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A US Strike in Caribbean Leaves Survivors, Reports Say

News of the strike comes as the US military’s top commander for Latin America has suddenly stepped down.

By Sharon Zhang , Truthout, October 17, 2025

new, seemingly not yet publicly disclosed U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean has left survivors for the first time, reports say.

Reuters, citing a U.S. official, reported that the U.S. bombed what they claim is a drug trade-related vessel on Thursday. However, unlike the military’s previous five strikes, which were publicly disclosed by officials, the attack did not kill all of the people on board, the source said.

Other news outlets confirmed that the strike had not killed everyone on board, and that this was a first amid the current escalation, officials said.

Trump administration officials have not touted the strike on social media. Footage and information on previous strikes that the U.S. has said killed 27 people altogether have been posted online by military officials and President Donald Trump, with the administration seemingly using the footage — something not typically posted online in such a matter — as a show of strength. The posts announcing the strikes were typically made just hours after they occurred.

News of the attack comes amid the sudden announcement of the departure of the top military official overseeing the strikes in the Caribbean on Thursday. Adm. Alvin Holsey announced that he is leaving his role as the head of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees military operations in Latin America, on December 12.

Following the announcement, Holsey claimed that he would retire from the Navy. However, both a current and a former U.S. official told The New York Times that Holsey had raised concerns about the U.S.’s operations in the Caribbean, and two officials told CNN that “tensions had been simmering” between Holsey and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for weeks in the lead-up to the decision. Holsey’s departure from what was supposed to be a three-year post after less than a year is highly unusual.

“At a moment when U.S. forces are building up across the Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela are at a boiling point, the departure of our top military commander in the region sends an alarming signal of instability within the chain of command,” said Sen. Jack Reed (Rhode Island), the Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat.

The strike and circumstances surrounding it potentially show that the administration is carrying out a wider campaign of aggression in the region than it is disclosing.

CNN reported this week that one of the strikes in September targeted Colombian nationals, despite administration officials typically only referring to attacks on Venezuelans in public statements. The administration has reportedly authorized a wide-ranging assault on gangs in the region that is far larger than what has been publicly disclosed.

Further, media reports say that Trump has authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations within Venezuela and around the Caribbean.

Some information may also be obscured because the Pentagon effectively barred most of its dedicated press corps this week from covering the country’s largest federal agency.

The Department of Defense unilaterally imposed new, restrictive rules that sought, seemingly, to exercise control over journalists’ coverage and threatened expulsion. Rather than comply, dozens of journalists turned in their badges and left.

October 20, 2025 Posted by | USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Iran says restrictions on nuclear programme ‘terminated’ as deal expires

Iran also expresses commitment to diplomacy as landmark 10-year nuclear deal with Western powers officially ends

By News Agencies, 18 Oct 202518 Oct 2025, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/18/iran-says-restrictions-on-nuclear-programme-terminated-as-deal-expires

Iran has said it is no longer bound by restrictions on its nuclear programme as a landmark 10-year deal between it and world powers expired, though Tehran reiterated its “commitment to diplomacy”.

From now on, “all of the provisions [of the 2015 deal], including the restrictions on the Iranian nuclear programme and the related mechanisms are considered terminated,” Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Saturday, the day of the pact’s expiration.

“Iran firmly expresses its commitment to diplomacy,” it added.

The deal’s “termination day” was set for exactly 10 years after the adoption of resolution 2231, enshrined by the United Nations Security Council.

Officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement between Iran and China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States saw the lifting of international sanctions against Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear programme.

But Washington unilaterally left the deal in 2018 during President Donald Trump’s first term in office and reinstated sanctions. Tehran then began stepping up its nuclear programme.

Talks to revive the agreement have failed so far, and in August, the UK, Germany and France triggered the so-called “snapback” process, leading to the re-imposition of the UN sanctions.

“Termination day is relatively meaningless due to snapback,” Arms Control Association expert Kelsey Davenport told the AFP news agency.

Ali Vaez, the International Crisis Group’s Iran project director, told AFP that while the nuclear deal had been “lifeless” for years, the snapback had “officially buried” the agreement, with “its sorry fate continuing to cast a shadow over the future”.

Western powers and Israel have long accused Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, a claim Tehran denies.

