Sabotage Charges Dropped Against 85-Year-Old Anti-Nuclear Nun Megan Rice

Imprisoned over a year ago for a nonviolent protest at a nuclear storage facility, Rice was released Saturday after an appeals court overturned her sabotage conviction.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk

The Transform Now Plowshares from left to right: Michael Walli, Sr. Megan Rice and Greg Boertje-Obed. (Pax Christi) MINNEAPOLIS --- An 85-year-old nun, charged with sabotage and imprisoned for her nonviolent acts of protest against the military-industrial complex, was released from prison after an appeals court threw out a lower court’s

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Supporters Of Senate Iran Bill Swatting Away Amendments

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida wants to add a provision requiring the Obama administration to certify that Iran’s leaders have publicly accepted Israel’s right to exist, a nearly impossible mandate.

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By Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. speaks to supporters after being re-elected, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Columbia, S.C.  Senate proponents of a bill empowering Congress to review and potentially reject any Iran nuclear deal must first win a battle with some colleagues determined to change the legislation in ways that could sink it. WASHINGTON  —

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Netanyahu’s Great Fear: Iran Will Comply With Nuclear Deal

Netanyahu: “it will be impossible to catch the Iranians cheating simply because they will not.”

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Israeli officials have loudly and repeatedly condemned the Iran deal as insufficient, but those familiar with the situation have revealed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s great fear is not Iran

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Stalled Iran Nuclear Talks Extended

Both sides are scrambling to work out the final details of the proposed agreement.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz

From left:  Robert Malley, of the US National Security Council, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, US Secretary of State John Kerry, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

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A New Cold War? The Nuclear Threat is Escalating Beyond Political Rhetoric

Twenty-five years after the Soviet collapse, the world is entering a new nuclear age.

Thalif Deen
By Thalif Deen
Nuclear explosion

As a new cold war between the United States and Russia picks up steam, the nuclear threat is in danger of escalating – perhaps far beyond political rhetoric. Randy Riddel, a former senior political affairs officer with the U.N. Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) told IPS he pities the general public. “They’re being fed two competing

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Iran Focused On Nuclear Deal Despite Yemen Crisis

Yemen is “the hot issue of the day” and has come up at the talks but “it doesn’t mean that we negotiated about it,” Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister told reporters.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
From left: Robert Malley, of the US National Security Council, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, US Secretary of State John Kerry, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wait for a meeting, Friday, March 27, 2015 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The Iranian and US officials are in Switzerland to continue negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

From left:  Robert Malley, of the US National Security Council, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, US Secretary of State John Kerry, US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Head of Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

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