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FBI informant bragged about connections to Russian spies in secret recording Nuclear Disarmament

FBI informant bragged about connections to Russian spies in secret recording

Stefan Halper By Chuck Ross Daily Caller News Foundation It wasn’t long into his conversation with George Papadopoulos at a prestigious social club in London weeks before the 2016 election that FBI confidential informant Stefan Halper mentioned his links to several retired Russian spies. “I have a lot of friends…
bubmag
April 20, 2020
FBI Informant Bragged About Links To Russian Spies In Secret Recording Of Trump Aide Nuclear Disarmament

FBI Informant Bragged About Links To Russian Spies In Secret Recording Of Trump Aide

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a declassified transcript of FBI source Stefan Halper’s conversation in September 2016 with George Papadopoulos. The transcript shows that Halper name-checked several former Russian intelligence officials who he has met throughout his storied career.  The former Cambridge professor plied Papadopoulos with questions about the Trump…
bubmag
April 20, 2020
Russia sought China’s APPROVAL for missile test, US diplomat claims. His proof? They didn’t come to his Twitter to deny it Nuclear Disarmament

Russia sought China’s APPROVAL for missile test, US diplomat claims. His proof? They didn’t come to his Twitter to deny it

Ignoring one’s tweet can apparently not only spell the end to a teenage romance, but it can also be proof for high-profile geopolitical assertions. That is, at least, according to a high-ranking US diplomat. The recent secretive test of a Russian – presumably – anti-ballistic missile weapon has seemingly caused…
bubmag
April 18, 2020
Jimmy James Nuclear Disarmament

Jimmy James

Obituaries BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1481 (Published 17 April 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1481 John Henri James, known as Jimmy, was born in Lusaka (then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia). He was the youngest son of a Dutch protestant missionary and an English Methodist minister. He was educated in Kingswood…
bubmag
April 17, 2020
UK Government Urged to Grab ‘Huge Opportunity’ After Integrated Security Review Delayed by COVID-19 Nuclear Disarmament

UK Government Urged to Grab ‘Huge Opportunity’ After Integrated Security Review Delayed by COVID-19

In December Boris Johnson promised the “deepest review of Britain’s defence, security and foreign policy since the end of the Cold War” if he won the General Election. But the Integrated Security Review has been delayed by the coronavirus crisis. Rethinking Security, a network of peace and security experts, has welcomed…
bubmag
April 16, 2020
From the Archives, 1984: 250,000 Australians march for nuclear disarmament Nuclear Disarmament

From the Archives, 1984: 250,000 Australians march for nuclear disarmament

First published in The Age on April 16, 1984250,000 in arms protestMore than 250,000 Australians demonstrated for nuclear disarmament yesterday in marches that were bigger than the Vietnam moratorium protests of 1971.Front page of The Age on April 15, 1984 - "250,000 in arms protest".Credit:The Age ArchivesAbout 85,000 people converged…
bubmag
April 14, 2020
Donovan: ‘I waited to see if Greta Thunberg’s generation would have their own songwriters’ Nuclear Disarmament

Donovan: ‘I waited to see if Greta Thunberg’s generation would have their own songwriters’

Donovan, born Donovan Phillips Leitch in Scotland in 1946, was famous enough before he was 18 for the world to be on first-name terms with him. You don’t have to be a boomer to remember Mellow Yellow, although it may help if you want to remember his famous stand-off with…
bubmag
April 13, 2020
Bertrand Russell Nuclear Disarmament

Bertrand Russell

1. Russell’s Chronology A short chronology of the major events in Russell’s life is as follows: (1872) Born May 18 at Ravenscroft in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, UK. (1874) Death of mother and sister. (1876) Death of father; Russell’s grandfather, Lord John Russell (the former Prime Minister), and grandmother succeed in overturning…
bubmag
April 10, 2020