Neither US intelligence nor the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said they found any evidence this year that Iran was pursuing atomic weapons.

Nuclear talks between Iran and world powers are currently deadlocked.

“Iran remains sceptical of the utility of engaging with the US given its history with President Trump, while Washington still seeks a maximalist deal,” Vaez told AFP.

On Monday, Trump said he wanted a peace deal with Iran, but stressed the ball was in Tehran’s court.

Tehran has repeatedly said it remains open to diplomacy with the US, provided Washington offers guarantees against military action during any potential talks.

The US joined Israel in striking Iran during a 12-day war in June, which hit nuclear sites, but also killed more than 1,000 Iranians, including hundreds of civilians, and caused billions of dollars in damage.

Angered that the IAEA did not condemn the attacks and accusing the agency of “double standards”, President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a law in early July suspending all cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog and prompting inspectors to leave the country.

For its part, the IAEA has described its inability to verify Iran’s nuclear stockpile since the start of the war “a matter of serious concern”.

The three European powers last week announced they will seek to restart talks to find a “comprehensive, durable and verifiable agreement”.

Iranian top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said during an interview last week that Tehran does “not see any reason to negotiate” with the Europeans, given they triggered the snapback mechanism.

October 20, 2025 Posted by | Iran, politics international | Leave a comment

Fascist Israeli minister Smotrich calls Gaza genocide a “real estate bonanza”

Oops, your real motives are showing

Skwawkbox by Skwawkbox, 19 September 2025, https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/09/19/smotrich-gaza/

“We paid a lot of money for the war, so we need to decide how to divide the percentages of the land” – these are the words of self-described ‘fascist and homophobe’ Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich as he discussed how Israel and the US plan to divide up Gaza between themselves this week.

“We paid a lot of money for the war, so we need to decide how to divide the percentages of the land” – these are the words of self-described ‘fascist and homophobe’ Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich as he discussed how Israel and the US plan to divide up Gaza between themselves this week.


Smotrich: Gaza is a ‘real estate bonanza’

Speaking in Hebrew at a property conference, Smotrich added:

The Gaza Strip is becoming a real estate bonanza.

The Israeli and Trump regimes – to be more accurate the Israeli-Trump regime – have long been discussing the US ‘Trump-Gaza plan’ to turn Gaza, after the extermination or expulsion of its rightful Palestinian owners, into a beach-front resort money-making project, a plan even accompanied by a deranged AI video posted by Trump to his social media.


We paid a lot of money for the war, so we need to decide how to divide the percentages of the land in Gaza. The demolition phase is always the first phase of urban renewal. We did that, now we need to start building.

Trump’s plan was first developed for him by the same people who came up with the so-called ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ whose ‘aid’ stations have killed more than 2,000 desperate refugees seeking food and wounded more than 15,000 –  a group of Israeli business people.

BCG, the consulting firm who financialised the plan, calculated that it would return to its backers four times the initial investment of $100 billion, according to the plan. The firm has since tried to distance itself from the plan, claiming to have sacked all the partners who approved it.

Smotrich should be in the Hague. No ifs, no buts.

October 20, 2025 Posted by | Atrocities, Gaza, Israel | Leave a comment

Deloitte to pay $34mn over audit work on US nuclear fiasco.

Deloitte has agreed to pay $34mn to investors who blamed the auditor for
losses stemming from the collapse of one of US’s largest nuclear power
projects, a rare legal settlement by a Big Four firm.

Former shareholders in the South Carolina utility Scana said Deloitte failed to spot red flags and allowed management to hide mounting problems with the construction of two nuclear reactors a decade ago. Scana shares tumbled when it eventually abandoned work on the reactors in 2017, leading to its cut-price sale to a rival utility and jail time for its former chief executive, who pleaded guilty to misleading regulators. The fiasco also pushed construction company Westinghouse into bankruptcy.

 FT 17th Oct 2025,
https://www.ft.com/content/f9fc0a78-ff10-40f3-8253-220d9acd56bb

October 20, 2025 Posted by | business and costs, USA | Leave a comment

It is now antisemitic to object to Israeli football hooligans causing violence in your city

Laura and Normal Island News, Oct 18, 2025, https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/it-is-now-antisemitic-to-object-to?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1407757&post_id=176482013&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=ln98x&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Aston Villa football club caused outrage when it banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from an upcoming UEFA Europa League match. The pathetic excuse was that West Midlands police had intelligence that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were planning violence. Aston Villa took that intelligence seriously, just because Maccabi Tel Aviv fans had been violent at other European football matches.

