Abolishing Nuclear Weapons – No Utopian Dream

By Leonard Eiger & Glen Milner January 28, 2024 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history. The TPNW is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons, with the goal of leading towards their total elimination. It specifically prohibits countries from producing, testing, acquiring, possessing or stockpiling nuclear weapons. It also outlaws the transfer of the weapons and forbids signatories from allowing any nuclear explosive device to be stationed, installed or deployed […]

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Blue Angels: ‘Adrenaline-Pumping’ for Some, Health Issues for Others

by Glen Milner, Originally published by SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD ON AUGUST 4, 2023 The Blue Angels’ F/A-18E/F Super Hornets are returning to Seattle for a second year in this weekend’s Seafair air show over Lake Washington. Air show promoters are touting the newer jets as “heart-stopping,” “adrenaline-pumping,” and “the ultimate thrill-seeker’s dream come true.” The Super Hornets are 25% larger than the legacy Hornets they replaced, and they unleash a more powerful pressure wave than its predecessor. Records released through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show the potentially destructive force of the new Blue Angel jets. On Jan. 21, […]

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U.S. Coast Guard unlawfully establishes “no-protest” zone at Seafair as Peace Activists prepare to meet the U.S. Navy fleet on Tuesday, August 1, in Elliott Bay

Contact: Glen Milner (206) 365-7865 Mary Gleysteen (360) 265-1589 Day of the event (206) 979-8319 The U.S. Coast Guard, in its July 31 announcement in the Federal Register, unlawfully established a temporary “no protest” zone in Elliott Bay, blocking peace activists from entering or leaving Bell Harbor Marina at Seafair. This Coast Guard no-protest zone is in response to the annual Peace Fleet! event during the U.S. Navy Fleet arrival.  The Peace Fleet event on August 1 will mark the twenty-second year for demonstrations for peace, and the protest of military recruitment and the glorification of war at Seafair. The no-protest zone is unlike any other […]

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Still Blessing the Bombs: An Unholy Trinity

By Leonard Eiger (on the 77th anniversary of the Trinity Test) Trinity, understood by most of Christianity as the union of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in one God, was co-opted on July 16, 1945 when the United States government exploded the first nuclear weapon over the desert sands of New Mexico in what scientists called the Trinity test. Thus (officially) began the atomic age, and this unholy Trinity was its ungodly offspring. It was 5:29:45 AM at the Alamogordo Test Range, on the Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death) desert, in the test named Trinity, in which the […]

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Tipping Point – A Father’s Day Meditation

Editor’s Note: Doug Milholland wrote this meditation that he will read in front of the gate leading into the U.S. Navy’s Weapons Transfer Depot on Indian Island during a Quaker style Father’s Day gathering on Sunday, June 19th. Click here to read the original document with footnotes. Tipping Point – A Father’s Day Meditation Douglas Milholland 6/15/2022 Martin Luther King, Gandhi, led people to freedom, enjoining non-violent fearless hearts, doing the impossible – Being Peace, connecting with the Innate Worth of all concerned, inviting “the Better Angels of our Nature” to dwell amongst us, helping us mature from power over […]

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