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On The Hill: War Survivors Group Condemns Russia's Use Of Munitions

A Washington-based group that says it represents survivors of armed conflicts is condemning Russia's use of banned munitions in its war with neighboring Georgia.

Russia dropped cluster bombs on two towns in Georgia, killing at least 11 civilians and injuring dozens more, according to the group, known as Survivor Corps. More than 100 countries agreed to a ban on cluster munitions earlier this year because of the unacceptable harm they cause to civilians, the organization notes in an email.

Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran

According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies.

3rd Graders Gather Weapons and Plot to Harm Teacher (Photos)

Nine 3rd grade students from Waycross, Georgia have been suspended from school for allegedly bringing weapons to school with intent to cause their teacher bodily hard.

Laptop of mass destruction

It looks like, even though there isn't much meat on it, the US will continue to gnaw on the Iran bone. Let's just hope we don't crunch through and wind up with splinters in our mouth.

China: The Cause Of Darfur's Genocide

Exploring politics, human rights abuses, dictatorship, war, Communism and Fascism. This report on the illegal sales of weapons will open your eyes and ears. China's sales of arms and fighter jets to Sudan is the cause of Darfur's genocide.

Lethal Pinatas: Keeping Cluster Bombs from Kids

Because submunitions (miniature bombs nested inside the mother bomb) dropped by the US in Iraq, "some shaped like tiny bottles with short ribbons and others that are yellow with tissue parachutes, litter gardens and roof tops," according to UNICEF. The cute little "bomblets," as they've been called, are child magnets.

Iran: Certainty Declines in U.S. Intelligence Reports

Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, the U.S. government regularly stated in a variety of forums that Iran possessed a large undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons (CW) and a substantial production capability. . .

Is Intervention in Pakistan the Neocons' First Good Idea?

Better late than never.

God Forbid a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Should Try to Make Peace

Life as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate is not as awash in laurels as you might think. Aung San Suu Kyi (1991) has spent 10 of the last 17 years under house arrest. Meanwhile, Mohamed ElBaradei (2005) has been the object of an ongoing campaign by the administration to make him look like a fool.

A Child's Guide to Iran-US Relations

You remember history. It s that stuff that those who don t remember it should and those who remember it too much shouldn t. The US and Iran s mutual history -- all history, in fact -- can be broken down to two basic grievances that even a child can understand. In other words: He hit me first and it s not fair.

British Army deploys new weapon based on mass-killing technology

A new 'super-weapon' being supplied to British soldiers in Afghanistan employs technology based on the "thermobaric" principle which uses heat and pressure to kill people targeted across a wide air by sucking the air out of lungs and rupturing internal organs.

Bush "Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons"

In violation of the US Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2 billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb.

Official Touts Nonlethal Weapons for Use

The Secretary of the Air Force said the military is interested in using nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield.

Air Force�chief: Test weapons on testy U.S. mobs - Sep 12, 2006

Fire this man: "If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."