In previous incidents, local authorities sensibly lied to protect Israeli fans, and pretended local fans caused the violence, disregarding camera footage and eye witnesses. News outlets such as Sky News were quick to apologise for their initial reporting and correct the narrative. This saved them from getting the same treatment as journalists in Gaza.

I’m proud to say I’m one of the few journalists who has consistently stuck to the officially authorised version of the truth, which is as follows:

In Amsterdam, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were innocently chanting words such as “There are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left” and the all-time classic, “Death to Arabs”. Obviously, only a racist would object to such chants.

Video footage shows Maccabi Tel Aviv fans carrying chains, and terrorising train passengers, and threatening journalists, and beating up random members of the public who had nothing to do with the football match. Outrageously, some local people attempted to defend themselves against these fans.

As we all know, it’s antisemitic for anyone to defend themselves against Israelis, whether they be Palestinians, or local football fans, or random people who did not know what the fuck was going on.

When Israel attacks your people, the only non-antisemitic response is to throw your people under a bus and blame them for being attacked. However, Aston Villa decided to ignore that principle, provoking outcry from all the politicians who are owned by Israel.

The UK’s most prominent genocide supporters, such as Michael Gove, suggested the ban of Maccabi Tel Aviv fans meant “no Jews allowed”. Please understand, it is not antisemitic to conflate Jews with Israel when Zionists do it.

Reassuringly, Sir Keir Starmer was instructed to say the ban was the “wrong decision.” The prime minister tweeted: “We will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets. The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation.”

Just so we’re clear, Starmer meant that Israeli football fans can enjoy the game. He doesn’t give a fuck if you’re the victim of violence and intimidation.

Thankfully, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud has stepped in and demanded Maccabi Tel Aviv fans be allowed into the game. She has promised additional police patrols so Maccabi Tel Aviv fans can chant “death to Arabs” and beat up Aston Villa fans without retaliation. She will take full responsibility for any violence by blaming Aston Villa fans who act in self-defence.

The home secretary has confirmed that any Aston Villa fans who defend themselves will be extradited to Israel where they will get the Greta Thunberg treatment. She has demanded the chair and board of Aston Villa resign for trying to protect their fans. She has requested that Aston Villa be banned from all UEFA tournaments, and insisted we should boycott, and divest from, the city of Birmingham.

If Birmingham fails to straighten up its act, Mahmoud will not rule out airstrikes against Villa Park x

October 20, 2025 Posted by | Religion and ethics, UK | Leave a comment

Local ‘ceasefire’ area declared at Ukrainian nuclear plant for damage repairs

Without reliable external power, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power risks losing the cooling needed to keep its reactors stable.

Politico, October 18, 2025 By Mathieu Pollet

Repairs are underway at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after “local ceasefire zones” were established in the area, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Saturday.

“Restoration of off-site power is crucial for nuclear safety and security. Both sides engaged constructively with the [International Atomic Energy Agency] to enable complex repair plan to proceed,” the IAEA wrote in a post on X.

The Russian-occupied facility in southeastern Ukraine has been cut off from the national grid for four weeks — its longest blackout since the Russia’s invasion in February 2022. The plant has been using on diesel generators since its last power line went down last month…………………………………………….. https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-local-ceasefire-zone-declared-nuclear-plant-damage-repairs/

October 20, 2025 Posted by | safety, Ukraine | Leave a comment

  NUCLEAR MISINFORMATION.

Wendy O’Connor, 19 October, 2025

I’ve jousted on social media many times with Vince Ponka, NWMO’s “Indigenous and regional communications manager” over the fact that nuclear fuel waste can contaminate surface water in the course of a transportation accident, or groundwater in a deep geological repository.

Ponka maintains publicly that in a collision scenario the waste would soon all be “collected”, and with it, any contamination risk to water would be cancelled.

