March 6, 2012
Fukushima reactor facility fires A Meltdown in Communication: Nuclear Disaster and Corporate Accountability by Maria Tomchick A new report released by The Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation questions the safety of nuclear power, especially in the hands of private companies. A team of 30 lawyers, university professors, and journalists interviewed several hundred people involved with [...]
Tags: fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan, Masao Yoshida, Naoto Kan, TEPCO, Tokyo, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Daniel Ellsberg, David Swanson, George III of the United Kingdom, George W. Bush, History, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon, United State, United States Congress, United States Declaration of Independence, War Powers Resolution
Posted in Anarchism, Arab democracy, Arab movements, Australia, Australia and crimes against the indigenous, Australia and support it gives to Afghan war crimes, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in international war crimes, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Australian presence is the the Rudd dream, Australian support for Zionism, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Capitalism and debt, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, civil liberty, Corporate greed and excess, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dictators, Dissent, Drug Company Dependence, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Fossil fuel, Fukushima, Genocide, Gillard, Gillard and Labor; Masters of the Australian Crawl, Gitmo, Global capitalism and imperialism, Global Food System, Guantanamo crimes, Hillary, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Manufacturing Consent, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Netanyahu, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, oil and gas resources, Parliament, Peace Movement, Peak oil, Pentagon, people's protests, Predator Drone, President of the World, Propaganda, Protests, Psycopaths, Racism, Regulating Democracy, torture, Torturers are true Americans, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US public opinion, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War means war, War no reason needed, War on drugs, War on terror, Women abuse and targetting, Women and discrimination, Women and revolution, Women become tragerts, Women's issues | No Comments »
May 19, 2011
Trigger happy murderers in NATO are basically the new cancer on the block in the Middle East. These European invading barbarians know nothing but killing as far as the troops are concerned. Fresh from glory of several thousand years in the killing fields of Europe by air land and sea these new SS Regiments havea true obedience [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Bundeswehr, Hamid Karzai, middle east, NATO, Protest, Takhar Province, Taloqan
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Bertrand Russell, British Army, History, To End All Wars, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
Posted in Assange, Atomics Corporation, Austerity, Australia, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Bahrain, Bakunin, BBC, BDS, Bin Laden, Bolivia, BP, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, Climate, Climate change, Commentators, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Englehardt, Environment, Erdogan, Escobar, Escobar Escobar opinion thoughts, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fatah, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Fukushima, Galeano, Gaza, Germany new old politics, Gillard, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Guardian, Hamas, Hillary, Honduras, IMF, immigration, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israeli checkpoints, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Warlords, Japan, Japan Nuclear, Jason Ditz, Jewishness, Jordan, Koran, Kosovo, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, Malalai Joya, Media, melt down, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, Monbiot, Mothers vote, Nakba, NATO, Netanyahu, News, News of the World, news report, Newsweek, Nigeria oil, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, Pentagon, people's protests, Tom Dispatch, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »
May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
Tags: California, Higher education, Mexico, Mexico City, Noam Chomsky, Osama bin Laden, San Francisco, United State, University of California Los Angeles, University of Leeds
Posted in Aboriginals, Afghan Youth, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmadinejad, Air war, Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, anti zion protests, antiwar.com, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Armageddon, Art and general issues, Asia, Asia Times, Assange, Atomics Corporation, Atwan, Atzmon, Austerity, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bahrain, Bakunin, BBC, BDS, Bin Laden, Bolivia, BP, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, China, Chomsky, CIA, Climate change, Commentators, Consent, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy Now!, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Emails, Emma Goldmann, Englehardt, Environment, Erdogan, Escobar, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fatah, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Fukushima, Galeano, Gaza, Germany new old politics, Gillard, Gitmo, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Hamas, Hillary, Honduras, IMF, immigration, Imperial Project, Imperialism, India, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel diaspora and deceit, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israeli checkpoints, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast people's protests, Japan, Japan Nuclear, Jason Ditz, Jewishness, Jordan, Koran, Kosovo, Leon Panetta, Libya | No Comments »
May 3, 2011
Fukushima parents dish the dirt in protest over radiation levels Furious Fukushima parents dump school playground earth that may have radiation levels well above the old safety level Share592 Jonathan Watts in Tokyo guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 May 2011 16.43 BST Article history Parents in Fukushima are angry over rule changes which mean that school [...]
