August 7, 2011
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
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May 14, 2011
Experts Warn of Balkanization of Libya by Simba Russeau, May 14, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum CAIRO—As the battle for Libya rages on—with the country’s economic heartland, Misrata, being the scene of some of the uprising’s fiercest fighting—experts are warning that a “Balkanization” of Libya is possible if the U.S. and NATO [...]
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May 13, 2011
MAY 12, 2011 Follow us on In Ukraine, Little Relief for Severe Pain Cancer Patients Have Little to No Access to Oral Morphine When his untreated cancer pain became unbearable, Vlad Zhukovsky tried to jump out of his hospital window. “I wanted to fall head down and be dead right away so it wouldn’t [...]
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May 12, 2011
NATO is fast becoming almost as trigger happy as the blood thirsty US imperial project. Just the slightest hint of economic advantage and these heroic warriors for peace and justice will unleash whatever they can wherever they can. Perhaps they are sick and tired of being another fiddle in the US hegemony orchestra and they [...]
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 9, 2011
‘Do not cry’: a nurse‘s blog brings comfort to Japan’s tsunami survivors An anonymous blog written by a Japanese nurse as she cared for victims of the tsunami has given strength to survivors and fellow relief workers Share149 Comments (5) Justin McCurry guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 May 2011 20.29 BST Article history A tsunami survivor is [...]
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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: [...]
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May 6, 2011
Even the administration in the US including those elements who organised and carried out the killing accept that this action is hardly the end of Al Qaeda, the euphoria among the population could well be displaced by further concerted actions from the group. What seems to come from the ever changing reports of what happened [...]
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May 2, 2011
Backlash in Tripoli: Protesters Burn Embassies Over Gadhafi Son’s Killing Libyan Govt Promises to Repair Damage Caused in Protest by Jason Ditz, May 01, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Angry pro-regime demonstrators took to the streets of Tripoli on Sunday following the announcement that a Saturday NATO air strike killed Saif al-Arab [...]
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March 27, 2011
Japan’s govt orders Fukushima plant operator to find cause of soaring radiation 27.03.2011 15:48 The Japanese government has ordered Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the quake-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, to find the cause of soaring radioactivity at the nuke plant, top government spokesman Yukio Edano said on Sunday, RIA Novosti reported. Levels of radioactive [...]
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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 [...]
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March 16, 2011
“This Could Become Chernobyl on Steroids”: Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen on Japan’s Growing Nuclear Crisis Share1410 Japan is on the verge of a nuclear catastrophe after a third explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was heavily damaged by Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami. The blast seriously damaged the plant’s Number Two reactor’s [...]
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March 16, 2011
Worse Than a Meltdown By MIKE WHITNEY News of a third explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant sent stocks plunging on the Nikkei exchange which dropped 1,015 points on the session. After 2 days of battering, the stock index is off more than 1,600 points in its worst performance since Lehman Brothers failed in [...]
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March 15, 2011
The explosion on Tuesday at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Photograph: Abc Tv/EPA Japan is facing one of the world’s biggest nuclear crises as a team of engineers struggles to regain control of the Fukushima plant following another explosion and a fire that caused radiation to rise to harmful levels. Amid growing fears that the situation [...]
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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: [...]
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