When I point out that the embrittled, irradiated fuel pellets have water-soluble Cesium-137 (among other radionuclides) on their surfaces, which would long since have been carried off in the water, he denies it or changes the subject. To bolster his position, in other conversations Ponka has said that, after all, this same waste is kept in cooling pools for many years and does not make the water radioactive.

I point out that the material DOES, however, contaminate the water with radionuclides, which is why the water must be filtered, and the filters themselves must be handled as radioactive waste. He plummily replies that see? Everything has been thought of by the nuclear industry – case in point: the filters have “safely removed” the contaminants, eliminating the problem.

I often wonder what others make of such conversations, and whether I should spend my time on them. I tell myself that there may surely be tens or hundreds reading them, who seek information but wisely do not step into the fray. It’s hard, not knowing, and not having a known “higher authority” that would take an interest in nuclear falsehoods

October 20, 2025 Posted by | spinbuster | Leave a comment

Criminalising an idea: the dangerous fiction of “ANTIFA, the organisation”

19 October 2025 Michael Taylor, https://theaimn.net/criminalising-an-idea-the-dangerous-fiction-of-antifa-the-organisation/

Let’s talk about a magic trick. Not the kind with rabbits and hats, but the political kind, where a complex idea is made to vanish, only to be replaced by a simple, monstrous caricature. The latest magicians? Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, and the broader Trump administration, who are attempting to pull off the dangerous illusion of criminalising ANTIFA.

The premise of their act is that ANTIFA is a unified, hierarchical terrorist organisation – a domestic version of ISIS – that can be neatly listed, proscribed, and its members prosecuted. This is a profound and likely deliberate misunderstanding. ANTIFA, short for “anti-fascist,” is not an organisation; it is a political belief and a movement, no more a single entity than “conservatism” or “environmentalism.”

To be anti-fascist is to hold a conviction. It is to believe, based on the brutal lessons of the 20th century, that fascism – with its nationalism, authoritarianism, and intolerance – is a societal poison. This is not a radical notion. It is a principle that sent Americans and Allies to fight in World War II. Believing fascism is evil is simply logical: it is a conclusion based on observable evidence and a moral stance.

So, how do you criminalise a belief? You don’t. Instead, you criminalise the people who hold it.

This is the heart of the trick. The administration and its allies focus exclusively on the most extreme, visible, and often condemnable acts associated with the label of antifa: black-clad individuals engaging in property destruction or street brawls with far-right groups. They amplify these images relentlessly, creating a brand. They take the broad, decentralised ethos of anti-fascism and shrink-wrap it into the fictional, singular “ANTIFA” – a designated villain for their political narrative.

This branding exercise serves several purposes:


  1. It Creates a Boogeyman: A tangible enemy is a powerful political tool. It unifies a base, distracts from other issues, and allows a leader to position themselves as the nation’s sole protector. The vaguer the enemy, the more potent the fear.
  2. It Equates Dissent with Terrorism: By framing anti-fascism as an extremist threat, the administration attempts to delegitimise all opposition. If you protest against policies you see as authoritarian or xenophobic, you risk being lumped in with a “terrorist organisation.” This has a chilling effect on the right to assembly and free speech.
  3. It Absolves the Actual Far-Right: This false equivalence is perhaps the most damaging part of the trick. While loudly condemning the violent fringe of the anti-fascist movement, the administration consistently downplays the documented, and often deadlier, threat of white supremacist and neo-fascist violence. It creates a moral parallax where both sides are presented as equally bad, obscuring the fact that one side’s ideology is inherently rooted in hatred and elimination.

The legal and philosophical implications of this are staggering. In a free society, actions are criminalised, not beliefs. Assault, vandalism, and inciting violence are already illegal. The laws to address them exist. The push to designate “ANTIFA” is not about upholding law and order; it is about creating a legal pretext to target political opponents.

When Pam Bondi and the Trump administration talk about ANTIFA, they are not describing a reality. They are constructing a narrative. They are taking a legitimate political stance – opposition to fascism – and attempting to paint it as inherently violent and un-American.

We must not be fooled by the trick. The goal is not to make people safer. The goal is to silence dissent and redefine the boundaries of acceptable thought. To be anti-fascist is not to be a terrorist; it is to be on the right side of history. The real danger isn’t a black-clad protester breaking a window; it’s a government that seeks to break the foundational principle that in America, people are free to believe, and to protest, what they see fit.

