Articles by Russ Wellen
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A Pox on the House of Nuclear Weapons
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus,
30 May 2016
In effect, the nuclear ban treaty will put a curse on nuclear weapons. A ban treaty imposes nothing on anybody, but demands, through its undeniable political and legal reality, that everyone re-evaluate and re-conceptualize nuclear weapons… Nuclear weapons become a collective international liability rather than an individual national asset.
→ read full articleGross National Happiness, Like the Gross National Product, Can Be Tracked by Data
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus,
26 Oct 2015
Gross National Happiness, which had its origins in Bhutan, has caught on with political scientists. … “We are not interested in deciding what happiness is – an undeniably difficult problem – but only in knowing if people are happy. … how much people find their lives to be positive and rewarding – in Einstein’s phrase, ‘satisfying’.”
→ read full articleFinally, Science Beginning to Prove Torture Doesn’t Work
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus,
31 Aug 2015
Expecting brutal interrogations to extract good intelligence is like “banging a hammer on a radio to get a better signal,” [Andy Morgan, a psychiatrist at the University of New Haven in Connecticut and a former intelligence officer with the CIA]. “It doesn’t enhance cognition. It only makes it worse.”
→ read full articleCaldicott Nuclear Disarmament Conference Frightening, but Inspiring
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus,
9 Mar 2015
Dr. Helen Caldicott’s nuclear disarmament seminar in New York City intrigued, educated — and scared the wits out of you.
→ read full articleFor Airstrikes on the Islamic State, U.S. Relaxing Drone Strikes’ Burden of Proof
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus,
13 Oct 2014
The standards the U.S. purportedly used to prevent civilian deaths from drone strikes have been relaxed. If you’re appalled at civilian deaths from U.S. drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan, prepare to be aghast at civilian deaths due to U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq.
→ read full articleThe Khorasan Group Creation Myth
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus,
13 Oct 2014
Glenn Greenwald’s report that the Khorasan group was hyped to mobilize support for attacking the Islamic State sounds credible.
→ read full articleIsrael Projects Its Own Nuclear Behavior on to Iran
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus,
5 May 2014
As they say in support groups, you’re only as sick as your secrets. To play armchair psychoanalyst, it’s as if by forcing Iran to admit that it tried to develop nuclear weapons, Israel will absolve itself of its nuclear lies. The fly in the ointment, of course, is that Israel has a nuclear-weapons program and Iran none.
→ read full articleEver Wonder Exactly Why the U.S. Keeps Israel’s Nuclear Secret?
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy In Focus,
17 Feb 2014
Hint: it’s not just the Israel lobby.
→ read full articleMissile Force: First Safety Violations, Then a Drunken Commander, Now Cheating
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy in Focus,
27 Jan 2014
Yet another scandal for the ICBM launch force at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
→ read full articleNo, Really, the Sarin Attack Wasn’t Assad’s
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy in Focus,
27 Jan 2014
A recent report by highly respected experts shows that it’s almost certain that the Assad regime wasn’t responsible for the sarin attack on the suburbs of Damascus.
→ read full articleAttacks on First Responders Transform Criminality of Drone Strikes to Sadism
Russ Wellen – Foreign Policy in Focus,
26 Nov 2012
The term “double tapping” fails to do justice to a military tactic that’s arguably sociopathic. Attacking those coming to the assistance of the injured, which the military calls “double tapping” and doesn’t even attempt to hide, caught me off-guard with its cold-blooded cruelty. It’s not only used in helicopter attacks, but in drone strikes as well. A February article by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) provides more insight into this insidious practice.
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