Daily Archives: March 25, 2021

2021-03-25: News Headlines

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2021-03-25). Increasing Nukes and Trimming the Military: Global Britain's Skewed Vision. globalresearch.ca Campaigners for the abolition of nuclear weapons had every reason to …

RT (2021-03-25). Media blame Iran as missile hits Israeli-owned ship in Arabian Sea. rt.com An Israeli-owned container ship was hit and damaged by an Iranian missile in the Arabian Sea on Thursday, unconfirmed reports by the Israeli media claim. | The ship was reportedly struck as it traveled from Tanzania to India, Israel's Channel 12 reported. The broadcaster said the ship was targeted by an Iranian missile, but did not give more information. | The vessel in question was the Lori, a container ship sailing under the Liberian flag, but owned by Haifa-based company XT Management, other reports said.It was heading from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to India's Port of Mundra. | The route taken by the Israel…

Dave DeCamp (2021-03-25). Israeli-Owned Ship Hit With Missile in Gulf of Oman. news.antiwar.com According to Israeli media reports, an Israeli-owned ship

Jason Ditz (2021-03-25). Iran Warns IAEA Chief's Comments Damage Credibility of Process. news.antiwar.com While Iran and the IAEA seemed to be on good terms in recent months, a split is starting to emerge from weekend comments by IAEA chief Rafael Grossi, who is seeking "very technical discussions" on undeclared Iranian uranium, and sites that are not listed in the official documentation. | Israel, and subsequently the US, have long accused Iran of having secret sites, but so far have not come up with solid evidence any of this has happened, and have mostly sent the IAEA to repeatedly search through an old carpet factory, finding what appeared to be trivial amounts of unprocessed uranium, hardly definitive of anyt…

Norman Solomon (2021-03-25). The Urgent Need for a Biden-Putin Summit. counterpunch.org Last week's outbreak of rhetorical hostilities between the White House and the Kremlin has heightened the urgent need for a summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. The spate of mutual denunciations is catnip for mass media and fuel for hardliners in both countries. But for the world at large, under the doomsday shadow of nuclear arsenals