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A Dozen Years after Fukushima, Nuclear Power is Still a Death Wish

18Mar

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Environment, Japan

A Dozen Years after Fukushima, Nuclear Power is Still a Death Wish

BY HARVEY WASSERMAN A dozen years after four atomic reactors exploded at Fukushima, the plant STILL daily irradiates 150 tons of water which must be treated and stored forever. Thousands of tons more of such lethal liquid are still held in rotting tanks. The Japanese government wants to dump them in the Pacific, but local resistance is fierce. The build-up will continue for countless years to come, with gargantuan quantities of deadly liquid ever-readier to destroy our oceans….and perhaps, eventually, human life, whose irrational addiction to atomic power has yet to abate. As of March 10, 2011, the official industry line was that no US-designed commercial reactor could explode. Chornobyl blew up on April 26, 1986, sending deadly radioactive clouds throughout the Earth. But...

John Bolton, the Washington Post and the Death of Arms Control

18Mar

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USA

John Bolton, the Washington Post and the Death of Arms Control

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Titan II ICBM at the Titan Missile Museum in Arizona. Photo Jurvetson (flickr) Arms control and disarmament are on life support, and John Bolton and the Washington Post have predictably come along to try to prevent any resuscitation. The Post masthead daily proclaims that “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” but the paper fails to recognize that there are seminal issues that affect the interests of democratic regimes. Arms control is one of these issues. Bolton has been fighting arms control and disarmament for the past several decades, and the Post has willingly provided a sounding board for his specious arguments. In tracing the dangerous demise of disarmament, Bolton emerges as a dangerous and permanent presence.&n...

Siege at Wounded Knee 50 Years Later: the Fight for Self-Determination Continues

18Mar

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USA

Siege at Wounded Knee 50 Years Later: the Fight for Self-Determination Continues

BY SAND BRIM Gathering at mass grave for victims the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Photo: Gail Sullivan. The 1973 Siege at Wounded Knee is the longest “civil unrest” in the history of the US Marshal Service. For 71 days, the American Indian Movement (AIM) and members of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) nation were under siege in a violent standoff with the FBI and US Marshals equipped with high powered rifles and armored personnel carriers. Two people were killed, over two dozen wounded. At stake, sovereignty and self-determination guaranteed through treaty rights. Fifty years have passed but for American Indians the struggle for recognition of the nation-to-nation treaties continues to be seen as survival. At the end of February, young Indian leaders joined older...

18Mar

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Human Rights, Media, United Kingdom

The Betrayers of Assange

BY JOHN PILGER Photograph Source: Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina – Videoconferencia con Julián Assange – Foro Cultura Digital – CC BY-SA 2.0 I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We have become friends, and I have sat in many courtrooms listening to the tribunes of the state try to silence him and his moral revolution in journalism. My own high point was when a judge in the Royal Courts of Justice leaned across his bench and growled at me: ‘You are just a peripatetic Australian like Assange.’ My name was on a list of volunteers to stand bail for Julian, and this judge spotted me as...

The US Government’s War on TikTok is Idiotic, But There are Upsides

18Mar

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Media, USA

The US Government’s War on TikTok is Idiotic, But There are Upsides

BY THOMAS KNAPP Photograph Source: Solen Feyissa – CC BY 2.0 The US government’s bi-partisan war on your right to publish embarrassing videos of yourself proceeds apace. As of March 6, Reuters reports, the White House is “working with Congress” on legislation that would give US president Joe Biden authority to pretend that he can ban TikTok. As I’ve written before, I’m all in favor of banning government use of TikTok. And all other apps. And smart phones. And the Internet. And as I’ve pointed out before, the idea of a general ban on TikTok for the American public is unconstitutional, stupid, insane, and evil. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t silver linings in this cloud of political idiocy. The first and most easily foreseeable consequence of Congress passing ...

The 30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest Bomb

18Mar

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USA

The 30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest Bomb

BY JAMES BOVARD Photograph Source: DSS Agent in commission of duties (acknowledged in photo caption) – Katz, Samuel M. – Public Domain Thirty years ago last week, the largest terrorist attack in American history up to that time occurred when a 1200-pound bomb exploded beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. It was sheer luck that the explosion did not topple the entire skyscraper and kill thousands of people. On the anniversary, politicians held solemn ceremonies but made no mention of the FBI’s role in that disaster. On November 5, 1990, Rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated at a New York hotel. Kahane advocated banishing all Arabs from Israel and the occupied territories, and his political party was banned from the Knesset for “inciting racism” and “endangering ...

17Mar

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Russia, Ukraine, UN

Can the U.N. Stop the War?

BY RICHARD C. GROSS Photograph Source: John Samuel – CC BY-SA 4.0 “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” — George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher, 1863-1952 We in the West watch the slaughter in Eastern Europe as if it were a football game, rooting for an underdog team as it courageously stands up to a stronger adversary. Will it stop standing, hopelessly swept to defeat by superior numbers of forces? Since when has war become a sport? We who are standing by should be ashamed. Where’s the United Nations? Sulking? This little war — this mouse-that-roared-back war – is frightening because sooner or later the spectators could rush onto the field to help the little guy, with whom many bystanders sympathize. Lots of folks love rooting for the under...

New Nuclear Plants Have Turned Into Money Pits

17Mar

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Environment

New Nuclear Plants Have Turned Into Money Pits

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER The 13-metre, 500-tonne, reactor pressure vessel arriving last month at Hinkley Point C. It was built at the notorious and scandal-ridden Le Creusot forge. The unfinished nuclear plant is shaping up to be the most expensive in history. (Photo: EDF) Oops sorry. That two-reactor nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point C you thought would cost $19 billion? It’s going to cost $26 billion now. Actually, make that $35 billion. Wait, sorry, no, the actual number is closer to $40 billion. When will it be ready for operation? Um, well, currently says French contractor, EDF, maybe 2027? Ish? And those two American Westinghouse reactors in Georgia at the Plant Vogtle 3 and 4 site? $14 billion tops! That prediction came back in the good old days, ten years ag...

17Mar

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Cuba

The Havana Syndrome Case Cracked

BY ROGER HARRIS The U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Photograph Source: U.S. Department of State – Public Domain The Havana Syndrome was first reported in Cuba in 2016. The mysterious malady initially afflicted US embassy staff in Havana, especially those attached to intelligence missions. It then spread to Canadian embassy officials. The sudden headaches, debilitating dizziness, and hearing excruciatingly painful sounds struck both at work and at home. Oddly, the Cubans themselves appeared immune to the pathology. Soon other cases of what the US Defense Department called “anomalous health incidents” (AHIs) were reported in Russia, China, Colombia, Uzbekistan, and then even in the US. This mass psychogenic illness was experienced mostly by US government spies, diplomat...

Blinken’s Unwise, Unwarranted Trip to Central Asia

17Mar

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USA

Blinken’s Unwise, Unwarranted Trip to Central Asia

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy Nigeria – Public Domain In an effort to gain leverage against Russia and China, Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Kazakhstan last week to meet with foreign ministers of the five Central Asian nations. The United States has no vital national security interests in any of the five Islamic states that have had long-standing ties to Moscow and are heavily reliant on economic assistance from China. These nations—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—maintain close diplomatic and security ties to both Russia and China, and there is no chance that the United States has the leverage to weaken Central Asian relations with Moscow and Beijing. Nevertheless, the New York Times fatuously...