Avatar photoIn Memoriam, Randall Forsberg

Randy Forsberg, the founder of the nuclear freeze movement in the early 1980s, passed away last week after a long battle with cancer. I met her once. She was really great. In this interview — from the documentary, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, a thirteen-part PBS series on the origins and evolution of …

Avatar photoSyria Tidbits

Chris Nelson is now convinced of the reactor story, based in part on Chris Hill’s refusal to confirm or deny in Congressional testimony. … a former directly involved official concluded, “today Hill said he couldn’t say, or not. That says ‘yes’, because if not, you just SAY not!” Nelson-san is the much respected collector of …

Avatar photoSyria Dumps the Evidence

Mark Mazzetti and Bill Broad have two very good stories on the suspect site in Syria — one placing the leaks in context of Administration internal debates over North Korea; the other reporting on new satellite imagery showing that North Korea has wiped clean the site. I am sitting in an airport, but I thought …

Avatar photoBolton Lobbies Against North Korea Deal

Susan Crabtree in The Hill reports that John Bolton is lobbying against the North Korea deal: Other top Bush administration officials, such as former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have criticized Bush since leaving office. But they have refrained from meeting with large groups of lawmakers to lay out their opposition. Bolton did just that in …