If you're not watching C-Span2 right now you're missing out.

[norml]

Dr.Helen Caldicott is on C-Span2 now.

The New Nuclear Danger:
George W. Bushís Military-Industrial Complex
Helen Caldicott
Revised, updated edition



Synopsis
On September 18, one week after the World Trade disaster, Lockheed Martin, the country’s leading manufacturer of conventional weaponry, nuclear delivery systems, and national missile defense, took a full page ad in the New York Times echoing JFK’s famous call to “pay any price... to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” The ad offered an unusually public display of what is typically the invisible hand and muscle of the arms industry guiding American sentiment and government.

In her uncannily timely new book, Dr. Helen Caldicott looks at the indebtedness of the Bush Administration to the arms industry and warns of the incredible dangers inherent in allowing weapons manufacturers to dictate foreign policy. Recounting the history of government collusion with industry, Caldicott shows how the merging of weapons firms in the 1980s created hugely powerful “death merchants,” including Lockheed and others, ready to lobby politicians and manipulate public opinion on behalf of their corporate interests.

Now, with unprecedented acts of terrorism fueling the American public’s willingness to grant its government broad power to wage war, the constant pressure from weapons makers to use military force—and by extension, buy more of their weapons—poses the very real threat of nuclear war. Enumerating, as a physician, the medical consequences of such a war, Caldicott demonstrates conclusively that the notion of nuclear survival is a complete fantasy, and that nuclear victory is an oxymoron.

In the same way that a generation embraced Caldicott’s hugely influential Nuclear Madness and Missile Envy, The New Nuclear Danger stands to educate, alert, and mobilize millions of young people and concerned citizens, who must understand the planetary threat posed by overly-aggressive nuclear scientific establishments and weapons industries in a volatile world.


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http://www.thenewpress.com/books/newnuke.htm

[Eloriel]

1. Thanks. Not sure I'm up to it, but I'll tune in and see.

I feel more in the need of some uprorarious, mindless, stupid comedy or something.

[Jazzgirl]

2. I'm feelin' the same way Eloriel.

I am so burned with all the crap these guys keep pulling every day. Its like a never ending cesspool of bullshit!

[norml]

4. The fweeper callers provide the uprorarious, mindless, stupid comedy

There've been quite a few calling in trying to hassel her.

She's answered their nonsensical rants well.

[librechik]

3. stupid freeper callers --"purple fingers"

the Dr.is sharp--nice repeat, C-span, Thx!

[carrowsboy]

5. YES! I'm watching!

Was flipping through the channels and found this about an hour ago.

The woman is BRILLIANT!

Love how the caller pointed out that the "abortion" caller actally works for Cheney and went on to describe how the administration is going to great links to control call-in shows and discredit people.

[norml]

6. I started this other thread because of the identified Cheney "caller"

I'm watching Dr.Helen Caldicott on C-Span2 right now.

It's a call in show and an earlier "caller" was identified by a later caller who recognized his voice as that of an aid to Dick Cheney.

It does seem like the While House has their best propagandists lined up to call in when they have someone they really want to pile on.

Their identities could be known by voice prints.

Shouldn't we record these "callers" to show that they use the same people all the time?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4407433

[jonnyblitz]

7. I think this has played before. I believe I saw it....

she is very articulate and does NOT hold back. I read the book a few years ago also. it's scary stuff.