech by Sevim Dagdelen, Member of the German Bundestag at
„No to NATO – Yes to Peace“-rally in Washington DC on July 7th 2024.
"In fact, Germany is the second most important arms supplier for Israel after the USA. From 2019 to 2023, 30 percent of weapons came from Germany. In 2023, the figure was 47 percent while the USA supplied 53 percent. I think that is irresponsible and a shame to send weapons to an ongoing war."
Jasmine Owens. The link between colonialism, exploitation, and nuclear weapons is seen most clearly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Eighty percent of the uranium used in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs originated from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the Congo was the number one supplier of uranium to the U.S., and the people of the DRC paid a heavy price."
T. Dovramadjiev, D. Pavlova, und J. Radeva. AHFE (5), Volume 263 von Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Seite 203-210. Springer, (2021)Cite this paper Dovramadjiev, T., Pavlova, D., Radeva, J. (2021). Information and Communication Technology Application in Healthcare with Computer-Aided Design of Immediate Partial Dentures. In: Kalra, J., Lightner, N.J., Taiar, R. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 263. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80744-3_26.