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MASTER LIST of Articles 9/16/26 DWF NEWS
Subject line: Nuclear war made easy
Nuclear war made easy
Pentagon's secret plan: Reviving Cold War doctrines to lower the threshold for nuclear war
Joe Cirincione Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Big Lie was that 9/11 was done by Muslims. In truth, 9/11 was an inside job secretly orchestrated by Israel and powerful rogue elements within the USA
*9/11: All Roads Lead to Israel
Patrick J. McShay State of the Nation
A World Parliament? An Earth Federation government that could end wars? Media's silence protects the highly profitable global war system.
Fighting the Oligarchy's Stranglehold on the Media
Victor Pickard The Progressive
Jellyfish & heatwaves are paralyzing nuclear power plants
Climate change is exposing nuclear power's reliability problem
Valerie Arnhold & M.V. Ramana Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The rich fled NY after tax hikes? IRS data says otherwise.
Guess What Happened After NY Raised Taxes on the Rich? More Millionaires Moved In
Julia Conley Common Dreams
The cult of idolatry vs authentic religion
Israel and the USA versus the Jewish faith
Glen T. Martin Meer.com
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TO WHOM DOES THE MOON BELONG?
EARTH CONSTITUTION WATCH
[The opinions, viewpoints, and conclusions expressed in these articles are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of DWF NEWS. We provide space for diverse perspectives to encourage open dialogue and informed discussion.]
Earth Federation activist J.C. sent to DWF NEWS this powerful picture correcting President Trump regarding who "owns" the moon. J.C. writes:
🌕🚨 TRUMP SAYS: “THE MOON IS OURS.”
But the question is: To whom does the Moon really belong?
🇺🇸 The United States?
🇨🇳 China?
🇷🇺 Russia?
❌ NO!
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty establishes that no nation may appropriate the Moon as sovereign territory.
And the Constitution for the Federation of Earth goes even further:
🌕 Article 4.25: establishes global jurisdiction over the Moon.
🌍 Article 16.1.1: establishes that World Territories belong to all the peoples of Earth.
🚀 Article 16.2.4: proposes that the exploration of outer space must be under global direction and control.
That is why our answer is clear:
TRUMP: THE MOON IS NOT “OURS.”
THE MOON BELONGS TO EVERYONE. 🌍🌕
Humanity does not need to repeat in space the same mistakes made on Earth: borders, territorial appropriation, competition between powers, and new forms of imperialism.
We need something different:
🌎 A Global Earth Federation.
🌕 A Moon as a World Territory.
🚀 A space for all humanity.
Humanity's next frontier should not belong to any single nation.
FROM COMPETITION BETWEEN NATIONS TO COOPERATION AMONG HUMANITY. Global treaties and the Earth Constitution make it clear: Outer space is not imperial territory.
Federation of Earth
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Nuclear war made easy
Pentagon's secret plan: Reviving Cold War doctrines to lower the threshold for nuclear war
Joe Cirincione Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war. ...
Military services eager to acquire what they believed were the weapons of the future, coupled with corporations eager to develop them, led to the rapid production of atomic munitions for every conceivable military purpose. The Navy had nuclear torpedoes and depth charges; the Army had nuclear artillery and short-, medium-, and intermediate-range missiles; the Air Force got nuclear air-to-air missiles and multiple types of air-dropped bombs. By the early 1960s, the US military even deployed small “backpack nukes,” or Special Atomic Demolition Munitions, designed to be carried by one or two soldiers, as well as what might be the oddest of all: a nuclear “bazooka” called the Davy Crockett recoilless gun that fired a small nuclear weapon about a mile.
A review nobody will see. Early indications suggest that the nuclear strategy review the Pentagon is conducting will call for new weapons to fill every niche of the so-called escalatory ladder. As Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby explained in a speech in August, the main point of the review is “adding more options.” This means President Trump, who already has sole, unfettered authority to launch thousands of nuclear weapons on a moment’s notice, will soon have more types of weapons he could choose to launch.