October 20, 2025 Posted by | Religion and ethics | Leave a comment

22 October – Event for UN Disarmament Week -The Scientific Future of Nuclear War

Wednesday October 22. 10am New York Time / 4pm Central Europe Time 

Registration

Join Youth Fusion and Dr. Maria Cetto, esteemed Youth Fusion Elder and newly appointed expert to the UN Independent Scientific Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War. This critical initiative, announced by the UN Secretary-General, is currently working to assess the devastating global consequences of nuclear war and produce a report to guide international action.

We will explore how the risks of nuclear war and approaches to preventing it are perceived across generations and how scientific evidence and advocacy efforts intersect to inform public awareness and political action. Dr Cetto and Youth Fusion will be joined by Emilio Meryn, a young Cambridge physicist, and advocacy representatives, creating a cross-disciplinary and intergenerational exchange.

For more information contact Camilla Braito. 

https://www.pnnd.org/event/scientific-future-nuclear-war

October 20, 2025 Posted by | Events | Leave a comment

Coral die-off marks Earth’s first climate ‘tipping point’, scientists say.

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread bleaching and death of warm-water corals around the world.

By Jeff Tollefson, Nature 12th Oct 2025

Surging temperatures worldwide have pushed coral reef ecosystems into a state of widespread decline, marking the first time the planet has reached a climate ‘tipping point’, researchers announced today.

They also say that without rapid action to curb greenhouse-gas emissions, other systems on Earth will also soon reach planetary tipping points, thresholds for profound changes that cannot be rolled back.

“We can no longer talk about tipping points as a future risk,” says Steve Smith, a social scientist at the University of Exeter, UK, and a lead author on a report released today about how close Earth is to reaching roughly 20 planetary tipping points. “This is our new reality.”

Temperature spike

Led by Smith and other scientists at the University of Exeter, the report assesses the risk of breaching tipping points such as ice-sheet collapse, rising seas and dieback of the Amazon rainforest. It also discusses progress towards various positive tipping points focused on social and economic change, such as the adoption of clean energy.

The group’s first such assessment, released less than two years ago, raised alarms but did not officially declare that any climate tipping points had been reached. In the past few years, however, global temperatures have surged, sparking concerns among some scientists that global warming is accelerating and could lead to even more widespread impacts in the coming decades than the changes that have already been recorded.

The impact on coral reefs has been particularly severe in the past two years , pushing these ecosystems to their tipping point, the researchers say. The warming waters have caused corals across the globe to bleach, a process that occurs when the organisms expel the symbiotic algae that provide them with nutrients, oxygen and vibrant colours. The fourth global bleaching event in the past few decades began in January 2023, and researchers estimate that it has affected more than 84% of the planet’s coral ecosystems.

The initial tipping-point report talked about large-scale threats to corals in the future tense, but the latest global bleaching event has made it clear that the crisis is now, says Michael Studivan, a coral ecologist at the University of Miami in Florida………………………………………
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03316-w

October 20, 2025 Posted by | climate change, oceans | Leave a comment

Bristol Airport generates record amount of renewable energy.

 Bristol Airport has generated a record amount of renewable energy from its solar arrays, totalling more than 1,425,000 Kwh so far this year. The
energy output is equivalent to the annual electricity use of almost 400
homes and already surpasses last year’s total.

 South Wales Argus 17th Oct 2025, https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/25552365.bristol-airport-generates-record-amount-renewable-energy/

October 20, 2025 Posted by | renewable, UK | Leave a comment

News that’s not from the nuclear-military-industrial-political-complex

Some bits of good news.  
An English wind farm became a marine habitat.   China’s air quality policies have swiftly reduced pollution, improved life expectancy

TOP STORIES

The Trumpanyahu Administration Is Already Sabotaging The Ceasefire. Chris Hedges: Trump’s Sham Peace Plan. Will Trump’s ceasefire plan really lead to lasting peace in the Middle East?– There’s still a long way to go.

‘WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?’- TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION.

Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel’s genocide & Trump’s war on Venezuela – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks9uDtd7Msc

Trump to Zelensky…’I haven’t got a weapon to spare’ – https://www.youtube.com/shorts/22IP2SaWxy8

President Trump’s radical attack on radiation safety.

