What’s the difference between Keir Starmer and Ian Murray? | The National Janet Fenton One is the UK Government’s Prime Minister, selected for the job by the Labour Party in the UK, and the other is the Secretary of State for Scotland in the UK Government, appointed by the Prime Minister. This week in New…
https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24975194.keir-starmer-exposed-truth-nuclear-deterrence Samuel Rafanell-Williams and Lynn Jamieson, Scottish CND FROM today until Friday, representatives of countries that have signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) will meet at the UN headquarters in New York. The meeting will also be attended by campaign groups, NGOs and charities from across the world who will contribute…
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Lawrence Witner writes in Counterpunch on 31st January 2025, covering how and why the TPNW came into force, and why this process may avert a nuclear catastrophe. Dr. Lawrence Wittner is Professor of History emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press.) The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Provides a Way…
Scottish campaigners are shocked but not surprised that the BAS has advanced the hand of the clock this year . https://www.thenational.scot/news/24895238.anti-nuclear-campaigners-call-action-doomsday-clock-moves
This editorial piece questions the theory of “deterrence”, recognises the critical nature of the current threat of nuclear war and notes the significance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-essential-to-prevent-the-total-devastation-of-nuclear-war?fbclid=IwY2xjawHeco9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWImXC577kmH7ti6lGP1Ybu_FSq5H86OWkXKujBM-9MDcBqmn1VgwkW4VA_aem_Z8ZDV13-IYLtR4BBDfPdSw
“It is in precisely all these areas that the millions committed to commercially volatile military infrastructure should be spent if the Government is serious about addressing depopulation in Scotland’s rural areas. It seems that the ambitions of the military industries, yet again, are winning out over the urgent infrastructural needs of Scots across the country.”…
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2024/12/b4023c77da8c-focus-a-bomb-survivors-nobel-prize-win-highlights-receding-nuke-taboo.html