Tags: Friends of the Earth, Fukushima Prefecture, Greenpeace, Jonathan Watts, Naoto Kan, Nuclear power, Nuclear safety, The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Tokyo
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April 9, 2011
Fukushima: A ‘nuclear sacrifice zone’ Some experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster could become worse than Chernobyl. Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 08 Apr 2011 15:37 Email Article Print Article Share Article Send Feedback Experts warn that the situation will take months to stabalise and a large area could remain uninhabitable [REUTERS] Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Chernobyl disaster, Dahr Jamail, Japan, Nuclear power, Princeton University, Purdue University, Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station
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April 6, 2011
‘No safe levels’ of radiation in Japan Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is “too much”. Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 04 Apr 2011 15:46 Email Article Print Article Share Article Send Feedback According to the US Department of Energy, no level of radiation is so low that it is without health risks [EPA] In a [...]
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April 4, 2011
Japan nuclear plant to release radioactive water into sea Fukushima plant will discharge 11,500 tonnes of water into Pacific to make space for more highly contaminated liquid Share366 Jonathan Watts guardian.co.uk, Monday 4 April 2011 13.54 BST Article history Japanese police outside Tokyo Electric, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant where radioactive water is [...]
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March 27, 2011
Libya, Oh What a Stupid War; Fukushima, Cover-Up Amid Catastrophe By ALEXANDER COCKBURN The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. Let’s [...]
Posted in Air war, Atwan, Australia Politics, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bahrain, Capital, Capitalism, Counterpunch, Democracy, Egypt, Elites, Escobar, Fascism, Fukushima, Gaza, Guardian, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel diaspora and deceit | No Comments »
March 23, 2011
Now how can that be right? Almost from birth we have been told that salvation comes from above and as a result many many substandard people have held sway over both our opinions and ideas. But why is this so? Mainly because our parents had been very actively taught (propagandi sed) to believe that the [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Air war, Anarchism, Asia, Assange, Atwan, Atzmon, Austerity, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Bahrain, Bukowski, Capital, Capitalism, Chomsky, Climate, Climate change, Commentators, Consent, Counterpunch, Democracy, disaster, Egypt, Elites, Environment, Escobar, European, Fascism, Fukushima, Gaza, Guardian, Hillary, Imperial Project, Imperialism, India, Indigenous, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Labor, Libya, Middle East, Military, Monbiot, NATO, Obama, Palestine, Parliament, Personal, Propaganda, Qaddafi, Racism, Saudi Arabia, South America, Syria, Timor, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, UK Foreign Policy, UN, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, USA, War, War Crimes, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
March 21, 2011
As usual George Monbiot gets to the heart of the problems in Japan in his own way with a clear and concise view of the position from an environmental point of view. From what is circulating at the moment there seem little doubt that the Japanese power company in charge of the reactors has a [...]
Posted in Australia Politics, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Capital, Capitalism, Climate, Climate change, Democracy, disaster, European Foreign Policy, Fukushima, Guardian, Imperialism, Labor, melt down, Monbiot, news report, nuclear, Obama, Propaganda, radiation, UK Foreign Policy, UN | No Comments »
March 19, 2011
This seems to be the latest but that is subject to revision, change or deletion. Japan prays for success of Fukushima 50 in fight to save nuclear plant A fearless band of scientists and workers trying to stop a meltdown have inspired the entire country Share22 Robin McKie, science editor guardian.co.uk, Saturday 19 March 2011 [...]
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Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Bertrand Russell, British Army, History, To End All Wars, Twentieth Century, Wars and Conflicts, World War I
Posted in Assange, Atomics Corporation, Austerity, Australia, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Bahrain, Bakunin, BBC, BDS, Bin Laden, Bolivia, BP, Bradley Manning, BRIC, Burma, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Children in Palestine and Gaza, CIA, Climate, Climate change, Commentators, Counterpunch, Cuba, D Room, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Egypt, elections, Elites, Englehardt, Environment, Erdogan, Escobar, Escobar Escobar opinion thoughts, European, European Foreign Policy, Fascism, Fatah, Fisk, Foreign Policy, Fox News, Fukushima, Galeano, Gaza, Germany new old politics, Gillard, Gitmo disclosures, Goldstone, Greece, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Guardian, Hamas, Hillary, Honduras, IMF, immigration, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Indigenous, Indigenous Australians, Iran, Iraq, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israeli checkpoints, Ivory Coast, Ivory Coast Warlords, Japan, Japan Nuclear, Jason Ditz, Jewishness, Jordan, Koran, Kosovo, Labor, Leon Panetta, Libya, Malalai Joya, Media, melt down, MI 6, Middle East, Military, Military madmen, Miscarriage of Justice, Mission Creep, Monbiot, Mothers vote, Nakba, NATO, Netanyahu, News, News of the World, news report, Newsweek, Nigeria oil, nuclear, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Oil in the USA, Pakistan, Pakistan and war and unrest, Palestine, Pentagon, people's protests, Tom Dispatch, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, Video, War, War Crimes, War is a crime | No Comments »