Climate. Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Global climate crosses more dangerous tipping points, heading for ecosystem collapse.

Long nuclear articles – Birth defects in the Chernobyl Region.    Nuclear Power in Canada.   “Cumulative effects of radioactivity from Fukushima on the abundance and biodiversity of birds”.

AUSTRALIA.

NUCLEAR ITEMS

ART and CULTURE. The play’s the thing. “A House of Dynamite”: Battling a nuclear nightmare – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wpw2QHJNco
ATROCITIES. More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect. Israeli Soldiers Torched Food, Homes, and a Critical Sewage Treatment Plant in the Wake of Ceasefire Announcement. Israel Returns Palestinian Prisoners’ Bodies With ‘Signs of Torture, Mutilation, and Execution’ Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace.

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg.,

ECONOMICS.

EDUCATION. Exposed! The University of Sheffield’s role in Britain’s nuclear weapons.
EMPLOYMENT. Key US nuclear agency to send 80% of workforce home as shutdown drags on. Italy’s Second General Strike for Gaza Brought 2 Million Workers into the Streets.
ENERGY. ‘Solar for All’ should mean just that. Why big tech’s nuclear plans could blow up. How productivity gains could slash energy demand by a quarter by 2050.
ENVIRONMENT. Boldness is needed to take on toxicity of nuclear power – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/13/1-b1-boldness-is-needed-to-take-on-toxicity-of-nuclear-power/
ETHICS and RELIGION. PATRICK LAWRENCE: Let Us Now Bury the Truth (Again).

EVENTS.
 URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Help Protect the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board! International Repair Day 2025 will focus on software obsolescence

HEALTH. Radiation. Generational RADIATION IMPACT Project
HUMAN RIGHTS. The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal
LEGAL. NFLAs join European anti nuclear groups in urging appeal in taxonomy case.

MEDIA.

OPPOSITION to NUCLEAR [and to allied technologies]. Campaigners warn of ‘dangerous experiment’ as nuclear plans face backlash.

Mainers: you have a chance to nip this Wiscasset data center idea in the bud.

They Fought Amazon’s $3.6B AI Data Center.

POLITICS.
Trump Keeps Admitting That He Is Bought And Owned By The World’s Richest Israeli
MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.

Labour investing in nuclear due to fear of Scottish independence– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/14/2-b1-labour-investing-in-nuclear-due-to-fear-of-scottish-independence/
‘Scotland will not be UK’s nuclear playground’, says Kate Forbes.
Exempt charities from nuclear levy on energy bills, UK government is urged.

The not-so-secret history of Netanyahu’s support for Hamas.
POLITICS INTERNATIONAL and DIPLOMACY. 
Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide
Israeli Government Votes to Implement Trump Peace Plan for Gaza as Hamas Pledges to Uphold It .
Yemen’s Houthis To ‘Monitor’ Israel Compliance With Gaza Ceasefire Deal.

Peace in the Middle East and the defeat in Ukraine will prove extremely embarrassing for Britain.

 Worlds Extinguished: Hostage Returns, Central Casting and the Gaza Ceasefire.
Moniz’s Proposal for a Regional Nuclear Consortium with Iran.
Monique Barbut, Minister for Ecological Transition, raises doubts among nuclear industry– ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/17/1-b1-monique-barbut-minister-for-ecological-transition-raises-doubts-among-nuclear-industry/

Outsized and Eccentric: The Farce Behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
 The Nobel that wasn’t Trump’s: Why Oslo chose a Venezuelan rebel over a peacemaker.
SAFETY. Gravelines: the  Safety Expertise Department of ASNR’s damning opinion calls into question the EPR2 – ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/?p=320225
Be prepared: Time to consider emergency planning at Llynfi nuclear site.