This dangerous transition is already underway. The first Trump administration pushed through the deployment of the W76-2 warhead for the Trident ballistic missiles carried on strategic submarines. In contrast to the massive 455-kiloton W88 warheads on most of these missiles, one or two of the 20 missiles on each of the 14 deployed subs now carry this atomic bomb with an 8-kiloton yield, about half the size of the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The idea is that a president would be more willing to use a small nuclear weapon than a huge city-killer.
But they never explain exactly where and how these new weapons would be used. Or why these weapons will make the United States safer when almost every war game run on the use of tactical nuclear weapons rapidly escalates to global war. More recent war games involving artificial intelligence find that AI models escalate to global war 95 percent of the time. ...
Some of this pushback has already begun. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andreas Kluth warns that “tactical nukes are a gateway drug to Armageddon.” Any conflict could quickly escalate into a nuclear war. “Adding tactical nukes back into the arsenals and war plans of the US or any power is the wrong answer to today’s conflicts.” READ MORE
https://thebulletin.org/2026/09/pentagons-secret-plan-reviving-cold-war-doctrines-to-lower-the-threshold-for-nuclear-war/
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The Big Lie was that 9/11 was done by Muslims. In truth, 9/11 was an inside job secretly orchestrated by Israel and powerful rogue elements within the USA
*9/11: All Roads Lead to Israel
Patrick J. McShay State of the Nation
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911 was an Israeli Mossad/CIA production. Every bit of it was scripted, and the so-called terrorists were likely patsies who were paid for a job and disappeared. There was never a hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan; Bush went in there and took over the Poppy fields.
The masterminds of 911 weren’t Osama bin Laden or Khalid Sheik Mohammed; they were powerful Israelis working with powerful American Zionists in league with influential American dual Israeli citizens. The Mossad and the CIA both had proven prior knowledge of the attack. When you have the facts, you have to ask where the Islamic terrorists fit in all of this. They don’t. At this point, it is unconscionable that anyone in this country still believes that Osama bin Laden and a ragtag group of hard-partying fake jihadists were behind 9/11.
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In the months leading up to the 9/11 attack, the largest elevator modernization in the World took place in the Twin Towers. This could also be how the perps gained access to the tower’s inner core and wired them to blow. The official narrative that “Fire melted the thick steel support beams and caused the floors of the two 110-story twin towers to pancake” is ridiculous, as the fires from the initial explosion died out very quickly.
An article titled “9/11: Just A Few Young Men In The WTC In 2001”, shows the so-called Israeli art students who took over the 90th and 91st floor of the World Trade Center in New York on January 2nd, 2001, to be demolition experts who were photographed in the Twin Towers before 9/11, next to boxes of detonation fuses and other controlled demolition materials. This access was obtained through a friendly Jewish organization, and it didn’t hurt that the Bush Crime Family controlled the security of the entire World Trade Center complex. See this: https://stateofthenation.co/?p=133275
Three months before the 9/11 attacks, NORAD ran a full-blown terror simulation featuring Saudi boogyman Osama bin Laden, a known CIA asset, attacking an American city using planes and drones. It’s no wonder every media member on the planet had Osama bin Laden’s picture the morning of 911. In the years before 911, the threat of terrorism was a subject covered daily by every network. They were programming us for what they had planned.
Jewish billionaires and developers Larry Silverstein and Israeli dual citizen Frank Lowy signed a 99-year lease with the New York Port Authority for the asbestos-riddled World Trade Center Complex just 6 weeks before the attacks on 9/11 that killed 2606 people. Ronald Lauder approved the sale for the state. He was also the longtime head of the World Jewish Congress, and he has been described as “The man most responsible for Benjamin Netanyahu’s rise to political prominence.”
Lauder, along with Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, is connected to Israeli Intelligence and was part of Les Wexner’s Mega Group, also associated with Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.. Also involved in the negotiations was Lewis Eisenberg, a board member of the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) Federation of New York, the biggest Israel fundraising body in America.
