CND Press Digest: Friday 12th January 2024

Posted: 12th January 2024

War In Ukraine/NATO

  • Rishi Sunak the Guardian: Neo-Nazis in the US no longer see backing Ukraine as a worthy cause.
  • As the Republican nominee race starts to heat up: Trump told European leaders that US ‘will never come to help you’.
  • Canada reverses course after blocking Russian anti-war activist’s citizenship.
  • Pay the tax of risk death? Volodymyr Zelensky has demanded Ukrainians living abroad return to fight against Russia or pay taxes to assist the war effort.
  • Russia’s Medvedev warns of nuclear response if Ukraine hits missile launch sites.

Gaza War

  • CND and Stop the War joint statement on the overnight decision by the US and UK to bomb Yemen.
  • The Guardian’s report on the overnight attacks along with an explainer on why Yemen has become part of Israel’s war on Gaza.
  • Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf has called for the UK parliament to be recalled over the air strikes in Yemen.
  • Italy declined to take part in military action against Houthis, source says.

AUKUS

  • Northrop Grumman is developing the Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) to be operated in collaboration with AUKUS alliance partners.
  • Taiwan ‘open’ to deeper AUKUS ties RAF Lakenheath 

    • Suffolk News mentions the upcoming Panorama documentary that will feature RAF Lakenheath.

    UK Nuclear Weapons

    • The BBC on the upcoming strike at the Atomic Weapons Establishment.

    UK Nuclear Energy

    • News item on the CND website about the UK government’s nuclear power roadmapwith comment from Kate.
    •  “Prime Minister Sunak and his ministers seem more like a group of clueless hikers too focused on the endless trail to their nuclear nirvana to see the turning immediately enroute which leads down the renewables path and the truly sustainable electricity future that Britain needs.” Nuclear Free Local Authorities offer their verdict on the nuclear roadmap.
    • The Telegraph found in breach of regulation over nuclear reactor.

    Best,

     

    Pádraig McCarrick

     

    Press and Communications Officer

    Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

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