http://disarmamentactivist.org Sun, 22 Feb 2015 01:30:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Andrew Lichterman I have published a Western States Legal Foundation Commentary, Ukraine: Time to Step Back from the Brink, available at the link below. Ukraine: Time to Step Back from the Brink, Western States Legal Foundation Commentary, February 2015. http://disarmamentactivist.org/2015/02/21/ukraine-time-to-step-back-from-the-brink/ by Andrew Lichterman I gave a talk at the Global Network on Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space annual meeting last weekend. Several people asked for a text, so I am posting the talk here (see link below). The talk touches upon current U.S. strategic weapons modernization programs, military space, and ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2014/03/22/vandenberg-air-force-base-local-and-global-connections/ Frame from video, Urban Shield 2012 Highlights, listed on Youtube as sponsored by the Alameda County Sheriff's Office. by Andrew Lichterman Urban Shield, a huge multi-agency emergency response drill, will be held at sites throughout the Bay Area from October 25-28, 2013. Although often presented to the public as useful for preparing ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2013/10/14/urban-shield-and-the-militarization-of-the-civilian-state/ Western States Legal Foundation has published an Information Brief on the international law implications of the current Syria crisis, written by Andrew Lichterman, with contributions from Jacqueline Cabasso and John Burroughs. The Information Brief, titled The Rush to Bomb Syria: Undermining International Law and Risking Wider War, concludes there is ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2013/09/03/the-rush-to-bomb-syria-undermining-international-law-and-risking-wider-war/ by Jackie Cabasso On August 27, the Oakland Police Department issued a community notice to make the public and media aware of an aerial survey that would be taking place over portions of San Francisco, Pacifica and Oakland through September 1, ostensibly to measure "naturally-occurring background radiation." According to the notice, ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2012/09/05/from-trinity-to-fukushima-measuring-naturally-occurring-background-radiation-in-2012/ by Andrew Lichterman Back in 2006, I wrote a series of posts about the "Divine Strake" test, a very large conventional high explosive test slated to be conducted at the Nevada Test Site (now dubbed/sanitized to the "Nevada Nuclear Security Site"), intended to simulate the effects of low-yield nuclear weapons. That ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2012/07/29/massive-ordnance-penetrator-design-and-deployment-another-routine-round-of-us-government-lies/ by Andrew Lichterman The Reaching Critical Will project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom has released a new report on nuclear weapons modernization. The report, titled Assuring Destruction Forever: Nuclear Weapon Modernization Around the World, can be downloaded for free and hard copies are available for $8 from ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2012/04/18/new-report-on-nuclear-weapons-modernization-world-wide/ Almost nine years after the start of the 2003 Iraq war, are once again seeing U.S. politicians and elected officials targeting an oil-rich nation in the Persian Gulf, claiming that it might soon build nuclear weapons, a claim based on sketchy evidence provided by sources we never ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2012/02/20/protest-us-double-standards-end-us-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-tests/ by Andrew Lichterman Oscar Grant Plaza, Occupy Oakland Early Tuesday morning, hundreds of police officers descended on the Occupy Oakland encampment, driving campers from their beds. The police arrested those who stayed, gassing some and shooting others with "non-lethal" projectiles. Their property was confiscated, the small temporary village, with its kitchen and ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2011/10/27/the-assault-on-occupy-oakland-democracy-as-collateral-damage/ by Andrew Lichterman These are some reflections on the occupations, having spent time at several and followed many others from afar. The occupations share similarities, but also have local characteristics. I can not speak for any or all of them, but as a participant in the debate they have sparked I ... http://disarmamentactivist.org/2011/10/21/on-the-occupations-the-demand-to-have-a-voice/