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The Nuclear Non Proliferation treaty review conference ends today at the UN HQ in New York with scant media coverage. Dr DAVID LOWRY asks why
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CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
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For the past three weeks the Nuclear Non Proliferation treaty (NPT) review conference has been held at the UN HQ in New York.
It is the most important conference of the year so far but has received minimal media coverage.
Let us hope the British media can at last give attention to this conference and the political nuclear fallout that will arise from the belligerently bigoted determination of the nuclear weapons powers to retain their self-appointed right to proliferate these weapons through so-called “modernisation,” while simultaneously berating and bullying all other states to refrain from seeking their own nuclear weapons.
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