Work to restore link to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant begins this week, Russian official says. The UN nuclear watchdog seeks a local truce to restore power to the Zaporizhzhia plant.
SECRETS and LIES. How Jared Kushner Played Trump to Grease Own Pocket: Wolff. Democratic lawmakers request probe into Jared Kushner after Reuters Saudi report.
Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show.
Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel’s genocide & Trump’s war on Venezuela. 
Grossi says progress made on restoring Zaporizhzhia power.  
The £1m man: why did Boris Johnson take his donor to Ukraine?
SPINBUSTER. Idle boasts and blatant lies: Debunking Trump’s egregious distortions in Knesset speech.
Small reactors, big problems: the nuclear mirage behind AI’s energy hype.
TECHNOLOGY. Nuclear: Flamanville EPR unable to resolve all its technical problems.
WASTES.
 Decommissioning. The astronomic costs of decommissioning Sellafield . 
TEPCO weighs scrapping 2 reactors at Niigata nuclear power plant .
Holtec Backs Down, Reveals Achilles’ Heel For U.S. Nuclear Resurgence.
The end of support for Windows 10 is creating an e-waste disaster.
WAR and CONFLICT. Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza. Israeli Defense Minister Says IDF Will Destroy Gaza Tunnels Once Hamas Releases Israeli Captives.

Trump Says He’s Mulling Land Strikes On Venezuela, Confirms CIA Covert Ops. Trump’s military escalation against Venezuela repeats the Iraq War blueprint.
WEAPONS and WEAPONS SALES.
 Trump downplays hopes he will supply Ukraine with US missiles after meeting with Zelenskyy.
Putin and Trump, between the war of deadly Tomahawks and the peace of disarmament “START 3″ALSO AT https://nuclear-news.net/2025/10/15/2-b1-putin-and-trump-between-the-war-of-deadly-tomahawks-and-the-peace-of-disarmament-start-3/

Japan Weighs Nuclear-Powered Submarines Amid Regional Tensions.

October 19, 2025 Posted by | Weekly Newsletter | Leave a comment

They Said The Massacres Would Stop When The Hostages Were Released. They Haven’t Stopped.

Caitlin Johnstone, Oct 18, 2025,https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-said-the-massacres-would-stop?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=176485051&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Last year I banged out an angry rant about the way Israel supporters would yell “release the hostages!” at anyone who talked about the latest massacre of Palestinian civilians, saying Hamas was to blame for the killing because of their refusal to release the Israeli captives, and that it would all stop once the hostages are free. I’m remembering that essay today because the hostages are free, but the massacres are continuing.

On Friday Israel reportedly blew up a vehicle carrying a Palestinian family of eleven people, including seven children. The IDF gave its usual excuse for the massacre: the civilians were deemed to have crossed an invisible line into a forbidden zone which made the Israeli soldiers feel unsafe. They did this exact same thing constantly during the last “ceasefire” as well.

In my polemic last year I argued that the slaughter we were seeing in Gaza plainly had nothing to do with pushing for the release of Israeli hostages, and that even if it did it would still be barbaric to massacre children until your enemies caved in to your demands.

But two years of genocide have made it clear that the Israeli military was never killing Palestinian civilians in order to push for the release of hostages or force Hamas to cave in to their demands. The Israeli military kills Palestinian civilians in order to kill Palestinian civilians. The killing is the goal, and it always has been.

We see this illustrated over and over again, in all sorts of ways. Israel apologists always argued that the only reason the IDF had destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system with nonstop hospital attacks was because Hamas was using those hospitals as secret military bases. But then multiple independent reports from western doctors in Gaza confirmed that Israeli forces had been entering the hospitals after attacking them and systematically destroying individual pieces of medical equipment one by one in order to make them unusable. Hamas wasn’t the target in those hospital attacks, the hospitals themselves were the target.

And now we are seeing the “Israel is killing people because Hamas has Israeli hostages” narrative debunked in exactly the same way the “Israel keeps bombing hospitals because there are Hamas bases in all of them” narrative was. The hostages are free, but the massacres continue.

None of which will surprise anyone who was paying attention these last two years. Israel’s genocidal intent has been on full display every minute of every day, and it continues to be even during this joke of a “ceasefire” where the genocide was theoretically supposed to be on pause for a little while.

October 19, 2025 Posted by | Atrocities, Gaza, Israel | Leave a comment

Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington…with X-Energy mini-reactors

COMMENT. At left -the picture of the as yet non-existent “small” nuclear project, to supply great steel towers -the so-called “cloud” of data.