Silverstein, a good friend of Bibi Netanyahu, would be awarded a $4.55 billion insurance payout despite only putting up $14 million of his own money to purchase the property. Frank Lowy was once a member of Israel’s Golani Brigade, and he was a member of the Jewish underground terrorist group Haganah. The Chairman of the Port Authority, Eisenberg, was another friend of Netanyahu. Silverstein also owned Building #7, which would collapse at free-fall speed at 5:20 on 911.
...the BBC cast doubt on the official government story early on by reporting on September 23, 2001 that five of the nineteen ‘hijackers’ had turned up alive and well in places like Saudi Arabia and Morocco, and had been nowhere near New York City or Washington D.C. on the morning of 9/11 Accused Hijacker Mohammed Atta’s father said his son called him after 911.
Osama bin Laden was on the CIA payroll in the 1980s, and they’ve always known where he was.
911 was good for Netanyahu because 911 was the trigger that would set off an agenda planned years before with a group of influential Jewish and Christian Zionists who now surrounded America’s new President, George W. Bush. READ THE FULL STORY
*Posted on September 11, 2025 by State of the Nation
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=258875
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A World Parliament? An Earth Federation government that could end wars? Media's silence protects the highly profitable global war system.
Fighting the Oligarchy's Stranglehold on the Media
Victor Pickard The Progressive
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The Trump 2.0 era has intensified a deeply entrenched pathology in the American media system: concentrated corporate ownership. During less perilous times, legitimate concerns about a few corporations capturing so much of our news and information have often been dismissed as conspiracy theories and paranoia. But Donald Trump and his coterie of plutocrats have made our media oligarchy problem acutely evident and impossible to ignore.
Constant controversies—from government and corporate censorship of television comedians like Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert to the algorithmic and editorial abuses of Elon Musk’s X and Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post—remind us why media ownership holds such high stakes for any semblance of democracy. Meanwhile, rightwing nepotistic dynasties like the Murdochs and the Ellisons hold inordinate influence over what millions of people can see, hear, and read in their daily media.
Our current media system is simply incompatible with democracy, making structural media reform an urgent priority. This includes unwinding previously approved and pending mergers—exhibit A being Paramount Skydance’s potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (which owns CNN and HBO, among other key holdings)—as well as trust-busting corporate media behemoths by forcing them to divest major components of their sprawling conglomerates. READ MORE
https://scheerpost.com/2026/09/13/fighting-the-oligarchys-stranglehold-on-the-media/
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Jellyfish & heatwaves are paralyzing nuclear power plants
Climate change is exposing nuclear power's reliability problem
Valerie Arnhold & M.V. Ramana Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Climate change is exposing nuclear power’s reliability problem
One of nuclear energy’s biggest selling points is its claims of reliability. “Nuclear energy is the only large-scale power source that can be tapped in even the most extreme weather conditions, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” boasts the American energy company Constellation. “Nuclear power plants are very reliable, and can run for many months without interruption, providing large amounts of clean electricity, regardless of the time of day, the weather, or the season,” says the World Nuclear Association. ...
Over the next few months, several countries in Europe had to shut down nuclear plants because of hot weather and drought—proving that nuclear power does, indeed, care about the weather. Coming at a time when demand for electricity was high, these countries were faced with an imminent failure of the electricity grid. Citizens and businesses in Hungary and Romania had to reduce their consumption. Ironically, it was solar power—often critiqued by nuclear boosters as unreliable—that provided additional electricity and staved off shortages in some countries. ...
WARNING: JELLYFISH on the loose
Heat and drought aren’t the only challenges to securing enough water for cooling. The long list of nuclear facilities that have been forced to shut down after jellyfish clogged water intake pipes includes Scotland’s Torness nuclear plant in 2011 and 2021; South Korea’s Hanul nuclear plant in 2021; St. Lucie nuclear plant in Florida in 2011; Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California in 2008, and many more. Following the shutdown of the Gravelines nuclear plant in France last year, operator EDF invested more than 1.5 million euros to surveil jellyfish populations in the North Sea. Despite continuous monitoring, the arrival of thousands of jellyfish led to the shutdown of three reactors at the Gravelines nuclear plant yet again this summer. Jellyfish swarms are expected to become more frequent as climate change intensifies, for multiple reasons.
