John LaForge

Armistice Day First

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“It gets harder to commemorate World War I, because of time and the public’s embrace of, or indifference to, a permanent war economy. About the Great War British novelist H.G. Wells wrote on August 14, 1914, “This is already the vastest war in history. … For this is now a war for peace…”

John LaForge
Published in: The Argus Observer, Antiwar, Nuke Watch Info, The Reader Weekly, Pagosa Daily Post, The Russophile, Common Dreams, Cranston Herald, Bainbridge Island Review
Date: November 8,10,11,12,14,2018
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Presidential Nuclear Nonsense

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“The Reagan Administration’s 1980s crazy talk of “winning” nuclear war with “only” 20 million US dead produced a lot of anti-nuclear activism — all over the world. In Europe, hundreds of thousands marched against the placement of US Cruise and Pershing II missiles in NATO countries…”

John LaForge
Published in: Counterpunch, The Sunburg News, Nuke Watch Info, Z Net, Transcend Media Service, Sentinel News, West Side Gazette, Sierra County Prospect, Gilmer Free Press
Date: October 24,26,27,31,November 14,2018
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The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg

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“The World Nuclear Association says its goal is “to increase global support for nuclear energy” and it repeatedly claims on its website: “There have only been three major accidents across 16,000 cumulative reactor-years of operation in 32 countries.”..”

John LaForge
Published in: Counterpunch, Rinf Alternative News, Nuke Watch Info, The Reader Weekly, Aletho News, Z Net, Gorilla Radio Blog, Rinf Alternative News, Sentinel News, Sierra County Prospect, Gilmer Free Press
Date: August 31, September 2,4,5,14,2018
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Don’t Call It an Explosion: Gaseous Ignition Events with Radioactive Waste

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“Last month’s explosive news from the safe, reliable nuclear deterrence folks is that at least four barrels of military radioactive waste either burst or exploded somewhere inside the Idaho National…”

John LaForge
Published in: The Reader Weekly, Nuke Watch Info, Counterpunch, Gilmer Free Press
Date: April 19, May 18,25,2018
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Maybe All Threats of Mass Destruction are “Mentally Deranged”

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“After Trump’s Sept. 23 bombast at the United Nations where he claimed the US might “have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” the propagandists in Pyongyang responded quickly…”

John LaForge
Published in: Antiwar, Rinf Alternative News, Bainbridge Island Review, Counterpunch, Sierra County Prospect, Nuke Watch Info, Gilmer Free Press
Date: February 21,22,23,March 9,2018
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