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Nuclear news – but not from the nuclear-media-industrial-political complex

Some Bits of good news – 
Mexico slashed its poverty rate. 

 Green energy approvals smash records in the UK.   

The tide turns for seahorse on England’ South coast.

 TOP STORIES    How Will Ukraine War End?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6C93pCdCHA.   

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory. 

Europe’s nuclear power plants buckle under climate extremes. 

Famine Officially Declared in Gaza After 2 Years of Near-Total Israeli Blockade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VJOHp-OMw&t=79s

Climate. Wildfire smoke far more dangerous to health than thought, say scientists. Do heatwaves, wildfires and travel costs signal the end of the holiday abroad?

AUSTRALIA. 

• Ditch AUKUS Pillar One: It involves Australia too much in US strategy. 
• David Littleproud vows to take nuclear energy to next election and claims ‘no malice’ behind brief Coalition split. Nationals Leader David Littleproud says nuclear power policy ‘sensible’ next step. 
• Billions in Israel defence contracts put Australia at risk. Sky’s ‘War Cabinet’ manufactures panic and prophecy over proof. Jillian Segal’s report turns criticism of Israel into a punishable offence. 
• In Alice Springs everyone has an opinion on the Pine Gap spy base, but no-one wants to talk about what happens inside. US bases including Pine Gap saw Australia put on nuclear alert, but no-one told Gough Whitlam.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ATROCITIES. Children at gravest risk as full-fledged famine unfolds in Gaza.

CLIMATE. EDF May Cut Nuclear Output in North France as River Levels Drop. Why New Large and Small Nuclear Reactors are Not Green. Radiocarbon Dispersion around Canadian Nuclear Facilities.

CULTURE and ARTS. Trump Breaks Europe Over His Knee: Unprecedented Optics of White House ‘Losers’ Gathering’.

ECONOMICS. KHNP And Westinghouse ‘Holding Talks’ Over Nuclear JV For US And Europe.

ENERGY.  France ‘flexes’ nuclear output as solar reshapes European energy.Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much. German experience shows transition to renewables possible for Taiwan and the world..

ENVIRONMENT. The jellyfish are the symptom.Walmart recalls possibly radioactive shrimp after public warned not to eat.The Challenge for Atlantic Salmon -the Epic Journey Begins.

ETHICS and RELIGION. Zionism Is What It Does.

EVENTS. September 13/14 – Global Network 33rd Annual Space Zoom Conference– “NATO-US prepare for war on China

HEALTH. The Trump Administration’s Halt on Medical Evacuations From Gaza Is a Death Sentence for Palestinian Children. Workers who developed cancer while building America’s nuclear weapons struggle to make medical claims after Trump cuts. More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been detonated in the past 80 years: their effects still linger around the world.

INDIGENOUS ISSUES. LANL Silences Public and Tribal Voices While Pushing Radioactive Tritium Venting.

LEGAL. Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws.

MEDIA. What I Saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022 – Diary of an International Observer. Atomic Bill and the Payment Due. The Media Loves “The Experts,” Until it’s Time to Count Gaza’s Dead. Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR . Statements of support from international energy scholars for Taiwan’s nuclear phase-out.Angry Denver International Airport neighbors quash nuclear power idea in 48 hours flat.

PLUTONIUM. Trump plans to make Cold War-era plutonium available for nuclear power.

POLITICS. Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement plan. Taiwan nuclear plant re-opening vote fails as approval threshold missed. Taiwan votes on recalling opposition lawmakers and reviving nuclear power.Iran willing to reduce uranium enrichment to avoid British sanctions.

POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. Patrick Lawrence: That Big, Beautiful Summit in Alaska . RAY McGOVERN: Trump & the Seven Dwarfs. What really happened in Alaska.  Trump Says He’s Working To Arrange a Meeting Between Putin and Zelensky.French monitor: Ukraine, NATO provoked Russia in Donbas war. Ukraine’s best security guarantee is the peace NATO sabotaged.Jeffrey Sachs: The US Can End the Gaza Genocide Now. South Korea’s state-run nuclear power firm barred from North America, Europe over intellectual property dispute: Report.

SAFETY. Call for investigation into serious nuclear leak at Faslane.Mile High City sparks fury over plan for one of America’s busiest airports.

SECRETS and LIES. Why Zelensky’s main argument against peace is a lie.[SMRs]  Twin Trails of Treachery Expose – by Paul McKay. Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show. Revealed: The KGB plot to poison loch with radioactive waste... then blame it on American nuclear subs CND peaceniks were campaigning to ban from Britain. Never Forget The Lies They Told About Gaza: Never Forgive Them.

SPINBUSTER. Only Liars And Manipulators Say Gaza Isn’t Starving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLE0KQdFRJk

WASTES. Treasury criticises ‘unachievable’ plan for underground nuclear waste dump in Cumbria. Fukushima nuclear plant decommissioning seen overrunning estimate.

WAR and CONFLICT. Israeli Military To Call Up 60,000 Reservists as It Prepares for Gaza City Ethnic Cleansing Campaign. Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza: Americans Should Know This Too. Everyone will gain from a peace deal for Ukraine. Zelensky should meet with Putin…to surrender. Ukraine drone hits Russian nuclear plant, sparks huge fire at Novatek’s Ust-Luga terminal . Russia blames nuclear site attack on Ukraine as Kyiv marks independence day. Downed Ukrainian Drone Causes Fire At Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. Trump ‘angry’ about Ukrainian attacks on key Russian pipeline to EU – Budapest Kiev to replace soldiers with robots – top general.Those warmongering Europeans! WAR and CONFLICT. Israeli Military To Call Up 60,000 Reservists as It Prepares for Gaza City Ethnic Cleansing Campaign. Israelis Understand That Trump Can End The Nightmare In Gaza: Americans Should Know This Too. Everyone will gain from a peace deal for Ukraine. Zelensky should meet with Putin…to surrender.Ukraine drone hits Russian nuclear plant, sparks huge fire at Novatek’s Ust-Luga terminal . Russia blames nuclear site attack on Ukraine as Kyiv marks independence day. Downed Ukrainian Drone Causes Fire At Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. Trump ‘angry’ about Ukrainian attacks on key Russian pipeline to EU – Budapest Kiev to replace soldiers with robots – top general.Those warmongering Europeans!

WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES. Europe To Spend $100BN It Doesn’t Have, To Buy Weapons America Doesn’t Have, To Arm Soldiers Ukraine Now Lacks. European military-industrial output for Ukraine outpaces the US.North Korea has ‘undeclared’ ICBM base near China border, according to new report.Drone Technology and the Future of Nuclear Weapons.

August 27, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Weekly Newsletter