Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty - No Thanks!
Isn't it always the way? You read something in a book and suddenly you notice the same words and themes all around you.
So I'd just finished chapter two (Outlaw States) of Chomsky's latest book and, all of a sudden, I'm noticing that everybody is talking about the bomb again.
No mention of the NPT last night on the 10pm news. Discussion of whether spending 20 billion quid on new bombs was "against the spirit" of the NPT on the Today programme this morning. The view of the interviewee was that it was debatable but ultimately *not*...
Picked up the FT and found a single mention:
"Gordon Prentice, Labour MP for Pendle and a Trident opponent, warned that the chancellor could lose support among MPs in a leadership contest when Mr Blair quits. "If that's Gordon Brown's position, that's fine, but I won't be voting for candidates who have positions that are directly opposed to my own. We have an obligation under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to progressively disarm and what we're doing is precisely the opposite: enhancing our capability."
Brown homes in on targets with Trident stance, FT, 22 June 2006.
The FT is much more interested in Brown proving that he's as trustworthy a *reformer* as Blair and that BAE are cracking bottles of champagne today.
So I'd just finished chapter two (Outlaw States) of Chomsky's latest book and, all of a sudden, I'm noticing that everybody is talking about the bomb again.
No mention of the NPT last night on the 10pm news. Discussion of whether spending 20 billion quid on new bombs was "against the spirit" of the NPT on the Today programme this morning. The view of the interviewee was that it was debatable but ultimately *not*...
Picked up the FT and found a single mention:
"Gordon Prentice, Labour MP for Pendle and a Trident opponent, warned that the chancellor could lose support among MPs in a leadership contest when Mr Blair quits. "If that's Gordon Brown's position, that's fine, but I won't be voting for candidates who have positions that are directly opposed to my own. We have an obligation under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to progressively disarm and what we're doing is precisely the opposite: enhancing our capability."
Brown homes in on targets with Trident stance, FT, 22 June 2006.
The FT is much more interested in Brown proving that he's as trustworthy a *reformer* as Blair and that BAE are cracking bottles of champagne today.
posted by g33kThug at 5:31 PM
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