The nuclear and AI industries abound with lies in their propaganda

Now they just need to get regulatory approval

Tobias Mann, The Register, Fri 17 Oct 2025

Despite technological and regulatory hurdles, Amazon remains convinced that small modular reactors (SMRs) are the answer to the cloud titan’s power woes.

Last fall, the house of Bezos announced a $500 million investment in SMR startup X-Energy. On Thursday, the e-tailer revealed that X-Energy’s Xe-100 SMR designs would eventually supply Washington State with “up to” 960 megawatts of clean energy.

“Eventually” is the key word here as construction isn’t expected to start until the end of the decade and the plants won’t begin operations until sometime in the 2030s.

The plan is to deploy the 80 megawatt reactors at a new facility called the Cascade Nuclear Energy Center outside Richland, Washington, in three phases, each totaling 320 megawatts of generative output. For context, xAI’s 200,000-GPU Colossus supercomputer uses roughly 300 megawatts of power when it is fully utilized. 

Amazon notes that X-Energy’s SMRs should be smaller, faster to deploy, and cheaper to operate than conventional pressurized water reactors. This is a common argument in support of the miniaturized nuclear power plants, but it’s worth noting that the tech hasn’t actually been proven out. In fact, higher-than-expected operating costs have already doomed one early SMR project.

And that’s not the only challenge facing X-Energy. The company’s SMR tech has yet to receive Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval, which is required before construction of the reactor itself can begin. But that’s not stopping Amazon from sharing 3D renders of what the power plant might look like when complete………………………………………………………………………………………………
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/17/amazon_nuke_washington/

October 19, 2025 Posted by | technology, USA | Leave a comment

Key US nuclear agency to send 80% of workforce home as shutdown drags on.

About 1,400 staff at NNAS, which manages America’s nuclear weapons stockpile, to be furloughed on Monday

Joseph Gedeon , 18 Oct 25, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/government-shutdown-nuclear-agency-nnsa

The agency that maintains the US nuclear arsenal will be sending home 80% of its workforce as the government shutdown drags through its 17th day and into the weekend, now the longest full funding lapse in US history.

House armed services committee chair Mike Rogers said in a Friday press conference that the National Nuclear Security Administration has now exhausted its carryover reserves.

“We were just informed last night that the National Nuclear Security Administration, the group that manages our nuclear stockpile, that the carryover funding they’ve been using is about to run out,” said Rogers, a Republican from Alabama. “These are not employees that you want to go home. They’re managing and handling a very important strategic asset for us.”

The NNSA, which operates as part of the department of energy, does not directly control operational nuclear weapons – a Pentagon responsibility – but plays a strategic role in keeping warheads secure and functional without conducting explosive tests. The agency also runs non-proliferation programs aimed at preventing nuclear materials from reaching hostile nations or terrorist organizations.

Around 1,400 NNSA employees will be furloughed without pay starting on Monday, leaving only 375 staff members designated as essential to continue working, according to an agency notice obtained by Politico. A department of energy spokesperson confirmed the approximate workforce numbers.

The spokesperson also said that NNSA’s office of secure transportation, which is responsible for transporting government-owned nuclear material across the country, is funded through 27 October, and added that Chris Wright, the energy secretary, will be at the NNSA site in Las Vegas on Monday to “further discuss the impacts of the shutdown on America’s nuclear deterrent.

Under the agency’s 2025 contingency protocols in the event of a shutdown, the skeleton crew on duty will focus exclusively on hyperspecific safety operations: monitoring nuclear materials, maintaining unique equipment, ensuring reactor safety for navy vessels, and continuing international nonproliferation work it deems essential for security.

But most scientific research, stockpile maintenance, and global security programs will be suspended, potentially creating delays in sensitive national defense projects that need rigid and consistent oversight.

The current impasse has now become the longest complete government-wide shutdown in US history, surpassing a 16-day funding lapse in 2013. Previous lengthier shutdowns affected only portions of the federal government.

Speaker Mike Johnson blamed Senate Democrats for the crisis, saying earlier this week the country is “barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats drop their demands”. Republican leaders are also now worried about potential airport disruptions during the upcoming Thanksgiving travel period if the stalemate continues.

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees, including congressional and agency staffers, remain either furloughed or working without pay.

October 19, 2025 Posted by | employment, USA | Leave a comment

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