If too little water is a problem for nuclear reactors, too much water—hurricanes and floods, for instance—is also a problem. When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the United States in 2012, the Salem-1 reactor in New Jersey had to be shut down “after debris blocked its cooling water intakes and caused four of its six circulating water pumps to stop working.” READ MORE
https://thebulletin.org/2026/09/climate-change-is-exposing-nuclear-powers-reliability-problem/
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The rich fled NY after tax hikes? IRS data says otherwise.
Guess What Happened After New York Raised Taxes on the Rich? More Millionaires Moved In
Julia Conley Common Dreams
“Tax flight is nothing more than a myth, and should be given as much credence as flat-earthers.”
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The threats came in a steady stream last year from Fox News, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, and Gristedes grocery chain CEO John Catsimatidis, who insisted that wealthy New York City residents were “panicking” at the possibility that then-state Rep. Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, could become the mayor and ensure rich locals pay more in taxes to help fund crucial services.
“It only takes a handful of successful people to leave to decimate the city’s tax base,” cautioned Ackman, while Catsimatidis suggested many rich New Yorkers would likely join him in fleeing to “the promised land”: Florida, which has no state income tax.
But the progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative said Thursday that new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data should be “the final nail in the coffin” of the evidence-free, perennial claim that higher taxes cause wealthy residents to leave their cities and states.
Poking a giant hole in the persistent theory that wealthy people won’t want to live in states that require more from them in taxes, the number of New Yorkers reporting more than $1 million in income grew by about 3% after the tax rate was raised, the SOI data shows. READ MORE
https://www.commondreams.org/news/nyc-second-home-tax?utm_source=Common+Dreams
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The cult of idolatry vs authentic religion
Israel and the USA versus the Jewish faith
Glen T. Martin Meer.com
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As a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Radford University in Virginia, one of my areas of scholarship was Philosophy of Religion and the study of World Religions. When I taught the course in World Religions, my emphasis was on Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Although, in fact, historically all of these religions exerted powerful influences over the governing systems in the areas and centuries where they were dominant, all of these five religions also envisioned a relation of human persons to an ultimate dimension that far transcends any identification with an emperor, king, or nation-state governing system. ...
I could cite excellent works that illustrate my claims regarding each of these religions. However, here I want to focus on Judaism in relation to the state of Israel and the nation-state called the USA. The three main Western religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) recognize the Ten Commandments as authoritative. The first four of these commandments describe the proper relation between humans and God; the last six (between humans) follow as a consequence of the first four (“Thou shalt not kill,” etc.).
Israel’s underlying slogan ‘Arab Raus!’ (Arabs Get Out!) echoes the Nazi screed ‘Juden Raus!’ (Jews Get Out!). The message is clear: ‘If you are not a Jew, then you do not exist! Your very alien presence is an abomination in the eyes of the Zionist God. So if you won’t leave politely we will hasten your departure with a few thousand bombs, missiles, and a rain of white phosphorous.’ That is the deeper meaning of Israel’s rape of Gaza” (2014, 134).
The political Zionists (whether secular or “Orthodox”) claim ideals and are apparently willing to commit any evil deed in the service of these ideals, as if any ends could ever justify these means. Similarly, the US military has bombed and interfered with the countries of Latin America more than 600 times since the Monroe Doctrine of 1823, and the US has destroyed or overthrown the government of country after country (many at the behest of Israel) since it became the world’s hegemon in 1945. Recently, with the urging and participation of Israel, they have destroyed the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as continued oppression of the Palestinians.
Any political solution to the world’s crisis must respect the “Infinity” at the heart of our human dignity, whose practical application is universal human rights. The Constitution for the Federation of Earth makes no religious claims, thereby embracing all religions as having equal rights to flourish. For the first time in history, it founds a global society on human dignity and universal human rights. This is not to identify the world democratic government as the source of dignity and rights, but rather to place dignity first and conform our institutions to this universal light of Infinity within our common humanity. READ MORE
https://www.meer.com/en/112216-the-cult-of-idolatry-vs-authentic-religion
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