The Samson Option stands in contrast to doctrines embraced by other nuclear powers, such as “Mutually Assured Destruction” (MAD). Developed during the Cold War, MAD posits that nuclear powers like the United States and the Soviet Union could deter each other from ever using nuclear weapons through the threat of retaliatory strikes—that is, if one nuked the other, the other would nuke back, meaning neither would survive. Unlike MAD, Israel’s Samson Option specifically threatens its non-nuclear opponents.

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https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-samson-option-israels-plan-to-nuke-its-opponents/

Countries that signed or ratified these agreements are obligated to immediately stop arms exports to Israel and to use political, military, and economic influence to stop Israel’s flagrant, escalating violations of international humanitarian law.
The World Court has provided strong, clear words denouncing Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. As during the Vietnam War, ordinary citizens can no longer abide with the lawless barbarism of continuing assaults against Palestinians.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/codepink/p/we-must-oppose-israels-dangerous?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Come January, the next president “will inherit confrontations with America’s nuclear rivals China and Russia, cold wars that are one mistake away from turning hot.”
Trump was indeed being disingenuous, but not for the reason that Sanger identified. When it comes to making the world more dangerous, Trump and his Democratic successors have pursued converging and in some cases identical policies – a point of unity that neither side ever acknowledges.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/mate/p/in-ignoring-voters-and-fueling-war?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

China Arms Control and Disarmament Association and China Institute of Nuclear Industry Strategy yesterday held a side event on NATO’s nuclear sharing and released the report entitled “Analysis of the Incompatibility of NATO’s Nuclear Sharing Arrangements with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” which calls into question the legality of NATO’s nuclear sharing.

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https://youtu.be/yPzGaNwJHiM

No daylight between Harris and Biden’s view of foreign policy in Palestine and Ukraine.

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https://scheerpost.com/2024/07/22/netanyahu-pays-declining-president-a-visit/

Finger wagging, setting fictious redlines and acting helpless and incompetent to end a genocide he’s funding has eroded support. Despite massive propaganda and censorship, Americans have broken through the mainstream news barrier, and the approval rating of Israel’s actions is now only 36%, according to a recent Gallop Poll.

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https://mfeldman.substack.com/p/biden-and-the-west-continue-to-beg

I wrote just the other day that Biden’s authorization for limited strikes on Russian territory with US weapons would immediately be followed by a push for even more escalations with strikes deeper into Russia, and here we are. Every time the warmongers get one escalation, they immediately start pushing for another. 

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https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/the-reckless-brinkmanship-with-russia?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Just a few years ago if I had told you that a NATO proxy would soon be attacking Russia’s nuclear defense infrastructure, you’d probably have assumed we’d be pretty close to another Cuban Missile Crisis-level nuclear standoff, and that it would be receiving high levels of alarm and attention. But this report is barely in the news, and hardly anyone in the west even knows it’s happening.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/biden-lets-ukraine-strike-russia?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

“East Bay Clean Energy has an A credit rating; they have a budget surplus of this year alone that is at $279 million; they are a $770-million-budget outfit,” said Tovar. “They don’t need to take anything from PG&E, much less nuclear energy, since the whole point of community choice was to do clean energy.”

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https://www.independentnews.com/news/regional_and_ca/tri-valley-energy-provider-will-decide-whether-to-add-nuclear-power-to-mix/article_102c38e4-18c5-11ef-b098-fb066441fe7e.html

As the much-vaunted “hub” of the NATO deployment against Russia, Germany would be one of the first targets and could be comprehensively destroyed in a nuclear war in the shortest possible time—with tens of millions of deaths.  

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/05/10/kvmt-m10.html